US12042187B2
Briefly, the invention relates to a surgical tool and method for forming a pilot bore by inserting a guide wire into bone. The surgical tool is constructed and arranged for use in conjunction with X-ray or ultrasound machines. More particularly, the device includes a cannulated hand grip and driving tool used for the rotation of a bone or pedicle screw into bone. The rear portion of the hand grip includes a slide assembly that is suited to grip a guide wire. The slide assembly includes a user adjustable stop to control the sliding movement of the guide wire. The rear surface of the slide is constructed to be impacted with a hammer or similar device, whereby the stop prevents the guide wire from penetrating the bone further than desired. Should it be desired that the wire be retracted, a jack member is included to allow the wire to be precisely retracted. The hand grip is securable to various surgical driving tools for the purpose of providing the ability to cooperate with various brands of pedicle screws and other surgical implants for spinal procedures.
US12042184B2
An adjustable articulating spinal rod system including a first elongated element secured to a first bone, a second elongated element secured to the spine, and an articulating joint connecting the first and second elongated elements. The articulating joint including a first movable joint, a second movable joint, and at least one locking mechanism. The first movable joint is coupled to the first elongated element and the second movable joint which is also coupled the second elongate element. The first and second movable joints are configured to allow polyaxial movement and rotation of the first elongated element with respect to the second elongated element. The at least one locking mechanism immobilizes the first and second movable joints in the locked position to secure the first elongate element in a position relative to the second elongate element and allow movement and rotation in an unlocked position.
US12042179B2
An assistance device and an associated obstetrical instrument, in particular of the forceps type, for extracting a fetus during childbirth having two branches. Each branch being equipped at one end with a gripping handle and at the other end with cephalic blades. The instrument further includes a measurement device using the blades and connector between the measurement device and the blade. The measurement device includes: a pressure measurement instrument configured to measure the pressure exerted by the blade on the fetus, a position measuring instrument to measure the positioning of the obstetrical instrument, a power supply, and a transmitter configured to transmit the measurements to a processing unit.
US12042177B2
A system for performing an endoscopic surgical procedure in a surgical cavity is disclosed which includes a primary gas circulation device housing a central processor and a primary pump, the primary pump controlled by the central processor and configured to deliver a flow of pressurized gas to a primary gas delivery lumen and to receive gas from a primary gas return lumen, and a plurality of subordinate gas circulation devices each housing a respective subordinate pump configured to deliver a flow of pressurized gas to a respective subordinate gas delivery lumen and to receive gas from a respective subordinate gas return lumen, wherein the subordinate pump in each subordinate gas circulation device is in networked communication with and controlled by the central processor of the primary gas circulation device.
US12042173B2
This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for robotically assisted implantation of an implant in a patient. A system includes an implant-positioning unit configured to engage an elongate member of the implant, and a control console communicatively coupled to the external positioning unit. The control console can have a user interface that enables a user to input motion control instructions. The control console can generate a motion control signal, according to a specific motion control instruction, to control the external positioning unit to propel the implant into a target implant site. The system can be used to robotically control the delivery and positing of a cochlear implant during a hearing-preservation cochlear implant surgery.
US12042167B2
An arthroscopic device is used with a hand piece having a motor drive with a rotating drive shaft. An elongate probe extending along a longitudinal axis and includes a proximal hub on a proximal end. The proximal hub detachably couples to the hand piece, and an operable-closeable jaw structure is disposed on a distal end of the elongate probe. A conversion mechanism carried by the hub converts a rotational motion of the motor drive shaft to a longitudinal motion of an actuator member. The actuator member drives the jaw structure between jaw-open and jaw-closed positions to resect bone and other hard tissues.
US12042163B2
An apparatus includes an elongate shaft and a position sensor. The elongate shaft defines a longitudinal axis. The elongate shaft includes a distal end, an opening, and a lumen. The position sensor is laterally offset from the longitudinal axis. The first position sensor is fixedly secured relative to the elongate shaft at a known distance from the opening. The first position sensor is configured to generate signals indicating a position of the elongate shaft in three-dimensional space.
US12042162B2
A surgical laser system comprises a laser source configured to generate laser energy; a laser fiber optically coupled to the laser source and configured to discharge the laser energy generated by the laser source; a rocker arm configured to control an orientation of the discharged laser energy; and a controller configured to control a movement of the rocker arm in response to feedback of the discharged laser energy or to pre-defined settings of the laser source.
US12042161B2
A mechanical thrombectomy apparatus for removing a clot from a vessel includes an elongate inversion support catheter having a distal end opening, an elongate puller extending within the support catheter, and a knitted tractor tube extending over an outer surface of the support catheter, inverting into the distal end opening of the support catheter, and attached to the elongate puller at a first end within the support catheter, wherein the portion of the knitted tractor tube extending over the support catheter comprises a wire forming a helical spiral of alternating teardrop shaped-links each having a rounded apex, wherein each link is connected to two adjacent links so that the apex of each link is on an outward-facing surface of the tractor tube, wherein the links flare outward from an outer wall of the support catheter when the puller is pulled proximally within the support catheter.
US12042158B2
A discectomy tool comprising: a) a cannula having an outer surface having a longitudinal bore therein, a proximal end and a distal end; b) a steering wire disposed in the longitudinal bore; c) a flexible, hollow transmission shaft disposed in the cannula, the shaft having a throughbore, a proximal end portion, a distal end portion and an outer surface having a thread extending therefrom; d) an irrigation source fluidly connected to the throughbore; e) a cutting tip attached to the distal end portion of the transmission shaft.
US12042142B2
A method and device for wound closure is provided. One advantage of wound closure devices and methods shown includes a simple and inexpensive modified suture with increased pullout resistance to close wounds in eyes and prevent leakage. Another advantage includes a visualization tool to aid in locating the wound on the eye.
US12042141B2
Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for driving a needle to facilitate suturing, such as may be performed in a surgical anastomosis procedure. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes a frame configured to counter-rotatably support two generally parallel rollers. A first roller supported by the frame has a flat surface configured to rollably engage a first face of a shaft of a helically-shaped needle. A second roller supported by the frame has a grooved surface defining a groove that is configured to at least partially receive a second face of the shaft. The bottom of the groove has a bottom width at least as wide as the second face and bounded by sides extending to a groove opening at the grooved surface having a surface width that is wider than the second face.
US12042137B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a tissue traction device, e.g., for endoscopic tissue dissection. For example, a tissue traction device may include a first clip comprising opposable jaws. The device may include a traction band having a first end, a second end, a length therebetween and extending along a longitudinal axis. The band may have a first aperture at the first end. A second aperture may be at the second end of the band. A first jaw of the opposable jaws of the first clip may be disposed through the first aperture.
US12042132B2
A method of generating a color image using a monochromatic image sensor. The method includes sequentially illuminating a surface in a plurality of colors, one color at a time. The monochromatic image sensor captures a plurality of image frames of the surface based on the plurality of colors. The plurality of image frames are identified, and at least one feature in the target of the plurality of image frames is highlighted. Color intensities of the plurality of image frames are normalized. A color intensity map of the target for each of the plurality of image frames is generated. A correlation score is determined by comparing each color intensity map of the plurality of image frames. The color image is generated based on the correlation score.
US12042124B2
An apparatus for intraoral scanning includes an elongate handheld wand comprising a probe at a distal end of the handheld wand, one or more light projectors coupled to the handheld wand, and one or more cameras coupled to the handheld wand. Each camera comprises a camera sensor and objective optics comprising one or more lenses. Each camera is configured to focus at an object focal plane that is located between 1 mm and 30 mm from the lens that is farthest from the camera sensor. The apparatus further includes a fluorescent transparent film deposited on a surface selected from the group consisting of: a window of the probe through which light exits and enters the probe, and a transparent surface that is not integral to the probe.
US12042123B2
A medical system includes an insertion device including a handle, an insertion portion with at least one lumen, a port fluidly coupled to the lumen, and a connection portion. The medical system also includes a medical device including a handle, an insertion portion, and a connection portion configured to be coupled to the connection portion of the insertion device. The connection portion of the medical device is configured to be coupled to the connection portion of the insertion device to form an electronic and physical connection between the insertion device and the medical device.
US12042121B2
A medical system including a medical device having an outer diameter, a display device, and a controller. The controller is configured to acquire data regarding a biological lumen such as an airway structure, acquire an image of the airway structure, generate an overlay representing the outer diameter of the medical device, and display, on the display device, the overlay representing the outer diameter of the medical device on the acquired image of the airway structure. The overlay is scaled relative to a diameter of the airway structure at a focal plane of the airway structure based on the acquired data.
US12042119B2
A control method and a control system for a capsule endoscope are provided. The control method comprises acquiring a frame rate of the capsule endoscope. The frame rate is the number of frames of images captured by the capsule endoscope per unit time. The control method further comprises controlling the number of radio frequency transmission channels that are turned on according to the frame rate. The number of radio frequency transmission channels that are turned on is at least two, and the radio frequency transmission channels transmit the captured images. The control method and control system for the capsule endoscope can adaptively distribute a plurality of radio frequency transmission channels according to the real-time position of the capsule endoscope, and further turn on the radio frequency transmission channels to transmit a plurality of signals synchronously or asynchronously.
US12042112B2
A household dishwasher includes a washing container for holding a dishwasher load, a sump arranged at a bottom of the washing container, a filter system provided at the sump, and a spray arm for applying washing liquor and/or fresh water to the dishwasher load. The spray arm includes an extension piece which is mounted on the sump for rotation about a first axis of rotation and includes a filter cleaning nozzle for cleaning the filter system with the aid of the washing liquor and/or fresh water, and a spray arm satellite which is mounted on the extension piece for rotation about a second axis of rotation.
US12042111B2
A dishwasher and method utilize a cam-based position sensor that is configured to sense multiple rotational positions for a discretely directable tubular spray element driven by a tubular spray element drive.
US12042108B2
Method for robot to judging whether the robot collides with virtual wall, chip and intelligent robot
A method for a robot to judge whether the robot collides with a virtual wall, and a chip and the intelligent robot. The method comprises: providing pre-judgement regions on two sides of a virtual wall, so that when entering the pre-judgement regions, the robot can judge whether the robot collides with the virtual wall by combining a current direction of the robot as well as a relationship between a straight-line distance from the robot to a reference point and a straight-line distance from the reference point to a center point of the virtual wall.
US12042103B2
Devices for sealing a toilet are provided. The devices comprise at least one barrier comprising barrier members configured to releasably and sealingly engage with and magnetically attract to each other. The barrier members are configured to be coupled to a toilet lid, a toilet seat and/or a toilet bowl and when the barrier members sealingly engage with each other, the at least one barrier inhibits or reduces movement of material from inside the toilet bowl to outside the toilet bowl.
US12042092B2
A smoke evacuating fryer, comprising a fryer body, an exhaust vent, a lid engaged on the fryer body, and a frying basket and a smoke evacuating and filtering apparatus provided within the fryer body An air intake gap is provided at a location where the lid and the fryer body are joined. The smoke evacuating and filtering apparatus is provided on the fryer body (1) and abuts against the frying basket. Air introduced into the air intake gap is passed over the frying basket, filtered by the smoke evacuating and filtering apparatus and then discharged via the exhaust vent.
US12042086B2
A beverage or foodstuff preparation machine (4) comprising: a component processing unit (14) to process a beverage or foodstuff component to prepare a beverage or foodstuff therefrom; and a control system (16) operable to execute a preparation process comprising controlling said component processing unit to prepare the beverage or foodstuff, the control system comprising a user interface (36), wherein the user interface comprises: a contactless sensor (40) operable to sense without physical contact a body part of a user; and a feedback unit operable to provide feedback to a sensor, said body part of a user; and in response to change a value of a parameter associated with the preparation process and to indicate via the feedback unit the change in value.
US12042083B2
There is disclosed herein a coffee machine (10) including: a body (12); a steam wand (14), to froth milk, attached to the body (12); and a cleaning mechanism (20), the cleaning mechanism (20) including: a stem (22) having a first end portion (24) attached to the body (12), and a second end portion (26) extending longitudinally away from the first end portion (24); and a supply of water under pressure to deliver water to the second end portion (26), wherein water under pressure is delivered to the second end portion (26) to produce at least one water jet directed at the steam wand (14).
US12042080B2
The present disclosure is generally related to systems and methods for producing liquid extracts from a solid raw material, as well as related equipment. Certain aspects are related to the production of multiple liquid extract products using a single system by adjusting one or more displaceable fluidic pathway segments within the system to switch between first and second (or more) extraction configurations. In certain embodiments, a first liquid extract can be produced when the displaceable fluidic pathway segment is in a first configuration, and a second liquid extract (different from the first liquid extract) can be produced when the displaceable fluidic pathway segment in in a second configuration (different from the first configuration).
US12042078B2
A toaster with a steam system comprises a casing and a chassis. A slot for a bread slice is defined by the chassis. A pop-up mechanism is within the casing and supported by the chassis, the pop-up mechanism configured for supporting a bread slice received via the at least one slot, and for raising the bread slice to project partially out of the slot at an end of a toasting/steaming process. Heating element(s) in the casing are for generating toasting heat. A steam system within the casing is configured for producing steam and feeding the steam to a steam vessel in the chassis during the toasting/steaming process. A closing system has flap(s) to close the at least one slot during the toasting/steaming process, and to open the at least one slot at completion of the toasting/steaming process.
US12042072B2
An adjustable fence-top trellis support bracket assembly forms the basis of a system for creating adjustable trellises on two sides of a fence or wall, and includes a) an elongated support bracket member, b) curved-loop ends on the elongated bar member and the adjoining bracket portion wherein one is attached proximal one end and the other proximal an opposite end of an elongated bar member; c) a movable L-shaped leg generally perpendicular to an elongated bar member of the elongated support bracket portion, wherein the movable leg is engagable with the elongated support bracket member; and d) a means for adjusting and then securing the movable L-shaped leg against the elongated bar portion of the support bracket member.
US12042070B2
A knife block and storage system are provided. The knife block includes a block body and an elongate slot formed in the block body. In some configurations, the elongate slot extends from the top surface and along a side surface. The knife block also may include a notch disposed in a top surface that is configured to receive and mate with a bolster of a first kitchen knife. The elongate slot is typically sized and shaped to accommodate a kitchen knife within the block body and is configured to permit removal of the kitchen knife from within the block body by sliding a blade of the kitchen knife out of the elongate slot through the side surface or by removing the knife blade through a portion of the elongate slot in the top surface.
US12042062B2
The invention provides a new stirrup design for children, that secures the foot preventing unwanted movement, thus making the footing more stable and safer, preventing bouncing off, sliding forward, or sliding sideways. In the event the passenger dismounts, the invention is specially designed to release its grip on the foot enabling easy removal. In the event the passenger falls backward, the invention has a specific malleable design to enable the foot to pivot up and back, thus preventing the foot from getting entangled or trapped.
US12042048B1
The present disclosure provides for a productivity facilitating apparatus for optimizing the space and function of a workstation. According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a productivity facilitating apparatus may comprise at least one base. In some embodiments, the productivity facilitating apparatus may comprise at least one track and at least one mobile assembly. In some aspects, the productivity facilitating apparatus may allow for potentially integrating technologies and accessories that would make them more accessible. By way of example and not limitation, the productivity facilitating apparatus may be used in a variety of industries and activities, such as music, video, and multimedia producing. In some aspects, the productivity facilitating apparatus may be used in culinary arts, artistic activities, or any industry that may benefit from optimizing a workstation using the productivity facilitating apparatus.
US12042040B2
The invention relates to a wardrobe lift (1) having a wardrobe bar (4) which can be connected by means of at least one end region to at least one pivot lever (2, 3) and which can be moved from a higher vertical storage position for example in a cupboard interior to a loading position which is vertically lower than the storage position, wherein an operating element (6), which is pivotable relative to the wardrobe bar (4), is connected to the wardrobe bar (4) to pivot the pivot lever (2, 3) and the wardrobe bar (4). The wardrobe bar (4) is provided with a driver stop (10) for the operating element (6), which limits the relative pivotability of the operating element (6) and via which the wardrobe bar (4) can be moved by the operating element (6) to the higher storage position and back.
US12042031B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a case for a foldable electronic device, comprising a first housing and a second housing rotatable with respect to the first housing. The case may comprise: a first cover at least partially covering the first housing; a second cover at least partially covering the second housing and rotatable with respect to the first cover; a driving unit for adjusting the angle between the first cover and the second cover; a communication unit for transmitting or receiving information relating to the angle to or from the foldable electronic device; and at least one processor connected to the communication unit so as to receive the information relating to the angle and drive the driving unit accordingly. Various other embodiments may be employed.
US12042016B2
A cycling shoe has a sole and an upper attached to the sole. An adjustable closure panel extends across an opening in the upper. A lever assembly is exposed at an outer, rear surface of the upper, and is movable about a hinge between a first position and a second position. One or more passages extend through the cycling shoe to accommodate one or more cables to connect the lever assembly to the adjustable closure panel. The lever assembly is configured such that moving the lever assembly between the first position and the second position causes the one or more cables, if connected between the lever assembly to the adjustable closure panel, to tighten or loosen the closure panel relative to the upper.
US12042013B2
Disclosed herein is an interchangeable strap on an opened toed footwear that includes a sole and a strap. Connected to one or more of the ends of the strap is an insert. The sole of the footwear includes housing units that are connectable to the strap inserts found on one or more strap end. The connection between the insert and the housing unit is both connectable and detachable.
US12041998B2
A headset for a hydration system is disclosed. The headset includes a fluid conduit adapted to connect to a distal end of a hydration system supply tube, and a magnetic quick connect having an upstream and a downstream coupling member. The upstream and downstream coupling members have a common mating axis and together define a portion of the fluid conduit. The upstream member also includes an off-axis arm that may be rotated about the mating axis without decoupling the coupling members. A headgear mount for use in headsets for hydration systems, such as the disclosed headset, is also provided.
US12041997B2
A brain injury reduction system provides a protective measure to reduce severity of brain injury caused by collision or blast. A sensing device of the system detects an impending or occurring event (e.g., collision or blast) in an environment surrounding the individual and sends information about the event to a controller of the system. The sensing device can be stationary or moves with the individual. Based on the information, the controller determines whether the event will likely cause brain injury to the individual. If so, the controller sends an instruction to an actuation device of the system to activate the protective measure. The actuation device uses transcutaneous electrodes to electrically simulate glottis closure and contraction of the abdominal musculature to induce a Valsalva-like maneuver. The Valsalva-like maneuver can increases the stiffness of the brain tissues in the intracranial compartment, and thus reduces the susceptibility of the brain tissues to deformation.
US12041994B2
A multilayer fabric for selectively blocking or transmitting particular wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum, such solar radiation, and far infrared (FIR) radiation. The multilayer fabric may include a microporous water vapor permeable layer that selectively filters particular wavelengths depending on the size of its pores. In some embodiments, the multilayer fabric may include a nanostructured layer that selectively filters particular wavelengths.
US12041989B2
A reusable face mask for covering the mouth and nose of a wearer to prevent the passage of pathogenic biological airborne particulates. The mask has three layers including a filter material made of graphene and infused with activated copper carbon. A Bluetooth transmitter wirelessly transmits a continuous frequency of 2.4 GHz to destroy and prevent the passage of any human pathogens from entering, while freely allowing the passage of air in both directions.
US12041985B2
A device for protecting a groin area of a user includes a main body having an opening therein, a cover for selectively covering the opening, and a fastener for attaching the device over the groin area of the user. The device allows the user to urinate (through the opening) without having to remove the device and provides protection after injury, operation and/or in any other circumstance in which the user requires groin protection (such as during sports).
US12041983B2
Generally described, aspects of the disclosed subject matter are directed to impact mitigating membranes. In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, the impact mitigating membranes generally include a laminar core having a first lamina and a second lamina coupled to the first lamina and configured to shift relative to the first lamina to dissipate kinetic energy resulting from an oblique impact force. The laminar core may include a lubricating layer or self-lubrication between the lamina to reduce friction. In general, the laminar core is surrounded by first and second encapsulating layers positioned adjacent each lamina. An anchoring attachment coupled to one or more of the first and second encapsulating layer and associating with the laminar core constrains relative lateral motion between the laminar core and the first and second encapsulating layers.
US12041970B2
An aerosol generating device includes a housing having an opening through which a cigarette is inserted and including a cavity formed therein, a heater heating the cigarette to generate an aerosol, an air flow channel in fluid communication with the outside of the housing to supply air to the cigarette, and an air circulation device arranged in the air flow channel to generate airflow in the air flow channel.
US12041958B2
A tobacco-free oral pouch product providing immediate and long lasting flavor release comprises a pouch wrapper and tobacco-free flavor beads contained within the pouch wrapper. The flavor beads comprise at least one of microcrystalline cellulose, pectin and sodium alginate, at least one polymer having a higher solubility in saliva than microcrystalline cellulose, pectin and/or sodium alginate, and at least one flavorant. The pectin and sodium alginate are cross-linked. The tobacco-free flavor beads provide immediate release of the flavorant upon placement of a pouch product in a user's mouth and long lasting release of the flavorant for about 15 minutes to about 80 minutes. The oral pouch product contains only tobacco-free flavor beads.
US12041956B2
An avocado cutting method discloses feeding, orientation and traveling along multi-lanes of avocados (A), a pre-cutting stage to create an incision in the upper and lower portions of each avocado (A) while the avocado (A) is held with its axis stem-blossom vertically oriented, and a cutting stage for cutting each avocado (A) in the sides thereof in order to divide the avocado (A) into two halves with simultaneous hit on its pit. A multi-lane machine is also disclosed having a cutting section (54) with a plurality of pairs of separate cutting blades (55). The cutting section (54) has a plurality of plungers (56) in the form of rods, each plunger (56) being movable between the separate cutting blades (55) with respect to an upper head (43) to strike the pit (N) and move it inside the avocado (A) in order to detach it from the pulp (P).
US12041951B2
A process for isolating a taste-modifier component useful for food, beverage, nutraceutical, or pharmaceutical applications is shown. A pulverized fruit- or vegetable-based feedstock is combined with a natural, edible solvent to produce a heterogeneous mixture. A liquid phase isolated from this mixture is contacted with an acidic ion-exchange resin to sequester a basic taste-modifier component. The resin is then treated with a dilute aqueous solution of an alkali metal hydroxide to elute the taste-modifier component. The taste-modifier component, which is further activated by mild heating, is combined with vitamins, flavors, and other food additives and is incorporated into aqueous, oil-based, or powder-based taste-modifier compositions that have improved efficacy compared with previously known taste-modifiers.
US12041945B2
A method of processing is disclosed that provides improved water retention and enhanced coloring and flavor, while preserving the meat and preventing bacterial contamination. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes: (a) providing a body of meat at a first temperature; (b) contacting the body of meat of step (a), in at least one treating vessel, with a brine solution at a second temperature, wherein the second temperature is greater than the first temperature, and wherein the brine solution comprises a vinegar-derived food additive and/or a reddening agent, wherein the reddening agent comprises nitrite; (c) agitating the body of meat at the second temperature for a time sufficient to distribute the solution throughout the body of meat; (d) cooling the body of meat in at least one cooling vessel to a third temperature, wherein the third temperature is less than the second temperature; (e) agitating the body of meat at the third temperature; (f) contacting the body of meat of step (e) with the brine solution at the third temperature and agitating the body of meat at the third temperature until the brine solution is substantially absorbed by the body of meat; and (g) recovering the body of meat in a dry state at the third temperature. In one embodiment, the aforementioned brine solution comprises a vinegar-variety food additive, such as a vinegar-derived acetate composition. In another embodiment, the reddening agent comprises nitrate derived from plant material comprising nitrate.
US12041943B2
An ejector device is provided for food portions, and in particular for sausages. A food portion in a conveying area between two conveyor belts is engaged in a conveying mode and can be conveyed in the conveying direction. It is proposed that the ejector device has at least one adjustment mechanism for ejecting a food portion in an ejection area, which is so designed that the distance of the conveyor belts from each other in the conveying area can be partially varied. A method of ejecting food portions is also provided, in which it is proposed that the food portions be taken out of engagement with the conveyor belts as described above.
US12041924B2
In an embodiment, as insect trap is disclosed including: a trap portion including an enclosure having an adhesive surface and a first opening, wherein the adhesive surface is at least partially contained within the enclosure and is configured to adhere to an insect; and a base portion including a lighting element and a mounting portion, wherein the lighting element is configured to provide light to the trap portion, and wherein the mounting portion is configured to communicate with and receive power from a power source; and a first heating element in communication with the power source, wherein the trap portion is configured to removably engage with the base portion and receive light from the base portion when engaged therewith, and wherein the first heating element provides heat to at least a portion of the trap when the trap is engaged.
US12041910B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems, apparatuses, and methods for exercising and entertaining a pet. In one implementation, a pet exercise and entertainment device includes a launch funnel for launching projectiles for a pet to retrieve. The launch funnel has a feeder and a chute. The feeder is configured to receive a projectile and transport the projectile to an intake end of the chute. A sensor is configured to sense the projectile in the intake end of the chute and to command one or more motors to power up in response to sensing the projectile. An actuator is configured to release the projectile from the intake end of the chute into the launch end of the chute after a pre-determined time has elapsed. One or more wheels, rotated by the one or more motors, are configured to launch the projectile from the launch end of the chute.
US12041895B2
A hanging basket device includes a first housing configured to be connected to an associated hanging basket and a second housing at least partially slidably received in the first housing. The hanging basket device also includes a user-adjustable indicia that is disposed on the second housing to indicate a relative positional relationship between the first housing and the second housing.
US12041891B2
A controller for a hydroponic growing apparatus, system, and method is provided. The controller includes a programmable logic controller housed within a control housing and a graphical user interface operable by the programmable logic controller and disposed on the control housing. A home screen has one or more status indicators for each seed bed on the plurality of levels. A seeding screen has one or more seeding controls for actuating a seeder for depositing seed on each seed bed on the plurality of levels. A harvesting screen has one or more harvesting controls for autonomously controlling seed growth harvesting from each seed bed on the plurality of levels.
US12041884B2
An agricultural baling machine including: a frame; a connection point for attaching to a towing vehicle; a plunger in a bale-forming chamber; a driveline for taking power from the towing vehicle and causing reciprocal rectilinear motion of the plunger in the bale-forming chamber; and a drawbar member that provides a mechanical link between the connection point and the frame. The drawbar member is rotatably coupled to the frame such that the height of the connection point relative to the frame of the baling machine is adjustable.
US12041878B2
An extractor for a sugarcane harvester that chops stalks of sugarcane into billets. The extractor comprises a fan, a leaf shredder, and a hub. The fan comprises fan blades to induce a flow of air to separate leaves from billets. The leaf shredder comprises shredding blades to cut leaves prior to their ejection from the extractor. The hub is rotatably driven about an axis of rotation. The fan blades and the cutting blades are coupled to the hub for rotation together with the hub about the axis of rotation.
US12041877B2
A crop cutting device including a crop guiding surface including parallel slots. A row of knives pivotally mounted below the guiding surface is pivotable between a retracted inoperative position in which it is located below the guiding surface and an extended operative position, wherein the knives project above the guiding surface. An actuating mechanism includes movable operating members. Each operating member is associated with a respective knife and is movable from a first position in which the knife is in its retracted position to a second position in which the knife is in its extended position. Further, there is included a lifting mechanism for raising at least a part of each knife above the guiding surface, while the operating members are in their first position.
US12041873B2
A finger-bar-type mower in which blades reciprocate left and right to mow grass. The mower includes: a connection gear which is power-connected to a driving means of the mower; a reduction gear connected to the connection gear; a shaft rotating according to rotation of the reduction gear; a bridge accommodating and supporting the connection gear and the reduction gear; a blade which is power-connected to the shaft and is reciprocated left and right according to rotation of the shaft, the blade including cutting edges; a guide part supporting the bridge and extending along the blade; and wheels respectively connected to both ends of the guide part. The shaft is disposed in center regions of the blade and the guide part.
US12041869B2
A tool assembly for a planter row unit resides at the forward end of the row unit beneath the tool bar. The assembly includes a bracket assembly connected to the row unit, with a ground engaging tool removably mounted on the bracket assembly for movement between raised and lowered positions. A linear actuator controls the position of the tool. The tool may also include a depth control mechanism. Different tools can be interchanged on the bracket assembly.
US12048257B2
A method for manufacturing an interconnection structure for an integrated circuit is provided. The integrated circuit includes a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, and a third insulating layer. Electrical contacts pass through the first insulating layer, and a component having an electrical contact region is located in the second insulating layer. The method includes etching a first opening in the third layer, vertically aligned with the contact region. A fourth insulating layer is deposited to fill in the opening, and a second opening is etched to the contact region by passing through the opening in the third insulating layer. A metal level is formed by filling in the second opening with a metal.
US12048252B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetoresistive memory device includes: a first ferromagnetic layer; a stoichiometric first layer; a first insulator between the first ferromagnetic layer and the first layer; a second ferromagnetic layer between the first insulator and the first layer; and a non-stoichiometric second layer between the second ferromagnetic layer and the first layer. The second layer is in contact with the second ferromagnetic layer and the first layer.
US12048247B1
A wire-free multilayer biomorph device is provided where the layers are bonded without use of adhesive. The device includes a plurality of stacked perforated metal plates with interposed transductive assembly layers. The perforated metal plates and transductive assembly layers are bonded by a conductive metal ink that is subject to a thermal cycle process. Electrical connection of the perforated metal plates and transductive assembly are realized through structural connectors thru-connectors thereby obviating the need for wiring.
US12048235B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a display device. The method includes forming a display unit including a bending area on a first surface of a mother substrate, aligning a mask in which a mask opening is defined on a second surface of the mother substrate, plasma treating the second surface of the mother substrate, removing the mask and attaching a protective film to the second surface of the mother substrate, and removing a portion of the protective film to form a film opening corresponding to the bending area. The mask opening corresponds to the bending area.
US12048234B2
A display device includes a substrate, a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate, and a display element electrically connected to the thin film transistor. The substrate includes a first substrate layer, a second substrate layer disposed on the first substrate layer, a first barrier layer disposed between the first substrate layer and the second substrate layer, and a first ultraviolet light blocking layer disposed between the first substrate layer and the second substrate layer.
US12048216B2
An array substrate is provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of subpixels arranged in an array comprising M rows and N columns. The array substrate includes a respective first subpixel in a (2n−1)-th column and in a (2m−1)-th row; a respective second subpixel in a (2n−1)-th column and in a (2m)-th row; a respective third subpixel in a (2n)-th column and in a (2m)-th row; and a respective fourth subpixel in a (2n)-th column and in a (2m−1)-th row.
US12048213B2
A display panel includes a substrate including a first area and a second area that are spaced apart from each other in a first direction; a plurality of display elements located in a display area, the display area being adjacent to the first area and the second area; and a plurality of lines extending in a second direction that intersects the first direction, the plurality of lines being electrically respectively connected to the plurality of display elements, wherein the plurality of lines include: a first line and a second line adjacent to each other and bypassing along an edge of the first area; and a third line and a fourth line adjacent to each other and bypassing along an edge of the second area, wherein the first area and the second area are different from each other in at least one of size or shape.
US12048205B2
Provided is a display substrate. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a patterned film disposed on a side of the base substrate, and a planarization film disposed on a side, distal from the base substrate, of the patterned film, wherein a surface, distal from the base substrate, of the patterned film has a depressed portion and a non-depressed portion. A thickness of the depressed portion is less than a thickness of the non-depressed portion, and lyophilicity of the depressed portion is higher than the lyophilicity of the non-depressed portion.
