US12096013B2
A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video block of a video and a coded representation of the video. The coded representation conforms to a format rule. The format rule specifies that applicability of a transform skip mode to the video block is determined by a coding condition of the video block. The format rule also specifies that a syntax element indicative of applicability of the transform skip mode is omitted from the coded representation. The transform skip mode includes skipping applying a forward transform to at least some coefficients prior to encoding into the coded representation, or during decoding, skipping applying an inverse transform to at least some coefficients prior to decoding from the coded representation.
US12096003B2
A decoder may receive, in a bit stream for a current block of samples, a first residual block of samples, an indication of a displacement vector, and an indication of a downscaling. The decoder may, based on the indication of the downscaling, upscale the first residual block of samples to a second residual block of samples. The decoder may generate a decoded block of samples based on: the displacement vector; and the second residual block of samples.
US12096002B2
Disclosed are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The method and apparatus select at least one reference pixel line from among multiple reference pixel lines and derive a predicted value of a pixel within a current block by using the value of at least one pixel within the selected reference pixel line(s). Alternatively, the method and apparatus derive an intra prediction mode of a reconstructed pixel region on the basis of a reference pixel region of at least one reconstructed pixel region, derive an intra prediction mode of a current block on the basis of the derived intra prediction mode of the reconstructed pixel region, obtain an intra prediction block of the current block by using the derived intra prediction mode, and reconstruct the current block by summing the obtained intra prediction block and a residual block of the current block.
US12095996B2
A method for subdividing an interval during entropy decoding for a bitstream representing a set of video pictures is provided. A sub-interval value is computed by (i) performing an initial right bit-shifting operation on a probability estimator value to reduce a length in bits of the probability estimator value, (ii) multiplying the right bit-shifted probability estimator value by a range value representing the interval, (iii) performing another right bit-shifting operation on a result of the multiplication, and (iv) adding a constant value to a result of the other right bit-shifting operation, wherein the probability estimator value is associated with a probability of a bin having a particular value. The sub-interval value computed based on the right bit-shifted probability estimator value is used to update the interval.
US12095993B2
A method and apparatus for video coding using a coding mode belonging to a mode group comprising an Intra Block Copy (IBC) mode and an Intra mode are disclosed. According to the present invention, for both IBC and Intra mode, a same default scaling matrix is used to derive the scaling matrix for a current block. In another embodiment, for the current block with block size of M×N or N×M, and M greater than N, a target scaling matrix is derived from an M×M scaling matrix by down-sampling the M×M scaling matrix to an M×N or N×M scaling matrix.
US12095986B2
Disclosed is an image decoding method according to an embodiment, the image decoding method including: obtaining a first reference block and a second reference block, for bi-directional prediction of a current block; obtaining, from a bitstream, weight information for combining the first reference block with the second reference block; performing entropy decoding on the weight information to obtain a weight index; combining the first reference block with the second reference block according to a candidate value indicated by the weight index among candidate values included in a weight candidate group; and reconstructing the current block based on a result of the combining, wherein a first binary value corresponding to the weight index is entropy-decoded based on a context model, and the remaining binary value corresponding to the weight index is entropy-decoded by a bypass method.
US12095983B2
Video coding using neural network based inter-frame prediction is performed by generating a current reference frame by generating intermediate flows based on two input frames, performing backward warping of the input frames to generate reconstruction frames, and generating a fusion map and a residual map based on the input frames, the intermediate flows and the reconstruction frames. The video coding method further includes outputting an enhanced frame or a virtual reference picture by generating a feature map with different levels, based on the current reference frame, a first reference frame and a second reference frame, generating a predicted frame based on aligned features from the generated feature map by refining the current reference frame, the first reference frame, and the second reference frame, generating a final residual based on the predicted frame, and computing the enhanced frame as an output by adding the final residual to the current reference frame.
US12095982B2
According to the disclosure of this document, it is possible to signal information related to a chroma quantization parameter offset through a palette coding syntax, and to efficiently parse and signal index information for a chroma quantization parameter offset list on the basis of information about the number of entries in the chroma quantization parameter offset list. Accordingly, bits that need to be signaled for video/image coding can be reduced, and coding efficiency can be improved.
US12095978B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to providing image data to a user in a defined space of a surrounding environment from a perspective of the user. One example provides a computing system, comprising a logic subsystem, and a storage subsystem comprising instructions executable by the logic subsystem to obtain information regarding a pose of a user within a defined space, based upon the pose of the user, determine a portion of an environment surrounding the defined space toward which the user is looking, obtain image data representing the portion of the environment from a perspective of the user, and provide the image data for display via a display device within the defined space.
US12095968B2
An apparatus includes a communication interface and a processor operably coupled to the communication interface. The communication interface receives a plurality of tracks in a compressed bitstream. The processor identifies an atlas track corresponding to a point cloud compression (PCC) component and identifies a set of first component tracks that is referenced by the atlas track and at least one second component track, each of the at least one second component track is an alternative version of a first component track of the set of first component tracks. The processor also determines which of the set of first component tracks and the at least one second component track are appropriate versions of the PCC component. The processor further decodes the appropriate version of the PCC component from among the set of first component tracks and the at least one second component track.
US12095958B2
An image-reading device, such as optical code readers used in retail environments to scan objects, is configured to select from various operational modes. The operational modes are selected based on an application of the image-reading device, such as optical code identification or image recognition. Red, white, and other color light sources are activated in patterns corresponding to an illumination sequence of the selected operational mode, while imagers are activated to capture an image based on an exposure pattern of the selected operational mode. Further, a repeating series of light pulses having different portions of light is provided. Various imagers are configured to capture images over one of the portions. This allows an operator to perceive one continuous light pattern, yet allows various imagers to capture an image under different light conditions used for different applications of the image-reading device.
US12095956B2
An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording medium includes a display unit configured to display a setting for image forming by the image forming apparatus, a first detection unit configured to detect contact of a user's finger with a surface of the display unit, and a second detection unit configured to detect the user's finger at a position a predetermined distance away from the surface in a perpendicular direction to the surface, wherein the display unit being turned off is turned on in response to detection of the user's finger by the second detection unit.
US12095954B2
A system wherein a cloud server assigns a customer site as a tenant with an organization number of the customer site and notifies a customer administrator of the organization number; an MFP notifies the cloud server of the organization number entered by the customer administrator and queries the cloud server about a subdirectory name of the customer site; the cloud server notifies the MFP of the subdirectory name associated with the notified organization number; the MFP notifies the customer site accessed using the notified subdirectory name of a serial number of the MFP; and the customer site manages the notified serial number.
US12095939B2
Techniques are disclosed for connecting third-party accessories to a cellular-capable device to participate in a telephone call. In one example, a user can voice a request to make a call to an accessory device. The accessory device can transmit the request to a controller device. Upon processing the request, the controller device can identify an appropriate cellular-capable device and instruct the cellular-capable device to place the requested call. The controller device can also instruct the cellular-capable device to establish an audio connection with the accessory device to relay the call audio. In another example, the controller device can listen for a word spoken at the accessory device indicating the end of the call. Upon receiving the end of call word, the controller device can instruct the cellular-capable device to terminate the call. While in the listening state, the controller device may continue processing user requests received at other accessory devices.
US12095931B2
An information handling system includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores an owner public key associated with an owner of the information handling system. The processor receives a cryptographically signed message including a chain of certificates that includes first and second certificates. The processor determines whether the first certificate within the chain of certificates delegates authority to a first user based on the owner public key. In response to the first certificate delegating authority to the first user, the processor determines whether the second certificate delegates authority from the first user to a second user. Based on the first and second certificates, the processor verifies the cryptographically signed message as an authoritative message. In response to the cryptographically signed message being verified as the authoritative message, the processor executes a request associated with the cryptographically signed message.
US12095930B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for secure file-sharing. The present invention may be configured to receive a request to store data on a network, process the request through a firewall. Processing the request includes: generating a first electronic digital certificate, storing the first electronic digital certificate on a distributed ledger, encrypting the data using the first electronic digital certificate, storing the encrypted data on at least one of the plurality of data server nodes, and recording the request on the distributed ledger. The present invention is further configured to receive and process a second request. Processing the second request includes: decrypting the data using the second electronic digital certificate, providing the decrypted data to the second requestor, and recording the second request on the distributed ledger.
US12095925B2
Systems and methods of the disclosure include: receiving, by a node of a distributed ledger network, first transaction data, wherein the first transaction data comprises an alert derived from a state of a computer system; storing the first transaction data in a first block of the distributed ledger network; receiving, by the node, second transaction data, wherein the second transaction data comprises an identifier of a remedial action performed on the computer system in response to the alert and a result of performing the remedial action; and storing the second transaction data in a block of the distributed ledger network, wherein the block is provided by one of: the first block or a second block.
US12095923B2
Various example embodiments for supporting security for containerized applications may be configured to support security for containerized applications deployed to customer devices. Various example embodiments for supporting security for containerized applications that are deployed to customer devices may be configured to properly secure and validate containerized applications that are deployed to customer devices. Various example embodiments for supporting security for containerized applications that are deployed to customer devices may be configured to secure and validate containerized applications that are deployed to customer devices based on a framework configured to monitor and secure download of containerized applications to protect against the download of non-approved or malicious containers and to monitor and secure the run-time execution of containerized applications in various types of execution environments, thereby providing a capability to verify that the containerized applications are approved and authorized by the service provider and that the customer device has not been compromised.
US12095915B2
Provided are methods and apparatuses for off-network key management in one-to-one mission critical data communication. A method includes initiating an off-network MCData service for the communication with an other client device, obtaining a MCData message including a MCdata protection key and an identifier of the MCdata protection key, in case that a valid MCdata protection key for the other client device is not available, and transmitting the MCData message to the other client device.
US12095913B2
Techniques are described herein for efficiently and expeditiously performing key rotation and key replacement. In an embodiment, a key replacement request is received that specifies one or more key names of a plurality of key names. A location-to-key-name mapping that maps the plurality of key names to a plurality of encrypted-data locations is used to determine one or more encrypted-data locations that are mapped to the one or more key names. A first set of messages is generated where each message identifies a table that is associated with the one or more encrypted-data locations. The first set of messages is stored in a queue for processing by a first plurality of worker processes. Each worker process of the first plurality of worker processes retrieves a message of the first set of messages from the queue and generates a message of a second set of messages that identifies a subset of encrypted data records from the table identified in the message of the first set of messages. Each message of the second set of messages is stored in a distinct queue which is assigned to a worker process of a second plurality of worker processes. Each worker process of the second plurality of worker processes retrieves the message from the assigned queue, decrypts the subset of encrypted data records identified in the respective message, re-encrypts the decrypted data records using a new encryption key that corresponds to a new key name, and stores the re-encrypted data records in a database.
US12095905B2
Examples disclosed herein include accessing, by a host device, device information corresponding to an intermediate communication device communicatively coupled to the host device. Identifying, by the host device, a unique identifier corresponding to the intermediate communication device from the accessed device information. Query, by the host device, a public key from a remote resource, based on the identified unique identifier. Receiving, by the host device, the public key from the remote resource. Authenticating, by the host device, the intermediate communication device based on the received public key and a private key stored in the intermediate communication device.
US12095903B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and systems for disseminating reasoning supporting insights made with uniquely identifiable data without disclosing the uniquely identifiable data.
US12095894B2
An illustrative integrated receiver circuit includes: a sampling element that produces a digital receive signal by sampling an analog receive signal in accordance with a sampling signal; a timing error estimator that produces a timing error signal indicating an estimated timing error of the sampling signal relative to the analog receive signal; a first feedback path that controls a sampling signal phase to optimize the timing error signal, the first feedback path having an associated loop delay that causes a residual phase error; and a loop-delay cancellation circuit that buffers the sampling signal phase to reduce the residual phase error.
US12095891B2
Method and apparatus for transferring a data signal including receiving a digital data signal by a first input of a multiplexer of a transmitter operably coupled to a data link; transmitting, by a digital data signal output of the multiplexer, the digital data signal to a receiver that is operably coupled to the data link; receiving, by a selection signal input of the multiplexer, a first selection signal that indicates an idle mode for the transmitter; receiving, by a second input of the multiplexer, a patterned data signal; and transmitting, by the digital data signal output and in response to the first selection signal, the patterned data signal to the receiver.
US12095886B2
An entity-centric approach has been proposed to provide a consistent user experience in accessing a unified software applications suite effortlessly. Entities are connected with one another. The entities and the connectivity between them are reflected in all three functional layers of 3-tier client-server architecture. Every entity has a set of attributes and each attribute represents a data item or record of a particular type. The data items or records are represented in the form of card(s) as determined by contextualization and access control engines. The contextualization engine determines the origin of the user. The access control engine determines the access permission of every user.
US12095881B1
An online software platform (OSP) electronically receives a selection of a workflow framework of a plurality of workflow frameworks. Each workflow framework includes a configuration to embed software-as-a-service (SaaS) functionality provided by the OSP into an application that uses the SaaS functionality. The OSP electronically provides services for determining respective resources for individual relationship instances between different entities. In response to receiving the selection, the OSP causes a remote system that hosts the application to implement the selected workflow framework. This is performed by transmitting a software package to the remote system, in which the software package exposes a set of pre-defined integration points with the SaaS provided by the OSP to provision the steps in one or more of the workflows of the selected workflow framework or defines a specific set of requests and responses with the SaaS provided by the OSP.
US12095880B2
A data processing method, which relates to the technical field of cloud applications. The method, performed by a target edge node, includes: receiving, based on a cloud application client switching from a first type of network to a second type of network, a first connection request forwarded by a stream proxy in a transit edge node associated with the second type of network, and establishing a first communication connection between the cloud application client and the target edge node associated with the first type of network based on the first connection request, and transmitting, based on the first communication connection, application data in the cloud application between the cloud application client and the target edge node through the stream proxy.
US12095877B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed including means for identifying to identify a first request having a first source port number, from a device, determine whether a second request, having a second source port number, is within a threshold number of ports from the first source port number, group the first and the second requests as a first session when the second source port number is within the threshold number of ports from the first source port number, and means for classifying to generate session windows, the session windows including the threshold number of ports, wherein the session windows are applied to lowest and highest source port numbers associated with a current session.
US12095875B2
A software platform monitors interactions between two or more users of the software platform to determine an interaction metric between the two or more users. The interaction metric is based on a level of interaction between the two or more users. The software platform receives a request from a device of a first user for a dynamic user profile of a second user. The software platform obtains profile information of the second user based on the interaction metric. The software platform generates the dynamic user profile of the second user based on the obtained profile information. The software platform transmits the dynamic user profile of the second user to the device of the first user for display.
US12095874B2
A validating service of a plurality of services that compose an application receives a security token that identifies an entity that has submitted a transaction to the application, the security token indicating that the entity is authorized to submit the transaction to the application. The validating service obtains a transaction identifier that uniquely identifies the transaction. The validating service sends, to a collector service, the transaction identifier and data derived from the security token that identifies the entity. A downstream service receives input data associated with the transaction, the input data including the transaction identifier. The downstream service accesses an information source to obtain information. The downstream service sends, to the collector service, the transaction identifier and metadata about the information.
US12095859B2
A method of recording a target transaction in a blockchain, comprising: obtaining an updated version of the target transaction, being updated relative to a pre-existing first version; and instead of the first version, sending the updated version to be propagated through a network of nodes to be recorded in the blockchain. The target transaction comprises an input comprising an unlocking script and a pointer to an output of a first transaction, the output of the first transaction comprising a locking script specifying a plurality of alternative conditions for unlocking that output. The unlocking script of the first version of the target transaction is configured to unlock the first output of the first transaction based on a first of said alternative conditions, and the unlocking script of the updated version is configured to unlock it based on a second one of said alternative conditions.
US12095853B1
Systems and methods for distributed edge computing to deliver multi-access edge computing (MEC) and cellular access on a mobile network. The edge computing platform reduces latency and increases network throughput to devices by locating edge server nodes in close proximity to the devices. The systems and methods include a network of edge platform nodes operable to provide enhanced mobile coverage and accelerated content delivery for private and/or public mobile network operator (MNO) customers. The present invention is operable to create a private cellular network, wherein the cellular wireless network is also accessible by devices of mobile networks outside of the private cellular network. while still maintaining necessary privacy and quality of service. The present invention is also operable to create a public cellular network using the same node infrastructure and edge computing platform. At least one node is registered in a global registry using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) POST request to a global service address, and the global registry is associated with the at least one platform.
US12095849B2
An apparatus for transferring an edge computing application includes: an edge computing platform, which is configured to send a first message to a first edge computing application, where the first message comprises edge computing application information of a second edge computing host; and the first edge computing application, which is configured to receive the first message sent by the edge computing platform of a first edge computing host, and send a second message to a second edge computing application of the second edge computing host, where the second message carries user context information.
US12095846B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interface to facilitate a camera sharing session between two or more users. A request for an image depicting an image target is received from a first device associated with a first user. A notification of the request is transmitted to a second device associated with a second user. Image data comprising at least one image generated by a camera communicatively coupled to the second device is received from the second device and the image data is transmitted to the first device. A reward is provided to the second user based on the image data including a depiction of the image target.
US12095844B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for re-use of a container in an edge computing environment are disclosed. An example method includes detecting that a container executed at an edge node of a cloud computing environment is to be cleaned, deleting user data from the container, the deletion of the user data performed without deleting the container from the memory of the edge node, restoring settings of the container to a default state; and storing information identifying the container, the information including a flavor of the container, the storing of the information to enable the container to be re-used by a subsequent requestor.
US12095841B2
A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid). The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer, releasing congestion from the Web by fetching the information from multiple sources, and relieving traffic from Web servers by offloading the data transfers from them to nearby peers.
US12095834B2
In some embodiments, a method for generating customized products in collaboration with live designers is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving, at a computer collaboration computer, a request, from a first user interface that executes on a first user device associated with a first user, for assistance in collaborating on an interactive design; wherein the request comprises collaboration parameters; in response to receiving the request, automatically determining one or more designer profiles, each designer profile satisfying one or more of the collaboration parameters; in response to selecting a particular designer profile from the one or more designer profiles: automatically enabling a collaboration on the interactive design between the first user and a second user who has the particular designer profile; wherein the collaboration between the first user and the second user comprises automatically generating and updating product description data having a plurality of key-values pairs associated with the interactive design.
US12095833B2
One embodiment is directed to a system for enabling two or more users to interact within a virtual world comprising virtual world data, comprising a computer network comprising one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices comprising memory, processing circuitry, and software stored at least in part in the memory and executable by the processing circuitry to process at least a portion of the virtual world data; wherein at least a first portion of the virtual world data originates from a first user virtual world local to a first user, and wherein the computer network is operable to transmit the first portion to a user device for presentation to a second user, such that the second user may experience the first portion from the location of the second user, such that aspects of the first user virtual world are effectively passed to the second user.
US12095830B2
A method, a server, and a non-transitory computer readable medium are disclosed for sharing content. The method includes running, on a server, a video conferencing application, the video conferencing application configured to share audiovisual content between one or more first devices and the server; establishing, on the server, a video conferencing session, the video conferencing session connecting a second device to the server; receiving, on the server, content from the second device; and sharing, by the server, the content received from the second device joining the video conferencing session as a new participant with the one or more first devices on the video conferencing application.
US12095829B2
Provided is a method of managing a communication channel for each of a plurality of participants in an online meeting room through a service server including displaying a host channel that only a host is able to enter, displaying a plurality of participant channels for communication with each of a plurality of participants, when a first participant channel for communication with a first participant is selected by the host, activating a first voice conversation between the host and the first participant through the first participant channel, when a second participant channel for communication with a second participant is selected by the host, deactivating the first voice conversation with the first participant, and activating a second voice conversation between the host and the second participant through the second participant channel.
US12095828B2
In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a set of two or more first media signals from two or more consoles included in a vehicle, where each of the two or more consoles are included in a common communication session, combining the set of two or more first media signals to generate a composite media signal, transmitting, via a communication link, the composite media signal to a remote destination, receiving, via the communication link, a remote media signal from the remote destination, and causing the two or more first media signals and the remote media signal to be reproduced at the two or more consoles.
US12095825B2
Systems and methods for evaluating a customer premise equipment (CPE) device. A network element management system may send an alteration request to a configurable coaxial tap that includes a radio frequency modulator-demodulator combination. The alteration request include information that causes the configurable coaxial tap to directly examine packets that are sent to or received from the CPE device.
US12095824B2
In some embodiments, a computing system may monitor authentication input and modify authentication requirements based on detection of user-specific input errors. The computing system may use machine learning or other techniques to detect whether an incorrect authentication input corresponds to a common input mistake of a user. If the incorrect authentication input does correspond to a common input mistake of the user, a computing system may modify one or more authentication requirements to make the authentication process easier for the user.
US12095823B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for self-clustering computing protocols. The present invention is configured to detect, using a node analysis engine, a change in a network security protocol associated with a first node or device within a distributed network, and transmit instructions for the first node or device to broadcast the change to nearby nodes or devices such that they can act in concert to protect against identifies security issues.
US12095819B2
A disclosed security broker receives a request message addressed to a message queue associated with an edge resource, identifies the message source, and leverages an authentication module to verify that the source has authorization to access the targeted message queue. The security broker may then deliver the request message to the targeted edge resource message queue. If the edge resource and security broker are physically isolated, the security broker may format the request message as a file, store the file to a storage device, and transfer the storage device to the edge resource, which may then process the file and upload the request message to the edge resource's message queue module. The security broker also monitors a response message from the edge resource, purges sensitive data from the response. If the broker and cloud resource are physically isolated, the response may be formatted and delivered as a file.
US12095816B2
Security video is captured when one or more individuals are detected as entering a secure area. Actions of the one or more individuals are monitored based on security policies associated with the secure area. Identifiers for the one or more individuals and action identifiers for the actions are recorded in a security log while the one or more individuals remain in the secure area. The security video is stopped when the individuals are detected as exiting the secure area. The security video is linked to entries recorded in the security log. In an embodiment, when a non-compliant action is detected from the actions based on the security policies, a real-time alert is raised, and/or the security video is streamed in real time to a security monitor.
US12095813B2
The described technology is generally directed towards homoglyph attack detection. A homoglyph attack detection service can create images of customer's protected domain names. A convolutional neural network can generate feature vectors based on the images. The feature vectors can be stored in a similarity search data store. Newly observed domain names can be compared to the customer's protected domain names, by also generating feature vectors for the newly observed domain names and conducting approximate nearest neighbor searches. Search results can be further evaluated by comparing protected domain names to newly observed domain names using a siamese neural network which applies a similarity threshold. Newly observed domain names that meet or exceed the similarity threshold can be flagged for further action.
US12095809B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for suppressing the spread of viruses in a local area network (LAN). The method includes, in response to that an ARP packet is received, determining whether a number of interacting terminals corresponding to a target terminal that sent the ARP packet reaches a first preset threshold; in response to that the number of interacting terminals reaches the first preset threshold, further determining whether a number of abnormal terminal relationships corresponding to the target terminal reaches a second preset threshold; and in response to that the number of abnormal terminal relationships reaches the second preset threshold, providing protection to the target terminal to so to suppress virus propagation in the LAN.
US12095807B1
A system and method initiating remediation actions in response to a cybersecurity issue in a computing environment is disclosed. The method includes: configuring a virtual instance in a computing environment to communicate with an inspection environment; configuring the virtual instance to receive in the computing environment a plurality of remediation scripts from the inspection environment; generating a remediation infrastructure including a plurality of remediation actions, each remediation action corresponding to at least a remediation script of the plurality of remediation scripts; detecting a cybersecurity issue in the computing environment; configuring the virtual instance to initiate a remediation action of the plurality of remediation actions, based on detecting the cybersecurity issue; and receiving a feedback in the inspection environment from the virtual instance in response to initiating the remediation action.
US12095803B2
Peer device protection enables a first device comprising a digital security agent to remedy security issues on (or associated with) a set of devices visible to the first device. In aspects, a first device comprising a digital security agent may identify a set of devices visible to the first device. The first device may monitor the set of devices to collect data, such as types of communications and data points of interest. The digital security agent may apply threat detection to the collected data to identify anomalous network behavior. When anomalous network behavior is detected, the first device may cause an indicator of compromise (IOC) to be generated. Based on the IOC, the first device may facilitate remediation of the anomalous network behavior and/or apply security to one or more devices in the set of devices.
US12095800B1
Various embodiments include systems and methods of implementing automated assessment scheduling. A particular automated assessment may be automatically performed based at least in part on an assessment configuration and scan engine resource(s) of an organization. Based at least in part on performance of the particular automated assessment, a scan engine utilization assessment may be performed to determine a scan engine utilization value that represents utilization of the scan engine resource(s) with respect to resource requirements that are based at least in part on the set of attributes of the assessment configuration. Based at least in part on the scan engine utilization assessment, a particular resource utilization recommendation may be generated. The particular resource utilization recommendation may correspond to a first resource utilization recommendation to allocate additional scan engine resources or a second resource utilization recommendation to allocate fewer scan engine resources.
US12095796B1
Instruction-level threat assessment, including: identifying one or more probe insertion points in code of a package corresponding to one or more vulnerabilities of the package; inserting, into one or more instances of the package deployed in one or more hosts of a cloud deployment, one or more probes based on the one or more probe insertion points; and elevating a severity of a particular vulnerability in response to reaching a particular probe of the one or more probes.
US12095780B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of implementing an intent-based intrusion detection and prevention system in a datacenter, the datacenter including at least one host computer executing multiple machines. The method receives a filtered set of intrusion detection signatures to be enforced on the at least one host computer. The method uses a set of contextual attributes associated with a particular data message to generate an intrusion detection signature for the particular data message, the generated intrusion detection signature including a bit pattern, each bit associated with a contextual attribute in the set. The method compares the generated intrusion detection signature with the received set of intrusion detection signatures to identify a matching intrusion detection signature in the received filtered set.
US12095778B2
An asynchronous stream of security events is added to a data lake for enterprise security by identifying groups of related events related to a security threat, and creating rules to fold these related events into a single security event along with metadata. The folding rules may then be applied to security events in the event stream to compress data in the data lake and improve detection efficiency.
US12095775B1
In some examples, a method includes generating, by an interconnection platform for an exchange, an interconnection token representing authorization for an interconnection to or from a resource of the exchange, wherein the interconnection token comprises a unique identifier and token data for requesting and provisioning an interconnection using the resource. The method also includes outputting a first indication of the unique identifier of the interconnection token. The method also includes provisioning, by the interconnection platform, in response to receiving, from a customer of an exchange provider of the exchange, a second indication of the unique identifier of the interconnection token and based on the authorization, an interconnection in a network device of the exchange, the interconnection including, or connecting to or from, the resource.
US12095765B2
Cloud delivered access may be provided. A network device may provide a client device with a pre-authentication virtual network and a pre-authentication address. Next, a policy may be received in response to the client device authenticating. The client device may then be moved to a post-authentication virtual network based on the policy. A post-authentication address may then be obtained for the client device in response to moving the client device to a post-authentication virtual network. Traffic for the client device may then be translated to the post-authentication address.
US12095757B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for multi-cluster boot-strapping. In some embodiments, a server residing on a primary computing cluster receives a first request to establish a temporary connection between the primary computing cluster and a secondary computing cluster. The server establishes the temporary connection between the primary computing cluster and the secondary computing cluster using the first set of credentials. Furthermore, the server receives a second request to establish a persistent connection between the primary computing cluster and the secondary computing cluster. The server establishes the persistent connection by transmitting a third request comprising the configuration settings to the secondary computing cluster thereby causing the secondary computing cluster to generate a second set of credentials corresponding to the primary computing cluster. The server receives and stores the second set of credentials.
US12095748B2
A system comprising: at least one hardware processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon program instructions, the program instructions executable by the at least one hardware processor to: receive, by a routing hub in a computer network, from an origin node, a communication intended to a destination node, wherein said communication is encrypted with a one-time pad (OTP) associated with said origin node, apply, by said routing hub, to said communication, a customized OTP configured to simultaneously (i) encrypt said communication with said OTP associated with said destination node, and (ii) decrypt said communication with said OTP associated with said origin node, and deliver said communication to said destination node for decrypting said communication with said OTP associated with said destination node.
US12095747B2
A cryptographic proxy service may be provided. Upon determining that data associated with a network destination comprises at least some sensitive data, a cryptographic service may provide a security certificate associated with the network destination. The plurality of data may be encrypted according to the security certificate associated with the network destination and provided to the cryptographic service for re-encryption and transmission to the network destination.
US12095742B2
One aspect of the present invention discloses a device for content security. The device includes: an application execution unit configured to generate and control content in response to a content control command requested by a user; and a DRM agent configured to communicate with the application execution unit, to detect the content control command generated by the application execution unit, and to perform control on the content, and the DRM agent comprises a tracing module configured to insert security information into the content in order to prevent and trace content leakage.
US12095734B1
A container may be created, and a plurality of domain name system (DNS) configuration objects may be added to the container. The plurality of DNS configuration objects may comprise at least one of private DNS zones, outbound forwarding rules, DNS query log configurations, and firewall rule groups. The container may be associated with a plurality of private logical networks. The container may also be across a plurality of customer accounts. Based on the plurality of DNS configuration objects, a plurality of DNS operations associated with the plurality of private logical networks may be performed. The plurality of DNS operations may comprise at least one of DNS query resolution, DNS query outbound forwarding, configuring a query log, or configuring a firewall.
US12095726B2
A method, apparatus, system, and computer readable storage medium provide the ability to identify an internet connected household (ICH). An Internet Protocol (IP) address is received at an Internet entity. Determinations are made regarding whether device activity from the IP address does not exceed a defined activity threshold, whether the IP address is associated with an ISP that provides residential internet service, and whether an IP assignment age for the IP address is greater than a defined threshold age. Based on the determinations, the IP address can be identified as belonging to an ICH or not.
US12095723B2
A domain name address obtaining method includes: in a case that a first condition is met, performing a related operation of refreshing a domain name address record to obtain an address of a second server. The second server is an edge server or public server used to exchange data with the first communications device, and the first condition includes: a first indication being received in a PDU session modification process. The first indication is used to instruct to trigger domain name address query; the domain name address record is a mapping relationship between a server domain name and a server address.
US12095721B2
An application program spans a plurality of digital social networks. The application program includes an inferred digital social network. Consent is obtained from a plurality of users of the digital social networks to participation in the inferred. digital social network. Information is automatically obtained from the digital social networks for the users, through a plurality of respective communication channels, which can be application program interfaces or covert or subliminal channels, The information includes link information between each of the users and other individuals in the digital social networks. The information is aggregated for the users to form the inferred digital social network, corresponding to a graph having nodes representing the users and the other individuals and having links between the nodes representing social relationships. Each of the users is enabled to send and receive message information with other users, to view profile information of other users, and to view social contact information of other users, through the inferred digital social network. In response to inputs from the users, the application program provides state information to the digital social networks spanned by the application program that the digital social networks cause to be communicated to users of the digital social networks.
US12095719B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to processing of notifications displayed on computing devices. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving a notification and querying at least one activity database that records historical interactions of a user. The method then receives a priority indicator in response to the querying and determines whether the priority indicator indicates a high priority. If so, the method generates, and in some embodiments displays, a second notification.
US12095708B2
A wireless communication method, performed by a User Equipment, for transmission on different BandWidth Parts (BWPs) includes receiving, a radio resource control (RRC) message configuring a first Physical Uplink Control CHannel-Configuration (PUCCH-Config) for a first UpLink (UL) BandWidth Part (BWP) of a first cell and a second PUCCH-Config for a second UL BWP of a second cell; receiving, from the first cell, Downlink Control Information (DCI) including fields to indicate a duration and a switching indication; and transmitting a PUCCH on the second UL BWP after receiving the DCI if the switching indication indicates the second cell.
