US12036719B2
A heating unit for heating preforms made of plastics material and having a flange separating a body and neck. The heating unit comprising a plurality of supports, each bearing a gripping member for gripping the preforms. The supports are movable in the heating unit such that each gripping member moves along a conveying path of the preforms. The heating unit also comprises a plurality of shells secured to the supports, where each shell is connected to one or more supports by an actuating member. The actuating member is mounted on said support to pivot about an axis situated at a distance from the conveying path of the preforms. The heating unit further comprising means for pivoting the actuating member to drive the shell from an open position to a protection position when the support to which said shell is connected is passing from an admission/releasing zone to a holding zone.
US12036718B2
The invention relates to a method for switching the production of a flat film machine (100) from a feed product (EP) to a follow-on product (FP), comprising the following steps: recognizing a switching request for a switch from the feed product (EP) to the follow-on product (FP), determining a current feed control value (ES) of at least one control variable (SG) of the flat film machine (100) for the feed product (EP), determining a follow-on control value (FS) of the same at least one control variable (SG) for the follow-on product (FP), generating a control signal (SS) for a defined variation of the at least one control variable (SG) of the flat film machine (100) from the feed control value (ES) to the follow-on control value (FS).
US12036717B2
Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for forming films having uniform thicknesses across the entire width of the film. The films are also disclosed. The apparatus for forming the film includes a first nip roller and a second nip roller, each of the first nip roller and the second nip roller being configured to compress the powder as it passes between the first nip roller and the second nip roller and thereby form the film, whereby in the absence of a force counteracting the pressure of the passage of the powder between the first nip roller and the second nip roller the first nip roller is deflected to a greater degree than the second nip roller. Furthermore, the first nip roller and the second nip roller are each associated with one or more eccentric bearings that rotate to apply force vectors to the first nip roller and the second nip roller.
US12036713B2
It is possible to improve accuracy of calculated statistical information. An injection molding machine according to an embodiment includes: a display control unit configured to display an input field for a shot number indicating an injection molding cycle or for a time period in which the injection molding cycle is performed, for specifying a calculation target of statistical information based on a parameter related to injection molding.
US12036711B2
A plasticization device that plasticizes a material, includes: a drive motor; a rotor that is to be rotated by the drive motor and has a groove-forming surface in which a curved projection strip portion is formed from a peripheral edge of a circular central portion toward an outer periphery of the rotor; a barrel that faces the groove-forming surface and includes a communication hole at a position facing the central portion of the groove-forming surface; and a heating unit that heats the material supplied between the rotor and the barrel, the rotor includes a protrusion protruding from the central portion toward the communication hole, and 0.28≤S2/S1≤1.03 (1), wherein S1 is an area of the central portion and S2 is a maximum area of a cross section of the protrusion along the groove-forming surface.
US12036674B2
A method for monitoring an industrial robot. The method includes configuring the robot to perform a certain task during an integration process and storing integration data in the robot identifying the configuration of the robot for performing the task. The method also includes installing the robot in a manufacturing facility, and uploading the stored integration data to the Cloud when the robot is installed in the manufacturing facility. The method further includes capturing production data generated by the robot during operation of the robot in the manufacturing facility, uploading the production data to the Cloud, and comparing the production data to the integration data.
US12036666B2
The present invention reduces tact time for a pick-and-place operation by an actuator. In a housing of the actuator, an air passage being a passage of air when sucking air from a hollow part of a shaft is provided. Furthermore, a sucking valve that sucks air from the hollow part of the shaft through the air passage and a suction detecting sensor to detect that a workpiece is suctioned onto a tip of the shaft are provided in the air passage. Then, in the housing, the air passage is disposed at a position on a side opposite to a linear motion motor that moves the shaft in an axial direction of the shaft, via the shaft.
US12036662B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate processor and a substrate transporter. The substrate processor includes an upper holding device and a lower holding device configured to be capable of holding a substrate. In the substrate processor, the lower holding device is provided below the upper holding device. Therefore, a height position at which a substrate can be held by the upper holding device is different from a height position at which the substrate can be held by the lower holding device. The substrate transporter has first and second hands that hold a substrate. The second hand is located farther downwardly than the first hand. A substrate is received from or transferred to the upper holding device by the first hand. A substrate is received from or transferred to the lower holding device by the second hand.
US12036652B2
The present invention relates to a stapler for box edges which fixes edge portions of a box, presses an end of an iron core, and doubly pulls a handle bar so as to minimize protrusion of the end of the iron core. The stapler includes a load bar and a push plate which can locate an iron core on an iron core support plate when the handle bar is pulled first and presses the end portions of the iron core inward when the handle bar is pulled second.
US12036647B2
An inner support clamp is provided. The inner support clamp may include a first elastic component and a supporting component. The first elastic component may hermetically cover at least a portion of the supporting component such that the first elastic component expands outward when the first elastic component is inflated by an inflation and deflation device. The inner support clamp may be with a small size, a light weight, and/or a simple structure, thereby reducing the manufacture cost of the inner support clamp. The inner support clamp may clamp objects with different sizes and shapes rapidly and stably. For a fragile, soft, or bottle-shape object, or an object with a regular or irregular shape, the inner support clamp may clamp the object safely and not cause damage to the object.
US12036643B2
A system for providing a load on a bearing mounted to a shaft includes an attaching member releasably connectable to the shaft and a press mechanism in fluid communication with a source of fluid and configured to provide a compressive load to the bearing. The press mechanism includes a switch having a base and a piston in communication with the fluid such that an increase in a pressure of the fluid results in the piston extending upwardly from the base and a decrease in the pressure of the fluid results in the piston retracting toward the base. The switch includes a lower proximity sensor and a higher proximity sensor. The piston is configured to extend upwardly from the base past the lower proximity sensor and to trip the higher proximity sensor. The switch is configured to control the increase in the pressure in response to the piston tripping the higher proximity sensor.
US12036639B2
An adjustable fastener engaging tool includes a plurality of jaws slidably disposed in a retainer. An actuator engages a driver jaw resulting in the jaws either moving in a first direction to enlarge a fastener-receiving aperture cooperatively formed by the jaws, or the jaws moving in a second direction to reduce the fastener-receiving aperture to grip or release a fastener.
US12036631B1
The present invention provides a composite static rotary table and a method for protecting a composite static rotary table. The composite static rotary table comprises: a housing body provided with a mounting space; a rotary table body driven by a connecting mandrel to rotate; a base, the connecting mandrel being arranged through the base; an air stopping film arranged between the rotary table body and the base; and an auxiliary supporting assembly fixedly arranged in the mounting space and configured for assisting the rotary table body to be levitated relative to the base. The present invention is intended to solve the problem of ensuring the stable non-contact rotation of the rotary body of the rotary table relative to the base, while improving the bearing capacity of the rotary table.
US12036620B2
A tile saw comprising a base, a table supported by the base and configured to support a workpiece, a guide rail upon which the table is supported and moveable along a longitudinal axis, a saw unit coupled to the base, and a roller assembly for supporting the table upon the guide rail. The roller assembly includes a first roller rotatably supported by the table and engaged with a first portion of the guide rail, and a second roller rotatably supported by the table and engaged with a second portion of the guide rail that is different than the first portion. The second roller is translatable relative to the table in a direction toward the guide rail. The roller assembly further includes a spring biasing the second roller toward the guide rail.
US12036609B2
A search apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor receives a molding result of a reference sample manufactured by the additive manufacturing apparatus. The processor calculates predicted values from a predictive model. The processor determines whether the evaluation target values are achieved by the measured values. The reference sample has at least three smooth surfaces and a surface having aggregated punched holes formed by straight lines and curved lines that are involved in three types of regions to be set as the conditions.
US12036608B2
A method of measuring spectral emissivity of materials is provided. The method comprises placing material in a controlled chamber and exposing the material to an energy source to heat the material. At least one multi-wavelength pyrometer measures the spectral emissivity of the material produced by heating by the energy source, wherein the multi-wavelength pyrometer is positioned at a distal end of a tube extending from the chamber, wherein the tube provides a sacrificial surface for vapor condensation to prevent the vapor condensation from obscuring a view port used by the pyrometer.
US12036607B2
A method of manufacturing a nanoporous structure on a substrate includes: additively forming a precursor structure from at least one of a metal oxide or a metal cluster compound on a substrate; exposing the precursor structure to a vapor of an organic linker; and reacting the at least one of the metal oxide or the metal cluster compound in the precursor structure with the organic linker to form the nanoporous structure comprising a metal-organic framework.
US12036606B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide an additive manufacturing method. The method includes forming a first layer of a first ceramic material and forming a second layer of a second ceramic material. The method further includes contacting the first layer of the first ceramic material, the second layer of the second ceramic material, or both with a saturant. The method further includes heating the first layer of the first ceramic material, the second layer of the second ceramic material, or both to a temperature in a range of from about 50° C. to about 300° C. The method further includes applying pressure to the first layer of the first ceramic material, the second layer of the second ceramic material, or both. The pressure can be in a range of from about 10 kPa to about 800 MPa. The method further includes at least partially dissolving a portion of an external surface of a ceramic particle of the first layer of the first ceramic material, the second layer of the second ceramic material, or both. The method further includes fusing a portion of the dissolved portion of the external surface of the ceramic particle to from a product having a density in a range of from about 65% to about 100% relative to a corresponding fully densified product and optionally containing no organic binder.
US12036600B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a torsion beam, the method comprising: a planarization step, in which a protruding portion of an upper mold presses the opposite end portions in the width direction of the blank to be plastically deformed to be flat while the opposite end portions in the width direction of the blank are supported by a side cam to face each other; a welding and bonding step for bonding the planarized opposite end portions in the width direction of the blank via welding; and a quenching step for heating the welded and bonded blank within a range of 900 to 970° C. for a retaining time within a range of 1 to 20 minutes and for cooling down the blank in a treatment liquid including at least one of water and oil in a range of 20 to 90° C.
US12036594B2
A method for determining the temperature of a metal strip (1) inside a cooling apparatus (4) of a hot rolling installation is implemented by an electronic device (12). This method includes acquiring a temperature measure of a strip portion at a current time instant; estimating, at the current time instant, a heat flux extracted from the strip portion inside the cooling apparatus according to a thermal model, and computing a strip portion temperature at a next time instant from the acquired temperature measure and the estimated extracted heat flux. The thermal model models an air cooling of the strip portion, a coolant header cooling of the strip portion by a coolant header and a remaining coolant cooling of the strip portion, wherein for the coolant header cooling the model models both an impingement cooling of the strip portion and a parallel flow cooling of the strip portion.
US12036591B2
A plant and process for the continuous production of hot-rolled steel strips with a minimum thickness of 0.3 mm is disclosed which includes a continuous casting device of thin or medium slabs with a thickness between 40 and 150 mm and a maximum width of at least 2100 mm followed by a roughing mill, a first induction furnace, a water descaler, a second induction furnace, a finishing mill, a cooling station, a cutting station and a winding station. A system for feeding a protective atmosphere containing ≤3% vol. oxygen is provided from the inlet of the second induction furnace to at least the third stand of the finishing mill. Between the continuous casting device and the roughing mill, an initial thermal conditioning and descaling section is provided having in sequence an induction edge heater, an induction heater for the rest of the slab surface and a water descaler.
US12036583B2
A cleaner comes into contact with a lower-surface center region of a substrate held by a first holder, so that the lower-surface center region is cleaned. The cleaner comes into contact with a lower-surface outer region of the substrate rotated by a second holder, so that the lower-surface outer region of the substrate is cleaned. During cleaning of the lower-surface center region, the second holder is rotated about a vertical axis while not holding the substrate. Alternatively, during cleaning of the lower-surface center region, the gas injector arranged between the cleaner and the second holder injects gas toward the substrate from a first height spaced apart from the substrate by a predetermined distance. Further, during drying of the lower-surface center region, the gas injector injects gas toward the substrate from a second height closer to the substrate than the first height.
US12036561B2
A method of producing a gypsum slurry for forming gypsum products, in particular gypsum boards, preferably gypsum paper boards, the method including the steps of: a) providing a gypsum paper product comprising a gypsum and a paper component, in particular a gypsum paper board, and/or broken parts thereof; b) wet grinding the gypsum paper product and/or the broken parts thereof containing at least parts of the paper component to form a wet ground gypsum paper component.
US12036558B2
To provide a temperature adjustment stage that can efficiently heat a cartridge in accordance with necessity of heating each well. A temperature adjustment stage for heating a cartridge in which a plurality of wells that store a liquid are formed. The cartridge is used in an inspection system that detects an object captured by an immunoreaction, the wells include a labeled antibody well that stores a labeled antibody that labels the object, and there is provided a structure that does not heat the labeled antibody well.
US12036537B2
Catalyst particles comprising one or more active metal components and methods for manufacturing such catalyst particles are provided. The particles are a composite of a granulating agent or binder material such as an inorganic oxide, and an ultra-stable Y (hereafter “USY”) zeolite in which some of the aluminum atoms in the framework are substituted with zirconium atoms and/or titanium atoms and/or hafnium atoms. The one or more active phase components are incorporated prior to mixing the binder with the post-framework modified USY zeolite, extruding the resulting composite mixture, and forming the catalyst particles. The one or more active phase components are incorporated in the post-framework modified USY zeolite prior to forming the catalyst particles.
US12036533B2
A packing member for use in a packed bed, preferably a support for use as a catalyst support in a packed bed reactor. The packing member includes ceramic material and has a geometric surface area per volume of ≥0.7 cm2/cm3 and a side crush strength of ≥250 kgf; or a geometric surface area per volume of ≥1.5 cm2/cm3 and a side crush strength of ≥150 kgf; or a geometric surface area per volume of ≥3 cm2/cm3 and a side crush strength of ≥60 kgf. The packing member optionally has a porosity of at least 6%, such as at least 15% or at least 20%.
US12036524B2
A mixing bowl and liner system for lining a mixing bowl so that the mixing bowl can be used without soiling it includes a rigid mixing bowl defining a bowl cavity. The mixing bowl has an interior surface adjacent the bowl cavity and a top edge defining an opening to said bowl cavity. A liner is insertable into the bowl cavity and comprises a wall, a rim, and a spout. The wall is coextensive with the interior surface of the mixing bowl and the rim rests on the top edge of the mixing bowl when the liner is inserted into the mixing bowl. The spout is coupled to the rim and has a pair of ridges which protrude outwardly in converging alignment.
US12036522B2
A method monitors a device for applying an at least two-component viscous material to workpieces, including a metering unit having a number of metering valves corresponding with the number of viscous material components, and a static mixer detachably secured to the metering unit for component blending. The static mixer has a material inlet facing the metering unit and a material outlet facing away from the metering unit. Each metering valve has a supply channel sealingly connectable to a valve seat for supplying the respective component to the static mixer. A number of material applications are carried out consecutively, each having an identical predetermined time between start and end of the application. During the applications, between the start and the end, at predetermined times, the pressure in at least one supply channel is measured by a pressure sensor and preferably measured in all supply channels by a respective pressure sensor.
US12036507B2
A compressible fluid separator pump includes a crankshaft, four cylinders, and four pistons. Each cylinder includes an inlet including an inlet valve for mixed fluid comprising a target component and a discharge component, a reject outlet including a reject valve for a reject fluid, and a select outlet for a select fluid, wherein each of the select outlets includes a separator member that prefers the target component over the discharge component such that the target component is at a higher concentration in the select fluid than in the mixed fluid and in the reject fluid. Each piston is connected to the crankshaft and is positioned in one of the four cylinders, and the crankshaft is configured to position two of the pistons at top dead center when the other two of the pistons are at bottom dead center.
US12036504B2
An atmosphere purification reactor using an electron beam and an atmosphere purification apparatus including the same are disclosed. The atmosphere purification reactor using an electron beam according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a housing which has a predetermined length and is formed to have a hollow form such that a fluid introduced from an outside passes through the housing, a guide part which is disposed in the housing in a longitudinal direction and guides a moving path of the fluid such that the fluid moves while rotating, and a transmissive part which is provided at one side of the housing so as to transmit an electron beam into the housing.
US12036500B2
An exhaust and filtration assembly includes: a housing; an exhaust vent configured to guide unfiltered air out of the exhaust and filtration assembly; a filter assembly configured to filter air and guide the filtered air out of the exhaust and filtration assembly; an exhaust assembly configured to direct raw air from an entry port of the exhaust and filtration assembly and direct air out of the exhaust vent without the air having been filtered; and a controller comprising computing logic configured to control so that only one of air filtration and raw air exhaust occurs at any given time.
US12036499B2
According to the present disclosure, air cleaner assemblies, components, features, and methods relating thereto, are described. These features, in part, relate to configuration of a preferred seal arrangement and seal surface of the cartridge. Particular arrangements are shown, in which: the filter cartridge includes a seal arrangement having a axial pinch seal surface with a projection/recess contour including at least one projection thereon; and, the cartridge includes a seal contour projection stabilizing portion at a location in perimeter alignment with the portion of the seal pinch arrangement including the first housing engagement projection. Additional features are included that relate to clean air separator section tubes of a precleaner arrangement secured to a cartridge. These features can be used in cartridges including features outlined above, or in alternative cartridges. Additional features of air cleaner arrangements and filter cartridges in accord with the above are described.
US12036498B2
A water extractor is provided and includes a helical channel, a toroidal body encompassing the helical channel and defining an exhaust plenum beyond the helical channel and comprising a first outlet, an outer body defining a settling chamber about the toroidal body and including a second outlet and a drain and a scupper disposed to direct moisture, which is separated from a medium flowing through the helical channel, from the helical channel and into the settling chamber. The medium is flowable from the helical channel into the exhaust plenum and then sequentially through the first and second outlets to pressurize collected moisture flow from the settling chamber and through the drain.
US12036487B2
A filter element, for use filtering liquids such as fuel, includes a first section of filter media, an optional layer of coalescer media, and a section of barrier media. The first section and optional coalescer filter media are held between opposite first and second end caps. The second end cap is integrated with the barrier filter media. The barrier media extends at least part way into an interior of the first section and can be conical in shape.
US12036483B2
To increase a concentration of an extraction liquid. An extraction apparatus has an exhaust unit provided below a placement unit so that gas is exhausted outward of an accommodation chamber.
US12036481B1
A coin for use in games of chance includes a first side connectable to a second side and forming a coin interior when the first side is connected to the second side. A ball held in place in the coin interior, which interior includes a plurality of ridges and valleys with sloped surfaces for biasing a ball toward a periphery, which may include pockets, of the coin when the coin is flipped or rolled. Each pocket may be next to a viewing window, allowing the ball within the pocket to be viewed from the exterior of the coin.
US12036476B2
A system and method for managing tokens used in an interactive sports management system enabling remote participation in decisions affecting activity in a sporting event. The interactive system includes a server platform in communication with a blockchain processing network in which are recorded player tokens corresponding to the players. The tokens are respectively implemented by player smart contracts instantiated within the blockchain processing network and executed by a blockchain virtual machine. Results information relating to performances of the players is received by the server platform and stored within a database. A value factor corresponding to an achievement occurrence within the results information associated with a first player is provided to a first player smart contract implementing a first player token associated with the first player. The first player smart contract updates a value of the first player token within the blockchain processing network based upon the first value factor.
US12036463B1
A golf training device is provided including a base plate having a putting channel. The device may also include a calibration plate having a calibration channel, a ball gate including first and second ball gate posts and/or a putter gate including first and second putter gate posts. The calibration plate is selectively attachable to the base plate with the calibration channel overlaying the putting channel. The ball gate has an adjustable ball gate width sufficient to allow a standard golf ball to pass therethrough and the putter gate has an adjustable putter gate width sufficient to allow a head of a putter to pass therethrough. The ball and putter gate widths are adjusted by rotating the first and/or second ball gate posts and the first and/or second putter gate posts, respectively.
US12036458B2
A golf club grip may include a docking tube and an elongated handle. The docking tube may be configured to couple to a golf club shaft and may include a docking tube sidewall. The elongated handle may be detachably couplable to the docking tube. The elongated handle may include an elongated handle sidewall defining an axial opening configured to receive the docking tube. At least one of the docking tube sidewall and the elongated handle sidewall may include a projection and the other of the docking tube sidewall and the elongated handle sidewall may include a channel. The channel may be configured to receive the projection to prevent rotation of the elongated handle relative to the docking tube when the elongated handle is coupled to the docking tube.
US12036457B2
A hole location updating device and a method for operating a hole location updating device are provided. The hole location updating device having a housing including a flagpole combiner for providing a combination with a flagpole, includes: a global positioning system (GPS) circuit for detecting a GPS position of a hole; a mobile communication circuit for providing access to a server through a mobile communication network; and a control circuit operable in a power blocking mode, escaping from the power blocking mode in response to a wakeup signal to update a hole location, and entering the power blocking mode.
US12036448B2
A golf club head having a slot in the sole filled with an insert in which the slot is positioned close to the striking face. The slot can be a uniform distance from the striking face or the slot can curve away from the striking face in the toe region. The insert can have a uniform height or a non-uniform height. Inserts with uniform heights can have a low height profile. Inserts with non-uniform heights can have a lower height in a central portion of the insert compared to an edge portion or a perimeter portion of the insert. The insert can also have flanges or protrusions for installation into the slot. The resulting golf club head improves performance, as the sole slot with insert allows the striking face to have a profile that meets the needs at that location.
US12036440B2
A reformer may include a frame extending between a first end portion and a second end portion. The reformer may also include a carriage slidably coupled to the frame, where the carriage is movable along a length of the frame. The carriage is configured to be selectively and releasably coupled to the first end portion of the frame, and selectively and releasably coupled to the second end portion of the frame.
US12036434B2
A resistance training machine comprises a carriage with a handle coupled to move along a linear guide such as a post. First and second end portions of a flexible element are respectively coupled the carriage. A portion of the flexible element forms a loop defined by a series of guiding elements such as pulleys. The loop is coupled to a resistance element such as a weight. First and second fasteners are respectively provided in the first and second end portions of the flexible element. A user can adjust the carriage to a starting position at their desired height and affix one of the fasteners to an anchor point of the receivers. The user can move the carriage either through causing the loop of the flexible element to be reduced in length and to pull on the resistance element or plates on plate horns to perform resistance training.
US12036424B2
A radiotherapy head can include an electron accelerator, a deflection control assembly, a collimator, and a target material. The deflection control assembly is provided between the electron accelerator and the collimator, the collimator is provided with a plurality of collimating holes, and the target material is provided at an entrance of the each of the plurality of collimating holes; the deflection control assembly is configured to adjust a deflection angle of electron beams emitted by the electron accelerator, and emit angle-deflected electron beams to the target material; the target material is configured to convert the electron beams emitted to the target material into X-rays; and the collimator is configured to project the X-rays to a target via the plurality of collimating holes.
US12036422B2
A search space used for multicriteria optimization in radiation treatment planning can be expanded using extrapolation. For instance, given an initial set of base plans, one or more virtual plans can be generated by assigning a weight to each base plan such that at least one of the weights is less than zero and/or such that the sum of the weights is not normalized to 1. The dose distribution for the virtual plan is computed as the weighted sum of the dose distributions of the base plans. Virtual plans criteria can be used together with the initial set of base plans to define an expanded search space within which interpolation can be performed to identify an optimal treatment plan.
US12036416B2
Technologies and implementations for a wearable healthcare system having an irremovable wirelessly chargeable energy storage device. The technologies and implementations facilitate at least continual monitoring.
US12036406B2
A device (100) for training oral muscle tone, the device (100) includes a mouthpiece (103) having a first and second arm (131) diverging away from one another and each carrying at least one electrode means (132a, 132b, 133a, 133b), at least one of the at least one electrode means protruding proud of adjacent portions of the arms (131), electrical circuitry operatively connected to the electrode means (132a, 132b, 133a, 133b), at least one of the at least one electrode means comprising an electrically conductive polymeric or plastics material.
US12036400B2
A medical anchoring apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an omega-shaped anchoring element. A proximal end of the omega-shaped anchoring element has a primary inlet groove for the receiving end of a lead, while a distal end of the omega-shaped anchoring element includes a stopper element and an outlet groove for protruding lead. A nanosilver antimicrobial foam coupled beneath the distal end of the omega shaped anchoring element at a lead entry point of a skin area of a subject around the outlet groove. The apparatus employs single coated nonwoven porous acrylic adhesive, which adheres to the skin of the patient. The omega shaped anchoring element helps manage lead displacement, and secure while allowing for predefined lead migration and lead management. The nanosilver antimicrobial foam is configured with silver particles. The medical anchoring apparatus is used to secure leads that may migrate through the patient's skin into the body.
US12036385B2
An infusion pump includes a housing. The housing includes a tube port adapted to receive an intravenous (“IV”) tube. The tube port includes a tube channel and a rib. The tube channel has a first end and a second end. The rib is formed to extend laterally from the tube channel at the first end to form at least two channels at an edge of the housing. The rib tends to prevent full occlusion of the IV tube.
US12036372B2
A catheter assembly includes a catheter and an inner needle. The catheter has a catheter body and a flexible portion that is provided on a distal portion of the catheter body, includes a distal-most portion of the catheter, and is more flexible than the catheter body. The catheter body is made of a first material. The flexible portion is made of a second material. A change in flexibility of the second material between 25° C. and 37° C. is smaller than a change in flexibility of the first material between 25° C. and 37° C.
US12036370B2
An improved hiatal hernia treatment enhances recovery after surgery by reducing a patient's pain at an area of treatment. The area of treatment contains the hiatal hernia and must be extensively divided before the hiatal hernia can be treated. The improved hiatal hernia treatment reduces the patient's pain through directed application of an anesthetic via an applicator positioned within the area of treatment. The reduction of the patient's pain increases the patient's comfort, reduces the need for pain medication, and lowers the patient's blood pressure to enhance recovery.
US12036368B2
A transfer unit (20), for a ventilator (1), is provided for carrying out a ventilation process of a patient. A ventilator (1) for carrying out a ventilation process of a patient, is provided that includes a ventilation unit (10) with a pneumatic unit (16) for carrying out the ventilation process as well as the transfer unit (20) mounted reversibly at the ventilation unit (10). A ventilation system (100) for carrying out a ventilation process of a patient, is provided including a transfer unit (20) and at least two ventilation units (10). A process for changing a ventilator (1) is provided for the ventilation process of a patient, wherein the transfer unit (20) can be mounted in the ventilation system (100) at a first ventilation unit (10) for forming a first ventilator (1) and at a second ventilation unit (10) for forming a second ventilator (1).
US12036360B2
A control device for an electronic aerosol provision system is configured to receive a replaceable component to form an electronic aerosol provision system. The control device is further configured to receive an identifier from a replaceable component received by the control device; and to modify one or more characteristics (such as resistance to draw, RTD) of an airflow path through the electronic aerosol provision system dependent upon the received identifier.
US12036355B2
A system includes a nebulizer for nebulizing a fluid from a container and such a container containing a fluid and are proposed. The fluid is a non-newtonian fluid, in form of a suspension or emulsion or a liposomal fluid or a gel. The nebulizer includes a fluid pump for withdrawing the fluid in doses from the container and pressurizing the respective doses for nebulization through nozzle channels having a hydraulic diameter in the range of 3 to 20 microns at an operational pressure of 5 to 250 MPa.
US12036354B2
Methods and devices for treatment of damaged tissue are disclosed, including treatment of wounds by employing non-electrically powered, reduced pressure therapy devices. Maintenance and control of the sub atmospheric pressure exerted may be provided by such devices while minimizing discomfort to the user. The devices may be configured to be worn inconspicuously underneath clothing.
US12036352B2
A fluid management system includes a pump connectable to a fluid source. An inflow line removably connects to a cannula for delivering a fluid flow from the pump into a surgical site, such as a joint cavity. A flow pressure sensor is coupled to measure flow pressure in the inflow line and produce a measured pressure value, A controller is connected to the pump and the flow pressure sensor, and the controller maintains a pressure set point by controlling a pump speed based on a backpressure-adjusted pressure value calculated by subtracting a backpressure value selected from a backpressure table from the measured pressure value. The BAPV is monitored to determine whether the BAPV deviates outside an initial BAPV range, and corrective measure are taken should such deviations occur.
US12036331B1
The present invention relates to an aqueous ozone floor disinfection system. A floor cleaning machine traverses a floor surface entering a pre-hygienic zone prior to cleaning, cleaning within a midst-hygienic zone for a cleaning period, and moving away from the midst-hygienic zone creating a post-hygienic zone. An aqueous ozone generator receives water and generates an ozonated concentrate liquid. A post-hygienic mixer ratiometrically blends the ozonated concentrate liquid and water to form a post-hygienic ozone disinfection solution having a predetermined post-hygienic ozone treatment concentration. A post-hygienic nozzle spray of the post-hygienic ozone disinfection solution onto the post-hygienic zone portion of the floor surface for at least the post-hygienic treatment time absent agitation or removal by the floor cleaning machine improving disinfection of the floor surface. The service life of the aqueous ozone generator can be tracked and the disinfected floor surface can be GPS geofenced.
US12036326B2
The present disclosure describes a method of encapsulating cells in a crosslinked alginate microbead using a microfluidic encapsulation device.
US12036322B2
Multiparticulate compositions including an active agent and a gelling agent are disclosed. The multiparticulate compositions are prepared by an aqueous-based spray and congeal process.
US12036317B2
Ready to use liquid formulations of diclofenac potassium are disclosed which are particularly well suited for packaging in stick-packs.
US12036315B2
Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for oral administration in which the solubility and/or dissolution properties of enzalutamide are improved and supersaturation is maintained. Also provided is a pharmaceutical composition for oral administration in which the oral absorbability of enzalutamide is improved. The pharmaceutical composition for oral administration comprises enzalutamide and polyvinyl alcohol.
US12036301B2
An anhydrous deodorant stick that contains from 0.1% to 10% a substituted or unsubstituted 2-pyridinol-N-oxide material, an antimicrobial having a microbial inhibition concentration of at most about 2500 ppm, and one or more structural elements. The one or more structural elements can include waxes, natural oils, liquid triglycerides, or mixtures thereof.
US12036298B2
A method for reducing the appearance of post-acne marks, lightening dark spots and discoloration, fading post-acne marks faster and/or preventing appearance of new post-acne marks by applying a skin care composition. The skin care composition contains a vitamin B3 compound, hydroxycinnamic acid, and water at a pH of less than 5.0.
