US12114583B1
The disclosure belongs to the field of micro-nano electronic materials, and in particular to a Se-based selector material, a selector unit, and a preparation method thereof. The Se-based selector material is a compound including Ge, Se, and B elements. The chemical formula of the Se-based selector material is (GexSe1−x)1−yByMz, in which the M element is at least one of In, Ga, Al, and Zn, and 0.1≤x≤0.9, 0.02≤y≤0.15, and 0≤z≤0.2. The problems of safety and stability of the existing material selection for the selector are solved by the selector material, the selector unit, and the preparation method thereof provided by the disclosure. In addition, the threshold voltage of the selector device prepared based on the Se-based selector material is adjustable, and the comprehensive performance is good.
US12114581B2
A method of fabricating a synaptic device is provided. The method includes forming a channel layer between a first terminal and a second terminal. The channel layer varies in resistance based on a magnesium concentration in the channel layer. The method further includes forming an electrolyte layer. The electrolyte layer includes a magnesium ion conductive material. A third terminal is formed over the electrolyte layer and applies a signal to the electrolyte layer and the channel layer.
US12114580B2
Phase-change memory cells and methods of manufacturing and operating phase-change memory cells are provided. In at least one embodiment, a phase-change memory cell includes a heater and a stack. The stack includes at least one germanium layer or a nitrogen doped germanium layer, and at least one layer of a first alloy including germanium, antimony, and tellurium. A resistive layer is located between the heater and the stack.
US12114579B2
A method of fabricating a resistive random access memory cell includes the following steps. A second sacrificial layer is formed around a patterned stacked layer. An opening passing through first conductive layers and first sacrificial layers of the patterned stacked layer is formed. A second conductive layer is formed in the opening, and the second conductive layer and the first conductive layers form a first electrode layer. The first sacrificial layers and the second sacrificial layer are removed. A variable resistance layer and an oxygen reservoir layer are formed. The oxygen reservoir layer is patterned to form a patterned oxygen reservoir layer and expose the variable resistance layer. A second dielectric layer is formed on the variable resistance layer and the patterned oxygen reservoir layer. A second electrode is formed in the second dielectric layer.
US12114576B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for forming a memory cell. In some embodiments, a memory film is deposited over a substrate and comprises a bottom electrode layer, a top electrode layer, and a data storage film between the top and bottom electrode layers. A hard mask film is deposited over the memory film and comprises a conductive hard mask layer. The top electrode layer and the hard mask film are patterned to respectively form a top electrode and a hard mask over the top electrode. A trimming process is performed to decrease a sidewall angle between a sidewall of the hard mask and a bottom surface of the hard mask. An etch is performed into the data storage film with the hard mask in place after the trimming process to form a data storage structure underlying the top electrode.
US12114571B2
A mobile clamp attaches to a steam pipe and converts thermal energy to electric energy. One side of the clamp is generally open to allow for insertion of the steam pipe. During insertion, opposing blocks on either side of the clamp are deflected apart. Each block includes a curved channel extending along the length of the block to receive the steam pipe. Fitting the steam pipe within the channel aligns the clamp on the steam pipe. A biasing force applied to the blocks to return each block to an initial position provides a clamping force on the steam pipe to positively retain the clamp on the pipe. Thermoelectric devices are mounted on the blocks to convert the thermal energy into electrical energy. Thermal energy is transmitted from the steam, through the steam pipe, through the block pressed against the steam pipe, and to the thermoelectric device.
US12114568B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a thermoelectric conversion module that eliminates the need for supports and solder materials, allows collective and efficient production of a plurality of thin thermoelectric conversion modules, and includes the following steps (A) to (D): (A) disposing a chip of a P-type thermoelectric conversion material and a chip of an N-type thermoelectric conversion material on a support so as to be spaced apart from each other; (B) filling an insulator between the chip of the P-type thermoelectric conversion material and the chip of the N-type thermoelectric conversion material to obtain an integrated body including the chip of the P-type thermoelectric conversion material, the chip of the N-type thermoelectric conversion material, and the insulator; (C) peeling the integrated body obtained in step (B) from the support; and (D) connecting the chip of the P-type thermoelectric conversion material and the chip of the N-type thermoelectric conversion material via an electrode in the integrated body after step (C).
US12114563B2
Disclosed are an organic light-emitting device and an electronic apparatus including the same. The organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes a host compound, a first dopant compound, and a second dopant compound, and the second dopant compound is represented by Formula 1, A-(Ar1)n11 Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, A is a group represented by Formula 1-1, wherein, in Formulae 1 and 1-1, Ar1, n11, M, CY1 to CY5, R1 to R5, and a1 to a5 are the same as described in the specification.
US12114558B2
A flexible substrate, a preparation method therefor, a display panel, and a display device. The flexible substrate includes a flexible substrate, and the flexible substrate includes a plurality of display regions arranged in an array and bridges connecting every two adjacent display regions. Each of the display regions is provided with a pixel structure. Each of the bridges includes a buffer layer, a first organic layer, a wiring layer, a second organic layer, and an inorganic layer arranged in sequence. A wire is disposed in the wiring layer. At least part of the wire includes alternately arranged metal segments and elastic conductor segments in the direction of extension of the wire.
US12114549B2
A display device includes a substrate, a display area disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of pixels and data lines, a peripheral area disposed outside the display area of the substrate, a pad portion disposed in the peripheral area, an encapsulation layer disposed in the peripheral area and the display area, and disposed on the plurality of pixels of the display area, a crack detection circuit disposed in the peripheral area, and a first crack detection line connected with the pad portion and the crack detection circuit. The first crack detection line is disposed on the encapsulation layer.
US12114548B2
A display apparatus having a connection electrode which crosses a bending area may be provided. The connection electrode may be disposed on a device substrate including a bending area between a display area and a pad area. The connection electrode may connect the display area and the pad area across the bending area. The connection electrode may have a stacked structure of the lower connecting electrode and the upper connecting electrode. A light-emitting device, an encapsulating element and a touch electrode may be sequentially stacked on the display area of the device substrate. The upper connecting electrode may include the same material as the touch electrode. Thus, in the display apparatus, the disconnection of the connection electrode due to bending stress and external impact may be reduced.
US12114545B2
A display substrate and a display apparatus. In the display substrate, the first signal line sequentially passes through the first display region, the opening peripheral region and the second display region along a first direction, and includes a first lead portion and a first winding portion that are in the opening peripheral region and connected to each other; the first winding portion partially surrounds the opening; the second signal line provides a second display signal to the pixel array, passes through the peripheral region of the opening along a second direction intersecting with the first direction, includes a second winding portion in the peripheral region of the opening and partially surrounds the opening. The first lead portion and the second signal line have a first overlapping region, and the first winding portion and the second winding portion have a second overlapping region.
US12114538B2
A display panel and an organic light emitting display device with enhanced light extraction efficiency is described. The display panel and the display device include an insulating film including at least one concave portion, a first electrode disposed to cover the concave portion, a bank including a first part on the first electrode and overlapping a part of the flat portion of the concave portion, a second part extending from the first part and overlapping an inclined portion of the concave portion, and a third part extending from the second part and disposed on the side portion, an organic layer overlapping the concave portion, and a second electrode on the organic layer and the bank. A width of the first part of the bank is wider than a width of the second part of the bank. Thus, it is possible to provide a display device with enhanced light extraction efficiency.
US12114528B2
A display panel includes a base substrate including: a plurality of pixel regions and a peripheral region adjacent thereto; a pixel defining film disposed on the base substrate and having a plurality of openings, each of which corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of pixel regions; a plurality of light emitting elements disposed on the base substrate corresponding to the plurality of openings and configured to generate first color light; an encapsulation member disposed on the plurality of light emitting elements; a light shield pattern disposed on the encapsulation member and overlapping the peripheral region when viewed in a plan view; and a light control layer disposed on the encapsulation member and the light shield pattern and overlapping the plurality of pixel regions. The pixel defining film includes a first color material, and the light shield pattern includes a second color material different form the first color.
US12114526B2
A display device includes a display panel having a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a decorative film disposed on the display panel. The decorative film includes a porous layer disposed on the display panel and including a plurality of pores, and a decorative layer which overlaps the non-display area and is disposed in the porous layer. Accordingly, the decorative layer which is partially disposed is formed in the porous layer so that a step caused by the decorative layer is not formed or minimized to reduce the thickness of the decorative film. As a result, the design the display device can be slim, and a flexible display device with an excellent folding reliability can be provided based on the display device.
US12114510B2
A device includes a spin orbit coupling layer and a Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) stack. The MTJ stack includes a dielectric layer over the spin orbit coupling layer, a free layer over the dielectric layer, a tunnel barrier layer over the free laver, and a reference layer over the tunnel barrier layer. The spin orbit coupling layer extends beyond edges of the MTJ stack in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction.
US12114507B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip that includes a gate electrode over a substrate, and a gate dielectric layer arranged over the gate electrode. The gate dielectric layer includes a ferroelectric material. An active structure is arranged over the gate dielectric layer and includes a semiconductor material. A source contact and a drain contact are arranged over the active structure. A capping structure is arranged between the source and drain contacts and over the active structure. The capping structure includes a first metal material.
