US12108670B2
Provided are a novel compound capable of improving the luminous efficiency, stability and lifespan of an element, an organic electronic element using the same, and an electronic device thereof.
US12108667B2
An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a hole transport region on the first electrode, an emission layer on the hole transport region, an electron transport region on the emission layer and a second electrode on the electron transport region, wherein the emission layer includes a spiro compound containing an aryl amine group and an indenoindole derivative, thereby showing high emission efficiency and the emission layer emits green light.
US12108656B2
The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a perovskite having a surface, where the surface includes a pyridine compound. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the pyridine compound may include an amine functional group. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the pyridine compound may be selected from a group that includes N(2-methylpyridine)A, N(3-methylpyridine)A, N(4-(methyl)pyridine)A, N(3-(2-ethyl)pyridine)A, and N(4-(2-ethyl)pyridine)A, where A is a cation, and the pyridine compound has an ionic radius larger than 10 Å.
US12108640B2
Provided is an array substrate, including: a first conductive wire, a second conductive wire and a first electrostatic protection unit, wherein the first electrostatic protection unit comprises a first thin-film transistor and a first capacitor; wherein a gate of the first thin-film transistor is suspended and is connected to a first electrode of the first thin-film transistor via the first capacitor, the first electrode of the thin-film transistor is connected to the first conductive wire, and a second electrode of the first thin-film transistor is connected to the second conductive wire.
US12108637B2
Provided are a backplane and a display device. The backplane comprises an active area, a first binding area and a second binding area. The first binding area is detachably disposed on a side of the second binding area away from the active area, and both the first binding area and the second binding area are capable of being bonded to an external electronic assembly. By arranging two binding areas, if there is a defective product in a module process, the first binding area is detached, and the second binding area is attached to the external electronic assembly, such that the display device is repaired in the module process, thereby reducing a scrapping cost of the product.
US12108633B2
A display panel includes: a substrate including a first region, a second region, and a third region between the first region and the second region; a display element located in the second region and including a pixel electrode, an opposite electrode, an intermediate layer; a multi-layered film arranged between the substrate and the pixel electrode and including an organic insulating layer and an inorganic layer on the organic insulating layer; and at least one groove formed in the multi-layered film and located in the third region, wherein at least one organic material layer is included in the intermediate layer and is disconnected by the at least one groove.
US12108631B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a second insulating layer having a first opening and a second opening, a partition disposed on the second insulating layer, a first organic layer, a first upper electrode. The partition includes a first layer formed of a metal material and including a first side surface and a second side, and a second layer including a bottom surface. The first upper electrode is in contact with the first side surface, the bottom surface extends from the first side surface toward the first opening and extends from the second side surface toward the second opening. A lower portion of the second layer has an inverted tapered shape whose width increases as it is closer to top from the bottom surface.
US12108617B2
A light-emitting layer of a light-emitting element contains halogen ligands and organic ligands coordinated to each of quantum dots. The light-emitting layer includes: a first region toward a hole-transport layer; and a second region toward an electron-transport layer. In the first region, a concentration of the halogen ligands is higher than a concentration of the organic ligands, and, in the second region, the concentration of the halogen ligands is lower than the concentration of the organic ligands.
US12108615B2
The disclosed technology includes an infrared-emitting quantum dot comprising a core comprising a first semiconductor material, a shell comprising a second semiconductor material, and a gradient interface between the core and the shell. The disclosed technology also includes methods of manufacturing the same.
US12108609B1
A configuration for efficiently placing a group of capacitors with one terminal connected to a common node is described. The capacitors are stacked and folded along the common node. In a stack and fold configuration, devices are stacked vertically (directly or with a horizontal offset) with one terminal of the devices being shared to a common node, and further the capacitors are placed along both sides of the common node. The common node is a point of fold. In one example, the devices are capacitors. N number of capacitors can be divided in L number of stack layers such that there are N/L capacitors in each stacked layer. The N/L capacitors are shorted together with an electrode (e.g., bottom electrode). The electrode can be metal, a conducting oxide, or a combination of a conducting oxide and a barrier material. The capacitors can be planar, non-planar or replaced by memory elements.
US12108608B1
An integration process including an etch stop layer for high density memory and logic applications and methods of fabrication are described. While various examples are described with reference to FeRAM, capacitive structures formed herein can be used for any application where a capacitor is desired. For instance, the capacitive structure can be used for fabricating ferroelectric based or paraelectric based majority gate, minority gate, and/or threshold gate.
US12108605B2
A memory device includes a plurality of first conductive pillars, a plurality of second conductive pillars, a plurality of gap filling pillars, a channel layer and first dielectric pillars. The gap filling pillars are located in between the first conductive pillars and the second conductive pillars. The channel layer is extending in a first direction, and located on side surfaces of the first conductive pillars and the second conductive pillars. The first dielectric pillars are located in between the channel layer and the plurality of gap filling pillars, wherein a length of an interface where the first dielectric pillars contact the gap filling pillars along the first direction is different from a length of the gap filling pillars along the first direction.
US12108603B2
Embodiments of semiconductor devices and methods for forming the same are disclosed. In an example, a method for forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. A first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed on a first side of a substrate. A plurality of first contacts each extending vertically through the first ILD layer and in contact with the substrate are formed. The substrate is thinned from a second side opposite to the first side of the substrate. A plurality of dielectric cuts each extending vertically through the thinned substrate are formed to separate the thinned substrate into a plurality of semiconductor blocks, such that the plurality of semiconductor blocks are in contact with the plurality of first contacts, respectively.
US12108601B2
Back gates and related apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed. An apparatus includes a channel material including a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The apparatus also includes word lines comprising electrically conductive material spaced along the first side of the channel material. The apparatus further includes a back gate comprising electrically conductive material proximate to the second side of the channel material. A method includes biasing a bit line and a word line associated with a memory cell according to a memory operation and biasing the back gate while biasing the bit line and the word line.
US12108595B2
A device structure includes a first gate on a first fin, a second gate on a second fin, where the second gate is spaced apart from the first gate by a distance. A fuse spans the distance and is in contact with the first gate and the second gate. A first dielectric is between the first fin and the second fin, where the first dielectric is in contact with, and below, the fuse and a second dielectric is between the first gate and the second gate, where the second dielectric is on the fuse.
US12108590B2
The disclosure relates to a semiconductor storage device and a forming method thereof. The semiconductor storage device includes a substrate; a plurality of active region structures provided on the substrate; a shallow trench isolation structure provided within the substrate, the shallow trench isolation structure surround the plurality of active region structures; a plurality of conductive line structures, extending parallel to each other along a first direction, the conductive line structure include a first region and a second region, the first region being located over each of the plurality of active region structures, the second region is located over the shallow trench isolation structure; in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, the depth of the first region is greater than the depth of the second region.
US12108589B2
A memory device includes pages, each being composed of a plurality of memory cells arrayed on a substrate in row form. The memory device controls voltages to be applied to a first gate conductor layer, a second gate conductor layer, a first impurity region, and a second impurity region of each of the memory cells included in the pages to perform a page write operation of holding a hole group formed by an impact ionization phenomenon or a gate induced drain leakage current in a channel semiconductor layer, and controls voltages to be applied to the first gate conductor layer, the second gate conductor layer, the third gate conductor layer, the fourth gate conductor layer, the first impurity region, and the second impurity region to perform a page erase operation of removing the hole group out of the channel semiconductor layer. The first impurity layer of each of the memory cells is connected to a source line, the second impurity region is connected to a bit line, one of the first gate conductor layer and the second gate conductor layer is connected to a word line, and the other is connected to a first driving control line. The bit line is connected to a sense amplifier circuit via a switching circuit. When in a page read operation, the memory device reads page data in a memory cell group selected by the word line to the bit line, and performs charge sharing between the bit line and a charge sharing node of the switching circuit opposite to the bit line to accelerate a read determination by the sense amplifier circuit.
US12108588B2
A memory and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The memory includes a substrate; at least one pair of transistors on a surface of the substrate, in which conductive channels of the transistors extend in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate; storage layers, which each are located, in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, on a side surface of each of the transistors, the storage layers are interconnected with the conductive channels of the transistors, any one of the storage layers is located between the pair of transistors, and the storage layers are configured to store electric charges and transfer the electric charges between the storage layers and the conductive channels interconnected therewith.
US12108585B2
A gate TiN layer of adjacent Si pillars among Si pillars contacts at entire channel length in a vertical direction. SiO2 layers are formed, surrounding the Si pillars, and mask material layers on top thereof, and being spaced from each other. Then, a SiN layer is formed surrounding the SiO2 layers. Then, the mask material layers and the SiO2 layers are removed. Then, a P+ layer and N+ layers which upper surfaces are lower than an upper surface position of the SiN layer are formed surrounding each top of the Si pillars by selective epitaxial crystal growth method.
US12108580B2
A power converter including a semiconductor module having a base plate and a cooling housing. The cooling housing includes a receptacle plate and a cover. The receptacle plate has an opening. The receptacle plate is connected to the base plate of the semiconductor module around the opening. The cover is connected to the receptacle plate along a closure path around the opening, and either the receptacle plate or the cover is formed as a stamped or deep-drawn plate.
US12108573B2
An electronic control device 1 includes: a circuit board 4 having a first surface 4A on which heat-generating components 21, 22, 23 and heat-degradable components 31, 32 are mounted; a first metallic case 2 covering the first surface 4A; a second case 3 covering a second surface 4B of the circuit board 4 opposite to the first surface 4A; supporting members 51, 52 provided between the heat-degradable components 31, 32 and the first case 2 to support the heat-degradable components 31, 32; and heat-dissipating members 41, 42, 43, each provided on at least any of the heat-generating components 21, 22, 23, and the first case 2, to transmit heat generated from the heat-generating component 21, 22, or 23, to the first case 2. A heat conductivity of the heat-dissipating members 41, 42, 43 is higher than a heat conductivity of the supporting members 51, 52.
US12108568B2
A method of thermal management of a computing device includes immersing a first electronic component of the computing device in a first working fluid contained in a first volume, immersing a second electronic component of the computing device in a second working fluid contained in a second volume, and changing a pressure in the first volume to alter a boiling temperature of the first working fluid in the first volume.
US12108564B2
A flow path module, adapted to a heat exchange element and a coolant and including a pipeline structure and at least one flow resistance element, is provided. The pipeline structure is adapted to be connected to the heat exchange element. The flow resistance element is disposed in the pipeline structure, and the coolant flows through the heat exchange element from the pipeline structure. A flow resistance of the flow resistance element is adapted to be adjusted corresponding to a flow resistance of the heat exchange element. A coolant distribution device and a server are also provided.
US12108556B2
Tools and techniques are described to attach a device to a controller, whereby the controller analyzes the device inputs, looks up information about the device in a database, and then determines which inputs on the device match the defined device inputs. It then may translate information received from the device into an intermediate language. It may also use the information received from the device, the location of the device, and information about the device to create a digital twin of the device.
US12108550B2
According to an embodiment, an electronic device may include a first housing, a second housing, a hinge device configured to connect the first housing and the second housing to be foldable about a folding axis, and a flexible display arranged to be supported by at least a part of the first housing, the second housing, and the hinge device. The hinge device may include a hinge housing including an accommodation portion, at least one cam assembly arranged in the accommodation portion, at least two coil spring members providing a pressing force to the at least one cam assembly in a direction parallel to the folding axis, and at least one hinge plate configured to support the at least one cam assembly. The at least two coil spring members may be coiled in opposite directions. Various other embodiments may be possible.
US12108547B2
An electronic device may have a display mounted in a housing. The display may have a display panel with an array of pixels on a flexible substrate. A display cover layer may overlap the display panel. The flexible substrate may have a protruding portion that forms a tail. When the display is mounted in the housing, the tail may be bent back on itself to create a bend. The bend may be embedded in molded polymer. The device may have structures that help prevent the display cover layer from being compressed inwardly towards the rear of the housing such as frame structures embedded in the molded polymer and/or housing sidewall structures. Optical components and optical waveguides may be embedded within the molded polymer. Mating chamfers on the display cover layer and housing may help seat the display cover layer in the housing.
US12108541B2
A welding structure and a display module. The welding structure includes: an output carrier, arranged with a first welding area on a side edge of the output carrier; an input carrier. A first end of the input carrier is arranged with a second welding area, the second welding area being electrically connected to the first welding area; an orthographic projection of the first end of the input carrier on the output carrier is disposed beyond the first welding area; and at least one set of a first support member and a second support member. The first support member is disposed on the input carrier and at a position of the first end beyond the first welding area; the second support member is disposed on the output carrier and opposite to the first support member.
US12108538B2
A component type management device includes an association registration section configured to register association data in which individual identification information of a component supply device which is attached to a component mounter and supplies a component is associated with a type of the component held in the component supply device, an association discarding section configured to discard the association data in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied after the component supply device is detached from the component mounter, a detachment discrimination section configured to discriminate whether the component supply device is detached by an automatic exchanging device; and an association maintaining section configured to invalidate a function of the association discarding section before the predetermined condition is satisfied and maintain the association data in a case of being discriminated that the component supply device is detached by the automatic exchanging device.
US12108532B2
A printed circuit board with an embedded bridge includes: a first connection structure including a first insulating film; a bridge disposed on the first connection structure and having one surface, in contact with the first insulating film; and a second connection structure disposed on the first connection structure, and including a second insulating film. The second insulating film covers at least a portion of the other surface of the bridge.
US12108530B2
A circuit board structure includes a circuit substrate, a first circuit layer, and a second circuit layer. The circuit substrate has a surface and includes at least one conductive structure and at least one patterned circuit layer. The conductive structure is electrically connected to the patterned circuit layer, and an upper surface of the conductive structure is aligned with the surface. The first circuit layer is directly disposed on the surface of the circuit substrate and electrically connected to the conductive structure. A line width of the first circuit layer is less than or equal to 1/4 of a line width of the patterned circuit layer. The second circuit layer is directly disposed on the first circuit layer and electrically connected to the first circuit layer.
US12108519B2
Disclosed is an assembly (11) of an electronic board (22) and a heat sink (24), in particular for a motor-fan unit (10) of a motor vehicle, comprising an electronic board (22); a heat sink (24) comprising a plate (28) fastened to the electronic board (22), the surface of which has through-openings (30); and a thermal paste (26) arranged between the electronic board (22) and the plate (28).
US12108513B2
The present specification provides a heating system including: a heating unit including a substrate and a heating layer provided on the substrate and including graphene; an electromagnetic wave irradiation unit configured to irradiate at least one region of the heating unit with electromagnetic waves; and a control unit configured to control an operation of the electromagnetic wave irradiation unit, wherein the heating layer emits heat by absorbing the electromagnetic waves.
US12108500B2
An apparatus for feeding and dosing powder includes a powder storage container, an oscillating feeder with feeder with adjustable feeding rate for dispensing the powder to a powder outlet, a conduit arrangement for feeding the powder dispensed from the oscillating feeder in a feeding gas as a powder-gas mixture and for supplying the powder-gas mixture to a powder processor, wherein a decoupler is provided in the conduit arrangement to extract a defined proportion of the powder from the powder-gas mixture, a powder quantity measuring arrangement for detecting the decoupled powder quantity and for providing a powder quantity information signal, wherein the extracted powder quantity has a predetermined ratio to the fed powder quantity of the oscillating feeder, and controller configured to adjust the adjustable feeding rate of the oscillating feeder to a predetermined set value based on the powder quantity information signal provided.
US12108498B2
A wafer placement table includes a ceramic plate, an electrode embedded in the ceramic plate, a hollow ceramic shaft attached to a surface of the ceramic plate, a power-supplying member running inside the ceramic shaft and connected to a terminal of the electrode, a plate-side attaching site defined on the ceramic plate and to which the power-supplying member is attached, and a power-source-side attaching site defined at a free end of the ceramic shaft and to which the power-supplying member is attached. The power-source-side attaching site is defined in correspondence with the plate-side attaching site and in such a manner as to be shifted from the plate-side attaching site in plan view. The power-supplying member includes a redirecting portion where the power-supplying member extending from the power-source-side attaching site is forcibly redirected toward the plate-side attaching site.
US12108492B2
When a failed connection is detected from a first radio unit (RU) to the cellular site router (CSR), activation of an existing backup cabled connection from the first RU to the CSR through a cabled connection between the first RU and a second RU of the cellular telecommunications tower may be performed. In one example, a first RU and second RU each have two physical network ports. The activation of the existing backup cabled connection from the first RU, via the second RU, to the CSR may include causing the first RU to enter from a normal operating mode into an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) cascade operating mode to attempt to attain network connectivity for the first RU using the second physical network port of the first RU.
US12108480B2
This disclosure provides a method for data transmission, a method for information configuration, a terminal, and a network device. The method for data transmission includes: determining at least one transmission path usable for a radio bearer in a case that a PDCP duplication function of the radio bearer changes from an activated state to a deactivated state; and transmitting PDCP data by using the at least one transmission path.
US12108473B2
A first base station may establish a first connection with an IAB node and transmit, to a second base station, a request for the second base station to establish a second connection with the IAB node. The first base station may indicate to the second base station, based on the second connection being established with the IAB node, that at least one of a first base station or the second base station is to serve as an IAB donor for the IAB node. The second base station may accept or reject the indication received from the first base station that the at least one of the first base station or the second base station is to serve as the IAB donor for the IAB node.
US12108470B2
A session management function (SMF) receives a request message from a network exposure function (NEF). The request message is for a delivery of a trigger to a wireless device. The request message includes a trigger payload and a trigger indication. The trigger payload includes information for an application on the wireless device. The trigger indication identifies that the request message carries the trigger payload. The SMF sends, via an access and mobility management function (AMF), a non-access stratum (NAS) message to the wireless device. The NAS message includes the trigger indication and the trigger payload. The SMF receives, from the wireless device via the AMF and based on the trigger payload, a request to establish a packet data unit session for the application.
US12108469B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for performing relay communication by a relay wireless device in a wireless communication system. A relay wireless device may receive bearer configuration information from a network. Based on the bearer configuration information, the UE may establish a bearer with a remote wireless device. The relay wireless device may forward data to/from the remote wireless device using the bearer.
US12108467B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for synchronized channel access. Some implementations more specifically relate to facilitating coexistence among wireless communication devices that support synchronized channel access and those that do not. A group of access points may schedule periodically recurring, synchronized channel access periods by periodically transmitting quiet elements. The quiet elements establish recurring quiet periods during which legacy devices are not permitted to transmit. In some implementations, an access point may transmit one or more quiet override elements each associated with a respective quiet element and indicating to other access points supporting synchronized channel access that they are permitted to contend for access during the respective quiet period. In some other implementations of synchronized channel access, an access point supporting synchronized channel access that wins contention after one or more consecutive synchronized channel access periods during which no other synchronized access points won contention, may be entitled to an extended TXOP.
US12108464B2
A random access method and apparatus. The method includes: transmitting a first random access request at least including a preamble, uplink data and a demodulation reference signal by a terminal equipment to a network device; and receiving a random access response transmitted by the network device; wherein mapping of the preamble to an uplink data channel resource and a demodulation reference signal port is determined according to configuration information or is configured by the network device.
US12108461B2
A method performed by a UE for implementing a random access procedure is provided. The method transmits a MSGA, monitoring an MSGB-RNTI within an MSGB time window starting from an earliest symbol of an earliest PDCCH occasion after the MSGA transmission. The method receives the MSGB in a first slot. The MSGB includes a success RAR that contains a HARQ Feedback Timing Indicator, a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) Resource Indicator, and a UE Contention Resolution Identity. The method determines, by a MAC entity of the UE, to instruct a lower layer to transmit a HARQ feedback in a second slot in response to the reception of the success RAR. The method delivers, by the MAC entity, the HARQ Feedback Timing Indicator and the PUCCH Resource Indicator to the lower layer, and performs, by the lower layer, a HARQ feedback delivery on an uplink (UL) resource.
US12108455B2
A user apparatus includes, a control unit configured to apply in a specific order a plurality of processing rules for determining a channel as a transmission candidate by dropping a channel or multiplexing channels and repeat the application until detecting no channel collision in a time domain, in a case where a channel associated with a first service type and a channel associated with a second service type collide with each other at least in a time domain, and for at least one of the channel associated with the first service type and the channel associated with the second service type, a plurality of channels associated with a same service type collide with each other at least in the time domain; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to a base station apparatus, the channel as the transmission candidate for which no channel collision is detected in the time domain.
US12108449B2
A system and method of terminating any pending listen-before-talk (LBT) attempts after they have been submitted to the physical layer of a system interconnection model if one or more of the LBT attempts succeed. The system and method include receiving a plurality of frequency resources, each of the plurality of frequency resources corresponding to a respective resource occasion. The system and method include performing, for each of the frequency resources, a listen-before-talk procedure in a first layer of an open system interconnection model. The system and method include indicating, to a second layer of the open system interconnection model, a first one of the plurality of frequency resources that succeeded in the respective listen-before-talk procedure.
US12108446B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a closed loop Listen Before Talk (LBT) which is a coexistence mechanism used by wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, to access unlicensed shared spectrum, such as the ISM UNII bands (5 GHz). The embodiments disclosed herein enable a base station to coordinate the LBT process at both the base station and a receiver in order to avoid hidden node interference where the interfering nodes are outside the sensing range of the transmitting node. The base station device can send an LBT trigger to the receiver to synchronize the clear channel assessments that are performed at each device to determine if there is any activity on the channel. The receiving device can send back a report to the base station device, and if no activity on the channel is detected, the base station device can schedule a transmission on the channel.
US12108438B2
A method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, to a base station, a random access preamble to initiate a random access procedure. The method also includes receiving, from the base station based on transmitting the random access preamble, a downlink message comprising a repetition number indicator. The method further includes transmitting a number of repetitions of a physical uplink channel based on the repetition number indicator.
US12108436B2
A Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission method includes the following. It is determined that a first PUSCH overlaps with a second PUSCH in time domain. The first PUSCH is configured by semi-persistent scheduling and the second PUSCH is configured by dynamic scheduling. A relationship between a first priority of the PUSCH configured by the semi-persistent scheduling and a second priority of the PUSCH configured by the dynamic scheduling is determined. The first PUSCH is sent in an overlapped time domain in response to the first priority is greater than the second priority, or the second PUSCH is sent in an overlapped time domain in response to the second priority is higher than the first priority.
US12108434B2
The present disclosure discloses a dynamic transmission bandwidth allocation method having dynamic transmission bandwidth allocation mechanism used in a wireless communication apparatus is provided that includes the steps outlined below. Interference information and transmission ability information of remote wireless communication apparatuses is retrieved. A predetermined transmission bandwidth range that includes resource units is set. The remote wireless communication apparatuses are allocated in the predetermined transmission bandwidth range to generate an allocation result. Whether the allocation result satisfies resource unit allocation criteria is determined. When the allocation result does not satisfy the resource unit allocation criteria, the predetermined transmission bandwidth range is shrunk to another allocatable transmission bandwidth range to determine whether the allocation result satisfies the resource unit allocation criteria. When the allocation result satisfies the resource unit allocation criteria, the remote wireless communication apparatuses are allocated according to the allocation result to perform communication thereto through a communication circuit.
US12108433B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to perform groupcast transmission on a sidelink channel of a high frequency band, such as a millimeter wave (mmW) band. The UE may transmit, via a sidelink channel, beamformed repetitions of a packet in multiple directions corresponding to multiple quality of service (QoS) profiles configured for transmission of the packet. The UE may determine precoders to transmit the packet in the multiple directions. Each repetition of the packet may be associated with a separate hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. The UE may perform precoder cycling to transmit the packet in the multiple directions, and the UE may retransmit the packet in directions where the initial transmission was unsuccessful.
US12108431B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for determining a sidelink feedback channel, which is applied in the field of communication technologies. The method includes: receiving first sidelink data; and determining, based on a feedback channel format indicator, a target sidelink feedback channel format for transmitting feedback information for the first sidelink data.
US12108428B2
A data transmission method, a terminal device, a network device, a chip, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program are provided. The method includes that: a basic parameter set adopted for a first sidelink (SL) channel is determined; and data transmission is performed on the first SL channel based on the basic parameter set.
US12108427B2
The implementations of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for determining a slot format. The method includes: a terminal device determining a target time window on a first carrier, wherein the target time window includes at least one of the following: a discovery reference signal (DRS) transmission window and a channel occupancy time (COT) window, the DRS transmission window being used for transmitting a synchronization signal block (SSB); and the terminal device determining a slot format on the first carrier according to the target time window.
US12108423B2
The present disclosure relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method that can ensure a reduced processing burden on a receiving side in LPWA (Low Power Wide Area) communication. Communication data is sent and received at a communication time of day and a communication frequency based on group identification information set for groups into which a plurality of transmission apparatuses is divided and communication interval information shared by the transmission apparatuses and a reception apparatus, rather than individual identification information. The present disclosure is applicable to an LPWA communication system.
US12108422B2
A radio terminal (2) receives beam configuration information from a base station (1), measures a plurality of transmission beams (10) transmitted from the base station (1) in accordance with the beam configuration information, and uses one or more beams selected from among the plurality of transmission beams (10) based on a measurement result as a serving beam. Each of the plurality of transmission beams carries a beamformed reference signal to be measured by the radio terminal (2). The beam configuration information includes a reference signal configuration indicating a radio resource used on each beam for transmitting the beamformed reference signal. It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to provision of a procedure for UE mobility between beams.
US12108414B2
Logical channel (LCH) may be multiplexed together based on one or more latency requirements. Mapping of LCH(s) to spectrum operating mode(s) (SOM(s)) may be based on SOM capability and/or LCH requirements. A WTRU may determine mapping based on one or more pre-defined rules. The mapping may be based on one or more requirements for the various type of traffic and/or SOM capabilities. A radio bearer may be mapped to one or more SOMs. The WTRU may be configured with a set of SOMs, for one or more, or each, radio bearer. The WTRU may dynamically determine, for example based on radio conditions, buffer status and/or other parameters, the SOM to use. Incompatible multiplexing of LCH may be reduced and/or avoided, perhaps based on using one or more transport blocks (TBs) mapped to the same physical layer (PHY). Traffic may be prioritized based on one or more latency requirements.
US12108405B2
A resource indication method applied to a sidelink transmission process. The method includes: determining, by a first device, a first resource, where the first resource is used for transmitting first feedback information; and sending by the first device, first indication information to a second device, where the first indication information is used to indicate the first resource.
US12108402B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for physical uplink control channel configuration and coverage enhancement in a wireless communication network. A base station can dynamically indicate a repetition factor for an uplink control channel to improve coverage of the uplink control channel. The base station can explicitly or implicitly indicate the repetition factor using various signaling techniques. The interpretation of an indication of a repetition factor can depend on one or more parameters, for example, a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format, an uplink control information size, a code rate, and/or a PUCCH resource set used for the PUCCH.
US12108401B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for control signal transmission. One aspect provides a method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a message indicating multiple configurations for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission; selecting, from a sequence database, a sequence to be used for the transmission of a PUCCH in accordance with one of the multiple configurations indicated by the message from the base station; and transmitting the PUCCH using the selected sequence.
US12108398B2
Methods, systems, and devices for sidelink configured grant skipping are described. In some examples, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication of periodic data resources for a plurality of sidelink data transmissions and an indication of negative scheduling request resources for the first UE to report a skipped sidelink data transmission associated with the plurality of sidelink data transmissions. In some examples, the first UE may transmit, to a second UE, an indication of the skipped sidelink data transmission and may transmit, to a base station, a negative scheduling request using the negative scheduling request resources, where the negative scheduling request may report the skipped data transmissions associated with the plurality of sidelink data transmissions.
US12108391B2
A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a reception section which monitors a first downlink control channel for cross-carrier scheduling in a first cell; and a control section which assumes that transmission configuration indication (TCI) field information indicating whether a TCI field exists in downlink control information is set to be enabled when a downlink shared channel of a second cell is scheduled by the downlink control information in the first downlink control channel and the second cell is different from the first cell. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the information about the QCL can be appropriately determined when the user terminal configures the cross-carrier scheduling.
US12108388B2
The method and device for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprise: receiving downlink control information (DCI) for scheduling a single physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or a plurality of PUSCHs to be transmitted on a serving cell; and transmitting the single PUSCH or the plurality of PUSCHs on the serving cell on the basis of the DCI, wherein the payload size of the DCI may be determined on the basis of the larger one of the number of bits of the pieces of information for scheduling the single PUSCH and the number of bits of the pieces of information for scheduling the plurality of PUSCHs.
US12108385B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Various embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for repeatedly transmitting/receiving uplink data in a network cooperative communication system, and an apparatus capable of performing the same.
US12108383B2
An information sending method is disclosed comprising: performing resource mapping in a comb arrangement manner on a frequency domain of a last time domain unit, wherein the comb arrangement manner includes at least one mapping mode; transforming the frequency domain to a time domain; and after transforming to the time domain, not sending set duration information which is at the end of the last time domain unit, wherein the set duration is determined by a target mapping modes used when the resource mapping is performed.
US12108379B2
This disclosure presents processes for improving the quality of NR PDCCH reception at a UE when transmitted in a same orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and a same frequency domain resource element as an LTE CRS. Using a capability parameter of the UE, a network node can transmit an LTE CRS and NR PDCCH in the same OFDM symbol and the same frequency domain resource elements using various encoding schemes. The encoding schemes can be one or more of puncture signalling, superposition signalling, relative power levels, UE type, adjusting the AL of the LTE CRS, or various combinations thereof. The UE can decode the PDDCH using the encoding scheme. Legacy UEs can be supported with this disclosure by the network node selecting supported UE capabilities for the encoding. The network node can balance transmission reliability with available resources.
US12108371B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring sidelink slots without symbols for automatic gain control. One aspect provides a method for wireless communication by a user equipment, including receiving a first cyclic prefix of a first symbol within a slot at the user equipment. The method further includes configuring a first automatic gain control setting based on a received power in the first cyclic prefix of the first symbol, and receiving a data portion of the first symbol using the first automatic gain control setting.
US12108368B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a next-generation wireless communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G (4th generation) wireless communication system. According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a method of transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for supporting same may be provided.
US12108361B2
Described is a method and system for radio frequency (RF) signature generation and position estimation using the RD signature. A method includes receiving, by a server, a RF signature associated with a user device present in a connected environment, updating, by the server, stored RF signatures based on RF signatures received from the user device, monitoring stations, and active radio emitting devices in the connected environment when a defined threshold for one or more stored RF signatures is exceeded, where each stored RF signature corresponds to a subdivision in the connected environment, and estimating, by the server, a location of the user device in the connected environment by comparing the RF signature of the user device with the stored RF signatures or updated stored RF signatures.
US12108351B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a synchronization signal block (SSB) including a physical layer cell identifier (PCI), where one or more resource elements carrying the SSB overlap with resource elements carrying a downlink shared channel associated with another PCI. The PCIs may be for a serving cell or another cell, such as a non-serving cell. The UE may also receive one or more demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) in the one or more resource elements in the downlink shared channel. The UE may determine whether overlap is permitted between the resource elements by comparing the PCIs of the SSB and the downlink shared channel. In some examples, once the UE determines whether resource element overlap is permitted, the UE may process the DMRSs.
US12108324B2
A technique includes detecting, by a user device, a network slice associated with an access attempt by the user device to access a wireless network, and making, by the user device, a barring decision for the access attempt based on the network slice associated with the access attempt. Another example technique may include receiving, by a base station from one or more core network entities within a wireless network, network slice-specific load information that indicates a load for each of one or more network slices, determining, by the base station based on the received network slice-specific load information, a barring configuration that indicates a set of barring parameters for one or more access categories, and sending, by the base station to a user device, the barring configuration to reduce a load on the wireless network.
US12108321B2
A method performed by a network node operating as an Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB) node includes determining at least two parent nodes within a multi-hop IAB network. The IAB node receives an uplink routing configuration associated with a cell group configuration that identifies a selected one of the parent nodes. Based on the uplink routing configuration associated with the cell group configuration, packets are sent to at least one of the at least two parent nodes.