US12095699B2
Apparatuses, methods and computer programs for a first and a second mobile transceiver to obtain a physical data channel configuration for direct communication. An apparatus for a first mobile transceiver of a mobile communication system includes one or more interfaces to communicate with a second mobile transceiver of the mobile communication system and a control module to control the one or more interfaces. The control module estimates a radio channel between the first mobile transceiver and the second mobile transceiver, establishes a control channel between the first mobile transceiver and the second mobile transceiver, determines a physical layer data channel configuration for data communication between the first mobile transceiver and the second mobile transceiver, and provides the information on the physical data channel configuration to the second mobile transceiver using the control channel.
US12095695B2
Provided are a sounding reference signal transmission method and apparatus, a communication node device and a storage medium, wherein configuration information of each sounding reference signal symbol in an uplink subframe may be determined according to configuration signaling information and/or a predefined rule; and each sounding reference signal symbol is transmitted according to the configuration information.
US12095689B2
Disclosed herein is a method for receiving a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method may include receiving a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block, acquiring information about control resource set (CORESET) #0 from a PBCH included in the SS/PBCH block, receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) through CORESET #0, and receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled based on the PDCCH and a DMRS for the PDSCH, wherein, based on the PDCCH being addressed to a system information-radio network temporary identifier (SI-RNTI), a reference point for the DMRS may be subcarrier #0 of a resource block (RB) having a lowest number among RBs included in CORESET #0.
US12095684B2
Proposed are a method and an apparatus for receiving an EHT PPDU in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a reception STA receives an EHT PPDU including an STF signal from a transmission STA through a 320 MHz band or a 160+160 MHz band. The reception STA decodes the EHT PPDU. The STF signal is generated on the basis of an EHT STF sequence for the 320 MHz band or the 160+160 MHz band. The EHT STF sequence for the 320 MHz band is a first sequence in which a preconfigured M sequence is repeated, and is defined as {M −1 −M −1 M −1 M 0 −M 1 −M 1 −M 1 M 0 −M 1 M 1 −M 1 −M 0 M −1 M −1 M −1 −M}*(1+j)/sqrt(2).
US12095672B2
A terminal and a method are provided. A radio link control (RLC) packet data unit (PDU) associated with a bearer is received. It is identified whether an RLC service data unit (SDU) obtained from the RLC PDU is complete or a segment. In case that an out of order delivery is configured for an RLC entity associated with the bearer, and that the first RLC SDU is complete, a first RLC SDU acquired from the RLC PDU is transferred from the RLC entity to a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity regardless of an order of a sequence number of the RLC PDU. A reordering function is performed based on a PDCP PDU obtained from the first RLC SDU, in case that the PDCP entity is associated with the RLC entity configured with the out of order delivery. Another RLC PDU associated with the bearer is received.
US12095668B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a gateway datapath that executes on a gateway device to implement logical routers for a set of logical networks and process traffic between the logical networks and an external network. The method receives a data message at the gateway device. To process the data message, the method executes a set of processing stages that includes a processing stage for a particular logical router. As part of the processing stage for the particular logical router, the method (i) uses an access control list (ACL) table to determine whether the data message is subject to rate limiting controls defined for the particular logical router and (ii) only when the data message is subject to rate limiting controls, determines whether to allow the data message according to a rate limiting mechanism for the particular logical router.
US12095665B2
Techniques for Network Address Translation (NAT)-based steering of traffic in cloud-based networks. The techniques may include establishing, by a frontend node of a network, a connection with a client device. The frontend node may receive, via the connection, a packet including an indication of an identity of a service hosted on a backend node of the network. Based at least in part on the indication, the frontend node may establish a second connection with the backend node. Additionally, the frontend node may store a mapping indicating that packets received from the client device are to be sent to the backend node. The techniques may also include receiving another packet at the frontend node or another frontend node of the network. Based at least in part on the mapping, the frontend node or other frontend node may alter one or more network addresses of the other packet and forward it to the backend node.
US12095664B2
A method includes, at a node associated with a multiprotocol label switching system (MPLS) network, identifying information associated with an application flow based on one or more unencapsulated packet headers of the application flow or based on an ingress data stream that includes the application flow. The method further includes, in response to identifying the information, and based on stored data that maps application flows with pseudowires, determining a number of pseudowires corresponding to paths through the MPLS network, where the stored data indicates, for a sending device application, a distributed mapping of the application flow via at least one of the number of pseudowires, and communicating data related to the sending device application via at least one of the number of pseudowires.
US12095658B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein are systems and methods for use with a microservices or other computing environment, including a web server together with related libraries and features usable to build cloud-native applications or services. To support testing of software applications or services, a client connection can be replaced with an in-memory implementation that exposes inverse functions to a server connection; for example, data bytes written to a data writer of a client connection are available through a data reader on a server connection, and vice versa. During testing, the in-memory implementation uses a blocking queue in memory, but without using actual sockets. Once the testing has been completed using the in-memory implementation, the client and/or server code can be tested against actual sockets, for use in processing a request.
US12095656B2
In an example, a failure event is detected in a network, where the failure event is indicative of a network outage in a network device or a peer network device of an MC-LAG. The network device and the peer network device may be configured as a first VTEP in an overlay network. It may be determined that reprovisioning of virtual tunnels in the network device is incomplete. State parameters between the network device and the peer network device is synchronized. The set of virtual tunnels in the network device is provisioned based on the state parameters. After completion of provisioning of the virtual tunnels, an IP address of the first VTEP is published to underlay network devices connecting the first VTEP to a second VTEP over an underlay network. Subsequently, communication links between the MC-LAG and a host device is enabled.
US12095653B2
A router may include input buffers that receive a packet being transmitted from a source to a destination, a state generator that determines a state for the packet, and a memory representing weights for actions corresponding to possible states. The memory may be configured to return an action corresponding to the state of the packet, where the action may indicate a next hop in the route between the source and the destination. The router may also include reward logic configured to generate the weights for the plurality of actions in the memory. The reward logic may receive a global reward corresponding to the route between the source and the destination, calculate a local reward corresponding to next hops available to the router; and combine the global reward and the local reward to generate the weights for the plurality of actions in the memory.
US12095652B1
Techniques are described for suppressing data plane traffic using a service monitoring policy for data plane control. If a service provided to a router becomes nonfunctional, preventing the router from being able to forward traffic to a next-hop device, data plane traffic from client devices on the data plane that requires the use of the nonfunctioning service is suppressed. Additionally, new communication pathways to the router that will use the nonfunctioning service are prevented from being established. Traffic is redirected to another router with a functioning service. Thus, traffic that may normally be directed to the router with the nonfunctioning service and not able to be forwarded (e.g., blackholing of data) can be forwarded to the other router.
US12095639B2
A method implemented through a server of a cloud computing network including subscribers of application acceleration as a service provided therethrough includes detecting a set of point anomalies in real-time data associated with each network entity for each feature thereof, and determining at least a subset of the set of point anomalies as a sequential series of continuous anomalies based on a separation in time between immediately next point anomalies thereof. The method also determining a current longest occurring sequence of anomalies in the set of point anomalies, and, in light of new point anomalies of the set of point anomalies in the real-time data detected, improving performance of determination of a subsequent longest occurring sequence of anomalies in the set of point anomalies based on combining the determined current longest occurring sequence of anomalies incrementally with one or more new point anomalies.
US12095636B2
An optimization method includes generating a constrained causal graph according to an observation data received from a distributed unit, performing a finite domain representation planning using the constrained causal graph to generate an action data about a plurality of radio unit parameters after optimization, and outputting the action data to the distributed unit. A number of a plurality of causal variables of the constrained causal graph and a causal structure of the constrained causal graph are determined at a time.
US12095624B2
Embodiments of an edge cloud computing device are disclosed. In an embodiment, the edge cloud computing device includes an edge node activation module configured to discover one or more other edge cloud computing devices based on a first set of parameters to establish a connection therebetween. The edge node activation module is further configured to provide a microservice runtime environment to execute one or more microservices associated with the connection established between one or more edge cloud computing devices. The edge node activation module is further configured to: discover an existence of the one or more edge cloud computing devices regardless of an operating system and/or network type associated with the one or more edge cloud computing devices, discover capabilities and behaviour associated with the one or more edge cloud computing devices, and discover one or more microservices supported by the one or more edge cloud computing devices.
US12095621B2
A configuration policy applicable to one or more target resources is identified. An indication of a non-compliance remediation workflow corresponding to the policy, indicating an automated action, is obtained via a programmatic interface. In response to detecting that a particular target resource does not comply with the configuration policy, implementation of the automated action is initiated.
US12095615B2
Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium comprising receiving, by a control panel of a security or automation system of a premises, an indication of an update in a configuration of a router that is configured to support an Internet protocol “IP” network at the premises; and updating the configuration of the router by the control panel in response to receiving the indication.
US12095611B2
According to certain embodiments, a provisioning manager comprises an interface and processing circuitry. The interface is configured to obtain provisioning data from a provisioning database. The processing circuitry is configured to prepare one or more configuration files based on the provisioning data and provide the one or more configuration files to the one or more service instances using file distribution technology. The one or more configuration files indicate how to provision one or more service instances used in sending or receiving electronic messages.
US12095606B1
A disclosed method facilitates a computationally efficient way of identifying cohorts of telemetry point values that are statistically significant indicators of a computing event satisfying a condition of interest. The method includes computing Z-scores for the telemetry point values in an event-based dataset; identifying, based on the Z-scores, significant telemetry point values that are statistically significant indicators of the condition of interest; generating a significance-ordered prefix tree based on the significant telemetry point values and the Z-scores; using the significance-ordered prefix tree to identify cohorts to evaluate in combination; computing a cohort Z-score for each of the identified cohorts and identifying, based on the cohort Z-scores, a subset of the cohorts that are statistically significant indicators of the condition of interest.
US12095602B2
A transmitter of an RFID communication system to transmit an amplitude modulated transmitter data signal in resonance in an RF-Field over the air and to receive a modulated receiver data signal, which transmitter comprises: a transmitter stage to generate the amplitude modulated transmitter data signal with a particular frequency and waveform based on a carrier signal generated by a carrier signal stage; an antenna connected to the transmitter stage via a matching circuit to transmit the amplitude modulated transmitter data signal in resonance in the RF-Field over the air; a receiver stage connected via the matching circuit to the antenna to receive the modulated receiver data signal; wherein the transmitter furthermore comprises a wave shape measurement stage to measure the shape of the received modulated receiver data signal with equivalent time sampling.
US12095594B2
A method for use in a wireless communication system comprising a transmitter and a receiver, the method comprising receiving, in the receiver, data comprising a plurality of channel-distorted synchronization codes and plurality of channel-distorted cipher codes, generating a receiver cipher sequence at the receiver, the receiver cipher sequence comprising a plurality of receiver cipher codes, analysing the received data to identify correlations between the plurality of channel-distorted cipher codes in the received data and the plurality of receiver cipher codes, accumulating the identified correlations as accumulator data in an accumulator, identifying one or more peaks in the accumulator data, identifying a first correlation peak in the accumulator data that meets one or more criteria and using the first correlation peak to identify the first path of a data packet from the transmitter.
US12095589B1
A method for a multichannel geophysical data acquisition system is provided in the field of electrical resistivity tomography. Individual and autonomous node operating systems are provided. Separate communication channels for upstream and downstream data transfer, high voltage transfer and synchronization signals are provided. A novel use of high voltage isolation barriers is also provided. A direct memory access data transfer process is provided.
US12095579B2
In one aspect, at least one device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to determine that at least part of a video conference (or even an audio conference) is to be recorded for a non-attending invitee of the video conference. Responsive to the determination, the instructions are executable to prompt an attendee of the video conference to record at least part of the video conference and/or record at least part of the video conference.
US12095575B2
A server for regulating power from a Power-over-Ethernet switch to a plurality of vision sensors includes the following operations. An evaluation of individual contributions that each of the plurality of vision sensors makes to operational efficiency of the vision system is performed. Information indicative of a degradation condition to the plurality of vision sensors is received from the plurality of vision sensors. An amount of power needed to be supplied from the switch to alleviate the degradation condition of the plurality of vision sensors is estimated based upon the information indicative of the degradation condition. A determination is made that a total amount of power supplied from the switch exceeds an available amount of power capable of being supplied from the switch. Power from the switch to the plurality of vision sensors is individually regulated in real-time using a prioritization determined according to the evaluation.
US12095574B2
The present disclosure relates to an eavesdropper detection apparatus and an operating method thereof, capable of effectively detecting an eavesdropper existing between a transmitter and a receiver in bit transmission by a quantum key distribution scheme.
US12095556B2
Systems and techniques for forward error correction decode processing power reduction are described herein. A first codeword is identified in a network transmission. A conditional decoding window is generated that begins with the first codeword. The conditional decoding window is aligned with a frame of the network transmission. A report is generated that includes an indication of relevance of the conditional decoding window to a network device. The conditional decoding window and the report are transmitted to the network device. A conditional decoding window is received that includes a first codeword. The first codeword is decoded to determine a second codeword. A report is obtained that includes a codeword relevance bit for the second codeword. Upon a determination that the codeword relevance bit indicates that the second codeword is irrelevant, the second codeword is discarded without decoding the second codeword.
US12095555B2
A channel encoding method in a communication or broadcasting system is provided. The channel encoding method includes reading a first sequence corresponding to a parity check matrix, converting the first sequence to a second sequence by applying a certain rule to a block size corresponding to a parity check matrix and the first sequence, and encoding information bits based on the second sequence. The block size has at least two different integer values.
US12095550B2
When two different messages are transmitted at the same time in 5G or 6G, the message is “collided”. The resulting interference causes a message fault, necessitating a costly retransmission. Disclosed is a modulation scheme in which the modulation states are configured so that a message element can be collided by an intruder message, yet the receiver can still recover the original message element. In other cases, depending on the colliding states, the receiver can narrow the possible values of each faulted message element to just two or three possibilities, thereby greatly reducing the amount of time required for testing each combination against an error-detection code. Especially under high-noise conditions, the collision-proof modulation scheme may enable enhanced throughput by identifying and mitigating the faulted message element, and may thereby avoid unnecessary retransmissions.
US12095548B2
Provided is a multiplex transmission system capable of preventing occurrence of a mistake on connection of a client device to a multiplex transmission device. The multiplex transmission system includes: a detection means configured to detect new client connection that is new connection of a client device to a client port of each of a first multiplex transmission device 100 and a second multiplex transmission device 200; and a switch control unit 340 configured to control a switch unit 330 to connect a client port where new client connection is detected at a first time point in the first multiplex transmission device 100 with a client port where new client connection is detected at a second time point in the second multiplex transmission device, when a time interval between the first time point at which new client connection is detected in the first multiplex transmission device 100 and the second time point at which new client connection is detected in the second multiplex transmission device 200 is within a preset reference time, in a case where new client connection is detected in both the first multiplex transmission device 100 and the second multiplex transmission device 200.
US12095542B2
The embodiments of the present application provide methods and devices for determining a spatial relation, user equipment (UE) and network device. The method includes: receiving, by UE, first configuration information from a network device, the first configuration information being used to determine N transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state configurations, N being a positive integer; wherein each of the N TCI state configuration is used to determine a reference signal, the reference signal is used to determine a quasi co-location (QCL) type D parameter, the QCL type D parameter is used by the UE to receive physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); the reference signal is further used to determine a spatial relation information, the spatial relation information is used by the UE to transmit physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).
US12095541B2
Provided are a beam management method and apparatus, and a network side device, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes receiving beam information for beam management sent by a terminal, wherein the beam information comprises uplink beam information or downlink beam information; determining specified information for beam management according to the beam information, wherein the specified information comprises terminal location information and/or beam quality information; and determining transmission beams for signal transmission and/or a trend of transmission beam change according to the specified information and network deployment information, wherein the signal transmission comprises uplink signal transmission or downlink signal transmission. The great overhead and delay problems caused by the frequent beam sweeping process in high-speed occasions can be solved, the beam management strategy can be optimized and beam sweeping time and beam overhead can be saved.
US12095540B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for UL beam/panel selection indication. One apparatus includes a transceiver comprising a plurality of UE panels associated with one or more beams, the transceiver receiving a plurality of SSBs on at least two UE panels. The apparatus includes a processor that determines a corresponding set of UE panels from the SSBs and sends, via the transceiver, an indication of the corresponding set of UE panels from the apparatus to a RAN node using a random-access procedure.
US12095538B2
Aspects relate to techniques for joint communication-ranging (JCR) channel estimation. A first wireless communication device may transmit a sidelink message to a second wireless communication device and receive bistatic communication channel feedback from the second wireless communication device based on the sidelink message. The first wireless communication device may further transmit a ranging signal, such as a radar signal or lidar signal, and obtain a monostatic ranging channel estimate based on the received reflected ranging signals. The first wireless communication device may then associate and correlate the monostatic ranging channel estimate with the bistatic communication channel feedback to obtain joint communication-ranging (JCR) side information. The first wireless communication device may then transmit a sidelink transmission to the second wireless communication device using a transmit power and/or a beamforming parameter selected based on the JCR side information.
US12095535B2
Methods, systems, and devices for configuring channel state information (CSI) reference signals (RS) in mobile communication technology are described. An example method for wireless communication includes transmitting, by a network node to a wireless device, a configuration of at least one CSI-RS and a configuration of a CSI report, transmitting, based on the configuration over one or more CSI-RS resources, the at least one CSI-RS, and receiving, from the wireless device, the CSI report based on the configuration of the CSI report. The configuration of the CSI report may comprise one or more of the following: a number of CSI-RS ports related to a specific number of frequency basis vectors, or an index of a frequency basis vector corresponding to the specific number.
US12095527B2
An access point (AP) includes circuitry, which, in operation, generates a frame that includes joint transmission (JT) data and a JT identity that uniquely identifies the JT data. The access point further includes a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the frame to one or more APs that jointly transmit the JT data to a communication apparatus.
US12095524B2
The present invention relates to a device and a method for performing wireless power transfer on the basis of heterogeneous communication. Disclosed in the present specification is a wireless power receiving device comprising: a power pickup unit configured to receive wireless power from a wireless power transfer device by magnetically coupling with the wireless power transfer device at an operating frequency, and convert an alternating current signal generated by the wireless power into a direct current signal; a communication/control unit configured to receive the direct current signal from the power pickup unit, and perform an in-band communication using the operating frequency and/or an out-band communication using a frequency other than the operating frequency; and a load configured to receive the direct current signal from the power pickup unit. Configuration information, control information and management information related to wireless power transfer, and procedures related to the exchange thereof are defined as an out-band communication protocol, and thus various applications of wireless power can be supported.
US12095520B2
Embodiments of bidirectional repeaters and communications systems are disclosed. In an embodiment, a bidirectional repeater includes a digital state machine configured to control the bidirectional repeater to operate under a functional mode or under a bypass mode and a bypass mode driver configured to automatically detect a direction of signal through input/output (I/O) terminals of the bidirectional repeater and to allow a signal to pass through the bidirectional repeater based on the direction of signal under the bypass mode.
US12095519B2
A radio frequency (RF) test device such as a spectrum analyzer may include an RF attenuator to attenuate a received RF signal; a mixer to down-convert the attenuated RF signal; an IF attenuator to attenuate the down-converted signal; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to digitize the attenuated, down-converted signal; and a processor, which may select attenuation values for one or more of the RF attenuator and the IF attenuator based on an error magnitude vector (EVM) analysis, an RF signal type, and/or a signal level at an input of the ADC. The processor may use a look-up table for the selection. Initial attenuation values may be selected based on an expected RF signal type, RF signal frequency, and/or RF signal bandwidth. The attenuation values may also be selected in an iterative manner stepping the attenuation values up or down.
US12095516B2
A transmitter configured to transmit a modulated transmitter data signal in an RF-Field over the air and configured to receive a modulated receiver data signal, which transmitter comprises a transmitter stage configured to generate the modulated transmitter data signal with a particular frequency and waveform based on a carrier signal and an antenna connected to the transmitter stage via a matching circuit of the transmitter and configured to transmit the modulated transmitter data signal in the RF-Field over the air a receiver stage connected via the matching circuit to the antenna and configured to receive the modulated receiver data signal, wherein the transmitter includes a measurement stage to measure an actual resonance frequency (fpeak) of the antenna and its matching circuit connected to the transmitter stage and to the receiver stage.
US12095512B1
A method for allocating bandwidth to a first ONU, a second ONU, M1 ONUs, and M2 ONUs includes, during an allocation cycle, (i) granting a respective upstream time slot to, of a plurality of N ONUs, only each of the M1 ONUs, and (ii) granting a first upstream time slot to the first ONU. Each of the M1 ONUs and M2 ONUs is one of the plurality of N ONUs. The method also includes, during a subsequent cycle, (i) granting a respective upstream time slot to, of the plurality of N ONUs, only each of the M2 ONUs. The N ONUs includes a skipped-ONU that is one of either, and not both, the M1 ONUs and the M2 ONUs. The method includes, during the subsequent allocation cycle, granting a second upstream time slot to a second ONU, which is not one of the plurality of N ONUs.
US12095502B2
Provided is a communication device that can deliver an improvement in the communication capacity of communication infrastructure with the quality of communication taken into consideration. A communication device includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire quality information of a communication line extending from a first communication device to a second communication device and including an optical communication line, an estimating unit configured to estimate the quality of communication of the second communication device and determine the required quality of communication of the second communication device based on the quality information, and a controlling unit configured to perform control on communication channels in the optical communication line so that the quality of communication satisfies the required quality of communication.
US12095501B2
The present invention discloses an intelligent real-time full-field measurement method and system for a high-repetition-rate femtosecond pulse. The method includes: splitting a to-be-tested signal into n channels; performing a frequency reduction separation on each of the channels; splitting each channel of frequency-reduced time-domain demultiplexed signals into two signals, where a small dispersion component performs time-domain stretching on one signal, and a big dispersion component performs a time-frequency conversion on the other signal; acquiring time-domain intensity information of the to-be-tested signal after the stretching by the small dispersion component and frequency-domain envelope information of the to-be-tested signal after the time-frequency conversion by the big dispersion component; and continuously iterating the acquired time-domain intensity information and frequency-domain envelope information according to a Gerchberg-Saxton algorithm until a convergence is achieved, to obtain information about intensity and phase of the to-be-tested signal in a time domain and a frequency domain.
US12095499B2
A method is presented for supporting SNCP over a packet network connecting to two SDH sub-networks and transporting one or more SDH paths that are SNCP-protected in both SDH sub-networks. The packet network connects to each of two sub-network interconnection points by a working path and a protection path. The packet sub-network may provide the same type of path protection as an SDH sub-network using SNCP, while avoiding bandwidth duplication.
US12095490B2
A baseband chip may include a transmitter configured to transmit a first signal. The baseband chip may also include a receiver configured to receive a second signal that includes a receive signal portion and a harmonic interference portion leaked from the transmitter. The baseband chip may further include a harmonic model block configured to multiply a first output from a first harmonic model associated with an amplitude modulation phase modulation (AMPM) look-up table (LUT) and a second output of a second harmonic model associated with an AMAM LUT to generate a third output. The harmonic model block may be further configured to estimate the harmonic interference portion based at least in part on the third output. The baseband chip may also include an interference cancellation block configured to cancel the harmonic interference portion from the second signal to obtain the receive signal portion.
US12095488B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a low complexity transmitter structure for active antenna arrays by reducing the number of digital predistortion extraction loops that need to be performed. Digital predistortion (DPD) corrects any non-linearities in a power amplifier. By determining which power amplifiers have similar characteristics in an array, and thus may use similar predistortion coefficients, once the DPD coefficients are determine for one of the grouped power amplifiers, DPD can be performed on each of the grouped power amplifiers based on the DPD coefficients.
US12095465B2
An oscillating signal generating circuit drives an oscillating signal to a first logic level based on a first control signal, which is generated by delaying the oscillating signal through a clock delaying circuit, and drives the oscillating signal to a second logic level based on a second control signal, which is generated by delaying the oscillating signal by a fixed delay amount.
US12095461B2
A semiconductor device includes: an arithmetic circuit that repeats an operation related to a cryptographic processing for the predetermined number of rounds; a holding circuit that holds data related to the number of rounds of an operation of the arithmetic circuit; a judgement circuit that determines whether the number of rounds is the predetermined number of rounds; and an output buffer circuit that outputs the arithmetic result data of the arithmetic circuit when the judgement circuit determines that the number of rounds is the predetermined number. It is configured to duplicate the holding circuit, and not to output the arithmetic result data when two outputs of the duplicated holding circuit are not matched.
US12095456B2
A digital isolator. The digital isolator a logic module for receiving an input signal D, and providing command signals to first and second sawtooth modulators. The first sawtooth modulator can provide a first sawtooth signal at a node A1 having a fast rising edge triggered by a rising edge of a control signal, followed by a slow falling edge, when D equals 1 and having a fast falling edge triggered by a rising edge of a control signal, followed by a slow rising edge, when D equals 0. A second sawtooth modulator provides a second sawtooth signal at node A2, inverted with respect to first sawtooth signal. Isolation capacitors connected to nodes A1 and A2 can be used as isolation barrier and as part of high-pass filters together with dipoles Z1 and Z2.
US12095440B2
An amplifier is formed in a wiring layer. A semiconductor device includes a second layer over a first layer with a metal oxide therebetween. The first layer includes a first transistor including a first semiconductor layer containing silicon. The second layer includes an impedance matching circuit, and the impedance matching circuit includes a second transistor including a second semiconductor layer containing gallium. The first transistor forms first coupling capacitance between the first transistor and the metal oxide, and the impedance matching circuit forms second coupling capacitance between the impedance matching circuit and the metal oxide. The impedance matching circuit is electrically connected to the metal oxide through the second coupling capacitance. The metal oxide inhibits the influence of first radiation noise emitted from the impedance matching circuit on the operation of the first transistor.
US12095436B2
In certain aspects, a system includes a voltage line, a switched-capacitor circuit coupled to the voltage line, and a ripple-cancellation circuit. The ripple-cancellation circuit includes a current mirror having a first branch and a second branch, wherein the second branch of the current mirror is coupled to the voltage line, a switching circuit having a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal, wherein the first terminal of the switching circuit is coupled to the first branch of the current mirror, and the third terminal is coupled to a ground or a reference voltage, and a first capacitor coupled to the second terminal of the switching circuit.
US12095414B1
Provided are a device for photovoltaic power generation and a method therefor. The device for photovoltaic power generation comprises a photovoltaic power generating reactor comprising a light-transmitting surface, a light condenser component and an external electric field system; the light condenser component comprises a solar concentrating cone and a reflector for reflecting sunlight onto the solar concentrating cone; the solar concentrating cone has a light-concentrating surface facing the light-transmitting surface of the photovoltaic power generating reactor; the external electric field system comprises a positive electric field metal plate and a negative electric field metal plate, the positive electric field metal plate is arranged between the photovoltaic power generating reactor and the solar concentrating cone, and the negative electric field metal plate is arranged at the bottom of the photovoltaic power generating reactor; and the photovoltaic power generating reactor is arranged with a photoelectric conversion material inside.
US12095412B2
A system composed of a photovoltaic module, itself composed of a multilayer housed in a frame and of at least one anti-vibration device that is able to be fixed with respect to the multilayer and in which the photovoltaic module as a whole has a total mass, a modal mass, and a natural frequency of vibration; the at least one anti-vibration device has: a mass, a natural frequency equal to a natural frequency of vibration of said photovoltaic module considered on its own, to within 15%, and a level of damping of the anti-vibration device considered on its own, equal to at least twice the level of damping of said photovoltaic module considered on its own.
US12095408B2
The present application provides methods for loading and unloading high capacity storage equipment to a solar power canopy. The methods and structures may include horizontal support members have mechanisms to engage corresponding mechanisms on a compartment housing the high capacity storage equipment. The mechanisms may include plates, flanged surfaces, rails, tracks, hook assemblies, and ridges. The methods and structures may include a superstructure that is coupled to an moves with respect to the solar power canopy frame. The superstructure may pivot and/or rotate to allow loading and unloading. The methods and structures also may include cabinets or cubicles sized to receive one or more compartments housing the high capacity storage equipment.
US12095407B1
An apparatus is provided for modifying a crankshaft angle of an internal combustion engine (ICE). An energy converter is configured to be connected to a crankshaft of the ICE. An energy storage unit is configured to deliver energy to the energy converter when the energy converter acts as a motor, and to store energy output from the energy converter when the energy converter acts as a generator. The controller is configured to calculate a current ideal crankshaft angle, calculate a current slip angle using an output of a crankshaft angle sensor, activate the energy converter as a motor to increase the current crankshaft angle when the current slip angle is greater than a predetermined upper threshold value, and activate the energy converter as a generator to decrease the current crankshaft angle when the current slip angle is less than a predetermined lower threshold value.
US12095396B2
An apparatus and method for reducing motor magnetic losses via reduction of temporal harmonics by control of a direct current (DC) link voltage. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an inverter for converting DC power into alternating current (AC) power for an electric motor. The apparatus also includes a voltage source, which may take form in a rectifier that is configured to provide the DC output voltage to the inverter via a DC link. The voltage source is configured to adjust a magnitude of the DC output voltage based on a rotational speed of the electric motor. The voltage source may also adjust the magnitude of the DC output voltage based on a power output of the inverter.
US12095390B2
A PM signal generator can generate a variable PM signal based on a position of a movable element of a MEMS motor. A bias voltage generator can provide a bias voltage to the MEMS motor. The bias voltage generator can include a reference signal generator that can generate a reference signal that varies based on variation of pulses of the PM signal. The bias voltage can be based on the reference signal.
US12095389B2
The present invention relates to an triboelectric nanogenerator using an ionic elastomer that increases internal electric capacity and allows a large amount of electric charge to be located on a surface to generate a large amount of electrical energy. The triboelectric nanogenerator according to the present invention includes a first electrode; an ionic elastomer disposed on the first electrode and including an elastomer and an ionic liquid; a second electrode disposed to be spaced apart from the first electrode and electrically connected to the first electrode; and an insulator disposed under the second electrode, selectively contacting the ionic elastomer, and formed of a material that has a negative charge compared to the ionic elastomer. In this case, the ionic elastomer and the insulator are brought into contact with each other or are separated from each other by external force, and electrical energy is generated between the first and second electrodes when the ionic elastomer and the insulator are brought into contact with each other and separated from each other.
US12095379B2
System and method for controlling synchronous rectification. For example, a system for controlling synchronous rectification includes: a first controller terminal configured to receive a first input voltage a second controller terminal biased to a second input voltage; a third controller terminal configured to output an output voltage; a first signal generator configured to generate a logic signal based on at least information associated with the first input voltage a second signal generator configured to receive the logic signal and generate an adjustment signal based on at least information associated with the logic signal and the first input voltage; and a driver configured to receive the logic signal and the adjustment signal and generate the output voltage based at least in part on the logic signal and the adjustment signal.
US12095378B2
A bridge converter converts an input voltage into an output voltage, and includes a switching circuit, a transformer, a rectifying circuit, and a control module. The switching circuit includes a first switch and a second switch. The control module sets a first time period and a second time period. The control module provides a first control signal and a second control signal to control the switching circuit based on the output voltage. The control module fixes an operation frequency of the first control signal and the second control signal at the maximum frequency based on that the control module is set in a standby mode, and provides the first control signal and the second control signal in the first time period, and shields the first control signal and the second control signal in the second time period.
US12095375B2
A power supply apparatus includes a transformer including a primary coil and a secondary coil, a switching element connected in series to the primary coil, a first generation unit configured to generate a first voltage to be output to a first load from a voltage generated in the primary coil by turning on and off the switching element, and a second generation unit configured to generate a second voltage to be output to a second load from a voltage generated in the secondary coil by turning on and off the switching element. The first voltage has an absolute value smaller than an absolute value of the second voltage. The first voltage has a polarity different from a polarity of the second voltage.
US12095372B2
A voltage converter includes a converter module to convert an input voltage to an output voltage, a current sharing terminal to be connected in parallel with a current sharing terminal of each of at least one other voltage converter, and a control circuit to generate a first voltage signal proportional to an output current of the converter module with an adjustable first proportional coefficient and output the first voltage signal to the current sharing terminal, generate a first current signal proportional to a second voltage signal at the current sharing terminal with a second proportional coefficient, subtract the output current of the converter module from the first current signal to generate an error current signal, and adjust the output voltage of the converter module based on the error current signal.