US12114492B2
Some embodiments include a method in which an assembly is formed to have voids within a stack, and to have slits adjacent the voids. Peripheral boundaries of the voids have proximal regions near the slits and distal regions adjacent the proximal regions. A material is deposited within the voids under conditions which cause the material to form to a greater thickness along the distal regions than along the proximal regions. Some embodiments include an assembly having a stack of alternating first and second levels. The second levels include conductive material. Panel structures extend through the stack. The conductive material within the second levels has outer edges with proximal regions near the panel structures and distal regions adjacent the proximal regions. Interface material is along the outer edges of the conductive material and has a different composition along the proximal regions than along the distal regions.
US12114491B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first dielectric layer on a substrate; first/second upper short axis portions extending along a first direction, separated from each other, and on the first dielectric layer; a common source region in the substrate and adjacent to the first/second upper short axis portions; a first branch drain region in the substrate, adjacent to the first upper short axis portion, and opposite to the common source region; a second branch drain region in the substrate, adjacent to the second upper short axis portion, and opposite to the common source region; and a top electrode on the first dielectric layer and topographically above the first branch drain region and the second branch drain region. The top electrode, the first dielectric layer, and the first/second branch drain regions together configure a programmable unit.
US12114488B2
Methods of forming memory devices are described. A molybdenum silicide nucleation layer is formed, and the substrate is soaked in a titanium precursor prior to a bulk molybdenum gap fill process. In other embodiments, a molybdenum silicide film is formed in a first process cycle and a second process cycle is performed where the substrate is exposed to a titanium precursor. In further embodiments, a substrate having at least one feature thereon is exposed to a first titanium precursor and a nitrogen-containing reactant. The substrate is then soaked in a second titanium precursor, and then is exposed to a first molybdenum precursor followed by exposure to a silane to form a molybdenum silicide layer on a surface of the substrate.
US12114486B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The method includes: providing a semiconductor substrate; determining a position of a bit line contact opening on a top surface of the semiconductor substrate and a top surface of a first dielectric layer; etching an active region, the first dielectric layer and an isolation structure exposed by the bit line contact opening according to the position of the bit line contact opening until the active region is etched to a preset depth to form a bit line contact window; and forming a second dielectric layer on a surface of the isolation structure and a surface of the first dielectric layer that have a depth greater than a depth of a surface of the active region in the bit line contact window.
US12114481B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure belong to the field of semiconductor manufacturing technology and relates to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor structure. The method for manufacturing the semiconductor structure includes: a bit line structure is formed on a substrate, a fill channel is formed between the insulating structures on two adjacent bit lines; a conductor is formed within the fill channel; at least one slit is formed on the conductor along a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of each of the plurality of bit line to divide the conductor into a plurality of conductive blocks, each of the plurality of conductive blocks is connected to one of transistors on the substrate.
US12114480B2
Apparatuses, devices, and methods for fabricating one or more vertically integrated single bit capacitor-based memory cells is disclosed. A single bit capacitor-based memory cell can include a vertically oriented transistor and a vertically oriented capacitor that is vertically integrated with the transistor, so as to form a memory cell. Aspects of the disclosure include process steps for forming the transistor and the capacitor, including a first metal part of a capacitor, a second metal part of a capacitor and an electrically insulating layer disposed between the two. The transistor and the capacitor also include an electrical contact between them and a layer that insulates the transistor from the base layer or the underlying substrate.
US12114478B2
A method for preparing a semiconductor structure includes: providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a groove in the semiconductor substrate; forming a first insulation layer, the first insulation layer at least covering an inner wall of the groove; forming a channel layer, the channel layer at least covering an inner wall of the first insulation layer; forming a second insulation layer, the second insulation layer at least covering an inner wall of the channel layer; filling the groove with a word line structure; removing part of the semiconductor substrate, part of the first insulation layer, and part of the channel layer, and forming a recess region in an outer side wall of the second insulation layer; and forming a source-drain in the recess region, the source-drain being electrically connected with the channel layer.
US12114475B2
An integrated circuit device includes a substrate including active regions, a direct contact electrically connected to a first active region selected from the active regions, a buried contact plug electrically connected to a second active region selected from the active regions, the second active region adjacent to the first active region in a first horizontal direction, and including a conductive semiconductor layer, a bit line extending on the substrate in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction and electrically connected to the direct contact, a conductive landing pad extending toward the buried contact plug in a vertical direction, having a sidewall facing the bit line in the first horizontal direction, and including a metal, and an outer insulating spacer between the bit line and the conductive landing pad, in contact with the sidewall of the conductive landing pad, and spaced apart from the buried contact plug.
US12114473B2
Semiconductor devices are provided. A write port circuit is configured to perform a write function according to the write word line and the first and second write bit lines. The first read port circuit is configured to perform first read function according to the first read bit line and the first read word line. The second read port circuit is configured to perform second read function according to the second read bit line and the second read word line. The transistors of the first and second read port circuits share a first active structure extending in the first direction. The first read bit line and the second read bit line extend in the first direction in a first metallization layer, and the first write bit line and the second write bit line extend in the first direction in a second metallization layer over the first metallization layer.
US12114470B2
The present application discloses a power cabinet, which is designed as a form of cabinet. All devices in the power cabinet are categorized into two types, and the two types of devices can have their own heat-dissipation channels or share a same heat-dissipation channel, which has a compact overall structure and high heat-dissipation efficiency compared with an air duct layout solution in the conventional technology.
US12114462B2
Various types of electronic devices may be mounted in a chassis in order to facilitate interfacing with the devices, containing the devices, provide cooling systems which may remove heat from the electronic devices, etc. Delivering adequate cooling air flow to each electronic device in a chassis may be an important issue for the proper functioning, lifetime, or other characteristics of electronic devices contained in a chassis. Some electronic devices may be particularly challenging to cool due to various design characteristics. Other electronic devices may have other requirements that are not well served by existing chassis designs. For example, some electronic devices may benefit from additional electrical and/or thermal connections. Embodiments presented herein describe a novel design for a modular card cage accessory that may be configured to modify air flow and/or to meet particular requirements of an electronic device in a chassis, among various possibilities.
US12114460B2
The present disclosure provides an outdoor electronic device including a shell, electronic assemblies, a rod body and a blower fan. The electronic assemblies are arranged in the shell. The rod body is of a hollow structure and includes a first end and a second end which are reversely arranged; and the first end is connected to the shell. At least one part of the blower fan is arranged on the rod body and includes an air inlet port and an air outlet port. The air inlet port extends to a position close to the electronic assemblies in the shell. The air outlet port is positioned in the rod body and is closer to the second end than the air inlet port.
US12114452B2
A display panel can prevent a Greenish phenomenon by preventing a shift phenomenon of a transistor inside a display layer, by applying a permittivity reduction processing on a component disposed upon a panel layer. The display panel can include a cover window, an adhesive layer disposed below the cover window, a polarizer disposed below the adhesive layer, and the panel layer disposed below the polarizer. Further, at least one among the cover window, the adhesive layer and the polarizer can be applied with a permittivity reduction processing.
US12114445B2
Disclosed is a display device. The display device of the present disclosure includes: a display panel; a module cover disposed at a rear of the display panel; a back cover disposed at the rear of the module cover and coupled to the module cover; a board coupled to the module cover at a position between the module cover and the back cover, and having a plurality of input/output units; and a bracket adjacent to the plurality of input/output units and covering a portion of the board, wherein an end of the back cover is adjacent to the bracket.
US12114436B2
A composite circuit board includes a flexible board, rigid boards, adhesive layers, and protection glue; the adhesive layers are sandwiched between the rigid boards and the flexible board and used for bonding the rigid boards and the flexible board; the rigid boards are provided with step slots passing through the rigid boards; the adhesive layers are provided with through slots passing through the adhesive layers; the step slots and the through slots are communicated with each other to form a thinning recess; the thinning recess exposes the flexible board; and the protection glue covers steps of the thinning recess and at least a portion of the exposed area of the flexible board.
US12114421B2
A wireless earphone incorporates a wire antenna having a form factor driven innovative antenna shape that minimizes antenna detuning caused by user interactions with the earphones. The wire shape, diameter, and distance of the wire antenna from the printed circuit board (PCB) are selected for an acceptable tradeoff between antenna bandwidth and radiated efficiency. By inserting an end through a through-hole of the PCB, the wire antenna is electrically connected to a multi-layer PCB without traditional approaches such as springs, pogo pins, and the like. An antenna holder further secures the antenna within a thin profile housing for precise placement and manufacturing consistency. A PCB-specific RF VIA geometry is also utilized for partial impedance matching of a transmission line to the wire antenna. In addition, a more constant impedance is maintained along the transmission line connecting a radio device with the wire antenna.
US12114417B2
A heat radiating substrate (10) includes an insulating layer (11) and a circuit pattern (20) of a metal formed on the insulating layer (11) in direct contact with the insulating layer (11), in which a side surface (that is, metal layer side surface (23)) of the circuit pattern (20) has a region in which an angle θ formed by a surface (insulating layer upper surface (11a)) of the insulating layer (11) (insulating substrate) and a tangential line L at a middle portion (X1) in a height direction in a cross-sectional view perpendicular to an extending direction of the metal is 80 degrees or more and 100 degrees or less.
