US12097778B2
There is provide an electric motor vehicle that includes a power storage device, the electric motor vehicle including: a power receiving and feeding outlet configured to enable receiving and feeding of power between the power storage device and a power receiving and feeding apparatus that is provided outside the vehicle; a lid portion driving unit configured to drive a lid portion of the power receiving and feeding outlet; and a communication unit configured to receive a signal from the power receiving and feeding apparatus, the electric motor vehicle being configured to control the drive of the lid portion driving unit in response to the signal from the power receiving and feeding apparatus.
US12097774B2
An electric motor is cooled by using a first refrigerant. The first refrigerant is cooled by heat exchange with a second refrigerant having a cooling target that is different from the first refrigerant, and the first refrigerant after being cooled by the heat exchange is supplied to the electric motor. The supply flow rate of the first refrigerant to the electric motor is reduced where a temperature of the first refrigerant is less than a first prescribed temperature as compared to where the temperature of the first refrigerant is greater than or equal to the first prescribed temperature. The supply flow rate of the first refrigerant is continuously reduced as long as a temperature of the second refrigerant is below a second prescribed temperature even after the temperature of the first refrigerant reaches the first prescribed temperature.
US12097770B2
A vehicle control apparatus controls a traveling motor coupled to wheels. The vehicle control apparatus includes a torque setting unit and a motor control unit. The torque setting unit sets a first target torque and a second target torque as target torques of the traveling motor. The first target torque changes based on an accelerator operation performed by a vehicle's driver. The second target torque changes more gradually than the first target torque. The motor control unit controls the traveling motor based on the first target torque or the second target torque. When the vehicle is moved forward without the accelerator operation, the torque setting unit sets the first target torque and the second target torque to a regenerative side. When the vehicle having been stopped is moved forward without the accelerator operation, the motor control unit controls the traveling motor based on the first target torque.
US12097767B2
Disclosed is an electric vehicle with an architecture suitable for an electro-hydraulic propulsion that decouples the drive to allow greater freedom in the location of the major components for different types of vehicles and achieve optimal weight distribution and low centre of gravity. This brings fourth significant improvements in vehicle dynamics that improve basic performance driven by a lower centre of gravity and reduced polar moment which improves stability, braking, road holding and reduced tyre wear. The improvements increase basic corner speeds to the limit.
US12097764B2
An operating member including a support; an actuating part mounted on the support by a mount, to be movable relative to the support, by manual actuation against a resetting force to carry out an actuating movement from a rest position into a depressed position; and a detector, having at least one force sensor, adapted to detect at least one position of the actuating part is presented. The mount includes a guidance mechanism having at least one pair of coupled levers, wherein the levers are each pivotably mounted on the support by a first pivot joint defining at least one first pivot axis and on the actuating part by a second pivot joint defining at least one second pivot axis to cause a pivoting movement of the levers by the actuating movement. The guidance mechanism further includes at least one coupling rod to couple the pivoting movement of the levers.
US12097762B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed to providing a display device for a vehicle, which is to be installed in an interior of the vehicle, the device comprising: a display that displays an image; a support structure that supports the display to be movable; and a driving device connected to the display and the support structure to move the display, wherein the driving device comprises: a motor that generates a driving force; a roller connected to the motor to be rotated by the driving force of the motor; and at least one rotational elastic member disposed between the display and the support structure.
US12097761B2
A display device for a vehicle includes a display panel, a control circuitry, and a supporting arrangement. The display panel displays a graphic display object and the control circuitry enables the displaying of the graphic display object, such that the information represented by the graphic display object is displayed based on a predefined physical environment condition. The supporting arrangement supports the display panel which is adjustable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the graphic display object is visually accessible to a user inside the vehicle and in the second position, the graphic display object is visually accessible to at least one person outside the vehicle.
US12097745B2
The present disclosure provides a system for controlling a temperature of a computer disposed in an enclosed compartment of a vehicle. The system includes at least one temperature sensor associated with the computer, the at least one temperature sensor for providing temperature data in connection with the computer to a control module; at least one air vent provided in a surface of the enclosed compartment, wherein the at least one air vent is positioned to direct air flow to a designated area of the computer; an air conditioning system for generating air at an air temperature specified by the control module based at least in part on the temperature data provided by the at least one temperature sensor; and at least one duct for conducting the air generated by the air conditioning system into the enclosed compartment via the at least one vent.
US12097743B2
A suspension structure for vehicle (a suspension arm for vehicle) is formed of a first plate and a second plate, and includes a mounting part for mounting a component (a collar or a bush). The first plate is partially open toward a first flat plate part so that a first mounting surface can be formed by stamping in a state of a single unit where a first flat plate part is bent. The second plate is also partially open toward a second flat plate part. The mounting part is configured by facing the first flat plate part of the first plate and the second flat plate part of the second plate each other at a distance, and disposing the first mounting surface and a second mounting surface at a distance.
US12097740B1
A support system includes a primary actuator that transfers force between a sprung mass and an unsprung mass. A control system operates the primary actuator to provide additional control when a damper exceeds a capacity threshold. The control system changes the capacity threshold according to the environmental condition.
US12097732B2
A stowable stacked receiver has a fixed drawbar portion that allows affixation to a towing vehicle. Attached to the fixed drawbar portion is a movable stacked receiver that can pivot between a use and a stowed position. In the use position, the stacked receivers can receive a removable drawbar in a plurality of positions, and the stacked receivers are adjacent a flat surface on the fixed drawbar portion. In the stowed position, the stacked receivers are located underneath the fixed drawbar portion. A locking pin can be used to secure the movable stacked receiver in either the use or stowed position.
US12097731B2
A system for automated trailer weight distribution, including: A system for automated trailer weight distribution, having a tow vehicle with a hitch mount having a spring bar. The system may also include a trailer and a spring bar mount disposed on the trailer and having an initial position relative to the trailer, where the spring bar mount is configured to receive and engage the spring bar. Furthermore, a weight distribution measurement device disposed in association with the tow vehicle and being configured and arranged to determine a weight distribution of the tow vehicle when the spring bar is engaged with the spring bar mount and a weight distribution actuator can be configured and arranged to adjust the height of the spring bar mount while engaged with the spring bar.
US12097725B2
A bolt together wheel assembly with deflation system includes an inner wheel half, an outer wheel half, a bolt cover ring, and a removable valve stem. Clamping bolts and clamping nuts secure the outer wheel half to the inner wheel half. Venting port plugs secure the bolt cover ring to the outer wheel half over the clamping bolts. Loosening one or more of the venting port plugs to access the clamping bolts opens a seal to a vent port within the inner wheel half and releases pressurized air from a tire on the wheel, ensuring that the tire is deflated before the wheel can be disassembled.
US12097724B2
An eco-friendly activator-free water transfer printing film includes a water-based modified acrylic copolymer resin layer set on a superabsorbent film and made of a water-based modified acrylic copolymer resin which is formed by acrylic copolymer emulsion, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) resin and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) resin and provided crosslinking an end surface with the water-based modified acrylic copolymer resin layer after another end surface of the superabsorbent film absorbs water and becomes softened; and an information body set on the water-based modified acrylic copolymer resin layer; so that the present invention is simply set on a water surface to crosslink the superabsorbent film with the water-based modified acrylic copolymer resin layer to produce the adhesiveness of the water-based modified acrylic copolymer resin layer without using any activator.
US12097717B2
A mobile printer includes: a roll body accommodating portion including a first partition wall and accommodating a roll body on which a recording paper is wound; a print head; a transport unit; a power supply unit, and supplying a drive voltage signal to the print head and the transport unit; and a housing including a power supply surface to which the power receiving module is fixed, and covering the roll body accommodating portion, the print head, the transport unit, and the power supply unit, in which at least a part of the first partition wall is located between the power receiving module and the roll body accommodating portion along one direction from the power receiving module to the roll body accommodating portion, and a thickness of the first partition wall along the one direction is larger than a thickness of the power supply surface along the one direction.
US12097701B2
A jet parameter generation system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a data acquisition section, and a parameter generation section for generating a predetermined jet parameter, using a predetermined analytical method of taking a predetermined input parameter as an explanatory variable and taking a predetermined jet parameter as an objective variable. The parameter generation section determines which one of a first standard for setting a voltage value with which a drop volume of the liquid to be a reference is obtained and a second standard for setting a voltage value with which an ejection speed of the liquid to be a reference is obtained is to be selected, selects a first explanatory variable group when determining to select the first standard, while selecting a second explanatory variable group when determined to select the second standard, and uses the predetermined analytical method using just selected one of the first explanatory variable group and the second explanatory variable group to thereby generate the predetermined jet parameter.
US12097698B2
There is provided head system including: head and channel member. The head includes four manifolds each having: common channel extending in first direction and inlet connected to the common channel. The four manifolds include first to fourth manifolds. The channel member includes: first member having supply port, and second member. The channel member is formed with first to fourth supply channels extending between the supply port and the inlet of the first to fourth manifolds, respectively. In two of the four manifolds, the inlet is connected to end on first side of the common channel, and in remaining two of the four manifolds, the inlet is connected to end on second side of the common channel. Each of the third and fourth supply channels is formed in both the first and second members.
US12097693B2
A clamping shaft (12) for a rotationally driven part (14) is described. It comprises at least one fluid chamber (28a, 28b) being located inside a shaft body (16) and being delimited by a piston (30a, 30b) and a cylinder part (32a. 32b). Additionally, the fluid chamber (28a, 28b) is delimited by an elastic clamping region (24a, 24b) having a first diameter if the piston (30a, 30b) and the cylinder part (32a, 32b) are in a first relative position, and a second diameter if the piston (30a, 30b) and the cylinder part (32a, 32b) are in a second relative position. Furthermore, a preloading unit (38) is provided, biasing the piston (30a, 30b) and the cylinder part (32a, 32b) towards the second relative position. Moreover, a printing cylinder unit (10) of a printing machine is presented comprising such a clamping shaft (12). Also, a method for operating a clamping shaft (12) is explained.
US12097691B2
A method of forming a display article includes dispensing a material onto a first substrate, and pre-curing the material to form a dam. The method includes depositing a liquid optically clear adhesive in a first pattern onto the first substrate such that the first pattern is spaced apart from the dam to form a coated first substrate. The method includes depositing the adhesive in a second pattern onto a second substrate to form a coated second substrate, and flipping the coated second substrate upside down. The method includes translating the coated first and second substrates towards one another to eliminate an air gap, contacting the first pattern and the second pattern at a plurality of single points, and compressing the first pattern and the second pattern to eliminate the air gap and air entrained between the coated first and second substrates.
US12097685B2
Example embodiments relates to a film having excellent mechanical properties with excellent optical properties such as refractive index, haze, yellow index, and the like, light transmitting laminate, use as a cover film, a multi-layered electronic device, and the like comprising the same. The film comprises an elastic layer, the elastic layer has a refractive index of 1.48 to 1.58, a low temperature damage index is a difference of a tensile modulus and a tensile strength at a certain temperature, and the elastic layer has a low temperature index of 1,300 MPa or less.
US12097682B2
A support film for a flexible display panel is provided. The support film includes a first support portion and a second support portion on a first surface of a substrate of the display panel. The first support portion is located in a bonding area, the second support portion extends from a display area to the bonding area, and a groove is provided between the first support portion and the second support portion to expose the first surface. The first support portion includes a first support base material and a first adhesive material, and the first adhesive material adheres the first support base material on the first surface. The second support portion includes a second support base material and a second adhesive material, the second adhesive material adheres the second support base material on the first surface.
US12097676B2
Core element for sandwich elements, wherein the core element has at least two hemisphere panels which are combined with one another, wherein each hemisphere panel has, between planar portions, and spaced apart from one another, uniform hemispherical elevations, wherein the two or in each case two hemisphere panels face one another by way of their elevations, wherein, with two or in each case two hemisphere panels combined with one another, the elevations of one hemisphere panel each bear with their apexes or apex surfaces against a planar portion of the other hemisphere panel, and wherein two hemisphere panels are connected to one another by virtue of the elevations being connected, in the region of their apexes or apex surfaces, to the planar portion of the other or another hemisphere panel against which they bear. Moreover, the invention also relates to the use of a core element and to a method for producing a core element.
US12097674B2
A method of forming a polymer is disclosed. The method comprises: positioning a mould in relation to a bath containing a molten material to form a mould cavity between the mould and the molten material; adding a monomer within the mould cavity; and curing the monomer to form a polymer.
US12097673B2
Disclosed is a method for making a lens for a vehicle light. The process involves the growth of a clear or translucent ink on a clear or transparent substrate. The deposited ink forms light-modifying optical elements on the lens, which is then incorporated into a vehicle light assembly.
US12097662B2
The invention concerns a method for additive manufacturing a component by repetitively superposing and solidifying material layers according to a 3D model of the component. The method comprises the steps of scan, by means of an eddy current sensing unit (20), of a new solidified cross section (15) obtained by selectively solidifying a material layer so as to provide an integrity data (VMM) of a sensed portion (23). A difference between the sensed integrity data (VMM) and an expected integrity data (VEE) is then executed for detecting a manufacturing anomaly within this portion. The expected integrity data (VEE) is determined based on collected integrity data of a solid basic structure likely matching or being identical to a geometrical structure (41) obtained from the 3D model (40) of a portion corresponding to said sensed portion (23), said solid basic structure being manufactured or simulated according to another 3D model.
US12097659B2
The present invention relates to an exchangeable additive manufacturing machine system. The system includes a manufacturing spindle; a thermal conducting module configured to include a working well in a center portion, wherein the manufacturing spindle is configured to rotate in the working well and the manufacturing spindle and the working well defines a manufacturing area; and an air curtain isolation mechanism module, configured to attach on a peripheral region in proximity to the thermal conducting module to actively generate an airflow across the working well and the manufacturing area to isolate the manufacturing area from an external environment.
US12097647B2
A mold for use in the production of a ballistic article from a composite laminate stacked material wherein the mold has a sliding sealing section that nests with a outer permitter section and base portion so as to shield the sides of the composite laminate stacked material from applied isostatic pressure applied when in an autoclave. By shielding the sides of the composite laminate stacked material excess resin matrix material can be forced from the composite laminate stacked material to provide a uniform composite article with reduced weight and reduced thickness.
US12097645B2
The presently disclosed subject matter relates to systems for making an implantable construct comprising a reservoir coupled to the at least one frame; a mandrel base coupled to the at least one frame; a mandrel coupled to the mandrel base; a first mechanism configured to be coupled to the at least one frame and configured to move the at least one frame along a first axis; a second mechanism configured to be coupled to the at least one frame and configured to rotate the least one mandrel base along a second axis between a first orientation and a second orientation; and a container configured to be coupled to the at least one frame and configured to receive the mandrel in the second orientation. The disclosed mechanisms can manually, semi-automatically, or automatically control the movements of the at least one frame, reservoir, mandrel, mandrel base, and container to produce the construct with a lumen. The presently disclosed subject matter also relates to methods for making the construct.
US12097636B2
Provided is a lift table apparatus for log splitting. The lift table apparatus includes a lift frame, a lock pin, a control lever, and a cable. The lift frame is configured to be attached to a beam and a hydraulic cylinder of a log splitter. The lift frame is movable from a vertical position to a horizontal position by the hydraulic cylinder when the hydraulic cylinder is retracted. The lock pin is configured to be attached to the beam and locks the lift frame in the horizontal position. The control lever is configured to be attached to a hydraulic flow control valve of the log splitter. The cable is connected to the lock pin and the control lever. When the control lever is pulled out, the cable pulls the lock pin out to enable the lift frame to be released from the horizontal position and moved to the vertical position.
US12097634B2
Clamping assemblies for securing knives to slicing machines, slicing machines equipped therewith, and tools for removing and installing knives on slicing machines. Such a clamping assembly may include a knife holder, a knife supported on a surface of the knife holder, and a clamp that clamps the knife to the knife holder. The clamp has a knife-engaging portion and a base portion. A cam rod applies a clamping load to the clamp to secure the knife to the knife holder. The cam rod has a camming surface that engages the base portion of the clamp when the cam rod is rotated to a clamping position to clamp the knife against the knife holder, and a radial concavity sized to accommodate the base portion of the clamp such that the base portion is loosely received within the radial concavity when the radial concavity faces the clamp in an open position thereof.
US12097633B2
Provided is a cutting method of cutting a workpiece by using a cutting apparatus including a chuck table configured to hold the workpiece and a cutting unit having a cutting blade configured to cut the workpiece held by the chuck table and an ultrasonic vibrator configured to ultrasonically vibrate the cutting blade in a radial direction of the cutting blade. The cutting method includes a holding step of holding the workpiece by the chuck table, and a cutting step of performing ultrasonic cutting that cuts the workpiece by the cutting blade vibrated ultrasonically and normal cutting that cuts the workpiece by the cutting blade not vibrated ultrasonically on the same cutting line of a plurality of cutting lines set on the workpiece.
US12097632B2
A slicing machine includes an upper housing having feeder tube(s). A motor-driven cutting plate is horizontally attached beneath the upper housing for rotation and positioned to perpendicularly receive elongate food article(s) from the feeder tube(s) at a respective position offset from a center of rotation of the cutting plate. Reverse involute cutting blade(s) attached to the cutting plate that slices the elongate food article and having a cutting edge with an upward bevel. A curved slot formed through the cutting plate beneath the cutting edge to receive slices of the elongate food article. A base housing positioned below the upper housing has a turntable that supports a food substrate that receives the slices of the elongate food article.
US12097628B2
The present invention is a multi-purpose utility cutter apparatus having two body members rotatably connected at a pivot point to form two jaw portions and two handles, with at least one of the jaw portions formed with a blade holding mechanism.
US12097627B2
A control apparatus according to one or more embodiments generates poses of the measurement device to measure an object, determines, for the measurement device, a measurement path including the poses to cause the measurement device to move along the measurement path including the poses and to measure the object, instructs the robot to move the measurement device along a movement path including the measurement path and instructs the measurement device to measure the object in the poses, recognizes the object using obtained measurement data, and determines the measurement path for the measurement device for a next operating cycle.
US12097626B2
The article pickup system includes: a camera that is provided in a mobile body capable of moving in an environment where a plurality of articles to be picked up are present and that acquires image data by capturing the plurality of articles; and an article pickup robot that moves in the environment and picks up the plurality of captured articles. The article pickup robot includes: a camera position acquisition unit that detects the camera and then acquires position information of the camera; an article position specification unit that specifies positions of the plurality of articles based on the position information of the camera; a mobile unit that moves to the specified positions; and a pickup unit that picks up the plurality of articles at the positions to which the mobile unit has moved.
US12097615B2
An information processor calculates, for a robot hand including a plurality of fingers, a gripping pose at which the robot hand grips a target object. The information processor includes a candidate single-finger placement position detector that detects, based on three-dimensional measurement data obtained through three-dimensional measurement of the target object and hand shape data about a shape of the robot hand, candidate placement positions for each of the plurality of fingers of the robot hand, a multi-finger combination searcher that searches for, among the candidate placement positions for each of the plurality of fingers, a combination of candidate placement positions to allow gripping of the target object, and a gripping pose calculator that calculates, based on the combination of candidate placement positions for each of the plurality of fingers, a gripping pose at which the robot hand grips the target object.
US12097610B2
A rotary-type series elastic actuator (SEA) for use in robotic applications. The SEA including a motor, gear transmission assembly, spring assembly, and sensors. In one example, a robotic joint may include the SEA as well as two links coupled with each other at the joint assembly. The two links may be designated as input and output links. Each link may have a joint housing body which may be concentrically connected via a joint bearing so that they freely rotate against each other. The housing frame of the SEA may be fixed at the joint housing body of the input link while the output mount of the spring assembly of the SEA may be concentrically coupled with the joint housing body of the output link. The rotation of the motor rotor causes the rotation of the output link with respect to the input link plus spring deflection of the spring assembly. When an external force or torque are applied between the two links, a control action of a control loop may cause a rotation and motive force of the motor that lead to the deflection of the spring assembly to balance with the external force/torque and inertial force from body masses moving together with the links.
US12097603B2
An oscillating power tool has a housing including a handle portion defining a handle axis and a head portion defining an output axis that is perpendicular to the handle axis. The head portion includes a front face intersected by the handle axis. A drive mechanism includes an output shaft configured to oscillate about the output axis in a rotational manner in response receiving torque from a motor. A lighting assembly is configured to illuminate a workpiece in front of the head portion of the housing. The lighting assembly includes a lens arranged on the front face of the housing, a holder coupled to the lens, a plurality of printed circuit boards supported by the holder, and an LED arranged on each of the printed circuit boards. In response to being activated, the LEDs are configured to project a wide-angle beam of light through the lens.
US12097601B2
A working machine may include a working part, a fan, a motor configured to drive the working part and the fan, a body housing accommodating the fan and the motor and including a battery accommodating part which defines a battery accommodating space and a battery pack accommodated in the battery accommodating part. The battery accommodating part may include an air intake opening for intaking air from inside of the body housing into the battery accommodating space and an air exhaust opening for exhausting air from the battery accommodating space to the inside of the body housing. An air intake tube protruding from the battery accommodating part to the inside of the body housing may be connected to the air intake opening of the battery accommodating part.
US12097600B2
A tool for fastening an insulator to a support, the insulator including an insulator body having a front and back, a formation for supporting a barrier, and at least one mounting formation having a front and a back by which the insulator is attached to a support, the back of the mounting formation in use being proximal to the support, at least one of the at least one mounting formation including at least one passage extending transversely through the mounting formation from the front to the back of the mounting formation, and at least one alignment member, the tool including a driver blade for driving a staple, and at least one passage alignment member, in use the at least one passage alignment member aligning at least one passage of the insulator, with one leg of a staple.
US12097595B2
A tool kit is provided that includes a tool including a handle and a tool head and a set of tool accessories configured to be coupled to the tool head. The tool accessories each including a drive end that is configured to be coupled to the tool head and a working end opposite the drive end. The tool kit includes a container that is movable between an open position and a closed position. The container includes a first portion including a first retainer that supports the tool, a second portion and a middle portion dividing the first portion from the second portion. The middle portion including a second retainer that supports the tool accessories and the container is selectively stored in a closed position where the middle portion supports the container on a surface in an upright position.
US12097593B2
A firearm maintenance aid can include a firearm vise and a firearm support device. Firearm vise can include vise jaws, a threaded rod connecting vise jaws together, and jaw pin holes in each jaw, the holes extending from an outer surface of a jaw through to an inner surface of each jaw, wherein the holes in the first jaw align with the holes in the second jaw. Firearm support device can include a clamping portion and a supporting portion. The clamping portion can be clamped between the jaws of the firearm vise, can include two parallel clamping faces, and can define vise pin holes that align with the jaw pin holes. The supporting portion can be located opposite the clamping portion and can include a cylindrical shaft. Vise pins can be received by the jaw pin holes and vise pin holes to fixedly connect the support device to the vise.
US12097591B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a coil spring and for determining a propelling condition for a shot medium. In a case where it is confirmed that the coating film remains in a third step, at least one or more of conditions of the shot peening treatment including a propelling speed of the shot medium, a propelling time of the shot medium, a material of the shot medium, and an average particle diameter of the shot medium are changed and the second step and the third step are repeated until the coating film does not remain. In a case where it is confirmed that the coating film does not remain in the third step, the condition of the shot peening treatment in the second step in which the coil spring is obtained with no remaining coating film is determined as the propelling condition for the shot medium.
US12097579B2
The present invention enables even a beginner to acquire the technique easily and perform suitable spot welding, and achieves improved workability, improved welding quality, improved productivity, and the like. The present invention includes a torch body 2 for passing a shielding gas, a tungsten electrode rod 5 inserted into the torch body 2 and connected to a cathode, a constricted nozzle 6 for supporting a distal end portion of the tungsten electrode rod 5 concentrically, defining a gas passage 6e between the tungsten electrode rod 5 and the constricted nozzle 6 for flowing a shielding gas G, and discharging the shielding gas G from the constricted nozzle 6 at a higher speed than the shielding gas G discharged from the distal end of the torch body 2, and a cylindrical electrode nozzle 7 having conductivity arranged concentrically with the tungsten electrode rod 5 on the outer circumference of the constricted nozzle 6, connected to the anode via a ground cable 18, and configured to have a tapered shape at a distal end portion, wherein the tapered distal end portion is located further outside than the distal end portion of the tungsten electrode rod 5, gas vent ports 7c and 7d of the shielding gas G are provided on the electrode nozzle 7.
US12097576B2
An arc start adjustment device adjusting an arc start procedure in a welding process comprises an obtainment unit that obtains welding data indicating a welding state during or after a welding process, and a procedure adjustment unit that adjusts the arc start procedure such that the cycle time of the welding process is shortened based on welding data obtained by the obtainment unit.
US12097569B2
A joint structure, includes: a first member including a high tensile strength steel; a second member including a high tensile strength steel and superposed on the first member; a surface soft layer formed on at least one of a superposition surface of the first member, on which the second member is superposed, and a superposition surface of the second member, on which the first member is superposed; a molten-solidified portion formed by melting and solidifying the first member and the second member; and a heat affected zone formed around the molten-solidified portion, in which the surface soft layer has a total thickness of 5 μm to 200 μm, and the molten-solidified portion has a carbon amount of 0.21 mass % or more, and a maximum Vickers hardness of the surface soft layer in the heat affected zone is 100 Hv to 500 Hv.
US12097562B2
Methods for preparing a metal foam are provided. The methods may include forming a metal foam precursor using a slurry that includes metal powder, a dispersant, and a binder and sintering the metal foam precursor.
US12097558B2
A method of characterizing an optical system of a laser processing system includes directing an energy beam through a plurality of portions of a sample by adjusting an orientation of an adjustable beam redirection element of the optical system in accordance with a predetermined movement pattern to form a plurality of test patterns in the sample at each portion. The optical system comprises an imaging system having an expected focal position. In the movement pattern, the energy beam is directed in a plurality of different directions in the sample in the formation of each test pattern. At least two of the plurality of test patterns are formed at different calibration distances from an expected focal position of the optical system. An accuracy of the expected focal position is determined by detecting a level of modification in the sample caused by the energy beam at the plurality of test patterns.
US12097556B2
A method of producing a composite product having cemented carbide tiles embedded in a metal surface thereof, a cemented carbide tile suitable for use in the method and a composite product including such cemented carbide tiles is provided. A mould for casting the product is prepared. Cemented carbide tiles having through holes or recesses are placed at desired surfaces of the mould and secured to the desired surfaces of the mould by fastening elements, such as nails or pins, such that at least part of an elongated body of each respective fastening element protrudes out from respective openings of each through hole or recess facing the mould surface and into the material of the mould to secure the respective cemented carbide tiles in place. Molten metal is poured into the mould to cast the composite product, the casting of which is removed after solidification.
US12097532B2
This invention provides a method for forming a multilayer coating film, comprising applying a base paint (X) having a solids content ratio of 30 to 62 mass % to a substrate to form a base coating film having a cured film thickness of 6 to 45 μm; applying an effect pigment dispersion (Y) having a solids content ratio of 0.1 to 10 mass % to the base coating film to form an effect coating film having a cured film thickness of 0.1 to 5.0 μm; applying a two-component clear paint (Z) containing a hydroxy-containing resin and a polyisocyanate compound to the effect coating film to form a clear coating film; and heating the base coating film, the effect coating film, and the clear coating film to simultaneously cure these coating films; wherein the base paint (X) contains a polyurethane resin (A), an alcohol (B) containing 6 to 12 carbon atoms, and an organic solvent (C) having an HLB of 7 to 9, and the effect pigment dispersion (Y) contains water, a flake-effect pigment (P), a resin emulsion (Q), and cellulose nanofibers (R).
US12097529B2
There are provided a decorative object and a manufacturing method thereof, which includes: an object to be decorated; a printed layer covering at least a part of a surface of the object to be decorated; and a color clear layer covering the printed layer. In accordance with changes in a transmission distance by which light is transmitted through the color clear layer, a slight change in appearances of the decorative object can be caused.
US12097524B2
A battery powered fluid sprayer includes a shelter that the battery is mounted in to provide power to the electric components of the sprayer. The shelter protects the battery from falling fluid droplets. The shelter extends above the battery and projects outward laterally and longitudinally to protect the battery. The battery can move vertically downward to dismount from the fluid sprayer.
US12097523B2
A misting fan includes a nozzle, a fan assembly, and a support assembly. The nozzle is configured to spray water. The support assembly is formed with a coupling portion for detachably coupling a battery pack. The nozzle is disposed on the fan assembly or the support assembly and includes a nozzle body and a second part. The nozzle body includes a first part formed with a first surface and the second part is detachably installed to the nozzle body and formed with a second surface. When the second part is installed to the nozzle body, a water flow channel is formed between the second surface and the first surface. When the second part is detached from the nozzle body, the first surface is at least partially exposed for cleaning access.
US12097521B2
A method of manufacturing an optical article (10) includes supplying a first coating composition (A) and supplying one or more additional coating compositions (B) to an ultrasonic discharge nozzle (102) of a coating apparatus (100). At least one of the first coating composition (A) and the one or more additional coating compositions (B) is a photochromic coating composition. The method includes mixing the first coating composition and the one or more additional coating compositions at the ultrasonic discharge nozzle (102) of the coating apparatus (100), and applying the mixture (C) of the first coating composition (A) and the one or more additional coating compositions (B) to at least a portion of the optical article (10) so as to provide a pattern (24) on the optical article upon exposure to actinic radiation. The mixture (C) of the first coating composition (A) and the one or more additional coating compositions (B) is applied from the ultrasonic discharge nozzle (102) as a controlled, predetermined pattern of atomized droplets.
US12097517B2
A device for measuring a mass of a body, the device including a support suitable for supporting the body, a frame and an actuator designed to vibrate the support relative to the frame. The device includes an accelerometer designed to measure values of an acceleration of the support upon vibration of the support, and an electronic control module designed to estimate the mass of the support body from the measured acceleration values.
US12097515B2
A container for spraying liquid is disclosed, which includes: a tube having a filling space; a body in which the tube is inserted, where the outer perimeter of the tube and the inner perimeter of the body form a body outlet passage, a lower tube hole is formed at a bottom of the tube as an entrance to the body outlet passage, and an upper movement hole is formed at a top of the body as an exit from the body outlet passage; a body cover coupled to the top of the body, where the body cover includes a cover channel connecting with the upper movement hole and a pump insertion space connecting with the cover channel and receiving a pump inserted therein; and a pump support coupled to the top of the body cover and supporting the pump to block outside air from entering the pump insertion space.
US12097514B2
A pump having a piston (1) sliding in a body (3) having a chamber (5) between an inlet valve (11) and an outlet valve (12), an outlet valve element sliding during actuation in the chamber (5), and a passage (40) wherein, at end of actuation, the outlet valve element (39) cooperates in a non-sealing manner with the passage to open the outlet valve. The inlet valve has an inlet valve element (10) that slides after closure in a sleeve (9) with reduced diameter and a spring (20) bearing on the inlet valve element and on a bottom of the sleeve. The spring (20) returns the piston into its rest position. The sleeve (9) has an inner diameter of less than 4.2 mm. The spring (20) has a force of at least 20 N, so that the pump delivers the fluid product at a pressure (P) of at least 15 bars.