US12036294B2
A new approach to targeting imaging agents to macrophage-rich sites of interest is disclosed. Compositions of the invention are rHDL and HDL-like liposomal compositions, protein constituents of which, apolipoproteins A-I and/or A-II or fragments thereof are used not only as structural but also as targeting agents. This is achieved by certain controlled chemical or enzymatic modification of apolipoproteins A-I or A-II or fragments thereof. Such modification converts these apolipoproteins to substrates for macrophage scavenger receptors and results in the improvement of contrast agent-(HDL/modified apolipoprotein)-particle association with macrophages and/or absorption (uptake) by macrophages when compared to that of the contrast agent-(HDL/apolipoprotein)-particle constructed with non-modified naturally occurring apo A-I. The compositions can be used for noninvasive specific in vivo molecular detection and localization of macrophage-rich sites of interest using imaging techniques such as computed tomography (CT), gamma-scintigraphy, positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
US12036293B2
A method for preparing a complex comprising a radioisotope of gallium for use in radiotherapy or in a medical imaging procedure, said method comprising adding a gallium radioisotope solution obtained directly from a gallium radionuclide generator to a composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable buffer and optionally also a pharmaceutically acceptable basic reagent, in amounts sufficient to increase the pH to a level in the range of 3 to 8, wherein the composition further comprises a chelator that is able to chelate radioactive gallium within said pH range and at moderate temperature, said chelator being optionally linked to a biological targeting agent. Kits and compositions for use in the method are also described and claimed.
US12036278B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions related to therapy for cancer. More specifically, the disclosed methods and compositions are related to the use of smallpox vaccine to induce an effective anti-tumor immune response.
US12036273B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods for targeted treatment of CD99-expressing cancers. In particular, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) polypeptides are disclosed that can be used with adoptive cell transfer to target and kill CD99-expressing cancers. Also disclosed are immune effector cells, such as T cells or Natural Killer (NK) cells, that are engineered to express these CARs. Therefore, also disclosed are methods of providing an anti-tumor immunity in a subject with a CD99-expressing cancer that involves adoptive transfer of the disclosed immune effector cells engineered to express the disclosed CARs. Also disclosed are multivalent antibodies are disclosed that are able to engage T-cells to destroy CD99-expressing malignant cells.
US12036272B2
The present invention relates to artificial antigen presenting cell (aAPC) scaffolds to provide cells with specific functional stimulation to obtain phenotypic and functional properties ideal to mediate tumor regression or viral clearance. In particular, the scaffolds of the present invention comprise antigens, such as peptide-MHC (pMHC) class I molecules, and specific combinations of cytokines and co-stimulatory molecules to allow effective expansion and functional stimulation of specific T cells.
US12036270B2
Disclosed is the novel use of some Aza-podophyllotoxin derivatives (AZPs) for modulation of the immune system (immunomodulation), including a method for modulating an immune response comprising administering to a subject an effective amount of at least one Aza-podophyllotoxin derivative of general formula wherein A-ring is selected from the group consisting of 1,3-dioxolane, cyclopentane, 1,4-dioxane, one methoxy, two methoxys, and ethyl; and wherein E-ring is selected from the group consisting of dimethoxyanisole, veratrol, anisole, benzene, syringol, bromobenzene, chlorobenzene, 1,2-dichlorobenzene, 2,3-dimethoxybenzene, 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzene.
US12036266B2
The disclosure features fusion proteins that are conditionally active variants of a cytokine of interest. In one aspect, the full-length polypeptides of the invention have reduced or minimal cytokine-receptor activating activity even though they contain a functional cytokine polypeptide. Upon activation, e.g., by cleavage of a linker that joins a blocking moiety, e.g. a steric blocking polypeptide, in sequence to the active cytokine, the cytokine can bind its receptor and effect signaling. Typically, the fusion proteins further comprise an in vivo half-life extension element, which may be cleaved from the cytokine in the tumor microenvironment.
US12036265B2
Methods of treating a subject in need thereof are provided which include: administering a recombinant platelet derived growth factor D (PDGF D) composition to a mesenchymal stem cell of the subject and/or a progenitor derived therefrom, in vivo, or ex vivo, producing a treated mesenchymal stem cell of the subject and/or a progenitor derived therefrom, thereby stimulating the mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) and/or a progenitor derived therefrom. Cells expressing a recombinant PDGF D composition of the present are administered to the subject for in vivo delivery of the recombinant PDGF D composition according to aspects of the present disclosure. Methods and compositions are provided including recombinant PDGF D hemidimer (HD) including a full-length PDGF D polypeptide and a C-terminal growth factor domain of PDGF D, which lacks a CUB domain, promoting regulation of bone marrow MSC differentiation into osteogenic lineage cells.
US12036261B2
Compositions and methods are presented that substantially increase levels of BDNF in blood, and even more pronouncedly exosomal BDNF levels. Suitable compositions include whole coffee fruit extracts and powders that are orally administered at relatively low dosages.
US12036256B2
The invention provides improved compositions and methods for the treatment of solid cancers.
US12036254B2
The present invention regards a composition based on bacteria belonging to the Lactobacillus paracasei species for use in the treatment and/or in the prevention of a pathological condition of the female urogenital tract, preferably a pathological condition of the female genital tract, more preferably of the vagina, said pathological condition being caused by or related with a vaginal microbiota imbalance or for treating and/or preventing the symptoms related with said pathological condition.
US12036236B2
Compositions and methods regarding antimicrobial guanidinium macromolecules with one or more targeting moieties for selectively targeting bacteria are provided. According to an embodiment, an antimicrobial macromolecule is provided that comprises a polymer backbone and one or more guanidinium moieties that extend from the polymer backbone. The antimicrobial macromolecule further comprises a targeting moiety that extends from the polymer backbone. The targeting moiety can comprise a substance favored for consumption by bacteria, such as a monosaccharide.
US12036228B2
Methods of treating GTC seizures by administering a THC compound are provided.
US12036226B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method of treating prediabetes or type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of imeglimin, wherein the subject has chronic kidney disease.
US12036220B2
A solid oral immediate release formulation of LSD, wherein the composition is produced by lyophilization of a feedstock in a pre-formed mold to form an orally disintegrating tablet. A method of making a solid oral immediate release formulation of LSD by lyophilizing a flash frozen stock solution of LSD and excipients, including a non-gelling matrix former, filler, and binder in a pre-formed mold, and forming an orally disintegrating tablet. A method of treating an individual by administering a solid oral immediate release formulation of LSD, wherein the composition is produced by lyophilization of a feedstock in a pre-formed mold to form an orally disintegrating tablet and treating the individual.
US12036210B2
There is herein provided a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the ring containing Q1 to Q5, and the groups R1, R2 and R3, have meanings as provided in the description.
US12036205B2
Provided are compositions comprising compounds or precursors to compounds which may be used for a variety of therapeutic applications including, for example, treating and/or preventing a disease or disorder related to reduced or inadequate mitochondrial activity, including aging or stress, diabetes, obesity, and neurodegenerative diseases. The compounds relate generally to urolithins and precursors thereof, including but not limited to ellagitannins and urolithin A. In certain embodiments the compositions are presented in or as food products or nutritional supplements. These same compounds and compositions can also be used advantageously in generally healthy individuals to increase or maintain metabolic rate, decrease percent body fat, increase or maintain muscle mass, manage body weight, improve or maintain mental performance (including memory), improve or maintain muscle performance, improve or maintain mood, and manage stress.
US12036202B2
The invention relates is directed to antimicrobial compositions comprising cannabinoid compounds and methods of utilizing the antimicrobial compositions to inhibit the growth of microorganisms, to treat and/or prevent microbial infections.
US12036188B2
The present disclosure relates, in some embodiments, to an immunogenic compositions for the treatment of cancer, methods of preparing an immunogenic composition for the treatment of cancer, and methods of treating cancer subjects with an immunogenic composition. Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an immunogenic composition operable as a treatment of cancer in a subject having a subject weight, the immunogenic composition including: an immunoactive tissue extract comprising a protein composition, wherein the immunogenic composition has a final concentration of the protein composition of about 6 mg to about 10 mg of the protein composition per kg of the subject weight; an immune response activator comprising a BCG solution, wherein the immunogenic composition has a final concentration of the immune response activator of about 0.525 to about 0.725 mg of the BCG solution per mL of the immunogenic composition; and an immune response mitigator comprising a formaldehyde solution, wherein the immunogenic composition has a final concentration of the formaldehyde solution of about 0.005% to about 0.035%.
US12036186B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus for supporting a feeding device for an infant is provided. In some examples, an apparatus comprising a body and feeding device support structure is provided. A body and feeding device support structure may comprise one or more pieces of fabric, the one or more pieces of fabric are attached by one or more seams. The feeding device support structure may comprise a U-shaped support structure and an elastic band for positioning a feeding device. In some embodiments, an apparatus may comprise an animal design and/or shape.
US12036178B2
A combination emergency wash and faucet unit includes a base, an emergency wash arm pivotally coupled to the base, and a spout pivotally coupled to the base. The emergency wash arm includes an emergency wash unit. The emergency wash arm is rotatable relative to the base about a first vertical axis between a stored position and an active position. The spout is rotatable relative to the base about a second vertical axis. The first vertical axis is substantially parallel to the second vertical axis and offset from the second vertical axis. Movement of the emergency wash arm causes a corresponding movement of the spout.
US12036177B2
A system for assisting a rescuer in performing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a patient includes: a proximity sensor configured to be positioned at a location corresponding to a location of a rescuer's hand when delivering compressions to a patient's chest, the proximity sensor configured to produce a signal indicative of the rescuer's hands being released from the patient's chest; a medical device operatively coupled with the proximity sensor and configured to provide resuscitative treatment to the patient; and a controller communicatively coupled with the medical device and the proximity sensor. The controller is configured to: determine, based upon the signal from the proximity sensor, if the rescuer's hands have been released from the patient's chest, and trigger an action by the medical device in response to a determination that the rescuer's hands have been released from the patient's chest.
US12036176B1
A massager includes a housing, a driving component, a swinging component, and a flexible massage component. The housing defines a chamber and a swinging space along a length direction thereof. The driving component disposed in the chamber is connected to the swinging component. The flexible massage component is sleeved on a first portion of the swinging component disposed in the swinging space. The swinging component and the flexible massage component are driven by the driving component to swing back and forth along a transverse direction of the housing, and the flexible massage component swings from a first position outside side walls of the housing to a second position outside the side walls of the housing. When the flexible massage component swings to the first position or the second position, a free end of the flexible massage component is exposed to an external environment.
US12036172B1
A sexual stimulation device includes a housing, a drive unit at least partially disposed within the housing, a first stimulation element directly or indirectly coupled with the drive unit and driven by the drive unit to generate a movement, the movement configured to stimulate a sensitive area of a human body, an active stretchable seal configured to dynamically seal a relative movement part between the housing and the first stimulation element or the drive unit with respect to the housing, and to deform with the movement of the first stimulation element, and a passive stretchable element. The passive stretchable element is configured to deform passively due to the deformation of the active stretchable seal, thereby resulting in the dynamic balance of air pressure in an enclosed space at least defined by the passive stretchable element and the active stretchable seal.
US12036164B2
An electric bed includes a bed board assembly movably disposed on a bed frame and having a through hole, a lumbar support member movably disposed on the bed board assembly and corresponding in position to the through hole, and a plurality of linkage units each including a drive rod assembly. The drive rod assemblies of the linking units are pivotally connected to a horizontal rod of a lumbar support drive assembly. The lumbar support drive assembly is electrically actuated to drive the horizontal rod to move the drive rod assemblies between first and second positions, in which the lumbar support member is moved toward and away from the through hole, respectively.
US12036162B1
A hospital bed has an inclinable backrest, a pneumatic mattress, and an automatically acting mechanical air pressure control for the mattress. The pressure control includes a gravity responsive valve between the backrest and another zone of the mattress. A weighted mass in the pressure control urges the valve to move to a desired position and may counter a biasing member acting on the valve. The weighted mass may prevail against the biasing member when the backrest is upright but may yield to the biasing member when the backrest has been lowered. With the backrest upright, pneumatic cells of the backrest may be isolated from the other zone of the mattress. With an air source arranged to inflate the other zone, that portion of the mattress exposed to greater weight of a patient, as would occur with the backrest upright, enjoys increased air pressure.
US12036156B2
A surgical table comprises a base, components, and a controller. The controller is configured to store a geometric collision model including object model datasets of the components, of the base, and of a supporting surface and motion compute datasets of the base and of the components. The controller is configured to execute an anti-collision algorithm defining ranges of motion of the base and of the components based on a specific geometric collision model, and to control a drive to move the base and the components within the defined ranges of motion such that a collision is prevented. The controller is configured to store a defined initial geometric collision model of a configuration and to adapt the initial geometric collision model to an actual geometric collision model according to an actual configuration.
US12036152B2
A rigid mobility device for supporting a person having an injury as a patient in an upright position relative to the ground includes a first caregiver support platform, a second caregiver support platform, and a patient support platform. The first caregiver support platform and the second caregiver support platform can each rest on the shoulders of first and second caregivers. The patient support platform can support the arms of the patient.
US12036139B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems are described for stent delivery and positioning to cover an access site. A stent delivery system may include a tubular member configured to advance through an access site and a primary constrainment member configured to releasably couple the stent to the tubular member. The stent delivery system may further include a secondary constrainment member at least partially disposed around the primary constrainment member, the stent, and the tubular member. In some cases, the tubular member and the primary constrainment member may be configured to reposition the stent within the body lumen after removal of the secondary constrainment member such that at least a portion of the stent covers the access site after withdrawal of the tubular member, the primary constrainment member, and the secondary constrainment member from the body lumen through the access site.
US12036136B2
Systems and methods are described herein for a prosthetic device that includes a rigid outer shell socket with an inner surface contour. A prosthetic insert socket is manufactured via a manufacturing process, such as three-dimensional printing, to have an outer contour that corresponds to the inner surface contour of the premade outer shell socket. The prosthetic insert socket is manufactured to have an inner contour that corresponds to a residual limb surface contour of a patient.
US12036135B2
A biocompatible construction adapted for use in joint surgeries. Among other things, the joint implant has an anterior cutting edge and a rotatable cutter distinct from the cutting edge. The rotatable cutter allows for graduated cutting of biological tissue or structure.
US12036122B2
A repair device for treatment of tricuspid regurgitation includes a support frame, an occlusive membrane, and a suture line. The support frame includes a central shaft and anchoring members that are disposed around the central shaft and radially unfolded for anchoring leaflets of a tricuspid valve. The occlusive membrane surrounds connections between the anchoring members and the central shaft, and the occlusive membrane is connected to the support frame through the suture line. A semi-closed space surrounding the central shaft is formed by an outer side wall of the central shaft, the anchoring members and the occlusive membrane, and has a closed end in proximity to a ventricle and an open end in proximity to an atrium. The central shaft has a closed end in proximity to the ventricle. The repair device for treatment of tricuspid regurgitation reduces the number of implants, thereby reducing the side effects caused by implantation.
US12036114B2
Stented prosthetic heart valves comprising a stent frame having a compressed arrangement for delivery within a patient's vasculature and an expanded arrangement for deployment within a native heart valve. The stented prosthetic heart valves including a paravalvular leakage prevention or mitigation wrap that encircles a stent frame and is formed of a flexible material having a variable diameter defined by a greatest distance between the wrap and the stent frame. The wrap further includes a first end coupled to the stent frame and an opposing second end that is not coupled to the stent frame, wherein the wrap can selectively enlarge its diameter in situ via movement of the second end. Devices for and methods of selectively deploying the wrap are also disclosed.
US12036103B2
Disclosed is a disposable diaper including a pair of leak-proof cuffs (6) provided respectively to both lateral sides of an absorbent assembly (5) along the longitudinal direction. Each leak-proof cuff (6) includes: an inwardly-oriented portion (63) wherein a leak-proof-cuff-forming sheet material (61) is arranged from a lateral side edge (43) of an absorbent core toward the absorbent member's inner side in the width direction; a fold-back portion (64) where the sheet material (61) is folded back toward the absorbent member's outer side in the width direction, the fold-back portion being located above the absorbent member (4); and an outwardly-folded portion (65) ranging from the fold-back portion (64) to a free end (6b) of the leak-proof cuff. The outwardly-folded portion (65) has a length, in the width direction, that is longer than the length of the inwardly-oriented portion (63), and a plurality of elastic members (62) are fixed in a stretched state to the outwardly-folded portion. The free end (6b) is located outside of the lateral side edge (43) of the absorbent core. In the outwardly-folded portion (65), in a case where an elastic region (E) where the elastic members (62) are provided is divided, in the width direction, into two equal parts defined respectively as an inner region (E1) and an outer region (E2), the inner region (E1) has a higher elongation stress at 70% elongation than the outer region (E2).
US12036099B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for assembling elastomeric laminates, wherein elastic material may be stretched and joined with either or both first and second substrates. First spools are rotated to unwind first elastic strands from a first unwinder in a machine direction. The first elastic strands are positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate to form an elastomeric laminate. Before the first elastic strands are completely unwound from the rotating first spools, second spools are rotated to unwind second elastic strands from a second unwinder. Subsequently, the advancement of the first elastic strands from the first unwinder is discontinued. Thus, the elastomeric laminate assembly process may continue uninterrupted while switching from an initially utilized elastic material drawn from the first spools to a subsequently utilized elastic material drawn from the second spools.
US12036088B2
An orthodontic device for the segmental distalization of a posterior jawbone area is disclosed. The orthodontic device comprises a mesial element having a mesial base surface for attachment to a premolar or a canine, a projection for coupling with a traction element, and an arm comprising an elongate transverse pin at a distal end of the arm, and a distal base having a distal base surface configured for attachment to a molar, and a receptacle for receiving the transverse pin. A first axis is defined as being substantially perpendicular to the distal base surface, and the transverse pin has a mesial surface and a distal surface, an interior shape of the receptacle is such that the rotation about the first axis is limited by the mesial and/or distal surface touching against an inside of the receptacle. The disclosure also relates to orthodontic kits.
US12036087B2
Dental attachment placement apparatuses and related systems. An apparatus may include a body having attachments. The attachments, when worn at specified locations on the patient's dentition, may engage with one or more aligners to direct repositioning forces from the aligner(s) to the patient's dentition. The body of the apparatus may have contoured surfaces shaped in accordance with corresponding surfaces of the patient's teeth. The apparatus may also include supports extending from body and that support a corresponding attachment entirely within a corresponding aperture of the apparatus. The supports may include breakable regions to facilitate removal of the attachments from the body.
US12036084B2
Method and system for managing multiple impressions of a patient's jaw for an orthodontic treatment are provided. The method includes scanning at least a first impression and a second impression of the same jaw for the orthodontic treatment; determining if the first jaw impression and the second jaw impression have distortion in different areas; selecting the first jaw impression or the second jaw impression as a base impression; and replacing distorted tooth data from the base impression with data for the same tooth from a non-base impression. The method also includes scanning at least a first jaw impression for the orthodontic treatment; scanning a bite impression for the orthodontic treatment; matching the scanned first jaw impression with the scanned bite impression; comparing bite information with a tooth occlusal surface; and determining if reconstruction is to be performed on the tooth occlusal surface.
US12036076B2
A medical instrument tray for supporting medical instruments and connecting to a medical vacuum hose and evacuating gases and debris from a procedure area to reduce spread of airborne bacteria, viruses, or other contaminates comprises an upper surface and a laminar air flow suction device. The upper surface supports the medical instruments. The laminar air flow suction device extends below the upper surface and comprises a first opening and a second opening. The first opening is configured to connect to the medical vacuum hose and has a first opening width. The second opening has a second opening width that is wider than the first opening width.
US12036074B2
In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a probe that a cylindrical marker band defining an inner surface, an outer surface, a first end and a second end and having a band length, the inner surface defining a marker band bore, the cylindrical marker band includes a radiopaque material; a molded unitary lens defining an elongate optical fiber receiving section having a fiber section length and a beam directing surface, wherein the fiber section length and the band length overlap along an overlap distance; and an optical fiber, wherein a first section of the optical fiber is disposed in the optical fiber receiving section, wherein a portion of the first section of the optical fiber is disposed within the marker band bore.
US12036071B2
A system and method for automatically setting an elevational tilt angle of a mechanically wobbling ultrasound probe is provided. The method includes acquiring, by a mechanically wobbling ultrasound probe of an ultrasound system, an ultrasound volume of a region of interest. The method includes analyzing, by at least one processor of the ultrasound system, the ultrasound volume to identify an ultrasound image slice depicting an anatomical object of interest. The ultrasound image slice corresponds with an elevational tilt angle. The method includes setting, by the at least one processor, the mechanically wobbling ultrasound probe to the elevational tilt angle corresponding with the ultrasound image slice depicting the anatomical object of interest. The method includes acquiring, by the mechanically wobbling ultrasound probe, a two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound image at the elevational tilt angle. The method includes causing, by the at least one processor, a display system to present the 2D ultrasound image.
US12036066B2
Devices, systems, and methods for evaluating a vessel and tracking progression of an intravascular procedure are disclosed. In an embodiment, a medical system is disclosed. One embodiment of the medical system comprises a medical processing unit in communication with an intravascular device configured to obtain intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) data and with an external ultrasound device configured to obtain external ultrasound data. The medical processing unit is configured to receive the IVUS data from the intravascular device, wherein the intravascular device is positioned proximate to an aneurysm, receive the external ultrasound data from the external ultrasound device, wherein the external ultrasound device is positioned to image the aneurysm, and track progression of a coil embolization of the aneurysm based on the IVUS data and the external ultrasound data.
US12036065B2
A wireless system and method for measuring and analyzing blood in a user's body is provided. The system includes a processing, power, and communication component (PPC) having a hardware unit and first housing enclosing the hardware unit; a probe having a piezoelectric crystal and second housing enclosing the piezoelectric crystal; a dock having a sensor and third housing enclosing the sensor. The second housing is spaced apart from the first housing. The third housing is adapted to removably couple to the first housing. The piezoelectric crystal can transmit an ultrasound wave into the body, receive a return ultrasonic wave, convert the return wave into an electrical signal, and transmit the signal to the sensor. The sensor is configured to receive and then transmit the electronic signal to the hardware unit, which is configured to wirelessly transmit a data set based on the electronic signal to a computer device.
US12036053B2
A breast imaging apparatus includes a radiation source that irradiates a breast of a subject with radiation, a radiation detector that detects the radiation transmitted through the breast to output a radiographic image, an ultraviolet light source that performs irradiation of ultraviolet light, and a controller that controls an operation of the ultraviolet light source. The controller prohibits the irradiation of the ultraviolet light by the ultraviolet light source in a case where a predetermined set condition is satisfied. The controller determines that the set condition is satisfied, for example, in a case where a person is shown in a captured image of a camera.
US12036052B2
A radiation monitoring system includes a patient support apparatus. A radiation sensor assembly is operably coupled to the patient support apparatus. The radiation sensor assembly includes a radiation sensor and a first controller. The radiation sensor senses radiation data corresponding to a radiation dose received by a patient. A management system includes a second controller that stores a patient profile database. The second controller is communicatively coupled with the first controller. The first controller communicates the radiation data to the second controller for storage in the patient profile database to monitor the radiation dose received by the patient.
US12036041B2
The wearable article 200 comprises a sensing component. The electronics module 100 is removably coupled to the wearable article 200. The electronics module comprises a housing and a processor disposed within the housing 101. An interface element 121, 123 interfaces with the sensing component so as to receive signals from the sensing component and provide the same to the processor. A sensor 105 is disposed within the housing 101. The sensor 105 monitors a property of the environment external to the electronics module 100 through the housing 101. The housing 101 is constructed such that the sensor 105 has line of sight through the housing 101.
US12036040B2
Methods and systems for generating physiological metrics for display on a computing device are disclosed herein. In some implementations, an exemplary system comprises a torso wearable device including a wireless transmitter and a sensor, and non-transitory computer-readable media (CRM). The CRM, when executed by a computing device in communication with the wireless transmitter, can perform operations comprising: receiving the input signals representing respiration of the user; displaying a graphical user interface to the user; receiving one or more user inputs associated with a desired metric; displaying on the graphical user interface a first visualization corresponding to the desired metric; and displaying on the graphical user interface a second visualization corresponding to a physiological metric based on the input signals generated from the sensor. The second visualization can change in real time based on real time angular displacement of the sensor in response to the respiration of the user.
US12036034B2
Disclosed herein is a joint evaluation device and corresponding systems and methods for evaluating ligaments and other soft tissue connections between, for example, a tibia and a femur at a knee joint. The joint evaluation device being arranged and configured to induce and measure forces while positions of the tibia and femur are monitored. Some embodiments use a computer assisted surgery device to track positions of the tibia and the femur, and may include a computing device configured to evaluate the forces measured between a first engagement portion and a second engagement portion of the joint evaluation device to output information related to the status of the ligament and other soft tissue connections prior to any bone resections being made to the tibia or the femur.
US12036029B2
A method, including receiving a unipolar ECG signal from the location in the heart from a selected one electrode of a pair of electrodes, computing a local unipolar minimum derivative of the unipolar signal at a plurality of times of occurrences of the local unipolar minimum derivative, identifying candidate time of occurrences of the plurality of times of occurrences of the local unipolar minimum derivative as candidate annotations of the time of activation of the myocardium, extracting features for each of the candidate annotations, assigning a confidence level based on a feature value for each of the candidate annotations, eliminating candidate annotations that have a confidence level below a threshold and generating a local activation time map using the remaining candidate annotations.
US12036026B2
Catheters, systems, and related methods for optimized for mapping, minimizing, and treating cardiac fibrillation in a patient, including an array of at least one stacked electrode pair, each electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein each electrode pair is configured to be orthogonal to a surface of a cardiac tissue substrate, wherein each first electrode is in contact with the surface to record a first signal, and wherein each second electrode is separated from the first electrode by a distance which enables the second electrode to record a second signal, wherein the catheter is configured to obtain one or more measurements from at least a first signal and a second signal in response to electrical activity in the cardiac tissue substrate indicative of a number of electrical circuit cores and distribution of the electrical circuit cores for a duration across the cardiac tissue substrate.
US12036025B2
A bio-electrode includes an electro-conductive base material and a living body contact layer. The living body contact layer includes a water-free resin layer and a permeation layer on a surface side of the resin layer where a living body comes into contact. The permeation layer is permeated with water and a water-soluble salt selected from the group consisting of sodium salts, potassium salts, calcium salts, magnesium salts, and betaines. This aims to provide: a dry-type bio-electrode that enables quick signal collection after attachment to skin, the bio-electrode being excellent in electric conductivity and biocompatibility, light-weight, and manufacturable at low cost, and capable of preventing significant reduction in the electric conductivity even when wetted with water or dried; a method for manufacturing the bio-electrode; and a method for measuring a biological signal.
US12036014B2
A nasal/oral cannula for collecting a flow of exhaled gases and its method of manufacture are disclosed. The cannula comprises an elongated tubular body having a first and a second end portion, a surface and an internal volume; a wall internally disposed within said tubular body, said wall defining a first subvolume of said internal volume in the lengthwise direction of the tubular body; and an inlet through said surface, for introducing exhaled gases into said first subvolume. The first end portion defines an exit port for exhaled gases from said subvolume, and said wall is arranged directly adjacent to said inlet.
US12036013B2
A breath analyzer, a system, and a computer program for administering a breath analysis to a donor and recording a breath analysis result. Embodiments of the invention authenticate that the breath analysis was performed correctly, preserves the breath analysis results by communicating with other devices, and presents the breath analysis results by superimposing them on recorded video data. The breath analyzer includes a breath receptor for receiving a breath sample from the donor, an analyzing element for determining a breath analysis result, a communications element for sending information indicative of the breath analysis result to a recording device manager, and a housing for securing the components in a handheld device. The system comprises the breath analyzer, a recording device manager for synchronizing the recordings, and at least one ancillary camera for recording the breath analysis.
US12036007B2
Monitoring apparatus for monitoring the pulse transit time and/or estimating one or more blood pressure parameters of a subject and the method of use of the monitoring apparatus. The apparatus comprises an upper arm unit for attaching to a subject's upper arm in use and comprising at least one motion sensor, a photoplethysmograph comprising at least one light source and at least one light detector and at least one display.
US12036004B2
A physiological state index calculation system, a physiological state index calculation method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for capturing subtle changes in a physiological state of a living body are provided. The physiological state index calculation system includes a band-pass filter that filters cerebral blood flow waveform information obtained from a cerebral blood flow of a living body in at least one frequency band, and a complex number conversion unit configured to convert the filtered cerebral blood flow waveform information into a complex number for at least one frequency band. The cerebral blood flow waveform information converted into a complex number by the complex number conversion unit is an oscillator that reflects a physiological state of a living body.
US12036001B2
An apparatus for detecting changes in dental tissue by detecting a spectral change of dental tissue by comparing Acoustic Phonon Mediated Optical Scattering (APMOS) spectroscopic data to a baseline signal.
US12035999B2
An endoscope apparatus includes: an imaging device; a light source device; a first processing circuit; and a second processing circuit. The light source device can emit first light and fourth light having peak wavelengths in a transmission wavelength band of the blue color filter, second light, and third light and fifth light having peak wavelengths in a transmission wavelength band of the red color filter. The light source device emits the third light in a first imaging frame and the fifth light in a second imaging frame. The first processing circuit generates a display image based on any one of a first image group including images corresponding to the third light and the fifth light and a second image group including an image corresponding to the fourth light, and outputs a remaining one of the first image group and the second image group to the second processing circuit.
US12035997B2
A two-by-two pixel array within an image sensor includes a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and a fourth pixel. A red filter covers the first pixel, a first blue filter covers the second pixel, a second blue filter covers the third pixel, and a green filter covers the fourth pixel. The red filter is configured to allow the first pixel to collect a red component of visible light and prevent the first pixel from collecting blue and green components of the visible light. The first and second blue filters are configured to allow the second and third pixels to each collect the blue component and prevent the second and third pixels from collecting the red and green components. The green filter is configured to allow the fourth pixel to collect the green component and prevent the fourth pixel from collecting the red and blue components.
US12035986B2
A surgical system for manipulating an anatomy includes a surgical tool, a robotic manipulator configured to support and move the surgical tool, and one or more controllers that activate a first virtual boundary delineating a first portion of the anatomy that is allowed to be removed by the surgical tool from a second portion of the anatomy that is protected from removal by the surgical tool. The one or more controllers control the robotic manipulator for enabling the surgical tool to perform fine cutting of the first portion in relation to the first virtual boundary. The one or more controllers control the robotic manipulator for enabling the surgical tool to perform bulk cutting of the second portion of the anatomy.
US12035976B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for predicting coronary plaque vulnerability, using a computer system. One method includes acquiring anatomical image data of at least part of the patient's vascular system; performing, using a processor, one or more image characteristics analysis, geometrical analysis, computational fluid dynamics analysis, and structural mechanics analysis on the anatomical image data; predicting, using the processor, a coronary plaque vulnerability present in the patient's vascular system, wherein predicting the coronary plaque vulnerability includes calculating an adverse plaque characteristic based on results of the one or more of image characteristics analysis, geometrical analysis, computational fluid dynamics analysis, and structural mechanics analysis of the anatomical image data; and reporting, using the processor, the calculated adverse plaque characteristic.
