US12047274B2
The present disclosure provides a path computation method, a non-transitory storage medium, and an electronic apparatus. The path computation method includes: sending a path computation request (PCReq) message to a path computation element (PCE), wherein the PCReq message carries a constraint condition ID including at least one of a protocol ID, a multi-topology ID, a network slice ID, an application ID, or a traffic engineering (TE) target ID, and the PCReq message is configured to instruct the PCE to compute a TE path according to the constraint condition ID; and receiving a path computation reply (PCRep) message returned from the PCE, wherein the PCRep message carries the TE path.
US12047272B2
A device receives border gateway protocol (BGP) data associated with links provided in a segment routing network. The segment routing network includes a first autonomous system (AS) with first network devices interconnected by a first portion of the links, a second AS with second network devices interconnected by a second portion of the links, and an inter-AS link provided between one of the first network devices and one of the second network devices. The device filters prefixes of the BGP data to identify BGP data associated with the inter-AS link, where the BGP data associated with the inter-AS link includes data identifying state information associated with the inter-AS link. The device determines an operational state of the inter-AS link based on the BGP data associated with the inter-AS link, and performs one or more actions based on the operational state of the inter-AS link.
US12047260B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for network incident management. A method for network incident management comprises aggregating network metrics associated with a monitored network in a historical network data database, identifying incidents based on the network metrics, generating a training data set based on the network metrics and the incidents, wherein the training data set comprises time series of network metrics as training input and incidents as labels, training an incident model using the training data set, receiving real-time network metrics from the network via the network interface, determining an incident prediction based on the incident model using the real-time network metrics as input, and causing a user interface device to provide an alert to a user based on the incident prediction.
US12047257B2
Systems and methods of disconnecting a network service provided over a network service path include using a computing device that obtains a service identifier assigned to network service and identifies a port of a network device included in a network service path associated with the service. The computing device transmits a request to the network device for port configuration data of the network device and based on the received port configuration data, determines whether the port is assigned to the network service. If so, the computing devices executes a remediation operation which includes transmitting a reconfiguration command to the network device that is adapted to cause the network device to update the port configuration data to free the port.
US12047243B2
A method of generating a synthetic network includes receiving, by a group structure identification module, anonymized input data related to an original network. The anonymized input data includes an anonymized list of nodes, a list of edges and a list of groups. The method further includes determining, by the group structure identification module, for each pair of nodes, a probability of an edge between the pair of nodes. A resulting list of probabilities corresponds to a summary group structure. The method further includes generating, by a synthetic random network generation module, at least one synthetic random network based, at least in part, on the determined probabilities.
US12047240B2
A system and method for modifying functionality within a wireless network based on a provided passphrase is disclosed. The method includes defining a first and second set of network policies associated with a first and second passphrase, respectively, with the second passphrase being different from the first. The method also includes determining if the provided passphrase used by a client device while engaging in an authentication process with a mutable network device to secure a network connection matches one of the first or second passphrases. The method further includes configuring a traffic kernel module within the network device to provide the network connection to the client device, the connection defined by the set of network policies corresponding to the provided passphrase. Each network policy describes a functionality and governs the circumstances in which it is applied, the functionality being at least one of an access, a capacity, and a resource.
US12047215B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern for a burst of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) communications, wherein the burst of PDSCH communications includes one or more associated PDSCH communications within a period of the burst of PDSCH communications, and wherein the DMRS pattern indicates a pattern of DMRS transmitted in the burst of PDSCH communications. The UE may receive the burst of PDSCH communications based at least in part on the DMRS pattern. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12047206B2
A differential transmission circuit for a communication device performs bidirectional communication via a differential transmission line. The differential transmission circuit include: output transistors that are turned on and off according to a drive signal during a transmission period; a signal generation unit that generates and outputs the drive signal; short-circuit transistors connected between gates and drains of the output transistors; and a cut off unit that cuts off a supply path of the drive signal between the signal generation unit and the gates of the output transistors. The cut off unit cuts off the supply path of the drive signal during a reception period in which a reception operation is performed by the communication device.
US12047205B2
The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. A signal processing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a sampler to downsample a baseband signal; a memory to store the downsampled data; a frequency shifter to read the data in the memory and shift the read data in a frequency domain; a symbol rate calculator to calculate a symbol rate based on the shifted data; a first offset calculator to calculate a first carrier frequency offset based on the calculated symbol rate; a second offset calculator to calculate a second carrier frequency offset based on the calculated first carrier frequency offset; and an offset compensator to compensate for the second carrier frequency offset. Accordingly, a time up to the demodulation completion may be shortened based on the baseband signal.
US12047194B2
Present teachings relate to a method for controlling a service running at least partially on an electronic device, the method comprising the steps of: —Determining, using a proximity sensor in the electronic device, a first parameter indicative of the physical distance between the electronic device and a user; and—Adapting at least one operation of the electronic device dependent upon the first parameter.
US12047189B2
The techniques disclosed herein provide a system that can control the delivery of messages to users of a communication session. When one of the participants, who is deemed as a permitted user, sends a message to a presenter, the system renders at least a portion of the private message in a region associated with the sender. Other users who are restricted users, are not permitted to send a message to the presenter while the system is in presentation mode. Permitted users can be users having identities having a domain that is common to the presenter, e.g., an internal employee, while the restricted users may have identities having a domain that is different than the identity of the presenter.
US12047186B2
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for gathering relevant digital content. The embodiment may include receiving, from an online meeting scheduler, information within an online meeting invite. The embodiment may include analyzing the information using natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) techniques. Based on results of the analysis of the received information, the embodiment may include locating additional digital content items of the user which are relevant to the information of the online meeting invite. The embodiment may include outputting, to a user, a top-k listing of the additional digital content items for attachment to the online meeting invite before being sent.
US12047183B2
Methods for processing and indicating an HARQ mechanism, a terminal and a network side device are provided. The method includes: receiving scheduling information, the scheduling information being used to schedule transmission of a data packet; and determining whether the data packet scheduled by the scheduling information adopts the HARQ mechanism in accordance with the scheduling information.
US12047181B2
A user equipment (UE) is configured to transmit cancelled hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback. The UE generating HARQ feedback for one or more HARQ process corresponding to a component carrier (CC), identifies that a scheduled transmission for the HARQ feedback has been cancelled and retransmits the cancelled HARQ feedback using a type 3 HARQ codebook.
US12047172B2
A user equipment (UE) monitors a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). The UE receives a configuration for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including repetitions for PDCCH candidates comprising first PDCCH data, wherein the PDCCH candidates are repeated across multiple durations of a DL resource grid, detects, based on a repetition detection scheme, each of the PDCCH candidates and combines soft bits from each of the PDCCH candidates, wherein the combined soft bits are jointly decoded to determine the first PDCCH data and calculates a number of blind decodes (BDs) for the durations of the DL resource grid carrying the PDCCH candidates, wherein at least one BD value for the PDCCH candidates is scaled by a scaling factor for the calculation of the number of BDs.
US12047171B2
A method for encoding data comprises choosing a sequence of pivot candidate positions for a sequence of g encoding vectors to encode a block of g data symbols in a round of coded packets by: providing a set of g pivot candidate positions; choosing a pivot candidate position for the sequence from the set of pivot candidate positions; removing the chosen pivot candidate position from the set of pivot candidate positions; and repeating until the set of pivot candidate positions is empty and the sequence of chosen pivot candidate positions for the round is non-linear. A set of encoding vectors is generated based on the chosen sequence of pivot candidate positions, each encoding vector comprising zero valued coefficients for positions within the encoding vector before the pivot candidate position for the encoding vector and a non-zero valued coefficient for at least the pivot candidate position.
US12047168B2
According to a possible embodiment, a control channel can be received in a first downlink slot. The control channel can contain DCI with a downlink DCI format. The DCI can contain a CSI report trigger that triggers a CSI report. The DCI can schedule PDSCH transmissions repeated a number of times in a set of downlink slots. Each PDSCH transmission of the repeated PDSCH transmissions can be in a separate downlink slot. A CSI report can be generated in response to receiving the CSI report trigger. At least one uplink resource to transmit the generated CSI report can be determined. The at least one uplink resource can be determined based on the number of repeated PDSCH transmissions. The generated CSI report can be transmitted in the determined at least one uplink resource.
US12047163B2
Techniques are described for implementing an out-of-band communication channel used to exchange control channel information in sub-carrier-based optical communication systems. In an example implementation, a transmitter includes a laser operable to supply an optical signal, a digital signal processor operable to supply first electrical signals based on first data input to the digital signal processor and second data input to the digital signal processor, digital-to-analog conversion circuitry operable to output second electrical signals based on the first electrical signals, modulator driver circuitry is operable to output third electrical signals based on the second electrical signals, and an optical modulator operable to supply first and second modulated optical signals based on the third electrical signals. The first modulated optical signal includes a plurality of optical subcarriers carrying user data. The plurality of optical subcarriers also being amplitude modulated to carry control information.
US12047161B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to enable one or both of a base station or a user equipment (UE) to identify one or more physical cell identifiers (PCIs) for a scheduled communication, using an association between the one or more PCIs and a control resource set (CORESET), for example, used to transmit a grant scheduling the communication. The base station may identify a mapping between one or more PCIs associated with a communication and may transmit, to the UE, a grant scheduling the communication on a CORESET associated with the one or more PCIs. The UE may identify a mapping between the CORESET and the one or more PCIs associated with the communication based on receiving the grant in the CORESET. The UE and the base station may communicate a message scheduled by the grant using parameters associated with the one or more identified PCIs.
US12047157B2
Systems and methods operating a spotbeam satellite network. One example embodiment provides a satellite broadcast system. The system includes an electronic processor communicatively coupled to a satellite, and a user equipment. The electronic processor receives a plurality of bearer signals, each bearing identical broadcast or multicast program information. For each of the plurality of bearer signals, the electronic processor generates one of a plurality of spotbeams for transmission by the satellite within a coverage area. The electronic processor introduces into the bearer signal of each spotbeam of the plurality of spotbeams a differential delay with respect to the bearer signals of each of the other spotbeams of the plurality of spotbeams The user equipment is receives the bearer signals from a plurality of adjacent spotbeams of the plurality of spotbeams. The user equipment constructively utilizes the bearer signals received from the plurality of adjacent spotbeams to decode the program information.
US12047143B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for repeater configuration for channel state information reference signal. An apparatus includes a transceiver that receives a first configuration from a base station of a mobile wireless communication network, the first configuration comprising channel state information reference signal (“CSI-RS”) configuration information for amplifying and forwarding CSI-RS beams to a user equipment (“UE”) device from the repeater node. The transceiver receives a second configuration from the base station, the second configuration comprising configuration information for performing measurement and reporting of the CSI-RS beams. The transceiver receives repeater-specific CSI-RS to be forwarded to the UE device and transmits the repeater-specific CSI-RS to the UE device according to the first configuration.
US12047129B2
Methods, systems and devices for massive cooperative multipoint network operation are described. One example method for wireless communication includes transmitting, by a network node serving a plurality of mobile devices in a surrounding area, channel condition information and scheduling information for one or more of the plurality of mobile devices to a network-side server, receiving, by the network node from the network-side server, control information for scheduling transmissions to or from each of the one or more of the plurality of mobile devices, and controlling, by the network node and based on the control information, a communication to or from the one or more of the plurality of mobile devices at a future time or a different frequency band or a different spatial direction.
US12047128B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmission method, a terminal, a network device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The transmission method may be performed by a terminal or a network device. The transmission method performed by the terminal includes sending at least one piece of control information by using a target uplink channel, where each piece of control information corresponds to Transmission Reception Point (TRP) identifier information, the TRP identifier information is used to determine a target TRP corresponding to the control information, and the target TRP is one TRP in multi-TRP transmission.
US12047127B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, via an antenna, a communication signal generated by a communication device, and detecting interference in the communication signal, wherein the interference is generated by one or more interference sources, wherein the interference is detected by monitoring a near field region of the antenna, an intermediate field region of the antenna, a far field region of the antenna, or any combinations thereof, wherein the monitoring excludes monitoring only the far field region of the antenna. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12047123B2
A communication device is disclosed. The present communication device may include a master including a communication modem, and multiple slaves including antennas. The communication device may execute an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or a machine learning algorithm, and may communicate with other electronic devices in a 5G communication environment. Therefore, user convenience can be enhanced.
US12047120B2
A LiFi system having multiple transceivers (11) and a single multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) modem (41) with at least M outputs, wherein the M transmit outputs of the MIMO modem (41) are fed to a linear combiner (42). The linear combiner creates M distinct linear combinations based on the N MIMO transmit branch signals of the MIMO modem and the linear combinations are chosen such that they allow decoding of each of the 5 N MIMO transmit branch signals when N of the M distinct output signals are received.
US12047116B2
Systems and methods are provided for enhancing techniques for provisioning optical channels to allow optical networks to operate in an optimal fashion. A method, according to one implementation, includes receiving measured optical performance parameters of a plurality of optical channels transmitted over an optical spectrum between two network elements in an optical line system; determining a performance profile of the optical spectrum based on the measured optical performance parameters; translating the performance profile into configuration information for the two network elements; and causing provisioning of the two network elements based on the configuration information. The measured optical performance parameters are for one or more unassigned optical channels on the optical spectrum, with the measured optical performance parameters being made on one or more optical modems.
US12047112B2
The present invention relates generally to video or other media transmission, and more particularly, to encoding and decoding of video media that has been transmitted between a video source and a video sink using spread spectrum direct sequence (SSDS) modulation.
US12047107B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a communication apparatus. The communication apparatus may include a first transceiver, a second transceiver, and a power amplifier. The first transceiver and the second transceiver may be separately connected to the power amplifier. In this way, when it is determined that a network load is relatively low, any transceiver in the communication apparatus may be turned off. Because the turned-off transceiver no longer continues to generate power consumption, power consumption of the entire communication apparatus is reduced, to achieve an energy saving effect. In addition, when an electronic component in the communication apparatus is turned off, the power amplifier may not be turned off, and the power amplifier may still receive a corresponding radio frequency signal from a transceiver that is not turned off, to perform power amplification and send a corresponding radio frequency signal.
US12047104B2
The disclosure relates to a communications system having a transmitter and receiver connected via a transmission line. An example communications receiver (202) comprises: a pair of input connections (211, 212) for connecting to a transmission line (203); a termination resistance (213) equal to a characteristic impedance (Zc) of the transmission line (203); an air core transformer (205) having an input coil (206) connected to the pair of input connections (211, 212) via the termination resistance (213); and a comparator circuit (208) connected to an output coil (207) of the air core transformer (205), the comparator circuit (208) configured to provide an output signal (504) responsive to detection of voltage pulses across the output coil (207).
US12047096B2
Embodiments of this application disclose provides a low density parity check (LDPC) channel encoding method for use in a wireless communications system. A communication device encodes an input bit sequence by using a LDPC matrix, to obtain an encoded bit sequence for transmission. The LDPC matrix is obtained based on a lifting factor Z and a base matrix. Embodiments of the application provide eight particular designs of the base matrix. The encoding method provided in the embodiments of the application can be used in various communications systems including the fifth generation (5G) telecommunication systems, and can support various encoding requirements for information bit sequences with different code lengths.
US12047090B2
A RFDAC comprising an array of unit-cell power amplifiers, wherein the array comprises a first plurality of unit-cell power amplifiers, a second plurality of unit-cell power amplifiers, and a third plurality of unit-cell power amplifiers; wherein the first plurality of unit-cell power amplifiers are configured to operate in accordance with a first clock; wherein the second plurality of unit-cell power amplifiers are configured to operate in accordance with a second clock; wherein the third plurality of unit-cell power amplifiers are configured to operate in accordance with the first clock or the second clock. The RFDAC also comprising a decoder configured to output the first clock and an enablement signal of the first clock for the first plurality; output the second clock and an enablement signal of the second clock for the second plurality; distinguish between the first clock and the second clock for the third plurality.
US12047088B2
A data processing system can include a first IC including one or more A/D converters that receive analog inputs from one or more sensors and generate corresponding digital data, a second IC including one or more processing elements that operate on the digital data, and communication circuitry, coupled between the one or more A/D converters and processing elements, that includes a packetizer on the first IC that receives samples and sample data from the one or more A/D converters and assembles each sample and corresponding sample data into a packet, a primary physical interface on the first IC that communicates the packet to a secondary physical interface on the second IC, and a de-packetizer that on the second IC that receives the packet, de-packetizes it, and delivers the sample and sample data to the one or more processing elements.
US12047086B2
A digital-to-analog converter may include an integrator, an input network comprising a plurality of parallel taps, each member of the plurality of parallel taps comprising a respective input resistance, and control circuitry configured to selectively enable and selectively disable particular members of the plurality of parallel taps in order to program an effective input resistance of the input network to control an analog gain of the digital-to-analog converter.
US12047084B1
A first 1:N frequency divider has an input configured to be coupled to one of two signals and a second 1:N frequency divider has an input configured to be coupled to another of the two signals. A mixer includes two inputs, where each input is coupled to an output of one of the first and second 1:N frequency dividers. A low-pass filter has an input coupled to an output of the mixer and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) has an input coupled to an output of the low-pass filter. A data collection and analysis block repeatedly changes a phase of an output of the first 1:N divider, collects a set of digitized data generated by the ADC, and estimates the phase difference between the two signals based on the set of digitized data.
US12047082B2
A semiconductor device includes an internal clock generation circuit configured to generate an internal clock; a plurality of unit circuits configured to have a first unit circuit and a second unit circuit operating while being synchronized with an internal clock; a plurality of transfer circuits including a first transfer circuit configured to provide a first transfer path having a first delay time, and a second transfer circuit configured to provide a second transfer path having a second delay time different from the first delay time; and a delay compensation circuit configured to compare a first clock input to the first unit circuit through the first transfer path with a second clock input to the second unit circuit through the second transfer path, and to adjust the second delay time so that the adjusted second delay time matches the first delay time.
US12047077B2
A high-resolution adaptive digital frequency synthesizer Integrated Circuit (IC) for wireless power systems, which comprises a digitally controlled tunable ring-oscillator, based on a chain of delay-line cells (DLs) being adapted to generate an internal high-resolution reference clock signal; a tuner unit for receiving as input a compensation/target signal and performing arithmetic operations that produce auxiliary tuning signals provided to the ring-oscillator, for allowing the ring-oscillator to generate a high-resolution output period/frequency; a counter-comparator unit introducing an additional delay to the chain, the counter-comparator unit operating in combination with the ring-oscillator and counts how many times the delay of the chain repeats, for providing ultra-fine tuning signal for tuning the frequency resolution of digitally controlled ring-oscillator; an adaptive Fractional-N dithering module, for enhancing the frequency resolution of the digitally controlled ring-oscillator by averaging the resolution provided by a single delay-line cell of the ring-oscillator.
US12047076B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first input to which an input signal is input; a second input to which a reference signal is input; and a comparison stage which includes a current source connected to a first potential and first and second current path parts connected between the current source and a second potential different from the first potential and performing a comparison operation in response to the input signal and the reference signal, wherein the first and second current path parts respectively include first and second input circuits which are connected to the current source and first and second load circuits which are connected between the second potential and the first and second input circuits, wherein the first input circuit includes a first signal transistor and a first reference transistor, and wherein the second input circuit includes a second signal transistor and a second reference transistor.
US12047075B2
Circuits and methods for reducing and cancelling out kickback noise are disclosed. In one example, a circuit for a comparator is disclosed. The circuit includes: a first transistor group, a second transistor group, and a first switch. The first transistor group comprises a first transistor having a drain coupled to a first node, and a second transistor having a source coupled to the first node. Gates of the first transistor and the second transistor are coupled together to a first input of the comparator. The second transistor group comprises a third transistor having a drain coupled to a second node, and a fourth transistor having a source coupled to the second node. Gates of the third transistor and the fourth transistor are coupled together to a second input of the comparator. The first switch is connected to and between the first node and the second node.
US12047070B2
A main board, a hot plug control signal generator, and a control signal generating method thereof are provided. The hot plug control signal generator includes a controller and a latch. The controller provides a control signal. The latch is operated based on an operation power to generate a hot plug control signal. The latch sets the hot plug control signal to a disabled first logic value, and latches the hot plug control signal at the first logic value.
US12047059B2
A color temperature switching scheme for an LED lighting device is disclosed. The color temperature switching scheme comprises a plurality of different color temperature performances correspondingly generated by a plurality of different paired combinations of a first electric power allocated to a first LED load emitting a light with a first color temperature and a second electric power allocated to a second LED load emitting a light with a second color temperature such that a mingled color temperature between the first color temperature and the second color temperature can be generated thru a light diffuser. For tuning the mingled color temperature of the LED lighting device a reverse yet complementary power adjustment process for distributing a total electric power T between the first LED circuit and the second LED circuit is required such that a total light intensity remains unchanged while the mingled color temperature is being adjusted.
US12047057B2
A power stage includes a power transistor and a driver, the power transistor comprising a collector, a gate and an emitter and being configured to change over from a saturated state to an off state and vice versa in accordance with a control from the driver, the power stage comprising a resistor Rg positioned between the driver and the gate, the power stage comprising a circuit for compensating for delays that is positioned in parallel with the resistor Rg, comprising: a circuit for compensating for turn-on initialization delays, which is configured to divert the current from the resistor Rg when a saturation of the power transistor is initialized, a circuit for compensating for turn-off initialization delays, which is configured to divert the current from the resistor Rg when a switching-off of the power transistor is initialized, a circuit for compensating for delays that is configured to divert the current from the resistor Rg when the power transistor is close to the saturated state.
US12047047B2
A voice module of a television collects environmental volume Vr of an environment where a user is located; first current volume Vc of the television is obtained and compared with the environmental volume Vr, so as to determine whether the television volume needs to be adjusted; a desired volume value of the television requiring volume adjustment is calculated by means of a volume curve dynamic adjustment algorithm, and the television automatically adjusts its volume to the desired volume value.
US12047044B2
A power amplifier module includes a first power amplifier that amplifies an input signal and outputs a first transmission signal; a first switch circuit that receives input of the first transmission signal and performs switching to, of a plurality of signal paths, a signal path through which the first transmission signal passes; and a second switch circuit that receives input of the first transmission signal output from the first switch circuit through the signal path to which the first switch circuit has performed switching and switches between signal paths to an antenna terminal. The second switch circuit includes a power supply circuit that supplies a reference voltage to the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit.
US12047037B2
An oscillator equipped with a temperature compensation circuit is illustrated. Through the temperature compensation circuit, a transistor of a current mirror circuit of the oscillator which outputs a reference current to a voltage matching circuit is controlled by the temperature compensation voltage. Both of the temperature compensation voltage and a reference current decrease as the temperature rises, and a delay time of the oscillation voltage is proportional to the temperature compensation voltage and inversely proportional to the reference current. Therefore, the effects of temperature on the delay time just cancel each other out. The delay time of the oscillating voltage is related to the frequency of the clock signal. Therefore, if the delay time of the oscillating voltage is not affected by temperature, the frequency of the clock signal will not be affected by temperature.
US12047036B1
A portable electrical charging apparatus comprises a lens apparatus capable of receiving light energy. A primary light energy communication apparatus has a first end and a second end. That first end is in light communication with the lens apparatus. An enclosure member has a cavity that is in light communication with the second end. A prism is disposed in the enclosure member's cavity. The prism refracts the light energy in the cavity in the enclosure member. A secondary light energy communication apparatus has a first end and a second end. Its first end is in light communication with the enclosure member's cavity. Its second end is in light communication with the interior of a box. A photovoltaic device is positioned in the interior of the box and is capable of receiving light energy and converting it to electrical energy. Light energy from the lens apparatus is communicated through the primary light energy communication apparatus, the cavity in the enclosure member, the prism, and through the secondary light energy communication apparatus, to the photovoltaic device.
US12047028B2
A two-stage braking method for a brushless DC (BLDC) motor. The method includes control a switching array to drive the BLDC motor according to a commutation scheme to decrease a speed of the BLDC motor, allow the BLDC motor to coast, determine the speed of the BLDC motor, and actuate high side switches and/or low side switches to substantially stop rotational movement of the BLDC motor.
US12047018B2
In certain examples, methods and semiconductor structures are directed to operation of a piezoelectric-based device (e.g., a DC-DC converter) and such operation may involve selectively switching inputs of the piezoelectric-based device at a modulation frequency and, in response, decoupling of the modulation frequency from output power delivered by the piezoelectric-based device. In some examples, the inputs of the piezoelectric-based device are selectively switched to cause decoupling the modulation frequency from output power delivered by the piezoelectric-based device and/or cause operation of the piezoelectric-based device without spurious mode operation.
US12047014B2
A control system for a three-phase inverter includes an instantaneous value voltage controller and an equivalent effective value voltage controller. The instantaneous value voltage controller is configured to feed back and control an instantaneous value of an inverter output voltage. The equivalent 5 effective value voltage controller is configured to perform an orthogonal decomposition feedback control on an effective value of the inverter output voltage. The equivalent effective value voltage controller is configured to perform integral compensation respectively on a real-axis voltage and an imaginary-axis voltage of a two-phase rotating coordinate system of the three-phase inverter. An output of the instantaneous value 10 voltage controller and an output of the equivalent effective value voltage controller are used to obtain the inverter output voltage through a delay stage transfer function and a controlled object transfer function.
US12047013B2
A motor drive system for an electrified vehicle includes a DC source, such as a battery, and an inverter, which includes one or more phase drivers, each configured to switch current from the DC source to generate AC power upon one or more output terminals using a hybrid of two or more different solid-state switches, each having a corresponding voltage rating. A nine-switch inverter includes three phase drivers, each including high, low, and middle solid-state switches, with Si-MOSFET high and low switches having a first voltage rating of half of the rated voltage of the system, and with Gallium Nitride (GaN) transistors rated to block a full rated voltage of the system used for the middle switches. A delay driver synchronizes timing between two different solid-state switches by energizing control terminals at different rates. The inverter can be operated using near-state pulse-width modulation (NSPWM) to reduce switching losses.
US12047007B2
Controller and method for a switching power supply. For example, a controller for a switching power supply includes: a first terminal configured to receive a feedback voltage representing an output voltage associated with a secondary winding of the switching power supply; a second terminal configured to output a drive voltage to a first transistor associated with a primary winding coupled to the secondary winding of the switching power supply; a comparator configured to receive the feedback voltage and a predetermined feedback threshold and generate a comparison signal based at least in part on the feedback voltage and the predetermined feedback threshold; a pulse-width detector configured to detect a pulse width of the drive voltage during a first switching cycle, compare the detected pulse width with a predetermined time threshold, and generate a detection signal based at least in part on the detected pulse width and the predetermined time threshold.
US12047003B2
A power converter can include: a plurality of circuit modules coupled in parallel between a first port and a second port, where each of the plurality of circuit modules includes a switching power stage circuit having a first magnetic element coupled between a switch node of the switching power stage circuit and a first terminal of the second port, at least one switch group having first and second transistors and being coupled between a first terminal of the first port and a first terminal of the switching power stage circuit, and at least one first energy storage capacitor for providing energy to a load of the power converter; and a plurality of second energy storage capacitors configured to periodically store energy and release energy to corresponding first energy storage capacitors.
US12046993B2
A semiconductor device having a load. The semiconductor device including: an output element configure to connect to the load, the output element being switchable to operate the load; a drive circuit which outputs a drive signal for driving the output element to switch; a detection circuit which compares a state signal, indicative of an operating state of the output element, with a detection threshold, to thereby detect an abnormal level of the operating state; an abnormal level notification circuit which informs an outside of the detected abnormal level; an external terminal configured to receive an external signal for adjusting the detection threshold; and a detection threshold adjustment circuit which adjusts the detection threshold on a basis of the received external signal.
US12046988B2
A power supply system 1 includes: a DC power supply 30; a variable voltage power supply 7 serving as an isolated bidirectional DC/DC converter that outputs power of a variable voltage E2 from a pair of secondary-side input/output terminals 72p and 72n; a positive electrode power line 21 and a negative electrode power line 22 that are connected to both electrodes of the DC power supply 30; a switching circuit 5 including a plurality of arm switching elements 51, 52, 53, and 54 that connect the power lines 21 and 22 and a load 4; a backflow prevention switching element 34 that is provided on the positive electrode power line 21 between the pair of secondary-side input/output terminals 72p and 72n; a power supply driver 6 that operates the variable voltage power supply 7 and the backflow prevention switching element 34; and a switching circuit driver 8.
US12046986B2
A system may include a power converter configured to receive an input voltage and generate an output voltage and a controller configured to control operation of the power converter based on a comparison of the output voltage with at least one output voltage threshold and set the at least one output voltage threshold based on the input voltage.
US12046984B2
In some examples, a switch-mode power supply circuit comprises a pulse generation circuit comprising an oscillator, the oscillator configured to generate first pulses using a fixed frequency regulation for a first load condition that exceeds a predefined threshold and configured to generate second pulses using a variable frequency regulation for a second load condition that does not exceed the predefined threshold. The circuit also includes a power converter coupled to the pulse generation circuit and configured to convert a first voltage to a regulated voltage using either one of the first or second pulses generated by the pulse generation circuit. The circuit further comprises an output filter coupled to the power converter and configured to produce a second voltage from the regulated voltage.
US12046977B2
A motor including a first part having an outer peripheral portion and a second part having an inner peripheral portion facing the outer peripheral portion, the first part and the second part being configured to rotate relative to each other, includes a plurality of coils on one of the outer peripheral portion and the inner peripheral portion, and a plurality of magnets on the other of the outer peripheral portion and the inner peripheral portion at positions facing the plurality of coils, wherein the plurality of magnets includes a first magnet portion configured to apply a thrust to at least one of the plurality of coils in a rotation direction and a second magnet portion configured to apply a thrust to at least one of the plurality of coils in a direction intersecting the rotation direction, when an electric current is applied to the plurality of coils.
US12046971B2
Provided is an electric driving device including a first protruding portion protruding from a holder surface. A plate-like portion has an opposed surface opposed to the holder surface. A first through hole in the plate-like portion is defined by a first through hole forming portion formed in a cylindrical shape so as to project from the plate-like portion to a side opposite to the opposed surface. The first through hole has an inner surface including a first hole inclined inner surface and a first hole cylindrical inner surface extending from the first hole inclined inner surface to the end portion of the first through hole forming portion. The first protruding portion is press-fitted into the first through hole under a state in which a plurality of first ribs are in contact with the first hole cylindrical inner surface.
US12046968B2
A wave winding for an electric machine in which a quantity of coil strands are provided connected in parallel. Each partial strand is a plurality of hairpins. Two different variants of hairpins are provided. A first variant in the turn region W has a winding step WK between the conductor elements which is shortened by one and in a second variant of the hairpins the turn region has a lengthened winding step that is greater than the shortened winding step. In all of the variants of the hairpins the contact regions are deformed by one half of the standard winding step in direction opposite the turn region.
US12046965B2
Disclosed are an in-wheel working device and an automobile including the in-wheel working device. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, provided is an in-wheel working device including a rotation detection sensor coupled to a wheel bearing. The rotation detection sensor includes: a sensor stator coupled to an outer race of the wheel bearing; and a sensor rotor coupled to a hub of the wheel bearing. The sensor stator includes a printed circuit board (PCB) substrate having a surface on which a coil pattern made of a metal material is formed.
US12046954B2
An electric motor includes: a rotor with a first number of permanent magnets, wherein each permanent magnet encompasses a first circular sector; a stator with a second number of pole feet, wherein a first group of coils is electrically connected via a first star point, wherein a second group of coils is electrically connected via a second star point to be conductive, wherein the second star point is electrically insulated from the first star point, wherein a coil of the first group of coils is arranged between two coils of the second group of coils; and a controller for applying drive signals to the first group of coils so as to provide the rotor with a torque with respect to the stator, and for applying a control signal that differs from the drive signals to at least one coil of the second group of coils.
US12046953B2
A dual rotor-type motor includes a stator having a coil wound therearound, an outer rotor, and an inner rotor. The stator includes inner teeth facing the inner rotor, and outer teeth facing the outer rotor, and the inner teeth are misaligned in a rotating direction by as much as an angle with respect to the outer teeth, which may enable the reduction of a torque ripple to a satisfying level, even without having to change the design of the stator structure into a complicated form.
US12046939B2
Disclosed is an expansion member for a probe for battery charging and discharging. The expansion member includes a first fluid accommodation part configured to form a space in which a fluid is introduced and stored and a fluid supply pipe equipped with a path along which the fluid is introduced and discharged and connected to the first fluid accommodation part. The first fluid accommodation part includes a first cover and a second cover. The first cover and the second cover are bonded together to form a first fluid accommodation space in which the fluid is accommodated. The first fluid accommodation space is surrounded by a first junction region in which the first cover and the second cover are bonded together. A penetration hole is formed on the top of the first junction region.
