US12102768B2
In one embodiment, a breathing circuit component is provided and includes: an inlet; an outlet; and an enclosing wall defining a gases passageway between the inlet and the outlet, at least a region of the wall comprising a membrane that allows the passage of water vapour without substantially allowing the passage of liquid water or respiratory gases, wherein, the membrane has a thickness of about 35 to 45 micrometers.
US12102763B2
A cannula configured to provide positive expiratory pressure (PEP) and oxygen to a patient, including: a base including an oxygen opening and an inhalation opening; a valve including an inhalation flap valve that closes the inhalation opening and a PEP flap valve; a valve retainer including a flow opening and an exhalation opening, wherein the PEP flap valve closes the exhalation opening; and a nasal pillow seated on the valve retainer.
US12102759B2
A respiratory mask can include one or a plurality of force sensors configured to detect a force imparted to a user's skin. Output from the one or more sensors can be represented in a way useful to the patient or healthcare provider for adjusting the mask to achieve a desired fitment. A representation of the detected forces can be displayed on a separate display device or on the mask.
US12102757B2
Systems and method for conducting respiratory therapy in a respiratory system can adjust a flow of respiratory gases to a patient based upon a detected patient breath cycle. The respiratory system can include a non-sealed patient interface. The respiratory system can be configured to deliver a high flow therapy. A patient breath cycle may be determined using one or more measured parameters, such as a flow rate, a blower motor speed, and/or a system pressure. A flow source may be adjusted to have a phase matching that of the patient's breath cycle, such that flow in increased in response to the patient inhaling, and decreased in response to the patient exhaling.
US12102751B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include a positive pressure inhaler for delivery of aerosolized/vaporized medication to a patient's lungs under positive pressure and in a known volume of air, and methods of using the positive pressure inhaler for such delivery.
US12102746B2
A connection structure includes a chamber comprising a hollow housing, a diaphragm dividing the inside of the housing into a first space and a second space, and an output port outputting a gas in the second space with deformation of the diaphragm caused by pressure of a fluid flowing into the first space; a connection part comprising a coupling connected to the output port and being attached to a pressure detection device comprising a pressure sensor for detecting pressure of the gas output from the coupling; and a seal member being sandwiched between a side surface of the output port and a side surface of the coupling and moving while changing a sealing position when connecting or extracting the chamber to/from the connection part.
US12102742B2
A blood processing filter, which may be used for white blood cell removal, includes a flexible container having an inlet and an outlet for blood. A filter medium disposed between the inlet and the outlet, and a flow passage-securing member disposed between the filter medium and the outlet. The filter medium includes a filter layer X1 including a filter component unit A1, and a filter layer Y including a filter component unit B. The filter layer X1 is disposed between the filter layer Y and the flow passage-securing member. Ventilation resistances of the filter component unit A1 and unit B are 5.0 Pa·s/m2 or more and less than 9.0 Pa·s/m2 and 9.0 Pa·s/m2 or more, respectively. Ventilation resistances of the filter layer X1 and the filter medium are 4.0 kPa·s/m or more and 20.0 kPa·s/m or less and 55.0 kPa·s/m or more and less than 75.0 kPa·s/m, respectively.
US12102735B2
A biocompatible hydrogel has between 0.3% and 30% by weight of dry matter of a copolymer formed at least from acrylamide, chitosan and N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide, as well as a diffusing agent. The diffusing agent is advantageously selected from the group consisting of inert ingredients which have biomechanical properties and active ingredients. A method of manufacturing the hydrogel by copolymerizing, washing, and adding the diffusing agent is provided, as well as a mechanical visco-supplementation system adapted for external or internal use that includes the hydrogel, and an external or internal mechanical visco-supplementation kit including an acrylamide and chitosan copolymer crosslinked with N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide, and a diffusing agent in solid phase or in suspension, the copolymer and the diffusing agent having been previously mixed in the form of a hydrogel during manufacture or being adapted to be mixed extemporaneously to form a hydrogel.
US12102724B2
The present device provides a safe, effective means of mobile ultraviolet (UV) disinfection. A control board within the main body of the device receives data from sensors that may variously measure orientation and speed of the main body as it moves along various surfaces for disinfection. In response to such data, the control board may brighten, dim, or completely shut off UV light-emitting diodes (UVLEs), both to prevent over- and under-exposure of the materials being disinfected, and to prevent a user from unsafely using the device.
US12102723B2
A light sterilizer comprising: (a) an ultraviolet-C (UVC) light secured to a light printed circuit board assembly (PCBA), wherein the UVC light projects a sterilizing zone to sterilize objects or surfaces within the sterilizing zone; (b) a heat sink positioned adjacent to and in contact with the UVC light, wherein the heat sink is mounted to the light PCBA; and (c) a fan positioned adjacent to the heat sink; wherein the UVC light sterilizes viruses within the sterilizing zone by breaking the virus molecules.
US12102722B2
The present invention is directed to an absorbable hemostatic patch that utilizes a biocompatible fibrous, fabric substrate that is melt-blown and napped or loosened at the surface, with the substrate having a low-profile, high flexibility, strength and porosity that is suitable for coating cross-linkable active molecules and ultimately effective for use as a hemostat in situations of problematic bleeding.
US12102718B2
The invention pertains to a method for treating a neoplasm, such as colorectal cancer, using hollow silica spheres (“HSS”). It also is directed to a method for making uncalcined HSS, calcined HSS from which phenyl groups have been removed, and HSS incorporating particles of Fe3O4, as well as compositions containing HSS.
US12102710B2
Described herein are dermatological compositions, formulations containing wild type or genetically modified Cutibacterium bacteria and methods for use thereof of skin. The cosmetic and therapeutic formulations described herein can be used as cosmetic daily skin treatments or for treating skin inflammation or disorders including acne, psoriasis, rosacea, dermatitis, or eczema.
US12102697B2
Base material arrangements having at least two layers can accommodate the addition of antifungal material (nanofiller), such as in denture base resin without significantly compromising the mechanical properties and/or translucency of the base material arrangements. Antifungal agents such as nanosilver and nanozirconia can be used to modify a surface layer of the material arrangements, such as the denture base, to overcome certain known shortcomings of the modified materials, e.g., typical acrylic resins containing nanosilver and nanozirconia.
US12102693B1
A mesoporous silica nanoparticle (“MSN”); a bioactive agent loaded into the MSN; and an enteric coating encapsulating the surface of the MSN for oral administration or combination with more than one other pharmaceutical composition each having distinct bioactive agents.
US12102691B2
Compositions are described for direct protein delivery into multiple cell types in the mammalian inner ear. The compositions are used to deliver protein(s) (such as gene editing factors) editing of genetic mutations associated with deafness or associated disorders thereof. The delivery of genome editing proteins for gene editing and correction of genetic mutations protect or restore hearing from genetic deafness. Methods of treatment include the intracellular delivery of these molecules to a specific therapeutic target.
US12102688B2
Immunomodulatory nanofilaments are provided which present immune factors, especially cytokines, to immune cells, particularly T cells, so as to modulate the immune response of said cells. Methods of using such nanofilaments are also provided.
US12102687B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to complexes comprising a muscle-targeting agent covalently linked to a molecular payload. In some embodiments, the muscle-targeting agent specifically binds to an internalizing cell surface receptor on muscle cells. In some embodiments, the molecular payload inhibits expression or activity of a DMPK allele comprising a disease-associated-repeat. In some embodiments, the molecular payload is an oligonucleotide, such as an antisense oligonucleotide or RNAi oligonucleotide.
US12102686B2
This invention concerns the incorporation of curcumin into the backbone of a hydrolytically degradable crosslinked hydrogel that utilizes poly(beta amino ester) (PBAE) chemistry to provide a tunable protective network with the ability to release at a controlled rate. Upon the introduction of these microparticle systems in to a free radical generating environment, the constituent amount of curcumin present in solution was improved in comparison to a free curcumin state. From these results, a kinetic rate model was developed to estimate oxidative consumption parameters of curcumin and curcumin monoacrylate and quantify theoretical levels of free radicals present depending on the rate of release of curcumin provided. Modeled curcumin conjugated PBAE microparticles improve translation and overall success in delivering a therapeutic agent that matches levels of oxidative stress.
US12102679B2
HCMV US11 based therapeutics that can be used to target and reduce the activity of the FcRn protein are provided. The compositions can be used in treatment of auto-immune mediated and albumin-mediated diseases in a subject HCMV US11, as well as for use in preventing, or treating, infections of HCMV through administration of a US11 inhibitor.
US12102676B2
Provided are surprisingly effective methods for inactivating pathogens, and for producing highly immunogenic vaccine compositions containing an inactivated pathogen rendered noninfectious by exposure to a Fenton reagent, or by exposure to a Fenton reagent or a component thereof in combination with a methisazone reagent selected from the group consisting of methisazone, methisazone analogs, functional group(s)/substructure(s) of methisazone, and combinations thereof. The methods efficiently inactivate pathogens, while substantially retaining pathogen antigenicity and/or immunogenicity, and are suitable for inactivating pathogens, or for the preparation of vaccines for a wide variety of pathogens with genomes comprising RNA or DNA, including viruses and bacteria. Also provided are highly immunogenic inactivated vaccine compositions prepared by using any of the disclosed methods, and methods for eliciting an immune response in a subject by administering such vaccine compositions.
US12102663B2
Compositions and methods for treating hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, such as hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia after bariatric surgery, are provided. In some embodiments, an effective amount of the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor antagonist exendin(9-39) is subcutaneously administered twice per day.
US12102662B1
A method of warming a vial containing a sterile corticotropin composition from a temperature of 2° to 8° C. to a temperature of 18° to 26° C., withdrawing the sterile corticotropin composition from the vial with a first needle having a first gauge size with a first diameter, replacing the first needle with a second needle having a second gauge size with a second diameter that is different from the first diameter, and injecting 80 (United States Pharmacopeia) USP units of the sterile corticotropin composition into a human subject.
US12102658B2
The present invention discloses a tripeptide propylene oxide derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a preparation method and application thereof. The structure of the tripeptide propylene oxide derivative is shown in formula I. Compared with the prior art, the present invention provides tripeptide epoxy ketone compounds with a novel structure and a function of inhibiting proteasome. As 20S proteasome inhibitors, the tripeptide epoxy ketone compounds can block tumor cell proliferation and induce tumor cell apoptosis, so the tripeptide epoxy ketone compounds can be used for the treatment and prevention of a plurality of human and animal diseases such as malignant tumors, and the effect is significantly better.
US12102650B2
Described herein are anhydrous antimicrobial topical formulations including metal nanoparticles and terpenes. Methods of use of the described formulations in wound treatment are also described.
US12102648B2
Described herein are orally-bioavailable nucleoside analogs and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of coronavirus infections, including SARS-CoV-2 infection.
US12102644B2
A method of promoting the generation of oligodendrocytes from oligodendrocyte precursor cells by enhancing their survival and/or maturation includes administering to the cell an effective amount of an agent that enhances and/or induces accumulation of 8,9-unsaturated sterols in the OPCs, the agent comprising a compound having the formula (I): wherein variables Y1, R1 and R2 are as defined herein.
US12102640B2
Disclosed herein are methods of treating disorders of the retina (e.g., macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, etc.) comprising administering to a subject in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of a compound (for example, an antipsychotic drug) that blocks or diminishes agonist-mediated responses upon binding to either dopamine D2-like receptors or serotonin 5-HT2 receptors.
US12102638B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method of treating overactive bladder comprising orally administering to a subject in need thereof an amount of from about 60 mg to about 90 mg (e.g., about 75 mg) of vibegron per day. The present disclosure is also directed to a pharmaceutical unit dosage composition comprising from about 60 mg to about 90 mg (e.g., about 75 mg) of vibegron for oral administration.
US12102633B2
Provided herein are spirolactone compounds of Formula I that are useful as inhibitors of ACC1 and/or ACC2. The spirolactone compounds described herein can be used for treating a disease or disorder associated with aberrant ACC1 and/or ACC2 activities, for example, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), acne, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. Also provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the spirolactone compound of Formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US12102622B2
Methods for the ophthalmic delivery of roflumilast. The inventors have made the surprising discovery that the administration of pharmaceutical compositions comprising roflumilast to the cornea preferentially delivers the drug laterally through the ocular surface and anterior tissues of the eye. In contrast to the delivery of roflumilast to the skin, which primarily travels transversely through the various tissues of the skin, or many other topical ocular pharmaceutical compositions which travel through the cornea to the aqueous humor, the delivery of drug to the eye to the cornea travels laterally to the ocular surface and anterior tissues of the eye. Such methods can result in elevated levels of the drug in the cornea and other ocular surface and anterior tissues of the eye (e.g., iris-ciliary body, sclera, conjunctiva, and aqueous humor) relative to the interior or posterior tissues of the eye.
US12102620B2
The present disclosure relates to the use of 1-[4-bromo-5-[1-ethyl-7-(methylamino)-2-oxo-1,2-dihydro-1,6-naphthyridin-3-yl]-2-fluorophenyl]-3-phenylurea or 1-(5-(7-amino-1-ethyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydro-1,6-naphthyridin-3-yl)-4-bromo-2-fluorophenyl)-3-phenylurea, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in combination with a MAPKAP pathway inhibitor such as for example a RAS, RAF, MEK, or ERK inhibitor for the treatment of mastocytosis.
US12102618B2
Disclosed are methods of treating ataxia by administering to a patient in need thereof a riluzole prodrug such as troriluzole. Pharmaceutical compositions and kits including the riluzole prodrugs are also disclosed.
US12102617B2
An antimicrobial composition containing a synergistic combination of an imidazole antifungal agent and activated creatinine is provided, wherein the imidazole antifungal agent represents in the range of about 0.5 mol % to about 30 mol % of the combination of the antifungal agent and the activated creatinine in the composition. Methods for treating bacterial infections, fungal infections, viral infections, and wounds are also provided, as are other methods of use, including methods for disinfecting inert surfaces, methods for preserving food products, and methods for treating plants. In addition, the invention provides a method for enhancing the antifungal effect of an imidazole antifungal agent as well as a method for enhancing the antibacterial effect of activated creatinine. Compositions and methods involving use of activated 2-amino-imidazol-4-one analogs other than activated creatinine are also provided.
US12102607B2
The present invention relates to C5aR inhibitor compounds, preferably C5aR noncompetitive allosteric inhibitors, useful in the treatment and/or prevention of chemotherapy-induced iatrogenic pain (CIIP).
US12102596B2
A bag transfer mechanism for moving intravenous medication delivery bags includes linear actuator and a pantograph mechanism. A proximal end of the pantograph mechanism is coupled to the linear actuator such a that the pantograph mechanism is configured to extend when the linear actuator travels in a first direction, and to retract when the linear actuator travels in a second direction. The bag transfer mechanism also includes a magnet coupled to a distal end of the pantograph mechanism.
US12102593B2
A device for providing tactile stimulation of a subject via a pulse of compressible fluid, typically for medical diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The device preferably includes a high pressure fluid source and a low pressure fluid source. A pressure valve selectively connects the pressure sources to an outlet conduit. The outlet conduit includes an applicator for directing pulses against the skin of a subject. The pulses may be applied via one applicator or a plurality of applicators, and may be applied in one pattern or several patterns at various application sites. A method of providing tactile stimulation is also disclosed.
US12102591B2
A system and/or massage apparatus to obtain massage data from the massage apparatus (such as a massage chair) for control of a virtual representation of the massage apparatus in a simulated environment is developed. The system and/or massage apparatus is especially suited for a simulated and/or interactive environment such as virtual reality/augmented reality environment. The actual motion(s) of one or more physical massage mechanisms of the massage apparatus is obtained in the form of data signal(s), processed, rendered and displayed in the simulated and/or interactive environment as three-dimensional content. A user interface in the simulated or interactive environment may be used in a real-time or near real-time basis to provide a seamless experience to a user.
US12102585B2
Disclosed is a wearable robot for assisting a wrist, including: a plurality of flexible actuators; and a control unit configured to control any one of the plurality of flexible actuators to be contracted or relaxed according to a wrist movement of a wearer. Each of the plurality of flexible actuators includes: a driving part which is contractively deformed by a current or transfer heat applied from the control unit or is relaxed when the heat is lost, and a refrigerant circulating part which is implemented to surround the driving part and circulates a refrigerant so that the contractively deformed driving part is cooled under control of the control unit.
US12102580B2
A hospital bed may include a support structure, a controller, a pressure source coupled to the controller, and a hospital bed mattress carried by the support structure and having first and second ends, and first and second sides extending between the first and second ends. The hospital bed mattress may include bladders coupled to the pressure source. The bladders extend between the first and second ends and between the first and second sides and configured to provide pressure differential. The controller may be configured to pseudo-randomly adjust an internal pressure of each of the bladders.
US12102572B2
A mortuary undergarment assembly for dressing a deceased infant such that embalming fluid is contained includes a coverall body being liquid impermeable, being flexible, and having a shape for receiving a deceased infant into the coverall body. A hood body is liquid impermeable, flexible, and configured for partially covering a head section of the deceased infant to expose a face section of the deceased infant. The hood body is engaged to the coverall body such that liquid is deterred from permeating between the hood body and the coverall body. A method of dressing the deceased infant with the coverall body and the hood body is also disclosed.
US12102571B2
A boot stirrup for use with a surgical table is provided. The boot stirrup includes a support arm, a surgical boot, and a lockable joint coupled to the support arm and the surgical boot. The support arm is configured to couple to a surgical table for movement about a plurality of axes relative to the surgical table. The surgical boot is configured to support and/or immobilize the foot and leg of the patient. The lockable joint is configured to selectively permit movement of the surgical boot relative to the support arm.
US12102568B2
The present disclosure relates to a fog-reducing apparatus for eye protection equipment. For example, the fog-reducing apparatus includes a filter-pump system that provides air through one or more flexible hoses and across a lens of eye protection equipment. In certain implementations, the fog-reducing apparatus includes one or more nozzles (e.g., interchangeable nozzles) that provide directional air flow across the lens. Depending on the nozzle and/or an air flow controller, the fog-reducing apparatus can provide variable amounts of air flow and adjustable air flow direction as may be desired. In addition, the nozzle can attach to one or more components of the eye protection equipment, such as a lens, shield, or hood via one or more attachment mechanisms. Further, the nozzle can be inserted through an air vent or other hole into the eye protection equipment.
US12102563B2
A surgical instrument (40, 40A) for performing a goniotomy procedure includes a hand grip (44, 44A) having an elongated configuration with proximal and distal ends. The instrument (40, 40A) includes a tip (52, 52A) connected to the distal end (48, 48A) of the hand grip (44, 44A) which has a cutting means for creating a trabecular cleavage plane resulting in a remaining trabecular leaflet directly below Schwalbe's line in an eye to enhance drainage of aqueous humor from the eye. In one form, the cutting means includes a pair of sloping, arcuate cutting surfaces (70, 70A) that join to define an arcuate cutting edge (74, 74A).
US12102561B2
Methods for treating Blepharitis, Meibomian Gland Dysfunction and Dry Eye Syndrome include thermal massage, thermal debridement, and thermal expression. Particular embodiments include use of handheld devices that provide the thermal therapy to tissue by contacting a surface heated with thermal energy to a patient's tissue. Thermal energy can be continuously provided during operation. In particular embodiments, a handheld device comprises a base assembly operatively connected to a removeable thermal energy applicator. A wide range of thermal applicators may be connected to the base assembly to provide different treatments, including heat application, debridement, and expression of the treated tissue or gland.
US12102557B2
Provided herein are systems, compositions, and methods for improving one or more skin characteristics in a subject. These systems, compositions, and methods are configured to cool the subject's skin at a target site to a degree that alters adipocyte signaling but does not produce significant destruction of subcutaneous lipid-rich cells. In some embodiments, alteration of adipocyte signaling produces an improvement in one or more skin characteristics.
US12102556B2
The disclosed invention relates to a system and method for fallopian birth control that utilizes implantable devices that release botulinum toxin or similar acting substances to effectively prevent peristalses of the fallopian tube. The system includes an implantable device, a means for inserting, and an anesthetic. The implantable device is inserted through different methods and is permanent, removable, or degradable so that the process is reversable by recanalization. There is also a corresponding method for utilizing the system and method for fallopian birth control with a tactile device and a visual device.
US12102554B1
Apparatuses of reusable incontinence underwear and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. In one embodiment, an incontinence underwear includes an interior layer includes an excretion area, where the excretion area includes one or more openings configured to drain excretions of a user away from the interior layer; a middle layer configured to house an excretion collection unit, where the excretion collection unit is configured to store the urine from the interior layer to a urine collection bag external to the incontinence underwear; an exterior layer configured to conceal and prevent leakage from the middle layer of the incontinence underwear; and a support frame configured to hold the interior layer, the middle layer and the exterior layer of the incontinence underwear together.
US12102550B2
A body wearable brace, e.g. for resisting involuntary motion, adapted for allowing a user wearing the brace on his arm to dynamically move his or her upper arm, forearm, wrist and hand, comprising: an upper arm piece; a hand piece; an elbow flexion-extension joint that is rotatable relative to the upper arm piece around a first axis of rotation; a forearm pronation-supination joint that is rotatable relative to the forearm pronation-supination joint and the elbow flexion-extension joint around a second axis of rotation; an extension element extendable in a longitudinal direction; a wrist flexion-extension joint that is rotatable around a third axis of rotation. A first portion of the wrist flexion-extension joint is directly or indirectly connected to the extension element, and a second portion of the wrist flexion-extension joint is directly or indirectly connected to the hand piece.
US12102548B2
A kit for removably dressing a leg amputated above-knee is described. The kit includes a leg protector having a thigh piece configured to wrap around a thigh of the leg, and an end piece configured to removably attach to the thigh piece, and to wrap around a distal end of the leg. A belt is configured to be secured around a torso. One or more limb attachment straps are each configured to attach the belt to at least one of the thigh piece or the end piece to anchor the leg protector to the torso.
US12102536B2
Porous biocompatible structures suitable for use as medical implants and methods for fabricating such structures are disclosed. The disclosed structures may be fabricated using rapid manufacturing techniques. The disclosed porous structures each have a plurality of struts and nodes where no more than two struts intersect one another to form a node. Further, the nodes can be straight, curved, and can include portions that are curved and/or straight. The struts and nodes can form cells that can be fused or sintered to at least one other cell to form a continuous reticulated structure for improved strength while providing the porosity needed for tissue and cell in-growth.
US12102535B2
Various embodiments of implant systems and related apparatus, and methods of operating the same are described herein. In various embodiments, an implant for interfacing with a bone structure includes a web structure, including a space truss, configured to interface with human bone tissue. The space truss includes two or more planar truss units having a plurality of struts joined at nodes. Implants are coated with, or have struts formed from, a piezoelectric material to enhance bone growth around and through the implant.
US12102534B2
Stabilizer for a medical delivery system is provided, wherein the medical delivery system has at least two portions translatable relative each other. The stabilizer includes a base and a sled coupled to the base. The sled includes a distal arm including a distal attachment for receiving a first portion of the medical delivery system, and a proximal arm including a proximal attachment for receiving a second portion of the medical delivery system. The sled is translatable relative to the base and the proximal attachment is translatable relative to the proximal arm.
US12102526B2
A method of delivering an anchoring device that can be positioned within a native valve, such as the native mitral valve, to secure a replacement prosthetic valve in place. The anchoring device can comprise a docking station formed of a super elastic wire-like member defining a continuous, closed shape. The docking station can have an upper or atrial ring with at least two ring portions or half rings that are spaced apart across gaps. Descending bends from the ends of the two ring portions lead to a pair of anchors. The anchors can include oppositely-directed rounded V-shaped arms that extend generally parallel to the upper ring. The anchors can be delivered to be located in the subvalvular space or the region/vicinity of the native leaflets and pinch the leaflets and the annulus against the upper ring which is located on the other side of the annulus.
US12102525B2
Nasal implants are provided that have a planar type profile with open spaces through portions of the planar type profile. The nasal implant can be compressible along one or more dimensions of the nasal implant, such as the width and length of the planar type profile. Delivery tools for deploying the nasal implants within the nasal tissue are also provided. Methods for deploying the nasal implants within the nasal tissue of the patient are also provided.
US12102522B2
A stent for endovascular repair in a subject having an aortic dissection or aneurysm in the ascending aorta and methods of using the same are described herein. The stent comprises an inner covered stent having an inner lumen and one or more fenestrations, and an expandable outer shell coupled to the inner covered stent to form a fluid-tight chamber surrounding the inner covered stent. The one or more fenestrations provide fluid communication between the inner lumen and the fluid-tight chamber. The method of using the stent comprises deploying the endovascular stent in a constricted configuration in which the inner covered stent has a reduced diameter. The method further comprises expanding the outer shell to conform to the shape of the ascending aorta and cover an intimal tear of the aortic dissection, and moving the inner covered stent from the constricted configuration to an expanded configuration having an enlarged diameter.
US12102515B2
A laminate web having a polymer film layer and a nonwoven layer is disclosed. The polymer film layer makes up a first side of the laminate web and the nonwoven layer makes up a second side of the laminate web. The laminate web has a plurality of first elements extending from the polymer film. The web also has a plurality of second elements formed outwardly from the first side of the laminate web.
US12102506B2
A method for external ear canal pressure regulation to alleviate one or more symptoms associated with a disorder or treat one or more disorders, the method including providing a fluid transfer device which generates a fluid flow of a fluid through an earplug, the earplug having an earplug external surface configured to sealably engage an external ear canal wall as a barrier between an external ear canal pressure and an ambient pressure; sealably engaging the earplug of the fluid transfer device with the external ear canal wall as the barrier between the external ear canal pressure and the ambient pressure; and operating the fluid transfer device to generate the fluid flow of the fluid through the earplug to achieve an external ear canal pressure differential between the external ear canal pressure and the ambient pressure effective to alleviate a disorder symptom or treat a disorder.
US12102500B1
A device for removing orthodontic aligners. The device comprises a hinge mechanism that enables a tweezing motion, allowing a wearer to grasp an orthodontic aligner in between two contact regions precisely and easily. Tips and extensions extending from these contact regions ensure comprehensive contact with aligner ridges and bases, while central segments in between them, possibly with textured surfaces, enhance grip. The device's design, including tips having sloped segments, guide the aligner ridges into the tips, ensures a snug fit. Variations include acute or obtuse angles between extensions and central segments for effective aligner positioning, and textured leg surfaces for improved user grip.
US12102499B2
A method of applying a two-part dental sealant is described comprising providing a syringe device (1) comprising a cartridge (10) including first and second chamber. The first chamber contains a first part of a dental sealant comprising a (meth)acrylate resin and an oxidizing curing agent. The second chamber contains a second part of a dental sealant comprising a (meth)acrylate resin and a reducing curing agent that reacts with the oxidizing curing agent of the first chamber. The first and/or second part of the dental sealant further comprise a single component or multiple components that neutralize acid and promote remineralization. The syringe device comprises a dispensing nozzle (17) comprising a static mixer and an outlet at one end of the cartridge and a plunger (20) at the opposing end of the cartridge. Also described is a kit for storing and applying the dental sealant is described.
US12102489B2
Methods and systems that provide quantitative assessments of in vivo thermal treatments, such as ablations, during image-guided surgeries using a high-resolution pre-operative MRI image segmented with a shape constrained and deformable mesh representations of brain structures and generating 3-D visualizations of thermally treated volumes during the thermal treatment that can provide near real time visual and quantitative feedback to a clinician.
US12102488B2
The technology described in this document can be embodied in a viewing apparatus for a surgical device, the apparatus including a lens assembly including a first polarizer, a display device configured to present an image of a surgical scene, and a reflective surface oriented at an acute angle with respect to the display device such that light from the display device is reflected from the reflective surface towards the lens assembly. The first polarizer in the lens assembly is configured such that light reflected from the reflective surface passes through the first polarizer, and light reaching the first polarizer without being reflected from the reflective surface is substantially blocked.
US12102484B2
An ultrasound image processing device and a method for quantitative analysis of cardiac motion are provided. The device comprises: a display; and a processor configured to: obtain an ultrasound presentation, wherein the ultrasound presentation comprises one of an ultrasound image and an ultrasound video; perform a motion tracking on at least one region of interest according to the ultrasound presentation to obtain a tracking result of the at least one region of interest; determine a tracking quality of the tracking result of the at least one region of interest; and control the display to display the tracking quality of the at least one region of interest, wherein the tracking quality is a confidence of the tracking result of the corresponding region of interest and indicates a credibility of the tracking result of the corresponding region of interest.
US12102477B2
An ultrasound measurement device includes: a processing device and multiple ultrasound sensors that capture tomographic information of a physiological structure. The ultrasound sensors include a first ultrasound sensor including a first transducer having a first frequency response with a first resonant frequency, and a second ultrasound sensor including a second transducer having a second frequency response with a second resonant frequency different from the first resonant frequency. The first frequency response partially overlaps with the second frequency response. The second transducer transmits an ultrasound signal that is reflected by the physiological structure to create a reflected ultrasound signal, the first transducer generates a first received signal from the reflected ultrasound signal, the second transducer generates a second received signal from the reflected ultrasound signal, and the processing device normalizes the first received signal with the second received signal or the second received signal with the first received signal.
US12102468B2
A radiation imaging apparatus comprising a detection unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, a communication unit configured to receive a control signal including an imaging mode for acquiring a radiation image by the detection unit and a controller is provided. The controller operates the detection unit in an imaging mode corresponding to the control signal if an imaging instruction is received in a first state in which a state of communication is normal, operates the detection unit in an abnormal imaging mode set in advance if the imaging instruction is received in a second state in which the state of communication is not normal, and operates the detection unit so as to acquire offset image data for an imaging mode different from the abnormal imaging mode while radiation irradiation is not performed in the second state.
US12102464B2
Disclosed are a bone age estimation method and a bone age estimation apparatus. The bone age estimation method may comprise the steps of: extracting a region of interest including a cervical spine region from a lateral cephalometric radiographic image obtained by imaging a subject's cervical spine, by using a first deep learning model; extracting landmarks from the extracted region of interest by using a second deep learning model; calculating a landmark numerical value on the basis of the extracted landmarks; and providing maturity information of a maturation stage of the cervical spine on the basis of the calculated landmark numerical value.
US12102463B2
A method for characterising an epicardial region using medical imaging data of a subject. The method comprises calculating the value of an epicardial radiomic signature of the epicardial region using the medical imaging data. Also disclosed is a method for deriving an epicardial radiomic signature indicative of cardiac health. The method comprises using a radiomic dataset to construct an epicardial radiomic signature. Also disclosed are systems for performing the aforementioned methods.
US12102451B2
The present invention relates to an integrated circuit for processing biosignals, a biosignal processing apparatus, and a biosignal processing system, and the integrated circuit includes: a digital conversion unit for converting an analog biosignal input through a biosignal input terminal into digital biodata; and an AI block for processing a plurality of biodatas converted through the digital conversion unit according to an artificial intelligence processing flow, and outputting a result data according to processing of the plurality of biodatas.
