US12029141B1
A photon-number-resolving detector comprises a detection element, an ohmmeter, and a hardware logic component. The detection element can be formed from a Weyl or Dirac semimetal. Electrons of the detection element are characterized by a surface state that exhibits a Dirac cone and a bulk superconducting state that exhibits a bandgap. When photons having energies less than the bandgap of the bulk superconducting state impinges on the detection element, the photons can be absorbed by electrons of the detection element that are characterized by the surface state. The ohmmeter outputs resistance data indicative of an electrical resistance of the detection element while the photons impinge on the detection element. The hardware logic component can determine, based upon the resistance data, a number of the photons that are absorbed by the surface state electrons of the detection element.
US12029140B2
A quantum bit array is disclosed. In an embodiment, the quantum bit array includes a control gate coupled to a qubit and at least one pass gate coupled between the qubit and an adjacent qubit to control operation of the qubit of the quantum bit array, a bit line, and a first transistor channel that connects the bit line to the control gate. The array further comprises at least one word line coupled to the first transistor channel. The at least one word line selectively controls charge flow through the first transistor channel. The array further comprises a capacitor coupled to selectively store charge in the first transistor channel.
US12029128B2
The present invention relates to a concrete composite comprising concrete and a thermoelectric material, wherein the thermoelectric material comprises a complex sulphide mineral, wherein the composite comprises at least 20 wt % concrete.
US12029127B2
A thermoelectric conversion material includes a base material that is a semiconductor having Si and Ge as constituent elements, a first additive element that is different from the constituent elements, has a vacant orbital in a d or f orbital located inside an outermost shell thereof, and forms a first additional level in a forbidden band of the base material, and oxygen. The oxygen content ratio is 6 at % or less.
US12029122B2
A TEG system is attached to a rotating shaft and generates electricity from radiant energy that is substantially radiatively transmitted through the atmosphere from a stationary source to the TEG system that is rotating with the shaft. The rotation of the shaft provides cooling to the TEG system, but not heat energy. The TEG system includes at least one TEG, each TEG equipped with an energy receiving and heat containment window and an energy conversion system in combination with controlled convection cooling enhanced by an airflow moving in response to the rotation of the rotating shaft. Individual TEGs having controlled convection cooling also are described.
US12029112B2
A composition for an organic optoelectronic device, an organic optoelectronic device, and a display device, the composition including a first compound; a second compound; and a third compound, the first compound, the second compound, and the third compound are different from each other, the first compound is represented by Chemical Formula I, the second compound is represented by Chemical Formula II or Chemical Formula III, and the third compound is represented by Chemical Formula II or Chemical Formula III,
US12029107B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a n-type semiconductor element having improved n-type semiconductor characteristics and excellent stability with a convenient process, where the n-type semiconductor element includes: a substrate; a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode; a semiconductor layer in contact with the source electrode and the drain electrode; a gate insulating layer for insulating the semiconductor layer from the gate electrode; and a second insulating layer positioned on the opposite side of the semiconductor layer from the gate insulating layer and in contact with the semiconductor layer, where the semiconductor layer contains nanocarbon, and the second insulating layer contains (a) a compound with an ionization potential in vacuum of 7.0 eV or less, and (b) a polymer.
US12029104B2
A display device includes a base layer including first and second portions, and a third portion between the first and second portions and configured to be bent, folded, or rolled, a light emitting element layer on one surface of the base layer at the first portion, and including light emitting elements, a circuit board on the one surface of the base layer at the third portion, and electrically connected to the light emitting elements, protective patterns spaced apart from each other on another surface of the base layer, including a resin, and also including first protective patterns spaced apart from each other on the other surface of the base layer at the first portion, and at least one second protective pattern on the other surface of the base layer at the second portion, and at least one of a heat dissipation layer or a cushion layer below the protective patterns.
US12029097B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel, a method for manufacturing the display panel, and a display device. The display panel includes: a light-emitting module including an electroluminescent element and a thin film encapsulation layer for encapsulating the electroluminescent element arranged on a first substrate sequentially; a quantum dot module including a plurality of quantum dot light-emitting units spaced apart from each other; and a second substrate located between the light-emitting module and the quantum dot module, and configured to support the quantum dot module at a side of the light-emitting module away from the first substrate. An orthogonal projection of the thin film encapsulation layer onto the first substrate is located within an orthogonal projection of the second substrate onto the first substrate.
US12029078B2
A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a substrate including a display area and a pad area located on one side of the display area, a pad electrode disposed in the pad area on the substrate, a protective insulating layer disposed on the substrate and the pad electrode to expose at least a part of a top surface of the pad electrode, an inorganic encapsulation layer disposed on the protective insulating layer, and a conductive layer disposed in the pad area between an end of the inorganic encapsulation layer adjacent to the pad electrode and the protective insulating layer.
US12029076B2
A pixel defining layer, a manufacturing method therefor, and a display panel are provided. The pixel defining layer comprises a first sub-defining layer, a light absorbing layer, and a second sub-defining layer sequentially stacked on a substrate. The light absorbing layer is used for absorbing light for exposing the first sub-defining layer. An orthographic projection of the light absorbing layer on the substrate covers the outer edge of an orthographic projection of the first sub-defining layer on the substrate away from the surface of the substrate.
US12029075B2
A display device includes a first display region and a second display region having a lower pixel density than the first display region. A first pixel circuit in the first display region includes a first drive transistor, a first storage capacitor that stores a control voltage of the first drive transistor, and a first switch transistor that writes a data signal to the first storage capacitor. A second pixel circuit in the second display region includes a second drive transistor, a second storage capacitor that stores a control voltage of the second drive transistor, and a second switch transistor that writes a data signal to the second storage capacitor. A channel width of the second drive transistor is greater than a channel width of the first drive transistor. A channel width of the second switch transistor is greater than a channel width of the first switch transistor.
US12029073B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display substrate and a display apparatus. The display substrate comprises: multiple repetition units, where at least one repetition unit includes multiple subpixels including first subpixels and second subpixels. In the first subpixel, an orthographic projection of an anode adapter portion on a base substrate does not overlap an orthographic projection of a drive active layer on the base substrate, and an orthographic projection of a main body portion on the base substrate does not overlap the orthographic projection of the anode adapter portion on the base substrate. In the second subpixel, an orthographic projection of an anode adapter portion on the base substrate overlaps an orthographic projection of a drive active layer on the base substrate, and an orthographic projection of a main body portion on the base substrate overlaps the orthographic projection of the anode adapter portion on the base substrate.
US12029069B2
A display module and a fabrication method thereof, and a display device, and relates to the field of display technologies, to synchronously implement a display function and a surface tactile reproduction function. The display module includes: a base substrate, a plurality of piezoelectric structures positioned on a first side of the base substrate, and at least one isolation portion positioned on the first side of the base substrate and configured to separate any two adjacent piezoelectric structures. A pixel hole is arranged in at least one of three positions, i.e., a position of the piezoelectric structure, a position of the isolation portion, and a position between the piezoelectric structure and the isolation portion. The display module also includes a plurality of pixel structures, and each of the plurality of pixel structures is positioned in one of the pixel holes.
US12029068B2
A display device includes a display panel in which first holes arranged in a first direction and a second direction that intersects the first direction are defined, and a first panel bottom member which is disposed on one surface of the display panel and in which second holes arranged in the first and second directions are defined. A maximum length of a second hole among the second holes in the first direction satisfies “e×(a+c)” where a denotes a maximum length of a first hole among the first holes in the first direction, c denotes a minimum distance between neighboring first holes among the first holes in the first direction, and e is a positive integer.
US12029058B2
A light-emitting element includes: an anode electrode configured to supply holes; a cathode electrode configured to supply electrons; and a light-emitting layer disposed between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The light-emitting layer includes a plurality of quantum dot phosphors configured to emit light in conjunction with combining of holes supplied from the anode electrode and electrons supplied from the cathode electrode and a p-type dopant.
US12029055B2
A hybrid emissive layer and OLED incorporating the same are provided. The hybrid emissive layer includes a first material having a triplet state energy level T1H and a singlet state energy level S1H, a second material having a triplet state energy level T1F and a singlet state energy level S1F; and a third material having a triplet state energy level T1P and a single state energy level S1P, where T1FT1H; S1FS1H; and T1P
US12029053B2
An optoelectronic component, including: a bottom electrode, a top electrode, a layer system having at least one photoactive layer, the layer system being disposed between the bottom electrode and the top electrode, a planarization layer disposed on a side of the bottom electrode and/or top electrode facing away from the layer system, at least one barrier layer disposed on the planarization layer, and at least one busbar, the at least one busbar being disposed on the at least one barrier layer, wherein: the planarization layer has electrically conductive particles the electrically conductive particles being introduced into the planarization layer, and the electrically conductive particles electrically conductively bridge the planarization layer through the at least one barrier layer such that the bottom electrode and/or the top electrode electrically conductively contacts the at least one busbar.
US12029039B2
Some embodiments include an integrated structure having vertically-stacked conductive levels. Upper conductive levels are memory cell levels, and a lower conductive level is a select device level. Conductively-doped semiconductor material is under the select device level. Channel material extends along the memory cell levels and the select device level, and extends into the conductively-doped semiconductor material. A region of the channel material that extends into the conductively-doped semiconductor material is a lower region of the channel material and has a vertical sidewall. Tunneling material, charge-storage material and charge-blocking material extend along the channel material and are between the channel material and the conductive levels. The tunneling material, charge-storage material and charge-blocking material are not along at least a portion of the vertical sidewall of the lower region of the channel material, and the conductively-doped semiconductor material is directly against such portion. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated structures.
US12029031B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a semiconductor memory and a controller. The semiconductor memory includes blocks each containing memory cells. The controller is configured to instruct the semiconductor memory to execute a first operation and a second operation. In the first operation and the second operation, the semiconductor memory selects at least one of the blocks, and applies at least one voltage to all memory cells contained in said selected blocks. A number of blocks to which said voltage is applied per unit time in the second operation is larger than that in the first operation.
US12029029B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate a gate structure extending in a vertical direction on the semiconductor device, a plurality of charge trap layers spaced apart from each other in the vertical direction and each having a horizontal cross-section with a first ring shape surrounding the gate structure, a plurality of semiconductor patterns spaced apart from each other in the vertical direction and each having a horizontal cross-section with a second ring shape surrounding the plurality of charge trap layers, a source region and a source line at one end of each of the plurality of semiconductor patterns in a horizontal direction, and a drain region and a drain line at an other end of each of the plurality of semiconductor patterns in the horizontal direction. The gate structure may include a gate insulation layer and a gate electrode layer.
US12029027B2
A capacitor and a DRAM device, the capacitor including a lower electrode; a dielectric layer structure on the lower electrode, the dielectric layer structure including a first zirconium oxide layer, a hafnium oxide layer, and a second zirconium oxide layer sequentially stacked; and an upper electrode on the dielectric layer structure, wherein the hafnium oxide layer has a tetragonal crystal phase or an orthorhombic crystal phase.
US12029026B2
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor structure, relating to the technical field of semiconductors. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: providing a substrate; forming active pillars arranged in an array on the substrate, a projection shape of a longitudinal section of each of the active pillars includes a cross shape; forming a first oxide layer on the substrate, where a filling region is formed between adjacent active pillars in the same row; sequentially forming a word line and a dielectric layer in the filling region; exposing a top surface of each of the active pillars; forming a contact layer on the active pillars; and forming a capacitor structure on the contact layer.
US12029025B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first device formed over a substrate, wherein the first device includes a first fin structure and a first S/D structure formed over the first fin structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a second device formed over or below the first device, and the second device includes a plurality of second nanostructures stacked in a vertical direction. The semiconductor device structure also includes a second S/D structure formed over the second nanostructures, and the second S/D structure is directly above or below the first S/D structure.
US12029014B2
A wearable electronic device according to various embodiments of the disclosure includes: a housing including a first housing part in which a processor is received and a second housing part in which a display is received, and a hinge connecting the first housing part and the second housing part and having a hole provided in an area in communication with an outside of the wearable electronic device. At least part of heat generated from the processor is radiated to the outside through the hinge having the hole formed therein.
US12028996B2
A circuit box is to accommodate a circuit board that has a terminal stand for external wire connection and the circuit box includes a basal wall that has a mount face of which the circuit box is mounted, a side wall that is connected to a periphery of the basal wall and has a wire service entrance, a circuit-board support wall that is located apart from the basal wall and supports the circuit board, and a wire mount stand that has a wire support wall that extends from the wire service entrance in the side wall toward the circuit-board support wall and inclines away from the basal wall.
US12028992B2
A pump assembly includes an electric motor with a printed circuit board with a controller, a pump driven by the electric motor, a housing surrounding the printed circuit board, and a connector which is fastened on an outside of the housing by a flange, which covers an opening of the housing, and which includes contacts directly electrically contacting the printed circuit board. The contacts pass through the opening of the housing. The connector includes a main housing in which the contacts extend and which adjoins the flange. The connector includes a pressure compensator which is in the main housing.
US12028990B2
Provided are a multilayer board and a method for manufacturing same, in which a different kind of metal layer is formed between an upper metal layer and an interlayer insulating layer, the different kind of metal layer being formed only in a wiring area without being formed in a via area. The multilayer board comprises: a substrate layer; a plurality of first metal layers sequentially stacked on the substrate layer; an interlayer insulating layer formed between two different first metal layers, having a first via hole, and electrically connecting the two different first metal layers through a third metal layer formed in the first via hole; and a second metal layer formed between the upper layer of the two different first metal layers and the interlayer insulating layer.
US12028989B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a wiring board that forms a wiring layer having favorable adhesion without a resin resist pattern. A method prepares a substrate with seed-layer including: a underlayer on the surface of an insulating substrate; and a seed layer on the surface of the underlayer, the seed layer having a predetermined pattern and containing metal; presses a solid electrolyte membrane against the seed layer and the underlayer, and applies voltage between an anode and the underlayer to reduce metal ions in the membrane and form a metal layer on the surface of the seed layer; and removes an exposed region without the seed layer and the metal layer of the underlayer to form a wiring layer including the underlayer, the seed layer and the metal layer on the surface of the substrate.
US12028987B2
A method for soldering an electronic component to a circuit board involves jetting liquefied solder. A laser beam melts a solid solder ball to produce a liquefied solder ball before the ball is jetted. The liquefied solder ball is jetted towards a through hole in the circuit board such that a portion of the liquefied solder ball flows into an annular gap between a pin and sides of the through hole. The pin is attached to the electronic component and passes through the through hole. As the liquefied solder ball is jetted towards the through hole, the laser beam is directed at the ball so as to keep it liquefied. How much of the solder ball remains outside the through hole after liquefied solder has flowed into the annular gap is determined. The filling degree of the annular gap is determined based on how much solder remains outside the hole.
US12028985B2
The present invention relates to an electrical device including a printed circuit board (PCB) module accommodated in a case, and more particularly, to an electrical device having a heat dissipation structure using a filler that reduces heat generation outside a case while increasing a heat dissipation efficiency of a PCB module by using the filler filled in the case, and a manufacturing method of the same.
US12028984B2
The object of the invention is to provide a double-sided circuit non-oxide-based ceramic substrate excellent in radiation property and low in cost, and a method for manufacturing the same. A double-sided circuit non-oxide-based ceramic substrate related to the present invention includes a high heat-conductive non-oxide-based ceramic substrate that includes a through hole, a holding layer that is formed on a wall surface of the through hole, and an electro-conductive metal section that is held inside the through hole by the holding layer and does not include an active metal. The double-sided circuit non-oxide-based ceramic substrate related to the present invention preferably includes electrodes (thin film electrodes) that shield end surfaces of the holding layer and end surfaces of the electro-conductive metal section which are exposed to front and back surfaces of the ceramic substrate.
US12028977B2
An electronic device is an electronic device on which an option replaceable by a user is mounted. The electronic device includes a main board and a flexible printed circuit board connected to the main board. The flexible printed circuit board has a coupling connector connected to an option board on which the option is mounted.
US12028973B2
A printed circuit board includes a first insulating layer, a metal layer disposed on one surface of the first insulating layer, a first circuit layer disposed inside the first insulating layer and having one surface exposed to the one surface of the first insulating layer so as to be in contact with one surface of the metal layer, a second circuit layer in contact with the other surface of the metal layer, and a second insulating layer disposed on the one surface of the first insulating layer to cover the metal layer and the second circuit layer. The first and second circuit layers respectively include a metal different from the metal layer.
US12028970B2
Disclosed is a wiring board, including: a base body having insulating properties; and a wiring conductor positioned on the base body. The base body has a first surface, a fourth surface positioned opposite to the first surface, and a second surface and a third surface positioned at side surfaces between the first surface and the fourth surface. The first surface, the second surface, and the third surface are mounting surfaces for respective electronic components, and the fourth surface is an installation surface.
US12028953B2
An emergency lighting system that includes a storage device, an emergency lighting device, an area control device and an external device. The emergency lighting device includes a light, a first controller having a first electronic processor configured to perform a self-diagnostic test, and a first input/output (I/O) device configured to transmit data associated with the self-diagnostic test. The area control device includes a second I/O device configured to receive data associated with the first self-diagnostic test form the first I/O device and transmit the data associated with the self-diagnostic test to the storage device.
US12028935B2
Described are various embodiments of a system and method in which device-identifying data can be used to uniquely recognize and optionally track and report on device activity at one or more hotspot and/or Wi-Fi locations by way of the creation and management of a device and/or visit profile uniquely associated with such devices and stored in a network accessible knowledge base.
US12028920B2
The present disclosure relates to backhaul status reporting in wireless communications. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a network node in a wireless communication system comprises: monitoring backhaul links for multiple cell groups; receiving information indicating at least one cell group of which a backhaul status is to be reported among the multiple cell groups; and transmitting a message for reporting the backhaul status of the at least one cell group based on the information.
US12028916B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a dual-connectivity (DC) establishment method and device. The first DC architecture includes a Master Node (MN) and a Secondary Node (SN), wherein the SN includes a Central Unit (CU) and a Distributed Unit (DU); and, the CU includes a Control Plane functional entity (CP) and a User Plane functional entity (UP). The method includes steps of: receiving, by an SN-CP, a first SN setup request message transmitted by an MN; transmitting a first resource setup request message to an SN-UP according to the first SN setup request message, and receiving a first resource setup response message transmitted by the SN-UP; and, transmitting, by the SN-CP, a first bearer setup request message to an SN-DU, and receiving a first bearer setup response message transmitted by the SN-DU.
US12028914B2
A data transfer method includes that a first device displays a first interface. The first interface includes image information of a first file. When a distance between a Near-Field Communication (NFC) chip of the first device and an electronic tag of a second device is less than a preset threshold, the first device obtains a BLUETOOTH address of the second device. The electronic tag includes device information of the second device, and the device information includes the BLUETOOTH address or a tag identifier (ID) used to obtain the BLUETOOTH address. The first device exchanges a WI-FI connection parameter with the second device through a BLUETOOTH connection corresponding to the BLUETOOTH address. The first device establishes a WI-FI connection to the second device. After the WI-FI connection is established, the first device automatically transfers the first file to the second device through the WI-FI connection.
US12028908B2
The present invention provides a method of performing by a UE device a random access attempt in a communication system comprising at least one non-terrestrial transmission station, the method comprising receiving reference signals transmitted by the non-terrestrial transmission station; determining from the received reference signals a trip time between the UE device and the non-terrestrial transmission station; and using the trip time to control the random access attempt.
US12028904B2
A data transmission method and an apparatus, the method including sending, by an access network device, a paging message to a terminal device, where the paging message includes a first indication, receiving, by the access network device, a random access preamble from the terminal device, where the random access preamble corresponds to the first indication, and sending, by the access network device in response to the random access preamble, a response message to the terminal device, where the response message includes downlink data and one or more of a timing advance (TA), an uplink grant (UL-Grant), a temporary cell radio network temporary identity (TC-RNTI), a logical channel identifier (LCID), or a downlink assignment (DL-assignment).
US12028902B2
A method of operating an access node of a radio access network of a cellular network includes participating in an early-data-transmission of a random access procedure of a UE. The method further includes, in response to said participating in the early-data-transmission: determining whether or not the UE requires an update information element of a notification area of the radio access network. The method further includes selectively transmitting the update information element if the UE requires the update information element.
US12028898B2
Embodiments herein relate e.g. to a method performed by a user equipment, UE, (10) for handling communication in a wireless communication network. The UEa radio network 5 adjusts a value of the CW based on a determined response, from node (12), of an uplink, UL, control channel transmission.
US12028895B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to determine whether to request coverage enhancement for a random access procedure based on a condition of a channel between the UE and a base station failing to satisfy a threshold. The UE may transmit a request for coverage enhancement for a second random access message (e.g., a random access Message 4 (Msg4)) using a first random access message (e.g., a random access Message 3 (Msg3)). The base station may determine whether to perform the coverage enhancement in response to receiving the first random access message and may transmit the second random access message accordingly. Implementing aspects of the present disclosure may enable coverage enhancement for random access procedures in wireless communications systems.
US12028894B2
A method to operate a first wireless network unit (A) is provided, wherein the method comprises: determining (102) a data entity (DE) intended to be transmitted via a physical shared radio channel (PSCH); determining (104) a plurality of segments of the determined data entity (DE); determining (106) at least one first radio resource window (rw(n−1)) of the physical shared radio channel (PSCH); monitoring (108) the at least one first radio resource window (rw(n−1)); determining (110) a plurality of candidate resources (rr12, rr22) in a second resource window (rw(n)) of the physical shared radio channel (PSCH) in dependence on monitored radio resources (rr11, rr21) of the at least one first radio resource window (rw(n−1)), wherein each candidate resource (rr12, rr22) of the plurality of candidate resources (rr12, rr22) is part of a resource chain (RC1, RC2) of the physical shared radio channel (PSCH); selecting (112) one of the plurality of candidate resources (rr12, rr22) as a transmission start resource (rr12); and transmitting (114, 116, 118) the plurality of the determined segments of the data entity (DE) via radio resources (rr12, rr13, rr14) along the resource chain (RC1) to which the selected transmission start resource (rr12) belongs to, wherein a single one of the segments is transmitted via a single one of the radio resources (rr12, rr13, rr14) of the resource chain (RC1).
US12028891B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides a method and a device for allocating transmission power in a wireless communication system.
US12028888B2
A method for transmitting a HARQ-ACK by a UE is provided. The method receives an SPS configuration. The method then receives a DCI format which activates the SPS configuration and also indicates a first offset for transmitting the HARQ-ACK. After receiving an SPS PDSCH associated with the SPS configuration in a first slot, the method identifies a second slot based on the first slot and the first offset for transmitting the HARQ-ACK. The method determines whether a first PUCCH for transmitting the HARQ-ACK is contained within uplink/flexible symbols of the second slot. When the first PUCCH is not contained within the uplink/flexible symbols and also a parameter that is included in the SPS configuration indicates a deferred HARQ transmission, the method identifies a third slot based on the first slot and a second offset and transmits the HARQ-ACK on a second PUCCH in the third slot.
US12028885B2
The method includes: receiving, by a second transmit end, policy information sent by a first transmit end, where the second transmit end belongs to a second BSS, the first transmit end is a transmit end that is in a first basis service set and that transmits data by using a first link, and the policy information is used to indicate a condition that the second transmit end needs to satisfy to transmit data by using a second link, or used to indicate whether the second transmit end is allowed to transmit data by using a second link; and determining, by the second transmit end based on the policy information, whether to transmit data by using the second link. According to the wireless communication method, a spatial reuse transmission policy can be adjusted dynamically based on an actual situation of a current network. This improves a system throughput.
US12028881B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a control message indicating a capability of the UE to operate in a full duplex mode on a single carrier in an unpaired radio frequency spectrum. The UE may receive, from the base station, control signaling indicating a default bandwidth part associated with the full duplex mode or a half-duplex mode based at least in part on the control message. The UE and the base station may communicate using an active bandwidth part. The UE and the base station may then communicate, based on an expiration of an inactivity timer associated with the active bandwidth part, using the default bandwidth part in accordance with the full duplex mode/or the half-duplex mode.
US12028869B2
A method and a user equipment for beam indication for DL reception are provided. The method includes: receiving a first configuration for configuring a plurality of first TCI states, each of the plurality of first TCI states applied for a PDCCH and a PDSCH; receiving a MAC-CE for activating one or more first TCI states from the plurality of first TCI states; receiving first DCI indicating one of the one or more first TCI states activated by the MAC-CE, the first DCI comprising one field for indicating scheduling information for a PDSCH, the indicated scheduling information being invalid for the PDSCH; transmitting a HARQ-ACK on a PUCCH resource determined by another one field in the first DCI when receiving the first DCI; and receiving the PDCCH and the PDSCH based on a spatial RX parameter derived according to the indicated first TCI state after transmitting the HARQ-ACK.
US12028866B2
A PDCCH monitoring method includes: receiving GC-PDCCH information, the GC-PDCCH information including first indication information, and the first indication information being used to indicate a time domain location for PDCCH monitoring; and performing the PDCCH monitoring based on the time domain location indicated by the first indication information.
US12028863B2
A user equipment (UE) may receive an indication associated with receiving downlink control information (DCI) communications. The indication may identify a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring location associated with receiving DCI communications during a first period of time, and a second PDCCH monitoring location associated with receiving DCI communications during a second period of time that follows the first period of time. The UE may monitor in the first PDCCH monitoring location and the second PDCCH monitoring location based at least in part on the indication.
US12028862B2
Certain embodiments may relate to communication systems, and, for example, some embodiments may relate to multi-QoS level uplink grants. According to a first embodiment, a method may include transmitting, by a first network entity, one or more grants of one or more uplink resources to a second network entity. The one or more grants of one or more uplink resources includes one or more physical resource allocation parameters containing one or more logical channel groups. The method may further include receiving, by the first network entity, data from the second network entity allocated according to the one or more logical channel groups.
US12028859B2
A user equipment (UE) configured for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition in an fifth-generation (5G) new radio (NR) network decodes a downlink control information (DCI) format that includes a scheduling grant for a PUSCH transmission. For a codebook-based PUSCH transmission, the DCI format indicates at least a first and a second transmit precoder matrix indicator (TPMI) index for PUSCH repetition. The UE may apply a precoder matrix determined from the first TPMI index to encode a PUSCH for a first PUSCH transmission occasion of the PUSCH repetition and may apply a precoder matrix determined from the second TPMI index to encode the PUSCH for a second PUSCH transmission occasion. For a non-codebook-based PUSCH transmission, the DCI format indicates at least a first and a second sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator (SRI) for PUSCH repetition. The UE may apply the first SRI to encode the PUSCH for the first PUSCH transmission occasion and may apply the second SRI to encode the PUSCH for the second PUSCH transmission occasion.
US12028843B2
Provided is a communication apparatus which performs data communication by bundling multiple bands. The communication apparatus includes a communication section that performs transmission and reception of a wireless signal by using multiple bands, and a control section that controls communication operation of the communication section. The control section performs control such that, after a transmission right has been acquired in a first band, a first signal is transmitted in the first band before a transmission right is acquired in a second band. The control section also performs control such that, when the transmission rights are acquired in both the first band and the second band, data transmission is performed by using the first band and the second band simultaneously. An RTS frame, a CTS frame, a data frame, a busy tone, or the like is transmitted as the first signal.
US12028835B2
A method for determining sidelink resource includes: determining sidelink resource configuration information, where the sidelink resource configuration information is used to instruct the user equipment to determine a target sidelink resource according to quality of service (QoS) information of to-be-transmitted sidelink data; determining a target resource determination mode according to the QoS information of the to-be-transmitted sidelink data and the sidelink resource configuration information; and determining the target sidelink resource for conveying the to-be-transmitted sidelink data in the target resource determination mode.
US12028832B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device for Discontinuous Reception. A first node receives first information; and senses a first radio signal in a first time resource pool; and selects a first time-frequency resource block from a first time-frequency resource pool, and transmits a first signaling in the first time-frequency resource block; herein, the first information indicates a first ID list; the first ID list comprises at least one Destination ID; the first radio signal comprises any Destination ID in the first ID list; any bit block identified by the at least one Destination ID is not a bit (bits) useful for the first node; the sensing action in the first time resource pool is used for determining the first time-frequency resource pool. The present disclosure prevents misunderstanding of the first time-frequency resource pool, thus reducing power consumption and radio interference.
US12028826B2
Embodiments include methods for managing a bidirectional measurement for an uplink/downlink pair of links between one or more first nodes and one or more second nodes in a wireless network. Methods include obtaining a transmit timing of a first signal on a first link of the pair during a first time resource, obtaining a receive timing of a second signal on a second link of the pair during a second time resource, and determining the bidirectional measurement based on the obtained transmit timing and obtained receive timing. In this arrangement, at least one of the following applies: the first and second links are between one first node and two respective second nodes; at least one of the first link and the second link are associated with a non-serving carrier frequency; and at least one of the first link and the second link are managed via one or more beams.
US12028823B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless forwarding node may determine a first timing reference configuration for communicating with a first wireless node. The wireless forwarding node may determine a second timing reference configuration for communicating with a second wireless node. The wireless forwarding node may forward communications between the first wireless node and the second wireless node based at least in part on the first timing reference configuration and the second timing reference configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12028819B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a method by which a first device performs SL communication. The method may comprise the steps of: generating S-SSB including symbols for S-PSS, symbols for S-SSS, and symbols for PSBCH; and transmitting the S-SSB to a second device, wherein a total number of symbols for S-PSS is three, and the symbols for S-PSS include a first S-PSS symbol, a second S-PSS symbol, and a third S-PSS symbol.
US12028810B2
A method for wake-up signal (WUS) monitoring and a terminal device are provided. The method for WUS monitoring includes the following. A terminal device determines an operation state of a WUS according to a type of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle. The terminal device performs an operation corresponding to the operation state. The type of the DRX cycle includes a first DRX cycle and a second DRX cycle, where the first DRX cycle is longer than the second DRX cycle.
US12028807B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may wake up from a sleep mode of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle based on receipt of uplink data. The UE may determine if an elapsed time between a prior receipt of one or more reference signals and an uplink transmission to the base station after waking up from the sleep mode is less than a threshold time value. If the elapsed time is less than the threshold time value, the UE may transmit an uplink transmission associated with the received uplink data prior to receiving one or more reference signals that may be used to update transmission parameters for uplink transmissions. If the elapsed time is at or above the threshold value, the UE may wait to receive the one or more reference signals and update the transmission parameters prior to the uplink transmission.
US12028785B2
A method for billing in a wireless communication system, according to an embodiment, includes: transmitting billing data to an upper entity; determining whether the billing data has been normally transmitted; and executing a supplementary operation based on a result of the determining.
US12028770B2
Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for identifying performance measurements for registration and handovers for user equipment (UE) and wireless network nodes. A service producer system may register a first wireless communication connection with a first UE using one or more access and mobility management functions (AMFs). The service producer system may monitor registration measurements corresponding to this registration, perform a handover for the first UE using the one or more AMFs, and monitor mobility measurements corresponding to the handover. The service producer system may select a node for a second wireless communication connection corresponding to a second UE based on the registration measurements and mobility measurements and transmit an indication of the selected node to the second UE. The measurements may include a number of requests, successful requests, measurements related protocol data unit (PDU) sessions, and measurements related to Quality of Service (QoS) flows.
