US12095494B1
An electronic network device includes: (i) an integrated circuit (IC) die configured to exchange signals between the electronic network device and one or more other devices that are remote from the electronic network device, (ii) a plurality of transceiver dies, separate from the IC die, the plurality of transceiver dies being disposed along at least a first axis extending at an acute angle from an edge of the IC die and intersecting the edge at a first point, the transceiver dies being configured to exchange the signals between the IC die and the other devices, and (iii) electrical connections configured to connect between the IC die and at least one of the transceiver dies for exchanging at least some of the signals between the IC die and the transceiver dies.
US12095489B2
A high-frequency circuit includes a power amplifier for a communication band A, and a power amplifier for a communication band B. Transmission in the communication band A, transmission in the communication band B, and reception in the communication band C can be simultaneously used. A frequency range of intermodulation distortion generated between a second harmonic wave of a transmission signal of the communication band A and a fundamental wave of a transmission signal of the communication band B, overlaps with at least part of a reception band of the communication band C. The power amplifier includes amplifying elements and an output trans including coils. One end of the coil is connected with an output of the amplifying element, the other end of the coil is connected with an output of the amplifying element, and one end of the coil is connected with an output terminal of the power amplifier.
US12095485B2
A binary data compression/decompression method is disclosed, where any input binary data string (IFDS) is uniquely and reversibly compressed/decompressed without any data loss by first uniquely formatting and fully describing the IFDS using a set of well defined binary constructs, followed by creating complex structures from custom combinations of said binary constructs that occur within the arbitrary IFDS content, wherein the choice of the said custom combinations depend on the said IFDS content in term of binary constructs therefore creating IFDS content variations and distributions from an expected nominal base wherein said variations and distributions reflect the actual content of the arbitrary IFDS, followed by uniquely processing these variations and distributions in content using several schemes where each scheme brings a unique compression feature, and wherein once this processing completes (i.e. the end of the arbitrary IFDS is reached), it is called that the end of one compression cycle is reached, and wherein another compression cycle can be applied to the data by repeating the cycle steps, and where such compression cycles are repeated until the desired compressed file is reached or until a file floor size limit is reached, floor size below which the disclosed compression has limitations.
US12095479B2
Examples described herein utilize multi-layer neural networks, such as multi-layer recurrent neural networks to decode encoded data (e.g., data encoded using one or more encoding techniques). The neural networks and/or recurrent neural networks have nonlinear mapping and distributed processing capabilities which are advantageous in many systems employing the neural network decoders and/or recurrent neural networks. In this manner, neural networks or recurrent neural networks described herein are used to implement error correction coding (ECC) decoders.
US12095477B2
A modulator and a modulation method using a non-uniform 16-symbol signal constellation are disclosed. The modulator includes a memory and a processor. The memory receives a codeword corresponding to a low-density parity check (LDPC) code having a code rate of 4/15. The processor maps the codeword to 16 symbols of the non-uniform 16-symbol signal constellation on a 4-bit basis.
US12095476B2
A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder configured to encode input bits to generate parity bits; a parity permutator configured to group-wise interleave a plurality of bit groups including the parity bits; and a puncturer configured to select some of the parity bits in the group-wise interleaved bit groups and puncture the selected parity bits, wherein the parity permutator group-wise interleaves the bit groups such that some of the bit groups at predetermined positions in the bit groups before the group-wise interleaving are positioned serially after the group-wise interleaving and a remainder of the bit groups before the group-wise interleaving are positioned without an order after the group-wise interleaving so that the puncturer selects parity bits included in the some of the bit groups sequentially and selects parity bits included in the remainder of the bit groups without an order.
US12095475B2
A zero padding apparatus and method for fixed length signaling information are disclosed. A zero padding apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a processor configured to generate a LDPC information bit string by deciding a number of groups whose all bits are to be filled with 0 using a difference between a length of the LDPC information bit string and a length of a BCH-encoded bit string, selecting the groups using a shortening pattern order to fill all the bits of the groups with 0, and filling at least a part of remaining groups, which are not filled with 0, with the BCH-encoded bit string; and memory configured to provide the LDPC information bit string to an LDPC encoder.
US12095473B2
The invention is notably directed to a voltage-to-time converter comprising a first interleaving stage configured to perform a sampling of an input voltage, thereby generating a first set of sampled voltage signals. The first interleaving stage is further configured to perform a first voltage-to-time conversion in an interleaved manner, thereby generating a first set of time-interleaved signals in the time domain. A second interleaving stage is configured to perform a time-to-voltage conversion of the first set of time-interleaved signals, thereby generating a second set of sampled voltage signals. The second interleaving stage is further configured perform a second voltage-to-time conversion in an interleaved manner, thereby generating a second set of time-interleaved signals in the time domain. The invention further concerns a related design structure and a related method.
US12095471B2
A clock circuit includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) having a control input and a first clock output. The clock circuit includes a frequency-locked loop (FLL) having an FLL input and a control output, the control output coupled to the control input. A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) resonator-based oscillator has a second clock output. A multiplexer has a first multiplexer input, a second multiplexer input, a selection input, and a multiplexer output. The first multiplexer input is coupled to the first clock output. The second multiplexer input is coupled to the second clock output. The multiplexer output is coupled to the FLL input.
US12095464B2
A flip-flop includes a first set of transistors of a first type being located in a first row and a second set of transistors of a second type being located in a second row. The second type being different from the first type. The first and second set of transistors include a first master latch circuit and a second master latch circuit. The first and second master latch circuit are separated from each other in the first direction by a first distance. A first output signal of the first and second master latch circuit is a first input signal of the first master latch circuit and the second master latch circuit. A second output signal of the first and second master latch circuit is a second input signal of the first and second master latch circuit.
US12095462B2
An electric circuit includes one or more photon detector components and a superconducting logic gate component coupled to respective outputs of the one or more photon detector components. The electric circuit further includes a bias source electrically coupled to the superconducting logic gate component, the bias source configured to provide a bias current adapted to cause the superconducting logic gate component to function as a logical gate. The electric circuit also includes an optical switch component electrically coupled to an output of the superconducting logic gate component.
US12095455B2
A level shift circuit converts input signals in a first voltage domain into output signals in a second voltage domain. The level shift circuit includes a first voltage domain circuit, a middle voltage domain circuit, and a second voltage domain circuit. The middle voltage domain circuit convert the signals in the first voltage domain received by the first voltage domain circuit into signals in a middle voltage domain. The second voltage domain circuit converts the signals in the middle voltage domain into signals in the second voltage domain and outputs the converted signals. The signals in the middle voltage domain are partly different from the signals in the first voltage domain and the second voltage domain. Each signal in the first voltage domain is different from the signals in the second voltage domain. A display apparatus is also disclosed.
US12095453B2
A capacitive proximity sensor including a detection circuit, including a detection capacitor, a storage capacitor and switches, a DC voltage generator and a microcontroller which is configured to control the switches and to: obtain a voltage value across the terminals of the storage capacitor and across the terminals of the detection capacitor; calculate a first average defined by the average of the voltage values which are obtained at the end of each iteration of a first acquisition phase and a second average defined by the average of the voltage values at the end of each iteration of a second acquisition phase; and detect a human presence when the difference between the first average and the second average is above a predefined detection threshold.
US12095452B2
A voltage fluctuation detection circuit includes: a source voltage decrease detection circuit configured to detect a decrease in voltage of a first power supply which outputs a first voltage and to output the result of detection as a voltage decrease detection signal using a second voltage which is lower than the voltage of the first power supply; an erroneous detection prevention circuit configured to detect an increase in voltage of the first power supply and to output the result of detection as a voltage increase detection signal using the second voltage; and a transistor configured to mask outputting of the voltage decrease detection signal in a period in which the increase in voltage of the first power supply is being detected based on the voltage increase detection signal.
US12095451B2
A gate driver to control a high-power switching device is disclosed. The gate driver includes a multifunction pin that allows the gate driver to be controlled by a multifunction signal to perform a number of different functions. For example, a level of the multifunction signal at the multifunction pin can enable/disable the output of the gate driver. In another example, a level of the multifunction signal that is held for a period while the gate driver is in a fault state can reset the state of the gate driver. In another example, pulsing the multifunction signal a number of times can activate a test of the fault detection capabilities of the gate driver. Utilizing one pin for this control, simplifies circuit complexity for communication between a controller and the gate driver, thereby reducing cost and increasing reliability.
US12095447B1
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) resonator includes a substrate having a substantially planar surface and a resonant member having sidewalls disposed in a nominally perpendicular orientation with respect to the planar surface. Impurity dopant is introduced via the sidewalls of the resonant member such that a non-uniform dopant concentration profile is established along axis extending between the sidewalls parallel to the substrate surface and exhibits a relative minimum concentration in a middle region of the axis.
US12095446B2
Acoustic resonators and filter devices. An acoustic resonator includes a piezoelectric plate having front and back surfaces, a portion of the piezoelectric plate forming a diaphragm, and a conductor pattern on the front surface, the conductor pattern including an interdigital transducer (IDT), fingers of the IDT on the diaphragm. A thickness of the interleaved fingers is greater than or equal to 0.85 times a thickness of the piezoelectric plate and less than or equal to 2.5 times the thickness of the piezoelectric plate. The IDT comprises a first portion having a first pitch and a first mark and a second portion having a second pitch and a second mark not equal to the first pitch and first mark.
US12095441B2
Acoustic resonator devices, filters, and methods are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate and a piezoelectric plate having front and back surfaces, the back surface attached to a surface of the substrate except for a portion of the piezoelectric plate forming a diaphragm that spans a cavity in the substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate such that interleaved fingers of the IDT are disposed on the diaphragm. The IDT is configured to excite a primary acoustic mode in the diaphragm in response to a radio frequency signal applied to the IDT. At least one finger of the IDT is disposed in a groove in the diaphragm. A depth of the groove is less than a thickness of the at least one finger of the IDT.
US12095434B2
A technology that can reduce the influence of variations in the reference potential of each current output device on the operation of multiple current output devices, when using the multiple current output devices to reduce the distortion of the load current, is provided. A plurality of active filters 41 to 43 are configured to reduce distortion of a load current supplied from the AC power supply 10 to the load device 20, based on a detection signal output from the load current sensor 30, the detection signal relating to the distortion of the load current; and the signal transmitting unit 44 configured to cause the plurality of active filters 41 to 43 to acquire a signal relating to the distortion of the load current, to reduce influence due to variation of a standard potential of the plurality of active filters 41 to 43, based on the detection signal output from the load current sensor 30.
US12095425B2
An amplifier circuit includes a primary differential amplifier circuit connected to receive a differential input and provide a primary differential output with a first non-linearity. A secondary differential amplifier circuit is connected to receive the differential input. The secondary differential amplifier circuit is configured to generate a secondary differential output with a second non-linearity. The secondary differential output and the primary differential output are coupled together with opposing polarities such that the second non-linearity cancels out at least the first non-linearity.
US12095423B2
A rectifier stage includes a differential input transistor pair coupled between a reference voltage node and an intermediate node, and a load circuit coupled between the intermediate node and a supply voltage node. The differential input transistor pair receives a radio-frequency amplitude modulated signal. A rectified signal indicative of an envelope of the radio-frequency amplitude modulated signal is produced at the intermediate node. An amplifier stage coupled to the intermediate node produces an amplified rectified signal at an output node that is indicative of the envelope of the radio-frequency amplitude modulated signal. The rectifier stage includes a resistive element coupled between the intermediate node and the supply voltage node in parallel to the load circuit.
US12095420B2
Circuits and processes for locking a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) at a high frequency signal are described. A circuit may include a voltage-controlled oscillator configured to generate a high frequency signal based on a control signal, a dummy load parallel to the voltage-controlled oscillator and configured to receive the control signal via a switch, and a digital-to-analog converter coupled to the voltage-controlled oscillator where the control signal is generated based on an output of the digital-to-analog converter.
US12095413B2
A solar panel frame waterproof structure, comprising multiple solar panels (1), multiple frames (2), multiple frame bodies (3), and multiple sealing strips (4). Each of the solar panels (1) has upper and lower surfaces (11, 12) and four side edges (13); each of the frames (2) is provided at the side edge of the solar panel (1), and has an upper bonding plate (21) and a lower bonding plate (22); a vertical plate (24) is connected between the upper bonding plate (21) and the lower bonding plate (22); the vertical plate (24) is non-planar, and is provided with at least one protruding portion (241) facing or away from the direction where the vertical plate (24) is bonded to the solar panel (1); a recessed portion (242) is formed at the side opposite to the protruding portion (241); each of the frame bodies (3) is provided below the frame (2) and is fixedly connected to the lower bonding plate (22); each of the sealing strips (4) is provided between the frames (2) of two adjacent solar panels (1), so that upper and lower barriers can be formed between the vertical plates (24) of the two adjacent frames (2) by the sealing strips (4). Thus, better assembly convenience and waterproof effect can be achieved.
US12095409B2
The present disclosure provides a fixing device of a photovoltaic panel, and relates to the field of fixing devices. The fixing device of a photovoltaic panel includes a mounting rail, a photovoltaic panel, a medium pressure fixing member and a side pressure fixing member; the medium pressure fixing member includes a medium pressure block, a first bolt, a spring, a first limiting plate and a first clamping block; the side pressure fixing member includes a side pressure block, a second bolt, a second limiting plate and a second clamping block; the photovoltaic panel is arranged on the mounting rail; a side edge of the medium pressure block is arranged on a side edge of the photovoltaic panel; and a side edge of the side pressure block is arranged on a side edge of the photovoltaic panel.
US12095406B2
A wind turbine electrical power generating system is provided and is configured to supply generated electrical power to a main load. The system includes a wound rotor induction generator including stator windings and a generator rotor with rotor windings. The generator rotor is configured to be mechanically coupled to a wind turbine rotor of the wind turbine to receive rotational mechanical energy. A first converter is electrically coupled to the stator windings such that in operation, AC electrical power generated by the stator windings and provided to the main load passes through the first converter. A second converter is electrically coupled to the rotor windings of the generator rotor, wherein an AC frequency of the generated AC electrical power is at least partially determined by setting or controlling currents in the rotor windings of the generator rotor by the second converter.
US12095405B2
A turbo-generator system for generating propulsive electrical power for an aircraft includes an electric machine comprising: a rotor configured to be rotated by a gas-turbine of the turbo-generator system; a stator comprising: a first active section comprising first windings surrounding a first portion of the rotor, and a second active section comprising second windings surrounding a second portion of the rotor.
US12095397B2
A controller for controlling flow of coolant to one or more components of a vehicle is disclosed. The controller determines respective amounts of heat expected to be rejected by the one or more components of the vehicle in a steady state of operation at current operating conditions of the one or more components, and generates a feedforward flow control signal based at least in part on the determined amounts of heat and a target temperature for the one or more components. The controller generates a controller output signal based at least in part on the feedforward control signal, and provides the controller output signal to the cooling system to control flow of coolant to the one or more components of the vehicle from the cooling system in accordance with the determined amounts of heat expected to be rejected by the one or more components of the vehicle.
US12095392B2
In a control method of a dual three-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor by alternately performing sampling and control procedures, sampling instants, vector loading instants, and reference value tracking instants of two sets of windings alternate in two halves of a sampling period, and the equivalent sampling frequency of the motor drive system is doubled and the digital delay and the predictive horizon are halved without changing the sampling frequency of a single set of three-phase windings. In addition, by a two-layer MPC strategy, a deficient-rank problem is settled that the controlled dimensionality of the system is reduced to two dimensions but the motor control objective is still four dimensions caused by the method with controlling a dual three-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor by alternately performing sampling and control procedures.
US12095387B2
A multi-level direct current converter includes a direct current conversion unit, a switching unit, a voltage management unit, and a controller. The direct current conversion unit includes a flying capacitor, a first power transistor, and a second power transistor. A first end of the first power transistor is connected to a voltage input end of the multi-level direct current converter, a second end of the first power transistor is connected to a first end of the second power transistor by using the flying capacitor, and a second end of the second power transistor is connected to a reference ground.
US12095385B2
A power conversion device including a power conversion circuit, an AC filter circuit, and a calculation unit. The power conversion circuit converts DC input power from a DC power supply to output a first AC output current and a first AC output voltage. The AC filter circuit filters the first AC output current and the first AC output voltage to generate a second AC output current and a second AC output voltage. The calculation unit calculates an estimated value of an upper impedance based on a difference value between a first voltage value and a second voltage value, the first voltage value being a value of the second AC output voltage at a time of stop of the power conversion circuit or at a time of zero output from the power conversion circuit or at a time of a certain amount of output from the power conversion circuit.
US12095384B2
A direct-current power supply apparatus includes a rectifier circuit that rectifies a power-supply voltage output from an alternating-current power supply, a smoothing capacitor that smooths an output voltage of the rectifier circuit and outputs a direct-current voltage, a switch connected between an output side of the rectifier circuit and an input side of the smoothing capacitor, a zero crossing detector that detects a zero crossing point of the power-supply voltage, and a controller. The controller includes an adjustment circuitry that sets a switching period such that timing of an on switching operation of the switch falls between a zero crossing period that is a period for the zero crossing point detected by the zero crossing detector, and a zero crossing average period, and a switch control circuitry that outputs an on signal to the switch in accordance with the switching period set by the adjustment circuitry.
US12095383B2
An AC to DC conversion system is described. The conversion system consists of an electronic switch and control circuitry employed to provide controlled pulsed power to a storage device that provides power to a load at either a preselected or manually or automatic selectable voltages while ensuring the voltage drop across the switch is minimized to reduce power dissipated through the switch itself, thereby significantly increasing the efficiency and reducing thermal losses. The AC to DC converter in one minimal version consists of a pair of N-MOSFET transistors, a voltage divider, a storage element and a pair of diodes. The design enables high efficiency with minimal components that may be fully integrated onto silicon.
US12095381B2
A bidirectional AC power converter, having a front-end comprising parallel sets of three switches in series, which connects multi-phase AC to coupling transformer through a first set of tank circuits, for synchronously bidirectionally converting electrical power between the multi-phase AC and a DC potential, and for converting electrical power between the DC potential to a bipolar electrical signal at a switching frequency, controlled such that two of each parallel set of three switches in series are soft-switched and the other switch is semi-soft switched; the coupling transformer being configured to pass the bipolar electrical power at the switching frequency through a second set of the tank circuits to a synchronous converter, which in turn transfers the electrical power to a secondary system at a frequency different from the switching frequency.
US12095380B2
An integrated circuit for a power supply circuit including a transistor configured to control a current flowing through a coil. The integrated circuit is configured to drive the transistor. The integrated circuit includes: a determination circuit configured to determine whether a predetermined time period has elapsed since a power supply voltage of the integrated circuit rises to a first predetermined level; an oscillator circuit configured to output an oscillator signal, which has a first frequency before lapse of the predetermined period, and changes in a range at least from the first frequency to a second frequency higher than the first frequency after the lapse of the predetermined time period; and a driver circuit configured to switch the transistor responsive to the oscillator signal during and after the predetermined time period, the switching causing an on period of the transistor to gradually increase in the predetermined time period.
US12095364B2
A down-converted voltage regulator is provided. The first energy storage element provides a pre-charged voltage between a connection terminal and a ground terminal during the first phase. The second energy storage element has a first terminal, and it has a second terminal coupled to the output terminal of the voltage regulator. The third energy storage element is coupled between the output terminal of the voltage regulator and the ground terminal. During the first phase, the first terminal of the second energy storage element is coupled to the first energy storage element through the connection terminal to receive the pre-charged voltage. During the second phase, the first energy storage element is coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal of the voltage regulator to be pre-charged to store the pre-charged voltage, and the first terminal of the second energy storage element is coupled to the ground terminal.
US12095358B2
A ramp generator for and method of generating a voltage ramp signal with very long ramping up time on a silicon chip, wherein the method includes a control loop providing a switched-capacitor circuit for generating the voltage ramp signal.
US12095355B2
A power supply circuit includes a transistor having a drain connected to an input voltage, a gate, and a source; a diode; a choke coil; a capacitor; a transformer; a control circuit that provides a drive signal for turning on and off the transistor to a primary winding of the transformer based on an output voltage; an overvoltage detection circuit that outputs an overvoltage signal when the output voltage is an overvoltage; and a short circuit that short-circuits the gate and the source of the transistor in response to the overvoltage signal.
US12095351B2
A switching power converter architecture that is efficient across its entire power range, regardless of load level, by partitioning the power devices into segments for optimal gate drive and providing a local variable-voltage driver for each power device segment. Power device segments may be selectively enabled or disabled based on the level of power to be delivered to a load. In addition, an adaptive gate drive scheme enables dynamic control of the RON and QG values for each power converter device so that the power devices may operate at the lowest RON value at or near maximum power levels for reduced conduction losses, at the lowest RON×QG product value at mid-level loads for peak efficiency, and at the lowest QG value at light loads for reduced switching losses.
US12095346B2
In an outboard motor including a vertical electric motor, a cooling structure for the vertical electric motor comprises a cooling oil supply member positioned above the stator and including a plurality of outlets for dropping cooling oil on an upper surface of the stator, the outlets being arranged circumferentially in a coaxial relationship to the stator, and the outlets are configured such that an amount of cooling oil that is dropped on a part of the stator located on a first axis on a plane orthogonal to the vertical axis is smaller than an amount of cooling oil that is dropped on a part of the stator located on a second axis which is orthogonal to the first axis on the plane orthogonal to the vertical axis.
US12095345B2
A cooling system for an electric motor that includes a stator having a plurality of slot windings and a rotor, coaxial with the stator, having a plurality of magnets, includes a coolant inlet to the motor and a coolant outlet from the motor. A coolant pathway is in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet. Heat is transferable from the slot windings to the coolant pathway. A coolant flows through the coolant pathway and is in a liquid phase as it enters the coolant inlet, changing into a gaseous phase as heat is transferred to the coolant from the slot windings. A cooling loop is in fluid communication with the coolant inlet and the coolant outlet. The cooling loop cools the coolant so that substantially all of the coolant is in the liquid phase when it enters the coolant inlet.
US12095337B2
A motor control device includes a board that is provided at an end of a motor including winding groups of two systems and controls supply of electric power to the winding group independently for each system. The board includes two areas that are partitioned by a boundary line passing through the center of the motor when viewed in an axial direction of the motor. A power supply terminal connector, an inverter circuit, and a motor terminal connector are sequentially arranged along the boundary line when viewed in the axial direction of the motor. The motor terminal connector is provided such that a straight line perpendicular to a direction in which motor terminals are arranged and the boundary line form an acute angle.
US12095334B2
Disclosed is a voice coil motor, the motor including a mover having a bobbin equipped with a lens and a coil block secured to an outer circumference of the bobbin; a stator having a magnet that is disposed in such a way as to face the coil block; elastic members coupled to a lower end of the bobbin and connected to both ends of the coil block; a base supporting the elastic members and the stator; and a cover can covering the mover, the stator and the base, with an opening being formed in the cover can to expose the lens therethrough, wherein each of the elastic members includes a terminal portion that extends between the cover can and a side surface of the base, the terminal portion including a short-circuit prevention portion so as to inhibit a short-circuit between the terminal portion and the cover can.
US12095330B2
A vibrator includes a frame, a swing unit, and an elastic member. The swing unit is disposed within the frame and holds a magnet. The elastic member connects the swing unit and the frame. The swing unit is movable with respect to the frame while deforming the elastic member. The frame, the swing unit, and the elastic member are integrally molded with each other.
US12095328B2
An electric machine is disclosed that includes a stator with a winding having a plurality of conductors associated with one or more phases and interconnected with one another. The ends of at least part of the conductors protrudes from the winding, wherein one part of said ends is connected to an interconnecting ring placed axially on the winding and a further part of said ends is connected to a current connection arranged radially outside the winding via connecting conductors. The connecting conductors are fixed to at least one holding element provided on the interconnecting ring.
US12095323B2
A motor includes a stator and a rotor at a predetermined distance from the stator. The stator includes an annular yoke, a plurality of teeth connected to the inner circumference of the yoke, and a plurality of coils each wound around an associated one of the teeth. Each coil has coil ends at both ends in an axial direction. At least one of the coil ends has, in an end surface thereof in the axial direction, a first recess extending along the radius of the stator. The first recess houses a first wiring member connecting the coils together.
US12095319B2
The present disclosure describes a motor stator, in which a flux winding is bent into a wave shape, and may be divided into a plurality of first parts, a plurality of second parts, and a plurality of third parts based on winding positions on a stator core. In a process of embedding flux windings into stator slots on the stator core, the flux windings may be directly sunk into the stator slots one by one, so that the second part is embedded into the stator slot, the first part is located on an outer surface of the stator core, and the third part is located on an inner surface of the stator core.
US12095315B2
A rotating machine assembly includes a rotating machine that has a cover that defines an outer surface of the rotating machine and a stator disposed within the cover. The stator is stationary with respect to the cover. The rotating machine also includes a shaft rotatably disposed at least partially within the cover so as to define a rotation axis. The shaft Includes a first end that is connectable to an aircraft engine and a second end that is opposite the first end. The rotating machine also includes a rotor attached to the shaft, the rotor being movable with respect to the stator and a power module including at least one MOSFET that periodically reverses an electrical current direction of the rotor. The power module includes the at least one MOSFET Is disposed within the cover.
US12095312B2
A sensor board is downsized. An electric work machine includes a stator, a rotor rotatable about a rotation axis, magnetic sensors, a sensor board supporting the magnetic sensors, and an output unit drivable by the rotor. The stator includes a stator core, an insulator, and coils including first-, second-, and third-phase coils. The rotor includes a rotor core and magnets fixed to the rotor core. The magnetic sensors detect the magnets and include, in a circumferential direction, a first magnetic sensor aligned with at least a portion of a first coil pair, a second magnetic sensor aligned with at least a portion of a second coil pair, and a third magnetic sensor aligned with at least a portion of a third coil pair.
US12095306B2
Uninterruptible power supply apparatus and control device for uninterruptible power supply apparatus
This uninterruptible power supply apparatus includes an uninterruptible power supply module, an input module, and a control module that is disposed in a left-right direction of the input module. The control module is configured such that at least arrangement positions of the thyristor unit and the control unit that controls power conversion of the uninterruptible power supply module are interchangeable in a left-right direction, in the housing.
US12095305B2
Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods to provide both AC and DC power for charging battery systems. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes a coupler receivable by a power input of a rechargeable battery system, where the coupler includes: alternating current (AC) terminals configured to electrically engage AC input terminals of the power input and direct current (DC) terminals configured to electrically engage DC input terminals of the power input; a cable that includes a plurality of sets of conductors including a set of AC conductors coupled to the AC terminals and a set of DC conductors coupled to the DC terminals, wherein the set of AC conductors is configured to be selectively coupled to an AC power source and the set of DC conductors is configured to be selectively coupled to a DC power source.
US12095296B1
A docking adapter for coupling with a charger assembly includes a receptacle, a front wall, a first side extension, and a second side extension. The receptacle includes an interior area and is positioned within a mid-portion of the docking adapter. The front wall bounds in part a portion of the mid-portion of the docking adapter. The first side extension extends in part away from a portion the mid-portion of the docking adapter in a first direction. The second side extension extends in part away from a portion the mid-portion of the docking adapter in a second direction, opposite the first direction.
US12095283B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A charging device has a resonant circuit comprising one or more transmitting coils, a driver circuit configured to provide a charging current to the resonant circuit, a zero-crossing detector configured to provide a zero-crossing signal that includes edges corresponding to transitions of a voltage measured across the resonant circuit through a zero volt level or corresponding to transitions of a current in the resonant circuit through a zero ampere level and an Amplitude Shift Keying demodulator. The demodulator may be configured to receive a plurality of samples of voltage or current in the resonant circuit captured at times determined by the edges included in the zero-crossing signal, and demodulate a modulated signal obtained from the charging current using the plurality of samples of voltage or current in the resonant circuit.
US12095280B2
The present specification relates to a device and a method enabling in-band communication and out-band communication between a wireless power transmission device and a wireless power receiving device. The present specification discloses a wireless power transmission device, a wireless power transmission method, a wireless power receiving device, a wireless power receiving method and a wireless power transmission system, whereby the existence or not of an inter-device communication connection history is checked using whitelist information of an out-band communication module, and when corresponding to a reconnection, out-band communication is connected, and data exchange for wireless power transmission is carried out via the out-band communication.
US12095266B2
A platform and components for an automated consumer retail utility marketplace are provided, including components for machine learning, components for gamification, and components for supporting a related consumer mobile application that enables improved visibility and control by a consumer over its interaction with energy markets.
US12095265B2
A power supply system includes a movable power supply device including a first power storage device, a robot including a second power storage device, and a controller, and the controller performs control for conveying the first power storage device to the robot by using the power supply device, on the basis of information about an amount of power stored in the second power storage device.
US12095257B2
A method is provided for operating an inverter of an inverter-based power resource providing electric power to a grid through one or more transformers. The method includes measuring voltages associated with terminals on a selected primary winding and/or measuring voltages associated with terminals on a selected secondary winding; and injecting currents into the primary terminals of the selected primary winding during a fault condition based on the measured voltages being indicative of the type of fault occurring. Preferably the inverter is operated to emulate at least some characteristics of fault currents provided by a generator having rotating magnets or electrical windings. An apparatus is configured to operate in accordance with the method and includes an electrical switching device circuit having input terminals for an inverter-based power resource and output terminals for providing AC electric power to an electric power grid. An inverter controller operates the electrical switching device circuit.
US12095253B2
An electrical circuit protection device a processor-based controller configured to operate at least one solid state switching element in a manner responsive to a variety of different time-current conditions to protect a plurality of different electrical loads. A field deployable adaptor device is configured to communicate with the controller. The controller is configured with at least one pre-preprogrammed control algorithm or at least one selected setting for a control algorithm executable by the controller. At least one pre-preprogrammed control algorithm or at least one selected setting are predetermined by a manufacturer of the circuit protector device.
US12095252B2
An overcurrent protection circuit limits a monitoring target current to or below a limit current value IOCP. For example, it can operate so as to give the limit current value IOCP, when temperature Tj is lower than a threshold value Tx, a flat temperature response and, when temperature Tj is higher than the threshold value Tx, a negative temperature response. For another example, it can operate so as to set the limit current value IOCP, when temperature Tj is lower than a threshold value Tx, at a first limit current value IOCP having a flat temperature response and, when temperature Tj is higher than the threshold value Tx, at a second limit current value IOCP having a flat temperature response and lower than the first limit current value IOCP.
US12095249B1
A powered wall plate has a wall plate, an electrical circuit, at least two electrical plug prongs, and at least one mounting screw aperture. The wall plate has a front surface opposite a rear surface, as well as at least one opening extending through the front surface and the rear surface and sized to expose a first electrical receptacle of an electrical device therethrough. The electrical circuit is located between the front surface and the rear surface. The at least two electrical plug prongs are coupled to the electrical circuit within the wall plate and extend away from the rear surface of the wall plate. In addition, the at least two electrical plug prongs are configured to removably mate with a second electrical receptacle of the electrical device. A distance between the at least one mounting screw aperture and the at least two electrical plug prongs is adjustable.