US12114399B2
A communication system includes a first inference server that obtains subset of information from a connectivity enhanced database of a central cloud server based on a geographical zone served by the first inference server. The first inference server receives a real-time or a near real-time request from a road-side unit (RSU) device within the geographical zone, where the request includes input features corresponding to sensing information from a vehicle. Based on the sensing information, the first inference server further causes a first edge device on the vehicle to connect to the RSU device to perform uplink and downlink communication with high throughput without any interruptions. Further, the first inference server obtains updated sensing information from the first edge device and communicates updated initial access information to the first edge device directly or via the RSU device to maintain a connectivity of the first edge device to a base station.
US12114392B2
A wireless device, a network node, a core node and methods therein, for managing reachability of the wireless device. The wireless device starts an AS (Access Stratum) reachable timer when entering an inactive state. If the AS reachable timer expires while still in the inactive state, the wireless device sends to the network node a reachable notification indicating that the wireless device is reachable. If entering a connected state before the AS reachable timer expires, the wireless device stops the AS reachable timer when changing from the inactive state to a connected state. If the core node receives from the network node a not reachable notification indicating that the wireless device is not reachable, the wireless device can be marked as not reachable via paging.
US12114390B2
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) for wireless communication is provided. The method includes initiating a random access (RA)-based small data transmission (SDT) procedure while the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state; starting a timer while the UE is in the RRC inactive state after initiating the RA-based SDT procedure; initiating an RA procedure; determining whether an RA problem associated with the RA procedure has occurred while the timer is running; and in response to determining that the RA problem of the RA procedure has occurred while the timer is running, transitioning from the RRC inactive state to an RRC idle state.
US12114363B2
Embodiments include methods for user equipment (UE) random access to a cell in a wireless network. Such methods include selecting one of a plurality of available random-access preambles and mapping the selected random-access preamble to one of a plurality of available physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource units (PRUs) based on a mapping constraint. In the mapping constraint, one or more of the available PRUs are not used for the mapping and an integer number of the available random-access preambles are mapped to each of the available PRUs that are used for the mapping. Such methods also include transmitting the selected random-access preamble on a random access channel (RACH) and transmitting a data message on the PRU mapped to the selected random-access preamble. Other embodiments include complementary methods for a network node, as well as UEs and network nodes configured to perform such methods.
US12114344B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a data transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first downlink information and second downlink information transmitted by a network device, the first downlink information having a time domain position earlier than a time domain position of the second downlink information, and first uplink information corresponding to the first downlink information having a time domain position later than a time domain position of second uplink information corresponding to the second downlink information; and determining, by the terminal device, to process first data corresponding to the first downlink information and/or second data corresponding to the second downlink information, and transmitting the first uplink information and/or the second uplink information to the network device based on a result of the processing.
US12114338B2
A dynamic channel assignment method includes receiving, at a ground control station (GCS), assignment of a first communication channel set from a spectrum authority before takeoff of the unmanned aircraft; receiving, at the GCS, assignment of a second communication channel set when the unmanned aircraft is to move from a first area using the first communication channel set to a second area using the second communication channel set due to a flight plan of the unmanned aircraft after takeoff of the unmanned aircraft; and after the unmanned aircraft enters the second area, maintaining, at the GCS, the first communication channel set when the unmanned aircraft reenters the first area due to the flight plan, and returning, at the GCS, the first communication channel set to the spectrum authority when the unmanned aircraft does not reenter the first area due to the flight plan.
US12114337B2
An aspect of the present disclosure provides a method of a user device in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, on one bandwidth part (BWP) among multiple BWPs, multiple discovery signals; on the basis of a delay spread value of each of the multiple discovery signals, transmitting, on the one BWP, allocation information of BWPs remaining after excluding the one BWP among the multiple BWPs; and receiving, on the remaining BWPs, multiple sidelink control signals and data signals, wherein it is configured that only an extended CP is to be used on the one BWP, and only a normal CP is to be used on the remaining BWPs. The user device is an autonomous driving vehicle or is included in an autonomous driving vehicle.
US12114334B1
A method and apparatus for layer 2 mobility is provided. Method for lower layer mobility includes transmitting the UECapabilityInformation to the base station, receiving a RRCReconfigruation from the base station, receiving a PDCCH order from the base station and transmitting a preamble to the base station based on the PDCCH order. The RRCReconfiguration includes a UE specific search space configuration information for type1 PDCCH order monitoring and a first RNTI for type1 PDCCH order monitoring and common search space identifier for type2 PDCCH order monitoring and a second RNTI for type2 PDCCH order monitoring. The RRCReconfiguration includes one or more inner RRCReconfiguration and associated mobility group identifier.
US12114328B2
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 a long term evolution (LTE). A method for communication by a base station is provided. The method includes transmitting a scheduling assignment including a first part of a destination identifier (ID), and transmitting a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) including a MAC header including a user equipment (UE) ID and a second part of the destination ID.
US12114321B2
Systems, devices, and techniques for preemption indication in wireless communication systems are described. A described technique includes receiving, by a User Equipment (UE) via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), a downlink control information (DCI) message in a Control Resource Set (CORESET) configured with a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state, the TCI state being associated with a transmission reception point (TRP), the DCI message comprising a downlink preemption indication for the TCI state; and applying preemption to a reference signal or a channel associated with the TCI state responsive to the downlink preemption indication.
US12114314B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and device for use in wireless communication nodes. A first node firstly receives a first signaling and then transmits a first radio signal and first information in a first time-frequency resource set; the first signaling is used to determine the first time-frequency resource set, and the first signaling comprises a first field, the first field being used to determine a first parameter set out of K1 parameter sets, the first parameter set comprising K2 first-type parameters, at least one of the K2 first-type parameters is used to determine a first integer, and a number of REs occupied by the first information in the first time-frequency resource set is equal to the first integer; the K1 parameter sets are related to a first condition set. The present disclosure helps improve UCI transmission performance, thus avoiding excessive uplink data resources occupied by UCI.
US12114311B2
A terminal with which it is possible to appropriately transmit uplink control information. In a terminal (200), a reception unit (202) receives first control information relating to an uplink data channel, and a second control information relating to an uplink control channel for transmitting uplink control information. The first control information includes first indication information indicating the presence or absence of an uplink data transmission and second indication information indicating the presence or absence a channel state information transmission. A transmission unit (220) transmits uplink control information using the resource of the uplink data channel when the first indication information indicates that there is no uplink data transmission and the second indication information indicates that there is no channel state information transmission.
US12114301B2
A method, system, and computer program product for transmission of data in a wireless communications system. A first downlink data is transmitted to a user equipment using a first downlink frequency. A first uplink data is received from the user equipment utilizing a first uplink frequency. A second downlink data is transmitted to the user equipment using a second downlink frequency. A second uplink data is received using the first uplink frequency.
US12114298B2
Wireless communication under IEEE 802.11 standards utilizing carrier specific interference mitigation where an AP or UE employs an ultra-wideband tuner to evaluate available spectrum between several communication bands. Rather than being constrained to communicate in a single communication band, the AP and UEs may utilize more than one communication band to communicate with one another. In doing so, the AP and UE search across several bands and measure interference on a carrier-by-carrier basis across those bands. Either of the AP and UE may select a cluster of carriers for communication, where the cluster of carriers may comprise 1) contiguous carriers in a single sub-channel, 2) contiguous carriers spanning across more than one sub-channel, 3) discontinuous carriers in a single sub-channel, or 4) discontinuous carriers spanning across more than one sub-channel. The mapping between a cluster and its carriers can be fixed or reconfigurable.
US12114293B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices that are associated with downlink (DL) control, grant free (GF) transmission, or initial access. Particularly, disclosed herein are multi beam physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmission mechanisms, grant free transmissions mechanisms, demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for physical broadcast channel (PBCH) mechanisms, and DMRS sequence design for new radio-channel state information-reference signal (NR-CSI-RS) and new radio-physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) (NR-PDSCH), among other things.
US12114289B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may select a sidelink resource for inter-UE coordination signaling with a second UE. The UE may transmit, using the sidelink resource, an inter-UE coordination signal from the first UE to the second UE via a sidelink interface. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12114286B2
The present subject matter refers targeting paging reduction to improve upon power consumption performance for the user equipment in wireless networks. The methods and systems are disclosed where indication signal is applied for idle/inactive mode UEs. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, an indication signal is introduced for idle/inactive mode UEs for paging reception. In another embodiment, the group of UEs may be divided into plurality of paging sub-groups of UEs having common paging occasion and each paging sub-group be assigned a paging sub-group ID. This paging sub-group ID may be incorporated in the indicating signal to reduce paging reception. The indicating signal may indicate presence or absence of paging DCI for a UE/or a paging sub-group identity of UE/UEs.
