US12097559B2
Eccentric extreme high-speed-rate laser hybrid manufacturing method for rotary engineering component
The present disclosure relates to an eccentric extreme high-speed-rate laser hybrid manufacturing method for a rotary engineering component. By positioning an extreme high-speed-rate laser direct energy deposition machining head at a predetermined eccentric distance, the damage caused by reflected light to the machining head is effectively reduced, to prolong a service life of the machining head. Also a conventional form of a molten pool in extreme high-speed-rate laser direct energy deposition can be changed, namely from a “falling” form caused by a high-speed movement and a gravity to a “climbing” form. Thus, in extreme high-speed-rate laser direct energy deposition machining, the molten pool has a longer time to fully contact a surface of the rotary engineering component to form desirable bonding performance.
US12097555B2
A design for repair casting having a repairable ultra-large single-piece casting and a replacement part. The ultra-large single-piece casting includes a main body portion, at least one predefined replaceable portion integrally cast with the main body portion, and a cut-guide delineating the predefined replaceable portion from the main body portion. The cut-guide includes a continuous channel defined on an exterior surface of the single-piece casting. The cut-guide further includes a rib extending from a channel wall on the main body portion. A damaged replaceable portion is excisable from the main-body portion by cutting through the single-piece casting along the cut-guide. The excised damaged replaceable portion may be replaced with the replacement part, which has substantially the same geometry, dimensions, and mechanical properties as an undamaged replaceable portion. The replacement part may be joined to the main body portion by mechanical means or by welding.
US12097554B2
A slab casting method using a twin-drum continuous casting device manufactures a slab by solidifying molten metal by a pair of rotating casting drums includes calculating estimated sheet thicknesses on both ends in a width direction of the slab from equation 1 ((estimated sheet thickness)=(cylinder screw down position)+(elastic deformation of casting drum)+(casting drum housing screw down system deformation)+(drum profile of casting drum)−(elastic deformation of casting drum at the time of screw down position zero adjustment)) by using a casting drum housing screw down system deformation characteristic indicating a deformation characteristic of housings that support the casting drums and a deformation characteristic of a screw down system that screws down the casting drums obtained before casting of the slab starts, and controlling screw down positions of cylinders provided on both ends in a width direction of the casting drums.
US12097549B2
A stamp-forming system includes a lower die formed of elastomeric material and having lower die lateral sides. In addition, the stamp-forming system includes a die wall configured to encircle the lower die lateral sides, and move vertically relative to the lower die. Also included in the stamp-forming system is an upper die configured to move between an open position in which the upper die is separated from the die wall and the lower die, and a clamped position in which the upper die is in contact with the die wall and applying clamping pressure to a blank against the lower die, to thereby form the blank into a formed article. The die wall is sized and configured to prevent lateral expansion of the lower die when the lower die is vertically compressed by the clamping pressure applied by the upper die.
US12097545B2
Methods and systems for the efficient collection and destruction of plastic waste and debris found in bodies of water, such as oceans. In particular, a plastic destruction system can include an insulated chamber having a base containing a heat source and an air source, a bed of a fluidizable media supported above the base, a support tray suspended in the insulated chamber above the fluidizable media, and a humidification compartment located outside of and connected to the insulated chamber to humidify the plastic waste before it enters the insulated chamber. Systems and methods can also utilize a salt wash station to apply a salt solution to the waste for enhanced reaction in the insulated chamber.
US12097544B2
A washing device for washing objects for stalling animals includes: a rod extending along a main axis and connectable to a source of pressurized washing fluid; a fluid conveying device connected to the source and associated with the rod; nozzles for emitting jets of the fluid, the nozzles being connected to the device and supported by the rod; a translation mechanism for translating the rod along a stroke extending along a translation axis transversal to the main axis, and a rotation mechanism for alternately rotating the rod about a rotation axis parallel to the main axis. The translation and rotation mechanisms are selectively operable for moving the rod inside an operating plane defined by the main axis and by the translation axis to direct the jets against the surfaces to be washed.
US12097534B2
A device for separation and removal of light impurities from granular material has a cylindrical body, in the upper part of which is located a motor-driven fan that sucks air and an outlet channel for light impurities, below which there is axially mounted a feed channel connected to a container of granular material, and in the lower part of the body there is axially located a cylinder with an outer diameter smaller than the inner diameter (d) of the body, containing a centrifugal guide located under the outlet of the feed channel, whereas below the centrifugal guide, on the inner wall of the cylinder are fixed uniformly spaced directing plates at a certain distance from each other, their ends being pointed towards the axis of the device, and between the body and the cylinder there is a chute for purified material. There is a plurality of openwork hinders.
US12097528B2
A repaired area on a work surface is presented. The repaired area includes a repairboundary. Within the repairboundary, the work surface has a repair texture and, outside of the repair boundary, the work surface has a work surface texture. The repaired area also includes a repair depth distribution within the repair boundary and a concealing feature. The repaired area is a result of a robotic repair executed on the work surface to remove a defect.
US12097518B2
A fluid discharger includes: a discharge nozzle configured to discharge fluid; a first rotation device configured to rotate the discharge nozzle; and a control device configured to control the first rotation device by remote operation. The control device includes a first mode control unit including a first automatic control unit configured to automatically perform reciprocating control of the discharge nozzle in a first rotation range set for each of the fluid dischargers; and a first switching unit configured to switch between a control signal to be outputted from the first automatic control unit and a control signal to rotate the discharge nozzle by a first rotation angle designated by remote operation. In a dust suppression system, this configuration can control the direction of the discharge nozzle by remote operation, and also can automatically reciprocate the direction of the discharge nozzle within a predetermined range.
US12097516B2
In some embodiments, a system for controlling irrigation comprises an irrigation control unit comprising: an input configured to receive a user entered number of watering passes for a rotary sprinkler configured to repetitively rotate about an arc and irrigate an area of an irrigation site, wherein each rotation about the arc comprises a watering pass; a memory to store the number of watering passes and arc rotation data for the rotary sprinkler corresponding to a time duration for the rotary sprinkler to make the watering pass about the arc; and a control circuit configured to: receive the number of watering passes; receive the arc rotation data; determine a run time that will result in irrigation by the rotary sprinkler about the arc for the user entered number of passes; and store the run time.
US12097512B2
Several agitators for generating a mixture are described which generally have a housing and an impeller rotatably mounted within the housing. The impeller has a first end with a first end face, and plurality of protuberances and at least one compressed gas channel outlet disposed on the first end face. The agitator also has a mixing chamber that is located adjacent to the plurality of protuberances, a fluid inlet extending through the housing for supplying a mixing fluid to the mixing chamber, and a fluid outlet extending through the housing for discharging the mixture from mixing chamber. When the compressed gas and the mixing fluid are supplied to the mixing chamber, the compressed gas becomes uncompressed gas, and rotation of the impeller agitates the uncompressed gas and the mixing fluid and disperses the uncompressed gas and at least a portion of the mixing fluid to generate the mixture.
US12097501B2
Described herein are methods, kits and systems for sample enrichment, multi-step library preparation, sample normalization, detection of sample biomolecules and combinations thereof. Enrichment and multi-step library preparation is described in the context of microfluidic workflows. Sample barcoding methods and kits are described for increasing sample throughput while reducing background in negative samples. Integrated microfluidic devices comprising sample processing unit cells coupled to an array of reaction sites are provided for integrated workflows.
US12097497B2
A cell accommodating chip is adapted for use in a screening apparatus for searching for a predetermined cell based on optical information emitted from a substance on the cell accommodating chip and selectively collecting the cell searched for. The cell accommodating chip includes a substrate composed of a light-transmitting material, and a plurality of wells capable of accommodating cells, the plurality of wells being provided on at least one of main faces of the substrate. A surface of the cell accommodating chip having the plurality of wells is coated with a specific polymer having a crosslinked structure.
US12097494B2
This document provides methods, devices, and systems for detecting the presence, absence, or amount of two or more analytes present within a small volume (e.g., less than 10 μL) of a sample (e.g., a blood sample) obtained from a mammal (e.g., a human such as a human neonate). For example, methods and materials for using plasma separation and multiplex analyte detection to detect two or more analytes (e.g., proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, intact cells, intact viruses, intact microorganisms, and/or chemicals) within a small volume of a blood sample are provided.
US12097491B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method and a device for carrying out chemical, biochemical and/or immunochemical analyses of liquid samples, which are present in a sample store of an automatic analyzer, with the aid of liquid reagents, which are present in at least one reagent store of the analyzer. In one embodiment, a analyzer is disclosed including cuvettes for holding the liquid samples and reagents, the cuvettes are arranged in at least one stationary, linear cuvette array. The analyzer further has an optical measurement unit with a stationary light-supplying unit which has at least one light distributor device that feeds the light from a plurality of LED light sources emitting in a spectrally different manner in the UV/VIS/NIR wavelength range into the inlet windows of the individual cuvettes of the cuvette array. The optical measurement unit further includes a stationary detection unit assigned to outlet windows of the cuvettes and further includes a plurality of photodiodes.
US12097484B2
Titanium oxide fine particles, dispersion liquid thereof, and method for producing dispersion liquid
Provided are titanium oxide fine particles capable of enhancing the photocatalytic activity of a photocatalyst when mixed with such photocatalyst. There are provided titanium oxide fine particles with at least an iron component and a silicon component solid-dissolved therein, in which the iron and silicon components are each contained in an amount of 1 to 1,000 in terms of a molar ratio to titanium (Ti/Fe or Ti/Si); and a titanium oxide fine particle dispersion liquid in which these titanium oxide fine particles are dispersed in an aqueous dispersion medium.
US12097478B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an aerogel blanket, the method including 1) introducing a catalyzed sol and a substrate for a blanket into a reaction vessel to impregnate the catalyzed sol into the substrate for a blanket, and 2) rotating the substrate for a blanket into which the catalyzed sol is impregnated to perform gelation, wherein the catalyzed sol includes a silica precursor composition, and the silica precursor composition includes a silicate containing a hydrophobic group and a tetraalkyl silicate, wherein a molar ratio of the silicate containing a hydrophobic group and the tetraalkyl silicate is 60:40 to 98:2.
US12097474B2
A worm shaft for a mixing and kneading machine particularly for continual processing having a shaft bar, on the circumferential surface of which blade elements are arranged to be spaced apart from one another extending outwards from the circumferential surface of the shaft bar, wherein the blade elements are arranged on the circumferential surface of the shaft bar, at least in one section extending in the axial direction of the worm shaft, in two rows extending in the axial direction of the worm shaft, and wherein each of the blade elements of the at least one section extending in the axial direction of the worm shaft has an elliptic, oval, or biconvex outer peripheral surface in the top view.
US12097470B2
The present invention relates to a porous membrane including a polymer including a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin as a main component, and a branched polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin as the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin, in which the polymer has a value of a of 0.32 to 0.41 and a value of b of 0.18 to 0.42, each of which is determined by approximation according to the formula 1 below from a radius of gyration
US12097465B2
Systems and methods for removing carbon dioxide from a combustion flue gas and/or air by using a high-pressure aqueous ammonia solvent and a plurality of liquid driven ejectors to absorb and remove the carbon dioxide for carbon capture utilization or storage. The aqueous ammonia solvent is regenerated at a high pressure to save potential compression energy required for the absorption and removal of carbon dioxide.
US12097447B2
A bubble producing device that includes a housing with a motor, a pump and an air producing device, all of which are electrically connected. A shaft with two ends, one end of which is connected to said housing and the second end is connectable to a bubble producing solution reservoir. A duct connected on one end to the air producing device and on the other end to a nozzle. The nozzle includes an open inner portion and an outer portion, wherein the outer portion includes a trough which surrounds an outer circumference of the nozzle and includes an outlet and an inlet. The inner portion includes a wiper secured therein. A solution channel pumps solution from the reservoir to the outlet to create bubbles and a recirculation channel pumps excess solution from the inlet back to the reservoir.
US12097446B2
A toy, game, and/or puzzle building system may comprise variously shaped connectors that are operatively attachable to other connectors or rods. The connectors may include a receiving portion adapted to receive a rod and may connect two, three, four, five, etc. rods in various angles and orientations. The connectors may include a receiving portion adapted to receive another connector. Multiple rods may be connected in 2-D and 3-D configurations and orientations. Both the rods and connectors may be provided in a variety of lengths, shapes, colors, and sizes. Additionally, the connectors may be used with any existing items, such as a plastic or wooden toothpick, straw, stirrer, and the like, that may fit within the receiving portions of the connectors. The toy picks building system may be built into a particular shape, item, vehicle, animal, person, building, scene, or landscape.
US12097445B2
The invention relates to a toy building element for a modular building game. The toy building element comprises one or more hollow coupling studs for coupling the toy building element to another toy building element in a releasable manner. Each coupling stud extends along a respective longitudinal axis and defines internally an axial through cavity configured to receive, in a removable manner, a locking stud apt to lock the toy building element to another toy building element coupled thereto. Each coupling stud comprises a coupling part and a receiving part for receiving the coupling part of a coupling stud of another toy building element. The coupling part comprises at least a radially flexible portion for engaging/disengaging a receiving part of a coupling stud of another toy building element. The radially flexible portion is configured to cooperate with one said locking engaging the cavity so that its radial bending is limited by the locking stud so as to prevent the coupling part from disengaging from the receiving part of a coupling stud of another toy building element.
US12097444B2
A balloon apparatus utilizing a lighter-than-air portion and an appurtenance attached to the lighter-than-air portion. A connector is selectively linked to the appurtenance and the lighter-than-air portion and manipulates the rotational position of the appurtenance relative to the lighter-than-air portion.
US12097442B2
Pentahedral module puzzles include a plurality of pentahedral modules connected by hinges in a continuous loop. Each pentahedral module comprises at least one magnet. The pentahedral modules include mirror image pentahedral modules connected by the hinges in an alternating sequence.
US12097419B2
The present invention relates to a bicycle simulator that supports a frame of a mounted bicycle, the frame connecting a front wheel and a rear wheel of the mounted bicycle. A bicycle simulator according to an embodiment includes a base, a first frame support extending in a first direction and supported on the base, and a second frame support extending in a second direction, which is different from the first direction, and connected to the first frame support to be rotatable about one axis, wherein the second frame support supports a frame of a mounted bicycle, the frame connecting a front wheel and a rear wheel of the mounted bicycle.
US12097410B2
A ball-washing device is described herein. The device includes a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall and a peripheral wall extending between the top wall and the bottom wall to define a cavity of the housing. The top wall has an opening shaped to receive a ball into the cavity and a pair of guides positioned on an inner surface of the opening. The peripheral wall has at least one brush positioned on an inner surface of the peripheral wall to engage the ball when the ball is in the cavity. The device also includes a plunger configured to slidingly engage the housing. The plunger has a body portion configured to slidingly engage the guides as the plunger is inserted into and removed from the cavity through the opening. The body portion is also configured to retain the ball as plunger is inserted into and removed from the cavity through the opening. The plunger also has a cap coupled to the body portion and configured to rotate relative to the body portion to secure the plunger to the housing when the body portion is in the cavity.
US12097408B2
Casing compositions including carboxylic acid groups, cover compositions including an adhesion promoter with functional groups that crosslink with carboxylic acid groups, and golf balls made from such compositions that have crosslinks between functional groups of the cover compositions and the carboxylic acid groups. The type and concentration of the components in the casing and cover compositions, including the adhesion promoter, affect the adhesion between golf balls having components made from such compositions and, thus, can be used to produce a golf ball having increased durability. Additionally, methods of crosslinking casing and cover layers made from such casing and cover compositions to increase interlayer adhesion are disclosed.
US12097393B2
A method of treating skin is disclosed. The method includes topically applying to the skin a composition comprising Lactobacillus ferment, Punica granatum extract, Camellia sinensis leaf extract, Cucumis sativus fruit extract, niacinamide, sodium hyaluronate, glycerin, and butylene glycol, wherein the skin is treated.
US12097387B2
A radiation treatment planning apparatus according to one aspect includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains time-series medical images. The processing circuitry specifies a first time phase in which radiation irradiation is performed and a second time phase in which no radiation irradiation is performed, in a period corresponding to the time-series medical images based on a positional relationship between a treatment target region and at-risk region of a patient included in the time-series medical images. The processing circuitry generates a treatment plan based on a medical image of the specified first time phase.
US12097386B2
Respective target positions, into which elements of a radiation therapy machine are to be moved (e.g., prior to beginning treatment of a patient), are determined. A candidate path, which describes movements of the elements from respective initial positions to the respective target positions, is defined and accessed. The candidate path is evaluated to determine whether it would result in a collision between any of the elements. The candidate path is included in a set of candidate paths when the candidate path does not result in a collision between any of the elements. A value of a measure (e.g., a measure of efficiency), used for ranking each candidate path in the set of candidate paths, is determined. A path is selected from the set of candidate paths based on the ranking.
US12097383B2
Methods and systems for treating a biological fluid with light are disclosed. The methods and systems include determining the light dose being delivered to a biological fluid and adjusting the duration of a treatment or the intensity of light emitted in the event of a detected light source outage.
US12097380B2
Provided are methods for disrupting dipolar interactions in vivo and in vitro, as wells as treating conditions associated with abnormal cell growth, by subjecting to an artificial, stable magnetic field. Also provided are assays involving an artificial, stable magnetic field. Additionally, the exposure of an artificial, stable magnetic field may be combined with other non-magnetic therapy in treatment or assays.
US12097379B2
A method for a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system comprises sensing one or more patient parameters from different parts of a body of the patient by the one or more transducers, obtaining a plurality of physiological inputs from the sensed one or more patient parameters, detecting first aspects from each of at least some of the physiological inputs, generating an aggregated first aspect from at least two of the detected first aspects, determining an aggregate analysis score from the aggregated first aspect, and determining whether the aggregate analysis score meets an aggregate shock criterion. The electrical charge is discharged within six minutes from when it is determined that the aggregate shock criterion is met, otherwise the electrical charge is not discharged for at least 19 minutes from when it is determined that the aggregate shock criterion is not met.
US12097372B2
Systems and methods for optimizing neuromodulation field design for pain therapy are discussed. An exemplary neuromodulation system includes an electrostimulator to stimulate target tissue to induce paresthesia, a data receiver to receive pain data including pain sites experiencing pain, and to receive patient feedback on the induced paresthesia including paresthesia sites experiencing paresthesia. The neuromodulation system includes a processor circuit configured to generate a spatial correspondence indication between the pain sites and the paresthesia sites over one or more dermatomes, determine an anodic weight and a cathodic weight for each of multiple electrode locations using the spatial correspondence indication, and generate a stimulation field definition for neuromodulation pain therapy.
US12097370B2
A method, including obtaining data relating to electric hearing, obtaining data relating to acoustic hearing and preparing a prescription for a multimodal hearing prosthesis for an individual based on the obtained data relating to the electric hearing and the acoustic hearing. In an exemplary embodiment, the method entails comparing the data relating to electric hearing to the data relating to acoustic hearing and preparing the prescription based on the results of the comparison.
US12097366B2
An apparatus for performing bioelectric stimulation, the apparatus comprising: a stimulation unit; a measurement unit comprising an amplifier; first and second stimulation electrodes operable to apply electrical signals to tissue of a patient; first and second measurement electrodes operable to receive first and second measurement signals from the tissue of the patient; wherein the stimulation unit is configured to deliver a first stimulation signal to the first stimulation electrode and a second stimulation signal to the second stimulation electrode; wherein the first signal and the second signal are mirrored about a biasing voltage, the biasing voltage set in dependence of the dynamic range of the amplifier.
US12097360B2
Safety needle device (1) comprising: a hub (10) configured to be connected to a pen-injector, the hub (10) comprising a lateral wall (11) and an upper wall (12) which define therebetween a cavity (13) extending between the upper wall (12) and an lower aperture (14) able to receive the pen injector; a needle (20) attached to the hub (10), the needle (20) extending along a longitudinal direction (X-X) between a distal end (21), configured for insertion into a patient, and an opposed proximal end (22) configured to be connected to the pen injector, a back-end shield (30) slidable along the longitudinal direction (X-X) within the cavity (13) of the hub (10) and rotatable about the longitudinal direction (X-X), the back-end shield (30) being movable irreversibly from an initial position, before connection of the pen injector to the hub (10), to a locking position, after removal of the pen injector to the hub (10) passing through an intermediate position, an elastic member (40) arranged within the cavity (13) and acting between the upper wall (12) and the back-end shield (30) to urge the back-end shield (30) towards the proximal end (21) of the needle (10) along the longitudinal direction (X-X), a locking arrangement (50) comprising at least a first locking member (60) formed on the back-end shield (30) and at least a second locking member (70) formed on the hub (10), the second locking member (70) cooperating with the first locking member (60) to guide the back-end shield (30) from the initial position to the locking position and to lock the back-end shield (30) in the locking position, the second locking member (70) comprises a passing through guide (71) formed on the lateral wall (11) of the hub (10); the first locking member (60) comprises a protrusion (61) configured to engage the guide (71) and to slide along the guide (71).
US12097358B2
An auto injector is provided by which a fixed dose of a medicament can be injected as self-treatment, and by which needle exposure to an accessible position, injection of the medicament and retraction of the needle to an inaccessible position is automatically performed as a continuous sequence, after the auto injector is triggered. Solutions to improve the functionality of the retraction of the needle and the general experience of the use, are also provided.
US12097351B2
A fail-safe drug infusion system, including a user interface controller (UIC) and at least one pump motor controller (PMC), with protocols that enable the PMC to operate therapy delivery for a limited amount of time if the UIC fails or the communication link between the UIC and the PMC is interrupted. Includes synchronization methods to synchronize the delivery information back to the UIC after the UIC reboots or after the communication link is restored. The PMC may apply intelligent fail-safe drug infusion therapy by temporarily displaying therapy information, for example information normally displayed by the UIC, while taking control of alarm signaling and providing minimal user control of the therapy until the UIC restores itself, the infusion completes normally, or the user stops the infusion. If the PMC becomes inoperable, the UIC may wait for the PMC to reboot, or attempt to switch infusion channels to provide robust drug infusion.
US12097346B1
A thoracostomy device that may be used for the placement of a chest tube is disclosed. The thoracostomy device is adapted to be extended into an incision in a patient, and comprises: (a) a handle portion; (b) an insertion portion extending from the handle portion, and having a linear portion and a curved terminal portion, the insertion portion having opposed substantially continuous first inner and second outer lateral surfaces, the device defining a central axis extending therethrough; and (c) a continuous channel extending through the handle and insertion portions and open to the first inner lateral surface, the channel having a medial axis offset from and parallel to the central axis, the channel adapted to guide a tube along the central axis while being adapted to allow a tube to be removed laterally of the channel. The present invention also includes a method of preparing a chest tube for insertion and for inserting a chest tube such as through the use any of the devices of the present invention.
US12097333B2
A catheter pump includes a cannula and an impeller system. The cannula has an inlet zone with a first maximum outer diameter, an outlet zone with a second maximum outer diameter and a blood flow channel extending between the inlet zone and the outlet zone. The first maximum outer diameter is greater than the second maximum outer diameter, and the impeller system has a rotatable impeller body operable to convey blood from the inlet zone to the outlet zone. The impeller body may be axially spaced from the cannula in a separated position.
US12097329B2
An apparatus to administer drugs to mechanically ventilated patients includes a mechanical ventilator, an artificial airway to be associated to a patient and a ventilation circuit connecting the mechanical ventilator to the artificial airway. The ventilation circuit includes: an inspiratory line, a dry powder inhaler disposed in line on the inspiratory line and a connector operatively connected to the dry powder inhaler and to the inspiratory line. The connector includes: a first duct facing an outlet port of the dry powder inhaler and connected or configured to be connected to a tube section of the inspiratory line placed downstream the dry powder inhaler; a second duct facing an air inlet port of the dry powder inhaler and connected or configured to be connected to a tube section of the inspiratory line placed upstream the dry powder inhaler.
US12097309B2
An aerosol generator includes a composite conduit to transport multiple liquids to a heating element at flow rates such that the liquids arrive at the heating element in desirable concentrations. The heating element volatilizes the liquids to form volatilized fluid, which mixes with ambient air to form an aerosol with desirable concentrations of the multiple liquids.
US12097306B2
The invention provides, inter alia, ultra-thin conformal coated biological surfaces, such as living cells, cell clusters, tissues, organs, and hybrid synthetic organs, and methods of making the same, e.g., using click reactive water soluble polymers, under conditions that do not damage or significantly modify the biological surfaces. In some embodiments, the coated biological surfaces are suitable for delivery to a subject in need thereof.
US12097295B2
A packaging system for the storage of an ophthalmic device is disclosed. The packaging system comprises a sealed container containing one or more unused ophthalmic devices immersed in an aqueous packaging solution comprising (a) one or more osmoprotectants, (b) one or more poloxamer comfort agents and (c) one or more polyol demulcents, wherein the aqueous packaging solution has an osmolality of at least about 150 mOsm/kg, a pH of about 6 to about 9 and is heat sterilized.
US12097292B2
The present invention provides an improved process for preparing microparticles containing glatiramer acetate having low levels of residual organic solvent(s), in particular dichloromethane. The microparticles are incorporated into long acting parenteral pharmaceutical compositions in depot form that are suitable for subcutaneous or intramuscular implantation or injection, and that may be used to treat multiple sclerosis.
US12097291B2
Compositions relating to thermostable vaccines and methods of preparing the same. Specifically, methods of preparing thermostable vaccines based on a recombinant ricin neurotoxin protein and uses of co-adjuvants to develop a composition capable of eliciting an immune response in a subject.
US12097284B2
Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions in the form of a suspension for oral delivery. Some embodiments provide a pharmaceutical composition in the form of a suspension for oral delivery comprising an active pharmaceutical ingredient; water; a suspending agent; a buffering agent; and one or more of a wetting agent and a binder/filler. In some embodiments, the active pharmaceutical ingredient is selected from quetiapine, sildenafil, tadalafil, cinacalcet, ticagrelor, mycophenolate, aprepitant, zonisamide, and primidone.
US12097260B2
A polymer composition can include an aqueous vehicle and a temperature-responsive degradable polymer having a polymer including a LCST-imparting unit and a lactone-bearing unit including a pendent lactone group. The number of LCST-imparting units is greater than the number of lactone-bearing units. The temperature-responsive degradable polymer has an initial lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of 37° C. or below. The polymer composition can have a pH lower than 7.
US12097258B2
A Dectin-2 ligand vaccine adjuvant and a method of making and using the Dectin-2 ligand vaccine adjuvant in a vaccine to immunize a patient are disclosed. Also discloses is a vaccine composition comprising a Bl-Eng2 antigen and methods of using the vaccine composition to immunize a subject against a fungal infection.
US12097248B2
A peptide consists of the amino acid sequence GVLPGLVGV (SEQ ID NO: 56) in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, in which the peptide has the ability to bind to an MHC class-I molecule and, when bound to MHC, is capable of being recognized by CD8 T cells. A composition contains a peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence GVLPGLVGV (SEQ ID NO: 56), an adjuvant, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US12097247B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating gout and a gout treatment kit. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a pharmaceutical composition for treating gout comprising a probe containing at least one or more peptides specifically coupled to a monosodium urate (MSU) crystals and a first enzyme which is coupled to the probe and reacts with the target MSU crystal coupled to the probe or urea of surrounding joint fluid to remove the target MSU crystal is provided.
US12097236B2
The invention provides to an enriched Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) extract composition comprising withanolide glycosides, withanolide aglycones and reduced levels of withaferin-A. The invention also provides to process for the preparation of these compositions and further provides to methods of improving testosterone levels, energy levels, sustained energy, vigor, stamina, and muscle mass and muscle strength using these compositions.
US12097234B2
A subcritical liquid extraction process for the production of oleandrin or oleandrin-containing extract is provided. The process provides improvements over other methods of preparing oleandrin-containing extract. The extract, pharmaceutical compositions, dosage forms and nutraceutical compositions comprising oleandrin or said extract are provided. Methods of treating diseases, disorders or conditions that are therapeutically responsive to oleandrin are also provided.
US12097231B2
A steviol glycoside composition with reduced surface tension. The reduced surface tension steviol glycoside composition includes an aqueous solution of a steviol glycoside and a surface tension reducing compound in an amount effective to reduce surface tension. Method for reducing surface tension in a steviol glycoside solution includes contacting a steviol glycoside and a surface tension reducing compound.
US12097230B2
An example method of treating or preventing post-operative delirium and cognitive dysfunction and other complications in patients includes administering to a patient a pharmaceutical composition. The composition includes one or more cannabinoid-containing plant compositions having a cannabinoid-containing fraction and a non-cannabinoid containing fraction. The cannabinoid-containing fraction includes Cannabis sativa from C. Indica, C. Ruderalis and their hybrids and various sub species and strains. The non-cannabinoid containing fraction from a Cannabis sativa L. plant and its various sub species and strains.
US12097224B2
Disclosed is a use of a cell wall skeleton of isolated Rhodococcus ruber or a composition containing the same for preparing a human papillomavirus infection treatment drug. The cell wall skeleton of Rhodococcus ruber isolated from Rhodococcus ruber was stored and preserved at China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center, No. 1, West Beichen Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing on Mar. 22, 2019 with accession number CGMCC 17431.
US12097218B2
The disclosure provides a method of generating non-clustered stem cells. Cluster disruption prior to mesoderm differentiation increases yield and efficiency in hEMP and T cell differentiation. Thus, this method allows the development of improved methods of hEMP and T cell differentiation.
US12097215B2
An antibacterial composition that comprises as active compound at least one light isotope of an element selected from the group which consists of 1H, 12C, 16O, 14N, 39K, 24Mg, 64Zn, 85Rb, 28Si, 54Fe, 92Mo, 74Se, 58Ni, 70Ge, 52Cr, 63Cu, 50V, or combinations thereof, wherein the composition is enriched for the at least one light isotope. A method of treating and preventing bacterial diseases in humans and non-human animals by administering the composition. The use of the said composition in human and veterinary medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases in humans and non-human animals and also as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
US12097212B2
The present disclosure describes compositions and methods for deactivating coronavirus. A method includes providing a deactivation composition including one or more CSA compounds and a carrier, administering the deactivation composition to a subject, and the deactivation composition deactivating coronavirus virions in the subject or coming into contact with the subject. The method can thereby prevent, decrease, or inhibit a coronavirus infection, such as COVID-19, of the subject.
US12097209B2
A method is described of stabilizing the pH of an aqueous composition including a drug that is prone to oxidation. The method includes adding an additive to prevent oxidation of the drug that is prone to oxidation. Also described, is a method of stabilizing the pH of an aqueous composition including a corticosteroid, the method including adding an additive to prevent oxidation of the corticosteroid. Further, a composition is described that includes a corticosteroid and an additive to prevent oxidation of the corticosteroid.
US12097206B2
A method of treating and/or preventing Dravet Syndrome in a patient such as a patient previously diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome, by administering an effective dose of fenfluramine or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt to that patient. Dravet Syndrome patients are typically children under the age of 18 and are treated at a preferred dose of less than about 0.5 to about 0.01 mg/kg/day.
US12097200B2
The present invention relates to a use of BI853520 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in preparing drugs for treating tumors in combination with chemotherapeutic drugs.
US12097196B2
Disclosed herein are novel methods of treating pain in a patient in need thereof by providing to the patient a selective dopamine D3 receptor antagonist/partial agonist which when used with an opioid analgesic, can mitigate the development of opioid dependence, by preventing the need for dose escalation while either maintaining the opioid analgesic effect or providing analgesia with a lower dose of the opioid. In addition, the D3 antagonists/partial agonists described herein may be used to augment the effectiveness of current Medication Assisted Treatment regimens (e.g. methadone or buprenorphine) for the treatment of opioid use disorders.