US12095245B2
A wire harness wall-passing structure and an installation method thereof. The wire harness wall-passing structure comprises: a sleeve pipe, a pouring sealant, and at least one sealing plug, wherein the sleeve pipe is alternately filled with the pouring sealant and the sealing plug along the axis direction of the sleeve pipe; and at least one first through hole formed in the sealing plug, and a wire harness which can penetrate through the pouring sealant and the first through hole in the sealing plug. According to the wire harness wall-passing structure, the sleeve pipe is filled with the pouring sealant and the sealing plug, so multi-stage sealing and multi-time sealing of the wire harness are achieved, the sealing performance of the wall-passing structure is greatly improved, and the wire harness wall-passing structure is more suitable for to-be-fixed devices such as a high pressure vessel.
US12095239B2
The present disclosure makes it possible to reduce intervals between device units placed in a gas-insulated switchgear, thus achieving size reduction of the gas-insulated switchgear. A gas-insulated switchgear includes: a device housing having an operation door; a sealed container placed inside the device housing; and a circuit breaker unit and a ground switch unit attached to a side surface of the sealed container opposed to the operation door, via flange portions. A distance from the operation door to the side surface of the sealed container opposed to the operation door is different between a part where the circuit breaker unit is attached and a part where the ground switch unit is attached, so as to avoid interference between the circuit breaker unit and the ground switch unit.
US12095231B2
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser includes an active area, an inner trench, an outer trench, and a first implantation region. The active area includes a first mirror, an active region, a second mirror, and an etch stop layer. The first mirror is formed over a substrate. The active region is formed over the first mirror. The second mirror is formed over the active region. The etch stop layer with an aperture is formed between the active region and the second mirror. The inner trench surrounds the active area in a top view. The outer trench is formed beside the inner trench. The first implantation region is formed below the inner trench.
US12095229B2
The invention relates to a light emitter unit having at least one VCSEL chip, which light emitter unit comprises: a light exit surface, via which light produced by the VCSEL chip and radiated perpendicularly to the chip plane is emitted into the surroundings; and contacts for supplying the electrical energy required for the production of the light by the VCSEL chip. The described technical solution is characterized in that at least one lateral surface of the VCSEL chip arranged perpendicularly to the chip plane is touched and covered, at least in parts, by a cover element.
US12095225B2
The DML driver includes: a post driver which supplies a driving current to the LD; and a pre-driver which drives the post driver in response to a modulated signal. The pre-driver has a transistor, a peaking inductor, a peaking inductor, a group delay inhibition inductor, and a peaking capacitor.
US12095220B2
An optical module unit includes: optical modules each including light emitting elements; and a mount on which the light emitting elements are disposed on one side of the mount, and includes a sub-passage; and a manifold to which the optical modules are fixed. The manifold includes a first main passage to which a first end of each of the sub-passages is connected in parallel.
US12095211B2
The present invention relates to a power track (10) for mounting and powering an electronic product (12), the power track comprising: a mounting surface (14) comprising means (16) for surface-mounting the power track on an installation surface (18); a linear opening (20; 20′) extending along at least a portion of the length (L) of the power track, the linear opening being adapted to receive a connector (22) of the electronic product to be mounted to the power track, wherein the linear opening is facing in a direction (24; 24′) parallel to the mounting surface; and a linear light source (30; 30′; 46; 52).
US12095209B1
An electrical receptacle is provided having electrical connection screws with a shaft, a drive head and an intermediate head. The shaft has a threaded end that is suitable to be selectably turned into the receptacle until electrical wires are pressed between the receptacle and the intermediate head. The drive head is opposite the threaded end of the shaft. A seat is provided between the drive head and intermediate head. A cover is provided having prongs that engage the screws in the seats. The width of the seats provides a lateral tolerance to engagement of the prong and screw. The prongs can be flared at their ends to engage the seat and the prong bodies are held in contact against the seat to provide a secure electrical connection. Electronics can be embedded within the cover so that it glows or shines.
US12095208B2
The present disclosure is generally directed to an RF connector assembly for use within a node of a broadband distribution network, and can receive a center conductor pin of a coaxial cable, e.g., via insertion by a technician, and electrically couple the center conductor pin to circuitry within the node, such as an amplifier. The RF connector assembly preferably also securely physically couples to the center conductor pin via a spring-biased arrangement (and thus by extension securely couples the coaxial cable to the housing of the node) which can supply a bias force to the center conductor pin in response to insertion of the same into the RF connector assembly. This advantageously eliminates the necessity of opening the housing of the node to couple/decouple the center conducting pin of the coaxial cable to the node.
US12095199B2
The disclosure relates to an electrical plug connector, comprising two housing parts, which are connected in a sealing manner on flat contact surfaces. A first housing part is, on its contact surface, equipped with an annular sealing edge directed at the opposite housing part. A second housing part is, on its contact surface, equipped with an annular seal corresponding to the sealing edge. The housing parts may be unreleasably connected to one another at multiple locations radially outside the seal and the sealing edge.
US12095195B2
A connector includes a housing configured to accommodate a connection terminal, a slide shutter configured to open and close a front opening of the housing to which a mating connector is to be fitted, a first shutter inclined surface provided on the slide shutter, and a housing inclined surface provided on the housing so as to face the first shutter inclined surface and configured to slide the slide shutter in a direction intersecting a connector fitting direction to open the front opening in accordance with a pressing force applied in the connector fitting direction by the mating connector.
US12095193B2
A plug connector includes a plug housing including a mating end and a cable end. The cable end is oriented perpendicular to the mating end. The plug housing includes a mating chamber at the mating end and a cable chamber at the cable end. The plug connector includes a contact assembly coupled to the plug housing. The contact assembly includes an array of contacts. Each contact includes a mating end and a terminating end. Each contact is a right angle contact having the terminating end being perpendicular to the mating end. The plug connector includes cables terminated to the terminating ends of the contacts. Ends of the cables extend into the cable end of the plug housing. The cables extend from the plug housing at the cable end. The cables extend along linear cable axes from the contacts to the exterior of the plug housing.
US12095191B2
An evaluation jig comprises a pair of female terminals connectable to a pair of male terminals of a charging connector, and an adjustment member that can adjust contact resistance of the female terminal and the male terminal. The female terminal is reducible in diameter. The adjustment member can apply an external force to the female terminal to reduce the female terminal in diameter.
US12095190B2
A wire harness including: a wire; a wire-side terminal that is electrically connected to the wire; and a terminal block to which the wire-side terminal is attached, wherein: the terminal block includes a holding fitting that holds the wire-side terminal in a state where the wire-side terminal is electrically connected to a contact, the holding fitting includes a plate, and at least one of the wire-side terminal and the holding fitting includes a curved surface that is in contact with the other of the wire-side terminal and the holding fitting in a state where rotation in two directions around two axes that intersect each other is allowed.
US12095184B2
A terminal including a main body part retained by a connector main body and a contact part connected to the upper end of the main body part and the free end of which can be connected to a counterpart terminal of a counterpart connector. The contact part including a connector base connected to the upper end of the main body part, a spring arm connected to the tip of the connector base and bent in a substantially s-shape, and a contact flexure part formed near the free end of the spring arm. The connector main body including a pair of side wall parts that extend in the longitudinal direction thereof and that retain the main body part. The connector base including an outward expanding part that bulges outward from the upper end of the main body part toward the connector main body and straddling the side wall parts without making contact with the side wall parts.
US12095183B2
A press-fit terminal has a press-fit portion that includes a first piece and a second piece that are formed as a result of the metal plate being split into two parts in a width direction of the metal plate by a long slit extending in a lengthwise direction of the metal plate. The first piece is curved to protrude in one direction of the thickness direction of the metal plate, and the second piece is curved to protrude in the other direction of the thickness direction of the metal plate. Each of the first piece and the second piece includes a large thickness portion that is provided at a protruding end portion and two small thickness portions that are provided on both sides in the lengthwise direction with the large thickness portion interposed between the two small thickness portions.
US12095179B2
An electronic device includes a metal back cover and an antenna module. The metal back cover includes a slit. The antenna module is separated from the metal back cover and disposed far away from the slit. The antenna module includes an antenna radiator, a first ground radiator, and a connection radiator. The antenna radiator includes a first section, a second section, and a third section that are sequentially connected and form bends, and the first section has a feeding end. A first slot is formed between the first ground radiator, the first section, the second section, and a part of the third section. A width and length of the first slot are associated with a center frequency and impedance matching of a high frequency band.
US12095178B2
A multi-polarization antenna includes a plurality of antenna elements and a dielectric arrangement operably coupled with the plurality of antenna elements. The dielectric arrangement is arranged to cooperate with the plurality of antenna elements to (i) facilitate transmission and/or receive of, at least, electromagnetic waves with a first polarization, electromagnetic waves with a second polarization different from the first polarization, and electromagnetic waves with a third polarization different from the first polarization and the second polarization, and (ii) reduce, limit, and/or eliminate mutual coupling between at least some of the plurality of antenna elements during operation. The first, second, and third polarizations are non-orthogonal.
US12095172B2
An antenna comprising the primary and secondary radiation structures and impedance-matching circuit are disposed in a collinear configuration with single port. The impedance-matching circuit can expand the antenna bandwidth in plural frequency bands with low VSWR. The transmission line between the RF connector and radiation structures are frictional wrapped by ferrite toroid cores, which improves the antenna in term of electrical stability. This also decreases the antenna sensitivity to the ground plane.
US12095150B2
A vehicle provided with an antenna according to the present invention comprises: a conical array antenna in which cone radiators are arranged at certain intervals, wherein the cone radiators are provided between a first substrate and a second substrate and have upper portions connected to the first substrate, lower portions connected to the second substrate, and openings at the upper portions thereof; a patch array radiator which is formed on the first substrate and in which metal patches formed to be separated from the top openings are arranged; shorting pins formed so as to electrically connect the metal patches and a ground layer of the second substrate; and a transceiver circuit for controlling a signal to be radiated through at least one of the conical array antennas, thereby improving a signal reception performance in almost any direction of the vehicle.
US12095133B2
A diplexer for an antenna comprises a first waveguide operative in a first frequency range, a second waveguide operative in a second higher frequency range, a third waveguide operative in the first frequency range, a transmission device including at least three electric conductors, in which at least one of (i) or (ii) is met: (i) the transmission device is operative to receive electromagnetic radiations with at least one type of polarization and in the first frequency range from the third waveguide and to transmit electromagnetic radiations with the type of polarization and in the first frequency range to the first waveguide; (ii) the transmission device is operative to receive electromagnetic radiations with at least one type of polarization and in the first frequency range from the first waveguide and to transmit electromagnetic radiations with the type of polarization and in the first frequency range to the third waveguide.
US12095131B2
Each of a fuel cell and a fuel cell stack includes an anode discharge passage connected to one end of a fuel gas flow field in the horizontal direction and configured to discharge a fuel gas in a stacking direction in which a membrane electrode assembly and separators are stacked, and a cathode discharge passage connected to another end of an oxygen-containing gas flow field in the horizontal direction and configured to discharge an oxygen-containing gas in the stacking direction. A bottom portion of a lowermost cathode discharge passage is provided below a bottom portion of a lowermost anode discharge passage.
US12095130B2
Systems and methods are provided for mechanical pretreatment of bipolar plates, for example, for plating electrodes in redox flow batteries. In one example, a method for disrupting surfaces of a bipolar plate may include pressing the bipolar plate between imprint plates, and removing the pressed bipolar plate from the imprint plates prior to use in a redox flow battery. In some examples, the pressed bipolar plate may include negative indentations from at least one of the imprint plates. In some examples, the imprint plates may be patterned meshes, such that the negative indentations may include patterns of asymmetric protrusions. In this way, the bipolar plate may be pretreated via pressing so as to reduce wear to manufacturing equipment (relative to other mechanical pretreatment processes, for example) while maintaining electrochemical performance of the redox flow battery.
US12095128B2
A solid oxide type fuel battery cell includes a substrate that has electrical insulation, a solid electrolyte that includes first parts, and residual parts different in shape from the first parts, a plurality of electricity generation elements, each electricity generation element including a fuel electrode on the substrate, one of the residual parts on the fuel electrode, and an air electrode on the one of the residual parts, a length of each electricity generation element in a longitudinal direction being defined by a length of the air electrode, and a plurality of electrical connection parts, each electrical connection part being disposed between adjacent two of the plurality of electricity generation elements, each electrical connection part including an electrical connection member that electrically connects a fuel electrode of first one of the plurality of electricity generation elements and an air electrode of second one of the plurality of electricity generation elements.
US12095124B2
A fuel cell system includes at least one hot box including a fuel cell stack and producing an anode exhaust product, at least one hydrogen pump, at least one product conduit fluidly connecting an anode exhaust product outlet of the hot box to an inlet of the at least one hydrogen pump, a compressed hydrogen product conduit connected to a compressed hydrogen product outlet of the at least one hydrogen pump, and at least one effluent conduit connected to an unpumped effluent outlet of the at least one hydrogen pump. Additional embodiments include a fuel cell system in which the anode exhaust product stream is provided to at least one carbon dioxide pump to generate a compressed carbon dioxide product and an unpumped effluent that may be recycled to the at least one hot box of the fuel cell system. In various embodiments, the fuel cell system may use or recapture essentially all of the hydrogen content and nearly all of the carbon content of the input fuel that is provided to the fuel cell system.
US12095122B2
A fuel cell system includes a first fluid flow plate including a first plurality of first channels for flow of an oxidant or a fuel. The plurality of first channel has first channel cross-sectional flow areas. A second fluid flow plate includes a second plurality of second channels for flow of an oxidant or a fuel. The plurality of second channels has second channel cross-sectional flow areas. A membrane electrode assembly is located between the first plate and the second plate. The first flow plate includes a passage for a flow of a fluid entirely on a seam side of the first flow plate as the first plurality of first channels. The passage has a cross-sectional area for flow of the fluid smaller than the first channel cross-sectional flow area.
US12095119B2
A sensor device includes a pressure sensor configured to measure an internal air pressure and generate a sensor signal representative of the measured internal air pressure; a serial peripheral interface (SPI) configured to receive SPI commands; a wake-up terminal configured to output fault signals; and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configurable between a normal running mode and a low power monitoring (LPM) mode. In LPM mode, the processing circuit is configured to alternate between a sampling phase during which the processing circuit evaluates the sensor signal and a powered-down phase during which the processing circuit is in a low power state. The processing circuit is configured to monitor for at least one SPI communication fault corresponding to information received on the SPI, generate a communication fault signal in response to detecting the at least one SPI communication fault, and output the communication fault signal from the wake-up terminal.
US12095117B2
An insulator for a secondary battery and a secondary battery including the insulator are disclosed. According to one aspect, an insulator for a secondary battery includes: a body part configured to define a body; and a buffer part adhering to a top surface of the body part, wherein the buffer part includes a plurality of protrusions that protrude upward, and the body part is made of a material different from that of the buffer part.
US12095113B2
Provided is a composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery functional layer with which it is possible to form a functional layer that can cause a separator to display excellent shutdown function. The composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery functional layer contains organic particles A. The organic particles A contain a polymer X including an aromatic vinyl monomer unit in a proportion of 20 mass % or more and a wax having a melting point of lower than 95° C. The wax is preferably an ester wax.
US12095108B2
An electric energy storage device, comprising N energy units with a same rated voltage and provided with a socket, wherein the N energy units are equally divided into M energy modules. Each energy module comprises K energy units, wherein M≥2 and K≥2, and can be switched between parallel and series connection states. The disclosure also provides an electric tool system, wherein the electric tools with different rated voltages have different plugs, and the electric energy storage device outputs different voltages after connecting with the socket. The electric energy storage device with multiple output voltages can be suitable for electric energy storage devices with different rated voltages, and reduces the cost.
US12095105B2
A battery pack has reduced manufacturing cost, improved heat dissipation efficiency, and enhanced product stability. The battery pack includes a cover structure including a first cover frame having a plate shape with both front and rear ends bent leftward to form an inner space and a second cover frame having a portion coupled to the first cover frame and having a plate shape with both front and rear ends bent rightward to form an inner space; a first battery module having a plurality of battery cells; and a second battery module having a plurality of battery cells.
US12095103B2
An active material container for a functional housing has an air-permeable casing with an interior and an active material arranged inside the interior. One or more rim-side guide elements are arranged at the air-permeable casing and are provided to linearly slidably guide the active material container in an insertion direction in corresponding guide elements of a receptacle of the functional housing. The functional housing is preferably a battery housing.
US12095100B2
An energy-storage apparatus and an electricity-consumption device are disclosed. The energy-storage apparatus includes a housing, an electrode assembly, an end cover assembly, and a first connector. The end cover assembly includes a top cover and a lower plastic assembly. The lower plastic assembly is disposed between the top cover and the electrode assembly. The top cover includes a first stimulus-response member. The lower plastic assembly includes a first-lower-plastic-member body having a first surface and a second surface, a first recess recessed from the second surface to the first surface, and a first vent hole defined in a recess bottom-wall of the first recess and penetrates through the recess bottom-wall and the first surface. A part of the first recess is blocked by the first connector, and the rest of the first recess exposed beyond the first connector forms a vent passage in communication with the first vent hole.
US12095092B2
An electrode for a secondary battery includes: an electrode current collector; and an electrode mixture layer formed on at least one surface of the electrode current collector. Based on a region corresponding to 50% of a thickness of the electrode mixture layer in a direction in which the electrode mixture layer is formed from a surface of the electrode current collector, a ratio (B/A) of cohesive force (A) between an electrode active material and a binder or between adjacent binders included in a lower region, and cohesive force (B) between an electrode active material and a binder or between adjacent binders included in an upper region is less than 1.5.
US12095085B2
The present disclosure discloses a preparation method of a tin-based lithium cobaltate precursor and use thereof. The method involves adding a cobalt salt solution, a precipitant and a complexing agent for reaction to obtain a precipitate, wherein the precipitant is a mixed solution of carbonate and stannate; calcining the precipitate; and mixing the calcined material with dioxane, ball-milling the mixture, and subjecting the ball-milled product to a heating and pressurization treatment to obtain the tin-based lithium cobaltate precursor. In the present disclosure, after carbonate and stannate are blended, the blend react with cobalt salt to form the co-precipitate of cobalt carbonate and cobalt stannate, and after calcination, a mixture of cobalt(II,III) oxide and tin dioxide is formed. By utilizing dioxane for solvent hot pressing, particles are bonded to each other, forming grain boundary channels. In addition, by doping with tin, the conductivity of the material is improved.
US12095075B2
A method for preparing a carbon nanostructure including molybdenum disulfide is discussed. More particularly, a method is discussed for preparing a carbon nanostructure in which molybdenum disulfide is located on the surface by melt diffusion and heat treatment of a mixture of a molybdenum precursor, a carbon nanostructure, and sulfur. Also, a positive electrode of a lithium secondary battery including a carbon nanostructure including molybdenum disulfide as an additive, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. In the case of the lithium secondary battery including the positive electrode to which the carbon nanostructure including molybdenum disulfide was applied, the carbon nanostructure including the molybdenum disulfide adsorbs lithium polysulfide (LiPS) generated during the charging/discharging process of the lithium secondary battery, thereby increasing the charging/discharging efficiency of the battery and improving lifetime characteristics.
US12095072B2
A process for delineating a population of electrode structures in a web includes laser ablating the web to form ablations in the web, each ablation being formed by removing a portion of an electrochemically active layer to thereby expose a portion of an electrically conductive layer. The process includes forming alignment features in the web that are formed at predetermined locations on the web. The process also includes laser machining the web to form weakened tear patterns in the web that delineate members of the electrode structure population, each of the delineated members being individually bounded, at least in part, by a member of the weakened tear patterns that is adapted to facilitate separation of delineated members, individually, from the web by an application of a force, the alignment features being used to aid in the formation of the weakened tear patterns.
US12095070B2
The present invention comprises: a pre-aging step for aging, at room temperature, a secondary battery comprising a cathode including a cathode active material, an anode including an anode active material, a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode, and an electrolyte (S100); a first charging step for primarily charging the pre-aged secondary battery to an SOC of the secondary battery of 60% or higher (S200); a high-temperature aging step for aging the primarily charged secondary battery at a high temperature (S300); and a room-temperature aging step for aging the high-temperature aged secondary battery at room temperature (S400), wherein the room-temperature aging step comprises a resetting process for charging the secondary battery to the same SOC as in the first charging step.
US12095069B2
In an embodiment a power apparatus includes a fuel cell configured to supply power to an inverter of a vehicle, a supercapacitor configured to assist the fuel cell, a bidirectional converter configured to charge and discharge the fuel cell and the supercapacitor and a controller configured to drive the vehicle by controlling the supercapacitor to be charged and discharged depending on a current required by the inverter for driving the vehicle and to assist the fuel cell.
US12095068B2
A lithium-air battery cell wherein the positive electrode includes a solid p-type electroactive organic catalyst lithium salt and a battery pack including several lithium-air battery cells. The use of a battery pack as a rechargeable battery for vehicles, such as electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles, electronic devices, and stationary power generating devices. Finally, a vehicle, an electronic device, and a stationary power generating device, including a battery pack.
US12095066B2
A multi-layer heat insulation element for thermal insulation of a battery is proposed, with a first cover layer, with a second cover layer and with a compressible and/or pliable intermediate ply arranged between the cover layers, which has at least one heat-resistant fibre layer, wherein the fibre layer is formed from a needled nonwoven and/or wherein the cover layers are flexurally weak and the heat insulation element as a whole is compressible and flexibly pliable.
US12095064B2
The invention relates to a battery module having with a main body (1) for accommodating individual battery cells (4) arranged in parallel with respect to a joining axis (2), which main body forms a flow channel (6) extending transversely to the joining axis (2) for a temperature-control fluid flowing directly against the cell shells of the battery cells (4). In order not only to reduce the risk of thermal damage to individual battery cells (4) during peak loads, but also to prevent the propagation of a chain reaction in the event of a thermal runaway fault, it is proposed that, for each battery cell (4), a burst protection sleeve (7, 8), which surrounds the battery cell (4) circumferentially with a clearance by forming an air gap (10), is mounted upstream and downstream of the flow channel (6) in the direction of the joining axis (2), wherein the flow channel (6) extends over a height of 28-60% of the battery cell (4) and each burst protection sleeve (7, 8) extends separately over a height of 20-36% of the battery cell (4).
US12095058B2
A method for preparing a copper-based anode material from a waste battery includes the following steps: (1) disassembling a waste battery and taking out an anode plate; (2) using the anode plate in step (1) as an anode and taking a copper foil current collector as a cathode, and placing the anode and the cathode in an electroplating solution for electroplating; (3) after the electroplating is completed, collecting anode powder separated from the anode and soaking the copper foil current collector in an acid solution; (4) washing and drying the soaked copper foil current collector; and (5) calcinating the copper foil current collector to obtain a copper-base anode material.
US12095055B2
Provided are a sensing assembly and a battery module including the same, having improved economical efficiency in such a manner that a relatively expensive flexible printed circuit board is used in a smaller amount by allowing a relatively inexpensive rigid printed circuit board to replace a portion of the flexible printed circuit board used for a conventional sensing assembly.
US12095046B2
A battery pack comprises a set of battery cells, a battery cell holder holding the battery cells, at least one battery strap having a first end connected to a terminal of one of the battery cells and a second end extending from the battery cell holder, a printed circuit board having a first side and a second side, components mounted on the second side of the printed circuit board, a trace on the second side of the printed circuit board extending from one components to a contact connected to the trace and mated with the second end of the at least one battery strap. Multiple vias extend from the first side to the second side, and the contact comprises a first portion having a through hole and a leg integrally formed with and approximately perpendicular to the first portion, the leg extending from the first side of the PCB to the second side of the PCB through a first via, the trace extending from the first via, the leg soldered to the second side of the PCB and the via and the through hole aligned with a second via adjacent to the first via, the through hole sized and configured to receive a PCB end of the strap, the PCB end of the strap soldered to the contact.
US12095045B2
A battery pack including a plurality of battery cells; a first case accommodating the plurality of battery cells; a protection circuit module coupled to one side of the plurality of battery cells and electrically connecting the plurality of battery cells; a bus bar electrically connected to the protection circuit module and extending in one direction along the plurality of battery cells; and a second case coupled to the first case and accommodating the plurality of battery cells, the protection circuit module, and the bus bar, wherein the bus bar includes a diverged branch formed by cutting a region of the bus bar in the one direction.
US12095028B2
According to one embodiment, a secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a nonaqueous electrolyte and a separator. The positive electrode includes a halide including one or more metal elements selected from the group consisting of copper, iron, nickel, cobalt, tin, and zinc. The negative electrode includes one or more selected from the group consisting of lithium metal, a lithium alloy, and a compound capable of having Li inserted and extracted. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains aluminum ions. The separator has lithium ion conductivity and is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.
US12095021B2
The present invention relates to a battery cell sealing device for sealing a pouch of a battery cell, more particularly, to a battery cell sealing device configured to be capable of simultaneously sealing a plurality of battery cells accommodated in one chamber to be able to increase production or processing capacity of the battery cells in one chamber and accordingly, decrease cost of an entire equipment.
US12095016B1
An integrated optically functional multilayer structure including a flexible, substrate film arranged with a circuit design including electrical conductors on a first side of the substrate film; at least one light source provided upon the first side of the substrate film and connected to the circuit design the at least one light source internally illuminates at least a portion of the structure for external perception; and an optically transmissive layer produced upon the first side of the substrate film and the at least one light source said optically transmissive layer at least partially covering the substrate film and embedding the at least one light source; wherein the substrate film defines holes therethrough and upon one or more of them the optically transmissive layer defines an outcoupling surface, configured to redirect and reflect, incident light emitted by light sources of the at least one light source.
US12095013B2
In an embodiment a method for producing a plurality of radiation-emitting devices includes providing a plurality of semiconductor chips on a main surface of a carrier, each semiconductor chip for emitting electromagnetic radiation from a radiation exit surface, arranging a lens mold with a plurality of cavities over the carrier, introducing a liquid mold material into the cavities of the lens mold and curing the liquid mold material such that a plurality of molded lenses is generated, wherein the molded lenses directly adjoin the main surface of the carrier, wherein regions of an outer surface of the molded lenses directly adjacent to the main surface of the carrier are free of planar areas, and wherein the carrier includes a plurality of carrier elements, the carrier elements having a first recess in a main surface extending from a side face of the carrier element.
US12095011B2
A display substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of light-emitting units, a protecting layer and a connecting line. The base substrate is a transparent substrate, and the plurality of light-emitting units, the protecting layer and the connecting line are laminated in sequence along a direction distal from the base substrate. A via is arranged in the protecting layer, one end of the connecting line is connected to the plurality of light-emitting units through the via, and the other end of the connecting line is configured to connect to a driving circuit of a display apparatus.
US12095007B2
A light emitting element includes a first light emitting portion and a second light emitting portion. The first light emitting portion includes a first stacked body having a first n-type layer, a first active layer, a first p-type layer, a first tunnel junction layer, and a second n-type layer. The second light emitting portion includes a second stacked body having a third n-type layer, a second p-type layer, a second tunnel junction layer, a fourth n-type layer, a second active layer, a third p-type layer, and a transmissive conductive film. A resistivity of the second n-type layer is higher than a resistivity of the transmissive conductive film. A thickness of the second n-type layer is larger than a thickness of the transmissive conductive film.
US12095002B2
A group-III-nitride structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. In the manufacturing method, a first mask layer is first formed on a substrate; an uncoalesced second group-III-nitride epitaxial layer is formed by performing a first epitaxial growth with the first mask layer as a mask; and a second mask layer is formed at least on the second group-III-nitride epitaxial layer; a third group-III-nitride epitaxial layer is laterally grown and formed by performing a second epitaxial growth on the second group-III-nitride epitaxial layer with the second mask layer as a mask, where the second group-III-nitride epitaxial layer is coalesced by the third group-III-nitride epitaxial layer; a fourth group-III-nitride epitaxial layer is formed by performing a third epitaxial growth on the third group-III-nitride epitaxial layer.
US12094997B2
A method includes forming image sensors in a semiconductor substrate. A first alignment mark is formed close to a front side of the semiconductor substrate. The method further includes performing a backside polishing process to thin the semiconductor substrate, forming a second alignment mark on the backside of the semiconductor substrate, and forming a feature on the backside of the semiconductor substrate. The feature is formed using the second alignment mark for alignment.
US12094993B2
The HCPV system includes a plurality of modules connected to an array, a casing, a plurality of inverted pyramids, a plurality of solar cells, and a backplate. Each module includes an optical component that concentrates light onto a single solar cell and a single inverted pyramid with solid lateral faces connects the optical component at a peripheral edge of a base of the pyramid to the single solar cell at an apex of the inverted pyramid. The casing has a top frame and a bottom frame. The top frame surrounds each optical component on the peripheral edge of the pyramid, and the bottom frame surrounds each solar cell on the apex of the pyramid. The top frame and bottom frame are separated by a plurality of supports. The backplate is a plurality of interconnected circular pads.
US12094987B2
Integrated optical filter and photodetectors and methods of fabrication thereof are described herein according to the present disclosure. An example of an integrated optical filter and photodetector described herein includes a substrate, an insulator layer on the substrate, and a semiconductor layer on the insulator layer. An optical filter having a resonant cavity is formed in or on the semiconductor layer. The integrated optical filter and photodetector further includes two first metal fingers and a second metal finger interdigitated between the two first metal fingers on the semiconductor layer forming Schottky barriers. The first metal fingers are constructed from a different metal relative to the second metal finger.
US12094984B2
A semiconductor device includes a non-volatile memory (NVM) cell. The NVM cell includes a semiconductor wire disposed over an insulating layer disposed on a substrate. The NVM cell includes a select transistor and a control transistor. The select transistor includes a gate dielectric layer disposed around the semiconductor wire and a select gate electrode disposed on the gate dielectric layer. The control transistor includes a stacked dielectric layer disposed around the semiconductor wire and a control gate electrode disposed on the stacked dielectric layer. The stacked dielectric layer includes a charge trapping layer. The select gate electrode is disposed adjacent to the control gate electrode with the stacked dielectric layer interposed therebetween.
US12094972B2
Disclosed are a gate-all-around field effect transistor (GAAFET) and method. The GAAFET includes stacked nanosheets having end portions adjacent to source/drain regions and a center portion between the end portions. The thickness of each nanosheet is tapered from a maximum thickness near the source/drain regions to a minimum thickness near and across the center portion. A gate wraps around each center portion. Inner spacers are aligned below the end portions between the gate and source/drain regions. The thickness of each inner spacer is tapered from a maximum thickness at the gate to a minimum thickness near the adjacent source/drain region. Each inner spacer includes a first spacer layer immediately adjacent to the gate, a second spacer layer immediately adjacent to the gate at least above the first spacer layer and further extending laterally beyond the first spacer layer toward or to the adjacent source/drain region, and, optionally, an air-gap.
US12094971B2
An electronic device includes a ferroelectric layer arranged on a channel region and a gate electrode arranged on the ferroelectric layer. The ferroelectric layer includes a plurality of first oxide monolayers and a second oxide monolayers that is arranged between the substrate and the gate electrode and include a material different from a material of the first oxide monolayers. The first oxide monolayers include oxide monolayers that are alternately formed and include materials different from one another.