US12097513B2
The utility model is realized through the following technical scheme: an energy saving dynamic effluent sprinkler, comprises a shell, a water inlet seat, a water outlet device and a water outlet cover, the water outlet device is arranged in the shell, the water outlet cover is connected with the shell, and the water outlet cover is provided with a water outlet hole; Among them, the water outlet device comprises a base, an inclined water body, a swing water component, an impeller component and a driving component, the inclined water body is connected with the base to form a cavity, the cavity has a water outlet, the impeller component is arranged in the cavity, driven by the impeller component, the driving component can drive the swing water component to swing back and forth; The swing water component is mounted on the base and can swing in the base, the swing component is provided with a water passing chamber, the side surface of the swing component is provided with a water passing outlet, he water outlet is communicated with water passing outlet through a communication channel, and the swing water component is communicated with the water outlet hole. The utility model relates to an energy-saving dynamic water outlet sprinkler of the utility model has a larger shower range under the same water outlet area, can play a good water-saving effect; at the same time, the swing sprinkler has a sweeping impact massage feeling and strong ornamental, and can bring users a comfortable shower experience.
US12097508B2
Systems and methods for separating materials and recovery of valuable copper from shredded end-of-life vehicles and appliances are disclosed. The system utilizes a pair of conveyor belts; one for de-watering and removing most of the plastic and glass particles and a second below the first for separating the copper wire bits. The second conveyor belt has a belt with a particular tooth pattern and material softness, and is set at a slight uphill incline angle. Water is delivered from the top down the slope and the belt successfully transports mostly just copper up and over a top edge to a collection bin. A cascading series of pairs of conveyors may be used to ensure nearly complete recovery of the copper. A secondary copper recovery conveyor having a field of nails or spikes may be added subsequent to the last primary conveyor for enhanced yield of copper wire.
US12097504B1
An externally serrated rotary shredder and submersible shredder pump having an externally serrated rotary shredder. These are for reducing the size of solids within a liquid which is to be pumped by shredding. An improvement over prior designs employs a cutting assembly and a shredder pump. The cutting assembly has a centrally positioned stationary dual sided plate cutter which engages first and second rotary cutters on alternate sides of a centrally positioned dual sided plate cutter. The first rotary cutter has cutting lobes having upper and lower cutting surfaces. The waste water contents have a finer grind which improves removal and reduces the likelihood of shredder pump clogging. The cutter assembly is configured for mounting to an intake opening of a stationary volute associated with a shredder pump. Many more cutting surfaces are provided which more quickly shred the solid materials within the liquid to be expelled.
US12097500B2
A sensor for detecting a target analyte in a sample includes a pair of conducting electrodes that are separated by a gap. An insulator is disposed in the gap between the electrodes. Plural wells are defined by one of the electrodes and the insulator, to expose the other of the electrodes. The wells are configured to receive a sample including a target analyte. The target analyte, when present in the sample received in the wells, modulates an impedance between the electrodes. The modulated impedance, which is measurable with an applied electrical voltage, is indicative of the concentration of the target analyte in the sample. The wells can include antibodies immobilized inside the wells, to bind the target analyte, which can be a cytokine. Also provided are a method for label-free sensing of a target analyte in a sample, and a transcutaneous impedance sensor for label-free, in-situ biomarker detection.
US12097498B2
An article includes a flexible structured film with a first major surface and a second major surface, wherein a first major surface of the flexible structured film has a plurality of posts separated by land areas, and the posts have an exposed surface. An anti-biofouling layer resides in the land areas, and the anti-biofouling layer has a methylated surface. An inorganic layer is on the exposed surfaces of the posts, wherein the inorganic layer includes a metal or a metal oxide. An analyte binding layer is on the inorganic layer, wherein the analyte binding layer is chosen from a reactive silane, a functionalizable hydrogel, a functionalizable polymer, and mixtures and combinations thereof. An exposed surface of the analyte binding layer includes at least one functional group selected to bind with a biochemical analyte.
US12097493B2
A kit or set including a planar sample carrier having an absorbent membrane layer suitable for absorbing liquid blood components is provided, and wherein at least a portion of the blood components is able to dry in the membrane layer, wherein the sample carrier is additionally provided on an outer side with an optically readable code, additionally including a closable cuboidal box having a bottom surface that has a rectangular base surface and that additionally has a first opening, additionally including a planar receiving element having a base surface that corresponds to the base surface of the bottom surface, wherein the receiving element has a second opening and a holder that together are designed such that, on mounting the sample carrier in the holder and subsequently inserting the receiving element into the box on the bottom surface of the box, the optical code is visible through the first opening in the bottom surface and also through the second opening in the receiving element.
US12097490B2
This application relates to a sample analyzing apparatus. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a base, a connector arranged at an end of the base, and a temperature controlling member mounted on the base and configured to adjust a temperature of the connector. The apparatus may also include a controller configured to adjust heat generation of the temperature controlling member to adjust a bonding force of a pipette tip attached to a surface of the connector.
US12097487B2
A catalyst for inducing thermal desorption of organic matter-contaminated soil and a preparation method thereof, which uses a colloidal mixture of ferroferric oxide and ferric chloride as a catalytic active component of thermal desorption, and carbon tetrachloride as a solvent. Based on the mass of solvent, a mass percentage of catalytic active component is 0.1%-15%. Ammonia water is added dropwise to ferric chloride aqueous solution to react in oil bath to generate a ferroferric oxide colloidal solution, then ferric chloride and obtained ferroferric oxide colloidal solution are added to carbon tetrachloride, and mixed solution is continuously stirred in an oil bath to evaporate solvent water to prepare a catalyst with carbon tetrachloride as solvent. Catalyst is environmentally friendly and can induce thermal desorption of organic matters in soil. 100% desorption of chlorobenzene, o-xylene and benzo[A]anthracene can be achieved at 130° C., and energy consumption of thermal desorption is greatly reduced.
US12097479B2
A separating column (12) for hippuric acid analysis is filled with a filler in which 123 μmol/g or more of β-cyclodextrin is chemically bonded to a silica matrix. By using such a filler for the separating column (12) in which 123 μmol/g or more of β-cyclodextrin is chemically bonded to the silica matrix, hippuric acid, o-methyl hippuric acid, m-methyl hippuric acid, p-methyl hippuric acid, and mandelic acid can be separated without using a mobile phase containing cyclodextrin.
US12097476B2
A system including a containment assembly for enclosing a medication container may comprise a first housing portion or interface portion having a proximal end and a distal end. The interface portion may include a housing wall which defines a channel spanning from the proximal end to the distal end. The channel may be open at the proximal and distal end. The containment assembly may further comprise only two pierceable septa configured to form a barrier to the channel. The containment assembly may further comprise a variable-volume housing portion having a variable volume chamber. The variable-volume portion chamber of the variable-volume housing portion may be in fluid communication with the distal end of the channel.
US12097475B2
The present invention provides microfluidic technology enabling rapid and economical manipulation of reactions on the femtoliter to microliter scale.
US12097471B2
The present invention is directed to asymmetric membranes and methods for making such membranes, wherein the membranes have a void volume and nanoparticles located in the void volume. The membranes have a variety of applications, including blood purification, water purification, water decontamination and bioprocessing.
US12097469B2
A cross-flow membrane filtration channel defined by at least one membrane, wherein at least one surface of the channel is inclined at an angle away from a centreline of the channel in a direction of feed flow in the channel.
US12097468B2
The present disclosure relates to an external pressure type hollow fiber membrane component, a filtration membrane component, and a membrane filtration assembly, and provides an external pressure type hollow fiber membrane component, comprising: a housing having an inner cavity; and two end parts respectively provided at two ends of the inner cavity of the housing, the end parts being provided with a plurality of void passages running through the end parts in the axial direction of the housing and a plurality of water collection passages communicated with each other, and the void passages and the water collection passages are staggered at intervals. The present disclosure also provides a filtration membrane component and a membrane filtration assembly.
US12097461B2
A method for treating arsenic-containing flue gas is disclosed. In the method, the arsenic-containing flue gas is subjected to a dry pre-dedusting treatment, and the dedusted flue gas is pre-cooled and then introduced into a vortex quenching system. The arsenic-containing flue gas is divided into high-temperature flue gas and low-temperature flue gas through the vortex quenching system. The outlet temperature of the low-temperature flue gas is dropped below the desublimation temperature of gaseous arsenic trioxide. The low-temperature flue gas is subjected to a gas-solid separation to obtain solid arsenic trioxide and treated flue gas.
US12097460B2
This disclosure relates to aggregating, neutralizing, and filtering ultra-fine particles in fluids such as air and water. Fluid may be drawn from an ambient environment into a neutralization chamber. Within the neutralization chamber, particles in the fluid may be agglomerated. An acoustic field may be applied to the fluid to agglomerate the particles. The agglomerated particles may be exposed to light. The light may denature or deactivate the agglomerated particles. The agglomerated and inert particles maybe passed through a filter. After agglomeration and neutralization, the fluid may be released back into the ambient environment.
US12097448B2
The present invention relates to a method for fractionating a feedstock into two or more fractions enriched with different components, and more particularly to a method for fractionating a feedstock into two or more fractions by a chromatographic sequential simulated moving bed (SMB) system, wherein the SMB system comprises a separation loop comprising at least 2 compartments; and wherein the method comprises a separation cycle comprising at least one feeding step, at least one circulating step and at least one eluting step; wherein the dissolved substances in the feedstock form a separation profile as they progress through the separation loop; and the separation profile is progressed more than once or less than once through the separation loop in each separation cycle; and wherein at least two flow paths are present in the separation loop during each feeding step of the separation cycle; and at least one of said flow paths is an active flow path and at least one of said flow paths is an inactive flow path.
US12097438B2
Example monitored online experience systems and methods are described. In one implementation, techniques initiate an online gaming experience with a first user and associate a second user with the online gaming experience. The techniques receive audio data from a game server and receive a voice overlay from the second user. During the online gaming experience, the techniques play the audio data in a speaker proximate the first person and play the voice overlay in the speaker proximate the first person.
US12097425B2
The description relates to input devices that can be secured to and used to control various devices. One example input device can include a housing defining a top surface that includes controls. The housing can define a recess that includes generally opposing upper and lower surfaces that extends at least partially under and parallel to the top surface. A self-adjusting gripping mechanism can extend into the recess through the lower surface and can be biased toward the upper surface. The self-adjusting gripping mechanism can be configured to be contacted by devices having a range of thicknesses and configured to grip individual devices within the range of thicknesses between the self-adjusting gripping mechanism and the upper surface.
US12097422B2
An athletic training system has a data recording system and a data engine. The data recording system is configured to record an athletic competition event. The event may have a first team of players competing against a second team of players. The data engine is configured to receive data associated with the recorded athletic competition event. The data engine processes the data and displays the data as a replay of the event in animated form.
US12097416B2
An indoor golf tee includes a tee base and a tee shaft. The tee base has a base top portion and a base bottom portion. The base top portion has a connecting hole therethrough. The tee shaft has a shaft top portion, a shaft bottom portion, and a shaft body. The shaft body is connected between the shaft bottom portion and the shaft top portion. The shaft top portion is configured to hold a golf ball thereon. The shaft bottom portion is removably connected in the connecting hole of the tee base in a perpendicular orientation to the tee base. When the base bottom portion of the tee base is positioned on a surface, and the shaft bottom portion is connected in the connecting hole of the base top portion, the tee base orients the tee shaft in the perpendicular orientation to the surface.
US12097413B2
Disclosed herein is an iron-type golf club head that includes a body, made of a first material having a first density The body has a sole portion that includes an internal shelf. The iron-type golf club head also comprises a weight located within the internal cavity and at least partially seated on the internal shelf. The iron-type golf club head further comprises a filler material located within the internal cavity. The internal cavity has an internal cavity volume ranging between 40 cc to 55 cc.
US12097409B2
Provided is a highly reliable, cost-effective scattered object collection system that can efficiently collect scattered objects by reducing unnecessary traveling of a traveling collector. The scattered object collection system includes a traveling collector that performs a collecting operation by picking up balls B while traveling in a work area W, sets a virtual work area Z (or a virtual priority work area Za) to an area in the work area W where balls are relatively densely present and in the vicinity of the storage space of balls, and allows the traveling collector to perform a collecting operation in the virtual work area Z (or the virtual priority work area Za) with higher priority than the other areas.
US12097406B2
A system for computer-implemented golf shot analysis includes a tracking device and a computing device. The computing device accesses ball flight data generated by the tracking device in view of a predetermined gradient map and associated functionality to derive a performance metric that penalizes shots deemed to be offline.
US12097401B2
An orthostatic hypotension alleviation device comprising an outer casing comprising an aperture extending therethrough; a carriage arranged within the outer casing and configured to be reciprocally displaced towards and away from the aperture along a carriage displacement axis; a spindle arranged on the carriage and configured to rotate about a spindle axis; a tether at least partially wound around the spindle, the tether comprising a distal end extending through the aperture, the tether being arranged such that it can be extended from a retracted configuration to an extended configuration in which the tether is fully extended by pulling the distal end away from the aperture so rotating the spindle about the spindle axis; a spindle biasing mechanism connected to the spindle and configured to apply a biasing torque to the spindle about the spindle axis so as to bias the tether towards the retracted configuration; and, a carriage biasing mechanism arranged within the outer casing connected to the carriage and configured to bias the carriage away from the aperture.
US12097397B2
A weight training apparatus using hydraulics or pneumatics for applying positive and negative resistance closer to a user's maximum capacity throughout a lift is provided. The apparatus allows for weight training without weights. The apparatus may provide a more effective and safer mechanism for training than conventional techniques. An aerobic apparatus using hydraulics or pneumatics for a more realistic feel is also provided. Methods of using the devices are also provided.
US12097396B2
A firefighting composition for use in onboard firefighting systems of heavy industrial equipment, such as heavy vehicles and other types of heavy equipment used in construction, forestry, mining, and other similar industries, includes aqueous liquids that include (a) a sodium and/or potassium salt of an organic acid; (b) one or more of an alkylpolyglycoside surfactant, an alkyl sulfate anionic surfactant, an alkyliminodialkylcarboxylate surfactant and a zwitterionic surfactant; (c) an acetylenic diol derivative surfactant and/or a siloxane-based surfactant; and (d) alkylene glycol and/or glycerol.
US12097378B2
A resuscitation system for use in the resuscitation of a subject includes a computing device configured to input subject information and use the subject information to create a subject resuscitation strategy, a sensor configured to detect subject biosignals and use the subject biosignals to monitor for a subject cardiac arrest event, and a defibrillator configured to determine and deliver a subject resuscitation treatment. On determination of a subject cardiac arrest event, the sensor outputs sensor subject biosignals to the computing device. The computing device uses the sensor subject biosignals to adapt the subject resuscitation strategy and output the subject resuscitation strategy to the defibrillator. The defibrillator measures subject biodata and uses the subject biodata and the subject resuscitation strategy to determine and deliver a subject resuscitation treatment. During subject resuscitation treatment, the defibrillator repeatedly uses measured subject biodata and the subject resuscitation strategy to adapt the subject resuscitation treatment.
US12097376B1
The disclosed systems and methods provide a mobile defibrillator system that can include a mobile defibrillator (AED) unit configured to operatively connect to a device capable of running an application. The mobile AED unit can include circuitry for administering an electric shock to a subject; and one or more pads. Each pad can include one or more needles electrically connected to the circuitry and can be configured to pierce skin of the subject; reside within the subject; and deliver current from the electrical shock to the subject.
US12097363B2
Systems, assemblies, and related modules for connecting components of medical devices employ connector cables with electrical conductors and optical fibers. A connector assembly for coupling a battery module with a medical system including an implanted or worn medical device includes an input connector and an output connector. The input connector includes metal contact plates, has no moving parts, and is sealed to prevent water or dust ingression into the housing. The output connector includes metal pins to electrically couple to the metal plates of the input connector, a connector cable including electrical conductors coupled to the metal pins configured to transmit electrical power and an optical fiber configured to transmit data, and a latching mechanism disposed at an end of the output connector configured to physically attach the output connector to the housing. The cable body has a substantially flat cross-section.
US12097359B2
A medical device may comprise a flexible sheath defining a lumen extending from a proximal end of the sheath to a distal end of the sheath. The sheath may include a piston slidably received within the lumen; an agent disposed in the lumen distal to the piston; and pneumatic fluid disposed in the lumen proximal of the piston. The device may also comprise handle at a proximal end of the sheath, the handle including: a plunger received in a reservoir, wherein the reservoir is in fluid communication with the lumen. The reservoir may contain pneumatic fluid. The handle may also include a gear. An amount of rotation of the gear in a first direction may correspond to an amount that the plunger advances distally in the reservoir to displace pneumatic fluid. The displacement of the pneumatic fluid may advance the piston distally to deliver an amount of agent from the sheath.
US12097354B2
An infusion device system includes a base (12) for removably coupling to a delivery device, a needle hub (22) supporting an insertion needle (20) and a catheter (18) for delivering a substance to a patient. The infusion device includes a needle shield (24) for covering the insertion needle (20) after inserting the catheter (18) into the patient. The needle hub (22) includes a least one leg (70) extending from the needle shield (24) to stabilize the needle shield (24) and needle hub (12) relative to the base. In one embodiment, the legs (70) can include a latching tab (74) to couple to the needle hub (22) to resist separation of the needle hub from the base (12) until the legs are deflected outward to release the needle hub (22).
US12097350B2
Universal disinfecting connector, connector or cap can interface with male, female, female stopcock, and female hemodialysis threaded fittings, therefore encompassing an entire spectrum of disinfecting connectors. Disinfecting connector or cap includes a configuration of structural elements that provide a universal rotary cap incorporating rotary-activated interfaces and design features allowing the cap to be configured to selectively present any one of a plurality of connection types, or interfaces, for engaging, coupling, or capping, a corresponding type of a male or a female connector or luer.
US12097349B2
A delivery adapter which may be used as an interface between a syringe and a catheter hub is described.
US12097336B2
Systems, methods and devices are described including a medical device subassembly including a magnetic feature. Systems include such a catheter adapter subassembly or needle subassembly or guidewire introducer subassembly and a wire including a magnetic feature, and relative movement of the catheter adapter subassembly or needle subassembly or guidewire introducer subassembly and the wire can be determined using a magnetometer.
US12097330B2
Disclosed is a massage apparatus including a processor configurable to receive a first dataset associated with a physiological parameter of an individual to derive a first emotional indication of the individual; wherein the first emotional indication and the first dataset are configured as inputs to derive a second emotional indication of the individual.
US12097326B2
A patient interface for use in delivering a flow of a breathing gas to an airway of a patient includes a body that defines a cavity therein that is structured to receive the flow of breathing gas. A first aperture defined in the body is positioned and structured to communicate the flow of breathing gas from the cavity to an airway of the patient. A second aperture defined in the body is sized and configured to provide a pathway between the cavity and an ambient environment in which the body is disposed. The patient interface further includes a restrictor element that is selectively coupled to the body. The restrictor element includes a blocking portion that obstructs at least a portion of the second aperture.
US12097321B2
A respiratory apparatus includes components to protect operations of the apparatus. For example, in some versions, the apparatus may include a power supply, a motor powered by the power supply, and a transient absorption diode circuit between the motor and the power supply. The transient absorption diode circuit may be configured to absorb energy generated by the motor from rotational kinetic energy. Such absorption may serve to protect the components of the apparatus. In some examples, the apparatus may include a fault mitigation integrated circuit (IC). The IC circuit may be included in the respiratory apparatus to detect one or more faults based on physical and system parameters of the apparatus. The fault mitigation integrated circuit may generate a signal to stop the motor based on the detected fault, and may digitally communicate with a processor information about the detected fault.
US12097315B2
The disclosure provides a method of placing a cardiac drainage cannula into a patient's heart. In some embodiments, the method comprises the steps of (a) inserting the cannula percutaneously into an internal jugular vein, (b) advancing the cannula through the internal jugular vein and into the right atrium of the heart, and (c) advancing the cannula through the atrial septum into the left atrium of the heart. Further aspects of the disclosure provide a method of draining blood from the left atrium or left ventricle of a patient's heart using a cardiac drainage cannula. The disclosure also provides a cardiac drainage cannula and a mechanical circulatory support system.
US12097310B2
An apparatus for irradiating air flow in a vehicle includes a filter unit configured to couple to a recirculating-air conduit connected to a manifold of an air circulation system, the filter unit having an inlet end, and a filter disposed in the inlet end of the filter unit, including an outer High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) media. The apparatus further includes a plurality of ultraviolet light transmissive strands that each have distal ends disposed in a spaced apart manner in an interface region between the outer HEPA media filter and an inner activated carbon filter or HEPA filter, and proximal ends connectable to an ultraviolet light emitting source such that ultraviolet light is transmitted by the transmissive strands into the interface region. The transmissive strands are configured to receive emitted ultraviolet light that is substantially between 222 nm and 265 nm for irradiating air passing through the filter.
US12097303B2
The present disclosure provides a decellularized extracellular matrix, the preparation process and uses thereof. The decellularized extracellular matrix of the present disclosure is derived from a three-dimensional cell spheroid, and the decellularized extracellular matrix has a three-dimensional spherical structure. The decellularized extracellular matrix of the present disclosure can be used to prepare a biomedical material scaffold for promoting tissue regeneration and repair.
US12097302B2
Provided is a cell sheet suitable for cartilage repair. The present invention provides a cell sheet for cartilage repair, formed from a culture of cells derived from a cartilage tissue, and the cell sheet is negative for immunostaining using an antibody against type II collagen. The present invention also provides a method for producing a cell sheet for cartilage repair, formed from a culture of cells derived from a cartilage tissue, and the method includes culturing cells derived from a cartilage tissue on a surface of a membrane, where a temperature-responsive polymer is immobilized on the surface, to give the cell sheet. The culturing is stopped before the cell sheet becomes positive for immunostaining using an antibody against type II collagen.
US12097299B2
A hand sanitization system, a sanitization machine, and hand coverings containing markings for use with the sanitization machine are disclosed. The hand sanitization machine is capable of sanitizing hand coverings that were traditionally disposed of after one use. The hand coverings may contain indicators that signal when they have been sterilized.
US12097297B2
Antimicrobial system that includes distributed disinfection programming that implements a safe lockout protocol. The safe lockout protocol includes in response to a control station producing an arming initiation signal that is ON based on a first input from an operator, tracking a visual inspection signal produced by an arming switch based on a second input. The safe lockout protocol further includes in response to determining that the tracked visual inspection signal is ON and the control station producing an arming completion signal that is ON based on a third input, receiving a disinfection commencement signal that is ON based on a fourth input from the control station. The safe lockout protocol further includes in response to receiving the disinfection commencement signal that is ON based on the fourth input from the control station, controlling power to a luminaire to emit a disinfection light via a primary relay pack regulator.
US12097288B2
The present invention relates, in various embodiments, to formulations comprising hydrocortisone and silicon dioxide. In additional embodiments, the invention relates to suppositories comprising hydrocortisone and silicon dioxide. The formulations of the present invention are useful for administration to patients who have gastrointestinal diseases and disorders such as, for example, inflammatory bowel disease.
US12097278B2
Film forming compositions and methods for preventing stains and increasing shine and gloss of teeth. The film forming compositions may include a polymer, such as a hydrophobic polymer, and an orally acceptable solvent. The hydrophobic polymer may include an acrylate component and a hydrophobic group coupled with one another. The hydrophobic group may include an alkyl chain, a polyethylene glycol, a polypropylene, a polyester, a polyorthoester, a phospholipid, a long chain fatty acid, a vinyl chloride, fluorethylene, a siloxane, a urethane, an octylacrylamide, a butylaminoethyl, a styrene, and combinations thereof.
US12097276B2
A composition contains, as an effective component, theasinensin A, an enantiomer thereof, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate thereof, or a solvate thereof. The composition has an excellent stability and provides wrinkle-reducing or skin elasticity-enhancing benefits, and skin-brightening benefits by containing theasinensin A, an enantiomer thereof, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate thereof, or a solvate thereof, as an effective component.
US12097272B2
An ultraviolet protection patch is provided. An ultraviolet protection patch, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is implemented by comprising: an ultraviolet protection layer including a support component and an ultraviolet protection agent; and a first shape-retaining layer which is a fiber web provided on one surface of the ultraviolet protection layer. According to this, as the ultraviolet protection patch comprises the ultraviolet protection layer and the shape-retaining layer which have predetermined properties, an ultraviolet protection material does not directly contact the skin, and thus skin trouble, irritation, and white cast do not occur, and as the patch is excellent in elasticity, the patch has excellent stiffness without inhibiting movement of a site to which the patch is adhered or peeling off even by physical stimuli, and the ultraviolet protection layer and the shape-retaining layer have a predetermined basis weight relationship, thereby having excellent transparency, and thus, there is an effect of not reducing visibility of the site to which the patch is adhered when the patch is adhered to the skin.
US12097270B2
Provided herein are methods and devices for identifying and/or distinguishing UCA formulations and specifically activating such formulations to produce UCA suitable for in vivo use.
US12097267B2
Codon optimized nucleic acid sequences for the long form and short form of RdCVF are provided, as well as recombinant viral vectors, such as AAV, expression cassettes, proviral plasmids or other plasmids containing the codon optimized sequences. Recombinant vectors are provided that express the codon optimized RdCVFL and RdCVF individually, or express two copies of a codon optimized RdCVF or RdCVFL nucleic acid sequence, or both RdCVFL and RdCVF in a single vector or virus. Compositions containing these codon optimized sequences are useful in methods for treating, retarding or halting certain blinding diseases resulting from the absence or inappropriate expression of RdCVF and RdCVFL.
US12097265B2
The invention relates to cytotoxic particles for cancer therapy including a core and a plurality of variable domains arranged on the core for binding to P2X7 receptors on a cancer cell.
US12097255B2
The present invention provides: a recombinant expression vector comprising a gene encoding a porcine parvovirus VP2 protein; a recombinant plant or a recombinant insect cell transformed with the vector; and a vaccine composition for a porcine parvovirus and a composition for diagnosing porcine parvovirus, both of which contain a porcine parvovirus VP2 protein obtained from the recombinant plant or the recombinant insect cell. When the recombinant plant or recombinant insect cell of the present invention is used, the porcine parvovirus antigenic protein can be produced with high efficiency, and the porcine parvovirus antigenic protein production method using the recombinant plant or recombinant insect cell has excellent safety and stability compared with other antigen production methods.
US12097243B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing a bone protein preparation which contains for example growth factors. The present invention also provides a bone protein preparation obtained by the method and paste, putty, pellet, disc, block, granule, osteogenic device or pharmaceutical composition containing said bone protein preparation.
US12097239B2
A previously uncharacterized gene and gene product are disclosed herein that increase blood glucose clearance independent of insulin. Also described is a methodology for enriching for mRNAs transcribing excreted and membrane bound proteins as well as a non-human animal expressing a labeled SEC61b protein.
US12097238B2
This disclosure provides pharmaceutical preparations, products, and methods relating to ARINA-1 for use in treating patients with chronic inflammatory lung diseases, such as lung transplant, cystic fibrosis (CF), non-CF bronchiectasis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD, and other inflammatory lung diseases.
US12097229B1
A composition for prevention and treatment of Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS) shrimp to replace antibiotics obtain from process creating a basic mixture by mixing a complex composition with mixing ingredients, then stirring the basic mixture for 1 hour, and adjusting the pH to 6.5-7.5 and leaving it for one day at a temperature of 30° C.-35° C.; wherein the complex composition including 10%-15% by weight of a turkey tail mushroom extract and 10%-15% by weight of a chitosan; in which mixing ingredients consisting of a carboxymethyl cellulose solution 0.375%, a alginate solution 0.375%, a potassium citrate solution, a AgNO3 solution 0.37%, a Cu(NO3)2 solution 0.723%, a Zn(NO3)2 solution 3.085%, Co(NO3)2 solution 0.746%, a Fe(NO3)3 solution 2.5%, a glycerin ingredient, a vitamin E, a tartrazine ingredient 1%, a K2HPO4 solution 15%, a mixture extracts/essential oils, and an other ingredient.
US12097220B2
This disclosure provides various TcBuster transposases and transposons, systems, and methods of use.
US12097214B2
Provided herein are therapeutic oligonucleotides that comprise at least one p-ethoxy backbone linkage but no more than 80% p-ethoxy backbone linkages. Provided herein are improved delivery systems for therapeutic oligonucleotides comprising a liposome that comprises neutral phospholipids and a p-ethoxy oligonucleotide that is entrapped in the liposome.
US12097208B2
Compositions and methods are provided for treating diseases and conditions of the nasal, sinonasal and nasopharyngeal tissues.
US12097204B2
A solid pharmaceutical composition containing a 1,3,5-triazine derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a preparation method therefor. In particular, involved are a solid pharmaceutical composition containing 4-(tert-butoxyamino)-6-(6-(trifluoromethyl)pyridin-2-yl)-N-(2-(trifluoromethyl)pyridin-4-yl)-1,3,5-triazine-2-amine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a preparation method therefor. The solid pharmaceutical composition has a good stability, a fast dissolution rate and a high bioavailability, and is suitable for clinical production and use.
US12097186B2
Provided are topical analgesic compositions and methods of preparing topical analgesic compositions comprising a stable nano-encapsulating matrix film. The topical analgesic compositions and methods of preparing topical analgesic compositions may be suited for roll-on applicators. Topical analgesic compositions may include 12 to 16 wt. % menthol; 4 to 8 wt. % camphor; 2 to 15 wt. % film-forming polymer; and 50 to 70 wt. % solvent. To be used in a roll-on applicator, the topical analgesic composition has a viscosity from 800 to 1400 centipoise.
US12097181B2
Provided herein are maternal neonatal pheromonal agents capable of reducing aggression and improving feeding behavior in a pig. Compositions comprising the pheromonal agents and methods of using the agents to reduce aggression and improve feeding behavior and weight gain in the pig are also provided.
US12097176B2
Modified release formulations of gamma-hydroxybutyrate having improved dissolution and pharmacokinetic properties are provided, and therapeutic uses thereof.
US12097173B2
The present subject matter includes novel chemical formulations having antimicrobial, antifungal, antiseptic, and related effect in a wide range of applications for treating or preventing infections as well as treating various surfaces that may become tainted with infectants. In some embodiments, the formulation includes isoamyl hexanoates and at least one of propanoic and/or isobutyric acid.
US12097164B2
An interface system in an exoskeleton includes a base support, a strap assembly, and posterior strut. The posterior strut has a vertical member defining a lower end connecting to the base support, and an upper end connecting to first and second transverse members extending in opposed directions from the vertical member. The first and second transverse members connect to the strap assembly. The interface system is adapted to receive and support an assistive device adapted to augment a user's performance and mitigate repetitive strain injuries.
US12097157B2
A system for loading a patient transport apparatus into a vehicle is described. The system includes a loading and unloading system including a track and a trolley supporting a receiver movable between locked and unlocked configurations. The system also includes a patient transport apparatus for attachment to the loading and unloading system including a base, a litter, and a lift mechanism to facilitate arranging the litter at different heights relative to the base with an actuator movable between fully-retracted and fully-extended configurations, a coupler for engaging the receiver to secure the patient transport apparatus, first and second sensors configured to output a first signal and second signal and a controller to determine a target lift configuration during unloading from the emergency based on first and second values and to drive the actuator to the target lift configuration to limit relative movement between the patient transport apparatus and the trolley.
US12097156B2
A sheet holding arrangement for holding a sheet when transferring a patient placed on the sheet, comprising at least two knobs and at least two holder elements, where the sheet is held between the knobs and holder elements when connected to each other, where the holder element is provided with an opening adapted to allow insertion of the knob through the opening, where the sheet holding arrangement is connectable to a pulling arrangement, where the sheet holding arrangement comprises a connecting member provided with at least two knobs and where the stem comprises a circumferential groove having a shape that corresponds to a semi-circular end section of the holder element, such that the sheet is held between the groove and the semi-circular end section when the holder element is connected to the knob.