US12046935B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing a homopolar generator charger with an integral rechargeable battery. A method is provided for converting rotational kinetic energy to electrical energy for charging one or more battery cells. The method can include rotating, by a shaft, a rotor in a magnetic flux field to generate current, wherein the rotor comprises an electrically conductive portion having an inner diameter conductive connection surface and an outer diameter conductive connection surface, and wherein a voltage potential is induced between the inner and outer diameter connection surfaces upon rotation in the magnetic flux field. The method can also include selectively coupling the generated current from the rotating rotor to terminals of the one or more battery cells.
US12046933B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to power solution cradle dock system. The system can include a power solution cradle dock configured at a first position in a medium. The system can also include a cover positioned over the cradle dock at a second position in the medium. The cover is positioned over the cradle dock to provide protection for the cradle dock. The cover can be configured in a U-like shape to hold one or more devices and/or items. The cover can also provide a position to enable the one or more devices to be held securely and receive power. The system can also include a plurality of outlets configured to assist the cradle dock and the cover and provide power to the one or more devices and/or items secured over the cover.
US12046932B2
A charging circuit and an electronic device are provided, where the charging circuit includes: a charging receptacle, where a connection path is provided between a charging terminal of the charging receptacle and a to-be-charged battery; a temperature control and surge protection circuit, where the temperature control and surge protection circuit includes: a switch tube, where the switch tube includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal that controls the first terminal and the second terminal to be turned on or off, the first terminal is connected to the connection path, and the second terminal is grounded; a temperature control circuit, configured to acquire temperature data of the charging receptacle and control a working status of the switch tube; a voltage control circuit, with one end connected to the control terminal of the switch tube, and the other end connected to the connection path.
US12046931B2
A vehicle electrical system includes a battery, a customer connection point, a switch electrically connected in series between the battery and the customer connection point, a solar panel electrically connected to a node between the battery and the switch, and a computer communicatively coupled to the switch. The computer is programmed to instruct the switch to close upon determining that a voltage of the solar panel is greater than a voltage of the battery.
US12046923B2
A power transmitter comprises a transmitter coil (103) generating an electromagnetic field. A set of balanced detection coils (207, 209) comprises detection coils in series and compensating each other. A foreign object detector (205) performs foreign object detection, by potentially detect a foreign object in response to a property of an output signal from the set of balanced detection coils (207, 209) in response to the electromagnetic test meeting a foreign object detection criterion. A communicator (211) is coupled to a communication antenna (213) communicates with a power receiver (105) via this. The communication antenna (213) comprises a plurality of communication coils (215, 217) coupled in parallel. A first segment of a first communication coil (215) has a first coupling to a first detection coil and a second segment of a second coil (217) has a second coupling to a second detection coil. The couplings are capacitive and/or inductive couplings and the first coupling and the second coupling compensate each other in the output signal.
US12046922B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A charging device has a plurality of charging cells provided on a charging surface, a charging circuit and a controller. The controller may be configured detect the presence of a foreign object in proximity to at least one charging coil of a plurality of charging coils in the charging device that is selected for supplying charging energy to a receiving device. Additionally, the controller may be configured to determine whether one or more other charging coils is capable of supplying charging energy to the receiving device, and determine, for each of the one or more other charging coils, whether the foreign object is in proximity thereto. Further, the controller may be configured to select at least one of the one or more other charging coils not in proximity to the foreign object for supplying charging energy to the receiving device.
US12046915B2
A wireless power reception device and a wireless communication method thereby are provided. The wireless communication method by the wireless power reception device may comprise the steps of: receiving a wireless power signal from a wireless power transmission device; measuring the strength of the wireless power signal; modulating the amplitude of the wireless power signal according to the measured strength of the wireless power signal; and performing communication with the wireless power transmission device by using the signal having the amplitude modulated.
US12046912B2
Embodiments of this application provide a wireless charger, and relate to the field of charging device technologies. The wireless charger includes a wireless charging module, a first fan, a housing including a contact plate used for contact with the rear surface of the terminal device, and an air intake vent disposed at a position that is of the housing and that is close to the first fan, and an airflow guide structure disposed on a side that is of the housing and that is adjacent to the contact plate. The airflow guide structure extends toward the display surface of the terminal device.
US12046911B2
A charging system for wirelessly charging a smart device positioned over the charging system with a charger connectable to an electrical power source for charging the smart device, like a smartphone, and can be inserted inside a furniture through an opening located at its top surface; a fixing element compatible with the opening and affixed to the charger for maintaining the charger fixably engaged inside the opening below the top surface; and a removable cap for capping the fixing element. When the removable cap is made of a transparent material, the charging system is configured to provide an advertising message presented on a support affixable to the bottom surface of the transparent cap, the message being then visible through the transparent cap.
US12046905B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for providing a grid regulation service, including: determining a preferred operating point for use with one or more grid regulation resources of a first type; determining a predicted regulation up capacity and a predicted regulation down capacity of the one or more grid regulation resources of the first type for the grid regulation service period; commencing the grid regulation service period based on an indication; performing a grid regulation service during the grid regulation service period by varying a power delivery rate of the one or more grid regulation resources of the first type; and enabling one or more grid regulation resources of a second type to participate in the grid regulation service during the grid regulation service period.
US12046903B2
The present disclosure is directed to energy storage and supply management system. The system may include one or more of a control unit, which is in communication with the power grid, and an energy storage unit that stores power for use at a later time. The system may be used with traditional utility provided power as well as locally generated solar, wind, and any other types of power generation technology. In some embodiments, the energy storage unit and the control unit are housed in the same chassis. In other embodiments, the energy storage unit and the control unit are separate. In another embodiment, the energy storage unit is integrated into the chassis of an appliance itself.
US12046891B2
A method for determining an optimized TCC operating curve for an electronic interrupting device that protects a distribution transformer in a power distribution network, where the TCC operating curve is some optimized predetermined percentage above a TCC curve for normal transformer operation. The method includes providing a TCC transformer curve that identifies an allowed transformer operation current once the transformer magnetics have been stabilized and the transformer is operating normally, and determining a TCC operating curve that is defined by points along the transformer curve plus a predetermined percentage above the transformer curve, where the operating curve identifies a response time for when the electronic interrupting device will open in response to a certain current flow.
US12046888B2
An apparatus includes: an input configured to receive an input voltage; an prediction circuit coupled to the input and configured to provide an overcurrent prediction based on analysis of the input voltage; a delay circuit coupled to the input; a gain control circuit coupled to an output of the delay circuit and configured to selectively adjust a gain applied to at least one frequency range of the input voltage based on the overcurrent prediction; a driver coupled to an output of the gain control circuit; and a capacitive load coupled to an output of the driver.
US12046885B2
An electrical junction box includes a case body on which a first opening and a second opening are formed, a first cover configured to be fixed to the case body such that the first cover covers the first opening, and a second cover configured to be fixed to the case body such that the second cover covers the second opening. The second cover is fixed to the case body by a first rotation fulcrum engaging part and an inter-cover engaging part. The first rotation fulcrum engaging part includes an engaging protrusion formed on one end of the case body, and an engaging frame formed on one end of the second cover and configured to be engaged with the engaging protrusion. The inter-cover engaging part includes a lock arm formed on another end of the second cover, and a lock arm receiving part formed on the first cover.
US12046879B2
A switching arrangement includes a circuit breaker in an upright first circuit breaker encapsulation section. A first disconnector is disposed in a first disconnector encapsulation section and a second disconnector is disposed in a second disconnector encapsulation section. The disconnector encapsulation sections are disposed on a lateral surface of the circuit breaker encapsulation section.
US12046878B2
A cover extension can be installed above or below a wall-mounted electrical panel (e.g., a circuit breaker panel) to cover an opening in the wall immediately above or below the panel. The cover extension includes a panel member, a bottom flange, and two top couplings and stop members. The flange extends downwards from the panel member bottom and is offset from the panel member so that it can fit behind the panel cover of the electrical panel to secure the cover extension bottom to the panel cover. The mechanical stops (e.g., brackets) are located on the panel member rear face and configured to each cause the respective coupling member on the panel member rear face to engage the cover extension to secure the cover extension top to the wall.
US12046875B2
A quantum cascade laser device includes a semiconductor substrate, an active layer provided on the semiconductor substrate, and an upper clad layer provided on a side of the active layer opposite to the semiconductor substrate side and having a doping concentration of impurities of less than 1×1017 cm−3. Unit laminates included in the active layer each include a first emission upper level, a second emission upper level, and at least one emission lower level in their subband level structure. The active layer is configured to generate light having a center wavelength of 10 μm or more due to electron transition between at least two levels of the first emission upper level, the second emission upper level, and the at least one emission lower level in the light emission layer in each of the unit laminates.
US12046862B2
The invention relates to a connection device for earthing an electrical apparatus or putting it at a reference potential. It is inserted between a first electrically conductive part belonging to said electrical apparatus and a second part belonging to a support structure on which said electrical apparatus is mounted and which may be at least partly electrically insulating. It is characterized in that it comprises a first automatic connection area for automatically creating electrical contact with said first part, and a second automatic connection area for automatically creating electrical contact with an electrical conductor that is earthed or connected to a reference potential, when said electrical apparatus is mounted on said support structure. The electrical apparatus is thus automatically earthed or connected to a reference potential when it is mounted on said support structure via said connection device and said electrical conductor, specifically without any tools, screws or any other fastening member.
US12046861B2
A joint connector includes a circuit board that is located behind a back wall of the connector housing through a component space, an independent male terminal jointed to the circuit board, and a joint terminal. The joint terminal includes a bridge portion fixed to the connector housing, a plurality of male terminal portions conducted to each other and protruding into a fitting space of the connector housing to serve as connector terminals, and one contact conduction piece extending to a back of the back wall of the connector housing and elastically brought into conductive contact with one of the independent male terminals via a spring portion.
US12046860B2
A cable connection structure manufacturing method includes: covering, by a first electrode, an end face of an electric cable, and covering, by a second electrode, a terminal of a substrate; plastically deforming the first electrode and the second electrode having substantially same hardness by first scrubbing in which the first electrode and the second electrode rub against each other at a first pressure and a first amplitude; polishing the first electrode and the second electrode by second scrubbing in which the first electrode and the second electrode rub against each other at a second pressure smaller than the first pressure and a second amplitude smaller than the first amplitude; and bonding the first electrode and the second electrode at a third pressure higher than the first pressure.
US12046848B2
A connector includes a housing with a terminal accommodating chamber for inserting a terminal therein; and a mounting member configured to be mounted to the housing, wherein the mounting member includes: a front mask configured to cover a side of the housing on a terminal inserting direction side on which the terminal is inserted into the housing; a spacer configured to be inserted into the housing; and a hinge coupling the front mask to the spacer, wherein the spacer is configured to be locked in the housing in a temporary locked position and a final locked position of the housing, the final locked position being located deeper in the housing in an inserting direction than the temporary locked position, and wherein in a state where the spacer is positioned in the final locked position, the hinge is configured not to protrude from the housing.
US12046843B2
The invention concerns a method for connecting a cable (4) to a connector part, such as a plug or socket, with electrical contacts (21). The cable comprises at least one layer (41) comprising several wires (42) arranged next to each other, the connector part comprising an interface (10, 60) with tracks for electrically connecting the wires of the layer (41) to the electrical contacts (21), and, when the wires of the layer are connected to the interface (10, 60), the layer is arranged flat. The invention also relates to the products obtained by the method.
US12046840B2
An antenna structure is provided. The antenna structure includes an insulating seat, a first antenna and a second antenna that are disposed on the insulating seat, and two feeding points electrically coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna. The first antenna includes a first body portion and a plurality of first extending portions connected to the first body portion. Each of the plurality of first extending portions is non-parallel to the first body portion. The second antenna includes a second body portion and a plurality of second extending portions connected to the second body portion. The second body portion is spaced apart from the first body portion. Each of the plurality of second extending portions is non-parallel to the second body portion. The second extending portions and the first extending portions are spaced apart from each other and jointly generate a capacitance effect.
US12046837B2
A communication device includes an RF (Radio Frequency) module, an antenna structure, a first switch element, a second switch element, a plurality of first impedance elements, and a plurality of second impedance elements. The antenna structure is coupled to the RF module. The antenna structure includes a first radiation element and a second radiation element. The first switch element is coupled to the first radiation element. The first switch element is switchable between the first impedance elements. The second switch element is coupled to the second radiation element. The second switch element is switchable between the second impedance elements.
US12046836B2
An antenna structure according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an antenna unit array including a plurality of antenna units, and a parasitic element disposed to be adjacent to the antenna units and to be electrically and physically separated from the antenna units. Each of the antenna units includes a radiator, and a transmission line including a first transmission line and a second transmission line connected to the radiator in different directions. The parasitic element includes a first parasitic element disposed between the first transmission line and the second transmission line included in the same antenna unit, and a second parasitic element disposed between the first transmission line and the second transmission line included in different neighboring antenna units. The second parasitic element includes a branched portion including a first branched portion and a second branched portion bent in different directions.
US12046835B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an electronic device may include: a printed circuit board (PCB); a plurality of lines disposed on the PCB; a plurality of conductive pads disposed at an upper surface of the PCB on which the plurality of lines are disposed; a first antenna pattern disposed at the upper surface of the PCB and electrically connected to a first conductive pad of the plurality of conductive pads; and a first switch electrically connected to the first antenna pattern.
US12046833B2
This application discloses example beam direction adjustment methods, apparatuses, and media. One example method includes obtaining at least one of an azimuth or a pitch angle of a microwave antenna in an antenna system, where the antenna system includes the microwave antenna and a radome installed at an air interface of the microwave antenna, the radome includes a liquid crystal array including M×N liquid crystal cells, and both M and N are integers greater than 0. A target scanning angle of the microwave antenna is determined based on at least one of the azimuth or the pitch angle. A first bias voltage value of the liquid crystal array is determined based on the target scanning angle. A voltage of the liquid crystal array is set to the first bias voltage value.
US12046829B2
A method and system are provided for aligning signals in a phased array system having multiple tiles. Tile-to-tile signal alignment is achieved through the use of internally-generated local oscillator signals and existing coupling paths between transmit and receive antenna elements in adjacent tiles of the phased array system. The relative phases of the local oscillator signals are measured in both directions between adjacent tiles to determine phase differences that can then be used for alignment of the signals between the adjacent tiles. The self-alignment process can then be repeated on subsequent adjacent tile pairs, thus providing a fully aligned and phase-balanced phased array system. Because there is no need for any external signals or components that are not already resident on the tiles, self-alignment can be performed as part of system startup, e.g., to align the multi-tile phased array before the system is placed into operation in a live network.
US12046828B2
An antenna comprises a substantially circular ground plane with an upper surface and a defined center. A plurality of radiating elements are placed radially on the upper surface, arranged at constant angles around the defined center to, when electrically excited, create a plurality of circularly polarized electromagnetic emissions. Each radiating element of the plurality of radiating elements is in electrical communication with an electromagnetic source via an electrically conductive feed, the electromagnetic source configured, when in use, to create a radial excitation current on the radiating element, and further configured, when in use, to provide phase and amplitude control of the excited current on the radiating element for both beam forming and 360 degree beam steering by superposing omnidirectional circularly polarized electromagnetic emissions.
US12046827B2
A vehicle antenna apparatus, including directional antenna elements arranged to be mountable in a distributed array around and pointing away from a vehicle, a powering means configured to power the directional antenna elements in phase with each other, and a method of use and manufacture of the same. The antenna apparatus further includes an omnidirectional antenna arranged to be mountable with the vehicle, with the powering means being further configured to power the omnidirectional antenna in-phase with the directional antenna elements. This provides a combined radiative performance radiating away from the vehicle suitable for communications applications.
US12046826B2
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology is a wireless technology for the transmission of large amounts of digital data as modulated coded impulses over a very wide frequency spectrum with very low power over a short distance. However, to support their deployment in a wide range of applications it would be beneficial to provide solutions which: exploit multiple directive antennas oriented in different directions to ensure spatial filtering of undesired signals and increase signal strength; exploit dynamic configuration of the multi-pulse bundles employed to transmit the bits/symbols within the packets to enhance link quality of service; exploit dynamic configuration of the band or bands which the transmitter operates upon; and exploit antenna sub-systems providing omnidirectional radiation patterns with implementations offering filtering and balun functions with small footprint and low cost.
US12046812B2
This application provides an antenna assembly. The antenna assembly includes at least a first antenna and a second antenna. The first antenna includes a first feed point and a first radiator connected thereto. The second antenna includes a second feed point and a second radiator connected thereto. There is a gap between the first radiator and the second radiator. An end of the second radiator close to the gap is provided with a first ground wire shared by the first antenna and the second antenna. An end of the second radiator away from the gap is provided with a second ground wire. Because currents excited by the first antenna and the second antenna are orthogonally complementary, crosstalk does not occur between the ground currents of the first antenna and the second antenna.
US12046805B2
A mount system, such as for a vehicle antenna, includes a module with a ground. A fastener extends into the module. A retainer clip moves from an undeployed position to a deployed position by operation of the fastener. The fastener extends through a deployment ramp block. The deployment ramp block engages and guides the retainer clip from the undeployed position to the deployed position, by operation of the fastener. The mount system is configured to effect grounding of the ground to the product and to retain the module in position on the product.
US12046798B2
In one example, a semiconductor device, includes a substrate having a substrate top side, a substrate bottom side, a substrate dielectric structure, and a substrate conductive structure. The substrate conductive structure includes a transceiver pattern proximate to a substrate top side. An antenna structure includes an antenna dielectric structure coupled to the substrate top side, an antenna conductive structure having an antenna element, and a cavity below the antenna element. The antenna element overlies the transceiver pattern. The cavity includes a cavity ceiling, a cavity base, and a cavity sidewall between the cavity ceiling and the cavity base. Either a bottom surface of the antenna element defines the cavity ceiling and a perimeter portion of the antenna element is fixed to the antenna dielectric structure, or the antenna dielectric structure includes a body portion having a bottom surface that defines the cavity ceiling and the antenna element is vertically spaced apart from the bottom surface of the body portion. An semiconductor component is coupled to a bottom side of the substrate and is coupled to the transceiver pattern. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US12046796B2
An antenna system including an antenna adjustable between a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration. The antenna includes a reflector having an annular array of spaced-apart ribs coupled to a hub, whereby the ribs can be adjustable between a collapsed configuration and an extended configuration in which the ribs outwardly extend from the hub. When the ribs dispose in the collapsed configuration, the antenna can be disposable in the stowed configuration; and when the antenna disposes in the deployed configuration, (i) the ribs can dispose in the extended configuration, and (ii) the reflector can be directionally adjustable, such as in both elevation and azimuth.
US12046787B2
An example waveguide connector is for making a blind-mate electrical connection between a first waveguide and a second waveguide. The waveguide connector includes a male part connected to the first waveguide, where the first waveguide includes a first conductive channel, and a female part connected to the second waveguide, where the second waveguide includes a second conductive channel. The female part includes a receptacle into which the male part slides to create the blind-mate electrical connection between the first conductive channel and the second conductive channel. A self-alignment feature is on at least one of the male part or the female part. The self-alignment feature is configured to guide the male part into the receptacle while correcting for misalignment of the male part and the female part.
US12046785B2
Systems, methods, and membranes involving ion exchange membranes are disclosed. In an embodiment of the present invention, an ultrathin laminar layer made of inorganic nanosheets may be coated on one side or both sides of a polymeric anion exchange membrane (AEM), forming a composite AEM. Oxidation stability measurements may indicate that composite AEM provide superior oxidation resistance to exemplary polymeric AEMs and to commercial polymeric AEMs.
US12046780B1
A mobile generation resource (MGR) comprises a PEM fuel cell stack, hydrogen inputs and a hydrogen bus. A first hydrogen input receives hydrogen at 200 bars pressure which is stored in an onboard hydrogen tank. A second hydrogen input receives hydrogen at a pressure of 100 bars or less. The hydrogen bus, controlled by an MGR computing system, selects either the onboard hydrogen tank or the second hydrogen input as a hydrogen source for the fuel cell stack. A power take-off connection, cable and adapter provide DC electricity produced by the fuel cell stack at a power of at least 50 kilowatts. The MGR computing system communicates with the hydrogen bus and the power take-off connection, cable and adapter. A MGR user app instructs the MGR computing system to select the active source of hydrogen and to direct power produced by the fuel cell stack to the power take-off.
US12046779B2
A fuel cell power generation system is provided with at least one fuel cell module each of which includes a fuel cell having a fuel-side electrode, an electrolyte, and an oxygen-side electrode; at least one fuel supply line for supplying a fuel gas to the fuel-side electrode included in the at least one fuel cell module; at least one oxidizing gas supply line for supplying an oxidizing gas to the oxygen-side electrode included in the at least one fuel cell module; and a most downstream exhaust fuel gas line through which an exhaust fuel gas discharged from a most downstream module that is disposed most downstream in a flow of the fuel gas among the at least one fuel cell module flows.
US12046771B2
A battery arrangement having a housing lower part and a housing cover arranged on the housing lower part, and at least one battery module which is arranged in the battery arrangement and which has at least one battery cell. The at least one battery module has a first side defining an upper side and is arranged in the battery arrangement in such a way that the upper side of the battery module faces toward the housing cover and is at a distance from the housing cover in at least one region of the upper side. Furthermore, between the upper side of the battery module and the housing cover, a heat-conducting compound that completely fills a space between the at least one region of the upper side and the housing cover is arranged.
US12046767B2
A battery containment system is provided that includes a unitary battery tray having a bottom and walls that from the bottom of said tray and defining a cavity within the tray. A cover is includes having a cover body portion and a first flange extending from the cover body portion, the cover body portion configured to overlie the cavity within the tray and the walls of the tray, the first flange of said cover configured to extend beyond the walls of the tray. A shield having a shield body portion and a second flange extending from the shield body portion, the shield body portion is configured to underlie the bottom of the tray, the second flange of the shield is configured to extend beyond the bottom of the tray and configured to engage the first flange of the cover.
US12046765B2
A battery tray is provided and includes a first component and a second component. The first component includes a first set of walls, where the first set of walls includes a first stitched fabric, and where the first stitched fabric includes first metal coated fibers. The second component includes a second set of walls, where: the second set of walls includes a second stitched fabric; the second stitched fabric includes second metal coated fibers; and the second component is attached to the first component to form the battery tray, which is configured to hold a battery pack of a vehicle. The first metal coated fibers and the second metal coated fibers provide an electromagnetic shield surrounding the battery pack.
US12046764B2
Various aspects of the disclosure generally relate to a battery bracket for electronic devices. In one aspect, an electronic component includes a printed circuit board (PCB) having a first and a second battery contact. Connected to the PCB is a battery bracket having a first, a second and a third foot, each foot extending in a first plane. At least one of the feet is connected to the first battery contact. Each of the first, second and third feet are coupled to a first, a second and a third sidewall, respectively.
US12046758B2
The invention relates to a battery electrode foil comprising an aluminium alloy, wherein the aluminium alloy has the following composition in % by weight: Si: 0.01-0.15% by weight, Fe: 0.02-0.4% by weight, Cu: ≤0.08% by weight, Mn: ≤0.03% by weight, Mg: ≤0.03% by weight, Cr: ≤0.01% by weight, Ti: 0.005-0, 03% by weight, wherein the aluminium alloy can contain impurities up to a maximum of 0.05% in each case, in total up to a maximum of 0.15%, the remaining % by weight being aluminium, the proportion of aluminium however being at least 99.35% by weight; wherein the battery electrode foil has intermetallic phases with a diameter length of 0.1 to 1.0 μm with a density of ≤9500 particles/mm2. The invention further relates to a method for the production of a battery electrode foil, its use for the production of accumulators, and accumulators containing the battery electrode foil.
US12046757B2
An electrode is configured to decrease the heat generation amount of solid-state batteries. An electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode layer, a current collector, and a PTC layer which is disposed between the electrode layer and the current collector and which is in contact with the electrode layer; wherein the PTC layer contains an electroconductive material, Ni and a polymer; and wherein a volume percent of the Ni in the PTC layer is larger than a volume percent of the electroconductive material in the PTC layer.
US12046747B2
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an all solid state battery with excellent capacity durability when restraining pressure is not applied or even when low restraining pressure is applied thereto. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an all solid state battery comprising layers in the order of a cathode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, and an anode layer; wherein the anode layer contains an anode active material including a silicon clathrate type II crystal phase; restraining pressure of 0 MPa or more and less than 5 MPa is applied to the all solid state battery in a layering direction; and when a capacity ratio of anode capacity with respect to cathode capacity is regarded as A, the capacity ratio A is 2.5 or more and 4.8 or less.
US12046733B2
A vehicle battery pack capable of suppressing a variation in cooling performance for a battery module by a cooling pipe. A vehicle battery pack includes a cooling pipe in a flat plate shape that abuts a lower surface of respective one of battery modules; and an elastic urging member that urges the cooling pipe upward to make the cooling pipe abut the lower surface of respective one of the battery modules. The elastic urging member has plural elastically-deformable legs that are aligned in a longitudinal direction of the cooling pipe.
US12046730B2
A cooling system includes a container and a number of battery packaging modules submerged in a first coolant fluid contained in the container. The cooling system includes a supply channel and a return channel coupled respectively to at least a supply end and at least a return end of the battery packaging modules to accelerate a second coolant fluid through any of the battery packaging modules. The cooling system includes one or more pairs of fluid valves secured to the supply and return channels, each pair to control the second coolant fluid flowing through a subset of the plurality of battery packaging modules. The cooling system includes a fluid pump disposed at the channels to accelerate the second coolant fluid supplied to any of the battery packaging modules which are in activated modes.
US12046718B2
A battery cell, including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, a separator, and a first electrode tab. The separator is disposed between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate. The first electrode plate, the second electrode plate, and the separator are wound along a length direction of the first electrode plate. The first electrode tab is located at an end in a width direction of the first electrode plate. In the length direction of the first electrode plate, the first electrode plate includes a first edge, and a first notch is disposed at the first edge.
US12046711B2
Provided is a lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode layer composed of a lithium complex oxide sintered body, a negative electrode layer composed of a titanium-containing sintered body, a ceramic separator interposed therebetween, an electrolytic solution, and an exterior body including a closed space, which accommodates the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, the ceramic separator, and the electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode layer, the ceramic separator, and the negative electrode layer are bonded together, a ratio C/A of a capacity C of the positive electrode layer to a capacity A of the negative electrode layer is 1.03 to 2.30, a ratio Tc/Ta of a thickness Tc of the positive electrode layer to a thickness Ta of the negative electrode layer is 0.50 to 2.00, the thickness Tc is 50 to 1000 μm, and the thickness Ta is 50 to 1200 μm.
US12046705B2
A method of manufacturing a light source device includes: disposing bumps containing a first metal on a first substrate which is thermally conductive; disposing a bonding member on the bumps, the bonding member containing Au—Sn alloy; disposing a light emitting element on the bumps and the bonding member; and heating the first substrate equipped with the bumps, the bonding member, and the light emitting element.
US12046701B2
A display device includes a substrate and a pixel on the substrate. The pixel has an alignment area, and the alignment area has a first alignment area, a second alignment area spaced apart from the first alignment area in a first direction, and a non-alignment area extending around a periphery of the alignment area. The pixel includes: a first electrode and a second electrode extending in the first direction across the alignment area and being spaced apart from each other; a first bank in the non-alignment area and extending along a boundary of the pixel; an alignment control layer including a first alignment control pattern, the first alignment control pattern being spaced apart from the first bank in the non-alignment area between the first alignment area and the second alignment area; and a first light emitting element between the first electrode and the second electrode in the first alignment area.
US12046695B2
A method of removing a substrate, comprising: forming a growth restrict mask with a plurality of striped opening areas directly or indirectly upon a GaN-based substrate; and growing a plurality of semiconductor layers upon the GaN-based substrate using the growth restrict mask, such that the growth extends in a direction parallel to the striped opening areas of the growth restrict mask, and growth is stopped before the semiconductor layers coalesce, thereby resulting in island-like semiconductor layers. A device is processed for each of the island-like semiconductor layers. Etching is performed until at least a part of the growth restrict mask is exposed. The devices are then bonded to a support substrate. The GaN-based substrate is removed from the devices by a wet etching technique that at least partially dissolves the growth restrict mask. The GaN substrate that is removed then can be recycled.
US12046690B2
A photovoltaic module, having: a substrate, a plurality of photovoltaic structures that are electrically connected to one another and extend over the substrate, each of which comprises at least one photovoltaic cell, and a multilayer electrical connection structure sandwiched between the substrate and the plurality of photovoltaic structures, forming at least one bypass diode for each photovoltaic structure, each bypass diode having: two electrodes electrically connected to the terminals of opposite polarity of the corresponding photovoltaic structure, at least one of the two electrodes extending at least partially underneath the corresponding photovoltaic structure, and a semiconductor portion in contact with the two electrodes via two separate surfaces.
US12046686B2
The present invention discloses an optical bandpass filter structure targeting an arbitrary combination of the spectral ranges of R (red), G (green), B (blue) and IR (infrared) light, which comprises a substrate that is a wafer-based semiconductor sensing element, and a filter layer that is formed on one side of the substrate. The filter layer includes a plurality of basic units organized as a two-dimensional array, in which each of the basic units is composed of a plurality of pixel filter films fabricated by a vacuum coating method.
US12046682B2
An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a fin-type active region on a substrate. A mesa-type channel region protrudes from the fin-type active region in a vertical direction. The mesa-type channel region is integrally connected with the fin-type active region. A gate line substantially surrounds a mesa-type channel region on the fin-type active region. A gate dielectric film is between the mesa-type channel region and the gate line. The mesa-type channel region includes: a plurality of round convex portions, which are convex toward the gate line; a concavo-convex sidewall, which includes a portion of each of the plurality of round convex portions and faces the gate line; and at least one void, which is inside the mesa-type channel region.
US12046666B2
In some examples, a gallium nitride (GaN)-based transistor, comprises a substrate; a GaN layer supported by the substrate; an aluminum nitride gallium (AlGaN) layer supported by the GaN layer; a p-doped GaN structure supported by the AlGaN layer; and multiple p-doped GaN blocks supported by the AlGaN layer, each of the multiple p-doped GaN blocks physically separated from the remaining multiple p-doped GaN blocks, wherein first and second contours of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) of the GaN-based transistor are at an interface of the AlGaN and GaN layers.
US12046662B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a dielectric structure over the substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a contact structure passing through the dielectric structure. The contact structure includes a contact layer, a first barrier layer, and a second barrier layer, the contact layer passes through the first barrier layer, the first barrier layer passes through the second barrier layer, the first barrier layer surrounds the contact layer, the second barrier layer surrounds a first upper portion of a sidewall of the first barrier layer and exposes a first lower portion of the sidewall of the first barrier layer, and the sidewall faces away from the contact layer.
US12046661B2
A fin-type field effect transistor including a substrate, insulators, a gate stack, a first spacer, a second spacer, and a third spacer is described. The substrate has fins thereon. The insulators are located over the substrate and between the fins. The gate stack is located over the fins and over the insulators. The first spacer is located over the sidewall of the gate stack. The second spacer is located over the first spacer. The first spacer and the second spacer includes carbon. The third spacer is located between the first spacer and the second spacer.
US12046657B2
A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming first and second dummy gates over a substrate. The method includes removing the first and second dummy gates to define first and second openings. The method includes depositing a continuous gate dielectric layer in the first opening and the second opening. The method includes depositing a continuous capping layer on the gate dielectric layer, wherein the capping layer includes TaC. The method further includes depositing a continuous barrier layer on the capping layer, wherein the barrier layer includes TaC and a second material. The method includes depositing a first work function layer over the barrier layer in the first opening. The method includes depositing a second work function layer over the barrier layer in the second opening. The method includes depositing a continuous metal layer over each of the first work function layer and the second work function layer.
US12046655B2
A vertical conduction electronic power device includes a body delimited by a first and a second surface and having an epitaxial layer of semiconductor material, and a substrate. The epitaxial layer is delimited by the first surface of the body and the substrate is delimited by the second surface of the body. The epitaxial layer houses at least a first and a second conduction region having a first type of doping and a plurality of insulated-gate regions, which extend within the epitaxial layer. The substrate has at least one silicide region, which extends starting from the second surface of the body towards the epitaxial layer.