US12114283B2
Methods and techniques are described for supporting location services for a user equipment (UE) that is using Narrowband Internet of Things radio access or Cellular Internet of Things features to access a wireless network. The techniques include enabling support for a last known location of a UE, using previously obtained location measurements, when a UE is not reachable from a wireless network for positioning. The techniques also include limiting positioning protocol interaction between a UE and a location server via a reduced maximum message size, reduced message volume and longer response and retransmission timers. The techniques further include enabling a UE to obtain location measurements when not connected to a wireless network, enabling periodic and triggered location of a UE in which a UE evaluates location triggers while not connected to a wireless network, enabling use of deferred location and enabling improved location security.
US12114280B2
A timing control method performed by a terminal included in a communication network may include: configuring an initial timing reference based on time information obtained from the communication network; receiving a first downlink (DL) signal from a base station; based on the initial timing reference and the first DL signal, obtaining first transmission time information that is information on a timing when the first DL signal is transmitted by the base station and first reception time information that is information on a timing when the first DL signal is received by the terminal; determining a first timing advance (TA) value based on comparison between the first reception time information and the first transmission time information; and adjusting an uplink (UL) transmission timing for the base station based on the first TA value.
US12114276B2
A computer-assisted method for monitoring a first time base of a first communication device and a second time base of a second communication device. First, Cristian's algorithm is used to calculate time offset intervals between the time bases. Second, the maximally possible drift of the time offset is ascertained multiple times for two measurement steps. A minimally possible drift is ascertained from the upper limit of the time offset interval for the previous measurement step and the lower limit of the time offset interval for the subsequent measurement step. The upper and lower limits of a drift interval are calculated from the maximally and minimally possible drifts. Third, the lowest upper limit is defined as the upper limit of a resulting drift interval, and the highest lower limit is defined as the lower limit of the resulting drift interval with narrow limits for the relative drift.
US12114269B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) is configured to set a transmission power for an uplink communication based, at least in part, on a downlink communication. The UE is further configured to perform the uplink communication based, at least in part, on the set transmission power while concurrently performing the downlink communication. For example, in some aspects, the transmission power for the uplink communication may be set based on the type of downlink communication or based on one or more parameters associated with the downlink communication. In additional aspects, an algorithm may be used to set the transmission power for the uplink communication.
US12114268B2
A device including a host logic and a wireless controller. The wireless controller includes a transceiver and a scheduler. The scheduler is configured to determine a first device and a second device to cluster together. Further, upon occurrence of a communication event, the scheduler is configured to wakeup the transceiver for a period of time for the transceiver to exchange packets with the first and second devices, exchange a packet with the first device, exchange a packet with the second device, and power down the transceiver.
US12114253B2
Techniques for implementing a network slice selection function are described. In one example aspect, a network slice instance request message is received for a user device. In response, the network slice selection function transmits a response message that includes information about allowed network slice instances for the user device. The allowed network slice instances include network slice instances that are available in the registration area of the user device.
US12114241B2
A display control ECU includes an information acquisition section and a display control section. The information acquisition section acquires information relating to a peripheral target object that is present ahead of the vehicle and in a subject vehicle lane in which the vehicle is currently traveling, and information relating to an object requiring caution that is present outside of the subject vehicle lane and having implications for control during the autonomous driving. The display control section displays an image of the peripheral target object, regarding which information has been acquired by the information acquisition section on a heads-up display provided inside a cabin of the vehicle, and additionally displays on the heads-up display an image of the object requiring caution in a case in which information relating to the object requiring caution has been acquired by the information acquisition section.
US12114240B2
A controller (1) for performing presence detection with a first sensor system (41,42) and a second sensor system (31-37) is configured to receive sensor signals from the first sensor system and/or the second sensor system. The second sensor system is of a different type than the first sensor system. The controller is further configured to determine which first one or more areas of the plurality of areas are in both the sensor range of the first sensor system and the sensor range of the second sensor system based on the sensor signals and control the second sensor system to perform, with respect to the first one or more areas, a second task other than a first task to be performed by the first sensor system. The first task comprises obtaining sensor data to be used for presence detection in the first one or more areas.
US12114236B2
In some embodiments, the present invention provides for a computer system which includes at least the following components: a plurality of computing devices associated with a plurality of users associated with a plurality of users; where each computing device of the plurality of computing devices is configured to: electronically receive software which, when being executed, cause such computing device to display a plurality of instances of a specifically programmed graphical user interface (GUI); where each instance of the GUI is configured to display a real-time updatable meeting information representative of a direct electronic proximity-based communication between at least two computing devices associated with at least two users who desire to meet at a particular location to engage in a transaction of at least one good, at least one service, or both, whose marketable value lasts for a period of 30 seconds to 60 minutes.
US12114233B2
Techniques are discussed herein for providing notification messages to a user are provided. An example method of sending an alert message includes receiving a notification from an alerting device, determining a notification recipient associated with the alerting device, determining a location and one or more notification preferences associated with the notification recipient, determining a notification device based on the location and the one or more notification preferences, and sending the alert message to the notification device, wherein the alert message includes an indication of at least one notification preference and the alerting device.
US12114232B2
Techniques for calculating a location of a position consumer device is disclosed. In one example, a network server may create a fingerprint map from reference data points. Each of the reference data points may include a recorded geo-location of a position source device and signal measurements taken at that recorded geo-location. By initially estimating an initial position of the position consumer device, the network server may apply one or more threshold values to filter reference data points—candidates for interpolation. The network server may then perform an interpolation on one or more pairs of reference data points to find a pair of reference data points that is collinear with the estimated position of the position consumer device. The location of the position consumer device may then be calculated based upon geo-locations of position source devices that are associated with collinear reference data points.
US12114228B2
Methods, systems, and mobile devices for providing users with social media-related information about other users based on the relative geographic locations of the users.
US12114217B2
A data forwarding method and device, a master base station and a slave base station are provided. The data forwarding method includes: after receiving a handover request message sent by a second master base station, if it is determined that a slave base station node is newly added, a service data adaptation protocol (SDAP) layer of a part of flows of a preset protocol data unit (PDU) session is configured at a master base station node, and an SDAP layer of the rest part of flows of the preset PDU is configured at the newly added slave base station node, sending a handover request response message carrying first preset information to a second master base station. The first preset information includes: first identity identifications of all flows configured for the first master base station and data forwarding addresses corresponding to the first identity identifications, and second identity identifications of all flows configured for the newly added first slave base station and data forwarding addresses corresponding to the second identity identifications.
US12114215B2
A terminal device reports a measurement capability to a network side, and the network side determines, based on the capability of the terminal device and a trigger condition, whether a measurement gap needs to be allocated to the terminal device, where the measurement gap is used by the terminal device to measure an inter-frequency or inter-RAT cell. When the network side allocates the measurement gap to the terminal device, and when the terminal device determines that an objective of not allocating a gap can be achieved by de-configuring a secondary cell or reducing a data receiving rule of a currently camped-on cell. When an inter-frequency or inter-RAT cell is measured by de-configuring the secondary cell or reducing the data receiving rule of the currently camped-on cell, a cell measurement task can be completed.
US12114206B2
This terminal is provided with: a reception unit for receiving control information concerning uplink transmission, which is common to a terminal group; and a control unit for controlling at least one of the uplink transmission and reception from another terminal which performs the uplink transmission, on the basis of the control information.
US12114196B1
A method for a Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU). The method including receiving from a network configuration information indicating multiple frequency layers for positioning reference signals; and at least one activated frequency layer from among the multiple frequency layers. The frequency layers may be associated with one or more carriers for data transmission, wherein the carrier is co-located with its associated frequency layer for positioning; and bandwidth parts (BWPs) within carriers for data transmission. The WTRU may receive from the network activation/deactivation information indicating activation/deactivation of any of a secondary cell (SCell) and a BWP. The WTRU may transmit information indicating, for example, a set of frequency layers used for positioning, wherein the set of frequency layers is enabled according to any of an accuracy requirement, a latency, a measured RSRP of one frequency layer, and a measured CSI-RS corresponding to BWPs being a threshold.
US12114195B2
A communications method and apparatus are provided. The terminal device performs measurement on a first secondary component carrier (SCC), wherein the terminal device is capable of measuring, on the first SCC, at least six cells and 24 synchronization signal blocks (SSBs), the 24 SSBs have different physical cell identifiers and/or time indexes, the physical cell identifiers are used to identify different physical cells, and the time indexes are used to identify different SSBs; wherein the first SCC is configured to report an SSB-based measurement result.
US12114188B2
Example implementations relate to determining router and computing device performance. An example non-transitory machine-readable medium can include instructions executable by a processor to capture, from an agent device on a computing device of a network, computing device data and network connectivity data associated with the computing device and filter data associated with connectivity to non-WiFi networks from the captured computing device data and network connectivity data. The instructions can be executable to filter out-of-network data from the captured computing device data and network connectivity data, correlate the filtered data with wireless router performance data, and determine router and computing device performances based on the correlation.
US12114186B2
A channel monitoring method and a device are described. The method includes: monitoring, by a terminal device, a first signal on n transmission occasions in a monitoring periodicity; and when the terminal device detects the first signal on at least one of the n transmission occasions, monitoring, by the terminal device, a downlink control channel and/or a second signal in a first time period in the monitoring periodicity; or when the terminal device does not detect the first signal on the n transmission occasions, skipping, by the terminal device, monitoring a downlink control channel in the monitoring periodicity.
