US12040450B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent, a first additive, and a second additive, wherein the first additive is lithium 4,5-dicyano-2-(trifluoromethyl)imidazolide, and the second additive is tetravinylsilane.
US12040444B2
This application relates to a solid-state electrolyte and a preparation method and application thereof, the solid-state electrolyte includes membrane material(s) and electrolyte salt(s), the organic phase of the membrane material(s) includes a three-dimensionally interconnected interface and has a specific interfacial area greater than or equal to 1×104 cm2/cm3, and the electrolyte salt(s) is dissolved in the organic phase. The preparation method of the solid-state electrolyte includes: spraying the polymeric material solution onto the selected receiving surface using electrostatic spinning technique to form a three-dimensional structure, and optionally, at the same time, spraying the dispersion liquid of the inorganic particles onto the selected receiving surface using electrostatic spraying technique, then treating under pressure to give the membrane material(s), and then dropwise adding or spraying the electrolyte salt(s) solution into the membrane material(s) or immersing the thin film in the electrolyte salt(s) solution.
US12040439B2
A method for forming a battery anode can include: forming a slurry including active material comprising silicon particles, wherein the silicon particles can be derived from silica fumes, depositing the slurry on an current collector, drying the deposited slurry to form a deposited film, and compacting the deposited film to form the battery anode.
US12040438B2
A light-emitting display device has a substrate, at least four electrically isolated soldering pad regions, and a plurality of light-emitting assemblies. The minimum distance between the light-emitting assemblies is at least 2 mm. The soldering pad regions are correspondingly in electrical connection with the input voltage pin, the data signal input or output pin, the clock signal input or output pin, and the ground pin of one of the light-emitting assemblies. The soldering pad region which is in electrical connection with the input voltage pin is electrically connected with a first grid wiring, the soldering pad region which is in electrical connection with the ground pin is electrically connected with a second grid wiring, and the soldering pad region which is in electrical connection with the data signal input pin, the data signal output pin, the clock signal input pin, or the clock signal output pin is electrically connected with a slender wire. The slender wire and the soldering pad regions are formed in a patterned conductive layer.
US12040436B2
A phosphor substrate having a plurality of light emitting elements mounted on one surface, and includes an insulating substrate, a first electrode group which is disposed on one surface of the insulating substrate and includes a plurality of electrodes bonded to the plurality of light emitting elements, and a phosphor layer which is disposed on one surface of the insulating substrate and includes a phosphor in which a light emission peak wavelength, in a case where light emitted by the light emitting element is used as excitation light, is in a visible light region, and the insulating substrate contains a bismaleimide resin and glass cloth.
US12040425B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate, a first electrode on the substrate, the first electrode including a first portion that has a flat upper surface and a second portion that protrudes from the first portion and has an inclined surface, a second electrode facing the first electrode in parallel on the substrate, the second electrode including a first portion that has a flat upper surface and a second portion that protrudes from the first portion and has an inclined surface, and a plurality of light-emitting devices separate from each other on the first electrode and the second electrode, the light-emitting devices each having a first end contacting the upper surface of the first portion of the first electrode and a second end contacting the upper surface of the first portion of the second electrode.
US12040418B2
An imaging device (100) comprises a stack of photoactive layers (11) including at least a p-type photoactive layer (11p) and an n-type photoactive layer (11n). The photoactive layers comprise quantum dots (QD) formed by semiconductor nanocrystals capped by ligands. Readout electronics comprise electrodes (13t, 13b) sandwiching the photoactive layers (11). At least one of the electrodes (13b) is divided in respective pixels (10p) for collecting photo-generated charges from respective parts of the photoactive layers. Each pixel (10p) comprises an amplification circuit to amplify the photo-generated charge, preferably using a DG-FET. An intermediate layer (11i) can be provided between the p- and n-type photoactive layers (11p, 11n).
US12040417B2
According to the present disclosure, techniques related to manufacturing and applications of power photodiode structures and devices based on group-III metal nitride and gallium-based substrates are provided. More specifically, embodiments of the disclosure include techniques for fabricating photodiode devices comprising one or more of GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, structures and devices. Such structures or devices can be used for a variety of applications including optoelectronic devices, photodiodes, power-over-fiber receivers, and others.
US12040414B2
The present disclosure provides a solar cell module, comprising (a) a laminate substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, (b) a solar cell positioned on the first surface of the laminate substrate, (c) a first contact pad positioned on the first surface of the laminate substrate adjacent to the solar cell, (d) a second contact pad positioned on the second surface of the laminate substrate, (e) one or more vias positioned through the laminate substrate to electrically connect the first contact pad to the second contact pad, and (f) one or more interconnects extending from the solar cell and electrically coupling the solar cell to the first contact pad.
US12040409B2
A semiconductor device includes an insulating layer embedding a gate electrode and overlying a substrate, a stack of a gate dielectric including a gate dielectric material, a dielectric diffusion barrier liner including a dielectric diffusion barrier material, and an active layer overlying a top surface of the gate electrode, and a source electrode and a drain electrode contacting a respective portion of a top surface of the active layer. The dielectric diffusion barrier material is different from the gate dielectric material and is selected from a dielectric metal oxide material and a dielectric compound of silicon, and suppresses loss of metallic elements during subsequent anneal processes.
US12040398B2
The present invention relates to a one-electrode cell and series of two or more cells as a device at temperatures from below to above room temperature comprising a very high permittivity ferroelectric. In a device constituted by one or more ferroelectricity-induced superconductor cells, the cells do not have to be in physical contact with one another; one terminal can be connected to a first cell and the other connected to a third cell without physical contact between any of the three cells. With the spontaneous and dynamic alignment of the dipoles of the ferroelectric, a potential difference is induced in different points of the surface of the cell, cells or device and a current can be harvested by conductor-terminals. The present invention can be used for contactless charging of energy storage devices and as a part of several components or products.
US12040390B2
An electronic component includes a substrate; a stack of two layers of different semiconductor materials, designed to form a layer of electron gas at the interface thereof or close to same; and a buried barrier forming a separation between the substrate and said stack. The buried barrier includes a first layer of a ternary alloy of semiconductor material of the III-N type, having an increasing concentration of one of the chemical species of the ternary alloy of the first layer the closer it is to the substrate; and a second layer of a ternary alloy of semiconductor material of the III-N type, formed beneath the first layer and having a decreasing concentration of one of the chemical species of the ternary alloy of the first layer the closer it is to the substrate.
US12040388B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a lateral bipolar transistor and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: an extrinsic base having at least one sidewall with a gradient concentration of semiconductor material; an emitter on a first side of the extrinsic base; and a collector on a second side of the extrinsic base.
US12040387B2
Circuit devices and methods of forming the same are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a workpiece that includes a substrate and a fin extending from the substrate, forming a first ferroelectric layer on the fin, forming a dummy gate structure over a channel region of the fin, forming a gate spacer over sidewalls of the dummy gate structure, forming an inter-level dielectric layer over the workpiece, removing the dummy gate structure to expose the first ferroelectric layer over the channel region of the fin, and forming a gate electrode over the exposed first ferroelectric layer over the channel region of the fin.
US12040385B2
Present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor structure, including forming a dielectric layer over a semiconductor substrate, patterning an insulator stripe over the semiconductor substrate, including forming an insulator layer over the semiconductor substrate and at a bottom of the insulator stripe, depositing a semiconductor capping layer continuously over the insulator stripe, wherein the semiconductor capping layer includes crystalline materials, wherein the semiconductor capping layer is free from being in direct contact with the semiconductor substrate, and cutting off the semiconductor capping layer between the insulator stripes, forming a gate, wherein the gate is in direct contact with the semiconductor capping layer, a first portion of the semiconductor capping layer covered by the gate is configured as a channel structure, and forming a conductible region at a portion of the insulator stripe not covered by the gate stripe by a regrowth operation.
US12040380B2
A method for fabricating a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes the steps of: forming a buffer layer on a substrate; performing an in-situ doping process to form a first fluorine-containing layer on the buffer layer; forming a barrier layer on the first fluorine-containing layer; forming a second fluorine-containing layer on the barrier layer; forming a gate electrode on the second fluorine-containing layer; and forming a source electrode and a drain electrode adjacent to two sides of the gate electrode.
US12040378B2
Described is a ferroelectric-based capacitor that improves reliability of a ferroelectric memory by providing tensile stress along a plane (e.g., x-axis) of a ferroelectric or anti-ferroelectric material of the ferroelectric/anti-ferroelectric based capacitor. Tensile stress is provided by a spacer comprising metal, semimetal, or oxide (e.g., metal or oxide of one or more of: Al, Ti, Hf, Si, Ir, or N). The tensile stress provides polar orthorhombic phase to the ferroelectric material and tetragonal phase to the anti-ferroelectric material. As such, memory window and reliability of the ferroelectric/anti-ferroelectric oxide thin film improves.
US12040369B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, a pair of floating gates disposed on the substrate, a source line doped region in the substrate between the floating gates, an erase gate disposed between the floating gates and on the source line doped region, a word line disposed on the substrate and adjacent to a side of each of the floating gates opposite to the erase gate, and a bit line doped region in the substrate and adjacent to the word line. An upper surface of the source line doped region has a concave profile lower than a surface of the substrate and with a radius between 40 nm and 60 nm in a cross-sectional view perpendicular to the floating gates.
US12040364B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate stack over the substrate. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer, a first metal-containing layer, a silicon-containing layer, a second metal-containing layer, and a gate electrode layer sequentially stacked over the substrate, the silicon-containing layer is between the first metal-containing layer and the second metal-containing layer, and the silicon-containing layer includes an oxide material.
US12040357B2
As disclosed herein, an integrated circuit substrate includes a first region coupled to a signal terminal and includes a guard region coupled via a diode circuit to a supply voltage terminal of the integrated circuit. The first region and the guard region are both of a first conductivity type. A cathode of the diode circuit is connected to the guard region and an anode of the diode circuit is connected to the supply voltage terminal. The first region and the guard region are separated by at least by a second region of the substrate that is of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type.
US12040353B2
A first-tier capacitor assembly is formed, which includes a first alternating layer stack embedded within a first substrate and including at least two first metallic electrode layers interlaced with at least one first node dielectric layer, and first metallic bonding pads located on a first front surface. A second-tier capacitor assembly is formed, which includes a second alternating layer stack embedded within a second substrate and including at least two second metallic electrode layers interlaced with at least one second node dielectric layers, and second metallic bonding pads located on a second backside surface. The second metallic bonding pads are bonded to the first metallic bonding pads such that each of the at least two first metallic electrode layers contacts a respective one of the at least two second metallic electrode layers. A capacitor with increased capacitance is provided.
US12040347B2
Provided are a display panel and a detection method therefor, and a display device. A first substrate of the display panel includes a first base plate and light-emitting elements. A second substrate opposite to the first substrate includes a second base plate and a retaining wall structure. An orthographic projection of the retaining wall structure onto the first substrate is located between adjacent light-emitting elements. The first substrate includes a first electrode, the second substrate includes a second electrode. In a first direction perpendicular to a plane where the display panel is located, the first electrode and the second electrode at least partially overlap as a first overlap, and the retaining wall structure and the first overlap at least partially overlap. The first and second electrodes are electrically connected to first signal terminal and second signal terminal, respectively.
US12040337B2
Provided is a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package includes an image sensor chip including a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other in a first direction; a transparent substrate spaced apart from the second surface of the image sensor chip in a second direction, wherein the transparent substrate includes a first part and a second part with a width different from the first part; an adhesive layer disposed between the second surface of the image sensor chip and the first part of the transparent substrate; and a mold layer on the second part of the transparent substrate, wherein the mold layer comprises side surfaces that extend along the first part of the transparent substrate, and further extend along side surfaces of the adhesive layer and side surfaces of the image sensor chip, and not extending along the first surface of the image sensor chip.
US12040333B2
A highly functional semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a first semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The second transistor includes a second semiconductor layer, a second gate electrode, a third electrode, and a fourth electrode. The first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are connected to each other, and the second electrode and the third electrode are connected to each other. A first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, and a second semiconductor layer are stacked over the first semiconductor layer. The first insulating layer is less likely to diffuse hydrogen than the second insulating layer. The second insulating layer contains oxide, the first semiconductor layer contains polycrystalline silicon, and the second semiconductor layer contains a metal oxide. The first transistor is a p-channel transistor and the second transistor is an n-channel transistor.
US12040329B2
A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The structure includes a semiconductor fin having a first portion having a first width and a second portion having a second width substantially less than the first width. The first portion has a first surface, the second portion has a second surface, and the first and second surfaces are connected by a third surface. The third surface forms an angle with respect to the second surface, and the angle ranges from about 90 degrees to about 130 degrees. The structure further includes a gate electrode layer disposed over the semiconductor fin and source/drain epitaxial features disposed on the semiconductor fin on opposite sides of the gate electrode layer.
US12040328B2
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, two-dimensional (2D) materials may be used as nanosheet channels for multi-channel transistors. Nanosheet channels made two-dimensional (2D) materials can achieve the same drive current at smaller dimensions and/or fewer number of channels, therefore enable scaling down and/or boost derive current. Embodiments of the present disclosure also provide a solution of P-type and N-type balancing in a device without increasing footprint of the device.
US12040327B2
A multi-stack semiconductor device includes: a lower-stack transistor structure including a lower active region and a lower gate structure, the lower active region including a lower channel structure, and the lower gate structure surrounding the lower channel structure; an upper-stack transistor structure vertically stacked above the lower-stack transistor structure, and including an upper active region and an upper gate structure, the upper active region including an upper channel structure, and the upper gate structure surrounding the upper channel structure; and at least one gate contact plug contacting a top surface of the lower gate structure, wherein the lower gate structure and the upper gate structure have a substantially same size in a plan view, and wherein the lower gate structure is not entirely overlapped by the upper gate structure in a vertical direction.
US12040319B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes: a substrate; a first electrode located on the substrate; a second electrode located between the substrate and the first electrode; a first light emitting element located on the same layer as the first electrode; and a contact electrode located on the first light emitting element, wherein one end of the first light emitting element contacts the first electrode, and the other end of the first light emitting element contacts the contact electrode.
US12040318B2
A display device may include: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; and pixels provided on the display area, and each including sub-pixels each including an emission area and a non-emission area. Each sub-pixel may include a pixel circuit layer including at least one transistor, and a display element layer including at least one light emitting element configured to emit light and connected to the transistor. The display element layer may include: a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from each other with the light emitting element interposed therebetween; the light emitting element connected between the first and second electrodes; and a planarization layer provided on the pixel circuit layer, and coming into contact with at least a portion of each of opposite ends of the light emitting element. The planarization layer may overlap with each of the first electrode and the second electrode.
US12040316B2
Provided are display panel and display device. Display panel includes first substrate, second substrate, bank layer on side of first substrate facing second substrate, color resistance layer on side of first substrate facing second substrate, and light-emitting elements. Bank layer includes bank structures defining bank openings. Color resistance layer includes color resistance modules spaced apart. Color resistance modules is disposed in correspondence to bank openings and include blue color resistance module. Light-emitting elements is disposed in correspondence to bank openings. Projection of light-emitting element on first substrate does not overlap projection of bank structure on first substrate. Bank structures include first bank structure and second bank structure. Blue color resistance module adjacent to at least one first bank structure. Width of the first bank structure is greater than width of the second bank structure. Bank structures designed with different widths facilitate mitigating the crosstalk of laterally-leaked light, enhancing display effect.
US12040291B2
Radio frequency (RF) packages containing multilevel power substrates and associated fabrication methods are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes producing a multilevel substrate panel by obtaining a base panel level containing prefabricated base structures and having a surface through which metallic surfaces of the prefabricated base structures are exposed. A secondary panel level is formed on the base layer to include patterned metal features embedded in a secondary dielectric body and electrically contacting the exposed metallic surfaces of the prefabricated base structures at a direct plated interface. The presingulated array of multilevel power substrates is separated into singulated multilevel power substrates each including a base substrate level formed from a singulated piece of the base panel level and a secondary substrate level formed from a singulated piece of the secondary substrate level.
US12040278B2
A semiconductor device and semiconductor package, the device including a lower semiconductor chip including a lower through-electrode; an interposer mounted on the lower semiconductor chip, the interposer including an interposer substrate; a plurality of interposer through-electrodes penetrating through at least a portion of the interposer substrate in a vertical direction and electrically connected to the lower through-electrode; and at least one capacitor in the interposer substrate and electrically connected to at least one interposer through-electrode of the plurality of interposer through-electrodes; and an upper semiconductor chip mounted on the interposer and electrically connected to the interposer through-electrode.
US12040272B2
In a method of manufacturing a connector, a first copper pillar layer and a sacrificial copper pillar layer are formed on a temporary bearing plate coated with copper, an etch stop layer is applied on the sacrificial copper pillar layer and electroplated to form a second copper pillar layer, insulating materials is laminated to form a first dielectric layer, a first circuit layer is formed on the first dielectric layer, a second copper pillar layer and a sacrificial copper pillar layer are extended on the first circuit layer, and a sacrificial copper layer is formed on the first circuit layer, insulating material is laminated on the first circuit layer to form a second dielectric layer, the temporary bearing plate is removed, a second and third circuit layers are simultaneously formed on the first and second dielectric layers, and the sacrificial copper layer and the sacrificial copper pillar layer are etched.
US12040261B2
A substrate structure includes a wiring structure, a first bump pad, a second bump pad and a compensation structure. The wiring structure includes a plurality of redistribution layers. The first bump pad and the second bump pad are bonded to and electrically connected to the wiring structure. An amount of redistribution layers disposed under the first bump pad is greater than an amount of redistribution layers disposed under the second bump pad. The compensation structure is disposed under the second bump pad.
US12040255B2
A semiconductor package and a manufacturing method are provided. The semiconductor package includes a carrier substrate, a through substrate via (TSV), a first conductive pattern, and an encapsulated die. The TSV penetrates through the carrier substrate and includes a first portion and a second portion connected to the first portion, the first portion includes a first slanted sidewall with a first slope, the second portion includes a second slanted sidewall with a second slope, and the first slope is substantially milder than the second slope. The first conductive pattern is disposed on the carrier substrate and connected to the first portion of the TSV. The encapsulated die is disposed on the carrier substrate and electrically coupled to the TSV through the first conductive pattern.
US12040250B2
A heat pipe is provided as an electrically inactive structure to dissipate heat that is generated by vertically stacked field effect transistors (FETs). The heat pipe is present in an electrically inactive device area which is located adjacent to an electrically active device area that includes the vertically stacked FETs. The heat pipe includes at least one vertical interconnect structure that continuously extends between each tier of the vertically stacked FETs.
US12040238B2
Radio-frequency (RF) switching devices having improved voltage handling capability. In some embodiments, a switching device can include a first terminal and a second terminal, and a plurality of switching elements connected in series to form a stack between the first terminal and the second terminal. The switching elements can have a non-uniform distribution of a parameter that results in the stack having a first voltage handling capacity that is greater than a second voltage handling capacity corresponding to a similar stack having a substantially uniform distribution of the parameter.
US12040237B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate stack over the substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a spacer over a side of the gate stack. The semiconductor device structure includes a dielectric layer over the substrate. The dielectric layer has a first recess, the dielectric layer has an upper portion and a first lower portion, the upper portion is over the first recess, the first recess is between the first lower portion and the spacer, and the upper portion has a convex curved sidewall.
US12040228B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a barrier metal layer provided on a surface of an insulating layer; and a conductive layer having a first metal layer provided on a surface of the barrier metal layer, and a second metal layer provided on a surface of the first metal layer. The second metal layer includes an identical metal to metal of the first metal layer, and an impurity configured to remove fluorine bonded to the metal.
US12040225B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate electrode layer formed over a substrate, and a conductive capping feature formed on and in direct contact with the gate electrode layer. The semiconductor device structure includes a source/drain (S/D) contact structure formed over the substrate and adjacent to the gate electrode layer, and an air gap is adjacent to the S/D contact structure, and the air gap is lower than the conductive capping feature.
US12040222B2
The present disclosure describes a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure that includes forming a dummy gate structure over a substrate, forming a first spacer on a sidewall of the dummy gate structure and a second spacer on the first spacer, forming a source/drain structure on the substrate, removing the second spacer, forming a dielectric structure over the source/drain structure, replacing the dummy gate structure with a metal gate structure and a capping structure on the metal gate structure, and forming an opening in the dielectric structure. The opening exposes the source/drain structure. The method further includes forming a dummy spacer on a sidewall of the opening, forming a contact structure in the opening, and removing the dummy spacer to form an air gap between the contact structure and the metal gate structure. The contact structure is in contact with the source/drain structure in the opening.
US12040219B2
A device includes a substrate, a first fin, a second fin, a first isolation structure, a second isolation structure, and a gate structure. The first fin extends from a p-type region of the substrate. The second fin extends from an n-type region of the substrate. The first isolation structure is over the p-type region and adjacent to the first fin. The first isolation structure has a bottom surface and opposite first and second sidewalls connected to the bottom surface, a first round corner is between the bottom surface and the first sidewall of the first isolation structure, and the first sidewall is substantially parallel to the second sidewall. The second isolation structure is over the n-type region and adjacent to the first fin. The first isolation structure is deeper than the second isolation structure. The gate structure is over the first isolation structure and covering the first fin.
US12040216B2
A substrate supporting member capable of controlling the flow of charges on a substrate by controlling ground resistance values of a guide pin and a support pin using a variable resistor, and a substrate treating apparatus including the same are provided. The substrate supporting member includes the body; a support pin installed on the body and for supporting the substrate; a guide pin installed on the body and for supporting the substrate; and a charge control device for controlling a charge around the substrate by controlling an electrical connection between the support pin and a first resistor and an electrical connection between the guide pin and a second resistor.
US12040214B2
A processing apparatus includes a cassette mounting section mounting a cassette storing a plurality of workpieces, a reading section reading an identification code provided on the cassette mounted on the cassette mounting section, and an information transmitting section transmitting information on the progress of process steps in processing each workpiece stored in the cassette, to a customer that has ordered the processing of each workpiece stored in the cassette.
US12040213B2
A processing tape may include a base layer, an adhesive layer disposed on the base layer, a protection release film on the adhesive layer, and a first release layer interposed between the adhesive layer and the protection release film. The first release layer may include a silicone-based material and may be non-photo-curable.
US12040210B2
Exemplary semiconductor processing systems include a processing chamber, a power supply, and a chuck disposed at least partially within the processing chamber. The chuck includes a chuck body defining a vacuum port. The chuck also includes first and second coplanar electrodes embedded in the chuck body and connected to the power supply. In some examples, coplanar electrodes include concentric electrodes defining a concentric gap in between. Exemplary semiconductor processing methods may include activating the power supply for the electrostatic chuck to secure a semiconductor substrate on the body of the chuck and/or activating the vacuum port defined by the body of the electrostatic chuck. Some processing can be carried out at increased pressure, while other processing can be carried out at reduced pressure with increased chucking voltage.
US12040207B2
An apparatus for aligning and orienting a semiconductor die (“die”) to be transferred to a substrate. The apparatus includes an alignment mechanism to align the die to be queued among a plurality of die; and an orientation mechanism to orient the die using magnetism to be positioned in a predetermined position prior to transfer to the substrate. The alignment mechanism further transports the die to be positioned at a feeding position for supply to a die transfer system.
US12040203B2
Apparatus and techniques are described herein for use in manufacturing electronic devices. such as can include organic light emitting diode (OLED) devices. Such apparatus and techniques can include using one or more modules having a controlled environment. For example, a substrate can be received from a printing system located in a first processing environment, and the substrate can be provided a second processing environment, such as to an enclosed thermal treatment module comprising a controlled second processing environment. The second processing environment can include a purified gas environment having a different composition than the first processing environment.
US12040199B2
The disclosure relates to substrate processing apparatus, with a first and second reactor, each reactor configured with an elevator to transfer a boat with substrates to the reactor. The apparatus having a boat transfer device to transfer the boat with substrates between a substrate loading station, the first and/or second elevator and a cool down station. The substrate loading station and the cool down station may be arranged on opposite sides of the first and second elevator.
US12040197B2
An integrated circuit package having a shunt resistor with at least one self-aligning member that protrudes from a first surface, and a lead frame with at least one self-aligning feature that is a cavity within which the at least one self-aligning member is located, and an integrated circuit located on the lead frame.
US12040195B2
Atomic layer etching (ALE) processes are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods comprise at least one etch cycle in which a substrate comprising a metal, metal oxide, metal nitride or metal oxynitride layer is contacted with an etch reactant comprising an vapor-phase N-substituted derivative of amine compound. In some embodiments the etch reactant reacts with the substrate surface to form volatile species including metal atoms from the substrate surface. In some embodiments a metal or metal nitride surface is oxidized as part of the ALE cycle. In some embodiments a substrate surface is contacted with a halide as part of the ALE cycle. In some embodiments a substrate surface is contacted with a plasma reactant as part of the ALE cycle.
US12040189B2
A method of removing a hard mask layer includes providing a gate. A hard mask layer covers and contacts a top surface of the gate. Two spacer structures respectively contacts two sides of the gate. Two first spacers are respectively disposed on the two spacer structures. Later, a wet etching process is performed to remove the hard mask layer and the first spacers and keep the spacer structures. An etchant is utilized in the wet etching process. A selective etching ratio of the silicon nitride to silicon oxide of the etchant is more than 90. The etchant includes Si(OH)4. A concentration of Si(OH)4. is greater than or equal to 3.95 ppm and smaller than or equal to 10 ppm.
US12040188B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a photoresist structure, a patterned deposition layer, a semiconductor chip and a manufacturing method thereof According to the method for manufacturing a photoresist structure, a single photoresist is used, a second photoresist layer having an undercut can be obtained by only one development process using a single developing solution, and the size of the undercut can be controlled by the development time, thereby solving the problems such as difficulty in lift-off caused by adhesion of the deposited material to the sidewall of the photoresist structure in traditional lift-off processes.
US12040181B2
Methods and apparatuses for depositing thin films using long and short conversion times during alternating cycles of atomic layer deposition (ALD) are provided herein. Embodiments involve alternating conversion duration of an ALD cycle in one or more cycles of a multi-cycle ALD process. Some embodiments involve modulation of dose, purge, pressure, plasma power or plasma energy in two or more ALD cycles.
US12040171B1
Focused acoustic radiation, referred to as tonebursts, are applied to a volume of liquid to generate a set of droplets. In one embodiment, a first toneburst is applied to temporarily raise a mound or protuberance on a free surface of the fluid. After the mound has reached a certain state, at least two additional toneburst can be applied to the protuberance to sequentially eject multiple bursts of multiple droplets. In one embodiment, the state of the mound can be maintained by a sustained acoustic signal, during which time multiple additional tonebursts can be applied to sequentially eject multiple bursts of multiple droplets from the mound.
US12040169B2
The invention relates to methods for processing ion-spectrometric measurement signal data which are recorded spatially resolved across a two-dimensional sample, comprising: —providing the measurement signal data which have a plurality of measurement signal histograms, where a histogram contains a measurement signal tuple with intensity dimension (J), mass dimension (m), and collision cross-section dimension (σ), or quantities derived therefrom; —specifying first and second selections of ionic species for the sample, whose presence in histograms is detectable and distinguishable using the collision cross-section dimension or proxy; —determining the spatially resolved content of ionic species from the first and second selections in histograms of the finite areas (Afin,x,y), and computing the various contents to form spatially resolved content scores (Gx,y); and—labeling the sample with the content scores (Gx,y). The invention also relates to methods for acquiring and processing ion-spectrometric measurement signal data, and ion mobility-mass spectrometers.
US12040167B2
In a diagnosis apparatus for diagnosing a state of a plasma processing apparatus, prior distribution information including a probability distribution function is previously obtained for each of first sensors by using first sensor values obtained by the first sensors in a first plasma processing apparatus, a probability distribution in each of second sensors corresponding to each of the first sensors is estimated based on the previously obtained prior distribution information and second sensor values obtained by the second sensors in a second plasma processing apparatus different from the first plasma processing apparatus, and a state of the second plasma processing apparatus is diagnosed by using the estimated probability distribution.
US12040161B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes accommodating a substrate in a process chamber; supplying a first gas containing oxygen into the process chamber; generating plasma in the process chamber by exciting the first gas; supplying a second gas containing hydrogen into the process chamber and adjusting a hydrogen concentration distribution in the process chamber according to a density distribution of the plasma in the process chamber; and processing the substrate with oxidizing species generated by the plasma.
US12040155B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: preparing a stepped structure being arranged on a substrate, the stepped structure including a first region and a second region, a height of the stepped structure of the second region being lower than a height of the stepped structure of the first region; and etching the first region and the second region of the stepped structure by irradiating the first region and the second region with an ion beam, an irradiation amount of the ion beam irradiating the first region is larger than an irradiation amount of the ion beam irradiating the second region.
US12040151B2
A mounting frame may be configured as a self-adjusting mounting frame that biases itself against a surface of structure. The mounting frame may be a component, for example, of a remote control device or a faceplate assembly. The mounting frame may be configured to bias a rear surface of the mounting frame against the surface of a structure. The mounting frame may include biasing members. Each biasing member may include an attachment portion and a pair of resilient spring arms that suspend the attachment portion relative to a perimeter wall of the mounting frame such that the attachment portion is spaced further from the rear surface of the mounting frame than locations where the spring arms extend from the mounting frame. The rear surface of the mounting frame may be defined by the perimeter wall.
US12040145B2
Electrical switching device are disclosed having a housing with internal component within the housing. The internal components comprise contacts configured to operate, to change the state of the switching device from a closed state, allowing current flow through the switching device to an open state which interrupts current flow through the switching device. A pyrotechnic feature is included that is configured to interact with the internal components to transition the switching device from the closed state to the open state when the pyrotechnic feature is activated. The pyrotechnic feature is configured to trigger in response to levitation between the contacts at elevated current signal flowing through the switching device.
US12040144B2
A pyrotechnic switch having a casing, at least one electrical conductor passing through the casing, a piston housed in the casing, the piston-casing assembly being designed to cut the electrical conductor at least at three separate locations, so as to form at least two free conductive strands, separate from the rest of the electrical conductor, a pyrotechnic actuator designed to force the piston to cut the electrical conductor, wherein the piston-casing assembly is designed to cut the electrical conductor such that each free strand has at least one base portion with either no or two folded wings arranged on either side of the base portion, and to create at least one free strand with two folded wings.
US12040143B2
A separating wall for dividing a heating volume of a power circuit into a first sub-volume and a second sub-volume. The separating wall is formed with at least one wall opening which allows a flow of gas between the sub-volumes. The wall opening has an aerodynamically active opening surface based on a pressure difference between a pressure in the first sub-volume and a pressure in the second sub-volume.
US12040142B2
A control device may be configured to be mounted over a bezel portion of an electrical device and to control a lighting load. The control device may comprise a base portion having planar extensions removably attached or affixed thereto. The planar extensions may be adapted to be received in a gap between a faceplate of the electrical device and the bezel portion for holding the control device against the faceplate. The planar extensions may comprise barbs that allow for insertion of the extensions in the gap, and may bite into the faceplate to hinder removal of the control device. The planar extensions may be defined by a mounting structure that is configured to be received in the gap between the bezel portion and the faceplate. The mounting structure may protrude beyond a front surface of the faceplate.
US12040139B2
A variable capacitor includes an enclosure having first and second conductive collars separated by an intermediate electrically insulating element. A movable capacitor plate assembly is electrically coupled to the first conductive collar, and a fixed capacitor plate assembly is electrically coupled to the second conductive collar. An actuator extends into the enclosure for advancing and retracting the movable capacitor plate assembly relative to the fixed capacitor plate assembly. A hermetically sealed volume within the enclosure maintains a vacuum or a liquid serving as a dielectric between a capacitor plate of the movable capacitor plate assembly and a capacitor plate of the fixed capacitor plate assembly. At least one capacitor plate comprises a coiled cylindrical plate having a having a greater height at a center portion of the capacitor plate coil and a lower height at an outer portion of the capacitor plate coil.