US12048199B2
A display device according to the disclosure includes a substrate, a first transistor provided on the substrate, and a second transistor provided on the substrate, not overlapping the first transistor. The first transistor includes a polycrystalline silicon layer provided on the substrate, a first insulating film provided on the polycrystalline silicon layer, a first gate electrode provided on the first insulating film, and a second insulating film provided on the first gate electrode. The second transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer provided on the first insulating film, a third insulating film provided on the oxide semiconductor layer, and a second gate electrode provided on the third insulating film. The first and third insulating films are SiOx films. The second insulating film is an SiNx film including hydrogen, and is provided overlapping the polycrystalline silicon layer, and is provided not overlapping the oxide semiconductor layer.
US12048191B2
An organic optoelectronic component includes an organic functional layer stack between a first electrode and a second electrode including a light-emitting layer formed to emit radiation during operation of the component; a coupling-out layer arranged above the first electrode and/or the second electrode which is in a beam path of the radiation of the light-emitting layer; and a protective layer above the coupling-out layer, wherein the coupling-out layer includes a structured layer and a planarization layer arranged thereabove and the structured layer has a structured surface structured at least in places, the planarization layer planarizes the structured surface of the structured layer, the protective layer cannot be removed without at least partially destroying the coupling-out layer, and adhesion of the structured layer to the planarization layer is smaller than adhesion of the protective layer to the planarization layer.
US12048190B2
A display device includes: a substrate; an organic light-emitting diode positioned above the substrate; and a thin film encapsulation layer disposed on the organic light-emitting diode. The thin film encapsulation layer includes: at least one inorganic layer; and at least one organic layer disposed on the at least one inorganic layer. The at least one organic layer has a refractive index of about 1.66 or greater.
US12048183B2
The present application provides a display panel and a cover plate assembly. The display panel includes: a light-emitting layer; a first adhesive layer arranged on a light-emitting surface of the light-emitting layer; a cover plate arranged on one side of the first adhesive layer away from the light-emitting layer; a second adhesive layer arranged on one side of the cover plate away from the first adhesive layer; and a protective layer arranged on one side of the second adhesive layer away from the cover plate. An orthographic projection of at least a portion of an edge of the second adhesive layer projected on the cover plate is located between two opposite edges of the cover plate.
US12048177B2
An OLED light emitting device, a method for fabricating an OLED light emitting device and a lamp device. The OLED light emitting device includes: a substrate; a plurality of organic light emitting diodes, wherein the plurality of organic light emitting diodes are located on a same one side of the substrate; and a plurality of regulating resistors, wherein the regulating resistors are connected to the organic light emitting diodes; wherein areas of luminescent layers of the plurality of organic light emitting diodes are not completely equal.
US12048175B2
An organic electroluminescent device having a structure of at least an anode 2, a light-emitting layer 3 and a cathode 4 layered in that order, wherein the light-emitting layer 3 contains a first host material, a second host material and a light-emitting material of a dopant, and both the first host material and the second host material have a lowest excited triplet energy level higher than the lowest excited triplet energy level of the light-emitting material. The device is protected from performance deterioration with time in driving and has a long lifetime.
US12048174B2
A light-emitting structure includes a substrate and a plurality of sub-pixel structures over the substrate. At least one of the plurality of sub-pixel structures includes an anode, a cathode, and a combined charge transport and emissive layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. The combined charge transport and emissive layer includes quantum dots (QDs) with ligands, and nanoparticles smaller than the QDs. The QDs and the nanoparticles are dispersed in a crosslinked matrix formed at least partially from at least one crosslinkable charge transport material other than the ligands, and the combined charge transport and emissive layer is arranged with the QDs and the nanoparticles phase segregated in an upper outer surface of the crosslinkable charge transport material, with the nanoparticles arranged closer to the upper outer surface than the QDs.
US12048171B2
An imaging device includes a photoelectric converter that converts incident light to charge, a semiconductor substrate that includes an element isolation region and a first impurity region of a first conductivity type, the first impurity region being electrically connected to the photoelectric converter, a plug that includes a first semiconductor, the plug being connected directly to the first impurity region, a pad that includes a second semiconductor, the pad being connected directly to the plug, and a first transistor that includes the first impurity region as one of a source and a drain and includes a first gate. The first impurity region is positioned between the first gate and a first portion of the element isolation region in plan view. The pad overlaps the first gate and the first portion in plan view.
US12048170B2
An imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; pixel electrodes located above the semiconductor substrate and each electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate; a counter electrode located above the pixel electrodes; a first photoelectric conversion layer located between the counter electrode and the pixel electrodes; and at least one first light-shielding body located in or above the first photoelectric conversion layer. The first photoelectric conversion layer contains a semiconducting carbon nanotube that absorbs light in a first wavelength range and an organic molecule that covers the semiconducting carbon nanotube, absorbs light in a second wavelength range, and emits fluorescence in a third wavelength range. The at least one first light-shielding body absorbs or reflects light with a wavelength in at least part of the second wavelength range.
US12048166B2
A Hall integrated circuit including a vertical Hall element, having a first wafer and a second wafer, the second wafer including a CMOS substrate integrating a CMOS processing circuit coupled to the vertical Hall element and a stack of dielectric layers, and the first wafer including a Hall-sensor layer having a first surface and a second surface, the first and second wafers being bonded with the interposition of a dielectric layer arranged above the first surface of the Hall-sensor layer. The vertical Hall element has: at least a first Hall terminal; at least a second Hall terminal; a deep trench isolation ring extending through the Hall-sensor layer from the first surface to the second surface and enclosing and isolating a Hall sensor region of the Hall-sensor layer; and a first and a second conductive structures electrically connected to respective contact pads embedded in the stack of the second wafer.
US12048155B2
A semiconductor memory device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor memory device are provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a channel layer with a first portion and a second portion, the first portion and the second portion extending in a longitudinal direction, a gate stacked structure surrounding the first portion of the channel layer, a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type that contacts the second portion of the channel layer, and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type.
US12048152B2
A vertical memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks having a plurality of horizontal gate electrodes spaced apart from each other in a first direction and extending in a second direction. A plurality of vertical channels extends through the horizontal gate electrodes in the first direction. A plurality of charge storage structures are disposed between the vertical channels and the horizontal gate electrodes. A conductive path extends in a third direction. The plurality of memory blocks are arranged in the third direction and are divided from each other by a first division pattern that extends in the second direction. The plurality of horizontal gate electrodes at each level are connected to the conductive path at a first lateral side in the second direction to form a shared memory block.
US12048150B2
A semiconductor memory device having improved electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor memory device comprises a first semiconductor pattern separated from a substrate in a first direction, a first gate structure extending in the first direction and penetrating the first semiconductor pattern, a first conductive connecting line connected to the first semiconductor pattern and extending in a second direction different from the first direction, and a second conductive connecting line connected to the first semiconductor pattern. The first gate structure is between the first conductive connecting line and the second conductive connecting line, the first gate structure includes a first gate electrode and a first gate insulating film, and the first gate insulating film includes a first charge holding film contacting with the first semiconductor pattern.
US12048145B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a peripheral area and an array area, and the method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: providing a substrate; where the substrate in the peripheral area includes an active layer; a first isolation layer is further provided on the active layer; forming a buried word line in the substrate in the array area; where a second isolation layer is further provided on the buried word line; the buried word line includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer; patterning the first isolation layer and the second isolation layer by dry etching to form first through holes and a second through hole; where the first through holes expose a top surface of the active layer, and the second through hole exposes the second conductive layer.
US12048141B2
A semiconductor memory device including: a stack structure including a plurality of layers that are vertically stacked on a substrate, each of the plurality of layers including a word line, a channel layer, and a data storage element electrically connected to the channel layer; and a bit line that vertically extends on one side of the stack structure, wherein the word line includes: a first conductive line that extends in a first direction; and a gate electrode that protrudes in a second direction from the first conductive line, the second direction intersecting the first direction, wherein the channel layer is on the gate electrode, and wherein the bit line includes a connection part electrically connected to the channel layer.
US12048140B2
In a memory device, pages are arrayed in a column direction on a substrate, each page constituted by memory cells arrayed in row direction on a substrate. Each memory cell includes a zonal P layer. N+ layers continuous with a source line and a bit line respectively are on both sides of the P layer. Gate insulating layers surround part of the P layer continuous with the N+ layer and part of the P layer continuous with the N+ layer, respectively. One side surface of the gate insulating layer is covered with a gate conductor layer continuous with a first plate line, and the other side surface is covered with a gate conductor layer continuous with a second plate line. A gate conductor layer continuous with a word line surrounds the gate insulating layer.
US12048137B2
A semiconductor arrangement includes a memory array including bitcells and a peripheral logic block for accessing the bitcells. The peripheral logic block includes a first nanostructure having a first width for providing power to a first logic unit of the peripheral logic block, and a second nanostructure axially aligned with the first nanostructure and having a second width less than the first width for providing power to a second logic unit of the peripheral logic block.
US12048132B2
In an aspect, the present disclosure provides a heat-treated transition metal carbonitride MXene film annealed at high temperatures and a polymer composite comprising the same. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for producing a heat-treated transition metal carbonitride MXene film comprising: obtaining a MXene aqueous solution containing dispersed 2-dimensional (2D) MXenes through an acid etching process; filtering the obtained MXene aqueous solution through a vacuum filtration process to produce a free-standing film; and annealing the produced free-standing film at high temperatures to obtain a heat-treated transition metal carbonitride MXene film. In still another aspect, the present disclosure provides an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding method comprising: superposing a coating comprising a heat-treated transition metal carbonitride MXene film on at least one surface of an object in a contact or non-contact manner.
US12048131B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device. The display device includes a display panel having a display side and a non-display side opposite to the display side, a first conductive supporting portion located on the non-display side of the display panel, a second conductive supporting portion located on a side of the first conductive supporting portion away from the display panel, a bonding portion between the first conductive supporting portion and the second conductive supporting portion, and a conductive connecting portion for electrically connecting the first conductive supporting portion and the second conductive supporting portion.
US12048127B2
The present disclosure provides apparatus, systems, methods, and techniques for cooling using a fluid management hardware that allows for directly recirculating a liquid portion of two-phase fluids. In a core unit, a merging region is designed for the liquid portion may be merged with supply coolant to return to cooling the system, while the vapor portion may be transferred to external cooling and condensed to liquid to return to the coolant supply source. A pump is directly intaking coolant from the merging region. In an embodiment, the supply coolant may directly connected to the pump intaking loop. The cooling techniques may be applied to an advanced server rack having high power density servers. In some cases, the disclosed design may be used for distributing two phase coolant to servers with either cooling plate/cooling module or the server is immersion based packaged.
US12048104B2
In a structure for connecting a terminal to a circuit substrate within a case, a resin holder to which a plurality of terminal members are insert bonded is insert bonded to a resin case member having a connector portion and configuring part of the case. Each terminal member has one end part connected to the circuit substrate housed in the case, another end part of the terminal member being disposed within the connector portion. The holder is insert bonded to the case member while leaving an exposure hole as a cavity. Formed in the case member is an open hole communicating with the exposure hole and opening on a housing chamber side. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent a short circuit due to moisture from occurring between the terminal members retained by the holder.
US12048097B2
A structure comprises a semiconductor integrated circuit, an inductor, and a magnetic flux closure layer. The inductor is integrated into a multilevel wiring network in the semiconductor integrated circuit. The inductor includes a planar laminated magnetic core and a conductive winding that turns around in a generally spiral manner on the outside of the planar laminated magnetic core. The planar laminated magnetic core includes an alternating sequence of a magnetic layer and a non-magnetic layer. The magnetic flux closure layer is disposed within about 100 μm of a face of the planar laminated magnetic core, the face of the planar magnetic core parallel to a principal plane of the planar laminated magnetic core. A second magnetic flux closure layer can be disposed within about 100 μm of an opposing face of the planar laminated magnetic core.
US12048095B2
A circuit board according to one embodiment comprises a first insulation layer, a circuit pattern on the first insulation layer, and a second insulation layer on the circuit pattern, wherein a heat transfer member is arranged inside the first insulation layer and/or the second insulation layer, and the heat transfer member is arranged while coming in contact with a side surface of the insulation layer.
US12048090B2
A display unit includes a display panel, a circuit board bent from a front surface of the display panel toward a rear surface of the display panel, a window disposed on the front surface of the display panel to cover an active area, and a cover panel film disposed on the rear surface of the display panel and disposed between the display panel and the circuit board. The cover panel film includes a first portion overlapping with the display panel, and a second portion extending from the first portion to protrude from the display panel when viewed in a plan view. The second portion is disposed between the circuit board and the window when viewed in a cross-sectional view.
US12048088B2
A method comprises: providing a circuit board comprising a first surface, an opposing second surface, and a ground connection; defining a shielding zone and a non-shielding zone on the first surface, one or more shielding-zone electronic components being comprised within the shielding zone; providing a groove in the circuit board, the groove extending along at least part of the shielding zone and being in-between the shielding zone and the non-shielding zone; applying an insulating encapsulation layer to cover the shielding zone, whereby the one or more shielding-zone electronic components are encapsulated; applying an electrically conductive shielding layer on top of at least part of the encapsulation layer and to the ground connection so as to electrically couple the shielding layer to the ground connection, whereby the one or more shielding-zone electronic components are electromagnetically shielded. Further, disclosed is a circuit board, and a hearing device comprising a circuit board.
US12048084B2
A covering film (100) includes a first covering layer (10), a first adhesive layer (20), and a thermal conductive layer (30) sandwiched between the first covering layer (10) and the first adhesive layer (20). A thermal conductivity of the thermal conductive layer (30) is K1, K1 is in a range of 3 W/m.K to 65 W/m.K. A thermal conductivity of the first covering layer (10) is K2, K2 is in a range of 0.02 W/m.K to 3.0 W/m.K. A thermal conductivity of the first adhesive layer (20) is K3, K3 is in a range of 0.02 W/m.K to 1.0 W/m.K. A circuit board and its manufacturing method are also provided.
US12048083B2
Micro devices having enhanced through heat transfer utilizing plungers extending from a heat spreader are provided. In one example, a micro device is provided that includes a plunger retaining block, a plurality of plungers, a mounting substrate and an integrated circuit (IC) die. The plunger retaining block includes a top surface and a bottom surface. The plurality of plungers extend from the bottom surface of the plunger retaining block with at least some of the plurality of plungers contacting the IC die. The IC die is disposed between the plunger retaining block and the mounting substrate, and coupled to the mounting substrate.
US12048082B2
A high frequency heating apparatus of the present disclosure includes a first electrode (11), a second electrode (12), a high frequency power supply, a position adjuster (20), and a controller. The second electrode (12) is disposed facing the first electrode (11). The high frequency power supply supplies high frequency power to the first electrode (11) or the second electrode (12). The position adjuster (20) adjusts the position of the first electrode (11). The controller controls the position adjuster (20). The position adjuster (20) includes a weight (21), one or more connecting lines (22), one or more pulleys (23), and one or more drive units (24). The one or more connecting lines (22) connect the weight (21) and the first electrode (11). The one or more pulleys (23) support the one or more connecting lines (22). The one or more drive units (24) are attached to the one or more pulleys (23) and drive the one or more pulleys (23). In this embodiment, a heating target can be heated efficiently.
US12048079B2
A method of generating light settings for a plurality of lighting units, the method comprising obtaining one or more images, extracting a plurality of colors from the one or more images, selecting a subset of colors from the plurality of colors, wherein the subset of colors is selected based on a target time of day, and generating one or more light settings for the plurality of lighting units based on the selected subset of colors, wherein, when the one or more light settings are activated, the plurality of lighting units are controlled according to the subset of colors.
US12048073B2
An automotive lamp includes a temperature-sensing element having an electrical state that changes according to the temperature T of a semiconductor light source, and a constant current driver that generates a driving current ILED that corresponds to the temperature T. The maximum value of the temperature differential of the driving current ILED in a first temperature range from a reference temperature T0 to a first temperature T1 (T1>T0) is smaller than the maximum value of the temperature differential of the driving current ILED in a second temperature range from the first temperature T1 to a second temperature T2 (T2>T1).
US12048066B2
A user equipment (UE) may camp on a base station of a network. The UE receives, from the base station of a wireless network, a broadcast including access restrictions, wherein the access restrictions include one or more predetermined criteria that must be satisfied to camp on the base station. The UE then determines whether the UE satisfies the one or more predetermined criteria.
US12048065B2
Example methods and apparatus to indicate space requirements for communicating capabilities of a device are disclosed. In accordance with a disclosed example method, a request is sent to a network to request a quantity of blocks to be allocated for use by a mobile station. The quantity of blocks is determined based on a data size to identify radio access capabilities of the mobile station. An allocation of the quantity of blocks is received from the network. Radio access capability information of the mobile station is sent via the allocated blocks.
US12048060B2
A communication method of an access and mobility function (AMF) node in a communication system is provided. The communication method includes receiving, from a base station, a registration request message for a terminal, transmitting, to an old AMF previously accessed by the terminal, an information request message for the terminal, and receiving, from the old AMF, an information response message including network slice selection assistance information (NSSAI) corresponding to the terminal.
US12048048B2
Techniques are provided for operating user equipment (UE) in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, and more specifically, setting a DRX inactivity timer value. An example method for operating a user equipment in a discontinuous reception mode including an active mode for communicating with a network and an inactive mode when the user equipment does not communicate with the network includes determining a trigger condition based on a communication with the network, determining the inactivity timer value based on the trigger condition, and operating the user equipment in the active mode during a duration of the inactivity timer value and in the inactive mode after the duration of the inactivity timer value.
US12048047B2
Provided are a reception configuration method and apparatus, a reception control method and apparatus, a terminal, a base station and a storage medium. The reception configuration includes: determining a detection result of indication information within a first time length in a DRX cycle, where the DRX cycle includes an on duration and an off duration; and determining a DRX operation according to the detection result.
US12048040B2
Embodiments of this application relate to the communication field, and in particular, to a multi-link communication method and an apparatus. A STA in a STA MLD sends an information frame on a link corresponding to the station, and the information frame is used to indicate a STA in an awake state in the STA MLD. An AP MLD receives the information frame, and sends a downlink message frame on a one or more links corresponding to a part of or all of STAs in the awake state in the STA MLD, to assist the part of or all of the stations in fast accessing a channel without waiting for a NAVSyncDelay time period.
US12048038B2
A method for reporting information, a method for coordinating resources, and a multi-card terminal. The method for reporting information includes: determining that access to a plurality of base stations is maintained simultaneously, the plurality of base stations belonging to different wireless network operators; reporting auxiliary information to the plurality of base stations, the auxiliary information being configured to coordinate resources between the plurality of base stations.
US12048031B2
A method and an apparatus for establishing a unicast connection. The method includes: receiving a connection establishment request sent from a second terminal; acquiring a first identifier set carried in the connection establishment request, in which the first identifier set is a set of source sidelink identifiers used by the second terminal; and adding the first identifier set to a second identifier set in response to that an identifier in the first identifier set exists in the second identifier set, in which the second identifier set includes destination sidelink identifiers corresponding to the first AS unicast connection at the first terminal side, the first AS unicast connection is any connection of AS unicast connections established by the first terminal, and identifiers in an identifier set corresponding to an AS unicast connection use a same set of AS configuration parameters.
US12048029B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first node of a wireless communications network may determine a service type of the first node. The first node may transmit, to a second node during a random access procedure, an indication of the service type of the first node. The first node may then establish a connection with a unit of the second node that is for serving nodes of the wireless network associated with the service type. The connection may be established based on transmitting the indication of the service type.
US12048027B2
A device management system according to one embodiment includes: a notification processing unit configured to obtain a proximity notification that represents a situation in which a portable connection source device is in proximity to a target connection destination device; and a connection determining unit configured to manage a connection between the connection source device and the target connection destination device through a radio communication network in response to the proximity notification. The connection determining unit is further configured to: refer to a database that stores a connection history representing past connections between the connection source device and one or more past connection destination devices; and connect the connection source device to the target connection destination device in response to a connection condition for connecting the connection source device to the target connection destination device being satisfied based on the connection history of the connection source device.
US12048026B2
An information transmission method, apparatus and device are provided. The method includes: sending an MsgA of a 2-step RA procedure to a network device according to a mapping relationship between a preamble parameter in the MsgA and a PUSCH parameter in the MsgA; wherein the preamble parameter includes a preamble index and a PRACH time-frequency resource, and the PUSCH parameter includes a PUSCH time-frequency resource and a PUSCH DMRS.
US12048024B2
Various solutions for random access channel (RACH) preamble design in non-terrestrial network (NTN) communications with respect to user equipment and network apparatus are described. An apparatus may initiate a RACH procedure. The apparatus may determine a fractional frequency offset pattern or a cover code across groups of preamble sequences. The apparatus may generate a RACH preamble signal according to at least one of the fractional frequency offset pattern and the cover code. The apparatus may transmit the RACH preamble signal to a network node.
US12048023B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for random-access channel (RACH) communication. For example, certain aspects provide a method for falling back from a 2-step RACH procedure to a 4-step RACH procedure.
US12048019B2
A method of user equipment in a wireless communication system includes transmitting a message A including a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), wherein the PRACH occasions for transmitting the PRACH preamble and the PUSCH occasions for transmitting the PUSCH are time division multiplexed (TDM) on the basis of one method among one or more pre-set methods, the one or more pre-set methods including a first method related to slot level TDM.
US12048011B2
A transmitting wireless transmit/receive unit (Tx WTRU) may receive configuration information that indicates one or more parameters. The one or more parameters may be associated with resource selection. The Tx WTRU may determine a first resource selection window and a second resource selection window. The first resource selection window may be associated with an active time of a receiving wireless transmit/receive unit (Rx WTRU). The second resource selection window may be associated with an inactive time of the Rx WTRU. The Tx WTRU may determine a first number of candidate resources associated with the first resource selection window. The Tx WTRU may determine a first number of candidate resources associated with the second resource selection window. In examples, the Tx WTRU may increase the first number of candidate resources associated with the first resource selection window to a second number of candidate resources associated with the first resource selection window.
US12048009B2
The present application at least describes a method for obtaining channel access in a network. The method includes a step of selecting, via a gNodeB, a spatial filter from a first set of spatial filters to perform listen before talk (LBT). The method includes a step of detecting, via the gNodeB, a channel in an idle state. The method also includes a step of obtaining, a directional channel occupancy time (COT) in the channel in a direction of the selected spatial filter. The method also includes a step of transmitting, to a node, a channel access indicator transmission (CAI-T) on a beam in the cot via a spatial filter of a second set of spatial filters. The method further includes a step of receiving, from the node, a channel access indicator response (CAI-R). The method further includes a step of sensing, via short channel sensing and via the spatial filter or another spatial filter of the second set of spatial filters, the channel is clear. The method even further includes a step of sending, via the channel, information to the node using one or more spatial filters of the second set of spatial filters. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding computer systems, apparatus, and computer programs recorded on one or more computer storage devices, each configured to perform the actions of the methods.
US12048001B2
A communication method in a communication device includes storing a first type of data and a second type of data belonging to a same access category defined by IEEE802.11 series, contending for access according to an enhanced distributed channel access, EDCA, using first EDCA parameters, to a communication channel in order to transmit the first type of data to another communication device; and contending for access according to the EDCA, using second EDCA parameters different from the first EDCA parameters, to the communication channel in order to transmit the second type of data to the other communication device.
US12047998B2
Use of a preamble conforming to a second protocol to which a preamble field conforming to a first protocol, different from the second one, is added, such as a protocol for accessing a mobile network deployed in an unlicensed band common to the second protocol, for any frame transmitted with a data field conforming to this first protocol.
US12047995B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel state information (CSI) reporting with frequency domain (FD) compression. A method that can be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining the size of the intermediate set based on one or more parameters included in the CSI report configuration, determining one or more FD bases for each layer based on the intermediate set, wherein the one or more FD bases are characterized by an M value indicative of a number of the one or more FD bases and based on the CSI report configuration, and reporting the one or more FD bases for each layer based on the size of the intermediate set.
US12047994B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for bandwidth allocation using machine learning. In some implementations, a request for bandwidth in a communications system is received. Data indicative of a measure of bandwidth requested and a status of the communication system are provided as input to a machine learning model. One or more outputs from the machine learning model indicate an amount of bandwidth to allocate to the terminal, and bandwidth is allocated to the terminal based on the one or more outputs from the machine learning model.
US12047989B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may perform channel state information (CSI) measurements on one or more reference signal transmissions from a base station; determine, based at least in part on the CSI measurements, a set of non-zero linear combination complex coefficients for weighting and co-phasing for a linear combination of a plurality of frequency domain basis vectors and a plurality of spatial domain basis vectors; and transmit a CSI feedback, wherein a first part of the CSI feedback includes at least an indication of a number of the set of non-zero linear combination complex coefficients with regard to all layers of a communication link between the UE and the base station. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12047984B2
The present application discloses a method and device for resource configuration and data transmission, solving the problem of long transmission time delay in the existing method for pre-configuration resources which is unable to satisfy the business demand of 5G system for low time delay. According to the embodiment of the present application, a network side device configures pre-configuration resources for a terminal in advance, with multiple continuous resources being allocated within a pre-configuration resource period for a set of pre-configuration resources. When data arrives at the terminal, one of the multiple continuous pre-configuration resources is selected for data transmission, to avoid transmission delay caused by mismatching a resource origin with data traffic arrived at the terminal within the pre-configuration resource period when the network side device configures pre-configuration resources for the terminal.
US12047976B2
An embodiments relates to a method of operating a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes: receiving, by the UE, downlink control information (DCI) from a base station (BS); and, determining, by the UE, a resource pool indicated by a resource pool index in the DCI from among a plurality of resource pools. Based on that resource pools related to New Radio (NR) sidelink discovery and resource pools related to NR sidelink communication transmission are configured together in the plurality of resource pools, the resource pool index indicates one resource pool among all resource pools included in the resource pools related to NR sidelink communication transmission and the resource pools related to NR sidelink discovery.
US12047975B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that may enable a user equipment (UE) to monitor a shared spectrum to receive control signaling and data transmissions associated with different transmission time intervals (TTIs). For example, a base station may communicate with a UE according to a first transmission mode during a first, shortened TTI. The base station may transmit a downlink control channel for a shortened TTI based on a subset of a number of blind decodes or control channel elements. Additionally, a downlink control channel for a shortened TTI may contain grants for multiple TTIs. In some cases, the base station may transmit a signaling to the UE via a reference signal, downlink control channel, or radio resource control which may indicate a change from the shortened-TTI transmission mode to a transmission mode with a TTI duration that is longer than the first, shortened TTI duration.
US12047966B2
An uplink information generation method and a device thereof. The method includes: receiving at least one piece of first signaling, wherein a physical channel scheduled by the first signaling or a physical channel carrying the first signaling has no group information; determining a first transmission resource transmitting first feedback information corresponding to the first signaling; and a terminal apparatus generating a first feedback information codebook, the first feedback information codebook including the first feedback information and second feedback information, the second feedback information being feedback information corresponding to a target group indicated by second signaling, and a transmission resource of the second feedback information overlapping with the first transmission resource.
US12047964B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may switch from a first group of search space sets for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to an empty group of search space sets. The UE may refrain from monitoring the PDCCH based at least in part on switching to the empty group. In some aspects, the UE may switch from a first group of PDCCH search space sets to at least one dormant group of PDCCH search space sets identified in configuration information. The UE may also process one or more PDCCH search space sets of the at least one dormant group of PDCCH search space sets based at least in part on the received configuration information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12047953B2
A method of two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) can include receiving a transport block, and transmitting from a transmission user equipment (Tx UE) to a reception user equipment (Rx UE) the transport block with two-stage SCI including a 1st-stage SCI and a 2nd-stage SCI. The 1st-stage SCI can be transmitted over a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH). The 2nd-stage SCI and the transport block can share resources of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH). The 2nd-stage SCI and the transport block can share a demodulation reference signal (DMRS).
US12047945B2
Methods for scheduling transport blocks, and an apparatus for scheduling transport blocks. The method includes: determining transmission interval parameters, in which the transmission interval parameters are used to determine a mode of setting a transmission interval among transport blocks; scheduling the transport blocks on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) according to the transmission interval parameters, the transport blocks scheduled on the PDCCH including at least one of physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transport blocks and physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transport blocks.
US12047944B2
A base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), an instruction for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission. The PUSCH transmission may be overlapping with at least one of a slot boundary or a symbol that is configured invalid for a PUSCH by the base station, and the UE may configure a first partial PUSCH and a second partial PUSCH, the second partial PUSCH being a subset of the PUSCH transmission and including a single symbol length. The UE may schedule the second partial PUSCH based on the instruction received from the base station.
US12047937B2
A user device includes a transmission unit that transmits a first traffic to a second user device using a resource scheduled for sidelink by a base station device or a first user device, a reception unit that receives from the base station device or the first user device a sidelink pre-emption indication indicating that all or part of the resource scheduled for the sidelink is to be used for a second traffic, and a control unit that excludes a resource used for the second traffic from the resource for the sidelink used for transmitting the first traffic, based on the sidelink pre-emption indication.
US12047936B2
A wireless communication terminal device according to embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a reception unit for receiving a first wireless communication signal including a first signal frame; an information processing unit for generating second duration information on the basis of first duration information contained in the first signal frame; and a transmission unit for transmitting a second wireless communication signal including a second signal frame containing the second duration information to an access point.
US12047935B2
Methods of reducing the interferences of radar signals with uplink or downlink data communication signals in a wireless system for both data communication and radar sensing may include configuring the transmitters of the radar signals and the data communication signals such that the data communication signals and the radar signals are transmitted using different radio frequency resources, and/or configuring the receivers of the data communication signals to receive the data communication signals using a receive beam that does not collide with radar beams. The methods may also include using a reference signal for both downlink data communication and radar sensing and/or determining a Quasi-Colocation (QCL) configuration for downlink data reception based on information regarding a radar beam.
US12047925B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for sub-band full-duplex resource management for sidelink. A method that may be performed by a user equipment first (UE) includes transmitting, to a second UE, information indicating one or more resource assignments for one or more transmissions to the second UE and communicating with the second UE in a full-duplex manner based on the one or more resource assignments.
US12047920B2
A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, a slot parameter that configures the UE to receive a number of symbols within a self-contained slot. The method also includes receiving, from the base station, a cyclic prefix (CP) parameter associated with a single symbol of the number of symbols, the CP parameter indicating a source of samples for a CP included at a beginning of the single symbol. The method further includes receiving, from the base station, the number of symbols within the self-contained slot. In some examples, a guard interval (GI) may be included at one or both of an end or a beginning of each symbol of the number of symbols. The CP may be outside a single FFT window of a number of FFT windows, associated with the single symbol of the number of symbols.
US12047912B2
A communication method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: a first terminal apparatus sends first information to a network device, where the first information is used to request a transmission resource, where the transmission resource is used by a second terminal apparatus and/or the first terminal apparatus for transmission, and the second terminal apparatus and the first terminal apparatus belong to a same terminal apparatus group.