US12114179B2
An approach is provided for providing a wireless data connection to a vehicle. In some aspects, the approach includes receiving vehicle cluster information that is based at least in part on location information of each vehicle in a vehicle cluster traveling on a road link. The approach also includes determining one or more parameters for at least one antenna beam based on the vehicle cluster information, wherein the at least one antenna beam is configured to sufficiently cover the vehicle cluster. The approach further includes controlling the at least one antenna beam to track the vehicle cluster along the road link.
US12114176B2
Provided are: an extraction unit that, based on input information from an external source, extracts position information regarding a transmitting station and a receiving station and the frequency of radio waves transmitted by the transmitting station; a calculation unit that calculates the three-dimensional distance between the transmitting station and the receiving station and the free space loss of radio waves based on the position information and the frequency; a processing unit that performs processing for, with use of a two-dimensional image of a region that includes the transmitting station and the receiving station, extracting the edges of structures that reflect radio waves in the two-dimensional image; a generation unit that generates input data for use in machine learning, based on the position information, the three-dimensional distance, the free space loss, and the edge; and a learning unit that performs machine learning to estimate the propagation characteristics of radio waves between the transmitting station and the receiving station with use of the input data generated by the generation unit.
US12114162B2
This disclosure introduces methods and mechanisms of integrity protection in 4G and 5G system, especially in the context of Dual Connectivity (DC) involving both 4G and 5G base stations.
US12114154B2
Embodiments provide a communication method and a related product. The method includes: After primary authentication between a core network and a user equipment succeeds, a network function entity in the core network assists a data network in performing secondary authentication between the data network and the user equipment if the secondary authentication further needs to be performed between the data network and the user equipment; the network function entity obtains an authentication result of the secondary authentication and a restriction condition of the secondary authentication from the data network; and the network function entity stores the authentication result and the restriction condition into the core network. The restriction condition may be introduced for the secondary authentication, to make it possible that the authentication result is properly restricted for use, and to lay a foundation for effective management of the authentication result of the secondary authentication.
US12114150B2
Briefly, example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be utilized to bring about accessing a data store to determine that signal packets have been received, via an electronic communications network, from a communications device that is to be verified. The communications device being co-located with a real-world identity. The method may additionally include electronically determining that a subscriber account identifier or a subscriber-unique alias is bound to an account held by the real-world identity and electronically tying the subscriber account identifier or the subscriber-unique alias to the real-world identity in response to electronically verifying the communications device after determining that the signal packets have been received from the communications device and in response to electronically determining that the subscriber account identifier or the subscriber-unique alias is bound to the account held by the real-world identity.
US12114143B2
The present disclosure provides a reinforcing part for a speaker diaphragm, the reinforcing part being an overlapped multilayer structure, the reinforcing part includes a heat dissipation layer as well as a first support layer and a second support layer that are fixed and bonded on surfaces of two sides of the heat dissipation layer respectively, and the first support layer and the second support layer each includes through holes penetrating the surfaces of two sides thereof, and the reinforcing part further includes fillers located within the through holes and configured for heat conduction, the fillers having thermal conductivity higher than that of the support layers.
US12114136B2
A method and apparatus are provided for generating a directional output signal from sound received by at least two microphones arranged as microphone array. The method includes transforming the sound received by each of said microphones and represented by analog-to-digital converted time-domain signals provided by each of said microphones into corresponding complex-valued frequency-domain microphone signals each having a frequency component value for each of a plurality of frequency components, and calculating, for each of the plurality of frequency components of the complex-valued frequency-domain microphone signal of at least one of said microphones, a respective tolerance compensated frequency component value by multiplying the frequency component value of the complex-valued frequency-domain microphone signal of said microphone with a frequency-specific real-valued correction factor.
US12114133B2
A hearing aid adapted for being worn by a user at or in an ear of the user comprises a) at least one input transducer for converting sound in an environment around the user to at least one electric input signal representing said sound; b) an output transducer for converting a processed output signal provided in dependence of said at least one electric input signal to stimuli perceivable to the user as sound; c) a feedback control system comprising an adaptive filer, the feedback control system being configured to provide an adaptively determined estimate (h*(n)) of a current feedback path (h(n)) from said output transducer to said at least one input transducer in dependence of c1) said at least one electric input signal, c2) said processed output signal, and c3) an adaptive algorithm. The hearing aid further comprises d) a database comprising a multitude (M) of previously determined candidate feedback paths (hm); and e) a controller configured to identify a change in the current feedback path (h(n)) based on the adaptively determined estimate (h*(n)) of the current feedback path and at least one of said multitude of previously determined candidate feedback paths (hm). A method of operating a hearing aid is further disclosed. The invention may e.g. be used in hearing aids, e.g. binaural hearing aid systems or headsets, or speakerphones, or combinations thereof.
US12114132B2
An ear-worn electronic system comprise a plurality of discrete devices configured for deployment at one ear of a wearer. The system comprises a first device configured for placement at least partially within an ear canal of the wearer. The first device comprises at least a first processor, one or more first microphones, a first speaker, a first rechargeable battery, and first charging circuitry. The system comprises a second device configured for placement at the wearer's ear proximal of the first device in an outer ear direction. The second device comprises at least a second processor, a second rechargeable battery, and second charging circuitry. The first device is configured to operate autonomously when operating in an independent mode relative to the second device. The first and second devices are configured to operate cooperatively when operating in a communicatively coupled mode.
US12114127B2
A portable electronic device comprising: an enclosure having an enclosure wall that forms an interior chamber and a sound output port to an ambient environment; a transducer positioned within the interior chamber and dividing the interior chamber into a front volume chamber coupling a first side of the transducer to the sound output port and a back volume chamber coupled to a second side of the transducer; and an electromechanical valve comprising a number of flaps operable to open and close a vent to the interior chamber, the front volume chamber or the back volume chamber.
US12114125B2
A noise cancellation processing method, device and apparatus are provided. The noise cancellation processing method includes: collecting first voice data in a surrounding environment by using a noise-cancelling earphone in response to detecting that the noise-cancelling earphone is in a wearing state and a noise cancellation mode is enabled; extracting to-be-recognized voiceprint feature information according to the first voice data; identifying similarities between registered voiceprint feature information stored in a registered voiceprint database and the to-be-recognized voiceprint feature information entry by entry; and in response to at least one of the similarities being greater than a first preset threshold, performing a preset action in the noise-cancelling earphone.
US12114122B2
A wireless earphone, a wireless earphone box, and a wireless earphone device. The wireless earphone includes a first body and a second body. A first end face of the first body is provided with a first magnetic member. A second end face of the second body is provided with a second magnetic member. An outer surface of the second body is provided with a third contact. The second body includes a first battery. The third contact is energized to cause the first body and the second body to be in a connected state or separated state.
US12114110B2
Processing raw image data in a camera includes computing a luminance image from the raw image data, and computing a chrominance image corresponding to at least one of the sensor's image colors from the raw image data. The luminance image and chrominance image(s) can represent the same range of colors able to be represented in the raw image data. The chrominance image can have a lower resolution than that of the luminance image. A camera for performing the method is also disclosed.
US12114102B2
Systems and methods for automatically capturing visual data of a seed placed by a seed planting machine (e.g., a crop row planter). An electronic controller is configured to receive a signal indicative of a seed being dispensed by the seed planting machine and to trigger a camera to capture an image of the dispensed seed in response to a determination, based on the signal, that the seed has been dispensed by the seed planting machine. In some implementations, the system includes a seed sensor configured to detect a seed moving through a seed tube that dispensed seeds from the seed planting machine. In other implementations, the system is configured to detect a new seed being dispensed by the seed planting machine by analyzing image data captured by a camera.
US12114099B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for providing dynamic camera views in a virtual environment. The system may provide a video conference session in a virtual environment. The system may provide a plurality of individual virtual cameras for capturing individual video streams of one or more 3D avatars and an environment virtual camera for capturing an environment video stream. The system may display the individual video streams and environment video stream in a video conference application.
US12114097B2
In aspects of personal content managed during extended display screen recording, a screen recording system includes a wireless device that provides digital image content for display on an extended display device, and a screen recording session on the wireless device captures the digital image content and audio data. The wireless device implements a content control module that can determine the screen recording session would capture personal content associated with a user of the wireless device. The content control module can initiate a private screen review mode in which the personal content is displayable on a display screen of the wireless device and is prevented from visual display on the extended display device. The content control module can also generate a shareable screen recording that includes the audio data and the digital image content displayed on the extended display device, without including the personal content.
US12114088B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels in a two-dimensional array. Each pixel includes a photoelectric conversion element that converts incident light into electric charge, and a charge holding element that receives the electric charge from the photoelectric conversion element, and transfers the electric charge to a corresponding floating diffusion. The charge holding element further includes a plurality of electrodes.
US12114078B2
The present disclosure relates to a low-light autofocus technique. One example embodiment includes a method. The method includes receiving an indication of a low-light condition for a camera system. The method also includes determining an extended exposure time for a low-light autofocus procedure of the camera system. Further, the method includes capturing, by the camera system, an extended frame for the low-light autofocus procedure. The extended frame is captured by die camera system using the determined extended exposure time. In addition, the method includes determining, based on the captured extended frame, an in-focus lens setting for a lens of the camera system.