US12094966B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, first semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type, second semiconductor regions of the second conductivity type, third semiconductor regions of the second conductivity type, provided in the second semiconductor layer at positions facing the first semiconductor regions in a depth direction and having an impurity concentration higher than an impurity concentration of the second semiconductor layer, trenches, gate insulating films, gate electrodes, a first electrode, a second electrode, and third electrodes. The third electrodes form Schottky junctions with the second semiconductor layer and are provided on the surface of portions of the second semiconductor layer free of the third semiconductor regions.
US12094953B2
Short channel, horizontal gate-all-around (GAA) nanostructure (e.g., nanosheet, nanowire, or the like) transistors, methods of manufacturing and devices formed with the GAA transistors are disclosed herein. According to some methods, the GAA transistors are formed with a guard band for preventing diffusion of APT doping into the channel region, with shallow source/drain depths, and/or with epitaxial growth of the device channel regions after well and APT implantation in the substrate. As such, the GAA transistors are formed to mitigate issues such as bottom sheet voltage threshold (Vt) shift, junction leakage, APT dopant out-diffusion, well proximity effect, APT implant contamination that may be induced by anti-punch through (APT) doping diffusion during fabrication of gate all-around (GAA) transistors. The GAA transistors and methods of manufacturing, however, may be utilized in a wide variety of ways, and may be integrated into a wide variety of devices and technologies.
US12094951B1
A semiconductor device and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. The method can include forming a fin structure on a substrate, forming a source/drain (S/D) region on the fin structure, forming a gate structure on the fin structure adjacent to the S/D region, and forming a capping structure on the gate structure. The forming the capping structure includes forming a conductive cap on the gate structure, forming a cap liner on the conductive cap, and forming a carbon-based cap on the cap liner. The method further includes forming a first contact structure on the S/D region, forming an insulating cap on the first contact structure, and forming a second contact structure on the conductive cap.
US12094945B2
A semiconductor structure and a forming method thereof are disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure. The semiconductor structure includes: a base, wherein a gate dielectric layer defining a groove is provided in the base, a source region and a drain region are located on two opposite sides at a top of the groove, and the groove has an extension direction parallel to a surface of the base; a first gate, including a first work function layer and a first conductive layer, wherein the first work function layer covers a bottom surface and partial sidewall of the groove, and the first conductive layer covers a surface of the first work function layer; and a second gate, including a second work function layer and a second conductive layer, wherein the second gate is laminated on the first gate and has a top surface lower than the surface of the base.
US12094932B2
A power device includes a packaged semiconductor switch containing first and second series-connected insulated-gate transistors, first and second control terminals electrically connected to the first and second insulated-gate transistors, respectively, first and second current carrying terminals electrically connected to the first and second insulated-gate transistors, respectively, and a voltage-monitoring terminal electrically connected to an internal node shared by first and second current carrying regions within the first and second insulated-gate transistors, respectively. The first and second control terminals can be electrically connected to a gate of the first insulated-gate transistor and a gate of the second insulated-gate transistor, respectively; and the first and second current carrying terminals can be electrically connected to a source of the first insulated-gate transistor and a drain (or collector) of the second insulated-gate transistor. The voltage-monitoring terminal is electrically connected to a drain of the first insulated-gate transistor and a source (or emitter) of the second insulated-gate transistor.
US12094931B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second nitride semiconductor layers, a source, a drain, a gate structure, first and second p-type doped nitride semiconductor compound islands. The second nitride semiconductor layer is disposed on the first nitride semiconductor layer and has a bandgap greater than that of the first nitride semiconductor layer. The source, the drain, and the gate structure are disposed on the second nitride semiconductor layer. The drain viewed in a direction normal to the second nitride semiconductor layer extends longitudinally in an extending direction. The gate structure is between the source and the drain. The first p-type doped nitride semiconductor compound islands are disposed on the second nitride semiconductor layer and arranged adjacent to the drain along the extending direction. The second p-type doped nitride semiconductor compound island is disposed between the gate structure and the second nitride semiconductor layer.
US12094929B2
The present application belongs to the technical field of semiconductor power devices and provides a semiconductor power device. The semiconductor power device includes an n-shaped substrate, an n-shaped epitaxial layer positioned on the n-shaped substrate, and at least three grooves recessed inside the n-shaped epitaxial layer, where a portion of the n-shaped epitaxial layer between two adjacent grooves of the at least three grooves is a mesa structure, an upper part of the mesa structure is provided with a p-shaped body region, and an n-shaped source region is provided inside the p-shaped body region. The mesa structure includes at least one mesa structure with a lower width being a first width and at least one mesa structure with a lower width being a second width, and the second width is greater than the first width.
US12094927B2
The present disclosure is directed to gate-all-around (GAA) transistor structures with a low level of leakage current and low power consumption. For example, the GAA transistor includes a semiconductor layer with a first source/drain (S/D) epitaxial structure and a second S/D epitaxial structure disposed thereon, where the first and second S/D epitaxial structures are spaced apart by semiconductor nano-sheet layers. The semiconductor structure further includes isolation structures interposed between the semiconductor layer and each of the first and second S/D epitaxial structures. The GAA transistor further includes a gate stack surrounding the semiconductor nano-sheet layers.
US12094926B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming a semiconductor device that includes a deep shielding pattern that may improve a reliability and/or a functioning of the device. An example method may include forming a wide band-gap semiconductor layer structure on a substrate, the semiconductor layer structure including a drift region that has a first conductivity type; forming a plurality of gate trenches in an upper portion of the semiconductor layer structure, the gate trenches spaced apart from each other, each gate trench having a bottom surface, a first sidewall, a second sidewall, and an upper opening; forming an obstruction over a portion of each gate trench that partially obscures the upper opening; and implanting dopants having a second conductivity type that is opposite the first conductivity type into the bottom surfaces of the gate trenches, where the dopants implanted into the bottom surface of the gate trenches form deep shielding patterns.
US12094925B1
A three-dimensional device structure includes a first die including a first semiconductor substrate, a second die disposed on the first die and including a second semiconductor substrate, a dielectric encapsulation (DE) layer disposed on the first die and surrounding the second die, a redistribution layer structure disposed on the second die and the DE layer, and an integrated passive device (IPD) embedded in the DE layer and electrically connected to the first die and the redistribution layer structure.
US12094922B2
An inductance structure is provided and includes a plurality of inductance traces embedded in an insulating body and at least one shielding layer that is embedded in the insulating body and free from being electrically connected to the inductance traces. The shielding layer has a plurality of line segments that are free from being connected to one another. The shielding layer shields the inductance traces to improve the inductance value and quality factor.
US12094918B2
Disclosed is a technology of preferentially forming an ohmic contact layer and a conductor layer before separating a nanorod light emitting diode (LED) from a substrate, thereby being capable of omitting a heat treatment process performed at high temperature after aligning the nanorod LED, and, accordingly, preventing electrical short while maximizing the quantum efficiency of the nanorod LED and increasing a selection range of a material constituting a light emitting diode (LED) display. More particularly, the nanorod LED includes a first semiconductor layer; a multi-quantum well structure layer; a second semiconductor layer; and a conductor layer formed on at least one semiconductor layer of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, wherein a length and shape of the conductor layer are controlled such that the multi-quantum well structure layer is disposed between two electrodes of the electrode pattern on which the conductor layer is to be aligned.
US12094917B2
A unit of light-emitting elements includes: a plurality of light-emitting elements; and a binder extending around a periphery of the light-emitting elements and fixing the light-emitting elements. Each of the light-emitting elements includes: first and second semiconductor layers; and an active layer therebetween. A first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer of a first light-emitting element are arranged along a first direction in this order, and a second semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a first semiconductor layer of a second light-emitting element are arranged along the first direction in this order.
US12094897B2
An imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor substrate having an effective pixel region in which a plurality of pixels is disposed and a peripheral region provided around the effective pixel region; a photoelectric converter; a first hydrogen block layer; an interlayer insulating layer; and a separation groove. The photoelectric converter includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electric charge accumulation layer and a photoelectric conversion layer. The first electrode is provided on a light receiving surface side of the semiconductor substrate and includes a plurality of electrodes. The second electrode is disposed to be opposed to the first electrode. The electric charge accumulation layer and the photoelectric conversion layer are stacked and provided in order between the first electrode and the second electrode and extend in the effective pixel region. The first hydrogen block layer covers a top and a side surface of the photoelectric conversion layer and a side surface of the electric charge accumulation layer. The interlayer insulating layer is provided between the semiconductor substrate and the photoelectric converter. The separation groove separates the interlayer insulating layer in at least a portion of a region between the effective pixel region and the peripheral region. The separation groove has a side surface and a bottom surface covered with the first hydrogen block layer.
US12094890B2
The present application provides a sensor module, a method for manufacturing the sensor module, and a display panel. The sensor module is integrated by a light-sensitive PN junction and a bottom-gate thin film transistor, a limitation of an integration of top-gate thin film transistor photosensitive sensor is prevented, and a problem of increased thickness and development cost in an integration of a photosensitive sensor on a bottom surface and the display panel is solved.
US12094888B2
An array substrate includes a substrate, a first metal layer and an active layer disposed on the substrate, an interlayer insulating layer, and a second metal layer. The first metal layer forms at least one first trace, the interlayer insulating layer is disposed on the first metal layer and the active layer, the second metal layer is disposed on the interlayer insulating layer, the interlayer insulating layer is formed with a first contact hole, and the second metal layer is connected to the first trace through the first contact hole. The first metal layer includes a conductive layer and a first protective layer stacked in sequence.
US12094887B2
A display apparatus includes a wireless transmission unit and a display panel. The display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel units and a signal line. The substrate includes a display region and a periphery region. The periphery region surrounds the display region. The pixel units are disposed on the display region. Each of the pixel units includes an active device and a pixel electrode. The active device is electrically connected to the pixel electrode. The signal line is on the periphery region. As viewed from a top view, the signal line has an annular shape having a gap and surrounds the display region.
US12094885B2
A display device includes: a display panel having a first side and a second side facing the first side in a first direction, the display panel including a recessed portion having a recessed shape from the first side of the display panel toward the second side in the first direction, the recessed portion including a side extended from the first side of the display panel; a pad portion disposed on a front surface of the display panel, the pad portion being adjacent to at least one side of the recessed portion; and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) connected to the pad portion, the FPC being bent to a rear surface of the display panel around the at least one side of the recessed portion, the rear surface opposing the front surface.
US12094883B2
A display device, includes: a first gate electrode; a lower insulating film; a lower gate insulating film including a metal oxide film; and an oxide semiconductor layer, all of which are provided on a substrate in a stated order; and a first transistor provided on the substrate and including the oxide semiconductor layer, the first transistor including one or more first transistors, the first transistor including: a first channel region; a first conductor region holding the first channel region; and the first gate electrode across the lower gate insulating film from the first channel region, and between the lower insulating film and the first gate electrode, a clearance being provided, and the clearance being filled with the lower gate insulating film.
US12094874B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device includes a first three-dimensional semiconductor structure of a first conductivity type protruding from a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device includes a second three-dimensional semiconductor structure of a second conductivity type protruding from the surface of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor having a first source/drain structure formed in the first three-dimensional semiconductor structure, a second source/drain structure formed in the second three-dimensional semiconductor structure, a first gate structure straddling a first portion of the first three-dimensional semiconductor structure and a first portion of the second three-dimensional semiconductor structure, and a second gate structure straddling a second portion of the second three-dimensional semiconductor structure.
US12094871B2
An integrated circuit includes a diode string, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a third transistor. The diode string is coupled between a first reference voltage pin and an input/output (I/O) pad. A first terminal of the second transistor is coupled to a first node, and a gate terminal of the second transistor is coupled to a second reference voltage pin. In response to a voltage at the first terminal of the second transistor being higher than a voltage at the gate terminal of the second transistor, the second transistor is configured to turn on the third transistor, and the third transistor is configured to transmit a voltage received from the first reference voltage pin to a gate terminal of the first transistor.
US12094865B2
A display device and a method for fabricating the same. The display device includes a substrate including a circuit layer and a first pad unit; an auxiliary substrate disposed below the substrate and comprising a driving circuit and a second pad unit; a light-emitting unit disposed on the circuit layer; and a connection electrode in contact with a side surface of the substrate and electrically connecting the first pad unit with the second pad unit. The method includes forming a circuit layer and a first pad unit on a first surface of a substrate; forming a driving circuit and a second pad unit on a fourth surface of an auxiliary substrate; and attaching a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface to a third surface of the auxiliary substrate opposite the fourth surface.
US12094861B2
Disclosed is a light-emitting array structure having a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting pixel units, a plurality of first and second signal wires, and an encapsulating layer. The light-emitting pixel units are arranged in array on the substrate. Each light-emitting pixel unit includes a driving chip, a first flat layer, a first redistribution layer, a second flat layer, a second redistribution layer, and a light-emitting diode. Each first signal wire is electrically connected to a corresponding one of the first redistribution layers and extends in a first direction. The second signal wires extend in a level different from the first signal wires. Each second signal wire is electrically connected to a corresponding one of the second redistribution layers and extends in a second direction different from the first direction. The encapsulating layer covers the light-emitting pixel units, the first and second signal wires, and the substrate.
US12094858B2
A micro light emitting diode display device includes a circuit substrate, a plurality of positioning protrusions disposed on the circuit substrate, and a plurality of micro light emitting diodes. Each positioning protrusion has a positioning side surface and a bottom surface. A first angle is included between each positioning side surface and the corresponding bottom surface. The positioning protrusions form positioning spaces on the circuit substrate. The micro light emitting diodes are disposed in the separated positioning spaces and are electrically connected to the circuit substrate. Each micro light emitting diode has a light emitting surface and a side surface. Each light emitting surface is located at a side of the corresponding micro light emitting diode away from the circuit substrate. A second angle is included between each side surface and the corresponding light emitting surface and is less than 90 degrees and greater than or equal to the first angle.
US12094857B2
The invention relates to a light-emitting element dispersing agent; a light-emitting element ink comprising the same; and a method for producing a display device. This method for producing a display device may comprise spraying an ink including a solvent, light emitting elements, and a light emitting element dispersant onto a target substrate provided with a first electrode and a second electrode, applying a voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode to generate an electric field on the target substrate, irradiating the ink sprayed on the target substrate with light to form a dispersant fragment in which the light emitting element dispersant is decomposed, and removing the solvent and the dispersant fragment of the ink.
US12094853B2
A semiconductor chip with conductive vias and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The method includes forming a first plurality of conductive vias in a layer of a first semiconductor chip The first plurality of conductive vias includes first ends and second ends. A first conductor pad is formed in ohmic contact with the first ends of the first plurality of conductive vias.
US12094843B2
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor die and an encapsulant deposited over the semiconductor die. A first conductive layer is formed with an antenna over a first surface of the encapsulant. A second conductive layer is formed with a ground plane over a second surface of the encapsulant with the antenna located within a footprint of the ground plane. A conductive bump is formed on the ground plane. A third conductive layer is formed over the first surface of the encapsulant. A fourth conductive layer is formed over the second surface of the encapsulant. A conductive via is disposed adjacent to the semiconductor die prior to depositing the encapsulant. The antenna is coupled to the semiconductor die through the conductive via. The antenna is formed with the conductive via between the antenna and semiconductor die. A PCB unit is disposed in the encapsulant.
US12094842B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die having an active main surface and an opposite main surface opposite the active main surface. The semiconductor device further includes an antenna arranged on the active main surface of the semiconductor die and a recess arranged on the opposite main surface of the semiconductor die. The recess is arranged over the antenna.
US12094833B2
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.
US12094832B2
An electronic device stretchable from a first state to a second state includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting groups, and a plurality of signal pads. The substrate has a first region and a second region. The light emitting groups are disposed on the first region. The signal pads are disposed on the second region. When the electronic device is stretched from the first state to the second state, the first region has a first stretching ratio (R1) and the second region has a second stretching ratio (R2), and R1 is greater than R2.
US12094823B2
An interconnection structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The interconnection structure includes a first portion of a conductive layer, a second portion of the conductive layer disposed adjacent the first portion of the conductive layer, and a dielectric foam disposed between the first and second portions of the conductive layer. The dielectric foam includes fluid gaps filled with carbon dioxide gas.
US12094815B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate with a conductive structure thereon, a first dielectric layer, a conductive feature and a second dielectric layer. The substrate includes a conductive feature. The conductive feature is formed in the first dielectric layer, is electrically connected to the conductive feature. The second dielectric layer is formed on the first dielectric layer and is disposed adjacent to the conductive feature. The first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer are made of different materials.
US12094810B2
A method includes forming a redistribution structure, which formation process includes forming a plurality of dielectric layers over a carrier, forming a plurality of redistribution lines extending into the plurality of dielectric layers, and forming a reinforcing patch over the carrier. The method further includes bonding a package component to the redistribution structure, with the package component having a peripheral region overlapping a portion of the reinforcing patch. And de-bonding the redistribution structure and the first package component from the carrier.
US12094808B2
A semiconductor device includes a first die pad, a second die pad, a first semiconductor element, a second semiconductor element, an insulating element, first terminals, second terminals, and a sealing resin. The sealing resin has a top surface, a bottom surface, and first to third side surfaces. The first terminals include a first edge terminal located closest to the third side surface. The second terminals include a second edge terminal located closest to the third side surface. A first creepage distance, which is a shortest distance from the first edge terminal to the second edge terminal along the first side surface, the third side surface, and the second side surface, is shorter than a second creepage distance, which is a shortest distance from the first edge terminal to the second edge terminal along the first side surface, the bottom surface, and the second side surface.
US12094806B2
A blocking element is provided for connecting an electronic, micro-mechanical and/or micro-electro-mechanical component, in particular for controlling the propulsion of an electric vehicle. The pin blocking element is formed by a holed body having a first end, a second end and an axial cavity configured for fittingly accommodating a connecting pin. A first flange projects transversely from the holed body at the first end and a second flange projects transversely from the holed body at the second end. The first flange has a greater area than the second flange and is configured to be ultrasonically soldered to a conductive bearing plate to form a power module.
US12094804B2
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: providing a substrate with trenches, and the trenches extending along a thickness direction of the substrate from a first surface of the substrate; forming a first auxiliary layer and a first conductive layer successively in the trenches, and the first conductive layer covering the first auxiliary layer; thinning the substrate on a second surface of the substrate to expose the first auxiliary layer; removing the first auxiliary layer to form first openings; forming a second medium layer on the second surface of the substrate; patterning the second medium layer to form second openings in the second medium layer, and the second openings exposing the first openings; and depositing a second initial conductive layer, the second initial conductive layer filling the first openings and the second openings.
US12094798B2
Provided is a semiconductor device that prevents resin from leaking out from a resin insulating member at a periphery of the resin insulating member and thereby achieves an increase in reliability. The semiconductor device includes a module unit, a resin insulating member bonded to the module unit, a cooling unit coupled to the module unit with the resin insulating member interposed therebetween, and a flow blocking member disposed between the module unit and the cooling unit to surround the resin insulating member, the flow blocking member being more easily compressively deformable than the resin insulating member.
US12094790B2
A testkey structure for semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of first dummy gate structures disposed on the substrate and arranged around the gate structure. A bottom surface of the gate structure is lower than bottom surfaces of the first dummy gate structures. A top surface of the gate structure is flush with top surfaces of the first dummy gate structures.
US12094775B2
A method for fabricating a three-dimensional (3D) stacked integrated circuit. Pick-and-place strategies are used to stack the source wafers with device layers fabricated using standard two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor fabrication technologies. The source wafers may be stacked in either a sequential or parallel fashion. The stacking may be in a face-to-face, face-to-back, back-to-face or back-to-back fashion. The source wafers that are stacked in a face-to-back, back-to-face or back-to-back fashion may be connected using Through Silicon Vias (TSVs). Alternatively, source wafers that are stacked in a face-to-face fashion may be connected using Inter Layer Vias (ILVs).
US12094770B2
In some implementations, one or more semiconductor processing tools may form a via within a substrate of a semiconductor device. The one or more semiconductor processing tools may deposit a ruthenium-based liner within the via. The one or more semiconductor processing tools may deposit, after depositing the ruthenium-based liner, a copper plug within the via.
US12094767B2
The present disclosure provides a method for forming a three-dimensional memory device. The method includes disposing an alternating dielectric stack on a substrate in a first direction perpendicular to the substrate; and forming a staircase structure and a dividing wall in the alternating dielectric stack. The staircase structure and the dividing wall extend in a second direction parallel to the substrate, and the dividing wall is adjacent to the staircase structure. The method also includes forming, sequentially on the staircase structure, a first barrier layer and a second barrier layer different from the first barrier layer. The method further includes forming a gate line slit (GLS) opening in the dividing wall. The GLS opening penetrates through the alternating dielectric stack in the first direction and is distant from the second barrier layer in a third direction that is parallel to the substrate and is perpendicular to the second direction.
US12094762B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method may include forming a stack, forming a preliminary stepped structure by patterning the stack, forming a first stepped structure, a second stepped structure, and an opening located between the first stepped structure and the second stepped structure by etching the preliminary stepped structure, forming a passivation layer that fills the opening and covers the first stepped structure, and forming a third stepped structure by etching the second stepped structure using the passivation layer as an etching barrier.
US12094741B2
An AMHS interface management system configured to facilitate the exchange of lot information between distinct AMHS systems. The AMHS interface management system receives lot information from a first AMHS system in a first format and translates the lot information into a format associated with a second AMHS system. The AMHS interface management system utilizes a handshake area located between the first and second AMHS systems. The handshake area includes one or more vehicles that facilitate the movement of a lot between the first AMHS system and the second AMHS system.
US12094739B2
A method for cleaning a load lock in a substrate processing system includes, in a first period, opening a first valve in fluid communication with a gas source to supply gas through a first vent into a gas volume of the load lock. The gas is supplied at a pressure and flow rate sufficient to disturb particles from surfaces of the load lock. The method includes, in a second period subsequent to the first period and with the first valve opened, opening a second valve in fluid communication with a pump and turning on the pump to flush the gas and particles from the gas volume of the load lock, and, in a third period subsequent to the second period, closing the first valve while continuing to pump the gas and the particles from the gas volume of the load lock via the second valve.
US12094735B2
There is provided a substrate processing apparatus, comprising: a reaction tube in which a substrate is processed; and a plurality of electrodes including a plurality of first electrodes to which a predetermined potential is applied and at least one second electrode to which a reference potential is applied. The at least one second electrode is arranged to be sandwiched between two sets of two or more continuously arranged electrodes of the plurality of first electrodes.
US12094729B2
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor wafer including a plurality of semiconductor die. An insulating layer is formed over the semiconductor wafer. A portion of the insulating layer is removed by LDA to expose a portion of an active surface of the semiconductor die. A first conductive layer is formed over a contact pad on the active surface of the semiconductor die. The semiconductor wafer is singulated to separate the semiconductor die. The semiconductor die is disposed over a carrier with the active surface of the semiconductor die offset from the carrier. An encapsulant is deposited over the semiconductor die and carrier to cover a side of the semiconductor die and the exposed portion of the active surface. An interconnect structure is formed over the first conductive layer. Alternatively, a MUF material is deposited over a side of the semiconductor die and the exposed portion of the active surface.
US12094728B2
A semiconductor device and method that comprise a first dielectric layer over a encapsulant that encapsulates a via and a semiconductor die is provided. A redistribution layer is over the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer is over the redistribution layer, and the second dielectric layer comprises a low-temperature polyimide material.
US12094720B2
A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The manufacturing method includes: forming a stacked structure on the substrate, the stacked structure at least including a first material layer, a second material layer and a third material layer from bottom to top; patterning the stacked structure to obtain a first pattern structure; forming a spacer structure on a side wall of the first pattern structure, a top of the spacer structure being not lower than a top of the first material layer; and removing the third material layer, wherein during removing the third material layer, an etching selectivity of the third material layer to the second material layer is greater than 1.
US12094718B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device including a first isolation structure, a second isolation structure, and a third isolation structure disposed in a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a transistor and a resistor. The transistor is disposed between the first isolation structure and the second isolation structure, and includes a gate electrode and a first source/drain (S/D) region. The resistor is disposed between the second isolation structure and the third isolation structure, and includes a resistor electrode. The first S/D region is disposed between the gate electrode and the second isolation structure, and is electrically connected to the resistor electrode.
US12094717B2
A method for forming a trench in a first semiconductor layer of a multi-layer system. The method includes: applying a mask layer onto the first semiconductor layer, a recess being formed in the mask layer so that the first semiconductor layer is exposed within the recess; applying a protective layer which completely covers or modifies the first semiconductor layer exposed within the recess; applying a second semiconductor layer; etching the second semiconductor layer to completely remove it in a subarea surrounding the recess of the mask layer; etching the protective layer so that the first semiconductor layer is exposed within the recess; and forming the trench in the first semiconductor layer, the recess of the mask layer serving as an etching mask, and the trench being formed by a cyclical alternation between etching and passivation steps, the first etching step being longer than the subsequent etching steps.
US12094716B2
Methods of semiconductor processing may include forming a plasma of a carbon-containing material within a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include depositing a carbon-containing material on a backside of a substrate housed within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. A front side of the substrate may be maintained substantially free of carbon-containing material. The methods may include performing an etch process on the front-side of the substrate. The methods may include removing the carbon-containing material from the backside of the substrate.
US12094714B2
A semiconductor device includes a doped substrate, a barrier layer, a channel layer, a doped semiconductor structure, and the conductive structure. The barrier layer is disposed on the doped substrate. The channel layer is disposed between the doped substrate and the barrier layer, in which a bandgap of the barrier layer is greater than a bandgap of the channel layer. The doped semiconductor structure is embedded in the doped substrate, in which the doped substrate and the doped semiconductor structure have different polarities, so as to form a diode therebetween. The conductive structure is disposed over the doped substrate and makes contact with the doped semiconductor structure, in which the conductive structure extends from the doped semiconductor structure to a position higher than the channel layer and the barrier layer.
US12094705B2
Provided is a substrate treating apparatus including: a fluid supply unit supplying a supercritical fluid to the treatment space, a plurality of components installed in the fluid supply line; and a detection member detecting whether or not metal particles are released from the component. The detection member includes: an upstream detection port connected to the fluid supply line upstream from a first component which is one of the plurality of components; a downstream detection port connected to the fluid supply line downstream from the first component; and a detector provided to be coupled to a selected detection port between the upstream detection port and the downstream detection port, and detecting metal particles from a fluid flowing through the detection port from the fluid supply line.
US12094703B1
A single-side stopping and vibration absorbing lamp sleeve for fitting with an end part of an electrodeless lamp and being partially disposed in a mounting hole of a metal member includes: a large-diameter part; and a small-diameter part coaxially connected to the large-diameter part, wherein a through hole is formed in the large-diameter part and the small-diameter part, the end part fits with the through hole, an aperture of the through hole ranges between 2.9 mm and 3.1 mm, and an outer diameter of the small-diameter part ranges between 3.2 mm and 3.6 mm. Thus, it is possible to optimize mounting and working states of the lamp sleeves, decrease the vibration, movement and rotation generated when the electrodeless lamp is operating, and increase the service lifetime of the electrodeless lamp. An electrodeless lamp illumination device is also disclosed.
US12094701B2
Disclosed herein are specimen imaging systems, comprising: a sample stage in a vacuum environment, the sample stage configured to support a specimen; an electron beam generator configured to focus an electron beam on a first predetermined location on the specimen; a nanospray dispenser configured to dispense a nanospray onto a second predetermined location on the specimen; a mass spectrometer; and an extraction conduit configured to extract a plume of charged particles generated as a result of contact between the nanospray and the specimen and deliver the charged particles to the mass spectrometer. The system can create a topological and chemical map of the specimen by analyzing at least a portion of the specimen with a mass spectrometer to determine a chemical composition of the specimen at the second predetermined location and analyzing at least a portion of the specimen with the electron beam to determine a surface topology.
US12094694B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a processing chamber including a processing room; a heating unit that heats the processing chamber; a support including a base thermally isolated from the processing chamber and fixed to the processing chamber, and a stage inserted into an opening provided toward the processing room while being supported by the base at a position distant from a reference position in a horizontal direction, and holds the substrate in the processing room; a stage peripheral member provided in the processing chamber along a periphery of the stage in a state of being inserted into the opening; and a first positioning pin fixed to the processing chamber to position the stage peripheral member, and a second positioning pin fixed to a position farther than the first positioning pin.
US12094688B2
Plasma apparatus and methods for processing feed material utilizing a powder ingress preventor (PIP)
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices processing feed material utilizing a microwave plasma apparatus comprising a powder ingress preventor (PIP). In some embodiments, the microwave plasma apparatus comprises a core plasma tube and a liner; and a ring structure comprising: a bearing surface, the bearing surface contacting an interior diameter of the core plasma tube; and an opening, the opening contacting an outer diameter of the liner.
US12094685B2
An ion implantation method includes acquiring a first data set for setting beam energy of an ion beam output from the high energy multi-stage linear acceleration unit to be a first output value, determining a second data set for setting the beam energy of the ion beam output from the high energy multi-stage linear acceleration unit to be a second output value different from the first output value, based on the first data set, and performing ion implantation by irradiating a workpiece with the ion beam output from the high energy multi-stage linear acceleration unit operating in accordance with the second data set. An acceleration phase of the high frequency accelerator in each of the plurality of stages is the same between the first data set and the second data set, in all of the high frequency accelerators respectively in the plurality of stages.
US12094682B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided an analysis method by a scanning transmission electron microscope including a dark field detector that detects dark field images by irradiating a sample with electron beams and detecting electron beams that are transmitted through or scattered from the sample, and an electron beam detector that detects electron diffraction images at radiation points of the electron beams among the electron beams that are transmitted through the sample or scattered from detecting the electron beams transmitted through a hollow portion of the dark field detector. The analysis method includes scanning a plurality of the radiation points set in an attention area by sequentially radiating electron beams at preset incidence angles, and performing detection of dark field images of the attention area and detection of NBD images at each of the plurality of radiation points at the same time.
US12094672B2
Electric circuit breaker device that can be downsized by reducing the distance the moving body moves, including a housing; a cut part placed inside the housing; and a power source placed on the housing, further including a moving body having a first arc-extinguishing space into which the cut part is inserted and housed, and which is filled with an arc-extinguishing material, and a moving body housing part that allows the moving body to move between the first end part and a second end part opposite to the first end part, which is configured to cut the cut part while moving toward the power source P, and the housing includes an expanded arc-extinguishing space positioned so as to face an end part of a separable piece of the cut part when the moving body has moved and stopped, and the expanded arc-extinguishing space being filled with an arc-extinguishing material.
US12094658B2
A dielectric composition includes dielectric particles and first segregations. The dielectric particles each include a perovskite compound represented by ABO3 as a main component. The first segregations each include at least Ba, V, and O. A molar ratio (Ba/Ti) of Ba to Ti detected in the first segregations is 1.20 or more.
US12094655B2
An electronic component includes a plurality of dielectric layers; and a plurality of first internal electrodes and a plurality of second internal electrodes alternately disposed with a corresponding dielectric layer interposed therebetween. One of the plurality of first internal electrodes includes a metal layer containing Ni and Sn, a first graphene layer disposed on a lower surface of the metal layer, and a second graphene layer disposed on an upper surface of the metal layer.