US12097153B2
A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, recliner, cot, stretcher, operating table, or the like, includes battery-powered circuitry whose functions are reduced, but not eliminated, as the battery charge level falls below a threshold. Electrical power may be cut off to one or more components of the battery-powered circuitry while still providing battery-supplied electrical power to the other components of the circuitry. A user interface provides battery status data, including a replacement status of a rechargeable battery, and allows a user to select different formats for displaying battery status data. Such formats include displays of battery charge level information not only in manners specific to the battery, but also in manners relative to the patient support apparatus, such as displays of how many, or how much of, one or more functions the patient support apparatus is able to perform based on the battery's current charge level.
US12097148B2
In an ophthalmic laser procedure, a lenticule is formed in the cornea and extracted from the cornea to accomplish vision correction. The ophthalmic laser system is used to form top and bottom lenticule incisions which intersect each other to form an isolated volume of corneal tissue in between. The volume of tissue includes a lenticular portion having a circular or oval shape and a side tab that protrudes from the peripheral of the lenticular portion. The side tab has a radial dimension between 0.5 and 5 mm and a width between 0.5 and 3 mm in. An entry cut is further formed from the anterior corneal surface to the top or bottom lenticule incisions to provide access to the lenticule. During extraction, the surgeon uses the surgical tool to grab the side tab to extract the lenticule.
US12097146B1
An eye drop or eye wash dispenser assembly includes a dispenser bottle having a nipple for dispensing eye drops, and a cap removably coupleable to the dispenser bottle over the nipple. An eye cup removably fits over at least a portion of the dispenser bottle and couples to the bottle. The eye cup can be coupled to the dispenser bottle in a stowed position where the eye cup is disposed below the nipple, and can be inverted and coupled to the dispenser bottle in a deployed position where the eye cup is disposed so that it extends distally of and around the nipple. The eye cup in the deployed position can be supported on or rest on the periphery of the eye socket to facilitate delivery of eye drops into a user's eye.
US12097140B2
An absorbent article can have a topsheet layer, a liquid impermeable layer, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet layer and the liquid impermeable layer. The absorbent article can further include an exudate management layer in fluid communication with the topsheet layer. In various embodiments, the exudate management layer can be positioned on a body facing surface of the topsheet layer. In various embodiments, the exudate management layer can be positioned between the topsheet layer and the absorbent core. The exudate management layer has a first component which defines an opening for direct passage of body exudates into the absorbent core. The exudate management layer has a second component which at least partially overlaps the first component of the exudate management layer and further extends in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article in a direction towards the posterior region of the absorbent article.
US12097138B2
A method for affixing a fundus portion of the stomach of a human patient to the patient's esophagus is disclosed. The method comprises folding the fundus portion towards the esophagus such that the fundus portion rests against the esophagus, from the angle of His and upwards along the esophagus, and affixing the fundus portion to the esophagus by means of fasteners arranged along a first line and a second line. The first line and the second line extend along the esophagus and are arranged such that a distance between the first line and the second line increases with an increasing distance from the angle of His. The method can be used for invaginating a movement restriction device by the fundus, a position between the diaphragm and the cardiac sphincter to hinder the cardia from sliding through the diaphragm opening into the patient's thorax.
US12097134B2
A vascular stent may be used to maintain or enhance patency of a blood vessel. By using multiple, separate stent elements that are balloon expandable, the multi-element stent may be stronger than a traditional self-expanding stent but may also be more flexible, due to its multiple-element configuration, than a traditional balloon-expandable stent. The stent elements are formed from a bioresorbable polymer material. The radial rigidity of the stent is configured to decrease after implantation in a vessel as the polymer is absorbed. The thickness of the stent, cell shape, polymer material, and/or treatment of the polymer material may be configured to provide a high initial radial rigidity to the vessel upon implantation and a decrease in the radial rigidity of the vessel over time.
US12097127B2
The disclosure provides a tool for implanting an interphalangeal implant, an implant retainer for an interphalangeal implant, and a method for preparing an implantation tool for an implantation of an interphalangeal implant. The tool for implanting an interphalangeal implant comprises a limb support for supporting a limb, a driving rod, wherein the driving rod is movable for moving an interphalangeal implant towards the limb support, and an actuation mechanism for actuating the implant driver.
US12097123B2
An implant that includes a body and a plurality of arched bone contacting elements is disclosed. The body includes a peripheral structure and three support beams extending in a central region of the peripheral structure. Arched bone contacting elements extend between adjacent beams and between beams and the peripheral structure. The arched bone contacting elements include flared legs. The arched bone contacting elements may be arranged in V-like configurations on the superior and inferior sides.
US12097116B2
Disclosed is a prosthetic heart valve and an assembling method thereof. The prosthetic heart valve comprises a universal core which can be universally used in different implantation positions and different application scenarios, and an adapter selected from more than one adapters which are respectively suitable for the different application scenarios. The universal core has a plurality of cantilever struts softly connected by a wire to form a supporting structure for a leaflet structure. The prosthetic heart valve according to the present disclosure has better flexibility and wider application range compared with various existing prosthetic heart valves, and may save time cost and research and development cost.
US12097110B2
A stent graft comprises a plurality of wavy rings sequentially arranged in a spaced manner, and membranes fixed to the plurality of wavy rings, wherein the stent graft comprises, in a circumferential direction, at least one keel region and a non-keel region connected to the keel region, the keel region having an axial shortening rate that is less than that of the non-keel region, and the axial shortening rate of the keel region is 10-40%. The stent graft can be bent in all directions, and the keel region on the stent graft can provide a sufficient amount of an axial support force for the stent.
US12097107B2
The present invention relates to a prosthetic fabric comprising an arrangement of yarns defining at least two faces for said fabric, said fabric comprising, on at least one of its faces, one or more barbs that protrude outwards relative to said face, characterized in that said barbs are covered with a coating made of a water-soluble biocompatible material. The invention also relates to a process for obtaining such a fabric and to prostheses obtained from such a fabric.
US12097103B1
Garments include a fluid retention assembly coupled to an interior side of a garment base, with said coupling not being present on an exterior side of the garment base. The fluid retention assembly includes two fluid-retention zones of different absorbencies. One or more fluid retention assemblies may be located anywhere on the garment, without being limited to positioning near edges or apertures. A moisture-impermeable layer of the fluid retention assembly separates the interior side of the garment base from the fluid retention zones, such that the moisture-impermeable layer is configured to restrict and/or at least substantially prevent fluid from exiting the fluid retention assembly to the exterior side of the garment base.
US12097101B2
The present invention discloses a method of manufacturing a diaper that has multiple moisture sensing elements on interior side of its bottom impermeable layer or on any surface of the top permeable layer. The moisture sending elements are made by spraying conductive ink on a moving sheet of either the bottom impermeable layer or the top permeable layer, before other layers of the diaper are attached. Spraying of conductive ink on the moving sheet causes parallel lines of conductive inks to be formed on the layer. The parallel lines of conductive ink run through the entire length of either of the layers and are designed to get connected with a detecting device. When a user urinates inside the diaper, the moisture causes a closed circuit between at least two of the parallel lines of conductive inks. These formations of closed circuits, between parallel lines of conductive inks, are detected by the detecting device. Also, with increasing volume of moisture, the resistance of the closed circuits also tends to decrease. This rate of decrease of resistance is also detected by the detecting device and is used to calculate a volume of moisture present in the diaper. The detecting device then generates a suitable alarm to give an idea about the saturation level of the diaper. The process of manufacturing sensing elements by spraying conductive inks on moving sheet of layer reduces the processing and modification overhead of specially designed conductive ink printers and also does not impact the manufacturing time of a diaper manufacturing assembly line.
US12097081B2
A dental tissue treatment apparatus and associated methods includes a feedback-controlled beam guidance system for directing treatment to a defined area of dental tissue.
US12097080B2
A labelling system includes a labelling plate being adapted to be removably connected with a sterile container, wherein the labelling plate includes interfaces for at least one label (e.g. barcode) and at least one identification tag (e.g. RFID). The interfaces can removably hold the at least one identification tag and/or the at least one label at the separate labelling plate.
US12097077B1
Methods and systems are provided for using point-of-care (POC) imaging, for example, ultrasound imaging, to detect, prevent, diagnose, evaluate, and/or treat patients experiencing an undesirable episode, such, as cardiac arrest. The images obtained include an echocardiogram of the heart, an echocardiogram of the vena cava, and a sonogram of the lungs. The images obtained are compared to previously-defined conditions, for example, as shown by schematic images of the previously-defined conditions. The previously-defined conditions of bodily organs and structures, may be referred to as “phenotypes,” and sets of phenotypes may be referred to as “hemodynamic phenotypes.” Images obtained by medical imaging of the patient are compared to the phenotypes and hemodynamic phenotypes to establish diagnoses and treatments of the patient. The echocardiograms of the heart may be subcostal, 4-chmber echocardiograms, though other types of echocardiograms may be used. The image of the vena cava may be images of the IVC.
US12097076B2
A method for displaying a passive cavitation image that shows characteristic information of a passive cavitation includes: receiving an ultrasound signal caused by the passive cavitation; generating a plurality of first passive cavitation images for the passive cavitation at predetermined respective time frame using the received ultrasound signal by a DAS beam forming; generating a plurality of second passive cavitation images in which a maximum magnitude signal region is displayed by selecting a main lobe region having a magnitude greater than or equal to a predetermined value in the respective first passive cavitation image; generating a main lobe passive cavitation image in which a main region is displayed in the respective time frame by superimposing the plurality of the second passive cavitation images obtained for the respective time frame; and generating a passive cavitation image by displaying the main lobe passive cavitation image on a background image.
US12097074B2
An ultrasonic element includes at least one cMUT provided to a substrate, wherein the cMUT includes a first electrode provided to the substrate, a frame member having a cavity, a second electrode disposed to face the first electrode with the cavity interposed between the second electrode and the first electrode, and a protective layer covering the second electrode, a length of the cavity in an X axis direction being longer than a width of the cavity in a Y axis direction, the protective layer having a convex region extending in the X axis direction, a width of the convex region in the Y axis direction varying.
US12097069B2
A device comprises an ultrasound probe housing that has an ambient side and a body side and contains ultrasound probes configured to produce images of inside the body of a patient. The device may further include a needle guide assembly connected to the housing that receives a needle for insertion into the body of the patient so that the needle can be visualized by the ultrasonic probes in real time. Each of a first subset of the ultrasound probes is positioned such that a direction of ultrasound waves generated thereby is through the body side and perpendicular to the body side. Each of a second subset of the ultrasound probes is positioned non-perpendicular to the body side such that a direction of ultrasound waves generated by each of the second subset of ultrasound probes is toward a site of penetration of the needle into the body of the patient.
US12097054B2
We provide an imaging system for use in a fluoroscopy procedure carried out on a subject, the imaging system being configured to receive images of a portion of the subject from an image acquisition device, the imaging system comprising an interface module for displaying images received from the image acquisition device to a user, and an optimisation module for determining, based on an image received from the image acquisition device, one or more properties of the image, wherein the optimisation module is configured to output a control routine.
US12097052B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for detecting a fall of a user of a wearable device. The described system samples signal data from an accelerometer of the wearable device and performs a preliminary determination of fall detection using pattern recognition. This preliminary detection may be based on whether a first portion of the signal data exceeds a first threshold indicative of a fall of a wearer of the electronic device and whether a second portion of the signal data is within a range indicative of motion stillness following the fall. The described system further applies a machine learning classifier to the signal data associated with the preliminary indication to generate a fall classification indicating the signal data represents a fall of the wearer of the electronic device.
US12097047B2
Brain drainage device having a rod-shaped hollow body with an inner drainage channel for insertion through the cranium into the brain, a first sensor arrangement with at least one sensor for measuring a physical parameter, and a signal interface, wherein the rod-shaped hollow body has a first region A which configured to protrude into the ventricle situated in the brain, wherein the rod-shaped hollow body has a second region B, which is arranged proximally from the first region, wherein the second region is configured to lie in the region of the brain mass, wherein the first sensor arrangement is arranged in the second region in order to measure a physical parameter of the brain mass, wherein the first sensor arrangement is connected to the signal interface such that measurement data determined by the first sensor arrangement are transmitted to a measuring system.
US12097046B2
A continuous analyte monitor wearable device. The wearable device includes a primary portion comprising at least a sensor assembly comprising a biosensor, and a secondary portion comprising a pocket configured to receive a transmitter unit and a sealable opening to the pocket, the sealable opening containing an adhesive on edges thereof; and a backing member provided over the adhesive wherein removing the backing member exposes the adhesive to seal the sealable opening and encapsulate the transmitter unit. Biosensor inserters and method of using the biosensor inserter are also provided.
US12097038B2
In order to determine a degree of dementia of a user, contents are output through a user terminal, a voice of the user for a content acquired by a microphone of the user terminal is received, a spectrogram image is generated by visualizing the voice, and the degree of dementia of the user is determined by means of a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a deep neural network (DNN) based on the spectrogram image.
US12097035B2
Disclosed systems and method receive electrocardiogram (EKG) data of a subject. The EKG data comprises a record of at least a full beat of the subject. The EKG data is input into a machine learning model to generate an output. The output can include a segmentation of the full beat or a measurement of a QT interval of the subject.
US12097032B2
Abnormalities in electromagnetic fields in the heart, brain, and stomach, among other organs and tissues of the human body, can be indicative of serious health conditions. Described herein are methods, software, systems and devices for detecting the presence of an abnormality in an organ or tissue of a subject by analysis of the electromagnetic fields generated by the organ or tissue.
US12097027B2
A collection system configured to maintain the integrity of a bodily fluid sample has a proximal end portion, a distal end portion, and an inner surface defining a fluid flow path therethrough. The distal end portion is configured to be placed in fluid communication with a patient. The proximal end portion is configured to be placed in fluid communication with a fluid reservoir. The fluid flow path defined by the inner surface is associated with at least one flow characteristic configured to limit a stress within the flow of the bodily fluid between the distal end portion and the proximal end portion.
US12097026B2
A retractor has an oximeter sensor at its tip, which allows measuring of oxygen saturation of a tissue being retracted by the retractor. The tip includes one or more openings for at least one source and detector. A specific implementation is a spinal nerve root retractor with an oximeter sensor.
US12097023B2
A mechanical device is configured to communicate a grade of joint displacement to a clinician during a mobilization procedure on a human or animal joint. The device includes two portions that move relative to one another, when both are engaged to a stable and moveable bone at a joint, and movement of one portion to the other is measured and shown on a display.
US12097021B2
A drug delivery device for administration to a subject is provided. In some embodiments, the drug delivery device includes a reservoir containing an active pharmaceutical ingredient and a potential energy source. The drug delivery device also includes a trigger operatively associated with the potential energy source, where the trigger is configured to actuate at a predetermined location within the subject. The drug delivery device also includes a rupturable membrane disposed along a flow path extending between the reservoir and an outlet, where the membrane is configured to rupture when the trigger is actuated. Once the trigger is actuated, the potential energy from the potential energy source may be released to expel the active pharmaceutical ingredient in a jet through the outlet.
US12097018B2
A measuring device comprising a microwave transmitter, a microwave receiver, at least one antenna, and a control device. The control device controls the microwave transmitter and the microwave receiver.
US12097015B2
Energy harvesting devices and methods for converting the mechanical energy of a flowing ionic solution, such as rainwater or seawater, into electric energy are provided. The energy harvesting devices include an electric current generating device that includes a metal layer and an amphoteric metal oxide film disposed over a surface of the metal layer. By moving an electric double layer across the surface of the amphoteric metal oxide film, an electric current is generated in the metal layer.
US12097007B2
The embodiments described herein relate generally to medical devices that measure vital signs, and more particularly to wearable wireless devices that collect multiple simultaneous vital signs, and systems and methods for compressing the sensor data into a matrix representation to facilitate collecting, transmitting, processing, and displaying vital sign data.
US12097004B2
A surgical robotic system comprising: a robotic arm; a tool drive coupled to the robotic arm; a cannula interface configured to couple a cannula to the tool drive, the cannula interface having a fluid pathway in communication with an interior lumen of the cannula; and an insufflation pathway coupled to the robotic arm, the insufflation pathway having a distal end coupled to the fluid pathway and a proximal end coupled to a surgical insufflator.
US12096999B2
The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various robotic and/or in vivo medical devices having compact joint configurations. Other embodiments relate to various medical device components, including forearms having grasper or cautery end effectors, that can be incorporated into certain robotic and/or in vivo medical devices.
US12096998B2
A computer-assisted medical system includes a manipulator arm and a controller. The controller includes a computer processor. The controller is configured to servo at least one joint associated with at least one manipulator arm segment of the manipulator arm, the servoing including executing a servo loop. Executing the servo loop includes obtaining an actual state of the manipulator arm, computing a difference between a commanded state and the actual state, where the commanded state is used for the servoing the at least one joint, and determining whether the difference exceeds an error threshold. Based on determining that the difference does exceed the error threshold, the commanded state is updated using an offset to reduce the difference, and. Based on determining that the difference does not exceed the error threshold, the commanded state is not updated. The controller is further configured to apply the commanded state to control the actual state.
US12096993B2
A positioning controller (50) including an imaging predictive model (80) and inverse control predictive model (70). In operation, the controller (50) applies the imaging predictive model (80) to imaging data generated by an imaging device (40) to render a predicted navigated pose of the imaging device (40), and applies the control predictive model (70) to error positioning data derived from a differential aspect between a target pose of the imaging device (40) and the predicted navigated pose of the imaging device (40) to render a predicted corrective positioning motion of the imaging device (40) (or a portion of the interventional device associated with this imaging device) to the target pose. From the predictions, the controller (50) further generates continuous positioning commands controlling a corrective positioning by the interventional device (30) of the imaging device (40) (or said portion of interventional device) to the target pose based on the predicted corrective positioning motion of the interventional device (30).
US12096985B2
Various systems and methods providing recommendations based on analysis of surgical procedure variables are disclosed. A computer system, such as a surgical hub, can be configured to be communicably coupled to a surgical device. The computer system can be programmed to determine contextual data related to the surgical procedure being performed based at least in part of perioperative data received from the surgical device paired with the computer system. Further, the computer system can determine a procedural variable associated with the determined surgical context and then compare the procedural variable to a baseline. Depending upon the outcome of the comparison, the computer system can provide intraoperative or postoperative recommendations to the surgical staff.
US12096962B2
A bone anchoring device includes a receiving part including a rod receiving portion with a first end, a second end, and a U-shaped recess for receiving a rod, the recess defining two free legs, and a head receiving portion at the second end for introducing and clamping the head, and a locking ring configured to be arranged around the head receiving portion, the locking ring including an engagement structure for engagement with a tool, the engagement structure defining a width of the locking ring that is greater than a greatest width of the rod receiving portion, wherein the locking ring can assume a locking position exerting a greatest compressive force on the head receiving portion of the receiving part to lock an inserted head, and wherein the locking ring is movable out of the locking position towards the first end of the rod receiving portion.
US12096960B2
A uterine manipulator can include a shaft including a first end, a second end, and a channel along an axis of the shaft, a handle coupled to the first end of the shaft, and a triangular balloon coupled to the second end of the shaft. The triangular balloon can be configured to inflate upon insertion into a vagina via a fluid injected into the channel of the shaft.
US12096959B1
A blood regurgitation preventing puncture and guidance device without skin dilation is provided. The puncture and guidance device mainly includes a needle tube, a dilation tube, a sheath, and a deceleration and stop device. A hydrophilic ultrasound developing coating is provided on a surface of the sheath to lay a foundation for visual puncture. The sheath and the dilation tube contain X-ray developing particles, and are provided with a transition section.
US12096956B2
Rotational atherectomy devices and systems can remove or reduce stenotic lesions in blood vessels by rotating an abrasive element within the vessel. The abrasive element can be attached to a distal portion of an elongate flexible drive shaft that extends from a handle assembly.
US12096949B2
Device for the treatment of tissue calcification, in particular aortic valve leaflets, characterized by the fact that it comprises a first ultrasound emission source that is adapted to provide ultrasound waves with MHz frequencies and a second ultrasound emission source that is adapted to provide ultrasound waves with KHZ frequencies, both MHz and KHz waves being used for the said treatment. The invention also includes a method for the treatment of tissue calcification that is characterized by the simultaneous use of ultrasound waves with MHz frequencies and ultrasound waves with KHz frequencies.
US12096930B2
A reconfigurable suture needle includes an elongated body having a curved proximal section and a curved distal section. The curved proximal section is hollow and includes an elongated conduit extending from a proximal end to a distal end thereof. The curved distal section includes a needle point at a distal end thereof and a hollow post projecting proximally from a proximal end thereof. A suture thread passes through the elongated conduit of the curved proximal section and has a distal end that passes through the hollow post of the curved distal section for being secured to the proximal end of the curved distal section. The elongated body has a first configuration with a higher profile in which the hollow post of the curved distal section is inserted into the elongated conduit at the distal end of the curved proximal section, and a second configuration with a lower profile in which the hollow post of the curved distal section is uncoupled from the elongated conduit at the distal end of the curved proximal section.
US12096929B2
An assembly includes a flexible fixation member, a suture, and a delivery device. The fixation member includes a body with two terminal ends. A suture passes through the flexible fixation member at various points along a length of the body such that portions of the fixation member are slidable relative to the suture and configurable to form a cluster within a surgical site. The delivery device includes a tubular member, an elongated inserter, and a trigger. The elongated inserter is slidably disposed within the tubular member. The inserter has a forked distal end configured to receive a portion of the flexible fixation member and the suture. The trigger is finger-engagable and fixedly coupled to the proximal end of the inserter. It is configured to advance and retract the inserter relative to the tubular member. The trigger includes a retention member for retaining a proximal end portion of the suture.
US12096928B2
A method and apparatus for coupling a soft tissue implant into a locking cavity formed within a bone is disclosed. The apparatus includes a member to pull the soft tissue implant into a femoral tunnel. The member includes a suture having first and second ends which are passed through first and second openings associated with the longitudinal passage to form a pair of loops. Portions of the suture lay parallel to each other within the suture. Application of tension onto the suture construction causes retraction of the soft tissue implant into the femoral tunnel.
US12096922B1
A medical torquing device for improving surgical control is disclosed. The device features an outer body with a first u-channel, accommodating a semi-tubular shaft that can transition between closed and open configurations. The device further includes an engaging element having a torque-locking mechanism with wheels and teeth, ensures secure locking and controlled movement. The first u-channel includes an elongated slot for receiving a plurality of medical instruments for invasive surgeries and interventional treatments. Additionally, a handle with a second u-channel enhances grip and control and facilitates retention of the medical instruments within the first u-channel. The invention's configuration allows for a portion of the first wheel to extend through an opening in the semi-tubular shaft in the locked configuration.
US12096921B2
A biopsy needle for collecting a tissue specimen includes an outer cannula and an inner tube received within the outer cannula. A snare coil is attached between the inner tube and the outer cannula and is configured to wind down when the inner tube rotates in a first direction relative to the outer cannula. The outer cannula is fixedly coupled to a needle holder that is coupled to and moves with a movable base that is axially movable within the handle housing. An inner driven structure (curvilinear part) is configured to selectively engage the movable base and travel therewith in a first stage of operation and in a second stage of operation in which the inner driven structure is disengaged from the movable base, the inner driven structure is driven along the movable base which is held in a stationary position.
US12096919B1
Disclosed is an integrated urine anaerobic collection and culture apparatus, comprising: a catheter, at a front end of which a circular arc-shaped guide part and a first through hole are arranged, where a piston part is arranged inside the front end of the catheter; a first branch tube and a second branch tube, which are connected with the catheter, the first branch tube is connected with a first negative pressure vessel, and the first branch tube and the second branch tube are respectively provided with a first valve and a second valve; an aseptic centrifuge tube, which includes a tube body and a first cover body, where the first cover body is provided with a first check valve and a second check valve; a second negative pressure vessel. The present disclosure can realize the whole anaerobic operation of urine collection and culture in the bladder.
US12096915B2
An apparatus for controlling advancement of a sheath or a catheter at a distal end of an endoscope. An exemplary apparatus includes a flexible sheath that receives a medical device within an internal lumen and is received within a working channel of an endoscope. The apparatus also includes a component that is at least one of external or internal to the sheath. The component causes a change in longitudinal motion friction of the sheath above a predefined threshold amount as the sheath moves relative to an exit ramp of the endoscope.
US12096900B2
A mop bucket for cleaning and squeezing a flat mop, including a bucket body and a squeezing device disposed inside the bucket body; the bucket body has a squeezing water section and a cleaning section, which are respectively at two different positions when used; when the mop head of the flat mop is removably inserted into the squeezing device, the squeezing device presses against the wiper on the mop head and scrapes the wiper on the mop head. The embodiments also include a cleaning tool set. The mop bucket can clean and squeeze a wiper on the flat mop by integrating both functions of cleaning and squeezing together, provide better cleaning and squeezing effects, and realize a convenient and labor-saving squeezing operation and pleasurable user experience.
US12096894B2
A floor cleaning machine is provided, in particular a hand-guided and/or hand-held floor cleaning machine, including a support device, at least one cleaning roller arranged on the support device, capable of being driven in rotation and provided with a cleaning substrate, said cleaning substrate being made of a textile material; and at least one mouth towards the at least one cleaning roller that includes a first and a spaced second mouth wall having a mouth opening therebetween, wherein the first mouth wall is positioned above the second mouth wall relative to the direction of gravity, wherein the first and/or second mouth wall protrude(s) into the cleaning substrate of the at least one cleaning roller.
US12096879B2
A capsule coffee machine includes a base, a capsule channel formed at a top surface of the base, a gate, an optics lens, a guiding unit, a drip container, a collecting groove, a water injection unit connected with the guiding unit, a driving unit connected with the guiding unit, and an actuator. A bottom of the capsule channel is equipped with the gate. An inside of the capsule channel is equipped with the optics lens. The guiding unit is disposed under the gate and accommodated in the base. The drip container is connected with the guiding unit. The drip container has a mouth, a stopping wall opposite to the mouth, and a peripheral wall extended between the mouth and the stopping wall. The collecting groove is recessed towards a downward direction and in the peripheral wall of the drip container. The actuator is connected with the gate.
US12096875B2
A system for providing cooked food includes at least one container that stores an uncooked food product for dispensing of an aliquot of the uncooked food product; a source of milk; a source of steam; a mixing chamber configured to receive the milk and steam to increase the temperature of the milk and to dispense heated milk so that the heated milk contacts the dispensed aliquot of uncooked food product to cook the food product.
US12096871B2
The present application discloses a hook assembly, which is used to be connected to a densely gridded rack. The hook assembly of the present application comprises a main body and a top connecting portion, wherein the main body and the top connecting portion are fixedly connected, and the top connecting portion is configured to be detachably connected to the rack. The width of the top connecting portion is greater than the spacing between adjacent longitudinal metal wires. The top connecting portion is provided with a receiving groove, the receiving groove is provided along the length direction of the top connecting portion, and the receiving groove is configured to receive a longitudinal metal wire. The shelving assembly provided in the present application can be reliably connected to the densely gridded rack without reducing the width of a top plate, so as to avoid the interference of the longitudinal metal wires. Most of the sizes of the shelving assembly remain unchanged, so as to solve the technical problems existing in the prior art with minimal modification and cost. It is also possible to increase the width of the top connecting portion to further improve the load-bearing capacity of the shelving assembly.
US12096866B2
The present invention provides an infant carrier or article carrier that includes a support part configured to support an infant or an article, a leg part which is in the form of a leg, connected from both directions to the support part through an upper portion, and configured to connect the support part to a bottom surface disposed at a lower portion, a movement assisting part which is disposed above the leg part, connected from both directions to the support part, and configured to distribute the weight of the infant on the support part or the load of the article on the support part to correspond to a movement state of a user and adjust an angle to correspond to the movement state of the user in order to facilitate movement, a knee joint part which is in the form of a knee and has one side surface coupled to the movement assisting part disposed thereabove to allow the angle adjustment corresponding to the movement state and the other side surface coupled to the leg part disposed therebelow, and a bottom surface contact part which has one side surface coupled to one side surface of the leg part and the other side surface allowing the leg part to be stably supported on the bottom surface.
US12096864B1
Disclosed in the present application is a learning-to-sit chair, including a base, a backrest structure and a limit structure, in which the backrest structure, the limit structure are symmetrically mounted at a top of the base, a cushion recess is defined in a center of the base, the backrest structure is arranged around the edge of the cushion recess, a legrest portion is protrudently disposed on a side of the base away from the backrest structure, and the limit structure is mounted at a top of the legrest portion.
US12096863B2
An access system includes a laterally extending frame, a carriage in operative connection with the laterally extending frame and including a drive to move the carriage laterally on the frame, a seat support attached to the carriage including a seat assembly interface and a lift to raise and lower the seat assembly interface within a range of positions, a seat assembly attached to the seat assembly interface, a controller in operative connection with the drive of the carriage and the lift of the seat support via which the position of the seat support is controllable, and a controller interface in operative connection with the controller.
US12096860B2
A chair has a foldable chair that is movable between a folded and expanded configuration. The frame includes two backrest tubes arranged on opposite sides of the frame. Two cross tubes are arranged crosswise between the two backrest tubes. The two cross tubes are rotatably connected to each other. The top of each cross tube is rotatably connected to the corresponding backrest tube. Two backrest supporting tubes extend from a lock catch to a corresponding cross tube. Each back rest supporting tube is rotatably connected to the lock catch, and the other ends of the two backrest supporting tubes are respectively rotatably connected to different cross tubes. The bottom of each cross tube is rotatably connected to an end of a corresponding backrest transverse supporting tube. An opposite end of the backrest transverse supporting tube is rotatably connected to a backrest tube.
US12096859B2
A method for customizing a mattress includes acquiring a three dimensional image of a body of a user and preparing, by a processor, a three dimensional model of the body of the user using the three-dimensional image. The method also includes dividing, by the processor, the three dimensional model into a plurality of sections arranged parallel to each other and arrayed along a height of the three dimensional model, and determining a downward pressure to be exerted by each of the plurality of sections on the mattress. The method further includes determining, by the processor, one or more parameters associated with at least one portion of the mattress adapted to be arranged underneath an associated section when person lies on the mattress based on the determined downward pressure or topography.
US12096858B2
A cushion includes a cushioning element and a coating material provided on a surface of the cushioning element. The cushioning element includes an elastomeric material forming a plurality of intersecting buckling walls defining a plurality of hollow columns in an expanded form. The coating material includes stearic acid, a metal stearate, propylene glycol, and triethanolamine. The cushioning element is configured to be compressed, such as by a roll-packing machine, into the compressed form and subsequently released from the compressed form to transform to the expanded form. Methods of forming the cushion include forming the cushioning element comprising an elastomeric material, coating a surface of the cushioning element with the coating material, and compressing the cushioning element into a compressed form.
US12096852B2
A pull-out guide includes a carcass rail, a drawer rail movable along a longitudinal axis in an opening and closing direction of a movable furniture part, a drive apparatus for moving the drawer rail and the movable furniture part between a closed position and an open position, and a depth adjustment device for adjusting the closed position of the drawer rail relative to the carcass rail. The depth adjustment device has a carrier, a stop element movable relative to the carrier, and a depth adjustment wheel mounted rotatably about a rotation axis on the carrier for moving the stop element along the longitudinal axis. The rotation axis of the depth adjustment wheel is parallel to the longitudinal axis, and the stop element contacts a stop-counterpart piece of the drive apparatus in the closed position and is releasable by the stop-counterpart piece.