US12097189B1
A pharmaceutical composition for modified release comprising (R)-2-(2-aminothiazol-4-yl)-4′-[2-[(2-hydroxy-2-phenylethyl)amino]ethyl]acetic acid anilide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a carrier for a sustained release pharmaceutical composition, wherein a maximum blood drug concentration (Cmax) when administered in fasted state is 400 ng/ml or less, is disclosed.
US12097182B2
The present invention relates to, inter alia, methods of treatment and combinations of (R)-2-(7-(4-cyclopentyl-3-(trifluoromethyl)benzyloxy)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocyclopenta[b]indol-3-yl)acetic acid (Compound 1) useful for the treatment of extra-intestinal manifestations (EIM) in an individual with inflammatory bowel disease (BBD) and for the treatment of pyoderma gangrenosum (PG). In some embodiments, the methods further comprise administering Compound 1, or a pharmaceutically salt, solvate, or hydrate thereof, in combination with a therapeutically effective amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of: a corticosteroid, a 5-aminosalicylic acid derivative, and a TNF-alpha inhibitor; or a corticosteroid, an immunosuppressant, a biologic, an anti-inflammatory agent, and an antibiotic.
US12097179B2
The invention provides carbazole derivatives for the treatment of fibrotic diseases (pathological collagen deposition) in tissues and organs, and related symptoms, and conditions thereof.
US12097175B2
Modified release formulations of gamma-hydroxybutyrate having improved dissolution and pharmacokinetic properties are provided, and therapeutic uses thereof.
US12097174B2
Disclosed herein are agents that enhance muscle stem cell engraftment, as well as methods and compositions using the same.
US12097161B2
Exemplary aspects of a wearable device are described, including a body, an attachment element, and a plurality of energy generators. The body may include a flexible material layer and be conformable about a head of a user. The body may have a power source. The attachment element may include a band to maintain the body about the head of the user and a skin facing surface of the body against skin of the user. The plurality of energy generators may be independently operable to convert electricity from the power source into a plurality of different energy types transmittable towards the skin of the user. At least one of the plurality of energy generators may be disposed at least partially within the flexible material layer. Related apparatus, methods, and systems are described.
US12097150B2
Disclosed herein is a system, apparatus and method directed to automated adjustment of a positioning of a drainage bag based on at least an amount of tension within a tubing extending from the drainage bag. The system, apparatus and method pertain to an automated drainage bag actuation system that includes at least a first railing, a control box coupled to the first railing and configured to receive mounting fasteners that couple a drainage bag to the control box, the control box including a tension load cell sensor, a first motor, and circuitry electrically coupled to the first motor and the tension load cell sensor. The circuitry is configured to receive data from the tension load cell sensor indicating an amount of tension in tubing extending from the drainage bag and transmit one or more electrical signals to activate the first motor causing adjustment of a positioning of the drainage bag.
US12097147B2
The invention presents a universal eyedrop adapter designed for efficient and hygienic eye drop administration. The adapter features a one-way valve at the top to prevent backflow, a reduced internal lumen to minimize drop wastage, and a controlled flow design for precise dispensing. The base incorporates spiral grooves for a secure fit and to prevent outflow. Constructed with an antimicrobial material, the adapter is bug-resistant, ensuring a clean application process. The ergonomic design includes a bent angle and a rounded tip to mitigate the risk of eye injury. The administration process involves attaching the adapter to most eyedrop containers, cleaning it and the receiving periorbital region with a sterile wipe, squeezing to dispense a drop at the rounded tip, and then touching the lateral canthus. The user blinks to utilize surface tension and a lateral-to-medial movement, bringing the drop onto the ocular surface.
US12097142B2
An ostomy appliance that comprises a convex ring insert member. The insert member can have a curved body-side surface, an opposing pouch-side surface defining an internal cavity and an annular curved body portion between an outside flange and an engagement portion encircling a centrally-located input opening. The engagement portion can comprise a plurality of spaced-apart flexible tabs. The internal cavity can be defined by interior surfaces of the flexible tabs and the curved body portion. The flexible tabs can have flexibility to bend toward the internal cavity. A backfill material can be applied into the internal cavity along the interior surfaces of at least some of the flexible tabs. The backfill material can be removable from the ring insert. Upon application of the backfill material, the flexibility of some of the flexible tabs can be reduced to provide a localized rigid support segment along the engagement portion.
US12097126B2
An expandable intervertebral cage device includes a first base plate and a second base plate, a distal block with an internal passage that mechanically couples to each base plate, and a proximal block comprising internal threading. The device has exactly two arm assemblies with one on each side. Each arm assembly comprises a first arm mechanically coupled to the first base plate and a second arm mechanically coupled to the second base plate. A screw is arranged partially within the internal threading of the proximal block and passes through the internal passage of the distal block, such that rotation of the screw relative to the distal block causes a change in distance between the distal block and the proximal block, and a corresponding change in the spacing and lordosis of the device.
US12097121B2
Hip implant systems described herein can include a distal stem, a proximal body, and a fastener. In some embodiments, the distal stem can include a cavity configured to receive the fastener when a portion of the distal stem is positioned within the proximal body. In some embodiments, the distal stem can include a threaded exterior surface configured to mate with a fastener when a portion of the distal stem is positioned within the proximal body. In some embodiments, a distal end of the distal stem can include an anterior relief configured to conform to interior surface of a femoral canal of a patient.
US12097120B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for relieving upper airway obstructive breathing in a patient are disclosed. In some implementations, the apparatus comprises first and second pivot devices anchored to a mastoid bone and a mandible bone, respectively; an implant positioned between the first and second pivot device, the implant comprising a first end coupled to the first pivot device and a second end coupled to the second pivot device; an inactive position, the inactive position enabling a posterior displacement of the second end relative to the first end; an active position, the active position preventing posterior displacement of the second end relative to the first end, and anteriorly positioning the second end relative to the first end; and an activation mechanism enabling transition between the inactive position and the active position, and vice versa.
US12097118B2
An anchor of an implant is transluminally advanced to a heart of a subject, the anchor including a distal helical element, and a post extending proximally from the distal helical element. The implant is anchored to tissue of the heart by driving the distal helical element into tissue of the heart, and compressing a fabric tube against the tissue by moving an annular member, coupled to the post, toward the tissue such that the fabric tube becomes sandwiched between the annular member and the tissue. Other embodiments are also described.
US12097113B2
A bioprosthetic valve and a preparation method thereof are provided. The bioprosthetic valve includes a stent and a functional biological tissue material attached to the stent. The functional biological tissue material is a biologicaltissue covalently bonded with an active group and a functional molecule or group. The method improves the anti-thrombosis and anti-calcification functions by covalently modifying the surface of a biological valve using an active group and a functional molecule or group with a substantial degree of grafting. The new bioprosthetic valve does not include aldehyde residues, exhibits excellent biocompatibility, optimal mechanical properties, high stability, and can meet the performance requirements of a biological valve delivered through a catheter.
US12097112B2
The present disclosure provides an ophthalmic lens that is disposed to balance coma aberrations if the lens, when inserted in a patient's eye, is decentered or tilted with respect to an optical axis of the patient's eye, and maintain a substantially diffraction-limited image quality if the lens, when inserted in the patient's eye, is centered with respect to the optical axis of the patient's eye. The lens may include an optic having an anterior surface and an opposing posterior surface disposed about an optical axis of the lens. One of the surfaces (e.g., the anterior surface) may have a semi-aspheric surface profile, which includes an inner region having a substantially spherical surface profile and extending radially from the optical axis of the lens to a first boundary, and an outer region having an aspherical surface profile and extending radially at least beyond the first boundary to a second boundary.
US12097106B2
An insertion device includes an elongate member and a stylet. The elongate member has a proximal end portion, a distal end portion, and defines a lumen therethrough. The stylet has a distal end portion, a proximal end portion, and is slidably coupled to the elongate member. The stylet is configured to move from a first position to a second position with respect to the elongate member. The distal end portion of the stylet is configured to removably couple a mesh carrier thereto. A portion of the distal end portion of the stylet is disposed outside of the lumen of the elongate member when the stylet is in its first position and is disposed within the lumen when the stylet is in its second position.
US12097098B2
An absorbent article includes an absorbent core. The absorbent core includes an absorbent component enclosed by a core cover. The absorbent component includes a coherent area having an extension of the absorbent article and having an extension in the transverse direction over a full width of the absorbent component, the coherent area having a front edge and a back edge. The absorbent component includes high density areas of absorbent material alternating with low density areas of absorbent material. The high density areas and the low density areas extending in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article in the front portion and/or in the crotch portion of the absorbent article. The back portion of the absorbent article includes a conformance zone comprising absorbent material. The coherent area and the conformance zone are separated by an area substantially free from absorbent material.
US12097087B2
A method for making a ceramic body comprised of a ceramic material having an inhibitory effect on bacterial growth is provided. A dental prosthesis may be made of a ceramic material that comprises a molybdenum-containing component on a portion of the prosthesis that contacts the gingival surface of a patient. In one method, a porous zirconia ceramic structure is shaped in the form of a dental prosthesis, and then infiltrated with a molybdenum-containing composition, before sintering to densify the ceramic structure.
US12097085B2
Palatal expander systems and methods. A palatal expander includes a palatal region connecting tooth engagement regions, where the palatal region is configured to apply a lateral force across a patient's palate when the tooth engagement regions are worn over the patient's teeth. Attachment regions on buccal sides of the tooth engagement regions are shaped and sized to engage with dental attachments bonded to the patient's teeth. At least one breach region corresponding to a thinned region of the palatal expander extends anteriorly to posteriorly in the palatal region or an occlusal portion of one or both of the tooth engagement regions. The at least one breach region is configured to breach or bend when a pulling force is applied to one or both of the tooth engagement regions such that one or both of the attachment regions are detached from respective attachments.
US12097078B2
An ultrasonic image display system and a program for controlling an ultrasonic image display system are disclosed herein. The ultrasonic image display system includes at least one processor and memory. In the memory is stored at least one protocol including a plurality of image acquisition steps. The processor is adapted to load the protocol to start a first run of the protocol, interrupt the first run of the protocol, acquire data for a second ultrasonic image of the patient and store the data in the memory after interrupting the first run of the protocol at one of the acquisition steps. The processor is adapted to interrupt the second run of the protocol at the same one of the acquisition steps or give notice that the second run of the protocol will be interrupted at the same one of the acquisition steps.
US12097075B2
Ultrasound systems and methods are provided using mass characterization frequency methods that provide for predicting benign or malignant lesions, a response to treatment, tumor grading, and/or the expressions of immunohistochemical biomarkers, which are currently used for breast cancer classification and hormone therapy determination. The systems and methods are based on the shear wave parameter, mass characteristic frequency. The status of malignancy, treatment response, grade, and/or each immunohistochemical biomarker may be determined based on a corresponding mass characteristic frequency threshold.
US12097070B2
An imaging device capable of acquiring images of an internal structure of a living body highly accurately in a wide range. An imaging device has a first housing to which a proximal portion of an outer sheath is fixed, with a drive shaft for driving a imaging unit and an inner sheath extending through the first housing, and a second housing to which a proximal portion of the inner sheath is fixed and which holds the drive shaft rotatably therein. The first housing has a first port held in fluid communication with an inner lumen of the outer sheath, and the second housing is movable toward and away from the first housing. The imaging device also includes a first gap between the inner sheath and the outer sheath and a second gap between the inner sheath and the drive shaft.
US12097062B2
A processor functions as a trained neural network that derives an estimation result relating to a three-dimensional bone density of a bone part from a simple radiation image acquired by simply imaging a subject including the bone part, or a DXA scanning image acquired by imaging the subject by a DXA method. The trained neural network learns using, as teacher data, (i) two radiation images or the like acquired by imaging the subject including the bone part with radiation having different energy distributions, and a two-dimensional bone density of the bone part included in the two radiation images or the like, or (ii) the radiation image or the like of the subject or a bone part image representing the bone part of the subject, the two-dimensional bone density of the bone part included in the radiation image or the like, or the bone part image, and the three-dimensional bone density of the bone part of the subject.
US12097055B2
In some implementations, a device may obtain scan information associated with scanning a section of a body that includes an object within tissue of the section. The device may determine a region of the section that is likely to be represented by an artifact in an image obtained using a first scanning type of a medical image device. The device may determine a plurality of scan patterns for scanning the region using a second scanning type. The device may determine, for the plurality of scan patterns, individual scan scores associated with scanning the region. The device may select, based on the individual scan scores, an optimal scan pattern from the plurality of scan patterns. The device may transmit the optimal scan pattern to the medical imaging device to permit the medical imaging device to scan the section to obtain optimized image data associated with the region.
US12097050B2
Methods and systems for image segmentation and analysis are described. A predictive model may be trained to identify and/or extract a rich set of image features with extensive prognostic value. For example, the predictive model may be trained to identify and/or extract features that that may be visualized to identify areas of interest (e.g., high-risk regions, etc.) within or adjacent to an object of interest, such a tumor. The predictive model may be trained to identify and/or extract features that that may predict a health related outcome, such as cancer patient survival/death, and modify therapeutic outcomes, such as diagnosis and treatment.
US12097040B2
Data collection schemes for a wound dressing are disclosed. In an embodiment, a monitor device for a wound dressing system comprises a wound dressing. The wound dressing comprises an electrode assembly, which comprises a plurality of electrodes including a first set of first electrodes and a second set of second electrodes. The monitor device comprises: a processor, memory and a first interface, which comprises a plurality of terminals including a first terminal and a second terminal, and a data collector coupled to the first terminal and the second terminal. The data collector comprises a data collection controller and is configured to: collect data from the plurality of terminals according to a primary data collection scheme; and collect data from the plurality of terminals according to a secondary data collection scheme, wherein the primary data collection scheme is different from the secondary data collection scheme.
US12097024B2
A process for analyzing multidimensional vector data of a motion sensor for detecting a breathing motion, includes receiving and storing the multidimensional vector data of the motion sensor in a time series, calculating a plurality of medium-term vectors and of a plurality of long-term average vectors, calculating and storing a plurality of mean-free vectors depending on a difference between a respective medium-term vector and a respective long-term average vector and determining a plurality of unit vectors. The respective unit vector is oriented in a random direction. A plurality of scalar products are calculated from a respective mean-free vector and the unit vector assigned to the mean-free vector. A motion identification is calculated, which is an indicator of the breathing motion, based on the plurality of scalar products. An analysis signal is determined and output based on a comparison between the motion identification and a predefined motion threshold value.
US12097009B2
An apparatus for intraoral three-dimensional (3D) scanning comprises a light source, a spatial pattern, a beam splitter, an optical system comprising fewer than 10 lenses, a mirror, an image sensor, and a depth scanning module. The depth scanning module is configured to axially translate one or more lenses of the optical system in the optical axis to change a focus setting of the optical system, wherein the depth scanning module is configured to axially translate the one or more lenses by 0.1-5 mm to achieve a depth scanning range of 5-40 mm at a scan speed of about 5-50 scans per second.
US12097003B2
A surgical method includes, for example, positioning a patient relative to a robot, moving an end effector of the robot relative to a surgical site of a patient, defining a go-zone and a no-go-zone associated with the surgical site based on the moving the end effector of the robot relative to the patient, and effecting a surgical procedure at the surgical site of the patient with a tool attached to the end effector of the robot based on the defined go-zone and the defined no-go-zone, and wherein the effecting the surgical procedure maintains the tool in the defined go-zone and avoids contact with the defined no-go-zone.
US12097002B2
In a coupled control mode, an operator directly controls movement of an associated manipulator with an input device while indirectly controlling movement of one or more non-associated manipulators, in response to commanded motion of the directly controlled manipulator, to achieve a secondary objective. By automatically performing secondary tasks through coupled control modes, the system's usability is enhanced by reducing the operator's need to switch to another direct mode to manually achieve the desired secondary objective. Thus, coupled control modes allow the operator to better focus on performing tasks and to pay less attention to managing the system.
US12097001B2
Techniques for instrument insertion control include a manipulator system. The manipulator system includes a manipulator configured to support an instrument and a control system coupled to the manipulator. The control system is configured to determine an insertion profile associated with at least one of the instrument or a cannula through which the instrument is configured to be inserted and resist or assist a manual insertion of the instrument through the cannula according to the insertion profile, wherein the resisting or assisting causes a velocity of the manual insertion to be uniform in response to a uniform force applied by the manual insertion.
US12097000B2
A medical robotic system and method of operating such comprises taking intraoperative external image data of a patient anatomy, and using that image data to generate a modeling adjustment for a control system of the medical robotic system (e.g., updating anatomic model and/or refining instrument registration), and/or adjust a procedure control aspect (e.g., regulating substance or therapy delivery, improving targeting, and/or tracking performance).
US12096988B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth a method to determine an operation pathway for a patient. The method includes constructing a three-dimensional model of the patient; obtaining image information of the patient; selecting a first set of two-dimensional feature points associated with the three-dimensional model and a second set of two-dimensional feature points associated with the image information; transforming the first set of two-dimensional feature points to a first set of three-dimensional feature points and the second set of two-dimensional feature points to a second set of three-dimensional feature points, respectively; matching between the first set of three-dimensional feature points and the second set of three-dimensional feature points to determine a relationship that aligns the first set of three-dimensional feature points and the second set of three-dimensional feature points; and determining the operation pathway in a coordinate system associated with a robotic arm.
US12096983B2
In an ophthalmic imaging apparatus of some aspect examples, a data acquiring unit acquires data by applying an OCT scan to an eye. An image constructing unit constructs an image from the data acquired. A focal position changing unit is provided to the measurement arm. A scan controller controls the data acquiring unit according to a scan pattern including first and second partial patterns that are continuous patterns for central and peripheral regions of an OCT scan application area, respectively. A focus controller controls the focal position changing unit such that a first focal position is applied in parallel with an OCT scan of at least part of the first partial pattern and a second focal position is applied in parallel with an OCT scan to at least part of the second partial pattern.
US12096976B2
Devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure are directed to selectively controlling delivery of electrical energy to an ablation electrode, with the selective control based on a history of the electrical energy delivered to a return electrode (e.g., electrical energy delivered in a current time-step and in one or more time-steps preceding the current time-step). Controlling electrical energy delivered to an ablation electrode based on the history of electrical energy delivered to a return electrode can reduce the likelihood of unintended tissue damage away from a treatment site as electrical energy is delivered to the treatment site via the ablation electrode. Further, or instead, the devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure can reduce the likelihood of unintended tissue damage away from the treatment site while reducing or eliminating the need to interrupt lesion formation by the ablation electrode.
US12096965B2
An embodiment includes a system comprising: a tulip including a slot to receive a linkage, first and second side walls that define a portion of the slot, and a ring that couples the first side wall to the second side wall; wherein the ring couples to the first side wall at a thinned first proximal fulcrum and to the second side wall at a thinned second proximal fulcrum and the ring pivots about the first and second proximal fulcrums when the ring is forced proximally; wherein the first side wall includes a first sidewall projection that projects past the first proximal fulcrum and the second side wall includes a second sidewall projection that projects past the second proximal fulcrum. Other embodiments are described herein.
US12096942B2
A hemostasis and suturing conjoined dual-clamp capable of passing through a channel of a digestive endoscope and an operation method, the dual-clamp including a handle, a clamping assembly and a driving assembly. The clamping assembly includes a clamping holder and two clamping portions, and the driving assembly is detachably connected to the clamping assembly. A hemostasis and suturing conjoined dual-clamp capable of passing through a channel of a digestive endoscope and an operation method, two clamping arms of the dual-clamp are able to individually open, clamp and close, have a function of double-sided clamping and closing a large defective wound, and are able to be conveniently separated from the driving assembly, overcoming the defects that conventional hemostatic clamps can only perform one-sided clamping, thereby it is difficult to treat defective wounds that are large or in difficult operating sites.
US12096937B2
Wound closure devices and methods of using the wound closure devices are disclosed. The wound closure device comprises two clips. Each clip comprises a wedge-shaped body, a tab extending from a tip of the wedge-shaped body, an anchor extending from a base of the wedge-shaped body, and a locking mechanism positioned within the wedge-shaped body.
US12096923B2
A modular retractor may include a first body portion that houses a distraction mechanism for opening and closing a first arm and a second arm. A first pivoting member may be coupled to a distal end of the first arm and a second pivoting member may be coupled to a distal end of the second arm, for example. A first blade attachment mechanism may be coupled to the first pivoting member and a second blade attachment mechanism may be coupled to the second pivoting member. The first and second blade attachment mechanisms may be configured to couple to first and second blades and be independently inclinable. A first actuator may be operably coupled to the distraction mechanism for opening and closing the first arm and second arm. Various embodiments may include at least one connection point for connecting to at least one retractor module.
US12096920B1
Embodiments of devices and methods for collecting gastrointestinal samples using a capsule-shaped device that is swallowed are provided.
US12096918B2
An imaging needle apparatus, associated system, and method of use are described. The apparatus includes various interchangeable modules, including a trocar assembly, a blunt cannula assembly, and an arthroscope assembly, such as a nano-arthroscope. For example, using the imaging needle apparatus, a doctor can treat a patient by inserting the trocar assembly into the patient's body, inserting the blunt cannula assembly into the body via the trocar assembly, removing the trocar assembly, and inserting the arthroscope assembly into the blunt cannula assembly. Further, the imaging needle apparatus, in some embodiments, includes a light engine that provides a light source for a camera cannula of the apparatus, such as a camera cannula that is part of the arthroscope assembly.
US12096914B2
A filter assembly is configured to optically couple a camera head to an endoscope. The filter assembly includes a first end adapted to be removably coupled to the camera head and a second end opposite and spaced apart from the first end, the second end adapted to be removably coupled to the endoscope. The filter assembly includes an optic housing disposed between the first end and the second end, the optic housing includes an optical path length maximizer and a first window. The first window has a first surface that is angled with respect to a plane that is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the optic housing so as to minimize a narcissus reflection within the optic housing and an optical filter to reject laser irradiation.
US12096909B2
Systems, devices, and methods for docking a mobile robot to a dock using distinct visual fiducial markers on the dock are disclosed. A mobile robot system is provided that includes a dock and a mobile cleaning robot. The dock includes a first fiducial marker in a first plane on the dock and second one or more fiducial markers in a second plane different from the first plane. The mobile cleaning robot includes a visual system to detect the first and the second one or more fiducial markers, and a controller circuit to recognize the dock, and to determine a pose or heading direction of the mobile cleaning robot based on the detected first and the second one or more fiducial markers. The mobile drive system can adjust its heading direction, and drive to the dock according to the adjusted heading direction.
US12096903B2
A plastic storage bag saver is provided. The plastic bag saver has a pair of base rods configured to rest on a dishwasher rack. A pair of vertical arched support rods extending from the pair of base rods, wherein the pair of vertical arched support rods forms a bag spreader configured to spread and secure a flexible plastic storage bag in an open position. The pair of base rods and the pair of vertically arched rods are formed via a single bent rod. The plastic storage bag saver is an environmentally conscious product that allows for the normally discarded plastic storage bag to be reused after being washed in a dishwasher.
US12096902B2
A dishwashing appliance includes a tub defining a wash chamber, and a pump assembly disposed in the wash chamber. The pump assembly includes a first housing portion mounted to a second housing portion to form a pump housing. A cup of the second housing portion defines an air chamber. A tube extends from the first housing portion into the air chamber of the second housing portion. The tube defines an opening. An electrical wire passes through the tube and into the pump housing. A grommet is positioned in the opening of the tube, and sealingly engages the tube of the first housing portion at the air chamber of the second housing portion. The electrical wire passes through the grommet. A pump is disposed within the pump housing. The pump is in fluid communication with the wash chamber.
US12096895B2
An artificial intelligence robot includes a camera configured to acquire image data, a memory configured to store an object recognition model used to recognize an object from the image data, and a processor configured to acquire a speech command, determine whether an intention of the acquired speech command is object search, recognize an object from the image data based on the object recognition model during traveling when the intention of object search, and output a notification indicating that the object has been recognized when the recognized object is an intended object.
US12096893B2
A soap bar holding pouched washcloth having an integrated pouch for storing a bar of soap for lathering the washcloth for bathing. The washcloth features a pouch sewn along the longitudinal edges and one of the transversal edges of the washcloth, a trailing edge of the washcloth forms an opening for a cavity created by the pouch for storing the soap bar, thereby enabling a user to take a shower using the washcloth with the soap bar accommodated in the pouch without independently applying the soap bar. The soap bar creates lather when it comes into contact with water enabling the user to clean the body by rubbing the lathered washcloth thereon. The washcloth is washable and can comprise of different sizes and designs.
US12096890B2
A dispenser for a roll of rolled up absorbent paper web material, the dispenser, in a closed state, including an outer casing enclosing a roll compartment for housing a roll, and a dispensing opening extending from the roll compartment to the outside of the outer casing along a dispensing axis of the dispenser, the outer casing including an outer lid assuming a closed position when the dispenser is in the closed state. The dispenser further including an inner lid, which, in the closed state of the dispenser, is arranged between the roll compartment and the outer lid, wherein the inner lid defines a first threading opening through the inner lid along the dispensing axis, the first threading opening including a first dispensing opening portion; and the outer lid defines a second threading opening through the outer lid along the dispensing axis.
US12096884B2
An air fryer comprises an air flow passage provided between an inner shell and an outer shell; a first cooking chamber having a first cooking fan in air flow communication with the first cooking chamber and a first heating element in thermal communication with the first cooking chamber. A cooling fan, when actuated, circulates air within the airflow passage. A common motor is drivingly connected to each of the cooking fan and the cooling fan, wherein a first axle portion drivingly connects the common motor to the cooking fan, a second axle portion drivingly connects the common motor to the cooling fan and, when the air fryer is positioned with the bottom on a horizontal surface, the first axle portion extends upwardly from an upper side of the common motor and the second axle portion extends downwardly from a lower side of the common motor.
US12096882B2
An automatic cooking machine includes: a cooking pot; a strainer, arranged to be capable of being placed in the cooking pot to receive ingredients, wherein a bottom and sidewalls of the strainer are provided with multiple filter pores; a driving element having two bended driving arms, respectively arranged at two opposite sides of the driving element, wherein free ends of the two driving arms substantially extend downwards; and a blender having two cantilever arms, respectively arranged at two opposite sides of a top portion of the blender; and multiple blending arms, respectively extending outwards from a main body of the blender; wherein the two driving arms of the driving element are arranged to operably touch and push the two cantilever arms of the blender to drive the blender to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise.
US12096872B2
A system for supporting a privacy curtain includes a swing arm wall mount and a swing arm that are coupled together. An end stop cap support may engage the swing arm when the swing arm is in a closed position. The swing arm wall mount allows the swing arm to rotate when the swing arm is in an open position and when the swing arm is not engaged with the end stop cap support. An end stop cap may couple with the swing arm. The end stop cap engages the end stop cap when the swing arm is in the closed position. And the end stop cap does not engage the end stop cap support when the swing arm is in an open position. The swing arm may comprise a pin at one end, wherein the pin engages the swing arm wall mount.
US12096861B2
A foldable metal frame sofa includes a metal frame, a seat cushion, a back cushion and two armrests. The metal frame includes a seat frame, a backrest frame and a front baffle. The backrest frame is detachably mounted on a rear edge of the seat frame and is foldable with respect to the seat frame. The front baffle is foldably mounted on a front edge of the seat frame with respect to the seat frame. The seat cushion is removably disposed on the seat frame. The back cushion is removably disposed on the backrest frame. The two armrests are respectively located at a left side and a right side of the metal frame, and each of the two armrests is detachably mounted and connected to an end portion of the seat frame and an end portion of the backrest frame.
US12096855B1
A post coupler having a first body portion and a second body portion. Each body portion having an inner edge, an outer edge, a reverse flange, and at least one post alignment tab. Each reverse flange forms a post receiving slot. The first and second body portions are coupled to each other at approximately 90 degrees. A method of using the post coupler comprises the steps of a) providing a first post section and a second post section, b) inserting the first post section along the post receiving slots until the first notch interacts with the tab, and c) inserting the second post section along the post receiving slots until the second notch interacts with the tab.
US12096854B2
A shelf assembly includes a shelf panel and a hydrophobic surface applied in a spill containment pattern on the top surface of the shelf panel adjacent to at least one of the left side, right side, front, and rear edges. The shelf panel has a top surface for supporting articles, opposite left and right side edges, and opposite front and rear edges. The spill containment pattern defines at least a portion of a boundary of a central portion of the top surface of the shelf panel. The spill containment pattern includes an outer edge containment strip disposed adjacent to at least one of the left side, right side, front, and rear edges of the shelf panel, an inner edge containment strip spaced inward from the outer edge containment strip, and a non-hydrophobic spill catch area disposed between the outer and inner edge containment strips.
US12096851B2
A shelf device and a storage cabinet. The shelf device comprises a shelf body (100); a support frame, the support frame comprising a lead screw (102) and a connecting support (104), the lead screw (102) being fixedly connected to the connecting support (104); a driving assembly, the driving assembly is connected to the shelf body (100), the driving assembly comprising a driving member (106) and a threaded sleeve (108), the driving member (106) being in power coupling connection with the threaded sleeve (108), and the threaded sleeve (108) being in threaded connection with the lead screw (102). The shelf device only needs to be provided with a lead screw (102), and multiple threaded sleeves (108) are sleeved thereon, and then the multiple threaded sleeves (108) are respectively connected to different shelf bodies (100), so that independent adjustment of the multiple shelf bodies (100) can be achieved.
US12096848B2
An oral care implement that includes a handle and an oral care refill head. The oral care refill head is alterable between a first state in which it is separated from the handle and a second state in which it is coupled to the handle. The oral care refill head has a proximal edge surface that defines an opening into a sleeve cavity. The proximal edge surface is inclined with radial distance from a cavity axis of the sleeve cavity. Similarly, the handle has a gripping portion that terminates at a distal end and a stem that protrudes from the distal end. The annular shoulder that is inclined downwardly and away from a stem to facilitate mating of the oral care refill head to the handle. The oral care refill head may have features for securing the oral care refill head to the stem of the handle.
US12096845B2
The present invention is concerned with a skin treatment device and an interface for, preferably detachably, attaching a brush to a skin treatment device, wherein the skin treatment device comprises a drive unit, a component part driven by the drive unit to perform a rotatory and/or oscillating movement and a hood at least partially encasing said driven component part. One of said brush and said driven component part comprises at least two protrusions which both extend through openings in the hood when the brush is attached to the skin treatment device. At least one of said protrusions engages the other of said brush and said driven component part by snap fit when the brush is attached to the skin treatment device.
US12096842B1
Provided is a sports water bottle, including: a water bottle body and a plurality of functional accessories. A peripheral side of the water bottle body has a first outer wall and a second outer wall, and a first connecting piece or a second connecting piece is arranged on the first outer wall and/or the second outer wall. Each of the functional accessories is provided with the second connecting piece corresponding to the first connecting piece on the water bottle body; and/or each of the functional accessories is provided with the first connecting piece corresponding to the second connecting piece. The first connecting piece and the second connecting piece are matched with each other and detachably connected.
US12096838B2
A method of making a face mask for a face of a human user can include determining a lower eye region bound and determining an upper eye region bound by locating an upper bound of the eyeball as determined by a peak point of an arc of concavity in an upper eyelid of the at least one eye when the eye is closed. The method can also include setting a first anchor point about 0 mm to about 10 mm below the lower eye region bound, and setting a second anchor point about 0 mm to about 10 mm above the upper eye region bound; and defining at least one eye opening for a face mask having first edge that intersects the first anchor point and a second edge that intersects the second anchor point.
US12096836B1
A cartridge core assembly comprises a cartridge, a screw barrel, a guide member, an elastic member, and a nut, the cartridge is fixedly connected to the guide member, the screw barrel and the nut are screwed to each other, and the elastic member is sleeved on the nut in a circumferentially fixed manner; the guide member is provided with a plurality of first engagement teeth, the elastic member is provided with a plurality of second engagement teeth, and each tooth of at least one of the first engagement teeth and the second engagement teeth comprises a bottom surface, a first beveled surface and a second beveled surface; and an angle between the first beveled surface and the bottom surface is α1, an angle between the second beveled surface and the bottom surface is α2, and the α1 and the α2 are different acute angles.