US12108309B2
A telecommunications system includes a base, a plurality of handsets, and a status database for storing status information. Each handset is localized to the base. The status information may be that of a first handset of the plurality of handsets. The base broadcasts to the plurality of handsets a status broadcast that includes the status information.
US12108297B2
Systems and methods for dynamically managing the states (e.g., enabling/disabling) of telecommunication services/features are disclosed. To do so, the system associates parameters (e.g., timers) with the impacted services/features. For example, when a user experiences issues with voice calls, he/she calls the telecommunications service provider (carrier) to help resolve the issue. A customer care representative may ask the user to temporality turn off the VoNR service to help alleviate the issue. When the user turns off (or toggles off) the VoNR service on his/her mobile device, the system can start a configurable timer (parameter) for the VoNR service. In this manner, the system can replace the conventional toggle on/off feature with a time-based feature. The system monitors the timer's value and when the timer's value reaches a target value (e.g., 24 hours, 1 week, etc.), the system alerts the user that the VoNR service will be turned on (or toggled on).
US12108296B1
A communication method for a user equipment to perform wireless communication with a master node and a plurality of secondary nodes in a mobile communication system includes performing, at a master node, processing of transferring, to at least one of a plurality of secondary nodes, a control authority for performing, on a user equipment, configuration and/or control related to a coordinated operation between the plurality of secondary nodes, and performing, at the secondary node to which the control authority is transferred, the configuration and/or control related to the coordinated operation on the user equipment.
US12108294B2
The present disclosure relates to a cell reselection in wireless communications. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a wireless device in a wireless communication system, the method comprises: receiving a connection release message from a network upon which the wireless device leaving a connected state; receiving a configuration of a threshold range from the network; receiving information for identities (IDs) of higher priority cells from the network; identifying a highest ranked cell among a plurality of neighbor cells based on a result of a measurement on the plurality of neighbor cells; identifying one or more neighbor cells among the plurality of neighbor cells whose ranking value is within the threshold range of a ranking value of the highest ranked cell; and performing a cell reselection to a cell among the one or more neighbor cells based on that an ID of the cell is included in the IDs of higher priority cells.
US12108292B2
Techniques to configure a UE for time-division multiplexing (TDM)-based multi-connectivity handover with a source base station (SBS) and a target base station (TBS) include encoding UE capability information for transmission to the SBS. The UE capability information indicates the UE supports the TDM-based multi-connectivity handover. A measurement report is encoded for transmission to the SBS, the measurement report triggered based on a measurement event configured by the SBS. RRC signaling from the SBS is decoded, which includes a handover command in response to the measurement report. The handover command indicates a TDM pattern for multi-connectivity with the SBS and the TBS during the handover. UL data is encoded for transmission to the SBS. Transmission of the UL data to the SBS is time-division multiplexed with communications between the UE and the TBS during the handover based on the TDM pattern.
US12108287B2
A first radio network node for assisting application adjustment is configured to receive a potential quality of service change notification (PQCN) from a second radio network; associate the PQCN with an in-advance quality of service prediction notification (IQN) recipient based on a mapping between a request for an IQN from an IQN recipient and an existing PQCN subscription, wherein the mapping is established based on a location, a required quality of service (QoS) and at least one of: configuration information associated with the IQN recipient or subscription information associated with the IQN recipient; and send an IQN to the IQN recipient for assisting the application adjustment.
US12108281B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, a security and safety-related service, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. According to one embodiment of the present invention, provided is a method for a terminal transmitting a data packet in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the steps of: generating a data packet; determining whether to perform duplicate transmission for the data packet; and if it is determined to perform duplicate transmission for the data packet, generating at least two duplicate packets by duplicating the data packet, and transmitting the respective at least two duplicate packets to at least two base stations.
US12108279B2
A first wireless communication apparatus includes: a controller configured to perform numbering of multiple pieces of data and transmit the multiple pieces of data that are numbered, to a second wireless communication apparatus, and perform first processing in a case where, among the multiple pieces of data, specific data is discarded after the numbering and before the transmission, wherein the first processing is configured to transmit the multiple pieces of data subsequent to the discarding to the second wireless communication apparatus without renumbering, and transmit discarding notification information that notifies the discarding, to the second wireless communication apparatus.
US12108278B2
A sidelink buffer status report sending method includes: in a case where an uplink resource is not enough to report a total data amount of buffer data of all sidelink logical channels, sending a truncated SL BSR based on preset information of the buffer data, at least one domain of the SL BSR being associated with the preset information; or in a case where an uplink resource is not enough to report a total data amount of buffer data of all sidelink logical channels, sending the SL BSR in at least one SL BSR format based on preset priorities, the SL BSR format being determined based on the preset information of the buffer data.
US12108277B2
A method performed by a user equipment (UE)-to-network relay in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes, in case that PC5 quality of service (QoS) flows setup is initiated by a remote UE, identifying whether QoS requirements associated with the remote UE and the UE-to-network relay are supported, in case that the QoS requirements are not supported, identifying one or more QoS parameters that satisfy the QoS requirements, and based on the one or more QoS parameters, updating a PC5 QoS flow.
US12108271B2
According to embodiments herein, the use of an SL interface in the positioning of a UE can include additional reporting from the UE or an anchor UE related to a reference signal sent via the SL interface. This information can include information regarding the received power and/or timing of the reference signal, the angle at which it was received, and orientation of a receiving UE, and various other considerations that may not be needed in a Uu interface with a base station.
US12108268B2
The invention relates to an integrated system for the periodic or continuous monitoring of multiple heterogeneous radio communications networks, and the processing, storage and analysis of the measurement data generated from that monitoring. In particular, the present invention relates to a radio network monitoring device that is capable of periodically or continuously monitoring multiple heterogeneous radio communications networks, including of networks used for cellular, P25, TETRA, Wi-Fi, NB-IoT, LoRA, and CAT-M1/CAT-M2 communications; and a high-performance, and highly-scalable and extensible computer system that supports the processing, storing and analysis of large quantities of heterogeneous radio network measurement data received from multiple monitoring devices, and that assists in the understanding of the propagation characteristics and performance of those heterogeneous radio networks, and therefore supports the design, engineering, optimisation, operation, management, maintenance, support and benchmarking of those heterogeneous radio networks.
US12108267B2
The present invention provides a method for transmitting or receiving CSI in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for reporting CSI by a UE in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: receiving CSI-related configuration information from a base station; receiving a reference signal on the basis of the configuration information from the base station; measuring a crosslink interference on the basis of the reference signal; and transmitting CSI including a report about the measured crosslink interference to the base station, wherein the configuration information includes information related to the crosslink interference.
US12108264B2
Provided are a communication node which comprises a signal monitoring device configured to receive a plurality of communication signals transmitted from two or more base stations, and to monitor a bandwidth of each of the received communication signals, a frame setter configured to reset a frame structure by merging at least some of blocks in a preset frame structure according to a result of the monitoring, and a framer configured to frame the plurality of communication signals into one frame by including the plurality of communication signals in a block corresponding to a bandwidth of each of the plurality of communication signals according to the reset frame structure.
US12108263B2
A network device may receive historical data identifying historical error data and error data categorizations associated with a first core network and may store the historical data in a data structure. The network device may receive a request associated with a user equipment and may receive error data from the first core network based on the request. The network device may receive network health data identifying load levels and health of the first core network and a second core network. The network device may determine possible cause data identifying causes associated with the error data based on the historical data, the error data, and the network health data. The network device may generate a cause code for the user equipment based on the possible cause data and may provide the cause code to the user equipment.
US12108261B2
A coordinated multi-access-point transmission method, where a first access point (AP) sends, to a second AP, transmission control information that carries link transmission direction information, and the first AP and the second AP pre-coordinate a transmission direction of a first link and a transmission direction of a second link, where concurrent transmission is performed on the first link and the second link. Further, the first AP completes data transmission on the first link based on the transmission control information, and the second AP completes data transmission on the second link based on the transmission control information.
US12108253B2
A method reconfigures an IoT device which is connectable to a cloud backend. The method includes: storing an access code that is input locally in the cloud backend and storing the access code or check information formed on the basis thereof on the IoT device. The method further includes reconfiguring the IoT device, requesting the access code from the cloud backend, inputting the requested access code on a local configuration interface of the IoT device or on an input device connected to the local configuration interface of the IoT device, and comparing the input access code against the access code stored on the IoT device, or the check information formed on the basis thereof. The IoT device is enabled for reconfiguration upon a positive comparison of the input access code against the access code stored, or the check information formed on the basis thereof.
US12108238B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus capable of outputting a desired sound to a user. An information processing apparatus includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires first position information indicating position information of a user; a second acquisition unit that acquires second position information indicating position information of a predetermined object; a generation unit that generates, based on the first position information and the second position information, sound information in which a sound image is localized on the predetermined object, the sound information being related to the predetermined object; and a control unit that executes control to output the generated sound information to the user.
US12108225B2
An implantable device for delivery of a macromolecular drug compound is provided. The device comprises a core having an outer surface and a membrane layer positioned adjacent to the outer surface of the core. The core comprises a core polymer matrix within which is dispersed a drug compound having a molecular weight of about 0.5 kDa or more, the polymer matrix containing a hydrophobic polymer. Further, the membrane layer comprises a membrane polymer matrix within which the macromolecular drug compound is optionally dispersed. The membrane polymer matrix contains a hydrophobic polymer in combination with a hydrophilic compound, and the weight ratio of the hydrophobic polymer to the hydrophilic compound within the membrane polymer matrix ranges from about 0.25 to about 200.
US12108221B2
An assembly for a hearing aid is disclosed. The hearing aid with the assembly includes an in the ear part and a behind the ear part and a part mechanically interconnecting the two parts. In the interconnection, a flexible substrate is arranged. The flexible substrate includes conductive paths. The conductive paths may be used for communication between the in the ear part and the behind the ear part, and/or for an antenna function.
US12108218B2
Hearing system, accessory device, agent and method for situated design of a hearing algorithm of a hearing device is disclosed, the method comprising initializing a model comprising a parameterized objective function; providing one or more operating parameters indicative of the hearing algorithm to the hearing device; obtaining operating data comprising corresponding input data and output data of the hearing device; obtaining evaluation data indicative of user evaluation of the output data; determining one or more updated operating parameters based on the model, the operating data and the evaluation data; and providing the updated operating parameters to the hearing device.
US12108213B2
An ear-wearable electronic device includes one or more processors configured to detect presence of first and second hearing devices in a charging case, and to initiate a self-check protocol by at least one of the first and second hearing devices. The self-check protocol comprises wirelessly coupling the first and second hearing devices, selectively activating at least one electronic component of the first hearing device, and assessing performance of the second hearing device using an output or a response of the at least one electronic component of the first hearing device. The self-check protocol also comprises selectively activating at least one electronic component of the second hearing device, assessing performance of the first hearing device using an output or a response of the at least one electronic component of the second device, and storing results of the performance assessment in a memory.
US12108212B2
An acoustic bending converter system may have a plurality of bending converters configured such that deformable elements of the bending converters oscillate coplanarly in a common planar layer, wherein the bending converters include different resonance frequencies and different expansions of the deformable elements along a common longitudinal axis which is transversal to a direction of oscillation of the deformable elements. Further, an acoustic apparatus may have such an acoustic bending converter system.
US12108204B2
An acoustic sensor assembly includes a housing having an external-device interface and a sound port to an interior of the housing. An electro-acoustic transducer and an electrical circuit are disposed within the housing. The electro-acoustic transducer separates the interior into a front volume and a back volume, where the sound port acoustically couples the front volume to an exterior of the housing. The back volume includes a first portion and a second portion. The electrical circuit is electrically coupled to the electro-acoustic transducer and to the external-device interface. One or more apertures acoustically couple the first and second portions of the back volume and are structured to shape a frequency response of the acoustic sensor assembly.
US12108201B1
Disclosed is a USB game microphone with double sound card output devices, which belongs to the technical field of microphones. The USB game microphone includes a master chip, a headphone amplifier chip circuit, a microphone core, and a master volume potentiometer, wherein the master chip is at least provided with two sound cards and is further electrically connected to a hybrid potentiometer, outputs of the two sound cards are filtered by an operational amplifier low-pass filter after being adjusted in an equal proportion by the hybrid potentiometer, and signals of left and right sound channels are amplified and outputted by the headphone amplifier chip circuit. The master chip is further electrically connected to a touch switch and a light touch switch, the touch switch controls the mute switching of the microphone, and the light touch switch is used for switching the noise reduction of the microphone.
US12108199B2
A loudspeaker grille comprises a carrier element, which comprises a plurality of openings through a front surface, and a cover element to be attached to the front surface, which comprises a plurality of openings corresponding to the openings of the carrier element. The cover element is attached to the carrier front surface, wherein the cover element covers at least part of the front surface of the carrier element, and wherein the openings of the carrier element and the cover element are aligned with each other. The cover element is made of a flexible organic material, in particular a compound material with an organic outer surface layer, such as cork-leather.
US12108194B2
An imaging system can include a segmented modulator, for example, a spatial light modulator, that is segmented into two or more equally or differently sized regions, and utilized to create a 3D, pseudo 3D, hologram, pseudo hologram, holographic, or pseudo holographic image. A voltage control unit is coupled to the spatial light modulator and controls voltages across each of the regions, wherein the voltage across one of the regions differs from the voltage across another one of the regions.
US12108191B1
The system and methods disclosed include a Drop-In Video-as-a-Service (DIVaaS) system that provides two-way video-based communications on demand, such as instant, interactive video conferences. Drop-in video sessions can be added directly to business websites (e.g., Live Office Hours), shared and accessed via a URL or activated from the SoHive app or website. The Drop-In-Video-as-a-Service (DIVaaS) system is distinctly designed to provide “drop-in” video sessions that do not require having a prior awareness of all participants (e.g., names, phone numbers, email addresses, etc.) or prompting the participants (e.g., emailing each participant prior to the video conference) in order to access the video communication session in a manner that supports spontaneous inclusion and collaboration globally.
US12108190B2
Participant attendance is readily determined for remote conferences over a network via use of associated participant devices. Going beyond mere attendance, engagement of a participant is determined by observing their actions (e.g., gestures, head movement, eye position) and interactions (e.g., talking, text chat, etc.) within the conference. Such engagement is scored and the value of the score is then used to trigger engagement responses, such as reporting the score to a repository or stakeholder, or initiating a remediation action, such as addressing a network fault.
US12108185B2
An embodiment may include a display processor, memory to store a 2D frame corresponding to a projection from a 360 video, and a quality selector to select a quality factor for a block of the 2D frame based on quality information from neighboring blocks of the 2D frame, including blocks which are neighboring only in the 360 video space. The system may also include a range adjuster to adjust a search range for the 2D frame based on a search area of the 2D frame, a viewport manager to determine if a request for a viewport of the 2D frame extends beyond a first edge of the 2D frame and to fill the requested viewport with wrap-around image information, and/or a motion estimator to estimate motion information based on both color information and depth information. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12108176B2
An imaging device includes a voltage generation circuit and an output circuit. The voltage generation circuit includes a first capacitance element including a fifth terminal. The voltage generation circuit is configured to provide the fifth terminal with a first voltage in accordance with a power source voltage so as to store an electric charge in the first capacitance element. The voltage generation circuit is configured to increase a voltage of the fifth terminal by a second voltage in accordance with the power source voltage so as to generate a control voltage having a greater absolute value than an absolute value of the power source voltage. The output circuit is configured to output the control voltage to at least one of a gate terminal of a reset transistor of a pixel and a gate terminal of a transfer transistor of the pixel.
US12108175B2
Dynamic systems and methods for fixed noise pattern calibrations and image corrections are provided. Imaging devices may be calibrated via the system by adjusting an imaging sensor exposure to acquire one or more black images. A global average pixel value is calculated to accumulate pixel values per column of the acquired image. The calculated global average pixel value is then saved as offset imaging data. An average pixel value per column of the imaging data based on the accumulated pixel values may also be calculated, and stored as offset imaging data. A correction matrix may be recomposed based on the offset imaging data and used for calibrating the imaging sensor, and for creating corrected images in or near real time.
US12108169B2
A spectral filter may include a plurality of filter arrays each including a plurality of unit filters having different center wavelengths from each other. Each of the plurality of unit filters may include a first metal reflection layer and a second metal reflection layer which are disposed to be apart from each other; a cavity including a first pattern and being arranged between the first metal reflection layer and the second metal reflection layer; and a lower pattern film being disposed under the first metal reflection layer and including a second pattern. In unit filters having a same center wavelength in each of the plurality of unit filters corresponding to the plurality of filter arrays, the first pattern of the cavity and the second pattern of the lower pattern film may vary according to a position of the unit filters.
US12108166B2
In an endoscope system, an imaging device is electrically connected to a signal line and is configured to output a video signal to the signal line. A receiver circuit is electrically connected to the signal line and is configured to receive the video signal. A noise detection circuit is configured to detect that noise having a higher frequency than a frequency of the video signal is mixed into the video signal. A filter circuit has a function of reducing the noise included in the video signal. An imaging control circuit is configured to set a signal-output time per one pixel of the imaging device to a second set time longer than a first set time and a filter control circuit is configured to turn on the function of the filter circuit when the noise is detected by the noise detection circuit.
US12108156B2
A method for capturing images of large target area using a single camera configured with an aerial vehicle (AV) for reconstructing a high-resolution image is disclosed including the steps of moving the AV over the area of interest along a straight path; capturing a first set of images of an area down below by pointing an optical axis of the camera towards a first side of the straight path such that the optical axis makes a first predefined angle with vertical; and capturing a second set of images of the area down below by pointing the optical axis of the camera towards a second side of the straight path such that the optical axis makes a second predefined angle with respect to the vertical. Side overlap between the first and second set of images is optimized to account for error in camera movement.
US12108154B2
A camera module includes a lens module and an anti-shake module. The anti-shake module includes an outer frame and a first drive component; the lens module is rotatably disposed inside the outer frame; the first drive component includes a first drive coil and a first magnetic element, where one of the first drive coil and the first magnetic element is disposed on the outer frame, and another of the first drive coil and the first magnetic element is disposed on the lens module; the first drive coil is located in a magnetic field of the first magnetic element; and in a case that the first drive coil is energized, the lens module is able to rotate relative to the outer frame.
US12108153B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a camera actuator comprising: a holder disposed in a lower part; a rotation part disposed inside the holder, an optical member disposed on the rotation part; a first drive part for tilting the optical member to a first axis by pressing the rotation part; and a second drive part for tilting the optical member to a second axis by pressing the rotation part, wherein the rotation part comprises: a first rotation plate disposed on the inside; a second rotation plate disposed outside the first rotation plate; a fixing plate disposed outside the second rotation plate; a first bridge disposed between the first rotation plate and the second rotation plate so as to be positioned corresponding to the first axis; and a second bridge disposed between the second rotation plate and the fixing plate so as to be positioned corresponding to the second axis.
US12108151B2
Systems and methods for correcting point of view (POV) aberrations in scanning folded cameras and multi-cameras including such scanning folded cameras. In a Tele folded camera that includes an optical path folding element (OPFE) and an image sensor, the OPFE is tilted in one or two directions to direct the Tele folded camera towards a POV of a scene, a Tele image or a stream of Tele images is captured from the POV, the Tele image having POV aberrations and the POV aberrations are digitally corrected to obtain an aberration-corrected image or stream of images.
US12108136B2
An in-vehicle display device is provided. The in-vehicle display device includes a display panel including a non-display light transmissive area and a display area located on a periphery of the non-display light transmissive area, and an infrared sensing component located on a back side of a light emergence surface of the display panel, disposed corresponding to the non-display light transmissive area, and configured to receive infrared, wherein an infrared transmittance of the non-display light transmissive area of the display panel is greater than an infrared transmittance of the display area of the display panel.
US12108134B2
A method for manufacturing a phase mask and a lens-less camera module comprises the steps of: obtaining a replica mold on which an inverted phase shift pattern is formed in which a phase shift pattern of a master phase mask spaced apart from an image sensor is inverted; calculating a thickness of a phase mask disposed on the image sensor replacing the master phase mask; arranging a photocurable material for implementing the phase mask on the image sensor to a calculated thickness, placing the replica mold on an upper surface of the photocurable material, and then curing the photocurable material; and removing the replica mold from the top of the phase mask, so that the focal distance change or parallel movement does not occur depending on the position of the phase mask.
US12108133B2
A lens driving device includes a lens holder configured to hold a lens barrel; and an image stabilization driver including an image stabilization magnet and an image stabilization coil facing each other and configured to apply a driving force to the lens holder in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens holder, wherein the lens holder includes a molded frame structure, and a magnet mounting bracket including an upper plate member protruding away from an upper end of an external side of the molded frame structure in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and an upper side of the upper plate member is disposed on a same plane as an upper side of the molded frame structure of the lens holder.
US12108132B2
An electronic device including a camera module is provided. The camera module includes a lens assembly including a lens, a lens holder in which the lens assembly is fixedly disposed, a sensor carrier that includes an image sensor at least partially aligned with an optical axis of the lens and a circuit board electrically connected with the image sensor and that moves in a first axial direction perpendicular to the optical axis and a second axial direction perpendicular to the optical axis and the first axial direction, a fixed substrate adjacent to the sensor carrier and fixed in a specified position, and a connecting member that extends from the circuit board to the fixed substrate and that extends to surround at least three interconnected edges of the circuit board when viewed in a direction of the optical axis.
US12108127B2
System and method for processing a media program that comprises multiple tracks, each of the tracks including one or more media assets that are arranged relative to a reference timeline, including computing automation metadata for the media program; receiving a media recording corresponding to a track of the media program, the media recording including one or more replacement media assets to replace corresponding original media assets included on the corresponding track of the media program; generating, based on the automation metadata, playback sequence data that includes a list the original media assets that have not been replaced together with the one or more replacement media assets, the playback sequence data indicating a playback sequence order and playback timecodes that preserve a respective timing of the original and replacement media assets between the media program and a new version of the media program; and rendering, based on the playback synchronization data, the new version of the media program.
US12108124B2
A method, a system and an apparatus are employed in a virtual reality (VR) environment. The method of building a virtual reality (VR) environment includes building the VR environment as formatted video content; defining at least one interactive overlay; and providing the at least one interactive overlay with a position information on a viewpoint of the VR environment.
US12108117B2
A management server grants a reward to a provider of a video contributing to commodity's sales. The server determines whether a commodity introduction video conforms to a commodity introduction rule, registers the commodity introduction video, recommended store information in association with the commodity introduction video when a recommended store is introduced at a commodity purchase time, issues a viewing completion ID and registers the viewing completion ID in association with a user ID when viewing of the commodity introduction video by the user satisfies a predetermined condition, certifies that the user has purchased a commodity in the recommended store, and determines a reward to the video provider according to a predetermined reward determination rule when the purchase of the commodity in the recommended store by the user who has acquired the viewing completion ID is certified.
US12108109B2
Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol. In an ATSC 3.0 environment, receivers (including consumer and professional receivers) have signal reception parameters and antenna factors available to them. These reception parameters, together with time and location data are transmitted to one or more servers that maintain databases of reception characteristics. This data is analyzed such that a set of likely receivable signals (based on reception parameters, date/time, location, geographical features, transmitter information, etc.) is identified. Receivers query the servers to receive information indicating the set of likely receivable signals to reduce channel scan time by scanning only or first for more-receivable channels. Also, difficult reception locations identified in the data collected by the servers are used in aggregate to guide RF improvements (e.g., adding SFN transmitters). Further, the data collected by the servers may provide data to be used to feed “MFN” data.
US12108101B2
Methods and apparatus to determine a duration of media presentation based on tuning session duration
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine a duration of media presentation based on tuning session duration. Example apparatus a receiver to obtain a first tuning session duration indicative of an amount of time between channel changes of a first media presentation device at a first media presentation location, a presentation session estimator to select a model from storage, the model selected based on a match of the first tuning session duration and a second tuning session duration, the model including a relation between the second tuning session duration and a first presentation session duration of media presented on a second media presentation device at a second media presentation location, and estimate a second presentation session duration of media presented within the first tuning session duration based on the model.
US12108098B2
One or more computing devices may be configured to identify information corresponding to a program change request associated with a multi-program data transmission. The information may comprise at least a link to a desired program within the multi-program data transmission. The one or more computing devices may communicate the link to the desired program to a client device over a specified time period. After the time period, the one or more computing devices may communicate the desired program to the client device using a single program data transmission. The single program data transmission may be derived from the multi-program data transmission.
US12108090B2
A method for processing a video includes performing a conversion between a current video block and a bitstream representation of the current video block, wherein the current video block is unsymmetrically split into four partitions using an unsymmetrical quad-Tree (UQT) splitting, wherein the four partitions includes a first partition having a dimension of W1×H1, a second partition having a dimension of W2×H2, a third partition having a dimension of W3×H3, and a fourth partition having a dimension of W4×H4, wherein W1, W2, W3, W4, H1, H2, H3, and H4 are integers.
US12108086B2
Methods are described to communicate source color volume information in a coded bitstream using SEI messaging. Such data include at least the minimum, maximum, and average luminance values in the source data plus optional data that may include the color volume x and y chromaticity coordinates for the input color primaries (e.g., red, green, and blue) of the source data, and the color x and y chromaticity coordinates for the color primaries corresponding to the minimum, average, and maximum luminance values in the source data. Messaging data signaling an active region in each picture may also be included.
US12108084B2
Decoder for decoding a picture, wherein blocks into which the picture is subdivided are assigned to a set of prediction types, which include intra prediction and inter prediction. For each of predetermined intra-predicted blocks, the decoder is configured to derive, from the data stream, an information on a partitioning of the respective predetermined intra-predicted block into partitions. The decoder is configured to derive, from the data stream, for each partition of the respective predetermined intra-predicted block, a partition-specific prediction residual signal related to a spatial domain prediction residual signal of the respective partition of the respective predetermined intra-predicted block via a predetermined transform. The predetermined transform can be identified out of a set of transforms including a first transform and a second transform, which equals a concatenation of a primary transform and a secondary transform applied onto a subset of coefficients of the primary transform.
US12108077B2
A method of intra predicting a block of a picture, comprising determining a predicted sample value from one or more reference sample values by intra-prediction using an intra prediction mode selected from one of a DC intra-prediction mode, a planar intra prediction mode, or an angular intra-prediction mode; determining a first and second weights based on the intra prediction mode and one of a height of the block, a width of the block, or both; calculating an additional value as a weighted sum of a top reference sample value and a left reference sample value; multiplying the predicted sample value by a sample weighting factor, resulting in a weighted predicted sample value; adding the additional value to the weighted predicted sample value, resulting in a non-normalized modified predicted sample value; and normalizing the non-normalized modified predicted sample value.
US12108068B2
Examples of video encoding methods and apparatus and video decoding methods and apparatus are described. An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video, wherein the bitstream includes network abstraction layer (NAL) units for multiple video layers according to a rule; wherein the rule defines a sub-bitstream extraction process by which NAL units are removed from the bitstream to generate an output bitstream, and wherein the rule specifies to remove all supplemental enhancement information (SEI) NAL units that contain a non-scalable-nested SEI message with a particular payload type, responsive to a list of NAL unit header layer identifier values in an output layer set (OLS) with a target OLS index not including all values of NAL unit header layer identifiers in all video coding layer (VCL) NAL units in the bitstream that is input to the sub-bitstream extraction process.
US12108064B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a frequency value update unit, a first intra-group rearranging unit, a second intra-group rearranging unit, and a routing unit. The frequency value update unit adds a first value to each of one or more first frequency values that are associated with one or more first symbols, respectively, in one or more entries in a table. The first intra-group rearranging unit rearranges first entries, which belong to a first group, using frequency values in the first entries. The second intra-group rearranging unit rearranges second entries, which belong to a second group lower than the first group, using frequency values. The routing unit rearranges at least one of the first entries and at least one of the second entries.
US12108062B2
A neural processing unit (NPU) for decoding video and/or feature map may incluide at least one processing element (PE) for an artificial neural network (ANN), the at least one PE to receive and decode a bitstream. The bitstream is received in units of frames, and one frame includes a weight for an ANN model, data of a base layer, and data of a plurality of enhancement layers. An NPU for encoding video and/or feature map may include at least one processing element (PE) for an artificial neural network (ANN), the at least one PE to encode an input video or feature map and to transmit the encoded input video or feature map as a bitstream. The at least one PE transmits the bitstream in units of frames, and one frame includes a weight for an ANN model, data of a base layer, and data of a plurality of enhancement layers.
US12108053B2
The present invention relates to an intra prediction scheme among video coding techniques and, more particularly, relates to a video decoding method and apparatus for diving a block into a plurality of sub-blocks when intra prediction is performed and sequentially performing infra prediction on each of the sub-blocks. The decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus includes determining whether to perform sub-block-based intra prediction on a current coding unit, dividing the current coding unit into a plurality of sub-blocks, performing intra prediction on each of the sub-blocks when a result of determination of whether to perform sub-block-based intra prediction has a value of “true”, and directly performing block-based intra prediction on the current coding unit without dividing the current coding unit when the result of the determination has a value of “false”.
US12108036B2
A system comprises an encoder configured to compress video data. The encoder includes an adaptive bilateral filter that uses look-up tables. The encoder may encode one or more adaptive adjustment factors to be used by a decoder to select or adjust look-up tables used to decode the compressed video data.
US12108035B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for performing intra prediction using a plurality of reference sample lines are provided. An image decoding method may comprise configuring a plurality of reference sample lines, reconstructing an intra prediction mode of a current block, and performing intra prediction for the current block based on the intra prediction mode and the plurality of reference sample lines.
US12108034B2
Disclosed is an image decoding method according to an embodiment, the image decoding method including: obtaining a first reference block and a second reference block, for bi-directional prediction of a current block; obtaining, from a bitstream, weight information for combining the first reference block with the second reference block; performing entropy decoding on the weight information to obtain a weight index; combining the first reference block with the second reference block according to a candidate value indicated by the weight index among candidate values included in a weight candidate group; and reconstructing the current block based on a result of the combining, wherein a first binary value corresponding to the weight index is entropy-decoded based on a context model, and the remaining binary value corresponding to the weight index is entropy-decoded by a bypass method.
US12108033B2
An image decoding method includes: configuring a MPM list including candidate intra prediction modes for a current block; deriving an intra prediction mode of the current block from the MPM list on the basis of MPM index information indicating an intra prediction mode, among the candidate intra prediction modes included in the MPM list, for the current block; generating prediction samples for the current block on the basis of the intra prediction mode; and generating a reconstructed picture for the current block on the basis of the prediction samples, wherein the step for configuring the MPM list comprises, on the basis of the case where the value of reference line index information, representing a reference line used for the intra prediction of the current block, is not zero, deriving a DC mode as one mode among the candidate intra prediction modes, and including same in the MPM list.
US12108031B2
This disclosure relates to a harmonized design among multiple reference line intra prediction, transform partitioning, and transform kernels or processing video information. One example method is disclosed. The method includes retrieving a data block of a video frame, the data block having an adjacent reference line and one or more non-adjacent reference lines in the video frame; determining whether one of the one or more non-adjacent reference lines is to be used for intra prediction of the data block. When an adjacent reference line is used for the intra prediction of the data block, selecting a target transform kernel from a first set of transform kernels to transform the data block; and when a non-adjacent reference line is used for the intra prediction of the data block, selecting the target transform kernel from a second set of transform kernels to transform the data block.
US12108022B2
The present invention discloses a method for infrared small target detection based on a depth map in a complex scene, and belongs to the field of target detection. An infrared image is collected, the image is binarized by using priori knowledge of a to-be-detected target and adopting a pixel value method, the binary image is further limited based on deep priori knowledge, then static and dynamic scoring strategies are formulated to score a candidate connected component in the morphologically processed image, and an infrared small target in a complex scene is detected finally. The method can screen out targets within a specific range, has high reliability; has strong robustness; is simple in program and easy to implement, can be used in sea, land, and air, and has a significant advantage under a complex jungle background.