US12094651B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for optimizing transformer exciting current and loss test results by dynamically managing core magnetic state. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes injecting a direct current (DC) offset voltage; adjusting at least one of a polarity and a magnitude of the DC offset voltage while monitoring a test current for one or more criteria; and bypassing a source of the DC offset voltage when the test current has satisfied the one or more criteria, whereby residual magnetism, if any, of a core of the transformer is minimized.
US12094645B2
An antenna coupling element includes a first coil connected to a first radiating element and a feeder circuit and a second coil connected to a second radiating element and electromagnetically coupled to the first coil. The first and second coils have a relationship in which a direction of a magnetic field generated in the first coil when a current flows from the first coil toward the first radiating element and a direction of a magnetic field generated in the second coil when a current flows from the second coil toward the second radiating element are opposite to each other. The first and second coils are set such that a resonant frequency of a fundamental wave of the second radiating element with a transformer defined by the first coil and the second coil is lower than a resonant frequency of a fundamental wave of the first radiating element.
US12094642B2
A multilayer inductor component includes an element body, an internal conductor, and an external electrode. The internal conductor is disposed in the element body. The external electrode is disposed on a surface of the element body and electrically connected to the internal conductor. The external electrode includes a sintered metal layer and a plating layer. The sintered metal layer is disposed on the surface of the element body. The plating layer covers the sintered metal layer. The sintered metal layer includes a thick portion and thin portions. The thick portion covers the surface of the element body. A plurality of glass particles is dispersed in the thick portion. The thin portions cover glass particles exposed on a surface of the thick portion among the plurality of glass particles and being in contact with the plating layer.
US12094640B2
A resonant transformer structure includes a secondary wire bracket having a secondary wire groove, and a primary wire bracket having a primary wire groove. The secondary wire bracket is provided with two third wire holders each having multiple auxiliary legs. The primary wire bracket has a fourth wire holder having multiple connecting legs. The primary wire bracket has multiple jump wire gaps. A secondary winding is wound in the secondary wire groove. A primary winding is wound in the primary wire groove. The primary wire bracket extends into the secondary wire bracket. The wire end of the secondary winding does not pass the primary winding. The wire end of the primary winding extends through the jump wire gaps, and is connected to the connecting legs to increase a distance between the wire end of the secondary winding and the primary winding.
US12094627B2
A wiring member includes: a plurality of wire-like transmission members including a first wire-like transmission member and a second wire-like transmission member; and a plurality of sheets including a first sheet and a second sheet stacked on each other, wherein the first wire-like transmission member is fixed to the first sheet, the second wire-like transmission member is fixed to the second sheet, and at least one fixing position between the first sheet and the second sheet is partially provided along a longitudinal direction of the wire-like transmission members.
US12094626B2
A method for manufacturing a ceramic substrate by a 3D-printing process is described. The method comprises operating a 3D-printer to print a green-state ceramic body having a height extending to spaced apart first and second end surfaces and at least one via extending at least part-way along the height of the green-state ceramic body from the first end surface toward the second end surface. Then, the green-state ceramic body is sintered to provide the ceramic substrate with the at least one via. In cross-section, the at least one via has a square-shaped via with rounded corners.
US12094623B2
A transparent, electrically-conductive film and associated method of making the transparent, electrically-conductive film. The transparent, electrically-conductive film includes a substrate, a percolating network of nanostructures establishing electrical conductivity across a region of the substrate, and an overcoat matrix coated onto the substrate. The nanostructures have an average diameter value. The percolating network of nanostructures is located within the overcoat matrix. The overcoat matrix and the percolating network of nanostructures therein have an overall thickness that is less than four times the average diameter value of the nanostructures.
US12094619B2
The present invention provides systems, methods and devices for storing and/or disposing of hazardous waste material. In some embodiments, the waste material includes nuclear waste such as calcined material. In certain embodiments, the device includes a container having a container body, a filling port configured to couple with a filling nozzle and a filling plug, and an evacuation port having a filter. The evacuation port is configured to couple with an evacuation nozzle and an evacuation plug. In certain embodiments, the method includes (a) adding hazardous waste material via a filling nozzle coupled to a filling port of a container, the container including an evacuation port, (b) evacuating the container during adding of the hazardous waste material via an evacuation nozzle coupled to an evacuation port of the container, (c) sealing the filling port, (d) heating the container, and (e) sealing the evacuation port.
US12094614B2
An apparatus detects and measures vital signs of each human target by a continuous, non-intrusive method. In an example, the vital signs of interest include a heart rate and a respiratory rate, which can provide valuable information about the human's wellness. Additionally, the heart rate and respiratory rate can also be used to identify a particular person, if more than two target humans are living in a home. The apparatus has a natural convection spatial flow path that draws heat from at least one processor, one fan-less radar and a heat sink.
US12094612B2
A tumor diagnosis system and a construction method thereof, a terminal device and a storage medium are provided, wherein a radiomics signature is obtained by a radiomics signature-generation module in the tumor diagnosis system according to target radiomics information and clinical data information, based on a pre-trained radiomics signature model; a first classification comprehensive diagnosis result is obtained by a benign and malignant comprehensive classification module according to a ambient situation of a lesion outside an intestinal wall, the clinical data information and a first radiomics signature, based on a pre-trained first classification comprehensive diagnosis model; a second classification comprehensive diagnosis result is generated through a malignant focus sub-classification module based on a pre-trained second classification comprehensive diagnosis model, if the first classification comprehensive diagnosis result includes high-risk malignant information; and a final diagnosis result is obtained and displayed in a result displaying module.
US12094599B2
A method for optimizing a medical procedure room set up comprises obtaining a medical procedure room setup input associated with a medical practitioner identifier, a medical procedure identifier, and a medical procedure room identifier for the medical procedure room set up. A virtual image guidance for the medical procedure room set up based on the received input is provided. The method comprises acquiring data associated with one or more of item, equipment, and personnel in the medical procedure room setup and analyzing prestored data associated with item, equipment, and personnel in one or more reference medical procedure room setups corresponding to the received medical procedure room setup input. The method comprises comparing the acquired data with the analyzed prestored data associated with the respective item, equipment, and personnel in the one or more reference medical procedure room setups and providing recommendation for optimizing the medical procedure room set up.
US12094586B2
The present invention provides materials and methods for determining optimal dosage regimens for therapeutic agents. In particular, the invention relates to dosage regimens for therapeutic agents capable of targeting IL-2 receptor, preferably interleukin 2 (IL2)-based therapeutic agents. The methods of the invention allow general dosage regimens to be determined for new IL-2R targeted therapeutic agents but also specifically tailored dosage regimens to be achieved for individuals being treated with IL-2R targeted therapeutic agents.
US12094582B1
The present disclosure generally relates to generating a care and treatment plan for a patient using machine-learning techniques. An exemplary computer-implemented method comprises: receiving a plurality of care records; determining, based on a first machine learning model, that the plurality of care records are to be merged into an episode, wherein the episode is a predefined data representation comprising a predefined collection of data fields; identifying, from the plurality of care records, a plurality of attribute values corresponding to a particular attribute; determining, based on a second machine learning model, an aggregated attribute value based on the plurality of attribute values; updating, based on the aggregated attribute value, a data field of the episode; adding the episode to the patient profile, wherein the patient profile comprises a plurality of episodes associated with the patient.
US12094580B2
A computational method for training a neural network force field (NNFF) configured to simulate molecular and/or atomic motion within a material system. The method includes the step of receiving molecular structure data of a molecule in the material system. The method also includes optimizing a geometry of the molecule using the molecular structure data and a density functional theory (DFT) simulation to obtain DFT optimized geometry data. The method further includes optimizing the geometry of the molecule using the molecular structure data and a classical force field (FF) simulation to obtain FF optimized geometry data. The method also includes outputting NNFF training data comprised of the DFT optimized geometry data and the FF optimized geometry data. The NNFF training data is configured to train an NNFF for simulating molecular and/or atomic molecular and/or atomic motion within the material system.
US12094579B2
A processing workflow centered on machine-learning algorithms that identifies a number of chemical features that can best distinguish the presence or absence of a chemical source. These chemical features are a chemical fingerprint that is unique to each source. The analysis workflow is rapid (e.g., fingerprints can be generated in minutes). The analysis workflow has wide-ranging applications such as detecting markers of pollution sources in rivers and fish tissues, forest pathogen outbreaks, and hard-to-diagnose diseases.
US12094566B2
A memory system includes a controller, a plurality of memory devices, and a signal wiring. The signal wiring is connected between the controller and the volatile memory devices and configuring a fly-by topology. At least one of the memory devices includes a memory cell array, a processing circuit configured to control the memory cell array, an input buffer through which a signal from the controller is transmitted to the processing circuit, and a resistor circuit connected between the input buffer and the signal wiring. The resistor circuit has a resistance value corresponding to a parasitic capacitance of the input buffer.
US12094565B2
A memory component includes a memory bank comprising a plurality of storage cells and a data interface block configured to transfer data between the memory component and a component external to the memory component. The memory component further includes a plurality of column interface buses coupled between the memory bank and the data interface block, wherein a first column interface bus of the plurality of column interface buses is configured to transfer data between a first storage cell of the plurality of storage cells and the data interface block during a first access operation and wherein a second column interface bus of the plurality of column interface buses is configured to transfer the data between the first storage cell and the data interface block during a second access operation.
US12094557B2
An electronic device and a method of controlling an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a first transistor having a first resistor, second resistor, first transistor, and second transistor. The second resistor is connected to the first resistor. The first transistor is connected to the first resistor in parallel and has a first bulk. The second transistor is connected to the second resistor in parallel and has a second bulk. The first bulk of the first transistor receives a first voltage and the first bulk of the second transistor receives a second voltage. The first voltage and the second voltage are different.
US12094553B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to components of a memory system that support timing-drift calibration. In specific embodiments, this memory system contains a memory device (or multiple devices) which includes a clock distribution circuit and an oscillator circuit which can generate a frequency, wherein a change in the frequency is indicative of a timing drift of the clock distribution circuit. The memory device also includes a measurement circuit which is configured to measure the frequency of the oscillator circuit.
US12094552B2
A non-volatile memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory blocks that includes a plurality of memory cells connected to a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines, a row decoder configured to select one among the plurality of memory blocks, based on an address, a voltage generator configured to apply word line voltages corresponding to selected word lines and unselected word lines, among the plurality of word lines, page buffers connected to the plurality of bit lines and configured to read data from a memory cell connected to one among the selected word lines of the selected one among the plurality of memory blocks, and a control logic configured to control the row decoder, the voltage generator, and the page buffers.
US12094550B2
Technology is disclosed herein for detecting leaky word lines in a non-volatile storage system. The exact leaky word line may be located very rapidly using a divide and conquer approach. First a determination may be made whether at least one word line in a group such as any of the word lines in a block is leaky. This initial determination can be made very quickly. If no word line in the group is leaky, the search can end. However, responsive to a determination that at least one word line in the group is leaky, a divide and conquer search may be performed in which the group of the word lines is repeatedly divided into smaller sub-groups with selected smaller sub-groups tested for a short circuit until the leaky word line is located.
US12094545B2
In one example, reads in a NAND memory device are tracked for sub-groups. When the number of reads to a sub-group meets a threshold, the data at the wordline on which the threshold was met is moved along with the data at neighboring wordlines to an SLC block without moving the entire block. The performance impact and write amplification impact of read disturb mitigation can be significantly reduced while maintaining some data continuity.
US12094542B2
The present disclosure is directed to an integrated circuit that includes a non-volatile memory (NVM). The integrated circuit includes a bias generator that produces stable wordline and bitline voltages for a reliable read operation of the NVM. This disclosure is directed to low voltage memory operations of memory read, erase verify, and program verify. The present disclosure is directed to non-volatile memory circuits that can also operate at low supply voltages in digital voltage supply range.
US12094526B2
A semiconductor memory instance is provided that includes an array of memory cells. The array includes a plurality of semiconductor memory cells arranged in at least one column and at least one row. Each of the semiconductor memory cells includes a floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a state of the memory cell. Further includes are a plurality of buried well regions, wherein each of the buried well regions can be individually selected, and a decoder circuit to select at least one of the buried well regions.
US12094525B2
A memory system, a method of assembling the memory system, and a computer system. The memory system includes a global memory device coupled to a plurality of processing elements. The global memory device is positioned external to a chip on which the plurality of processing devices reside. The memory system also includes at least one main scratchpad coupled to the at least one processing element of the plurality of processing devices and the global memory device. The memory system further includes a plurality of auxiliary scratchpads coupled to the plurality of processing elements and the global memory device. The one or more auxiliary scratchpads are configured to store static tensors. At least a portion of the plurality of auxiliary scratchpads are configured as a unitary multichannel device.
US12094516B2
A method and apparatus for intensifying current leakage between adjacent memory cells includes that: a write operation is performed on a memory array, to form a column strip test pattern, the column strip test pattern being formed by arranging low-level memory cells and high-level memory cells in columns, and N columns of high-level memory cells being present between two adjacent columns of low-level memory cells, N≥2; and voltage adjustment is performed on the low-level memory cells and the high-level memory cells, to increase potential differences between the low-level memory cells and the high-level memory cells.
US12094514B2
A memory device coupled to a memory controller and including a memory array and an access circuit is provided. The memory array includes a plurality of cells. Each of the cells is coupled to a word-line. The access circuit is coupled between the memory controller and the memory array. In a normal mode, the access circuit executes a refresh action for the cells which are coupled to at least one word-line in response to the memory controller outputting an auto-refresh command. In a standby mode, the access circuit selects one of the word-lines and determines whether to execute the refresh action for the cells coupled to the selected word-line according to the retention capability of the selected word-line at regular time intervals.
US12094509B2
Disclosed is a memory device including a magnetic storage element. The memory device includes a memory cell array, a voltage generator, and a write driver. The memory cell array includes a first region and a second region. The memory device is configured to store a value of a first read current determined based on a value of a reference resistance for distinguishing a parallel state and an anti-parallel state of a programmed memory cell. The sensing circuit is configured to generate the first read current based on the value of the first read current and to perform a read operation on the first region based on the first read current.
US12094508B1
Methods and apparatuses are provided for MRAM devices utilizing spin transfer torque. A device includes a substrate; an MTJ formed over the substrate, the MTJ including a reference layer, a tunnel barrier layer, and a free layer; and a PSM layer formed over the free layer of the MTJ. The PSM layer, i.e., a chiral material layer, may be formed adject to a free layer (or adjacent to a TBL, which is adjacent to the free layer) of the MTJ, providing an additional source of spin-transfer-torque, and providing MTJ devices that are operable with lower switching current.
US12094506B2
A magnetic-disk substrate has an average value of squares of inclinations that is 0.0025 or less, and a frequency at which squares of inclinations are 0.004 or more is 15% or less, in a case where samples of inclinations on a main surface are obtained at intervals of 10 nm. The main surface is configured to receive at least a magnetic recording layer thereon. The magnetic-disk substrate includes an outer circumferential end portion and an inner circumferential end portion, and the outer circumferential end portion and the inner circumferential end portion have chamfered portions.
US12094502B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a tape head and a tape drive including a tape head. The tape head comprises a plurality of data heads disposed at a media facing surface (MFS) and one or more servo heads disposed at the MFS. The plurality of data heads each individually have a first stripe height extending from the MFS to a back edge of a module. The one or more servo heads each individually have a second stripe height extending from the MFS towards the back edge of the module. The second stripe height is about 10% to about 75% less than the first stripe height. By making the second stripe height less than the first stripe height, the area of the servo heads is reduced while the resistance of the sensors of the servo heads is increased.
US12094482B2
The present application relates to a lexicon learning-based heliumspeech unscrambling method in saturation diving. In a system including divers, a correction network, and an unscrambling network, a common working language lexicon for saturation diving operation is established and is read by the divers respectively in different environments, to generate supervision signals and vector signals of the correction network, and the correction network learns heliumspeeches of the different divers at different diving depths to obtain a correction network parameter, and corrects a heliumspeech of a diver to obtain a corrected speech; and the unscrambling network learns the corrected speech and completes unscrambling of the heliumspeech.
US12094480B2
A method for decoding an encoded audio bitstream is disclosed. The method includes receiving the encoded audio bitstream and decoding the audio data to generate a decoded lowband audio signal. The method further includes extracting high frequency reconstruction metadata and filtering the decoded lowband audio signal with an analysis filterbank to generate a filtered lowband audio signal. The method also includes extracting a flag indicating whether either spectral translation or harmonic transposition is to be performed on the audio data and regenerating a highband portion of the audio signal using the filtered lowband audio signal and the high frequency reconstruction metadata in accordance with the flag.
US12094478B2
An audio decoder decodes a bit stream of encoded audio data, which bit stream represents a sequence of audio sample values and includes a plurality of frames, wherein each frame includes associated encoded audio sample values. The audio decoder includes a determiner configured to determine whether a frame of the encoded audio data is a special frame including encoded audio sample values associated with the special frame and additional information, wherein the additional information include encoded audio sample values of a number of frames preceding the special frame, wherein the encoded audio sample values of the preceding frames are encoded using the same codec configuration as the special frame, wherein the number of preceding frames is sufficient to initialize the decoder to be in a position to decode the audio sample values associated with the special frame if the special frame is the first frame upon start-up of the decoder.
US12094477B2
Embodiments relate to an audio processing unit that includes a buffer, bitstream payload deformatter, and a decoding subsystem. The buffer stores at least one block of an encoded audio bitstream. The block includes a fill element that begins with an identifier followed by fill data. The fill data includes at least one flag identifying whether enhanced spectral band replication (eSBR) processing is to be performed on audio content of the block. A corresponding method for decoding an encoded audio bitstream is also provided.
US12094476B2
Embodiments are disclosed for channel-based audio (CBA) (e.g., 22.2-ch audio) to object-based audio (OBA) conversion. The conversion includes converting CBA metadata to object audio metadata (OAMD) and reordering the CBA channels based on channel shuffle information derived in accordance with channel ordering constraints of the OAMD. The OBA with reordered channels is rendered in a playback device using the OAMD or in a source device, such as a set-top box or audio/video recorder. In an embodiment, the CBA metadata includes signaling that indicates a specific OAMD representation to be used in the conversion of the metadata. In an embodiment, pre-computed OAMD is transmitted in a native audio bitstream (e.g., AAC) for transmission (e.g., over HDMI) or for rendering in a source device. In an embodiment, pre-computed OAMD is transmitted in a transport layer bitstream (e.g., ISO BMFF, MPEG4 audio bitstream) to a playback device or source device.
US12094474B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for verifying the provenance of a digital object generated by a neural network, such as an image or audio object. Also methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs, for training a watermarking neural network and a watermark decoding neural network. The described techniques make efficient use of computing resources and are robust to attack.
US12094471B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a dialog system using user feedback. According to one implementation, a method includes receiving, by a dialog engine and from a computing device, a voice input, determining, by the dialog engine, that the received voice input is classified as feedback to an answer of a question; identifying, by the dialog engine, a predetermined feedback scare associated with the feedback; and adjusting a confidence score associated with the question and the answer based on the predetermined feedback score.
US12094470B2
The present application discloses a waking-up and responding method for a voice recognition device, a voice recognition device, and a computer storage medium. A plurality of voice recognition devices form an area network. The plurality of voice recognition devices are classified into a central device and at least one non-central device. The waking-up and responding method includes: the central device analyzing the collected voice signal to obtain a response factor of the central device; receiving a response factor of the non-central device, the response factor of the non-central device being obtained by the non-central device analyzing the collected voice signal; comparing the response factor of the central device with the response factor of the non-central device; and determining a pending voice recognition device, the pending voice recognition device being a voice recognition device that is in the area network and responds to the voice signal.
US12094469B2
A method for recognizing speech comprises: respectively setting initial values of a Chinese character coefficient and a Pinyin coefficient, generating a Chinese character mapping function according to the initial value of the Chinese character coefficient, and generating a Pinyin mapping function according to the initial value of the Pinyin coefficient (S101); training the Chinese character mapping function and the Pinyin mapping function using a plurality of preset training samples, calculating training results as parameters of a joint loss function, and generating a target mapping function according to calculation results (S102); and recognizing, according to the target mapping function, speech to be recognized, so as to obtain a Chinese character recognition result and a Pinyin recognition result of the speech to be recognized (S103). The method reduces the cost of speech recognition while ensuring the accuracy of speech recognition.
US12094462B2
A method includes receiving information from each device in multiple devices of one user, where the information includes a device type, determining, according to at least the received information, a device responding to a voice instruction in the multiple devices, and sending a message to a device different from the device responding to a voice instruction in the multiple devices, where the message is used to instruct a voice assistant of the different device not to respond to the voice instruction.
US12094454B2
Implementations described herein include detecting a stream of audio data that captures a spoken utterance of the user and that captures ambient noise occurring within a threshold time period of the spoken utterance being spoken by the user. Implementations further include processing a portion of the audio data that includes the ambient noise to determine ambient noise classification(s), processing a portion of the audio data that includes the spoken utterance to generate a transcription, processing both the transcription and the ambient noise classification(s) with a machine learning model to generate a user intent and parameter(s) for the user intent, and performing one or more automated assistant actions based on the user intent and using the parameter(s).
US12094453B2
A computer-implemented method of training a streaming speech recognition model that includes receiving, as input to the streaming speech recognition model, a sequence of acoustic frames. The streaming speech recognition model is configured to learn an alignment probability between the sequence of acoustic frames and an output sequence of vocabulary tokens. The vocabulary tokens include a plurality of label tokens and a blank token. At each output step, the method includes determining a first probability of emitting one of the label tokens and determining a second probability of emitting the blank token. The method also includes generating the alignment probability at a sequence level based on the first probability and the second probability. The method also includes applying a tuning parameter to the alignment probability at the sequence level to maximize the first probability of emitting one of the label tokens.
US12094451B1
A system may create a localized machine learning model including one or more customized local parameter values using a global model and variance data. The localized machine learning model may be used by a device or cohort of devices to perform evaluations of data. The localized model may be trained based off a global model that is adjusted and then trained a certain number of steps, where the number of steps is based at least in part on the variance data. The variance data may include variance data from other device cohorts which is received from a remote device, which can also re-train the global model using the variance data and/or the localized machine learning model(s).
US12094444B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an earphone including a fixing structure, a first microphone array, a processor, and a speaker. The fixing structure is configured to fix the earphone near a user's ear without blocking the user's ear canal and including a hook-shaped component and a body part. The first microphone array is located in the body part and is configured to pick up environmental noise. The processor is located in the hook-shaped component or the body part and is configured to estimate a sound field at a target spatial position using the first microphone array and generate a noise reduction signal based on the estimated sound field. The target spatial position is closer to the user's ear canal than any microphone in the first microphone array. The speaker is located in the body part and is configured to output a target signal according to the noise reduction signal.
US12094439B2
A stringed instrument, such as a violin, viola, cello, or double bass, having an inherently flat back and an inherently flat top separated by a rib structure. An interior soundpost spans between the back and the top. A bridge supports the strings over the top. When tension is applied in the strings such that the bridge applies force to the top and the soundpost applies force to the back, the top acquires a concave shape and the back acquires a convex shape. In a particular embodiment, the instrument has retaining rings mounted on interior surfaces of the back and top keep the soundpost from falling over, two subassemblies interconnected by an adjustable screw-and-nut arrangement to achieve different string heights, a nut opening configured to receive differently sized top nuts for different string heights, and an inherently straight bass bar, where the bridge has feet having inherently collinear bottoms.
US12094437B2
A color aligning method of display for a computer system having a processing unit, a display and a server includes determining, by the server, a color information file of the display according to a related information of the display; downloading, by the processing unit, the color information file of the display from the server; and enabling, by the processing unit, the color information file according to a preset mode of the display.
US12094434B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electronic device for changing attributes of a display, and an operation method in an electronic device. The electronic device may be configured to: acquire user information; set user period information for changing attributes of the display based on the acquired user information; acquire information associated with content being displayed on the display or has been determined to be displayed on the display; change an attribute setting value of the display based on set user period information and the information associated with the content; and control the display to display content based on the changed attribute setting value.
US12094432B1
A display device includes a display panel, a backlight module, and a display driver. The backlight module includes a plurality of light sources to illuminate a plurality of zones defined for the display panel. The display driver is configured to store a first light source arrangement type of a first zone of the plurality of zones. The first light source arrangement type is based on an arrangement of one or more light sources with respect to the first zone. The display driver is further configured to process first input pixel data for a first target pixel of the display panel based on the first light source arrangement type of the first zone to generate first output pixel data. The first target pixel is located in the first zone. The display driver is further configured to update the first target pixel based on the first output pixel data.
US12094431B2
A display device is provided and includes first light-transmitting substrate; second light-transmitting substrate opposed to the first light-transmitting substrate; liquid crystal layer between the first light-transmitting substrate and the second light-transmitting substrate; first electrode and a second electrode disposed so as to sandwich the liquid crystal layer; and light emitter comprising a first light emitter configured to emit light in a first color, a second light emitter configured to emit light in a second color, and a third light emitter configured to emit light in a third color, wherein first light emitter has a temperature characteristic in which a relative light intensity decreases more with increase in a heating temperature than in the case of the second light emitter and the third light emitter.
US12094430B2
A projector device includes: a storage unit storing lighting pattern information indicating the lighting start timing of an LED and the time sequence of a lighting continuation period from the lighting start timing; a drive control unit that causes the LED to light on the basis of the lighting pattern information; and a voltage measurement unit. The voltage measurement unit refers to the lighting pattern information and determines, for a target period, a lighting continuation period that is longer than a preset set period. The voltage measurement unit measures the forward voltage within the determined target period from the start of the period until a timing after the set period has elapsed.
US12094429B2
An electrophoretic medium comprises a fluid and first (B), second (Y), third (R) and fourth (W) particles dispersed in the fluid and having differing colors. The first (B) and third (R) particles bear charges of one polarity and the second (Y) and fourth (W) particles bear charges of the opposite polarity, The first particles (B) have a greater zeta potential than the third particles (R), and the second particles (Y) have a greater zeta potential than the fourth particles (W). One of the particles (W) is white, one of the non-white particles (B) is partially light-transmissive, and the remaining two non-white particles are light-reflective. To display the color of a mixture of the first (B) and second (Y) particles at a viewing surface, the medium is driven to display the second particles (Y) at the viewing surface, then a first driving voltage is applied for a first period to drive the second (Y) and fourth (W) particles towards the viewing surface, then a second driving voltage, of opposite polarity to and lower magnitude than, the first voltage, is applied for a second period less than the first period, and finally the applications of the two driving voltages are repeated.
US12094426B2
A light emitting diode (LED) includes a substrate having a bar shape; a plurality of LEDs provided on the substrate; and a wiring pattern provided on the substrate and configured to transmit driving currents to the plurality of LEDs, wherein the wiring pattern has a shape that is bent multiple times so that the driving currents flow in opposite directions in lines aligned adjacent and parallel to each other.
US12094410B2
A driving voltage compensation circuit including a compensation circuit and a first switching circuit, the first switching circuit connects a driving element and a light emitting device, and the compensation circuit is connected to the driving element. The circuit operates according to an operational timing, the operational timing including a plurality of cycles, each cycle including at least a first time period and a second time period; during the first time period of each of the plurality of cycles, the first switching circuit is turned on, and the compensation circuit is turned off; the energy storage element releases electrical energy to provide a driving voltage to the driving element; during the second time period, the compensation circuit utilizes the received data voltage to store electrical energy for the energy storage element of the compensation circuit.
US12094401B2
A display device includes: pixels that receive data voltages corresponding to output grayscales; a sensing circuit that senses electrical states of the pixels to provide sensing information; and a grayscale converter that generates the output grayscales with respect to the pixels based on input grayscales and the sensing information, wherein the grayscale converter predicts a temperature of at least one of the pixels based on the sensing information, calculates a current control amount for the at least one of the pixels based on the predicted temperature and the input grayscales, and calculates the output grayscales for the at least one of the pixels based on the current control amount and the input grayscales.
US12094399B2
A power supply circuit, a driving chip and a display apparatus. The power supply circuit comprises: a reference current generation circuit (101), which is configured to generate a reference current; a driving circuit (302), which is connected to the reference current generation circuit (101) and is configured to generate, according to the reference current, a mirror image current with an adjustable mirror image proportion, and output a bias voltage and a gate driving voltage; and a channel current output circuit (303), which is connected to the driving circuit (302) and is configured to receive the bias voltage and the gate driving voltage, and generate, according to the mirror image current, a channel current with an adjustable mirror image proportion. Since a mirror image proportion is adjustable, the current precision can be improved, and when a relatively large output current is required, a mirror image current can remain relatively small, thereby reducing power consumption.
US12094398B2
A display device comprising a plurality of ordinary pixels, an auxiliary pixel, a frame and a driving chip is provided. The auxiliary pixel includes a plurality of first color sub-pixels. The frame is configured to define an active area in a non-rectangular shape. The plurality of ordinary pixels and the auxiliary pixel are arranged in the active area. The driving chip is configured to receive display data, wherein the display data includes a first color grayscale value configured to assign first target luminance of first color light of the auxiliary pixel. The driving chip is configured to generate one or more processed first color grayscale values configured to assign the luminance of the plurality of first color sub-pixels, according to the first color grayscale value, and the sum of the luminance of the plurality of first color sub-pixels is substantially equal to the first target luminance.
US12094389B2
A gate-on-array (GOA) drive circuit. The GOA drive circuit includes multi-stage cascaded GOA circuits, and each stage of the GOA circuits includes a GOA circuit unit and a signal split circuit that are connected to each other. The signal split circuit is in connection with two adjacent scanning lines. The GOA circuit unit operates in the same mode as the existing GOA circuit unit. The output line scan signal serves as the input signal of the GOA circuit unit at the post-stage as well as the reset signal of the GOA circuit unit at the fore-stage. Moreover, the signal split circuit splits the line scan signal of the current stage into the first sub-line scan signal and the second sub-line scan signal and output the same, thereby realizing the scanning and driving of the two rows of pixel units.
US12094371B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a first adhesive member on the display panel, a first cover member on the first adhesive member, a second adhesive member on the first cover member, the second adhesive member including a material different from a material of the first adhesive member, and a second cover member on the second adhesive member.
US12094370B2
A display device includes a first rotation member configured to rotate, a second rotation member configured to rotate, the second rotation member being spaced apart from the first rotation member, a conveyance member that is extended between the first rotation member and the second rotation member, is configured to be conveyed between the first rotation member and the second rotation member in accordance with respective rotations of the first rotation member and the second rotation member, and has an inner surface and an outer surface, an abutting movement member that is disposed between the first rotation member and the second rotation member, and is configured to move to cause the conveyance member to be partially pushed up while being abutted against the inner surface, and a display member having flexibility that is attached to the outer surface, and displays an image using an organic light emitting phenomenon.
US12094362B2
A method, system, and storage device storing a computer program, for generating questions based on provided content, such as, for example, a document having words. The method comprises automatically estimating the probability of interesting phrases in the provided content, and generating a question in natural language based on the estimating. In one example embodiment herein, the estimating includes predicting the interesting phrases as answers, and the estimating is performed by a neural model. The method further comprises conditioning a question generation model based on the interesting phrases predicted in the predicting, the question generation model generating the question. The method also can include training the neural model. In one example, the method further comprises identifying start and end locations of the phrases in the provided content, and the identifying includes performing a dot product attention mechanism parameterizing a probability distribution.