US12047910B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless node may receive, at a mobile termination unit of the first wireless node, an indication of transmission of a first paging message to a second wireless node by a third wireless node. The indication may be received from a distributed unit of the third wireless node. A distributed unit of the first wireless node may transmit, based on receive the indication of transmission of the first paging message, a second paging message to the second wireless node. Receiving the indication of the first paging message may include receiving, by the mobile termination unit of the first wireless node, the first paging message that is transmitted to the second wireless node.
US12047905B2
Systems and methods for determining proximity of architectural structure coverings. A user device receives a broadcast signal from each of a plurality of architectural structure coverings. An ordered list of the plurality of the architectural structure coverings is then maintained based on the broadcast signal. At least a portion of the ordered list is displayed on a display of the user device.
US12047898B2
A device and method for registering devices on advanced networks as well as providing operative communications between a legacy device and a advanced network. The legacy device may contain data, such as sensor data, which is being collected on a network outside the communication range/abilities of the legacy device. An intermediary device may receive the data via a first communication scheme and send the device to a server collecting the data via a second communication scheme.
US12047888B2
Examples in this application provide a communication method and a communications apparatus. One example communication method includes determining to deactivate or activate a first synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel block (SSB), and sending a first request message to a second network device. Specifically, the first request message carries first indication information for indicating the first SSB, and when the first SSB is an SSB in the first network device, the first request message requests the second network device to update a state of the first SSB, and the second network device maintains information about at least one SSB in the first network device, or when an active first SSB is an SSB in the second network device, the first request message requests the second network device to activate the first SSB, and the first network device maintains information about at least one SSB in the second network device.
US12047882B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In one example, a method for wireless communications at a user equipment (UE) includes determining one or more performance metrics related to communications over a wireless channel and comparing the one or more performance metrics with a performance level for the communications over the wireless channel. The method may include selecting a power mode for the UE based at least in part on the comparing and determining an operating state of a subset of a plurality of radio frequency front end elements of at least one active radio frequency chain of the UE based at least in part on the power mode and a priority of the one or more performance metrics. The method may also include adjusting the subset of the plurality of radio frequency front end elements based at least in part on the operating state.
US12047878B2
The present invention provides apparatuses, methods, computer programs, computer program products and computer-readable media regarding reference signal configuration for enabling energy efficient system operation. The apparatus comprises determining whether discontinuous reception is applied to the user equipment, and if it is determined that the discontinuous reception is applied, determining whether a signal is present outside of an active time of the user equipment.
US12047872B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for provisioning of a smart device, system, and readable medium; in the present disclosure, a provisioning request used for obtaining provisioning information is sent to a server; in a case that the provisioning information returned by the server is received, then the provisioning information is sent to the smart device by a wireless means so that the smart device establishes a communications connection with the server according to the provisioning information; after obtaining the provisioning information from the server, the provisioning information is sent to the smart device by the wireless means; the smart device reuses the provisioning information to pass server authentication and establish the communications connection with the server.
US12047868B2
Broadcasted minimum system information comprising information for initial access to a cell can be received. A random access message, including a request for non-minimum system information, of a random access procedure can be transmitted. The random access message can comprise a random access preamble associated with requesting the non-minimum system information. The non-minimum system information can be excluded from the broadcasted minimum system information. A random access response message can be received in response to the request for the non-minimum system information. The random access response message can include only a MAC subheader with a RAPID.
US12047859B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for configuring repeater-assisted communication. One method includes transmitting, from a first network node (“NN”), an indication of repeater-assisted communication to a second NN and a third NN. The method includes transmitting configuration information to the second NN and the third NN. The configuration information includes control information that corresponds to whether the second NN and the third NN are turned on or turned off, the control information corresponding to whether the second NN and the third NN are turned on or turned off is correlated, the control information identifies timing information for the second NN and the third NN, and the timing information indicates whether the second NN and the third NN are expected to transmit a signal received at the second NN and the third NN at a prior time to the first NN and/or a fourth NN based on the configuration information.
US12047857B2
A platform that utilizes QR codes, Radio Frequency Identification and/or Near Field Communication for geolocation in securing users safety and a MESH network to ensure emergency safety device performs under any network configuration cellular/wifi/bluetooth. The platform enables the dashboard and/or application programs executing thereon to effectively secure users of platform with audio/visual recordings of any such events which may endanger an associate working in a discrete location on their own. A user can also locate the associate in the case of an emergency. The platform also enables speech enabled summoning of the panic button. The platform plans to utilize ultra wide band technologies in addition to cellular/wifi/bluetooth channels. The platform is also available to emergency services based on the severity of an issue that may arise. The platform can also transmit single channel walkie talkie services to users of platform at the same location.
US12047856B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for notifying automatically emergency events reported by users to emergency contacts of the users, comprising receiving one or more advanced cellular location (AML) messages transmitted by one or more cellular devices of one or more users to an AML service when the cellular device(s) initiates an emergency call, the AML message(s) comprising a Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number (MSISDN) and a location of the cellular device(s), retrieving contact information of one or more emergency contacts associated with the MSISDN extracted from the AML message(s), and transmitting one or more emergency notifications to the emergency contact(s) according to the contact information. The one or more emergency notifications indicative of the emergency call(s) comprise an indication of the user(s) and the location of the cellular device(s) extracted from the AML message(s).
US12047845B2
A method may include sending, by a wireless device to an access and mobility management function (AMF), a first registration request message that includes a first geographical coordinate of a first geographical location. The method may also include receiving, from the AMF, a registration accept message comprising a radius value. The method may further include moving, by the wireless device, to a second geographical location. The method may additionally include sending, conditioned on a distance between the first geographical coordinate and a second geographical coordinate of the second geographical location being larger than the radius value, a second registration request message that includes the second geographical coordinate.
US12047836B2
To conserve energy associated with bi-directional communications with network devices (e.g., access point, router, long-range (LoRa) access point, edge device, etc.), and to limit data/information processing resources associated with such bi-directional communications, a user device (e.g., a data collection device, an Internet of Things (IoT) device, an end device, a low-power device, a sensor, etc.) may determine its location (e.g., geolocation, etc.). The user device may use mapping information that identifies each network device within a geographical area to identify locations of network devices within a communication range of the user device. The user device may determine its own location based on the locations of the network devices within the communication range.
US12047835B2
A transportation controller (TC) computing system for monitoring a user computing device location and triggering location-based events using geo-fencing is provided. The TC computing system includes at least one TC computing device configured to register a customer with a transportation controller (TC) service using registration data received from a user computing device associated with the customer. The TC computing device is also configured to receive, in response to the user computing device detecting a first geo-fence, first travel data associated with a trip of the customer. The TC computing device is further configured to validate the trip using the first travel data, receive, in response to the user computing device detecting a second geo-fence, second travel data associated with the trip of the customer, and determine a first transaction amount for the trip based on the first travel data and the second travel data.
US12047823B2
When a user equipment (UE) is configured with a primary cell (PCell) and one or more secondary cells (SCell), scheduling of uplink (UL) and/or downlink (DL) resources for the UE may be received from the primary cell. However, in some circumstances, the primary cell may be unable to provide such scheduling related information. In such circumstances, one or more secondary cells may be enabled to provide scheduling related information to the UE such that cells other than the primary cell may function as scheduling cells. Information regarding dormancy states of the cells (primary and/or secondary) may also be provided by the scheduling cells.
US12047816B2
Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system thereof. The present disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services, and the like), based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method by which a terminal updates system information, and a terminal for performing the method, which comprises the steps of: acquiring first system information and second system information from a first cell; starting a timer corresponding to the second system information; determining whether the second cell is a cell that shares the second system information with the first cell, if the terminal has moved from the first cell to the second cell; and updating the second system information on the basis of the determination result.
US12047815B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for dynamic resource allocation in cloud radio access networks, and the dynamic resource allocation apparatus includes: a deep reinforcement learning unit learning load fluctuation of a remote radio head by using deep reinforcement learning and predicting the load fluctuation of the remote radio head; a calculation unit calculating a computational resource of a virtual machine corresponding to the remote radio head by using the predicted load fluctuation; and an allocation unit allocating the calculated computational resource to the virtual machine.
US12047814B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that coordinate network traffic between a wireless network device and a computing platform. An example apparatus includes a wake-up selector to generate a target wait time parameter based on a workload type of a number of packets obtained from a network device and a user preference, the target wait time parameter indicative of a time interval that, when met, causes a modem to retrieve the number of packets, a data frame generator to generate a data frame that causes the network device to buffer the number of packets for the time interval, and a network packet controller to negotiate, using the data frame, the target wait time parameter with a network device.
US12047813B2
Methods and apparatus for providing data services to devices at a customer premises. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of: switching from a first mode of operation to a second mode of operation with respect to providing data services to a user equipment device located at a customer premises upon detection of a first condition at the customer premises by a wireless base station; receiving, after switching into the second mode of operation, at the wireless base station a first data service request from the user equipment device; transmitting, in response to the first data service request, one or more data packets of a first data packet stream to the user equipment device via a first transmission path and transmitting one or more additional data packets of the first packet stream to the user equipment device via a second transmission path.
US12047811B2
A wireless communication terminal includes a memory, a processor, and a wireless communication module. The memory can store a plurality of transmission patterns different from each other and payload patterns respectively corresponding to the plurality of transmission patterns. The processor generates a payload according to the plurality of transmission patterns and payload patterns stored in the memory. The wireless communication module wirelessly transmits data including the payload.
US12047808B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless communication device may iterate a value of a channel access counter (CAC) to a trigger value based at least in part on configuring the value of the CAC. In some aspects, the first wireless communication device may utilize a channel access mechanism to select a set of time-frequency resources for a transmission of a packet based at least in part on iterating the value of the CAC to the trigger value. In some aspects, the first wireless communication device may transmit the packet to a second wireless communication device via the set of time-frequency resources based at least in part on utilizing the channel access mechanism to select the set of time-frequency resources for the transmission. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12047792B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a quantity of reference signals that the UE supports for measuring CSI within one or more slots. A base station may determine a quantity of reference signals to transmit to the UE for CSI measurement based at least in part on the indication. The UE may receive, and the base station may transmit, one or more reference signals in a slot of the one or more slots based at least in part on transmitting the indication of the quantity of reference signals, and may transmit an indication of one or more measurements of the received one or more reference signals. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12047783B1
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US12047775B2
This Application sets forth techniques for cellular service management for a secondary mobile wireless device assisted by a primary mobile wireless device, including provisioning and management of electronic subscriber identity modules (eSIMs) for a secondary mobile wireless device with user authorization obtained via the primary mobile wireless device.
US12047772B2
The present invention relates to a method of turning on an electric scooter by supplying power to the ECU when the interchangeable battery pack is driven by eliminating the auxiliary battery that always supplies power to the ECU that turns on the start of the electric scooter, providing an interchangeable battery packs using wireless communication type, and using a wireless communication signal received from a smart device as a driving signal of the interchangeable battery pack.
US12047761B2
A display device includes a thin-film transistor layer disposed on a substrate and including thin-film transistors; and an emission material layer disposed on the thin-film transistor layer. The emission material layer includes light-emitting elements each including a first light-emitting electrode, an emissive layer and a second light-emitting electrode, light-receiving elements each including a first light-receiving electrode, a light-receiving semiconductor layer and a second light-receiving electrode, and a first bank disposed on the first light-emitting electrode and defining an emission area of each of the light-emitting elements. The light-receiving elements are disposed on the first bank.
US12047744B2
Electroacoustic devices with a capacitive element and methods for fabricating such electroacoustic devices. An example method includes forming an acoustic device above a first region of a substrate, and forming a capacitive element above a second region of the substrate and adjacent to the acoustic device. The forming of the capacitive element may include forming a protective layer above the substrate where a first portion of the protective layer is above the second region of the substrate and a second portion of the protective layer is above the first region of the substrate, forming a dielectric region above the protective layer, and forming an electrode above the dielectric region. The dielectric region may include a different material than the protective layer.
US12047736B2
A speaker cover enabling directivity control of soundwave radiation, containing a cover body having a truncated pyramid shape; the cover body is adapted to be provided with a speaker inside; the cover body is hollow, and is provided with an opening; the cover body has a base board and a plurality of side boards extending out from edges of the base board; a fixing unit is provided on the base board to fix the speaker; the side boards are made of hard board material; at least part of an inner side wall of each of the side boards is provided with sound absorption material.
US12047721B2
An apparatus comprises a display panel configured to display an image, a vibration apparatus disposed at a rear surface of the display panel and configured to vibrate the display panel, a supporting member at the rear surface of the display panel, and a pad member between the vibration apparatus and the supporting member.
US12047718B2
A method and apparatus for secure transfer of previously broadcasted content enables the secure transfer of previously broadcasted content between DVRs on a computer network.
US12047709B2
A device for monitoring the surroundings of a vehicle may be secured to the vehicle. In one example, the device comprises a fixture and a swivel arm that is movable relative to the fixture and connected thereto. The fixture has a fastening portion for fastening the device to a body part of the vehicle and is shaped to receive at least one camera. The swivel arm is shaped to receive an antenna.
US12047703B2
An electronic device according to the present invention includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a reading unit configured to read an image which is a captured image and gaze information associated with the image from a recording medium; a display control unit configured to control a display; and a control unit configured to perform control to enlarge or reduce the image about a position based on the gaze information read by the reading unit when enlarging or reducing the image read by the reading unit and displayed on the display by the display control unit.
US12047695B2
Provided is a photoelectric sensor, a random accessible active pixel circuit, an image sensor and a camera. A photoelectric sensor comprises a doped region, a substrate, a doped source region, a doped drain region, and two isolation regions; wherein the doped region is arranged on a bottom surface of the substrate so as to form a photodiode; a cathode of the photodiode is formed in the doped region and is connected to a positive voltage to make the photodiode work in a reverse bias region; wherein the doped source region and the doped drain region are spaced apart on top of the substrate so as to form a field effect transistor; a source is formed on a top surface of the doped source region, and a drain is formed on the top surface of the doped drain region; wherein the two isolation regions are arranged on opposite sides of the substrate, and extend from the doped source region and the doped drain region to the doped region; wherein a gate dielectric layer and a gate between the doped source region and the doped drain region are configured sequentially upwards from the top surface of the substrate; the gate is connected to a voltage to make the field effect transistor select wide dynamic range mode or high gain mode.
US12047687B2
An optical sensor, for sensing a sensing frame corresponding to a flicker period of ambient light, comprising: a pixel array, configured to perform N times of exposure operations via at least one pixel of the pixel array in N exposure time intervals to generate N sub-frames, wherein a summation of the N exposure time intervals equals to a sensing interval and the sensing interval is less than or identical to a first flicker period. The optical sensor adds the N sub-frames to generate a summing sub-frame. The sensing frame comprises the summing sub-frame. The adding operation can also be performed to digital signals generated from the sub-frames. The influences caused by the fluctuation of ambient light can be neutralized, since the frame or portion of the frame is sensed at least twice at different phases of a single flicked period. By this way, the conventional flicker issue can be improved.
US12047663B2
A lens system and a camera, where the lens system includes a first refractive element, a second refractive element, a reflecting element, and a photosensitive element, where the first refractive element and the reflecting element are disposed along a direction of a first optical axis, the second refractive element and the reflecting element are disposed along a direction of a second optical axis, the first optical axis is perpendicular to the second optical axis, the second refractive element and the photosensitive element are disposed in parallel, an effective aperture diameter of the first refractive element is greater than an effective aperture diameter of the second refractive element in a height direction of the lens system, and the first optical axis is parallel to the height direction of the lens system.
US12047651B2
A system and method of sponsoring a streamer through drawing a picture is proposed. The system and method may set and provide an amount of ink available to a sponsor according to a sponsorship amount and output a picture directly drawn by the sponsor using the ink and a picture drawing process on a broadcast streaming screen for a predetermined period of time, so as to sponsor the streamer. In addition, in the embodiment, a picture quest sponsorship service in which a quest function and a picture sponsorship function are combined is provided.
US12047648B2
An index file for an on-demand media stream (such as video-on-demand) is analyzed to determine one or more content insertion points, also referred to as cue points. The streaming platform modifies the index file such that the streaming platform can select the content to insert later on, preferably making that selection after the index file has been served and preferably a short time before the cue point in the stream. Put another way, the decision as to which content to insert at such points is not predetermined at the time of serving the index file. In this way, content insertions decisions can be made midstream.
US12047645B1
A system can be utilized to retrieve media content and rating schemas, to determine maturity ratings for media content. The media content can be utilized to determine segments of data as building blocks associated with mature content. The building blocks can be mapped to content descriptors and rating levels associated with the rating schemas. The building blocks can be compared the media content to identify portions of the media content that have characteristics represented by the building blocks. The building blocks representing the characteristics in the portions of the media content can be utilized to select content descriptors and rating levels associated with the media content. The selected content descriptor and selected rating levels can be utilized to control how, and/or whether, the media content is made available for output to the consumers.
US12047643B2
Disclosed is a method for processing a video call on a smart television and a smart television. In the method, a first call interface displayed in a full screen is switched to a second call interface displayed in a floating layer, and a call window on the second call interface is configured not to be able to obtain a focus; and when a user operates a frontend page, the call window on the second call interface will not be selected, however, all buttons or options of the frontend page located underlying the second call interface can be selected by the user.
US12047642B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein to identify media presentation by analyzing network traffic. Example instructions cause a machine to generate a traffic profile to reduce a computational burden of identifying streaming media being presented on a media presentation device, the traffic profile including first network traffic data indicative of the streaming media; obtain the traffic profile and second network traffic data corresponding to the streaming media; and generate, in response to a score for the second network traffic data meeting a threshold of similarity, a network traffic analysis report identifying the streaming media being presented on the media presentation device.
US12047629B2
There are disclosed distributed playback, DP, techniques. For examples a DP master device, may: establish a local connection with a plurality of DP client devices and for establishing a remote connection with a remote content provider, so as to receive a first encrypted media stream from the remote content provider; decrypt the first encrypted media stream to obtain a decrypted media stream; adding DP information, DPI, to the decrypted media stream; encrypting the decrypted media stream according to a second encryption standard to obtain a second encrypted stream; additionally encrypting the DPI in the second encrypted media stream or adding the DPI to the encrypted media stream in plaintext, transmitting an output media stream, which is the second encrypted media stream, to the plurality of DP client devices.
US12047628B2
A system and method for transmitting still images and a video feed from an unmanned aerial vehicle to a ground station is disclosed. The system includes an aircraft including a digital video camera to capture still images and video frames of an object. A video encoder is coupled to the camera to provide a video output including video packets. A file server is coupled to the camera to provide a still image output including image data packets. A multiplexer is coupled to the video output and the still image output. The multiplexer produces a data transmission including the video packets and the image data packets. A transmitter sends the data transmission to the ground station. The ground station receives the data transmission and demultiplexes the packets into separate video and image data packets. The ground control station may select the ratio the video stream images in relation to the still image to be transmitted from the aircraft.
US12047620B2
An encoder for use with video data, first supplemental data, second supplemental data, and a display device. The encoder includes: a memory; and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the encoder to: generate modified video data based on an incorporation of the first supplemental data into the video data such that the supplemental video will be displayed at a predetermined location when the modified video is displayed on the display device; generate metadata associated with the predetermined location; generate an encoded transport stream including the modified video data, the metadata and the second supplemental data; and transmit the encoded transport stream to the display device so as to enable the display device to decode the encoded transport stream and display the modified video and the second supplemental video such that the second supplemental video is not displayed at the predetermined location.
US12047617B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for determining an optimal spot to insert supplemental content into a media stream to maximize the consumption of the supplemental content by users. An example embodiment operates by performing automated content recognition (ACR) on the media stream, thereby determining scene changes in the media stream. The embodiment identifies a plurality of potential supplemental content spots in the media stream based on the determined scene changes. The embodiment then performs a multivariate test involving test supplemental content over a portion of the potential supplemental content spots to a plurality of media devices, thereby determining the optimal supplemental content spot among the plurality of potential supplemental content spots in the media stream.
US12047601B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and device for processing a video signal and, more specifically, comprises the steps of: parsing, from a bitstream, block-based delta pulse code modulation (BDPCM) enable information indicating whether or not BDPCM has been enabled; when the BDPCM enable information indicates that the BDPCM has been enabled, the width of a current block is less than or equal to a first value, and the height of the current block is less than or equal to a second value, parsing, from the bitstream, intra BDPCM information indicating whether or not the BDPCM is to be applied to the current block; when the intra BDPCM information indicates that the BDPCM is to be applied to the current block, parsing, from the bitstream, intra BDPCM direction information regarding the current block; and reconstructing the current block on the basis of the intra BDPCM direction information.
US12047595B2
Systems and methods herein address reference frame selection in video streaming applications using one or more processing units to decode a frame of an encoded video stream that uses an inter-frame depicting an object and an intra-frame depicting the object, the intra-frame being included in a set of intra-frames based at least in part on at least one attribute of the object as depicted in the intra-frame being different from the at least one attribute of the object as depicted in other intra-frames of the set of intra-frames.
US12047594B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for decoding an image, which improve encoding and decoding efficiency by performing various forms of transform and inverse transform during transform and inverse transform processes of a video coding technique.
US12047575B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for multi-symbol equiprobable mode entropy coding, An example apparatus includes equiprobabie bypass control circuitry to determine whether an input value associated with the one or more blocks is greater than a reference value. The example apparatus also includes interval control circuitry to, based on the determination, adjust at least one of an upper limit or a lower limit based on an approximate value approximating a product of (1) a quotient of (a) a difference between the alphabet size and one and (b) the alphabet size and (2) the upper limit, the upper limit and the lower limit forming a range of values within which the input value is to be encoded.
US12047564B2
The present invention relates to an intra prediction mode mapping method and a device using the method. The intra prediction mode includes: decoding flag information providing information regarding whether an intra prediction mode of a plurality of candidate intra prediction modes for the current block is the same as the intra prediction mode for the current block, and decoding a syntax component including information regarding the intra prediction mode for the current block in order to induce the intra prediction mode for the current block if the intra prediction mode from among the plurality of candidate intra prediction modes for the current block is not the same as the intra prediction mode for the current block. Thus, it is possible to increase the efficiency with which are images are decoded.
US12047558B2
A method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video unit of a video and a coded representation of the video using at least a video picture. Only one of a sub-picture coding mode or a resolution-changing coding mode is enabled for the video unit. The sub-picture coding mode is a mode in which the video picture is divided into multiple sub-pictures, and the resolution-changing coding mode is a mode in which a resolution of the video picture is adjusted during the conversion.
US12047557B2
Disclosed are a colour component prediction method, encoder, decoder, and storage medium. When CCLM is used for a current block to determine its intra prediction value, the encoder determines multiple groups of corresponding CCLM parameters using multiple groups of reference samples of current block, determines a target CCLM parameter from multiple groups of CCLM parameters; sets a CCLM index value indicating to use the target CCLM parameter and signals same in bitstream; and determines intra prediction value of current block according to the target CCLM parameter. The decoder parses bitstream to determine a prediction mode parameter of current block, parses bitstream to determine a CCLM index value of current block when prediction mode parameter indicates intra prediction value of current block is determined using CCLM; determines target CCLM parameter according to the CCLM index value, and determines intra prediction value of current block according to the target CCLM parameter.
US12047550B2
An example method for training a machine learning model is provided. The method includes receiving training data collected by a three-dimensional (3D) imager, the training data comprising a plurality of training sets. The method further includes generating, using the training data, a machine learning model from which a disparity map can be inferred from a pair of images that capture a scene where a light pattern is projected onto an object.
US12047544B2
A moiré occurrence prediction means that predicts a region in which moiré will occur and implements a moiré suppression process only on a pattern including said region, thereby minimizing print deterioration, suppressing the occurrence of moiré, and enabling high quality printing. The moiré occurrence prediction means includes a communication unit for receiving an input image; a periodic structure inclusion determination unit for determining, in the input image; a periodic structure region that includes a periodic structure that induces occurrence of a moiré; and a moiré prediction unit for determining a risk of moiré occurrence in each periodic structure region by performing a predetermined frequency analysis process with respect to each of the determined periodic structure regions, generating a moiré occurrence notification that indicates the risk for each periodic structure region, and outputting the moiré occurrence notification.
US12047543B2
An infrared cropping optical module includes: a housing; a linear optical sensing module, which is accommodated within the housing, outputs visible light and receives reflected visible light and transmitting infrared light to obtain a visible light image, generated after the linear optical sensing module scans a medium, and cropping information corresponding to the visible light image; an infrared linear light source, which is accommodated within the housing, is disposed on one side of the linear optical sensing module, and outputs first infrared light; and a calibration sheet, which is disposed on an optical path of the first infrared light and reflects external visible light. A scanner using the infrared cropping optical module for image cropping is also disclosed.
US12047540B2
An image-forming unit forms a referential image on a first sheet. A reading unit reads the referential image on the first sheet to generate referential read image data. A calibration unit calibrates input image data using calibration parameters derived based on the referential read image data. The image-forming unit forms a target image on a second sheet based on the calibrated data. The reading unit reads the target image on the second sheet to generate read image data for inspection. An inspection unit inspects quality of the target image based on comparison between the input image data and the read image data for inspection. The calibration parameters are derived based on the referential read image data to which flare correction has been applied. The inspection unit compares the input image data with the corrected read image data.
US12047539B2
An image reading device includes a first image reading unit to read an image of a medium placed on a placement portion, a cover unit, and a hinge portion. The cover unit is rotatable in a first direction from a first position to cover the placement portion toward a second position and in a second direction from the second position toward the first position. The hinge portion has a first opening provided on a placement portion side, a second opening provided on a cover unit side, a first space in which a first cable extending from the first opening toward the second opening is disposed, and a second space that is adjacent to the first space via a partition portion and in which a second cable extending from the first opening toward the second opening is disposed. The first space extends in the first direction near the first opening.
US12047537B2
A printing system includes a printer unit configured to print an image on a recording sheet, an inserter configured to insert a sheet into a print product obtained by printing the image on the recording sheet, and one or more controllers having one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more controllers are configured to generate scanned images by causing the printing system to read the print product and the inserted sheet, register a reference image, inspect the print product based on a scanned image generated by reading the print product and the reference image, set an insertion position of the sheet to be inserted, and perform control so that a scanned image corresponding to the set insertion position of the sheet is not to be inspected.
US12047534B2
A system and method for automated chatbot testing to provide training and quality assurance of conversational artificial intelligence systems, comprising a chatbot testing administrator interface which allows chatbot makers to define what a chatbot is supposed to do, create test scripts to test the performance of the chatbot, and review the results of the chatbot tests, a chatbot testing server which provides and interface between chatbot testing agents and the administrator interface, instantiates chatbot agents and distributes them across available hardware and runs testing programs which activate, configure, and deactivate chatbot testing agents as needed. A plurality of chatbot agents may be running in parallel to provide automated testing based upon test script configuration.
US12047520B2
The decentralized processing system can identify zero or more cryptographic commitments to update a state of the blockchain recorded on the blockchain. The system can receive an indication to update the state of the blockchain. In response, the system can transmit to a decentralized consensus network (DCN) instructions for the DCN to compute a subsequent state. The system can receive, from the DCN, a first cryptographic hash associated with a data structure which is determined based on the computed subsequent state. The system can receive, form an implementation keeper a series of data entries associated with the data structure. A second cryptographic hash can be computed for each of the series of data entries and the system can determine whether each second cryptographic hash matches the first cryptographic hash. The system can execute instructions contained within each of the series of data entries to evolve the state of the blockchain.
US12047517B2
A method for sequential authentication based on chain of authentication using public key infrastructure (PKI) is provided. The method includes abutting a first wearable device belonging to a first party with a second wearable device belonging to a second party; transmitting, by the first wearable device, authentication information of the first party; verifying the authentication information of the first party; transmitting, by the second wearable device, authentication information of the second party; verifying the authentication information of the second party; authorizing electronic transaction in response to successfully verifying both the authentication information of the first party and the authentication information of the second party. Each of the authentication information of the first party and the authentication information of the second party includes information configured for authentication based on a public key infrastructure (PKI) certificate.
US12047511B2
An information processing system includes an image capturing device and a display device, wherein the image capturing device includes a biometric information acquisition part that acquires biometric information, an authenticating part that authenticates whether or not the biometric information matches registered biometric information registered in advance, an image capturing part that permits capturing of an image on a condition that authentication by the authenticating part is successful, an encryptor that encrypts image data captured by the image capturing part to generate encrypted data, and a data output part that outputs the encrypted data to the display device via a connecting terminal connected to the display device. The display device includes an acquisition part that acquires the encrypted data via a terminal connected to the image capturing device, a decryptor that decrypts the encrypted data, and a display that displays the image data decrypted and acquired by the decryptor.
US12047509B2
A processing system for a plurality of users of a building or vehicle includes a number of local nodes arranged in the building or vehicle. Each local node stores a copy of a block-chain. A processing unit is coupled to the local nodes and receives a processing request of a user and verifies the processing request by comparing a piece of processing information with the stored block-chain on at least one of the local nodes, in order to grant access authorization to the user. The processing information includes a piece of information from biometric data of the user.
US12047508B2
The disclosed embodiments are related to securely updating a semiconductor device and in particular to a key management system. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising storing a plurality of activation codes, each of the activation codes associated with a respective unique identifier (UID) of semiconductor device; receiving, over a network, a request to generate a new storage root key (SRK), the request including a response code and a requested UID; identifying a selected activation code from the plurality of activation codes based on the requested UID; generating the SHRSRK value using the response code and the selected activation code; associating the SHRSRK value with the requested UID and storing the SHRSRK value; and returning an acknowledgement in response to the request.
US12047506B2
A device that includes a secure element or a secure environment receives a token for authenticating a user that has an account with a service provider. The device generates, based on the token, a set of keys that include at least a private key and a public key. The device performs a key authentication procedure to compare the set of keys and a configured set of keys and selects a public key, of the set of keys or the configured set of keys, based on a result of the key authentication procedure. The device causes a device identifier of the device and the public key to be provided to another device that uses the device identifier and the public key to perform an authentication procedure to authenticate the user. The device receives, from the other device, an indication of whether the device is connected to a network.
US12047501B2
The present invention relates to a cryptographic protocol, and a system for implementing said protocol, for providing overt ledger secured key escrow access to encrypted data. The invention uses a plurality of trustee systems, each holding a secret share of a secret, to validate requests for the secret from authorised third parties. When a valid request is made, each trustee system publishes its secret share to a ledger. The secret shares can be combined to reveal the encryption key only by the authorised third party. Requests for the encryption key, and the responses by the trustee systems, can be accessed by the owner of the encryption key to identify the requesting third party and to have proof that the key has been revealed to the third party.
US12047500B2
The present invention is a platform and/or agnostic method and system operable to protect data, documents, devices, communications, and transactions. Embodiments of the present invention may be operable to authenticate users and may be operable with any client system. The method and system are operable to disburse unique portions of anonymous related information amongst multiple devices. These devices disburse unique portions of anonymous information and are utilized by the solution to protect sensitive data transmissions, and to authenticate users, data, documents, device and transactions. When used for authentication, login-related information is not stored in any portion of the solution, users and devices are anonymously authenticated. The solution also permits a user to access secured portions of the client system through a semi-autonomous process and without having to reveal the user's key.
US12047495B2
A method for the initial setup of a machine data communication network including a network unit provided with a first hardware component having a digital identity. For the digital identity, a signature of the network unit is generated based on a first private key for a communication partner in the machine data communication network. The first private key is stored in a first hardware security module of the first hardware component, and a first public key corresponding to the first private key and the signature is disclosed to the communication partner in order to verify the identity of the network unit. A separate identification device is arranged in the network unit, and the first public key is transferred from the first hardware security module to the identification device. The first public key of the identification device is saved in the identification device by an intelligent contract and is transmitted by distributed ledger technology to the communication partner.