US12108015B2
A system to capture a plurality of two dimensional digital source images of a scene by a user, including a smart device having a memory device for storing an instruction, a processor in communication with the memory and configured to execute the instruction, a plurality of digital image capture devices in communication with the processor and each image capture device configured to capture a digital image of the scene, the plurality of digital image capture devices positioned linearly in series, wherein a first digital image capture devices, a second digital image capture devices, and any remaining the plurality of digital image capture devices are evenly spaced therebetween, and a display in communication with the processor, the display configured to display a multidimensional digital image sequence.
US12107998B2
The present invention is directed to an image forming apparatus comprising determining whether printing of a test chart used in adjustment processing related to post processing is necessary in accordance with a predetermined setting status; and executing the adjustment processing using the test chart output as a result of printing and the post processing on the test chart in a case where the printing of the test chart is determined to be necessary, and executing the adjustment processing using a printed material that has already been printed and subjected to the post processing, in a case where the printing of the test chart is determined to be unnecessary.
US12107993B2
A method for identifying communicators as wanted or unwanted based on messages from such communicators comprising receiving, by the data processing system, an inbound message from a communicator, comparing, by the data processing system, the inbound message to fingerprints stored in a database accessible to the data processing system, determining, by the data processing system, at least one match to the fingerprints, determining, by the data processing system, an identity of the communicator by determining whether and how likely the communicator is wanted or unwanted based on the at least one match to the fingerprints, and configuring, by the data processing system, handling of calls from the communicator based on the identity.
US12107992B2
Video-assisted presence detection is used to enhance a user experience in telephony communications. Image data, video data, or both, from a camera are used to determine whether a user is present at their device before a call is transferred to him or her. The video-assisted presence detection can be implemented based on a privacy setting. For example, one implementation allows a system to have partial access to a detector to detect user presence without capturing facial information, and without identifying that person. Another implementation allows the system to have partial access to the detector to detect user presence without having access to a video feed of the detector.
US12107990B1
The present invention relates to methods of managing brand identity, security, and reputation delivered by communications networks by monitoring calling party reputation data associated with an originating calling party identifier used on the communications network. In operation, a first inquiry received call is attempted with the originating calling party identifier received at a computing device that is configured with a receiving called party identifier. The computing device captures a plurality of calling party reputation data and communicates it to a number sentry server. If the first attempt fails a second attempt is executed to a different computing device and different receiving called party identifier on the same communication network. The plurality of calling party reputation data is saved, tracked, and analyzed at the number sentry server, and brand identity, security, and reputation reports associated with the originating calling party identifier are generated and available to authorized users.
US12107973B1
Systems and methods of improving public key infrastructure using PUF arrays are disclosed. The systems and methods are usable to improve PKI based on Lattice and Code cryptography. In the disclosed system, a client device includes an enrolled PUF array, and a server device acting as a Certification Authority includes an image of the PUF array including previously measured responses data for the devices in the PUF array. The CA sends a set of addresses to the client device, which generates a public key from measuring the response of PUF devices with the addresses. The CA receives the generated public key, and determines that the enrolled PUF was used to generate the key.
US12107972B2
The present disclosure relates to knowledge based authentication whereby a user is authenticated through third-party linked accounts. The method includes receiving an authentication request from a merchant computer, assessing one or more data fields to generate an authentication challenge for the user, connecting to one or more third-party account service provider to extract user-related data, generating the authentication challenge based on the extracted user-related data from the third-party account service provider, posing the authentication challenge to the user on a user device, receiving a response to the authentication challenge, and returning the authentication response to the merchant.
US12107959B2
This invention provides Colosseum, a Byzantine fault tolerant scalable method to achieve consensus, designed to maintain distributed ledgers over a permissioned peer-to-peer blockchain network that follows a curative approach towards achieving consensus. It assumes that adversaries are not always present in the system but efficiently detects malicious behaviour and alert the network. Colosseum follows a knockout tournament like approach over a structured ring network to have agreement on the next set of block proposers. Colosseum proposes a novel two-player game like approach which uses Proof-of-Win to eliminate nodes in each round of a tournament resulting in the selection of a subset of nodes after α (α
US12107944B2
A Bluetooth internet protocol packet transmitting device and method are provided. The device includes a Bluetooth protocol stack, a Bluetooth controller and a host control interface. The Bluetooth protocol stack is configured to store an internet protocol stack and a host control interface driver. The Bluetooth controller generates at least one data packet based on an internet protocol packet, wherein the at least one data packet corresponds to an asynchronous connection data format. The Bluetooth controller transmits the at least one data packet to the host control interface driver. The host control interface driver determines whether the at least one data packet is an asynchronous connection data packet. When the host control interface driver determines that the at least one data packet is the asynchronous connection data packet, the at least one data packet is transmitted to the internet protocol stack.
US12107941B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for document transmission. The method includes: selecting a portion to be encoded from a document that comprises structured portions, wherein each of the structured portions comprises an identifier and data associated with the identifier; acquiring at least one structured portion of the portion to be encoded; performing the following operations for a corresponding structured portion of the at least one structured portion to encode the document: generating a hash value of data of the corresponding structured portion; determining whether a hash value repository comprises the hash value; and replacing, based on a determination that the hash value repository comprises the hash value, the data of the corresponding structured portion in the document with the hash value; and sending the encoded document to a receiver. This solution can reduce the bandwidth consumption of transmitting a document including structured data while ensuring that a receiver obtains required information, as well as potentially saving the storage space required by the receiver to store the received document.
US12107935B2
The present disclosure relates to a system, a method and a computer-readable medium for notification of a live streaming program. The method includes obtaining a list of users related to the live streaming program, obtaining a first contribution score of a first user in the list of users, and transmitting a first notification request for notifying the first user about the live streaming program according to the first contribution score. The first contribution score is determined according to a behavior of the first user. The present disclosure can result in a more reliable notification, which may further improve the operation of a live streaming platform.
US12107932B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes detecting actions taken by users in a computer-implemented matching system and, for each of the detected actions, storing data indicative of the detected action. The method further includes filtering the stored data in accordance with at least one filter selected by an administrator of the computer-implemented matching system and creating a user action log from the filtered stored data. The user action log includes all of the stored data that matches the selected at least one filter. The at least one filter may include log start time, log end time, type of action, user ID, target user ID, and/or site type. The detected action may include viewing another user's profile, changing the user's own profile, sending a message to another user via the computer-implemented matching system, and/or performing a matching search using the computer-implemented matching system.
US12107930B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method, a system, and an apparatus are presented for mediating ambiance outputs among a plurality of users located in a common area. In some implementations, said ambiance outputs can be adaptive or interactive shared digital works. In other implementations, said ambiance outputs can be shared mediated augmented reality. In other implementations, said ambiance outputs can be the result of hierarchical schemes and algorithms. In another embodiment a method, system, and apparatus is presented for extracting and/or storing previously tagged items from a digital work.
US12107927B2
Various example embodiments described herein generally relate to apparatuses, methods and computer programs. For instance, an apparatus may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code, the at least one memory and the computer code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to receive, at a user plane function, a request to establish a session from a session management function, where the user plane function is part of a set of user plane functions. The at least one memory and the computer code may be further configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to cause a response to be provided to the session management function, where the response includes information uniquely identifying the session in the set of user plane functions.
US12107907B2
A system enabling interactions in virtual environments comprises one or more cloud server computers comprising at least one processor and memory storing data and instructions implementing a virtual environment platform comprising at least one virtual environment; at least one camera obtaining live data feed from a user of a client device; and a client device communicatively connected to the one or more cloud server computers and at least one camera. The system generates a user graphical representation from the live data feed that is inserted into a selected virtual environment and is therein updated, enabling real-time multi-user collaboration and interactions in the virtual environment. Suitable system architectures and methods thereof are also herein disclosed.
US12107906B2
An electronic device, computer program product, and method are provided that prompt a person who is participating in a video communication session with at least one second electronic device to gaze toward a local image capturing device. A controller of the electronic devices receives an image stream from an image capturing device having a field of view that incorporates a person that is proximate to the display device. The controller communicates the image stream to a video communication session. In response to a trigger that indicates that the first image stream is being presented as a primary image stream by the at least one second electronic device, the controller presents a prompt indicating that the participant should gaze toward the image capturing device.
US12107903B2
A method implements seamless connection. The method includes receiving a message for a join call request for a client device. The message includes a participant identifier. The method further includes verifying the participant identifier, identifying a call corresponding to the participant identifier, and establishing a connection between the client device and the call.
US12107894B1
An automated service ticket generation system including an application configured to receive risk data associated with an asset and generate a service ticket based on the risk data. The application may receive risk data including an indication of whether the asset is out of compliance or will soon be out of compliance with a policy and/or regulation. Responsive to receiving the risk data, the application may access a remote computing device to generate the service ticket. The service ticket may include a mitigation task for an asset owner to perform in order to comply with the policy and/or regulation. The application may cause an indication of the service ticket to be presented on a display of a computing device. In some examples, the application may cause an indication of the service ticket to be sent to a computing device associated with the asset.
US12107893B2
Methods and systems for protecting a secured network are presented. For example, one or more packet security gateways may be associated with a security policy management server. At each packet security gateway, a dynamic security policy may be received from the security policy management server, packets associated with a network protected by the packet security gateway may be received, and at least one of multiple packet transformation functions specified by the dynamic security policy may be performed on the packets.
US12107891B2
The present disclosure includes, responsive to a request from a user device, performing a security check based on policy associated with the user device, wherein the policy includes setting related to content filtering and security; responsive to the security check, performing one of: directly allowing the request to the Internet based on the security check determining the request is allowed by the settings; directly blocking the request based on the security check determining the request is disallowed by the settings; and forwarding the request to a system for inline inspection based on the security check determining the request includes suspicious content, wherein responsive to the inline inspection, the request is one of allowed and blocked.
US12107888B2
Embodiments are directed to monitoring network traffic using network monitoring computers (NMCs). Anomalous events may be classified based on the monitored network traffic and attack models such that the classification determines that targets of the anomalous events may be currently subject to attacks by entities communicating on the networks. A honeypot trap may be provided in the networks based on the classified events such that the honeypot trap mimics characteristics of the targets. The portions of the network traffic associated with the honeypot trap may be monitored. Characteristics of the attacks may be determined based on the monitored portions of network traffic. Reports that include information based on the characteristics of the attacks may be generated.
US12107883B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for managing session accessed by a client device. The systems and methods can include one or more processors configured to receive data in a plurality of modalities corresponding to a plurality of features of a session for an entity accessed by a client device. The one or more processors can determine based on the data of the session and a distance model trained with historical data of the entity, a distance between a representation of the data of the session and a predetermined representation for the entity established based on the historical data of the entity. The one or more processors can compare the distance with a threshold established for the entity. The one or more processors can generate, based on the comparison between the distance with the threshold, an action to manage access by the client device to the session for the entity.
US12107876B2
The control network system is connected to electronic control unit(s) and a communication device, and includes security sensor(s) that transmits a security alert indicating that an indication of a security breach is detected to the network, if the indication is detected in at least one of the network, the electronic control unit(s), or the communication device. The intrusion path analysis device includes: an alert obtainer that obtains the security alert from the security sensor(s); an event obtainer that obtains an event history of an event that occurs in the control network system; and an intrusion path analyzer that performs an analysis on an intrusion path of an attack on the basis of the security alert, the event history, and an intrusion depth indicating an intrusion level to be assumed in a case the security alert occurs, and that outputs a result of the analysis.
US12107871B2
Provided is an apparatus for security of vehicle CAN communication including a security module unit included in each node of a vehicle CAN communication network and configured to monitor an identifier (ID) of each CAN message received through a CAN transceiver to determine whether the CAN message is a malicious CAN message to perform error processing, and a control unit configured to set an ID to be monitored by the security module unit and control the security module unit not to perform monitoring on the ID when the node transmits the CAN message.
US12107869B1
A dynamic threat landscape to which computer resources of a specific enterprise are subject is tracked. Data feeds maintained by a security system of the enterprise are assessed. The effectiveness of data feed utilization by the security system is quantified, relative to the threat landscape. Threat detection rules deployed by the security system are assessed, and the effectiveness thereof by the security system is quantified. Processing capability of alerts generated by threat detection rules and threat response capability may also be assessed and quantified. The effectiveness of the security system as a whole is automatically quantified, based on the tracked threat landscape, the quantifications of the effectiveness of data feed utilization, threat detection rule utilization, processing capability of alerts generated by threat detection rules and/or threat response capability. Recommendations concerning more effectively protecting the enterprise against specific threats are output. Actions are automatically taken to mitigate specific threats.
US12107855B2
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for network security involves determining whether a device connected to a network port of a switch of a network is a native device or a non-native device for the network and in response to determining whether the device is the native device or the non-native device for the network, performing native device authentication or non-native device authentication.
US12107854B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for increasing security of devices that leverages an integration of an authentication system with at least one corporate service. In one aspect, a request is received from a user device to authenticate a person as a particular user by the authentication system. A photo of the person attempting to be authenticated as the particular user is captured. Nodal points are mapped to the captured photo of the person attempting to be authenticated, and the nodal points from the photo are compared against a reference model for facial recognition of the particular user. It is then determined whether the nodal points match the reference model for the particular user. The present technology also includes sending a command to the user device to send data to identify the person, and/or a location of the user device.
US12107852B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to user authentication. A computing platform may validate, after launch of an application, initial authentication credentials and geolocation information for a user of a client device. The computing platform may cause the client device to activate the integrated camera. The computing platform may receive, from the client device, video information indicating multiple viewpoints from perspectives of the client device, and including any individuals within a predetermined distance of the client device. The computing platform may generate faceprints, each corresponding to one of the individuals within the predetermined distance. The computing platform may compare, using an AI engine, the faceprints to stored faceprints of authenticated users. Based on identifying that at least one of the individuals is not authenticated, the computing platform may mask an application user interface for the application. The computing platform may direct the client device to display the masked application user interface.
US12107846B2
A system and method for improving login processes with a unique login-interface system is disclosed. The unique login-interface system allows users to subscribe, join, or sign-up for an automatic login interface that does not require explicit registration other than inclusion in a messaging system. The messaging system may be any number of systems such as email, text messaging, phone calls, or any other messaging system in which there is a user identification or alias associated with a user. The user identification may be of any type that is presented or recognized in a computing world. The unique login-interface system includes an identity-provider application with a collision-resolution engine to ensure unique user identity credentials and an inference engine to identity multiple participant entries for a single user.
US12107843B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer-readable medium embodiments for securely accessing cloud data providers with user-impersonation. An embodiment operates by receiving an initial logon request for a cloud data provider. The embodiment authenticates the request using a cluster unique identifier (CUID) of the cloud data provider. The embodiment then authorizes the request by exchanging an authorization code for an identifier token and a refresh token issued by the cloud data provider. The embodiment then validates the tokens, and stores the refresh token for subsequent user-impersonation logons. Subsequently, the embodiment receives a user-impersonation logon request for the cloud data provider. The embodiment exchanges the refresh token for an access token issued by the cloud data provider, and uses the access token to gain access to the cloud data provider without a user directly having to complete authentication and authorization processes.
US12107842B2
Systems for contactless authentication and event processing are provided. In some examples, a user may request processing of an event. The user may provide user identifying or event identifying information that may be transmitted to contactless processing computing platform. Based on the user identifying information, additional user data may be retrieved. An interactive authentication request may be generated and transmitted to the user computing device. The interactive authentication request may include a request for one or more types of authentication data. The user may input authentication response data into the user computing device, which may then be transmitted to the contactless processing computing platform for evaluation. The authentication response data may be evaluated to determine whether it includes a trigger, whether it matches pre-stored authentication data, and the like. In response, one or more authentication outputs may be generated and/or the requested event may be processed or denied.
US12107830B2
A method is provided that is performed using an application performance management agent running on an application and/or application microservices. The method comprises detecting a request to the application and/or application microservices for data, and inserting data compliance metadata into packet headers of packets that are to be sent in response to the request by the application and/or application microservices. The data compliance metadata comprises data-compliance markings associated with the data based on user/operator-defined data compliance requirements. The method further includes causing the packets to be sent into a network so that one or more network devices or services in the network can read the data compliance metadata and apply packet handling policies.
US12107818B2
Systems and methods for email processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure identify a plurality of email recipients, wherein each of the plurality of email recipients has an email address associated with one of a plurality of internet service providers (ISPs); identify a plurality of internet protocol (IP) addresses, wherein each of the plurality of IP addresses is available for sending email from a user to the plurality of email recipients; compute an ISP-IP score for each of a plurality of ISP-IP pairs based on email delivery statistics; select an IP address from the plurality of IP addresses corresponding to each of the plurality of email recipients based on the ISP-IP score; and transmit an email to each of the plurality of email recipients from the selected IP address.
US12107804B2
It is determined that a virtual agent associated with a first party is to provide, via a messaging application, content to a second party. In response to determining that the virtual agent is to provide the content to the second party, a reference to the content is generated, wherein the reference includes a dynamic portion. In response to receiving a request that includes the reference, the content is retrieved using at least a portion of the dynamic portion. The content is provided to the messaging application for display within a window of the messaging application.
US12107797B2
An exemplary unified framework that is disclose for identifying which communication beams are to be uplink and/or downlink communication beams. This exemplary unified framework can utilize one or more universal Transmission Configuration Indication (TCI) states to identify the one or more communication beams that are to be utilized for uplink and/or downlink communication. The one or more universal TCI states can be used identify the one or more communication beams. And the one or more universal TCI states can include applicability information to identify which control channels, such as the PDCCH and the PUCCH to provide some examples, data channels, such as the PDSCH and/or the PUSCH to provide some examples, and/or signals, such as the DMRS, the PTRS, the SRS, and/or the CSI-RS to provide some examples, are to utilize the communication beams identified by the one or more universal TCI states.
US12107777B2
The present invention discloses method for transmitting downlink packet in function-separated core network. It is an object of the embodiments of the present disclosure to provide a method for transmitting a downlink packet for a UE in an idle mode which is capable of reducing a data transmission latency for a user and efficiently using network resources in a mobile communication system in which the control plane and the user plane of a gateway node are separated.
US12107771B2
Techniques for efficient reporting of a health status of a system resource are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer system performs a method comprising: computing a connection failure rate value of a resource based on connection failure rate data indicating a rate at which requests to connect to the resource failed; computing an operation failure rate value of the resource based on operation failure rate data indicating a rate at which requests for the resource to execute a resource operation failed; determining that the connection failure rate value satisfies a connection failure condition or the operation failure rate value satisfies an operation failure condition; based on the determining that the connection failure rate value or the operation failure rate value satisfies its respective failure condition, attempting to establish a connection to the resource; and determining a status of the resource based on the attempting to establish the connection.
US12107758B2
According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, an edge node of a virtual overlay for a Layer-2 mesh receives a new flow notification that indicates a destination address for a new flow in the Layer-2 mesh. The virtual overlay is configured to flood replicated frames of the new flow throughout the virtual overlay. The edge node makes a local match between the destination address indicated by the new flow notification and a local address table of the edge node. The edge node sends, based on the local match, a match notification that causes other nodes in the virtual overlay to stop flooding replicated frames of the new flow.
US12107754B2
In an example, a switch may receive an authentication request from a host associated with a first wireless access point (WAP) connected to the switch. The switch acts as a VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint (VTEP) in a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) based Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN). The switch forwards the authentication request to an authentication server and on successful authentication of the host, may associate a role information with the host based on an authentication response from the authentication server. Further, the switch may create a BGP extended community field carrying the role identifier indicative of network policies to be implemented for the host and attach the BGP extended community field with a route advertisement. The switch then sends the route advertisement to another switch. The another switch is configured as a peer VTEP in the VXLAN. The switch and the another switch is configured in a single Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN).
US12107752B2
This application provides a path determining method and a related device. The method includes: determining N1 first-type nodes from N nodes included in a first network topology, where the N nodes include the N1 first-type nodes and N2 second-type nodes, and the first-type node supports SRv6; determining a second network topology corresponding to the first network topology, where the second network topology includes the N1 first-type nodes but does not include the N2 second-type nodes, and the target topology structure includes M first-type target paths; determining transmission overheads of the M first-type target paths, where a transmission overhead of an ith first-type target path is a smallest value of transmission overheads of a Ki paths; and performing path computation based on the transmission overheads of the M first-type target paths and the second network topology.
US12107748B2
An information processing device includes a reception I/F unit, a reception-time-point measuring unit, and an event-detection-time-point estimation unit. The event-detection-time-point estimation unit estimates an event detection time point, which is a time point at which an event corresponding to latest detection data is detected, from a minimum system delay time, a minimum-system-delay jitter, and a time period from detection of the event corresponding to a target data to detection of the event corresponding to latest detection data. The minimum-system-delay jitter is the difference between a minimum-reception-time expected reception time point and the reception time point of the target detection data. The minimum-reception-time expected reception time point is calculated to be a time point at which the target data is received before the latest detection data. The target detection data is one piece of detection data, out of the multiple pieces of detection data, sent with a minimum system delay time.
US12107746B2
In an approach to optimize server connection timeout errors in a cloud environment, embodiments create a knowledge corpus associated with connection timeout patterns based on historical learning of transaction parameters and predicts a criticality of a transaction based on one or more identified contextual situations. Further, embodiments dynamically adjust a connection timeout range of the transaction based on the predicted criticality and one or more identified contextual situations of the transaction, and selectively identify a connection timeout range for the transaction based on an evaluation of the one or more contextual situations. Additionally, embodiments analyze generated timeout errors on a remote server from within a service mesh, and adjust timeout values of the transaction based on the analyzed generated timeouts errors. Responsive to the transaction receiving a timeout error, embodiments output a recommended timeline detailing when the transaction can be reinitiated.
US12107731B2
An information processing system comprising a first apparatus and a second apparatus, wherein the first apparatus includes: a collection unit that collects information on a surrounding environment of the first apparatus; a determination unit that determines an installation environment of the first apparatus based on the information; a detection unit that detects the second apparatus present under an installation environment identical to the installation environment; a generation unit that generates a setting template for setting the second apparatus based on the installation environment; and a transmission unit that transmits the setting template to the second apparatus, and the second information processing apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives the setting template; and an application unit that applies the received setting template to the second apparatus.
US12107713B2
A transmission method comprises: generating a transmission signal including OFDM symbols, wherein the last OFDM symbol of the OFDM symbols can be partitioned into four segments, and wherein the generating includes: computing an initial padding factor value associated with one of the four segments and computing an initial number of OFDM symbols; determining a user with a longest packet duration among plural users; determining a common padding factor value being the initial padding factor value and a common number of OFDM symbols being the initial number of OFDM symbols of the determined user with the longest packet duration; adding pre-FEC padding bits toward one of four possible boundaries of the last OFDM symbol, the one of four possible boundaries being represented by the determined common padding factor value; and adding post-FEC padding bits in remaining segment(s) of the last OFDM symbol; and transmitting the generated transmission signal.
US12107711B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit, WTRU, can select a constellation from a set of constellations corresponding to a symbol configuration for indirect carrier modulation, ICM, based on at least one constellation performance efficacy indicator, each constellation performance efficacy indicator respectively corresponding to a constellation of the set of constellations, and use the selected constellation and symbol configuration to simultaneously harvest energy and transmit data.
US12107709B1
A PPM-modulated signal is based on a format comprising (i) N data slots per symbol period, (ii) guard slots separating the data slots, and (iii) the symbols are encoded by the position of pulses within the data slots. Timing synchronization of the receiver to an incoming PPM-modulated signal is achieved as follows. The incoming PPM-modulated signal is processed to generate slot detection signals, which are indicative of a presence of a pulse in a corresponding one of the N data slots. A timing correction signal is generated based on a difference between (a) accumulated slot detection signals for receiver data slot 1, and (b) accumulated slot detection signals for receiver data slot N. Timing of the receiver is adjusted based on the timing correction signal.
US12107698B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing breakout sessions based on tagging users within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide, in association with designing a virtual space for virtual conferencing between plural participants, display of a first user interface for assigning tags to the plural participants; receive indication of first user input, via the first user interface, assigning a tag to a subset of the plural participants; provide display of a second user interface for configuring a breakout session; receive indication of second user input, via the second user interface, setting properties for the breakout session including the tag and an identification of a room to associate with the tag; and provide for the breakout session in the room, the breakout session including at least the subset of the plural participants.
US12107696B2
A processor may enhance user experience in a virtual reality (VR) meeting. A processor may generate a first VR environment of the VR meeting having a plurality of users. In embodiments, the plurality of users may opt into the VR meeting. A processor may analyze meeting activity collected from one or more data collection devices. In embodiments, the meeting activity may be associated with the plurality of users. A processor may identify a meeting modifier in the meeting activity. A processor may alter, responsive to identifying a meeting modifier in the meeting activity, the first VR environment of the VR meeting to generate a second VR environment.
US12107694B2
A method for managing a charging operation in a communication network is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a content specification identifying content, vendors and a condition relating to charging the vendors for provision of the content to a UE. The method further comprises creating a charging policy for provision of the content, which specifies division of charging for provision of the content to a UE between the vendors in accordance with the condition, receiving, from a UE, a request for provision of content over the network and retrieving a charging policy corresponding to the requested content. The method further comprises creating a charging entry for provision of the requested content, the charging entry dividing charging for provision of the requested content between vendors identified in the retrieved charging policy and a subscriber account associated with the UE in accordance with the retrieved policy.
US12107691B2
A duplication transmission maintaining method, a terminal, and a network device are provided, related to the field of communications. The duplication transmission maintaining method includes: maintaining a duplication transmission timer for a first duplication transmission of a target bearer.
US12107686B2
The present application relates to the field of communication technology. Disclosed by the embodiments of the present application are a method and device for determining and receiving resources, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method for determining resources includes: multiplexing a plurality of Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebooks in a designated Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource. The designated PUCCH resource at least includes one of: a PUCCH resource determined according to a PUCCH resource indicator (PRI) in last Downlink Control Information (DCI) of DCI corresponding to a Downlink Physical Shared Channel (PDSCH) corresponding to a HARQ-ACK codebook having a higher priority in the plurality of HARQ-ACK codebooks, and a PUCCH resource corresponding to the HARQ-ACK codebook having the higher priority in the plurality of HARQ-ACK codebooks.
US12107675B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure provides a method and a system for 5G New Radio (NR) based gNodeBs (gNBs) under multiple Connected User Equipment (UE) scenarios in a fast-fading environment in order to get better channel estimates at the UE side for throughput improvement by reducing packet decoding failure.
US12107666B2
This application provides a port detection method, an optical network device, and a passive optical network system, to quickly and accurately detect a port connected to an ONU, and improve efficiency of determining the port connected to the ONU. The method includes: an optical line terminal sends optical signals corresponding to all of N wavelengths to at least one optical network unit, where the N wavelengths are different from each other, and N is a positive integer; the OLT receives optical power values that are of the optical signals corresponding to all of the N wavelengths and that are sent by a first ONU, where the first ONU is any one of the at least one ONU; and the OLT determines, bases on the optical power values of the optical signals corresponding to all of the N wavelengths, information about an optical splitter port corresponding to the first ONU.
US12107661B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums to enhance the functionality of directional repeaters (wireless devices that relay directional wireless signals). For example, by adding even limited capability to buffer digital samples, repeater functionality may be enhanced to provide better coverage and make more efficient use of time, frequency, and spatial resources.
US12107658B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a plurality of antennas, and a control circuit configured to identify a two-dimensional coordinate value using signals received through the plurality of antennas and correct a signal reception angle based on the two-dimensional coordinate value, or to selectively filter data received from a signal source.
US12107652B2
Channel state information (CSI) report sending and receiving methods, devices and electronic devices
Provided are methods and devices for transmitting a reference signal. The method comprises: determining a sequence parameter associated with the reference signal, where the sequence parameter is used for generating a sequence, and the sequence parameter hops once every X time domain symbols, where X is an integer greater than or equal to 1; determining the reference signal according to the determined sequence parameter; and transmitting the reference signal.
US12107651B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for determining whether a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) is to be transmitted, and a configuration for transmission of the CSI-RS on a wideband based on an outcome of a listen-before-talk (LBT) operation in multiple sub-bands of the wideband. In one aspect, a base station may transmit sub-band usage information indicating sub-band availability before the CSI-RS, thereby allowing a user equipment (UE) to determine whether the CSI-RS will be transmitted and, if so, on which sub-bands the CSI-RS will be transmitted. Furthermore, rate matching configurations are provided based on whether sub-band usage has been received, based on which sub-bands are available. Still further, power configurations and resource element selection criteria are provided for wideband CSI-RS and CSI feedback.
US12107648B2
Provided are a method for feeding back and receiving information, and a device. The method comprises: a terminal device determines channel state information (CSI); the terminal device sends the CSI to a network device. In embodiments of the present application, quick feedback of the CSI by the terminal device can effectively reduce feedback overhead, thereby improving the reliability of a control channel.
US12107647B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for signaling precoder(s) for non-PMI based CSI feedback.
US12107646B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a network entity, a first signal including a request to update a resolution of a phase shifting operation associated with beam-based communications. The UE may receive, from the network entity, a second signal approving the request. The UE may communicate using a beam according to an updated resolution of the phase shifting operation based on the second signal approving the request. Additionally, or alternatively, the UE may transmit a first signal including a request to suspend a beam refinement process based on the resolution of the phase shifting operation. The UE may receive a second signal approving the request to suspend the beam refinement process. The UE may communicate with the network entity using a beam based on suspending further beam refinement in response to the second signal.
US12107637B2
An apparatus for managing optical subsea communications system may include a plurality of fiber interface modules (FIM), wherein a given FIM comprises a receive part, and a transmit part. The transmit part may include two normally closed switches, wherein a first switch of the two normally closed switches is coupled to a line monitoring equipment (LME) TX port, and wherein a second switch of the two normally closed switches is coupled to a line terminating equipment (LTE) TX port.
US12107634B2
An on-chip adaptive optical receiver system, an optical chip, and a communication device are disclosed, which are applied to optical communication. The on-chip adaptive optical receiver system includes an antenna array configured for separating received spatial light to obtain a plurality of sub-light spots; an optical phased array configured for performing phase-shifting processing and beam combining processing on the sub-light spots to obtain combined light; and an optical receiving module configured for demultiplexing the combined light to obtain beacon light. The optical receiving module is further configured for detecting intensity information of the beacon light and generating a feedback signal according to the intensity information. The optical phased array is further configured for performing compensation phase-shifting processing and intensity equalization processing on the sub-light spots according to the feedback signal to obtain compensated combined light, and outputting the compensated combined light to the optical receiving module.
US12107626B2
A wavelength monitoring apparatus includes a wavelength monitoring circuit. The wavelength monitoring circuit includes: a split circuit that splits an input optical signal into two; an optical delay circuit that applies a delay time difference to the two split optical signals; and a two-input two-output optical multiplexer/demultiplexer circuit that outputs a result of applying multiplexing interference to the optical signals to which the delay time difference has been applied. The wavelength monitoring apparatus further includes photoelectric conversion elements that perform photoelectric conversions on the two optical signals output from the wavelength monitoring circuit so as to output electrical signals. The wavelength monitoring apparatus is configured to obtain the wavelength of the optical signal, by calculating a ratio between two electrical outputs of the photoelectric conversion elements and referring to a correspondence table indicating wavelengths of optical signals input to the wavelength monitoring circuit and ratios between electrical outputs.