US12096847B2
A cleaning apparatus can include a brush. The cleaning apparatus can also include a base portion comprising: a housing; and a hub configured to: hold a first end of the brush; and release the brush from the housing when a removal force is applied to the hub. Other embodiments are described.
US12096831B1
According to some embodiments, a basket that converts to a picnic mat is disclosed. The picnic basket includes a planar material comprised of equally sized panels arranged in a three-row by six-column configuration and a support strap system. The support strap system is disposed across a column next to a first edge column wherein the support strap system is centered between the first pocket and the second pocket by folding the column three columns from the first edge column and two columns from the second edge column over the column next to a first edge column.
US12096830B2
A system for a walking cane is provided. The walking cane may include a stem and a base, and the base may be provided in the shape of a human foot. The base may be made of various types of materials, such as a flexible silicone or rubber material. The foot shape may provide a natural, ergonomic feel for the user.
US12096828B2
A wearable thermoregulation device, system, and method. A thermoelectric device is configured to controllably heat and cool a control surface. A power source is configured to provide power to operate the thermoelectric device. A wireless communications and control module is configured to wirelessly send and receive signals, and to control the thermoelectric device. A carrier structure carries the thermoelectric device, the power source, and the wireless communications and control module, and is configured to be removably carried on the body of a user such that the heated and cooled control surface is in direct contact with the user's skin.
US12096820B2
Comfortable, protective, durable, and lightweight footwear with minimal component parts. Both the footwear and the method of constructing the same is streamlined.
US12096817B2
To achieve a favorable feeling particularly during running. A midsole includes: a first midsole portion; and a second midsole portion stacked on the first midsole portion in a thickness direction of the midsole and made of a material having a lower hardness than a material forming the first midsole portion. In a cutting plane when the midsole is cut along a foot width direction at a location corresponding to the sustentaculum tali of a foot of a wearer, the first midsole portion and the second midsole portion have a relatively-low hardness at a location corresponding to the calcaneus of the wearer, and a relatively-high hardness in an area ranging from a location corresponding to the sustentaculum tali to a medial instep side.
US12096812B2
An article of clothing, the article of clothing including a fabric. The fabric defines a waistband portion having an interior. The fabric also defines a base fabric panel. Additionally, the article of clothing includes an elastic layer. The interior of the waistband faces the elastic layer. Moreover, the interior of the waistband is defined by one or more folds forming a border between the base fabric panel and the waistband. The one or more folds include an initial bottom fold and a final bottom fold of the fabric. The one or more folds further include a top fold at a top edge of the waistband. The waistband is attached to the elastic layer through the initial bottom fold and the top fold. Additionally, an interior of the final bottom fold and the interior of the top fold are common to the interior of the waistband.
US12096811B2
A tennis garment includes a seamless tubular waistband including a top end and a bottom end, a liner short coupled to the waistband, and a skirt coupled to one or both of the waistband and the liner short. The waistband includes at least first, second and third compression regions between the top end and the bottom end. The first, second and third compression regions have first, second and third compression levels, respectively. The first compression region is at or adjacent to the top end. The third compression region is positioned toward the bottom end, and the second compression region being positioned between the first and third compression regions. The third compression level is greater than the second compression level, and the second compression level is greater than the first compression level.
US12096794B2
Provided is a cartridge that may be replaceably coupled to a main body of an aerosol generating device, the cartridge including a mouthpiece having a discharge hole, a liquid storage configured to accommodate an aerosol generating material, and a vibration receiver configured to transfer vibration generated by a vibrator of the main body to the aerosol generating material such that aerosols are generated from the aerosol generating material by the vibration.
US12096780B2
The invention relates to a process for the production of a liquid coffee concentrate that has an improved storage stability at ambient temperature. The process comprises treating a coffee concentrate to a heat treatment and a pH increasing step.
US12096776B2
A plant nutrient formulation, including: a solvent; a first plant hormone; a second plant hormone; an optional surfactant/wetting agent; and an optional colorant.
US12096775B2
Disclosed are shelf stable water miscible suspension systems for suspending microbes and/or microbe derived metabolites so they are water dispersible and can be combined with a variety of agricultural chemicals in an aqueous solution. The microbes and/or microbe derived metabolites are initially suspended in a plant derived oil and then this oil suspension is converted to a water dispersible suspension using one of the disclosed suspension systems. The microbe and/or microbe derived metabolites in the suspension systems are shelf stable for at least 52 weeks at 25° C.
US12096761B2
An animal trap for killing an animal having a trap body and an electrical energy source. The electrical energy source is connected to a high voltage circuit. At least a first and a second, preferably a third, killing plate, wherein the first killing plate is connected to the high voltage circuit and the second killing plate is connected to the high voltage circuit are present. Preferably the third killing plate is connected to the first killing plate, such that in case an animal steps on the first and the second killing plate simultaneously the electric high voltage circuit is closed, and the animal is electrocuted. A shield, in particular a conductive shield, is arranged between the second killing plate and the trap body.
US12096743B2
A system for cleaning a dairy animal milker unit and applying dip to a dairy animal, the system includes a main control, an air supply, a water supply, a backflush fluid supply, a dip supply, a stall control for receiving the air, water, backflush fluid and dip supplies, and a safety valve that is adjacent to a downstream portion of the milker unit to control backflush and dip fluids being fed to the milker unit.
US12096742B2
An automatically cleanable milk filter includes a cylindrical housing with a longitudinal direction and with a cylindrical outer wall, a first end with a first liquid connection, and a second end with a second liquid connection, wherein, during use of the filter, the second end is situated above the first end. A concentric cylindrical filter plate containing a plurality of filter holes with a smallest diameter of between 60 and 100 um and a cylindrical core which is placed concentrically within the filter plate are accommodated in the housing. The filter plate divides the filter volume into a first volume part which is directly connected to the first liquid connection, and a second volume part which is directly connected to the second liquid connection. The second volume part includes a cylindrical part, as well as a top part which narrows at a transition to the second liquid connection. The cylindrical part, viewed in a direction towards the second liquid connection, extends at least a predetermined distance beyond the plurality of holes in the filter plate, and the first volume part, viewed in a direction towards the second liquid connection, does not extend beyond the filter plate. In this way, the stream of cleaning liquid, supplied from above, can develop beyond the top part to form a more turbulent stream parallel to the cylindrical part, and thus a more thorough cleaning of, in particular, the upper filter holes. In addition, a milking device including this milk filter is provided.
US12096739B2
The invention relates to the field of Hydrangea, specifically, the variety designated ‘HMOPICO04-0’. The variety ‘HMOPICO04-0’ is characterized by its lack of vernalization requirement for induction and development of flowering, day-length neutral flowering, cold tolerance to USDA Zone 5 and lace-cap inflorescence having pink and white flowers. The present invention relates to plant parts, including cells and any propagative material of the new variety ‘HMOPICO04-0’, use of any of the plant parts for reproducing the new variety ‘HMOPICO04-0’. The present invention relates to methods using any plant parts or progeny of ‘HMOPICO04-0’ for the purpose of deriving additional new Hydrangea varieties. The present invention relates to seed, plants and plant parts produced by crossing ‘HMOPICO04-0’ with any other Hydrangea variety or other plant. The present invention also relates to methods to produce new varieties of Hydrangea oleracea using the variety ‘HMOPICO04-0’ and applying plant breeding techniques.
US12096733B2
A robotic fruit picking system includes an autonomous robot that includes a positioning subsystem that enables autonomous positioning of the robot using a computer vision guidance system. The robot also includes at least one picking arm and at least one picking head, or other type of end effector, mounted on each picking arm to either cut a stem or branch for a specific fruit or bunch of fruits or pluck that fruit or bunch. A computer vision subsystem analyses images of the fruit to be picked or stored and a control subsystem is programmed with or learns picking strategies using machine learning techniques. A quality control (QC) subsystem monitors the quality of fruit and grades that fruit according to size and/or quality. The robot has a storage subsystem for storing fruit in containers for storage or transportation, or in punnets for retail.
US12096721B2
The present invention provides a system for separating crop dust from crop residue produced during a harvesting operation using a combine. The system comprises an attachment member configured to be used with the combine, a shroud fastened to the attachment member and extending downward to form a negative pressure chamber; and a container for collecting the separated crop dust exiting the outlet of the cyclone unit. The attachment member comprises a suction fan to generate a negative pressure to draw an air flow comprising at least a portion of the crop dust separated from the crop residue; and a depressurized cyclone unit in communication with the suction fan, having an inlet for receiving the air flow comprising the separated crop dust drawn by the suction fan, and an outlet having a turning interlock configured to maintain the negative pressure while discharging the separated crop dust through the outlet.
US12096710B2
A tow head for agricultural implements, particularly those intended for the distribution of seeds, composts, fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, or fungicides in the field, is designed to promote a structural reinforcement that heightens resistance and, accordingly, improve the conditions of operation of these agricultural equipment. More particularly, a tow head for agricultural implements is formed by a telescopic center bar from which angularly designed sidebars are projected from the coupling end, and which are connected to the respective side wings of the structural chassis of the agricultural implement, and the sidebars are endowed with a reinforcement that is fixed along at least part of the longitudinal length of each sidebar.
US12102018B2
Memory stacks and method of forming the same are provided. A memory stack includes a bottom electrode layer, a top electrode layer and a phase change layer between the bottom electrode layer and the top electrode layer. A width of the top electrode layer is greater than a width of the phase change layer. A first portion of the top electrode layer uncovered by the phase change layer is rougher than a second portion of the top electrode layer covered by the phase change layer.
US12102015B2
A precursor, which is a drawn wire product of a composite pipe, the composite pipe having: a composite wire group; a barrier layer; and a protective layer, wherein the composite wire group has: a plurality of tin wires each having at least one tin core being made of tin or a tin alloy, and a copper matrix which surrounds the at least one tin core; and a plurality of niobium wires each having a plurality of niobium cores being made of niobium or a niobium alloy, and a copper matrix which surrounds the plurality of niobium cores, the plurality of niobium wires being disposed such that each of the tin wires is surrounded by the niobium wires, the composite wire group contains titanium in an amount of from 0.38% by mass to 0.55% by mass.
US12102007B2
This thermoelectric conversion module is formed by electrically connecting, by a conductive member, one end of an n-type thermoelectric conversion element having a negative Seebeck coefficient and having a half-Heusler structure to one end of a p-type thermoelectric conversion element containing an oxide having a positive Seebeck coefficient at a temperature of 25° C. or higher. The conductive member is connected to the n-type thermoelectric conversion element and the p-type thermoelectric conversion element through a connection layer containing a conductive metal comprising silver, and the connection layer is characterized by further containing an oxide to reduce the bond resistance between the n-type thermoelectric conversion element and/or the p-type thermoelectric conversion element.
US12102006B2
A thermoelectric element according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first substrate, a first buffer layer disposed on the first substrate, a first electrode disposed on the first buffer layer, a P-type thermoelectric leg and an N-type thermoelectric leg disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the P-type thermoelectric leg and the N-type thermoelectric leg, a second buffer layer disposed on the second electrode, and a second substrate disposed on the second buffer layer, wherein at least one of the first buffer layer and the second buffer layer includes a silicone resin and an inorganic material, and the Young's modulus of at least one of the first buffer layer and the second buffer layer is 1 to 65 MPa.
US12102003B2
The present disclosure provides an organic electroluminescent device and an electronic apparatus. The organic electroluminescent device includes a cathode, an anode, and an organic layer. The organic layer includes an organic luminescent layer including a first compound and a second compound; the first compound is selected from compounds represented by a formula 1; and the second compound is selected from compounds represented by a formula 2.
US12102002B2
An object of the present invention is to provide, as a material for a highly efficient and highly durable organic EL element, an organic compound that has excellent properties, including excellent electron-injecting/transporting capability, hole-blocking capability, and high stability in the form of a thin film. Another object of the present invention is to provide a highly efficient and highly durable organic EL element by using this compound. The present invention focuses on the properties of the benzazole ring, which has affinity for electrons, and specifically focuses on the capability of its nitrogen atom to coordinate to a metal and also on excellent heat resistance. The inventors have thus designed and chemically synthesized various compounds having a benzazole ring structure, and then experimentally produced organic EL elements including the compounds, followed by thoroughly evaluating the characteristics thereof. As a result, it has been found that it is possible to obtain an organic EL element having excellent properties by using a specific compound having a benzazole ring structure.
US12101997B2
A novel light-emitting device, a light-emitting device with high emission efficiency, a light-emitting device with a long lifetime, or a light-emitting device with low driving voltage is provided. An EL layer includes a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, a light-emitting layer, and a fourth layer in this order from the anode side. The first layer contains a first organic compound and a second organic compound. The fourth layer contains a seventh organic compound. The first organic compound exhibits an electron-accepting property with respect to the second organic compound. A HOMO level of the second organic compound is higher than or equal to −5.7 eV and lower than or equal to −5.4 eV. The fourth layer includes a region where the amount of seventh organic compound is large and a region where the amount of seventh organic compound is small in the thickness direction.
US12101977B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate comprising a display area and a pad area located outside the display area. A plurality of data lines is in the display area. A plurality of connection wires is in the display area. The plurality of connection wires is connected to the plurality of data lines and is configured to transfer data signals from the pad area to the plurality of data lines. An insulating film covers the plurality of connection wires. Each of the plurality of connection wires comprises a plurality of branches that diverge from a body of each connection wire the insulating film comprises a protrusion in a gap between adjacent branches of the plurality of branches.
US12101972B2
A display substrate includes a base substrate and a drive circuit layer, a light-emitting layer, and a touch control layer arranged on the base substrate. The first reset transistor is at least partially covered by a first light shielding structure in a direction away from the base substrate. The first light shielding structure includes a power signal line. And the first reset transistor is at least partially covered by a second light shielding structure in a direction away from the base substrate. The second light shielding structure includes an anode of the light-emitting layer or a metal line of the touch control layer.
US12101949B2
A photoelectric conversion element includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and containing semiconducting carbon nanotubes and a first material that functions as a donor or an acceptor for the semiconducting carbon nanotubes. The semiconducting carbon nanotubes have light absorption characteristics including a first absorption peak at a first wavelength, a second absorption peak at a second wavelength shorter than the first wavelength, and a third absorption peak at a third wavelength shorter than the second wavelength. The first material is transparent to light in at least one wavelength range selected from the group consisting of a first wavelength range between the first wavelength and the second wavelength and a second wavelength range between the second wavelength and the third wavelength.
US12101942B2
A chalcogen compound layer exhibiting ovonic threshold switching characteristics, a switching device, a semiconductor device, and/or a semiconductor apparatus including the same are provided. The switching device and/or the semiconductor device may include two or more chalcogen compound layers having different energy band gaps. Alternatively, the switching device and/or semiconductor device may include a chalcogen compound layer having a concentration gradient of an element of boron (B), aluminum (Al), scandium (Sc), manganese (Mn), strontium (Sr), and/or indium (In) in a thickness direction thereof. The switching device and/or a semiconductor device may exhibit stable switching characteristics while having a low off-current value (leakage current value).
US12101928B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a first conductive layer that extends in a first direction; a second conductive layer that extends in the first direction and is arranged with the first conductive layer in a second direction; a first insulating layer that is provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer; a semiconductor layer that extends in the second direction and faces the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer, and the first insulating layer in a third direction; a first charge storage layer that is provided between the first conductive layer and the semiconductor layer; a second charge storage layer that is provided between the second conductive layer and the semiconductor layer; a first high dielectric constant layer that is provided between the first conductive layer and the first charge storage layer; and a second high dielectric constant layer provided between the second conductive layer and the second charge storage layer. At least a portion of the first charge storage layer faces the second charge storage layer without the second high dielectric constant layer being interposed between the portion of the first charge storage layer and the second charge storage layer in the second direction.
US12101919B2
A wearable display device is disclosed and includes a main body, a heat dissipation processing module and an inflatable actuation module. The main body includes a front cover, a lateral cover, an inflatable airbag, a circuit board and a microprocessor. The heat dissipation processing module is configured to perform heat exchange with the microprocessor, and includes a first actuator, a heat pipe and a cooling chip. The inflatable actuation module includes a base, a ventilation channel, a second actuator and a valve component. When the second actuator and the valve component are driven, the valve component is opened and the second actuator is enabled, the gas is transported and inflates the inflatable airbag through the ventilation channel, so that the main body is stably fitted and positioned on the head of the wearer.
US12101917B2
In a vehicle drive unit, a motor and an inverter are disposed adjacent in an axial direction of the motor. A smoothing capacitor and each power module are connected by a busbar. Each power module has a flat shape having a wide width, and has a first cooling surface facing the motor. The first cooling surface of each power module is placed on a placement surface orthogonal to the axial direction. The plate-shaped busbar has a second cooling surface facing the motor. The busbar is connected to the smoothing capacitor and each power module, and is formed with a wide width so as to extend along a direction in which each power module is disposed side by side. The second cooling surface is placed on the placement surface. A cooling portion facing the first and second cooling surfaces is provided closer to the motor than the placement surface.
US12101915B2
The resin material 336 is arranged in a first region 421 surrounded by the fin base 440, the inclined portion 343 of the cover member 340, and the outermost peripheral heat dissipation fins 334 arranged on the outermost peripheral side. Then, the resin material 336 is caused to protrude to the first region 421. That is, the resin material 336 is arranged in the first region 421. In a cross section perpendicular to the refrigerant flow direction (Y direction), a cross-sectional area of the first region 421 is larger than an average cross-sectional area 423 of the adjacent heat dissipation fins 331. Then, a cross-sectional area of a second region 422 formed between the resin material 336 arranged in the first region 421 and the outermost peripheral heat dissipation fin 334 arranged on the outermost peripheral side is smaller than the average cross-sectional area 423 of the heat dissipation fins.
US12101910B1
A smoothly switching negative pressure liquid cooling system is provided in the present application, wherein a gas extraction pipeline of a gas circuit is used to extract gas to form a negative pressure environment, a gas supply pipeline is used to supply the gas to form a positive pressure environment. One of the three gas-liquid chambers is used for feeding the liquid and one of the three gas-liquid chambers is used for discharging the liquid to form a coolant circulation. The other chamber maintains a negative pressure environment. At the moment of switching a working state, the chamber that maintains the negative pressure environment forms a large pressure difference, so that the coolant enters the chamber quickly. Before the working state is switched, enough negative pressure has been formed to ensure the fluidity of the coolant at the moment of switching the working state.
US12101907B2
Systems and methods for cooling a mobile datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a cooling loop is located on a mobile unit and includes at least one cold plate within a pod on a mobile unit and includes a dry cooler external to a pod on a mobile unit so as to enable coolant to be provided to a cold plate and to enable such coolant to be provided to a dry cooler for removal of heat from at least one computing device to an ambient environment.
US12101903B2
The present invention provides a display panel and a mobile terminal, including a panel layer including, but not limited to, a first portion, a second portion, and a curved third portion connected therebetween; a protective layer on the third portion; a first support layer on a side of the panel layer away from the protective layer and disposed opposite to the first portion; and a cover layer on the first portion and including an edge as an ink layer; the protective layer has a minimum thickness on a side close to the first portion and between a boundary of the first portion and an inner boundary of the ink layer.
US12101901B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electronic device including a housing and a method of manufacturing the housing. The electronic device includes a housing forming an exterior of the electronic device. The housing is constituted to include a non-conductive part including a non-conductive protrusion protruded from at least some area of the non-conductive part, a conductive deposition layer disposed on a top surface of the non-conductive part except on the non-conductive protrusion, and a decoration layer formed on the top of the conductive deposition layer. Accordingly, the housing is lightweight and can perform a function of an antenna radiator. Other various embodiments are possible.
US12101900B2
Folding devices are disclosed. An example folding device includes a first frame; a second frame; an actuator including a first end coupled to the first frame and a second end hingably coupled to the second frame; and a display coupled to the first and second frames, when the folding device is in a folded position, the display wraps around ends of the first and second frames to cover a joint between the first and second frames, when the folding device rotates from the folded position toward an unfolded position, the actuator urges the ends of the first and second frames away from one another to encourage the display to unwrap from around the ends.
US12101893B2
A method of dispensing a metallic nanoparticle composition along a trajectory on a substrate is disclosed. The composition is dispensed from a nozzle through its outlet. The outlet is characterized by an outlet size. First, an initial pressure is applied to the composition in the nozzle to cause the composition to flow from the outlet. The nozzle is positioned at a height such that the composition does not flow onto the substrate. Second, the nozzle is lowered toward the substrate such that a fluid bridge forms between the outlet and the substrate and an adjusted pressure is applied to the composition in the nozzle. The adjusted pressure is lower than needed for the composition to continue to flow from the outlet. Third, the fluid is dispensed from the nozzle. A dispensing pressure is applied to the fluid while the nozzle is laterally displaced along the trajectory on the substrate.
US12101889B2
A tape guide includes a guide section configured to guide a carrier tape, a component exposing section configured to open a cover tape to expose an electronic component in a component storage section during conveyance of the carrier tape guided by the guide section, a tongue portion provided on the component exposing section and configured such that a distal end portion is movable between a first height position at which the distal end portion enters between a base tape and the cover tape and a second height position higher than the first height position, a pressing section placed above the tongue portion to apply a pressing force to the tongue portion to cause the tongue portion to move downward, and a stepped portion provided on a facing surface on which the tongue portion and the pressing section face each other.
US12101883B2
Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device includes: a housing including a side wall at least partially configured as an antenna, a first printed circuit board disposed in the housing and including at least one ground part, a second printed circuit board, wherein the second printed circuit board includes an extension part extending along the side wall of the housing, a first part extending from one end of the extension part and connected to the first printed circuit board, and a second part extending from an opposite end of the extension part and electrically connected to the at least one ground part, at least one component disposed on the extension part, and a processor disposed on the first printed circuit board, and operatively connected to the at least one component through the first part of the second printed circuit board.
US12101880B2
A printed circuit board includes: a first insulating layer; a first metal layer disposed on one surface of the first insulating layer; a second metal layer disposed on the other surface facing the one surface of the first insulating layer; a via penetrating through the first insulating layer to connect the first and second metal layers to each other; and a heterogeneous metal region disposed in at least one of an area in which the via is adjacent to the first insulating layer and an area in which the via is adjacent to the first metal layer, and including a material different from that of the via, wherein the heterogeneous metal region includes at least one of nickel (Ni), silicon (Si), and titanium (Ti).
US12101867B2
A microwave reactor having a flow tube, transparent to microwave, extending longitudinally along a flow axis for a fluid medium flow; an input waveguide extending along a propagation axis orthogonal to the flow axis, having a rectangular cross-section with two large sides parallel to the flow axis and two small sides orthogonal to the flow axis; and an enclosure inside which the flow tube extends, made of a material reflective to microwaves, having a lateral dimension greater than the small dimension of the small sides of the input waveguide. The input waveguide is transversely fixed on the enclosure which has an input window surrounded by the input waveguide for propagation of microwaves through the input window to the inside of the enclosure.
US12101865B2
A combined ventilation and microwave oven system includes an external enclosure with a top portion defining recirculation vent outlets, a cooling air outlet, and an outside vent outlet, side portions, and a bottom portion defining vent inlets. The vent inlets are in fluid communication with the recirculation vent outlets in a recirculation mode and the outside vent outlet in an outside vent mode. A cooling fan is disposed between the cooking cavity and the first side portion and is configured to direct air through the cooling air inlet and the cooling air outlet. A hood assembly is disposed within the external enclosure and includes at least one first hood fan disposed between the cooking cavity and the first side portion, and a second hood fan disposed between the cooking cavity and the second side portion to direct air through the vent inlets and through an interior of the external enclosure.
US12101861B2
According to an embodiment disclosed herein, a lamp includes a plurality of light sources connected in series to one another, a light source controller that controls an operation of each of the plurality of light sources based on a control signal, and a signal controller that generates the control signal containing a duty cycle set such that an operating voltage of the plurality of light sources does not exceed a preset value and controls an operation of the light source controller in a time division manner.
US12101860B2
Disclosed are a light emitting device configured to control the light output of a light emitting unit and a curing apparatus employing the same. The disclosed light emitting device may comprise: a main body having a window; a light source installed in the main body, for generating light of a predetermined wavelength and irradiating the generated light to the outside of the main body through the window; a photodetector installed in the main body, for receiving part of the light irradiated from the light source and monitoring the intensity of the light source; a light path converting unit installed between the light source and the photodetector, for transferring the part of the light irradiated from the light source to the photodetector; and an intensity adjusting unit for adjusting the intensity of the light source based on the signal detected from the photodetector.
US12101859B2
A computing system includes an illumination light source configured to emit illumination light into an external environment and an orientation sensor configured to estimate an orientation of the illumination light source relative to the external environment. The computing system includes a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem holding instructions executable by the logic subsystem to define a light restriction zone within the external environment. Based at least in part on the orientation of the illumination light source, the illumination light source is dynamically controlled to direct the illumination light toward at least a portion of the external environment outside the light restriction zone, while mitigating emission of the illumination light into the light restriction zone.
US12101852B2
The technology of this application relates to methods and apparatuses for sending and receiving a physical layer protocol data unit. The method includes generating a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU), where the PPDU includes a short training field, a length of a frequency domain sequence of the short training field is greater than a first length, and the first length is a length, for example, 2048, of a frequency domain sequence of a short training field that is transmitted over a 160 MHz-bandwidth channel. The method further includes sending the PPDU over a target channel, where a bandwidth of the target channel is greater than 160 MHz. According to embodiments of this application, a larger actual channel bandwidth can be achieved, and backward compatibility is implemented.
US12101850B2
The present invention discloses methods and systems for communicating at a cellular router between a first wireless communication module and a first subscriber identity module (SIM). The cellular router receives a first request from a first wireless communication module and encapsulates the first request in a first modified request. The cellular router then sends the first modified request to a first SIM card in a first communication apparatus and waits for a first modified reply. While waiting for the first modified reply the cellular router sends at least one halt message to the first wireless communication module after a first time threshold. After receiving the first modified reply, the cellular router decapsulates the first modified reply to retrieve a first reply and sends the first reply to the first wireless communication module where the first modified reply is a reply to the first modified request.
US12101846B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for handling radio resource control (RRC) cell group configuration. In implementations, a base station receives a first radio resource control message that requests a connection procedure between a user equipment and the base station, such as a radio resource control resume request or a radio resource setup request. In response to receiving the first radio resource control message, the base station generates a second radio resource control message that includes a cell-group-configuration information element that excludes a reconfiguration-with-sync information element. The base station then transmits the second radio resource control message to the user equipment. Afterward, the base station receives, from the user equipment, a third radio resource control message that indicates the connection procedure is complete.
US12101837B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for implementing recovery from a communication failure. A method includes receiving, by a first user equipment, an indication that a second user equipment has experienced a failure, where the first user equipment and the second user equipment are part of a same device, and where the first user equipment is configured with a first primary reliability group and where the second user equipment is configured with a second primary reliability group; based upon the indication, the first user equipment transmitting to a network equipment a first signal to activate a secondary reliability group for the first user equipment; and receiving, by the first user equipment, a second signal to use the secondary reliability group, where the second signal is at least partially based upon the first signal transmitted from the first user equipment.
US12101836B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit a first transport block including a first uplink grant which schedules a first set of uplink shared channel transmissions for the UE. The base station may monitor the channel to detect an energy value for a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) associated with the one or more uplink shared channel transmissions associated with the first uplink grant that is less than a threshold energy value. Based on the relatively low DMRS energy, the base station may modify a size of a second transport block relative to the first transport block, the second transport block including a second uplink grant that schedules a second set of one or more uplink shared channel transmissions for the UE. The base station may then signal the grant for the modified second transport block to the UE or to another device.
US12101833B2
This application discloses a secondary cell activation method and an apparatus, and relates to the communication field, so that a terminal device can report a channel state information measurement result in a secondary cell activation phase to a network device. The secondary cell activation method includes: A terminal device receives first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate an uplink resource for reporting a channel state information measurement result in a secondary cell activation phase; and the terminal device sends the channel state information measurement result to a network device based on the first indication information.
US12101817B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a network node (100) in a radio access network, the method comprising detecting Physical Random Access CHannel, PRACH, transmission from a user equipment (10), wherein the PRACH transmission covers a plurality of time intervals, wherein detecting comprises associating different weights to different time intervals. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US12101812B2
The communication apparatus comprises a receiver which, in operation, receives a PHY layer Data Unit that includes a duration field; Physical (PHY) layer circuitry which, in operation, issues a PHY-CCA (clear channel assessment) primitive parameter indicating bandwidth information on a busy or idle state for each subchannel within an operating bandwidth; and Media Access Control (MAC) circuitry which, in operation, updates a Network Allocation Vector (NAV) value based on the duration information and, in operation, determines busy/idle state of at least one subchannel, wherein the MAC circuitry, in operation, controls transmission of the HE TB PHY layer Data Unit based on the updated NAV value and the busy/idle state of the at least one subchannel, and controls the PHY circuitry to have the HE TB PHY layer Data Unit transmitted when the at least one subchannel is considered idle, regardless of whether the primary subchannel is busy or not.
US12101794B2
A base station is configured to transmit at least one signal in a first bandwidth portion of a cell, the at least one signal having a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The PBCH including a master information block (MIB), the MIB having an indication of time and frequency resources in relation to the at least one signal to acquire additional system information, the first bandwidth portion having a bandwidth less than a full bandwidth of the cell. The base station is further configured to transmit in time and frequency resources associated with the indication of the time and frequency resources and additional system information. The additional system information indicates a second bandwidth portion of the cell, the acquired additional system information being acquired within the second bandwidth portion.
US12101791B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting and/or receiving device information in a context setup request. One method (800) includes transmitting (802) a context setup request to a first device. The context setup request includes information corresponding to a second device. The method (800) includes receiving (804) a response to the context setup request.
US12101788B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may send, to a wireless device, one or more radio resource control messages comprising parameters for one or more bandwidth parts or other wireless resources. The base station may send, to the wireless device, downlink control information comprising one or more bandwidth part identifiers. The wireless device may switch, based on the downlink control information, from a first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part.
US12101787B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes communicating utilising data signaling based on a received control information message, the control information message scheduling multiple occurrences of data signaling, wherein communicating is based on extracting a code block group (CBG) setup for communicating based on the received control information message and/or a CBG configuration. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US12101786B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for wireless communications are described. A base station may send a message with configuration parameters to a wireless device, and the configuration parameters may be for at least two different types of carriers used for communications.
US12101782B2
A wireless device receives one or more radio resource control messages including configuration parameters, of a cell including a first downlink control information (DCI) format and a second DCI format, for monitoring on a first search space, and the second DCI format for monitoring on a second search space. Based on the first DCI format, a first DCI size of the second DCI format for the first search space is determined. Based on the second DCI format, a second DCI size of the second DCI format in the second search space is determined. The wireless device monitors for a first DCI on the first search space based on the first DCI size. The first DCI is based on the first DCI format or the second DCI format. The wireless device monitors for a second DCI on the second search space based on the second DCI size.
US12101780B2
This application discloses a message sending method, a message receiving method, an apparatus, and a device. The message sending method includes: A network device sends, by using a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), downlink control information (DCI) with s a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bit, wherein the DCI is in a first DCI format or a second DCI format, wherein the DCI is used to indicate to a terminal device to enter a sleep mode at a first moment. The network device receives a response message sent by the terminal device in response to the DCI.