US12047494B2
One of the main obstacles of securing industrial control systems is the lack of an appropriate security model that is both implementable by vendors and addresses the inherent security and usability issues needed by organizations. Current solutions such as device passwords and IPSec lack scalable key management infrastructure and fine granularity access control mechanisms. A security model for industrial control systems that supports organizational level authorizations and authentication requirements, while hiding the low-level details (e.g., keys and passwords) from the users is disclosed. It also enables easy addition and removal of PLCs, engineering station, HMI devices and users, and assigning permission to them. A major advantage is its support for hybrid ICS systems, characterized by co-existence of legacy devices and new devices, while using the same protocol. Devices may communicate therein either natively, or by a connected converter. This co-existence allows organizations to gradually switch from a fully-legacy ICS to ICS natively supporting the disclosed security model, by replacing a single (or a few) devices at a time, incurring little or no system downtime. An exemplary protocol supporting the disclosed security model, namely K7, is based on the Siemens S7 protocol, and enhances it with new cryptographic features to support the extra functionality. Similar enhancements may be applied to other protocols. A ticket-based system, (e.g., Kerberos with LDAP server) used to support the exchange of permissions and keys, is incorporated into the disclosed protocol. K7 may be implemented as a protocol converter add-on to standard Siemens clients and PLCs that transform them into augmented devices that use K7. Siemens and other vendors may add direct support for K7 on their ICS systems, devices, and the like in the future.
US12047489B2
An apparatus configured to: receive a digital input signal; receive a processing-direction-signal that can have a forward-value or a backward-value; and provide a digital output signal. The apparatus comprising a processor configured to apply an involutional cryptographic function to the digital input signal by: for a first operation: apply a first step of the involutional cryptographic function to the digital input signal in order to implement a forward calculation to move to the next step in the sequence; and perform a plurality of further operations until the forward calculation of a last step is performed. Each further operation comprises: if the processing-direction-signal has a forward-value: then perform the forward calculation for the current step; or if the processing-direction-signal has a backward-value: then perform a backward calculation for the current step.
US12047485B2
Apparatus and method for resisting side-channel attacks on cryptographic engines are described herein. An apparatus embodiment includes a cryptographic block coupled to a non-linear low-dropout voltage regulator (NL-LDO). The NL-LDO includes a scalable power train to provide a variable load current to the cryptographic block, randomization circuitry to generate randomized values for setting a plurality of parameters, and a controller to adjust the variable load current provided to the cryptographic block based on the parameters and the current voltage of the cryptographic block. The controller to cause a decrease in the variable load current when the current voltage is above a high voltage threshold, an increase in the variable load current when the current voltage is below a low voltage threshold; and a maximization of the variable load current when the current voltage is below an undervoltage threshold. The cryptographic block may be implemented with arithmetic transformations.
US12047484B2
A method for executing a function, secured by temporal desynchronization, includes when a first legitimate instruction is loaded, noting the opcode of this first legitimate instruction, then constructing a dummy instruction on the basis of this noted opcode, the dummy instruction thus constructed being identical to the first legitimate instruction except that its operands are different, then incorporating the dummy instruction thus constructed into a sequence of dummy instructions used to delay the time at which a second legitimate instruction is executed.
US12047482B2
An information control method and a communications device are provided. The method includes: obtaining first information; and executing at least one of the following operations: determining a first delay according to the first information; determining a second delay according to the first information; determining delay requirement information according to the first information; sending the delay requirement information to a network element in a communications network; sending bridge delay information to a third-party network or a third-party application; executing a first operation when it is determined that a first condition is met; and executing a second operation when it is determined that a second condition is met, where the first information includes at least one of the following: first time information, second time information, clock information of a first clock, and clock information of a second clock.
US12047472B2
An improved information management system that implements a staging area or cache to temporarily store primary data in a native format before the primary data is converted into secondary copies in a secondary format is described herein. For example, the improved information management system can include various media agents that each include one or more high speed drives. When a client computing device provides primary data for conversion into secondary copies, the primary data can initially be stored in the native format in the high speed drive(s). If the client computing device then submits a request for the primary data, the media agent can simply retrieve the primary data from the high speed drive(s) and transmit the primary data to the client computing device. Because the primary data is already in the native format, no conversion operations are performed by the media agent, thereby reducing the restore delay.
US12047466B2
A method includes: obtaining a push content request from an object; determining a push content set according to the push content request; detecting historical behavior feature data of the object for a push content in response to a behavior feature of the object for the push content satisfying a preset negative behavior condition; performing content-based matching for the push content set based on the historical behavior feature data to obtain a target push content set of the object; performing content sorting of the push content set and performing content-based matching of the push content of the object to obtain a target push content set of the object; and determining a target push content of the object from the target push content set, and transmitting the target push content to the object.
US12047465B1
A parent tag in a parent webpage displayed on a computing device sends a unique identifier to a child tag for each child page within the parent webpage and receives a response from a first child page. The parent tag generates a channel message comprising the unique identifier for the first child page and a recording status and sends the channel message to the first child page. The parent tag receives a content message from the first child page comprising activity data captured according to the recording status and comprising one or more actions performed by a user in the first child page. The parent tag sends the activity data comprising one or more actions performed by the user in the webpage and activity data comprising one or more actions performed by the user in the first child page to a server system to generate a session replay.
US12047457B2
The present application provides a session processing method and apparatus, a network device and a storage medium. The session processing method includes: receiving, by a distributed node, a session processing request message from a central node, the session processing request message including information of a partial session to be processed in the distributed node, and the central node being connected to multiple distributed nodes; and processing the partial session with a UE by the distributed node receiving the session processing request message according to the information of the partial session to be processed.
US12047451B2
It is provided an IoT system, comprising: a communication device in which an identification module for controlling a communication requirement is installed, and which is configured to communicate to/from a cloud server; an asset which is connected to the communication device; and a control server which is configured to manage setting of the communication between the communication device and the cloud server, wherein the control server is configured to: manage a relationship between the identification module and the communication device and a relationship between the communication device and the asset; and set the communication between the communication device and the cloud server in order to transfer information from the asset to the cloud server.
US12047448B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to storing location information about storage nodes in cookies. A cloud-based service may send location requests to an orchestration service that instantiated storage nodes included in a storage cluster of the cloud-based service. The cloud-based service may receive location information that identifies in which computer zone that a given storage node is located. The cloud-based service may store the location information in cookies at a metadata store that is shared among the storage nodes. The cloud-based service may receive, from a client node, a search request to identify ones of the storage nodes that store particular data. The cloud-based service may return a set of cookies corresponding to identified storage nodes. The set of cookies may enable the client node to determine whether there is a storage node that stores the particular data and is within the same computer zone as the client node.
US12047440B2
In a service mesh, back-pressure is applied and relieved as needed by a control mechanism which is applied between pairs of services to control the rate at which service requests are made from one of service to the other via monitoring hardware and/or software metrics. A proxy of one service is monitored to observe the rate at which it receives service requests from the other service. If it is observed that the monitored metrics have breached allowable limits, back-pressure is applied to reduce the rate at which the other proxy transmits these service requests. Through continued monitoring of the proxy, the back-pressure can be later relieved when appropriate by increasing the permitted request rate.
US12047429B2
Systems and methods of parallel uniform resource identifier resource extraction are provided. A tracking uniform resource identifier (URI) generation component can generate a first uniform resource locator (URL) that, responsive to actuation by a client computing device, causes the client computing device to send a content item identifier of a content item and a device identifier of the client computing device, via a computer network, to a records server at a first network location identified by the first URL. A resource URI generation component can generate a second URL that, responsive to actuation by the client computing device, causes the client computing device to retrieve, via the computer network, a first resource from a second network location identified by the second URL for display by the client computing device. A content item packaging component can generate the content item.
US12047427B2
Systems and methods for providing synchronous transmission of streaming media are disclosed. One method may include: receiving, from a first user device associated with a first user, a request to invite a second user to a virtual media streaming session; retrieving, from the at least one database, a second user profile, the second user profile identifying a second user device associated with the second user; transmitting, subsequent to the retrieving, instructions to the second user device to present a notification alerting the second user of the request; determining, using a processor, whether a response accepting the request is detected from the second user device; and connecting, responsive to determining that the response accepting the request was detected, the second user profile to the virtual media streaming session; wherein multimedia content presented in the virtual media streaming session is simultaneously viewable on the first user device and the second user device.
US12047420B2
Techniques and architecture are described for determining an identity of a client device and utilizing security policies associated with the client device provided by a device identity entity. For example, a tag associated with security policies is created for use in enforcing the security policies by a security policy enforcement entity associated with a cloud network. The techniques and architecture also allow for identification of a particular user on a client device that may be shared by multiple users based at least in part on the user accessing an application. Also, the techniques and architecture described herein provide a generic and agnostic approach to enforcing security policies for users and/or client devices.
US12047415B1
In an embodiment, a non-transitory medium stores code representing instructions to be executed by one or more processors. The instructions comprise code to cause the one or more processors to receive, at a compute device associated with a user, a message that is a simulated phishing test. The instructions further comprise code to cause the one or more processors cause, without human intervention and automatically in response to receiving the message, a link included in the simulated phishing test to be selected while not indicating that the user has failed the simulated phishing test. The instructions further comprise code to cause the one or more processors determine, after the link has been clicked, that an action indicating that the user has failed the simulated phishing test has been performed.
US12047411B2
Techniques are provided for detecting compromised web pages in a runtime environment. A first version of a web page is retrieved and loaded in a browser comprising a browser extension configured to detect event listeners added when web pages are loaded by the browser. First data is generated describing a first set of event listeners detected by the browser extension when the first version of the web page is loaded. At a second time a second version of the web page is retrieved and loaded in the browser. Second data is generated describing a second set of event listeners detected by the browser extension when the second version of the web page is loaded. It is determined that the web page is compromised based on comparing the first data and the second data. In response to determining that the web page is compromised, a threat response action is performed.
US12047409B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing a behavior driven architecture module is disclosed. A processor operatively connected to a database a communication network. The processor accesses the database to obtain patterns information data, data contracts information data, and dependencies information data associated with an application's architecture; implements a natural language processing algorithm to describe behavior of the application's architecture and to build a plurality of contexts data providing characteristics information related to each component of the application's architecture; implements a conversational artificial intelligence algorithm to receive input responses to fill in missing gaps corresponding to the application' architecture; integrates the received input responses with the patterns information data, data contracts information data, and dependencies information data associated with the application's architecture; and generates, in response to integrating, a graph having a unique shape that describes the characteristics information related to each component of the application's architecture.
US12047405B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: monitoring actions of a user having access to a cluster, and in response to determining that the user has performed a risk event, incrementing a risk score assigned to the user. A determination is also made as to whether the incremented risk score is outside a predetermined range, and in response to determining that the incremented risk score is outside the predetermined range, a snapshot quota assigned to the user is dynamically reduced.
US12047402B2
A control system (10) includes plural sensors (14), plural actuators (16), and a controller (18). An information processing apparatus (2000) acquires configuration information representing a configuration of the control system (10), a control rule representing a rule of control of each actuator (16) by the controller (18), and behavior log data indicating a combination of time-series data of an observed value of the sensor (14), and a state of each actuator (16) at each time. The information processing apparatus (2000) generates, for each combination of states of the actuators (16) and for the each sensor (14), a behavioral function representing a temporal change of the observed value of the sensor (14) regarding the combination of states of the plural actuators, using the behavioral log data, and generates a system model of the control system (10) using the configuration information, the control rule, and the behavioral function.
US12047391B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are directed to machine learning techniques that use a separate embedding layer. This can allow for continuous monitoring of a processing system based on events that are continuously generated. Various events may have corresponding feature data associated with at least one action relating to a processing system. Embedding vectors that correspond to the features are retrieved from an embedding layer that is hosted on a separate physical device or a separate computer system from a computer that hosts the machine learning system. The embedding vectors are processed though the machine learning model, which may then make a determination (e.g. whether or not a particular user action should be allowed). Generic embedding vectors additionally enable the use of a single remote embedding layer for multiple different machine learning models, such as event driven data models.
US12047389B2
In one embodiment, a network interface receives a communication request. A processor then verifies caller information in the communication request with a certification procedure. The processor obtains a first indicator based on the certification procedure. The first indicator includes information associated with a first certificate management procedure. The processor generates a second indicator based on the first indicator. The second indicator includes information associated with a second certificate management procedure.
US12047388B2
A hardware detection method includes sending first verification data to a physical carrier, where the physical carrier carries a plurality of pieces of hardware; receiving a ciphertext and binding relationship information from the physical carrier, where the ciphertext is obtained after at least two of the pieces of hardware respectively encrypt the first verification data using respective keys, and where the binding relationship information indicates a binding relationship between the at least two pieces of hardware; verifying the ciphertext and the binding relationship information; and determining security of the at least two pieces of hardware based on a verification result.
US12047373B2
An online system monitors resources utilization by users connecting with the online system and detects unauthorized resource utilization caused by sharing of sessions. The online system collects samples of browser attributes from browsers interacting with the online system. The online system determines a score indicating a difference between two samples of browser attributes taken at different times. The online system uses the score to determine whether the two samples of browser attributes in the same session were received from different browsers. If the online system detects unauthorized resource utilization if the two samples are determined to be from two different browsers. The online system takes mitigating actions, for example, by invalidating the session or requiring users to re-enter credentials.
US12047372B2
Systems and methods for secure user authentication are described. In certain embodiments, a client device such as a smartphone may be provisioned with a secure key and/or other secret information. The client device may be used to generate unique secure tokens and/or other credentials used in connection with an authentication process. A user may provide the generated tokens and/or other credentials to a service provider in connection with a request to access a managed service. The validity of the generated tokens and/or other credentials may be verified by an authentication service in communication with the service provider.
US12047369B2
In variants, a fleet management method can include determining information about a device S100; sending information to a device S200, and operating the device according to the information S300 (e.g., example shown in FIG. 1). The fleet management system can function to scalably manage the operation and permissioning of one or more fleets of devices.
US12047366B2
A communications server for validating a token on a user device, the communications server comprising a memory storing: a list of locations; a first unique code associated with each location; a second unique code associated with each location; a user device product threshold; and a number of previously validated tokens for the user device, wherein the communications server is configured to: receive a first communication from the user device specifying the first unique code associated with a particular location; compare the number of previously validated tokens for the user device against the user device product threshold; when the number of previously validated tokens for the user device does not exceed the user device product threshold, send a reservation message to the user device, the reservation message causing the token on the user device to be reserved for use at the particular location; receive a second communication from the user device, the second communication specifying the second unique code associated with the particular location; and in response to receiving the second unique code associated with the particular location, send a validation message to the user device, the validation message causing the token on the user device to be validated.
US12047354B2
An image processing apparatus includes a controller, a displayer, a communicator, and a near field communicator. The controller receives, from a terminal device, a display image associated with destination information stored by the terminal device, via the near field communicator, displays, on the displayer, a screen including the display image, receives, from the terminal device, the destination information, based on an operation input to the screen, and transmits an image for transmission via the communicator, based on the destination information received from the terminal device.
US12047353B2
A computer that provides one or more verified personas for a distributed token (such as a non-fungible token or NFT) of a first user is described. Notably, the computer may provide the one or more verified personas for the first user that are based at least in part on their account(s) with a provider of a secure, virtual private network (SVPN) of the first user. Consequently, the identity of the first user may be known to the provider. However, the one or more verified personas may obfuscate the known identity of the first user when conducting one or more discrete secure transactions (such as a transaction associated with a cryptocurrency or the NFT) using or associated with the distributed token. In particular, the first user may associate or link the one or more verified personas with the distributed token, thereby providing the benefits of privacy and selective (as-needed) identification.
US12047342B2
The present disclosure provides an information processing method and apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium. The information processing method comprises: receiving input topic information and sending the topic information to a server; displaying the topic information in a preset topic format on a session interface of a session group, the preset topic format having a reply area; receiving reply information used for replying to the topic information; and displaying the reply information in the reply area of the topic information. According to the method of the present disclosure, information is displayed in the form of topic information and reply information, and reply information corresponding to the same topic is displayed corresponding to the same topic information, such that the display mode of information is more reasonable, and a user can conveniently and quickly find information of interest.
US12047338B2
Traditional messaging applications (such as email, social networking platforms, text, instant messaging, chat, etc.) are ill-equipped for collaboration. For instance, a sender and recipients corresponding regarding a topic are often required to exchange multiple messages. As a result, determining a consensus regarding the topic or summarizing the collaboration is difficult and cumbersome. Moreover, when links are included in messages, recipients are required to navigate away from the messaging application to view the linked content. A messaging application is provided that may be configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate regarding links or data within a sent message or a receive message. In aspects, a collaborative user experience (UX) is provided, which may be an interface within a message that enables real-time collaboration between a sender and one or more recipients regarding message content—without exchanging additional messages or navigating away from the messaging application.
US12047337B1
A method includes determining participation in an interaction function by a first user of an interaction system with a second user of the interaction system. The method also includes accessing profile data of the first user, and determining, based on the profile data, whether the first user has captured or designated a first-user self-image for use in the interaction function. In response to determining that the first user has not captured or designated the first-user self-image, the method includes accessing a media content item that includes a character, identifying a head portion of the character in the media content item, replacing the head portion with a placeholder space, and displaying the media content item with the placeholder space in a user interface corresponding to the interaction function.
US12047335B1
Embodiments discussed herein refer to systems and methods for chatbot interactions. When chatbot derived interactions are detected, the system can prevent those interactions from being further processed. This can be performed by an analysis system operative to engage in a dialog with customers. The system can manage a dialog with a first customer and evaluate the dialog to determine whether any interactions or responses are associated with a chatbot or a human. Interactions or responses determined be associated with a chatbot are dropped and not permitted to be further processed by the analysis system.
US12047332B2
A method in a UE for adapting a measurement procedure is provided. The UE obtains information about signal configurations that indicate whether or not a Downlink Reference Signal (DL RS) transmitted in neighbor cells on a first carrier frequency of a first carrier uses a first signal configuration or a second signal configuration. The first signal configuration comprises the DL RS not being transmitted in every subframe of a cell and the second signal configuration comprises the DL RS being transmitted in every subframe of a cell. The UE receives a DL RS in a serving cell of the UE on the first carrier frequency that uses the second signal configuration. The UE adapts the measurement procedure based on the obtained information by adapting a measurement sampling or an instance when the UE shall obtain samples for one or more types of radio measurements.
US12047329B2
Methods, systems, and storage media are described for physical resource block indexing to provide coexistence for narrow band, carrier aggregation, and wide band user equipment in new radio. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US12047324B2
The present specification relates to a wireless communication system and to a method for multiplexing first HARQ-ACK information on the fastest physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) satisfying a specific condition from among M PUSCHs (M>0), in a state in which a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for the first HARQ-ACK information on a first physical downlink channel overlaps with the M PUSCHs in a time domain; and an apparatus for said method.
US12047322B2
Method and apparatus for a dormancy indication inside of a discontinuous reception (DRX) active time. The apparatus receives a configuration of a DRX operation. The apparatus receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) during a DRX on duration based on the configuration of the DRX operation. The PDCCH comprises downlink control information (DCI) comprising an indication indicating one or more parameters associated with a cell within a group of cells to be active during the DRX on duration. The one or more parameters comprise at least one of a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state or a control resource set (CORESET) index.
US12047320B2
A base station serves as a positioning node for locating a user equipment (UE). The base station receives information from a network component indicating the UE is transmitting positioning sounding reference signals (SRS), monitors for the positioning SRS based on, at least, the information and when positioning SRS are received from the UE, transmits SRS information to the network.
US12047318B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configuration enhancements. A method generally receiving pre-configuration information for one or more reference signal transmissions, performing, at a first time during an ON duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, measurements on one or more reference signals based, at least in part, on the pre-configuration information, determining if, at a second time during the ON duration after the first time, a trigger frame associated with the one or more reference signal transmissions has been received, and transmitting a measurement report corresponding to the measurements if a trigger frame has been received.
US12047297B2
A disclosed method may include (1) identifying a route installed in a Forwarding Information Base (FIB) of a network device included in a network, (2) identifying a plurality of active paths that lead from the network device to a destination device of the route installed in the FIB, (3) determining a load distribution of the plurality of active paths by calculating a plurality of traffic loads that represent amounts of traffic that traverse from the network device to the destination device via the plurality of active paths, and (4) making a trafficking decision in connection with the plurality of active paths based at least in part on the load distribution of the plurality of active paths. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US12047295B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses provide a scalable framework for analyzing queuing and transient congestion in network switches. The system reports which flows contributed to the queue buildup and enables direct per-packet action in the data plane to prevent transient congestion. The system may be configured to analyze queuing in legacy network switches.
US12047287B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a data transmission method performed by a sender network adapter associated with a sender server. The method includes: acquiring an original data packet, a first address, and a tenant identifier, the first address comprising an address of a receiver network adapter associated with a receiver server, and the tenant identifier being used for indicating a corresponding tenant on the receiver server; performing tunnel encapsulation on the original data packet based on the first address and the tenant identifier to obtain a tunnel data packet; sending the tunnel data packet to the receiver network adapter; decapsulating, by the receiver network adapter, the tunnel data packet to obtain the original data packet and the tenant identifier; and transmitting the original data packet and the tenant identifier to the receiver server, which is configured to deliver the original data packet to a tenant corresponding to the tenant identifier.
US12047283B2
Some embodiments provide a method for an agent executing on a Kubernetes node in a cluster. The method instructs a forwarding element that also executes on the node to process a flow tracing packet. From the forwarding element, the method receives a message indicating a set of flow entries matched by the flow tracing packet as the forwarding element processes the flow tracing packet. For each flow entry of at least a subset of the flow entries matched by the flow tracing packet, the method generates mapping data that maps elements of the flow entry to Kubernetes concepts implemented in the cluster. The method reports data regarding the set of flow entries along with the generated mapping data.
US12047280B1
A computerized method for utilizing private Internet Protocol (IP) addressing for communications between components of one or more public cloud networks. The method features determining whether outbound traffic corresponds to a first type of outbound traffic being forwarded from a cloud instance supported by the gateway. In response to determining that the first type of outbound traffic is being forwarded from the cloud instance, the first type of outbound traffic is directed via a data interface of the gateway. Also, the method features determining whether the outbound traffic corresponds to a second type of outbound traffic being initiated by logic within the gateway. In response to determining that the second type of outbound traffic is being initiated by logic within the gateway, directing the second type of outbound traffic via a management interface of the gateway.
US12047277B2
Techniques are disclosed for session-based routing of multipoint Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Model Layer-2 (L2) frames of an L2 network extended over Layer-3 (L3) networks. In one example, L2 networks connect a source device to an ingress router and receiver devices to egress routers. An L3 network connects the ingress and egress routers. The ingress router receives, from the source device, a multipoint L2 frame destined for the receiver devices. The ingress router forms, for each egress router that is connected to at least one multipoint receiver device, a unicast L3 packet for the L2 frame and forwards the unicast L3 packet to the egress router. Each egress router generates, in response to receiving the unicast L3 packet, the multipoint L2 frame and forwards, to the receiver devices, the multipoint L2 frame.
US12047271B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure discloses a method and an interoperability system. The present disclosure aims to provide interoperability between SD-WANs of different vendors. The interoperability system uses information from an agent (software or hardware) installed in network terminals such as routers of each SD-WAN to configure control and management plane signals and configures the agent associated with one SD-WAN to share data with agent associated with another SD-WAN. Therefore, the present disclosure helps in interoperability between SD-WANs from different vendors. Hence, operations are efficient, and cost is reduced.
US12047269B2
A system and method for providing end-to-end data flow analytics in a network flow that includes network appliances. Information regarding one or more network appliances is received by a flow collector and analyzed by an enrichment module. The network information regarding the one or more network appliances can be stored. Network flow data is received from various nodes within the network and stitched or aggregated in light of the enriched network appliance information to provide an end-to-end data flow that can be useful to understand one or more performance parameters of the unified network flow.
US12047266B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless communications entity, such as a user equipment (UE), a base station, a network core, or an application server, may identify a round-trip time (RTT) latency requirement that may pertain to a round-trip latency in wireless communications between the UE and the base station. The wireless communications entity may identify a one one-way directional delay budget that satisfies the RTT latency requirement for an application of an application server. The application server may be in communication with the UE via the base station. The wireless communications entity may modify a value of the one-way directional delay budget and transmit a message that is associated with the modified value of the one one-way directional delay budget.
US12047265B2
In some example embodiment, there may be provided an apparatus configured to at least: receive information including survival time and/or traffic pattern information indicative of deterministic traffic; determine, based on the received information, a packet handling type indicative of whether the deterministic traffic is to be carried in a selective packet duplication mode or an alternative packet transmission mode over at least two links; and perform, based on at least on the survival time, the indicated packet handling type to enable the deterministic traffic to be carried over the at least two links in the selective packet duplication mode or the alternative packet transmission mode.
US12047261B1
Implementations for determining content perception by a participant in a media session by analyzing content are described. A content signal, such as an audio signal or a video signal, is received during a media session. A transcript of the content can be determined. Feedback, such as a pre-determined phrase, related to content perception by a participant in the media session is determined using a learning algorithm at the device. Metadata regarding the media session is collected in response to the feedback related to the content perception. The indication of the feedback related to the content perception and the metadata regarding the media session is then sent. In response, one or more adjustments to the media session are received. The one or more adjustments to the media session can be determined based on the indication of the feedback related to the content perception, the metadata regarding the media session, and network performance information.
US12047256B1
Systems and methods are provided for a computer-implemented method of implementing an on-demand computing network environment. A network specification is received from a user. Resources from one or more resource providers are provisioned. The on-demand computing network is configured, where configuring comprises assigning a first provisioned resource as an interior device and assigning one or more second provisioned resources as rim devices.
US12047254B2
A method of mitigating risks in a service level agreement (SLA), including: identifying relationships between an infrastructure and an application associated with the SLA; identifying changes to a technological environment of the SLA based on collected data associated with the SLA and the identified relationships, the collected data including the infrastructure and the application; establishing a baseline for a service level objective (SLO) of the SLA by analyzing the collected data of the infrastructure and the application; determining risk impact to the SLA based on an assessment of requirements to the SLO and the changes to the technological environment of the SLA; generating a solution option for the SLA by applying an explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) model based on processing the risk impact with the baseline in the XAI model; and updating the SLA based on the solution option.
US12047252B2
In some aspects, a computing system may use machine learning to determine whether a control is faulty or generate recommendations to make a modification to a control. may identify a portion of problematic computer code that implements the faulty control through the use of machine learning. A computing system may use machine learning to generate embeddings that map incident data and control data (e.g., computer-readable code of a control) to the same vector space. Further, a computing system may use a weighting mechanism that may be used to weight each sample used to train a machine learning model, which may allow a model to train more efficiently.
US12047249B2
A computing system to generate models of managed devices and applications in an Internet of Things (IOT) system by identifying each endpoint in the managed devices and applications capable of transmitting or receiving the data and defining flows for data from the endpoints in sensors to endpoints of IOT servers via endpoints of the programmable edge device applications. The computing system can develop a data flow map to define a connectivity of the programmable edge device applications to the sensors and the servers in the IOT system for exchanging the data from the sensors to the servers in the IOT system via the programmable edge device applications. The computing system can prompt configuration of the managed devices and applications in the IOT system based on the data flow map, which implements the connectivity of the programmable edge device applications to the sensors and to servers in the IOT system.
US12047248B2
A method, performed by an electronic device, of controlling a state control parameter for adjusting a state of a network of a base station, using any one of a plurality of models, includes: obtaining information related to the state of the network from the base station, performing simulation on each of the plurality of models based on the obtained information related to the state of the network, selecting any one model from among the plurality of models based on a result of the performed simulation, and transmitting a value of the state control parameter, calculated using the selected any one model, to the base station to update the state control parameter.
US12047247B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of communications, and provides a network data analytics method, a network data analytics function (NWDAF) network element and a communication system. The NWDAF network element collects network data associated with an area of interest AOI, wherein the network data comprises energy-saving state information of a cell of the area of interest AOI. The network data associated with the area of interest AOI is analyzed by combining the energy-saving state information of the cell of the area of interest AOI, and the analysis result is output. The NWDAF network element can distinguish network data of the cell in the energy-saving state and the non-energy-saving state.
US12047244B2
In one aspect, a computerized method useful for connecting to a multipath hub in a cluster includes the step of, with a gateway in a same network as the cluster, receiving, from a branch edge, a request to connect to a logical identifier (ID) of the multipath hub. The gateway recognizes a logical ID representing a cluster. The gateway determines a least-loaded edge in the cluster to be the multipath hub. The gateway returns a connectivity information for the multipath hub. The branch edge configures a tunnel to the multipath hub.
US12047238B2
An example system includes a first network interface circuit structured to interpret a first Ethernet data set and to transmit a second Ethernet data set; a second network interface circuit structured to transmit a first controller area network (CAN) data set and to interpret a second CAN data set; and a translation circuit structured to: determine a first message value from the first Ethernet data set and to encapsulate the first message value in the first CAN data set; and determine a second message value from the second CAN data set and to encapsulate the second message value in the second Ethernet data set; wherein the first network interface circuit, the translation circuit, and the second network interface circuit are defined by an Ethernet switch and/or a CAN gateway both structured to be incorporated into a mobile system.
US12047233B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for remotely adjusting performance and power parameters of a computing device are disclosed. A computing system includes a first computing device connected to a second (remote) computing device. The user uses the second computing device to monitor and adjust parameters, such as a fan speed for a GPU on a video graphics card in the first computing device, while the first computing device executes a parallel data application such as a video game. Additionally, the user uses the second computing device to manage video recorder operations. By using the second computing device to send commands to a graphics driver and a video recorder application, the first computing device's display monitor does not display a user interface during execution of the video game. No video rendering is performed by the video graphics card of the first computing device to generate and control the user interface.
US12047224B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for restoration of Diameter connectivity. An example method includes accepting a first Diameter connection with a Diameter client having a Diameter identifier. The method includes receiving a request to establish a new Diameter connection with the Diameter identifier. The method includes holding the request to establish a new Diameter connection for a specified time limit, and, while holding the request, probing the first Diameter connection to determine whether the first Diameter connection has been broken. In response to determining that the first Diameter connection has been broken, the method includes aborting the first Diameter connection and accepting a second Diameter connection with the Diameter client having the Diameter identifier.
US12047223B2
The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for data processing to monitor and trigger alerts based on identified technical issues at instances running in a cloud platform environment. Availability data for the cloud platform can be collected. Based on evaluation of the availability data, a determination that at least a portion of a set of services are experiencing issues can be made. A detailed check is triggered to collect data logs, metrics, and dependencies data for at least the portion of the set of services. An overall status of performance of the cloud platform based on obtained service status data from the detailed check can be determined. Based on analysis of the overall status of performance of the cloud platform, execution of causal engine logic to identify an issue at the cloud platform can be performed, and a notification for the issue can be provided.
US12047222B2
A radio frequency (RF) communication assembly includes an RF communication circuit and a compensator apparatus. The compensator apparatus receives an input including an I-component of a pre-compensated signal, a Q-component of the pre-compensated signal, and encoded operating conditions of the RF communication circuit. The RF communication circuit includes RF circuit components causing signal impairments. The compensator apparatus perform neural network computing on the input, and the RF communication assembly generates a compensated output signal that compensates for at least a portion of the signal impairments.