US12035973B2
A method for detecting a stressed state, including a step of detecting a stressed state of a subject based on a tomographic image of a choroid of the subject, and a stress detection apparatus including: an image acquisition unit that acquires a tomographic image of a choroid of a subject; a calculation unit that calculates a choroidal thickness or a volume of the choroid based on the tomographic image; and a detection unit that detects a stressed state of the subject based on the choroidal thickness or the volume of the choroid.
US12035972B2
A trephination apparatus can include a first member, a blade, and a second member. The first member can include a through-aperture and a first internal chamber. The first member can also include opening to the first internal chamber that can surround the through-aperture in a plane. The blade can have an outwardly-facing male profile at least partially matching the through-aperture and have a cutting edge. The second member can include a first body sized to be received in the through-aperture with the blade. The blade can be positionable between the first body and the female profile at the second opening. The second member can also include a second internal chamber with an opening extending about the aperture axis in the plane with an opening to the first internal chamber.
US12035970B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a system for processing image data from an intraoperative diagnostic device in real-time during an ophthalmic procedure. The system comprises an image capture element that captures a grayscale image of a first size and an image processing element that scales the grayscale image from the first size to a second size. The system also comprises a two-stage classification model comprising: a feature extraction stage to process the scaled grayscale image and generate a feature vector based on the scaled grayscale image and a classification stage to process the feature vector and generate an output vector. The image processing element is further configured to determine an image quality of the obtained grayscale image based on the output vector for display to an operator and the image quality of the obtained grayscale image indicates a probability that the obtained grayscale image includes an artifact.
US12035963B2
A system and method of treating tissue of a patient's body includes providing a power source coupled to at least one probe assembly. The probe assembly has at least one an elongate member with a distal region and a proximal region. The distal region has an electrically and thermally-conductive energy delivery device that includes one or more internal lumens and an electrically and thermally-conductive protrusion having a temperature sensing element. The method also includes inserting the energy delivery device into the patient's body. Further, the method includes routing the energy delivery device to the tissue of the patient's body. Moreover, the method includes simultaneously circulating the cooling fluid through the internal lumens via at least one pump assembly and delivering energy from the power source to the tissue through the energy delivery device. The method further includes actively controlling energy delivered to the tissue by controlling an amount of energy delivered through the energy delivery device and by controlling a flow rate of the pump assembly.
US12035962B2
A method for tumor suppression. The method includes inserting an active part of a wire into a cancerous tumor, electrostatically stimulating cancer cells of the cancerous tumor by injecting positive electrostatic charges to the cancer cells, and reducing size of the cancerous tumor responsive to the electrostatically stimulating cancer cells of the cancerous tumor. The active part of the wire is located at a first end of the wire. Injecting the positive electrostatic charges to the cancer cells includes accumulating the positive electrostatic charges on the inserted active part of the wire, and generating a positive electrostatic charge flow through the cancerous tumor responsive to accumulating the positive electrostatic charges on the inserted active part of the wire.
US12035958B2
A hemostatic surgical blade is formed of five symmetrically layers. A martensitic stainless steel core with oppositely disposed faces is bonded to layers exhibiting a high thermal conductivity which, in turn, are supported by buttressing layers of austenitic stainless steel. A thin aluminum layer is deposited on one side of blade blanks to enable chemical reaction bonding to electrically insulative dielectric inks formulated for use with aluminum substrates. The blade is heated by a blade heating circuit that is manufactured by thick-film printing and firing an electrically resistive heating element layer and an electrically conductive leads on an electrically insulative dielectric layer with all layers subsequently covered by a thick-film printed electrically insulative dielectric overcoat. Tissue contacting portions of blade are coated with a very thin non-stick coating. The surgical blade operates at a temperature below the threshold for pyrolysis and/or thermal decomposition of human tissue and body fluids.
US12035957B2
A jet impingement cooling apparatus is provided including a housing having a surface to be directed at a treatment area, an optically transparent region on the surface of the housing through which electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from a source can be directed from the housing to the treatment area, and at least one opening on the surface of the housing through which a fluid flow can be directed to the treatment area to maintain the treatment area at a therapeutically acceptable temperature range while avoiding interference with the EMR being directed at the treatment area.
US12035956B2
An energy module is disclosed. The energy module includes a real time clock and a control circuit coupled to the real time clock. The circuit is configured to detect the presence of a surgical instrument coupled to the energy module, track usage of the surgical instrument in real time based on the real time clock, and deactivate the surgical instrument based on a predetermined total elapsed time based on the real time clock.
US12035947B2
A plurality of individual tools is provided where each tool is uniquely configured to perform a step or a portion of a step in a novel procedure associated with the implantation of a stabilizing device (e.g., an interspinous spacer) for stabilizing at least one spinal motion segment. The tools are usable individually, or more preferably as a tooling system in which the tools are collectively employed to implant an interspinous spacer, generally in a minimally invasive manner. For example, each of the tools is arranged with coordinated markings and/or other features to ensure consistent depths of insertion, proper orientation of the tools with respect to each other or an anatomical feature of the patient, and precise delivery of the spacer to maintain safe positioning throughout the implantation procedure.
US12035944B2
Disclosed herein are external fixation frames for correcting bone deformities. The external fixation frames include a top fixation ring and a bottom fixation ring coupled to one another by at least two struts. A half ring is coupled to bottom fixation ring. The bottom fixation ring is u-shaped. One or more rocker members may be coupled to the bottom fixation ring. The half ring may be hingedly coupled to the bottom fixation ring such that it can rotate with respect to the bottom fixation ring from a first position to a second position.
US12035943B2
The present invention includes a method and devices for treating osteonecrosis in, e.g., children, adolescents, and adults comprising: identifying a subject in need of treatment for osteonecrosis; drilling two or more holes into a bone in need of treatment for osteonecrosis; inserting two or more needles or cannulas into the holes in the bone; washing an interior of the bone with a washing fluid introduced through one or more of the needles or cannulas inserted into the bone; and after washing the interior of the bone introducing one or more bone growth promoting materials or cells into the bone.
US12035935B2
An ultrasonic surgical instrument includes an end effector with an ultrasonic blade, an acoustic waveguide, an ultrasonic transducer assembly, and a carrier. At least a proximal portion of the acoustic waveguide extends along a longitudinal axis. The ultrasonic transducer assembly is operatively coupled with the acoustic waveguide. The carrier is configured to translate the end effector. The carrier includes a carriage and a translation driver. The carriage movably supports the ultrasonic transducer assembly along the longitudinal axis. The translation driver is configured to translate the carriage and the ultrasonic transducer assembly along the longitudinal axis so that the ultrasonic transducer assembly moves from a proximal position along the longitudinal axis to a distal position along the longitudinal axis for inserting the ultrasonic blade into a patient.
US12035932B1
A catheter for treating an occlusion in a body lumen includes an elongate tube; a member sealed to a distal end of the elongate tube that is fillable with a conductive fluid; a cylindrical conductive sheath circumferentially mounted around the elongate tube within the member, the conductive sheath comprising a slot extending along a length of the conductive sheath; and a wire at least partially disposed in the slot, wherein a distal end of the wire is spaced apart from the conductive sheath by a gap in an arrangement such that when a voltage pulse is supplied to the insulated wire current flows across the gap to generate cavitation bubbles and/or shock waves.
US12035928B2
An instrument for use in entering bone, comprising a blade having at least two prongs and a center cannulation to accommodate a guide wire, wherein the center-cannulated guide wire allows for precise placement of the instrument within the proximal femoral neck of an individual in the treatment of certain orthopedic conditions, including those related to the surgical correction of specific deformities, particular in children and adolescents, namely, proximal femoral deformities.
US12035925B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems for performing a surgical procedure using a power tool or power instrument with systems, devices and/or control units for reducing vibration of the power tool or power instrument.
US12035910B2
A surgical end effector includes a cartridge. The cartridge includes first and second sensor arrays disposed in the cartridge. The first sensor array is configured to sense a function of a first component located within the cartridge and the second sensor array is configured to sense a function of a second component located within the cartridge. The first and second sensor arrays are electrically coupled to an electronic circuit. The electronic circuit includes a control circuit configured to receive signal samples from the first sensor array, receive signal samples from the second sensor array, and process the signals samples received from the first and second sensor arrays to determine a status of the cartridge.
US12035909B2
A surgical stapling device includes a tool assembly and a drive assembly for actuating the tool assembly. The tool assembly includes an anvil assembly that defines a notch and a cartridge assembly that includes a staple cartridge having a cartridge body that supports staples and pushers and an actuation sled that supports a knife. The drive assembly supports a lockout mechanism that is movable between unlocked position and locked positions. The knife includes a protrusion that engages the lockout mechanism to move the lockout mechanism to the unlocked position as the drive assembly is moved from a retracted position towards an advanced position. When a knife is not present within the staple cartridge, the lockout mechanism remains in the unlocked position to prevent advancement of the drive assembly.
US12035898B2
Methods and systems for closing an opening or defect in tissue, closing a lumen or tubular structure, cinching or remodeling a cavity or repairing a valve preferably utilizing a purse string or elastic device. The preferred devices and methods are directed toward catheter-based percutaneous, transvascular techniques used to facilitate placement of the devices within lumens, such as blood vessels, or on or within the heart to perform structural defect repair, such as valvular or ventricular remodeling. In some methods, the catheter is positioned within the right ventricle, wherein the myocardial wall or left ventricle may be accessed through the septal wall to position a device configured to permit reshaping of the ventricle. The device may include a line or a plurality of anchors interconnected by a line. In one arrangement, the line is a coiled member.
US12035896B2
A device and method for color correction of two camera systems each having an imaging device and an illumination source. The camera systems are separately white balanced with the imaging device outside a scene. Their white balance gains and color correction matrices are saved. Based on the measurements, combined white balance gains and combined color correction matrices are computed and saved. Thereafter, with the imaging devices in a scene, performing white balancing by measuring the R, G, and B values of both imaging devices together, and then white balancing by measuring the R, G, and B values of each separate imaging device with the other camera system's light off. Comparisons are made of each camera's scene measurements against the combined scene measurements. If they are significantly different, the combined light set of white balance gain and color correction matrix is applied to digital signal processing paths of each camera system.
US12035889B2
Tissue modification devices are provided. Aspects of the devices include an elongated member having a proximal end and a distal end. The distal end of the elongated member is dimensioned to pass through a minimally invasive body opening and includes a distal end integrated visualization sensor and tissue modifier. In some instances, the devices further include an integrated articulation mechanism that imparts steerabilily to at least one of the visualization sensor, the tissue modifier and the distal end of the elongated member. Also provided are methods of modifying internal target tissue of a subject using the tissue modification devices.
US12035881B2
A method is provided for controlling a tip velocity of an articulating flexible endoscope. The method comprises: generating a command to move a tip of an elongated member of the articulating flexible endoscope at an expected velocity; receiving sensor data acquired by a sensor disposed at a distal tip portion of the elongated member to calculate a tip velocity; calculate a disparity between the expected velocity and the tip velocity; and controlling the tip velocity based on the disparity.
US12035875B2
A vacuum cleaner has a portable cleaning unit that is removably mounted to the surface cleaning head. The vacuum cleaner is operable in a floor cleaning configuration in which the portable cleaning unit is mounted to the surface cleaning head and is part of the air flow path through the vacuum cleaner. The portable cleaning unit is also useable in a portable cleaning configuration in which the portable cleaning unit is removed from the surface cleaning head.
US12035873B2
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a housing including a base adapted for movement across a surface to be cleaned, a fluid delivery system, and a recovery system. The surface cleaning apparatus can be configured to clean multiple surfaces, including hard and soft surfaces, and for different cleaning modes, including wet cleaning, dry vacuum cleaning, and self-cleaning. A brushroll is provided on the base, along with various wipers, squeegees, and/or fluid dispensers.
US12035872B2
A vacuum cleaner including a dirty air inlet, a fluid flow path extending from the dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet, a fluid flow motor positioned in the fluid flow path, and a filter assembly positioned in the fluid flow path. The filter assembly including a first cylindrical filter and a second cylindrical filter nested within and removable from the first cylindrical filter. An inner diameter of the first cylindrical filter is smaller than an outer diameter of the second cylindrical filter such that the second cylindrical filter is compressed in order to be nested within the first cylindrical filter.
US12035867B2
An acoustically insulated machine including a source of noise positioned within a housing, a first insulation member positioned within the housing and including a first porous sound absorbing layer and a first dense layer, and a second insulation member positioned within the housing and including a second porous sound absorbing layer and a second dense layer. The first insulation member being is positioned closer to the internal source of noise than the second insulation member and the first insulation member being spaced apart from the second insulation member such that an air gap is formed between the first insulation member and the second insulation member.
US12035860B2
A cleaning article. The cleaning article has a laminate construction. The cleaning article comprises a sheet and a hydrophilic gather strip element joined together at plural bonds. The gather strip element has plural layers superimposed upon one another, providing strips extending outwardly from the bonds. Different layers are differentially bonded, to provide a construction which allows the strips to advantageously present a dynamically changing area to the target surface during cleaning, under normal usage conditions. By changing the surface area, more liquids, and associated debris, can be cleaned from the target surface.
US12035859B2
A carpet cleaning accessory device is provided. The carpet cleaning accessory device comprises an aperture stop configured to fit between an aperture frame and an aperture gate where the aperture stop has at least a first hole and a second hole. The device also includes a conduit having at least a first opening and a second opening, where the conduit is secured inside the aperture stop such that the first opening couples with the first hole and the second opening couples with the second hole. A curtain adapted to couple to the aperture frame and the aperture gate using a coupling assembly is also included to substantially block an opening between the aperture gate and the aperture frame.
US12035857B1
An extraction cleaner may include a cleaner body including a pump and a suction motor, a supply tank configured to be removably coupled to the cleaner body and configured to receive a first cleaning fluid, an additive tank configured to receive a second cleaning fluid, a recovery tank configured to be removably coupled to the cleaner body, and a cleaning tool including a fluid applicator and a cleaning assembly, the fluid applicator is configured to deliver one of the first cleaning fluid or a mixture of the first cleaning fluid and the second cleaning fluid to a surface to be cleaned and the cleaning assembly is configured to extract at least a portion of the delivered first cleaning fluid or at least a portion of the delivered mixture.
US12035856B2
A mouthwash dispenser capable of automatic sensing and supply, including a housing and a cup; wherein a side of the housing defines a liquid outlet, a storage chamber is defined in the housing, and a deflector device and a control main board are arranged in the housing; the deflector device is arranged with an inlet end connected to the storage chamber and an outlet end connected to the liquid outlet; the housing is arranged with a first sensor electrically coupled with the control main board in a proximity to the liquid outlet; the cup is arranged with a second sensor; a transmission signal is generated on the second sensor in response to the second sensor approaching the first sensor.
US12035854B2
A soap container includes: a first housing member having an inner side and an outer side; and a second housing member having an inner side and an outer side; wherein the first housing member and the second housing member are releasably couplable to each other to form a housing of the soap container, and wherein the soap container is adapted to have a soap held between the inside of the first housing member and the inside of the second housing member; wherein the first housing member comprises a spacer member extending from the inside of the first housing member toward the inside of the soap container in the closed state of the soap container; and wherein the spacer member comprises a retaining member having a first magnetic property. Additionally, a coupling member has a second magnetic property, the coupling member being adapted to be mechanically coupled to the soap. The first magnetic property and the second magnetic property are adapted to magnetically attract the retaining member and the coupling member such that the coupling member is retained distant from the inside of the first housing member and the inside of the second housing member.
US12035852B2
A towel fastener is provided. The device includes a flexible strap having a first end opposite a second end. A pair of fastener plates is hingedly affixed to a first end of the flexible strap. The pair of fastener plates are movable between an open position and a closed position, wherein the pair of fastener plates are parallel when in the closed position. A complementary fastener is disposed on each of the pair of fastener plates, such that the pair of fastener plates are removably securable in the closed position. In one embodiment, a clasp is slidably positioned over the flexible strap and removably secures the flexible strap in a looped configuration about a support surface. In another embodiment, a tongue is disposed on the flexible strap, wherein the tongue slidably secures within a track system. In other embodiments, a towel is integrally affixed to a pair of towel fasteners.
US12035843B2
An actively heated or cooled dishware or serverware device (e.g., a plate, a bowl, a serving dish, such as a platter) can have a temperature control system that can include one or more heating or cooling elements operable to heat or cool a surface of the dishware or serverware device to thereby heat or cool the food on said surface.
US12035836B2
A cookware assembly including a cooking vessel with a vessel side wall and an elongated handle extending outwardly from the sidewall, a cover, an opening in at least one of the vessel side wall and the cover in an area above the elongated handle, and a utensil, where the handle of the utensil rests in relation to the elongated handle and the opening permits the utensil component to reside in the interior of the covered cooking vessel when the cover is on the cooking vessel. The cover can be placed on the cooking vessel in a plurality of positions, to allow the utensil to pass to the interior of the cooking vessel, to allow pouring from the cooking vessel with the cover on, and to seal the cover on the cooking vessel without the utensil. An auxiliary vessel can also be included as part of the cooking assembly.
US12035835B2
A multifunctional cooker, includes a cooker body and cooker covers which are connectable with the cooker body, wherein the multifunctional cooker is provided with at least two cooker covers, the cooker covers is arranged separately with respect to the cooker body, at least one cooker cover is provided with an air fryer assembly, and at least one cooker cover is provided with a pressure cooker assembly. By integrating the functions of pressure cooking and air baking, the switch between pressure cooker function and air fryer function is realized and the purpose of one cooker with multiple functions is realized.
US12035828B2
The invention relates to the field of satisfying human needs and specifically relates to the structure of a device for putting on footwear. The shoe horn consists of a blade in the form of a trapezoid rod with a longitudinal groove along its entire length. The guard is mounted on the blade using the press fitting method. A grip is shaped as a steel tube and press fitted on the narrowed part of the blade and touching the guard. A wedge with a pommel is press fitted into the tube of the grip. The design of the invention ensures perfect balance of the shoe horn.
US12035812B2
An automated system and method are disclosed for producing an inflatable product having a first sheet, a second sheet, and a plurality of tensioning structures between the first and second sheets. The system includes an upstream tensioning structure production subsystem that produces the tensioning structures and a downstream preassembly production subsystem that couples the tensioning structures to the first and second sheets. The subsystems may operate simultaneously to produce the inflatable product in an automated, efficient, and repeatable manner.
US12035811B1
The present pull up push down bed rail includes first and second bases that engage a bed, upper and lower cross supports extending between the bases to be adjacent to a near side of the bed to close off any gap between the near side of the bed and the bed rail, and a U-shaped support member having end members that engage the bases. The bases include through openings for the end members that extend into and through the through openings such that the U-shaped support member is pushable down, after which the U-shaped support member is pullable up. Sheeting is engaged to the U-shaped support member.
US12035808B2
A mechanism for transforming furniture from a sitting position to a lying down position has right and left jacks with identical design, which are a mirror reflection of each other, connected by a synchronisation mechanism. Each jack has a fastening plate which attaches the jack to the furniture body, angle bars, upper and lower for connecting with the mattresses, a spring and a front pull rod and rear pull rod with centre arms. Each jack has a backrest driving sub-assembly created from a backrest rotation pull rod and support to be connected with the backrest of the furniture, whereas the backrest rotation pull rod is connected in an articulated manner on one end with the bottom end of the rear pull rod, and on the second end is connected in an articulated manner with the support connected in an articulated manner to the fastening plate.
US12035801B2
A magnetic bottle brush that has a handle with an upper portion and a lower portion and a brush head attached to the upper portion of the handle. A magnetic element is disposed in the lower portion of the handle that exerts a magnetic attraction force between the magnetic bottle brush and an accompanying magnetic base.
US12035800B2
An electric toothbrushing device is disclosed, the device comprising vibration means for producing vibration of a toothbrush head and a controller for controlling the vibration means. The device also comprises a motion sensor for sensing motion of the toothbrushing device to produce motion data, and a signal analysis unit for analysing the motion data to produce a feedback signal. The controller is arranged to adjust the vibration produced by the vibration means in dependence on the feedback signal. Such a configuration can be used to improve the feedback provided to the user and/or help to correct deficiencies in the user's brushing technique.
US12035783B2
Golf shoes having improved constructions are provided. The golf shoes include upper, midsole, and outsole sections. The upper may be made of a soft, breathable leather material. The midsole includes an upper region formed from a first material such as a foamed ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA); and a lower region formed from a second material such as a foamed ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), wherein the materials have different hardness levels. A fiber-reinforced composite plate such as, for example, a carbon fiber plate is disposed in the midsole. The outsole contains different traction members arranged in a precise geometric structure that helps provide improved stability and traction.
US12035777B2
The present invention relates to a shoe sole including a first base component, at least one second top component connected to the first base component, as well as at least one third intermediate component, interposed between the first base component and the second top component.
US12035773B2
A light funneled illuminated edge decoration assembly includes a support shaft having a bottom end and a top end. Each of a plurality of decorative elements is comprised of a single, unitary panel. The decorative elements each have a central area with an aperture extending therethrough. The support shaft is extendable through the apertures to allow the decorative elements to be stacked on each other. Each of the decorative elements has an upper surface and a lower surface each being non-planer. The decorative elements are each comprised of a fluorescent acrylic material. A retention member is mounted on the support shaft and releasably engages the decorative elements to retain the decorative elements on the support shaft.
US12035768B2
A thin coated supported glove, having a thin knitted liner, wherein the thin knitted liner has a plurality of finger components, a thumb component, a backhand component, and a palm component. The thin knitted liner comprises a covered yarn having a first yarn and a second yarn, wherein the first yarn is a core yarn that is 20 denier or less, wherein the second yarn is at least one of an intermingled yarn or a first wrapping yarn surrounding the core yarn, wherein the second yarn is 30 denier or less; and a thin polymeric coating adhered to the thin knitted liner.
US12035766B2
A face mask support assembly includes a clip portion and an engagement portion. The clip portion is configured to attach to hair of a user. The engagement portion is coupled to the clip portion and is configured to engage one or more ties of a face mask to thereby support the face mask on the user.
US12035752B2
A novel water filtration apparatus is disclosed having a downstem assembly from which a combustion aerosol or an aerosol is generated. The water filtration apparatus including a rotatable water filtration assembly rotatably mounted about a fixed shaft member and including two chambers generally separated by a divider wall having drain passage formed therein and wherein the rotatable water filtration assembly is normally oriented vertically with one chamber being disposed over the other and wherein said chamber is adapted to contain a volume of liquid that moves from one chamber to the other through the drain passage in response to rotating the rotatable water filtration assembly one-half turn. Routing of the aerosol through an upper disposed chamber and percolating the aerosol through the liquid and as the liquid within said chamber moves from the upper oriented chamber to the lower oriented chamber after each half turn, the falling liquid creating a vacuum space above the falling liquid in the upper chamber that draws air through the downstem assembly and the aerosol flowing and percolating into the upper disposed chamber while aerosol contained in the lower chamber is exhausted from said chamber via an exhaust opening towards a mouthpiece assembly.
US12035747B2
An aerosol-generating article (10) comprises an aerosol-generating substrate (12) and a mouthpiece (14) secured to a downstream end of the aerosol-generating substrate (12), the mouthpiece (14) comprising at least one segment of filter material (18, 20) and a liquid delivery element (22). The liquid delivery element (22) comprises: an upstream end and a downstream end; a deformable outer container (28) having at least one flexible wall (32) defining a cavity (40), the cavity (40) containing a liquid (42); and a frangible tubular element (30) mounted within the cavity (40) of the deformable outer container (28) and defining a longitudinal channel (46) extending through the deformable outer container (28) between the upstream end and the downstream end of the liquid delivery element (22).
US12035745B2
A tobacco product tip assembly. The tobacco product tip assembly includes a tip portion comprising a tip wall defining an inhalation chamber; the tip portion extending into a body portion comprising a body wall defining an insertion chamber, the insertion chamber being in communication with the inhalation chamber; the body wall comprising a mechanical fastener. A tobacco product assembly and a process for producing a tobacco product assembly are also included.
US12035743B2
A material handling machine dispenses uniformly metered charges of smoking material from a bulk supply, by means of a metered material feeder that has a first hopper with an opening disposed over a first horizontal chute. The first chute is mounted on slanted springs and has a dispensing end above a second chute also mounted upon slanted springs. The second chute discharges onto a tippable weighing tray above a set of nested hoppers in which one is fixed and the other is vertically movable. A weight sensor may be attached to the tippable tray or the fixed hopper, or both. The move-able hopper may comprise a forming belt indenter to form a trough in a cigarette rolling apparatus. The first hopper may include an agitator that has at least one vertical rod for stirring the bulk material. The dispensing end of the first chute may also include a rotating rake.
US12035737B2
Methods of production of edible filamentous fungal biomat formulations are provided as standalone protein sources and/or protein ingredients in foodstuffs as well as a one-time use or repeated use self-contained biomat reactor comprising a container with at least one compartment and placed within the compartment(s), a feedstock, a fungal inoculum, a gas-permeable membrane, and optionally a liquid nutrient medium.
US12035732B1
The disclosed invention is a concentrated liquid beverage enhancer for wine health mixtures. There is a demand for healthy and natural food products. The world's and United States leading cause of death is cardiovascular disease (CVD) from heart attacks, strokes, and dementia due to diet, environmental and genetic factors among other cofactors such as obesity and lack of exercise. In the 1990's drinking several glasses of red wine a day was found as reducing CVD and extensive research has since resulted in countless scholarly articles, patents and patent applications on the beneficial use of red wine extracts in food as dietary supplements. In this invention we provide a novel composition of mixtures with wine extract that are flavorful and stable for bulk transport up to a concentration where 4-5 ml equals a 150 ml glass of red wine with a convenient means for the consumer to add 1 glass of wine equivalent to enhance their food or beverage.
US12035723B1
A method of making an oat composition is provided. The method includes adding oat flour to water. The method further includes adding a first enzyme to the oat-water mixture. The method further includes increasing the temperature of the oat-water mixture with the first enzyme, and maintaining the increased temperature of the oat-water mixture with the first enzyme. The method further includes cooling the oat-water mixture with the first enzyme. The method further includes adding an enzyme blend to the oat-water mixture with the first enzyme. The method further includes removing an amount of solids from the third enzyme oat-water mixture to form the oat composition. The method is able to achieve higher yields, increased shelf stability, and lower waste from manufacturing compared to conventional oat-based food composition manufacturing methods.
US12035710B2
Described herein is the preparation of an aqueous hop extract and a boiling water hop extract prepared from dried hop cones that were ground prior to extraction. As discussed below, extracts were prepared from a number of different hop varieties and were tested against a number of clinically relevant bacterial strains. As discussed herein, surprisingly, the boiling water extract showed greater antibacterial activity than the aqueous extract.
US12035706B2
A boom height control system for an agricultural crop sprayer includes a spray boom and an actuator arranged to adjust a position of at least a portion of the spray boom in response to a position adjustment command. A speed sensor is provided to measure a forward speed of the sprayer and generate a speed value. A position sensor is provided to measure a current position of the spray boom portion and generate a current position value. A controller is in communication with the speed sensor, the position sensor and the actuator. The controller is configured to generate the position adjustment command based upon a target position value, a current position value and a speed value.
US12035704B2
A rodent monitoring or killing mechanism includes a housing body having a resistive sensor and a wash down sensor operatively coupled to the resistive sensor. The wash down sensor distinguishes between the presence of water within the housing body and the presence of a rodent according to at least one measurement of resistance from the resistive sensor. The at least one measurement of resistance is created by contact of the resistance sensor with the water or the rodent.
US12035703B2
An animal trap for safely trapping animals that may be safely set with a single hand. The trap has a frame with an opening and a pair of doors that are pivotally affixed to the frame adjacent to the opening. The doors are movable between an open and closed position. A rotating assembly is connected to each door through a corresponding linkage that are pivotally connected to the rotating assembly and one of the doors. The rotating assembly is rotatably affixed to the frame and rotatable between a set position and a tripped position about an axis. A spring biases one of the doors toward its closed position and when the rotating assembly is in its set position. A trigger mechanism is pivotally affixed to the frame and has a set position and a tripped position, rotating the trigger mechanism will trip the trap.
US12035698B2
The present disclosure provides an integrated rice-crayfish-oriental river prawn planting-breeding method. The method includes the following steps: stocking crayfish postlarvae in a paddy field as an integrated rice-crayfish-oriental river prawn farming area from February to March, catching and marketing the crayfish from May to June; planting in mid-June, sun-drying rice seedlings in the field in late June, cleaning and disinfecting a ring ditch surrounding the paddy field, and transplanting some aquatic plants; stocking oriental river prawn postlarvae in early July; harvesting ripe rice in late October; and catching and marketing the oriental river prawns in November. On the premise that the rice planting area is not reduced, the present disclosure realizes the effective expansion of time and space of the paddy field and improves comprehensive benefits of rice-fish farming in the form of integrated rice-crayfish-oriental river prawn planting-breeding.
US12035693B2
An adjustable feeder pan system for feeding poultry and a related method is provided. The feeder pan system includes a cone portion, an excluder portion that includes a number of anti-rake and radially disposed fins, a skirt, a feed pan, a cap, and optionally a feed shut-off component. The cone includes a pair of stops that may selectively engage with one of a number of pairs of corresponding slots of varying depths on the excluder portion so as to provide multiple feed levels as desired and depending upon the size and age of the poultry being fed.
US12035690B2
A cat scratcher having a frame of sidewalls encompassing a block of open-fluted cardboard and a planar back member with a removable panel. Removing the panel exposes a surface of the block of open-fluted cardboard. The panel may be defined by perforations in the planar back member.
US12035676B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011233. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011233, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011233 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011233.
US12035675B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011229. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011229, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011229 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011229.
US12035674B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011189. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011189, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011189 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011189.
US12035672B1
A novel maize variety designated 1PFWA03 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 1PFWA03 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 1PFWA03 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 1PFWA03 or a locus conversion of 1PFWA03 with another maize variety.
US12035668B1
A novel sorghum variety designated 2PDET37R and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a plant comprise crossing sorghum variety 2PDET37R with another plant. Sorghum seed, plants and plant parts produced by crossing sorghum variety 2PDET37R with another plant are described. Methods for producing a plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 2PDET37R include one or both of backcross conversion and transformation. Hybrid sorghum seed, plants or plant parts produced by crossing the sorghum variety 2PDET37R or a locus conversion of 2PDET37R with another sorghum variety are disclosed.
US12035667B2
Corn plants exhibiting broad-spectrum resistance to Exserohilum turcicum are provided, together with methods of producing, identifying, or selecting plants or germplasm with a Exserohilum turcicum resistance phenotype. Such plants include sweet corn plants as well as agronomically elite dent corn plants comprising introgressed genomic regions conferring disease resistance. Compositions, including novel polymorphic markers and methods for producing, breeding, identifying, and selecting plants or germplasm with a disease resistance phenotype are further provided.
US12035656B2
A method for controlling one or more operating parameters of a forage harvester includes picking up harvested crop from a field by means of a harvesting attachment, processing the harvested crop by means of a chopping device and/or a post-processing device, and ejecting the processed harvested crop onto a loading container. An image of the processed ground-borne harvested crop is recorded by a camera, and an operating parameter of the forage harvester is set or adjusted with a control unit using the image.