US12102434B2
A method for training a system for measuring or estimating or both of a user's response to a stimulus and for classifying the response is disclosed. The system is trained using a test stimulus presented to one or more users. One or more images of the users' face are captured and simultaneously EEG signals of the users are captured. One or more emotional features are derived from the facial data of the users. One or more cognitive features and emotional features are derived from the EEG signals of each of the users, and a training dataset is created by correlating the one or more emotional features from the facial data, one or more cognitive and emotional features from the EEG signals with one or more features associated with the test stimulus. Created training dataset is used for measuring or estimating or both of a user's response to the stimulus.
US12102428B2
Methods of analyte monitoring management are provided. The methods include indicating on a user interface a plurality of analyte management procedures available for user-selection, where the plurality of analyte management procedures relate to analyte management parameters. Embodiments include receiving an indication to initiate a first procedure of the plurality of analyte management procedures, where the first procedure is for determining a first analyte management parameter. The methods may further include outputting user-instructions associated with the first procedure; receiving analyte measurement data for the first procedure; estimating the first analyte management parameter based on the analyte measurement data; calculating a degree of certainty for the estimation of the first analyte management parameter; and, initiating an action in response to an event associated with a status of the estimation of the first analyte management parameter or the degree of certainty. Analyte monitoring devices and systems implementing the methods are also provided.
US12102425B2
A system for monitoring a user that includes a sensor unit configured and arranged to be disposed on the user, the sensor unit including an accelerometer and a communication arrangement; and at least one processor configured and arranged for performing actions including: receiving signals from the accelerometer of the sensor unit; determining a step count from the signals; determining a gait velocity from the signals; determining a step distance from the signals; determining a posture of the user from the signals; and determining a gait posture index as a function of the step count, gait velocity, step distance, and posture. In other embodiments, the system can be used to determine metrics other than the gait posture index, such as a fall prediction score based on gait velocity and posture deviation.
US12102420B2
Methods, systems, and devices for direct radio frequency (RF) signal processing for heart rate (HR) monitoring using ultra-wide band (UWB) impulse radar are presented. A radar sensor is able to directly sample a received signal at RF which satisfies the Nyquist sampling rate, preserving a subject's vital sign information in the received signal. The vital sign information can be extracted directly from a raw RF signal and thus down conversion to a complex baseband is not required. The HR monitoring performance from the proposed direct RF signal processing technique provides an improvement in continuous HR monitoring as compared against existing methods using a complex baseband signal and/or other measurement techniques.
US12102396B2
Provided in accordance with the present disclosure is a diagnostic and a therapeutic bronchoscopy system for localized delivery of medication within the lungs. Specifically, systems and methods are disclosed for creating a functional and anatomical map of the lungs, diagnosing a condition within the lungs, generating a treatment plan for a target site within the lungs, navigating to the target site, administering a treatment directly to the target site for immediate absorption within the target site, and assessing the efficacy of the treatment.
US12102392B2
Systems, devices, and methods for controlling cooperative surgical instruments are provided. Various aspects of the present disclosure provide for coordinated operation of surgical instruments accessing a common body cavity of a patient from different approaches to achieve a common surgical purpose. For example, various methods, devices, and systems disclosed herein can enable the coordinated treatment of surgical tissue by disparate minimally invasive surgical systems that approach the tissue from varying anatomical spaces and operate in concert with one another to effect a desired surgical treatment.
US12102381B2
A catheter includes an ablation electrode and an irrigation channel. The ablation electrode is configured to ablate tissue of a patient organ and is fitted over an insertion tube for insertion into the patient organ. The irrigation channel includes: (i) a lumen which is formed along an axis of the insertion tube, and is configured to flow irrigation fluid to the ablation electrode, and (ii) one or more irrigation holes, which are formed in the ablation electrode, and are configured to apply the irrigation fluid to the organ. The irrigation channel is configured to simultaneously (i) receive a guidewire for guiding the catheter and (ii) flow the irrigation fluid.
US12102377B2
Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for coupling devices. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes a locking body defining an opening with a first section having a first width and a second section having a second width smaller than the first width. The locking body is slidably mountable on a first device with a first coupling to receive a second coupling having a flange with a width that is smaller than the first width and larger than the second width. A slidable mounting mechanism slidably secures the locking body on the first device. The locking body slides between an open position, in which the first section is positionable to enable the first coupling to receive the second coupling, and a closed position in which an edge of the locking body around the second section abuts the flange to prevent withdrawal of the second coupling.
US12102365B2
A plate for attaching to an anatomic structure with fasteners. The plate has a body with a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface. The body defines one or more openings to receive a respective one of the one or more fasteners. The bottom surface is concave to define a space to accommodate a portion of the anatomic structure. A bone pad surface extends from the bottom surface. A spike extends away from the bone pad surface. An extension arm can be coupled to the plate and the extension arm can support a tracking head to implement a surgical tracking assembly.
US12102364B2
Systems and methods include solutions for fixation at the rib head for fractures and osteotomies adjacent to the rib head and transverse process. The disclosed rib plates, anchor systems, other implants, and instrumentation may also be applied to mid-rib fractures. The systems and methods may be used in the treatment of rib deformities, including the correction of rib hump deformity via thoracoplasty, as well as general corrections of chest and rib deformities. Systems and methods herein may be used in chest wall reconstructions due to trauma, cancer, or deformity.
US12102359B2
Disclosed is an method for use of an intramedullary nail comprising a shaft having a length, a diameter, an exterior bone contacting surface, a leading (or distal) end and a trailing (or proximal) end, wherein the leading end is progressively tapered and comprises a well or cup, adapted to receive the tip of a standard K-wire, the trailing end comprises a driving fitting adapted for attachment to a driving tool for insertion of the nail into the prepared bone, the trailing end may optionally include an internal thread that can be used to secure the nail to a drill guide which can also function as an insertion handle, and the nail's shaft may also optionally be equipped with threaded and/or unthreaded cross-drilled holes for insertion of unicortical locking screws and bone screws, respectively, once the nail is placed as desired.
US12102358B2
A plate system includes a retention cap and a plate. The retention cap includes a head with tangs and a shank. The shank includes protrusions at an end of the shank and relief cut-outs clocked relative to the protrusions. The plate includes screw holes and a locking feature. The locking feature includes an assembly guide adapted to guide the shank and features thereof into the locking feature, locking detents distal to the top surface of the plate and adapted to receive the protrusions and interfere with rotational movement of the retention cap, and a retainer positioned axially between the assembly guide and the locking detents. The retainer is adapted to prevent axial movement of the retention cap. The locking feature is adapted to hold the retention cap with the tangs overlapping the screw holes and with the tangs not overlapping the screw holes.
US12102356B2
A removal tool uses magnetic attraction to guide the removal tool toward an implantable device subcutaneously implanted in subcutaneous tissue of a host and to remove the implantable device from the host. The removal tool may include first and second lever members that are pivotably connected together, and the first and second lever members include a pair of jaw members configured to move between open and closed positions to grasp the implantable device. The first jaw member may include a magnet to magnetically attract and couple to an implantable device implanted subcutaneously below a skin surface of a host.
US12102351B2
A surgical probe and a method for forming and enlarging an access opening through a psoas muscle to provide for minimally invasive lateral approach for surgical access to a lumber intervertebral disc. A distal end portion of the probe is equipped with an electrode useful for confirming proper location of the probe and includes an inflatable dilator body for enlarging an access opening through tissue adjacent to a spinal column. The probe includes a cannula through which a K wire can be extended to anchor the probe to a patient.
US12102349B2
Described herein is a circumcision device including a support having a glans penis locating member mountable thereto. The support is provided with at least one pillar that includes a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end being fastened to a crush plate. The pillar facilitates movement of the crush plate relative to the support. A locking device is moveable between a locked position and an unlocked position, such that axial movement of the pillar is inhibited in the locked position and enabled in the unlocked position. The locking device is at least partially hidden by the support. A blocking device is interposed between the support and the crush plate to block movement of the crush plate towards the support past a predefined point to inhibit the locking device from becoming exposed.
US12102345B2
An apparatus includes a cannula assembly and a sensor assembly. The cannula assembly includes a proximal end, a distal end, and a first lumen extending from the proximal end to the distal end. The cannula is formed of a rigid material. The sensor assembly includes a sensor and a communication wire. The sensor is fixed to the cannula assembly. The communication wire is in electrical communication with the sensor. The communication wire extends along a length of the cannula assembly exterior to the first lumen.
US12102338B2
Methods and devices for consistently and accurately controlling the depth of the graft tunnel. A sheath is inserted into the bone until a stop member on the sheath contacts the bone. A cutting member is then deployed to drill a larger bore in the tunnel until making contact with the distal end of the sheath. The cutting member may be drawn retrograde within the tunnel, or driven antegrade from an opening opposite the opening in which the sheath resides. The drill and the sheath can then be removed, leaving the tunnel that includes a tunnel portion sized to fit a graft so that the graft fits tightly within the tunnel portion and is flush with the opening of the tunnel.
US12102337B2
A bone material removal device, including a tubular element comprising a proximal end and a distal end, a shaft received within the tubular element and comprising a proximal end and a distal end, a cutting tooth movably coupled to the distal end of the shaft and a shaft displacement actuator at the proximal end of the tubular element rotatably coupled to the shaft, wherein at least partial rotation of the actuator in a first direction brings the cutting tooth to travel from a closed retracted position to an open extended position.
US12102336B2
A system includes a clip having a pair of clip arms, proximal ends of the clip arms received within a channel of a capsule to be moved between an open configuration and a closed configuration. A proximal end of the capsule including a plurality of connecting elements extending proximally therefrom. Each of the connecting elements including a hook along a proximal portion thereof. An applicator includes an elongated flexible member and a control member extending therethrough, the control member configured to be connected to the clip arms to move the clip assembly between the open and closed configurations, the elongated flexible member including a bushing including a first ramped portion and a necked portion extending proximally from the first ramped portion, a proximal end of the first ramped portion including a lip configured to engage the hook when the connecting elements are crimped thereover.
US12102332B2
Apparatus and methods for occluding hollow body structures, such as blood vessels, and for attaching tissue layers together by providing implantable elements on opposite sides of the structure or tissue layers and drawing the implants together to occlude the body structure and/or bring the tissue layers together. The implants are deliverable in a low-profile configuration and self-expand to an enlarged configuration. The implantable elements are delivered by transfixing the body structure, then releasing the implants on opposite sides of the anatomical structure to urge the layers together to effect an occlusion or attachment. The implants are configured to apply oppositely directed forces to opposite surfaces of the tissue layers at alternate, circumferentially spaced locations and may constrain the tissue in a serpentine pattern or in a direct clamping pattern. The implants grip the tissue in a manner that defines a pressure zone about the transfixion aperture that prevents leakage from the aperture. The invention can be used to fasten tissue to non-tissue.
US12102326B2
Ligation bands are provided having improved compression and anti-slip properties. For example, a ligation band can be provide with a substantially ring-shaped elastic body that has a first tissue-contacting surface, a second tissue-contacting surface opposite the first tissue-contacting surface, and an aperture that extends therethrough. At least one of the tissue-contacting surfaces can have a plurality of protrusions that define an interlinking web-pattern with a plurality of recesses.
US12102315B2
Methods for suspension fixation most applicable for a Latarjet of bone block procedure are performed using an open surgery with an anterior approach. The method passes endobuttons and sutures through the glenoid from posterior without the need of a posterior drill guide and disposable drill/sleeve. As an alternative embodiment, a passing pin with a slot at the advancing end may be used to further reduce surgical steps. The passing pin may be advanced and exit the muscle, and the suture loop may be directly attached to the pin rather than a secondary shuttle suture and then retrieved anteriorly.
US12102310B2
A septal closure and port device for implantation in the atrial septum of a patient's heart includes an expandable frame with a central portion defining a lumen, and first and second opposing end portions. The frame can expand and contract between a compressed, tubular configuration for delivery through the patient's vasculature and an expanded configuration in which the first and second end portions extend radially outwardly from the opposite ends of the central portion. The device can also have a valve member supported on the frame and positioned to block at least the flow of blood from the left atrium to the right atrium through the lumen of the frame. The valve member permits a medical instrument to be inserted through the lumen and into the left atrium, for performing a subsequent medical procedure in the left side of the heart.
US12102309B2
Devices, methods and systems are provided for occluding a left atrial appendage. In one embodiment, a medical device includes a cover portion and a foam anchor portion with a flexible member coupled therebetween. The cover portion is configured to be positioned over an ostium of the left atrial appendage. The foam anchor portion extends between a proximal end and a distal end to define a length and an axis defined along the length of the foam anchor portion. The foam anchor portion defines a curved external surface radially extending relative to the axis such that the curved external surface extends between the proximal and distal ends of the foam anchor portion. The foam anchor portion is configured to self-expand to provide an outward biasing force from the curved external surface such that a circumferential surface area of the curved external surface biases against tissue of the left atrial appendage.
US12102302B2
A laparoscopic tool has a semicircular mid-portion with a center point and coinciding remote center of the robotic arm, to which the tool is mounted on a common axis located between straight proximal and straight distal sections. The straight proximal of the laparoscopic tool is rotatably mounted on a fixed side mount on surgical robotic arm. The robotic arm is disengaged from the surgical robot to allow manual location of the robotic arm to position the semicircular mid-portion through a percutaneous port and the center point of semi-circular mid-portion and coinciding remote center of the robotic arm, to which the tool is mounted at a target virtual insertion point on the patient's body. Visual aids are provided to assist in the positioning of the center point.
US12102301B2
Disclosed are embodiments of a laryngoscope that facilitates targeted recording (video, or audio, or both video and audio) of time intervals associated with active laryngoscopy. In accordance with the teachings of the disclosure, a characteristic that reliably defines the interval of active laryngoscopy is used to trigger recording. One such characteristic is that the operator's hand is gripping the handle of the laryngoscope. Accordingly, preferred embodiments implement a laryngoscope having a handle so designed that when the handle is gripped by the operator's hand, recording is initiated and continued for as long as the operator's hand maintains a grip on the laryngoscope handle.
US12102300B2
The invention relates to a dental care unit (1) comprising a frame part (2), a support construction (5, 7) for supporting instruments related to dental care (6) and, on the other hand, an operating light (8) arranged to be used in connection with dental care, which operating light (8) is arranged to produce a desired light pattern at a desired distance from the operating light (8). A camera arrangement is arranged to this operating light (8) which comprises at a distance from each other two optical cameras (85), which are integrated as to be both structural and functional part of the operating light (8) of the dental care unit (1).
US12102299B2
An endoscope reprocessor includes: a treatment tank; a transmission panel made of a transmitting material that allows an observation wave to transmit through the transmitting material, the transmission panel being disposed such that the observation wave is allowed to transmit from a reprocessor outer surface to an inside of the treatment tank; and at least one terminal holding member disposed on the reprocessor outer surface, and configured to hold an observation terminal at a position that allows the observation terminal to observe the inside of the treatment tank through the transmission panel, the observation terminal including a receiver that receives the observation wave.
US12102298B2
A system and method for imaging tissue including an endoscope capable of illuminating tissue with white and near infrared light. The method includes detecting the fluorescence and displaying the detected fluorescence in combination with white light images.
US12102296B2
The present disclosure relates to a medical imaging system, a medical imaging device, and an operation method that make it possible to capture a medical image in which an operative field can be better observed. The medical imaging system includes: a first imaging element that receives light through a color filter and outputs a first image signal; a second imaging element that receives light not through a color filter and outputs a second image signal; an optical splitting system that splits incident light incident from a mount surface into light to be incident on the first imaging element and light to be incident on the second imaging element; and a signal processing unit that performs depth-of-field extension processing to generate an extended-depth-of-field image obtained by extending a depth of field using the first image signal and the second image signal. Then, the optical path length from the mount surface to the first imaging element is set to be shorter than the optical path length from the mount surface to the second imaging element. The present technology can be applied to, e.g., a medical imaging system capable of capturing an EDOF image.
US12102283B2
The present disclosure discloses a docking device including a charging terminal, a power supply unit for supplying power to the charging terminal, a communication module for exchanging data with a mobile robot, a voice recognition module for collecting a voice and extracting a voice command from the collected voice, and a charging-station controller for controlling the communication module to transmit the voice command extracted from the voice recognition module to the mobile robot.
US12102281B2
Provided is a rail device for a dishwasher including a guide main body part; an upper support roller part coupled to one side of the guide main body part to be rotatable with respect to a central axis; a lower support roller part coupled to one side of the guide main body part to be rotatable with respect to a central axis; a guide rail part extendedly formed along the sliding direction with one side inserted into the space between the upper support roller part and the lower support roller part; and a rack roller part having one side inserted into the guide rail part and the other side coupled to one surface inside the main body of the dishwasher or coupled to the sliding basket.
US12102276B2
Provided is a self-moving cleaning device, including a shell, a water tank, a groove, and a roller assembly. A mounting part is arranged at the bottom of the shell; the water tank is detachably mounted on the mounting part; the groove is provided in the mounting part and/or the groove is provided in the water tank at a position cooperating with the mounting part; and the roller assembly is mounted on the mounting part and can extend and retract. When the water tank is mounted on the shell, the roller assembly retracts into the groove and is in a retracted state, and when the water tank is removed from the shell, the roller assembly is in an extended state.
US12102273B2
A mobile hand cleaning station allows both hands to be cleaned with a minimal interaction of dirty hand(s) with the sanitizing apparatus. This device has the capability of containing and dispensing multiple flowable (e.g., liquid, gel, or foam) elements, such as a cleaning agent and water. The station includes an attachment point configured to balance the container(s) with their dispensing ends in a downward, but not straight down, orientation when the station is hung from the attachment point.
US12102266B2
An appliance for processing food including a vessel with walls that defines chamber in which foods to be processed are received, and a working part arranged in the chamber, which can be driven to process the foods, wherein the chamber defined by the walls has a form which is substantially a spherical segment at least in part, wherein the spherical segment form surrounds the working part.
US12102264B2
The present disclosure discloses an air fryer applicable for cooking a pizza, including a bottom bracket provided in a cooking cavity of the air fryer, wherein an air duct plate is provided between an upper part of the bottom bracket and a heating pipe on the top of the cooking cavity, a passing-air reflux port is provided in the middle of the air duct plate, an edge of the air duct plate extends downwards to form a hot air passage with an inner wall of the cooking cavity, and a pizza placement cavity is formed between the bottom bracket and the air duct plate.
US12102253B2
There is disclosed herein a sous vide appliance (10) including: a tube (12) having longitudinally opposite first and second ends (14, 13), and providing a liquid flow path (26) having an inlet adjacent the first end (14), and an outlet adjacent the second end (13); a heating element (31) mounted adjacent the tube (12) to heat liquid passing along the flow path from the inlet to the outlet; an outer housing (11) within which the tube (12) is located; and a switch (32) located between the tube (12) and the housing (11) and operatively associated with the heating element (31) to provide for the delivery of electric power to the heating element (31).
US12102252B2
This disclosed invention relates to an adjustable shower curtain rod that includes a first rod with a cavity and a second rod that slides within this cavity for length adjustment. Further included are a pressure mechanism comprising positioning, locking, and extruding parts to securely adjust and fix the rod's length. Some embodiments include a friction part with an elastic deformation slot.
US12102248B2
Multiple components of a floor mat system may each be formed of a resilient material such as foamed polyurethane. First and second channels are formed in the respective lower surfaces of first and second mat components, so as to inwardly extend from lateral boundaries thereof. The roofs of the channels are spaced above the general lower surfaces of the mat components. A first socket is formed to upwardly extend from the roof of the first channel, and a second socket is formed to upwardly extend from the roof of a second channel. A connector is used to join the mat components. Posts of the connector are received in the sockets, while a strap joining the posts is received within the first and second channels.
US12102229B1
A desktop workspace that adjusts vertically includes a work surface platform, a base configured to sit on an existing platform, such as a desk, a height adjustable mechanism including at least one set of arms that connect at a pivot point(s) creating a scissoring motion to raise and lower the said work surface platform to various heights. A locking and unlocking mechanism may connect to the height adjustable mechanism. In some cases, the apparatus includes an adjustable mechanism to support items such as a keyboard. In some cases, the apparatus includes elements to raise items such as a monitor to an additional height.
US12102224B1
A wall hanger includes a vertical column including a front wall, a first sidewall having a plurality of first coupling holes, and a second sidewall having a plurality of second sidewalls. A connecting member includes a front board and a sideboard. At least one first coupling member is disposed on the sideboard and is coupled with one of the plurality of first coupling holes. At least one second coupling member extends from a side of the front board. A bracket is disposed in front of the vertical column and includes an arm. The arm includes a rear end having at least one third coupling member selectively engaged with at least one of the plurality of second coupling holes of the second sidewall. The rear end of the arm further includes at least one third coupling hole engaged with the at least one second coupling member.
US12102221B2
An apparatus (1) for forming bristle bundles (2) is inter alia proposed as an improvement in the technical field of manufacturing and designing brushes. The apparatus (1) includes at least one bundle pocket (3) which is specified for receiving bristle bundles (2) to be formed. The bundle pocket (3) has a common bundle receptacle portion (50) for unifying at least two bristle bundles (2). The bundle pocket (3) and the bristle bundles (2) situated therein are heated by the heating apparatus (4) of the apparatus (1) so as to set the shaping of the bristle bundles (2) that is predefined by the bundle pocket (3) and the displacement means (7).
US12102216B2
A cargo carrying strap system is discussed, the strap system having a handle assembly and one or more vertical straps for wrapping around a vertical perimeter of a piece of cargo. The strap system can further include a perimeter strap for wrapping around an edge perimeter of the cargo and a horizontal strap for wrapping around a horizontal perimeter of the cargo.
US12102212B2
The present invention relates to a multi-functional hair-styling thermal treatment beauty device, which continuously rotates, in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction, a hair-styling part for holding hair while holding body part is held or can open an upper rotary body of the hair-styling part so as to enable hair styling to be easily performed according to circumstances, and forms a continuous grounding structure so as to enable power to be continuously supplied to a heating plate mounted inside the hair-styling part capable of continuously rotating, so that the heated state of the heating plate, caused by the heating of a current, is continuously maintained even during continuous rotation, and thus various hair styles can be more effectively created by the hair-styling part, so that hair styling is easily performed according to circumstances, and operation fatigue is reduced so that use convenience can. be improved.
US12102210B2
A mascara application system includes two brushes on wands, biased together, requiring force by fingers to separate brushes. Once open or separated, brushes can be positioned on opposite sides (surfaces, top and bottom) of an eyelash (speaking of the entire lash, not individual fibers). Upon release of the force, brushes close on each other, with no affirmative force required to keep them together, fingers now free to manipulate by holding, rolling, drawing, or otherwise controlling the handle portion. A receptacle portion containing mascara product may receive, and seal the applicator with or without relative rotation, depending on the embodiment. The best functional embodiment requires no rotation of the squeegee seal, but instead causes the squeegee to move brushes and wands radially outward with limited movement (toggling) in almost any direction when partially withdrawn through the squeegee.
US12102194B2
The present disclosure discloses a zipper pull capable of being quickly assembled with a pull tab, including an upper wing plate and a lower wing plate; the lower wing plate is fixedly arranged at a bottom of the upper wing plate; the upper wing plate is fixedly provided with a pull nose; a limiting block is arranged at a tail end of the pull nose; the limiting block is provided with a torsional spring shaft; and the limiting block is movably connected to the pull nose through the torsional spring shaft. One end of the pull nose of the zipper pull is fixedly connected to the upper wing plate, and the other end of the pull nose is movably provided with hinged limiting block.
US12102170B2
An article of footwear with a midsole having a variable stiffness configured to provide pressure gradients to reduce plantar pressure. In some embodiments, the two-piece midsole may include a first foam material vertically aligned with a perimeter of the article of footwear and a second foam material vertically aligned with the heel region and a toe box of the forefoot region. The combined height of the firm foam material and the soft foam material varies across the midsole.
US12102169B2
An article of footwear includes a chassis, and the chassis includes a body having a toe end, a heel end, a top surface, and a bottom surface. A distance from the top surface to the bottom surface is a thickness of the chassis, and the body defines a perimeter of the chassis. The chassis may include an aperture within the perimeter of the chassis that extends through the thickness of the chassis. A center region of the body between the toe end and the heel end may include a cored region having a cavity defined in the top surface of the body and at least one vertical support within the cavity. In some aspects, the body includes a non-uniform thickness.
US12102167B2
A knitted tongue for an article of footwear may include a ridge structure and a channel structure. The ridge structure is biased to curl about a first axis in a first direction toward a compacted position. The channel structure is biased to curl about a second axis in a second direction toward a compacted position. The first direction is opposite the second direction.
US12102166B2
A modular helmet system with a removable/detachable/interchangeable exterior shell, an inner force-absorbing layer releasably connected to the rigid exterior shell layer, and a multiple fastening devices associated with the shell which allow the shell to be interchanged/replaced/reconfigured at will. The shell as a single piece unit, or combinable components bear the fastening devices designed to enable rapid, secure interchange of the helmet system's layers, therefore allowing the helmet to be adapted for climatic, functional, and aesthetic preferences.
US12102157B2
A head covering system for securely storing and retrieving a firearm stored inside is provided. The firearm is stored inside an interior hollow section in a concealed manner inside the head covering section as the interior hollow section is covered by a closing section in a way that visually blends the closing section with the rest of the head covering system. In an embodiment, magnets may be attached to the top of interior of the hat to secure a firearm.
US12102156B2
The present invention provides hats with attachment assemblies allowing them to be detachably secured to an article of clothing. In one example, the attachment assembly permits the hat to be detachably secured in an exterior-side out configuration to a belt of medium width worn around the wearer's waist, without requiring the hats to be inverted or reversed, and without any need for pockets, linings, zippers or the like. The hats may also be provided with retention members for holding the hats in a simple folded configuration when carried on the person. In such a configuration small personal items such as keys, loose change, mobile telephones may be carried in the retained, folded hat.
US12102155B2
A swimming head cap configured to provide a substantially watertight seal and avoid pulling a user's hair and skin during removal comprising an outer layer with an outer surface, an inner surface defining a head cavity, and an outer perimeter edge defining a cap opening spatially coupling the cap opening with the head cavity, the head cavity and the cap opening operably configured to receive a user's head therein; and an annular-shaped elastic band of a polyurethane material directly coupled to the inner surface of the outer layer proximal to the outer perimeter edge and with an outer band surface having a silicone adhesive material continuously and circumferentially disposed thereon. The swimming head cap may further comprise a cap band coupled to the outer perimeter edge of the outer layer and including two cap band straps selectively removably couplable to the outer cap band surface with a hook-and-loop coupling configuration.
US12102150B2
The upper body garments disclosed herein include shoulder straps formed of a woven tubular material flattened into a double-ply fabric. The woven tubular shoulder straps have advantageously high recovery. The upper body garments also include a torso-encircling main body portion with a breast supporting region coupled to a body strap. The body strap is formed of a circular knit, tubular material flattened into double-ply fabric. The woven tubular shoulder straps are coupled to the circular knit, tubular body strap. In some embodiments, the weft yarn of the woven tubular shoulder straps can have different material properties than the warp yarn of the woven tubular shoulder straps. Methods of making the upper body garments are also disclosed herein.
US12102148B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the arts garment, and, in particular, ballet tights for adults and adolescents for use during classes, rehearsals, and performances. The subject tights offer a redesign of the existing waistband by one or more of, and preferably all of, the following: removing the elastic component of the traditional waistband, and Nylon the use of flat and thinner seams, extra soft yarn with a tight knit weave, a V-shape seam to follow the natural female pelvic structure, a crotch size to fit most, if not all, vagina shapes and sizes, a double layer moisture wicking built-in underwear with G-string and a full back in the rear, and appropriate cut outs on the bottom of foot.
US12102145B2
A material and apparel that positively affect the health and well-being of a mammal include fibers that are formed with a semiconductor. Upon contact of the material or apparel with a region of the mammal's body, a positive effect occurs that relates to the health and wellbeing of that mammal. The material includes a region that includes an expanse. The expanse is formed with a semiconductor and constructed for contact with the skin of the mammal. The apparel has a body that includes a region that has a wearable form made of a semiconductor, and is constructed for making contact with a human body when the human wears the apparel.
US12102141B2
A support garment can include a textile layer forming a supportive region and configured to adjustably permit or inhibit displacement of a body part of the wearer that is positioned adjacent or proximate the supportive region. The garment can include an electroadhesive clutch device to help control displacement. In an example, the garment includes an underwear garment or a portion thereof.
US12102140B2
A supportive undergarment configured to restrain movement of breast tissue in the superior direction is provided. The undergarment is configured to be used in conjunction with a conventional bra, especially an underwire-containing sports bra, without unnecessarily duplicating the support provided by the bra. The undergarment comprises a pair of supporting straps that are releasably anchored to the undergarment's lower circumscribing band via at least one anchor member. The supporting straps are configured to provide compression to the wearer's upper breast roots and arrest upward movement of the wearer's breasts.
US12102130B2
An electronic smoking device (210) is provided including a power supply (18), a liquid reservoir (34) storing a liquid, and an atomizer (26) adapted to atomize liquid stored in the liquid reservoir (34) when operated by the power supply (18). The liquid reservoir (34) is configured to allow addition of additives (50) to liquid stored in the liquid reservoir (34).
US12102115B2
An assembler system for manufacturing vapor-generating articles may include a rotatable assembly drum including an outer face and a flute in the outer face. The flute is structured and arranged to hold a first section and a second section of the vapor-generating article. The system also includes a first mechanism that translates the first section relative to the second section while the first section and the second section are in the flute. The system additionally includes a second mechanism that rotates the first section relative to the second section while the first section and the second section are in the flute. The translating and the rotating connect the first section to the second section to form the vapor-generating article.
US12102100B2
The present invention is directed to processes for producing pulse protein products, very low in, or substantially free of, pea/vegetable flavour notes useful for the fortification of food and beverage products and prepared without the use of salt in the process. The pulse protein products are obtained by extracting pulse protein source with water to form an aqueous pulse protein solution, at least partially separating the aqueous pulse protein solution from residual pulse protein source, adjusting the pH of the aqueous pulse protein solution to a pH of about 1.5 to about 3.4 to solubilize the bulk of the protein and forming an acidified pulse protein solution then separating the acidified pulse protein solution from the acid insoluble solid material. Also described is the preparation of an acid soluble protein product and which provides acidic solutions of improved clarity and is derived from the acidified pulse protein solution.
US12102097B2
A pressing device for pressing meat products, in particular frozen and/or partly frozen meat products, preferably fresh meat products and/or bacon, comprises a pressing chamber which extends along a longitudinal axis and into which a product to be pressed can be inserted, wherein the pressing chamber comprises at least one counter-element and at least one contact element, which is movable in the direction of the counter-element, that cooperate such that the product inserted into the pressing chamber can be compressed between the at least one counter-element and the at least one contact element; and wherein the pressing device comprises at least one servomotor that is configured to move the at least one contact element.
US12102096B2
A work measurement device according to an aspect includes a posture holding surface for holding a posture of a work, a first work presser capable of pressing the work against the posture holding surface from an opposite side to the posture holding surface across the work, a contact disposed to be able to contact the work, a moving unit for moving, relative to the contact, the work pressed against the posture holding surface by the first work presser. The contact is configured to contact the work downstream of the first work presser in a relative movement direction of the work by the moving unit.