US12047221B2
A telecommunication method which includes mapping, by a mapper, input data to points of a constellation, modulating, by a modulator, points of the constellation to generate modulated symbols, and transmitting a radio signal representative of the modulated symbols. The constellation includes a set of N points, the coordinates of which expressed in polar form αn×ejφn, n=1, . . . , N, referred to as polar coordinates, are determined such that an+1=an+p, p>0, the real number being the pitch amplitude of the constellation.
US12047217B2
Methods, systems, and devices for contention-based transmissions using differential coding techniques in mobile communication technology are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes transmitting, by a wireless device, a payload that comprises an identity of the wireless device and at least one of a user plane data or a control plane data, where the payload is modulated using a differential coding technique. Another exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a network node, a payload that comprises an identity of the wireless device and at least one of a user plane data or a control plane data, where the payload is modulated using a differential coding technique.
US12047210B2
A method of, and apparatus for, demodulating a frequency-modulated signal. The method comprises: for each of a plurality of templates, performing a respective cross-correlation operation between the template and data representative of the frequency-modulated signal, each template comprising data representative of a signal that is frequency-modulated with predetermined preamble data using a different respective modulation index; generating frequency-offset data from one or more of the cross-correlation operations, the frequency-offset data being representative of a difference between a reference frequency and a carrier frequency of the frequency-modulated signal; determining a respective peak correlation-coefficient value from each of the cross-correlation operations; identifying a highest peak correlation-coefficient value in the determined peak correlation-coefficient values; determining a modulation index estimate in dependence on which template produced the highest peak correlation-coefficient value; and using the frequency-offset data and the modulation index estimate to demodulate at least a portion of the frequency-modulated signal.
US12047203B2
A method by which a first wireless device tracks a channel in a wireless AV system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a radio signal including a first part related to a preamble and a second part related to a data block and a GI; estimating an initial channel on the basis of the preamble; estimating a residual channel on the basis of the GI, wherein a reconstruction sequence reconstructed on the basis of a Golay sequence having a predetermined length is applied to the GI; and updating a channel on the basis of first information acquired on the basis of the initial channel estimation and second information acquired on the basis of the residual channel estimation.
US12047197B2
A low-voltage distribution board and a direct current fast charging (DCFC) system including the low-voltage distribution board are provided. The DCFC system includes a power supply and a plurality of loads connected by a serial bus. The low-voltage distribution board includes a first input connector configured to receive power from the first power supply, and a first plurality of output connectors configured to be connected to the first plurality of loads. The low-voltage distribution board further includes a first current distribution circuit configured to provide, through the first plurality of output connectors, the received power from the first power supply to the first plurality of loads, and an identification (ID) assignment circuit configured to provide, through the first plurality of output connectors, different ID values to each of the first plurality of loads.
US12047192B2
A control device causes, when being adapted to a gateway, a space creating part to create a second space by combining two or more first spaces on the basis of position information acquired by an acquiring part, a device control part to generate relevance information indicative of a relevance between identification information of the second space and identification information of two or more devices included in the second space among the devices, and a notification part to notify, on the basis of the relevance information generated by the device control part, at least one of collective control information for collectively controlling the two or more devices included in the second space and individual control information for individually controlling the two or more devices included in the second space.
US12047179B2
A method includes receiving initial acknowledgement resource information at a user device from a base station. The initial acknowledgement resource information is associated with a subset of acknowledgement resources. The method includes determining in dependence on the initial acknowledgement resource information which of the subset of acknowledgement resources is to be used. The user device transmits an acknowledgement on the determined resource.
US12047178B2
The present invention provides a method performed by user equipment and user equipment. The method comprises: receiving control information from a base station, the control information comprising a resource configuration related to a transmission on a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH); transmitting data to other UE through the PSSCH according to the control information; and transmitting to the base station first feedback information related to the transmission on the PSSCH and/or second feedback information related to a transmission on a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) between the base station and the UE. In this way, reliable data transmission can be achieved, thereby improving the reliability and stability of an entire communication system.
US12047170B2
Forward Error Correction decoding is executed by acquiring a stream of real data symbols from a communication medium, the stream of real data symbols being arranged in a real matrix. Virtual data symbols are generated and arranged in a virtual matrix by applying an interleaver map onto the real matrix. Codewords formed by a main matrix formed by the real matrix and the virtual matrix are iteratively decoded, an iteration of the decoding comprising identifying a set of consecutive received rows of the main matrix, accessing a set of pre-determined reference codewords and in response to determining that a given codeword of the set of consecutive received rows does not match any pre-determined reference codewords, executing a GRAND algorithm on the given codeword, the GRAND algorithm generating a substitute codeword for the given codeword. A system comprising a processor and a memory executes the Forward Error Correction decoding.
US12047167B2
A method can be performed by a first node for determining a parameter of physical (PHY) layer circuitry of a second node. The method can include implementing a cascaded hierarchy of techniques to determine, based on an electrical signal from a second node, a parameter of the PHY layer circuitry of the second node, and causing an antenna of the first node to transmit an electromagnetic wave consistent with the determined parameter.
US12047166B1
A method and system of protecting network activity of mobile devices is disclosed. Specifically, the methods and systems enable the detection of surveillance signals targeting or potentially targeting a user's personal device and automatically triggering a protective response to safeguard the user's information. The proposed systems can provide mobile device users with a powerful security capability by enabling their device to automatically disconnect from one or more networks and/or emitting a protective jamming signal in response to the detection of nearby potential surveillance activities.
US12047162B2
A method includes, for each optical fiber path in an optical network, allocating an optical wavelength channel in an optical spectrum such that the allocated optical wavelength channel is assigned to support optical communications over the optical fiber path. The method also includes updating an allocation table in response to performing the allocating for one or more of the optical fiber paths; the allocating including determining the optical wavelength channel to be allocated based on a state of the allocation table. The allocation table indicates optical wavelength channels allocated over optical fiber spans of the optical network. The method also includes defining a set of optical sub-bands to cover a part of the optical spectrum in response to a state of the allocation table satisfying a fullness property. The optical sub-bands are such that each of the allocated wavelength channels is in one of the optical sub-bands.
US12047158B2
The disclosure provides satellite communication methods and related devices. One example method includes generating a random access preamble sequence which includes a cyclic prefix, a sequence part, and a guard interval. The sequence part includes a subsequence A and a subsequence B, or the sequence part includes a subsequence C, and the subsequence C is a time domain superimposed sequence of a subsequence A and a subsequence B. The subsequence A includes at least one preamble symbol, the subsequence B includes at least one preamble symbol, and the subsequence A and the subsequence B are respectively generated by using ZC sequences of different root indexes, a quantity of subsequences A is m, a quantity of subsequences B is m or m−1, and m is a positive integer. The method further includes outputting the random access preamble sequence.
US12047152B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a MIMO communication method and system, and a receiver node. The method includes: receiving, by a number of optical detection modules of a receiver node, optical signals transmitted by a number of optical transmission modules of a transmitter node. Different optical detection modules of the receiver node have different orientations, and different optical transmission modules of the transmitter node have different orientations.
US12047144B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless communications system may support techniques for channel state information (CSI) based artificial noise injection. In some cases, a base station may receive an indication of CSI associated with a channel for communications with the UE. The base station may apply artificial noise signals, based on the CSI, to a set of first signals associated with control channel transmissions to obtain a set of second signals. The UE may receive the set of second signals and apply pseudo-noise signals, based on the CSI, to the set of second signals to remove or reduce the artificial noise. The UE may combine the set of second signals adjusted by applying the pseudo-noise signals to obtain a combined signal. The UE may decode the combined signal to obtain control information.
US12047138B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for identifying beamforming parameters to use in processing received signaling using a neural network. An example method generally includes receiving a first plurality of signals on a wireless communication channel. A first plurality of beamformed signals is generated by generating, for each respective signal of the first plurality of signals, a respective beamformed signal using beamforming parameters selected from a configured set of beamforming parameters. First predicted beamforming parameters are generated using a neural network and the first plurality of beamformed signals. A second signal is received on the wireless communication channel. The second signal is beamformed using beamforming parameters selected from a group of beamforming parameters including the configured set of beamforming parameters and the first predicted beamforming parameters.
US12047132B2
An uplink data transmission method, a user equipment and a readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving uplink scheduling information, wherein the uplink scheduling information comprises indication information of a Transmitted Precoding Matrix Indicator (TPMI) corresponding to each subband used for transmitting the uplink data, and the indication information of the TPMI corresponding to each subband corresponds to a same Rank Indicator (RI) information; determining a precoding matrix corresponding to each subband based on the indication information of the TPMI corresponding to each subband, respectively; and precoding the uplink data to be transmitted on each subband based on the precoding matrix corresponding to each subband, respectively, and transmitting the uplink data.
US12047131B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for communication in a Millimeter Wave Hotspot (mmH) backhaul system which uses mesh nodes. A mmH mesh node may receive a control signal which includes a total number of available control slots. The mesh node may determine the number of iterations of a resource scheduling mechanism that can be made during the time period of all available control slots, based on the number of neighbor nodes for the mesh node. Further, the mesh node may receive control slot information, including information about traffic queues and priorities. The mesh node may then perform resource scheduling using the resource scheduling mechanism based on the currently received control slot information and control slot information received in previous iterations of resource scheduling. The mesh node may also adjust a preamble based on a time between a last packet transmission and a current packet transmission to a neighboring node.
US12047130B2
There is provided mechanisms for transmission of reference signals. A method is performed by a terminal device. The terminal device comprises at least two physical antenna ports. The method comprises creating a virtual antenna port for, and applied over, at least two of the physical antenna ports. The method comprises transmitting, in the virtual antenna port, as many uplink reference signals as there are physical antenna ports.
US12047125B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a control node may transmit, to a repeater node, full duplex configuration information. The control node may determine, based at least in part on a signal transmitted by the repeater node, a self-interference of the repeater node associated with the signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12047114B2
Provided is a communication control method of controlling communication between a first electrical switch and a second electrical switch each connected via an optical network and via an electrical network and each responsible for one or more devices to enable a data transfer with high reliability and low latency. The communication control method includes processes of (A) determining the presence or absence of blocking in relation to a first setup request of an optical circuit from the first electrical switch to the second electrical switch and (B) performing, if the blocking is present, at least one process of a first process of transmitting, from the first electrical switch, a second setup request of the optical circuit from the first electrical switch to the second electrical switch and a second process of transmitting a packet or a packet flow related to the first setup request from the first electrical switch via the electrical network.
US12047110B2
A wearable article, system, and methods may include a structure configured to enclose a human body part. A first antenna, positioned with respect to the structure, is tuned to communicate, while the wearable article is being worn, according to a first wireless communication modality with a first external antenna. A second antenna, positioned with respect to the structure, is tuned to communicate according to a second wireless communication modality with a second external antenna different than the first external antenna, the second communication modality being different than the first communication modality. A transceiver, coupled to at least one of the first antenna and the second antenna, is configured to communicate via one of the first and second antennas based, at least in part, on the one of the first and second antennas coming into wireless communication contact with a corresponding one of the first and second external antennas.
US12047108B2
Various embodiments provide for a bike-supported communication network that manages and facilitates communications between components of an electric bicycle and a wireless network. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide a communication system for an electric bicycle that includes a communication device that facilitates wireless communications between the electric bicycle and a wireless network, and an antenna coupled to the communication device and at least partially integrated into a frame component of the electric bicycle.
US12047098B2
Techniques and solutions are described for compressing data and facilitating access to compressed data. Compression can be applied to proper data subsets of a data set, such as to columns of a table. Using various methods, the proper data subsets can be evaluated to be included in a group of proper data subsets to be compressed using a first compression technique, where unselected proper data subsets are not compressed using the first compression technique. Data in the data set can be reordered based on a reordering sequence for the proper data subsets. Reordering data in the data set can improve compression when at least a portion of the proper data subsets are compressed. A data structure is provided that facilitates accessing specified data stored in a compressed format.
US12047089B2
One example discloses an analog to digital converter (ADC), including: an analog comparator configured to receive an analog input signal and in response generate a comparator output signal; a set of digital to analog converter (DAC) elements configured to receive the analog input signal; wherein the DAC elements are configured to generate an analog DAC output signal in response to a digital code and the analog input signal; wherein the comparator is configured to receive the analog DAC output signal; a feedback circuit configured to generate a first feedback signal and a second feedback signal from the comparator output signal; a controller configured to enable a first set of controller elements in response to the first feedback signal; wherein the controller configured to enable a second set of controller elements in response to the second feedback signal; and wherein the controller elements are configured to generate the digital code.
US12047083B2
In one particular implementation, a circuit includes: a flip flop; and an AND gate, where the circuit is configured to generate edge-triggered set and reset input signals. In another implementation, a method includes: providing, by a digital locked loop (DLL), a plurality of phase outputs; determining, by respective logic circuits, respective pulses to be selected for an output clock corresponding to each of the plurality phase outputs; shifting respective selection windows of the pulses such that each of the selection windows fully overlap the corresponding respective determined pulses; and selecting the pulses.
US12047081B2
The slew rate control circuit includes a slew rate control unit, a capacitive delay unit, a delay unit, a first output unit, a second output unit, and a third output unit. The slew rate control unit is used for receiving a plurality of control voltages. The capacitive delay unit is coupled to the slew rate control unit for receiving an input signal. The delay unit is coupled to the capacitive delay unit. The first output unit and the second output unit are coupled to the capacitive delay unit. The third output unit is coupled to the delay unit. The first output signal and the second output signal are two signals without controllable slew rates. A slew rate of the third output signal is controlled by the capacitive delay unit. A slew rate of the fourth output signal is controlled by the capacitive delay unit and the delay unit.
US12047080B2
An input sampling method includes the following: acquiring a first pulse signal and a second pulse signal respectively; widening a pulse width of the first pulse signal to obtain a widened first pulse signal; shielding an invalid signal in the second pulse signal based on the widened first pulse signal to obtain a to-be-sampled signal; and finally, sampling the to-be-sampled signal based on a clock signal. In this way, prior to signal sampling, the invalid signal is shielded to avoid additional power consumption caused by sampling the invalid signal, and at the same time, the pulse width of the signal is widened to avoid sampling failure.
US12047079B2
A flip-flop circuit includes a first inverter configured to receive a first clock signal and output a second clock signal, a second inverter configured to receive the second clock signal and output a third clock signal, a master stage, and a slave stage including a first feedback inverter and a first transmission gate. The first feedback inverter includes a first transistor configured to receive the first clock signal and a second transistor configured to receive the second clock signal, and the first transmission gate includes first and second input terminals configured to receive the second and third clock signals.
US12047073B2
Apparatuses and methods to reduce leakage current are presented. The includes a switch circuit configured to power a circuit block; a delay circuit configured to delay enabling the switch circuit powering the circuit block and to be powered down; and a bypass circuit configured to bypass the delay circuit to disable the switch circuit powering the circuit block. The method includes powering, by switch, a circuit block; powering down a delay circuit; and bypassing, by a bypass circuit, the delay circuit to disable the switch circuit powering the circuit block.
US12047067B2
Stacked voltage domain level shifting circuits for shifting signals low-to-high or high-to-low include a storage cell powered by a mid-range supply rail of the stacked voltage domain level shifting circuit, and control drivers powered by moving supply voltages generated by the storage cell, wherein the control drivers coupled to drive gates of common-source configured devices coupled to storage nodes of the storage cell.
US12047062B2
An electronic circuit that recognizes a disconnected state from an outside during disconnection of a power supply line is provided. For this purpose, an electronic circuit includes: a load provided between a power supply line and an output terminal in the electronic circuit; a transistor provided between the load and the output terminal; a current generation circuit that generates current using a power supply voltage at a power supply line in the electronic circuit; and a control circuit that controls the transistor using a control voltage that changes according to the current generated by the current generation circuit.
US12047061B2
Communication circuit for bidirectional communication. A switching part is provided including a first BJT having a first base, a first collector, and a first emitter connected to an IO line. The first BJT is activated in response to an input data signal. A transmitter part is provided including a second BJT having a second base connected to the first collector, and a second collector connected to an output. A receiver part is provided comprising a third BJT having a third base connected to an input, and a third collector connected to the first base and to the IO line. A diode is provided in the IO line for impeding current associated with an input data signal and conducting a current associated with an output data signal.
US12047031B2
A mount for an energizer includes a base body, a pivot element attachable to the energizer, and a pivot assembly connecting the pivot element to the base body. The pivot assembly is movable between a first position and a second position in which the pivot assembly is biased toward the first position. The pivot element is held at a fixed pivot angle by the base body with the pivot assembly in the first position. The pivot element is pivotable with respect to the base body with the pivot assembly in the second position.
US12047024B2
A device and a method for determining a travel path for at least one mover on a drive surface, the mover comprising at least one second magnetic field generator, the device comprising a plurality of plate-shaped sectors, where the sectors comprise magnetic field generators for generating magnetic fields, and where the sectors form the drive surface. At least one virtual path network is provided on the drive surface, where a travel path for a mover is determined on the path network.
US12047020B2
A box-type wind power generation device and a power generation device set is provided, the box-type wind power generation device includes a box body, a first energy collecting unit and a first connection member. The box body includes at least one flexible housing member and at least one rigid housing member which enclose at least one sealed cavity. The first energy collecting unit includes a piezoelectric membrane and electrodes deposited on both sides of the piezoelectric membrane, respectively; the first energy collecting unit overlying on an inner wall of the flexible housing member and are located in the sealed cavity. An end of the first connection member is fixed to the flexible housing member so that the first connection member is connected to the box body and at least a part of the first connection member is located outside the sealed cavity.
US12047006B2
A flyback converter includes a primary winding, a main switch, a charging switch, a primary side controller and an energy storage device. The primary winding receives an input power; the primary side controller has a power input terminal and provides a first control signal and a second control signal to the main switch and the charging switch; after the main switch is turned off, the charging switch maintains turned on during a charging period. During the charging period, the input power passes through the primary winding and the charging switch, and stores a first portion of the input power in the energy storage device as a power supply energy; the power input terminal is coupled to the energy storage device, and the primary side controller receives the power supply power from the energy storage device through the power input terminal.
US12047004B2
This light-emitting element drive control device (100) comprises: a drive logic unit (113) which performs a drive control of a switch output stage (N1, D1, L1) for dropping an input voltage (VIN) to an output voltage (VOUT) and supplying a light-emitting element therewith; a charge-pump power supply unit (α) which generates a step-up voltage (CP) higher than the input voltage (VIN); and a current detecting comparator (114) which receives a supply of the step-up voltage (CP) and the output voltage (VOUT) as power supply voltages, and generates control signals (SET, RST) for the drive logic unit (113) by directly comparing a current detection signal (Vsns) corresponding to an inductor current (IL) of the switch output stage with a peak detection value (Vsns_pk) and a bottom detection value (Vsns_bt).
US12047001B2
A zero-crossing correction circuit for a switching converter having a main power switch and a synchronous power switch connected in series, can include: a detection circuit configured to detect an on-off state of a body diode of the synchronous power switch in a first time interval after the synchronous power switch is turned off and generate a detection signal; and a control and adjustment circuit configured to adjust a turn-off moment of the synchronous power switch according to an on-off state of the main power switch in a second time interval after the synchronous power switch is turned off and the detection signal.
US12047000B2
According to an embodiment, disclosed is a DC-DC converter in a solar-linked system, the DC-DC converter including: an initial charging circuit which connects an inverter with a first node and is used for charging an inverter-side capacitor; an intermediate capacitor; and a switching circuit connected in parallel to the intermediate capacitor and composed of a first switch and a second switch that are connected in series, wherein the initial charging circuit applies a voltage to a first node according to a received control signal, and performs charging of a battery.
US12046997B2
The present disclosure provides a single- and multi-phase DC/DC converter and a control method thereof that can offer a wide range of voltage conversion ratio by substantially reducing the switching frequency range, thereby resulting in performance improvement. Reduction in the switching frequency range is achieved by controlling the output voltage or current with a combination of variable duty ratio, variable frequency, and delay-time control.
US12046987B2
A voltage regulator receives a reference voltage and generates a regulated voltage using a MOSFET having a gate terminal configured to receive a control voltage. A charge pump receives the regulated voltage and generates a charge pump voltage in response to an enable signal and a clock signal generated in response to the enable signal. The voltage regulator further includes a first switched capacitor circuit coupled to the gate terminal and configured to selectively charge a first capacitor with a first current and impose a first voltage drop on the control voltage in response to assertion of the enable signal. The voltage regulator also includes a second switched capacitor circuit coupled to the gate terminal and configured to selectively charge a second capacitor with a second current and impose a second voltage drop on the control voltage in response to one logic state of the clock signal.
US12046983B2
A gearmotor includes a motor assembly, a gear assembly, and an electronics assembly. The motor assembly includes a rotor including a rotor shaft; a stator; and a stator retention apparatus. The stator includes a core defining a core orientation feature, and a plurality of coils. The stator retention apparatus includes an apparatus orientation feature and an electronics assembly support structure. The gear assembly includes an output shaft. The electronics assembly includes a rotor shaft rotation sensor that is radially spaced from a rotor shaft position indicium, an output shaft rotation sensor that is radially spaced from an output shaft position indicium, and a magnetic sensor mounted to the electronics assembly support structure. The core orientation feature and the apparatus orientation feature engage one another to position the stator retention apparatus radially and arcuately relative to the core, such that the magnetic sensor is positioned adjacent an axial coil margin.
US12046979B2
A motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a bearing holder. The rotor is disposed inside the stator. The rotor rotates with respect to the stator. The bearing holder holds a bearing of the rotor. The stator includes a plurality of coils, a plurality of teeth, and a coupling portion. Around the plurality of teeth, the plurality of coils are respectively arranged via an insulator. The coupling portion is located closer to the rotor than the plurality of coils are. The coupling portion couples at least some adjacent ones of the plurality of teeth. The bearing holder is positioned within a plane intersecting at right angles with a rotational axis of the rotor by coming into contact with either respective inner peripheral tips of the plurality of teeth or the coupling portion.
US12046978B2
An electric generator protective cover has a protective cloth cover, a cover assembly, and a plurality of fixing feet. The cover assembly includes a central block located in the center of the top and four elastic supporting rods fixed to the central block. The protective cloth cover is jacked up through the central block and the four elastic supporting rods. One end of each fixing foot is connected to an elastic supporting rod, and the other end is mounted on an upper cross bar of an electric generator frame. The electric generator protective cover has the advantages that the protective cloth cover is arranged, which can isolate dirt such as rain, snow, mud, and sand.
US12046976B2
A rotary reciprocating drive actuator which includes a base portion including a bottom portion, and a pair of wall portions erected from both ends of the bottom portion; a movable body including a shaft portion rotatably supported by the pair of the wall portions via a bearing in such a manner that a movable magnet disposed at an outer side surface of one wall portion of the pair of the wall portions; and a drive unit including a core body and a coil body, the drive unit being attached to the outer side surface of the one wall portion, wherein another wall portion of the pair of wall portions is configured to be detachable from or adjustable in position with respect to the bottom portion.
US12046966B2
An axial field rotary energy device has a PCB stator panel assembly between rotors with an axis of rotation. Each rotor has a magnet. The PCB stator panel assembly includes PCB panels. Each PCB panel can have layers, and each layer can have conductive coils. The PCB stator panel assembly can have a thermally conductive layer that extends from an inner diameter portion to an outer diameter portion thereof.
US12046960B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a collector ring assembly for use in a rotor comprising a collector (or slip) ring body and a shaft in which the collector ring body and shaft each have mating features so that the collector ring body may be lockably attached to the shaft.
US12046951B2
In a method for producing a material layer by an additive process, a first suspension with binding agent and solid particles is applied through a first template onto a base area to obtain a first green body, thereby reproducing by the first template a first material region of a first material to form a magnetic flux-conductive region with a first magnetic permeability μr>50. A second suspension with binding agent and solid particles is applied through a second template onto a base area to obtain a second green body, thereby reproducing by the second template a second material region of a second material to form a flux-blocking region with a second magnetic permeability μr<5. The first and second green bodies are joined and a permanent, material-bonded cohesion between the first and second green bodies and the solid particles is created by heating and/or by compaction.
US12046949B1
An electric machine includes a plurality of coils and a plurality of U-shaped clips. Each coil defines a coil opening and each U-shaped clip includes a first tooth, a second tooth, and a yoke interconnecting the first tooth and the second tooth. The first tooth of each U-shaped clip is disposed in one coil opening and the second tooth of each U-shaped clip is disposed in another coil opening of an adjacent coil with the yoke bridging the two adjacent coils. And two sidewalls of the two adjacent coils are sandwiched between the first tooth and the second tooth of each U-shaped clip.
US12046943B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for battery charging and power output. A system may include a plurality of hot-swappable, stackable slices for battery charging and power output. A slice may include communication circuitry for communication among the slices. A slice may include power input conversion circuitry, power storage circuitry, and/or power output conversion circuitry. A slice may include at least one electrical connector for connecting to a second slice. The at least one electrical connector may include connections for power and communications. A slice may include at least one mechanical connector for connecting to the second slice.
US12046941B2
A power supply unit includes: a power supply configured to discharge power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol generation source; a charger configured to convert inputted power into charging power; a temperature measuring unit configured to measure a temperature of the power supply; and a charging controller configured to perform a first control for stopping the charger from supplying the charging power to the power supply and a second control for causing the charger to supply the charging power to the power supply, the charging controller setting a duty ratio to a value greater than 0 and smaller than 100 in a case where the temperature of the power supply is within a predetermined range, and the duty ratio being obtained by dividing a time during which the charging controller performs the first control by a unit time.
US12046929B2
The disclosure provides a bus module, a cascade module, and a bus module control method. The bus module includes an input unit, an output unit, a switching unit, and a control unit. The input unit includes at least one input branch which includes an input interface electrically connected to a peripheral power supply to obtain power output by the peripheral power source. The output unit is provided with an output branch, and the output branch is provided with an output interface to output power obtained by the input unit. One end of the switching unit is connected to the input unit, and the other end of the switching unit is connected to the output unit. And the control unit controls the switching unit to work to control the on-off between the input branch and the output branch.
US12046927B2
A device for transmission of wireless power according to an embodiment of the present specification comprises: a power conversion circuit for transmitting the wireless power to a wireless power receiving device; and a communication/control circuit for communicating with the wireless power receiving device and controlling the wireless power, wherein the communication/control circuit transmits a response to a reception data packet received from the wireless power receiving device or a transmission data packet transmitted to the wireless power receiving device on the basis of a timeout period, and the timeout period is changed according to a communication speed between the communication/control circuit and the wireless power receiving device.
US12046926B2
A wireless charging control method, includes: acquiring a temperature of a wireless charging transmitter and a temperature of a charging terminal; generating a temperature adjustment instruction based on the temperature of the wireless charging transmitter and the temperature of the charging terminal; and according to the temperature adjustment instruction, controlling the temperature adjustment component in the wireless charging transmitter to adjust temperatures, so that the temperature of the wireless charging transmitter and the temperature of the charging terminal are within a set temperature range.
US12046914B2
The present disclosure relates to a wirelessly rechargeable in-ear hearing device, a charger for a wirelessly rechargeable in-ear hearing device, and a system comprising a wirelessly rechargeable in-ear hearing device and a charger for the wirelessly rechargeable in-ear hearing device.
US12046902B2
System for controlling voltage supply to a portion of a distribution grid. The portion of the grid including a substation providing one or more transformers operable to increase or decrease the voltage supplied to consumers within the portion of the grid. The voltage control system includes: a data set including a previously measured power consumption associated with previously measured values of a property(ies) being one of voltage, current, frequency or load, or a combination thereof, a measuring device to measure the property(ies) within the portion of the grid, a processing device to determine a most likely effect of altering the value(s) of the property(ies) from a first value to a second value, a storage device for storing one or more rules associating a trigger event with a response action associated with the substation, and a control device to receive a measurement of the property(ies) within the portion of the grid.
US12046900B2
A switching state of a switching arrangement of an electrical distribution arrangement is optimized. In each switching state, an outgoing circuit of the distribution arrangement is connected to a supply by the switching arrangement via a component. Each state differs from others in that the outgoing circuit is connected to the supply via another component. The switching arrangement has enough switching states that each outgoing circuit is connectable to a supply via two different components. An outgoing circuit is presented based on: operating parameters of the components, a switching state, outgoing loads; environmental parameters of the electrical components, forecasted environmental parameters, and forecasted outgoing loads. Forecasted operating parameters are simulated to compare future operating parameters with limit values. Based on likely exceeding limit values in the future, an alternative switching state is suggested such that limit values are not exceeded.
US12046896B2
A power supply comprises a DC power source, first and second DC/DC converters, and a protection circuit. The DC power source provides DC power at a variable bulk voltage. The first DC/DC converter converts the DC power from the DC power source to DC power at a high voltage suitable for powering a high-voltage load. The second DC/DC converter receives DC power from the first DC/DC converter, converts the received DC power to DC power at a low voltage, and delivers the DC power at the low voltage to a low-voltage load. The protection circuit selectively transfers DC power from the first DC/DC converter to the high-voltage load. The DC power source may be an AC/DC converter receiving AC power from a power generator driven by an aircraft engine.
US12046894B2
There is provided a current limiting diode 200 comprising a gate 206, a source 202, a drain 204 electrically connected to the source by an n-channel or p-channel 220 and a thermoelectric generator 208; wherein the source and the gate are electrically connected by a fill structure 210, and wherein the thermoelectric generator is configured to: generate a thermoelectric voltage by absorbing heat from the n-channel or p-channel and rejecting heat to a heat sink in a current limiting condition; and apply the thermoelectric voltage between the gate and the source.
US12046889B2
Systems and methods for detecting and identifying arcing are disclosed. A method of detecting arcing includes obtaining data indicative of voltage and data indicative of current, determining a waveform of a cycle of a primary load current according to the data indicative of current, determining at least one noise signal according to the determined waveform of a cycle of the primary load current and the data indicative of current, determining a probability density of the noise signal according to a time window, and comparing the probability density of the noise signal with at least one model probability density.
US12046886B2
A punch set for use with a punch tool to punch material from a wall of an electrical box. The punch set has a punch with a cutting section, and a die defining a cavity that is configured to receive the cutting section. The cutting section may have an annular or circular portion and a plurality of keyway forming portions each extending radially from the annular or circular portion. The cutting section of the punch may be insertable into the cavity of the die in a single orientation. The die may have a protrusion receivable within a recess of the punch when the cutting section is received in the cavity. One of the die or punch may have an extension that is receivable in a single orientation within an opening in the other of the die or punch.
US12046884B1
A snap-in zip connector with a clamp for gripping a wire between a first bracket and a second bracket. The first bracket includes a clamp seat and a first fastener opening formed by an elongated slot and hole joined together and extending through the clamp seat. The second bracket includes a fastener opening that aligns with the hole. An insert positioned in the elongated slot includes a spring arm extending into the circular hole extend into the circular hole that engages a threaded shaft of the fastener to restrict removal except through rotation of the at least one fastener.
US12046881B2
An intelligent electrical conductor installation system includes a puller sub-system, a tensioner sub-system, and a running board. The pull sub-system is configured to provide a pulling force to a pull rope connected on one end to the running board. The tensioner sub-system is configured to provide tension to the one or more conductors connected to the running board during installation of the conductors. The running board is connected to the pull rope on a first end, and configured to be connected to one or more conductors on a second end, wherein the running board includes one or more sensors configured to sense attributes of the conductor pull operation.