US12107624B2
An object of the present invention is to enable identification of a reflection signal from a terminal portion of an optical fiber to be measured where a reflection signal caused by multiple reflection appears in an OTDR waveform in a mode in which an OTDR and the optical fiber to be measured are connected at a bent portion. The reflection signal caused by multiple reflection inevitably propagates through a distance equal to a distance between true reflection points more than the other reflection point, because of multiple reflection. Therefore, a distance between the reflection signal and another reflection signal is inevitably coincident with a distance between the other reflection signals. In contrast, in a case of a reflection signal from a terminal portion of the optical fiber, the distance between the reflection signal and another reflection signal is not coincident with the distance between the other reflection signals.
US12107614B2
A mobile terminal protective case for diving includes an upper shell, a lower shell, a clamping assembly arranged in the accommodating cavity, and a positioning plate arranged in an accommodating cavity. The upper shell and the lower shell are closed together to form the accommodating cavity. Shooting control buttons triggering virtual shooting buttons of a mobile terminal are arranged on the upper shell. The clamping assembly clamps two opposite sides of the mobile terminal. By arranging the clamping assembly and the positioning plate in the accommodating cavity, not only storage of the mobile terminal of different models is realized, versatility is improved. By arranging the shooting control buttons, switching of different shooting nodes is realized, switching of using a front camera and using s rear camera is realized, and shooting control of the mobile terminals of different specifications is realized, which greatly improves user experience.
US12107588B2
A fractional-N phase-locked loop (PLL) that maintains phase coherence for an output signal with a plurality of possible output frequencies. The fractional-N PLL includes an oscillator, a phase detector to receive a reference clock signal and a feedback signal, and a multi-modulus divider coupled in a feedback path between the oscillator and the phase detector. A multi-modulus pattern generator supplies a drive pattern to the multi-modulus divider to achieve a desired change in frequency of the output signal. The multi-modulus pattern generator initiates the drive pattern at a boundary time to cause the output signal to have a substantially repeatable phase when restarting switching from any one of the output frequencies to any other of the output frequencies.
US12107576B2
An electromechanical logic-in-memory device includes a switching unit including a first electrode having a conductive beam and second and third electrodes disposed on both sides of the conductive beam and attracting the conductive beam by electrostatic force, based on an operating voltage applied between the second and third electrodes and the conductive beam, the conductive beam, after being attracted by and adhered to the second or third electrode, maintained to be adhered even when the electrostatic force is removed and a controller determining an operation mode according to types of logic operations included in input data, setting an initial position of the conductive beam by applying the operating voltage to any one of the second and third electrodes, selecting at least one of the first to third electrodes, and applying a predetermined voltage as a true value of a logic value included in the input data.
US12107571B2
A control circuit of a power conversion apparatus is provided with a switch driving unit that drives the upper and lower arm switches; a short circuit control unit that causes the switch driving unit to execute a short circuit control when a failure occurs in the system, the short circuit control turning an ON side switch to an ON state and turning an OFF side switch to an OFF state; a checking unit that executes a checking process to check whether the short circuit control is able to perform correctly; and a protection control unit that causes the switch driving unit to execute a protection control when a failure occurs on either the upper arm switch or the lower arm switch, the protection control turning the switch where the failure occurs to an OFF state. The control circuit enables the protection control during execution of the checking process.
US12107568B2
A filter circuit has a cascaded resonator circuit with a first acoustic resonator and a second acoustic resonator connected in series on a printed circuit board (PCB). The admittances as functions of frequency of the first and second acoustic resonators are substantially identical. The filter circuit also has a composite resonator circuit formed by a capacitor connected in parallel with the second acoustic resonator on the PCB. The capacitor improves a steepness of an upper bandpass edge of the filter circuit.
US12107561B2
A method for manufacturing a vibrator that includes forming excitation electrodes, lead-out electrodes, and first sealing frames on the main surfaces of a crystal piece; forming second sealing frames on the main surfaces of a base part and a lid part; and sealing a crystal vibration element by bonding the first sealing frames to the second sealing frames. The first sealing frames each include a first Ti or Cr base layer 110, and a first Au surface layer. The first Ti or Cr base layers are thinner than the first Au surface layers. The second sealing frames each include a second Ni base layer, and a second AuSn surface layer. The second Ni base layers are thicker than the second AuSn surface layers. The sealing is carried out by alloying the first Au surface layers and the second AuSn surface layers to each other.
US12107560B2
Multiple example valve amplifiers are provided. A first example valve amplifier is provided which comprises (i) a valve power amplifier switchable between a high-power mode and a low-power mode and (ii) a loudspeaker simulator circuit, the valve amplifier being configured such that the valve power amplifier drives the loudspeaker simulator circuit in the low-power mode. A second example valve amplifier is provided which comprises a switched-mode power supply, SMPS, system), the SMPS system comprising (i) an SMPS and (ii) circuitry configured to enable an output impedance of the SMPS to be switched between first and second output impedances, the first output impedance being lower than the second output impedance.
US12107550B2
An amplifier may include first and second terminals to receive first and second input signals and a differential amplifier providing differential amplification of the first and second input signals. The differential amplifier may include a first differential amplifier stage to receive the first input signal and a second differential amplifier stage to receive the second input signal. The amplifier may further include a first bias circuit to bias the first differential amplifier stage, where the first bias circuit is connected to the second input terminal to provide anti-phase bias control of the first differential amplifier stage. The amplifier may further include a second bias circuit to bias the second differential amplifier stage, where the second bias circuit is connected to the first input terminal to provide anti-phase bias control of the second differential amplifier stage.
US12107548B2
An amplifier circuit includes an input terminal used to receive an input signal, an output terminal used to output an output signal, an amplification unit, and a phase adjustment unit. The amplification unit includes an input terminal coupled to the input terminal of the amplifier circuit, an output terminal coupled to the output terminal of the amplifier circuit, a first terminal coupled to a first voltage terminal, and a second terminal coupled to a second voltage terminal. The phase adjustment unit is coupled to the amplification unit. When the amplifier circuit is operated in a first mode, the output signal has a first phase, and when the amplifier circuit is operated in a second mode, the output signal has a second phase. A difference between the first phase and the second phase is within a predetermined range.
US12107544B1
An apparatus comprising two inductors; wherein the two inductors are layered on top of each other in different layers of metal of a circuit; wherein each inductor of the inductor has a set of turns; wherein the current path of the two inductors is in the same direction.
US12107535B2
The invention relates to a photovoltaic plant (100) comprising: at least one photovoltaic module (1), including at least one junction box (13) placed on a front face of the photovoltaic module (1), via which face the solar rays enter, in proximity to a peripheral edge (4) of said photovoltaic module (1), and at least one DC current cable (15, 17) that conveys the current generated by the at least one photovoltaic module (1), characterized in that it furthermore comprises a protective sheath (5) that is placed, on the front face of the photovoltaic module (1), encircling the junction box (13) and the DC current cable (15, 17), said protective sheath (5) having a cross-section the height of which corresponds at least to the height of the junction box (13) and including a window (57) that is located in the face of the protective sheath (5) that makes contact with the photovoltaic module (1), via which window the junction box (13) protrudes from the protective sheath (5), and a closable longitudinal aperture (51) allowing the junction box (13) and the DC current cable (15, 17) to be accessed.
US12107534B2
A photovoltaic system includes at least one DC/DC converter and the inverter. An input terminal of the at least one DC/DC converter is configured to connect to a photovoltaic module, an output terminal is configured to connect to an input terminal of the inverter by using a direct current bus, and an output terminal of the inverter is connected to an alternating current grid. When the inverter is switched from a non-power-limited working state to a power-limited working state, the inverter adjusts a bus voltage of the inverter to rise from a first voltage to a second voltage. After running in the power-limited working state for a time interval, the inverter adjusts the bus voltage to drop from the second voltage to a third voltage, where the third voltage is less than or equal to the first voltage.
US12107530B2
A roof mount system supports a solar panel above a roof and includes a base positioned on the roof and a first fastener connected to the base and extending away from the roof and moveable along the base in a direction generally parallel to the roof. A first clamp supports a bottom surface of a solar panel frame and adjusts the height of the solar panel above the roof by moving the first clamp along a first fastener in a direction perpendicular to the roof. A second clamp is connected to a second fastener and moves with respect to the first clamp perpendicular to the roof. The solar panel is clamped between the first clamp and the second clamp portion. A protrusion extends from the first or second clamp to form an electrical bond between the solar panel frame and the respective first or second clamp.
US12107526B2
A method for operating an electric drive system is provided. For example, a controller retrieves, from memory, a predictive model indicating predictive winding temperatures associated with known negative temperature coefficient (NTC) temperatures, wherein the predictive model is based on historical NTC temperatures and historical winding temperatures, as well as one or more operating parameters. The controller receives current NTC information indicating one or more current NTC readings corresponding to one or more switching devices within the inverter. The controller determines estimated winding temperatures corresponding to the electric machine based on the predictive model and the one or more current NTC readings as well as current operating parameters. The controller provides instructions to adjust inputs to the electric machine based on the estimated winding temperatures.
US12107525B1
A power module may include multiple transistors each respectively having a first current-carrying terminal coupled to a voltage supply, a second current-carrying terminal coupled to an output node, and a control terminal, multiple output driver stages each coupled to the control terminal of a respectively different transistor of the transistors, and a driver module. The driver module may include multiple pre-drivers each coupled to a respectively different output driver stage of the output driver stages and a control module having an input and having multiple outputs coupled to the pre-drivers. The control module may be configured to receive a control signal at the input and to selectively control the pre-drivers to drive at least a subset of the plurality of transistors via the output driver stages based on the control signal.
US12107520B2
A driving circuit for driving a piezoelectric load, can include: an energy-storage capacitor; a first power stage circuit configured to convert an input voltage into a first voltage, and to store the first voltage in the energy-storage capacitor; a second power stage circuit configured to receive the first voltage to charge the piezoelectric load during a first operation interval of an operation period, such that a power supply voltage signal provided to the piezoelectric load in the first operation interval corresponds to a reference voltage in a first interval; and a discharging circuit configured to discharge the piezoelectric load during a second operation interval of the operation period, such that the power supply voltage signal in the second operation interval corresponds to the reference voltage in a second interval.
US12107518B2
An energy harvesting device having an energy converting element that converts environmental energy into electric energy, an environmental sensor that is disposed in an identical environment as the energy converting element, and a power supply circuit that receives electricity from the energy converting element and outputs the electricity to an external load. The power supply circuit is configured to change an operation condition of, for example, a voltage converting circuit of the power supply circuit, in accordance with an output of the environmental sensor.
US12107512B2
A power conversion device include a switch for switching so as to output by selecting one of a command value the first DC voltage controller outputs or holds or the command value the second DC voltage controller outputs, a detector that detects the opening of the contactor and the recovery from voltage disturbance in the system on the AC side of the power conversion circuit, and a switching controller controls the switching of the switch so that selects and outputs the command value output by the second DC voltage controller when the detector detects the opening of the contactor, and selects and outputs the command value held by the first DC voltage controller when the detector detects the recovery from the voltage disturbance.
US12107509B1
Systems and methods for the control and operation of a grid-connected converter with an energy storage system are provided. The system can include a small microgrid comprising an AC grid that is feeding a DC load through a converter. The converter is connected to the AC grid through an R-L filter. The classical linear controllers have limitations due to their slow transient performance and low robustness against parameter variations and load disturbances. In certain embodiments, the transient and steady state responses of the provided artificial intelligence based Robust Artificial Neural Network Tracking Control (RANNTC) of three-phase grid-connected power converters has been shown to be more enhanced in terms of overshoot (24% lower), settling time (85% reduced), and total harmonic distortion (THD) (55% lower).
US12107507B2
Systems and methods for controlling a dual active bridge converter are disclosed herein. Switch control signals are provided to respective switches of at least one bridge of a dual active bridge converter. Control circuitry causes the switch control signals to switch according to a first switching sequence. After causing the switch control signals to switch according to the first switching sequence, the control circuitry causes the switch control signals to switch according to a second switching sequence, distinct from the first switching sequence, to distribute switching losses among the switches.
US12107505B1
Disclosed is an auxiliary power source circuit having an ultra-low standby power consumption, including a transformer, a PWM control chip, a battery power source, a first switch tube, a voltage division adjustment module, adjustment modules, and a control module. The control module selects an under-charge voltage of the battery on the basis of the minimum under-charge voltage of the battery and a power source voltage of the battery. Module parameters of the adjustment modules are adjusted, such that the power supply time of the control module can last until a power supply voltage of the PWM control chip is dropped. Therefore, an auxiliary power source circuit can be prevented from frequently performing self-start-up, thereby truly reducing the standby power consumption of a system and greatly reducing the current loss.
US12107502B2
Voltage converter, an electrified vehicle and a method for real-timely detecting a voltage converter
A voltage converter for an electrified vehicle is connected between an external low-voltage source and an external high-voltage source. The voltage converter includes a power conversion device having at least two power conversion components connected in parallel. The voltage converter further includes a safety power switching device, connected to the power conversion device and comprising at least two safety power switching components, configured for providing a protection mechanism for the voltage converter in an OFF or ON selection process thereof. Also included is a safety detection controller, connected to each of the safety power switching components, configured for real-time detection of each of the safety power switching components. A real-time detecting method for the voltage converter may be used in an electrified vehicle.
US12107480B2
The present invention provides a motor comprising: a shaft; a rotor coupled to the shaft; a stator disposed outside the rotor; a housing disposed outside the stator; a circuit board disposed on the stator; and a coupling member for coupling the circuit board to the housing. The circuit board includes a first region where a ground pattern is formed, and a second region which is the remainder excluding the first region, wherein the first region has a first hole, and the second region has at least one second hole. The coupling member includes a first screw which is coupled to the housing through one selected from among the first hole and the second hole.
US12107468B2
A brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor for a power tool includes a rotor assembly and a stator assembly including stator windings. A ratio of a motor size (Km) constant of the motor to an electrical envelope of the motor including electrical parts of the motor is greater than approximately 850 (N·m/√W)/m{circumflex over ( )}3. A ratio of a motor size (Km) constant of the motor to a magnetic envelope of the motor including stator core and windings is greater than approximately 980 (N·m/√W)/m{circumflex over ( )}3.
US12107465B2
An ESP including a motor section for driving the ESP. The motor section includes a stator with winding channels disposed axially therein and windings disposed in the winding channels to generate a stator electromagnetic field. The motor section also includes a rotor rotatably disposed in the stator. The rotor having a body with multiple permanent magnets to generate a constant magnetic field and rotor bars disposed axially in the rotor that cause an induced electromagnetic field when subjected to the stator electromagnetic field. Alternatively, the rotor includes multiple permanent magnets to generate a constant magnetic field wherein the stator electromagnetic field and the constant magnetic field create a two pole magnetic field for the motor section. A method of determining a layout of multiple permanent magnets disposed axially in a rotor to generate a desired constant magnetic field and produce a two pole magnetic field for the ESP and constructing the ESP.
US12107457B2
A system and method is provided to provide power to a load or electronic equipment which includes a multi-pole switch that connects the input of the load or electronic equipment to a first AC source or a DC source or an optional second AC source created from the DC source through a DC-AC converter. The connection to the DC source is either direct or through a DC-DC converter that provides voltage adjustment or isolation. A controller changes the position of the switch in response to the sensing of the presence and magnitude of the sources or in response to an external command to select a preferred source.
US12107454B1
A charging system of a vehicle includes a charging device configured to transfer an electric charge between a battery system of the vehicle and a recipient energy storage system, the charging device including a plurality of conversion stages. The charging system also includes a switching system configured to selectively bypass one or more conversion stages during a charging process, the charging process including transferring electric charge from the battery system to the recipient energy storage system, and a first controller configured to operate the switching system based on a voltage range of a recipient charge port of the recipient energy storage system.
US12107453B2
A wireless charging device has a controller and at least one coil that is positioned near the surface of the charging device and configured to transmit an electromagnetic field and a first driver circuit configured to drive the transmitting coil. The controller is configured to cause the driver circuit to provide a charging current to the transmitting coil, decode a request for lower transmission power from a modulation of the charging current, reduce the amplitude of the charging current in accordance with the request for lower transmission power when a temperature measured at a surface of the charging device is less than a threshold temperature, and initiate a cool down sequence when the temperature measured at the surface of the charging device equals or exceeds the threshold temperature. In one example, the request for lower transmission power may be provided in an ASK-modulated signal superimposed on the charging current.
US12107451B2
A charge control system includes: a charging device having a first processor configured to store electric power to be supplied to a preset area; and a charge control device having a second processor configured to acquire brightness information in the area, calculate a charge amount of the charging device on a basis of the acquired brightness information, and perform charge control of the charging device on a basis of the calculated charge amount. Further, when calculating the charge amount, the second processor calculates the charge amount in such a manner that the charge amount decreases as brightness in the area increases.
US12107450B2
A power supply unit includes a current path, and is capable of receiving external power from an external power supply and supplying the received external power to a power storage device, and receiving power from the power storage device and supplying the received power to a device mounted in a vehicle. The power supply unit comprises one or more power converters, a relay that switches the current path, and a housing that accommodates the one or more power converters and the relay therein. The one or more power converters are heavier in weight than the relay and disposed in the housing below the relay.
US12107446B2
A charging control device charges a battery device, and a control unit that is configured to control a switch and to control charging of the battery device. The control unit estimates a total voltage when each battery is not bypassed in each of the plurality of storage battery systems, selects the storage battery system having a low voltage among the estimated total voltages, and then repeatedly executes selective charging of charging the selected storage battery system so that an estimated total voltage difference between the storage battery system having the low voltage in the estimated total voltage and the storage battery system having a high voltage in the estimated total voltage is less than a predetermined value.
US12107444B2
A system includes a battery pack having an archive, and a portable medical device configured to releasably receive the battery pack. The portable medical device includes a memory and a processor controlled by commands embedded in and/or executed upon the processor and configured to collect, in the memory, operational history data and/or performance data related to the functioning of the portable medical device during use, and load, from the memory to the archive of the battery pack, the operational history data and/or performance data. The battery pack is configured to enable transfer of the operational history data and/or performance data of the portable medical device to a network or server.
US12107434B2
A method of configuring a metamaterial structure comprising a plurality of electrical resonators (110) that support magnetoinductive waves is disclosed. The method comprises: powering at least one of the electrical resonators (110) with an alternating current at an excitation frequency, the at least one powered electrical resonator providing a source of magnetoinductive waves in the structure; adjusting parameters of the metamaterial structure to create constructive interference of one- two- or three-dimensional magnetoinductive waves at one or more target resonators of the electrical resonators (110), to improve power transfer from the at least one powered electrical resonator to the one or more target resonators (110).
US12107425B2
This application discloses a photovoltaic power generation system and method, and the system includes an inverter and at least one shutdown apparatus. A type of the shutdown apparatus includes at least one of a shutdown device and an optimizer; and an input end of each shutdown apparatus is connected to a corresponding PV module, and power of the corresponding PV module is output. In the system, when a parameter of the inverter meets a preset condition, some shutdown apparatuses are turned off to lower an input voltage of the inverter, and ensure that an input end of the inverter has a direct current source, and the system can operate as usual; and the preset condition is that the input voltage of the inverter is greater than a first preset voltage, or an input current of the inverter is less than a first preset current.
US12107417B2
A system and method for combining power from DC power sources. Each power source is coupled to a converter. Each converter converts input power to output power by monitoring and maintaining the input power at a maximum power point. Substantially all input power is converted to the output power, and the controlling is performed by allowing output voltage of the converter to vary. The converters are coupled in series. An inverter is connected in parallel with the series connection of the converters and inverts a DC input to the inverter from the converters into an AC output. The inverter maintains the voltage at the inverter input at a desirable voltage by varying the amount of the series current drawn from the converters. The series current and the output power of the converters, determine the output voltage at each converter.
US12107412B2
The present disclosure provides a motor drive device. The motor drive device includes a current detection unit, a control unit and a determination unit. The current detection unit detects a current flowing through a motor coil. The control unit executes a slow attenuation mode that attenuates the current after an end of a power supply mode. The determination unit determines whether the current at a second time point while a predetermined time has elapsed from a first time point when the power supply mode is switched to a slow decay mode is below a limit value. When the determination unit determines that the current does not fall below the limit value, the control unit is configured to switch from the slow attenuation mode to a fast attenuation mode at the second time point.
US12107410B2
A system and method for determining when an electronic interrupting device will open in response to detecting overcurrent, where the interrupting device protects a transformer in a power distribution network. The method includes obtaining a time/current through fault protection curve that is defined by a plurality of time/current points for the transformer that identifies when the transformer may experience thermal or mechanical damage in response to a certain current flow over a certain time in the transformer windings, selecting a time multiplier, and determining an operating curve for the interrupting device by multiplying the multiplier and a time portion of each of the plurality of time/current points on the through fault protection curve, where the operating curve identifies when the interrupting device will open in response to a certain current flow over a certain time.
US12107408B2
A circuit breaker system includes a first circuit breaker and a second circuit breaker. The first circuit breaker has a first trip unit, a first control unit, and a first electrical sensor. The first control unit is configured to control the first trip unit. The second circuit breaker has a second trip unit, a second control unit, and a second electrical sensor. The second control unit is configured to control the second trip unit. The first control unit is in communication with the second control unit. The first control unit is configured to monitor the communication with the second control unit to determine whether there is an internal device failure in the second circuit breaker. The first control unit is configured to change the first control unit's standard tripping characteristics to emergency tripping characteristics based on detecting the internal device failure of the second circuit breaker.
US12107397B2
An electric discharge device according to the present disclosure includes a discharge electrode, a counter electrode, a voltage application circuit, and a liquid supply unit. The discharge electrode is a columnar electrode. The counter electrode faces the discharge electrode. The voltage application circuit applies an application voltage between the discharge electrode and the counter electrode. The liquid supply unit supplies liquid to the discharge electrode. The liquid extends and contracts along a central axis of the discharge electrode by discharge. The counter electrode includes a peripheral electrode part and a projecting electrode part. In a direction along the central axis of the discharge electrode, a tip of the liquid in a state in which the liquid extends is located at the same position as an outer peripheral edge of the peripheral electrode part or located closer to the discharge electrode than the outer peripheral edge.
US12107393B2
A semiconductor laser element that includes a semiconductor layer including a waveguide formed in an intra-layer direction of the semiconductor layer and a window region formed in a front-side end face of the waveguide, has a current-laser optical output characteristic in which, at an operating temperature of 25° C.±3° C., a laser optical output has a maximum value at a first driving current value and the laser optical output is at most 20% of the maximum value at a second driving current value greater than the first driving current value, and is not damaged at the second driving current value.
US12107391B2
A semiconductor optical element has a mesa structure in which an active layer is embedded, and comprises a straight propagating section and a spot size converter section being such that a light confinement in the active layer is weaker than that of the straight propagating section, wherein in a same plane parallel to a layer surface of the active layer, an average value of a width of the mesa structure of the straight propagating section is smaller than a value of the width of the mesa structure at the emission facet of the spot size converter section, and at a top part of the mesa structure, an electrode is formed so that an electric current is injected in the active layer across the entire length of the straight propagating section and the spot size converter section.
US12107390B2
Methods and systems for an ASIC with a laser with the laser's back-facet illumination being monitored by a photodetector situated such that the substrate of the ASIC acts as a waveguide for the back-facet illumination between the laser and the photodetector (monitor). In an embodiment, the laser and monitor are situated on the same side of the ASIC and the back-facet illumination is reflected off the far end of the ASIC substrate before reaching the monitor.
US12107385B2
A light emitting device includes a wiring board having a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer adjacent to the first wiring layer via an insulating layer, a laser having a cathode electrode and an anode electrode, mounted on the wiring board, and driven through low-side driving, and a capacitive element mounted on the wiring board and configured to supply a drive current to the laser. The first wiring layer includes a cathode wire connected to the cathode electrode, and an anode wire connected to the anode electrode. The second wiring layer includes a reference potential wire connected to a reference potential. The reference potential wire overlaps the anode wire. The anode wire surrounds the capacitive element.
US12107384B2
A light emitting device includes: a base having a bottom face and a lateral part surrounding the bottom face and extending upwards from the bottom face, wherein the lateral part has an uppermost face and includes a first stepped portion including a first upper face and a second stepped portion including a second upper face, wherein the first upper face and the second upper face are disposed below the uppermost face, wherein the first upper face and the second upper face are disposed inward of the uppermost face in a top view, and wherein a height of the first stepped portion from the bottom face is lower than a height of the second stepped portion from the bottom face; a semiconductor laser element disposed on the bottom face; and a light reflective member and/or an optical member disposed on the bottom face.
US12107378B2
A light absorbing layer which is bonded to a laser medium to configure a bonded body, wherein the light absorbing layer is formed from a glass material and, in an oscillation wavelength (wavelength of 650 nm or more and less than 1400 nm) of the laser medium, an absorption coefficient is 0.1 to 10.0 cm−1, a difference in refractive index between the light absorbing layer and the laser medium is within ±0.1, and a difference in linear thermal expansion coefficient between the light absorbing layer and the laser medium is within ±1 ppm/K. The present invention relates to a light absorbing layer for preventing parasitic oscillation, and aims to provide a material capable of suppressing the manufacturing cost and which can be easily processed for preparing a bonded body.
US12107376B2
An apparatus for assembling an electrical plug connector on a first cable end and/or on a second cable end of an electrical cable which has one or more inner conductors. The apparatus has at least one module group with at least two processing modules for processing the cable. The apparatus furthermore has a feed device for feeding the cable end along a feed direction (X) to a processing station (B) in the module group. The module group has a module transport device for feeding in each case one of the processing modules of the module group to the processing station (B). The feed device is configured to remove the cable end from the module group counter to the feed direction (X) after the processing.
US12107374B2
The present invention facilitates making electrical connections. In this terminal block, when an electric wire is inserted in a housing, the end of the electric wire pushes in a block part of a movable member, and a contact part of a locking member with the block part interposed therebetween, thereby releasing the locking of a leaf spring moving part by a hook part of the locking member, and the electric wire is secured by the leaf spring moving part, and the degree to which a display part of the movable member moving in conjunction with the block part is visible through a window part changes according to the change in position of the display part.
US12107367B2
A single manufactured piece of injection molded or 3D (three-dimensional) printed plastic, metal, rubber, or wax is provided. The piece is adapted to fit around a communication port receptacle and a corresponding portion of a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) where the communication port receptacle is located on the PCB. The piece includes a latch adapted to push down on a tab of a connector for a cord when the connector is inserted into the communication port receptacle to hold the connector within the communication port receptacle.
US12107366B2
The present invention discloses a connector and a connector assembly. The connector has a housing and a latch safety. The latch safety is slidably mounted on the housing and adapted to move between a safety position to prevent the mating connector from being unlocked and a pre-locking position to allow the mating connector to be unlocked. A guide slot is formed on an outer wall of the connector and surrounded by a first end wall and a second end wall spaced from each other in a circumferential direction of the housing and two side walls spaced from each other in an axial direction of the housing. The latch safety has a sliding plate slidably installed in the guide slot, and the sliding plate has a first end and a second end spaced from each other in the circumferential direction and a front and rear sides spaced from each other in the axial direction. When the latch safety is moved to the safety position along the guide slot, the end face of the first end of the sliding plate abuts against the first end wall of the guide slot, so that a human finger cannot contact the end face of the first end of the sliding plate. Therefore, the risk of accidental reset of the latch safety due to misoperation can be avoided, and the use safety is improved.
US12107363B2
A seal for an electrical plug connector includes a passage opening receiving a contact element, a contact sealing section extending along the passage opening in a sleeve-shaped manner, and a creepage distance increase section disposed opposite the contact sealing section. The creepage distance increase section continues the passage opening in a tubular manner and/or extends away from the passage opening in a plate-shaped manner.
US12107360B2
It is aimed to provide a terminal connection structure of a novel structure capable of advantageously preventing rotational displacements between two terminals without being accompanied by an increased spring force of a spring member. A terminal connection structure is provided with a first terminal 10 including a first connecting portion 32, a second terminal 12 including a second connecting portion 24, and a spring member 14 for sandwiching the first and second connecting portions 32, 24 in an overlapped state. At least one 44 of contact surfaces of the first and second connecting portions 32, 24 has a contact point portion 42 in the form of a curved surface bulging toward the other contact surface 30. The spring member 14 includes a pressing point 50 for pressing the first and second connecting portions 32, 24 in an overlapping direction at a position separated from the contact point portion 42.
US12107353B1
Electrical contact clips for use in utility locating operations to couple signals from a transmitter to a hidden or buried utility via direct electrical contact are disclosed.
US12107352B2
An antenna for sending and/or receiving electromagnetic signals and a method for using an antenna for sending and/or receiving electromagnetic signals. The antenna comprises an electrically conducting ground structure extending along a plane; a first structure forming a radiator, being electrically conducting; a second structure, being electrically conducting; and a feed point for connecting the antenna with a signal line. A first end of the first structure and a first end of the second structure are in electrical contact with each other at the feed point. Further, the ground structure is separated from the feed point by a gap and a second end of the second structure is connected to the ground structure. The second structure comprises a bending portion such that the second structure together with a portion of the ground structure surround an area when seen from a direction orthogonal to the plane of the ground structure.
US12107351B2
An antenna is provided with a conductive member. The conductive member has a main part, an opposing part, a first feed terminal, and a second feed terminal. The main part extends along a horizontal plane so as to have an opened ring shape. The main part has a first end section and a second end section that are located apart from each other. The opposing part includes a first opposing part provided on the first end section and a second opposing part provided on the second end section. The first opposing part and the second opposing part are spaced apart from, and opposed to, each other. The main part has a thin part that is thinner than both the first opposing part and the second opposing part.
US12107349B2
An antenna includes a cross-polarized feed signal network configured to convert first and second radio frequency (RF) input feed signals to first and second pairs of cross-polarized feed signals at respective first and second pairs of feed signal output ports. A feed signal pedestal is provided, which is electrically coupled to the first and second pairs of feed signal output ports, and a patch radiating element is provided, which is electrically coupled by the feed signal pedestal to the first and second pairs of feed signal output ports. This patch radiating element may be capacitively coupled to first and second pairs of feed signal lines on the feed signal pedestal, which are electrically connected to the first and second pairs of feed signal output ports.
US12107343B2
An antenna structure includes a feeding radiation element, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, a fourth radiation element, a fifth radiation element, and a switch circuit. The feeding radiation element has a feeding point. The second radiation element is coupled through the first radiation element to the feeding radiation element. The third radiation element is coupled to the second radiation element. The fourth radiation element is coupled to the second radiation element. The fourth radiation element and the third radiation element extend in different directions. The fifth radiation element has a tuning point, and is coupled to the feeding radiation element. The feeding radiation element is disposed between the first radiation element and the fifth radiation element. The switch circuit selectively couples the tuning point to a ground voltage.
US12107335B2
An electronic device may have peripheral conductive housing structures, a display frame, a support plate, a logic board, and an antenna. The antenna may have a resonating element that includes a first slot between the logic board and a segment of the peripheral conductive housing structures, a second slot between the display frame and the segment, and optionally a third slot between the support plate and the segment. The slots may be at least partially overlapping, may have respective lengths, may be located at respective distances from a cover layer for the display, and may collectively receive radio-frequency signals in a frequency band such as the L5 GPS band. Switching circuitry and filter circuitry may be coupled to the antenna feed and/or to the antenna feed (s) of one or more adjacent antennas in the electronic device to help to isolate the antennas from each other.
US12107332B2
Provided is an electromagnetic wave reflectarray, including a first substrate, a second substrate, first wires and second wires respectively arranged on the first substrate and the second substrate along a first direction and a second direction, antenna electrodes and tuning electrodes respectively arranged into first electrode strings and second electrode strings electrically connected to the first wires and the second wires on the first substrate and the second substrate along the first direction, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The tuning electrodes completely cover the orthographic projections of the antenna electrodes on the second substrate.