US12040137B2
A multilayer capacitor includes: a body including internal electrodes stacked in a first direction; and first and second external electrodes disposed on the body. A portion of the first external electrode overlaps the body in the first direction and does not overlap a remainder of the first external electrode in the first direction. A portion of the second external electrode overlaps the body in the first direction and does not overlap a remainder of the second external electrode in the first direction. At least one of the external electrodes includes: a second electrode layer covering a first electrode layer, which covers one portion of an edge of the body. A width W1 of a portion of the first electrode layer, closest to the one portion of the edge, is narrower than a width W2 of an end of the second electrode layer, farthest from the first electrode layer.
US12040136B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes end-surface external electrodes and side-surface external electrodes. The end-surface external electrodes are respectively provided at end surfaces of a multilayer body and are respectively connected to end-surface connecting internal electrodes. The side-surface external electrodes are respectively provided at the side surfaces of the multilayer body and respectively connected to side-surface connecting internal electrodes. The end-surface connecting internal electrodes each include end surface opposing portion opposing the side-surface connecting internal electrode 15B adjacent in a lamination direction, and an end surface lead-out portion extending from the end surface opposing portion to one of the end-surface external electrodes. The side-surface connecting internal electrodes each include a side surface opposing portion opposing the end-surface connecting internal electrodes adjacent in the lamination direction, and a side surface lead-out portion extending from the side surface opposing portion to one of the side-surface external electrodes.
US12040127B2
A reactor includes an assembly of a coil and a magnetic core; a case; and a sealing resin portion filling the case and sealing at least a portion of the assembly. The case has an inner bottom surface, and a pair of coil facing surfaces that face side surfaces of the coil. The pair of coil facing surfaces have inclined surfaces that incline away from each other in a direction from the inner bottom surface side to an opposite side to the inner bottom surface. The coil includes a first winding portion disposed on the inner bottom surface side, and a second winding portion disposed opposite of the inner bottom surface with respect to the first winding portion. The first winding portion and the second winding portion are in a vertical arrangement and are parallel with each other. The second winding portion is wider than the first winding portion.
US12040116B2
Disclosed herein is a common mode filter that includes a core having a winding core part and first and second wires wound in a same direction around the winding core part. The first and second wires have a first crossing portion at which first turns thereof counted from one ends thereof cross each other and a second crossing portion at which first turns thereof counted from the other ends thereof cross each other. The first and second wires are wound by layer winding in an aligned state with one of the first and second wires positioned in a lower layer and other one thereof positioned in an upper layer in at least parts of the first and second wires between second turns thereof counted from the one ends thereof and second turns thereof counted from the other ends thereof.
US12040105B2
A bushing for a power system, comprising: a conductor, and a condenser core, wherein the condenser core comprises a dielectric sheet and a plurality of disjoint regions of electrically conducting material provided on the dielectric sheet, wherein the dielectric sheet and the electrically conducting material form a wound structure around the conductor, wherein in at least one region the electrically conducting material is a semiconducting material, wherein the semiconducting material extends more than one turn around the conductor, whereby the at least one region has overlapping edges in the radial direction, and wherein the dielectric sheet extends between the overlapping edges whereby a capacitance is formed between the overlapping edges, which capacitance is partly defined by an overlap length of the overlapping edges and which capacitance forms part of a resonance circuit of the at least one region, wherein the overlap length is such that the resonance circuit has a resonance frequency contained in a very fast transient, VFT, spectrum.
US12040096B2
A method includes obtaining training data for a plurality of patients of a patient population. The training data includes training blood glucose history data including treatment doses of insulin administered by the patients of the patient population and one or more outcome attributes associated with each treatment dose. The method also includes identifying, for each patient of the patient population, one or more optimum treatment doses of insulin from the treatment doses yielding favorable outcome attributes. The method also includes receiving patient-state information for the treated patient, determining a next recommended treatment dose of insulin for the treated patient based on one or more of the identified optimum treatment doses associated with the patients of the patient population having training patient-state information similar to the patient-state information for the treated patient, and transmitting the next recommended treatment dose to a portable device associated with the treated patient.
US12040095B2
A system is described for rendering normalized medical service provider data records by transforming received input records from a variety of sources into standardized medical service provider data records. The system digests a resource containing multiple data points to render a mapping between individually identifiable parts of the data points and normalized data types handled by data type-specific parsers. A matching operation is performed, on parsed data points, wherein individual ones of the set of parsed data points are matched to an identified entry on an authoritative listing. During the matching an algorithmic match is attempted by assigning a match score based upon a type of transformation on a parsed data point value, of a data point instance of the set of parsed data points, to render a match between the parsed data point value and an entry within an authoritative data listing.
US12040089B1
A computer-implemented method for dynamically reallocating resources to users of a coaching service. The method can include initially allocating resources to users of the coaching service, receiving indications of activities of the users relative to their allocated resources, and comparing the activities relative to a reference value to produce an outcome including a likelihood that a target user will benefit from a target resource. Upon identifying the target user, a dynamic reallocation process deallocates the target resource from another user and reallocates the target resource to the target user.
US12040087B2
A method of controlling user equipment for a medical checkup and an apparatus for performing the method include controlling user equipment for a medical checkup the includes generating digital biomarker control data by a diagnosis server on the basis of prescription data, and transmitting the digital biomarker control data to user equipment by the diagnosis server, wherein the digital biomarker control data includes information for controlling a digital biomarker module of the user equipment.
US12040083B2
Disclosed herein are methods for intelligently populating medical compliance forms (MCFs) with at least patient data to meet compliance requirements (e.g., meeting patient data compliance requirements such as HIPAA requirements, as well as compliance requirements concerning patient forms). In particular, methods involve training and deploying machine learning models that can appropriately analyze a wide array of MCFs with varying formats. Advantages of the methods disclosed herein are three-fold: 1) reducing the amount of time and resources that a healthcare provider needs to commit to satisfying compliance requirements and 2) improving patient outcome by more intelligently incorporating data in medical compliance forms, and 3) ensuring meeting of compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA compliance requirements).
US12040080B2
The present disclosure is directed to a deep learning system for differential diagnoses of skin diseases. In particular, the system performs a method that can include obtaining a plurality of images that respectively depict a portion of a patient's skin. The method can include determining, using a machine-learned skin condition classification model, a plurality of embeddings respectively for the plurality of images. The method can include combining the plurality of embeddings to obtain a unified representation associated with the portion of the patient's skin. The method can include determining, using the machine-learned skin condition classification model, a skin condition classification for the portion of the patients skin, the skin condition classification produced by the machine-learned skin condition classification model by processing the unified representation, wherein the skin condition classification identifies one or more skin conditions selected from a plurality of potential skin conditions.
US12040079B2
A medical image processing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a first image that is a medical image of a predetermined site of a subject; an image quality improving unit configured to generate, from the first image, a second image in which the image quality is improved compared to the first image by using an image quality improving engine that includes a machine learning engine; and a display controlling unit configured to cause a display unit to display a composite image obtained by combining the first image and the second image according to a ratio obtained using information relating to at least a partial region of the first image.
US12040075B2
Techniques are described that facilitate integrating artificial intelligence (AI) informatics in healthcare systems using a distributed learning platform. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented is provided that comprises interfacing, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, with a medical imaging application that provides for viewing medical image data. The method further comprises, facilitating, by the system, generation of structured diagnostic data according to a defined ontology in association with usage of the imaging application to perform a clinical evaluation of the medical image data. The method further comprises providing, by the system, the structured diagnostic data to one or more machine learning systems, wherein based on the providing, the one or more machine learning systems employ the structured diagnostic data as training data to generate or train one or more diagnostic models configured to provide artificial intelligence-based diagnostic evaluations of new medical image data.
US12040065B2
Methods and systems relate to providing varying levels of detail about a pharmacy item to a patient information system based on the capabilities of the patient information system. An intercept device can receive an identifier associated with a pharmacy item based on a scanner reading a computer-readable code. The intercept device can recognize or determine the storage capabilities or limitations of the patient information system, for example by determining various medication data fields that the patient information system uses to store pharmacy item information. The intercept device can use the machine readable code to obtain pharmacy item information that is compatible with the patient information system based on those storage capabilities or limitations and can distribute that pharmacy item information to the patient information system.
US12040063B1
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems, methods, and computer readable media for regulating digital therapeutic content for provision. A computing system may identify a digital therapeutic content to be provided via a network. The computing system may apply the digital therapeutic content to a machine learning (ML) model having a set of weights. The computing system may determine, from applying the digital therapeutic content to the ML model, an indication as of one of compliance or non-compliance. The computing system may store, using one or more data structures, an association between the digital therapeutic content and the indication used to control provision of the digital therapeutic content via the network, by (i) restricting the digital therapeutic content from provision responsive to determining the indication of non-compliance and (ii) permitting the digital therapeutic content to be provided responsive to determining the indication of compliance.
US12040062B2
Methods and systems for generating a report that ranks patients at risk for readmission to an acute care facility from a post-acute care facility. A system receives, from the post-acute care facility, patient data for a plurality of patients. The system inputs the patient data into a risk machine-learning system that was previously trained using historical patient data and data reflecting any readmissions from one or more post-acute care facilities to one or more acute care facilities. The system determines, by the risk machine-learning system, a risk score for each patient. Each risk score represents risk of a respective patient being readmitted to an acute care facility from the post-acute care facility. The system further generates the report. The report including a list of at least a subset of patients from the plurality of patients ranked from the patient with the highest risk to the lowest risk of readmission.
US12040061B2
Described are data abstraction systems, methods, and media for aggregating and abstracting data records from data providers, which are not substantially interoperable with each other. Features include data provider connector modules dynamically loaded, based on definitions stored on disk, that facilitate data mapping and individual matching.
US12040054B2
An input genotype is divided into a plurality of windows, each including a sequence of SNPs. For each window, a diploid HMM is computed based on genotypes and/or phased haplotypes to determine a probability of a haplotype sequence being associated with a particular label. For example, the diploid HMM for a window is used to determine the emission probability that the window corresponds to a set of labels. An inter-window HMM, with a set of states for each window, is computed. Labels are assigned to the input genotype based on the inter-window HMM. Upper and lower bounds are estimated to produce a range of likely percentage values an input can be assigned to a given label. Confidence values are determined indicating a likelihood that an individual inherits DNA from a certain population. Maps are generated with polygons representing regions where a measure of ethnicity of population falls within specific ranges.
US12040053B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for analyzing nucleic acids in a sample. Compositions include simple barcode sets having reduced DNA sequencing instrument-specific error rates. Methods include methods to deconvolute sequence reads from different samples.
US12040046B2
Disclosed is an operating method of a memory device communicating with a memory controller, which includes receiving a first command from the memory controller, the first command indicating initiation of synchronization of a data clock signal and defining a clock section corresponding to the synchronization, preparing a toggling of the data clock signal during a preparation time period, processing a first data stream based on the data clock signal toggling at a reference frequency, and processing a second data stream based on the data clock toggling at the reference frequency and extended for a period of the defined first clock section.
US12040045B2
A semiconductor device includes a data input circuit suitable for receiving a training clock to provide first data signals and a strobe signal according to a plurality of input control signals in a training mode; a delay circuit suitable for outputting second data signals by delaying the first data signals according to delay values corresponding to respective setting codes; a data alignment circuit suitable for outputting third data signals by aligning the second data signals according to the strobe signal; a code generation circuit suitable for generating a preliminary code corresponding to the third data signals according to the training clock, and sequentially storing the preliminary code as the setting codes according to a code-lock signal; and a lock-detection circuit suitable for activating the code-lock signal based on the training clock and the preliminary code.
US12040044B2
A semiconductor device includes: a drift detection circuit that retrieves a previously-determined first delay amount of a reference signal passing through a circuit element at a first timing, determines a second delay amount of the reference signal passing through the circuit element at a second timing, and outputs a drift amount that is a difference between the first and second delay amounts; and a delay amount adjustment circuit that retrieves a previously-determined third delay amount of a first signal transmitted to an external device at the first timing, determines a fourth delay amount based on the third delay amount and the drift amount as a delay amount to be applied to the first signal in a period after the second timing, and transmits the first signal to which the fourth delay amount has been applied, to the external device.
US12040040B2
A neural processing unit (NPU) for testing a component during runtime is provided. The NPU may include a plurality of functional components including a first functional component and a second functional component. At least one of the plurality of functional components may be driven for calculation of an artificial neural network. Another one of the plurality of functional components may be selected as a component under test (CUT). A scan test may be performed on the at least one functional component selected as the CUT. A tester for detecting a defect of an NPU is also provided. The tester may include a component tester configured to communicate with at least one functional component of the NPU, select the at least one functional component as a CUT, and perform a scan test for the selected CUT.
US12040033B2
A memory system includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device includes a plurality of memory cells. The memory controller includes an error correction code (ECC) circuit. The ECC circuit is configured to determine data rows of first write data that are not all zeros and store the determined data rows in buffer rows of a buffer along with corresponding row indexes. The memory controller is configured to write second data based on the buffer to the memory device.
US12040027B2
A memory system includes: a semiconductor storage device including a memory cell array that includes memory cells and a temperature counter configured to increase a count value thereof at a rate that depends on a temperature of the memory cell array; and a memory controller configured to acquire the count value from the semiconductor storage device and reserve a refresh operation for a written memory cell of the memory cell array when a cumulative value of the count value, which is accumulated from when data was written to the memory cell to when the count value is acquired, exceeds a predetermined value.
US12040022B2
A method of operating a semiconductor memory device includes performing a plurality of program loops for programming selected memory cells among a plurality of memory cells. Each of the plurality of program loops includes a program phase and a verify phase. The program phase includes setting a state of a select line connected to a selected memory block including the selected memory cells, wherein setting the state of the select line connected to the selected memory block comprises applying a voltage to the select line based on a program progress state of the selected memory cells, setting a state of a bit line connected to the selected memory block, applying a program voltage to a selected word line among word lines connected to the selected memory block and applying a pass voltage to an unselected word line.
US12040021B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a layout of a semiconductor structure, including: a column decoder, wherein the column decoder includes a first P-type transistor region, a second P-type transistor region, a first N-type transistor region, a second N-type transistor region, and a NAND gate region. The first P-type transistor region is located above the first N-type transistor region, the second P-type transistor region is located above the first P-type transistor region, and the second N-type transistor region is located above the second P-type transistor region; the NAND gate region is adjacent to the first P-type transistor region, the second P-type transistor region, and the first N-type transistor region.
US12040002B2
In the magnetic tape, a maximum value of magnetic tape deformation amounts after storage in each of five environments for 1 year is 0.50 μm or less, a rate of a change of magnetic tape deformation amount with respect to a change in relative humidity obtained from the five magnetic tape deformation amounts is 0.0001 μm/% to 0.0500 μm/%, and a rate of a change of the magnetic tape deformation amount with respect to a change in temperature obtained from the five magnetic tape deformation amounts is 0.0010 μm/° C. to 0.1000 μm/° C.
US12039991B1
An artificial reality headset enhances audio signals from a target sound source using information from other devices in the local area. A primary headset broadcasts a location of a target sound source to secondary headsets in a local area. The secondary headsets transmit audio signals to the primary headset to enhance the audio content presented by the primary headset to a user. The secondary headset may select an array transfer function for the location of the target sound source. The secondary headsets correlate known transfer functions in the target direction with estimated transfer functions. The secondary headset may perform beamforming on the target sound source and transmit the output audio signal to the primary headset. In some embodiments, the secondary headset may transmit the array transfer function and a raw audio signal to the primary headset. The primary headset generates audio content based on the received audio signal.
US12039990B1
An example method of operation may include designating sub-regions which collectively provide a defined reception space, receiving audio signals at a controller from the microphone arrays in the defined reception space, configuring the controller with known locations of each of the microphone arrays, assigning each of the sub-regions to at least one of the microphone arrays based on the known locations, and creating beamform tracking configurations for each of the microphone arrays based on their assigned sub-regions.
US12039988B1
The present application discloses a method and a system for saturation diving heliumspeech unscrambling based on multi-objective optimization. In a system including a diver and a filter at least, a working language phonetic symbol library and a common working word library for divers are constructed. The divers read them one by one, and a phonetic symbol standard speech library, a phonetic symbol heliumspeech library and a common working word speech library are generated. The filter uses the multi-objective optimization algorithm to design its impulse response coefficients, corrects and unscrambles the tagged and sampled heliumspeech signal word by word, and continuously updates the impulse response coefficients to complete the perfect heliumspeech unscrambling.
US12039982B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing audio data using neural networks.
US12039980B2
A method for a user device, including receiving a first acoustic input of a user speaking a wake-up word in the target language; providing a first acoustic feature derived from the first acoustic input to an acoustic model stored on the user device to obtain a first sequence of speech units corresponding to the wake-up word spoken by the user in the target language, the acoustic model trained on a corpus of training data in a source language different than the target language; receiving a second acoustic input including the wake-up word in the target language; providing a second acoustic feature derived from the second acoustic input to the acoustic model to obtain a second sequence of speech units corresponding to the wake-up word in the target language; and comparing the first and second sequences of speech units to recognize the wake-up word in the target language.
US12039977B2
An embodiment call termination apparatus includes a call termination word existence determination device configured to determine whether a call termination word exists in a call voice of a user, and a controller configured to compare the call termination word of the user with a call termination example word previously registered in a vehicle to control whether to terminate a call.
US12039973B1
Systems and methods for providing artificial intelligence (AI) character-specific contextual conversational language models are provided. The method may include providing a plurality of speech models for conversation features of an AI character generated by an AI character model in a virtual environment; ascertaining a context of interactions involving the AI character generated by the AI character model in the virtual environment; selecting, based on the context, a speech model from the plurality of speech models; generating an output using the speech model; and inserting the output into a content of the AI character being generated by the AI character model.
US12039953B2
The present disclosure discloses a display driving method, a display driver chip and a liquid crystal display device. The display driving method includes: within a display duration of a first bit-plane data, controlling the display device to display the first bit-plane data; when a loading duration of a single bit-plane data is longer than the display duration of the first bit-plane data, after completing the display of the first bit-plane data, controlling a pixel liquid crystal layer corresponding to the first bit-plane data in the display device to return to a target state, and completing loading of a second bit-plane data while maintaining the pixel liquid crystal layer corresponding to the first bit-plane data in the target state. Based on the above method, the cost of data driving can be effectively reduced, and the display effect of the liquid crystal display device can be improved.
US12039943B1
A backlight control device for use in an electronic device includes a motion detecting unit, a sound matching unit and a controller. The motion detecting unit is configured to detect motion of a lid section of the electronic device to generate motion data. The sound matching unit is configured to match a soundprint derived from a sound sample that is captured by a sound capture unit, to one or more sound patterns stored within in a sound pattern database to generate a lid state indication signal if the motion data indicates the motion of the lid section corresponds to a predetermined state. The controller is configured to control a backlight module of a display device of the electronic device according to the lid state indication signal.
US12039938B2
An over-driving method and apparatus for a display device, a display device, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The display device includes a plurality of pixels, and the plurality of pixels are arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns as an array. The method includes: obtaining an initial compensation parameter according to a first average brightness level and a second average brightness level of a row of pixels; obtaining a first gain coefficient according to a value of a target pixel in the current frame and the second average brightness level corresponding to the row in which the target pixel is located, the target pixel being one pixel in the row of pixels; and obtaining a target compensation parameter of the target pixel according to the initial compensation parameter and the first gain coefficient.
US12039937B2
A display device includes: a display unit including a first display area, and a second display area; a scan driver configured to provide a scan signal to each scan line connected to the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels; and an emission controller configured to provide an emission control signal to each emission control line connected to the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels, wherein the plurality of first pixels have a first density in the first display area, the plurality of second pixels have a second density less than the first density in the second display area, and the plurality of second pixels include at least one sub pixel including one boosting capacitor.
US12039934B2
A light emitting device in which a pixel is arranged is provided. The pixel includes a light emitting element, a first transistor configured to supply, to the light emitting element, a current corresponding to a luminance signal, and a second transistor configured to supply the luminance signal to a gate electrode of the first transistor. Diffusion regions respectively functioning as a source region and a drain region of the second transistor are of a first conductivity type, and a gate electrode of the second transistor is of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
US12039933B2
The present invention relates to an OLED pixel compensation circuit for removing a substrate effect. The pixel compensation circuit according to the present invention uses six transistors and two storage batteries to fix both a source voltage and a body voltage of a driving transistor that drives an OLED, thereby having the effects of eliminating errors due to a substrate effect and presenting more accurate pixel compensation results.
US12039928B2
A display device is implemented that can reduce power consumption over a known example while preventing occurrence of black floating. The voltage value of a low-level power supply voltage ELVSS provided to a pixel circuit is set to a higher value in a pause driving period than in a normal driving period. Upon writing a data voltage, an anode initialization period for initializing an anode voltage of an organic EL element is provided. In this regard, an anode initialization period in the pause driving period is made longer than an anode initialization period in the normal driving period. To implement this, for example, a write frequency of a data voltage is made lower in the pause driving period than in the normal driving period.
US12039917B2
A display includes pixels distributed in a pixel array of rows and columns that are grouped in mutually exclusive pixel clusters on a display substrate in a display area. Cluster controllers are disposed on the display substrate and are each connected to the pixels in a pixel cluster to control the pixels to emit light. A display controller external to the display area is connected to each row of pixels in each pixel cluster with a row wire. Each row of pixels in each pixel cluster can be connected with a cluster row wire and the corresponding cluster row wires of each pixel cluster can be connected together. The cluster controllers can be disposed between pixels in the pixel cluster or between adjacent pixel clusters on the display substrate.
US12039916B2
A display device includes: pixels, each of the pixels including at least one light emitting element and a first transistor configured to supply a driving current to the at least one light emitting element; a sensing unit configured to sense a driving current of the first transistor, which corresponds to a data voltage applied to one pixel from among the pixels, the sensing unit being configured to detect a luminance of the light emitting element, which corresponds to the driving current; a gamma calculator configured to receive the driving current and the luminance of the light emitting element from the sensing unit, to calculate a gamma changed based on the driving current and the luminance of the light emitting element, and to provide, to a memory, the gamma changed based on the driving current and the luminance of the light emitting element.
US12039909B2
The present invention provides an operating method of a display device. An example operating method includes driving each pixel for each frame, wherein a plurality of pixels of the display device are disposed in an array of rows and columns, a period of one frame comprises one or more data sections and one or more off-sections, ratios of time length of the one or more data sections are substantially the same as a sequence of powers of 2, each of the one or more data sections corresponds to an ON period or an OFF period related to a specified brightness, grey scale color, or luminance, and each of the one or more off-sections corresponds to the OFF period unrelated to the specified brightness, grey scale color, or luminance.
US12039907B2
A gate driving circuit is provided, including N-stages of cascaded shift registers divided into at least one group of K-stages in which a clock signal terminal of a k-th stage of shift register is connected to receive a k-th clock signal, where 1≤k≤K≤N; and an input signal terminal of a n-th stage is connected to an output signal terminal of a (n−i)-th stage, and reset signal terminals of the n-th and (n+1)-th stages are connected to an output signal terminal of a (n+j)-th stage, where 1
US12039901B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of communication technologies and disclose a wireless projection method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: A wireless projection apparatus determines, based on a display frame rate used when the wireless projection apparatus displays an image, a duration of a first transmission period. The wireless projection apparatus negotiates with a display apparatus to determine a configuration of a time domain resource in the first transmission period, where the time domain resource in the first transmission period is configured to include a first time segment, a second time segment, and a third time segment, the first time segment is used to send first data to the display apparatus, the second time segment is used to receive second data sent by the display apparatus, and the third time segment is used for sleep.
US12039895B2
A label including a base material with at least one adhesive region and a cover material, a label tape and a method for manufacturing labels are disclosed. The method includes providing a base material web and applying at least one adhesive to the base material web along at least one row by means of at least one applicator. The adhesive is applied to the base material web intermittently along the row so that the row comprises a plurality of individual adhesive regions spaced apart from one another by adhesive-free regions. The method also includes applying a cover material to at least some regions of the base material web so that a plurality of the applied adhesive regions are completely covered by the cover material, and at least partially separating the base material web and/or the cover material exclusively along adhesive-free regions by means of at least one separating device.
US12039894B2
Display assemblies are provided. One or more electronic display subassemblies are mounted to a framework at an elevated position. An unobstructed zone is located below each of the electronic display subassemblies and within said framework. Wiring and electronic components may extend along some of the framework and may be covered by cladding.
US12039892B2
A decoder for decoding to obtain a binary data sequence is provided. The decoder includes a first inductance element, a first state element, a second inductance element, a second state element, an inductance sequence generator, a first comparison unit and a second comparison unit. The inductance sequence generator is configured to generate an inductance sequence including a plurality of inductance values and to adjust each inductance value of the plurality of inductance values of the inductance sequence at the first inductance element and at the second inductance element.
US12039888B2
Provided are an educational electronic health record system and an educational electronic health record program that enable the use of patient health record information having an information amount greater than or equal to that of an electronic health record used in the actual medical setting by responding to various needs of a learner or advanced and complicated medical information, and thus, enable effective education and training for the learner such as a medical service worker. An educational electronic health record system of the present invention includes at least an educational electronic health record server 10 that includes a data file acquisition unit 112 acquiring a data file that is described in a data format of arbitrary software and includes simulated patient information, a storage unit 102 storing the simulated patient information of the data file acquired by the data file acquisition unit 112, and a patient health record information generation unit 113 calling the simulated patient information from the storage unit 102 and generating patient health record information displayed on a learner terminal 40, based on the simulated patient information.
US12039885B2
A venous valve model includes a first layer having a central axis and a fluid channel extending between a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet formed in the first layer, wherein the fluid channel is defined by a pair of channel walls, a first venous valve formed in the first layer and positioned along the fluid channel, and a pair of first actuation chambers positioned adjacent the channel walls of the fluid channel, wherein the pair of first actuation chambers are configured to decrease a width of the fluid channel in response to pressurization of the pair of first actuation chambers.
US12039883B2
This application relates to an information output apparatus. The information output apparatus not only improves durability and user convenience but also minimizes power consumption and an operation error of a driving module. The information output apparatus also allows a pin to be driven to be lowered more easily by an attractive force between a magnetic force member and a magnetic member. In addition, the information output apparatus is also provided to prevent the pin from protruding to the outside of an expression surface even when power is not applied.
US12039882B2
Some implementations include methods for communicating features of images to visually impaired users. An image to be displayed on a touch sensitive screen of a computing device may include one or more objects. Each of the one or more objects may be associated with a bounding box. A contact with the image may be detected via the touch sensitive screen. The contact may be determined to be within a bounding box associated with a first object of the one or more objects. Responsive to detecting the contact to be within the bounding box associated with the first object, a caption of the first object may be caused to become audible and the touch sensitive screen may be caused to vibrate based on a vibration pattern unique to the first object.
US12039876B1
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for pavement structural performance evaluation based on long-range laser vibration measurement. The method can more accurately evaluate the structural performance of the pavement by detecting the actual deflection value of the pavement during aircraft operation; By obtaining real-time deflection data of the airport runway, it is possible to detect changes in the structural performance of the airport runway in the long term without affecting the normal operation of the airport runway. The present invention has strong anti-interference ability, stable detection results, and can achieve non-contact, large-scale, and high-precision measurement of airport pavement deflection.
US12039871B2
A method for operating a transportation system having a first set and a second set of vehicle platoons vehicle platoons, each of the vehicle platoons has a lead vehicle and a plurality of vehicles following the lead vehicle. The method includes controlling the vehicle platoons with a control system, driving the first set of vehicle platoons along a first road and the second set of vehicle platoons along a second road that intersects the first road, increasing the distance, at the intersection, between a first vehicle platoon and a following second vehicle platoon of the first set of vehicle platoons driving along the first road, and controlling a vehicle platoon of the second set of vehicle platoons driving along the second road to pass the intersection in the gap between the last vehicle of the first vehicle platoon and the lead vehicle of the second vehicle platoon.
US12039867B2
A method may include obtaining input information relating to an environment in which an autonomous vehicle (AV) operates, the input information describing at least one of: a state of the AV, an operation of the AV within the environment, a property of the environment, or an object included in the environment. The method may include identifying a first object in the vicinity of the AV based on the obtained input information. The method may include determining a first object rule corresponding to the first object, the first object rule indicating suggested driving behavior for interacting with the first object. The method may include determining a first decision that follows the first object rule and sending an instruction to a control system of the AV, the instruction describing a given operation of the AV responsive to the first object rule according to the first decision.
US12039865B2
In a vehicle enabling automated driving, if the value of at least one jam related parameter changing in accordance with a jam degree of surroundings of the vehicle is a value showing a jam degree lower than a reference value corresponding to a reference jam degree, the vehicle is driven in a first driving mode, and if the value of the jam related parameter is a value showing a jam degree higher than the reference value, the vehicle is driven in a second driving mode with a lower degree of contribution of the driver to driving than the first driving mode. A notification device used in the vehicle has a notification control part showing on a display device of the vehicle a display relating to the value of the jam related parameter and the reference value.
US12039854B2
Embodiments herein relate to multi-zone filtration monitoring systems and methods. In an embodiment, a filtration monitoring system is included having a plurality of filtration housings, a plurality of filter elements associated with the filter housings, a plurality of wireless communication tags associated with the filter elements, a plurality of zone antennas, and a wireless communication reader in wired communication with the plurality of zone antennas. The reader can be configured to wirelessly send data to and receive data from the wireless communication tags via the zone antennas. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US12039852B1
A pre-disaster banking system including a mobile conditions monitoring center including a vehicle having a system controller including: a device processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions to perform the following steps: receiving location data from a personal electronic device of a user; receiving forecast data regarding a predicted disaster; making a first determination, based on the received location data and the received forecast data, that the personal electronic device is located in an area that is expected to be affected by the predicted disaster; receiving banking information for the user; making a second determination that the user is scheduled to receive a payroll deposit that could be affected by the predicted disaster; and determining, based on the first determination and the second determination, a banking transaction to be executed for the user at a predetermined time relative to the predicted time of occurrence of the predicted disaster.
US12039848B2
Non-coaxial systems, methods, and devices for detecting smoke are described herein. A smoke detection system may comprise a laser emitter configured to emit a laser beam, and a light receiver. The light receiver may comprise a first receiver lens, wherein a field of view of the first receiver lens includes at least a portion of the laser beam. The light receiver may also comprise a second receiver lens, wherein a field of view of the second receiver lens includes at least a portion of the laser beam and a region between an edge of the field of view of the first receiver lens and the laser emitter.
US12039846B2
Provided is a method of protecting private information from illegal photography by an unmanned aerial vehicle, which includes receiving information about an area to capture, from the unmanned aerial vehicle or an unmanned aerial vehicle pilot, in advance, by wired or wireless communication, transmitting the information about an area to capture, to a private information protection subject who wants to protect private information about the area to capture, by wired or wireless communication, receiving information about a first action to protect private information accompanying image capturing, from the private information protection subject, by wired or wireless communication, and transmitting the information about a first action to protect private information, the information being received from the private information protection subject, to the unmanned aerial vehicle or the unmanned aerial vehicle pilot who is going to capture an image, by wired or wireless communication.
US12039843B2
A method includes: monitoring outputs of sensors in a machine that receives magnetic stripe cards; determining the outputs of sensors indicate normal usage of the machine or abnormal usage of the machine; in response to determining the outputs of the sensors indicate abnormal usage of the machine, initiating a security action; in response to determining the outputs of the sensors indicate normal usage of the machine, determining the machine is in use or not in use; in response to determining the machine is not in use, initiating the security action; in response to determining the machine is in use, determining whether the use ends within a predefined monitor time; in response to determining the use does not end within the predefined monitor time, initiating the security action; and in response to determining the use does end within the predefined monitor time, returning to monitoring the outputs of the sensors.