US12046651B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a logic cell layout design for high density transistors and methods of manufacture. The structure includes a plurality of active gates in a high density transistor, and at least one dummy gate which is continuous and is adjacent to at least one active gate of the active gates in a multi-row cell of the high density transistor.
US12046650B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first, a second, a third, and a fourth region; a first gate structure in the first region and including a first gate dielectric layer, and a first, a second, and a third conductive layer; a second gate structure in the second region and including a second gate dielectric layer, and the second and the third conductive layer; a third gate structure in the third region and including a third gate dielectric layer, and the second and the third conductive layer; and a fourth gate structure in the fourth region and including the second gate dielectric layer, and a fourth and the third conductive layer. The first gate dielectric layer includes a material of the second gate dielectric layer and a first element, and the third gate dielectric layer includes a material of the second gate dielectric layer and a second element.
US12046649B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes receiving a substrate including a first gate structure; forming a first semiconductor layer over the first gate structure, forming a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer, performing an etching back operation to remove a portion of the second semiconductor layer and a portion of the first semiconductor layer with an etchant, the etching rate of the first semiconductor layer upon exposure to the etchant is greater than an etching rate of the second semiconductor layer upon exposure to the etchant; forming a hard mask spacer over the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, a portion of the second semiconductor layer is exposed through the hard mask spacer; removing the portions of the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer through the hard mask spacer to form a second gate structure and expose a portion of the substrate.
US12046645B2
A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure with first conductive layers and insulating layers that are stacked alternately with each other, second conductive layers located on the stacked structure, first openings passing through the second conductive layers and the stacked structure and having a first width, second conductive patterns formed in the first openings and located on the stacked structure to be electrically coupled to the second conductive layers, data storage patterns formed in the first openings and located under the second conductive patterns, and channel layers formed in the data storage patterns and the second conductive patterns.
US12046642B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate of a first semiconductor type, a first semiconductor layer of the first semiconductor type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, first semiconductor regions of the first semiconductor type, trenches, a gate insulating film, and gate electrodes. The silicon carbide semiconductor device has a minimum value of a subthreshold slope factor (subthreshold swing) in a subthreshold region in a range from 0.24V/dec. to 0.3V/dec.
US12046637B2
A nanowire device of the present description may be produced with the incorporation of at least one hardmask during the fabrication of at least one nanowire transistor in order to assist in protecting an uppermost channel nanowire from damage that may result from fabrication processes, such as those used in a replacement metal gate process and/or the nanowire release process. The use of at least one hardmask may result in a substantially damage free uppermost channel nanowire in a multi-stacked nanowire transistor, which may improve the uniformity of the channel nanowires and the reliability of the overall multi-stacked nanowire transistor.
US12046633B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to airgap structures in a doped region under one or more transistors and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a semiconductor material comprising a doped region; one or more sealed airgap structures breaking up the doped region of the semiconductor material; and a field effect transistor over the one or more sealed airgap structures and the semiconductor material.
US12046627B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting device structures separated from each other and arranged in a matrix form. A pad region at least partially surrounds the plurality of light-emitting device structures. The pad region is disposed outside of the plurality of light-emitting device structures. A partition structure is disposed on a first surface of the plurality of light-emitting device structures and is further disposed between adjacent light-emitting device structures of the plurality of light-emitting device structures. The partition structure defines a plurality of pixel spaces within the plurality of light-emitting device structures. A fluorescent layer is disposed on the first surface of the plurality of light-emitting device structures and fills each of the plurality of pixel spaces.
US12046626B2
A display device may include a substrate including a display area and a non-display area, and pixels provided on the display area. Each pixel includes sub-pixels each including an emission area and a non-emission area. Each of the sub-pixels may include a display element layer including at least one light emitting element that emits light. The display element layer may include a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from each other with the light emitting element disposed therebetween, connection lines including a first connection line extending in a row direction of the substrate and electrically connected to the first electrode, and a second connection line extending parallel to the first connection line and connected to the second electrode. Two connection lines having a symmetric structure may be disposed in an area between two sub-pixels adjacent to each other in a column direction of the substrate.
US12046620B2
The present application provides an optical semiconductor device with a composite intervening structure. The optical semiconductor device includes a logic die including a core circuit area and a logic peripheral circuit area; a memory die positioned on the logic die and including a memory cell area and a memory peripheral area, and a first inter-die via positioned in the memory peripheral area and electrically connected to the logic peripheral circuit area; and a sensor die positioned on the memory die and including a sensor pixel area and a sensor peripheral area, a first intra-die via positioned in the sensor peripheral area and electrically coupled to the logic peripheral circuit area through the first inter-die via, and a second intra-die via positioned in the sensor peripheral area. The intervening structure is disposed on the back surface of the memory die.
US12046613B2
An image sensor includes: a light detector including a plurality of photosensitive cells configured to sense light; a color separation lens array provided above the light detector and including a plurality of pattern structures, the color separation lens array being configured to collect light having different wavelength spectra respectively on at least two photosensitive cells of the plurality of photosensitive cells; and a variable interlayer element configured to adjust an optical distance between the light detector and the color separation lens array.
US12046610B2
A photoelectric converter according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an organic photoelectric conversion section; an inorganic photoelectric conversion section; and an optical filter. The organic photoelectric conversion section includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic photoelectric conversion layer. The first electrode includes one electrode and another electrode. The second electrode is disposed to be opposed to the first electrode. The organic photoelectric conversion layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and is electrically coupled to the one electrode. The organic photoelectric conversion layer and the other electrode are provided with an insulation layer therebetween. The inorganic photoelectric conversion section has the first electrode disposed between the inorganic photoelectric conversion section and the organic photoelectric conversion section. The optical filter is provided between the organic photoelectric conversion section and the inorganic photoelectric conversion section.
US12046606B2
An image sensing device is provided to include: a substrate including a photoelectric conversion layer configured to generate photocharges corresponding to the intensity of incident light; a plurality of doping regions disposed along a migration path of the photocharges and doped with dopants in different doping concentrations; and a gate dielectric layer disposed over the substrate and having a gate dielectric layer portion overlapping the plurality of doping regions, the gate dielectric layer portion having a varying thickness that increases along the migration path of the photocharges.
US12046604B2
A display device is manufactured with five photolithography steps: a step of forming a gate electrode, a step of forming a protective layer for reducing damage due to an etching step or the like, a step of forming a source electrode and a drain electrode, a step of forming a contact hole, and a step of forming a pixel electrode. The display device includes a groove portion which is formed in the step of forming the contact hole and separates the semiconductor layer.
US12046593B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first nitride semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, a second nitride semiconductor layer disposed on the first nitride semiconductor layer and having a bandgap greater than that of the first nitride semiconductor layer. The semiconductor device further includes a first gate conductor disposed on a first region of the second nitride semiconductor layer, a passivation layer covering the first gate conductor, and a second gate conductor disposed on the passivation layer and on a second region of the second nitride semiconductor layer, wherein the first region is laterally spaced apart from the second region.
US12046589B2
Provided is a display module including: a substrate including a mounting surface on which a plurality of inorganic light emitting diodes (LEDs) are mounted, a side surface, and a rear surface disposed opposite to the mounting surface; a front cover bonded to and covering the mounting surface; a metal plate bonded to the rear surface; and a side cover configured to surround the side surface, wherein the front cover extends to an area outside of the mounting surface in a first direction in which the mounting surface extends, and wherein the side cover is provided to extend, in a second direction in which the mounting surface faces, from an upper side of the metal plate to a lower end of a region of the front cover to seal the side surface from an outside.
US12046587B2
A light emitting module including a circuit board and a lighting emitting device thereon and including first, second, and third LED stacks each including first and second conductivity type semiconductor layers, a first bonding layer between the second and third LED stacks, a second bonding layer between the first and second LED stacks, a first planarization layer between the second bonding layer and the third LED stack, a second planarization layer on the first LED stack, a lower conductive material extending along sides of the first planarization layer, the second LED stack, the first bonding layer, and electrically connected to the first conductivity type semiconductor layers of each LED stack, respectively, and an upper conductive material between the circuit board and the lower conductive material.
US12046586B2
A light emitting device includes first and second electrodes disposed on a substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the substrate and including a groove extending in a first direction intersecting with the first and the second electrodes, and first and second contact portions that expose areas of the first and the second electrodes; light emitting elements disposed in the groove between the first and the second electrodes, each including first and second ends electrically connected to the first and second electrodes, respectively; a first contact electrode electrically connected to the light emitting elements on the first ends, and electrically connected to the first electrode on the first contact portion; and a second contact electrode electrically connected to the light emitting elements on the second ends, and electrically connected to the second electrode on the second contact portion.
US12046584B2
A half bridge power module (1) comprising a substrate (2) comprising an inner load track (11), two intermediate load tracks (12, 14) and two outer load tracks (10,13), wherein an external terminal is mounted on one of the intermediate load tracks (12, 14), an external terminal (3, 4) is mounted on one of the outer load tracks (10, 13) and an external terminal (5) is mounted on the inner load track (11); wherein semiconductor switches (101, 12, 105, 106) are mounted on the outer load tracks (10, 13) and are electrically connected to the intermediate load track (12); and semiconductor switches (103, 104, 107, 108) are mounted on the intermediate load tracks (12, 14) and are electrically connected to the inner load track (11).
US12046582B2
A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming a microelectronic device structure comprising a base structure, a doped semiconductive structure comprising a first portion overlying the base structure and second portions vertically extending from the first portion and into the base structure, a stack structure overlying the doped semiconductive structure, cell pillar structures vertically extending through the stack structure and to the doped semiconductive structure, and digit line structures vertically overlying the stack structure. An additional microelectronic device structure comprising control logic devices is formed. The microelectronic device structure is attached to the additional microelectronic device structure to form a microelectronic device structure assembly. The carrier structure and the second portions of the doped semiconductive structure are removed. The first portion of the doped semiconductive structure is then patterned to form at least one source structure coupled to the cell pillar structures. Devices and systems are also described.
US12046565B2
A vertical memory device includes a cell stacked structure on a substrate, a support structure and cell contact plugs. The cell stacked structure includes gate patterns spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction and insulation layers between the gate patterns. The gate patterns extend in a first direction, and edges of the gate patterns along the first direction include step portions having step shape. The support structure passes through the cell stacked structure and the step portion of one of the gate patterns, and includes a spacer layer having cup shape, first metal patterns having ring shape, and a second metal pattern filling an inner space of the spacer layer. The cell contact plugs are on the step portions. The first metal patterns are at the same vertical levels of the gate patterns. Sidewalls of the first metal patterns are adjacent to sidewalls of the gate patterns.
US12046563B2
In an embodiment, a semiconductor wafer is provided that includes a plurality of component positions with scribe line regions located at least one of adjacent to and between the component positions. The component positions include an active device structure. An auxiliary structure is positioned in one or more of the scribe line regions. The auxiliary structure is electrically coupled to an auxiliary contact pad which includes tungsten. The auxiliary structure does not interact with or affect the active device structure in the component positions.
US12046562B2
A semiconductor package includes a first redistribution structure having a first surface in which a first pad and a second pad are embedded and including a first redistribution layer thereon, and a vertical connection structure including a land layer and a pillar layer. The land layer is embedded in the first surface of the first redistribution structure, and a width of an upper surface of the land layer is narrower than a width of a lower surface of the pillar layer.
US12046560B2
A microelectronic device is formed to include an embedded die substrate on an interposer; where the embedded die substrate is formed with no more than a single layer of transverse routing traces. In the device, all additional routing may be allocated to the interposer to which the embedded die substrate is attached. The embedded die substrate may be formed with a planarized dielectric formed over an initial metallization layer supporting the embedded die.
US12046549B2
A semiconductor device includes an insulating substrate, a first and a second obverse-surface metal layers disposed on an obverse surface of the insulating substrate, a first and a second reverse-surface metal layers disposed on a reverse surface of the insulating substrate, a first conductive layer and a first semiconductor element disposed on the first obverse-surface metal layer, and a second conductive layer and a second semiconductor element disposed on the second obverse-surface metal layer. Each of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer has an anisotropic coefficient of linear expansion and is arranged such that the direction in which the coefficient of linear expansion is relatively large is along a predetermined direction perpendicular to the thickness direction of the insulating substrate. The first and second reverse-surface metal layers are smaller than the first and second obverse-surface metal layers in dimension in the predetermined direction.
US12046536B2
An integrated circuit package includes a first die and second die above a substrate, and a vapor chamber above at least one of the first and second die. A vapor space within the vapor chamber is separated into at least a first section and a second section. The first section may be over the first die, and the second section may be over the second die, for example. The structure separating the first and second sections at least partly restricts flow of vapor between the first and second sections, thereby preventing or reducing thermal cross talk between the first and second dies. In some cases, an anisotropic thermal material is above one of the first or second die, wherein the anisotropic thermal material has substantially higher thermal conductivity in a direction of a heat sink than a thermal conductivity in a direction of a section of the vapor chamber.
US12046535B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency device that includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion, first bump structures, a first mold compound, and a second mold compound. The FEOL portion includes an active layer, a contact layer, and isolation sections. Herein, the active layer and the isolation sections reside over the contact layer, and the active layer is surrounded by the isolation sections. The BEOL portion is formed underneath the FEOL portion, and the first bump structures and the first mold compound are formed underneath the BEOL portion. Each first bump structure is partially encapsulated by the first mold compound, and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion via connecting layers within the BEOL portion. The second mold compound resides over the active layer without a silicon material, which has a resistivity between 5 Ohm-cm and 30000 Ohm-cm, in between.
US12046533B2
It is an object to provide a technique allowing for suppression of the height of a protrusion from the surface of a semiconductor module. A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor module having a first groove; a Belleville washer having a recess in an outer surface and a protrusion on an inner surface; and a screw passing through the hole of the Belleville washer and the first groove of the semiconductor module to fasten the semiconductor module and an attached body. A head of the screw is accommodated in the recess of the Belleville washer, and at least portion of the protrusion of the Belleville washer is accommodated in the first groove of the semiconductor module.
US12046527B2
A semiconductor device includes: a protruding conductive structure that protrudes to a height from a first surface of the semiconductor device; and a first passivation layer, the first passivation layer overlaying the protruding conductive structure by a first thickness, the first passivation layer overlaying the first surface by a second thickness greater than the first thickness, wherein the first passivation layer is planar at a top surface over the first thickness and the second thickness.
US12046525B2
A semiconductor packaging method, a semiconductor assembly and an electronic device comprising the semiconductor assembly are described herein. The semiconductor packaging method comprises providing at least one semiconductor device and a carrier board. A plurality of first alignment solder parts are formed on an active surface of each semiconductor device in addition to connection terminals. A plurality of second alignment solder parts are formed on a surface of the carrier board. The method further comprises forming a plurality of alignment solder joints by aligning and soldering the first alignment solder parts to respective ones of the second alignment solder parts whereby the semiconductor device is aligned and fixed to the carrier board; encapsulating the at least one semiconductor device to form a molded package body; sequentially forming a redistribution layer and external terminals on the molded package body so that the connection terminals are connected to the external terminal through the interconnection layer.
US12046524B2
In an assembly in which a space between two elements is filled with a filler containing resin, a configuration that can limit both the size of the assembly and the cost of the fillers is provided. An assembly of stacked elements has: first element having first surface; resin layer that is arranged on first surface and that contains a plurality of fillers; and second element that is arranged on resin layer and that has second surface that is in contact with resin layer. In a section that is perpendicular to second surface, the average flattening ratio of fillers that are in contact with second surface is larger than the average flattening ratio of fillers that are not in contact with second surface. Here, the flattening ratio is a ratio of the maximum length of the filler in a direction parallel to second surface to the maximum thickness of the filler in a direction perpendicular to second surface.
US12046522B2
Disclosed herein is a method for determining the endpoint of an etch operation used for forming high aspect ratio features and/or over low open area (<1%) on a substrate in a processing chamber. The method begins by obtaining a reference emission curve. An etch operation is performed on a patterned substrate. A plasma optical emission intensity is measured for each of the etch cycles. A differential curve between the reference emission and the plasma optical emissions is calculated. And endpoint is determined for the etch operation on the first substrate based on an inflection point detection or other unique features through pattern recognition in the differential curve for stopping the etch of the first substrate.
US12046520B2
The present application provides a method for detecting temperature of thermal chamber comprising: conducting a thermal treatment at a predicted temperature to a selected silicon wafer within a thermal chamber, wherein the predicted temperature comprises plural temperature points set in order; obtaining a haze value corresponding to the predicted temperature; obtaining a linear relationship I between the temperature and the haze; polishing and washing the silicon wafer; conducting a thermal treatment at a predicted temperature to the polished silicon wafer within the thermal chamber; obtaining a linear relationship II between the temperature and the haze; calculating a difference of the haze at same temperature point between the two thermal treatments, and obtaining an actual temperature difference of the thermal chamber based on the difference of the haze. The present application increases efficiency and accuracy of temperature detection of the thermal chamber, reduce fluctuations caused by silicon wafer thickness and resistivity, increase utilization of silicon wafer, and reduce cost.
US12046518B2
The present application discloses a method for manufacturing a fin field effect transistor, comprising: step 1: forming fins; step 2, forming first gate structures; and step 3, forming source and drain areas, comprising: step 31: forming a second hard mask layer; step 32: opening a formation area of FinFET, and performing the first time etching on the second hard mask layer; step 33: performing the second time etching to form first grooves in the fins, wherein the second time etching vertically and horizontally etches the isolation dielectric layer, when the second groove is formed next to the exposed surfaces of the isolation dielectric layer, the exposed surfaces of the fins and the first polysilicon gate, as the result, the second groove forms a bridge path; step 34: forming a sacrificial sidewall to fully fill the bridge path; and step 35: filling the first groove with an epitaxial layer.
US12046513B2
A method for separating semiconductor dies of a semiconductor die assembly comprises depositing a first coating on a first surface of the assembly. The assembly comprises a die wafer having a plurality of semiconductor dies and first and second surfaces. A first portion of the die wafer and the first coating is removed between adjacent semiconductor dies to form trenches having an intermediate depth in the die wafer between first and second surfaces such that die corners are formed on either side of the trenches. A protective coating is deposited on the first surface of the die assembly to cover the die corners, trenches and at least a portion of the first coating. The first coating is selectively removed such that portions of the protective coating covering die corners and trenches remain on the die wafer. Adjacent semiconductor dies are separated and the protective coating remains covering the die corners.
US12046508B2
Embodiments herein provide for oxygen based treatment of low-k dielectric layers deposited using a flowable chemical vapor deposition (FCVD) process. Oxygen based treatment of the FCVD deposited low-k dielectric layers desirably increases the Ebd to capacitance and reliability of the devices while removing voids. Embodiments include methods and apparatus for making a semiconductor device including: etching a metal layer disposed atop a substrate to form one or more metal lines having a top surface, a first side, and a second side; depositing a passivation layer atop the top surface, the first side, and the second side under conditions sufficient to reduce or eliminate oxygen contact with the one or more metal lines; depositing a flowable layer of low-k dielectric material atop the passivation layer in a thickness sufficient to cover the one or more metal lines; and contacting the flowable layer of low-k dielectric material with oxygen under conditions sufficient to anneal and increase a density of the low-k dielectric material.
US12046506B2
In one example aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a method. The method includes receiving a workpiece having a conductive feature over a semiconductor substrate, forming a sacrificial material layer over the conductive feature, removing first portions of the sacrificial material layer to form line trenches and to expose a top surface of the conductive feature in one of the line trenches; forming line features in the line trenches, removing second portions of the sacrificial material layer to form gaps between the line features, and forming dielectric features in the gaps, the dielectric features enclosing an air gap.
US12046500B2
A transport apparatus includes a hand, a drive mechanism, a cover member, and a gas supply member. The hand is configured to hold a wafer. The drive mechanism is configured to transport the wafer by moving the hand. The cover member has an opposing surface opposed to a surface of the wafer held by the hand and is formed with a plurality of holes opened in the opposing surface. The gas supply member is configured to supply an inert gas to the surface of the wafer via the plurality of holes of the cover member. The plurality of holes are formed in the opposing surface so that an opening ratio of an outer peripheral portion of the opposing surface is higher than an opening ratio of a central portion of the opposing surface.
US12046488B2
A wafer holder includes a mounting table that has a mounting surface for a workpiece at a top, a supporting member that supports the mounting table from a lower side, a first cylindrical member one end of which is joined hermetically to a lower surface of the mounting table, and a second cylindrical member that is provided inside the first cylindrical member and one end of which is joined hermetically to the lower surface of the mounting table.
US12046485B2
A controller of a substrate processing apparatus causes execution of: a cleaning process of cleaning at least a bottom surface of a cover by a cleaning liquid that fills a space between a top surface of a substrate and the bottom surface of the cover by supplying, in a state in which a vertical distance between the top surface of a substrate (a cleaning substrate) held by a substrate holder and the bottom surface of the cover is set to a first distance, the cleaning liquid to the top surface of the substrate while rotating the substrate; and after the cleaning process, a drying process of drying at least the bottom surface of the cover by stopping, in a state in which the vertical distance is set to a second distance greater than the first distance, the supply of the cleaning liquid while rotating the substrate.
US12046482B2
Various embodiments of fanout packages are disclosed. A method of forming a microelectronic assembly is disclosed. The method can include bonding a first surface of at least one microelectronic substrate to a surface of a carrier using a direct bonding technique without an intervening adhesive, the microelectronic substrate having a plurality of conductive interconnections on at least one surface of the microelectronic substrate. The method can include applying a molding material to an area of the surface of the carrier surrounding the microelectronic substrate to form a reconstituted substrate. The method can include processing the microelectronic substrate. The method can include singulating the reconstituted substrate at the area of the surface of the carrier and at the molding material to form the microelectronic assembly.
US12046480B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor die and surrounding a sidewall of the semiconductor die with a dielectric material. The method further includes forming a post passivation interconnect (PPI) over the semiconductor die and electrically coupling the PPI with the semiconductor die. The method further includes molding the semiconductor die and the PPI into an integrated semiconductor package. The method further includes covering at least a portion of an outer surface of the integrated semiconductor package with a conductive layer, wherein the conductive layer is conformal to the morphology of the portion of the outer surface. Moreover, the method further includes forming a conductive path inside the integrated semiconductor package electrically coupled to the conductive layer and a ground terminal of the integrated semiconductor package.
US12046478B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: a substrate is provided; the substrate is etched to form a blind hole, a sidewall of the blind hole has a first roughness; at least one planarization process is performed on the sidewall of the blind hole until the sidewall of the blind hole has a preset roughness less than the first roughness. The planarization process includes: a first sacrificial layer is formed on the sidewall of the blind hole; a reaction source gas is provided such that the reaction source gas reacts with the first sacrificial layer and a portion of the substrate at the sidewall of the blind hole to form a second sacrificial layer; and the second sacrificial layer is removed, and after the second sacrificial layer is removed, the sidewall of the blind hole has a second roughness less than the first roughness.
US12046474B2
A wafer includes a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of first doped regions and a plurality of second doped regions. The first doped regions and the second doped regions are located on a first surface of the semiconductor substrate. The second doped regions contact the first doped regions. The first doped regions and the second doped regions are alternately arranged. Both of the first doped regions and the second doped regions include a plurality of N-type dopants. The doping concentration of the N-type dopants in each of the first doped regions is not greater than the doping concentration of the N-type dopants in each of the second doped regions.
US12046473B2
Disclosed herein are methods for backside wafer dopant activation using a low-temperature ion implant. In some embodiments, a method may include forming a semiconductor device atop a first main side of a substrate, and performing a low-temperature ion implant to a second main side of the substrate, wherein the first main side of the substrate is opposite the second main side of the substrate. The method may further include performing a second ion implant to the second main side of the substrate to form a collector layer.
US12046470B2
A method for making a semiconductor device may include forming a first single crystal silicon layer having a first percentage of silicon 28, and forming a superlattice above the first single crystal silicon layer. The superlattice may include a plurality of stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers comprising a plurality of stacked base silicon monolayers defining a base silicon portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base silicon portions. The method may further include forming a second single crystal silicon layer above the superlattice having a second percentage of silicon 28 higher than the first percentage of silicon 28.
US12046462B2
After collecting mass spectrometry data for each of a large number of measurement points in the two-dimensional region on the sample with the imaging mass spectrometry unit, the user inputs the target compound whose two-dimensional distribution is desired to be observed from the input unit. The image display instruction reception unit obtains the m/z range for data integration from the precise m/z value and the allowable width of m/z for each target compound. The mass-to-charge ratio range overlap determination unit determines the presence or absence of overlap between the m/z ranges of a plurality of compounds, and if there is an overlap, the overlap determination result processing unit creates and displays on the screen of the display unit a list of compounds whose m/z ranges overlap, for example. This urges the user to review the compounds and allowable values.
US12046456B2
A plasma processing apparatus in which each of a plurality of source gas supply paths includes a first valve, a second valve disposed on an upstream side of the first valve, a flow rate regulator disposed between the first valve and the second valve, and a connection unit between the source gas supply path and an inert gas supply path. For each of the source gas supply paths, leakage in the first valve is sequentially determined, in a first inspection step, using a flow rate of the inert gas passing through the flow rate regulator, and in a second inspection step of, supplying the inert gas and detecting the leakage of the first valve on the source gas supply path using a change amount of a pressure of the inert gas if it is not determined in the first inspection step that there is a leakage in the first valve.
US12046453B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes: a processing container; a substrate holder disposed within the processing container and configured to hold a substrate thereon; a dielectric window disposed below the substrate holder; and a plurality of phased array antennas disposed below the dielectric window and configured to irradiate a plurality of electromagnetic waves.
US12046452B2
The disclosed plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber, a substrate support, a radio frequency power source, and a bias power source. The radio frequency power source generates radio frequency power to generate plasma. The bias power source is connected to a bias electrode of the substrate support, and generates an electric bias. An edge ring mounted on the substrate support receives a part of the electric bias through an impedance adjuster or receives another electric bias. An outer ring extends outside the edge ring in a radial direction, and receives a part of the radio frequency power or other radio frequency power.
US12046444B2
An observation carrier includes a bottom base, a lower cover, an upper cover, and a rotation cover. The bottom has at least one first positioning portion. The lower cover has at least one second positioning portion, and at least one third positioning portion. The lower cover is detachably disposed on the bottom base and positioned with the first positioning portion through the second positioning portion. The upper cover has at least one fourth positioning portion and is detachably disposed on the bottom base. The upper cover is positioned with the third positioning portion through the fourth positioning portion. An observation region is formed between the upper cover and the lower cover. The rotation cover is detachably disposed on the bottom base to limit the upper and lower covers on the bottom base. The rotation cover is adapted to rotate to be locked or released by the bottom base.
US12046439B2
The embodiments provide a thermionic emission device and a method for tuning a work function in a thermionic emission device is provided. The method includes illuminating an N type semiconductor material of a first member of a thermionic emission device, wherein a work function of the N type semiconductor material is lowered by the illuminating. The method includes collecting, on one of the first member or a second member of the thermionic emission device, electrons emitted from one of the first member or the second member.
US12046426B2
A key module includes a base plate, a circuit layer and a lifting mechanism. The circuit layer is disposed on the base plate. The lifting mechanism is pivotally connected with the base plate relative to the circuit layer, and the lifting mechanism has an abutment element. The abutment element could interfere with the circuit layer to reduce the noise generated by the key module during operation.
US12046425B2
A photovoltaic device comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, an active layer disposed at least partially between the first and second electrodes, an interfacial layer disposed at least partially between the first and second electrodes, and a non-stoichiometric oxide layer disposed at least partially between and in contact with one of the first or second electrodes and an encapsulant layer. The active layer of the photovoltaic device comprises a photoactive material.
US12046422B2
A multilayer electrical component including a plurality of parallel plate electrodes embedded in a dielectric body between first and second conductive terminations is disclosed. The dielectric body and the plurality of parallel plate electrodes form a plurality of capacitive layers each comprising a series of capacitors between the first and second conductive terminations. Each capacitor of the capacitive layers is partly defined by a gap in one of the parallel plate electrodes, wherein a gap of the one capacitive layer is laterally offset relative to a gap of an adjacent capacitive layer and a total capacitance of the adjacent capacitive layers is equivalent.
US12046417B2
There is provided a multipole magnet for deflecting a beam of charged particles. The multipole magnet comprises a plurality of ferromagnetic poles and a plurality of permanent magnet assemblies to supply a magnetomotive force to the ferromagnetic poles. At least one of the permanent magnet assemblies has a plurality of discrete permanent magnet positions and a plurality of permanent magnets each fixed in one of the permanent magnet positions.
US12046414B2
Systems and methods for modifying the magnitude and/or phase of an electromagnetic field in one or multiple dimensions. Applications for use in charging or powering multiple devices with a wireless power charger system are also described. Applications include beam shaping, beam forming, phase array radar, beam steering, etc. and inductive charging and power, and particularly usage in mobile, electronic, electric, lighting, or other devices, batteries, power tools, kitchen, industrial applications, vehicles, and other usages. Embodiments of the invention can also be applied generally to power supplies and other power sources and chargers, including systems and methods for improved ease of use and compatibility and transfer of wireless power to mobile, electronic, electric, lighting, or other devices, batteries, power tools, kitchen, military, industrial applications and/or vehicles.
US12046412B2
The present invention pertains to a transformer, and more specifically, to a transformer which includes a primary coil unit comprising wound conductive lines, and a secondary coil unit in which conductive plates are stacked. The transformer according to an embodiment of the present invention may include: a bobbin; a core unit which is coupled to the bobbin along the outer side of the bobbin; and a plurality of conductive plates which are inserted into the bobbin and stacked in the thickness direction.
US12046405B2
A coil component includes a body, a support substrate disposed in the body, a coil unit including a coil pattern disposed on the support substrate and perpendicular to a first surface of the body and first and second lead portions exposed to the first surface of the body and spaced apart from each other, and first and second external electrodes disposed on the first surface of the body, spaced apart from each other, and connected to the first and second lead portions, respectively, wherein each of the first and second lead portions and the coil pattern includes a first metal layer disposed on the support substrate and each of the first and second lead portions further includes a second metal layer disposed on the first metal layer.
US12046402B2
A transformer tank for a shell form transformer, for housing an active part of a three-phase transformer including transformer phases is provided. The tank includes a bottom tank part and a medium tank part comprising bottom plate and walls, a cover plate, reinforcing beams joined to the walls, interphase plates and stiffening supports for strengthening the cover plate. The interphase plates are to be arranged in a lower space of the tank, between adjacent transformer phases, extending from one wall to an opposite wall of the tank and coupled to the reinforcing beams. Each stiffening support is to be coupled to an interphase plate and extends in an upper space of the tank between the interphase plate and the cover plate, to cooperate with the cover plate. A three-phase shell form transformer and a method to assemble the transformer are also provided.
US12046398B2
A method for producing a permanent or soft magnet including the following steps: a) providing: a solution containing a solvent in which are dispersed a set of objects which possess a permanent magnetic moment; a substrate on which are fixed to the surface or within a cavity that it may have, a 1st pad and a 2nd pad, said 1st pad includes a face facing and parallel to a face that the 2nd pad includes; b) the solution is deposited on the surface of the substrate or, as the case may be, within its cavity; c) the substrate is placed in a magnetic field so that the set of objects are grouped together between the face of the 1st pad and the face of the 2nd pad so as to form a permanent magnet.
US12046397B2
A wiring member includes an electrical wire, a metal sheet, and a fixing resin part having resin as a main component, and the fixing resin part fixes the electrical wire to the metal sheet.
US12046396B2
A wiring member includes: a base member; a transmission wire body; and a wire-like transmission member having a covering provided around the transmission wire body, wherein the wire-like transmission member includes a fixing region fixed to the base member and a separating region separated from the base member, and a thermal conductive layer having more favorable thermal conductivity than the covering is formed on an outer periphery of the covering in the separating region.
US12046395B2
A wiring member includes: a base member including a base sheet member and a cover sheet member; and a wire-like transmission member fixed to the base member, wherein the cover sheet member is overlapped with the base sheet member while covering the wire-like transmission member, a side part of the base sheet member and a side part of the cover sheet member are joined via a joint part, and an edge of at least one of the base sheet member and the cover sheet member is located on an outer side of the joint part.
US12046391B2
A method for prepares low melting point metal particles, a conductive paste and a method for preparing the conductive paste, and relates to the technical field of functional materials. The method for preparing low melting point metal particles includes providing an organic resin carrier having fluidity, adding a low melting point metal material and the organic resin carrier into a sealed container for a vacuuming operation or filling a protective gas, making a temperature in the sealed container higher than the melting point of the low melting point metal and performing dispersion by stirring, and lowering the temperature, after performing the dispersion, to be below the melting point of the low melting point metal with continuous stirring during a cooling process to obtain low melting point metal particles dispersed in the organic resin carrier. Low melting point metal particles can be effectively prepared.