US12107331B2
A hybrid radiating element may comprise a dielectric substrate having a thickness, a top surface and a bottom surface, and an electrically conductive patch disposed on the top surface of the dielectric substrate. The hybrid radiating element may further comprise a graphene stub disposed on the top surface of the dielectric substrate. The graphene stub may be contiguous with, and electrically coupled to, the electrically conductive patch. The hybrid radiating element may further comprise an electrically conductive layer disposed on the bottom surface of the dielectric substrate. An array of hybrid radiating elements may be arranged in a grid pattern of M rows and N columns. A codebook set of biasing voltages may be arranged to drive the radiating elements in the array as a phase transformation matrix, thereby manipulating the reflection of an incoming electromagnetic wave.
US12107322B2
An antenna system and a terminal device are disclosed. The antenna system may include a dielectric slab (8); a clearance zone (6) on the dielectric slab (8); a low-frequency antenna (1) with a working frequency band of less than 6 GHz arranged in the clearance zone (6); a millimeter-wave array antenna (2) arranged in the clearance zone (6); and a passive grid structure (7) arranged between the low-frequency antenna (1) and the millimeter-wave array antenna (2).
US12107309B2
An impedance matching device includes a first dielectric substrate; a first transmission line circuit; a first conductive pad which extends toward the first transmission line circuit on the first dielectric substrate to at least partially vertically overlap the first transmission line circuit: a first reference potential layer; and a first matching load which is electrically connected to the first conductive pad and has a first resistance. An area where the first conductive pad vertically overlaps the first transmission line circuit has a size configured such that a load reactance associated with the first transmission line circuit is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold and an absolute value of a difference between a load resistance associated with the first transmission line circuit and the first resistance is equal to or less than a predetermined resistance threshold.
US12107307B2
A method for making an improved fuel cell using a porosity gradient design for gas diffusion layers in a hydrogen fuel cell, a gas diffusion layer made by the method and a fuel cell containing the gas diffusion layer.
US12107303B1
A membrane humidifier for a fuel cell is disclosed. The membrane humidifier for a fuel cell includes a first housing (10) including a humidity inlet port (12) suctioning a wet flow thereinto and a dry air outlet port (14) discharging dry air, and a second housing (80) correspondingly coupled to the first housing, and including a humidity outlet port discharging a wet flow and a dry air inlet port suctioning dry air.
US12107302B2
An overcharge protection device cover assembly for use with a battery cell housing. The battery cell housing has a first terminal and a second terminal, the overcharge protection device cover assembly including a first terminal pad having a first length. The first terminal pad is contactable with the first terminal of the battery cell housing. The assembly also includes a second terminal pad having a second length that is greater than the first length. The second terminal pad is contactable with the second terminal of the battery cell housing. A reversal device of the assembly is deflectable toward the first and second terminal pads. A conductive element of the assembly is positioned between the reversal device and the first and second terminal pads.
US12107301B1
The present disclosure provides an end cover assembly, an energy storage device, and an electric apparatus. The end cover assembly includes: a cover plate having a first through hole; a pole including a pole body, the pole body passing through the first through hole and provided with a first thread at an outer peripheral surface of the pole body; an insulator provided on the cover plate and having a second through hole, the second through hole having a hole wall provided with a second thread, the pole body passing through the second through hole, and the first thread being connected to the second thread; an anti-loosening structure including a first anti-loosening portion and a second anti-loosening portion that are engaged with and connected to each other to prevent the insulator from loosening.
US12107289B2
A battery module includes a battery cell stack, in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked, a module frame configured to accommodate the battery cell stack, and of which a front surface and a rear surface facing each other are opened, and an end plate configured to cover each of the front surface and the rear surface of the module frame, wherein the module frame includes a first bonding surface formed at edges constituting each of the front surface and the rear surface, and wherein the end plate include a second bonding surface bonded to the first bonding surface, and a rib located toward the center of the end plate than the second bonding surface and protruding toward the module frame.
US12107281B2
A method produces a cover assembly for a cell housing of a prismatic battery cell. In the method, a cell terminal consisting of three portions is arranged on a cover plate in such a way that one portion is arranged in a through-opening of the cover plate, another portion and the cover plate overlap to form a first interspace, and a further portion and the cover plate overlap to form a second interspace. A sealing element is provided in one of the interspaces and is preloaded by compressing the interspace. The cell terminal is connected to the cover plate by introducing a plastic into the interspace without the sealing element.
US12107276B2
A positive electrode for a lithium-sulfur secondary battery includes a positive electrode active material layer having an intaglio pattern formed therein. A method for manufacturing the same, and a lithium-sulfur secondary battery including the same are also provided. The positive electrode active material layer has a porosity of 50 to 65%. The intaglio pattern has a width of 1 to 100 μm and a depth of 30 to 99% based on the thickness of the positive electrode active material layer. The volumetric ratio of the positive electrode active material layer and the intaglio pattern is 4:1 to 40:1. When the positive electrode is applied to a lithium-sulfur secondary battery, the energy density per unit volume can be remarkably improved.
US12107259B2
A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery including a lithium metal layer and a protective layer including a three-dimensional structural body made of metal and lithium nitride on the lithium metal layer. The protective layer induces uniform ionic conductivity and electrical conductivity on the surface of the negative electrode. A method for manufacturing method a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery including the steps of forming a metal hydroxide having a three-dimensional structure, forming a metal nitride having a three-dimensional structure by a nitridation reaction of the metal hydroxide of the three-dimensional structure; and transferring the metal nitride having the three-dimensional structure onto a lithium metal layer to form a protective layer. A lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery.
US12107257B1
Provided are a positive electrode plate, a lithium ion battery, and an energy storage device. The positive electrode plate includes a positive current collector and a positive active substance layer disposed on at least part of a surface of the positive current collector. The positive active substance layer contains a positive active substance doped with a metal element M. A doping amount of the metal element M in the positive active substance of the positive active substance layer gradually decreases in a thickness direction of the positive electrode plate. A ratio of a doping amount of the metal element M in the positive active substance of the positive active substance layer closest to the positive current collector to a doping amount of the metal element M in the positive active substance of the positive active substance layer farthest from the positive current collector is less than or equal to 8.
US12107256B2
The cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery according to embodiments of the present invention includes lithium-transition metal composite oxide particles including a plurality of primary particles, and the lithium-transition metal composite oxide particles have a lithium-potassium-containing portion formed between the primary particles. Thereby, it is possible to improve life-span properties and capacity properties by preventing the layer structure deformation of the primary particles and removing residual lithium.
US12107253B2
The present disclosure relates to battery plates which are useful in optimizing the power and energy density of a batter assembly by having discrete active materials. The present disclosure relates to a battery plate having: a) a substrate having a first surface opposing a second surface; b) one or more active materials disposed on the first surface, second surface, or both the first surface and the second surface of the substrate; and wherein the one or more active materials include two or more discrete active material regions.
US12107252B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to apparatuses and processes for forming semi-solid electrodes having high active solids loading by removing excess electrolyte. In some embodiments, the semi-solid electrode material can be formed by mixing an active material and, optionally, a conductive material in a liquid electrolyte to form a suspension. In some embodiments, the semi-solid electrode material can be disposed onto a current collector to form an intermediate electrode. In some embodiments, the semi-solid electrode material can have a first composition in which the ratio of electrolyte to active material is between about 10:1 and about 1:1. In some embodiments, a method for converting the semi-solid electrode material from the first composition into the second composition includes removing a portion of the electrolyte from the semi-solid electrode material. In some embodiments, the method includes mechanically compressing the intermediate electrode to remove the portion of electrolyte from the semi-solid electrode material.
US12107251B2
A negative electrode cutting drum that cuts a negative electrode single plate to a first width to produce a negative electrode plate, and conveys said negative electrode plate; a negative electrode heating drum that heats the negative electrode plate; a positive electrode cutting drum that cuts a positive electrode single plate to a second width to produce a positive electrode plate, and conveys said positive electrode plate; a positive electrode heating drum that heats the positive electrode plate; a bonding drum; a separator cutting drum that cuts to a third width a first separator single plate and a second separator single plate of a laminate bonded by the bonding drum; and a lamination drum that laminates the cut laminates on a lamination stage. The rectangular lamination stage is provided, at the four corners, with a plurality of protuberances for pressing and holding the laminate on the stage surface.
US12107238B2
Electrolytes, articles, and methods for reducing gases produced during the operation of an electrochemical cell are generally described. The inclusion of silylated sulfonic acid esters can reduce the amount of gases produced in an electrochemical cell (e.g., a battery).
US12107236B2
A secondary battery includes a battery case, an electrode body, and a collector member connecting the battery case and the electrode body. A positive electrode includes an insulation layer provided so as to be adjacent to a positive electrode active material layer. The collector members include first portions, and second portions continuous to the first portions and bent relative to the first portions. The first portions are fixed to the battery case. The second portions are connected, at ends thereof opposite to the bent portions, to collector regions, respectively. The collector members further include ribs connected, at the bent portions, to the first portions and the second portions, respectively.
US12107235B2
A variable-diameter adsorption winding needle mechanism and a winding machine are provided. The variable-diameter adsorption winding needle mechanism includes a winding needle assembly, a first adsorption winding needle, a second adsorption winding needle and a pin assembly. A plurality of adsorption holes are provided on the outer peripheral surfaces of the first adsorption winding needle and the second adsorption winding needle. At the same time, the winding needle assembly is also used to drive, under the driving of the pin assembly, the first adsorption winding needle and the second adsorption winding needle to move close to or away from each other.
US12107231B2
A device for manufacturing a laminated electrode body, the device comprising: a negative electrode out drum for cutting a single-plate negative electrode at a first width, producing a negative electrode plate, and transporting the negative electrode plate; a negative electrode heat drum for heating the negative electrode plate; a positive electrode cut drum for cutting a single-plate positive electrode at a second width, producing a positive electrode plate, and transporting the positive electrode plate; a positive electrode heat drum for heating the positive electrode plate; an affixing drum for disposing the negative electrode plate on a first single-plate separator, disposing the second single-plate separator thereon, disposing the positive electrode plate thereon, and performing affixation; a separator cut drum for cutting, at a third width, the first single-plate separator and the second single-plate separator of the laminate affixed by the affixing drum; and a lamination drum for laminating the cut laminate.
US12107227B2
This application provides a nonaqueous electrolyte, a lithium-ion battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus. The nonaqueous electrolyte includes a nonaqueous solvent, a lithium salt, and an additive. The nonaqueous solvent includes a carbonate solvent and a high oxidation potential solvent, and the additive is a fluorinated cyclic carbonate. The carbonate solvent is a linear carbonate, or a mixture of linear carbonate and cyclic carbonate, the high oxidation potential solvent is selected from one or more of compounds represented by formula I and formula II, and the fluorinated cyclic carbonate is selected from compounds represented by formula III. This application can not only improve electrochemical performance of the lithium-ion battery under high temperature and high voltage and improve safety performance such as overcharge safety and hot box safety of the lithium-ion battery, but also ensure that the lithium-ion battery has some kinetic performance.
US12107217B2
Disclosed is an electrolyte membrane for a lithium secondary battery including a compound in which PEG is grafted to PAES or PAEK as a main chain or a block copolymer between PAES or PAEK and PEG, thereby to have excellent ionic conductivity and adhering property. Disclosed is a binder for a lithium secondary battery including a compound in which PEG is grafted to PAES or PAEK as a main chain or a block copolymer between PAES or PAEK and PEG, thereby to have excellent ionic conductivity and adhering property. Further, disclosed is a membrane-electrode structure for lithium secondary batteries having the electrolyte membrane and the binder. Further, disclosed is a manufacturing method of each of the electrolyte membrane, the binder, and the structure.
US12107213B2
The present invention provides a lithium ion conductive composite solid electrolyte including an oxide-based crystalline solid electrolyte and a sulfide-based solid electrolyte, wherein the oxide-based solid electrolyte is a garnet-type solid electrolyte represented by a general formula of Li7-3y-zAlyLa3Zr2-zMzO12, wherein M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta), and tungsten (W), y satisfies 0≤y≤1, and z satisfies 0≤z<2, the sulfide-based solid electrolyte is an argyrodite-based ceramic represented by a general formula of Li7-aPS6-aXa, wherein X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), and iodine (I), and a satisfies 0≤a≤2, and the oxide-based solid electrolyte and the sulfide-based solid electrolyte are mixed in a weight ratio of 5.1:4.9 to 8:2.
US12107212B2
Provided are a negative electrode composition including a sulfide-based inorganic solid electrolyte, a negative electrode active material containing a silicon atom or a tin atom, and a polymer, in which the polymer has substantially no adsorption capacity to the negative electrode active material and the sulfide-based inorganic solid electrolyte, a modulus of elasticity of the polymer measured in accordance with JIS K 7161 (2014) is 100 MPa or higher and 1000 MPa or lower, and in a case where a negative electrode active material layer is formed of the negative electrode composition, the polymer is contained in the negative electrode active material layer in a particle form, a negative electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, an all-solid state secondary battery, a method for manufacturing a negative electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, and a method for manufacturing an all-solid state secondary battery.
US12107201B2
The present disclosure relate to a semiconductor light emitting device and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor light emitting device comprises a semiconductor light emitting chip, and first electrodes electrically connected to the semiconductor light emitting chip, with the first electrodes each having a planar area larger than that of the semiconductor light emitting chip, wherein lower surfaces of the first electrodes are exposed externally, and an insulating material is filled in-between inner lateral surfaces of the first electrodes.
US12107190B2
A micro light-emitting diode including an epitaxy structure, a first pad, a first ohmic contact layer and a current conducting layer is provided. The epitaxy structure includes a first type semiconductor layer, a second type semiconductor layer and an active layer. The first pad is electrically connected to the first type semiconductor layer. The first ohmic contact layer is electrically connected between the first type semiconductor layer and the first pad. The current conducting layer is electrically connected between the first ohmic contact layer and the first pad. At least a portion of the orthogonal projection of the first ohmic contact layer on the plane upon which the first type semiconductor layer is located is away from the orthogonal projection of the first pad on the plane. A display panel is also provided.
US12107176B2
A back-contact solar cell having a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer in a first region on a back side of a semiconductor substrate, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer in a second region and the first region on the back side. In the first region, an intrinsic semiconductor layer and the first and second conductivity-type semiconductor layers are stacked successively on the back side. In the second region, the intrinsic semiconductor layer and the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer are stacked on the back side. In a boundary region between the first and second regions, an insulating layer, and the first and second conductivity-type semiconductor layers, are stacked successively on the back side, with the intrinsic semiconductor layer disposed between the layers and the back side. The insulating layer is interposed between the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer in the first region and the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer in the second region.
US12107170B2
Transistor structures with a channel semiconductor material that is passivated with two-dimensional (2D) crystalline material. The 2D material may comprise a semiconductor having a bandgap offset from a band of the channel semiconductor. The 2D material may be a thin as a few monolayers and have good temperature stability. The 2D material may be a conversion product of a sacrificial precursor material, or of a portion of the channel semiconductor material. The 2D material may comprise one or more metal and a chalcogen. The channel material may be a metal oxide semiconductor suitable for low temperature processing (e.g., IGZO), and the 2D material may also be compatible with low temperature processing (e.g., <450° C.). The 2D material may be a chalcogenide of a metal present in the channel material (e.g., ZnSx or ZnSex) or of a metal absent from the channel material when formed from a sacrificial precursor.
US12107163B2
A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. In one embodiment, a method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a sacrificial gate structure over a portion of a semiconductor fin, forming a gate spacer on opposing sides of the sacrificial gate structure, forming an amorphized region in the semiconductor fin not covered by the sacrificial gate structure and the gate spacer, wherein the amorphized region has an amorphous-crystalline interface having a first roughness, forming a stressor layer over the amorphized region, wherein the formation of the stressor layer recrystallizes the amorphous-crystalline interface from the first roughness to a second roughness that is less than the first roughness, and subjecting the amorphized region to an annealing process to recrystallize the amorphized region to a crystalline region, and the crystalline region comprising a dislocation.
US12107162B2
A multi-gate semiconductor structure and its manufacturing method are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate having an active area and an isolation structure adjacent to the active area. The semiconductor structure includes a gate structure formed on the substrate and a gate dielectric layer between the gate structure and the substrate. The gate structure includes a first part above the top surface of the substrate and a second part connected to the first part. The second part of the gate structure is formed in the isolation structure, wherein the isolation structure is in direct contact with the bottom surface and sidewalls of the second part of the gate structure. A method of manufacturing the semiconductor structure includes partially etching the isolation structure to form a trench exposing the top portion of sidewalls of the substrate. The gate dielectric layer and the gate structure extend into the trench.
US12107156B2
A semiconductor structure includes: a channel layer; an active layer over the channel layer, wherein the active layer is configured to form a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) to be formed in the channel layer along an interface between the channel layer and the active layer; a gate electrode over a top surface of the active layer; and a source/drain electrode over the top surface of the active layer; wherein the active layer includes a first layer and a second layer sequentially disposed therein from the top surface to a bottom surface of the active layer, and the first layer possesses a higher aluminum (Al) atom concentration compared to the second layer. An HEMT structure and an associated method are also disclosed.
US12107149B2
In an embodiment, a method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a dummy gate stack over a substrate; forming a first spacer layer over the dummy gate stack; oxidizing a surface of the first spacer layer to form a sacrificial liner; forming one or more second spacer layers over the sacrificial liner; forming a third spacer layer over the one or more second spacer layers; forming an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer over the third spacer layer; etching at least a portion of the one or more second spacer layers to form an air gap, the air gap being interposed between the third spacer layer and the first spacer layer; and forming a refill layer to fill an upper portion of the air gap.
US12107148B2
A semiconductor device includes an active gate metal structure disposed over a substrate, the active gate metal structure having a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite to each other. The semiconductor device includes a first source/drain region disposed adjacent the first sidewall of the active gate metal structure with a first lateral distance. The semiconductor device includes a second source/drain region disposed adjacent the second sidewall of the active gate metal structure with a second lateral distance, wherein the second lateral distance is substantially greater than the first lateral distance. The semiconductor device includes a resist protective oxide (RPO) comprising a first portion extending over a portion of a major surface of the substrate that is laterally located between the second sidewall and the second source/drain region, wherein the RPO has no portion extending over a top surface of the active gate metal structure.
US12107147B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same include forming dummy gate spacers in a trench in a semiconductor substrate. A dummy gate is formed in the trench. An exposed dummy gate spacer is replaced with a sacrificial spacer. A cap layer is formed over the dummy gate. The cap layer is etched to expose the dummy gate. The sacrificial spacer is replaced with an isolation dielectric spacer. The dummy gate is replaced with a conductor.
US12107137B2
Provided is a semiconductor device in which a leakage current is reduced, the semiconductor device which is particularly useful for power devices. A semiconductor device including at least: an n+-type semiconductor layer, which contains a crystalline oxide semiconductor as a major component; an n−-type semiconductor layer that is placed on the n+-type semiconductor layer, the n−-type semiconductor layer containing a crystalline oxide semiconductor as a major component; a high-resistance layer with at least a part thereof being embedded in the n−-type semiconductor layer, the high-resistance layer having a bottom surface located at a distance of less than 1.5 μm from an upper surface of the n+-type semiconductor layer; and a Schottky electrode that forms a Schottky junction with the n−-type semiconductor layer, the Schottky electrode having an edge located on the high-resistance layer.
US12107136B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a P-well region, an N-well region disposed on either side of and abutting the P-well region, and a deep N-well region disposed beneath and abutting both the P-well region and at least part of the N-well region on either side of the P-well region. The semiconductor device further includes a first conductive layer formed over a cathode region of the P-well region, where a Schottky barrier is formed at a junction of the first conductive layer and the P-well region. The semiconductor device further includes a second conductive layer formed over anode regions of the P-well region, where the anode regions are disposed on either side of the cathode region.
US12107134B2
A device includes a semiconductor channel region and a gate structure. The semiconductor channel region is on a substrate. The gate structure is over the semiconductor channel region and comprises a gate dielectric layer, a first gate conductor layer, and a second gate conductor layer. The first gate conductor layer is over the gate dielectric layer. The first gate conductor layer includes oxygen. The second gate conductor layer is over the first gate conductor layer.
US12107131B2
A semiconductor device includes a first interconnect structure and multiple channel layers stacked over the first interconnect structure. A bottommost one of the multiple channel layers is thinner than rest of the multiple channel layers. The semiconductor device further includes a gate stack wrapping around each of the channel layers except a bottommost one of the channel layers; a source/drain feature adjoining the channel layers; a first conductive via connecting the first interconnect structure to a bottom of the source/drain feature; and a dielectric feature under the bottommost one of the channel layers and directly contacting the first conductive via.
US12107117B2
An integrated circuit includes a polysilicon resistor having a plurality of segments, including first, second and third segments, the second segment located between and running about parallel to the first and third segments. A first header connects the first and second segments, and a second header connects the second and third segments. A first metal silicide layer located over the first header extends over the first and second segments toward the second header. A second metal silicide layer located over the second header extends over the second and third segments toward the first header. A dielectric layer is located over and contacts the first, second and third segments between the first and second metal silicide layers.
US12107115B2
A display panel includes first sub-pixels, second sub-pixels and third sub-pixels. Each pixel unit includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and two third sub-pixels disposed in a virtual octagon. The two third sub-pixels are distributed on two opposite sides of a pixel column constituted by the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel.
US12107110B2
A photoelectric conversion device in which first and second substrates are bonded to each other is provided. The first substrate includes a first semiconductor layer having light receiving elements. The second substrate includes a second semiconductor layer having a circuit element for processing a signal generated by the light receiving elements. The photoelectric conversion device includes an electrode pad for external connection, an opening extending to the electrode pad, and a conductive pattern located between the first and second semiconductor layers. The conductive pattern includes wiring members that are used to drive the photoelectric conversion device and dummy members that are not used to drive the photoelectric conversion device. The dummy members include a dummy member located on an outer side relative to the opening in a plan view relative to a boundary between the first and second substrates.
US12107105B2
According to an aspect, an image sensor package includes a substrate, an image sensor die coupled to the substrate, a light transmitting member, and a plurality of pillar members disposed between and contacting the image sensor die and the light transmitting member. A height of the plurality of pillar members defines a gap height between an active region of the image sensor die and the light transmitting member. The image sensor package including a bonding material that couples the light transmitting member to the image sensor. The bonding material contacts a side of a pillar member, of the plurality of pillar members, that extends between a first end contacting the light transmitting member and a second end contacting the image sensor die.
US12107104B2
Photosensors may be formed on a front side of a semiconductor substrate. An optical refraction layer having a first refractive index may be formed on a backside of the semiconductor substrate. A grid structure including openings is formed over the optical refraction layer. A masking material layer is formed over the grid structure and the optical refraction layer. The masking material layer may be anisotropically etched using an anisotropic etch process that collaterally etches a material of the optical refraction layer and forms non-planar distal surface portions including random protrusions on physically exposed portions of the optical refraction layer. An optically transparent layer having a second refractive index that is different from the first refractive index may be formed on the non-planar distal surface portions of the optical refraction layer. A refractive interface refracts incident light in random directions, and improves quantum efficiency of the photo sensors.
US12107099B2
A light sensor (4) in which each of its pixels comprises: first and second MOS transistors (T1, T2) series-connected through their sources (S), a gate of the second transistor (T2) receiving a comparative voltage (Vcmp); a first current source (104) series-connected with said transistors (T1, T2) between a first supply voltage (GND) and a second supply voltage (VDD2); a third MOS transistor (T3) and a second current source (108) series-connected between a third supply voltage (GND) and a fourth supply voltage (VDD1), wherein the third transistor (T3) has a gate connected to a connection node (106) of the first current source (104) to the first and second transistors (T1, T2); a photodiode (PD) coupled to a gate of the first transistor (T1); and a switch (RST) connected to the gate of the first transistor (T1).
US12107097B2
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device capable of suppressing deterioration in dark characteristics, and an electronic apparatus. The present invention is provided with: a photoelectric conversion section that performs photoelectric conversion; a charge retaining section that temporarily retains electric charge converted by the photoelectric conversion section; and a first trench formed in a semiconductor substrate between the photoelectric conversion section and the charge retaining section, the first trench being higher than the photoelectric conversion section in a depth direction of the semiconductor substrate. Alternatively, the first trench is lower than the photoelectric conversion section and higher than the charge retaining section in the depth direction of the semiconductor substrate. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a back-illuminated CMOS image sensor.
US12107089B2
An oxide thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, and a first active layer structure and a second active layer structure arranged subsequently, the first active layer structure includes a first conductive connection portion and a second conductive connection portion arranged oppositely, the second active layer structure includes a third conductive connection portion and a fourth conductive connection portion arranged oppositely, and the second oxide semiconductor pattern respectively coupled to the third conductive connection portion and the fourth conductive connection portion, and an orthographic projection of the first oxide semiconductor pattern on the substrate and an orthographic projection of the second oxide semiconductor pattern on the substrate are both located within an orthographic projection of the gate electrode on the substrate, the second conductive connection portion is coupled to the third conductive connection portion.
US12107087B2
Semiconductor structures and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary manufacturing method includes providing a workpiece including a substrate, an isolation feature over the substrate, a first fin-shaped structure protruding through the isolation feature, and a second fin-shaped structure protruding through the isolation feature, forming a dielectric fin between the first and second fin-shaped structures, and forming first and second gate structures over the first and second fin-shaped structures, respectively. The exemplary manufacturing method also includes etching the isolation feature from the backside of the workpiece to form a trench exposing the dielectric fin, etching the dielectric fin from the backside of the workpiece to form an extended trench, and depositing a seal layer over the extended trench. The seal layer caps an air gap between the first and second gate structures.
US12107077B2
A stack package is disclosed. A first semiconductor die and a supporter are disposed on a package substrate. The supporter may include a second side facing a first side of the first semiconductor die having a substantially inclined surface. A second semiconductor die is stacked on the first semiconductor die and on the supporter. An encapsulant layer is formed to fill a portion between the supporter and the first semiconductor die.
US12107073B2
A display device and a method for bonding the display device are provided. The display device includes a display panel and a plurality of chip on films. The plurality of chip on films are arranged along a first edge of the display panel, and are divided into a plurality of groups of chip on films, and each group of chip on films includes at least two chip on films, and is bonded to the display panel through a same anisotropic conductive film.
US12107072B2
A backplane for controlling a display is disclosed. The backplane includes a plurality of tiles formed into an array. Each of the plurality of tiles includes a plurality of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor backplane dies. Edges of the backplane dies that form a perimeter of the array include electrical connections that direct electrical signals to at least one of the CMOS backplane dies. A display assembly is also disclosed wherein the display assembly includes a backplane having an array of tiles. Each tile includes a plurality of electrically coupled CMOS backplane dies, where edges of the tiles that form an outer perimeter of the array include electrical connections directing electrical signals to one or more of the plurality of CMOS backplane dies. The display assembly further includes at least one light emitting diode array electrically coupled with at least one tile.
US12107070B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device which connects a first bond point and a second bond point by a wire. The method includes: a ball bonding step in which a crimping ball and a ball neck are formed at the first bond point by ball bonding; a thin-walled portion forming step in which a thin-walled portion having a reduced cross-sectional area is formed between the ball neck and the crimping ball; a wire tail separating step in which after a capillary is raised to unroll a wire tail, the capillary is moved in a direction to the second bond point, and the wire tail and the crimping ball are separated in the thin-walled portion; and a wire tail joining step in which the capillary is lowered and a side surface of the separated wire tail is joined onto the crimping ball.
US12107065B2
Systems and techniques that facilitate uniform qubit chip gaps via injection-molded solder pillars are provided. In various embodiments, a device can comprise one or more injection-molded solder interconnects. In various aspects, the one or more injection-molded solder interconnects can couple at least one qubit chip to an interposer chip. In various embodiments, the device can further comprise one or more injection-molded solder pillars. In various instances, the one or more injection-molded solder pillars can be between the at least one quit chip and the interposer chip. In various cases, the one or more injection-molded solder pillars can be in parallel with the one or more injection-molded solder interconnects. In various embodiments, the one or more injection-molded solder pillars can facilitate and/or maintain a uniform gap between the at least one qubit chip and the interposer chip. In various embodiments, a melting point of the one or more injection-molded solder pillars can be higher than a melting point of the one or more injection-molded solder interconnects. In various embodiments, the one or more injection-molded solder pillars can be superconductors. In various embodiments, a yield strength of the one or more injection-molded solder pillars can be between 3,000 pounds per square inch and 15,000 pounds per square inch, which can be higher than a yield strength of the one or more injection-molded solder interconnects. In various embodiments, the one or more injection-molded solder pillars can be binary tin alloys, tertiary tin alloys, and/or quaternary tin alloys.
US12107058B2
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor die. A first contact pad, second contact pad, and third contact pad are formed over the semiconductor die. An under-bump metallization layer (UBM) is formed over the first contact pad, second contact pad, and third contact pad. The UBM electrically connects the first contact pad to the second contact pad. The third contact pad is electrically isolated from the UBM. Conductive traces can be formed extending between the first contact pad and second contact pad under the UBM. A fourth contact pad can be formed over the first contact pad and a fifth contact pad can be formed over the second contact pad. The UBM is then formed over the fourth and fifth contact pads.
US12107050B2
Systems and methods for a semiconductor device having a substrate material with a trench at a front side, a conformal dielectric material over at least a portion of the front side of the substrate material and in the trench, a fill dielectric material on the conformal dielectric material in the trench, and a conductive portion formed during front-end-of-line (FEOL) processing. The conductive portion may include an FEOL interconnect via extending through the fill dielectric material and at least a portion of the conformal dielectric material and having a front side portion defining a front side electrical connection extending beyond the front side of the semiconductor substrate material and a backside portion defining an active contact surface. The conductive portion may extend across at least a portion of the conformal dielectric material and the fill dielectric material and have a backside surface defining an active contact surface.
US12107049B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower memory stack disposed on a substrate and including lower gate electrodes and a lower staircase structure, an upper memory stack including upper gate electrodes and an upper staircase structure, a lower interlayer insulating layer doped with an impurity and covering the lower staircase structure, the lower interlayer insulating layer having a doping concentration gradually increasing toward the lower staircase structure, an upper interlayer insulating layer doped with an impurity and covering the upper staircase structure and the lower interlayer insulating layer, the upper interlayer insulating layer having a doping concentration gradually increasing toward the upper staircase structure and the lower interlayer insulating layer, lower contact plugs and upper contact plugs contacting the lower gate electrodes and the upper gate electrodes, respectively.
US12107047B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a connecting member configured for positioning on an upper surface of an integrated circuit package and a cable comprising a first end attached to the connecting member and a second end configured for electrically coupling with a power supply component. The connecting member is operable to position the cable for connection to the upper surface of the integrated circuit package to deliver power from the power supply component to the integrated circuit package with the power supply component and the integrated circuit package mounted on an upper surface of a printed circuit board. A method is also disclosed herein.
US12107042B2
Embodiments of a system and methods for localized high density substrate routing are generally described herein. In one or more embodiments an apparatus includes a medium, first and second circuitry elements, an interconnect element, and a dielectric layer. The medium can include low density routing therein. The interconnect element can be embedded in the medium, and can include a plurality of electrically conductive members therein, the electrically conductive member can be electrically coupled to the first circuitry element and the second circuitry element. The interconnect element can include high density routing therein. The dielectric layer can be over the interconnect die, the dielectric layer including the first and second circuitry elements passing therethrough.
US12107038B2
A semiconductor package includes an interposer, a die and a first encapsulant. The die is bonded to the interposer, the die has a protective layer thereon, wherein the protective layer and the interposer are disposed on opposite sides of the die, and the protective layer is not extended beyond an outer sidewall of the die. The first encapsulant is disposed aside the die and the protective layer.