US12039841B2
Systems and methods are provided for providing playing cards. An exemplary method may include retrieving data related to a selection of a set of numbers for bingo and determining matching bingo patterns on a predetermined number of cards from a library of bingo cards against the set of selected numbers. The method may further include selecting corresponding playing cards based on the matching bingo patterns on the predetermined number of cards and providing the corresponding playing cards for display. The exemplary method may be used to deal playing cards for poker using a set of selected numbers.
US12039834B2
According to various embodiments, a system for implementing a predetermined multigame is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of tickets each having one or more multidimensional barcodes representing information about a plurality of predetermined game outcomes and information about game security and game data integrity. The one or more multidimensional barcodes are configured to be optically scanned to have a result displayed by a computing device to allow a player to determine whether the information about a plurality of predetermined game outcomes comprises a winning outcome.
US12039827B2
Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for providing multi-parameter offers to users are provided. Such GUIs not only efficiently present a particular multi-parameter offer, but also provide insight to the user as to other multi-parameter offers that could have been offered instead, thereby allowing the user to gauge the relative value of the offer being made against the potential other offers that could have been made. Such GUIs are arranged to present the information regarding the offer parameters in a space-efficient manner that allows for such information to be presented for large numbers of potential offers, e.g., 50+ potential offers, in a small display area, e.g., a smartphone screen.
US12039826B2
A gaming device may comprise various components, including a main cabinet, a game controller, and a display assembly. The display assembly may be releasably coupled to the game cabinet so that the display assembly may be quickly removed prior to replacement and/or maintenance operations. The display assembly may include a display panel and a cover sheet positioned over the display panel. The cover sheet may be a glass cover sheet and may define a raised perimeter region that surrounds an interior portion of the cover sheet. A light pipe may be disposed below the raised perimeter region and may diffuse light emitted by the display panel and/or a backlight.
US12039824B2
Methods and systems for providing improved prescription filling systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a prescription filling system is provided that includes a primary module and at least one expansion module. The primary module may include shelves that each contains a plurality of equipment brackets. The primary module may also include a supplementary system positioned between the shelves. The at least one expansion module may also include shelves that each contain a plurality of equipment brackets. Furthermore, the primary module may contain a robotic arm that is substantially equidistant from each of the shelves within the primary module and the at least one expansion module.
US12039813B2
A device for registering and authenticating a user device for vehicle control includes: a communication unit connected to the user device to receive an authentication request from the user device; an interface configured to communicatively connect with at least one antenna included in the vehicle and communicating with a FOB of the vehicle; and a processor configured to detect whether the user device is registered based on at least one of user information and device information included in the received authentication request, to detect whether a user of the user device has the FOB by using the at least one antenna, and to control a registration process of the user device which is set differently depending on whether the user has the FOB when the user device is not registered.
US12039806B2
The invention relates to a device for biometric identification with the aid of fingerprints and/or hand characteristics, the device comprising a sensor unit (1) directed at the region of an optical gate (2) in a scanning direction (S), wherein the optical gate (2) is adapted to initialize the sensor unit (1) for scanning an in-focus scan image or scan images of the fingers and/or hand of a person, wherein the device further comprises at least one light source (5), which is likewise directed at the region of the optical gate (2), wherein the sensor unit (1), the optical gate (2) and optionally also the light source (5) are coupled to a control and computing module (6) with software for controlling the device and its parts and for scanning a scan image or the scan images of fingers and/or a hand, and for evaluating the fingerprints and/or hand characteristics, wherein the sensor unit (1) is fixedly set to focus into a focal volume (3) which is assigned to the optical gate (2), and the sensor unit (1), the optical gate (2), the control and computing module (6) and optionally also the light source (5) are configured to scan a single in-focus scan image of the fingers and/or the hand at the time of the passage thereof through the focal volume (3).
US12039805B2
The present invention provides an offline handwriting individual recognition system and method. The method comprises: scanning the suspicious handwriting to obtain a first white light image and a first three-dimensional image, and scanning the sample handwriting to obtain a second white light image and a second three-dimensional image; pre-processing the first white light image and the second white light image to obtain a first pre-processed image and a second pre-processed image; extracting a first skeleton image and a second skeleton image from the first pre-processed image and the second pre-processed image; obtaining a first writing trajectory and a second writing trajectory according to the first skeleton image and the second skeleton image; extracting a first dynamic feature, a first three-dimensional feature, and a second dynamic feature, a second three-dimensional feature; processing to obtain a correlation coefficient, and obtaining an individual recognition result.
US12039797B2
Disclosed is a display condition analysis device which is capable of analyzing the display conditions of products. This display condition analysis device is provided with: a product recognition means for recognizing, from a display image taken of products on display, the products in the display image; and a display condition analysis means for analyzing, on the basis of the positions of the recognized products, the display conditions of the products on display.
US12039793B2
Methods and systems described herein are directed to creating an artificial reality environment having elements automatically created from source images. In response to a creation system receiving the source images, the system can employ a multi-layered comparative analysis to obtain virtual object representations of objects depicted in the source images. A first set of the virtual objects can be selected from a library by matching identifiers for the depicted objects with tags on virtual objects in the library. A second set of virtual objects can be objects for which no candidate first virtual objects was adequately matched in the library, prompting the creation of a virtual object by generating depth data and skinning a resulting 3D mesh based on the source images. Having determined the virtual objects, the system can compile them into the artificial reality environment according to relative locations determined from the source images.
US12039789B2
A system and method for detecting seatbelt positioning includes capturing, by a camera, a near infrared (NIR) image of an occupant, applying a median filter to the NIR image to remove glints; converting the NIR image to a black-and-white image, scanning across the black-and-white (B/W) image to detect a plurality of transitions between black and white segments corresponding to stripes extending lengthwise along a length of the seatbelt, and using detections of the plurality of transitions to indicate a detection of the seatbelt. Converting the NIR image to the black-and-white image may include using a localized binary threshold to determine whether a given pixel in the B/W image should be black or white based on whether a corresponding source pixel within the NIR image is brighter than an average of nearby pixels within a predetermined distance of the corresponding source pixel.
US12039783B2
Systems, methods, and devices for estimating a shape of an object based on sensor data and determining a presence of a fault or a failure in a perception system. A method of the disclosure includes receiving sensor data from a range sensor and calculating a current shape reconstruction of an object based on the sensor data. The method includes retrieving from memory a prior shape reconstruction of the object based on prior sensor data. The method includes calculating a quality score for the current shape reconstruction by balancing a function of resulted variances of the current shape reconstruction and a similarity between the current shape reconstruction and the prior shape reconstruction.
US12039782B2
Systems, methods, and software monitor and identify traffic trends associated with entities in a physical area using multiple video sources. In one implementation a video monitoring system identifies an overhead map that defines a physical area monitored by a plurality of video sources. The video monitoring system further, for each of the video sources, identifies a video stream from the video source, identifies landmark points that map an object in the video stream to an object in the overhead map, and identifies one or more traffic areas in the video stream for movement of one or more entities. The monitoring system also monitors traffic in the video streams, identifies trends from the traffic based on the landmarks and traffic areas, and generates a display of the trends.
US12039772B2
The present invention provides a processing system (10) including: a sample image generation unit (11) that generates a plurality of sample images being each associated with a partial region of a first image generated using a first lens; an estimation unit (12) that generates an image content estimation result indicating a content for each of the sample images using an estimation model generated by machine learning using a second image generated using a second lens differing from the first lens; a task execution unit (14) that estimates a relative positional relationship of a plurality of the sample images in the first image; a determination unit (15) that determines whether an estimation result of the relative positional relationship is correct; and a correction unit (16) that corrects a value of a parameter of the estimation model when the estimation result of the relative positional relationship is determined to be incorrect.
US12039750B2
A manufacturing system is disclosed herein. The manufacturing system includes one or more stations, a monitoring platform, and a control module. Each station of the one or more stations is configured to perform at least one step in a multi-step manufacturing process for a component. The monitoring platform is configured to monitor progression of the component throughout the multi-step manufacturing process. The control module is configured to dynamically adjust processing parameters of each step of the multi-step manufacturing process to achieve a desired final quality metric for the component.
US12039749B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for low-power visual tracking systems. An example method can include receiving one or more images captured by each image sensor system from a set of image sensor systems on a first device, the one or more images capturing a set of patterns on a second device, wherein the first device has lower power requirements than the second device, the set of patterns having a predetermined configuration on the second device; determining, from the one or more images captured by each image sensor system, a set of pixels corresponding to the set of patterns on the second device; determining, based on the set of pixels corresponding to the set of patterns, a location and relative pose in space of each pattern; and determining, based on the location and relative pose of each pattern, a pose of the first device relative to the second device.
US12039748B2
A bubble measurement system includes a bubble detector including a vessel having a flow path configured to receive a flow of fluid includes air bubbles from a bubble generator. The bubble measurement system includes an imaging system having an imaging device for imaging the fluid and air bubbles in the flow path of the vessel of the bubble detector. The imaging system has an imaging controller coupled to the imaging device and receiving images from the imaging device. The imaging controller processes the images to measure bubble size of each air bubble passing through the bubble detector.
US12039746B2
An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire setting information which is set based on a template image and associates an image region with analysis process content; and an image processing unit configured to perform an analysis process corresponding to the analysis process content associated with the image region on an image of a target region corresponding to the image region in an input image.
US12039743B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to motion tracking synchronization in virtual reality systems. In an embodiment, a computing system that includes a processor and a memory including computer readable instructions is provided. The processor is configured to, based on execution of the computer readable instructions, receive an indication from a virtual reality (VR) application that the VR application has started, receive tracking data from a first motion tracking system and a second motion tracking system, each motion tracking system comprising one or more sensors, and generate system-independent tracking objects from the tracking data. The processor is further configured to, based on execution of the computer readable instructions, format the system-independent tracking objects into VR objects compatible with a VR system, transmit the VR objects to the VR system, and provide a real world environment view to users overlaid or independent of VR environment. Computer implemented methods are also provided.
US12039735B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for automatic head and neck organ segmentation. The method includes: prepare a training dataset, wherein the step of preparing a training dataset comprises: receive 3D images covering head and neck region obtained by a CT system or an MRI system; receive metadata for each received 3D images, comprising patient orientation, pixel spacing, slice thickness and matrix size; receive corresponding 3D segmentation labels map for the received 3D images; and process the received 3D images and the corresponding 3D segmentation labels map by transforming to patient coordinate system and resampling to have a fixed spatial resolution and a fixed matrix size; build a deep learning framework using CNN models for organ segmentation; train CNN models using the training dataset and performing data emulation step during training by mirroring the processed 3D images and their corresponding processed 3D segmentation labels map from the training dataset; prepare a testing dataset, wherein the step of preparing a testing dataset comprises: receive 3D images covering head and neck region obtained by a CT system or an MRI system; receive metadata for each received 3D images, comprising patient orientation, pixel spacing, slice thickness and matrix size; and process the received 3D images by transforming to patient coordinate system and resampling to have a fixed spatial resolution and a fixed matrix size; deploy the trained CNN models on testing dataset, wherein the testing step comprises: mirror the processed 3D images in the left-right direction; predict on the processed 3D images and mirrored 3D images with individual prediction outputs as 3D probabilities map for organ segmentation; and improve the segmentation performance by averaging the 3D probabilities map outputs from the processed 3D images and mirrored 3D images; and post-process the 3D probabilities map outputs from the deep learning framework to obtain final 3D segmentation labels map for organ segmentation.
US12039733B2
A method for identifying an individual of an oplegnathus punctatus based on a convolutional neural network is provided. Target initial positioning involves three continuous convolutional layers and an average pooling layer. A region of feature interest point is obtained, a hyperparameter candidate box is set to obtain a region, thereby obtaining an approximate position of a target object. II_Net backbone convolutional neural network includes six convolutional layers and four pooling layers, which includes a LeakyReLU activation function used as an activation function of the first convolutional layer, convolutional network layers of Alexnet and parameter data, and a maximum pooling layer of an overlapped pooling structure. Fully connected layers use a genetic algorithm to improve data transmission between layers. With the established model, identification of the individual of the oplegnathus punctatus is performed by using test data.
US12039724B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for analyzing chronic pulmonary diseases, such as lung cancer, using machine learning (ML) systems that detect lung nodules in chest x-rays. The methods and systems of the invention allows for the detection of lung abnormalities in chest x-ray images using at least two neural networks.
US12039723B2
A method for enhancing a near-infrared fluorescence image includes providing a NIR fluorescence image produced by detecting light in the NIR-I or NIR-IIa windows emitted by fluorophores; and inputting the NIR fluorescence image to a convolutional neural network to produce as output a translated image, where the convolutional neural network is trained using a set of NIR-I or NIR-IIa fluorescence images and a set of NIR-IIb fluorescence images. Preferably, the convolutional neural network is a U-Net.
US12039719B2
Methods are provided for efficient training of convoluted neural networks using computer-assisted microscope image acquisition and pre-classification of training images for biological objects of interest. The methods combine use of an automated scanning platform, on-the-fly image analysis parallel to the scanning process, and a user interface for review of the pre-classification performed by the software.
US12039705B2
An apparatus for classifying fake images according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an artifact remover configured to receive an input image to generate an artifact-removed image from which artifacts are removed, an artifact image generator configured to generate an artifact image by using a difference between the input image and the artifact removal image, and a determiner configured to determine whether the artifact image is a real image or a fake image by receiving the artifact image.
US12039704B2
An image processing apparatus includes: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a first image of an eye to be examined; an image quality improving unit configured to generate a second image with at least one of lower noise and higher contrast than the obtained first image using the obtained first image as an input data of a learned model, wherein the learned model has been obtained by using training data including a second image with at least one of lower noise and higher contrast than a first image of an eye to be examined; and a display controlling unit configured to cause the obtained first image and the generated second image to be switched, juxtaposed or superimposed and displayed on a display unit.
US12039703B2
A method for providing an optimum subtraction data set includes receiving first image data sets that are recorded by a medical imaging device and map an examination object within a first temporal phase. At least one second image data set that maps the examination object within a second temporal phase and is recorded by the same or another medical imaging device is received. Mask data sets are determined. The mask data sets include at least one of the first image data sets and/or an averaging of at least one combination of the first image data sets. Subtraction data sets are generated by subtracting one of the mask data sets from the at least one second image data set, and an image quality parameter is determined for each of the subtraction data sets. An optimum subtraction data set is provided by a comparison of the image quality parameters.
US12039700B2
An imaging processing device includes a processor. The processor performs processing of acquiring a captured image which is captured in a state where a light source emits light, extracting an overexposed portion which occurs in the captured image due to the light emission of the light source and which has a predetermined pixel value or more, and setting a region located in an area, which does not overlap with the extracted overexposed portion in the captured image, as a region of a collation target to be collated with a predetermined reference image.
US12039679B2
Systems and methods for data asset acquisition and obfuscation can be helpful for retrieving augmented reality rendering data assets from third parties. The sending of a software development kit and receiving back data assets can ensure the data assets are compatible with the augmented reality rendering experience in the user interface. The data acquisition system with obfuscation can also ensure the code generated by third parties is stripped of semantics and has reduced readability.
US12039675B2
The disclosure is directed to embodiments for producing high-quality images simulating the application of a material (e.g., virtual cosmetics) to a person's body. Example implementations can generate an augmented image displaying a virtual cosmetic layer (e.g., lipstick) on a person's face. For instance, a computing system can obtain an image depicting the face and identify a region for applying the cosmetic. The system can use augmented reality and/or image filtering to process the image into datasets that can be combined with material data related to the virtual cosmetic to generate augmented image(s) simulating application of the material.
US12039672B2
In some implementations, a computing device can present augmented reality (AR) labels in an AR video stream. For example, the computing device can obtain route information for a route requested by a user and can determine locations along the route for placing candidate AR labels. The computing device can determine the precise location of the computing device using camera depth information obtained in response to the user scanning the local real-world environment with a camera of the computing device. The computing device can select an AR label and/or label placement location for presentation in an AR video stream based on various criteria, including the distance between the candidate AR labels and the precise location of the computing device, priorities assigned to each candidate AR label, and/or whether a clear line of sight exists between the precise location of the computing device and the candidate AR label location.
US12039667B2
A method of generating identifiers (IDs) for primitives and optionally vertices during tessellation. The IDs include a binary sequence of bits that represents the sub-division steps taken during the tessellation process and so encodes the way in which tessellation has been performed. Such an ID may subsequently be used to generate a random primitive or vertex and hence recalculate vertex data for that primitive or vertex.
US12039666B2
According to the present invention, techniques, including a method, and system, for creating a tangible object having customized features and digitizing the object for manipulation and use by a child user are provided. In particular, the invention provides a method for assembling customized features onto a tangible object and using artificial intelligence techniques for digitizing the object onto a computing device for manipulation and use by a child user.
US12039664B2
A system and corresponding method is disclosed for monitoring and conducting large-scale performance verification of a city's lighting infrastructure. In particular, the current invention combines measurements of lighting performance measurements along city roadways with regulatory requirements for the roadways. In various embodiments, the current invention then presents a three-dimensional visualization of the adequacy of existing roadway lighting with respect to these regulatory requirements.
US12039658B2
A semantic texture map system to generate a semantic texture map based on a 3D model that comprises a plurality of vertices that include coordinate that indicate positions of the plurality of vertices, a UV map, and a semantic segmentation image that comprises a set of semantic labels.
US12039650B2
A moving image processing method includes: generating a moving image including an animation of an avatar object of a distribution user, based on a motion of the distribution user; receiving a request signal that is generated based on a manipulation of a viewing user viewing the moving image and requests that a first gift object is applied to the avatar object from a terminal device of the viewing user through a communication line; displaying the first gift object that is applied to the avatar object based on the request signal on the moving image; and a second gift object on the moving image in a case where it is determined that the avatar object executes a predetermined action with respect to one or a plurality of first gift objects displayed on the moving image, based on the motion of the distribution user.
US12039649B2
A server machine modifies an augmented reality (AR) object in response to fulfillment of a condition. The machine provides, to a user device, object data that defines the AR object. The object data specifies a physical geolocation of the AR object, a presentation attribute of the AR object, a conditional modification program, and a trigger condition for execution of the conditional modification program. The object data causes the user device to present the AR object with a first appearance, located at the physical geolocation. The machine detects fulfillment of the trigger condition, and in response, the machine executes the conditional modification program. This modifies the object data by modifying the presentation attribute. The machine provides, to the user device, the modified object data, which causes the user device to present the AR object with a second appearance based on the modified presentation attribute.
US12039646B2
Methods and systems for generating an interactive rotatable 360-degree presentation of an object are disclosed. The methods and systems obtain data describing the object, where the data includes information about a number of images of the object, as well as additional information about the object. The images are automatically obtained and rearranged into at least one sequence of images substantially evenly distributed around 360 degrees. It is determined whether to add hotspot(s) to image(s), and if hotspot(s) are to be added, the hotspot(s) are automatically added to the image(s). The ordered images of the sequence(s) are then merged into an interactive rotatable 360-degree presentation of the object.
US12039644B2
The invention is related to a method of presenting a digital information related to a real object, comprising determining a real object, providing a plurality of presentation modes, wherein the plurality of presentation modes comprises an augmented reality mode, and at least one of a virtual reality mode and an audio mode, providing at least one representation of a digital information related to the real object, determining a spatial relationship between a camera and a reference coordinate system under consideration of an image captured by the camera, selecting a presentation mode from the plurality of presentation modes according to the spatial relationship, and presenting the at least one representation of the digital information using the selected presentation mode.
US12039640B2
A keyboard file verification method based on image processing comprises controlling a processor to perform following operations: obtaining a keyboard file; generating, according to the keyboard file, a search index and a feature image; obtaining a template image from a template database according to the search index; performing a calibration operation according to the feature image, wherein the calibration operation comprises: adjusting a resolution of the feature image according to a resolution of the template image; performing a shifting operation according to the feature image, to generate a plurality of candidate images; and comparing a key block of each of the plurality of candidate images with a key block of the template image to generate a difference map and a comparison result.
US12039633B2
Devices, systems, and techniques to incorporate lighting effects into computer-generated graphics. In at least one embodiment, a graphical frame depicting a virtual scene comprising is rendered by generating a record indicative of one or more lights in the virtual scene, and using the record to render a pixel. A second record, indicative of other lights in the virtual scene, is selected to combine with the first record, based at least in part on similarity between surfaces associated with the respective records. The combined record is used to render a pixel in a second graphical frame.
US12039632B2
Novel viewpoints may be rendered using arrays of camera images with synthesized viewpoints. Different viewpoints of a scene may be captured via image sensors. Depth information may be determined for the captured viewpoints. An array of images may be generated that includes synthetic viewpoints generated from the captured viewpoints and depth information. A request to render a novel viewpoint may be received. Then novel viewpoint may be rendered using the array of images with synthetic viewpoints.
US12039628B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a video mask layer display method, apparatus, device and medium. The method includes: determining a mask layer covering region in a video frame, wherein the mask layer covering region comprises: a first region that matches target information displayed by contrast, and a second region that effects a color transition from the first region to other video picture portion on which no mask layer covering region is provided; acquiring a target mask layer that matches the first region and the second region and has a transparency gradient from the first region to the second region; superimposing the target mask layer on the mask layer covering region of the video frame.
US12039616B1
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having program instructions for a method implemented in a Software as a Service (SaaS) management platform (SMP) is provided, including: receiving a plurality of expense records for a customer organization, wherein each one of the plurality of expense records identifies a user, a vendor, and an amount spent; using a first machine learning model to analyze the plurality of expense records and determine which ones of the expense records represent software purchases; using a second machine learning model to analyze the expense records that are determined to represent software purchases, and identify software titles that the software purchases are for; surfacing the expense records that represent software purchases, in association with their respective identified software titles, through a user interface of the SMP for the customer organization.
US12039614B2
Programs, systems, and methods for generating electronic reports for electronic reporting to reporting entities. Configuration parameters may be generated comprising metadata defining attributes of the configuration parameters. The configuration parameters may be associated with the reporting entities such that the attributes of the configuration parameters map to electronic reports associated with the reporting entities. Furthermore, the configuration parameters may be associated with a plurality of reporting entities and electronic reports such that a single configuration parameter may be used to generate the plurality of electronic reports.
US12039605B2
A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store a first order associated with a particular trading product, wherein the first order is associated with a first price comprising a first root value. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to receive a second order associated with the particular trading product. The second order is associated with a second price; and the second price comprises a second root, value, and a particular fractional pip value. The processor is further operable to disclose the first root value and the second root value while suppressing the particular fractional pip value.
US12039599B2
Systems and methods related to financial trading are provided. More specifically, some embodiments relate to systems and methods for electronic trading using market data channels which users can subscribe. Various embodiments of the present technology can provide a suite of devices that are designed to actively modify market data at the intake point (co-location facility) in order to optimally disseminate only relevant information to various applications. These filtered market data channels can then be accessed by trading systems through various subscription models. Various embodiments allow for any type of channel that alters the natural or pure market data feed to produce different data flows and other signals (e.g., triggers, synthetic prices, etc.).
US12039593B1
A computer-implemented method includes providing first access rights to a bank account to a first user account of a first user, providing second access rights to a second user account of a second user, establishing a connection between the second user account and a server hosting a website for accessing information for the bank account, providing a user interface displaying a plurality of budget categories for categorizing at least one transaction via the website and according to the second access rights, determining a first subcategory and a second subcategory of the plurality of budget categories based on data associated with the at least one transaction, receiving a user input from the second user account comprising a selection of at least one of the first or second subcategory, and displaying to the user interface responsive to receiving the user input a summary section of the selected first subcategory or second subcategory.
US12039584B2
The invention relates to receiving a selection of a bundled set of healthcare services comprising at least one selectively redeemable healthcare service, the bundled set to be provided by a plurality of providers; generating an electronic health record comprising a purchase data record identified by and with a unique confirmation number; presetting an initial individual redemption status in the purchase data record for each selectively redeemable healthcare service of the bundled set of healthcare services as unredeemed; and providing a user access to the purchase data record to receive each selectively redeemable healthcare service. A service may be provided via an in-person visit. A service may be provided at a patient location remote from a provider location, via a telehealth visit. The telehealth visit may result in a prescription or referral for additional services such as imaging, using patient medical data updated based on symptom assessment during the telehealth visit.
US12039575B1
Social interaction-based policies are provided to a digital content owner and are applied to uploaded content matching digital content owned by the digital content owner. Social interaction-based policies enable the content owner to obtain various benefits to the content owned by the content owner within a video hosting site and outside the video hosting site. The benefits include using content owner's successful digital content to drive traffic or subscriptions to content owner's social interaction platforms and increase engagement with viewers of the digital content within and outside the video hosting site. The social interaction-based policies also enable content uploaders of digital content matching content owned by others to participate in sharing revenue generated from their uploaded videos subject to social interaction-based policies applied to the uploaded videos.
US12039574B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for auctioning advertising inventory for various applications, including for mobile applications. In various embodiments, a request for an advertisement is received at a first server from a client device. The request is sent, from the first server, to two or more remote servers. A bid value and an asset to be presented at the client device is received from each of the two or more remote servers. A highest bid is determined from the received bid values. Whether the asset associated with the highest bid is compliant based on the request is determined. When the asset is determined to be compliant, the asset is sent to the client device.
US12039569B2
An information processing method and apparatus, a display terminal, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes presenting service information in a graphical interface of an application client running on a terminal. The method further includes listening to an operation event that is a record of operation of the terminal by a user for the service information. The method further includes determining based on the operation event obtained by listening, that an operation performed by the user on the service information corresponds to an operation scene. The method further includes presenting in the graphical interface of the terminal, promotion information by using a presentation parameter matching the operation scene.
US12039559B2
A digital product network system includes a set of digital products each having a product processor, a product memory, and a product network interface. The digital product network system includes a product network control tower having a control tower processor, a control tower memory, and a control tower network interface. The product processor and the control tower processor collectively include non-transitory instructions that program the digital product network system to generate product level data at the product processor, transmit the product level data from the product network interface, receive the product level data at the control tower network interface, encode the product level data as a product level data structure configured to convey parameters indicated by the product level data across the set of digital products, and write the product level data structure to at least one of the product memory and the control tower memory.
US12039557B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, first instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the first instructions. The first instructions, when executed, are to: instruct a media provider to include second instructions in an application to create an instrumented application and receive data from a media device based on the media device executing the second instructions.
US12039556B2
Manually framing questions for research and evaluation has the disadvantage that quality and effectiveness of questions of the questions depend on knowledge and expertise of subject matter expert who is framing the questions. The disclosure herein generally relates to data processing, and, more particularly, to a method and system for generating protocol for data extraction from one or more users. The system identifies sub-objectives corresponding to an identified research objective, and then generates questions to get response that matches the objective and sub-objectives. Further, a sequence is decided for the questions, and accordingly recommendations are generated. The system also assesses whether response obtained from users has reached saturation, and accordingly generates trigger to terminate data collection.
US12039551B2
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a consolidated contributions data bridge. The innovative data bridge tool takes internally generated market data and reference data from an Internal data distribution platform. (IPP) and publishes the data externally. An embodiment of the present invention may be directed in a messaging system that monitors a real-time system, to provide various benefits of in-band management: of contribution platforms and similar systems.
US12039550B2
Systems for monitoring and analyzing behavior in various applications and uses thereof. Generally, the systems (and uses thereof) are for monitoring and analyzing consumer purchasing behavior in real-time to drive sales via engaging digital customer experiences. In embodiments, the disclosed system can include a retail store system that features and includes MAC address tracking, user eye tracking, object identification of goods on shelves, open API, advertising broker rules engine. In addition, the system can include a customer engagement with interactive output displays including displays with demographic intelligence, displays with demographics and MAC—panels throughout store at product, displays with demographics and MAC—single panel or few panels scattered throughout store, automated customer assistance at shelf, customer purchase at shelf.
US12039543B2
Systems and methods are presented for establishing secure transactions among a group of transacting parties through use of multi-party computation including garbled circuits. The system uses a set of distributed garbled circuit servers, each having a garbled circuit module, to collectively and securely perform a transactional function, such that any party only has access to its own input and output. Each garbled circuit module may receive input financial data for a transacting party and financial data for at least one other transacting party, and perform an operation to obtain output financial data. The operation may relate to a function for determining a plurality of financial transactions among the plurality of transacting parties.
US12039537B2
A method for linking blockchain transactions to privately verified identities includes: storing account profiles, each profile including data related to a transaction account including an account identifier and account data; receiving a transaction message, the message including a first data element configured to store a personal account number, a second data element configured to store a merchant identifier, and a third data element configured to store a blockchain network identifier; identifying a first account profile that includes the personal account number; identifying a second account profile that includes the merchant identifier; receiving a transaction notification, the notification indicating a transaction processed using a blockchain network associated with the blockchain network identifier and including a transaction identifier and an address identifier associated with the first or second account profile; and storing a linkage between the transaction identifier and the address identifier, the personal account number, and/or the merchant identifier.
US12039534B2
The present methods and systems relate to using and accessing data stored in a blockchain, and in particular, interacting with the blockchain and users to provide bank card activation services using smart contracts. The methods and systems include (1) receiving a credit card application package associated with a credit card, wherein the credit card application package includes credit card information and a set of user information, (2) verifying the credit card information and the set of user information, (3) checking the credit card information and the set of user information against the smart contract stored on the blockchain, wherein the smart contract includes a set of conditions, and (4) activating the credit card when the credit card information and the set of user information satisfy the set of conditions stored in the smart contract.
US12039531B2
Systems and methods are described herein for identifying diminished capacity of a voice call participant based on audio data analysis. A server generates an audio image based on an audio file comprising speech data corresponding to a first user on a voice call. The server determines a diminished capacity score based on one or more characteristics of the audio image analyzed using a deep learning classification model. The server applies a security protocol to an account associated with the first user when the diminished capacity score is at or above a threshold value. The server receives a transaction request corresponding to the account from the first user. The server processes the transaction request based on the security protocol applied to the account.
US12039526B2
A method for transmitting specific data whose data format is unknown at a relay from a first blockchain network to a second blockchain network via the relay is provided. The method includes steps of: the relay (a) in response to detecting that a blockchain communication message for transmitting the specific data from the first blockchain network following a first data format to the second blockchain network following a second data format is generated, generating a relay message including the blockchain communication message and verification information; and (b) transmitting the relay message to the second blockchain network, thereby instructing the second blockchain network to (i) verify the relay message by using the verification information included in the relay message and (ii) convert the specific data included in the relay message into the second data format to generate converted specific data and then transmit the converted specific data to a receiving party.
US12039520B2
A content wallet includes a network module configured to communicate with a terminal device; and a toggle switch configured to control a connection between an external memory inserted into an accommodation groove and the network module, in which content stored in the external memory is transmitted to the terminal device through the network module, when the external memory and the network module are connected according to a manipulation of a user for the toggle switch.
US12039515B2
A mobile POS terminal includes an enclosure, a POS system, a touch display panel, a sealant, and at least two temperature sensors. The POS system is disposed in the enclosure. The touch display panel is disposed on the enclosure. The sealant is disposed between the touch display panel and the enclosure. The sealant attaches the touch display panel to the enclosure. The at least two temperature sensors are disposed at at least two corners of the enclosure and under the touch display panel. A tamper warning is generated according to detecting results of the temperature sensors.