US12102086B2
An antimicrobial peptide Spampcin56-86from Scylla paramamosain is provided. A molecular formula of the antimicrobial peptide Spampcin56-86 is C154H256N54O33S3, and an amino acid sequence of the antimicrobial peptide Spampcin56-86 is shown in SEQ ID NO: 01.
US12102083B2
A method of processing and storing biological cells includes introducing a flowable medium into a microfluidic device, the flowable medium including biological cells; sequestering one or more biological cells from the flowable medium in one or more isolation regions of the microfluidic device; and freezing the microfluidic device including the one or more biological cells sequestered therein.
US12102077B2
An ice fishing knee board includes a base board having an equipment section at a front of the base board and a kneeling section at a rear of the base board and adjacent to the equipment section. The equipment section may include a variety of different compartments for various pieces of ice fishing equipment or supplies. In addition, the ice fishing knee board includes a knee pad positioned in the kneeling section of the base board.
US12102076B2
The present application discloses a fishing bait cartridge that may contain fishing bait. A cartridge may be loaded with bait. Bait in the cartridge may be stored in individual cells. The cartridge allows for bait to be removed from a cell by a hook. A bait being removed from a cell allows for the bait to be installed on a hook without a fisher being required to touch the bait. The cartridge may be configured in size and shape to allow for the cartridge to fit within a fisher's pocket. The cartridge may be configured to work with a variety of bait types and containers.
US12102071B2
A lure includes a first body, a second body and a first oscillating body. The first body has an internal first space and is configured to at least partially transmit light. The second body is connected to the first body via a connecting structure. The first oscillating body is disposed in the internal first space and is connected to the first body via a connecting part so as to be capable of oscillating.
US12102067B1
A system for stabilizing soil for accretion and retention of coastal water soil is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of artificial reef segments, where each segments comprises a homogenous curved frame structure, a plurality of openings extending through the homogenous curved frame structure, a plurality of frame segments, and a plurality of cutouts disposed along a terminating end of each artificial reef segment. In one embodiment, an artificial reef configuration is disclosed having a first reef segment arranged on top of a second reef segment and a third reef segment in such a way that the cutouts of the first reef segment receive at least one of the plurality of frame segments of the second reef segment and the third reef segment. Furthermore, a transport configuration includes a first reef segment stacked on top of a second reef segment.
US12102065B2
A coastal resilience system for disrupting wave energy and storm surge flux and allowing accumulation of tidal-borne sediment has an interconnected network of biomatter-heavy floating mats positioned in water near a shoreline, and an interconnection subsystem with connection lines flexibly connecting adjacent floatable mats. Lines may be connected, at a plurality of force transfer points or regions within or near the interior of the mat, to other interconnection components positioned within the mat. In some embodiments, mats have yoke sites spaced around their edges and a connection line extends in a straight line from a first yoke site, through the interior of a mat, and to a second yoke site. The connection lines may intersect at an intersection position in the interior of the floatable mat, multiple connection lines may extend across the interior of the mat, but not always through a center of the interior of the mat.
US12102061B2
A portable livestock corral is configured to be operably attached to a vehicle for advancement in a forward direction. The portable livestock corral broadly includes a wheeled chassis and opposed sets of corral panels. The wheeled chassis includes an elongated corral frame and a pair of ground-engaging transport wheels shiftable relative to the corral frame and operable to support the corral frame above ground. The opposed sets of corral panels are removably supported on the corral frame and are configured to be advanced with the corral frame in the forward direction by the vehicle. The wheeled chassis further includes a pair of spindles rotatably receiving the pair of transport wheels and a suspension. The suspension is configured to shiftably support the spindles and transport wheels relative to the corral frame. The suspension includes a torsion assembly with a pivotal torsion arm attached relative to at least one of the pair of spindles, with part of the torsion assembly configured to resiliently flex to permit shifting of the torsion arm and the transport wheels.
US12102054B2
The invention relates to a stall divider (1) having the general shape of a “U”, comprising parallel wings (10, 11) which extend to form a curved base (12), with a region (120) in which the distance between said wings (10, 11) is reduced, the free ends of said wings (10, 11) being engaged in sleeves (13), themselves attached to a plate (14), for fixing the divider (1) to a fixed structure, characterized in that It consists of a bent cable with a shape memory that includes: —a core (2) formed by a central filament (20), of longitudinal direction, which is surrounded by a set of additional filaments (21), also of longitudinal direction, these additional filaments (21) being wound helically around the central filament (20); —a monobloc envelope (3) for the protection of the said core (2), this core (2) and envelope (3) being at least partially polymer-based.
US12102051B2
A hybrid pumpkin plant, designated POPCORN is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid pumpkin designated POPCORN, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid pumpkin designated POPCORN, and to methods for producing a pumpkin plant by crossing the hybrid pumpkin POPCORN with itself or another pumpkin plant.
US12102049B2
A celery cultivar designated TBG 35 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of celery cultivar TBG 35, to the plants of celery cultivar TBG 35, and to methods for producing a celery plant by crossing the cultivar TBG 35 with itself or another celery cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a celery plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic celery plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to celery cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from celery cultivar TBG 35, to methods for producing other celery cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from celery cultivar TBG 35, and to the celery plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid celery seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar TBG 35 with another celery cultivar.
US12102043B2
Examples provide a system for watering plants on a rack. Sensor data is analyzed to generate a status of a plant on a rack and updated water instructions are generated. A robotic device moves the selected plant rack to a watering zone. A release of water onto the selected plant rack within the watering zone is detected and a set of rotational maneuvers is initiated to enable equal water distribution across the selected plant rack. The selected plant rack is then return to the original, assigned location based on a cessation of water emissions being detected.
US12102040B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for automatically separating fine-sized seeds including a hopper where a plant object for seed separation is introduced, a crushing separator disposed below the hopper, to crush the plant object being introduced from the hopper and physically separate the seeds from the plant object, a cyclone part that the seeds and non-seed plant objects, which are crushed and separated in the crushing separator, are introduced, and by cyclone flow, the heavy seeds sink whereas the light-weighted non-seed plant objects float inside, thereby separating the seeds from the rest of plant debris, and a strainer filter part that is mounted to a lower end of the cyclone part and passes the seeds through a strainer filter, thereby spatially separating the seeds from the rest of plant debris.
US12102039B1
A hitch may be configured to laterally offset the longitudinal axis of a towed implement with respect to the longitudinal axis of a towing vehicle so as to shift the towed implement to either of a left side or a right side of the towing vehicle. The hitch may provide added reach to either of a left side or a right side of a towing vehicle and provide a significantly reduced turning radius. In some embodiments, the advantages of including a variable offset hitch may be achieved without adding excessive length between a towing vehicle and pulled implement.
US12102032B2
A row unit for an agricultural implement has a mounting device with a rail portion for sliding engagement with a seed delivery device to facilitate quick and easy installation and removal of the seed delivery device without the use of tools. A seed meter is mounted to the underside of a cover such that as the cover is opened the seed meter moves with the cover away from the seed delivery device to provide convenient access to both the seed meter and the seed delivery device. A cam and pawl arrangement selectively retains the cover in the open position.
US12102027B2
An improved method for prescriptive seed treatment is provided. A location can be calculated where a combination of seed and one or more types and/or amounts of seed-applied substances will be planted. The combination is selected, based at least in part, on one or more conditions. The combination is generated prior to being planted. The method can further include selecting a type of seed and/or a type and/or amount of the one or more seed-applied substances to be applied. One or more applicators can apply the seed-applied substance(s) to the seed within a seed flow path during operation. A plurality of seed receptacles can contain different combinations of seed and/or seed-applied substances generated prior to being placed into the receptacles. The method could further include selecting a seed receptacle containing a selected combination, and delivering the selected combination from the selected seed receptacle to be planted by the planter.
US12102022B2
A driveline assembly for equipment, such as a tiller, includes a pair of counter-rotating bevel gears supported on a wheel shaft and rotatable relative to the wheel shaft. The driveline assembly includes a first slider gear movable between a first position in which the first slider gear is engaged with a first bevel gear of the pair of bevel gears, and a second position in which the first slider gear is engaged with a second bevel gear of the pair of bevel gears. When the first slider gear is engaged with the first bevel gear, the first bevel gear becomes operatively connected to a rotatable tine shaft to rotate tines in a first direction. When the first slider gear is engaged with the second bevel gear, the second bevel gear becomes operatively connected to the rotatable tine shaft to rotate the tines in a second direction opposite the first direction.
US12108692B2
A phase change memory, a system, and a method to prevent high resistance drift within a phase change memory through a phase change memory cell with three terminals and self-aligned metal contacts. The phase change memory may include a bottom electrode. The phase change memory may also include a heater proximately connected to the bottom electrode. The phase change memory may also include a phase change material proximately connected to the heater. The phase change memory may also include metal proximately connected to at least two sides of the phase change material. The phase change memory may also include three terminals, where a bottom terminal is located at an area proximately connected to the heater and two top terminals are located at areas proximately connected to the metal.
US12108689B2
Systems and techniques that facilitate trimmable inductors for qubit frequency tuning are provided. In various embodiments, a device can comprise a Josephson junction. In various aspects, the Josephson junction can be shunted by a capacitor, and a trimmable inductor can couple the Josephson junction to a pad of the capacitor. In various cases, the trimmable inductor can comprise a first conductive path that includes a severable and/or weldable superconducting bridge and a second conductive path that is in parallel with the first conductive path. In various aspects, severing and/or welding the severable and/or weldable superconducting bridge can controllably change an inductance of the trimmable inductor, which can commensurately change a resonant frequency of a qubit formed by the Josephson junction and the capacitor.
US12108688B2
Methods of forming semiconductor-superconductor hybrid devices with a horizontally-confined channel are described. An example method includes forming a first isolated semiconductor heterostructure and a second isolated semiconductor heterostructure. The method further includes forming a left gate adjacent to a first side of each of the first isolated semiconductor heterostructure and the second isolated semiconductor heterostructure. The method further includes forming a right gate adjacent to a second side, opposite to the first side, of each of the first isolated semiconductor heterostructure and the second isolated semiconductor heterostructure, where a top surface of each of the left gate and the right gate is offset vertically from a selected surface of each of the first isolated semiconductor heterostructure and the second isolated semiconductor heterostructure by a predetermined offset amount. The method further includes forming a superconducting layer over each of the first isolated semiconductor heterostructure and the second isolated semiconductor heterostructure.
US12108676B2
An n-type material for thermoelectric conversion obtained by doping a p-type material for thermoelectric conversion with a dopant, the p-type material for thermoelectric conversion containing a carbon nanotube and a conductive resin, in which the dopant contains an anion that is a complex ion, an alkali metal cation, and a cation scavenger.
US12108675B1
A Seebeck effect renewable energy arrangement can be used to generate electricity due to temperature differences. The Seebeck effect renewable energy arrangement includes an environmental arrangement, a ground arrangement, and a power output arrangement. The environmental arrangement is connected to the ground arrangement to create an electrical circuit such that the temperature difference between the environmental temperature and the ground temperature generates electricity due to the Seebeck effect. The power output arrangement is operatively connected to the circuit to conduct electricity generated thereby to storage or use to power electrical devices.
US12108663B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic electric element for realizing high luminous efficiency, and high heat resistance of the element, improve the color purity of the element, and increase the lifetime of the element.
US12108660B2
The present application relates to the field of organic light-emitting materials, and in particular to an organic compound, an electronic component, and an electronic apparatus. The structure of the organic compound is as represented by formula 1. The nitrogen-containing compound is used in an electronic component and can improve the performance of the component.
US12108655B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1 and an organic light-emitting device including the same. The substituents of Formula 1 are the same as described in the specification.
US12108652B2
A display device comprises a pixel electrode including a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode arranged to be spaced apart from each other within at least one subpixel of a plurality of subpixels over a substrate, a driving transistor driving the one subpixel, and a connection electrode structure electrically connecting at least one subpixel of the first subpixel electrode and the second subpixel electrode of the pixel electrode with the driving transistor.
US12108650B2
Discussed is a display device including a substrate including a first region and a second region surrounding the first region, a plurality of first subpixels on the first region of the substrate, and a plurality of second subpixels on the second region of the substrate. The first region includes a transmission portion adjacent to the plurality of first subpixels. Each of the first and second subpixels includes a first electrode, a first common layer, an organic emission layer, a second common layer, and a second electrode stacked in order. The first and second common layers are located in succession in the first and second subpixels.
US12108648B2
A display panel having an improved opening ratio and a manufacturing method of the display panel are discussed. In the display panel, a storage capacitor includes a bottom electrode, a buffer layer disposed on the bottom electrode, a middle electrode covering a portion of the buffer layer, a gate insulating layer covering the middle electrode and the buffer layer, and an upper electrode covering a portion of the gate insulating layer. In the buffer layer, a thickness of a first area covering the middle electrode is greater than a thickness of a second area that is in contact with the gate insulating layer.
US12108629B2
Disclosed is a display device that is capable of being driven with low power consumption. A first thin-film transistor including a polycrystalline semiconductor layer and a second thin-film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer are disposed in an active area, thereby reducing power consumption. At least one opening formed in a bending area is formed to have the same depth as any one of contact holes formed in the active area, thereby making it possible to form the opening and the contact holes through the same process and consequently simplifying the process of manufacturing the device. A second source electrode of the second thin-film transistor and a second gate electrode of the second thin-film transistor overlap each other with an upper interlayer insulation film interposed therebetween so as to form a first storage capacitor.
US12108623B2
A display panel includes a substrate including an opening area, a display area, and a first non-display area, the first non-display area being between the opening area and the display area, a plurality of display elements arranged in the display area, a thin film encapsulation layer that covers the display elements, the thin film encapsulation layer including an inorganic encapsulation layer and an organic encapsulation layer, a groove in the first non-display area, a planarization layer in the first non-display area, the planarization layer covering the groove, a first inorganic insulating layer under the planarization layer such that the first inorganic insulating layer is between the planarization layer and the substrate, and a second inorganic insulating layer over the planarization layer.
US12108620B2
Examples are disclosed relating to foldable display devices and methods for folding a display device through a range of degrees at a folding portion. In one example, a display device comprises a rear cover and a cover glass layer extending from a left side of the display device through the folding portion to a right side. A light-emitting layer is between the rear cover and the cover glass layer. A backplate is between the rear cover and the light-emitting layer, with the backplate comprising backplate slots that extend from an upper surface through a lower surface to facilitate bending of the backplate.
US12108618B2
A white light emitting device and a display device using the same which can prevent a change in luminance due to change in viewing angle, improve color deviation, and lower a driving voltage at the same time, through a change in an internal stack structure and a thickness an emission-side electrode with regard to a vertical distance from a lower surface of the first electrode to a lower surface of the second electrode.
US12108614B2
A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed to be opposed to the first electrode; and an organic photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic photoelectric conversion layer has a domain of one organic semiconductor material therein. The domain of the one organic semiconductor material has a percolation structure in which the domain vertically extends in the organic photoelectric conversion layer in a film-thickness direction, and has a smaller domain length in a plane direction of the organic photoelectric conversion layer than a domain length in the film-thickness direction of the organic photoelectric conversion layer.
US12108611B2
A nonvolatile memory device according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a resistance change layer disposed on the substrate, a gate electrode layers disposed on the resistance change layer, and a first electrode pattern layer and a second electrode pattern layer that are disposed in the substrate and contact different portions of the resistance change layer. The resistance change layer includes movable oxygen vacancies or movable metal ions.
US12108606B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a substrate having an upper surface, and a gate structure disposed over the substrate. The gate structure includes at least one gate electrode layer pattern and at least one gate insulation layer pattern, which are alternately stacked along a first direction perpendicular to the upper surface. The gate structure extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The nonvolatile memory device includes a ferroelectric layer disposed on at least a portion of one sidewall surface of the gate structure. The one sidewall surface of the gate structure forms a plane substantially parallel to the first and second directions. The nonvolatile memory device includes a channel layer disposed on the ferroelectric layer, and a source electrode structure and a drain electrode structure disposed to contact the channel layer and spaced apart from each other in the second direction.
US12108602B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a first stacked body, a second stacked body, an intermediate conductive layer, an intermediate insulating layer, a semiconductor pillar, a charge storage film, and an insulating film. The semiconductor pillar includes a first part, a second part, and a third part. The charge storage film includes a first charge storage portion and a second charge storage portion. The charge storage film includes at least one first element selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, hafnium, and aluminum. The insulating film provides in at least a portion between the intermediate conductive layer and the first part. The insulating film not includes the first element, or the insulating film has a concentration of the first element lower than a concentration of the first element of the charge storage film.
US12108599B2
A semiconductor memory device including: a common source line; a substrate on the common source line; a plurality of gate electrodes arranged on the substrate and spaced apart from each other in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the common source line; a plurality of insulation films arranged among the plurality of gate electrodes; a plurality of channel structures penetrating through the plurality of gate electrodes and the plurality of insulation films in the first direction; and a plurality of residual sacrificial films arranged on the substrate and spaced apart from each other in the first direction, wherein the plurality of gate electrodes are disposed on opposite sides of the plurality of residual sacrificial films.
US12108591B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes: providing a substrate, where a sacrificial layer and an active layer located on the sacrificial layer are formed on the substrate; patterning the active layer and the sacrificial layer to form a groove, where the active layer and the sacrificial layer are divided into a plurality of active regions by the groove; forming a first isolation layer surrounding the active regions in the groove; patterning the active layer in the active regions to form a plurality of separate active patterns, where at least one of side walls or ends of the active patterns is connected to the first isolation layer; removing the sacrificial layer along an opening located between two adjacent one of the active patterns to form a gap between a bottom of the active patterns and the semiconductor substrate; and forming a bit line in the gap.
US12108586B2
An integrated circuit structure includes a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell, which includes a read port and a write port. The write port includes a first pull-up Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) device and a second pull-up MOS device, and a first pull-down MOS device and a second pull-down MOS device forming cross-latched inverters with the first pull-up MOS device and the second pull-up MOS device. The integrated circuit structure further includes a first metal layer, with a bit-line, a CVdd line, and a first CVss line in the first metal layer, a second metal layer over the first metal layer, and a third metal layer over the second metal layer. A write word-line is in the second metal layer. A read word-line is in the third metal layer.
US12108584B2
A wire harness including: a first wire; a ring-shaped first electromagnetic wave absorber having a first through hole through which the first wire passes; a first restricting member that restricts relative movement of the first electromagnetic wave absorber with respect to the first wire in a length direction of the first wire; a second wire; a ring-shaped second electromagnetic wave absorber having a second through hole through which the second wire passes; and a second restricting member that restricts relative movement of the second electromagnetic wave absorber with respect to the second wire in a length direction of the second wire, wherein the first electromagnetic wave absorber is provided so as to overlap with a portion of the second electromagnetic wave absorber in a plan view from a first central axis direction in which a central axis of the first through hole extends.
US12108583B2
An electromagnetic wave shielding material includes a metal layer for ground connection provided as an outermost layer of a laminate; wherein only one surface of the metal layer for ground connection is laminated on the insulating layer via the adhesive layer, and assuming d1 is a thickness and ε1 is a Young's modulus of the adhesive layer on the one surface, d2 is a thickness and ε2 is a Young's modulus of the metal layer for ground connection, and ε3 is a composite Young's modulus of the adhesive layer on the one surface and the metal layer for ground connection, the following relational expression is satisfied: ε3/ε2>0.60; in which, ε3=ε1 (d1/(d1+d2))+ε2 (d2 (d1+d2)).
US12108581B2
A vertically oriented, electrically conductive enclosure includes at least three shield members. A first member has a first floor and a first sidewall that extends away from the first floor around a periphery of the first shield floor. A second member is electrically coupled to the first member and has a second floor and a second sidewall. A first portion of the second sidewall extends away from the second floor in a first direction. A second portion of the second sidewall extends away from the second floor in a second direction opposite to the first direction and engages the first sidewall. A third member is electrically coupled to the second member and has a shield cover and a third sidewall. The third sidewall extends away from the shield cover about a periphery of the shield cover and engages the first portion of the second sidewall.
US12108579B2
A container type variable-frequency drive skid includes a container body, wherein a containing space is provided in the container body, a wiring unit, a voltage transformation unit and a frequency conversion unit are arranged in the containing space, a first cooling unit and a second cooling unit are further arranged in the containing space, the first cooling unit comprises an air duct and a first heat dissipation fan arranged in the air duct, the voltage transformation unit is located in the air duct, air flows through the air duct under the action of the first heat dissipation fan to cool the voltage transformation unit, the second cooling unit comprises a cold guide assembly and a second heat dissipation fan, and the cold guide assembly abuts against the frequency conversion unit. The first cooling unit cools the voltage transformation unit in an air-cooling manner, and the second cooling unit cools the frequency conversion unit in an air cooling and water-cooling combined manner, such that the situation that the voltage transformation unit and the frequency conversion unit cannot operate normally due to too high a temperature is avoided, and the operation efficiency and reliability of the whole machine are improved.
US12108563B2
Power electronics assemblies having embedded power electronics devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a power electronics assembly includes a circuit board assembly that includes a substrate that is electrically insulating and a power electronics device assembly embedded in the substrate. The power electronics device assembly includes an S-cell that includes an inner graphite layer, a metal layer encasing the inner graphite layer, and a first surface of the metal layer comprising a recess provided within the first surface. The power electronics device assembly further includes a power electronics device disposed within the recess of the first surface.
US12108537B2
A component mounting system includes a component mounting machine group, a storage container, and a loader. The storage container is provided at an upstream side or a downstream side of the component mounting machine group and has a storage area configured to support detachably multiple component supply devices that are arranged in an aligned fashion. The loader automatically detach and/or attach the component supply devices from and/or to the component mounting machines and the storage container. The storage area is divided by a boundary into a collection area configured to detachably support the component supply device for collection that is not used for production and a supply area configured to detachably support the component supply device for supply that is used for production.
US12108536B2
A component mounting system and a method for inspecting mounted components are provided. A component mounting system according to an embodiment, comprises a solder inspection apparatus comparing coordinate information of the solder, which is obtained through measurement of a substrate to which solder is applied, with reference coordinate information to generate coordinate correction data; and a first mounting inspection apparatus comparing a first measurement data obtained by measuring mounting state of a component when the component is mounted based on the coordination correction data through a component mounting apparatus, with the coordinate correction data to verify whether a component is mounted on a position corrected based on the coordinate correction data. In this manner, by adding the verification function for the performance function of the component mounting apparatus to the inspection apparatus, it is possible to monitor the operation state of the component mounting apparatus in each process step.
US12108535B2
A printed circuit board (PCB) includes a substrate including a first insulating layer and first wiring patterns disposed on the first insulating layer, an optical sensing chip including a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) and a photodiode, disposed on the first insulating layer to be in contact with at least one of the first wiring patterns, a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) chip disposed to be spaced apart from the optical sensing chip on the first insulating layer and disposed to be in contact with at least one first wiring pattern, different from the first wiring pattern connected to the optical sensing chip, among the first wiring patterns, and a dielectric layer stacked on the substrate and having a hole exposing the VCSEL and the photodiode of the optical sensing chip. The optical sensing chip and the transimpedance amplifier chip are connected through a wiring pattern disposed on the dielectric layer.
US12108531B2
A circuit board according to an embodiment includes: an insulating layer including a through hole and a via disposed in the through hole and wherein the via including a first metal layer on an upper surface of the insulating layer and an inner wall of the through hole; and a second metal layer disposed in the through hole, and the an upper surface of the second metal layer includes a protruding portion that does not overlap an upper surface of the insulating layer in a vertical direction and is located higher than the first metal layer.
US12108523B2
An electronic device according to an example embodiment includes a printed circuit board (PCB) configured to connect a first electronic component and a second electronic component and block power noise in a target frequency band. The PCB may include a first signal layer including a first signal plate having a length pattern with a length corresponding to a first parameter of the target frequency band, a first ground layer including a first ground plate with a first area, a second signal layer including a second signal plate, a first dielectric having a first thickness and a first permittivity, a second ground layer including a second ground plate with a second area corresponding to a second parameter of the target frequency band, and a second dielectric having a second thickness and a second permittivity corresponding to the second parameter.
US12108522B2
The present technology relates to a circuit board, a semiconductor device, and an electronic device for enabling effective suppression of generation of noise in a signal. The circuit board includes a reticulated conductor including a first conductor group configured by two or more conductors having a first conductor width and arranged with a first periodic width in a first direction, a second conductor group configured by two or more conductors having a second conductor width and arranged with a second periodic width in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a first moving conductor group arranged at a position to which at least a part of the second conductor group is moved by a factor of 1 of the first periodic width in the first direction and is moved by a factor of 1 of a third periodic width in the second direction, the third periodic width and the second periodic width being different. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a circuit board of a semiconductor device.
US12108518B2
An optical transceiver includes a housing, circuit board, first heat source and heat conductive component. The housing includes first and second housing stacked on each other and together form accommodation space. The circuit board is disposed in the accommodation space. The circuit board has first and second surface. The first surface and the second surface face away from each other. The first surface faces the first housing. The second surface faces the second housing. The first heat source is disposed on the second surface of the circuit board and electrically connected to the circuit board. The heat conductive component is disposed on the first surface and thermally coupled to the first housing. Size of projection of the heat conductive component onto the second surface is larger than size of projection of the first heat source onto the second surface.
US12108511B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and techniques for providing special effects wirelessly using a device plugged into a standard electrical outlet are provided. Example embodiments provide an apparatus and associated software applications for remote and live control of special effects (hereinafter a “Remote Special Effects System,” or “RSES”) using special effect (SE) devices such as individually addressable LEDs, LED strips, fog and smoke machines, and the like. The example RSES described herein comprises one or more SE controller devices that each plug into a standard electrical outlet and are each connected to one or more SE devices. Each SE controller is wirelessly connected to the Internet (or other wide area network) so that it can respond to DMX (or other protocol) commands sent by a remote application by issuing corresponding commands specific to the connected SE device to cause synchronized special effects to occur to an ad-hoc created zone of SE controllers.
US12108505B2
The present disclosure relates to A work mode indicator for a lamp, including: a user command switch unit configured to issue a switch command to switch a work mode; a controller configured to output a work mode indication control signal, the controller being electrically connected to the user command switch unit; and a work mode indication unit; wherein the work mode indication unit is a multicolor light-emitting indicator lamp configured to emit multiple colors of light to indicate different work modes, and the controller has an output end electrically connected to the multicolor light-emitting indicator lamp. With the present disclosure, different work modes of the lamp may be indicated through a multicolor light-emitting indicator lamp, whereby a user can determine which work mode the lamp is in.
US12108504B2
A data box generates an output signal to control a light strand comprising a plurality of lights. The data box is configured to receive an input signal comprising a first instruction packet having a first, second, and third color value. The data box is further configured to determine an output color based on the first, second, and third color values. The data box then generates the output signal, which comprises a second instruction packet. The second instruction packet comprises a first, second, and third color value as well as a white value. The combination of the first, second, third, and white values is configured to match the output color of the first instruction packet. The data box is further configured to transmit the second instruction packet to a light of the plurality of lights.
US12108495B2
A user device UE for a wireless communication with a plurality of wireless network elements includes a plurality of antennas. The plurality of antennas are configured to form a plurality of spatial or directional beams. The user device is configured to provide simultaneously a plurality of independent wireless communication links using the plurality of spatial or directional beams, wherein the user device is configured to provide a first wireless communication link with a first wireless network element using a first spatial or directional beam and to provide a second wireless communication link with a second wireless network element using a second antenna beam.
US12108494B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to relaying data between a PC5 remote UE and a network entity (e.g., 5G core network entity) via an inter-working function (e.g., N3IWF) over sidelink UE-to-NW relay access. In an example operation, a relay UE establishes a connection with the network entity and determines whether relay access to the network entity via an inter-working function device is supported at the relay UE. The relay UE then indicates, to the remote UE, support of the relay access to the network entity via the inter-working function device. The relay UE receives, from the remote UE, a request to relay data between the remote UE and the network entity via the inter-working function device, and thereafter, relays the data between the remote UE and the network entity via the inter-working function device based on the request. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12108493B2
Role switch between wirelessly paired master/slave devices may be performed without perceived glitches in audio. The devices negotiate an anchor point, such as a point in time or a point in relation to other events, for performing the role switch. To prepare for the role switch prior to the anchor point, the devices communicate a variety of information, such as information for communicating with the host device after the role switch and information for bit processing after the role switch. The slave device may use such information to serve in the master role, without the host knowing that a role switch occurred.
US12108491B2
A device includes a link layer configured to use a first link layer address and a second link layer address, maintain the first link layer address unchanged for a duration of an association of the device with a wireless network, and change the second link layer address from a first value to a second value during the duration.
US12108490B2
A method for UE capability signaling for supporting reference signal based measurements in NR-U is proposed. A UE transfers its UE capability information to a mobile communication network, wherein the UE capability information includes information regarding whether the UE supports measurements of a CSI-RS on an unlicensed cell. The UE receives configuration from the mobile communication network, wherein the configuration includes information regarding radio resources of the CSI-RS on the unlicensed cell. The UE measures the CSI-RS on the unlicensed cell based on the configuration.
US12108487B2
Methods and systems for optimizing timing of sending communications to a user device are disclosed. The method includes identifying a first group of user objects having a first attribute. The method includes locating active checkpoints within a user path with each active checkpoint having a user object associated therewith. The method includes forming a second group of the user objects associated with the active checkpoints. The method includes removing, with a processing device, user objects from the first group and the second group that match a second attribute to form a third group with the remaining user objects form the first group and the second group. The method includes processing the active checkpoint for each user object of the third group in response to forming the third group.
US12108483B2
A 3GPP LTE protocol enhancement realizes the full benefit of discontinuous reception (DRX) in Long Term Evolution networks by coordinating and aligning DRX operations for conserving power and timing overhead. A dual connectivity enabled User Equipment (UE) comprising a processor and transceiver is configured to align DRX configuration between counterpart Evolved Node Bs (eNB)s, wherein counterpart eNBs are a Master eNB (MeNB) and a Secondary eNB (SeNB) simultaneously connected to the UE, communicate system frame timing and system frame number (SFN) information between the counterpart eNBs, align DRX start offset (drxStartOffset) values for the counterpart eNBs according to the communicated system frame timing and SFN information to compensate for offsets in system frame timing, and allow the start of a DRX ON duration at specific frame or sub-frame times determined by the drxStartOffset values, after the expiration of a DRX inactivity timer.
US12108463B2
Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a method for transmitting EDT data and a device. The method is executed by a terminal device and includes: selecting a PUSCH resource from target physical uplink shared channel PUSCH resource(s), where the target PUSCH resource is a PUSCH resource used for Msg A transmission in a 2-step random access procedure; and transmitting EDT data by using the selected PUSCH resource.