US12107037B2
In one example, a semiconductor device comprises a substrate comprising a top side and a bottom side, a dielectric structure, and a conductive structure, wherein the conductive structure comprises a first terminal exposed from the dielectric structure, an electronic component over the top side of the substrate, and an encapsulant over the top side of the substrate and covering a lateral side of the electronic component. The dielectric structure comprises a first pattern base and first pattern wall that extends from the first pattern base and is adjacent to the first terminal, and the first terminal is bounded by the first pattern wall. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US12107032B2
Cooling arrangements are disclosed for solid state circuit breakers. In one arrangement, a MOV is disposed between two pulsating heat pipes. An IGCT is disposed on the other side of each pulsating heat pipe away from the MOV. In another arrangement, a bus bar is integral with a heat spreader disposed between a pulsating heat pipe and an IGCT.
US12107021B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a process monitoring method and a process monitoring system. The process monitoring method includes: acquiring a semiconductor structure on which an etch process is performed in an etch chamber, and forming a corresponding test structure based on the semiconductor structure; acquiring first theoretical mass of the test structure after the etch process is theoretically performed; placing the test structure in the etch chamber to actually perform the etch process, and acquiring first residual mass of the test structure after the etch process is actually performed; and determining, based on the first theoretical mass and the first residual mass, whether an etch state of the etch process performed in the etch chamber is normal.
US12107020B2
Disclosed is a method for testing an array substrate, including: sequentially applying a curing drive signal to curing pad circuits according to an arrangement order of the curing pad circuits in a testing circuit board, the curing pad circuit is connected with at least two array substrates; and performing an array test on the array substrates in the curing pad circuit by the curing drive signal. The present application also discloses a device for testing an array substrate, and a computer readable storage medium.
US12107012B2
A method for forming a fin field effect transistor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a first spacer layer over a first fin structure and a second fin structure. The method also includes forming a power rail between the first fin structure and the second fin structure. The method further includes forming a second spacer layer over the first spacer layer and the power rail. In addition, the method includes forming a fin isolation structure over the power rail between the first fin structure and the second fin structure. The method also includes forming an epitaxial structure over the first fin structure and the second fin structure. The method further includes forming an inter-layer dielectric structure covering the epitaxial structure. In addition, the method includes forming an opening exposing the epitaxial structure, the power rail and the fin isolation structure. The method also includes filling the opening with a first contact structure.
US12107011B2
During a front side process of a wafer, a hard mask layer is formed under a metal portion of a semiconductor device, and an epitaxial layer is deposited to form epitaxial portions of the semiconductor device. In a back side process of the wafer to cut the epitaxial layer, the metal portion is covered and protected by the hard mask layer from damages during etching of the epitaxial layer.
US12107009B2
A method of dicing a wafer includes fixing a second portion of a wafer to a wafer chuck without fixing a first portion of the wafer to the wafer chuck and forming first modified portions in first scribe lane regions of the first portion of the wafer by sequentially laser irradiating the first scribe lane regions without the first portion of the wafer being fixed to the wafer chuck. The method also includes fixing a first portion of the wafer to the wafer chuck and unfixing the second portion of the wafer from the wafer chuck and forming second modified portions in second scribe lane regions of the second portion of the wafer by sequentially laser irradiating the second scribe lane regions without the second portion of the wafer being fixed to the wafer chuck.
US12107004B2
A semiconductor structure including a self-assembled monolayer for enhancing metal-dielectric adhesion and preventing metal diffusion is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a first dielectric layer on the substrate. A contact structure is embedded in the first dielectric layer and includes a conductive line. The semiconductor structure further includes a self-assembled monolayer on the conductive line, and a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and the conductive line. The self-assembled monolayer is chemically bonded to the conductive line and the second dielectric layer.
US12106983B2
There is provided an annealing device including a heating unit that heats a surface of an annealing object to temporarily melt an outer layer portion, a sensor that detects thermal radiation light from the annealing object heated by the heating unit, and a processing unit that estimates an annealing result of the annealing object on the basis of a waveform showing a temporal change in an intensity of the thermal radiation light detected by the sensor.
US12106973B2
In one embodiment, a method includes: laser ablating an encapsulant of a semiconductor package, until a threshold amount of the encapsulant remains above one or more die of the semiconductor package; and providing at least one drop of acid onto a surface of the ablated semiconductor package to acid etch for a first time duration, to remove a remaining portion of the encapsulant above the one or more die, where after the acid etch, a die of interest is exposed and the silver bond wires of the semiconductor package are preserved.
US12106969B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a first recess partially through a substrate from a first side of the substrate, forming a dielectric layer in the first recess, forming a second recess partially through the dielectric layer from the first side of the substrate, and forming a buried power rail (BPR) in the second recess of the dielectric layer. The method also includes thinning the substrate from a second side of the substrate to a level of the dielectric layer, the second side of the substrate being opposite to the first side of the substrate.
US12106965B2
Methods for forming a metallic film on a substrate by cyclical deposition are provided. In some embodiments methods may include contacting the substrate with a first reactant comprising a non-halogen containing metal precursor comprising at least one of copper, nickel or cobalt and contacting the substrate with a second reactant comprising a hydrocarbon substituted hydrazine. In some embodiments related semiconductor device structures may include at least a portion of a metallic interconnect formed by cyclical deposition processes.
US12106964B2
Provided is a patterning method including following steps. A doped polysilicon layer, a core layer, and an undoped polysilicon layer are sequentially formed on a target layer. The undoped polysilicon layer is patterned to form a polysilicon pattern. A first etching process is performed by using the polysilicon pattern as a mask to remove a portion of the core layer to form a core pattern. A second etching process is performed to remove the polysilicon pattern. An atomic layer deposition (ALD) process is performed to form a spacer material on the core pattern and the doped polysilicon layer. A portion of the spacer material is removed to form a spacer on a sidewall of the core pattern. A portion of the core pattern and an underlying doped polysilicon are removed.
US12106957B2
In some examples, an infrared emitter is provided with a heating layer sandwiched by top and bottom optical layers that allow only narrow-band infrared light to pass through. A reflective layer may be further provided below the bottom optical layers. This configuration greatly reduces the energy loss and can be manufactured with simple method and low cost.
US12106954B2
The present invention provides dielectric barrier discharge ionization, including a dielectric barrier discharge tube and an electrode pair consisting of a first electrode and a second electrode. At least a portion of the dielectric barrier discharge tube is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The electrode pair can ionize the sample after the power is turned on. The dielectric barrier discharge tube is in communication with a vacuum portion. The pressure range in the dielectric barrier discharge tube is 0.01 to 100 Pa. The dielectric barrier discharge ionization provided by the invention remedies the defects of existing low-pressure ion sources in the pressure range, and provides the low-pressure ion source with high ionization ability, high versatility and simple devices.
US12106952B2
A lens assembly for an outer source of a mass spectrometer, the assembly comprising: a housing; a plurality of lens elements, each lens element comprising a radially extending electrically conductive protrusion, the lens elements being linearly arranged in the housing such that the protrusions are aligned with one another; and an interface connector having a plurality of sockets to receive the protrusions therein and create an electrical connection between the protrusions and sockets. A housing for a resistance temperature detector is also disclosed.
US12106950B2
Method for the regeneration of a volume getter pump in a vacuum apparatus with a volume getter pump and an ion getter pump where the operating voltage of the ion getter pump is reduced, the current through the ion getter pump is recorded for determination of the pressure in the vacuum apparatus and then a heating element of the NEG is controlled as a function of the current of the ion getter pump for the purpose of heating the NEG material.
US12106944B2
An apparatus for processing a substrate may comprise a reaction chamber, a substrate support disposed within the reaction chamber and provided with a support surface to support the substrate, and a motor to provide a rotary movement, wherein the motor is controlled and configured to create a bidirectional rotary movement between the reaction chamber and the substrate support around an axis perpendicular to the support surface.
US12106938B2
Embodiments provided herein generally include apparatus, plasma processing systems and methods for distortion current mitigation. An example plasma processing system includes a voltage source coupled to an input node, which is coupled to an electrode disposed within a processing chamber, wherein the voltage source is configured to generate a pulsed voltage signal at the input node; a signal generator having an output, wherein the RF signal generator is configured to deliver a first RF signal at a first RF frequency to the input node; a bandpass filter coupled between the output of the signal generator and the input node, wherein the bandpass filter is configured to attenuate second RF signals that are outside a range of frequencies including the first RF frequency of the first RF signal; and an impedance matching circuit coupled between the bandpass filter and the input node.
US12106928B2
A cathode mechanism of an electron emission source includes a crystal that includes an upper part being columnar, truncated conical, or their combined shape, and having a first surface to emit thermoelectrons, and a lower part, integrated with the upper part, having a second surface substantially parallel to the first surface, and a diameter larger than the maximum diameter of the upper part, a holding part that is a column having, in order from the holding part upper side, different inner diameters of a first diameter and a second diameter larger than the first one, and that holds the crystal in the state where the crystal first surface is projecting from the upper surface, and the crystal second surface contacts the holding part inside the column, and a retaining part that retains the crystal, at the back of the crystal lower part, not to be separated from the holding part.
US12106925B2
An apparatus may include a cyclotron to receive an ion beam as an incident ion beam at an initial energy, and output the ion beam as an accelerated ion beam at an accelerated ion energy. The apparatus may further include an RF source to output an RF power signal to the cyclotron chamber, the RF power source comprising a variable power amplifier, and a movable stripper, translatable to intercept the ion beam within the cyclotron at a continuum of different positions.
US12106923B2
An arc box and an electromagnetic contactor comprising same are disclosed. The arc box according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a coupling protrusion. The coupling protrusion is inserted into and coupled to a grid coupling hole of an arc chamber. Therefore, the arc chamber can be stably coupled to the arc box. In one embodiment, the coupling can be performed through snap fastening. Therefore, the arc chamber and the arc box can be easily coupled. A rib part is formed on the arc box. The rib part is positioned to be adjacent to the coupled arc chamber so as to prevent pitching of the arc chamber. Therefore, the arc chamber coupled to the arc box can stably maintain a stopping state.
US12106922B2
An electrical fuse assembly includes a housing defining a hermetically sealed chamber, first and second terminal electrodes mounted on the housing, a gas contained in the hermetically sealed chamber, a fuse element electrically connecting the first and second terminal electrodes, and at least one spark gap between the first and second terminal electrodes. The fuse element and the at least one spark gap are disposed in the hermetically sealed chamber.
US12106921B2
A high-capacity miniature cartridge fuse is provided. The fuse includes a housing, a fusible element, and first and second ferrules fabricated from aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy ferrules is fabricated to withstand high pressure generated inside the housing as a result of arcing and to stay in place after repeated temperature and pressure changes caused by at least one of i) current or ii) arcing during short circuit events. The aluminum alloy plated with a first metal plating fabricated from a first metal different from the aluminum alloy and a second metal plating fabricated from a second metal different from the first metal, the second metal plating overlaying the first metal plating. Each of the first and second ferrules includes a side wall and an end wall, wherein the end wall includes a boss extending toward an interior of the housing.
US12106916B2
The present invention relates to a relay protective device, a construction machine, a relay protection control method and apparatus, and a computer readable storage medium. The relay protective device includes: a power supply input contact; a relay protective module comprising a bistable relay and an output contact, wherein the bistable relay comprises a contact, a pull-in coil, and a release coil; an input terminal of the contact, an input terminal of the pull-in coil, and an input terminal of the release coil are connected to the power supply input contact; an output terminal of the contact is connected to the output contact; and a central control unit comprising a first port connected to the output contact, a second port connected to an output terminal of the pull-in coil, and a third port connected to an output terminal of the release coil; the central control unit is used for controlling the pull-in coil and the release coil to be alternately powered on so as to oscillate the contact when a voltage of the output contact is less than a first threshold and is not less than a second threshold, wherein the first threshold is less than a standard working voltage of the bistable relay, and the second threshold is the minimum allowable working voltage of the bistable relay.
US12106913B2
A limit switch includes: a switch main body; and an operation unit connected to the switch main body. The operation unit includes: a housing; a shaft member, a biasing member; and a plunger. The shaft member includes a shaft body supported by the housing in a manner rotatable from a return position to an operation position around a rotation axis, and a cam. The plunger includes: a plunger body; and at least one contact portion. The at least one contact portion includes a recess positioned on a facing surface facing the at least one protrusion and recessed in a direction moving closer to the switch main body. The recess includes: a first end; a second end; and an inclined surface. The inclined surface is inclined in a direction moving closer to the switch main body as the inclined surface extends from the second end to the first end.
US12106911B2
An in-plane sliding parallel capacitive radio frequency (RF) switch includes a substrate, first to third drive components, an insulating layer, and a sliding component. Where a drive voltage is applied between the first and second drive components, the sliding component slides to the top of the first and second drive components; in this case, relatively large capacitance is formed between the first and second drive components and the sliding component, a RF signal is almost completely reflected, and the transmission is cut off. Where the drive voltage is applied between the second and third drive components, the sliding component slides to the top of the second and third drive components; in this case, no facing area between a first drive electrode and the sliding component exists in a vertical direction, the capacitance is rather small, and the RF signal may be transmitted basically without loss.
US12106905B2
A ceramic electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode; an external electrode disposed on the body; and a bonding layer disposed between the body and the external electrode. The bonding layer has a thickness less than a thickness of the external electrode.
US12106904B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and a multi-layered stack including a hafnium oxide layer of a tetragonal crystal structure which is positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the multi-layered stack includes: a seed layer for promoting tetragonal crystallization of the hafnium oxide layer and having a tetragonal crystal structure; and a booster layer for boosting a dielectric constant of the hafnium oxide layer.
US12106902B2
A nanocomposite electrode and supercapacitor thereof are disclosed. The nanocomposite electrode includes a substrate, at least one binding compound, at least one carbonaceous compound, and vanadium doped spinel ferrite nanoparticles (V-SFNPs). The V-SFNPs have a formula of CoxNi1-xVyFe2-yOz, wherein x=0.1-0.9, y=0.01-0.10, and z=3-5. The substrate is at least partially coated on a first side with a mixture comprising the V-SFNPs, the at least one binding compound, and the at least one carbonaceous compound. Two of the nanocomposite electrodes are combined to form the supercapacitor.
US12106894B2
A winding die is disclosed, including: a gear baffle, where a middle portion of the gear baffle is provided with a first opening for placing an iron core post, and the gear baffle is provided with a first surface; and a cylinder, where the cylinder is arranged on the first surface of the gear baffle and connected with the gear baffle. The middle portion of the gear baffle is provided with the first opening for placing the iron core post, the gear baffle is fixedly connected with the cylinder, an external device is connected with a gear, and the cylinder on the gear baffle is driven to rotate around the iron core post by pulling the gear, so that a foil or an insulating material on the cylinder can be wound on the iron core post, finally realizing a foil winding.
US12106881B2
A noise filter includes a capacitor and a common mode choke coil. The noise filter is connected between a first power conversion device configured to perform a switching operation at a first frequency and a second power conversion device configured to perform a switching operation at a second frequency higher than the first frequency. The common mode choke coil includes a core, and a first winding wire and a second winding wire wound around the core. The common mode choke coil has an inductance which is set such that a resonant frequency of the noise filter when the core is magnetically saturated is higher than the first frequency and lower than the second frequency.
US12106877B2
It is aimed to provide a laminated varistor capable of reducing stray capacitance to occur between an internal electrode and an external electrode, and also capable of reducing a variation in the stray capacitance due to a variation in the external electrode. A laminated varistor of the present disclosure has external electrodes on first end surface, second end surface, and first side surface of sintered body. No external electrode is provided on second side surface opposite to first side surface. Varistor regions in which internal electrodes overlap each other in a laminating direction are provided at positions closer to second side surface than to first side surface.
US12106876B2
The present disclosure relates to a monolithic thin-film lead assembly and methods of microfabricating a monolithic thin-film lead assembly. Particularly, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a monolithic thin-film lead assembly that includes a cable having a proximal end, a distal end, a supporting structure that extends from the proximal end to the distal end, and a plurality of conductive traces formed on a portion of the supporting structure. The supporting structure includes one or more layers of dielectric material. The monolithic thin-film lead assembly may further include an electrode assembly formed on the supporting structure at the distal end of the cable. The electrode assembly includes one or more electrodes in electrical connection with one or more conductive traces of the plurality of conductive traces.
US12106864B2
Debris filters fit in fuel assembly lower tie plates and filter fluids passing therethrough. Filters use a series of adjacent plates with aligned peaks and valleys to create several channels. The plates have small excisions in diamond, triangle, or other debris-catching shapes, such as near a lower portion of the filter where fluid enters the filter. Excisions may alternate around each channel, such as four alternating cut-outs in 90-degree intervals about a channel circumference. Excisions may be sized to entrap smaller debris common in reactor coolant flow and liable for fretting damage to fuel cladding. Multiple vertical stages can be used in filters, with different channels for each stage. Ligaments may hold each stage to the next, potentially with a gap between stages for intermixing. Plates, peaks, valleys, ligaments, and excisions may all be formed in a single stamping operation to eliminate excess or overlapping pieces or extensions.
US12106858B2
Techniques are described herein for incorporating fall prevention into a personalized activity plan. In various embodiments, a baseline risk of fall for a user may be estimated (302) based on baseline sensor signal(s) (203, 205, 207). Based on a prediction model (215) (which may/may not be associated with the user) and the baseline risk of fall, respective risks of falls associated with various candidate activities may be predicted (304), and then candidate activities may be determined or selected (306) based on the predicted respective risks of falls. Output indicative of the determined candidate activities may be provided (308) to the user, who may provide input (310) identifying one or more of the determined candidate activities as an exercise conducted or to be conducted by the user. Based on the exercise sensor signal(s), a subsequent risk of fall for the user may be estimated (312) and used to update (314) the prediction model.
US12106854B2
A virtual health system is provided that creates a digital platform to connect patients to healthcare providers. Healthcare providers create profiles that describe their healthcare specialty and provide scheduling information that indicates their availability along with preferences such as appointment or meeting length, minimum break between appointment, and price. Patients create profiles that includes demographic information as well as medical records. The patients may use the system to search for available healthcare providers using a variety of criteria, and to schedule virtual health services such as video chats. The system facilitates payment for the healthcare services, and records any notes, assignments, or prescriptions generated by the healthcare provider during the services. In the event that a patient would like to engage a different healthcare provider associated with the system, the system only allows access to the patient records after receiving permission from the patient.
US12106853B2
A virtual health system is provided that creates a digital platform to connect patients to healthcare providers. Healthcare providers create profiles that describe their healthcare specialty and provide scheduling information that indicates their availability along with preferences such as appointment or meeting length, minimum break between appointment, and price. Patients create profiles that includes demographic information as well as medical records. The patients may use the system to search for available healthcare providers using a variety of criteria, and to schedule virtual health services such as video chats. The system facilitates payment for the healthcare services, and records any notes, assignments, or prescriptions generated by the healthcare provider during the services. In the event that a patient would like to engage a different healthcare provider associated with the system, the system only allows access to the patient records after receiving permission from the patient.
US12106837B2
Methods, devices, and systems of delivering infusion fluid (e.g., medication such as insulin) can detect, at multiple times during a dispensation period of time, a pressure level of the infusion fluid in an infusion fluid pathway, either directly or indirectly. Based on the detected pressure levels, one or more actual dispensation times that are after an intended dispensation time can be determined. In some cases, methods, devices, and systems provided herein can use variable occlusion alarm thresholds, which can depend on variables such as an age of an infusion set and/or a current analyte level. In some cases, methods, devices, and systems provided herein can automate medication delivery and use the actual dispensation times in a control algorithm determining medication deliveries.
US12106834B2
A data aggregation and process automation (DAPA) system is disclosed. The DAPA system includes an authentication module, a monitoring module, an intelligent automation module, and a transformation module. The authentication module is configured to initiate authenticated communication with a plurality of servers, and includes an authentication storage having a plurality of authentication credentials and routing information. The monitoring module is configured to monitor a first server for a first change event and monitor a second server for a second change event. The first change event results in the receipt of a first data object and the second change event results in the receipt of a second data object. The intelligent automation module is configured to identify the second server, request a service, and submit an update data object to the first server. The transformation module is configured to transform data objects from one format into another.
US12106823B2
A semiconductor device capable of holding analog data is provided. Two holding circuits, two bootstrap circuits, and one source follower circuit are formed with use of four transistors and two capacitors. A memory node is provided in each of the two holding circuits; a data potential is written to one of the memory nodes and a reference potential is written to the other of the memory nodes. At the time of data reading, the potential of the one memory node is increased in one of the bootstrap circuits, and the potential of the other memory node is increased in the other of the bootstrap circuits. A potential difference between the two memory nodes is output by the source follower circuit. With use of the source follower circuit, the output impedance can be reduced.
US12106816B2
The present disclosure provide latch performance detecting method and a device. The method includes: extracting circuit structure information of a latch, having a transmission gate and a latch unit, an output terminal of the transmission gate is coupled to the input terminal of the latch unit, and the input terminal is coupled to the output terminal of the drive unit corresponding to the latch; the resistance value of the equivalent resistor of the latch is determined based on the circuit structure information, The first terminal of the equivalent resistor is the output terminal of the driving unit, and the second terminal is the input terminal of the latching unit; based on the resistance value of the equivalent resistor, the latching performance is determined. The embodiments of the present disclosure can accurately detect whether the latch is in a metastable state, which helps to improve the performance of the circuit.
US12106809B2
Disclosed herein are related to a memory system including a memory cell and a circuit to operate the memory cell. In one aspect, the circuit includes a pair of transistors to electrically couple, to the bit line, a selected one of i) a voltage source to supply a reference voltage to the memory cell or ii) a sensor to sense a current through the memory cell. In one aspect, the circuit includes a first transistor. The first transistor and the bit line may be electrically coupled between the pair of transistors and the memory cell in series.
US12106805B2
Examples increase precision for aCAMs by converting an input signal (x) received by a circuit into a first analog voltage signal (V(xMSB)) representing the most significant bits of the input signal (x) and a second analog voltage signal (V(xLSB)) representing the least significant bits of the input signal (x). By dividing the input signal (x) bit-wise into the first analog voltage signal (V(xMSB)) and the second analog voltage signal (V(xLSB)), the circuit can utilize aCAM sub-circuits implementing a combination of Boolean operations to search the input signal (x) against 22*M programmable levels, where “M” represents the number of programmable bits for each aCAM sub-circuit. Thus, using similar circuit hardware, example circuits square the number of programmable levels of conventional aCAMs (which generally only have 2M programmable levels). Accordingly, examples provide new aCAMs that can carry out more complex computations than conventional aCAMs of comparable cost, size, and power consumption.
US12106801B2
An array of memory cells is arranged into a plurality of columns and rows. A first signal line extends through a first column of the plurality of columns. The first signal line is electrically coupled to the memory cells in the first column. A first end portion of the first signal line is configured to receive a logic high signal from a first circuit during a first operational state of the memory device and a logic low signal from the first circuit during a second operational state of the memory device. A second circuit includes a plurality of transistors. The transistors are configured to be turned on or off to electrically couple a second end portion of the first signal line to a logic low source when the first end portion of the first signal line is configured to receive the logic low signal from the first circuit.
US12106796B2
An N+ layer 11a and N+ layers 13a to 13d that are disposed on both ends of Si pillars 12a to 12d standing on a substrate 10 in a vertical direction, a TiN layer 18a that surrounds a gate HfO2 layer 17a surrounding the Si pillars 12a to 12d and that extends between the Si pillars 12a and 12b, a TiN layer 18b that surrounds the gate HfO2 layer 17a and that extends between the Si pillars 12c and 12d, a TiN layer 26a that surrounds a gate HfO2 layer 17b surrounding the Si pillars 12a to 12d and that extends between the Si pillars 12a and 12b, and a TiN layer 26b that surrounds the gate HfO2 layer 17b and that extends between the Si pillars 12c and 12d are formed. Voltages applied to the N+ layers 11a and 13a to 13d and the TiN layers 18a, 18b, 26a, and 26b are controlled to perform a data write operation of retaining, inside the Si pillars 12a to 12d, a group of positive holes generated by an impact ionization phenomenon and a data erase operation of discharging the group of positive holes from the inside of the Si pillars 12a to 12d.
US12106794B2
A memory device includes a clock receiver configured to receive, from a memory controller, a write clock that is used to receive write data during a data write operation, a duty monitor configured to generate first monitoring information by monitoring a duty of the write clock, and a duty adjuster configured to adjust the duty of the write clock in response to a duty control signal and output an adjusted write clock. The memory device provides the first monitoring information to the memory controller, and receives the duty control signal, generated using the first monitoring information, from the memory controller.
US12106786B2
The present disclosure discloses a magnetic head, a head gimbal assembly, a hard disk drive, and a method for processing a magnetic head. The method comprises irradiating at a fixed point proximal to the read/write part with a laser irradiation device until the read head and the write head are thermally expanded; orientating air bearing surfaces of a plurality of magnetic heads forming a magnetic strip toward a lapping surface of a lapping device after laser irradiation, holding the air bearing surfaces in place, lapping with the lapping device until the air bearing surfaces are coplanar; and disassembling the magnetic strip to obtain a lapped magnetic head. Through laser heating induced compensation, the heights of lapped read head and write head of the magnetic head meet their respective target values, ensuring the normal reading and writing of the storage medium of the magnetic disk.
US12106782B2
Provided is an editable read-write data memory based on mechanical structure, including: a storage unit, a signal collection unit and a cantilever unit. The data memory is formed by arranging several storage units, and each of which includes a rotation unit and a variable-frequency unit. An N-pole magnet is provided on the rotation unit, and an S-pole probe is provided on the cantilever unit. When the external environment changes and drives the S-pole probe on the cantilever unit to approach the N-pole magnet on the rotating unit, the rotation unit rotates and drives the variable-frequency unit to buckle, and the change of buckling shape leads to a state change, so as to store data. The signal collection unit is connected with the variable-frequency unit, and the collected electrical signals are display. The stored information in the memory is read according to the change of the output electrical signals.
US12106778B2
A method for editing a multimedia resource includes: playing a first video bound with an initial editing draft, wherein the first video shows a process of producing the initial editing draft, and the initial editing draft indicates an initial editing operation for an original multimedia material; and displaying a multimedia-resource-editing operation page according to a target editing draft, in response to an editing triggering operation for the first video, where the target editing draft is obtained based on the initial editing draft, the target editing draft indicates a target editing operation for a target material, the target material corresponds to all or a part of the original multimedia material, and the target editing operation comprises all or a part of the initial editing operation.
US12106777B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an audio processing method and an electronic device. The method includes: first obtaining text information corresponding to a to-be-processed audio, where the text information includes a to-be-processed text and a playback period corresponding to each field in the to-be-processed text; then receiving a first input on the to-be-processed text; in response to the first input, determining, as a to-be-processed field, a field indicated by the first input in the to-be-processed text; then receiving a second input on the to-be-processed field; obtaining a target audio segment in response to the second input; and finally modifying an audio segment at a playback period corresponding to the to-be-processed field according to the target audio segment, to obtain a target audio.
US12106773B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a memory and a controller. The memory stores, for a predetermined track on a magnetic disk in the device, a counter, a counter threshold, and weights. The weights are individually set for divided areas of the predetermined track. The weights each have magnitude inversely proportional to a guaranteed number of times of data readout. When writing to an adjacent track of one or more of the divided areas is executed, the controller multiplies a number of times of writing by the weight corresponding to the one or more of the divided areas and adds the number of times of writing to the counter. When a numerical value of the counter reaches the counter threshold, the controller executes refresh to rewrite data in the predetermined track or executes reading for determining whether or not to perform the refresh.
US12106769B2
Provided are a program and a sound output device for maintaining the interest of the user. A sound output device 1 which outputs prescribed musical scales comprises: a level information acquisition unit 13 that acquires, as level information, a user's sense of pitch; a sound output unit 16 that outputs sound of which the pitch has been changed under prescribed conditions based on the acquired level information; a response information acquisition unit 19 that acquires, as response information, a response to the change in a musical scale input by the user on the basis of the output musical scale; a correctness determination unit 20 that determines the correctness of the acquired response information; and a level determination unit 21 that determines the level of the user's sense of pitch on the basis of the determination result.
US12106768B2
This application provides a speech signal processing method performed by a computer device. Through an iterative training process, a teacher speech separation model can play a smooth role in the training of a student speech separation model based on the accuracy of separation results of the student speech separation model of outputting a target speech signal from a mixed speech signal and the consistency between separation results obtained by the teacher speech separation model of outputting the target speech signal from the mixed speech signal and the student speech separation model of performing the same task, thereby maintaining the separation stability while improving the separation accuracy of the student speech separation model as a trained speech separation model, and greatly improving the separation capability of the trained speech separation model.
US12106755B2
Techniques are described herein for warm word arbitration between automated assistant devices. A method includes: determining that warm word arbitration is to be initiated between a first assistant device and one or more additional assistant devices, including a second assistant device; broadcasting, by the first assistant device, to the one or more additional assistant devices, an active set of warm words for the first assistant device; for each of the one or more additional assistant devices, receiving, from the additional assistant device, an active set of warm words for the additional assistant device; identifying a matching warm word included in the active set of warm words for the first assistant device and included in the active set of warm words for the second assistant device; and enabling or disabling detection of the matching warm word by the first assistant device, in response to identifying the matching warm word.
US12106752B2
Introduced here are systems and methods to increase accuracy of speech recognition by utilizing multiple sensors placed at multiple speech transmission regions such as a user's lips, throat, ear canal, etc. The various speech transmission regions are better at transmitting certain phonemes, and a sensor placed close to a particular speech transition region can more accurately detect the phoneme transmitted through the particular speech transmission region. For example, a microphone placed close to the lips can better detect labial phonemes such as m, n, p, and b, than a microphone placed close to the throat. Further, disclosed here are ways to reduce energy consumption while performing speech recognition.
US12106741B2
A musical performance system includes an instrument and a terminal. Terminal includes a processor. Processor executes outputting first track data or first pattern data obtained by arbitrarily combining pieces of track data. Processor executes automatically outputting second track data or second pattern data obtained by arbitrarily combining pieces of track data. Instrument includes a processor. Processor executes acquiring first track/pattern data from terminal. Processor executes generating a sound of a music composition in accordance with first track/pattern data. Processor executes acquiring second track/pattern data from terminal. Processor executes generating a sound of a music composition in accordance with second track/pattern data.
US12106732B2
A display device includes: a display panel in which pixels are arranged; a first circuit board configured to provide a first driving signal to the display panel; and a second circuit board connecting the display panel and the first circuit board and having a first region in which a driving chip providing a second driving signal to the display panel is arranged and a second region surrounding the first region, the first region and the second region being defined in the second circuit board, wherein: the second circuit board comprises a first line electrically connected to the driving chip and a second line electrically insulated from the driving chip; the second line comprises a common line in the first region; and the width of the common line decreases as the common line becomes farther away from the first circuit board on a plane.
US12106728B2
A display substrate and a display panel are provided, the display substrate includes a first gate driver circuit and a second gate driver circuit that are respectively arranged on a first side and a second side of a display region; the first gate driver circuit includes a plurality of first shift register units arranged in a first direction, each first shift register unit includes a first thin film transistor; the second gate driver circuit includes a plurality of second shift register units arranged in the first direction, each second shift register unit includes a second thin film transistor having the same function as the first thin film transistor; an average turn-on current of at least one first thin film transistor is Ion1, and an average turn-on current of at least one second thin film transistor is Ion2, Ion1>Ion2.
US12106724B2
An electronic system includes a control circuit to provide a binary control signal alternating between a first binary state during first phases and a second binary state during second phases; a screen controlled by the control signal, the screen emitting light during each first phase, and to not emit any light during each second phase; a light sensor under the screen or along the edge of the screen, and providing a measurement signal representative of a quantity of light received by the sensor during a measurement phase or a plurality of consecutive measurement phases; and a synchronization device to synchronize each measurement phase with a second phase.