US12095367B2
A device for power conversion includes an inductor, a switch having a switching cycle to control current flow through the inductor, a sensor coupled to the inductor to generate a signal representative of the current flow through the inductor, and a controller configured to generate a switch control signal for the switch to implement cycle-by-cycle control of the switching cycle for current-mode control of an output driven by the current flow through the inductor, the controller being coupled to the sensor such that the cycle-by-cycle control is based on the signal representative of the current flow through the inductor. The inductor is configured to exhibit a decrease in inductance with an increase in the current flow through the inductor.
US12095363B2
A control arrangement that includes an inductor of small inductance and having an input side and an output side, the input side being connected to an input line connected, in use, to an output from a power supply, and the output side being connected to an output line connected, in use, to a load. A switched capacitor arrangement is located at the input side of the inductor, the switched capacitor arrangement being arranged such that an average voltage on the input line is maintained above a predetermined level during use of the control arrangement.
US12095362B2
A Marx generator has at least two branches for providing a Marx voltage at an output pole. Each of the branches has a plurality of capacitor stages with voltage poles, cross branches with spark gaps, a last capacitor stage at its output end, and a first capacitor stage connected to an operating voltage. The branches have a common triggering section with a common first capacitor stage, a first adjacent cross branch, and an input pole. Each of the branches has the triggering section and also an individual portion with at least one capacitor stage that is only associated with the branch. A resonator arrangement contains the Marx generator and resonators at the respective output poles of the branches. A radiation arrangement has the resonator arrangement and a multi-feed waveguide with at least two of the resonators for respectively feeding an electromagnetic wave.
US12095360B2
An EMI filter for an inverter may include a choke including a magnetic inner core, a magnetic outer core, and at least one conductor pair. The at least one conductor pair may include an electrically conductive positive conductor and an electrically conductive negative conductor. The inner core, the outer core, the positive conductor, and the negative conductor may extend along a longitudinal central axis of the choke. The inner core may be arranged in the outer core. The positive conductor and the negative conductor may be arranged between the inner core and the outer core. The positive conductor and the negative conductor may be arranged spaced apart from one another in a circumferential direction extending around the longitudinal central axis. A gap may be formed between the inner core, the outer core, the positive conductor, and the negative conductor, which are adjacent in the circumferential direction.
US12095357B2
The present disclosure discloses a T-shaped three-level overload operating system, including a three-level topology and an overload mode switching system. The topology is connected with a first device group and a second device group which form a T shape; the first device group is designed with an overload capacity, and the second device group is designed with a rated capacity; and the overload mode switching system is configured for being connected to the topology to control the first device group to perform overload two-level operation on the topology, or to control the second device group to perform normal three-level operation on the topology, so that the number of device groups of the overload design can be effectively reduced, and then the cost of the system can be reduced. A working method of the T-shaped three-level overload operating system is further disclosed. The topology can be rapidly switched among working modes according to an output current of the topology.
US12095350B2
A cascaded power electronic transformer and a method for controlling the same are provided. The method includes: calculating electrical angles θi1 and θkps of an sth transformer and a compensation electrical angle θj of a jth transformer; adding the compensation electrical angle θj to the electrical angle θkps of the jth transformer, to obtain a compensated electrical angle θkps of the jth transformer; and calculating a square wave of a bridge arm voltage of each of the m primary converters and the r secondary converters of the sth transformer based on the electrical angle θi1 and the electrical angle θkps of the sth transformer after compensation.
US12095349B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit for power supply forming a power supply device generates an output voltage from an input voltage. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of external terminals including a target external terminal; a target transistor disposed between the target external terminal and a reference conductive part having a predetermined reference potential; an output voltage monitoring circuit arranged to turn on or off the target transistor in accordance with the output voltage; and a constant current circuit arranged to supply a constant current to a point of the reference potential via the target external terminal.
US12095347B2
A cooling device for use in alternating magnetic fields include an evaporator part defining a first volume for evaporating a cooling medium contained therein, the evaporator part being made of an electrically and magnetically non-conductive material, and a condenser part defining a second volume for condensing the cooling medium contained therein, the condenser part being in fluid connection with the first volume.
US12095338B2
A fluid machine includes an inverter compartment defined by a housing and a cover, the inverter compartment accommodating an inverter, and a wire electrically connected to an external connector and supplying power to a circuit board of the inverter. The wire includes a board coupling portion electrically connected to the circuit board, a connector coupling portion electrically connected to the external connector, and an extended portion extending along a wall surface of the cover and connecting the board coupling portion and the connector coupling portion. The fluid machine further includes a plastic mold covering the extended portion, and an anchor formed integrally with the plastic mold and engaged with a through-hole of the cover. The extended portion is held on the wall surface of the cover by the anchor.
US12095326B2
An inter-phase insulating paper, including: a plurality of insulating papers arranged in a stator core in a manner of circulating in a circumferential direction and configured to perform inter-phase insulation of each phase coil provided in the stator core, wherein the insulating paper includes a pair of leg portions to be respectively inserted into a pair of slots among a plurality of slots formed in the stator core, and a pair of flat portions connected to the pair of leg portions and protruding from both end surfaces of the stator core in an axial direction to perform the inter-phase insulation of each phase coil, and the pair of leg portions are connected to a central portion of an edge of the flat portion.
US12095324B2
A stator winding includes a plurality of conductors including ducts. The ducts can be connected to a heat pipe or a conduit providing a coolant flow to directly cool the winding. The heat pipe can be connected to a heat exchanger that includes a coolant flow. The stator winding can be produced using additive manufacturing, with hollow ducts extending through leg sections and solid end sections. The heat exchanger can also be additively manufactured. A circuit for driving an electrical machine can be in thermal communication with the heat exchanger, such that the thermal system manages both the stators and the drive circuit.
US12095322B2
A stator includes a cylindrical stator core provided with a plurality of slots, a segment conductor mounted to the stator core, and a resin insulator including a winding barrel portion and an insertion portion that are integrally molded. The segment conductor includes a plurality of leg portions inserted into the slots, and a crossover wire portion that couples two of the leg portions inserted into the slots that differ from each other. The winding barrel portion is disposed between the stator core and the crossover wire portion of the segment conductor. The insertion portion is disposed on an inner side from the segment conductor inside the slots of the stator core.
US12095321B2
Disclosed is an electric motor with a stator, a rotor rotatably mounted relative to the stator and motor electronics. The motor electrics is arranged in an electronics housing and mounted on a circuit board. On the circuit board there is arranged at least one vibration sensor configured for measuring an acceleration and/or speed of vibrations of the electric motor in at least one direction. In addition, said circuit board is vibrationally coupled with other components of the electric motor using at least one coupling element, so that at least parts of the vibrations of the electric motor are transmitted to the vibration sensor. Furthermore, a fan is disclosed, including an electric motor and an impeller. A method for evaluating a vibration state of an electric motor is disclosed, wherein said electric motor can be formed by an electric motor as also disclosed herein.
US12095314B2
A driving unit includes a rotary electric machine which has a rotation axis extending in a horizontal direction, a rotary electric machine case, and an electric power conversion device. The electric power conversion device has an electric power conversion device case and is disposed on one side of the rotary electric machine in an orthogonal direction. The electric power conversion device case is fixed to the rotary electric machine case. At either the electric power conversion device case or the rotary electric machine case, a guide portion protruding in the orthogonal direction and extending in the rotation axis direction is formed above a connecting portion where the rotary electric machine and the electric power conversion device are electrically connected.
US12095311B2
The present disclosure provides a direct starting synchronous reluctance motor rotor, and a motor. The direct starting synchronous reluctance motor rotor comprises: a rotor core provided with a plurality of slit grooves, two filling grooves are respectively disposed at two ends of each of the slit grooves to form a magnetic barrier layer, a first end of the filling groove being disposed adjacent to the slit groove, a second end of the filling groove being disposed to be extended outwards an outside of the rotor core, a beveled edge is disposed on the second end of at least one of the filling grooves away from a d-axis of the rotor core, so that a d-axis flux of the rotor core will not suddenly change when entering a stator along a channel formed at the beveled edge. With this arrangement, a reluctance torque ripple of the motor can be reduced, thereby reducing generated vibration noise, increasing a d-axis inductance and a flux difference between the d-axis and a q-axis, generating a greater reluctance torque, increasing an output torque of the motor with the rotor, and improving a motor efficiency.
US12095309B2
The application discloses an automatic transfer switch and a power supply system. The automatic transfer switch includes: a first switch unit having a first end connected to a first device through a converter port, and a second end electrically connected to a power grid through a power grid port; a second switch unit having a first end connected to a second device through an electric vehicle port and a charging/discharging circuit unit, and a second end electrically connected to the second end of the first switch unit; a third switch unit, having a first end electrically connected to the power grid through the power grid port, and a second end electrically connected to a load through a load port; a sampling unit; and a control unit connected to the sampling unit.
US12095304B2
A power supply circuit and a power distribution method thereof are provided. The power supply circuit includes a power input switch block, a power supply measurement block, a power supply conversion block and a power supply control block. The power input switch block provides a first power supply voltage to a load circuit based on an external power supply voltage from an adapter. The power supply measurement block measures a current of the first power supply voltage. The power supply conversion block is coupled to the battery module to provide a second power supply voltage to the load circuit. When a battery temperature of the battery module is higher than a critical temperature and a battery power of the battery module is higher than or equal to a critical power, the power supply control block limits the second power supply voltage provided to the load circuit.
US12095295B1
The present invention relates to the technical field of charging devices, in particular to a charging module, a wire organizer and a power supply body. The charging module includes the power supply body and the wire organizer which are detachably connected; the wire organizer is provided with a first connecting component, the power supply body is provided with an adaptive second connecting component, and the wire organizer is detachably connected with the power supply body through the first connecting component and the second connecting component; and the wire organizer is provided with a first electrical connecting structure, the power supply body is provided with a second electrical connecting structure, and when the first electrical connecting structure is connected with the second electrical connecting structure, the wire organizer is electrically connected with the power supply body.
US12095288B2
A wireless power receiver for receiving power from a wireless power transmitter, including a receiving part configured to receive wireless power from the wireless power transmitter; and a main controller in which a foreign object detection status packet including at least one of a reference quality factor and a reference peak frequency is stored, wherein the main controller transmits the foreign object detection status packet to the wireless power transmitter; wherein the main controller receives a NAK response from the wireless power transmitter indicating that the foreign object is present, or receives an ACK response from the wireless power transmitter indicating that the foreign object is not present; and wherein the receiving part receives a first power from the wireless power transmitter according to the received NAK response, or receives a second power greater than the first power from the wireless power transmitter according to the received ACK response.
US12095287B2
A dynamic wireless power transfer system performs, through a plurality of primary coils installed along a traveling direction of a road and a secondary coil mounted in a vehicle, power transfer to the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling. The secondary coil is an M-phase coil including M coils, M denoting an integer which is two or higher. The M coils each include a coil end extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle and a main coil portion extending along a width direction of the vehicle, the M coils each being configured such that a magnetic resistance of a magnetic path where a magnetic flux of the coil end passes is higher than a magnetic resistance of a magnetic path where a magnetic flux of the main coil portion passes.
US12095286B2
To provide a power supply system, a power device, and a power method capable of wireless power supply with a simple configuration. A power supply system includes a first infrared output unit provided on a first object, the first infrared output unit having a first directivity configured to output a first infrared ray in a first direction in which a second object that relatively moves with respect to the first object is situated, the first infrared output unit being configured to output the first infrared ray, a reflector provided on the second object, the reflector being configured to reflect the first infrared ray by retroreflection, a second infrared output unit provided on the second object, the second infrared output unit having a second directivity configured to output a second infrared ray in a second direction in which the first object that relatively moves is situated, the second infrared output unit being configured to output the second infrared ray by using power received by wireless power supply, and a power supply provided on the first object, the power supply being configured to, in a case of receiving a reflected infrared ray of the first infrared ray reflected by the reflector or in a case of receiving the second infrared ray, output a beam in an arrival direction of the reflected infrared ray or the second infrared ray.
US12095284B2
A wireless power receiving device according to one embodiment of the present specification comprises: a power pickup circuit for receiving wireless power from a wireless power transmitting device; and a communication/control circuit for communicating with the wireless power transmitting device by using in-band communication using a power signal of the wireless power and/or out-band communication, which is wireless communication that differs from the in-band communication, and for controlling the reception of the wireless power, wherein the communication/control circuit terminates the connection of the out-band communication on the basis of the removal of the power signal from the wireless power transmitting device in a state in which the connection of the wireless power transmitting device and the out-band communication is established.
US12095282B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A charging device has a resonant circuit that includes a transmitting coil. The charging device also has a driver circuit configured to power the resonant circuit, a pulse width modulator and a controller configured to provide a control signal to the pulse width modulator the control signal configuring the pulse width to provide a modulated drive signal to the driver circuit. The pulse width modulator is configured to provide the modulated drive signal to the resonant circuit. The resonant circuit is configured to operate as a low-pass filter that blocks frequency components of the modulated drive signal that correspond to the reference signal. The driver circuit is configured to use the modulated drive signal to produce a charging current in the resonant circuit. The charging current causes power to be wirelessly transferred to a receiving device through the transmitting coil.
US12095277B2
A device includes a signaling means and a motion sensor, and logic for activating or controlling the signaling means in response to a sensed motion according to an embedded logic. The device may be used as a toy, and may be shaped like a play ball or as a handheld unit. It may be powered from a battery, either chargeable from an AC power source directly or contactless by using induction or by converting electrical energy from harvested kinetic energy. The embedded logic may activate or control the signaling means, predictably or randomly, in response to sensed acceleration magnitude or direction, such as sensing the crossing of a preset threshold or sensing the peak value. The visual means may be a numeric display for displaying a value associated with the count of the number of times the threshold has been exceeded or the peak magnitude of the acceleration sensed.
US12095272B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method and apparatus for detecting grid islanding in a grid supporting voltage source converter. The method includes modulating an output voltage at an output of the grid supporting voltage source converter; determining at least one grid parameter at an input to the grid supporting voltage source converter; and detecting the grid islanding for the grid supporting voltage source converter based on the at least one grid parameter.
US12095270B2
A hierarchical approach is provided to integrate functions and components into the various systems and subsystems within a distribution network, including standardization of modular and scalable power electronics power blocks with embedded diagnostics and prognostics.
US12095267B1
The present disclosure provides an oscillation suppression method for a low-carbon power system based on energy storage power stations. Firstly, constructing a power system oscillation suppression model; secondly, constructing a correlation table of the oscillation modes vs the energy storage stations and a correlation table among the damping controller parameters, a delay margin and a damping ratio; thirdly, based on a real time power system oscillation mode, searching for a matching oscillation mode and a oscillation control strategy from the oscillatory control strategy knowledge base that based on the energy storage power stations, and suppressing the power system oscillations based on the oscillation control strategy. Thus providing an effective method to the stable control of the power system, and solving a problem of power system oscillation suppression, which seriously affects the stable operation of the power system, in the coordinated scheduling of source network load storage.
US12095263B2
A load control system may include multiple devices capable of communicating with one another to enable load control via a network. Devices communicating in the load control system may be powered by a lower power supply (e.g., a battery). These devices may be power-conservative control devices. A device may transmit an indication that it is a power-conservative control device. The device may be assigned a multicast slot. The multicast slot may occur periodically and may be associated with a multicast phase. An indication of the device's assigned multicast slot may be transmitted to other devices in the load control system. Messages may be transmitted to the device from one or more other devices during its configured multicast slot. The device may periodically transition its communication circuit on and off based on the multicast slot.
US12095262B2
Features are disclosed for charging a battery using a power supply in series with a diode. A power supply can be connected in series with a diode to restrict an inrush current resulting from connection of the power supply with a battery. In some embodiments, the power supply can further include a plurality of power supplies to restrict the amount of inrush current a single power supply can provide. In other embodiments, the power supply can also include a bypass capacitor that the power supply charges before supplying current to the battery. The power supply can regulate the amount of current that is applied to the battery and prevent inrush current from damaging the battery. Multiple power supplies add to overall reliability.
US12095261B2
Electric power supply apparatus in an industrial plant (20) for treating materials, wherein the plant (20) comprises one or more lines (11, 21) for treating the materials and one or more user devices (17, 18, 19) powered with alternating current by power supply means (13) comprising at least one transformer (14) connected to a mains power network (15) and a power supply system (16) located downstream of the transformer (14).
US12095260B2
Examples provide a method that includes providing electric power at a first voltage level for a first auxiliary low voltage bus. The method further includes providing electric power at a second voltage level for a second auxiliary low voltage bus, the first voltage level differing from the second voltage level. The method further includes sensing, by a controller, a first power consumption at the first auxiliary low voltage bus. The method further includes sensing, by the controller, a second power consumption at the second auxiliary low voltage bus. The method further includes calculating, by the controller, a difference between the first power consumption and the second power consumption. The method further includes managing a load in one of the first auxiliary low voltage bus or the second auxiliary low voltage bus based at least in part on the difference between the first power consumption and the second power consumption.
US12095255B2
Overcurrent protection of an electrically powered, motorized device, such as a power tool, wherein the tool includes a tool housing, an output assembly, a trigger, an electrical safety device, a motor, an indicator, a controller, and a power source. The electrical safety device, for example a fuse, is disposed in series with a power connection from the power source to the controller. The controller measures current passing through the electrical safety device in time intervals when the trigger is actuated. The controller determines accumulated thermal energy passing through the electrical safety device, and compares the accumulated thermal energy to a threshold. If the accumulated thermal energy exceeds the threshold, the controller ceases or discontinues to allow power to be provided to the motor from the power source, thereby shutting off the motor. The controller may also activate the indicator to indicate a fault to the user.
US12095251B2
A vehicle includes an outer glass pane, an outer laminated layer, an inner laminated layer, and one inner glass pane, wherein a PDLC layer stack is arranged between the outer and inner laminated layers, the PDLC layer stack formed by a) an outer polymeric carrier layer, b) an outer electrically conductive layer, c) a PDLC layer, d) an inner electrically conductive layer, and e) an inner polymeric carrier layer, wherein at a lateral section of the PDLC layer stack, the inner electrically conductive layer protrudes together with the inner polymeric carrier layer, and at another lateral section of the PDLC layer stack, the outer electrically conductive layer protrudes together with the outer polymeric carrier layer, and a busbar is arranged in each case on the protruding inner electrically conductive layer and the protruding outer electrically conductive layer.
US12095248B2
A feedthrough housing (1) for fastening to a wall for one or more lines and/or cables to be fed through comprises a housing body (2) and a matching removable housing cover (3). The housing cover (3) has a region (4, 4′) which is directed towards the wall and has a concave contour.
US12095246B2
A diagnostic system for a level-crossing safeguarding system. The safeguarding system has a relay circuit with electrical connection cables that are at least partly guided in a cable conduit. The cable conduit has a longitudinal access side with a detachable cover. The diagnostic system is simplified in that the cover is configured for receiving a plurality of current sensors of the diagnostic system and the plurality of current sensors are disposed, in particular fastened, next to one another in the cover in the longitudinal direction of the cover. There is also described a current sensor for such a diagnostic system and to a method for installing such a diagnostic system.
US12095243B2
There is provided a supporting member having excellent durability and an apparatus including the supporting member. The supporting member includes an elastic member and a plurality of block members formed thereon. The supporting member is deformable from a shape in which end surfaces of the block members are in contact with each other to a shape in which the end surfaces are separated from each other. The elastic member includes a fixed region whose deformation is restricted by being fixed to a bottom surface of the block member, and the supporting member includes a flexure reduction unit for reducing flexure at a position near the fixed region of the elastic member.
US12095241B1
A wire stripping machine includes a frame, a first shaft, a second shaft, and an adjustment component. The adjustment component includes a slider that supports the second shaft member and a positioning unit. The slider is supported on positioning unit by elastic members. Each adjusting member can be adjusted independently. When adjusting the adjusting member and/or the positioning unit, the distance between the positioning unit and the slider can be changed. By adjusting the adjusting member and/or the positioning unit, the specified pressure between the annular groove and the annular blade near either end of the wire inlet or outlet side of the second shaft member can be changed. The wire stripping machine with this configuration can improve the quality of wire stripping and reduce the loss of the blade on the basis of ensuring the wire stripping efficiency.
US12095237B2
An ignition apparatus for a spark gap arrangement containing at least a first and a second ignition capacitor for voltage division of a voltage between a first and a second electrode of the spark gap arrangement. A first trigger spark gap is arranged in a first parallel branch with respect to the first ignition capacitor, and a second trigger spark gap is arranged in a second parallel branch with respect to the second ignition capacitor. A first ignition resistor is disposed in the first parallel branch, wherein a first potential point between the first ignition resistor and the first trigger spark gap is connected to an ignition electrode of the second trigger spark gap. Furthermore, a spark gap arrangement containing the ignition apparatus, an arrangement containing a high-voltage device and the spark gap arrangement for protecting the high-voltage device, and a method for igniting the spark gap arrangement are disclosed.
US12095234B2
A spark plug 1 of the present invention includes an insulator 2 made from an alumina-based sintered body and including: a leg portion 22 provided on a front end side; a middle trunk portion 23 provided on a rear end side of the leg portion 22 and having a larger diameter than the leg portion 22; and a flange portion 24 provided on the rear end side of the middle trunk portion 23 and having a larger diameter than the middle trunk portion 23. In the spark plug 1, in a state where a cut surface 23b obtained by cutting the middle trunk portion 23 in a direction perpendicular to an axial line AX direction at an arbitrary position in the axial line AX direction is mirror-polished, when 20 observation regions X each being 185 μm×250 μm are set so as not to overlap each other, and with respect to each of a plurality of pores included in the 20 observation regions X, a square value P2 [μm2] of a length P [μm] of a circumference of the pore is obtained, an average value of the square values P2 [μm2] of top 20 pores having the largest square values P2 [μm2] is not greater than 2200 μm2, and a proportion T [%] of a total area of all pores included in the 20 observation regions X relative to a total area (100%) of the 20 observation regions X is not greater than 5%.
US12095232B2
A semiconductor laser is formed to include a current blocking layer that is positioned below the active region of the device and used to minimize current spreading beyond the defined dimensions of an output beam's optical mode. When used in conjunction with other current-confining structures typically disposed above the active region (e.g., ridge waveguide, electrical isolation, oxide aperture), the inclusion of the lower current blocking layer improves the efficiency of the device. The current blocking layer may be used in edge-emitting devices or vertical cavity surface-emitting devices, and also functions to improve mode shaping and reduction of facet deterioration by directing current flow away from the facets.
US12095221B2
A diode-pumped solid state laser system and a method of diode-pumping a solid state laser in which the emitter beamlets in the diode bar are directed at a beam transformation optical element which includes a continuous twisted surface to produce a uniform and symmetrised beam in the fast field which is then focused to match an input pump area of the gain medium of the solid state laser. Embodiments to square and rectangular flat-top intensity distributions are described using a Fourier lens and a set of cylindrical orthogonal lenses.
US12095218B2
A modular high speed, high density electrical connector configurable for use in multiple configurations, including a direct attach orthogonal configuration. The connector is assembled with modules that include shielded pairs of signal conductors with mating ends that are rotated approximately 45 degrees with respect to intermediate portions of the signal conductors. The connector may have a mating interface with receptacles in one connector and pins in the mating connector. The pins may be small diameter and may be implemented with superelastic wires so as to resist damage despite having very small effective diameter. A compact mating interface resulting from small diameter mating contact portions may enable other portions of the connector, including the shielding surrounding the signal conductors to be smaller, which may raise the resonant frequency of the connector and extend its bandwidth.
US12095217B2
Cable release devices and methods are disclosed. The device includes a frame defining an aperture. The frame is sized to fit around a connector on a printed circuit board (PCB) within a computer system with the connector extending into the aperture. The device further includes a post extending from the frame. The device further includes a lever connected to the post. The lever includes a first end positioned such that the first end aligns with a latch of a cable when the cable is connected to the connector and when the frame is around the connector such that actuation of the lever causes the lever to depress the latch. The actuation causes the release of the cable from being retained by the connector.
US12095210B2
An adapter circuit board includes an input end and an output end. The input end includes an input portion for connecting with a first connector header. The output end includes an output portion and an insertion portion for being inserted into a second connector. The output portion is used for directly or indirectly electrically connecting with cables to transmit high-speed signals. This setting improves the signal integrity of high-speed signals during transmission and therefore improves the quality of data transmission. In addition, the present disclosure also relates to a first connector and a connector assembly having the adapter circuit board.
US12095207B2
An approach for facilitating mechanical and electrical connection of electric machines and electrical components in an electrical system using connectors with quick connect/disconnect electrical connectors is disclosed. Each quick connect/disconnect electrical connector can be placed on the end of an electrical power distribution cable that connects with an electric machine or electrical component. The electric machines and electrical components and the electrical power distribution cables can have hollow coolant passages formed therein to receive cooling fluid from a cooling device for direct cooling of the electric machines, electrical components and the electrical power distribution cables.
US12095205B2
A male connector connected to an end of a cable, said male connector comprising a first male outer conductor, and a second male outer conductor assembled to the first male outer conductor. The first male outer conductor and the second male outer conductor in an assembled state cover a male dielectric body in which a male inner conductor connected to the electric wire is housed. One of the first male outer conductor and the second male outer conductor has a male positioning projection which is formed so as to project toward the other one of the first male outer conductor and the second male outer conductor, and the other one of the first male outer conductor and the second male outer conductor has a male slit which is formed so as to engage with the male positioning projection.
US12095203B2
A system and method for self-aligning and connecting a device to a modular rack. The system includes a device comprising a connector receptacle configured to receive a connector plug, a connector seal and a bracket fixed to the device, a modular rack comprising the connector plug, a connector shell seal and a shelf configured to receive the bracket and guide the shelf in a plurality of directions. When the bracket of the device is inserted into the shelf of the modular rack, the shelf travels in the plurality of directions to self-align the connector plug of the modular rack to the connector receptacle of the device to ensure engagement of the connector plug to the connector receptacle. The connector seal is biased towards the connector shell seal to create a seal and ensure engagement of the connector plug relative to the connector receptacle.
US12095201B2
A plug part for a subsea connector, the connector includes a plug and a receptacle. The plug part includes one or more female conducting contact assemblies each female conducting contact assembly including a female contact including inner and outer conducting surfaces, the inner conducting surface defining a cavity of the one or more female conducting contact assemblies and each female contact unit further including a shuttle pin adapted to receive a male contact pin of a receptacle. The female contact assembly further includes a solid insulator mounted radially outward of the external surface and forming an annulus between the outer surface of the female contact and an inner surface of the solid insulator and an orifice between the cavity and the annulus.
US12095197B1
A silicone charging component with magnetic and conductive is disclosed, which belongs to technical field of silicone magnetic charging. The silicone charging component includes a charging female body with magnetic and conductive, the charging female body with magnetic and conductive is configured with a female silicone base on an outer wall thereon, and the charging female body and the female silicone base are manufactured by integrated. The charging female body with magnetic and conductive is connected with an electric wire at bottom thereon. The charging female body with magnetic and conductive is configured with several, and each charging female body with magnetic and conductive is configured to be wrapped by the female silicone base and a top and a bottom thereon are exposed. By such designs, it can prolong service life of products.
US12095194B2
A board-to-board connector comprises: a male end having at least three rows of male insert terminals; and a female end having at least three rows of female insert terminals, the number of rows of the female insert terminals being equal to the number of rows of the male insert terminals. A region on the male end near the middle row of male insert terminals is provided with a male end window, which is formed in an injection molding process by a clamping component for clamping the middle row of male insert terminals in a male end injection mold. A region on the female end near the middle row of female insert terminals is provided with a female end window, which is formed in an injection molding process by a clamping component for clamping the middle row of female insert terminals in a female end injection mold.
US12095186B2
A board-edge plug connector establishes an electrical connection between at least one electrical conductor and at least one printed circuit board. The board-edge plug connector has a housing which accommodates at least one contact element and has at least one cavity which receives both the conductor and also the printed circuit board at least partially in the housing. The contact element both encloses and makes contact with the printed circuit board in a spring-elastic manner and also clamps the conductor against the housing and makes contact with it in a spring-elastic manner.
US12095182B2
Stub conductors are disposed so as to surround an outer periphery of a patch conductor and be spaced from the patch conductor with a gap positioned between the stub conductors and the patch conductor.
US12095175B2
An antenna structure includes a substrate, a radiator mounted at an upper portion of a front surface of the substrate, and a grounding element mounted at a lower portion of the front surface of the substrate. The radiator has a first radiating portion. A lower edge of the first radiating portion extends downward to form a second radiating portion. Two portions of a middle of the lower edge of the first radiating portion extend downward to form a third radiating portion and a feeding portion. A free end of the feeding portion is a feeding end. One side edge of the first radiating portion is recessed inward to form a recess. The grounding element has a first grounding portion and a second grounding portion. The first grounding portion and the second grounding portion are located to two sides of the feeding portion, respectively.
US12095174B2
An antenna device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a dielectric layer, a radiator disposed on a top surface of the dielectric layer, a transmission line connected to a side of the radiator on the dielectric layer, a signal pad connected to an end portion of the transmission line, a ground pad disposed around the signal pad, and an auxiliary radiator extending from the ground pad to be parallel to the transmission line.
US12095173B2
Presented is a UWB antenna module configured to implement omni-directional characteristics with respect to bearings even when mounted on a metal ground plane. The presented UWB antenna module comprises: a base sheet; a radiation pattern formed on a front surface of the base sheet; and a ground pattern formed on the front surface of the base sheet and arranged to surround the radiation pattern.
US12095168B2
The disclosure relates to suppressing surface waves in a communication device for a wireless communication system. The communication device includes a dielectric layer extending along a plane between a chassis and a glass layer, an antenna element configured to emit a radio wave, and a retroreflective structure extending inside the dielectric layer and being located adjacent to the antenna element, and where the retroreflective structure is configured to reflect the radio wave in an angle non-parallel to the plane. The retroreflective structure hence prevents parasitic channeling of the antenna energy into surface waves in and behind the glass layer and directs the radiation into the desired direction.
US12095167B2
An antenna panel control method includes: determining a first antenna panel that is to be turned off; and controlling the first antenna panel to be in an off state; wherein the determining a first antenna panel that is to be turned off includes: receiving a first notification message sent by a network side device; and determining the first antenna panel according to the first notification message; where the first notification message includes downlink measurement information.
US12095165B2
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.
US12095163B2
An antenna module includes a plurality of sub-arrays arranged in an array. A first sub-array and a second sub-array are disposed adjacent to each other in a first direction. The first sub-array includes a first radiating element and a second radiating element disposed adjacent to each other in a second direction. The second sub-array also includes first and second radiating elements disposed adjacent to each other in the second direction. The second direction is a direction in which the first radiating element of the second sub-array is viewed from the first radiating element of the first sub-array and is a direction in which the second radiating element of the first sub-array and the second radiating element of the second sub-array are viewed. An angle ϕ formed between the first direction and the second direction is larger than 0° and smaller than 90°.
US12095159B2
An antenna system having a first antenna that includes a metal middle frame, a first metal frame, and a second metal frame. The middle frame is a ground of the first antenna. The first and second metal frames are side edges of the mobile terminal. A first gap is formed by the first, the second metal frames, and the middle frame. A first end of the first metal frame is connected to the middle frame by a first connection point, and a second end of the first metal frame is connected to a first end of the second metal frame. A first slit is located between a second end of the second metal frame and the middle frame. The first feed point on the first metal frame is connected to the middle frame. A length of the first metal frame is greater than a length of the second metal frame.
US12095154B2
An antenna structure is provided. The antenna structure includes an insulating seat, a first antenna and a second antenna disposed on the insulating seat, and two feeding points electrically coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna. The first antenna includes a first body portion and a plurality of first extending portions non-parallel to the first body portion. The second antenna includes a second body portion and a plurality of second extending portions. The second body portion is spaced apart from the first body portion and non-parallel to each of the second extending portions. A length of one of the second extending portion adjacent to a diagonal line of the second body portion is less than a length of another one of the second extending portions. The second extending portions and the first extending portions are spaced apart from each other and jointly generate a capacitance effect.