US12096835B2
An epilating device for extracting hairs out of a user's skin, including hair-clamping elements that are arranged adjacent to each other and rotatable relative to a housing. A drive system rotates the hair-clamping elements which co-operate in pairs and are moveable relative to each other during rotation. On each side surface facing an adjacent hair-clamping element, there is a hair-clamping section and a hair-catching section. The hair-catching sections of adjacent hair-clamping elements define a funnel area, wherein the hair-catching sections converge towards each other for guiding hairs towards the hair-clamping sections. The hair-clamping sections of adjacent hair-clamping elements are movable relative to each other from an open position, where the hair-clamping sections are at a distance from each other, to a closed position, where the hair-clamping sections are in mutual clamping engagement in a hair-clamping area.
US12096829B2
Bands for electronic devices, including wearable devices, are designed to dynamically alter their shape (e.g., lengthen) in response to an external force. A band may include one or more interior structures disposed in an exterior structure. The interior structure(s) is/are pulled in tension by the exterior structure. When the interior structure(s) is/are pulled in tension, an additional force (e.g., by a user) that applies tension to the interior structure(s) may cause a relatively small change in tension to the interior structure(s). As a result, the band may appear to provide the same amount to users, despite users having a different wrist size/diameter. A similar phenomenon may occur to a single user when the user's wrist changes in size. Accordingly, based on the interior structure(s) being placed in tension by the exterior structure(s), the force provided by the band may appear constant to users.
US12096827B2
A kit for the solidification of breast milk and a breast milk solidification process using said kit are described, enabling the transformation of breast milk into a solid product through a chemical reaction, with the ratios of each qualitative element being properly controlled, and allowing lay users to obtain a molded solid product.
US12096825B2
A sole for an article of footwear, which has a medial side, a lateral side, a forefoot region, a midfoot region, and a heel region, includes a set of ridges concentrically aligned around and emanating outwardly from an epicenter. The epicenter is disposed within the forefoot region and is closer to the medial side than the lateral side. The set of ridges is disposed in each of the forefoot region, the midfoot region, and the heel region. A set of spaces extends concentrically between respective ridges of the set of ridges. The set of ridges includes a plurality of short portions having a height that is smaller than heights of adjacent tall portions of the set of ridges. A flex zone is defined by at least some of the plurality of short portions and is configured to flex more than one or more stiffening zones of the sole.
US12096821B2
A flexible shoe includes an under sole, a foot bed, a first over-foot portion, and a second over-foot portion. The under sole is formed of ballistic nylon. The foot bed is arranged on an upper surface of the under sole. The first over-foot portion is attached to the under sole and is configured to flexibly overly an instep of a foot of a user forward of an ankle of the user. The second over-foot portion is configured to flexibly wrap around a heel of the user rearward of the ankle of the user and includes a tab extending toward and coupled a heel portion of the under sole. The under sole, the first over-foot portion, and the second over-foot portion define a cavity configured to enclose the foot of the user. The foot bed is positioned entirely within the cavity.
US12096815B2
A multi-positional helmet visor system in which the visor can be repositioned to a plurality of positions. Cooperating structures in the visor and helmet inhibit the unwanted changes in visor position. The helmet uses a magnetic source disposed on a boss in a sliding element of the visor, which cooperates and mates with a series of ferromagnetic elements disposed in detents along the medial front to assist in holding the visor in place. The magnetic force and boss-detent structures inhibit unwanted movement of the visor. The visor may be inhibited from being lowered into the cyclist's field of view by sets of cooperating stops on the visor and helmet.
US12096809B2
A material and apparel that positively affect the health and well-being of a mammal include fibers that are formed with a semiconductor. Upon contact of the material or apparel with a region of the mammal's body, a positive effect occurs that relates to the health and wellbeing of that mammal. The material includes a region that includes an expanse. The expanse is formed with a semiconductor and constructed for contact with the skin of the mammal. The apparel has a body that includes a region that has a wearable form made of a semiconductor, and is constructed for making contact with a human body when the human wears the apparel.
US12096808B2
A nursing cover having an integrated cooling neck fan in which the integrated cooling neck fan is bladeless, removable, and bendable over a range of angles. The inside top area of the nursing cover includes at least one hook and loop strip that extends in a horizontal direction or another type of fastener. Additional hook and loop strips are on a top surface of the cooling neck fan such that the cooling neck fan is removably attachable to the inside top area of the nursing cover. A user grabs the two ends of the neck fan to bring the nursing cover closer or further away and adjust distance of air vents on the neck fan from a nursing child covered by the nursing cover while held by the mother. The nursing cover includes a neck strap and a long fabric portion that thoroughly covers the mother and nursing child. The nursing cover can be a partial nursing cover or a 360-degree nursing cover.
US12096804B2
A stain resistant shirt collar protector is described herein. The stain resistant shirt collar protector is formed having a longitudinal fold line configured to engage a collar fold line. The longitudinal fold line terminates in oblique ends configured to align with edges of the shirt collar. Furthermore, different forms of adhesives and materials may be used to form the stain resistant shirt collar protector, as described in detail herein.
US12096802B2
A flavor generation device comprising: a power supply; a flow path for passing an air flow generated as a result of inhalation by a user, and a temperature sensor which outputs a detected value or estimated value of the temperature of the power supply. The temperature sensor is located in a position other than a position in which the air flow provides the highest cooling effect.
US12096799B2
An electronic cigarette atomizer and an electronic cigarette are disclosed. The electronic cigarette atomizer comprises an air inlet (1), an air inlet passage (2), an atomization cavity (3), an air outlet passage (4), an air outlet (5), and a suction nozzle (6) communicated sequentially, and further comprises an adjustment mechanism (7) for adjusting the air output of the air outlet. The adjustment mechanism (7) simultaneously adjusts the air input of the air inlet (1) and the air output of the air outlet (5). The electronic cigarette atomizer can adjust the air output of the air outlet (5) of the atomizer and can meet the needs of users with different lung capacities for different smoke concentration adjustment modes. The electronic cigarette atomizer can simultaneously adjust the air flow at the air inlet (1) and the air outlet (5) of the atomizer.
US12096797B2
There is described an apparatus for heating aerosolizable material to volatilize at least one component of the aerosolizable material. The apparatus includes a heating chamber for containing aerosolizable material and a first heater arrangement for heating aerosolizable material contained in use within the heating chamber. The first heater arrangement is arranged to heat at least two sides of the aerosolizable material in the heating chamber. There is further provided an air flow channel outside of the heating chamber that runs alongside the first heater arrangement and is arranged such that, in use, when a user draws on a device comprising the apparatus, air flows into the apparatus and through the air flow channel so as to be preheated in the air flow channel by the first heater arrangement before flowing into the heating chamber and through the aerosolizable material.
US12096796B2
A cartridge is disclosed. The cartridge includes an inner tube extending longitudinally, wherein the inner tube defines a channel with a top end and a bottom end, including a liquid substance. The cartridge includes a heat producing component on the bottom end, configured to disperse heat received from a heating element of an inhalation device, wherein the heating element is configured to heat a pre-vapor formulation of the liquid substance to form a vapor. The cartridge includes an outer casing configured to house the inner tube. The outer casing includes a hexagon shaped mouthpiece, on a first end, configured with six air flow inlets. The outer casing includes a hexagon shaped casing connected to a second end, wherein the hexagon shaped casing is configured with at least six release holes.
US12096795B2
An atomizer includes an e-liquid tank and a seal member. The e-liquid tank includes a cavity and an airflow channel. The seal member is disposed on one end of the e-liquid tank. The seal member includes a groove configured to equalize a pressure in the e-liquid tank with outside pressure. Both ends of the groove communicate with the cavity and the airflow channel, respectively.
US12096793B2
Provided are an aerosol generating article and an aerosol generating system using the same. The aerosol generating article includes a first portion containing a mouthpiece portion; and a second portion that is arranged adjacent to the first portion and includes a capsule, wherein the capsule includes a core region, a first shell, and a second shell, and the core region of the capsule includes nicotine and an aerosol generating material.
US12096792B2
A detachable aerosol-generating article is disclosed, the article includes: a cartridge, with a reservoir and a path formed therein; the path formed inside the reservoir and an atomizer, disposed inside the path and detachably connected with the cartridge; the cartridge further includes a first tube and a second tube; the second tube is sleeved on the first tube; the first tube and the second tube are relatively rotatable to each other; and the path is formed inside the first tube; the first tube is bored with a first liquid conductive hole; the second tube is bored with a second liquid conductive hole; when the cartridge and the atomizer are assembled, the first liquid conductive hole is aligned with the second liquid conductive hole, enabling tobacco liquid in the reservoir to flow to the atomizer; when the cartridge and the atomizer are detached.
US12096787B2
An aerosol generating assembly comprising an aerosol generating substrate and a heater which is configured to heat but not burn the aerosol generating material. The aerosol generating substrate comprises an aerosol generating material, the aerosol generating material comprising an amorphous solid. The amorphous solid comprises 1-60 wt % of a gelling agent, 0.1-50 wt % of an aerosol generating agent, and 0.1-80 wt % of a flavor, wherein these weights are calculated on a dry weight basis.
US12096785B2
Aqueous lipid emulsions for providing enteral nutrition are provided. The aqueous lipid emulsions include at least 33% of lipids, lipid soluble nutrients, or a combination thereof, based upon the total weight of the emulsion, and are essentially free of carbohydrate and protein. The aqueous lipid emulsions are shelf-stable for at least 7 months. The aqueous lipid emulsions are a source of supplemental enteral nutrition for any patient in need thereof, including preterm infants.
US12096784B2
Provided herein are compositions with enhanced protein content, proteins with high solubility, protein combinations and methods for the preparation thereof.
US12096783B2
A food composition in the form of a water-in-oil-in-water emulsion, the food composition comprising water, an oil phase comprising vegetable oil and fat crystals, and an oil-in-water emulsifier, and a process for preparing the same.
US12096772B2
The present disclosure relates to herbicidal combinations and their use in controlling plants or inhibiting plant growth. In particular, herbicidal combinations comprising pyridafol in combination with at least one further herbicide that is a HPPD-inhibitor herbicide.
US12096765B1
A system for the hypothermic transport of biological samples, such as tissues, organs, or body fluids. The system includes a self-purging preservation apparatus to suspend a sample in preservation fluid and perfuse a tissue with preservation fluid. The self-purging preservation apparatus is placed in an insulated transport container having a cooling medium. When assembled, the system allows for transport of biological samples for extended periods of time at a stable temperature.
US12096762B2
An apparatus for the capture and electrocution of pest animals is provided. The apparatus has a killing chamber, an electric accumulator, a high voltage transformer, three electrode plates located in the killing chamber and connectable to the high voltage transformer, and three stationary electrical contacts. A rotor having a horizontal rotating shaft and four axial walls, each with three electrode plates arranged consecutively in an axial direction, is lockable in four predetermined angular positions in each of which one of the four axial walls is horizontal and has the three electrode plates facing the killing chamber. Each axial wall of the rotor has three movable electrical contacts that are each connected to a respective one of the three electrode plates. The three movable contacts on a same one of the axial walls are temporarily and simultaneously connectable to respective stationary electrical contacts when the axial wall is horizontal.
US12096752B2
A pet collar for preventing pet theft includes a latch assembly selectively movable between an open position and a closed position. The latch assembly has a front plate cover, a back plate cover, a cam pivotally secured to and positioned in between the front and back plate covers, a first eye extending from a surface of the front plate cover, and a second eye extending from a surface of the cam. The latch assembly includes a cord having a first end secured to the latch assembly and a second end secured to a portion of the cord. The cord extends through a channel defined by the front and back plate covers.
US12096747B2
Organism monitoring devices and organism monitoring methods are described. According to one aspect, an organism monitoring device includes a housing configured to be physically associated with an organism to be monitored, an antenna, signal generation circuitry comprising an oscillator configured to generate an oscillation signal, and an output node configured to output the oscillation signal, impedance matching circuitry coupled with the housing, the antenna and the signal generation circuitry, and wherein the impedance matching circuitry is configured to match an impedance of the signal generation circuitry and an impedance of the antenna, and wherein the impedance matching circuitry is further configured to receive the oscillation signal and to provide the oscillation signal to the antenna, and wherein the antenna is configured to emit a wireless signal externally of the organism monitoring device as a result of the provision of the oscillation signal to the input of the antenna.
US12096745B2
A door assembly includes a frame having interconnected wires that define an opening for an animal to pass therethrough, and a door having interconnected wires and being coupled to the frame. A latch assembly has a handle structure and a pin. The handle structure is pivotable with respect to one of the door and the frame, and the pin is movable axially with respect to one of the door and the frame. A first wire of the plurality of wires of the frame forms a key hole assembly. The key hole assembly defines an aperture for receiving the pin when the door is in a latched position with respect to the frame. A tab assembly is formed by at least one wire of the door and is disposable behind at least one of the plurality of wires of the frame in the closed position.
US12096736B2
A rice cultivar designated CLL18 is disclosed herein. The present invention provides seeds, plants, and plant parts derived from rice cultivar CLL18. Further, it provides methods for producing a rice plant by crossing CLL18 with itself or another rice variety. The invention also encompasses any rice seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by the methods disclosed herein, including those in which additional traits have been transferred into CLL18 through the introduction of a transgene or by breeding CLL18 with another rice cultivar.
US12096735B2
A method of identifying a selected pollination window in a Poaceae crop by monitoring one or more environmental parameters and identifying a selected pollination window based upon the monitored parameters. The correct selection of parameters has been shown to markedly increase seed set, yield, and/or other desirable characteristics, including but not limited to preferred content of oil, starch, protein, and/or other nutritional components. Parameters may include one or more of: temperature, relative humidity, and vapor pressure deficit.
US12096734B2
A heater includes an enclosure, a first baffle plate, and a second baffle plate. The enclosure includes a first wall, a second wall opposite the first wall, and a top plate extending between the first wall and the second wall and cooperating with the first wall and the second wall to at least partially define an interior. The heating module is coupled with the enclosure and is disposed beneath the first baffle plate and the second baffle plate. The heater can additionally or alternatively include an air quality monitoring system and an isolation transformer. The air quality monitoring system includes an air quality controller, at least one air quality sensor, and a power input. The isolation transformer is configured to deliver power from the air quality monitoring system to a fuel system controller of the heating module to facilitate powering thereof.
US12096732B2
An open-top gutter for cultivation of plants. In an example, the open-top gutter comprises at least one water space formed by a double edge and being closed at the top, or almost closed. The water space is open at the bottom of the gutter. In an example, the open-top gutter includes at least one separate water space formed by a partially double bottom and connected to the bottom of the gutter via a bottom gap. In an example, the open-top gutter includes a space limited by two side walls and a bottom wall and divided into trough-like compartments by at least one dividing wall. The dividing wall includes at least one water space formed by a double wall, open at the bottom of the gutter.
US12096731B2
An internet of things (IoT) based hydroponic farm system is described. The hydroponic farm system includes a cloud server, a plurality of hydroponic farms, and a plurality of user computing stations. The cloud server includes a data distribution service domain that includes data distribution service middleware configured to use a real-time publish-subscribe protocol to wirelessly communicate hydroponic farm information. Each of the hydroponic farms is divided into a plurality of hydroponic plant growing zones that are configured to grow at least one species of plant. Each hydroponic plant growing zone includes a zone controller. A farm controller is assigned to each of the hydroponic farms. The plurality of user computing stations are subscribed to the data distribution service middleware and are configured to communicate, through the data distribution service domain, with the zone controller, the farm controller, a process controller, a production planning controller, and an enterprise resource planning controller.
US12096725B2
A vertical substrate comprised of a gel on a wire or mesh scaffolding may be used for growth of plants. The gel may include two polysaccharide components, with a second of the two components providing increased rigidity and/or adherence to the scaffolding. Plants may be grown, including from seed, in the substrate.
US12096723B2
A roof vent system for a grain storage device is disclosed. A roof vent including a lid is operatively connected to the roof panel adjacent the opening. The lid is configured to move between an open position and a closed position. A bias member configured to apply an upward bias force to the lid to automatically move the lid to the open position. A control lever that is movable between an upper position and a lower position. The control lever is operably connected to the lid by a pull. When control lever is moved to the lower position with a force greater than the bias force of the bias member, the lid is moved to the closed position. A sealing member attached to the lid is configured to provide a seal between the lid and the roof panel when the lid is moved to the closed position.
US12096716B2
Operating conditions corresponding to a harvesting operation being performed by a mobile harvesting machine are detected along with a priority of a first performance pillar metric relative to a second performance pillar metric. An operating characteristic of the mobile harvesting machine is detected and a performance pillar metric value is identified for the first performance pillar metric based on the detected operating characteristic. A performance limitation corresponding to the first performance pillar metric is identified based on the detected operating conditions and an aggressiveness setting is detected that is indicative of an operating settings change threshold. It is then determined whether a settings change is to be performed based on the first performance pillar metric value, the priority of the first performance pillar metric, the first performance limitation and the settings change threshold and if the settings change is to be performed, a settings change actuator is controlled to execute the settings change.
US12096714B2
A seeding unit comprising: a support; a soil opening member mounted to the support; and a seed delivery outlet, defining an exit aperture for releasing seed; wherein the soil opening member comprises: an upper blade portion operative to form a seed collection slot in the ground; and a lower blade portion laterally offset from the upper blade portion and operative to form a deep rooting slot in the ground that is offset laterally from the seed collection slot.
US12096713B1
A method for treating expansive soils includes excavating a hole in a superficial expansive soil layer from an excavation site to form the hole and form an expansive soil material. Further, the expansive soil material is mixed with an inert material, at least two chemical additives, and a binder to form an additive soil material. The additive soil material is further poured into the hole in the excavation site to form an additive soil layer. The inert material is a sand, the chemical additives are a sulfur and a silica fume, and the binder is a dicyclopentadiene. The sand and the sulfur are present in the additive soil material in an amount from 30 wt. % to 40 wt. % and 12 wt. % to 25 wt. %, respectively, based on a total weight of the additive soil material.
US12096707B2
Cutting element made of cemented carbide for an agricultural soil cultivation tool for cutting into the earth, which includes a top side and a bottom side, a front side, a back side opposite of the front side, and at least one lateral surface. The top and bottom sides are connected via the front side, back side, and the at least one lateral surface. The front side includes a cutting region having multiple teeth, and at least one tooth is formed with a first flank and a second flank. To achieve an efficient cutting into the earth with a complete cut through the weeds or herbaceous plants present in the earth, a profile line of the first flank and a profile line of the second flank have different lengths. In this manner, weeds are completely severed and killed, whereby use of sprays for killing weeds is reduced to protect the environment.
US12102005B2
A thermionic energy converter, preferably including an anode and a cathode. An anode of a thermionic energy converter, preferably including an n-type semiconductor, one or more supplemental layers, and an electrical contact. A method for work function reduction and/or thermionic energy conversion, preferably including inputting thermal energy to a thermionic energy converter, illuminating an anode of the thermionic energy converter, thereby preferably reducing a work function of the anode, and extracting electrical power from the system.
US12101984B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a sensor area and a display area, where the display panel includes an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface; and a discoloration sensor layer overlapping the sensor area, where discoloration sensor layer is disposed on one of the upper surface of the display panel and the lower surface of the display panel, and discolored when exposed to a target material. A first through portion is defined through the display panel from the upper surface to the lower surface of the display panel, and the discoloration sensor layer overlaps the first through portion.
US12101982B2
A pixel structure, a driving method thereof, a display panel, and a display apparatus are provided. The pixel structure includes: a plurality of pixel rows and a plurality of pixel columns. Each pixel row includes: sub-pixels of four different colors. The plurality of pixel columns include: a plurality of first pixel columns and a plurality of second pixel columns arranged alternately. Each of the first pixel columns includes: sub-pixels of three of the four different colors. Each of the second pixel columns includes: sub-pixels of another color other than the three of the four different colors.
US12101980B2
A transparent display panel and a transparent display device including the same are disclosed. In a transparent display panel, a VSS voltage line does not surround an outer periphery of a display region. Rather, upper and lower VSS voltage lines respectively disposed on upper and lower sides to the display region are electrically connected to each other via at least one VSS voltage connection line extending across the display region. Thus, left and right non-transparent and thick VSS voltage lines disposed on the left and right sides to the display region may be omitted. Thus, a transparent region of the transparent display panel and a bezel of a transparent display device may be increased or maximized or the bezel thereof may be made slim.
US12101975B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device, comprising a substrate. A driving array on the substrate comprises a first active layer, a second active layer and a first metal layer stacked on the first active layer. An active pattern and a gate of the first transistor are respectively included in the first active layer and the first metal layer. An active pattern of the second transistor is included in the second active layer. A first shielding portion with a predetermined stable voltage is provided between the active pattern of the first transistor and the substrate.
US12101974B2
A TFT layer of a display device includes: an initialization power source wiring line; a second interlayer insulating film provided covering the initialization power source wiring line; a source wiring line provided on the second interlayer insulating film; a low-level power source wiring line provided below the initialization power source wiring line; and a frame capacitor. The frame capacitor includes: a first frame capacitance electrode formed by the same material in the same layer as the initialization power source wiring line; and a second frame capacitance electrode formed by the same material in the same layer as the source wiring line and facing the first frame capacitance electrode with the second interlayer insulating film interposed therebetween. The first frame capacitance electrode is electrically connected to the high-level power source wiring line, and the second frame capacitance electrode is electrically connected to the low-level power source wiring line.
US12101966B2
An inexpensive display device with a narrow bezel is provided. The display device includes a first pixel including a light-emitting device, a second pixel including a light-receiving device, and a reading circuit for reading data obtained by the second pixel. The reading circuit includes a first circuit included in a mounted IC chip and a second circuit monolithically formed over a substrate over which a pixel circuit is formed. With this structure, a circuit corresponding to the second circuit can be omitted from the IC chip, so that the IC chip can be downsized.
US12101964B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate including an emission area and a non-emission area surrounding the emission area, a planarization layer formed on the substrate, a light emitting device disposed on the planarization layer, and including an anode electrode, and a separation layer disposed to be spaced apart from the anode electrode on the planarization layer, wherein the planarization layer is formed to overlap at least a portion of the non-emission area and includes a trench portion formed by removing at least a portion of the planarization layer, the trench portion at least partially overlaps an end of each of the anode electrode and the separation layer in the non-emission area, the light emitting device further including a light emitting layer and a cathode electrode sequentially formed on the anode electrode, and the light emitting layer and the cathode electrode are discontinuously formed in the trench portion.
US12101958B2
An organic electronic device including a substrate, an organic electronic element formed on the substrate, and an encapsulation film encapsulating the organic electronic element. The organic electronic element includes a transparent electrode formed on the substrate, and a light emitting organic material layer formed on the transparent electrode. The light emitting organic material layer includes a hole transport layer, an emitting layer and an electron transport layer. The encapsulation film includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition or a crosslinked product thereof. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition includes a polymer derived from butylene, and has a Mooney viscosity (η*) of 5000 Pa·s to 107 Pa·s measured by a shear stress using a planar jig having a diameter of 8 mm at a strain of 5%, a frequency of 1 Hz and any one temperature point in the range of 30° C. to 150° C.
US12101937B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, gate electrodes stacked and spaced apart from each other in a first direction, perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate in the first region and extending in different lengths along a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction in the second region, first separation regions penetrating the gate electrodes in the first and second regions, extending in the second direction, and spaced apart from each other in a third direction, perpendicular to the first and second directions, second separation regions penetrating the gate electrodes in the second region and spaced apart from each other in the second direction between the separation regions, and a first vertical structure penetrating the gate electrodes in the second region and closest to the first region, wherein a width of the second separation regions in the third direction is greater than a width of the first vertical structure, a first end point of the second separation regions adjacent to the first region is spaced apart from a central axis of the first dummy structure in the second direction, away from the first region.
US12101935B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a stacked structure with first material layers and second material layers that are alternately stacked with each other, forming a first opening that passes through the stacked structure, forming second openings between the first material layers, forming first sacrificial layers in the second openings, forming first isolation layers that protrude into the first opening by oxidizing the first sacrificial layers, forming mold patterns on the first material layers between the protruding portions of the first isolation layers, forming third openings by etching portions of the first isolation layers that are exposed between the mold patterns, forming second sacrificial layers in the third openings, and forming second isolation layers that protrude farther toward the center of the first opening than the mold patterns by oxidizing the second sacrificial layers.
US12101932B2
A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure, first digit lines, second digit lines, and multiplexer devices. The stack structure comprises an access line region comprising a lower group of conductive structures, and a select gate region overlying the access line region and comprising an upper group of conductive structures. The first digit lines are coupled to strings of memory cells, and the second digit lines are coupled to additional strings of memory cells. The second digit lines are horizontally offset from the first digit lines in a first direction and are substantially horizontally aligned with the first digit lines in a second direction. The multiplexer devices are coupled to page buffer devices, the first digit lines, and the second digit lines. The multiplexer devices comprise transistors in electrical communication with the upper group of conductive structures. Additional microelectronic devices, memory devices, and electronic systems are also described.
US12101931B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards an integrated memory chip comprising a memory array with a strap-cell architecture that reduces the number of distinct strap-cell types and that reduces strap-line density. In some embodiments, the memory array is limited to three distinct types of strap cells: a source line/erase gate (SLEG) strap cell; a control gate/word line (CGWL) strap cell; and a word-line strap cell. The small number of distinct strap-cell types simplifies design of the memory array and further simplifies design of a corresponding interconnect structure. Further, in some embodiments, the three distinct strap-cell types electrically couple word lines, erase gates, and control gates to corresponding strap lines in different metallization layers of an interconnect structure. By spreading the strap lines amongst different metallization layers, strap-line density is reduced.
US12101927B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor structure and its forming method, and a memory and its forming method. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a vertical transistor on the substrate, and a bit line connected to the bottom of the vertical transistor and disposed between the bottom of the vertical transistor and the substrate. The vertical transistor in such a semiconductor structure has a relatively small plane dimension.
US12101926B2
A device includes a substrate. A first nanostructure is over the substrate, and includes a semiconductor having a first resistance. A second nanostructure is over the substrate, is offset laterally from the first nanostructure, is at about the same height above the substrate as the first nanostructure, and includes a conductor having a second resistance lower than the first resistance. A first gate structure is over and wrapped around the first nanostructure, and a second gate structure is over and wrapped around the second nanostructure.
US12101922B2
A memory device is provided. The memory device includes first and second pull-up transistors. The first pull-up transistor is disposed over a semiconductor substrate, and including a first gate structure and two first source/drain structures at opposite sides of the first gate structure. The second pull-up transistor is laterally spaced apart from the first pull-up transistor, and including a second gate structure and two second source/drain structures at opposite sides of the second gate structure. The first and second gate structures extend along a first direction and laterally spaced apart from each other along a second direction intersected with the first direction. The first gate structure further extends along a sidewall of one of the second source/drain structures, and the second gate structure further extends along a sidewall of one of the first source/drain structures.
US12101913B2
Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer-implemented services are disclosed. To provide the computer-implemented services, hardware components that generate heat may be used. To manage the heat generated by the hardware components, a heat sink assembly may be used. The heat sink assembly may include features for adjusting its shape and/or size to accommodate other nearby components. By accommodating other components, the heat sink assembly may be used in spaces that would otherwise be unusable for thermal dissipation purposes due to the risk of mechanical interference between the heat sink assembly and the other components.
US12101911B2
A heat exchange system for heat dissipation of an electronic control assembly includes: a first heat exchange portion including a first end having a first communication port and a second end having a second communication port; a second heat exchange portion including a first end having a third communication port and a second end having a fourth communication port, and at least a part of the second heat exchange portion being configured to be in contact with the electronic control assembly; a first connection tube communicating the first communication port with the third communication port; and a second connection tube communicating the second communication port with the fourth communication port. The first and second heat exchange portions and the first and second connection tubes constitute a loop, the loop has an opening, and the opening is closed when the heat exchange system is in an operative state.
US12101906B2
A fluid heat exchanger for cooling an electronic device can have a plurality of walls. The walls can define a corresponding plurality of microchannels. Each microchannel can extend from a first end to a second end. The plurality of microchannels can define at least two opposed outer microchannels and a centrally located microchannel positioned between the opposed outer microchannels. A fluid inlet passage can be configured to deliver a heat-exchange fluid to each microchannel between the corresponding first end and the corresponding second end of the respective microchannel. A fluid outlet passage can have an enlarged outlet region from the centrally located microchannel compared to a corresponding outlet region from one or both of the opposed outer microchannels. Related methods are disclosed.
US12101905B2
A quick release mechanism includes a fixed component, a first assembly, and a second assembly. The fixed component has a guiding portion and a first positioner. The first assembly includes an engagement component and a return component. The engagement component is pivotably disposed on the fixed component and includes a first protrusion part, a first press part, and a second positioner. The return component keeps the engagement component in an engaged position. The second assembly is removably inserted into the guiding portion. The second assembly includes a second protrusion part and a contact part. The engagement component is movable away from the engaged position by abutting of the second protrusion part on the first protrusion part or by abutting of the contact part on the first press part during insertion of the second assembly into the guiding portion.
US12101891B2
A manufacturing method of a circuit board includes: providing a first double-sided copper laminate including a dielectric layer, a first copper foil layer and a copper plating layer, wherein the dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer defines a groove, the copper plating layer includes a first copper plating portion in the groove and a second copper plating portion beside the first copper plating portion. A double-sided circuit substrate including base layer and two first wiring layers is provided, wherein each first wiring layer includes a signal line. Conductive paste blocks are disposed in the base layer and on both sides of the signal line; and a first double-sided copper laminate is stacked on each side of the double-sided circuit substrate, disposing the signal line in the groove. The conductive paste blocks are pressed electrically connect same to the second copper plating portions. The present disclosure further provides a circuit board.
US12101887B2
In an embodiment, a method of manufacturing (100) is described. The method comprises providing (102) a first layer defining a first inner surface (203a) and a first outer surface (203b), a second layer defining a second inner surface (205a) and a second outer surface (205b), and an electrical component (206) positioned on the first inner surface or the second inner surface. The method further comprises attaching (104) the first and second layers together to create a device (200) comprising the first and second layers, wherein the first outer surface and the second outer surface define an external surface of the device. The device further comprises a sealed portion (208) defined by liquid-tight attachment between the first and second inner surfaces. In use of the device, the sealed portion prevents liquid ingress into the device between the first and second layers towards the electrical component.
US12101885B2
A server motherboard includes a protective film, a substrate, and a power supply circuit. An equivalent electrical parameter of the protective film changes as a shape of the protective film changes. The shape changes when a temperature of the server mother board is greater than a predetermined temperature. A portion of at least one side surface of the substrate is covered by the protective film. The power supply circuit is electrically connected to the protective film and configured to detect the equivalent electrical parameter of the protective film. The power supply circuit stops outputting a power supply voltage to the substrate when a change of the equivalent electrical parameter is detected.
US12101884B2
According to one embodiment, an isolator includes a first wiring board and a second wiring board. The first wiring board includes a first insulating layer including first and second principal surfaces; a first coil provided on the first principal surface; and a first pad provided on the first principal surface and electrically connected to the first coil. The second wiring board includes a second insulating layer including third and fourth principal surfaces; a second coil provided on the third principal surface; and a second pad provided on the fourth principal surface and electrically connected to the second coil. The first and second coils are arranged in such a manner as to face each other, and an external size of the second wiring board is smaller than an external size of the first wiring board.