US12046880B2
An insert device for sealing a conduit, wherein at least one component of the insert device is configured to separate and position at least one wire in the conduit in order to create a space or inner volume for a sealant to be introduced thereinto. The insert device can have a nozzle configured to allow precise injection of the sealant into the inner volume. The insert device can be operated for quick and reliably repeatable sealing of conduits.
US12046874B2
The present embodiment relates to a light-emitting device comprising a reflective metasurface modulating a phase for each of pixels constituting a one- or two-dimensional array. The light-emitting device comprises a surface emitting laser element, a light guide layer, and the metasurface. The metasurface has a light transmissive layer including a dielectric layer, one metal film on one surface thereof, and the other metal film on the other surface thereof. In each of unit regions corresponding to the pixels, the light transmissive layer includes a portion exposed without being covered with the metal film. The width of each unit region and the thickness of the light transmissive layer are smaller than the wavelength of the laser light to the metasurface. The metasurface modulates the phase of the laser light for each unit region. A first light output surface outputs the modulated laser.
US12046870B2
An optical semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor multilayer which is formed on the substrate, and includes an optical functional layer, an insulating film formed on the semiconductor multilayer, and an electrode formed on a part of the insulating film. The insulating film covers the semiconductor multilayer except for a region in which the semiconductor multilayer and the electrode are electrically connected to each other. At least a part of a region of the insulating film that is overlapped with the electrode is thinner than a region of the insulating film that is not overlapped with the electrode.
US12046865B2
A fiber laser amplifier system including a non-linear fiber amplifier receiving a seed beam and a pump beam, where the amplifier amplifies the seed beam using the pump beam to provide an output beam having a carrier spectrum. A beam sampler samples off a sample beam from the output beam, a filter receives the sample beam and filters out the carrier spectrum from the sample beam, a photodetector detects beam power of the filtered sample beam and provides a beam power signal, and a controller receives the beam power signal, where the controller controls one or more of an FM drive signal, an AM drive signal and a pump beam to change seed beam FM modulation, seed beam AM modulation and/or pump power in a manner that reduces the beam power of the filtered sample beam and thus beam power outside of the carrier spectrum.
US12046859B2
An electronic device lacking an internal power supply comprises electronic circuitry, an external power adapter having an input connector for receiving AC power from a conventional AC power outlet and for providing a low-voltage output signal to an output connector, and a first port electronically coupled to the electronic circuitry for receiving the low-voltage output signal from the output connector of the power adapter and for providing the low-voltage output signal to the electronic circuitry.
US12046858B2
A plug connector includes a plug housing configured to be coupled to a header connector. The plug housing holds plug contacts configured to be mated with corresponding header contacts. The plug connector includes an eCPA assembly coupled to the plug housing having an actuator movable between a retracted position and an actuated position and holding a shorting terminal movable by the actuator between a mated position and an unmated position. The shorting terminal is coupled to fixed terminals in the mated position to form a position assurance circuit in the mated position.
US12046856B2
An electrical plug device includes a connector housing pluggable with a mating housing, a connection aid engageable with the mating housing, a position assurance element held at the connector housing and displaceable from an open position to a securing position, and a blocking mechanism. The connection aid is movable from a plugging position to a holding position. The connector housing in the plugging position is connectable to the mating housing. The mating housing in the holding position is held at the connector housing. The connection aid in the open position is movable from the plugging position to the holding position and in the securing position is fixated in the holding position. The blocking mechanism blocks the position assurance element in the open position and has a release element with which the blocking mechanism is released in a state of the connector housing and the mating housing being plugged together.
US12046852B2
An insulating housing and a wire-end connector including the insulating housing are provided. The insulating housing includes a body portion, a power mating portion, a signal mating portion, and a snap-fit member. The body portion has a first surface and a second surface that are oppositely disposed, and a third surface and a fourth surface that are oppositely disposed. A plurality of first channels are formed along a first direction inside the body portion in a horizontal and parallel arrangement. The power mating portion is disposed on the second surface and includes a plurality of pillars, and the first channels penetrate the plurality of pillars, respectively. The signal mating portion is disposed on the third surface and has a fifth surface and a sixth surface that are oppositely disposed, and a plurality of second channels are formed therein along the first direction.
US12046847B2
The disclosure provides a connector and an electronic device using the connector. The connector is connected with a conductive element. The connector includes a terminal support component, a multiple of gold fingers and an electric conversion component. The terminal support component includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is opposite to the second surface or the first surface and the second surface are arranged at intervals. The multiple of gold fingers symmetrically arranged on the first surface and the second surface. The electric conversion component includes a main electric unit and two auxiliary conductive units. The main electric unit is electrically connected the two auxiliary conductive units and the conductive element. The two auxiliary conductive units are electrically connected with the gold fingers that respectively arranged on the first surface and the second surface of the terminal support component.
US12046845B2
A terminal connected to the end of an electrical wire, including: a main body portion connected to a core wire of the electrical wire and a contacting portion connected to the front end of the main body portion having a portion with a U-shaped cross-section that connects to a mating terminal, wherein the contacting portion includes: an upper plate portion connected to the main body portion, a lower plate portion that is parallel with the upper plate portion, a side plate portion that connects one of either the left or right edges of the upper plate portion and the lower plate portion, a tip mating recessed portion demarcated on three sides by the upper plate portion, the lower plate portion, and the side plate portion, an inclined protruding piece that extends diagonally downward from the back end of the lower plate portion, and a middle plate portion that extends between the inclined protruding piece and the upper plate portion in the width direction of the contacting portion.
US12046834B2
An antenna for use in a distributed antenna system includes: (a) a feeding circuit on a first side of a first dielectric defining a planar edge perpendicular to the first side, a coplanar waveguide comprising a signal feed and a signal return coplanar with and interfittingly apart from the signal feed; (b) a radiator circuit on a second side of a second dielectric, a monopole radiator and a radiator return being copolanar and spaced apart from each other, the first dielectric capacitively coupling the signal feed to the monopole radiator; and (c) an edge connection along the planar edge for electrically connecting the signal return to the radiator return. A cover encloses the feeding circuit, including its impedance matching, in a water-resistant enclosure. The antenna ceiling-mounts indoors, is coated with a fire-resistant coating, and is operable at VHF (132-174 MHz), UHF (350-520 MHz), and 698-960 MHz.
US12046820B2
An antenna module that includes an antenna substrate, a plurality of three-dimensional (3-D) antenna cells on a first surface of the antenna substrate, a plurality of packaged circuitry on a second surface of the antenna substrate, and a plurality of supporting balls mounted on the second surface of the antenna substrate. The plurality of packaged circuitry includes a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) chips on the second surface of the antenna substrate. Each of the plurality of 3-D antenna cells comprises a raised antenna patch with a plurality of projections and a plurality of supporting legs, where at least a relief cut is provided between one of the plurality of projections and one of the plurality of supporting legs.
US12046814B2
An antenna unit includes a first antenna portion and a second antenna portion that individually transmit or receive a wireless signal, and a ground portion electrically connected to the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion and including a portion positioned between the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion. A through-hole that resonates with a given frequency is provided at a position of the ground portion between the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion.
US12046811B2
An antenna connecting-switching apparatus includes a housing, a first connection structure, a second connection structure, an elastic body, an elastic piece structure and an electronic switch. The elastic piece structure includes a first elastic piece and a second elastic piece. When an external antenna is connected to the first connection structure, the first connection structure compresses the elastic body pushing the first elastic piece; the first elastic piece contacts the second elastic piece; the electronic switch is switched; a wireless communication circuit is electrically connected to the external antenna. When the external antenna stops connected to the first connection structure, the elastic body rebounds pushing the first connection structure; the first connection structure stops pushing the first elastic piece; the first elastic piece stops contacting the second elastic piece; the electronic switch is switched; the wireless communication circuit is electrically connected to an internal antenna.
US12046802B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing structure including a first side surface member, a second housing structure including a second side surface member, a hinge structure configured to rotatably connect the first housing structure and the second housing structure and configured to provide a folding axis on which the first housing structure and the second housing structure rotate, and at least one printed circuit board, wherein the first side surface member or the second side surface member includes a first side surface portion a second side surface portion, a third side surface portion, a fourth side surface portion, a fifth side surface portion, a first slit a second slit a third slit, and a fourth slit, and a fifth slit, and wherein at least part of at least one of the second side surface portion, the third side surface portion, and the fourth side surface portion is formed of a radiation conductor and is electrically connected to the at least one printed circuit board.
US12046794B2
A balun is enhanced with design features that extend the operational bandwidth of the balun allowing the balun to operate at lower frequencies. The design enhancements also suppress resonances that otherwise cause sudden power drops at a resonance frequency while a load is connected between the balun's differential outputs.
US12046790B2
A phase shifter module arrangement comprises a phase shifter with a plurality of emitter connections and a central point connection. A matching network is provided. The matching network comprises a signal connection and a phase shifter connection. A separating device is provided which is electrically conductive and is arranged between the phase shifter and the matching network. The separating device has a first side on which the phase shifter is arranged and a second side on which the matching network is arranged. A connection opening connects the first side to the second side. The phase shifter connection of the matching network is connected electrically via the connection opening of the separating device to the central point connection of the phase shifter.
US12046777B2
A secondary battery including an electrode wound body having a structure in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are stacked and wound with a separator interposed therebetween, a positive electrode current collector plate, a negative electrode current collector plate and an exterior can that accommodates the electrode wound body, the positive electrode current collector plate, and the negative electrode current collector plate. The positive electrode has a first covered portion covered with a positive electrode active material layer and a positive electrode active material non-covered portion on a positive electrode foil, and the negative electrode has a second covered portion covered with a negative electrode active material layer and a negative electrode active material non-covered portion on a negative electrode foil.
US12046774B2
Provided are separators for use in an electrochemical cell comprising (a) an inorganic oxide and (b) an organic polymer, wherein the inorganic oxide comprises organic substituents. Also provided are electrochemical cells comprising such separators.
US12046769B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery structure and a carrier vehicle. The battery structure includes a battery main body, a plug component, and a handle. The handle is detachably connected to the top or the side of the battery main body. The plug component includes at least one plug end. The plug end can be plugged into the battery main body and the plug component is powered on when plugged into the battery. The handle is provided with a locking piece. When the handle is connected to the top of the battery main body, the locking piece is vertically docked for locking. When the handle is connected to the side of the battery main body, the locking piece is transversely docked for locking.
US12046766B2
A battery pack includes a battery, a storage box, and a high voltage component. The storage box stores the battery, and includes a load transmitter. Here, the load transmitter is a component that transmits a load from a rear position to a front position in order to move the high voltage component forward at the time of a collision, the load being an impact energy generated upon a collision. The high voltage component is configured to be electrically coupled to the battery, structurally coupled to the load transmitter, and disposed forwardly of the battery within the storage box.
US12046763B2
A battery module includes: a plurality of secondary battery cells, each including an electrode lead connected to an electrode assembly, a terrace portion forming a periphery of a cell body member in which the electrode assembly is accommodated, and a sealing portion formed to be connected to the terrace portion; a housing in which the plurality of secondary battery cells are accommodated; and a guard unit installed to face at least a portion of the terrace portion and at least a portion of the sealing portion to delay bursting of the sealing portion of at least one of the secondary battery cells. In the guard unit, a gap between internal surfaces facing the terrace portion is formed to be smaller than a thickness of the cell body member to limit expansion thickness of the terrace portion.
US12046755B2
A negative electrode active material that includes active material core particles that allow the intercalation and deintercalation of lithium ions; a conductive material disposed on a surface of each active material core particle; an organic linker that connects the active material core particles and the conductive material; and an elastomer that covers at least a part of the active material core particles and the conductive material. The conductive material includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a linear conductive material and a planar conductive material, and the organic linker is a compound that includes a hydrophobic structure and a substituent including a polar functional group.
US12046753B2
This application provides a negative electrode plate, including an active layer 1 and an active layer 2. The active layer 1 contains an active material 1, and the active layer 2 contains an active material 2. A powder OI value of the active material 1 falls in a range of 8 to 32, and a powder OI value of the active material 2 falls in a range of 2 to 7. A gram capacity of the active material 1 falls in a range of 290 to 350 mAh/g, and a gram capacity of the active material 2 falls in a range of 350 to 368 mAh/g. A ratio α of the powder OI value between the active material 1 and the active material 2 falls in a range of 2.00 to 6.25.
US12046750B2
The present disclosure relates to a positive electrode active material for a secondary battery, the positive electrode active material being a lithium composite transition metal oxide particle including nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co) and including at least one of manganese (Mn) and aluminum (Al), wherein the lithium composite transition metal oxide particle includes 60 mol % or greater of the nickel (Ni) in all metals excluding lithium, a doping element is doped on the lithium composite transition metal oxide particle, and the particle intensity of the lithium composite transition metal oxide particle is 210 MPa to 290 MPa.
US12046745B2
Disclosed are functionalized Group IVA particles, methods of preparing the Group IVA particles, and methods of using the Group IVA particles. The Group IVA particles may be passivated with at least one layer of material covering at least a portion of the particle. The layer of material may be a covalently bonded non-dielectric layer of material. The Group IVA particles may be used in various technologies, including lithium ion batteries and photovoltaic cells.
US12046744B2
Passivated silicon-carbon composite materials and related processes are disclosed that overcome the challenges for providing amorphous nano-sized silicon entrained within porous carbon. Compared to other, inferior materials and processes described in the prior art, the materials and processes disclosed herein find superior utility in various applications, including energy storage devices such as lithium ion batteries.
US12046740B2
The electrode production method disclosed herein has the steps of: preparing an electrode mix paste that contains at least an active material and a solvent; applying the electrode mix paste onto the surface of a collector; and drying a coating film made up of the electrode mix paste applied on the collector. The step of drying includes a residual heat period, a constant rate drying period, and a falling rate drying period. The coating film is pressed at least one time in the falling rate drying period, and the pressing is carried out under conditions such that film thickness of the coating film is not lower than 80% relative to 100% as the film thickness prior to the pressing.
US12046736B2
An electrochemical cell utilizes an air flow device that draws air through the cell from a scrubber that may be removed while the system is operating. The negative pressure generated by the air flow device allows ambient air to enter the cell housing when the scrubber is removed, thereby enabling continued operation without the scrubber. A moisture management system passes outflow air from the cell through a humidity exchange module that transfers moisture to the air inflow, thereby increasing the humidity of the air inflow. A recirculation feature comprising a valve allow a controller to recirculate at least a portion of the outflow air back into the inflow air. The system may comprise an inflow bypass conduit and valve that allows the humidified inflow air to pass into the cell inlet without passing through the scrubber. The scrubber may contain reversible or irreversible scrubber media.
US12046723B2
A battery, including an electrode assembly including a central hole, at least one positive electrode, at least one negative electrode, and at least one diaphragm separating the at least one positive electrode from the at least one negative electrode. The at least one positive electrode, the at least one negative electrode and the at least one diaphragm are disposed around the central hole in a spiral winding manner. The central hole has a diameter of greater than 0 and smaller than that of the battery. A pin assembly is disposed in the central hole. The pin assembly includes a housing including an axial through hole. The housing is partially or fully disposed in the central hole. At least one integrated circuit device is disposed in the axial through hole. The at least one integrated circuit device includes at least one access terminal and one output terminal.
US12046714B2
An all-solid-state battery includes: a laminated body having a first lateral face with a positive electrode and negative electrode laminated with a solid electrolyte layer therebetween and wherein a positive electrode current collector layer is exposed and a second lateral face faces the first face and wherein a negative electrode current collector layer is exposed; a positive electrode external terminal on the first face; and a negative electrode external terminal on the second face. At least one difference between a distance Lcn or a distance Lcn+1 from a second face side edge part of a positive electrode of an nth layer or an n+1th layer to the second face and a difference between a distance Lan or a distance Lan+1 from a first lateral face side edge part of a negative electrode of an nth layer or an n+1th layer to the first lateral faces is 10 μm or more.
US12046712B2
Provided herein solid-state battery architectures that include an oxide electrolyte in contact with the anode of an electrochemical cell and a sulfide electrolyte in contact with the cathode of an electrochemical cell.
US12046709B2
A metal-ion deposition regulator to regulate the flux and deposition of metal ions in an electrochemical cell. The regulator containing two membranes made of a polymer and a plurality of two-dimensional porous nanosheets sandwiched between the two membranes. The regulator is capable of distributing flux of metal ions passing through the metal-ion deposition regulator and regulating the deposition of the metal ions onto the cathode or anode thereby suppressing dendrite growth in the electrochemical cell. An electrochemical cell containing an anode, a cathode, a liquid electrolyte, and a metal-ion deposition regulator. A method of making a metal-ion deposition regulator. The method includes fabricating two-dimensional porous nanosheets utilizing graphene oxide as an expendable template, and sandwiching the porous nanosheets between two membranes made of a polymer such that the nanosheets are in contact with the two membranes.
US12046692B2
Method of manufacturing a photovoltaic module comprising at least a first layer and a second layer affixed to each other by means of an encapsulant, said method comprising steps of: providing a lamination device; disposing said first layer in said lamination device, disposing upon said first layer an encapsulant material manufactured by the steps of: providing a base resin comprising a silane-modified polyolefin and having a melting point below 90° C., forming a mixture of said base resin and an additive comprising a crosslinking catalyst, said cross-linking catalyst being present in a proportion of 0.01 to 5 parts per hundred of resin, melting said mixture at a temperature between 90° C. and 190° C., preferably between 160° C. and 180° C. and extruding said mixture to form said encapsulant material; disposing said second layer upon said encapsulant material, laminating said first layer, said second layer and said encapsulant material under application of heat and pressure, said heat being applied at a temperature between 60° C. and 125° C., preferably between 60° C. and 100° C., further preferably between 70° C. and 90° C. so as to crosslink said base resin.
US12046689B2
A photodetector is provided. The photodetector includes a cathode electrode in a semiconductor layer, a light absorption material at least partially embedded in the semiconductor layer, an anode electrode over the light absorption material, and a lower buffer layer electrically connecting between the cathode electrode and the light absorption material. The lower buffer layer includes first SiGe layers vertically stacked and spaced apart from each other, and atomic percentages of germanium in the first SiGe layers increase in order as a level of a first SiGe layer increases from bottom to top.
US12046680B2
A semiconductor structure comprises a plurality of gate structures alternately stacked with a plurality of channel layers, and a plurality of spacers disposed on lateral sides of the plurality of gate structures. The respective ones of the plurality of spacers comprise a profile having a first portion comprising a first shape and a second portion comprising a second shape, wherein the first shape is different from the second shape.
US12046679B2
To improve field-effect mobility and reliability in a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. A semiconductor device includes a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. The transistor includes a region where the maximum value of field-effect mobility of the transistor at a gate voltage of higher than 0 V and lower than or equal to 10 V is larger than or equal to 40 and smaller than 150; a region where the threshold voltage is higher than or equal to minus 1 V and lower than or equal to 1 V; and a region where the S value is smaller than 0.3 V/decade.
US12046675B2
A semiconductor memory cell comprising an electrically floating body having two stable states is disclosed. A method of operating the memory cell is disclosed.
US12046673B2
A semiconductor device including a fin structure formed on a first semiconductor region, and a first semiconductor structure controlling the first semiconductor region, the first semiconductor structure formed on a substrate and spaced apart from the first semiconductor region including the fin structure.
US12046672B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic device including the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device may include: a substrate; a first source/drain region, a channel region and a second source/drain region stacked sequentially on the substrate and adjacent to each other, and a gate stack formed around an outer periphery of the channel region; wherein the gate stack has a thickness varying in a direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate.
US12046668B2
A semiconductor device includes: a drain electrode including a plurality of drain finger parts; a source electrode including a plurality of source finger parts and a Kelvin source part electrically connected with the source finger parts; a sense electrode positioned between a drain finger part and the Kelvin source part, which are next to each other in a particular direction; and a gate electrode positioned between a drain finger part and a source finger part, which are next to each other in the particular direction, and between a drain finger part and the sense electrode, which are next to each other in the particular direction. The sense electrode and the Kelvin source part are electrically connected via a sense resistance due to a spacing between the sense electrode and the Kelvin source part in the particular direction.
US12046667B2
We disclose a Ill-nitride semiconductor based heterojunction power device, comprising: a first heterojunction transistor (19) formed on a substrate, the first heterojunction transistor comprising: a first Ill-nitride semiconductor region formed over the substrate, wherein the first Ill-nitride semiconductor region comprises a first heterojunction comprising at least one two dimensional carrier gas of second conductivity type; a first terminal (8) operatively connected to the first Ill-nitride semiconductor region; a second terminal (9) laterally spaced from the first terminal and operatively connected to the first Ill-nitride semiconductor region; a first gate terminal (10) formed over the first Ill-nitride semiconductor region between the first terminal and the second terminal. The device also includes a second heterojunction transistor (14) formed on a substrate, the second heterojunction transistor comprising: a second Ill-nitride semiconductor region formed over the substrate, wherein the second Ill-nitride semiconductor region comprises a second heterojunction comprising at least one two dimensional carrier gas of second conductivity type; a third terminal operatively connected to the second Ill-nitride semiconductor region; a fourth terminal laterally spaced from the third terminal in a first dimension and operatively connected to the second Ill-nitride semiconductor region, wherein the fourth terminal is operatively connected to the first gate terminal; and a second gate terminal formed over the second Ill-nitride semiconductor region between the third terminal and the fourth terminal and wherein the second heterojunction transistor is used in sensing and protection functions of the first power heterojunction transistor. The device also includes at least one monolithically integrated current sensing transistor (16) that has a substantially identical structure to the first heterojunction transistor, and wherein the third transistor is scaled to a smaller area or a shorter gate width when compared to the first heterojunction transistor by a scale factor, X, where X is larger than 1. Other embodiments include both internal and external sensing, sensing loads and a feedback circuit to provide overcurrent, gate over-voltage or over-temperature protection.
US12046665B2
A process is provided to fabricate a finFET device having a semiconductor layer of a two-dimensional “2D” semiconductor material. The semiconductor layer of the 2D semiconductor material is a thin film layer formed over a dielectric fin-shaped structure. The 2D semiconductor layer extends over at least three surfaces of the dielectric fin structure, e.g., the upper surface and two sidewall surfaces. A vertical protrusion metal structure, referred to as “metal fin structure”, is formed about an edge of the dielectric fin structure and is used as a seed to grow the 2D semiconductor material.
US12046659B2
A semiconductor structure includes following components. A first substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. An HBT device is located on the first substrate and includes a collector, a base, and an emitter. A first interconnect structure is electrically connected to the base, located on the first surface, and extends to the second surface. A second interconnect structure is electrically connected to the emitter, located on the first surface, and extends to the second surface. A third interconnect structure is located on the second surface and electrically connected to the collector. An MOS transistor device is located on a second substrate and includes a gate, a first source and drain region, and a second source and drain region. Interconnect structures on the second substrate electrically connect the base to the first source and drain region and electrically connect the emitter to the gate.
US12046652B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include semiconductor devices and methods of making such devices. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device comprises a plurality of stacked semiconductor channels comprising first semiconductor channels and second semiconductor channels over the first semiconductor channels. In an embodiment a spacing is between the first semiconductor channels and the second semiconductor channels. The semiconductor device further comprises a gate dielectric surrounding individual ones of the semiconductor channels of the plurality of stacked semiconductor channels. In an embodiment, a first workfunction metal surrounds the first semiconductor channels, and a second workfunction metal surrounds the second semiconductor channels.
US12046638B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a major surface. The semiconductor device includes a dielectric material having a uniform thickness on the major surface of the substrate. The semiconductor device includes a first plurality of fins extending from the major surface of the substrate, wherein each fin of the first plurality of fins has a first height from the major surface of the substrate. The semiconductor device includes a second plurality of fins extending from the major surface of the substrate, wherein a first fin of the second plurality of fins is on a first side of the first plurality of fins, a second fin of the second plurality of fins is on a second side of the first plurality of fins opposite the first side, each fin of the second plurality of fins has a second height different from the first height.
US12046630B2
The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor structure, and relates to the technical field of semiconductors. The manufacturing method includes: providing a base, wherein the base is provided with an active region; forming a gate layer on the base; forming isolation structures on a periphery of the gate layer, wherein in a direction away from the gate layer, each of the isolation structures at least includes a hollow portion and an isolation portion; forming an insulating structure on top surfaces of the isolation structures; forming contact plugs, wherein the contact plugs penetrate the insulating structure; an end of each of the contact plugs close to the base is electrically connected to the active region; each of the contact plugs is located on a side of each of the isolation structures away from the gate layer.
US12046629B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate comprising a P-type lightly doped semiconductor layer; an undoped silicon layer formed on the P-type lightly doped semiconductor layer; a first deep trench isolation and a second deep trench isolation formed from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate to the undoped silicon layer and filled with insulating films; and a first N-type highly doped buried layer formed on the undoped silicon layer, and disposed between the first deep trench isolation and the second deep trench isolation, wherein the undoped silicon layer surrounds bottoms of the first and second deep trench isolations, and has a thickness greater than a thickness of the first N-type highly doped buried layer.
US12046625B2
Provided are a light-emitting element, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device comprising the light-emitting element. The method for manufacturing the light-emitting element comprises the steps of: preparing a lower substrate including a substrate and a buffer material layer formed on the substrate, forming a separating layer disposed on the lower substrate and including at least one graphene layer, forming an element deposition structure by depositing a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, an active material layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer on the separating layer, forming an element rod by etching the element deposition structure and the separating layer in a vertical direction; and separating the element rod from the lower substrate to form a light emitting element.
US12046623B2
A radiation detector tile includes a single crystal compound semiconductor tile having a zinc blende crystal structure, a (111) plane first major (i.e. prominent) surface and four side surfaces which are rotated by an angle of 13° to 17° to a {110} family of planes. The tile may be formed by dicing a (111) oriented wafer at directions which are rotated by an angle of 13° to 17° from <110> in-plane slipping directions to reduce or eliminate the side surface chipping and sub surface dislocation defects.
US12046611B2
A solid-state image sensor is provided. The solid-state image sensor includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. The solid-state image sensor also includes a first color filter layer disposed above the photoelectric conversion elements and a second color filter layer disposed adjacent to the first color filter layer, which respectively have a plurality of first color filter segments and a plurality of second color filter segments. Moreover, the solid-state image sensor includes a first metal grid structure disposed between the first color filter layer and the second color filter layer. The solid-state image sensor also includes a second metal grid structure disposed between the first color filter segments and between the second color filter segments. The bottom of the first metal grid structure has a first grid width, and the bottom of the second metal grid structure has a second grid width narrower than the first grid width.
US12046609B2
A solid-state image sensor is provided. The solid-state image sensor includes photoelectric conversion elements and a color filter layer disposed above the photoelectric conversion elements. The photoelectric conversion elements and the color filter layer form normal pixels and auto-focus pixels, the color filter layer that correspond to the normal pixels are divided into first color filter segments and second color filter segments, the first color filter segments are disposed on at least one side that is closer to an incident light, and the width of the first color filter segments is greater than the width of the second color filter segments.
US12046601B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for power supply stacking of an array of devices are disclosed. For an embodiment, each device is specified by a location (i,j), each device includes a Vdd terminal, and a Vss terminal. For an embodiment, the Vss terminal of each of the devices in the first majority of the devices at location (i,j), is connected to the Vdd terminal of the device at location (i−1,j), wherein the potential of the Vss terminal of the each device at any location (1,j+1) is higher than the potential of the Vss terminal for another device at location (1,j) by a voltage Xj, for j=1:M−1, wherein a sum of all Xj voltages for j=1:(M−1) is greater than 0.25*VDD.
US12046598B2
A semiconductor device includes a first power supply line, a second power supply line, a first ground line, a switch circuit connected to the first and the second power supply line, and a switch control circuit connected to the first ground line and the first power supply line. The switch circuit includes a first and a second transistor of a first conductive type. A first gate electrode of the first transistor is connected to a second gate electrode of the second transistor. The switch control circuit includes a third transistor of a second conductive type, and a fourth transistor of a third conductive type. A third gate electrode of the third transistor is connected to a fourth gate electrode of the fourth transistor. A semiconductor device includes a signal line that electrically connects a connection point between the third and fourth transistor to the first and second gate electrode.
US12046597B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a semiconductor fin structure disposed over the substrate, wherein the semiconductor fin structure extend along a first lateral direction; a gate structure that straddles a semiconductor fin structure, wherein the gate structure extends along a second lateral direction, the first lateral direction perpendicular to the second lateral direction; a dielectric fin structure that extends along the first lateral direction and is disposed next to the semiconductor structure fin structure; and a gate isolation structure disposed above the dielectric fin structure. The gate isolation structure contacts an upper portion of the gate structure at a first tilted interface.
US12046591B2
A light-emitting substrate, a method of manufacturing a light-emitting substrate, and a display device are provided. The light-emitting substrate includes: a first substrate, wherein the first substrate includes a first base substrate, a light-emitting diode arranged on the first base substrate, and a first conductive pad arranged on the first base substrate; a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate, wherein the second substrate includes a second base substrate, and a second conductive pad arranged on the second base substrate; and a bonding wire structure including a bonding wire, wherein the first conductive pad is located on a surface of the first substrate away from the second substrate, the second conductive pad is located on a surface of the second substrate away from the first substrate, and the bonding wire is configured to electrically connect the first conductive pad and the second conductive pad.
US12046580B2
A three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D IC) package is provided. The 3D IC package includes: a cache die including a low-dropout (LDO) regulator and a cache memory device; a compute die above the cache die, the compute die including a processor; and one or more first interconnect structures connecting the cache die and the compute die in a vertical direction.
US12046578B2
A smart network interface controller (NIC) implemented using a stacked die configuration is provided. The NIC may include user-customizable networking circuits formed in a top programmable die and primitive network function blocks formed in a bottom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) die. The top programmable die may provide a flexible packet processing pipeline to facilitate efficient control and data communication between the user-customizable networking circuits and the primitive network function blocks. The bottom ASIC die may also include an array of memory blocks operable as lookup tables and intermediate buffers for other network processing circuitry in the NIC. A NIC configured in this way provides both performance, power, and area benefits and superior customer configurability.
US12046575B2
A method for fabricating a three-dimensional (3D) electronic device. A liquid support material (e.g., an epoxy acrylate with a photoinitiator) is applied by a laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT) process to a printed circuit board (PCB) having one or more connectors and one or more electronic components thereon, and then cured to solid form by cooling and/or exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. A layer of conductive material (e.g., a metal) is printed on the solidified support material by LIFT to electrically connect the one or more electronic components to respective ones of the connectors on the PCB. Subsequently, the layer of conductive material is dried by heating and metal particles in the conductive layer sintered using a laser beam. The assembly may then be encapsulated in an encapsulant.
US12046571B2
Devices and techniques including process steps make use of recesses in conductive interconnect structures to form reliable low temperature metallic bonds. A fill layer is deposited into the recesses prior to bonding. First conductive interconnect structures are bonded at ambient temperatures to second metallic interconnect structures using direct bonding techniques, with the fill layers in the recesses in one or both of the first and second interconnect structures.