US12094354B2
A method in an aircraft for identifying valid runway intersections for takeoff is provided. The method comprises: estimating a runway length required for takeoff based on aircraft parameters; estimating, at each of a plurality of runway intersections, a corrected runway length at the runway intersection by applying an elevation correction, a temperature correction, and a gradient correction; determining, based on the estimated runway length required for takeoff and the corrected runway length at each of the plurality of runway intersections, each valid runway intersection from the plurality of runway intersections whose corrected runway length is long enough for use by the aircraft for takeoff and each invalid runway intersection from the plurality of runway intersections whose corrected runway length is not long enough for use by the aircraft for takeoff; and signaling an aircraft display device to display on a map depicting the takeoff runway each invalid runway intersection.
US12094350B2
The control device includes a control unit that is configured to control an unmanned aerial vehicle that collects a collection object. The control unit acquires information that indicates an odor intensity of the collection object to be collected, and determines a flight route of the unmanned aerial vehicle after the unmanned aerial vehicle picks up the collection object located at a collection point, based on the information that indicates the odor intensity of the collection object.
US12094348B1
System and method for autonomous vehicle and method for swapping autonomous vehicle during operation
A functionality utilizing a centrally controlled strategy for continuous communication to specific autonomous vehicles, or drones, that are designed for extreme conditions and assigned specific missions with the ability to be replaced during the mission. This functionality is an improvement on existing swarm and leader-follower tactics as it retains control of the drones at a central command center, allowing the drones to both receive individual commands from the hub but also operate independently of it with direct pilot control. This direct communication allows for real time process of ordered substitution to replace any drone during the mission.
US12094336B2
A connected-vehicle interface module is provided that includes a connected-vehicle controller, a connected-vehicle radio for receiving an activation signal from a first vehicle warning system controller indicating a road condition, and a connected-vehicle interface controller. The connected-vehicle interface controller further includes a microcontroller and a plurality of universal asynchronous receiver transmitters for receiving and transmitting data communicated to the microcontroller through one or more wired connections to at least one of the connected-vehicle controller and the connected-vehicle radio, a memory device in communication with the microcontroller, and a transceiver and one or more communication ports, coupled to the microcontroller, for connection and communication with a connected vehicle road side unit, wherein the activation signal from the first vehicle warning system controller is communicated to the connected vehicle road side unit via the one or more communication ports.
US12094332B2
In an approach for reducing economic loss due to traffic events, a processor receives a set of transportation operation information from one or more transportation service providers about a traffic event. A processor analyzes the set of transportation operation information to identify an area affected by the traffic event and one or more users affected by the traffic event. A processor gathers a set of information about each user of the one or more users affected by the traffic event. A processor prioritizes the one or more users affected by the traffic event. A processor determines an alternative plan for each user of the one or more users affected by the traffic event based on the set of information and a priority number given to each user. A processor proposes the alternative plan to each user of the one or more users affected by the traffic event.
US12094330B2
The present disclosure provides a traffic prediction apparatus, system, method and program capable of predicting the number of vehicles and the speed of vehicles in a predetermined time and in a predetermined range based on waterfall data of vehicles. The traffic prediction apparatus comprises acquisition means for acquiring waterfall data comprising a generation position of a vibration, a generation time of the vibration and an amplitude of the vibration generated by a vehicle traveling on a road, pre-processing means for transforming the acquired waterfall data, generation means for training a portion of the plurality of processed waterfall data and at least one corresponding ground truth traffic property used as plurality of labels to generate a trained model, wherein the ground truth may be obtained from a secondary acquisition means, and prediction means for predicting at least one traffic property for a processed waterfall data.
US12094326B2
A dome lens extending upwardly about a center axis A and outwardly in a radial direction R, having: a first portion forming a first annular ring about the center axis A that includes a first inner surface that is convex, and being oriented so that a first tangent to the first inner surface is at a first angle to the center axis A that is less than forty-five degrees; a second portion being continuous with the first portion and forming a second annular ring about the center axis A and including a second inner surface that is convex, and being oriented so a second tangent to the second inner surface is canted toward the center axis A; a third portion being continuous with the second portion to enclose the lens, forming an annular solid disk about the center axis A, and including a third inner surface that is convex.
US12094320B2
A system for monitoring flooding can include a plurality of flood monitoring stations and at least one flood warning station in communication with each flood monitoring station. Each flood monitoring station can include at least one sensor configured to detect water level and a visual warning device to alert users of actual or predicted flooding. Each flood monitoring station can include a processor to determine a water level using the sensor and control the visual warning device. Each flood monitoring station can include a processor and a wireless communications device to communicate the water level to the flood warning station.
US12094313B2
A system, apparatus, and method to monitor at least one person in at least one environment. The environment includes at least two sensors capable of detecting the presence of a person in that environment. The person under monitoring has a care condition to be monitored, where such monitoring involves the at least two sensors providing data sets to at least one signal monitoring system. Such data sets are communicated to at least one digital twin representing the person under monitoring and their environment, such that patterns of behavior may be determined for that person. Such patterns may be represented in the at least one digital twin, as to detect behavior that indicates a change in the care condition of that person under monitoring.
US12094310B2
This invention relates to a method and system for detecting fire and smoke. The system comprises a processor, a memory and instructions stored on the memory and executable by the processor to: receive a sequence of images from a plurality of cameras; sampling the sequence of images at a certain interval; process each of the sampled images to form a first processed image and a second processed image; extract Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) from first processed image and contours of objects from the second processed image; analyse the BLOB for smoke and the contours of objects for fire; and determine smoke in response to analysing smoke from the BLOBs and fire in response to analysing fire from the contours of objects.
US12094309B2
Managing cameras and controlling video display, including: identifying a first group of cameras, each camera in the first group having a respective image stream; identifying a second group of cameras, each camera in the second group having a respective image stream, and each camera in the second group is not in the first group; assigning a name to each group; assigning a name to each camera; displaying the name of each group in a user interface on a computer system; displaying the name of each camera in the user interface; receiving a selection of a group through the user interface; displaying the image stream for each camera in the selected group simultaneously; receiving a selection of one camera through the user interface; and displaying the image stream for the selected camera.
US12094307B2
There is provided a method of installing a wireless access point so as to inhibit detection thereof within the interior of a home. The method includes disconnecting one of a doorbell chime, a smoke detector and a carbon monoxide detector of a building from existing wiring thereof. The method includes removing from one or more existing locations thereof the one or more of the doorbell chime, smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector. The method includes installing in the one or more existing locations the wireless access point. The method includes connecting the existing wiring to the wireless access point so as to receive power therefrom. The method includes providing the wireless access point with backup power in the form of a battery. The method includes operatively connecting a plurality of door sensors, a plurality of window sensors and one or more motion detectors to the wireless access point.
US12094303B2
The invention relates to systems and methods of revealing portions of outcomes of real-world wagers through interactive media by storing reserve wagers, receiving an indication a first token has been acquired by a user, determining a tracking wager associated with the first token, matching a stored reserve wager with the tracking wager, associating the matched reserve wager with the first token, and revealing at least a portion of the outcome of the matched reserve wager to the user by the user's interaction with the interactive media. By integrating real-world wager outcomes with user interactions, the system may provide an engaging user experience with interactive media. For example, a game may reveal an outcome of a real-world wager (which has already occurred), in response to in-game actions such as user actions in the game, other players' actions, game events, and/or other events.
US12094302B2
Gaming systems and methods which utilize sporting event wager virtual tickets in association with placed sporting event wagers.
US12094297B2
A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.
US12094274B2
Systems and methods for generating vehicle profiles and rendering and operating a virtual world are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of generating a vehicle profile for operating a virtual vehicle in a virtual environment includes receiving vehicle sensor data from at least one sensor corresponding to a physical vehicle, determining at least one vehicle performance attribute from the vehicle sensor data, and storing the at least one vehicle performance attribute in the vehicle profile. The vehicle profile is operable to be used to render the virtual vehicle in the virtual environment based at least in part on the vehicle profile, and to operate the virtual vehicle in the virtual environment based at least in part on the vehicle profile.
US12094263B2
A driving evaluation device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires at least one of vehicle information related to a vehicle state and driving information related to a driving state of drivers; a determination unit that determines whether a predetermined failure operation related to driving has been performed based on at least one of the vehicle information and the driving information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a calculation unit that calculates a failure operation probability that is a probability that the failure operation was performed, based on the failure operation determined by the determination unit, and uses a Z score of the failure operation probability calculated based on the failure operation probability to calculate an evaluation value related to the driving of the drivers.
US12094261B2
A telematics device and a method by the telematics device are provided. The method includes detecting a vehicle starting event and sending a first plurality of parameter requests while refraining from sending a second plurality of parameter requests for a requests-off duration after the vehicle starting event. After the expiry of the requests-off duration, sending the second plurality of parameter requests. In response to detecting a vehicle turning off event, sending a third plurality of parameter requests before the expiry of a post vehicle turning off duration.
US12094260B2
A method and apparatus in a vehicular telemetry system for determining accelerometer thresholds based upon decoding a vehicle identification number (VIN).
US12094252B2
An occlusion analysis system improves accuracy of behavior prediction models by generating occlusion parameters that may inform mathematical models to generate more accurate predictions. The occlusion analysis system trains and applies models for generating occlusion parameters, such as a manner in which a person is occluded, occlusion percentage, occlusion type. A behavior prediction system may input the occlusion parameters as well as other parameters relating to activity of the human into a second mathematical model for behavior prediction. The second machine learning model is a higher-level model trained to output a prediction that the human will exhibit a future behavior and a confidence level associated with the prediction. The confidence level is at least partially determined based on the occlusion parameters. The behavior prediction system may output the prediction and the confidence level to a control system that generates commands associated with a vehicle and other intelligent video analytics systems.
US12094236B2
A method of object re-identification in images of objects comprises providing a plurality of neural networks for object re-identification, wherein each of the plurality of neural networks is trained on image data with different sets of anatomical features, each set being represented by a reference vector; receiving a plurality of images of objects and an input vector representing anatomical features that are depicted in all of the plurality of images; comparing the input vector with the reference vectors for determining, according to a predefined condition, the most similar reference vector; and inputting image data of the plurality of objects to the neural network represented by the most similar reference vector for determining whether the plurality of objects have the same identity.
US12094231B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for machine learning. One of the methods includes receiving one or more page images from a document; for each page image: providing the page image to a computer vision neural network model, wherein the neural network model is trained for the particular page type and is configured to output predictions of coordinates for one or more regions within the image and corresponding labels for the respective regions; and generating an output data structure associating each labeled region with text content located within the labeled region.
US12094226B2
Disclosed are a method for simultaneous localization and mapping, device, system and storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring a local binocular vision image and a local three-dimensional laser point cloud image that can be collected at present; preprocessing the local binocular vision image and the local three-dimensional laser point cloud image, respectively; acquiring a position and an attitude of a local binocular vision map according to the preprocessed local binocular vision image; fusing the position and attitude of the local binocular vision map with the preprocessed local three-dimensional laser point cloud image to obtain a local fusion map; and performing a global consistency optimization on a global map according to the local fusion map to obtain a dense point cloud map and output a current position information and a current attitude information in real time so as to complete the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), wherein the global map is constructed according to a global three-dimensional laser point cloud image.
US12094221B2
The present invention provides a deep learning object detection method that locates the distant region in the image in real-time and concentrates on distant objects in a front dash cam perspective, trying to solve a common problem in advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) applications, that the detectable range of the system is not far enough.
US12094218B2
The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for detecting obstacles in the pathway of cables. In an example method, a first location at a site for stationing a vehicle may be selected. A first routing for a cable may then be determined, where a first end of the cable is connected to the vehicle stationed at the first location. It may then be determined at the vehicle whether the first routing for the cable passes through at least one potential or actual obstacle, where the determination is based at least in part on a topographic map. Responsive to the determination that the first routing for the cable passes through the at least one potential or actual obstacle, a remedial action may be performed, where the remedial action prevents the first routing of the cable from passing through the at least one potential or actual obstacle.
US12094214B2
A system and method for providing an agent action anticipative transformer that include receiving image data associated with a video of a surrounding environment of an ego agent. The system and method additionally include analyzing the image data and extracting short range clips from the image data. The system and method also include analyzing the short range clips and extracting clip-level features associated with each of the short range clips. The system and method further include executing self-supervision using causal masking with respect to the extracted clip-level features to output action predictions and feature predictions to enable ego-centric action anticipation with respect to at least one target agent to autonomously control the ego agent.
US12094212B2
Alert directives and focused alert directives allow a user to provide feedback to a behavioral recognition system to always or never publish an alert for certain events. Such an approach bypasses the normal publication methods of the behavioral recognition system yet does not obstruct the system's learning procedures.
US12094211B2
A surveillance region identifying method is used to analyze a region feature of a surveillance region covered by a surveillance apparatus. The surveillance region identifying method includes analyzing all track information within a series of images acquired by the surveillance apparatus to acquire an appearing point and a disappearing point of each track information, utilizing cluster analysis to define a main appearing point cluster of the appearing points, computing enter vectors of all appearing points inside the main appearing point cluster, and analyzing vector angles of all enter vectors of the main appearing point cluster to define an entrance of the surveillance region.
US12094209B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a data processing method and apparatus, a device, and a medium. The method includes: performing video analysis on video data of a target video to obtain a plurality of video segments; determining a video template associated with a target user from a video template database based on a user portrait of the target user, and obtaining at least one predetermined template segment and a template tag sequence in the video template; screening at least one video segment matching the template attribute tag of the at least one template segment; splicing the at least one matched video segment according to a position of a template attribute tag of each template segment in the template tag sequence as a video material segment of the target video; and pushing the video data and the video material segment to an application client corresponding to the target user.
US12094206B2
In one implementation, a method of displaying sports data is performed by a device including an image sensor, a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining, using the image sensor, an image of a physical environment including a sporting event. The method includes detecting, in the image of the physical environment, an object. The method includes obtaining data regarding a current state of the sporting event with respect to the object. The method includes displaying, on the display in association with the physical environment, a representation of the data.
US12094205B2
Various user-presence/absence detection techniques based on deep learning are provided. These user-presence/absence detection techniques can include building/training a deep-learning model including a user-presence/absence classifier based on training images of a user-seating area of a surgeon console under various clinically-relevant conditions. The trained user-presence/absence classifier can then be used during teleoperation/surgical procedures to monitor/track users in the user-seating area of the surgeon console, and continuously classify captured real-time video images of the user-seating area into either a user-presence classification or a user-absence classification. In some embodiments, the user-presence/absence classifier can be used to detect a user-switching event at the surgeon console when a second user is detected to have entered the user-seating area after a first user is detected to have exited the user-seating area. If the second user is identified as a new user, this can trigger a recalibration procedure to recalibrate surgeon-console settings for the new user.
US12094201B2
A warning system according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit, an analysis unit, and a calculation unit. The acquisition unit acquires, from first sensor data including information on a target, condition information on the target. The analysis unit analyzes, from second sensor data including information on a region, current state information on an object included in the region and action prediction information on the object. The calculation unit calculates a degree of caution, based on the condition information on the target, the current state information on the object, and the action prediction information on the object.
US12094194B2
Provided is a method for an electronic device to perform inference based on encrypted data received from an external device, using an artificial intelligence (AI) model, the method including: transforming the AI model to perform inference based on encrypted data, generating parameter information including information about at least one parameter for encrypting data to be input to the AI model, based on the transformed AI model, transmitting the parameter information to the external device, receiving, from the external device, data encrypted based on the parameter information, and obtaining an inference result output from the transformed AI model by inputting the encrypted data to the transformed AI model.
US12094191B2
A monitoring system based on a digital converter station includes a first monitoring terminal deployed at a first-level monitoring side, a second monitoring terminal deployed at a second-level monitoring side, and a third monitoring terminal deployed at a third-level monitoring side; the monitoring terminal at each level includes a communication module, a human-machine interaction module, a device status monitoring module, a device alarm management module, a video fusion processing module, and a data transmission adjustment and control module.
US12094190B2
Medical image segmentation using interactive refinement, in which the trained deep models are then utilized for the processing of medical imaging are described. Operating a two-step deep learning training framework including receiving original input images at the deep learning training framework; generating an initial prediction image specifying image segmentation by base segmentation model; receiving user input guidance signals; routing each of (i) the original input images, (ii) the initial prediction image, and (iii) the user input guidance signals to an InterCNN; generating a refined prediction image specifying refined image segmentation by processing each of the (i) the original input images, (ii) the initial prediction image, and (iii) the user input guidance signals through the InterCNN to render the refined prediction image incorporating the user input guidance signals; and outputting a refined segmentation mask to the deep learning training framework as a guidance signal.
US12094183B2
A geometric pattern matching method and a device for performing the method includes determining, by a geometric pattern matching device, information on reference geometric pattern contour points for a learning object on a learning image. The method can further include determining, by the geometric pattern matching device, information on detection object contour points for a detection object on a detection image, and performing, by the geometric pattern matching device, geometric pattern matching between the learning object and the detection object on the basis of the information on the reference geometric pattern contour points and the information on the detection object contour points.
US12094176B2
A computer implemented method for calibrating a camera comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: activating a subset of a plurality of light sources according to a plurality of activation schemes, wherein each activation scheme indicates which of the plurality of light sources to activate; capturing an image for each activation scheme using the camera; and calibrating the camera based on the captured images.
US12094173B1
A method for direct write printing of an electrical or optical element based upon a generated master actual position map and a master expected position map is disclosed. The generated master actual position map is generated by efficiently stitching together a number of images using a hierarchical stitching process. Once the desired location of the electrical or optical element is determined by comparing the master actual position map with the master expected position map, a corresponding toolpath for a direct write printer is generated. The direct write printer then direct write prints the electrical or optical element using the generated toolpath. By using different types of inks, the electrical element may be a trace, a resistor, an inductor, a transformer, a capacitor, or some combination thereof. In like manner, the optical element may be a waveguide, a beam-splitter, a phase shifter, an optical attenuator, an interferometer, or some combination thereof.
US12094162B2
A pure pose solution method and system for a multi-view camera pose and scene are provided. The method includes: a pure rotation recognition (PRR) step: performing PRR on all views, and marking views having a pure rotation abnormality, to obtain marked views and non-marked views; a global translation linear (GTL) calculation step: selecting one of the non-marked views as a reference view, constructing a constraint tr=0, constructing a GTL constraint, solving a global translation (I), reconstructing a global translation of the marked views according to tr and (I), and screening out a correct solution of the global translation; and a structure analytical reconstruction (SAR) step: performing analytical reconstruction on coordinates of all 3D points according to a correct solution of a global pose. The method and system can greatly improve the computational efficiency and robustness of the multi-view camera pose and scene structure reconstruction.
US12094160B2
An input image acquisition unit acquires a plurality of input images in which a specific detection target is captured by a plurality of different modalities. A perturbed image acquisition unit acquires a plurality of perturbed images in which at least one of the plurality of input images is perturbed. A detection processing unit detects a detection target included in the input images using each of the plurality of perturbed images and one of the plurality of input images that has not been perturbed, and acquires, for each of the plurality of perturbed images, a detection position of the detection target and a detection confidence level as detection results. An adjustment unit calculates, based on the detection positions and the confidence levels acquired for the plurality of perturbed images, an adjusted confidence level for each of the perturbed images using integrated parameters.
US12094155B2
A shooting score identifying method and device, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes the steps of capturing a picture of a shooting operation on target paper to acquire a shooting image formed on the target paper; forming a thermal imaging image of the target paper after the shooting image is acquired; performing target identification on the shooting image to obtain a target image related to a shooting point, and performing direction correction on the shooting point present in the target image to obtain a correction image; and performing interference removal processing on the correction image through the thermal imaging image to obtain an identification image, thereby identifying a shooting score based on the identification image.
US12094153B2
Provided is a point cloud analysis device that curbs a decrease in model estimation accuracy due to a laser measurement point cloud. A clustering unit (30) clusters a point cloud representing a three-dimensional point on an object obtained by a measurement unit mounted on a moving body and performing measurement while scanning a measurement position, within a scan line, to obtain a point cloud cluster. A central axis direction estimation unit (32) estimates a central axis direction based on the point cloud cluster. A direction-dependent local effective length estimation unit (34) estimates a local effective length based on an estimated central axis direction and an interval of scan lines, the local effective length being a length when a length of projection of the point cloud cluster in a central axis direction for each of the point cloud clusters is interpolated by an amount of a loss part of the point cloud.
US12094152B2
The present invention discloses a method for fully automatically detecting chessboard corner points, and belongs to the field of image processing and computer vision. Full automatic detection of chessboard corner points is completed by setting one or a plurality of marks with colors or certain shapes on a chessboard to mark an initial position, shooting an image and conducting corresponding processing, using a homography matrix H calculated by initial pixel coordinates of a unit grid in a pixel coordinate system and manually set world coordinates in a world coordinate system to expand outwards, and finally spreading to the whole chessboard region. The method has the advantages of simple procedure and easy implementation; the principle of expanding outwards by a homography matrix is used, so that the running speed of the algorithm is fast; and the corner points obtained by a robustness enhancement algorithm is more accurate, so that the situation of inaccurate corner point detection in the condition of complex illumination is avoided.
US12094148B2
Provided is a method for detecting fog droplets and calculating fog characteristics based on camera images, which can set a digital camera and an optical lens at magnification capable of identifying fog droplets, thereby detecting fog droplets from photographed images and calculating various characteristics related to fog.
US12094143B2
A computer-implemented method including: capturing visible-light images via visible-light camera(s) from view points in real-world environment, wherein 3D positions of view points are represented in coordinate system; dividing 3D space of real-world environment into 3D grid of convex-polyhedral regions; creating 3D data structure including nodes representing convex-polyhedral regions of 3D space; determining 3D positions of pixels of visible-light images based on 3D positions of view points; dividing each visible-light image into portions, wherein 3D positions of pixels of given portion of said visible-light image fall inside corresponding convex-polyhedral region; and storing, in each node, portions of visible-light images whose pixels' 3D positions fall inside corresponding convex-polyhedral region, wherein each portion of visible-light image is stored in corresponding node.
US12094127B2
There is provided with an image processing apparatus for measuring a flow of a measurement target based on a video. A detection line indicating a position at which the flow of the measurement target in the video is measured is set. From each of a plurality of images in the video, a plurality of partial images set in a vicinity of the detection line are extracted. The flow of the measurement target passing the detection line is measured using the partial images.
US12094126B2
Disclosed herein include systems and methods for biological object tracking and lineage construction. Also disclosed herein include cloud-based systems and methods for allocating computational resources for deep learning-enabled image analysis of biological objects. Also disclosed herein include systems and methods for annotating and curating biological object tracking-specific training datasets.
US12094120B2
An image processing apparatus selects one or a plurality of examinations to which a medical image belongs, determines image processing candidate examinations based on the selected one or plurality of examinations, displays medical images belonging to the determined image processing candidate examinations on a display unit, and executes image processing using, of the displayed medical images, a plurality of medical images selected by a user, wherein, when the one examination is selected, the selected one examination and one or a plurality of examinations obtained by a search based on the selected one examination are determined as the image processing candidate examinations, and when the plurality of examinations are selected, in the determining, the selected plurality of examinations are determined as the image processing candidate examinations.
US12094115B2
Systems and methods of valve quantification are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of mitral valve quantification is provided. The method includes generating a 3-D heart model, defining a 3-D mitral valve annulus, fitting a plane through the 3-D mitral valve annulus, measuring the distance between at least two papillary muscle heads, defining an average diameter of at least one cross section around the micro valve annulus, and determining a size of an implant to be implanted.
US12094110B2
Techniques are described for determining a pre-morbid shape of an anatomical object. Processing circuitry may determine an aligned shape based on image data with under- or over-segmentation. The processing circuitry may utilize the aligned shape and a shape model such as a mean shape model of the anatomical object to register the aligned shape to the shape model and generate information indicative of the pre-morbid shape of the anatomical object.
US12094105B2
Methods and systems are provided for automatically classifying cells in a histological stained image. In an example, a method includes automatically classifying a plurality of cells in an image of a biological sample stained with a histological stain using a classification model, the classification model trained with a plurality of automatically-classified pseudo-stained images each generated from a respective immunofluorescent image.
US12094102B2
The purpose of the present invention is to improve accuracy in inspection of an appearance of a mold. The inspection device includes at least one processor for performing an inspection step of inspecting an appearance of a mold using a learned model constructed by machine learning. Input into the learned model includes an inspection image obtained by imaging the appearance of the mold. Output from the learned model is information indicating an inspection result of the appearance of the mold.
US12094096B2
In a method for defecting surface defects, a weighting generated when defect-free training samples are used to train an autoencoder and pixel convolutional neural network is obtained. A test encoding feature is obtained by inputting the weighting into the autoencoder and pixel convolutional neural network and encoding a test sample with a weighted autoencoder of the weighted autoencoder and pixel convolutional neural network. The test encoding feature is divided into many sub-test encoding features. The sub-test encoding features are input into a weighted pixel convolution neural network of the weighted autoencoder and pixel convolutional neural network one by one to output a result of test, the test result being either no defect in the test sample or at least one defect in the test sample. Inaccurate defect determinations are avoided, and accurate determinations even of fine defects improved. An electronic device and a non-transitory storage medium are also disclosed.
US12094095B2
Disclosed are an image processing method, a terminal and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The image processing method includes: acquiring and detecting a first image, and determining whether the first image has a face image; in response that the first image has a face image, acquiring image information of a face region where the face image is located in the first image, and calculating an average brightness in the face region based on the image information; adjusting a brightness in the face region based on the average brightness and a preset model; acquiring parameter information of each pixel in the face region, and adjusting the parameter information of each pixel based on the parameter information and a preset rule, and generating a second image; and superimposing the first image and the second image, generating and displaying a third image.
US12094092B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a system and method for reducing noise in a digital image. The method comprises calculating a spatial weight for each pixel s in a current frame, wherein said spatial weight is computed based on a summation of diffused values associated with the pixel s; and selectively filtering an intensity I of the pixel s spatially using said spatial weight.
US12094091B2
A computer-implemented method of machine learning including learning a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for estimating a degradation generated by a denoiser on a ray traced image. The method includes obtaining a dataset and learning the CNN architecture based on the obtained dataset. The learning including taking as input an image generated by the denoiser and a corresponding noisy image of the provided dataset and outputting an error map. This forms an improved solution with respect to estimating a degradation generated by a denoiser on a ray traced image.
US12094077B2
A method for processing an image, an apparatus for processing an image, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a first aim-to-mask flag of a pixel to be interpolated; obtaining second aim-to-mask flags of pixels in a preset neighborhood of the pixel to be interpolated; determining flag categories and a number corresponding to each of the flag categories, in the first aim-to-mask flag and the second aim-to-mask flags; obtaining a third aim-to-mask flag of the pixel to be interpolated based on the flag categories and the number corresponding to each of the flag categories; obtaining interpolation data of the pixel to be interpolated based on the third aim-to-mask flag of the pixel to be interpolated; and performing motion compensation on the pixel to be interpolated based on the interpolation data.
US12094076B2
An electronic device and a controlling method of the electronic device is disclosed. Specifically, the electronic device according to the disclosure may identify, based on receiving a user input for expanding an outer area of a first image, a plurality of objects included in the first image, and obtain a first segmentation image including segmentation information on areas corresponding to the respective objects, obtain a second segmentation image in which an outer area of the first segmentation image is expanded based on the segmentation information, obtain a second image in which segmentation information included in the second segmentation image is converted to RGB information, obtain a third image by reflecting a feature of the first image to the second image based on the segmentation information, and provide the obtained third image.
US12094075B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one processor, and a memory functionally connected to the at least one processor. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, enable the electronic device to obtain a plurality of images, generate a first basic extended image based on first images among the plurality of images, identify at least one first masking area included in the first basic extended image, and generate a first inference image by modifying the at least one first masking area using at least one first inference result, based on the first images and the first basic extended image. An angle of view of the first inference image may be larger than an angle of view of each of the first images.
US12094072B2
Controllable three-dimensional (3D) virtual dioramas in a rendered 3D environment such as a virtual reality or augmented reality environment including one or more rendered objects. 3D diorama is associated with a spatial computing content item such as a downloadable application executable by a computing device. 3D diorama assets may include visual and/or audio content and are presented with rendered 3D environment objects in a composite view, which is presented to a user through a display of computing device. 3D diorama is rotatable in composite view, and at least one 3D diorama asset at least partially occludes, or is at least partially occluded by, at least one rendered 3D environment object. 3D diorama may depict or provide a preview of a spatial computing user experience generated by the downloadable application.
US12094069B2
The present disclosure relates to techniques for presenting a combined view of a virtual environment and a real environment in response to detecting a transition event associated with an object in the real environment. While presenting the combined view, if an input of a first type is detected, the combined view is adjusted by increasing the visibility of imagery of the virtual environment and decreasing the visibility of imagery of the real environment. If an input of a second type is detected, the combined view is adjusted by decreasing the visibility of the imagery of the virtual environment and increasing the visibility of the imagery of the real environment.
US12094068B2
Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for presenting a virtual experience using the display of an eyewear device in augmented reality. A content delivery application implements and controls the detecting of beacons broadcast from beacon transmitters deployed at fixed locations and determining the current eyewear location based on the detected beacons. The method includes retrieving content and presenting a virtual experience based on the retrieved content, the beacon data, and a user profile. The virtual experience includes playing audio messages, presenting text on the display, playing video segments on the display, and combinations thereof. In addition to wireless detection of beacons, the method includes scanning and decoding a beacon activation code positioned near the beacon transmitter to access a beacon.
US12094063B2
A redundant tracking system comprising multiple redundant tracking sub-systems, enabling seamless transitions between such tracking sub-systems, provides a solution to this problem by merging multiple tracking approaches into a single tracking system. This system is able to combine tracking objects with six degrees of freedom (6 DoF) and 3 DoF through combining and transitioning between multiple tracking systems based on the availability of tracking indicia tracked by the tracking systems. Thus, as the indicia tracked by any one tracking system becomes unavailable, the redundant tracking system seamlessly switches between tracking in 6 DoF and 3 DoF thereby providing the user with an uninterrupted experience.
US12094057B2
A method for scheduling and displaying three-dimensional annotations is provided, relating to the field of realistic three-dimensional visualization technology. The present disclosure covers data services, data scheduling schemes, data storage schemes, annotation avoidance schemes, and annotation efficient display schemes. Users can use this disclosure to schedule and display massive three-dimensional annotations in WebGL at high frame rates while consuming extremely low performance. It solves the problem of text inversion and non-hierarchical zooming of three-dimensional maps in traditional annotation and slicing services which can cause text to appear larger or smaller, breaking through the technical bottleneck that traditional annotation and slicing services that cannot be superposition displayed on 3D models. By using this disclosure, massive annotation data can be displayed without slicing, and rich annotation styles can be customized and displayed by users, providing a more advanced annotation display solution for realistic three-dimensional visualization technology.