US12101877B2
The present disclosure provides a circuit board assembly, a TOF camera module including the circuit board assembly and applications thereof. The circuit board assembly is used to support an electronic component, and includes a conductive portion and an insulating portion. The insulating portion is integrally bonded to the conductive portion, and the conductive portion extends through the insulating portion. The electronic component is supported by the conductive portion and is communicated with the conductive portion, so that the electronic component directly dissipates heat through the conductive portion during operation.
US12101876B2
A circuit module comprising a printed circuit board, PCB, arrangement, a connection module, CM, and a high frequency circuit carrier, HFCC, are provided. The HFCC is arranged on the PCB arrangement. The CM is mounted on the PCB arrangement. The CM comprises at least one connection pad and is configured to electrically connect a metallic structure on or in the printed circuit board to the connection pad of the CM. The HFCC comprises at least one connection pad. At least one bond wire is provided to electrically connect the at least one connection pad to the HFCC to the at least one connection pad of the CM. The CM has a height over the PCB so that the at least one connection pad of the HFCC and at least one connection pad of the CM are on a same level or have a height difference that is less than 2 mm, preferably less than 1 mm, most preferably less than 0.8 mm.
US12101868B2
The present disclosure discloses a thermal plasma treatment method for sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) degradation. In the thermal plasma treatment method for SF6 degradation, Ar is input into a thermal plasma generator as a carrier gas; annular electrodes are electrically connected to a direct current power supply to generate an arc plasma region in the presence of the carrier gas Ar; to-be-reacted SF6 and to-be-reacted H2 in a predetermined ratio are input into the arc plasma region to generate hydrogen radicals as well as fluorine radicals, and the hydrogen radicals and the fluorine radicals are bonded with each other to generate HF to inhibit the self-recovery reaction of SF6; and final products include HF and elemental S.
US12101862B2
The present application relates to a fan lamp control system and method, and the system includes: a control module, a processing module, a fan module, a lamp panel module and a power supply module; the fan module is configured for controlling a rotating state of a fan; the lamp panel module is configured for controlling an illuminating state of a lamp; the control module is configured for sending a control instruction for controlling the rotating state of the fan and the illuminating state of the lamp; the control module includes a first control unit and a second control unit; the processing module is configured for controlling the fan module and the lamp panel module to perform a corresponding operation based on the control instruction.
US12101858B2
Apparatus and methods for lighting. The apparatus may include a power supply. The apparatus may include a controller. The controller may be configured to receive power from the power supply. The controller may be configured to receive a dimming signal generated external to the controller. The controller may be configured to receive from a user selection that includes a CCT partition set-point. The controller may be configured to transmit to a light source lighting power. The lighting power may correspond to the dimming signal. The lighting power may correspond to the CCT partition set-point. The light source may include a high correlated color temperature (“CCT”) LED. The light source may include a low CCT LED. The CCT partition set-point may correspond to a selected value of a partition of power between the high CCT LED and the low CCT LED.
US12101857B2
A light source driver circuit has a switching regulator including a voltage input, a voltage output, and a regulation input; a current source with a switching element and a voltage-controllable member arranged in series with the light source load. A pulse signal is applied to a control terminal of the switching element to connect, in a first switching state of the switching element, a control terminal of the voltage-controllable member to a voltage source and in a second switching state of the switching element not to connect the control terminal of the voltage-controllable member to the voltage source; and a regulation unit. An optical measuring instrument includes a light source driver circuit, a device checks value documents with the light source driver circuit, and a method is provided for operating a light source load with the light source driver circuit.
US12101856B2
A method of driving a plurality of LED-based light sources to provide accurate white points and saturated color points. The method includes receiving or setting a selectable target chromaticity; determining that the selectable target chromaticity is between two vertices of the global common gamut; defining an inner region within the global common gamut; calculating a first directed distance between the selectable target chromaticity and the transition boundary of the inner region and a second directed distance between the selectable target chromaticity and a straight side of the global common gamut; and modifying the selectable target chromaticity to a modified target chromaticity within a light fixture gamut based at least in part on the calculated first and second directed distances; or generating an activation signal for driving the plurality of light sources based on the selectable target chromaticity based at least in part on the calculated first and second directed distances.
US12101855B2
Apparatus, methods and systems for providing power to light-emitting diode (“LED”) light sources are provided. The apparatus may include a plurality of power output channels. Each of the power output channels may provide a current to a plurality of LED modules. Each of the LED modules may correspond to one of the power output channels. The apparatus may include a protection circuit. The protection circuit may receive a conditioned voltage. The protection circuit may use the conditioned voltage to feed to the power output channels an output current that, in total, has a power no greater than a predetermined power limit. The apparatus may include a voltage conditioning circuit. The voltage condition circuit may receive line voltage. the voltage condition circuit may condition the line voltage. The voltage conditioning circuit may provide the conditioned voltage to the protection circuit.
US12101851B2
The present disclosure provides methods and network function nodes for managing a communication of contents for a first UE. The method includes retrieving subscription data for the first UE from a third NF node, the subscription data indicating an identifier of a second UE which is a target of the contents for the first UE, transmitting the contents and the identifier of the second UE to a second NF node, receiving a message built with the contents from the second NF node, and transmitting the message to the second UE. The present disclosure further provides corresponding computer readable medium.
US12101844B2
A wireless communication system, a method, a base station, user equipment and a device. An electronic device for a user equipment in a wireless communication system, wherein the user equipment simultaneously performs wireless data connections with a first base station and a second base station over different carriers, the electronic device including: circuitry configured to, acquire a notification to release the wireless data connection between the user equipment and the first base station from the second base station, if a release triggering node judges that a release condition is satisfied; and release the wireless data connection with the first base station based on the notification, wherein the release triggering node is either the first base station or the second base station.
US12101839B2
Disclosed are an information processing method and a related network device. The method comprises: a session management function (SMF) obtaining first address information of a local domain name system (DNS) server; sending the first address information to an uplink classifier; and sending, by means of an access and mobility management function (AMF), the first address information to a user equipment (UE), wherein the first address information is used for the UE to update the IP address of local DNS server.
US12101835B2
An advertising algorithm is disclosed which operates in an Implantable Medical Device (IMD) to adjust an interval at which the IMD will transmit advertising data packets to an external device able to connect with the IMD. When a communication session between the IMD and an external device is terminated, the advertising algorithm will issue advertising data packets at a higher rate for a set duration. This will allow the external device to connect more quickly with the IMD in a next communication session. After the set duration, when it may be assumed that the external device is less likely to connect with the IMD, the algorithm reduces that rate at which advertising data packets are issued, which saves power in the IMD.
US12101827B1
This disclosure provides a backoff counting method in a non-simultaneous transmit and receive (NSTR) operation mode and the communication device for the method. The method includes: configuring a plurality of backoff counters for counting backoff slots with no medium activity of channels of the plurality of links; synchronizing a count value of a first backoff counter of the plurality of backoff counters with a count value of a second backoff counter of the plurality of backoff counters, if the first backoff counter starts counting later than the second backoff counter or resumes counting after a pause, wherein the count value of the second backoff counter is smaller than that of the first backoff counter; and transmitting or receiving a signal on a channel of at least one of the plurality of links after all the backoff counters reach a predefined value.
US12101824B2
A cellular communication system is disclosed in which user equipment (UE) initiates a random access channel (RACH) procedure by sending one or more messages, comprising a random access preamble, to a 5G base station, using one or more uplink carriers of a plurality of such carriers available for use by the UE. The base station selects an uplink carrier for initial access by the UE and informs the UE, as part of the RACH procedure, of the UL carrier selected by the base station.
US12101823B2
A method and apparatus for performing a random access (RACH) procedure is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication node, includes: performing a plurality of random access (RACH) procedures with a wireless communication device on a first frequency resource set and a second frequency resource set, wherein the plurality of RACH procedures each comprises: receiving a first message on a first frequency resource from the wireless communication device, wherein the first frequency resource is selected from the first frequency resource set; transmitting a second message on a second frequency resource to the wireless communication device within a pre-determined time window, wherein the second frequency resource is selected from the second frequency resource set; receiving a third message on the first frequency resource from the wireless communication device; and transmitting a fourth message on the second frequency resource to the wireless communication device.
US12101816B2
Wireless communications are described in which a wireless device may receive a message comprising a timing advance command (TAC) for a secondary cell group. The wireless device may transmit or drop one or more sounding reference signals via a secondary cell of the secondary cell group, after applying the TAC.
US12101814B2
A station in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The station includes: a transceiver; and a processor for controlling the transceiver. The processor receives a trigger frame for triggering uplink transmission from an access point (AP), and the trigger frame allocates, to the station, a part of a transmission opportunity (TXOP) acquired by the AP, as a shared TXOP, transmits a CTS frame as a response to the trigger frame, and switches a first enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) parameter set used for channel access to a second EDCA parameter set based on transmission for the AP within the shared TXOP.
US12101811B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, comprising: receiving, by a first device from a second device, a message on a wireless medium indicating that the wireless medium has been reserved for at least one transmission from the first device to the second device by the second device detecting that the wireless medium is not occupied, based on a first beamwidth. The method further comprises determining, by the first device, a second beamwidth for performing the at least one transmission, selecting, by the first device on the basis of the received message, a method for the first device, from a set of at least two methods, to determine whether the wireless medium is occupied, determining, by the first device, based on the selected method for the first device whether the wireless medium is occupied, and in response to detecting that the wireless medium is not occupied, performing the at least one transmission by the first device.
US12101810B2
A first node receives a first signaling; performs a first channel sensing operation over a first subband; and transmits a first signal. The first signaling comprises first indication information, used for indicating an Rx parameter of the first channel sensing operation; the first channel sensing operation is used for determining channel occupancy information, the channel occupancy information used for determining whether the first subband can be used by a transmitter of the first signaling for signal transmission; the first signal is used for indicating the channel occupancy information. The receiver in communications is enabled to perform channel sensing and feedback results, hence a reduction in interferences incurred from hidden node issues.
US12101809B2
Aspects of the invention relate to the technical field of wireless communication, and provides a time slot format indication method, apparatus, equipment and system, and a storage medium. The method can include transmitting time slot format indication information to User Equipment (UE) upon detecting that a target channel is in an idle state. The time slot format indication information is used for indicating upper and lower row formats of symbols in N time slots within a channel occupation period, the first time slot and/or the last time slot in the N time slots are/is a partial time slot, where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, the channel occupation period refers to a period occupying the target channel by a base station, and the target channel is located on a non-authorized frequency spectrum.
US12101808B2
A method for performing uplink transmission by a user equipment within a downlink channel occupancy time shared by a base station. The method includes obtaining a first indication about an uplink transmission starting point allocated by the base station; obtaining a second indication about a channel sensing type to apply; obtaining a third indication about a channel sensing position selected by the base station amongst one or more candidate positions; applying channel sensing based on said second and third indications during a channel sensing duration; initiating uplink transmission after the channel sensing duration, if allowed, in advance to the allocated starting point by: a first time duration which compensate for the propagation time, and a second time duration which fills at least part of the time gap between the end of the channel sensing duration and the beginning of the first time duration.
US12101805B2
Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing techniques for channel occupancy rate determination of a channel between a user equipment (UE) and a base station in an unlicensed spectrum. A UE can perform measurements based on a measurement configuration from the base station, and further determine a channel occupancy rate of the channel based on the performed measurements. The measurement configuration indicates to the UE to perform an omni measurement or a directional measurement by using an antenna element of the UE. The UE can further transmit a report to the base station to indicate the channel occupancy rate.
US12101798B2
Method, apparatus and systems are described to allow a base station to configure a logical channel or resources for sidelink communications. In one example aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a user equipment, a message from a communication node. The message includes information for configuring a logical channel for a sidelink transmission. The method also includes configuring, a Medium Access Control (MAC) entity with the logical channel according to the information.
US12101795B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, devices and computer readable media for multi-TRP transmission. According to a method for communication, a terminal device receives downlink control information (DCI) from at least one of a plurality of network devices in communication with the terminal device, each of the plurality of network devices having a different demodulation reference signal (DMRS) group comprising a plurality of DMRS ports for transmitting DMRSs. The terminal device determines, from the DCI, respective transmission configuration indication (TCI) states for DMRS groups of the plurality of network devices and DMRS ports for receiving DMRSs transmitted by the plurality of network devices. The terminal device receives the DMRSs from the plurality of network devices on the DMRS ports based on the TCI states. The embodiments of the present disclosure provide solution of multi-TRP communication with reduced overhead.
US12101792B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a communication method and a communication apparatus, a computer-readable medium, and an electronic device. The communication method includes: performing, by a core network entity of a first network, communication negotiation with a core network entity of a second network to obtain a communication resource pool allocated by the core network entity of the second network to a terminal device in the first network, the first network sharing an access network with the second network; and configuring the communication resource pool for the terminal device to enable the terminal device to use a communication resource in the communication resource pool for communication after moving to the second network.
US12101789B2
A method may include receiving configuration parameters of each cell of one or more cells, indicating a maximum number of time domain resource allocations for physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) for a respective cell of the one or more cells. The method may also include transmitting, via a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), feedback information with a transmission power determined based on a maximum value of the maximum number of time domain resource allocations of a cell scaled by a corresponding number of codewords of the cell, across the one or more cells.
US12101781B2
A network node causes transmission of DCI that includes information for scheduling two or more TBs over two or more communication slots. The two or more TBs are associated with two or more HARQ process IDs. The information includes one or more of: a PUCCH resource indicator configured to indicate at least one resource for use for transmitting HARQ feedback related to the two or more TBs; a DAI configured to indicate a position of HARQ feedback related to the two or more TBs, in a HARQ codebook; a HARQ process ID indicator indicating two or more HARQ process IDs; and one or more NDIs configured to indicate whether at least one of the two or more TBs is a retransmission.
US12101774B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, receive downlink control information (DCI) for uplink data transmission, perform Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) on a sub-band where a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource is located, and transmit the uplink data on the PUSCH resource on the basis of the LBT. Further, Uplink control information (UCI) for candidate physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources may be piggybacked on the PUSCH resource on the basis of the PUSCH resource overlapping with one or more candidate PUCCH resources from among the candidate PUCCH resources, and on the basis of a processing time, for a first candidate PUCCH resource that is the most preceding in a time domain among the candidate PUCCH resources, being equal to or greater than the minimum processing time of the terminal.
US12101761B2
A method of operating a communications device to transmit data to a wireless communications network comprises preparing to transmit uplink data as one or more transport blocks using a selected set of communications resources. The method includes detecting that the set of communications resources selected for transmitting the uplink data on the uplink resources will cause transmission of a transport block across a boundary between two of the time divided units or slots, and adapting the transmission of the detected transport block to avoid the boundary between the two time slots.
US12101760B2
A terminal device determines a resource of a physical uplink control channel. The physical uplink control channel carries a first encoded bit sequence and a second encoded bit sequence, the first encoded bit sequence is corresponding to first uplink control information, and the second encoded bit sequence is corresponding to second uplink control information. The resource for the physical uplink control channel includes N orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol sets. The first encoded bit sequence is carried in an OFDM symbol included in j OFDM symbol sets, the j OFDM symbol sets are a part of or all of of the N OFDM symbol sets, where j is a positive integer less than or equal to N. The terminal device sends, on the resource for the physical uplink control channel, a signal that is generated based on the first uplink control information and the second uplink control information.
US12101749B2
The present disclosure discloses control channel monitoring capability determining methods, a User Equipment (UE) and a network device, applicable to a communication system. One of the methods is applied in a UE and includes: receiving a resource configuration of a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH); and determining, based on the resource configuration of the PDCCH, a first target PDCCH monitoring capability corresponding to a first span combination and a second target PDCCH monitoring capability corresponding to a second span combination. The first span combination and the second span combination are applicable to a same time domain unit, and the first target PDCCH monitoring capability and the second target PDCCH monitoring capability are independent from each other.
US12101747B2
This application discloses a communication method and an apparatus. A principle of the method is as follows: A spreading factor of a spreading block is adjusted based on available resource elements REs in a time-frequency resource block, then, the spreading block is generated by using the adjusted spreading factor, and finally, the generated spreading block is mapped to the available resource elements in the time-frequency resource block for sending. In this way, a requirement that “locations of spreading blocks of a plurality of users need to be aligned” can be satisfied, and no complex symbol is discarded, so that detection performance of the spreading blocks is ensured.
US12101744B2
Methods, systems, and devices for signaling quasi-co-location information in mobile communication technology are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes transmitting, from a first communication node and to a second communication node, a signal according to a beam set that comprises a first subset of B beams selected from a pool of beams, wherein B is positive integer. In an example, a beam of the beam set comprises one or more channel property assumptions, one or more reference signals (RSs), one or more RS sets, one or more spatial relation states, one or more quasi-co-location (QCL) states, one or more transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state, one or more spatial domain filters or one or more pre-coding filters.
US12101737B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for paging occasion (PO) and paging early indication (PEI) configurations. In particular, the present disclosure provides techniques for configuring various paging parameters on different types of user equipments (UEs), including, such as, reduced capability (RedCap) UEs. For example, a network entity transmits signaling jointly configuring at least first and second types of UEs having different capabilities with a first set of paging parameters. The network entity transmits signaling that separately configures at least the first and second types of UEs with a second set of paging parameters. The network entity communicates with the first and the second types of UEs in accordance with the first and second set of paging parameters.
US12101730B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for discovering network function (NF) service producers in a hierarchical network are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by a regional NF repository function (NRF) operating in a first region of a hierarchical network, a NF registration request message from a NF service producer operating in the first region and detecting, by the regional NRF, an absence of
US12101724B2
Methods and apparatuses of power control for additional SRS are disclosed. A method at abase unit comprises transmitting power control parameters for transmitting additional SRS by higher layers; and transmitting TPC command by DCI format 3B for additional SRS.
US12101723B2
An apparatus and a method for transmission power control of the same capable of providing a good communication performance and high reliability are provided. A method for transmission power control of a first user equipment (UE) includes sending a trigger signaling to a second UE to request the second UE to report a sidelink—reference signal received power (SL-RSRP) measurement result, receiving, from the second UE, the SL-RSRP measurement report, and estimating a pathloss between the first UE and the second UE according to the reported SL-RSRP measurement result.
US12101721B2
A power control method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium are provided. A UE receives SUL carrier information sent by an NR normal base station. Power control information is obtained according to the SUL carrier information. An uplink transmission power of the UE is adjusted according to the power control information. The SUL carrier information is used to indicate that an SUL band and an NR normal band are deployed in different station sites and whether there is a target band deployed in a co-station with the SUL band. A spectrum interval between the target band and the SUL band is less than or equal to a preset threshold value. When the SUL band and the NR normal band are deployed in different station sites, the UE may determine the power control information through the SUL carrier information, thereby adjusting an uplink power control of the UE.
US12101718B2
This application discloses a link management method, applied to a terminal device. The method includes: receiving transmission configuration indicator TCI information, where the TCI information is used to indicate M TCI states of a wake-up signal WUS, and M is a positive integer; and in the case that the terminal device is in an inactive-time of connected mode discontinuous reception DRX, performing a link management operation based on the M TCI states, where the link management operation includes at least one of a beam failure detection operation and a radio link failure detection operation.
US12101717B2
A method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, indication information on a first serving cell; and performing, by the terminal device, first processing if the indication information indicates not to monitor a PDCCH, where the first processing includes at least one of the following: not monitoring a PDCCH on at least one second serving cell or not monitoring a PDCCH for the at least one second serving cell; or performing, by the terminal device, second processing if the indication information indicates to monitor a PDCCH, where the second processing includes at least one of the following: monitoring a PDCCH on at least one second serving cell or monitoring a PDCCH for the at least one second serving cell.
US12101712B2
A wireless device sends, to a network, a message indicating an enhanced steering of roaming (SOR) capability for network access information for one or more non-public networks (NPN). The wireless device receives, from the network, network access information comprising an identifier of a first NPN and a condition for whether the wireless device is allowed to access the first NPN. The wireless device sends, to the first NPN and based on the condition being met, a registration request message.
US12101708B2
A system and method for increasing bandwidth utilization of an aggregated path by a mobile terminal, the method including: establishing the aggregated path of communication with the mobile terminal, where the aggregated path includes a first path including a High Throughput Satellite (HTS) path having a first available capacity and a second path including a wireless path having a second available capacity; tracking the first and second available capacities; and updating, upon a movement of the mobile terminal, the first available capacity based on a distance of the mobile terminal from a satellite beam center of a current satellite beam; and selecting, to communicate a packet, one of the first and seconds path based on the first and the second available capacities.
US12101706B2
Systems and methods for providing a health monitoring and emergency response service are provided. Each element in a plurality of data elements is obtained from a health monitoring device connected to a corresponding subject in a plural of subjects. An alert is triggered through analysis of the data element or manually triggered by the subject or a subject's circle of support. The subject or one or more members of the circle of support of the subject verifies or rejects the alert. The alert is sent to a remote monitoring alarm center and emergency responders are dispatched.
US12101705B2
A method for optimizing PWS message reception in multi-SIM multi-standby UE and UE thereof are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving a scheduling information of SIBs containing a PWS message from a first network entity and the scheduling information of SIBs containing the PWS message from second network entity. The method checks whether a PWS message identifier is present in a primary CBS configuration list of the first SIM and if so, receives the SIBs based on the scheduling information. The method checks whether the PWS message identifier is present in a secondary CBS configuration list of the second SIM, and terminates reception of the SIBs by the second SIM when the PWS message identifier is absent. A CBS notification is sent by the first SIM, containing the PWS message to a CBS controller in the absence of error while receiving the PWS message from the SIBs.
US12101704B2
A method and system for automatically connecting one customer device with another over a Bluetooth or similar connection. The automatic connection may be made by generating a unique identifier to store on a new customer device and a backend system associated with an existing customer device and connecting the new customer device with the existing customer device using the unique identifier.
US12101701B2
A method of wireless communication by a first user equipment (UE) includes requesting multi-static channel sensing estimates from a device to establish a communications link with a second UE, and receiving the multi-static channel sensing estimates from the device. The method further includes setting communication parameters based on the multi-static channel sensing estimates. The method still further includes communicating with the second UE over the communications link based on the communication parameters.
US12101697B2
Disclosed by the present application are— a service processing method and apparatus, and an Internet of Vehicles device. The service processing method including: carrying, by a first device, indication information in a signaling part of a data packet, the indication information indicating that a first service is borne in a data part of the data packet; and transmitting the data packet through the first device.
US12101683B2
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure help to overcome environment-specific dependency issues of conventional Wi-Fi-based sensing systems, thus allowing a neural network to make better proximity predictions in an unseen environment. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12101681B2
Systems and methods for creating a database of geofences and registering geofences, with each geofence in the database being associated with an IP address, preferably an IPV6 address. Each geofence is defined using at least one geographic designator, preferably real property boundaries. Entitlements can be associated with geofences relating to permissive and prohibitive activities within the geofences.
US12101676B2
A communication apparatus includes an acquisition unit to acquire, from a base station apparatus being connected, switching information including information used for wireless communication with a movably configured base station apparatus to be a switching destination candidate, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to switch a base station apparatus to be a connection destination, and a connection unit configured to, upon determining by the determination unit to switch the base station apparatus to be the connection destination, execute connection to the base station apparatus to be the switching destination candidate on a basis of the switching information.
US12101673B2
A method and apparatus for receiving a broadcast configuration indicating when a change in a RAN function termination occurs is provided, for example, by a timer value. The broadcast configuration may be received from a satellite, blimp or other moving transmitter. A dedicated configuration may also be received from the serving cell. The dedicated configuration may include a preamble, a transient configuration and an indication of a layer 2 behavior. If a WTRU detects a change in RAN function termination, the WTRU may suspend any uplink data transmissions, apply the transient configuration and transmit the preamble to a target cell. The WTRU may synchronize with the target cell and apply the layer 2 behavior.
US12101659B2
A method includes transmitting packets of first and second traffic subflows via a first radio bearer to a second device; detecting that further packets of the second traffic subflow are to be transmitted via a second radio bearer to the second device; and transmitting a packet data unit via the first radio bearer to the second device, wherein the packet data unit includes an indication of a switch of the second traffic flow. Another method includes receiving from a first device packets of first and second traffic subflows via a first radio bearer; receiving from the first device a packet data unit including an indication that further packets of the second traffic subflow are to be received via a second radio bearer; establishing the second radio bearer between a second device and the first device; and receiving the further packets of the second traffic flow via the second radio bearer.
US12101649B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to operating an access network with multiple domains. In an example embodiment, a method for wireless communication can include receiving, at a physical resource group control function, a first message on a service-based interface provided by the physical resource group control function. The method may also include, in response to receiving the first message, transmitting, by the physical resource group control function, a second message on the service-based interface provided by the physical resource group control function.
US12101647B2
A method of wireless communication by an integrated access and backhaul network (IAB) donor transmits a configuration message on a source path to a first IAB node via a first distributed unit of the IAB donor. The method also instructs the first IAB node to delay delivery of the configuration message to a second node. The method migrates at least part of communications to the first IAB node from the source path to a target path via a second distributed unit. Another method of wireless communication is executed by a first integrated access and backhaul network (IAB) node. The method receives a first configuration message over a source path to a first IAB donor via a first distributed unit of the first IAB donor. The method also delays delivery of the first configuration message to a second node until a trigger occurs.
US12101646B2
A signal transmission method includes receiving a first positioning reference signal (PRS) resource set, receiving a second PRS resource set, and determining that N first PRS resources in the first PRS resource set and N second PRS resources in the second PRS resource set satisfy a quasi-colocation (QCL) relationship, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
US12101645B2
Some embodiments include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for using group based reporting for beam management in a 5G wireless communications system. A user equipment (UE) can determine based on a signal-to-interference-plus noise ratio (SINR) or reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement, a ranking of two or more beam combinations, and transmit the ranking to a 5G node B (gNB). The UE can receive from the gNB, a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) codepoint that identifies a combination of two or more beams, where the TCI codepoint is based at least on the ranking. The UE can receive simultaneous transmissions via the combination, and transmit a report to the gNB that identifies by the TCI codepoint, SINRs that corresponds to the combination. In some embodiments the UE can simultaneously transmit on a second combination identified by a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator (SRI) codepoint.
US12101632B2
Techniques for trusted roaming between identity federation based networks. A first wireless access point (AP) receives a roaming request from a wireless station (STA), to roam from the first AP to a second AP. The first AP is associated with a first access network provider (ANP), the second AP is associated with a second ANP, and the first ANP is different from the second ANP. Authentication information relating to the STA is transmitted from the first ANP to the second ANP using a trusted connection. The trusted connection was previously established between the first ANP and the second ANP based on a query to an identity federation to which both the first and second ANP belong. The STA is de-associated from the first AP. The STA is re-associated at the second AP using the transmitted authentication information.
US12101628B2
A technique uses a code image that is less likely to increase in size. A terminal decodes a code image to obtain a character string. The character string includes identification information to identify a communication apparatus without including a public key of the communication apparatus. The terminal obtains the public key of the communication apparatus using the identification information and performs a predetermined process to perform target communication with the communication apparatus using the obtained public key. The target communication establishes a wireless connection in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol between a pair of devices.
US12101618B2
A method for spatial audio signal encoding comprising: obtaining a plurality of audio direction parameters, wherein each parameter comprises an elevation value and an azimuth value and wherein each parameter has an ordered position; deriving for each of the plurality of audio direction parameters a corresponding derived audio direction parameter (SP) comprising an elevation and an azimuth value, corresponding derived audio direction parameters (SP) being arranged in a manner determined by a spatial utilization defined by the elevation values and the azimuth values of the plurality of audio direction parameters; rotating each derived audio direction parameter (SP) by the azimuth value (φ0) of an audio direction parameter in the first position of the plurality of audio direction parameters and quantizing the rotation to determine for each a corresponding quantized rotated derived audio direction parameter; changing the ordered position of an audio direction parameter to a further position coinciding with a position of a rotated derived audio direction parameter when the azimuth value of the audio direction parameter is closest to the azimuth value of the further rotated derived audio direction parameter compared to the azimuth values of other rotated derived audio direction parameters, followed by determining for each of the plurality audio direction parameters a difference between each audio direction parameter and their corresponding quantized rotated derived audio direction parameter; and quantizing a difference for each of the plurality of audio direction parameters, wherein a difference quantization resolution for each of the plurality of audio direction parameters is defined based on a spatial extent of the audio direction parameters.
US12101617B2
The invention provides a loudspeaker with a fin-reinforced voice coil structure, comprising a voice coil, fins, an upper magnetic conductor, and a magnetic conduction column, wherein a magnetic gap is formed between the upper magnetic conductor and the magnetic conduction column located in the center thereof; the voice coil works in the magnetic gap; wherein the inner wall of the voice coil is connected to the fins; wherein one end of each fin is connected and fixed to the inner wall of the voice coil; wherein the magnetic conduction column is provided with fin grooves for accommodating the other ends of the fins; wherein the width of the fin grooves is at least 0.2 mm greater than the thickness of the fins, so that the balance performance and the stability of the voice coil are greatly improved. The distortion is greatly reduced compared, by measurement, with the traditional voice coil.
US12101614B2
A Bluetooth communication system is provided, which comprises a Bluetooth host device and a Bluetooth device set. The connections between the Bluetooth host device and the Bluetooth device set complies with the specification of Bluetooth Low Energy Audio technology. The Bluetooth device set comprises at least a first member device and a second member device. The first member device and the second member device may be configured in a first mode wherein uplink audio signal transmission is allowed, and the connections are carried out by isochronous streaming channels respectively. The first member device transmits captured voice data to the Bluetooth host device, while the second member device does not. When an event is triggered, the first member device can notify the second member device through direct wireless connection, so that the first member device and the second member device can carry out subsequent voice input handover procedures.
US12101603B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: a housing configured to be mounted on or detached from an ear of a user, at least one processor disposed within the housing, an audio module including audio circuitry, and a sensor device including at least one sensor operatively coupled to the at least one processor and the audio module. The sensor device may be configured to: output acceleration-related data to the at least one processor through a first path of the sensor device, identify whether an utterance has been made during the output of the acceleration-related data; obtain bone conduction-related data based on the identification of the utterance; and output the obtained bone conduction-related data to the audio module through a second path of the sensor device.
US12101601B2
A microelectromechanical system microphone includes a piezoelectric diaphragm, upper inner electrodes and upper outer electrodes disposed on an upper surface of the diaphragm, and lower inner electrodes and lower outer electrodes disposed on a lower surface of the diaphragm. The diaphragm is divided into a plurality of sectors, a first of the sectors including an inner and an outer upper electrode physically disconnected from an inner and an outer upper electrode on a second sector adjacent to the first sector, and an inner and an outer lower electrode physically disconnected from an inner and an outer lower electrode on the second sector. A first via extends between and electrically couples the upper and lower inner electrodes of the first sector and a first bond pad. A second via extends between and electrically couples the upper and lower outer electrodes of the second sector and a second bond pad.
US12101600B2
A vibration apparatus may include a vibration device and an adhesive member at a surface of the vibration device. A modulus of the vibration device may be equal to a modulus of the adhesive member or may be greater than the modulus of the adhesive member.
US12101598B2
A compression driver includes a dome diaphragm having a convex surface and a concave surface and a phasing plug having a base portion with a first side and an opposed second side. The base portion first side is disposed adjacent the convex surface of the diaphragm and defines a compression chamber therebetween. The base portion includes a plurality of channels that extend therethrough from the first side to the second side for sound waves to travel through the base portion, the plurality of channels converging to form an annular exit of the compression driver.
US12101596B2
Embodiments of this application provide a speaker module and a portable electronic device. The speaker module includes a first speaker module and a second speaker module. The first speaker module includes a first housing and a first speaker monomer accommodated in the first housing, and the first speaker monomer has a first diaphragm. The second speaker module includes a second housing and a second speaker monomer accommodated in the second housing, and the second speaker monomer has a second diaphragm. The first speaker module and the second speaker module are sequentially disposed in a vertical direction, and a vibration direction of the first diaphragm is opposite to a vibration direction of the second diaphragm, so that momentum variations (mv) Δ of the speaker module are offset against each other, thereby resolving a problem that a vibration feeling is strong when the speaker module works.