US12046388B2
According to one embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed for implementing a radio frequency quadrupole stark decelerator (RFQ-SD). The RFQ-SD includes two dielectric plates having substantially planar shapes. The first dielectric plate includes a first set of wires being attached onto a surface of the first dielectric plate and a second set of wires being attached onto the surface of the first dielectric plate. The second dielectric plate includes a third set of wires being attached onto a surface of the second dielectric plate and a fourth set of wires being attached onto the surface of the second dielectric plate. The first dielectric plate and the second dielectric plate are spaced apart such that every four wires, two wires from the first dielectric plate and two wires from the second dielectric plate, form a quadrupole electric field channel for guiding neutral polar molecules.
US12046385B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a production method of a 226Ra target, a production method of 225Ac, or an electrodeposition solution for producing a 226Ra target, and the production method of a 226Ra target includes an electrodeposition step of electrodepositing a 226Ra-containing substance on a substrate by using an electrodeposition solution that contains 226Ra ions and a pH buffer.
US12046380B2
A fast neutron nuclear reactor contains a nuclear reactor core having an array of device locations. Some device locations in the nuclear reactor core contain fissile and fertile nuclear fuel assembly devices. One or more other device locations in the nuclear reactor core contain Doppler reactivity augmentation devices that amplify the negativity of the Doppler reactivity coefficient within the nuclear reactor core. In some implementations, a Doppler reactivity augmentation device can also reduce the coolant temperature coefficient within the nuclear reactor core. Accordingly, a Doppler reactivity augmentation device contributes to a more stable nuclear reactor core.
US12046375B2
A computing system for determining a systematic training strategy for the user is provided. The computing system includes a user device that uses one or more sensors to obtain partial pressure of oxygen (PO2) levels of a user over a period of time. The user device provides previous PO2 levels to a personalized erythropoiesis model generation computing platform. The computing platform obtains individualized user data for the user indicating or more previous hematocrit and/or hemoglobin measurements for the user. The computing platform determines an individualized erythropoiesis model for the user based on the one or more previous hematocrit and/or hemoglobin measurements and the previous PO2 information, and employs the individualized erythropoiesis model to determine predicted hematocrit and/or hemoglobin measurements. The computing platform performs one or more actions based on the one or more predicted hematocrit and/or hemoglobin measurements.
US12046361B2
Various techniques for facilitating communication with and across a clinical environment and a cloud environment are described. For example, a method for tagging messages with facility identifiers in a manner that does not require changing the identifiers when logically re-arranging the facilities. A connectivity adapter in the clinical environment can receive a message from an infusion pump and tag the message with only permanent IDs such that when the facility in which the connectivity resides is categorized under a different system or region, the identifiers in the message need not be updated.
US12046359B2
A caregiver assistance system helps caregivers manage the care of patients and the beds that support the patients. The system monitors tasks associated with the patients, such as caregiver rounding tasks, bed sore assessments, and/or fall risk assessments, and forwards completed tasks to an EMR server. The system also monitors the state of the beds and determines compliance with one or more healthcare facility protocols. Over time, the system gathers data from multiple beds regarding how often the beds are in compliance with the healthcare facility protocols and produces reports of the compliance levels to assist administrators in managing their healthcare facilities. The system may further monitor how quickly caregivers responds to one or more alert conditions relating to the beds and/or patients, and generate reports for the administrators regarding such response times. In some embodiments, the system may further provide instructions to caregivers for operating features of the bed and/or compliance with healthcare facility protocols.
US12046354B2
A meta model may be provided as a global structure providing flexible or customizable options for a specific ontology designed by a system operator. A meta model may include generic structures, such as attributes, attribute categories, and attribute properties. A system operator may configure a set of specific attributes, attribute categories, and synthesis rules within the meta model to define a desired ontology, customizing the system to a specific purpose. A system can receive assertions about points of interest known to the system, and store information about attributes of points of interest based on the specified ontology.
US12046345B2
Provided are computer implemented method and systems for providing and monitoring patient compliance with a patient healthcare treatment plan. The method includes receiving, from a healthcare provider over a network, application features for generating a patient application including patient instructions for using a medical therapy, and generating an application for a patient. The application includes at least an input for the user to input data for use in evaluating patient compliance with a treatment plan. In addition, the method includes receiving, from the healthcare provider over the network, a prescription for the application for the patient, and activating the application after the patient receives training on use of the application. The method also may include receiving patient compliance data from the application over the network based on the input.
US12046333B2
A blood cell analysis method and a blood cell analyzer are provided. In the method and analyzer, characteristic information of white blood cell fragments is obtained based on side scattered light information and fluorescence information, characteristic information of platelets is obtained based on forward scattered light information and fluorescence information and then a count value for the platelets is acquired based on the characteristic information of the platelets and the characteristic information of the white blood cell fragments. The present invention can avoid the influence of the white blood cell fragments on the platelet counting, thereby ensuring the accuracy of the platelet counting without increasing costs.
US12046322B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods related to configurable data protection circuitry. A memory includes a plurality of memory devices and a memory controller that can be coupled to the memory via a plurality of channels. The channels comprise respective subsets of the plurality of memory devices. The memory controller comprises data protection circuitry to accommodate a first codeword configuration of a number of codewords responsive to the plurality of memory devices having a first operating mode corresponding to a first input/output (I/O) width and accommodate a second codeword configuration of the number of codewords responsive to the plurality of memory devices having a second operating mode corresponding to a second I/O width, as well as switch between the first operating mode of the plurality of memory devices and the second operating mode of the plurality of memory devices.
US12046315B2
This application discloses a memory built-in self-test system to prompt a memory device to sense values of stored data using a reference trim during memory read operations. The memory built-in self-test system can automatically set the reference trim for the memory device. The memory built-in self-test system includes a memory built-in self-test controller to prompt the memory device to perform the memory read operations with different test values for the reference trim. The memory built-in self-test system also includes a trim feedback circuit to determine when the memory device fails to correctly sense the values of the stored data using the test values for the reference trim, and set the reference trim for the memory device based, at least in part, on the failures of the memory device to correctly sense the stored data.
US12046310B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first gate structure extending along a first direction and electrically connected to a first transistor, a second gate structure extending along the first direction and electrically connected to a second transistor, a first active region extending along a second direction different from the first direction and across the first gate structure and the second gate structure, and a first conductive element extending along the second direction and disposed on the first active region. The first conductive element is electrically connected to the first active region. The first conductive element is electrically connected to the first active region, such that a short circuit between the first active region and the third transistor is formed. The first gate structure and the first active region form a first fuse element, and the second gate structure and the first active region form a second fuse element.
US12046309B2
A switch is configured to switch connection between a second terminal to which a data signal is input and a memory control signal of a memory element in accordance with a switching signal included in a data signal. In write to a memory element, the switching signal switches such that the switch connects the second terminal and the memory control signal of the memory element, and a pulse signal for the write to the memory element is input via the second terminal.
US12046308B2
A One Time Programmable (OTP) memory can have a memory cell, which includes two series diodes as a fuse structure.
US12046305B2
A memory apparatus and method of operation are provided. The apparatus includes memory cells connected to word lines including a dummy word line and other data word lines. The memory cells are disposed in memory holes and configured to retain a threshold voltage. A control means is coupled to the word lines and the memory holes and is configured to determine whether one of the word lines being programmed in a program operation is a particular one of the word lines adjacent the dummy word line needing a dummy positioning operation. The control means is also configured to program the memory cells connected to the dummy word line to adjust the threshold voltage to a predetermined position threshold voltage in the dummy positioning operation in response to determining the one of the plurality of word lines being programmed in the program operation is the particular one of the word lines.
US12046290B2
Numerous embodiments of programming, verifying, and reading systems and methods for use with a vector-by-matrix multiplication (VMM) array in an artificial neural network are disclosed. Selected cells can be programmed and verified with extreme precision to hold one of N different values. During a read operation, the system determines which of the N different values is stored in a selected cell.
US12046289B2
A storage device is disclosed herein. The storage device comprises: a non-volatile memory, where the non-volatile memory includes a block of N wordlines partitioned into a plurality of sub-blocks; and control circuitry coupled to the N wordlines. The control circuitry is configured to: determine a program status of an unselected sub-block of the plurality of sub-blocks before performing an operation on a selected sub-block of the plurality of sub-blocks; based on determining that the program status of the unselected sub-block is programmed, perform a precharge operation including applying a first precharge time; and based on determining that the program status of the unselected sub-block is not programmed, perform a precharge operation including applying a second precharge time, wherein the first precharge time is for a longer period than the second precharge time.
US12046285B2
A vertical repetition of multiple instances of a unit layer stack is formed over a substrate. The unit layer stack includes an insulating layer and a sacrificial material layer. Lateral recesses are formed by removing the sacrificial material layers selective to the insulating layers. Each lateral recess is sequentially fill with at least one conductive fill material and an insulating fill material, and vertically-extending portions of the at least one conductive fill material are removed such that a vertical layer stack including a first-type electrically conductive layer, a seamed insulating layer, and a second-type electrically conductive layer are formed in each lateral recess. Memory opening fill structures including a respective vertical stack of memory elements is formed through the insulating layers and the layer stacks. Access points for providing an etchant for removing the sacrificial material layers may be provided by memory openings, contact via cavities or backside trenches.
US12046281B2
Provided is a storage apparatus that reduces the power needed to write corrected data back to a memory. The storage apparatus includes a memory and a write control section. The memory stores data in units of multiple cells each representing a predetermined value. The write control section receives write-back data having a specific value in a position corresponding to at least one of the multiple cells, as well as a write-back command regarding the specific value. The write control section performs control to write the specific value only to the cell corresponding to the position indicative of the specific value in the write-back data.
US12046280B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor structure includes a transistor; a first phase change memory structure, a bottom electrode of the first phase change memory structure being electrically connected to a first terminal (source or drain) of the transistor; a second phase change memory structure, a top electrode of the second phase change memory structure being electrically connected to the first terminal of the transistor; a first bit line, electrically connected to a top electrode of the first phase change memory structure; and a second bit line, electrically connected to a bottom electrode of the second phase change memory structure.
US12046277B2
A compilation method includes: receiving a signal to be compiled and a working frequency signal; performing compilation processing on the signal to be compiled to obtain a compilation result signal; and if the signal to be compiled is a reserved code, performing compatibility selection processing on the compilation result signal based on the working frequency signal to determine a first compilation value.
US12046276B2
One aspect of this description relates to a memory cell. In some embodiments, the memory cell includes a first gate structure, a second gate structure, a third gate structure, a fourth gate structure, and a fifth gate structure that each extend along a first lateral direction, a first active structure extending along a second lateral direction and overlaid by respective first portions of the first to fourth gate structures, a second active structure extending along the second lateral direction and overlaid by respective second portions of the first to fourth gate structures, and a third active structure extending along the second lateral direction and overlaid by respective third portions of the third and fifth gate structures. In some embodiments, the first and second gate structures are aligned with each other, with the fourth and fifth gate structures aligned with a first segment and a second segment of the third gate structure, respectively. In some embodiments, the second lateral direction perpendicular to the first lateral direction.
US12046273B2
Apparatuses and methods for saving power at an input buffer are described. An example apparatus includes an input buffer comprising an amplifier coupled to a pair of serially coupled inverters, and a de-emphasis circuit coupled to the input buffer in parallel with one of the pair of serially-coupled inverters. The de-emphasis circuit comprising a plurality of transistors coupled in parallel to a resistance. The example apparatus further includes an input buffer control circuit configured to selectively enable one of the plurality of transistors to adjust a gain across the one of the pair of inverters based on a latency setting.
US12046267B2
A memory apparatus and operating method are provided. The apparatus includes memory cells connected to word lines and disposed in strings and configured to retain a threshold voltage corresponding to data states. A control means is configured to program and verify the memory cells during a program operation. The memory cells associated with predetermined ones of the data states are not verified until the memory cells associated with specific prior ones of the data states finish programming to define verify windows ranging between each one of the specific prior ones of the data states and each one of the predetermined ones. The control means adjusts the verify windows in response to the memory cells associated with one of the specific prior ones of the data states not finishing programming before the one of the predetermined ones of the at least one of the verify windows is verified.
US12046266B1
Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising one or more disks; an actuator mechanism configured to position one or more heads proximate to a corresponding disk surface of the one or more disks; and one or more processing devices. The one or more processing devices are configured to apply a pre-bias current to the assistive energy emitter at a first value while the selected head is positioned proximate to one or more spiral patterns on the corresponding disk surface. The one or more processing devices are further configured to apply the pre-bias current to the assistive energy emitter at a boosted value while the selected head is not positioned proximate to the one or more spiral patterns, wherein the boosted value is greater than the first value.
US12046263B2
In some implementations, a magnetic sensor may apply an electrical signal across a tunnel barrier layer of a tunnel magnetoresistive (TMR) sensing element. The electrical signal may have a first signal level during a first time period and a second signal level during a second time period. The second signal level may be different from the first signal level. The magnetic sensor may generate an offset-corrected sensor signal based on a sensor signal that results from applying the electrical signal across the tunnel barrier layer of the TMR sensing element.
US12046259B2
Systems and methods for interactively engaging consumers of a media asset are disclosed. The methods allow selection and personalization of a media asset character's name, voice, or dialogue while the media asset is being consumed. The personalization may be propagated through the entire media asset or additionally to other episodes, sequels, and related media assets by identifying and replacing associated metatags. The system determines whether the media asset is being consumed as a group watch where its members are consuming the media asset from different IP addresses or being consumed by viewers in the same room to determine the type of changes allowed. The methods also present queries to engage the viewer, such as by the character asking them a question, and provide supplemental videos to aid in responding to the queries. The responses to queries may also determine the path a story takes in the media asset.
US12046252B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer system a computer program product, and a method that comprises analyzing a received directional voice command by identifying a plurality of contextual factors associated with at least one user in a plurality of users using a natural language processing algorithm; dynamically identifying the at least one user in the plurality of users based on an analysis of the identified contextual factors associated with the received directional voice command; generating a plurality of scenarios within a mixed reality environment based on the analysis of the identified contextual factors associated with received directional voice command; identifying a location associated with at least one received directional voice command within a plurality of directional voice commands; and validating the location associated with the at least one received directional voice command using a corpus knowledge algorithm.
US12046250B2
An apparatus comprising means configured to: generate spatial audio signal directional metadata parameters for a block of time-frequencies; generate encoded spatial audio signal directional metadata parameters (108) for a block of time-frequencies based on a first quantization resolution (203); compare a number of bits used for the encoded spatial audio signal directional parameters (108) for the block of time-frequencies based on the first quantization resolution against a determined number of bits; output or store the encoded spatial audio signal directional metadata parameters for a block of time-frequencies (108) based on a first quantization resolution when the number of bits used for the encoded spatial audio signal directional parameters for the block of time-frequencies (108) based on the first quantization resolution is less than a determined number of bits (217); generate encoded spatial audio signal directional metadata parameters (108) for the block of time-frequencies based on a second quantization resolution when the number of bits used for the encoded spatial audio signal directional parameters for the block of time-frequencies (108) based on the first quantization resolution is more than the determined number of bits and a difference between the determined number of bits and the number of bits used for the encoded spatial audio signal directional parameters (108) for the block of time-frequencies based on the first quantization resolution is less than a determined number of bits is within a determined threshold (217); generate encoded spatial audio signal directional metadata parameters (108) for the block of time-frequencies based on a third quantization resolution when the number of bits used for the encoded spatial audio signal directional parameters (108) for the block of time-frequencies based on the first quantization resolution is more than the determined number of bits and the difference between the determined number of bits and the number of bits used for the encoded spatial audio signal directional parameters (108) for the block of time-frequencies based on the first quantization resolution is greater than the determined threshold, wherein the third quantization resolution is determined such that a number of bits used for the encoded spatial audio signal directional parameters for the block of time-frequencies based on the third quantization resolution is always equal to or less than the determined number of bits (217).
US12046246B2
A computer-implemented method for creating an immersive audio experience. The method includes receiving a selection of an audio track via a user interface, and receiving audio track metadata for the audio track. The method includes querying an audio database based on the track metadata and determining that audio data for the audio track is not stored on the audio database. The method includes analyzing the audio track to determine one or more audio track characteristics. The method includes generating vibe data based on the one or more audio track characteristics, wherein the vibe data includes time-coded metadata. Based on the vibe data, generating visualization instructions for one or A/V devices in communication with a user computing device, and transmitting the generated visualization instructions and the audio track to the user computing device.
US12046238B2
Systems and methods are disclosed configured to detect impairment issues, and via an interlock device, inhibit operation of an item of equipment when impairment is detected. The interlock device may comprise a solid state relay, an electromechanical relay, and/or a solenoid. The interlock device may perform power isolation and/or may use a mechanism, such as a rotating cam or gear, to immobilize a control and/or other components. Based on detected impairment, a determination is made as to whether the interlock is to be activated or deactivated.
US12046224B2
A wearable audio device includes a microphone, a speaker, and a hardware processor. The microphone is configured to receive external audio. The speaker configured to produce internal audio. The hardware processor is operably connected to the microphone and speaker. A comparison of the external audio to the internal audio is performed, and a notification is generated based upon the comparison determining that the external audio matches the internal audio.
US12046223B2
An apparatus for facilitating control of midi-sequence generation is disclosed. The apparatus may include a midi-sequence module configured to store a plurality of main midi sequences, store a plurality of fill midi sequences, and playback a plurality of main midi sequences and the plurality of fill midi sequences. The apparatus can also include a first foot-operable switch configured to operate the midi-sequence module, an instrument input, and a looping means configured to record a plurality of signals received from the instrument input, generate a plurality of recorded loops associated with the plurality of recorded signals, store the plurality of recorded loops, and playback each of the plurality of recorded loops. The apparatus can also include a second foot-operable switch configured to operate the looping means.
US12046218B2
An image data acquirement section of an image processing apparatus acquires data regarding a frame of a moving image generated by a server. A decoding/decompression section repeats a cycle of a decoding/decompression process for each of frames at a rate higher than the frame rate of the moving image. An image processing section repeats a cycle of applying a necessary image process to each of the frames at the rate higher than the frame rate of the moving image. The display control section outputs the data regarding the frame ready for displaying to a display panel at the rate higher than the frame rate of the moving image.
US12046216B2
A display updating system and a display are provided. The display updating system includes a display and an electronic device. The display includes a display panel, a USB hub, and a display control circuit. The USB hub is configured to receive a plurality of display program codes through a USB interface. The display control circuit is configured to receive the display program codes from the USB hub and store the display program codes. The electronic device is connected to the display through the USB interface and includes a memory, a USB driver circuit, and a calculation circuit. The memory is configured to store the display program codes. The USB driver circuit is connected to the USB hub of the display through the USB interface. The calculation circuit is configured to control the USB driver circuit to transmit the display program codes through the USB interface.
US12046214B2
A display control unit includes a data drive unit, a gate drive unit, a drive settle detection circuit, and a row enable module. The data drive unit generates data drive signals for driving data lines of a display. The gate drive unit drives gate lines of the display in an order based on a row enable signal. The drive settle detection circuit monitors a set of data drive signals for an activated gate line. The drive settle detection circuit also sets a settled signal for the activated gate line when each drive signal of the set of drive signals has reached a corresponding settling threshold. The row enable module ends, as part of the row enable signal, activation of the activated gate line based on the settled signal and activates, as part of the row enable signal, another gate line based on the settled signal.
US12046209B2
A display device includes a liquid crystal panel; a plurality of light sources configured to emit light toward the liquid crystal panel, wherein the plurality of light sources are divided into a plurality of dimming blocks, each dimming block including one or more light sources; a driver configured to provide a current to each light source of the plurality of light sources; and a processor configured to: control the driver to provide the current to the one or more light sources included in each dimming block of the plurality of dimming blocks based on image data, obtain an average current value of currents provided to the one or more light sources included in each dimming block of the plurality of dimming blocks for a reference time based on the image data, and control the driver to provide a reduced current to the plurality of light sources based on at least one of a predetermined number of first dimming blocks or an arrangement of the first dimming blocks having the average current value being greater than or equal to a first reference current value.
US12046208B2
A current control integrated circuit of a backlight device for display includes a buffer configured to receive a column signal; a plurality of driving current controllers configured to receive the column signal outputted from the buffer and row signals corresponding to a plurality of light emitting blocks of a control unit, and control driving currents for light emission of the light emitting blocks, in response to the column signal and the row signals; and a memory unit, wherein an offset voltage of the buffer is controlled by offset correction data stored in the memory unit.
US12046206B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels connected to a data line and a gate line, a data driver configured to drive by dividing an active period to which a data voltage is applied to the data line and a blank period to which the data voltage is not applied, a gate driver to apply a scan signal to the gate line, and a controller to control the plurality of pixels to be driven in one of a plurality of bands having different highest target luminance. A parking voltage is applied to the data line during the blank period, and the parking voltage applied to the data line in at least one of the plurality of bands has a voltage level different from a voltage level of the parking voltage applied to the data line in the other band of the plurality of bands.
US12046205B2
Disclosed are a source driver for sensing the degree of deterioration in pixels in some regions of a display panel and compensating for the deterioration in the display panel based on the sensed degree, by considering a characteristic in which pixels included in each display panel similarly deteriorate, and a display device including the same. The display device may include a display panel including pixels, a sensing circuit configured to provide sensing data by sensing the degree of deterioration in pixels in at least one first region of the display panel, and a compensation circuit configured to calculate an amount of compensation of each of the pixels in the first region using the sensing data and compensate for the deterioration in the pixels in the first region and pixels in a second region whose degree of deterioration is not sensed, based on the amount of compensation.
US12046192B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for display processing including an apparatus, e.g., a DPU. The apparatus may receive a plurality of panel measurements for a display panel, each of the plurality of panel measurements associated with a plurality of subpixels in the display panel. The apparatus may also determine, upon receiving the plurality of panel measurements, at least one offset for one or more subpixels of the plurality of subpixels associated with each of the plurality of panel measurements. The apparatus may also store, upon determining the at least one offset for the one or more subpixels, the at least one offset for the one or more subpixels associated with each of the plurality of panel measurements.
US12046189B2
A pixel for a display device includes a light-emitting element, a first transistor including a first electrode electrically connected to a first node and controlling a driving current, a second transistor electrically connected between a data line and the first node and being turned on in response to a first scan signal supplied through a first scan line, a third transistor electrically connected between the second node and a third node electrically connected to a second electrode of the first transistor and being turned on in response to the first scan signal, and a fourth transistor being turned on in response to a second scan signal supplied through a second scan line, and applying a bias voltage to the first transistor. The fourth transistor is turned on at a first frequency. The second and third transistors are turned on at a second frequency different from the first frequency.
US12046179B2
Techniques are described for enhancing the perceived gamut (PG) of a physical display device presenting frames of an image sequence to a human viewer wherein the gamut (DG) of the display device is given by the primary colors of the display device. An interface receives a sequence of frames from an image sequence source with each frame having input color data associated with each pixel of the respective frame. A white point computation module computes frame-specific target white points (TWP) to which the viewer would adapt when watching a respective frame on a display capable of showing all perceivable colors. A chromatic adaptation transformation module applies a temporal filter function to the target white points of all frames within a sliding window to compute a filtered white point and applies a chromatic adaptation transformation to one or more future frames by using the filtered white point.
US12046169B2
A display device includes: a display panel including first and second wirings; a control circuit board spaced apart from the display panel and including a power management circuit which provides a driving voltage to the first and second wirings; a first cable coupled to the control circuit board and electrically connecting the power management circuit and the first wiring; a second cable coupled to the control circuit board and electrically connecting the power management circuit and the second wiring; an abnormal coupling detector connected between the first and second wirings and generating first and second protection signals based on a difference between a first voltage of the first wiring and a second voltage of the second wiring; and a voltage supply controller counting the first and second protection signals, and providing a shutdown signal to the power management circuit such that the power management circuit stops providing the driving voltage.
US12046168B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display area, a hole area, a peripheral area, and a bending area, a printed circuit board disposed on the pad area, a first hole crack detection line and a second hole crack detection line disposed in the peripheral area and extending to the bending area and the pad area, a first transistor including a gate electrode connected to a first signal line to apply a first signal, a first electrode, and a second electrode connected to the first hole crack detection line, and a second transistor including a gate electrode connected to a second signal line to receive a second signal, a first electrode connected to a high voltage line applying a high voltage, and a second electrode connected to the first hole crack detection line.
US12046160B1
A peg array assembly includes a housing having an opening and defining an internal volume. The assembly also includes a panel having an array of a plurality of apertures formed therethrough. Each aperture of the panel is configured to receive a respective light-transmitting peg and retain the respective light-transmitting peg until the respective light-transmitting peg is selectively removed from the respective aperture. The peg array assembly is configured to selectively receive a mobile device configured to emit light towards the array of the plurality of apertures. A mobile app may display a design template and/or an animation, and systems include the mobile app and the peg array assembly. Methods include accessing design templates and/or animation libraries via the mobile app, inserting light-transmitting pegs through the panel, and displaying a design and/or animation via the light-transmitting pegs and light emitted from the mobile device or other light source.
US12046154B2
A method implemented by a computing device for helping a particular user use a user interface (UI). Electroencephalography (EEG) data is obtained that indicates brain activity of a particular user during a period in which that user views the UI and/or interprets help information that describes how to use the UI. Based on the EEG data, the computing device selects, from among multiple predefined cognitive states, the one or more cognitive states that characterize the particular user during the period. The computing device assists the particular user to use the UI by customizing the help information for the particular user based on the one or more selected cognitive states. A complementary computing device and computer program product are also disclosed.
US12046151B2
Described and demonstrated herein are embodiments of a self-supporting wearable device that can be used for medical training and simulations. Also described herein are methods of using the wearable device described herein.
US12046143B2
This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for sensor fusion for object-avoidance detection, including stationary-object height estimation. A sensor fusion system may include a two-stage pipeline. In the first stage, time-series radar data passes through a detection model to produce radar range detections. In the second stage, based on the radar range detections and camera detections, an estimation model detects an over-drivable condition associated with stationary objects in a travel path of a vehicle. By projecting radar range detections onto pixels of an image, a histogram tracker can be used to discern pixel-based dimensions of stationary objects and track them across frames. With depth information, a highly accurate pixel-based width and height estimation can be made, which after applying over-drivability thresholds to these estimations, a vehicle can quickly and safely make over-drivability decisions about objects in a road.
US12046138B2
A method of tracking at least one emergency service provider is disclosed. An electronic history is compiled that includes at least one identifier of a service provider, at least one identifier of an event to which the service provider responded, and GPS data identifying the geographic location of the service provider at each time interval within the duration of the event. A user interface within which is displayed a first identifier of a first event is generated to a display device. A selection of the event identifier is received from a user. In response to the selection of the identifier, an aerial view of a geographic region within which the first event took place is generated. At least one icon is displayed in the aerial view representing the service provider at the geographic location corresponding to at least one time interval during the event.
US12046136B2
Provided herein is technology related to a distributed driving system (DDS) by using flexible, on-demand, and customized resources and functions from an intelligent roadside toolbox (IRT). These resources comprise computational resources, cloud resources, system security resources, backup and redundancy resources. The functions comprise sensing, transportation behavior prediction and management, planning and decision-making, and vehicle control functions. The DDS and IRT technologies described herein are vehicle oriented, modular, and customizable for each vehicle to meet the specific needs of each individual vehicle as an on-demand and dynamic service. The DDS is configured to provide customized, on-demand, and dynamic IRT resources and functions to individual CAVs to supplement the CAV's sensing, transportation behavior prediction and management, planning and decision-making, and/or vehicle control.
US12046125B2
Methods and systems for performing a walk test for fire alarm systems using a mobile device are described herein. One fire alarm system, includes a system control panel fixedly positioned within a building for controlling a plurality of fire alarm system devices connected to the panel and positioned within the building, a mobile device wirelessly connected to the control panel, and a fire alarm system control application on the mobile device, wherein the fire alarm control system application gains access to the control panel and, therethrough, the plurality of fire alarm system devices and wherein the fire alarm control system application issues a command to a particular fire alarm system device of the plurality of fire alarm system devices to perform a particular test or maintenance function and the control panel relays the command to the particular fire alarm system device.
US12046116B2
According to one aspect, a computer-implemented method for detecting an earthquake includes detecting vibrations in a trackpad of a computing device using an inductive element and force sensing circuitry of the trackpad and, processing, by a microcontroller of the computing device, the vibrations for detection of an earthquake vibration signal. In response to detecting the earthquake vibration signal, communicating, by the computing device, the earthquake vibration signal to a remote server and receiving, at the computing device, an earthquake alert from the remote server.
US12046115B2
Disclosed are a safety service system and a method thereof. The safety service system comprises: a collection unit for collecting position information and image information related to a protected person who is registered by a protector; and a service providing unit for providing the position information and the image information to one or both of the protector and a security company upon detection of a signal that the protected person is in danger.
US12046111B2
A cash handling device having at least one processor, a communication interface, an item accepting device, an item dispensing device, an internal currency scanning system, an internal currency transport system, one or more currency storage cartridges, and a memory may receive, from a user, a request to perform a deposit transaction. Based on receiving the request to perform the deposit transaction, the cash handling device may receive at least one deposit item for deposit. Subsequently, the cash handling device may validate the at least one deposit item received for deposit. Based on validating the at least one deposit item received for deposit, the cash handling device may generate a deposit transaction record that includes information directing a banking server to apply a provisional credit to a treasury account associated with the user. Subsequently, the cash handling device may send the deposit transaction record to the banking server.
US12046099B2
A system includes a processor configured to receive a vehicle identifier identifying a vehicle from a first digital entity. The processor is also configured to digitally obtain a payment account associated with the identifier, responsive to receiving the identifier. The processor is further configured to validate payment rights through input from a second entity, confirming the right to use the account to pay for charging the vehicle and responsive to successful validation, charge the payment account for vehicle charging, following vehicle charging completion.
US12046094B2
Provided are an entrance management system and an operating method thereof. The operating method of an entrance management system may include: detecting an electronic device by using short-range wireless communication; measuring a distance from the electronic device; when the electronic device enters a set first range, opening an entrance; and when the distance from the electronic device decreases to a preset value or less, closing the entrance.
US12046093B2
A multi-device electronic access control application, method and system. Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide for an end user mobile application that inter-operates with various types of electronic locking devices in a simple, repeatable method to enable a user to unlock any make or model of electronic access control device, if they are authorized to do so at that site, time and purpose, from a single mobile application user interface. An end user mobile application may be communicably engaged with a remote application server to integrate with enterprise backend user/site data and alarm systems, such that the end user mobile application is configured to manage user authorization/authentication, site access protocols/permissions and alarm management. An electronic access control method may comprise one or more steps for authorizing a user; suppressing an alarm; and unlocking an electronic locking device with a specified method for the given access point.
US12046087B2
System and method for enabling predefined events to be used to trigger the collection of vehicle position data. A combination GSM device and GPS device is used to collect vehicle position data and to convey that position data to a remote computing device for review and/or analysis. There is a tradeoff between collecting too much data (cell phone bill is too high) and collecting too little data (value added analytics cannot be achieved without sufficient data). The concepts disclosed herein relate to method and apparatus to enable the data collection/transmission paradigm of such a GSM/GPS to be varied (or triggered) based on the detection of one or more predefined events. This enables data which can contribute to value added analytics to be acquired, without wasting airtime on unimportant data.
US12046084B2
The invention relates to a surveillance system for an infrastructure and/or for a vehicle, comprising at least two sensor modules configured to collect respective sensor data from a respective associated sensor; an analysis module configured to access the sensor data; wherein the sensor modules are configured to provide the sensor data with a time stamp; and the analysis module is configured to detect a given event based on sensor data of at least one first sensor module and to associate sensor data of at least one other second sensor module with the event based on the time stamps of the sensor data to provide an enhanced surveillance and/or maintenance system, in particular a system suitable for large and/or complex infrastructures, vehicles, and combinations thereof.
US12046081B2
A sonic generator for use with timing and data collection systems is a button activated device operated by a referee during a live sporting event. It can be hand-held or integrated with a referee's belt pack and replaces a conventional exhalation-powered whistle. It can be configured to record and replay a custom sonic signal, a sonic signal selected from a database of pre-recorded sounds, or a standard sonic signal such as a generic whistle sound. Each sonic generator generates a unique sonic signal which is compared to digitally stored sonic fingerprints at a given sporting event to identify a match, and starts or stops the game clock in response to that match. This prevents inadvertent game clock starts and stops resulting from ambient noise. The sonic generator can be configured as a two-way voice communication system to allow referees to communicate with other game officials.