US12095152B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a substrate, a conductive layer, an insulating layer, and a modulating material. The conductive layer is disposed on the substrate and has a first opening penetrating through the conductive layer. The insulating layer is disposed on the conductive layer and includes a second opening penetrating through the insulating layer. The first opening of the conductive layer and the second opening of the insulating layer are at least partially overlapped. The modulating material is disposed on the insulating layer.
US12095149B2
A multifunction wireless device having at least one of multimedia functionality and smartphone functionality, the multifunction wireless device including an upper body and a lower body, the upper body and the lower body being adapted to move relative to each other in at least one of a clamshell, a slide, and a twist manner. The multifunction wireless device further includes an antenna system disposed within at least one of the upper body and the lower body and having a shape with a level of complexity of an antenna contour defined by complexity factors F21 having a value of at least 1.05 and not greater than 1.80 and F32 having a value of at least 1.10 and not greater than 1.90.
US12095147B2
An RF antenna arrangement has the same or slightly larger footprint as the RF shield for radio chips on a printed circuit board. The apparatus includes a printed circuit board, a digital processor, a radio chip(s), a radio frequency shield, a lid, and an RF antenna arrangement(s). The lid has the same or slightly larger footprint as the RF shield, which enables the lid to fit on the RF shield. The RF antenna is formed as an integral part of the lid. The apparatus also includes an RF transmission coaxial cable(s) having a first end physically and electrically connected to the RF antenna arrangement(s) and the surface of the lid, and a second end electrically coupled to an RF connector. By forming the antenna arrangement(s) from the lid, this invention solves the space constraint problems of antenna placements for wireless device applications. Additionally, this invention is cost-effective and simple to manufacture.
US12095143B2
An antenna module and an electronic device including the antenna module are provided. The antenna module includes a radiating element, a first inductive element, a first capacitive element, a first feeding radiating element and a second feeding radiating element. The radiating element includes a first radiating branch, a second radiating branch and a third radiating branch, and the third radiating branch is connected between the first and second radiating branches. The first inductive element is connected between the second radiating branch and the third radiating branch. One end of the first capacitive element connected to the third radiating branch, and another end thereof is grounded. The first feeding radiation element is adjacent to the first radiating branch. The second feeding radiation element is adjacent to the second radiating branch. The first feeding radiation element and the first radiating branch are used to generate the first operating frequency band.
US12095141B2
An electronic device and an antenna module are provided. The electronic device includes a metal housing and the antenna module disposed. The metal housing has a slot, and the slot has an open end. The antenna module includes a carrier, a feeding element, a radiating element connected to the feeding element, and a grounding element. The radiating element is disposed on a first surface of the carrier. An orthogonal projection of the radiating element that is projected onto the metal housing at least partially overlaps with the slot. The grounding element includes a first grounding portion and a second grounding portion electrically connected to each other. The radiating element and the first grounding portion are spaced apart from each other by a first coupling gap, and the radiating element and the second grounding portion are spaced apart from each other by a second coupling gap.
US12095140B2
A flexible antenna for a wireless X-ray dosimeter chip is described. The flexible antenna includes a dipole antenna associated with an artificial magnetic conductor, wherein the artificial magnetic conductor includes: a top layer configured to partially act as a reflective surface; a bottom conductive ground plane layer configured to prevent propagation of incident electromagnetic waves and to reflect the electromagnetic waves; and a middle layer including a foam material configured to provide an appropriate phase delay between incident electromagnetic waves from the top layer and the reflected waves from the ground plane layer.
US12095129B2
A reforming element for a molten carbonate fuel cell stack and corresponding methods are provided that can reduce or minimize temperature differences within the fuel cell stack when operating the fuel cell stack with enhanced CO2 utilization. The reforming element can include at least one surface with a reforming catalyst deposited on the surface. A difference between the minimum and maximum reforming catalyst density and/or activity on a first portion of the at least one surface can be 20% to 75%, with the highest catalyst densities and/or activities being in proximity to the side of the fuel cell stack corresponding to at least one of the anode inlet and the cathode inlet.
US12095126B2
A method of controlling a hydrogen/oxygen producing system is a method of controlling a hydrogen/oxygen producing system including a water electrolysis apparatus that electrolyzes liquid water by applying current to an anode and a cathode, and a hydrogen gas pressurizing part that pressurizes hydrogen at downstream of the water electrolysis apparatus by applying current to a pressurizing part anode and a pressurizing part cathode. A controller controls current applied to the water electrolysis apparatus and current applied to the hydrogen gas pressurizing part. When the hydrogen/oxygen producing system is stopped, the controller performs first decompression processing such that a decompression speed of the pressurizing part cathode of the hydrogen gas pressurizing part does not exceed a basic decompression speed and performs second decompression processing such that a decompression speed of the anode of the water electrolysis apparatus does not exceed the decompression speed of the pressurizing part cathode.
US12095118B2
A secondary battery includes a wound electrode body. The wound electrode body includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are stacked on each other with the separator interposed therebetween and are wound about a winding axis. The wound electrode body has a section perpendicular to the winding axis. The section has an elongated shape that includes a flat part and a pair of curved parts. The curved parts oppose each other with the flat part interposed therebetween. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer provided on the negative electrode current collector. A width of the wound electrode body, a wound-layer number of the wound electrode body, and a ratio of a second distance to a first distance satisfy at least one of Condition A and Condition B.
US12095109B1
An energy storage device is provided. The energy storage device includes: an electrical module, where the electrical module includes an electrical cabinet provided with a receiving cavity; battery modules, where a number of the battery modules is two, the electrical module is sandwiched between the two battery modules, and the two battery modules respectively cover both ends of the receiving cavity; and first sealing members, where the first sealing members are arranged around the receiving cavity, and the first sealing members are respectively pressed between the battery modules and the electrical module to seal the receiving cavity.
US12095102B2
A case-neutral electrochemical cell has an electrode assembly comprising a separator positioned between an anode and a cathode housed inside a casing. The casing supports a co-axial glass-to-metal seal comprising an inner insulating glass hermetically sealed to a terminal pin and to the inner surface of a first or inner ferrule. An outer insulating glass is hermetically sealed to the outer surface of the inner ferrule and the inner surface of a second or outer ferrule, and the outer ferrule is secured to an opening in the casing. Then, one of the anode and the cathode is connected to the terminal pin and the other of the anode and the cathode is connected to the first or inner ferrule. An electrolyte is provided in the casing to activate the electrode assembly.
US12095097B2
A current collector for electrodes according to the present disclosure may include: a polymer film; a metal piece provided on at least one of upper and lower surfaces of the polymer film or one side of at least one of edges of the polymer film; an adhesive portion provided on surfaces of the polymer film and the metal piece to cover a boundary portion of the polymer film and the metal piece; and a conductive material formed on the surfaces of the polymer film, the metal piece, and the adhesive portion.
US12095095B2
Systems and methods are provided for a reaction barrier between an electrode active material and a current collector. An electrode may comprise an active material, a metal foil, and a polymer. The polymer (such as polyamide-imide (PAI)) may be configured to provide a carbonized barrier between the active material and the metal foil after pyrolysis.
US12095090B2
A binder composition for an electrochemical device contains a polymer A and water. In the polymer A of the binder composition for an electrochemical device, the content of an amide group-containing monomer unit is not less than 10 mass % and not more than 90 mass %, and the content of an epoxy group-containing monomer unit is not less than 0.1 mass % and not more than 50 mass %.
US12095088B2
A method of preparing a lithium-ion battery electrode, S1, preparing a carbon nanotube raw material; S2, providing an electrode active material and a solvent; S3, mixing the carbon nanotube raw material and the electrode active material with the solvent to form a mixture, and stirring the mixture to form an electrode mixture; and S4, spraying the electrode mixture on a substrate to form an electrode layer, and removing the substrate and drying the electrode layer to form the lithium-ion battery electrode.
US12095084B2
A lithium secondary battery is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a lithium battery includes a positive electrode having a lithium-nickel-cobalt-manganese-based electrode active material wherein nickel has a content of 80 mol % or greater, relative to the other transition metals, a negative electrode including a silicon-based negative electrode active material, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution including a non-aqueous organic solvent and a lithium salt, the lithium salt being contained in a concentration of 1.8 M to 5 M, and wherein the lithium salt includes LiPF6 and a lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide.
US12095080B2
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a slurry capable of forming an all solid state battery with low ion resistivity. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a slurry comprising a sulfide solid electrolyte and a solvent, and the solvent includes a first solvent and a second solvent, a boiling point of the first solvent is 80° C. or more and less than a crystallization temperature of the sulfide solid electrolyte, the first solvent is acyclic ether based solvent, acyclic ester based solvent, or acyclic ketone based solvent, and a boiling point of the second solvent is the crystallization temperature of the sulfide solid electrolyte or more.
US12095078B2
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing of an electrostatic self-assembled Silicon/rGO/carbon nanofibers composite, the method including: (a) obtaining a Si@APTES solution by adding predetermined Si nanoparticles to the piranha solution, and stirring, filtering, washing and drying, and then, dispersing the dried Si nanoparticles in deionized water, by adding APTES, and then stirring; (b) obtaining a Si@N-doped GO dispersion by mixing a mixture with the addition of urea (CH4N2O) to the GO solution and the prepared Si@APTES in step (a) in an ethanol aqueous solution; (c) obtaining a Si@N-doped GO/CNF composite by adding a predetermined CNF to the prepared Si@N-doped GO dispersion in step (b) and stirring it; and (d) obtaining a thermally reduced Si@N-doped rGO/CNF composite through a heat treatment process to the prepared Si@N-doped GO/CNF composite in step (c).
US12095074B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery which includes a metal foil collector of one of a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate which is exposed at at least part of the outermost circumferential surface of the electrode group in a rolling direction, and the collector is in contact with the inner surface of a case main body. When a region of the inner surface of the case main body from the opening-portion-side edge to the position in contact with the bottom-portion-side edge of the gasket is denoted as a first region S1 and a region of the inner surface of the case main body opposing the outermost circumferential surface of the electrode group is denoted as a second region S2, the arithmetic mean roughness Ra1 of the first region S1 and the arithmetic mean roughness Ra2 of the second region S2 satisfy Ra1
US12095065B2
Described herein is an electrochemical energy store including at least one electrochemical cell and a support structure, wherein the electrochemical cells are accommodated in a suspended manner in the support structure.
US12095061B2
The present disclosure provides a method of managing thermal loads in the powertrain of an electric vehicle and controlling various electronic components of a powertrain thermal management system. The method may include heating a coolant of a powertrain coolant loop utilizing waste heat from a liquid-cooled powertrain component (e.g., an electric motor, a DC-DC converter, etc.), measuring a coolant temperature, and utilizing combined feedforward and feedback control methods for different components (pump(s), radiator fan(s), valve(s)) of the powertrain thermal management system.
US12095059B2
A thermal barrier component for an electrochemical cell according to various aspects of the present disclosure includes a functional material. The functional material includes at least one of a hydrate of a metal carbonate and a hydrate of a metal phosphate. The functional material is configured to release water vapor at a first temperature of greater than or equal to about 100° C. and decompose to release a gaseous fire retardant at a second temperature of greater than or equal to about 300° C. Another thermal barrier component according to various aspects of the present disclosure includes a hydrate and a fire retardant. The hydrate is configured to release water in an amount greater than or equal to about 1 kg at a first temperature of greater than or equal to about 100° C. The fire retardant is configured to decompose at a second temperature of greater than or equal to about 300° C.
US12095056B2
A battery management apparatus includes a plurality of battery cells connected to one another in at least one of a series connection or a parallel connection; a detector configured to detect electrical signals of the battery cells; a monitor configured to obtain the electrical signal for each of the battery cells and values of correlation coefficient corresponding to correlation results obtained based on the electrical signals, and to generate identification signals corresponding to the electrical signals of the battery cells based on the values of correlation coefficient and a reference value; and a storage configured to store the identification signals generated by the monitor for each of the battery cells. The monitor is configured to recognize a risk of failure of each of the battery cells based on an accumulated number of identification signals stored in the storage for each of the battery cells.
US12095053B2
An ECU calculates a surface potential of a negative electrode active material relative to a lithium reference potential, according to a battery model for calculating lithium concentration distribution inside the negative electrode active material. The ECU calculates a voltage drop amount associated with charging of a battery, using a charging current to the battery and a reaction resistance, and calculates a negative electrode potential by subtracting the voltage drop amount from the surface potential. The ECU corrects the negative electrode potential, using an SOC of the battery, an average current in a charging period of the battery, and an integrated current in the charging period.
US12095052B2
A rechargeable e-cigarette can include a battery which provides a voltage output that has a maximum level when the battery is fully charged; a connector located on an exterior of the e-cigarette to allow the e-cigarette to be electrically connected to an external power supply for re-charging without disassembly of the e-cigarette; and a recharging mechanism for re-charging the battery using power from the external power supply when the connector is electrically connected to the external power supply; wherein the re-charging mechanism is configured to determine the voltage output of the battery, and to prevent re-charging of the battery if the voltage output of the battery is above a predefined threshold level, wherein the predefined threshold level is below the maximum level of the voltage output of the battery.
US12095050B2
A secondary battery protection apparatus includes a temperature sensitive element and a secondary battery protection circuit with a first terminal coupled to an external device and the temperature sensitive element to control charge and discharge using a switching circuit to protect a secondary battery from temperature, and a conversion circuit of the secondary battery protection circuit is controlled such that a first input of a comparison circuit to compare a voltage against a threshold is electrically coupled to the first terminal of the secondary battery protection circuit, the voltage corresponding to a change in temperature of the secondary battery.
US12095049B2
A thermal runaway trigger method relates to the technical field of batteries. The thermal runaway trigger method includes: providing a battery cell and a heating member arranged in the battery cell; and heating the inside of the battery cell by the heating member, so as to cause a thermal runaway of the battery cell. The heating member is arranged inside the battery cell, and the heating member heats the inside of the battery cell to cause the thermal runaway of the battery cell, so that the inside of the battery cell can be heated to cause the thermal runaway of the battery cell in a relatively short time. Due to the reduced internal space of the battery cell, the range of diffusion of the heating member inside the battery cell is small, and the heat loss of the heating member is relatively small.
US12095044B2
A battery pack for a power tool includes a housing, at least one battery, a connector, a first antenna, and a first communication circuit. The housing is detachably attachable to a power tool body. The housing includes a first wall, a second wall opposite to the first wall, and a third wall connecting a periphery of the first wall to a periphery of the second wall. The battery is in an internal space of the housing defined by the first wall, the second wall, and the third wall. The connector is nearer the first wall than the battery to feed power from the battery to the power tool body. The first communication circuit performs communication with the first antenna. The first antenna is at the first wall, at the third wall, or in an area in the internal space other than an area between the battery and the second wall.
US12095031B2
Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Also set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable batteries. Also disclosed herein are novel electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes. Also set forth herein are methods for preparing novel structures, including dense thin (<50 um) free standing membranes of an ionically conducting material for use as a catholyte, electrolyte, and, or, anolyte, in an electrochemical device, a battery component (positive or negative electrode materials), or a complete solid state electrochemical energy storage device. Also, the methods set forth herein disclose novel sintering techniques, e.g., for heating and/or field assisted (FAST) sintering, for solid state energy storage devices and the components thereof.
US12095022B2
A secondary battery includes: an anode including an anode active material on an anode active material support; a cathode including a cathode active material on a cathode active material support; a separator between the anode and the cathode; an anode guide extending in a first direction from a first region along an edge of the anode active material support; and a cathode guide extending in a second direction from a second region along an edge of the cathode active material support.
US12095012B2
A light-emitting device includes a semiconductor stack, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a supporting layer. The semiconductor stack includes a first semiconductor layer including a first top surface and a bottom surface, an active layer located on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer located on the active layer and including a second top surface. The first electrode is located on the first top surface. The second electrode is located on the second top surface. The supporting layer includes a first thickness, and directly covers at least 80% of the bottom surface. In a top view, the semiconductor stack includes a maximum length, and a ratio of the maximum length to the first thickness is smaller than 1. The supporting layer has a first thermal expansion coefficient smaller than 80 ppm/° C., and the supporting layer has a Young's modulus between 2˜10 GPa.
US12095008B2
A light emitting element includes a first semiconductor layer including a first type of semiconductor, the first semiconductor layer including a 1-1-th semiconductor layer and a 1-2-th semiconductor layer, which are arranged in a length direction of the light emitting element; a second semiconductor layer including a second type of semiconductor different from the first type; an active layer disposed between the 1-2-th semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; and an intermediate layer disposed between the 1-1-th semiconductor layer and the 1-2-th semiconductor layer and having a porous structure.
US12095005B2
A nanorod semiconductor layer having a flat upper surface, a micro-LED including the nanorod semiconductor layer, a pixel plate including the micro-LED , a display device including the pixel plate, and an electronic device including the pixel plate are provided. The nanorod semiconductor layer includes: a main body; and an upper end formed from the main body, wherein the upper end includes: a first inclined surface; a second inclined surface facing the first inclined surface; and a flat upper surface between the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface, and a width of the upper end becomes narrower in an upward direction, and when a length of the upper end protruded from the main body (a thickness of the upper end) is L1, an inclination angle between a surface extending parallel to a surface selected from the first and second inclined surfaces and the flat upper surface is β, and a width of the main body is D, a width D1 of the flat upper surface satisfies Equation 1. D1=D−(2×L1×tanβ)
US12095003B2
A micro light emitting diode chip including a first-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, a second-type semiconductor layer, a first-type electrode, and a second-type electrode is provided. The first-type semiconductor layer has a first high-concentration doping region and a first low-concentration doping region. The active layer is disposed between the first-type semiconductor layer and the second-type semiconductor layer. The first-type electrode is directly contacted and electrically connected to the first high-concentration doping region. The second-type electrode is electrically connected to the second-type semiconductor layer.
US12094994B2
A solar cell of an embodiment includes a p-electrode, an n-electrode, a p-type light-absorbing layer located between the p-electrode and the n-electrode and mainly containing a cuprous oxide, and an n-type layer that includes a first n-type layer which is located between the p-type light-absorbing layer and the n-electrode, which mainly contains a compound represented by Gav1Znv2Snv3M1v4Ov5, the M1 being one or more selected from the group consisting of Hf, Zr, In, Ti, Al, B, Mg, Si, and Ge, the v1, the v2, and the v4 being numerical values of 0.00 or more, the v3 and the v5 being numerical values of more than 0, at least one of the v1 and the v2 being a numerical value of more than 0, and the v5 when a sum of the v1, the v2, the v3, and the v4 is 1 being 1.00 or more and 2.00 or less, and which is located on the n-electrode side, and a second n-type layer which is a layer that mainly contains a compound represented by Gaw1M2w2M3w3M4w4Ow5, the M2 being Al or/and B, the M3 is one or more selected from the group consisting of In, Ti, Zn, Hf, and Zr, the M4 being one or more selected from the group consisting of Sn, Si, and Ge, the w1 and the w5 being numerical values of more than 0, the w2, the w3, and the w4 being numerical values of 0.00 or more, and the w5 when a sum of the w1, the w2, the w3, and the w4 is 2 being 3.00 or more and 3.80 or less, and which is located on the p-type light-absorbing layer side.
US12094989B2
Some embodiments relate to an integrated circuit (IC) disposed on a silicon substrate, which includes a well region having a first conductivity type. An epitaxial pillar of SiGe or Ge extends upward from the well region. The epitaxial pillar includes a lower epitaxial region having the first conductivity type and an upper epitaxial region having a second conductivity type, which is opposite the first conductivity type. A dielectric layer is arranged over an upper surface of the substrate and is disposed around the lower epitaxial region to extend over outer edges of the well region. The dielectric layer has inner sidewalls that contact outer sidewalls of the epitaxial pillar. A dielectric sidewall structure has a bottom surface that rests on an upper surface of the dielectric layer and has inner sidewalls that extend continuously from the upper surface of the dielectric layer to a top surface of the epitaxial pillar.
US12094988B1
An ionizing radiation detector includes a p-type semiconductor single crystal substrate having first and second major planar opposing surfaces, where the p-type semiconductor single crystal substrate is doped with n-type dopant atoms, and where a concentration of deep level acceptor defects is greater than a concentration of the n-type dopant atoms in the p-type semiconductor single crystal substrate; a cathode electrode on the first major planar opposing surface of the p-type semiconductor single crystal substrate, and a plurality of anode electrodes on the second major planar opposing surface of the p-type semiconductor single crystal substrate.
US12094982B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor device having electrical characteristics such as high withstand voltage, low reverse saturation current, and high on-state current. In particular, an object is to provide a power diode and a rectifier which include non-linear elements. An embodiment of the present invention is a semiconductor device including a first electrode, a gate insulating layer covering the first electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer in contact with the gate insulating layer and overlapping with the first electrode, a pair of second electrodes covering end portions of the oxide semiconductor layer, an insulating layer covering the pair of second electrodes and the oxide semiconductor layer, and a third electrode in contact with the insulating layer and between the pair of second electrodes. The pair of second electrodes are in contact with end surfaces of the oxide semiconductor layer.
US12094980B2
A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor layer including indium, a gate electrode facing the oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer between the oxide semiconductor layer and the gate electrode, and a first electrode arranged above the oxide semiconductor layer and being in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer from above the oxide semiconductor layer. The indium is unevenly distributed in an unevenly distributed region among the oxide semiconductor layer. The unevenly distributed region overlaps with the first conductive layer in a planar view.
US12094978B2
An oxide semiconductor thin film transistor and a method of forming the oxide semiconductor thin film transistor are provided. The oxide semiconductor thin film transistor can include a semiconductor layer including a channel region, a source region and a drain region; a first gate insulating layer on the semiconductor layer; a gate electrode on the first gate insulating layer; a second gate insulating layer on the gate electrode; an auxiliary electrode on the second gate insulating layer; an interlayer insulating layer on the auxiliary electrode; and a source electrode and a drain electrode on the interlayer insulating layer, wherein the source region and the drain region being disposed at both sides of the channel region, wherein the gate electrode overlapping with the channel region, and the auxiliary electrode overlapping with the gate electrode.
US12094977B2
A display device includes a buffer layer disposed on a substrate and comprising a first buffer film, and a second buffer film, wherein the first buffer film and the second buffer film are sequentially stacked in a thickness direction of the display device; a semiconductor pattern disposed on the buffer layer; a gate insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor pattern; and a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer, wherein the first buffer film and the second buffer film comprise a same material, and a density of the first buffer film is greater than a density of the second buffer film.
US12094961B2
A power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, first trenches recessed into the semiconductor layer from a surface of the semiconductor layer, a drift region, having a first conductivity type, disposed in the semiconductor layer to extend from a lower side the first trenches to between the first trenches such that a vertical charge transport path is provided, a well region disposed in the semiconductor layer on the drift region between the first trenches and having a second conductivity type, an emitter region disposed on the well region and having the first conductivity type, a floating electrode layer disposed in each of the first trenches, a second trench extending through the well region to be in contact with the drift region, and a gate electrode layer disposed in the second trench.
US12094960B2
A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate; a temperature sensing unit provided on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate; an anode pad and a cathode pad electrically connected with the temperature sensing unit; a front surface electrode being set to a predetermined reference potential; and a bidirectional diode unit electrically connected in a serial bidirectional way between the cathode pad and the front surface electrode is provided. The output comparison diode unit may be arranged between the anode pad and the cathode pad. The temperature sensing unit may include a temperature sensing diode, and the output comparison diode unit may include a diode connected in inverse parallel to the temperature sensing diode.
US12094956B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes: forming a first semiconductor layer and an insulating layer on a substrate; removing the insulating layer and the first semiconductor layer to form openings; forming a second semiconductor layer in the openings; and patterning the second semiconductor layer, the insulating layer, and the first semiconductor layer to form fin-shaped structures.
US12094944B2
A field effect transistor includes a gate dielectric and a gate electrode overlying an active region and contacting a sidewall of a trench isolation structure. The transistor may be a fringeless transistor in which the gate electrode does not overlie a portion of the trench isolation region. A planar dielectric spacer plate and a conductive gate cap structure may overlie the gate electrode. The conductive gate cap structure may have a z-shaped vertical cross-sectional profile to contact the gate electrode and to provide a segment overlying the planar dielectric spacer plate. Alternatively or additionally, a conductive gate connection structure may be provided to provide electrical connection between two electrodes of adjacent field effect transistors.
US12094942B2
A semiconductor structure includes a metal gate structure (MG) formed over a substrate, a first gate spacer formed on a first sidewall of the MG, a second gate spacer formed on a second sidewall of the MG opposite to the first sidewall, where the second gate spacer is shorter than the first gate spacer, a source/drain (S/D) contact (MD) adjacent to the MG, where a sidewall of the MD is defined by the second gate spacer, and a contact feature configured to electrically connect the MG to the MD.
US12094941B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate structure including a gate electrode, a gate spacer layer on a side surface of the gate electrode, and a gate capping layer on the gate electrode. Moreover, the semiconductor device includes a source/drain region on at least one side of the gate structure, a contact plug on the source/drain region, and first and second insulating films between the contact plug and the gate structure and defining an air gap. The first insulating film includes a first surface, and a second surface extending from the first surface while forming a first angle. The second insulating film includes a third surface forming a second angle with the first surface of the first insulating film. The second angle is an acute angle narrower than the first angle. The air gap is defined by the first surface, the second surface, and the third surface.
US12094937B2
A stacked field effect transistor device is provided. The stacked field effect transistor device includes a lower semiconductor channel segment between a first pair of source/drains, and an upper semiconductor channel segment between a second pair of source/drains. The stacked device further includes a gate dielectric layer on the upper and lower semiconductor channel segments, and a first work function material layer on the gate dielectric layer on the lower semiconductor channel segment. The stacked device further includes a first conductive gate fill on the first work function material layer, and a replacement work function material layer on the gate dielectric layer on the upper semiconductor channel segment and the first conductive gate fill, wherein the replacement work function material layer is a different work function material from the first work function material layer. The device further includes a replacement conductive gate fill on the replacement work function material layer.
US12094934B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, and a first semiconductor layer including magnesium and Alx1Ga1-x1N. The first semiconductor layer includes first, second, and third regions. The first region is between the substrate and the third region. The second region is between the first and third regions. A first concentration of magnesium in the first region is greater than a third concentration of magnesium in the third region. A second concentration of magnesium in the second region decreases along a first orientation. The first orientation is from the substrate toward the first semiconductor layer. A second change rate of a logarithm of the second concentration with respect to a change of a position along the first orientation is greater than a third change rate of a logarithm of the third concentration with respect to the change of the position along the first orientation.
US12094933B2
An electronic device includes a solid body of SiC having a surface and having a first conductivity type. A first implanted region and a second implanted region have a second conductivity type and extend into the solid body in a direction starting from the surface and delimit between them a surface portion of the solid body. A Schottky contact is on the surface and in direct contact with the surface portion. Ohmic contacts are on the surface and in direct contact with the first and second implanted regions. The solid body includes an epitaxial layer including the surface portion and a bulk portion. The surface portion houses a plurality of doped sub-regions which extend in succession one after another in the direction, are of the first conductivity type, and have a respective conductivity level higher than that of the bulk portion.
US12094920B2
A display panel includes a base layer having a display area and a non-display area including a pad area; a plurality of transistors on the base layer; a first protective layer covering the plurality of transistors; a conductive layer on the first protective layer; a second protective layer over the conductive layer; a first electrode and a second electrode on the second protective layer, the first and second electrodes being spaced from each other; a plurality of light emitting elements between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first contact electrode on the first electrode, the first contact electrode being in contact with one end portion of the light emitting element, and a second contact electrode on the second electrode, the second contact electrode being in contact with the other end portion of the at least one light emitting element; and a first pad in the pad area.
US12094912B2
The invention concerns an electromagnetic radiation detection structure (10) comprising at least one absorbing element defining an absorption plane, and a MOSFET transistor (100). The transistor comprises: at least one first and at least one second zone (111, 112) of a first type of conductivity; at least one third zone (113) separating the first and second zones (111, 112) from each other; and a gate electrode. The first zone (111), the third zone (113) and the second zone (112) are formed respectively by a first, a third and a second layer that extend in the absorption plane parallel to each other and are arranged one after another in a direction perpendicular to the absorption plane. The gate electrode covers the third zone (113) along at least one lateral wall of said third zone (113).
US12094911B2
A solid-state image sensor for detecting one or more photons includes a plurality of pixels sensitive to such photons, each of the pixels having a logic unit and an avalanche photodiode operatively connected to the logic unit, the logic unit being configured to provide an electrical signal different from the electrical signals provided by the logic units of the remaining pixels. The logic unit of each of the pixels is operatively connected to the logic unit of an adjacent pixel, such logic unit outputting the electrical signal when the avalanche photodiode belonging to the same pixel and the avalanche photodiode belonging to such adjacent pixel each detect at least one photon within a time window.
US12094910B2
An imaging element includes a first substrate provided with a photoelectric conversion portion that photoelectrically converts light and generates charge, and a readout circuit that outputs a signal based on the charge generated by the photoelectric conversion portion, a second substrate laminated on the first substrate and provided with a processing portion that processes the signal output from the readout circuit, and a connection portion provided with a bent portion bending in a portion other than the vicinity of the first substrate and the second substrate, and electrically connecting the readout circuit to the processing portion.
US12094908B2
A wide dynamic range with single exposure is achieved. A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes a first substrate including a photoelectric conversion element, and a second substrate including a capacitor positioned on a side opposite to a surface of incidence of light to the photoelectric conversion element in the first substrate, and configured to accumulate a charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion element.
US12094903B2
Microstructure enhanced photodector arrangements uses a CMOS image sensor (CIS) wafer of crystalline Si and a CMOS Logic Processor (CLP) wafer stacked on each other for electrical interaction. The wafers can be fabricated separately and stacked or can be regions of the same monolithic chip. The image can be a time-of-flight image. Bayer arrays are enhanced with microstructure holes. Avalanche photodiodes, single photon avalanche photodiodes and phototransistors can be laterally and/or vertically doped. Photodetectors/photosensors can have slanted sidewalls for improved optical confinement and reduced crosstalk.
US12094889B2
A display substrate, a method for manufacturing a display substrate and a display device are provided, and the display substrate includes: a base having a first surface, a second surface and a side surface, the base includes a display area and an epitaxial area; a driving functional layer in the display area and first binding electrodes in the epitaxial area on the first surface, the first binding electrodes are coupled with the driving functional layer; second binding electrodes located on the second surface and coupled with the first binding electrodes through side wirings; a portion of each side wiring is located on the side surface; a blocking wall on the first surface and in the epitaxial area, an orthographic projection of the blocking wall on the base at least passes through spacing regions between every two adjacent first binding electrodes along an arrangement direction of the first binding electrodes.
US12094882B2
In a power line structure for supplying power to standard cells, buried power lines extending in the X direction are placed at a given spacing in the Y direction. A local power line extending in the Y direction is connected with the buried power lines. Metal power lines extending in the X direction are formed in an upper-layer metal interconnect layer and connected with the local power line. The spacing of placement of the metal power lines in the Y direction is greater than the spacing of placement of the buried power lines.
US12094872B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate. A first nanosheet structure and a second nanosheet structure are disposed on the substrate. Each of the first and second nanosheet structures have at least one nanosheet forming source/drain regions and a gate structure including a conductive gate contact. A first oxide structure is disposed on the substrate between the first and second nanosheet structures. A conductive terminal is disposed in or on the first oxide structure. The conductive terminal, the first oxide structure and the gate structure of the first nanosheet structure define a capacitor.
US12094866B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory system includes a substrate, a plurality of elements and an adhesive portion. The substrate has a multilayer structure in which wiring patterns are formed, and has a substantially rectangle shape in a planar view. The elements are provided and arranged along the long-side direction of a surface layer side of the substrate. The adhesive portion is filled in a gap between the elements and in a gap between the elements and the substrate, where surfaces of the elements are exposed.