US12035649B2
An agricultural vehicle includes: a chassis; at least one adjustable agricultural tool carried by the chassis and configured to function according to at least one operating parameter; and a controller operably coupled to the at least one adjustable agricultural tool. The controller is configured to: generate a user profile that includes at least one operating parameter setting corresponding to the at least one operating parameter; output the user profile to an external device; receive a modified user profile that includes at least one suggested parameter setting corresponding to at least one suggested operating parameter for at the least one adjustable agricultural tool; and cause adjustment of the at least one adjustable agricultural tool so the at least one adjustable agricultural tool functions according to the at least one suggested operating parameter.
US12041864B2
Surface supported quantum wells with a confined surface state capture and stably confine neutral atoms and molecules in a nanometer precise environment. Depending on the physico-chemical conditions in the capturing process, the degree of occupancy, the temperature of the solid substrate, and/or the history of external stimuli like electromagnetic field pulses, these atoms, molecules or clusters assume unique configurations. The atoms or molecules are able to remain coupled to the quantum-well specific electronic state in the confinement and as such exhibit local and delocalized quantum entanglement. The capturing potential arises from the superposition of Pauli repulsion between the captured object and the quantum well-specific confined electronic state. This occurs within on-surface atomic or supramolecular assemblies or surface supported coordination or covalent networks.
US12041863B2
A resistive random access memory (RRAM) structure includes a RRAM cell, spacers and a dielectric layer. The RRAM cell is disposed on a substrate. The spacers are disposed beside the RRAM cell, wherein widths of top surfaces of the spacers are larger than or equal to widths of bottom surfaces of the spacers. The dielectric layer blanketly covers the substrate and sandwiches the RRAM cell, wherein the spacers are located in the dielectric layer. A method for forming said resistive random access memory (RRAM) structure is also provided.
US12041846B2
A compound having the formula: Formula I is disclosed. The compound is useful as emitters in OLEDs.
US12041843B2
A flexible substrate and a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device are disclosed. The flexible substrate includes a first flexible substrate, a porous film layer disposed on the first flexible substrate, a second flexible substrate disposed on the porous film layer. The porous film layer is configured to increase adhesion between the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate.
US12041840B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods for forming an organic light emitting diode (OLED) device. Forming the OLED device comprises depositing a first barrier layer on a substrate having an OLED structure disposed thereon. A first sublayer of a buffer layer is then deposited on the first barrier layer. The first sublayer of the buffer layer is cured with a mixed gas plasma. Curing the first sublayer comprises generating water from the mixed gas plasma in a process chamber in which the curing occurs. The deposition of the first sublayer and the curing of the first sublayer is repeated one or more times to form a completed buffer layer. A second barrier layer is then deposited on the completed buffer layer.
US12041834B2
A display device includes: a substrate, a plurality of pixel islands, and a plurality of traces. The substrate is stretchable. The plurality of pixel islands are disposed over the substrate. The plurality of traces respectively connect two adjacent pixel islands of the plurality of pixel islands, and each of the traces extends in a first main direction and then extends in a second main direction through a turning angle.
US12041833B2
A display apparatus includes: a first substrate having a front surface and a rear surface; a first display layer disposed on the front surface of the first substrate, the first display layer configured to emit light in a front direction; a second display layer disposed on the rear surface of the first substrate, the second display layer configured to emit light in a rear direction; and a pressure sensor disposed on the rear surface of the first substrate, the pressure sensor configured to sense a pressure of a touch of a user.
US12041829B2
The present disclosure provides a chip-on-film structure, a display apparatus and a methods for manufacturing the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a base substrate; a bonding structure disposed on the base substrate; and a chip-on-film COF structure, wherein the COF structure and a side of the bonding structure that is away from the base substrate are clamped with each other, and the COF structure is bonded to the side of the bonding structure that is away from the base substrate; wherein when the COF structure and the bonding structure are bonded, the COF structure contacts both a first surface and a second surface of the bonding structure at the side of the bonding structure that is away from the base substrate, wherein the first surface is parallel to the base substrate, and the second surface is at an angle with the first surface.
US12041827B2
A stretchable display panel includes a stretchable substrate, a plurality of display units, and a wiring portion. The stretchable substrate includes island-shaped areas and hinge areas. Each of the hinge area includes a first hinge area and a second hinge area. The wiring portion at least include a first power line and second power lines. A number of the second power lines disposed in the second hinge area is less than a number of the second power lines disposed in the first hinge area.
US12041821B2
According to one embodiment, a display panel includes a substrate, a first insulating layer, and a plurality of pixels including sub-pixels of a plurality of colors, respectively. Each of the sub-pixels includes a drive transistor, a pixel electrode supplied with a signal having a current value controlled from the drive transistor, and a light emitting element mounted on the pixel electrode. Each of the pixels includes a mounting electrode located to be spaced apart from the pixel electrode. The mounting electrode is in an electrically floating state in a first pixel of the plurality of pixels.
US12041819B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of light-emitting devices and a pixel driving circuit for driving the light-emitting devices to emit light. By using oxide transistors as a compensation transistor, first initialization transistor, and second initialization transistor in the pixel driving circuit, and using low-temperature polysilicon transistors as other transistors, both low leakage current characteristics of the oxide transistors and high mobility characteristics of the low-temperature polysilicon transistors can be achieved, making the circuit more stable.
US12041817B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel having a front area and a side area, a main body supporting the display panel, an auxiliary member arranged inside the main body, and a semi-transmissive mirror arranged between the auxiliary member and the front area, wherein the side area of the display panel may be arranged inside the main body to face the semi-transmissive mirror. Since an image partially emitted from the display panel may be reflected toward the front area, auxiliary members such as a camera, an illumination sensor, and a proximity sensor may be arranged inside the main body (or below a display) to embody a full screen display, whereby a user's satisfaction may be enhanced and a manufacturing process may be simplified.
US12041815B2
A display substrate has a display area and a peripheral area. The display substrate includes a base substrate; an insulating layer on the base substrate and in at least the peripheral area; a plurality of light emitting elements on the base substrate and in the display area; an encapsulating layer on a side of the plurality of light emitting elements distal to the base substrate to encapsulate the plurality of light emitting elements; and a dam layer on a side of the insulating layer distal to the base substrate. The encapsulating layer includes a first inorganic encapsulating sublayer extending from the display area into the peripheral area. The display substrate has a groove extending into the first insulating layer in the peripheral area, and substantially surrounding the display area. The first inorganic encapsulating sublayer extends into at least a portion of the groove.
US12041812B2
A display panel, a method of manufacturing a display panel, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a substrate; a light-emitting device layer arranged on the substrate; a first thin film encapsulation layer including at least one organic layer; a color filter layer; a second thin film encapsulation layer including at least one organic layer; and an adhesive film layer arranged on at least one side of the color filter layer, wherein the adhesive film layer is in direct contact with the color filter layer, and the adhesive film layer and the color filter layer are stacked, and a material of the adhesive film layer has a viscosity greater than a viscosity of a material of the organic layer in each of the first thin film encapsulation layer and the second thin film encapsulation layer.
US12041804B2
A display panel with a display region and a non-display region includes a base substrate; a device layer, disposed on one side of the base substrate, covering the display region, and including a cathode layer; and an encapsulation part, arranged around the device layer in the non-display region and including a metal pad layer surrounding the cathode layer. The metal pad layer and the cathode layer are separated by a gap. The cathode layer has a first irregularly-shaped edge, including first deformed portions and second deformed portions that are alternately distributed. Each first deformed portion extends convexly in a direction toward the metal pad layer, and each second deformed portion extends concavely in a direction away from the metal pad layer. In an extending direction of the first irregularly-shaped edge, a length of the first deformed portion is less than or equal to a length of the second deformed portion.
US12041803B2
A light emitting diode device and a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel, and a display apparatus are provided. The light emitting diode device includes a quantum dot light emitting layer and a hole transport layer on a side of the quantum dot light emitting layer. The hole transport layer includes a perovskite material and an organic hole transport material. The high carrier mobility of the perovskite material can improve the carrier transport performance of the hole transport layer.
US12041802B2
Quantum dots and electroluminescent devices including the same, wherein the quantum dots include a core including a first semiconductor nanocrystal including a zinc chalcogenide; and a shell disposed on the core, the shell including zinc, sulfur, and selenium, wherein the quantum dots have an average particle size of greater than 10 nm, wherein the quantum dots do not include cadmium, and wherein a photoluminescent peak of the quantum dots is present in a wavelength range of greater than or equal to about 430 nm and less than or equal to about 470 nm.
US12041800B2
An imaging device having a color imaging function and an infrared imaging function is provided. The imaging device has a structure in which a first photoelectric conversion device and a second photoelectric conversion device are stacked, and the second photoelectric conversion device generates electric charge by absorbing infrared light and transmits light having a wavelength of a higher energy than that of infrared light. The first photoelectric conversion device is positioned to overlap with the second photoelectric conversion device, and generates electric charge by absorbing light (visible light) passing through the second photoelectric conversion device. Thus, a subpixel for color imaging and a subpixel for infrared imaging can be positioned to overlap with each other, and an infrared imaging function can be added without a decrease in the definition of color imaging.
US12041798B2
A display panel includes an upper display substrate in which first to third pixel regions respectively configured to emit first to third light are defined, and a lower display substrate including first to third light-emitting elements respectively overlapping the first to third pixel regions. The first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element each include one or more first stack parts and one or more first charge generation layers, each of the one or more first stack parts including a first emission layer configured to emit the second light. The third light-emitting element includes one or more second stack parts and one or more second charge generation layers, each of the one or more second stacking parts including a second emission layer configured to emit the third light. The first charge generation layer includes organic dopants, and the second charge generation layer includes inorganic dopants.
US12041783B2
Provided is a ferroelectric memory device having a multi-layer stack disposed over a substrate and including a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of dielectric layers stacked alternately. A channel layer penetrates through the plurality of conductive layers and the plurality of dielectric layers. A plurality of ferroelectric portions are discretely disposed between the channel layer and the plurality of conductive layers. The plurality of ferroelectric portions are vertically separated from one another by one or more non-zero distances.
US12041773B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a stack of word line layers and insulating layers that are stacked alternatingly over a substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a first dielectric trench structure. The first dielectric trench structure is positioned in a bottom select gate (BSG) layer of the word line layers to separate the BSG layer and extends in a first direction of substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a second dielectric trench structure. The second dielectric trench structure is positioned in a top select gate (TSG) layer of the word line layers to separate the TSG layer and extends in the first direction of the substrate. The second dielectric trench structure is offset from the first dielectric trench structure in a second direction of the substrate that is perpendicular to the first direction.
US12041770B2
A field effect transistor includes a source region embedded in a semiconductor material layer, a drain region embedded in the semiconductor material layer and laterally spaced from the source region by a channel, a gate stack including a gate dielectric and a gate electrode, a shallow trench isolation portion embedded in an upper portion of the semiconductor material layer and contacting the drain region and the gate stack, and a concave drain extension region continuously extending underneath the shallow trench isolation portion from a bottom surface of the gate dielectric to a bottom surface of the drain region.
US12041758B2
A data center cooling system, including a support structure having a lower portion and an upper portion, one or more fans supported by the support structure at a height that is equal to or greater than a height of the electronics cabinets, and a heat exchanger having one or more cooling coils supported at the upper portion of the support structure. In some embodiments, the cooling coils can be supported by the upper portion of the support structure so as to be above the top of and/or over one or more of the electronics cabinets. The fans can be configured to draw air from the one or two rows of electronics cabinets and to cause the air to be passed through the heat exchanger to cool the warmer air from the electronics cabinets.
US12041757B2
A modular datacenter facility and a method thereof is provided in accordance with some embodiments. The module datacenter facility can be constructed with an initial set of building modules of different types of functionality. A first building module can be a data-floor building module. A first set of sidewall-connected heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (“HVAC”) units can connect to a sidewall of the modular datacenter facility and use electrical power provided by a first electrical power distribution building module to supply conditioned air into an air-supply plenum of the sidewall to cool computing systems housed in the data-floor building module. The first set of the sidewall-connected HVAC units allow for fewer penetrations in a roof of the data-floor building module, thereby minimizing an amount of leaks potentially occurring in the roof of the ceiling, and thereby minimizing risk of any damage to the computing systems.
US12041756B2
A fan cage includes a first cage part comprising a cage body and a plurality of engagement structures respectively located at different sides of an opening portion of the cage body, a second cage part located at the opening portion of the first cage part, and a latch mechanism disposed on the second cage part. The latch mechanism includes a plurality of latch components slidably disposed on the second cage part and a link component connected to the plurality of latch components. The latch components are movably connected by each other via the link component and are selectively engaged with the engagement structures of the first cage part, respectively.
US12041754B1
A heat sink for cooling computing devices such as in a data center is disclosed. The heat sink includes a plurality of fin stages arranged in spaced relation between an intake side and an exhaust side. The plurality of fin stages have a height that increases from the intake side to the exhaust side.
US12041752B2
An electronic device includes: a circuit board including a substrate and at least one first electronic element disposed on one side of the substrate; a first heat dissipation component; and a first heat conduction component including a first heat conduction plate and at least one first heat conduction member disposed on the first heat conduction plate and corresponding to the at least one first electronic element. A material of the first heat conduction component is different from that of the first heat dissipation component, and the first heat conduction component is disposed between the first heat dissipation component and the circuit board.
US12041748B2
A cooling apparatus includes: a plurality of cooling units each including a plurality of tube main bodies and a plurality of headers, each tube main body defining a cooling flow path that passes through an inside of the tube main body, and each header being disposed at both sides of the tube main body and vertically assembled based on the plurality of tube main bodies being stacked to thereby connect the cooling flow paths, a double-sided chip module disposed between at least two cooling units, and a heat-radiating adhesion portion attaching the double-sided chip module to the cooling unit. A set distance between the cooling unit and the double-sided chip module is maintained based on the plurality of headers being vertically assembled in contact with each other and equal to or less than a thickness of the heat-radiating adhesion portion.
US12041743B2
A faceplate that is attached to a circuit board on the side of an extraction direction in which the circuit board is extracted from a slot includes: a main body that covers an opening of the slot; and two handle portions that are disposed respectively at both ends of the main body with respect to a width direction of the circuit board and that extend in the extraction direction. The two handle portions have respective distal ends shifted from each other in a thickness direction of the circuit board. Multiple slots are formed in a casing of an electronic device along a width direction thereof.
US12041738B2
A foldable display may have a display cover layer and a flexible display panel. The foldable display may bend around a bend axis. The display panel may have an array of pixels configured to display an image through the display cover layer. The display cover layer may be formed from a layer of glass. A recess may be formed in the layer of glass that extends along the bend axis. The recess may form a flexible locally thinned portion in the layer of glass that allows the glass layer to bend about the bend axis. To ensure that the display cover layer exhibits satisfactory impact resistance during drop events, corner portions of the display cover layer and other edge portions of the display cover layer may be provided with greater thickness relative to other portions of the display cover layer outside of the locally thinned portion.
US12041728B2
Electronic assembly methods and structures are described. In an embodiment, an electronic assembly method includes bringing together an electronic component and a routing substrate, and directing a large area photonic soldering light pulse toward the electronic component to bond the electronic component to the routing substrate.
US12041727B2
Provided are a surface-treated glass cloth that enables the reliability of a printed wiring board to be improved, a prepreg, and a printed wiring board. In the surface-treated glass cloth, a surface-treated layer contains a silane coupling agent, the amount of carbon attached of an adhering component of the surface-treated layer is in the range of 0.030 to 0.060% by mass, the arithmetic average height of the surface of the adhering component of the surface-treated layer is in the range of 1.0 to 3.0 nm, and the product of the amount of carbon attached of the adhering component and the arithmetic average height of the surface of the adhering component is in the range of 0.060 to 0.100.
US12041725B2
The attachment possible period during which the attachment operation of the component supply reel can be performed is predicted for each of the tape feeders equipped in the component mounting apparatus, and the attachment time indicating a timing of the attachment operation is set to overlap the attachment possible periods of the candidate feeders, out of the tape feeders. Therefore, a frequency of the component replenishment operation of the operator can be suppressed. Further, the execution mode of the attachment operation for the candidate feeder corresponding to the attachment time is determined based on the number of the components planned to be supplied in accordance with the production planning by the candidate feeder. Therefore, a number of the components suitable for the production planning of the components-mounted boards can be replenished.
US12041716B2
A substrate according to an embodiment includes an insulating layer having a grain formed therein extending in a first direction; and a circuit pattern disposed on the insulating layer; wherein the insulating layer includes an upper surface and a plurality of outer side surfaces; wherein the plurality of outer side surfaces includes: a first outer side surface extending in the same first direction as the first direction having the grain formed in the insulating layer; and a second outer side surface extending in a second direction different from the first direction and excluding the first outer side surface, wherein the first outer side surface has a first surface roughness; and wherein the second outer side surface has a second surface roughness different from the first surface roughness.
US12041707B2
A repair apparatus for repairing damaged reinforcing bars in a structure includes a strip-shaped conductor including conductive wires arranged in a height direction, the conductive wires being arranged in parallel, a high-frequency current generation unit configured to supply a high-frequency current between the conductive wires of a first end side of the conductor and the conductive wires of a second end side of the conductor, and a connection body configured to connect the conductive wires to each other and connect the first end side and the second end side of the conductor so that the conductive wires form a coil, and the high-frequency current generation unit supplies a high-frequency current between a conductive wire at an upper end or a lower end of the first end side of the conductor and a conductive wire at a lower end or an upper end of the second end side of the conductor.
US12041694B2
A network controller provides proactive notification of a wireless client device's address rotation to layer 2 (L2) and/or layer 3 (L3) devices. Traditional methods of device address discovery rely on broadcasting of address queries across a plurality of links until a path to a device having the queried address responds. As device address changes become more frequent in an effort to improve user privacy, traditional methods of address discovery impose a large burden on networks, reducing their performance and efficiency. By proactively propagating address changes to upstream devices, the need for broadcast oriented address discovery techniques is reduced, resulting in improved network performance.
US12041687B2
An identification device includes processing circuitry configured to collect response information of a device by performing network scanning on a target network address group, accumulate the response information collected, compare pieces of response information having different scanning times with each other among pieces of the response information accumulated and calculate a degree of similarity between contents of responses, and identify that devices that transmit most similar pieces of response information are identical, based on the degree of similarity calculated.
US12041684B2
A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver that receives an RRC message from a base station apparatus; and a processing unit that performs processing of RRC. The processing unit causes, when first information is in the RRC message, a first timer to start in a running state, and considers, at least when a random access problem indication is received from a MAC entity of the group and the first timer is not running, or when a random access problem indication is received from a MAC entity of the group and the first timer is running under a specific condition, a radio link failure for the group to be detected. When the radio link failure for the group is detected and that the first timer is running under the specific condition, the processing unit suspends transmission of all radio bearers in the group, and resets the MAC entity of the group.
US12041679B2
This application discloses a state configuration method and a device, including: determining, by a terminal device, that a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state configured by a network device changes; obtaining, by the terminal device, a first TCI state configured by the network device before the TCI state changes; configuring, by the terminal device, a second TCI state to be the same as the first TCI state; and when the second TCI state is the same as the first TCI state, a reference signal pointed by using the second TCI state and a reference signal pointed by using the first TCI state are quasi co-located; and after the TCI state changes and before a third TCI state configured by the network device is activated, sending and receiving, by the terminal device, data by using the second TCI state.
US12041677B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a data transmission method and apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies, to resolve a conventional-technology problem that when an SCG fails, a delay is increased because related data is processed only when a network side resumes transmission of data on an SCG-related bearer by using a reconfiguration message. A specific solution is: transmitting, by an apparatus, a first data packet over a second link; and if determining that the second link fails, sending, by the apparatus, to-be-transmitted data packets to a first base station over a first link before the apparatus receives a reconfiguration message from the first base station, where the to-be-transmitted data packets include a data packet whose reception is not acknowledged as a success and that is in the first data packet, and the reconfiguration message is used to indicate a reconfigured link.
US12041670B2
A terminal, with which it is possible to improve the efficiency of a random access process. In a terminal (200), a control unit (209) dynamically determines a parameter pertaining to the transmission of a data part out of a random access signal that includes a preamble part and the data part. A transmission unit (217) notifies the determined parameter to a base station (100) using the random access signal.
US12041668B2
The disclosure provides method and device in communication node for wireless communication. The communication node receives a first signaling and a first signal, and transmits a second signal; wherein the first signaling is used for determining a first offset; the first signal is used for determining a first measurement result; the second signal includes N second sub-signal(s), a first sequence is used for determining the N second sub-signal(s). In view of the problems that the method to determine repetitions of a preamble sequence is not applicable to a large-latency network and that multiple attempts of random access in a large-latency network will cause a larger latency, the disclosure provides an offset based scheme, in which the communication node introduces the first offset when determining the repetitions of a preamble sequence, thereby selecting an more appropriate number of repetitions, improving the successful probability of random access and reducing latency.
US12041663B2
A communication apparatus includes signal generation circuitry which, in operation, generates a control signal including a plurality of user specific fields, each of the plurality of user specific fields including an Association ID (AID) subfield for specifying a corresponding terminal station, and transmission circuitry which, in operation, transmits the control signal, wherein one of a plurality of AIDs for scheduled access or one of a plurality of random access IDs for random access is assigned to the AID subfield in each of the plurality of user specific fields, and each value of the plurality of random access IDs indicates a type of a terminal station which can perform random access to the at least one resource unit.
US12041662B2
Disclosed is a method by which a terminal performs a random access channel (RACH) procedure in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes: transmitting message A including a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and receiving message B including contention resolution information, in response to message A, wherein the contention resolution information included in message B can be received on the basis of the terminal having acquired information about a random access preamble identifier (RAPID) for the PRACH preamble, and information providing notification of the successful reception of the PUSCH.
US12041659B2
Disclosed in embodiments of the present invention are an access control method and a related product. The method comprises: a user equipment obtains access category information of an access policy for uplink access, the access category information at least comprising first access category information separately defined by an access layer AS entity; and the user equipment initiates uplink access according to the access category information. The embodiments of the resent invention help to reduce reservation overheads of access policy information of an NAS layer, reduce signaling over heads between the NAS layer and an AS layer and improve the access control efficiency of a user equipment in an NR system.
US12041657B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a first downlink control information (DCI) message indicating a first listen-before-talk (LBT) grant for accessing a sidelink channel, the first DCI being associated with a first search space of the UE. The UE may then receive a second DCI message indicating a second LBT grant for accessing the channel or an uplink channel, the second DCI being associated with a second search space of the UE and including an activation trigger for the first LBT grant of the first DCI. The UE may then perform a first LBT procedure to access the sidelink channel in accordance with the first LBT grant during a first channel occupancy time (COT). The UE may further perform a second LBT procedure to access the uplink channel during the first COT.
US12041656B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. In one aspect of the disclosure, a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a first message from a first device. The first device includes an originator of a first channel occupancy time (COT). The method may also include transmitting a second message including a source identity (ID) of the first device. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12041653B2
Embodiments of this application include at least one method or device for a wireless communication on an unlicensed spectrum, which can improve communication flexibility on the unlicensed spectrum. A network device can receive first indication information sent by a first terminal device in a first transmission burst. The first indication information indicates a channel occupancy time (COT) initiated by the first terminal. The network device can perform a downlink transmission within a second transmission burst in accordance with the first indication information. The first indication information is transmitted within the first transmission burst, where the first transmission burst and the second transmission burst are transmitted within the COT and channel(s) transmitted in the second transmission burst do not comprise a unicast physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a duration of the second transmission burst is less than or equal to a preset duration.
US12041649B2
According to an embodiment, an automated prioritization and organization system is described which aides in identifying and defining personal preferences by using specific attributes indicated by the user, and optionally fused with user defined collaborators' preferences, weighted by additional intrinsic data selected by the user to generate lists of prioritized products and/or services.
US12041643B2
Wireless communications using multiple active resources (e.g., bandwidth parts (BWP)) are described. At least one of multiple active resources (e.g., BWPs) of a first cell may be selected to send scheduling information (e.g., cross-carrier scheduling information) for other cells. A base station may send downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling (e.g., cross-carrier scheduling) a second cell using the selected BWP. A wireless device may monitor a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of the selected BWP to detect the DCI for scheduling (e.g., cross-carrier scheduling) the second cell.
US12041633B2
A wireless device receives one or more radio resource control (RRC) messages comprising transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for a cell, where each TCI state of the TCI states comprises an indication of a respective physical cell index (PCI). The wireless device activates, for a control resource set (coreset), a first TCI state comprising a first indication of a first PCI. The wireless device receives, via the coreset, a downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a transport block, and in response to the coreset being activated with the first TCI state comprising the first indication of the first PCI, the wireless device receives the transport block based on a second TCI state comprising the first indication of the first PCI.
US12041632B2
A system is disclosed in which a base station defines a search space, in which a communication device can search for control information. The search space is characterised by at least first information which is related to a starting subframes of a plurality of portions of the search space and second information which is related to a periodicity between respective starting subframes, each portion representing a different candidate for the transmission of control information. The base station obtains a parameter indicating both the initial starting subframe and the periodicity and transmits the generated parameter to the communication device.
US12041629B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a multi-transmission reception point (TRP) configuration method and device, and a storage medium. The method includes: configuring one physical channel-configuration information element (IE) to correspond to a plurality of control resource sets (CORESET); or configuring a plurality of physical channel-configuration IEs to corresponds to a plurality of CORESETs, where the plurality of CORESETs correspond to a plurality of TRPs, and at least one CORESET of the plurality of CORESETs corresponds to one TRP.
US12041625B2
A wireless device (14) transmits an uplink transmission (16) to a radio network node (12). The wireless device (14) also transmits uplink transmission presence signaling (18) that indicates, or is usable to detect, the presence of the uplink transmission (16). The wireless device (14) further transmits, to the radio network node (12), control signaling (22) that indicates or requests a change in a configuration with which the wireless device (14) transmits uplink transmission presence signaling (18).
US12041624B2
The present specification relates to a method for a base station transmitting/receiving data in a wireless communication system. More specifically, a terminal receives, from the base station, configuration information for configuring a control resource set (CORESET). Then, on the basis of the configuration information, the terminal receives first downlink control information (DCI) and second DCI for generating an ACK/NACK using a dynamic method. The terminal receives, on a resource scheduled by the first DCI, a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a second PDSCH, and transmits a first Ack/Nack for the first PDSCH and an Ack/Nack for the second PDSCH.
US12041616B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify uplink control information to be transmitted using a first carrier of a carrier group associated with a cell group. The UE may select a second carrier of the carrier group to transmit the uplink control information based at least in part on a type of uplink control information to be transmitted, a priority level associated with the uplink control information, a timing for transmission of the uplink control information with respect to an associated downlink transmission, or a combination thereof. The UE may transmit the uplink control information to one or more cells in the cell group using the second carrier.
US12041612B2
A method and apparatus for exchanging sidelink configuration between wireless devices in a wireless communication system is provided. A first wireless device acquires multiple sets of sidelink configurations for sidelink transmission. The first wireless device determines a specific set among the multiple sets and a specific sidelink configuration among sidelink configurations in the specific set. The first wireless device transmits, to a second wireless device, information including index of the specific sidelink configuration.
US12041610B2
Techniques for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) processing for multiple transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) are disclosed. In some embodiments, determining PDSCH hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) processing timing may include determining that a user equipment (UE) is configured for single downlink control information (single-DCI) multi-TRP PDSCH operation, determining a first PDSCH and a second PDSCH within a slot, wherein the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH are used in the single-DCI multi-TRP PDSCH operation, and determining a minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing for the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH using one or more symbols of the first PDSCH or one or more symbols of both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH.
US12041608B2
Aspects relate to adaptation of the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) of a downlink transmission to a scheduled entity that overlaps in time with an uplink transmission from the scheduled entity when the scheduled entity is operating in a full-duplex mode. A transport block corresponding to the downlink transmission may include a plurality of code block groups (CBGs). When at least a portion of the CBGs overlap in time with the uplink transmission, the MCS of the entire transport block or the MCS of the overlapping CBGs may be adjusted to accommodate and/or mitigate interference between downlink and uplink transmissions. The CBGs may further be time-interleaved over a plurality of symbols allocated for the downlink transmission to accommodate and/or mitigate interference between downlink and uplink transmissions. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are also claimed and described.
US12041601B2
Responsive to determining that a current channel condition of a communication channel improves from an initial channel condition, scheduling data information in a control transmission portion of the communication channel, and responsive to determining that the current channel condition of the communication channel degrades, scheduling control information in the control transmission portion of the communication channel. The scheduling of the data information and the control information is indicated to the wireless device via a reserve bit transmitted on a resource element, versus RRC signaling.
US12041599B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, on an access link from a base station, a first downlink control information (DCI) that schedules a first communication on a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) and a second DCI that schedules a second communication on the PSSCH. The first communication and the second communication may be scheduled according to a rule for overlapping or ordering communications on the PSSCH that are associated with one or more hybrid automatic repeat request identifiers. The UE may transmit the first communication and the second communication as scheduled. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12041597B2
Aspects relate to technologies and techniques for sequence-based, non-coherent wireless channel transmission of a payload on a physical uplink channel. A transmitter converts information bits of a payload to be transmitted to a decimal integer value that is, in turn, used to generate a modified maximum sequence (m-sequence) based on one or more predetermined parameters such as an m-sequence generating polynomial, a starting location in the sequence, and an initialization. The generated modified m-sequences are modulated using modulation schemes such as π/2 binary phase-shift keying and quadrature phase-shift keying for transmission on the physical uplink channel.
US12041592B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device notifies another wireless communication device that any one of a first frequency and a second frequency is set as a primary frequency, connects to the other wireless communication device at the first frequency and the second frequency, and in a case receiving information identifying that the other wireless communication device has a restriction on transmission and reception between the second frequency and the first frequency, obtains an access right of a frame addressed to the other wireless communication device at a secondary frequency other than the primary frequency out of the first frequency and the second frequency.
US12041590B2
A method and an apparatus for carrier configuration, wherein the method includes: determining a target carrier, wherein the target carrier is a carrier on which a terminal is instructed to perform a target operation; and sending target information to the terminal for the terminal to perform the target operation on the target carrier after the terminal determines the target carrier according to the target information, wherein the target information is physical layer information and at least indicates carrier information of the target carrier.
US12041577B2
A first client station receives from an access point an indication of whether angular information is to be included in feedback information in a range measurement session. The first client station transmits a null data packet (NDP) as part of an uplink multi-user (MU) PHY transmission that also includes simultaneous transmissions by one or more second client stations of one or more other respective NDPs to the access point as part of the range measurement session. The first client station receives a downlink physical layer (PHY) data unit from the access point that includes respective downlink feedback frames for the first client station and the one or more second client stations. When angular information is to be included in the feedback, a downlink feedback frame for the first client station includes angular information.