US12046076B2
A vehicle monitoring system and a vehicle monitoring method, the vehicle monitoring system comprising: a camera module, used for photographing one or more first images and one or more second images after a vehicle starts, the first images being obtained by photographing embarking passengers, the second images being obtained by photographing disembarking passengers; a processing module, connected to the camera module, and used for performing facial analysis on the first images to determine the passengers embarking the vehicle, performing facial analysis on the second images to determine the passengers disembarking the vehicle, and sequentially matching the embarking passengers with the disembarking passengers; a reminder module, connected to the processing module, and used for pushing a left-behind passenger message to a driver if there is an embarking passenger who cannot be matched with a disembarking passenger, to warn the driver that there is a passenger currently left behind in the vehicle.
US12046070B2
A display device includes a display panel, and a sensor panel under the display panel, and including a fingerprint sensor, a proximity sensor between the fingerprint sensor and an edge of the sensor panel, and an illuminance sensor between the fingerprint sensor and the edge of the sensor panel, and adjacent to the proximity sensor.
US12046065B2
An information processing system configured to provide an electronic commerce platform. An information processing system is configured to acquire a descriptive text related to an item and at least one image related to the item; identify an object from the descriptive text; detect an object from each of the at least one image; and generate correspondence information based on correspondence between the object identified from the descriptive text and the object detected from the image.
US12046062B2
This disclosure relates generally to intelligent visual reasoning over graphical illustrations using a MAC unit. Prior arts use visual attention to map particular words in a question to specific areas in an image to memorize the corresponding answers, thereby resulting in a limited capability to answer questions of a specific type. The present disclosure incorporates the MAC unit to enable reasoning capabilities and accordingly attend to an area in the image to find the answer. The present disclosure therefore allows generalizing over a possible set of questions with varying complexities so that an unseen question can also be answered correctly based on the reasoning methods that it has learned. The system and method of the present disclosure can be used for understanding of visual information when processing documents like business reports, research papers, consensus reports etc. containing charts and reduce the time spent in manual analysis.
US12046058B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display including a sensing panel that senses a handwriting input, at least one processor operatively connected to the display, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to acquire the handwriting input through the display, wherein the handwriting input includes a first handwriting input corresponding to a first line and a second handwriting input corresponding to a second line, determine whether to merge the second line into the first line or to maintain the second line based on whether at least one of the first handwriting input and/or the second handwriting input satisfies a specified condition, convert the handwriting input where the merging or the maintenance of the second line is applied into text, and display the converted text through the display.
US12046049B2
Provided are methods for automatically detecting traffic signals using sensor data. The methods can include obtaining first sensor data and second sensor data regarding an environment of an autonomous vehicle, where the first sensor data represents at least one image of the environment generated by at least one image sensor of the autonomous vehicle, where the second sensor data represents a three-dimensional point cloud associated with the environment, and where the second sensor data is generated by at least one range sensor of the autonomous vehicle. The method can also include determining a portion of the at least one image corresponding to a traffic signal in the environment, determining a point cluster of the point cloud corresponding to the portion of the at least one image, and determining a location of the traffic signal based on the point cluster. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US12046045B2
The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for trailer hitch ball position location including receiving a plurality of image frames from a camera directed at a front of a trailer coupled to a vehicle at a coupling point, modeling the image frames in a convolutional neural network to form an initial estimate of a pivot point position as a location, optimizing the model using a nonlinear equation to identify the pivot point position, and locating the coupling point as the optimized pivot point position. The convolutional neural network includes a plurality of bounding boxes centered as locations of predetermined markers on the front of the trailer, the modeling via a reverse pinhole projection of a pixel onto a three-dimensional coordinate frame projected on a trailer plane to enable computed marker positions to determine relative dimensions of the trailer and locate the coupling point. The optimizing includes solving a nonlinear least-squares (NLLSQ) optimization formulation for multiple markers on the trailer. The method include the use of geometrical means to determine the angle of articulation between the trailer and tow-vehicle (hitch angle) by tracking the plurality of bounding boxes centered as locations of predetermined markers on the front of the trailer, as the vehicle and trailer move in a circular arc with respect to each other.
US12046043B2
An information processing apparatus (2000) detects a stationary object from video data (12). In addition, the information processing apparatus (2000) executes person detection process of detecting a person in vicinity of an object (target object) detected as the stationary object for each of a plurality of video frames (14) which includes the target object. Furthermore, the information processing apparatus (2000) executes a predetermined process by comparing results of the person detection process for each of the plurality of video frames (14).
US12046042B2
An image obtaining means including: a processor; a memory module communicatively coupled to the processor; a camera communicatively coupled to the processor; and the processor being configured to: receive, from the camera, image data; determine whether a predetermined object is present based on the image data; if a predetermined object is detected as present, determine if the predetermined object is moving or stationary; and if the predetermined object is stationary for at least a predetermined time period, record the duration that the predetermined object is stationary in the memory module.
US12046038B2
A system and method described herein is effective for generating automated visual analytics and player statistics for videos of sporting events. A dataset of videos is collected that comprises multiple teams. Training the networks on RGB and grayscale images affects the generalization ability of the network learned and augmenting more images using generative adversarial networks to the dataset helps further improves the performance.
US12046033B2
Systems and methods disclosed in this application are directed to augmented reality for used with pin badges. Pin badges can be worn, held, or set within view of an AR device having a camera. The AR device sends images or video from its camera to a platform server that determines whether a pin badge exists in view of the camera. If a pin badge exists, it is identified and augmented reality imagery related to the pin badge is transmitted back to the AR device so that the AR device can incorporate that augmented reality imagery into a video stream from its camera as shown on its display.
US12046028B1
A compiler system for deploying CNN models to FPGA-based high-performance accelerators is provided. The compiler system comprises a compiler front end and a compiler back end, as well as a runtime library and an accelerator; the compiler front end is used for the quantization of CNN models to be deployed based on the ONNX model and a training data set, and the IR Graph corresponding to the CNN model to be deployed is obtained; the compiler back end is used to determine instructions and configuration information; the instruction set architecture comprises CONY, MAXP, AVGP, ADD and FC, and the configuration information comprises pre-trained weights and bias, packet descriptors and key-value pairs representing control registers; the runtime library is used to store instructions and configuration files to DRAM, and FPGA is configured according to the configuration information of the model.
US12046027B2
A method includes training, using first real data objects, a generative adversarial network having a generator model and a discriminator model to create a trained generator model that generates realistic data, and training, using adversarial data objects and second real data objects, the discriminator model to output an authenticity binary class for the adversarial data objects and the second real data objects. The method further includes deploying the discriminator model to a production system. In the production system, the discriminator model outputs the authenticity binary class to a system classifier model.
US12046021B2
A method comprising: receiving a dataset comprising a plurality of data instances; extracting a feature vector representation of each of the data instances in the dataset; choosing a first data instance for adding to a subset of the dataset, wherein the first data instance is removed from the dataset; performing an iterative process comprising: (i) identifying one of the data instances in the dataset which represents a maximal information addition to the subset, based, at least in part, on measuring an information difference parameter between the feature vector representation of the identified data instance and the feature vector representations of all of the data instances in the subset, and (ii) adding the identified data instance to the subset and removing the identified data instance from the dataset, until the information difference parameter is lower than a predetermined threshold; and outputting the subset as a representative subset of the dataset.
US12046020B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses related to reducing network congestion by analyzing data using a lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) layer prior to transmission are described. An AI model may predictively select data that need not be transmitted and, in some embodiments, further process data to be transmitted. As a result, the total size and amount of data transmitted over the network can be reduced, while the data needs of the receiving device can still be met. For example, data generated by a source application may be received and input into a predictive model, which may generate a prediction output for the data. The data may be pre-processed using a strategy selected based on the prediction output, and the pre-processed data may be transmitted over a network to a server.
US12046018B2
The present invention has as its objective a procedure for assisting a forensic expert in making decisions in order to identify subjects by comparing images of rigid anatomical structures. This procedure includes a decision-making stage based on a hierarchical analysis model that, in particular realizations, is complemented by a previous stage of segmentation of osseous images and their superimposition.
US12046012B2
Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a face detection method, apparatus, and device, and a storage medium. A face candidate region in a to-be-detected image is determined according to a face detection model including a plurality of stages of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). A small-scale face is determined according to a size parameter, and a particular stage CNN corresponding to the size parameter is selected to perform the face detection. A CNN in different stage is adapted to a different size parameter or a size parameter range.
US12046011B2
An electronic document system can allow users to upload a document package containing multiple individual component documents. Each component document includes a subset of a plurality of pages that are included in the document package. The electronic document system identifies a page of each component document by applying a machine learning model to the document package. The electronic document system partitions the document package into the individual component documents based on the identified pages. For each individual component document, the electronic document system identifies a document topic corresponding to the component document by applying another machine learning model. The electronic document system modifies a user interface to display each component document and corresponding document topic.
US12046010B2
A bulk sorting system for sorting objects in bulk is provided. The bulk sorting system includes: at least one radiation source arranged to radiate the objects, at least one optical sensor arranged to capture reflected radiation of the objects and acquire the reflected radiation as multi- or hyperspectral data; a processing circuit configured to analyze the reflected radiation of the objects by inputting the multi- or hyperspectral data into a convolutional neural network (CNN) with at least two convolutional layers in order to either detect and classify the objects in the multi- or hyperspectral data and/or semantically segment the multi- or hyperspectral data; and a mechanical sorter configured to sort the objects according to their classification and/or segmentation using the analysis of the processing circuit such that different overlapping and/or stacked objects are separated or treated as a single group of objects.
US12046008B2
A pose calibration method, a robot, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining, through a depth camera on a robot, a depth image including a target plane (i.e., a plane where the robot is located); determining point cloud data corresponding to the depth image; and calibrating a target pose of the depth camera based on the point cloud data and a preset optimization method, that is, calibrating a pitch angle and a roll angle of the depth camera and a height of the depth camera in a coordinate system of the robot. In this manner, the accuracy of the calibration of the target pose can be effectively improved while simple in implementation and small in calculation amount, and the efficiency of the calibration of the target pose can be improved so as to improve the user experience.
US12045995B2
Examples disclosed herein may involve a computing system that is operable to (i) derive a first representation of an agent's trajectory from a first set of sensor data captured by a first sensor system associated with a vehicle, (ii) derive a second representation of the agent's trajectory from a second set of sensor data captured by a second sensor system associated with the vehicle, (iii) align the spatial reference frames of the first and second representations by applying a spatial transformation to a given one of the first and second representations, and (iv) align the temporal reference frames of the first and second representations by determining an origin-time offset between the temporal reference frames of the first and second representations and applying the determined origin-time offset to timing information encoded in the given one of the first and second representations.
US12045993B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving a current fraction image and a reference image each depicting an anatomy of a subject, the reference image corresponding to a previous radiotherapy treatment fraction, the current fraction image corresponding to a current radiotherapy treatment fraction; obtaining a reference segmentation associated with the reference image; encoding, by a current fraction encoder, the current fraction image to generate a first set of features; encoding, by a reference encoder, the reference image and the reference segmentation to generate a second set of features; decoding, by a decoder, a combination of the first set of features and the second set of features to generate a predicted segmentation of the current fraction image; and configuring a radiotherapy treatment parameter based on the predicted segmentation of the current fraction image.
US12045991B2
A system for evaluating a battery cell includes an imaging device configured to take a first image of at least part of the battery cell when the battery cell is in a first deformation state, and take a second image of the at least part of the battery cell when the battery cell is in a second deformation state. The system also includes a processor configured to analyze the first image and the second image, identify a first region of the first image that represents a suspected discontinuity, the first region corresponding to a portion of the battery cell, compare the first region of the first image to a second region of the second image, the second region corresponding to the portion of the battery cell, and determine that the suspected discontinuity is an actual discontinuity based on a difference between the first region and the second region.
US12045973B2
Systems and methods for automatically grading a user device are provided. Such systems and methods can include (1) a lighting element positioned at an angle relative to a platform, (2) an imaging device positioned at the angle relative to the platform such that light emitted from the lighting element and a field of view of the imaging device form a right angle where the light emitted from the lighting element and the field of view meet at a user device when the user device is positioned at a predetermined location on the platform, and (3) control circuitry that can activate the lighting element, instruct the imaging device to capture an image of a screen of the user device while the user device is at the predetermined location and is being illuminated by the first lighting element, and parse the image to determine whether the screen is damaged.
US12045964B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable mediums including processes to correct for distortion in images introduced by eyewear (i.e., where the facial region surrounding the eye has a boundary that doesn't match the boundary of an uncovered facial region). The correction includes segmenting images to detect eyewear covered facial regions and facial regions not covered by the eyewear and altering the covered facial regions to match the covered facial boundary to the uncovered facial boundary. Alterations include processing using a machine learning model, applying anti-refraction algorithms, scaling the covered facial region to match boundaries of the uncovered facial region, or a combination thereof.
US12045962B2
The disclosure provides a test result recognizing method and a test result recognizing device. The method includes: controlling an image-capturing device to capture a first image of a display screen according to an image-capturing parameter; in response to determining that a reference image area including a first designated character string exists in the first image, controlling the image-capturing device to capture a first test image of the display screen according to the image-capturing parameter; extracting a first image area corresponding to the reference image area from the first test image, and performing a text dividing operation on the first image area to convert the first image area into a second image area; and performing a text recognition operation on the second image area to obtain a first test result corresponding to the first test image.
US12045960B2
There are disclosed an apparatus and method for processing images. The apparatus for processing images according to an embodiment includes an image input unit configured to receive a first image of a Bayer pattern including noise and an image output unit configured to output a noise-removed image by removing noise from the first image using a noise removal model, and the noise removal model includes a color correlation block configured to generate a second image of the Bayer pattern including RGB correlation information about the first image from the first image by performing rearrange and convolution operations on the first image, a discrete cosine transform (DCT) block configured to generate a third image in which a high-frequency component of the first image is highlighted by applying a DCT to the first image, and one or more discrete wavelet transform (DWT) blocks configured to generate a low-frequency feature map and one or more high-frequency feature maps by applying a DWT to a first feature map generated based on the first image, the second image, and the third image, and generate a final feature map in which a high-frequency component and a low-frequency component of the first feature map are highlighted based on the low-frequency feature map and the one or more high-frequency feature maps.
US12045956B2
A magnetic resonance (MR) imaging method of correcting nonuniformity in diffusion-weighted (DW) MR images of a subject is provided. The method includes applying a DW pulse sequence along a plurality of diffusion directions with one or more numbers of excitations (NEX), and acquiring a plurality of DW MR images of the subject along the plurality of diffusion directions with the one or more NEX. The method also includes deriving a reference image and a base image based on the plurality of DW MR images, generating a nonuniformity factor image based on the reference image and the base image, and combining the plurality of DW MR images into a combined image. The method also includes correcting nonuniformity of the combined image using the nonuniformity factor image, and outputting the corrected image.
US12045952B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to enhance video are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are used to create a higher resolution video using upsampled frames from a lower resolution video.
US12045947B2
The disclosure provides a display apparatus and an image scaling method. The display apparatus includes a display, configured to present a video image of a video layer and recommend information of a user layer, where the video image, in a region overlapped with an image display region in the user layer, in the video layer is visible; and a controller, configured to receive an instruction for enlarging the video image, where the image display region of the user layer is enlarged according to a first scaling rule; determine location information of the image display region, and generate a second scaling rule; and enlarge the video image in the video layer according to the second scaling rule.
US12045943B2
A system is configured to obtain image data of a joint of a patient; determine that the joint includes an existing implant; and one or both of generate an identification of a type for the existing implant and generate a pre-implant, morbid approximation of the joint.
US12045942B1
Augmenting a presentation includes a presenter wearing clothing having specific visual characteristics, obtaining an image of the presenter, detecting the specific visual characteristics in the image of the presenter, creating an augmented image of the presenter by adding to the image one or more virtual components that vary according to the specific visual characteristics, and presenting the augmented image to a plurality of participants of the presentation on computer screens that are viewed by the participants. The specific visual characteristics may include a special pattern, an emblem, a sticker, fashion style, and/or color. Adding one or more virtual components may include superimposing different clothing onto the image of the presenter. The different clothing may alter color, patterns, textures, fit, fashion, character type, and/or material properties of original clothing of the presenter. Adding virtual components may include adding one or more external components that are separate from the presenter.
US12045938B2
A system includes a display and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain a point cloud including multiple points representing different respective locations in a body of a subject, the points being labeled as corresponding to respective anatomical structures to which the locations, respectively, belong. The anatomical structures including a first structure and multiple second structures. The processor is further configured to compute a mesh including multiple triangles representing the anatomical structures, by applying a ball-pivoting algorithm to the point cloud with a constraint that none of the triangles include two of the points labeled as corresponding to different respective ones of the second structures. Other examples are also described.
US12045932B2
A computer-implemented method including: receiving visible-light images captured from viewpoints using visible-light camera(s); creating 3D model of real-world environment, wherein 3D model stores colour information pertaining to 3D points on surfaces of real objects (204); dividing 3D points into groups of 3D points, based on at least one of: whether surface normal of 3D points in group lie within predefined threshold angle from each other, differences in materials of real objects, differences in textures of surfaces of real objects; for group of 3D points, determining at least two of visible-light images in which group of 3D points is captured from different viewpoints, wherein said images are representative of different surface irradiances of group of 3D points; and storing, in 3D model, information indicative of different surface irradiances.
US12045925B2
In various examples there is an apparatus for computing an image depicting a face of a wearer of a head mounted display (HMD), as if the wearer was not wearing the HMD. An input image depicts a partial view of the wearer's face captured from at least one face facing capture device in the HMD. A machine learning apparatus is available which has been trained to compute expression parameters from the input image. A 3D face model that has expressions parameters is accessible as well as a photorealiser being a machine learning model trained to map images rendered from the 3D face model to photorealistic images. The apparatus computes expression parameter values from the image using the machine learning apparatus. The apparatus drives the 3D face model with the expression parameter values to produce a 3D model of the face of the wearer and then renders the 3D model from a specified viewpoint to compute a rendered image. The rendered image is upgraded to a photorealistic image using the photorealiser.
US12045910B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for optimizing power and performance of XR workloads. A graphics processor may receive, from an application, an indication of a time period for a timer associated with exiting an IFPC state. The graphics processor may process, upon triggering the timer associated with exiting the IFPC state, one or more predefined workloads. The graphics processor may initiate the IFPC state upon the one or more predefined workloads being finished processing. The graphics processor may exit the IFPC state upon detecting an expiration of the timer.
US12045901B2
Provided is a system for providing removals simulation using VR and AR and brokering real estate therethrough, and the system includes: a background providing unit which extracts background information inside a real estate object provided by a real estate provider and presents the background information to the real estate customer; and an AR providing unit which overlaps props information of a real estate customer on the background information of the real estate object so as to be arbitrarily arranged by the real estate customer, wherein the real estate customer can simulate by overlapping props information on the background information, when the simulation is determined, the determined information is transmitted to a number of moving service servers, and thus provides an advantage in that a number of moving centers can propose moving costs to the real estate customer in a reverse auction manner based on the props information.
US12045899B2
Indexing and adjusting for property condition in an automated valuation model. Property data corresponding to a geographical area is accessed, and a regression is performed based upon the property data. The regression models the relationship between a dependent variable, such as price, and property-characteristic explanatory variables. Further regression is then performed and models or further explains the relationship between the dependent variable and property condition explanatory variables. Specifically, further regression may model the relationship between the residual from the first regression and the property condition variables. Optional examples of these variables are those based upon the presence of predetermined remarks in associated property listings, the number of photos in such listings, and a categorical year built variable. The regression is used to determine a property-condition index for the geographical area. The property-condition index identifies a predicted condition that is used to make adjustments to comparable properties in automated valuation modeling.
US12045894B2
Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for utilizing machine learning to predict health plans. A machine learning model is trained to predict valid combinations of employer-payer-health plan in response to one or more missing identifiers based on transaction data from electronic data interchange (EDI) insurance transactions that include valid combinations of employer identifier, payer identifier, and health plan identifier. In response to a request to identify a valid combination based on at least one missing identifier, at least one known identifier corresponding to an employer name, a payer name, or a health plan name is inputted and work location data associated with a patient. The machine learning model generates and displays on a user interface, a predicted set of one or more valid combinations of employer-payer-health plans that correspond to the one known identifier and the work location information that is inputted.
US12045892B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling an autonomous vehicle to respond to a detected collision. An autonomous vehicle control system may receive sensor data associated with an autonomous vehicle in which the autonomous vehicle control system is installed. The autonomous vehicle control system may analyze the sensor data in real-time as the sensor data is received and may detect an occurrence of a collision involving the autonomous vehicle. In response to detecting the occurrence of the collision, the autonomous vehicle control system may generate claim information based on the sensor data and may process the claim information based on at least one insurance profile maintained by the autonomous vehicle control system. Then, the autonomous vehicle control system may generate a claim notification based on processing the claim information and may send the claim notification to a vehicle management computer system.
US12045889B2
An electronic trading system (ETS) implements risk mitigation methods for orders and quotes associated with a market participant on the ETS. The methods determine a measure of risk associated with one or more trading positions. One of the methods globally counts the number of breaches of risk thresholds associated with a trading symbol and market participant across all matching engines on the ETS over a rolling time period, and if this global risk counter exceeds a maximum, disables all further trades by the market participant on the ETS. Another method limits the number of automatic re-enablements that a market participant can request in response to prior breaches of risk thresholds that resulted in disabling any further trading by the market participant on the ETS.
US12045878B1
A system includes a server operable to communicatively couple with a customer interface device (CID) such that state-of-life inputs from the CID are communicated to the server. The server includes a memory configured to store the state-of-life inputs and storing a program executable by a processor of the server. The server also includes a processor configured to execute the program such that the program determines a financial service product based on the state-of-life inputs and such that the server issues a communication to the CID including a recommendation of the financial service product. The processor is also configured to format one or more selections made by the customer from the recommendation on a single-rail managed account product continuum having two or more financial service products.
US12045877B2
A method of intelligently verifying real estate transaction procedure is implemented in a system of intelligently verifying real estate transaction procedure including an intelligent real estate transaction procedure platform system and an intelligent real estate transaction procedure management system. The intelligent real estate transaction procedure platform system enables a buyer to start a real estate transaction procedure and stores relevant real estate transaction documents and real estate transaction records in a proof system as proof.
US12045872B2
In a method for changing a user's bank account information in merchant account databases a server receives a login request including a user identification and first user authentication information. The server further receives a request to change bank account information from a first bank account to a second bank account for merchant accounts of the user and network login information for the first bank account. The server accesses an account information database for the first bank account and downloads transaction information for merchant transactions involving the first bank account. The server identifies a set of merchant user accounts involved in the merchant transactions and receives account login information for a data site associated with a selected account. The server accesses the data site and changes a bank account identification stored therein from the first bank account to the second bank account.
US12045870B2
In the creative community, a need exists to efficiently market creative works including music, concerts, photographic, video programs, motion pictures, two and three dimensional works of art and literary works. The cost of creating works of art has never been less. Computer programs like Garage Band and iMovie have lowered production costs so that more people than ever before are engaged in creativity. The present invention links the creative community with investors, venue owners, social media influencers, other artists, art critics, art distributors, literary agents, art brokers and dealers and the overall audience for creative works. The present invention represents a significant augmentation to the traditional artists and repertoire departments of the major record companies and will enable a bidding marketplace so that creative works may be monetized at the moment of creation and combined with other preexisting artwork to enable marketing compilations or derivative works expeditiously. Advertisers may in turn sponsor selected artists or works of art.
US12045867B2
Images of an unknown item picked from a store are processed to produce a cropped image. The cropped image is processed to produce a brightness/perspective corrected image, and the brightness/perspective corrected image is processed to produce a low-resolution final image. Image features of the low-resolution final image are extracted and compared against known item features for known items to identify an item code for a known item.
US12045865B2
The present disclosure discloses a personalized mattress system and a mattress customization method. The personalized mattress system includes a client, an adjustable mattress device, and a cloud, wherein the client includes a user login unit, a user personal customization unit, a mattress control unit, and a data communication unit; the adjustable mattress device includes a data communication unit, a main control unit, an algorithm unit, a sensing unit, an adjustment unit, and a local data storage unit; and the adjustable mattress device acquires user customization information from the client or the cloud through the data communication unit and perform mattress adjustment.
US12045858B2
A system and method are provided for location-targeting the provision of media distributed by a mobile platform. The method provides a mobile platform with an attached media projection subsystem, and an identifier associated with the media projection subsystem. The media projection subsystem is selectively enabled, the geographic location of the mobile platform is determined, and the identifier and the enablement of the media projection system are verified. Verification information, including the mobile platform (media projection subsystem) location, identifier, and enablement of the media projection subsystem is communicated to a server and stored in a non-transitory memory. A targeting application may direct the system to a target location in cooperation with analyzing the verification information, weighted for factors such as proximate vehicular traffic, line of sight, proximate pedestrian traffic, proximity to cultural events, proximity to cultural facilities, the time of day, and the length of time the media is being projected.
US12045857B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for providing an impression to a consumer based on consumer preferences for future promotions. The methods include accessing consumer preferences for future promotions that specify at least one promotion request relating to a provider or a promotion category, and one or more promotion qualities, analyzing a plurality of promotions to identify those that satisfy the consumer preferences, and providing an impression to the consumer indicating the availability of the identified promotions. In embodiments, the methods can be used to identify promotions that are combinable with additional promotions offered by the same provider. Corresponding apparatus and computer program products are also provided.
US12045855B2
Certain exemplary embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and/or methods for distributing advertisements from a central advertisement network to one or more peripheral devices at a location via a local advertisement server. In certain exemplary embodiments, the local advertisement server within a location receives advertisements from the central advertisement network and rebroadcasts them to peripheral devices within that location. Advertising information may be tracked and reported, e.g., for accounting, revenue-sharing, and/or other purposes in certain exemplary embodiments. Thus, in certain exemplary embodiments, the distribution of advertisements is provided to peripherals via a non-web- and non-PC-dependent network. Moreover, in certain exemplary embodiments, reporting and advertising related communications are substantially bi-directional regardless of device type. Certain exemplary embodiments provide revenue sharing among some or all of the central advertising network provider, the proprietors of locations, operators tasked with maintaining the local ad server and/or the peripheral devices, etc.
US12045853B2
A call conversion tracking system that automatically tracks call-based communications initiated from web-based invitational content id disclosed. The system generates and presents a web-based invitation that includes a dynamically assigned telephone number that is assigned to an anonymous web visitor with advertising metadata that is usually sent to a web server when a user clicks (or taps) an online ad.
US12045850B2
Receiving, at a server, an identifier from a user to authorize fuel payment at a fuel station. Associating the identifier with a carrier, the carrier being entitled to a fuel discount at the fuel station. Authorizing the fuel station to provide fuel to the user with the fuel discount, which may be variable. The identifier may be received from a mobile application, a company credit card, a personal credit card, a virtual credit card, and/or an onboard electronic logging device (ELD). The authorizing of the fuel station to provide fuel to the user with the fuel discount may be limited by an amount and/or a type of fuel. A system is provided that includes a receiver module, and a server, and a transmitter module. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program for operating a fuel discount sharing application is provided.
US12045847B2
Systems as described herein may analyze big data to generate predictions for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings and/or other subscription-based software. A prediction system may receive small business transaction data comprising payment information between a plurality of merchants and a software vendor. The prediction system may receive enterprise merchant insights information. The prediction system may identify, based on the small business transaction data and the enterprise merchant insights information, recurring transactions using a first machine learning model. The prediction system may generate an average contract price and a confidence score, using a second machine learning model. The prediction system may generate a recommendation comprising a renewal rate. Based on a determination that a service provided by the software vendor is coming due for renewal, the prediction system may send, to a particular merchant, an alert associated with the renewal and the recommendation.
US12045844B2
A personal electronic parking system and method adapted to identify, track, predict, alert, manage and collect payment, and enforce on-street and off-street parking, the system including a central cloud network adapted to generate and manage user data and parking data, a user interface adapted to show users parking information relevant to the user, a unique machine-readable code, wherein the code provides identification of a specific vehicle used by the user, one or more sensors, one or more meter devices adapted to connect with the central cloud network and the user interface, and a parking payment and enforcement portal.
US12045842B2
A computer implemented method for analyzing market research data is provided. The method includes displaying, using a market research computing device, a live board to a plurality of users via respective user computing devices, wherein the live board includes at least one insight, receiving, at the market research computing device, an input from at least one user of the plurality of users, and updating, using the market research computing device, the live board in real-time based on the received input.
US12045838B2
The present invention refers to a system and to a method of identification and authentication for tracing agricultural assets, wherein the agricultural assets are provided with identification elements univocally coded and grouped into rolls, requiring digital activation to be validated. Moreover, the present invention refers to an identification element and to corresponding computer programs.
US12045823B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for validating instruments. For instance, a request to generate a cashier's check may be received from an application executing on a drawer's computing device. Request information may be stored within a data storage entry for the check, and a code to be printed on the check may be generated to include at least a portion of the request information. Instructions may be provided to a printing system to cause the check to be printed with the code, where the printed check is invalid. Instructions may be provided to the application and/or printing system to cause display of a prompt to facilitate a reading of the code to validate the check. When information within the code is read by and received from the printing system, the check may be validated, which triggers a transfer of funds from the drawer's account. Otherwise, the check may remain invalid.
US12045820B2
The disclosure describes techniques for authenticating a voice command transaction initiated by a consumer at a voice-activated digital assistant. The system determine a proximity score for a consumer device. The proximity score is based on a distance between the consumer device and the digital assistant. The system detects motion indicating presence of a person proximate the digital assistant (based on wireless signal data) and determines a motion score. The system receives voice data from the digital assistant and determines a voice differentiation score. The system determines a rank score for the consumer device based on historical transaction data associated with the device. The system analyzes the proximity score, motion score, voice differentiation score, and rank score using a voice command authentication model. Based on the analysis, the system determines an authentication score for the voice command transaction request.
US12045802B2
This specification techniques for sharing service and identity information between devices. One example method include acquiring, by a first device, a digital object identifier (DOI) of a second device, the DOI including identity information associated with the second device; generating, by the first device, a service DOI based on the identity information from the DOI of the second device, the service DOI including the identity information of the second device and service information; and displaying, by the first device, the service DOI on a display of the first device, wherein the displayed service DOI is configured to cause the second device to perform service processing when the displayed service DOI is acquired by the second device, and wherein the service processing is based at least in part on the identity information and the service information included in the service DOI.
US12045800B1
In some examples, a payment service system receives an indication of an initiation of a transaction at a merchant device, the indication including transaction information indicative of a payment instrument associated with the transaction. The payment service system transmits, to a mobile device, a request for the mobile device to monitor for one or more signals of other devices within a proximity of the mobile device. The payment service system receives, from the mobile device, information related to monitoring for the one or more signals of other devices within the proximity of the mobile device. The payment service system determines whether the received information related to the monitoring for the one or more signals of other devices satisfies a threshold for a presence indication. The payment service system performs at least one action based at least on whether the threshold for the presence indication is satisfied.
US12045795B2
Provided is a computing technology for controlling information display of an electronic shelf label that is connected to a management server via a network and displays electronic information. The electronic shelf label measures a distance to at least one product arranged behind the electronic shelf label, and when a change in the distance occurs, activates a wireless tag reader. When product identification information acquired by the wireless tag reader is different from currently displayed product identification information, the electronic shelf labels request a label change registration to a server. Changed product information is received according to the label change registration, and the changed product information is reflected in displayed product information.
US12045792B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to establish retail point-of-sale (POS) hardware management systems, comprising: an intermediary system control circuit configured to execute computer program modules comprising: a hardware management module configured to operate as an intermediary module between multiple different sets of client POS systems, a plurality of different sets of hardware systems, and a plurality of shared resource applications. The hardware management module comprises a plurality of hardware manager sub-modules each corresponding to one of the sets of hardware systems. Each of the hardware manager sub-modules is configured to output communications and receive communications, for a corresponding one set of hardware systems of different sets of hardware systems, in accordance with a single predefined hardware communications protocol, of a set of predefined hardware communications protocols, corresponding to the set of hardware systems regardless of a type of hardware system or manufacturer.