US12028769B2
Methods and systems are provided for signal offloading in an mmWave environment (e.g., in the event of high fading). The methods and systems include one or more mmWave nodes that are each configured to wirelessly communicate with a user device in a geographic service area and a Wi-Fi access point configured to wirelessly communicate with the user device. The methods and systems determine that fading or loading of an mmWave signal transmitted by one of the one or more mmWave nodes is above a threshold. In response to the fading or loading being above the threshold, the methods and systems redirect a control signal of the user device through the Wi-Fi access point to the one or more mmWave nodes, such that the user device maintains a dual connection with the Wi-Fi access point via the control signal and the mmWave node.
US12028767B2
A method includes: a) provisioning, at a selected edge computing system, at least one latency critical application; b) determining, at a first base station, that an end user device is located proximate to an edge of the first cell and/or in an overlapping area of the first cell and a second cell of the wireless network; c) checking a degree of capacity utilization of the second cell; d) scheduling a handover of the end user device from the first cell to the second cell in case that the second cell has sufficient available capacity; e) transferring, before executing the handover, in real time a first note about the scheduled handover from a first scheduler associated with the first base station to the at least one latency critical application; and f) executing the handover.
US12028765B2
Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for configuring the operation of a use equipment (UE) for and after exiting a conditional handover. Some embodiments are directed to a user equipment (UE). The UE includes processor circuitry and radio front circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to receive, using the radio front end circuitry and from a source device associated with a source cell, a conditional handover command for a conditional handover to a target cell. The processor circuitry can be further configured to determine, based on the received conditional handover command, a condition for exiting the conditional handover. The processor circuitry can be further configured to in response to the condition being met, exit the conditional handover.
US12028762B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure enable a user equipment (UE) to perform event trigger reporting for L1/L2 mobility, including event configuration, L1 filtering factor, and event triggered L1 reporting. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12028757B2
A system described herein may provide a technique for ensuring that a User Equipment (“UE”) is provided an opportunity to scan for available cells in a wireless network in a manner that allows the UE to detect cells according to a particular radio frequency (“RF”) band. When receiving a measurement report from the UE that does not include cells implementing the particular RF band, a timer may be initiated during which subsequent measurement reports may be received from the UE. If a subsequent measurement from the UE includes a cell corresponding to the particular RF band, the UE may be instructed to connect to such a cell. Otherwise, the UE may be instructed to connect to another cell that does not implement the particular RF band.
US12028753B2
Methods and devices for selecting an edge application server (EAS) to service a user equipment (UE). One exemplary method incudes determining that a current protocol data unit (PDU) session of an application being executed by a UE is being serviced by a first EAS, determining that the first EAS is no longer suitable to service the application, selecting a second EAS to service the application and instructing the UE to use the second EAS for future PDU sessions for the application.
US12028752B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The method for operating a primary base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a secondary base station, an addition request message, wherein the addition request message carries information of a secondary cell group (SCG) split bearer; and receiving, from the secondary base station, a response message of the addition request message.
US12028751B2
Provided is a wireless communication system that performs priority control by setting, depending on a type of transmission data, a channel use period during which exclusive use of a channel after a right to access the channel is acquired is permitted. The wireless communication system includes a measurement unit that measures quality measurement information related to a quality of wireless communication, a parameter setting unit that makes, when a latency in transmission of a prioritized frame due to transmission of a non-prioritized frame is not expected based on the quality measurement information measured by the measurement unit, settings such that the channel use period for the transmission of the non-prioritized frame is changed to be longer, and a MAC frame generation unit that generates a MAC frame which permits continuous transmission of the non-prioritized frames within the channel use period set by the parameter setting unit.
US12028743B2
In an embodiment, a gateway includes: a radio circuit having a plurality of wireless protocol circuits, each to communicate wirelessly with one or more nodes present in a wireless network; an interface circuit to couple to one or more cloud-based devices via another network; and a controller coupled to the interface circuit. The controller may include a control circuit to control the wireless network, where in response to detection of an active user interface for the wireless network, the control circuit may dynamically update a status report messaging level of at least some of a plurality of nodes present in the wireless network.
US12028741B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a first signal from a base station indicating a set of available control channel monitoring sets to be used for control information. The UE may receive, over a default control channel monitoring set of the available control channel monitoring sets configured for the UE, a second signal from the base station activating at least one additional control channel monitoring set from the set of available control channel monitoring sets, the default control channel monitoring set comprising a subset of the set of available control channel monitoring sets. The UE may receive control information over the default control channel monitoring set and the at least one additional control channel monitoring set at least partially in response to receiving the second signal.
US12028738B2
A cellular radio access network is provided by a high altitude platform (HAP). The HAP has an antenna system defining a plurality of beams, such that the beams provide separate geographical coverage areas. The radio access network comprises a plurality of cells, each cell being associated with at least one of the plurality of beams. For each of the plurality of cells and/or each of the plurality of beams, a respective load is identified. A configuration is set, based on the loads for the plurality of cells and/or the loads for the plurality of beams, for one or more of: a total number of the plurality of cells; the associations between the plurality of cells and the plurality of beams; and a bandwidth and/or a power for each of the plurality of cells.
US12028720B2
The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a cloud node. The cloud node obtains measurements from at least some of the sensor nodes. The cloud node mathematically determines a minimum number of sensor nodes and their optimal locations. Based on the obtained measurements and the mathematically determined optimal locations, the cloud node graphically determines an optimal location for each of the minimum number of sensor nodes. The cloud node compares the mathematically and the graphically determined optimal locations. When the comparison indicates that the mathematically and graphically determined optimal locations are the same, the cloud node determines a minimum number of fog nodes. Based on the optimal location of sensor nodes, the cloud node determines an optimal location for each of the minimum number of fog nodes.
US12028716B2
Described systems and methods allow protecting multiple wireless Internet-of-things (IoT) devices against impersonation attacks. In some embodiments, a security appliance detects an availability notification (e.g., a Bluetooth® Low Energy advertisement) emitted as part of a protocol of establishing a wireless connection between two devices. The security appliance may then determine whether the detected notification fits a baseline notification pattern of the apparent sender. When no, the security appliance may attack the sender device by replying to the respective availability notification and initiating a handshake.
US12028706B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to not authorize use of a communication service when stored first biometric information on a contractee for the communication service fails to match second biometric information acquired from a user who is to use the communication service after signing a contract for the communication service.
US12028704B2
The present disclosure invention relates to a method for the anonymized transmission of sensor data of a vehicle to a vehicle-external receiving unit, to an anonymizing system, and to a receiving unit, the method including the following steps: determining the sensor data at a measurement location at a measurement time, determining a traffic density in an environment of the measurement location, determining an anonymized time and/or an anonymized location, calculating an anonymization probability of the vehicle, which results from the traffic density and the anonymized time and/or location, determining whether the anonymization probability meets a predetermined anonymization condition, and if the anonymization condition is met, transmitting the sensor data to the external receiving unit, the anonymized time being indicated as a measurement time indication and/or the anonymized location being indicated as a measurement location indication.
US12028703B2
System and methods for providing dynamic positional audio are disclosed. Methods can comprise determining availability of one or more devices to output audio and determining a location of the one or more available devices. Audio information can be received and at least a portion of the audio information can be configured to generate assigned audio information based on the determined location of the available devices. The assigned audio information can be transmitted to the available devices.
US12028693B2
A display apparatus is capable of outputting a stereo sound. The display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image; a sound generating device on a rear surface of the display panel; a rear cover on the rear surface of the display panel and configured to support the sound generating device; a partition member between the rear surface of the display panel and the rear cover and configured to divide the display panel into first, second, third, fourth and fifth areas; and first, second, third, fourth, and fifth sound generating devices attached to the rear surface of the display panel and configured to vibrate the display panel. The first, second, third, fourth and fifth sound generating devices are in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth areas, respectively.
US12028688B2
There is provided a hearing aid with a Receiver In The Ear speaker assembly comprising a connecting member with electric conductors connecting a connector at one end, and a receiver housing with a receiver at the opposite end. A microphone housing with a microphone is attached to the connecting member. The microphone housing with the microphone is separated by a distance from the receiver in the receiver housing, thus reducing acoustic or mechanical feedback problems. Especially, the microphone and connector may share one common housing.
US12028687B2
A hearing aid configured for handsfree control. The hearing aid comprising one or more microphones configured to receive an input signal from the surroundings and a signal processor configured to process the input signal from the surroundings and a receiver configured to emit at least a part of said processed input signal into an ear of a hearing aid user, wherein the signal processor is further configured to process a gestural signal from a user of the hearing aid and make a control change to the hearing aid based on the gestural signal.
US12028686B2
The present disclosure relates to a hearing aid with an RF antenna arranged within the hearing aid's housing, and a loudspeaker positioned in the ear canal of the user. The RF antenna is configured to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic RF signals within a first frequency range enclosing a first frequency of resonance of the RF antenna corresponding to a first wavelength. The hearing aid further comprises one or more electric leads electrically connected to lead one or more electric signals within a second frequency range not overlapping the first frequency range between the loudspeaker in the ear canal of the user and an electronic circuit in the housing, with the one or more electrical leads being decoupled, at a connector end of the one or more electrical leads, by means of one or more decoupling components.
US12028685B2
A hearing aid system comprises a hearing aid, and a portable auxiliary device’ adapted to establish a communication link between them. The hearing aid comprises a microphone providing an electric input signal, a signal processor, and an output unit. The auxiliary device comprises a microphone providing an auxiliary electric input signal, and a user control interface allowing a user to initiate a specific calibration mode of operation of the hearing aid system. The signal processor of the hearing aid is configured to receive corresponding time segments of said electric input signal and said auxiliary electric input signal to provide an estimate of an acoustic transfer function from said microphone of said auxiliary device to said microphone of said hearing aid. A method of operating a hearing aid system is further disclosed. The invention may e.g. be used in various applications related to own voice detection and estimation.
US12028678B2
Embodiments include a microphone array comprising a first plurality of directional microphone elements arranged in a first cluster formed by directing a front face of said microphone elements towards a center of the first cluster, and a second plurality of directional microphone elements arranged in a second cluster formed by directing a front face of said elements away from a center of the second cluster, wherein the first cluster is disposed vertically above the second cluster. Also provided is a microphone comprising a first microphone array comprising a plurality of directional microphone elements arranged in close proximity to each other and configured to capture near-field sounds within a first range of frequencies, and a second microphone array disposed concentrically around the first microphone array, the second array comprising a plurality of omnidirectional microphone elements configured to capture near-field sounds within a second range of frequencies higher than the first range.
US12028674B2
The disclosure relates to on-ear headphones comprising at least one ear-cushion, the at least one ear-cushion defining an ear-surface configured to interface with a user's ear when the headphones are worn by the user, the ear-surface comprising a perforated area, the perforated area comprising a plurality of staggered elongated perforations.
US12028673B2
A driving circuit, configured to drive a venting device, includes a first node, a second node, and an amplifying circuit. The venting device, configured to be controlled to open a vent or seal the vent, includes a film structure, which includes a first flap and a second flap, and an actuator, which includes a first actuating portion disposed on the first flap and a second actuating portion disposed on the second flap. When the venting device is controlled to open the vent, the driving circuit generates a first voltage at the first node and generates a second voltage at the second node. When the venting device is controlled to seal the vent, the driving circuit generates a third voltage at both the first node and the second node. The first voltage is larger than the third voltage, and the third voltage is larger than the second voltage.
US12028669B1
Example embodiments described herein involve reducing the formation of ice on external modules by incorporating a heater within the module. The system may include a microphone module for an autonomous vehicle. The microphone module may include a housing and a microphone inside an opening of the housing. The system may further include a cover abutting the opening of the housing. The cover may enclose the microphone within the housing and seal the opening of the housing. The system may also include a heater adjacent to the opening of the housing and configured to prevent ice from forming over the opening. The heater may at least partially surround the opening.
US12028662B2
A system for hot swapping a network switch without disconnecting the network switch connectors is provided. The system disaggregates the switch faceplate network cable connectors from the internal components of the network switch so that the internal switch components may be removed from the switch without disconnecting the switch network cables.
US12028660B2
An example cascaded optical switch includes: a fast optical switch and a slow optical switch both having input ports and output ports. A switching time of the slow switch is longer than a switching time of the fast optical switch. The cascaded optical switch includes a first pre-cabled optical fiber connecting an output port of the slow optical switch to an input ports of the fast optical switch, and a second pre-cabled optical fiber connecting an output ports of the fast optical switch to an input ports of the slow optical switch. The fast optical switch or the slow optical switch is configured to receive configuration data to modify a switching configuration to configure a fiber cross-connect in the optical switch fabric that includes at least one of the first pre-cabled optical fiber or the second pre-cabled optical fiber.
US12028655B2
A vehicle display device includes a theme-specific related information storage unit that stores videos related to destinations and a display that reads a related video from the theme-specific related information storage unit and displaying the related video for a corresponding one of the destinations. The vehicle display device thus allows users in a vehicle to maintain excitement until a vehicle arrives in the destination.
US12028651B1
Disclosed herein are aspects for integrating a two-dimensional video conference into a three-dimensional virtual environment. An aspect begins by rendering the virtual environment, including a first avatar. The virtual environment is rendered on a first device, belonging to a first user, and from a perspective of a first virtual camera controlled by the first user. The first avatar represents the first user at a location of the first virtual camera. The aspect then provides operations for connecting the user in the 3D virtual environment with a video conferencing platform (VCP) server to connect to a video conference hosted by the VCP server. The aspect continues by transmitting and receiving video and audio data to and from the VCP server. The aspect concludes by rendering the received audio and video data into the 3D virtual environment.
US12028644B2
Various embodiments of an apparatus, method(s), system(s) and computer program product(s) described herein are directed to a Scaling Engine. The Scaling Engine identifies a background object portrayed in a background template for a video feed. The Scaling Engine determines a background template display position for concurrent display of the background object with video feed data. The Scaling Engine generates a scaled background template by modifying a current aspect ratio of the background template with the background object set at the background display position according to a video feed aspect ratio. The Scaling Engine generates a merged video feed by merging the scaled background template with live video feed data, the merged video feed data providing an unobstructed portrayal of the identified background object.
US12028641B2
Described is a system including a camera module connected to an electronic device. The camera module includes a non-volatile memory that includes instructions storing a script for setting up the camera module. The electronic device includes an interpreter that executes at least partially the instructions including the script stored in the non-volatile memory of the camera module to set up the camera module.
US12028618B2
The present disclosure includes a video transmission apparatus, a video reception apparatus, an image transmission apparatus, an image reception apparatus, and a system. The image transmission apparatus includes a detection circuitry, a generation circuitry, and a transmission circuitry. The generation circuitry is configured to generate a first image based on a first piece of positional information from a plurality of pieces of positional information, the first image including the overlap region and corresponding to a first region of interest of two or more regions of interest. The generation circuitry is also configured to generate one or more second images based on an overlap region and the plurality of pieces of positional information, the one or more second images excluding the overlap region and corresponding to regions of interest other than the first region of interest of the two or more regions of interest.
US12028609B2
Disruptions in the continuity of image frames output from an image capture device due to switching from one image sensor to another image sensor of the device may be reduced or eliminated through controlled timing for switching of the image sensors according to a predefined image sensor configuration. Operation of a multi-sensor image device according to the predefined image sensor configuration may include an appropriate selection of a source for image adjustment during the zoom level transition. The predefined image sensor configuration may define transition parameters for particular zoom ranges of the image capture device.
US12028607B2
A digital camera with a printer is a digital camera with a printer and includes a communication unit that communicates with a digital camera with a printer that is another apparatus, and an image composition unit that generates a composite image in which a first image captured by the digital camera with a printer that is an owned apparatus and a second image captured by the other apparatus are composited, in which the communication unit transmits the composite image to the other apparatus. A user of the other apparatus can also obtain the composite image. Accordingly, the composite image can be enjoyed by capturing images using a plurality of cameras.
US12028599B2
The present embodiment relates to a camera module comprising a first camera module and a second camera module, wherein the first camera module comprises first to third magnets disposed at first to third corners of a first cover and a first dummy member disposed at a fourth corner of the first cover, and the second camera module comprises fourth to sixth magnets disposed at fifth to seventh corners of a second cover and a second dummy member disposed at an eighth corner of the second cover, wherein the first dummy member is adjacent to the sixth magnet of the fourth to sixth magnets, and the second dummy member is adjacent to the third magnet of the first to third magnets.
US12028598B2
The present disclosure provides an image device. The image device may include a camera lens, one or more stepper motors to drive the camera lens, one or more H-bridge circuits configured to control at least one of the one or more stepper motors, and a lens-identification circuit connected with the one or more H-bridge circuits, wherein the lens-identification circuit includes an impedance network of which an impedance value corresponds to a type of the camera lens.
US12028590B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a support member and a rear plate, a camera support member disposed between the support member and the rear plate, a camera module disposed on the support member, a camera window covering at least a part of the camera module, and a compression member disposed between the camera window and the camera module. The camera module may include a first area facing the camera support member, a second area facing the compression member, and a third area facing the camera window and at least partially surrounded by the compression member.
US12028589B2
A covering for an electronic imaging device with an optically transparent display screen viewing window centrally disposed in a band bag sleeve to define an inner volume with a mouth. An adherent, such as an optically transparent adhesive, is disposed on an inner surface of the viewing window for adhering to a display screen of the electronic imaging device. A cinching mechanism is operative to constrict the mouth of the band bag sleeve. A sterile barrier is thus created between the electronic imaging device and an exterior environment while permitting optically clear, stable viewing and operation of the display screen. A method for enveloping an electronic imaging device with a covering is founded on providing such a covering, causing the electronic imaging device to be received through the mouth and into the inner volume, and adhering the display screen viewing window to the display screen.
US12028586B2
Advertisement preparation methods and systems are shown and disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes reviewing metadata of an advertisement. The metadata includes duration information for the advertisement, and determining actual duration of the advertisement. The method additionally includes determining whether the duration information matches the actual duration of the advertisement, and editing the advertisement when the duration information does not match the actual duration such that the actual duration of the edited advertisement matches the duration information.
US12028578B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine demographic classifications for census level impression counts and unique audience sizes are disclosed. In an example, the apparatus includes media tag format circuitry to generate a reformatted media tag corresponding to an impression request. The example apparatus also includes model execution circuitry to execute a machine learning model based on the reformatted media tag to generate outputs, the outputs including at least a value representative of a probability of an occurrence of a demographic classification. The example apparatus further includes audience counting circuitry to assign an identification of ones of audience members in a group to the demographic classification based at least on the outputs.
US12028575B2
A media presentation and distribution system (MPDS) that handles rules-based presentation of non-programming media items, receives a user request (which includes user parameters) for delivery of programming media content at a first client device and transmits a media stream that includes the programming media content with a plurality of identifiers present with the programming media content. The MPDS further receives a request that includes one or more user preferences from the first client device, based on a detection of the plurality of identifiers. The MPDS further determines a set of non-programming media items for delivery to the first client device. The MPDS further controls presentation of a part of the media stream on a second client device that is paired with the first client device based on a movement of the second client device in a communication range of the second client device with the first client device.
US12028569B2
Systems, methods, and software described herein manage the storage of video data in multiple storage locations. In one example, a system obtains video data from a video source and stores the video data in a first format in a first storage location. Additionally, the system stores the video data in a second format in a second storage location, wherein the second format comprises one or more lesser video quality characteristics than the first format. The system further identifies metadata associated with the video data and stores the metadata in the second storage location.
US12028566B2
The present disclosure relates to a system, a method and a computer-readable medium for tagging live streaming data. The method includes generating a first intermediate tag for the live streaming program, generating a second intermediate tag for the live streaming program, and determining a final tag for the live streaming program according to the first intermediate tag and the second intermediate tag. The present disclosure can categorize contents in a more granular and precise way.
US12028559B2
A system is provided for optimizing the distribution of media production resources. The system includes a grain store having a persistent file system that stores essence grains upon receipt into individual files according to a folder layout. The system also includes a grain store manager that dynamically names the individual files upon receipt of the essence grains to configure the folder layout to form a natural index that maps bytes of the essence grains to a numerical index of the essence grains, respectively, generates a descriptor for flows of files in the folder layout, generates a unique identity for a plurality of sources in the grain store, and receives a media access request from a client device application based on a media production workflow. The grain store then dynamically accesses the essence grains by identifying the unique identity of the respective group of flows and the descriptor for the format.
US12028556B2
The present invention relates to video encoding and decoding method and apparatus, and a video encoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: entropy-encoding quantized transform information; and transmitting the entropy-encoded information as a bitstream, wherein the bitstream includes information indicating pieces of information to be parallel decoded in byte units.
US12028540B2
A video file is detected by a computer system. The video file that is to be provided to one or more client devices. The video file contains a video stream that includes a plurality of video images. A first video image of the plurality of video images is reconstructed based on a first machine learning technique. The first machine learning technique is based on one or more video images that occur temporally before the first video image in the video stream. A reconstruction status of the first video image of the plurality of video images is identified based on the video file and based on a second machine learning technique. An altered video file is generated in response to the reconstruction status and based on the video file.
US12028539B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media to enhance texture image delivery and processing at a client device. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a server-side compression combination that includes, in sequential order, a first compression pass, a decompression pass, and a second compression pass. By applying this compression combination to a texture image at the server-side, the disclosed systems can leverage both GPU-friendly and network-friendly image formats. For example, at a client device, the disclosed system can instruct the client device to execute a combination of decompression-compression passes on a GPU-network-friendly image delivered over a network connection to the client device. In so doing, client device can generate a tri-pass-compressed-texture from a decompressed image comprising texels with color palettes based on previously reduced color palettes from the first compression pass at the server-side, which reduces computational overhead and increases performance speed.
US12028534B2
According to the disclosure of the present document, a linear reshaper is used for LMCS and a single chroma residual scaling factor, which is directly signaled during chroma scaling of the LMCS, can be used. In addition, the number of flexible bins can be used for luma mapping so that the resource/cost (of software or hardware) required for an LMCS procedure is minimized, and the latency of coding is removed so that the LMCS procedure can be efficiently performed.
US12028529B2
A system and method of decoding a transform block for a colour channel of an image frame from a video bitstream. The method comprises determining a chroma format of the image frame, the chroma format having chroma channels of the image frame being subsampled relative to a luma channel of the image frame; determining a coefficient group size of the transform block, the coefficient group size being a largest area of the transform block of up to 16 samples, the coefficient group size being determined based only on the transform block size and independent of both (i) a colour plane of the transform block and (ii) colour plane subsampling due to the determined chroma format; and decoding the transform block using coefficient groups of the determined size from the video bitstream.
US12028528B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. The image decoding method performed by the image decoding apparatus, according to the present disclosure, comprises the steps of determining a current block by splitting an image on the basis of split information acquired from a bitstream; determining a quantization parameter of the current block; and determining a transform coefficient of the current block on the basis of the quantization parameter.
US12028526B2
An image decoding method includes receiving residual information including first size related information for a first residual coefficient and second size related information for a second residual coefficient, setting a Rice parameter of the first size related information and the second size related information as a specific value, deriving available binary values based on the Rice parameter, deriving binary values of the first size related information and the second size related information by decoding the first size related information and the second size related information, deriving values of the first size related information and the second size related information by comparing the binary values and the available binary values, deriving the first residual coefficient and the second residual coefficient based on the values, and reconstructing a current picture based on the first residual coefficient and the second residual coefficient.
US12028522B2
A video decoding method according to the present disclosure may include partitioning a current picture into a plurality of tiles, decoding partitioning information representing a slice type, wherein the partitioning information represents whether a rectangular slice is applied and decoding first width information and first height information of a slice when the partitioning information represents that the rectangular slice is applied.
US12028515B2
Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information of a current block in a current picture that is a part of a coded video bitstream. The prediction information indicates a non-directional intra prediction mode for the current block. The processing circuitry partitions the current block into a plurality of partitions. The plurality of partitions includes at least one L-shaped partition. The processing circuitry reconstructs one of the plurality of partitions based on at least one of (i) neighboring reconstructed samples of the one of the plurality of partitions or (ii) neighboring reconstructed samples of the current block.
US12028507B2
Augmented reality systems provide graphics over views from a mobile device for both in-venue and remote viewing of a sporting or other event. A server system can provide a transformation between the coordinate system of a mobile device (mobile phone, tablet computer, head mounted display) and a real world coordinate system. Requested graphics for the event are displayed over a view of an event. In a tabletop presentation, video of the event can be displayed with augmented reality graphics overlays at a remote location.
US12028504B2
A first projection device includes a first laser projector and a first measurement system. A second projection device includes a second laser projector and a second measurement system. The first projection device and the second projection device is interconnected with a controller. The controller is programmed with computer aided design data representative of a large scale work area and coordinates electronic interaction between the first projection device and the second projection device. The first projection device projects a first indicia that is detectable by the second measurement system and the second projection device projects a second indicia that is detectable by the first measurement system. The controller is adapted for determining relative position within three-dimensional coordinate system of the first projection device to the second projection device from the first indicia detected by the second measurement system and the second indicia detected by the first measurement system.
US12028501B2
A control apparatus includes a controller. The controller obtains a job which is executed by a print apparatus and which is corresponded to document image data. The controller obtains read image data of a color sample corresponding to the document image data from a scanner. The controller determines whether correction of the scanner and/or the print apparatus is necessary based on the read image data. The controller corrects the scanner and/or the print apparatus based on a result of determination. The controller generates a color conversion parameter regarding a color conversion of the document image data based on a profile corresponding to the scanner and/or the print apparatus after correction, the document image data, and the read image data.
US12028489B2
A scanning apparatus includes a scanning unit configured to scan a document to generate image data, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a chat server, the image data generated by the scanning unit and identification information corresponding to a post selected as a post to which a reply is to be made. The image data transmitted by the transmission unit and the post corresponding to the identification information transmitted by the transmission unit are posted in association with each other to a talk room of a chat service provided by the chat server.
US12028487B2
A system and method for monitoring, analyzing, and testing calls between computers of remotely working call center agents and callers in real-time. A real-time testing module implemented as a browser extension or a side-loaded application relays live call information and on-demand or periodic passive-test results to a test and dashboard server for analysis and triage. Additionally, the real-time testing module may actively test calling conditions between the agent's equipment and a distant caller by suspending the agents calls and tasks, intercepting and taking command of the agent's audio equipment, and placing a test call to a testing server. Thus, allowing actual data to be used in troubleshooting issues, rather than simulations or synthetic data. Dashboards with analytics and predictions are made available in both the browser application and an end point server for agents and operations/management personnel respectively.
US12028486B2
The invention relates to systems/methods that enable real-time monitoring/processing of contact center communications to provide timely, actionable analytic insights and real-time critical call alerts, while simultaneously providing best-in-class protection of sensitive customer information.
US12028482B2
Systems and methods for providing voice assisted data during a branded voice session via a telecommunication network include a provider device including an in-call dialer interface, a cell site, and message management circuitry communicatively coupled to a call center. The provider device is structured to receive an indication of an in-call message during a branded voice session, determine a call address responsive to receiving the indication of the in-call message, generate a message interface including the call address, receive, by the message interface, the voice assisted data, and based on the call address, provide the voice assisted data during the branded voice session.
US12028481B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a spam telephone call reducer are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving first telephone call data that reflects telephone calls received by a first user and second telephone call data that reflects telephone calls received by a second user. The actions further include comparing the first telephone call data and the second telephone call data. The actions further include determining that the first user received more spam telephone calls than the second user. The actions further include determining a first characteristic of the first user and a second characteristic of the second user. The actions further include determining an action that increases a similarity of the first characteristic to the second characteristic. The actions further include performing the action on the first characteristic.
US12028474B2
In some embodiments, an electronic device displays user interfaces associated with games in response to detecting input devices having been connected to the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a reduced user interface in response to detecting that a cover has covered a portion of the display of the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a user interface via a display generation component of an input device. In some embodiments, an electronic device projects a user interface via a projection device of an input device. In some embodiments, an electronic device directs inputs from an input device to different user interfaces depending on the mode in which the input device is operating.
US12028472B1
A cell phone grip with speaker and battery including a top portion assembly, a bottom portion assembly, an electrical assembly. The top portion assembly includes a top member having a truncated cone shape. The bottom portion assembly includes a bottom member having a truncated cone shape. The top member mounted on the bottom member defines a grip member. Said grip member is capable of being expanded and collapsed. The electrical assembly is located inside the grip member. The electrical assembly includes a battery and a speaker. Said battery solving the problem of having to carry an external battery for when the cell phone runs out of battery. The speaker is connected via Bluetooth™ to a portable electronic device.
US12028471B2
A supporting stand comprises a bearing unit, a first rod, a second rod, a sleeve assembly, a regulating assembly, an elastic element, a first steel cable, and a second steel cable. The first rod pivotally connects with the bearing unit, the second rod pivotally connects with the first rod, and the sleeve assembly pivotally connects with the second rod. The regulating assembly is disposed in the sleeve assembly, the elastic element is disposed in the second rod, the first steel cable is connected to the elastic element and the first rod respectively, and the second steel cable is connected to the elastic element and the regulating assembly respectively. The sleeve assembly is operated to drive the regulating assembly to move, so that the second steel cable, the elastic element, and the first steel cable move simultaneously to adjust the tension compensation for the bearing unit.
US12028468B2
Embodiments of this application provide a middle frame, a battery cover, and an electronic device. The electronic device may include a mobile or fixed terminal with an edge frame or a housing, such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a handheld computer, a walkie-talkie, a netbook, a POS machine, a personal digital assistant (PDA), an event data recorder, a wearable device, a virtual reality device, a wireless USB flash drive, a Bluetooth speaker/headset, or a vehicle-mounted device. Two types of materials: ceramics and plastic, are used to form a middle frame and a battery cover, thereby reducing a weight of the electronic device. This resolves a problem that is of a relatively large weight of an existing electronic device and that is caused when a pure ceramic middle frame and a pure ceramic battery cover are used in the electronic device.
US12028465B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for the convergent distribution of electronic digital certificates. The present invention may be configured to generate electronic digital certificates associated with artifacts, store the electronic digital certificates on a distributed ledger, and record, on the distributed ledger, interests of the users in the electronic digital certificates. The present invention may be configured to receive a request from at least one user of the group of users to combine ownership of the electronic digital certificates. The present invention may be configured to generate, based on the request and based on the electronic digital certificates, a combined electronic digital certificate. The present invention may be configured to store the combined electronic digital certificate on the distributed ledger.
US12028463B1
Systems and methods are described for leveraging group signature technology to allow a group manager to set up rules that govern what requires consensus between members of the group. Consensus may require a plurality or a majority of signers using their individual private keys to use a group public key associated with the group. Group membership with group signatures allow for one group public key and a plurality of private keys, where each private key is associated with a group member.
US12028455B2
Methods and systems for privacy-preserving identity attribute verification are presented. During an interaction between a relying entity and a user, a relying entity computer can transmit a policy token to a user device. The policy token may indicate the information needed by the relying entity in order to perform the interaction. The user device can verify the policy token, then use the policy token in conjunction with an identity token to generate a zero-knowledge proof. The user device may transmit the zero-knowledge proof to an identity service provider computer. The identity service provider computer may verify the zero-knowledge proof, then generate a verification message. The identity service provider computer may sign the verification message and transmit the signed verification message to the relying entity computer. The relying entity computer may verify the verification message and complete the interaction with the user.