US12094864B2
Light emitting devices and methods of integrating micro LED devices into light emitting device are described. In an embodiment a light emitting device includes a reflective bank structure within a bank layer, and a conductive line atop the bank layer and elevated above the reflective bank structure. A micro LED device is within the reflective bank structure and a passivation layer is over the bank layer and laterally around the micro LED device within the reflective bank structure. A portion of the micro LED device and a conductive line atop the bank layer protrude above a top surface of the passivation layer.
US12094848B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an integrated circuit die having edge interconnect features. The edge interconnect features may be conductive lines extending through sealing rings and exposed on edge surfaces of the integrated circuit die. The edge interconnect features are configured to connect with other integrated circuit dies without going through an interposer. The semiconductor device may include two or more integrated circuit dies with edge interconnect features and connected through a RDL structure formed between the two or more integrated circuit dies.
US12094836B2
A semiconductor device includes a circuit substrate, a semiconductor package, and a metallic cover. The semiconductor package is disposed on the circuit substrate. The metallic cover is disposed over the semiconductor package and over the circuit substrate. The metallic cover comprises a cap and outer flanges. The cap overlies the semiconductor package. The outer flanges are disposed at edges of the cap, are connected with the cap, and extend towards the circuit substrate. A region of the bottom surface of the cap has a curved profile matching a warpage profile of the semiconductor package and the circuit substrate, and the region having the curved profile extends over the semiconductor package.
US12094834B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first subset of solid alignment marks positioned over a substrate and including: a first-layer-alignment mark positioned on the substrate, and a second-layer-alignment mark positioned above and deviated from the first-layer-alignment mark of the first subset of solid alignment marks; and a first subset of spaced alignment marks positioned over the substrate, distant from the first subset of solid alignment marks, and including: a first-layer-alignment mark positioned on the substrate and distant from the first-layer-alignment mark of the first subset of solid alignment marks, and a second-layer-alignment mark positioned above and deviated from the first-layer-alignment mark of the first subset of spaced alignment marks. The first subset of solid alignment marks and the first subset of spaced alignment marks include a fluorescence material.
US12094818B2
A fuse structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The fuse structure includes a substrate; a fin, located on the substrate and including a first fin region; and a gate stack structure, surrounding the top and side walls of the first fin region. The gate stack structure includes a first gate stack and a second gate stack. The first gate stack covers the first fin region, the second gate stack covers the first gate stack. The first gate stack is configured to receive a first gate voltage, the second gate stack is configured to receive a second gate voltage, and the first gate voltage is greater than the second gate voltage. The fuse structure reduces the area of the fuse unit and increase the integration level of the fuse circuit.
US12094811B2
An apparatus includes a first substrate including one or more electrical connection features; and an assembly including: a second substrate; conductive features formed on the second substrate, one or more of which are electrically connected to corresponding electrical connection features of the first substrate; and an electronic component between the second substrate and the first substrate and electrically connected to one or more of the conductive features.
US12094805B2
According to one embodiment, a stacked body includes a plurality of electrode layers stacked with an insulator interposed. A conductive via pierces the stacked body, and connects an upper layer interconnect and a lower layer interconnect. A insulating film is provided between the via and the stacked body. A distance along a diametral direction of the via between a side surface of the via and an end surface of one of the electrode layers opposing the side surface of the via is greater than a distance along the diametral direction between the side surface of the via and an end surface of the insulator opposing the side surface of the via.
US12094802B2
The present disclosure provides a data processing device. The data processing device includes a carrier board, a data processor, a power module, a first heat sink, and a heat transfer plate. The data processor is provided above the carrier board. The power module is provided below the carrier board and supplies power to the data processor through the carrier board. The first heat sink is provided above the carrier board. The heat transfer plate includes a main body portion and a first extension. The main body portion is provided below the power module. The first extension portion extends upward from the main body portion and is connected to the first heat sink.
US12094801B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same include a die and a planar thermal layer, and a thick-silver layer disposed directly onto a first planar side of the planar thermal layer, as well as a metallurgical die-attach disposed between the thick-silver layer and the die, the metallurgical die-attach directly contacting the thick-silver layer.
US12094796B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to nitrogen-rich silicon nitride and methods for depositing the same, and transistors and other devices containing the same. In one or more embodiments, a passivation film stack is provided and includes a silicon oxide layer disposed on a workpiece, a nitrogen-rich silicon nitride layer disposed on the silicon oxide layer, and a hydrogen-rich silicon nitride layer disposed on the nitrogen-rich silicon nitride layer. The hydrogen-rich silicon nitride layer has a greater hydrogen concentration than the nitrogen-rich silicon nitride layer.
US12094792B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate, a semiconductor die, a lid, and an adhesive layer. The semiconductor die is attached to the substrate. The lid is over the semiconductor die and the substrate. The adhesive layer is sandwiched between the lid and the semiconductor die. The adhesive layer includes a metallic thermal interface material (TIM) layer and a polymeric TIM layer adjacent to the metallic TIM layer. The polymeric TIM layer is located on corners of the semiconductor die from a top view.
US12094791B2
A power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor wafer having a junction and a junction termination laterally surrounding the junction. A protection layer covers the lateral side of the semiconductor wafer and covers the second main side at least in an area of the junction termination. A first metal disk is arranged on the first main side to cover the first main side of the semiconductor wafer. An interface between the first metal disk and the semiconductor wafer is a free floating interface. A metal layer sandwiched between the first metal disk and the semiconductor wafer.
US12094781B2
A manufacturing process for a three-dimensional structure device having stacked channels in which channels having a shape of a thin line or a sheet are stacked in a direction vertical to a substrate, a work function control metal is separately formed without expanding a space between FETS having different threshold voltages, and including a first step of performing anisotropic etching to open the mask material until the work function control metal film is exposed; a second step of depositing a protective film; a third step of performing anisotropic etching to remove the protective film while remaining the protective film deposited on sidewalls of the mask material opened in the first step; and a fourth step of performing isotropic etching to selectively remove the mask material between the channels relative to the protective film and the work function control metal film are executed.
US12094779B2
A method includes forming a first fin-group having has a plurality of semiconductor fins, and a second fin-group. The plurality of semiconductor fins include a first semiconductor fin, which is farthest from the second fin-group among the first fin-group, a second semiconductor fin, and a third semiconductor fin, which is closest to the second fin-group among the first fin-group. The method further includes performing an epitaxy process to form an epitaxy region based on the plurality of semiconductor fins. The epitaxy region includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is in middle between the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin. The first portion has a first top surface. The second portion is in middle between the second semiconductor fin and the third semiconductor fin. The second portion has a second top surface lower than the first top surface.
US12094771B2
An embodiment is a method including forming an opening in a mask layer, the opening exposing a conductive feature below the mask layer, forming a conductive material in the opening using an electroless deposition process, the conductive material forming a conductive via, removing the mask layer, forming a conformal barrier layer on a top surface and sidewalls of the conductive via, forming a dielectric layer over the conformal barrier layer and the conductive via, removing the conformal barrier layer from the top surface of the conductive via, and forming a conductive line over and electrically coupled to the conductive via.
US12094769B2
Methods and related systems for filling a gap feature comprised in a substrate are disclosed. The methods comprise a step of providing a substrate comprising one or more gap features into a reaction chamber. The one or more gap features comprise an upper part comprising an upper surface and a lower part comprising a lower surface. The methods further comprise a step of subjecting the substrate to a first plasma treatment and subjecting the substrate to a second plasma treatment. Thus the upper surface is inhibited while leaving the lower surface substantially unaffected. Then, the methods comprise a step of selectively depositing a material on the lower surface.
US12094766B2
Methods for selectively depositing on metallic surfaces are disclosed. Some embodiments of the disclosure utilize a hydrocarbon having at least two functional groups selected from alkene, alkyne, ketone, hydroxyl, aldehyde, or combinations thereof to form a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on metallic surfaces.
US12094761B2
An embodiment is a structure including a first fin over a substrate, a second fin over the substrate, the second fin being adjacent the first fin, an isolation region surrounding the first fin and the second fin, a gate structure along sidewalls and over upper surfaces of the first fin and the second fin, the gate structure defining channel regions in the first fin and the second fin, a source/drain region on the first fin and the second fin adjacent the gate structure, and an air gap separating the source/drain region from a top surface of the substrate.
US12094760B2
Techniques that can facilitate high-transparency semiconductor-metal interfaces are provided. In one example, a method can comprise forming a silicon on insulator (SOI) over a wafer. The method can further comprise depositing a metal on the SOI. The method can further comprise forming a structure by dry-etching the metal and dry-etching the SOI. The method can further comprise forming a template over the structure. The method can further comprise etching a portion of the SOI for removal under the metal. The method can further comprise growing a semiconductor where the portion of SOI was removed.
US12094755B2
This application provides a protection mechanism and a method for protecting a wafer and a pin. The protection mechanism includes: a drive; a linear unit, connected to the drive, so as to cause a pin to eject a wafer under the action of the drive; a torsion meter, configured to measure a torque of the protection mechanism in a process of ejecting the wafer by the pin; and a control module, configured to receive the torque measured by the torsion meter, and compare the torque with a predetermined value. The torsion meter is disposed between the drive and the linear unit. The to protection mechanism can effectively measure, in real time, a torque generated in a process of ejecting the wafer, and can determine, according to the torque, whether an abnormality occurs in the ejection process, so that an accident such as wafer fragmentation or pin fracturing can be effectively prevented.
US12094750B2
Implementations of a method of increasing the adhesion of a tape. Implementations may include: mounting a tape to a frame, mounting a substrate to the tape, heating the tape after mounting the substrate at one or more temperatures for a predetermined period of time, and increasing an adhesion of the tape to the substrate through heating the tape.
US12094747B2
This substrate bonding device (100) includes: a stage (401), a head (402), an electrostatic chuck that holds a peripheral portion of a substrate (301) while the stage (401) supports the substrate (301), a holder driver that drives the electrostatic chuck, and a controller (700). The electrostatic chuck is disposed in a first area on the stage (401) facing the peripheral portion of the substrate (301), and the holder driver drives the electrostatic chuck by applying voltage to the electrostatic chuck. The controller (700) controls the holder driver in such a manner that a peripheral portion of the substrate (301) is released from the electrostatic chuck when a peripheral portion of the substrate (301) is made to come into contact with a peripheral portion of the substrate (302) while a central portion of a bonding surface of the substrate (301) and a central portion of a bonding surface of the substrate (302) are in contact with each other.
US12094746B2
There is provided a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including: a stage including a shaft provided to a surface opposite a mounting surface on which a substrate is mounted, and configured to be rotated by a driving force of a motor using the shaft as a rotation axis; a storage part storing a correction information on a rotational angle of the stage for each number of rotations in a plurality of rotations of the stage, the plurality of rotations corresponding to a cycle; and a rotation control part configured to control the motor based on the correction information and control the rotation of the stage.
US12094745B2
A method for operating a conveying system is provided. An overhead hoist transport (OHT) vehicle is provided, wherein the OHT vehicle includes a gripping member configured to grip and hold a carrier, and a receiver configured to receive a signal. The signal is transmitted to the receiver of the OHT vehicle. The OHT vehicle is moved toward the carrier, and the carrier is gripped by the gripping member of the OHT vehicle. A lifting force is determined based on a weight of a carrier, a number of workpieces in the carrier, or a vertical distance between the OHT vehicle and the carrier, and the lifting force is applied to the carrier.
US12094744B2
Some implementations described herein provide a method that includes loading, from a load port and into a first buffer of a multiple-buffer overhead hoist transport (OHT) vehicle, a first transport carrier storing one or more processed wafers. The method includes unloading to the load port, while the first buffer retains the first transport carrier, and from a second buffer of the multiple-buffer OHT vehicle, a second transport carrier storing one or more wafers for processing. In other implementations, the method includes loading, into a first buffer of the multiple-buffer OHT vehicle, a first transport carrier storing one or more wafers for processing, while a semiconductor processing tool, associated with a load port, is processing one or more wafers associated with a second transport carrier. The method includes positioning the multiple-buffer OHT vehicle above the load port while the multiple-buffer OHT vehicle retains the first transport carrier in the first buffer.
US12094738B2
Systems and methods are described for integrated decomposition and scanning of a semiconducting wafer, where a single chamber is utilized for decomposition and scanning of the wafer of interest.
US12094737B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a discharge part including a nozzle configured to discharge a processing liquid onto a substrate; a liquid feeder configured to feed the processing liquid to the discharge part; a replenishment part configured to replenish the liquid feeder with the processing liquid to be fed to the discharge part; a connector including a switching valve configured to open/close a flow path between the replenishment part and the liquid feeder; a filter configured to remove foreign matters contained in the processing liquid; a replenishment preparation part configured to open the switching valve after reducing a pressure difference between the inside of the replenishment part and the liquid feeder; and a replenishment controller configured to start replenishment of the processing liquid from the replenishment part to the liquid feeder in a state in which the switching valve is opened by the replenishment preparation part.
US12094726B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor core assemblies and methods of forming the same. The semiconductor core assemblies described herein may be utilized to form semiconductor package assemblies, printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies, PCB spacer assemblies, chip carrier assemblies, intermediate carrier assemblies (e.g., for graphics cards), and the like. In one embodiment, a substrate core (e.g., a core structure) is implanted with dopants to achieve a desired bulk resistivity or conductivity. One or more conductive interconnections are formed in the substrate core and one or more redistribution layers are formed on surfaces thereof. The substrate core may thereafter be utilized as a core structure for a semiconductor package, PCB, PCB spacer, chip carrier, intermediate carrier, or the like.
US12094725B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a leadframe package with recesses formed in outer surface of the leads. The recesses are filled with a filler material, such as solder. The filler material in the recesses provides a wetable surface for filler material, such as solder, to adhere to during mounting of the package to another device, such as a printed circuit board (PCB). This enables strong solder joints between the leads of the package and the PCB. It also enables improved visual inspection of the solder joints after the package has been mounted.
US12094724B2
The present disclosure provides a method of preparing active areas. The method includes the operations of: receiving a substrate having an oxide layer, a nitride layer, and a silicon layer thereon; forming a patterned photoresist layer on the silicon layer; depositing a mask layer to cover a contour of the patterned photoresist layer; coating a carbon layer on the mask layer; etching the carbon layer, the mask layer, and the silicon layer to expose a top surface of the nitride layer; forming a plurality of opens in the oxide layer to expose a top surface of the substrate; and growing an epitaxial layer from the top surface of the substrate in the plurality of opens to form the active areas.
US12094710B2
The method of forming a nitride semiconductor film includes intermittently sputtering a target of gallium nitride inside a vacuum chamber containing nitrogen and argon, and depositing sputtered particles of the gallium nitride that are scattered from the target inside the vacuum chamber, on a substrate having a temperature of 560 degrees C. or higher and 650 degrees C. or lower. A ratio of a flow rate of the nitrogen to a sum of the flow rate of the nitrogen and a flow rate of the argon supplied to the vacuum chamber is 6% or higher and 18% or lower.
US12094704B2
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device are disclosed. The method includes: providing a device wafer and a carrier wafer, the device wafer including an SOI substrate comprising, stacked from the bottom upward, a lower substrate, a buried insulator layer and a semiconductor layer; bonding the device wafer at a front side thereof to the carrier wafer; removing at least the lower substrate through thinning the device wafer from a backside thereof, wherein the backside of the device wafer opposes the front side thereof; and providing a high-resistance substrate and bonding the device wafer at the backside thereof to the high-resistance substrate, the high-resistance substrate having a resistivity higher than that of the lower substrate. With the present disclosure, lower signal loss and improved signal linearity can be achieved while avoiding a significant cost increase.
US12094700B2
There is provided a film forming method performed in a film forming apparatus having cathode units capable of installing a plurality of targets. The method comprises performing a film formation process using a first target between the first target and a second target that are disposed at the cathode units and are made of the same material, based on a recipe of the first target, receiving from a user, after a value for managing a lifespan of the first target has reached a predetermined threshold, selection of the second target to be used for the film forming process, and performing the film forming process using the selected second target based on a recipe in which setting of target-related control items of the recipe of the first target is converted for the selected second target.
US12094699B2
Methods and apparatus for processing substrates are disclosed. In some embodiments, a process chamber for processing a substrate includes: a body having an interior volume and a target to be sputtered, the interior volume including a central portion and a peripheral portion; a substrate support disposed in the interior volume opposite the target and having a support surface configured to support the substrate; a collimator disposed in the interior volume between the target and the substrate support; a first magnet disposed about the body proximate the collimator; a second magnet disposed about the body above the support surface and entirely below the collimator and spaced vertically below the first magnet; and a third magnet disposed about the body and spaced vertically between the first magnet and the second magnet. The first, second, and third magnets are configured to generate respective magnetic fields to redistribute ions over the substrate.
US12094692B2
An apparatus for processing a substrate may include a processing module including at least one process chamber for performing a desired process on a substrate and an index module transferring the substrate into the processing module from an outside. The at least one process chamber may include a housing providing a process space therein, a supporting unit disposed in the housing to support a substrate, the supporting unit including a focus ring having a plurality of rings, a gas supply unit providing a process gas into the process space, and a plasma generating unit generating a plasma from the process gas in the process space. The focus ring may include a stepped structure having a plurality of stepped portions downwardly provided toward the substrate.
US12094686B2
Atomic layer etching (ALE) processes are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods comprise at least one etch cycle in which the substrate is alternately and sequentially exposed to a first vapor phase non-metal halide reactant and a second vapor phase halide reactant. In some embodiments both the first and second reactants are chloride reactants. In some embodiments the first reactant is fluorinating gas and the second reactant is a chlorinating gas. In some embodiments a thermal ALE cycle is used in which the substrate is not contacted with a plasma reactant.
US12094684B1
A compact charged-particle-beam microscope, weighing less than about 50 kg and having a size of less than about 1 m×1 m×1 m, is provided for imaging a sample. The microscope has a vacuum chamber to maintain a low-pressure environment, a stage to hold a sample in the vacuum chamber, a charged-particle beam source to generate a charged-particle beam, charged-particle beam optics to converge the charged-particle beam onto the sample, and one or more beam scanners to scan the charged-particle beam across the sample. A charged-particle detector is provided to detect charged-particle radiation emanating from the sample and generate a corresponding charged-particle-detection signal. At least one energy dispersive x-ray spectrometer (EDS) is provided to detect x-rays emanating from the sample and generate a corresponding x-ray-detection signal. A controller analyzes the charged-particle-detection signal and the x-ray-detection signal to generate an image of the sample and a histogram of x-ray energies for at least a portion of the sample.
US12094680B2
A collimator for an x-ray tube can be a monolithic, integral structure. The collimator can include a proximal-end closest to a cathode and a distal-end farthest from the cathode. The proximal-end can adjoin a vacuum inside of the x-ray tube. The distal-end can adjoin the air. The collimator can include an aperture extending therethrough. An x-ray window can be mounted across the aperture. The aperture can include a collimation-region between the x-ray window and the distal-end, and a drift-region between the x-ray window and the proximal-end. X-rays can be generated inside of the collimator.
US12094677B2
A fuse holder provides a safe device for connecting fuses to a three-phase busbar device. Each phase includes a corresponding load conductor and line conductor mounted within a housing. A mechanical lock is provided for each phase that locks a knife of the fuse to one of the conductors for the phase. In a further aspect, the fuse knives are frictionally locked within the housing. In both the mechanical lock and frictional lock, a release mechanism is provided that can be activated by a screwdriver to release the fuse knives from the fuse holder. In another aspect, certain conductors are provided with heat dissipation wings that contact the housing to dissipate heat generated by current flowing through the conductor.
US12094673B2
A relay is disclosed. In an embodiment a relay includes a first switching contact having a first main contact, a second main contact and a first movable contact; a second switching contact having a third main contact, a fourth main contact and a second movable contact, wherein the second switching contact is electrically isolated from the first switching contact; and an actuator configured to move both the first and second movable contacts from a first switching state into a second switching state by moving a drive element of the actuator from a first position into a second position.
US12094671B2
An electrical switch gear assembly is provided. The assembly includes two or more insulators, a frame, and a single pivot axis. The two or more insulators are connected to the frame. The frame has a first beam and a second beam with the single pivot axis securing the first and second beams to one another so that the first and second beams can move in a scissors action between a folded state and an unfolded state about the single pivot axis.
US12094670B2
A switch assembly including a vacuum interrupter having a fixed contact and a movable contact, an actuator operable to move the movable contact, and a drive rod assembly coupled to the movable contact and the actuator. The drive rod assembly includes a male part and a female part where the male part is inserted into and coupled to the female part. One of the male part or the female part includes a conductor that provides an electrical connection between the male and female parts and one of the male part or the female part includes a locking ring that snap fits into a groove in the other male or female part.
US12094669B2
For a hybrid circuit interrupter that includes a secondary actuator disposed in series with a primary actuator, with the primary actuator used for opening the switch at ultra-fast speeds and the secondary actuator used for opening the switch at normal speeds, a performance monitoring system is disclosed. The monitoring system can use either an optical sensor or position sensitive device (PSD) to detect movement of the primary actuator. The optical sensor is coupled to the circuit interrupter housing, and a distance detection means is disposed within the secondary actuator in a manner that enables the optical sensor to detect the movement of a reference surface on the moving assembly of the primary actuator. The PSD is positioned to face a thru-hole formed in a drive shaft of the circuit interrupter, and to sense a change in position of light emitted through the thru-hole during an opening stroke.
US12094667B2
A digital signaling device provides visual, audible, and haptic indicators when the digital signaling device changes state. The digital signaling device has a same operational feel and response as a classic electro-mechanical decorator-style light switch, including maintaining switch paddle position, using attractive magnetic latching in combination with a spring contact. The switch paddle can be pressed into one of two positions, each position representing a different state of the digital signaling device. The switch paddle provides a visual indicator of the digital signaling device state in that the switch paddle is maintained in one of the two positions. The attractive magnetic latching provides both an audible and haptic indicator when the magnet pairs are engaged, which corresponds to a change of state of the digital signaling device. The spring contact provides a digital switching mechanism for changing the state of the digital signaling device.
US12094664B2
A button composite structure according to an embodiment includes a display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate on the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, a member on the second substrate, a first coupling member that couples the display panel and one surface of the member, a button structure disposed on the other surface opposite to the one surface of the member, and a second coupling member that couples the other surface of the member and the button structure. The member includes a third substrate, and the button structure is directly coupled to the third substrate by the second coupling member.
US12094663B2
Solar cell interconnect with bypass diodes are described. In an embodiment, a semiconductor-based bypass layer is formed over a top electrode layer of a solar cell and spans over a vertical interconnect providing vertical interconnection between the bottom electrode layer and top electrode layer of serial solar cells. A bypass electrode layer is formed over the semiconductor-based bypass layer and in contact with the top electrode layer for one of the solar cells.
US12094654B2
Energized composites include vertically aligned graphene on carbon fibers (VGCF). The VGCF enhances surface area available for charge storage, acts as templates for depositing other charge storing materials and provides stability for a minimum of 100,000 discharge cycles. The final storage device is in the order of high strength carbon fiber matrix with active material, glass fiber separator with polymer electrolyte and another carbon fiber matrix with active material. To achieve higher voltage or current, devices can be connected in series or parallel, respectively. The whole structure is made into a structural component by infusing epoxy resin. An alternating pattern of energy storage devices allows for the epoxy resin to seep through the whole structure and strongly bind them to make a monolith multifunctional composite. The high strength energized composites can power any electrical devices including electric vehicles, portable electronics, and space vehicles without any tradeoff between energy and structural integrity.
US12094653B2
A nanocomposite electrode and a supercapacitor device including said nanocomposite electrode. The nanocomposite electrode includes a mixture of at least one binding compound, at least one conductive additive, and at least one molybdenum doped carbon material coated onto a substrate. The supercapacitor device includes two nanocomposite electrodes disposed facing one another, wherein the substrate of each nanocomposite electrode is coated with the mixture on an inside facing surface and the outer surfaces of the nanocomposite electrodes are not coated with the mixture, and the inside facing surfaces are separated by at least one electrolyte.
US12094650B2
A superconducting magnet apparatus includes a plurality of superconducting magnet coil sections connected in series and housed within a cryogenically cooled, vacuum container. A power source generates a current. A first lead is electrically connected to the superconducting magnet coil sections. A second lead is enclosed entirely within the vacuum container. The second lead has a first section and a second section, and the first section is electrically connected to the power source. The second section is electrically connected to the first lead, and rigidly connected to a linear displacement device enclosed entirely within the vacuum container. The linear displacement device linearly displaces the second section relative to the first section, so that the first section contacts the second section thereby electrically connecting the first and second sections, or by creating a gap between the first section and second section thereby electrically disconnecting the first section from the second section.
US12094646B1
The method for tuning the magnetic behavior of soft magnetic nanowires includes forming a pair of defects at axially-opposed ends of the nanowire. The defects change the switching field of the nanowire. As demonstrated by Object-Oriented MicroMagnetic Framework (OOMMF) simulation, the switching field value of the nanowire modified by a pair of defects at the two axially-opposed ends of the nanowire is more than the switching field value of a defect-free nanowire. The defect at each end may be a notch or an anti-notch.
US12094641B2
The invention provides a two-sided auxiliary structure for induction cards, which comprises: a metal shield layer; and two high-conductivity magnetic layers, which are respectively set on two opposite sides of the metal shield layer, wherein the area of the metal shield layer is greater than those of the two high-conductivity magnetic layers. The two-sided auxiliary structure for induction cards of the invention improves the problem of poor induction success rate of plural induction cards.
US12094638B2
Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes: a drum-shaped core including first and second flange parts and a winding core part; first terminal electrodes provided on the first flange part; second terminal electrodes provided on the second flange part; a plurality of wires wound around the winding core part, each of the plurality of wires having a first end connected to an associated one of the first terminal electrodes, and having a second end connected to an associated one of the second terminal electrodes; and a plate-like core fixed to the first and second flange parts. Each of the first and second flange parts has a first groove formed in a surface facing the plate-like core. The plurality of wires are positioned in parallel to each other in each of the first grooves formed in the first and second flange parts.
US12094625B2
Disclosed is an disclosure pertaining to a cooling apparatus for a superconductor cooling container. The disclosed cooling apparatus for a superconductor cooling container comprises: an inner container which is disposed in an outer container and in which a superconductor is immersed in a liquid refrigerant; a refrigerator disposed outside the outer container to generate cold air; and a cryogenic maintenance device which is connected to the refrigerator and maintains the inside of the inner container in a cryogenic state.
US12094621B2
The present invention relates to an aperture (10) for electromagnetic radiation (100), preferably electromagnetic radiation (100) comprising a wavelength between 1 nm and 20 μm, comprising an aperture body (20) made of a body material (22) transparent for the electromagnetic radiation (100). Further, the present invention relates to a method for aligning an aperture (10), and additionally to a system (70) for applying electromagnetic radiation (100) onto a source material and a dispersing element (90) for such a system (70).
US12094620B2
A device for producing electricity. In one embodiment, the device comprises a doped germanium or a doped GaAs substrate and a plurality of stacked material layers (some of which are doped) above the substrate. These stacked material layers, which capture beta particles and generate electrical current, may include, in various embodiments, GaAs, InAlP, InGaP, InAlGaP, AlGaAs, and other semiconductor materials. A radioisotope source generates beta particles that impinge the stack, create electron-hole pairs, and thereby generate electrical current. In another embodiment the device comprises a plurality of epi-liftoff layers and a backing support material. The devices can be connected in series or parallel.
US12094613B2
An embodiment of a method for assessing cardiovascular disease in a user with a body region using a mobile computing device including a camera module, includes receiving a time series of image data of a body region of the user, the time series of image data captured during a time period; generating a photoplethysmogram dataset from the time series of image data; generating a processed PPG dataset; determining a cardiovascular parameter value of the user based on the processed PPG dataset; fitting a chronobiological model to (1) the cardiovascular parameter value, and (2) a subsequent cardiovascular parameter value, characterizing a cardiovascular parameter variation over time of the user based on the fitted chronobiological model; and presenting an analysis of the cardiovascular parameter variation to the user at the mobile computing device.
US12094611B2
Techniques are described for performing fetal heart rate (FHR) analytics using machine learning techniques. According to an embodiment, computer-implemented method comprises training a machine learning model using a supervised machine learning process to identify patterns in training cardiotocograph data that correspond to defined physiological events associated with respective fetuses and mothers of the fetuses represented in the training cardiotocograph data. The method further comprises receiving new cardiotocograph data for a fetus and mother in real-time over a period of labor and applying the machine learning model to the new cardiotocograph data as it is received to identify the patterns in the new cardiotocograph data.
US12094609B2
An animal-tissue analysis and communication system produces a quantitative-diagnostic indicator for animal-tissue analyzed by the system. The system includes an animal-tissue-analyzer subsystem with at least one animal-tissue analyzer constructed to analyze animal tissue and to produce an quantitative-diagnostic indicator. The system also includes a two-way communication subsystem constructed to allow the animal-tissue-analyzer subsystem to send and receive information relevant to the quantitative-diagnostic indicator. The animal-tissue-analyzer subsystem includes at least one tissue diffractometer operatively coupled to a computer database over a network, and is configured for acquisition and transfer of animal-tissue data, and transfer to the computer database over the network. A computer processor is operatively coupled to the tissue diffractometer, and configured to receive, transmit and process the animal-tissue data from the diffractometer to the computer database, using a data analytics algorithm that provides a computer-aided quantitative-diagnostic indicator for a given animal-tissue sample.
US12094605B2
A neural network is trained using transfer learning to analyze medical image data, including 2D, 3D, and 4D images and models. Where the target medical image data is associated with a species or problem class for which there is not sufficient labeled data available for training, the system may create enhanced training datasets by selecting labeled data from other species, and/or labeled data from different problem classes. During training and analysis, image data is chunked into portions that are small enough to obfuscate the species source, while being large enough to preserve meaningful context related to the problem class (e.g., the image portion is small enough that it can't be determined whether it is from a human or canine, but abnormal liver tissues are still identifiable). A trained checkpoint may then be used to provide automated analysis and heat mapping of input images via a cloud platform or other application.
US12094604B2
The present disclosure relates to aggregating and sharing wellness data. The wellness data can be received by a user device from any number of sensors external or internal to the user device, from a user manually entering the wellness data, or from other users or entities. The user device can securely store the wellness data on the user device and transmit the wellness data to be stored on a remote database. A user of the device can share some or all of the wellness data with friends, relatives, caregivers, healthcare providers, or the like. The user device can further display a user's wellness data in an aggregated view of different types of wellness data. Wellness data of other users can also be viewed if authorizations from those users have been received.
US12094601B2
A procedure for automatically associating a mobile medical device with its current location is disclosed. The procedure allows automatic determination of the location of the mobile medical device without requiring either specialized location determination equipment or expensive computer equipment. A database of switch port to room associations created during a provisioning setup procedure is used when the mobile medical device connects to a network port after being brought into a patient room to associate the mobile medical device with the room and thereby the patient.
US12094596B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for generating anatomical labels of an anatomical structure. The method includes receiving an anatomical structure with an extracted centerline, or a medical image containing the anatomical structure with the extracted centerline; and predicting the anatomical labels of the anatomical structure based on the centerline of the anatomical structure, by utilizing a trained deep learning network. The deep learning network includes a branched network, a Graph Neural Network, a Recurrent Neural Network and a Probability Graph Model, which are connected sequentially in series. The branched network includes at least two branch networks in parallel. The method in the disclosure can automatically generate the anatomical labels of the whole anatomical structure in medical image end to end and provide high prediction accuracy and reliability.
US12094595B2
An AXR headset may be used for remote telemedicine applications on the battlefield to assist generalist medical care providers on the battlefield or battlefield surgical care facility with specialist care providers though shared visualization, conversation, and data. In addition, the AXR headset for warfighters permits better target acquisition and visualization system comprising an AXR headset and a digital sight capable of being mounted on a weapon, the digital sight in communication with the AXR headset. The digital sight may be an existing weapon sight with an additional digital camera added, or the digital sight may be a sighting module of a digital nature capable of sending target information to the AXR headset.