US12114076B2
There is provided techniques for setting frame rates of a camera. The camera comprises a plurality of image sensors arranged to capture images to be stitched into a panorama image of a scene. Information of a respective angle between the optical axis of each of the plurality of image sensors and a direction along which a straight path structure, to be monitored by the camera, extends through the scene is obtained. The plurality of image sensors are divided into at least two groups as a function of the angles. All the angles of the image sensors within each of the at least two groups are part of its own continuous angle interval. One frame rate is set per each of the at least two groups. The frame rate decreases from the group with highest continuous angle interval towards the group with lowest continuous angle interval.
US12114075B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for selection of an object to follow during a video call. In various examples, a first frame of image data may be received from a camera. First image data representing a first person and second image data representing a second person may be determined. A first priority level may be determined for the first person at a first time. A second priority level for the second person may be determined at the first time. The camera may be controlled to follow the first person based at least in part on the first priority level and the second priority level.
US12114074B2
Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a bobbin having a lens barrel, a housing configured to accommodate the bobbin, an upper elastic member coupled to the bobbin and the housing, a lower elastic member coupled to the bobbin and the housing, a first coil disposed on the bobbin, a first magnet disposed on the housing, a circuit board disposed below the housing, a second coil disposed on the circuit board, a first sensor to output a first output signal based on a sensed result of a magnetic field strength of the first magnet, a first capacitor connected in parallel to the first sensor.
US12114072B2
An electronic device includes a device housing supporting a user interface, one or more touch sensors, and at least one image capture device. One or more processors cause, in response to the user interface receiving user input initiating a video capture operation, the at least one image capture device to capture a plurality of video frames. The plurality of video frames are processed with a first video stabilization operation when the electronic device is supported by a multi-handed touch input and a second video stabilization operation when the electronic device is supported by a single-handed touch input. The first video stabilization operation crops less of each image than the second video stabilization operation since the electronic device is likely more stable when supported by the multi-handed touch input.
US12114071B2
An image processing apparatus includes a reception unit that receives an image signal acquired by an image sensor, an acceptance unit that accepts operation input made by a user for driving a device carrying the image sensor, a calculation unit that calculates a movement amount of the image sensor in an entire angle of view according to the image signal and the operation input, and a correction processing unit that performs a correction process for an image constructed from the image signal, according to the movement amount.
US12114070B2
An image pickup apparatus includes a sensor configured to pick up a plurality of images different in in-focus position in an optical axis direction, an adjustment unit configured to adjust a parameter relating to image pickup to correct influence caused by an effective F-number varied depending on an in-focus position when at least a part of the plurality of images is picked up, and a synthesis unit configured to synthesize the plurality of images.
US12114064B2
An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging element including a pixel array, a drive circuit of the pixel array, and a signal processing circuit as defined herein; a power supply; a power supply control circuit that controls electric power supplied to the imaging element from the power supply; and a processor, and the processor is configured to control the power supply control circuit to stop the supply of electric power to a part of circuits of the imaging element from the power supply at a first timing after completion of the readout of the signal, to resume the supply of electric power to the part of the circuits at a third timing before a second timing that is a start timing of the readout of the signal from the pixel array performed after the first timing, and to variably control an interval between the second timing and the third timing.
US12114061B2
A video processing method and an electronic device are provided. Includes: displaying a first interface, the first interface includes a first control and a first area, the first area displays a thumbnail of a first photo and a thumbnail of a second photo, the first photo is automatically taken at a first moment, the second photo is automatically taken at a second moment, the first video clip is a first scene, the second video clip is a second scene, the first photo is a photo in the first video clip, the second photo is a photo in the second video clip, a score of the first photo is greater than a first threshold, a score of the second photo is greater than a second threshold; displaying a second interface in response to a second operation with respect to the first control.
US12114058B2
An accessory apparatus is removably attached between an image capturing apparatus and an interchangeable lens. The accessory apparatus performs first communication with the image capturing apparatus and second communication with the interchangeable lens, and accepts a predetermined operation related to a manual focus operation. The accessory apparatus sets a degree to which a drive amount of a focus lens in the interchangeable lens is made effective relative to an operation amount of the first operation unit, and transmits the drive amount or a drive speed of the focus lens in the interchangeable lens to the interchangeable lens through the second communication in accordance with the predetermined operation and the degree set.
US12114046B2
Systems and methods are described for modifying a fast-forwarding speed based on a reaction time of a user when a frame of interest is detected. A media guidance application may receive a command from a user to fast-forward through a media asset and may execute a fast-forwarding operation through frames of the media asset. The media guidance application may detect that the fast-forwarding operation is approaching a frame of interest to the viewer. The media guidance application may reduce the fast-forwarding speed to a second speed slower than the first speed, where the second speed is determined based on an estimated reaction time of the user. The media guidance application may receive a command to resume playback from the user while the fast-forwarding operation is occurring at the second speed and may play back the media asset at a default playback speed from a point corresponding to a moment when the command was received.
US12114036B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for efficient storage and retrieval of content items, such as recorded content items of a cloud DVR system or other system storing content items.
US12114034B2
A remote control system and related method for controlling a video device are presented. The remote control system contains a plurality of buttons arranged in a grid pattern that correspond to user selectable options displayed on a display screen arranged in the same grid pattern. The user selects options on the screen by pressing the corresponding button on the remote control.
US12114032B2
A device communication method applied to a field of communication technologies includes, in a process in which a user uses a mobile phone to assist a large-screen device with input, that another auxiliary device in a same distributed network as the large-screen device and the mobile phone preempts auxiliary input of the mobile phone and further assists, based on input content on the mobile phone, the large-screen device with input.
US12114025B2
At a video content network client, obtain, from a remote targeted feature flag configuration server of the video content network, feature flag overrides associated with the client. Send, from the video content network client, to a remote back-end server of the video content network; the feature flag overrides. At the video content network client, obtain, from the remote back-end server, data to be rendered in accordance with an updated feature flag profile including both default feature flag values and feature flag values overridden in accordance with the feature flag overrides. Render the data on the video content network client.
US12114024B2
A method for streaming videos with internally-variable frame quality is implemented via a computing system including a processor. The method includes accessing a video including and evenly sampling the video frames. The method includes, for each sampled video frame, analyzing the video frame using a CNN model to determine whether the video frame includes high-relevance region(s). The method also includes, for each sampled video frame including high-relevance region(s), extracting coordinates of the high-relevance region(s) using the CNN model, and for each sampled video frame including high-relevance region(s) and each intervening video frame between the sampled video frame and a next sampled video frame, setting a minimum frame quality for the extracted coordinates. The method further includes streaming the video with internally-variable frame quality by buffering the extracted coordinates within the video frames with the minimum frame quality, while buffering remaining coordinates within the video frames with a lower frame quality.
US12114018B2
A device may be configured to decoding capability information according to one or more of the techniques described herein.
US12114013B2
Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes using multiple transforms, are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes making a decision, based on one or more decoded coefficients and in an absence of one or more transform indices, regarding an application of a transform to a current block of a video, and performing, based on the decision, a conversion between the current block and a bitstream representation of the video.
US12114004B2
An encoder includes circuitry and a memory coupled to the circuitry, wherein the circuitry, in operation, performs a partition process. The partition process includes calculating first values of a set of pixels between a first partition and a second partition in a current block, using a first motion vector for the first partition; calculating second values of the set of pixels, using a second motion vector for the second partition; and calculating third values of the set of pixels by weighting the first values and the second values. When a ratio of a width to a height of the current block is larger than 4 or a ratio of the height to the width of the current block is larger than 4, the circuitry disables the partition process.
US12114002B2
Methods, devices, and computer-program products are provided for adding and decoding data to a digital video signal in a visually imperceptible manner. For example, an encoded video frame can be obtained, and one or more blocks of the encoded video frame can be decoded. Binary data can be added to a subset of pixels from a set of pixels of the one or more blocks. For instance, a pixel component can be modulated to add the binary data. The one or more blocks can be re-encoded using at least one coding mode. The re-encoded one or more blocks can be added to the encoded video frame.
US12113998B2
A decoder may receive, for a block, an indication of decoder-side-prediction and a reconstructed residual block from a bit stream. The decoder may generate, for each respective intra prediction mode of a plurality of intra prediction modes, a reconstructed block based on: a prediction block generated for the respective intra prediction mode; and the reconstructed residual block. The decoder may determine a selected prediction mode, from the plurality of intra prediction modes, for the block based on a visual quality of each of the reconstructed blocks. The decoder may decode the block based on the indication of the decoder-side-prediction and the selected prediction mode.
US12113994B2
A video decoder chipset comprises a video decoder function, an upscaler function and a combiner function. The video decoder function is configured to (i) decode encoded video data to generate decoded video data at a first level of quality, the encoded video data having been derived by an encoder using first video data at a second, higher level of quality and (ii) output the decoded video data for storage in a memory. The upscaler function is configured to (i) obtain the decoded video data from the memory and (ii) upscale the obtained decoded video data to generate second video data at the second level of quality. The combiner function is configured to (i) obtain residual data, the residual data having been derived by the encoder based on the first video data and the second video data, (ii) combine the second video data with the residual data to generate enhanced video data, and (iii) output the enhanced video data.