US12101591B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include a headphone device which operates in various modes applying different gesture profiles based on various operational, playback, or environmental conditions. An example headphone device includes a first earbud and a second earbud communicatively coupled to each other. One or both of the earbuds include a touch-sensitive interface and a processor. The earbuds are configured to interpret a first set of gestures to the touch-sensitive interface as respective commands while operating in a first mode. Upon detecting a change in an operational condition, one or both earbuds transition to a second mode where the earbuds are configured to interpret a second set of gestures to the touch-sensitive interface as respective commands, different from the respective commands correlating to the first set of gestures to the touch-sensitive interface.
US12101589B2
The present disclosure provides an acoustic output apparatus. The acoustic output apparatus includes a speaker assembly, configured to convert an audio signal into a sound signal; an ear hook assembly, including an ear hook housing and a connecting part, the ear hook housing having an accommodating space to accommodate a battery assembly and/or a control circuit assembly, one end of the connecting part connecting to the speaker assembly, and the other end of the connecting part connecting to the ear hook housing, wherein the connecting part includes at least one first wire clamping part used to restrict a set of lead wires drawn out from the speaker assembly and extending into the accommodating space, the set of lead wires electrically connect the speaker assembly to the battery assembly and/or the control circuit.
US12101588B2
A system includes a hearing device comprising a rechargeable power source, power management circuitry, and a first charging interface comprising a first cathode contact and a first anode contact spaced apart from the first cathode contact. A charging module comprises a second charging interface configured to detachably couple with the first charging interface of the hearing device. The second charging interface comprises a second anode contact having a contact surface and a displaceable second cathode contact. An arrangement is configured to displace at least a portion of the second cathode contact above the contact surface to facilitate electrical contact between the first and second cathode contacts prior to electrical contact between the first and second anode contacts. Charging circuitry of the charging module is coupled to the second charging interface and configured to charge the rechargeable power source of the hearing device.
US12101582B2
An integrated accessory control system can integrate functionality (services) of multiple disparate accessories and provide a unified user interface for interacting with the system via a controller device. An integrated accessory control system can include one accessory that can detect an event or action and send a notification to the controller device and at least one other accessory, such as an Internet Protocol (IP) camera, that can be operated in response to the notification. In response to the notification, a controller device can generate an integrated user interface for interacting with the accessories in the integrated accessory control system. The interface can include a live feed from the IP camera, which can provide a media stream responsive to instructions from the controller.
US12101581B2
A method for recording mail screening process includes receiving, by a processor of a recording device, a first image of a mail item placed into an inspection zone of a mail screening device from a first image sensor of the mail screening device. A video stream capturing screening of the mail item is received by the processor of the recording device from a second image sensor of the mail screening device. The first image of the mail item and the video stream of the mail item are analyzed by the recording device to determine if the mail item contains a security threat. A notification is generated, by the processor of the recording device, in response to determining that the mail item contains the security threat.
US12101579B1
A live projected display panel has a traditionally configured window frame having an LED display on a first side and a camera on a second side. The device is configured to be installed where a window would normally be placed and project the outside view upon the interior LED display. Each display is in communication with a power source.
US12101572B2
Techniques are disclosed for adding time data to scan lines of an image frame. In some examples, an image sensor may perform a rolling shutter image capture to produce the scan lines. Data captured by another sensor may be associated with at least a portion of a scan line based at least in part on the time data added to the scan line in some examples. Furthermore, techniques are disclosed for synchronizing data capture by multiple sensors. For example, a rolling shutter image capture performed by an image sensor may be synchronized with a data capture performed by another sensor.
US12101560B2
A mobile imaging unit includes a 360-degree camera disposed on a golf cart, a motorized-zoom-lens-equipped camera on a motorized camera platform, a microphone, a GPS receiver, and a direction detector of a lens. The mobile imaging unit determines an imaging target area of the motorized-zoom-lens-equipped camera by using a current position and golf course map information, drives the motorized camera platform, and stores video data captured in a magnified state, with the video data being accompanied by time information and area identification information. A digest creating device selects, as video data to be subjected to image analysis and extraction of a highlight scene, either video data from the 360-degree camera or video data from the motorized-zoom-lens-equipped camera in accordance with the area identification information accompanying the stored video data.
US12101559B2
A wafer position status inspection apparatus includes a wafer transportation device, a robotic arm rotatably mounted on the wafer transportation device, an image capture device arranged on the robotic arm, a light flashing device arranged at one side of the image capture device, and a status inspection section in information connection with the image capture device. An image capturing direction of the image capture device is set consistent with a gripping direction of the robotic arm, and a light projecting direction of the light flashing device is consistent with the image capturing direction. The light flashing device projects light on a wafer to generate a light-reflecting contour, which is captured by the image capture device to form a wafer contour image based on which the status inspection section acquires a wafer deposition status to identify various wafer statuses including incline, overlap, absence, and warp.
US12101552B2
A method of remote facilities monitoring for the detection of contamination, leaks or failures in petrochemical and related facilities. Remote cameras are used to capture images of equipment to be inspected, which are transmitted to a central server. A software component on the central server applies artificial intelligence and image processing methods to detect the presence of anomalies in the images for display to an operator and potential subsequent dispatch of in person follow-up. Parallel data streams from sensors at the remote sites can be used by the software on the server to enhance the level of confidence in anomaly detection. The server software uses an adaptive object-detection function to analyze image data and learns over time to provide enhanced detection of interest regions and failure conditions.
US12101540B2
Enclosures for deep ocean or other high exterior pressure environment including a dome window with an angular measurement of between 164 and 178 degrees, a structure housing, a dome support ring, and a compliance material positioned between the dome support ring and housing are disclosed.
US12101537B2
The invention relates to an image sensor apparatus of a camera for detecting light. The image sensor apparatus comprises at least a first and a second sensor element and a carrier medium, wherein the carrier medium has a first and second input coupling region and a first and second output coupling region, wherein the first input coupling region has a first deflection structure which input couples light at a first given wavelength into the carrier medium in the direction of the first output coupling region, wherein the second input coupling region has a second deflection structure which input couples light at a second given wavelength into the carrier medium in the direction of the second output coupling region, wherein the first output coupling region has a first output coupling deflection structure which output couples the transmitted light from the carrier medium onto the first sensor element and wherein the second output coupling region has a second output coupling deflection structure which output couples the light onto the second sensor element.
US12101534B2
Aspects described herein may provide systems, methods, and device for facilitating language learning using videos. Subtitles may be displayed in a first, target language or a second, native language during display of the video. On a pause event, both the target language subtitle and the native language subtitle may be displayed simultaneously to facilitate understanding. While paused, a user may select an option to be provided with additional contextual information indicating usage and context associated with one or more words of the target language subtitle. The user may navigate through previous and next subtitles with additional contextual information while the video is paused. Other aspects may allow users to create auto-continuous video loops of definable duration, and may allow users to generate video segments by searching an entire database of subtitle text, and may allow users create, save, share, and search video loops.
US12101530B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify user presence to a meter. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions, and at least one hardware processor to execute the instructions to at least: obtain presence information from a configuration device, the configuration device separate from the apparatus, the presence information indicating that user is present at the apparatus; verify the presence information matches user information, the user information stored in a memory of the apparatus; cause a confirmation prompt to be displayed on the configuration device, the confirmation prompt to indicate the presence information was obtained by the apparatus; and store the presence information in memory.
US12101529B1
Techniques are described for facilitating client-side augmented reality overlay of secondary content during live events. Regions for overlaying secondary content are identified along with attributes for each region. A client device may then used the attributes to overlay secondary content in each region prior to playback.
US12101520B2
The disclosure provides for use of steganographically-encoded data as a basis to disambiguated a fingerprint-based channel-multimatch. A fingerprint-matching server or other entity could detect a channel-multi-match scenario by determining that query fingerprints representing media content being rendered by a content presentation device match reference fingerprints respectively representing multiple channels. In view of that detected channel-multi-match scenario, the content presentation device could then provide channel-identification information that the content presentation device extracts from a watermark that is steganographically encoded in the media content of the channel that the content presentation device is rendering, for use of the extracted channel-identification information to determine which channel the content presentation device is rendering. Identifying the channel being rendered could then facilitate channel-specific action, such as then detecting a content-modification opportunity on the identified channel and preparing and enabling the content presentation device to carry out an associated content modification.
US12101517B1
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus by which a communication system verifies uniqueness of an original PPL product and provides same in synchronization with media reproducing information on a plurality of PPL products. In particular, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus by which a communication system shares, on a blockchain network, an image containing digital tag information and a serial number photographed while content is produced, so as to verify uniqueness of an original PPL product, transmits, to a terminal of a user, information on a plurality of PPL products according to a playback time when a PPL product appears, in synchronization with the playback time of the content, and provides a purchase procedure.
US12101513B2
Provided are an electronic device and a method of operating the electronic device. The electronic device includes a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to analyze content displayed on a display to recognize a channel providing the content, execute a multi-streaming service application corresponding to the recognized channel as a background, request multi-streaming service information regarding the content from a server through the multi-streaming service application, receive the multi-streaming service information in response to the request, based on the received multi-streaming service information, display a user interface notifying that a multi-streaming service regarding the content is available, and, according to a user input received in response to the user interface, activate and execute the multi-streaming service application.
US12101510B2
A previously encoded or reconstructed version of a neighborhood of a predetermined block to be predicted is exploited so as to result into a more efficient predictive coding of the prediction block. In particular, a spectral decomposition of a region composed of this neighborhood and a first version of a predicted filling of the predetermined block results into a first spectrum which is subject to noise reduction and the thus resulting second spectrum may be subject to a spectral composition, thereby resulting in a modified version of this region including a second version of the predicted filling of the predetermined block. Owing to the exploitation of the already processed, i.e. encoded/reconstructed, neighborhood of the predetermined block, the second version of the predicted filling of the predetermined block tends to improve the coding efficiency.
US12101507B2
Methods and devices for encoding and decoding data representative of a 3D scene are disclosed. A set of first patches is generated from a first MVD content acquired from a first region of the 3D scene. A patch is a part of one of the views of the MVD content. A set of second patches is generated from a second MVD content acquired from a second region of the 3D scene. An atlas packing first and second patches is generated and associated with metadata indicating, for a patch of the atlas, whether the patch is a first or a second patch At the decoding side, first patches are used for rendering the viewport image and second patches are used for pre-processing or post-processing the viewport image.
US12101501B2
A video signal decoding device comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: obtain reference samples corresponding to a first side of a current block and reference samples corresponding to a second side of the current block, obtain a direct current (DC) value for prediction of the current block based on a reference sample set comprising at least some of the reference samples corresponding to the first side and the reference samples corresponding to the second side, and reconstruct the current block based on the DC value.
US12101500B2
A method of decoding JVET video includes receiving a bitstream and calculating a final planar prediction in planar mode to predict pixel values for a current coding block. The final planar prediction may rely on using unequal weights applied to each of a horizontal and vertical predictor, where such predictors may be generated by interpolating neighboring pixels for each predicted pixel within a coding block. The computation may be made more accurate by deriving a value for a bottom right neighboring pixel.
US12101499B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video encoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines whether a block is under a local dual tree structure, and disallows a palette based coding mode for encoding the block in response to the block being under the local dual tree structure.
US12101498B2
Embodiments of a video codec may include technology to derive a conformance point for a sub-region of coded pictures in a coded video sequence in the video data, group any combination of sub-pictures that form a rectangular region into a sub-picture set, and/or derive a level indicator corresponding to a sub-picture based on a level of the coded video sequence and a relative size of the coded picture and the sub-picture set. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12101494B2
A method of visual media processing includes determining a size of a buffer to store reference samples for prediction in an intra block copy mode; and performing a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream of the current video block, using the reference samples stored in the buffer, wherein the conversion is performed in the intra block copy mode which is based on motion information related to a reconstructed block located in same video region with the current video block without referring to a reference picture.
US12101483B2
An image decoding method is disclosed in the present specification. A method of decoding an image, the method may comprises determining whether to perform a context update for a first syntax element of a current block, updating, on the basis of the determination, a context for entropy decoding of the first syntax element and generating, on the basis of the updated context, a bin for the first syntax element, and wherein whether to perform the context update is determined on the basis of the number of pre-decoded predetermined syntax elements for the current block.
US12101479B2
Techniques related to parallel block video coding using an adaptive wavefront split are discussed. Such techniques include adaptively applying a wavefront split in a video frame based on a frame level quantization parameter of the video frame, an encode duration of a previous frame, and/or image content of the video frame.
US12101476B2
The present invention relates to a video decoding method, according to embodiment of the invention, image decoding method comprises, acquiring a reconstructed luma block of a current block, determining whether a cross-component adaptive loop filter is applied to the current block, acquiring a reconstructed chroma block of the current block, to which an adaptive loop filter is applied, when the cross-component adaptive loop filter is applied to the current block and acquiring a final reconstructed chroma block of the current block, to which the cross-component loop filter is applied, using the reconstructed luma block and the reconstructed chroma block, to which the adaptive loop filter is applied.
US12101469B2
A method and apparatus for encoding/decoding images according to the present invention may configure a prediction mode candidate group on a screen of a target block, determine a reference pixel for a prediction mode on the screen of the target block, perform at least one of filtering and interpolation on the reference pixel, and perform prediction on the screen of the target block on the basis of the prediction mode candidate group on the screen and the reference pixel.
US12101467B2
A method performs combined inter-intra prediction of a current block in video coding. The combined intra-inter-prediction is used for providing a prediction block, and the weights for the intra- and inter-prediction blocks used to obtain the prediction block can be finely tuned The method includes: determining prediction information for a neighboring block adjacent to the current block, the prediction information comprising a prediction mode used for prediction of the neighboring block, determining whether matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) is to be used for the prediction of the current block; and predicting the current block as a weighted sum of an intra-predicted block and an inter-predicted block. The weights of the inter-predicted block and the intra-predicted block are determined based on the prediction information for the neighboring block and the determining whether MIP is to be used for the prediction of the current block.
US12101445B2
An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a communicator; an image former; a storage; a packet data analyzer; and a controller which controls the communicator, the image former, the storage, and the packet data analyzer. When the communicator receives packet data of a print protocol from a user terminal, the controller causes the packet data analyzer to analyze the packet data and specify the type of operating system of the user terminal, decides on a print operation based on the print protocol associated with the operating system, and then causes the image former to form an image that the communicator has received from the user terminal.
US12101436B1
Certain exemplary aspects of the disclosure are directed to customization of alerts using telecommunications services. In one such example, a data-communications server is configured to a set of virtual office features including client-specific call routing functions available to remotely-situated client entities. The server provides a set of instructions to the client entities, with the instructions documented in a first programming language, and receives from each such client entity, client-specific sets of control data written in a second programming language. The client-specific sets of control data may specify, as examples, particular alerts, informational data and/or reminders to be provided to end-users of the respective client entity.
US12101430B2
A method at a user equipment, the method including receiving a string of indicia identifying at the user equipment, the string further comprising an indicator bit; based on the indicator bit, performing one of: determining whether the user equipment supports one or more indicium of the string of indicia and skipping display of characters corresponding to non-supported indicia; or displaying all indicium within the string of indicia. In other embodiments, utilizing a language delineator to choose a string of indicia to display or providing a language delineator to a network element and using the complete string of indicia received from a network element based on the provided language delineator.
US12101405B2
A method includes a computing device generating a virtual reality environment utilizing a group of object representations in accordance with interaction information for at least some of the object representations of the group of object representations. The method further includes the computing device outputting the virtual reality environment to a requesting entity for interactive consumption. The method further includes the computing device generating a consumption block to indicate performance aspects of the interactive consumption by the requesting entity. The method further includes the computing device causing affiliation of the consumption block with a non-fungible token (NFT) associated with the requesting entity on a blockchain of an object distributed ledger.
US12101398B2
Methods of quantum key distribution include receiving a frequency bin photon at a location, selecting a frequency bin photon quantum key distribution measurement basis, with a quantum frequency processor, performing a measurement basis transformation on the received frequency bin photon so that the frequency bin photon is measurable in the selected frequency bin photon quantum key distribution measurement basis, and detecting the frequency bin photon in the selected quantum key distribution measurement basis and assigning a quantum key distribution key value based on the detection to a portion of a quantum key distribution key. Apparatus and methods for encoding, decoding, transmitting, and receiving frequency bin photons are disclosed.
US12101397B2
A data communication method includes: processing to-be-transmitted target secret information by using a preset secret sharing algorithm to obtain a plurality of secret fragments; and distributing the plurality of secret fragments to each relay node in a first relay node layer among preset M relay node layers to transmit the plurality of secret fragments to a receiving device by means of each relay node in the M relay node layers, so that the receiving device can obtain the target secret information based on each received secret fragment under the condition that the number of the received secret fragments is greater than or equal to a preset security threshold. By applying the data communication method, in the case that the number of breached relay nodes does not exceed the preset security threshold, an attacker cannot obtain a sufficient number of secret fragments to crack the target secret information.
US12101393B2
A container corresponding to executable code may be received. In response receiving the container, an assertion value may be stored in an assertion register. A final canary value may be generated based on a cycles combining a prior canary value and a mix value. A determination may be made as to whether the final canary value matches with the assertion value stored in the assertion register. In response to determining that the final canary value matches with the assertion value, one or more privilege registers may be programmed to provide access to hardware resources for the container corresponding to the executable user code.
US12101388B2
A method for creating a normalized binary specification model may include receiving one or more existing binary information documents describing at least one of a binary communication protocol, a binary data storage format, or a binary data processing architecture; discerning relevant binary information items from within the one or more corresponding binary information documents; converting the relevant binary information items into normalized binary components; generating identifiers and assigning a respective identifier to each of the normalized binary components to produce identified normalized binary components; and creating a respective ordered list for each of the normalized binary components.
US12101371B2
A non-volatile digital storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a server system, establish on the server system computer processes for implementing a method of providing a server-based feature cloud model of a realm, the method comprising: receiving by a server a series of digital contributions that collectively originate from a plurality of remote computing devices, each digital contribution characterizing a defined and distinct three-dimensional volume of the realm, wherein each distinct three-dimensional volume includes a portion that does not overlap any other three-dimensional volume; processing by the server of each one of the received digital contributions to associate such contribution with a global coordinate system; and storing and integrating each of the processed contributions in a realm model database so as to provide the feature cloud model of the realm stored on the server.
US12101369B2
A first device receives information indicating changed network conditions for a network supporting a call with a second device at a first audio bit rate, and provides, to the second device, a packet instructing use of a second audio bit rate. The first device starts a timer associated with receiving an indication that the second device is using the second audio bit rate, and receives, from the second device, a response packet at the first audio bit rate. The first device determines that the timer has expired, and provides, to the second device, additional packets instructing use of the second audio bit rate. The first device determines that a threshold quantity of additional packets have been provided to the second device, and re-negotiates the second audio bit rate with the second device. The first device continues the call with the second device at the second audio bit rate.
US12101348B2
A cybersecurity system and method for handling a cybersecurity event includes identifying a cybersecurity alert; selectively initializing automated threat intelligence workflows based on computing a cybersecurity alert type, wherein the automated threat intelligence workflows include a plurality of automated investigative tasks that, when executed by one or more computers, derive cybersecurity alert intelligence data; and executing the plurality of automated investigative tasks includes automatically sourcing a corpus of investigative data; deriving the cybersecurity alert intelligence data based on extracting selective pieces of data from the corpus of investigative data, wherein the cybersecurity alert intelligence data informs an inference of a cybersecurity alert severity of the cybersecurity alert; and automatically routing the cybersecurity alert to one of a plurality of distinct threat mitigation or threat disposal routes based on the cybersecurity alert severity of the cybersecurity alert.
US12101341B2
Embodiments are disclosed for a method for a security model. The method includes identifying a security threat attack to a security domain by generating a Bloch sphere based on a system information and event management (STEM) of the security domain and a security threat attack framework. The attack is non-linear. Identifying the attack also includes generating a quantum state probabilities matrix (QSPM) based on the Bloch sphere. Further, identifying the attack includes training a security threat model to perform classifications based on the QSPM. Additionally, identifying the attack includes performing a classification of the security domain that identifies a first attack method using the security threat model. Identifying the attack further includes performing a second classification of the security domain that identifies a second attack method. The second attack method follows a non-linear path from the first attack method along the security threat attack framework.
US12101334B2
A threat management system stores an attack matrix characterizing tactics and techniques, and provides threat detection based on patterns of traversal of the attack matrix. Where the threat management system provides a data lake of security events and a query interface for using the data lake to investigate security issues, useful inferences may also be drawn by comparing query activity in the query interface with the patterns of traversal of the attack matrix, such as by using a malicious pattern of traversal to identify a concurrent chain of queries indicative of a threat, or by presenting separate threat scores to an analyst based on query activity and patterns of traversal.
US12101332B1
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for a federated tactical edge cloud. The federated tactical edge cloud systems and methods preferably utilize serverless computing, blockchain, content addressing, conflict-free replicated data types, and notarization or authentication of data blocks to provide data authentication and integrity. The federated tactical edge cloud is operable to access and process data from a plurality of sensors and/or a plurality of edge devices.
US12101325B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing customer resource telemetry and use as a service. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive, from a user, a request to access at least one network-accessible resource associated with a customer of a service provider, the user being unassociated and unrelated with the customer; might identify at least one of a user identification, a company, or a class of user associated with the user; might determine whether at least one resource record associated with the customer indicates that the user has permission to access the at least one network-accessible resource, based on the identification. If so, the computing system might provide the user with access to the at least one network-accessible resource associated with the customer. If not, the computing system might deny, to the user, access to the at least one network-accessible resource associated with the customer.
US12101324B2
A computer system for controlling access to digital data and algorithms, including a multitude of local systems provided at a plurality of remote locations. At least a first subset of the multitude of local systems comprises at least one data acquisition device adapted to generate and provide raw digital data. At least a second subset of the multitude of local systems comprises at least one data processing unit having a memory with a memory capacity and a processor with a computing capacity to process raw digital data to generate processed digital data to be presented to one or more of a plurality of users of the system. The system also includes a filter system, wherein at least one filter is assigned at each local system, each filter having a filter setting for restricting and prohibiting data transfer between the assigned local system and other local systems.
US12101321B2
Responsive to a start-up of an instance of a cloud-based computing environment, metadata that is stored in a virtual trusted platform module (vTPM) is accessed. The metadata represents configuration parameters for the instance, and the configuration parameters include a security credential. The instance is configured based on the metadata. The configuration includes configuring an access control of the instance with the security credential.
US12101320B2
A disclosed method for managing access control in cloud based environment with on-premises and off-premises access portals includes storing account mapping information, indicative of an association between on-premises accounts off-premises accounts, to a lockbox in each of the plurality of clusters and deploying an off-premises agent in each of the clusters. One or more of the clusters may exist within a hyper-converged infrastructure system. Each off-premises agent may be configured to retrieve cluster access information indicative of access permissions for the on-premises node cluster and upload the cluster access information to an off-premises access control service. The access permissions for the on-premises cluster and the off-premises access permissions may comprise role based access permissions. The off-premises access control service is coupled to an off-premises portal and enables the off-premises portal to switch its access control permissions between on-premises access permissions and off-premises permissions in accordance with the targeted resource.
US12101319B2
A computing device includes a memory and a processor configured to cooperate with the memory to receive a connection lease and a token from a client device, with the token being generated responsive to the client device completing multi-factor authentication (MFA) with a provider of MFA. The processor further verifies, responsive to unavailability of the provider of MFA, that the client device has previously performed MFA based upon the token, and connect the client device to a computing session with use of the connection lease and responsive to the verification that the client device has performed MFA.
US12101314B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for mitigating computing latency associated with proving of possession of network endpoints. One system includes (i) a user device, e.g., a smartphone or a personal computer, (ii) a proof of possession service running on one or more computers, and (iii) an authorization service running on one or more computers.
US12101313B2
Apparatus and methods for automatically authenticating a user at a second website after authenticating the user at a first website is provided. The authentication system may include a validation engine running on a first website for validating user login credentials received at the first website. The authentication system may include a web beacon triggered by the second website in response to the validating that, when triggered, scans each website accessed by the user to determine if the website is a login page. The authentication system may also include a password generation application that determines if a URL accessed by the user is included in a permission ledger and, in response to a determination that the permission ledger includes the URL, executes steps to authenticate the password generation application and the user to the second website.
US12101312B2
A system for pre-authenticating a user runs a web-based browser or dedicated application associated with an entity with which the user holds at least one account; performs basic authentication; performs elevated authentication corresponding (i) to an elevated level of remote user access to the at least one account and (ii) access to a pre-authenticated teleconference session.
US12101310B2
Techniques described herein are directed toward enabling a transfer of access rights for an electronic device between users. In embodiments a transferee device may receive a first request to obtain access rights for an electronic device associated with a transferor device. The transferor device may receive a second request to grant access rights for the electronic device. Embodiments may include receiving, at the transferee device, a device key associated with the electronic device and storing the device key in association with the electronic device. Embodiments may further include issuing a command from at least one of the transferee or transferor devices to unlock the electronic device, and causing the electronic device to comply with the command to unlock if the at least one of the transferee or transferor devices that issues the command has access to the device key when the command is issued.
US12101301B1
The present technology can allow a user to use the OpenID Connect protocol to login to an account that has an anonymous user account ID. More specifically, the present technology can programmatically combine information received from an OpenID provider during the OpenID Connect protocol with a random value to yield a unique anonymous user account ID. The present technology also makes use of the ability within the OpenID Connect protocol to embed a chosen nonce into the token signed by the OpenID provider. This allows for embedding hashes of cryptographic keys, like signature verification keys, into ID tokens received from the OpenID provider that authenticates the user. Subsequently, the user can sign messages that can be verified using the verification key bound to the ID token from the OpenID provider.
US12101300B2
A system for telemedicine diagnostics through remote sensing includes a computing device configured to initiate a communication interface between the computing device and a client device operated by a human subject, wherein the secure communication interface includes an audiovisual streaming protocol, receive, from at least a remote sensor at the human subject, a plurality of current physiological data, generate a clinical measurement approximation as a function of the change of a first discrete and a second discrete set of current physiological data, wherein generating further comprises receiving approximation training data correlating physiological data with clinical measurement data, training a measurement approximation model as a function of the training data and a machine-learning process, and generating the clinical measurement approximation as a function of the current physiological data and the measurement approximation model, and presenting the clinical measurement approximation to a user of the computing device using the secure communication interface.
US12101290B2
The present invention relates to a cheering communication apparatus, and the cheering communication apparatus includes: a menu identifier configured to identify any one menu selected by a user among a plurality of menus as a selected menu; and a controller configured to, in response to the identification, control a screen corresponding to the selected menu to be displayed on a screen of a user terminal possessed by the user, wherein, in a case where the selected menu is a Text menu, the controller provides a text writing screen, and in a case where, after cheering-related text information is input on the text writing screen, a request to send the cheering-related text information is made, for a receiver in the text information to check a text message corresponding to the text information, the controller sends the text message to a receiver terminal corresponding to an account of the receiver.
US12101286B2
A method and a system for providing a location-based content-linking icon based on a discussion content category, and a computer-readable recording medium are provided. The system includes a server having a database and a linking-icon library. When the server receives location data from a user device, a geographic range can be determined. After querying the database according to the geographic range, one or more location-based contents correlated with a geographic location within the geographic range can be obtained. Afterwards, the linking-icon library is queried for obtaining the location-based content-linking icon that is used to be marked at the geographic location on a graphical user interface according to the category of the one or more location-based contents. The location-based content-linking icon is dynamically updated when the category of the one or more location-based contents is changed.
US12101282B1
A computing device, a computer program product, and a computer-implemented method for delivering enhanced financial services and, more particularly, for facilitating enhanced network communication between a user and a financial institution via a client device. A digital financial management platform for the client device includes a chat support platform that facilitates an enhanced user chat experience by enabling the dynamic modification of the general aesthetic appearance or configuration of the chat window by user command or request contemporaneously with a virtual chat communication session between a virtual support agent of a financial institution and a user on a client device.
US12101280B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for providing responses in an event-related session. The event is associated with a predefined domain, and the session comprises an electronic conversational agent and at least one participant. At least one message from the at least one participant may be detected. A set of candidate responses may be retrieved, from an index set being based on the domain, according to the at least one message. The set of candidate responses may be optimized through filtering the set of candidate responses according to predetermined criteria. A response to the at least one message may be selected from the filtered set of candidate responses. The selected response may be provided in the session.
US12101278B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a node used for wireless communications. A first node receives a first reporting configuration and a first signaling; and transmits a first information block. The first signaling indicates a first transmission configuration state; the first information block comprises a reporting for the first reporting configuration; the first reporting configuration comprises N resource configurations; the N resource configurations respectively correspond to N first-type indexes; the first transmission configuration state corresponds to a first index; the first index is used to determine a first resource configuration; a measurement on reference signal resource(s) only in the first resource configuration among the N resource configurations is used to generate the first information block. The above method ensures that a TCI state of reference signals constantly matches with configuration information with the beams being dynamically updated.
US12101273B2
A method for control channel transmission, comprising: configuring at least one search space group (SSG) containing at least two different search space sets; configuring at least one control resource set (CORESET) confined within one subband among the plurality of subbands; associating said at least one SSG with said at least one CORESET, the associated CORESET becoming a reference CORESET; associating the reference CORESET and at least one frequency shifted CORESET of the reference CORESET confined within at least another subband among the plurality of subbands, with said at least two different search space sets; the reference CORESET and the at least one frequency shifted CORESET sharing the same CORESET index; performing a listen before talk procedure over each subband of the plurality of subbands to detect available subbands; transmitting, within available subbands, a control channel within the reference CORESET and the at least one frequency shifted CORESET.
US12101265B2
A method and network node for dual connectivity for a wireless device are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method in a network node is provided for use in a dual connectivity mode to communicate with wireless devices (WDs), according to a first radio access technology (RAT), and to communicate with WDs according to a second RAT is provided. The method includes scheduling uplink and downlink signals to be transmitted and received by a first set of WDs such that the first set of WDs are operable to: receive downlink signals and transmit uplink (UL) signals using the first RAT only in even Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs) of the first RAT; and transmit uplink signals using the second RAT only in in UL TTIs of the second RAT that do not collide with even TTIs of the first RAT.
US12101263B2
The present disclosure suggests to expand and improve the method of utilizing channel resources in the 802.11be standard by allowing the use of multiple and non-contiguous portions of a channel. Supporting multiple resource units (MRUs) and non-contiguous resource units (RUs) improves the channel utilization by making it more efficient due to enhancing the capability of leveraging the channel selectivity. To this end, a wireless network device for resource allocation is provided and configured to define a non-contiguous MRU in the bandwidth of the channel. The channel includes a plurality of RUs, and the non-contiguous MRU is defined based on non-punctured RUs after puncturing one or more of the RUs of the channel, and/or is defined by aggregating two or more non-adjacent RUs of the channel.
US12101259B2
Provided are a data transmission control method and device and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The data transmission control method includes: determining a multiple and a remainder according to a total data size of to-be-transmitted data and a set byte size, where the multiple is equal to a quotient obtained by dividing the total data size by the set byte size, and the remainder is equal to a remainder obtained by dividing the total data size by the set byte size; sequentially transmitting data whose size is the set byte size multiplied by the multiple in the to-be-transmitted data by transmitting data of the set byte size each time; and in response to the remainder being not zero, transmitting remaining data whose size is the remainder in the to-be-transmitted data.