US12028453B2
A computer-implemented method of partitioning a blockchain network into shards is disclosed. The method comprises identifying a parent blockchain transaction, the parent transaction defined by an output which corresponds to an input of a child blockchain transaction, and allocating the parent transaction and the child transaction to the same shard.
US12028447B2
A method includes extracting, by a computing system, movement intentions of an individual from neural signals; mapping, by a secure element of the computing system, the movement intentions to a character string; and generating, by the computing system, a symmetric encryption key using the character string as an input to a key exchange protocol.
US12028443B2
Various systems and methods for establishing security profiles for Internet of Things (IoT) devices and trusted platforms, including in OCF specification device deployments, are discussed herein. In an example, a technique for onboarding a subject device for use with a security profile, includes: receiving a request to perform an owner transfer method of a device associated with a device platform; verifying attestation evidence associated with the subject device, the attestation evidence being signed by a certificate produced using a manufacturer-embedded key, with the key provided from a trusted hardware component of the device platform; and performing device provisioning of the subject device, based on the attestation evidence, as the device provisioning causes the subject device to use a security profile tied to manufacturer-embedded keys.
US12028442B2
Technology related to accessing security hardware keys is disclosed. In one example, a method includes receiving an initial request to perform a first cryptographic operation using a key stored in security hardware circuitry. In response to servicing the initial request, a persistent attribute of the key can be used to query the security hardware circuitry to receive a volatile attribute of the key. The volatile attribute of the key can be stored external to the security hardware circuitry to enable subsequent requests to perform cryptographic operations on the security hardware circuitry without querying the security hardware circuitry for the volatile attribute of the key. A subsequent request referencing the key can be received. The subsequent request can be serviced by using the security hardware circuitry and identifying the key using the stored volatile attribute of the key without querying the security hardware circuitry for the volatile attribute of the key.
US12028441B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for encrypting and decrypting a sensitive data item using a zero-knowledge encryption protocol. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to decrypt the sensitive data item from a client. The embodiment retrieves the requested sensitive data item from a data store. The embodiment generates a result set by replacing a ciphertext value of the sensitive data item to be stored in the result set with a placeholder identifier. The embodiment retrieves a data encryption key (DEK) block from a DEK manager, wherein the DEK block comprises a DEK associated with the sensitive data item. The embodiment generates and encrypts a cipher ticket comprising the ciphertext value of the sensitive data item. The embodiment then sends the result set, the cipher ticket, and the DEK block to the client for decryption of the ciphertext value of the sensitive data item.
US12028432B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for managing push notifications on a user device. The push notifications may be sent only upon checking/identifying if the user device (associated smart extension) is within a predetermined vicinity of a home gateway network by checking whether respective MAC address entry of the user device is in ARP tables and is in active state, based on which push notifications may be triggered to the user device, wherein the MAC address may be computed and stored by the system. Alternatively, the system may determine if the user device is reachable or not by using IP address (such as ping protocol and other such methods). This facilitates a consistent, power saving along with better reliability of network-based calls or Push notifications, an enhanced user experience and other advantages by sending the push notifications only when the device is connected to home gateway network.
US12028425B2
A system includes a processor and an interface. The processor determines that a first user takes a first action and a second user takes a second action, where the time period between the first action and the second action is less than a threshold. In response, the processor causes the system to transmit at least one of a suggestion associated with the first user for display to the second user or a suggestion associated with the second user for display to the first user. In response to the processor causing to transmit the suggestion associated with the second user, the interface receives an indication that the first user approves of the suggestion associated with the second user. In response to the processor causing to transmit the suggestion associated with the first user, the interface receives an indication that the second user approves of the suggestion associated with the first user.
US12028423B2
A wireless User Equipment (UE) hosts a microservice. In the wireless UE, a user interface presents user options to a user and receives user instructions from the user. Communication circuitry wirelessly transfers the user instructions to a microservice control system, and in response, wirelessly receives microservice instructions and a microservice application from the microservice control system. User circuitry in the wireless UE executes the microservice application in an operating system container per the microservice instructions and responsively generates microservice data for a microservice data system. The communication circuitry wirelessly transfers the microservice data to the microservice data system. This hosted microservices platform supports a variety of applications beyond smartphone owner usage. To that end, the smartphone owner may get financially compensated for those extra use cases according to a variety of factors. The owner will be in full control of selecting which functionality will run on his smartphone/UE.
US12028420B2
Systems and methods to automatically update status of projects within a collaboration environment are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment; determine status information for the individual projects; manage information defining project-level graphical user interfaces; update the individual project-level graphical user interfaces to reflect status information of the individual projects in the collaboration environment; and/or perform other operations.
US12028410B2
Systems and methods may create and manage hybrid clouds including both standard compute nodes and edge devices. Edge devices can be enrolled in a hybrid cloud by deploying a lightweight container to the edge device.
US12028401B2
Example embodiments relate to creating, managing, and delivering feed formatted content. One method includes receiving a multimedia playlist request including at least one multimedia location indicator, determining at least one multimedia file location based on the at least one multimedia location indicator, and providing a multimedia playlist including at least one of the determined multimedia file locations. A further method includes receiving a resize input, resizing a feed reader from a first display including a first number of feed items to a second display including a second number of feed items based on the resize input, the first number different from the second number, receiving a scroll request, determining a scroll number based on the second number, and scrolling based on the determination.
US12028398B2
A method for managing the HTTP adaptive streaming of an item of digital content within a multimedia stream player terminal in a local communication network is disclosed, the multimedia stream player terminal being associated with a terminal for rendering the item of digital content. On detection of an active state of a screen saver mode of the rendering terminal, such a management method implements a progressive reduction of a video rendering quality of the streamed item of digital content, and maintains an audio rendering quality of the item of content.
US12028390B2
A system and method and for detecting meeting participant inattentiveness during an online meeting includes retrieving meeting content data from the ongoing online meeting, meeting metadata associated with the online meeting, and user data associated with participants of the online meeting, the online meeting being conducted via an online meeting application, the user data including camera data and data about user interactions with applications other than the online meeting application. Participant inattentiveness is detected, based on at least one of the camera data or the data about user interactions with the applications other than the online meeting application. Upon detecting participant inattentiveness, notification data is provided for display to the inattentive participant, receiving an indication of the participant's return to the online meeting, and providing data for displaying a summary of meeting events that occurred during the time period to the participant.
US12028384B2
Disclosed is a method for managing a communication session between a first party and a second party. The method includes: receiving a request from a web server to establish a connection; determining the second party to the connection on a basis of data received in the request; inquiring from a database at least one rule; selecting a setup for the connection with respect to the second party in accordance with the at least one rule; establishing the connection to a terminal device of the second party from the WebRTC server; attaching the connection to the terminal device of the second party with the communication session over the web page. Also disclosed is a server device, a computer program product, and a system thereto.
US12028382B2
A network that is to execute transcoding is fixed. IMS networks set an information element that requests either of the IMS networks to execute transcoding into the SDP, and use that information element to select the IMS network that is to execute transcoding between the IMS networks. Then, the selected IMS network executes transcoding of media data.
US12028378B2
A method for resuming a Transport Layer Security (TLS) session in a Service Function Chain comprising a plurality of Service Function nodes coupled to a Service Function Forwarder. A request is received at a first Service Function node to establish a TLS session, and a Pre-Shared Key (PSK) and a PSK identifier that uniquely correspond to the first Service Function node and the TLS session are generated. The PSK identifier is forwarded to one or more of the Service Function Forwarder and the plurality of Service Function nodes. A request to resume the TLS session is received from a client device that previously disconnected. It is determined that the connection request contains the PSK identifier, a second Service Function node is selected, and the TLS session is re-established between the client device and the second Service Function node using the same PSK as the prior TLS session.
US12028376B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for creating, managing, and storing synthetic data that is designed to be placed within databases having real data to deceive, attract, detect and/or track unauthorized access thereof. The synthetic data can be stored as a honeyrecord in a database table that is interspersed with real data such that the honeyrecord is indistinguishable from real data or combined to form a honeytable having multiple honeyrecords therein. In some embodiments, the synthetic data can be used to create a user persona having one or more parameters to construct a profile or an identity honeyrecord of an individual. The parameters can include private information such as name, sex, passport number, social security number, bank account or credit card details, biometric details, passwords, and other information that is attractive to hackers and other data thieves. Creation of the honeyrecord can be performed without referencing any aspect of real data that is stored within the database, knowledge of the real data, or access to the database. Once created, the system can monitor the honeyrecords for release in online sources or for other forms of interaction, which can indicate that a breach took place.
US12028371B2
Systems, methods, and related technologies including media access control (MAC) address spoofing detection are described. The MAC address spoofing detection and response may include accessing a first MAC address associated with a first communication on a first port of a first network device and accessing a second MAC address associated with a second communication on a second port of a second network device. Whether the first MAC address and the second MAC address match may be determined. Information associated with a third communication associated with the first MAC address on the first port of the first network device and information associated with a fourth communication associated with the second MAC address on the second port of the second network device may be accessed. An action may be performed associated with the second port of the second network device based on the second MAC address matching the first MAC address.
US12028367B2
Systems and methods can enable select virtual session capabilities on a user device configured to access a virtual session, which is an instance of a virtual machine. The user device can receive and forward to a gateway sever, a request to launch a virtual session. Based on the virtual session launch request, the gateway server can obtain a compliance profile determined from operational data. The gateway can permit user device access a virtual session hosted on a virtual machine (“VM”) server. The VM server can use the compliance profile and security data from the user device to determine a risk profile of the user device. The virtual session can be configured at the VM server based on the risk profile so as to allow access to a subset of available applications and functions within the applications for the virtual session.
US12028366B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for dynamically performing entity-specific security assessments for entities of virtualized network environments. Techniques include identifying an entity associated with a virtualized network environment, identifying a plurality of security factors, determining entity-specific weights to the plurality of security factors, and generating a composite exposure assessment for the entity. Further techniques include selecting at least two security factors of the plurality of security factors, identifying the weights corresponding to the selected security factors, and calculating the composite exposure assessment using the selected security factors and corresponding weights, analyzing the composite exposure assessment, and generating at least one of: a security recommendation based on the analysis to alter a scope of privileges of the entity, a notification providing an indication of the composite exposure assessment, or a visual representation of the composite exposure assessment of the entity.
US12028364B2
In a communication control system having a plurality of layer 2 switches and a network controller, the network controller includes a determination unit and an instruction unit, the determination unit being configured to determine whether or not a transfer communication flow feature indicating a feature of a communication flow transferred by a layer 2 switch of the plurality of layer 2 switches is similar to an abnormal communication flow feature indicating a feature of a communication flow when an abnormality occurs; and the instruction unit being configured to: output to the layer 2 switch, when the determination unit determines that the transfer communication flow feature is similar to the abnormal communication flow feature, a first instruction to lower priority of transfer processing for the communication flow and a second instruction to duplicate the communication flow to the layer 2 switch; or output the first instruction to the layer 2 switch, and output, to a server detecting a malicious attack, identification information identifying the communication flow having the transfer communication flow feature.
US12028362B1
Techniques for enabling the identification of anomalous events associated with an object storage service of a cloud provider network using a variational autoencoder model including a pre-trained embedding for selected features of events are described. A variational autoencoder, for example, encodes data into a latent space and reconstructs approximations of the data from an encoding in the latent space. In this context, for example, anomalous events of interest might represent unauthorized or abusive behavior associated with storage resources provided by an object storage service (or in association with other types of computing resources provided by other services of a cloud provider network). Legitimate (or benign) access patterns to an object storage service can be modeled by utilizing observed data plane events stored by an account activity monitoring service. Once trained, the model can be used to identify anomalous events.
US12028360B1
A method for scalable vulnerability detection is provided. The method includes selecting at least a workload of a plurality of workloads deployed in a first cloud environment for inspection, wherein the workload includes a first volume; generating in a remote cluster an inspection node, the inspection node including at least a first disk, wherein the remote cluster provisions inspection nodes in response to demand for inspection nodes; generating a persistent volume (PV) on which the at least a first disk is mounted, wherein the at least a first disk is generated from a snapshot of the first volume; and generating a persistent volume claim (PVC) of the PV for an inspector workload, wherein the inspector workload is configured to inspect the PV for an object, and wherein inspector workloads are provisioned in response to demand for inspector workloads.
US12028345B2
A system for identifying trusted machines for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) validation receives a query message from a first trusted computing device, requesting whether an unrecognized computing device is in a list of trusted devices associated with a second trusted computing device. The system determines whether the unrecognized computing device is in the list of trusted devices by determining whether an identification associated with the unrecognized computing device is among the list of trusted devices. In response to determining that the unrecognized computing device is in the list of trusted devices, the system sends a response message to the first trusted computing device, indicating that the unrecognized computing device is in the list of trusted devices.
US12028344B2
The present disclosure relates to enhancing load processing for facilitated assignment or modification of access-right data. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to enhancing load processing and data storage using hierarchical data structures that can store various iterations of resource objects. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer-program product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium for enhanced load processing using hierarchical data structures may be provided.
US12028343B2
At least one identity for a given entity is established in accordance with a decentralized identity management system maintained in accordance with a distributed ledger, wherein the identity of the given entity and a set of attributes relating to the identity are defined by a secure token file. The secure token file is referenced in the distributed ledger enabling two or more computing resource systems (e.g., storage systems) to at least one of authenticate and authorize the given entity in accordance with the secure token file.
US12028338B2
Systems and methods discussed for redirection of launch requests for local applications to corresponding remote applications, such as SaaS or network applications provided by an application server, and access of the corresponding remote application via an embedded browser of a client application. A client application executed by a client device may detect a request of a user to launch a local application of the client device. The client application may determine that the local application corresponds to a network application provided by an application server. The client application may intercept the request to launch the local application, responsive to the determination. An embedded browser of the client application may access the network application from the application server, responsive to interception of the request.
US12028336B2
Techniques are provided for a highly available web-based database interface system (WDIS) processing database requests that target one or more databases managed by a coupled DBMS. In an embodiment, a web server of multiple web servers receives a first client web-based request that includes one or more first database instructions of a database request. The multiple web servers are configured to balance client web-based requests among one or more of the multiple web servers. The one or more of the multiple web servers are coupled to a database management system that includes one or more database servers executing database instructions on one or more databases. Based on balancing client web-based requests among the one or more of the multiple web servers, routing the first client web-based request that includes the one or more first database instructions of the database request to the first web server of the one or more multiple web servers coupled to the database management system. A request coordinator store coupled to the one or more of the multiple web server is queried. to determine a state of the database request. Based at least in part on the state of the database request, the first web server requests the database management system to execute the one or more first database instructions and update the state.
US12028334B2
A method may include a method of automating processes for remote work. The method may include receiving, at a server, first login data from a client software application. The client software application may be executing on a user device of a remote worker user. The method may include authenticating the remote worker user based on the first login data. The method may include receiving, at the server, command data from the client software application. The command data may include data indicating to the server to launch a software application. The method may include launching, on the server, the software application. The method may include inputting, using a robotic process automation (RPA) process, second login data of the remote worker user into the software application. The method may include key site information, speech-to-text functionality, onboarding functionality, automated support, or activity logging.
US12028324B1
A server device is provided for authenticating client devices on a communication network. The server device includes a transceiver configured for operable communication with at least one client of the communication network, and a processor including a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the server device to transmit one or more messages of an authentication exchange with a client device, transmit a server Registration Authorization Token (RAT) associated with the server device to the client device, receive from the client device a client RAT associated with the client device, and store the client RAT.
US12028318B2
A method of monitoring and controlling network traffic within an industrial control system including receiving one or more data packets at a smart network switching system operating software-defined networking, analyzing the one or more data packets at a protocol level within a control plane of the software-defined networking, based on the analysis, determining whether the one or more data packets are authorized data packets, and forwarding a data packet of the one or more data packets to a destination device within a data plane of the software-defined networking upon determining that the data packet is an authorized data packet. The method further includes providing information related to the analysis of the one or more data packets to an out-of-band monitoring and control system for display to a user, and receiving a response communication from the out-of-band monitoring and control system indicating whether the one or more data packets are authorized data packets.
US12028317B2
Systems and methods for receiving information on network firewall policy configurations are disclosed. Based on the received firewall configuration information, a configuration of a firewall and/or subnet of network devices is automatically provisioned and/or configured to control network traffic to and from the subnet.
US12028316B2
Internet of Things (IoT) device classification is disclosed. A byte frequency pattern associated with network traffic of an IoT device is received. The received pattern is used to determine a classification for the IoT device. The classification is provided to a security appliance. The security appliance is configured to apply a policy to the IoT device based at least in part on the classification.
US12028306B2
Devices, systems and processes for providing geo-located and content-to-comment synchronized user circles are described. For at least one embodiment, a system for facilitating a geo-location based user circle may include a hub configured to facilitate a sharing of comments between a first user and a second user via a user circle. The first user and the second user may be selected for participation in the user circle based upon a circleID associated each of a first user device and a second user device. A first user device, communicatively coupled to the hub, may be configured to facilitate a capture of the comments provided by the first user. A second user device, communicatively coupled to the hub, may be configured to facilitate a presentation of the comments to the second user. And, a second device geoID may be used to indicate a location of the second user device.
US12028300B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a content sharing method, apparatus, and system. The method is applied to a first terminal. The first terminal generates a first picture in response to detecting a first operation; sends a first message to a second terminal via a near field connection, where the first message comprises a thumbnail of the first picture to indicate the second terminal to display a first prompt that comprises the thumbnail of the first picture; receives, from the second terminal, a second message corresponding to a second operation associated with the first prompt; and sends the first picture to the second terminal in response to the second message.
US12028295B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for chatbot generating is provided. The present invention may include determining one or more entities based on at least one column header of a dataset. The present invention may include determining one or more actions based on an associated row, the associated row corresponding to the at least one column header. The present invention may include generating a conversation environment, wherein the conversation environment comprises pairing the one or more entities with the one or more supplied intents of a chatbot workspace and pairing the one or more actions with one or more supplied utterances of the chatbot workspace.
US12028294B2
The invention relates to methods for communicating within a communication system when re-configured from a source to a target uplink/downlink configuration. The invention is also providing mobile station for performing these methods, and computer readable media the instructions of which cause the mobile station to perform the methods described herein. Specifically, the invention suggests to perform PUSCH transmissions in response to Downlink Control Information, DCI, transmissions such that the source uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received up to and including subframe N−6, a predefined uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received during subframes N−5 to N−1; and the target uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received from subframe N onward.
US12028287B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting message segments in parallel. One method includes segmenting a first PDCP layer SDU message into a plurality of first segments and transmitting a first set of segmented RRC messages to a second communication entity. The first method includes segmenting a second PDCP layer SDU message into a plurality of second segments and transmitting a second set of segmented RRC messages to the second communication entity in parallel with the first set of segmented RRC messages. Each of the segmented RRC messages includes one of the first or second segments and includes a procedure number that indicates to which procedure the included segment corresponds.
US12028285B2
A method and network node for beamforming a physical downlink shared channel and broadcasting a reference signal, the network node having N antenna elements and M reference signal ports, N being greater than M. A method includes assigning the M reference signal ports to M antenna elements of the N antenna elements. A reference signal is transmitted using the M antenna elements, the M antenna elements used to form a first beam sufficiently broad to broadcast the reference signal over a geographical area sized to support a plurality of wireless devices (WDs). A precoding matrix indicator is received from a first WD of the plurality of WDs, using the N antenna elements, signals received at the N antenna elements being weighted to form a second beam sufficiently narrow to enable spatial selection of the first WD of the plurality of WDs by the network node.
US12028275B1
Methods and computer systems for locking in offsets associated with resource requests. Receiving input of a resource request amount for a resource request, the resource request associated with a defined period of time and a property. Determining, based on data indicating one or more characteristics of the property, a metric representing an expected quantity of emissions over the defined period of time. Identifying an application programming interface capable of processing a request to lock in an amount for an offset product. Using the application programming interface and the metric to determine an offset amount to offset the expected quantity of emissions. Determining a periodic data transfer amount for the resource request that is based on the resource request amount and the offset amount. Outputting the periodic data transfer amount. Receiving an instruction to initiate the resource request and using the application programming interface to lock in the offset amount.
US12028272B2
Providing users with smooth and reliable applications in a cloud based setting is a desirable goal. An approach to pre-allocating cloud computing resources may be provided to improve user experience. A user device may monitor an environment for individual user behaviors with visual and/or audio sensors. Based on data from the visual and/or audio sensors individual behaviors may be identified. Individual behaviors may be identified and associated with a cloud computing resource request. Computing resources in the cloud may be reserved or pre-allocated based on the cloud computing resource request. The pre-allocated computing resources can improve user experience through reduced wait time and improve initial cloud-based application response.
US12028271B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to prioritizing messages for server processing based on monitoring and predicting server resource utilization. A computing platform may monitor a plurality of servers (e.g., processing engines) to determine a current processing capacity and a maximum processing capacity of each processing engine. The computing platform may predict a quantity of application messages that may be received and/or processed by each processing engine at a later time. The computing platform may generate an application message prioritization framework comprising the prediction, the current processing capacity, and the maximum processing capacity of each processing engine. The computing platform may use the application message prioritization framework to prioritize received application messages to be processed, and to determine whether an application message should be stored in a backlog for processing at a later time or whether the application message should be transmitted to a processing engine for processing.
US12028267B1
Aspects provided herein provide methods, systems, and a non-transitory computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions for dynamic allocation of internet of things (IoT) device communications. The method begins with determining an amount of unallocated spectrum in a communications channel used by one or more devices attached to a node. Next, it is determined that the IoT device has requested an amount of spectrum from the node that is less than the amount of unallocated spectrum. At least a portion of the amount of unallocated spectrum is dynamically allocated to the IoT device.
US12028263B2
A switch is provided for routing packets in an interconnection network. The switch includes egress ports to transmit packets, and ingress ports to receive packets. The switch also includes a buffer capacity circuit configured to obtain local buffer capacity for buffers configured to buffer packets transmitted via the switch. The switch also includes a telemetry circuit configured to receive telemetry flow control units from next switches coupled to the switch. Each telemetry flow control unit corresponds to buffer capacity at a respective next switch. The switch also includes a network capacity circuit configured to compute network capacity for transmitting packets to a destination based on the telemetry flow control units and the local buffer capacity. The switch also includes a routing circuit configured to receive packets via the ingress ports, and route the packets to the destination, via the egress ports, with bandwidth proportional to the network capacity.
US12028262B2
A computer executed process can be configured to identify a network traffic flow of a source network device. The process can select a traffic fidelity rate from a plurality of traffic fidelity rates for sending information regarding the network traffic flow to a digital twin device corresponding to the source network device. The process can transmit the information regarding the network traffic flow to the digital twin device according to the traffic fidelity rate. The digital twin device can be configured to replicate at least one operation of the source network device with respect to the network traffic flow.
US12028258B2
A data collection apparatus in a traffic transfer system collects and transfers low-bit-rate traffic data from an IoT device, and transfers high-bit-rate traffic data in an identified area. A traffic transfer apparatus performs determination as to whether or not a service-supported event occurs, by inputting the low-bit-rate traffic data into a learner and, when occurrence is determined, acquires and transfers the high-bit-rate traffic data in the identified area. The traffic transfer apparatus causes the learner to relearn a result of analysis of the transferred high-bit-rate traffic data and the low-bit-rate traffic data used in the determination.
US12028257B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). An operating method of a device for a user plane function (UPF) in a core network of a wireless communication system may include receiving rule information for processing a packet from a device for a session management function (SMF), processing a packet including user traffic received from a first device based on the rule, and transmitting the processed packet to a second device. Herein, first device or the second device may be a different device which performs a function related to a user plane.
US12028246B2
Techniques and mechanisms for monitoring and processing telemetry information of an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) packet in a network. The IPv6 packet includes an IPv6 header having a Segment Identifier (SID) field, and a function field. According to this disclosure, the function field may include a function associated with an operation for collecting telemetry information of a first node indicated by the SID field. When the function executed by the first node, it may collect the telemetry information from the first node, and export the telemetry information to a collector node. Further, the function may indicate an operation for collecting the telemetry information of a set of paths including one or more nodes, where the telemetry path can be changed dynamically. In this way, each node in the telemetry path may define a new path for collecting the telemetry information.
US12028244B2
Methods and systems for selecting routes from among multiple media and/or optimizing transmission across those media are described. A minimum data rate may be determined for transmitting a content item. Based on that minimum data rate, a device may determine whether to transmit the content item via a given medium, select a different medium for transmission, or adjust transmission to compensate for unfavorable network conditions. A device may select a medium based on ranking one or more routes from a content source to a user device. Further, a device may determine a data rate for transmission based on calculating an expected time of transmission that includes time spent performing retransmissions at a given data rate.
US12028239B2
In one embodiment, a device predicts, for each of a plurality of applications accessible via a network, quality metrics for different network paths where traffic for that application be routed via one or more paths among the different network paths. The device generates a congestion risk prediction model that predicts a risk of traffic congestion for a particular combination of: applications from among the plurality of applications, traffic flows associated with those applications, and paths among the network paths via which those traffic flows may be routed. The device performs a constrained optimization based on the predicted quality metrics and on the risk of traffic congestion predicted by the model, to assign traffic flows for the applications to a selected subset of the different paths. The device causes the traffic flows to be routed in the network via the selected subset of the different paths to which they are assigned.
US12028236B2
Processing logic may monitor testing of a candidate service with one or more services to determine if one or more criteria are satisfied. The one or more criteria may be defined in a smart contract on a blockchain. In response to the one or more criteria being satisfied, processing logic may initiate a transaction of the blockchain which causes each of the one or more services to validate the one or more criteria. In response to the one or more services validating that the one or more criteria are satisfied, processing logic may promote the candidate service.
US12028215B2
A method for managing a managed forwarding element (MFE) that forwards data in a network. A network controller publishes, to the MFE, a first set of data for configuring the MFE to perform a set of forwarding operations. The network controller collects, from the MFE, a second set of data regarding current operational state of the MFE. The network controller identifies a difference between a desired operational state of the MFE maintained by the network controller and the collected current operational state of the MFE. Based on the identified difference, the network controller publishes a new third set of data for configuring the MFE to adjust the current operational state of the MFE to the desired state.
US12028208B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the processing of network data. During operation, the system causes for display a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring the generation of time-series event data from network packets captured by one or more remote capture agents. Next, the system causes for display, in the GUI, a first set of user-interface elements containing a set of statistics associated with one or more event streams that comprise the time-series event data. The system then causes for display, in the GUI, one or more graphs comprising one or more values from the set of statistics. Finally, the system causes for display, in the GUI, a value of a statistic from the set of statistics based on a position of a cursor over the one or more graphs.
US12028201B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for occupying an unlicensed carrier to send a discovery signal, and an access point. The method includes the following steps. A parameter of a discovery signal sent on an unlicensed carrier by an access point is configured. The access point sends the discovery signal on the unlicensed carrier. The technical solution of the present disclosure can reduce the time for processing items other than data sending (such as synchronization) after each time the access point preempts a resource, and can improve the spectral efficiency of the unlicensed carrier.
US12028194B2
A receiver for a passive optical network is provided. The receiver includes an analog-to-digital converter circuitry configured generate a digital receive signal based on an analog receive signal. The analog receive signal is based on an optical receive signal encoded with a binary transmit sequence. The receiver additionally comprises linear equalizer circuitry configured to generate an equalized receive signal by linearly equalizing the digital receive signal. Further, the receiver comprises secondary equalizer circuitry configured to generate soft information indicating a respective reliability of elements in the equalized receive signal using the Viterbi algorithm. In addition, the receiver comprises decoder circuitry configured to generate a digital output signal based on the soft information using soft decision forward error correction.
US12028192B2
An example apparatus includes: a feed forward equalizer (FFE) with a FFE output, adder circuitry with a first adder input, a second adder input, and a first adder output, the first adder input coupled to the FFE output, a multiplexer (MUX) with a first MUX input, a second MUX input, and a MUX output, the first MUX input coupled to the first adder output, the second MUX input coupled to the FFE output, a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) with a DFE output coupled to the second adder input, and a timing error detector (TED) with a first TED input coupled to the MUX output.
US12028186B2
Techniques and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for staggering sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions in frequency across multiple orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, which may allow multiple UEs to transmit SRS using a common listen-before-talk (LBT) gap for a LBT procedure. The techniques also provide for transmitting an SRS across multiple OFDM symbols using same frequency resources, and an orthogonal cover code (OCC) may be applied to the SRS transmission of each OFDM symbol, which may allow multiple UEs to transmit concurrent SRS using a common LBT gap.
US12028173B2
Methods and apparatuses for acknowledgement information with reduced redundancies. A method for a user equipment (UE) to provide a number of first hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information bits includes determining a number of second HARQ-ACK information bits based on a HARQ-ACK codebook. The number of second HARQ-ACK information bits is larger than a first predetermined number and smaller than a second predetermined number. The first and second predetermined numbers are consecutive in a set of predetermined numbers. The method further includes determining the number of first HARQ-ACK information bits by appending a number of bits to the number of second HARQ-ACK information bits. The number of bits is equal to a difference between the second predetermined number and the number of second HARQ-ACK information bits. The method further includes transmitting an uplink channel with the number of first HARQ-ACK information bits.
US12028172B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for scheduling a hybrid automatic repeat request. The method includes: transmitting downlink data to user equipment (UE) in a first channel occupation time; and transmitting a trigger instruction to the UE in a second channel occupation time, in which the trigger instruction is configured to instruct the UE to feed back a reception result about the downlink data in the second channel occupation time, and the trigger instruction includes at least one of identifier information of the first channel occupation time, and channel detection mechanism information of transmitting the reception result.
US12028157B2
Aspects relate to techniques for MCS selection of a packet to be network coded for sidelink communication. A transmitting UE may encode a packet using an MCS that is greater than a normal MCS that may be used for encoding the packet without network coding. The transmitting UE may then transmit the encoded packet to one or more receiving UEs and a network coding device over a sidelink data channel. The transmitting UE may further transmit a network coding request flag associated with the packet to initiate one or more retransmissions of the packet by the network coding device.
US12028156B2
A time synchronization method, a time synchronization sender, a time synchronization receiver and a time synchronization system are provided. The method includes: determining whether at least one parameter causing recalculation of a best master clock (BMC) algorithm changes; in a case where it is determined that the parameter changes, sending a 1588 standard-based Announce message; and in a case where it is determined that the parameter does not change, sending a keep-alive message of the Announce message. In the present disclosure, by distinguishing keep-alive messages from protocol messages, the problem that a CPU system is busy due to the processing of Announce messages is solved, thereby realizing the optimization of the 1588 protocol, and reducing the impact on the CPU.
US12028149B2
A wireless network includes a client device and an access point (AP). The client device generates a data packet having a physical layer protocol data unit frame format. The client device transmits the data packet to the AP such that a plurality of long training fields (LTFs) of the data packet is transmitted at higher power as compared to a data field of the data packet, and a preamble portion of the data packet is transmitted at higher power as compared to the plurality of LTFs. Further, the data field includes various resource units (RUs) and one such RU is utilized for data transmission between the client device and the AP. The transmission of the data packet from the client device to the AP in the aforementioned manner results in the range extension of the wireless network.