US12045790B2
A system and method for creating cryptographically secure tokens and using them to allocate commodities are disclosed. Various servers in communication with one another cause a system to receive a quantity of the commodity or a representation of the quantity of the commodity from one or more autonomous agent computing devices; create one token for each unit in the quantity of the commodity; track the use of created tokens and determine a likelihood that each created token will be exchanged for a unit of the commodity in a particular future time window; ensure that, with a predetermined confidence level, an amount of the commodity exceeding expected exchanges in the particular future time window will be made available by the one or more backup servers; and in response to receiving a request to exchange tokens for the commodity, providing a unit of the commodity for each token exchanged.
US12045783B2
Systems and methods for ordering a replacement component or repair service are disclosed. According to some aspects, condition data indicating a condition of a consumable component may be generated by sensor and transmitted to an order assistance system. The order assistance system may determine whether the consumable component requires at least one of replacement or repair by comparing the condition data with one or more maintenance parameters. Additionally, in response to a determination that the consumable component requires at least one of replacement or repair, the order assistance system may recommend at least one of a replacement component or a repair service in accordance with one or more order parameters pre-selected by a user. In some aspects, an insurance policy associated with the consumable component may be adjusted based on the successful repair or replacement of the consumable component.
US12045781B2
A changed version of first data of a listing associated with an entity provided via a webpage generated by a provider system is identified. The provider system is caused to revert to the first data of the listing associated with the entity. A first communication is transmitted to a client device associated with the entity, wherein the communication identifies the changed version of the first data. In response to receiving an indication from the client device of an acceptance of the changed version of the first data, the changed version of the first data is applied to the provider system.
US12045774B2
Various embodiments of systems and methods allow a tool inventory device and associated system. A user can retrieve and return tools and such interactions can be monitored by the system. The inventory device can be an add-on to a standalone tool cabinet and can provide this extra functionality. The inventory device can have a camera looking at the drawers and can use computer vision to determine when tools are retrieved and/or replaced.
US12045766B2
An example system includes at least two transceivers configured to be coupled to an interior of a cargo compartment of an aircraft, and to detect radio frequency identification (RFID) signals from an RFID tag coupled to baggage stored in the cargo compartment. The system also includes a processor configured to perform operations including receiving the signals detected by the transceivers. The operations also include based on runtimes of the signals, determining a respective distance from the baggage to each transceiver, where the respective distance defines a boundary centered at a known location of the transceiver and along which the baggage is estimated to be located relative to the transceiver. The operations also include identifying locations at which the boundaries of the transceivers intersect and, based on the locations, detecting an estimated storage location of the baggage. The operations also include controlling a display device to display the estimated storage location.
US12045764B2
A delivery management system and method is disclosed. A system receives storage chamber sensor data corresponding to material stored in a storage chamber, transport container data corresponding to material stored in a transport container, proximity sensor data corresponding to a proximity of the transport container to the storage chamber, and engagement sensor data corresponding to engagement between the storage chamber and the transport container. The system generates a confirmation of delivery of the material to the storage chamber based on the storage chamber sensor data, the transport container sensor data, the proximity sensor data, and the engagement sensor data and transmits an invoice for the delivery of the material based on the confirmation. Other systems and aspects are also described.
US12045753B2
A system for detecting an accident risk in a working place that can determine a work stage of the working place where various kinds of works, such as a cargo loading and unloading workshop, are performed or determine whether or not there is a risk that an accident may occurs in the working place is disclosed. In the disclosed system for detecting the accident risk in the working place, a camera is used to photograph the working place, only information about an object recognized by analyzing the image is transmitted to the server without transmitting the photographed image to the server, thereby minimizing an amount of information transmitted from the camera to the server.
US12045752B2
A system for managing consumer packaged goods (CPGs) is disclosed. The system includes a front end and a back end. The front end includes a mobile, airborne platform equipped with a digital image capturing device, and a wireless communications device. The backend is in communication with the front end via the wireless communications device, and includes a combinational convolutional neural network which derives models based on input data, a convolutional neural network which generates perception scoring utilizing input put from said combinational convolutional neural network, and a recurrent neural network which makes behavior predictions based on input from said convolutional neural network. The front end captures images of CPGs on a shelf, wherein the CPGs are subject to depletion over time, and wherein the backend generates predictions regarding the depletion state of the CPGs on the shelf as a function of time.
US12045751B2
A device may configure a plurality of time dimensions of a forecast model to forecast transactions. The device may identify, using the forecast model and transaction information associated with forecasting a transaction, historical transaction data that includes timing information associated with executions of a set of previous transactions that are associated with the transaction. The device may generate, using the forecast model and the plurality of time dimensions, a plurality of clusters associated with the set of previous transactions. The device may determine, using the forecast model, similarity scores for the plurality of clusters that correspond to individual probabilities that the set of previous transactions occurred according to the plurality of time dimensions. The device may select, based on the similarity scores, a time dimension for a forecast of the transaction. The device may generate the forecast of the transaction based on the time dimension.
US12045747B2
According to various aspects, systems and methods are provided for automatically matching recruiters to job openings. The system may train one or more models that determine a measure of compatibility between a recruiter and a job opening. The system may train the model(s) using stored records of activity tracked by the system. The measure of compatibility may be used to determine whether a recruiter is likely to place a candidate for a job opening. Some embodiments provide a system that can collect objective data about recruiters and hiring parties, and use the objective data to train the model(s).
US12045741B2
In some examples, the designated set of resources are subsequently monitored for session activities of multiple users that are not of the first group. For each of the multiple users, the computer system utilizes one or more predictive models to determine a likelihood of the user performing a desired type of activity based on one or more session activities detected for that user.
US12045738B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for sharing information among multiple Mobility as a Service (MaaS) systems for presenting service information to users. One system includes means for receiving, by a multi-access edge computing (MEC) application, parameters of a global quality of service (QoS) prediction model, and means for sending, to a local prediction function (PF), an update of a local QoS prediction model. Further, the system includes means for detecting a journey of a vehicle requested by a user, and means for sending to the local PF, a request for a value of the QoS along the journey. The value of the QoS is a measure of quality of transportation services delivered during the journey. The system further includes means for receiving the predicted value of the QoS along the journey, and means for providing, by the MEC application, the predicted value of the QoS to the vehicle.
US12045731B2
In an embodiment, operations include receiving first information associated with a first person and a first request of the first person to one or more institutions. A set of attributes of the first person is extracted and used to construct a causal model. The causal model represents causal relationships amongst attributes of the set of attributes. For the first person, a utility function associated with each of a plurality of AI models associated with the one or more institutions is determined. The utility function is determined based on the causal model, a first set of empathy criteria associated with the first person, and a second set of empathy criteria associated with each of the one or more institutions. For the utility function, optimin-point information is determined to reconcile a plurality of decisions taken by the plurality of AI models for the first request. The reconciled decision is rendered.
US12045707B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for forecasting a time-series are provided. In one implementation, a method is configured to include a step of providing a time-series to a neural network including one or more branches for processing one or more portions of the time-series. In each of the one or more branches, the method includes separating the respective portion of the time-series into individual portions and applying each portion to a respective sub-branch of a plurality of sub-branches of the one or more branches. The method also includes generating forecasting coefficients for each output time point in each of the respective sub-branches and providing a forecast of the time-series based at least on the forecasting coefficients.
US12045697B2
In an example embodiment, a solution is provided that allows a user to submit a document. Information can be obtained from the document using optical character recognition (OCR) or other techniques. This information can then be used to identify one or more workflows that pertain to the document. The one or more workflows may be ranked using machine learning techniques and presented to the user. Once the user selects a desired workflow, the information obtained from the document can then be used to automatically complete at least a portion of the workflow, for example by prefilling one or more fields in a form.
US12045695B2
Data samples are transmitted from a central server to at least one local server apparatus. The central server receives a set of predictions from the at least one local server apparatus that are based on the transmitted set of data samples. The central server trains a central model based on the received set of predictions. The central model, or a portion of the central model corresponding to a task of interest, can then be sent to the at least one local server apparatus. Neither local data from local sites nor trained models from the local sites are transmitted to the central server. This ensures protection and security of data at the local sites.
US12045694B2
A system includes a virtual reality system configured to enable a user to interact with a virtual environment, a plurality of biofeedback sensors configured to monitor a user, and a computer system including a virtual reality module configured to generate at least a view of the virtual environment, a biofeedback module configured to fuse output of the plurality of biofeedback sensors with a plurality of events within the virtual environment, a training module configured to generate a model of user behavior, wherein the training module executed by the computer system enables the computer system to make a prediction of a user response of the user based on a corpus of biofeedback data, and an alert module configured to generate at least one alert to the user via the virtual reality system based on the user response predicted by the computer system.
US12045688B2
A system includes a reader having a first Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device and a barcode scanner having a second BLE device. The first BLE device includes a first advertiser and a first listener, and the second BLE device includes a second advertiser and a second listener. The first advertiser of the reader is configured to broadcast a first beacon signal. The barcode scanner is configured to: detect, by the second listener, the first beacon signal and in response to detecting the first beacon signal, generate an alarm.
US12045673B2
A method for reducing latencies associated with anomaly detection and response in an internet-of-things (IoT) device includes analyzing sensor data collected by the IoT device to evaluate various predefined anomaly criteria and dynamically assigning the IoT device a condition indicator based on the evaluation of the predefined anomaly criteria, where the condition indicator is indicative of detection or non-detection one or more potential anomalies. The method further provides for selectively implementing an IoT event prioritization scheme based on the dynamically-assigned condition indicator.
US12045670B2
A computer including multiple processors and memory implements a managed runtime providing a synchronization application programming interface (API) for threads that perform synchronized accesses to shared objects. A standardized header of objects includes a memory word storing an object identifier. To lock the object for synchronized access, the memory word may be converted to store the tail of a linked list of a first-in-first-out synchronization structures for threads waiting to acquire the lock, with the object identifier relocated to the list structure. The list structure may further include a stack of threads waiting on events related to the object, with the synchronization API additionally providing wait, notify and related synchronization operations. Upon determining that no threads hold or desire to hold the lock for the object and that no threads are waiting on events related to the object, the memory word may be restored to contain the object identifier.
US12045657B2
Examples described herein relate to policy management in target environments. A workload attestation request including a workload specification of a workload is received. A workload profile is determined based on the workload specification. A policy stored in a policy database is identified based on the workload profile. An attestation identifier indicating the workload profile is provided in response to the workload attestation request. On receiving a policy request including the attestation identifier from a controller node at a target environment, policies are compiled from the policy database using the attestation identifier, and provided to the controller node, which applies the policy in the target environment.
US12045655B2
Consumer threads can assist in performing progressive chunking for a data queue. For example, a consumer thread can determine a current-chunk identifier indicating a current memory chunk of an unbounded queue, where the current memory chunk is associated with a producer thread that is different from the consumer thread. The consumer thread can determine a target-chunk identifier indicating a target memory chunk to which the producer thread is to write a data item. In response to determining that the target-chunk identifier is greater than the current-chunk identifier, the consumer thread can append a new memory chunk to the unbounded queue for use as the target memory chunk by the producer thread.
US12045650B2
A method and system for processing media content in Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Network Based Media Processing (NBMP) includes receiving, from an NBMP source, a first message including a workflow descriptor document corresponding to a workflow for processing the media content; obtaining, based on the workflow, a task having a task template; obtaining, based on the task, a function having a function template; and managing the processing of the media content by transmitting, to a media processing entity, a second message instructing the media processing entity to perform the function based on the task. The first message, the workflow descriptor document, the task template, the function template, and/or the second message may be used to signal a scheme for processing the media content.
US12045645B2
A communication processor is operative to adapt the thread allocation to communications processes handled by a multi-thread processor on an instruction by instruction basis. A thread map register controls the allocation of each processor cycle to a particular thread, and the thread map register is reprogrammed as the network process loads for a plurality of communications processors such as WLAN, Bluetooth, Zigbee, or LTE have load requirements which increase or decrease. A thread management process may dynamically allocate processor cycles to each respective process during times of activity for each associated communications process.
US12045644B2
A method includes receiving a first request to allocate a line in an N-way set associative cache and, in response to a cache coherence state of a way indicating that a cache line stored in the way is invalid, allocating the way for the first request. The method also includes, in response to no ways in the set having a cache coherence state indicating that the cache line stored in the way is invalid, randomly selecting one of the ways in the set. The method also includes, in response to a cache coherence state of the selected way indicating that another request is not pending for the selected way, allocating the selected way for the first request.
US12045635B2
A multi-task operation method, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. A multi-task interface is displayed by the electronic device; a window corresponding to a first application is displayed in a floating manner in response to an operation acting on the window; and an interface of a second application is displayed in response to an operation of triggering a startup of the second application, the window is displayed on the interface in the floating manner. By means of the operation acting on the window on the multi-task interface and the operation of triggering the startup of the second application, the interface is displayed, and the window is displayed on the interface in the floating manner, thereby realizing fast displaying of other windows on a window in a floating manner.
US12045631B2
The present application discloses a page loading method and a display apparatus. While launching an application, a URL of the application, a code package, and a URL of a loading page are obtained; when the URL of the application is a target protocol URL, a loading parameter is read from the code package; the loading parameter is written into the URL of the loading page to generate a new URL of the loading page; and based on the new URL of the loading page, a loading page including display content corresponding to the loading parameter is presented on a display.
US12045629B2
This document relates to a process for deploying devices and automatically provisioning the devices to connect to a managed network upon powering on with minimal user involvement. Upon deployment of the device to an end point, a record can be established in a management server regarding the device, which can associate device specifications with a deployment profile to be used in provisioning the device. Upon powering on of the device at the end point, the device can automatically perform attestation with the management server, which can then provision the device according to the deployment profile without additional user intervention.
US12045624B2
Facilitation of transfer of pre-operating system (pre-OS) data to a persistent store is enabled relative to an operation performed external to the OS. A system can comprise a processor, and a memory that stores computer executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, can facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise writing data relative to a pre-OS environment to a partition external to an operating system (OS) partition, and, in response to a reboot operation, booting an OS and transferring the data or a copy of the data to the OS partition. Alternatively, the operations can comprise, writing data relative to an updating operation to a log accessible by an OS of the system, assigning a variable value to the log, automatically searching, while operating the OS, for the variable value, and copying or transferring the data relative to the OS via identifying the variable value upon the identification.
US12045623B2
A computing system is provided. The computing system a central processing unit (CPU) configured to run a basic input/output system (BIOS) service and an operating system (OS). The computing system further includes a baseboard management controller (BMC) and a first boot non-volatile memory coupled to both the CPU and the BMC. A first portion of the first boot non-volatile memory stores system settings and configuration in an open standard such that the BIOS and the BMC can access the system settings based on a temporal ownership of the first portion of the first boot non-volatile memory.
US12045621B2
A method for improving an accuracy of a loop branch prediction algorithm by a bypass circuit, comprising: adding a bypass circuit to a loop branch prediction algorithm; and for three pcs entering a pipeline, enabling pc1 fetched in an if0 stage to enter a hybrid branch predictor, and registering pc1; obtaining branch prediction information in an if1 stage, and making a comparison in an if2 stage to obtain a prediction result, registering the prediction result obtained in the if2 stage, and processing pc2 and pc3 in a same way.
US12045617B2
Software instructions are executed on a processor within a computer system to configure a steaming engine with stream parameters to define a multidimensional array. The stream parameters define a size for each dimension of the multidimensional array and a specified width for two selected dimensions of the array. Data is fetched from a memory coupled to the streaming engine responsive to the stream parameters. A stream of vectors is formed for the multidimensional array responsive to the stream parameters from the data fetched from memory. When either selected dimension in the stream of vectors exceeds a respective specified width, the streaming engine inserts null elements into each portion of a respective vector for the selected dimension that exceeds the specified width in the stream of vectors. Stream vectors that are completely null are formed by the streaming engine without accessing the system memory for respective data.
US12045616B2
In some examples, a circuit includes an interface configured to couple to a memory that includes a set of outputs to provide a set of data from the memory. The circuit further includes a rotator coupled to the interface that includes a first set of multiplexors that each include a set of inputs coupled to the set of outputs of the interface and an output. The circuit further includes a storage circuit coupled to the rotator that includes a register file coupled to the outputs of the first set of multiplexors an alignment network. The alignment network includes a second set of multiplexors that each include a set of inputs coupled to the register file and an output.
US12045607B2
A method at a computing device including obtaining a first container image from a host computing device; executing a second container image at the computing device, the executing comprising: starting a container from the first container image, the container being for a development environment on the computing device; and customizing the container for a local environment on the computing device, thereby creating a customized container; and compiling developed code within the customized container.
US12045604B2
An electronic apparatus installable with firmware updatable via a network includes an input unit configured to receive an operation performed by a user; and circuitry configured to display, on a display, a first screen for displaying a first function of firmware that can be installed on the electronic apparatus, and a second screen for displaying a second function of the firmware, the second function including a plurality of second functions and the second screen including a plurality of second screens prepared for each one of the plurality of second functions, enable the first function in response to an operation for the first function displayed on the first screen, and enable the second function in response to an operation for the second function displayed on the second screen. The circuitry enables the second functions selected from the plurality of second functions respectively displayed on the plurality of second screens.
US12045594B2
A computer-implemented method includes defining a deployment pipeline for each application of a collection of applications, the deployment pipeline comprising an ordered plurality of waves of deployment wherein the ordered plurality of waves of deployment comprises a set wave of deployment and a variable wave of deployment with the set wave of deployment comprising deployment to a plurality of locations that is the same for each application in the collection of applications. For each application in the collection of applications, a list of locations selected by a respective user for the variable wave of deployment is received such that two applications of the collection of applications deploy to different locations during their respective variable wave of deployment. An indication that the build of the application has been created is received and in response, one of the plurality of waves of deployment is executed.
US12045591B2
A compiler transforms a high-level program into configuration data for a coarse-grained reconfigurable (CGR) data processor with an array of CGR units. The compiler includes a method that identifies a skip buffer in a dataflow graph, determines limitations associated with the array, and searches for a lowest cost implementation topology and stage depth. At least three topologies are considered, including a cascaded buffer topology, a hybrid buffer topology, and a striped buffer topology. The lowest cost implementation topology and stage depth are based on the size of the buffered data (usually, the size of a tensor), the depth of the skip buffer, and the array's limitations. The hybrid buffer topology includes multiple sections of parallel memory units. The data travels between memory units in one section to adjacent memory units in a next section without intervening reorder buffers.
US12045587B2
A technique for managing a user interface in a continuous integration (CI) environment includes providing user-interface (UI) regions in a UI page downloaded from a server. The UI regions correspond to respective parameters of a CI job. In response to a change in a particular parameter associated with a UI region, the technique further includes updating, by the server, the UI page to contain code configured to hide a specified set of other UI regions, such as those rendered irrelevant based on the parameter change.
US12045586B2
In one aspect, computerized method for paper form to a web application construction using a digital camera visualization comprising: obtaining the digital camera visualization comprising a set of digital snapshots of one or more paper forms of a web application workflow; submitting the set of digital snapshots to a cloud-platform based web-application builder system; in the cloud-platform based web-application builder system, extracting a field and a layout information from the one or more paper forms; in an application builder service: inspecting intermediate representation; using the field and a layout information to generate a user-interface screen, a database schema, and an intermediate business logic code of the constructed web application; packaging the user-interface screen, the database schema, and the intermediate business logic code of the constructed web application along with a configuration information to a deployment service; and in the deployment service: building the container that contains the services and data base instance of the constructed web application.
US12045583B2
A software and hardware infrastructure is provided that can generate traceable and verifiably random number sequences provided from multiple random number sources, including quantum entropy sources, potentially located at multiple points of origin, and distribute the verifiable number sequences across multiple channels and protocols to multiple ultimate destinations in a distributed computing environment. Random number sequences obtained from unique entropy sources can be tagged with information on the provenance and/or other details of the creation of each number sequence. Tags can be used to verify the reliability of each tagged number sequence and/or its associated source. Tags can also include a use indicator to avoid re-use of a tagged number sequence.
US12045579B1
Systems and methods for generating legal document drafts for individual cases based on case content and exemplary segments of legal documents. Exemplary implementations may: store case content for individual cases, obtain first case content for a first case from electronic storage, provide the first case content and/or user-provided context values as input to a large language model, provide one or more prompts to the large language model that configure the model to generate a first document draft, obtain output from the large language model including the first document draft, provide the first document draft to a user, and/or other exemplary implementations.
US12045576B1
The present disclosure provides for systems and methods for processing data. In some aspects, a data processing system may comprise at least one computing device, wherein the computing device may be configured to facilitate the performance of at least one process for extracting one or more domain-specific topics or themes from at least one data set. In some implementations, one or more data sets may be received by the data processing system such that the data processing system may identify one or more n-grams within each data item. In some embodiments, one or more of the n-grams may identified as being potentially associated with a correlating topic or theme such that data items comprising the same or similar n-grans may be aggregated into the same topic or theme, thereby assisting a user with quickly locating desirable data items within the data set.
US12045571B2
At least some embodiments are directed to an entity classification system receives informational data associated with an entity. The informational data includes sentences associated with the entity. The entity classification system utilizes a first machine learning model to determine a first contextual meaning among words of a sentence associated with the entity based on a first word embedding technique, and determines at least one category associated with the entity based at least in part on the first contextual meaning. The entity classification system utilizes a second machine learning model to determine a second contextual meaning shared by a set of sentences based on a second embedding technique, and determines a subcategory of the category associated with the entity based at least in part on the second contextual meaning. The entity classification system generates an output including the category and subcategory associated with the entity.
US12045568B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input comprising input tokens from a client system, parsing the user input to determine ontology tokens and utterance tokens corresponding to the input tokens, decoding the ontology tokens and the utterance tokens to generate a span-based frame representation comprising intents, slots, and a span, wherein the ontology tokens are decoded into the intents and slots, and wherein the utterance tokens are decoded to determine the span comprising one or more tokens of the input tokens, wherein the span comprises a first index endpoint associated with a first token of the one or more tokens and a second index endpoint associated with a second token of the one or more tokens, and executing, responsive to the user input, one or more tasks based on the span-based frame representation.
US12045564B2
Methods and systems for a browser extension application are disclosed. In some embodiments, a browser extension application is configured to receive from a browser extension server a regular expression configured to detect a plurality of fields in a web page and execute the regular expression to detect a transaction field in the web page and automatically populate the transaction field with stored data. The application is further configured to detect an unrecognized field in the web page, provide suggested transaction data, and detecting manual population of the unrecognized field with the suggested transaction data. The application is further configured to providing to the browser extension server an indication of the unrecognized field and receive from the browser extension server an updated regular expression configured to detect the unrecognized field in the web page.
US12045558B2
Different methods and apparatuses applicable to prepare materials for a user. One embodiment includes a device, with an imaging sensor. Based on analyzing a user attribute from the imaging sensor monitoring the user, the device can identify and access an area of the materials for the user. The area includes a section, and the device can layout the section by keeping a piece of text together with an illustration to be displayed in at least two screens of different sizes. Another embodiment includes materials with a text sub file with texts, an illustration sub file with illustrations, and a logic sub file with instructions to prepare materials for the user. Either the text or the illustration sub file can include position information linking at least an illustration to a corresponding piece of text. Annotations could be added to the materials.
US12045546B2
A method for optimizing orientations of an anisotropic material in a component. For example, the method overcomes the non-uniqueness and gimbal locking problems associated with using Euler angles to define the orientation by instead parameterizing the orientation using an orientation tensor that is a self-dyadic product of a direction vector. To avoid non-linear constraints in the mathematical design variables used in the optimization, isoparametric shape functions map the mathematical design variables to physical design variables, and the mapping ensures that various constraints associated with tensor invariants of the orientation tensor are satisfied even though these constraints are not directly imposed on the mathematical design variables. The physical design variables are used to model the component, whereas optimization is performed using the mathematical design variables. Thus, optimization is greatly simplified by removing the tensor-invariant constraints from the optimization step to the mapping step.
US12045540B2
An audio device and method are disclosed. The audio device includes a microphone, a communication circuit, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: establishing a communication link with an electronic device via the communication circuit, transmitting information related to the communication link to an external audio device via the communication circuit, detecting a first level of noise included in a first audio data collected via the at least one microphone, identifying a second level of noise of the external audio device, when the first level of noise satisfies a predesignated first condition, and controlling the external audio device to transmit second audio data collected by the external audio device to the electronic device, when the second level of noise of the external audio device meets a predesignated second condition different from the predesignated first condition.
US12045538B1
The present invention discloses a multi-functional console having a double sound card and a wireless noise reduction and video capture card, which falls within the technical field of multimedia equipment. The present invention includes a main chip, a control panel, a power supply unit and an interactive panel, wherein at least two sound cards are provided in the main chip which is successively connected to a microphone amplifier circuit and a microphone input circuit, and the microphone input circuit is connected to a noise reduction module, a wireless microphone receiving circuit and a compound interface; the control panel is provided with a plurality of knobs, keys and indicator lamps electrically connected to the main chip, the interactive panel is mounted with a plurality of input and output sockets electrically connected to the main chip, and the main chip is also connected to a storage module and a wireless communication module.
US12045537B1
Disclosed are an auxiliary display device of a light emitting diode (LED) module and an LED display. The auxiliary display device includes a shared hub provided with a dual input port and an independent output port. The dual input port is configured to receive a dual supply voltage, and the dual supply voltage includes a first voltage and a second voltage. The independent output port is connected to a common anode LED module and/or a common cathode LED module. A first LED of the common anode LED module and a second LED of the common anode LED module are configured to receive the first voltage; and a first LED of the common cathode LED module is configured to receive the first voltage, and a second LED of the common cathode LED module is configured to receive the second voltage.
US12045530B2
A historian interface system provides a graphical representation of tags that represent attributes of a continuous process. A historian system stores the tags and metadata values describing the tags. A display device coupled to the historian system via a communication network displays graphical representations of the tags via display panels and receives selections of the tags. The historian system contextualizes selected tags based on the metadata values describing the selected tag and determines an optimal visualization scheme for the selected tags. The display device displays graphical representations of values of the tags and dynamically determines optimal grouping of the tags based on properties of the display device.
US12045517B1
Techniques of the present disclosure can include: identifying blocks of storage available for allocation; generating a list denoting an allocation order of storage chunks of the blocks; receiving a write I/O operation that writes data to a first logical address; allocating a storage chunk in accordance with the allocation order of the list, wherein a first block includes the storage chunk and a second storage chunk; storing the first data in the storage chunk of the first block; removing the second storage chunk from the list; and creating a mapping between the first logical address and the first block indicating the second storage chunk is reserved for storing content written to a logical address included in a volume logical address range comprising the first logical address. The allocation order can spread allocation distance between blocks and chunks of the same block to avoid contention during flushes.
US12045507B2
Each storage controller comprises a first storage unit, an interface unit, and a processing unit which sends, to the interface unit, a parameter which instructs n-fold write of writing data in each of n-number of (n is a natural number of 2 or more) other storage controllers. When the interface unit receives the parameter, the interface unit executes each processing of acquiring the data from the first storage unit and storing the data in the second storage unit, generating n-number of requests of writing the data in each of n-number of the other storage controllers, storing each of the generated requests in n-number of the queues corresponding to each of n-number of the other storage controllers, and processing each request stored in each queue and transferring the data stored in the second storage unit to each of n-number of the other storage controllers.
US12045506B2
Reset operations impact data storage device latency. Every reset operation involves flushing cache data to the memory device and resetting the front end application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) accelerator/host interface module (HIM). Multiple resets that are performed consecutively waste valuable data storage device resources due to the duplication of the operations that every reset operation performs. Data storage device latency can be improved, as can data storage device idle time, by combining reset operations and removing duplicative operations. For example, for two different, but consecutive reset operations, the reset operations are performed by flushing the cache data and resetting the ASIC accelerator/HIM only once rather than repeat the operations for each reset operation. In so doing, the two reset operations complete reset operations faster than would otherwise occur.
US12045484B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to receive a request to store data on a storage system, and to determine storage node correlation metrics for storage nodes of the storage system characterizing probabilities of input/output operations being directed to filesystems having data stored on the storage nodes. The processing device is also configured to select, based on the storage node correlation metrics, one of the storage nodes to utilize for storing a given portion of the data, and to determine storage device correlation metrics for storage devices of the selected storage node characterizing probabilities of input/output operations being directed to filesystems having data stored on the storage devices. The processing device is further configured to select, based on the storage device correlation metrics, one of the storage devices of the selected storage node to utilize for storing the given data portion.
US12045475B1
Techniques for implementing a dynamically resizable memory region for alternative use in a memory are described. The techniques may include using two concurrent address maps corresponding to two address ranges for a memory represented as an array of memory blocks. The first address range can be mapped to the memory with starting addresses of the memory blocks incrementing sequentially along each row. The second address range can be mapped to the memory with starting addresses of the memory blocks incrementing sequentially along each column. When an access request is received having a target address belonging to the first address range, the target address is provided as the memory address to access the memory. When an access request having a target address belonging to the second address range, the target address is translated by address translation logic into a memory address to access the memory.
US12045465B1
An object-based data storage service receives a request to store a data object in association with a smart data storage tier. Based at least in part on characteristics of the data object, the object-based data storage service identifies and stores the data object in a first location corresponding to a first data storage tier. The object-based data storage service monitors access to the data object to identify a second set of characteristics of the data object. This second set of characteristics is used to determine that the data object is to be transitioned to a second data storage tier. The object-based data storage service, based at least in part on this determination, stores the data object in a second location corresponding to the second data storage tier.
US12045451B2
An electronic device, with a touch-sensitive surface, displays a respective control, which is associated with respective contact intensity criteria, used to determine whether or not a function associated with the respective control will be performed. The device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, corresponding to an interaction with the respective control. In accordance with a determination that the gesture does not include a contact that meets the respective contact intensity criteria, the device changes the appearance of the respective control to indicate progress toward meeting the respective contact intensity criteria that is used to determine whether or not a function associated with the respective control will be performed. In response to detecting activation of the control, the device performs the function associated with the respective control in accordance with the detected gesture including a contact that meets the respective contact intensity criteria.
US12045449B2
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing user contributions and activity for shared files and folder. With respect to a document, at least a portion of the document is presented. User input in the form of a request to shift the document in a first direction is received. In response to the request passing a predetermined boundary, indications of content contribution attributable to different users is displayed. With respect to one or more digital files, a user input component is presented and is associated with the one or more digital files. User input is received via the user input component. In response to the received user input, an update activity panel is presented which shows multiple activity attributable to different users.
US12045439B2
Some embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods include displaying a graphical user interface comprising a first section and a second section, wherein the first section includes a first media icon corresponding to a first media item, and wherein the second section includes a first zone icon corresponding to a first zone comprising a first set of one or more playback devices; and in response to detecting a drag of the first media icon to the first zone icon, instructing at least one playback device in the first set of one or more playback devices to play the first media item corresponding to the first media icon.
US12045434B2
A system and method for providing integrated play diagram compilation visualization and assembly that includes a visual graphic diagramming tool having a visual workspace for creating play diagrams and an add-on play diagram compilation tool that provides a graphical user interface in combination with the visual workspace of the visual graphic diagramming tool.
US12045431B2
Some embodiments provide a navigation application with a novel declutter navigation mode. In some embodiments, the navigation application has a declutter control that when selected, directs the navigation application to simplify a navigation presentation by removing or de-emphasizing non-essential items that are displayed in the navigation presentation. In some embodiments, the declutter control is a mode-selecting control that allows the navigation presentation to toggle between normal first navigation presentation and a simplified second navigation presentation, which below is also referred to as a decluttered navigation presentation. During normal mode operation, the navigation presentation of some embodiments provides (1) a representation of the navigated route, (2) representations of the roads along the navigated route, (3) representation of major and minor roads that intersect or are near the navigated route, and (4) representations of buildings and other objects in the navigated scene. However, in the declutter mode, the navigation presentation of some embodiments provides a representation of the navigated route, while providing a de-emphasized presentation of the roads that intersect the navigated route or are near the navigated route. In some embodiments, the presentation shows the major roads that are not on the route with more emphasis than minor roads not on the route. Also, in some embodiments, the presentation fades out the minor roads not on the route more quickly than fading out the major roads not on the route.
US12045423B2
The present disclosure provides a display device including a substrate, an encapsulation layer over the substrate, a touch sensor layer on the encapsulation layer and including a plurality of touch sensors, and a transmittance control layer on or under the touch sensor layer.