US12101256B1
A method of managing connections to one or more servers in a multi-tenancy computing environment is provided. At a multi-tenancy connection manager responsible for managing connections for multiple tenants of the multi-tenancy computing environment, a plurality of connection pools is configured, each for use by a respective one of the multiple tenants. A connection request is received from a tenant of the multiple tenants. The tenant is identified based on the connection request. Management rules for managing a connection pool that is associated with the identified tenant are obtained. It is determined whether the management rules permit execution of the connection request. In response to a positive determination, the connection request is executed. In response to a negative determination, the connection request is throttled, to preserve and maintain a quality of service provided.
US12101240B2
A network device determines whether a one-step timestamping method or a two-step timestamping method is to be used for transmission of a first packet. A first processor of the network device transfers to a second processor of the network device, i) a timing message to be included in the first packet, and ii) information that indicates the determined timestamping method. In response to the information from the first processor indicating that the one-step timestamping method is to be used, the second processor transmits the first packet with timing information embedded in the first packet. In response to the information from the first processor indicating that the two-step timestamping method is to be used, the second processor stores the timing information in a memory of the network device for subsequent inclusion in a second packet that is to be transmitted after transmitting the first packet, and transmits the first packet.
US12101238B2
A method for implementing transmission performance detection includes: after successively receiving data packets whose sequence numbers are N1 and N2, determining, by a detection apparatus, that N2 is greater than N1 and that N1 and N2 are inconsecutive; after receiving the data packet whose sequence number is N2, receiving a data packet whose sequence number is M1; and when determining N1
US12101234B2
A method includes generating, by a processor, a network slice bundle universally unique identifier (slice_bundle_UUID) for a network slice bundle; and generating, by the processor, a slice catalog slice_bundle_UUID, based on the slice_bundle_UUID, for use by a slice catalog; parsing and locating in the slice catalog, by the processor, one or more stored network service bundle references, based on a network service UUID (NS_UUID) referenced in the network slice bundle; and creating, by the processor, a relationship between one or more stored network services in the slice catalog and the network slice bundle.
US12101227B2
In an example, a validation system comprises processing circuitry having access to a storage device and is configured to obtain flow records indicative of packet flows among workloads deployed to a cluster of one or more computing devices configured with a network policy, wherein each flow record of the flow records indicates a corresponding packet flow was allowed or denied by the cluster; receive an updated network policy; determine whether a corresponding packet flow for a flow record of the flow records has a discrepancy with the updated network policy; and in response to determining the corresponding packet flow for the flow record of the flow records has a discrepancy with the updated network policy, output an indication of an error.
US12101223B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as spmart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method includes a method for configuring a base station in a telecommunication network. The base station includes a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU). The CU is arranged to perform virtualized network functions (VNFs). The CU includes an artificial intelligence (AI) engine operable to learn from computational metrics and to adjust the configuration of various VNFs, wherein an F1 interface is used to exchange computational metrics between the CU and the DU.
US12101215B2
Aspects are provided which allow for a network entity such as a base station to configure odd modulation orders to be applied to downlink or uplink transmissions via signaling between the network entity and the UE. Initially, the network entity transmits a configuration to the UE indicating network support for communications using odd order modulation. Afterwards, the UE transmits, and the network entity receives, data in a signal using the odd order modulation. As a result, improved SPEF, PAPR reduction, and phase noise mitigation associated with odd order modulations may be realized through application of odd order modulations to data transmissions or receptions based on network support being configured for such odd order modulations.
US12101213B2
An apparatus includes a coder configured to generate a first coded bit sequence by error correction coding of a bit sequence of uplink control information, a rate matcher configured to generate a second coded bit sequence by applying a prescribed amount Cs of cyclic shift to the first coded bit sequence for an s-th uplink channel instance of S uplink channel instances, and a transmitter configured to transmit the second coded bit sequence by using the s-th uplink channel instance. The prescribed amount Cs is determined based on at least some or all of a prescribed amount Cs−1 for an (s−1)-th uplink channel instance, the number of OFDM symbols included in the (s−1)-th uplink channel instance, and the number Nblockbit of coded bits mapped per OFDM symbol.
US12101211B2
Proposed are a method and device for performing sensing in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a transmission STA generates a frame. The transmission STA transmits the frame to a reception STA in a 60 GHz band. The frame includes an EDMGHeader-A field. A reserved bit of the EDMG-Header-A field includes a packet classification descriptor. The packet classification descriptor includes information indicating that the frame is a sensing frame used for sensing.
US12101207B2
A communication apparatus and an associated method are disclosed. The communication apparatus includes differential input ports; a signal pairing circuit, arranged for coupling the differential input ports to a receiving circuit, wherein when the signal pairing circuit operates in a first mode, a positive input port and a negative input port of the differential input ports correspondingly electrically couple to a positive input terminal and a negative input terminal of the receiving circuit, when the signal pairing circuit operates in a second mode, the positive input port and the negative input port of the differential input ports correspondingly electrically couple to the negative input terminal and the positive input terminal of the receiving circuit; a processor circuit, arranged for determining whether the decoded signal includes a specific code before the timer is time out and generating a determination result; and control the signal pairing circuit according to the determination result.
US12101200B2
A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request to access a portion of a building graph of the building from a system, the building graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, the plurality of nodes representing entities of the building and the plurality of edges representing relationships between the entities of the building. The instructions cause one or more processors to determine whether the system has access to the portion of the building graph based on a policy indicated by the plurality of nodes and edges of the building graph and provide the portion of the building graph to the system in response to a determination that the system has access to the portion of the building graph.
US12101198B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media related to display configuration for a communications session. The system assigns a display location for each of multiple meeting participants. A meeting participant is associated with an unique identifier of the meeting participant. A user interface configured to display meeting participants at display locations is displayed. After a particular meeting participant has joined a first video conferencing session, the user interface display the particular meeting participant at their assigned display location.
US12101193B2
A method for downlink feedback indication processing perfumed by a user equipment includes: receiving (210) from a base station a downlink feedback indication (DFI) signal, where the DFI signal comprises an ACK/NACK indication associated with a first HARQ process defined for a transmission to the base station of an uplink data packet using time slot aggregation. A user equipment is also provided.
US12101190B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for determining a transmission priority and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes that a transmitter determines a priority of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process and that the transmitter transmits at least one of a traffic channel or a control channel according to the priority of the HARQ process.
US12101177B2
A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives information related to a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) of a terminal according to an old release; and a control section that performs control of applying rate match or puncture to a specific channel or signal regarding a resource of the CSI-RS of the terminal according to the old release. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, even when there are terminals according to different releases, each of the terminals can appropriately perform communication.
US12101166B2
The present invention provides a method of operating a user equipment, UE device in communication with a non-terrestrial communication system comprising a plurality of transmission points, the method comprising in the UE device triggering a transmission of a measurement report dependent on a measurement by the UE device of a received signal parameter of a signal received from a transmission point of the system and a comparison of the measured parameter with a threshold, the threshold varying according to a predetermined function dependent on an expected position of the UE device with respect to the transmission point.
US12101163B2
Radio frequency signal boosters serving as outdoor cellular infrastructure are provided. In certain embodiments, a signal booster system for a high frequency cellular network includes a parabolic base station antenna configured to receive a downlink signal of a frequency band higher than 20 gigahertz and to transmit an amplified uplink signal of the frequency band, booster circuitry configured to amplify an uplink signal to generate the amplified uplink signal and to amplify the downlink signal to generate an amplified downlink signal, and a mobile station antenna configured to receive the uplink signal and to transmit the amplified downlink signal.
US12101156B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for multiple antenna systems. A method implemented at a network device may include: transmitting at least one reference signal to at least one user equipment by using at least one muting sequence of an antenna array; receiving measurement results of the at least one reference signal corresponding to the at least one muting sequence from the at least one user equipment; selecting one muting sequence from the at least one muting sequence based on the measurement results; and applying the selected muting sequence of the antenna array.
US12101155B2
A user equipment may be configured to perform UE indication to temporarily suspend report occasions. In some aspects, the user equipment may receive report configuration information from a base station, the report configuration information identifying a report parameter to provide in a channel state information (CSI) report, and determine a predicted value of the report parameter based on a plurality of historic measurements. Further, the user equipment may determine to suspend transmission of the report parameter based on the predicted value, and transmit a report suspension message to the base station, the report suspension message indicating that the UE has implemented a temporary suspension of reporting of the report parameter in the CSI report.
US12101150B2
A system for transmitting millimeter wave signals comprising at least one repeater for communicating with a plurality of remote locations over millimeter wave communications links. The at least one repeater further comprises orbital angular momentum (OAM) processing circuitry for applying a selected orbital angular momentum to transmitted signals. The selected orbital angular momentum limits interference between the transmitted signals and the received signals at the at least one repeater. Full-duplex transmission circuitry processes the transmitted signals and the received signals received over the millimeter wave communications links using full-duplex communications with the plurality of remote locations. The at least one repeater relays the millimeter wave signals between at least a first millimeter wave transceiver at a first one of the plurality of remote locations and a second millimeter wave transceiver at a second one of the plurality of remote locations.
US12101142B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable storage media of communication. A network device transmits, to a terminal device, channel state information reference signals associated with first number of ports at the network device; receives, from the terminal device, compressed channel state information generated based on capability of the terminal device; and recoveries, from the compressed channel state information, channel state information associated with second number of ports at the network device, the second number of ports being not less than the first number of ports. The terminal device receives, from the network device, the channel state information reference signals associated with the first number of ports at the network device; determines channel state information based on the channel state information reference signals; compresses the channel state information based on capability of the terminal device; and transmits the compressed channel state information to the network device for recovery of the channel state information associated with the second number of ports. As such, CSI can be acquired more accurately with reduced complexity and overhead.
US12101141B2
Systems and methods for broadcast/multicast transmission in a distributed cell-free massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for broadcasting/multicasting data to User Equipments (UEs) comprises, at each Access Point (AP) of two or more APs, obtaining long-term Channel State Information (CSI) for a UE(s) and communicating the long-term CSI for the UE to a central processing system. The method further comprises, at the central processing system, receiving the long-term CSI for the UE from each AP, computing a precoding vector (w) for the UE(s) across the APs based on the long-term CSI, and communicating the precoding vector (w) to the APs. The method further comprises, at each AP, obtaining the precoding vector (w) from the central processing system, precoding data to be broadcast/multicast to the UE(s) based on the precoding vector (w), and broadcasting/multicasting the precoded data to the UE(s).
US12101136B2
Methods and apparatus for gathering research data indicating exposure to media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first wireless receiver to access a first modulated audio signal via a wireless data connection from a media device using a wireless communication protocol, the first modulated audio signal associated with the media, the first wireless receiver to output a baseband audio signal corresponding to the first modulated audio signal. The example apparatus includes a first wireless transmitter to modulate the baseband audio signal to form a second modulated audio signal, the first wireless transmitter to transmit the second modulated audio signal to wireless headphones using the wireless communication protocol. The example apparatus includes a monitoring device to receive the baseband audio signal, and to generate research data identifying the media, the media device including a second wireless transmitter to transmit the first modulated audio signal to the first wireless receiver, and the wireless headphones including a second wireless receiver to receive the second modulated audio signal from the first wireless transmitter.
US12101126B1
An optical coherent receiver includes a 90-degree optical hybrid configured to receive an input signal and a reference signal, and mix the input signal with four quadrature states associated with the reference signal to generate four output signals. The 90-degree optical hybrid includes a plurality of 3-dB couplers; and a plurality of optical waveguides, wherein each optical waveguide of the plurality of optical waveguides couples two respective 3-dB couplers of the plurality of 3-dB couplers, and wherein each optical waveguide of the plurality of optical waveguides has a same optical path length. Each optical waveguide of the plurality of optical waveguides is dimensioned according to a figure of merit (FoM) to reduce a phase error.
US12101125B2
The invention relates to a method and apparatus of operating a bidirectional optical transmission link. The optical transmission link includes a first and a second optical transceiver at a dedicated end of the optical transmission link and an optical path connecting the first and second optical transceiver. The optical transceivers apply the methods of converting an electrical digital transmit signal into an electrical PAM-n transmit signal, pre-emphasizing the electrical PAM-n transmit signal) by digital filtering and using the pre-emphasized electrical PAM-n signal2) as modulating signal for optically modulating an optical carrier signal. The optical modulation method deployed is configured to create an optical PAM-n transmit signal with a positive or negative chirp. For initializing the optical transmission link (100), an initialization process is performed in which at least one loop including the following steps is run through creating, in the first optical transceiver, an optical PAM-n training transmit signal and transmitting it to the second optical transceiver, the optical PAM-n training transmit signal being created using an electrical PAM-n training transmit signal including a binary training sequence. Initial values for filter parameters are used for pre-emphasizing the electrical PAM-n training transmit signal and an initial value is used for a chirp parameter that defines the positive or negative chirp of the optical PAM-n training transmit signal receiving, in the second optical transceiver, the optical PAM-n training transmit signal as an optical PAM-n training receive signal using direct detection. The optical PAM-n training receive signal is converted into an electrical PAM-n training receive signal. The method includes obtaining sampled values of the electrical PAM-n training receive signal (RPel,1) by sampling this signal at predetermined points in time; and using the sampled values obtained and corresponding sampled values of an ideal electrical PAM-n transmit signal to determine operating values for the filter parameters and an operating value for the chirp parameter.
US12101120B1
A method for chromatic dispersion pre-compensation in an optical communication network includes (1) distorting an original modulated signal according to an inverse of a transmission function of the optical communication network, to generate a compensated signal, (2) modulating a magnitude of an optical signal in response to a magnitude of the compensated signal, and (3) modulating a phase of the optical signal, after modulating the magnitude of the optical signal, in response to a phase of the compensated signal.
US12101116B2
A system for correcting phase noise and/or drift includes an optical signal module, at least one optical transport module, at least one sampling module, an analysis circuit, and a measurement instrument. The optical signal module is capable of outputting a modulated optical signal. The at least one optical signal transport module includes a beam splitter capable of separating at least backward travelling waves based on polarization. The at least one optical signal transport module further includes a partially reflecting reflector capable of creating a backward travelling wave, the partially reflecting reflector being located after the polarization rotator. The at least one sampling module is configured to receive and sample the backward travelling wave created by the partially reflecting reflector and forwarded to the at least one sampling module by the beam splitter, thereby obtaining an electric correction signal. The analysis circuit is configured to correct measurement data obtained by the measurement instrument based on the electric correction signal.
US12101111B2
A small cell access node includes a housing, a radio module, a power supply module, and one or more antennas coupled to the radio module. The housing includes a floor and at least one sidewall extending around a perimeter of the floor. An air intake section of the sidewall is located at a first lengthwise end of the floor and defines an air intake port. An air exhaust section of the sidewall is located at a second lengthwise end of the floor and defines an air exhaust port. The floor includes a two floor portions residing primarily in different planes and an angled transition portion interconnecting the two floor portions. The transition portion defines an air and water exhaust port to allow water that enters the housing through the air intake and air exhaust ports, such as from wind-driven rain, to drain out of the housing.
US12101104B2
A delta-sigma modulator includes a quantizer, a signal propagation path including a plurality of cascaded integrators coupled between the input node and the quantizer, and a feedback network including a plurality of digital-to-analog converters. In a calibration mode of operation, a first digital-to-analog converter of the plurality of digital-to-analog converters of the feedback network receives a signal including a periodic alternated digital sequence, the first digital-to-analog converter being coupled to a first integrator of the plurality of cascaded integrators, integrators of the plurality of cascaded integrators other than the first integrator operate in a gain mode of operation, the delta-sigma modulator generates a digital test signal at an output of the quantizer based on the signal including the periodic alternated digital sequence, and calibration circuitry generates a calibration signal based on the digital test signal and a reference digital word.
US12101102B2
A decoding method includes: decoding first to-be-decoded information based on a first decoder to obtain a first decoding result that includes first soft information or a first hard output; and correcting the first decoding result based on a first correction model to obtain a corrected first decoding result of the first to-be-decoded information. The first correction model is obtained through training based on training data that includes a training decoding result and a corrected training decoding result. The training decoding result is a decoding result obtained after the first decoder decodes training to-be-decoded information, and the corrected training decoding result is a corrected decoding result corresponding to the training decoding result. In this way, after a decoder performs decoding, a decoding result can be corrected based on a correction model.
US12101085B1
This application relates to methods and apparatus for multichannel drivers for driving transducers in different channels. A multichannel driver has a plurality of output stages configured such that two output nodes can be modulated between selected switching voltages with a controlled duty cycle to generate a differential output signal across a respective transducer, each output stage being operable with different switching voltages in different modes of operation. A first set of two or more of the output stages are arranged to receive a voltage output by a capacitive voltage generator to use as a switching voltage. A controller is configured to control the mode of operation and duty-cycle of each of the output stages based on a respective input signal and also based on operation of the other output stages of the first set.
US12101084B2
A driver circuit includes a differential pair of transistors that amplify differential input signals and output the amplified differential input signals from signal output terminals, a current source that supplies a constant current to the differential pair of transistors, a switch that stops the current supply from the current source to the differential pair of transistors during a shutdown mode period, capacitors each having one end connected to the ground, a switch that connects the capacitor to the signal output terminal during the shutdown mode period and disconnects the capacitor from the signal output terminal during an amplification mode period, and a switch that connects the capacitor to the signal output terminal during the shutdown mode period and disconnects the capacitor from the signal output terminal during the amplification mode period.
US12101083B2
A gate driver circuit includes a pulse generator that receives an input signal and generates a pulse signal in response to a switch-on command included in the input signal. The pulse signal has a pulse with a pulse length that is dependent on a level of a pulse control signal. The circuit further includes a sampling circuit that samples an output voltage subsequent to the pulse and stores a respective sampled value, and a controller that receives the sampled value of the output voltage and a reference voltage and updates the level of the pulse control signal based on the sampled value and the reference voltage. A driver circuit generates the output voltage based on the pulse signal.
US12101078B2
Acoustic filters and methods of fabricating acoustic filters are disclosed. A filter includes a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having a front surface and a back surface attached to a substrate, and a plurality of acoustic resonators including a first shunt resonator, a second shunt resonator, and one or more series resonators. Each of the plurality of acoustic resonators includes an interdigital transducer (IDT) formed on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate, interleaved fingers of the IDT disposed on a respective diaphragm formed by a portion of the piezoelectric plate that spans a cavity in the substrate. A frequency setting dielectric layer is formed over the first and second shunt resonators but not over the one or more series resonators. The frequency setting dielectric layer has a thickness t1 on the first shunt resonator and a thickness t2 on the second shunt resonator, where t1 is not equal to t2.
US12101077B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a bulk acoustic wave device with a multi-layer raised frame. The bulk acoustic wave device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a piezoelectric layer positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a multi-layer raised frame structure configured to cause lateral energy leakage from a main acoustically active region of the bulk acoustic wave device to be reduced. The multi-layer raised frame structure includes a first raised frame layer embedded in the piezoelectric layer and a second raised frame layer. The first raised frame layer has a lower acoustic impedance than the piezoelectric layer.
US12101076B2
Disclosed is an acoustic wave resonator comprising a substrate material formed of aluminum nitride (AlN) doped with one or more of beryllium (Be), strontium (Sr), and sodium (Na) to enhance performance of the acoustic wave resonator.
US12101074B2
A multilayer circuit board with an LC resonant circuit that has an electronic component package including the multilayer circuit board with the LC resonant circuit are provided. The multilayer circuit board with the LC resonant circuit configured by alternately laminating conductive layers and insulating resin layers on both sides of a core substrate includes a first set of wiring lines, a set of vias, and a second set of wiring lines. The first set of wiring lines configures both ends of the LC resonant circuit and is formed in a first one of the conductive layers. The set of vias extends through the insulating resin layers. The second set of wiring lines is connected to an input/output terminal of the LC resonant circuit and is formed in a second one of the conductive layers. The first set of wiring lines is connected to the second set of wiring lines.
US12101073B2
In a method for determining cleanliness of a cleaning member that contacts a substrate and with which scrub cleaning is performed, the method includes a first step of self-cleaning a cleaning member by releasing contaminants from the cleaning member into a cleaning liquid, and a second step of bringing a self-cleaning discharged liquid into contact with an electrode of a crystal oscillator, attaching the contaminants contained in the discharged liquid onto the electrode of the crystal oscillator, then measuring a frequency response of the crystal oscillator in which the contaminants are attached onto the electrode, and determining cleanliness of the cleaning member based on the measured frequency response.
US12101067B2
A semiconductor device that functions as a relay station and is reduced in size is provided. The semiconductor device includes an operational amplifier, a first transistor and a first capacitor that are electrically connected to a first input side of the operational amplifier, and a first resistor and a second resistor that are electrically connected to a second input side. The second resistor is electrically connected to an output side of the operational amplifier, a gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first power supply, the first resistor is electrically connected to a second power supply, and at least a transistor included in the operational amplifier has a region overlapping with the first transistor.
US12101062B1
In an integrated circuit device having a microelectromechanical-system (MEMS) resonator and a temperature transducer, a clock signal is generated by sensing resonant mechanical motion of the MEMS resonator and a temperature signal indicative of temperature of the MEMS resonator is generated via the temperature transducer. The clock signal and the temperature signal are output from the integrated circuit device concurrently.
US12101059B2
A device comprises a platform constructed and arranged to be mounted to one or more solar array modules and one or more solar irradiance sensors on the platform configured to receive incident solar energy, the one or more solar irradiance sensors oriented on the platform so that the received incident solar energy is comparable to that received by the solar array modules, the one or more solar irradiance sensors providing solar irradiance signals in response to the incident solar energy. A processor is on the platform, the processor configured to receive the solar irradiance signals and, in response, generating a performance reference metric based on the solar irradiance signals, the performance reference metric related to the expected performance of the one or more solar array modules to which the platform is mounted. A transmitter is on the platform, the transmitter configured to periodically transmit the performance reference metric to a receiver.
US12101040B2
A power and/or electricity generating source and/or component that is TENG-based, and that may be configured as an assembly and/or component for powering one or more electronic devices, is disclosed, A case, carrier or other carrying container, for example a case for a cell phone, ipad, electronic tablet, personal computer, or any similar device, that provides an electricity source to power the cell phone, ipad, electronic tablet, is disclosed. The energy generating carriers and/or containers and configurations thereof, also provide an electricity energy storage source. This electronic energy storage source may be incorporated within an electronic device itself, or may be incorporated within the case and/or covering. Upon walking or touching a surface of an electronic device, the power generating source will harness mechanical energy, and provide for the generation of electricity with the one or more TENG components (TESTEC) that comprise the energy generating unit. Metal particles (silver, copper, etc. nanoparticles) incorporated within and/or on polymeric layers and/or a film of the carrier and/or container assembly, are also provided, and provide for enhanced energy generating capacity of the energy generating and storage components described.
US12101025B2
A switched-mode power supply includes a first switch transistor. A drain of the first switch transistor receives an input voltage on a direct current input bus of the switched-mode power supply, and a source is connected to a reference ground. The power supply circuit includes a junction field-effect transistor (JFET), where a drain of the JFET receives the input voltage, a gate is connected to the reference ground, and a source outputs a supply voltage or a supply current. During each switch cycle, the first switch transistor is controlled to be turned off or a drain voltage is controlled to be greater than or equal to a first threshold voltage when the first switch transistor is turned on, such that the supply voltage or the supply current satisfies a drive voltage of the first switch transistor and an operating voltage of a to-be-powered circuit of the switched-mode power supply.
US12101024B2
Various embodiments include a switching control method for a three-level flying-capacitor converter. An example method includes sending constant HIGH drive signals to two middle power switches when an input voltage of the converter is lower than a predetermined proportion of a maximum input voltage value. The three-level flying-capacitor converter comprises an input capacitor, a first discharge resistor, a flying capacitor, four power switches, four diodes, an output inductor, and an output capacitor. The two middle power switches consist of the second power switch and the third power switch. The flying capacitor is connected in parallel with the two middle power switches. The HIGH drive signals cause the two middle power switches to be continuously switched on and thereby cause the flying capacitor to be short-circuited.
US12101016B2
An electric motor unit includes: a case; a stator accommodated in the case; a rotor that is rotatably held inside the stator; a rotation shaft that is provided in the rotor and is rotatably supported by the case; a cooling device configured to inject a cooling liquid toward the stator; a gas passage that has a respiratory membrane that allows air to pass through and penetrates from an inner wall surface to an outer wall surface of the case; and a predetermined electrical component arranged between an injection port of the cooling device and an inner wall surface side opening of the gas passage. The gas passage is opened at the inner wall surface of a wall portion on one side of the case in an axial direction.
US12100995B2
Described is a rotor (3) for an electrical machine (1) which comprises a rotor laminated core (6) divided into a plurality of sectors (B), in each of which there is arranged a permanent magnet assembly (4) which has two permanent magnets (13a, 13n) which are arranged in a V shape and which are positioned symmetrically with respect to a plane of symmetry (C) splitting the sector (B) into two half-sectors (D, D′). An outer contour (E) of the rotor laminated core (6) runs in each sector (B) symmetrically with respect to the plane of symmetry (C) and is formed in one half-sector (D, D′) by at least three different radii with just as many different centre points. The invention also relates to an electric machine (1) having such a rotor (3) and to a vehicle (17) having such an electric machine (1).
US12100994B2
A brushless direct current (BLDC) motor includes a rotor having a cylindrical permanent magnet to which a shaft is centrally coupled, and supported to rotate on the shaft. An annular stator surrounds the rotor and includes a plurality of teeth and a wound coil to generate an electromagnetic field. The permanent magnet includes a stress reducing portion, which is provided at opposite end portions thereof, and which has a shape having a mass or a volume which is smaller than a mass or a volume per unit length in an axial direction of a portion of the permanent magnet other than the opposite end portions, to reduce centrifugal stress caused by spinning of the rotor.
US12100985B2
A BMS includes cell supervising circuits connected to an alternating current power line via a transformer, and a BMU connected to the alternating current power line via a transformer. The BMU includes a control microcomputer which instructs at least one of the cell supervising circuits to control the state of charge of a secondary battery cell monitored by the at least one of the cell supervising circuits, based on pieces of information in the cell supervising circuits, the pieces of information indicating states of charge of secondary battery cells monitored by the cell supervising circuits.
US12100982B2
A wireless power transfer system is provided for mobile charging of one or more listening devices having wireless power receiving antennas couplable to a wireless power transfer antenna. The system includes a case configured for attachment to a mobile electronic device having a wireless power transfer antenna. The case includes a hollow for each of the listening devices, with each hollow being shaped and located to hold a respective listening device in a coupling position with the wireless power transfer antenna of the mobile electronic device when the case is mounted to the mobile electronic device. An attachment may be used to mount the case to the mobile electronic device.
US12100977B2
Eyewear that is configured to be wirelessly charged and also wirelessly communicate with a case charger having a battery using time gating power transfer. In one example, wireless charging and bidirectional communication of the eyewear can be performed using a unidirectional communication protocol, such as the Qi baseline power profile (BPP) which is only suited for unidirectional communication. The eyewear has a processor configured to send data to the wireless power charger that instructs the wireless power charger to stop wireless charging for a time period that is correlated to a state of charge (SOC) of the wireless power charger battery. The wireless power charger resumes charging of the eyewear battery after the time period, and the eyewear determines the SOC of the wireless power charger battery to be a percentage that correlates to the time period.
US12100972B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for detecting a foreign object on a wireless power charging region are described. A circuit can detect an object inductively coupled to a wireless power transmitter. The circuit can further measure an input parameter prior to a power transfer stage, the input parameter can be one of an input current and an input power. The circuit can further compare the measured input parameter with a predetermined value. The circuit can further determine whether the object is a foreign object or the wireless power receiver based on a result of the comparison between the measured input parameter with the predetermined value.
US12100961B2
A plurality of generators redundantly supply power to AC motors via a main DC bus system having a pair of buses, each of which is connected to each generator by an active front end (AFE) inverter containing an insulated-gate bipolar transistor. Isolated DC/AC inverters are connected to the pair of main buses in pairs, respectively. Each pair of the isolated DC/AC inverters is connected to one of the AC motors with a filter of capacitors and inductors between each inverter and the motor. The AFE inverters and isolated DC/AC inverters galvanically isolate the main buses and enable load sharing among the generators.
US12100955B2
A wind farm, and a method for controlling high voltage ride through, a system, a MMC and a machine-side converter therefor are provided. The method for controlling high voltage ride through control method for the wind farm includes: determining an amplitude of a voltage of a power grid; determining that a high voltage ride through event is occurred under a condition that the amplitude of the voltage of the power grid exceeds a first threshold; acquiring a fundamental frequency modulation wave of the MMC; superimposing a triple harmonic on the fundamental frequency modulation wave to obtain a superimposed modulation wave; and controlling the MMC to operate basing on the superimposed modulation wave.
US12100948B2
An apparatus for a system power device utilized in an interconnected power system. The interconnected power system may include multiple system power devices connected to various inter connections of groups of direct currents (DC) from power sources which also may be connected in various series, parallel, series parallel and parallel series combinations for example. The apparatus may include a processor connected to a memory and a communication interface operatively attached to the processor. The communication interface may be adapted to connect to a mobile computing system of a user in close proximity to the system power devices. A graphical user interface (GUI) of the mobile computing system may allow various operational and re-configuration options for the interconnected power system which may include installation, maintenance and monitoring schedules in the interconnected power system when the user of the GUI is in close proximity to the system power devices.
US12100944B2
The present disclosure discloses a controlling device and an electronic atomization device, the controlling device includes an atomizing output circuit, a protecting circuit and a controller. The atomizing output circuit is configured to be electrically connected with the atomizer and apply a voltage to the atomizer. The protecting circuit includes a temperature sensitive unit, and the temperature sensitive unit is configured to sense a temperature of the atomizer. The controller is electrically connected with the atomizing output circuit, and configured to control the atomizing output circuit. The protecting circuit is configured to control the atomizing output circuit according to the temperature of the atomizer sensed by the temperature sensitive unit. In response to the temperature of the atomizer is higher than a predetermined value, the protecting circuit makes the electrical connection between the atomizing output circuit and the atomizer being disconnected.
US12100943B2
An apparatus can include an inverter to provide an output N-phase alternating-current to an external component. When N equals two, a phase of the N phases can include an upper gate and a lower gate. The apparatus can also include a current detector configured to detect a phase current magnitude of the output alternating current. The apparatus can also include a controller coupled to the current detector and to the inverter. The controller can generate a gate command for controlling a gate of the inverter. The controller can also determine a value for a current threshold less than a shutoff current threshold for the external component. The controller can provide a protection command to turn off the upper gate of a corresponding phase of the inverter responsive to detecting that the phase current magnitude is greater than the current threshold.
US12100928B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: preparing a bottom plate having an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein the lower surface of the bottom plate comprises a reference part and one or more inclined surfaces that are inclined with respect to the reference part, an upper portion of the one or more inclined surfaces being positioned above the reference part, and wherein a thickness of the bottom plate at the reference part is greater than a thickness of the bottom plate at the upper portion of the one or more inclined surfaces; joining a frame member to the bottom plate, at least a part of the frame member being disposed directly above the one or more inclined surfaces, a linear expansion coefficient of the frame member being smaller than a linear expansion coefficient of the bottom plate; and fixing a semiconductor element to the bottom plate.
US12100923B2
A connection structure including: a first circuit member having a plurality of first electrodes; a second circuit member having a plurality of second electrodes; and an intermediate layer having a plurality of bonding portions electrically connecting the first electrodes and the second electrodes, in which at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode that are connected by the bonding portion is a gold electrode, and 90% or more of the plurality of bonding portions include a first region containing a tin-gold alloy and connecting the first electrode and the second electrode and a second region containing bismuth and being in contact with the first region.