US12028145B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device may support beamformed communications, which may be implemented via reflection from environmental clusters, assistance from relays, repeaters, reconfigurable intelligence surface nodes, or some combination thereof. The communication device may partition a packet into multiple subpackets, where the communication device may assign one or more subpackets to one or more beams within a set of beams for beamformed communications. That is, the communication device may split the packet across the set of beams used for beamformed communications with another communication device. The subpackets may not be decodable independently. As such, the communication device may indicate which beams correspond to which subpackets to enable concatenation and decoding at the other communication device.
US12028138B2
An Advanced Antenna System (AAS) receiver and related methods are provided. According to one aspect an AAS receiver comprises a digital processing block of a Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC). The digital processing block comprises an interface for communicating with a Central Unit (CU), and a plurality of Antenna Signal Processing Blocks (ASPBs), each receiving a digitized receive signal from a respective antenna element of an antenna array. Each ASPB comprises one or more receivers, each of which receives and processes the signal from the respective antenna element. Some receivers within the ASPB beamform the respective processed signal to produce one or more data streams to be sent to the CU. Other receivers within the ASPB provide the respective processed signal to a processing block that buffers the processed signal and sends it to the CU at a later time, e.g., when traffic to the CU is relatively lower.
US12028134B2
Described herein are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and systems and methods for dynamically selecting directional antennas onboard the UAV for wireless transmissions. For example, an embodiment pertains to a UAV that comprises a flight control system in remote communication with a remote receiver via directional antennas onboard the UAV. The flight control system is operatively coupled with a propulsion system to control the flight of the UAV. While in-flight, the flight control system is configured to determine an orientation and position of the UAV. It is further configured to select a subset of directional antennas to transmit from based on the determined orientation and position, among other factors. The flight control system then directs a transmitter to send wireless communications using the selected directional antennas.
US12028127B2
The technology provides for a power line communication system capable of providing data from a first device to a second device over a power line. The first device may include a set of contacts and a second device may include a second set of contacts. The second set of contacts may be adapted to electronically engage with the first set of contacts of the first device to form at least a power and ground lines connection. Circuitry within the first device and the second device may include circuitry for providing data over the power line connection between the first device and the second device. The circuitry may comprise a power line, a ground line, a transmitter line carrying data signals, a capacitor coupling the transmitter line to the power line at a connection point, and a receiver comprising two field effect transistors.
US12028126B1
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for a segmented ECF that includes multiple filter components to replicate an echo pulse response. The different filter components are used to replicate different portions of the echo pulse response. Each filter components can include filter coefficients of different sizes based on the portions of the echo pulse response that is replicated by the filter component. For example, a filter component that replicates a portion of the echo pulse response that includes a large reflection can include large filter coefficients suitable to replicate the larger reflection. In contrast, a filter component that replicates a portion of the echo pulse response that includes smaller reflections can include smaller filter coefficients that are suitable to replicate the smaller reflection. The output of each of the filter components is combined to replicate the full echo pulse response.
US12028123B2
A method for monitoring leakage in an aeronautical band of a high split HFC by a detection and validation of OUDP bursts includes: providing an apparatus for use in a patrol vehicle, the apparatus including a leak signal receiver coupled to a processor; measuring a duration of detected bursts to provide a plurality of burst durations; collecting a histogram of the burst durations during a measuring session to provide a duration histogram; and determining a presence of a leak based on a comparison of the duration histogram with expected durations of OUDP bursts. Systems for monitoring leakage in an aeronautical band of a high split HFC by a detection and validation OUDP bursts, and other methods for monitoring leakage in an aeronautical band of a high split HFC by a detection and validation OUDP bursts are also described.
US12028118B2
This application provides an antenna calibration apparatus and an antenna calibration method. The antenna calibration apparatus includes: l antennas; l antenna filters, where first ends of the l antenna filters are respectively connected to the l antennas; l radio frequency links, respectively connected to second ends of the l antenna filters; and a calibration circuit, connected to each of the second ends of the l antenna filters, and configured to: send or receive a first calibration signal through a position between each antenna filter in the l antenna filters and a radio frequency link connected to the second end of each antenna filter; and calibrate each antenna based on the first calibration signal.
US12028117B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for testing a device under test by using a test system. The method comprises the steps of: generating a wideband modulated signal; forwarding the wideband modulated signal to an input of a device under test; separating an electromagnetic wave reflected at the input by the directional element; forwarding the reflected electromagnetic wave to a test and measurement instrument; processing a reference signal associated with the wideband modulated signal; and determining a channel response by taking the reference signal and at least one scattering parameter of the device under test into account, wherein the scattering parameter depends on the reflected electromagnetic wave. Further, the present disclosure relates to a test system.
US12028114B2
An apparatus includes a tunable optical carrier source configured to generate a tunable optical carrier and a fixed wavelength optical carrier source configured to generate a fixed wavelength optical carrier. The apparatus also includes first and second optical modulators configured to modulate the tunable optical carrier and the fixed wavelength optical carrier based on first and second of multiple input signals. The apparatus further includes a delay element configured to delay the modulated tunable optical carrier, first and second optical detectors coupled to the delay element, and third and fourth optical modulators coupled to the first and second optical detectors. In addition, the apparatus includes a wavelength division demultiplexer optically coupled to the third and fourth optical modulators, a plurality of optical 90-degree hybrid elements optically coupled to the wavelength division demultiplexer, and a plurality of optical detectors optically coupled to corresponding ones of the optical 90-degree hybrid elements.
US12028108B1
Techniques for detecting an anomaly in a PON include generating an optical profile for the PON based on characteristics of network light level signals, collected over a first time period, delivered over the PON, and generating an optical profile for a customer based on characteristics of customer light level signals, collected over the first time period, delivered over the PON to or from an ONT for the customer. The techniques also include obtaining customer light level signals collected over a second time period, and detecting an anomaly in the PON for the customer in response to determining that the customer light level signals collected over the second time period deviate from the optical profile for the customer or the optical profile for the PON by more than a threshold amount.
US12028105B2
An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a baseband processor, a transceiver, and an antenna. The transceiver may include a transmit path, a receive path, and a loopback path that couples the transmit path to the receive path. A passive all-pass filter may be interposed on the loopback path. Control circuitry may calibrate I/Q mismatch of the wireless circuitry using the all-pass filter to optimize the radio-frequency performance of the wireless circuitry. Performing I/Q mismatch calibration using the all-pass filter may serve to minimize area consumption in the transceiver, may minimize calibration time, and may allow for calibration over a relatively wide bandwidth.
US12028102B2
Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of signal level indicators and antenna assemblies including the same. In an exemplary embodiment, an antenna assembly includes an antenna configured to be operable for receiving signals, a signal level indicator for indicating a strength of signals received by the antenna, and an amplifier coupled for communication with the antenna, the signal level indicator, and a signal output. The amplifier is configured to be operable for amplifying signals received by the antenna.
US12028086B2
A self-calibrating digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is disclosed. The self-calibrating DAC includes a DAC including a least significant bit (LSB) side resistor network and a most significant bit (MSB) side resistor network. At least the MSB side resistor network includes a plurality of trimmable resistors. A resistance to frequency converter coupled with an output of the DAC is included to generate a frequency fL based on a value of the LSB side resistor network or the MSB side resistor network. A monitor is included to generate a counter value by comparing fL with a high frequency clock having a constant frequency fH. A memory is included to store at least two counter values generating by comparing fL and fH once when the LSB side resistor network is connected while the MSB side resistor network is floating and once when the LSB side resistor network is floating while only one of the resistors in the MSB side resistor network is connected and all other resistors in the MSB side resistor network are floating. A comparator is included to compare the at least two counter values. A trimming controller is included to generate a trimming signal to trim one of the plurality of trimmable resistors based on an output of the comparator.
US12028078B2
A pulse generator circuit includes a charge pump having a charge pump output. A voltage divider is coupled to the charge pump output. The voltage divider has a voltage divider output. An error amplifier has a first error amplifier input and a second error amplifier input. The first error amplifier input is coupled to the voltage divider output. A dependent current source circuit has a first input coupled to the charge pump output, a second input coupled to the voltage divider output, and a third input coupled to the second error amplifier input. The dependent current source is configured to cause a current to flow from the charge pump output that is proportional to a difference between a first voltage at the voltage divider output and a second voltage at the second error amplifier input.
US12028075B2
A serial data receiver subsystem included in a computer system may include a data detection circuit, a speed detection circuit, and a receiver circuit that includes multiple subcircuits. The data detection circuit performs a comparison of a reference voltage to the magnitude of signals received via a communication link that encodes a serial data stream consisting of multiple data symbols. Using a result of the comparison, the data detection circuit may activate a signal present indicator indicating the presence of data on the communication link. Once the signal present indicator is active, the speed detection circuit checks the number of transitions to determine a rate at which data is being transmitted. In response to a determination that the rate of the data being transmitted exceeds a threshold value, the receiver circuit activates one or more of the multiple subcircuits.
US12028069B2
Technologies are provided for generation of programmable pulse signals using inverse chaotic maps, without reliance on a clocking signal. Some embodiments of the technologies include an apparatus that can receive a sequence of bits having a defined number of bits, where the sequence of bits represent a desired continuous pulse signal having a programmable width in time-domain. The apparatus can also can receive a precursor continuous pulse signal having an arbitrary width in time-domain that fits within the dynamic range of the apparatus. The apparatus can generate the desired continuous pulse signal by transforming the precursor continuous pulse signal using the sequence of bits and an inverse chaotic map.
US12028063B2
A control wheel includes a casing, a wheel ring, a first magnetic element, a pivotal shaft and a second magnetic element. The casing includes an accommodation structure and a concave structure. The accommodation structure includes a base. The wheel ring is disposed within the accommodation structure. The wheel ring is exposed outside through the accommodation structure and the concave structure. The pivotal shaft is disposed within the wheel ring and connected with the base of the accommodation structure. The wheel ring is rotatable relative to the pivotal shaft. The first magnetic element is disposed within the wheel ring. The second magnetic element is disposed within the base of the accommodation structure. The first magnetic element of the wheel ring and the second magnetic element are magnetically attracted by each other. Consequently, a rotating speed of the wheel ring is decreased.
US12028056B2
A driver system operable to supply a drive signal to a motor includes a system input adapted to be coupled to an input voltage and a system output adapted to be coupled to the motor. The driver system includes a high-side transistor which has a first terminal coupled to the system input, a second terminal coupled to the system output, and has a control terminal. The driver system includes a low-side transistor which has a first terminal coupled to the system output, a second terminal coupled to a reference potential terminal, and has a control terminal. The driver system includes a low-side gate control circuit which provides a first level current responsive to a low-side digital control signal transitioning from a low state to a high state and provides a second level current if the output voltage is less than an upper reference voltage.
US12028053B2
A structure includes a field effect transistor (FET) stack including a plurality of transistors over a buried insulator layer. A polysilicon isolation region is in a substrate below the FET stack and the buried insulator layer. A resistor network is in the polysilicon isolation region, the resistor network having a different resistivity than the polysilicon isolation region. The resistor network may include a resistive wire having a first width and a resistive pad within the resistive wire under each FET in the FET stack. Each resistive pad has a second width larger than the first width of the resistive wire. A length of the resistive wire is different aside each resistive pad to adjust a threshold voltage of an adjacent FET in the FET stack to a predetermined value to compensate for non-linear voltage distribution between an input and an output of the FET stack.
US12028039B2
A method of forming a filter device has a bonding layer formed on a substrate having at least a location for a first cavity and a location for a second cavity on a single die. A piezoelectric plate is bonded to the bonding layer and spans the first and the second cavity. Excess portions of piezoelectric plate are removed that extend a certain length past the perimeter of the first cavity and of the second cavity. Excess portions may be piezoelectric material that extends in the length and width direction past the perimeter of a cavity by more than between 2 and 25 percent of the cavity perimeter. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate and having interleaved fingers over the first cavity.
US12028038B2
Apparatus and methods for phase shifters with switched transmission line loads are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a phase shifter includes a first port, a first controllable reflective load, a second port, a second controllable reflective load, and a pair of coupled lines that are electromagnetically coupled to one another. The pair of coupled lines includes a first conductive line between the first port and the first controllable reflective load and a second conductive line between the second controllable reflective load and the second port. At least one of the first controllable reflective load or the second controllable reflective load includes a switched transmission line load.
US12028023B2
Provided is an amplifier including: a first transistor connected to a signal input terminal; a second transistor connected to a signal output terminal; a wiring line configured to connect the first transistor and the second transistor to each other; and a variable inductor circuit which is electrically connected to the wiring line, and is grounded via a capacitor for DC current interruption, wherein the inductance value of the variable inductor circuit is set to an inductance value for canceling a parasitic capacitance between the first transistor and the second transistor.
US12028017B2
A reflection unit 31 to 34 has an outer reflection panel 311 to 314 and an inner reflection panel 321 to 324. The outer reflection panel 311 to 314 is disposed around power generation units 22 to 24. The inner reflection panel 321 to 324 is disposed substantively parallel to the outer reflection panel 311 to 314 between the outer reflection panel 311 to 314 and the power generation units 22 to 24. The reflection units 31 to 34 reflects solar light injected into gaps 361 to 364 between the outer reflection panels 311 to 314 and the inner reflection panels 321 to 324 to transmit the solar light into the power generation units 22 to 24.
US12028004B2
A stator of a rotating electrical machine has a slot-less structure. The rotating electrical machine includes a controller. The controller determines a value of a q-axis command current in accordance with requirement information and an input command value for a controlled variable of the rotating electrical machine. The requirement information includes a relationship between values of the q-axis command current and corresponding command values for the controlled variable. The controller performs a task of correcting the value of the q-axis command current to thereby restrict temperature change in a magnet unit from having an influence on the relationship between the command values for the controlled variable and the corresponding values of the q-axis command current. The controller controls an inverter to thereby adjust a value of the q-axis current flowing through an armature winding member to the corrected value of the q-axis command current.
US12028003B2
A torque estimation method according to the present disclosure estimates a value of shaft torque of a rotary motion transmitting mechanism. The torque estimation method includes: a step of specifying a maximum value of a torsion angle between an input shaft and an output shaft from the time when a measurement value of the torsion angle is zero to the time when the value of the shaft torque is estimated; and a step of specifying the maximum value of the torsion angle. In the step of specifying the maximum value of the torsion angle, the maximum value of the torsion angle is specified based on a difference between the measurement value of the torsion angle subjected to low-pass filter processing at a first cutoff frequency and the measurement value of the torsion angle subjected to low-pass filter processing at a second cutoff frequency.
US12028001B2
An apparatus having a first set of windings disposed about a first main leg of a transformer core, and a second set of windings disposed about a second main leg of the transformer core. The first set of windings are electrically coupled to the second set of windings to selectively provide a parallel connection and a series connection between the first set of windings and the second set of windings. Additionally, at least two windings of the first set of windings are electrically coupled to each other to selectively provide a parallel connection and a serial connection between the at least two windings of the first set of windings. Similarly, two windings of the second set of windings are electrically coupled to each other to selectively provide a parallel connection and a serial connection between the at least two windings of the second set of windings.
US12028000B2
Disclosed is an object table for holding an object, comprising: an electrostatic clamp arranged to clamp the object on the object table; a neutralizer arranged to neutralize a residual charge of the electrostatic clamp; a control unit arranged to control the neutralizer, wherein the residual charge is an electrostatic charge present on the electrostatic clamp when no voltage is applied to the electrostatic clamp.
US12027998B2
A control device (8) for an inverter (2) that feeds an electric machine (3), wherein the control device (8) is configured to provide pulse-width modulated switching signals (15) with a carrier frequency to drive switching elements (12) of the inverter (2), wherein the control device (8) is configured to determine the carrier frequency depending on operating point information that describes an operating point defined by a rotation speed and a torque of the electric machine (3) and, as the rotation speed increases and the magnitude of the torque falls, to increase the carrier frequency within an operating region (22) that extends within a rotation speed interval with a lower rotation speed limit (23) differing from zero and with an upper rotation speed limit (24) lying in a power-limiting operating region (21) or field-weakening operating region.
US12027993B2
In the field of chain-link modules for voltage source converters, there is a need for an improved chain-link module. Embodiments of the disclosure include a chain-link module, for connection in series with other chain-link modules to form a chain-link converter selectively operable to provide a stepped variable voltage source within a voltage source converter. The module can include a first pair of series-connected switching elements which are separated by a first connection terminal and are connected in parallel with first and second series-connected energy storage devices. The chain-link module can also include a second pair of series-connected switching elements that are separated by a second connection terminal, and which are connected in parallel with one or other of the first and second energy storage devices.
US12027990B2
An alternating current AC to direct current DC converting circuit for a turbine generator is provided that comprises an active AC/DC converter having a controllable output voltage level having an input for receiving alternating current electrical power from a turbine generator and an output for providing direct current electrical power to an electrolysis system for electrolysis of water. The AC to DC converter further comprises an oscillator for generating an alternating current auxiliary signal and a summation circuit for adding the alternating current signal to the output of the active AC DC converter. By adding an AC component to the DC output of the active AC DC converter, electrolysis cells in the electrolysis module connected to the AC DC converting circuit have been proven to operate more efficiently. The amplitude of the alternating current auxiliary signal is preferably less than the output voltage of the active AC/DC converter.
US12027989B2
There is provided an AC-DC converter circuit (100) for high power charging of an electrical battery. The circuit comprises an input rectifier comprising a first node and a second node. The input rectifier (110) is configured to receive an AC voltage at the first node (112) and provide a rectified voltage at the second node (114). The circuit further comprises a first transistor (120), comprising a first gate node (122), a first source node (124), and a first drain node (126). The first drain node is connected to the second node of the input rectifier. The first gate node is connected to a ground node (170). The circuit further comprises a second transistor (130), comprising a second gate node (132), a second source node (134), and a second drain node (136). The second drain node is connected to the first source node. The second transistor materially corresponds to the first transistor. The circuit further comprises a duty cycle control unit (140) connected to the second gate node for providing the second transistor with a switching waveform. The circuit further comprises an output rectifier (150) connected to the second source node or the first source node. The circuit further comprises an output electronic filter (160) connected to the second source node or an output node (151) of the output rectifier. An AC-DC converter device, a method for charging an electrical battery, and a regenerative braking system is also provided.
US12027984B2
The invention relates to a switching power supply converter, which comprising a transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding, a power switch circuit and a voltage input circuit, a voltage output circuit, an auxiliary winding, a control circuit, and a voltage sensing circuit; the control circuit performs that in a first turn-off period of the power switch circuit, acquiring a first time duration from a preset delay after the power switch circuit turning off until the sensed voltage corresponding to a preset condition, and acquiring a difference between the first time duration and a preset time duration as a second time duration; in a second turn-off period of the power switch circuit, acquiring the sensed voltage at the time point corresponding to the end of the second time duration starting from the preset delay after the power switch circuit turning off as an effective sample.
US12027977B2
A feedback loop circuit of a voltage regulator includes a voltage extraction circuit and a loop filter circuit. The voltage extraction circuit receives an error voltage signal that is indicative of difference between an output voltage signal and a reference voltage of the voltage regulator, and generates a voltage extraction signal by extracting one representative voltage for one switching cycle of the voltage regulator according to the error voltage signal. The loop filter circuit applies filtering to the voltage extraction signal to set a feedback signal, and output the feedback signal to a controller circuit of the voltage regulator for regulating the output voltage signal.
US12027973B2
The present invention relates to a multi-phase voltage regulator and a temperature monitoring method thereof. The method includes the following steps of: step 1a: providing a multi-phase voltage regulator including a controller and a plurality of power stages, wherein the controller transmits a corresponding control signal to each of the plurality of power stages, each of the plurality of power stages including a temperature sampling unit, outputs of the temperature sampling units connected to the controller and in parallel with each other; Step 1b: performing time-sharing signal exchange with the temperature sampling unit of the power stages; and Step 1c: when the controller exchanges signals with the temperature sampling unit of a certain power stage, the temperature sampling unit transmits an output signal representing the temperature thereof to the controller via the output.
US12027970B2
A distributed power system including multiple DC power sources and multiple power modules. The power modules include inputs coupled respectively to the DC power sources and outputs coupled in series to form a serial string. An inverter is coupled to the serial string. The inverter converts power input from the serial string to output power. A signaling mechanism between the inverter and the power module is adapted for controlling operation of the power modules.
US12027956B2
An integrated linear generator system includes, for example, a generator assembly, a control system, a frame system, an exhaust system, an intake system, a cooling system, a bearing system, one or more auxiliary systems, or a combination thereof. The generator system is configured to generate power, as controlled by the control system. The generator assembly may include an opposed- and free-piston linear generator, configured to operate on a two-stroke cycle. The intake and exhaust systems are configured to provide reactants to and remove products from the generator assembly, respectively. The cooling system is configured to effect heat transfer, material temperature, or both, of components of the integrated linear generator system. The bearing system is configured to constrain the off-axis motion of translators of the generator assembly without applying significant friction forces. The frame system is configured to manage rigidity, flexibility, and alignment of components of the integrated linear generator system.
US12027948B2
A terminal block for a motor, which is configured to connect a motor and an external power source to each other, includes: terminal members spaced apart from one another; and a holder comprising insulation parts spaced apart from one another and configured to respectively surround the terminal members, and a base block supported on a subject and configured to connect the insulation parts to one another.
US12027938B2
A voice coil motor includes a base, a lens housing, a voice coil, a magnet, and a yoke member. The lens housing has a first margin wall, and a first protrusion and a second protrusion extend from the first margin wall. The height of the second protrusion is lower than the height of the first protrusion. The yoke member has a first wall, a connection wall, a second wall, and a side wall. The first wall, the connection wall, and the second wall together form a stepped structure. The first wall is disposed on the first protrusion, and the second wall is disposed on the second protrusion. The lens housing has a deflectable angle relative to a horizontal reference line. When the lens housing deflects to a maximum value of the deflectable angle, the second protrusion abuts against the second wall.
US12027929B2
A rotating electrical machine equipped with a magnet unit and a magnetic body. The magnet unit is also equipped with magnet covers wrapped about armature-facing peripheral surfaces of the magnets. Each of the magnets has recesses formed in portions of the armature-facing peripheral surface which are located close to q-axes each of which lies at a boundary between magnetic poles. Each of the magnet covers is recessed in the radial direction in accordance with the shape of the magnet recesses. If the armature-facing peripheral surface of the magnets is between a circumferentially adjacent two of the magnet recesses is defined as a main magnetic pole surface, and an angle representing a circumferential range occupied by the main magnetic pole surface is defined as a main magnetic pole angle θa, the main magnetic pole angle θa is selected to be 2π/5<θa<2π/3.
US12027922B2
A rotor/stator assembly for a motor, including: a rotor shaft including an internal channel; a rotor core disposed adjacent to the rotor shaft; and end windings disposed adjacent to an end of the rotor shaft and an end of the rotor core; wherein the rotor shaft includes a passage passing through a wall of the rotor shaft adjacent to the end thereof, thereby forming a path by which a cooling fluid passes from the internal channel of the rotor shaft to the end of the rotor core and the end windings when the rotor shaft and rotor core are rotated/rotating.
US12027910B1
A battery power system for powering at least one electric motor. The system comprises a main battery and an intermediate storage device electrically coupled to the main battery such that the intermediate storage device can be charged by the main battery, and the intermediate storage device being configured to supply power to the electric motor. The intermediate storage device is constructed and configured to accept and deliver charge at a higher rate than the main battery whilst having a lower energy storage capacity than the main battery.
US12027909B2
The application discloses a power conversion system and a controlling method of the same. The power conversion system includes: n choppers, comprising n switching arms connected in parallel, each chopper including: the switching arm, an inductor having a first end connected to a midpoint of the switching arm, and a first capacitor connected in parallel to the switching arm; and n DC components corresponding to the n choppers with a one-to-one relation, wherein one of the DC components is a DC power supply or a DC load, first ends of the DC components are connected together, and a second end of each of the DC components is connected to a second ends of the inductor of the corresponding chopper, where n is a natural number of 2 or more.
US12027908B2
A system in a vehicle includes a first set of one or more windings and a second set of one or more windings electrically isolated from the first set of one or more windings. The system also includes a first inverter coupled to a battery of the vehicle and the first set of one or more windings and a second inverter electrically separated from the first inverter and coupled to the second set of one or more windings. A universal charger includes an alternative current (AC) charging port and a direct current (DC) charging port. A switch is controlled to close to connect the second inverter to the battery.
US12027896B2
A charging cable configured to obtain power from different power supply devices for delivery to a chargeable electronic device, and to techniques and equipment to enable the charging cable to identify current limitation of the connected power supply device and to enforce that current limit via the charging cable. The charging cable has a logic circuit coupled to signal pins to detect a signal indicating a power limitation of the power supply device. The logic circuit controls a current limiter connected in the power delivery bus of the charging cable to limit current flowing through the charging cable.
US12027895B2
Disclosed are embodiments to provide a multi-battery energy storage device. One embodiment comprises a first battery and a second battery, with a first circuit branch coupling a positive side of the first battery to a positive side of the second battery, a second circuit branch coupling a positive side of the first battery to a negative side of the second battery, a third circuit branch coupling the negative side of the first battery to the negative side of the second battery, and multiple switchable devices configured to control flow of current through corresponding branches. Other embodiments comprise other configurations and operations.
US12027887B2
A method of transmitting power of a wireless power transmitter, including a receiving phase of receiving a signal including an FOD status packet from a wireless power receiver; a first determination phase of determining whether a foreign object is present in a charging area of the wireless power transmitter based on the FOD status packet; a power control phase of controlling power transmission in a first power transfer mode upon determining that the foreign object is present in the charging area in the first determination phase, or controlling power transmission in a second power transfer mode upon determining that the foreign object is not present in the charging area in the first determination phase; and a second determination phase of determining whether the foreign object is present in the charging area based on information other than information included in the FOD status packet, while controlling power transmission in one of the first power transfer mode and the second power transfer mode by the power control phase.
US12027886B2
A wireless power receiver for receiving power from a wireless power transmitter, including a receiving part configured to receive wireless power from the wireless power transmitter; and a main controller in which a foreign object detection status packet including at least one of a reference quality factor and a reference peak frequency is stored, wherein the main controller transmits the foreign object detection status packet to the wireless power transmitter; wherein the main controller receives a NAK response from the wireless power transmitter indicating that the foreign object is present, or receives an ACK response from the wireless power transmitter indicating that the foreign object is not present; and wherein the receiving part receives a first power from the wireless power transmitter according to the received NAK response, or receives a second power greater than the first power from the wireless power transmitter according to the received ACK response.
US12027882B2
The present technology is directed to a system and method for implementing passive power harvesting from ambient electromagnetic emissions with a smart rectenna that incorporates automatic frequency response tuning features. The disclosed system incorporates a tunable High Pass Filter and voltage multiplier rectifier with a front-end ultra wide band antenna unit. The frequency response of tunable components can be actively adjusted to match the frequency band containing most of the energy in the incident electromagnetic emission. A look up table is used for determining the appropriate biasing levels of the tunable components for each frequency in a frequency band of interest. By tuning a frequency response of impedance matching, filtering and rectifying components to correspond to a frequency region of maximum power spectral density in the incident energy signal, the system facilitates the scavenging of ambient electromagnetic energy from the spectral region with the highest power spectral density.
US12027876B2
Disclosed herein is a wireless medical device powering system configured to power an untethered medical device including a first medical device having an induction receiving coil, the induction receiving coil in communication with each of one or more electrical systems and a first medical device console comprising one or more processors, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a plurality of logic modules. The system can include a wireless powering device configured to wirelessly provide power to the first medical device, the wireless powering device having a body including an induction transmitting coil.
US12027874B2
Provided is a portable communication device which transmits manufacturer information and capability information to a wireless power transmitter, the manufacturer information being indicative of a manufacturer of the portable communication device and the capability information being indicative of a charging function of the portable communication device, receives a response from the wireless power transmitter including one or more characteristics with respect to the charging function allowed for the portable communication device, the one or more characteristics being determined by the wireless power transmitter based at least in part on the manufacturer information and the capability information received from the portable communication device, transmits a request for updating at least one of the one or more characteristics with respect to the charging function, and performs the charging function to charge the battery using power received from the wireless power transmitter and determined based on the at least one updated characteristic.
US12027873B2
An electronic device for inductive power transfer with a second electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes an inductive coil and a permanent magnet structure for creating a magnetic attachment between the electronic device and the second electronic device. The permanent magnet structure is positioned around an outer perimeter of the inductive coil to align the inductive coil with a second inductive coil in the second electronic device for inductive power transfer. The permanent magnet structure forms a ring that includes a gap and includes one or more arc-shaped permanent magnets. The permanent magnet structure is configured such that the electronic device can be rotated across a continuous range of rotational angles with respect to the second electronic device while keeping the alignment between the inductive coil and the second inductive coil during inductive power transfer.
US12027868B2
Provided is a method of controlling a converter, in particular of a wind turbine, the converter including a first converter portion connected to a generator, a DC-link, and a second converter portion connected to a utility grid. The method including: controlling the first converter portion and the second converter portion by a first control signal and a second control signal, respectively, both being derived based on a requested power signal, in particular requested active power signal, and a generator rotational speed, wherein the first control signal indicates substantially constant generator torque for rotational speed variations of the generator rotational speed above a frequency threshold.
US12027864B2
A system for accounting for and allocating energy value amongst (i) energy equivalent quantity (EEQ) suppliers associated with supplier accounts and that contribute EEQ to a total energy supply and (ii) energy consumers associated with a consumer account and that issue energy demands for energy. An energy cloud value allocation system (e-cloud) facilitates and controls an exchange of EEQ and energy between the EEQ suppliers and the energy consumers. The e-cloud receives EEQ contributions from the EEQ suppliers and generates energy credits, where a value of each energy credit is based on the EEQ contribution. The e-cloud is also configured to receive energy demands from the energy consumers and to satisfy the energy demands by delivering energy and EEQ to the consumers. Finally, the e-cloud generates energy debits, where a value of each energy debit is based on the EEQ that is delivered to the energy consumer from the e-cloud in response to energy demands.
US12027863B2
A power control device for an electrically powered appliance may selectively switch off one 110-volt input (of two separate 110-volt input lines) of a 220-volt power supply to the appliance during certain periods of operation, in response to a demand-response request. This may adjust operation of one or more components of the appliance, thus adjusting an amount of power consumed by the appliance. A determination of which one, of the two, 110-volt input lines to be switched off may be made based on an analysis of the amount of power consumed by each of the two 110-volt input lines during operation of the appliance. The power control device may be provided at any point between the electrically powered appliance and a power distribution panel distributing power from an external source.
US12027858B2
A computer implemented method for controlling a load aggregator for a grid includes receiving a predicted power demand over a horizon of time steps associated with one of at least two buildings, aggregating the predicted power demand at each time step to obtain an aggregate power demand, applying a learnable convolutional filter on the aggregate power demand to obtain a target load, computing a difference between the predicted power demand of the one building with the target load to obtain a power shift associated with the one building over the horizon of time steps, apportioning the power shift according to a learnable weighted vector to obtain an apportioned power shift, optimizing the learnable weighted vector and the learnable convolutional filter via an evolutionary strategy based update to obtain an optimized apportioned power shift, and transmitting the optimized apportioned power shift to a building level controller associated with the one building.