US12041568B2
A user equipment (UE) comprising a processor configured to perform the operations that determines an uplink (UL) slot is described. In exemplary embodiments, the UE receives, from a base station, a scaling factor through a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) signal. The UE may further determines an offset through a second RRC signal. In addition, the UE may receive from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) that includes an indication of an initial time gap. Furthermore, the UE may calculate a new time gap by at least applying the scaling factor to the initial time gap and determine a slot of uplink transmission based on at least the new time gap and the offset.
US12041557B2
Wireless communications may be used to support transmission power control. A message to schedule a transmission may be received without indicating a parameter for determining a power for the transmission. The transmission power may be determined based on a pathloss reference signal associated with a default index of a power control parameter set.
US12041553B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications. In some aspects, a UE may transmit a first repetition of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) communication using a first set of values for a set of uplink power control (ULPC) parameters; and transmit a second repetition of the PUSCH communication using a second set of values for the set of ULPC parameters. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12041545B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication terminal communicating wirelessly including a first wireless transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals through a first waveform, a second wireless receiver configured to receive a signal through a second waveform different from the first waveform, and a processor. The processor receives an acceptance frame for accepting a request for wake-up radio (WUR) mode entry in which the wireless communication terminal operates based on a signal transmitted through the second waveform from a base wireless communication terminal, through the first wireless transceiver, stops an operation of the wireless communication terminal related to a service period based on the acceptance frame.
US12041543B2
An access point (AP) transmits a first frame comprising: a Target Wake Time (TWT) element indicating a restricted Target Wake Time (r-TWT) Service Period (SP) of an r-TWT setup for one or more first stations (STAs); and a quiet element indicating a quiet interval for one or more second STAs, the quiet interval overlapping with a portion of the r-TWT SP. Based on determining termination of the r-TWT SP during the quiet interval, the AP transmits a second frame, during the quiet interval, indicating termination of the quiet interval for the one or more second STAs.
US12041542B2
A method includes obtaining wireless traffic statistics indicating current conditions and future trends for at least one of throughput, latency, and device power consumption. The method also includes generating penalty functions that reflect the wireless traffic statistics. The method further includes determining a target wakeup time (TWT) interval based on the penalty functions. The method also includes adapting the TWT interval based on a change in the wireless traffic statistics.
US12041534B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a network entity within a wireless communications network. The UE may transmit a request for information to the network entity and, in response to the request, the UE may receive the requested information from the network entity. For example, the UE may request data from one or more data repositories associated with the network entity. In some examples, the information request may be associated with one or more measurements associated with operations of the network. In some instances, the UE may use a machine learning model to perform training or inference based on the information associated with the one or more measurements.
US12041524B2
Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs, for warning system notifications and acquisition. In one aspect, the method includes actions of receiving, by user equipment (UE) and from an access node, data indicating the presence of a PDSCH broadcast, configuring, by the UE and based on the received data, a narrowband (NB) to receive transport blocks in PDSCH, and receiving, by the UE, one or more transport blocks broadcast in PDSCH using the NB, the one or more transport blocks including the warning system information.
US12041511B2
In an aspect, a serving BS of a UE measures ToAs of a DL-PRS from a non-serving base station of the UE and an UL-SRS-P from the UE. The serving BS transmits measurement information based on the ToA measurements of the DL-PRS and the UL-SRS-P to a position estimation entity. The position estimation entity determines a positioning estimate for the UE based in part upon the measurement information.
US12041510B2
This disclosure describes a system including a plurality of access point (AP) devices configured to provide a wireless network at a site; and a network management system (NMS) including a memory storing client-side data collected by a plurality of client devices associated with the wireless network and storing location data associated with each of the plurality of client devices generated by a location engine in response to location requests issued by each of the plurality of client devices, and one or more processors coupled to the memory and configured to determine, based on at least one of the client-side data and the location data, one or more location metrics associated with the location requests issued by the plurality of client devices.
US12041509B2
An authentication-gaining apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires unique information; an encrypting unit that encrypts the unique information using a cryptographic key, thereby generating encrypted information; and a transmitting unit that repeatedly transmits an authentication request containing the encrypted information, to an authentication apparatus, during an authentication period, wherein multiple authentication requests respectively containing encrypted information obtained by encrypting multiple pieces of unique information are transmitted during the authentication period. An authentication apparatus includes: a receiving unit that repeatedly receives an authentication request transmitted from an authentication-gaining apparatus, during an authentication period; a decrypting unit that decrypts the encrypted information, thereby acquiring decrypted information; an authentication unit that judges whether or not the authentication-gaining apparatus is legitimate, using multiple authentication requests received during the authentication period and containing encrypted information that has been decrypted; and an output unit that outputs a judgment result by the authentication unit.
US12041502B2
A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration message from a base station apparatus, and a controller configured to configure a parameter based on the parameter included in the RRC reconfiguration message. The parameter includes at least identity information of a target cell and a configuration of a subcarrier spacing, and the configuration of the subcarrier spacing is configured for each of the target cells.
US12041491B2
One or more processors, operating in a source base station and/or a target base station, determines a change in the termination point from the source base station to the target base station for a radio bearer with a current count value according to data unit sequencing. The one or more processors determine (1806) whether a user equipment (UE) changes the data unit sequencing as a result of the change in the termination point. In a first instance, the one or more processors cause the target base station to apply (1810) the current count value to the radio bearer, in response to determining that the data unit sequencing does not change. In a second instance, the one or more processors cause the target base station to apply (1820) a new count value different from the current count value to the radio bearer, in response to determining that the data unit sequencing changes.
US12041489B2
A method for allocating at least one transmission resource from among a plurality of resources, intended for routing a first item of data relating to a first application in a communication infrastructure. The method is implemented in a distributed management entity for managing the plurality of resources and includes: receiving, from a centralized management entity, an allocation message for allocating a plurality of resources having a set of transmission features for a second item of data relating to a second application; and assigning at least one resource of the plurality to the transmission of the first item of data. The method furthermore includes selecting a feature of the set for the transmission of the second item of data on the resources of the plurality that are not assigned to the transmission of the first item of data.
US12041486B2
In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method. The method may include receiving, by a network node, at least one packet of a sub-flow of a multipath transport control protocol connection associated with user plane traffic, the at least one packet including a header, the header further including a multipath transport control protocol option; and switching, by the network node, the sub-flow by at least changing the multipath transport control protocol option. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
US12041484B2
Provided in the present invention are user equipment and a method thereof, and a base station and a method thereof. The method in user equipment comprises: receiving, from a base station, a MAC control element (MAC CE) for deactivating a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) duplication; and deactivating the PDCP duplication based on the received MAC CE.
US12041481B2
Systems and methods related to Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)-cellular communication system Quality of Service (QoS) mapping are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed for operating a cellular communications system as a virtual TSN node in a TSN system comprises, at a TSN application function, receiving one or more TSN QoS parameters for the virtual TSN node from a controller associated with the TSN system and providing the one or more TSN QoS parameters to a core network function in a core network of the cellular communications system. The method further comprises, at the core network function, receiving the one or more TSN QoS parameters, mapping them to one or more QoS policies and/or one or more rules in the cellular communications system, and applying the one or more QoS policies and/or the one or more rules in the cellular communications system.
US12041479B2
Some embodiments provide a method for quantifying quality of several service classes provided by a link between first and second forwarding nodes in a wide area network (WAN). At a first forwarding node, the method computes and stores first and second path quality metric (PQM) values based on packets sent from the second forwarding node for the first and second service classes. The different service classes in some embodiments are associated with different quality of service (QoS) guarantees that the WAN offers to the packets. In some embodiments, the computed PQM value for each service class quantifies the QoS provided to packets processed through the service class. In some embodiments, the first forwarding node adjusts the first and second PQM values as it processes more packets associated with the first and second service classes. The first forwarding node also periodically forwards to the second forwarding node the first and second PQM values that it maintains for the first and second service classes. In some embodiments, the second forwarding node performs a similar set of operations to compute first and second PQM values for packets sent from the first forwarding node for the first and second service classes, and to provide these PQM values to the first forwarding node periodically.
US12041470B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for indicating transmission failures in a wireless communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining, by a first layer module of the wireless communication device, an indication from a second layer module of the wireless communication device. The first layer module is configured for performing a process at a first layer. The second layer module is configured for performing a process at a second layer that is different from the first layer. The indication indicates whether there is a transmission failure of the wireless communication device at the second layer.
US12041468B2
Communication systems are described that use signal constellations, which have unequally spaced (i.e. ‘geometrically’ shaped) points. In many embodiments, the communication systems use specific geometric constellations that are capacity optimized at a specific SNR, over the Rayleigh fading channel. In addition, ranges within which the constellation points of a capacity optimized constellation can be perturbed and are still likely to achieve a given percentage of the optimal capacity increase compared to a constellation that maximizes dmin, are also described. Capacity measures that are used in the selection of the location of constellation points include, but are not limited to, parallel decode (PD) capacity and joint capacity.
US12041467B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support delaying the application of reconfiguration messages. An integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node transmit or receive, along a first signaling path, a reconfiguration message indicating the first IAB node to postpone applying a reconfiguration message until a second signaling path becomes available. The first IAB node may send a reconfiguration complete message to a first IAB donor node along the first path and wait to perform a procedure with the first IAB donor node. When the second path becomes available, the first IAB node and the second IAB node may then perform the procedure. In some cases, delaying the reconfiguration may involve postponing the forwarding of messages received at the first IAB node.
US12041461B2
The present technology is directed to visualizing a Wi-Fi signal propagation in 3-D at various heights and locations. The present technology can calculate a radio frequency (RF) propagation pattern for a Wi-Fi access point (AP) based on a RF propagation model for the Wi-Fi AP and overlay the RF propagation pattern for the Wi-Fi AP over a visualization of the building plan to present a 3-D visualization of the RF propagation pattern of the 3-D space. In particular, the present technology can project a plurality of ray-paths in various directions in a 3-D space originated from the Wi-Fi AP and determine whether the ray-paths interface with objects defined in the building plan. The present technology can segment the respective ray-path into contiguous segments of substantially uniform mediums for each ray-path that interface with the objects and determine a RF signal strength at points along the contiguous segments of the ray-paths.
US12041458B2
There is provided mechanisms for profile handling of a batch of identity modules. Each identity module in the batch of identity modules has credentials for secure installation of profiles. A method is performed by an LPA of a proxy device. The LPA comprises credentials for profile download. The credentials comprise a certificate. The credentials enable the LPA to act as a virtual identity module. Another method is performed by a subscription management entity. Yet another method is performed by an identity module in the batch of identity modules.
US12041455B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising, determining, by an apparatus configured to operate as a network function a cellular communication system, at least two disjoint network paths, wherein the at least two disjoint network paths are different paths, and comprise different physical resources, transmitting, by the apparatus, a subscription request to an analytics function of the cellular communication system, to request notifications about attacks or risks of attacks on at least one network function on at least one of the at least two disjoint network paths, receiving from the analytics function, by the apparatus, information about at least one compromised network entity and/or at least one network entity having a risk of being compromised on said at least one of the at least two disjoint network paths and performing, by the apparatus, attack mitigation based on said information.
US12041453B2
The disclosed technology is directed towards detecting suspected malicious activity involving mobile devices and subscriber identity module (SIM) cards, including discerning benign SIM swap events from likely malicious SIM swap events. In one example, call detail records, radio access network events and billing events are collected and analyzed to detect subscriber identity module swap events between mobile devices. Based on the collected data and related data sources SIM swap events are classified as benign or suspected malicious classifications. Malicious classifications can result in information representative of the suspected as malicious classification being output, e.g., as a type of fraudulent activity. A confidence level can be associated with classification output data, including for types of fraudulent activities and types of benign activities.
US12041451B2
In one embodiment, a method includes generating, by a first controller of a network, an overlay domain digest using a first domain digest associated with the first controller of the network and a second domain digest associated with a second controller of the network. The method also includes communicating, by the first controller, the overlay domain digest to an edge device of the network, updating, by the first controller, the overlay domain digest to generate an updated overlay domain digest, and communicating, by the first controller, the updated overlay domain digest to the edge device of the network. The method further includes detecting, by the edge device, a difference between the overlay domain digest and the updated overlay domain digest and re-establishing, by the edge device, a connection with an orchestrator of the network to determine a control plane domain change within the network.
US12041447B2
An image sharing method implemented on a first electronic device having a touchscreen includes establishing, by the first electronic device, a first wireless link with a second electronic device by using a short-range wireless communications technology. The method further includes sending, by the first electronic device, face feature information to the second electronic device over the first wireless link. The method further includes receiving, by the first electronic device, a matching result sent by the second electronic device. When the first electronic device determines that the matching result is matching success information, the method further includes sending, by the first electronic device, an image (for example, a photo or a video) corresponding to the face feature information to the second electronic device.
US12041443B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided method, comprising: generating or receiving a first hash on the basis of the mobile network data change by a source network function, providing the first hash and security credentials information of the source network function for validation by a set of validator entities, and in response to detecting validation of the first hash and the security credentials information, generating a first transaction for a first blockchain, the first transaction being indicative of the mobile network data change and comprising the first hash.
US12041442B2
The present invention provides a wireless communication method of an access point. The wireless communication method comprises the steps of: establishing a cache table comprising a plurality of reference MAC and corresponding PMKs and reference PMKIDs; receiving an association request from a station; reading a MAC address of the station and a PMKID from the association request; if the MAC address of the station and the PMKID do not match items of the cache table, performing a calculation on the PMKID to obtain an original PMKID; determining if the original PMKID matches any one of the reference PMKIDs within the cache table; and if the original PMKID matches one reference PMKID within the cache table, determining that the reference MAC recorded in the cache table and the MAC address belong to the same station.
US12041439B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses directed at preventing eavesdropping resources from acquiring unauthorized data via mechanically excitable sensors. In aspects, an electronic device includes a privacy manager configured to analyze one or more signals generated by a mechanically excitable sensor. Responsive to the analysis, the privacy manager may extract unauthorized data from the one or more signals based on a signal received at a mechanical transducer, and further based on calibration data collected during an interaction between the mechanically excitable sensor and the mechanical transducer during a prior calibration sequence.
US12041438B2
A method of incorporating environmental acoustic sources into a virtual environment by measuring real environment acoustic sources and locations and incorporating them into a virtual environment with virtual acoustic sources.
US12041433B2
A device includes one or more processors configured to perform a first boost operation on a left audio signal to generate a boosted left audio signal, perform a second boost operation on a right audio signal to generate a boosted right audio signal, and perform a crosstalk cancellation operation that includes generation of an adjusted left audio signal and an adjusted right audio signal. The one or more processors are also configured to provide a left output signal for playback at a first speaker, the left output signal based at least in part on the adjusted left audio signal, and to provide a right output signal for playback at a second speaker, the right output signal based at least in part on the adjusted right audio signal.
US12041432B2
The present disclosure relates to a method, a device, and a computer program for controlling and managing a state of a peripheral device in a wireless communication system, and a recording medium therefor. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for changing an audio stream session-related state may include the steps of: acquiring information relating to a current audio stream session-related state of a second device before a first device in a first audio stream session-related state performs transition of an audio stream session-related state; determining a second audio stream session-related state of the first device at least on the basis of the current audio stream session-related state of the second device; and performing the transition of the audio stream session-related state by the first device on the basis of the second audio stream session-related state.
US12041430B2
In a control method of controlling a frequency response of a filter for processing an audio signal, the frequency response is defined by an amplitude characteristic and a phase characteristic. The control method includes: acquiring a target amplitude characteristic, a target phase characteristic, and a latency value; obtaining a first frequency response in accordance with the target amplitude characteristic and the target phase characteristic; obtaining a second frequency response by modifying the first frequency response so that a latency of the second frequency response satisfies the latency value; and obtaining a third frequency response to be set for the filter by correcting the second frequency response, the second frequency response being corrected so as to reduce a difference between (i) an amplitude characteristic of the second frequency response and (ii) the target amplitude characteristic.
US12041424B2
A method includes determining one or more audio characteristics of a first digital signal representing a first portion of streaming media content provided by a media playback application to an audio output component; playing the first portion of the media content into an environment; capturing, by an audio output component, a second digital signal representing the first portion of the media content as played; determining, based on the captured second digital signal, one or more detected audio characteristics of the media content as played into the environment; determining a difference between the one or more audio characteristics of the media content and the one or more detected audio characteristics; calibrating a second portion of the media content based on the difference and based on a determination that the second portion is to be calibrated; and playing, by the audio output component into the environment, the second portion as calibrated.
US12041414B1
A speaker having a continuous waveguide on one side of the speaker. The speaker includes a plurality of drivers that are superimposed to project sound into the continuous waveguide. The continuous waveguide is acoustically continuous in multiple dimensions.
US12041412B2
A loudspeaker device includes first and second diaphragms arranged co-axially in an opposed relation to each other and having a rear volume in-between, each diaphragm having a plurality of motors operatively coupled thereto, and a frame having first and second ends, and first and second rims provided at the first and second ends, respectively. The motors of the first and second diaphragms are arranged in the same plane, and the motors are provided on the frame around the periphery of the first and second diaphragms.
US12041405B2
A controller for providing inputs to an interactive application includes a first surface with a pair of slots to store earbuds, a plurality of control buttons and touch input surfaces defined on one or more surfaces including the first surface. A processor is configured to pair the controller to a computing device executing the interactive application and is coupled to each of the slots so as to pair the earbuds received therein to the controller and to share the pairing between the controller and the computing device with the earbuds received in the pair of slots.
US12041404B2
An audio device with a body configured to be worn on or abutting an outer ear of a user, wherein the body is configured to contact at least one of the outer ear and the portion of the head that abuts the outer ear, at two separate spaced contact locations, and wherein the body is compliant at a body portion that defines one of the contact locations. The device also has an acoustic module carried by the body and configured to locate a sound-emitting opening anteriorly of and proximate the user's ear canal opening when the body is worn on or abutting the ear of the user.
US12041399B2
An electronic device including a housing configured to accommodate a first portion of a bracket, the bracket defining a second portion having seating space in which the at least one earbud is at least partially accommodated; and a cover rotatably connected to the housing and configured to cover the second portion of the bracket, a third portion of the bracket being exposed to an exterior of the housing while covering an edge portion of the housing, the third portion includes at least one protrusion protruding inward toward the edge of the housing, the edge portion of the housing includes at least one groove, corresponding to the at least one protrusion and providing a space in which the at least one protrusion is movable, and the bracket transitions between a first position and a second position depending on positions of the at least one groove and the at least one protrusion.
US12041396B2
Systems and methods for processing data near the point of collection are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a control node configured to execute a cluster manager and a storage manager. A plurality of subordinate compute nodes can be configured to execute tasks under the control of the cluster manager. The storage manager can be configured to manage storage of data received by the system across one or more storage devices shared by the plurality of subordinate compute nodes. Data can be received from a device proximate to the system over a local network connection. A network switch within the system can route data between the network interface, the control node, and the plurality of subordinate compute nodes. The system may be sized and configured to be carried by a single person and deployed in a variety of environments even when an Internet connection is unavailable.
US12041395B2
Techniques for separating an image into a forward sweeping image and a backward sweeping image are disclosed. A lookup table maps MEMS projection positions on a display with corresponding pixel positions in an image generated by a camera facing the display. The lookup table is used to associate a first set of pixel positions in the image with a forward scanning sweep of the MEMS system. The lookup table is also used to associate a second set of pixel positions in the image with a backward scanning sweep of the MEMS system. The first and second sets of pixel positions are used to generate the forward sweeping image and the backward sweeping image, respectively. These images can then be used to calibrate the MEMS system to compensate for bi-phase.
US12041382B2
An imaging device including a first filter that passes a first light and a second light; a second filter that blocks the second light; photoelectric converters that have sensitivity to the first light and the second light; and a processor, in which one of the photoelectric converters detects a light passing through the first filter to generate a first signal, one of the photoelectric converters detects a light passing through the first filter and the second filter to generate a second signal, and the processor performs the second light sensing based on the first signal and the second signal.
US12041379B2
A method and a device for performing special effect processing on an image, an electronic apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring a video; determining a current image based on a current play progress of the video; acquiring a previous image of the current image from a data storage layer by an image acquisition unit of a rendering layer; superposing, by a special effect unit of the rendering layer, the previous image and the current image by superposing transparency of the previous image and transparency of the current image; outputting the superimposed image and displaying the superimposed image on the terminal screen.
US12041373B2
Methods and systems provide for applying a video effect to a video corresponding to a participant within a video communication session. The system displays a video for each of at least a subset of the participants and a user interface including a selectable video effects UI element. The system receives a selection by a participant of the video effects UI element. In response to receiving the selection, the system displays a variety of video effects options for modifying the appearance of the video and/or modifying a visual representation of the participant. The system then receives a selection by the participant of a video effects option, and further receives a subselection for customizing the amount of the video effect to be applied. The system then applies, in real time or substantially real time, the selected video effect in the selected amount to the video corresponding to the participant.
US12041370B2
Provided are an imaging apparatus and an electronic device for suppressing a delay of a control signal according to a position of a pixel in a horizontal direction. A time code generation unit is provided on a first side of a pixel array, a signal processing unit is provided on a second side, of the pixel array, opposite to the first side, a timing generation circuit is provided on the second side of the pixel array, each of a plurality of transfer units is disposed from the first side to the second side through the pixel array, and a control line for transferring a timing signal generated by the timing signal generation unit to the time code generation unit is provided in each of two or more transfer units of the plurality of transfer units.
US12041369B2
In a solid-state imaging element that compares a reference signal and a pixel signal with each other, a frame rate is improved. A differential amplifier circuit amplifies a difference in potential between a pair of input nodes and outputs the difference from an output node. A transfer transistor transfers charge from a photoelectric conversion element to a floating diffusion layer. A gate of a source follower transistor is connected to the floating diffusion layer, and a source thereof is connected to one of the pair of input nodes. A measurement unit measures a gate-source voltage of the source follower transistor and supplies a measured value. A correction arithmetic unit arithmetically calculates a correction value for correcting a potential of the other one of the pair of input nodes based on the measured value.
US12041367B2
A signal processing system for an imaging device is provided. The signal processing system includes: a plurality of readout circuitries that are connected in parallel, where each readout circuitry includes: one or more interface circuits to receive an analog signal; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit to convert the analog signal to a digital signal; and a plurality of switches coupled between the ADC circuit and a plurality of storage circuits, where the plurality of switches includes a first switch and a second switch; a controller to: (i) control the first switch to decouple the ADC circuit from a first storage circuit, where the first storage circuit stores a previous digital signal of a previous iteration; and (ii) control the second switch to couple the ADC circuit to the second storage circuit, where the second storage circuit stores a current digital signal; and a transmitter to transmit the previous digital signal.
US12041366B2
An imaging device having a function of processing an image is provided. The imaging device has an additional function such as image processing, can hold analog data obtained by an image capturing operation in a pixel, and can extract data obtained by multiplying the analog data by a predetermined weight coefficient. Difference data between adjacent light-receiving devices can be obtained in a pixel, and data on luminance gradient can be obtained. When the data is taken in a neural network or the like, inference of distance data or the like can be performed. Since enormous volume of image data in the state of analog data can be held in pixels, processing can be performed efficiently.
US12041364B2
The invention relates to a method allowing the use of the information accessible by fluorescence imaging to be optimized. For this purpose, it implements the combination of a protocol for calibration and synchronization of a pulsed light for exciting a fluorescent marker, with the operation in “rolling shutter” mode of a fluorescence camera. An appropriate correction factor allows the complete signal integrated by all of the photodiodes of the camera to be used so that no image is lost.
US12041360B2
Systems and methods for implementing array cameras configured to perform super-resolution processing to generate higher resolution super-resolved images using a plurality of captured images and lens stack arrays that can be utilized in array cameras are disclosed. An imaging device in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes at least one imager array, and each imager in the array comprises a plurality of light sensing elements and a lens stack including at least one lens surface, where the lens stack is configured to form an image on the light sensing elements, control circuitry configured to capture images formed on the light sensing elements of each of the imagers, and a super-resolution processing module configured to generate at least one higher resolution super-resolved image using a plurality of the captured images.
US12041359B2
A camera system includes a camera configured to capture first video of a scene in the form of first image frames. The camera system also includes an infrared sensor configured to capture second video of the scene in the form of second image frames. The system also includes a processor in communication with the camera and the infrared sensor. The processor is configured to obfuscate one or more portions of the scene.
US12041357B2
The in-vehicle camera includes an image sensor, a shutter, an image processing unit, and an exposure control unit. The image sensor includes multiple pixels to collect optical information. The shutter is a front curtain electronic type that includes a front curtain of an electronic type and a rear curtain of any type. An electronic controller starts collection of optical information in each pixel thereby opening the shutter. The image processing unit generates an image based on the optical information as collected. The exposure control unit controls the shutter to allow shutter times, during which the shutter is open for first and second image sensor areas obtained by dividing pixels P of the image sensor 15 into multiple areas, to be different from each other.
US12041356B2
An imaging device includes a plurality of imaging units, a control unit configured to control a zoom magnification of each of the imaging units, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire the zoom magnification of each of the imaging units. When the zoom magnification of one imaging unit among the plurality of imaging units is changed, the control unit changes the zoom magnification by interlocking the imaging unit whose zoom magnification is changed with at least one imaging unit other than the imaging unit whose zoom magnification is changed, and changes the two of the imaging units to have the same zoom magnification.
US12041352B2
An image pickup control device, comprising: a first obtainment unit configured to obtain a picked-up image picked up by an image pickup unit; a display control unit configured to display the picked-up image on a display; a detection unit configured to detect a viewpoint region which is a region viewed by a user in the display; a second obtainment unit configured to obtain a feature amount relating to the picked-up image; and a control unit configured to switch between a first mode, in which a focus of the image pickup unit is controlled such that a subject displayed on the viewpoint region is focused, and a second mode, in which control is executed such that the focus is not changed, on a basis of the viewpoint region and the feature amount.
US12041342B2
An image capture apparatus comprises a first load, a second load and a power receiving circuitry that receives power from a second power supply which is different from a first power supply, and performs control so as to supply power from the first power supply to the first load and the second load, and controls such that when the power receiving circuitry is capable of receiving power that is greater than the power from the first power supply from the second power supply, the power from the first power supply is supplied to the first load, and the power from the second power supply which is greater than the power from the first power supply is supplied to the second load.
US12041337B2
An imaging control apparatus includes an identification unit that identifies an object to be introduced and an object introducer who introduces the object to be introduced individually as subjects on the basis of captured image data obtained by an imaging unit of an imaging device, a selection unit that selects one of the object to be introduced and the object introducer as a target subject on the basis of a positional relationship between at least any two of the object to be introduced, the object introducer, and the imaging device, and an imaging control unit that performs imaging control on a subject selected as the target subject by the selection unit.
US12041332B2
A light shielding plate includes a front surface located on a light incident side, a rear surface opposite to the front surface, and a hole passing through the light shielding plate between the front surface and the rear surface. The hole has a first hole portion and a second hole portion connected to the first hole portion at an intermediate opening thereof. The first hole portion extends from a rear surface opening on the rear surface to the intermediate opening and is shaped so as to taper from the rear surface toward the front surface. The second hole portion extends from a front surface opening on the front surface to the intermediate opening and is shaped so as to taper from the front surface toward the rear surface. The front surface opening is larger than the rear surface opening. The intermediate opening has a circularity of 3 μm or less.
US12041317B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining that a wireless device associated with one user account is proximate to a computing device associated with another user account. In response to determining the proximity of the two devices, one or more of the devices may receive merged access to permissions and/or content associated with the two user accounts. In response to determining that the wireless device is not proximate to the computing device, the devices may no longer receive merged access to permissions and/or content associated with the two user accounts.
US12041308B2
A method for managing the access, by a player/reader device, to a multimedia content accessible from a source, called main source, from which broadcast of the content has begun. A change of the play/read time, during the playing/reading, is able to trigger a playing/reading from a first source selected by default and offering a first rendering quality. The method includes: receiving a request for access to the content being broadcast; obtaining a set of data sources, called secondary sources, from which the content is accessible; receiving, during the playing/reading, a command for moving the play/read time; and selecting a source depending on the first rendering quality and on the second rendering quality.
US12041306B2
In some embodiments, a method receives a distribution area identifier for media content. A distribution area is defined by one or more geographic primitives and associated with a distribution area identifier. A geographic primitive is defined by one or more location identifiers. The method determines whether the one or more geographic primitives of the media content is applicable to a geographic primitive that is determined from a location identifier associated with a request.
US12041302B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a system for obtaining enriched channel tracking data from a set-top box (STB). Channel information associated with channels viewed by at least one viewer on a display device associated with the STB is accessed. It is determined whether the microphone has captured one or more voice signals in vicinity of the STB prior to detection of an occurrence of a predefined event. Further, voice biometric data is extracted from each captured voice signal to configure viewer demographic data when the microphone has captured the one or more voice signals. The viewer demographic data is configured based at least on identifying viewer information corresponding to the voice biometric data. The viewer demographic data is correlated with channel tracking data corresponding to the detected predefined event to generate a payload. The data packet including the payload is transmitted to a remote server.
US12041301B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to optimize reference signature matching using watermark matching. An example disclosed herein includes selecting first unhashed reference signatures to evaluate for a second time segment of monitoring data based on watermark coverage of a first time segment of the monitoring data, the monitoring data obtained from a meter monitoring media presented by a media device and comparing the first unhashed reference signatures with first unhashed monitored signatures from the second time segment of the monitoring data. The example further includes, when a first media event associated with the monitoring data is not identifiable based on the comparing of the first of unhashed reference signatures with the first unhashed monitored signatures hashing the first unhashed monitored signatures to form a corresponding first hashed monitored signatures and comparing the first hashed monitored signatures with a library of reference hashed signatures to determine the first media event associated with the second time segment of the monitoring data.
US12041281B2
Certain exemplary embodiments relate to entertainment systems and, more particularly, certain exemplary embodiments relate to jukebox systems that incorporate digital downloading jukebox features along with karaoke jukebox and/or photo booth features. A combined karaoke/photo booth/jukebox may enable more integrated performance-like experiences in an in-home or out-of-home location or venue. By leveraging vast audio media libraries, trusted rights-respecting network infrastructure, and on-site image/video capturing from integrated recorders and/or remote portable devices, a more sociable experience may be created for karaoke jukebox patrons, e.g., where custom content can be generated and shared in a safe and legally appropriate manner.
US12041280B2
Methods, systems, and media for providing dynamic media sessions with video stream transfer features
Methods, systems, and media for providing dynamic media sessions with video stream transfer features are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include: receiving an indication that presentation of the video content item is to be transferred from the first display device to a different display device; in response to receiving the indication, determining whether the first display device supports transferring the presentation of the video content item and determining whether the different display device is capable of presenting the video content item; and transmitting an indication that presentation of the video content item is to be transferred from the first display device to the different display device, wherein the video content item is played back using the different display device from a playback position that is based on the playback state from the first display device.