US12094593B2
A medical image display system includes a server, and a medical image display terminal that communicates with the server. The server includes a storage that stores medical image data in a storage format, and a first transmitter that transmits the medical image data in the storage format to the medical image display terminal. The medical image display terminal includes a first hardware processor that converts the medical image data in the storage format transmitted from the server into medical image data in a viewing format that is viewable on a web browser, and a display that displays a medical image based on the medical image data in the viewing format on the web browser.
US12094584B2
An analysis unit (13) specifies properties of a feature portion included in an image for each of a plurality of predetermined property items. A text generation unit (14) generates a plurality of texts such that a combination of the property items is different between the plurality of texts. In a case where any one of the plurality of texts is selected, an association data generation unit (16) generates association data in which a selection item, which is a property item corresponding to the property described in the selected text, and a property specifying result are associated with each other. In a case where the specified property and the property specifying result included in the association data match, the text generation unit (14) generates a priority text describing the property specified for the same property item as the selection item associated with the property specifying result as one of the plurality of texts.
US12094581B2
Systems for weather sensing and forecasting, and associated devices and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a system for predicting a subject's perception of weather conditions is provided. The system can generate an individual profile for the subject, the individual profile including health information of the subject. The system can receive weather data including a first weather condition for a target location. The system can compare the individual profile to a plurality of different user profiles to identify one or more similar user profiles. Each similar user profile can (1) be associated with a user having similar health information as the subject, and (2) include weather perception data indicating how the user perceived a set of second weather conditions. Based on the weather data and the similar user profile(s), the system can generate a prediction of the how the subject will perceive the first weather condition.
US12094563B2
The present disclosure provides a signal line structure, a signal line driving method, and a signal line circuit. The signal line structure includes a plurality of parallel signal lines, where each of the signal lines is maintained in a drive state at any time.
US12094560B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for accurate bias temperature instability (BTI) mitigation. During a first period a signal is provided to a path of a device, and during a second period a BTI toggle signal is provided to the path. During the first period a ratio of the time that the signal is active or inactive is measured. During the second period the BTI toggle signal is provided with a duty cycle based on the measured ratio. The duty cycle may be higher if the measured ratio is lower and lower if the measured ratio was higher.
US12094555B2
A stacked semiconductor device includes at least one upper chip including a plurality of channels each including first and second pseudo-channels; and a plurality of transfer control circuits respectively corresponding to the channels and each configured to output channel commands according to a channel designation signal designating one of the first and second pseudo-channels and a location information signal indicating a location of a corresponding channel of the channels, and transmit first and second data words between the corresponding channel and a lower chip according to the channel commands.
US12094554B2
A memory device, a failure bits detector, and a failure bits detection method thereof are provided. The failure bits detector includes a current generator, a current mirror, and a comparator. The current generator generates a first current according to a reference code. The current mirror mirrors the first current to generate a second current at a second end of the current mirror. The comparator compares a first voltage at a first input end with a second voltage at a second input end to generate a detection result.
US12094528B2
A memory is provided with a plurality of column groups and two redundant column groups. If there are two defective columns in the plurality of column groups, the plurality of column groups may be divided into a no-shift region, a one-shift region, and a two-shift region. The memory includes a plurality of input/output circuits corresponding to the plurality of column groups. Each input/output circuit may provide a data input signal during a write operation and receive a data output signal during a read operation. Each input/output circuit also includes a switch matrix. In the no-shift region, the switch matrix couples the input/output circuit to a core in the corresponding column group. In the one-shift region, the switch matrix couples the input/output circuit to a core in a subsequent column group. In the two-shift region, the switch matrix couples the input/output circuit to a core in a next-to-subsequent column group.
US12094524B2
A device includes a bit cell having first and second terminals, a first bit line coupled to the first terminal, a second bit line coupled to the second terminal, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a multiply and average (MAV) circuit coupled to the first capacitor, to the second capacitor, to the first bit line, and to the second bit line. The MAV circuit includes a first transistor coupled to the first capacitor and to a ground terminal and a second transistor coupled to the second capacitor and to the ground terminal. The first transistor has a first transistor control terminal selectively coupled to the first bit line and the second transistor has a second transistor control terminal selectively coupled to the second bit line.
US12094522B2
An apparatus that includes: a plurality of first data amplifiers arranged in line in a first direction; a plurality of first read data buses each coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of first data amplifiers, the plurality of first read data buses having different lengths one another; and a plurality of first write data buses each coupled to the corresponding one of the plurality of first data amplifiers, the plurality of first write data buses having different lengths one another. The plurality of first read data buses and the plurality of first write data buses are alternately arranged in parallel in a second direction vertical to the first direction. The plurality of first read data buses are arranged in longest order and the plurality of first write data buses are arranged in shortest order.
US12094520B2
A memory device, includes a memory partition. The memory partition includes a memory region comprising a memory element coupled to a wordline of the memory region, a sense amplifier region comprising a sense amplifier coupled to the memory element to sense a data state of the memory element, a sub-wordline region coupled to the wordline of the memory region, and a minigap region disposed at the intersection of the sub-wordline region and the sense amplifier region. The minigap includes a first plurality of transistors having a continuous layout in at least one direction across the minigap region with a second plurality of transistors of the sense amplifier region.
US12094518B2
A memory device, such as three dimension AND Flash memory, including a plurality of word line decoding circuit areas, a plurality of common power rails and a plurality of power drivers is provided. The word line decoding circuit areas are arranged in an array, and form a plurality of isolation areas, wherein each of the isolation areas is disposed between two adjacent word line decoding circuit areas. Each of the common power rails is disposed along the isolation areas. The power drivers respectively correspond to the word line decoding circuit areas. Each of the power drivers is disposed between each of the power driving circuit areas and each of the corresponding isolation areas, wherein each of the power drivers is configured to provide a common power to the word line decoding circuit areas.
US12094497B1
The present embodiments can generally provide a magnetic write head structure with optimized gap current distribution to maximize the current-assisted areal density capacity (ADC) gain in hard-disk-drive storage devices. In a first example embodiment, a non-dual-write-shield (nDWS) write head can include a main pole (MP), a trailing shield (TS), and a write gap (WG) disposed between the MP and the TS. The write head can also include a side shield (SS), a leading shield (LS), and a write shield (WS). The write head can include a side gap (SG) between the MP and the SS on both sides of the MP tip, and a leading gap (LG) between the MP and the LS. The write head can also include a coil wrapped around the MP through a PP3 shield that is configured to direct a time-dependent write current to saturate magnetization of the MP.
US12094491B2
A recording head comprises a write pole extending to an air-bearing surface. A near-field transducer is positioned proximate a first side of the write pole in a down-track direction. A heatsink structure is proximate the near-field transducer and positioned between the near-field transducer and the write pole. The heatsink structure extends beyond the near-field transducer in a cross-track direction and extends in a direction normal to the air-bearing surface.
US12094489B2
In some embodiments, a first audio signal is received via a first microphone, and a first probability of voice activity is determined based on the first audio signal. A second audio signal is received via a second microphone, and a second probability of voice activity is determined based on the first and second audio signals. Whether a first threshold of voice activity is met is determined based on the first and second probabilities of voice activity. In accordance with a determination that a first threshold of voice activity is met, it is determined that a voice onset has occurred, and an alert is transmitted to a processor based on the determination that the voice onset has occurred. In accordance with a determination that a first threshold of voice activity is not met, it is not determined that a voice onset has occurred.
US12094472B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for detecting hotwords using a server. One of the methods includes receiving an audio signal encoding one or more utterances including a first utterance; determining whether at least a portion of the first utterance satisfies a first threshold of being at least a portion of a key phrase; in response to determining that at least the portion of the first utterance satisfies the first threshold of being at least a portion of a key phrase, sending the audio signal to a server system that determines whether the first utterance satisfies a second threshold of being the key phrase, the second threshold being more restrictive than the first threshold; and receiving tagged text data representing the one or more utterances encoded in the audio signal when the server system determines that the first utterance satisfies the second threshold.
US12094464B2
An utterance analysis device including: a storage that stores a plurality of pieces of related information each relating to one of a plurality of categories; a control circuit that receives utterance data of an utterer in order of time series, and analyzes content of the utterance data by using a plurality of first likelihoods, which are each values for identifying a possibility that the utterance data acquired by the acquire corresponds to each category; and a display processor that displays, under control of the control circuit, display data including link information indicating an association for displaying related information relating to the category of the utterance data from the storage.
US12094461B2
A system that is capable of controlling multiple entertainment systems and/or speakers using voice commands. The system receives voice commands and may determine audio sources and speakers indicated by the voice commands. The system may generate audio data from the audio sources and may send the audio data to the speakers using multiple interfaces. For example, the system may send the audio data directly to the speakers using a network address, may send the audio data to the speakers via a voice-enabled device or may send the audio data to the speakers via a speaker controller. The system may generate output zones including multiple speakers and may associate input devices with speakers within the output zones. For example, the system may receive a voice command from an input device in an output zone and may reduce output audio generated by speakers in the output zone.
US12094460B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises: a voice reception unit for receiving user's voice; a storage unit for storing a first speech recognition module for recognizing user's voice and a second speech recognition module for recognizing only predetermined voice in the user's voice; and a processor for performing speech recognition of only a part of the user's voice through the first speech recognition module, when a result of speech recognition through the second speech recognition module shows that the user's voice includes the predetermined voice.
US12094455B2
Systems and methods for selectively ignoring an occurrence of a wakeword within audio input data is provided herein. In some embodiments, a wakeword may be detected to have been uttered by an individual within a modified time window, which may account for hardware delays and echoing offsets. The detected wakeword that occurs during this modified time window may, in some embodiments, correspond to a word included within audio that is outputted by a voice activated electronic device. This may cause the voice activated electronic device to activate itself, stopping the audio from being outputted. By identifying when these occurrences of the wakeword within outputted audio are going to happen, the voice activated electronic device may selectively determine when to ignore the wakeword, and furthermore, when not to ignore the wakeword.
US12094445B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image and a vibration generating device disposed on a rear surface of the display panel to vibrate the display panel. The vibration generating device includes a piezoelectric structure including a first region and a second region, the first region has a vibration characteristic of a first frequency, and the second region has a vibration characteristic of a second frequency which differs from the first frequency.
US12094433B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that includes a display and is configured to enable a low power display refresh during a semi-active workload. The electronic device can include a display engine and a display panel and a frame is used by the display panel to generate an image on a display backplane. The display panel includes the display backplane, a plurality of row drivers, a plurality of column drivers, and a timing controller. The timing controller can receive a partial update to a frame being displayed as an image on the display backplane and update the image displayed on the display backplane by activating row drivers and a subset of the plurality of available column drivers, wherein the subset is based on the update.
US12094428B2
An apparatus that displays a video in accordance with an input signal, the apparatus includes a backlight including a plurality of light sources, a panel configured to display the video by modulating light from the backlight, a determination section configured to determine an amount of light of each of the plurality of light sources subframe by subframe, a controller configured to control the plurality of light sources in accordance with the determined amounts of light, and an acquisition section configured to acquire a statistic in a plurality of areas subframe by subframe in accordance with the input signal. The determination section is configured to determine the amount of light of each of the plurality of light sources in accordance with the statistic.
US12094427B2
An embodiment enables natural and smooth change in the brightness of a backlight unit and is able to reduce flicker by changing a dimming value between frames through a mixed function including a plurality of functions having different characteristics.
US12094423B2
An organic light emitting display device can include a display panel including a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines intersecting each other, and unit pixels disposed in a matrix arrangement, each of the unit pixels being disposed in a region where one scan line intersects three data lines; a data driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of data lines; and a gate driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of gate lines. Also, each of the unit pixels comprises two subpixels, and each of the two subpixels has a structure in which red, green and blue light emitting elements are stacked.
US12094422B2
A display device includes a display panel including a first pixel column in which first and third color pixels are alternately disposed, a second pixel column in which second color pixels are disposed, a third pixel column in which the third and first color pixels are alternately disposed, and a fourth pixel column in which the second color pixels are disposed. The display device further includes a scan driver applying a scan signal to scan lines, a data driver including a first source channel supplying a first color data signal and a second color data signal to a first data line, and a second source channel supplying the second color data signal and a third color data signal to a second data line, and a demultiplexer successively selecting the first and second sub-data lines during a period in which the scan signal is supplied to each scan line.
US12094411B2
Disclosed is a driving method for display unit, a display panel and a display device, a reset circuit is formed by a reset signal, a charging circuit is formed by a charging signal, and a light emitting circuit is formed by a light emitting signal, that is, the circuit in the display device is multiplexed by each control signal, so that it does not need to design a circuit for each function to realize the driving of the display unit, solving the complex problem of driving the display unit in the relevant technology.
US12094408B2
A display device includes: a display panel which receives a driving voltage and an initialization voltage; a power manager which provides the driving voltage to the display panel; and a voltage generator which receives a feedback driving voltage from the display panel and generates the initialization voltage based on the feedback driving voltage. The feedback driving voltage is a voltage that is fed back to the voltage generator after the driving voltage supplied from the power manager passes through the display panel.
US12094406B2
A display panel and a display apparatus, in which the display panel include sub-pixels, shift registers, and pixel driving circuits. The sub-pixels include first sub-pixels located in the first display area and second sub-pixels located in the second display area, the first sub-pixels are used for achieving the display of the first display area, and the second sub-pixels are used for achieving the display of the second display area. The shift register is configured to provide a control signal to the scanning line, so as to make the first sub-pixel emit light by controlling the first circuit. The pixel driving circuits include first circuits configured to drive the first sub-pixels, second circuits configured to drive the second sub-pixels, and dummy areas.
US12094402B2
A display driving device includes a high voltage operating unit obtaining an operating current according to the application of the high power supply voltage from the first voltage application line; a low voltage operating unit that operates according to an application of a low power supply voltage to control the high voltage operating unit; a recycling circuit that receives the operating current from the high voltage operating unit via a relay coupling line and applies the low power supply voltage to the low voltage operating unit while supplying the received operating current to a reference potential line via the low voltage operating unit; and a current bypass circuit that flows a part of the operating current flowing through the relay coupling line into the reference potential line without supplying the part of the operating current to the recycling circuit according to a voltage increase in the low power supply voltage.
US12094397B2
An electroluminescence display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels connected to a first power line, a power circuit converting a final feedback driving voltage input through a first input terminal thereof to output a high level driving voltage to a first position of the first power line through a first output terminal thereof, and a feedback control circuit receiving the high level driving voltage as a first feedback driving voltage, receiving a second feedback driving voltage from a second position of the first power line, and supplying the first input terminal of the power circuit with the final feedback driving voltage adjusted based on a first output contribution rate of the first feedback driving voltage and a second output contribution rate of the second feedback driving voltage.
US12094396B2
A micro-LED display having a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix, wherein an individual pixel of the plurality of pixels each includes a light-emission section and a drive circuit to drive the light-emission section. The drive section includes an in-pixel PWM circuitry to receive a sawtooth or triangular pulse and an electric potential based on an image signal voltage, and to output a current pulse based on a comparison of the sawtooth or triangular pulse and the electric potential. The in-pixel PWM circuitry includes at most 7 transistors. The micro-LED display includes is coupled to one or more circuitries coupled to the plurality of pixels to provide the sawtooth or triangular pulse and the electric potential.
US12094395B2
An electronic device includes a gamma data source, a signal receiving circuit, a buffer circuit, a counter, a multiplexer, and a gamma processing unit. The signal receiving circuit receives source data, and correspondingly generates a grayscale value. The buffer circuit electrically couples the signal receiving circuit and stores the grayscale value. The counter receives a system clock signal to generate a sequence number. The multiplexer electrically couples the counter and the gamma data source. The multiplexer receives the sequence number. The multiplexer outputs a bit message corresponding to the sequence number in the gamma data source. The gamma processing unit electrically couples the multiplexer and the buffer circuit. The gamma processing unit receives the bit message from the multiplexer. The gamma processing unit receives the grayscale value from the buffer circuit. The gamma processing unit outputs a bit value corresponding to the grayscale value in the bit message.
US12094394B2
A gate driver includes a carry signal generating circuit and a shift register circuit. The carry signal generating circuit receives a vertical start signal and outputs first and second carry signals. The shift register circuit receives the first and second carry signals and outputs a first stage first carry signal, a first stage second carry signal and a first stage gate output signal. The carry signal generating circuit includes a first carry generator generating the first carry signal and a second carry generator generating the second carry signal. The shift register circuit includes a first stage first carry generator generating the first stage first carry signal, a first stage second carry generator generating the first stage second carry signal and a first stage output buffer outputting the first stage gate output signal.
US12094392B2
A display device, includes: a scan driver configured to sequentially supply scan signals having a turn-on level to the first scan line and the second scan line during a first period and to concurrently supply scan signals having a turn-on level to the first scan line and the second scan line during a second period after the first period, wherein: a mask period corresponds to a difference between a start point of the second period and a start point of the first period in a next frame period, a first frame period and a second frame period have different mask periods, a third frame period between the first frame period and the second frame period has a same mask period as the first frame period, and a fourth frame period between the first frame period and the second frame period has a same mask period as the second frame period.
US12094390B2
The present disclosure provides a display device comprising an external device interface connected to an external device; an infrared sensor configured to detect an infrared control signal generated from a remote control device for the external device; and a processor is configured to: initialize an auto-off timer time to count an auto-off time, when a power of the display device is turned on, initialize the auto-off timer time when the infrared control signal generated from the remote control device for the external device is detected through the infrared sensor, and control the power to be turned off when the automatic off timer time reaches a preset un-used time.
US12094379B2
In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises measuring a current drawn by a display panel, determining whether the current exceeds a threshold value, and upon determining that the current exceeds the threshold value, causing a light source associated with the display panel to shut off.
US12094377B2
A display screen intended to display a multiple-resolution image and including a plurality of pixels distributed on a support, the screen including a first zone of a face of the support having a first density of pixels, enabling to display a first part of the image at a first resolution, and a second zone of the face of the support having a second density of pixels, strictly greater than said first density, enabling to display a second part of the image at a second resolution. The disclosure also relates to a display system including such a screen and a method for producing the screen.
US12094376B2
A method to project content from a moving projector. The method includes analyzing an object to identify a projection surface; determining a first position of a projector relative to the projection surface; modifying a first frame of a content for projection onto the projection surface based on the projection surface and the first position of the projector; projecting the first frame of the content from the projector onto the projection surface; determining a second position of the projector relative to the projection surface; modifying a second frame of the content based on the projection surface and the second position; and projecting the second frame of the content from the projector onto the projection surface.
US12094373B2
Disclosed are an LED cabinet and an LED display including the LED cabinet. The LED cabinet includes a cabinet body provided with at least one mounting area for mounting LED display modules, the mounting area is provided with at least one cabinet magnetic members and a helper disassembly handle, which is movable relative to the mounting area to generate thrust to separate the LED display module from the cabinet body. The LED display includes the LED cabinet and at least one LED display module mounted on the LED cabinet, the LED display module is provided with at least one module magnetic member corresponding to at least one cabinet. When the LED display module is disassembled, the helper disassembly handle is driven to move to generate thrust to push the LED display module, so that the LED display module separate from the cabinet body of the LED cabinet.
US12094372B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a display panel; a frame disposed on a rear surface of the display panel; a plurality of binders fixed to the rear surface of the display panel and disposed between the display panel and the frame; and a plurality of coupling members penetrating the frame and coupled to the plurality of binders. Accordingly, the display panel and the frame may be easily attached and detached using the plurality of binders and the plurality of coupling members.
US12094368B2
An electronic device including a large display region and with improved portability is provided. An electronic device with improved reliability is provided. An information processing device includes a first film, a panel substrate, and at least a first housing. The panel substrate has flexibility and a display region, and the first film has a visible-light-transmitting property and flexibility. The first housing includes a first slit, the panel substrate includes a region positioned between the first film and a second film, the first slit has a function of storing the region, and one or both of the panel substrate and the first film can slide along the first slit.
US12094366B2
A label is to be wrapped around an adherend after being printed. The adherend has a diameter equal to or smaller than a prescribed diameter. In the label, a base material has a printing surface. An adhesive layer is provided on an opposite side surface of the base material from the printing surface. A release material is bonded to the adhesive layer with a portion of the adhesive layer exposed. The release material has a higher stiffness than the base material. A mark for alignment is to be used when bonding together exposed sections of the adhesive layer or an exposed section of the adhesive layer with the release material in order to form the label into a loop shape. The mark is provided at a position for forming the label in the loop shape having an inner diameter greater than the prescribed diameter.
US12094365B2
An electronic device includes a housing and an array of LEDs deposited on a substrate disposed in the housing. The array of LEDs is disposed to form an indicia via which a logo is displayable.
US12094351B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media for transmitting obstacle information to one or more operator displays associated with an aircraft. For instance, the method may include obtaining aircraft flight information including a current position and altitude; retrieving obstacle information for a flight area; scanning the flight area with environment sensors to identify observed obstacles and generate observed obstacle information. The method may further include aggregating the obstacle information with the observed obstacle information of the observed obstacles identified by the environment sensors to generate aggregated obstacle information identifying obstacles in the flight area; determining obstacle characteristics of the obstacles located in the flight area; assigning visual characteristics to each of the obstacles based at least in part on the determined obstacle characteristics; determining a subset of the obstacles relevant to the aircraft; and transmitting information on the relevant subset of obstacles to a display of the aircraft.
US12094346B2
A system may receive information indicating a service area of a shared mobility service, calculate information indicating one or more of risk or revenue associated with the provision of shared mobility services in the service area, determine an adjusted service area, wherein the adjusted service area is associated with one or more of a reduction in risk or an increase in revenue, and transmit information indicating the adjusted service area to a device associated with the shared mobility service.
US12094343B2
A Bluetooth plus radio frequency identification (RFID) beacon for use vehicle fleet management and geofencing system, wherein the beacon comprises a housing, and a circuit board disposed within the housing. The circuit board comprises a Bluetooth communication circuitry portion containing a unique media access control (MAC) address, and an RFID circuitry portion integrated with the Bluetooth communication circuitry portion such that the RFID circuitry portion is associated with the Bluetooth circuitry MAC address whereby the Bluetooth beacon can be identified, via the MAC address, by an RFID reader communicating with the RFID circuitry portion using the MAC address of the Bluetooth communication circuitry portion.
US12094342B2
An impairment analysis (“IA”) computer system for alerting a first driver of a first vehicle to a driving hazard posed by a second vehicle operated by a second driver is provided. The IA computer system is associated with the first vehicle, and includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The at least one processor is programmed to: (i) receive second vehicle data including second driver data and second vehicle condition data, where the second vehicle data is collected by a plurality of sensors included on the first vehicle; (ii) analyze the second vehicle data by applying a baseline model to the second vehicle data; (iii) determine that the second vehicle poses a driving hazard to the first vehicle based upon the analysis; and/or (iv) generate an alert signal based upon the determination that the second vehicle poses a driving hazard to the first vehicle.
US12094340B2
A control device for automated valet parking lot includes: a travel route determining unit configured to determine a travel route to a parking space; a travel route transmission unit configured to transmit the travel route to a vehicle; a position acquiring unit configured to acquire, from the vehicle, a position of the vehicle that is estimated by the vehicle while traveling; and a positional accuracy calculation unit configured to calculate a dynamic estimation accuracy, which is an accuracy of the position of the vehicle acquired by the position acquiring unit from the vehicle while the vehicle is travelling, prior to performing automated driving of the vehicle in accordance with the travel route.
US12094333B2
A shortrange intervehicle communication assembly for reducing risk of a traffic stop resulting in an adverse outcome includes an activation card and first and second communication devices. The activation card is equipped to store encrypted data. The first communication device is mountable within a first vehicle and is equipped for shortrange communication and to store scans of one or more of a driver's license, an insurance card, a vehicle registration, and a proof of insurance. The first communication device is actuatable by the activation card, positioning the first communication device to transmit the scans and a confirmation of receipt of a citation issued by a law enforcement officer. The second communication device is positioned in a second vehicle occupied by the law enforcement officer. The second communication device is equipped for shortrange audiovisual communication, to convert audio to text, to store the text, and to transmit the citation.
US12094322B2
A method implemented by an on-site secondary control device in communication with an on-site primary control device for a premises security system is provided. The on-site primary control device is configured to trigger an alarm event signal associated with the premises security system, and the on-site secondary control device is physically separated from the on-site primary control device. An alarm event signal is received at the on-site secondary control device from the on-site primary control device indicating that a premises device has been triggered. The alarm event signal is temporarily stored. In response to determining that a criterion associated with the premises system is met, the alarm event signal is transmitted by the on-site secondary control device to the remote monitoring center.
US12094301B2
A system for suspending a micro-market through a visual indicator, such as the offense breaking the huddle or the referee removing his hand from the ball after the spot when the offensive line is at the line of scrimmage waiting to run the play.
US12094290B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a verification system including a processor adapted to generate a glyph for at least one component of a computing system, a display adapted to display the glyph, and a scanner adapted to scan the glyph from the display. The computing system includes the processor and the display. The scanner is adapted to verify the at least one component of the computing system based at least in part on the glyph.
US12094289B2
A system for interactive gaming among a plurality of players includes a host computer system and a plurality of player terminals communicably coupled to the host computer system or gaming platform via a network. The plurality of player terminals may be located at a plurality of licensed gaming locations. The plurality of player terminals may be configured to engage the plurality of players in a common interactive game operated by the host computer system. The plurality of player terminals can include means for dispensing player winnings from the player terminal.
US12094288B2
Disclosed are a system and method for training a neural network associated with a casino table game monitoring system. Synthetic images of objects extracted from a virtual table game environment are used to train a machine learning model, which is deployed to a casino table game monitoring system to monitor one or more physical objects relative to a physical gaming table in a physical table game environment.
US12094282B2
There are disclosed devices, system and methods for automatic exchange of change for cash using a smart safe. The safe has a computing device for receiving a selection from a merchant to exchange cash for change having a total value, and an identification of the denominations of the coins and cash of the change desired. The safe has a secure chamber for receiving cash deposits from the merchant and a sensor for counting the secured cash. The computing device sends an exchange agent the selection from the merchant to exchange the cash with the change, and the identification of the denominations of the change desired. A courier is contacted, retrieves the cash deposited, and exchanges the change for the equal value of cash.
US12094279B2
An access-control mechanism, wireless device, and method for controlling the access-control mechanism and wireless device is provided herein. During operation the wireless device will create a “group” of devices that will be allowed to enter through a passage barrier without authentication. When authenticating with the access-control mechanism, the wireless device will prove the access-control mechanism with a list of credentials (e.g., identification information) for each device within the group. The access-control mechanism will then determine if every device on the list is allowed entry. If so, non-authenticated entry for a number of devices/people through the passage barrier will be allowed. The number of non-authenticated devices/people allowed to enter will be equal to a number of devices that are in the group.
US12094276B2
Disclosed herein are abstracted smart locker delivery operating systems communicatively coupled to a diverse array of smart locker devices via a flexibly configurable connector architecture.
US12094269B2
In a method and a corresponding system for identifying a fuel loss event, periodic measurements of a measured volume of fuel stored in a fuel tank (mobile or stationary) are received, and a measurement of a dispensed volume of fuel dispensed into the fuel tank is received from a fueling station. A total volume of fuel is determined equal to the sum of the dispensed volume of fuel and the measured volume of fuel last measured prior to receiving from a fueling station. A difference is determined between the total volume and the measured volume of fuel first measured subsequent to determining the total volume. If the difference exceeds a predetermined threshold indicating a fuel loss event, an alert is generated indicating that there is a fuel loss event.
US12094265B2
A method performed by an electronic control unit of a vehicle, to monitor tires of the vehicle. The method includes evaluating a target location to monitor the vehicle tires. Based on the evaluation that the target location is fit to monitor the tires, the method includes initiating a monitoring mode of the vehicle. In response to initiating the monitoring mode, the method includes rotating front tires and back tires of the vehicle in opposite directions. During the rotation of the front and back tires, the method includes monitoring the rotation of the tires by using one or more vehicle sensors. The method further includes determining one or more anomalies in the vehicle tires based on the monitoring of the rotation of the front and back tires. Based on the determination, the method includes performing one or more remedial actions to mitigate the anomalies.
US12094262B2
A vehicle transmits vehicle data to an observer entity when the vehicle and the observer entity are in proximity. The vehicle data includes unique vehicle identification information; proximity is defined by an upper threshold for a distance between the vehicle and the observer entity. The observer entity adds data to the vehicle data, the added data including an indication of a position of the observer entity and a time stamp indicating a time of reception of the vehicle data to generate joint data. The joint data is transmitted to an external database and the aforementioned steps are repeated. From the added data a usage estimation value is calculated which is a measure for usage of the vehicle and which is compared with the vehicle usage data retrieved from the vehicle. Information on validity of the vehicle usage data based on the comparison result is generated and output.
US12094249B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for integrating a monitoring system with accessibility features. The method includes: receiving data from a sensor of a monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property; determining, based on the data received from the sensor, that a user located at the property exhibits symptoms of an impairment; determining that an event likely occurred at the property; determining a monitoring system action to perform in response to the event; modifying, based on determining that the user located at the property exhibits symptoms of the impairment, the monitoring system action; and performing the modified monitoring system action.
US12094247B2
An electronic device obtains an image that includes a face. The device performs feature extraction on the image, to obtain facial expression information corresponding to the face and facial feature information corresponding to the facial expression, wherein the facial feature information indicates an extent of the facial expression. The device determines facial emotion information according to the facial expression information. The device also determines facial feature expression information according to a target feature value corresponding to the facial emotion and the facial feature information. This expression recognition techniques disclosed herein can implement multi-task learning and reduce an amount of data required for model training, and can obtain both an emotion recognition result and a local expression recognition result, thereby improving efficiency and real-time performance of expression recognition and improving user experience.
US12094246B1
An image capture device may analyze visual content to determine a smile aggregation value. The smile aggregation value satisfying a smile aggregation criterion may indicate that people depicted in the visual content are smiling. When the smile aggregation value satisfies the smile aggregation criterion, the capture of visual content may be started. When the smile aggregation value fails to satisfy the smile aggregation criterion, the capture of visual content may be stopped.
US12094245B2
In an illustrative embodiment, systems and methods for assisting users in identifying unknown individuals in photographs first apply facial recognition to obtain a first likelihood of match between a target face and other faces in a corpus of images provided by users of a genealogy platform, and then adjusts the first likelihood of match according to similarities and dissimilarities in attributes supplied by users regarding individuals represented by each face. Resultant likelihoods drive presentation of potential matches for consideration by a requesting user.
US12094241B2
A system and method generate an alternating current (AC) input signal by a digitally controlled resonant drive circuit. The method includes driving a face tracking sensor with the input signal. An output signal is received from the face tracking sensor and an amplitude of the output signal is compared to a target amplitude. A duty cycle of the resonant drive circuit is modified based on the comparison to control the amplitude of the output signal about the target amplitude.
US12094239B2
An electronic device includes a memory storing a plurality of fingerprint reference data files and one or more sensors identifying whether a mechanical support condition of the electronic device is a hand supported condition or a surface supported condition. A fingerprint sensor receives fingerprint data while the electronic device is in the mechanical support condition. One or more processors select a prioritized fingerprint data reference file from the plurality of fingerprint reference data files as a function of the mechanical support condition and authenticate an authorized user of the electronic device by comparing the fingerprint data to the prioritized fingerprint data reference file before comparing the fingerprint data to any other fingerprint reference data files of the plurality of fingerprint reference data files. The prioritized fingerprint reference data file can also be selected as a function of a geometric form factor of the electronic device.