US12045421B2
A detection device includes: optical sensors; switching elements, gate lines, and signal lines corresponding to the optical sensors; a detection circuit that is supplied with signals from the optical sensors through the signal lines; and a signal line selection circuit for switching a coupling state between the signal lines and the detection circuit. A drive signal is supplied to the gate lines row by row to bring the switching elements belonging to a predetermined row into a coupled state. The signal line selection circuit couples the signal lines to the detection circuit column by column in a predetermined order in a reading period of the predetermined row. A reset potential is supplied to the optical sensors and the signal lines belonging to the predetermined row after completion of the reading period of the predetermined row and before start of the reading period of a row next to the predetermined row.
US12045419B2
As described herein, certain embodiments provide improvements to graphical user interface generation by including a specific structure in a generated user interface that provides a specific function derived from that specific structure. For example, in various embodiments, a generated user interface comprises a plurality of interface elements that correspond to a particular menu or interface structure. In other embodiments, the system may modify (e.g., on-the fly) a structural position of one or more interface elements to improve the efficiency of a user using the display device by modifying the structure to improve the accessibility of each of the interface elements. As such, various embodiments described herein are directed to a specific improved method for displaying, accessing, and selecting elements of the generated user interfaces, particularly when the generated user interfaces include a structure defined by user input data and other data.
US12045415B2
A touch display panel and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device has a touch display panel. The touch display panel has a plurality of touch electrodes, at least two demultiplexing circuit units, and a plurality of bonding pads. The demultiplexing circuit unit has a plurality of demultiplexing circuits. The number of bonding pads can be further reduced by electrically connecting the demultiplexing circuits in different demultiplexing circuit units to the same bonding pad.
US12045406B2
An electronic device including a cover and a stretchable sensing unit is provided by the present disclosure. The cover has a curved surface, the curved surface has a first region with a first Gaussian curvature, and the first Gaussian curvature is not equal to zero. The stretchable sensing unit is attached to the cover, wherein the stretchable sensing unit includes a stretchable substrate and a first sensing element disposed on the stretchable substrate. The first sensing element is disposed between the first region of the curved surface and the stretchable substrate.
US12045396B1
A floated button and a vehicle screen assembly are provided. The vehicle screen assembly includes a display and the floated button. The floated button includes an adapter board electrically connect to a controller and a power source of the vehicle screen assembly through signal cables; a fixed base includes a receiving space, the adapter board is received in the receiving space, and the fixed base is connected to a rotation motor holder of the vehicle screen assembly; a button supporter arranged on the fixed base; and a button module arranged on the button supporter and floated on a side of the display. The button module includes a plurality of buttons arranged along a broadside extending direction. The buttons are electrically connected to the adapter board, and each of the buttons is configured to transmit corresponding button data to the controller through the adapter board when the button is triggered.
US12045395B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and device, the device comprising: a touch sensor disposed adjacent to the outside of a housing and including touch interfaces for a plurality of areas; an inertial sensor having a set sensor axis; a biometric sensor disposed adjacent to the inside of the housing; a communication module comprising communication circuitry; a memory which maps and stores an angle corresponding to a touch detection range of each touch interface of the touch sensor; and a processor operatively connected to the touch sensor, the inertial sensor, the biometric sensor, the communication module, and the memory. The processor is configured to: detect whether a wearable device is worn using the biometric sensor and/or the inertial sensor; receive touch information from at least one of the plurality of touch interfaces included in the touch sensor; calibrate the sensor axis of the inertial sensor based on the touch information; obtain sensing information from the inertial sensor; and calculate position information from the sensing information based on the calibrated sensor axis.
US12045391B2
An embodiment tactile presentation method includes: generating a first stimulus signal in a first frequency band; generating a second stimulus signal in a second frequency band, the second frequency band different from the first frequency band; applying the first stimulus signal from a first application member to a skin surface of a living body; and applying the second stimulus signal from a second application member to the skin surface.
US12045381B2
Techniques are provided for actively controlling a communications bus to mitigate threats, including cyber-attacks. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes detecting a threat in a message that is being transmitted between nodes on the communications bus. The message comprises one or more message frames and the threat detection is based on analysis of an initial portion of the message frame. The method further includes actively controlling the bus, based on the threat detection, to prevent the remaining portion of the message frame from delivering the threat to one or more of the nodes on the bus. Actively controlling the bus includes isolating nodes from the bus and/or overwriting data in the remaining portion of the message frame to invalidate the message frame or to remove the threat from the message frame.
US12045376B2
An example apparatus includes: memory; instructions in the apparatus; and at least one processor to execute the instructions to: check for proof of trust information in one or more pre-determined positions in a trusted digital image, the proof of trust information including a secure output marker, the secure output marker indicative of information corresponding to a trusted output area of the trusted digital image; decrypt the secure output marker using one or more security keys from a trusted execution environment (TEE), the TEE isolated from a computing application; and enable activation of a trusted output indicator in response to a match between first data corresponding to the secure output marker and second data corresponding to the trusted output area of the trusted digital image.
US12045372B2
Methods and systems are provided for securing access to confidential data using a blockchain ledger. An update to access permissions can be received from a first entity on behalf of a second entity, the update can change access permissions to a confidential data store. A smart contract that validates the update can be called. Upon consensus from a blockchain community, the update to the access permissions for the second entity can be executed. The blockchain community can be a plurality of different organizations that share access to the confidential data store, and the update can be appended to a blockchain ledger that stores access permissions for the blockchain community.
US12045357B2
A method includes receiving historical interaction data, which includes a plurality of historical interactions. Each historical interaction is associated with a plurality of data fields. The method includes assigning a plurality of weights to the plurality of data fields, generating a neural network using the plurality of weights and the plurality of data fields, identifying a first plurality of feature indicators indicative of a first class, the first class being different from a second class; receiving a second plurality of feature indicators derived from data relating to compromised accounts, updating, a probability distribution component using the first plurality of feature indicators and the second plurality of feature indicators, and receiving current data for an interaction. The method also includes applying the probability distribution component to the current data, and scoring the interaction using the probability distribution component.
US12045352B2
An electronic control device includes a tamper storage unit that stores a secure boot key and a control key, and has tamper resistance, a processor that is able to execute a program, a verification unit that verifies a program by using the secure boot key, performs secure boot causing the processor to execute the program based on a result of the verification, and has tamper resistance, a calculation unit that performs calculation related to encryption using the control key, and has tamper resistance, and a general storage unit that stores a first program that implements a delegated verification unit to which authority of the secure boot is delegated from the verification unit and a second program that implements a control unit that uses the calculation unit, and does not have tamper resistance. The verification unit delegates the authority of the secure boot to the delegated verification unit to end the execution of the secure boot when the verification for the first program and the second program is successful and the processor is caused to execute the first program and the second program, the calculation unit starts an operation when the verification unit ends the execution of the secure boot, and the delegated verification unit is able to simultaneously execute processing with the calculation unit.
US12045347B2
A method and apparatus for using a dynamic security certificate. The method analyzes a browser to access browser information and generates a dynamic security certificate based on the browser information. The method modifies a configuration file for the browser to cause the browser to trust the dynamic security certificate and inserts the dynamic security certificate into the browser to enable a client application to access encrypted data available to the browser. The method may be performed solely upon a user device or have portions thereof performed by a user device and a server.
US12045346B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for cybersecurity are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve receiving, by an application capable of JavaScript execution, code for execution; executing, before execution of the received code, an intercepting code, wherein the intercepting code is configured to intercept at least one application programming interface (API) invocation by the received code; intercepting, by the intercepting code, an API invocation by the received code; determining that the intercepted API invocation results in a manipulation of a backing store object; and modifying an execution of the intercepted API invocation, wherein the modified execution results in a nonpredictable environment state.
US12045344B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to preventing unauthorized screen capture activity. A computing platform may detect, via an infrared sensor associated with a computing device, an infrared signal from a second device attempting an unauthorized image capture of contents being displayed by a display device of the computing device. Subsequently, the computing platform may determine, via the computing platform, the contents being displayed by the display device. Then, the computing platform may retrieve a record of the contents being displayed by the display device. Then, the computing platform may determine a risk level associated with the infrared signal. Subsequently, the computing platform may perform, via the computing platform and based on the risk level, a remediation task to prevent the unauthorized image capture.
US12045343B2
System and method for heterogeneous transferred learning for enhanced cybersecurity threat detection
A method includes training a first machine learning model with a first dataset, to produce a first trained machine learning model to infer cybersecurity-oriented file properties and/or detect cybersecurity threats within a first domain. The first dataset includes labeled files associated with the first domain. The first trained machine learning model includes multiple layers, some of which are trainable. A second trained machine learning model is generated, via a transfer learning process, using (1) at least one trainable layer from the multiple trainable layers of the first trained machine learning model, and (2) a second dataset different from the first dataset. The second dataset includes labeled files associated with a second domain. The first domain has a different syntax, different semantics, and/or a different structure than that of the second domain. The second trained machine learning model (e.g., a deep neural network model) is then available for use in inferring cybersecurity-oriented properties of the file in the second domain and/or detecting cybersecurity threats in the second domain.
US12045342B2
An information processing device (10) includes an anomaly receiving means (11) for receiving an anomaly detected by a monitoring device installed in a control system, a collating means (12) for receiving the anomaly from the anomaly receiving means (11), making a first determination to determine whether the anomaly matches each of predetermined collating conditions for collating an event contained in an attack procedure and the anomaly, and when the first determination results in a match, making a further second determination to determine whether an event contained in each of predefined attack procedures matches the collating condition determined to match the anomaly, and when the second determination results in a match, specifying an attack procedure containing the event, and an extracting means (13) for extracting an event matching a predetermined extraction condition from the specified attack procedure.
US12045331B2
A processing system including at least one processor may receive a first request to access a content by a first user, identify that the content includes biometric data of a second user in accordance with biometric identification data of the second user, and apply at least one biometric data access rule of a biometric data access permission set to the first request in response to the identifying that the content includes the biometric data of the second user.
US12045330B2
This application provides an identity Identification method for a fixed-point authorization, and devices and servers therefor, comprises receiving an identification request sent by a service terminal; wherein the identification request comprises terminal information and live body biological characteristic information of a target object; the terminal information comprises a terminal merchant number and terminal location information; determining at least one valid user of the service terminal according to the terminal information, and obtaining biological characteristic information of each valid user; wherein the valid user has a direct or an indirect authorization relationship with the service terminal; completing the identity identification according to the live body biological characteristic information of the target object and the biological characteristic information of each valid user. This application may further simplify the process of identity identification, thereby improving the efficiency of identity identification; in addition, it may also effectively improve the security of identity identification.
US12045328B2
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide identity verification for protected services. An identity verification system includes an authenticator device configured to provide a visible spectrum optical sequence including an authentication identifier to an authentication station. The authentication station includes an optical sensor configured to capture a time sequence of visible spectrum image data associated with a validated user, and a logic device configured to receive a visible spectrum optical sequence from the optical sensor, verify the authentication identifier, and execute a protected process associated with the verified authentication identifier. The authenticator device includes an optical transmitter and a logic device configured determine a visible spectrum optical sequence comprising the authentication identifier and to generate the visible spectrum optical sequence using the optical transmitter.
US12045327B2
The present disclosure provides a method of facilitating authenticating of users. Further, the method includes initiating, using a processing device, an authentication session for a user for an authentication instance. Further, the method includes identifying, using the processing device, authentication prompts for the authenticating of the user based on the initiating. Further, the method includes transmitting, using a communication device, the authentication prompts to user devices. Further, the method includes receiving, using the communication device, data in response to the authentication prompts from the user devices. Further, the method includes analyzing, using the processing device, the data using machine learning models. Further, the method includes generating, using the processing device, an authentication status for the user based on the analyzing. Further, the method includes terminating, using the processing device, the authentication session based on the generating. Further, the method includes storing, using a storage device, the authentication status.
US12045318B2
An imaging system is provided for pixel-level segmentation of images comprising: a camera to capture images of an anatomical object and to represent the images in two-dimensional (2D) arrangements of pixels; one or more processors and a non-transitory computer readable medium with information including: CNN instructions to cause the one or more processors to implement a CNN configured to associate anatomical object classifications with pixels of the 2D arrangements of pixels; and multiple sets of weights, to differently configure the CNN based upon different camera image training data; and a display screen configured to display the two-dimensional (2D) arrangements of classified pixels and the anatomical object classifications.
US12045316B2
Systems and methods include obtaining network data including first data of devices and services in the network, Performance Monitoring (PM) data associated with the devices and services and with associated timestamps, and second data including any of tickets, alarms, and events affecting some of the devices and services and with associated timestamps; obtaining one or more target events from the second data based on associated operational impact in the network; determining the PM data that is statistically correlated with the one or more target events; determining the statistically correlated PM data over a corresponding time based on the associated timestamps of the PM data and the one or more target events; and providing labels for the determined statistically correlated PM data with an associated label based on the associated target event of the one or more target events.
US12045309B1
In a system with control logic and a processing element array, two modes of operation may be provided. In the first mode of operation, the control logic may configure the system to perform matrix multiplication or 1×1 convolution. In the second mode of operation, the control logic may configure the system to perform 3×3 convolution. The processing element array may include an array of processing elements. Each of the processing elements may be configured to compute the dot product of two vectors in a single clock cycle, and further may accumulate the dot products that are sequentially computed over time.
US12045308B2
Detailed are embodiments related to bit matrix multiplication in a processor. For example, in some embodiments a processor comprising: decode circuitry to decode an instruction have fields for an opcode, an identifier of a first source bit matrix, an identifier of a second source bit matrix, an identifier of a destination bit matrix, and an immediate; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to perform a multiplication of a matrix of S-bit elements of the identified first source bit matrix with S-bit elements of the identified second source bit matrix, wherein the multiplication and accumulation operations are selected by the operation selector and store a result of the matrix multiplication into the identified destination bit matrix, wherein S indicates a plural bit size is described.
US12045302B2
Implementations relate to determining whether and/or how to implement a user request to prevent a particular search result from being provided in response to a search query. Some of those implementations grant or deny the request based on processing of the particular search result, the search query, and/or account information for a user submitting the user request. For example, some implementations process such information utilizing a classifier in determining whether to automatically deny the request, automatically approve the request, or to provide the request for manual review. Some additional or alternative implementations at least selectively automatically expand (or suggest for automatic expansion) an approval of a request to search result(s) and/or to one or more search queries that are not specified in the request.
US12045298B1
At least one processor is configured for defining a plurality of mutually exclusive customer treatment groups, including in accordance with first and second algorithms, to receive content items. Content items are respectively provided to a random customer treatment group as well as first and second algorithm customer treatment groups, and metrics representing at least engagement by each of the customers are determined and analyzed. A selection of the first or the second algorithm is made. The at least one processor is configured to provide, to at least some of the plurality of customers, content items in accordance with the selected algorithm.
US12045286B2
A method performed by a computer system including: accessing a specification that specifies a plurality of modules to be implemented by the computer program for processing the one or more values of the one or more fields in the structured data item; transforming the specification into the computer program that implements the plurality of modules, wherein the transforming includes: for each of one or more first modules of the plurality of modules: identifying one or more second modules of the plurality of modules that each receive input that is at least partly based on an output of the first module; and formatting an output data format of the first module such that the first module outputs only one or more values of one or more fields of the structured data item.
US12045284B2
A method and system provide for searching a computer-aided design (CAD) drawing. A CAD drawing is obtained and includes vector based geometric entities. For each entity, primitives are extracted and held in a graph with graph nodes that record entity paths. A feature coordinate system is created for each of the entities using the primitives. The primitives are transformed from a world coordinate system to feature coordinates of the feature coordinate system. Geometry data of the transformed entities is encoded into index codes that are utilized in an index table as keys with the graph nodes as values. A target geometric entity is identified and a target index code is determined and used to query the index table to identify instances of the target geometric entity in the CAD drawing. Found instances in the CAD drawing are displayed in a visually distinguishable manner.
US12045276B2
Content controller system comprising rendering server system comprising a plurality of servers. The servers receiving a plurality of segment render requests that correspond respectively to segments included in a set of media content item segments. The servers render the segments corresponding to the segment render requests using a media content identification and a main user identification. Rendering the segments comprises retrieving metadata from a metadata database associated with the media content identification, rendering the segments using the metadata, generating a main user avatar based on the main user identification, and incorporating the main user avatar into the segments. The servers can upload the segments to a segment database and update segment states in a segment state database to indicate that the segments are available. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US12045267B2
A computing device including a memory and a processor is provided. The memory stores processor executable instructions for an entity engine. The processor is coupled to the memory. The processor executes the entity engine to cause the computing device to model entities, which hold or classify data. The processor executes the entity engine to cause the computing device to store in the memory a list identifying each of the entities and the entities themselves in correspondence with the list. The processor executes the entity engine to cause the computing device to provide, in response to a selection input from an external system, access to the entities based on the list. The access includes providing the list to the external system, receiving the selection input identifying a first entity of the entities, and exporting the first entity from the memory to the external system.
US12045261B2
The present invention provides a method including receiving a data set for an entity including data associated with criterions. Each of the data entries is grouped into a grouping. Then generating an error probability for the grouping. The error probability includes an ensemble of algorithms that each provide an indication of a potential error within the grouping. Also, generating a flow metric for the grouping by evaluating a magnitude of values for the data entries of the grouping. Then determining a materiality factor for each grouping using the flow metric for the grouping, a planned materiality threshold, and a performance materiality and generating a risk of material error for the grouping using the error probability and the materiality factor of the grouping. Also, highlighting a grouping within the data set based on the risk of material error of the grouping.
US12045252B2
Providing Quality of Service (QoS) for replicating datasets including: receiving, by a target data repository from a source data repository, a checkpoint describing one or more updates to one or more datasets stored in the source data repository and the target data repository; adding, by the target data repository, the checkpoint to a first queue for checkpoints directed to one or more volumes in the target data repository, wherein the first queue is included in a plurality of queues for the target data repository; selecting, by the target data repository, one or more queues from the plurality of queues; and servicing an operation from each of the selected one or more queues.
US12045249B2
A method includes providing for display at a user device associated with a user a graphical user interface (GUI) of an electronic document editor application of an electronic document system. The GUI includes a document view to display at least a portion of an electronic document that is editable by the user of a first users and a search region to receive one or more search terms. The method includes receiving an indication of a user activation of the search region. Responsive to receiving the indication of the user activation of the search region, the method determines a subset of document operations, among multiple document operations, based on one or more criteria. The method provides, to the user device, an indication of the subset of document operations for display at the GUI as commands for user selection.
US12045247B2
A data synchronization method applied to data synchronization between heterogeneous databases includes a terminal device that records a primary key, attribute information, a version number, and a synchronization status of a data object using a first storage format, and a cloud device that records a primary key, attribute information, and a version number of a data object using a second storage format such that the terminal device and the cloud device implement data synchronization between the heterogeneous databases based on the storage formats and version numbers.
US12045246B2
A data query and retrieval system receives a query request and identifies a plurality of data warehouses, or stores, where data needed to satisfy the query is stored. Data items, or fields, called for by the query request are grouped into sets based on fields stored at the same data warehouse. Individual data connections are generated for each data warehouse accessed, and a database view defined for the fields available at each respective data warehouse. The individual views are invoked in a single query statement by a query processor for accessing the respective data warehouses via the corresponding database view. In this manner, a query operator or user need not define multiple query expressions or perform separate queries for accessing data fields or dimensions residing at different data warehouses.
US12045245B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for conducting searches utilizing search navigation patterns. Search queries are received that include search terms that are of a particular type. It is recognized that at least one prior search session has been conducted that included a search query having search terms of an equivalent or similar type and followed a particular navigation pattern. Such prior search(es) may have been conducted by the user or by a different user and/or may have a navigation pattern that was affirmatively recorded by the requesting user or that was recorded by the system without explicit contemporaneous user instruction to do so. Upon identifying the navigation pattern associated with the prior search, the system effectively conducts a search session following the navigation pattern.
US12045244B1
A system for managing documents, comprising: interfaces to a user interface, proving an application programming interface, a database of document images, a remote server, configured to communicate a text representation of the document from the optical character recognition engine to the report server, and to receive from the remote server a classification of the document; and logic configured to receive commands from the user interface, and to apply the classifications received from the remote server to the document images through the interface to the database. A corresponding method is also provided.
US12045243B2
The method provides for receiving a plurality of documents including mentions of a target entity from a search query about the entity. The mentions of the target entity are identified in respective documents of the plurality of documents. Content surrounding the one or more mentions of the target entity are extracted with the mentions within the respective documents and form section. A respective document includes a plurality of sections. Metrics of relevance and irrelevance to the target entity are determined within the plurality of sections of the respective documents. A density score is generated for the plurality of sections of the respective documents. A relevancy score is assigned to respective documents of the plurality of documents, based on the density scores of the sections of the respective documents. The documents are ranked based on the relevancy score and presented in an order based on the ranking.
US12045237B2
One method embodiment includes receiving input creating a data distribution restriction implemented to restrict distribution of data by publisher nodes located in at least one geographic or political area to subscriber nodes outside of the at least one geographic or political area. The method then queries a subscription repository storing data defining subscriptions to publisher node data events on publisher nodes located in the at least one geographic or political area to identify existing subscriptions to data events about the particular data by subscriber nodes located outside of the at least one geographic or political area. The method may then output the query results identifying existing subscriber node subscriptions contrary to the new or newly modified data distribution restriction. The received input may then be stored in a database such that subsequent changes are conditionally limited by the new or newly modified data distribution restriction.
US12045223B2
Example aspects include techniques for anomaly detection via sparse judgmental samples. These techniques may include generating a qualified timestamp corresponding to execution of a first operation of a first transaction over a database and determining, based on the qualified timestamp, that a row of a table is not locked by a second operation of a second transaction over the database. In addition, the techniques may include determining that the row meets a condition of the first operation. Further, the techniques may include updating, based on the qualified timestamp, the row in response to the row meeting the condition, the updating including acquiring a lock on the row of the table.
US12045220B2
A method, system, and computer system for performing an operation with respect to a target table are disclosed. The method includes performing first and second jobs, and persist, in one or more deletion vector files, one or more deletion vectors for corresponding rows of the one or more target table files, and obtaining a resulting table based at least in part on the second job resulting file(s). Performing the first job includes determining a set of matching target table files and storing target table information indicating for each of the set of matching target table files, a particular set of rows having matching rows. Performing the second job includes performing a matching action based on matched rows and one or more deletion of vectors associated with previously removed rows of the matching target table files and obtaining the second job resulting file(s).
US12045219B2
Disclosed herein relates to a method that improves the accuracy of producing family trees. The DNA of a target individual is processed to find a matching individual. Using the known family tree of the matching individual, multiple candidate family trees are generated with multiple proposed placements for the target individual. For each candidate family tree, a genetic likelihood for a proposed relationship and the other DNA test takers in the family tree. A birth-year probability is determined by identifying a most recent common ancestor (MRCA). The birth-year probability is based on the number of years between the target individual and the matching individual and a normal distribution of ages for parent-child age differences in a population. The genetic likelihood is converted to a genetic probability so that it can be compared with or added to the birth-year probability. Based on the two probabilities, the candidate family trees are sorted.
US12045208B2
For each database subsystem in a plurality of database subsystems running in a logical partition (LPAR), the systems and techniques include collecting data from buffer pools on a periodic interval, monitoring real storage availability on the LPAR, calculating an input/output (I/O) intensity score for each buffer pool for the periodic interval, ranking the buffer pools based on the I/O intensity score, calculating a cumulative I/O intensity score for each buffer pool across a cycle of multiple periodic intervals, ranking the buffer pools based on the cumulative I/O intensity score, and selecting a buffer pool candidate for page fixing. The buffer pool candidate for page fixing is a highest-ranked buffer pool from the plurality of buffer pools during the cycle based on the cumulative I/O intensity score that satisfies the real storage availability on the LPAR.
US12045203B2
Systems and methods of determining physical capacity of logical space units are disclosed. The method populates a first smart filter to track a physical capacity of a first logical space unit (LSU). The method adds fingerprints from the first LSU to register(s) of the first smart filter. The method populates a second smart filter to track fingerprints deleted by garbage collection (GC). The method adds the deleted fingerprints to register(s) of the second smart filter. Using the first and second smart filters, the method determines an intersection cardinality of the first LSU and the deleted fingerprints. The method determines a cardinality of unique fingerprints in the first LSU based on the intersection cardinality of the first LSU and the deleted fingerprints. The method determines the physical capacity of the first LSU based at least on the cardinality of unique fingerprints in the first LSU.
US12045202B2
One or more identifiers respectively corresponding to a one or more logical blocks in an electronic file system volume is selected. One or more logical blocks respectively corresponding to the selected one or more identifiers is analyzed according to one or more criteria. A value is assigned to one or more indicators associated with each of the one or more logical blocks and corresponding to the one or more criteria, in response to the analyses of the corresponding one or more logical blocks. A representation of the one or more indicators, and their respective assigned values, associated with each of the one or more logical blocks that was analyzed according to the one or more criteria, is generated. In some embodiments, an action to be performed on or with an electronic file mapped to the logical blocks is controlled based on one or more of the values assigned to the one or more indicators associated with the one or more logical blocks.
US12045200B2
The present disclosure discloses a system for content curation and collaboration. The system comprises a database arrangement configured to store an uncurated and/or a curated content and a data processing arrangement communicably coupled to the database arrangement. The data processing arrangement is configured to enable secured access of a user to the uncurated and/or the curated content stored in the database arrangement, identify at least one content relevant to the user from the uncurated and/or the curated content stored in the database arrangement based on at least one input received from the user, and provide the relevant content to the user in a desired format.
US12045197B2
A database system is disclosed. The database system may receive a plurality of records representing changes made to a plurality of datasets, and the plurality of records may include a plurality of data change instances associated with a plurality of data schema types. The plurality of data change instances may correspond to a plurality of respective keys. The database system may compute an average size of data for each data schema type of the plurality of data schema types. The database system may modify the plurality of respective keys through a salting process, which may include assigning non-overlapping numerical ranges to subsets of the plurality of respective keys. The database system may sort, using the non-overlapping numerical ranges, the plurality of data change instances into a plurality of partitions of a target file size. The database system may write files of the target file size to a data store.
US12045190B2
A packet control apparatus includes a transmission source device configured to add processing wait information that indicates whether to permit immediate processing to a packet to be transmitted to a destination, and a transmission target device configured to, in a case where the processing wait information is added to the packet, wait for and receive a processing permission notification that indicates a completion of a preceding packet from the transmission source device, and process the packet, the transmission target device being a device of the destination, wherein the transmission source device and the transmission target device are coupled to each other through a bus.
US12045189B2
Methods and devices are provided for executing a data transfer based on one or more data transfer definitions. A signal representing a data transfer request is received from a first computing device. The data transfer request includes at least an identifier defining what is requested to be transferred. A notification of the data transfer request is sent to a second computing device. An interface including a plurality of interface elements for providing one or more data transfer definitions is sent to the second computing device. The interface includes at least one interface element that is pre-populated based on the data transfer request, and at least one interface element providing an option to define a time of day for a data transfer. The one or more data transfer definitions are received from the second computing device and the data transfer is executed based on the one or more data transfer definitions.
US12045177B2
A data report rate adjustment method for use between a computer host and a peripheral device is provided. According to the actual workload level of the computer host and/or the amount of the input data of the peripheral device, the priority or the report rate of the data to be transmitted from the peripheral device can be dynamically adjusted or set. More especially, the unnecessary data report can be avoided. Consequently, the workload of the computer host can be effectively reduced, and the power consumption of the peripheral device can be saved.
US12045175B2
A system includes a processing unit, a memory configured to store at least one first group of instructions and one second group of instructions for execution by the processing unit, the processing unit being configured to sequentially extract from the memory instructions of the first group and instructions of the second group for their execution. The system also includes a controller including a first auxiliary memory configured to store a protection criterion, a comparator configured to compare the storage address of each extracted instruction with the protection criterion, and a control circuit configured to, in response to the storage address meeting the protection criterion, trigger a protection mechanism including at least one prohibition for the processing unit to execute again at least one portion of the instructions of the first group, during the execution of the instructions of the second group.
US12045160B2
A method is disclosed and includes receiving, using a first client computing system, an instance from an administrative computing system. The instance includes a partition of computing resources of the administrative computing system. The partition of computing resources includes a virtual processor and first machine-readable instructions. The first machine-readable instructions include a first predefined software bug. The method includes executing, using the virtual processor, the first machine-readable instructions. Executing the first machine-readable instructions includes receiving, using the virtual processor, a first input indicating an identification of the first predefined software bug of the first machine-readable instructions. Executing the first machine-readable instructions includes transmitting, using the virtual processor, a first signal associated with the first input to the administrative computing system, wherein the first signal causes the administrative computing system to generate a score associated with the first client computing system in response to verification by the administrative computing system.
US12045155B1
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for efficient memory leak detection in database systems. One example method includes receiving a query at a database system. Memory allocations and deallocations are traced during processing of the query. Each memory allocation entry in a tracing file can be processed, including determining, for each allocation, whether a memory deallocation entry exists in the tracing file. A determination can be made as to whether a memory leak has occurred in response to determining whether a memory deallocation entry corresponding to a memory allocation entry exists in the tracing file. For example, a determination can be made that a memory leak has occurred in response to determining that no memory deallocation entry corresponding to an allocated memory address exists in the tracing file. One or more actions can be performed in response to determining that a memory leak has occurred.
US12045152B2
Provided are methods and systems for preventing malicious behavior of an end point. An example method commences with monitoring a stream of events associated with the end point. The method further includes processing the stream to record a set of events to a memory. Processing an event of the stream includes determining that the event satisfies at least one rule in a sequence of rules and, in response to the determination, adding the event to the set of events in the memory. The method further includes determining that the set of events includes a sequence of events. Each state in the sequence of events corresponds to at least one rule in the sequence of rules. The method continues with executing at least one action on the end point in response to the determination that the set of events includes the sequence of events.
US12045151B2
A graph representation of cloud resources and their relationships is generated and maintained to provide insights into impact of incidents affecting cloud resources on others in the cloud environment. Cloud resource data for the cloud resources are obtained and relationships among the cloud resources are determined. Relationships among the cloud resources are determined based on analysis of configuration data associated with the cloud resources from which relationships among cloud resources of different types can be inferred, and external sources may also be utilized to facilitate identification of relationships. A graph representation of the cloud resources and their determined relationships is built where the cloud resource data are stored in vertices with directed edges between the vertices representing the identified relationships. The graph can be analyzed based on various graph algorithms to analyze impact of misconfigured or compromised resources to identify related cloud resources that are or would be affected.
US12045139B2
In some examples, a cluster protection system comprises at least one processor and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to perform operations comprising identifying a target cluster or an object in a container management framework, identifying application data and metadata associated with the target cluster or the object, generating a first snapshot of the target cluster or the object, the first snapshot including at least the metadata, storing the first snapshot in offsite cloud storage, generating a second snapshot of the target cluster, the second snapshot including at least the application data, and storing the second snapshot in a persistent volume in onsite storage.
US12045134B2
A copy data management system for a modern application includes a modern application module and a copy data management module. The modern application module includes a service unit, an object storage gateway, a production object storage, and a database. The service unit is configured to generate a large object, a small object, and service metadata. The object storage gateway is configured to write and read the large object and the small object in the production object storage, merge small objects into a large object, and generate object metadata. The database is configured to store the service metadata and the object metadata. The copy data management module includes a metadata processing unit and a disaster recovery object storage. The metadata processing unit is configured to back up the database. The object storage gateway is also configured to back up the production object storage to the disaster recovery object storage.
US12045124B2
A method includes receiving a crash signature and a crash configuration. The crash signature is generated in response to a software crash in a software application caused by the crash configuration. The method also includes applying a first machine learning model to determine a reference of a plurality of references that is closest to the crash signature and the crash configuration. The reference includes a reference crash signature and a reference configuration. The reference crash signature and the reference configuration are generated by a proxy crash to the software crash. The proxy crash was generated prior to the software crash by executing a modified test case against the software application.
US12045116B2
A system comprises a microcontroller system comprising a CPU, an I/O module, and a microcontroller system power input, a power supply comprising a first power supply output providing power at a first power level, and a second power supply output providing power at a second power level, and a switch comprising a signal input communicatively coupled to the I/O module and configured to receive a status signal from the I/O module, a first switch power input electrically coupled to the first power supply output, a second switch power input electrically coupled to the second power supply output, and a switch power output electrically coupled to the microcontroller system power input and configured to output power to the microcontroller system.