US12039513B2
Provided are computer-implemented methods for generating embeddings for objects which may include receiving heterogeneous network data associated with a plurality of objects in a heterogeneous network; selecting at least one pattern of objects; determining instances of each pattern of objects based on the heterogeneous network data; generating a pattern matrix for each pattern of objects based on the instances of the pattern of objects; generating pattern sequence data associated with a portion of each pattern matrix; generating network sequence data associated with a portion of the heterogeneous network data; and combining the pattern sequence data and the network sequence data into combined sequence data. In some non-limiting embodiments or aspects, methods may include generating a vector for each object of the plurality of objects based on the combined sequence data. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US12039510B2
In an information processing apparatus, the person identifying means identifies a person who has entered a facility. The group estimation means estimates a group including a plurality of persons. The group presentation means presents an estimation result of the group to the person. The group setting means sets the group based on a response to the estimation result of the group.
US12039502B2
A system according to various embodiments can monitor, track, and pair one or more cyclist devices and bike devices, detect cyclist accidents and severity of the impact, and accommodate cyclists and bikes of a transportation and repair arrangement service. The system can pair a cyclist device with a bike device to track accident detection, damage bike detection, and bike theft detection.
US12039501B2
A method and system are provided for assessing damage to a structure. According to one embodiment, the method includes detecting one or more external parts of the structure from a video of the structure using a first machine learning (ML) module trained to identify in one or more frames of a video of a structure an external part of the structure. The method also includes using a second ML module, trained to detect and classify damaged regions of a structure from one or more frames of the video: (i) identifying one or more damaged regions of the structure, and (ii) classifying the one or more damaged regions based on damage types. The method further includes associating the one or more damaged regions and corresponding damage types with the one or more external parts, providing a respective vision-based damage estimate for each of the one or more external parts.
US12039497B2
Systems and methods provide measures of user workload when generating units of work based on chat sessions between users of a collaboration environment are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, obtain content information characterizing content of chat sessions between users, identify potential units of work, identify potential assignees of the potential units of work, obtain the user records of the potential assignees, generate views of a workload display pane, and/or perform other operations.
US12039494B2
A node in a blockchain network may receive an event initiation for a first digital corollary of a first physical asset, receive conditional data related to the first digital corollary, detecting, by the node, a link to a second digital corollary, prompt a simulation of the second digital corollary, receive an outcome of the simulation, and determine an executable action for the second digital corollary.
US12039490B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for recognizing a disposal type of an item based on attribute information of the item, and updating information regarding stock based on processing information for the item, which is involved when the item is processed according to the disposal type.
US12039460B2
To provide a scheme capable of easily generating knowledge data containing an enormous number of assumed input sentences (input sentences assumed to be inputted by a user) in an information providing system realizing a conversation with the user by outputting responses corresponding to inputs by the user to a terminal of the user. An information providing system develops sets of assumed input sentences and response sentences with respect to respective data stored in intermediate data based on a set of assumed input sentences and response sentences defined in template data in accordance with an instruction of a client or the like to generate knowledge data.
US12039449B2
A processor-implemented neural network method includes: extracting, by a feature extractor of a neural network, a plurality of training feature vectors corresponding to a plurality of training class data of each of a plurality of classes including a first class and a second class; determining, by a feature sample generator of the neural network, an additional feature vector of the second class based on a mean vector and a variation vector of the plurality of training feature vectors of each of the first class and the second class; and training a class vector of the second class included in a classifier of the neural network based on the additional feature vector and the plurality of training feature vectors of the second class.
US12039442B2
In an embodiment, a set of labeled training data that includes indicators of webpages is received. Each indicated webpage is labeled with one or more categories that were determined for the webpage by a human reviewer. Features, such as text and scripts, are extracted from each indicated webpage, and are used along with the labels to train a classifier to predict one or more categories for a webpage based on the features of the webpage. The trained classifier may be used to associate one or more categories with each domain of a plurality of domains given the categories predicted for some or all of the webpages associated with the domain. A list of domains and associated categories may be used for a variety of purposes including search engine optimization and content filtering.
US12039440B2
An image classification method and apparatus, and an image classification model training method and apparatus are provided, which are related to an image recognition technology in the artificial intelligence field and more specifically, to the computer vision field. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-processed image; and classifying the to-be-processed image based on a preset global class feature, to obtain a classification result of the to-be-processed image. The preset global class feature includes a plurality of class features obtained through training based on a plurality of training images in a training set. The plurality of class features in the preset global class feature are used to indicate visual features of all classes in the training set.
US12039438B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving trajectory forecasting in a device. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to receiving sensor data about a surrounding environment of the device, identifying an object from the sensor data that is present in the surrounding environment. The method includes determining category probabilities for the object, the category probabilities indicating semantic classes for classifying the object and probabilities that the object belongs to the semantic classes. The method includes forecasting trajectories for the object based, at least in part, on the category probabilities and the sensor data. The method includes controlling the device according to the trajectories.
US12039430B2
A method for computing an inner product on a binary data, a ternary data, a non-binary data, and a non-ternary data using an electronic device. The method includes calculating the inner product on a ternary data, designing a fused bitwise data path to support the inner product calculation on the binary data and the ternary data, designing a FPL data path to calculate an inner product between one of the non-binary data and the non-ternary data and one of the binary data and the ternary data, and distributing the inner product calculation for the binary data and the ternary data and the inner product between one of the non-binary data and the non-ternary data and one of the binary data and the ternary data in the fused bitwise data path and the FPL data path.
US12039429B2
An equilibrium computation acceleration method and system for a sparse recurrent neural network determine scheduling information based on an arbitration result of sparsity of a weight matrix, select a computation submodule having operating voltage and operating frequency that match the scheduling information or a computation submodule having operating voltage and operating frequency that are adjusted to match the scheduling information, and use the selected computation submodule to perform a zero-hop operation and a multiply-add operation in sequence, to accelerate equilibrium computation. The equilibrium computation acceleration system includes a data transmission module, an equilibrium computation scheduling module with a plurality of independent built-in computation submodules, and a voltage-adjustable equilibrium computation module. An error monitor is configured to achieve dynamic voltage adjustment. The data transmission module quickly exchanges a configuration of a read/write memory to reduce additional data transmission.
US12039420B2
A system generating a directional inquiry response is disclosed. The system comprises a computing device configured to receive a directional inquiry from a device operated by a user. Computing device is configured to retrieve a biological extraction from the user and generate a directional inquiry response by training a machine-learning process using directional training data correlating a plurality of biological extractions to a plurality of directions and generating the directional inquiry response as a function of the biological extraction from the user and the machine-learning process. Computing device is configured to update the directional inquiry response as a function of the preferences of the use and output the updated directional inquiry response to the device operated by the user. A method for generating a directional inquiry response is also disclosed.
US12039419B2
According to one or more embodiments, operations may include normalizing machine learning (ML) pipelines of existing ML projects stored in a corpus of existing ML projects. The operations may also include extracting functional blocks from the normalized ML pipelines. In addition, the operations may include assigning a label to each of the functional blocks in the normalized ML pipelines. Moreover, the operations may include indexing each of the ML pipelines in the corpus based on the labels assigned to the functional blocks. In addition, the operations may include utilizing the labels assigned to the functional blocks in the corpus to generate a new pipeline to perform a new ML task on a new dataset of a new ML project.
US12039416B2
Techniques and solutions are described for facilitating the use of machine learning techniques. In some cases, a system suitable for providing a machine learning analysis can be different from a remote computer system on which training data for a machine learning model is located. A machine learning task can be defined that includes an identifier for at least one data source on the remote computer system. Data for the at least one data source is received from the remote computer system. At least a portion of the data is processed using a machine learning algorithm to provide a trained model, which can be stored for later use. Data on the remote computing system can be unstructured or structured. Particularly in the case of structured data, a remote computer system can make updated data available to the machine learning task.
US12039409B2
Quantum information system with metadata management includes an entangled quantum state source that generates quantum information in quantum form comprising two entangled states. A metadata collector generates metadata in classical form associated with the generated quantum information. A first receiver measures one of the two entangled states to generate quantum state information in classical form comprising a first state value and first TOA. A second receiver is configured to measure the other entangled states to generate quantum state information in classical form comprising a second state value and second TOA. A first processor generates a comb using the first TOA and the metadata to tag the generated quantum state information in classical form comprising the first state value. A second processor coupled to the first processor and to the second receiver is configured to process the comb and metadata to determine correlated data associated with the two entangled states.
US12039408B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate estimation of an expected energy value of a Hamiltonian based on data of the Hamiltonian, the quantum state produced by a quantum device and/or entangled measurements are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a selection component that selects a quantum state measurement basis having a probability defined based on a ratio of a Pauli operator in a Hamiltonian of a quantum system. The computer executable components can further comprise a measurement component that captures a quantum state measurement of a qubit in the quantum system based on the quantum state measurement basis.
US12039407B2
Computational systems implement problem solving using hybrid digital/quantum computing approaches. A problem may be represented as a problem graph which is larger and/or has higher connectivity than a working and/or hardware graph of a quantum processor. A quantum processor may be used determine approximate solutions, which solutions are provided as initial states to one or more digital processors which may implement classical post-processing to generate improved solutions. Techniques for solving problems on extended, more-connected, and/or “virtual full yield” variations of the processor's actual working and/or hardware graphs are provided. A method of operation in a computational system comprising a quantum processor includes partitioning a problem graph into sub-problem graphs, and embedding a sub-problem graph onto the working graph of the quantum processor. The quantum processor and a non-quantum processor-based device generate partial samples. A controller causes a processing operation on the partial samples to generate complete samples.
US12039404B2
Performing dynamic programmatic entanglement in quantum computing devices is disclosed herein. In one example, a quantum computing device executes a quantum service that comprises a first qubit and a second qubit. The quantum computing device implements an entanglement service that subsequently determines that the first qubit and the second qubit are to be placed in an entangled state. In response to the determining, the entanglement service places the first qubit and the second qubit in an entangled state, without requiring the quantum service to be terminated and restarted. In this manner, operations for programmatically entangling the qubits can be performed dynamically, and can be decoupled from the life cycle of the quantum service.
US12039390B2
RFID tag ICs may be configured with privacy modes. When a tag IC is in a privacy mode, it will not respond to commands unless a previous command includes correct verification information or specifies a recycling indicator of the tag IC. If the previous command includes correct verification information, then the tag IC will respond to one or more subsequent commands as normal, for example by responding with one or more identifiers. If the previous command does not include correct verification information but specifies a recycling indicator and the privacy mode is recycling-enabled, the tag IC may respond to one or more subsequent commands with recycling information. The recycling information identifies whether or how an item associated with the RFID IC can be recycled or disposed but does not otherwise identify the RFID IC or item. Otherwise, the tag IC may remain silent.
US12039388B2
In some embodiments, an RFID device includes a reactive strap having an RFID chip and a conductive ring connected to the RFID chip. The RFID device may further include an antenna configured to be coupled to the reactive strap, and a tuning block set positioned in the vicinity of the reactive strap, a resonant frequency of the RFID device being determined at least in part by at least one of the shape of the tuning block set and the position of the tuning block set relative to at least the reactive strap.
US12039383B1
Exemplary embodiments relate to the application of coordinated or cooperative effects to a coordinated activity. A coordinated activity protocol is provided for synchronizing interactive effects and experiences across multiple devices. The protocol allows effects to be initiated and coordinated on multiple devices via a real-time communications (RTC) channel. Messages may be exchanged to cooperatively initiate the effect, and (once initiated) generic data may be exchanged via application programming interface (API) calls. According to some embodiments, the coordinated activity is a shared video experience, such as a video conference or shared video-watching experience. According to other embodiments, the coordinated activity relates to other types of experiences, such as single- or multi-player games, shared book reading, communal interactions with a photo album, etc.
US12039381B2
Systems and methods are provided for managing provision of—and access to—data sets among instances of function code executing in an on-demand manner. An API is provided by which functions can store data sets to be shared with other functions, and by which functions can access data sets shared by other functions.
US12039380B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to managing and routing messages to distributed user devices in an enterprise computing environment. In some embodiments, a computing platform may receive an application content request from an enterprise tablet computing device. The computing platform may generate and send a database query, which may cause a message database server to select message data from a message database hosted by the message database server. After sending the database query, the computing platform may receive, from the message database server, the message data selected from the message database. Subsequently, the computing platform may generate a notification for the enterprise tablet computing device and may send the notification to the enterprise tablet computing device, which may cause the enterprise tablet computing device to display the notification.
US12039379B2
A system and method are provided for executing a notification service. The method includes accessing event data, obtained from a repository that is updated asynchronously by an event monitoring layer, to track the event data using the notification service separate from the event monitoring layer, and to determine when to trigger notifications, wherein the event data is associated with one or more events, each event being associated with at least one process workflow, and each event being at least in part associated with a sequence in the respective at least one process workflow; detecting, from the event data, an actionable item requiring a notification based on a current progress of a first one of the at least one process workflow being tracked; determining at least one parameter for the notification, wherein the notification is associated with a subsequent action of the first one of the at least one process workflow, determined based on at least one of the event data and the actionable item; and sending the notification to at least one client device user according to the at least one parameter.
US12039368B2
Disclosed techniques relate to distributing graphics work based on priority. In some embodiments, circuitry implements a plurality of tracking slots for sets of graphics work. A set of graphics processor sub-units may each implement multiple distributed hardware slots. Control circuitry may attempt to assign a first set of graphics work having a first priority to a graphics processor sub-unit that is currently executing graphics work having an equal or higher priority than the first priority, where the first set of graphics work is from a first tracking slot. The control circuitry may, in response to a failure of the attempt, generate a signal to graphics software that indicates the failure, wherein the signal indicates the first tracking slot. Disclosed techniques may reduce or avoid problems relating to higher priority work being scheduled behind lower priority work.
US12039365B2
A collection of code fragments loaded in an interactive development platform for running on a first processor can be received. A candidate fragment in the collection of code fragments can be determined for migration to a second processor based on characterizing the collection of code fragments. Based on a location of the candidate fragment in the collection of code fragments, a spot can be identified in the collection of code fragments to inject a code for saving program context. The code for saving program context can be injected in the identified spot. Responsive to the code for saving program context having run on the first processor and based on a criterion, the program context can be migrated to the second processor.
US12039363B2
An example method may include responsive to receiving, by a processing device, an interrupt deferral instruction requesting that interrupts be deferred, disabling delivery of interrupts by the processing device, receiving one or more interrupt requests subsequent to disabling delivery of interrupts, and responsive to determining that a deferral termination criterion is satisfied, delivering one or more interrupts, wherein each of the one or more interrupts is specified by a respective one of the interrupt requests. The method may further include receiving a resume interrupt delivery instruction requesting that deferred and subsequent interrupts be delivered, wherein the deferral termination criterion is satisfied in response to receiving the resume interrupt delivery instruction. The method may further include, responsive to receiving the resume interrupt delivery instruction, enabling delivery of the one or more interrupts and subsequent interrupts by the processing device.
US12039353B2
A computer system obtains a to-be-processed bytecode file from an archive file of a target application. The archive file is used for creating or updating an installation package of the target application. The computer system collects, from the to-be-processed bytecode file, bytecodes that correspond to N optimization tasks respectively, wherein N being a positive integer. One optimization task is used for optimizing one type of bytecode. The computer system performs an optimization operation on the collected bytecodes that correspond to the optimization tasks respectively, so as to obtain an optimized bytecode file.
US12039342B2
An electronic system includes a display device, a first host and a second host. The display device includes a network interface port for connecting to an external network, a first port, a second port, a control unit for recording information associated with a designated network bridge target, and a hub unit for controlling the signal transmission between the network interface port, the first port, the second port and the control unit. The first host is coupled to the first port and configured to activate network bridge function when set as the designated network bridge target, thereby connecting to the external network. The second host is coupled to the second port and configured to connect to the external network using the network bridge function via the second port, the hub unit and the first port.
US12039337B2
A processor employs a plurality of fetch and decode pipelines by dividing an instruction stream into instruction blocks with identified boundaries. The processor includes a branch predictor that generates branch predictions. Each branch prediction corresponds to a branch instruction and includes a prediction that the corresponding branch is to be taken or not taken. In addition, each branch prediction identifies both an end of the current branch prediction window and the start of another branch prediction window. Using these known boundaries, the processor provides different sequential fetch streams to different ones of the plurality of fetch and decode states, which concurrently process the instructions of the different fetch streams, thereby improving overall instruction throughput at the processor.
US12039335B2
Schedule instructions of a program for execution on a coarse grained reconfigurable array having a plurality of tiles operable in parallel. The program identifies data flows through memory locations represented by memory variables and identifies instructions configured to transform data in the data flows. Based on a hardware profile identifying features of the coarse grained reconfigurable array, a scheduler is configured to generate a memory map. The memory map identifies, for each respective memory variable in the program, one of the tiles that contains a memory location represented by the respective memory variable. Based on the memory map reducing possible choices for a brute force search, the scheduler assigns the instructions to the tiles for execution, and determines timing of execution of the instructions in the tiles.
US12039322B2
An OTA master includes one or more processors configured to control software update for a plurality of electronic control units mounted on a vehicle, the electronic control units including a first electronic control unit on which a first type non-volatile memory including one storage area is mounted and a second electronic control unit on which a second type non-volatile memory including two storage areas is mounted; receive, from a center, first update data for the first electronic control unit and second update data for the second electronic control unit; write the second update data on the second electronic control unit after completing reception of the first update data and the second update data; and write the first update data on the first electronic control unit at a predetermined timing.
US12039321B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, system, and computer program product manages updates to images. A computer system determines shared layers present between the images selected for update management. The images comprise executable code that are run to create containers. The computer system detects a change in a shared layer in the shared layers for an image in the images. The computer system updates the shared layer in the shared layers in a set of the images having the shared layer in response to detecting the change to the shared layer for the image. According to other illustrative embodiments, a computer system and a computer program product for managing updates to images are provided.
US12039320B2
An over-the-air (OTA) update apparatus for a vehicle may include an update management device for generating mode information about an OTA update of the vehicle, an update execution device for performing OTA updates of one or more controllers included in the vehicle based on the generated mode information, and a battery charging control device for controlling charging of a low-voltage battery of the vehicle based on the generated mode information.
US12039308B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes determining, for an n-dimensional array (n≥3) included in an instruction code in an innermost loop of a multiple loop included in a source code, whether array sizes of a first argument and a second argument match numbers of rotations of a first index and a second index in the multiple loop, respectively, when the array sizes match the numbers of rotations and when each initial value and each increment value of the first and second indexes is 1, replacing the first argument and the second argument of the n-dimensional array included in the instruction code with a third argument and changing the n-dimensional array to an (n−1)-dimensional array, and integrating a loop that uses the first index and a loop that uses the second index.
US12039304B2
During software development, embodiments find various kinds of weak spots in source code and automatically suggest fixes to strengthen the code, without requiring developers to expressly select weakness finder mechanisms or fixer mechanisms by navigating a development tool's menu system. Weakness finders may analyze code using items such as hole detection, diagnostic errors, test results, changed code matches, prospective code discrepancies, generated code confidence scores, generated suggestion competition, and artificial intelligence. Weak spots and their context are submitted to weak spot fixers, which may generate fix suggestions using functionalities such as code synthesis, refactoring, autocompletion, retesting, and artificial intelligence. Fix candidate sets may be evaluated for consistency, diagnostic errors, and discrepancies. Snippets may be dynamically filled for presentation to a user.
US12039301B2
A method for developing a containerized application using a pipeline platform consisting of a plurality of stages with associated development tools, the method comprising the steps of: receiving application parameters and a check-in code for the containerized application; generating a configuration file based on the application parameters, the configuration file containing configuration content including insert code; embedding the insert code into the check-in code; dynamically provisioning an opinionated pipeline based on contents of the configuration file, the opinionated pipeline including the plurality of stages with the associated development tools; setting up one or more control gates in one or more of the plurality of stages; receiving customized code for the containerized application, the customized code representing modifications of the insert code; and packaging the containerized application to include code contents of the check-in code, the customized code, and the insert code; wherein the containerized application is submitted for deployment to one or more environment platforms upon satisfying the one or more control gates or the containerized application is restricted from the subsequent deployment based on failure of the one or more control gates.
US12039300B1
Disclosed implementations provide executable models, such as artificial intelligence models that can be owned, traded, and used in various execution environments. By coupling a model with a strictly defined interface definition, the model can be executed in various execution environments that support the interface. Coupling the model with a non-fungible cryptographic token allows the model and other components to be owned and traded as a unit. The tradeable composite units have utility across multiple supported execution environments, such as video game environments, chat bot environments and financial trading environments. Additionally, the interface allows for the creation of pipelines and systems from multiple complementary composite units.
US12039295B2
A code completion tool uses a neural transformer model with attention to generate syntactically-correct candidates with holes to complete a partially-formed code snippet. The model is trained to predict the expansion of non-terminal symbols of the production rules of the underlying grammar of the code snippet without being constrained to a left-to-right expansion order. A hole is a non-terminal symbol of the grammar of a programming language that marks a position in a candidate where the code completion engine is not certain of the production rule that should be used to expand the non-terminal symbol. The hole allows the code completion engine to expand other non-terminal symbols in a candidate and allow the user to guide the expansion of the holes in a candidate.
US12039294B2
A processing device includes: a receiving module for receiving a configuration from a control device, wherein the configuration includes a destination address, a length, a filled value and a function type; a control module for (A) configuring an access state for accessing a slave device according to the function type and (B) comparing a counting value with the length to generate a comparison result according to the function type, determining whether data received from the slave device reaches an end to generate a determination result, or both; a reading module for reading the data according to the access state; a writing module for writing the filled value to the destination address according to information of the access state, the determination result and the comparison result; and a transmitting module for transmitting an interrupt signal to the control device according to result(s) of the determination result and the comparison result.
US12039290B1
In a multiply accumulate (MAC) unit, an accumulator may be implemented in two or more stages. For example, a first accumulator may accumulate products from the multiplier of the MAC unit, and a second accumulator may periodically accumulate the running total of the first accumulator. Each time the first accumulator's running total is accumulated by the second accumulator, the first accumulator may be initialized to begin a new accumulation period. In one embodiment, the number of values accumulated by the first accumulator within an accumulation period may be a user-adjustable parameter. In one embodiment, the bit width of the input of the second accumulator may be greater than the bit width of the output of the first accumulator. In another embodiment, an adder may be shared between the first and second accumulators, and a multiplexor may switch the accumulation operations between the first and second accumulators.
US12039289B2
Processing cores with data associative adaptive rounding and associated methods are disclosed herein. One disclosed processing core comprises an arithmetic logic unit cluster configured to generate a value for a unit of directed graph data using input directed graph data, a comparator coupled to a threshold register and a data register, a core controller configured to load a threshold value into the threshold register when the value for the unit of directed graph data is loaded into the data register, and a rounding circuit. The rounding circuit is configured to receive the value for the unit of directed graph data from the arithmetic logic unit cluster and conditionally round the value for the unit of directed graph data based on a comparator output from the comparator.
US12039288B2
A processor-implemented data processing method includes: normalizing input data of an activation function comprising a division operation; determining dividend data corresponding to a dividend of the division operation by reading, from a memory, a value of a first lookup table addressed by the normalized input data; determining divisor data corresponding to a divisor of the division operation by accumulating the dividend data; and determining output data of the activation function corresponding to an output of the division operation obtained by reading, from the memory, a value of a second lookup table addressed by the dividend data and the divisor data.
US12039287B2
A method of identifying causal relationships between time series may include accessing a hierarchy of nodes in a data structure, where each node in the plurality of nodes may include a time series of data. The method may also include identifying a subset of nodes in the plurality of nodes for which causal relationships may exist in the corresponding time series. The method may additionally include generating a model for each of the subset of nodes, where the model may receive the subset of nodes and generate coefficients indicating how strongly each of the subset of nodes causally affects other nodes in the subset of nodes. The method may further include generating a ranked output of nodes that causally affect a first node in the subset of nodes based on an output of the corresponding model.
US12039285B2
A specification of a first natural language understanding (NLU) machine learning model for a first human communication language is received. The specification specifies a language content associated with one or more intents of the first NLU machine learning model in the first human communication language. An identification of an association between the first NLU machine learning model and a second NLU machine learning model for a second human communication language is received. The first NLU machine learning model and the second NLU machine learning model are managed together. This includes detecting a change to the first NLU machine learning model in the first human communication language and a software using the first NLU and in response automatically assisting in maintaining consistency in the second NLU machine learning model in the second human communication language by respectively updating the software with respect to the detected change.
US12039278B2
A method and system may select an interaction involving an agent, sending the selected interaction and a computerized form to the agent and an evaluator, simultaneously or concurrently, displaying to the evaluator and agent screens defined by the form, each screen including an evaluation question, accepting from the agent, for each evaluation question, an agent answer having associated with the agent answer a rating, accepting from the evaluator a submission indicating that the evaluator has completed the computerized evaluation form, accepting from the agent a submission indicating that the agent has completed the computerized evaluation form, summing an agent rating from the ratings associated with the agent answers provided by the agent, summing an evaluator rating from the ratings associated with evaluator answers provided by the evaluator, and calculating a variance from the agent rating and evaluator rating.
US12039275B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes identifying first named entities and first verbs in a dependent relationship respectively with the first named entities from each of a plurality of sentences, vectorizing each of the plurality of sentences based on the first named entities and the first verbs, identifying, out of the plurality of sentences, one or more sentences each having a similarity greater than or equal to a threshold with respect to a specific sentence based on a plurality of vectors generated by the vectorizing, the similarity between two sentences being defined as a similarity between vectors generated by vectorizing the two sentences, and executing training of a machine learning model based on the one or more sentences.
US12039273B2
A computer-implemented method increases the efficiency of matching records from two sources. The method includes identifying a first source and a second source wherein each of the sources include one or more records and each record includes one or more attributes. The method further includes determining, based on a corpus, the one or more attributes and generating, based on the attributes, a set of feature vectors which vectors represent the one or more attributes. The method includes comparing each record in the first source against each record in the second source. The method further includes generating, in response to the comparing, a link confidence. The method also includes linking, in response to the link confidence being above a linking threshold, the associated records. The method includes determining a first feature vector of the set of feature vectors used in the linking, and outputting a set of results.
US12039264B2
The present invention discloses a system and for sentence completion in an edge device. The method comprises receiving input from a user through a user interface (202); scrutinizing a length of the received input by a smart sentence composer; sanitizing the received input text and restricting the length of the input text to be within a preset threshold number; splitting the received input text from into letters/words (208); predicting several words and a cluster of most probable word's indices by the smart sentence composer (210), and wherein the word's indices have a similarity above the preset threshold number; converting the word's indices to words using index to word mapping (212); choosing the word/words in the cluster having highest score for prediction (214); and the words are continuously predicted until the end of token of word index (216), is determined for completing the sentence prediction.
US12039258B2
Methods and systems are provided for giving a name to an expression within a cell formula so that the said expression can be represented by the given name in all subsequent references within the cell formula in a spreadsheet application. In the edit mode, a user may enter any expression within a formula by its given name after defining it once anywhere in that formula. In the view mode, the cell formula may display all named expressions by their given names, with the definitions of the said names displayed as sub-formulas along with the computed value of the expressions. Features may be implemented as an add-in, a macro, a function, a direct modification of the spreadsheet application, or any combination thereof. Implementations may be used with electronic spreadsheet applications generally, including programs such as Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Lotus 123, but not limited to such.
US12039256B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to receive a request to generate a synthesized document comprising one or more search terms, and to extract, utilizing a first machine learning model, keywords from a set of documents. The processing device is also configured to select first content for inclusion in a first section of the synthesized document based on a similarity of the search terms and the extracted keywords from corresponding first sections of the set of documents, and to determine, utilizing a second machine learning model that takes as input the selected first content, a set of terms for a second section of the synthesized document. The processing device is further configured to select second content for inclusion in the second section of the synthesized document based on a similarity of the determined set of terms and the extracted keywords from corresponding sections of the set of documents.
US12039254B2
A computer-implemented method of enhancing data in a screenshot can include capturing a screenshot of content presented on a display and identifying within the content at least a first element comprising first semantic data. A first semantic representation of the first semantic data can be generated and the first semantic representation can be associated with the first element. The first semantic representation and the screenshot can be output.
US12039252B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods that efficiently and effectively generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document in an image frame captured from a live image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein apply a document enhancement process to a displayed document in an image frame that result in an enhanced document image that is cropped, rectified, un-shadowed, and with dark text against a mostly white background. Additionally, systems and method described herein determine whether a stored digital content item includes a displayed document. In response to determining that a stored digital content item does include a displayed document, systems and methods described herein generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document included in the stored digital content item.
US12039251B2
A device is disclosed. The cell block includes a pin disposed at a Nth metal layer in a cell layout. The first metal interconnect is disposed at a (N+1)th metal layer above the Nth metal layer and stacked over the pin, and electrically coupled to the pin. The second interconnects are disposed at a (N+2)th metal layer and stacked over the first metal interconnect, and parallel to each other. The second metal interconnects are electrically coupled to the first metal interconnect, and forming an equivalent tapping point of the pin of the cell block. The equivalent tapping point and the pin are vertically overlapped with each other, and fabrication of the device is initiated after a DRC or a SEM simulation test is passed. A first width of at least one first metal interconnect is different from a second width of one of the plurality of second metal interconnects.
US12039250B2
A method of designing an integrated circuit (IC) device includes generating, using a processor, a design rule instruction macro including one or more of classifying a design rule based on a design rule type, classifying a design rule based on a design rule category, or generating a definition of a derived layer. The method includes using the processor to identify a set of criteria corresponding to an IC manufacturing process, generate a design rule by applying the design rule instruction macro to define relationships within the set of criteria whereby one or more constraints of the design rule are directed to the set of criteria and assigning conditions whereby the one or more constraints of the design rule are selectively directed to the set of criteria, and store the design rule in a storage medium.
US12039247B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating test patterns. In various embodiments, systems and methods are provided in which machine learning is utilized to generate the test patterns in a manner so that the test patterns conform with design rule check (DRC) specified for a particular semiconductor manufacturing process or for particular types of devices. A test pattern generation system includes test pattern generation circuitry which receives a noise image. The test pattern generation generates a pattern image based on the noise image, and further generates a test pattern based on the pattern image. The test pattern is representative of geometric shapes of an electronic device design layout that is free of design rule check violations.
US12039241B2
The following description is directed to a logic repository service. In one example, a method of a logic repository service can include receiving a first request to generate configuration data for configurable hardware using a specification for application logic of the configurable hardware. The method can include generating the configuration data for the configurable hardware. The configuration data can include data for implementing the application logic. The method can include receiving a second request to download the configuration data to a host server computer comprising the configurable hardware. The method can include transmitting the configuration data to the host server computer in response to the second request so that the configurable hardware is configured with the host logic and the application logic.
US12039233B2
A method includes: accessing first storage configured to store a first weight coefficient group which is at least some of a plurality of weight coefficients indicating a magnitude of interaction between a plurality of state variables in an evaluation function representing energy of an Ising model; accessing a plurality of second storages each of the plurality of second storage being configured to store a second weight coefficient group related to a state variable having a value of 1 in any of a plurality of state variable groups respectively including the plurality of state variables among the plurality of weight coefficients; outputting, for each of the plurality of state variable groups, a search result obtained by performing searching processing configured to perform processing of searching for an optimum solution by repeatedly performing a first update process with a first constraint or a second update process with a second constraint.
US12039225B2
A content management system and/or client device can enable a user to initiate a quick play mode where a content category and content medium are selected for the user. A client device and/or a content management system can select a content medium for a user based on one or more factors, such as the content category. Certain content categories of content can be preferably delivered in certain content mediums. In some embodiments, a content management system and/or client device can select a content medium for a user based on contextual data gathered from the user. Contextual data can be data describing the user's current state and/or environment. For example, contextual data can include data such as the time of day, geographic location, etc.