US12041263B2
In the related art, in some cases the weighted prediction processing is performed even in a case that normal prediction processing is to be performed. A video decoding apparatus includes a weighted prediction processing unit configured to decode a weight coefficient and an offset value from coded data and to generate a prediction image by multiplying an interpolation image by the weight coefficient and adding the offset value to the interpolation image, and a normal prediction processing unit configured to generate a prediction image from the interpolation image. In a case that in the weighted prediction processing unit, a bi-prediction is performed and information of the weight coefficient and the offset value is absent for both a reference list 0 and a reference list 1, the normal prediction processing unit generates a bi-prediction image.
US12041255B2
Coded information of a current block is received. The current block is partitioned into at least a first partition and a second partition based on a geometric partition mode (GPM). A first prediction mode for the first partition of the current block is determined based on a first number of neighboring reconstructed samples adjacent to the first partition being larger than a threshold value. The threshold value corresponds to availability of at least one intra prediction mode for the GPM. In response to the first number of neighboring reconstructed samples adjacent to the first partition being smaller than the threshold value, a flag indicating whether the current block is intra coded or inter coded is determined not to be included in the coded information. The first prediction mode is inferred as inter prediction mode. The first partition of the current block is reconstructed based on the first prediction mode.
US12041252B2
A method, system, and computer readable medium for improved decoding CABAC encoded media are described. A decoding loop includes decoding an encoded binary element from a sequence of encoded binary elements to generate a decoded binary element using a context probability. A next context probability for a next encoded binary element in the sequence is determined from the decoded binary element and the next context probability for decoding the next encoded binary element is provided to the decoding loop for a next iteration.
US12041251B2
A method includes determining a first set of reference pixels from processing of a first sub-partition of a current block and determining a second set of reference pixels from processing of a second sub-partition of the current block. The first sub-partition and the second sub-partition are processed in parallel. The method processes a third sub-partition of the current block based on the first set of reference pixels and processes a fourth sub-partition of the current block based on the second set of reference pixels.
US12041245B2
To transmit image frame data appropriately according to the utilization rate of a receiving buffer and prevent the overflow of the receiving buffer, a communication control system transmits image frame data from a first communication device-to a second communication device. The second communication device includes a receiving buffer that receives image frame data from the first communication device, and a return unit that returns an ACK frame to the first communication device at timing reflecting a utilization rate of the receiving buffer. The first communication device includes an estimation unit that receives the ACK frame from the return unit of the second communication device and estimates the utilization rate of the receiving buffer from receiving time of the ACK frame, and a modification unit that modifies an image compression algorithm of the image frame data based on the estimated utilization rate of the receiving buffer.
US12041240B2
An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: receiving a quantized transform coefficient for a target block and a transform index for a non-separable secondary transform; dequantizing the quantized transform coefficients to derive transform coefficients; deriving modified transform coefficients on the basis of a matrix operation of a transform kernel matrix in a transform set indicated by the transform index and a transform coefficient list corresponding to the magnitude of dequantized transform coefficients; clipping the modified transform coefficients to a predetermined range of values; and deriving residual samples for the target block on the basis of an inverse primary transform with respect to the modified transform coefficients clipped.
US12041238B2
A length indicator associated with an encoded representation of a slice is parsed. The length indicator is indicative of a length of an extension field present in a slice header of the encoded representation. A decoder can then determine to ignore, during decoding of the encoded representation, any value of the extension field in the slice header where these values are identified based on the length indicator. As a consequence, an extension field can be added to slice headers and still enable legacy decoders to correctly decode the encoded representations.
US12041237B2
Techniques for video processing, including video coding, video decoding and video transcoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video picture that includes one or more tiles and one or more rectangular slices and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that, for iteratively determining information about the one or more rectangular slices, a variable indicating a tile index is updated only for slices having indices that are smaller than a value equal to a number of slices in the video picture minus 1.
US12041222B2
Apparatus for decoding a predetermined block (18) of a picture using intra-prediction, configured to read, from the data stream (12), a mode index (200), the mode index pointing to one out of a list (204) of matrix-based intra-prediction modes. Additionally, the apparatus is configured to predict samples (108) of the predetermined block (18) by computing a matrix-vector product (206) between an input vector (102) derived from reference samples (17) in a neighborhood of the predetermined block (18) and a prediction matrix (19) associated with the matrix-based intra-prediction mode (k) pointed to by the mode index (200) and associating components (210) of an output vector (208) obtained by the matrix vector product (206) onto sample positions (104) of the predetermined block. For each matrix-based intra-prediction mode, all entries of the prediction matrix (19) associated with the respective matrix-based intra-prediction mode are represented by a fixed point representation of a predetermined bit-depth, the predetermined bit-depth being equal for the matrix-based intra-prediction modes. Furthermore, the apparatus is configured to, for each matrix-based infra-prediction mode, compute the matrix vector product (206) between the input vector (102) and the prediction matrix (19) associated with the respective matrix-based infra-prediction mode (k) by performing, for each component of the output vector, a right shift at a number of bits which is equal for the matrix-based intra-prediction modes.
US12041221B2
A camera module evaluating apparatus includes a mobile device including a camera module, a transparent display device configured to display an object, a chart positioned farther from the mobile device than the transparent display device and configured to display a long-distance object, and a test device configured to perform an autofocusing (AF) test operation on the camera module when the camera module captures an image of the object.
US12041219B2
An apparatus for presenting immersive media content is described. The apparatus obtains from a sender video data representing immersive content for a certain viewing direction and/or for a certain viewpoint, and displays the video data representing the immersive content for the certain viewing direction and/or for the certain viewpoint.
US12041215B2
The first conversion information is information for converting a color value of a first coordinate in a color space corresponding to the image data into ink data corresponding to ink of subtractive color mixture, and converting a color value of a second coordinate in the color space into ink data corresponding to ink of spot color which is different from a color of the ink of the subtractive color mixture. At least one of a plurality of coordinates adjacent to the second coordinate is the second coordinate.
US12041212B1
An image forming apparatus can include a communications circuit, a printer, and a controller. The communications circuit is configured to communicate with a networked image forming apparatus via a network. The printer is configured to form an image on a sheet. The controller includes a processor and a memory. The controller is configured to acquire sensor data from a sensor operatively coupled to the controller; determine, via the network, a relay image forming apparatus, the relay image forming apparatus having an operating rate being relatively lower than an operating rate of multiple image forming apparatuses including the image forming apparatus and the networked image forming apparatus; and transmit, via the relay image forming apparatus, the sensor data to a predetermined recipient apparatus.
US12041209B2
An image reading apparatus for reading an image of an original includes an illumination portion for illuminating the original with light, a reflection member including a reflecting surface for reflecting the light from the original; a converting portion for photoelectrically converting the light reflected by the reflection member, and a casing for accommodating the reflection member. The casing is provided with an opening which is open to an outside of the casing. A surface of the reflecting member opposite from the reflecting surface and a portion defining the opening are bonded to each other with an adhesive.
US12041206B2
An image reading apparatus includes a conveying unit configured to convey a document, a reading unit configured to read an image on the conveyed document, a measurement unit configured to measure a distance from an upper portion of a sheet feeding port for the document to an upper surface of the document, and a control unit configured to, according to the distance measured by the measurement unit, suspend the conveyance of the document by the conveying unit. According to a user operation for reading again the document of which the reading is suspended by the control unit, the conveying unit conveys the document and the reading unit reads the image on the document, and while the document of which the conveyance is suspended is conveyed again, the control unit does not suspend the conveyance of the document based on the distance measured by the measurement unit.
US12041193B2
The present invention relates to a foldable mobile terminal characterized by comprising: a foldable body; a flexible display panel which is provided on one surface of the body and folds together with the body; and a protective cover covering the flexible display panel. The protective cover comprises a first cover covering a foldable first area in the flexible display panel, and a second cover covering second covers provided on both sides of the first area in the flexible display panel. The second cover is made of a material which is different from the material of the first cover, and has a higher rigidity than the first cover.
US12041190B2
A computer implemented method for managing large and sensitive data in a blockchain includes determining a master block store node from a plurality of block store nodes to add large and sensitive data to the blockchain after validation, and generating a block including the large and sensitive data that is validated and its metadata. If the block store nodes, a plurality of block verifier nodes and a plurality of block backup nodes of the blockchain are in synchronization, the method adds, using the master block store node, the block to its chain and generates a synchronization request to the block store nodes, the block verifier nodes and the block backup nodes of the blockchain. Based on assigned roles, the method performs enabling the block store nodes to store the block, enabling the block verifier nodes to store only the metadata, and enabling the block backup nodes to store the block.
US12041167B2
A lock node for storing data and a protected storage unit. The lock node includes an input section which provides a plurality of key maps, each corresponding to one of a plurality of primary keys, respectively, applied to the input section, each key map including at least one main key, a variable lock section producing a derived key from a logical operation on the main keys corresponding to the primary keys applied to the input section, and an output section producing the data in response to the derived key.
US12041164B2
A system, method, and computer program product for implementing encryption key management is provided. The method includes connecting a hardware device to a keystore agent comprising a system configured to manage one or more keystores holding one or more cryptographic key instances. A key template is configured to define an attribute for generating cryptographic keys. The key template is modified such that the keystore component is added to the key template and instances of associated cryptographic keys are generated. Each instance is installed within the keystore component and associated attributes associated with data for consumption are generated. A key event log defining all events associated with a given key of the associated cryptographic keys with respect to a lifetime of the given key is generated and a repository comprising key templates and associated key data is maintained.
US12041155B2
Devices and methods that receive timing information from at least one source clock in a network that exchanges data packets conforming to the Internet Protocol. The timing information preferably includes a time-to-live (TTL) field in a packet header used to: select a source of timing information; configure a PTP port, or both.
US12041146B2
Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identify and return content if content corresponding to the URI is available in cache. If the content is not available in cache, the CDN can contact an origin server to obtain a result for the request using non-quantized location information. The origin server examines the non-quantized location information to determine whether to respond to the client request with content. The origin server examines the area corresponding to the quantized location information to determine whether the content should be cached at the CDN.
US12041141B2
Systems and methods are provided for tracking sharing of an electronic content. An exemplary method may include receiving a request to access content associated with a web address by a user. Based on a unique identity assigned to the user and the web address, a unique tracking web address may be generated. This tracking web address may be shared with additional users. As other users request content associated with the tracking web address, information regarding the sharing of the electronic content may be determined and stored, allowing for tracking of sharing behavior of users.
US12041139B2
An apparatus comprising means for performing: sending, to a network entity, a Network Function Discovery request comprising parameter information; and receiving, from the network entity, a response to the request, the response comprising: at least one identifier for at least one Network Function service producer; and at least one of: information ranking the at least one Network Function service producer according to how well the at least one Network Function service producer matches the request; and an indication of how much of the parameter information is matched by one or more parameters of the at least one Network Function service producer.
US12041136B2
A system for facilitating a plurality of virtual transmission control protocol connections between a target application and a source application is provided. The system includes a server proxy, a client proxy, and a network protection interposed between the server proxy and the client proxy. The server proxy is configured to receive an open request from the client proxy via a stateless protocol, including a target identifier, the open request originating from the source application, open a connection between the server proxy and the target application based on the target identifier, provide a response to the client proxy indicating a status of the open request, the response including at least one of a session identifier or a sequence identifier, receive, a data request from the client proxy, including the session identifier and an incremented sequence identifier, and provide the data request to the target application.
US12041135B2
A session establishment method and apparatus is provided, to resolve a problem that a terminal device cannot establish a plurality of PDU sessions for a same APP based on a URSP. The method includes: A terminal apparatus receives indication information from a first network apparatus, where the indication information is used to indicate that a first application needs to be associated with at least two sessions; and establishes at least one session for the first application based on at least the indication information, so that the first application is associated with at least two sessions.
US12041133B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for managing an application executing in a remote session. A user device (e.g., mobile device) creates a control communication session for an application executing within a remote session established between a remote application server and a client device. This application is being displayed by the client device. The user device receives metadata indicating a subset of user actions available from the application, and uses it to generate, for display on the user device, a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface is configured to, when activated by user input, inject input commands into the remote session for the application.
US12041132B2
The invention relates to a method for providing object-related communication that takes place based on a physical object (101, 102, 103), including the steps: creating a digital representation (101′, 102′, 103′) of a physical object (101, 102, 103), preferably on an IoT platform (6), the physical object (101, 102, 103) including at least one information carrier (I), the information carrier (I) including at least one identifier (UID), the physical object (101, 102, 103) being unequivocally assignable to its digital representation (101′, 102′, 103′), based on the identifier (UID), and the information carrier (I) being readable by means of communication devices (10, 20, 30) in order to at least partially access the particular digital representation (101′, 102′, 103′), providing a configurable information container (101a, 102a, 103a) for the digital representation (101′, 102′, 103′), it being possible for the information container (101a, 102a, 103a) to include at least one static information packet and/or at least one dynamic information packet and/or at least one access-sensitive information packet and/or a gateway information packet, each static information packet being processable solely by communication devices (10, 20, 30) of information issuers (4), each dynamic information packet being processable by communication devices (10, 20, 30) that are not solely information issuers (4), each access-sensitive information packet being automatically supplemented based on an access by a communication device (10, 20, 30), and the gateway information packet allowing communication between communication devices (10, 20, 30).
US12041123B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for synchronizing applications that target different software development kits (“SDK”). The system can execute a bridge application that registers an implementation of a content provider class. This allows the bridge application to communicate with a first application targeting a first SDK. The bridge application can also register to send and receive implicit broadcasts. After the bridge application verifies the request, it can broadcast to a second cluster of applications registered with an operating system to receive implicit broadcasts. Similarly, the bridge application can receive implicit broadcasts and synchronize those requests with a first cluster of applications by using the implemented content provider methods.
US12041117B2
According to examples, an apparatus may include a memory on which is stored machine-readable instructions that may cause a processor to receive a request to upload a file to a directory and determine whether the request is a request to upload a predefined type of file to the directory. In addition, based on a determination that the request is a request to upload the predefined type of file to the directory, the processor may determine, through application of a predictive model, whether the directory is a user content directory and based on a determination that the application of the predictive model indicates that the directory is a user content directory, block the request and/or output a notification regarding the receipt of the request.
US12041111B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor streaming media. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: calibrate video data based on audio data, the video data and the audio data associated with a media stream, generate a signature representative of the media stream based on the calibrated video data, compare the signature to a signature database to identify a matching signature in the signature database; and credit media corresponding to the matching signature as being viewed.
US12041103B2
A graphical user interface is displayed. The graphical user interface includes at least one communication control for managing communications with other network nodes and at least one browser control for navigating to different network resource addresses. Human perceptible realtime output is generated from realtime communication data relating to a realtime communication session with at least one other client network node. In the process of generating of at least some of the human perceptible realtime output, operation of the client network node is managed based on at least one performance target. In the graphical user interface, a graphical representation of a network resource identified in connection with the browser control is displayed.
US12041097B2
IoT service layer capabilities may be employed to automate and simplify the service enrollment process for IoT service subscribers/enrollees. These capabilities enable virtualization of a service subscriber and the physical IoT devices, applications, data and authorized users of the subscriber into a software profile that is representative of the subscriber. Once virtualized, a service subscriber may then delegate the complexities and burden of service enrollment to an automated IoT service enrollment software function.
US12041087B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring, evaluating protection against, improving protection against, and simulating phishing threats. Network usage information for users of an organization can be leveraged to determine user-specific network behavior information. This user-specific network behavior information can then be leveraged to better identify incoming threats as well as generate and deploy user-specific phishing lures. Phishing simulation campaigns can be conducted, including by implementing variations in how the phishing lures are presented. Such campaigns can be scored to determine how different presentation variations perform. User-specific phishing lures can be generated using user environment information collected by an agent running on the user's device. Alerts informing users of potential threats can be dynamically updated with different presentation parameters to improve performance. Digital communications identified as threats can be used to generate hashes to speedily identify subsequent digital communications that are threats.
US12041077B2
One example method includes collecting, in a closed network, raw network traffic from one or more devices in the closed network, extracting metadata from the raw network traffic, processing the metadata, analyzing the metadata after the metadata has been processed, and based on the analyzing, determining whether or not an actual attack or attack threat is present in the closed network. If an attack or threat of attack is determined to exist, one or more remedial actions may then be taken.
US12041075B2
In some implementations, a device may monitor incoming messages to at least one message account of a user. The device may determine, based on monitoring the incoming messages, that one or more messages, of the incoming messages, are associated with resetting authentication information for one or more accounts of the user. The device may determine, based on determining that the one or more messages are associated with resetting authentication information, whether the one or more messages are indicative of abnormal authentication information resetting activity. The device may perform one or more actions based on determining that the one or more messages are indicative of abnormal authentication information resetting activity.
US12041067B2
When security-related behavior is detected on an endpoint, e.g., through a local security agent executing on the endpoint, a threat management facility associated with the endpoint can interact with a user via a second local security agent on a second endpoint in order to solicit verification, authorization, authentication or the like related to the behavior. In one aspect, an administrator for an enterprise managed by the threat management facility may verify, authorize, or otherwise approve the detected behavior using this technique. In another aspect, a user of the device may use this infrastructure to approve of a potentially risky behavior on one device by using a verification procedure on a second device associated with the user.
US12041063B2
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for exchanging electronic information over a communication network and, more specifically, to authenticating and verifying data integrity between two or more interacting users exchanging information. A client computing device generates a split secret that is transmitted to a server via two distinct communication channels. The split secret is generated based on a public key of a public-private key pair generated by the client computing device based on a unique identifier. Validity of the public key can authenticate source identity.
US12041061B2
An information processing system includes: a user information accumulation unit that accumulates information regarding a user on a basis of an action of the user; a specifying unit that specifies information corresponding to sensitive information among the accumulated information as corresponding to the sensitive information; and a disclosure control unit that controls a disclosure mode of the information corresponding to the sensitive information in a case where the information corresponding to the sensitive information is disclosed to a third party other than the user.
US12041058B2
A method is disclosed for automating creation of an account to access to a plurality of cloud based platforms, comprising receiving an intake request; determining whether the account is requested on a first cloud platform or a second cloud platform; determining whether an environment is requested; in response to a determination that an environment is requested, creating a created environment; in response to a determination that an environment is not requested, associating an existing environment with the account; in response to a determination that an environment is requested and a determination that the account is requested on the first cloud platform, creating network handlers; creating a workspace and a repository; creating vault secrets; in response to a determination that the account is requested on the first cloud platform, and tagging at least one resource associated with the account with a resource tag.
US12041052B2
A network device may communicate with another network device via a media access control security (MACsec) key agreement (MKA) communication link, wherein an MKA session has been established between the network device and the other network device. The network device may determine that the other network device is unavailable. The network device may cause, based on determining that the other network device is unavailable, an MKA state of the network device to be placed in a paused state. The network device may receive, after causing the MKA state of the network device to be placed in the paused state, a packet from the other network device via the MKA communication link. The network device may determine, based on the packet, that the MKA session has not ended. The network device may continue, based on the MKA session having not ended, the MKA session by reactivating the MKA state.
US12041051B2
A service client on a device can generate an access control identifier using a server seeded and client-specific secret. The device can generate a blinded access control identifier (ACI) using a randomness factor as part of a request message for a blinded ACI signature including authentication data. The device can transmit the request message to a verification server and upon verification receive a blinded ACI signature message that can subsequently be unblinded using the randomness factor to obtain the ACI signature. The device may send the ACI and the ACI signature to a verification server and after verifying the signature receive a service token. The device may transmit the service token to a service provider server requesting access to the service. When a rate associated with the service token is below a threshold rate, the device can access the service provided by the service provider service.
US12041050B2
A method for authenticating a device based on a wireless power transmission signal includes receiving, at an authenticating device, a wireless power transmission signal for authentication of a user device attempting to accessing a resource, where the wireless power transmission signal includes a unique identifier for the user device. The method further includes translating, at the authenticating device, the wireless power transmission signal, wherein the unique identifier for the user device is embedded in the wireless power transmission signal as a bit representation. In response to authenticating the user device based on a translated wireless power transmission signal, the method further includes granting, the user device, access to the resource.
US12041042B2
Various embodiments concern mechanisms for facilitating communication between network-accessible platforms for developing, hosting, or running hybrid applications that utilize resources hosted across multiple platforms. Hybrid applications cause messages or “calls” to be passed between the platforms that must be authenticated. For example, when a call is placed by a Heroku platform to a Force.com platform, the call must be authenticated for security purposes. If Heroku has not already been authenticated when the call is submitted, an authentication process is invoked. An event listener can be used to register details regarding the initial callout task, and then register or “fire” an event when the authentication process is successfully completed. Registration of the initial callout task completely separates the authentication process from the resource being invoked. Requests can be completed without requiring further user input using at least some of the details registered by the event listener.
US12041039B2
A system, apparatus, method, and machine-readable medium are described for endorsing authenticators. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a first instance of an authenticator associated with a first app to allow a user of the first app to authenticate with a first relying party; a secure key store accessible by the first instance of the authenticator to securely store authentication data related to the first app; and a synchronization processor to share at least a portion of the authentication data with a second instance of the authenticator associated with a second app to be executed on the apparatus.
US12041036B2
A method at a remote proxy on a first node, the method including receiving, at the remote proxy, a first message from a first module on the first node, the first message being directed to a second module on a second node; verifying the first message at the remote proxy utilizing operating system verification; determining, based on a manifest at the remote proxy, the second node; signing, using a private key for the first node, the first message; and sending the first message to the second node.
US12041033B2
In one embodiment, an authorizing device (e.g., a gateway) receives a native protocol request packet from a requesting device destined to a serving device, and translates the native protocol request packet into an authorization protocol mapping. The authorizing device may then apply authorization protocol based authorization (e.g., OT protocol independent) to the native protocol request packet based on the authorization protocol mapping, and transmits the native protocol request packet toward the serving device in response to the authorization protocol mapping being authorized. In one embodiment, the techniques herein may also perform an audit in this manner.
US12041029B1
A method including receiving first connection information associated with a first LAN from a first meshnet device and second connection information associated with a second LAN from a second meshnet device; calculating a first range of first subnet IP addresses associated with the first LAN, and a second range of second subnet IP addresses associated with the second LAN; determining, based on comparing the first range and the second range, a conflict that a first subnet IP address assigned to a first LAN device is the same as a second subnet IP address assigned to a second LAN device; mapping, based on determining the conflict, an alternate IP address to correspond with the first subnet IP address; and communicating with the first LAN device based at least in part on utilizing the alternate IP address instead of utilizing the first subnet IP address is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US12041028B2
A system and method for optimizing processing of keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) data in an internet protocol (IP) network environment receives via public interface access requests from users directed to KVM targets. The system includes a public and private virtual local area network (VLAN) linked by a bonded interface and general-purpose and optimized application containers. The general-purpose container initiates a KVM session and creates a network address translation (NAT) route (associated with an IP address visible to the user) and a dedicated interface via which the user may send KVM data directly and through the optimized application container, which prioritizes KVM data so it can pass without preemption through the private VLAN and to its intended KVM target in real-time or near real-time. The NAT route and external IP address may be reused for multiple access sessions to different KVM targets from the same user.
US12041006B2
This application provides a data transmission method and an apparatus, to improve resource utilization. The method includes: A first node obtains reference information, where the reference information includes information about a first subcarrier spacing and information about a first backhaul resource. The first node transmits data on a second backhaul resource by using a second subcarrier spacing, where the second backhaul resource includes one or more sub-resources, each of the one or more sub-resources includes M resource units, M is an integer greater than 1, M is determined based on the first subcarrier spacing and the second subcarrier spacing, the second subcarrier spacing is greater than the first subcarrier spacing, and the second backhaul resource is a subset of the first backhaul resource.
US12041002B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for receiving an indication of variable tracking reference signal (TRS). A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining a configuration indicating a value for a variable tracking reference signal (TRS) density, monitoring for TRSs from a base station (BS) according to the indicated value for the variable TRS density, and performing at least one of frequency tracking or timing tracking based on the monitoring.
US12041000B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a control message in a first control channel occasion associated with a first quasi-colocation (QCL) property, the control message indicating a transmission of a data message within a threshold time period. The UE may receive, from the base station, an indication to skip monitoring of a second control channel occasion within the threshold time period and may receive the data message in accordance with a second QCL property, or drop reception of the data message, based on the indication. Additionally, or alternatively, the base station may transmit a message indicating a unified transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state associated with the second QCL property, and the UE may receive the data message in accordance with the second QCL property based on the unified TCI state.
US12040999B2
Technology for an eNodeB operable to decode a sounding reference signal (SRS) received from a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The eNodeB can decode the SRS received from the UE, wherein 5 the SRS is received using one or more SRS resources in a subframe where each SRS resource includes one or more symbols. The subframe can be an uplink subframe dedicated for SRS transmission or a short transmission time interval (sTTI) subframe used for SRS transmission. The eNodeB can determine uplink channel quality information for a channel between the eNodeB and the UE based in part on the 10 SRS.
US12040998B2
Described herein are methods and apparatuses for enhancing transmission reliability. A method may comprise determining to determining to transmit a plurality of repetitions of a data payload. Each repetition of the data payload may comprise a set of coded bit sequences. The method may further comprise determining a constellation for each of the repetitions of the data payload, and mapping, for each repetition of the data payload, the sets of coded bit sequences to respective sets of modulation symbols based on the constellation. Each of the sets of modulation symbols may be different. The method may further comprise allocating time and frequency resources for transmitting the sets of modulation symbols and transmitting the sets of modulation symbols on a downlink channel using the allocated time and frequency resources.
US12040994B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for distributing network connectivity from a gateway. The network access system can include a gateway with the ability to support regulating network access to various devices. The network access functionality can be configurable and customizable to various users or devices. The gateway can connect to a source and determine the bandwidth. Using the determined bandwidth, the gateway can allocate the bandwidth among the devices according to a priority order of the devices. In some implementations, the gateway can receive customizable features from the user for bandwidth allocation to devices connected the gateway. The gateway can track the network usage by MAC address of a device and disconnect the device from the network when the network usage reaches a threshold.
US12040991B2
Techniques for sending Compute Express Link (CXL) packets over Ethernet (CXL-E) in a composable data center that may include disaggregated, composable servers. The techniques may include receiving, from a first server device, a request to bind the first server device with a multiple logical device (MLD) appliance. Based at least in part on the request, a first CXL-E connection may be established for the first server device to export a computing resource to the MLD appliance. The techniques may also include receiving, from the MLD appliance, an indication that the computing resource is available, and receiving, from a second server device, a second request for the computing resource. Based at least in part on the second request, a second CXL-E connection may be established for the second server device to consume or otherwise utilize the computing resource of the first server device via the MLD appliance.
US12040990B2
A mechanism is disclosed for performing implementing an operational flow profile. An initial packet is received that is associated with a flow. The initial packet contains a header including conditional commands related to an operational flow profile. The conditional commands are executed to initialize a state of an operational flow profile by allocating memory to store results of an aggregation function applied to the flow. A subsequent packet associated with the flow is received. The aggregation function is applied to the subsequent packet. Results of the aggregation function are stored to update the state of the operational flow profile.
US12040983B2
Systems and methods to measure the number of packets in Control/User Plane Separation, CUPS, are provided. In some embodiments, a method performed by a Control Plane, CP, entity includes: determining that packet counting should be performed by a User Plane, UP, entity; providing measurement instructions to the UP entity for counting packets and identifying a recipient of a packet count if the CP entity is not the recipient; and, if the CP entity is the recipient of the packet count, receiving, from the UP entity, a packet count. In this way, a CP function is able to instruct a UP function to perform a measurement in terms of packets, e.g., a measurement of the number of packets transmitted.
US12040981B2
The present application discloses a service sending method, receiving method, device, system, and storage medium. The service sending method includes: sending, by a sending end, a service flow, a target information block of the service flow carrying position information, and the position information being used for indicating a relative position of the target information block in the service flow.
US12040978B2
The system disclosed herein implements an improved anycast routing technique that enables a content delivery network (CDN) to control the load on various points of presence (PoPs), but that also maintains the ability to have requests that would have been sent to an offline PoP be automatically redirected to another PoP. The CDN is able to control the load on the PoPs by configuring content requests to be routed to a particular PoP. For instance, a CDN is configured to assign a subnet of distinct IP addresses to each PoP in a group of PoPs, so that each PoP can announce a unique anycast prefix. The CDN can control when and how these unique anycast prefix are announced to balance load across the PoPs.
US12040976B2
Some embodiments provide a method for processing a packet for a pipeline of a hardware switch. The pipeline, in some embodiments, includes several different stages that match against packet header fields and modify packet header fields. The method receives a packet that includes a set of packet headers. The method then populates, for each packet header in the set of packet headers, (i) a first set of registers with packet header field values of the packet header that are used in the pipeline, and (ii) a second set of registers with packet header field values of the packet header that are not used in the pipeline.
US12040974B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information sending method applied to a node. The method includes: sending capability advertisement information, wherein the capability advertisement information is used for indicating a capability of the node to support compressed SRv6 SIDs. Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide an information processing method, a node, a controller, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.
US12040972B2
A management device includes: a management table acquisition unit that acquires at least a first management table in which an MPLS tunnel and a first label for in-network delivery are associated with each other, and a second management table in which an MPLS tunnel, a second label for specifying a CE router that is an output destination from an egress PE router, and identification information of a VPN to which the CE router that is the output destination belongs are associated with each other, the first management table being included in a node that is a copy source in an MPLS network, the second management table being included in an egress PE router as an output destination of a packet; and a VPN identification unit that collates the first label of the copied packet with the first management table to identify an MPLS tunnel through which the packet passes.
US12040967B2
A system accesses a set of devices transferring a plurality of data elements from a source device to a destination device. The system determines that a first subset of data elements from among the plurality of data elements is transformed in a first subset of devices. The system determines that a second subset of data elements from among the plurality of data elements is transformed in a second subset of devices. The system splits the plurality of data elements into the first subset of data elements and the second subset of data elements. The system communicates the first subset of data elements using a first transfer path through the first subset of devices. The system communicates the second subset of data elements using a second transfer path through the second subset of devices.
US12040962B2
In a routing information management method, a primary route generation unit generates routing information related to a TCP packet, and the primary route generation unit sends the routing information and first identification information of the routing information to a database unit, where the first identification information is determined based on the TCP packet.
US12040959B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a traffic monitoring method, an apparatus, an integrated circuit, a network device, and a network system. When receiving a first packet, a traffic collection apparatus determines that a measurement value of a target performance indicator of the first packet matches a value of first information in a first register, updates a value of second information in the first register based on the measurement value of the target performance indicator of the first packet, and increases a value of third information in the first register by 1.