US12094232B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for automatically identifying table locations and table cell types of located tables. One example method includes receiving a request to detect tables. Features are extracted from an input spreadsheet and provided to a trained table detection model trained to predict whether worksheet cells are table cells or background cells and to a cell classification model that is trained to classify worksheet cells by cell structure type. The table detection model generates binary classifications that indicate whether cells are table cells or background cells. A contour detection process is performed on the binary classifications to generate table location information that describes at least one table boundary in the spreadsheet. The trained cell classification model generates a cell structure type classification for each cell that is included in a table boundary generated by the contour detection process.
US12094224B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for driver monitoring. In one implementation, one or more images are received, e.g., from an image sensor. Such image(s) can reflect a at least a portion of a face of a driver. Using the images, a direction of a gaze of the driver is determined. A set of determined driver gaze directions is identified using at least one predefined direction. One or more features of one or more eyes of the driver are extracted using information associated with the identified set.
US12094217B2
Provided is an in-vehicle sensor system capable of maintaining an equivalent level of precision (accuracy) of data to be output before and after replacement of a surrounding sensor. An in-vehicle sensor system (1) includes: a surrounding sensor including: a casing (11) removably mounted to a bracket (BC) fixed to a vehicle body (B) of a vehicle; a detector which is supported by the casing (11), and is configured to output detection data representing a situation within a predetermined detection range; and a first storage having stored therein first data corresponding to a deviation amount of an actual position and an actual posture of the detector with respect to the casing (11) from a predetermined normal design position and a predetermined normal design posture of the detector with respect to the casing (11); a second storage which is provided separately from the surrounding sensor and is fixed to the vehicle body (B), and is configured to store second data corresponding to a deviation amount of an actual position and an actual posture of the casing (11) with respect to the vehicle body (B) from a predetermined normal design position and a predetermined normal design posture of the casing (11) with respect to the vehicle body (B); and a corrector which is provided on an inner side or an outer side of the casing (11), and is configured to correct, when the second data is stored in the second storage, the detection data output from the detector based on the first data and the second data, to thereby generate and output data expected to be output by the detector when it is assumed that the detector is fixed at the normal design position and in the normal design posture.
US12094196B2
A includes a driver, and a processor configured to: based on an occurrence of an event for performing an operation, acquire target information corresponding to the operation and context information related to the robot, based on at least one of the target information or the context information, select an action plan, acquire action information based on the action plan, and control the driver such that an operation corresponding to the target information is performed based on the action information. The action plan is selected as a first action plan of performing an operation according to first action information stored in advance in the memory, a second action plan of performing an operation according to second action information generated based on the acquired target information and the acquired context information, and a third action plan of performing an operation according to third action information learned based on an operation pattern of the robot.
US12094192B2
One or more multi-layer systems are used to perform inference. A multi-layer system may correspond to a node that receives a set of sensory input data for hierarchical processing, and may be grouped to perform processing for sensory input data. Inference systems at lower layers of a multi-layer system pass representation of objects to inference systems at higher layers. Each inference system can perform inference and form their own versions of representations of objects, regardless of the level and layer of the inference systems. The set of candidate objects for each inference system is updated to those consistent with feature-location representations for the sensors as well as object representations at lower layers. The set of candidate objects is also updated to those consistent with candidate objects from other inference systems, such as inference systems at other layers of the hierarchy or inference systems included in other multi-layer systems.
US12094189B2
A learning device allocates which feature value of a sub-object is extracted by a module from a group of sub-objects constituting an object of an image to each of modules that extract feature values of the object in the image in a deep neural network that is a learning target. After that, the learning device performs first learning to perform learning of the respective modules so that the respective modules are capable of precisely picking up regions of sub-objects allocated to the modules using information indicating the regions of the sub-objects in an image for each of images and second learning to perform learning of the respective modules so that analysis precision of an image analysis is further improved using a result of the image analysis based on the feature values of the sub-objects picked up by the respective modules.
US12094179B2
A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial information for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. The encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. The encoder packs patch images into an image frame and fills empty spaces in the image frame with a padding. The encoder is also configured to determine quantized minimum depths and/or maximum depths patch images in the image frames, wherein depth information is signaled relative to the quantized minimum depth.
US12094171B2
A method performed by a server can include sending a first webpage to a first computing device, the first computing device including a camera, the first webpage including an image-capturing function and including an instruction for a user to obtain a second webpage via a second computing device, the second webpage including a calibration image file; receiving, from the first computing device, multiple captured images that were captured by the camera, the multiple calibration images including instances of a calibration image presented by a display included in the second computing device, the calibration image being a representation of the calibration image file; and based on the multiple captured images, calibrating the camera.
US12094169B2
Systems and methods for a vehicle are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving image data defining a plurality of images associated with an environment of the vehicle; determining, by a processor, feature points within at least one image of the plurality of images; selecting, by the processor, a subset of the feature points as ground points based on a fixed two dimensional image road mask and a three dimensional region; determining, by the processor, a ground plane based on the subset of feature points; determining, by the processor, a ground normal vector from the ground plane; determining, by the processor, a camera to ground alignment value based on the ground normal vector; and generating, by the processor, second image data based on the camera to ground alignment value.
US12094168B2
A method, an apparatus, an electronic apparatus, and a storage medium for image distortion calibration are provided. In the method, an original image is obtained. The original image includes a background region and a foreground object region. A background distortion calibration is performed on the original image for obtaining a first calibrated image. The foreground object distortion calibration is performed to the original image for obtaining the second calibrated image. The background region in the first calibrated image and the foreground object region in the second calibrated image are fused for obtaining a calibrated image. The method can not only calibrate the distortion of the background of the original image but also preserve the shape of the foreground object, thus improving the presenting effect of the calibrated image.
US12094167B2
A system and method utilizing an existing boresighted HUD and a camera to determine the transformational and rotational relationships between the camera image and the boresighted HUD image of an aircraft to properly orient the camera for landing operations. Known boresight features are identified in a HUD image and are related to the same boresight features in a camera image, and transformations are applied to align pixels in the camera image to the pixel locations of the boresight features in the HUD image. Object recognition algorithms may be employed to identify the boresight features in the camera image.
US12094163B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product utilize digital signatures to efficiently identify objects of interest within images and cause graphical presentation data to be accurately displayed for the objects of interest. The method receives one or more images generated by an image capture device. The method determines one or more digital signatures associated with one or more objects within the one or more images. Based on the one or more digital signatures, the method also determines graphical data placement information comprising one or more graphical data placement regions for the one or more objects. The method also receives graphical presentation data comprising one or more graphical assets. The method also causes display of the graphical presentation data that includes overlaying at least one graphical asset of the one or more graphical assets on the at least one graphical data placement region.
US12094161B2
Techniques are described for automated microinjection of substances, such as genetic material, into microscopic objects, such as embryos. An example system includes a pressure controller, a stereoscopic imaging apparatus, a first camera, a second camera, and a computing system. The computing system is configured to apply one or more computer vision algorithms that determine, based on image data generated by the stereoscopic imaging apparatus, first camera, and second camera, a location of a tip of a micropipette and a location of a particular microscopic object in three-dimensional space. The computing system is further configured to control the pressure controller to cause the micropipette to eject the substance from the tip of the micropipette and into the particular microscopic object.
US12094158B2
An encoded substrate to be filmed by a camera device for generating an image is provided. The encoded substrate includes a plurality of grids arranged in a form of two-dimensional array, wherein each grid includes a first pattern and a second pattern not overlapped with each other. The first pattern corresponds to a first-dimensional encoded value, and the second pattern corresponds to a second-dimensional encoded value. The image is processed by a processor for scanning the plurality of grids. In a first-dimensional direction, the processor outputs a first coordinate according to at least two first patterns corresponding to at least two consecutive grids among the plurality of grids. In a second-dimensional direction, the processor outputs a second coordinate according to at least two second patterns corresponding to at least two consecutive grids among the plurality of grids.
US12094156B2
A gaze direction determination apparatus (10), including at least one camera for determining gaze direction of at least one person, the apparatus characterized by including a first camera (12A) for being installed above a driver (28A), for capturing the nose (20) thereof from above the nose, at least a second camera (12B) installed above at least a second person (28B) for capturing at least one nose (20) of at least a second person from above the nose, and a controller(59) for processing captures of the first (12A) and the at least second cameras (12B), for determining human communication in case the nose (20) of the driver (28A) as captured from above, and the nose (20) of the at least second person (28B) as captured from above, are horizontally directed (54A,54B) one (54A) towards the other (54B).
US12094146B2
High-accuracy dimension extraction for a complicated shape possibly appearing through semiconductor processing. A starting point and an endpoint are placed on the periphery of a graphic shape including a combination of multiple ellipses, and a curve unicursally drawn on the periphery between the two points is used as a shape mode, thereby describing a contour of an intended structure.
US12094145B2
A method for perceiving a model of an environment, including: capturing a plurality of data while the robot moves within the environment, wherein: the plurality of data comprises at least a first data and a second data captured by a first sensor of a first sensor type and a second sensor of a second sensor type, respectively; the first sensor type is an imaging sensor; the second senor type captures movement data; an active source of illumination is positioned adjacent to the imaging sensor such that reflections of illumination light illuminating a path of the robot fall within a field of view of the imaging sensor; perceiving the model of the environment based on at least a portion of the plurality of data; storing the model of the environment in a memory; and transmitting the model of the environment to an application of a smartphone.
US12094137B2
An apparatus comprises an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data. The processor may be configured to (i) process the pixel data arranged as video frames, (ii) decompose each of the video frames comprising a high-resolution two-dimensional (2D) image into a plurality of 2D sub-images using a decomposition offset, (iii) decompose each of the video frames comprising a high-resolution depth map image into a plurality of depth map sub-images using the decomposition offset, (iv) calculate a respective alignment matrix for each of the plurality of 2D sub-images and a corresponding one of the plurality of depth map sub-images using the decomposition offset, (v) perform matrix operations on the plurality of 2D sub-images and the plurality of depth map sub-images using the respective alignment matrices to obtain a plurality of aligned 2D sub-images and depth map sub-images, (v) determine projection coordinates and depth values of the plurality of aligned 2D sub-images and depth map sub-images based on the high-resolution 2D image, and (vi) generate an aligned high-resolution depth map using the projection coordinates and depth values.
US12094136B2
A medical image processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to: receive volume data; set a symmetry plane for the volume data; generate mirrored volume data by mirroring the volume data using the symmetry plane; and generate symmetrized volume data based on the volume data and the mirrored volume data.
US12094134B2
An electronic device and a method for tracking an object thereof are provided. The electronic device identifies whether there is a first object being tracked, when obtaining an image and rotation information of a camera of the electronic device, corrects state information of the first object using the rotation information, when there is the first object, detects a second object matched to the first object from the image based on the corrected state information, and tracks a position of the second object using an object tracking algorithm.
US12094129B2
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a camera, a Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) sensor, and a processor configured to track an object based on a plurality of images photographed by the camera sequentially, wherein, to track the object based on the plurality of images, the processor is configured to, based on the object being identified in a first image from among a plurality of images and subsequently, not being identified in a second image after the first image, control a photographing direction of the camera based on scanning information obtained by the LiDAR sensor.
US12094118B2
A computer-implemented method of using a machine learning model to categorize a sample in digital pathology may include receiving one or more cases, each associated with digital images of a pathology specimen; identifying, using the machine learning model, a case as ready to view; receiving a selection of the case, the case comprising a plurality of parts; determining, using the machine learning model, whether the plurality of parts are suspicious or non-suspicious; receiving a selection of a part of the plurality of parts; determining whether a plurality of slides associated with the part are suspicious or non-suspicious; determining, using the machine learning model, a collection of suspicious slides, of the plurality of slides, the machine learning model having been trained by processing a plurality of training images; and annotating the collection of suspicious slides and/or generating a report based on the collection of suspicious slides.
US12094116B2
Methods and systems for image registration using an intelligent artificial agent are disclosed. In an intelligent artificial agent based registration method, a current state observation of an artificial agent is determined based on the medical images to be registered and current transformation parameters. Action-values are calculated for a plurality of actions available to the artificial agent based on the current state observation using a machine learning based model, such as a trained deep neural network (DNN). The actions correspond to predetermined adjustments of the transformation parameters. An action having a highest action-value is selected from the plurality of actions and the transformation parameters are adjusted by the predetermined adjustment corresponding to the selected action. The determining, calculating, and selecting steps are repeated for a plurality of iterations, and the medical images are registered using final transformation parameters resulting from the plurality of iterations.
US12094111B2
An analysis device according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry extracts, from medical image data, the shape of a blood vessel of a subject and the shape of a plaque formed in the blood vessel. Then, while changing a first-type timing in sequence, the processing circuitry calculates a mechanical index, which is related to the plaque at the first-type timing, based on the shape of the blood vessel and the shape of the plaque at the first-type timing. Subsequently, based on the mechanical index at the first-type timing, the processing circuitry predicts the shape of the plaque at a second-type timing that is the next timing to the first-type timing. Then, the processing circuitry displays, in a display unit, the predicted shape of the plaque at the time second-type at which the plaque reaches a specific condition.
US12094106B2
An image processing device includes a cell analyzer that analyzes an image of cells cultured within a culture container and that acquires the number of cell divisions experienced by each cell in the image, and also includes a statistical analyzer that calculates a statistical value indicating differentiation potency of each cell in the image from the number of cell divisions acquired by the cell analyzer. The statistical analyzer creates a frequency distribution of the number of cell divisions, and the statistical value represents a bias in the frequency distribution.
US12094103B2
Described is a control system for the quality of processing pipes made of thermoplastic material, comprising a station for housing at least one pipe to be controlled, a first video camera configured to capture images of a first front scene showing a first longitudinal end of the pipe, and at least a second video camera configured to capture images of a second lateral scene showing the same said pipe in its longitudinal extension.
US12094101B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for inspecting a photolithographic reticle. A plurality of reference far field images are simulated by inputting a plurality of reference near field images into a physics-based model, and the plurality of reference near field images are generated by a trained deep learning model from a test portion of the design database that was used to fabricate a test area of a test reticle. The test area of a test reticle, which was fabricated from the design database, is inspected for defects via a die-to-database process that includes comparing the plurality of reference far field reticle images simulated by the physic-based model to a plurality of test images acquired by the inspection system from the test area of the test reticle.
US12094093B2
Disclosed is an image descattering method based on iterative optimization of an atmospheric transmission matrix, including steps: S1, constructing a descattering model based on the atmospheric transmission matrix; S2, estimating a forward scattering coefficient q corresponding to a foggy day image B; S3, based on a depth map T of the foggy day image B and the forward scattering coefficient q obtained in the step S2, estimating an initial atmospheric transmission matrix A; and S4, substituting the estimated initial atmospheric transmission matrix A into the descattering model in the step S1, and performing iterative update under a constraint condition, until a value of the descattering model satisfies a convergence condition, to obtain an optimal atmospheric transmission matrix A* and an optimal descattered image X*. The image descattering method based on the iterative optimization of the atmospheric transmission matrix provided by the present application is based on the atmospheric transmission matrix.
US12094090B2
A method for processing image noise in a compression process and a circuit system thereof are provided. The circuit system receives an image that is compressed in a specific compression format, and obtains pixel values after the image is decompressed. Differences of pixel values between pixels adjacent to each other can be calculated. A specific area of the image can be divided into multiple sections. A maximum pixel value and a minimum pixel value for each area are used to obtain a regional maximum difference. The regional maximum difference is used to determine whether or not to perform an image-denoising process on the areas such as a flat area or a high-frequency area. Differences among the adjacent pixels can be adjusted according to a weighted average brightness of the adjacent pixels. The image-denoising process is performed on the areas, and an image with reduced noise is finally outputted.
US12094085B2
A video denoising method includes: performing spatial filtering on pixels of a target image in a video to be processed to obtain a first image, the spatial filtering being used for eliminating dependencies between the pixels of the target image; performing, according to a frame difference between the first image and a first denoised image, temporal filtering on the pixels of the target image in parallel to obtain a second image, the first denoised image being an denoised image that corresponds to a preceding frame of the target image; predicting first gain coefficients corresponding to pixels of the second image in a second denoised image according to second gain coefficients corresponding to the pixels of the target image in the first denoised image; and fusing the first image and the second image according to the first gain coefficients to obtain the second denoised image that corresponds to the target image.
US12094079B2
Devices, methods, and computer readable media to provide enhanced images in multi-camera systems, e.g., by using images captured by cameras with different optical properties and/or sensors. In one embodiment, the techniques comprise reference-based image super-resolution techniques for producing, with a first neural network employing robust feature aggregation techniques (e.g., techniques able to blend between single-image enhancement and feature aggregation, when appropriate), an enhanced output image that attempts to match the quality characteristics of each of region in a lower quality (e.g., shorter focal length, larger field of view (FOV)) input image with the quality characteristics of the region's determined guidance region from at least a second, i.e., higher quality (e.g., longer focal length, smaller FOV image) input image. The guidance regions from the higher quality image that are determined for each region from the lower quality input image may be determined by performing homographic mapping and/or semantic feature matching techniques.
US12094078B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) accessing a video portraying an object within a set of frames, (2) defining a subset of key frames within the video based on movement of the object across the set of frames, (3) generating, for each key frame within the subset of key frames, a spline outlining the object within the key frame, (4) receiving input to adjust, for a selected key frame within the subset of key frames, a corresponding spline, and (5) interpolating the adjusted spline with a spline in a sequentially proximate key frame to define the object in frames between the selected key frame and the sequentially proximate key frame. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12094070B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are provided for moving a virtual cursor along two traversing virtual planes. In one implementation, the computer-readable medium includes instructions to cause a processor to generate, via a wearable extended reality appliance, a display including a virtual cursor and virtual objects located on a first virtual plane that traverses a second virtual plane overlying a physical surface; receive a first two-dimensional input reflective of an intent to select a first virtual object located on the first virtual plane; cause a first cursor movement, toward the first virtual object, along the first virtual plane; receive a second two-dimensional input reflective of an intent to select a second virtual object appearing on the physical surface; and cause a second cursor movement, toward the second virtual object, including a partial movement along the first virtual plane and a partial movement along the second virtual plane.
US12094067B2
In a mechanical fastening work method in an augmented reality space, a mechanical fastening part and a mechanical fastening part virtual body correspond one-to-one, and a tool and a tool virtual body correspond one-to-one. An augmented reality configuration system generates an augmented reality space including: a camera that captures a real space; a server that analyzes an image captured by the camera and generates the augmented reality space; and a tool that acquires torque information observed when tightening or loosening the mechanical fastening part and transmits and receives the torque information to and from the server. The mechanical fastening work method includes a step of, when the tool detects torque information that the mechanical fastening part is to be tightened or loosened, defining the mechanical fastening part virtual body corresponding one-to-one to the mechanical fastening part, and making the defined mechanical fastening part virtual body appear in the virtual space.
US12094066B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for applying augmented reality elements to a person depicted in an image. The operations include receiving an image that includes data representing a depiction of a person; generating a segmentation of the data representing the person depicted in the image; extracting a portion of the image corresponding to the segmentation of the data representing the person depicted in the image; applying a machine learning model to the portion of the image to predict a surface normal tensor for the data representing the depiction of the person, the surface normal tensor representing surface normals of each pixel within the portion of the image; and applying one or more augmented reality (AR) elements to the image based on the surface normal tensor.
US12094064B2
A computational device of a virtual reality system receives a volumetric video in an uncompressed form. A first portion of the volumetric video that is less than an entirety of the volumetric video is compressed, wherein a second portion of the volumetric video that is less than the entirety of the volumetric video is maintained in the uncompressed form.
US12094062B2
A computing device is configured to obtain gridline information for a three-dimensional drawing file and generate a two-dimensional view of the three-dimensional drawing file that includes (1) at least one gridline corresponding to the obtained gridline information, (2) at least one intersection between two meshes, and (3) initial dimensioning information involving (a) the at least one gridline and (b) at least one of the two meshes. Based on a user request to adjust a perspective of the two-dimensional view, the computing device adjusts the perspective of the two-dimensional view and thereby generates an updated two-dimensional view that includes updated dimensioning information corresponding to one or more meshes displayed in the updated two-dimensional view.
US12094056B2
One embodiment is directed to a method for presenting views of a very large point data set, comprising: storing data on a storage system that is representative of a point cloud comprising a very large number of associated points; automatically and deterministically organizing the data into an octree hierarchy of data sectors, each of which is representative of one or more of the points at a given octree mesh resolution; receiving a command from a user of a user interface to present an image based at least in part upon a selected viewing perspective origin and vector; and assembling the image based at least in part upon the selected origin and vector, the image comprising a plurality of data sectors pulled from the octree hierarchy.
US12094055B2
One aspect of the present application provides a method for generating a digital data set representing a target tooth arrangement for an orthodontic treatment, the method comprises: obtaining a first 3D digital model representing a jaw under an initial tooth arrangement; sampling on each tooth in the first 3D digital model to obtain a corresponding set of sampling points; generating a corresponding geometric code using a trained first deep artificial neural network, based on each of the sets of sampling points; combining the geometric codes of all teeth to obtain an overall geometric code of the jaw; and generating a digital data set representing the target tooth arrangement for the orthodontic treatment of the jaw using a trained second deep artificial neural network based on the overall geometric code of the jaw.
US12094048B2
Embodiments are generally directed to multi-tile graphics processor rendering. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a memory for storage of data; and one or more processors including a graphics processing unit (GPU) to process data, wherein the GPU includes a plurality of GPU tiles, wherein, upon geometric data being assigned to each of a plurality of screen tiles, the apparatus is to transfer the geometric data to the plurality of GPU tiles.
US12094023B2
A system included and a computer-implemented method performed in an autonomous-driving vehicle are described. The system performs: receive a request to meet a person at a location; drive the vehicle to the location; identify the person at the location; and providing an instruction for the person to interact with the vehicle.
US12094018B1
A system and a computer-implement method is provided. A first user input is received and analyzed to generate a relative novelty score, where the first user input is relatively compared with a second input, second user, plurality of users, panel of judges, algorithm, qualified expert, some variation, and/or the like, is presented. The input novelty score system is analyzed against a relative novelty criteria, wherein a violation of the relative novelty criteria/fitness/threshold generates a prompt. The prompt may comprise a request, adjustment, alert, acknowledgement, correction, suggestion, decision, counter-proposal, fee-adjustment, billing-adjustment, score-adjustment, competition, and/or a litigation. The prompt is sent to an entity to interrogate and/or receive a decision, wherein the decision may be characterized as a final, partial absolute, temporary, contingent, conditional, circumstantial, finite, counter, acceptance, suspension, throttle, variation, termination, suggestion, rejection, grant, license, litigation, arbitration, and/or mediation.
US12094015B2
A method includes acquiring, on a basis of a restaurant ID, menu information indicating one or more foods provided by a restaurant over a network from a second server associated with the restaurant corresponding to the restaurant ID, transmitting identification information stored in an information terminal to a first server and acquiring classification information from the first server on a basis of the identification information, generating a personalized menu for the user corresponding to the classification information on a basis of the menu information and the classification information, and displaying the personalized menu through a second operation screen for accepting an order of a food to be provided by the restaurant, the second operation screen being displayed on a display of the information terminal carried by the user.
US12094013B2
Operation methods and systems for distributed generation from a plurality of generators, and computer readable media. One method comprises the step of applying a forward looking matching algorithm to determine a matching matrix with elements mi,j denoting the fraction of generator i's predicted supply assigned to respective load j of a plurality of loads such that a probability of meeting each load's associated power demand characteristic in a next supply cycle satisfies a threshold criterion.
US12094008B2
A method and system for generating a three-dimensional representation of a vehicle to assess damage to the vehicle. A mobile device may capture multispectral scans of a vehicle from each a plurality of cameras configured to scan the vehicle at a different wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum. A virtual model of the vehicle may be generated from the multispectral scan of the vehicle, such that anomalous conditions or errors in individual wavelength data are omitted from model generation. A representation of the virtual model may be presented to the user via the display of the mobile device. The virtual model of the vehicle may further be analyzed to assess damage to the vehicle.
US12094002B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to implementation of a trading system or trading system architecture having multiple transaction processors that process or execute instructions. The instructions are sent to the transaction processors before they are to be executed, so that when an instruction identifier corresponding to a pre-sent or pre-loaded instruction is sent to a transaction processor, the transaction processor can retrieve and execute the corresponding instruction without unnecessary delay, thus reducing transaction processing latency and improving computing efficiency.
US12093997B1
Systems and methods described herein track bartering using distributed ledger techniques to, for example, facilitate the establishment of a bartering marketplace that enables users to barter for, and ultimately exchange, services and/or goods with each other. In certain embodiments, a monetary value may be assigned to each service and/or good to be bartered to establish appropriate bartering baselines. In addition, in certain embodiments, additional monetary value exchanges may be tracked for particular exchanges to make sure that the exchanges are fair.
US12093984B2
A method for facilitating automated enforcement of a data publication and usage contract is provided. The method includes capturing a data contract from data that is published by a data service provider, the data contract including a data contract element; converting the captured data contract into a predetermined file format; retrieving metadata that correspond to the data, the metadata including usage information that relates to a consumption of the data by a data consumer; validating the retrieved metadata based on the converted data contract; and automatically initiating an enforcement action based on a result of the validating.
US12093974B2
The systems and methods described herein relate to providing review content which is verifiable in a public blockchain network. The system receives an identity verification for a user of a review engine, then assigns a unique pseudonymous identity to the user based on the identity verification. Next, the system receives an identity verification for a provider on the review engine, and generates an authentication token unique to the provider to be displayed on a user client device associated with the user of the review engine. In response to the user capturing the authentication token via the client device, the system generates a review-in-progress to be displayed on the client device. Upon receiving a completed review from the user, the system records hashed data associated with the review into a transaction record on a public blockchain network, such that the transaction record can be publicly audited on the public blockchain network.
US12093972B1
A system and methods for upsampling of decompressed financial time-series data after lossy compression using a neural network that integrates AI-based techniques to enhance compression quality. It incorporates a novel deep-learning neural network that upsamples decompressed data to restore information lost during lossy compression, taking advantage of cross-correlations between time-series data sets.
US12093969B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for using multi-modal regression to predict customer intent to contact a merchant. Multi-modal data including numerical data and unstructured data are extracted from customer interactions with the merchant. Features of the numerical data and the unstructured data are separately extracted and classified using techniques specific to the data types. The features for each type are then separately used to predict probabilities of customer intent. A neural network is used to combine the predictions into a single set of estimates of customer intent. This set of estimates of customer intents is used to estimate a probability that the customer will contact the merchant. The customer is then contacted based on the estimate.
US12093963B2
A device with one or more processors, memory, and two or more communication capabilities obtains, from a payment module, an authorization request via a first communication capability (e.g., Bluetooth). The device sends, to a server, the authorization request via a second communication capability distinct from the first communication capability (e.g., cellular or WiFi technology). In response to sending the authorization request, the device obtains, from the server, authorization information via the second communication capability. After obtaining the authorization information, the device detects a trigger condition to perform a transaction with a payment accepting unit associated with the payment module. In response to detecting the trigger condition, the device sends, to the payment module, at least a portion of the authorization information via the first communication capability.
US12093961B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for detecting a scam address of cryptocurrency using a machine learning model, and the method comprises: acquiring information about scam addresses labeled as being used for a scam transaction and information about benign addresses labeled as being used for a normal transaction from a database; acquiring information about a mule address group used for money laundering on the basis of the scam address group; acquiring feature information corresponding to each of the benign addresses and the addresses included in the scam address group or the mule address group on the basis of at least one of the information about the benign addresses, the information about the scam address group, and the information about the mule address group; and generating a machine learning model by machine learning of the feature information corresponding to each of the addresses and label information corresponding to each of the addresses.
US12093955B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication module communicable with an external device, a display, a memory, and at least one processor operatively connected to the communication module, wherein the at least one processor is configured to display at least one image and/or text related to payment information on the display in response to at least a part of a user input, determine whether to start a payment process in response to identification of a user authentication, transmit a first signal for requesting an authentication to the external device in response to identification of an approach of the external device within a predetermined distance from the electronic device, and transmit a second signal related to the payment process in response to identification of an authentication of the external device, and determine whether to complete the payment process using the electronic device.
US12093953B2
A method of displaying or providing a multi-layer digital asset in a digital environment includes retrieving, from a digital blockchain ledger, data associated with a first, primary non fungible cryptographic token (NFT). The data includes a first pointer identifying a first retrieval location of a first digital graphics file representative of a primary digital asset, and further includes a reference to a second, sub-asset NFT. The sub-asset NFT includes a second pointer that identifies a second digital graphics file. The method further includes retrieving the first digital graphics file and the second digital graphics file, layering an image from the second digital graphics file on the primary digital asset to form the multi-layer digital asset, and displaying the multi-layer digital asset in a digital environment.
US12093948B2
A zero knowledge proof purchase system and process using blockchain is disclosed. The system may comprise a customer device, a merchant system, an issuer system, and a blockchain network having a zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) smart contract. The system may implement a zero-knowledge proof algorithm having a key generator function, a proof function, and a validate function. Each function may be configured to perform various tasks in the system to support and enable zero-knowledge proof purchases.
US12093944B2
Methods and systems for facilitating provisioning of consumer payment credentials to token requestors such as a digital wallet account or a merchant account are described. In an embodiment, a mobile device processor of a consumer mobile device running a token requestor application receives an indication of a selection by a consumer of an option to add a payment card to a merchant account, displays a list of issuer applications installed on the consumer mobile device that support pull provisioning on a display screen, and receives a selection of an issuer application and issuer application login information. The process also includes determining, by the mobile device processor, that the login information is correct, displaying a list of payment cards associated with the selected issuer application, receiving a selection of a payment card from the list of payment cards, and transmitting, while running the token requestor application, a push card message including payment card account credentials of the selected payment card to an issuer financial institution (FI) computer.
US12093940B1
An electronic signature service of a provider network may specify a virtual electronic signing device (ESD) to be used by user accounts (e.g., retail sales businesses) to generate digital signatures for documents (e.g., sales receipts). The electronic signature service may establish an isolated virtual network (IVN) on behalf of the client (e.g., taxing authority or other entity), which is managed by the client via a client interface. The electronic signature service may instantiate, on behalf of a user account, an ESD compute instance based on the virtual ESD specification. In response to receiving a request for a digital signature of a document, the ESD compute instance generates a digital signature based on the document and sends the digital signature to the user account. The service may store the signature and associated document data, which can subsequently be used for auditing (e.g., tax auditing).
US12093938B2
There is provided a transaction system that includes a plurality of computing nodes that are mutually interconnected via a data communication network to exchange encrypted data therebetween. The transaction system employs a blockchain whose entries are recorded in a ledger. A directed acyclic graph (DAG) is utilized for defining relationships between blocks of the blockchain. The DAG comprises a plurality of proposed solutions to problems posed in the one or more smart contracts. Each of the one or more smart contracts includes machine-readable elements including at least one of: a data specification, an initial mining algorithm, an objective function for scoring the plurality of proposed solutions. The transaction system operates to cause the DAG to store temporary data and/or extended algorithm code used during an execution of a given transaction, wherein the temporary data and/or extended algorithm code stored in the DAG is to be removed once the execution of the given transaction is complete, further wherein the temporary data and/or extended algorithm code stored in the DAG is to be modified in response to new solutions arising during operation of the transaction system. The transaction system operates to accommodate a given smart contract defining a problem that is to be solved, giving a plurality of parties of the transaction system an opportunity to receive consideration when the problem is solved, and wherein the consideration is a quantity representing at least one of: an access to data storage, an access to data memory, an access to data communication system bandwidth, access to data communication channels or ports, data processor energy use, data processor energy dissipation, an access time taken by data processing resources during transactions, heat generation in computing hardware, cooling energy applied to computing hardware or any other measure associated with one or more CPU cycles.
US12093934B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for implementing layered authorization platform using non-fungible tokens. The present invention is configured to electronically receive, via a user input device, a document designated for notarization and an identification credential from a user; crawl through a distributed ledger to determine a non-fungible token (NFT) for the identification credential; retrieve, from the distributed ledger, the NFT for the identification credential; capture, via the user input device, a signature of the user on the document designated for notarization to create a signed document; generate, using an NFT generator, an NFT for the signed document; link the NFT for the signed document with the NFT for the identification credential; and record the NFT for the signed document in the distributed ledger.