US12106722B2
A display substrate, and a display apparatus corresponding thereto and a manufacturing method therefor. The display substrate comprises: a display region and a non-display region, wherein the non-display region is provided with a gate driving circuit, which comprises a plurality of cascaded shift register units. Each shift register unit comprises: an input circuit (10), a first control circuit (11), a second control circuit (12) and an output circuit (15), wherein the first control circuit (11) is located between the input circuit (10) and the output circuit (15) in a first direction, and the first control circuit (11) is arranged in the first direction; and the second control circuit (12) is adjacent to the first control circuit (11) in a second direction; the first direction intersects with the second direction.
US12106720B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel rows, and a panel driver which drives the display panel. The panel driver determines whether input image data represents a still image. When the input image data represents the still image, the panel driver determines a flicker value of the still image, applies a compensation value corresponding to a carry shift interval to the flicker value, determines a driving frequency for the display panel based on the flicker value to which the compensation value is applied, and performs an alternate driving operation for the display panel at the driving frequency.
US12106705B2
A display that contains a sparse array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), including a related system and method of fabrication are disclosed. The display includes at least one panel disposed in or on a transparent material to provide a display on one or both sides of the material. Each tile has a transparent flexible substrate, a sparse array of LEDs disposed on the transparent flexible substrate, a rigid substrate adhered to the transparent flexible substrate via an adhesive layer in which the sparse array of LEDs is encapsulated, and a driver disposed on an edge of the tile and configured to drive the LEDs. The LEDs are sparse enough to enable information to be displayed through the transparent material while still enabling a viewer to see through the transparent material.
US12106704B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an integrated driver board and at least one semiconductor unit substrate. The integrated driver board includes a circuit board, a data drive circuit, and a scanning drive circuit. The data drive circuit and the scanning drive circuit are disposed on the circuit board. The at least one semiconductor unit substrate is coupled to the data drive circuit and the scanning drive circuit.
US12106700B2
An image processing apparatus that is able to prevent negative influence caused by an illuminating unit of an external device emitting light or flashing when specifying the external device, wherein the image processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to control a display screen that performs superimposed display of information relating to an external device on a video image including the external device that has been captured by an image capturing unit; and determining unit configured to determine whether the illuminating unit of the external device is in use or not, or whether an image recognition operation based on the video image is in progress or not, wherein when an instruction to make an illuminating unit of the external device light up or flash has been input, in a case in which determining unit determines that the illuminating unit of the external device is in use, or an image recognition operation based on the video image is in progress, the control unit displays a screen for displaying predetermined specifying information in the vicinity of the external device on the display screen instead of making the illuminating unit light up or flash.
US12106696B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a driver circuit including N stages of cascaded shift registers, where N≥2. A shift register includes a first control part and a second control part. The second control part includes a first control unit and a second control unit. The first control unit comprises a first gating unit. One terminal of the first gating unit is connected to a preset node, another terminal of the first gating unit is connected to a fourth node, and a control terminal of the first gating unit is configured to receive a fifth voltage signal. The second control unit is configured to receive at least a third voltage signal and a signal of the fourth node or receive at least a fourth voltage signal and a signal of a fifth node and generate an output signal.
US12106681B2
A method of managing an interaction of a student with a class about a subject, the subject having at least one lesson having at least one topic, the topic having at least one of exposition content, demonstration content and test content, the test content having a query and a scheme for mapping a response to a result, comprising: presenting content to the student and storing the interaction of the student with the content presented.
US12106666B2
A system for communicating information about parking space availability can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a calculations module and a communications module. The calculations module can include instructions that cause the processor to: (1) obtain a current count of spaces available for parking in an area designated for parking and (2) calculate, based on the current count and information, a revised count of the spaces. The information can indicate that a second vehicle has moved into or out of the area. The communications module can include instructions that cause the processor to: (1) receive, from a first vehicle, the information and (2) cause the revised count to be communicated to a component of a vehicle, in a vicinity of the area, for an action to be performed. The first vehicle can be parked. The information can be received via a sensor of the first vehicle.
US12106664B2
Dynamic road traffic noise mapping using distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) over telecom network
Aspects of the present disclosure describe dynamic road traffic noise mapping using DFOS over a telecommunications network that enables mapping of road traffic-induced noise at any observer location. DFOS is used to obtain instant traffic data including vehicle speed, volume, and vehicle types, based on vibration and acoustic signal along the length of a sensing fiber along with location information. A sound pressure level at a point of interest is determined, and traffic data associated with such point is incorporated into a reference noise emission database and a wave propagation theory for total sound pressure level prediction and mapping. Real-time wind speed using DFOS—such as distributed acoustic sensing (DAS)—is obtained to provide sound pressure adjustment due to the wind speed.
US12106643B2
A security system monitors a behavior of a person included in a plurality of camera images captured continuously in time series by a surveillance camera. The security system performs tracking processing of detecting each person region of a person included in a plurality of camera images, and identifying a person included in the plurality of camera images in time series based on person image data included in the person region. When the identification by the tracking processing transitions to failure in the middle, it is determined that a person having suspicious behavior is included in the camera image. When it is determined that the suspicious behavior is included, alert information may be notified from an output device.
US12106636B2
Individual sports event activities are recorded along with metric results of individual or collective results of the activities. The data from these recordings and metrics are provided to a central gaming server. Individual players offer wagers of value to be used in competition against other individual or groups of players. The central gaming server compares the metrics of at least two individual players that have offered wagers of values and determines a winning individual player based on the comparison of metrics.
US12106628B2
In accordance with the teachings of the present embodiment, a system and method for wireless gaming with location-dependent gaming functions are provided. In a particular embodiment, the apparatus includes a gaming server; a wireless network at least partially covering a property, the wireless network comprising a plurality of signal detection devices; and a gaming communication device operable to transmit and receive gaming information to and from the gaming server via the wireless network. A location of the gaming communication device on the property is used to alter a game play function, such as a bet option, wager, graphic overlay, permission, or to provide location-dependent advertising or embedded advertising. Based upon the location of the gaming communication device on the property, a predetermined functionality of the gaming communication device may be enabled and/or controlled.
US12106626B2
A rewards system awards a prize to a player of a gaming machine, where the prize is awarded separate from any winnings awarded by the gaming machine for a winning wagering game outcome. The rewards system may comprise an automated prize redemption device having a housing which defines a prize storage area and a rewards server configured to compare activity information obtained from the gaming machine to criteria associated with stored prize events and when met, command the gaming machine to issue a media from a media dispenser of the gaming machine to the player. The player may present the media to the automated prize redemption device to cause it to dispense the awarded prize.
US12106621B2
Methods and apparatus to monitor and manage loading docks and facility operations are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a data analyzer to: monitor first data indicating whether a truck trailer is present at a dock of the material handling facility; and monitor second data indicating a condition associated with a door at the dock, the second data being different than the first data. The apparatus further includes a notification generator to generate a notification based on the first data and the second data.
US12106617B2
The present invention provides a robust and effective solution to an entity or an organization for creating and standardizing an Automotive Data Quality Marker (ADQM) to determine/evaluate/predict the quality of automotive data such as Telematics, Body Control, ADAS, Diagnostics, Dashcams, and In-Vehicle Infotainment but not limited to the like generated by the vehicle (i.e., data source) using a machine learning (ML) engine associated with a processing unit. The machine learning engine comprises an amalgamation of machine learning algorithms to determine ADQM for a particular dataset. Data pertaining to vehicles is huge and repetitive. Re-training of the model for improved accuracy is a requirement as automotive data can be augmented with additional signals and data received and stored as trip objects on a regular basis.
US12106613B2
An improved system and method of selectively transmitting asset data from one or more sensors associated with the vehicle to a backend server, which is configured to analyze the asset data and, if necessary for further analysis of the asset data (e.g., to determine whether a safety event has occurred) and/or to provide actionable data for review by a safety analyst, requests further asset data from a vehicle device.
US12106608B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for user authentication based on face recognition and handwritten signature verification, by which authentication accuracy in user authentication using a handwritten signature is further increased. The method including: receiving a handwritten signature of a user; acquiring a face image of the user who inputs the handwritten signature, simultaneously with the receiving of the handwritten signature; determining whether the user is a legitimate user, on the basis of characteristics information of the face image; adjusting a reference value for verification based on characteristics information of the handwritten signature, according to a result of determination based on the characteristics information of the face image; determining whether the user is the legitimate user, on the basis of the characteristics information of the received handwritten signature and the adjusted reference value.
US12106591B2
A system and method for identifying handwritten characters on an image using a classification model that employs a neural network. The system includes a computer having a processor and a memory device that stores data and executable code that, when executed, causes the processor to read and convert typed text on the image to machine encoded text to identify locations of the typed text on the image; identify a location on the image that includes handwritten text based on the location of predetermined typed text on the image; identify clusters of non-white pixels in the image at the location having the handwritten text; generate an individual and separate cluster image for each identified cluster; classify each cluster image using machine learning and at least one neural network to determine the likelihood that the cluster is a certain character; and determine what character each cluster image is based on the classification.
US12106585B2
Provided is a driving assistance system including a storage device having a program stored therein and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor executes the program stored in the storage device, to thereby recognize an object which is present outside of a vehicle on the basis of a detection result of at least one of a radar device and an imaging device which are mounted in the vehicle, perform driving assistance for the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result, and determine a degree of matching between a portion of a contour line of the object and a road partition line and suppress an operation of the driving assistance in a case where the degree of matching is equal to or greater than a threshold.
US12106574B2
Systems and methods for navigating a host vehicle are disclosed. In one implementation at least one processor is programmed to receive two or more images captured by a camera of the host vehicle from an environment of the host vehicle; analyze the two or more images to identify a representation of at least a portion of a first object and a representation of at least a portion of a second object; determine a first region of the two or more images associated with the first object and a type of the first object; and determine a second region of the two or more images associated with the second object and type of the second object, wherein the type of the first object is different from the type of the second object.
US12106558B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of performing, by an image processing circuit, an inference operation comprising: capturing first and second images using first and second values respectively of an image capture parameter; generating, for a first region of the first and second images, first and second estimates respectively of an image quality metric, wherein the image quality metric is dependent on the value of the image capture parameter; calculating first and second distances between the first and second estimates respectively and first and second target levels respectively; and supplying a result of the inference operation performed on the first region of either the first or second image selected based on the first and second distances.
US12106556B1
A method and system architecture for designing a compressive sensing matrix for machine learning includes receiving an image associated with a classification task and; generating a sensing matrix. The sensing matrix includes an array of nonzero elements of the image. A prism array of prism elements is in communication with the sensing matrix. A row of values corresponding with an input angle of the prism array is mapped to a respective column corresponding with a detector. Then the detector detects light refracted at an output angle dictated by the physical shape of the prism element. A physical model of the detector is fabricated and generates a compressed representation of the image. A machine learning classification algorithm is applied to the compressed representation of the image and generates an optimized non-invertible final determination of the image.
US12106554B2
A recurrent multi-task CNN with an encoder and multiple decoders infers single value output and dense (image) outputs such as heatmaps and segmentation masks. Recurrence is obtained by reinjecting (with mere concatenation) heatmaps or masks (or intermediate feature maps) to a next input image (or to next intermediate feature maps) for a next CNN inference. The inference outputs may be refined using cascaded refiner blocks specifically trained. Virtual annotation for training video sequences can be obtained using computer analysis. Benefits of these approaches allows the depth of the CNN, i.e. the number of layers, to be reduced. They also avoid parallel independent inferences to be run for different tasks, while keeping similar prediction quality. Multiple task inferences are useful for Augmented Reality applications.
US12106551B2
The present application discloses a visual enhancement method and a system based on fusion of spatially aligned features of multiple networked vehicles. The method utilizes the visual features of networked vehicles themselves and their surroundings within a certain range, and performs feature fusion after spatial alignment to realize visual expansion and enhancement. After receiving the compressed intermediate feature map of the networked vehicles in a certain range around, the decompressed intermediate feature map is subjected to affine transformation, and the transformed aligned feature map is subjected to feature fusion based on a designed multi-feature self-learning network, so as to realize the complementation and enhancement among features while removing redundant features. The fused intermediate features are used to detect the target obstacles from the perspective of the networked vehicle itself and partially or completely blocked, thus improving the safety of driving connected vehicles.
US12106550B2
Methods and systems for training a neural network model include augmenting an original training dataset to generate an augmented training dataset, by applying an image artifact to a portion of an original image of the original dataset to generate an artifact image. A target image is generated corresponding to the artifact image by deleting labels from the target image at the position of the artifact. A neural network model is trained using the augmented training dataset and the corresponding target image, the neural network model including a first output that identifies artifact regions and other outputs identifying objects.
US12106549B2
Systems and methods for training an artificial intelligence-based system using self-supervised learning are provided. For each respective training medical image of a set of unannotated training medical images, the following steps are performed. A first augmented image is generated by applying a first augmentation operation to the respective training medical image. A second augmented image is generated by applying a second augmentation operation to the respective training medical image. A first representation vector is created from the first augmented image using an encoder network. A second representation vector is created from the second augmented image using the encoder network. The first representation vector is mapped to first cluster codes. The second representation vector is mapped to second cluster codes. The encoder network is optimized using the first and second representation vectors and the first and second cluster codes.
US12106548B1
A method for training a generative image model, including defining multiple sensitive categories and protected attributes associated with multiple training images, determining for a particular sensitive category a distribution of a protected attribute within the training images, and based on the distribution, calculating for each training image a corresponding image debiasing weight value associated with the protected attribute. The method further includes generating annotated training data including the training images, and for each training image, (1) the corresponding image debiasing weight value associated with the protected attribute and (2) a corresponding descriptive text caption. The method further includes performing a training process using the annotated training data to train a generative image model resulting in a trained model. A contribution of each image in the training images to an optimization loss of the training process is weighted during the training process using the corresponding image debiasing weight value.
US12106547B2
A method and system for screening spectral indexes of rice resistant to bacteria. The method includes: processing spectral data of a test sample by a threshold segmentation algorithm to obtain average spectral information of each spectral image and a proportion of lesions corresponding to each spectral image; training a deep learning algorithm model based on a self-attention mechanism by using the average spectral information of each spectral image and the proportion of the corresponding lesions to construct a regression model for evaluating an area of the lesions; determining an optimal band combination and a weight value corresponding to each band in the optimal band combination based on the regression model for evaluating the area of the lesions, and then determining the spectral indexes; and identifying differences between rice of different genotypes at different times of infection by using the spectral indexes, and screening rice varieties resistant to bacterial blight.
US12106546B2
The present disclosure provides an image classification method for maximizing mutual information, device, medium and system, the method including: acquiring a training image; maximizing the mutual information between the training image and a neural network architecture, and automatically determining the network architecture and parameter of the neural network; and processing image data to be classified using the obtained neural network to obtain an image classification result. According to the present disclosure, the network architecture and parameter of the neutral network are automatically designed and determined by maximizing the mutual information based on given image data without burdensome manual design and saving human and computational resource consumption. The present disclosure can automatically design and obtain a neural network-based image classification method in a very short time, and at the same time can achieve higher image classification accuracy.
US12106537B1
A device may receive and store video frames in the memory. The device may define, in a video frame among the video frames, a plurality of bounding boxes to visually bound one or more subjects, each bounding box of the plurality of bounding boxes may be defined in accordance with a pre-defined aspect ratio, and each bounding box may comprise padding above and laterally with respect to the one or more subjects in the video frame. The device may reduce the plurality of bounding boxes by merging two bounding boxes among the plurality of bounding boxes to create a merged bounding box, wherein the merged bounding box may maintain the pre-defined aspect ratio and visually bounds the two bounding boxes being merged, and wherein the reduced plurality of bounding boxes is provided to an object detector.
US12106535B2
A method of preprocessing incoming video data of at least one region of interest from a camera collecting video data having a first field of view is disclosed herein that includes receiving the incoming video data from the camera; preprocessing the incoming video data, by a computer processor, according to preprocessing parameters defined within a runtime configuration file, with the preprocessing including formatting the incoming video data to create first video data of a first region of interest with a second field of view that is less than the first field of view; and publishing the first video data of the first region of interest to an endpoint to allow access by a first subscriber.
US12106524B2
A method is provided. The method includes receiving an input image, extracting at least one feature from the input image, determining at least one local tone curve for a portion of the input image based on the extracted at least one feature, the portion of the input image being less than an overall area of the input image, and generating a toned image based on the at least one local tone curve.
US12106520B1
A method to obtain and process data to generate intrinsic hyper-spectral data cubes is provided, where a data acquisition procedure involves scanning the field of view under focused and diffused conditions and an intrinsic calibration procedure requires focused and diffused scans of the field of view of a white reference surface. The spectra of the diffuse scan of the white reference surface is subtracted from the spectra of the focused scan of the white reference surface resulting in a residual data cube of a scan of the white surface. To obtain an intrinsic data cube of a field of view of interest, the residual data cube is added to the diffused data cube of the field of view of interest generating a resulting data cube that is subtracted from the focused data cube field of view of interest.
US12106516B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide fuel receptacle position/pose estimation for aerial refueling (derived from aircraft position and pose estimation). A video frame, showing an aircraft to be refueled, is received from a single camera. An initial position/pose estimate is determined for the aircraft, which is used to generating an initial rendering of an aircraft model. The video frame and the initial rendering are used to determining refinement parameters (e.g., a translation refinement and a rotational refinement) for the initial position/pose estimate, providing a refined position/pose estimate for the aircraft. The position/pose of a fuel receptacle on the aircraft is determined, based on the refined position/pose estimate for the aircraft, and an aerial refueling boom may be controlled to engage the fuel receptacle. Examples extract features from the aircraft in the video frame and the aircraft model rendering, and use a deep learning neural network (NN) to determine the refinement parameters.
US12106515B2
Systems and methods are dislocated that include a method of determining the actual position and pose of a known three-dimensional construct utilizing at least four discrete shapes formed by fiducials of the construct shown in a two-dimensional (2D) image of the construct. The method includes identifying at least four fiducial shadows in the 2D image that correspond to the fiducials of the construct. The method also includes correlating the discovered at least four fiducial shadows with their respective locations on the construct. The method further includes determining a spatial relationship between the 2D image and the construct by determining a focal point of a source of the image relative to the 2D image via the discovered at least four fiducial shadows and pre-determined mutual separation distances between the fiducials of the construct corresponding thereto. The method also includes determining a spatial relationship between the 2D image and the construct.
US12106511B2
An apparatus for generating a model for pose estimation of a system obtains training data for a multiple locations. The training data includes one or more images captured by an image capturing device and the respective poses of the captured images. At least one data sample is generated from the training data for each of the captured images, where a data sample for an image is an assignment of the image and at least one other image selected from the training data to respective poses. A neural network is trained with a data set made up of the data samples to estimate a respective pose of a localization image from: the localization image; at least one additional image from the training data; and a respective pose of each of additional image.
US12106505B2
A single camera can be used to determine a height of an object. The camera captures an image of the object against a reflective surface backdrop. The distance from the camera and the reflective surface, combined with the distance between the object and the reflection of the object, can be used to determine the distance from the object and the reflective surface.
US12106497B2
A method for registering a two-dimensional image data set with a three-dimensional image data set of a body of interest is discloses herein. The method includes the following steps: adjusting a first virtual camera according to a distance parameter calculated corresponding to the two-dimensional image data set and the body of interest; rotating the first virtual camera according to an angle difference between a first vector and a second vector; and rotating the first virtual camera according to an angle which is corresponding to a maximum similarity value of a plurality of similarity values calculated in accordance with reconstructed images of the three-dimensional image data set which includes one generated by the first virtual camera and the others generated by other virtual cameras with different angles or different pixels from the one generated by the first virtual camera and the two-dimensional image data set.
US12106486B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving a monocular image that includes a depiction of a whole body of a user; generating a segmentation of the whole body of the user based on the monocular image by applying one or more machine learning techniques; receiving input that selects a visualization mode; and applying one or more visual effects corresponding to the visualization mode to the monocular image based on the segmentation.
US12106478B2
A medical imaging system includes at least one medical imaging device providing image data of a subject and a processing system programmed to generate a plurality of training images having simulated medical conditions by blending a pathology region from a plurality of template source images to a plurality of target images. The processing system is further programmed to train a deep learning network model using the plurality of training images and input the image data of the subject to the deep learning network model. The processing system is further programmed to generate a medical image of the subject based on the output of the deep learning network model.
US12106471B2
An image processing method comprises obtaining three-dimensional image data representing a three-dimensional image of a cell aggregate with a cavity inside obtained by optical coherence tomography imaging, obtaining a thickness distribution representing a thickness of the cell aggregate between an outer surface of the cell aggregate facing an outside space and an inner surface thereof facing the cavity at each position based on the three-dimensional image data, and detecting protrusion parts having a prominent thickness as compared to a surrounding region based on the thickness distribution.
US12106462B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to using computer vision methods for asset evaluation. A computing platform may receive historical images of a plurality of properties and corresponding historical inspection results. Using the historical images and historical inspection results, the computing platform may train a roof waiver model (which may be a computer vision model) to output inspection prediction information directly from an image. The computing platform may receive a new image corresponding to a particular residential property. Using the roof waiver model, the computing platform may analyze the new image to output of a likelihood of passing inspection. The computing platform may send, to a user device and based on the likelihood of passing inspection, inspection information indicating whether or not a physical inspection should be performed and directing the user device to display the inspection information, which may cause the user device to display the inspection information.
US12106457B2
Described herein is a technique in which a plurality of distortion meshes compensate for radial and chromatic aberrations created by optical lenses. The plurality of distortion meshes may include different lens specific parameters that allow the distortion meshes to compensate for chromatic aberrations created within received images. The plurality of distortion meshes may correspond to a red color channel, green color channel, or blue color channel to compensate for the chromatic aberrations. The distortion meshes may also include shaped distortions and grids to compensate for radial distortions, such as pin cushion distortions. In one example, the system uses a barrel-shaped distortion and a triangulation grid to compensate for the distortions created when the received image is displayed on a lens.
US12106455B2
To provide evaluation by using a virtual video image generated by performing an optical image processing for lightness and distortion required by an evaluation object. An evaluation apparatus for a camera system including a camera for capturing a video image of outside view includes: a video generation unit for generating a simulation video image simulating the video image of outside view captured by the camera; an optical filter unit which performs an optical image processing on the simulation video image in order to simulate the video image outputted from the camera; and a camera image processing unit which generates a vehicle control signal by performing a recognition processing by using the processed video image.
US12106454B2
An image processing apparatus for determining a focused output image in a passive autofocus system is configured to retrieve a set of input images and compute a baseline estimate for at least one input image. The baseline estimate represents image structures in the input image. The image structures have a length scale larger than a predetermined image feature length scale. The image processing apparatus is further configured to compute a set of output images, wherein each output image of the set of output images is computed based on one of a different input image of the set of input images and the at least one baseline estimate for the different input image and the at least one baseline estimate for a respective different input image. The image processing apparatus is further configured to determine one output image of the set of output images as the focused output image.
US12106444B2
An electronic device may include an electronic display to display an image based on processed image data. The electronic device may also include image processing circuitry to determine a hierarchical grid having multiple grid points divided into grid partitions. A first set of grid points associated with a first set of grid partitions may include a first set of mappings to corresponding coordinates of input image data in a source frame. The image processing circuitry may also interpolate between the first set of grid points to determine a second set of grid points of having a second set of mappings to corresponding coordinates of the input image data based on the first set of mappings. The image processing circuitry may also generate the processed image data by applying the first set of mappings and the second set of mappings to the input image data.
US12106437B1
A modeling system converts polygons of a three-dimensional (3D) mesh model to points of a point cloud in an automated manner that increases the resolution and visual fidelity of the point cloud relative to the 3D mesh model. The system receives the polygons of the 3D mesh model, and generates points over the flat plane of each polygon according to a density and arrangement that increases the resolution of the points relative to the original polygon. The system receives an enhancement map with values for displacing the polygons of the 3D mesh model. The system displaces the generated points by mapping the values from positions in the enhancement map to corresponding positions of the generated points. The system generates the point cloud with the displaced points to provide improved visual quality and detail relative to the polygons of the 3D mesh model after enhancement with the enhancement map.
US12106435B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that combine physics-based systems with machine learning to generate synthetic LiDAR data that accurately mimics a real-world LiDAR sensor system. In particular, aspects of the present disclosure combine physics-based rendering with machine-learned models such as deep neural networks to simulate both the geometry and intensity of the LiDAR sensor. As one example, a physics-based ray casting approach can be used on a three-dimensional map of an environment to generate an initial three-dimensional point cloud that mimics LiDAR data. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a machine-learned geometry model can predict one or more adjusted depths for one or more of the points in the initial three-dimensional point cloud, thereby generating an adjusted three-dimensional point cloud which more realistically simulates real-world LiDAR data.
US12106427B2
Video rendering, including: tracking spatial coordinates of at least one camera during a video sequence forming a shot having multiple frames, wherein each of the at least one camera has a lens; creating a lens profile storing lens data corresponding to the lens of the at least one camera during the shot; encoding the lens data; sending the lens data to a render engine; retracing the movement of the at least one camera during the shot; recreating the lens and one or more characteristics of the lens during the shot; and replicating the shot in a virtual environment using the retraced camera movement and recreated lens characteristics.
US12106426B2
An advertisement display system 1 acquires coordinates of the avatar and a size of the avatar in the virtual reality space and calculates a movement speed of the avatar by dividing a coordinate change amount per unit time of the avatar in the virtual reality space by a reference amount in accordance with the size of the avatar. In addition, the system 1 determines whether a point of view of the avatar in the virtual reality space is set to a first-person point of view or a third-person point of view. Furthermore, the system 1 performs control to differentiate, when an avatar is moving in the virtual reality space, a position where advertising is to be displayed in the virtual reality space with respect to the user operating the avatar in accordance with the movement speed of the avatar and the point of view of the avatar.
US12106420B2
An operating method of a graphics processing unit includes: receiving a first read request for texels, detecting whether decompression data associated with each of the texels are present in a first cache, decompressing part of a first texture compression block associated with a first texel among the texels when a result of the detecting indicates decompression data for the first texel is not present in the first cache, to generate first decompression data, and generating first texture data corresponding to the first read request, based on the first decompression data and second decompression present in the first cache.
US12106415B2
A method and system for transforming simple user input into customizable animated images for use in text-messaging applications.
US12106414B2
A multimedia communication system for enabling an end user computing device to render a moving image on a display device. The system has an image render command generator that is arranged to provide an image rendering command that is executable by a web browser of the end user computing device to cause the end user computing device to render the moving image on a frame-by-frame basis from a still image in multimedia content by slicing the still image into a plurality of rows or columns of pixels and modifying a subset of the plurality of rows or columns of pixels between frames, and a multimedia content packager arranged to assemble a multimedia content package having the multimedia content, including the still image and the image rendering command.
US12106405B2
A reconstruction system includes a decomposer (204) configured to decompose at least two sets of projection data generated via kVp switching between at least two radiation source voltages. Each set corresponds to a different one of the at least two radiation source voltages. The system further includes a spectral channel (206) configured to process the at least two sets of projection data and generate spectral image data. The system further includes a non-spectral channel (208) configured to process the at least two sets of projection data and generate non-spectral image data for a predetermined reference kVp.
US12106401B2
Self-supervised training of machine learning (“ML”) algorithms for reconstruction in inverse problems are described. These techniques do not require fully sampled training data. As an example, a physics-based ML reconstruction can be trained without requiring fully-sampled training data. In this way, such ML-based reconstruction algorithms can be trained on existing databases of undersampled images or in a scan-specific manner.
US12106397B2
An example method performed by a processing system includes receiving a request from a first user to render an extended reality environment, wherein the request includes a definition of a first policy that governs user behavior within the extended reality environment, rendering the extended reality environment by presenting content contributed by at least one user in the extended reality environment, monitoring the extended reality environment to ensure that the rendering results in a compliance of the extended reality environment with the first policy, detecting that a portion of the content contributed by at least one other user of the extended reality environment results in the extended reality environment failing to comply with the first policy, and modifying a presentation of the portion of content in the extended reality environment in response to the detecting, wherein the modifying results in the compliance of the extended reality environment with the first policy.
US12106383B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for correlating electronic communications related to financial transactions. A computing device may receive a first communication related to an update to a past financial transaction. The computing device may identify a second communication by querying, based on the first communication, a communications database. The first communication and second communication may be correlated using one or more natural language processing algorithms. Based on correlating the first communication and second communication, the computing device may identify a portion of the second communication corresponding to the at least one good or service of the past financial transaction by processing, using the one or more natural language processing algorithms, the second communication. The computing device may then cause output of data indicating a correlation between the first communication and the second communication, and the indication of the change to the at least one good or service.
US12106373B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and apparatus for managing investment savings of individuals through an investment vehicle suitable for retirement, estate or general investment planning. The invention establishes the mechanics of the operations to create an open-end investment fund as a means for individual participants to earn both market returns on their investments and demographic returns (DR) on the actual demographic experience of the pool of investors who participate in the investment fund. Individuals can invest in the fund and make additional deposits and withdrawals at any time. Investors specify a payout schedule, and those who sell their investments, as scheduled, earn full returns, combining market returns and the DR. Investors who make unscheduled withdrawals from the fund, receive lower returns. The investment fund is customized, and administered by computer software that is available to both participants in the fund and to asset managers who offer the fund to investors.
US12106364B1
Methods, systems, and media for providing a networking platform for dynamically aggregating and routing loan inquiries are provided. In some embodiments, a method for connecting banks, member associations, retailers, and others to marketplace and other lenders is provided, the method comprising: receiving, from a plurality of referrer devices, a plurality of referred loan inquiries, wherein each of the plurality of referred loan inquiries includes a plurality of borrower attributes, and wherein each of the plurality of referred loan inquiries has a loan type; obtaining, from a network that connects the plurality of referrers with a plurality of credit providers, credit provider information associated with the plurality of credit providers, wherein the credit provider information includes relationship information with the plurality of referrers; determining, for each of the plurality of referred loan inquiries, a first set of credit provider devices from a plurality of credit provider devices based at least in part on relationship information; determining, from the first set of credit provider devices, a second set of credit provider devices from the network that connects the plurality of referrers with the plurality of credit providers based at least in part on the loan type associated with the referred loan inquiry and information relating to the referred loan inquiry; transmitting the referred loan inquiry to the second set of credit provider devices; and transmitting at least one loan offer to the referrer device associated with the referred loan inquiry in response to receiving the at least one loan offer from one of the second set of credit provider devices.
US12106357B2
A user is provided a display or user interface that is tailored to the user based on a community the user is a part of. Based on interactions with and/or modifications to the display by other users of the community, the display or user interface is tailored to the user to show a similar display as desired by those in the user's community. This provides a better display or user interface that allows a user to quickly access product information and/or commerce functionalities that they are more likely to use. This display or user interface is displayed as an electronic document, such as a web page, that is viewed by the user in an electronic document viewing program, such as an Internet browser.
US12106348B2
Example embodiments may provide a system, apparatus, computer readable media, and/or method configured for processing input representing data associated with a first product, the first product comprising a plurality of components, processing input representing a particular one of the components, processing input representing an attribute of the particular component or of the first product, querying a product memory based on the particular component and the attribute to identify a second product.
US12106342B2
A marketplace server includes memory, an interface, and a processing module operably coupled to the memory and interface. The processing module is operable to generate static exchange item information for an exchange item, wherein the static exchange item information is not shared with a computing device and includes one or more of a static exchange item serial number, a static issuer identifier (ID), a static owner ID, static conditions, static rules, and static use options. The processing module is operable to generate dynamic exchange item information for utilizing the exchange item, where the dynamic exchange item information includes one or more of a first dynamic exchange item serial number, a first dynamic issuer identifier (ID), a first dynamic owner ID, first dynamic conditions, first dynamic rules, and first dynamic use options. The processing module is operable to send, via the interface, the dynamic exchange item information to the computing device.
US12106341B2
Example embodiments of systems and methods for secure online order pick up and data transmission system between transmitting and receiving devices are provided. In an example embodiment, a user may be required to confirm his or her identity prior to using an application, utilizing enhanced or restricted features of an application or device, viewing sensitive information, or taking certain actions. A transmitting device, such as a contactless card, may be employed as means for confirming a user's identity and access these features.