US12040954B2
The current document is directed to an alternative control interface provided to infrastructure-as-a-service (“IaaS”) clients that provides a comprehensive collection of monitoring and control features to allow IaaS clients to monitor their distributed applications running within execution environments provided by an IaaS and to optimize execution of their distributed applications using the control features provided by the alternative control interface. In addition, the alternative control interface provides process-automation features and services that allow IaaS clients to automate monitoring and control tasks. In the described implementations, the currently disclosed alternative control interface is based on a graph database and a metrics database. The graph database stores a current representation of the infrastructure leased from an IaaS system by an IaaS client and the metrics database continuously collects and stores metric values scraped from components of the infrastructure leased by the IaaS client.
US12040949B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for connecting processors using twisted torus configurations. In some implementations, a cluster of processing nodes is coupled using a reconfigurable interconnect fabric. The system determines a number of processing nodes to allocate as a network within the cluster and a topology for the network. The system selects an interconnection scheme for the network, where the interconnection scheme is selected from a group that includes at least a torus interconnection scheme and a twisted torus interconnection scheme. The system allocates the determined number of processing nodes of the cluster in the determined topology, sets the reconfigurable interconnect fabric to provide the selected interconnection scheme for the processing nodes in the network, and provides access to the network for performing a computing task.
US12040946B2
Methods and computer software are disclosed for providing decomposition and distribution of network functions. In one example embodiment a method includes decomposing a node in a network into a decomposed node including a plurality of virtual machines or containers; and moving the decomposed node to any location across the network.
US12040944B2
The present technology provides a framework for user-guided end-to-end automation of network deployment and management, that enables a user to guide the automation process for any kind of network deployment from the ground up, as well as offering network management, visibility, and compliance verification. The disclosed technology accomplishes this by creating a stateful and interactive virtual representation of a fabric using a customizable underlay fabric template instantiated with user-provided parameter values and network topology data computed from one or more connected network devices. A set of expected configurations corresponding to the user-specified underlay and overly fabric policies is then generated for deployment onto the connected network devices. Network deviations from the intended fabric policies are addressed by the provision of one or more configuration lines to be deployed onto or removed from the connected network devices to bring the network state in agreement with the set of expected configuration.
US12040941B2
The present invention discloses a method, a system and an electronic device for configuring the electronic device. The method and system comprise steps of configuring the electronic device by a profile server. The profile server receives sensor information, determines a profile substantially based on the sensor information, retrieves a configuration based on the profile, and then configure the electronic device substantially based on the configuration. In one variant, the configuration of the electronic device may be performed by a profile management module of the electronic device.
US12040934B1
This disclosure describes a network management system (NMS) configured to determine a particular network device of a plurality of network devices based on a first user input in a conversational assistant. The one or more processors are further configured to identify a set of actionable insights for the particular network device based on network data received from the plurality of network devices and determine a set of views of a dashboard based at least on the set of actionable insights, wherein each view of the set of views displays a portion of the network data received from the plurality of network devices. The one or more processors are further configured to select a view of the set of views of the dashboard based on a second user input in the conversational assistant and cause the dashboard to display the selected view.
US12040933B2
This disclosure describes an event bus system that, as part of an inter-network facilitation system, can generate and distribute network events for self-service event requests utilizing a network event data streaming platform. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a network event data streaming platform that includes specialized network components, such as a batch distribution data lake and an event fanning platform. The disclosed systems can utilize the batch distribution data lake to distribute long-retention network events for high-latency event requests. Additionally, the disclosed systems can utilize the event fanning platform to generate low-latency fanned data streams from short-retention network events for low-latency event requests.
US12040927B2
Techniques for peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction are described. Wireless devices may provide signaling with respect to one or more PAPR shaping resources. For example, a wireless device may provide signaling of PAPR shaping capability information. PAPR shaping capability information may include information regarding one or more PAPR shaping resources the wireless device has a capability to implement. Additionally or alternatively, a wireless device may provide signaling of PAPR shaping information. PAPR shaping information may include information regarding shaping the signal by a wireless device prior to transmission in a communication link by implementing one or more PAPR shaping resources. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12040924B1
A cluster correlator may be configured with: a first stage comprising a set of first correlators to correlate samples of an input signal with a first predetermined pattern and output an output sample, the set of first correlators to output a sample cluster corresponding to the output sample of the set of first correlators during a switching cycle of the first stage; a filter coupled to an output of the first stage to receive the sample cluster and to produce a processed output sample based on the sample cluster; and a second stage comprising at least one second correlator to receive a processed output sample from the filter and correlate the processed output sample with a second predetermined pattern, and output one or more correlation outputs during a switching cycle of the second stage.
US12040919B2
The present specification provides a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system. More particularly, a method for transmitting, by a terminal, a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system comprises: receiving, from a base station, information relating to a plurality of SRS resource sets, the SRS resource sets each comprising one or more SRS resources; and transmitting, to the base station, an SRS on the plurality of SRS resources based on the information, wherein, if the plurality of SRS resources are included in difference SRS resource sets, the SRS is transmitted simultaneously on the plurality of SRS resources.
US12040913B2
The invention relates to an electronic device (1) for obtaining a sensor signal for use in a system (11) which changes a sensing function in dependence on a light setting. The electronic device is configured to obtain a sensor signal from a sensor (9) and select based on data stored in a memory (7) which device and/or application of a plurality of devices (21, 31, 45, 46) and/or applications the sensor signal should be transmitted to. The selection depends on which light setting is currently active on one or more light devices (13-15). The sensor is arranged to sense in a field of view. The electronic device is further configured to transmit the sensor signal to the selected device and/or application.
US12040910B2
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The tunnel device is selected based on an attribute, such as IP Geolocation. A tunnel bank server stores a list of available tunnels that may be used, associated with values of various attribute types. The tunnel devices initiate communication with the tunnel bank server, and stays connected to it, for allowing a communication session initiated by the tunnel bank server. Upon receiving a request from a client to a content and for specific attribute types and values, a tunnel is selected by the tunnel bank server, and is used as a tunnel for retrieving the required content from the web server, using standard protocol such as SOCKS, WebSocket or HTTP Proxy. The client only communicates with a super proxy server that manages the content fetching scheme.
US12040885B2
A real-time Ethernet (RTE) protocol includes start-up frames originated by a master device for network initialization including a preamble, destination address (DA), source address (SA), a type field, and a status field including state information that indicates a current protocol state that the Ethernet network is in for the slave devices to translate for dynamically switching to one of a plurality of provided frame forwarding modes. The start-up frames include device Discovery frames at power up, Parameterization frames that distribute network parameters, and Time Synchronization frames including the master's time and unique assigned communication time slots for each slave device. After the initialization at least one data exchange frame is transmitted exclusive of SA and DA including a preamble that comprises a header that differentiates between master and slave, a type field, a status field excluding the current protocol state, and a data payload.
US12040879B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium for facilitating remote user airspace communication. For instance, the method may include: connecting with a user device associated with and remote from a first vehicle in a shared air traffic control sector; receiving voice communication data from at least one of the user device, a second vehicle in the shared air traffic control sector, and an air traffic control station in the shared air traffic control sector; generating analog data or digital data based on the received voice communication data; determining a recipient for the generated analog data or generated digital data in the shared air traffic control sector; transmitting the generated analog data or generated digital data to the recipient; and terminating the connection with the user device as the first vehicle leaves the shared air traffic control sector.
US12040873B2
A system for converging fifth generation (5G) communication systems for supporting higher data rates beyond fourth generation (4G) systems with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) is provided. The communication method and system 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. A system is provided for determining system information validity by acquiring and storing a first system information block and other system information, including information on a public land mobile network (PLMN) identity and a value tag, and determining whether the stored system information is valid for the cell. As another example, a terminal and base station are provided for performing beam failure detection and a recovery procedure using first and second configuration information for beam failure recovery (BFR) and if failure is detected, initiating a first random access (RA) procedure and if second configuration information is received while the first RA procedure is ongoing, terminating the first RA procedure and initiating a second RA procedure based on the second configuration information.
US12040871B2
Certain aspects of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in a method for wireless communication by base station. The method generally includes transmitting, to a user-equipment (UE), a packet indicating a beam switch associated with communication with the UE, receiving an acknowledgment (ACK) message, detecting that the ACK message is configured to indicate whether parsing of contents of the packet was successful, determining a timing of the beam switch based on the detection, and performing the beam switch in accordance with the determination of the timing.
US12040869B2
Techniques of performing CSI reporting include identifying a cluster of TRPs sharing common information in their CSI and transmitting a complete CSI report to a selected TRP of the cluster while transmitting partial CSIs reports to other TRPs of the cluster. Along these lines, in an example implementation, a UE receives a CSI-RS from a network, with the CSI-RS carrying a plurality of reference symbols from a plurality of TRPs. Based on the plurality of symbols, the UE generates TRP data representing CSI feedback for each of the TRPs. From the CSI feedback, the UE identifies, as a cluster, a subset of the TRPs that share common information within the CSI feedback. The UE then sends first identification data identifying the subset of the TRPs that make up the cluster to the network.
US12040865B2
Systems and methods for low complexity multi-configuration Channel State Information (CSI) reporting are provided. In some embodiments, a method of operating a wireless device in a cellular communications network to provide CSI feedback from multiple CSI reporting configurations is provided. The method includes receiving a first and second CSI reporting configuration and then reporting updated CSI in a CSI report for only one of the first CSI reporting configuration and the second CSI reporting configuration. In this way, rich CSI feedback with many ports, different codebooks, mixed beamformed and non-precoded CSI-RS configurations, etc., can be supported while requiring less computational complexity in the wireless device.
US12040863B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for uplink transmission, a method and apparatus for receiving signal, a terminal device, a service node and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method for uplink transmission may include: performing beamforming on a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) according to a target parameter, and transmitting the SRS beamformed, wherein the target parameter is determined according to downlink channel information; receiving precoding information; and transmitting an uplink transmission signal according to the target parameter and the precoding information.
US12040857B2
The present subject matter relates to a receiver including a detector for receiving a signal from a transmitter. The detector includes a set of one or more settable parameters, and circuitry configured for implementing an algorithm having trainable parameters. The algorithm is configured to receive as input information indicative of a status of a communication channel between the transmitter and the receiver and to output values of the set of settable parameters of the detector. The detector is configured to receive a signal corresponding to a message sent by the transmitter and to provide an output indicative of the message based on the received signal and the output values of the set of settable parameters of the detector.
US12040856B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for scheduling radio resources across a group of one or more user equipment (UEs) are provided. One method may include encoding every sequence of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU MIMO) beam combinations into a unique numerical value, adding a Q value into the encoded numerical value to produce a Q encoded value (Qencoded), providing each of the sequence of beam combinations with a unique designated bin, passing a matrix comprising a state representation for each of the beam combinations through a deep Q network (DQN), and outputting, by the deep Q network (DQN), one or more optimal beams to assign to a user equipment (UE).
US12040851B2
This document discloses a solution for performing internetwork beamforming cooperation. According to an aspect, a method comprises: establishing, by a first access node (112) of a first wireless network, internetwork beamforming with a second access node (110) of a second wireless network, wherein the establishment indicates at least one station (102) of the second wireless network; in response to said establishing, transmitting by the first access node (112) a channel sounding signal; receiving, by the first access node (112) from the at least one station (102) of the second wireless network, a beamforming report comprising channel state information measured from the channel sounding signal; and performing, by the first access node (112), null steering beamforming transmission in the first wireless network on the basis of the received channel state information.
US12040846B2
Systems and methods for producing quality indicators for phase-based distance estimations using narrowband radios are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, a device may include: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the device to: measure a transfer function of a radio frequency (RF) channel between the device and another device using narrowband radios; estimate a distance between the device and the other device based, at least in part, upon the transfer function; and determine a Distance Quality Indicator (DQI) corresponding to the distance based, at least in part, upon an evaluation of a spectral lobe of the transfer function.
US12040839B2
A two-dimensional scalable high-power optical phased array architecture with beam steering is provided. The present disclosure is related to integrated optical transmitters wherein an array of antenna elements together with laser sources can transmit high-power optical signals. The optical transmitters can also beamform and steer the signal toward the desired direction. The architecture facilitates a simplified control of the delay tuning elements by using a single control signal for the entire row and single control signal for the entire column.
US12040833B2
A method and an apparatus for polarization multiplexing and encoding in a visible light communication system based on a gold nanoparticle are provided. A method for encoding in a receiver using a polarizing characteristic in a visible light communication system based on a gold nanoparticle, which is performed by a computer device, includes splitting a receive signal into left circular polarization light and right circular polarization light by allowing the receive signal to pass through a linear polarizer and estimating a phase retardation difference, and detecting a transmit symbol by estimating the phase retardation difference.
US12040831B2
The present invention enables shortening the time required for resuming communication in a protection method that uses a backup path in an optical communication system that includes a master station device and multiple slave station devices. The slave station devices are connected to a loop path in parallel. The communication paths between the master station device and the slave station devices include a normal path and a backup path. First and second slave station devices are slave station devices that cannot perform communication via the normal path. The magnitude relationship between backup path RTTs is opposite to the magnitude relationship between normal path RTTs. If the second normal path RTT for the second slave station device is longer than the first normal path RTT for the first slave station device, the first backup path RTT is longer than the second backup path RTT, and the second backup path RTT is shorter than the first backup path RTT. Based on this fact, the master station device limits the QuietWindow, which is used in ranging processing for measuring the backup path RTT, to a size smaller than a predetermined maximum size.
US12040827B2
The present disclosure provides a case for an electronic device and a magnetic assembly. The case includes a side wall, a back wall connected with the side wall to define a receiving cavity for receiving the electronic device, and a magnetic assembly, the magnetic assembly includes a support member connected with the side wall or the back wall, and a magnetic alignment member, the support member is capable of moving relative to the side wall or the back wall, so as to support the case, the magnetic alignment member is detachably or fixedly connected with the support member connected with the back wall or the side wall. The case of the present disclosure is convenient to use.
US12040826B2
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) wireless technology transmits digital data as modulated coded impulses over a very wide frequency spectrum with very low power over a short distance. Accordingly, the inventors have established UWB devices which accommodate and adapt to inaccuracies, errors, or issues within the implemented electronics, hardware, firmware, and software. Beneficially, UWB receivers may accommodate offsets in absolute frequency between their frequency source and the transmitter, accommodate drift arising from phase locked loop and/or from relative clock frequency offsets of the remote transmitter and local receiver. UWB devices may also employ modulation coding schemes offering increased efficiency with respect to power, data bits per pulse transmitted, and enabled operation at higher output power whilst complying with regulatory emission requirements. Further, UWB devices may support a ranging function with range/accuracy not limited to the low frequency master clock employed within these devices enabling operation with ultra-low power consumption.
US12040820B2
A system and method for data compression with homomorphic encryption, which enables secure storage of private information in a database, and which enables searching and comparison of encrypted data within the database, comprising a stream condition system configured to optimize the contents of received data for lossless compression by a data encoder, a data encoder to perform the lossless compression, and an encrypted search engine configured to encrypt the compressed data according to a homomorphic encryption scheme and store the encrypted data in a database. The system may receive a data query and encrypt the data query according to the homomorphic encryption scheme. The encrypted data query may be compared against an encrypted element in the database and an encryption score generated. The encryption score may be compared against a set of criteria to determine if a match is found. Matched data may be returned to the requesting entity.
US12040819B2
The disclosure relates to a method performed by an apparatus for decoding an encoded signal in a communication system according to an embodiment of the disclosure may include an operation of receiving an encoded signal including a plurality of codeword bits, an operation of determining a first log-likelihood ratio (LLR) for the plurality of codeword bits, and an operation of performing iterative decoding a predetermined number of times based the first LLR, and the plurality of codeword bits may include a codeword bit included in a first subset and a codeword bit included in a second subset, and the operation of performing iterative decoding may include determining a second LLR only for the codeword bit included in the first subset of the plurality of codeword bits, and estimating, based on the second LLR, a bit value only for the codeword bit included in the first subset.
US12040818B2
A method includes calculating a number of iterative detection and decoding (IDD) iterations and a number of decoding iterations for each of a plurality of channel coding units in a target codeword; calculating a demodulation time and a decoding time for the target codeword based on the number of IDD iterations and the number of decoding iterations for the target codeword; adding the target codeword to a codeword set, based on a demodulation time and a decoding time for codewords in the codeword set and the target codeword; and performing an IDD operation based on a number of IDD iterations and a number of decoding iterations.
US12040802B1
A timing recovery method includes the following operations: performing a time domain timing recovery process according to a predefined cyclic prefix portion of a first symbol during a downstream time-division duplexing frame period to tune a phase locked loop circuit; and performing a frequency domain timing recovery process according to at least one second symbol that follows the first symbol during the downstream time-division duplexing frame period to tune the phase locked loop circuit.
US12040790B2
An electronic apparatus includes a noise measurement circuitry that measures electromagnetic noise in a surrounding environment, and a controller that controls timing of turning on or off a switching circuit based on the electromagnetic noise measured by the noise measurement circuitry.
US12040783B2
An acoustic resonator device includes a diaphragm a diaphragm comprising a portion of a piezoelectric plate spanning a cavity. A conductor pattern on a surface of the piezoelectric plate includes an interdigital transducer (IDT) with a first busbar, a second busbar, and a plurality of interleaved IDT fingers extending alternately from the first and second busbars. Overlapping portions of the plurality of interleaved fingers are on the diaphragm. The conductor pattern also includes a first reflector element on the diaphragm proximate and parallel to a first IDT finger, and a second reflector element on the diaphragm proximate and parallel to a last IDT finger. A center-to-center spacing of the first reflector element and the first IDT finger and the second reflector element and the last IDT finger is greater than an average center-to-center spacing between all adjacent pairs of IDT fingers.
US12040782B2
A composite filter device includes a piezoelectric substrate made of LiNbO3, a first filter on the piezoelectric substrate, and including acoustic wave resonators, and a second filter including one end connected in common to one end of the first filter, wherein a pass band of the second filter is in a frequency band higher than a pass band of the first filter, and bulk wave radiation frequencies of all of the first and second resonators of the first filter are higher than the pass band of the second filter.
US12040777B2
A SAW transducer and a SAW resonator are proposed composed of consecutively arranged unit cells of length L. Slight geometry or material variations such as variations of the metallization ration or the unit cell length L affecting the pitch) between these unit cells result in improved spurious mode suppression while the main mode performance is unaffected.
US12040771B2
A circuit for matching impedance and regulating a voltage of a high radio frequency line across a low voltage device that includes a differential input port, the high radio frequency lines, an internally routed line, a singled ended peak detection circuit, and a single-ended programmable variable impedance using a single-ended programmable variable impedance. The differential input port receives a differential high radio frequency signal using driver buffers. The internally routed line boosts the received differential high-frequency RF signal. The single-ended peak detection circuit detects peak voltages of the differential high-frequency RF signal. Depending on the peak value obtained at the output of the single-ended peak detection circuit, the single-ended programmable variable impedance that matches the impedance of each of high radio frequency lines and regulates the voltage of high radio frequency lines across said low voltage device to a pre-defined voltage.
US12040767B2
A multilayer substrate includes a via electrode defining and functioning as an end portion on ground terminals side of a first inductor connected to a shield electrode, the end portion on a signal line side is adjacent to or in a vicinity of a first principal surface than the end portion on the ground terminals side is in the lamination direction of base material layers, a via electrode defining and functioning as the end portion on the ground terminals side of a second inductor is connected to the shield electrode, and the end portion on the signal line side is adjacent to or in a vicinity of the first principal surface than the end portion on the ground terminals side is in the lamination direction of the base material layers.
US12040762B2
A method for performing loudness normalization by an audio signal processing device includes: receiving an audio signal; receiving information relating to integrated loudness of the audio signal; receiving information relating to target loudness of the audio signal; obtaining a corrected integrated loudness by correcting the integrated loudness based on one or more audio processing; and obtaining a normalized audio signal by normalizing the audio signal based on the corrected integrated loudness and the target loudness.
US12040759B2
Disclosed is a reconfigurable power amplifier having a 2N−1 number of input-side reconfigurable quadrature couplers connected in a tree structure, wherein a 2(N−1) number of the input-side reconfigurable quadrature couplers have coupler output terminals, and a root of the tree structure is one of the input-side reconfigurable quadrature couplers having a main input terminal. Also included is a 2N−1 number of output-side reconfigurable quadrature couplers connected in a tree structure, wherein a 2(N−1) number of the output-side reconfigurable quadrature couplers have coupler input terminals, and a root of the tree structure is one of the output-side reconfigurable quadrature couplers having a main output terminal. Further included is a 2N number of constituent amplifiers divided into amplifier pairs having amplifier input terminals connected to corresponding ones of the coupler output terminals and having amplifier output terminals coupled to corresponding ones of the coupler input terminals.
US12040758B2
An integrated circuit for measuring current while receiving wireless power is described. The integrated circuit measures a current across a resistor by an amplifier. A gain of the amplifier is based on a pair of matched upstairs resistors and a pair of matched downstairs resistors. The pair of matched upstairs resistors may include an offset in resistance. The integrated circuit includes a switch matrix with switches coupled between the integrated resistor and the pair of matched upstairs resistors. The offset for the pair of matched upstairs resistors may be measured by selectively controlling the switches.
US12040750B2
An apparatus for turning off a cascode amplifier having a common-base transistor and a common-emitter transistor is disclosed that includes the cascode amplifier, a feedback circuit, and a bias circuit. The feedback circuit is configured to receive a collector-voltage from the collector of the common-emitter transistor when the common-emitter transistor is switched to a first OFF state and produce a first feedback signal. The collector-voltage is equal to a emitter voltage of the common-base transistor and the collector-voltage increases in response to switching the common-emitter transistor to the first OFF state. The bias circuit is configured to receive the first feedback signal and produce a bias-voltage. A first base-voltage is produced from the bias-voltage. The cascode amplifier is configured to receive the first base-voltage and a second base-voltage. The common-base transistor is configured to switch to a second OFF state in response to receiving the second base-voltage.
US12040747B2
An oscillation circuit includes resistors with tap points for high/low reference voltages. An RC network coupled in parallel with the resistors includes a first capacitor to vary a first voltage input and a second capacitor to generate a second voltage input. A first comparator alternately compares the voltage inputs with the low reference voltage to generate oscillation outputs. A PTAT current DAC supplies an injection current to a resistor of the series of resistors that variably modulates the reference voltages. A second comparator alternately compares the voltage inputs with the high reference voltage and controls generation of an adaptive bias current to first comparator near a switching threshold voltage range thereof. A chop switch matrix alternately flips voltage reference inputs to input terminals of first comparator. A multiplexer alternately inverts a polarity of the oscillation outputs in concert with alternately flipping the voltage reference inputs by the chop switch matrix.
US12040745B1
A system, method, and solar photovoltaic (PV) network for solar PV variability reduction with reduced time delays and battery storage optimization are described. The system includes a Moving Regression (MR) filter; a State of Charge (SoC) feedback control; and a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). The MR filter, SoC feedback control and BESS are configured to provide smoothing of solar PV variabilities. The MR filter is a non-parametric smoother that utilizes a machine learning concept of linear regression to smooth out solar PV variations at every time step.
US12040736B2
The disclosed subject matter relates to a solar power supply device for a light, comprising at least one tubular solar module that can be slid onto a mast, and a crown which can be fitted to the top of the mast and from which the solar module is suspended, wherein the solar module contains in its interior at least one pair of spring elements that can be resiliently spread apart, between which the mast can be passed through. The invention further relates to a lighting device comprising a mast and a solar power supply device of this kind, the crown of which is fitted to the top of the mast and through the spread-apart spring elements of which the mast is passed through, and at least one light that is supported by the solar power supply device and is electrically powered thereby.
US12040719B2
The invention relates to an isolated resonant primary side switched converter (100), comprising a galvanic isolation stage (105), an auxiliary winding (L51-c) on the primary side (101) of the isolation stage (105) which is magnetically coupled to at least one secondary side winding (L51-b, L51-d) of the isolation stage (105), wherein the auxiliary winding (L51-c) is configured to detect a feedback signal as to a secondary side voltage, and a control unit (107) configured to sample the feedback signal, in each or every nth switching cycle, during a sampling period in which a current is flowing on the secondary side (103) of the isolation stage (105), and to process the sampled signal for a feedback control of the secondary side voltage by controlling the switching operation of a primary side switch (M40, M41).
US12040714B2
A switching regulator generates an output voltage from an input voltage and includes; a charge sharing circuit that selectively forms one of a first charge sharing path between a first flying capacitor and a second bootstrap capacitor and a second charge sharing path between a second flying capacitor and a first bootstrap capacitor based on first and second conversion modes.
US12040710B2
Circuitry for estimating an inductance of an inductor in power converter circuitry, the circuitry comprising: circuitry for generating a peak inductor current signal indicative of a peak inductor current during an operational cycle of the power converter circuitry; circuitry for generating a ripple current estimate signal, indicative of an estimate of a ripple current in the power converter circuitry; and circuitry for applying the ripple current estimate signal to the peak inductor current signal to generate an average inductor current threshold signal indicative of an estimated average inductor current in the power converter circuitry during the operational cycle, wherein the ripple current estimate signal is based on: a duration of a charging phase of operation of the power converter circuitry; a voltage across the inductor; and an inductance value for the inductor; and wherein the circuitry for generating the ripple current estimate signal is operative to select an inductance value for the inductor for which the estimated average inductor current is equal to an actual average inductor current during the operational cycle to generate a value for the actual inductance of the inductor.
US12040701B2
An active electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter includes a first amplifier and a second amplifier. The first amplifier is configured to sense noise signals on a power conductor. The second amplifier is coupled to the first amplifier and is configured to drive a cancellation signal onto the power conductor. The cancellation signal is to reduce the amplitude of the noise signals sensed by the first amplifier. An output impedance of the second amplifier is lower than an output impedance of the first amplifier.
US12040700B2
A power supply apparatus, comprising at least one circuit board having thereon at least a first single phase power factor controlled (PFC) circuit, and a second PFC corrected circuit, the first single phase PFC circuit and the second PFC corrected circuit each having at least one PFC device in communication with at least one inverter, at least one resonant (LC) circuit positioned on the at least one circuit board and in electrical communication with at least one of the first single phase PFC circuit and the second PFC corrected circuit, at least one transformer in communication with at least one of the first single phase PFC circuit and the second PFC corrected circuit via the at least one LC resonant circuit, the at least one transformer configured to generate at least one transformer output signal, and at least one capacitor in communication with the at least one transformer and configured to output at least one magnetron input signal in response to the at least one transformer output signal, and at least one power supply generating at least one three phase input voltage, the at least one circuit board in communication with the at least one power supply.
US12040698B2
A system and method for an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) includes a first converter assembly, a second converter assembly, a third converter assembly, a first controlled device configured for disconnecting at least two converters of the first converter assembly from and AC source, and a second controlled device configured for connecting at least two of the first converters together, and comprising the step of: opening the first controlled device and closing the second controlled device such that the first converter assembly transfers energy between split DC link halves to maintain voltage regulation of the DC link with respect to the midpoint reference.
US12040696B2
A system for charging a battery includes three sub-modules, each receiving a respective phase of a three-phase alternating current (AC) signal. The three sub-modules cooperate to transform the respective phases of the three-phase AC signal to a direct current (DC) signal by passing the respective phases of the three-phase AC signal through a respective semiconductor device configured to discontinuously modulate the respective phase of the three-phase AC signal to convert it to a DC signal provided to the battery to charge the battery.
US12040691B2
An electrical machine, in particular for driving a motor vehicle, including a cooling and/or lubricating system having a wet chamber for accommodating a cooling and/or lubricating medium. A stator and/or a rotor of the electrical machine is at least partially arranged in the wet chamber and/or delimits it, and the electrical machine includes at least one stator-side transmission component and at least one rotor-side transmission component, which form an electrical sliding contact. At least one of the transmission components is at least partially arranged in the wet chamber and/or delimits
US12040690B2
An electric motor may include a stator assembly comprising a stator housing, and one or more rotors coupled to the stator by a rotor shaft assembly. The stator housing may include a cooling structure that has a plurality of cooling body portions and a plurality of cooling conduits defined by the plurality of cooling body portions. A method of forming a stator housing for an electric machine may include additively manufacturing a stator housing that includes a cooling structure defining a fluid domain, coupling a working fluid source to the stator housing and introducing a working fluid into the fluid domain defined by the cooling structure, and sealing the cooling structure with the working fluid contained within the fluid domain of the cooling structure. A method of cooling an electric machine may include heating the working fluid in the fluid domain and flowing the working fluid through the fluid domain, and transferring heat from the cooling structure to a cooling fluid flowing along one or more cooling surfaces contacting a surface of the electric machine.
US12040688B2
A power tool includes a functional element, a motor, a power supply module, a driver circuit, and a control module. The control module is electrically connected to the driver circuit and configured to output a control signal to the driver circuit to control the driver circuit. The control module is configured to: in the case where the power tool is in a first operation stage, control the driver circuit in a first control mode so that a voltage of the motor varies with a rotor position of the motor in a square wave; and in the case where the power tool is in a second operation stage, control the driver circuit in a second control mode so that the voltage of the motor varies with the rotor position of the motor in a sine wave or a saddle wave.
US12040687B2
A power tool includes a motor including a rotor and a stator disposed around the rotor; an output shaft to which a tip tool is attached and that is rotated by power generated by the motor; a torque sensor unit that is disposed between the stator and the output shaft in a front-rear direction parallel to a rotation axis of the motor and that is coupled to the output shaft; an amplifier circuit that amplifies a detection signal of the torque sensor unit; and a housing including a motor housing part for housing the motor and a grip part. The torque sensor unit is disposed forward of the stator. The grip part is disposed downward of the motor housing part. The amplifier circuit is disposed upward of the grip part. The amplifier circuit is disposed forward of a rear end part of the stator.
US12040682B2
A hybrid power train with a low-voltage motor-generator. Such a hybrid power train may include a low-voltage motor-generator arranged in a concentric manner around a drive shaft to form a driving connection between a rotor of the low-voltage motor-generator and the drive shaft; and a hollow shaft between the low-voltage motor-generator and the drive shaft, the hollow shaft comprising an outer spline at a first end portion, connected to the rotor of the low-voltage motor-generator, and an inner spline at a second end portion, connected to the drive shaft, wherein both the connection of the outer spline to the rotor of the low-voltage motor-generator and the connection of the inner spline to the drive shaft is faulted as a crowned spline connection to accommodate for horizontal and/or vertical angular misalignment and/or horizontal and/or vertical displacement between the drive shaft and the rotor.
US12040681B2
A housing is shaped in a bottomed tubular form. A stator is fixed to a stator receiving portion of a tubular portion of the housing at an arbitrary angle position around an axis of the tubular portion. A heat sink is fixed to a heat sink fixing portion of the tubular portion at an arbitrary angle position around the axis of the tubular portion. A control device includes a connector for electrically connecting with an external device and is configured to control energization of the stator. Each of a plurality of externally mounting portions is a part of a bottom portion of the housing and is formed integrally with the housing in one-piece. A plurality of housing positioning holes are formed at the bottom portion of the housing and are arranged at equal intervals along a circle that is concentric with the tubular portion.