US12027854B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for detecting downstream devices connected to an electrical load controlling device. An example embodiment operates by detecting an association signal from a downstream smart device responsive to a downstream smart device detection signal. The example embodiment further operates by determining whether the downstream smart device is coupled to an electrical terminal of an electrical switching device and configured to receive electricity in response to an actuation of the electrical switching device. If so, the example embodiment further operates by generating a control signal configured to instruct the electrical switching device to prevent a deactuation of the electrical switching device and transmitting the control signal to the electrical switching device.
US12027850B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of smart home, and provides a direct current load response control method and device, and a direct current electric appliance. The direct current load response control method of the present disclosure comprises: monitoring a utilization voltage of a direct current load; determining whether the utilization voltage is within a response interval; and controlling the operation of the direct current load according to the determination result and the type of the direct current load.
US12027846B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electrostatic protection structure and an electrostatic protection circuit. The electrostatic protection structure includes: a SCR structure and a trigger structure; the SCR structure includes: a well region of a second conductivity type and a first well of a first conductivity type region, a first-doped region of the first conductivity type, and a first-doped region of the second conductivity type; the trigger structure includes: a first-doped region of the second conductivity type, a second well region of the first conductivity type, a second-doped region of two conductivity types, a third-doped region of the second conductivity type, a fourth-doped region of the second conductivity type, and a first gate electrode. The electrostatic protection structure weakens the positive feedback of the parasitic transistor in the SCR device, improves the anti-latch capability of the device, realizes stronger protection capability, and enhances the reliability of the circuit.
US12027826B2
A spark plug having a firing pad with minimal silicon diffusion and limited silicon oxidation at grain boundaries that can cause undesirable vertical cracking. In one embodiment, the firing pad has a multilayer structure having a base layer and a firing layer, wherein the base layer is a non-precious metal based material having silicon, and wherein the firing layer is a precious metal based material having yttrium in an amount of 0.1 to 0.5 wt %, inclusive. After at least 190 hours of isothermal treatment of at least 1000° C., an extent of vertical cracking from the sparking surface does not exceed 50% of a thickness of the firing pad or the firing layer.
US12027814B2
Provided is a laser device in which: a laser medium doped with ytterbium emits light upon absorption of excitation light; the light emitted by the laser medium is amplified to obtain output light; and the output light is outputted in the form of a plurality of pulses. In the laser device, a spatial filter is disposed in the optical path of the light emitted by the laser medium or is disposed in the optical path of the output light outputted from an optical resonator, the spatial filter being configured to filter out a portion of the light or of the output light around the optical axis.
US12027812B2
The present invention relates to a laser system and a method of generating a defined spatial mode-shaped laser beam using an unstable laser resonator layout. The laser system for mode shaping of a laser beam within an unstable optical resonator layout comprising an active medium, characterized in that, the active media comprises a pumped area, wherein the gain distribution is generated by an optical pump beam's spatially intensity profile. In a preferred embodiment, the system may further comprise an end-pumped layout to deliver the spatially shaped optical pump beam to the active medium; and/or an active element and/or a passive element for modifying the resonator losses; and/or means of output coupling of a laser beam from said unstable resonator layout. The system according to the present invention is suitable to deliver a top-hat beam profile.
US12027810B2
A quasi-monolithic solid-state laser in which the optical components of the laser cavity are bonded to a common substrate via mounts. The optical components and their mounts are fixedly connected to each other and to the substrate by bonding. While the gain medium is bonded to a mount made of a different material with high thermal conductivity for heat sinking, the cavity's lens and mirror components and their mounts are all made of the same material as the substrate, or a different material that is thermally matched to the substrate, and fixedly mounted on the substrate solely with bonding. The bonding is achieved with adhesive bonding, or some other form of bonding such as molecular bonding, chemically activated direct bonding or hydroxide catalysis bonding.
US12027789B2
A cartridge may be inserted into a cartridge insertion slot of a game apparatus in a first direction. The cartridge may include: a terminal placement region that includes four groups of terminals configured to electrically connect to terminals in the cartridge insertion slot of the game apparatus. Each group of terminals may include a first terminal that extends longitudinally in the first direction and two second terminals that extend longitudinally and are positioned sequentially in the first direction, the first terminal and the two second terminals being positioned sequentially in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. Each group of terminals may be arranged sequentially in the second direction.
US12027786B2
An antenna assembly for receiving television signals on both very high frequency (VHF) bands and ultra high frequency (UHF) bands, the antenna assembly including: a main section including an elongated boom, at least one active element coupled to the boom, and at least one passive element coupled to the boom; a VHF section including a VHF boom configured to be coupled to a first longitudinal end of the boom and at least one active element coupled to the VHF boom; and a UHF section including a UHF boom configured to be coupled to a second longitudinal end of the boom opposite the first longitudinal end and a plurality of passive elements coupled to the UHF boom.
US12027785B2
Antennas and methods for using the same are described. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises an aperture having a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) radiating antenna elements, the plurality of RF radiating antenna elements being grouped into three or more sets of RF radiating antenna elements, with each set being separately controlled to generate a beam at a frequency band in a first mode.
US12027782B2
An electronic device including an antenna structure and a switching circuit is provided. The antenna structure includes a first radiating element, a second radiating element, a feeding element and a grounding element. The first radiating element incudes a first radiating part and a feeding part. The second radiating element is coupled with the first radiating element, and includes a main body and an arm that is electrically connected to the switching circuit. The feeding element includes a feeding end electrically connected to the feeding part, and a grounding end electrically connected to the grounding element. The antenna structure generates a first operation bandwidth and second operation bandwidth when the switching circuit is switched to a first and second mode, respectively. A central frequency of the first operation bandwidth is different from that of the second operation bandwidth.
US12027779B1
An antenna system has a two-dimensional field of view, yet can be implemented on a surface, such as on electronic or photonic integrated circuits. The antenna system includes an array of antennas disposed in a predetermined non-linear pattern and a two-dimensional beamforming network (BFN). The antenna system can be steered/selectively beamformed in two dimensions through beam port selection. The beamforming network is disposed entirely on a single first surface. The beamforming network has a one-dimensional array-side interface disposed on the first surface and a one-dimensional beam-side interface disposed on the first surface. The antennas of the array of antennas are individually communicably coupled to the array-side interface. Segments of the beam-side interface map to respective pixels in the two-dimensional field of view.
US12027775B2
An antenna array system and a method for making the antenna system. The system includes at least two antenna elements serving as transmitter elements, and at least two antenna elements serving as receiver elements. Each of the transmitter antenna and receiver antenna elements include a pair of curved arms, wherein a first arm in the pair of curved arms is configured to be connected from a signal trace of the antenna system. The second arm in the pair of curved arms is configured to be connected to a ground plane.
US12027765B2
An antenna comprises an axial helical radiating element and a corrugated ground plane. The axial helical radiating element provides a radiation pattern substantially parallel to a primary axis of rotation of the helical radiating element. The corrugated ground plane, disposed proximate to a back region of the antenna, comprises corrugations to increase an electrical length of travel for radial standing waves between an axial helical input, at which the axial helical radiating element is coupled to the corrugated ground plane, to an outer edge of the corrugated ground plane.
US12027763B1
The embodiments are directed to protecting objects having sensitive electronics from electromagnetic energy radiation. An object with the sensitive electronics has a film applied to the object's outer surface. The film conforms to the object's outer surface contours. The film has a substrate foundation, an array in intimate adjacent contact with the substrate foundation. The array has a plurality of radio frequency (RF) witness films overlain on the substrate foundation. Each RF witness film in the plurality of RF witness films is equally-spaced from adjacent RF witness films.
US12027759B2
A jewel includes a main body and at least one wireless communication device accommodated within a cavity formed in the main body. The at least one communication device is arranged slanting with respect to a bottom wall of the cavity, partly accommodated in an undercut region of the cavity and spaced from the bottom wall and from walls at opposed ends of the cavity, whereby propagation of the signal in the space between the at least one communication device and the walls of the cavity is allowed.
US12027757B2
Provided is a housing assembly and electronic device. The housing assembly may include a main body including side edge, and a metal frame including a bezel portion and a carrying portion. The bezel portion can be connected to the side edge and may cooperatively define an accommodating portion with the main body. The carrying portion being located in the accommodating portion and disposed along a connecting line between the bezel portion and the main body. The carrying portion may include a metal arm. A first groove being defined between the carrying portion and the bezel portion, a second groove being defined between the carrying portion and the main body, the first groove being connected to the second groove. The metal arm being configured to form an antenna radiator.
US12027745B2
A hybrid coupler is disclosed. The hybrid coupler comprises a printed circuit board having a first metallization layer and a second metallization layer arranged below the first metallization layer. The first metallization layer comprises at least two input ports and at least two output ports. The hybrid coupler further comprises a plurality of couplers coupled adjacent to each other on the first metallization layer. Each coupler of the plurality of couplers comprises transmission traces electrically coupled with the transmission traces of an adjacent coupler and the transmission traces of the plurality of couplers extend between the input ports and the output ports of the first metallization layer. The hybrid coupler furthermore comprises a defective ground structure having a pre-defined shape defined in the second metallization layer below each coupling junction formed between the transmission traces of the plurality of couplers.
US12027728B2
A method of making an interconnect for an electrochemical cell stack includes providing the interconnect, and creep flattening the interconnect prior to placing the interconnect into the electrochemical cell stack.
US12027720B2
A battery pack cover has irregularities formed on an upper surface portion thereof. The battery pack cover effectively prevents stress from being concentrated on a specific area, enables rigidity enhancement without adding a separate bracket, and is easily assembled when applied to packaging.
US12027704B2
A sulfur-carbon composite and a lithium secondary battery including the same are discussed. More specifically, a network-shaped coating layer including a conductive polymer is formed on a surface of the sulfur-carbon composite, and thus the conductivity of the sulfur-carbon composite is enhanced and also, lithium ions move freely, and accordingly, when applied to lithium secondary batteries, the sulfur-carbon composite can enhance the performance of batteries.
US12027694B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an embodiment includes a spirally wound electrode body in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are spirally wound with a separator interposed therebetween. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector, a first negative electrode mixture layer disposed on a first surface of the negative electrode current collector, and a second negative electrode mixture layer disposed on a second surface of the negative electrode current collector. The first surface and the second surface face outward and inward of the electrode body, respectively. At least the first negative electrode mixture layer includes a Si active material. The content of the Si active material in terms of Si in the second negative electrode mixture layer is lower than the content of the Si active material in terms of Si in the first negative electrode mixture layer.
US12027693B2
Disclosed is a production method for a zinc electrode with in situ formation of calcium zincate crystals. The method includes notably the steps of preparation of a mixture, growth of crystals, slowing of the growth and production of the electrode.
US12027687B2
A metal metal-air battery includes: an anode layer including a metal, a cathode layer spaced apart from the anode layer and including a hybrid conductive material having both electron conductivity and ionic conductivity; and a separator disposed between the anode layer and the cathode layer, wherein the hybrid conductive material includes a channel for metal ion transfer from the anode layer and a channel for electron transfer between the cathode and the anode.
US12027685B2
A channel for cooling at least one battery cell is set out. The channel includes a first housing frame and a second housing frame. The first housing frame is connected to the second housing frame and a partially fluid-tight region is formed between the first housing frame 133 and the second housing frame by the shape and material properties of the first housing frame and the second housing frame. The partially fluid-tight region forms the channel and the channel is arranged to allow a coolant to flow through the channel.
US12027684B2
A temperature management system for an energy storage system, a motor vehicle including such a temperature management system, a use of a hygroscopic material in such a temperature management system and a manufacturing method of such a temperature management system. The temperature management system includes at least one energy storage module, a carrier element and a cooling element. The cooling element includes a first surface directed to an environment of the energy storage module and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The carrier element is arranged between the second surface of the cooling element and the energy storage module and configured to transfer heat from the energy storage module in direction to the environment. The cooling element includes at least one humidity absorbent material to increase a heat capacity of the cooling element.
US12027681B2
Provided is a more efficient dry refining process for improving the recovery rate of phosphorus-free valuable metals from waste lithium ion batteries. The present invention provides a method for recovering valuable metals from waste lithium ion batteries, said method comprises a melting step S4 for melting the waste lithium ion batteries and obtaining a molten substance and a slag separation step S5 for separating slag from the molten substance and recovering an alloy containing valuable metals, wherein in the melting step, flux containing a calcium compound is added to the waste lithium ion batteries such that the mass ratio between silicon dioxide and calcium oxide in the slag becomes 0.50 or less and the mass ratio between calcium oxide and aluminum oxide falls in the range of 0.30 to 2.00.
US12027679B2
The present disclosure is directed systems and methods for monitoring battery conditions. In one illustrative embodiment, a system in accordance with the present disclosure may include a number of battery sensor units, each battery sensor unit being in operative communication with sensors on each individual cell on a battery, such as a battery used for supplying power to an industrial vehicle. The battery sensor units may track the supply voltage, temperature, and/or electrolyte level for each cell on a battery. One or more site gateways disposed at the location where the batteries are in use are in operative communication with the battery sensor units and through a network connection provide data collected by the battery sensor units to a database that can be accessed by remote users using an internet accessible portal or mobile app. The system may provide real time alerts for out of bound conditions.
US12027675B2
An electric vehicle battery pack configured to rapidly discharge one or more individual battery cells within a multi-cell battery arrangement to mitigate a propagation of a multi-cell thermal runaway event, the vehicle battery pack including a plurality of battery cells and a battery management system including sensing circuitry configured to sense one or more conditions of the plurality of battery cells, a processor configured to process data sensed by the sensing circuitry to determine whether any of the plurality of battery cells is experiencing the onset of a thermal runaway event, and a control engine configured to isolate and rapidly discharge a potential energy from a battery cell experiencing the onset of a thermal runaway event, thereby mitigating a potential for a propagation of a thermal runaway event experienced by a single cell into a multi-cell thermal runaway event.
US12027674B2
A battery system includes: a plurality of battery units, each of the battery units including at least one battery cell, the at least one battery cell including a positive terminal, a negative terminal, and a cell case; and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) including a plurality of integrated circuits (ICs) configured for voltage measurement and temperature measurement. The ICs are interconnected by a wiring structure of the FPC. Each of the ICs is thermally connected to the cell case of the at least one of battery cell of each of the battery units via a contact element in the FPC and is electrically connected via the contact element to the positive terminal of the at least one battery cell of each of the battery units.
US12027670B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte solution and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, a first organic solvent that is ethylene carbonate, a second organic solvent excluding ethylene carbonate, and an oligomer represented by Formula 1 wherein a concentration of the lithium salt is 1.2 M to 3.3 M, and, wherein the first organic solvent is included in an amount of 0.1 wt % to 12 wt % based on a total weight of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution.
US12027661B2
The present disclosure relates to a nano-engineered coating for cathode active materials, anode active materials, and solid state electrolyte materials for reducing corrosion and enhancing cycle life of a battery, and various process for applying the disclosed coating.
US12027659B2
A power generating element mounting board includes: a power generating element having a first terminal and a second terminal; and a board having a first board terminal connected with the first terminal, a second board terminal connected with the second terminal, and at least a first hole and a second hole. The first hole has a first conductive part provided on a surface of the first hole, the second hole has a second conductive part provided on a surface of the second hole. The first hole is provided between the first board terminal and a first outer edge of the board, and the second hole is provided between the second board terminal and a second outer edge of the board.
US12027657B2
A light emitting diode having an improved heat dissipation effect includes a light source unit emitting a light to a front surface and including a light emitting part, a first electrode pad, and a second electrode pad. The light emitting diode further includes a lead frame unit disposed on a rear surface of the light source unit and including first and second lead terminals respectively connected to the first and second electrode pads. The light emitting diode also includes at least one of the first and second lead terminals includes an upper conductive layer, an intermediate conductive layer, and a lower conductive layer which are disposed on different layers and electrically connected to one another.
US12027645B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip may have or include an x-doped region, a y-doped region, an active region arranged between the x-doped region and the y-doped region, and an x-contact region. The x-contact region may be arranged to the side of the x-doped region facing away from the active region. The x-contact region may include at least one first region and at least one second region. The x-contact region may be designed such that, during operation of the optoelectronic semiconductor chip, more charge carriers are injected into the x-doped region via the second region than via the first region.
US12027638B2
A photovoltaic assembly dual junction solar cell for space use including a solar cell stack including first and second subcells stacked on each other and each including an epitaxially grown light absorbing layer. The first subcell is adjacent to a solar cell stack front, light-receiving surface and the second subcell is adjacent to a solar cell stack rear surface. The first subcell light absorbing layer has a larger bandgap than the second subcell light absorbing layer. A light reflecting element positioned adjacent to a second subcell light absorbing layer rear side is configured to reflect photons having an energy smaller than the bandgap energy of the second subcell light absorbing layer and/or photons having an energy larger than the bandgap energy of the second subcell light absorbing layer and smaller than the bandgap energy of the first subcell light absorbing layer with a reflectivity of at least 90%.
US12027635B2
According to the present disclosure, techniques related to manufacturing and applications of power photodiode structures and devices based on group-III metal nitride and gallium-based substrates are provided. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for fabricating photodiode devices comprising one or more of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, structures and devices. Such structures or devices can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic devices, photodiodes, power-over-fiber receivers, and others.
US12027634B2
Methods of producing a graphic mesh for a solar module are described in which mesh parameters such as warp fiber thickness, weft fiber thickness, and open area size are determined to meet a target energetic efficiency and a chromatic effectiveness. In some embodiments, chromatic effectiveness is based on mesh count, where the mesh count is set according to a distance at which the mesh will be viewed when assembled into the solar module. The mesh has a plurality of warp fibers having the warp fiber thickness and a plurality of weft fibers having the weft fiber thickness, that are interlaced to form a plurality of mesh unit cells. A graphic appearance is printed into the mesh using a coloring substance, where the coloring substance is absorbed by the fiber material to form the graphic mesh.
US12027632B2
A semiconductor structure includes a channel layer including an oxide semiconductor material, source/drain contacts disposed below the channel layer, and barrier regions that are in contact with the channel layer and that surround the source/drain contacts, respectively. Each of the barrier regions includes a material that receives hydrogen. A method for manufacturing the semiconductor structure is also provided.
US12027630B2
A thin-film transistor comprises an annealed layer comprising crystalline zinc oxide. A passivation layer is adjacent to the thin-film transistor. The passivation layer has a thickness and material composition such that when a dose of radiation from a radiation source irradiates the thin-film transistor, a portion of the dose that includes an approximate maximum concentration of the dose is located within the annealed layer. The annealed layer has a thickness and threshold displacement energies after it has been annealed such that: a) a difference between a transfer characteristic value of the thin-film transistor before and after the dose is less than a first threshold; and b) a difference between a transistor output characteristic value of the thin-film before and after the dose is less than a second threshold. The thresholds are based on a desired performance of the thin-film transistor.
US12027628B2
In an embodiment, a method includes forming a first gate electrode over a substrate. The method also includes forming a first gate dielectric layer over the first gate electrode. The method also includes depositing a semiconductor layer over the first gate dielectric layer. The method also includes forming source/drain regions over the first gate dielectric layer and the semiconductor layer, the source/drain regions overlapping ends of the semiconductor layer. The method also includes forming a second gate dielectric layer over the semiconductor layer and the source/drain regions. The method also includes and forming a second gate electrode over the second gate dielectric layer.
US12027627B2
An SGT circuit includes a first conductor layer which contains a semiconductor atom, which is in contact with an N+ region and a P+ region of a Si pillar, or a TiN layer, and whose outer circumference is located outside an outer circumference of a SiO2 layer in plan view, and a second conductor layer which contains a metal atom, which is connected to an outer periphery of the first conductor layer, and which extends in a horizontal direction.
US12027625B2
A method includes providing a semiconductor structure including a first semiconductor substrate, an insulator layer over the first semiconductor substrate, and a second semiconductor substrate over the insulator layer; patterning the second semiconductor substrate to form a top fin portion over the insulator layer; conformally depositing a protection layer to cover the top fin portion, wherein a first portion of the protection layer is in contact with a top surface of the insulator layer; etching the protection layer to remove a second portion of the protection layer directly over the top fin portion while a third portion of the protection layer still covers a sidewall of the top fin portion; etching the insulator layer by using the third portion of the protection layer as an etch mask; and after etching the insulator layer, removing the third portion of the protection layer.
US12027610B2
According to an aspect of the present inventive concept there is provided a qubit device comprising: a semiconductor substrate layer; a set of control gates configured to define a row of electrostatically confined quantum dots along the substrate layer, each quantum dot being suitable for holding a qubit; and a set of nanomagnets arranged in a row over the substrate layer such that a nanomagnet is arranged above every other quantum dot of the row of quantum dots, wherein each nanomagnet has an out-of-plane magnetization with respect to the substrate layer and wherein every other quantum dot is subjected to an out-of-plane magnetic field generated by a respective nanomagnet, such that a qubit spin resonance frequency of every other quantum dot is shifted with respect to an adjacent quantum dot of the row of quantum dots.
US12027601B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes following operations. A layer stack is formed over the substrate. The formation of the layer stack includes the following sub-operations: a blocking layer is formed over the substrate, a lower conductive layer is formed over the blocking layer, a first seed layer is formed over the lower conductive layer, a ferroelectric layer is formed over the first seed layer, and an upper conductive layer is formed over the ferroelectric layer. The layer stack is patterned to form a gate stack over the substrate. A spacer layer is formed over sidewalls of the gate stack. A pattered interlayer dielectric layer is formed over the substrate and the gate stack. A source region and a drain region are formed in the substrate through the patterned interlayer dielectric layer.
US12027599B2
Disclosed in a CASCODE device in which multiple transistors are stacked in a vertical direction and connected in series. The CASCODE device exhibits improvements in device/circuit intrinsic gain (GmRo) that is a performance index for analog/RF applications, cutoff frequency (Ft), and maximum oscillation frequency (Fmax). A method of manufacturing the CASCODE device is also disclosed.
US12027598B2
A semiconductor structure includes an isolation structure formed on a substrate, a gate-all-around transistor structure formed on the isolation structure, a via electrically coupled to a gate terminal of the gate-all-around transistor structure, and a buried conductive pad formed within the isolation structure and electrically coupled to the via. The buried conductive pad can extend through the isolation structure in two dimensions, such as in both a vertical dimension and a horizontal dimension. The semiconductor structure can provide advantages in terms of routing flexibility, among other possible advantages.
US12027587B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to electrostatic discharge (ESD) devices and methods of manufacture. The structure includes a bipolar transistor device, including a base region, having a base contact region, in a first well of a first conductivity type, a collector region, having a collector contact region, in a second well of a second conductivity type, and an emitter region, having an emitter contact region, in the first well, located between the base contact region and the second well, and a reverse-doped resistance well, of the second conductivity type, located in the first well of the first conductivity type between the base contact region and the emitter contact region structured to decrease turn-on voltage of the bipolar transistor device.
US12027576B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes: a silicon carbide layer of a first conductive type including a defect region in which a crystal defect exists; a plurality of well regions of a second conductive type formed on the silicon carbide layer; source regions of the first conductive type formed in the well regions; gate oxide films formed on the silicon carbide layer, the well regions and the source regions; gate electrodes formed on the gate oxide films; and a source electrode electrically connected to the well regions and the source regions, wherein the source region is not formed in the defect region.
US12027574B2
Semiconductor structures and methods of forming the same are provided. A method according to an embodiment includes forming a conductive feature and a first conductive plate over a substrate, conformally depositing a dielectric layer over the conductive feature and the first conductive plate, conformally depositing a conductive layer over the conductive feature and the first conductive plate, and patterning the conductive layer to form a second conductive plate over the first conductive plate and a resistor, the resistor includes a conductive line extending along a sidewall of the conductive feature. By employing the method, a high-resistance resistor may be formed along with a capacitor regardless of the resolution limit of, for example, lithography.
US12027573B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first well region, a second well region, an isolation region, a first resistor segment and a second resistor segment. The substrate includes a region having a first conductivity type. The first and the second well regions are disposed in the region of the substrate. The isolation region is disposed on the first and the second well regions. The first and the second resistor segments are electrically connected to each other and disposed on the isolation region. Moreover, the first and the second well regions are disposed directly under the first and the second resistor segments, respectively. The first and the second well regions do not overlap with each other in a vertical projection direction and have a second conductivity type that is opposite to the first conductivity type.
US12027566B2
Phosphor-converted LED side reflectors disclosed herein comprise pigments that are photochemically stable under illumination by light from the pcLED. The pigments absorb light in at least a portion of the spectrum of light emitted by the first phosphor converted LED. The side reflector may also comprise light scattering particles or air voids. The pigments, light scattering particles, or air voids may be homogeneously distributed in the reflector. Alternatively the side reflector may be layered, with the pigments, light scattering particles, or air voids inhomogeneously distributed in the reflector. The side reflector can include phosphor particles.
US12027565B2
An imaging device is provided. The imaging device may include a substrate having a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit at a light-incident side of the substrate. The second photoelectric conversion unit may include a photoelectric conversion layer, a first electrode, a second electrode above the photoelectric conversion layer, a third electrode, and an insulating material between the third electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, wherein a portion of the insulating material is between the first electrode and the third electrode.
US12027550B2
Provided is a display panel having a display region and a non-display region, and the display panel includes: a substrate; light-emitting elements disposed at a side of the substrate and located in the display region, each of light-emitting elements includes a light-emitting layer; and a light-shielding layer disposed at a side of the light-emitting elements facing away from the substrate, the light-shielding layer includes first apertures, and in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, each first aperture does not overlap with the light-emitting layer. In an embodiment, a distance between a first point on an edge of a first orthographic projection and a second point on an edge of a second orthographic projection is defined as a distance L, which satisfies L ≥ d × sin θ n 2 - sin 2 θ , where d denotes a distance between the light-emitting layer and the light-shielding layer, n denotes a refractive index of a functional film layer, θ denotes a visible angle and 0°<θ<90°.
US12027549B2
Provided is an image sensor including a substrate, in which a pixel area including a plurality of unit pixels, an optical black area located outside of the pixel area, and an alignment key area located outside of the pixel area are included, the substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, an interconnection structure below the first surface of the substrate, photoelectric conversion elements in the pixel area of the substrate, an insulating layer on the second surface of the substrate, a grid layer on the insulating layer in the pixel area and the alignment key area, a key pattern layer between the insulating layer disposed in the alignment key area and the grid layer disposed in the alignment key area, the key pattern layer including a protruding region to correspond to the grid layer, and color filters on the insulating layer and the grid layer in the pixel area.
US12027546B2
The present disclosure relates to an imaging element, a fabrication method, and electronic equipment by which an image having higher picture quality can be imaged. The imaging element includes a first light absorbing film formed in an effective pixel peripheral region, the effective pixel peripheral region being provided so as to enclose an outer side of an effective pixel region in which a plurality of pixels is disposed in a matrix, so as to cover a semiconductor substrate, a microlens layer provided as an upper layer than the first light absorbing film and having a microlens formed so as to condense light for each of the pixels in the effective pixel region, and a second light absorbing film provided as an upper layer than the microlens layer and formed in the effective pixel peripheral region. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a CMOS image sensor.
US12027535B2
The circuit includes a first transistor; a second transistor whose first terminal is connected to a gate of the first transistor for setting the potential of the gate of the first transistor to a level at which the first transistor is turned on; a third transistor for setting the potential of a gate of the second transistor to a level at which the second transistor is turned on and bringing the gate of the second transistor into a floating state; and a fourth transistor for setting the potential of the gate of the second transistor to a level at which the second transistor is turned off. With such a configuration, a potential difference between the gate and a source of the second transistor can be kept at a level higher than the threshold voltage of the second transistor, so that operation speed can be improved.
US12027531B2
A display device may include a substrate; a plurality of signal lines on the substrate; a plurality of scan lines on the substrate, the scan lines crossing the signal lines; and a plurality of thin film transistors at crossing positions of the scan lines and the signal lines. The scan lines include some first scan lines and some second scan lines. Each of the second scan lines has an end connected to a load element.
US12027529B2
The present application provides an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes a substrate, a first gate electrode, a first insulating layer, a first electrode, a second gate electrode, a first conductive channel, and a second electrode. The present application reduces a leakage current of the array substrate by using an orthographic projection of the first gate electrode on the substrate to overlap an orthographic projection of the first conductive channel on the substrate.
US12027522B2
Systems and methods are provided for fabricating semiconductor device structures on a substrate. A first fin structure is formed on a substrate. A second fin structure is formed on the substrate. A first semiconductor material is formed on both the first fin structure and the second fin structure. A second semiconductor material is formed on the first semiconductor material on both the first fin structure and the second fin structure. The first semiconductor material on the first fin structure is oxidized to form a first oxide. The second semiconductor material on the first fin structure is removed. A first dielectric material and a first electrode are formed on the first fin structure. A second dielectric material and a second electrode are formed on the second fin structure.
US12027521B2
A semiconductor device includes a dielectric fin between a first semiconductor channel and a second semiconductor channel. The semiconductor device includes a first gate structure. The first gate structure includes a first portion and a second portion separated from each other by the dielectric fin. The semiconductor device includes a first gate spacer that extends along sidewalls of the first portion of the first gate structure. The semiconductor device includes a second gate spacer that extends along sidewalls of the second portion of the first gate structure. At least one of the first gate spacer or second gate spacer has a first portion with a first thickness and a second portion with a second thickness less than the first thickness, and wherein the first portion is closer to the dielectric fin than the second portion.
US12027519B2
Provided is a semiconductor super junction power device which includes a super junction MOSFET cell array composed of multiple super junction MOSFET cells. A gate structure of the super junction MOSFET cell includes a gate dielectric layer, a gate and an n-type floating gate. The gate and the n-type floating gate are located above the gate dielectric layer; the gate is located on a side close to the n-type source region, and the n-type floating gate is located on a side close to the n-type drift region; the gate acts on the n-type floating gate through capacitive coupling. The n-type floating gate of at least one MOSFET cell is isolated from the p-type body region through the gate dielectric layer, and the n-type floating gate of at least one MOSFET cell contacts the p-type body region through an opening in the gate dielectric layer to form a p-n junction diode.
US12027507B2
In one aspect the present disclosure relates to a 3D printed signal control backbone apparatus. The apparatus may have a filament including a first material section and a plurality of second material sections. The first material section is bounded on opposing ends by the second material sections. The first material section is formed by an ink having a percolating network of a plurality of chiplets infused in a non-conductive polymer. The plurality of chiplets form electrically responsive elements imparting a predetermined logic function and which are responsive to a predetermined electrical signal. The second material sections are formed by an ink which is electrically conductive.
US12027504B2
The present application provides a method for improving colour difference of an LED display screen, comprising: drilling and polishing circuit surfaces of a plurality of LED substrates; performing screen printing on the circuit surfaces of the plurality of LED substrates, and performing oil skimming on a mesh screen during the screen printing every other preset printing cycle in such a way that an ink on the mesh screen has a viscosity within a predetermined viscosity range; performing an exposure setting process on the plurality of LED substrates that have been screen printed to obtain a plurality of LED printed circuit boards; and finally assembling the plurality of LED printed circuit boards to form an LED display screen.