US12100921B2
The invention relates to an electrical module (50) for connecting to a mounting rail, comprising a contacting element (10) which is rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation (I) such that it can move between an open position in which an insertion and removal of the contacting element (10) from the mounting rail profile (60) is enabled, and a contacting position in which connection contacts contact lines of a bus bar, wherein the contacting element (10) has a main body (15) rotatably accommodated in a carrier element (30) of the electrical module (50) and a contact holder body (20) holding the connection contacts, which is arranged on the main body (15) and rotates with same, and wherein the contact holder body (20) is mounted such that it can be adjusted along the axis of rotation (I) relative to the main body (15) between a blocking position in which a rotation of the contacting element (10) is blocked, and a release position in which a rotation of the contacting element (10) is enabled.
US12100917B2
An electrical connection device includes at least one contact and a carrier. The carrier includes at least one receptacle and the at least one contact inserted into the at least one receptacle. The carrier includes a printed circuit board and at least one temperature sensor arranged on the printed circuit board in a vicinity of the at least one contact. The printed circuit board includes an electrically insulating layer and an electrically conductive top layer separated from a support plate by the electrically insulating layer. The electrically conductive top layer is arranged in a region of a recess of the electrically insulated layer and includes an outer connection region and an inner contact region. The inner contact region is formed by the at least one contact through a recess of the support plate. The electrically conductive top layer rests against a lateral surface of the at least one contact.
US12100914B2
A shielding member attached to a shielding shell. The shielding member includes a first and a second plate portion. The second plate portion includes a first and second ends, a fastening hole at both ends and a protruding portion on the first end. The protruding portion is longer than a length of the second plate portion. When a plurality of shielding members are attached to the shielding shell, the first end with the protruding portion is overlapped with the other first end of the adjacent shielding member so that it is located on the outside. When the first end is overlapped with the other end of the adjacent shielding member so that it is located on the inside, the protruding portion interferes with the first plate portion of the adjacent shielding member. In this way, the shielding member having the configuration can prevent erroneous assembly to the shielding shell.
US12100913B2
An adapter connector includes a terminal assembly, a first adapter housing and a second adapter housing. The terminal assembly includes a first terminal clamping portion at a first end and a second terminal clamping portion at a second end. The terminal assembly includes a first terminal module including a first insulating block, a number of first adapter terminals, a first metal shield provided on a first side of the first insulating block, a second metal shield provided on a second side of the first insulating block, and a first conductive plate. The first adapter terminals include a number of first ground terminals. The first metal shield is in contact with one side of the first grounding terminals, and the first conductive plate is in contact with another side of the first ground terminal.
US12100912B2
A number of connectors and related methods that allow for high data rate transmissions are described. An example connector includes a housing and a wafer. The water includes signal conductors, a ground conductors, a flexible shield, and a rigid shield. The flexible shield includes terminal end portions, cantilever spring end portions, and a flexible shield body between the terminal end portions and the cantilever spring end portions. The flexible shield body covers a first portion of the ground conductors, and the rigid shield covers a second portion of the ground conductors.
US12100911B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a vibration mitigation device. The vibration mitigation device can comprise a shell forming a hollow body that is configured to house a coupled wiring connector and a connector block. The shell can comprise first shell section and second shell section that are operably engaged with each other, and engaged with a vehicle component to which the connector block is engaged. The shape and sizing of the shell and its hollow body allow for a compressive force to be applied to the coupled connectors, to mitigate vibration between the two connectors during use.
US12100909B2
A connector includes a plurality of terminal receiving chambers arranged in parallel, a plurality of first tool insertion holes, and a plurality of second tool insertion holes. Each terminal receiving chamber is separated from an adjacent terminal receiving chamber by each of side walls disposed on both sides thereof. Each second tool insertion hole is formed to a side wall located at each of ends in a parallel direction of the terminal receiving chambers. In each second tool insertion hole, a lance unlock rib and a tool pressing rib are placed. The lance unlock rib is one of a pair of lance unlock ribs provided to a lance located at each of the ends in the parallel direction of the terminal receiving chambers. The tool pressing rib is provided to a side surface of the each second tool insertion hole, and protrudes in the each second tool insertion hole.
US12100908B2
A cable connector system can include a board connector that attaches to a die package, a cable connector that attaches to the board connector, and a 1RU panel I/O connector attached to the cable connector.
US12100906B2
A fluid valve manifold has an electrical conduit for receiving a circuit board assembly that actuates a plurality of valve units. The circuit board assembly is reversibly and rotatably mountable to a first position or second position in the electrical conduit such that a respective set of first electrical connectors at a first end or a second set of electrical connectors at a second end opposite that of the first end may be in position to receive electrical signals through the respective connectors. When in one position, the circuit board assembly is able to serve a single solenoid valve unit. When in a rotated second position, the circuit board is able to serve a double solenoid valve unit.
US12100905B2
Proposed is a multiple coaxial cable connector. The multiple coaxial cable connector includes: multiple coaxial cables, each of the coaxial cables having a cable connector with a pogo pin end making contact with a printed circuit board; a cable guide housing having multiple cable through-holes, each of the cable through-holes allowing a part of each of the coaxial cables including the cable connector to be inserted and guided therein; a cable locker fitted over the coaxial cables and thus coupling the cable guide housing and the coaxial cables to each other; a housing cover covering the lateral surface of the cable guide housing; a reference plate having multiple through-holes, each of the multiple through-holes allowing the cable connector of each of the multiple coaxial cables to be inserted thereinto; and a housing screw coupling the cable guide housing to a coupling hole formed in the printed circuit board.
US12100887B2
An image display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a printed circuit board, an antenna mounted on the printed circuit board, a display panel disposed on the printed circuit board, and a transmission line disposed on the display panel and electrically connected to the antenna. The transmission line is disposed on the display panel to shorten a signal path and reduce noises.
US12100886B2
A conductive pattern according to an embodiment includes a metal pattern and a blackened pattern which covers the metal pattern, wherein at least one of the metal pattern and the blackened pattern has a reverse taper shape. Thereby, it is possible to prevent the conductive pattern from being viewed by a user and improve image quality.
US12100879B2
A method for forming anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) on a substrate includes disposing an Al layer on the substrate, there being a Cu layer between the substrate and the Al layer, and a TiW alloy layer between and in contact with the Cu layer and the Al layer, anodizing the Al layer to provide an AAO layer comprising nanopores extending into the AAO layer to a barrier layer of the AAO at a base of each nanopore and converting at least some of the TiW alloy layer to TiW oxide, over-anodizing the barrier layer to remove at least a portion of the AAO of the barrier layer at the base of each nanopore, and exposing the AAO layer, the TiW oxide, and the TiW to a chemical etchant sufficient to extend the nanopores through the AAO layer to a surface of the Cu layer.
US12100877B2
A method for making an improved fuel cell using a porosity gradient design for gas diffusion layers in a hydrogen fuel cell, a gas diffusion layer made by the method and a fuel cell containing the gas diffusion layer.
US12100873B2
A power supply system of a fuel cell using user authentication includes: a tagging device that receives user information of a user terminal; an identity authentication unit, which compares the user information inputted through the tagging device with previously stored authentication information and outputs a use authority signal when the user information matches the authentication information; a power module complete that produces electric power by a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen; a battery that receives and is charged with electric power produced by the power module complete; an output terminal that is connected to the battery to output electric power stored in the battery; and an integrated body control unit that controls electric power to be outputted through the output terminal when the identity authentication unit outputs the use authority signal.
US12100863B2
Provided are an interconnect board (ICB) assembly suitable for a battery module of horizontal stack structure including unidirectional battery cells stacked with cell leads facing each other, a battery module comprising the same and a method for fabricating the battery module. The ICB assembly according to the present disclosure includes an ICB frame in which cell leads of unidirectional battery cells are received such that the unidirectional battery cells having the cell leads at one end are placed facing each other with the cell leads facing each other, and busbars assembled in the ICB frame and electrically connected to the cell leads.
US12100859B2
A polymer composition for producing gel extruded articles is described. The polymer composition contains polyethylene particles combined with a plasticizer and one or more shutdown reducing additives. The shutdown reducing additives decrease the shutdown temperature of polymer articles made from the polymer composition. In one embodiment, the polymer composition is used to form a porous membrane for use of a battery separator.
US12100857B2
A battery degassing unit for a battery housing has a base body that has a gas passage opening and is to be connected fluid-tightly to a pressure compensation opening of the battery housing. A first filter covers the gas passage opening at an inner side of the base body. The first filter is a separation grid with first grid openings. A second filter is a separation grid arranged between first filter and inner side of the base body and has second grid openings. The base body has fastening regions for fastening the battery degassing unit to the battery housing. One of the first and second filters completely engages across the gas passage opening. One of the first and second filters is a corrugated filter so that a length extension in a stretched state in at least one direction is at least 1.3 times as large as in a corrugated state.
US12100843B2
A positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode plate, a battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus including the positive electrode current collector are provided. In some embodiments, a positive electrode current collector is provided, including an organic support layer and an aluminum-based conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the organic support layer, where the aluminum-based conductive layer contains Al and at least one modifying element selected from O, N, F, B, S, and P, an XPS spectrogram of the aluminum-based conductive layer with a surface passivation layer removed through etching has at least a first peak falling in a range of 70 eV to 73.5 eV and a second peak falling in a range of 73.5 eV to 78 eV, and a ratio x of peak intensity of the second peak to that of the first peak satisfies 0
US12100835B2
A novel conversion-type rechargeable battery is constructed, the battery using selenium as the cathode material. Preferably, the selenium is coated over the surface of the pores in a mesoporous ion collector such as carbon. A salt of zinc having an organic ion with polar function group is used with the battery, allowing the solvent of the battery to be either organic or aqueous.
US12100833B2
A hollow/porous silicon-based composite material includes a hollow/porous structure, a silicon-carbon composite layer and a carbon coating layer. The silicon-carbon composite layer is formed by uniformly dispersing nano silicon/silicon oxide in a conductive carbon mesh formed by high-temperature pyrolysis of a binder. The composite material is prepared by uniformly mixing nano silicon/silicon oxide, the binder and the salt, and then carrying out spray granulation, high-temperature sintering, water washing for desalination, and a coating treatment. The grain growth of the silicon material is slowed down during the heat treatment process, the pulverization of the material is effectively avoided, the volume expansion effect of the silicon-based material is alleviated, the cycle performance of the silicon-based material is improved, and the conductivity and rate performance of the material is enhanced. The silicon-based composite material is a silicon-carbon anode material for lithium ion batteries with high first-cycle efficiency, low expansion and long cycle.
US12100823B2
A cooling system of an embodiment includes a container, a housing, and a duct. The container includes an inflow passage extending in a first direction, an outflow passage positioned in a second direction, the outflow passage extending in the first direction, an inflow port through which cooling air from an air conditioning device flows in, and an outflow port through which the cooling air flows out. The housing includes shelf portions arranged between the inflow passage and the outflow passage, the shelf portions containing heat-generating modules. The housing includes intermediary passages extending between the inflow passage and the outflow passage across the shelf portions. The duct connects the inflow port and an outlet port of the air conditioning device. The duct includes a sloping face facing the cooling air and sloping in the second direction as the sloping face approaches the inflow port.
US12100821B2
A bus bar module includes a circuit body, a bus bar, a holder, and a cover configured to be assembled to the holder to protect the circuit body and the holder. The circuit body includes a belt-like main line that extends in a first direction, a belt-like branch line that extends from the main line so as to branch from the main line, and a connection portion provided in a position closer to a distal end of the branch line than a folded portion the branch line. The cover is structured so as to be stretchable and shrinkable in the first direction in accordance with a stretching and a shrinking of the holder in the first direction.
US12100817B2
This application provides a method for capacity recovery of lithium-ion secondary battery. The method includes the following steps: (1) providing a capacity-degraded lithium-ion battery; (2) providing a capacity recovery agent, the capacity recovery agent including a lithium iodide and an organic solvent, and the organic solvent being used to dissolve the lithium iodide; (3) injecting the capacity recovery agent into the capacity-degraded lithium-ion battery; (4) enabling the capacity recovery agent to react inside the lithium-ion battery; and (5) pouring out the liquid mixture inside the reacted lithium-ion battery and injecting an electrolyte into the lithium-ion battery.
US12100813B2
The present application provides a secondary battery, an electrolyte, and an apparatus including the secondary battery. The secondary battery of the present application includes an electrolyte, characterized in that the electrolyte includes an organic solvent, and the organic solvent includes a cyclic carbonate and a chain carbonate; the mass ratio of the cyclic carbonate and the chain carbonate is from 25:75 to 32:68; the chain carbonate includes dimethyl carbonate; the mass percentage of the dimethyl carbonate in the chain carbonate is greater than or equal to 9 wt % and less than 50 wt %; wherein based on the total mass of the organic solvent, the mass percentage of a carboxylic acid ester is less than 5 wt %. The secondary battery of the present application can simultaneously obtain excellent low-temperature power, long service life and cycle performance.
US12100810B2
The present application provides a secondary battery and a battery module, battery pack and electrical device containing the same. The secondary battery comprises a positive electrode plate and an non-aqueous electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode plate comprises a positive electrode active material with a core-shell structure, said positive electrode active material comprising an core and a shell covering said core, said core has a chemical formula of Li1+xMn1-yAyP1-zRzO4; said shell comprises a first cladding layer covering said core, a second cladding layer covering said first cladding layer and a third cladding layer covering said second cladding layer, said non-aqueous electrolytic solution comprises a first additive, said first additive comprises one or more of compounds as shown by Formula 1, Formula 2 and Formula 3.
US12100806B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery, includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent, and an additive, wherein the additive includes a compound represented by Formula 1.
US12100803B2
Water-in-salt electrolytes for zinc metal batteries are disclosed. The electrolyte includes a zinc halide. The electrolyte may be a hybrid water-in-salt electrolyte further including an additional metal halide or nonmetal halide. Batteries including the electrolytes are disclosed, as well as devices including the batteries and methods of making the batteries.
US12100796B2
A method for manufacturing an electrode assembly includes a first combination step of combining a first electrode with an upper portion of a first separator to form a first combination, and a second combination step of combining the first combination so that a second electrode faces the first electrode with the first separator therebetween after the second electrode is stacked on a second separator, wherein the first combination step comprises a first electrode cutting process of moving the first electrode in an X-axis direction that is a progress direction to cut the first electrode to a predetermined size, a first electrode transfer process of transferring the cut first electrode, a first first-electrode position detection process of measuring a Y-axis position of the first electrode, a first separator meandering correction process of moving the first separator, a first stacking process of stacking the first electrode on the first separator.
US12100794B2
A display device may include a substrate, and a display element layer disposed on the substrate and including a light emitting element that emits light in a display direction. The display element layer may include a first contact electrode electrically connected to the light emitting element, a second contact electrode electrically connected to the light emitting element, and a bank pattern having a shape extending in the display direction. At least one of the first contact electrode, the second contact electrode, and the bank pattern may include a transparent conductive polymer.
US12100787B2
A vertical blue LED includes: a conductive substrate, the conductive substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface a nitride epitaxial layer; a metal reflective layer, positioned on the first surface; a nitride epitaxial layer, positioned on a surface of the metal reflective layer and including a P-type GaN layer, a quantum well layer, a preparation layer, and an N-type GaN layer that are sequentially stacked along a direction perpendicular to the conductive substrate, wherein a thickness of the nitride epitaxial layer is less than a wavelength of blue light; an N-type electrode, positioned on a surface of the N-type GaN layer; and a P-type electrode, positioned on the second surface.
US12100780B2
Various embodiments may provide a highly efficient micro light-emitting diode (LED) in a low current range, a method of fabricating the same, and a display including the same. The micro LED includes a first conductive type semiconductor layer and a second conductive type semiconductor layer and an active layer disposed between the first conductive type semiconductor layer and the second conductive type semiconductor layer and having a single quantum well structure. The single quantum well structure may be formed so that a ratio of a conduction band offset of any one of the first conductive type semiconductor layer or the second conductive type semiconductor layer and a valence band offset of the other of the first conductive type semiconductor layer or the second conductive type semiconductor layer becomes greater than 0 and less than 1.
US12100776B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a photovoltaic module and a method for producing the photovoltaic module. The photovoltaic module includes a photovoltaic laminate and a junction box. The photovoltaic laminate includes a plurality of solar cells, at least one solder strip, a rear plate and a wiring member. The at least one solder strip is electrically connected with the wiring member. The junction box includes a bonding pad. The wiring member passes through an opening defined on the rear plate and abuts the bonding pad, and the wiring member is connected with the bonding pad by laser welding. A plurality of weld seams are formed in a welding region. Each weld seam extends from the wiring member towards interior of the bonding pad, and an extension depth of each weld seam in the bonding pad is not greater than 80% of a thickness of the bonding pad.
US12100768B2
A semiconductor device with small variations in transistor characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes an oxide; a first conductor and a second conductor provided apart from each other over the oxide; an insulator in a region between the first conductor and the second conductor over the oxide; and a conductor over the insulator. A side surface of the oxide, a top surface of the first conductor, a side surface of the first conductor, a top surface of the second conductor, and a side surface of the second conductor include regions in contact with a nitride containing silicon.
US12100767B2
Strained gate semiconductor device having an interlayer dielectric doped with large species material
A semiconductor includes a gate stack over a substrate. The semiconductor device further includes an interlayer dielectric (ILD) at least partially enclosing the gate stack. The ILD includes a portion doped with a large species material, wherein the portion includes a first sidewall substantially perpendicular to a top-most surface of the ILD, and the portion includes a second sidewall having a positive angle with respect to the first sidewall.
US12100761B2
An apparatus including a circuit structure including a first side including a device layer including a plurality of devices and an opposite second side; an electrically conductive contact coupled to one of the plurality of devices on the first side; and an electrically conductive interconnect disposed on the second side of the structure and coupled to the conductive contact. A method including forming a transistor device including a channel between a source and a drain and a gate electrode on the channel defining a first side of the device; forming an electrically conductive contact to one of the source and the drain from the first side; and forming an interconnect on a second side of the device, wherein the interconnect is coupled to the contact.
US12100760B2
A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor film having a corundum structure or containing as a major component gallium oxide or a mixed crystal of gallium oxide, and the semiconductor device is a normally-off semiconductor device with a threshold voltage that is 3V or more.
US12100757B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of forming a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device. The method includes forming a passivation layer over a substrate. A source contact and a drain contact are formed within the passivation layer. A part of the passivation layer is removed to form a cavity. The cavity has a lower portion formed by a first sidewall and a second sidewall of the passivation layer and an upper portion formed by the first sidewall of the passivation layer and a sidewall of the source contact. A gate structure is formed within the passivation layer between the drain contact and the cavity. A cap structure is formed within the cavity.
US12100753B2
Gated MIS tunnel diode devices having a controllable negative transconductance behavior are provided. In some embodiments, a device includes a substrate, a tunnel diode dielectric layer on a surface of the substrate, and a gate dielectric layer on the surface of the substrate and adjacent to the tunnel diode dielectric layer. A tunnel diode electrode is disposed on the tunnel diode dielectric layer, and a gate electrode is disposed on the gate dielectric layer. A substrate electrode is disposed on the surface of the substrate, and the tunnel diode electrode is positioned between the gate electrode and the substrate electrode.
US12100752B2
A cell includes a Z2-FET-type structure that is formed with two front gates extending over an intermediate region between an anode region and a cathode region. The individual front gates of the two front gates are spaced apart by a distance that is shorter than 40% of a width of each individual front gate.
US12100749B2
A ferroelectric thin-film structure includes at least one first atomic layer and at least one second atomic layer. The first atomic layer includes a first dielectric material that is based on an oxide, and the second atomic layer includes both the first dielectric material and a dopant that has a bandgap greater than a bandgap of the dielectric material.
US12100747B2
A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device capable of high-voltage driving is provided. A semiconductor device in which a large amount of current can flow is provided. The semiconductor device has a structure including a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a metal oxide layer, a conductive layer, and an insulating region. The metal oxide layer is positioned between the first insulating layer and the conductive layer. The insulating region is adjacent to the metal oxide layer and is positioned between the first insulating layer and the conductive layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first region in contact with the first insulating layer and overlapping with the metal oxide layer and the conductive layer with the first insulating layer therebetween, a second region in contact with the first insulating layer and overlapping with the insulating region and the conductive layer with the first insulating layer therebetween, a third region in contact with the first insulating layer, and a fourth region in contact with the second insulating layer. The insulating region shows a different permittivity from the first insulating layer.
US12100741B2
The present disclosure relates to a lateral double-diffused transistor and a manufacturing method of the transistor. The transistor comprises: a substrate; a well region and a drift region both located in the top of the substrate, a source region located in the well region, and a drain region located in the drift region; a first dielectric layer located on a surface of the drift region; a first field plate layer located above the drift region and covering a first portion of the first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer covering a surface of part of the first field plate layer and stacked on a surface of a second portion of the first dielectric layer; a second field plate layer located on a surface of the second dielectric layer, comprising at least one contact channel. According to the present disclosure, the transistor increases breakdown voltage and reduces on-state resistance.
US12100728B2
A display device comprises a substrate including a display area and a non-display area, and pixels disposed in the display area, each of the pixels including sub-pixels. Each of sub-pixels includes a pixel circuit layer, and a display element layer including at least one light emitting element. The display element layer includes first and second electrodes spaced apart from each other, the light emitting element disposed between the first electrode and second electrode, a first contact electrode that electrically connects an end of the light emitting element to the first electrode, and a second contact electrode that electrically connects another end of the light emitting element to the second electrode. Each of sub-pixels includes a first area in which the pixel circuit layer is disposed, and a second area adjacent to the first area. The second area includes a transmission area through which the light passes.
US12100727B2
A method of manufacturing a substrate for a front-facing image sensor, comprises:—providing a donor substrate comprising a semiconductor layer to be transferred,—providing a semiconductor carrier substrate,—bonding the donor substrate to the carrier substrate, an electrically insulating layer being at the bonding interface,—transferring the semiconductor layer to the carrier substrate,—implanting gaseous ions in the carrier substrate via the transferred semiconductor layer and the electrically insulating layer, and—after the implantation, epitaxially growing an additional semiconductor layer on the transferred semiconductor layer.
US12100726B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an image sensor integrated chip. The image sensor integrated chip includes a semiconductor substrate. One or more isolation structures are arranged within one or more trenches in the semiconductor substrate. The one or more trenches are disposed along opposing sides of a photo diode region within the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes an undulating exterior having rounded corners arranged laterally between neighboring ones of a plurality of flat surfaces. The rounded corners and the plurality of flat surfaces forming a plurality of triangular shaped protrusions arranged between the one or more isolation structures, as viewed along a cross-sectional view.
US12100725B2
Light detecting structures comprising a Si base having a pyramidal shape with a wide incoming light-facing pyramid bottom and a narrower pyramid top and a Ge photodiode formed on the Si pyramid top, wherein the Ge photodiode is operable to detect light in the short wavelength infrared range, and methods for forming such structures. A light detecting structure as above may be repeated spatially and fabricated in the form of a focal plane array of Ge photodetectors on silicon.
US12100716B2
Embodiments of a hybrid imaging sensor that optimizes a pixel array area on a substrate using a stacking scheme for placement of related circuitry with minimal vertical interconnects between stacked substrates and associated features are disclosed. Embodiments of maximized pixel array size/die size (area optimization) are disclosed, and an optimized imaging sensor providing improved image quality, improved functionality, and improved form factors for specific applications common to the industry of digital imaging are also disclosed. Embodiments of the above may include systems, methods and processes for staggering ADC or column circuit bumps in a column or sub-column hybrid image sensor using vertical interconnects are also disclosed.
US12100713B2
A display device includes a pixel, a scanning line, a signal line, and a drive circuit configured to be supplied with a first power supply voltage signal of a positive value and a second power supply voltage signal of a negative value. The drive circuit includes: a gate driver configured to supply a scanning signal to the scanning line; a signal line selection circuit configured to supply a pixel signal to the signal line; and a display control circuit. The display control circuit is configured to, at first time in a power-off sequence, supply the first power supply voltage signal to the scanning line, supply a GND potential to the common electrode, and supply an adjustment potential of a positive value to the signal line. The display control circuit is configured to supply the GND potential to the scanning line at second time after the first time.
US12100693B2
LED packages are disclosed capable of emitting a range of colors including white light, while still emitting that can have a high color rendering index (CRI). The LED packages can have a simplified reflective cup arrangement and improved lead frame design. The LED packages according to the present invention comprise one or more LED WITH PHOSPHORs for high CRI lighting applications, along with multiple narrowband emitters (e.g. RGB LEDs), but do not have a dam or partition to segregate the LED WITH PHOSPHOR from the multiple emitters. This results in a LED package that is less complex and easier to manufacture, while still providing the desired flexibility in LED package emissions.
US12100688B2
The semiconductor device A1 includes a support member 2, a metal part 30 having obverse and reverse surfaces 301-302 spaced in z direction, with the reverse surface 302 bonded to the support member 2, a second bonding layer 42 boding the support member 2 and the metal part 30, a semiconductor element 10 facing the obverse surface 301 and bonded to the metal part 30, and a sealing member 7 covering the support member 2, metal part 30, second bonding layer 42 and semiconductor element 10. The metal part 30 includes a first body 31 of a first material and a second body 32 of a second material, with a boundary between the bodies 31-32. The second material has a linear thermal expansion coefficient smaller than that of the first material. The semiconductor device is improved in reliability by reducing thermal stress from heat generation of the semiconductor element.
US12100684B2
A bonded structure can include a first element having a first conductive interface feature and a second element having a second conductive interface feature. An integrated device can be coupled to or formed with the first element or the second element. The first conductive interface feature can be directly bonded to the second conductive interface feature to define an interface structure. The interface structure can be disposed about the integrated device in an at least partially annular profile to connect the first and second elements.
US12100677B2
A semiconductor structure, a method for forming a semiconductor structure, a stacked structure, and a wafer stacking method are provided. The semiconductor structure includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first dielectric layer on a surface of a semiconductor substrate; a top metal layer, in which the top metal layer is located in the first dielectric layer, and the top metal layer penetrates through the first dielectric layer; and a buffer layer located between the top metal layer and the first dielectric layer.
US12100667B2
A substrate stacking apparatus that stacks first and second substrates on each other, by forming a contact region where the first substrate held by a first holding section and the second substrate held by a second holding section contact each other, at one portion of the first and second substrates, and expanding the contact region from the one portion by releasing holding of the first substrate by the first holding section, wherein an amount of deformation occurring in a plurality of directions at least in the first substrate differs when the contact region expands, and the substrate stacking apparatus includes a restricting section that restricts misalignment between the first and second substrates caused by a difference in the amount of deformation. In the substrate stacking apparatus above, the restricting section may restrict the misalignment such that an amount of the misalignment is less than or equal to a prescribed value.
US12100664B2
An embodiment is package structure including a first integrated circuit die, a redistribution structure bonded to the first integrated circuit die, the redistribution structure including a first metallization pattern in a first dielectric layer, the first metallization pattern including a plurality of first conductive features, each of the first conductive features including a first conductive via in the first dielectric layer and first conductive line over the first dielectric layer and electrically coupled to the respective first conductive via, each of the first conductive lines comprising a curve in a plan view, a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer and the first metallization pattern, and a second metallization pattern in the second dielectric layer, the second metallization pattern including a plurality of second conductive via in the second dielectric layer, each of the second conductive vias being over and electrically coupled to a respective first conductive line.
US12100661B2
Semiconductor dies with edges protected and methods for generating the semiconductor dies are disclosed. Further, the disclosed methods provide for separating the semiconductor dies without using a dicing technique. In one embodiment, trenches are formed on a front side of a substrate including semiconductor dies. Individual trenches correspond to scribe lines of the substrate where each trench has a depth greater than a final thickness of the semiconductor dies. A composite layer may be formed on sidewalls of the trenches to protect the edges of the semiconductor dies. The composite layer includes a metallic layer that shields the semiconductor dies from electromagnetic interference. Subsequently, the substrate may be thinned from a back side to singulate individual semiconductor dies from the substrate.
US12100660B2
A system and method for creating layout for standard cells are described. In various implementations, a semiconductor fabrication process (or process) forms a power signal route in a same metal zero track reserved for power rails. The process forms a contact layer with inserted spacing underneath the power signal route. Along the track, this contact layer has physical contact with the power signal route with a first distance greater than a width of any signal route in any metal layer orthogonal to the power signal route, and has no physical contact with the power signal route with a second distance greater than the width. One or more signal routes in the local interconnect layer are routed through this spacing. Without this spacing, signals would be routed through this area using the metal one layer, which increases signal congestion.
US12100657B2
A semiconductor device and a method for forming a semiconductor device are provided. The method for forming a semiconductor device includes the following steps. A substrate is provided, in which the substrate has a periphery region, a jointing region and a device region adjoined in sequence. A metal layer is formed on an upper surface of the substrate. A dielectric layer is formed above the metal layer. An opening is formed in the dielectric layer, in which the opening is located above at least one of the periphery region or the jointing region so as to expose the metal layer to form a contact window, and a height of an upper surface of the metal layer exposed to the contact window is lower than a height of an upper surface of the metal layer located in the device region.
US12100652B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an active region, an isolation structure, a first metal line, gate structure, source/drain region, a source/drain contact, and a second metal line. The active region protrudes from a top surface of the substrate. The isolation structure is over the substrate and laterally surrounds the active region. The first metal line is in the isolation structure. The gate structure is over the active region. The source/drain region is in the active region. The source/drain contact is over the active region and is electrically connected to the source/drain region. The second metal line is over the gate structure and the source/drain contact, in which the second metal line vertically overlaps the first metal line.
US12100651B2
A semiconductor memory device, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor memory device, includes a stacked structure including a plurality of conductive layers for local lines stacked on a semiconductor substrate defined by a cell region and a slimming region to be spaced apart from each other, wherein the plurality of conductive layers for local lines are stacked in a step structure in the slimming region. The semiconductor memory device also includes a plurality of contact plugs formed to penetrate the stack structure in the slimming region, the plurality of contact plugs corresponding to each of the conductive layers for local lines. Each of the plurality of contact plugs includes a protrusion part protruding horizontally, and the protrusion part is connected to a corresponding conductive layer for local lines among the plurality of conductive layers for local lines.
US12100647B2
An electrical component is provided by metallizing holes that extend through a glass substrate. The electrical component can be fabricated by forcing a suspension of electrically conductive particles suspended in a liquid medium through the holes. The suspension can be forced into the holes under an air pressure differential such as a pressure differential force, a centrifugal force, or an electrostatic force. The liquid medium in the holes can be dried, and the particles can be sintered. The particles can further be packed in the hole. Alternatively or additionally, the particles can be pressed against the outer surfaces of the substrate to produce buttons.
US12100638B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, a heat sink, a resin package, heat transfer material and multiple spacers. The heat sink absorbs heat of the semiconductor chip. The resin package accommodates the semiconductor chip, and the resin package has a surface at which the heat sink is disposed. The heat transfer material has fluidity, and the heat transfer material is filled between the heat sink and the cooling plate. The spacers are dispersedly arranged in the heat transfer material, and the spacers are in contact with the heat sink and the cooling plate.
US12100637B2
An example electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure includes a housing, a printed circuit board located inside the housing, an electrical element mounted on the printed circuit board, and a shield can that covers the electrical element. A recess area is formed on at least a portion of the shield can, and a metal structure is mounted in the recess area to cool heat generated by the electrical element.
US12100636B2
The present application relates to a chip heat dissipating structure, a chip structure, a circuit board and a supercomputing device, and the chip heat dissipating structure includes a metal layer, where the metal layer is covered on the chip. By adding a metal layer on the top of the chip, the heat sink may be soldered onto the metal layer through a solder layer, so that the heat sink is fixed to the top of the chip; the main component of the solder layer is metal tin, and the metal layer has a higher thermal conductivity than an epoxy resin material mounted on a traditional heat sink, thereby solving a problem of the heat dissipation bottleneck of a resin material in the chip, thus improving a heat dissipation effect of the chip and preventing a large amount of heat from damaging the chip.