US12113983B2
An inter-frame prediction method based on a merge with motion vector difference (MMVD) mode may include: constructing a first candidate list of a current coding block in the MMVD mode, wherein the first candidate list includes a first preset number of first candidate motion vectors (MVs); determining a second preset number of motion search amplitudes and a third preset number of motion search directions; taking the first candidate MV as a starting point, and searching by different motion combinations of the motion search amplitudes and the motion search directions, to obtain a MV offset of the first candidate MV under the different motion combinations, for each of the first candidate MVs; determining to obtain an optimal MV of the current coding block based on the MV offset of each of the first candidate MVs in the different motion combinations.
US12113972B2
Adaptive resolution change and scalable coding for screen contents are described. One example is a method for video processing, comprising: determining, for a conversion between a picture or a video and a bitstream representation of the picture or the video, whether the picture or the video is native resolution based on an indication included in the bitstream representation; and performing the conversion based on the determination.
US12113971B2
An encoding method comprising the encoding of information allowing the decoder to infer the splitting of CTBs located at the right, respectively the bottom of a subpicture, which width, respectively height, is not a multiple of the size of the CTBs, when the subpicture is not located at the right, respectively the bottom, of the image. Corresponding decoding methods for the generated bitstream are also proposed.
US12113968B2
Provided are a transmission device, a transmission method, and a program capable of performing rate control suitable for an image quality priority image. A basic parameter value decision section (28a) decides, for a frame image that is not an image quality priority image, values of parameters used for encoding an encoding unit that is a part or whole of the frame image, by applying the difference between a control amount and a target value to a predetermined control rule. An image quality priority parameter value decision section (28b) decides, for the frame image that is the image quality priority image, values by which the data size of the generated image data becomes larger than those decided by applying the difference between the control amount and the target value to the predetermined control rule as the values of the parameters used for the encoding unit of the frame image.
US12113966B2
A method of video decoding includes creating a candidate list for a current block in a current picture included in a coded video bitstream. The method further includes determining a coding mode for a candidate block associated with the current block. The method further includes determining whether to add, to the candidate list, a vector associated the candidate block based on the determined coding mode. The method further includes reconstructing the current block using at least one candidate from the candidate list.
US12113965B2
Disclosed is an image decoding method according to an embodiment, the image decoding method including: obtaining a first reference block and a second reference block, for bi-directional prediction of a current block; obtaining, from a bitstream, weight information for combining the first reference block with the second reference block; performing entropy decoding on the weight information to obtain a weight index; combining the first reference block with the second reference block according to a candidate value indicated by the weight index among candidate values included in a weight candidate group; and reconstructing the current block based on a result of the combining, wherein a first binary value corresponding to the weight index is entropy-decoded based on a context model, and the remaining binary value corresponding to the weight index is entropy-decoded by a bypass method.
US12113959B2
Technologies for inter prediction for a block in a video are provided. In one example, a method includes: parsing a bitstream to obtain a syntax element, where the syntax element includes at least an index of optimal candidate motion information of a current block; determining, based on the syntax element, to construct a first list or a second list for the current block, where the first list is a block-based candidate motion information list, and the second list is a subblock-based candidate motion information list; determining optimal motion information from the first list or the second list based on the index; and predicting the current block based on the optimal motion information. In this method, the block-based candidate motion information list and the subblock-based candidate motion information list are distinguished from each other. This effectively reduces transmission costs of the optimal candidate motion information.
US12113950B2
A generation apparatus according to the present invention is a generation apparatus for generating a media file storing virtual viewpoint image data generated based on pieces of image data of an object captured from a plurality of directions with a plurality of cameras, and obtains a virtual viewpoint parameter to be used to generate virtual viewpoint image data. Further, the generation apparatus generates a media file storing the obtained virtual viewpoint parameter and virtual viewpoint image data generated based on the virtual viewpoint parameter. In this way, the generation apparatus can improve usability related to a virtual viewpoint image.
US12113944B2
A medium conveying apparatus includes a conveying roller to convey a medium, a first unit, a second unit located to face the first unit, an imaging sensor provided in the first unit, to image the medium conveyed by the conveying roller, a reference member including a facing surface, and provided in the second unit in such a way that the facing surface is rotatable between a facing position at which the facing surface faces the imaging sensor, and a non-facing position at which the facing surface deviates from the facing position, a guide portion to slidably guide the second unit in a direction perpendicular to a medium conveying surface so that the second unit moves in the direction perpendicular to the medium conveying surface, and a support portion to rotatably support the reference member. The support portion is located inside the guide portion.
US12113943B2
In a reading device part, a scan motor that moves a sensor unit relative to a document is accommodated in an accommodating portion protruding from the bottom surface of the reading device part toward a printing device part. A carriage in the printing device part and the accommodating portion are arranged so as to face each other in a direction crossing the scan direction of the carriage at the same height in the vertical direction. A flexible member connected to the carriage moves and follows the carriage on a lower side relative to the accommodating portion.
US12113942B2
In the case where a voice control device can communicate with a printing apparatus and a display apparatus, a user is provided with visual presentations of notifications on the display apparatus where print processing instructions are provided to the printing apparatus based on user instructions issued to the voice control device by voice.
US12113936B1
A call management system of a call center identifies an inbound caller based upon computer analysis of customer identifiers, which may include at least two of customer name, street address, and zip code. Approximate string matching analysis matches n-grams generated from strings within customer identifiers, with n-grams generated from customer identification fields while searching one or more databases. Approximate string matching can incorporate a closeness metric based on Jaccard distance, and a Gaussian mixture model of best matches. In one embodiment, a Polymr search engine analyzes customer identifiers of inbound callers to retrieve customer data, such as customer demographic data, matched to the customer identifiers. In another embodiment, the Polymr search engine analyzes customer identifiers of inbound callers to identify repeat callers and retrieve previously collected customer data. Retrieved customer data is used in predictive modeling and scoring value of the inbound call, and in routing the scored inbound call.
US12113935B2
An agent queuing system implemented without relying on a private branch exchange. The queuing system can be cloud-based and routes calls to agents, for example, through a first-in/first-out (FIFO) queue. Clients are assigned a unique number that identify one or more queues. When a call is received, a database maintains the unique number that was called and the associated company information is retrieved, along with any queues allocated for their company. A call is placed to the next available agent from the selected queue. A recording is played to the agent identifying the queue the call is arriving from and the agent is prompted to accept the call. If the call is accepted, the agent is taken out of the available agent pool for the duration of the call. The call can be routed without exposing the phone numbers of the caller or agent involved in the call.
US12113929B2
A computer-implemented method for authenticating a source of a telephone call to a recipient of the telephone call may include receiving, prior to receiving the telephone call, a request to input first authentication information. The first authentication information may include a passcode or a selection of a security question. The method may include receiving input of the first authentication information and sending, by the user device, the first authentication information to a computing device associated with the source of the telephone call. The method may include receiving the telephone call from the source and receiving input from the recipient of the telephone call to answer the telephone call. The method may include receiving second authentication information from the computing device, where the second authentication information may include the passcode or an answer to the security question. The method may include outputting the second authentication information.
US12113928B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for the process-efficient generation of data records for data communications involving groups or aggregates of user equipment (UE), such as IoT devices, are described. In one illustrative example, for each one of a plurality of UEs associated with a group or aggregation identifier (ID), a request which includes data indicative of a network resource usage event of the UE is received and the data are stored in association with the group or aggregation ID. In response to identifying a predetermined condition, the data indicative of the network resource usage events associated with the group or aggregation ID are aggregated, and a request for generating a data record based on the aggregated data is sent to a data function for generating the data record. The generated data record (e.g. a CDR) may be stored for subsequent retrieval for reporting, analysis, network/communications management, or billing.
US12113927B2
A multiple dwelling house interphone system includes a collective entrance machine, a dwelling room master device, and a management master device. The collective entrance machine is for calling a visit destination by a visitor. The dwelling room master device is for responding to the call by a dweller. The management master device is for speaking with the dweller by a manager. The management master device includes a speech permissibility storage section and a speech control section. The speech permissibility storage section registers a permissibility of calling and speaking to the dwelling room master device for each dwelling unit. The speech control section controls the calling and speaking. The speech control section does not perform the calling control when a calling operation by the management master device is performed towards the dwelling room master device of a dwelling unit registered as “unpermitted” in the speech permissibility storage section.
US12113924B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for enhanced caller identification (ID) is provided. The present invention may include, receiving, by a receiving party device, a call from a calling party device. The present invention may also include, retrieving, by the receiving party device, a previous interaction information corresponding to a previous interaction between a receiving party associated with the receiving party device and a calling party associated with the calling party device. The present invention may further include, in response to the received call from the calling party device, displaying, on the receiving party device, the retrieved previous interaction information corresponding to the previous interaction between the receiving party and the calling party.
US12113920B2
Electronic devices may be provided with convex displays. A convex display may be used to maximize the internal volume of a device. Convex displays may be formed from one or more flexible layers. A flexible display layer may be mounted to a rigid support structure or a rigid cover layer. Flexible display layers that conform to the curved shape of a rigid structure may provide additional internal volume in which internal components of the device may be positioned.