US12039224B2
Disclosed herein are example techniques for multimedia experience based on biometric data. An example implementation may involve receiving first biometric data representing one or more first biological characteristics of an individual. After receiving the first biometric data, the example implementation may involve correlating the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual with a listening state of the individual. The example implementation may further involve receiving second biometric data representing one or more second biological characteristics of the individual. After receiving the second biometric data, the example implementation may involve determining that the one or more second biological characteristics corresponds to the one or more first biological characteristics. Based on the determination, the example implementation may involve initiating a playback setting corresponding to the listening state of the individual that was correlated with the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual.
US12039223B2
The present invention relates to a head-mountable information processing apparatus allowing a user to hear a desired sound even if ambient sound unnecessary for the user is present. An audio input interface includes sound microphones worn in the vicinity of the user's ear, collects the ambient sound that occurs outside the head-mountable information processing apparatus, and converts the ambient sound into an input audio signal. An audio output interface, including headphones, converts a generated output audio signal for output, and emits the audio output toward the user. Based on a volume level of the input audio signal and a volume level of the output audio signal, a controller determines whether or not a state in which the ambient sound is preventing the audio for output from being heard is occurring, and based on a determination result, the controller controls a sound emission operation of the audio output interface.
US12039218B2
Systems and methods are described for improved sharing of an experience between users. A first image captured using a first user device is received by control circuitry. A second image captured using a second user device is received by the control circuitry. Control circuitry determines a first set of elements of the first image. Control circuitry determines a second set of elements of the second image. Control circuitry determines whether at least one element of the first set of elements corresponds to at least one element of the second set of elements. Control circuitry determines that a transient element is present in the first set of elements and is not present in the second set of elements. Control circuitry generates for display the transient element on the second user device.
US12039212B2
A program stored in a non-transitory medium and being executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus causes the computer to: execute a reading process for reading a plurality of pieces of text data arranged in one column or in one row; and be ready to accept a first operation by a user. In a case of accepting the first operation, the program causes the computer to execute: an obtaining process for obtaining a number of pieces of text objects to be included in specific label data; a generating process for extracting text data by the number of pieces obtained in the obtaining process, and for generating specific records each consisting of the number of pieces of text data; and an auto associating process for associating each text data included in each of the records with one of the text objects included in the specific label data.
US12039207B2
Provided is a method of controlling an information processing apparatus configured to execute an extension application associated with printing data generation software operatable in the information processing apparatus to extend a function, the method including: obtaining input data including printing setting; displaying a screen related to a specific function on a display unit in a case where it is determined based on the printing setting that the specific function is executed; editing the input data, such that the specific function is executed, to convert the input data into printing data; and transmitting the printing data to a printing apparatus after the screen is displayed on the display unit in the displaying.
US12039202B2
A programming order of memory dies of a metablock is typically fixed. However, in some storage architectures, this may cause performance bottlenecks. As such, the programming order of the memory dies may be altered to reduce or eliminate performance bottlenecks.
US12039185B2
The present technology includes a controller controlling an operation of a semiconductor memory device in response to a test request received from an external device. The controller includes a memory test controller and a performance information storage. The memory test controller generates a command corresponding to a test request received from the external device. The performance information storage stores a test operation result of the semiconductor memory device performed in response to the command.
US12039184B2
A memory system includes a memory device and a controller. The memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks, wherein the plurality of memory blocks includes one or more first memory blocks, each storing at least invalid data and one or more second memory blocks, each of which is blank. The controller is configured to determine a time or a period for performing garbage collection to secure an additional second memory block based at least on a transition speed representing a speed in which the second memory blocks is converted to the first memory blocks, the transition speed being determined based on a change between a first count of the first memory blocks and a second count of the second memory blocks.
US12039173B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to receive a read command to read data from the memory device or a write command to write data to the memory device from a host device, determine whether a bottleneck exists in a data/control path between the host device and the memory device, wherein the bottleneck exists in an input queue corresponding to a hardware module of a plurality of hardware modules, and execute a bottleneck release operation when the bottleneck exists in the data/control path between the host device and the memory device, wherein the bottleneck release operation is dependent on whether the bottleneck exists in the input queue. The bottleneck release operation includes changing a clock of the hardware module, moving the command to a different hardware module configured to process the command, and combinations thereof.
US12039169B2
A memory controller may include a dynamic arbitration scheme to dynamically vary arbitration factors of two or more traffic classes based on dynamic latency tolerance, requested and available bandwidths on an interconnect from source agents to memory controllers, and other dynamic and static factors.
US12039168B2
A storage system is configured to accept subsequent versions of write data on a given track to multiple respective slots of shared global memory. A track index table presents metadata at the track level, and can hold up to N slots of data. All slots of shared global memory holding data owed to the source volume and to snapshots of the source volume are bound to the track in the track index table. Each time a write occurs on a track, the track index table is used to determine when a write pending slot for the track is owed to a snapshot copy of the storage volume. When a write pending slot contains data that is owed to a snapshot copy of the source volume, a new slot is allocated to the write IO and bound to the track in the track index table.
US12039164B2
A system and method for encoding personal health monitor data using a plurality of encoding libraries. Portions of the data are encoded by different encoding libraries, depending on which library provides the greatest compaction or on some other criteria for a given portion of the data. This methodology not only provides substantial improvements in data compaction over use of a single data compaction algorithm with the highest average compaction, but provides substantial additional security in that multiple decoding libraries must be used to decode the data. In some embodiments, each portion of data may further be encoded using different sourceblock sizes, providing further security enhancements as decoding requires multiple decoding libraries and knowledge of the sourceblock size used for each portion of the data. In some embodiments, encoding libraries may be randomly or pseudo-randomly rotated to provide additional security.
US12039159B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for displaying content on a user device. For example, a method of displaying content on a user device may include: receiving a first set of content data; arranging and displaying the first set of content in a first sequence of consecutive segments; detecting user input indicative of a scroll pattern of the user through the first sequence of consecutive segments; determining a preferred category based on the detected user input; receiving a second set of content data; arranging the second set of content data into a second sequence of consecutive segments based on the preferred category; and displaying the second set of content data in the arranged second sequence of consecutive segments on the display of the user device.
US12039155B2
A screen content magnification method and device, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes steps of: starting an magnifier function after a starting instruction of the magnifier function is detected, starting a camera device to acquire an area image of a preset area, and detecting whether a finger image corresponding to the finger of a user exists in the area image; if it is detected that a finger image exists in the area image, determining, on the basis of the finger image, position coordinates of the finger of the user in the area image; and determining size data of a touch screen, determining, on the basis of the size data and the position coordinates, a corresponding position to be magnified, and magnifying, on the basis of the magnifier function, screen content of a position area corresponding to the position.
US12039152B2
An apparatus, system, and method, each of which: receives, from a user, condition information indicating a condition for determining a service to be provided to the user; selects, from among a plurality of forms of the user, one or more particular forms that meet the condition for determining a service, as a form to be used for applying the service; and controls a display to display a user interface, the user interface including future projection information of the user after provision of the service based on information on the particular forms.
US12039145B2
A computer-implemented method may include displaying, on a display device, a graphical diagram with multiple graphical objects that represent data of a data source. The method may include overlaying a legend on the graphical diagram, the legend including one or more legend data objects associated with a set of graphical objects of the graphical objects, each set of graphical objects including a common graphical attribute among the set of graphical objects. Additionally, the legend data objects may be configured to be user-interactable, where, upon interacting with a given legend data object, the set of graphical objects associated with the given legend data object are all selected such that by interacting with the given legend data object, all of the members of the associated set are interacted with.
US12039141B2
Many users access artificial reality (XR) experiences through their mobile phones. However, it is difficult to translate XR experiences to a two-dimensional (2D) screen in a way that feels intuitive and natural. Thus, the technology can map an interaction plane in a three-dimensional (3D) scene to the 2D screen with as many affordances as possible, even if the plane is not parallel to the mobile phone. The plane can be a fixed surface or a dynamically changeable surface through which the user sends inputs through the 2D screen. The mapping of the plane to the 2D screen can control interaction with a virtual object on the interaction plane in the XR environment, enabling parity between the same experience on XR and non-XR interfaces.
US12039127B2
A display device, includes: a display panel including an active region and a peripheral region which are adjacent to each other; and an input-sensing panel on the display panel, the input-sensing panel comprising a first region, a second region, and a third region, which are overlapped with the active region and are sequentially arranged, and a fourth region, which is overlapped with the peripheral region, wherein the input-sensing panel comprises: a sensing electrode in the first and second regions and includes a plurality of conductive lines; and a trace line in the third and fourth regions and connected to the sensing electrode, wherein a density per unit area of the conductive lines is higher in the second region than in the first region.
US12039125B1
A touch system is provided. The touch system includes a touch tool and a touch panel. The touch tool provides a downlink signal. The touch panel obtains a first sensing area sensed with the touch tool, and obtains a second sensing area other than the first sensing area according to the downlink signal. The touch panel provides a first uplink signal to the first sensing area, and provides a second uplink signal to the second sensing area. The first uplink signal is different from the second uplink signal. The touch tool generates a calculated uplink signal according to the first uplink signal and the second uplink signal, and provides the downlink signal according to the calculated uplink signal.
US12039123B2
A touch sensor device includes a first panel, a second panel, and a drive-sense circuit (DSC). The first panel that includes first electrodes arranged in a first direction and second electrodes arranged in a second direction. The second panel includes third electrodes arranged in a third direction and fourth electrodes arranged in a fourth direction. The DSC is operably coupled via a single line to a coupling of a first electrode of the first electrodes and a first electrode of the third electrodes. The DSC is configured to provide the signal, which is generated based on a reference signal, via the single line to the coupling and simultaneously to sense the signal via the single line. The DSC generates a digital signal representative of the at least one electrical characteristic associated with the first electrode of the first electrodes and/or the first electrode of the third electrodes.
US12039122B2
A touch apparatus includes a touch screen and a touch controller. The touch controller is configured to process touch sensing signals received from the touch screen to generate a touch coordinate with respect to a touch event occurring on the touch screen. The touch screen includes a plurality of first touch sensing electrodes and a plurality of second touch sensing electrodes. The first touch sensing electrodes are disposed in a center area of the touch screen, wherein at least one part of the first touch sensing electrodes are rectangular. The second touch sensing electrodes are disposed in an edge area of the touch screen surrounding the center area, wherein each of the second touch sensing electrodes is corresponding to a central angle and a plurality of central angles corresponding to the plurality of second touch sensing electrodes substantially equal.
US12039121B2
A touch display driving module for performing a touch display driving operation on a display screen, a touch display driving method for the touch display driving module, and a display device are provided. The touch display driving module includes a touch detection chip, a time sequence touch control chip and a host. The time sequence touch control chip performs data calculation in accordance with a touch data signal to generate touch point coordinate information, generate touch point image information in accordance with the touch point coordinate information, and display the touch point image on a display screen in accordance with the touch point image information, the host performs control response in accordance with the touch point coordinate information to generate control response image information, and returns the control response image information, the time sequence touch control chip displays the control response image on the display screen.
US12039120B2
A processing system includes sensor circuitry and processing circuitry. The sensor circuitry is configured to, using the sensor electrodes, obtain capacitive measurements of a sensing region, and obtain a resistance measurement of the sensing region. The processing circuitry is coupled to the sensor circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a location of an input object using the capacitive measurements of the sensing region and determine a force value based on the resistance measurement and the location of the input object. Determining the force value mitigates a temperature variation of the sensing region affecting the resistance measurement. The processing circuitry is further configured to report the force value.
US12039108B2
Architecture that enables the detection of a user by a user device and interaction with content of the user device by the user before the user physically contacts the device. The detection capability can utilize one or more sensors of the device to identify the user and the proximity (distance) of the user to the device. Based on the user identity and the proximity, the device operates/functions in a certain way. Moreover, ongoing interaction can be enabled by recognition of a natural user interface (NUI) gestures, alone or in combination with other recognition techniques (e.g., speech recognition). Device activity can include causing the device to operate in predetermined ways such as power modes, application launching and manipulation to cause control of hardware and other software (local and/or remote) and, obtaining and presenting specific types of content (e.g., advertisements, notifications, messages, reminders, news, incoming communications, etc.).
US12039106B2
A method may include receiving, via a processor, image data associated with a user's surrounding and generating, via the processor, a visualization that may include a virtual industrial automation device. The virtual industrial automation device may depict a virtual object within image data, and the virtual object may correspond to a physical industrial automation device. The method may include displaying, via the processor, the visualization via an electronic display and detecting, via the processor, a gesture in image data that may include the user's surrounding and the visualization. The gesture may be indicative of a request to move the virtual industrial automation device. The method may include tracking, via the processor, a user's movement, generating, via the processor, a visualization that may include an animation of the virtual industrial automation device moving based on the user's movement, and displaying, via the processor, the visualization via the electronic display.
US12039103B2
The technology disclosed relates to determining intent for the interaction by calculating a center of effort for the applied forces. Movement of the points of virtual contacts and the center of effort are then monitored to determine a gesture-type intended for the interaction. The number of points of virtual contacts of the feeler zones and proximities between the points of virtual contacts are used to determine a degree of precision of a control object-gesture.
US12039096B2
A glasses-type wearable device providing an augmented reality guide and a method for controlling the same is provided. The glasses-type wearable device includes a communication circuit, a camera, and a processor configured to receive a second surrounding-image of an external electronic device connected with the glasses-type wearable device from the external electronic device through the communication module while obtaining a first surrounding-image of the glasses-type wearable device using the camera, identify a first task being performed by a user of the glasses-type wearable device using the first surrounding-image and a second task being performed by a user of the external electronic device using the second surrounding-image, identify a difference between a current progress status of the first task and second task, and control the communication circuit to provide an AR guide corresponding to the second task to the external electronic device, based on the identified difference in progress status.
US12039092B2
The present description concerns an integrated circuit including, between first and second terminals having a first voltage applied therebetween, a load configured to execute instructions, a circuit for delivering a digital signal having at least two bits from a binary signal and a current output digital-to-analog converter controlled by the digital signal and coupled between the first and second terminals in parallel with the load.
US12039075B2
Methods and systems for data management in communication networks. An aspect provides a system including a first network function and a second network functions. The first network function is configured for collecting data and storing the collected data. The second network function is configured for removing private information from the collected data and producing privatized data. The first and the second network functions are separately controlled and operated by different providers. The first network function is operated by a first provider via a first controller. The second network function is operated by a second provider via a second controller. The separately controlled feature of such a network architecture enhances data privacy by ensuring different entities control the collection of data and the privatization of the collected data.
US12039068B2
The present technology pertains to a link service that can create, maintain, and service links to objects on behalf of a content management system or other services. The link service can share administration of links with other services when desired or can even allow other services to issue the link and manage the object that is the subject of the link while providing other functions to support the link. Additionally, link service can interface with a file system that can support links as actors in the file system, whereby greater control and flexibility in supporting links is provided. Link service can also accommodate servicing and management of links issued by legacy services, where the legacy services have unique link logic that should still be utilized to maintain a consistent user experience.
US12039064B2
An information processing device 10 includes: a database 12 that stores contents created by an administrator terminal 13; and a control device 11 that stores the contents and the administrator terminal 13 that are associated with each other as association information, and executes setting an access right to the contents on the basis of this association information.
US12039062B2
There are provided a method, system and computer program product for preventing unauthorized use of a deep reinforcement learning agent. The DRL agents are trained to behave as expected only when they observe the one or more required secret operational keys. In some embodiments, the DRL agents are further trained to operate at a diminished capacity when the one or more required secret operational keys are unused.
US12039058B2
Methods and systems for performing a computational operation on a server host using a secure enclave are provided. Exemplary methods include: receiving an encrypted service request from a client host, the client host encrypting a service request to produce the encrypted service request using a shared secret, the service request specifying the computational operation; decrypting, in a secure enclave that is established by a secure environment, the encrypted service request using the shared secret to produce a decrypted service request; performing the computational operation, in the secure enclave, using the decrypted service request to generate a service result; encrypting, in the secure enclave, the service result using the shared secret to create an encrypted service result; and providing the encrypted service result to the client host, the client host decrypting the encrypted service result using the shared secret.
US12039051B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to delivering firmware to be installed in a plurality of remotely located engine-control computers in an efficient manner. Local-area-network connection is provided to an engine-control computer configuration device (ECC configuration device) via a mobile firmware delivery system. Cellular internet connection is also provided to the ECC configuration device via a mobile firmware delivery system. The ECC configuration device makes a request of the mobile firmware delivery system to download a firmware file. The mobile firmware delivery system downloads the firmware file requested if the firmware file requested is not stored in a cache memory. Instead of downloading the firmware file, the mobile firmware delivery system provides the firmware file stored in the cache memory if it is found to be stored there.
US12039045B2
According to some embodiments, system and methods are provided including receiving, via a communication interface of an event detection and classification module comprising a processor, data from one or more sensors in a system; determining an event occurred based on the received data; applying a coherency similarity process to the received data via a classification module; determining whether the event is an actual event or a mal-doer event based on an output of the classification module; transmitting the determination of the event as the actual or the mal-doer event; and modifying operation of the system based on the transmitted output. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12039044B2
A system includes a plurality of computing nodes that form a blockchain network, wherein one or more of the computing nodes is a metaverse computing node configured to generate a mixed reality environment. A processor of at least one computing node is configured to record a plurality of data interactions performed by a user using a metaverse computing node, determine, based on the plurality of data interactions, a data interaction behavior of the user in relation to the data file, detect that a data interaction performed in relation to the data file of the user is not in accordance with the data interaction behavior of the user, determine that the data interaction is a suspicious data interaction, assign an alert level to the suspicious data interaction, determine at least one action to be performed based on the alert level and perform the at least one action.
US12039031B2
The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and computer-readable media for implementing security polices at software call stack level. In one example, a method includes generating a call stack classification scheme for an application, detecting a call stack during deployment of the application; using the call stack classification scheme during runtime of the application, classifying the detected call stack as one of an authorized call stack or an unauthorized call stack to yield a classification; and applying a security policy based on the classification.
US12039030B2
An owner-tenant wireless shared omnibus access control system configured to enable owners and tenant users of an electronic access control system to seamlessly access a lock that is shared between remote site owners and one or more tenants, while maintaining access control and audit trail with minimal administrative overhead. An owner-tenant wireless shared omnibus access control system may be operably configured to enable expanded or limited access and audit trail information based on different user roles and permissions comprising an owner user and a tenant user.
US12039029B2
Provided is a system for face authentication which can operate separately for individual providers of face authentication service in a stable and efficient manner. The system includes: face authentication machines; an administrator terminal; a face management server for storing face image data of registered users; and face matching servers, each configured to generate face feature amount data of a person to be verified from image data acquired from a camera of a face authentication machine and to perform a matching operation by comparing the face feature amount data of the person with that of the registered users. Prior to face authentication, data of associations between face authentication machines and face matching servers entered by an administrator is transmitted from the administrator terminal to the face management server.
US12039025B2
Introduced here are approaches to authenticating unknown persons based on variations in the properties of blood vessels over time. At a high level, these approaches rely on monitoring changes in a property of a blood vessel that occur over time. Examples of properties include the position, size, volume, and pressure of the blood vessel, as well as the velocity and acceleration of blood flowing through the blood vessel.
US12039020B2
Disclosed and described herein are systems and methods that bring together edge technologies into a single, streamlined process that automates the tracking and usage of assets (containers, equipment, mobile storage, etc.). These systems and methods include the use of smart beacons, low power cellular, sensors (strain gauges, level, contact, ohm/voltage, etc.), voice, video, microcontroller advancements, and the like. Conventional systems that have electronic service order and/or tickets are still limited in their functionality because of data, communication and processing hurdles. Disclosed are modern electronic data capture systems (IoT sensors) along with algorithms to assist on the tracking of assets and workers, more quickly capture authorized transactions for billing and remove the manual processes.
US12039019B2
A computing system for securely managing access to resources of a computing device receives an input at a secure login of a user interface. The computing system compares the input to a plurality of stored security measures and activates one of an operating system or a configuration of a false desktop system. A user interface of the false desktop system shares characteristics with a user interface of an operating system and restricts access to specified files, data stores, applications, networking functions, and/or ports associated with the computing system. When configured, the false desktop system or the operating system is enabled based on the location of the computing system. When configured, the false desktop system deletes files, data stores, and applications of the operating system.
US12039013B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes: a sensor to sense real world information; a digitizer coupled to the sensor to digitize the real world information into digitized information; a signal processor coupled to the digitizer to process the digitized information into an image; a discriminator coupled to the signal processor to determine, based at least in part on the image, whether the real world information comprises an anomaly, where the discriminator is trained via a generative adversarial network; and a controller coupled to the discriminator.
US12039009B2
A computing device, method and computer program product are provided to generate synthetic images of abnormalities on the surface of an object, such as a vehicle. The synthetic images of abnormalities on the surface of an object may be utilized for training a machine learning algorithm to detect and/or classify abnormalities. In the context of a method, a respective abnormality is parametrically modeled by selecting one or more control points that satisfy parameters associated with the respective abnormality and generating a surface representative of the respective abnormality based on the one or more control points. The method also renders a synthetic image of at least a portion of the surface of the object having the respective abnormality as defined by the parametric modeling thereof. The rendering of the synthetic image includes rendering the synthetic image in accordance with a predefined lighting condition and from a predefined viewpoint.
US12039004B2
A server system may receive two or more Quality of Service (QoS) dimensions for the multi-objective optimization model, wherein the two or more QoS dimensions include at least a first QoS dimension and a second QoS dimension. The server system may maximize the multi-objective optimization model along the first QoS dimension, wherein the maximizing includes selecting one or more pipelines for the multi-objective optimization model in the software architecture that meet QoS expectations specified for the first QoS dimension and the second QoS dimension, wherein an ordering of the pipelines is dependent on which QoS dimensions were optimized and de-optimized and to what extent, wherein the multi-objective optimization model is partially de-optimized along the second QoS dimension in order to comply with the QoS expectations for the first QoS dimension, and whereby there is a tradeoff between the first QoS dimension and the second QoS dimension.
US12039003B2
Techniques are described that facilitate training an artificial intelligence (AI) model in a manner that ensures equitable model performance across different sub-groups. According to an embodiment, a system is provided that includes a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components include a training component that trains a machine learning (ML) model on training data to perform an inferencing task using an equitable loss function that drives equitable performance of the ML model across different sub-groups represented by the training data, resulting in trained version of the ML model that provides a defined equitable performance level across the different sub-groups. The equitable loss function is “sub-group aware” and penalizes variation in model performance across the sub-groups during model training and validation.
US12039000B2
An apparatus to facilitate machine learning matrix processing is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a memory to store matrix data one or more processors to execute an instruction to examine a message descriptor included in the instruction to determine a type of matrix layout manipulation operation that is to be executed, examine a message header included in the instruction having a plurality of parameters that define a two-dimensional (2D) memory surface that is to be retrieved, retrieve one or more blocks of the matrix data from the memory based on the plurality of parameters and a register file including a plurality of registers, wherein the one or more blocks of the matrix data is stored within a first set of the plurality of registers.
US12038985B2
User interface responsiveness is improved using batch interface calls and response processing. To do this, a selection, via a user interface, is obtained of nodes of a hierarchy corresponding to a hierarchical data structure containing information to be presented in the user interface based on the selection. A separate request is sent to a database to obtain information corresponding to each of the nodes. Responses corresponding to a particular request are received from the database. Each response is processed to obtain parsed data in separate threads such that the responses are executable in parallel. The processing of the responses outputs parsed data for the corresponding response. The parsed data is obtained and the parsed data for a particular response is incrementally presented in the user interface as it is obtained.
US12038980B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing predictive mapping operations with respect to a ground-truth database table. Certain embodiments of the present invention utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform predictive mapping operations utilizing a hierarchical string matching machine learning framework using at least one or more of an exact match model, a probabilistic match model, a disjoint match model, and an embedding-based match model.
US12038976B2
The present disclosure provides a model pushing method, a model requesting method, a model pushing device, a model requesting device, a storage medium and an electronic device. The model pushing method includes: receiving a model matching instruction sent by an orchestrator, with the model matching instruction generated based on an analysis requirement; searching for a model corresponding to the model matching instruction; and pushing, in a case where the model is found, the found model to a destination node requiring the model.
US12038973B2
A relation visualizing apparatus to an embodiment includes a memory; and a processor configured to: receive, as an input, dialog content data representing a content on which two or more persons have had a dialog with respect to predetermined two or more topic items and generate a graph, composed of nodes and edges, by using the topic items as the nodes and utterer IDs identifying persons having given utterance to two topic items different from each other as the edges, the edges connecting nodes corresponding to the two topic items; and display the generated graph.
US12038969B2
Insects can be classified into a category (e.g., sex category, species category, size category, etc.) using a variety of different classification approaches including, for example, an industrial vision classifier and/or a machine learning classifier. At least some classification approaches may be used in real-time to make real-time decisions and others can be used to validate earlier-made real-time decisions.
US12038967B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for optimizing record placement in a graph by minimizing fragmentation when writing data. Issues with fragmented data within a graph database are addressed on the record level by placing data that is frequently accessed together contiguously within memory. For example, a dynamic rule set may be developed based on dynamically analyzing access patterns of the graph database, policies, system characteristics and/or other heuristics. Based on statistics regarding normal query patterns, the systems and methods may identify an optimal position for certain types of edges that are often traversed with respect to particular types of nodes.
US12038963B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining and recommending the types of digital components that content providers can generate and provide for distribution to client devices. In one aspect, a method can determine whether a content provider has not previously provided a first digital component of a first media type. A first set of user interaction data can be obtained and input into a machine learning model. The model can can output result data for expected affirmative user actions related to the first digital component of the first media type. Based on the result data, a recommendation specifying whether the content provider should provide the first digital component of the first media type can be generated and provided to the content provider.
US12038960B2
An incongruent headline detection system receives a request to determine a headline incongruence score for an electronic document. The incongruent headline detection system determines the headline incongruence score for the electronic document by applying a machine learning model to the electronic document. Applying the machine learning model to the electronic document includes generating a graph representing a textual similarity between a headline of the electronic document and each of a plurality of paragraphs of the electronic document and determining the headline incongruence score using the graph. The incongruent headline detection system transmits, responsive to the request, the headline incongruence score for the electronic document.
US12038953B2
Automatic expansion of a knowledge information dictionary for speech semantic analysis and generation of responses for a dialogue agent are performed in a favorable manner. Category tags are assigned to each term in input speech for all categories when terms are registered in the knowledge information dictionary. A domain of speech content intended by the input speech is estimated, and terms pertaining to the estimated domain are extracted from the input speech as a phrase of a predetermined entity. A response is generated on the basis of the domain of the speech content intended by the input speech and the phrase of the predetermined entity. When a category tag is not assigned to the phrase of a predetermined entity, the phrase of the predetermined entity is registered for the category corresponding to the predetermined entity in the knowledge information dictionary. The knowledge information dictionary has a hierarchical structure, and the application unit generates the response using the hierarchical structure.
US12038951B2
A map control module receives a stream of map data characterizing a geographic region proximal to a vehicle and outputs a moving map, and the moving map is divisible into a matrix of cells. A map item control receives a stream of point of interest (POI) data characterizing a plurality of POIs within the boundary and categorizes each of the plurality of POIs to define a set of categories. The map item control determines a display location of a map item within the matrix of cells for each of the plurality of POIs and determines an importance for each POI within a same category. The map item control forms a set of clusters of map items. Each map item in a given cluster of map items has a same cell and a same category. The map item control selects a top-item for each cluster of map items.
US12038949B2
This disclosure relates generally to multi-class multi-label classification and more particularly to contradiction avoided learning for multi-class multi-label classification. Conventional classification methods do not consider contradictory outcomes in multi-label classification tasks wherein contradictory outcomes have significant negative impact in the classification problem solution. The present disclosure provides a contradiction avoided learning multi-class multi-label classification. The disclosed method utilizes a binary contradiction matrix constructed using domain knowledge. Based on the binary contradiction matrix the training dataset is divided into two parts, one comprising contradictions and the second without contradictions. The classification model is trained using the divided datasets using a contradiction loss and a binary cross entropy loss to avoid contradictions during learning of the classification model. The disclosed method is used for electrocardiogram classification, shape classification and so on.
US12038948B2
A data catalog system is described that includes capabilities for automatically identifying and classifying sensitive information stored in data objects associated with various data sources. The data catalog system identifies a data object associated with a data asset stored in a data catalog metadata repository and computes a sensitivity score for the data object based on a set of one or more sensitive data identification techniques. The system determines a set of enrichment labels for the data object based on the sensitivity score computed for the data object. The enrichment labels are used to further qualify, enrich, or classify the data objects identified as containing sensitive information. For instance, the enrichment labels may identify a set of custom properties to be assigned to a data object, identify glossary terms to be applied to the data object or the enrichment labels may identify tags to be assigned to the data object.
US12038934B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which utilize volume to improve the ordering of search results for various information retrieval systems. This improves relevance as volume is a proxy for interest. As volume changes over time, the relevance of a particular result to a particular search query will increase or decrease over time.
US12038925B2
Systems and methods are provided for managing and accessing data using one or more data cloud servers. An exemplary method includes: receiving from one or more data sources, a first data set; stratifying the first data set into first samples; receiving from second one or more data sources, a second data set; stratifying the second data set into second samples; computing a projection factor for each of the second samples using the first samples; computing projected samples using the projection factor for each of the second samples; receiving from third one or more data sources, a third data set; computing a parameter using the third data set; selecting one or more of the projected samples to form a fourth data set; and performing a computer operation for estimating the data using the fourth data set and the parameter.
US12038924B2
In an embodiment, a data platform receives a query that includes a two-sided N dimensional interval join of first and second input relations, where N>1. The two-sided N dimensional interval join has an interval-join predicate that, in each of N dimensions, compares intervals determined from the first and second input relations. The data platform implements the interval join at least in part by identifying an intermediate relation that includes all combinations of a row from the first input relation and a row from the second input relation where, in each of the N dimensions, the intervals determined from the first and second input relations both overlap a common N dimensional domain region of an input domain of the first and second input relations. The data platform obtains and returns results of the query.
US12038922B2
An apparatus for applying database commands to one or more database tables includes a memory and a hardware-implemented pipeline. The hardware-implemented pipeline includes one or more table-processing circuits, and is configured to receive a stream of input records drawn from the one or more database tables, to parse first records, from among the input records, into a key and one or more fields other than the key, to store at least parts of the first records in the memory so as to be accessible using the key, and to apply a database command by matching at least parts of second records from among the input records to the at least parts of the first records stored in the memory, in accordance with the key.
US12038919B2
Systems and processes for recording operational activities in a traceable manner are provided herein. Event data for events associated with operational activities may be received at a system, the event data including, for each of the events, a time parameter and a subject of the respective event. The events may be grouped and processed according to the time parameter or the subject of each of the events, and one or more database tables of a model may be populated and/or updated with event entries based on the event data. The model may include a first part corresponding to processing of the operational activities, and a second part corresponding to results of the processing of the operational activities, where event entries stored in the first and second parts of the model are linked by respective process dates for the event entries. The tables may be output for presentation to a user.
US12038913B2
Disclosed is a method for managing a database, which is performed by a first database server including at least one processor constituting a cluster jointly with at least one second database server. The method for managing a database may include loading, on a buffer cache, a first data block based on a first transaction for modifying the first data block located in a sharing storage shared jointly with the at least one second database server. The method may include modifying the first data block loaded on the buffer cache. The method may include determining flushing a first log generated by the modification of the first data block to the sharing storage.
US12038910B2
A method and a system for reducing the size of a blockchain. The blockchain includes a first set of two or more blocks including an initial genesis block. A new genesis block for the blockchain is generated. The first hash value resulting from hashing the new genesis block matches a second hash value resulting from hashing a last block from the first set of blocks, and the difficulty of determining the first hash value is computationally greater than the cumulative difficulty of determining hash values of all blocks in the first set of blocks. The new genesis block is transmitted to one or more blockchain nodes of a blockchain network, and the first set of blocks is replaced with the new genesis block.