US12094053B2
Systems and processes generate a viewing experience by determining location data and movement data of (a) at least one object and (b) at least one participant within an event area. A three-dimensional model of the event area, the participant and the object is determined based upon the location data and the movement data. A viewpoint of a spectator defines an origin, relative to the three-dimensional model, and a direction of the viewing experience. The viewing experience is generated for the viewpoint at least in part from the three-dimensional model to include one or more of augmented reality, mixed reality, extended reality, and virtual reality.
US12094050B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for molecular imaging. The systems and methods may obtain, using at least one 3D camera, image data of at least one movable detector of an ECT device. The systems and methods may determine, based on the image data of the at least one movable detector, an arrangement of the at least one insert detector in a coordinate system that relates to the ECT device. The systems and methods may also obtain image data of an object by performing, using the at least one movable detector, an ECT imaging on the object. The systems and methods may generate, based on the arrangement of the at least one movable detector and the image data of the object, an image of the object.
US12094046B1
A digital human driving method and apparatus are provided which relate to computer and image processing, and can solve the problem of shaking, joint rotation malposition and partial loss of a digital human during a driving process. The solution includes: capturing video data from multiple angles of view in a real three-dimensional space by multiple video capture devices; determining a first coordinate of a key point of the target human; determining a mapping relationship based on the first coordinate; calculating a second coordinate based on the mapping relationship and the first coordinate; processing the second coordinate according to a key point rotation model to obtain rotation value of the virtual key point in the virtual three-dimensional space; and driving the digital human to move based on the rotation value of the virtual key point in the virtual three-dimensional space.
US12094031B2
A processor may analyze a target area. The processor may identify, from the analyzing, one or more objects in the target area. The processor may evaluate each of the one or more objects in the target area. Evaluating each of the one or more objects may include measuring each of the one or more objects and determining a purpose for each of the one or more objects. The processor may generate, based on the evaluating, a placement for each of the one or more objects.
US12094017B2
Methods and systems for selecting fare paths. A machine learning model is trained on historical fare path data. An output of the machine learning model provides a fare path selection prediction for each fare path. In response to a request from a client device, flight paths fulfilling the request are determined, fare paths are determined by combining the set of flight paths with pricing units, the machine learning model is applied on the fare paths to determine a subset of fare paths for which the selection prediction is higher than a threshold, details of the subset of fare paths are queried, valid fare paths are determined, and details of a subset of the valid fare paths are returned to the client device. The details of the subset of the valid fare paths may be displayed on the client device for final selection of a fare path.
US12094011B2
A computer system for identifying merchant category code misclassifications includes at least one processor in communication with a transaction database and a merchant database. The transaction database stores transaction records by a plurality of account holders. The processor generates a first MCC profile including at least one transaction characteristic representative of merchants properly classified as the first MCC and comparing the first MCC profile to a second set of transaction records. If the comparison satisfies a comparison threshold for the first MCC the processor identifies the corresponding selected merchant as being MCC misclassified.
US12094010B1
A system and method to authorize requests for procedures or medical claim requests is described. In one aspect, datasets from multiple data sources, including historical authorizations associated with various medical claims, are processed. The machine learning engines and the machine learning models are trained based on the received data. Simultaneously, real-time authorization requests are received and analyzed from secondary data sources. Each request is split into service requests based on second attributes, which include identifiers linked to services. The services are encoded using fixed-length encoding, and unique numeric identifiers are assigned to categorical variables. For each encoded service request, contexts, actions, and decisions are determined by comparing the first attributes of historical authorization requests with the second attributes of real-time requests. Service requests are then categorized into cohorts based on similarity metrics between their second attributes and those of historical authorizations. This comparison enables efficient processing and informed decision-making.
US12094006B2
Computer software and computer-implemented method for preparing an insurance claims package in connection with a damaged vehicle for submission to the vehicle owner's insurance company. A computer-readable medium for storing executable software for preparing an insurance claims package for a damaged vehicle, a computer system including the executable computer software stored in the computer-readable medium for preparing an insurance claims package for a damaged vehicle damage are also disclosed. An insurance claims package for vehicle damage repair is prepared by the computer-implemented method by executing the computer software stored in the computer-readable medium of a computer system.
US12093999B2
A method for cryptocurrency conversion includes: determining conversion information; sending the cryptocurrency to a settlement address; determining conversion orders; determining transaction completion; and executing the conversion orders.
US12093993B2
Various methods and systems are provided to capture a unique product code, such as QR code, on a mobile device, process the information contained in the code, provide the user with options of making a purchase, including purchasing a plurality of selected products from different captured codes, and processing the payment via the user's mobile device.
US12093991B2
Systems and methods for ordering items from an electronic menu and servicing thereof, in a networked computing environment that communicably connects via at least one network at least a plurality of first handheld electronic devices (e.g., wait staff operated devices in a restaurant), a plurality of second handheld electronic devices (e.g., patron operated devices in a restaurant) configured to display the electronic menu, and a venue computer are described. Corresponding apparatuses are also described.
US12093987B2
A product modeling system and method are provided. On one embodiment, the product modeling system is used to model a piece of apparel, such as a shirt, with a design wherein the model with the design is used to display the piece of apparel with the design to a consumer.
US12093981B2
A streamlined method for displaying advertising content in a mobile environment utilized device detection and smartlinks to minimize the number of steps necessary for an end user to select and store a pass or similar marketing device. In various exemplary embodiments, a single click on a banner advertisement allows the user to initiate an application, program, protocol or the like that stores the pass or similar marketing device in the particular type of digital wallet used by the end user.
US12093978B2
Methods and apparatus to collect and process browsing history are disclosed. One disclosed method of collecting browsing history includes collecting a plurality of web requests, and for a web request in the plurality of web requests, determining a count indicating a number of other ones of the plurality of web requests that include a referrer identifying the web request. The method also includes when the count meets a threshold, indicating that the web request is a parent web request.
US12093975B2
A method, computer system, and computer program product for asynchronous content embedding is provided. The embodiment may include receiving a plurality of text and data associated with an element of media content. The embodiment may also include displaying the plurality of received text on a display screen. The embodiment may further include caching the received data until all data to fully display the element is received. The embodiment may also include identifying an insertion point for the element within the plurality of displayed text. The embodiment may further include displaying the element at the insertion point.
US12093973B2
Disclosed examples include logging impression records corresponding to pingback messages received in network communications from a client device, ones of the pingback messages corresponding to portions of media presented at the client device; determining a duration impression for the media based on the impression records; dividing the duration impression based on media types corresponding to the portions of the media presented at the client device; and determining demographic characteristics for ones of the media types in the portions of the media.
US12093964B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are provided for rules execution testing using live production data. Live production authorization requests may be received at a production computing device. Production authorization decisions may be determined at the production computing device for the live production authorization requests using a set of production rules. The production authorization requests, data used to arrive at the corresponding production authorization decisions, and/or the corresponding authorization decisions may be streamed in real-time to a test device. Test authorization decisions may be determined at the test device for the received live production authorization requests using the received data used to arrive at the production authorization decisions, and using a set of test rules. Production and test authorization decisions may be compared to determine decision differences. One or more user interfaces or reports may be generated for outputting the decision differences.
US12093962B2
A mobile device with a first transceiver, a second transceiver, one or more processors, and memory bridges communications between an offline retail machine with a short-range communication capability and a remote server by obtaining via the first transceiver a single-use request code from an information packet broadcast by the offline retail machine; transmitting via the second transceiver the single-use request code to a remote server; obtaining via the second transceiver from the remote server a grant token including the single-use request code; detecting a trigger condition for initiating provision of a product or service by the offline retail machine; and in response to detecting the trigger condition, initiating performance of the provision of the product or service by transmitting the grant token to the offline retail machine via the first transceiver.
US12093959B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include customer specific information exchange and an adjustment of the privacy level of this information. For this purpose an abstraction layer and an obfuscation module are introduced. Using a “fraud vector” a risk assessment is performed on the obfuscated transaction data.
US12093952B2
Exclusive ownership of data units, such as monetary units, is transferred by inputting a request from a transferor, to transfer to a transferee at least a designated one of the data units, said request including an identifier of the transferor, an identifier of the designated data unit, and an identifier of a transferee. The identifier of the transferor is verified and the absence of any other request to transfer the designated data unit is confirmed. A designation of ownership of the designated data unit is then changed from the transferor to the transferee in a ledger, which is comprised of a group of subledgers, each configured as a blockchain.
US12093951B1
Techniques are described for receiving a whitelist record, the whitelist record comprising a date, a time, or a combination. The techniques include determining whether a transaction is valid based on the whitelist record. The techniques further include processing the transaction in response to the transaction being valid based on the whitelist record and storing the transaction in response to the transaction being determined to be valid.
US12093942B1
The present invention generally relates to a method, system and program product for depositing, holding and/or distributing collateral in the form of digital assets in a peer-to-peer network.
US12093931B2
Techniques are disclosed for exchanging digital gaming currency directly between an online service system platform and an online gaming system platform. Various techniques disclosed describe integration of the online service system platform with the online gaming system platform and linking user accounts between the platforms. Integrating the online service system platform with the online gaming system platform and linking user accounts between the platforms allows for direct transferring of digital gaming currency between user accounts located in the online service system platform. Additionally, digital gaming currency may be directly deposited into a user's account on the online gaming system platform from the online service system platform.
US12093930B2
The present invention relates to virtual code-based control system, method and program, a control device and a control signal generating means. A control method on the basis of a control signal comprising a virtual code according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a control signal receiving step for a control module receiving, from a control signal generating means, a control signal generated by means of combining a plurality of specific codes in accordance with a particular rule; a step for the control module extracting the plurality of specific codes comprised in the virtual code; and a command searching step for the control module searching for a storage location comprising a particular command on the basis of the plurality of specific codes.
US12093929B1
A computer-based digital token management system, comprising at least one computer readable memory storing a digital notarized ledger, a token associated with the notarized ledger, or storing software instructions. The token comprises an address field having a first portion representing an owner of the token and a second portion, different from the first portion. The system including at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and performs the following operations: receive a request comprising token owner data and token state data to update the token, identify the token by comparing the token owner data with the first portion of the address field, generate a new address field for the token wherein at least the second portion is updated based on the token state data, and invoke a smart contract on a computing node of the notarized ledger associated with the token according to the new address field.
US12093923B2
Various aspects of the disclosure generally relate to security for a credit card processing reader. Part of security for a reader is protecting sensitive components, for example components that access information from a credit card during a transaction. An alternative security configuration may include integrated circuits replacing portions of electrically active mesh. This may reduce the size and cost of a reader while maintaining its security with respect to published guidelines.
US12093914B2
A device may receive receipt information associated with items in an order. The receipt information may include item identifiers and price descriptors associated with the items in the order. The device may receive product information associated with the items in the order. The product information may include product identifiers based on images of the items in the order and object descriptors. The device may map a first item identifier for a first item in the order and a first product identifier for determining that the first item corresponds to a first price descriptor and a first object descriptor. The device may map a second item identifier for a second item in the order and a second product identifier for determining that the second item corresponds to a second price descriptor and a second object descriptor. The device may assign the first and second items to respective first and second sub-receipts.
US12093908B2
A method for validating a transaction transmitted on a distributed ledger system network includes receiving, by a first node of the distributed ledger system network, verification data associated with the transaction from a second node of the distributed ledger system network. The verification data includes a digital signature generated in a secure enclave of the second node. The first node integrates the verification data into a distributed ledger of the distributed ledger system network.
US12093907B2
Systems and methods are provided for processing credit token and debit token based transactions in a blockchain supported network.
US12093906B1
Electronic transaction data sets are processed for a multitude of disparate transactions using a plurality of autonomous payment networks. A software-programmed computer circuit receives and processes electronic transaction data to identify and use electronic ID data to retrieve stored profile data. The computer circuit then uses the retrieved profile data to select one of a plurality of payment networks available to each of a buyer and seller involved in the transaction. Electronic payment is carried out using the selected payment networks.
US12093903B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an Internet of Things (IoT) system for determining a gas meter measurement failure of a smart gas, the method including: by the smart gas data center, obtaining, based on the smart gas sensing network platform, gas flow information of pipelines of each level from at least one flow monitoring device, the at least one flow monitoring device being configured in the smart gas object platform; by the indoor smart gas device management sub-platform, determining a candidate area based on the gas flow information; determining a target gas meter based on gas meter reading information of the candidate area, and then determining a maintenance plan for the target gas meter; and sending the maintenance plan to the smart gas data center, and sending the maintenance plan to the smart gas user platform based on the smart gas service platform.
US12093899B2
A computer-implemented method including applying a mapping function to a received message to create a characteristic value adapted to map similar messages to similar characteristic values; comparing the characteristic value to characteristic values associated with message clusters; determining that the characteristic value matches a characteristic value associated with at least two message clusters; and responsive to the determining: linking the at least two message clusters into a combined message cluster; assigning a message extractor to the combined message cluster, the assigning comprising: selecting the message extractor, by choosing from amongst message extractors assigned to the at least two message clusters linked into the combined message cluster; applying the message extractor to a message; and determining that a quality score of results from the applying exceeds a threshold; and using the assigned message extractor to extract information from the received message.
US12093896B1
Systems and methods to prioritize resources of projects within a collaboration environment are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the environment state information including prioritized resource information identifying prioritized resources associated with units of work that support fulfilment of projects; manage information defining project-level graphical user interfaces of the projects; effectuate presentation of individual ones of the project-level graphical user interfaces including representations of prioritized ones of the resources for the individual projects; and/or perform other operations.
US12093879B2
Methods and systems for autonomous item delivery and/or pick up are provided. IN some aspects, a mothership travels along an item route. One or more autonomous delivery vehicles may be dispatched from the mothership as the mothership progresses along the route. Each of the autonomous delivery vehicles may deliver and/or pick-up one or more items at one or more item locations. In addition, as the mothership progresses along its route, it may also stop to facilitate the manual delivery and/or pick-up of additional items via a human operator. Upon completing their delivery and/or pick up tasks, the autonomous delivery vehicles return to the mothership, either at the point at which they dispatched from the mothership, or at a different location along the item delivery route.
US12093873B2
Methods and systems for optimizing user interaction with a software application. One system includes an electronic processor configured to receive a collection of interaction data including a plurality of interaction sequences and data associated with each of the plurality of interaction sequences, determine a performance metric for each of the plurality of interaction sequences, and train, with the collection of interaction data and the performance metric determined for each of the plurality of interaction sequences, an artificial intelligence (“AI”) model using supervised learning. The electronic processor is also configured to receive a current interaction sequence of a user for the software application and generate, via the AI model as applied to the interaction pattern of the user, a recommendation, for display within a user interface, for a modified user interaction pattern of the user for the software application.
US12093870B2
This disclosure relates generally to the dynamic sustainability risk assessment of suppliers and sourcing location to aid procurement decision. The existing solutions for sustainability risk assessment involves huge efforts in data collection, upload, consolidation from various data sources which includes sustainability impact factors. The present disclosure captures various data related to the suppliers and the sustainability impact factors from various internal and external data sources and assigns the weights to the sustainability impact factors to generate key performance indicators based on the industry segment and the data related to the suppliers. Further, the system trains an artificial intelligence model based on the key performance indicators and the data related to the suppliers using a ridge regression technique to estimate a sustainability risk assessment of the supplier. The system performs a scenario-based analysis for providing the recommendations to switch the commodity procurement from sourcing location to a target location.
US12093869B1
An information management system-implemented systems and methods for the continuous or near-continuous access to the real-time, near real-time or most recently available scientific characteristics inherent in existing catastrophic events, planet Earth's oceans, weather and environment, and the weather and the activity of our solar system, comprising methods for the continuous weighing, grading, prioritizing of the scientific characteristics, the calculation and quantification of such dynamic risks to humanity, assets, asset classes, infrastructure, and geographic locations, the application and implementation of artificial intelligence or machine learning to systems and methods, the presentation of such risks to a plethora of adapted computer terminals and devices, the exchange of such risk, and the system enterprise management architecture comprising the configurations and functions for the governance, implementation, and execution of systems and methods.
US12093868B2
The present specification discloses methods and systems for automatically processing an electronic data structure by receiving the electronic data structure that has categories associated therewith, determining, for a first subset of the categories, to automatically update a first set of states associated with the electronic data structure without routing the electronic data structure to a stakeholder, and determining, for a second subset of the categories, to route the electronic data structure to at least one stakeholder. After routing a portion of the electronic data structure to at least one stakeholder and receiving input from that stakeholder, a second set of states is updated based upon the received input and data is generated that is visually representative of each of the first set of states and second set of states.
US12093859B1
Systems and methods for measuring and visualizing workload for individual users are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information describing units of work assigned to individual users within the collaboration environment; determine values of a workload parameter for the individual users; effectuate presentation of user interface including individual date panes configured to reflect the values of the workload parameter; and/or perform other operations.
US12093840B2
Disclosed is a method of training an object prediction model by using input data and a discrimination label including a plurality of discrimination information by a computing device including at least one processor which is a training method including: generating a prediction label based on the input data by using the prediction model; generating a loss value based on a discrimination label corresponding to the input data and the prediction label; and training the prediction model based on the loss value.
US12093829B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing a machine learning task on a network input to generate a network output. In one aspect, one of the systems includes a neural network configured to perform the machine learning task, the neural network including one or more switch layers.
US12093824B2
In various examples, a deep neural network (DNN) is trained to accurately predict, in deployment, distances to objects and obstacles using image data alone. The DNN may be trained with ground truth data that is generated and encoded using sensor data from any number of depth predicting sensors, such as, without limitation, RADAR sensors, LIDAR sensors, and/or SONAR sensors. Camera adaptation algorithms may be used in various embodiments to adapt the DNN for use with image data generated by cameras with varying parameters—such as varying fields of view. In some examples, a post-processing safety bounds operation may be executed on the predictions of the DNN to ensure that the predictions fall within a safety-permissible range.
US12093822B2
A computer trains, based on many timeseries, many anomaly detectors. Each anomaly detector is configured with a respective distinct contamination factor. Each timeseries is a temporal sequence of datapoints that characterize a device. Each datapoint in the many timeseries has a respective label that indicates whether the device failed when the datapoint occurred. Each anomaly detector detects: a set of anomalous datapoints, the size of which is proportional to the contamination factor of the anomaly detector, a healthy count of anomalous datapoints in timeseries of devices not failed, and an unhealthy count of anomalous datapoints in timeseries of failed devices. For a particular anomaly detector, the computer detects that the magnitude of the difference between the respective healthy count and the respective unhealthy count is less than a predefined threshold. Based on the contamination factor of the particular anomaly detector, anomalous datapoints are oversampled. Based on the oversampled anomalous datapoints, a classifier is trained.
US12093818B2
A computer-implemented method for detecting an anomalous operating status of a technical system. A training phase obtains a first set of time-series values generated by a digital twin simulation of the technical system for a regular operating status and a second set of time-series values measured by sensors in an anomalous operating status, and adjusts parameters of a machine learning model for detecting the regular operating status and for discriminating data samples of the regular operating status from data samples of the anomalous operating status to generate a trained machine learning model. A monitoring phase obtains a set of multivariate time-series values measured by the sensors, calculates an anomaly score value for determining whether the technical system is in an anomalous operating status based on the obtained set of multi-variate time-series values and the trained machine learning model, and outputs a signal including information on the determined anomalous operating status.
US12093817B2
A computer-implemented method and a system for configuring and implementing an artificial neural network. The method for configuring includes initializing an artificial neural network; and training, based on a training operation, the artificial neural network so as to form an adaptively deployable artificial neural network defining a plurality of nested artificial neural sub-networks. Each artificial neural sub-network is optimal for a respective resource configuration. The method for implementing includes determining an optimal configuration of the artificial neural network for deployment at an electrical device, and deploying the artificial neural network with the optimal configuration at the electrical device.
US12093813B2
Techniques related to compressing a pre-trained dense deep neural network to a sparsely connected deep neural network for efficient implementation are discussed. Such techniques may include iteratively pruning and splicing available connections between adjacent layers of the deep neural network and updating weights corresponding to both currently disconnected and currently connected connections between the adjacent layers.
US12093812B2
An MRAM-based vector multiplication device, such as can be used for inferencing in a neural network, is presented that is ultralow power, low cost, and does not require special on-chip programming. A crosspoint array has an MRAM cell at each crosspoint junction and periphery array circuitry capable of supplying independent input voltages to each word line and reading current on each bit line. Vector multiplication is performed as an in-array multiplication of a vector of input voltages with matrix weight values encoded by the MRAM cell states. The MRAM cells can be individually programmed using a combination of input voltages and an external magnetic field. The external magnetic field is chosen so that a write voltage of one polarity reduces the anisotropy sufficiently to align the cell state with the external field, but is insufficient to align the cell if only half of the write voltage is applied.
US12093807B2
A neural network not requiring massive changes in configuration when changing the number of stages (number of levels) of the neural network. This neural network is provided with at least one neuron core 10 performing an analog multiply-accumulate operation and a weight-value-supply control unit 30 supplying the weight value to the neuron core 10. This neural network is subjected to control processing by a control-processor unit 40 controlling the supply of the weight value from said weight-value-supply control unit 30 in synchronization with the timing of the analog multiply-accumulate operation of the neuron core 10, and processing the data output from the neuron core 10 at every analog multiply-accumulate operation performed by said neuron core as serial data and/or parallel data.
US12093806B1
Static memory allocation may be performed for weight values across multiple processing units executing a neural network. A neural network may be received for execution across multiple processing units. A partitioning scheme may be applied to divide the neural network into subgraphs. The subgraphs may be assigned to different processing units. The weights for the operations of the subgraph may be statically allocated in dedicated caches for the processing units as part of the instructions to execute the neural network across the processing units.
US12093802B2
The exemplary embodiments disclose a method, a computer program product, and a computer system for a gated recurrent neural network (RNN). The exemplary embodiments may include providing an element processor, providing a distinct memory array for a respective set of one or more elements of a hidden state vector, storing in the memory array a group of columns of weight matrices that enable a computation of the set of one or more elements, computing one or more elements of each of multiple activation vectors using a set of one or more columns of the group of columns associated with each of the multiple activation vectors, and performing by the element processor an elementwise gating operation on computed elements, resulting in the set of one or more elements.
US12093795B2
A computer-implemented method includes a method comprising using at least one hardware processor to: receive a plurality of data from a plurality of data sources; standardize the plurality of data; tag the standardized plurality of data with one or more companies; train a prediction model to predict a metric for each of the one or more companies based on the standardized plurality of data tagged with that company and historical measurements for that company; and apply the prediction model to new data to predict the metric for at least one of the one or more companies.
US12093793B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for testing a data removal from a trained machine learning model trained with a training data set are provided. A new machine learning model is trained by using an altered data set that includes training data from the training data set. The altered data set is without removal data. A first forgetting mechanism is applied to the trained machine learning model to form a first revised machine learning model. The applying includes removing the removal data from the trained machine learning model. A first membership leakage quantification on the first revised machine learning model is performed to quantify a first membership leakage of the removal data and that uses the new machine learning model for comparison. A first leakage score is determined from the first membership leakage quantification to test the forgetting mechanism.
US12093782B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate translation of a quantum design across multiple applications are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a quantum library component that stores a data structure representing a quantum geometry that is a physical representation of a quantum element in a quantum component. The computer executable components can further comprise a quantum renderer component that translates the quantum geometry into a defined format of an application based on the data structure.
US12093773B2
According to an embodiment, a wireless tag communication device includes a first antenna that emits radio waves towards a first region of a conveyance path for wireless tags and a second antenna that emits radio waves towards a second region of the conveyance path on downstream of the first region along the conveyance path. A shield prevents the radio waves emitted from the first antenna from reaching a first portion of the first region while permitting the radio waves to reach a second portion of the first region. A controller is configured to select a tag ID read via the first antenna as a target tag ID, designate the target tag ID by communication via the second antenna, and then write tag information via the second antenna to the wireless tag corresponding to the designated target tag ID.
US12093770B2
An arrangement and/or assembly of a set of wristbands is disclosed. In some implementations, an arrangement of a set of wristbands may include a first wristband formed from a first portion of the wristband web. The arrangement may include a second wristband formed from a second portion of the wristband web. The first length of the first wristband may be different from a second length of the second wristband. The arrangement may include a cut formation, in the wristband web, that is between the first wristband and the second wristband. The cut formation may be configured to enable the first wristband to be separated from the second wristband.
US12093768B2
A transaction card is provided. The transaction card can include a luminous layer having a sensitive information component. The sensitive information component includes personal account data and can be selectively illuminated by a light source by refracting light emitted by the light source. A switch and power source are provided to selectively energize the light source.
US12093765B2
An RFIC module is provided that includes an RFIC, an antenna connection first electrode, an antenna connection second electrode, an RFIC connection first electrode, an RFIC connection second electrode, an impedance matching circuit that matches impedance between the RFIC and an antenna, and a substrate. The impedance matching circuit includes a first coil and a second coil that each have a coil opening extending along a surface of the substrate. The first coil and the second coil are juxtaposed on the substrate with the antenna connection first electrode and the antenna connection second electrode interposed therebetween.
US12093756B2
The described technology relates to a publish-subscribe message framework in which an application, decomposed to a plurality of processing stages, is run by executing respective processing stages of the application asynchronously and simultaneously with each other. Communications between the respective processing stages may exclusively be in accordance with the publish-subscribe execution model. The described publish-subscribe framework provides for processing stages to be executed in a multi-process and/or multi-threaded manner while also enabling the distribution of the processing stages to respective processing resources in a multi-processor/multi-core processing environment. An example electronic exchange application and a corresponding example exchange gateway application are described.
US12093752B2
An emulation and simulation acceleration system includes a plurality of processors, wherein each of the plurality of processors is configured to run a separate simulation task in a parallel manner. Each of the plurality of processors includes a local memory for instructions and data, a memory space for saving received data from other processors of the plurality of processors. The system includes a plurality of connection channels between each processor of the plurality of processors, wherein each of the plurality of connection channels is either virtual or physical, and each of the plurality of connection channels extends through computer hardware or memory mapping. The system includes a plurality of system interfaces configured to interface with other systems for expansion to a larger system or to connect with external target system. Each of the plurality of system interfaces contains a virtual interface and a physical interface for connecting with other simulators.
US12093745B2
Various approaches for managing one or more computational commodities in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) include receiving a collection of utilization records for a user utilizing a desktop resource supported by the computational commodity in a desktop pool, each utilization record corresponding to a utilization rate of the computational commodity by the user; and augmenting or reducing allocation of the computational commodity to the desktop resource utilized by the user based at least in part on the utilization rates.
US12093744B2
A method includes identifying relationships between containers on a first device, where each container includes at least one relationship that includes a HAS-A relationship or an IS-A relationship. The method also includes creating, on a second device, a first set of twin containers, where each container in the first set of twin containers corresponds to a container that includes only the HAS-A relationships. In addition, the method includes creating, on the second device and in response to creating the first set of twin containers, a second set of twin containers where each container in the second set of twin containers corresponds to a container that includes at least one IS-A relationship. Moreover, the method includes determining and performing a twin container start-up sequence for the first set and the second set of twin containers.
US12093741B1
An apparatus and methods for determining a resource distribution are provided. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory contains instructions configuring the processor to receive a first datum from a user device, where the first datum describes a first activity pattern of the user device, receive a second datum from a client device, where the second datum describes a second activity pattern of the user device, and to retrieve a third datum from the memory, where the third datum describes a prioritization value for adjusting the first activity pattern to match a threshold value. The processor may classify data to a label based on the prioritization value, where classifying includes modifying a sequence of activities in the first activity pattern and adjusting the second activity pattern.
US12093740B2
A disclosed workload distribution method determines a yield index for each microservice associated with a containerized application executing on a potentially heterogeneous cluster information handling systems. Each microservice is then assigned to one of N priority categories based on its yield index, where three is an acceptable, but not exclusive, value of N. Resource configuration profiles are maintained for each of the priority categories. Each resource configuration profile assigns a resource configuration to each microservice. An information handling resource associated with a particular microservice is configured in accordance with the resource configuration assigned to the particular microservice by a particular resource configuration profile corresponding to the yield index. In this manner, workloads can be assigned and resources configured in accordance with the containerized application's priorities as exposed by the value indices.
US12093729B2
A method for determining a progress of an execution of a task, the method may include accessing only a portion of a shared task status data structure that (a) is associated with the task, wherein the task is executed by a first plurality of compute elements, and (b) comprises multiple hierarchical levels; wherein an entry of a certain hierarchical level represents an aggregate progress associated with multiple entries of the another hierarchical level; the certain hierarchical level is higher than the other hierarchical level; and determining the progress of the execution of the task based on a content of the portion.
US12093727B2
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for facilitating the customization of a process flow builder. A first graphical user interface (GUI) identifying one or more user selectable process flow types is provided. Responsive to a selection of a process flow type, information corresponding to the selected process flow type is obtained. The information includes one or more headers and, for at least a first header, identifies one or more elements that are user-selectable for addition to a layout representing a process flow. A second GUI is generated using the information. A user may access the second GUI to generate a layout representing a process flow of the process flow type.
US12093714B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for use with a cloud computing environment, for estimation of performance impact upon a hypervisor provided within such environments, and the use of such estimation in placing virtual machines within the environment. A noisy-neighbor score value, generated for a particular hypervisor socket on a multi-core processor architecture, provides a predicted measure of performance drop which affected virtual machines placed on that hypervisor socket may experience at a particular point in time, due to activity of neighboring virtual machines on one or more sockets of the hypervisor. The predicted measure of performance drop can be automatically calculated by the system based on the amount and nature of compute usage on the hypervisor, and data defining a machine learning model developed from or through the operation and assessment of controlled noisy-neighbor studies over a collection of compute and memory-intensive workloads.
US12093712B2
A method and an apparatus for handling a memory failure is provided. The method includes: in response to detecting a failure occurring in memory of a host machine, acquiring a failure parameter of the memory, determining a crash probability of the host machine based on the failure parameter, and transferring all virtual machines on the host machine to a target host machine when the crash probability is greater than or equal to a first predetermined threshold. A crash probability of the target host machine is less than a second predetermined threshold. The second predetermined threshold is less than the first predetermined threshold. Further, an electronic device and storage medium are provided.
US12093711B2
The disclosure provides an approach for hypervisor-assisted security analysis. Embodiments include receiving, at a hypervisor on a host computer, events from one or more virtual computing instances (VCIs). Embodiments include analyzing, by the hypervisor, the events according to one or more rules to identify a subset of the events for additional analysis. Embodiments include compressing, by the hypervisor, the subset of the events by performing deduplication to produce a compressed subset of the events. Embodiments include transmitting, by the hypervisor, the compressed subset of the events over a network to a separate analysis component, wherein the separate analysis component performs the additional analysis.
US12093705B2
A computing system includes a server. The server is communicatively coupled to a data repository and is configured to perform operations comprising creating, via a visual information flow creation tool, at least one information flow object. The server is additionally configured to perform operations comprising creating a simple object access protocol (SOAP) interface for the at least one information flow object, and executing the at least one information flow object to communicate with an external system via the SOAP interface.