US12040679B2
A motor unit according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a motor having a rotor that rotates about a motor axis and a stator located radially outside the rotor; an inverter that controls a current to be supplied to the motor; a housing body having a motor housing portion that houses the motor and an inverter housing portion that houses the inverter; and an inverter housing configured to cover an opening of the inverter housing portion while supporting the inverter. The housing body is provided with a first cooling path through which a first refrigerant for cooling the motor flows. The inverter housing is provided with a second cooling path through which a second refrigerant for cooling the inverter flows.
US12040676B2
The VCM according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a base unit, a mover including a bobbin arranged at an upper surface of the base unit and formed with a plurality of rotation prevention units along a periphery and a first driving unit arranged at a periphery of the bobbin, a stator including a yoke configured to the base unit to surround the mover and inner yoke units each extended to between the rotation prevention units, and a second driving unit oppositely arranged to the first driving unit, and an elastic member elastically supporting the mover, wherein an object occurrence preventing portion is formed between the rotation prevention unit and the inner yoke units to decrease a contact area between the rotation prevention unit and the inner yoke units.
US12040673B2
In one aspect of the present invention, a motor includes a rotor that is rotatable about a center axis line and a stator that is disposed on a radial outside of the rotor. The stator includes a winding portion including a plurality of conductor connection bodies in which a plurality of conductors are connected in series and a stator core in which a plurality of slots through which the conductor connection body passes are provided. The winding portion includes a neutral point portion located on one side in the axial direction of the stator core, ends of the three conductor connection bodies being electrically connected to the neutral point portion. The neutral point portion includes two connection portions to which two of different combinations of the ends of the three conductor connection bodies are connected.
US12040665B2
Provided is a rotor of a rotating electric machine, including: a rotor core; an end plate provided at an end portion of the rotor core in an axial direction of the rotor core; and a shaft passing through the rotor core and the end plate along the axial direction. The end plate includes: a flat plate portion that has an annular shape and is held in contact with the rotor core; and a warp portion that is formed more on an inner peripheral side of the end plate than the flat plate portion and is held in contact with the shaft. In a radial cross section of the end plate, the warp portion is warped so as to be apart from the rotor core as extending away from the flat plate portion.
US12040660B2
The disclosed embodiments describe a partially caged rotor for use in an interior permanent magnet motor and techniques for fabricating thereof. In some embodiments, a caged rotor includes: a rotor core having a shaft; a rotor cage comprising a plurality of conductor bars; and a plurality of permanent magnets at least partially disposed inside a plurality of mounting holes of the core, the plurality of permanent magnets and the plurality of mounting holes forming a plurality of cavities inside the core; wherein each conductor bar is disposed at a respective cavity of the plurality of cavities such that the plurality of conductor bars is of a number greater or equal to 8 and less or equal to 64.
US12040657B2
An uninterruptible power supply, UPS, arrangement for subsea applications, including a container arranged and configured for subsea operation, and the following main modules arranged inside the container: at least one battery module of a predetermined battery capacity; at least one UPS module governing the battery module, the UPS module having a predetermined UPS capacity; at least one control module configured for interfacing and managing the battery module and the UPS module. The UPS arrangement is arranged and configured to vary its overall capacity based on at least the number of battery and UPS modules, wherein the at least one battery module and the at least one UPS module are internally arranged such that the heat losses from the UPS module are used to heat the battery module.
US12040656B2
A system, module, and method for generating reliable, high quality power on demand and off-grid includes a photovoltaic array for delivering DC power; a generator having a size ranging from about 5 kW to about 30 kW, and comprising an engine powered by hydrocarbon gas filtered through a coalescing filter and comprising an extended lubrication system; an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) comprising a storage battery, the UPS being coupled to the photovoltaic array for receiving the DC power, and to the generator by a bi-directional inverter for receiving, transmitting, and qualifying DC or AC power; and an intelligent controller coupled to the UPS for controlling output of the DC or AC power to at least one air compressor capable of providing compressed air to one or more pneumatic devices.
US12040653B2
The safety is ensured in such a manner that with an abnormality detection system of a secondary battery, abnormality of a secondary battery is detected, for example, a phenomenon that lowers the safety of the secondary battery is detected early, and a user is warned or the use of the secondary battery is stopped. The abnormality detection system of the secondary battery determines whether the temperature of the secondary battery is within a temperature range in which normal operation can be performed on the basis of temperature data obtained with a temperature sensor. In the case where the temperature of the secondary battery is high, a cooling device is driven by a control signal from the abnormality detection system of the secondary battery. The abnormality detection system of the secondary battery includes at least a memory means. The memory means has a function of holding an analog signal and includes a transistor using an oxide semiconductor for a semiconductor layer.
US12040645B2
An adapter for releasably connecting a power tool to a rechargeable battery, and a first and a second interface, a first set of control electronics and a second set of control electronics and a switching element for reversibly setting the second control electronics to an activation mode or deactivation mode, wherein in the activation mode at least a first transistor can be driven such that electrical energy can pass from the rechargeable battery to the power tool. A system with the power tool and adapter and a method for open-loop and closed-loop control of an adapter are also provided.
US12040635B2
A battery management system for dynamically balancing power in a battery module is provided. The battery management system comprises a plurality of modules, and each of the plurality of modules comprises a plurality of bricks. Each of the plurality of bricks comprises a plurality of blocks, electrically connected in one of a series configuration or a parallel configuration and a controller assembly provided in each of the plurality of the modules. The controller assembly comprises a first converter adapted to be connected to the plurality of bricks and a second converter adapted to be connected to an external system. The controller assembly is configured to obtain a plurality of battery pack parameters from the plurality of bricks using the first converter, process the obtained plurality of battery pack parameters and determine a current level to regulate a charging or discharging of the battery pack using the second converter.
US12040633B2
The present invention suppresses leakage magnetic field. A power transfer coil configured to transmit or receive power includes: an inner coil; a first outer coil formed so as to surround the inner coil such that a magnetic flux opposite in phase to a magnetic flux outside the inner coil is generated outside the first outer coil, the first outer coil having one end connected to a first terminal and the other end connected to one end of the inner coil; and a second outer coil formed so as to surround the inner coil such that a magnetic flux opposite in phase to the magnetic flux outside the inner coil is generated outside the second outer coil, the second outer coil having one end connected to a second terminal and the other end connected to the other end of the inner coil.
US12040628B2
A bridge rectifier is controlled by control circuitry to act a “regtifier” which both regulates and rectifies without the use of a traditional voltage regulator. To accomplish this, the gate voltages of transistors of the bridge that are on during a given phase may be modulated to dissipate excess power. Gate voltages of transistors of the bridge that are off during the given phase may alternatively or additionally be modulated to dissipate excess power. The regtifier may act as two half-bridges that each power a different voltage converter, with those voltage converters powering a battery. The voltage converters may be switched capacitor voltage converters that switch synchronously with switching of the two half-bridges as they perform rectification.
US12040617B2
An electric power system includes a plurality of power adjustment resources electrically connectable to a power grid, and a management device configured to manage the power adjustment resources. The management device is configured to acquire a first request signal for requesting demand-and-supply adjustment in the power grid, and a second request signal for requesting the power adjustment resources to adjust electric energy in a predetermined period, transmit a power command signal indicating a command power value for each predetermined interval in the predetermined period to a predetermined power adjustment resource included in the power adjustment resources, and generate the power command signal to respond to both requests of the first request signal and the second request signal.
US12040611B2
This disclosure describes techniques that include managing flows of energy within a system that includes a data center and using at least some of the energy flows to provide power to the data center. In some examples, this disclosure describes a system comprising a power generation system, a battery storage system having a state of charge attribute, and processing circuitry having access to an electrical power grid, the power generation system, and the battery storage system. In one example, the processing circuitry is configured to: determine an energy utilization forecast for a data center; monitor energy availability factors; and determine, based on the energy utilization forecast and the monitored energy availability factors, an energy flow configuration defining energy flows involving with the electrical power grid, the power generation system, the battery storage system, and the data center.
US12040607B2
A voltage stabilizer is provided for stabilizing a gate-source voltage of a switching element, wherein a source of the switching element receives a first driving voltage. The voltage stabilizer includes a transistor and a first resistor. A base of the transistor receives a second driving voltage, a collector of the bipolar junction transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the switching element, a first terminal of the first resistor is electrically connected to the collector and the gate, a second terminal of the first resistor is electrically connected to the source of the switching element and receives the first driving voltage.
US12040604B2
A hybrid single or multilayer composite reinforcement system is disclosed. The system is configured to install or apply around the existing power transmission lines, for example, ACSR transmission lines for increasing ampacity and also decreasing sag of the power transmission lines. The hybrid composite system comprises a first layer, a second layer, and a composite core as a structural reinforcement component. The first layer and second layer are formed using a fiber reinforced resin composite material, comprising a basalt fiber and the structural reinforcement component is a carbon fiber. The composite core is disposed between the first layer and second layer. Further, the first layer and second layer are cured, thereby making the multilayer hybrid composite reinforcement system. The composite core, comprising for example carbon fiber, provides structural strength for the hybrid composite system. The system is novel, lightweight, fast and easy to install, long-lasting, reliable, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective.
US12040603B2
An apparatus for cable management comprising fastening heads each of which has a head body having an outer surface and one or more inner surfaces. Each inner surface defines a plurality of walls which cooperatively form an aperture thereamong. A pawl extends from a first wall of the aperture toward a second wall of the aperture. The pawl comprises a face having pawl teeth. A flexible alignment guide is disposed on the head body which is configured to apply a biasing force to urge a strap into an alignment with the face of the pawl for an engagement between the pawl teeth and the strap teeth. The pawl teeth comprise an engagement region having a leading edge oriented inwardly toward the second wall and a flank region extending downwardly from the leading edge. The engagement region being configured for the engagement between the pawl teeth and the strap teeth.
US12040602B2
The invention relates to a cable screw connection having a cable leadthrough housing which is formed in two parts from a first housing component (10) and a second housing component (11), which components are arranged, during assembly, at a wall aperture on opposite sides of the wall aperture and are releasably connected to one another in order to clamp between them a wall portion surrounding the wall aperture; a cable passage which is formed through the cable leadthrough housing when the first and second housing components (10, 11) are connected to one another; and a cable seal which is formed on the cable leadthrough housing with a sealing body (19) which is formed around the cable passage and accommodates a cable received therein in a sealing manner; wherein the cable leadthrough housing and the sealing body (19) are made of different synthetic materials and the sealing body (19) is formed.
US12040600B2
Provided is a body portion that includes an insertion hole portion having an insertion hole as a long hole, and a placement portion which is adjacent to one side in an orthogonal direction of the insertion hole at an upper end side in the height direction of the body portion, and on which a long member can be placed. When an external force acts on the placement portion in the height direction, a biting phenomenon in which a protrusion of a main inner wall face of the body portion is pressed onto a main outer wall face of a columnar portion of the molded member is caused in the body portion based on a moment in which a fulcrum is a lower end side, in the height direction, which is an opposite side to the placement portion side, to prevent the body portion from being disengaged from the columnar portion.
US12040599B2
A wire stripper assembly includes a first bushing for stripping wire of a first size, a second bushing for stripping wire of a second size that is different than the first size, and a wire stripper having a housing and a drive mechanism. The first bushing has a first color. The second bushing has a second color that is different than the first color. The first bushing and the second bushing are alternately coupled to the housing for rotation about a longitudinal axis by the drive mechanism. Each of the first and second bushings has a tooth that is engageable with a wire for stripping an insulation jacket therefrom.
US12040594B2
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) has a shortened overall laser cavity by combining the gain section with a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR). The overall cavity length can be contracted by placing gain structures inside the DBR. This generally applies to a number of semiconductor material systems and wavelength bands, but this scheme is very well suited to the AlGaAs/GaAs material system with strained InGaAs quantum wells as a gain medium, for example.
US12040591B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a laser light source and a laser projection device. The laser light source includes a laser assembly and a light combination mirror assembly. The laser assembly includes at least a laser, a light emitting surface of the laser has a plurality of light emitting regions, and beams emitted from different ones of the plurality of light emitting regions are in different colors. The light combination mirror assembly includes a plurality of mirrors that are sequentially arranged along an optical transmission path of the laser, with each of the mirrors corresponding to one of the light emitting regions. The light combination mirror assembly is used to converge the beams in different colors emitted from the laser to form a white beam.
US12040585B2
A method of delivering optical pulses to a substrate comprises directing a focused beam from a source of optical pulses along a propagation direction onto a substrate; moving the substrate relative to the beam in a plane substantially orthogonal to the propagation direction and continuously along a first direction that includes spaced apart row locations on the substrate, and delivering a plurality of optical pulses from source as the beam reaches each row location; and between delivering the optical pulses at consecutive row locations, moving the beam relative to the substrate in one or more successive discrete movements along a second direction in the plane orthogonal to the first direction, to direct the beam to one or more spaced apart column locations on the substrate, and delivering a plurality of optical pulses from the source at each column location.
US12040575B2
A plug connector pluggable together with a counter connector includes a connector housing having a guiding member and a lever device. The lever device has a lever transferrable from a plug position to a securing position, a coupling that is movable by the lever to engage the counter connector, and a lever extension attached to the lever and extendable and/or retractable with respect to the lever. A swivel movement of the lever out of the securing position is blocked by the lever extension retracted with respect to the lever. The guiding member blocks a shifting of the lever extension if the lever is moved out of the plug position and is not in the securing position.
US12040574B2
The invention relates to a device for introducing lines through an opening having a frame arranged around the opening, which frame comprises slots for elastic grommets to receive the lines. According to the invention, it is provided that a coupling housing of a coupling of a plug connection is formed integrally with the frame or with a breadboard matching one of the slots, wherein the coupling housing, the part of the frame connected thereto and/or the breadboard are adapted to be screwed to a plug housing of a plugged-in plug of the plug connection or to be clamped with at least one latch.
US12040570B2
A conduit for lines, such as cables or hoses, particularly in a clean room application. The conduit has an elongate, flexible casing which can be moved to and fro, particularly while forming a deflecting bend between two runs, and at least one receptacle for guiding at least one line, with each receptacle extending in the form of a channel in a longitudinal direction from a first end to a second end. One feature of the invention consists in the fact that the casing has, to the side on at least one receptacle, at least one functional zone extending in a longitudinal direction, which functional zone forms a seal with two interacting sealing profiles to ensure a dust-tight closure of an open state, in which open state a line can be inserted into or removed from the receptacle transversely to the longitudinal direction. A further feature consists in the fact that the individual casing has a fastening profile extending on another longitudinal side in the longitudinal direction for a detachable connection to a corresponding fastening profile of a further casing. The invention further relates to a special clamping device for connecting the end of the casing, which clamping device comprises a deformable pressure piece which protrudes at the end beyond a clamping piece and forms a corner protection.
US12040569B2
Socket for a combined electrical connection and data connection between a motor vehicle and a vehicle component in the external part of the motor vehicle, wherein the socket has a housing with a plug-in opening for connection to a plug of the vehicle component and a cover, a contact carrier with electrical contacts and a data connector mounted in the contact carrier and a connection compartment of the socket for connecting the electrical contacts and the data connector with an electrical grid and a data network of the motor vehicle. The data connector has at least one electrically conductive outer bushing for electrical shielding of the data transmission in the data connector, and a carrier body made from an insulating material and accommodated in the outer bushing the at least one data contact.
US12040568B2
Connectors with a staggered pin orientation can reduce crosstalk amongst signal pins. In one example, a connector to couple a card or module to a motherboard includes connector housing and a plurality of pins. Each of the plurality of pins includes two ends including a card or module-facing end to couple with the card or module and a motherboard-facing end to couple with the motherboard. Each of the plurality of pins includes a middle section in the connector housing. One or both of the ends include one or more bends relative to the middle section. The plurality of pins includes alternating signal pins and ground pins, wherein the signal pins having an opposite orientation relative to the ground pins.
US12040560B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a housing having a first plate, a second plate facing in a direction opposite to the first plate, and a side surface member surrounding a space between the first plate and the second plate and including a conductive portion, a communication module, and an antenna structure electrically connected with the communication module, wherein the antenna structure includes at least one first antenna element formed in the conductive portion and including a first slot having a first portion extending in a first length in a first direction and a second portion extending in a second length in a second direction different from the first direction, and at least one second antenna element formed in a position spaced apart by a predetermined distance from the first antenna element in the conductive portion and including at least one second slot having a fourth portion extending in the first length in the first direction and a fifth portion extending in the second length in a third direction different from the second direction.
US12040559B2
An ultra-wideband mobile mount antenna with a capacitive ground structure-based matching structure. The antenna has a return loss better than 10 dB over an operating frequency range of 250 MHz to 1220 MHz.
US12040555B1
Technologies directed to a directional calibration antenna for calibration of an array antenna of a communication system are described. The communication system includes the array antenna which includes a number of antenna elements. The number of antenna elements are located in an area on a first side of a support structure. A directional antenna is located at a first height above a plane of the array antenna and at a periphery of the area. The directional antenna is pointed towards the array antenna and is located within a near field of the array antenna.
US12040552B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a set of constraints for an antenna having nodes of a phased array for receiving and/or transmitting a radiation signal, including a shape and size of the antenna, a frequency range for the radiation signal, and a view sector. The method includes receiving a set of thresholds including a threshold for a beam width of a central beam of the radiation signal and a threshold for interference associated with radiation outside of the central beam of the radiation signal. The method includes determining a first set of locations of the nodes based on the set of constraints and thresholds, determining an adjustment for the first set of locations in accordance with the set of thresholds, and determining a final set of locations of the nodes based on the adjustment to minimize a node count and achieving an optimized operation of the antenna.
US12040551B2
Methods and systems for a steerable antenna array are disclosed. The antenna array includes an array of antenna elements aligned in rows and columns on a substrate. Additionally, the antenna array includes a microstrip feed within the substrate, where the feed is configured to electromagnetically couple to each antenna element of the array of antenna elements. The antenna array further includes a ground plane within the substrate. Additionally, for each antenna element, the antenna array includes a first cavity disposed between the ground plane and feed, and a second cavity disposed on the other side of the ground plane from the first cavity. The antenna array further includes a plurality of fluid lines configured to selectively add or remove fluid from the cavities coupled to the fluid line and cause a deflection of the ground plane in a region of the cavities coupled to the fluid line.
US12040547B2
An electronic device having an antenna according to an embodiment is provided. The electronic device may include a radiator configured by stacking metal patterns on different layers of a multi-layer substrate, and a ground layer arranged on the different layers of the multi-layer substrate and operating as ground for the radiator. At least some of the metal patterns may be vertically interconnected, and any one of the metal patterns may be connected to a feeding pattern.
US12040544B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a common aperture antenna and a communication device. The common aperture antenna includes: a reflection panel and a low frequency antenna unit, a frequency selective panel, and a high frequency antenna unit that are disposed on the same side as the reflection panel and are arranged in sequence. In the direction perpendicular to the reflection panel, the distance between the high frequency antenna unit and the reflection panel is greater than the distance between the low frequency antenna unit and the reflection panel, the frequency selective panel is disposed between the high frequency antenna unit and the low frequency antenna unit, and the frequency selective panel is a reflection ground of the high frequency antenna unit and has a total reflection characteristic for the working frequency of the high frequency antenna unit.
US12040543B2
A radio-frequency device comprises a printed circuit board and a radio-frequency package having a radio-frequency chip and a radio-frequency radiation element, the radio-frequency package being mounted on the printed circuit board. The radio-frequency device furthermore comprises a waveguide component having a waveguide, wherein the radio-frequency radiation element is configured to radiate transmission signals into the waveguide and/or to receive reception signals via the waveguide. The radio-frequency device furthermore comprises a gap arranged between a first side of the radio-frequency package and a second side of the waveguide component, and a shielding structure, which is configured: to permit a relative movement between the radio-frequency package and the waveguide component in a first direction perpendicular to the first side of the radio-frequency package, and to shield the transmission signals and/or the reception signals in such a way that a propagation of the signals via the gap is attenuated or prevented.
US12040537B2
This invention relates to an antenna system comprising two identical mutually radiation coupled antennas arranged symmetrically with respect to one another, said antennas having a respective antenna connection gate and a network, which is connected at the input side to the antenna connection gates and which is formed from dummy elements, and having a respective antenna path to a network connection gate, said antenna paths being identical to one another and being separately associated with an antenna.
US12040532B2
An electronic device includes a casing and an antenna assembly. The casing has a waterproof area and a peripheral area. The peripheral area is defined at the periphery of the waterproof area. The antenna assembly is disposed at the peripheral area. The antenna assembly includes a housing, a circuit board, an antenna and a cover. The housing has a receiving recess. The circuit board is disposed in the receiving recess. The antenna is disposed in the receiving recess and electrically connected to the circuit board. The cover is mounted on the housing and hermetically seals the receiving recess.
US12040530B2
A package board according to an embodiment includes a first core layer having a first surface and a second surface that face each other, a feeding wiring extending on the first surface of the first core layer, a first via structure penetrating through the first core layer, a first connection pad disposed on the second surface of the first core layer to be electrically connected to the feeding wiring through the first via structure, the first connection pad including a head portion in contact with the first via structure and an extension portion protruding from the head portion, and a first connector mounted on the second surface of the first core layer, the first connector including a first terminal electrically connected to the extension portion of the first connection pad.
US12040524B2
An apparatus comprising: at least one cavity filter element wherein the cavity filter element comprises a first support, a second support distinct from the first support, and a coupling element supported by the first support and the second support. In some examples, there is a series of cavity filter elements. In some examples, the cavity filter element(s) are part of a cavity filter.
US12040523B2
Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide a resonator (100) and a filter (500). The resonator (100) comprises a capacitance metal sheet (110), an inductance metal sheet (120) and a mounting metal sheet (130). The capacitance metal sheet (110) is configured to generate capacitance of the resonator (100) with a top surface (202) of a metal cavity (200) for housing the resonator (100). The inductance metal sheet (120) is configured to generate inductance of the resonator (100), which is connected to the capacitance metal sheet (110) and extends to a bottom surface (204) of the metal cavity (200). The mounting metal sheet (130) is connected to the inductance metal sheet (120) and configured to mount the resonator (100) in the metal cavity (200). The example embodiments of the present disclosure can implement a resonator and a filter with high performance, small size and low cost.
US12040517B2
A method and system of generating electrical power or hydrogen from thermal energy is disclosed. The method includes separating, by a selectively permeable membrane, a first saline solution from a second saline solution, receiving, by the first saline solution and/or the second saline solution, thermal energy from a heat source, and mixing the first saline solution and the second saline solution in a controlled manner, capturing at least some salinity-gradient energy as electrical power as the salinity difference between the first saline solution and the second saline solution decreases. The method further includes transferring, by a heat pump, thermal energy from the first saline solution to the second saline solution, causing the salinity difference between the first saline solution and the second saline solution to increase. The method may include a process of membrane distillation, forward osmosis, evaporation, electrodialysis, and/or salt decomposition for further energy efficiency and power generation.
US12040513B2
A variety of methods and systems are disclosed, including, in one embodiment, a method including introducing fuel and oxygen into a solid oxide fuel cell to generate electric current, a fuel cell oxygen effluent, and a fuel cell exhaust; combusting combustion fuel and an oxygen source in the presence of a working fluid to generate heat and a combustion exhaust, wherein the working fluid comprises carbon dioxide; heating the solid oxide fuel cell with the heat generated by combustion; generating additional electric current from the combustion exhaust with at least one turbine; separating the combustion exhaust to form a carbon dioxide enriched stream and a water enriched stream; and recycling at least a portion of the carbon dioxide enriched stream as the working fluid.
US12040509B2
A sealed battery includes a case, an internal terminal, an external terminal, and an insulating holder. The internal terminal of the sealed battery includes a collector connected to an electrode body, a shaft part exposed outside the case, and a crimping part that is provided in an upper end portion of the shaft part. The crimping part is formed by pressurizing and deforming an upper end portion of the shaft part such that the crimping part extends along an upper surface of the external terminal. Then, the external terminal arranged outside the case is configured so that a linear expansion coefficient on a side of the upper surface and a linear expansion coefficient on a side of a bottom surface in contact with the insulating holder are different from each other.
US12040503B2
Battery monitoring systems and methods are provided. The battery monitoring system may include a battery module and battery management circuitry. The battery module comprises battery cells and a gas sensor configured to detect the presence of gas within the battery module. The battery management circuitry is configured to receive a sensor signal from the gas sensor, determine whether the sensor signal indicates the presence of gas within the battery module, and in response to determining that the sensor signal indicates the presence of gas, take an action. The action may include increasing cooling to the battery cells, limiting a maximum load that can be applied to the battery module, disconnecting the battery module, or providing a warning. The battery module may also include a component that was doped with a chemical that begins to off-gas above an activation temperature. The gas sensor may be configured to detect the chemical.
US12040502B2
A battery apparatus includes batteries arranged in a first direction; an end plate disposed at an end of the battery apparatus and having adjacent third and fourth surfaces; a protective support disposed on the end plate and having adjacent first and second surfaces. The first and third surfaces are disposed opposite to each other, and the second and fourth surfaces face the batteries; the fourth surface has an adhesive layer; the protective support has a notch at a junction of the first and second surfaces, and the notch is a first notch, and/or the end plate is provided with a notch at a junction of the third and fourth surfaces, and the notch is a second notch; a first (first notch and third surface), second (second notch and first surface), or third (first and second notches) combination forms a groove, and an opening of the groove faces the batteries.
US12040501B2
This disclosure details exemplary battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles. An exemplary battery pack may include an enclosure assembly that houses one or more battery arrays. An impact protection shroud is mounted to a portion of at least one of the battery arrays. A battery sensitive component is at least partially covered by the impact protection shroud. The impact protection shroud is configured to establish minimum clearances relative the battery sensitive component and to redirect loads away from the battery sensitive component, thereby protecting the battery sensitive component during vehicle impact loading events.
US12040499B2
The present invention provides a battery module including: a pair of battery groups in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked; a first heat exchanger disposed between the pair of battery groups to perform heat exchange with first stacked surfaces of the pair of battery groups; and a pair of second heat exchangers disposed outside the pair of battery groups to perform heat exchange with second stacked surfaces which are sides opposite to the first stacked surfaces.
US12040496B1
The present disclosure provides a current collecting component, an energy storage device and a power consuming device. The current collecting component includes a connector and an insulating member. The connector includes a first connecting part, a second connecting part, and a bendable connecting part. The bendable connecting part defines a through hole to form a first fusing part and a second fusing part. The insulating member is located between the first connecting part and the second connecting part. When the connector is in an unfolded state, the through hole has a first straight line segment, a first corner segment, a second corner segment and a second straight line segment. The first corner segment and the second corner segment are both set as rounded corners.
US12040488B2
An embodiment is directed to an electrode composition for use in an energy storage device cell. The electrode comprises composite particles, each comprising carbon that is biomass-derived and active material. The active material exhibits partial vapor pressure below around 10−13 torr at around 400 K, and an areal capacity loading of the electrode composition ranges from around 2 mAh/cm2 to around 16 mAh/cm2.
US12040479B2
A lithium metal negative electrode for an electrochemical cell for a secondary lithium metal battery includes a polycrystalline metal substrate having a major facing surface with a defined crystallographic texture. An epitaxial lithium metal layer is formed on the major facing surface of the polycrystalline metal substrate. The epitaxial lithium metal layer exhibits a predominant crystal orientation. The predominant crystal orientation of the epitaxial lithium metal layer is derived from the defined crystallographic texture of the major facing surface of the polycrystalline metal substrate.
US12040476B2
A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, said negative electrode comprising a negative-electrode current collector, and a negative-electrode active material layer provided upon the negative-electrode current collector, wherein the negative-electrode active material layer includes a negative-electrode active material and carboxymethyl cellulose, wherein the molecular weight of the carboxymethyl cellulose in an area that extends 10% in the thickness direction from the surface of the negative-electrode current collector side of the negative-electrode active material layer is smaller than that of the carboxymethyl cellulose in an area that extends 10% in the thickness direction from the surface of the reverse side of the negative-electrode active material layer from the negative-electrode current collector.
US12040475B2
According to one embodiment, an electrode material is provided. The electrode material includes active material particle containing: a niobium-titanium composite oxide having an average composition in which a molar ratio of niobium to titanium (MNb/MTi) is greater than 2; and at least one element A selected from the group consisting of potassium, iron and phosphorus. The active material particle contain the element A at a concentration in the range of 100 ppm to 2000 ppm.
US12040472B2
Disclosed herein is an electrode drying method for drying a plurality of electrodes in the state in which the electrodes are stacked, the electrode drying method including interposing a hygroscopic film between adjacent ones of the electrodes and drying the electrodes in the state in which the hygroscopic film is interposed between the electrodes, wherein at least one of the surfaces of the hygroscopic film that faces the electrodes has an uneven structure, or an electrode drying method for drying an electrode sheet in the state in which the electrode sheet is wound, the electrode drying method including winding the electrode sheet with a hygroscopic film and drying the electrode sheet in the state in which the hygroscopic film is interposed between overlapping portions of the electrode sheet, wherein at least one of the surfaces of the hygroscopic film that is disposed opposite the electrode sheet has an uneven structure.
US12040464B2
Provided is a method of continuously regenerating a separator including inorganic particles. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of continuously regenerating a separator including inorganic particles including: impregnating a separator of which at least a part of the surface is coated with a coating layer including inorganic particles in a water tank, and then performing a surface polishing treatment to release the coating layer coated on the surface of the separator; and drying the separator from which the coating layer has been released may be provided.
US12040463B2
A battery recycling process recovers lithium from nickel-rich cathode material in a recycling stream of end-of-life batteries. A dilute acid leach of a high nickel content cathode material contains a mixture of sulfuric acid based on a molar quantity of lithium in the cathode material. The highly selective leach generates a lithium rich solution with a small amount of nickel removable by nanofiltration to achieve a highly efficient recovery of the lithium contained in the recycling stream. A quantity of the leach acid based on the lithium content and a quantity of water based on a total black mass of the recycling stream results in a highly selective, near pure lithium leach when the recycling stream results from high nickel NMC batteries such as 811.
US12040455B2
An electrochemical energy storage apparatus and a device are provided. The electrochemical energy storage apparatus includes a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, a separator, and an electrolyte, where the positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active substance layer disposed on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector, and a safety layer disposed between the positive electrode active substance layer and the positive electrode current collector; the positive electrode active substance layer includes a positive electrode active substance; the safety layer includes a binding substance, a conductive substance, and an overcharge sensitive substance; the overcharge sensitive substance is a polymer containing monosaccharide structural units and containing at least one of carbonate groups or phosphate groups; the electrolyte includes a solvent and an electrolytic salt; and the solvent includes a carbonate-based solvent.