US12038909B2
Methods and systems are described for increasing scalability in cooperative processing systems by reducing issues due to contention (e.g., waiting or queueing for shared resources) and coherency (e.g., delay for data to become consistent) using reciprocal delta tables. The system allows for both proposing and committing changes to a state table without the changes being executed on the state table via recording changes in a series of transactions with delta tables. By eliminating a need to wait for unlocking of a state table as changes are executed, downtime for a client will reduce and processing can be more efficient.
US12038898B2
Methods and apparatus to estimate cardinality of users represented across multiple bloom filter arrays are disclosed. Examples includes processor circuitry to execute and/or instantiate instructions to generate a first composite Bloom filter array based on first and second Bloom filter arrays. The processor circuitry is to generate a final composite Bloom filter array based on the first composite Bloom filter array and a third Bloom filter array. Different ones of the first, second, and third Bloom filter arrays representative of different sets of users who accessed media. The first, second, and third Bloom filter arrays including differential privacy noise. The processor circuitry to estimate a cardinality of a union of the first, second, and third Bloom filter arrays based on the final composite Bloom filter array.
US12038897B2
Embodiments are disclosed for managing co-editing management. A method of co-editing management includes detecting a modification operation to be performed on a sequential data structure being edited by one or more client devices, determining a segment of the sequential data structure associated with the modification operation based on a logical index associated with the modification operation, generating a tree structure associated with the segment, a root node of the tree structure corresponding to the modification operation, determining a global index for the root node of the tree structure, and sending an update corresponding to the modification operation, including the root node and the global index, to a co-editing server to be distributed to the one or more client devices.
US12038894B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for natively executing row-store expression data structures on column-store databases without rewriting. A database management system (DBMS) configured as described herein can maintain a mapping of row-store results to addresses of where corresponding column data is stored. When executing operators, such as logical operators, comparison operators, and/or function operators of a received query expression, the DBMS can operate on the column data, rather than the individual rows. The DBMS can store the results generated by executing the column operators, for example on a stack, and record the row-store addresses to which the stored results correspond. The DBMS responds with a number of rows corresponding to the processed column data.
US12038884B2
An overlay network is augmented to provide more efficient data storage by processing a dataset of high dimension into an equivalent dataset of lower dimension, wherein the data reduction reduces the amount of actual physical data but not necessarily its informational value. Data to be processed (dimensionally-reduced) is received by an ingestion layer and supplied to a learning-based storage reduction application that implements the data reduction technique. The application applies a data reduction algorithm and stores the resulting dimensionally-reduced data sets in the native data storage or third party cloud. To recover the original higher-dimensional data, an associated reverse algorithm is implemented. In general, the application coverts an N dimensional data set to a K dimensional data set, where K<
US12038876B2
Techniques are described to support shared applications, including a shared application that permits retrieval, presentation and traversal of information resources. The innovative techniques enable multiple participants at different locations to both see and interact with assets such as a web-based content. The innovative techniques centralize the functionality of an application that is to be shared. A shared application is executed, during a collaboration, at a centralized location in a manner that does not require any local resources to create an application instance.
US12038868B2
Devices and techniques for loading contexts in a coarse-grained reconfigurable array processor are described herein. A system or apparatus may include context load circuitry operable to load context for a coarse-grained reconfigurable array processor, where the context load circuitry is configured to: (a) receive a kernel identifier; (b) access a first registry to obtain a context mask base address; (c) determine a context mask address from the context mask base address and the kernel identifier; (d) access a second registry to obtain a context state base address; (e) determine a context state address from the context state base address and the kernel identifier; (f) use a context mask at the context mask address to determine corresponding active context state; and (g) load the corresponding active context state into the coarse-grained reconfigurable array processor.
US12038865B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for incorporating a dynamic processing memory core into a single memory chip to enable computational processing and memory storage from the single memory chip. The method includes storing data elements by memory storage devices positioned on the single memory chip. The method also includes executing, by a processing devices positioned on the single memory chip, memory instructions. The method also includes transitioning the dynamic memory processing core from a memory storage device to a processing device by instructing the processing device to execute the memory instructions. The method also includes transitioning the dynamic processing memory core from the processing device to the memory storage device by instructing the processing device to not execute the memory instructions thereby terminating the computational processing of the dynamic processing memory core and maintaining the memory storage provided by the memory storage device.
US12038863B2
A USB chip includes positive and negative data pins, first and second transceiver circuits, a switching circuit, and a control circuit. During a high-speed handshake stage, the control circuit controls the switching circuit to be in a second state to disconnect the positive and negative data pins from a first terminal impedance circuit and actuates the second transceiver circuit to transmit a second voltage signal via the positive and negative data pins alternately. During a high-speed transmission stage, the control circuit controls the switching circuit to be in a first state to connect the positive and negative data pins with the first terminal impedance circuit and actuates the first transceiver circuit to transmit a first voltage signal, which has a first voltage level lower than a voltage level of the second voltage signal, via the positive and negative data pins alternately.
US12038859B2
Peer-to-peer arrangements between endpoint devices are provided herein. A method includes establishing synthetic devices representing endpoint devices in an address domain associated with a host processor, where the endpoint devices have a different address domain than the host processor. The method also includes forming a peer arrangement between the endpoint devices such that data transfers between the endpoint devices in the different address domain can be initiated by the host processor interfacing with the synthetic devices.
US12038857B2
A method of operating a storage device includes receiving a first bit sequence including a request for changing a data rate from a host according to a first data rate through an input signal pin; sending a second bit sequence including a response to the request for changing a data rate to the host at the first data rate through an output signal pin; and changing the data rate to a second data rate according to whether a tail-of-burst (TOB) indicating an end of the second bit sequence is output.
US12038853B2
The present disclosure generally relates to reducing link-up time between an upstream device and a downstream device. Rather than re-coordinating the link between devices each time, knowledge gained from a previous link-up is used to speed up the link-up. Typically, when both the upstream device and the downstream device have not changed, then the coefficient values for downstream port (DSP) transmission (Tx) equilibrium (EQ) that resulted in a desired bit error rate (BER) should not have changed either. Hence, rather than exchanging coefficients, the previous values can be reused with confidence eliminating the need to exchange coefficients. In so doing, the link-up process is much faster and system resources are not wasted on unnecessary coefficient exchanges.
US12038847B2
A/D bit storage, processing, and mode management techniques through use of a dense A/D bit representation are described. In one example, a memory management unit employs an A/D bit representation generation module to generate the dense A/D bit representation. In an implementation, the A/D bit representation is stored adjacent to existing page table structures of the multilevel page table hierarchy. In another example, memory management unit supports use of modes as part of A/D bit storage.
US12038838B2
In some embodiments, an integrated circuit may include a substrate and a memory array disposed on the substrate, where the memory array includes a plurality of discrete memory banks. The integrated circuit may also include a processing array disposed on the substrate, where the processing array includes a plurality of processor subunits, each one of the plurality of processor subunits being associated with one or more discrete memory banks among the plurality of discrete memory banks. The integrated circuit may also include a controller configured to implement at least one security measure with respect to an operation of the integrated circuit and take one or more remedial actions if the at least one security measure is triggered.
US12038832B2
An electronic product testing system includes: a product testing device having a processing unit configured to execute an electronic file to perform testing of a product based on product testing instruction in the electronic file; wherein the processing unit is configured to perform the testing of the product by performing a machine-testing action based on the product testing instruction in the electronic file; wherein the electronic file comprises hand-off instruction; and wherein the processing unit is also configured to generate a request for a human-testing action to be performed by a human-tester based on the hand-off instruction in the electronic file.
US12038831B2
Testing methods and systems are provided for testing a resource manager of an application management system. The testing systems include a load orchestrator configured to obtain an artificial metric that is determined based on a utilization model (e.g., CPU usage, memory allocation, or disk usage, number of webserver sessions). The load orchestrator transmits the artificial metric to applications in a cluster of computing nodes. The applications transmit the artificial metric to the resource manager. In response, the resource manager generates control output for managing applications in the cluster based on the artificial metric (e.g., scaling, load balancing, application placement, failover of applications, or defragmenting data). The utilization model may include executable code for generating artificial metric values. The model may be received as a result of an API call. The load orchestrator may be instantiated in an orchestration framework or in each node of the cluster.
US12038822B2
Placement of a tenant database in an oversubscribed, database-as-a-service cluster comprised of a plurality of nodes is described. The placement may be based on per-node estimates of a probability of resource demand violation if the tenant database is placed on the node. Past resource usage of similar tenant databases subscribed to the cluster that are collected and stored as compressed traces may be used to obtain the estimates. In some examples, based on the estimates, a per-node expected number of resource violations is determined and compared across nodes, where the determined placement minimizes the number of resource violations. In other examples, when the tenant database is being placed in parallel with other tenant databases, a score assigned to each valid configuration for the placement may be modified based on the estimates, where the determined placement is the configuration having a lowest score.
US12038798B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a battery, a connector including one or more signal terminals, a power regulator for adjusting a first voltage from the battery to a second voltage, at least one processor operably connected to the one or more signal terminals and the power regulator, and a memory. The memory can store instructions, that during the execution thereof, allow the at least one processor to sense the connection to an external electronic device through the connector, acquire identification information about the external electronic device after outputting the second voltage through the connector onto the external electronic device connected through the connector, and output, on the basis of the identification information of the external electronic device, the first voltage onto the external electronic device through the connector by using a bypass route.
US12038796B2
Adaptive cooling system and methods, docking stations for electronic devices, and systems using the same are described. In embodiments the active cooling systems include a controller that compares a detected temperature of at least a component of a first electronic device to a first temperature threshold (T1D1) for the first electronic device. When the first temperature is ≥T1D1, the controller may issue a control signal that causes a cooling system for a second electronic device to operate at a defined duty level. In embodiments the adaptive cooling systems are incorporated into equipment for a vehicle, such as a vehicle center console. The docking stations may function as a battery eliminator and/or an uninterruptible power supply, and may include a mount, a power connector, and optionally a data connection, which may couple to corresponding device power and device data connections of an electronic device that is coupled to the mount.
US12038793B2
A hinge mechanism is provided, including a connecting unit, a hinge unit, and a locking element. The connecting unit has a connecting member and a tubular member. The tubular member is disposed on the connecting member. The hinge unit has a first member, a second member, a shaft, and a rod. The shaft pivotally connects the first member to the second member. The rod is affixed to the second member. The rod extends into the tubular member and has a slot. The locking element is fastened through the tubular member and joined in the slot.
US12038791B2
According to an aspect of the disclosure, an auxiliary display system is provided comprising a mount, one or more coupling elements coupled to the mount and configured to be coupled to a computing device configured to rotate about a first rotation axis, and a display portion including a communications interface configured to be communicatively coupled to the computing device, a display screen configured to display output information, and at least one hinge enabling the display portion to be capable of rotating about a second rotation axis, the second rotation axis being parallel to the first rotation axis.
US12038790B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a housing, a flexible display screen arranged in the housing, and a keyboard assembly located between the housing and the flexible display screen. The keyboard assembly includes a driving component and a keyboard component. The flexible display screen and the keyboard component are fixedly connected, and the keyboard component is arranged up and down in the housing along a light emitting direction of the flexible display screen through the driving component.
US12038787B2
An electronic device is disclosed, including a first housing with a first support member, a second housing foldably coupled to the first housing through a hinge mechanism and including a second support member, a flexible display supported by the first housing and the second housing, the flexible display including: a window layer, a display panel disposed under the window layer, and a bending portion extended from the display panel and attached to a rear surface of the display panel, the bending portion including: an extension portion and a control circuit and a flexible substrate, a first waterproof member, a second waterproof member, and a third waterproof member that connects the first waterproof member and second waterproof member, wherein when the flexible display is viewed from above, the control circuit and the flexible substrate overlap a first waterproof space formed through the first, second and third waterproof member.
US12038783B1
A system for synchronization of multiple clocks in a vehicle network includes a processor that is programmed to synchronize a time follower clock to a primary grand leader clock. The primary grand leader clock is monitored and the time follower clock is synchronized to a standby grand leader clock upon a failure of the primary grand leader clock. The time follower clock is synchronized to the primary grand leader clock if a new ignition cycle has occurred between a failure of the primary grand leader clock and a recovery after failure of the primary grand leader clock. The time follower clock continues to be synchronized to the standby grand leader clock if a new ignition cycle has not occurred between the failure of the primary grand leader clock and the recovery after failure of the primary grand leader clock.
US12038780B1
A processing device identifies clock phases of a multiphase clock system. The processing device selects a first clock phase and a second clock phase of the clock phases. The processing device determines an aggregate phase distance between the first clock phase and the second clock phase over multiple clock periods. The processing device determines, based on the aggregate phase distance, an aggregate time duration between the first clock phase and the second clock phase over the multiple clock periods of the multiphase clock system.
US12038776B2
A control input device can include a housing defining an inner volume with a floor, and a shaft having an axis, a manipulating portion, and a sensing end. The control input device can further include a magnet mounted on the sensing end of the shaft such that the magnet is within the inner volume of the housing, and a movement mechanism configured to allow the manipulating portion of the shaft to be moved with respect to the housing such that the movement of the manipulating portion results in corresponding movement of the magnet. The control input device can further include a magnetic sensor at least partially embedded in the floor of the housing and configured to sense the movement of the magnet.
US12038761B2
Systems and methods for updating navigational maps based using at least one sensor are provided. In one aspect, a control system for an autonomous vehicle, includes a processor and a computer-readable memory configured to cause the processor to: receive output from at least one sensor located on the autonomous vehicle indicative of a driving environment of the autonomous vehicle, retrieve a navigational map used for driving the autonomous vehicle, and detect one or more inconsistencies between the output of the at least one sensor and the navigational map. The computer-readable memory is further configured to cause the processor to: in response to detecting the one or more inconsistencies, trigger mapping of the driving environment based on the output of the at least one sensor, update the navigational map based on the mapped driving environment, and drive the autonomous vehicle using the updated navigational map.
US12038760B1
A physical space may contain sliding doors in various places such as between rooms, as closet doors, on furniture, and so forth. An autonomous mobile device (AMD) capable of non-holonomic motion may selectively contact a portion of the sliding door and apply a force to open or close the door. The AMD moves to an initial pose relative to the door, with a portion of the AMD coming into contact with the door. The AMD then rotates and translates, relative to the door, applying a force to the door. Sensor data, such as linear acceleration, rotation, drive wheel torque, and so forth is used as input to determine the next movement in a series of motions, resulting in continued contact and force application. As the end of travel for this motion is reached, the AMD may separate from the door, reposition, and continue to apply a force to the door.
US12038757B2
A marker detection device which detects a magnetic marker laid in a road by using a sensor unit in which a plurality of combinations of a magnetic sensor and a magnetic-field generation coil are arranged includes a storage part which stores characteristic information of each magnetic-field generation coil, an estimation part which estimates a magnetic differential value acting on the magnetic sensor due to a current differential value acting on the magnetic-field generation coil by referring to the characteristic information of each magnetic-field generation coil, and a calibration part which calibrates each magnetic sensor so as to enhance uniformity in sensitivity, which is a ratio between an output differential value of the magnetic sensor in accordance with a change of a current by the current differential value acting on the magnetic-field generation coil and the estimated magnetic differential value.
US12038745B2
A transportation system optimizes an operating parameter of a vehicle based on a physiological state of an occupant of the vehicle. The transportation system includes a sensor to sense a physiological condition of the occupant and to output data based on the sensed physiological condition. The sensor includes a voice capture system to capture a voice of the occupant and includes the voice as at least part of the output data. The transportation system further includes an artificial intelligence system to receive the output data, classifies an emotional state of the captured voice based on analysis of aspects of the output data and processes the classified emotional state of the captured voice to determine an emotional state of the occupant and to optimize, for achieving a favorable emotional state of the occupant, at least one operating parameter of the vehicle in response to the determined emotional state of the occupant.
US12038744B2
A method for obtaining an exercise video may be disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method may comprises the steps of: receiving a first value for specifying a flight height of a drone, a second value for specifying a distance between a first sensor of the drone and a first point on a surface of a first athlete, and a third value for specifying an angular displacement of the drone in a direction from the first point toward the first sensor with respect to a front direction of the first athlete, confirming information that the drone is at the same height as the first value and obtaining video data obtained by a measurement value of at least one sensor of the drone and the first sensor.
US12038738B2
The ability to comprehend the context of a given programming artifact and extracting the underlying functionality is a complex task extending beyond just syntactic and semantic analysis of code. All existing automation capabilities, hence heavily depend on manual involvement of domain experts. Even recent approaches leveraging Machine Learning Capabilities are supervised techniques, whereby the dependency on domain experts still remains—in preparing suitable training sets. A method and system for automated classification of variables using unsupervised distribution agnostic clustering has been provided. The present disclosure focuses to tap the flexibility of the code and presents a domain agnostic approach using unsupervised machine learning which automatically extracts the context from source code, by classifying the underlying elements of the code. The method and system do not require any manual intervention and opens a wide range of opportunities in reverse engineering and variable level analysis space.
US12038736B2
A method is described for selecting voxels for producing a three-dimensional object with an additive manufacturing device. The additive manufacturing device has a building space that is discretized into virtual voxels. The method includes receiving a voxel-based approximation of a surface of the object. The voxel-based approximation includes multiple voxels. The method includes determining, for each voxel of a non-empty subset of the voxels, a signed distance value describing a distance between the voxel and at least one point defined by the voxel-based approximation. The signed distance value of the voxel is determined based on a displacement value describing a topographic characteristic of the voxel-based approximation. The method includes selecting voxels at which material should be added to produce the object. The selection is performed based on the signed distance values of the voxels.
US12038735B2
A method for qualifying a manufacturing process for a first component including a common geometric feature includes obtaining manufacturing data for the common geometric feature. The manufacturing data is associated with one or more qualified second components. The one or more qualified second components are different than the first component. Each of the one or more qualified second components include the common geometric feature. The method further includes modeling the manufacturing process for the common geometric feature of the one or more qualified second components using the manufacturing data, modeling the manufacturing process for the common geometric feature of the first component, obtaining manufacturing process parameters for the manufacturing process for the common geometric feature of the one or more qualified second components, and qualifying the manufacturing process for the common geometric feature of the first component.
US12038733B2
This application discloses an automation system, including a non-contact power-supply device and a moving body device. The non-contact power-supply device includes a power rail, a power-obtaining circuit, and a power supply receiving circuit. The moving body device includes a body, an inverter circuit, and a motor-control circuit. The non-contact power-supply device is configured to supply power to the moving body device.
US12038721B2
Systems, devices, and methods for side lobe control in holograms are described. The magnitude of the side lobes of a hologram depends on the distribution of refractive index modulation (Δn), therefore control of side lobe magnitude may be achieved by controlling the distribution of Δn. The distribution of Δn may be controlled by replicating a hologram from a master with two reference beams, where the wavelength and angle of each reference beam, the playback angle of the master hologram, and the thickness of the master hologram, the copy holographic recording medium (HRM), and the recording substrate are carefully chosen to achieve a pattern of meta-interference within the HRM that matches the desired distribution of Δn.
US12038706B2
A fixing apparatus includes a fixing belt, a steering roller, a pressure rotation member, and a contact-separation mechanism. The contact-separation mechanism moves the pressure rotation member to a position where the pressure rotation member is in a contact state with the fixing belt and a position where the pressure rotation member is in a separated state from the fixing belt. Swing of the steering roller is controlled so that the fixing belt moves to a predetermined position in a fixing belt width direction. A distance between a center position of the fixing belt in tilting the steering roller for a first time after the center position is separated from a center position of a range of movement of the fixing belt and the center position of the range of movement of the fixing belt in the width direction is smaller in the separated state than in the contact state.
US12038697B2
An image forming apparatus is used, including a rotary member, on which a developer image by a developer is formed, a collection unit for collecting the developer by a blade member from a surface of the rotary member, and a control unit for controlling an image forming operation on the surface of the rotary member and a supply operation for supplying the developer to a contact portion between the rotary member and the blade member, wherein, assuming that the supply operation for supplying the developer to inside of a printable area is a first supply operation and the supply operation for supplying the developer to outside the printable area is a second supply operation, the control unit controls such that the first supply operation and the second supply operation are performed at different timing.
US12038694B2
Methods for training a process model and determining ranking of simulated patterns (e.g., corresponding to hot spots). A method involves obtaining a training data set including: (i) a simulated pattern associated with a mask pattern to be printed on a substrate, (ii) inspection data of a printed pattern imaged on the substrate using the mask pattern, and (iii) measured values of a parameter of the patterning process applied during imaging of the mask pattern on the substrate; and training a machine learning model for the patterning process based on the training data set to predict a difference in a characteristic of the simulated pattern and the printed pattern. The trained machine learning model can be used for determining a ranking of hot spots. In another method a model is trained based on measurement data to predict ranking of the hot spots.
US12038690B2
A laser interference photolithography system, comprising a laser device, a first reflector, a grating beam-splitter, a second reflector, a first universal reflector, a first lens, a second universal reflector, a second lens, a beam splitting prism, a control module, an angle measurement module, a third lens and a substrate. The control module comprises a signal processing terminal, a controller, and a driver. The signal processing terminal is connected to the angle measurement module, the controller is connected to both the signal processing terminal and the driver, and the driver is connected to both the first universal reflector and the second universal reflector. The laser emits a laser light that is split into two beams of light by the system, and the two beams of light are focused on the substrate for exposure.
US12038689B2
The present invention provides an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition which is excellent in LER performance and a collapse suppressing ability. Furthermore, the present invention provides a resist film, a pattern forming method, and a method for manufacturing an electronic device. The actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition of an embodiment of the present invention includes an acid-decomposable resin having a repeating unit represented by General Formula (1), and a compound that generates an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation.
US12038688B2
A composition with which a cured film having excellent light shielding properties and low reflection properties can be produced is provided; a light shielding film; a solid-state imaging element; an image display device; and a method for manufacturing a cured film. The composition including carbon black, barium sulfate, one or more kinds selected from the group consisting of copper phthalocyanine and a copper phthalocyanine derivative, a resin, and a solvent, in which the solvent includes a solvent A having a boiling point of 180° C. or higher, a solvent B having a boiling point of 140° C. or higher and lower than 180° ° C., and a solvent C having a boiling point of 100° C. or higher and lower than 140° C.
US12038681B2
Disclosed are a projection optical path and a projection device. The projection optical path includes a first converged light of a first dual-light source system and a second converged light of a second dual-light source system; a first wavelength light, a second wavelength light, and a third wavelength light are respectively one of red light, green light, and blue light; a fourth wavelength light is within a wavelength range of the red light; the wavelength of the fourth wavelength light is defined as λ1; the wavelength of the one set as the red light among the first wavelength light, the second wavelength light, and the third wavelength light is λ2; λ1 is unequal to λ2; an excitation light source emits an excitation light; and the excitation light is emitted to the first dual-light source system or the second dual-light source system.
US12038679B2
Provided are a wavelength conversion apparatus, a light source system including the same, and a display device including the light source system. The wavelength conversion apparatus includes an angle deflection region and a wavelength conversion region for converting incident second light into excited light and then emitting same. The angle deflection region includes deflection units, each of which includes a light emergent face for emitting first light. A first included angle is formed between the light emergent face and a reference plane. First included angles between light emergent faces of at least two deflection units and the reference plane are not equal. The deflection units are located on a light path of the first light in a time sequence, so as to change an emergent angle of the first light in the time sequence, such that the first light is successively scanned at a preset position to form virtual pixels.
US12038677B2
A camera device is provided. The camera device may include a camera body, a supporting component, and a limiting component. The supporting component may be configured to fix the camera body at a first position relative to the supporting component where the lens works under a normal condition. The limiting component may be mechanically coupled between the camera body and the supporting component. The limiting component may be configured to secure the camera body at a second position relative to the supporting component. The second position relative to the supporting component may be different from the first position relative to the supporting component.
US12038671B2
Folded cameras comprising a movable lens having a lens optical axis and positioned in an optical path between an optical path folding element (OPFE) and an image sensor, wherein the OPFE folds light from a first direction to a second direction, the second direction being substantially along the lens optical axis, and an actuator for controlled lens movement, the actuator including or being attached to a shield partially surrounding the lens, the shield having an opening positioned and dimensioned to enable installation of the lens into the shield from an insertion direction substantially parallel to the first direction. A folded camera disclosed herein may be included together with an upright camera in a dual-camera.
US12038669B2
A camera module includes: a lens module including a lens and movably disposed in a housing; a first displacement identification layer disposed on the lens module, configured to move according to movement of the lens module, and having a width varying according to coordinates in one direction in the lens module; and a second displacement identification layer disposed on the lens module, configured to move according to the movement of the lens module, and having a width varying according to the coordinates in the one direction in the lens module. The first and second displacement identification layers are arranged such that a coordinate, among the coordinates in the one direction, corresponding to a maximum width of the first displacement identification layer is different from a coordinate, among the coordinates in the one direction in the lens module, corresponding to a maximum width of the second displacement identification layer.
US12038657B2
A liquid crystal panel includes an active matrix substrate including a gate driver circuit, a demultiplexer circuit, and a gate switch circuit. The active matrix substrate includes a non-display region and a testing terminal region located outside the non-display region, has first and second in-panel testing terminals in the non-display region, and has first and second out-panel testing terminals in the testing terminal region. The second out-panel testing terminal is connected to the gate driver circuit. The first out-panel testing terminal is connected to the demultiplexer circuit. The second in-panel testing terminal is connected to the gate switch circuit. The first in-panel testing terminal is connected to the demultiplexer circuit.
US12038656B2
A display device including a display area configured to display an image, a first non-display area disposed adjacent to the display area, a second non-display area disposed adjacent to the first non-display area, and a first driving voltage line disposed in the first non-display area and the second non-display area, the first driving voltage line being configured to be applied with a first driving voltage and includes a first sub-driving voltage line including first holes, and a second sub-driving voltage line disposed on the first sub-driving voltage line and including second holes, in which the second holes include first sub-holes and second sub-holes having a different size than the first sub-holes.
US12038655B2
An optical element includes at least two liquid crystal cells. The at least two liquid crystal cells include a first substrate on which a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode are alternately and repeatedly arranged in a first direction, a second substrate on which a third transparent electrode and a fourth transparent electrode are alternately and repeatedly arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second transparent electrode comprises a first bent portion bent in the first direction. The fourth transparent electrode comprises a second bent portion bent in the second direction.
US12038649B2
A switchable privacy display comprises a spatial light modulator, and switchable liquid crystal retarder arranged between crossed quarter-wave plates and polarisers. In a privacy mode of operation, on-axis light from the spatial light modulator is directed without loss, whereas off-axis light has reduced luminance to reduce the visibility of the display to off-axis snoopers. The display may be rotated to achieve privacy operation in landscape and portrait orientations. Further, display reflectivity may be reduced for on-axis reflections of ambient light, while reflectivity may be increased for off-axis light to achieve increased visual security. In a public mode of operation, the liquid crystal retardance is adjusted so that off-axis luminance and reflectivity are unmodified. The display may also be operated to switch between day-time and night-time operation, for example for use in an automotive environment.
US12038645B2
A light-emitting substrate and a display device are provided. The light-emitting substrate includes a plurality of partitions, and the partitions include a first light-emitting unit and a first dummy unit. The first light-emitting unit includes at least one light-emitting element. The first dummy unit is connected in parallel with the first light-emitting unit. The first dummy unit includes a dummy light-emitting element, and an operating voltage of the first dummy unit is greater than an operating voltage of the first light-emitting unit.
US12038640B1
A display device and an electronic device are provided. The display device includes a back plate, a display panel, an optical film, a light guide strip, and an infrared light bead. The display panel is carried on the back plate and includes a liquid crystal layer. The optical film is disposed at one side of the display panel adjacent to the back plate. The light guide strip has a first light-incident surface and a light-exiting surface. The first light-incident surface is connected to the light-exiting surface in a bent manner. The infrared light bead is accommodated in the back plate. The infrared light bead is configured to emit infrared light. The infrared light bead is disposed close to the first light-incident surface of the light guide strip.
US12038620B2
An image relay device that projects laser light representing an image emitted from a projection device onto the retina is provided. The image relay device includes a projection device, a first optical member, and a second optical member. The projection device includes a light source configured to emit laser light and a scan unit configured to scan the laser light based on image data. The first optical member receives an image light from the projection device and converts the image light which is a parallel light, to light beams of convergent light. The second optical member converts the light beams output from the first optical member into parallel light.
US12038619B2
A housing for an electronic device includes a panel, where the panel includes a window. A cage includes a plurality of panels and a first end and a second end that opposes the first end. The cage further includes an opening at its first end and an enclosure disposed between the panels of the cage. Connecting structure is disposed at the first end of the cage, where the connecting structure secures the first end of the cage to the panel. The cage is suitably dimensioned to receive and retain a portion of a pluggable module within the enclosure when the pluggable module is inserted within the opening at the first end of the cage.
US12038616B2
A photonic system includes a light source and a photonic structure. The photonic structure includes an optical transmission structure and an optical absorption structure. The optical transmission structure is configured to transmit light associated with a first wavelength range. The optical absorption structure is configured to absorb light associated with a second wavelength range. The light source is configured to provide a light beam with a wavelength that is within the second wavelength range to the optical absorption structure. The optical absorption structure is configured to generate and provide heat to the optical transmission structure when the light beam falls incident on the optical absorption structure.
US12038611B2
A method of making a spot size converter comprising a multi-tip waveguide comprising a first and a second waveguide portions, the method comprising the steps of: coating a multilayer wafer comprising a waveguide material layer with a resist material; exposing the coated resist material to a deep UV beam or an electron beam; developing resist material to form an partial waveguide pattern within the resist material; transferring the partial waveguide pattern to the waveguide material layer, forming an initial waveguide; placing a second layer of resist material over the initial waveguide; patterning a tapered gap region shape in the second layer of resist material by exposing the second layer of resist material to a deep UV beam or an electron beam; and transferring the tapered gap region shape to the waveguide material layer of the initial waveguide to form a tapered gap region inside the initial waveguide.
US12038607B2
The output computing unit includes cascade-connected N number of Y coupling elements having two inputs and one output, and N number of optical intensity modulators. The N number of light intensity modulators individually modulate the intensity of a continuous light to a second optical input port, which is different from a first optical input port to which no light is input or to which a signal light from an optical output port of a Y coupling element in a previous stage, out of two optical input ports of each of the cascade-connected N number of Y coupling elements, in accordance with corresponding bits of an N-bit electric digital signal. The output light acquired from the Y coupling element 1-N in the final stage is regarded as the N-bit digital analog computing result.
US12038606B2
An optical device includes a first mirror having a first reflecting surface and extending along a first direction, a second mirror having a second reflecting surface that faces the first reflecting surface and extending along the first direction, and an optical waveguide layer, located between the first mirror and the second mirror, that causes light to propagate along the first direction. A transmittance of the first mirror is higher than a transmittance of the second mirror. A reflection spectrum of at least either the first mirror or the second mirror with respect to light arriving from a direction normal to the reflecting surface includes, in a wavelength region in which a reflectance is higher than or equal to 90%, a local maximum point and first and second points of inflection located closer to a long-wavelength side than the local maximum point.
US12038603B2
Provided is an optical modulator manufacturing method capable of determining the quality of an optical modulator having MMI waveguides and realizing improvement in yield during manufacturing. Here, in waveguide fabrication processes, hard mask material deposition, soft mask material application, exposure, and hard mask fabrication are executed, and then in hard mask width length measurement, the hard mask width for fabricating the MMI waveguide is measured at one or more locations. In hard mask width quality determination based on machine learning results, the quality of optical characteristics of the chip is predicted and determined in advance, based on sample data created in advance by analyzing a relationship between the hard mask width and optical characteristics of the optical modulator, depending on whether the hard mask width is present in a permissible range of the sample data. Depending on the result of the above-mentioned determination.