US12101775B2
It is provided a method, including providing location information indicating a location of a terminal to a radio-independent localization and tracking system; evaluating at least one of environmental information and tracking information received from the radio-independent localization and tracking system with respect to the terminal in response to providing the location information; managing a resource for serving the terminal based on the at least one of the environmental information and the tracking information, wherein the environmental information includes information about an environment of the terminal, and the tracking information includes information about a track of the terminal.
US12101773B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting and/or receiving a buffer status report indicator. One method (800) includes determining (802), at a medium access control entity of a backhaul node, a buffer status report including an indicator indicating that the buffer status report corresponds to uplink data that is expected to arrive at the backhaul node. The method (800) includes transmitting (804) the buffer status report.
US12101772B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that may allow a base station and user equipment (UE) to use uplink transmission configuration indication (TCI) states. An example method generally includes providing, to a network entity, signaling indicating the UE supports uplink Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) states indicating one or more quasi co-location (QCL) types for one or more reference signals (RS) to be applied to an uplink transmission, receiving UL TCI after sending the indication, and sending the uplink transmission in accordance with the uplink TCI.
US12101770B2
A wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving first indication information, wherein the first indication information is used for indicating whether system information of a first cell is updated; and the terminal device determining, according to the first indication information and a first duration, whether the system information of the first cell is updated.
US12101769B2
A communication apparatus, which operates as a master access point in a wireless network including one or more other access points operating as slaves and one or more stations, generates a trigger frame that includes a Trigger type subfield value indicating an instruction to perform cooperative transmission with the other access points, transmits the generated trigger frame to the other access points, and executes the cooperative transmission with the other access points to which the trigger frame has been transmitted.
US12101767B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for block feedback of multiple semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) occasions. Block feedback may be provided based on variable feedback timing values that are associated with one or more SPS occasions. A user equipment (UE) may determine feedback for each of two or more SPS occasions, and transmit a block feedback that indicates the feedback. A separate feedback timing between a SPS occasion and uplink feedback resources may be provided for multiple SPS occasions, which are associated with a single uplink feedback resource. Alternatively, a minimum feedback timing value and a maximum feedback timing value may be configured for a particular uplink resource, and block feedback for multiple SPS occasions within the minimum and maximum feedback timing values may be reported in the uplink feedback resource.
US12101766B2
Techniques are provided for fast adaptation of DRX settings used by a UE via L1 signaling in order to reduce power consumption by the UE. Generally, the UE is configured for DRX by a higher layer protocol (e.g. RRC), and L1 signaling can be used to control or adapt the DRX by the UE. For example, the L1 signaling may be used to adjust or override 5 operation of an IAT. The downlink control information may be sent in an existing downlink control message or in a new downlink control message. The downlink control message may be a scheduling message scheduling a data transmission to or from the UE.
US12101762B2
An information transmission method, apparatus and device are provided. The method includes receiving downlink transmission; identifying a transmission reception point TRP or a TRP group corresponding to the downlink transmission; transmitting a Hybrid Automatic Repeat request Acknowledge HARQ-ACK of the downlink transmission to the TRP or the TRP group corresponding to the downlink transmission through a Physical Uplink Control Channel PUCCH, wherein, HARQ-ACKs of downlink transmissions corresponding to different TRPs or TRP groups are transmitted on different PUCCHs, and the different PUCCHs are PUCCHs using different PUCCH resources or are PUCCHs transmitted on non-overlapping symbols on a same carrier, or are PUCCHs transmitted on different carriers.
US12101759B2
Methods and systems establish a traffic policy for a personal electronic device based on one or more physical characteristics of the device. In some aspects, a database of traffic policies is maintained. The traffic policies are for accessing a network via a wireless communications link. A network access unit receives a request from a personal electronic device to access the network. The request is analyzed to determine a physical characteristic of the device. A traffic policy is established from the database for the device based, at least in part, on the determined physical characteristic of the device. Transmission of network traffic for the device is then scheduled based at least in part, on the established traffic policy.
US12101754B2
An interference processing method, a terminal, and a network-side device are provided. The interference processing method applied to a terminal includes: in a case that inter-modulation interference occurs between frequencies corresponding to different radio access technologies RATs, sending auxiliary information of the inter-modulation interference to a network-side device, where the auxiliary information includes identification information of a first frequency associated with the inter-modulation interference and interference information of the first frequency.
US12101753B2
A multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) scheduling method is disclosed for scheduling transmission from a plurality of transmission instances to a plurality of receivers. The method comprises acquiring, for each pair of a transmission instance and a receiver, a communication quality metric and forming a first group of receivers from the plurality of receivers. The first group of receivers is formed by selecting a first receiver as a first group member and associating a first transmission instance to the first receiver and—when a plurality of communication quality metrics of the first transmission instance and not yet selected receivers fulfill a first criterion for sufficient communication quality—selecting a second receiver from the not yet selected receivers as a second group member and associating a second transmission instance to the second receiver. The communication quality metric of the first transmission instance and the second receiver fulfills the first criterion for sufficient communication quality and indicates a lower communication quality than the highest communication quality among the plurality of communication quality metrics that fulfill the first criterion for sufficient communication quality. The method also comprises forming at least a second group of receivers from the plurality of receivers by repeating the selection steps for receivers not included in the first group of receivers, and scheduling MU-MIMO transmission to the receivers of each group from the corresponding associated transmission instances. Corresponding apparatus, deployment server, and computer program product are also disclosed.
US12101745B2
A system for exploiting a non-transmission-designated interval in a cycle of a protocol can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a retrieval module, an alternative transmission determination module, and a schedule module. The retrieval module can cause the processor to retrieve, by a specific node associated with a set of nodes in a network, information about the set. The information can include, for a node in the set, identifications of a frequency and a time slot of a transmission-designated interval in a cycle of the protocol. The alternative transmission determination module can cause the processor to determine, based on the information, an existence, in the set, of a non-transmission-designated interval that has a duration greater than a threshold duration. The schedule module can cause the processor to schedule, in response to the existence, the specific node to produce a transmission during the non-transmission-designated interval.
US12101743B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive signaling indicating a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) configuration for sidelink communications. The indicated PTRS configuration may correspond to a sidelink resource pool associated with a plurality of UEs. The UE may transmit control signaling indicating to change the indicated PTRS configuration to a preferred PTRS configuration for the sidelink communications based on a condition. The UE may receive the sidelink communications based on the preferred PTRS configuration.
US12101732B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a policy configuration method, a terminal device, a network device, a chip, a computer readable storage medium, a computer program product, and a computer program. The method comprises: a terminal device receives a User Equipment (UE) policy sent by a network device, the UE policy being used by the terminal device when the terminal device is registered at a non-public network, wherein a policy identifier of the UE policy comprises an identifier of the non-public network.
US12101726B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless communications systems may support non-terrestrial network (NTN) signaling between both terrestrial and non-terrestrial devices. A user equipment (UE) supporting such NTN signaling may receive a downlink message indicating a first configuration for a first transmission reception point corresponding to a first cell of the NTN, and a second configuration for a second transmission reception point corresponding to a second cell of the NTN. The UE may then perform one or more synchronization measurements to synchronize uplink communications with the first transmission reception point and the second transmission reception point and in order to perform multi-transmission reception point communications in the NTN. The UE may then transmit one or more uplink messages to the first transmission reception point, to the second transmission reception point, or both, in accordance with the one or more synchronization measurements.
US12101725B2
Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing transmission power control. Some aspects relate to an electronic device including a transceiver configured to communicate with a second electronic device and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to receive an identification information of the second electronic device and receive, from the second electronic device, at least one of a plurality of feedback signals. The plurality of feedback signals includes a first feedback signal generated based on a link quality query from the electronic device and a second feedback signal including an encoded channel status information embedded within an acknowledgment (ACK) frame from the second electronic device. Based on the received identification information and the at least one of the plurality of feedback signals, the processor is configured to adjust transmission power of a signal to be transmitted to the second electronic device.
US12101714B2
A UE is in a connected mode over a non 3GPP access and in an idle mode over a 3GPP access. The UE receives a NOTIFICATION message from a core network node over the non-3GPP access. The UE determines, when performing a service request procedure, MT_acc=0 as an access category to be associated with the service request procedure upon receiving the NOTIFICATION message. The UE checks whether an access attempt for an access category is barred or allowed. When the access category is allowed, the UE sends a RRC connection setup request to a base station and transmits a SERVICE REQUEST message to the core network node after a RRC connection is established.
US12101713B2
Embodiments of systems/methods are disclosed wherein a transmitter is configured to wirelessly communicate with a destination device by transmitting a first plurality of subcarriers using a first set of frequencies and a first air interface; and responsive to a size of data that is to be transmitted, transmitting a second plurality of subcarriers using a second set of frequencies and a second air interface that comprises a variant of the first air interface. According to some embodiments, the first set of frequencies and/or the second set frequencies comprise frequencies that are used for cellular communications and at least some frequencies of the second set of frequencies are mutually exclusive with the first set of frequencies.
US12101699B2
A device monitors execution of a safety workflow, the safety workflow comprising one or more triggers and one or more responsive actions. The device provides, at a display screen, an indication of the safety workflow and respective visual indications of: a physical sensor that generated sensor data of a trigger of the safety workflow; and a communication device associated with a responsive action to the trigger. The device detects, via an input device, an interaction with one or more of the respective visual indications to interact with one or more of the physical sensor and the communication device. Based on the interaction, the device one or more of: retrieves the sensor data; initiates communication with the communication device; and sends the sensor data to the communication device.
US12101692B2
A system is presented for tracking user devices in a facility. Wireless signals and user information are communicated from user devices to a wireless device and a queue management server. The system determines location information for the user devices within a defined space at points in time. The system tracks the movement of the user devices within the defined space over a period based upon the location information. The system determines when user devices are within a threshold distance of corresponding resource devices based upon the determined location information. The system communicates user preference and profile information to the resource devices indicating that the user devices are within a threshold distance of the resource devices. The resource devices display customized information for user devices based upon user preference and profile information.
US12101689B2
A method involves determining, at a mobile device or a service, an uncertainty in height above a reference altitude, an estimated 2D position of the mobile device, and an uncertainty in terrain height above the reference altitude using the estimated 2D position. An uncertainty in height above terrain, of the mobile device, is determined at the mobile device or a server using the uncertainty in height above the reference altitude and the uncertainty in terrain height above the reference altitude.
US12101679B2
The present invention relates to survival time aware mobility and presents handover procedures when considering survival time (ST) requirements. It proposes a mechanism and embodiments to allow a target cell to have the information relating to a joining UE's Survival Time requirements as well as the ST status during the handover procedure. In particular, the invention is aimed at being introduced into the mobility procedures: Baseline Handover (BHO), Conditional HO (CHO), and Dual Active Protocol Stack (DAPS) HO. In addition to the aggregated RAN architecture, the mobility procedures can be applicable to disaggregated RAN architecture, e.g., CU-DU split.
US12101674B2
The present disclosure provides a switching method, an indication method, a terminal, and a network side device. The switching method applied to the terminal comprises: executing a switching command sent by the network side device; and in the case that switching fails and the terminal is configured with conditional switching, executing a conditional switching process.
US12101672B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Random access procedures may include various types of procedures, such as 4-step or 2-step random access procedures. One or more indicators may be included in one or more messages for a handover to indicate a type of a random access procedure.
US12101671B2
Systems, devices, and techniques are described for communication node scanning and association in a wireless communication network. An illustrative method includes receiving, via a first channel, identifying information that identify a plurality of communication nodes that are configured to communicate via at least a second channel. The illustrative method further includes initiating communication, via at least the second channel, with a communication node based, at least in part, on the identifying information.
US12101668B2
An example according to the present specification relates to a method for performing low latency communication. A transmission STA and a reception STA may exchange a low latency communication request frame and a low latency communication response frame. The low latency communication request frame may include first information for performing the low latency communication. The first information may include at least one among information for requesting parameters for the low latency communication and information about traffic. In addition, the low latency communication response frame may include second information for performing the low latency communication. The second information may include information about the parameters for the low latency communication. The reception STA and the transmission STA may perform the low latency communication with the transmission STA on the basis of the first information and the second information.
US12101664B2
A device for transmitting data in a wireless AV system, and a device for receiving data in a wireless AV system. The device includes: a transceiver configured to receive, from an initiator, a forward direction data frame and reverse direction grant information, instructing that reverse direction transmission be allowed, within a transmission opportunity acquired by the initiator, generate and transmit to the initiator, a block ACK frame pertaining to the forward direction data frame, and buffer a reverse direction data frame to be transmitted to the initiator; and a processor connected to the transceiver and configured to acquire AV data from the forward direction data frame.
US12101657B2
A method for performing measurements in a wireless device is provided. The method comprises: storing a plurality of received measurement configurations, which are linked to each other; applying a first measurement configuration from the plurality of measurement of configurations; and determining whether to apply a second measurement configuration from the plurality of measurement configurations based on the first measurement configuration.
US12101656B2
An approach is described for a user equipment (UE) to receive a channel state information (CSI) reporting configuration message from a source device of a first cell and receive a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) from a second cell via the source device. The UE determines a first number of CSI-RS resources of a first time slot duration corresponding to the first cell, a second number of CSI-RS resources of a second time slot duration corresponding to the second cell, an overall time slot duration based on the first and the second time slot duration, an overall number of CSI-RS resources of the overall time slot duration based at least on the first and the second number of CSI-RS resource, generates a capability report at least based on the overall number of CSI-RS resource, and transmits the capability report to the source device.
US12101654B2
A measurement method, a user equipment and a network side device are provided. The measurement method performed by the user equipment includes: determining a first measurement parameter; determining whether a measurement triggering condition is met; and performing measurement on at least one of a neighboring cell of the UE or a serving cell of the UE based on the first measurement parameter, in a case that the measurement triggering condition is met.
US12101653B2
Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes that the terminal device receives configuration information of a first resource from the network device and the terminal device determines the first resource on a first bandwidth part (BWP) according to the configuration information. The first resource includes a channel state information reference signal CSI-RS resource and/or a channel state information interference measurement CSI-IM resource. The first BWP is a BWP on an unlicensed carrier, and the first BWP includes at least two subbands in a frequency domain.
US12101648B2
A wireless communication system for performing communication and computing includes a plurality of cells configured to perform the communication between at least one user equipment and at least one network; and an Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing platform comprising a plurality of AI slices to perform the computing, wherein the plurality of cells are located in air, space, sea, or land.
US12101644B1
Facilitating backhaul between multiples access points (APs) using ducts or other bounded passageways within a building, dwelling, etc. is contemplated. The backhaul may be utilized to facilitate exchange of data obtained by the APs through fronthaul with one or more clients. The data exchanged between the APs through backhaul may be referred to as ducthauling.
US12101643B2
A method for identifying a client device in a network, and a first radio in the network that is coupled with the client device is provided. The method includes determining one or more sequences of roaming events for multiple client devices in the network, evaluating a performance metric for a roaming event and evaluating an interaction between the client device and one or more radios involved in the roaming events for the plurality of client devices. The method also includes selecting a second radio in the network based at least in part on (1) the one or more sequences of roaming events, (2) the performance metric, and (3) the interaction between the client device and the one or more radios, and recommending switching the client device from the first radio to the second radio. A system and a predictive tool to perform the above method are also provided.
US12101638B2
Examples described herein provide channel assignments for ranging between network devices in a network during beacon intervals. Examples described herein may assign a plurality of channels to a plurality of network devices based on a plurality of channel assignment permutations, and initiate, during beacon intervals, ranging measurements between the plurality of network devices on the plurality of channels based on each of the channel assignment permutations to generate ranging results. Examples described herein may determine whether total ranging measurements are performed for a threshold percentage of available links between the plurality of network devices on the plurality of channels, wherein the total ranging measurements include the ranging measurements based on each of the channel assignment permutations. Examples described herein may, based on a determination that the total ranging measurements are performed for the threshold percentage of available links, resolve locations of the plurality of APs based on the ranging results.
US12101635B2
Examples described herein relate to an access point (AP) capable of simultaneously capturing both wireless data traffic and wired data traffic and mirroring the captured data traffic to a communication port on the AP. The AP includes a data mirroring circuit to capture the wireless data traffic and/or wired data traffic and mirror the captured data traffic to the communication port so that the captured data is transferred to an external device (e.g., a USB flash drive) connected to the communication port. In some examples, to enable the capturing and mirroring of the data traffic, the AP includes a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver captures the wireless data traffic and the wired data traffic transmitted and received by a data processing circuit of the AP, and the transmitter transmits the captured data traffic to the communication port to store the captured data traffic in the external device.
US12101634B2
The present disclosure is related to reconfigurable radio equipment and edge computing, and in particular, to technologies for cyber security and radio equipment supporting certain features ensuring protection from fraud, and testing interfaces related to reconfigurable radio equipment. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US12101633B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for associating the start of an encrypted data flow with an application. One apparatus includes a memory storing instructions executable by a processor to cause the apparatus to authenticate an encrypted traffic detection function (“ETDF”) of the remote unit and to provide the remote unit with a list of application identifiers for which encrypted traffic detection information is to be provided, in response to successfully authenticating the ETDF of the remote unit. The instructions are executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to generate detection information for each application in the list of application identifiers and to send the list of application identifiers and the detection information for each application in the list of application identifiers to a network function in the mobile communication network.
US12101624B2
One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method that includes acquiring, via at least one microphone, sound pressure data from a loudspeaker in a room. The sound pressure data is input into an artificial intelligence (AI) model. The AI model automatically estimates, without user interaction, at least one of energy average (EA) in a listening area or total sound power (TSP) produced by the loudspeaker. The AI model is trained prior to automatically estimating the at least one of the EA in the listening area or the TSP produced by the loudspeaker.
US12101620B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for managing performance optimization of applications executed by an Information Handling System (IHS) are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include computer-executable instructions to receive, by a personal audio device, a plurality of measurements associated with an audio dosage level incurred by a user over a specified period of time, and determine that a cumulative audio dosage level for the specified period of time is excessive. A first portion of the measurements obtained when the audio dosage level is generated by a first audio source and a second portion of the measurements obtained when the audio dosage level is generated by a second audio source. Additionally, the cumulative audio dosage level obtained by combining the first portion and second portion of measurements. When the cumulative audio dosage level is excessive, perform one or more remedial actions to reduce the audio dosage level.
US12101608B2
A Bluetooth audio broadcasting system includes: an audio broadcasting device, a first Bluetooth member device, and a second Bluetooth member device. The audio broadcasting device broadcasts BLE audio packets and transmits a predetermined volume instruction to the first Bluetooth member device and the second Bluetooth member device before broadcasting the BLE audio packets. The first Bluetooth member device parses the BLE audio packets to acquire a predetermined audio data, controls a first audio playback circuit to playback the predetermined audio data, and configures an audio volume of the first audio playback circuit in advance according to the predetermined volume instruction. The second Bluetooth member device parses the BLE audio packets to acquire the predetermined audio data, controls a second audio playback circuit to playback the predetermined audio data, and configures an audio volume of the second audio playback circuit in advance according to the predetermined volume instruction.
US12101595B2
A loudspeaker device may include a speaker component, a circuit housing configured to accommodate a control circuit, and a key module disposed on the core housing. The speaker component may include an earphone core and a core housing for accommodating the earphone core. The control circuit may drive the earphone core to vibrate to generate a sound, and the vibration of the earphone core may include at least two resonance peaks. The key module may include a key and an elastic bearing for supporting the key. The elastic bearing may include an integrally formed bearing body and a support column.
US12101590B2
An earphone includes a speaker housing; a speaker positioned in the speaker housing; a stem extending from the speaker housing, the stem defining an input surface; a conductive object disposed within the stem; a flexible circuit positioned between the stem and the conductive object; a member positioned between the flexible circuit and the conductive object operable to allow the flexible circuit to move with respect to the stem; a force sensor electrode disposed within the flexible circuit; and a controller operable to determine an input to the earphone using a change in capacitance detected using the force sensor electrode, the change in capacitance corresponding to a non-binary amount of a force applied to the input surface. In some examples, the earphone further includes a touch sensor electrode disposed within the flexible circuit.
US12101586B2
A sound bracket is provided in the present disclose. The sound bracket comprises a mounting member fixed to the fixing surface; a fixing portion movably arranged on the mounting member; a supporting portion connected to the fixing portion and used for bearing the sound device; an adjusting member movably mounted on the fixing portion and having one end in contact with the mounting member. The fixing portion includes a mounting wall and a connection hole formed on the mounting wall, the connection hole includes a narrow portion and a wide portion communicating with each other, the mounting member is configured to pass through the wide portion and clip into the narrow portion, rotating the adjusting member enables the adjusting member to move relative to the fixing portion, thus applying pressure on the mounting element.
US12101585B2
According to certain embodiments, an apparatus comprises: an upper case facing a first direction; a lower case facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, the lower case coupled to the upper case, thereby forming an internal space; a speaker module disposed in the internal space, wherein the speaker module includes: a speaker; a bracket surrounding at least a part of the speaker, the bracket comprising: a first opening positioned to receive sound generated from the speaker; at least one first part coupled with the upper case; and at least one second part coupled with the lower case; at least one first sealing member disposed on the at least one first part of the bracket and sealing the bracket and the upper case; and a second sealing member disposed on the at least one second part of the bracket and sealing the bracket and the lower case.
US12101575B2
Systems and methods for obtaining a seamless, smooth transition between a Wide field of view (FOV) camera and a scanning Tele camera by correcting prism aberrations, matching Tele and Wide FOVs, localizing the associated Tele FOV, and zooming a Wide frame towards the localized Tele FOV.
US12101569B2
A system and method for correcting oversaturated pixels in far-infrared (FIR) images captured by a shutterless FIR camera, the method comprising: capturing thermal images by a FIR sensor in the shutterless FIR camera; processing the thermal images, by the shutterless FIR camera to determine pixel value and at least a shutterless sunburn correction, wherein the shutterless sunburn correction removes oversaturated pixels based on pixel-by-pixel analysis of the thermal image; and sending the processed thermal images to an output device.
US12101562B2
One embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving, at an image glare reduction system, an indication to capture an image using a user device; determining, using the image glare reduction system, a function of the user device may cause glare in the image; and modifying, using the image glare reduction system and in response to the determining the function may cause glare, an attribute of the user device, wherein the modifying occurs during a shutter operation of the user device occurring during capture of the image.
US12101561B2
A server transfers a wide field-of-view image having a field of view wider than the display field of view of a client by multicast streaming or the like. Image processing devices of clients crop regions corresponding to the display fields of view of head-mounted displays and flat panel displays connected to the respective image processing devices to form images compatible with the respective formats and then output the images.
US12101553B2
The present invention provides a camera focusing method, including: making an imaging plane of a time-of-flight (ToF) camera and that of a red-green-blue (RGB) camera located in a common plane, obtaining a pixel column difference, a pixel matching table, and a corresponding area, calculating an average depth value of the corresponding area, calculating an adjustment distance according to the average depth value and a lens focal length, and adjusting a distance between a lens center and the imaging plane according to the adjustment distance to focus the cameras and improve a focusing speed. The present invention further provides a camera focusing system for implementing the camera focusing method.
US12101551B2
An image capturing apparatus including a first image capturing section for capturing an image of an object, a second image capturing section for performing image capturing in a rear direction, and an operation section configured to receive an operation input by a user. In a case where no operation on the operation section is performed after an image of an object has been captured by the first image capturing section, whether or not a user has intention of capturing an image is determined based on an image captured by the second image capturing section. In a case where it is determined that the user does not have the intention of capturing an image, the first image capturing section is set o a first operation state rather than a second operation state larger in power consumption than the first operation state.
US12101548B2
Processing for judging whether a face is included in a frame is performed, in a predetermined interval, on each of frames included in a moving image of a subject, displayed on a monitor, until the judgment becomes positive. If it is judged that a face is included in a frame, the facial position is detected in the frame, and stored. Then, judgment is made as to whether a face is included in the next frame after predetermined time. If the judgment is positive, the facial position is detected. The previously stored facial position is replaced by the newly detected facial position, and the newly detected facial position is stored. These processes are repeated until photographing operation is performed by operating a release unit.
US12101547B2
A photographing method and a terminal device are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a first operation; starting, by the terminal device, a camera in response to the first operation; displaying, by the terminal device, a first preview screen including a first preview image, where the first preview image includes at least one photographed object, and the at least one photographed object in the first preview image matches preset first text information; and outputting, by the terminal device, first prompt information based on the first preview image and the first text information, where the first prompt information is used to indicate a missing or redundant photographed object in the first preview image. Indicated by the prompt information, a user can move a position or an angle of the terminal device.
US12101546B2
A Hot-Pluggable GMSL Camera System wherein a MIPI camera sensor is connected to a corresponding serializer block with an I2C interface, the corresponding serializer is connected to a corresponding deserializer block by a GMSL cable of up to at least 15-30 meters through an electrical connector, the deserializer block is connected to the Host Processor. A signal of the status of electrical connection of the GMSL cable is generated and communicated to the Host Processor, wherein an unplugging of the activated GMSL cable would produce a signal communicated to the Host Processor, and a plugging-in, or connecting of the same cable or a replacement cable or more than one GMSL cable communicated to the Host Processor. The GMSL camera system detects intermittent connections that are regarded as a micro-unplugging and a micro-hot-plugging, and displaying a proprietary video frame in response to hot-unplugging.
US12101544B2
The present disclosure provides a digital image sensing device with a light intensifier, its structure includes a locating handle, a button, a host, a light intensifier, a regulating mechanism and a sensor, wherein the locating handle is connected to the host, the host fits with the light intensifier through the button in a form of electric connection, and the regulating mechanism is arranged between the light intensifier and the sensor; a stopping device and an interweaving device are arranged on a force-assisted body, and mutual fit is performed on a fillet cylinder through the stopping device and the interweaving device; when a guide rail has a closing tendency, a drum bulge inside the guide rail will firstly push the fillet cylinder to roll upwards, the interweaving device is guided to be located on a stabilizer through a pulling sheet.
US12101535B2
A video curation service (VCS) method provides video content provided by an open streaming service (OSS) by adding video content information in conjunction with the OSS. The VCS method comprises: a step in which a subtitlist produces subtitle data with regard to predetermined video content provided from an OSS server, and uploads same onto a VCS server; and a step in which the VCS server operates a web or app page for viewing video content on a viewer terminal in accordance with a request of a viewer.
US12101533B2
Embodiments relate to a method and a system for providing a content via efficient database architecture for individualized time management. According to the method and system, it is possible to perform a quick data processing simultaneously with an efficient database management through the database architecture even in a situation where the number of users and contents are greatly increased by mapping etc. between tables based on a base content associated with a quasi-free sub-contents when activation of quasi-free sub-contents is requested.
US12101522B2
Systems and methods are described herein for generating a timeline of media assets on a media guidance application that dynamically adjusts the timeline of related media assets associated with the media asset selected by a user, by comparing keywords. In another embodiment, the systems and methods are described for masking portions of headline of the media asset for increasing interests in selecting the media asset.
US12101521B2
A method of reproducing audio content between a main terminal including a first speaker and a plurality of subsidiary terminals including a second speaker. Device specific identification (ID) information of the subsidiary terminals and association information for transmitting one of the audio data of the audio content to one of the subsidiary terminals are stored. The association information defines that one of the audio data of the audio content is associated with one of the device specific ID information. The subsidiary terminals transmit/receive with the main terminal and the device specific ID information is transmitted from the subsidiary terminals to the main terminal when connecting to the main terminal. The encoded audio data of the audio content is transmitted to the subsidiary terminals based on the association information, then is decoded and the subsidiary terminals output the audio data to the second speaker.
US12101518B2
In a communication system where a channel teed carrying a media stream is broadcast for delivery of the media stream to a media client, where the channel feed further includes metadata in-band and correlated with a content frame of the media stream, but where the metadata gets removed from the channel feed before the media stream reaches the media client, a computing system (i) extracts the metadata from the channel feed and (ii) transmits out-of-band to the media client the extracted metadata in correlation with reference fingerprint data representing the frame of the media stream, the correlation being useable by the media client as a basis to re-correlate the metadata with the frame of the media stream, so as to enable the media client to carry out an action, such as dynamic ad insertion, based on the correlation of the metadata with the frame of the media stream.
US12101503B2
Innovations in adaptive encoding for units of a video sequence can improve coding efficiency. For example, some of the innovations relate to encoding that includes adaptive switching of color spaces between units within a video sequence. Other innovations relate encoding that includes adaptive switching of color sampling rates between units within a video sequence. Still other innovations relate encoding that includes adaptive switching of bit depths between units within a video sequence.
US12101495B2
An image component prediction method, an encoder, and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes: encoding chroma components in a colour component encoding process; and acquiring a prediction value of a luma component according to the encoded chroma components.
US12101492B2
A method of image compression, including, receiving at least one unprocessed image frame, transforming a domain of the at least one unprocessed image frame to output a transformed domain dataset, block processing the transformed domain dataset to yield a blocked dataset, quantizing the blocked dataset to produce a quantized dataset and entropy encoding the quantized dataset to construct at least one compressed image frame.
US12101490B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for processing data. The method includes determining encoded data for a target object by performing hybrid encoding on multiple types of data for the target object, the multiple types of data including image data of the target object. The method further includes determining, by transforming the encoded data, an invariant portion for a shape of the target object and a variable portion for an expression of the target object. The method improves data processing efficiency, saves time and computing resources, and reduces the amount of data transmission.
US12101484B2
A method for encoding or decoding an image. The method includes obtaining a coding tree block (CTB) having a vertical size (CtbSizeY) and a horizontal size (CtbSizex), the CTB comprising set of sample values associated with the image, the set of sample values comprising a current sample value having a location (x,y) within the CTB, where x is a horizontal value and y is a vertical value. The method also includes selecting a filter strength value for the current sample based on y and filtering the current sample using the selected filter strength value. Selecting a filter strength value for the current sample based on y comprises: i) determining whether the following first condition is true: (y==(CtbSizeY−5) OR y==(CtbSizeY−4)) AND var==1, where var is a variable that is set equal to 1 as a result of a determination that a second condition is satisfied; and ii) choosing a filter strength value of 10 as a result of determining that the first condition is true.
US12101482B2
An encoder, a decoder, and methods for partitioning a picture from a sequence of video pictures into a layout having a plurality of flexible tiles or segments is disclosed. Each tile or segment comprises a single rectangular or square region. The encoder generates a partition structure and encodes the tiles according to the partition structure. The encoder also generates a bitstream comprising a plurality of coded segments and information indicating the partition structure used to partition the picture into the plurality of flexible tiles or segments, and sends the bitstream to the decoder. Upon receipt, the decoder uses the coded segments and information in the bitstream to decode the plurality of coded segments.
US12101481B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure may include determining whether a prediction mode of a current block is an intra prediction mode based on information on the prediction mode of the current block, determining whether intra sub-partitions (ISP) is available for the current block, when the prediction mode of the current block is an intra prediction mode, decoding an ISP application indicator indicating whether to apply ISP to the current block, when ISP is available for the current block, and generating a prediction block for the current block by applying ISP to the current block, upon determining that ISP applies to the current block based on the ISP application indicator.
US12101470B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image to enhance inter prediction. According to the present invention, the method includes: determining a first reference picture and a second reference picture of a current block; determining both a first reference block in the first reference picture and a second reference block in the second reference picture; partitioning the current block into a plurality of sub blocks; and obtaining a prediction block of each of the sub blocks on the basis of reference candidate block index information of each of the sub blocks.