US12108459B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein disclose a method for reporting an accessibility measurement by a UE (100) based on a RRC connection establishment failure in a wireless communication system. The method includes detecting a RRC connection establishment failure and logging parameters selected while attempting the failed RRC connection establishment, wherein the logged parameters are referred as accessibility measurements. Further, the method includes indicating a presence of a connection establishment failure report to a base station (200) and reporting a connection establishment failure report to the base station (200), in response to receiving request from the base station (200), wherein the failure report comprises accessibility measurements that comprise at least one of a SSB information selected during cell access and subsequently on which the UE encountered the RRC connection establishment failure and a uplink carrier information selected during cell access and subsequently on which the UE encountered the establishment failure.
US12108457B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for measuring one-way delay in multi-access networks (MAMS) are provided. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US12108456B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide an information reporting method and apparatus, and a terminal and a storage medium, belonging to the technical field of communications. The method can include, during random access, a terminal selecting a downlink beam, the terminal using a random access resource associated with the downlink beam to send a random access request to an access network device. Further, the method can include the terminal sending to a network identification information of the downlink beam selected during the random access procedure. According to the embodiments of the disclosure, by means of reporting to a network identification information of a downlink beam selected by a terminal during random access and then determining whether the terminal has selected all downlink beams suitable for selection, the network accurately positions the reasons for the problems of the terminal during the random access procedure, thereby creating the correct solution.
US12108451B2
The invention provides multi-user communication in a MU Uplink transmission opportunity in case of a multi-BSS environment of a wireless network. Resource units with AID=0 or 2045 are available for stations to transmit data to addressee virtual access points (VAPs) other than the VAP having initiated the TXOP. The initiating VAP receiving frames from the resources forwards them to the appropriate addressee VAPs within the same physical AP. Responses may be provided by the addressee VAPs directly to the stations or via the initiating VAP or the representative VAP. This approach increases the opportunities for the stations to access the medium in case of multiple BSSs. Better usage of the MU Uplink OFDMA transmission is also made.
US12108450B2
A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives a signal; a control unit that configures a frequency resource to be measured based on an information element indicating a center frequency or a measurement bandwidth, wherein the information element is included in the signal received by the receiving unit; and a transmitting unit that transmits a result of a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurement or a result of a channel occupancy measurement, wherein the RSSI measurement or the channel occupancy measurement is performed on the frequency resource to be measured that is configured by the control unit.
US12108448B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for use in wireless communication are disclosed. A method of communication on an unlicensed band may include detecting a Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel (SS/PBCH) block comprising a demodulation references signal (DMRS), a synchronization signal (SS), and a PBCH payload. A SS/PBCH block index may be obtained from one of the DMRS and the PBCH payload. A cyclic rotation indicator may be obtained from the SS/PBCH block (e.g., from the DMRS, the SS, and/or the PBCH payload). A determination may be made that the cyclic rotation indicator indicates an on state and a time gap may be obtained from one of the DMRS and the PBCH payload, based on the determination. Frame timing may be determined based on the cyclic rotation indicator, the SS/PBCH block index, and the time gap.
US12108425B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for supporting multiple semi-persistent resource allocations per serving cell. Embodiments include determining an association between one or more semi-persistent resource allocations and one or more identifiers. Embodiments include receiving signaling indicating activation or deactivation of at least one of the one or more semi-persistent resource allocations. Embodiments include determining an identifier of the at least one of the one or more semi-persistent resource allocations based on the association. Embodiments include sending an acknowledgment of the activation or deactivation. The acknowledgment may indicate the identifier of the at least one of the one or more semi-persistent resource allocations.
US12108419B2
Support for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment feedback for multiple multicast services in 5G new radio (NR) is provided. Resource allocation techniques are provided to allocate uplink control channel resource for acknowledgment of downlink multicast data transmissions associated with one or more multicast services. An apparatus, such a user equipment (UE), receives multicast data associated with one or more multicast services from a base station. The apparatus determines an uplink resource, such as a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource, for transmitting multicast acknowledgement feedback, such as positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) feedback, in response to the received multicast data. The apparatus transmits the acknowledgement feedback for the one or more multicast services to the base station in the determined uplink resource.
US12108410B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for reducing signaling overhead in a primary while supporting fast activation of one or more secondary cells are described. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes receiving, by a mobile device, a signaling message from a base station for configuring a primary cell and at least one secondary cell. The secondary cell is configured with at least one bandwidth part and the signaling message includes a first information element associated with the bandwidth part. The first information element further includes a second information element for enabling or disabling cross-carrier scheduling for the bandwidth part. The method also includes performing, by the mobile device, blind decoding to obtain scheduling information with respect to the bandwidth part based on whether the cross-carrier scheduling for the bandwidth part is enabled or disabled.
US12108406B2
A reference signal transmission method and apparatus are provided. The method includes that a user equipment (UE) monitors dynamic scheduling information sent by a base station, where the dynamic scheduling information includes scheduling information of a reference symbol. Further, the UE determines, according to the dynamic scheduling information, the scheduling information of the reference symbol and receives, according to the scheduling information of the reference symbol, the reference symbol.
US12108393B2
A method for differentiating multiple Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) transmission schemes. In a non-limiting example, the PDSCH transmission schemes include a spatial multiplexing transmission scheme, a frequency multiplexing transmission scheme, a slot-based time multiplexing transmission scheme, and a mini-slot-based time multiplexing transmission scheme. In examples discussed herein, a User Equipment (UE) can be configured to differentiate the PDSCH transmission schemes based on information indicated in Downlink Control Information (DCI) for scheduling a PDSCH transmission, information signaled to the UE via a higher layer configuration, and/or capability signaling indicated from the UE to a network. By differentiating the PDSCH transmission schemes, the UE can efficiently receive a data transmission(s) from multiple Transmission/Reception Points (TRPs).
US12108390B2
A UE is connected to a serving cell via an active BWP of a first BWP, and receives a message having criteria for switching from the first BWP to a second BWP. In response to at least one of the criteria being met, the UE waits until a first preconfigured time to switch from the first BWP to the second BWP, and switches the active BWP from the first BWP to the second BWP. The UE communicates with the serving cell and performs SSB measurements while using the second BWP as the active BWP. The UE switches from the second BWP to the first BWP after a second preconfigured time corresponding to a duration of time in the second BWP. The serving cell sends the message having the criteria, switches active BWPs accordingly, and communicates with the UE in the active BWPs.
US12108377B2
Systems, methods and devices can are provided, which can include configuring one or more bandwidth parts for a secondary cell (SCell) that is in communication with a user equipment (UE). A base station transmits to a UE a first radio resource control (RRC) message including one or more configuration parameters for a first bandwidth part (BWP) associated with a secondary cell (SCell). The UE communicates a first message with the SCell via the first SCell BWP. The UE receives a second RRC message indicating a change from the first SCell BWP to a second SCell BWP to be used for SCell communications. The UE communicates a second message with the SCell via the second SCell BWP.
US12108367B2
A method includes performing sensing to determine resources for a sidelink transmission between a first device and a second device; obtaining channel information associated with a first subset of the resources; generating resource selection probabilities for a second subset of the resources, the resource selection probabilities being generated in accordance with the channel information and sensing information derived from the sensing; selecting a resource from the resources in accordance with the resource selection probabilities, the resource being used for the sidelink transmission; and transmitting, to the second device, the sidelink transmission over the selected resource.
US12108366B2
A terminal includes a reception unit configured to receive information for scheduling a resource used in terminal-to-terminal direct communication, from a base station; and a transmission unit configured to transmit a signal to another terminal, by using the resource. The reception unit is configured to receive, from the another terminal, a response related to a retransmission control corresponding to the signal. The terminal further includes a control unit configured to select either of information including a positive response or information including a negative response, based on the response related to the retransmission control. The transmission unit is configured to transmit the selected information to the base station.
US12108363B2
A method for handling a service connection in a wireless communication system, including detecting, by a User Equipment (UE), a Mobility Management (MM) service state of the UE is set to ATTEMPTING TO UPDATE, receiving, by the UE, a valid Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity (TMSI) in a TMSI reallocation procedure from a base station via a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection, changing, by the UE, the MM service state to a NORMAL SERVICE state in response to the receiving a valid TMSI and the detecting a MM service state, and sending, by the UE, a paging response message to the base station in response to the changing the MM service state and a paging indication message received from the base station to establish the service connection, the paging indication message including the valid TMSI.
US12108362B2
Systems and methods for determining locations of wireless nodes in a network architecture are disclosed herein. In one example, an asynchronous system includes a first wireless node having a wireless device with one or more processing units and RF circuitry for transmitting and receiving communications in the wireless network architecture including a first RF signal having a first packet. The system also includes a second wireless node having a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver to enable bi-directional communications with the first wireless node in the wireless network architecture including a second RF signal with a second packet. The first wireless node determines a time of flight estimate for localization based on a time estimate of round trip time of the first and second packets and a time estimate that is based on channel sense information of the first and second wireless nodes.
US12108360B2
A real-time location system for tracking assets at a site includes at least one tracking tag, a plurality of locating device nodes and a plurality of gateways. The plurality of locating device nodes are each configured to connect wirelessly with and transmit a locating signal to a first one of the plurality of gateways, receive an acknowledgement signal from the gateway acknowledging receipt at an acknowledged received signal strength and determine whether the acknowledged received signal strength meets pre-established conditions. The plurality of locating device nodes are further configured to set a listen before talk threshold according to historical noise floor readings. Each of the plurality of gateways is configured to receive one or more locating signals and to determine connection between the gateway and the server has failed and disconnect the wirelessly connected locating device node from the gateway.
US12108359B2
Seamless communication between mobile communication networks complying with different standards is enabled. A method including a first step group executed by a processor of an information processing apparatus, the first step group including the steps of: acquiring a position registration request from a user terminal; judging whether an identification number of a first communication carrier included in the position registration request is different from an identification number of a communication carrier associated with the user terminal, which is registered with a subscriber database; and instructing a mobility management node to set a first network of the first communication carrier when the identification number of the first communication carrier is different from the identification number of the communication carrier registered with the subscriber database.
US12108356B2
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a method in a wireless device is provided. The wireless device is configured to communicate with a network node. The wireless device receives an extended signal transmitted by the network node. The extended signal includes a base signal and at least one additional signal. The wireless device estimates a time of arrival, TOA, based on the extended signal.
US12108350B2
Methods and apparatuses for logical time sensitive network (TSN) bridge are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a session management node receives, from a mobility management node in a mobile network, a first request for establishing a protocol data unit (PDU) session for a terminal device which is associated with a port of a logical TSN bridge. The session management node obtains a first port number of the logical TSN bridge at the side of the terminal device. The session management node obtains configuration information of the logical TSN bridge at a side of a user plane node corresponding to the PDU session.
US12108339B2
The disclosure provides methods for transmitting and detecting a physical downlink control channel, a network device and a UE. The method for transmitting a physical downlink control channel includes: transmitting a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to a UE, the PDCCH carrying downlink control information (DCI) in one format, wherein the DCI supports transmission of UE specific control information and group common control information, the UE specific control information at least includes a UE specific power saving signal, and the group common control information at least includes a group common power saving signal.
US12108338B2
The present disclosure discloses an example signal transmission method and an example terminal device. One example signal transmission method includes monitoring, by a terminal device and based on a size of first downlink control information (DCI), the first DCI and second DCI that are sent by a network device, where the first DCI is carried on a power saving signal shared by a plurality of terminal devices including the terminal device, and the second DCI is carried on a terminal device specific power saving signal. It is determined by the terminal device and based on at least one of the first DCI or the second DCI, whether to monitor a data channel in a first time period.
US12108318B2
An embodiment provides a method for transferring information from at least one instrument to an application, including: establishing a central protocol structure, wherein the central protocol structure defines a format for information transmitted utilizing the central protocol structure; transmitting over a short-range wireless communication channel information from the at least one device to the application, wherein the information is formatted in a broadcast packet in view of the central protocol structure; receiving, at the application, information from the at least one device; and performing, within the application, an action with respect to the information within the application, wherein the performing comprises deciphering the information contained in view of the central protocol structure.
US12108317B2
Systems and methods for seamless pairing of wireless devices in hoteling environments are described. In an embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS), may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: in response to a temporary reservation of one of a plurality of workspaces, receive data associated with a peripheral device located in the workspace; pre-pair the peripheral device to the IHS based upon the data in anticipation of the IHS having reached the workspace; and in response to a determination that the IHS has reached the workspace, complete a pairing of the peripheral device to the IHS.
US12108315B2
Systems and methods for detecting abnormal User Equipment (UE) behavior in a cellular communications system are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a first Network Anomaly Detection (NAD) function associated with a first Radio Access Network (RAN) in a cellular communications system comprises, during a period of time, obtaining information regarding UEs served by the first RAN, detecting that a particular UE has moved from the first RAN to a second RAN, and sending at least some of the information regarding the particular UE to a second NAD function associated with the second RAN. The method further comprises producing a trained partial model of UE behavior for the first RAN, sending corresponding information to the second NAD function, receiving information regarding a trained partial model of UE behavior for the second RAN, generating a trained global model, and performing a prediction of abnormal UE behavior based thereon.
US12108311B2
A vehicular apparatus operates a plurality of operating systems concurrently on a single hardware module. Each operating system is operated based on a corresponding own clock function holding a time. The vehicular apparatus is provided with a synchronization unit for synchronizing the times of the respective operating systems by issuing, to each operating system, a notification indicating a change in the time made in one operating system.
US12108310B2
A service for providing messaging extension apps can be an online store that can be browsed and searched for the apps. The store uses extension app identifiers which are related to app identifiers that are sent between devices in a conversation of messages so that a receiving device can, when it does not have the extension app installed to interact with received content, use the extension app identifier to download and install the required extension app. In one embodiment, the download and install can occur while the messaging app remains the foreground app, and the messaging app adds an icon of the newly installed extension app into a browsable tray in the UI of the messaging app.
US12108308B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a multicast service available for subscription by the UE or to which the UE is already subscribed. The UE may transmit a message, to a network node, that may include UE assistance information (UAI) indicating at least one of a UE capability to process multicast transmissions or a feedback scheme preference for reporting feedback for the multicast transmissions. The UAI may also include at least one of a multicast carrier preference, band or carrier measurement report, a multicast priority indication, or a measurement and reporting scheme preference for the multicast transmissions. The network node may receive the UAI and determine one or more parameters for multicast communications with the UE based on the UAI. The UE may receive the multicast transmissions from the network node in accordance with the UAI.
US12108301B2
A mobility state estimation method and a terminal device are provided. The method includes: in an MSE process, performing MSE in a target manner if a cell used to calculate cell reselection times in a first estimation period includes M private network cells; and the target manner includes one of the following manners: excluding N private network cells in the M private network cells from the MSE process; performing the MSE based on a cell in a second estimation period; and determining first target cell reselection times as final cell reselection times used for the MSE, where the first target cell reselection times are greater than first initial cell reselection times, and the first initial cell reselection times are obtained through calculation based on the cell used to calculate the cell reselection times.
US12108298B2
Cross-optimization in wireless mobile networks. In an embodiment, a demand map is received for each of a plurality of networks. The demand map represents demand at a plurality of geographic locations in at least one cell of the network. Based on the demand maps, an optimal transfer of demand is generated between the plurality of networks at one or more of the plurality of geographic locations at which the plurality of networks overlap. Then, one or more parameters, to be used by at least one of the plurality of networks in a handover procedure, is determined, so as to produce the optimal transfer of demand between the plurality of networks at the one or more geographic locations at which the plurality of networks overlap.
US12108291B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure enable a user equipment (UE) to performing inter-Radio Access Technology (RAT) measurements. The UE determines whether one or more inter-RAT measurement object (MO) is configured with or without a measurement gap (MG). When the one or more inter-RAT MO is on an NR serving component carrier (CC) with the MG, the UE performs an inter-RAT measurement on the NR serving CC based on whether the MG is fully overlapped or partially overlapped with synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) of a target MO of the one or more inter-RAT MO. When the one or more inter-RAT MO is on the NR serving CC without the MG, the UE performs the inter-RAT measurement on the NR serving CC based on whether a target SSB of the target MO is within or outside an active bandwidth part (BWP) of the NR serving CC.
US12108288B2
A communication method includes that a first terminal learns, based on first quality of service (QoS) status information of multicast communication provided by a second terminal, that a range between the first terminal and the second terminal is greater than a first communication range threshold in QoS requirement information of multicast communication in a multicast group, and accordingly adjusts the first communication range threshold to a second communication range threshold having a larger value, to adjust a QoS requirement of multicast communication between the first terminal and the second terminal.
US12108284B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an enhanced Packet Forwarding Control Protocol (PFCP) association procedure for session restoration. In this regard, a method performed by a PFCP node comprises deleting one or more PFCP sessions of the PFCP node that are associated with a failed PFCP entity or with a failed PFCP path. The method further comprises sending, to a PFCP peer node, a node level message to request that the PFCP peer node delete a corresponding one or more PFCP sessions of the PFCP peer node that are associated with the failed PFCP entity or with the failed PFCP path, wherein the node level message comprises an indication of the corresponding one or more PFCP sessions. Some embodiments provide that the node level message comprises a PFCP Association Setup Request including sessions retention information to indicate whether to retain PFCP sessions associated with the PFCP Association Setup Request.
US12108273B2
A wireless device receives one or more radio resource control messages. The one or more radio resource control messages comprise configuration parameters of semi-persistent channel state information (CSI) reports for transmission via a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) of a first cell in a timing advance group. A downlink control information (DCI) indicating activation of semi-persistent CSI is received via PUSCH resources of the PUSCH of the first cell. In response to a time alignment timer of the timing advance group expiring, first PUSCH resources of the PUSCH resources are cleared. The first PUSCH resources occur after the time alignment timer expires.
US12108265B2
Techniques are described to select, by a user equipment, a monitoring mode for a control channel based on an information received by the user equipment. The UE may select the monitoring mode from a plurality of monitoring modes for one or more control channels. Furthermore, the UE monitors the control channel according to the monitoring mode.
US12108252B2
A system and method in which the Bluetooth technology is used in conjunction with a user application on a mobile device to facilitate hands-free fare validation at a transit station. The user app communicates with a controller driver in a controller unit that interfaces with a compliant fare gate. Bluetooth beacons are used to determine a passenger's proximity to the gate and camera-like devices determine whether a passenger has entered a fare validation zone. A user with a valid and active electronic ticket on their mobile device may simply walk through the fare gate “hands free” without the need to search for a physical ticket or a smartcard or a mobile phone. This hassle-free approach significantly improves the user experience and passenger throughput through fare gates. The Bluetooth-based automated fare validation system also detects passengers with valid electronic tickets and those without a valid permit for travel.
US12108251B2
A method for adapting the security settings of a communication station (12) depending on a security relevant event is disclosed, wherein the communication station (12) comprises a mobile terminal (16) with an identification module (18). In a first step, the security relevant event occurring in said communication station and/or said mobile terminal (16) is identified in an event handler (26, 261, 262, 27) and stored in an event registry (28). In a second step, a security registry (30) in the identification module (18) is updated according to the identified event. In a third step, the security level of the communication station (12) and/or the mobile terminal (16) is adapted according to the security registry (30) of the identification module (18). The invention also relates to a communication station (12) and to an identification module (18).
US12108249B2
A communication device that communicates with an external device performs authentication by exchanging information for authentication processing with the external device. In a case where the communication device detects a request to share unique information that is used to provide a communication parameter during the authentication processing, the communication device shares the unique information with the external device after authentication has been successfully completed.
US12108248B2
Electronic systems are provided for secure actuation of a remote device such as a moveable barrier operator. The systems address the “man in the middle” problem of persons intercepting and duplicating radio frequency signals from a control device by introducing timing parameters into a bidirectional communication sequence between at least two devices.
US12108246B2
A wireless interface includes: network formation circuitry configured to establish a wireless network between a primary node and a secondary node; data exchange circuitry configured to perform data exchanges between the primary node and the secondary node using secure sessions; and key refreshment circuitry configured to derive a new network key for the network based on a pre-shared key and a current network key concatenated with a session count. The new key is derived during at least one of the secure sessions.
US12108245B2
The present application generally relates to wireless communication technology. More particularly, the present application relates to a method and apparatus for performing protection control in a core network with separation between control plane and user plane. The present application also relates to computer program product adapted for the same purpose. According to one embodiment, a method for performing protection control in a core network with separation between control plane and user plane, comprises the following steps performed on the user plane: —a) pairing a User Plane Function (UPF) and at least one User Plane Security Function (UPSF); and —b) notifying a pairing relationship between the UPF and the UPSF to the control plane so that the pair of the UPF and the UPSF can be controlled by a Control Plane Function (CPF) via the same reference point.
US12108227B2
A device, system, and a method for adjusting audio parameters for a user are disclosed. The method comprises performing a hearing test of the user. The hearing test comprises playing an audio and capturing an auditory response of the user towards the audio. A hearing profile of the user is generated based on one or more results of the hearing test. A playing speed of the audio is adjusted based on the hearing profile, thereby adjusting the audio parameters for the user.
US12108217B2
The present invention relates to a contralateral routing of signal (CROS) unit for a contralateral routing of signal (CROS) hearing device system. The CROS unit is configured to detachably connect to a first behind-the-ear (BTE) unit. The CROS unit comprises a CROS identity label and a first electronic circuit. The first electronic circuit is configured to communicate the CROS identity label to the first BTE unit.
US12108215B2
A hearing aid adapted for being worn by a user comprises at least two microphones, providing respective at least two electric input signals representing sound; a filter bank converting the at least two electric input signals into signals as a function of time and frequency; a directional system connected to said at least two microphones and being configured to provide a filtered signal in dependence of said at least two electric input signals and fixed or adaptively updated beamformer weights. At least one direction to a target sound source is defined as a target direction. For each frequency band, one of said at least two microphones is selected as a reference microphone, thereby providing a reference input signal for each frequency band. The reference microphone for a given frequency band may be selected in dependence of directional data related to directional characteristics of the at least two microphones.
US12108214B2
A hearing device adapted to be worn by a user and for picking up sound containing the user's own voice is provided. The hearing device includes an input unit having first and second input transducers for converting sound to first and second electric input signals, respectively, representing the sound. The hearing device is configured to provide that the first and second input transducers are located on the user so that the user experiences first and second, acoustically different, acoustic environments, respectively, when the user wears the hearing device. The first acoustic environment may be defined as an environment where the own voice signal primarily originates from vibrating parts of the bones and skin or tissue. The second acoustic environment may be defined as an environment where the own voice signal primarily originates from the user's mouth or nose and is transmitted through air from said mouth or nose to the second input transducer(s). A method of operating a hearing device is further disclosed.
US12108211B2
A sound receiving device and a control method of the sound receiving device are described. The sound receiving device includes a microphone apparatus, an object detection apparatus, and a processor. The microphone apparatus provides an audio signal. The object detection apparatus detects position information of at least one object. The processor is coupled to the microphone apparatus and the object detection apparatus. The processor determines position information of a sound source according to the audio signal and the position information of the at least one object, and adjusts each microphone gain in the microphone apparatus to receive sound from the sound source.
US12108206B2
A microphone assembly includes a microphone, an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve. The microphone has a shell, a diaphragm, a first sound receiving hole and a second sound receiving hole. The inner sleeve has a first hole and a second hole. The microphone is received between the first hole and the second hole. The inner sleeve is movable relative to the outer sleeve. The inner sleeve and the outer sleeve have at least two relative positions: in a first relative position, both the first hole and the second hole communicate with an outside environment; and in a second relative position, the first hole or the second hole communicates with the outside environment. The microphone assembly utilizes the relative movement of the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve to achieve directivity change.
US12108202B2
A speaker unit incorporated in a housing of an earphone includes: a frame having a cylindrical shape; a diaphragm emitting sound; and a board to which a wiring line of a coil provided to the diaphragm is connected. The frame has a space inside, and the diaphragm and the board are placed inside the frame with the space interposed between the diaphragm and the board.
US12108186B2
The composite display apparatus includes multiple display devices each including a power supply having predetermined supply power and a power supply connection unit that connects the power supplies of the respective display devices to each other in parallel. The composite display apparatus is configured in such a manner that, in a case where at least one display device among the multiple display devices requires electric power exceeding the predetermined supply power of the power supply of the display device, electric power is supplied to the display device from the power supply of the other display device or devices. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a multi-display apparatus and so forth.
US12108182B2
Provided are a solid-state imaging device, a method for driving a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus capable not only of having advanced global shutter and autofocus functions but also of sufficiently achieving single exposure high dynamic range (SEHDR) performance, thereby substantially realizing enhanced dynamic range and frame rate. In an image capturing mode, a reading part controls driving of a conversion signal reading part such that the conversion signal reading part keeps first and second transfer transistors in a conduction state in the same transfer period and performs a read-out operation on a pixel signal corresponding to a sum of charges stored in a first photodiode and charges stored in a second photodiode with a first conversion gain and subsequently with a second conversion gain.
US12108165B2
A thin lightweight imaging device is provided. A highly convenient imaging device is provided. The imaging unit includes an imaging unit, a memory, and an arithmetic circuit. The imaging unit includes a light-receiving device, a first light-emitting device, and a second light-emitting device. The first light-emitting device has a function of emitting light in a wavelength range that is different from a wavelength range of light emitted by the second light-emitting device. The imaging unit has a function of making the first light-emitting device emit light and acquiring first image data. The imaging unit has a function of making the second light-emitting device emit light and acquiring second image data. The memory has a function of retaining the first reference data and the second reference data. The arithmetic circuit has a function of correcting the first image data with the use of the first reference data retained in the memory and calculating first correction image data. The arithmetic circuit has a function of correcting the second image data with the use of the second reference data retained in the memory and calculating second correction image data. The arithmetic circuit has a function of combining the first correction image data and the second correction image data to generate synthesized image data. The light-receiving device includes a first pixel electrode, and the first light-emitting device includes a second pixel electrode on the same plane as the first pixel electrode.
US12108155B2
A zoom lens assembly for periscope use which is effectively soundless in operation includes a lens barrel defined with a through hole, a plurality of optical lenses disposed within the through hole, and a focusing member disposed between any two of the plurality of optical lenses. The focusing member in a camera module includes a bottom plate, a cover plate, a piezoelectric element, and a variable transparent body. The variable transparent body is between the bottom plate and the cover plate, the piezoelectric element is disposed on a surface of the cover plate that faces away from the variable transparent body. Electricity fed to the piezoelectric element causes movement of the element which deforms the variable transparent body and changes the focal length of the camera module.
US12108150B2
An optical system for capturing information on the two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional distribution of wavefronts from a plurality of images, wherein the optical system comprises at least one sensor for capturing images, wherein the at least one sensor comprises a plurality of pixels and wherein at least some of the pixels comprise at least two photodiodes; at least one tunable optical element, wherein said at least one tunable optical element is adapted to vary the focus of the optical system; and wherein the optical system is configured for capturing a plurality of images with the at least one sensor at a plurality of focus positions set by the at least one tunable optical element.
US12108149B2
An image capturing apparatus capable of keeping constant the update interval of a display section even when still image photographing is performed during moving image photographing. In the image capturing apparatus, by controlling a storage time period during which display image data is stored in a storage section, a time period from a frame start to the start of displaying image data with a first resolution is made equal to a time period from a frame start to the start of displaying image data with a third resolution. Further, by controlling changing the start timing of reading out image data with a second resolution, the update interval of the display image data is kept constant.
US12108145B2
From a device mounted detachably to the image capturing apparatus, temperature information indicating a temperature in the device is obtained, and, based on the temperature information, an execution frequency of analysis processing executed by the device is controlled.
US12108142B2
Provided is an electronic device including a plurality of built-in camera lenses having different focal lengths. The electronic device executes processing of displaying a photographing mode selection screen, a lens selection screen, and an exposure control parameter setting screen. The photographing mode selection screen is a screen to select a photographing mode. The lens selection screen is a screen to select a photographing camera lens to be used for photographing from the plurality of camera lenses. The exposure control parameter setting screen is a screen to set an exposure control parameter.
US12108131B2
An assembling method for an optical system is provided, including: providing a first movable portion, connecting the first movable portion to a first fixed portion, providing a second movable portion, connecting the second movable portion to a second fixed portion, engaging the first fixed portion to the second fixed portion, adjusting the position of the first movable portion relative to the first fixed portion to a first predetermined position and temporarily affixing the first movable portion in the first predetermined position, affixing a first optical member to the first movable portion, and affixing a second optical member to the second movable portion.
US12108122B2
One variation of a method includes: rendering a home screen of an ad stream viewed on a display of a streaming device accessed by a user, the home screen including an image player located in a first subregion of the home screen and a set of icons selectable by the user, each icon corresponding to a video advertisement loaded within the image player; in response to detecting a first user input proximal a first icon, reconfiguring the image player to a second subregion of the home screen and triggering playback of a first video advertisement within the image player; and, during playback of the first video advertisement, in response to receiving a second user input proximal the first icon, reconfiguring the image player to a third subregion of the home screen, activating an audio stream corresponding to the first video advertisement, and continuing playback of the first video advertisement.
US12108121B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for reproducing music to mimic a live performance. The present technology includes means for receiving input corresponding to a plurality of component audio files associated with an original audio file; determining audio profiles of the plurality of component audio files and frequency profiles of a plurality of audio generators; determining a routing scheme for the plurality of component audio files and the plurality of audio generators, wherein the routing scheme is based on the audio profiles and the frequency profiles; and generating an output based on the routing scheme.
US12108116B2
A mobile terminal has a communication processing unit that transmits, to a video display apparatus for displaying a broadcasted video content, a request for setting a viewing schedule of the video content. A storage unit stores a starting time of the video content for which the setting of the viewing schedule has been requested; and an information provision unit provides information to a user of the mobile terminal. A control unit determines whether the video display apparatus is existent around the mobile terminal. At a first predetermined time before the starting time, the information provision unit notifies the user of the first predetermined time. If the video display apparatus is not existent around the mobile terminal at a second predetermined time before the starting time, the information provision unit then notifies the user that it is the second predetermined time before the starting time.
US12108115B2
The present invention relates to a method for playing on a player of a client device (11) a content streamed in a network (1), said content consisting of a sequence of segments available in a plurality of quality levels, the player being configured so as to choose the quality level of the segments as a function of at least one parameter representative of a segment reception rate, according to an Adaptive BitRate, ABR, logic of the player; the client device (11) comprising a first buffer (M1) for storing segments in a format adapted for transferring within the network (1), the method being characterized in that it comprises performing by a processing unit (110) of the client device (11): (a) receiving from the player a request for a current segment at a first quality level; (b) determining that the player will request according to its ABR logic a next segment at a second quality level after said requested current segment is provided from the first buffer memory (M1), using a model predicting the ABR logic of the player; (c) if said next segment is not present at said second quality level in the first buffer memory (M1), fetching said next segment at said second quality level from the network (1).
US12108112B1
An electronic device identifies a set of seed content items that correspond to violative content items. The electronic device determines, using playback histories indicating consumption of respective content items, connections between a respective content item and a first audience that has consumed the respective content item and that has consumed at least a threshold number of seed content items from the set of seed content items. The electronic device provides information corresponding to the connections as an input to a machine learning model. The electronic device receives, as an output from the machine learning model, likelihoods that respective content items are violative content items and stores a set of content items, selected using the output from the machine learning model, as candidate content items in accordance with a determination that the content item satisfies likelihood criteria.