US12038599B2
A package includes silicon waveguides on a first side of an oxide layer; photonic devices on the first side of the oxide layer, wherein the photonic devices are coupled to the silicon waveguides; redistribution structures over the first side of the oxide layer, wherein the redistribution structures are electrically connected to the photonic devices; a hybrid interconnect structure on a second side of the oxide layer, wherein the hybrid interconnect structure includes a stack of silicon nitride waveguides that are separated by dielectric layers; and through vias extending through the hybrid interconnect structure and the oxide layer, wherein the through vias make physical and electrical connection to the redistribution structures.
US12038593B2
Provided is a near-infrared ray absorbing article. A near-infrared ray absorbing article of the present invention is capable of preventing a decrease in visible transmittance and near-infrared absorption due to the interaction between a plurality of organic materials forming light-absorbing layers. In addition, the near-infrared ray absorbing article of the present invention has the advantage of being able to be thinner. In addition, the near-infrared ray absorbing article of the present invention has the advantage of excellent mechanical properties such as strength and heat resistance.
US12038569B2
A device for phase microscopy is disclosed that comprises a spatial light modulator and a connecting means adapted to fix the spatial light modulator onto a phase microscope. The phase microscope comprises a light path comprising at least a sample area, a light device for lighting said sample area, and an imaging device for capturing a phase image of said sample area. The phase image is a 2D matrix of pixels. The spatial light modulator is positioned in the light path in a conjugated plane of the sample area. The device also comprises a command of the spatial light modulator connected to the imaging device and adapted to measure the phase shift of a plurality of pixels of the phase image and to command the spatial light modulator in order to subtract the measured phase shifts.
US12038559B2
Provided are a window cover film and a display panel including the same. More specifically, a window cover film includes a polyimide-based film, and an inorganic thin film layer and a hard coating layer formed on at least one surface of the polyimide-based film. A light transmittance measured at 388 nm is 50% or less and a total light transmittance measured at 400 to 700 nm is 87% or more, is provided.
US12038552B2
Imaging systems and methods are provided for detecting object that may be hidden under clothing, ingested, inserted, or otherwise concealed on or in a person's body. An imaging assembly and mechanisms for moving the imaging assembly may be configured to reduce the overall form factor of such imaging systems, while still retaining an ability to perform full/complete imaging of a subject.
US12038549B2
A printed circuit board assembly includes a printed circuit board, a radio frequency detection circuit, and one or more damping elements. The radio frequency detection circuit is in electrical communication with the printed circuit board and defines a ring-down time interval. The one or more damper elements is mechanically coupled to the printed circuit board and has a damping coefficient that makes the duration of a mechanical ring-down time interval of the printed circuit board assembly shorter than the electrical ring-down time interval of the radio frequency detection circuit.
US12038545B1
A freely-combinable multifunctional ocean-bottom seismic detection device includes a cabin body having a sealed structure and is made of a titanium alloy. A hydrophone, a first power interface, and a signal transmission sealing connector are mounted on an upper flange. A digital collector, a broadband seismometer, a global positioning system (GPS), and an electronic compass are mounted in the cabin body. The broadband seismometer is mounted on a leveling mechanism. Rechargeable lithium batteries are mounted in sealed battery compartments. A settlement coupling frame is arranged below the cabin body and is detachably connected to the cabin body. An uncoupling mechanism is mounted at a top of the cabin body. The device has a synchronous arrangement function of deployment as an independent node with data stored inside the instrument, and quick integration into a seabed foundation (or a subsurface buoy) with real-time data transmission.
US12038542B2
A radiation detector includes a memory controller and a sleep control unit. The sleep control unit supplies a power supply power to a main control unit and cuts off supply of the power supply power to at least a part other than the main control unit in a first power consumption reduction mode. In addition, the sleep control unit cuts off supply of the power supply power to at least a part of the main control unit and at least a part other than the main control unit in a second power consumption reduction mode. In addition, the memory controller prevents a volatile memory from being deactivated during the second power consumption reduction mode.
US12038539B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods involving Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR or lidar) systems. Namely, an example method includes causing a light source of a LIDAR system to emit light along an emission vector. The method also includes adjusting the emission vector of the emitted light and determining an elevation angle component of the emission vector. The method further includes dynamically adjusting a per pulse energy of the emitted light based on the determined elevation angle component. An example system includes a vehicle and a light source coupled to the vehicle. The light source is configured to emit light along an emission vector toward an environment of the vehicle. The system also includes a controller operable to determine an elevation angle component of the emission vector and dynamically adjust a per pulse energy of the emitted light based on the determined elevation angle component.
US12038534B2
The present disclosure discloses a motor for an on-vehicle LiDAR, the vehicle-borne LiDAR, and a vehicle. The motor comprises a rotor assembly, a flat rubber washer and an optical reflecting mirror, wherein the rotor assembly comprises a housing and a fastening ring, wherein an inner cylinder of the housing is provided with a welding portion at the periphery, and an air slot is provided between the welding portion and the inner cylinder of the housing; and the welding portion is fixed to the fastening ring by means of laser welding. Laser welding is used to fix the fastening ring to the housing of the motor.
US12038531B2
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to adapting vehicle access by detecting a person carrying an object. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a person near a vehicle for gaining access. The method also includes scanning the person for an object using a radar of the vehicle, wherein information from the radar indicates densities of the person and the object. Upon detecting the object using the densities, the method also includes adapting the access to a compartment of the vehicle.
US12038528B2
In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a radar unit is provided, comprising: a receiver circuit configured to receive a radar signal; a controller configured to control said receiver circuit, wherein said controller is configured to cause said receiver circuit to operate either in a complex receiver mode or in a real receiver mode. In accordance with a second aspect of the present disclosure, a method of operating a radar unit is conceived, comprising: receiving, by a receiver circuit comprised in the radar unit, a radar signal; controlling, by a controller comprised in said radar unit, said receiver circuit, wherein said controller causes said receiver circuit to operate either in a complex receiver mode or in a real receiver mode.
US12038524B2
A Doppler radar apparatus including a transmitting device, a receiving device and a narrowband interference suppression device is provided. The transmitting device is configured to transmit a first wireless signal. The receiving device is coupled to the transmitting device and is configured to receive a second wireless signal to generate a first digital signal. The first digital signal includes a Doppler signal component and a narrowband interference signal component, and a bandwidth of the narrowband interference signal component is smaller than a bandwidth of the Doppler signal component. The narrowband interference suppression device is coupled to the receiving device and is configured to perform interference suppression on the first digital signal to suppress the narrowband interference signal component in the first digital signal to generate an output digital signal.
US12038523B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE), such as a vehicle UE may determine, based on one or more communication parameters of the UE, a radar field of view (FOV) for radar communications at the UE relative to a fixed frame of reference for the wireless communications system. The UE may determine a set of radar transmission parameters based on the radar FOV, where each radar transmission parameter of the set of radar transmission parameters is a function of the radar FOV. The UE may transmit a radar message using the set of radar transmission parameters according to the radar FOV relative to the fixed frame of reference.
US12038519B2
Beamforming is a critical element of 5G and especially 6G, but currently requires a series of time-consuming and resource-consuming messages. Disclosed are procedures by which base stations can transmit a phased beam pulse, having a phase that varies with angle, so that each user device can measure the received phase of the pulse and thereby determine its angle relative to the base station. Each user can then sequentially inform the base station of its orientation relative to the base station, or can append that information to another message such as an initial access message or an acknowledgement, for example. The user device and the base station can then exchange messages in narrow beams aimed at each other according to the alignment angle. Also disclosed are procedures to economically generate the wide-angle phased beam by combining overlapping beams of various phases.
US12038514B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, device, and system that detects a replay attack includes monitoring Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) time obtained by a GNSS receiver from a GNSS signal from a GNSS satellite. An alert condition for the replay attack is identified based on at least a detected delay between a universal coordinated time (UTC) and the GNSS time. An alert notification is provided based on the identification of the alert condition for the replay attack.
US12038509B2
A solid state LIDAR transmitter includes a two dimensional array of laser devices having columns and rows and configured such that anodes of laser devices in a column are connected to a common anode connection and cathodes of laser devices in a row are connected to a common cathode connection. A capacitive discharge circuit comprises a first switch configured so the capacitive discharge circuit charges to a voltage potential when the first switch is open and discharges when the first switch is closed. A second switch is configured such that the common cathode connection is coupled to ground when the second switch is closed. A controller is configured to instruct the first switch and the second switch to close at a time t0 such that the capacitive discharge circuit charges to the voltage potential at a time, t1, thereby causing a laser device connected between the capacitive discharge circuit and the second switch to generate an optical pulse.
US12038483B2
A battery control unit has an SOCv operation unit which calculates a state of charge SOCv based on voltage of a battery, a ΔSOCi operation unit which calculates an amount of change ΔSOCi of the state of charge based on current value of the battery, a weight operation unit which calculates a weight W, and an SOCc operation unit which calculates a final SOC (SOCc) based on the SOCv, the ΔSOCi and the weight W. Terms forming an operational expression of the SOCc are retained, by using a determination threshold, as a sum SOCc_Big of terms of a large value group and a sum SOCc_Small of terms of a small value group, and used in calculating the SOCc of a subsequent operation period. By using the SOCc_Big and the SOCc_Small, it is possible to prevent the accumulation of errors caused by information loss that occurred when repeatedly operating the SOCc.
US12038477B1
The approach disclosed herein is a new approach to sequence generation in the context of validation that relies on machine learning to explore and identify ways to achieve different states. In particular, the approach uses machine learning models to identify different states and ways to transition from one state to another. Actions are selected by machine learning models as they are being trained using reinforcement learning. This online inference also is likely to result in the discovery of not yet discovered states. Each state that has been identified is then used as a target to train a respective machine learning model. As part of this process a representation of all the states and actions or sequences of actions executed to reach those states is created. This representation, the respective machine learning models, or a combination thereof can then be used to generate different test sequences.
US12038471B2
An electronic device such as an e-fuse includes analog circuitry configured to be set to one or more self-test configurations. To that effect the device has self-test controller circuitry in turn including: an analog configuration and sensing circuit configured to set the analog circuitry to one or more self-test configurations and to sense test signals occurring in the analog circuitry set to such self-test configurations, a data acquisition circuit configured to acquire and convert to digital the test signals sensed at the analog sensing circuit, and a fault event detection circuit configured to check the test signals converted to digital against reference parameters. The device includes integrated therein a self-test controller configured to control parts or stages of the device to configure circuits, acquire data and control test execution under the coordination of a test sequencer.
US12038468B2
A method for measuring a current-voltage characteristic (Id-Vds characteristic) representing the relationship between the drain current Id (or collector current) and the drain-source voltage Vds (or collector-emitter voltage) of a transistor M1 includes setting the drain current Id (or collector current) and the drain-source voltage Vds (or collector-emitter voltage), measuring the gate-source voltage Vgs (or gate-emitter voltage) and the gate current Ig of the transistor M1 in a switching transient state, and acquiring the current-voltage characteristic (Id-Vds characteristic) of the transistor M1 based on the measurement results of the gate-source voltage Vgs (or gate-emitter voltage) and the gate current Ig.
US12038461B2
A method and apparatus generate an energy pulse output while improving the accuracy of energy pulse output. Specifically, an Intelligent Electronic Device employs a method in which a processor receives digital electrical parameter data to at least two buffers alternately; compute a power value in a full zero-crossing cycle in accordance with the digital electrical parameter data when one of the at least two buffers gets fully filled and storing the power value; divide a period that each buffer takes from empty to getting fully filled into a series of intervals; calculate energy consumption in each interval based on the power value stored; totalize the energy consumption; generate an energy pulse output according to a pre-determined threshold and the totalized energy consumption.
US12038455B2
The present disclosure provides a measuring method for measuring heat distribution of a specific space using an SThM probe, and a method and device for detecting a beam spot of a light source. The method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is the measuring method for measuring heat distribution of a specific space, the measuring method includes: linearly moving a SThM probe that may measure a temperature change in the specific space; and calculating heat distribution of the specific space using continuous temperature change values obtained from the SThM probe during the moving step. According to the measuring method, and the method and device for detecting a beam spot of a light source, it is possible to map temperature distribution in a small space using a SThM probe and it is possible to accurately detect a beam spot using the temperature distribution.
US12038446B2
Methods and compositions for diagnosing brain injury, neurodegeneration; or a predisposition thereto, in a subject are provided. Particularly, the present invention relates to specific antigen antibody reactivities useful in diagnosing brain injury, neurodegeneration or a predisposition thereto, in a subject.
US12038445B2
The present invention provides biomarker and biomarker panels useful for diagnostic methods evaluating liver disease status in a subject, monitoring liver disease, distinguishing between liver diseases, treating subjects evaluated by diagnostic methods of the invention, providing diagnostic tests for evaluating liver disease status in a subject, and kits there for.
US12038442B2
The disclosure provides a sample testing method and a sample analyzer, the method including: providing a sample and a reagent, the reagent including at least two fluorescent dyes for staining particles in the sample, wherein an absolute value of a difference between wavelengths corresponding to peaks of emission spectra of the two fluorescent dyes is greater than 30 nanometers and less than 80 nanometers, and an overlap between the emission spectra of the two fluorescent dyes is not greater than 50%; mixing the sample and the reagent to form a sample solution; flowing the sample solution in a flow cell in a single test, irradiating the particles flowing in the flow cell using light with a single wavelength; detecting at least fluorescence signals generated by the particles; and obtaining a test result of the sample based on at least the fluorescence signals.
US12038439B2
A spectral reflectance imaging device for detecting nanoparticle exosome biomarker targets includes an illumination source that illuminates a substrate with a plurality of separate wavelengths of incoherent light. The substrate includes an oxide layer and a binding agent to selectively bind nanoparticle exosome biomarker targets to the substrate. An imaging device bindings the light reflected from or transmitted through the substrate and an image processing system detects the nanoparticle exosome biomarker targets a function of the change in reflective properties of the substrate.
US12038437B2
This invention relates to the field of primary immunodeficiencies (PID), more specifically to means and method for the diagnosis of PID of the lymphoid system. Provided are unique reagent compositions for the flow cytometric immunophenotyping of leukocytes comprising fluorochrome-conjugated antibodies directed against various specific combinations of markers. Also provided are kits comprising the reagent compositions, and methods using the same.
US12038435B1
A lateral flow assay device includes several test strips to receive a quantity of fluid that includes a quantity of exosomes and detect the presence of a target analyte on the surface of the exosomes. Each test strip includes a conjugate pad that contains binding reagent to one type of tetraspanin protein conjugated with a label. Each type of tetraspanin binding reagent is configured to bind with a corresponding type of exosome tetraspanin and form an immunocomplex comprising an exosome. Each conjugate pad is fluidly connected to a corresponding membrane. Each membrane includes a test line that includes an immobilized binding reagent to the target analyte. The immobilized binding reagent to the target analyte is configured to bind to a protein of the target analyte on the surface of an exosome in an immunocomplex comprising the exosome.
US12038434B2
A solution is described for preserving cells and/or extra-cellular components in naturally expressed bodily fluids (e.g. saliva, sputum, urine) for further downstream analysis and/or for diagnosis of a medical condition. The solution may be hypertonic with respect to blood. Techniques are described for enriching cells from a sample of a naturally expressed bodily fluid, and/or for analysis, e.g. to diagnose medical conditions such as cancer, obesity, infections, autism, Alzheimer disease, hetotological disorders, cardiovascular disease or disorders, diabetes, vulnerable plack, LTBI, HIV infection, COPD, ACQS.
US12038429B2
Devices, systems, and methods for strain-specific identification and assessment of susceptibility of microorganisms based on the response of sensors in a colorimetric sensor array to metabolic products of the microorganism. An exemplary method includes culturing a sample containing microorganisms in a medium and in gaseous communication with a colorimetric sensor array. Sensors in the colorimetric sensor array are exposed to volatile organic compounds produced by the microorganism. The method then includes assessing a resistance of the microorganism to at least one substance. The resistance is assessed based on a response of the sensors in the colorimetric sensor array to the volatile organic compounds produced by the microorganism.
US12038427B2
Health of perishable commodities such as eatables deteriorate over time. State of art systems for health monitoring of perishable commodities rely on measurement of limited parameters and also fail to consider effect of environment on the health of the perishable commodities. Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for multimodal sensing and monitoring of perishable commodities. The apparatus allows to change environment within a closed chamber in which the perishable commodity being monitored is kept, and in turn allows to generate health data in different environment settings. This data is used to generate a health model. Data collected in real-time are processed with the health model to establish a correlation with at least one image, wherein each of such images in the health model represents certain health state. Based on the established correlation, health of the perishable commodity is determined.
US12038419B2
In order to obtain analysis conditions, there is provided a liquid chromatography data processing device which generates, based on data regarding analysis conditions of a chromatography device and data on separation performance, display data that displays a graph showing correspondence of data regarding analysis conditions of the chromatography device and separation performance, generating a first group of biaxial data regarding the above analysis conditions, second group of biaxial data obtained by calculation comprising multiplication and/or division of two data of the first group of biaxial data, and display data according to a graph showing correspondence of the data regarding separation performance, wherein at least each axis of the first group of biaxial data and the second group of biaxial data is represented as a logarithmic axis.
US12038418B2
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a gas-analysis system. The gas-analysis system may include a first valve, a gas-measurement device, and a second valve. The first valve may be between a sample-gas line and a sample-gas outlet. The first valve may be configured to either allow or prevent gas movement between the sample-gas line and the sample-gas outlet. The gas-measurement device operatively coupled to a testing-gas line. The second valve may be between the sample-gas line, a flushing-gas inlet, and the testing-gas line. The second valve may be configured to allow gas movement from one of the sample-gas line or the flushing-gas inlet to the testing-gas line.
US12038417B2
A liquid sending system includes a plurality of liquid sending pumps that operate independently from one another and send a mobile phase into a common flow path, a pressure sensor for detecting a liquid sending pressure in the flow path, and a liquid sending failure detector configured to detect a liquid sending failure caused by any of the plurality of liquid sending pumps by periodically acquiring a liquid sending pressure detected by the pressure sensor and detecting a fluctuation of the liquid sending pressure associated with a driving period of each of the plurality of liquid sending pumps.
US12038407B2
Dual nucleic acid and protein isoform measurements are performed on low starting cell numbers (e.g. equivalent to the number of blastomeres composing early embryonic development stages (morula and blastocysts)), comprising integrating fractionation polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (fPAGE) of 10-100 cells with off-chip analysis of nucleic acids in the nuclei.
US12038395B2
A radiography system for use on a pipe traversing robot, including a mechanism configured to automatically adjust the position(s) of a radiation source and/or an imager thereof based on a diameter of the pipe. Another radiography system including a computer vision system configured to process radiography imagery to define a measured interface between the pipe and insulation surrounding the pipe, and a control system configured to automatically adjust a position(s) of a radiation source and/or an imager thereof based on a location of or non-presence of the measured interface in the radiography imagery. A computer vision system for detecting potential anomalies in a pipe's surface. A fail safe mechanism configured to prevent a robot from falling off a pipe while allowing the robot to traverse obstacles extending from or tangential to the pipe. A robot having one or more fail safe mechanisms configured to be selectably extended and retracted.
US12038390B2
Disclosed are image based counting systems and methods. Image based counting systems and methods employ one or more imaging devices (e.g., one or more color cameras) and one or more illumination devices (e.g., one or more illumination sources to provide variable and/or dynamic lighting). In some examples, the image based counting system provides illumination to a tray upon which one or more items (e.g., pills) are placed. The illuminated items are then imaged by the one or more imaging devices based on one or more imaging techniques or processes to determine and/or present information associated with one or more properties of the item.
US12038386B1
An image capturing unit in an inspection system for performing an inspection target appearance inspection, the image capturing unit comprising, an image capture unit, an illumination unit arranged in a periphery of the image capture unit, and a protective unit covering the image capture unit and the illumination unit, wherein the protective unit includes a plate-like member configured by a first planar portion and a second planar portion being connected through a bent portion bent in a dog leg shape, and the image capture unit is located on a back side of the first planar portion.
US12038372B2
Aspects of the disclosure include a system for performing cytometry that can be operated in three operational modes. In one operational mode, a fluorescence image of a sample is obtained by exciting one or more fluorophore(s) with a top-hat-shaped excitation beam with a plurality of beams that are radiofrequency shifted relative to one another. In another operational mode, a sample can be illuminated successively over a time interval by a laser beam at a plurality of excitation frequencies in a scanning fashion to generate an image of the sample from the detected fluorescence. In another operational mode, the system can be operated to illuminate a plurality of locations of a sample concurrently by a single excitation frequency (e.g., a horizontal extent), which is generated, e.g., by shifting the central frequency of a laser beam by a radiofrequency and detected fluorescence is used to analyze the sample.
US12038366B2
A detection device for tiny particles in a liquid is provided. The detection device includes a flow cell, a laser, a scattered light collection device, a photoelectric detector, a fiber Bragg grating and a first optical fiber coupler, wherein scattered light collected by the scattered light collection device is sent to the fiber Bragg grating through the first optical fiber coupler, and reflected light of the fiber Bragg grating after receiving the scattered light is sent to the photoelectric detector through the first optical fiber coupler. The device can eliminate most scattered light generated by the liquid, and reduce the interference of the scattered light of the liquid to scattered light signals generated by the particles, so that the scattered light signals captured by the photoelectric detector are mainly light signals generated by the particles.
US12038364B2
The present invention relates to an acceptor chamber for a Franz diffusion cell, comprising an upper opening closable by a membrane and, on the side wall of the acceptor chamber, an upper and a lower outlet opening designed to remove or add liquid medium from the acceptor chamber, the upper outlet opening being located within the upper two thirds of the side wall and the lower outlet opening is located in the lower quarter of the side wall, the upper and lower outlet openings being substantially opposite each other, to a Franz diffusion cell comprising a donor compartment and such an acceptor chamber, the donor compartment and the acceptor chamber being separated from each other by a membrane, and to a method for determining the diffusion of a substance through a membrane with such a Franz diffusion cell.
US12038360B2
The present invention provides a novel miRNA extraction method and a method for analyzing miRNA extracted by using said miRNA extraction method. According to the present invention, provided is, for example, a method for extracting miRNA from extracellular vesicles in a sample solution, by using a device capable of capturing extracellular vesicles, the miRNA extraction method comprising: an extracellular vesicle capturing step for capturing extracellular vesicles in a sample solution onto a device by bringing the sample solution and the device in contact with each other; and a miRNA extraction step for homogenizing the extracellular vesicles by bringing the device having captured the extracellular vesicles in contact with a homogenization liquid for extracellular vesicles to extract miRNA from the extracellular vesicle into the homogenization liquid.
US12038359B2
An automated method for preparing a sample suspension. The sample suspension can be used for both MALDI and antimicrobial susceptibility (AST). A suspension is prepared, and a portion of that suspension is removed for a first analysis (e.g. MALDI), leaving a remaining volume. The turbidity of the remaining volume is measured. If the turbidity is below a first threshold, the suspension is not used for a second analysis (e.g. AST) and is subjected to a concentration protocol to raise the turbidity of the suspension. If the turbidity is within a predetermined range, a volume of the suspension is calculated that will deliver a predetermined amount of sample to a vessel for the second analysis. If the turbidity of the suspension is above the predetermined range, and the suspension has not been diluted a predetermined number of times, the suspension is diluted according to a dilution protocol.
US12038351B2
A sensor configured to measure rate of flow of fugitive emissions on a flow control. The configurations may include devices that are sensitive to low flow or low pressure. These devices may include piezo-electric films or foams. These materials may deflect in response to flow of fluid along the outer surface of the reciprocating shaft. In one implementation, the embodiments can generate average leak rate over time and measure against regulation or specifications to ensure appropriate operation (e.g., leak suppression) of the flow control. Storing this data can provide a database of information that allows operators to benchmark performance of the flow control, for example, to correlate leaks to a certain date or time. This feature may, in turn, permit the operators to also correlate the device-specific performance to overall plant or network operations.
US12038346B2
According to examples, a system for measuring polarization dependent loss (PDL) for a device-under-test (DUT) may include a tunable laser, a polarization element and a power meter. The tunable laser may emit an optical signal to sweep across an optical band at a constant rate. The polarization element may scramble polarizations states of the optical signal emitted from the tunable laser. The power meter may take power measurements associated with the optical signal emitted from the tunable laser, wherein the power measurements from the power meter are used to determine a maximum insertion loss (IL) and a minimum insertion loss (IL) associated with the device-under-test (DUT). An average insertion loss (IL) and a polarization dependent loss (PDL) for the device-under-test (DUT) may be calculated based on the maximum insertion loss (IL) and the minimum insertion loss (IL) associated with the device-under-test (DUT).
US12038344B2
A phase power device, comprising: a circulation pipe (1) and a preset number of phase power control components (2), wherein the circulation pipe (1) is used to provide a channel for fluid circulation flow, and the preset number of phase power control components (2) are disposed on the circulation pipe (1) and used to drive fluid in the circulation pipe (1) to circulate and flow. Further provided is a fluid experiment system, comprising the phase power device. The phase power device and the fluid experiment system may enable the fluid to meet a set flow requirement during the experiment, thus reducing the use of auxiliary equipment, and reducing experiment costs.
US12038341B2
The invention relates to a method for adjusting a piezoelectric torque sensor of a measuring apparatus, which can be part of a test bench, for determining a torque applied to a test piece due to a force flux, wherein the measuring apparatus comprises a piezoelectric torque sensor and a second torque sensor based on a different measuring principle which is designed to continuously detect static torques, wherein the measuring apparatus is configured such that both torque sensors measure torques in the force flux, whereby a target measurement signal of the piezoelectric torque sensor is determined on the basis of a torque measurement by the second torque sensor, and whereby the detected measurement signal of the piezoelectric torque sensor is adjusted and output on the basis of the determined target measurement signal.
US12038325B2
An optical filter includes a variable wavelength interference filter including a pair of reflection films and having a plurality of transmission peak wavelengths according to the dimension of the gap between the pair of reflection films and a fixed wavelength filter disposed so as to face the variable wavelength interference filter and having a plurality of filter regions different from one another in transmission wavelength segment. The plurality of transmission peak wavelengths of the variable wavelength interference filter correspond to the transmission wavelength segments of the plurality of filter regions, respectively. The plurality of transmission peak wavelengths of the variable wavelength interference filter each change within the corresponding transmission wavelength segment of the plurality of filter regions in accordance with a change in the gap dimension.
US12038318B2
A conveyance mechanism (1) includes: a trough (10) that conveys an article; a support member (20) to which the trough is detachably coupled, the support member including a vibrator that vibrates the trough; and a coupling member (30) that couples the trough and the support member. The trough includes a first abutting member (11) that is located on a back side of a conveyance face for conveyance of the article and abuts on the support member. The support member includes a second abutting member (21) that is plate-shaped and has a second circumferential edge (22) vertically identical to a first circumferential edge (12) that is a circumferential edge of the first abutting member. The coupling member couples the trough and the support member by fastening the first abutting member and the second abutting member with the first circumferential edge and the second circumferential edge in superposition. The second abutting member (21) is provided with a through hole (23) passing through the second abutting member.
US12038317B2
A vibratory flowmeter (5) for meter verification is provided, including meter electronics (20) coupled to the first and second pickoff sensors (170L, 170R) and coupled to a driver (180), with the meter electronics (20) configured to: vibrate the flowmeter assembly (10) in a single mode using the driver (180), determine a single mode current (230) of the driver (180) and determine first and second response voltages (231) generated by the first and second pickoff sensors (170L, 170R), respectively, compute frequency response functions for the determined first and second response voltages (231) from the determined single mode current (230), fit the generated frequency response functions to a pole-residue model, and verify proper operation of the vibratory flowmeter (5) using the meter stiffness value (216), residual flexibility (218), and the meter mass (240) in embodiments.
US12038306B2
A sensor assembly includes a sensor unit including a generally rigid sensor housing and at least one electronic sensor component, a conduit coupled with the sensor unit and extending away from the sensor housing, and a rigid support structure supporting a portion of at least one of the conduit or the sensor housing at a first end adjacent the sensor unit and extending away from the sensor unit to a length of at least about 6 feet. The rigid support structure configured to maintain the sensor unit within an internal structure for monitoring using the electronic sensor component.
US12038305B2
A display device for an industrial sensor is provided, including an electronic display configured to display encoded information, the encoded information being information for retrieving device-related information about the sensor. An industrial sensor system, and a method for retrieving device-related information about a sensor of an industrial sensor, are also provided.
US12038304B2
An optical device includes a light receiving unit that receives reflected light reflected from an object by emitted light emitted from a light emitting unit, an optical element that guides incident light including the reflected light and ambient light from a region including the object to a position on the light receiving unit according to a component included in the incident light, and a detection device that detects the reflected light based on a distribution of received light intensity on the light receiving unit. A light receiving element of the light receiving unit is arranged in a second direction intersecting a first direction in which the incident light is dispersed by the optical element.
US12038302B2
A method, system, and computer readable medium configured to store instructions executable by a processor to identify personnel locations and/or conflicts between personnel and movable machines. The method includes creating, in a database, a dimensional map of an offshore unit, tracking, in the database, locations of the entities in the dimensional map of the offshore unit by receiving at least wireless monitoring from wireless devices associated with both the entities and the offshore unit, obtaining, with a programmable control device, operating parameters of a movable machine operating on the offshore unit, calculating, with the programmable control device, a dynamic movement zone that changes by moving dynamically in the dimensional map in the database based on the operating parameters of the movable machine, detecting, with the programmable control device, a conflict of at least one of the tracked locations interfering with the dynamic movement zone of the movable machine, and outputting the detected conflict with the programmable control device.
US12038294B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing platforms that utilize improved machine learning techniques for dynamic device quality evaluation. A computing platform may receive driving data from a mobile device. Using the driving data, the computing platform may compute a plurality of driving metrics, which may include: a geopoint expectation rate score, a trips per day rank score, a consecutive geopoint time difference score, a global positioning system (GPS) accuracy rating score, and a distance between consecutive trips score. By applying a machine learning model to the plurality of driving metrics, the computing platform may compute a device evaluation score, indicating a quality of the driving data received from the mobile device. Based on the device evaluation score, the computing platform may set flags, which may be accessible by a driver score generation platform, causing the driver score generation platform to perform an action with regard to the mobile device.
US12038292B2
A system for adaptive in-drive updating, for a vehicle travelling on a route, includes a controller having a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory. The vehicle is carrying a load. The controller is adapted to obtain one or more dynamic parameters pertaining to the load. A plurality of adaptive predictors is selectively executable by the controller at a timepoint during the route at which a completed portion of the route has been traversed by the vehicle and a remaining portion remains untraversed. The plurality of adaptive predictors includes a speed predictor configured to generate a global speed profile. The plurality of adaptive predictors includes a driving consumption predictor is configured to predict a driving consumption profile for the remaining portion of the route based in part on the dynamic parameter, the route features, the global speed profile, and a past drive consumption.
US12038290B2
Systems and methods for real time routing of vehicles. In particular, systems and methods are provided for real time routing of vehicles based on encounters with vulnerable road users. Vehicle perception and communication systems can provide live feedback of vulnerable road user locations. Various vulnerable road user behaviors can be identified by vehicle perception systems and flagged for avoidance in a central mapping system. The feedback can be used to route other fleet vehicles around the vulnerable road users.