US12101462B2
The present disclosure relates to encoding and decoding of video images. Motion vectors are used for prediction of an image for a current coding unit, which is within a current coding tree unit. The motion vectors are taken from a list of motion vector candidates. The list is generated for the current coding unit using a pattern of positions of allowed motion vectors, and in dependence on the positions of the pattern relative to the current coding unit, and on the position of the current coding unit within the current coding tree unit. From the pattern, a subset of positions is selected and positions are restricted to positions within the current coding tree unit, while other pattern positions not available or not stored in a buffer are excluded. Other excluded pattern positions may be substituted and/or adjusted to as to become available and/or are being stored in the buffer.
US12101448B2
A document feeding apparatus includes a document tray, a feed roller, a separation conveying unit, a first detecting unit and a control unit. The first detecting unit detects that the document is at the first detecting position when a protrusion amount of a flag member is a first amount and detects that no document is at the first detecting position when the protrusion amount is a second amount. The control unit executes an operation in a first mode in which a first detecting process is executed so as to detect the presence or absence of the document before starting to lower the feed roller and the presence or absence is determined, and in a second mode in which a second detecting process is executed so as to detect the presence or absence at the first detecting position after lowering said feed roller and the presence or absence is determined.
US12101447B2
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a feeding member, a first supporting member including a first supporting surface, and a second supporting member including a second supporting surface. The second supporting member is configured to move between a first position above the first supporting member and a second position to which the second supporting member is retracted upward from the first position. In a state where the second supporting member is positioned at the first position, the feeding member is configured to feed a first sheet supported on the first supporting surface and a second sheet supported on the second supporting surface. In a state where the second supporting member is positioned at the second position, the feeding member is configured to feed the first sheet that is supported on the first supporting surface at a position below the second supporting member.
US12101443B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing management of routing across multiple voice or data networks with separate routing masters. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a request to establish a call between a calling party in a first network and a called party in a second network, a computing system might receive a first set of network information from a first routing database(s) that is operated by a first service provider and a second set of network information from a second routing database(s) that is operated by a second service provider separate from the first service provider; might analyze the received first and second sets of network information to generate a unified routing model for optimizing routing of the call through the first and second networks; and might establish the call through a selected optimized route based on the generated unified routing model.
US12101439B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for machine learning systems to process incoming call-center calls based on inferred themes. The machine learning system extracts a topic and keywords associated with the topic from a plurality of interactive communications and ranks the keywords based on a frequency of occurrence within the plurality of interactive communications. The machine learning systems select an N highest ranked keywords from the plurality of interactive communications, compares the N highest ranked keywords to previously extracted N highest ranked keywords to identify new keywords, and determines, based on new keywords, that an emerging topic has been articulated in the plurality of interactive communications.
US12101438B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary method that may include steps of receiving an input text data retrieved from a transcription associated with a previously recorded audio data file between a user of a plurality of users and an agent associated with a call center; identifying personal information associated with the user of the plurality of users from the input text data by inputting the input text data into a trained machine learning model; determining at least one key term within the personal information associated with the user of the plurality of users; automatically determining a confidence positivity score associated with the at least one key term; automatically extracting a plurality of tuples from the input text data; storing the plurality of tuples in an external database; and automatically generating a call script for conducting a subsequent call with the user.
US12101433B2
Asynchronous and/or synchronous telephony protocol systems and methods may include an asynchronous signaling node (ASN) and/or a call duration time quota from a charging onset to place and complete a call based on a first device call request as received from a first user mobile device on a packet switched network. The asynchronous systems include instructions to automatically modify the telephony address with a prefix and destination address when the first device has insufficient or independent balance or upon a network exception; route the modified call signal to the ASN; and deliver and automatically disconnect the call when the call is completed. The synchronous systems are balance-independent and include instructions to automatically set the call duration time quota upon such exception, and deliver and automatically disconnect the call from the second user telephony device when the call is completed or when the call duration time quota is exceeded.
US12101432B2
Media control devices, methods and systems for communicating with mobile devices and headsets are disclosed. At least one control device may include a top surface, a bottom surface, circuitry for communicating with mobile devices and headsets, at least one button designed to be manipulated by users wearing gloves, a microphone for receiving audio input from the users, and a securement mechanism for securing the control device to the users' person, clothing and/or equipment.
US12101428B2
A mobile phone having an application or system module operable to attach the mobile phone to a computing device as a wireless accessory to the computing device over a wireless connection between the mobile phone and the computing device, based at least in part on that the mobile phone is located within a predetermined proximity radius from the computing device, and a display device of the computing device is inactive.
US12101427B2
An embodiment relates to an electronic device including a mobile terminal and a case. The mobile terminal comprises: an interface unit for connecting a first audio device and a second audio device to the mobile terminal; a control unit; and a first display on which a first screen is displayed. The case includes a second display on which a second screen is displayed. The control unit matches the first display and the first audio device, matches the second display and the second audio device, and controls the first audio device and the second audio device such that a first sound corresponding to the first screen is output from the first audio device and a second sound corresponding to the second screen is output from the second audio device.
US12101426B1
An electronic device may have pixels that form an active area for a flexible display layer. An inactive area that is free of pixels may surround the active area. One or more edges of the flexible display layer may be bent around respective bend axes. The display layer may also have one or more unbent edges in which the inactive area and active area of the display have a planar shape. An image transport layer may have an input surface that receives the image and an output surface to which the image is transported. The image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or a layer of Anderson localization material. The coherent fiber bundle may have straight fibers that run parallel to each other in a vertical direction that is parallel to a surface normal of a central portion of the display layer.
US12101425B2
An expandable touch screen display device made up of a flexible display that can be reconfigured from a compact state to a plurality of expanded states. The form factor of the compact state is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone or smaller. The form factor of each of the expanded states is roughly the size of a tablet computer. An internal mechanism is provided for synching the motion of the device's expansion with the motion of the flexible display's end plate which provides a force to guide the display around the roller located at the edge of the device. The device may further include an integrated speaker and microphone, and sensors to indicate the expanded position of the display. In one embodiment, a module attached to, situated within, or otherwise associated with the device may contain all or substantially all processing and memory, along with a communications system.
US12101423B2
A rolling display arrangement for an electronic device includes a display module, a shaft module, and at least one transmission module, the transmission module being configured to transfer rotational movement of the shaft module and the transmission module to linear movement of the display module. Such a rolling display arrangement allows the display module to slide linearly.
US12101418B2
Disclosed herein is a data storage device. A data port transmits data between a host computer system and the data storage device. A non-volatile storage medium stores encrypted user content data and a cryptography engine connected between the data port and the storage medium uses a cryptographic key to decrypt the encrypted user content data. The access controller generates a challenge for a manager device. The challenge comprises a blinded public key of an ephemeral unlock key pair that is blinded by an unlock blinding key. The challenge further comprises the unlock blinding key in encrypted form. The access controller further provides the challenge to the device to be authorized for sending the challenge to the manager device; receives a response to the challenge; decrypts the unlock blinding key and calculates a shared secret; and upon determining that the response indicates approval of registering the device, registers the device to be authorized as an authorized device.
US12101416B2
A security function is provided by an intermediate device located between hosts and devices requesting for access to the hosts in a computerized network. The intermediate device receives a request for access to a host, and obtains at least one authenticator for use in the requested access to the host. The intermediate device then monitors for communications that use the at least one authenticator.
US12101414B2
A medical treatment machine, such as a dialysis machine (e.g., a home dialysis machine, such as a home hemodialysis machine or a home peritoneal dialysis machine) can receive a digital prescription file that defines parameters of a medical treatment to be administered to a patient. The digital prescription file can be prepared and delivered in such a way that the medical treatment machine can confirm that the issuer (e.g., provider) of the digital prescription file is an authorized issuer without having any a priori knowledge of the particular issuer. The digital prescription file can be delivered irrespective of the inherent security (or lack thereof) of the transmission medium in a tamper-evident format using minimal resources necessary to verify the validity of the digital prescription file and its issuer. The digital prescription file may be delivered to the dialysis machine using a network cloud-based connected health system.
US12101411B2
There is disclosed a novel system and method for decentralized digital structured data storage, management, and authentication. In an embodiment, the present system comprises pieces of digital structured data (including but not limited to, digital images, digital videos, digital audio, digital text, and digital computational graph representations), computer nodes for storing pieces of digital structured data and for creating references to portions of stored pieces of digital structured data, a network connecting the computer nodes, and a blockchain. In an embodiment, a piece of digital structured data is stored on a computer node, and the computer node creates a reference to a portion of the stored piece of digital structured data. The computer node then broadcasts a request for the reference to be added to the blockchain to all computer nodes through a network connecting all computer nodes. Upon receiving the request, the computer nodes in the network validate the request as well as the status of the computer node. Upon a successful validation of the request, a block is created using the reference along with a timestamp and a digitally signed hash of a previous block, and the block is added to the blockchain. In an illustrative embodiment, a user can validate the authenticity of content within a piece of digital structured data on a computer node by selecting portions of the piece of digital structured data to trace. Each of the selected portions of the piece of digital structured data is then traced on the computer node through the blockchain to trace the original source of the portion of the piece of digital structured data, and identify if the content has been previously modified and by whom.
US12101410B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums described herein enable executable code of a hardware security platform (HSP) circuit to communicate with a hypervisor in a separate processor. The hypervisor generates and manages virtual machines. The HSP code comprises trusted platform module (TPM) logic, that processes TPM commands received via the hypervisor, and in response to the processing, communicates security information (e.g., measurements, keys, authorization data) with the virtual machines via the hypervisor. The TPM logic receives security information related to a virtual machine from the hypervisor and stores the security information in non-volatile memory of the HSP circuit, where security information from a particular VM is distinguishable from security information from another VM in the HSP memory. The hypervisor (and VMs) communicate via a network fabric with the HSP circuit within an SOC, or the HSP may reside on a discrete chip and communicate via a secure encrypted channel.
US12101408B2
A decentralized secure repository is used as a medium for distribution of a one-time password (OTP) from an authentication system to a user's client device. End-to-end encryption of the OTP is provided: the OTP is both stored encrypted at rest on the decentralized secure repository, and is also encrypted when it is transmitted over computer networks between different systems, thereby thwarting attempts at eavesdropping. The decentralized secure repository itself also has a number of properties that enhance security of the OTP, such as tamper-proofness and auditability. The decentralized secure repository may be implemented with techniques such as a blockchain protocol.
US12101407B1
An asset management method is provided. The asset management method includes establishing a network connection between a cryptomining asset and an asset management server. The asset management method includes generating a digital token, wherein the digital token includes an identifier assigned to the cryptomining asset by a cryptomining asset provider. The asset management method includes transmitting, to the asset management server and via the network connection, the digital token. The asset management method includes receiving, from the asset management server, a message corresponding to the identifier, wherein the message includes a configuration of a cryptomining task. The asset management method includes loading the configuration in the cryptomining asset. Another asset management method and a cryptomining asset are also provided.
US12101396B2
A first device obtains a public key of a first home device and a first message leaving key that is used to encrypt an offline message between the first device and the first home device; obtains a public key of a second device and a second message leaving key that is used to encrypt an offline message between the first device and the second device; obtains a third message leaving key used to encrypt an offline message between the second device and the first home device; encrypts the public key of the second device and the third message leaving key by using the first message leaving key, to obtain first encrypted information, and requests a server to push the first encrypted information to the first home device; and encrypts the public key of the first home device and the third message leaving key by using the second message leaving key.
US12101395B2
Cryptographic techniques are provided for generating, distributing, validation, and processing secure commands on different devices and/or peripherals. A control device generates and encrypts a key corresponding to a secure command using a private key of control device to produce a key envelope. Control device further encrypts the key envelope with a recipient's public key producing a recipient envelope. The recipient envelope is delivered to a recipient's device. The recipient's device decrypts the recipient envelope with a private key of the recipient's device producing the key envelope. The key envelope is delivered back to the control device. The control device decrypts the key envelope producing the key, validates the key, and processes a secure command on behalf of a secure resource or delivers the secure command to the secure resource for processing. In an embodiment, control device maintains audit records/audit trail, which is maintained on the control device.
US12101387B2
Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application correspond to distributed computing systems for coordinating emergency rescue operations. The disclosed distributed emergency response system includes a mobile rescue application that increases the efficiency and reliability of users submitting rescue requests, a server-based application that coordinates dispatches in response to incoming rescue requests, and a mobile responder application that provides more efficient rescue through real-time location updates received from the mobile rescue application. The rescue application can include a dynamic, menu-based user interface to quickly solicit the emergency information needed for automated triage and dispatch.
US12101385B2
Techniques for processing web probes for monitoring user experience including use of caching to prevent a surge of web probes on destination servers and for detecting web probe traffic. A method implemented by a connector includes intercepting a Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) web probe request to a server, identifying a cache hit associated with the request in a cache, generating a synthetic Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) response based on information from the identified cache hit, wherein the generated synthetic HTTP response includes an extension header containing collected statistics, and sending the synthetic HTTP response. The method can further include simulating a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) handshake to estimate SSL cost.
US12101384B2
In a push notification service, information desired to be surely delivered to a user is displayed on a terminal device. A control method of a terminal device includes: a reception step for receiving notification information; and an execution step for executing a first notification process being executed for providing a notification of a first content based on notification information received by the terminal device in a case where the notification information includes first information for the notification of the first content and second information for a notification of a second content, and executing a second notification process being executed for providing the notification of the second content based on the notification information after the first content is displayed by executing the first notification process.
US12101379B2
A storage system is provided. The storage system includes a first storage cluster, the first storage cluster having a first plurality of storage nodes coupled together and a second storage cluster, the second storage cluster having a second plurality of storage nodes coupled together. The system includes an interconnect coupling the first storage cluster and the second storage cluster and a first pathway coupling the interconnect to each storage cluster. The system includes a second pathway, the second pathway coupling at least one fabric module within a chassis to each blade within the chassis.
US12101377B2
The present embodiments relate to a CI replication service that can replicate domain data from IDCS control plane to data plane and to all subscribed regions of a domain. For instance, the CI replication service can provide replication of required resources of a domain for AuthN and AuthZ from an IDCS local region to other regions for high availability (e.g., to improve latency). The CI replication service can replicate the resources from a domain's home region to all subscribed regions for local availability of data for workloads running in those regions. Further, when a new region is subscribed for a domain, then the service can bootstrap that domain's data from home region before enabling that region for the domain.
US12101362B2
A method for establishing at least three-way conversation between a primary party, secondary parties, and one or more brand agents within an SDN is provided. The method includes initiating a two-way communication channel between a first communication endpoint associated with the primary party and a second communication endpoint assigned to the one or more brand agents. The method then proceeds with receiving a selection of one or more secondary parties from a database. The method includes synthesizing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for a secondary party of the one or more secondary parties to join the two-way communication channel and providing the URL to a third communication endpoint associated with the secondary party. The method includes initiating, upon detecting that the secondary party clicked the URL, the at least three-way conversation between the primary party, the secondary party, and the one or more brand agents via the two-way communication channel.
US12101360B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interface to facilitate augmented reality based communication between multiple users over a network. A first user of a first device is enabled to view a real-world environment that is visible to a second user via a second device by causing display, at the first device, of a live camera feed generated at the second device. The live camera feed comprises images of the real-world environment that is visible to the second user. Input data indicative of a selection by the first user of a virtual content item to apply to the real-world environment that is visible to the second user is received. The first device and second device present media objects overlaid on the real-world environment based on the input data.
US12101355B2
A node for a VSAN includes a BMC, a processor, and a plurality of VSAN objects. The processor instantiates a Cluster Membership, Monitoring, and Directory Service (CMMDS) and a BMC Service Module (SM). The CMMDS implements a Security Policy and Data Model (SPDM) architecture. The CMMDS determines an inventory list of the VSAN objects and a SPDM authentication state for each of the objects, and provides the inventory list and the SPDM authentication states to the BMC SM. The BMC SM provides the inventory list and the SPDM authentication state to the BMC. The BMC determines that a first VSAN object is not authenticated based upon the SPDM authentication state of the first VSAN object, and directs the CMMDS to halt input/output (I/O) operations on the VSAN to the first VSAN object.
US12101327B2
A system and method for a global approach for multifactor authentication incorporating user and enterprise preferences. An example method includes receiving a request from an enterprise computer for authentication of a user to access a resource of the enterprise. The example method also includes requesting available authentication methods and/or credentials at a point of authentication for the user. The example method also includes determining a set of authentication credentials to apply. The example method also includes receiving a requested set of authentication credentials from the point of authentication. The example method also includes authenticating the user based on the received set of authentication credentials from the point of authentication, and providing the user authenticated identity to the enterprise for access to the resource of the enterprise after authenticating the user.
US12101309B2
Described herein are techniques for providing one or more users with access to content obtained from a plurality of content providers. In some embodiments, such techniques may comprise maintaining a number of access credentials associated with a plurality of different content providers, obtaining access to a plurality of media content libraries, each of the plurality of media content libraries managed by a content provider of the plurality of different content providers, and providing the plurality of media content libraries to at least one user device as a single library of media content. Such techniques may further comprise receiving, from the user device, a selection of a media content from the single library of media content and providing, to the user device, access to the selected media content within a corresponding media content library of the plurality of media content libraries using an access credential.
US12101307B2
Systems and methods for secure stateless client-server communication. User credentials in a client authorization request are authenticated and used to generate a JSON web token (JWT). The JWT header and signature are encrypted and included in an HTTP-only cookie. The JWT payload is encrypted and sent to the client in a response body along with the HTTP-only cookie. Each subsequent client request includes the cookie and has the encrypted JWT payload in the request header. Upon receiving the request, the server decrypts the encrypted JWT payload from the header and decrypts the encrypted JWT header and signature from the cookie, then reconstructs the JWT from the JWT header, payload and signature. The server validates the JWT and, if valid, processes the request according to authorizations in the JWT payload.
US12101306B2
Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to orchestrate trusted enrollment of an endpoint client information handling system by deploying a signed payload of an enrollment package to the endpoint client system, and by using a client software agent executing on the endpoint client system to first verify the distribution chain and/or signature of the deployed enrollment package before proceeding to use other information contained in the enrollment package to contact a registration server to enroll the endpoint client system.
US12101305B2
Various examples for managing a client device having multiple enrolled user accounts thereon are described. A computing device is directed to store a mapping of a client device to a plurality of user accounts active. The computing device communicates remotely with a management application on the client device to identify an active one of the user accounts from an operating system of the client device. In response to receipt of information associated with a first one of the user accounts active on the client device, the computing device enrolls the first one of the user accounts with a management service in association with the client device. In response to receipt of information associated with a second one of the user accounts active on the client device, the computing device enrolls the second one of the user accounts with the management service in association with the client device.
US12101299B2
A method including retrieving, by a device associated with a virtual private network (VPN) server from a read-only device, an initial operating system associated with the VPN server providing VPN services; transmitting, by the device based at least in part on executing the initial operating system, a first request to an infrastructure device for a VPN operating system to enable the VPN server to provide the VPN services; receiving, by the device from the infrastructure device based at least in part on transmitting the request, the VPN operating system; and executing, by the device, the VPN operating system to provide the VPN services is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US12101279B2
Systems and methods that offer significant improvements to current virtual agent (VA) conversational experiences are disclosed. The proposed systems and methods are configured to manage conversations in real-time with human customers while accommodating a dynamic goal. The VA includes a goal-driven module with a reinforcement learning-based dialogue manager. The VA is an interactive tool that utilizes both task-specific rewards and sentiment-based rewards to respond to a dynamic goal. The VA is capable of handling dynamic goals with a significantly high success rate. As the system is trained primarily with a user simulator, it can be readily extended for applications across other domains.
US12101276B2
The present disclosure relates to: a method comprising: a step for receiving a synchronization signal/public broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block within a plurality of SS/PBCH block candidates located on an unlicensed band; and a step for obtaining time synchronization on the basis of the SS/PBCH block, wherein on the basis of subcarrier spacing (SCS) of the SS/PBCH block being set to 240 kHz, the plurality of SS/PBCH block candidates are located in both a first half section and a second half section of a time window set for transmission of the SS/PBCH block; and a device therefor.
US12101271B2
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a method in which a first device performs sidelink communication. The method may comprise: a step for determining at least one PRS resource for transmitting at least one PRS for sidelink positioning; a step for transmitting, to a second device, the at least one PRS on the basis of the at least one PRS resource; a step for receiving, from the second device, a PSCCH and a PSSCH associated with the PSCCH; a step for determining at least one PSFCH resource for transmitting the PSCCH or at least one PSFCH related to the PSSCH to the second device; and a step for transmitting, to the second device, the at least one PSFCH on the basis of the at least one PSFCH resource.
US12101268B2
Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for serving cell measurement based on CSI-RS RRM are provided. An example apparatus may transmit, to a base station, an indication indicating support for reporting one or more serving cell channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) radio resource management (RRM) measurements independent of non-serving cell CSI-RS RRM measurements. The example apparatus may receive, from the base station, a configuration of layer 3 measurement resources. The example apparatus may perform, based on the configuration of the layer 3 measurement resources, the one or more serving cell CSI-RS RRM measurements. The example apparatus may transmit, to the base station, the one or more serving cell CSI-RS RRM measurements for a serving cell.
US12101266B2
There is provided a method for transmitting a reference signal. The method for transmitting the reference signal includes: determining locations in time and frequency domains of a DRS, the DRS comprising at least one of a PSS, an SSS, a PBCH, a DMRS for PBCH, a CSI-RS for TRS, a CSI-RS for beam management, and a CSI-RS for acquiring channel state information; and transmitting the DRS at the determined locations in time and frequency domains of the DRS.
US12101262B2
A data processing program causes a processing device, among a plurality of processing devices each executes predetermined processing on received data and outputs a result, to execute a process. The process includes, calculating, in a case where a notification that a resource is increased is received from a first processing device in a group of processing devices at a previous stage of the processing device among the plurality of processing devices, a ratio of an amount of data received from the first processing device to a total amount of data received from each of the group of processing devices, based on an amount of data received from each of the group of processing devices within a predetermined period, and determining whether or not to increase a resource of the processing device based on the calculated ratio and resource usage of the processing device.
US12101255B2
A method for transmitting time-critical data, in which datagrams are transmitted from a first communication device in a first sub-network to a second communication device in a second sub-network via a third sub-network, wherein datagrams within the first and the second sub-networks are each forwarded by switching, while diagrams within the third sub-network are transmitted by routing, where the first sub-network includes at least a first coupling communication device connected to a first router and a second coupling communication device connected to a second router, where the first and second coupling communication devices select among each other a master coupling communication device, where a common virtual network layer address is assigned to both coupling communication devices, and where a securing layer tunnel is built up by the third sub-network between the master coupling communication device and a third coupling communication device.
US12101254B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a packet processing method and a network device, so as to effectively resolve a problem that a quantity of concurrent packet processing policies is limited in a network device due to scarce hardware resources of a packet forwarding chip. A method part in the embodiments of the present disclosure includes: obtaining, by a first network device, identification information; processing, by the first network device, a packet when receiving the packet, where a processed packet includes the identification information, and packets corresponding to different preset policy information include different identification information; and sending, by the first network device, the processed packet to a second network device, so that the second network device matches a corresponding policy for the processed packet based on the identification information.
US12101244B1
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of performing layer 7 (L7) packet processing for a set of Pods executing on a host computer, the set of Pods managed by a container orchestration platform. The method is performed at the host computer. The method receives notification of a creation of a traffic control (TC) custom resource (CR) that is defined by reference to a TC custom resource definition (CRD). The method identifies a set of interfaces of a set of one or more managed forwarding elements (MFEs) executing on the host computer that are candidate interfaces for receiving flows that need to be directed based on the TC CR to a layer 7 packet processor. Based on the identified set of interfaces, the method provides a set of flow records to the set of MFEs to process in order to direct a subset of flows that the set of MFEs receive to the layer 7 packet processor.
US12101243B2
A link path calculation method, device, terminal device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: acquiring a topology containing a TSN bridge, the TSN bridge comprising a 5GS TSN virtual bridge and a common TSN bridge; acquiring a latency parameter of a link of the TSN bridge; acquiring a minimum latency Tmin achievable by the 5GS-TSN-VB and a maximum latency MaxLatency in service requirements; calculating an optimal path and determining a sum Tc of all link latencies on the optimal path; determining a maximum latency Tmax tolerated by the 5GS-TSN-VB; determining an optimal value Tmax−O of the Tmax; and sending service flow information and the Tmax−O as latency requirements to a 5GS system corresponding to the 5GS-TSN-VB, and sending the service flow information to a corresponding TSN bridge in response to path calculation being successful.
US12101242B2
Embodiments described herein generally involve identifying workloads in a multi-site networking environment. Embodiments include determining that a given network is stretched across a first network segment at a first site and a second network segment at a second site. Embodiments include creating a stretched administrative domain for the given network and mapping an address of the given network to the stretched administrative domain in a lookup table for an administrative domain associated with the first network segment. Embodiments include receiving a flow record from an observation point in the first network segment, the flow record having a source IP address associated with the second network segment and a destination IP address associated with the first network segment. Embodiments include identifying a source workload and destination workload of the flow record using the lookup table and a workload identification table that maps combinations of IP addresses and administrative domains to workloads.
US12101239B2
A system includes a device coupled to a processing device. The processing device is to receive a request to execute a plurality of workloads, the request comprising a rate to execute each workload of the plurality of workloads and a parameter value indicating an execution offset. The processing device is further to determine a sequence for executing the plurality of workloads based on receiving the rate and the parameter value, where the sequence is to execute each workload at the respective rate and each workload of the plurality of workloads is executed at a different time based on the parameter value. The processing device is to execute the plurality of workloads in accordance with the sequence upon determining the sequence to execute the plurality of workloads.
US12101232B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for dynamic viewing of an operation graph depicting a distributed workload in an Information Technology system. A list may be received as input and may include selected nodes. A sub-graph may be abstracted from a global graph. The sub-graph and the global graph may depict interactions among ops objects of the distributed workload using nodes and edges. First nodes may be removed from the global graph according to the list. Direct edges between remaining nodes from the global graph may be maintained. A first indirect edge may be generated based on the removed first nodes. The first indirect edge may run between a first remaining node and a second remaining node. The sub-graph may be presented removed from the global graph.
US12101231B1
Systems, devices, and methods are discussed for automating incident management.
US12101230B2
In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes, by a computing device, receiving a message for delivery to a message-oriented middleware (MOM) server and determining whether an anomaly is predicted in the MOM server. The method also includes, by the computing device, responsive to a determination that an anomaly is predicted in the MOM server, identifying an alternate MOM server for delivery of the message, and routing the message to the alternate MOM server. The method may also include, by the computing device, responsive to a determination that an anomaly is not predicted in the MOM server, delivering the message to the MOM server.
US12101220B2
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of network device troubleshooting involves at a cloud server, assigning a troubleshooting task for troubleshooting a network device deployed at a customer site to an operator, at the cloud server, receiving data regarding an issue in the network device that is gathered by the operator at the customer site, and, at the cloud server, recommending a remedy action for the issue in the network device to the operator based on the data regarding the issue in the network device.
US12101218B2
Embodiments herein relate to transmitting specific traffic along a blocked link. A status of links between switches of a network is monitored. The status of the links is one of blocked and non-blocked. A blocked link is not used by a Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). At least one of the network switches is configured to transmit the specific traffic along the blocked link.
US12101205B2
The present disclosure discloses example method, apparatus, and storage medium for improving multi-user multiplexing performance. One example method includes configuring base sequence identifiers by a network device for a plurality of terminals by using radio resource control (RRC) signaling, where there is no orthogonality between base sequences indicated by the base sequence identifiers of the plurality of terminals. Sounding reference signal (SRS) detection is performed on the plurality of terminals based on a quasi-orthogonal sequence, to obtain channel information for sending an SRS by each terminal. Channel prediction is performed based on the channel information of each terminal, to obtain a channel prediction result of each terminal.
US12101203B2
A CGW (7) connected to a first communication network (1) and a fifth communication network (5). The second communication network uses a communication protocol different from a communication protocol of the first communication network (1). The CGW (7) receives, from the first communication network (1), CAN frames each including a data field storing control information (CD) to be transmitted from the first communication network (1) to a second communication network (5), a CAN ID for identifying the control information (CD), and an error detection code (EC) stored in the data field and calculated on the basis of the control information (CD) and the CAN ID. The CGW (7) generates an FD frame including a data field storing the CAN frames and a CAN FD ID indicating that the CAN frames are stored in the data field, and transmits the generated FD frame to the fifth communication network (5).
US12101201B2
A communication network device facilitates communication between devices and/or applications in a network without requiring each device to register with every other device or application. The communication network device may generate and assign a unique identifier to each device or application upon registration and store a role of the device or application (e.g., sender or receiver or both) in addition to capability and compatibility information. The communication network device may then dynamically broker and manage communications from each of the devices or applications to other devices and applications in real-time. Using a communication network device, communications may be directed to devices or applications without requiring a sending device to know of the recipient's network address. Additionally, the communication network device allows for the direct targeting of communications to specific applications. Accordingly, in some arrangements, two applications running on the same device may receive different communications from another device or application.
US12101195B2
Various embodiments herein provide techniques for preventing radio link failure in ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC). Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12101189B2
Provided is a method for scheduling an uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a next generation/5G wireless access network. The method of a terminal for scheduling a PUCCH may include: receiving, from a base station, timing relationship setting information between a downlink data channel (PDSCH) and a PUCCH; and scheduling the PUCCH on the basis of the timing relationship setting information.
US12101175B2
A wireless communication method for optimizing uplink transmission from a communication partner to a wireless communication device includes the following steps: after receiving an uplink performance estimation, determining uplink adjustment information including resource unit allocation and a target received signal strength indicator according to the uplink performance estimation; generating a target channel quality indicator (CQI) according to previous uplink sounding information and the uplink adjustment information, wherein the previous uplink sounding information indicates the characteristics of the uplink transmission; determining uplink transmission setting including a modulation and coding scheme and dual carrier modulation according to the target CQI and the type of an error correction technique and transmitting a control signal to a communication partner according to the uplink transmission setting; and updating the uplink performance estimation according to a reception signal from the communication partner, wherein the characteristic of the reception signal is affected by the uplink transmission setting.
US12101174B2
A server-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a request from an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network node of an IMS network; and in response to receiving the request, providing NAS registration state information associated with a user equipment (UE) to the IMS network node, the NAS registration state information indicating at least one of fourth-generation (4G) single radio voice call continuity (SRVCC) capability of the UE or fifth-generation (5G) SRVCC capability of the UE that is applicable when using an access network supported by a core network, wherein the server is configured to store separate instances of UE SRVCC capabilities, the separate instances including indications of at least one of 4G UE SRVCC capability or 5G UE SRVCC capability that is applicable when using the access network supported by the core network, and wherein the UE is registered with the IMS network using a session initiation protocol (SIP) via the access network.
US12101169B2
A computer comprises a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to input a frequency spectrum distribution to a machine learning program to obtain carrier data as output from the machine learning program satellite communication. The machine learning program is trained with a plurality of frequency spectrum distributions of a wireless satellite communication signal and metadata specifying one or more satellite communication carriers for respective ones of the frequency spectrum distributions, wherein the metadata for each satellite communication carrier includes a respective center frequency and a respective symbol rate.
US12101153B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods and apparatuses for group based beam reporting and channel state information reference signal configuration in new radio systems.
US12101152B2
According to certain embodiments, a method for use in a network node for constructing an unsounded channel in a wireless network wherein the network node comprises more antennas than a wireless device and the wireless device comprises more than one receive antenna comprises: receiving channel state information (CSI) feedback and a sounded reference signal from the wireless device; estimating a sounded channel from the sounded reference signal; deriving a partial downlink channel based on the sounded reference signal; constructing an unsounded channel as a function of the CSI feedback and the partial downlink channel; concatenating the sounded channel and unsounded channel into a full channel; and transmitting a wireless signal to the wireless device using the full channel for beamforming or link adaptation.