US12045108B2
An electronic apparatus and a load adjusting method thereof are provided. The method includes the following steps. Powering of an external power supply is detected. A self-power consumption time of the battery from a full capacity to a preset capacity is calculated and recorded when the powering of the external power supply is detected. A first average value of multiple self-power consumption times recorded within a preset period from a current time is calculated, and the first average value is compared with a second average value of the self-power consumption times of a previous preset period of the preset period. A value of a power limit for controlling the electronic apparatus to enter a load adjusting state is adjusted according to a comparison result.
US12045103B2
A heat dissipation structure includes a heat dissipation member and a fixed member. The fixed member has a first surface and a second surface oppositely. The heat dissipation member is disposed on the first surface, and one part of the second surface corresponds to one side of at least one heat generating source and is disposed adjacent to the one side of the heat generating source. The first surface has a first zone surrounded by a second zone. The heat dissipation member is disposed on the first zone corresponding to the heat generating source. The second zone has at least one groove arranged around one part of the first zone. A distance between one side of the groove adjacent to the first zone and the first zone is less than 1.0 mm, and a volume ratio of the groove to the heat dissipation member is 0.9 to 1.6.
US12045097B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes two housing structures, a hinge structure, and a flexible display, the hinge structure includes a first saw-toothed spur gear, a second saw-toothed spur gear, a third saw-toothed spur gear, a fourth saw-toothed spur gear, a first guide structure fixed to the first housing structure and rotated by the gears, and a second guide structure fixed to the second housing structure and rotated in an opposite direction of the first guide structure, the first guide structure is rotated about a first axis formed from a bottom surface of the flexible display upwards, and the second guide structure is rotated about a second axis that is spaced apart from the first axis and is formed from the bottom surface of the flexible display.
US12045091B2
A display device includes a display panel including a button area, a button assembly disposed under the button area of the display panel, and a support layer disposed between the display panel and the button assembly and including a slit portion. The slit portion may include at least one slit surrounding at least a portion of the button area.
US12045079B1
A limiting mechanism includes: a base, a first bearing, a turntable, and a rocker assembly. The base includes a base body and a through hole. The first bearing is mounted in the through hole. The turntable includes a turntable body and a shifting lever. The rocker assembly includes a second bearing, a rocker, a slider, an elastic member, a movable magnet, and a fixed magnet. Two opposite sides of the base body corresponding to the slider are respectively provided with limiting portions evenly spaced from the slider. The shifting lever is limited through the slider and the limiting portion. The limiting mechanism of the present disclosure not only has fewer actions and has a simple structure, but also occupies a small space, has high reliability, and can reduce generation of noise.
US12045078B1
An elastic block limiting mechanism includes: a base, a first elastic limiting assembly, a second elastic limiting assembly, a turntable and a bearing. The first elastic limiting assembly includes a first elastic member and a first elastic block. The second elastic limiting assembly includes a second elastic member and a second elastic block. The turntable includes a ring-shaped turntable body and a shifting lever. The bearing is mounted in a through hole and fixed to the base body, the turntable body being inserted into the bearing and forming a fixation to achieve a rotational connection with the base body. Compared with the related art, the elastic block limiting mechanism of the present disclosure has a simple structure, small space occupation, good stability, effective noise reduction, and high reliability.
US12045075B2
A supply-glitch-tolerant voltage regulator includes a regulated voltage node and an output transistor having a source terminal, a gate terminal, and a drain terminal. The source terminal is coupled to the regulated voltage node. The supply-glitch-tolerant voltage regulator includes a first current generator coupled between a first node and a first power supply node. The supply-glitch-tolerant voltage regulator includes a second current generator coupled between the first node and a second power supply node. The supply-glitch-tolerant voltage regulator includes a feedback circuit coupled to the first current generator and the second current generator and is configured to adjust a voltage on the first node based on a reference voltage and a voltage level on the regulated voltage node. The supply-glitch-tolerant voltage regulator includes a diode coupled between the drain terminal and the first power supply node and a resistor coupled between the gate terminal and the first node.
US12045070B2
A breeding robot including a base and a support being movably connected to the base. The support is of a hollow cylindrical structure, a telescopic arm movably passes through the support, a first motor is mounted to an end of the telescopic arm away from the support, a transmission shaft of the first motor is connected to a rotating bracket, a saw blade is mounted to the bottom side of the rotating bracket, and the saw blade is used for cutting maize tassel. The end of the rotating bracket is mounted with a CCD detector, and the CCD detector is used for detecting the position of the maize tassel. A blower is further mounted to the base, an air outlet of the blower is connected to a first end of an air duct, and a second end of the air duct is connected to the air blowing portion.
US12045068B2
An autonomous inspection solution includes: a UAV having a navigation component and a first inspection sensor suite. The navigation component is configured to: autonomously deploy the UAV from a support vehicle; fly a first route at an inspection site, based at least upon a sensor type of the first inspection sensor suite; and autonomously return to the support vehicle upon completion of assigned inspections. In some examples, the first inspection sensor suite includes an optical camera, a thermal imaging sensor, an RF sensor, or an inventory management sensor, and a second inspection sensor suite has at least one different sensor than the first inspection sensor suite. The navigation component is further configured navigate the UAV to fly a second route, based at least upon a sensor type of the second inspection sensor suite. A data component stores or wirelessly transmits data received from the affixed inspection sensor suites.
US12045055B2
Controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle may include obtaining a first image from a fixed orientation image capture device of the unmanned aerial vehicle, obtaining a second image from an adjustable orientation image capture device of the unmanned aerial vehicle, obtaining feature correlation data based on the first image and the second image, obtaining relative image capture device orientation calibration data based on the feature correlation data, the relative image capture device orientation calibration data indicating an orientation of the adjustable orientation image capture device relative to the fixed orientation image capture device, obtaining relative object orientation data based on the relative image capture device orientation calibration data, the relative object orientation data representing a three-dimensional orientation of an external object relative to the adjustable orientation image capture device, and controlling a trajectory of the unmanned aerial vehicle in response to the relative object orientation data.
US12045050B2
Disclosed is a method for providing input to a vehicle control system to navigate, position and direct a vehicle, by use of a gesture sensing device. The gesture sensing device may be in the form of: a remote, a mobile computing device such as a smartphone, a tablet or smart-watch, or a direction/motion sensor. The vehicle control system with gesture sensing device is useful for the control of radio controlled vehicles, drones and driver and driverless vehicles. In preferred embodiments, the vehicle control system with gesture sensing device is used to control GNSS/GPS enabled electric steer trolling motors, such as motors utilizing the ProNav® Angler, Rhodan® HD GPS® Anchor, Minn-Kota® IPilot, and the MotorGuide® Pinpoint.
US12045042B2
The present application discloses a method of handling a transaction request, including: performing an information exchange between a manufacturing execution system and a machine control system by an agent module; the information exchange including: sending a first transaction request by the machine control system to the agent module, and then sending the first transaction request by the agent module to the manufacturing execution system.
US12045040B2
A gateway for retrieving telemetry data from a field device and for transmitting the retrieved telemetry data to a cloud server, wherein the gateway comprises a cloud communication component which is designed to specify periodic request points in time at which an internal gateway request for a current variable value of a variable of the telemetry data is to be made, as well as a field device communication component which is designed to carry out a variable retrieval of the current variable value from the field device at periodic retrieval points in time. The gateway is designed to set the phase of the periodic retrieval points in time relative to the periodic request points in time such that the respective current variable value has already been retrieved from the field device at the request point in time of this gateway request and is present in the field device communication component.
US12045023B2
An electronic control device is an electronic control device that stores a neural network including plural neurons and a connection information group including plural pieces of connection information that associate the neurons with each other. The neural network is a neural network including a third connection information group created through deletion, by a pruning section, of at least one piece of connection information from a first connection information group for deciding an output value when an input value is given on the basis of the first connection information group and a second connection information group that is plural pieces of connection information having the degree of influence on predetermined data given as the input value, the degree of influence exceeding a predetermined value.
US12045010B2
An example system includes a master oscillator that provides a master oscillator beam, a first fiber beam splitter that splits the master oscillator beam into a first branch and a second branch, a second fiber beam splitter that splits the first branch into an imaging branch and an amplified characteristic branch, and a compensation branch mixer that mixes the second branch and the amplified characteristic branch into a compensation branch. The example system includes transmission optics that direct the imaging branch to a target location, an imaging mixer that mixes the compensation branch and a reflected image from the target location into an imaging signal, and an acquisition device that receives the imaging signal as a final image. An example system optionally includes a mode matching lens that applies a selected wavefront characteristic to the compensation branch.
US12044999B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first fixing member, a second fixing member, a heater, a switching mechanism capable of switching a nip state of the first fixing member and the second fixing member between (i) a first nip state in which the belt is nipped between each of the first nip forming member and the second nip forming member, and the first fixing member, and (ii) a second nip state in which the belt is nipped between the first nip forming member and the first fixing member in a state in which the belt is not nipped between the second nip forming member and the first fixing member, and a controller configured to switch the nip state from the first nip state to the second nip state when a jam error occurs in the first nip state.
US12044995B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a gear that transmits a drive force, which is supplied from a drive unit, to a photosensitive drum; a formation processing unit that, at arrival of each of specific formation timings, uses the photosensitive drum thereby to form a to-be-detected toner image that is based on a to-be-detected image having a specific density; an acquisition processing unit that acquires a variation width of a density in the to-be-detected toner image formed by the formation processing unit; and a determination processing unit that determines a failure timing of the gear based on the variation width for each of the formation timings.
US12044994B2
A fixing device includes a cylinder, a heater, a contact body, and a soaking member. The heater has a first surface and an opposing second surface. The heater includes a heating element extending along a longitudinal direction of the heater. The first surface engages with an inner surface of the cylinder. The contact body is configured to engage with the inner surface of the cylinder. The contact body is configured to be heated at a first position along the longitudinal direction at a first temperature increase rate and at a second position along the longitudinal direction at a second temperature increase rate that is lower than the first temperature increase rate. The soaking member is positioned to engage with the opposing second surface of the heater. The soaking member has a second thermal capacity lower than a first thermal capacity at the respective second and first positions.
US12044993B2
In an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form a toner image on a sheet and a fixing device to heat the toner image. The fixing device includes a cylindrical belt, a heater within the interior region to heat a region of the belt. A first and a second heat conduction member are also within the interior region. The heater is between the first heat conduction member and the belt, and also between the second heat conduction member and the belt. The second heat conduction member has a recess facing the heater.
US12044979B2
A method for generating metrology sampling scheme for a patterning process, the method including: obtaining a parameter map of a parameter of a patterning process for a substrate; decomposing the parameter map to generate a fingerprint specific to an apparatus of the patterning process and/or a combination of apparatuses of the patterning process; and based on the fingerprint, generating a metrology sampling scheme for a subsequent substrate at the apparatus of the patterning process and/or the combination of apparatuses of the patterning process, wherein the sampling scheme is configured to distribute sampling points on the subsequent substrate so as to improve a metrology sampling density.
US12044975B2
A method of controlling a droplet illumination module/droplet detection module system of an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation source includes irradiating a target droplet with light from a droplet illumination module and detecting light reflected and/or scattered by the target droplet. The method includes determining whether an intensity of the detected light is within an acceptable range. In response to determining that the intensity of the detected light is not within the acceptable range, a parameter of the droplet illumination module is automatically adjusted to set the intensity of the detected light within the acceptable range.
US12044972B2
An aqueous developer for a flexographic printing plate capable of maintaining good printing reproducibility and suppressing the adhesion and aggregation of the dispersion in the developer during repeated use, and a method of manufacturing a flexographic printing plate using the same, are provided. The aqueous developer for a flexographic printing plate is an aqueous developer for a flexographic printing plate containing a surfactant having a molecular weight of 1000 or more, and water.
US12044969B2
A resist underlayer film-forming composition revealing high reflow properties while applying and heating the composition on a substrate, allowing a flat application on a multi-level substrate thus forming a flat film. The composition includes a copolymer having a repeating structural unit of the following Formula (1) and/or a repeating structural unit of the following Formula (2) and an organic solvent: (in Formulae (1) and (2), R1 is a functional group of Formula (3); in Formula (3), Q1 and Q2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a C1-5 alkyl group, and * is a dangling bond to an oxygen atom; and in Formula (2), X1 is a C1-50 organic group, and i and j are each independently 0 or 1).
US12044963B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to imprint compositions and materials and related processes useful for nanoimprint lithography (NIL). In one or more embodiments, an imprint composition contains one or more types of nanoparticles, one or more surface ligands, one or more solvents, one or more additives, and one or more acrylates.
US12044956B2
A light-emitting device including: a package including a light-emitting element, a reflection member that reflects light outputted from the light-emitting element, and a sealed space that accommodates the light-emitting element and the reflection member; a base plate on which a plurality of the packages is mounted; and lenses opposed to the base plate with the plurality of packages interposed therebetween, the lenses being opposed to the respective packages.
US12044950B2
A method is for operating a phased array. The method includes operating circuity coupled between first and second electrically conductive contacts to apply a voltage signal between the first and second electrically conductive contacts, change the voltage signal to selectively set phase change between IR radiation emitted from adjacent elliptical holes to emit the IR radiation at an angle from normal, and change the voltage signal to selectively set a frequency range of the IR radiation.
US12044948B2
A static optical system, for use with a phase modulator, configured to expand (at least up to 4π steradian) the solid angle range within which a light beam can propagate from and after interacting with the phase modulator. A specific embodiment includes a first holographic disperser (a layer with at least one hologram recorded therein, a lens element configured as a large spherical cap, and a second holographic disperser (a layer with at least one hologram in it) shaped as a shell against second optical surface of the lens element. Holographic dispersers carry/contain angularly-selective multiplexed volume holograms.
US12044946B2
An electrokinetic device is configured as a dynamic lens cover and/or filter for an imaging assembly, e.g., of a mobile device, to selectively allow electromagnetic radiation to pass through a lens of the imaging assembly when the dynamic lens cover is in a first operating state or to prevent electromagnetic radiation from reaching the lens of the imaging assembly when the dynamic lens cover is in a second operating state. The electrokinetic device includes transparent first and second substrates, and a compaction trench surrounding the lens of the imaging assembly. The compaction trench stores pigment when the dynamic lens cover is in the first operating state. In the second operating state pigment is dispersed within a carrier fluid between the first and second substrates.
US12044931B2
A display device has a display area and a terminal area, the terminal area being formed on the TFT area, in which the counter substrate does not overlap, a driver IC being disposed on the terminal area, a first heat dissipation plate being adhered to a back of the TFT substrate in a portion corresponding the terminal area, a second cover glass being disposed on the counter substrate, a first edge being disposed at an edge of the second cover glass, an LED as a light source being disposed at a second edge, which is an opposing edge to the first edge of the lens, a second heat dissipation plate, on which the lens and the LED are disposed, being disposed at a second cover glass side, in which the lens, the LED and the second heat dissipation plate are fixed to the TFT substrate through the first heat dissipation plate.
US12044930B1
An electronic paper device includes a touch cover plate module, a front lighting module and an electronic paper display module. The touch cover plate module has a top plate, a touch sensor and a bottom plate. The top plate is disposed with a black bezel. The bottom plate is disposed with a transparent conductive film with a low refractive index. The front lighting module has a light guide plate. An outer edge portion of the light guide plate is disposed with a point light source. The point light source emits light from a side of the light guide plate to convert the emitted light into a surface light source. An upper surface of the light guide plate is attached on the transparent conductive film to form a total reflection interface on the light guide plate and an electromagnetic mask layer between the touch sensor and the electronic paper display module.
US12044926B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes: a display panel; a frame disposed at a rear of the display panel; a substrate and an optical assembly which are disposed between the display panel and the frame and are disposed on the frame, wherein the frame includes: a bottom having a first optical distance from the display panel; and a side support having a second optical distance, which is smaller than the first optical distance, from the display panel, wherein the substrate includes: a first plurality of substrates disposed on the bottom of the frame; and a second plurality of substrates disposed on the side support of the frame, wherein a spacing between the first plurality of substrates is greater than a spacing between the second plurality of substrates.
US12044925B2
The present application discloses a display backplane and a display device. The display backplane includes a plurality of light-emitting sub-areas; each of the light-emitting sub-areas is provided with at least two light-emitting portions; a first light-guiding portion is arranged in each of the light-emitting sub-areas and is located between the at least two light-emitting portions, and a side of the first light-guiding portion close to the light-emitting elements has a second light-reflecting surface, and an orthographic projection of a portion of a side of the first light-guiding portion away from the substrate on the substrate falls within an orthographic projection of a portion of a side of the first light-guiding portion close to the substrate on the substrate.
US12044924B2
A display device comprising: a light source plate behind a liquid crystal panel to provide light to the liquid crystal panel. The light source plate comprises: a printed circuit board including a power wiring layer and a photo solder resist (PSR) layer; a plurality of LED chips mountable directly on the printed circuit board; and a plurality of molding parts formed of a molding material comprising a material having thixotropy to respectively surround the plurality of LED chips. A reflective sheet includes a plurality of openings formed to correspond to positions of the plurality of molding parts so that while the reflective sheet is between the liquid crystal panel and the light source plate, the plurality of molding parts are respectively positionable inside the plurality of openings with the plurality of molding members spaced apart from an inner circumferential surfaces of each of the plurality of openings.
US12044919B2
A light control sheet includes a first characteristic and a second characteristic selectively exhibited. In the first characteristic, an absolute value of a change in clarity per unit voltage is greater than an absolute value of a change in haze per unit voltage. In the second characteristic, an absolute value of a change in haze per unit voltage is equal to or greater than an absolute value of a change in clarity per unit voltage. Haze is calculated in accordance with JIS K 7136:2000. Clarity is calculated by 100×(LC−LR)/(LC+LR). LC is an intensity of straight light travelling straight along a travelling direction of parallel light that has entered the light control sheet, and LR is an intensity of narrow-angle scattered light having an angle within ±2.5° relative to the travelling direction of the parallel light.
US12044916B2
A display device including a display panel; an optical layer behind the display panel; and a frame behind the optical layer. Further, the frame includes a flange supporting a portion of a back surface of the optical layer; a first rib extended from the flange and configured to contact and support a side surface of the optical layer; and a second rib extended from the flange and positioned to be spaced apart from the side surface of the optical layer.
US12044908B2
A method of manufacturing an electro-optically active device. The method comprising the steps of: etching a cavity on a silicon-on-insulator wafer; providing a sacrificial layer adjacent to a substrate of a lll-V semiconductor wafer; epitaxially growing an electro-optically active structure on the lll-V semiconductor wafer; etching the epitaxially grown optically active structure into an electro-optically active mesa; disposing the electro-optically active mesa in the cavity of the silicon-on-insulator wafer and bonding a surface of the electro-optically active mesa, which is distal to the sacrificial layer, to a bed of the cavity; and removing the sacrificial layer between the substrate of the lll-V semiconductor wafer and the electro-optically active mesa.
US12044906B2
An apparatus includes a dispersive-collimating element, a Faraday material apparatus and a focusing-dispersive element. The dispersive-collimating element assigns each beam wavelength to a particular spatial position. The beams are parallel one to the other. The Faraday material apparatus provides a polarization rotation independently for each wavelength, and the focusing-dispersive element recombines the different wavelengths into one single beam.
US12044899B2
An imaging device and a focusing control method are provided. The imaging device includes: an imaging element, having pixels including phase-difference detecting pixels and imaging a subject through an imaging optical system including a focus lens; and a focusing controller, selectively performing focusing control using a phase difference AF method or focusing control using a contrast AF method in a mode in which focusing control for focusing on a main subject by driving the focus lens is continuously performed multiple times. The focusing controller performs the focusing control using the contrast AF method in a case where a state in which a degree of reliability of the focusing control using the phase difference AF method is equal to or less than a threshold value persists N times (N=2 or more), while the focusing control using the phase difference AF method is continuously performed.
US12044881B2
The present disclosure provides an aerosol delivery device comprising a control device that is connectable with a cartridge and that can include one or more additional elements for improving one or both of visible indications of use to a user and resistance to infiltration of liquid into the control device. More particularly, the control device may include a light guide configured for transmitting to a window from a light source that is off-set from the window and a controller configured to direct a varying level of light from the light source. The control device may include one or more elements that are configured to limit infiltration of liquids into the control device and thus may be consider to be water-resistant or water-proof.
US12044869B2
An image sensor includes: a plurality of filter units, transmission wavelengths of which can be adjusted; a plurality of photoelectric conversion units that receive light transmitted through the filter unit; and a control unit that alters a size of a first region containing a first filter unit, among the plurality of filter units, through which light at a first wavelength is transmitted before entering a photoelectric conversion unit.
US12044865B2
The invention relates to a liquid crystal display (LCD) system for stereovision comprising a liquid crystal panel including at least two light tunnels where a driver circuit can pick up any of the light tunnel and direct light towards any of a viewer's eye. The LCD system may comprise pixel route columns, liquid crystal active lenses which may comprise a curved alignment layer, central and peripheral electrodes, three-dimensional electrodes and/or side wall electrodes and which may provide vantage zones. The liquid crystal lenses can have cylindrical or prismatic shapes. Stereovision may be provided in more vision positions. The system may provide monovision. The system may comprise a wiever position sensor, may be flexible and may comprise diagonally arranged pixel/subpixel routes and/or provide diagonally polarized light. The invention further relates to a photo/video camera system for the provided stereovision LCD and to a method for providing an LCD based stereovision.
US12044850B2
Freeform waveguide prism and use with head-mounted light field display with integral imaging and relay group.
US12044848B2
Various embodiments may provide an augmented reality display having an improved FOV, and a waveguide device and diffractive optical structures thereof. The augmented reality display may comprise: a light source configured to generate light related to an image; and the waveguide device for outputting at least a part of the light. The waveguide device may comprise: a waveguide for guiding light therein; and the diffractive optical structures arranged on a first surface and a second surface of the waveguide. The diffractive optical structures may comprise: a first polarization structure arranged on the first surface of the waveguide to transmit, to the outside of the waveguide, first polarized light selected from external light and reflect, to the inside of the waveguide, second polarized light selected from light guided inside the waveguide device; and a second polarization structure arranged on the second surface of the waveguide to output at least a part of the second polarized light to the outside of the waveguide.
US12044846B2
Systems and methods for tracking the position of one or more objects, such as components of a head-mounted display (HMD) system. One or more objects may carry a plurality of angle sensitive optical detectors. Each of the optical detectors may include an optical subsystem that is configured to vary at least one of phase or intensity of light imparted on the optical detector. The optical subsystem may include one or more of diffractive optical elements, lens arrays, intensity masks, phase masks, or the like. The optical detectors may include a photodetector that includes a plurality of optically active areas, such as a quadrant cell photodetector, an image sensor with an array of photodiodes, etc. Control circuitry may cause light sources to emit light, and may receive sensor data from the plurality of optical detectors. Control circuitry may process the sensor data to track a position of one or more objects.
US12044844B2
An calibration kit includes a base, a combination of calibration parts, and a manipulation part. The combination of calibration parts is disposed on the base and includes a first calibration part and a second calibration part. The first calibration part has a first calibration surface. The second calibration part has a second calibration surface. The first calibration part and the second calibration part are relatively movable in a movement direction and are movable relative to the base. The manipulation part is movably or rotatably disposed on the base. The manipulation part is configured to be operable to drive the first calibration part and the second calibration part to move in the movement direction relative to the base, so that the combination of calibration parts forms a three-dimensional calibration surface configuration through the first calibration surface and the second calibration surface.
US12044839B2
A light deflector includes a reflector having a reflecting surface; a first movable unit having one end coupled to the reflector; a second movable unit having one end coupled to the reflector, the reflector disposed between the first movable unit and the second movable unit; a first piezoelectric element on the first movable unit; a second piezoelectric element on the second movable unit; a first supporting part coupled to the other end of the first movable unit; a second supporting part coupled to the other end of the second movable unit; an input part configured to receive voltage to be applied to at least the second piezoelectric element; and a wire electrically connecting the second piezoelectric element and the input part through the reflector configured to transmit the voltage to the second piezoelectric element. A passage area is provided through which light reflected by the reflector passes.
US12044830B2
An optical imaging lens may include eight lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through designing concave and/or convex surfaces of the eight lens elements, the optical imaging lens may provide improved imaging quality and optical characteristics while the total length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened.
US12044821B2
Embodiments described herein relate to methods for fabricating optical devices. The methods described herein enable the fabrication of one or more optical devices on a substrate with apertures surrounding each of the optical devices having a plurality of structures. One embodiment of the methods described herein includes disposing an aperture material layer on a surface of a substrate, disposing a structure material layer over the apertures and the surface of the substrate, disposing a hardmask over the apertures and the structure material layer, disposing a patterned photoresist over the hardmask, the patterned photoresist defining exposed hardmask portions, removing the exposed hardmask portions to expose structure portions of the structure material layer, and removing the structure portions to form a plurality of structures between the apertures over regions of the surface of the substrate.
US12044810B2
One embodiment provides a method comprising acquiring, via one or more microphones of a device in a spatial area, a signal representing at least one echo of an ultrasound emitted via one or more loudspeakers of the device. The method further comprises applying digital signal processing to the signal to determine a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the signal, and estimating one or more properties of a moving reflector in the spatial area based on the SNR of the signal.
US12044809B2
Sonar systems and related methods are provided. A sonar system includes a transducer array having a transverse axis and a longitudinal axis disposed perpendicularly thereto. A processor is operative to associate signals with a plurality of transducers in the transducer array so as to form a first acoustic beam, which propagates in a beam first direction and has a first beam width in a first transverse plane. The first transverse plane extends along the beam first direction and contains the transverse axis of the transducer array. A beam directing and/or spreading device is positioned relative to the transducer array such that the first acoustic beam impinges on a surface of the beam directing and/or spreading device. Following impingement on the surface, the first acoustic beam propagates in a beam second direction.
US12044807B2
A sensor device for determining a distance and/or speed of an object, including a transmitting unit for emitting light of at least one frequency onto the object, the transmitting unit being designed for emitting light in at least one angular range, the light in the angular range being time-dependent varied essentially simultaneously with frequencies in different frequency ranges, a receiving unit for receiving light reflected by the object, the receiving unit being designed for scanning the received light in the particular frequency range at least two points in time, and an evaluation unit, which is designed for determining the distance and/or the speed of the object on the basis of the emitted light and the points in time at which the received light was scanned.
US12044806B2
Various implementations of the invention compensate for “phase wandering” in tunable laser sources. Phase wandering may negatively impact a performance of a lidar system that employ such laser sources, typically by reducing a coherence length/range of the lidar system, an effective bandwidth of the lidar system, a sensitivity of the lidar system, etc. Some implementations of the invention compensate for phase wandering near the laser source and before the output of the laser is directed toward a target. Some implementations of the invention compensate for phase wandering in the target signal (i.e., the output of the laser that is incident on and reflected back from the target). Some implementations of the invention compensate for phase wandering at the laser source and in the target signal.
US12044801B2
A distance measurement device for measuring a distance to an object that exists in a distance measurement region includes: a light source configured to emit laser light; a lens configured to converge the laser light emitted from the light source, into substantially parallel light; a tubular light blocking member disposed on an optical path of the laser light emitted from the light source and surrounding the optical path; a photodetector configured to detect reflected light, of the laser light, reflected at the distance measurement region; and a condensing lens configured to condense the reflected light passing through the outside of the light blocking member, onto the photodetector.
US12044797B2
Techniques of machine learning of a radar are disclosed, where the radar has a plurality of antennas that are arranged on an antenna array. In an example, a method of machine learning includes obtaining a real training sample from a first real target in field of view of the radar, where the real training sample includes a plurality of first real data signals, where each of the first real data signals are obtained from a corresponding antenna from amongst the plurality of antennas. The method further includes deriving a synthetic training sample by manipulating the plurality of first real data signals to simulate a rotation of the first real target about a pre-determined axis of the antenna array.
US12044791B2
A wireless animal location system is provided that identifies a location of a pet roaming within an environment using a single base unit. The wireless animal location system tracks and manages animal behavior in the environment using information of pet location.
US12044790B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for correlation-based wireless monitoring are described. For example, a described method comprises: detecting and monitoring motion of a first object in a first sensing task based on a first motion information (MI) computed based on a first time series of channel information (TSCI) associated with a first device pair; detecting and monitoring motion of a second object in a second sensing task based on a second MI computed based on a second TSCI associated with a second device pair; computing a correlation score based at least partially on: the first TSCI, the second TSCI, the first MI and the second MI; detecting the first object and the second object as a same object when the correlation score is greater than a first threshold; and detecting the first object and the second object as two different objects when the correlation score is less than a second threshold.
US12044779B2
A system includes a computer-readable memory for storage and retrieval of LiDAR data. The memory includes one or more point cloud data structures, each point cloud data structure including a first header block, and a plurality of point blocks. Each of the plurality of point blocks is configured to store at least a portion of LiDAR point cloud data. The memory includes one or more image data structures having a second header block, and a plurality of image column blocks. Each image column block includes a column of pixels of a corresponding image from the LiDAR point cloud data, and the image column blocks collectively contain all pixels of the corresponding image.
US12044773B2
An electronically steerable phased array and switching network connected to an FMCW radar transceiver to enable a low-cost monopulse tracking system that covers a wide field of regard using electronic beam steering. In a first mode, beamformer integrated circuits (BFICs) at each element in the array are switched synchronously with transmit/receive (T/R) switches located at the subarray level. This allows the entire aperture to be switched between transmission and reception, enabling the FMCW radar transceiver to be operated in a pulsed configuration. In a second mode, a portion of the T/R switches at the subarray level and all of the connecting BFICs at the element level are fixed in either transmitting or receiving mode, allowing separate portions of the aperture to concurrently transmit or receive. The arrangement of transmitting and receiving subarrays can be dynamically reconfigured to allow for accurate bearing and azimuth estimation using alternating monopulse.
US12044769B2
An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with sensing circuitry that transmits radio-frequency sensing signals and receives reflected radio-frequency sensing signals. A mixer may generate a series of beat signals based on the sensing signals and the reflected sensing signals. The sensing circuitry may generate a beat phase based on an average of the series of beat signals, a set of phase values based on the series of beat signals, and a phase velocity based on the set of phase values. The sensing circuitry may resolve a phase ambiguity in the beat phase based on the phase velocity to identify a range between the electronic device and an external object. This way may allow the sensing circuitry to generate accurate ranges even in a low signal-to-noise ratio regime, such as when the external object is moving relative to the electronic device.
US12044767B2
A method and an apparatus establish a distance as well as to a vehicle. In the method for establishing a distance between a vehicle and an infrastructure device, at least two vehicle-mounted reception devices receive a signal transmitted by the infrastructure device. Each of the vehicle-mounted reception devices contains at least two antenna elements. For each reception device, a reception device-specific distance between the vehicle and the infrastructure device is established in accordance with the antenna signals generated by the antenna elements, and the shortest of all the reception device-specific distances is established as the distance.
US12044764B2
Nyquist ghost artifacts in echo planar imaging (“EPI”) are mitigated, reduced, or otherwise eliminated by implementing robust Nyquist ghost correction (“NGC”) directly from two reversed readout EPI acquisitions. As one advantage, these techniques do not require explicit reference scanning. A model-based process is used for directly estimating statistically optimal NGC coefficients from multi-channel k-space data.
US12044762B2
Diffusion metric maps are generated from a limited input of magnetic resonance data to a suitably trained machine learning algorithm, such as a suitably trained neural network. In general, a downsampling strategy is implemented in the joint k-q space to enable the simultaneous estimation of multiple different diffusion metrics from a more limited set of input diffusion-weighted images.
US12044754B2
A magnetic sensor includes a substrate including a top surface, an insulating layer including an inclined surface, an MR element disposed on the inclined surface, a first insulating portion of an insulating material disposed on a part of the MR element, and a second insulating portion of an insulating material disposed on another part of the MR element at a position forward of the first insulating portion in a direction along the inclined surface, the direction being a direction away from the top surface of the substrate.
US12044753B2
A magnetic sensor includes an insulating layer including a flat portion and a protruding portion, a first MR element, and a second MR element. The protruding portion includes a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface. The first MR element is disposed on the first inclined surface. The second MR element is disposed on the second inclined surface. The protruding portion extends in a first direction parallel to a top surface of a substrate, and includes a plurality of recess portions each recessed in a direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate at an end of the protruding portion in the first direction.
US12044747B2
An apparatus for diagnosing a battery according to an embodiment of the present invention may include microcontroller (MCU) that includes a voltage measurement unit that measures a voltage of a battery cell of a battery, a signal conversion unit that converts the voltage of the battery cell measured by the voltage measurement unit into a differential signal, and an abnormality diagnostic unit that diagnoses an abnormality of the battery cell based on the differential signal.