US12108111B2
The disclosure relates to a method for monitoring usage of at least one application executed within an operating system of an electronic device. The method includes at least one iteration of, while a processing condition is not satisfied, determining a video event associated with a current application and storing the video event in a data structure, delivering a set of video events. The method further includes, once the processing condition is satisfied, determining a past time slot, calling an usage statistics API provided on the operating system, delivering a set of application events representative of whether an application has been put in system foreground or system background, retrieving application events that have occurred during the past time slot, retrieving video events that have occurred during the past time slot, chronologically ordering the retrieved application and video events, and delivering a consolidated set of ordered events.
US12108107B2
A broadcast receiving device is provided with: a broadcast receiving unit which receives a digital broadcast signal including broadcast program video and application-related information; a storage unit which stores the received broadcast program video and application-related information; a video decoding unit which decodes the video; an application acquisition unit which acquires an application on the basis of location information included in the application-related information; an application execution unit which executes the acquired application; an output unit which is able to output the video; and a control unit for reproducing and decoding the broadcast program video from the storage unit, reproducing the application-related information from the storage unit, acquiring the application on the basis of the location information included in the reproduced application-related information, and executing the acquired application.
US12108102B2
Methods and system for providing content are disclosed. One method can comprise receiving a request for data at a first time, wherein the data comprises a first time duration, determining a buffer size based upon the first time duration, and determining a playback window based upon the determined buffer size and the first time. The method can also comprise synchronizing presentation of content on a plurality of devices.
US12108095B2
Disclosed are various systems and methods for fault tolerant video packaging and transmission. A video packager may receive one or more video content transmissions from a transcoder, and may identify deficient segments, packets, or other portions of the video content transmission. The video packager may also maintain or have access to a default video output that is free of the identified deficiencies. For example, the default video output can include one or more segments of video data comprising a blank or solid color frame, or a still image. The deficient data may be determined based on validation parameters. If the validation parameters are satisfied, the received data is packaged and transmitted. Otherwise, the default video output is packaged to replace deficient portions, and transmitted instead of the received video content.
US12108089B2
A reduced second luminance filter has a reduced filter characteristic with respect to a second luminance filter that has a higher filter strength than a first luminance filter, or a reduced first luminance filter having a reduced filter characteristic with respect to the first luminance filter is applied, as a second color-difference filter having a higher filter strength than a first color-difference filter, to a pixel of a color-difference component located around a block boundary in a decoded image. The present technology is applicable to image encoding and decoding, for example.
US12108088B2
Video decoder comprising a decoding core (94) configured to reconstruct a decoded picture using motion compensated prediction and transform-based residual decoding from one or more video coding units (100) within an access unit, AU, of a video data stream to obtain a reconstructed version (46a) of the decoded picture; an in-loop filter (90) configured to filter the reconstructed version of the decoded picture to obtain a version (46b) of the decoded picture to be inserted into the decoded picture buffer (92), DPB, of the video decoder; and a parametrizer configured to parametrize the in-loop filter by reading in-loop filter control information for parametrizing the in-loop filter from one or more parameter sets (102, 104) located within the access unit, AU, of the decoded picture which follow, along data stream order, the one or more video coding units (100), and/or a portion (106) of the one or more video coding units (100) following, along data stream order, data (108) comprised by the one or more video coding units (100), which carries block-based prediction parameter data and prediction residual data, and parametrizing the in-loop filter so as to filter the reconstructed version of the decoded picture in a manner depending on the in-loop filter control information.
US12108081B2
Methods and apparatus for processing of video content to optimize codec bandwidth. In one embodiment, the method includes capturing panoramic imaging content (e.g., a 360° panorama), mapping the panoramic imaging content into an equi-angular cubemap (EAC) format, and splitting the EAC format into segments for transmission to maximize codec bandwidth. In one exemplary embodiment, the EAC segments are transmitted at a different frame rate than the subsequent display rate of the panoramic imaging content. For example, the mapping and frame rate may be chosen to enable the rendering of 8K, 360° content at 24 fps, using commodity encoder hardware and software that nominally supports 4K content at 60 fps.
US12108076B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video decoding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information indicating bi-prediction with coding unit (CU)-level weights (BCW) for a current block in a current picture. The processing circuitry performs template matching (TM) on BCW candidate weights by determining a respective TM cost corresponding to each BCW candidate weight. Each TM cost is determined based on a portion or all of a current template of the current block and a respective bi-predictor template. The bi-predictor template is based on the respective BCW candidate weight, a portion or all of a first reference template in a first reference picture, and a portion or all of a second reference template in a second reference picture. The processing circuitry reorders the BCW candidate weights based on the respectively determined TM costs.
US12108073B2
Provided is an encoder including circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. A prediction mode for a current block is an affine mode, and in operation, the circuitry: derives a base motion vector which is a motion vector to be used in a prediction process for the current block, and is a motion vector at an affine-mode control point in the current block; derives a first motion vector different from the base motion vector; derives a motion vector difference based on a difference between the base motion vector and the first motion vector; determines whether the motion vector difference is greater than a threshold; if so, modifies a second motion vector different from the base motion vector and the first motion vector, and if not, does not modify the second motion vector; and encodes the current block using the second motion vector modified or the second motion vector not modified.
US12108072B2
A method for video processing is provided. The method includes making a determination, for a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of the current video block, whether to use a symmetric motion vector difference (SMVD) mode based on a currently selected best mode for the conversion; and performing the conversion based on the determining.
US12108069B1
Disclosed in the present disclosure is a method, an apparatus, a system, a device, a storage medium, and a program product for transmitting composite photo data, the method including: responding to a first transmission request triggered by a first user; obtaining target composite photo data directed by the first transmission request, in which the target composite photo data includes at least one piece of first photo data and at least one piece of first video data corresponding to the first photo data; compressing and processing the target composite photo data according to the first photo data to obtain first compressed data having an identical data facade to that of the first photo data; and transmitting the first compressed data to a first terminal position corresponding to the first transmission request.
US12108067B2
An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data. The method comprises: receiving, from the bitstream, a plurality of syntax elements associated with a coding unit, wherein the plurality of syntax elements indicate the coding tree type of the coding unit, and whether the local dual tree mode is enabled for the coding unit; and in accordance with the determination that the coding tree type of the coding unit is a single tree, and the local dual tree mode is enabled for the coding unit: disabling the palette mode for the coding unit when the coding unit has the size equal to or less than a predefined threshold. In some embodiments, disabling palette mode for the coding unit includes: disabling the palette mode for both the luma component and chroma component of the coding unit, or disabling the palette mode for only the chroma component of the coding unit.
US12108065B2
An encoding method includes capturing an original screen video to be encoded, the original screen video including frames of screen images, reading image feature parameters of the frames of screen images in the original screen video, determining video encoding parameters for the original screen video according to the image feature parameters, acquiring a screen display resolution of a screen sharing object, and encoding the original screen video according to the video encoding parameters and with reference to the screen display resolution of the screen sharing object.
US12108058B2
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for processing chroma sampled pictures. An exemplary video processing method includes: determining whether a chroma component is included in a sequence of frames; and in response to a determination that the chroma component is included in the sequence, activating a sub-process for processing the sequence, wherein the sub-process comprises one or more of joint coding for chroma residues (JCCR), block differential pulse coded modulation (BDPCM), palette mode, or adaptive color transform (ACT).
US12108047B2
A computing device performs a method of decoding video data by determining a co-located picture of the current coding unit; locating a spatial neighbor block of the current coding unit that corresponds to the co-located picture; determining a motion shift vector for the current coding unit from one or more motion vectors associated with the spatial neighbor block according to a predefined fixed order; and reconstructing a sub-block-based temporal motion vector for a respective sub-block of a plurality of sub-blocks in the current coding unit from a corresponding sub-block in the collocated picture based on the motion shift vector.
US12108044B2
According to one embodiment of the present document, cross-component filter coefficients for cross-component filtering can be derived. Modified filtered reconstructed chroma samples can be generated on the basis of the cross-component filter coefficients. The present embodiment can improve the accuracy of in-loop filtering.
US12108043B2
An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: receiving a bitstream including residual information; deriving a quantized transform coefficient for a current block on the basis of the residual information included in the bitstream; deriving a residual sample for the current block on the basis of the quantized transform coefficient; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual sample for the current block, wherein the residual information may be derived via different syntax elements depending on whether a transform has been applied to the current block.
US12108030B2
Methods of selectively applying Bi-directional Optical Flow (BDOF) and Decoder-side Motion Vector Refinement (DMVR) on inter mode coded blocks employed in video coding standards, such as the now-current Versatile Video Coding (VVC) design, are performed at a computing device. In one method, when a current block is eligible for both applications of DMVR and BDOF based on a plurality of pre-defined conditions, the computing device uses a pre-defined criterion to classify the current block and then uses the classification in applying either BDOF or DMVR, but not both, on the block.
US12108025B2
An apparatus, system, and method for an eye-tracking optical verification tester are described herein. In some aspects, a heating element such as a Peltier or Thermoelectric Cooler “TEC” includes a see-through void and may be used to control a temperature of an eye-tracking optical element. An environmental enclosure that is configured to assist in simulation of an environmental condition may hold the eye-tracking optical element. The eye-tracking optical element is to receive reflected light from an eye-tracking target and direct the reflected light to an eye-tracking camera.
US12108024B2
A method of improving a main output of a main processing application processing first video data includes analyzing incoming video data via a first processing pipeline and analyzing incoming video data via a second processing pipeline. The second processing pipeline includes identifying, by a parameter optimization module, first test preprocessing parameters; preprocessing the incoming video data according to the first test preprocessing parameters, wherein the first test preprocessing includes formatting the incoming video data to create first test video data; processing the first test video data by a test processing application to determine a first test output that is indicative of a first test inference dependent upon the first test video data; and comparing the first test output and the main output to a baseline criterion. In response to the first test output satisfying the baseline criterion, the parameter optimization module can alter the first preprocessing parameters to be similar to the first test preprocessing parameters.
US12108018B2
A digital camera system includes an optical assembly to gather light from a desired scene, a modular imaging subsystem aligned with the optical assembly, and an image processing, recording and display subsystem.
US12108017B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for decoding an image. A method includes receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding the image; dividing a first coding block into a plurality of second coding blocks; generating a prediction block of a second coding block based on syntax information obtained from the bitstream; and reconstructing the second coding block based on the prediction block and a residual block of the second coding block, the residual block being obtained by performing a dequantization and an inverse-transform on quantized transform coefficients from the bitstream. The first coding block has a recursive division structure. The first coding block is divided based on at least one of a quad tree division, a binary tree division or a triple tree division.
US12108001B2
An input device includes a touch panel, a touch button, a first measurement device, a second measurement device, a first detection device that detects a touch position on the touch panel, based on a difference between the electrostatic capacitance measured by the first measurement device and a panel baseline value, a second detection device that detects a touch operation on the touch button, based on a difference between the electrostatic capacitance measured by the second measurement device and a button baseline value, an error decision device that decides that the touch operation is an error, when the touch operation satisfies a predetermined condition, and a controller that sets the button baseline value to an initial value, when the error decision device has identified an error, and sets the panel baseline value to an initial value, when the error decision device has not identified an error.
US12107996B2
The present invention is related to an inspection apparatus reads a printed material; sets a setting relating to check inspection data for checking data formed on a printed material; derives data defined by a predetermined rule according to setting content set in the setting and generating check inspection data for a plurality of sections in a printed material; and detects a defect in an inspection target printed material by comparing data read in the reading from the inspection target printed material and the corresponding check inspection data generated in the generating.
US12107995B2
A system and method configured to generate a simulated caller dialog including a caller intended issue for a scenario for testing a customer service representative (CSR). A simulated caller dialog is presented to the CSR and a CSR response to the simulated caller dialog is received and includes a CSR interpretation of the caller intended issue to the simulated caller dialog. An understanding determination result based on an intent determination recognition score is generated by an intent determination recognition model is generated in response to a comparison of the CSR interpretation of the caller intended issue matching the caller intended issue in the simulated caller dialog. A CSR score is generated for the scenario based on the understanding determination result. The CSR score is recorded to a database.
US12107982B2
Method for managing the state of buttons of peripheral devices of computers of any type (including smartphones, tablets, etc.) is considered in the context of safe management by the corresponding segment of the user interface in the automatic or remote mode without direct tactile communication with the user, but at his desire. Manipulation with buttons on peripheral devices is carried out by the button state change agent which is built in directly the peripheral device who in turn is controlled on the channel of interaction of the computer and the peripheral device means of the software of the computer. Based on the technical result of using appropriately implemented additional user interfaces are also claimed methods of remote management of the computer, interactions between applications and also implementations of the answering machine, PBX and the VoIP-Cell gateway on the basis of smartphones.
US12107978B2
Provided is an expandable mobile terminal having improved usability through a sensing unit for sensing the relative position of a second frame to a first frame by using an optical tracking sensor (OTS).
US12107955B2
Distributing first shares of a first secret value, known to a first participant, to second participants. The first shares encrypted using a private key and a public key that is elliptic curve generator point multiplied by the private key. A first threshold number of first shares being required to enable a second participant to determine the first secret value. A second share of a second secret value is received from each of the second participants. The second shares encrypted using a private key and a public key that is an elliptic curve generator point multiplied by the private key. A second threshold number of second shares being required to enable a participant other than the second participant to determine the second secret value. A third share of a third secret value formed from the second shares. A third threshold number of third shares being required to enable the third secret value to be determined.
US12107954B2
A method for searching an encrypted file comprises: receiving a query from a first device of a set of devices; tokenizing the query; searching the encrypted file, without decrypting the file, for the tokenized query; aggregating results of the search; and outputting the aggregated results. The searching includes checking a bloom filter of an index of the encrypted file. The index includes a file public secret (R), a proof of work for the file secret (Rproof), a multipart threshold public encryption key (LKe-pub), a multipart threshold public search key (LKs-pub), and the bloom filter. The bloom filter including index values that are elliptic curve paired between a curve-hashed token of the encrypted file and the product of the encrypted file's ephemeral secret value (r) and the multipart threshold public search key (LKs-pub).
US12107952B2
The invention provides a secure method for exchanging entities via a blockchain. The invention incorporates tokenisation techniques, and also techniques for embedding metadata in a redeem script of a blockchain transaction. Embodiment(s) provide a computer implemented method of performing a transfer, the method comprising: generating a first exchange transaction, and broadcasting, over a first network, the first exchange transaction for inclusion on a P2P distributed ledger, wherein the first exchange transaction comprises: an indication of a first quantity of a cryptocurrency to be transferred; a first input provided from an output of a first invitation transaction from a first user, the first invitation transaction previously included on the P2P distributed ledger, a first script, a first user private key associated with the first user, a first third-party private key associated with a first third-party, and a first output indicating a transfer of a first entity from the first user to a second user; and wherein the first script comprises: a first set of metadata providing an indication of the first entity to be transferred and a first set of conditions for the transfer, a first user public key associated with the first user, the first user public key being a cryptographic pair with the first user private key, and a first third-party public key associated with the first third-party, the first third-party public key being a cryptographic pair with the first third-party private key.
US12107942B2
A communication device includes: a first communication unit, a second communication unit, a scheduled position acquisition unit, a specifying unit, and a switching unit that is configured to switch, at a switchable position, a communication protocol of the second communication unit from the second communication protocol, which is currently being used, to the third communication protocol. The first communication unit is further configured to perform communication using the first communication protocol while the switching unit is switching the communication protocol of the second communication unit.
US12107936B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for subscription-based notifications of events in enterprise systems. A plurality of notification message delivery channels for delivery of one or more notification messages to one or more user devices is identified. The notification messages are received from one or more software applications and correspond to one or more events associated with the software applications. A first notification message delivery channel is selected from the plurality of notification message delivery channels for delivery of the received notification messages based on one or more subscriptions associated with the user devices to the events. The subscriptions are configured using one or more subscription preferences received from the user devices. The received notification messages are transmitted to the user devices using the selected first notification message delivery channel.
US12107925B2
A system is provided including a host processor, a plurality of service processors, a universal processor associated with the host processor and capable of exchanging data with each service processor, a first user device of the first user and a second user device of a second user. The universal processor receives a request from the first user device for a data transaction between the host processor and a service processor, and in response generates a code that can be interpreted by the service processor. Universal processor transmits the code to the first user device, which transmits the code to the second user device. The second user device transmits the code to the service processor. The service processor decodes the code and requests the universal processor to perform the data transaction with the host processor. In response, the universal processor sets up the data transaction.
US12107924B1
This disclosure describes, in part, methods and techniques for providing network applications. For instance, remote system(s) may generate a link that provides access to a network application. After generating the link, the remote system(s) may provide the link to a device of a source, such as a user, a developer, or a third-party service. The source may then use the device to share the link with a user. For example, the source may use the device to send a message that includes the link, post the link on a website, or share the link using a social media platform. The user may then use a device to view and select the link. Based on selecting the link, the remote system(s) may perform one or more actions. For example, the remote system(s) may create a session for the network application and provide the device with data to connect to the session.
US12107919B2
Dynamic determination of locks for a prioritized deployment of nodes in a distributed storage system
An example method for dynamic determination of locks for prioritized deployment in a distributed storage system comprises providing, by a storage management system, N locks to a cluster of a distributed storage system, the cluster including a plurality of nodes and the N locks allowing N nodes of the plurality of nodes to each initiate a startup phase during a first time window, wherein N is a number greater than zero; tracking, by the storage management system, application programming interface (API) calls made by the N nodes to a platform of the cluster during the first time window; and providing, by the storage management system based on the tracking, M locks to the cluster, the M locks allowing M nodes of the plurality of nodes to each initiate a startup phase during a second time window subsequent to the first time window, wherein M is a number greater than zero.
US12107916B2
There is provided a method for prioritising a plurality of first NF nodes of at least one service producer. Transmission of a first message is initiated (202) towards a network repository function (NRF) node. The first message comprises information indicative of a plurality of criteria and an order of importance of the criteria. The information is for use in assigning priority information to the plurality of first NF nodes. For each first NF node, the priority information is indicative of a priority with which the first NF node is to be selected to provide a service relative to at least one other first NF node of the plurality of first NF nodes and the priority information is assigned based on one or more criteria of the criteria that the first NF node meets and the position of the one or more criteria in the order of importance of the criteria.
US12107904B2
An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, a communication support system, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing apparatus acquires participant information related to a particular participant of a plurality of participants in communication, acquired from the particular participant of the plurality of participants participating, acquires attention amount information related to an attention amount of the particular participant of the plurality of participants with respect to information used in the communication, determines presentation information to be presented to the plurality of participants based on the attention amount information of the particular participant, adjusts timing for transmitting the presentation information to one or more other participants of the plurality of participants, and transmits the presentation information to an output device provided for each of the plurality of participants.
US12107902B2
A server system including a plurality of servers achieves redundancy on a per process basis. A first server and a second server execute a plurality of processes in parallel. Processes (B1-1, B2-1, and Br-1) in the first server are active processes, and processes (B1-2, B2-2, and Br-2) in the second server are standby processes. The active process periodically transmits an operation notification notifying normal operation, to the standby process. When no longer receiving an operation notification from the active process, the standby process switches an operation mode of the standby process from a standby mode to an active mode and starts provision of service of the process. The process switching is performed on a per process basis instead of on a per server basis.
US12107900B2
A solution is proposed for facilitating a maintenance of an access control system. A corresponding method comprises evaluating one or more trigger policies according to one or more policy parameters; the policy parameters of the trigger policies in part relate to risks of the access control system and/or to countermeasures for mitigating the risks. A revision of the access control system, comprising a corresponding mining activity, is triggered according to a result of the evaluation of the trigger policies. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also proposed. Moreover, a system for implementing the method is proposed.
US12107896B2
A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for automatically analyzing software packages to identify the degree of differences between compared software packages and to apply security policies. A first software bill of materials for a software package is processed to extract a plurality of components of the software package, wherein the first software bill of materials indicates a first hierarchy of components based on relationships between components. The first hierarchy is compared to a second hierarchy, the second hierarchy corresponding to a second software bill of materials, to determine a degree of difference between the first hierarchy and the second hierarchy. The degree of difference is compared to one or more threshold values. A security policy is applied with respect to the software package according to a comparison of the degree of difference to the one or more threshold values.
US12107886B2
A system and method for accelerating a cybersecurity event detection and remediation includes extracting corpora of feature data from a suspicious electronic communication, wherein the corpora of feature data comprise at least one corpus of text data extracted from a body of the suspicious electronic communication; computing at least one text embedding value for the suspicious electronic communication; evaluating the text embedding values of the corpus of text data against an n-dimensional mapping of adverse electronic communication vectors, the n-dimensional mapping comprising a plurality of historical electronic communication vectors derived for a plurality of historical electronic communications; identifying whether the suspicious electronic communication comprises one of an adverse electronic communication based on the evaluation of the text embedding value, and accelerating a cybersecurity event detection by routing data associated with the suspicious electronic communication to one of a plurality of distinct threat mitigation routes.
US12107884B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for verifying an incoming communication. A recipient client device receives an incoming communication including an identifier identifying a second client device as having initiated the incoming communication. A verification service installed on the recipient client device queries a call placement service directory based on the first identifier. The call placement service directory maintains a listing of identifiers for client devices and corresponding communication providers that manage the identifiers. The call placement service directory returns information identifying the communication provider that manages the identifier. In turn, the verification service transmitting a request to the communication provider to confirm whether the second client device initiated the incoming communication. The verification service processes the incoming communication based on the response from the communication provider indicating whether the second client device initiated the incoming communication.
US12107881B2
An information security testing method and an information security testing system of an open radio access network (O-RAN) base station are provided. The information security testing method includes at least the following steps: configuring a processing device to execute a radio resource control (RRC) signaling integrity test process to determine whether or not an RRC signaling sent by a central unit (CU) is integrity protected; and in response to determining that the RRC signaling sent by the CU is integrity protected, configuring the processing device to execute an RRC signaling security test process.
US12107877B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to real-time detection of anomalous content in a transmission of textual data. A computing platform may monitor, in real-time and via a computing device, a transmission of textual data from a user device. Then, the computing platform may scan, via the computing device, a content of the textual data. The computing platform may then perform, via the computing device and based on the scanning, textual analysis of the scanned content. Subsequently, the computing platform may detect, in real-time and based on the textual analysis, an anomalous pattern indicative of secure enterprise information. Then, the computing platform may trigger, via the computing device, one or more security actions to prevent the transmission of the secure enterprise information.
US12107868B1
Methods and systems are provided for identifying the true identity of senders of messages, for example based on hardware identifiers and other information, such as timestamps and/or register-transfer level licenses. In some cases, a hyper ledger provides a protocol for combining information such as hardware identifiers (for example silicon identification information) with other information and logic instructions to generate ledger identifications. Embodiments can be used to authorize transmission of messages, such as SMS or RCS messages, and to provide an archive or message information. In some cases, messages from certain domains can be aggregated for routing.
US12107867B1
Predictive rendering (also referred to herein as speculative rendering) is disclosed. The predictive rendering is performed by an endpoint browser in response to a user input made by a user. The predictive rendering is verified using a surrogate browser that is executed on a remote server. The verification can be performed asynchronously.
US12107866B2
Method and apparatus to reduce the window for policy violations with minimal consistency assumptions
Some embodiments provide a method for authorizing application programming interface (API) calls on a host computer in a local cluster of computers. The method is performed in some embodiments by an API-authorizing agent executing on the host computer in the local computer cluster. From a remote cluster of computers, the method receives (1) a set of API-authorizing policies to evaluate in order to determine whether API calls to an application executing on the host computer are authorized, and (2) a set of parameters needed for evaluating the policies. With the remote cluster of computers, the method registers for notifications regarding updates to the set of parameters. The method then receives notifications, from the remote cluster, regarding an update to the set of parameters, and modifies the set of parameters based on the update. In some embodiments, the notification includes the update, while in other embodiments the method directs the remote cluster to provide the update after receiving the notification regarding the update. In addition to the notifications, the method periodically polls the remote cluster to retrieve the set of parameters needed for the received set of policies, in order to supplement data received through the notifications.
US12107864B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for automatically assigning resource permission levels. The method includes assigning a user to a user group based on one or more job characteristics. The user group includes one or more users associated with a common job type. The method also includes determining a resource permission level for one or more resources based on the user group of the user. Each of the users in a user group receive the same resource permission level for at least one of the one or more resources. The method further includes allowing the user access to one or more resources on a user device associated with the user.
US12107862B2
A device including a registration unit, access permission unit, and an access prohibition unit. The registration unit registers a surveillance camera that is a work target. The access permission unit permits access from a worker terminal to an image captured by the registered surveillance camera via a surveillance network to which the surveillance camera is connected. The access prohibition unit configured to prohibits the access in response to work on the surveillance camera being completed. Security of the image captured by the surveillance camera is thereby enhanced.
US12107858B2
Systems and methods for monitoring webpage traffic. A web server can generate a JavaScript wrapper and wrap requested webpage code in the JavaScript wrapper. A client device in communication with the web server can receive a user request to load a webpage in a web browser, receive, from the web server, webpage code for the requested webpage that is wrapped in the JavaScript wrapper and includes an allowlist of allowed domains, execute the wrapped webpage code in the web browser, receive a domain request, identify the requested domain from the allowlist, execute the request if the domain is in the allowlist, and transmit, to the web server, run-time information associated with the domain request. The web server can determine, based on the run-time information, a frequency that the domain request was made, add the requested domain to a proposed allowlist, and generate a proposed modification to the JavaScript wrapper.
US12107857B2
A system for enforcement of a set of segmentation policies at a gateway switch of a network is provided. Here, the segmentation policies can indicate which other roles are allowed to communicate with a respective role, which can indicate a set of privileges in the network. During operation, the switch can receive a first message associated with a join request for a multicast group from a host. The switch can also receive a second message comprising data from a source of the multicast group. The first and second messages can indicate first and second roles, respectively, of the host and source. Based on the first and second roles and a corresponding segmentation policy, the system can determine whether the host is allowed to receive the data from the source. If not allowed, the system can prevent the second message from being forwarded to the host from the gateway switch.
US12107853B2
The present invention is generally related to systems and methods for providing an improved authentication and verification system through the use of compiled user data and unique user action data collected by the system from a prompted movement analysis. The system may collect and analyze multiple instances of user actions using intelligent machine learning techniques in order to identify patterns unique to the user. The system may then use this information in conjunction with other known information in order to determine the veracity of attempted user authentication or authorization requests.
US12107851B1
An authentication system for granting access to an account associated with a user. An authenticator of the authentication system including a processor and a memory, the authenticator configured to: receive a request for authentication that identifies the user; access an authentication account associated with the user, wherein the authentication account indicates a smart device associated with the user; activate a control parameter of the smart device, wherein the control parameter may cause an effect in a media sample from the smart device; receive the media sample from the smart device and determine if the effect corresponding to the control parameter is observed in the media sample; and in response to a determination that the effect is not observed in the media sample, indicate that the request for authentication is a fraudulent request.
US12107849B2
A method for selectively providing, to a subset of authorized user accounts, wake-on-demand access to session servers during a period of scheduled unavailability includes receiving, by a service broker machine, from a client machine, at least one credential. The service broker machine requests, from a database, connection information associated with the at least one credential. The service broker machine receives, from the database, connection information. The service broker machine determines that the at least one virtual resource is unavailable. The service broker machine determines whether the received credential indicates that a user of the client machine is authorized to request reactivation of the unavailable at least one virtual resource. The service broker machine directs, reactivation of the unavailable at least one virtual resource. The service broker machine provides, to the client machine, the connection information.
US12107836B2
Methods, systems, and computer products facilitate access to historical data via a real-time tunnel within an architectural framework that encompasses an operational technology (OT) network, a de-militarized zone (DMZ), and an information technology (IT) network. Real-time data is retrieved from a data source using a first connector, which comprises a first tunneler, a first history-writer, and a first history-tunneler. The mechanisms involve interleaving real-time data and historical data over a first tunnel connection, a first firewall, and a second firewall by (a) executing pull replication of the historical data, (b) daisy-chaining the historical data, or (c) a combination of both (a) and (b). The first tunnel connection is established from the first tunneler to a first DMZ tunneler by an outbound connection request from the OT network including the first tunneler to the DMZ including the first DMZ tunneler.
US12107832B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for establishing secure communication channels for peripheral hardware devices. The present invention is configured to receive, via a computing device system comprising at least one peripheral hardware device, a request to begin a virtual interaction between the computing device system and a virtual network system configured to establish connections and transmit information across or between systems. The invention may then establish the virtual interaction via a first communication channel and then receive a request to establish a second communication channel, where the second communication channel comprises a direct communication channel between the at least one peripheral hardware device and the virtual network system that is separate and distinct from the first communication channel. The invention may then involve establishing, via an interaction management application, the second communication channel between the at least one peripheral hardware device and the virtual network system.
US12107827B2
A unified network service that connects multiple disparate private networks and end user client devices operating on separate networks is described. The multiple disparate private networks and end user client devices connect to a distributed cloud computing network that provides routing services, security services, and performance services, and that can be controlled consistently regardless of the connection type. The unified network service provides uniform access control at the L3 layer (e.g., at the IP layer) or at a higher layer using user identity information (e.g., a zero-trust model). The disparate private networks are run on top of the distributed cloud computing network. The virtual routing layer of the distributed cloud computing network allows customers of the service to have private resources visible only to client devices (e.g., user devices of the customer and/or server devices of the customer) of the organization while using address space that potentially overlaps with other customers of the distributed cloud computing network.
US12107813B2
Systems and methods for updating and presenting subject-specific compliance standard information are provided. Each workforce status tool implements a conditional logic for a corresponding workforce status category. A request to configure a first workforce status tool is received that includes a change of an output or an input dependency of a corresponding conditional logic associated with the first workforce status tool. Responsive to the request, a determination is made to update a node graph including a plurality of interconnected nodes when the change of the corresponding conditional logic satisfies one or more compliance requirements associated with a corresponding benefit. At least one node in the plurality of interconnected nodes is associated with the conditional logic for the corresponding workforce status. Updated compliance information is presented to a user responsive to the change of the corresponding conditional logic and in accordance with a corresponding progression through the plurality of interconnected nodes.
US12107810B1
Systems and methods are described for suggesting personal graphical elements for inclusion in a conversation. At least one message in a conversation is analyzed to determine an emotion or sentiment and the conversation participants are identified. Personal graphical elements, labeled with metadata and associated emotions, are selected from a database.
US12107800B2
A method and apparatus are described which perform bandwidth aggregation by simultaneously monitoring and processing a number of simultaneous, non-contiguous or contiguous component carriers in the downlink. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) can be configured by an evolved Node-B (eNodeB) to support additional component carriers. A pre-configured additional component carrier may be used. Various methods for activating and deactivating the additional component carrier are also described.