US12093704B2
Devices, methods, systems, and media are described for providing an extended screen distributed user interface in an augmented reality environment. GUI layout information for laying out a conventional 2D GUI is processed in order to generate an extended screen DUI for display partially on a 2D display device and partially on one or more virtual screens of an AR environment viewed using an AR display device, such as a head mounted display. GUI elements are laid out in the DUI based on a primary modality of the GUI element (input or output), and/or based on spatial dependencies between GUI elements encoded in the GUI layout information. Methods for switching focus between two software application instances displayed in the DUI are also disclosed.
US12093703B2
In examples, a set of actions performed by a user is identified as an action sequence. If user performance of the same action sequence or similar action sequences exceeds a predetermined threshold, a recommendation to create a macro may be generated. The macro may have one or more associated triggers, such that it may be invoked using voice input or via a user interface, among other examples. A macro may have an associated context in which it applies. In some instances, a trigger used to invoke the macro comprises an indication as to such a context. For example, the macro may be invoked in the context of a document, such that one or more document parts are processed accordingly. As another example, the macro may be invoked to process multiple documents, as may be related in subject matter or associated with the same application.
US12093696B1
Some embodiments provide a neural network inference circuit (NNIC) for executing a neural network that includes multiple computation nodes at multiple layers. The NNIC includes multiple core circuits including memories for storing input values for the computation nodes. The NNIC includes a set of post-processing circuits for computing output values of the computation nodes. The output values for a first layer are for storage in the core circuits as input values for a second layer. The NNIC includes an output bus that connects the post-processing circuits to the core circuits. The output bus is for (i) receiving a set of output values from the post-processing circuits, (ii) transporting the output values of the set to the core circuits based on configuration data specifying a core circuit at which each of the output values is to be stored, and (iii) aligning the output values for storage in the core circuits.
US12093683B2
An approach to identifying the use of deprecated source code in software repositories and recommending a replacement. Parsing one or more software repositories for software source code, identified as deprecated, by a machine learning model. Responsive to identifying the deprecated software source code, alerting a first one or more software developers responsible for maintaining a software source code module using the deprecated software source code; and recommending an alternative software source code for use in the software source code module to replace the deprecated software source code to the first one or more software developers.
US12093682B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to adjusting vehicle Electronic Control Unit (ECU) software versions. Operations may include receiving a prompt to adjust an ECU of a vehicle from executing a first version of ECU software to a second version of ECU software; configuring, in response to the prompt and based on a delta file corresponding to the second version of ECU software, the second version of ECU software on the ECU in the vehicle for execution; and configuring, in response to the prompt, the first version of ECU software on the ECU in the vehicle to become non-executable.
US12093675B2
Provided is an application development platform and associated software development kits (“SDKs”) that provide comprehensive services for generation, deployment, and management of machine-learned models used by computer applications such as, for example, mobile applications executed by a mobile computing device. In particular, the application development platform and SDKs can provide or otherwise leverage a unified, cross-platform application programming interface (“API”) that enables access to all of the different machine learning services needed for full machine learning functionality within the application. In such fashion, developers can have access to a single SDK for all machine learning services.
US12093674B2
A system and method for creating a performance-optimized server image. The method includes receiving logs that include performance information of one or more servers of a first type. Current values for performance parameters of the one or more servers are determined based on the logs. Optimal value ranges for the performance parameters are determined. In response to determining that, for at least one performance parameter, a current value is outside a respective optimal value range, incremental changes are determined. The incremental changes are applied to a latest version of a server image of the first type to create a new version of the server image. New values for the performance parameters are determined. In response to determining that, for each performance parameter, a new value is within a respective optimal value range, the new version of the server image is validated as a performance-optimized version of the server image.
US12093672B2
Techniques are described herein for iterative code generation using neural language models. In various implementations, an original source code snippet in a first programming language may be processed using a translation machine learning model to generate a first translation of the original source code snippet in a second programming language. The first translation of the original source code snippet may be evaluated to identify error(s) in the first translation. Based on the error(s), respective mask(s) may be inserted to generate a masked first translation of the original source code snippet in the second programming language. The masked first translation of the original source code snippet may be processed using the translation machine learning model to generate a second translation of the original source code snippet in the second language. The second translation may include infill(s) of corrected source code in place of one or more of the masks.
US12093668B2
An iOS application program construction method and an apparatus, and electronic devices, and a storage medium are provided. The iOS application program construction method includes: configuring project information; based on the project information and at least one target component, utilizing a compilation management service and employing a script to configure a preset project, so as to obtain a target project; and packaging the target project by utilizing a packaging system to obtain an iOS application program corresponding to the target project.
US12093657B2
A method of using a computing device using natural language software to respond to a Boolean question is presented. The method includes receiving, by a computing device, a question and at least one passage. The computing device classifies the question as a Boolean type question. The computing device generates evidence from the at least one passage to the Boolean question. The computing device generates a response to the Boolean question using the generated evidence. The computing device provides the generated evidence that supports the response to the Boolean question.
US12093652B2
Systems and methods for content framing monitoring and intervention are disclosed. In one example, a method includes receiving, at a computing device, first text conveying first information, performing natural language processing of the first text, determining a first framing of the first information based on the natural language processing of the first text, determining second text conveying the first information with a second framing, different from the first framing, and outputting the second text on an electronic display.
US12093647B2
A computer-implemented method is provided that includes receiving a search query and, responsive to the search query, providing one or more textual comments relevant to the search query. This includes tokenizing the search query and calculating a set of query term frequency metrics. A set of records relevant to the search query is then selected, from a persistent storage, based on determined similarities between the query term frequency metrics and frequency metrics determined for the records in the persistent storage. Textual comments within the selected records are associated with usefulness metrics. The textual comments relevant to the search query are selected by selecting those textual comments within the selected records that are associated with usefulness metrics that are within a pre-determined range, e.g., an inter-quartile range for a population of usefulness metrics.
US12093646B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to extracting classification information from input text. Techniques can include obtaining input text, identifying a plurality of tokens in the input text, pre-training a machine learning model, determining tagging information of the plurality of tokens using a first classification layer of the machine learning model, pairing sequences of tokens using the tagging information associated with the plurality of tokens, wherein the paired sequences of tokens are determined by a second classification layer, determining one or more attribute classifiers to apply to the one or more paired sequences, wherein the attribute classifiers are determined by a third classification layer of the machine learning model, evaluating sentiments of the paired sequences, wherein the sentiments of the paired sequences are determined by a fourth classification layer of the language machine learning model, aggregating sentiments of the paired sequences associated with an attribute classifier, and storing the aggregated sentiments.
US12093643B1
A method comprising identifying content to underlay digital content of a display, displayed through a user interface creating a temporary array; populating a temporary array with the identified content for underlayment; and responsive to an input, transforming the temporary array into a populated digital underlayment. The content can be one or more of the following: video, text, static image, ticker, live video, live stream, recorded stream, live broadcast, or recorded broadcast. The display can be a webpage of an online marketplace, social media site, or website.
US12093641B2
A computerized method and system for electronic management of input content provides for summary document generation. The method and system determines section lines for each of multiple content sections. Therein, field lines are determined for each field within the content section, including dividing up the number of section lines amongst the plurality of fields. The method and system updates an electronic user interface indicating fields and number of lines for each of fields. Via the user interface, the method and system includes receiving user input for each of the plurality of fields and tracking the user input for each of the plurality of fields relative to the number of field lines for each of the plurality of fields. Thereby, the method and system manages summary documentation generation by interacting with the user to modify the user input and available field lines, as well as updating corresponding content sections.
US12093635B2
Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a sentence processing method and device. The method may include performing word segmentation operation on a source sentence to be encoded to obtain m words. The method may further include obtaining an ith word in the m words using an ith encoding processing node in the n encoding processing nodes, and obtaining an (i−1)th word vector from an (i−1)th encoding processing node. The method may further include performing linear operation and non-linear operation on the ith word and the (i−1)th word vector using the first unit of the ith encoding processing node to obtain an ith operation result, and outputting the ith operation result to the at least one second unit for processing to obtain an ith word vector. The method may further include generating, in response to obtaining m word vectors, a sentence vector according to the m word vectors.
US12093634B2
A path delay prediction method for an integrated circuit based on feature selection and deep learning. First, an integrated feature selection method based on filter methods and wrapper methods is established to determine an optimal feature subset. Timing information and physical topological information of a circuit are then extracted to be used as input features of a model, and local physical and timing expressions of cells in circuit paths are captured by means of the convolution calculation mechanism of a convolutional neural network. In addition, a residual network is used to calibrate a path delay. Compared with traditional back-end design processes, the path delay prediction method provided by the invention has remarkable advantages in prediction accuracy and efficiency and has great significance in accelerating the integrated circuit design process.
US12093629B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a corresponding layout diagram being stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the layout diagram including layout cells, the method including generating the layout diagram including: for a candidate cell amongst the layout cells in the layout diagram, avoiding a discrete calculation of a corresponding parasitic capacitance (PC) description including, within a database which stores predefined cells and corresponding parasitic capacitance (PC) descriptions thereof, searching the database for one amongst the predefined cells (matching predefined cell) that is a substantial match to the candidate cell; and, when a substantial match is found, assigning the PC description of the matching predefined cell to the candidate cell.
US12093627B2
A method (of forming a semiconductor device) includes: forming an active area structure extending in a first direction; forming gate structures over the active area structure and extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction; forming contact-source/drain (CSD) conductors over the active area structure, interleaved with corresponding ones of the gate structures, and extending in the second direction; and forming first conductive segments in a first layer of metallization (M_1st layer) over the active area structure and extending in the first direction, the first conductive segments including a first gate-signal-carrying (GSC) conductor which overlaps the active area structure.
US12093625B2
In a method, cell placement is performed to place a plurality of cells into a region of an integrated circuit (IC). A thermal analysis is performed to determine whether the region of the IC is thermally stable at an operating condition. In response to a determination that the region of the IC is thermally unstable, at least one of a structure or the operating condition of the region of the IC is changed. After the thermal analysis, routing is performed to route a plurality of nets interconnecting the placed cells. At least one of the cell placement, the thermal analysis, the changing or the routing is executed by a processor.
US12093624B2
Semiconductor modules are used for controlling drive motors such as the electric motors of electric vehicles. IGBT modules are one type of such semiconductor modules. During operation, heat losses arise in the power transistors and the diodes of the semiconductor modules, which causes an increase in their temperature. Therefore, the manufacturers of the IGBT modules recommend that the software of a control unit that controls an IGBT module be provided with a protective function which continuously monitors the temperature of the IGBT module and intervenes as necessary if an unacceptable temperature of a component of the IGBT module is reached. A temperature model is used for the calculation. The manufacturers provide a more accurate higher-order temperature model that however causes an increased amount of computation. According to the proposal, a reduced temperature model is used that is calculated using the balanced truncation method and is optimized for certain working ranges.
US12093609B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can selectively determine whether to incorporate a verbatim interpretation of portions spoken utterances into an entry field and/or incorporate synonymous content into the entry field. For instance, a user can be accessing an interface that provides an entry field (e.g., address field) for receiving user input. In order to provide input for entry field, the user can select the entry field and/or access a GUI keyboard to initialize an automated assistant for assisting with filling the entry field. Should the user provide a spoken utterance, the user can elect to provide a spoken utterance that embodies the intended input (e.g., an actual address) or a reference to the intended input (e.g., a name). In response to the spoken utterance, the automated assistant can fill the entry field with the intended input without necessitating further input from the user.
US12093602B2
Example techniques relate to playback queue subscriptions. An example implementation involves a computing system receiving, from a first computing device associated with a first user account, an instruction to enable subscription to a first playback queue associated with a first media playback system. In response to the instruction, the computing system enables second user accounts to subscribe to the first playback queue. The second user accounts are registered with respective second media playback systems in respective second household. The computing system receives, from a particular second media playback system, a request to subscribe to the first playback queue; and in response, sends one or more messages that update a control interface of the first control device to display a subscriber indication and (ii) sends one or more messages that populate a second playback queue of the particular second media playback system with audio tracks of the first playback queue.
US12093597B2
An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: capturing images using one or more imaging devices of a foldable user device, wherein the user device comprises a visual display, wherein, in a first mode of operation, a display output on the visual display is modified depending on a folding angle of the foldable user device; capturing audio using one or more microphones of the foldable user device; providing a wind mode indication in a second mode of operation; and disabling the modification of the visual display depending on the folding angle in the second mode of operation.
US12093593B2
A control device for a moving body includes a control unit configured to communicate with an information terminal which is portable for a user of the moving body, and perform movement control on the moving body and charge control on a power supply device. The control unit is configured to start the moving body and the charge control, and, in response to receiving an action plan, if a progress state of the charge control does not reach a predetermined state, cause a display unit of the information terminal to display a third display image indicating the progress state, and if the progress state reaches the predetermined state, cause the display unit not to display the third display image, or cause the display unit to display it in an inconspicuous manner in comparison to a case where the progress state does not reach the predetermined state.
US12093577B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing a placement of data items on a distributed storage system. In some examples, a method can include determining a location of a master copy of a data item on a distributed storage system, the location including a data store on the distributed storage system; determining an access pattern associated with the master copy of the data item, the access pattern including originating locations of access requests received by the distributed storage system for the master copy of the data item and a respective number of access requests received from each of the originating locations; determining, based on the access pattern, a different location on the distributed storage system for storing the master copy of the data item, the different location including a different data store on the distributed storage system; and placing the master copy of the data item at the different location.
US12093574B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for managing memory-based integrated storage. The apparatus includes one or more processors and executable memory for storing at least one program executed by the one or more processors. The at least one program converts data operation tasks in response to a request for access to memory-based integrated storage from a user, a single virtual disk of a virtual storage pool of the memory-based integrated storage converts a disk access command into a command for connecting to a storage backend depending on the data operation tasks, and conversion of the data operation tasks into the command includes target identification indicating which local storage of the memory-based integrated storage is to be used.
US12093572B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The nonvolatile memory is correspond to a first mode of writing data of N bits per unit area and a second mode of writing data of M bits (M>N) per unit area. When receiving a first command issued prior to a write command to instruct writing write data to the nonvolatile memory, the controller selects one or both of the first mode and the second mode for writing the write data to the nonvolatile memory, to allow writing the write data to the nonvolatile memory to be executed in the first mode as much as possible, based on a capacity of the write data specified by the first command and a capacity of a free area of the nonvolatile memory.
US12093564B2
A die command from a requestor is received. The die command into a die command queue is stored. The die command from the die command queue into a plurality of partition commands is partitioned. The plurality of partition commands into one of a first plurality of partition command queues or a second plurality of partition command queues is mapped. The partition command of the first plurality of partition command queues or the second plurality of partition command queues is issued to a command processor to be applied to the one or more memory devices.
US12093563B2
An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may include one or more substrates, and logic coupled to the one or more substrates, the logic to manage access to a storage system that includes a first persistent storage device and a second persistent storage device, capture input/output telemetry for a workload on the storage system, determine one or more write reduction factors and one or more write invalidation factors for the workload based on the captured input/output telemetry, and allocate storage for the workload between the first persistent storage device and the second persistent storage device based on the one or more write reduction factors and the one or more write invalidation factors. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12093555B2
A first storage system receives a request to migrate a volume from the first storage system to a second storage system, and commences a migration process to non-disruptively migrate the volume from the first storage system to the second storage system while the volume is being accessed by a host system. The first storage system sends a first request to the host system to discover information for connecting to the second storage system to allow the host system to access to the volume through the second storage system during the migration process. In addition, the first storage system sends a second request to the host system to discover information for disconnecting from the first storage system during a final stage of the migration process.
US12093550B2
A method performed by a data storage apparatus of maintaining filesystem object attributes in connection with a plurality of drivers is provided. Each driver of the plurality is configured to operate on a respective set of filesystem objects. The method includes (a) for each driver of the plurality, creating a respective driver-specific storage volume; (b) storing, within each driver-specific storage volume, attributes specific to respective filesystem objects operated on by the driver of that driver-specific storage volume; and (c) while operating a particular driver of the plurality on a particular filesystem object, using values of the stored attributes specific to that particular filesystem object operated on by that particular driver. An apparatus, system, and computer program product for performing a similar method are also provided.
US12093549B2
Disclosed are a method for managing data and a storage device thereof. The storage device includes at least one memory including a plurality of planes, each plane includes a plurality of blocks, and peer blocks in different planes are belonged to operate in a multi-plane mode. The plurality of blocks are detected to find a unavailable block. Then, available blocks corresponding to the unavailable block in planes other than the plane where the unavailable block is located are marked as backup blocks that do not operate in the multi-plane mode. A first block with effective data is selected from the plurality of blocks operating in the multi-plane mode. Data of the first block is moved to a backup block in the same plane.
US12093548B2
Aspects of a storage device are provided that optimize stream oriented writing of sequential data streams for improved read and write performance. The storage device includes a non-volatile memory including a plurality of blocks, and a controller configured to receive a plurality of host write commands each including a sequential data stream. In response to determining the host write commands include sequential data streams, the controller writes each of the sequential data streams respectively to different sequential open blocks, where the blocks are respectively associated with the sequential data streams. The controller may afterwards read each of the sequential data streams respectively from the different blocks. As a result, sequential data from multiple streams may not be stored in a mixed pattern in a same sequential block, thereby allowing the controller to issue fewer read or relocate commands in a block for a given sequential data stream.
US12093542B2
A system can determine a priority order of storage devices for installation of an operating system on targeted storage. The system can further communicate with a target server to determine a group of storage devices accessible by the target server. The system can further identify a storage device of the group of storage devices that has a highest priority for operating system installation. The system can further determine a unique identifier of the storage device. The system can further install the operating system on the storage device using the unique identifier.
US12093537B2
A data storage device stores files in its memory. The files may be logically fragmented in that various parts of a given file may be located in non-continuous logical addresses, which can be disadvantageous. The host can send a request to the data storage device to reduce such logical fragmentation. For example, the host can send a swap command to the data storage device, in response to which the data storage device swaps the logical addresses of data fragments of two different files. This results in the logical address of one or both of the data fragments being continuous with the logical address of another data fragment of the same file. This logical address swap can take place without physically moving the data in the memory.
US12093534B2
Disclosed are a method for inheriting a defect block table and a storage device thereof. The method applied to a controller of a storage device includes the steps of: storing an original defect block table in a first storage location of a storage module of the storage device, wherein the original defect block table records defect block information of each plane of the storage module; and in response to a low-level format operation being performed on the storage device, reading the original defect block table, and executing a adaptive inheritance procedure based on a multi-plane mode in which the storage device operates, to generate and store a system defect block table in a second storage location of the storage module, wherein the system defect block table records defect block information corresponding to the multi-plane mode.
US12093525B2
In some embodiments, a device performs character recognition based on spatial and temporal components of touch input detected on a touch-sensitive surface. In some embodiments, a device provides feedback about handwritten input and its recognition by the device. In some embodiments, a device presents a user interface for changing previously-inputted characters.
US12093508B1
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for previewing assigned routes. A route management system provides for accessing a route tracking report associated with a vehicle to identify a plurality of routes associated with the vehicle; generating, for display, a graphical user interface (GUI) for navigating through the plurality of routes associated with the vehicle, the graphical user interface comprising a plurality of time period options; receiving input that selects a first time period option from the plurality of time period options; in response to receiving the input, retrieving a first set of routes from the plurality of routes that corresponds to the first time period option; and updating the GUI to display a first portion of the first set of routes in response to receiving the input.
US12093504B2
Provided is a method for controlling a plurality of work processes in a multitasking mobile terminal, and more particularly, a method for selecting a second work process during a first work process and controlling a predetermined function of the selected second work process. In the controlling method, icons corresponding to the respective work processes are displayed in response to a user command, and a desired work process is selected through the displayed icons. A predetermined function of the selected work process is controlled through a pop-up menu activated in response to the user command.
US12093502B2
The present disclosure provides systems, device configurations, and processes for displaying presentation control interfaces as overlays of content being displayed by an interactive whiteboard computing system in an interactive presentation environment, including one or more panels displaying selectable icons for performing various control tasks, including: viewing a present position and changing position within a sequence for the presentation; inputting, finding, and loading data to be stored for the presentation; interacting with the computing system or connected devices; and the like. Additional configurations include automatically showing, hiding, and/or repositioning control interface panels so that they are accessible by the presenter without substantially interfering with the presentation.
US12093498B2
Some embodiments relate to resource usage tracking. A resource monitor may monitor resources of a network. A database may record resource usage. A client program may provide resource in a graphical display at a variety of specificity levels. A user may select portions of the graphical display to adjust information presented.
US12093493B2
A display device including: a display panel including a display area and a plurality of pixels disposed in the display area; and an input sensing part disposed on the display panel, wherein the input sensing part includes an active area and a plurality of sensing electrodes disposed in the active area, a first distance between a 1-1 side of the active area and a 2-1 side of the display area is smaller than a second distance between a 1-2 side of the active area and a 2-2 side of the display area, the 1-1 side and the 2-1 side are adjacent to each other and the 1-2 side and the 2-2 side are adjacent to each other, and the 1-1 side and the 1-2 side are opposite to each other in a first direction, and the 2-1 side and the 2-2 side are opposite to each other in the first direction.
US12093492B2
A display device including a display panel, and an input sensing panel on the display panel, the input sensing panel including an active region and an inactive region adjacent to the active region, the input sensing panel including a base substrate, a first conductive layer on the base substrate, the first conductive layer including a plurality of sensing parts, a connecting part electrically connected to the plurality of sensing parts, and a plurality of sensing patterns, a first sensing insulation layer in the active region and configured to cover the first conductive layer, a plurality of connecting lines in the inactive region and electrically connected to the first conductive layer, and barrier ribs in the inactive region and between the plurality of connecting lines.
US12093487B2
A position detection circuit for detecting, by using a touch sensor, a position indicated by a passive pointer to a touch surface disposed on the touch sensor. The position detection circuit includes a detection circuit that detects a touch of the passive pointer to the touch surface, a calculation circuit that calculates a total value of capacitance values in a calculation region surrounding at least part of a touch region indicating a region of the touch, and an output circuit that outputs an indicated position that is indicated by the touch, based on the total value of the capacitance values. The output circuit outputs the indicated position when the total value is equal to or less than a threshold value, and does not output the indicated position or invalidates the indicated position and outputs the indicated position that has been invalidated, when the total value exceeds the threshold value.
US12093481B2
A touch operation processing method includes detecting a touch operation of a user, which starts from a border of a screen display area to the screen display area, using the first point touched by the touch operation in the screen display area as a starting point, and performing, according to the touch operation, reduction processing on an operation interface displayed in the screen display area, where one edge of an operation interface after the reduction processing includes the starting point.
US12093473B2
An information handling system stylus transmits a wireless signal at a writing tip to enhance touch detection of the writing tip by a touchscreen display and receives wireless signals from the touchscreen display at a receiving antenna. To enhance control of wireless energy distributed at the writing tip, the receiving antenna is selectively coupled to the writing tip, such as by transitioning from a float of the receiving antenna to an interface with the stylus power source at transmit by the writing tip. Charge at the receiving antenna helps to shape the energy distribution from the writing tip, such as to match the energy distribution of other styluses in use at the touchscreen display.
US12093470B2
A virtual image display system includes a virtual image display device and a hand-held control device. The virtual image display device is coupled to the hand-held control device. The hand-held control device is configured to capture image information of the virtual image display device and analyze the image information to obtain relative angle information between the virtual image display device and the hand-held control device. The virtual image display device adjusts a pointing direction of a displayed virtual hand-held control device image according to the relative angle information.
US12093461B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide measurement techniques for electronic devices such as optical see-through head mounted devices. In some implementations, a line of sight technique is used to identify a 3D position of a measurement point to enable measurement of an object in a 3D environment. In some implementations, different measurement point identification techniques are automatically selected and used to identify a 3D position of a measurement point to enable measurement of an object in a 3D environment. In some implementations, a 3D position of a measurement point is identified to enable measurement of an object in a 3D environment, where the measurement point is identified by selecting from multiple candidates that are determined using different measurement point selection techniques.
US12093456B2
An adaptive calibration method in a brain-computer interface is disclosed. The method is used to reliably associate a neural signal to an object whose attendance by a user elicited that neural signal. A visual stimulus overlaying one or more objects is provided, at least a portion of the visual stimulus having a characteristic modulation. The brain computer interface measures neural response to objects viewed by a user. The neural response to the visual stimulus is correlated to the modulation, the correlation being stronger when attention is concentrated upon the visual stimulus. Weights are applied to the resulting model of neural responses for the user based on the determined correlations. Both neural signal model weighting and displayed object display modulation are adapted so as to improve the certainty of the association of neural signals with the objects that evoked those signals.
US12093455B2
A vehicular vision system includes an interior-viewing camera disposed in a vehicle and viewing a driver of the vehicle, and a forward-viewing camera disposed at a windshield of the vehicle and viewing at least forward of the vehicle. Image data captured by the interior-viewing camera is transferred from the interior-viewing camera to the ECU and is processed at the ECU. Image data captured by the forward-viewing camera is transferred from the forward-viewing camera to the ECU and is processed at the ECU. Responsive to image processing of image data captured by the interior-viewing camera, at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) position of the driver's head is determined and (ii) direction that the driver's eyes are viewing is determined. Image data captured by the forward-viewing camera is processed for a plurality of driver assistant systems of the vehicle.
US12093434B1
The present disclosure relates to a security circuit for detecting physical attacks on a system semiconductor. The security circuit includes at least: a shielding layer having a mesh structure composed of a transmission line; a processor configured to determine that a focused ion beam (FIB) circuit editing attack was detected when a difference between predetermined counter output and a first counter output is less than a first reference value; determine that a microprobing attack was detected when a difference between the second counter output and the first counter output exceeds a second reference value; and output an alarm signal when detecting the circuit editing attack or the microprobing attack.
US12093427B2
Systems and methods for processing privacy requests related to information privacy are described. A server computing system may be configured to receive data related to a privacy request for personal information associated with a person, the data related to the privacy request sent by an agent of the person to a company from a computer system associated with the agent, the agent acting on behalf of the person as related to the information privacy, the personal information stored in one or more databases associated with the server computing system; confirm that the person authorizes the agent to act on behalf of the person as related to the information privacy; and based on successful confirmation that the person authorizes the agent, process the privacy request on behalf of the company.
US12093423B2
Systems and methods for the processing of diverse datasets by divergent algorithms within a zero-trust environment is provided. In some embodiments, a single data steward may receive multiple algorithms in a zero-trust environment. Alternatively, algorithm output may be obfuscated for sharing with the algorithm developer for validation, or to compare against the output of a different data steward's processed protected information, for example PHI. In such situations the hashed identifying information may be matched using AI models. In yet other embodiments, the output of one data steward's protected information may be provided in a zero-trust manner to the sequestered enclave of a second data steward in order to impact the processing of this second data steward's protected information by a second algorithm.
US12093415B2
Provided is a data intermediary system, comprising a processor and a storage unit. The storage unit stores therein usage information indicating usage of services. The processor acquires information indicating a data item that needs to be provided by a user as required by a provider of a first service that the user wishes to use, based on terms of use of the first service, selects a second service from services that the user has used in the past, based on the usage information, extracts a difference between the required data items and data items provided based on terms of use of the second service, outputs information indicating the extracted difference, and controls, when the user has accepted the terms of use of the first service, a flow of data from a provider holding the required data to the provider that provides the first service.
US12093405B2
A method and a system for automatically loading parameters, and a client-end server thereof are provided, and the method and the system, by a reversible information hiding technology, entrain various required parameters in an engineering drawing hiddenly to generate an encrypted file; and then, after decrypting the encrypted file by a pre-stored cipher key, obtain and automatically load the required parameters. Therefore, the parameters can be automatically loaded quickly, accurately and safely.
US12093404B2
In various embodiments a plurality of computing devices may perform methods for providing information security services for a communication network, including performing a consensus operation to determine whether a client device is authorized to request a document operation, wherein each computing device is assigned to one of a plurality of trust zones each including a number of computing devices less than or equal to a threshold number of computing devices, and performing the document operation for the client device in response to determining by the plurality of computing devices that consensus exists among the plurality of trust zones that the client device is authorized to request the document operation.
US12093403B2
An access validation device includes a user interface and one or more processors. The user interface includes at least one of a display and an audio output device. The one or more processors cause an identity wallet to generate a credential regarding a medical status of a user using credential data representative of the status received from a distributed ledger. The one or more processors cause the identity wallet to present an indication of the status using the user interface.
US12093398B2
An embedded software analyzer (ESA) detects vulnerabilities in software, such as embedded software items (e.g., software that is pre-loaded onto a device or component). Vulnerabilities may include flaws, glitches, weaknesses, and/or other elements that may prevent correct operation or allow an attacker to access or exploit the software (and/or associated devices, components, systems, etc.) The ESA may utilize techniques such as fuzzing and symbolic execution to identify vulnerabilities. The ESA may predict vulnerabilities and prioritize analysis based on the prediction. The ESA may use smart seeding to optimize fuzzing or other analysis. Such smart seeding may include generating optimized inputs for a particular software item. The ESA may apply machine learning to perform, optimize, and/or otherwise implement such analysis techniques.
US12093397B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, processes, and machine learned models for performing opinionated threat assessments for cybersecurity vulnerabilities. An opinionated threat assessment system is implemented that obtains a training dataset that includes a codified opinionated threat assessment for security vulnerabilities. The codified opinionated threat assessment in the training dataset includes intrinsic attributes for the security vulnerabilities and subject attributes about the security vulnerabilities. The opinionated threat assessment system trains an opinionated threat assessment model using the training dataset and according to a machine learning technique where the training tunes the opinionated threat assessment model to generate a machined learned opinionated threat assessment for a new security vulnerability based on new intrinsic attributes associated with the new security vulnerability.
US12093391B2
A technique of protecting data from ransomware attacks identifies a set of blocks written to a data object between first and second points in time, determines a set of attributes of the set of blocks, and, in response to the set of attributes indicating a likelihood of a ransomware attack, secures a state of the data object as of the first point in time.
US12093385B2
Embodiments provide improved functionality to monitor processes. One such embodiment is directed to a system that includes a centralized database storing approved file signatures. The system also includes a processor that is configured, in response to a user request to run an executable file, to suspend a process implementing execution of the executable file. In turn, the processor determines a signature of the executable file and compares the determined signature of the executable file to the approved file signatures stored in the centralized database. Then, the processor maintains or stops suspension of the process based on the comparison. In an embodiment, the processor stops suspension if the signatures match and takes a protection action if the signatures do not match.
US12093379B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to preventing unauthorized screen capture activity. A computing platform may detect, via an infrared sensor associated with a computing device, an infrared signal from a second device attempting an unauthorized image capture of contents being displayed by a display device of the computing device. Subsequently, the computing platform may determine, via the computing platform, the contents being displayed by the display device. Then, the computing platform may retrieve a record of the contents being displayed by the display device. Then, the computing platform may determine a risk level associated with the infrared signal. Subsequently, the computing platform may perform, via the computing platform and based on the risk level, a remediation task to prevent the unauthorized image capture.
US12093365B2
A new transactional, constraint-based system is provided to define and maintain authorization policies. Constraints are expressed as user-defined, domain-specific programs that operate on authoritative representations of entities and administrative hierarchies.