US12101151B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel state information (CSI) reporting with frequency compression. A method that can be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a CSI report configuration. The CSI report configuration configures the UE for reporting precoding matrix information including, for each layer, a plurality of selected beams L, a plurality of frequency domain compression bases F for the L beams, and a subset of linear combination coefficients associated with the frequency domain compression bases and beams. The UE can determine a number of coefficients to report for a higher rank based on a configured maximum number of coefficients to report for a lower rank.
US12101149B2
Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatuses for providing communication between a base station and at least one wireless device using a first beam. A method in a base station comprises receiving an indication of two or more beams, wherein the two or more beams meet a quality criterion associated with the at least one wireless device; obtaining a combined beam vector, w, based on a weighted sum of two or more beam vectors, bk, associated with the two or more beams; and communicating with the at least one wireless device using the first beam, wherein the first beam is generated using the combined beam vector.
US12101148B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for increasing carrier frequencies for wireless communications in wireless local area networks (WLANs). Some implementations more specifically relate to BSS discovery and association techniques that support wireless communications on carrier frequencies above 7 GHz. In some aspects, an access point (AP) may communicate using beamforming on a wireless communication link operating at a carrier frequency above 7 GHz (the “directional link”) while offloading the BSS discovery and association procedures needed to support such communications onto a wireless communication link operating at a carrier frequency below 7 GHz (the “anchor link”). In some implementations, the AP may perform a beamforming training operation with a STA over the directional link upon associating with the STA over the anchor link. In such implementations, the AP may communicate with the STA over the directional link using a beam derived from the beamforming training operation.
US12101133B2
A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, receiving, via an antenna, a signal generated by a communication device, detecting passive intermodulation interference in the signal, the interference generated by one or more transmitters unassociated with the communication device, and the interference determined from signal characteristics associated with a signaling protocol used by the one or more transmitters. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12101131B2
An approach is described for a method for a base station in a fifth generation (5G) wireless c01mnunication or a new radio (NR) system that includes the following steps. The method includes determining base initial seeds and a time parameter. The method further includes generating actual initial seeds based on the base initial seeds and the time parameter; generating a Pseudo-Noise (PN) sequence based on one of the actual initial seeds; and generating a remote interference management reference signal (RIM-RS) sequence based on the PN sequence. The method further includes transmitting the RIM-RS sequence to a remote base station.
US12101127B2
The disclosure provides a binary iterative clock synchronization system based on polarization entanglement GHZ state comprising a first synchronization party, a second synchronization party and an emitting party; the first synchronization party is connected with the second synchronization party through a classical channel, the emitting party is connected with the first synchronization party through a quantum channel, and the emitting party is connected with the second synchronization party through a quantum channel and a classical channel; the emitting party realizes the preparation of three-photon polarization entangled GHZ states and measures one of the photon polarization states; the first synchronization party and the second synchronization party perform measurement on the polarization states of the other two photons, and the second synchronization party and the emitting party compare the measurement results to obtain the measurement sequence information between the first synchronization party and the second synchronization party.
US12101122B2
For optical communications between semiconductor ICs, optical transceiver assembly subsystems may be integrated with a processor. The optical transceiver assembly subsystems may be monolithically integrated with processor ICs or they may be provided in separate optical transceiver ICs coupled to or attached to the processor ICs.
US12101107B2
A method of neural network decoding includes receiving a first syntax element in a model parameter set from a bitstream of a compressed neural network representation (NNR) of a neural network. The first syntax element indicates whether a coding tree unit (CTU) block partitioning is enabled for a tensor in an NNR aggregate unit. The method also includes reconstructing the tensor in the NNR aggregate unit based on the first syntax element.
US12101089B2
A level-shifter is provided with a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor functions to discharge an internal node responsive to an assertion of an inverted input signal to a first power supply voltage. A second transistor functions to discharge an inverted level-shifter output signal responsive to an assertion of an input signal to the first power supply voltage. An inverter inverts the inverted level-shifter output signal to form a level-shifter output signal that is asserted to a second power supply voltage responsive to the assertion of the input signal.
US12101081B2
A surface acoustic wave resonator device, its manufacturing method, and a filter are disclosed. The device includes a piezoelectric substrate, and an interdigital transducer on a side of the substrate, having an interdigital electrode region, and including a first interdigital electrode and a first interdigital electrode lead-out part connected to each other, and a second interdigital electrode and a second interdigital electrode lead-out part connected to each other. The first and second interdigital electrodes are located in the interdigital electrode region, extending along a first direction and alternately arranged in a second direction. The first and second interdigital electrode lead-out parts are located on opposite sides of the interdigital electrode region. A first conductive structure and a second conductive structure overlap with end portions of the interdigital electrodes and are electrically connected to the corresponding interdigital electrodes, respectively.
US12101080B2
The present invention relates to a heterostructure, in particular, a piezoelectric structure, comprising a cover layer, in particular, a layer of piezoelectric material, the material of the cover layer having a first coefficient of thermal expansion, assembled to a support substrate, the support substrate having a second coefficient of thermal expansion substantially different from the first coefficient of thermal expansion, at an interface wherein the cover layer comprises at least a recess extending from the interface into the cover layer, and its method of fabrication.
US12101079B2
A silicon film is provided on a supporting substrate composed of silicon by physical vapor deposition. The silicon film is subjected to heat treatment at a temperature of 400° C. or higher and 600° C. or lower to generate an intermediate layer. The piezoelectric material substrate is bonded to the supporting substrate through a bonding layer of silicon oxide and the intermediate layer. A method of providing an acoustic wave element with a bonded body is also provided.
US12101071B2
The invention relates to a hearing aid a cochlear implant comprising a) at least one input transducer for capturing incoming sound and for generating electric audio signals which represent frequency bands of the incoming sound, b) a sound processor which is configured to analyze and to process the electric audio signals, c) a transmitter that sends the processed electric audio signals, d) a receiver/stimulator, which receives the processed electric audio signals from the transmitter and converts the processed electric audio signals into electric pulses, e) an electrode array embedded in the cochlear comprising a number of electrodes for stimulating the cochlear nerve with said electric pulses, and f) a control unit configured to control the distribution of said electric pulses to the number of said electrodes. The control unit is configured to distribute said electric pulses to the number of said electrodes by applying one out of a plurality of different coding schemes, and wherein the applied coding scheme is selected according to characteristics of the incoming sound.
US12101066B2
Methods and devices used in mobile receiver front end to support multiple paths and multiple frequency bands are described. The presented devices and methods provide benefits of scalability, frequency band agility, as well as size reduction by using one low noise amplifier per simultaneous outputs. Based on the disclosed teachings, variable gain amplification of multiband signals is also presented.
US12101063B2
A distributed power management apparatus is provided. The distributed power management apparatus includes an envelope tracking (ET) integrated circuit (ETIC) and a distributed ETIC separated from the ETIC. The ETIC is configured to generate a number of ET voltages for a number of power amplifier circuits and the distributed ETIC is configured to generate a distributed ET voltage(s) for a distributed power amplifier circuit(s). In a non-limiting example, the number of power amplifier circuits and the distributed power amplifier circuit(s) can be disposed on opposite sides (e.g., top and bottom) of a wireless device. As such, in embodiments disclosed herein, the ETIC is provided closer to the power amplifier circuits and the distributed ETIC is provided closer to the distributed power amplifier circuit(s). By providing the ETIC and the distributed ETIC closer to the respective power amplifier circuits, it is possible to reduce trace inductance and unwanted signal distortion.
US12101058B2
A system, method, and solar photovoltaic (PV) network for solar PV variability reduction with reduced time delays and battery storage optimization are described. The system includes a Moving Regression (MR) filter; a State of Charge (SoC) feedback control; and a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). The MR filter, SoC feedback control and BESS are configured to provide smoothing of solar PV variabilities. The MR filter is a non-parametric smoother that utilizes a machine learning concept of linear regression to smooth out solar PV variations at every time step.
US12101050B2
A cooling control device has an inverter control unit that executes switching control of an inverter for driving a rotary electric machine, and a cooling control unit. On condition that the switching control is stopped, if it is judged that a control temperature is below a threshold value thereof, the cooling control unit executes driving and control of a cooling device such as to lower a degree of cooling of a cooling target component below the degree of cooling when it is judged that the control temperature is above the threshold value. The cooling target component is composed of at least one of the rotary electric machine and the inverter. The control temperature is either a detected temperature value of the cooling target component or an estimated temperature value from a temperature estimation unit that estimates the temperature of the cooling target component.
US12101047B2
A system for a power switch module for an inverter includes a Silicon (Si) power switch configured to pass current in an on state based on an Si gate driving signal, a Silicon Carbide (SiC) power switch configured to pass current in an on state based on an SiC gate driving signal, an Si gate driver configured to provide the Si gate driving signal to operate the Si power switch when a current requirement of the inverter is at or above a threshold, and an SiC gate driver configured to provide the SiC gate driving signal to operate the SiC power switch when the current requirement of the inverter is below the threshold.
US12101046B2
A motor driving apparatus which drives a motor including a plurality of winding portions corresponding to a plurality of phases, respectively, includes a motor including a plurality of winding portions corresponding to a plurality of phases, respectively, a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements and electrically connected to a first end of each of the winding portions, a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements and electrically connected to a second end of each of the winding portions, a plurality of third switching elements including first ends electrically connected to the second ends of the plurality of winding portions, respectively, and second ends electrically connected to each other, and a controller.
US12101036B2
The disclosure herein relates to an electric power converter in which a power module accommodating a switching element for electric power conversion is in contact with a cooler, and provides a structure capable of effectively cooling the power module. An electric power converter includes coolers in contact with a power module. A stacked body of the power module and the coolers is accommodated in a case. The surface of the first cooler opposite to the power module is in contact with the case, and an output bus bar is connected to a midpoint terminal and is in contact with the case. The first cooler directly cools the power module by one surface, and absorbs heat from the power module transferred via the midpoint terminal and the output bus bar by another surface.
US12101032B2
A three-phase power supply circuit comprises three LLC resonant voltage converters and a transformer assembly comprising three primary coil assemblies and three secondary coil assemblies. Each primary coil assembly comprises a first primary winding having a first node electrically coupled with a respective first voltage output of the pair of voltage inputs of a respective LLC resonant voltage converter of the three LLC resonant voltage converters and a second node. Each primary coil assembly also comprises a second primary winding comprising a first node and a second node electrically coupled with a respective second voltage output of the pair of voltage inputs of the respective LLC resonant voltage converter. The second nodes of the first primary windings are electrically coupled together, and the first nodes of the second primary windings are electrically coupled together.
US12101027B2
According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus comprising: a bulk-controlled switch circuit comprising a first transistor coupled to a load and having a source coupled to a source voltage and a drain coupled to a drain voltage, a second transistor and a third transistor coupled, in parallel with the first transistor, to one another in series between the source voltage and the drain voltage, wherein a bulk of the first transistor is coupled with bulks of the second transistor and the third transistor, wherein a gate of the second transistor is coupled to the source voltage via a first impedance circuit and a gate of the third transistor is coupled to the drain voltage via a second impedance circuit to form a comparator switch controlled by the source voltage and the drain voltage and to dynamically switch a greater one of the source voltage and the drain voltage to the load; a first current generator circuit and a second current generator circuit; a first current mirror circuit biased by the first current generator circuit, responsive to the source voltage, and configured to trigger the second transistor to couple the source voltage to the load when the source voltage is above the drain voltage; a second current mirror circuit biased by the second current generator circuit, responsive to the drain voltage, and configured to trigger the third transistor to couple the drain voltage to the load when the drain voltage is above the source voltage.
US12101023B2
A power converter can include an input PFC stage that receives a rectified input voltage coupled to a flyback stage including a center-tapped primary winding magnetically coupled to a secondary winding and a main switch coupled in series with the primary winding. The output of the PFC stage can be coupled to the center tap of the primary winding, and an output of the power converter can be coupled to the secondary winding of the flyback stage. The converter can further include control circuitry coupled to the main switch and an auxiliary switch in the PFC stage that operates the main switch to regulate an output voltage of the power converter, selectively enables the auxiliary switch responsive to a low line voltage condition at the input of the power converter, and operates the enabled auxiliary switch synchronously with the main switch.
US12101021B2
An integrated circuit for a power supply circuit configured to generate an output voltage of a target level from an alternating current (AC) voltage. The power supply circuit includes a first capacitor and an inductor configured to receive a voltage according to the AC voltage, and a transistor configured to control an inductor current flowing through the inductor. The integrated circuit is configured to switch the transistor, and includes: an identification circuit configured to identify whether a voltage level of an effective value of the AC voltage is a first level or a second level, and a signal output circuit configured to output a driving signal to drive the transistor, and correct the driving signal to thereby correct the input current, in response to the voltage level of the effective value being the first level and the second level, respectively.
US12101014B2
A stator sub-assembly with a connector includes a stator sub-assembly including a stator core and a rigid wiring board, and a connector fixed to a connector mounting part of the rigid wiring board in such a way that it is opposed to the stator core in the radial direction of the frame. A groove part that extends in the axial direction from an opening in the axial direction and accommodates the connector and the connector mounting part is formed in an inner peripheral surface of the frame. A window part for an opponent connector to mate with the connector accommodated in the groove part is formed in the frame. The window part opens in an outer surface of the frame and an inner surface of the groove part, and has an unbroken inner peripheral surface.
US12101011B2
An electromagnetic actuator including a first object comprising at least one magnet; and a second object comprising at least one magnet. The first object and the second object are movable relative to each other. The first object is an oscillator and the second object is a stator, or the first object is a stator and the second object is an oscillator. The first object is essentially arranged inside the second object. The actuator comprises at least one first actuator side where magnets of the first object and the second object are arranged opposite each other and act upon each other. On the at least one actuator side an uneven number of poles of the one object are arranged opposite an even number of poles of the other object.
US12101010B2
A vibration motor and a tactile device are provided. The vibration motor has: a stationary portion; a movable portion having a magnet and capable of vibrating with respect to the stationary portion along a central axis extending in an up-down direction; and an elastic member. The stationary portion has: a housing, disposed radially outside from the movable portion and having a cylindrical shape extending along the central axis; a top surface portion, disposed above the movable portion, fixed to the housing, and extended in a direction intersecting with the central axis; and a coil, capable of applying a driving force to the movable portion. The elastic member is disposed below the top surface portion and above the movable portion. The elastic member is fixed to the top surface portion and the movable portion and supports the movable portion so that the movable portion can vibrate along the central axis.
US12101008B2
A winding for a stator comprises (i) a plurality of first end turns provided on a first end of the stator core, (ii) straight portions extending through the slots, and (iii) a plurality of second turns provided on a second end of the stator core. The straight portions are arranged in layers in the slots in a number of layers. Each of the second end turns connects straight portions in two consecutive layers of two slots and is defined by a first common twist associated with one of the two consecutive layers and a second common twist associated with another of the two consecutive layers. The first common twist and the second common twist are identical for the second end turns in a first half of consecutive layers, and the first common twist and the second common twist are different for the second end turns in a second half of consecutive layers.
US12101007B2
A flywheel system includes a fixture providing a base and a stator, rotor having a cavity to receive the stator, a generator/motor module having a plurality of permanent magnets mechanically coupled to the rotor and an active magnetic bearing module. The active magnetic bearing module includes a plurality of magnetizable elements mechanically coupled to or integrated in the rotor, and a plurality of electromagnets mechanically coupled to a shaft and configured to magnetically couple with the plurality of first magnetizable elements to actively stabilize the rotor relative to the fixture. The windings of the generator/motor module are arranged around the rotation axis of the rotor at a first distance from the rotation axis of the rotor, the electromagnets of the active magnetic bearing module are arranged around the rotation axis of the rotor at a second distance, and the first distance is greater than or equal to the second distance.
US12101001B2
An energy conversion device includes a set of nozzles passing through the body of a shaft and configured to form an oil mist in the cavity under the effect of the rotation of the shaft in a range of rotational speeds, from a proportion of oil injected into the shaft, to cool a rotor module and a stator module, a duct secured to the shaft and comprising an inlet communicating with the internal volume so as to receive, under the effect of the rotation of the shaft, oil injected into the internal volume, the duct leading the other proportion of the oil as far as an outlet of the duct, a removal device for removing the oil leaving the duct to an oil reservoir without contributing to the oil mist.
US12101000B2
Disclosed is a rotor carrier for a rotor of an electric machine. The rotor carrier includes a hollow outer shell that includes a bearing area for a rotor lamination stack, the bearing area extending axially along the rotor carrier. The outer shell extends radially outward in a radial dimension that varies along the bearing area in the axial direction of the rotor carrier (101) in such manner that at the axial end sections of the bearing area exhibits no peak contact pressures between the rotor carrier and the rotor lamination stack when the rotor lamination stack is pressed against the bearing area of the rotor carrier. A rotor including the rotor carrier and the rotor lamination stack is also disclosed.
US12100990B2
The disclosure is directed to a novel utility meter with an integrated backup power transfer system. In some embodiments, the system is capable of sensing and switching between multiple power sources. In some embodiments, the system is configured to supply power from multiple backup power sources in parallel. In some embodiments, the system is configured to record and/or transmit data usage and operational profiles, such as voltage and current from one or more power sources. In some embodiments, the system is configured to eliminate the need to install separate junction boxes or panels to meet the wire requirements of various municipalities.
US12100989B2
The present application relates to relates to a power strip in a server cabinet that can accommodate a plurality of devices and distribute power to the accommodated devices. The power strip includes an inlet connectable to the first power source for receiving the first power, one or more first outputs, one or more second outputs, and an automatic transfer switch integrated into the power strip. The automatic transfer switch is provided with a first input and a second input. The one or more second outputs are connected to the inlet for receiving and outputting the first power. The first input of the automatic transfer switch is connected to the inlet for receiving the first power. The second input of the automatic transfer switch is connectable to a second power source for receiving a second power. The automatic transfer switch automatically switches between the first input and the second input to connect one of the first input and the second inputs to the one or more first outputs of the power strip.
US12100984B2
An electrically operable aerosol-generating system includes: a charging device including a primary power source and a housing to retain the power source; and an aerosol-generating device including a secondary power source and having proximal and distal ends and a body extending therebetween, the charging device having a docking arrangement including a docking space between a first end and an opposing second end spaced therefrom, the first and second ends being walls of the housing, electrical contacts on at least one of the proximal or distal ends of the device to engage with corresponding electrical contacts on at least one of the first and second ends of the docking arrangement, and the electrical contacts include a positive and a negative electrical contact, at least one of which being an annular electrical contact, arranged concentrically on the at least one of the proximal or distal ends.
US12100981B2
A power tool includes a motor and a controller in a power tool housing. A battery pack interface is defined on and/or in the power tool housing. A receptacle is defined on and/or in the power tool housing to removably accommodate a wireless communication adapter such that the wireless communication adapter is disposed entirely within a shell of the power tool and no portion of the wireless communication adapter extends beyond an outer contour of the power tool housing. At least one communication terminal is disposed within the receptacle and is electrically connectable to the wireless communication adapter. The controller outputs to the at least one communication terminal a signal indicating a charge level of a battery pack attached to the battery pack interface, a number of hours of operation of the power tool, a power tool overheated alert, and/or a battery pack overloaded alert.
US12100980B2
A battery harvesting device and methods are disclosed for powering a load with a plurality of standardised batteries of different battery chemistries, each of the standardised batteries having a battery output voltage lower than a nominal voltage. The harvester comprises a power bus for attachment to the load, at least one receptacle arranged into each of a plurality of clusters, each receptacle configured for receiving one of the standardised batteries, each cluster further comprising electronics comprising an input connected to the receptacle and an output connected to the power bus, and a DC-DC boost circuitry for raising a battery output voltage of a connected one of the standardised batteries, and a processor for controlling the electronics such that each of the outputs connected the power bus is maintained at the nominal voltage.
US12100976B2
A method, system and device(s) are disclosed. According to some embodiments, a premises security system is provided. The premises security system includes a premises device including a sensor for detecting a premises security event, an energy storage element in electrical communication with the sensor, a radio frequency (RF) antenna configured to receive RF energy from an RF source, and energy harvesting circuitry in electrical communication with the RF antenna and the energy storage element, and processing circuitry configured to cause transmission of sensor data indicating the premises security event to a security control device, and where the security control device is configured to receive the sensor data, and perform an action based at least on the sensor data.
US12100971B2
A method includes selecting a power level from among available power levels at which to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal using a power amplifier. The method includes providing the amplified RF signal to antennas. The antennas are caused to, upon receiving the amplified RF signal, radiate RF energy within a transmission field. The method includes determining predicted specific absorption rate (SAR) values of the transmission field and determining, based on the predicted SAR values, a keep out zone within the transmission field. The keep out zone is an area at which the predicted SAR values are greater than or equal to a predetermined SAR threshold of the transmission field. The method includes receiving, from sensors, an indication that an object is within the keep out zone. The method includes in response to receiving the indication, causing the antennas to cease radiating the RF energy.
US12100966B2
Described herein is a structure, the implementation of which may result in optimization of power transfer within a wireless power transfer pad. Such a structure comprises two planes in parallel that each comprise multiple windings. Additionally, the structure may include two magnetic structures that each pass through the centers of the multiple windings of one of the respective planes. In some embodiments, a magnetic structure may include a main section and two vertical sections. In some cases, the magnetic structure may further include at least one side section that connects with a vertical section.
US12100958B2
Systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of power network state estimation are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a method for state estimation in a power network comprising receiving a set of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) information including a power network topology; generating a SCADA state estimation using the set of SCADA information; receiving, with a cloud-computing architecture, a set of PMU phasors; aligning, with the cloud-computing architecture, a timestamp of the SCADA estimation and a timestamp of the set of PMU phasors; updating, with the cloud-computing architecture, the power network topology using the set of PMU phasors; generating, with the cloud-computing architecture, a hybrid state estimation using the updated power network topology, the set of PMU phasors, and the SCADA state estimation; and transmitting the hybrid state estimation to a local control system.
US12100956B1
A harmonic suppression method, system and device using active power filtering based on a Virtual Oscillator Control (VOC) inverter are provided. The method includes the following steps: firstly, the basic structure and control of VOC and its parameter design are given; then the parameters of VOC are designed; then the active filtering harmonic suppression strategy based on VOC is proposed; finally, the suppression strategy is applied in the grid-connected inverter system and its effectiveness is verified by simulation.
US12100949B2
An AC line voltage detection circuit includes an AC sense circuit, a power supply control circuit, and a power supply hold-up circuit. The AC sense circuit is configured to generate a signal to a processor and to the power supply control circuit in response to sensing an absence of AC line voltage. The power supply control circuit is configured to generate a control signal to a power supply that provides power to the processor to shut down the power supply. The processor is configured generate a signal to the power supply hold-up circuit configured to generate a signal to the power supply control circuit to prevent shut down of the power supply. The power supply hold-up circuit signal overrides the AC sense circuit signal. The processor is further configured to generate a subsequent signal to the power supply hold-up circuit to permit shut down of the power supply.
US12100938B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for a modular ion generator device that includes a bottom portion, two opposed side portions, a front end, a back end, and a top portion. A cavity is formed within the two opposed side portions, front end, back end, and top portion. At least one electrode is positioned within the cavity, and an engagement device is engaged to the front end and/or an engagement device engaged to the back end for allowing one or more modular ion generator devices to be selectively secured to one another.
US12100936B2
Nitride semiconductor structure, nitride semiconductor device, and method for fabricating the device
A nitride semiconductor structure includes a Group III nitride semiconductor portion and a Group II-IV nitride semiconductor portion. The Group III nitride semiconductor portion is single crystalline. The Group III nitride semiconductor portion has a predetermined crystallographic plane. The Group II-IV nitride semiconductor portion is provided on the predetermined crystallographic plane of the Group III nitride semiconductor portion. The Group II-IV nitride semiconductor portion is single crystalline. The Group II-IV nitride semiconductor portion contains a Group II element and a Group IV element. The Group II-IV nitride semiconductor portion forms a heterojunction with the Group III nitride semiconductor portion. The predetermined crystallographic plane is a crystallographic plane other than a (0001) plane.
US12100934B2
A laser system for generating a narrow linewidth semiconductor light beam includes a substrate, a gain chip affixed on the substrate and configured to amplify light beam, and an optical feedback photonic chip affixed on the substrate, optically coupled to the gain chip, and configured to output light beam, which has a narrow linewidth around a resonant frequency of the optical feedback photonic chip, to the gain chip.
US12100932B2
A laser-based light source (10), comprising: at least one first arrangement (100), for generating light (500), comprising: a laser device (200) for generating laser light (510) of a predetermined laser wavelength and emitting this laser light as a laser beam; and a light-conversion device (210) for converting at least part of the laser light into converted light (520); a second arrangement (110)), for generating at least a first signal (300) and a second signal (310), representative for a different part of the spectrum of said light, from direct measurements on a portion of said light (500); and a controller (120) for receiving the first signal and the second signal, for determining a safe-to-operate parameter, based on the first signal and the second signal, and for controlling the operation of the laser-device based on a comparison between the safe-to-operate parameter and at least one predefined threshold.
US12100931B2
An embodiment provides a beam projector module that includes: a light source configured to output light; a substrate configured to support the light source; an optical device configured to reduce the light in terms of intensity output to a predetermined space; a frame configured to space the optical device apart from the light source by a predetermined distance, the frame forming a closed space with the substrate and the optical device; a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the frame; and a processor configured to control an output of the light source. The processor is configured to operate the light source in an eye-safety mode when a temperature drop rate of the frame exceeds a reference value.
US12100927B2
A light emitting device includes a light source that emits a primary light having a light energy density exceeding 0.5W/mm2, and a first phosphor that absorbs the primary light to convert the primary light into a first wavelength-converted light having a wavelength longer than that of the primary light. The first phosphor includes a compound serving as a host, the compound being a simple oxide including one kind of metal element or a composite oxide including a plurality of different kinds of the simple oxide as an end member. When an energy conversion value at a peak wavelength of the primary light is E1 electron volts and an energy conversion value at a fluorescence peak wavelength of the first wavelength-converted light is E2 electron volts, a bandgap energy of a crystal of the simple oxide is larger than a sum of the E1 electron volts and the E2 electron volts.
US12100926B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a photodetector chip, including a substrate, a semiconductor optical amplification section, and a photodetection section. The substrate includes a surface, the photodetection section and the semiconductor optical amplification section are arranged on the substrate, and the photodetection section is located in an optical signal output direction of the semiconductor optical amplification section. The semiconductor optical amplification section amplifies and filters an input optical signal to output an amplified and filtered optical signal to the photodetection section. The photodetection section is configured to convert the amplified and filtered optical signal into an electrical signal. The semiconductor optical amplification section includes a grating, the grating includes a first grating and a second grating that are cascaded, and the first grating is a slanted grating. The first grating and the second grating are configured to filter an optical signal entering the semiconductor optical amplification section.
US12100924B2
A crimp includes a crimp barrel having a first side wall and a second side wall. The first side wall has a self-locking wing and the second side wall has a self-locking hooked pocket. The self-locking wing is adapted to lock with the self-locking hooked pocket.
US12100900B2
An integrated compact radio antenna system for receiving and transmitting 5G signals and receiving GNSS signals is described. The system comprises a high-precision GNSS antenna and a MIMO 5G multi-element antenna system. All the antennas within the proposed compact system are integrated with a shielded housing that enables electronic components of GNSS receiver and 5G modem to be arranged inside. The proposed integrated system has the following advantages: 1) compactness, 2) high efficiency of MIMO 5G antenna system, 3) a high degree of decoupling between 5G antennas, 4) a high degree of decoupling between 5G and GNSS antennas.
US12100899B2
An electronic device including a plurality of antennas is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a first antenna disposed in the housing, a second antenna disposed in the housing, and spaced apart from the first antenna, a printed circuit board disposed in the housing and a wireless communication circuit disposed on the PCB, and transmitting or receiving a RF signal of a frequency band through the first antenna and the second antenna, the first antenna includes a first dielectric substrate including a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface, a first conductive pattern disposed on the first surface, and operating as an antenna radiator for transmitting or receiving an RF signal of a first frequency band and a second conductive pattern disposed on the second surface, and operating as an antenna radiator for transmitting or receiving an RF signal of the first frequency band.
US12100874B2
The compression apparatus includes an electrolyte membrane, an anode on a principal surface of the electrolyte membrane, a cathode on another principal surface of the electrolyte membrane, an anode separator on the anode, a cathode separator on the cathode, and a voltage applicator. Upon the voltage applicator applying the voltage between the anode and the cathode, protons are extracted from an anode fluid fed onto the anode to migrate onto the cathode through the electrolyte membrane and compressed hydrogen is produced. The cathode separator has a first manifold hole and a first O-ring groove surrounding the first manifold hole. The compression apparatus includes a first O-ring held by the first O-ring groove and a face seal disposed on an outer periphery of a region of an anode-side principal surface of the anode separator which faces the anode. The first O-ring is arranged to abut against the anode-side principal surface.
US12100872B2
A fuel-cell system for powering an electrical load, the system having first and second fuel cells, each having a positive node and a negative node. The positive node of the second fuel cell is electrically coupled to the negative node of the first fuel cell, and the positive node of the first fuel cell and the negative node of the second fuel cell are electrically coupled to the electrical load. Each fuel cell is electrically coupled to the electrical load without a power converter.
US12100868B1
In one aspect, computer-implemented method may include receiving, from one or more sensors associated with a battery pack, one or more measurements pertaining to voltage, temperature, or both. The method may include transforming the one or more measurements into a time-series sequential window format, determining, based on the time-series sequential window format of the one or more measurements, a voltage score and a temperature score, and predicting, based on the voltage score and the temperature score, whether the battery pack is experiencing a fault condition. The prediction is performed by one or more trained machine learning models. Responsive to predicting the battery pack is experiencing the fault condition, the method may include performing one or more preventative actions.
US12100865B2
The technique disclosed herein provides a terminal that enables welding with an external member to be realized without requiring surface treatment of a metallic portion having been pressure-welded during ultrasonic welding. The terminal disclosed herein is a terminal constituting any of positive and negative electrodes of a secondary battery and includes a plate-like metallic first member and a metallic second member which is ultrasonically welded to one plate surface of the first member. A recessed portion is formed on a surface on an opposite side to the surface, to which the second member is welded, of the first member, and ultrasonic welding between the first member and the second member is realized in the recessed portion.
US12100864B2
A battery module comprises: electrochemical cells arranged in rows with terminals in a coplanar arrangement, wherein the electrochemical cells include a first cell and a second cell; a busbar including coplanar interleaved fingers, wherein the first and second cells are positioned on opposite sides of a first coplanar interleaved finger of the coplanar interleaved fingers; and a first bond wire having: (i) a first wire bond at a first terminal of the first cell, (ii) a second wire bond at a first terminal of the second cell, and (iii) a first intermediate wire bond at the first coplanar interleaved finger between the first and second wire bonds.
US12100860B2
A separator for an electrochemical device and an electrochemical device comprising the same. The separator comprises a porous polymer substrate and a heat resistant coating layer on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate. The heat resistant coating layer is a porous polymer layer having pores, and comprises a polyvinyl pyrrolidone-based polymer and a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)-based polymer.