US12107799B2
A method for configuring resource transmission cancellation indication information, a terminal device, and a network device are provided. The method comprises: receiving configuration information from a network device, the configuration information being used to configure resource transmission cancellation indication information, and the configuration information comprising at least one of the following types of information: a first reference time domain range; a reference frequency domain range; a resource transmission cancellation indication bit count; a first time domain indication granularity; and information used for determining the origin offset of resource transmission cancellation indication information.
US12107795B2
To reduce the beam reporting latency, a base station may include a sounding reference signal (SRS) indication to a wireless communication device (UE) as part of the transmission configuration information (TCI) transmitted to the UE, allowing the UE to receive a corresponding downlink signal using the same beam (or with the same beam) the UE used to transmit (or with which the UE transmitted) the SRS indicated in the TCI. The SRS may be one of multiple SRSs previously transmitted by the UE. The UE may transmit the multiple SRSs periodically and/or according to semi-persistent scheduling, or it may transmit them aperiodically. Therefore, the UE does not need to report the beam quality, and the base station may perform the necessary beam measurement(s) instead. Various parameters and conditions may be defined for the UE to support SRS-based TCI.
US12107793B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to downlink (DL) control channel communications are provided. A wireless communication device identifies a search space set including a plurality of PDCCH candidate search spaces for a downlink control channel. The wireless communication device determines that a first resource associated with a first PDCCH candidate search space of the plurality of PDCCH candidate search spaces overlaps with a preconfigured resource. The wireless communication device monitors for a downlink control message over the downlink control channel by excluding monitoring in at least the first PDCCH candidate search space based on the determining.
US12107790B2
Systems and methods are provided for dynamic beam sweeping a synchronization signal based on user device activity. An average synchronization signal transmission periodicity may be modified in response to determinations about the mobility of user devices, in response to determinations about the synchronization sensitivity of content being transmitted to user devices, or both. The modified beam sweeping protocol may responsively increase or decrease the average periodicity of a series of synchronization signals that are transmitted to a distinct portion of a sector using one or more distinct beamforms, increasing the synchronization efficiency of limited synchronization signals being transmitted to the cell.
US12107775B2
A modular network element includes one or more lineboxes which are a hybrid between a rack mounted module and a line module which is inserted in a chassis; one or more linebox carriers which are rack mountable and configured to selectively receive the one or more lineboxes and provide power connectors and data connectors thereto; and a core chassis including one or more switch modules, one or more controller modules, and a set of connectors located at the rear for cabling to the power connectors and the data connectors on the one or more linebox carriers.
US12107774B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein autonomous conversion of a resource format using machine learning. The present invention is configured to receive a data transmission; extract, from the data transmission, a destination identifier and a primary data format; determine that the destination identifier is an approved destination identifier; compare the destination identifier to a plurality of reference patterns, wherein each reference pattern is associated with a set of conversion criteria; determine that the destination identifier does not match at least one set of conversion criteria; and convert, based on an output of a machine learning algorithm, the primary data format to a secondary data format.
US12107768B2
A method of path MTU determination in Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnel is presented. A source network device (ND) transmits, to a destination ND that is a second endpoint of the GRE tunnel, a first outer packet including a first inner packet, where the first inner packet includes a first inner header that is used to deliver the first inner packet to the source network device, a first inner GRE header, and a first payload. The source ND receives the first inner packet. The source ND transmits a second outer packet including a second inner packet that includes a second payload that has a size greater than a size of the first payload. The source ND determines that the second inner packet is not received and determines a path MTU between the source ND and the destination ND based on a size of the first and the second outer packets.
US12107767B2
A device and method may alter the transmission rate of data sent across a computer network based on a time to receive an acknowledgement in response to a packet sent over the network. An embodiment may transmit packets across the computer network according to a rate R, where R is determined based at least on a number of bytes to be sent during a window (cwnd) divided by a duration of time (RTT); and modify RTT based on a current round trip time of a packet sent over the network (e.g. based on a time to receive an acknowledgement in response to a packet sent over the network).
US12107753B2
A method and device for computing a global concurrent optimization path, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: computing, by a PCE, an actual path for each of at least one service sequentially based on a topology to serve as an actual best path; allocating, by the PCE, an actual spectrum resource sequentially for the actual path, to serve as an actual best spectrum resource; computing, by the PCE, an actual target value for all services in accordance with a target function, to serve as an actual best target value; and reordering a subset of services, recomputing an actual path for each of the subset of services and reallocating a spectrum resource, recomputing an actual target value for all services, updating the actual best target value, and updating the actual best path and the actual best spectrum resource, by the PCE.
US12107743B2
A network device includes one or more ports that are interfaces configured to communicate with other network devices in a network; and circuitry configured to obtain a plurality of data elements, based on operation of the network device, check a predicate with any of the plurality of data elements, and perform any of, responsive to the predicate, i) stream a first set of one or more of the plurality of data elements to a management system, ii) cease a stream of a second set of one or more of the plurality of data elements, and iii) a combination thereof.
US12107740B2
Provided is an infrastructure for enforcing target service level parameters in a network. In one example, a network service level agreement (SLA) registry obtains one or more input service level parameters for at least one service offered by an application. Based on the one or more input service level parameters, the network SLA registry provides one or more target service level parameters to a plurality of network controllers. Each network controller of the plurality of network controllers is configured to enforce the one or more target service level parameters in a respective network domain configured to carry network traffic associated with the application.
US12107736B1
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and storage media for network traffic projection and visualization. A computing system includes at least one circuit structured to receive network traffic data. A neural network is generated based on the network traffic data and includes a network traffic projection. The network traffic projection is displayed, via a graphical user interface, to a system administrator. In some embodiments, the computing system includes at least one circuit structured to receive change management data, such as application- and outage-related information. The change management data is combined with the network traffic projection data in a change window simulator, which recommends one or more change windows.
US12107734B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for provisioning a common subnet across a number of subscribers and their respective virtual networks using dynamically generated network policies that provide isolation between the subscribers. The dynamic generation of the network policies is performed when a host (e.g. client) is detected (via a switch) as the host joins the computing network via virtual networks. This ability to configure a common subnet for all the subscriber virtual networks allows these subscribers to more easily access external shared services coming from a headquarter site while keeping the separation and segmentation of multiple subscriber virtual networks within a single subnet. This allows the Enterprise fabric to be more simple and convenient to deploy without making security compromises.
US12107728B2
Embodiments of a virtualized radio-access network (RAN) node configured to implement functions including an O-RAN Distributed Unit (DU), an O-RAN Radio Unit (RU), an O-RAN Central Unit-Control Plane (CU-CP), and an O-RAN Central Unit-User Plane (CU-UP), are described herein. In some embodiments, a reliability enhancement strategy is determined according to measurement reports collected from user equipment (UEs), the DU and the CU-UP.
US12107724B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise: at least one communication circuit, and at least one processor, and the at least one processor may be configured to: receive, from an external electronic device through the at least one communication circuit, a message requesting network configuration information including network role information set to a configurator, transmit, to the external electronic device through the at least one communication circuit, a message including network configuration information of the electronic device, update the network configuration information, transmit, to the external electronic device through the at least one communication circuit, a message indicating that the network configuration information is updated, and transmit, to the external electronic device through the at least one communication circuit, a message including updated network configuration information.
US12107720B2
Disclosed herein is a script discrimination apparatus, comprising: a script acquisition unit configured to acquire a script for automating an operation related to operating a network; a keyword determination unit configured to determine whether or not a source code of the script acquired by the script acquisition unit includes a specific keyword that is related to a process of changing a configuration of the network; and a configuration change discrimination unit configured to discriminate, when the specific keyword is determined to be included in the script by the keyword determination unit, a process corresponding to a portion including the specific keyword from among processes described in the script acquired by the script acquisition unit as the process of changing the configuration of the network.
US12107719B2
Apparatus and methods for intelligently monitoring multiple bots for failure or predicted failure and notifying a user through a proximate Internet-of-Things (“IoT”) device are provided. A program may receive configuration files for each IoT device and access to monitor each bot. The program may monitor each bot through a resiliency scanner module. The program may generate a report about a failure or predicted failure of a bot. The program may activate a self-healing engine to attempt to heal the bot. The program may activate an event-stream engine. The event-stream engine may determine which IoT device to transmit a report and notify the user through that IoT device to the failure or predicted failure. The user may respond through the IoT device or another device.
US12107718B1
A method of improving fault tolerance of a network. The network includes a plurality of relay nodes, internet access node and plurality of customer nodes. The method includes identifying first set of relay nodes connecting one of customer nodes to internet access node, selecting a first relay node from first set of relay nodes, to be simulated as a first faulty node in the network, detecting, based on the simulation, number of customer nodes without at least one corresponding network path connecting to the internet access node due to the selection of the first relay node as the first faulty node, determining impact score of the first relay node based on the detected number of customer nodes without at least one corresponding network path connecting to the internet access node, and triggering one or more changes in topology of network according to the impact score to improve fault tolerance of network.
US12107714B2
A signal processing circuit includes an encoding circuit and a subcarrier sorting circuit. The encoding circuit is arranged to encode an input data to generate multiple codewords corresponding to a symbol. The subcarrier sorting circuit is arranged to sequentially arrange multiple subcarriers into an array, wherein a size of the array is M*N, N is a number of columns, N is equal to a number of the multiple codewords corresponding to the symbol, M is a number of rows, and M is a number of the multiple subcarriers divided by N; and the multiple subcarriers are sequentially arranged into the array starting from a row of the array, and subcarriers comprised in each column of the array are arranged to transmit one of the multiple codewords.
US12107708B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a noise whitening matrix associated with processing of received communications. The UE may receive data with precoding that is based at least in part on the noise whitening matrix. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12107705B2
A wireless communication device includes a communication interface and processing circuitry coupled to the communication interface. At least one of the communication interface or the processing circuitry can generate an orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) frame that includes a preamble that specifies allocation of at least one resource unit (RU) for a communication channel or nonallocation of the at least one RU for the communication channel. The preamble includes at least one long training field (LTF) to be used by a receiver for channel estimation. The LTF includes an extremely high-throughput (EHT)-LTF sequence.
US12107703B2
A control unit of a determination device obtains a plurality of pieces of first data and second data, derives determination data based on the first data, specifies, from among a plurality of combinations of identifiers for respectively identifying the pieces of first data and an identifier for identifying the second data, based on the second data and the determination data, a valid combination including the identifiers of valid first data and second data, and an invalid combination including the identifiers of invalid first data or second data, and determines, based on a plurality of identifiers included in the specified invalid combination and a plurality of identifiers included in the valid combination, whether the first data or the second data is invalid.
US12107690B2
A user equipment unit (30) and a base station node (28) which is configured for operation with a synchronous HARQ protocol and with capability of sending data on an E-DCH channel either (1) in a nominal mode in single transmission time intervals of a predetermined length, or (2) in an extended mode in a pseudo transmission time interval. The pseudo transmission time interval comprises a first transmission time interval in which the data is transmitted and a second transmission time interval in which the data is re-transmitted. The second transmission time interval is consecutive to the first transmission time interval, and the first transmission time interval and the second transmission time interval are each of the (same) predetermined length.
US12107685B2
Provided are a codebook determination method, a codebook determination apparatus, a terminal, a base station and a storage medium. The codebook determination method includes that a UE determines, based on a timing of being awakened, a timing at which physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) data is receivable by the UE; and the UE forms a corresponding Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook based on the timing at which the PDSCH data is receivable.
US12107672B1
A protocol data bit parsing method and device for an AK protocol wheel speed sensor. The method includes receiving a current signal sent by an AK protocol wheel speed sensor and converting the current signal into a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal; capturing the time of rising edges and falling edges of the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal and saving a first timestamp set and a second timestamp set; acquiring a complete set of timestamps of protocol data bits according to the first timestamp set and the second timestamp set and denoting as protocol data timestamps; and parsing the protocol data bits according to the protocol data timestamps to obtain values of the protocol data bits. The method can reduce the product cost and ensure the safety of the supply chain, which improves the competitiveness of enterprises.
US12107659B2
A method for designing a low-complexity linear minimum mean squared error (LMMSE) and zero-forcing (ZF) receivers for MIMO-RCP-OTFS system is disclosed. The method includes steps of: computing a received signal vector (r) and structure of a matrix (Ψ) using a channel matrix (H); reordering the matrix (Ψ) to reduce bandwidth of the matrix (Ψ); computing inverse of a banded matrix (G=LU) by multiplying the matrix (Ψ) with permutation matrix (P) and with transpose of permutation matrix (PT) using Cholskey decomposition; calculating LMSSE/ZF equalized vector ({tilde over (r)}ce) by multiplying inverse of banded matrices with Bw bandwidth (L and U), with the received signal vector (r=Pr) using forward and backward substitution algorithms; reordering the vector ({tilde over (r)}ce) to calculate vector (y); and calculating data vector ({circumflex over (d)}) representing an estimation of low-complexity LMMSE/ZF equalization by multiplying Hermitian matrix (B) with the vector (y).
US12107656B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described to indicate a single frequency network (SFN) mode and associated composite channel reference signals to a user equipment (UE). A UE and a base station may communicate via two or more transmission and reception points (TRPs) using an SFN transmission, which may represent a transmission having multiple beam configurations. The base station may transmit a configuration associated with a control channel that explicitly or implicitly indicates whether control channel transmissions are associated with an SFN mode or are configured with multiple candidate beam configurations. The base station may transmit an indication of activated beam configurations for the control channel. The UE may receive one or more reference signals from each TRP and, based on the SFN indication, may use information from the one or more reference signals to receive the control channel transmission.
US12107655B2
The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, a base station, an operating method for a mobile terminal and an operating method for a base station. The mobile terminal is for communicating in a mobile communication system with a base station using at least one of a plurality of downlink beams and at least one of a plurality of uplink beams, each of the downlink and uplink beams having different directivities and/or coverage, comprising: which, in operation, receives for a beam failure recovery, BFR, procedure an allocation of dedicated uplink radio resources for transmitting a beam failure recovery signal, a processor which, in operation, detects a downlink beam failure event and, in response thereto, initiates the beam failure recovery procedure, including the transceiver transmitting the beam failure recovery signal using the dedicated uplink radio resources from the allocation; wherein the dedicated uplink radio resources are restricting the transmission to a subset of the plurality of uplink beams that can be exclusively allocated by the base station to the mobile terminal.
US12107653B2
An electronic device and method for managing an antenna operating in a combination of frequency bands. The electronic device comprises at least one antenna including a plurality of antenna elements, a transceiver operably connected with the at least one antenna and configured for communication over multiple frequency parts. The electronic device also comprises a processor operably connected to the transceiver, the processor configured to determine the multiple frequency parts; identify, from a configuration received in response to the multiple frequency parts reported in the PUCCH, a combination of one or more frequency parts from the multiple frequency parts for performing the communication; obtain a beamforming codebook; and apply one or more beams within the beamforming codebook for performing the communication.
US12107650B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A network entity may output a channel state information (CSI) report message that indicates multiple codebook configurations. A UE may receive the CSI report message indicating a set of codebook configurations associated with a set of antenna port configurations. The UE may transmit a CSI report indicating one or more codebook configurations of the set of codebook configurations, where CSI included in the CSI report is based on the one or more codebook configurations. The UE may then communicate with a network entity based on the channel state information report indicating the one or more codebook configurations.
US12107645B2
Disclosed is technology for supporting high-speed and low-latency performance in a 5G environment through implementation of a new reference signal transmission scheme appropriate for the 5G environment, that is, a mobile communication network environment for supporting high-speed and low-latency communication, which will appear afterwards.
US12107644B1
An interface for power and data exchange with sensors system used in a locale, with the system comprising at least one active external adapter and at least one passive stationary beacon, with the beacon being affixed to or within bulk material. The system utilizes an innovative transmitted power system that allows the adapter to provide power to the beacon whenever the adapter passes within proximity of the beacon. Each beacon communicates in real time with the adapter to detect, collect, transmit, and receive environmental information and metadata.
US12107632B1
An apparatus for facilitating light based communications includes a transceiver, a processing device, and a user interface device. The transceiver includes light emitters and a light receiver. The light emitters emit light. The light receiver is configured for detecting an incoming light signal. The processing device is operatively coupled with the transceiver. The processing device is configured for generating an incoming coded message based on the detecting, decoding the incoming coded message into an incoming message, provisioning the incoming message based on the decoding, obtaining an outgoing message, encoding the outgoing message based on the obtaining of the outgoing message, generating an encoded outgoing message based on the encoding, and generating a command for the transceiver based on the encoding of the encoded outgoing message. Further, at least one of the light emitters is configured for emitting an outgoing light signal based on the command.
US12107630B2
The present application provides an optical network method and associated apparatus. The method includes: receiving uplink burst time assignment information; and enabling or disabling a laser module of a local end according to the uplink burst time assignment information.
US12107627B2
A display apparatus comprises an at least partially transparent display, the display configured to generate light to form an image for display to a user positioned in front of the display, and at least one light-transmitting and/or light-receiving device positioned behind the display, wherein the at least one light-transmitting and/or light-receiving device is configured to transmit and/or receive light through at least part of the display, wherein the at least one light-transmitting and/or light-receiving device comprises or forms part of an optical wireless communications (OWC) apparatus configured to transmit and/or receive the light through the at least part of the display.
US12107622B2
In the present invention, regarding a narrowband used in a subframe for transmitting uplink data, if a switch is made from a first narrowband used in a first subframe to a second narrowband that is different from the first narrowband, with respect to a second subframe continuing to the first subframe, a final one symbol of the first subframe and an initial one symbol of the second subframe are punctured and set as a retuning time to transmit the uplink data in the first narrowband and the second narrowband.
US12107621B2
A BLE system includes a network controller, peripherals, and central. As one of the peripherals begins to roam, the current central device in a connection with the peripheral detects when the peripheral device is moving away from the current central. Other centrals receive requests to perform coordinated sensing of transmissions from the peripheral device to the current central device. The coordinated sensing includes the other central devices monitoring transmissions from the peripheral device to determine respective received signal strength indicators (RSSIs) on at least one frequency corresponding to a frequency hopping pattern of the connection. The other centrals report the coordinated sensing results to the network controller which determines a next central based, at least in part, on the sensed RSSIs. The network controller sends blacklists to centrals that are not the next central and the peripheral disconnects from the current central, advertises, and reconnects with the next central.
US12107619B2
A switchable RF transmit/receive (TX/RX) multiplexer, which includes a group of RF TX bandpass filters, a group of RF TX switching elements, and a group of RF RX bandpass filters; is disclosed. The group of RF TX bandpass filters includes a first RF TX bandpass filter and a second RF TX bandpass filter, such that each of the first RF TX bandpass filter and the second RF TX bandpass filter is coupled to a first filter connection node. The group of RF TX switching elements includes a first RF TX switching element coupled between the first filter connection node and a first common connection node, which is coupled to a first RF antenna. Each of the group of RF RX bandpass filters is coupled to the first common connection node.
US12107612B2
A wireless transmission system includes a first coupler including a plurality of substrates including a signal line and a ground; and a second coupler that transmits a signal with the first coupler. A first substrate is connected to a second substrate by conductors having widths substantially equal to or less than widths of signal lines.
US12107598B2
The disclosure provides a data acquisition device. The data acquisition device includes a sensor that detects a physical quantity as analog data; a digital storage circuit that stores the physical quantity as digital data; a difference circuit that calculates a difference between a previous value of the physical quantity stored in the digital storage circuit and a current value of the physical quantity detected as analog data; and a comparison circuit that compares the difference with a predetermined threshold value; and a control unit. The control unit stores a value calculated by adding or subtracting a predetermined change amount to a previous value of the physical quantity stored in the digital storage circuit as the current value, when the difference exceeds or falls below the threshold value. Since the physical quantity is updated without executing A/D conversion, a decrease in the sampling frequency is suppressed.
US12107596B2
A successive approximation register based time-to-digital converter circuit with a time difference amplifier (TDA). A first TDA which applies a gain value to a time difference between a first signal edge and a first delayed signal edge to generate a first amplified time difference signal, which is feedback to the first TDA, a second TDA which applies a gain value to a time difference between a second signal edge and a second delayed signal edge to generate a second amplified time difference signal, which is feedback to the second TDA, and a finite state machine which sets another gain value, for a next step in a N step conversion until N steps are completed, in the first and the second TDAs based on a bit value from a previous step, wherein the bit value indicates, for a step, whether the first or second amplified time difference signal is ahead.
US12107594B2
A pipeline analog to digital converter includes a “k” number of stages and an output data register. A first stage of the “k” number of stages is configured to receive an analog differential input signal and produce a first digital output and a first single ended analog output. A second stage of the “k” number of stages is configured to receive the first single ended analog output and produce a second digital output. The output data register is configured to generate an output digital value based on the first and second digital outputs.
US12107593B2
An analog-to-digital converter of one embodiment in the present disclosure may comprise a first conversion unit generating an internal clock signal, generating a first digital code and a residual signal by converting an input signal in a successive approximation register (SAR) method in response to the internal clock signal and generating a flash clock signal in response to an external clock signal, a second conversion unit generating a second digital code by converting the residual signal in a flash method in response to the flash clock signal, and an output circuit generating an output digital signal in response to the first digital code and the second digital code.
US12107586B2
A BD type pulse width modulation (PWM) circuit is configured to convert a pair of complementary input signals to a pair of output PWM signals. The BD PWM circuit modulates a basic modulation signal according to the pair of input signals, to generate a basic PWM signal. The common mode levels of the pair of input signals and the basic modulation signal are the same. The BD PWM circuit modulates an offset modulation signal according to the pair of input signals to generate an offset PWM signal. The offset modulation signal and the basic modulation signal have a non-zero offset in between. The BD PWM circuit selects the offset PWM signal or a heavy load PWM signal as the pair of output PWM signals. The heavy load PWM signal is correlated with the basic PWM signal.
US12107584B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes: producing a set of delayed replicas of a reference clock signal, wherein delayed replicas in the set of delayed replicas have respective signal edges delayed in time by a mutual time delay therebetween; producing a set of edge detecting signals comprising edge detecting signals indicative of respective distances of edges of delayed replicas in the set of delayed replicas from an edge of a clock signal having a clock period; selecting based on edge detecting signals in the set of edge detecting signals a delayed replica in the set of delayed replicas having a distance from the clock signal edge that is shorter than the distance from the clock signal edge of any other delayed replica in the set of delayed replicas.
US12107581B2
A clock gating circuit includes an input circuit, a cross-coupled pair of transistors, a first transistor of a first type and a first pull-up transistor of the first type. The input circuit is configured to set a first control signal of a first node in response to a first or second enable signal. The cross-coupled pair of transistors is coupled between the first node and an output node. The first transistor is coupled between the first and a second node. The first pull-up transistor includes a first gate terminal, a first drain terminal and a first source terminal. The first gate terminal is configured to receive an inverted clock input signal. The first drain terminal is coupled to the second node and the first transistor. The first pull-up transistor is configured to adjust a clock output signal responsive to the inverted clock input signal.
US12107577B2
According to an aspect, a current mode logic circuit comprise a first transistor to which an input voltage is applied, a second transistor connected in parallel with the first transistor; and a voltage sampling circuit which is connected to the first transistor and the second transistor and resets an output voltage output by integrating the input voltage for a predetermined set time (T) in a manner in which the output voltage is integrated in a direction opposite to a direction in which the input voltage is integrated for the predetermined set time (T).
US12107573B2
A system including a source follower circuit is disclosed. The source follower circuit configured as a voltage buffer that includes a first common-drain transistor that passes an input signal at the gate to an output loading capacitor at the source, and a second common-drain transistor that is used as a bias current source. The source follower circuit includes a first resistor at the drain of the first transistor generating a first voltage that is fed back through a first path through the gate of the second transistor so as to produce additional current to help the output signal catch up with the input voltage. The source follower circuit further includes an inductive element and bias circuit, which along with the first resistor, increases bandwidth and reduced settling time.
US12107566B2
An acoustic wave filter includes at least three segmented resonator devices connected in series to one another and aligned in a direction that crosses an acoustic wave propagation direction and each including an InterDigital Transducer (IDT) electrode, and centers of respective IDT electrodes of an adjacent pair of the at least three segmented resonator devices in the acoustic wave propagation direction are not aligned when seen from a direction orthogonal to the acoustic wave propagation direction.
US12107563B2
An acoustic wave filter includes a longitudinally coupled resonator including IDT electrodes and a reflector. A standard deviation of a pitch deviation rate of at least one of the reflector and the IDT electrodes is greater than or equal to about 1.4%.
US12107557B2
Examples relate to a buffered flipped voltage follower circuit arrangement, low dropout voltage regulators, a capacitive digital-to-analog converter, a transceiver for wireless communication, a mobile communication device, a base station transceiver, and to a method for forming a buffered flipped voltage follower circuit arrangement. The buffered flipped voltage follower circuit arrangement comprises a first transistor (Mp) comprising a first terminal, a second terminal and a gate terminal. The buffered flipped voltage follower circuit arrangement comprises a second transistor (Mc) comprising a first terminal, a second terminal and a gate terminal. The buffered flipped voltage follower circuit arrangement comprises a buffer circuit comprising an input terminal and an output terminal. The buffered flipped voltage follower circuit arrangement a feed-forward compensation circuit (−gmf) comprising an input terminal and an output terminal. The first terminal of the first transistor (Mp) is coupled to a supply voltage of the flipped voltage follower circuit. The second terminal of the first transistor (Mp) is coupled with the first terminal of the second transistor (Mc) and with an output voltage terminal of the buffered flipped voltage follower circuit arrangement. The second terminal of the second transistor (Mc) is coupled with the input terminal of the buffer circuit and with the output terminal of the feed-forward compensation circuit (−gmf). The gate terminal of the first transistor (MP) is coupled with the output terminal of the buffer circuit and with the input terminal of the feed-forward compensation circuit (−gmf).
US12107556B2
An integrated circuit includes a transimpedance amplifier and an injection circuit. The injection circuit generates a first electrical test signal and injects the first electrical test signal into the transimpedance amplifier. The first electrical test signal or an output of the transimpedance amplifier generated based on the first electrical test signal is used to determine whether the integrated circuit is faulty.
US12107552B2
A method includes receiving first data associated with a first power amplifier and second data associated with a second power amplifier. The method also includes generating a first amplitude limiting signal having gain parameters that are based on the first data and the second data. The first data includes at least one of a temperature measurement associated with the first power amplifier, a supply voltage measurement associated with the first power amplifier, a load resistance associated with the first power amplifier, or a gain associated with the first power amplifier. The method further includes modifying an audio signal based at least in part on the first amplitude limiting signal to generate a first gain-adjusted audio signal. The method also includes providing a first output audio signal to the first power amplifier for amplification. The first output audio signal is based at least in part on the first gain-adjusted audio signal.
US12107549B2
An amplifier with enhanced slew rate includes an input stage including a first channel coupled to receive differential inputs and a second channel coupled to receive the differential inputs; a middle stage including a first current source coupled to receive outputs of the second channel and electrically connected to power, a second current source coupled to receive outputs of the first channel and electrically connected to ground, and a floating current source electrically connected between the first current source and the second current source; and an output stage coupled to the middle stage to generate an output voltage. A transit circuit is disposed in the input stage or the middle stage, controlled by the output stage, and configured to supply extra current during signal transition of the differential inputs, thereby enhancing the slew rate.
US12107546B1
A driving circuit comprises a first capacitor. During a sampling operation, the first capacitor is coupled between a first and a second input terminals. During a transferring operation, an end of the first capacitor receives a voltage and another end of the first capacitor is coupled to a load. The driving circuit produces a first driving signal to drive the load, the first driving signal comprises a plurality of first portions with a first polarity and a plurality of second portions with a second polarity opposite to the first polarity. The plurality of first portions and the plurality of second portions form a generalized DSB-SC modulated component of the first driving signal, which is modulated according to an input signal between the first input terminal and the second input terminal.
US12107542B2
A method for installing a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller is provided. The method includes acquiring an occlusion area proportion of a photovoltaic string in a photovoltaic system, optimizing the occlusion area proportion to generate a target occlusion area proportion, determining a target position from the photovoltaic string according to the target occlusion area proportion, and installing the MPPT controller at the target position.
US12107537B2
A solar power generation system includes a string, an inverter, and a plurality of shut-off devices. The string includes a plurality of solar cell module groups. The plurality of shut-off devices is configured to cut off a connection between the plurality of solar cell module groups in response to a control signal from the inverter. The plurality of solar cell module groups includes a first group, a second group connected to the first group, and a third group connected to the second group. The plurality of shut-off devices includes a first shut-off device. The first shut-off device includes a first switching unit connected to an anode-side terminal of the second group. The first switching unit includes a first open-close unit and a first semiconductor switching device connected in parallel with the first open-close unit. The first semiconductor switching device is turned ON before the first open-close unit is operated.
US12107531B2
The present invention relates to a longitudinal profile for a mounting system for solar modules, comprising: at least one stop area which is designed to fasten the longitudinal profile to a transverse profile, wherein the at least one stop area has at least one support surface for support on the transverse profile, at least one head area which is connected to the at least one stop area via at least one connecting portion, wherein the at least one head area has at least one bearing surface for at least one portion of a module frame of the solar module, wherein the at least one head area has at least one engagement projection which is configured as a point of engagement for a fastening device. The present invention further relates to a mounting system comprising such a longitudinal profile.
US12107524B2
A vehicle control apparatus includes a storage and a processor. The storage holds a first resonance map. The processor calculates a first torque command value and switches a control method of a first driving source. The first driving source includes an electric motor. The first torque command value indicates a value of torque to be outputted by the first driving source. The first resonance map includes, as one or more first resonance points, one or more operating points at which resonance occurs in an operating region of the first driving source under a square wave control. The processor switches the control method of the first driving source from the square wave control to a sine wave control on the condition that a predicted route of transition of an operating point of the first driving source meets the one or more first resonance points.
US12107514B2
A power conversion device includes: a first control unit and a second control unit that output a first control signal and a second control signal, respectively; a gate circuit that causes a control signal selected from the first control signal and the second control signal to pass through the gate circuit; and a drive circuit that drives a main circuit based on the control signal that passes through the gate circuit. When the second control signal is selected in the state where the first control signal passes through the gate circuit, the gate circuit interrupts the first control signal and causes the second control signal to pass through the gate circuit as an absolute value of an instantaneous value of an AC current decreases below a threshold current.
US12107513B2
A three-level power converter includes a direct current power supply unit including a filter capacitor connected between a high potential line and an intermediate potential line and a filter capacitor connected between the intermediate potential line and a low potential line, and a power conversion circuit that converts a three-level direct current voltage output from the high potential line, the intermediate potential line, and the low potential line into a three-phase alternating current voltage. A controller generates an imbalance signal representing an imbalance between a first capacitor voltage and a second capacitor voltage on the basis of values detected by voltage sensors, and generates a modulation signal for causing the power conversion circuit to perform a two-phase modulation operation on the basis of a superimposed signal obtained by superimposing the imbalance signal on a reference signal of the three-phase alternating current voltage.