US12100633B2
An electronic package is provided, in which an electronic component with a conductive layer on an outer surface thereof is embedded in an encapsulant, where at least one electrode pad is disposed on an active surface of the electronic component, and at least one wire electrically connected to the electrode pad is arranged inside the electronic component, so that the conductive layer is electrically connected to the wire, such that the electrode pad, the wire and the conductive layer are used as a power transmission structure which serves as a current path to reduce DC resistance and improve an impedance issue associated with the supply of power.
US12100627B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having metal gates and the semiconductor device are disclosed. The method comprises providing a first sacrificial gate associated with a first conductive type transistor and a second sacrificial gate associated with a second conductive type transistor disposed over the substrate, wherein the first conductive type and the second conductive type are complementary; replacing the first sacrificial gate with a first metal gate structure; forming a patterned dielectric layer and/or a patterned photoresist layer to cover the first metal gate structure; and replacing the second sacrificial gate with a second metal gate structure. The method can improve gate height uniformity during twice metal gate chemical mechanical polish processes.
US12100624B2
Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same, the semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a plurality of shallow trench isolations. The first transistor is disposed in a medium-voltage region and includes a first plane, a first gate dielectric layer, and a first gate electrode. The second transistor is disposed in a boundary region and includes a second plane, a second gate dielectric layer, and a second gate electrode. The third transistor is disposed in a lower-voltage region and includes a third plane, a third gate dielectric layer, and a third gate electrode. The shallow trench isolations are disposed in the substrate, wherein top surfaces of the shallow trench isolations in the medium-voltage region, the boundary region and the low-voltage region are coplanar with top surfaces of the first gate dielectric layer and the second gate dielectric layer.
US12100615B2
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes: filling a trench of a stacking structure with a bottom anti-reflection coated material to form a dummy via in the trench, in which the stacking structure includes a low-k material layer and a cap layer, and the trench runs through the low-k material layer and the cap layer; and etching the dummy via by performing a first etching process and a second etching process.
US12100610B2
An electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic dielectric substrate, a base plate, a bonding part, a gas inlet path, a counterbore part, a ceramic porous part, and an elastic body. The base plate supports the ceramic dielectric substrate. The bonding part is located between the ceramic dielectric substrate and the base plate. The gas inlet path extends through the ceramic dielectric substrate, the base plate, and the bonding part. The gas inlet path includes a first hole part, a second hole part and a third hole part. The first hole part is positioned at the ceramic dielectric substrate. The third hole part is positioned at the bonding part. The counterbore part is located in the first hole part. The ceramic porous part is located in the counterbore part. The elastic body faces an end part of the bonding part at the third hole part side.
US12100607B2
Provided is a magnetic collet. The magnetic collet includes adsorption rubber including a plurality of individual holes passing therethrough from a contact surface, which is one surface of the adsorption rubber, coming into contact with a semiconductor chip to the other surface thereof, and a metal plate including a common hole which passes therethrough from one surface of the metal plate to the other surface thereof and provides a common passage connected to the individual holes and stacked on the adsorption rubber.
US12100605B2
A gas purge device includes a first nozzle and a gas gate. The first nozzle is coupled to a front-opening unified pod (FOUP) through a first port of the FOUP. The gas gate is coupled to the first nozzle via a first pipe. The gas gate includes a first mass flow controller (MFC), a second MFC, and a first switch unit. The first MFC is configured to control a first flow of a first gas. The second MFC is configured to control a second flow of a second gas. The first switch unit is coupled to the first MFC and the second MFC, and is configured to provide the first gas to the first nozzle through the first pipe or receive the second gas from the first nozzle through the first pipe according to a process configuration.
US12100604B2
A plasma discharge detection system detects undesirable plasma discharge events within a semiconductor process chamber. The plasma discharge detection system includes one or more cameras positioned around the semiconductor process chamber. The cameras capture images from within the semiconductor process chamber. The plasma discharge detection system includes a control system that receives the images from the cameras. The control system analyzes the images and detects plasma discharge within the semiconductor process chamber based on the images. The control system can adjust a semiconductor process in real time responsive to detecting the plasma discharge.
US12100601B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an etching method with a metal hard mask. The method is performed on a wafer surface and includes sequentially forming a metal hard mask layer and at least one functional film layer on a wafer surface in a direction away from the wafer surface. The method includes performing a plurality of etching processes on the at least one functional layer and the metal hard mask layer sequentially in a direction close to the wafer surface. An etching gas adopted by at least one etching process includes a hydrogen element and a fluorine element. A ratio of a content of the hydrogen element in the etching gas to a content of the fluorine element in the etching gas is smaller than a predetermined threshold to reduce generation of a byproduct of hydrogen fluorine.
US12100591B2
A method of processing a substrate that includes: depositing a photoactive metal-based hard mask (photo-MHM) over an underlying layer, the underlying layer formed over a substrate, the photo-MHM including a metal; depositing a dielectric over the photo-MHM; etching a portion of the dielectric to form a first feature; depositing a spacer material over the first feature; etching the spacer material to expose top surfaces of the dielectric and a first portion of the photo-MHM; exposing the photo-MHM to a first ultraviolet light (UV) radiation through a first photomask, a first unmasked region of the photo-MHM being photoreacted due to the exposure to the first UV radiation; after the exposure, developing the photo-MHM to form a second feature in the photo-MHM; and etching the underlying layer using the photo-MHM as an etch mask.
US12100580B1
Disclosed is a He-3 detector arrangement that generally comprises a mass spectrometer that has an intake funnel configured to receive (sniff out) He-3 through an intake port directly from an open environment. The intake funnel is configured to direct the He-3 into the mass spectrometer. The arrangement further comprises a heating element configured to liberate the He-3 from regolith via heat. A mobile carrier is configured to position the intake port the regolith to obtain samples of the He-3.
US12100578B2
A substrate processing method includes forming a pre-coat film on an in-chamber part disposed in a chamber, and subsequently processing one or more substrates. The forming a pre-coat film includes forming a first film on the in-chamber part without using plasma or by using a first plasma generated under a condition that sputtering is suppressed on the in-chamber part, and forming a second film on a surface of the first film by using a second plasma.
US12100562B2
A three-tandem (3T) perovskite/silicon (PVT)-based tandem solar cell (TSC) includes an antireflection coating (ARC), a first transparent conductive oxide layer (TCO), a hole transport layer (HTL), a perovskite (PVT) layer, a second transparent conductive oxide layer (TCO), an electron transport layer (ETL), a plurality of buried contacts, a p-type Si layer, a p-type wafer-based homo-junction silicon solar cell, a n+ silicon layer, a back contact layer. The solar cell further includes a top sub-cell, a bottom sub-cell and a middle contact-based tandem. The top sub-cell includes the PVT layer. The bottom sub-cell includes the silicon solar cell. The middle contact-based tandem includes the second TCO layer to be used as the middle contact-based tandem, as well as a recombination layer for current collection. Further, a conduction and a valence band edge are employed at a front surface of the ETL.
US12100556B2
A second busbar is provided that has a second electrode terminal and a second connection terminal. A first busbar is provided that has a first electrode terminal, a lateral side coupler, an overhang, and a first connection terminal. The first electrode terminal and/or the second electrode terminal has a protruding piece for connection (connecting protrusion). This protruding piece is elastically depressible in response to contact with an electrode surface of a capacitor element unit inserted from an opposite side of the lateral side coupler across a space between the first and second electrode terminals.
US12100551B2
A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer body in which each of a plurality of dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked. In at least a part of a cover layer and side margins, a concentration of a specific metal of at least one of Ag, As, Au, Bi, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ge, In, Ir, Mo, Os, Pd, Pt, Re, Rh, Ru, Se, Sn, Te, W or Zn is lower on an outer side than on a side of the multilayer body.
US12100544B2
Some embodiments of the invention belongs to a technical field of NdFeB magnet processing, and mainly relates to a device and method for improving the coercivity of ring-shaped NdFeB magnet. A layer of heavy rare earth coating is sprayed on the inner and outer surfaces of the ring-shaped NdFeB magnet by the device, and then the ring-shaped NdFeB magnet sprayed with the heavy rare-earth coating is subjected to diffusion treatment to improve the coercivity of the ring-shaped NdFeB magnet. The invention uses heavy rare earth slurry as the diffusion source, combined with spraying technology, can quickly and uniformly cover a layer of heavy rare earth coating on the inner and outer surfaces of the ring-shaped NdFeB magnet, and the coercivity of the ring-shaped NdFeB magnet is improved after heat treatment.
US12100541B2
An electronic package comprises, a package substrate, and a magnetic block, where the magnetic block passes through the package substrate. the electronic package further comprises a fluidic path from an inlet to the package substrate to an outlet of the package substrate. The electronic package further comprises a conductive winding in the package substrate, where the conductive winding wraps around the magnetic block, and where the conductive winding is tubular and the fluidic path passes through the conductive winding.
US12100536B2
A transient voltage protection device includes: an element body; a cavity portion provided in the element body; a pair of internal electrodes disposed in the element body; and a pair of external electrodes connected to the pair of internal electrodes. The pair of internal electrodes extend along a first direction and face each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The cavity portion includes a gap region located between the pair of internal electrodes in the second direction. A tip portion of at least one of the pair of internal electrodes is in contact with only the element body.
US12100534B2
In an embodiment a connecting element includes a base configured to be fixed to a housing, an electrical conductor and a retainer for guiding and fixing the electrical conductor, the retainer being connected to the base, wherein the electrical conductor is in direct contact with the retainer, wherein the retainer is shaped such that a first contact face of the electrical conductor is configured to contact a first functional part of an electrical component and a second contact face of the electrical conductor is configured to contact a second functional part of the electrical component, the first functional part and the second functional part being located spatially distant from each other in an interior space of the housing, and wherein the connecting element is configured to connect the first functional part and the second functional part.
US12100533B2
There is provided a partial discharge-resistant paint that is excellent in the dispersibility of alumina particles, has an industrially suitable viscosity, and can form a coating that is excellent in partial discharge resistance and insulating properties. A partial discharge-resistant paint comprising at least one heat-resistant resin selected from the group consisting of a polyamide resin, a polyimide resin, a polyimide resin precursor, a polyamide-imide resin, a polyetherimide resin, and a polyester-imide resin; alumina particles having an aspect ratio of 2 to 99, and represented by the formula: Al2O3·nH2O; at least one selected from the group consisting of an organophosphorous compound, a sulfonic acid compound, an amic acid compound, a triazole compound, a compound represented by formula (A) below, a compound represented by formula (B) below, a compound represented by formula (C) below, citric acid, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, and an ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid derivative; and a solvent, wherein the solvent comprises 90% by mass or more of a solvent having a boiling point of 100° C. or more at a pressure of 1 atm, the alumina particle content is 10 to 30% by mass relative to a total of 100% by mass of the heat-resistant resin and the alumina particles, and a total content of the heat-resistant resin and the alumina particles is 10 to 30% by mass.
US12100528B2
A method for preparing one or more generators with a high radium-228 content from an aqueous solution comprising thorium-232 and radium-228. The generator(s) can be used, in particular, for producing thorium-228, from which radium-224, then lead-212 and bismuth-212 can be obtained. The method and the generator(s) that it can be used to prepare are therefore applicable, in particular, in the manufacture of radiopharmaceuticals made from lead-212 or bismuth-212, which can be used in nuclear medicine and, in particular, in targeted alpha radiotherapy for the treatment of cancers.
US12100526B2
An apparatus is provided for storing hazardous waste material, which includes one or more of spent nuclear fuel, radioactive material, and fissionable material. The apparatus comprises a containment vessel that encloses the hazardous waste material. A fusible alloy material, for example, a eutectic material, resides within the containment vessel and surrounds the hazardous waste material. In the preferred embodiments, it is suggested that the fusible alloy material exhibits liquidus and solidus or melting temperatures that are between about 100 and 300 degrees Fahrenheit for facilities using the apparatus and methods for liquid storage pool loading applications. For facilities using the apparatus and methods for dry loading, the fusible alloy materials may exhibit liquidus and solidus or melting temperatures that are between about 100 and 650 degrees Fahrenheit. The fusible alloy material is introduced in a liquid phase and eventually solidifies into a solid phase as the temperature of the hazardous waste material and/or the local environment decreases.
US12100514B2
Provided are systems and methods for vessel infectious disease importation risk assessment. This includes receiving vessel data from one or more sources, wherein the vessel data includes infectious disease data, determining a rendezvous history of the vessel based on the vessel data, determining a port visits history of the vessel based on the vessel data, determining the vessel disease burden based on the port visits history, the rendezvous history, the infectious disease data and a period of crew social exchange outside the vessel, determining the vessel disease progression dynamics based on the vessel disease burden and the vessel time of arrival at destination, and determining, at the processor, the infectious disease importation risk assessment associated with the vessel disease progression dynamics.
US12100512B2
The present invention discloses a medical image project management platform comprising a project management module and a radiomic feature extracting module. The project management module comprises a multi-module management interface and a labeling unit. An image is input by the multi-module management interface and received by the labeling unit. A first labeled image and a second labeled image are produced thereafter. The radiomic feature extracting module comprises an analysis unit and a feature extracting module. The analysis unit analyzes the first labeled image and gives the first labeled image a first labeling unit. The analysis unit analyzes the second labeled image and gives the second labeled image a second labeling unit. The radiomic feature extracting unit receives the first and the second labeling units and proceeds radiomic computation to output a radiomic feature.
US12100510B2
Systems and methods for providing an intelligent network to onboard patients to specialty medications are described herein.
US12100505B2
A validation system includes at least one medical device for connection to a patient. Both the medical device and the patient have at least one identification marker. The validation system also has an identification device with a display that is configured to read the identification markers. The validation system further includes a server that communicates with the at least one medical device and the identification device. The server assigns the at least one medical device to a corresponding patient according to an assignment process. A reviewer reviews the assignment in a reviewing process that is independent of the assignment process. A method ensures that at least one item of patient information and/or location information is assigned to at least one medical device and that the assignment is reviewed.
US12100497B1
An approach is disclosed for activating cell-mediated herd immunity (CMHI) in a group of people. A scalable infrastructure is provided with one or more compliance protocol targets to facilitate activation of at least one of the four types of individual cell-mediated immunity (CMI): absolute humidity CMI, vitamin D CMI, gut microbiome CMI, and antiviral priming CMI, in the group of people. The activation is for at least one of: absolute humidity CMHI, vitamin D CMHI, gut microbiome CMHI, and antiviral priming CMHI in the group of people. The CMHI is achieved in the group of people when the compliance protocol targets are achieved.
US12100496B2
Examples herein may include a computer-implemented method for providing outcome tracking of a plurality of patients, which may include generating a respective expected patient biomarker dataset for each of the plurality of patients, wherein the expected patient biomarker dataset may represent the expected values of a patient biomarker over the duration of the patient's recovery. The computer implementing method may include receiving respective actual patient biomarker data from respective patient sensor systems for each of the plurality of patients. The method may include aggregating the respective expected patient biomarker dataset and the respective actual patient biomarker data for each of the plurality of patients. The method may include determining differences between the respective expected patient biomarker data and the respective actual patient biomarker data. The method may include generating a treatment notification based on the differences.
US12100490B1
A computer-implemented method includes producing information that characterizes a group of individuals from a set of private data representing characteristics of the individuals. The identity of the individuals is unattainable from the produced information. The method also includes providing the produced information to report the characteristics of the group.
US12100477B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining a predicted structure of a protein that is specified by an amino acid sequence. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining a multiple sequence alignment for the protein; determining, from the multiple sequence alignment and for each pair of amino acids in the amino acid sequence of the protein, a respective initial embedding of the pair of amino acids; processing the initial embeddings of the pairs of amino acids using a pair embedding neural network comprising a plurality of self-attention neural network layers to generate a final embedding of each pair of amino acids; and determining the predicted structure of the protein based on the final embedding of each pair of amino acids.
US12100472B2
An integrated circuit includes a sampling control circuit configured to generate a sampling enable signal by dividing a sampling period into a plurality of sub-sections according to an active counting signal generated by counting a number of inputs of an active signal during the sampling period, and comparing the active counting signal with a random signal for each sub-section; and a sampling circuit configured to sample and store an input address according to the sampling enable signal.
US12100471B2
Memory devices are disclosed. A memory device may include a command and address (CA) interface region including a first CA input circuit configured to generate a first CA output AND a second CA input circuit configured to generate a second CA output. The first CA input circuit and the second CA input circuit are arranged in a mirror relationship. The CA interface region further includes a swap circuit configured to select one of the first CA output and the second CA output for a first internal CA signal and select the other of the first CA output and the second CA output for a second internal CA signal. Memory systems and systems are also disclosed.
US12100469B2
A receiver that receives a multi-level signal includes a compensation circuit, a sampling circuit, an output circuit and a mode selector. The compensation circuit generates a plurality of data signals and a plurality of reference voltages by compensating intersymbol interference on an input data signal. The sampling circuit generates a plurality of sample signals based on the plurality of data signals and the plurality of reference voltages. The output circuit generates output data based on the plurality of sample signals, and selects a current value of the output data based on a previous value of the output data. The mode selector generates a mode selection signal used to select one of first and second operation modes based on an operating environment. The compensation circuit and the sampling circuit are entirely enabled in the first operation mode, and the compensation circuit and the sampling circuit are partially enabled in the second operation mode.
US12100465B2
Various example embodiments of the inventive concepts provide an error correction circuit and a semiconductor device. The error correction circuit includes clock-sync distributor circuitry configured to output a plurality of distributor output data based on distributor reception data received using a first clock signal, each of the plurality of distributor output data output based on the first clock signal or a second clock signal, the second clock signal having a higher frequency than a frequency of the first clock signal, a node processor configured to generate a plurality of output data by performing error correction decoding using the plurality of distributor output data, output a first subset of the plurality of output data based on the first clock signal, and output a second subset of the plurality of output data based on the second clock signal, and clock-sync combiner circuitry configured to output, based on the first clock signal, the plurality of output data received from the node processor.
US12100460B2
Methods and apparatus for NAND flash memory are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method is provided for programming a NAND flash memory. The method includes precharging selected bit lines of selected memory cells with a bias voltage level while unselected bit lines maintain the inhibit voltage, applying a verify voltage to a selected word line that is coupled to the selected memory cells, and discharging the selected bit lines that are coupled to on-cells over a first time interval. The method also includes sensing a sensed voltage level on a selected bit line, loading the selected bit line with the inhibit voltage level when the sensed voltage level is above a threshold level and a program voltage when the sensed voltage level is equal to or below the threshold level, and repeating the operations of sensing and loading for each of the selected bit lines.
US12100457B2
A voltage supply circuit includes a temperature compensation circuit and a voltage regulation circuit. The temperature compensation circuit includes a comparator circuit comparing a device temperature value with a reference value to output a comparison result, and a compensation controller circuit receiving the comparison result, a compensation value control signal, and a compensation enable signal, and outputting a voltage control signal according to the comparison result. The voltage regulation circuit receives the voltage control signal and provides a voltage output according to the control signal.
US12100450B2
A content addressable memory (CAM) device includes first to third CAM circuits and first to second peripheral circuits. The first CAM circuit stores a first bit of a first word. The second CAM circuit is arranged adjacent to the first CAM circuit and stores a first bit of a second word. The third CAM circuit is arranged adjacent to the second CAM circuit and store a second bit of the second word. The first to the third CAM circuits are arranged in a memory row. The first peripheral circuit accesses the first bits in the first and the second words. The second peripheral circuit accesses the second bit of the second word.
US12100443B2
A memory device includes pages each constituted by memory cells, and a page write operation of retaining a group of positive holes, inside a channel semiconductor layer, generated by an impact ionization phenomenon by controlling voltages applied to first and second gate conductor layers and first and second impurity layers in each memory cell and a page erase operation of discharging the group of positive holes by controlling the voltages are performed. The first and second impurity layers and the first and second gate conductor layers of each memory cell is connected to a source line, a bit line connected to a sense amplifier circuit, a word line, and a driving control line respectively. In a page read operation, page data in a selected page is read to the bit lines. To the driving control line connected to a non-selected page, a voltage of zero volt or lower is applied.
US12100438B2
A method including obtaining temperature values of at least one region of the non-volatile memory, each temperature value obtained at a given time instant, for each obtained temperature value at each given time instant, calculating the value of an operating function representative of an operating condition of the non-volatile memory, the value such operating function being time-dependent according to the temperature time-variation of such at least one region of the non-volatile memory, summing subsequent computed values of said operating function to obtain an accumulated value being representative of an elapsed fraction of a time limit associated with the at least one region of the non-volatile memory, comparing the accumulated value with a threshold value, and, based on said comparison, performing a management operation on the cells of the at least one region of the non-volatile memory when the accumulated value has a magnitude equal or greater than the threshold value.
US12100436B2
A memory cell includes a write port and a read port. The write port includes two cross-coupled inverters that form a storage unit. The cross-coupled inverters are connected between a first power source signal line and a second power source signal line. The write port also includes a first local interconnect line in an interconnect layer that is connected to the second power source signal line. The read port includes a transistor that is connected to the storage unit in the write port and to the second power source signal line, and a second local interconnect line in the interconnect layer that is connected to the second power source signal line. The second local interconnect line in the read port is separate from the first local interconnect line in the write port.
US12100428B2
Methods, systems, and storage media for facilitating collaboration on video media items are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive, from a first user device, a video media item having core video content and an enhancement; store the received video media item on a server in an editable format; share the video media item, in the editable format, with a second user device; receive, from the second user device, a modification to the shared video media item to create a collaborative video media item; store the collaborative video media item on the server; and cause the collaborative video media item to be published in a non-editable format on a social media platform that supports display of user-created video media items.
US12100419B2
A method, an electronic device or customer-premise equipment, and a computer readable medium are disclosed for estimating a sound source. The method includes detecting, on an electronic device, voice data from a space; calculating, on the electronic device, an estimated voice source location from the detected voice data; detecting, on the electronic device, wireless location data from a positioning system within the space; calculating, on the electronic device, a probability of a user within one or more regions from the calculated estimated voice source location and the detected wireless location data, the one or more regions being regions of a plurality of regions within the space; and steering, from the electronic device, a microphone array for voice detection toward the one or more regions having the probability of the user within the one or more regions.
US12100417B2
Disclosed embodiments may include a system that may receive an audio file comprising an interaction between a first user and a second user. The system may detect, using a deep neural network (DNN), moment(s) of interruption between the first and second users from the audio file. The system may extract, using the DNN, vocal feature(s) from the moment(s) of interruption. The system may determine, using a machine learning model (MLM) and based on the vocal feature(s), whether a threshold number of moments of the moment(s) of interruption corresponds to a first emotion type. When the threshold number of moments corresponds to the first emotion type, the system may transmit a first message comprising a first binary indication. When the threshold number of moments do not correspond to the first emotion type, the system may transmit a second message comprising a second binary indication.
US12100416B2
An electronic device and method for recommendation of audio based on video analysis is provided. The electronic device receives one or more frames of a first scene of a plurality of scenes of a video. The first scene includes a set of objects. The electronic device applies a trained neural network model on the received one or more frames to detect the set of objects. The electronic device determines an impact score of each object of the detected set of objects of the first scene based on the application of the trained neural network model on the set of objects. The electronic device further selects at least one first object from the set of objects based on the impact score of each object, and recommends one or more first audio tracks as a sound effect for the first scene based on the selected at least one first object.
US12100415B2
Systems and methods for efficient management of an audio/video conferences is disclosed. The method includes receiving an audio question from a first user of a plurality of users connected to a conference, recording the audio question and preventing an immediate transmission of the audio question to the plurality of users connected to the conference, analyzing an audio portion of the conference to identify a time for transmitting the audio question to the plurality of users connected to the conference, and transmitting the audio question to the plurality of users at the identified time.
US12100409B2
An audio decoder provides a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information including linear prediction coefficients (LPC) and includes a tilt adjuster to adjust a tilt of a noise using linear prediction coefficients of a current frame to acquire a tilt information and a noise inserter configured to add the noise to the current frame in dependence on the tilt information. Another audio decoder includes a noise level estimator to estimate a noise level for a current frame using a linear prediction coefficient of at least one previous frame to acquire a noise level information; and a noise inserter to add a noise to the current frame in dependence on the noise level information provided by the noise level estimator. Thus, side information about a background noise in the bit-stream may be omitted. Methods and computer programs serve a similar purpose.
US12100396B2
Systems, methods, and devices for outputting indications regarding voice-based interactions are described. A first speech-controlled device detects spoken audio corresponding to recipient information. The first device captures the audio and sends audio data corresponding to the captured audio to a server. The server determines a second speech-controlled device of the recipient and sends a signal to the recipient's second speech-controlled device representing a message is forthcoming. The recipient's second speech-controlled device outputs and indication representing a message is forthcoming.
US12100391B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for speech recognition. One method includes obtaining an input acoustic sequence, the input acoustic sequence representing an utterance, and the input acoustic sequence comprising a respective acoustic feature representation at each of a first number of time steps; processing the input acoustic sequence using a first neural network to convert the input acoustic sequence into an alternative representation for the input acoustic sequence; processing the alternative representation for the input acoustic sequence using an attention-based Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to generate, for each position in an output sequence order, a set of substring scores that includes a respective substring score for each substring in a set of substrings; and generating a sequence of substrings that represent a transcription of the utterance.
US12100389B2
An intent recognition method having a self-learning capability includes the following steps: acquiring a user expression, and recognizing a voice as a corresponding text; performing preliminary intent recognition on the user expression, and outputting candidate intents; acquiring historical data feature parameters of the candidate intents; on the basis of a pre-set rule strategy, deciding whether to directly output a final recognized intent, and on the basis of the feature parameters of each intent, performing rule computation, and outputting a final recognized intent; submitting prediction data of the final recognized intent and the candidate intents from the intent recognition process to a self-learning system, and performing self learning and indicator parameter data updating. The present disclosure is able to perform self learning on the basis of the feature distribution in historical data of intent recognition and dynamically adjust intent recognition strategies.
US12100383B1
Voice customization is an application of voice synthesis that involves synthesizing speech having certain voice characteristics, and/or modifying the voice characteristics of human speech. Certain techniques for voice customization may be used in conjunction with compressing speech for storage and/or transmission. For example, speech may be received at a first device and transformed into a latent representation and/or compressed for storage and/or transmission to a second device. The system may use normalizing flows to transform the source audio to a latent representation having a desired variable distribution, and to transform the latent representation back into audio data. A flow model may conditioned using first speech attributes when transforming the source audio, and an inverse flow model may use second speech attributes when transforming the latent representation back into audio data. The first and/or second speech attributes may be modified to alter voice characteristics of the transmitted speech.
US12100381B2
The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, and a program that enable implementation of more effective distance feeling control. The signal processing device includes a reverb processing unit that generates a signal of a reverb component on the basis of object audio data of an audio object and a reverb parameter for the audio object. The present technology can be applied to a signal processing device.
US12100379B2
Provided is an acoustic processing apparatus that includes an attachment unit, a sensor that detects deformation of the attachment unit attached to an ear portion of a user, and a control unit that switches a mode for noise cancelling in accordance with a detection result of the deformation of the attachment unit.
US12100376B2
A step sequencer with a four by sixteen grid of buttons is disclosed. The sequencer is used to generate patterns of sounds on different channels. The sequencer can be used as a hardware controller to control music production software. The grid of the sequencer emulates the virtual grid generated in a graphical user interface by the music production software. The grid of the hardware controller is used to control the corresponding grid on the graphical user interface.
US12100371B2
An image apparatus includes a pixel array, an optical modulator, a controller, and a memory device storing information of a frame memory and information of a view map. The optical modulator modulates the light emitted from the pixel array to different viewing angles. The controller generates images of a scene with different lighting profiles corresponding to different viewing angles according to the information of the frame memory and the information of the view map.
US12100368B2
A transistor whose channel region includes an oxide semiconductor is used as a pull down transistor. The band gap of the oxide semiconductor is 2.0 eV or more, preferably 2.5 eV or more, more preferably 3.0 eV or more. Thus, hot carrier degradation in the transistor can be suppressed. Accordingly, the circuit size of the semiconductor device including the pull down transistor can be made small. Further, a gate of a pull up transistor is made to be in a floating state by switching of on/off of the transistor whose channel region includes an oxide semiconductor. Note that when the oxide semiconductor is highly purified, the off-state current of the transistor can be 1 aA/μm (1×10−18 A/μm) or less. Therefore, the drive capability of the semiconductor device can be improved.
US12100365B2
A display system includes a display device including a liquid crystal display panel including pixels, the pixels each including a plurality of sub pixels and being arranged in a matrix of rows and columns in a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction, and an image generation device including a control circuit configured to perform image deformation processing of an input image in accordance with a pixel structure of the liquid crystal display panel. The image generation device and the display device are coupled to each other through wired or wireless communication, and the control circuit generates pixel values of all the sub pixels of the liquid crystal display panel in the image deformation processing.
US12100357B2
A shift register, a gate drive circuit and a driving method therefor. The shift register includes a display pre-charge reset subcircuit, a sensing pre-charge reset subcircuit, a pull-down control subcircuit, an output subcircuit, a sensing cascade subcircuit and a black frame insertion cascade subcircuit. The display pre-charge reset subcircuit is configured to provide a signal of a first power supply end for a pull-up node under control of a first signal input end and provide a signal of a second power supply end to the pull-up node under control of a reset signal end; the sensing pre-charge reset subcircuit is configured to provide a signal of a first clock signal end to the pull-up node under control of the sensing cascade node and the first clock signal end, and provide a signal of the second power supply end to the pull-up node under control of a total reset end.
US12100355B2
Provided is a gate driver including a plurality of stages, wherein each stage includes an output unit including a pull-up transistor and a pull-down transistor, and a second node controller configured to control a voltage of a second control node to which a gate of the pull-up transistor is connected, wherein the second node controller includes a first control transistor connected between the first clock terminal and the second control node and including a gate connected to the first control node, and a second control transistor including a gate connected to the gate of the first control transistor and configured to control a short circuit between the first clock terminal and a second clock terminal.
US12100347B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of sensing lines and a plurality of pixels each connected to a corresponding sensing line among the plurality of sensing lines, a sensor that senses characteristic information of the plurality of pixels through the plurality of sensing lines and converts the characteristic information into sensing data having a digital format, and a compensator that converts first data received from outside of the display device into second data based on the sensing data, wherein the sensor senses characteristic information of pixels arranged in a partial area of the display panel during a transition period of a sensing period and processes sensed characteristic information as dummy data.
US12100342B2
A display panel includes a driving circuit including N stages of cascaded shift registers, and each shift register includes: a first control part and a second control part; the second control part is configured to at least receive the signal of the second node, the signal of the third node, and a frequency control signal to generate an output signal; one shift register of the cascaded shift registers connected to a display unit in the first region is configured to receive the first frequency control signal, and one shift register of the cascaded shift registers connected to a display unit in the second region is configured to receive the second frequency control signal; a data refresh frequency of the display unit in the first region is F1, and a data refresh frequency in the second region is F2, F1
US12100337B2
A driving circuit and a panel are provided. In the driving circuit, a current mirror module is configured to output different currents according to different control signals, a dimming module is connected to the current mirror module and configured to amplify the currents to generate driving currents, and a light emitting device is connected to the dimming module and correspondingly emits light with different brightness according to different driving currents.
US12100335B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for a power efficient display architecture. A display processor may obtain an indication that UC is to be displayed at a first resolution or a second resolution, where the first resolution is higher than the second resolution. The display processor may drive a first display via a first controller of a first DPU based on the indication. The display processor may drive a second display via a controller of a second DPU if the UC is to be displayed at the first resolution, or drive the second display via a second controller of the first DPU if the UC is to be displayed at the second resolution.