US12093364B2
Systems and methods are provided for operation of a media device in an obfuscated entry mode. A method for entry of personal information on a media device may include receiving a request from an external device to enter personal information. An interface screen is generated, including a first section including a plurality of characters, and a second section including directional buttons and a select button. Manipulation of the directional buttons and/or the select button causes selection of characters from the first section of the interface screen to be entered into the personal information entry field displayed by the media device in an obfuscated manner.
US12093352B2
Provided are an image processing method and apparatus based on a video conference. The image processing method includes: obtaining an image transmitted by an image acquisition terminal; obtaining identity information of a participant; adding the obtained identity information to the image in the form of a watermark to form a watermarked image; and outputting the watermarked image.
US12093338B2
The present disclosure relates to a statement presentation system. The statement presentation system may include a computer-readable storage medium that may be configured to store executable modules. The computer-readable storage medium may include a statement browser that may be configured to receive a statement file and present a statement. The computer-readable storage medium may also include a statement generation engine that may be configured to modify the statement file, and generate a modified statement file. The statement generation engine may extract data from a data source based on the modified statement file, and operate the extracted data. The operation may be conducted by loadable operation code, a loadable operation library file, or a loadable operation tool. The statement generation engine may render the operated data and display the rendered data on the statement browser in the form of a statement.
US12093332B2
An anchor-based collaborative filtering system receives a training dataset including user-item interactions each identifying a user and an item that the user has positively interacted with. The system defines a vector space and distributes the items of the training dataset within the vector based on a determined similarity of the items. The system further defines a set of taste anchors that are each associated in memory with a subgroup of the items in a same neighborhood of the vector space. To make a recommendation to an individual user, the system identifies an anchor-based representation for the individual user that includes a subset of the defined taste anchors that best represents the types of items that the user has favorably interacted with in the past. The taste anchors included in the identified anchor-based representation for the individual user are used to make recommendations to the user in the future.
US12093331B2
Aspects described herein may allow for generating a filter list to facilitate users to refine their online search. Data items displayed on a web page may be determined based on the user's input data, for example, based on a selection command selecting the data items. Each data item corresponds to a feature of a product. Filters corresponding to the data items may be determined and the weight of each filter may be updated. A filter list may be generated and displayed to facilitate the user to refine his search for a class of products. The filters on the filter list may be automatically ordered based on the weight of each filter. In this way, a user may be able to find filters that are associated with features that he cares about the most and therefore use the filter list to obtain more satisfying results.
US12093329B1
A system and method of using published electronic documents to create communications links between different readers and authors, as well as to connect readers of similar types of documents. The original documents may have been optically scanned paper publications, and thus need not initially contain any electronic metadata. These readers and authors may be previously unknown to each other. Here document readers use user-side software (either installed or web-based) on their computerized devices, and these, in turn, communicate with cloud servers running server-side software. Users indicate documents of interest and may assert authorship over some of the documents. The system automatically scans the documents, extracts authorship information, and can use this authorship information to establish electronic links between the readers and authors. Users can exchange comments and chat within the context of any given document, have this input relayed to authors or other users, and receive context-specific replies back.
US12093319B2
A computer-implemented method, computer system, and computer program product for measuring a quality of a chatbot response. The present invention may include receiving one or more classifications, receiving a set of questions in a chatbot to be analyzed, filtering any question from the received set of questions that is not related to an area of expertise of the chatbot, matching at least two questions from the received set of questions to each other, and applying at least one of the one or more classifications to the at least two matched questions. The one or more classifications may be based on a similarity of words and synonyms used in the at least two matched questions. The one or more classifications may be based on a similarity of intents of the at least two matched questions.
US12093310B2
The present invention relates to methods for searching for two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects. More particularly, the present invention relates to searching for two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects in a collection by using a multi-modal query of image and/or tag data. Aspects and/or embodiments seek to provide a method of searching for digital objects using any combination of images, three-dimensional shapes and text by embedding the vector representations for these multiple modes in the same space. Aspects and/or embodiments can be easily extensible to any other type of modality, making it more general.
US12093307B2
This application relates to an image data invoking method and system for an application, an electronic device, and a storage medium. When the electronic device identifies an entry file HalSensorList.cpp of a sensor, an image with an image resolution of binning size is filled. The electronic device obtains an image with an image resolution of binning size from a preview mode library at a kernel layer, fills an MTK_SCALER_AVAILABLE_STREAM_CONFIGURATIONS_WITH_DURATIONS tag at a Hal layer with the image with an image resolution of binning size, and reports the binning size of the MTK_SCALER_AVAILABLE_STREAM_CONFIGURATIONS_WITH_DURATIONS tag at the Hal layer to an android.scaler.availableStreamConfigurations tag at a framework layer. An application obtains the image with an image resolution of binning size with which the android.scaler.availableStreamConfigurations tag at the framework layer is filled from the android.scaler.availableStreamConfigurations tag.
US12093306B2
The present disclosure relates to an object selection system that accurately detects and optionally automatically selects user-requested objects (e.g., query objects) in digital images. For example, the object selection system builds and utilizes an object selection pipeline to determine which object detection neural network to utilize to detect a query object based on analyzing the object class of a query object. In particular, the object selection system can identify both known object classes as well as objects corresponding to unknown object classes.
US12093293B2
Synchronizing a sensor network and an ontology by analyzing outputs of a set of sensors, analyzing relationships of an ontology, mapping the outputs to the relationships, identifying a correlation among the outputs, and modifying the ontology according to the correlation.
US12093289B2
Techniques and solutions are provided for searching for documents upstream, downstream, or both upstream and downstream of a given document, and providing information about relationships between documents in the results. To help users understand relationships between documents, different “voices” can be used in a result display, such as an “active voice” being used for an upstream search and a “passive voice” being used for a downstream search. If desired, results can be limited or filtered, such as limiting a search to a particular relationship type or types, or providing a limit to an amount of indirection between documents. Disclosed techniques can provide more useful information about a document flow, and can reduce computing resources used in generating such displays.
US12093287B1
In one embodiment, a method includes assessing unlabeled transaction data and unlabeled candidate transaction data. The method includes determining a first plurality of features for the unlabeled transaction data and a second plurality of features for the unlabeled candidate transaction data using a Bag of Words model. The method includes determining matching pairs using the unlabeled transaction data and the unlabeled candidate transaction data. The method includes calculating similarity scores for the matching pairs using the first plurality of features and the second plurality of features. The method includes generating a machine learning model to predict a subcategory label and a ranking value for the unlabeled candidate transaction data using the similarity scores of the matching pairs. The method includes determining, using the machine learning model, the subcategory label and the ranking value associated with the unlabeled candidate transaction data.
US12093268B2
A method includes identifying a plurality of data items responsive to a first query. A presentation value associated with each of the plurality of data items is determined, the presentation value of a respective data item being a value associated with the respective data item by a first user in exchange for the presentation of the data item by a publication system. The plurality of data items are ranked for presentation to a second user, the ranking being performed using the respective presentation values associated with the plurality of data items.
US12093267B2
Systems and methods are described for providing contextual search results. The system may receive a search query during presentation of a video. If the query is ambiguous, the system accesses some of the frames of the video. The frames are analyzed to identify a performed action depicted in the frames. The system retrieves a keyword related to the identified action. The ambiguous query is augmented with the keyword. The augmented search query is used to search for and output relevant search results.
US12093259B2
The disclosed application relates to a tool by which a user may create a cloud workspace that includes a data memory space, as well as a tool for automatically identifying ad-hoc analyses on that data. The solution allows a user to connect to data sources using SQL or GUI tools, combine data from different data sources, prepare and clean the data, mine the data for insights, and move that data into downstream reporting tools for visualization. The system is linked to a code repository to allow data scientists to execute code from the code repository in trial data spaces, investigate that data, and prepare more in-depth analytics for downstream reporting tools.
US12093246B2
A method for improving consensus in a blockchain network through sampling includes: executing, by a processor of a blockchain node in a blockchain network that manages a blockchain, a script to identify a first sample comprised of a subset of nodes of a plurality of nodes in the blockchain network, wherein nodes included in the subset of nodes are randomly selected; performing, by the subset of nodes comprising the first sample, a first consensus operation among all nodes in the subset of nodes to identify a sample consensus block for the blockchain, where each node in the subset of nodes receives the sample consensus block; and repeating, in the blockchain network, executing the script and performing the first consensus operation for a plurality of additional samples, wherein nodes included in the subset of nodes for each additional sample are randomly selected.
US12093245B2
A method for improving computing efficiency of a computing device for temporal directed cycle detection in a transaction graph includes preparing the transaction graph based on a plurality of transactions, the transaction graph including nodes indicating transaction origination points and transaction destination points, and edges indicating interactions between the nodes. Irrelevant nodes in the transaction graph are identified and pruned to provide a pruned, preprocessed transaction graph which can be partitioning into sections, where each section includes selected nodes that are linked to other linked nodes therein. Each of the sections having non-cyclic nodes can be trimmed prior to performing cycle detection on the resulting pruned transaction graph. Postprocessing pruning can be performed to further reduce the number of detected cycles that may be of interest to a particular application, such as in anti-money laundering.
US12093236B2
A method for deleting a set of keys from a storage server is provided. The method includes generating a probabilistic data structure for a first set of keys and for each key in a second set of keys, determining whether a key of the second set of keys is found in the probabilistic data structure. The method includes identifying the key as a candidate for deletion if the key is not found in the probabilistic data structure. A system is also provided.
US12093235B2
A data aggregation system is described, wherein the data aggregation system may include: a plurality of sensors distributed throughout an environment; a tile database comprising a memory for storing a hierarchy of tiled layers, wherein each layer in the hierarchy of tiled layers comprises a plurality of tiles; a tiling server, the tiling server configured to: receive sensor data from one or more sensors in the plurality of sensors; assign the sensor data to a base tile in a first layer in the hierarchy of tiled layers based on one or more properties of the one or more sensors; retrieve one or more aggregate tiles from the tile database based on an identity of the base tile in the first layer, the one or more aggregate tiles each taken from one or more further layers in the hierarchy of tiled layers; determine aggregate sensor data for each of the retrieved one or more aggregate tiles based on the sensor data stored on the base layer tile; assign the determined aggregate sensor data to the corresponding one or more aggregate tiles; and output the one or more aggregate tiles.
US12093232B2
A method for storing time series data is provided, the method includes: caching time series data containing at least one record to a memory in a row-based storage manner; when the time series data needs to be written to a disk, determining a sum of number of records according to the to-be-written-to-disk time series data and time series data in a LAST file of the disk; if the sum is less than a pre-set number N, writing the to-be-written-to-disk time series data to the LAST file of the disk; if the sum is greater than or equal to the pre-set number N, merging the to-be-written-to-disk time series data and the time series data in the LAST file of the disk, and writing merged time series data to a DATA file for permanently saving data of the disk in a column-based storage manner.
US12093230B1
Operations include: determining that the first event record does not meet similarity criteria in relation to any of a plurality of representative records in an event log; adding a new representative record, to the plurality of representative records, that is based on the first event record; determining that the second event record meets the similarity criteria in relation to a first representative record of the plurality of representative records; incrementing the numerical value, associated with the first representative record in the event log, that indicates the number of event records that are represented by the first representative record; generating log data that (a) comprises the incremented numerical value associated with the first representative record and (b) does not include the second event record; and updating the event log based on the log data to generate an updated event log that does not include the second event record.
US12093229B2
A set of affinity metrics may be determined for a set of listings, each listing of the set of listings comprising data to be shared through a data exchange, wherein the set of affinity metrics includes a set of characteristics allowing identification of a listing having one or more characteristics in the set of characteristics. For each pair of listings of the set of listings, an affinity score can be calculated, using the set of affinity metrics, and stored as part of the record in an affinity store. One or more listings of the set of listings using the affinity score between the first listing of the set of listings and the one or more listings of the set of listings can be presented.
US12093226B2
A server computer system comprises a processor; a communications module coupled to the processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions that, when executed, configure the processor to generate a recommendation to create a data record at least at one third party server; send, via the communications module and to a computing device, a signal causing the computing device to display the recommendation, the recommendation including a selectable option to create the data record at the at least one third party server; receive, via the communications module and from the computing device, a signal indicating selection of the selectable option to create the data record at the at least one third party server; engage, via the communications module, the third party server to initiate creation of the data record; retrieve previously-obtained identity data required to create the data record; and provide, via the communications module and to the at least one third party server, the previously-obtained identity data to create the data record.
US12093207B2
Techniques enabling multiple controllers to share a peripheral's serial interface as well as various systems and devices that may employ such techniques. One illustrative method includes configuring a controller to use an SPI (serial peripheral interface) bus for communication with a peripheral device only if a chain input terminal is asserted; and asserting a chain output terminal after the communication is complete. An illustrative system includes a peripheral device and multiple controller devices. The peripheral device has: a peripheral chip select terminal, a peripheral serial clock terminal, a peripheral controller output peripheral input (COPI) terminal, and a peripheral controller input peripheral output (CIPO) terminal. Each of the multiple controller devices has: a controller chip select terminal coupled to the peripheral chip select terminal, a controller serial clock terminal coupled to the peripheral serial clock terminal, a controller COPI terminal coupled to the peripheral COPI terminal, and a controller CIPO terminal coupled to the peripheral CIPO terminal.
US12093199B2
Described herein is an infrastructure management device. In accordance with one aspect, the infrastructure management device includes at least one communication interface to connect to and provide power to at least one information technology (IT) device, and communicate with at least one other infrastructure management device. The infrastructure management device may further include one or more processors and one or more non-transitory machine-readable media comprising instructions configured to cause at least one of the one or more processors to perform operations to manage the IT device.
US12093181B2
A technique for operating a cache is disclosed. The technique includes based on a workload change, identifying a first allocation permissions policy; operating the cache according to the first allocation permissions policy; based on set sampling, identifying a second allocation permissions policy; and operating the cache according to the second allocation permissions policy.
US12093180B2
A device includes a memory controller and a cache memory coupled to the memory controller. The cache memory has a first set of cache lines associated with a first memory block and comprising a first plurality of cache storage locations, as well as a second set of cache lines associated with a second memory block and comprising a second plurality of cache storage locations. A first location of the second plurality of cache storage locations comprises cache tag data for both the first set of cache lines and the second set of cache lines.
US12093179B2
A microprocessor includes a load/store unit that performs store-to-load forwarding, a PIPT L2 set-associative cache, a store queue having store entries, and a load queue having load entries. Each L2 entry is uniquely identified by a set index and a way. Each store/load entry holds, for an associated store/load instruction, a store/load physical address proxy (PAP) for a store/load physical memory line address (PMLA). The store/load PAP specifies the set index and the way of the L2 entry into which a cache line specified by the store/load PMLA is allocated. Each load entry also holds associated load instruction store-to-load forwarding information. The load/store unit compares the store PAP with the load PAP of each valid load entry whose associated load instruction is younger in program order than the store instruction and uses the comparison and associated forwarding information to check store-to-load forwarding correctness with respect to each younger load instruction.
US12093175B2
Described are examples for storing data on a storage device, including storing, in a live write stream cache, one or more logical blocks (LBs) corresponding to a data segment, writing, for each LB in the data segment, a cache element of a cache entry that points to the LB in the live write stream cache, where the cache entry includes multiple cache elements corresponding to the multiple LBs of the data segment, writing, for the cache entry, a table entry in a mapping table that points to the cache entry, and when a storage policy is triggered for the cache entry, writing the multiple LBs, pointed to by each cache element of the cache entry, to a stream for storing as contiguous LBs on the storage device, and updating the table entry to point to a physical address of a first LB of the contiguous LBs on the storage device.
US12093172B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. In response to receiving a first write command from a host, the controller determines a first physical address indicative of a physical storage location of the nonvolatile memory to which first write data associated with the first write command is to be written, and updates an address translation table such that the first physical address is associated with a logical address of the first write data. The controller starts updating the address translation table before the transfer of the first write data is finished or before the write of the first write data to the nonvolatile memory is finished.
US12093168B2
The present disclosure relates to a conditional branch coverage calculation method and device, computer apparatus, storage medium and computer program product. The method includes: acquiring code types of uncovered conditional branch code lines in target code, and acquiring comment information corresponding to the uncovered conditional branch code lines according to the code type; acquiring coverage parameter corresponding to the uncovered conditional branch code lines according to the comment information corresponding to the uncovered conditional branch code lines; and calculating a conditional branch coverage corresponding to the target code according to the coverage parameters corresponding to the uncovered conditional branch code lines and a total number of conditional branch code lines in the target code.
US12093167B1
Optimized modification of a website based on user interactions with the website may include collecting data associated with the interactions and determining a success or failure of each interaction. A configuration of the website may be modified based on the success or failure of at least one user interaction. The modified website may be presented to a specified number of test users and, for each test user or test user session, a success or failure of each of the test user's interactions with the modified website may be determined. The modified configuration may be deemed successful based on a threshold number of the test user interactions having been determined to be successful. Elements of the website (e.g., a link or a search input box) may then be modified based on the modified configuration having been determined to be successful.
US12093158B2
Track transformations of mature digital twins from time of creation to decommissioning of the physical asset. As physical assets evolve, changes, repairs, maintenance and services relevant to the physical assets originally provided, can be applied or deemed inapplicable in the current state. Mature digital twins are leveraged to identify proposed changes to physical assets and compare original digital twins of the base asset to determine whether deviations over time render the proposed changes irrelevant. Irrelevant changes, due to deviations from the original digital twin, are further analyzed to determine whether the irrelevancy is due to a previous action performed on the physical asset and update to the mature digital twin. Previous updates to physical assets, reflected in the mature digital twin, can be eligible for rebates and incentives where the asset owners performed actions that render proposed updates irrelevant, while relevant changes are approved and permeated to mature digital twins.
US12093150B1
The present disclosure provides a system and method for online brand continuity. Online brand continuity can include a number of Internet or intranet access points via which one or more network addresses can be advertised. A client can be provided with availability of a business image application via at least one of the Internet or intranet access points.
US12093145B2
A system includes one or more source memory devices of a source computing environment that store a database comprising data files, wherein each of a plurality of data tables of the source computing environment includes data from one or more of the data files, one or more target memory devices of a target computing environment and at least one processor configured to receive a command to copy data files from the source memory devices to the target memory devices, detect that the target memory devices have insufficient memory, calculate a value coefficient for each data table, assign a priority index to each data table based on the value coefficient, order the data files in a copy queue based on the priority index of the data tables, and copy the ordered data files to the target memory devices.
US12093142B2
In failover processing, a CPU restores data stored in a first volume to a second volume of a storage system, associates a unique ID of the first volume with the second volume, and stores the unique ID associated therewith in a memory. After the failover processing is completed, the CPU manages an update difference management bitmap indicating an updated content with respect to data stored in the second volume. The CPU transmits, in failback processing, update data updated after the failover processing among the data stored in the second volume to the first volume identified by the unique ID associated with the second volume based on the update difference management bitmap.
US12093140B2
A data recovery method, an apparatus, and a solid state drive are provided. The method includes: copying, after an abnormality occurs in the solid state drive, memory data of a first memory space to a solidified area of a second memory space, and then writing address information of the solidified area to a third memory space; recovering, after a controller is reset for the first time, the memory data of the first memory space according to the address information of the solidified area; flushing data of the second memory space into a flash memory space according to the recovered memory data of the first memory space; and performing, after the controller is reset for the second time, data recovery on the solid state drive according to memory data of the flash memory space.
US12093131B2
An interface circuit includes a signal processing circuit including multiple signal processing devices and a monitor and calibration module. The monitor and calibration module includes multiple monitor circuits, a processor and a calibration circuit. The monitor circuits monitor at least one of an amplitude, a frequency and a jitter in at least one of a reception signal and a transmission signal to correspondingly generate a monitored result and monitor at least one of power supplying voltage and ground voltage to correspondingly generate a monitored result. The processor collects the monitored results and determines a calibration operation based on the monitored results. The calibration circuit is coupled to the processor and at least one signal processing device and performs the calibration operation on the signal processing device to adjust a characteristic value of the signal processing device.
US12093125B2
Incoming sensor data from a data collection device may be received at the data processing platform that includes the plurality of data processing microservices. A data processing microservice of the data processing platform may detect that the incoming sensor data from the data collection device caused an error. As a result, the incoming sensor data may be queued in a faulty data cache of the data processing platform. Subsequently, at least one of the data processing microservice or the incoming sensor data stored in the faulty data cache may be modified such that the incoming sensor data is processed by the data processing microservice without the error. Following the processing, the incoming sensor data may be deleted from the faulty data queue of the data processing platform.
US12093119B2
A computer-implemented method for safeguarding a system against false positives. The method includes: receiving a time series of a criticality, the system including a functionality that is triggered when the criticality meets a first predetermined criterion; computing a time series of a reference, the reference being a comparison criticality for a triggering of the functionality; computing a time series of an error measure at least based on the time series of the criticality and the time series of the reference, a triggering of the functionality being classified as a false positive when a portion of the time series of the error measure meets a second predetermined criterion; and identifying at least one near-false positive, a non-triggering of the functionality being classified as a near-false positive when a portion of the time series of the error measure meets a third predetermined criterion, but not the second predetermined criterion.
US12093111B2
An electronic device and a performance optimization method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a battery module, a processor, and a controller. The battery module is configured to supply power to the electronic device. The processor has a power limit. The controller is configured to monitor a charging and discharging current of the battery module. In a power connection mode, the controller analyzes a status of the battery module and adjusts the power limit of the processor according to the charging and discharging current.
US12093103B2
One or more examples relate, generally, to an apparatus. Such an apparatus includes a digital interface, a wake detect logic, and a power management connection. The digital interface may define a physical layer transceiver side of a connection between a physical layer transceiver and a physical layer controller, respectively of a 10SPE physical layer. The wake detect logic may communicate a source of detected wake from the physical layer transceiver to the physical layer controller via the digital interface. The power management connection may operatively couple to an enable connection of a switched voltage regulator.
US12093102B2
Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services using managed systems are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, the managed systems may need to operate in a predetermined manner conducive to, for example, execution of applications that provide the computer implemented services. Similarly, the managed system may need access to certain hardware resources (e.g., and also software resources such as drivers, firmware, etc.) to provide the desired computer implemented services. To improve the likelihood of the computer implemented services being provided, the managed systems may be managed using a subscription based model. The subscription model may utilize a highly accessible service to obtain information regarding desired capabilities (e.g., a subscription) of a managed system, and use the acquired information to automatically configure and manage the features and capabilities of the managed systems by powering and depowering select components.
US12093100B2
Hierarchical Power Management (HPM) architecture considers the limits of scaling on a power management controller, the autonomy at each die, and provides a unified view of the package to a platform. At a simplest level, HPM architecture has a supervisor and one or more supervisee power management units (PMUs) that communicate via at least two different communication fabrics. Each PMU can behave as a supervisor for a number of supervisee PMUs in a particular domain. HPM addresses these needs for products that comprise a collection of dice with varying levels of power and thermal management capabilities and needs. HPM serves as a unified mechanism than can span collection of dice of varying capability and function, which together form a traditional system-on-chip (SoC). HPM provides a basis for managing power and thermals across a diverse set of dice.
US12093084B2
A blank holder assembly includes a supporting piece and a plurality of blank holder pieces; the plurality of blank holder pieces are sequentially arranged along an outer edge of the supporting piece, and configured to fix a flexible display panel adjoined to one surface of the supporting piece; and when the blank holder assembly is in a folded state, the plurality of blank holder pieces can be folded together with the flexible display panel.
US12093081B2
The present disclosure provides a flexible display module including a flexible display panel and a support element. The support element includes a glue layer, and a first support plate and a second support plate respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the glue layer. The first support plate includes a first flexible part disposed in the flexible area, and the first flexible part includes a plurality of first through holes. The second support plate includes a plurality of second flexible parts disposed in the flexible area, and the second flexible part includes a plurality of blind holes.
US12093071B2
A storage-facilitated shaft joystick is provided, which relates to the technical field of game peripherals. The storage-facilitated shaft joystick includes a shell and a lever; one end of the lever is detachably assembled in the shell through a bolt; an unlocking end of the shell close to the bolt is movably provided with an unlocking hole cap for locking or unlocking the bolt; and a placement tray for storing the removed lever is arranged on the shell. By the adoption of the above technical solution, the storage-facilitated shaft joystick has reasonable overall structure, does not require an extra removal and storage tool, and has the advantages of practicability, quickness and convenience in removal and storage.
US12093069B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating a stable DC reference voltage that has low sensitivity to operating temperature and supply voltage variations and is stable across process corners using complimentary metal-on-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETS). In an example implementation, a reference voltage generator circuit is provided that includes complimentary MOSFETs including a first complimentary MOSFET connected to a first node and having a first threshold voltage, and a second complimentary MOSFET connected to a second node and having a second threshold voltage that is greater than the first threshold voltage. The reference voltage generator circuit feeds the first node a first current based on mirroring a second current at the second node and outputs a stable DC reference voltage based on the first and second complimentary MOSFETs and configured operating in respective saturation regions.
US12093066B2
Provided is a highly versatile and reliable power supply device (power supply ASIC) that can support electronic devices with a wide range of drive currents while suppressing a cost increase, and an electronic control device using the same. An electronic control device includes: a first power supply circuit that outputs a first voltage; a second power supply circuit that generates a second voltage from the first voltage; and a first MOSFET arranged independently of the first power supply circuit and the second power supply circuit. The second power supply circuit includes: a reference power supply that outputs a reference voltage; an amplifier that amplifies the reference voltage; a second MOSFET connected in parallel with the first MOSFET; a voltage detection unit that detects a voltage value of a gate terminal of the first MOSFET; and a switching unit that connects an output from the amplifier to either the gate terminal of the first MOSFET or a gate terminal of the second MOSFET. The switching unit is controlled based on a voltage value at a start detected by the voltage detection unit.
US12093063B2
A control system for monitoring a control state of a target device that receives drive control by a motor includes a setting unit that sets an origin for position monitoring of the target device and a sensor that detects the target device reaching a predetermined position. The setting unit includes an obtainer that obtains, under predetermined drive control over the target device by the motor, leading and trailing edges in a detection signal from the sensor in response to the target device reaching the predetermined position, and a calculator that calculates the origin using first position information associated with a target device position and calculated based on the leading and trailing edges in the detection signal and second position information associated with the target device position and different from the first position information.
US12093049B2
A method of planning a coverage path to cover an area. The method includes a computing arrangement iteratively receiving, generating and displaying. The computing arrangement is configured to receive a range acceptable user-inputs. The receiving includes receiving user-input within the range of acceptable user-inputs. The generating includes generating a feasible coverage path based on the user-input. The displaying includes displaying at least some detail of the feasible coverage path.
US12093046B2
The present invention relates to a method for managing an automatic warehouse and for locating a mobile target, such as a person or a manual guided vehicle (1).
US12093044B2
An automatic driving vehicle includes an automatic driving mode in which autonomous traveling is carried out. The automatic driving vehicle receives a setting for a behavior after getting out from the automatic driving vehicle. The setting includes information of a destination and a time period and/or a clock time which are designated by a user of the automatic driving vehicle. The automatic driving vehicle is controlled based on the information to automatically drive to the destination by an appointed time.
US12093042B2
Various embodiments relate to recording event data to identify and resolve anomalies associated with control of driverless vehicles. Some examples include computing vehicular drive parameters to facilitate driverless transit, monitoring control signals, detecting an event, triggering storage of event data, determining transmission control criteria, and transmitting the event data based on the transmission control criteria. Other examples include receiving event data via a communications network from an autonomous vehicle, identifying a computed vehicular drive parameter, extracting sensor data associated with the event, detecting application of control signals, analyzing the control signals, the sensor data, and the subset of computed vehicular drive parameters to identify a type of event, and generating update executable instructions responsive to the type of event.
US12093037B2
A mobile device for remotely controlling the movement of a vehicle and trailer is provided. The mobile device provides a user engagement input for display and use of a control input. The control input may be used to generate a signal for controlling the movement of the vehicle and trailer.
US12093036B2
A proctoring system that includes a communication device coupled to a remote station. The remote station has a visual display that displays first information relating to an action that causes an effect on an object, and simultaneously displays second information relating to the effect on the object. The remote station includes at least one input device that allows a communication to be transmitted by an operator to the communication device. By way of example, during the deployment of a heart stent, a specialist doctor may remotely view real-time fluoroscopy imagery and patient hemodynamics. The specialist can remotely proctor medical personnel on the proper orientation and timing requirements for installing the stent.
US12093035B2
A management device manages remote support for a vehicle. The management device executes assigns a remote operator to a target vehicle in response to a support request from the target vehicle. Vehicle information includes a position and a travel plan of the target vehicle. When receiving a plurality of support requests in a same period respectively from a plurality of target vehicles scheduled to pass through a predetermined area, the management device recognizes, based on the vehicle information, an entry direction into the predetermined area and an exit direction from the predetermined area for each target vehicle. Based on a combination of the entry direction and the exit direction, the management device determines whether to assign a same remote operator to the plurality of target vehicles or assign different remote operators to the plurality of target vehicles.
US12093032B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for initiation of vehicle remote park-assist with key fob. An example vehicle includes a cabin, a human-machine interface (HMI) unit located in the cabin, and a receiver-transceiver module. The receiver-transceiver module is configured to receive a return signal including a distance indicator from a key fob and a remote park-assist (RePA) signal. The example vehicle also includes an autonomy unit configured to perform RePA based on the RePA signal. The example vehicle also includes a controller configured to receive, via the HMI unit, selections to activate RePA and utilize the key fob for transmitting the RePA signal and determine, based on the distance indicator, whether the key fob is in the cabin. The controller also is configured to, responsive to determining that the key fob is in the cabin, prevent the autonomy unit from performing RePA.
US12093029B2
Systems and methods for improving recordkeeping and analysis of an asset include creating and maintaining an integrated record about the asset. In some embodiments, the systems and methods include collecting data about an asset to form an asset data collection, recording the asset data collection in a record, analyzing at least a portion of the asset data collection to determine a characteristic of the asset, and recording the characteristic of the asset in the record. In some embodiments, recording the characteristic in the record includes adding the characteristic to the asset data collection.
US12093027B1
A recognition method for safety behaviors in an industrial control system for a gas field and a recognition system thereof are provided. The recognition method includes: S1, collecting sample data of the industrial control system, and obtaining an analysis report based on the sample data; S2, generating a critical application programming interface (API) call dependency graph and a resource dependency graph based on the analysis report; S3, converting the critical API call dependency graph and the resource dependency graph into numerical matrixes; S4, constructing a detection model according to the numerical matrixes, and then detecting a program abnormal behavior of an industrial control host program based on the detection model, to obtain a recognition result, and the recognition result is a normal behavior or an abnormal behavior. The recognition method and system address issues such as high resource occupancy, timeliness, and inaccuracy in safety behavior recognition for industrial control system.
US12093025B2
In a conveyance system, a conveyance object is conveyed by use of a plurality of mobile robots autonomously movable inside a facility. In a case where a blockade request event occurs in at least one area inside the facility, the conveyance system receives occurrence information transmitted from a facility management system configured to manage the facility and causes the mobile robots to execute an operation restriction to restrict operations of the mobile robots. In a case where a predetermined condition for the blockade request event is established after the mobile robots execute the operation restriction, the conveyance system reboots the mobile robots.