US12106337B2
A method and system for dynamic pricing of web services utilization. According to one embodiment, a method may include dynamically predicting utilization of a web services computing resource that is expected to occur during a given interval of time, and dependent upon the dynamically predicted utilization, setting a price associated with utilization of the web services computing resource occurring during the given interval of time. The method may further include providing the price to a customer.
US12106328B2
Method for in-stream aggregation of ad interaction data for a population of users viewing ad content
One variation of a method for aggregating advertisement interaction data includes: receiving a ping from a visual element loaded onto a mobile device, the ping containing: a timestamp; and a value representing a proportion of the visual element visible in a viewport at the mobile device; in response to the value exceeding a threshold value, grouping the ping with a group of pings in a ping feed, the group of pings containing a unique identifier associated with the mobile device; in response to the value falling below the threshold value, concluding an advertisement view session containing the group of pings; calculating a time spent value for visibility of advertisement content in the visual element within the advertisement view session based on timestamps of pings in the group of pings; outputting an advertisement view session packet containing the unique identifier and the time spent value to a database.
US12106315B2
A research kit and methods for facilitating collection of highly usable participant interview clips while conducting ethnographic research is disclosed. An ethnographic research kit may include an outer shipping container for outbound shipping to the participant; tracking information to track delivery of the package from the researchers to and from the participants; camera positioning stickers attached to the outer shipping container, a tablet/smartphone stand; and a return mailer container. A method for using the ethnographic research kit is also disclosed.
US12106314B2
A system is described that generates insights on the consumption or usage behavior of a product by analyzing the real-time usage of the product by one or more users. The product is placed on the measuring device for continuous monitoring of the usage of the product by those one or more users in real-time. The measuring device includes a sensor unit that generates weigh data, motion data, location data, and time consumed data of the product and transmits to a computing device. A communication device records the consumption or usage of the product by a user, along with feedback from the user. The computing device generates insights based on the sensed data generated by the measuring device, and recording and feedback at the communication device. The computing device generates reports—one for the user, and one for a merchant of the product and/or similar products—including respective insights.
US12106312B2
A method of generating a plurality of behavioral site lists. The method comprises receiving a plurality of interest category lists by a behavioral site list generation application executing on a computer system, wherein each interest category list comprises a plurality of pseudonymous subscriber identities associated with the pre-defined interest category; receiving a plurality of data on subscriber visits to web sites and on application identities by the application; generating behavioral site lists by the application based on determining over-indexing of pseudonymous subscriber identities provided in the data on subscriber visits to web sites and on application identities in the interest category lists, wherein each behavioral site list comprises a plurality of web site addresses and a plurality of application identities that are deemed to have an above average association to subscribers with an interest in the interest category associated with the behavioral site list.
US12106311B2
Manufactured goods are marked or labeled with a secure unique identifier. A central checking centre allows users to verify the authenticity of a particular good such as a cigarette pack or carton via any convenient interface such as the internet or a cell phone. A system of secret sharing allows secure authentication of each item and prevents code breaking or misuse.
US12106305B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for enhanced authentication using voice modulation matching. The present invention is configured to capture, via a first user input device, a digital audio stream of speech data of a first user; receive one or more identification credentials associated with the first user; encode the speech data to generate encoded speech data; query one or more data repositories using the encoded speech data; in response, retrieve, encoded speech data associated with a second user that matches the encoded speech data of the first user; determine that the first user has a familial relationship with the second user; generate an authentication token for the first user based on at least determining that the first user has a familial relationship with the second user; and record the authentication token for the first user in a distributed ledger associated with the second user.
US12106298B1
Methods and systems related to design, test, development, certification, deployment, and maintenance infrastructures for payment solutions are disclosed herein. A disclosed system includes a software binaries generator for generating an executable for a source code file. The source code file includes an EMV kernel. The disclosed system also includes a testing environment that accepts the executable and simulates the executable with a virtual payment processing hardware system in a simulation. The testing environment verifies EMV compliance for the executable via the simulation. The disclosed system also includes a security module that generates a proof of trust for the executable in response to the testing environment verifying EMV compliance for the executable and provides the proof of trust for the executable for an external EMV compliance authority.
US12106290B2
Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for processing a payment transaction using a pseudo-PAN. In an exemplary embodiment, a method generally includes periodically generating an encryption salt and receiving an authorization message for a payment transaction to a payment account, where the authorization message includes a token. The method also includes decrypting the token based on an encryption algorithm and the encryption salt most recently generated, prior to receipt of the authorization message, and searching in memory for the decrypted token. The method then includes determining that the decrypted token does not match any of a plurality of actual primary account numbers (PANs) in the memory, whereby the token is determined to not be a pseudo-PAN, and transmitting the authorization message without modification to a computing device associated with one of an acquirer and an issuer of said payment account.
US12106287B2
Methods and systems for generating on-demand payment instruments are described. A user with a user payment account may perform a transaction with a user device and request an on-demand payment instrument. The request may be communicated to a transaction device. The transaction device may authenticate the request and associate an on-demand payment instrument to the user payment account. Information associated with the on-demand payment instrument information may then be tokenized and communicated to the user device, the merchant, or another party and the information may be entered and/or processed for the transaction.
US12106280B1
Implementations for providing event processing services for a plurality of services are described. An example method may comprise receiving, by a payment processing service, data indicative of a payment event associated with an ordering service. The method may comprise causing, based on an accounting rule specific to a payment option associated with the payment event, a first entry associated with a handover account and the payment event to be added to a data store. The method may comprise sending, to the ordering service, handover information indicating the handover account and the payment event. The ordering service may cause, based on the handover information, a second entry associated with the handover account and the payment event to be added to the data store. The handover account may facilitate satisfying accounting rules for payment events without the ordering service having to manage satisfaction of the accounting rules.
US12106279B1
The disclosure describes a biometric authentication system that can authorize a transaction at a retail store using a person's biometric data and password. The biometric authentication system may include a point-of-sale device that can receive a biometric data (e.g., voice data, fingerprint data, or facial data) of a person that initiates a transaction. The biometric authentication system may also include one or more authentication systems that analyzes the received biometric data, and an authorization system that compares data obtained from the one or more authentication systems and the POS device to determine whether the information obtained from the person is related to that person's biometric and password information previously stored by the authorization system.
US12106274B2
A method of secure automated communication comprises communicating by a computer with a cloud computing service having an address in a first Internet domain, the communicating performed during a first electronic commerce session using an electronic commerce web page rendered by a browser executing on the computer; communicating by the computer with a transaction server having an address in the first Internet domain via a virtual private network (VPN), the communicating performed during the first electronic commerce session using the electronic commerce web page rendered by the browser; determining when the browser is accessing a product information portion of the electronic commerce web page during the first electronic commerce session; determining when the browser is providing confidential information to the electronic commerce web page during the first electronic commerce session; and directing the confidential information to the transaction server via the virtual private network during the first electronic commerce session.
US12106261B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to monitoring condition compliance. In some embodiments, a system comprises a child device comprising a child device sensor configured to capture condition data, a child device memory configured to store the condition data, a child device transmitter configured to transmit the condition data, and a control circuit configured to cause transmission of a discovery message, receive acknowledgment messages, determine if the discovery message reached a parent device, if the discovery message reached a parent device, cause transmission of the condition data to the parent device, and if the discovery message did not reach a parent device, determine, from the other devices, one of the other devices, and cause transmission of the condition data to the one of the other devices, and the parent device configured to store and transmit condition data received from a plurality of child devices.
US12106256B2
A logistics system, comprising: an unmanned aerial vehicle including: a holder configured to hold a package to which a readable medium including package identification information is attached; and a reader configured to read the readable medium when the package is held by the holder; and at least one processor configured to: generate, after the readable medium is read by the reader, flight plan information on the unmanned aerial vehicle based or information read from the readable medium; and control the unmanned aerial vehicle based on the flight plan information.
US12106254B2
A computer-implemented method includes accessing data descriptive of a plurality of freight lanes, each freight lane being associated with a pickup region and a dropoff region for one or more loads, wherein each of the plurality of freight lanes includes one or more lane attributes; determining that two or more freight lanes of the plurality of freight lanes satisfy at least one clustering criteria indicative of a similarity between the two or more freight lanes based at least in part on the one or more freight lane attributes; in response to determining that the two or more freight lanes meet the at least one clustering criteria, clustering the two or more freight lanes to generate a clustered freight lane including the two or more freight lanes; receiving a request from a carrier computing device to associate a carrier with the clustered freight lane; and assigning at least one load of the one or more loads associated with the two or more freight lanes including the clustered freight lane to the carrier based at least in part on the request from the carrier.
US12106248B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for intelligent tracking of data are disclosed. A processor accesses a plurality of data sources that store data to be utilized for generating a single consolidated view data of resource information onto a display; determines, based on accessing the plurality of data sources, whether data discrepancies exist in terms of data quality and consistency across the plurality of data sources; automatically reconciles and normalizes the data to remove the discrepancies to enable standardized and accurate resource reporting onto the display; transmits the reconciled and normalized data to a processor for performing in-memory processing of the reconciled and normalized data; benchmarks the reconciled and normalized data against organizational goals and objective to generate benchmarked data; generates the single consolidated view data of resource information onto the display based on the benchmarked data; uncover meaningful and actionable insights; and provides optimized, actionable recommendations based on specific goals and priorities.
US12106245B2
A system and method for analyzing businesses data to make business decisions is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request from one or more users via one or more electronic devices to predict a set of insights associated with a business enterprise and generating a set of KPIs and metrics. The method further includes determining health of the business enterprise and predicting the set of insights associated with the business enterprise based on the received request, the generated set of KPIs and metrics, the determined health of the business enterprise and one or more diagnosis parameters by using a data management-based AI model. Further, the method includes outputting the determined health of the business enterprise, the one or more diagnosis parameters and the predicted set of insights on user interface screen of the one or more electronic devices associated with the one or more users.
US12106241B2
A system for incremental solution of the shift design and assignment problem comprises an interface configured to receive an incremental change and an existing schedule. The system comprises a processor to determine whether labor demand has changed; in response to labor demand having been changed, generate an updated set of shift candidates; determine a new cost function; restart a solver using the updated set of shift candidates, the existing schedule, the incremental change, and the new cost function, wherein the solver comprises a mixed integer programming (MIP) solver, and wherein the MIP solver determines simultaneously a subset of the shift candidates selected in the final schedule and a set of shift assignments of which worker is assigned to which selected shift candidate of the subset of shift candidates.
US12106236B2
Exemplary system and method embodiments described and shown herein are directed to optimizing warehouse picking operations. Exemplary system and method embodiments employ order allocation optimization and/or order grouping optimization that are individually or collectively usable to allocate and group warehouse orders in a manner that minimizes picker travel and maximizes labor productivity.
US12106233B2
A model estimator (11) estimates a model function of an analyzing system (20) based on target observation data and reference observation data. For this estimation, the amount of variation between the model of the target system and that of a reference model is estimated from the target observation data and reference observation data. The model function of the target model is estimated after the observation data are corrected based on the estimated amount of variation. A parameter determiner (12) calculates an acquisition function based on the mean and covariance of the model function, and determines a parameter value for the next observation, using the acquisition function. A data acquirer (13) sets the parameter value in the analyzing system (20) and acquires a corresponding observed value. A loop process with the feedback of the observation data is repeated to determine an optimal parameter value. In the case of a parameter search using a multi-task Bayesian optimization method, the present technique improves the efficiency of the parameter search even if the correlation between the target observation data and reference observation data is low.
US12106231B2
A plant water need computing system and method for forecasting water need to optimize irrigation efficiency while ensuring that a plant grows at optimal water availability. The plant water need computing system and method use a computational input and output balance model (CIOB model) implemented on a server to calculate irrigation need (IR) predictively. The CIOB model is implemented as a service through a representational state transfer application program interface (REST API). Registered clients get access to the API through a client application. Field identifier is passed by the client application to the CIOB model in an API request. The CIOB model sends an API response to the client application. The API response comprises irrigation need (IR). The CIOB model uses a computational module to calculate the IR and uses machine learning to optimize the plant water need.
US12106225B2
The exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium for generating a multiclass image segmentation model(s) can include receiving multiple single-class image datasets, receiving a target mask for each of the single-class image datasets, receiving a condition of an object associated with each of the single-class image datasets, and generating the multiclass image segmentation model(s) based on the single-class image datasets, the target masks, and the identification of the target objects. The single-class image datasets can include computer tomography images of abdominal organs. The single-class image datasets can be non-overlapping single-class image datasets. The single-class image datasets can include medical imaging datasets or cityscape datasets. The condition can include (i) an identification of a target object associated with each image in each single-class image dataset, (ii) a classification of each image associated with each single-class image dataset or (iii) an identifiable detail regarding each image in each single-class image datasets.
US12106211B2
Building blocks for implementing Vector-by-Matrix Multiplication (VMM) are implemented with analog circuitry including non-volatile memory devices (flash transistors) and using in-memory computation. In one example, improved performance and more accurate VMM is achieved in arrays including multi-gate flash transistors when computation uses a control gate or the combination of control gate and word line (instead of using the word line alone). In another example, very fast weight programming of the arrays is achieved using a novel programming protocol. In yet another example, higher density and faster array programming is achieved when the gate(s) responsible for erasing devices, or the source line, are re-routed across different rows, e.g., in a zigzag form. In yet another embodiment a neural network is provided with nonlinear synaptic weights implemented with nonvolatile memory devices.
US12106209B1
A method for evaluating artificial neural network (ANN) model's processing performance comprising selecting a type and a number of at least one neural processing unit (NPU) for processing performance evaluation for a user, selecting at least one of a plurality of compilation options for an artificial neural network (ANN) model to be processed by the at least one NPU which is selected, uploading the ANN model and at least one evaluation dataset to be processed by the at least one NPU which is selected, compiling the ANN model according to the at least one of the plurality of compilation options which is selected, and reporting a processing performance by processing the ANN model on the at least one NPU which is selected.
US12106205B1
The disclosed data generation platform enables selection of particular machine learning models on the basis of a predicted resource allocation requirement associated with a given prompt. For example, the model validation platform can evaluate the resource use (e.g., cost) associated with processing a user's prompt with a given type of model. Based on this estimated resource use, the model validation platform can route the prompt to a suitable model to optimize a performance metric value, thereby improving the efficiency of the system. In some implementations, the data generation platform trains a model to accurately estimate resource usage based on ground-truth model-related costs, thereby improving the effectiveness of model selection for efficiency improvements.
US12106200B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for detecting intermediate reinforcement learning goals. One of the methods includes obtaining a plurality of demonstration sequences, each of the demonstration sequences being a sequence of images of an environment while a respective instance of a reinforcement learning task is being performed; for each demonstration sequence, processing each image in the demonstration sequence through an image processing neural network to determine feature values for a respective set of features for the image; determining, from the demonstration sequences, a partitioning of the reinforcement learning task into a plurality of subtasks, wherein each image in each demonstration sequence is assigned to a respective subtask of the plurality of subtasks; and determining, from the feature values for the images in the demonstration sequences, a respective set of discriminative features for each of the plurality of subtasks.
US12106199B2
An online system performs predictions for real-time tasks and near real-time tasks based on available network bandwidth. A client device receives a regression based machine learning model. Responsive to receiving a task, the client device determines an available network bandwidth for the client device. If the available network bandwidth is below a threshold, the client device uses the regression based machine learning model to perform the task. If the client device determines that the network bandwidth is above the threshold, the client device extracts features of the task, serializes the extracted features, and transmits the serialized features to an online system, causing the online system to use a different machine learning model to perform the task based on the serialized features.
US12106198B2
This disclosure is directed to a generalizable machine learning model production environment and system with a defense mechanism that facilitates safe execution of machine learning models in production by effectively detecting potential known and new adversarial attacks. The disclosed exemplary systems and architectures gather data from the online execution of the machine learning models and communicate with an on-demand pipelines for further inspection and/or correction of vulnerabilities in the production machine learning model to the detected attacks. These systems and architectures provide an automatable process for continuous monitoring of model performance and correction of the production machine learning model to guard against current and future adversarial attacks.
US12106193B2
Embodiments are disclosed for a method. The method includes receiving feedback decision rules for multiple predictions by a trained machine learning model. generating a feedback rule set based on the feedback decision rules. The method further includes generating an updated training dataset based on an original training dataset and an updated feedback rule set. The updated feedback rule set resolves one or more conflicts of the feedback rule set, and the updated training dataset is configured to train the machine learning model to move a decision boundary. Generating the updated training dataset includes generating multiple updated training instances by applying one of the feedback decision rules to a training instance of the original training dataset.
US12106188B2
Systems and methods for learning software assisted, fixtureless object pickup and placement include a machine vision system to scan a part for pickup to measure target points at said part, retrieves weighted desired target points for the part from a controller, and performs an iterative analysis to determine a best fit solution for moving the part within a predetermined range of the desired target points. The best fit solution being determined by fitting vectors between each of the desired target points and the measured target points to develop a solution set. The best fit solution having the overall shortest length when said vectors are summed while prioritizing relatively higher weighted desired target points.
US12106185B2
Aspects of annotating data are disclosed. As data is ingested to a data confidence fabric, analytic values, which includes tags or annotations, are attached to or associated with the data by an analytic insertion mechanism. The analytic values allow the data to be used by applications including machine learning algorithms immediately. Feedback from the applications allow the analytic insertion mechanism to improve and generate more valuable analytic values and to generate higher confidence scores for the analytic values.
US12106178B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate quantum state measurement logic used in a quantum state measurement backend process are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a stage control register component that defines a data processing function corresponding to at least one storage element in at least one stage of a quantum state measurement pipeline.
US12106163B2
A method for facilitating distributed application programming interface (API) management by using an API gateway is disclosed. The method includes receiving, via a network interface, a request that includes a consumer request to access an API; approving the request based on a predetermined criterion; generating, based on a result of the approving, a credential that includes an access credential corresponding to the request; updating the API gateway with the credential; applying a setting to the API gateway based on the credential; and exposing a management API that corresponds to the API gateway.
US12106161B2
The present specification describes a computer-implemented method. According to the method, an object within a range of vision of a user is identified via a capture device on a wearable augmented reality (AR) system worn by the user. A user interaction with an identified object within the range of vision of the user is monitored. A notification related to the identified object is generated and presented on a display device of the wearable AR system.
US12106159B2
The system of the present technology includes an embodiment that provides a host audio, video and control operating system configured to establish or interact with one or more virtual machines, each with a guest operating system.
US12106155B2
A method for performing preemptive scaling is disclosed. The method includes monitoring of incoming data volume outside of a cloud network at a node upstream from the cloud network, and identifying micro services required for processing of the incoming data volume. The method further includes determining a number of instances for each of the identified micro services, and contemporaneously creating the determined number of instances for each of the identified micro services in the cloud for processing of the incoming data volume.
US12106154B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods include technology that analyzes an input stream and an artificial intelligence (AI) model graph to generate a workload characterization. The workload characterization characterizes one or more of compute resources or memory resources, and the one or more of the compute resources or the memory resources is associated with execution of the AI model graph based on the input stream. The technology partitions the AI model graph into subgraphs based on the workload characterization. The technology selects a plurality of hardware devices to execute the subgraphs.
US12106148B2
A computer server system comprises a communications module; a processor coupled with the communications module; and a memory coupled to the processor and storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to obtain an indication of scheduled access to a first node class of a shared resource; determine that a second node class of the shared resource is available; and schedule access to the second node class of the shared resource in place of the scheduled access to the first node class of the shared resource.
US12106137B2
A server-based desktop-virtual machines architecture may be extended to a client machine. In one embodiment, a user desktop is remotely accessed from a client system. The remote desktop is generated by a first virtual machine running on a server system, which may comprise one or more server computers. During execution of the first virtual machine, writes to a corresponding virtual disk are directed to a delta disk file or redo log. A copy of the virtual disk is created on the client system. When a user decides to “check out” his or her desktop, the first virtual machine is terminated (if it is running) and a copy of the delta disk is created on the client system. Once the delta disk is present on the client system, a second virtual machine can be started on the client system using the virtual disk and delta disk to provide local access to the user's desktop at the client system. This allows the user to then access his or her desktop without being connected to a network.
US12106132B2
A request to launch a compute instance is received at a control plane of a provider network. At an outbound command communicator, an indication that a compute instance is to be established at a target host at a client premise is obtained. A first address is associated with the target host at the control plane and also assigned to the communicator. A message with a second address within a first network of the client premise as a destination is transmitted. The message comprises a command to establish the compute instance at the target host. The first address is assigned to the target host within a second network of the client premise. Processing of the command at the target host results in establishment of a compute instance.
US12106127B2
An interface sharing method and an electronic device are disclosed. The interface sharing method includes: receiving a first input in a case that a first interface sent by a second electronic device is received; sending an interface sharing request to the second electronic device in response to the first input; receiving target information fed back by the second electronic device for the interface sharing request; and sharing a corresponding second interface with a third electronic device based on the target information and the first interface.
US12106123B2
Plugins that are independently written are executed in a collaborative manner to analysis a log. A plugin executing with respect to a particular node of a hierarchical data structure determines values for a set of keys based on information of the particular node and/or any ancestor nodes, and information stored in a shared repository. The plugin stores the values for the keys as additional information of the particular hierarchical node and/or into the shared repository. The plugin does not access information of non-ancestor nodes when executing with respect to the particular hierarchical node. Each plugin writes into and retrieves from the shared repository using the shared naming convention, thereby sharing information. The sequence of execution of the plugins is not dependent on dependencies amongst the plugins. If a dependent plugin requiring an output from a requisite plugin is first executed, the dependent plugin is flagged as pending and subsequently re-executed.
US12106116B2
An indication that a virtual machine is starting is received. Requested data blocks associated with the virtual machine are identified. Based on identifiers of the requested data blocks, a trained learning model is used to predict one or more subsequent data blocks likely to be requested while the virtual machine is starting. The one or more subsequent data blocks are caused to be preloaded in a cache storage. It is determined that the one or more predicted subsequent data blocks are incorrect. It is determined that an end of a boot sequence associated with the virtual machine has been reached. In response to a determination that the end of the boot sequence associated with the virtual machine has been reached, the boot sequence associated with the virtual machine is used to update the trained learning model.
US12106114B2
A processor includes a time counter and a time-resource matrix and statically dispatches baseline and extended instructions. The processor includes a plurality of register sets of a register file and a plurality of sets of functional units which are coupled by sets of dedicated read and write buses to allow parallel execution of baseline and extended instructions.
US12106111B2
A prediction unit includes a first predictor that provides an output comprising a hashed fetch address of a current fetch block in response to an input. The first predictor input comprises a hashed fetch address of a previous fetch block that immediately precedes the current fetch block in program execution order. A second predictor provides an output comprising a fetch address of a next fetch block that immediately succeeds the current fetch block in program execution order in response to an input. The second predictor input comprises the hashed fetch address of the current fetch block output by the first predictor.
US12106106B2
Embodiments for memory bandwidth monitoring extensible counters are described. In embodiments, an apparatus includes memory bandwidth monitoring hardware to monitor an event, a shared cache to be shared by multiple cores. At least one of the cores is to execute multiple threads and includes at least three registers. The first register is programmable by software to store a thread identifier of one of threads and an event identifier of the event during execution of the thread. At least one value of the event identifier corresponds to a shared cache miss. The second register is to provide to the software a second value corresponding to a number of bits available to represent the count. The third register is to provide to the software a count of occurrences of the event and an indicator to indicate whether the count reached a maximum count representable by the number of bits.
US12106101B2
Techniques are disclosed for a vector processor architecture that enables data interpolation in accordance with multiple dimensions, such as one-, two-, and three-dimensional linear interpolation. The vector processor architecture includes a vector processor and accompanying vector addressable memory that enable a simultaneous retrieval of multiple entries in the vector addressable memory to facilitate linear interpolation calculations. The vector processor architecture vastly increases the speed in which such calculations may occur compared to conventional processing architectures. Example implementations include the calculation of digital pre-distortion (DPD) coefficients for use with radio frequency (RF) transmitter chains to support multi-band applications.
US12106098B2
A semiconductor device including a first processor having a first register, the first processor configured to perform region of interest (ROI) calculations using the first register; and a second processor having a second register, the second processor configured to perform arithmetic calculations using the second register. The first register is shared with the second processor, and the second register is shared with the first processor.
US12106095B2
A deep learning-based Java program internal annotation generation method and system is provided. The method includes acquiring items with a Stars number ranked in the top, and extracting corresponding internal annotations and method statement lists; obtaining an
US12106090B2
A software updating device is provided which executes a process for updating software used for operating vehicle-mounted equipment. The software updating device includes a controller that acquires the software and applies the software to the equipment in order to update the software. The controller is configured to: cause a warning device to output a warning when an abnormality relating to the equipment occurs. The controller is further configured to prohibit outputting of the warning by the warning device when the abnormality relating to the equipment is detected while the software update process is being executed.
US12106086B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for retrieving, by a smart setup system, a component configuration metadata file corresponding to an application, the component configuration metadata file including component metadata representing components that the application uses during runtime, parsing, by a parser of the smart setup system, the component configuration metadata file to provide a set of data objects, each corresponding to a respective component in the set of components, providing, by an emitter of the smart setup system, a set of checking scripts and a set of installation scripts by, for each component in the set of components, providing a checking script and an installation script using a respective data object, and executing, by the smart setup system, each checking script in the set of checking scripts, and in response, receiving a set of check results, each check results indicating whether pre-requisites of a respective component are met.
US12106079B2
Example embodiments of the present disclosure provide, in one example aspect, an example computer-implemented method for verification of a shared cache. The example method can include retrieving a precompiled shared cache entry corresponding to a shared cache key, the shared cache key being associated with an operation request. The example method can include obtaining a directly compiled resource associated with the operation request. The example method can include certifying one or more portions of the shared cache based at least in part on a comparison of the precompiled shared cache entry and the directly compiled resource.
US12106072B2
An integration flow can be improved with the use of a pattern identified from a pattern library. The identified pattern can include a snippet of nodes which are functionally equivalent to a subset of nodes in the integration flow. The pattern also lists an endpoint capable of performing the snippet of nodes. The integration flow can therefore be updated to cause the endpoint to perform the snippet of nodes.
US12106070B2
A memory device and an operation method thereof are provided. The memory device includes: a memory array including a plurality of memory cells for storing a plurality of weights; a multiplication circuit for performing bitwise multiplication on a plurality of input data and the weights to generate a plurality of multiplication results, wherein in performing bitwise multiplication, the memory cells generate a plurality of memory cell currents; a digital accumulating circuit for performing a digital accumulating on the multiplication results; an analog accumulating circuit for performing an analog accumulating on the memory cell currents to generate a first MAC operation result; and a decision unit for deciding whether to perform the analog accumulating, the digital accumulating or a hybrid accumulating, wherein in performing the hybrid accumulating, whether the digital accumulating circuit is triggered is based on the first MAC operation result.
US12106068B2
A processing device having a sequence of sorting elements arranged in an array. Each of the sorting elements stores a previously retained value therein and receives an input value from a previous sorting element. Each sorting element applies retention logic to select one of the input value or the retained value to be passed to the next sorting element in the array. The value that is passed to the next sorting element can either be set to be the larger, or the smaller, of the input value and the previously retained value, as desired. Rows of processing elements in the array operate in parallel such that large data streams are sorted in parallel (with the data values moving down from one row of processing elements to the next row such that the largest, or the smallest, data values accumulating in the final row of processing elements).
US12106066B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for parallel construction for question generation (QG) corresponding to a content item. Text of at least a portion of the content item may be extracted as a source language text, at least a portion of which may be translated to generate a parallel text having a primary language different from the source language. The source and primary language texts may be aligned to create an aligned source language text and an aligned primary language text. A QG strategy may be determined and at least one step to be performed on the aligned primary language text may be generated based at least in part upon the determined QG strategy. At least one parallel operation corresponding to the at least one step to be performed on the aligned primary language text may be constructed, and a source language question may be generated.
US12106058B2
In a variety of embodiments, machine classifiers may model multi-turn dialogue as a one-to-many prediction task. The machine classifier may be trained using adversarial bootstrapping between a generator and a discriminator with multi-turn capabilities. The machine classifiers may be trained in both auto-regressive and traditional teacher-forcing modes, with the generator including a hierarchical recurrent encoder-decoder network and the discriminator including a bi-directional recurrent neural network. The discriminator input may include a mixture of ground truth labels, the teacher-forcing outputs of the generator, and/or noise data. This mixture of input data may allow for richer feedback on the autoregressive outputs of the generator. The outputs can be ranked based on the discriminator feedback and a response selected from the ranked outputs.
US12106047B1
A method for rendering context based information on a user interface includes receiving a user request to extract the context based information from a database. The database includes a plurality of documents and the request includes at least one search criteria required to determine a context of the user request. The method includes generating a list of documents corresponding to the context of the user request and rendering on a viewing portion of the user interface the list of documents corresponding to the context of the user request.
US12106041B1
An example method presents a system for configuring and applying a document-generation tool to automatically generate documents. The system may perform operations including providing, for presentation by a display device, a graphical user interface including user-configurable elements for configuring a document-generation tool and a preview region; determining form elements that define attributes of the document generation tool; and generate a graphical form preview of the document-generation tool based on the first form element. In some implementations, the system may determine rules of the document-generation tool, which may define a condition and an executable action that affect the display of the graphical form preview using the form elements and may update the graphical form preview on the graphical user interface based on the rules.
US12106035B2
Digital layouts that are generated using a pre-defined format can be difficult for users to parse and understand. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, digital layouts are generated using formats that are dynamically determined based on the features in the digital layout. In an embodiment, a plurality of features are received, where each of the features correspond to a respective section of a plurality of sections for a digital layout. Based on the plurality of features, an association between two sections in the plurality of sections is detected. The digital layout is then generated using a format to affiliate the two sections. This digital layout could be an email or a webpage to be displayed on a user interface.
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Systems and methods are provided for predicting systematic design rule check (DRC) violations in a placement layout before routing is performed on the placement layout. A systematic DRC violation prediction system includes DRC violation prediction circuitry. The DRC violation prediction circuitry receives placement data associated with a placement layout. The DRC violation prediction circuitry inspects the placement data associated with the placement layout, and the placement data may include data associated with a plurality of regions of the placement layout, which may be inspected on a region-by-region basis. The DRC violation prediction circuitry predicts whether one or more systematic DRC violations would be present in the placement layout due to a subsequent routing of the placement layout.
US12106033B2
The present disclosure describes a method for optimizing metal cuts in standard cells. The method includes placing a standard cell in a layout area and inserting a metal cut along a metal interconnect of the standard cell at a location away from a boundary of the standard cell. The method further includes disconnecting, at the location, a metal portion of the metal interconnect from a remaining portion of the metal interconnect based on the metal cut.
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A method (of generating a revised layout diagram of a conductive line structure for an IC) including: for a first set of pillar patterns that represents portions of an M(i) layer of metallization and where i is a non-negative number, the first set including first and second pillar patterns which extend in a first direction, are non-overlapping of each other with respect to the first direction, are aligned with each other and have a first distance of separation, determining a first distance of separation as between corresponding immediately adjacent members of the first set; recognizing that the first distance is less than a transverse routing (TVR) separation threshold for an M(i+j) layer of metallization, where j is an integer and j≥2; and increasing the first distance so as to become a second distance which is greater than the TVR separation threshold of the M(i+j) layer.
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A system, method, and computer-readable medium for generating factual and/or counterfactual data are described. This may have the effect of improving the complexity of data available for training machine learning models. The models may include agent-based models (ABMs) in which the agent definitions are decoupled from the simulation. In one or more aspects, some agents may have attributes and associated behaviors that permit them to be reused in different ABMs to simulate different systems.