US12100855B2
Disclosed is a hermetically closed battery degas venting unit for venting a battery enclosure/pack/housing having rechargeable vehicle batteries. The unit having a housing base equipped with a non-porous rupturable venting film closing over and sealing off the pressure venting opening. The non-porous venting film configured to deflect towards a spike in response to overpressure and to tear or rupture to release overpressure in the battery enclosure/pack/housing.
US12100840B2
A binder composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery electrode contains a polymer A. The polymer A includes a nitrile group-containing monomer unit in a proportion of not less than 80.0 mass % and not more than 99.9 mass %, has a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of not less than 700,000 and not more than 2,000,000, and has a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of less than 3.0.
US12100832B2
This positive electrode active substance for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery contains: a lithium-containing transition metal oxide having secondary particles formed by aggregation of primary particles; and at least a tungsten compound and a boron compound that are present between primary particles. The present invention is characterized in that: the amount of tungsten element eluted when the positive electrode active substance is washed for 5 minutes with a 0.01 mol/L aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide is 60% or less of the amount of tungsten element detected when the positive electrode active substance is dissolved in a mixed acid containing hydrofluoric acid, nitric acid and hydrochloric acid; and the amount of boron element eluted when the positive electrode active substance is washed for 1 minute with ion exchanged water is 80% or more of the amount of boron element detected when the positive electrode active substance is dissolved in hydrochloric acid.
US12100831B2
Disclosed is a lithium secondary battery, and in particular, to a lithium secondary battery capable of obtaining higher energy density and longer lifetime compared to existing lithium secondary batteries by specifying conditions of a positive electrode and an electrolyte liquid and additionally surface modifying a carbon material through heat treatment or including a separator including a molybdenum disulfide coating layer.
US12100819B2
The present application provides a switch control device and method, a motor controller, and a battery pack heating control system. The switch control device includes: a processing module configured to select, when it is determined that a switch control cycle switches from a previous cycle to a current cycle, a target upper bridge arm switch module for the current cycle from upper bridge arm switch modules other than a target upper bridge arm switch module for the previous cycle and/or select a target lower bridge arm switch module for the current cycle from lower bridge arm switch modules other than a target lower bridge arm switch module for the previous cycle; wherein the processing module is further configured to: during each switch control cycle, control the target upper bridge arm switch module and the target lower bridge arm switch module to be turned on and off.
US12100815B2
The present invention provides an energy storage device having high discharge capacity and high cycling ability. More particularly, the present invention provides Zn/V2O5 battery having cation selective ionomer membrane and free-standing electrode.
US12100808B2
A compound according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is represented by Formula 1. An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include the compound, and a lithium secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include the electrolyte.
US12100800B2
A product includes a solid state electrolyte particle coated with a coating consisting essentially of metal oxide. A method includes depositing a coating on a solid state electrolyte particle by atomic layer deposition. A method includes fabricating a product using a plurality of solid state electrolyte particles coated with a coating consisting essentially of metal oxide.
US12100798B2
According to one embodiment, a constraint jig, used in manufacturing of a battery in which an electrode group is stored in an exterior container having a square shape, is provided. The constraint jig includes a plurality of metal constraint plates. The plurality of constraint plates are arrayed, and form a space in which the battery is arranged between constraint plates adjacent to each other. The plurality of constraint plates constrain the battery arranged in the space, and thus prevent an expansion of the exterior container beyond a predetermined range. Each of the constraint plates has an inner hollow, and includes an inflow port allowing a cooling fluid to flow into the inner hollow and an outflow port allowing the cooling fluid to flow out of the inner hollow.
US12100791B2
A method for producing a semiconductor component may include applying a semiconductor chip over a first main surface of an insulating substrate, thinning a second main surface of the insulating substrate where the second main surface has a roughness of more than 300 nm after thinning, applying a smoothing metal layer over the second main surface of the insulating substrate, and smoothing the smoothing metal layer. A semiconductor component may include a semiconductor chip, an insulating substrate where the semiconductor chip is arranged over a first main surface of the insulating substrate and a second main surface of the insulating substrate has a roughness Ra of more than 300 nm, and a smoothing metal layer over the second main surface.
US12100789B2
A display device, including a circuit substrate, a light-emitting layer, a quarter-wave plate, and a band-pass polarizing layer, is provided. The light-emitting layer is disposed on the circuit substrate and has light-emitting structures, which are electrically connected to the circuit substrate and include first light-emitting structures, which have a first main light-emitting wavelength. The quarter-wave plate is disposed in overlap with the light-emitting structures and is located between the band-pass polarizing layer and the light-emitting layer. The band-pass polarizing layer includes at least one first band-pass polarizing pattern, which have a first absorption axis. The first wavelength range is the first main light-emitting wavelength±10 nm. An average transmittance of the first band-pass polarizing patterns to light with a wavelength outside the first wavelength range and a polarization direction parallel to the first absorption axis is less than 20%.
US12100788B2
A phosphor substrate of the present invention is a phosphor substrate having a plurality of light emitting elements mounted on one surface, and includes an insulating substrate, a first electrode group which is disposed on one surface of the insulating substrate and includes a plurality of electrodes bonded to the plurality of light emitting elements, a phosphor layer which is disposed on one surface of the insulating substrate and includes a phosphor in which a light emission peak wavelength, in a case where light emitted by light emitting element is used as excitation light, is in a visible light region, and a second electrode group which is disposed on the other surface of the insulating substrate and includes a plurality of electrodes.
US12100778B2
A thermal management device for a photovoltaic panel includes a phase change material layer attached to a back side of the photovoltaic panel. The thermal management device includes a Seebeck thermoelectric generator having a first surface attached to the phase change material layer. The thermal management further device includes a heat sink attached to a second surface of the Seebeck thermoelectric generator. The heat sink is configured with a sinuous coil, a water inlet port and a water outlet port connected to the sinuous coil, and a plurality of heat fins. The thermal management further device includes a casing box configured to enclose its various components, and a glass cover attached to the casing box and configured to cover a top surface of the photovoltaic panel.
US12100775B2
A method of making a photovoltaic module includes the step of obtaining a frontsheet having a glass layer, a light scattering encapsulant layer, and a polymer layer. The light scattering encapsulant layer includes a first region, a plurality of first portions extending from the first region, and at least one area located between the first portions. The first portions of the light scattering encapsulant layer has a first light scattering value and a second portion defined by the area has a second light scattering value different from the first light scattering value. The method includes the steps of obtaining at least one solar cell, an encapsulant, and a backsheet, and laminating the frontsheet, the encapsulant, the at least one solar cell, and the backsheet.
US12100772B2
A solar cell design includes fabricating one or more gridlines for extracting photo-current on a front surface of the solar cell, wherein each of the gridlines is a metal grid and a cap layer, and at least a portion of the metal grid is deposited on the cap layer; and controlling an alignment of the metal grid relative to the cap layer, and a width of the cap layer relative to a width of the metal grid, so that a minimum cap edge offset distance value is about 1 μm or more. The alignment of the metal grid relative to the cap layer and the width of the cap layer relative to the width of the metal grid are controlled at areas on the front surface of the solar cell opposite where welding occurs on a back-side of the solar cell. The alignments and widths of the metal grid relative to the cap layer are controlled by a photomask.
US12100763B2
A semiconductor device includes a cell section having a plurality of gate structures, and an outer peripheral section surrounding the cell section. The cell section includes a semiconductor substrate, the plurality of gate structures, a first electrode and a second electrode. The cell section and the outer peripheral section includes a protective film made of a material having a thermal conductivity lower than that of the first electrode. The protective film extends from the outer peripheral section to an outer edge portion of the cell section adjacent to the outer peripheral section and covers a portion of the first electrode adjacent to the outer peripheral section.
US12100754B2
A semiconductor arrangement includes a first well formed to a first depth and a first width in a substrate and a second well formed to a second depth and a second width in the substrate. The first well is formed in the second well, the first depth is greater than the second depth, and the second width is greater than the first width. A source region is formed in the second well and a drain region is formed in the substrate.
US12100746B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first pair of FET (field effect transistor) gate structures separated by a first gate canyon having a first gate canyon spacing, disposed upon the semiconductor substrate, a second pair of FET gate structures separated by a second gate canyon having a second gate canyon spacing, disposed upon the substrate, a first S/D (source/drain region disposed in the first gate canyon, a second S/D region disposed in the second gate canyon, a first BDI (bottom dielectric isolation) element disposed below the first S/D region and having a first BDI thickness, and a second BDI element disposed below the second S/D region and having a second BDI thickness. The first BDI thickness exceeds the second BDI thickness.
US12100744B2
A method is presented for forming a wrap around contact. The method includes forming a p-type epitaxial region and an n-type epitaxial region over a substrate, forming a dielectric pillar between the p-type epitaxial region and the n-type epitaxial region, depositing sacrificial liners around both the p-type epitaxial region and the n-type epitaxial region, and depositing an inter-layer dielectric (ILD). The method further includes forming trenches in the ILD extending into the sacrificial liners, wherein the trenches are vertically aligned with the p-type epitaxial region and the n-type epitaxial region, removing the sacrificial liners to define irregular-shaped openings exposing the p-type epitaxial region and the n-type epitaxial region, and filling the irregular-shaped openings with a conductive material defining the wrap around contact.
US12100737B2
The current disclosure describes techniques for individually selecting the number of channel strips for a device. The channel strips are selected by defining a three-dimensional active region that include a surface active area and a depth/height. Semiconductor strips in the active region are selected as channel strips. Semiconductor strips contained in the active region will be configured to be channel strips. Semiconductor strips not included in the active region are not selected as channel strips and are separated from source/drain structures by an auxiliary buffer layer.
US12100736B2
A semiconductor device includes a first active region on a substrate, channel layers disposed on the first active region to be spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction, a first gate structure disposed on the first active region and surrounding each channel layer, and a first source/drain region on the first active region on at least one side of the first gate structure. The channel layers include first to third channel layers. The first gate structure includes a first gate electrode and a first gate dielectric layer. The first gate dielectric layer includes first to third portions surrounding the first to third channel layers, respectively. The second portion has a thickness greater than a thickness of the first portion, and the third portion has a thickness greater than the thickness of the second portion.
US12100734B2
FET designs that exhibit low leakage in the presence of the edge transistor phenomenon. Embodiments includes nFET designs in which the work function ΦMF of the gate structure overlying the edge transistors of the nFET is increased by forming extra P+ implant regions within at least a portion of the gate structure, thereby increasing the Vt of the edge transistors to a level that may exceed the Vt of the central conduction channel of the nFET. In some embodiments, the gate structure of the nFET is modified to increase or “flare” the effective channel length of the edge transistors relative to the length of the central conduction channel of the FET. Other methods of changing the work function ΦMF of the gate structure overlying the edge transistors are also disclosed. The methods may be adapted to fabricating pFETs by reversing or substituting material types.
US12100733B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; a bottom conductive region positioned in the substrate; a first gate structure positioned on the substrate; a first drain region positioned in the substrate and adjacent to one sidewall of the first gate structure; and a first extended conductive region positioned in the substrate, under the first drain region, contacting a bottom surface of the first drain region, and distant from the bottom conductive region. A top surface of the first drain region and a top surface of the substrate are substantially coplanar. The bottom conductive region and the first extended conductive region include the same electrical type. The first drain region and the first extended conductive region include different electrical types.
US12100732B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a semiconductor substrate having a first protected circuit, and forming a first guard ring around the first protected circuit including: forming a first wall configured to provide a first reference voltage; and forming a second wall configured to provide a second reference voltage different than the first reference voltage.
US12100731B2
A capacitor device, such as a metal insulator metal (MIM) capacitor includes a seed layer including tantalum, a first electrode on the seed layer, where the first electrode includes at least one of ruthenium or iridium and an insulator layer on the seed layer, where the insulator layer includes oxygen and one or more of Sr, Ba or Ti. In an exemplary embodiment, the insulator layer is a crystallized layer having a substantially smooth surface. A crystallized insulator layer having a substantially smooth surface facilitates low electrical leakage in the MIM capacitor. The capacitor device further includes a second electrode layer on the insulator layer, where the second electrode layer includes a second metal or a second metal alloy.
US12100722B2
There is provided an imaging device including a first semiconductor layer formed on a semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor layer formed on the first semiconductor layer and having an opposite conductivity type to the first semiconductor layer, a pixel separation portion that demarcates a pixel region including the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, a first electrode connected to the first semiconductor layer from one surface side of the semiconductor substrate, and a metal layer connected to the second semiconductor layer from a light irradiation surface side which is the other surface of the semiconductor substrate and buried in the pixel separation portion in at least a part of the semiconductor substrate in a thickness direction.
US12100720B2
A method for forming an image sensor package is provided. An image sensor chip is formed over a package substrate. A protection layer is formed overlying the image sensor chip. The protection layer has a planar top surface and a bottom surface lining and contacting structures under the protection layer. An opening is formed into the protection layer and spaced around a periphery of the image sensor chip. A light shielding material is filled in the opening to form an on-wafer shield structure having a sidewall directly contact the protection layer.
US12100699B2
A display device includes a first electrode extended in a first direction, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode in a second direction and extended in the first direction, a first insulating layer on the first and second electrodes, light-emitting elements on the first insulating layer, each having at least an end disposed on the first electrode or the second electrode, a second insulating layer disposed on the light-emitting elements and extended in the first direction, and a first connection electrode disposed on the first electrode and electrically contacting the light-emitting elements, a second connection electrode disposed on the second electrode and electrically contacting the light-emitting elements. Each of the first and second connection electrodes includes a main portion electrically contacting the light-emitting elements, and a subsidiary portion having a width smaller than a width of the main portion and electrically connected to the main portion.
US12100692B2
Provided are a display panel and a preparation method of the display panel. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed opposite to each other, a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate and a plurality of auxiliary structures arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; where the plurality of auxiliary structures surround the plurality of light-emitting elements and each auxiliary structure is provided with a notch structure on a side of the each auxiliary structure close to a respective one of the plurality of light-emitting elements and on a side of the each auxiliary structure close to a light-emitting surface of the display panel.
US12100678B2
In examples, a semiconductor package comprises a semiconductor die having an active surface; a conductive layer coupled to the active surface; and a polyimide layer coupled to the conductive layer. The package also comprises a conductive pillar coupled to the conductive layer and to the polyimide layer; a flux adhesive material coupled to the conductive pillar; and a solder layer coupled to the flux adhesive material. The package further includes a conductive terminal coupled to the solder layer and exposed to a surface of the package, the active surface of the semiconductor die facing the conductive terminal.
US12100676B2
Devices and techniques including process steps make use of recesses in conductive interconnect structures to form reliable low temperature metallic bonds. A fill layer is deposited into the recesses prior to bonding. First conductive interconnect structures are bonded at ambient temperatures to second metallic interconnect structures using direct bonding techniques, with the fill layers in the recesses in one or both of the first and second interconnect structures.
US12100675B2
An exemplary device includes a dielectric layer and a transmission line structure disposed in the dielectric layer. The transmission line structure includes a first metal line disposed between a second metal line and a third metal line. Dielectric islands are disposed in a first region and a second region of the dielectric layer. The first region of the dielectric layer is between the first metal line and the second metal line. The second region of the dielectric layer is between the first metal line and the third metal line. A dielectric constant of the dielectric islands is greater than a dielectric constant of the dielectric layer. The dielectric islands may be doped sections of the dielectric layer. In some embodiments, the dielectric islands in the first region are aligned with the dielectric islands in the second region along a direction perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the first metal line.
US12100674B2
A panel type fan-out wafer level package with embedded film type capacitors and resistors is described. The package comprises a silicon die at a bottom of the package wherein a top side and lateral sides of the silicon die are encapsulated in a molding compound, at least one redistribution layer connected to the silicon die through copper posts contacting a top side of the silicon die, at least one embedded capacitor material (ECM) sheet laminated onto the package, and at least one embedded resistor-conductor material (RCM) sheet laminated onto the package wherein the at least one redistribution layer, capacitors in the at least one ECM, and resistors in the at least one RCM are electrically interconnected.
US12100671B2
A semiconductor device that includes a semiconductor substrate having a first main face and a second main face opposite each other; a dielectric film on a part of the first main face, the dielectric film having an electrode layer disposing portion and a protective layer covering portion, and a thickness of the protective layer covering portion in an outer peripheral end of the dielectric film is smaller than a thickness of the electrode layer disposing portion of the dielectric film; a first electrode layer on the electrode layer disposing portion of the dielectric film; and a protective layer continuously covering a range from an end portion of the first electrode layer to the outer peripheral end of the dielectric film.
US12100668B2
A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip; an encapsulant covering at least a portion of the first semiconductor chip; insulating layers provided on the encapsulant, each of the insulating layers being transparent or translucent; and wiring layers provided on the encapsulant, the wiring layers being partially covered by the insulating layers, wherein an outermost insulating layer of the insulating layers comprises a first region and a second region, a color of the first region is different from a color of the second region, the second region surrounds the first region, and at least one marking pattern comprising at least one step portion is provided in the first region of the outermost insulating layer.
US12100665B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor package structure including a first stacked structure and a second stacked structure, which is stacked on the first stacked structure. The first stacked structure includes a first dielectric layer, a first power chip, a first conductive connecting element, a first conductive pillar and a first patterned conductive layer. The second stacked structure includes a second dielectric layer, a second power chip, a second conductive connecting element, a second conductive pillar, a second patterned conductive layer, and a third patterned conductive layer. The first power chip and the second power chip are stacked to provide a smaller volume semiconductor package structure, that the first power chip and the second power chip may be directly electrically connected through the circuit structure and may eliminate the related disadvantages of the lead frame. In addition, a manufacturing method of a semiconductor package structure is also disclosed.
US12100654B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes: providing a substrate, the substrate including an array area and a metal interconnection area located at the periphery of the array area; and forming a metal interconnection structure in the metal interconnection area, in which the metal interconnection structure includes a plurality of stacked metal wiring layers and a plurality of connecting pillars connected between each of the metal wiring layers, each of the metal wiring layer includes a plurality of metal strips distributed at intervals, the metal strips of two adjacent metal wiring layers are staggered, and two adjacent metal strips located in a same layer are respectively connected with one same metal strip directly below them through the connecting pillars.
US12100646B2
A semiconductor device including: a first silicon layer including a first single crystal silicon layer; first transistors with a single crystal channel and overlaid by a first metal layer; overlaid by a second metal layer; overlaid by a third metal layer; a second level with second transistors and including a metal gate, and then disposed over the third metal layer; the second level is overlaid by a third level with third transistors; and then overlaid by a fourth metal layer; fourth overlaid by a fifth metal layer; a via disposed through the second level; the device includes at least one temperature sensor; the fifth metal layer average thickness is greater than the third metal layer average thickness by at least 50%; at least one element within at least one of the second transistors has been processed independently of the third transistors.
US12100645B2
Integrated circuit (IC) packages employing added metal for embedded metal traces in an ETS-based substrate for reduced signal path impedance. An IC package includes a package substrate and an ETS metallization layer disposed on the package substrate. To mitigate or offset an increase in impedance in longer signal paths between die circuitry and the package substrate that can result in decreased signaling speed and/or increased signal loss, added metal interconnects are coupled to embedded metal traces in the ETS metallization layer. Thus, embedded metal traces of the ETS metallization layer coupled to signal/ground signal paths of the die are increased in metal surface area. Increasing metal surface area of embedded metal traces coupled to the signal/ground signal paths of a die increases capacitance of such signal/ground signal paths. Increasing capacitance of signal/ground signal paths decreases impedance of the signal/ground signal paths to mitigate or reduce signaling delay and/or loss.
US12100644B2
An intermetal dielectric and metal layers embedded in the intermetal dielectric are arranged on a substrate of semiconductor material. A via hole is formed in the substrate, and a metallization contacting a contact area of one of the metal layers is applied in the via hole. The metallization, the metal layer comprising the contact area and the intermetal dielectric are partially removed at the bottom of the via hole in order to form a hole penetrating the intermetal dielectric and extending the via hole. A continuous passivation is arranged on sidewalls within the via hole and the hole, and the metallization contacts the contact area around the hole. Thus the presence of a thin membrane of layers, which is usually formed at the bottom of a hollow through-substrate via, is avoided.
US12100643B2
An electronics assembly in which microjet nozzles are co-located with electronic elements on the same substrate or layer. This technique may be used to integrate lower power-density electronics onto an existing microjet nozzle plate to perform microjet nozzle cooling, which removes the need for separate thermal management solutions for systems that contain both high and lower power-density elements in proximity. This technique may also be used in multilayered 3D integrated electronic substrates, allowing for thin, high performing thermal management solutions in 3D integrated stackups using microjets.
US12100635B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor package comprising a lower substrate including a conductive line; a first semiconductor chip on the lower substrate; an under-fill layer between the first semiconductor chip and the lower substrate, the under-fill layer including a central part below the first semiconductor chip and an edge part isolated from direct contact with the central part in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the lower substrate, and a recess region between the central part and the edge part. The recess region may be defined by a sidewall of the central part, a sidewall of the edge part, and a top surface of the conductive line in the lower substrate.
US12100630B2
A radio frequency (RF) transistor amplifier includes a package submount. a package frame comprising an electrically insulating member and one or more conductive layers on the package submount and exposing a surface thereof, a transistor die on the surface of the package submount and comprising respective terminals that are electrically connected to the package frame, a protective member covering the transistor die, and one or more electrical components that are attached to the package frame outside the protective member. Related RF power device packages and fabrication methods are also discussed.
US12100626B2
The present disclosure describes a method of forming a semiconductor device having epitaxial structures with optimized dimensions. The method includes forming first and second fin structures on a substrate, forming a spacer layer on the first and second fin structures, forming a first spacer structure adjacent to the first fin structure, and forming a first epitaxial structure adjacent to the first spacer structure. The first and second fin structures are separated by an isolation layer. The first spacer structure has a first height above the isolation layer. The method further includes forming a second spacer structure adjacent to the second fin structure and forming a second epitaxial structure adjacent to the second spacer structure. The second spacer structure has a second height above the isolation layer greater than the first height. The second epitaxial structure includes a type of dopant different from the first epitaxial structure.
US12100621B2
A method of processing a wafer having a plurality of intersecting streets on a face side thereof with protrusions on the streets includes a holding step of holding a protective sheet of a wafer unit on a holding table, an upper surface heightwise position detecting step of detecting a heightwise position of an upper surface of a reverse side of the wafer along the streets, and a laser beam applying step of applying a laser beam having a wavelength transmittable through the wafer to the wafer from the reverse side thereof along the streets while positioning a focused point of the laser beam within the wafer on the basis of the heightwise position, to thereby form modified layers in the wafer along the streets.
US12100616B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: planarizing a surface of a substrate having a conductive material embedded in a first hole so as to expose the conductive material embedded in the first hole, wherein the first hole is formed in a region which is on an insulating film laminated on the substrate and is surrounded by a spacer film; laminating a mask film on the surface of the substrate; forming a second hole in the mask film such that at least a portion of an upper surface of the conductive material embedded in the first hole is exposed; embedding the conductive material in the second hole; and removing the mask film.
US12100598B2
The present disclosure combines chemical mechanical polishing (CMP), wet etch and deposition processes to provide improved processes and methods for planarizing an uneven surface of a material layer deposited over a plurality of structures formed on a substrate. A CMP process is initially used to smooth the uneven surface and provide complete local planarization of the material layer above the plurality of structures. After achieving complete local planarization, a wet etch process is used to etch the material layer until a uniform recess is formed between the plurality of structures and the material layer is provided with a uniform thickness across the substrate. In some embodiments, an additional material layer may be deposited and a second CMP process may be used to planarize the additional material layer to provide the substrate with a globally planarized surface.
US12100597B2
Methods of forming patterned structures suitable for a multiple patterning process are disclosed. Exemplary methods include forming a silicon nitride layer overlying the substrate by providing a silicon precursor to the reaction chamber for a silicon precursor pulse period, providing a nitrogen reactant to the reaction chamber, providing a hydrogen reactant to the reaction chamber, and providing a plasma power to form a plasma within the reaction chamber for a plasma pulse period. An etch profile of sacrificial features on the substrate can be controlled by controlling an amount of hydrogen provided to the reaction chamber and/or using other process parameters.
US12100595B2
A sacrificial sealing layer is formed on a high-κ metal gate (HKMG) stack to suppress oxidants, e.g., oxygen and water, from impacting the metal gate stack, thus preserving the device EOT. The method integrated processes that include forming an interfacial layer on the substrate; forming a high-κ metal oxide layer on the interfacial layer, the high-κ metal oxide layer comprising a dipole region adjacent to the interfacial layer, the dipole region; depositing a capping layer on the high-κ metal oxide layer; and forming a sacrificial sealing layer on the capping layer. The dipole region is formed by driving a dopant species, e.g., zinc (Zn), vanadium (V), tungsten (W), molybdenum (Mo), ruthenium (Ru), titanium (Ti), tantalum (Ta), zirconium (Zr), aluminum (Al), niobium (Nb), or mixtures thereof, of a dipole film into the high-κ metal oxide layer to form a dipole region.
US12100594B2
An active region array formation method is provided, including: providing a substrate, and forming a first hard mask layer on a surface of the substrate; patterning the first hard mask layer by using a composite etching process to form an active region shielding layer in the first hard mask layer, a pattern of the active region shielding layer being matched with a pattern of a to-be-formed active region array, wherein the composite etching process includes at least two patterning processes and at least one pattern transfer process; removing the remaining first hard mask layer; and forming the active region array in the substrate through the active region shielding layer.
US12100586B2
A method for cleaning a substrate with pattern structures comprises the following steps: using gas-liquid atomization to clean a substrate surface (601); using TEBO megasonic to clean the substrate surface (602); and drying the substrate (603). The TEBO megasonic cleaning is used to remove small size particles on the substrate and the gas-liquid atomization cleaning is used to remove large size particles on the substrate. The method enables achieving an effect of cleaning the substrate without or with less device damage. A substrate cleaning apparatus is also provided.
US12100581B2
An analysis system includes a degassing cell, at least one first valve, and at least one second valve. The at least one first valve is fluidly coupled with a top of the degassing cell, the at least one first valve configured selectably connect the degassing cell to a displacement gas flow and to a vacuum source. The at least one second valve is fluidly connected with a lateral side of the degassing cell and separately fluidly connected with a bottom of the degassing cell. The at least one second valve is selectably coupled with any of a source of a sample-carrying fluid, a transfer line configured to deliver a sample to an analysis device, or a waste output.
US12100575B2
A plasma processing device may include a plasma processing chamber, a plasma electrode assembly, a wafer stage, a plasma producing gas inlet, a plurality of vacuum ports, at least one vacuum pump, and a multi-port valve assembly. The multi-port valve assembly may comprise a movable seal plate positioned in the plasma processing chamber. The movable seal plate may comprise a transverse port sealing surface that is shaped and sized to completely overlap the plurality of vacuum ports in a closed state, to partially overlap the plurality of vacuum ports in a partially open state, and to avoid substantial overlap of the plurality of vacuum ports in an open state. The multi-port valve assembly may comprise a transverse actuator coupled to the movable seal plate and a sealing actuator coupled to the movable seal plate.
US12100572B2
A rotary x-ray anode with an integrated liquid metal bearing outer shell has an anode disc made of Mo or a Mo-based alloy formed with a hole, which is formed centrally in the region of the axis of rotation and extends in the axial direction at least through part of the anode disc, and a bearing bushing made of Mo or a Mo-based alloy. The bearing bushing is connected to the anode disc via a material bond and its inner wall extends the hole in the anode disc. At least an axial portion of an inner wall of the hole in the anode disc and at least an axial portion of an inner wall of the bearing bushing are formed circumferentially as a liquid metal bearing running surface and they form at least a part of a liquid metal bearing outer shell. There is also described a corresponding production method.
US12100570B2
In order to suppress the amount of time needed for the start-up of a microwave tube carried out when voltage fed from a power source has decreased, while avoiding increase in scale of a power storage unit, this power supply device includes: a power supply unit that supplies power fed from the power source to the microwave tube that is provided with a cathode, a heater for heating the cathode, an anode, and a collector; a power storage unit that stores the fed power and, if the voltage of the fed power decreases, supplies stored power that is power obtained by the power storing, to the microwave tube; and a power supply switching unit that, if the voltage of the fed power decreases, stops supplying the stored power to the anode and does not stop supplying the stored power to the heater.
US12100569B2
A fuse holder is disclosed. The fuse holder includes a housing having a fuse compartment and termination compartments, each termination compartment having a cable termination aperture for receiving a cable and a lock pin slot; a bus assembly disposed including current bars having a first end and a second end extending from the termination compartment to the termination compartment, the first end having fuse contacts extending from the first end, the second end including a barb extending from the second end; and, push-in clamps disposed within the termination compartment, the push-in clamps normally biased against the barbs; wherein insertion of an electrical cable into the cable termination aperture depresses and elastically deforms the push-in clamp such that a gap is formed between the barb and the push-in clamp, wherein the push-in clamp continuously applies a biasing force against the electrical cable non-removably clamping the cable into the termination aperture.
US12100567B2
A drive unit for driving switching contacts of a high-voltage circuit breaker includes an operating element, and a plurality of actuating elements for actuating the switching contacts, at least two of which are disposed at a distance from one another relative to an axis or shaft. A mechanism or lever mechanism transfers a movement of the operating element into corresponding movements of the actuating elements. The mechanism includes at least one shaft, rotatably mounted on the axis, for transferring the movement of the operating element into the corresponding movement of at least one actuating element which is disposed at a distance from the operating element along the axis. The drive unit has a compensation coupling device for compensating for a delay in the transfer of movement between at least two of the actuating elements disposed at a distance from one another relative to the axis.
US12100566B2
The invention discloses a smart switch panel and a smart remote control switch system. The smart switch panel includes a housing, an actuating device arranged in the housing and a microprocessor arranged in the housing to control the actuating device, and the actuating device includes a rotating rod and a driving member, the rotating rod cooperates with the driving member and pushes the driving member to move in a direction parallel to the rotating rod when the rotating rod rotates, so as to drive the switch to switch when the smart switch panel is mounted on the switch.
US12100564B2
A keyboard with a two-way rotating support frame is provided. The keyboard includes a keyboard body, a mount arranged on the keyboard body, a first rotating member, and a second rotating member. The first rotating member is rotatably mounted on the mount and can be rotated around a first rotation axis; the second rotating member is rotatably mounted on the first rotating member and can rotate relative to the first rotating member around a second rotation axis. The second rotating member includes a support frame which includes a stand base, and a supporting main frame detachably connected to the stand base. The supporting main frame is used for supporting electronic device with a screen.
US12100561B2
A capacitor that comprises a capacitor element is provided. The capacitor element comprises a deoxidized and sintered anode body that is formed from a powder having a specific charge of about 35,000 μF*V/g or more. Further, a dielectric overlies the anode body and a solid electrolyte overlies the dielectric. The capacitor also exhibits a normalized aged leakage current of about 0.1% or less.
US12100558B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body and external electrodes provided on opposing end surfaces of the multilayer body. Each external electrode includes an underlying electrode layer including metal components and ceramic components, and plating layers on the underlying electrode layer. A metal of the plating layer on the underlying electrode layer diffuses into the underlying electrode layer, and exists at an interface where the metal components included in the underlying electrode layer are in contact with each other and an interface where the metal component and the ceramic component included in the underlying electrode layer are in contact with each other.
US12100557B2
An electronic component includes an element body, a plurality of external electrodes on the element body, and an electrical insulator on the element body. Each of the plurality of external electrodes includes a conductive resin layer. The electrical insulator includes an electrical insulating portion located at least on a region between the plurality of external electrodes on a surface of the element body.