US12027492B2
Connection terminals of a semiconductor module are disposed appropriately in accordance with the connection destination of the semiconductor module. A semiconductor module which includes at least one semiconductor element is mounted on a first surface of a main substrate, which has the first surface on which a first circuit element is mounted and a second surface on which a second circuit element is mounted. A plurality of connection terminals include a first connection terminal group composed of a plurality of first connection terminals to be connected to the first circuit element via the main substrate, and a second connection terminal group composed of a plurality of second connection terminals to be connected to the second circuit element via the main substrate. The first connection terminal group is disposed on the outer peripheral side with respect to the second connection terminal group.
US12027491B2
A multi-chip package comprising: an interconnection substrate comprising an interconnection bridge embedded in the interconnection substrate, and an interconnection scheme comprising a first interconnection metal layer, a second interconnection metal layer over the first interconnection layer and the interconnection bridge, and a polymer layer between the first and second interconnection metal layers, wherein the interconnection bridge is embedded in the interconnection scheme and has sidewalls surrounded by the polymer layer; a semiconductor IC chip over the interconnection substrate and across over an edge of the interconnection bridge; a memory chip over the interconnection substrate and across over an edge of the interconnection bridge, wherein the interconnection bridge comprises a plurality of metal interconnects configured for a data bus coupling the semiconductor IC chip to the memory chip, wherein a bitwidth of the data bus between the semiconductor IC chip and the memory chip is greater than or equal to 512.
US12027485B2
A method of forming a packaged semiconductor device includes attaching a backside surface of a semiconductor die to a major surface of a package substrate. A first conductive connector is formed over a portion of an active surface of the semiconductor die and a portion of the major surface of the package substrate. A first conductive connection between a first bond pad of the semiconductor die and a first substrate pad of the package substrate is formed by way of the first conductive connector. A bond wire connects a second bond pad of the semiconductor die to a second substrate pad of the package substrate. The first bond pad located between the second bond pad and an edge of the semiconductor die.
US12027473B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second gate electrodes stacked and spaced apart from each other in a first direction on a first region of a substrate, and extending in staircase form in a second direction on a second region of the substrate, the second gate electrodes disposed on the first gate electrodes; a first support structure penetrating the first gate electrodes on the second region, extending in the first direction, and having an upper end disposed at a level lower than a level of a lowermost second gate electrode among the second gate electrodes; a second support structure penetrating at least one of the first and second gate electrodes on the second region, extending in the first direction, and having an upper end disposed at a level higher than a level of un uppermost second gate electrode among the second gate electrodes.
US12027459B2
An integrated circuit device includes a conductive line including a metal layer and an insulation capping structure covering the conductive line. The first insulation capping structure includes a first insulation capping pattern that is adjacent to the metal layer in the insulation capping structure and has a first density, and a second insulation capping pattern spaced apart from the metal layer with the first insulation capping pattern therebetween and having a second density that is greater than the first density. In order to manufacture the integrated circuit device, the conductive line having a metal layer is formed on a substrate, a first insulation capping layer having the first density is formed directly on the metal layer, and a second insulation capping layer having the second density that is greater than the first density is formed on the first insulation capping layer.
US12027458B2
IC interconnect structures including subtractively patterned features. Feature ends may be defined through multiple patterning of multiple cap materials for reduced misregistration. Subtractively patterned features may be lines integrated with damascene vias or with subtractively patterned vias, or may be vias integrated with damascene lines or with subtractively patterned lines. Subtractively patterned vias may be deposited as part of a planar metal layer and defined currently with interconnect lines. Subtractively patterned features may be integrated with air gap isolation structures. Subtractively patterned features may be include a barrier material on the bottom, top, or sidewall. A bottom barrier of a subtractively patterned features may be deposited with an area selective technique to be absent from an underlying interconnect feature. A barrier of a subtractively patterned feature may comprise graphene or a chalcogenide of a metal in the feature or in a seed layer.
US12027453B2
The present disclosure describes semiconductor packages and, more particularly, chip-embedded semiconductor packages. The packages include core panels with apertures extending through the core panel. Semiconductor chips are embedded within chip apertures. A molding compound can be positioned along one side of the core panel. In some examples, the semiconductor chips are embedded within the molding compound. In other examples, the semiconductor chips are adhered to the molding compound. The coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) values of the core panels described herein can be tailored to decrease warpage of the package as the semiconductor chip heats during use.
US12027448B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include multi-die packages with open cavity bridges. In an example, an electronic apparatus includes a package substrate having alternating metallization layers and dielectric layers. The package substrate includes a first plurality of substrate pads and a second plurality of substrate pads, and an open cavity. A bridge die is in the open cavity, the bridge die including a first plurality of bridge pads, a second plurality of bridge pads, a power delivery bridge pad between the first plurality of bridge pads and the second plurality of bridge pads, and conductive traces. A first die is coupled to the first plurality of substrate pads and the first plurality of bridge pads. A second die is coupled to the second plurality of substrate pads and the second plurality of bridge pads. A power delivery conductive line is coupled to the power delivery bridge pad.
US12027447B2
A semiconductor device includes a first conductive element electrically connected to an interconnect structure, wherein the first conductive element includes a first conductive material. The semiconductor device further includes an RDL over the first conductive element and electrically connected to the first conductive element, wherein the RDL includes a second conductive material different from the first conductive material. The semiconductor device further includes a passivation layer over the RDL, wherein a top portion of a sidewall of the second passivation layer includes a convex curve protruding in a direction parallel to a top surface of the interconnect structure, a width of the top portion at a bottom of the convex curve is less than a width of the top portion at a middle of the convex curve, and the middle of the convex curve is above the bottom of the convex curve.
US12027434B2
A bonded body of copper and ceramic includes: a copper member made of copper or a copper alloy and a ceramic member made of an aluminum oxide, the copper member and the ceramic member being bonded to each other; a magnesium oxide layer which is formed on a ceramic member side between the copper member and the ceramic member; and a Mg solid solution layer which is formed between the magnesium oxide layer and the copper member and contains Mg in a state of a solid solution in a Cu primary phase, in which one or more active metals selected from Ti, Zr, Nb, and Hf are present in the Mg solid solution layer.
US12027433B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip disposed over a first main surface of a first substrate, a package lid disposed over the semiconductor chip, and spacers extending from the package lid through corresponding holes in the first substrate. The spacers enter the holes at a first main surface of the first substrate and extend beyond an opposing second main surface of the first substrate.
US12027423B2
A method includes forming a semiconductor fin protruding higher than top surfaces of isolation regions. The isolation regions extend into a semiconductor substrate. A portion of the semiconductor fin is etched to form a trench, which extends lower than bottom surfaces of the isolation regions, and extends into the semiconductor substrate. The method further includes filling the trench with a first dielectric material to form a first fin isolation region, recessing the first fin isolation region to form a first recess, and filling the first recess with a second dielectric material. The first dielectric material and the second dielectric material in combination form a second fin isolation region.
US12027421B2
A method for creating a substrate of the semiconductor on insulator type includes steps of a) providing a donor substrate having a monocrystalline support substrate, a smoothing layer and a semiconductor layer, the smoothing layer forming an etch stop layer with respect to the material of the support substrate; a′) implantation of ion species through the semiconductor layer to form a fragilisation plane; b) creating an assembly by placing the donor substrate and a receiver substrate in contact; and c) transferring the semiconductor layer and at least a part of the smoothing layer by detachment along the fragilization plane. The semiconductor layer provided in a) is monocrystalline. The method may further include, before b), amorphization of at least a part of the semiconductor layer to form an amorphous layer; and during or after c), recrystallization in solid phase of the amorphous layer to form a transferred monocrystalline semiconductor layer.
US12027417B2
Integrated circuit structures having source or drain structures with a high germanium concentration capping layer are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes source or drain structures including an epitaxial structure embedded in a fin at a side of a gate stack. The epitaxial structure has a lower semiconductor layer and a capping semiconductor layer on the lower semiconductor layer with an abrupt interface between the capping semiconductor layer and the lower semiconductor layer. The lower semiconductor layer includes silicon, germanium and boron, the germanium having an atomic concentration of less than 40% at the abrupt interface. The capping semiconductor layer includes silicon, germanium and boron, the germanium having an atomic concentration of greater than 50% at the abrupt interface and throughout the capping semiconductor layer.
US12027416B2
An etch stop layer is located on top of a first dielectric layer. A conductive line is located on top of the etch stop layer. A second dielectric layer is located above the first dielectric layer. The second dialect layer is in contact with the first dielectric layer.
US12027410B2
An edge ring arrangement for a processing chamber includes a first ring configured to surround and overlap a radially outer edge of an upper plate of a pedestal arranged in the processing chamber, a second ring arranged below the first moveable ring, wherein a portion of the first ring overlaps the second ring, a first actuator configured to actuate a first pillar to selectively move the first ring to a raised position and a lowered position relative to the pedestal, and a second actuator configured to actuate a second pillar to selectively move the second ring to a raised position and a lowered position relative to the pedestal.
US12027399B2
The present disclosure provides a gas purge device and a gas purge method for purging a wafer container to clean wafers. The gas purge device includes a first nozzle and a gas gate. The first nozzle is coupled to a front-opening unified pod (FOUP) through a first port of the FOUP. The gas gate is coupled to the first nozzle via a first pipe. The gas gate includes a first mass flow controller (MFC), a second MFC, and a first switch unit. The first MFC is configured to control a first flow of a first gas. The second MFC is configured to control a second flow of a second gas. The first switch unit is coupled to the first MFC and the second MFC, and is configured to provide the first gas to the first nozzle through the first pipe or receive the second gas from the first nozzle through the first pipe according to a process configuration.
US12027391B2
A system for evaluating a heat sensitive structure of an integrated circuit design including a memory for retrieving and storing integrated circuit design layout data, thermal data, process data, and one or more operational parameters, a processor capable of accessing the memory and identifying a target region having a nominal temperature Tnom, first and second heat generating structures within a first impact range of the target region, calculating the temperature increases ΔTh1 and ΔTh2 in the target region as a result of thermal coupling between the target region and the first and second heat generating structures, and conducting one or more parametric evaluations of the target region at an adjusted evaluation temperature TE=Tnom+ΔTh1+ΔTh1 after which a network interface transmits the result(s) of the parametric evaluation(s) for use in a design review.
US12027389B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a rotation unit supporting and rotating a substrate, a chemical ejection unit ejecting a chemical fluid toward the rotation unit, a chemical recovery unit disposed close to the rotation unit and collecting a chemical fluid scattered from the rotation unit, a first lifting unit coupled to the chemical recovery unit and moving upward and downward the chemical recovery unit relative to the rotation unit, and a first position correction member allowing the chemical recovery unit to be elastically supported by the first lifting unit and changing a relative position of the chemical recovery unit with respect to the lifting unit.
US12027386B2
Localized heating can use a fixed-frequency planar transmission line resonators arranged along a main-line, selected by tuning an electromagnetic input signal frequency applied to the main line for depositing heat in an adjacent active substrate. More generally, adjusting input signal frequency can be used to selectively address and energize an electromagnetic-to-heat, an electromagnetic-to-vibration, or other transducer to controllably direct energy toward a desired transducer load. Resonators or other electromagnetically energized transducers can be arranged to electromagnetically interfere, such that specifying or adjusting a relative phase of applied electrical signals can be used to specify or adjust the energy directed toward a desired transducer load. Temperature sensing can characterize a material in a target region near the transducer. A cold-hot-cold temperature profile can better manage temperature and avoid overheating a dielectric material such as the active substrate material.
US12027383B2
A device and method for alignment of a first contact surface of a first substrate with a second contact surface of a second substrate which can be held on a second platform includes first X-Y positions of first alignment keys located along the first contact surface, and second X-Y positions of second alignment keys which correspond to the first alignment keys and which are located along the second contact surface. The first contact surface can be aligned based on the first X-Y positions in the first alignment position and the second contact surface can be aligned based on the second X-Y positions in the second alignment position.
US12027379B2
The present disclosure relates to a package substrate comprising: a substrate having opposing first surface and second surface; at least one vent hole extending through the first surface and the second surface of the substrate, the vent hole comprising at least a long-strip hole.
US12027376B2
Provided are methods of manufacturing an integrated circuit device including depositing a conductive layer on a substrate, patterning the conductive layer to expose regions of the conductive layer, etching a first portion of the exposed regions of the conductive layer, forming a first passivation layer on a sidewall of the first etched portion, etching a second portion of the exposed regions of the conductive layer, and forming a second passivation layer on a sidewall of the second etched portion.
US12027373B2
A method of planarizing a substrate comprises dispensing formable material onto a substrate, contacting a superstrate held by a superstrate chuck with the formable material on the substrate, thereby forming a multilayer structure including the superstrate, a film of the formable material, and the substrate, releasing the multilayer structure from the superstrate chuck, providing a space between the superstrate chuck and the multilayer structure after the releasing, positioning a light source into the provided space between the superstrate chuck and the multilayer structure, and curing the film of the multilayer structure by exposing the film to light emitted from the light source.
US12027368B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device is provided. The method for forming a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes coating a photoresist film over a target layer; performing a lithography process to pattern the photoresist film into a photoresist layer; performing a directional ion bombardment process to the photoresist layer, such that a carbon atomic concentration in the photoresist layer is increased; and etching the target layer using the photoresist layer as an etch mask.
US12027365B2
Methods and related systems for filling a gap feature comprised in a substrate are disclosed. The methods comprise a step of providing a substrate comprising one or more gap features into a reaction chamber. The one or more gap features comprise an upper part comprising an upper surface and a lower part comprising a lower surface. The methods further comprise a step of subjecting the substrate to a plasma treatment. Thus, the upper surface is inhibited while leaving the lower surface substantially unaffected. Then, the methods comprise a step of selectively depositing a silicon-containing material on the lower surface.
US12027361B2
High temperature superconductor (HTS)-based interconnect systems comprising a cable including HTS-based interconnects are described. Each of the HTS-based interconnects includes a first portion extending from a first end towards an intermediate portion and a second portion extending from the intermediate portion to a second end. Each of the HTS-based interconnects includes a substrate layer formed in the first portion, in the intermediate portion, and in the second portion, a high temperature superconductor layer formed in at least a sub-portion of the first portion, in the intermediate portion, and in the second portion, and a metallic layer formed in the first portion and in at least a sub-portion of the intermediate portion. The HTS-based interconnect system includes a thermal load management system configured to maintain the intermediate portion of each of the HTS-based interconnects at a predetermined temperature in a range between a temperature of 60 kelvin and 92 kelvin.
US12027355B2
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for performing multiple precursor, neutral loss and product ion scans in a single ion trap. In certain aspects, the invention provides systems including a mass spectrometer having a single ion trap, and a central processing unit (CPU), and storage coupled to the CPU for storing instructions that when executed by the CPU cause the system to apply at least one of the following ion scans to a single ion population in the single ion trap: multiple precursor ion scans, a plurality of segmented neutral loss scans, or multiple simultaneous neutral loss scans.
US12027350B2
In some embodiments, a method for cleaning a processing chamber is provided. The method may be performed by introducing a processing gas into a processing chamber that has a by-product disposed along sidewalls of the processing chamber. A plasma is generated from the processing gas using a radio frequency signal. A lower electrode is connected to a first electric potential. Concurrently, a bias voltage having a second electric potential is applied to a sidewall electrode to induce ion bombardment of the by-product, in which the second electric potential has a larger magnitude than the first electric potential. The processing gas is evacuated from the processing chamber.
US12027347B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a vacuum-exhaustible processing container, an electrode installed in the processing container, a plurality of power feeding portions connected to a peripheral portion of a back surface of the electrode, a high-frequency power supply configured to supply high-frequency power to the electrode through the plurality of power feeding portions, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control the plasma processing apparatus to periodically apply the high-frequency power to each of the plurality of power feeding portions.
US12027346B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a chamber including a processing room for processing of a substrate using an introduced gas and an exhaust room for exhausting the gas in the processing room, a shield member provided near a side wall of the chamber to separate the processing room and the exhaust room and including a hole allowing the processing room and the exhaust room to communicate with each other, the shield member being driven in a vertical direction, and a hollow relay member connected to a pipe connected to an instrument outside the chamber and configured to be driven in a horizontal direction. When the shield member reaches an upper position, the relay member is driven inwardly of the chamber to be connected to the shield member at its inward end to allow the processing room and the pipe to communicate with each other through the hole.
US12027338B2
A smart speaker is disclosed with an interactive speaker grille. In one embodiment a smart speaker comprises a housing with a speaker grille comprising a plurality of openings. Circuitry coupled to the speaker grille is configured to sense direct user interaction with one or more of a plurality of regions of the speaker grille and to generate corresponding electrical signals indicative of the one or more regions of the speaker grille experiencing direct user interaction. The circuitry can include portions in the path of sound transmission to detect user interaction with regions of the grille and portions outside the path of sound transmission for controlling aspects of the smart speaker (e.g. speaker volume, radio station or media stream selection) based on the particular regions touched.
US12027337B2
A fuse assembly includes a fuse element, a first terminal, a second terminal, a socket, and a capsule. The fuse element is disposed between first and second end bells. The first terminal includes a first bell portion, a first socket portion, and a first capsule portion, the first bell portion being connected to the first end bell. The second terminal includes a second bell portion, a second socket portion, and a second capsule portion, the second bell portion being connected to the second end bell. The first socket portion and the second socket portion are integrated through the socket. The first capsule portion and the second capsule portion are integrated through the capsule. The socket is seated atop the capsule to create an interior chamber inside which the fuse element is disposed.
US12027332B2
In an embodiment a switching device includes two fixed contacts and a rotary contact bridge in a switching chamber in a gas-tight region, wherein the rotary contact bridge is rotatable about an rotation axis, wherein, in a first switching state, the fixed contacts are electrically conductively connected by the rotary contact bridge, wherein, in a second switching state, the rotary contact bridge is rotatable about the rotation axis relative to the first switching state, and the fixed contacts are electrically insulated from one another, and wherein the gas-tight region includes H2.
US12027326B2
A backlit-module-embedded illuminated keyswitch structure includes a baseplate, a mask film disposed below the baseplate and having a first coating for substantially reflecting a light and a second coating for substantially blocking the light, a light guide sheet at one side of the mask film and having a light source hole, and a reflective layer at one side of the light guide sheet opposite to the mask film. The second coating includes a second main coating region and a plurality of second coating sub-regions, which extends outward from the second main coating region and is arranged along the periphery of the second main coating region to form a plurality of intermediary regions therebetween. The first coating and the second coating are disposed right above the light source hole. The first coating is at least partially located in the intermediary regions.
US12027320B2
A circuit having a printed circuit board and at least one multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) is described, characterized in that the printed circuit board has at least one opening in the region of the projection of the MLCC on the printed circuit board. The opening is not filled with any material and in the event of the MLCC malfunctioning it essentially prevents heat from accumulating between the MLCC and the printed circuit board.
US12027314B2
A flexible energy storage device with a glycerol-based gel electrolyte is provided. The flexible energy storage device can include a pair of electrodes separated by the gel electrolyte. The electrolytes can be in gel form, bendable and stretchable in a device. The gel electrolyte can include glycerol, redox-active molybdenum-containing ions, and a secondary ionic substance. The secondary ionic substance can include a salt. The gel electrolyte can have a density of 1.4 to 1.9 g/cm3 and an ionic conductivity of 2.3×10−4 to 3.2×10−4 Scm−1. The flexible energy storage device may retain greater than 95% of an unbent energy storage capacity when bent at an angle of 10 to 170°.
US12027313B1
A nanocomposite electrode and supercapacitor thereof are disclosed. The nanocomposite electrode includes a substrate, at least one binding compound, at least one carbonaceous compound, and vanadium doped spinel ferrite nanoparticles (V-SFNPs). The V-SFNPs have a formula of CoxNi1-xVyFe2-yOz, wherein x=0.1-0.9, y=0.01-0.10, and z=3-5. The substrate is at least partially coated on a first side with a mixture comprising the V-SFNPs, the at least one binding compound, and the at least one carbonaceous compound. Two of the nanocomposite electrodes are combined to form the supercapacitor.
US12027307B2
The present disclosure provides a method for increasing the coercivity of a sintered type NdFeB permanent magnet. The method comprises: a) coating of a slurry on a surface of the magnet, the slurry comprising first particles consisting of a heavy rare earth alloy or a heavy rare earth or a non-metallic compound, and second particles consisting of a metal alloy or a meta, wherein at least one of the first particles and second particles includes at least one of Dy and Tb and wherein a ratio of the average particle diameter between the second particles and the first particles is 2:1 to 20:1; b) performing a vibration of the coated magnet in vertical direction of the applied slurry with a vibration frequency of 10 Hz to 50 Hz for 30 s to 5 min, then drying the slurry; and c) performing a thermally induced grain boundary diffusion process.
US12027303B2
Provided is a laminated device. The laminated device includes: a laminate body where a plurality of sheets are laminated; a plurality of noise filter parts provided in the laminate body and each having at least one coil pattern; and a plurality of external electrodes provided outside the laminate body and connected to the plurality of noise filter parts, respectively. At least one of the plurality of noise filter parts has the number of coil patterns different from that of the rest.
US12027302B2
An inductor component comprises a ring-shaped core; and a coil wound around the core and comprising wire members each constituting a single turn. Each of the wire members has a first side portion facing an inner peripheral surface of the core, a second side portion facing a first end surface that is one end surface of the core and is located in a direction of a center axis of the core, a third side portion facing an outer peripheral surface of the core, and a fourth side portion facing a second end surface that is the other end surface of the core and is located in the direction of the center axis of the core. At least one of the second and third side portions has a bent portion protruding on the core side, and the first and fourth side portions of adjacent wire members are connected.
US12027297B2
An inductor element includes a magnetic body core provided with a through-hole, and a coil inserted through the through-hole and wound around the magnetic body core a plurality of times. The coil includes three bonding portions located on one side in a thickness direction of the magnetic body core. The three bonding portions are located on a first virtual plane that partially intersects with the coil.
US12027286B2
A device for damping vibrations suffered by a cable and intended to be integrated into a recess for the cable that has a larger cross- section than the cross-section of the cable. The device has at least two tips with tubular cross-sections that are attached to the surface of the cable and a flexible portion connecting the tips together and extending to the interior wall of the recess.
US12027284B2
An electrically insulated electric conductor strip (1), in particular for electric motors and transformers, having a strip-like electric conductor (2) which has an upper cover surface (2a) and a lower cover surface (2b), two side edge surfaces (2c) and, at each end, an end edge surface, and having electrical insulation (3), which is arranged on at least one cover surface of the strip (2a, 2b). In order to create a conductor strip (1) of this kind which can be produced with reduced effort but has a high electrical insulation effect, the insulation comprises a paint layer (3a) and an adhesive strip (3b), which is adhered to the lower cover surface (2b) and/or the upper cover surface (2a) of the strip-like electrical conductor (2), more specifically at least in a region (4) in each case which borders a side edge surface (2c), the paint layer (3a) being beneath the adhesive tape (3b) and at least directly on the lower cover surface (2b) and/or on the upper surface (2a).
US12027268B2
A computer system and the computer-implemented method of generating and providing skincare product recommendations to a subject. The method comprises determining, by a computing device, an exposure amount of a pollutant impacting a subject's skin; determining, by the computing device, a damage assessment of the subject's skin based on the type of pollutant and amount of pollutant exposure; and providing, by the computing device, at least one skincare product recommendation to the subject, wherein the recommendation is directed to repair or prevent damage to the skin provided in the damage assessment.
US12027263B2
A wireless digital treatment and warning system for veterinarian animal cages includes software that reads stored data for a course of treatment and prescription medication information for a particular animal in a particular cage, identifies the unique veterinarian animal cage number for the particular animal, identifies a digital display panel number paired with the unique veterinarian animal cage number for the particular animal, visually outputs digitized treatment information for the particular animal in time-synchronized accordance with the course of treatment and prescription medication information for the particular animal, and triggers the colored warning lights to activate as a visual warning alert to feed, medicate, or take care of the particular animal.
US12027258B2
A computer implemented method includes obtaining a schema defining variables representing patient treatment experiences for one or more health conditions, obtaining data from historical patient treatment experiences, the data being arranged in accordance with the schema, training a machine learning system based on a training set of the data for a specified time-period, and generating a model from the trained machine learning system, the model being based on variables selected by the trained machine learning system to predict patient treatment experiences for the one or more health conditions.
US12027252B2
To obtain feedback on image quality from qualified reviewers, an optically machine readable code (124) (e.g., a QR code or the like) is generated for each acquired medical image and embedded into the image. The embedded code includes information to the identity of the image, the imaging device, authorized reviewers, and authorized recipients of the feedback, as well as a link to a feedback form that can be retrieved by a communication device (38) used by an authorized user. When the embedded code is scanned by the communication device, the code is decoded and the feedback form is retrieved from a server, completed by the reviewer, and transmitted back to the authorized recipients of the feedback.
US12027251B2
A system and method for managing medical image data items. A large image manager is used to store medical image data items external to a core PACS. Representative objects are generated and provided to the PACS to be incorporated into the core PACS workflows. The representative objects can be generated by extracted pixel data and metadata from the medical image data items. The representative objects are generated in a format compatible with the protocol used by the PACS workflows. Requests sent to the PACS for medical images can be re-routed to the large image manager to provide the requested images.
US12027246B1
Technologies and techniques for processing drug data in a specialized medical computer system. Autonomous moving code may be received via a communications interface from a computer network, where the autonomous movable code includes patient data, lab test data, demographic data, and diagnosis data. The autonomous movable code is executed in a system agent manager and processed in a learning module, where the learning module performs predictive processing to determine if an opioid abuse condition exists. New autonomous movable code may be generated that includes information and/or instructions regarding the opioid abuse condition. The new autonomous movable code is then transmitted back to the computer network.
US12027236B2
Provided herein includes a method for generating an error-corrected genome assembly for an organism comprising: generating a genomic contact map derived from a DNA proximity ligation assay conducted on one or more samples from the organism or a closely related species; superimposing a reference assembled genome derived from whole genome sequencing of one or more samples from the organism on top of the genomic contact map using computer software; correcting errors in the reference assembled genome through a computer user interface to obtain a corrected assembly file, wherein errors in the reference assembled genome are visualized by observing aberrant contacts in the genomic contact map; and applying the corrected assembly file to the reference assembled genome.
US12027234B2
A high-temperature bimetal capable of being inhibited from considerably shifting from an original position when the temperature has fallen to an ordinary temperature is provided. This high-temperature bimetal (1) includes a high thermal expansion layer (2) made of austenitic stainless steel and a low thermal expansion layer (3) made of a thermosensitive magnetic metal having a Curie point and bonded to the high thermal expansion layer. The high-temperature bimetal is employed over both a high temperature range of not less than the Curie point and a low temperature range of less than the Curie point, while an upper limit of operating temperatures in the high temperature range of not less than the Curie point is at least 500° C.
US12027228B2
A method includes performing a first operation to program data to a group of memory cells of a memory device, wherein the data comprises host data and a bit pattern indicative of a first temperature of the group of memory cells and receiving a signal to perform a second operation to read the host data from the group of memory cells. The method further includes determining, responsive to receipt of the signal, whether a second temperature of the group of memory cells is outside a threshold temperature differential that is based on the bit pattern indicative of the first temperature of the group of memory cells, applying a voltage offset signal to the group of memory cells responsive to a determination that the second temperature of the group of memory cells is outside the threshold temperature differential, and performing the second operation to read the host data from the group of memory cells subsequent to application of the voltage offset signal to the group of memory cells.
US12027227B2
A determination is made that a memory device of a memory sub-system is to be transitioned to a sleep mode. A command is initiated to cause a standby circuit associated with the memory device to enter into a low power mode while a power supply of the memory sub-system is maintained in a powered state. In the low power mode, a reference voltage is supplied to a voltage regulator of the standby circuit to supply a standby current level to the memory device during the sleep mode.
US12027226B2
The structure includes transistors in rows and columns and each having an electric field-based programmable threshold voltage at either a first threshold voltage (VT) or a second VT. The structure further includes first and second signal lines for the rows and columns, respectively. Each first signal line is connected to transistors in a row and each second signal line is connected to transistors in a column. When operated in a switch mode, the transistors may or may not become conductive depending upon their respective VTs. Conductive transistors form connected pairs of first and second signal lines and, thus, create signal paths. The structure can also include mode control circuitry to selectively operate the transistors in either a program mode to set a first VT or an erase mode to set a second VT and to concurrently operate the transistors in the switch mode.
US12027212B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for drift compensation for codewords in memory. An embodiment includes a memory device having an array of memory cells, and circuitry to sense a codeword stored in the array, determine a threshold voltage value of each cell of the codeword, sort the threshold voltage values, determine a second derivative value of a cell metric for a number of the cells of the codeword based on the threshold voltage value of that respective cell, the threshold voltage value immediately preceding the threshold voltage value of that respective cell in the sorted values, and a value proportional to a total quantity of the cells of the codeword, determine the cell metric for which the determined second derivative value has a greatest value, input the determined cell metric to a Pearson detector, and determine originally programmed data of the codeword using the Pearson detector.
US12027209B2
A memory device comprises a plurality of memory cells each having a threshold voltage corresponding to any one of a plurality of program states according to target data to be stored by performing a program operation, page buffers configured to store data provided from a memory controller, a data conversion controller configured to control the page buffers to convert the data into the target data including a plurality of logical page bits and a program operation controller configured to perform the program operation to store the target data in the plurality of memory cells, wherein the plurality of logical page bits include at least one logical page bit distinguishing even program states from odd program states among the plurality of program states and remaining logical page bits other than the at least one logical page bit having a same value as at least one program state among adjacent program states.
US12027199B2
A method of controlling a row hammer swaps a first address entry with a second address entry having the smallest second access number and randomly swaps the first address entry with a third address entry having a third access number which is not the greatest value, in an address table representing a correlation between an address entry accessed during a row hammer monitoring time frame and an access number, thereby preventing a hacker-pattern row hammer aggression from being easily performed.
US12027197B2
A memory controller integrated circuit includes a clock signal generator circuit configured to generate a plurality of strobe signals. The memory controller integrated circuit further includes a memory interface circuit coupled to the clock signal generator circuit, the memory interface circuit configured to transmit the plurality of strobe signals to a memory module, wherein each of the plurality of strobe signals is offset with respect to an adjacent strobe signal, and transmit a plurality of data signals to the memory module, wherein a first subset of the plurality of data signals comprises a first nibble and is phase aligned with a first strobe signal of the plurality of strobe signals, and wherein a second subset of the plurality of data signals comprises a second nibble and is phase aligned with a second strobe signal of the plurality of strobe signals.
US12027188B2
According to one embodiment, in a disk device, a controller adjusts a correction value of a radial position of servo track according to a ratio between amplitude of a correction value spectrum of a radial position of the servo track at a first circumferential position and at a second circumferential position when positioning control of the head to a target data track is performed on a basis of servo information read from the servo track. At the first circumferential position, a relative speed of a change in the radial position of the servo track with respect to a radial position of the target data track becomes a first speed. At the second circumferential position, a relative speed of a change in the radial position of the servo track with respect to the radial position of the target data track becomes a second speed.
US12027187B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device comprises a magnetic head including a main pole, an auxiliary magnetic pole, side shields disposed on both sides of the main pole in a track width direction with a side gap therebetween, a high frequency oscillation element disposed in the write gap between the main pole and the auxiliary magnetic pole, and a magnetic flux control element disposed in the side gap between the main pole and the side shield to control oscillation frequency of the high frequency oscillation element, an oscillation element controller configured to control bias current supplied to the high frequency oscillation element, and a magnetic flux control element controller configured to control bias current supplied to the magnetic flux control element.