US12046566B2
A semiconductor article which includes a semiconductor substrate, a back end of the line (BEOL) wiring portion on the semiconductor substrate, a through silicon via and a guard ring. The semiconductor substrate is made of a semiconductor material. The BEOL wiring portion includes a plurality of wiring layers having electrically conductive wiring and electrical insulating material. The through silicon via provides a conductive path through the BEOL wiring portion and the semiconductor substrate. The guard ring surrounds the through silicon via in the BEOL wiring portion and in some embodiments in the semiconductor substrate.
US12046561B2
A structure including a first semiconductor die, an interposer and a first insulating encapsulation is provided. The first semiconductor die includes a semiconductor substrate, an interconnect structure disposed on the semiconductor substrate and conductive vias disposed on the interconnect structure. The interposer includes a dielectric layer and through vias penetrating through the dielectric layer. The first insulating encapsulation laterally encapsulates the first semiconductor die and the interposer, wherein a thickness of the dielectric layer of the interposer substantially equals to a thickness of the first semiconductor die and a thickness of the first insulating encapsulation.
US12046554B2
The present disclosure relates an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes an isolation region disposed within a substrate and surrounding an active area. A gate structure is disposed over the substrate and has a base region and a gate extension finger protruding outward from a sidewall of the base region along a first direction to past opposing sides of the active area. A source contact is disposed within the active area and a drain contact is disposed within the active area and is separated from the source contact by the gate extension finger. A first plurality of conductive contacts are arranged on the gate structure and separated along the first direction. The first plurality of conductive contacts are separated by distances overlying the gate extension finger.
US12046552B2
An anti-fuse unit includes: an anti-fuse device; a first selection transistor electrically connected with the anti-fuse device; and a second selection transistor electrically connected with the first selection transistor. Each of the anti-fuse device, the first selection transistor and the second selection transistor is provided with a gate oxide layer and a gate conductive layer, the gate oxide layer of the anti-fuse device, the gate oxide layer of the first selection transistor and the gate oxide layer of the second selection transistor have a same thickness, and the gate conductive layer of the anti-fuse device, the gate conductive layer of the first selection transistor and the gate conductive layer of the second selection transistor have a same thickness.
US12046547B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic device including a substrate, a first pad, an insulating layer, a second pad, a conductive element and a chip. The first pad is disposed on the substrate. The insulating layer is disposed on the first pad and has a plurality of first openings. The second pad is electrically connected to the first pad through the first openings. The conductive particle is disposed on the second pad. The chip is electrically connected to the second pad through the conductive element. In a top view of the electronic device, the first openings are arranged along a long edge of the first pad, and an outline of at least one first opening has a curved shape.
US12046546B2
A package substrate includes; a conductive line extending in a first horizontal direction, a conductive pad on an upper surface of the package substrate and horizontally spaced apart from the conductive line in a second horizontal direction, and a protective layer covering the conductive line and including an opening selectively exposing a portion of the conductive pad. The opening has an elongated elliptical shape having a minor axis defined by a width extending in the first horizontal direction and a major axis defined by a length extending in the second horizontal direction.
US12046545B2
A reconstituted substrate, a packaged assembly comprising a reconstituted substrate, and methods for fabricating a reconstituted substrate. An example reconstituted substrate generally includes multiple package-level substrates implemented with different substrate technologies and held together. An example method for fabricating a reconstituted substrate generally includes forming multiple package-level substrates implemented with different substrate technologies, arranging the multiple package-level substrates, and adding a material to hold the multiple package-level substrates together.
US12046542B2
In some examples, a semiconductor package includes a semiconductor die having a device side and a non-device side opposing the device side. The device side has a circuit formed therein. The package includes a first conductive member having a first surface coupled to the non-device side of the semiconductor die and a second surface opposing the first surface. The second surface is exposed to a top surface of the semiconductor package. The package includes a second conductive member exposed to an exterior of the semiconductor package and coupled to the device side of the semiconductor die. The package includes a plurality of wirebonded members coupled to the second surface of the first conductive member and exposed to the exterior of the semiconductor package. At least one of the wirebonded members in the plurality of wirebonded members has a gauge of at least 5 mils.
US12046539B2
A semiconductor module includes a resin case housing a semiconductor element; an insulating layer extending outward from the resin case; and a first external connection terminal extending outward from the resin case, arranged above the insulating layer so as to face the insulting layer, the first external connection terminal having a non-contact portion that is not in contact with the insulating layer in a thickness direction of the insulating layer at a position overlapping the insulating layer in a plan view.
US12046534B2
This application relates to modifications and enhancements to assemblies used with integrated circuits. In the described embodiments, multiple thermal components (e.g., vapor chambers, fin stacks, heat pipes) can be used to provide a dual-sided thermal energy extraction solution for a circuit board and an integrated circuit located on the circuit board. The thermal components can provide thermal energy dissipation capabilities for additional heat-generating components on the circuit board. Additionally, multiple plates can provide a compression force used to maintain contact between the integrated circuit and the circuit board, and in particular, between contact pads of the integrated circuit and pins, or springs, of a socket located on the circuit board.
US12046529B2
An array of heat-sinked power semiconductors that includes a power semiconductor and a heat sink. The power semiconductor has a power semiconductor die, a plurality of first terminals and a second terminal. The power semiconductor die has a plurality of semiconductor terminals. Each of the first terminals is electrically coupled to an associated one of the semiconductor terminals. The second terminal is a surface mount terminal and is electrically coupled to one of the first terminals. The heat sink has a heat sink body and a plurality of fins. The heat sink body has a base and an exterior surface. The base is fixedly coupled directly to the surface mount terminal. The exterior surface has a fin mount portion to which the fins extend. At least a portion of the fin-mount portion is oriented non-parallel to base.
US12046526B2
Methods of fabricating a semiconductor package may include forming a first barrier layer on a first carrier, forming a sacrificial layer, including an opening that exposes at least a portion of the first barrier layer, on the first barrier layer, and forming a second barrier layer on the first barrier layer and on the sacrificial layer. The second barrier layer may include a portion formed on the sacrificial layer. The methods may also include forming a first insulating layer in the opening and protruding beyond a top surface of the portion of the second barrier layer on the sacrificial layer, a top surface of the first insulating layer being farther from the first barrier layer than the top surface of the portion of the second barrier layer, forming a redistribution structure including a redistribution layer and a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer and on the second barrier layer, mounting a semiconductor chip on the redistribution structure, attaching a second carrier onto the semiconductor chip and removing the first carrier, removing the first barrier layer, the sacrificial layer, and the second barrier layer to expose portions of the redistribution structure, and forming solder balls, respectively, on the portions of the redistribution structure.
US12046523B2
A semiconductor device package includes a substrate; an electronic component disposed on the substrate; multiple supporting structures disposed on the substrate; and a reinforced structure disposed on the supporting structures and extending in parallel with the substrate.
US12046519B2
A method includes depositing a first conductive layer over a gate dielectric layer; depositing a first work function tuning layer over the first conductive layer; selectively removing the first work function tuning layer from over a first region of the first conductive layer; doping the first work function tuning layer with a dopant; and after doping the first work function tuning layer performing a first treatment process to etch the first region of the first conductive layer and a second region of the first work function tuning layer. The first treatment process etches the first conductive layer at a greater rate than the first work function tuning layer.
US12046511B2
Structures in semiconductor devices, and methods for forming the structures, are described. In one embodiment, a hard mask layer of a deposition stack can be etched to pattern a hard mask. An interconnect layer of the deposition stack can be etched using the hard mask to pattern a plurality of metal lines. The hard mask can be removed. A liner layer of the deposition stack can be etched to remove a portion of the liner layer deposited directly on a dielectric layer of the deposition stack. In response to etching the liner layer, a remaining portion of the liner layer can be deposited between the metal lines and the dielectric layer.
US12046510B2
Generally, examples are provided relating to conductive features that include a barrier layer, and to methods thereof. In an embodiment, a metal layer is deposited in an opening through a dielectric layer(s) to a source/drain region. The metal layer is along the source/drain region and along a sidewall of the dielectric layer(s) that at least partially defines the opening. The metal layer is nitrided, which includes performing a multiple plasma process that includes at least one directional-dependent plasma process. A portion of the metal layer remains un-nitrided by the multiple plasma process. A silicide region is formed, which includes reacting the un-nitrided portion of the metal layer with a portion of the source/drain region. A conductive material is disposed in the opening on the nitrided portions of the metal layer.
US12046502B2
A method of constructing an E-puck includes forming at least one trench into a lower substrate, depositing an electrode material onto the lower substrate and into the at least one trench, removing excess electrode material from the lower substrate to leave the electrode material within the at least one trench to form an electrode, and forming a dielectric on the lower substrate and the electrode. The electrode is between the lower substrate and the upper substrate. Forming the at least one trench into the lower substrate forms at least one standoff portion adjacent to the at least one trench and the at least one standoff portion reduces dishing of the electrode material during removal of the excess electrode material from the lower substrate.
US12046499B2
A substrate transport apparatus comprising a support frame an articulated arm connected to the support frame, having at least one movable arm link and an end effector connected to the movable arm link, with a substrate holding station located thereon. Wherein the movable arm link is a reconfigurable arm link having a modular composite arm link casing, formed of link case modules rigidly coupled to each other, and a pulley system cased in and extending through the rigidly coupled link case modules substantially end to end of the modular composite arm link casing, wherein the rigidly coupled link case modules include link case end modules connected by at least one interchangeable link case extension module having a predetermined characteristic determining a length of the movable arm link, wherein at least one interchangeable link case extension module is selectable for connection to link case end modules forming the reconfigurable arm link.
US12046498B2
A method and apparatus for loading substrates in an inspection station is disclosed herein. In one embodiment a loading module is disclosed that includes a loading station for two or more substrate cassettes, a first lane comprising a first conveyor that is substantially aligned with one of the two or more substrate cassettes and a conveyor system, a second lane comprising a second conveyor that is substantially aligned with another of the two or more substrate cassettes and positioned in a spaced-apart relation relative to the first lane, and a lateral transfer module positioned between the first lane and the second lane that is adapted to move substrates from the second lane to the first lane.
US12046494B2
A chip matching system and a corresponding method are provided. The method defines a plurality of first electronic components in a first wafer as various grades of chips and defines a plurality of second electronic components in a second wafer as various grades of chips, and then grades of the first electronic components and the second electronic components are matched to generate target information, and finally the first and second electronic components are integrated in the same position according to the target information. Therefore, the highest-grade chips can be arranged in a multi-chip module to optimize the quality of the multi-chip module.
US12046481B2
Embodiments are related to systems and methods for forming vias in a substrate, and more particularly to systems and methods for reducing substrate surface disruption during via formation.
US12046476B2
A wet etching chemistry to selectively remove a polymer residue on an opening embedded in a low-k dielectric layer and an underlying stop layer in a process of forming an interconnect structure is provided. The wet etching chemistry includes: two type of organic solvents, wherein a concentration of the two type of organic solvents is greater than or equal to 70%; an Alkali source amine, at least comprising a tertiary amine; an inhibitor; and water. In some embodiment, the wet etching chemistry is free of a peroxide to avoid damage to the WdC hard mask.
US12046469B2
A semiconductor silicon wafer manufacturing method is provided, where P aggregate defects and SF in an epitaxial layer can be suppressed. A silicon wafer substrate cut from a monocrystal ingot is doped with phosphorus and has a resistivity of 1.05 mΩ·cm or less and a concentration of solid-solution oxygen of 0.9×1018 atoms/cm3. The method includes steps of mirror-polishing substrates and heat treatment, where after the mirror-polishing step, the substrate is kept at a temperature from 700° C. to 850° for 30 to 120 minutes, then after the temperature rise, kept at a temperature from 1100° C. to 1250° for 30 to 120 minutes, and after cooling, kept at a temperature from 700° C. to 450° C. for less than 10 minutes as an experience time. The heat treatment step is performed in a mixture gas of hydrogen and argon. The method includes an epitaxial layer deposition step to a thickness of 1.3 μm to 10.0 μm.
US12046467B2
Vapor phase transport systems and methods of depositing perovskite films are described. In an embodiment, a deposition method includes feeding a perovskite solution or constituent powder to a vaporizer, followed by vaporization and depositing the constituent vapor as a perovskite film. In an embodiment, a deposition system and method includes vaporizing different perovskite precursors in different vaporization zones at different temperatures, followed by mixing the vaporized precursors to form a constituent vapor, and depositing the constituent vapor as a perovskite film.
US12046463B2
After setting an intensity value equal to or lower than a predetermined level in mass spectrum data as invalid data, an uncompressed data array in which intensity values are arrayed in the order of m/z is divided into blocks per predetermined number of pieces of data. When significant intensity values are consecutive in order from the start of each block, this consecutive number and the respective intensity values are used as data for compression. When invalid data is consecutive, this consecutive number is used as data for compression. Then, sequence numbers of data at the start of each block after compression are collected to create an index and the index is stored together with the compressed data.
US12046457B2
An electrostatic chuck according to an exemplary embodiment includes a first region and a second region. The first region has a first upper surface. The first region is configured to hold a substrate disposed on the first upper surface. The second region has a second upper surface. The second region extends in a circumferential direction to surround the first region. The second region is configured to support a focus ring mounted on the second upper surface. The first upper surface and the second upper surface extend along a single flat surface. The first region and the second region provide a space therebetween to separate the first upper surface and the second upper surface from each other.
US12046443B2
A Bernas ion source having a shield is disclosed. The shield is disposed between the distal portion of the filament and the first end of the chamber and serves to confine the plasma to the region between the shield and the second end of the chamber. The shield may be electrically connected to the negative leg of the filament so as to be the most negatively biased component in the chamber. In other embodiments, the shield may be electrically floating. In this embodiment, the shield may self-bias. The shield is typically made of a refractory metal. The use of the shield may reduce back heating of the filament by the plasma and reduce the possibility for thermal runaway. This may allow denser plasmas to be generated within the chamber.
US12046436B2
A chip fuse includes a first terminal disposed on a first end of a fuse element array and a second terminal disposed on a second end of the fuse element array opposite the first end. The fuse element array includes multiple layers disposed in a stacked arrangement, each layer including a first terminal portion disposed within the first terminal, a second terminal portion disposed within the second terminal, a first fuse element portion orthogonal to and extending between the first terminal portion and the second terminal portion, and a second fuse element portion orthogonal to and extending between the first terminal portion and the second terminal portion. The first fuse element portion is adjacent the second fuse element portion.
US12046431B2
A medium-voltage switchgear system includes a three-phase circuit breaker having first, second and third single-phase vacuum interrupters connected between respective first, second and third single-phase inputs and first, second and third single-phase outputs. Magnetic actuators are connected to first, second and third single-phase vacuum interrupters, which are configured to receive an interrupt signal and in response, actuate the respective vacuum interrupter connected thereto into an open circuit condition. A controller circuit is connected to each of the first, second and third magnetic actuators and generates an interrupt signal in response to a detected single-phase overcurrent or fault on a single-phase circuit and interrupt that single-phase circuit on which the single-phase overcurrent or fault occurred and maintain power on the remaining two single-phase circuits over which a single-phase overcurrent or fault was not detected.
US12046415B2
A method for manufacturing a dust core, includes: applying energy to a surface of a soft magnetic powder coated with an insulating body containing a compound having an aluminum-oxygen bond; exposing the soft magnetic powder to an atmosphere having a dew point of −30° C. or higher and 15° C. or lower under an atmospheric pressure; and forming a molded product by pressing the soft magnetic powder at 20 MPa or more and 400 MPa or less.
US12046413B2
A coil component includes a nonmagnetic body having a cured product of a polymer resin, an insulating substrate embedded in the body and having a thickness of 30 μm or less, a coil portion including first and second coil patterns respectively disposed on first and second opposing surfaces of the insulating substrate, and first and second external electrodes disposed on a surface of the body to be connected to each of the first and second coil patterns exposed to the surface of the body.
US12046411B2
A coil component includes a body having one surface and the other surface, opposing each other in one direction, and one end surface connecting the one surface and the other surface, a winding coil disposed in the body and having a lead-out portion exposed to the one end surface of the body, a first insulating layer disposed on the one end surface of the body and having one region and the other region spaced apart from each other in the other direction, perpendicular to the one direction, an external electrode having a connection portion, disposed between the one region and the other region of the first insulating layer to be connected to the lead-out portion, and an extension portion extending from the connection portion to the one surface of the body, and a second insulating layer covering the first insulating layer and the connection portion on the one end surface of the body.
US12046407B2
A coil component includes a body part including a magnetic material; a coil part disposed in the body part; and an electrode part disposed on the body part, wherein the coil part includes a supporting member, a coil conductor disposed on at least one surface of the supporting member and having a conductor pattern of a planar coil shape, and an insulator filling a space between the conductor patterns and covering an outer surface of the conductor pattern, and the conductor pattern has an aspect ratio (H1/W1), which is a ratio of a height H1 to a width W1, of 3 to 9, and a method of manufacturing the same.
US12046400B1
Exemplary inventive practice provides a structure that is attributed with superior resistance to loading. For example, an inventive structure includes two coaxial axisymmetric (e.g., cylindrical) shells and a granulation-filled matrix material occupying the peripheral space between the shells. According to some inventive embodiments, the granulation-filled matrix material has a loading-responsive matrix (e.g., shear-thickening fluid or highly rate-sensitive polymer) and granules dispersed therein. When the inventive structure encounters pressure loading at its exterior shell, the consistency of the loading-responsive matrix becomes thicker or firmer and thereby promotes, among the granules, interactive mechanisms (e.g., friction and/or arching) that reinforce the granulation-filled matrix material. According to some inventive embodiments, the granulation-filled matrix material has a magnetic-field-responsive matrix and magnetizable granules dispersed therein, and is magnetically fortified via application of a magnetic field (e.g., continuously applied where the matrix is magnetorheological fluid, or temporarily applied where the matrix is rheological fluid containing diamagnetic particles).
US12046379B2
A nuclear reactor has an axially stratified fuel bed. The reactor features a reactor shell having a base, a top having an exhaust outlet, and an axis. The axially stratified fuel bed is within the reactor shell, and includes: a first zone configured to operate at a first temperature T1, the first zone comprising a plurality of first fuel particles, each first fuel particle comprising a first radioactive ceramic core and a first ceramic seal coating; and a second zone configured to operate at a second temperature T2, where T2>T1, the second zone comprising a plurality of second fuel particles, each second fuel particle comprising a second radioactive ceramic core and a second ceramic seal coating. A coolant fluid flow path carries a coolant fluid from the base of the reactor to the exhaust outlet, along a flow path passing sequentially through the first zone and the second zone. The first ceramic seal coating has greater stability at T1 than at T2, and the second ceramic seal coating has greater stability at T2 than the first ceramic seal coating.
US12046376B2
A system for customizing an implant is provided. The system includes a processor configured to: i) obtain one or more medical image stacks of a joint; ii) obtain a three-dimensional image representation of the joint based on at least one of said medical image stacks; iii) determine damage to the joint by analyzing said medical image stacks; iv) select an implant template from a predefined set of implant templates having predetermined types and sizes; v) generate a 3D model, in which the marked damage is visualized together with the selected implant template in a proposed position; vi) display the 3D model; vii) receive an approval for said selected implant template in said proposed position; and viii) determine the final shape and dimensions of a customized implant based on said selected implant template and said proposed position.
US12046372B2
Systems and methods are configured to perform machine-learning-based predictive behavioral response. In various embodiments, one or more behavioral monitoring data objects are identified and processed using a behavioral pattern prediction machine learning model to generate a behavioral pattern prediction model. The behavioral pattern prediction model is processed using a risk generation machine learning model to generate a risk model, wherein: (i) the risk generation machine learning model is generated based at least in part by one or more risk factors, and (ii) the risk model comprises a per-risk factor score for each risk factor of the one or more risk factors. The risk model is processed using an adjustment generation machine learning model to generate an adjustment model and one or more prediction-based actions are performed based on the adjustment model.
US12046369B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and apparatus for providing interactive and analytical components that provide a comprehensive and dynamic tool for therapies to prevent and cure dementia-related diseases. The invention includes one or more computers that receive and store personal information for people, including personal background information, pre-existing conditions, current medications, genomic data and diagnostic information. The computers also generate synergic data containing compounded probability data specifying an expected adjustment of individual biological mechanisms from particular combinations of therapies. For each person, the computers process personal information and identify a subset of biological mechanisms that are principally affected by dementia-related diseases or the substantial risk of dementia-related diseases. The computers also apply the personal information including the principally-affected biological mechanisms to the therapy data and generate for each person one or more messages communicating a therapy plan containing a combination of therapies and determines how to apply the therapies.
US12046366B1
Health and wellness management technology, in which events that relate to activity within the monitored property are sensed based on output from sensors located at a monitored property. Behaviors are detected based on the sensed events that relate to activity within the monitored property and, in accordance with the detected behaviors, one or more models are created based on a likelihood of similarly expressed events happening at similar times with similar characteristics. Additional behaviors detected after creation of the one or more models are evaluated against the one or more models to determine whether the additional behaviors are consistent with the one or more models. At least one action is performed based on the determination of whether the additional behaviors are consistent with the one or more models.
US12046363B2
For a scalable filtering infrastructure, a library of filters each usable at different control rates is provided by defining filters in a continuous time mode despite eventual use for digital filtering. For implementation, a filter is selected and discretized for the desired control rate. The discretized filter is then deployed as a discrete time realization for convolution. In a distributed system with multiple control rates, the library may be used to more rapidly and conveniently generate the desired filters.
US12046360B2
A system and a computer-implemented method employ an appointment optimization and route planning system (AORPS) for optimizing home-visit appointments and related travel for delivering patient care. The AORPS receives registration and patient data from patients and client input including information about healthcare providers, onsite care coordinators, health plans, appointment types, and success rates from a client. The AORPS collates the patient data and generates an input matrix from the client input and the collated patient data. The AORPS generates a predictive model for appointments, capitation, and return on investment for delivering patient care based on appointment and patient history, feedback, and healthcare data. The AORPS generates an appointment schedule with travel routes dynamically based on optimization factors derived from the client input, the collated patient data, the input matrix, the healthcare data, and the predictive model, incorporating real-time changes in patient data, the client input, the optimization factors, and appointments.
US12046358B2
Systems, methods, and/or instrumentalities for a surgical hub configuring a display may be provided. In examples, a health care provider (HCP) and/or a medical instrument may be tracked within an operating room. In examples, a first HCP and a second HCP may be tracked within an operating room. In examples, an HCP and/or a patient may be tracked within an operating room. A surgical task that uses the medical instrument during a medical procedure may be determined.
US12046356B2
A system and method generating an optimized medical image using a machine learning model are provided. The method includes (i) receiving one or more medical images, (ii) segmenting to generate a transformed medical image for detecting a plurality of target elements, (iii) displaying the transformed medical image, (iv) receiving markings and scribblings associated with scribble locations from a user, (v) identifying errors associated with an outline of a target element, (vi) computing a loss function for a location of pixels where the target element is located on the transformed medical image, (vii) modifying the pre-defined weights (w) to match the segmentation output and the determined target element, (viii) determining whether the segmentation output is matched with the target element and (ix) generating the optimized medical image if the segmentation output is matched with the determined target element.
US12046352B2
A system for generating a cognitive disorder nourishment program comprises a computing device configured to obtain a cognitive indicator element, produce a cognitive appraisal as a function of the cognitive indicator element, wherein producing further comprises identifying a cognitive function as a function of an experience label, and producing the cognitive appraisal as a function of the cognitive function and cognitive indicator element using a cognitive machine-learning model, determine an edible as a function of the cognitive appraisal, and generate a nourishment program as a function of the edible.
US12046350B2
A system for calculating an edible score in a display interface, including a computing device configured to initiate, a display interface; retrieve, a performance profile relating to a user; determine, an edible of interest; receive, nourishment information relating to the edible of interest; generate, a score machine-learning process to output an edible score; and display, the edible score within the display interface.
US12046346B2
The present disclosure relates to a device for handling medicament delivery devices and is to be used with a safety container, where the medicament delivery devices have information retaining elements having information that is unique to specific medicament delivery devices, and which medicament delivery devices are to be put in a safety container after use. The disclosed device has an information obtaining mechanism operably arranged to obtain information from the medicament delivery devices placed into the safety container.
US12046327B1
Example embodiments relate to identity-by-descent (IBD) relatedness based on focal and reference segments. An example method includes determining, by a services platform based on personal information of a focal individual, a focal string. The method also includes retrieving, by the services platform from a reference database, a reference string of a reference individual. Additionally, the method includes computationally identifying, by the services platform, IBD segments between the focal string and the reference string. Further, the method includes determining, by the services platform and based on the merged set of IBD segments, a degree of relatedness between the focal individual and the reference individual. In addition, the method includes providing, by the services platform, access to the degree of relatedness via a user interface.
US12046323B2
A semiconductor device includes an address input circuit configured to boost a voltage level of at least one bit of a row address to generate a boosting address and to drive a signal of a first node based on other bits of the row address and the boosting address. The semiconductor device also includes a word line selection signal generation circuit configured to drive a signal of a second node based on the signal of the first node and to generate a word line selection signal for selecting a word line based on the signal of the second node.
US12046314B2
To reduce spikes in the current used by a NAND memory die, different ramp rates are used for the pass voltage applied to unselected word lines during a program operation depending on whether data is stored in a multi-level cell (MLC) format or in a single level cell (SLC) format. These ramp rates can be determined through device characterization and stored as parameter values on the memory die. Different ramp rate interval values can also be used for the pass voltage applied to unselected word lines during a program operation depending on whether data is stored in an MLC format or in an SLC format.
US12046304B2
A memory device including an array of memory cells arranged in a plurality of word lines is provided. A control circuitry is configured to program the memory cells of a selected word line to a plurality of leading data states in a plurality of programming loops that include programming and verify pulses. The control circuitry is also configured to count a total number of programming loops during programming of the selected word line. The control circuitry is also configured to program at least one memory cell of the selected word line to a last data state in at least one last data state programming loop. In response to both the total number of programming loops being less than a first predetermined threshold and the number of last data state programming loops being equal to a second predetermined threshold, the control circuitry automatically skips verify in a final programming loop.
US12046303B2
For a nonvolatile (NV) storage media such as NAND (not AND) media that is written by a program and program verify operation, the system can apply a smart prologue operation. A smart prologue operation can selectively apply a standard program prologue, to compute program parameters for a target subblock. The smart prologue operation can selectively apply an accelerated program prologue, applying a previously-computed program parameter for a subsequent subblock of a same block of the NV storage media. Application of a prior program parameter can reduce the need to compute program parameters for the other subblocks.
US12046302B2
A memory apparatus and method of operation are provided. The memory apparatus includes memory cells connected to one of a plurality of word lines including an edge word line and a plurality of other data word lines. The memory cells are disposed in memory holes organized in rows grouped in a plurality of strings. The rows include full circle rows and semi-circle rows. A control means is configured to program the memory cells connected to the edge word line and in the semi-circle rows of a first one and a second one of the plurality of strings to a predetermined one of a plurality of data states in a first program operation. The control means then selects both the first one and the second one of the plurality of strings together and programs the memory cells of the full circle rows together in a second program operation.
US12046300B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller configured to cause the nonvolatile memory to execute a first process of reading data based on a first request from a host device. The memory controller is configured to, when the first request is received from the host device while causing the nonvolatile memory to execute a second process, hold interruption of the second process until a first number becomes a first threshold value or more. The first number is a number of the first requests to be performed in the memory controller. The first threshold value is an integer of 2 or more.
US12046298B2
Embodiments disclosed can include selecting a target read window budget (RWB) increase and identifying a set of aggressor memory cells. They can also include generating a list of programming level states for the set of aggressor memory cells and identifying, in the list, an entry associated with a maximum RWB increase that is greater than or equal to the target RWB increase. They can further include responsive to identifying the entry with the total number of bits associated with a maximum RWB increase that is greater than or equal to the target RWB increase, modifying a parameter of the memory access operation with the adjustment associated with the identified entry.
US12046296B2
A memory sub-system configured to execute a read command of a first type using a combine process to read soft bit data and hard bit data from memory cells. For example, a memory device is to: measure signal and noise characteristics of memory cells for the read command; calculate, based on the characteristics, an optimized voltage and two adjacent voltages that have offsets of a same amount from the optimized voltage; read the memory cells for hard bit data using the optimized voltage and for soft bit data using the two adjacent voltages; and transmit, to the processing device, a response including the hard bit data. The soft bit data can be selectively transmitted based on a classification determined from the characteristics. When a read command of a second type is executed, soft bit data is not read; and/or the signal and noise characteristics are not measured.
US12046295B2
The present technology includes a method of operating a controller capable of controlling a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory cells. The method of operating the controller includes sensing error correction failure of data read from the semiconductor memory device, generating a new read voltage for re-reading the data, determining whether the new read voltage belongs to an allowable range depending on a read voltage statistical value of previous read voltages according to which error corrections were successful on previously read data, and determining, based on a result of the determining whether the new read voltage belongs to the allowable range, a read voltage to be used in a next read operation of re-reading the data.
US12046292B2
A method of using boot-time metadata in a storage system is provided. The method includes writing a fragmentation stride to a solid-state storage device of the storage system, the fragmentation stride defining a granularity on which fragmentation of erase blocks of the solid-state storage device occurs. The method includes allocating portions of erase blocks for at least one process in the storage system, in accordance with the fragmentation stride and writing boot up metadata at offsets that are based on the fragmentation stride, in the solid-state storage device.
US12046291B2
A semiconductor memory device performs a write operation and an erase operation. The write operation includes a first program operation that applies a first program voltage to a first conductive layer. The first program voltage increases by a first offset voltage together with an increase in an execution count of a first write loop. An erase operation includes a program voltage control operation and an erase voltage supply operation that applies an erase voltage to a first wiring. The program voltage control operation includes a second program operation that applies a second program voltage to a third conductive layer. The second program voltage increases by a second offset voltage together with an increase in a number of times of execution of a second write loop. A magnitude of the first program voltage is adjusted according to a magnitude of the second program voltage.
US12046279B2
A controller is configured to program the memory cells to a first set of data states in a first programming pass and to a greater second set of data states in a second programming pass. The controller performs the first programming pass on the first word line. The controller then repeats the process of programming a portion of another word line and then comparing an upper tail of an erased data state of the first word line to a critical voltage until the upper tail of the erased data state of the first word line exceeds the critical voltage by a threshold. In response to the upper tail of the erased data state exceeding the critical voltage by the threshold, the controller then alternates between the first and second programming passes until the first programming pass is completed on the remaining word lines of the memory block.
US12046278B2
New CMOS harvesting circuits are proposed that improve 2-port/multiport Register File Array circuit speed and substantially lower the energy cost of moving data along local and global bitpaths when engaging harvested data to self-limit energy dissipation. The uncertainty in BL signal development due to statistical variations in cell read current is eliminated by self-disabling action in the selected cell when the electric potential of harvested data matches the BL voltage from signal development while demanding fewer peripheral circuit transistors per column than conventional sensing schemes. Proposed bit path circuits engage harvested charge to provide immunity to disturb current noise during concurrent Read and Write access along a WL-eliminating the performance, area and energy overheads of BL keeper circuits typically required in conventional Register File arrays. Proposed circuits improve the reliability of Read performance-limiting bitcell devices from voltage accelerated aging mechanisms by lowering of vertical and lateral electric fields across these cell transistors when holding harvested charge during most of active and standby periods. Register File bitcell transistor design trade-off constraints between array leakage in active mode and read current are considerably relaxed when engaging harvested charge enabling much higher read currents for any given total array leakage. Area overheads of proposed circuits are expected to be marginally lower based on device widths of replacements to conventional peripheral circuits and can be further minimized by sharing of devices and their connections between bit slices of the array peripheral circuits. Moreover, proposed circuits do not require any changes to the CMOS platform, to the bitcell or to the array architecture with much of the flow for design, verification and test of 2-Port/multiport RF Memory arrays expected to remain unchanged—minimizing risk and allowing integration of proposed circuits into existing products with minimal disruption to schedule and cost.