US12107506B2
A power supply apparatus includes a transformer including a primary coil, a secondary coil, and an auxiliary coil; a switching element connected in series to the primary coil; a first rectifying/smoothing circuit including a first diode and a first capacitor and configured to rectify and smooth a voltage induced in the auxiliary coil; a second rectifying/smoothing circuit including a second diode and a second capacitor, connected in parallel with the first rectifying/smoothing circuit, and configured to rectify and smooth the voltage induced in the auxiliary coil; and a controller configured to control the switching element. The controller is configured to detect the voltage induced in the auxiliary coil based on an output voltage of the first rectifying/smoothing circuit. A responsiveness of the second diode is better than a responsiveness of the first diode.
US12107501B2
A method for operating a switched-mode power converter includes providing to a maximum voltage node as a maximum voltage, a version of the higher of a first voltage on a first node and a second voltage on a second node. The method includes generating a first signal indicating whether to operate the switched-mode power converter in a buck mode of operation or a boost mode of operation based on the first voltage and a first voltage domain based on the maximum voltage. The method includes generating a second signal indicating whether to operate the switched-mode power converter in a buck mode of operation or a boost mode of operation based on the first voltage and a second voltage domain of the first voltage. The method includes combining the first signal and the second signal to generate a digital configuration indicator signal.
US12107494B2
A DC-DC converter for converting an input voltage at an input node, the converter comprising: first and second inductor nodes for connection of an inductor therebetween; first and second flying capacitor nodes for connection of a flying capacitor therebetween; a first switching network for selectively connecting the first flying capacitor node to each of the input node and the first inductor node; a second switching network for selectively connecting the second flying capacitor node to each of the input node and a reference voltage node; and reservoir circuitry, comprising: first and second reservoir capacitor nodes for connection of a reservoir capacitor therebetween; a third switching network for selectively connecting the first reservoir capacitor node to each of the first and second flying capacitor nodes; a fourth switching network for selectively connecting the second reservoir capacitor node to each of the second flying capacitor node and the reference voltage node.
US12107491B2
A circuit arrangement configured to execute DC link processing with simultaneous reduction of the harmonic components in the input current, i.e., for usability or applicability in different power supply networks, particularly both in single-phase and three-phase networks with the same circuit topology or in the event of the failure of a phase.
US12107490B1
An electronic circuit is disclosed. The electronic circuit includes a switching circuit that includes a high side switch connected to a low side switch at a switch node, a controller arranged to generate a high side control signal and a low side control signal, a variable delay circuit arranged to receive the high side control signal and in response transmit a corresponding delayed high side control signal, and to receive the low side control signal and in response transmit a corresponding delayed low side control signal, a high side driver circuit arranged to transmit a high side drive signal to the high side switch in response to receiving the delayed high side control signal, and a low side driver circuit arranged to transmit a low side drive signal to the low side switch in response to receiving the delayed low side control signal.
US12107488B2
An electrical converter has an alternating-voltage side with at least two alternating-voltage terminals and a direct-voltage side. At least two series connections connected in parallel and each forming a converter arm of the converter assigned to one of the alternating-voltage terminals. Circular currents can flow between the series connections. According to the method, a load value describing the thermal load of the converter is calculated based on: an active power current value that indicates the active power current component of a phase current flowing across one of the alternating-voltage terminals; a reactive power current value that indicates the reactive power current component of the phase current flowing across the alternating-voltage terminal; and a circular current value that indicates the magnitude of the circular current(s) flowing between the series connections. The converter is controlled while also taking into account this load value.
US12107482B2
A voice coil motor assembly including a base, a frame, an elastic sheet, a housing, and a plurality of shock-absorbing components is provided. The frame is disposed on the base. The frame includes a bottom surface, a top surface, a plurality of side walls and a support frame. One side of the elastic sheet is disposed on the top surface of the frame and the other is disposed on the support frame. The housing is disposed above the base to receive the frame and the elastic sheet. The housing includes a housing top wall and a plurality of housing side walls surrounding the housing top wall. The shock-absorbing components are disposed on the frame and are sandwiched between the frame and the housing side walls of the housing, and/or between the support frame and the housing top wall of the housing.
US12107478B2
An electric motor includes a deep-drawn motor housing including a base and an opening opposite the base, the opening being adjoined by a flange. The flange includes, adjoining the opening, at least one partial formation introduced in an axial direction and including a bearing surface of a component of the electric motor. The bearing surface is arranged in its axial position in the axial direction with respect to a surface in the bottom of the motor housing in the deep-drawing process, and the bearing surface is arranged in its radial position in a radial direction by the opening as a reference surface.
US12107476B2
An electric drive system comprising an electric machine, a transmission connected to the electric machine, and an inverter. The electric drive system further comprising an at least two-part housing. The electric drive system having two mutually separate cooling circuits for the inverter and the electric machine, wherein the two cooling circuits are thermally connected via a heat exchanger that is installed, between the inverter and the electric machine, in the housing.
US12107473B2
The invention relates to a highly dynamic electromagnetic drive in the manner of a Thomson coil with soft-magnetic frame, comprising a first excitation coil (30) whose winding height is greater than its length, which hence is flat; a soft-magnetic frame (10) in which the first excitation coil (30) is arranged and against which it abuts, and which in in the manner of a pot magnet constitutes an open magnetic circuit which includes an outer region (11), a bottom (12) and an inner region (13), and which is open on its end face, wherein the first excitation coil at least partly encloses the inner part (13) of the frame; a short circuit armature (40) preferably formed hollow cylindrical at least on its side facing the first excitation coil (30), which is movably mounted along an axis and which in its stroke starting position dips into the end-face opening of the frame (10) and thereby at least partly encloses the inner part of the frame (13), wherein the frame (10) entirely or predominantly is formed of a soft-magnetic composite material or one or more sheet stacks, which has a saturation flux density of at least 1.5 T and an effective specific electrical conductivity of not more than 106 S/m, and the first excitation coil (30) and/or the frame (10) include at least one means for strain relief, in particular in the form of an enclosure in order to at least partly absorb at least the radial forces occurring on the first excitation coil (30) during an actuating operation vertically to the direction of movement, and wherein the Lorentz force acting on the short circuit armature is used to perform work.
US12107470B2
A rotary electric machine includes a stator including a coil, and a rotor in an inner peripheral side of the stator. The rotor core comprises a soft magnetic metal and a magnet within a magnet insertion hole, a first magnet stopper on a q axis side of the magnet in the magnet insertion hole, a magnet accommodation between the first magnet stopper on both sides of the magnet insertion hole, a first space portion communicating with the magnet insertion hole, a second space portion whose distance from the magnet is equal to or less than a thickness of the magnet and a radial length of a magnetic pole center is long, the second space portion formed on an inner peripheral side relative to the magnet, and a third space portion that has a convex shape on an inner peripheral side of a q axis of the magnet.
US12107466B2
First receiving recesses for receiving distal end portions of slot insertion portions of normal coil segments, and second receiving recesses for receiving distal end portions of long slot insertion portions of variant coil segments are formed at circumferential intervals on outer peripheral surface of an inner twisting jig corresponding to the innermost layer. In a state where the distal end portions of the long slot insertion portions before being twisted are inserted into the second receiving recesses, the first receiving recesses are at positions displaced in the circumferential direction with respect to the distal end portions to be housed therein. Primary twisting is performed by rotating the inner twisting jig in this state, and then the distal end portions of the normal coil segments are inserted into the first receiving recesses and the secondary twisting is performed with a rotational amount larger than that of the primary twisting.
US12107461B2
An electric compressor, an inverter assembly jig and an inverter manufacturing method, an inverter of the compressor includes a frame coupled to a circuit board, the frame includes a base plate opposite the circuit board, fixing means protruding from the base plate and supporting an outer periphery of the circuit board, and a through-hole formed at a position corresponding to the fixing means, the inverter assembly jig includes an expansion pin inserted into the through-hole, and an expansion pin actuation mechanism moving the expansion pin closer to and away from the fixing means, the inverter method includes inserting the expansion pin into the through-hole, manipulating the expansion pin actuation mechanism to deform the fixing means, seating the circuit board on the base plate, and manipulating the expansion pin actuation mechanism so that the fixing means is restored and coupled to the circuit board.
US12107459B2
A rotor for a motor of an electric aircraft is provided. The rotor may include a hub, which includes a plurality of magnets fixed to an inner surface of the hub that are configured to interact with a stator of the motor to rotate rotor. The rotor also includes redial spokes that extend from the hub and provide structural support to the rotor. The rotor may also include a hoop, which provides balance for rotor during operation of motor and may include an integrated fan that provides cooling to various components of the motor.
US12107443B2
An electronic device may include a display, a power reception circuit, and a processor. The processor may perform wireless charging by receiving power wirelessly from an external electronic device through the power reception circuit, and receive data on one or more reasons to stop wireless charging from the external electronic device during the wireless charging. Also, the processor may transmit acknowledge (ACK) data to the external electronic device in response to receiving the data on the one or more reasons to stop wireless charging, and display, through the display, at least one reason to stop wireless charging included in the data on the one or more reasons to stop wireless charging. Other embodiments are possible.
US12107436B1
Provided is a wireless-power transfer apparatus capable of efficiently supplying a predetermined power for each of plural terminal apparatuses. A wireless-power transfer apparatus comprises a radio processing section for transmitting a signal for wireless power transfer to each of the plural terminal apparatuses via plural beams, by a beamforming for forming the plural beams against the plural terminal apparatuses simultaneously or at staggered times, an information acquisition section for acquiring terminal information including location information of a current location of a terminal apparatus for each of plural terminal apparatuses, and a control section for controlling the beamforming so that a signal for wireless power transfer is received at a predetermined reception power in each of plural terminal apparatuses, based on terminal information of each of plural terminal apparatuses.
US12107431B2
Wireless power transmission is used in conjunction with lighting, such as a light emitting diode (LED) bulb or lighting fixture that uses existing electrical wiring infrastructure. For instance, a lighting device is provided such that a wireless power transmitter is coupled to receive electrical operating power via the lighting device when the lighting device is coupled to electrical wiring infrastructure.
US12107423B2
A method and system for supplying power at a voltage selected from a plurality of voltages. Power is initially received at a first voltage. Embodiments communicate with an AC adapter to get device identification and see if the AC adapter supports other voltages. If so, embodiments communicate with the AC adapter to get more information about the adapter and identify what voltages the adapter is capable of providing. If one of the voltages would allow an information handling system to operate more efficiently, embodiments negotiate a power supply contract to operate at a second voltage. When the information handling system powers down, the system resets to operation at the initial voltage.
US12107422B2
A method, apparatus, system and computer program is provided for optimizing and controlling volt-amperes reactive on an electrical control system. System-level and local-level measurements are determined and analyzed to prioritize and optimize which VAR adjusters are adjusted.
US12107421B2
Described are systems and techniques for extracting frequency and voltage harmonic transients corresponding to individual load events. Such systems and techniques can be used to make electrical loads aware of the operation of other loads in an electric grid. Thus, awareness is achieved using information derived only from a utility voltage waveform at a load. Also described are systems and techniques for incorporating such awareness into load controllers which allows loads to autonomously meet system level objectives in addition to their individual requirements.
US12107419B2
There is provided a switching valve for a voltage source converter, the switching valve including a number of modules, each module including at least one switching element and at least one energy storage device, the or each switching element and the or each energy storage device in each module arranged to be combinable to selectively provide a voltage source, the switching valve including a controller programmed to selectively control the switching of the switching elements to select one or more of the modules to contribute a or a respective voltage to a switching valve voltage.
US12107418B2
A system for the electric power supply of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle comprises multiple electricity users, comprises an energy accumulator and a DC/DC converter, wherein the energy accumulator comprises n strands each having at least one energy accumulator cell and the DC/DC converter comprises n input modules, wherein each time one strand of the energy accumulator and one input module of the DC/DC converter form a closed circuit, wherein n circuits are interconnected, and wherein each circuit is connected to the users.
US12107413B2
Disclosed is a switch protection circuit and a power converter, configured to set upper and lower limit-value current signals which can be adjusted along with an input voltage, so that instantaneous power of a main power switch can be prevented from being too high, and the main power switch can always be operated within a safe operating range, thereby solving the problem that the power converter is easy to be damaged in applications under a high-current circumstance.
US12107411B2
A motor control system includes a main control unit, a power supply unit, and a driving unit. The main control unit obtains sampling data of a motor and a power supply signal from the driving unit, generates a motor control signal according to the sampling data, and outputs a safety enable signal when determining that motor drive is abnormal according to the sampling data or when determining that power supply to the driving unit is abnormal according to the power supply signal. The power supply unit supplies power to the main control unit, monitors a state of the main control unit, and outputs a safety cut-off signal when the power supply unit or the main control unit is abnormal. The driving unit drives the motor according to the motor control signal, and switches to a safe path when receiving any one of the safety enable or safety cut-off signal.
US12107407B1
The present invention relates, in general, to an apparatus for an electrical power feedthrough suitable for use in high temperature, high pressure, and/or corrosive environments, such as, for example, within ammonia cracking (i.e., dissociation) systems. The present invention is fabricated from conductive nickel alloys which have high melting temperatures, and which are resistant to corrosion at high temperatures, as well as non-conductive ceramic materials which provide electrical insulation between the systems that feedthrough is coupled to.
US12107405B2
An outlet box comprises a box body and a lid. The box body defines an internal space and has a lid opening permitting access to the internal space. The lid is releasably attachable to the lid opening of the body in a closed configuration, which prevents access to the internal space, and releasably attachable to an external retaining tab of the body in an open configuration, which permits access to the internal space through the lid opening. An attaching mechanism may optionally be used to releasable attach the lid to the external retaining tab, in the open configuration, and to prevent manual relative rotation of the lid with respect to the lid opening in the closed configuration. A gasket may be co-molded with the lid. The external retaining tab may extend from the base wall and has elongated mounting slots for receiving a mounting mechanism. The elongated mounting slots permit relative movement of the box body with respect to the mounting mechanism when in a semi-tightened position.
US12107398B2
The “STRUCTURAL PROFILE FOR ELECTRICAL CABINET” comprises a profile that presents a front sealing area and is positioned in relation thereto at 90°, a side sealing area, an inner fixing wall, an inner fixing side, an inner fixing tab, an outer fixing wall, an outer fixing side and a central barrier.
US12107375B2
An electric circuit includes a first superconducting component, a second superconducting component, a first electrically-insulating component that thermally couples the first superconducting component and the second superconducting component such that heat produced in response to the first superconducting component transitioning to a non-superconducting state is transferred through the first electrically-insulating component to the second superconducting component, and a photon detector coupled to the first superconducting component. The photon detector is configured to output a first current to the first superconducting component upon detection of a threshold number of photons. The electric circuit further includes an output component coupled to the second superconducting component. The output component is configured to be responsive to a voltage drop across the second superconducting component.
US12107372B2
A plug connector to be connected, by plugging, to a mating plug connector, includes a contact carrier manufactured from an electrically insulating material, an electrical grounding contact arranged at the contact carrier for electrical contact with the mating plug connector, and an electrically conductive housing part connected to the contact carrier. An electrically conductive contacting element is manufactured by means of a casting technique. The electrically conductive contacting element has a first contacting portion which bears against the housing part in an electrically contacting manner, and a second contacting portion which bears against the grounding contact in an electrically contacting manner, and electrically connects the housing part to the grounding contact.
US12107362B2
A connector includes a housing to be assembled to a wall portion of a box-shaped body, a bus bar having a fastened portion that is disposed inside the wall portion and is to be connected to a terminal fitting by fastening using a bolt, a nut meshing with the bolt to fasten the fastened portion and the terminal fitting together, and a cover attached to the housing with a gap between the cover and the fastened portion into which the terminal fitting is capable of being inserted and covering the fastened portion the nut.
US12107345B2
An antenna device includes a ground electrode, a feed element, and a parasitic element. The ground electrode has a substantially non-square rectangular plane shape that includes a first side extending in a first direction and a second side extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The feed element has a substantially rectangular plane shape and is formed in such a way that each side of the feed element becomes parallel to the first direction or the second direction. The parasitic element is formed in such a manner as to face a side of the feed element parallel to the first side. The feed element is configured to radiate a first polarized wave that excites in the first direction and a second polarized wave that excites in the second direction. The length of the first side is longer than the length of the second side.
US12107344B2
The present invention provides an antenna device having a simple configuration for multiband operation. The antenna device is provided with: a first antenna element which is provided in a first layer of a multi-layer substrate and has a first frequency band; a second antenna element which is provided in a second layer of the multi-layer substrate different from the first layer, and has a second frequency band lower than the first frequency band; a ground substrate; a first feeding line path extending from the first antenna element toward the ground substrate; a second feeding line path extending from the second antenna element toward the ground substrate; and a filter connecting the second antenna element and the around substrate, the filter passing a signal of the first frequency band and blocking a signal of the second frequency band.
US12107339B2
Apparatus having at least one reflective surface configured to reflect electromagnetic waves, wherein a reflective response of at least one portion of the reflective surface with respect to the electromagnetic waves is electronically controllable, wherein the apparatus is configured to at least temporarily control the reflective response of the at least one portion of the reflective surface.
US12107330B2
Apparatus and methods for circularly polarized antenna arrays are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a dual-band dual-polarized antenna array is provided. The antenna array uses separate frequency bands for transmit and receive signals, and supports a right hand circular polarization (RHCP) and a left hand circular polarization (LHCP). The antenna array can be formed on a circuit board to which a beamforming integrated circuit (IC) can be attached. For example, the antennary array can formed form a low-cost printed circuit board (PCB) stack-up construction. The antenna array can provide circular polarization without needing a polarizer or coupler. Furthermore, the antenna array achieves good isolation and axial ratio under scan.
US12107321B2
According to an embodiment of this disclosure, an electronic device comprises: a housing including a non-conductive portion; an antenna structure arranged in the housing, wherein the antenna structure includes: a substrate including a first substrate surface facing a first direction and a second substrate surface facing opposite the first substrate surface; and at least one antenna element arranged on the substrate to form a beam pattern in the first direction; a conductive member including a plurality of first slits arranged in an inner space of the housing to at least partially face the second substrate surface and formed at a position where the plurality of first slits at least partially overlap the at least one antenna element when the first substrate surface is viewed from above; and a wireless communication circuit configured to transmit or receive a wireless signal in a predetermined frequency band through the at least one antenna element.
US12107319B2
A non-invasive communication apparatus for a vehicle comprising glass includes a power transfer coupler configured to wirelessly supply vehicle-generated power, via the glass, to an external antenna assembly mounted to the vehicle. The power transfer coupler comprises a substantially transparent transmit coil disposed on an inside surface of the glass and a substantially transparent receive coil disposed on an outside surface of the glass adjacent the transmit coil. One or more information transfer couplers are configured to wirelessly communicate information signals to and/or from the antenna assembly via the glass. Each of the information transfer couplers comprises a substantially transparent first coupler disposed on the inside surface of the glass and a substantially transparent second coupler disposed on the outside surface of the glass adjacent the first coupler.
US12107314B2
Disclosed herein are components for millimeter-wave communication, as well as related methods and systems.
US12107308B2
A method of generating electrical power or hydrogen from thermal energy is disclosed. The method includes separating, by a selectively permeable membrane, a first saline solution from a second saline solution, receiving, by the first saline solution and/or the second saline solution, thermal energy from a heat source, and mixing the first saline solution and the second saline solution in a controlled manner, capturing at least some salinity-gradient energy as electrical power as the salinity difference between the first saline solution and the second saline solution decreases. The method further includes transferring, by a heat pump, thermal energy from the first saline solution to the second saline solution, causing the salinity difference between the first saline solution and the second saline solution to increase.
US12107306B2
A hydrogen generator includes a gasifier, upon receiving steam and methane, configured to convert the methane and steam into hydrogen and carbon monoxide; and a carbon trap, operatively connected to the gasifier, configured to capture carbon from the carbon monoxide and allow the hydrogen to pass therethrough. The carbon trap includes iron and a heat source.
US12107304B2
A flow battery system is disclosed.
US12107297B2
This application relates to a coating layer composition and a coating layer formed using the coating layer composition. The coating layer composition includes a heat-resistant binder, a hydroxy group-containing polyimide particle, a silane cross-linking agent, and a solvent. The hydroxy group-containing polyimide particle and the functional group-containing silane cross-linking agent form a core-shell structured organic particle in which a core portion is derived from the hydroxy group-containing polyimide particles and a shell portion that is derived from the functional group-containing silane cross-linking agent. The shell portion is on the surface of the core portion in the core-shell structured organic particle. The application also relates to a separator for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the separator having a coating layer formed using the coating layer composition.
US12107293B2
Assemblies for supporting energy storage equipment, and more particularly, pre-fabricated, above-ground, affixed, ventilated or non-ventilated, power feeder chassis assemblies for large-scale electrical energy storage equipment, comprising a frame unit with certain features that make it capable of supporting energy storage equipment and a cable feeder with certain features that connect destination equipment to the electrical energy storage equipment. Various features of the assembly are described. Also described are methods of manufacturing the same, some of which are directed to methods of pre-fabrication, mass manufacture and transportability. Also described are methods of installing the same, some of which are directed to methods of laying out in grid patterns for large-scale projects.
US12107292B2
A battery module includes a thermal conductive housing. A plurality of cells are arranged within the housing. An electrically insulated bottom cell holder is located between the plurality of cells and the housing. The bottom cell holder has a network of positions in which each of the plurality of cells are inserted and held. Each of the positions has an offsetting member that creates a space between the plurality of cells and a first side of the housing. A thermal adhesive occupies the space, thereby fixing each of the plurality of cells to the housing. Other aspects are described.
US12107290B2
An electrical apparatus may be provided with: a housing; a first electrical apparatus-side terminal; a first terminal cover configured to move between a covering position and an exposing position; and a first locking member configured to engage with the first terminal cover positioned at the covering position, and configured to move between a lock position at which the first locking member restricts movement of the first terminal cover from the covering position to the exposing position and an unlock position. The first locking member may be configured to move from the lock position to the unlock position while a first target apparatus is slid in the sliding direction to be attached to the housing. When the first locking member is positioned at the lock position, a user may be unable to directly shift the first locking member from the lock position to the unlock position.
US12107287B2
Fire protection device with composite system, composite system and battery pack with fire protection device. The present application describes a fire protection device comprising (a) a composite system including (a1) a carrier layer, (a2) an adhesive layer, and (a3) a fire protection layer containing at least one ablative-acting compound, and (b) a shell inside which the composite system is arranged. The fire protection device can be used in battery packs, in order to avoid overheating and/or contain a fire in the battery pack.
US12107285B2
Systems and methods for responding to in a battery. A battery cell for a battery system includes a core of a known battery type, and a cell film having an initial thickness, the cell film configured as a pouch enclosing the core. The battery cell has at least one engraved groove in the cell film, the at least one engraved groove characterized by a groove thickness that is less than the initial thickness. The groove thickness configured to break open responsive to a predetermined gas pressure or target temperature in the pouch.
US12107279B2
A method for a pouch film according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a step of applying an adhesive on one surface of a first polymer layer; a step of depositing metal particles on the adhesive; a step of applying heat and a pressure to the deposited metal particles to sinter the metal particles and thereby forming a gas barrier layer; and a step of laminating a second polymer layer on one surface of the gas barrier layer.
US12107271B2
Provided are a binder aqueous solution for a lithium ion battery, a negative electrode slurry for a lithium ion battery, a negative electrode for a lithium ion battery, and a lithium ion battery. The binder aqueous solution for a lithium ion battery has a pH of 5 or higher and contains: a water-soluble polymer (A) that is a polymer of a monomer group containing, with respect to 100 mol % of the monomer group, 15 mol % to 99.9 mol % of an unsaturated carboxylic acid or an inorganic salt thereof, and that has a glass transition temperature of 110° C. or lower; and a hydrolyzed partial condensate (B) of an amino group-containing trialkoxysilane.
US12107260B2
An all solid battery includes an oxide-based solid electrolyte layer, a positive electrode layer that is provided on a first main face of the oxide-based solid electrolyte layer and includes a positive electrode active material, and a negative electrode layer that is provided on a second main face of the oxide-based solid electrolyte layer and includes a negative electrode active material. At least one of the positive electrode active material of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode active material of the negative electrode layer includes a first electrode active material and a second electrode active material of which average operation potentials (vs Li/Li+) are different from each other.
US12107255B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of energy storage, and in particular, relates to a positive electrode, a method for preparing the positive electrode and an electrochemical device. The positive electrode includes a current collector and a positive electrode active material layer that contains positive electrode active material and is arranged on at least one surface of the current collector. An inorganic layer having a thickness of 20 nm to 2000 nm is arranged on the surface of the at least one positive electrode active material layer away from the current collector. The inorganic layer is a porous dielectric layer containing no binder, and the inorganic layer has a porosity of 10%˜60%. The positive electrode active material layer according to the present disclosure significantly improves the cycle performance, high-temperature storage performance and safety of the electrochemical device.
US12107246B2
A thermal runaway suppression element, adapted for a lithium battery having an electrochemical reaction system. The thermal runaway suppression element includes: a passivation composition supplier, having a metal ion and an aluminum etching ion; and a polar solution supplier, configured to release a polar solvent to carry the metal ion and the aluminum etching ion to an aluminum current collector of the lithium battery. The aluminum current collector is configured to be etched by the aluminum etching ion to provide an aluminum ion. The metal ion and the aluminum ion are carried by the polar solvent to the electrochemical reaction system to terminate an electrochemical reaction.
US12107244B2
A method for recovering a valuable material from a lithium ion secondary battery includes: a heat treatment step of performing heat treatment on a lithium ion secondary battery; a crushing step of crushing a heat-treated object obtained through the heat treatment step; a first stage of classification step of classifying a crushed object obtained through the crushing step based on a classification point of 1.2 to 2.4 mm, and a second stage of classification step of classifying an intermediate product and a fine particle product obtained on a fine side in the first stage of classification step based on a classification point of 0.3 mm or less; and a dry magnetic separation step of repeating one time or more a step of performing dry magnetic separation on an intermediate product obtained on a coarse side in the second stage of classification step and performing dry magnetic separation again.
US12107228B2
To solve the problem that the existing non-aqueous electrolyte for a lithium ion battery cannot ensure the high-temperature storage performance and cycle performance at the same time, the invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte for a lithium ion battery, comprising a solvent, a lithium salt and a compound represented by structural formula 1 and/or structural formula 2: Meanwhile, the invention also discloses a lithium ion battery comprising the non-aqueous electrolyte for a lithium ion battery. The non-aqueous electrolyte provided by the invention can effectively improve the cycle performance and high-temperature storage performance of lithium ion batteries.
US12107224B2
An electrolyte for a lithium-ion battery, a lithium-ion battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus are provided. The electrolyte includes an organic solvent, an electrolyte lithium salt dissolved in the organic solvent, and an additive, where the additive is a compound represented by following formula I. The electrolyte can inhibit generation of lithium dendrites in the lithium-ion battery, improve cycle performance of the battery, and also improve flame retardancy of the battery, thereby effectively resolving defects in the existing technology.
US12107215B2
A solid state battery that includes at least one battery constituent unit including a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer interposed therebetween; a positive electrode external terminal on a first side surface of the solid state battery laminate; and a negative electrode external terminal on a second side surface of the solid state battery laminate. The positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer each include a terminal contact portion in direct contact with the positive electrode external terminal and the negative electrode external terminal, respectively, and a non-terminal contact portion that is not in direct contact with the positive electrode external terminal and the negative electrode external terminal, respectively, and in at least one of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, a sectional area of the terminal contact portion is smaller than a sectional area of the non-terminal contact portion.
US12107210B2
Provided are lithium-sulfur batteries and ambient temperature sodium-sulfur batteries comprising defected material organic framework moieties that provide for improved absolute capacity and improved capacity retention. In some aspects, lithium-sulfur batteries and ambient temperature sodium-sulfur batteries comprise a cathode comprising defected metal organic framework moieties.
US12107208B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a sulfur-containing positive electrode, a negative electrode, a nonaqueous electrolyte, and a cation exchange resin layer which is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and has a first surface having a roughness factor of 3 or more. A method for producing a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a sulfur-containing positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a cation exchange resin layer which is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and has a first surface having a roughness factor of 3 or more. The method includes injecting a lithium polysulfide-containing positive electrode electrolyte between the positive electrode and the cation exchange resin layer, and injecting a negative electrode electrolyte between the negative electrode and the cation exchange resin layer, the negative electrode electrolyte having a lithium polysulfide concentration lower than that of the positive electrode electrolyte.
US12107205B2
A display device can include a wiring substrate including a first electrode, a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements electrically connected to the first electrode, a conductive adhesive layer on the wiring substrate and around the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements, an upper layer on one surface of the conductive adhesive layer and including a plurality of through holes corresponding to the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements, respectively, and a second electrode on the upper layer and electrically connected to the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements. The upper layer can include a thermosetting adhesive.
US12107197B2
Semiconductor structures having a nanocrystalline core and corresponding nanocrystalline shell and insulator coating, wherein the semiconductor structure includes an anisotropic nanocrystalline core composed of a first semiconductor material, and an anisotropic nanocrystalline shell composed of a second, different, semiconductor material surrounding the anisotropic nanocrystalline core. The anisotropic nanocrystalline core and the anisotropic nanocrystalline shell form a quantum dot. An insulator layer encapsulates the nanocrystalline shell and anisotropic nanocrystalline core.
US12107183B2
A short-wave infra-red, SWIR, radiation detection device comprises: a first metallic layer providing a first set of connections from a readout circuit to respective cells of a matrix, the metallic layer reflecting SWIR wavelength radiation. Each matrix cell comprises at least one stack of layers including: a first layer of doped semiconductor material formed on the first metallic layer; an at least partially microcrystalline semiconductor layer formed over the first doped layer; a second layer of semiconductor material formed on the microcrystalline semiconductor layer; at least one microcrystalline semiconductor layer; and in some embodiments a second metallic layer interfacing the microcrystalline semiconductor layer(s), the interface being responsive to incident SWIR radiation to generate carriers within the stack. The stack has a thickness T=λ/2N between reflective surfaces of the first and second metallic layers.
US12107179B2
A photovoltaic assembly includes a cell unit layer, a backplate and a reflective layer. The backplate is provided on a back side of the cell unit layer, and one side of the backplate away from the cell unit layer is provided with at least one junction box. The reflective layer is disposed between the cell unit layer and the backplate. The reflective layer includes a plurality of reflective longitudinal strips. Each of the plurality of reflective longitudinal strips covers edges of cell chips within at least one cell string. At least one of the plurality of reflective longitudinal strips is broken at a location adjacent to a cell chip covered by the junction box so as to form at least one opening.
US12107178B2
A sensor device provided in the disclosure includes a sensor substrate, a first transparent layer, a collimator layer, and a lens. The first transparent layer is disposed on the sensor substrate, wherein the first transparent layer defines an alignment structure. The collimator layer is disposed on the first transparent layer. The lens is disposed on the collimator layer.
US12107154B2
The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to single fin structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: an active single fin structure; a plurality of dummy fin structures on opposing sides of the active single fin structure; source and drain regions formed on the active single fin structure and the dummy fin structures; recessed shallow trench isolation (STI) regions between the dummy fin structures and the active single fin structure and below a surface of the dummy fin structures; and contacts formed on the source and drain regions of the active single fin structure with a spacing of at least two dummy fin structures on opposing sides of the contacts.