US12027184B2
Systems and methods for video processing are configured. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive a procedural document comprising a plurality of instructions; extract a plurality of key concepts for an instruction of the plurality of instructions; compute an information coverage distribution for each of a plurality of candidate multi-media assets, wherein the information coverage distribution indicates whether a corresponding multi-media asset relates to each of the plurality of key concepts; select a set of multi-media assets for the instruction based on the information coverage distribution; and generate a multi-media presentation describing the procedural document by combining the set of multi-media assets based on a presentation template.
US12027178B2
Systems and methods, e.g., optical apparatuses, for digital optical information storage systems that improve the speed, signal to noise, controllability, and data storage density for fluorescent and reflective multilayer optical data storage media. The systems and methods include an optical system for a reading beam of a data channel from a moving single or multi-layer or otherwise 3-dimensional optical information storage medium that comprises at least one optical element characterized by restricting the field of view (FOV) of the reading beam on an associated image plane to 0.3 to 2 Airy disk diameters in a first direction.
US12027174B2
Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus, methods and computer programs for encoding spatial metadata. The example apparatus includes circuitry configured for obtaining spatial metadata associated with spatial audio content and obtaining a configuration parameter indicative of a source format of the spatial audio content. The circuitry is also configured to use the configuration parameter to select a method of compression of the spatial metadata associated with the spatial audio content.
US12027168B2
A method of providing an assistant service, performed by an electronic device, includes: determining content identification information for identifying content displayed on the electronic device; determining a user context for identifying a use situation of a user of the electronic device by using the determined content identification information; generating an utterance list based on the determined content identification information and the determined user context; and, in response to an occurrence of a predefined utterance providing event, outputting the generated utterance list.
US12027164B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can initialize execution of an assistant command associated with an interpretation that is predicted to be responsive to a user input, while simultaneously providing suggestions for alternative assistant command(s) associated with alternative interpretation(s) that is/are also predicted to be responsive to the user input. The alternative assistant command(s) that are suggested can be selectable such that, when selected, the automated assistant can pivot from executing the assistant command to initializing execution of the selected alternative assistant command(s). Further, the alternative assistant command(s) that are suggested can be partially fulfilled prior to any user selection thereof. Accordingly, implementations set forth herein can enable the automated assistant to quickly and efficiently pivot between assistant commands that are predicted to be responsive to the user input.
US12027163B2
According to an embodiment an electronic device includes at least one sensor, a display, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the at least one sensor, the display, and the memory. The memory is configured to store instructions that, when executed, the processor is configured to recognize a context of a user by using the at least one sensor based on at least one of a speed of the electronic device, a location of the electronic device, a level of external noise, an external illuminance, personal information of the user, or a connection state between the electronic device and an external electronic device. The processor is also configured to control an execution environment of a voice assistant application based on the recognized context.
US12027162B2
Teacher-student learning can be used to train a keyword spotting (KWS) model using augmented training instance(s). Various implementations include aggressively augmenting (e.g., using spectral augmentation) base audio data to generate augmented audio data, where one or more portions of the base instance of audio data can be masked in the augmented instance of audio data (e.g., one or more time frames can be masked, one or more frequencies can be masked, etc.). Many implementations include processing augmented audio data using a KWS teacher model to generate a soft label, and processing the augmented audio data using a KWS student model to generate predicted output. One or more portions of the KWS student model can be updated based on a comparison of the soft label and the generated predicted output.
US12027161B2
A dialogue device according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a user utterance input by the user, an identification unit configured to identify a situation of the user utterance as an utterance situation, a selection unit configured to select a scenario corresponding to the user utterance from a database storing a plurality of scenarios, and an output unit configured to output a system utterance defined by the selected scenario. Each scenario defines a user utterance, a system utterance for the user utterance, and hierarchically defined scenario attributes. When two or more scenarios defining a user utterance are present as candidate scenarios in a database, the selection unit selects one scenario from the two or more candidate scenarios based on a hierarchical relationship among the two or more scenario attributes defined in the two or more candidate scenarios and the utterance situation.
US12027160B2
Techniques are described herein for improving performance of machine learning model(s) and thresholds utilized in determining whether automated assistant function(s) are to be initiated. A method includes: receiving, via one or more microphones of a client device, audio data that captures a spoken utterance of a user; processing the audio data using a machine learning model to generate a predicted output that indicates a probability of one or more hotwords being present in the audio data; determining that the predicted output satisfies a secondary threshold that is less indicative of the one or more hotwords being present in the audio data than is a primary threshold; in response to determining that the predicted output satisfies the secondary threshold, prompting the user to indicate whether or not the spoken utterance includes a hotword; receiving, from the user, a response to the prompting; and adjusting the primary threshold based on the response.
US12027159B2
Embodiments disclosed are directed to a computing system that performs steps to automatically generate fine-grained call reasons from customer service call transcripts. The computing system extracts, using a natural language processing (NLP) technique, a set of events from a set of text strings of speaker turns. The computing system then identifies a set of clusters of events based on the set of events and labels each cluster of events in the set of clusters of events to generate a set of labeled clusters of events. Subsequently, the computing system assigns each event in the set of events to a respective labeled cluster of events in the set of labeled clusters of events.
US12027157B1
A system for imaging an airway for assessing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can include first and second ultrasound transducer arrays on first and second body members, respectively, configured to adhere the first and second ultrasound transducer arrays at first and second fixed positions on a neck while ultrasound scanning. A processor circuit can be coupled to the first and second ultrasound transducer arrays, the processor circuit configured to operate the first and second ultrasound transducer arrays for pulse-echo imaging of a soft tissue-airway interface to generate respective first and second volumetric ultrasound image data sets in real-time to provide an integrated volumetric image of the soft tissue-airway interface from the first and second fixed positions on the neck.
US12027153B2
A computer-implemented method for preparing training data for a speech recognition model is provided including obtaining a plurality of sentences from a corpus, dividing each phoneme in each sentence of the plurality of sentences into three hidden states, calculating, for each sentence of the plurality of sentences, a score based on a variation in duration of the three hidden states of each phoneme in the sentence, and sorting the plurality of sentences by using the calculated scores.
US12027152B2
Techniques and apparatuses for recognizing accented speech are described. In some embodiments, an accent module recognizes accented speech using an accent library based on device data, uses different speech recognition correction levels based on an application field into which recognized words are set to be provided, or updates an accent library based on corrections made to incorrectly recognized speech.
US12027151B2
A linguistic content and speaking style disentanglement model includes a content encoder, a style encoder, and a decoder. The content encoder is configured to receive input speech as input and generate a latent representation of linguistic content for the input speech output. The content encoder is trained to disentangle speaking style information from the latent representation of linguistic content. The style encoder is configured to receive the input speech as input and generate a latent representation of speaking style for the input speech as output. The style encoder is trained to disentangle linguistic content information from the latent representation of speaking style. The decoder is configured to generate output speech based on the latent representation of linguistic content for the input speech and the latent representation of speaking style for the same or different input speech.
US12027149B2
A transportation vehicle provides a workspace in a passenger cabin to support a teleconference with a remote party. External sensors are configured to scan the exterior of the vehicle. A sound exciter is configured to generate a masking noise directed to the exterior. A control circuit which enhances privacy of the teleconference is configured to A) detect the audio content of the teleconference being present in the interior of the vehicle, B) quantify an interior sound level of the audio content, C) estimate a discernability of the audio content at an external location accessible to passersby where the audio content can be overheard, and D) activate the sound exciter such that the masking noise is adapted to mask the audio content at the external location.
US12027144B2
A keyboard device includes a plurality of keys, and a keyboard driver configured to drive at least a part of the plurality of keys. The keyboard device is configured such that, in accordance with determination whether a key corresponding to a pitch of event data is drivable by the keyboard driver, sound is generated based on a first sound-generating process in which the keyboard driver is configured to drive the key corresponding to the pitch or a second sound-generating process that is different from the first sound-generating process.
US12027140B2
Provided is a display device including a communication device for receiving an input image containing a first frame and a second frame, an image quality controller for performing a first image quality control on at least a portion of the first frame, and a gain generator for calculating a gain of the second frame based on the first frame where the first image quality control has been performed, wherein the image quality controller performs a second image quality control applied with the gain for at least a portion of the second frame.
US12027136B2
Provided is a data transmission method, including: sending clock calibration data to a source driver chip, wherein the clock calibration data instructs the source driver chip to perform clock calibration; sending first configuration information to the source driver chip over a data channel in response to completing the clock calibration by the source driver chip, wherein the first configuration information instructs the source driver chip to perform a configuration on a physical layer parameter; and successively sending a link stable pattern and display data to the source driver chip.
US12027133B2
A driver circuit includes first to third transistors, a first circuit, and a second circuit. In the first transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a second wiring, a second terminal is electrically connected to a first wiring, and a gate is electrically connected to the second circuit and a first terminal of the third transistor. In the second transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to the first wiring, a second terminal is electrically connected to a sixth wiring, a gate is electrically connected to the first circuit and a gate of the third transistor. A second terminal of the third transistor is electrically connected to the sixth wiring. The first circuit is electrically connected to a third wiring, a fourth wiring, a fifth wiring, and the sixth wiring. The second circuit is electrically connected to the first wiring, the second wiring, and the sixth wiring.
US12027131B2
The present application relates to a compensation method for a display and a display, wherein the method includes: acquiring a display image of the display; determining to-be-compensated regions corresponding to the display image, wherein the to-be-compensated regions include at least one first to-be-compensated region and at least one second to-be-compensated region; the display image is compensated based on the to-be-compensated regions, and a compensation mode of the at least one to-be-compensated region is different from a compensation mode of the at least one second to-be-compensated region.
US12027124B2
A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes sub-pixels, first data lines, and first power signal lines. The sub-pixel includes a light emitting element including a second electrode. The sub-pixel includes a first connecting portion including a first sub-connecting portion and a first block. The second electrode is overlapped with the first data line, the first power signal line and the first connecting portion, the first power signal line and the first data line are located at both sides of the first connecting portion. A ratio of a minimum distance between edges of the first sub-connecting portion and the first data line which are close to each other to a minimum distance between edges of the first block and the first power signal line which are close to each other is in a range from 0.8 to 1.2.
US12027123B2
A light emitting device including a light emitting element, a driving transistor connected to the light emitting element and configured to supply a current corresponding to a signal, a light emission control transistor arranged between the driving transistor and a potential supply line and configured to control emission or non-emission of the light emitting element, a write transistor configured to supply the signal to the driving transistor, is provided. One frame period includes a write period during which the write transistor is rendered conductive and the signal is written, and a light emission period during which the light emission control transistor changes from a non-conductive state to a conductive state and the light emitting element emits light. After a start of the write period and before an end of the write period, the light emission control transistor is rendered conductive.
US12027121B2
A display panel includes a plurality of first pixel parts disposed in a first row, a plurality of second pixel parts disposed in a second row and including a first pixel part that includes a first pixel circuit and a first light emitting element which are electrically separated from each other, and a second pixel part that includes a second pixel circuit and a second light emitting element which are electrically separated from each other. The first light emitting element of the first pixel part is electrically connected to the second pixel circuit of the second pixel part.
US12027120B2
Circuits, systems, methods, and devices are provided for isolating the first ground domain from the second ground domain while transmitting and receiving data between the two ground domains. The proposed high-voltage ground-isolating level shifter may be formed by AC coupling capacitors and a memory cell. The circuit under the high voltage ground domain may be located in an engineered high-voltage isolation well with a relatively large breakdown voltage.
US12027112B2
A method includes running, in an always-on display state of the mobile device, a first algorithm program to display a first clock interface in a first display area of a display of the mobile device, receiving a switching instruction when the mobile device is switched from a first clock style to a second clock style, wherein the second clock interface is different from the first clock interface, performing switching from the first algorithm program to a second algorithm program in response to the switching instruction, and running, in the always-on display state, the second algorithm program to display the second clock interface in a second display area of the display, wherein a size of the second display area is different from a size of the first display area, and wherein the second algorithm program is different from the first algorithm program.
US12027101B2
A display device includes: a display panel including pixels; an eye tracker configured to determine a gaze point on the display panel by tracking a gaze of a user; and a timing controller configured to determine a luminance variable region of the display panel based on the gaze point, and to decrease a luminance of the luminance variable region. The timing controller is configured to decrease the luminance of a point in the luminance variable region more as the point in the luminance variable region is farther from the gaze point.
US12027098B2
A display device includes a driving controller, a display panel, and an emission driver. The driving controller generates a second clock signal having second pulses in response to a first clock signal having first pulses from an external device. The display panel includes pixels. The emission driver generates an emission signal having third pulses in response to the second clock signal and applies the emission signal to the pixels. The driving controller compares a number of the first pulses and a number of the second pulses, with a first reference value, and a second reference value, and sets a compensation value of the number of the second pulses, and the driving controller compensates for the second clock signal by adjusting the number of the second pulses existing in one horizontal time based on the compensation value in a vertical blank period of the frame period.
US12027096B2
An electronic device includes an array substrate. The array substrate includes first to third gate lines, a first to third pixel units, and a gate driving circuit. The third gate line is disposed between the first and second gate lines. The first pixel unit is electrically connected to the first gate line and the data line. The second pixel unit is electrically connected to the second gate line and the data line. The third pixel unit is electrically connected to the third gate line and the data line. The gate driving circuit is electrically connected to the first to third gate lines. The gate driving circuit provides a first gate driving signal to the first pixel unit, a second gate driving signal to the second pixel unit, and a third gate driving signal to the third pixel unit in a time sequence.
US12027082B2
A display method includes acquiring output corresponding to a movement direction of a human toward a display position of a display apparatus using a sensor, determining an orientation of a content used for alert based on the output corresponding to the movement direction, and displaying the content in the display position in the orientation using the display apparatus.
US12027081B2
The disclosure relates to a medical device with a display and with a processing unit and method therefor. The processing unit is suitable for detecting states of one or more technical units of the medical device. The processing unit is further set up to control the display on the basis of detected states in order to output states of the medical device. The display is an autostereographic display. The processing unit, based on an evaluation of detected states, drives the display in such a way that a first state is visually highlighted with respect to a 3D representation, while a second state is visually not highlighted with respect to a 3D representation.
US12027080B1
A display device can include a display panel including a light emitting element, a driving transistor for providing a driving current, and a plurality of switching transistors for controlling an operation of the driving transistor; a gate driving circuit configured to supply signals to the display panel; a data driving circuit configured to supply a plurality of data voltages to the display panel; and a timing controller. Also, the plurality of switching transistors can include a first switching transistor having a dual gate structure and configured to connect a gate node of the driving transistor with a drain node of the driving transistor in response to a first scan signal, and a stabilization transistor configured to connect the gate node of the driving transistor with a common node of the first switching transistor in response to a stabilization scan signal.
US12027075B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an electronic shelf label includes a display configured to receive a touch input from a user and display information to a user on a screen; and a controller configured to control the screen displayed by the display based on the input received through the display, the display is configured to receive a division input, a virtual cell selection input, or a virtual cell adjustment input from the user and the controller is configured to: generate a plurality of virtual cells by dividing the screen based on the division input, assign a unique code to each of the plurality of virtual cells, and adjust the plurality of virtual cells or the unique code based on the virtual cell selection input or the virtual cell adjustment input.
US12027067B1
In some embodiments, a method includes receiving an input including an educational objective for a user having an associated user device. The method includes sending a signal to receive Global Positioning System (GPS) transit data associated with a transit from a first location and a second location. The method further includes determining, based on a set of parameters and the GPS transit data, an effective transit time and selecting a set of educational content files that meet the educational objective. The method includes selecting, based on the effective transit time, a subset of the set of parameters and at least one characteristic associated with each educational content file, a subset of educational content files. The method further includes determining an order for the subset of educational content files to provide the subset of educational content files to the user device within the effective transit time to meet the educational objective.
US12027065B2
A biomechanical body model for illustrating body mechanics. The body model includes components representing the torso, upper leg, and lower leg which can be altered in length to represent the variations in human segmental proportions and their combined influences on an individual's mechanical ability to move between a standing position and a seated or squatting position. Manipulation of these variables is further influenced by a range of available mobility of respective joints interconnecting the body segments. Outcomes of permutations of both the variations in segmental proportions and joint mobility is further influenced by variations in the relative plane of gross lower extremity motion as demonstrated by manipulation of a secondary hip axis. The system also incorporates various muscle segments to demonstrate impact of body movements on muscles and restrictions that muscles may present for body movements.
US12027059B1
An example operation may include one or more of sending a plurality of anchor words to a user device to be displayed on a user interface of the dyslexia treatment application; providing at least one prompt to the user of the dyslexia treatment application to create tiles based on the plurality of the anchor words; responsive to receiving the tiles and associated responses from the user of the dyslexia treatment application, analyzing the tiles and the associated responses; and generating a score based on analysis of the tiles and the associated responses.
US12027055B1
An unmanned aerial vehicle assisted task offloading and resource allocation method based on service caching is provided. The unmanned aerial vehicles are capable to cache a portion of programs to perform computation tasks for offloading of ground terminal devices, while a local terminal device is capable to cache a small number of programs. Under the constraints of task completion delay requirements for all devices and UAVs, as well as limited energy of UAVs, an optimization problem of minimizing the total time delay of request tasks of all ground terminal devices are established. This problem is a mixed integer nonlinear programming problem, which is decoupled into three sub-problems: task offloading decision, UAV resource allocation, and UAV trajectory. Slack variables, Lagrange multiplier method, and Taylor expansion method are used to iteratively solve the three sub-problems, and the optimal solutions for task offloading decision, UAV resource allocation, and UAV trajectory are obtained.
US12027054B2
A communication system for air traffic control is described. The communication system includes a cloud based server structure, at least one controller working position as well as at least one radio ground station for transmitting radio signals to an aircraft and/or receiving radio signals from an aircraft. The at least one radio ground station and the at least one controller working position are connected to the cloud based server structure by means of an internet protocol infrastructure. The cloud based server structure is configured to process signals for air-ground communication and/or ground-ground communication. Furthermore, a method of controlling air traffic of an airspace is described.
US12027053B1
A method 100 assessing and mitigating risks encounterable by an autonomous vehicle includes collecting information associated with an environment of an ego vehicle and determining and assessing a set of risks encounterable by the ego vehicle. A system for assessing and mitigating risks can include and/or interface with an ego vehicle (equivalently referred to herein as an autonomous vehicle, autonomous agent, ego agent, agent, etc.) and a set of computing subsystems (equivalently referred to herein as a set of computers) and/or processing subsystems (equivalently referred to herein as a set of processors), which function to implement any or all of the processes of the method.
US12027049B2
A management device of an automated valet parking system predicts a usage schedule of an automated valet parking service used by a user from usage history information about a usage history of the automated valet parking service used by the user. Then, the management device determines a parking position of a vehicle of the user among multiple parking lots with reference to the predicted usage schedule.
US12027047B2
A device is provided for use with a vehicle and with a communication device. The communication device can transmit a first vehicle mode signal and a subsequent signal. The device includes a processing component, an indicator component, a transmitting component and a receiving component. The processing component can operate in a vehicle mode and can operate in a second mode. The indicator component can provide a vehicle mode indication signal when the processing component is operating in the vehicle mode. The transmitting component can transmit a second vehicle mode signal based on the vehicle mode indication signal. The receiving component can receive the first vehicle mode signal and can receive the subsequent signal. The processing component can further perform a function while in the vehicle mode and based on the first vehicle mode signal and the subsequent signal.
US12027045B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a navigation method, device and system for a cross intersection. The method includes: receiving a message transmitted from a vehicle controller, where the message indicates a request of a vehicle for passing an intersection; and determining whether to allow the vehicle to pass the intersection based on an occupancy condition of the intersection and transmitting an action instruction to the vehicle controller to cause the vehicle controller to control movement of the vehicle.
US12027044B2
Systems and methods are provided for combining a multiple sub-time window sampling architecture with machine learning to detect outlier traffic flow behavior which may indicate malicious/problematic network activity. For example, a network device may obtain a sample of traffic flow data during a defined time window. The sample of traffic flow data may comprise information associated with a sampled subset of traffic flows transferred by a network device in the defined time window. The network device may partition the defined time window into two or more sub-time windows. In each sub-time window, using machine learning, the network device may assign an outlier-related classification to each sampled traffic flow based on the relative behavioral characteristics of all the sampled traffic flows. The network device may aggregate the outlier-related classifications for each sampled traffic flow across multiple sub-time windows, and process traffic flows based on the aggregated outlier-related classifications.
US12027035B2
A method and system for training a fall detection classifier using subject-specific movement data. Movement data responsive to a subject's movements during everyday activities are obtained over a predetermined data collection period. For each detected event in the movement data, values for one or more parameters that may (together or individually) indicate a fall are obtained. The obtained values are used to generate a subject-specific probability distribution for non-fall events. A fall event probability distribution is obtained using the non-fall event probability distribution. This fall event probability distribution can then be subsequently processed, with reference to a threshold value, to distinguish fall events from non-fall events.
US12027034B2
An alarm system may include a first pneumatic actuation bulb positioned at a first location that includes no electronic components and a first pneumatic tubing connecting the first pneumatic actuation bulb to a first pneumatic switch coupled to an alarm console at a second location different from the first location. The alarm console and a first alarm of the alarm console may be configured to operate using electronic components. The first alarm may provide a first alarm signal responsive to usage of the first pneumatic actuation bulb. A second pneumatic actuation bulb may be positioned at the first location and connected to the alarm console via a second pneumatic tubing and a second pneumatic switch. The alarm console may include a second alarm that provides a second alarm signal responsive to usage of the second pneumatic actuation bulb.
US12027030B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for gas leakage safety warning based on Internet of Things (IoT) of smart gas. The method is implemented by a smart gas safety management platform of an IoT system for gas leakage safety warning. The method comprises obtaining gas data. The gas data at least includes gas operation data and gas concentration data. The method also includes determining a gas determination scenario through a preset determination algorithm based on the gas data, and determining a dynamic threshold set based on the gas data and the gas determination scenario. The dynamic threshold set includes a dynamic threshold of a gas concentration change of at least one time point. The method further includes determining gas leakage warning information of the at least one time point based on the gas data, the gas determination scenario, and the dynamic threshold set.
US12027016B2
An electronic gaming device includes a display device and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory device. When executed, the instructions cause the processor to at least initiate a primary bonus game in response to a free play trigger condition being satisfied during a base game and determine a number of free spins of a plurality of reels for use during the primary bonus game. The instructions further cause the processor to control the display device to simulate spinning and stopping the plurality of reels in conjunction with sequentially counting up from an initial numerical indicium to a final numerical indicium in association with spinning the plurality of reels according to the determined number of free spins and initiate a secondary bonus game that includes a free spin count-down from the final numerical indicium to the initial numerical indicium.
US12027014B1
A secure cryptocurrency transfer system between an electronic gaming machine and a cryptowallet.
US12027007B2
Methods and systems for unlocking an access point of a facility with a mobile device. Permissions and locations of access points of the facility that are accessible to a user of a particular mobile device may be downloaded and a location of the particular mobile device determined. The mobile device may identify one or more access points of the facility that are accessible by the user of the mobile device based on the location of the mobile device and the downloaded permissions and locations of the access points. The method may include displaying on the mobile device a notification of the access points that are identified by the mobile device, receiving a selection of one of the displayed access points from the user via a user interface of the mobile device, sending a command from the mobile device to unlock the selected access point, and unlocking the selected access point.
US12026998B2
A door-lock system includes a door latch adapted to be coupled to one of a door or to a structure defining the passageway through which the door restricts passage. The door-lock system may further include a latch lock adapted to be coupled to the other of the door or to the structure defining the passageway to selectively mate with the door latch to block the door from opening.
US12026997B1
Techniques and systems for testing, evaluating and/or otherwise assessing the operation of vehicles are discussed herein. Aspects relate to a system and method comprising receiving video data comprising a video stream derived from a camera during a vehicle run and being in a first format; storing part of the video stream in the first format; transcoding part of the video stream from the first format into a second format; storing, in a cache, the part of the video stream as video segments in the second format; receiving a request for video data associated with a point in time, wherein: if video segments in the second format do not correspond to the point in time, transcoding part of the video stream in the first format to the second format to create further second video segments in the second format; transmitting and storing, in the cache, the further second video segments.
US12026992B2
A vehicle control device performs learning to correct a parameter used in a control program for controlling a vehicle. The vehicle control device stores learning data obtained by the learning in a storage unit. The vehicle control device determines whether or not a part controlled by the parameter has been replaced, and resets the learning data stored in the storage unit when it is determined that the part has been replaced. The vehicle control device determines that the part has been replaced based on an adjustment that is performed upon replacement of the part. The vehicle control device quickly mitigates degradation of the controllability of the vehicle after replacement of the part.
US12026987B2
An electric vehicle includes a type identifier that identifies the type of the electric vehicle. The electric vehicle may provide the type identifier to a server. The server may access a database and return a vehicle type record associated with the type identifier. Each system of electric vehicle performs a function of the electric vehicle. A system may need to perform in one manner while installed in a first type of electric vehicle and in another manner while installed in a second type of electric vehicle. The vehicle type record includes a range for each system for the type of the electric vehicle. The electric vehicle uses the range to program its systems to operate within the range suitable for the type of electric vehicle.
US12026983B2
An information output method in an information output device acquires first information on an operation history of one or more devices operated by one or more users, acquires second information that identifies a user detected in the vicinity of one or more output devices, acquires third information on behavior of the user, identifies a device whose state is changed or whose state is changeable within a predetermined time among the one or more devices and an operator who performs operation relating to the change in the state based on the first information, determines an output mode and content of notification information on the identified device to the detected user based on information on the identified device and operator, the second information, and the third information, and outputs, in the determined output mode, notification information having the determined content to one or more output devices that detect the detected user.
US12026981B2
Iris image pick-up devices perform image pick-up of an iris of a moving subject. Images from the iris image pick-up devices are written to storage areas for transfer in a memory. A readout device reads out an image stored in the storage areas for transfer to a storage area for image processing at a frame interval corresponding to the movement speed of the subject. An image processing unit executes processing using the image read out to the storage area for image processing.
US12026968B2
A method for processing images of animals obtains first training data, which includes first images of animals and first annotation data including first location data for predefined feature points on at least one animal in each image in the first images, and trains a first machine learning-based model (MLM) by use of the first training data to generate a first trained MLM. The method obtains second images of animals, operates the first trained MLM on the second images to generate second annotation data comprising second location data for the predefined feature points on at least one animal in each image in the second images, and aggregates at least a subset of the first and second images, and a corresponding subset of the first and second annotation data, into second training data, which thereby is expanded in relation to the first training data.
US12026961B2
The invention relates to a method for monitoring a passenger of a vehicle in which the geographic position of the vehicle is recorded, and a viewing direction of the passenger is recorded by means of a eye-tracking device. A data memory is accessed in which objects and geographic positions assigned to them are saved and, by using the recorded geographic position of the vehicle, it is detected whether one of the objects is located in the environment of the vehicle, and whether the object in the environment of the vehicle was perceived by the passenger depending on the recorded viewing direction of the passenger, the recorded geographic position of the vehicle, and the geographic position of the detected object in the environment of the vehicle.
US12026960B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to dynamic driving metric output platforms that utilize improved computer vision methods to determine vehicle metrics from video footage. A computing platform may receive video footage from a vehicle camera. The computing platform may determine that a reference marker in the video footage has reached a beginning and an end of a road marker based on brightness transitions, and may insert time stamps into the video accordingly. Based on the time stamps, the computing platform may determine an amount of time during which the reference marker covered the road marking. Based on a known length of the road marking and the amount of time during which the reference marker covered the road marking, the computing platform may determine a vehicle speed. The computing platform may generate driving metric output information, based on the vehicle speed, which may be displayed by an accident analysis platform. Based on known dimensions of pavement markings the computing platform may obtain the parameters of the camera (e.g., focal length, camera height above ground plane and camera tilt angle) used to generate the video footage and use the camera parameters to determine the distance between the camera and any object in the video footage.
US12026958B2
A vehicle display system according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure includes a camera configured to record images of an area outside a vehicle; a display configured to display a video feed of the recorded images to an occupant of the vehicle (e.g., on a display disposed within a vehicle cabin of the vehicle); and a processor operatively connected to the camera and display. The processor is configured to detect one or more objects in the recorded images; receive a selection of a particular one of the one or more objects from a vehicle occupant; and adjust the video feed based on the selection to keep the particular one of the one or more objects in a field of view of the video feed as the object moves relative to the vehicle.
US12026954B2
Techniques and systems are provided for determining static occupancy. For example, an apparatus can be configured to determine one or more pixels associated with one or more static objects depicted in one or more images of a three-dimensional space. The apparatus can be configured to obtain a point map including a plurality of map points, the plurality of map points corresponding to a portion of the three-dimensional space. The apparatus can be configured to determine, based on the point map and the one or more pixels associated with the one or more static objects, a probability of occupancy by the one or more static objects in the portion of the three-dimensional space. The apparatus can be configured to combine information across multiple images of the three-dimensional space, and can determine probabilities of occupancy for all cells in a static occupancy grid that is associated with the three-dimensional space.
US12026945B2
A warning system according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit, an analysis unit, and a calculation unit. The acquisition unit acquires, from first sensor data including information on a target, condition information on the target. The analysis unit analyzes, from second sensor data including information on a region, current state information on an object included in the region and action prediction information on the object. The calculation unit calculates a degree of caution, based on the condition information on the target, the current state information on the object, and the action prediction information on the object.
US12026932B2
The invention relates to a method to determine authenticity of a security feature of an identification document, comprising: receiving a real-time video feed of the identification document with a light source directed at the identification document to make visible a security hologram; processing the real-time video feed into a plurality of image sequence; analysing each image from the plurality of image sequence for a glare and the security hologram, wherein the glare is a reflection of the light source from the identification document; analysing the position of the glare and the security hologram in each image; evaluating whether the position of the glare and the position of the security hologram is caused by the light source; providing authenticity result of the identification document captured from the real-time video feed, and using an algorithm to generate a random designated region for the light source to be positioned to.
US12026929B2
A method for creating a texture from input images, thereby removing representations of objects from the texture, the method comprising performing semantic segmentation in a plurality of digital input images with a plurality of semantic classes, at least one of the semantic classes relating to a target object class; identifying, in at least a first input image, one or more possible instances of representations of objects belonging to the target object class, each possible instance being constituted by a plurality of contiguous instance pixels of the image pixels; determining whether the instance pixels are target pixels, target pixels being pixels constituting a representation of an object belonging to the target object class; and replacing target pixels in the texture with replacement pixels derived from one or more of the plurality of digital input images.
US12026922B2
An example method of encoding a point cloud includes determining one or more attribute parameters of an attribute of a point in the point cloud of a frame, wherein the one or more attribute parameters define how to determine or use a value of the attribute and are applicable to a plurality of points in the point cloud; and signaling, in a bitstream indicative of the point cloud, the one or more attribute parameters in a syntax structure that is specific to the frame.