US12093933B2
A system for implementing and managing network-based, variable authentication protocols receives information relating to a digital monetary transaction. Additionally, the system accesses an initial authentication protocol dataset. The system also generates a variable authentication protocol dataset. The system then communicates the variable authentication protocol dataset to the point-of-sale computer system. The system also receives, from the point-of-sale computer system, authentication tokens. Further, the system validates the authentication tokens in view of the variable authentication protocol dataset. Further still, in response to the validation of the authentication tokens, the system processes the digital monetary transaction.
US12093917B2
A system for initiating secure guest checkout includes an application server; and an untrusted user interaction device that is in communication with the application server. The untrusted user interaction device has a unique device identifier that is registered with the application server. The untrusted user interaction device is configured to: receive input data relating to a selection of one or more items; transmit, to the application server, the selection of one or more items and the unique device identifier, for creation of a cart at the application server; communicate a pairing code received from the application server, the pairing code being associated with the cart; and wirelessly broadcast identifier data including, and/or derived from, the unique device identifier; such that a computing device that receives the identifier data and the pairing code can verify the unique device identifier and retrieve the cart from the application server for initiation of a secure remote commerce (SRC) checkout process at an SRC initiator.
US12093915B2
A dynamic receipt generating (DRG) computing device is provided. The DRG computing device is configured to receive user preference data including dynamic receipt preference data, and a payment account identifier associated with a user. The DRG computing device is also configured to store the user preference data, and receive real-time transaction data associated with a purchase made by the user using a payment account associated with the payment account, the real-time transaction data being in a first format. The DRG computing device is further configured to retrieve the user preference data from the memory based on the payment account identifier, and generate a dynamic receipt based on the real-time transaction data and the retrieved user preference data associated with the payment account identifier. The dynamic receipt having a second format different from the first format, and to transmit the generated dynamic receipt to the user.
US12093904B2
The present subject matter provides various technical solutions to technical problems facing sensor-based vehicle safety technology. To address problems facing identification of safety features (e.g., safety sensors) for a particular vehicle, a vehicle safety feature identification system may be used to identify a vehicle and the safety features that are installed on that vehicle. To address problems facing identification of which safety sensors require maintenance, a vehicle safety feature maintenance system may be used to identify vehicle safety sensors based on information received about one or more vehicle repairs, such as structural repairs following a vehicle collision. The vehicle safety feature maintenance system may use image data or other inputs to identify a vehicle repair area, identify other vehicle components that must be removed or adjusted to complete the vehicle repair, and identify all vehicle safety sensors and other safety features that will need to be repaired, replaced, or recalibrated.
US12093902B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to network outage management. A method may include receiving, by a cloud-based system, a first indication of a first cable system outage; instantiating, by the cloud-based system, a first computing instance associated with generating event data indicative of the first cable system outage; instantiating, by the cloud-based system, a second computing instance associated with a machine learning model; generating, by the cloud-based system, using the event data as inputs to the machine learning model, a score indicative of a probability that the first cable system outage is repairable by a technician; and refrain from sending, by the cloud-based system, based on a comparison of the score to a score threshold, the event data to a first system associated with repairing the first cable system outage.
US12093894B2
The disclosure relates to systems and methods of facilitating the coordination of benefits for a plurality of health plans that individually have at least some responsibility to pay for healthcare services received by members covered by more than one health plan. The coordination of benefits may be facilitated before payments are made, streamlining the payment process. The system may correlate health plan information received from various health plans and determine that a particular member is covered by more than one health plan based on the correlated health plan information. The system may generate, update, and provide a COB registry that includes coverage information related to other health plans that cover the particular member. The COB registry may include primacy information used to identify health plans having primary, secondary, and/or other responsibility to pay for a given healthcare service for a member covered by the identified health plans.
US12093888B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a processing node, a plurality of documents reflecting at least one action performed on supply-chain assets at a location of an asset supply-chain node, translating, by the processing node, the plurality of the documents into a plurality of entry and exit events of the supply-chain assets, and generating incomplete or non-chronological supply chain assets-related data based on the plurality of the entry and the exit events.
US12093885B2
A system for self-tuning operation of a node-based logistics receptacle based upon contextual awareness. The node-based logistics receptacle has a plurality of storage receptacle components and a temporary storage area. A retrieval door provides selective access to a delivery item. The system includes a wireless accessory sensor node, a bridge node that includes a bridge node processor, a bridge node memory, and a communication interface operative to communicate with at least a backend server, and an external sensor. The bridge node is operative to receive external sensor data, predict a change in future interactions with the one or more of storage receptacle components based upon the external sensor data, update a management profile based upon the predicted change in future interactions, and alter, using the updated management profile, an operational task related to monitoring for and reporting a change in state of the one or more storage receptacle components.
US12093884B2
A connected logistics receptacle system having enhanced status indication functionality related to a logistics operation for a delivery item being deposited by a parcel customer. The system includes a storage receptacle for receiving the delivery item and a bridge node mounted to the storage receptacle. The bridge node has a bridge node processor and a communication interface operative to communicate with at least a backend server. The system includes a status indicator and a wireless accessory sensor node. The bridge node processor is operative to detect an updated advertising signal broadcast by the wireless accessory sensor node, retrieve event information from the wireless accessory sensor node in response to detecting the updated advertising signal, and toggle the status indicator from a first condition to a second condition based upon a comparison of the event information to a status indicator setting profile.
US12093883B2
Automated delivery coordination and meeting scheduling for an order including a plurality of recipients includes identifying, by a computer, an online business transaction performed by a user. The online business transaction including the order being placed by the user for the plurality of recipients. The computer determines whether the order is associated with an event that includes the plurality of recipients and, in response to the order being associated with the event, collects information corresponding to the event. The computer uses the collected information to generate a first recommendation during checkout including a synchronized delivery option for the plurality of recipients. Further, using the collected information, the computer generates a second recommendation during the checkout including a synchronized meeting scheduling option for the plurality of recipients.
US12093882B2
Systems and methods for control of a vehicle fleet system are provided. A disclosed vehicle fleet system includes a dedicated fleet control system for operating a dedicated carrier fleet having dedicated carrier vehicles. The dedicated fleet control system may be in communication with a common carrier control system of a common carrier fleet and may operate to assign various shipments among the dedicated carrier vehicles and the common carrier fleet. In particular, the dedicated fleet control system may selectively assign the one or more shipments to the dedicated fleet or the common carrier fleet based on dedicated carrier constraints and common carrier constraints. The constraints may be based on information received in part from an operator device communicatively coupled to the communication circuitry disposed in the respective vehicle, including an amount time that a driver has been operating the respective vehicle.
US12093881B2
An information processing device determines whether or not an emission amount of a greenhouse gas generated for delivering a package to a predetermined user satisfies a predetermined criterion, based on first data related to a delivery of the package, and generates information on the emission amount to be presented to the user in a case where the predetermined criterion is satisfied.
US12093864B2
An inventory prediction system is described that outputs a predicted inventory item not included in a user's known inventory using a cross-category directional graph that represents item categories as nodes. The inventory prediction system implements a prediction model trained using machine learning to output the predicted inventory item using the graph and at least one item from the user's known inventory. The inventory prediction system is further configured to generate a listing recommendation for the predicted inventory item. To do so, the inventory prediction system implements a logistic regression model trained using machine learning to calculate a probability that the listing recommendation should be generated using attributes of the predicted inventory item and attributes of currently trending items. The listing recommendation is generated to include a description of, and estimated value for, the predicted inventory item, together with an option to generate a sale listing for the predicted inventory item.
US12093858B1
Configurations of a system and a method for a dynamic trust-based authorization system (DTBAS), are described. In one aspect, the DTBAS may implement an execution of operations of multiple engines, models, framework, circuits, code, etc., for dynamically authorizing a request for a service or an operation. The DTBAS, when deployed in a managing entity, may receive a request from a managed entity to execute an operation or task. Based on parameters or attributes associated with the managed entity, the DTBAS may execute operations to evaluate a trust score. Based on the evaluated trust score, the DTBAS may compute a weight decision matrix that may include multiple weights associated with the managed entity. Based on the computed weight decision matrix and the evaluated trust score, the DTBAS may authorize or deny the execution of the requested operation.
US12093848B2
A method, system, and computer program product for learning parameters of Bayesian network using uncertain evidence, the method comprising: receiving input comprising graph representation and at least one sample of a Bayesian network, the graph comprising plurality of nodes representing random variables and plurality of directed edges representing conditional dependencies, wherein each of the at least one sample comprising for each node a value selected from the group consisting of: a known value; an unknown value; and an uncertain value; and applying on the input a Bayesian network learning process configured for calculating estimates of conditional probability tables of the Bayesian network using probabilities inferred by applying on the input a Bayesian network uncertain inference process configured for performing inference in a Bayesian network from uncertain evidence.
US12093843B2
Embodiments relate to performing inference, such as object recognition, based on sensory inputs received from sensors and location information associated with the sensory inputs. The sensory inputs describe one or more features of the objects. The location information describes known or potential locations of the sensors generating the sensory inputs. An inference system learns representations of objects by characterizing a plurality of feature-location representations of the objects, and then performs inference by identifying or updating candidate objects consistent with feature-location representations observed from the sensory input data and location information. In one instance, the inference system learns representations of objects for each sensor. The set of candidate objects for each sensor is updated to those consistent with candidate objects for other sensors, as well as the observed feature-location representations for the sensor.
US12093841B2
A method for automatic error diagnosis in a test environment is provided. The method comprises the step of providing a plurality of test logs associated with known types of failures, each comprising a set of files. The method further comprises the step of arranging the plurality of test logs in a defect database. Moreover, the method comprises the step of transforming the set of files of the plurality of test logs into vectors adapted to be fed into a machine learning model.
US12093831B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image, and a classification unit configured to perform inference on the image by using a neural network and to output a classification result, wherein the neural network includes a common network that is common to a plurality of classes and is configured to extract a first feature from an input image, and a plurality of single-class networks each of which corresponds to a corresponding one of the plurality of classes and is configured to extract each of a plurality of second features based on the first feature. Each of the plurality of single-class networks has a single-class output layer that classifies the corresponding class.
US12093827B2
The present disclosure is directed to a novel system for a self-constructing deep neural network. The system may comprise a hybrid logic library which contains the building structures needed to construct the neural network, which may include both traditional logic and memory structures as well as learning structures. In constructing the neural network from library structures, the system may use an algorithm to iteratively improve the performance of the neural network. In this way, the system may provide a way to generate complex neural networks that become increasingly optimized over time.
US12093825B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, and computer program product for processing data analytics within memory. The system first receives a request for data associated with a database. The system utilizes a feature catalog and a deep learning neural network to determine the data that comprises the one or more desired features. The system can also provide the requested data to a computing device.
US12093820B2
A system analyzes APIs and automatically generates an API description for the system. The APIs each have an API behavior, which can include a request and a response. Each request and response can have different components. The present system automatically learns characteristics and patterns in the request and response components. As clients engage an API, the component data in the requests and responses for the API are monitored and distributions for various characteristics are determined. Once the API description is automatically generated by the system, the API description can be compared to incoming API requests to identify anomalies that can be associated with users without proper credentials.
US12093816B1
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for configuring a network with multiple nodes. Each node generates an output value based on received input values and a set of weights that are previously trained to each have an initial value. For each weight, the method calculates a factor that represents a loss of accuracy to the network due to changing the weight from its initial value to a different value in a set of allowed values for the weight. Based on the factors, the method identifies a subset of the weights that have factors with values below a threshold. The method changes the values of each weight from its initial value to one of the values in its set of allowed values. The values of the identified subset are all changed to zero. The method trains the weights beginning with the changed values for each weight.
US12093792B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to training and using machine-learning models to determine an optimal number of robotic process automation (RPA) bot instances to process a work queue. In some embodiments, a computing platform train a machine learning model based on RPA using process step information and historical execution log data. Thereafter, the computing platform may receive a current work queue of items to be processed, and determine, using the machine learning model, an optimal number of RPA bot instances to process a current work queue. The computing platform may send the determined optimal number of RPA bot instances to a RPA bot orchestrator on a virtual bot host server, causing the orchestrator to instantiate at least one bot instance corresponding to the determined optimal number of RPA bot instances to process items from the current work queue using the at least one bot instance.
US12093788B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for optimizing two-qubit gates performance in a quantum circuit of a quantum computing system. A quantum computing system selects, from qubits in the quantum circuit, a pair of target qubits on which to perform a quantum gate operation. The quantum computing system selects, from the plurality of qubits, a second plurality of qubits on which to introduce an intentional noise. The intentional noise is applied to the second plurality of qubits via a numerical optimizer. An optimized frequency is determined based on the applied intentional noise. The quantum gate operation is performed by modifying the pair of target qubits frequency to the optimized frequency.
US12093787B2
A technique for improving the performance of non-stoquastic quantum processors is provided. Clusters of qubits with correlated behavior are identified in a problem for processing by the quantum processor. Couplings between qubits in a common cluster are modified according to a transformation (for example, a gauge transformation) so that they evolve slower and thus their dynamics freeze out later (for example, by flipping anti-ferromagnetic couplings to ferromagnetic couplings). Couplings between qubits that do not belong to the common cluster may be flipped the other way (for example, from ferromagnetic couplings to anti-ferromagnetic couplings) to accelerate their dynamics. The quantum processor is evolved and the results are modified according to an inverse transformation.
US12093779B2
A system performs a method for processing an image of a machine-readable code. The method includes receiving an image of a machine-readable code comprising coded information, where the machine-readable code is at least partially obscured. An adjusted image is generated by adjusting a color space of the image. At least a machine-readable code region of the image is binarized, wherein the machine-readable code region of the image depicts the machine-readable code. The binarized machine-readable code region is decoded to determine the coded information. Other apparatus and methods are also described.
US12093778B2
A system, e.g., an installation, includes a mobile part that is movable along a coding region. A camera is arranged on the mobile part and is connected to an evaluation unit of the mobile part. The coding region has coded regions arranged successively. A one-part or multi-part cover covers coded regions, and has an opening through which an image of the first coded region can be taken by the camera. The evaluation unit is adapted to temporally recurrently determined the deviation of the first coded region with respect to the viewing direction of the camera and/or to the straight line, which is aligned in parallel with the viewing direction of the camera and passes through the central point of the image sensor of the camera, and/or to a reference point in the coding region and immobile relative to the mobile part.
US12093772B2
A transaction card having a metal layer, an opening in the metal layer for a transponder chip, and at least one discontinuity extending from an origin on the card periphery to a terminus in the opening. The card has a greater flex resistance than a card having a comparative discontinuity with the terminus and the origin the same distance from a line defined by a first long side of the card periphery in an absence of one or more strengthening features. Strengthening features include a discontinuity wherein one of the terminus or the origin are located relatively closer to the first long side of the card periphery than the other, a plurality of discontinuities wherein fewer than all extend from the card periphery to the opening, a self-supporting, non-metal layer disposed on at least one surface of the card, or one or more ceramic reinforcing tabs surrounding the opening.
US12093771B1
In some examples, interested parties would like to know the identity of various assets in a transportation environment. In some examples, the asset could be a tractor platform. In other examples, the asset could be cargo associated with a transport platform. Some of the examples described herein utilize the motion of a transport platform to power an RFID reader to read an identifier stored within an RFID tag that is coupled to an asset. In some examples, the system utilizes the identifier to identify the asset, which may be transmitted to an electronic device that is accessible to the interested parties. In further examples, a geolocation of the asset may also be transmitted to an electronic device that is accessible to the interested parties.
US12093746B2
Technologies for the hierarchical clustering of hardware resources in network function virtualization (NFV) deployments include a compute node that is configured to create a network function profile that includes a plurality of network functions to be deployed on the compute node. Additionally, the compute node is configured to translate the network function profile usable to identify which of the plurality of network functions are to be managed by each of the plurality of interconnected hardware resources into a hardware profile for each of a plurality of interconnected hardware resources. The compute node is further configured to deploy each of the plurality of network functions to one or more of the plurality of interconnected hardware resources based on the hardware profile. Other embodiments are described herein.
US12093736B2
A pipeline computing apparatus (110) comprises: a computing unit (120) configured as a pipeline; a node monitoring unit (161) that obtains a node processing time; a queue monitoring unit (162) that obtains an accumulated message amount; a priority variable calculating unit (163) that, on the basis of the node processing time and the accumulated message amount in a reception queue in a stage previous to the node, calculates a priority variable of the node; and a time allocating unit (164) that allocates operating time to each of nodes in accordance with the priority variable.
US12093731B2
Systems and corresponding methods employ an object-oriented (OO) memory (OOM) to effect inter-hardware-client (IHC) communication among a plurality of hardware clients included in same. A system comprises a centralized OOM and the plurality of hardware clients communicate, directly, to the centralized OOM device via OO message transactions. The centralized OOM device effects IHC communication among the plurality of hardware clients based on the OO message transactions. Another system comprises a plurality of OO memories (OOMs) capable of inter-object-oriented-memory-device communication. A hardware client communicates, directly, to a respective OOM device via OO message transactions. The inter-object-oriented-memory-device communication effects IHC communication among the plurality of hardware clients based on the OO message transactions.
US12093708B2
A method and an apparatus for scheduling a virtual machine are disclosed in. The method includes predicting resource data required by a virtual machine in a next time period to obtain a prediction result; obtaining used resource data and available resource data of candidate host machines; adding the prediction result to used resource data of each candidate host machine to obtain a superimposition result of each candidate host machine; and separately comparing the superimposition result of each candidate host machine with available resource data of each host machine, and selecting a target host machine corresponding to the virtual machine from the candidate host machines. The present disclosure solves the technical problem of a large waste of resources caused by the needs of a host machine to reserve resources for respective peaks of each virtual machine in the existing technologies.
US12093700B2
A method for configuring a target peripheral via a hardware request is provided. The method includes receiving a hardware request from one of a plurality of initiator peripherals, receiving a configuration selection from the requesting initiator peripheral, and selecting a configuration from a plurality of hardware memory locations based at least in part on the configuration selection. The method also includes configuring one or more signal processing modules within the target peripheral based at least in part on the configuration, receiving a signal from an electronic device, and processing the signal from the electronic device with the one or more signal processing modules. The method further includes transmitting a processed signal from the signal processing modules to the requesting initiator peripheral.
US12093698B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is described. The UAV includes functions such as geo-location-based approvals, targeted system updates and dynamic rule enforcements, authentical, internet protocol (IP) whitelisting, and application control. The functions are controlled from the firmware level. The functions may ensure a highly secure and controlled embedded system on the UAV in the event an application of the UAV is compromised by a third party. UEFI is used to provide a tamper proof way of enforcing permitted flights on authorized equipment.
US12093688B2
An article of manufacture includes a non-transitory machine-readable medium. The medium includes instructions that cause a processor to execute a shift instruction. The shift instruction is to cause a source data in memory to be shifted left or shifted right. The shift instruction is to include a source parameter and a bit size parameter. The processor is to execute the shift instruction through a shift of a first source word of the source data by the bit size parameter to yield a first intermediate word, a shift of a second source word of the source data by the bit size parameter to yield a second intermediate word and a first set of shifted-out bits, and through execution of a logical OR operation on the first intermediate word and the first set of shifted-out bits to yield a first result word.
US12093687B2
A repository of graph based visual programming language code instances is analyzed. A similar code portion pattern duplicated is detected among a group of graph based visual programming language code instances included in the repository of graph based visual programming language code instances including by using an index and tokenizing one or more graph nodes connected by one or more graph edges included in a flow corresponding to at least one graph based visual programming language code instance in the group of graph based visual programming language code instances. Within a visual representation of at least one of the group of graph based visual programming language code instances, elements belonging to the detected similar code portion pattern are visually indicated.
US12093670B2
Apparatus and method for identifying code path contributors to resource utilization spikes. For example, in some implementations, stack trace data and profiling data are sampled from a plurality of code paths of an application to generate a plurality of code path samples, where the sampling is performed across a series of temporal windows. Processor utilization data is also sampled across a corresponding series of temporal windows. Correlations are detected between the code path samples and occurrences of processor utilization spikes to generate correlational scores for the plurality of code paths. A ranking of code paths is then generated in accordance with the correlational scores in which code paths relatively higher in the ranking are more likely to contribute to the occurrences of the processor utilization spikes than code paths relatively lower in the ranking.
US12093669B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for massively parallel compilation of application code. A compiler application is executed in a compute instance of an elastic computing device. When an instruction to compile source code of an application is received, the compiler application generates virtual processes to compile a portion of the source code of the application separate from the compute instance having the compiler installation executing thereon. When the virtual processes complete the compilation of the source code, build artifacts are linked to generate an executable computing application.
US12093665B2
An online software development platform providing an integrated resource for design, development, and purchase of customer-desired software applications for software projects created by customers. The platform comprising one or more computers configured using computer readable instructions stored in non-transitory computer memory to provide the software development platform, wherein the software development platform is configured to implement a plurality of electronic operational domains providing user-interactive capabilities or internal functionalities of the software development platform. The domains comprising a project scope process, a pricing process, and a project development process. The platform is configured to use a configuration involving knowledge graph to recommend features.
US12093664B2
A pseudo speckle pattern generation apparatus includes a light source, a beam expander, and a spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator has an intensity modulation distribution based on a pseudo speckle pattern calculated from a pseudo random number pattern and a correlation function, receives light output from the light source and increased in beam diameter by the beam expander, spatially modulates the received light according to the modulation distribution, and outputs modulated light.
US12093658B1
Systems and methods are described herein for a prompt engine microservice. The system may segregate a received request into a search function, a calculation function, and a schema selection function. The system may also create a new aggregation function that aggregates the results of the various processes into an input for an artificial intelligence model. By doing so, the system may process the new plurality of tasks in parallel and without the initial use of the artificial intelligence model.
US12093653B2
A moral analysis unit extracts, as a moral expression word, a word matching a morality-related word related to morality from acquired data which is text data on the basis of a moral foundations dictionary which is dictionary data defining the morality-related word. A processed data display unit analyzes the moral value of the acquired data by using the moral expression word.
US12093651B1
There is a need for more accurate and more efficient natural language solutions with greater semantic intelligence. This need can be addressed, for example, by natural language processing techniques that utilize predictive entity scoring. In one example, a method includes determining an overall prevalence score for the input entity data object with respect to a scored document corpus and a target section; determining a qualified prevalence score for the input entity data object with respect to a high-scoring subset of the scored document corpus; processing the input entity data object using an entity scoring machine learning model to generate the predicted entity score, wherein the entity scoring machine learning model may characterized by a plurality of multiplicative hyper-parameters and one or more additive hyper-parameters; and performing one or more prediction-based actions based at least in part on the predicted entity score.
US12093642B2
A method for using artificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically generate commentary that relates to quantitative data is provided. The method includes: receiving a first tabular data set; identifying a first cell having numeric data from within the first tabular data set; associating a first column header and a first row header with the first cell; assigning a respective header type to each of the first column header and the first row header; mapping each of the first cell, the first column header, and the first row header to a first comment from among a set of comments; and augmenting the first comment by generating additional text that supplements the first comment.
US12093639B2
Provided in the present disclosure are an electronic document processing method and apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium. The electronic document processing method comprises: in a current display interface, in response to a document content determination operation, determining target content from the document content of a first document (S11); and, in the current display interface, in response to a document creation operation, creating a second document having an association relationship with the first document (S12), wherein the second document is associated with the first document on the basis of the target content. The method provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure can rapidly generate a second document having an association relationship with the content in a first document, so that there is no need for the user to repeatedly perform copy and paste and association operations, thereby greatly improving the usage experience of the user.
US12093637B2
Deep learning in the form of a deepfakes fabricator can be utilized to analyzed proposed documents, images, webpages etc. in order to ensure compliance with UI/UX standards. A rover component can scan and compartmentalize detected objects. A deepfakes fabricator can identify source datasets corresponding to detected objects and transform the objects so that they comply with standards stored in a web integrant. Resulting objects may be combined into an integrated image and an operational synthetic webpage may be created. Similarly, the disclosed deep-learning and other processes may operate in reverse and utilize an approved document, image, website, etc. in order automatically create (in whole or in part) a set of UI/UX standards.
US12093628B2
A method of designing a 3D Integrated Circuit including: partitioning at least one design into at least two levels, a first level and a second level; levels connection pads between the first level and the second level; providing placement data of the second level; performing a placement of the first level using a placer executed by a computer, where the placement of the first level is based on the placement of the levels connection pads, where the placer is part of a Computer Aided Design (CAD) tool, where the first level includes first routing layers; performing a routing of the first level by routing layers using a router executed by a computer, where the router is a part of the CAD tool or a part of another CAD tool, where at least one metal routing layer is in-between the first level first transistors and the second level second transistors.
US12093620B1
A method includes: receiving value changes corresponding to timestamped logic value changes in recorded signals from a verification run of an integrated circuit (IC) design; generating recorded logic vectors from the value changes, each of the recorded logic vectors being associated with a corresponding signal identifier, each of the recorded logic vectors including a recorded logic values over a window of consecutive clock cycles computed from one or more value changes associated with the corresponding signal identifier and having timestamps within the window of consecutive clock cycles; determining, by a processor, inferred logic vectors including inferred logic values corresponding to signals output by cells of the IC design based on propagating the recorded logic values of the recorded logic vectors through the cells; and computing per-cycle power characteristics of the IC design based on the recorded logic vectors and the inferred logic vectors.
US12093616B1
A method and a system for ship stability prediction by weighted fusion of RBFNN and random forest based on GD are provided. Firstly, input characteristics when predicting failure probabilities under different failure modes are determined through prior knowledge. Secondly, a mean square error of k-fold cross-validation is used as performance evaluation criterion of the RBFNN and the RF to search for model capacities of the RBFNN and the RF. Then, network parameters of the RBFNN are updated. Multiple random sample sets are generated using a bootstrap sampling method and are parallelly trained to generate multiple regression trees. A Gini index is used as an attribute division index, and a prediction result of the random forest is obtained. Finally, weight coefficients are introduced for weighted fusion of prediction results of the RBFNN and the RF. The weight coefficient is obtained by solving through iterative optimization of the gradient descent.
US12093605B2
Example techniques may involve tuning a music discovery dial. An implementation may include displaying, on the touch-sensitive circular graphical display, a circular graphical user interface including multiple wedge-shaped selectable regions arranged around the circumference of the circular graphical user interface, each wedge-shaped selectable region corresponding to a respective streaming audio channel. The implementation may include detecting a touch input in a circular motion to the touch-sensitive circular graphical display and causing a paired playback device to play back an audio content snippet corresponding to each selectable regions that the touch input enters. The implementation may further include switching the playback device from playing back a given pre-cached audio content snippet to playing back the full audio track from one or more servers of a streaming audio service.
US12093592B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a picture displaying method and apparatus, an electronic device, a storage medium and a computer program product. The method includes: acquiring a first resolution of a display screen of a client; adjusting, according to the first resolution, a to-be-output picture to obtain an effective display picture, where the effective display picture is displayed at a same ratio as a ratio of the first resolution; and transmitting the effective display picture to the client for display. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, for clients of different resolutions, with an assurance that no black edge or distortion appears in a picture displayed in the client, an effect of one server terminal being capable of supporting clients of various different resolutions is achieved, thereby reducing the complexity of server terminal management, and improving the device utilization of the server terminal.
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A display device including a display; and a controller configured to receive an input of a voice command, and output a result of the voice command differently according to a mode of the display even for the same voice command.
US12093583B2
A communication system may comprise an information processing device and a communication device. Communication between the communication device and the information processing device using the first wireless communication scheme may be performed. The communication device may send the connectable network identification information to the information processing device. Communication between the information processing device and the communication device using the second wireless communication scheme and using the second network may be executed, in case that the first network is not included in one or more networks identified by the connectable network identification information. Communication between the information processing device and the communication device using the second wireless communication scheme and using the first network may be executed, in case that the first network is included in the one or more networks identified by the one or more connectable network identification information.
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A method includes determining a first instance of a current version for a machine learning model and a second instance of an upgraded version for the machine learning model, the first instance executing a service for processing data; adjusting respectively, if it is determined that the service is to be migrated from the first instance to the second instance, a first allocation policy for storage space of the first instance and a second allocation policy for storage space of the second instance to a first target policy and a second target policy, wherein the first target policy is used to phase out storage space and the second target policy is used to phase in storage space; reclaiming allocated storage space for the first instance based on the first target policy; and allocating required storage space for the second instance based on the second target policy to realize migration of the service.
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A memory device includes a memory cell array and peripheral circuits. The memory cell array may include one or more first memory cells configured to store first type data, and one or more second memory cells configured to store second type data. The peripheral circuits may be coupled to the memory cell array and configured to perform a first program operation on the one or more first memory cells, perform the first program operation on the one or more second memory cells, and perform a second program operation on the one or more first memory cells. A first storage time corresponding to the first type data is longer than a second storage time corresponding to the second type data.
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The disclosed computer-implemented method may include accessing various portions of contextual information based on at least one touch input from a touch-based sensor on a mobile electronic device. The method may next include determining, based on the contextual information, which of different operational antenna parameters associated with at least one antenna of the mobile electronic device are to be changed. The method may then include changing the specified operational parameters associated with the antenna on the mobile electronic device according to the determination. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
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A method for instructing operation of a robotic floor-cleaning device based on the position of the robotic floor-cleaning device within a two-dimensional map of the workspace. A two-dimensional map of a workspace is generated using inputs from sensors positioned on a robotic floor-cleaning device to represent the multi-dimensional workspace of the robotic floor-cleaning device. The two-dimensional map is provided to a user on a user interface. A user may adjust the boundaries of the two-dimensional map through the user interface and select settings for map areas to control device operation in various areas of the workspace.
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The present invention relates to an interaction method using eye tracking data, used in human-computer interface system with at least a screen configured to display at least user contents and eye tracking device to collect eye tracking data. The method comprising following steps: displaying selection keys on the screen, when there is a selecting interaction control signal of the user reflecting that the user intends to automatically change user contents being displayed on the screen; defining a selection key which the user wants to input based on at least the eye tracking data when the user inputs the selection key by eye gaze; automatically changing the user contents in a predefined changing manner corresponding to the selection key inputted by the eye gaze of the user, wherein said predefined changing manner selected from a group including at least scroll down, scroll up, scroll right, scroll left, zoom in, zoom out, turn the pages, move the pages, and insert new contents.
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In some implementations, a system may identify one or more account identifiers associated with a user account and corresponding to one or more account types. The system may determine an action to perform if account information associated with the user account or with a particular account identifier satisfies a condition. The system may transmit, to a user device, user interface (UI) data associated with an icon-based UI element. The UI data indicates a rectangular-shaped element, of the icon-based UI element, associated with the particular account identifier, and an interactable icon, of the icon-based UI element, positioned within a bottom portion of the rectangular-shaped element. The interactable icon is representative of the action. The system may include receiving, from the user device, interaction data indicating an interaction, by a user of the user device, with the interactable icon. The system may perform the action based on receiving the interaction data.
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A touch sensor integrated display device is provided comprising gate lines and data lines formed on a substrate to be intersected with each other, a plurality of pixel electrodes formed at intersections between the gate lines and the data lines, and a common electrode formed to overlap the plurality of pixel electrodes through an insulating film disposed between the common electrode and the plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein the common electrode includes at least two touch electrodes, each of which is connected to at least one of signal lines arranged in one of a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction.
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A display device according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure includes a touch pattern layer having a plurality of stretching patterns; and a touch electrode layer disposed on the touch pattern layer and having a plurality of touch electrodes, wherein each of the plurality of stretching patterns includes a plurality of unit patterns, wherein each of the plurality of touch electrodes includes a plurality of unit electrodes, wherein each of the plurality of unit patterns includes a first sub-unit pattern overlapping each of the plurality of unit electrode electrodes, and a second sub-unit pattern disposed inside the first sub-unit. Accordingly, laser lift off (LLO) process efficiency for the touch panel can be increased.