US12046269B2
A two-bit memory device having a layer structure containing in order a bottom layer, a molecular layer containing a chiral compound having at least one polar functional group, and a top layer, which is electrically conductive and ferromagnetic. The chiral compound acts as a spin filter for electrons passing through the molecular layer. The chiral compound is of flexible conformation and has a conformation-flexible molecular dipole moment. An electrical resistance of the layer structure for an electrical current running from the bottom layer to the top layer has at least four distinct states which depend on the magnetization of the top layer and on the orientation of the conformation-flexible dipole moment of the chiral compound. Furthermore, a method for operating the two-bit memory device and an electronic component containing at least one two-bit memory device.
US12046261B1
Adapting an asynchronous audio-visual presentation includes storing custom backdrops prior to presenting the asynchronous audio-visual presentation, assessing a degree of engagement for at least some of the participants by monitoring participant reactions and feedback while presenting the asynchronous audio-visual presentation, and modifying the asynchronous audio-visual presentation based on the degree of engagement of at least some of the participants by replacing a backdrop of the asynchronous audio-visual presentation with one of the custom backdrops. The degree of engagement of each of the participants may be positive/productive, angry/over-reacting, or indifferent. The degree of engagement of each of the participants may be based, at least in part, on non-verbal cues. The non-verbal cues may include postures, gestures, gaze direction and facial expressions that are captured by cameras of the participants and/or physiological parameters of at least some of the participants. A single participant or multiple participants may view the asynchronous audio-visual presentation.
US12046258B2
An audio signal processing device includes a first input terminal which receives an audio signal from a record player, a memory which stores a correction parameter for audio signal processing and characteristic information indicating the characteristic of an audio signal for measurement, a signal processing circuit which performs the audio signal processing on the audio signal received based on the correction parameter, and a microcomputer. The microcomputer measures the sound characteristic of the audio signal received when the audio signal for measurement recorded on a phonograph record for measurement are reproduced, generates the correction parameter based on a result of comparison between the result of the measurement and the characteristic information, and stores, in the memory, setting information and the correction parameter generated, in association with each other, the setting information indicating a setting on the audio signal processing when the measurement is performed.
US12046255B2
A sound source tracking method adapted to an ongoing video conference comprising: obtaining a streaming signal of the video conference from an internet; performing a video conference procedure to obtain an audio signal from the streaming signal and send the audio signal to a speaker; performing an audio tracking procedure to obtain the audio signal outputted from the video conference procedure to the communication device and send the audio signal to a sound source tracking camera; playing the audio signal to generate a far-end sound; recording a field sound comprising at least one of the far-end sound and a local-end sound; and performing a comparing procedure to determine a shooting direction of the sound source tracking camera, wherein the shooting direction is adjusted so as not to shoot the speaker when a similarity of the far-end sound and the audio signal is greater than a threshold.
US12046254B2
A mobile vehicle diagnostic device (MVDD) for acquiring data about a vehicle, the device comprising: a housing configured to be mechanically coupled to the vehicle so that, when the housing is mechanically coupled to the vehicle, vibration generated by the vehicle during its operation causes the housing to vibrate; acoustic sensors disposed within the housing and configured to acquire sound generated by the vehicle during its operation, the acoustic sensors comprising first and second acoustic sensors respectively oriented in first and second directions, wherein the first and second directions are at least 30 degrees apart; at least one dampening device disposed in the housing and positioned to dampen vibration of the acoustic sensors caused by operation of the vehicle; and at least one vibration sensor disposed within the housing and configured to sense vibration in the housing caused by the operation of the vehicle.
US12046249B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for bandwidth extension. One of the methods includes obtaining a low-resolution version of an input, the low-resolution version of the input comprising a first number of samples at a first sample rate over a first time period; and generating, from the low-resolution version of the input, a high-resolution version of the input comprising a second, larger number of samples at a second, higher sample rate over the first time period. Generating the high-resolution version includes generating a representation of the low-resolution version of the input; processing the representation of the low-resolution version of the input through a conditioning neural network to generate a conditioning input; and processing the conditioning input using a generative neural network to generate the high/resolution version of the input.
US12046244B2
A virtual agent that utilizes an in-house natural language understanding (NLU) service and integrates a third party NLU service. The third-party NLU service is integrated with the virtual agent via a transformation script that establishes a transformation boundary through which communications are directed for adjustment and conditioning. The third party NLU service communicates with the virtual agent via an application programming interface (API). The virtual agent receives an utterance from a user via a chat session and provides the utterance to the third party NLU service. The third party NLU service may return intents, entities, and confidence, generate and return a response, and/or take actions within the cloud-based platform via the API, dependent upon the degree of integration. The virtual agent then provides a response to the user via the chat session.
US12046243B2
Provided herein are an electronic apparatus and a method for controlling thereof. The method for controlling an electronic apparatus may include: acquiring a voice command, performing voice recognition of the voice command and acquiring a first text, identifying a prestored indexed word among a plurality of words included in the first text, identifying a rule template among a plurality of prestored rule templates including the indexed word and slots matched to at least one word excluding the indexed word among the plurality of words, and acquiring a control command corresponding to the voice command based on the identified rule template.
US12046241B2
The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for determining device leadership among voice interface devices. In one aspect, a method is performed at a first electronic device of a plurality of electronic devices, each having microphones, a speaker, processors, and memory storing programs for execution by the processors. The first device detects a voice input. It determines a device state and a relevance of the voice input. It identifies a subset of electronic devices from the plurality to which the voice input is relevant. In accordance with a determination that the subset includes the first device, the first device determines a first score of a criterion associated with the voice input and receives second scores of the criterion from other devices in the subset. In accordance with a determination that the first score is higher than the second scores, the first device responds to the detected input.
US12046235B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an input device associated with an information handling device, audio input; determining, using a processor, that an audible anomaly exists in the audio input, wherein the audible anomaly corresponds to a deviation from an established speech input pattern of a user; and performing, responsive to determining that the audible anomaly exists in the audio input, a remedial action to address the audible anomaly. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US12046222B2
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.
US12046219B2
Cymbal mounting systems, devices, components, accessories and related methods are provided. The mounting systems mount a cymbal on a mounting post. The systems include a cymbal mount comprising a sleeve portion elongated along a length configured to extend through a mounting aperture of the cymbal, and comprising a top portion, a bottom portion, and an inner cavity extending from the bottom end along at least a portion of the length configured to mount on the mounting post of the cymbal stand. An outer surface of the sleeve portion varies in maximum cross-sectional size along the length thereof. The systems also include at least one resilient support ring comprising an inner through hole of a cross-sectional size that is smaller than at least a portion of that of the outer surface of the sleeve portion such that the support ring applies a compressive force thereto when mounted thereon.
US12046201B2
Provided are a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate including a display area and a peripheral area; a plurality of sub-pixels and gate lines located at the display area; and a gate driving circuit including cascaded multistage gate driving units, one or more stages gate driving units include first and second gate driving sub-circuits spaced apart by pixel driving circuits of a first group of sub-pixels; a gate driving sub-circuit connection line connected to the first and second gate driving sub-circuits. The pixel driving circuit of at least one of the first group of sub-pixels includes: a first pixel driving sub-circuit including a driving transistor including a first active layer; a second pixel driving sub-circuit; a connector located in a different layer from the first active layer and electrically connected to the first and second pixel driving sub-circuits.
US12046194B2
A display screen controlling method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a first gamma value according to a turn-on instruction for an under-display device sent by an application processor; switching a gamma value of a first display region corresponding to the under-display device to the first gamma value, so as to turn off a plurality of light-emitting pixels of the first display region; obtaining a second gamma value according to a turn-off instruction for the under-display device sent by the application processor; and switching the first gamma value of the first display region to the second gamma value, so as to turn on the plurality of light-emitting pixels of the first display region.
US12046190B2
A data receiving circuit includes a clock generation circuit, a skew adjustment circuit, a leading edge detecting circuit, and a control circuit. The clock generation circuit generates a clock signal and a decision clock signal transitioning from a second level to a first level at a time point advancing by a time of ½ of the bit cycle with respect to the clock signal, according to the received reference clock signal. The skew adjustment circuit generates a skew adjustment data signal by delaying the received data signal through a delay circuit. The leading edge detecting circuit detects a leading edge of one bit of the skew adjustment data signal to generate a leading edge detection signal. The control circuit controls the delay time of the delay circuit based on the decision clock signal and the leading edge detection signal.
US12046186B2
A display panel includes a base substrate, drive circuits, pixel circuits, and signal line groups. The drive circuits and the pixel circuits are arranged on the base substrate. The drive circuits provide control signals for the pixel circuits. The pixel circuits provide drive currents for light-emitting elements of the display panel. The drive circuits include a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit. The signal line groups include a first signal line group and a second signal line group. The first signal line group includes M signal lines that provide signals for the first drive circuit. The second signal line group includes N signal lines that provide signals for the second drive circuit, M≥1, and N≥1. The first drive circuit includes S1 level shift registers extending along a first direction, and/or the second drive circuit includes S2 level shift registers extending along the first direction.
US12046183B2
In one example, a head mounted display system includes at least one memory; and at least one processor to execute instructions to: detect a first position and a first view direction of a head of a user based on sensor data generated by at least one of an accelerometer, at least one camera, or a gyroscope at a first point in time; determine a latency associated with a time to cause an image to be presented on the display; determine a predicted position and a predicted view direction of the head of the user at a second point in time based on the latency; render, prior to the second point in time, the image for presentation on the display based on the predicted position and the predicted view direction of the head of the user; and cause the display to present the rendered image.
US12046173B2
The present application discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of multiplexing drive modules, a plurality of drive branches and M drive buses. By electrically connecting one drive bus to N drive branches, the number of used drive buses can be reduced, thereby reducing the number of output channels of a drive signal source. Sine the number of used drive buses is reduced, the multiplexing drive modules can complete transmission of a frame of data signals using a less number of times of time-divisional parts for switching on transistors.
US12046172B2
The present application discloses a gate drive circuit and a display device. The gate drive circuit includes a plurality of cascaded gate drive units, in which one of the gate drive units includes a first layout, an input module and a pull-up module. By receiving a potential changeable signal by the gate of a first transistor or the gate of a second thin-film transistor, it can alleviate or avoid current leakage caused when a first node keeps at a same voltage level for a long time, thereby improving the stability of the potential of the first node.
US12046170B2
A display board is provided. The display board may include a left panel, a left-middle panel, a center panel, a right-middle panel, a right panel, a left-top fold section, a right-top fold section, a left-bottom fold section, and/or a right-bottom fold section. The display board may be configured to be placed in at least a display configuration and a closed configuration. The left panel and the left-middle panel may intersect with an exterior orientation. The right-middle panel and the center panel may intersect with the interior orientation. The right panel and the right-middle panel may intersect with the exterior orientation. The left-middle panel and the center panel may intersect with an interior orientation. The front sides of panels that intersect at the exterior orientation may face away from each other in the display configuration and in the closed configuration. The back sides of panels that intersect at the interior orientation may face away each other in the display configuration and in the closed configuration.
US12046165B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed that includes at least one processor configured to determine a target portion of an eye motion box and to identify a facet of a light-guide optical element that is configured to direct a light beam comprising at least a portion of an image field of view toward the target portion of the eye motion box. The at least one processor is configured to identify a display region of an image generator that is configured to inject the light beam into the light-guide optical element at an angle that, in conjunction with the identified facet, is configured to direct the light beam toward the target portion of the eye motion box. The at least one processor is configured to selectively activate the identified facet and the identified display region to direct the light beam toward the target portion of the eye motion box.
US12046159B2
A method, includes saving in-flight data from an aircraft during a simulated training exercise, wherein the in-flight data includes geospatial locations of the aircraft, positional attitudes of the aircraft, and head positions of a pilot operating the aircraft, saving simulation data relating to a simulated virtual object presented to the pilot as augmented reality content in-flight, wherein the virtual object was programmed to interact with the aircraft during the simulated training exercise and representing the in-flight data from the aircraft and the simulation data relating to the simulated virtual object as a replay of the simulated training exercise.
US12046149B1
A method of automatically partitioning a refreshable braille display based on presence of pertinent ancillary alphanumeric content. In an unpartitioned configuration, every braille cell of the refreshable braille display is used to output the primary alphanumeric content. When the refreshable braille display outputs a segment of the primary alphanumeric content having associated ancillary alphanumeric content, such as a footnote or a comment, the braille display is automatically partitioned into a first partition and a second partition. The braille cells of the first partition are allocated for outputting the primary alphanumeric content, while the braille cells of the second partition are allocated for outputting the ancillary alphanumeric content.
US12046147B2
A system (1) for analyzing an audio to measure oral reading fluency or progress in oral reading fluency (2) in a text illustrated through the audio. The system (1) includes an input unit (3) which receives a target audio (4) from a user. The target audio (4) relates to an oral reading of the text by the user. The system (1) further includes a transcribing unit (5) which receives and processes the target audio (4) and generates a target transcription (6) of the target audio (4). The system (1) also includes a processing unit (7) which receives and processes at least one of the target transcription (6), the text (8), the target audio (4), or a reference audio (9), or combination thereof, and generates a primary metrics (10) having various parameters measuring reading fluencies. The system supports user specific dictionary customization to incorporate non-dictionary words in the analysis.
US12046146B2
A tactile music learning apparatus converts sound data of a user's voice corresponding to original music into first tactile data including tactile information, generates a synchronized tactile pattern by synchronizing the first tactile data with second tactile data including tactile information corresponding to sound data of the original music, and transfers the synchronized tactile pattern to a tactile reproducing apparatus to allow the tactile reproducing apparatus to reproduce the synchronized tactile pattern.
US12046145B2
Autonomous and manually operated vehicles are integrated into a cohesive, interactive environment, with communications to each other and to their surroundings, to improve traffic flow while reducing accidents and other incidents. All vehicles send/receive messages to/from each other, and from infrastructure devices, enabling the vehicles to determine their status, traffic conditions and infrastructure. The vehicles store and operate in accordance with a common set of rules based upon the messages received and other inputs from sensors, databases, and so forth, to avoid obstacles and collisions based upon current and, in some cases, future or predicted behavior. Shared vehicle control interfaces enable the AVs to conform to driving activities that are legal, safe, and allowable on roadways. Such activities enable each AV to drive within safety margins, speed limits, on allowed or legal driving lanes and through allowed turns, intersections, mergers, lane changes, stops/starts, and so forth.
US12046141B2
The methods, devices, and systems discussed herein periodically broadcast a signal containing an indicator to a first area that is near a potential safety scenario, such as an intersection. Upon entering the first area, a mobile wireless communication device (WCD) receives the broadcast signal. In response to receiving the broadcast signal, the WCD activates a collision-avoidance procedure. In some examples, the collision-avoidance procedure includes sensing device-to-device (D2D) resources in order to detect D2D transmissions from an approaching D2D-capable device (e.g., a vehicle). In other examples, the collision-avoidance procedure includes transmitting a periodic D2D safety message using D2D resources.
US12046129B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable machine learning-based refinement of trajectory predictions using a processor to determine a future trajectory associated with an object state using an iterative physics algorithm. The processor utilizes a trajectory error prediction machine learning model to predict a trajectory error for the future trajectory determined for the object state. The processor determines a pseudo-measurement representative of the trajectory error based at least in part on the trajectory error for the future trajectory and determines a pseudo-measurement noise based at least in part on the pseudo-measurement. The processor determines an updated future trajectory for the future trajectory based on the pseudo-measurement and the pseudo-measurement noise of the trajectory error for the future trajectory, and causes to display a trajectory notification associated with future trajectory on a screen of a user computing device associated with a user.
US12046124B2
A wireless communication system for exchanging messages between a patient support apparatus and a headwall unit includes intelligence built into either or both of these devices (and/or a server) for detecting when a mismatch occurs between the communication capabilities of the patient support apparatus and those of the headwall unit. A warning is issued in those situations where a caregiver is relying on communication abilities that are not present in one or both of the devices. Examples of such situations include, but are not limited to, a nurse call cable not being coupled between the patient support apparatus and the nurse call system when the patient support apparatus does not have the capability to wirelessly communicate with the nurse call system. Alternatively, or additionally, the headwall unit may issue an alert to a nurse call system if it detects one or more conditions that warrant immediate caregiver attention.
US12046121B2
Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium comprising receiving, by a short range communication radio in a control panel, a short range communication signal transmitted by a device; determining, by the control panel, whether the device is a known device; and automatically disarming the control panel responsive to recognizing the device as the known device.
US12046117B2
A gas detection device, a gas detection method, and a gas detection program according to the present invention detect gas on the basis of an image obtained by imaging a detection target. The gas detection device, the gas detection method, and the gas detection program; generated accumulated data obtained by accumulating a number of times of gas detection in a predetermined unit of accumulation, on the basis of a plurality of images captured at a plurality of times different from each other in a predetermined period; and generate a mask image for suppressing notification of detected gas on the basis of the generated accumulated data.
US12046114B2
A smoke detection device includes a housing, a smoke collector, an optical detector and a cover plate. The housing has a piercing hole. The smoker collector has a smoke hole, and position of the smoke hole is close to position of the piercing hole. The optical detector is disposed inside the smoke collector and adapted to detect gaseous concentration inside the smoke collector. The cover plate is disposed between the housing and the smoke collector, and used to set a channel from the piercing hole to the smoke hole, so that gaseous matter flows from outside the smoke detection device into the smoke collector through the piercing hole and the smoke hole.
US12046112B1
A system for monitoring financial threats includes: at least one central processing unit and system memory that causes the system to: receive information about a threat associated with a financial services device; identify a type of the threat; identify a location associated with the threat; and notify one or more customers associated with the financial services device based upon the type or the location of the threat.
US12046109B2
A method for conducting a lottery transparently and fairly while using a blockchain at a low cost by performing fewer transactions is provided. The method includes: obtaining lottery participation requests; generating a lottery pool; generating representative lottery pool information, and then transmitting the representative lottery pool information to a blockchain network; registering the transmitted representative lottery pool information or processed information thereof in the blockchain network; requesting a lottery smart contractor to generate a winning reference number and to register the winning reference number in the blockchain network; and determining a selected lottery participation request as a winner based on the winning reference number.
US12046106B2
Systems and methods that utilize connecting symbols accumulated in association with one or more game outcomes to activate one or more features.
US12046098B2
A paper sheet processing device includes: an input unit into which paper sheets are input from the outside; an identification unit for identifying the paper sheets fed out from the input unit while allowing them to pass through in a first direction and identifying the paper sheets while allowing them to pass through in a second direction opposite to the first direction; a temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the paper sheets identified as being acceptable by the identification unit; a payout unit for accommodating the paper sheets identified as being unacceptable by the identification unit so as to be able to be taken out to the outside; and a storage unit for storing the paper sheets fed out from the temporary storage unit and identified by the identification unit while being allowed to pass through the identification unit in the second direction, wherein the paper sheets fed out from the temporary storage unit and identified by the identification unit while being allowed to pass through the identification unit in the second direction can be transferred to the input unit.
US12046095B2
Secure medication storage is described herein. A smart latch includes an actuator, a communication interface, a display, and a processor. The actuator is configured to open and close a latch to secure a door of the enclosure. The processor can be configured to receive a user credential for accessing the enclosure, validate the user credential for accessing the enclosure, trigger the actuator to open the latch, thereby allowing the door to be opened, and trigger the actuator to close the latch after detecting that the door is closed, thereby securing the door.
US12046090B2
A materials handling vehicle technology monitor receives wirelessly, from a fleet of materials handling vehicles, electronic vehicle records. Each electronic vehicle record includes technology feature data recorded by a controller on an associated materials handling vehicle. Typically, the electronic vehicle record is generated in response to a corresponding technology feature on the materials handling vehicle being operated in a work environment. Moreover, each electronic vehicle record includes an operator identification of an operator of the materials handling vehicle at the time the technology feature data is recorded. The monitor also generates for each operator, an electronic measurement based upon a comparison of expected technology feature usage, e.g., a threshold, compared to the technology feature data in the received electronic vehicle records, which are associated with the corresponding operator. The process further comprises outputting to a dashboard, a graphical representation of the generated measurements.
US12046089B2
An information processing device includes: a decision unit that decides upper limits of respective individual evaluation values for a plurality of calculation items such that a total of the upper limits is a previously determined value, the individual evaluation values being relevant to driving of a driver, the calculation items being calculation items for which the individual evaluation values are calculated; an acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information relevant to a vehicle; a calculation unit that calculates the respective individual evaluation values for the calculation items within the upper limits decided by the decision unit, based on the vehicle information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit that displays, on a display unit, the respective individual evaluation values for the calculation items that are calculated by the calculation unit and a total evaluation value that is a total of the respective individual evaluation values for the calculation items.
US12046079B2
An imaging device includes: an imaging portion that captures an image of a portion of a living body to take in the image; a display portion that displays first and second display images with being superimposed on each other, the first display image being based on the taken-in image, the second display image including guidance regarding a way to place the portion of the living body in a prescribed position; a determination portion that determines whether the portion of the living body is placed in the prescribed position; and a control portion that, until it is determined that the portion of the living body is placed in the prescribed position, causes the imaging portion to newly capture and take in a new image of the portion of the living body and causes the display portion to display an image based on the new taken-in image.
US12046061B2
A content aware and style aware neural network based data augmentation model generates augmented data sets to train neural network based handwriting recognition models to recognize individuals' handwriting. The augmented data sets may be generated so as to be artificial, and to lack personal or confidential information. The data augmentation model may generate content reference sets of individual characters generated in different fonts, and style reference sets of pluralities of characters of a particular style, for example, an individual's handwriting.
US12046057B1
A method, apparatus and computer program product to provide machine learning-assisted detection of objects of interest in live cell-based assays, where the objects of interest are larger than cells used in the assay. The technique herein comprises receiving image data that has been captured from a set of imaging devices, such as immune monitoring analyzer machines. Representative image data is an enzyme-linked immune absorbent spot (ELISPOT) assay captured from an ELISPOT analyzer. For each set of image data, the image data is then processed using, for example, one of: (a) a first pre-trained model; and (b) a set of one or more detection algorithms, to generate training data comprising a set of labels for the image data. A model, e.g., a deep neural network (DNN), is then trained using the set of labels. Following training, the model is provided for detection of the objects of interest.
US12046053B2
A vehicular driver monitoring system includes a driver monitoring camera and an illumination source accommodated within a movable head of an interior rearview mirror of a vehicle. The illumination source is electrically activatable to emit near-infrared (NIR) light that illuminates with near-infrared (NIR) light at least the head of a driver of the vehicle. Emission of near-infrared (NIR) light by the illumination source is modulated on/off at an illumination source modulation rate. The camera frame capture rate of the driver monitoring camera is bigger than the illumination source modulation rate of near-infrared (NIR) light emitted by the illumination source. Frames of image data are captured by the camera and are processed while the illumination source is on and is emitting near-infrared (NIR) light, and frames of image data are captured by the camera and are processed while the illumination source is off and is not emitting near-infrared (NIR) light.
US12046050B2
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to accurately distinguishing a traffic light from other illuminated objects in the traffic scene and detecting states using hierarchical modeling. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting, using a machine learning (ML) model, two-dimensional (2D) coordinates of illuminated objects identified from a monocular image of a traffic scene for control adaptation by a control model. The method also includes assigning, using the ML model, computed probabilities to the illuminated objects for categories within a hierarchical ontology of environmental lights associated with the traffic scene, wherein one of the probabilities indicates existence of a traffic light instead of a brake light in the traffic scene. The method also includes executing a task by the control model for a vehicle according to the 2D coordinates and the computed probabilities.
US12046044B2
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).
US12046031B2
High resolution image target classification systems and methods include a proposal component configured to receive a first set data associated with a scene, the first set of data including at least one image of the scene, a multistage neural network comprising a plurality of neural networks, each neural network trained to receive a region of interest and output an object classification in accordance with an associated resource allocation, and an attention coordinator configured to determine regions of interest in the image and allocate each determined region to one of the plurality of neural networks from the multi-scale neural network, in accordance with available system resources. The system may be configured to optimize a probability of detecting objects in the image, while minimizing a number of pixels processed through the multi-scale neural network.
US12046030B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a refrigerator may include a storage compartment, an outer door, one or more cameras provided in the outer door, a global DB configured to store a plurality of default food identification items and a plurality of default product names respectively corresponding to the plurality of default food identification items, and a local DB configured to store edited product names and a food identification item corresponding to the edited product names, and a processor configured to photograph an internal image of the storage compartment through the one or more cameras, obtain a food identification item from the photographed internal image, determine whether the obtained food identification item is stored in the local DB, and when the food identification item is not stored in the local DB, determine whether the obtained food identification item is stored in the global DB.
US12046029B2
An information processing device includes an extraction unit that extracts a core line from an image containing dermatoglyphic pattern; an identification unit that identifies an evaluation value indicating possibility of the dermatoglyphic pattern of the core line; and a correction unit that corrects the image based on the evaluation value.
US12046022B2
A processing circuitry obtains a training set based on an interaction process of a plurality of cards. The training set includes a plurality of video frames, and a video frame includes a trigger region for triggering an action during the interaction process. The processing circuitry determines feature regions in the trigger region. A feature region includes a card and is set with an action label for indicating a first training content in the feature region. The processing circuitry also determines a feature vector based on the plurality of video frames. The feature vector indicates a triggering of the feature region. The processing circuit inputs the feature vector into a first model for training to obtain a second model. The first model associates the feature vector with the action label, and the second model is used for indicating a correspondence between a content of the card and the action label.
US12045997B2
According to one embodiment, a distance estimation device comprises a first distance estimation unit based on a first estimation method, and a second distance estimation unit based on a second estimation method different from the first estimation method. The second distance estimation unit is configured to change a part of the second estimation method according to an output of the first distance estimation unit.
US12045994B2
The invention relates to automatic discovery and evaluation of a motion by treating motion recognition as an optimization problem by considering a series of basic motions obtained by segmenting a subject motion. The method comprises segmenting time series data defining a motion of a subject into a plurality of segments, classifying each segment into a class for a basic motion by using time series data of the segment, and converting the motion of the subject to a sequence of high rank symbols in which each high rank symbol is formed from a series of the basic motions, wherein a function that calculates a score based on a set of a high rank symbol and a sequence of basic motions is provided and the motion of the subject is converted to the sequence of the high rank symbols by an optimization calculation using dynamic programming.
US12045989B2
A region extraction device and a method thereof in a stage previous to detection of a target object, capable of appropriately extracting a region having a possibility of presence of a target object emitting light having a light emission spectrum of a specific narrowband as a determination region in an imaging region, and an object detection apparatus and a method thereof capable of efficiently detecting the target object using a region extraction result are provided. In a region extraction method, a plurality of images including an image of a second narrowband corresponding to a first narrowband of light emitted by a target object and an image of a third narrowband different from the second narrowband are acquired from a multispectral camera. Next, a region that emits light having a light emission spectrum other than a light emission spectrum of the first narrowband is determined as a non-determination region in an imaging region based on the plurality of acquired images, and one or a plurality of regions excluding the non-determination region from the imaging region are extracted as a determination region.
US12045986B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for interactive image segmentation. An example apparatus includes an inception controller to execute an inception sublayer of a convolutional neural network (CNN) including two or more inception-atrous-collation (IAC) layers, the inception sublayer including two or more convolutions including respective kernels of varying sizes to generate multi-scale inception features, the inception sublayer to receive one or more context features indicative of user input; an atrous controller to execute an atrous sublayer of the CNN, the atrous sublayer including two or more atrous convolutions including respective kernels of varying sizes to generate multi-scale atrous features; and a collation controller to execute a collation sublayer of the CNN to collate the multi-scale inception features, the multi-scale atrous features, and eidetic memory features.
US12045978B2
A method of analyzing a medical image includes acquiring a correction parameter computed based on a correlation between a first morphological value that is acquired from a first medical image acquired under a first scan condition and is related to a target element, and a second morphological value that is acquired from a second medical image acquired under a second scan condition and is related to the target element. A target medical image is acquired under the second scan condition. A target region related to the target element is acquired by segmenting the target medical image into regions corresponding to elements including the target element. A target morphological value related to the target element is based on voxel data corresponding to the target region. A corrected morphological value is based on the target morphological value and the correction parameter. A morphological index is outputted based on the corrected morphological value.
US12045967B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for model based document image enhancement. Instead of requiring paired dirty and clean images for training a model to clean document images (which may cause privacy concerns), two models are trained on the unpaired images such that only the dirty images are accessed or only the clean images are accessed at one time. One model is a first implicit model to translate the dirty images from a source space to a latent space, and the other model is a second implicit model to translate the images from the latent space to clean images in a target space. The second implicit model is trained based on translating electronic document images in the target space to the latent space. In some implementations, the implicit models are diffusion models, such as denoising diffusion implicit models based on solving ordinary differential equations.
US12045966B2
Disclosed are a tunnel-inspection image acquisition device, a tunnel-inspection system and a tunnel-inspection method. With a plurality of CCD cameras, a plurality of auxiliary light sources and a fixing bracket, wherein the CCD cameras and the auxiliary light sources are fixed on the fixing bracket, and the plurality of CCD cameras are fixed on the same ring, a center of the ring is located at a center of a circle of the tunnel in working condition, distances between the plurality of CCD cameras and a tunnel lining are the same and overall shooting angles of the plurality of CCD cameras cover a range of the tunnel lining; meanwhile, with the cooperation of a computer, a monitor, a synchronous encoder and a data collector on a defect detecting mobile platform, functions such as the synchronous shooting, the disease identification, the real-time splicing and display of the tunnel can be achieved. In this design, the invention has the technical characteristics of simple structure, large detection range, high timeliness, fast detection speed, high recognition accuracy, accurate inspection positioning, clear captured images and the like.
US12045965B2
Disclosed are a device and method for processing video data, and a display system. The device for processing video data includes: a first acquisition module, a second acquisition module, a storage module and a processing module. The first acquisition module is configured to determine, in response to receiving an image quality adjustment parameter, whether the image quality adjustment parameter meets a preset condition, and send the image quality adjustment parameter to the storage module. The storage module is configured to cache the image quality adjustment parameter, and send the image quality adjustment parameter to the processing module. The second acquisition module is configured to acquire original video data, and send the original video data to the processing module. The processing module is configured to perform data processing on the original video data according to the image quality adjustment parameter to generate target video data.
US12045954B2
Provided is a method of adaptively performing artificial intelligence (AI) downscaling on an image during a video telephone call of a user terminal. The method includes obtaining, from an opposite user terminal, AI upscaling support information of the opposite user terminal that is a target of a video telephone call, determining whether the user terminal is to perform AI downscaling on an original image, based on the AI upscaling support information, based on determining that the user terminal is to perform AI downscaling on the original image, obtaining a first image by AI downscaling the original image using a downscaling deep neural network (DNN), generating image data by performing first encoding on the first image, and transmitting AI data including information related to the AI downscaling and the image data.