US12026917B2
A method of 3D motion reconstruction of outdoor, highly flexible moving subjects with multiple cameras on drones is described herein. A multi-drone capturing system is used to remove the restriction of a dedicated virtual reality shooting place, “the hot seat,” so that the actor/target is able to perform agile or long-distance activities outdoor. The subject's 3D pose parameters are estimated by the captured multi-view images by the drones, and the sequence of poses becomes the motion in time to control the animation of a pre-built 3D model. The method is able to be directly integrated into an existing Virtual Reality/Augmented reality (VR/AR) production chain, and the subject is able to be extended to animals that are difficult to be contained in a VR camera mesh space.
US12026909B2
A weakly supervised object localization apparatus includes: a feature map generator configured to generate a feature map X by performing a first convolution operation on an input image; an erased feature map generator configured to generate an attention map A through the feature map X and generate an erased feature map −X by performing a masking operation on the input image through the attention map A; a final map generator configured to generate a final feature map F and a final erased feature map −F, respectively, by performing a second convolution operation on the feature map X and the erased feature map −X; and a contrastive guidance determiner configured to determine contrastive guidance for a foreground object in the input image based on the final feature map F and the final erased feature map −F.
US12026908B2
An imaging device includes a lens that guides, to an imaging element, light reflected from a subject, a wearing tool for wearing at least the lens on a wearing target, and at least one processor. The processor determines whether a first condition based on a positional relationship of the lens with respect to the wearing target is satisfied, determines whether a second condition that includes a condition based on the positional relationship of the lens with respect to the wearing target is satisfied, the second condition differing from the first condition, and makes an imaging parameter of at least one of the imaging element or the lens for when the first condition is satisfied and for when the second condition is satisfied different from each other.
US12026904B2
A depth acquisition device includes a memory and a processor. The processor performs: acquiring timing information indicating a timing at which a light source irradiates a subject with infrared light; acquiring, from the memory, an infrared light image generated by imaging a scene including the subject with the infrared light according to the timing indicated by the timing information; acquiring, from the memory, a visible light image generated by imaging a substantially same scene as the scene of the infrared light image, with visible light from a substantially same viewpoint as a viewpoint of imaging the infrared light image at a substantially same time as a time of imaging the infrared light image; detecting a flare region from the infrared light image; and estimating a depth of the flare region based on the infrared light image, the visible light image, and the flare region.
US12026903B2
A method of processing depth maps comprises receiving (301) images and corresponding depth maps. The depth values of a first depth map of the corresponding depth maps are updated (303) based on depth values of at least a second depth map of the corresponding depth maps. The updating is based on a weighted combination of candidate depth values determined from other maps. A weight for a candidate depth value from the second depth map is determined based on the similarity between a pixel value in the first image corresponding to the depth being updated and a pixel value in a third image at a position determined by projecting the position of the depth value being updated to the third image using the candidate depth value. More consistent depth maps may be generated in this way.
US12026894B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for predicting a near future location of an object, which predicts a near future location of a dynamic object, through learning for sampling a sample obtained by estimating a location of the dynamic object by learning an image at current timing, which is captured by a camera, based on artificial intelligence and for changing the sample of the dynamic object whose location has been estimated into a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) by using history data.
US12026891B2
A computer implemented method for filtering portions of an image comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: dividing the image into a plurality of segments, each segments comprising a plurality of pixels; for each of the segments, determining at least one of an expected value, a standard deviation, and a kurtosis of the plurality of pixels of the respective segment; clustering the plurality of segments into a plurality of clusters based on the at least one of the expected value, the standard deviation, and the kurtosis of the plurality of pixels of the respective segment; for each of the clusters, determining the respective cluster as belonging to a background based on a size of the respective cluster; and determining a filtered image based on the background.
US12026890B2
A solution is proposed for imaging an object containing a luminescence substance. A corresponding method (500) is based on a refining loop. At each iteration of the refining loop, different spatial patterns are determined (516-518, 524;536-540, 546), partial illuminations corresponding to the spatial patterns are applied to the object (520,526;542,548), component images are acquired in response to the partial illuminations (522,528;544,550) and the component images are combined (530;552) into a combined image. A corresponding system (100) is also proposed. Moreover, a computer program (400) and a corresponding computer program product are proposed. A diagnostic method, a surgical method and a therapeutic method based on the same solution are further proposed.
US12026886B2
A system and method for automatically estimating a hepatorenal index (HRI) from ultrasound images s provided. The method includes acquiring a sequence of ultrasound image data until a desired ultrasound image view is obtained. The method includes segmenting, a liver and a renal cortex in the obtained ultrasound image view. The method includes identifying valid samples in the liver and the renal cortex in the obtained ultrasound image view by excluding invalid samples. The method includes automatically positioning a liver region of interest and a renal cortex region of interest in the obtained ultrasound image view based on the valid samples and at least one criterion. The method includes determining an HRI and causing a display system to present the HRI.
US12026884B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for surview scans are provided. In one aspect, a method includes: collecting a static image for a subject on a scan bed when it is stationary; determining a scan beginning position and a reference position in the static image; obtaining a first distance between the scan beginning position and the reference position; during a movement of the scan bed, obtaining a video image of the subject in real time; identifying a corresponding reference position in the video image; marking, according to the corresponding reference position and the first distance, a corresponding scan beginning position in the video image; detecting a second distance between the corresponding scan beginning position and a positioning line in the video image; and in response to detecting that the second distance is equal to or less than a predetermined first threshold, starting the surview scan to obtain a surview image.
US12026881B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and systems for joint abnormality detection and physiological condition estimation from a medical image. The exemplary method may include receiving, by at least one processor, the medical image acquired by an image acquisition device. The medical image includes an anatomical structure. The method may further include applying, by the at least one processor, a joint learning model to determine an abnormality condition and a physiological parameter of the anatomical structure jointly based on the medical image. The joint learning model satisfies a predetermined constraint relationship between the abnormality condition and the physiological parameter.
US12026878B2
A learning method for generating a multiphase collateral image comprises the steps of: receiving inputs of an MRI image of a head part and a multiphase collateral image generated on the basis of the MRI image; generating a brain mask by using the MRI image; generating an MRI image and a multiphase collateral image which are masked by the brain mask; and learning the masked multiphase collateral image for the masked MRI image by using a learning network.
US12026868B2
Systems and methods for analyzing pathologies utilizing quantitative imaging are presented herein. Advantageously, the systems and methods of the present disclosure utilize a hierarchical analytics framework that identifies and quantify biological properties/analytes from imaging data and then identifies and characterizes one or more pathologies based on the quantified biological properties/analytes. This hierarchical approach of using imaging to examine underlying biology as an intermediary to assessing pathology provides many analytic and processing advantages over systems and methods that are configured to directly determine and characterize pathology from underlying imaging data.
US12026867B2
Provided is an apparatus for analyzing composition of electronic and electrical device part scraps which can determine a composition of part scraps in the electronic and electrical device part scraps in a short time, a device for processing electronic and electrical device part scraps, and a method for processing electronic and electrical device part scraps using those devices. An apparatus for analyzing a composition of electronic and electrical device part scraps including a classification data storage means for storing a classification data for extracting images of a plurality of component types of electronic and electrical device part scraps from a captured image of electronic and electrical device part scraps composed of the plurality of component types and classifying extracted images into each of the plurality of component types, a classification means for classifying the extracted images into each of the plurality of component types extracted from the captured image of the electronic and electrical device part scraps according to the classification data, and analysis means for analyzing at least one of an area, a number, an average particle size, and weight ratio of each of the plurality of component types classified by the classification means.
US12026858B2
An electronic device may include an electronic display to display an image based on compensated image data in a panel space. The electronic device may also include image processing circuitry to generate the compensated image data. Further, generating the compensated image data may include determining a first inverse mapping of a pixel grid from the panel space to a rendering space and determining a forward mapping of the pixel grid from the rendering space to the panel space based on the first inverse mapping. The forward mapping may include corrections for multiple different warp operations stacked in a single warp operation. Additionally, the image processing circuitry may apply the forward mapping to input image data to generate the compensated image data.
US12026857B2
The present disclosure describes systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for accurately and efficiently removing objects from digital images taken from a camera viewfinder stream. For example, the disclosed systems access digital images from a camera viewfinder stream in connection with an undesired moving object depicted in the digital images. The disclosed systems generate a temporal window of the digital images concatenated with binary masks indicating the undesired moving object in each digital image. The disclosed systems further utilizes a generator as part of a 3D to 2D generative adversarial neural network in connection with the temporal window to generate a target digital image with the region associated with the undesired moving object in-painted. In at least one embodiment, the disclosed systems provide the target digital image to a camera viewfinder display to show a user how a future digital photograph will look without the undesired moving object.
US12026847B2
A method for controlling placement of a virtual character includes: displaying a virtual character at a first position in a virtual reality (VR) scene; receiving a first instruction in the VR scene, the first instruction indicating moving the virtual character from the first position by a designated movement; displaying, in response to receiving the first instruction, third indication information as a preview of the designated movement in the VR scene; determining, according to the first instruction, a second position by the designated movement from the first position in response to the first instruction; removing the virtual character from the first position; and placing the virtual character at the second position, the virtual character not appearing between the first position and the second position after being removed from the first position.
US12026846B2
A location-based metaverse social media system provided for users to actually move and carry out various social events of online/offline interactions after positioning through a mobile device includes a virtual world management processor and an user processor. The virtual world management processor is provided for augmenting a plurality of parallel virtual worlds by basic map information of the real world and the user processor is provided for the users to create personal accounts and a virtual character tied with them and displayed on the mobile device. In operations, the users can switch to any one of the parallel virtual worlds in a cross-world manner and perform a location-based social event while the users are moving.
US12026839B1
A method includes obtaining, by a remote video platform, location data for an extended reality privacy control for visually segmenting an environment within a remote asset facility into a customer space comprising customer assets for a customer and a non-customer space, receiving, by the remote video platform, first video data representing the environment within the remote asset facility, augmenting, by the remote video platform based on the location data for the extended reality privacy control, the first video data with the extended reality privacy control to generate second video data having at least a portion of the non-customer space occluded with the extended reality privacy control, and outputting, by the remote video platform, the second video data for display at a display device.
US12026834B2
A method of automatically producing maps and measures that visualize and quantify placement and progress of construction elements, such as walls, ducts, etc. in images. From a set of images depicting a scene, element confidences per pixel in each of the images are produced using a classification model that assigns such confidences. Thereafter, element confidences for each respective one of a set of 3D points represented in the scene are determined by aggregating the per-pixel element confidences from corresponding pixels of each of the images that is known to observe the respective 3D points. These element confidences are then updated based on primitive templates representing element geometry to produce a 3D progress model of the scene.
US12026831B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a first and second camera, display, memory and processor. The processor implements the method, including acquiring image data of an external environment via the first camera, detecting a plurality of objects included in the image data, identifying a first object corresponding to the detected gaze among the detected plurality of objects, configuring a first precision for spatial mapping of the identified first object and a second precision of at least one other object from among the detected plurality of objects, wherein the first precision is higher than the second precision, executing 3D spatial mapping on the image data using the first precision for the identified first object and the second precision for the at least one other object, and displaying a 3D space generated based on the image data and the spatial mapping.
US12026828B2
Implementations of blender hardware perform both domain shading and blending and whilst some vertices may not require blending, all vertices require domain shading. The blender hardware includes a cache and/or a content addressable memory and these data structures are used to reduce duplicate domain shading operations.
US12026827B2
A method, device, computer system and computer readable storage medium for 3D reconstruction are provided. The method comprises: performing a 3D reconstruction of an original 2D image of a target object to generate an original 3D object corresponding to the original 2D image; selecting a complementary view of the target object from candidate views based on a reconstruction quality of the original 3D object at the candidate views; obtaining a complementary 2D image of the target object based on the complementary view; performing a 3D reconstruction of the complementary 2D image to generate a complementary 3D object corresponding to the complementary 2D image; and fusing the original 3D object and the complementary 3D object to obtain a 3D reconstruction result of the target object.
US12026824B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, a first processor coupled to the non-volatile memory and configured to receive a data set associated with an object and user information associated with a spatial position of a user in a multi-user virtual (IMVR) environment, and a second processor coupled to the volatile memory, the second processor configured to render an instance of the portion of the object in the IMVR environment from a perspective of the user based on the spatial position of the user. The first processor is configured to generate a look-up table (LUT) based on a set of inputs received from a user. The second processor is configured to render, based on the LUT and information related to a manipulation by a user, an updated instance of the portion of the object that manifests an effect of the manipulation in the IMVR environment.
US12026821B2
Swimming pools can be visualized according to some aspects described herein. In one example, a system can receive a user selection of a particular liner from among a plurality of liner options for a virtual swimming pool. The system can generate a virtual swimming pool having the particular liner. The virtual swimming pool can be a three-dimensional (3D) rendering of a swimming pool with the particular liner. The system can then output the virtual swimming pool for display on a display device.
US12026813B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for providing a digital twin bookshelf, which can generate a digital twin bookshelf including a virtual bookshelf and book objects by using book information and an image obtained by capturing a real bookshelf. The apparatus captures an image of a real bookshelf in which real books are arranged, detects book recognition information from the real bookshelf image, generates a digital twin bookshelf based on the real bookshelf image and the book information corresponding to the book recognition information, and outputs the generated digital twin bookshelf.
US12026812B2
A method includes identifying a real-world object in a scene viewed by a camera of a user device, matching the real-world object with a tagged object based at least in part on image recognition and a sharing setting of the tagged object, the tagged object having been tagged with a content item, providing a notification to a user of the user device that the content item is associated with the real-world object, receiving a request from the user for the content item, and providing the content item to the user. A computer readable storage medium stores one or more computer programs, and an apparatus includes a processor-based device.
US12026811B2
Implementations provide methods including actions of processing patient data to generate one or more graphical representations of the patient data, at least one graphical representation of the one or more graphical representations including a waveform, displaying at least one waveform segment of the waveform, and displaying calipers associated with the at least one waveform segment, each caliper being associated with an interval, where displaying the calipers includes, for each caliper: receiving a measurement value of the interval associated with the caliper, determining respective positions of a first handle and a second handle of the caliper based on the measurement, and displaying the first handle and the second handle in the respective positions relative to the at least one waveform segment.
US12026808B2
The presently disclosed subject matter aims to a system and method directed to artificially color images acquired from image acquisition channels, cameras, imaging systems (such as, multispectral image acquisition systems, hyperspectral image acquisition systems, etc.) and the like, and present them as pseudo-Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) images to a user.
US12026807B2
A heat map generation method, a server side, and a readable storage medium. The method includes: acquiring heat data generated in a specified geographic space within each preset time period, the heat data is used for representing the total heat data of one kind of object in one unit space in the geographic space within the preset time period; mapping each unit space with pixels in a designated display area, obtaining heat data of the pixels corresponding to each unit space, the designated display area and the designated geographic space have a same ratio, and the designated display area is part of a display area in a front-end display; and according to heat data corresponding to each pixel, and a level threshold of a color gradation, determining a color value corresponding to each pixel, and generating a heat map corresponding to the designated geographic space in each preset time period.
US12026805B2
Methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for generating geolocalized images are provided. The disclosed technology can access target location data. The target location data can include information associated with an environment from which a target location is within a field of view of a user device. A suitable position of the user device from which an unobstructed view of the target location is within the field of view of the user device and that satisfies one or more criteria can be determined based on the target location data. Furthermore, indications and images of the environment within the field of view of the user device can be generated. The indications can be associated with positioning the user device in the suitable position.
US12026800B1
A method is performed at an electronic device with a controller and a display. The method includes identifying, within a first memory, a first object that satisfies a locked criterion. For example, the first object corresponds to a head-locked object or a body-locked object. The first object is associated with a first plurality of pixel values. The method includes blitting, via the controller, the first plurality of pixel values from the first memory to a second memory. The method includes displaying, on the display, the first object by obtaining the first plurality of pixel values from the second memory. In some implementations, the method includes rendering, via a graphics processing unit (GPU), a second object that does not satisfy the locked criterion, such as a world-locked object. As compared with GPU rendering, blitting is less computationally expensive.
US12026797B2
Systems and methods for providing security to building occupants include a plurality of smart exit signs positioned at locations in or around a secure area to be monitored. Input devices contained in the smart exit signs are configured to be receptive to sensory activity within the secure area. The system further includes a master controller configured to analyze input signals indicative of the sensory activity detected within the secure area to determine whether a potential security issue exists. Output devices contained in the smart exit signs are configured to receive indication from the master controller when a potential security issue exists. In response to receiving indication from the master controller, the output devices are configured to assist occupants within the secure area to respond to the potential security issue by providing real-time information on optimum exit routes or shelter-in-place locations.
US12026793B2
A method for adjusting electrical energy flow schedules of a utility handling a plurality of distributed energy resources. The method comprising the steps of providing information regarding energy flow of the energy resources and storing said information on a distributed ledger; transferring energy schedules from the utility to the distributed ledger; transferring said information regarding the energy flow and the energy schedules from the distributed ledger to a computing means and computing proposed corrections for the energy schedules; transferring said proposed correction to the distributed ledger; transferring said proposed correction to the utility which decides to use or not to use the proposed correction. By deciding to use the proposed correction, the schedules are corrected and information is transferred from the utility to the computing means.
US12026792B2
According to an embodiment of the invention, an energy balance adjustment control method is provided and includes a process of receiving an output curtailment instruction for a distributed power source, a process of requesting a load adjustment to a consumer according to the receiving of the output curtailment instruction, a process of receiving a reply to the request from the consumer, and a process based on the reply including notifying the distributed power source of an avoidance of the output curtailment instruction in the case where the load adjustment is possible or notifying the distributed power source of the output curtailment instruction in the case where the load adjustment is impossible. Thus, an energy balance adjustment control method and an adjustment control device are provided in which the occurrence of output curtailment can be suppressed.
US12026790B2
Methods, systems, and media for identifying abusive content items are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving, at a server from a user device associated with a user, a request to provide user-generated content on a media content platform; in response to receiving the request, determining whether the user-generated content is to be reviewed by one or more reviewing users based on one or more bypass criterion; in response to determining that the user-generated content is to be reviewed based on the one or more bypass criterion, adding a review request to a queue of a reviewing user, wherein the review request includes the user-generated content and information associated with a user account corresponding to the user; and determining whether a decision responsive to the review request indicates that the user-generated content is to be provided on the media content platform, wherein: in response to determining that the decision indicates that the user-generated content item violates at least one policy associated with the media content platform, (i) a first message is transmitted to the user of the user device that indicates the at least one violated policy and a penalty to be administered to the user account corresponding to the user and (ii) a corresponding action is taken that inhibits the user-generated content from being provided on the media content platform; and in response to determining that the decision indicates that the user-generated content item does not violate the at least one policy associated with the media content platform, a second message is transmitted to the user of the user device that indicates that the user-generated content is eligible for providing on the media content platform.
US12026789B2
Systems and methods of forensic analysis of cryptocurrency transactions are described herein. A method can include obtaining fiat-based transaction data from a bank account, identifying a purchase of a cryptocurrency from fiat-based transaction data and cryptocurrency exchange trade history data from a cryptocurrency exchange where the cryptocurrency was purchased, obtaining cryptocurrency-based transaction data that identifies downstream cryptocurrency transaction data where the cryptocurrency was transferred out of the cryptocurrency exchange; and scoring a user who purchased or used the cryptocurrency based on the fiat-based transaction data, the cryptocurrency exchange trade history data, and the cryptocurrency-based transaction data.
US12026787B2
An intelligent enterprise system and method is disclosed. The system and method include an input/output (IO) interface configured to receive information related to accounting information, a processor interconnected with a memory configured to store received information from the IO interface, and analyze the information to provide timely vendor spend analytics, and a display device configured to display the provided timely vendor spend analytics.
US12026785B1
Techniques for gamifying risk management services include associating a financial status of a user with a defensible position display element in a gameplay scenario, receiving risk management data regarding at least one risk management service secured by the user, associating the risk management service with at least one defensive display element in the gameplay scenario, and providing the defensible position display element and each defensive display element to a display to cause the display to visualize the defensible position display element protected by each defensive display element in the gameplay scenario.
US12026783B1
A method may include receiving, via at least one processor, a plurality of images representative of a property and determining whether two or more images of the plurality of images correspond to reference image data associated with the property. The method may then involve combining the images to generate a digitally stitched image that corresponds to the reference image data in response to the images corresponding to the reference image data and comparing the digitally stitched image to the reference image data to identify features associated with the property. The method may also involve updating a model representative of the property based on the features and generating an updated insurance policy associated with the property based on the model. Afterwards, the method may send a notification indicative of the updated insurance policy to a computing device.
US12026781B2
Methods and systems for building, utilizing, and/or maintaining an autonomous vehicle-related event distributed ledger or blockchain are provided. One or more processors may receive indications of autonomous vehicle events. The autonomous vehicle events may include information relating to technology usage and/or operational events. The autonomous vehicle events may be compiled into a log of recorded autonomous vehicle events. Based upon the autonomous vehicle events, an action to implement bay be determined. Additionally, the log may be distributed to a public or private network of distributed nodes. As a result, the distributed nodes may maintain an up-to-date record of the shared ledger of autonomous vehicle events.
US12026779B2
A computer-implemented system comprising one or more processors for executing logic code for receiving transaction data to process a first transaction from a plurality of transactions is provided. The transaction data may include at least one of a transaction descriptor or a transaction value associated with the first transaction. The transaction data is filtered by applying a filtering parameter to at least one of the transaction descriptor or the transaction value. Application of a round up process to the first transaction is prevented based on the filtering, in response to the determining that the first transaction is not conducive to the round up process, thereby preventing an error state in execution of logic code by at least one processor configured for applying the round up process to the first transaction.
US12026766B2
A product analyzing system and method may include receiving a scan of a product, retrieving a plurality of individual data of one or more individuals, determining how the product will affect the plurality of individual data of the one or more individuals and whether the product complies with the individual data of the one or more individuals, generating an alert corresponding to the product based on the determining, and sending the alert to a user device before purchase of the product.
US12026764B2
Provided is a method of providing information using a trained model through machine learning, which may include checking a first set of character strings including a plurality of character strings representing pieces of information about a plurality of items related to a trained model creation, creating at least one trained model on the basis of the first set of character strings, checking a second set of character strings including a plurality of character strings representing pieces of information about a plurality of items related to an information classification object, and checking reference product name information and attribute information for each of at least a portion of the second set of character strings using the at least one trained model.
US12026760B2
A method for transacting a resource flow is provided. The method is applied to a blockchain server, and includes: acquiring initial transaction information for associating a requester client with a provider client, and sending the initial transaction information to other blockchain servers, to store the initial transaction information in respective corresponding blockchain database; acquiring certificate information indicative of a status of a resource flow usage of the requester client; and determining a first value indicative of a value added by the requester client to an account of the provider client based on the initial transaction information and the certificate information, and sending the first value to the other blockchain servers. An apparatus for transacting a resource flow, a computer equipment, and a computer-readable medium are further provided.
US12026749B2
A social media platform can display a content item specifically targeted to a user by a targeting algorithm. The content item can display a graphic icon next to the content item. The user can select the graphic icon and provide input to the social media platform. For example, the user can log in a third-party platform, which can transmit certain data to the social media platform. Using the transmitted data, a de-targeting algorithm can block the content item. The de-targeting algorithm can also block unwanted content items in the future.
US12026748B2
Provided are an information collection system, an electronic shelf label, an electronic POP advertising, and a character information display device that allow information with higher accuracy to be collected. An information collection device that collects information associated with a customer or a product is included for each product type. Alternatively, an information processing device that supplies information associated with a product and an information display terminal that displays information associated with a product supplied from the information processing device are included.
US12026736B1
A product reclamation system may include a mobile device associated with a given user. The mobile device may be configured to obtain an image of a product to be discarded. The system may also include a reclamation server configured to obtain the image of the product from the mobile device, and apply image recognition techniques to the obtained image to determine if the product is a reclaimable product. The server is configured to, when the product is determined to be a reclaimable product, operate a machine learning algorithm to determine a reclamation value for the reclaimable product, communicate the reclamation value to the mobile device, and prompt the given user, via the mobile device, to send the reclaimable product to a reclamation facility in exchange for the reclamation value, and generate and communicate a digital promotion to the mobile device based upon sending the product to the reclamation facility.
US12026726B2
A central database system receives information associated with an employee from an employer. Using this information, the central database system can provision one or more user accounts for the employee, for instance via an API of an account provider. The central database system can use a machine learned model to identify fields of the API and to translate the information associated with the employee based on information requirements associated with the API. When a characteristic of the employee, such as the employee's title, subsequently changes within the central database system, one or more features associated with the user account can be automatically updated in response to the change.
US12026722B2
An information reading system includes an information reading device and a device-to-be-identified. The information reading device includes a first signal pin, a second signal pin, and a control module, and the device-to-be-identified includes a third signal pin and a ground pin. The control module is configured to, when recognizing that the device-to-be-identified is inserted, control the first signal pin to connect to the third signal pin of the device-to-be-identified, and control the second signal pin to connect to the ground pin, to form a first single-wire path, and attempt to read anti-counterfeiting information stored in the device-to-be-identified by using the first single-wire path.
US12026720B2
Systems and methods for blockchain-based asset authentication are described. The disclosed embodiments leverage the traceability and immutability of blockchains (or distributed ledgers, in general) to enable the authentication and ownership of assets, e.g., luxury goods. In an example, this is achieved by first pairing an authentication chip with a physical product, and writing a transaction correlated with the first pairing to a blockchain. The product being acquired (reacquired) results in the blockchain being updated (e.g., an updated transaction being written to the blockchain) and the (subsequent) owner being provided with a digital passport that can be added to the owner's digital Web3 wallet. The described embodiments advantageously enable digital identities to be associated with physical goods, which adds value for customers making a long-term investment in a luxury good, and promotes sustainability and transparency in manufacturing and retail processes.
US12026716B1
In a computer-implemented method of facilitating detection of document-related fraud, fraudulent document detection rules may be generated or updated by training a machine learning program using image data corresponding to physical documents, and fraud determinations corresponding to the documents. The documents and fraudulent document detection rules may correspond to a first type of document. Image data corresponding to an image of one of the physical documents may be received, where the physical document corresponds to the first type of document. By applying the fraudulent document detection rules to the image data, it may be determined that the physical document is, or may be, fraudulent. An indication of whether the physical document is, or may be, fraudulent may be displayed to one or more people via one or more respective computing device user interfaces.
US12026713B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving a first scan of an identifier from a first computing device is disclosed. The identifier is associated with a financial transaction. A second scan of the identifier is received from a second computing device. The financial transaction is processed based upon, at least in part, receiving the second scan of the identifier from the second computing device.
US12026710B2
Techniques for implementing trustless deterministic state machines using a blockchain infrastructure and running state machines concurrently over one or more transactions are described. An initial transaction is created to include at least one initial locking script that includes a first set of constraints, a second set of constraints, and at least one redeemable value. An unlocking blockchain transaction is also created with an input comprising an unlocking script and respective transaction outputs for a first locking script and a second locking script. Upon processing the initial locking script and the unlocking script, the first set of constraints and the second set of constraints are determined. Next, the first and second locking scripts are verified to ensure that they satisfy the first and second sets of constraints. Finally, the initial transaction is caused to be validated at a node of a blockchain network.
US12026708B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for anonymous checkout in a store. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer system of the store, information associated with a payment account of a person; sending, by the computer system to a server associated with a payment system, the received information associated with the payment account of the person; receiving, by the computer system from the server associated with the payment system, a token associated with the payment account of the person; receiving, by the computer system from a plurality of sensors, data associated with the person; extracting, by the computer system based on the received data associated with the person, a plurality of features of the person; and storing, by the computer system, the received token in correspondence with information associated with the extracted features of the person.
US12026704B2
A system and method for assessing digital interactions with a digital third party accounts can include receiving user account credentials for authentication with an external computing system, storing the user account credentials in association with a authentication token and communicating the authentication token to a computing device of an external application service; receiving, through a programmatic communication interface, a request that references the authentication token and digital interaction details; programmatically authenticating, using the stored user account credentials, as a user account with the external computing system and retrieving account data; processing the account data in combination with the digital interaction details and thereby generating a digital interact assessment; and initiating execution of a digital interaction based in part on the digital interaction assessment.
US12026701B2
A method to facilitate processing of recyclable items. Accordingly, the method may include capturing, using at least one sensory device, sensory data associated with at least one recyclable item. Further, the method may include receiving, from the at least one sensory device, event data associated with a recycling process. Further, the at least one sensory device may include at least one of a hyperspectral camera, a spectroscopic scanner and a colored filter scanner configured for capturing at least one image of at least one recyclable item undergoing the recycling process. Further, the method may include analyzing, using a processing device, the event data using at least one image processing model. Further, the method may include issuing, using the processing device, the predetermined amount of crypto tokens to a second crypto account associated with a second user device based on the generating and the sensory data.
US12026666B2
Provided are an electronic device capable of providing text information corresponding to a user voice through a user interface and a method of controlling the electronic device. Specifically, an electronic device according to the present disclosure, when an image including at least one object is obtained, analyzes the image to identify the at least one object included in the image, and when a user voice is received, performs voice recognition on the user voice to obtain text information corresponding to the user voice, then identifies an object corresponding to the user voice among the at least one object included in the image, and displays a memo user interface (UI) including text information on an area corresponding to the object identified as corresponding to the user voice among areas on a display.
US12026663B1
An item delivery system can include a carrier positioned on a rail. The rail can be positioned in a delivery vehicle, for example. The carrier can include rigid or semi-rigid sidewall and dividers to form item slots. The item slots can receive one or more items. The carrier can be positioned on the rail and moved around the rail by an advancement device. The advancement device can engage with a portion of the carrier to move the carrier. The carrier can be moved to a position for removal of items from the carrier. The removal position may correspond to an area accessible from an operator area of the delivery vehicle, for example.
US12026650B1
The present disclosure describes an adaptor device. The adapter device communicates with disparate management systems. The adaptor receives, from a first decision management system, a first plurality of artifacts that defines a first set of logic for a decision, wherein the first plurality of artifacts comprises two or more rule families, and converts the first plurality of artifacts into a second plurality of artifacts that defines a second set of logic for the decision, that is equivalent to the first set of logic, and that is executable by a second decision management system. The converting includes recognizing one or more dependencies between the two or more rule families, configuring the second set of logic to perform rule flows for the two or more rule families in an execution order according to the one or more dependencies, and communicating the second plurality of artifacts to the second decision management system.
US12026648B2
Systems and methods for generating prioritization models and predicting workflow prioritizations are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment; effectuate presentation of a series of questions via a first client computing platform associated with the first user; receive user input from the first client computing platform; generate a first prioritization model based on the response information; and determine one or more priorities for the first user based on the first prioritization model such that a primary first unit of work within the first set of units of work is determined to be a higher priority than a secondary first unit of work within the first set of units of work.
US12026642B2
A trip-planning operation includes identifying a primary work location associated with each user account of a dependency graph defined by the three or more users performing a set of interaction events on a software platform. A first set of advanced programming interface (API) calls is generated to a third party service to obtain one or more query results based on the primary work location, which are then analyzed to determine a ranked list of candidate trip locations based on a ranking criterion. At least a portion of the ranked list is displayed on the client device and, in response to an input from the client device and upon a determination that a consensus regarding the candidate trip location exists among the three or more user accounts, a second API call is generated to the third party service to book a trip to the candidate trip location for each user account.