US12038289B2
Systems and methods for providing indications to identify a selected autonomous vehicle, thereby distinguishing the selected autonomous vehicle from other autonomous vehicles in a fleet. In particular, autonomous vehicles that are not paired with a specific nearby user may employ various exterior indicators to dissuade the user from entering. Additionally, autonomous vehicles that are not paired with the specific nearby user may provide guidance toward the user's autonomous vehicle.
US12038286B2
A device may receive application data associated with transaction applications of client devices and transaction card data associated with transaction cards. The device may receive geographical data identifying a geographical area associated with users of the client devices and the transaction cards. The device may determine, based on the application data, the transaction card data, and the geographical data, location data identifying geographical locations of the users in the geographical area. The device may determine, based on the location data, quantity data identifying quantities of the users located on multiple paths of the geographical area. The device may process the geographical data, the location data, and the quantity data, with a machine learning model, to identify a path with less than a threshold quantity of users in the geographical area. The device may perform one or more actions based on the path.
US12038265B2
Systems for delivering explosives with variable densities are disclosed herein. Methods of delivering explosives with variable densities and methods of varying the energy of explosives in a blasthole are disclosed herein.
US12038262B1
A mechanical self-percussion fuze for a non-gyrating ammunition includes a firing pin disposed along a central axis and a primer provided in a primer holder. The primer holder is movable about an axis of rotation that is parallel and off-centered with respect to the central axis between a storage position in which the primer is off-centered with respect to the firing pin and an armed position in which the primer is aligned with the firing pin and safety devices coupled to the primer holder in order to keep the fuze in a safe state until at least two mutually independent physical phenomena linked to the firing of the ammunition occur. The fuze has a wind turbine designed to be driven in rotation by the relative movement of the air during the flight of the ammunition and to transmit this rotational movement to the primer holder only after the safety devices have been removed.
US12038248B2
A rifled firearm suppressor, a.k.a. a silencer, to be mounted in the front section of the rifled firearm barrel. The suppressor includes a stem 4 including rear discharge chamber 11 and a front extension chamber 12; the two chambers 11 and 12 are separated from each other by a dividing groove 3. The suppressor further includes a removable connecting sleeve 16 coupled to the stem and configured to connect to the barrel of the firearm. Also, The suppressor further includes at least two outlet openings 10 symmetrically axially oriented with respect to the axis of the suppressor at the forehead of the front section of the discharge chamber 11.
US12038239B2
A heat exchanger includes: a water-repellent coating film on part of a surface of the heat exchanger. The surface on which the water-repellent coating film is disposed includes a surface structure including protrusions. D/L<0.36, D/L>0.4×(L/H), D<200, L−D<1000, H>700, 0>1.28×D×10−2+2.77 ×(L−D)×10−3−1.1×D2×10−5−5.3×(L−D)2×10−7−9.8×D×(L−D)×10−6−2.0, and 90°<θ<120°, where L is an average pitch of the protrusions in nm, D is an average diameter of the protrusions in nm, H is an average height of the protrusions in nm, and θ is a contact angle of water on a smooth plane of the water-repellent coating film.
US12038237B2
Embodiments of this application provide a heat exchanger, a modular indirect evaporation cooling system, and a method for controlling a modular indirect evaporation cooling system, and relate to the field of indirect cooling technologies, to improve cooling efficiency of the modular indirect evaporation cooling system. The heat exchanger includes a first heat exchange core and a second heat exchange core. The first heat exchange core includes a first heat exchange fin and a first seal, where two first seals are disposed opposite to each other and are separately connected to the first heat exchange fin in an intersected manner. The second heat exchange core includes a second heat exchange fin, a second seal, and a heat exchange medium permeability channel, where two second seals are opposite to each other and are separately connected to the second heat exchange fin in an intersected manner.
US12038235B2
A heat exchange core according to one embodiment includes: a header flow path that extends in a first direction; and a plurality of branching flow paths that are connected to the header flow path and extend in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. A first angle formed by the header flow path with respect to a virtual connection plane between the header flow path and the plurality of branching flow paths is less than a second angle formed by the branching flow paths with respect to the connection plane.
US12038234B2
Disclosed is a microchannel heat exchanger comprising a primary core including a first header and a second header and a secondary core including a first auxiliary header and a second auxiliary header, further comprising a first header interconnect extending between the first header and the first auxiliary header and having a first interconnect fluid passage extending therethrough; and a second header interconnect extending between the second auxiliary header and the second header and having a second interconnect fluid passage extending therethrough.
US12038233B2
In one aspect, a hybrid heat exchanger that includes a metallic serpentine tube having an inlet end portion to receive a process fluid, an outlet end portion, and a series of runs and return bends directing the process fluid from the inlet end portion to the outlet end portion of the metallic serpentine tube. The hybrid heat exchanger further includes a thermally conductive polymer body thermally integrated with the serpentine tube. The thermally conductive polymer body has an outer surface to be contacted by a fluid, such as air and/or water. The thermally conductive polymer body is configured to transfer heat between the metallic serpentine tube and the fluid contacting the outer surface of the thermally conductive polymer body. The outer surface of the thermally conductive polymer body includes surface enhancement features that affect flow of the fluid across the outer surface of the thermally conductive polymer body.
US12038228B2
A refrigerator is provided having a shelf assembly and a controller. The shelf assembly may include a shelf and a drive mechanism configured to move the shelf in at least a vertical direction. The refrigerator also includes an object detection system configured to detect an article placed adjacent to the shelf. The controller may be configured to determine the proximity of an article and the shelf using the object detection system, detect a shelf moving event, and move the shelf in response to the shelf moving event. The shelf moving event may be based, at least in part, on the proximity of the article and the shelf. The controller may also be configured to move the shelf in response to detecting a flow restriction above or below the shelf.
US12038218B2
An appliance having at least a freezer compartment. The appliance may include a at least one freezer door accessing the freezer compartment. The freezer door may include one or more articulating feet positionable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The freezer door may include one or more handles. The appliance may include one or more freezer racks.
US12038216B2
This ice making machine includes an ice making unit that includes an ice making surface and a cryogen flow channel through which a cryogen for cooling the ice making surface flows; a pump that pressurizes and discharges the cryogen cooled by a heat exchanger; and a control unit that controls a discharge amount of the pump. The cryogen is carbon dioxide, and the control unit controls the pump such that the cryogen is in a gas-liquid mixed state at an outlet of the cryogen flow channel.
US12038214B2
A method for increasing working gas flow rate through gas bearings of a free piston, gamma configured Stirling heat pump to avoid failure of the gas bearings while maintaining thermal cooling power. The Stirling heat pump lifts heat from a storage chamber and has pistons that are driven in reciprocation at an operating frequency by linear electric motors. A temperature control maintains a steady state storage chamber temperature by sensing storage chamber temperature and modulating piston amplitude. The invention comprises (a) driving the pistons with linear electric motors that are driven by a variable frequency, AC power source; (b) sensing the pistons' amplitude of reciprocation; and (c) if the sensed piston amplitude is less than a selected piston activation amplitude, increasing the frequency of the AC power source to increase the Stirling heat pump's operating frequency. That decreases thermal cooling power which causes the temperature control to increase piston amplitude.
US12038209B2
A marine air conditioning unit, according to various embodiments, can include a base plate having one or more mounting holes. A main unit is supported on the base plate comprising an evaporator, a compressor, a compressor driver, a condenser, an electronic expansion valve, a blower, an electrical pressure sensor and a condensation pan operatively coupled together. The compressor can be a variable speed inverter brushless direct current (BLDC) compressor. The electronic expansion valve can be located in a refrigerant line connecting the condenser to the evaporator. A controller can constantly receive and, using an algorithm, analyze sensor information from multiple sensors positioned within the main unit. Based on the sensor information, the controller can transmit a control signal to various components and further adjust the electronic expansion valve to control the precise amount of refrigerant to pass to the evaporator.
US12038191B2
An air-conditioning control device includes: an air-conditioning data acquisition unit to acquire air-conditioning data; a determination unit to determine whether or not the air-conditioning data is present in a sparse region; an estimation unit to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the air-conditioning data is present in the sparse region, apply extrapolation using a non-learning model for associating the air-conditioning data with a startup time of an air conditioner to a machine learning model, and estimate the startup time of the air conditioner from the air-conditioning data by using the non-learning model; and a control unit to perform control to start up the air conditioner at the startup time estimated by the estimation unit.
US12038190B2
The disclosure describes an environmental control device with a head unit including processing circuitry and one or more sensors configured to send signals to an environmental control system to make adjustments to the room environment. The head unit is configured to connect to a wall plate that supports the head unit. The wall plate may include an ID device configured to identify the type environmental control equipment to which the wall plate is configured to connect. Once connected to the wall plate the head unit may detect the ID device, determine an ID value from the ID device and customize a presentation of setup parameters for the head unit.
US12038187B2
A sensing assembly includes a baseboard and a daughterboard operatively coupled to the baseboard. The baseboard includes a microcontroller unit (MCU) mounted to the baseboard, the MCU executing a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and embedded Artificial Intelligence (AI) code, and two or more sensors that are mounted to the baseboard and operatively coupled to the MCU. The daughterboard includes two or more sensors that are mounted to the daughterboard. The MCU is configured to receive an output signal from each of the two or more sensors mounted to the daughterboard and the two or more sensors mounted to the baseboard and to process two or more of the output signals using the embedded AI code to produce one or more output parameters. The baseboard includes communication circuitry for communicating one or more of the output parameters to a remote device such as a remote server.
US12038184B2
The present invention discloses an outdoor unit 100 for an air-conditioning apparatus, comprising: a bottom plate made of metal; a heat exchanger made of metal that is different from metal of the bottom plate, which includes a front surface portion, a corner portion and a side surface portion, and which is formed in an L-shape when viewed from; and an upper support which continuously covers the front surface portion, the corner portion and the side surface portion when viewed from above.
US12038171B2
The present invention relates to a fuel supply device of a circulating fluidized bed boiler. The fuel supply device includes: a feeder transferring fuel; a chute extending downwardly inclined from a lower end portion of the feeder to a combustor, the chute supplying the fuel to the combustor through a fuel injection hole; and a combustion heat blocking part provided at a portion of the fuel injection hole, the combustion heat blocking part preventing the fuel from being melted or burned at an end of the fuel injection hole connected to the combustor and in the fuel injection hole due to back fire. The combustion heat blocking part includes a heat shield plate installed at a sidewall of the combustor at an upper side of the fuel injection hole.
US12038161B2
A lighting assembly and a lighting device are provided. The lighting assembly is U-shaped and includes a radiator, a light-emitting plate and a connector. The radiator is provided with a rotating groove and an avoidance notch communicated with the rotating groove. The rotating groove is provided on the inner side of the radiator, and the avoidance notch extends from the rotating groove to the edge of the radiator. The light-emitting plate is provided on the radiator and includes a plurality of light-emitting diode (LED) lamps in parallel and/or in series. The connector includes a first connecting part and a second connecting part. The first connecting part is configured to be connected to a free end of a telescopic assembly, and the second connecting part is placed in the rotating groove. The avoidance notch provides a space for the movement of the first connecting part.
US12038156B2
A light source module is provided. The light source module includes a lead frame, a light source, a cup part, and a reflector. The light source is disposed on the lead frame, wherein the light source provides a light. The cup part is disposed on the lead frame, wherein the cup part includes an opening, a plurality of thick-wall portions and a plurality of thin-wall portions. The thick-wall portions and the thin-wall portions surround the light source and define a space. The reflector covers the opening. At least a portion of the light is reflected by the reflector, and is emitted through the thick-wall portions and the thin-wall portions.
US12038151B2
An apparatus is provided comprising a photovoltaic panel configured to convert light into electricity, a battery configured to receive electricity from the photovoltaic panel and to store the electricity, a charging port configured to receive stored electricity from the battery and provide the stored electricity, at least one light emitting device configured to receive electricity from the battery and to emit light, a button configured to actuate the at least one light emitting device, and a diffuser surrounding the at least one light emitting device, wherein the diffuser diffuses light emitted by the at least one light emitting device, and wherein the diffuser has a first collapsed configuration and a second expanded configuration. Also provided is a method of distributing light from a light producing device, and an assembly comprising the apparatus and a bag that includes a pocket configured to receive the apparatus.
US12038146B2
A vehicular lamp fitting capable of suppressing vibration of a reflector (vibration that is occurred during vehicle travel, etc.) is provided. A vehicular lamp fitting comprising a first holding member that holds both a light source and a light control member that controls light emitted by the light source; a second holding member that holds the first holding member so as to be tiltable in the up, down, left and right directions; a vibration suppression unit that suppresses vibration of the first holding member relative to the second holding member; and the vibration suppression unit comprising: a first portion provided on the first holding member; a second portion, which is provided on the second holding member and suppresses the vibration of the first holding member with respect to the second holding member by abutting the first portion vibrating in the vibration direction of the first holding member.
US12038143B1
A light strip facilitated for shape forming includes a flexible member and a light emitting assembly. The flexible member has an elongated shape and includes a light transmissive portion and a cavity arranged at an internal thereof. The light emitting assembly includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged spaced apart from each other and inside the cavity. The flexible member includes a slot arranged at one side and extending in the same direction and is used for clamping and securing to a stand portion formed by a metal wire, in order to form a planer or three-dimensional shaped light ornament.
US12038137B2
The invention relates to a tank (71) for storing a liquefied gas, wherein the tank (71) includes peripheral walls (1), the peripheral walls (1) including a sealing membrane and at least one thermal insulation barrier, wherein the sealing membrane includes corrugated metal plates comprising a first series of parallel corrugations, extending along a direction x and a second series of parallel corrugations extending along a direction y, the direction x being a direction of greater slope, wherein the peripheral walls (1) comprise filling elements with pressure loss, which are disposed in the corrugations of the first series of corrugations so as to form a belt (16) of filling elements extending all round the tank (71), the belt being formed of at least one obstruction part (17) and of at least one discontinuation part (18), the belt including at most one discontinuation part (18) per peripheral wall (1).
US12038135B2
An apparatus in the form of a subterranean storage container configured to store a volume of a small molecular gas, such as hydrogen or methane. In some embodiments, a casing is arranged to extend into a subterranean formation. A top end of the casing is connected to a top cap structure. The top cap structure includes an adapter flange connected to an inner liner which extends within the casing and is separated therefrom by a circumferentially extending annulus. The annulus is configured to be filled with a fluid at a predetermined pressure. The fluid may be an uncompressible liquid such as propylene glycol. The small molecular gas is stored within an interior of the inner liner at a selected pressure, such as above 1000 pounds per square inch (psi).
US12038134B2
The present invention discloses a knob cap for a high-pressure tank including a first knob cap portion having a coupling groove coupled to a knob of a liner of the high-pressure tank in a lower surface, including a peripheral wing portion extending outward to be in contact with a surface of the liner to outside of a lower portion, and having a column portion in the shape of a column extending upward in a center; and a second knob cap portion integrally coupled with the first knob cap portion, having the column portion of the first knob cap portion inserted into a hollow, and including a plurality of inner grooves in the shape of a column having an upper end opened outside of the hollow and extending downward.
US12038132B2
The invention relates to a head (2) for a tank (1) used to store pressurised gas, comprising, in an integrated manner: at least two components (131, 132) for treating, distributing and/or shutting off the gas; an upstream connector (20) suitable for being removably attached in a boss (4) of the tank (1); and downstream outlet pipes (211, 212) suitable for connecting the head (2) to any system using said gas by means of the aforementioned components (131, 132). According to the invention, each component (131, 132) comprises at least two sealing devices (141, 142) defining an intermediate space therebetween, and at least one pipe (12), called tapping pipe, connects each of the intermediate spaces and a common space (8) into which ail the tapping pipes (12) emerge, with an orifice (15) providing a connection between the common space (8) and a gas-detection device (16).
US12038118B2
Pipeline isolation tool for sealing extrusion gaps of up to about 20% or greater includes a pair of fenced barriers (60, 160) having overlapping segments (68/70, 168/170) for restraining a seal (40). The segments expand to a pipe wall before the seal to prevent transition of seal medium over the segments and form a support wall for the seal. The support wall may include a protection ring (200). Springs (80, 180) surround each fenced barrier for returning the support system to a relaxed position. Inner rings (90, 190) are provided on sealing element facing surfaces (64, 164) of the fenced barrier for supporting the segments. The inner rings define a smooth inner guiding surface (92, 192) for the seal. The guiding surface is tilted inwardly towards the seal for resisting the sealing element during expansion and for preventing an inside diameter of the seal from expanding outwardly when compressed.
US12038111B1
A flexible hose reel for a drain pipe, the flexible hose reel includes: a cylindrical basket comprising a support rod disposed in a central portion thereof, wherein the basket is fixedly fitted into a rectangular frame in which a structure is assembled; and a winding shaft provided on a lower surface of the rotating disk covering an upper portion of the basket, the winding shaft being coupled to the support rod of the basket such that a flexible hose is wound on or unwound from the winding shaft through a withdrawal hole provided in a corner of the basket.
US12038108B2
A pipe restraining system has first and second pipes. Each pipe has an axis and a groove adjacent an axial end thereof. A bushing bridges and hydraulically seals with the first and second pipes. First and second clamp rings removably attach the bushing to a respective one of the first and second pipes. When the pipe restraining system is assembled, axial tensile loads passing through the first pipe are transmitted through the first clamp ring, the bushing, and the second clamp ring to the second pipe. An axial distance between the first and second pipes remains substantially constant.
US12038098B2
A bistable electromagnetic actuator includes a housing extending along an exertion axis of the actuator, two excitation coils arranged inside the housing and having at least one winding around the exertion axis for generating a magnetic control flux, a core that can be moved along the exertion axis and immobilized in two end positions depending on the magnetic flux generated by the coils, an actuating member coupled to the core to form a movable assembly, and a manual control device comprising a drive shaft mounted such that it can rotate about a first axis orthogonal to the exertion axis. The drive shaft has at least one tooth engaging with at least one first raised part translationally connected to the actuating member such that rotation of the drive shaft generates translational movement of the movable assembly.
US12038096B1
The present invention discloses a choke combination device for gas production. wherein a first boss is arranged on an inner wall of the choke sleeve, a first through hole is formed in the middle of the first boss, a second boss is arranged on an outer peripheral side surface of the choke; the plug is provided with a stepped hole; outer walls of the first cylinder and the second cylinder are in sliding connection with a key groove in the inner wall of the choke sleeve, inner walls of the first cylinder and the second cylinder are in threaded connection with the first shaft section and the second shaft section respectively. The device is simple to replace and operate, which can save the operating time of replacement operation.
US12038091B2
A rotary valve includes a stator member with a planar stator face, the stator member having a plurality of stator channels for conducting a fluid; and a rotor member with a planar rotor face facing and in contact with the stator face, the rotor member having a rotor channel; wherein the rotor member is rotatable with respect to the stator member about a rotation axis, such that in a conducting position, the rotor channel interconnects two of the stator channels and the two stator channels are in fluid communication; wherein at least one of the stator channels has a transverse channel section opening into the stator face and running transversely with respect to the rotation axis; wherein the rotor channel has a bottom, which at an intersection end of the rotor channel is inclined with respect to the rotation axis, such that the rotor channel elongates an inner surface of the stator channel, when the rotor member is in the conducting position.
US12038088B2
An annular sealing device in a recess in a housing has a movable annular piston; and an annular inner periphery sealing lip adhered to part of a first edge along an inner periphery of the piston and that slides while in contact with the recess. The first edge has a first inner periphery edge with a first thickness; a second inner periphery edge adjoining the first inner periphery edge and with a thinner second thickness; and a third inner periphery edge adjoining the second inner periphery edge and with a thinner yet third thickness. The first, second, and third inner periphery edges are in this order from the outer periphery of the piston. The inner periphery sealing lip is adhered to the third inner periphery edge and part of the second inner periphery edge to cover a step formed by thickness differences between the second and third inner periphery edges.
US12038060B2
The present invention provides a flexible member having excellent load resistance and flexibility while achieving a reduction in size. This flexible member is provided with: a main body part which includes multiple wave washers that are stacked in an axial direction and are joined to one another by multiple joint parts, and which is capable of bending relative to the axial direction by elastic deformation of the wave washers; and easily deformable parts formed between the joint parts that are adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction in each wave washer.
US12038059B2
A power transmission device includes a flywheel, a torque limiter unit, and a damper unit. The torque limiter unit includes first and second side plates and a friction plate. The first side plate is attached to the flywheel. The first side plate is disposed on a first axial side to the flywheel. The friction plate is disposed axially between the first side plate and the second side plate. The damper unit includes input rotational bodies, an output plate, and an elastic member. The output plate is disposed axially between the first side plate and the flywheel.
US12038051B2
A coupling assembly includes a multiple-position actuation mechanism and a detent assembly holding the actuation mechanism in a discrete position. The detent assembly may include a mechanical detent. In one example, the mechanical detent engages the actuation mechanism and holds the actuation member in a neutral or middle position.
US12038045B2
A gib includes a metallic substrate having a first face and a second face and an attachment disposed on the metallic substrate. The attachment includes a first functional surface disposed on the first face of the metallic substrate. The first functional surface is configured as a bearing surface. The attachment may be formed of a fabric resin composite material.
US12038044B2
A rolling bearing 1 includes an outer ring 1A, an inner ring 1B, and a plurality of rolling elements. The outer ring IA includes a first outer ring 10 and a second outer ring 20. The inner ring 1B includes a first inner ring 30 and a second inner ring 40. In a cross section including a central axis R, grain flows 111 in the steel constituting the first outer ring 10 extend along a first rolling surface 511, grain flows 211 in the steel constituting the second outer ring 20 extend along a second rolling surface 512, grain flows 311 in the steel constituting the first inner ring 30 extend along a third rolling surface 513, and grain flows 411 in the steel constituting the second inner ring 40 extend along a fourth rolling surface 514.
US12038042B2
A suspension thrust bearing device providing a lower support cap, an upper bearing cap and at least one bearing arranged between the caps. The upper bearing cap includes an outer skirt radially surrounding the lower support cap. The lower support cap having at least one annular deflector flange extending towards the outer skirt of the upper bearing cap while remaining radially spaced apart from the outer skirt, the deflector flange having a lower inclined surface extending obliquely downwards.
US12038041B2
A ball and socket joint assembly is disclosed that includes a body defining a cavity, a collet disposed in the cavity to receive a ball of a connector, and an actuator shaft coupled to the collet for rotating and translating the collet in the cavity. The cavity has a distal opening to accept the ball and an engagement feature extending into the cavity. The collet has an outer diameter larger than the opening in the body when the ball is disposed in the collet, and the collet has a corresponding engagement feature around at least a portion of the outer surface for receiving the engagement feature and converting rotation of the compression member into translation of the compression member along a proximal-distal axis of the body. The collet is compressed against the opening of the cavity when the collet is advanced distally against the opening.
US12038037B2
A fastener for releasably securing a member including a body including a shank and a recess, the recess configured for receiving the member. A gate is mounted to slide axially on the shank between a closed position closing a mouth of the recess for retaining the member, and an open position. Resilient means engages the gate and the shank to urge the gate to the closed position, and latches are mounted on opposing sides of the gate, wherein each latch is self-closing and engages the body for holding the gate in the closed position providing an auto-locking fastener that, for greater security, requires three independent actions for release.
US12038036B2
A seal includes a barrel extending between a base and a top, in which the barrel has a cylindrical cavity passing through it between its base and its top, and a skirt indissociable from the barrel and extending around said barrel, in which the skirt adopts the shape of a dome of which the exterior edges extend out beyond the base starting from the top. The seal is able to divert the fluid and keep the space under the skirt fluid tight.
US12038028B2
A set for a furniture product includes a panel, an adjacent panel and a locking device. The panel includes a groove and at least one hole connected to the groove via an opening. The adjacent panel includes a first edge that is configured to be arranged in the groove of the panel. The locking device is configured to lock the first edge of the adjacent panel in the groove of the panel. The locking device includes a cylinder and a lever connected to the cylinder. The cylinder is configured to be arranged in the hole in the panel. The cylinder is configured to be displaceable in the hole between a first mounting position and a second locking position by rotation of the cylinder.
US12038020B2
A diffuser and method of diffusing a working fluid is disclosed. The assembly includes a shroud, and a hub disposed within the shroud. The hub includes an upstream portion, a downstream portion having a recess extending axially into the hub, the hub being configured to diffuse a flow of fluid downstream of the hub.
US12038016B2
A blower is provided that includes a lower case having a suction hole through which air flows into the blower; an upper case which is disposed at an upper side of the lower case and which has a discharge port through which the air is discharged from the blower; a fan motor that provides a rotational force; and a fan disposed inside of the lower case and fixed to a motor shaft of the fan motor. The fan includes a hub having an outer surface, which extends at an incline at a first angle with respect to the motor shaft; a plurality of blades coupled to the hub; and a shroud having an inner surface which extends at an incline, with respect to the motor shaft, at a second angle that is greater than the first angle, and which faces the outer surface of the hub with respect to the plurality of blades, and thus, the air discharged from the fan may change into an ascending current.
US12038012B2
Embodiments of this application provide a centrifugal pump. The centrifugal pump includes a pump casing and a first drive mechanism, a second drive mechanism, a pump shaft, and an impeller that are disposed in the pump casing. The pump casing includes a first chamber and a second chamber that are connected. An axis of the pump shaft coincides with axes of the first chamber and the second chamber. An inner diameter of the second chamber is greater than that of the first chamber. The impeller is connected to an end of the pump shaft. The first drive mechanism and the second drive mechanism are connected to the pump shaft and located on a side, away from the impeller, of the pump shaft. The first drive mechanism is configured to drive the pump shaft to rotate.
US12038005B2
A moving part of a compressor, a compressor including the moving part, and a method of manufacturing the moving part, the moving part including a base material having a polished surface and including a steel material; an adhesive layer arranged on the polished surface; and a coating layer including diamond-like carbon. The adhesive layer may be arranged between the base material and the coating layer and bond the coating layer to the base material, and the base material may include an etching-processed area having a plurality of microgrooves (MG) extending in a downward direction into the base material from the polished surface.
US12037995B2
A swash plate compressor includes a cylinder block accommodating a piston for compressing a refrigerant, a front housing coupled to the cylinder block and having a crank chamber, a rear housing having a suction chamber and a discharge chamber and coupled to the cylinder block, and a suction reed plate inserted between a valve plate and the cylinder block. The swash plate compressor includes: a first orifice hole through which the refrigerant in the crank chamber passes; a second orifice hole communicating between the first orifice hole and the suction chamber; an intermediate flow path configured to connect the first orifice hole and the second orifice hole; and the valve plate inserted into the rear housing and having a suction chamber pressure-maintaining space connected to the suction chamber and configured to maintain a pressure equal to a pressure in the suction chamber.
US12037991B2
A method of controlling power delivered to a shape memory alloy, SMA, actuator wire arrangement, wherein the arrangement comprises a plurality of SMA actuator wires, comprising: the steps of: applying, at a PWM frequency, to each of the SMA actuator wires during respective active periods a succession of voltage pulses; and applying, during a resistance measurement period, to one of the plurality of SMA actuator wires a resistance measurement current pulse, wherein the resistance measurement period corresponds to the respective active period of one of the plurality of SMA actuator wires.
US12037989B2
An elevator cage is used in an energy storage and delivery system to move blocks between a lower elevation of a tower and a higher elevation of a tower to store energy and to move blocks between a higher elevation of the tower and a lower elevation of the tower under force of gravity to generate electricity. The elevator cage removably receives a block thereon and supports the block on at least three sides.
US12037974B2
A manufacturing method for a hydroelectric power generation system includes removing a transaxle including a first motor generator from an end-of-life hybrid electric vehicle, and assembling a hydraulic turbine to a rotary shaft coupled to the first motor generator in the removed transaxle. The rotary shaft to which the hydraulic turbine is assembled may be an engine shaft connected to an engine of the hybrid electric vehicle when the transaxle is mounted on the hybrid electric vehicle.
US12037972B2
A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.
US12037968B1
A fuel delivery system for a vehicle having an engine includes a fuel injection system, a fuel supply line configured to supply fuel from to the fuel injection system, and a fuel pressure sensor. An active expansion chamber (AEC) accumulator is fluidly coupled to the fuel supply line and includes a housing defining an interior chamber and an adjustable expansion chamber, a plunger assembly separating the interior chamber and the adjustable expansion chamber, and an actuator configured to selectively move the plunger assembly to actively adjust a volume of the adjustable expansion chamber. A controller is configured to detect a pressure change condition in the fuel delivery system and, in response, automatically adjust the volume of the adjustable expansion chamber to maintain the pressure of the fuel delivery system below a predetermined threshold to thereby facilitate preventing fuel leakage at the fuel injectors when the engine is shut off.
US12037962B1
A high-speed, air-breathing propulsion engine includes an inlet configured to compress incoming air, a fuel injector configured to supply a fuel for mixing with the compressed incoming air to form a fuel-air mixture, and a combustor configured to burn the fuel-air mixture. The combustor includes a rotation detonation combustor system and a bluff body system that cooperate to generate thrust.
US12037959B1
Provided is a seal structure of a belt cover for an internal combustion engine having excellent sealability on the composite mating surfaces of an upper cover, a lower cover, and an inside cover constituting the belt cover. The seal structure of the belt cover for the internal combustion engine according to the present invention includes: an inside cover member disposed on a side of the body of the internal combustion engine; and an outside cover member disposed on a side opposite to the body of the internal combustion engine, and accommodating a timing belt TB in a liquid-tight state together with the inside cover member. The outside cover member is divided into an upper outside cover 4 and a lower outside cover 5. A first seal is formed between the upper outside cover 4 and the inside cover member. A second seal is formed between the upper outside cover 4 and the lower outside cover 5. At a boundary between the first seal and the second seal, a seating portion 36 on which a lower end 32a of a seal member 32 of the first seal is seated is formed by an end upper surface of a male portion 33 of the lower outside cover 5 and an end upper surface of a projecting portion 35 of the inside cover member flush with the end upper surface of the male portion 33.
US12037952B2
Systems and methods including a plurality of reformer stacks extended around the combustion chamber. The reformer stacks are distributed along a length of the combustion chamber in the axial direction and configured to provide output products to the combustion chamber.
US12037949B2
A shaft assembly for an aircraft powerplant, comprising: a shaft extending along an axis from a first shaft end to a second shaft end; a bearing assembly extending about the axis and supporting the first shaft end of the shaft, the bearing assembly including an inner race secured to the shaft and an outer race radially outward of the inner race relative to the axis; a seal extending about the axis and located radially outward of the shaft, the seal disposed axially between the bearing assembly and the second shaft end; a housing having a housing wall located between the bearing assembly and the seal; and a washer extending about the axis and located axially between the bearing assembly and the seal, the washer extending axially from the outer race to the housing wall.
US12037938B1
A composite airfoil assembly for a turbine engine. The composite airfoil assembly has an airfoil outer surface defining opposing pressure and suction sides, which extend between a leading edge and a trailing edge. The composite airfoil assembly includes a composite airfoil having a woven core and a skin applied to at least a portion of a core exterior. The composite airfoil assembly also includes a cladding coupled to a skin outer surface where at least one edge or portion of the cladding is located adjacent at least one of the trailing edge, a root, or a tip, wherein the cladding includes a tapered portion.
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A cooling apparatus for a vehicle includes air-cooling first and second heat exchangers that are placed beside each other. A coolant flow-out portion of the first heat exchanger from which a first coolant which is a cooling target of the first heat exchanger flows out and a coolant flow-out portion of the second heat exchanger from which a second coolant which is a cooling target of the second heat exchanger flows out are placed at ends at opposite positions separated along a diagonal line on a parallel placement surface of the two heat exchangers. A first cooling fan is placed opposing the coolant flow-out portion of the first heat exchanger, and a second cooling fan is placed opposing the coolant flow-out portion of the second heat exchanger. With this configuration, cooling performance of two air-cooling heat exchangers placed beside each other can be improved.