US12107153B2
A first semiconductor fin is over the first region of the substrate and extends along a first direction. A second semiconductor fin is over the second region of the substrate and extends along the first direction. A dielectric structure is over the first region of the substrate and is in contact with a longitudinal end of the first semiconductor fin, wherein the dielectric structure is wider than the first semiconductor fin along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A first dielectric fin is over the second region of the substrate and is in contact with a longitudinal end of the second semiconductor fin, wherein the first dielectric fin and the second semiconductor fin have substantially a same width along the second direction.
US12107146B2
A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit device including a self-aligned air spacer including the operations of forming a dummy gate, forming a sidewall on the dummy gate, forming a dummy layer on the sidewall, constructing a gate structure within an opening defined by the sidewall, removing at least a portion of the first dummy layer to form a first recess between the sidewall layer and the dummy gate, and capping the first recess to form a first air spacer.
US12107143B2
A semiconductor device, such as a heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT), may include an extrinsic base region that is connected to a collector region via semiconductor material formed in an opening in one or more dielectric layers interposed between the extrinsic base region and the collector region. The extrinsic base region may be formed from monocrystalline semiconductor material, such as silicon or silicon germanium, via selective epitaxial growth. An intrinsic base region may be formed adjacent to the extrinsic base region and may be interposed directly between the collector region and an intrinsic emitter region. A HBT with such an arrangement may have reduced base-collector capacitance and reduced base resistance compared to some conventional HBTs.
US12107142B2
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing vertical device. The method includes: forming a plurality of first grooves in the front side of the N-type heavily doped layer; forming an N-type lightly doped layer in the plurality of first grooves and on the front side of the N-type heavily doped layer; forming second grooves in the N-type lightly doped layer; forming a P-type semiconductor layer in the second grooves and on the front side of the N-type lightly doped layer; planarizing the P-type semiconductor layer; forming a passivation layer on the planarized structure; forming a third groove in the passivation layer, wherein the third groove has a depth equal to a thickness of the passivation layer; and forming a first electrode and a second electrode.
US12107139B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure on the substrate and a first conductive connection group on the gate structure. The gate structure includes a gate spacer and a gate electrode. The first conductive connection group includes a ferroelectric material layer. At least a part of the ferroelectric material layer is disposed above an upper surface of the gate spacer. And the ferroelectric material layer forms a ferroelectric capacitor having a negative capacitance in the first conductive connection group.
US12107138B2
To improve a reliability of a nonvolatile memory cell including a ferroelectric film. The nonvolatile memory cell MC includes a paraelectric film IL formed on a semiconductor substrate SUB, the ferroelectric film FE formed on the paraelectric film IL, a gate electrode GE formed on the ferroelectric film FE, a high dielectric constant film HK formed on the ferroelectric film FE such that the high dielectric constant film HK cover side surfaces of the gate electrode GE, and a source region SR and a drain region DR formed in an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate SUB such that the ferroelectric film FE is sandwiched between the source region SR and the drain region DR. A relative dielectric constant of the high dielectric constant film HK is higher than a relative dielectric constant of the ferroelectric film FE.
US12107135B2
A semiconductor device having a gate-all-around structure includes a first fin pattern and a second fin pattern separated by a first trench and extending in a first direction, a first nanosheet on the first fin pattern, a second nanosheet on the second fin pattern, a first fin liner extending along at least a portion of a sidewall and a bottom surface of the first trench, a first field insulation layer disposed on the first fin liner and filling a portion of the first trench, and a first gate structure overlapping an end portion of the first fin pattern and including a first gate spacer. A height from the bottom surface of the first trench to a lower surface of the first gate spacer is greater than a height from the bottom surface of the first trench to an upper surface of the first field insulation layer.
US12107133B2
FinFET devices with source/drain contacts with reduced resistance/capacitance power loss and with an enhanced processing window between the source/drain contacts and a gate via and methods of manufacture are described herein. A metal riser may be formed in a first recess of a source/drain contact of a first material. The metal riser and a contact via may be formed from a second material and the contact via may be formed over the metal riser to provide a hybrid source/drain contact of a finFET with a wide surface contact area at an interface between the source/drain contact and the metal riser. A dielectric fill material and/or a conformal contact etch stop layer may be used to form an isolation region in a second recess of the source/drain contact to extend a processing window disposed between the isolation region and a gate contact of the finFET.
US12107129B2
An object is to provide a nonpolar or semipolar GaN substrate having improved size and crystal quality. A self-standing GaN substrate has an angle between the normal of the principal surface and an m-axis of 0 degrees or more and 20 degrees or less, wherein: the size of the projected image in a c-axis direction when the principal surface is vertically projected on an M-plane is 10 mm or more; and when an a-axis length is measured on an intersection line between the principal surface and an A-plane, a low distortion section with a section length of 6 mm or more and with an a-axis length variation within the section of 10.0×10−5 Å or less is observed.
US12107128B2
A method of producing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of transistor cells in a SiC substrate and electrically connected in parallel to form a transistor having a specified operating temperature range. Forming each transistor cell includes forming a gate structure having a gate electrode, and a gate dielectric stack separating the gate electrode from the SiC substrate and including a ferroelectric insulator. The method further includes doping the ferroelectric insulator with a doping material such that the Curie temperature of the ferroelectric insulator is in a range above the specified operating temperature range of the transistor.
US12107107B2
A dark-current-inhibiting image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, a thin and a thin junction. The semiconductor substrate includes a front surface, a back surface opposite the front surface, a photodiode, and a concave surface between the front surface and the back surface. The concave surface extends from the back surface toward the front surface, and defines a trench that surrounds the photodiode in a cross-sectional plane parallel to the back surface. The thin junction extends from the concave surface into the semiconductor substrate, and is a region of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a first substrate region, located between the thin junction and the photodiode, that has a first conductive type. The photodiode and the thin junction have a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type.
US12107098B2
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels each including: a first and a second photoelectric conversion unit that perform photoelectric conversion upon light that has passed through a micro lens and generates a charge; a first accumulation unit that accumulates the charge generated by the first conversion unit; a second accumulation unit that accumulates the charge generated by the second conversion unit; a third accumulation unit that accumulates the charges generated by the first and second conversion units; a first transfer unit that transfers the charge generated by the first conversion unit to the first accumulation unit; a second transfer unit that transfers the charge generated by the second conversion unit to the second accumulation unit; and a third transfer unit that transfers the charges generated by the first and second conversion units to the third accumulation unit.
US12107096B2
An imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion layer, a counter electrode provided above the photoelectric conversion layer, a pixel electrode that faces the counter electrode with the photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the counter electrode and the pixel electrode, and a contact plug covered with the pixel electrode and connected to the pixel electrode. The pixel electrode includes a first layer and a second layer provided on the first layer in contact with the first layer. A surface of the first layer that is in contact with the second layer has a protrusion that protrudes upward.
US12107085B2
Stacked transistor structures having a conductive interconnect between source/drain regions of upper and lower transistors. In some embodiments, the interconnect is provided, at least in part, by highly doped epitaxial material deposited in the upper transistor's source/drain region. In such cases, the epitaxial material seeds off of an exposed portion of semiconductor material of or adjacent to the upper transistor's channel region and extends downward into a recess that exposes the lower transistor's source/drain contact structure. The epitaxial source/drain material directly contacts the lower transistor's source/drain contact structure, to provide the interconnect. In other embodiments, the epitaxial material still seeds off the exposed semiconductor material of or proximate to the channel region and extends downward into the recess, but need not contact the lower contact structure. Rather, a metal-containing contact structure passes through the epitaxial material of the upper source/drain region and contacts the lower transistor's source/drain contact structure.
US12107082B2
An offset interposer includes a land side including land-side ball-grid array (BGA) and a package-on-package (POP) side including a POP-side BGA. The land-side BGA includes two adjacent, spaced-apart land-side pads, and the POP-side BGA includes two adjacent, spaced-apart POP-side pads that are coupled to the respective two land-side BGA pads through the offset interposer. The land-side BGA is configured to interface with a first-level interconnect. The POP-side BGA is configured to interface with a POP substrate. Each of the two land-side pads has a different footprint than the respective two POP-side pads.
US12107067B2
A wire bonding device for performing a wire bonding process includes: a bonding tool for inserting a wire; an ultrasonic vibrator; a drive mechanism for moving the bonding tool; and a control part. The control part performs: a bonding step of bonding the wire to a bonding point; a tail feeding out step of feeding out a wire tail from the wire bonded to the bonding point; a tension applying step of raising the bonding tool to apply tension to the wire while the wire is clamped; a tension release step of lowering the bonding tool to release the tension applied to the wire; and after performing a series of steps including the tension applying step and the tension release step at least once, a tail cutting step of raising the bonding tool to cut the wire tail from the wire.
US12107062B2
A semiconductor die includes a substrate including a semiconductor surface including circuitry electrically connected to die bond pads that include a first die bond pad exposed by a passivation layer, a top dielectric layer over the passivation layer, and a metal layer electrically connected to the first die bond pad. A pillar is on the metal layer over the first die bond pad, and a solder cap is on a top side of the pillar. The solder cap includes an essentially vertical sidewall portion generally beginning at a top corner edge of the pillar.
US12107060B2
Disclosed herein are microelectronic assemblies including microelectronic components that are coupled together by direct bonding, as well as related structures and techniques. For example, in some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a first microelectronic component and a second microelectronic component coupled to the first microelectronic component by a direct bonding region, wherein the direct bonding region includes at least part of an inductor.
US12107059B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate, a first insulation layer, a conductive via and a conductive trace. The substrate includes a conductive component. The first insulation layer is formed on the substrate and having a first through hole exposing the conductive component. The conductive via is formed within the first through hole. The conductive trace is directly connected to the conductive via which is located directly above the first through hole.
US12107056B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package includes a dielectric layer. The semiconductor device package further includes an antenna structure disposed in the dielectric layer. The semiconductor device package further includes a semiconductor device disposed on the dielectric layer. The semiconductor device package further includes an encapsulant covering the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device package further includes a conductive pillar having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion surrounded by the encapsulant and the second portion embedded in the dielectric layer.
US12107048B2
Various layouts for conductive interconnects in the conductor layers in an integrated circuit are disclosed. Some or all of the conductive interconnects are included in a power delivery system. In general, the conductive interconnects in a first conductor layer are arranged according to an orthogonal layout and the conductive interconnects in a second conductor layer are arranged according to a non-orthogonal layout. Conductive stripes in a transition conductor layer positioned between the first and the second conductor layers electrically connect the conductive interconnects in the first conductor layer to the conductive interconnects in the second conductor layer.
US12107035B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a semiconductor die within an extended substrate and a bottom substrate may include bonding a bottom surface of a semiconductor die to a top surface of a bottom substrate, forming an adhering member to a top surface of the semiconductor die, bonding an extended substrate to the semiconductor die and to the top surface of the bottom substrate utilizing the adhering member and a conductive bump on a bottom surface of the extended substrate and a conductive bump on the bottom substrate. The semiconductor die and the conductive bumps may be encapsulated utilizing a mold member. The conductive bump on the bottom surface of the extended substrate may be electrically connected to a terminal on the top surface of the extended substrate. The adhering member may include a laminate film, a non-conductive film adhesive, or a thermal hardening liquid adhesive.
US12107034B2
A semiconductor chip may include; a device layer including transistors on a substrate, a wiring layer on the device layer, a first through via passing through the device layer and the substrate, and a second through via passing through the wiring layer, the device layer and the substrate, wherein a first height of the first through via is less than a second height of the second through via.
US12107029B2
A power module includes a substrate that is electrically insulative and includes a substrate main surface and a substrate back surface at opposite sides in a thickness direction. The power module also includes a mounting layer that is conductive and arranged on the substrate main surface. The power module further includes a graphite plate having anisotropic thermal conductivity and including a plate main surface and a plate back surface at opposite sides in the thickness direction. The plate back surface is connected to the mounting layer. The power module further includes a power semiconductor element arranged on the plate main surface.
US12107027B2
A power module for operating an electric vehicle drive, comprising: numerous semiconductor components; a heatsink for discharging heat generated by the semiconductor components; a DC link capacitor connected in parallel to the semiconductor components; a DC link line electrically connecting the DC link capacitor to the semiconductor components; wherein the DC link line is at least partially located in a hole formed in the heatsink.
US12107019B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes one or more processors. The processors are configured to: generate a plurality of shuffle maps obtained by randomly shuffling, from positions to others, at least some of subject values contained in a subject map having the subject values arrayed in N dimensions (N is an integer of 1 or more); generate a subject vector expressing features of a frequency domain of the subject map and random vectors expressing features of respective frequency domains of the shuffle maps; and derive, as an evaluation value for whether the subject map has a random characteristic, a testing result of statistical hypothesis testing on feature differences between the subject vector and the respective random vectors.
US12107017B2
A method and apparatus are provided. In an example, a volume portion of the solid body is exposed to light waves of different wavelengths, wherein the light waves are partly reflected at surfaces of the solid body. Light parameters of the reflected light waves are at least partly acquired using a sensor device. Distance information and/or intensity information are/is ascertained from at least a portion of the acquired light parameters. A thickness and/or a transmittance of the solid body in the volume portion are/is determined based upon the distance information and/or the intensity information. Laser radiation is introduced into the volume portion to produce a modification in the interior of the solid body, wherein at least one laser parameter of the laser radiation is set at least depending on the thickness and/or the transmittance such that the modification is at a predefined distance from a surface of the solid body.
US12106999B2
A decoupled XY parallel micro-positioning stage, including a central moving platform, fixed mechanisms, bridge-type micro-displacement amplification mechanisms, a four-bar symmetrical flexible guide mechanism and a piezoelectric ceramic. Each fixed mechanism is arranged between adjacent amplification mechanisms and is symmetrical about X and Y axes centered on the moving platform. The amplification mechanism is symmetrically arranged with respect to the X and Y axes, and includes two first and second longitudinal beams and multiple crossbeams. The two first longitudinal beams are provided in parallel and spaced apart. The two second longitudinal beams are arranged spaced apart between the two first longitudinal beams, and are connected to the two first longitudinal beams via the crossbeams. The crossbeams are connected to the longitudinal beams via a flexible hinge. The piezoelectric ceramic is arranged between the two first longitudinal beams.
US12106997B2
Techniques for testing both a rectangular substrate and a circular substrate are provided. One aspect of the present disclosure pertains to a test device comprising an exchangeable change kit, wherein the change kit comprises a first holding device and a second holding device which are exchangeably mounted in the test device, wherein the first holding device is configured to adsorb and hold a rectangular substrate, wherein the second holding device is configured to adsorb and hold a circular substrate, and wherein the first holding device and the second holding device are exchanged according to a substrate to be tested.
US12106988B2
Introduced here is a wafer separator configured to carry a semiconductor wafer with improved efficiency, protection, and reduced costs when utilized in the handling, transport, or storage of semiconductor components. The wafer separator may include a circular ring having an outer edge defining a periphery of the circular ring. The circular ring may include an inner edge defining a central opening of the circular ring. The wafer separator may include a first-right angled recess for receiving a semiconductor wafer that extends downward from a top surface of the circular ring. The wafer separator may also include a second right-angled recess for maintaining a gap beneath the semiconductor wafer when the semiconductor wafer is set within the first right-angled recess. In some embodiments, the wafer separator also includes interlock components for connecting the wafer separator to adjacent wafer separators.
US12106986B2
A semiconductor inspection device, including a stage having first and second surfaces opposite to each other, a first holding part for holding the semiconductor wafer apart from the first surface and protruding from the first surface of the stage, a plurality of air suction holes and air supply holes, through which a gas is suctioned from or supplied to a space between the semiconductor wafer and the stage, and an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a second main surface of the semiconductor wafer, after the gas is concurrently suctioned from, and supplied to, the space between the semiconductor wafer and the stage, to thereby correct a warpage of the semiconductor wafer. Each of the air suction holes and the air supply holes has a first opening provided at a predetermined position in the first surface of the stage, and a second opening for connecting to a suction unit or an air supply unit.
US12106980B2
In an embodiment an adhesive transfer stamp for transferring semiconductor chips includes a volume region including an electrically insulating material, at least one adhesive surface configured to receive a semiconductor chip and an electrically conductive element configured to electrically conductively connected to a ground conductor during operation and to dissipate electrical charges from the semiconductor chip to the ground conductor, wherein the volume region is embodied as a solid body, and wherein the volume region has at least one stepped structure.
US12106976B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for cleaning a substrate. The method includes rotating a substrate disposed on a substrate support and spraying a front side of the substrate using steam through a front side nozzle assembly. A back side of the substrate is sprayed using steam through a back side dispenser assembly. A heated chemical is dispensed over the front side of the substrate.
US12106975B2
A semiconductor device and cleaning system are provided. The semiconductor device includes: a device chamber, supporting column and bearing platform in the device chamber, the supporting column being configured to support the bearing platform; and an air outlet, first and second air inlet assemblies on the device chamber, the first and second air inlet assemblies being configured to introduce clean gas into the device chamber, and the air outlet being configured to discharge gas in the device chamber. The first and second air inlet assemblies are separately provided on the device chamber on the upper and lower sides of a bearing surface of the bearing platform; and one of the first and second air inlet assemblies is configured to clean the device chamber on a side of the bearing surface away from the supporting column, and other is configured to clean a gap between the supporting column and device chamber.
US12106971B2
Disclosed are methods for forming a high aspect ratio (HAR) structure during a HAR etch process in a substrate in a reaction chamber, the method comprising: sequentially or simultaneously exposing the substrate to a vapor of an etchant including a hydrofluorocarbon or fluorocarbon compound and an additive compound, the substrate having a film disposed thereon and a pattered mask layer disposed on the film; activating a plasma to produce an activated hydrofluorocarbon or fluorocarbon compound and an activated additive compound; and allowing an etching reaction to proceed between the film uncovered by the patterned mask layer and the activated hydrofluorocarbon or fluorocarbon compound and the activated additive compound to selectively etch the film from the patterned mask layer, thereby forming the HAR patterned structure.
US12106947B2
A substrate processing system includes a drive circuit, an RF reference measuring circuit, and a make-break connector. The drive circuit generates an RF drive signal at a first RF frequency. The RF reference measuring circuit includes an LC circuit having an input impedance and an output impedance. An output of the LC circuit connects to an RF power meter and a dummy load. The make-break connector connects the drive circuit to one of the RF reference measuring circuit and a processing chamber load including a component of the substrate processing system. An output impedance of the drive circuit matches an impedance of an input impedance of the LC circuit. The output impedance of the drive circuit does not match impedances of the RF power meter and the dummy load. The LC circuit matches the impedance of the drive circuit to the RF power meter and the dummy load.
US12106945B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a process chamber, a substrate support chuck configured to support a substrate in the process chamber, the substrate support chuck including an upper cooling channel and a lower cooling channel that are symmetrically separated from each other, and a support chuck temperature controller configured to supply a first coolant to the upper cooling channel and to supply a second coolant to the lower cooling channel.
US12106941B2
The present disclosure relates to a substrate processing device and a substrate processing method, the substrate processing device comprising: a chamber; a substrate support part installed in a processing space inside the chamber so as to enable one or more substrate to rotate; a first gas spraying part for spraying a source gas on a first area of the processing space; a second gas spraying part for spraying, on a second area of the processing space, a reactant gas reacting with the source gas on the second area; and a third gas spraying part for spraying, on a third area, a purge gas for dividing the first area and the second area.
US12106936B2
A system may include a substrate stage, configured to support a substrate, where a main surface of the substrate defines a substrate plane. The system may include an ion source, including an extraction assembly that is oriented to direct an ion beam to the substrate along a trajectory defining a non-zero angle of incidence with respect to a perpendicular to the substrate plane. The system may include a radical source oriented to direct a radical beam to the substrate along a trajectory defining the non-zero angle of incidence with respect to a perpendicular to the substrate plane. The substrate stage may be further configured to scan the substrate along a first direction, lying with the substrate plane, while the main surface of the substrate is oriented within the substrate plane.
US12106920B2
A lightweight industrial fuse has a housing and a conductive fuse. The housing has a first plastic half-housing and a second half-housing combined with each other. The conductive fuse is integrally formed and clamped between the first and second half-housing. The conductive fuse has a fusible body and two intermediary portions disposed within the housing, and two electrode portions exposed from two opposite ends of the housing. Thus, an enclosed accommodation cavity of the housing is defined through the combination of the first and second half-housing. A manufacturing process is simplified, and a manufacturing cost is decreased, and further a weight of the industrial fuse is effectively reduced.
US12106915B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a control circuit for a contactor and a control method thereof. The control circuit comprises: a pulse converter configured to convert a turn-on control signal into a continuous pulse signal; a first controller configured to generate a first breaking control signal at a first time in response to detection of the disappearance of the continuous pulse signal received from the pulse converter; a second controller configured to generate a second breaking control signal at a second time in response to detection of the disappearance of the continuous pulse signal received from the pulse converter, wherein the first time is earlier than the second time; and a coil driver configured to turn off a current of the excitation coil according to the received first breaking control signal, and if the current is not turned off according to the first breaking control signal, to further turn off the current of the excitation coil according to the second breaking control signal, thereby realizing the breaking of the main contact.
US12106909B2
A three-tandem (3T) perovskite/silicon (PVT)-based tandem solar cell (TSC) includes an antireflection coating (ARC), a first transparent conductive oxide layer (TCO), a hole transport layer (HTL), a perovskite (PVT) layer, a second transparent conductive oxide layer (TCO), an electron transport layer (ETL), a plurality of buried contacts, a p-type Si layer, a p-type wafer-based homo-junction silicon solar cell, a n+ silicon layer, a back contact layer. The solar cell further includes a top sub-cell, a bottom sub-cell and a middle contact-based tandem. The top sub-cell includes the PVT layer. The bottom sub-cell includes the silicon solar cell. The middle contact-based tandem includes the second TCO layer to be used as the middle contact-based tandem, as well as a recombination layer for current collection. Further, a conduction and a valence band edge are employed at a front surface of the ETL.
US12106907B2
A device includes an electrode stack including a plurality of conductive anodes, a plurality of conductive cathodes, a plurality of separators arranged between the conductive anodes and the conductive cathodes, and a dielectric material disposed on a surface of each of the conductive anodes. The stack has a top surface, a bottom surface, and an edge extending between the top surface and the bottom surface. A continuous electrically insulating film overlies the edge, peripheral portions of the top surface and peripheral portions of the bottom surface so that a central portion of the top surface and a central portion of the bottom surface are exposed. An electrolyte is disposed between the conductive anodes and the conductive cathodes.
US12106903B2
An electronic component includes a multilayer body including inner electrodes and dielectric layers alternately stacked, and an outer electrode electrically connected to the inner electrodes. The multilayer body includes first and second main surfaces opposite to each other in a stacking direction, first and second side surfaces opposite to each other in a width direction, and first and second end surfaces opposite to each other in a length direction. The outer electrode includes first outer electrodes disposed on the first and second end surfaces, and at least one second outer electrode disposed on at least one of the first and second side surfaces. The at least one second outer electrode is directly connected to the inner electrodes at positions spaced away from the at least one of the first or second side surface toward the inside of the multilayer body.
US12106899B2
A magnetic field application device applying a magnetic field to a magnetocaloric material includes: a magnetic field generating component; a first yoke connected to both poles of the magnetic field generating component; and a second yoke movably disposed between a first position and a second position. A first closed magnetic circuit formed by the magnetic field generating component and the first yoke passes through a magnetic field application region in which the magnetocaloric material is accommodated. A second closed magnetic circuit formed by the magnetic field generating component, the first yoke, and the second yoke bypasses the magnetic field application region. Magnetic resistance of the second closed magnetic circuit when the second yoke is located at the second position is smaller than the magnetic resistance of the second closed magnetic circuit when the second yoke is located at the first position.
US12106898B2
A permanent magnet for use in an electric machine is provided. The permanent magnet is formed as a one-piece hollow cylinder, in particular a hollow circular cylinder. The permanent magnet includes one or more grooves dividing the permanent magnet in at least two sections that are interconnected.
US12106895B2
The present disclosure provides a transformer module and a power module, wherein the transformer module comprises: a magnetic core, where a first insulating layer and a second wiring layer are sequentially disposed on the magnetic core from inside to outside; a first metal winding, wound around the magnetic core and comprising a first winding segment formed in the first wiring layer and a second winding segment formed in the second wiring layer; and a second metal winding, wound around the magnetic core and comprising a third winding segment formed in the first wiring layer and a fourth winding segment formed in the second wiring; where at least part of the first metal winding and the second metal winding are wound around the magnetic core in a foil structure.
US12106886B2
An object is to increase an inductance value without blocking a leakage magnetic flux and improve cooling performance by directly cooling a coil and a core by a cooler via cooling members. Winding cooling portions for cooling the coil are in contact with a cooler via coil cooling members formed by non-fluid material, core cooling portions for cooling the core are in contact with the cooler via core cooling members formed by non-fluid material, and a resin mold member covering the coil and the core retains the coil and the core and fixes the coil and the core to the cooler.
US12106885B2
A coil component includes a body having one surface and another surface opposing each other, opposing end surfaces each connecting the one surface and the other surface to each other, and opposing side surfaces each connecting the end surfaces to each other. An internal insulating layer is embedded in the body, and a coil portion is disposed on at least one surface of the internal insulating layer and includes the first and second lead-out portions. The body has a recess disposed in each end surface of the body to expose the first and second lead-out portions. First and second external electrodes each include a connection portion disposed in the recess to be connected to a respective one of the first and second lead-out portions, and each include a pad portion disposed on the one surface of the body. A filling portion fills the recess and covers the connection portion.
US12106873B2
A two-core flat cable includes a pair of metal wires, an insulating covering that bundles and covers the pair of metal wires along a longitudinal direction thereof, an electrically conductive shield that covers an entire perimeter surface of the covering, and an insulating sheath that covers the shield, wherein the shield is comprised of a metal coating laver, and the sheath is comprised of a lamination sheet of an insulating resin.
US12106871B2
A wire harness for routing in a vehicle in which a pipe through which a liquid flows is attached under a floor, the wire harness including: a first wire to be routed alongside the pipe; and a second wire to be routed in between the first wire and the pipe, and fixed to both the first wire and the pipe, wherein the second wire has: a first section extending along the first wire; and a second section extending along the pipe at a position spaced further from the first wire than is the first section in a direction in which the pipe and the first wire are arranged alongside each other.
US12106869B2
A busbar assembly of the present invention includes first and second busbars disposed in parallel in a common plane with a gap therebetween, and an insulating resin layer including a gap filling part and an upper surface laminated part, the upper surface laminated part having a first busbar-side upper surface opening that exposes a predetermined area of the upper surfaces of the first busbar and the gap filling part that straddles a boundary therebetween, and a second busbar-side upper surface opening that exposes a predetermined area of the upper surfaces of the second busbar and the gap filling part that straddles a boundary therebetween, a part of the upper surface laminated part between the first and second busbar-side upper surface openings forming a partitioning wall.
US12106863B2
A nuclear power plant includes a nuclear reactor and a reactor coolant circuit containing a reactor coolant. The nuclear power plant further includes a degasification system (2) for the reactor coolant. The degasification system (2) is an ultrasonic degasification system comprising a sonotrode cluster (11) with at least one sonotrode (10) arranged in a line of the reactor coolant circuit or in a line which is fluidically connected to the reactor coolant circuit.
US12106862B2
A method, software, database, and system in which a query attribute is used as the basis for accessing stored attribute combinations and their frequencies of occurrence for individuals; and tabulating, based on frequencies of occurrence, those attribute combinations that are most likely to co-occur with the query attribute.
US12106861B2
A macular health measurement and storage system comprises a plurality of macular-pigment measurement machine for measuring macular pigment density in humans, a plurality of computers each of which is associated with a corresponding one the macular-pigment measuring machines, and a central host. The plurality of macular-pigment measurement machines include a device for receiving macular pigment data from a patient, at least one data transfer port, and at least one processor that enables the transfer of the macular pigment data from the transfer port. The plurality of computers include a first port coupled to the data transfer port of the corresponding macular-pigment measurement machine for receiving the macular pigment data. Each of the computers includes a second port for transferring patient data. The central host is coupled to the second ports on each of the plurality of computers. The central host includes a storage device for storing the patient data.
US12106860B1
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems, methods, and computer readable media for configuring generation of digital therapeutic content for provision. The system can receive a text input including one or more parameters identifying an audience and at least one domain. The system can identify content items generated by corresponding generative transformer models each using a prompt created based on the text input. The system can select, from a set of risk models for the domains, at least one risk model corresponding to the at least one domain. The system can apply the at least one risk model to each content item of the set of content items to determine a risk score. The system can select a content item based on the risk score of the content item. The system can present the content item including the respective digital therapeutic content.
US12106847B2
An annotation support apparatus manages a medical image on the basis of an attribute of each medical image, using a hierarchical structure that has one medical image as a node and includes a medical image hierarchy to which a node of the medical image belongs and at least one of an upper hierarchy higher than the medical image hierarchy or a lower hierarchy lower than the medical image hierarchy. The annotation support apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires the medical image; a display unit; an annotation input receiving unit that receives designation of any one of the node of the medical image or a node associated with the node of the medical image in the hierarchical structure and an input of annotation information related to the designated node; and an annotation storage unit that stores the annotation information to be associated with the designated node.
US12106846B2
Techniques to leverage computer monitor and graphics card hardware capabilities, using DCI-P3 and rec2020 color spaces for medical imagery are provided. The technique involves downloading the original raw source pixel data from the medical image from the webserver to the browser. A window and level transform is then applied to the raw pixel data enabling it to be displayed using the web browser capable of leveraging the hardware capabilities of commodity monitors and video cards that are capable of high bit depth display.
US12106841B2
Embodiments of the disclosed system calculate a single score (“SDIS”) for dietary intake over a period of time. In one embodiment, the single score is an indication of whether a subset of measurable nutrients (determined to be indicative of nutritional health) and energy consumed are within a healthy range that is specific to a user. Embodiments of the disclosed system determine whether each nutrient consumed falls within a healthy range. This range may be calculated by, for example, using a plurality of possible minimum intake values and an upper limit (if one exists) for each nutrient. Similarly, the system determines whether the energy consumed falls within a healthy range. The averaged nutrient score is then multiplied by an energy score to arrive at the final score. In an embodiment, the system particularly emphasizes the impact of the energy score treated as a multiplier rather than as a nutrient.
US12106827B1
A system and method for predicting results of a manufacturing process for generating biological structures are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may include: store one or more models configured to simulate a bioreactor device to determine predicted results of a manufacturing process to generate biological structures; obtain an input genomic construct; obtain values of operational parameters associated with the bioreactor device; provide the input genomic construct and the values of operational parameters as input to the stored model(s); obtain outputs from the model(s) including the predicted results of the manufacturing process based on a first simulation of the manufacturing process; generate recommendations based on the outputs of the model(s); provide the outputs from the model(s) and the generated recommendations; and/or other exemplary implementations.