US12113919B2
A decoration and an electronic device are provided. The decoration includes: a decorative ring and a flexible fixing member, where the flexible fixing member is disposed on an outer surface of the decorative ring, the flexible fixing member extends away from the decorative ring along a radial direction of the decorative ring, and the flexible fixing member is fixedly connected to the decorative ring.
US12113918B2
A system and method for authenticating an authentication requesting device (ARD) is disclosed. The system is configured to provide validation encryptions (VEs) for each given device of devices, each given encryption of the VEs being encrypted using an encryption function (EF) using a derived key (DK) generated from a currently used root key (RK) of the respective given device using a derivation function (DF) designed to generate a different derivation for identical data for each execution; obtain an authentication encryption (AE) generated by the ARD and a timestamp indicative of a time of creation of the AE, the AE being encrypted using the EF using an ARD DK generated from the currently used ARD RK, and wherein the ARD DK is generated using the DF; and authenticating the ARD only if one of the VEs matches the AE and the timestamp is within an allowed time window.
US12113916B2
Methods and apparatus for hardware based file/document expiry timer enforcement is disclosed. An example method includes instructing, by executing an instruction with a processor, a trusted execution environment to generate an encryption key and a certificate for a document, the certificate including expiry information for the document, the certificate associated with identification information of the document, and the expiry information indicative of a time period for which the encryption key is valid to decrypt the document; encrypting, by executing an instruction with the processor, the document using the encryption key; transmitting the certificate to a first remote network storage device; and transmitting the document to a second remote network storage device.
US12113913B2
Systems and methods are provided for interacting with an Application Programming Interface (API) using a digital signature. In one embodiment, a system comprises one or more processors that execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations comprise receiving a digital signature from a requesting device, the digital signature comprising an array of one or more bits, wherein each position in the array is associated with a field in the database and with the data stored in the field of an API; identifying one or more requested fields; accessing the database to retrieve the information associated with the one or more requested fields, the information being associated with at least one API; and providing instructions to the requesting device, based on the retrieved information, causing the requesting application to use the API.
US12113912B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication device for transmitting or receiving a signal, a memory, and a processor connected to the communication device and the memory. The memory may store instructions for controlling the communication device so as to cause the processor to generate a key pair including a public key and a private key, receive authentication information from an authentication server by using the communication device, generate signature data by electronically signing the authentication information on the basis of the private key, generate transaction data including the signature data, transmit the transaction data to a blockchain network, and transmit transaction identification information corresponding to the transaction data to the authentication server.
US12113910B2
A content distribution system includes content receivers that provide a plurality of blockchain databases that store transaction records associated with subscriber requests for content, and a computer system that processes those transaction records and enables authorized content receivers to output requested content.
US12113905B2
System and method for computing cluster seeding and security using kubernetes immutable resource log
A method of reporting differences between a plurality of computing cluster configurations for executing containerized software applications may comprise routinely retrieving, at preset time intervals, cluster configuration files stored at computing clusters for configuring the computing clusters for execution of a containerized software application, receiving a user selection of a first cluster configuration file and a second cluster configuration file within the stored cluster configuration files, and comparing the first cluster configuration file and the second cluster configuration file. The method may also include displaying a difference between the first cluster configuration file and the second cluster configuration file resulting in the first cluster configuration file configuring one or more computing clusters for execution of the containerized software application differently than the second cluster configuration file configures one or more computing clusters for execution of the containerized software application.
US12113899B2
A system and a method for protecting code are provided. Extraction of code to be protected takes place during an object-to-object transformation and that code is replaced with fake binary code. The extracted code to be protected may then be encrypted or otherwise obscured and stored in a separate region of an object file. A prior source-to-source file transformation can be provided to isolate and mark the code to be protected, and to inject additional source code to handle later decryption.
US12113891B2
Methods, systems, and devices for encrypting and decrypting data. In one implementation, an encryption method includes inputting plaintext into a recurrent artificial neural network, identifying topological structures in patterns of activity in the recurrent artificial neural network, wherein the patterns of activity are responsive to the input of the plaintext, representing the identified topological structures in a binary sequence of length L and implementing a permutation of the set of all binary codewords of length L. The implemented permutation is a function from the set of binary codewords of length L to itself that is injective and surjective.
US12113889B2
A computer-implemented method including: receiving a list of ciphertexts, wherein a majority of ciphertexts in the list homomorphically-encrypt zero values and a minority of ciphertexts in the list homomorphically-encrypt non-zero values; and compressing the list of ciphertexts to remove the ciphertexts which homomorphically-encrypt zero values, wherein: the compression is performed without knowledge on what each of the ciphertexts in the list encrypts, and the compression is based on homomorphic comparison of each of the ciphertexts in the list with a homomorphically-encrypted zero value, to determine which of the ciphertexts in the list to remove.
US12113888B2
A frame synchronization system (1) according to this invention includes a frame signal generation circuit (20) configured to generate a frame signal including a plurality of first frame signals each including a first frame synchronization signal and a first payload signal, wherein the first frame synchronization signal is formed from at least one symbol and is set with an average amplitude lower than an average amplitude of the first payload signal, and a frame synchronization circuit (60) configured to receive the frame signal via an optical transmission path (70), and detect the first frame synchronization signal from a received signal, wherein the received signal is divided into frames having a symbol length of the first frame signal, coordinate values, on an IQ plane, of the signals at identical symbol positions of the plurality of divided frames are added over the plurality of frames, and a symbol specified by magnitude comparison in the frame based on an addition result is determined as the first frame synchronization signal. Even if a transmission rate is high, it is possible to decrease the probability of erroneous synchronization, thereby shortening the time until frame synchronization is established.
US12113885B2
Devices, systems, and methods for hardware-based time synchronization for heterogenous sensors are described. An example method includes generating a plurality of input trigger pulses having a nominal pulse-per-second (PPS) rate, generating, based on timing information derived from the plurality of input trigger pulses, a plurality of output trigger pulses, and transmitting the plurality of output trigger pulses to a sensor of a plurality of sensors, wherein a frequency of the plurality of output trigger pulses corresponds to a target operating frequency of the sensor, wherein, in a case that a navigation system coupled to the synchronization unit is functioning correctly, the plurality of input trigger pulses is generated based on a nominal PPS signal from the navigation unit, and wherein, in a case that the navigation system is not functioning correctly, the plurality of input trigger pulses is generated based on a simulated clock source of the synchronization unit.
US12113882B2
An IPv6 packet processing method and apparatus where a first routing device obtains an IPv6 packet, and sends the IPv6 packet to a next-hop routing device. The IPv6 packet includes an IPv6 extension header that includes preceding general indication information, where the preceding general indication information includes first information, and where the first information is used to indicate to process the IPv6 packet only on a data plane of a routing device and not to send the IPv6 packet to a CPU.
US12113878B2
Systems and methods for scheduling a network-based media processing (NBMP) workflow based on a scheme mode are provided. The scheme mode may be obtained by a NBMP workflow manager based on received information that indicates the scheme mode. The NBMP workflow manager may schedule tasks of the NBMP workflow to be executed to process media in accordance with the scheme mode indicated in the information. The scheme mode may be a by order mode, a by duration mode, a by event mode, or a by timeslot mode.
US12113877B2
Provided is a content delivery method and architecture for ways to improve the caching of content at one or more content providing devices of a Content Delivery Network (CDN). In particular, systems and methods are disclosed that vary the requirements to store resources or content within a caching device using a dynamic popularity threshold. This popularity threshold may be varied based on a measured fullness of the storage capacity of the cache device. In another example, the dynamic popularity threshold may be further varied based on a cache pressure, which is an indication of how often the cache replaces stored items with new items. The adjustment to the popularity threshold for caching particular content at the caching device may thus be based on a number of requests for content received at the device to tune the caching procedure for a particular region of the CDN.
US12113868B2
Methods, systems, and storage media for accessing one or more services provided by one or more detected Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices are described. In embodiments, a mobile device may detect a plurality of IoT devices, obtain an identifier for each of the plurality of IoT devices based on the detection, and obtain an indicator for each of the plurality of IoT devices based at least in part on a corresponding one of the obtained identifiers, wherein each indicator may indicate a service type of a corresponding one of the plurality of IoT devices. The mobile device may generate a notification that indicates a plurality of services available to the mobile device based on each of the obtained indicators. The mobile device may access a service of the plurality of services, wherein the access may include utilization of a set of the plurality of IoT devices required to provide the service. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US12113864B2
Systems and methods are directed to monitoring the communications to and from a mobile communication device in accordance with one or more embodiments. For example in accordance with an embodiment, data services a mobile communication device's applications may be monitored against smart contracts stored in a central data center repository and/or written to a blockchain. Other data services may include all forms of communications between the mobile communication device and a third party along with changes to application or data within the mobile communication device. Monitoring the mobile communication device may be done to determine compliance with the smart contracts and whether a penalty or reward on device usage should be applied.
US12113855B2
Node clustering configuration is disclosed herein. An example method includes determining nodes of a cluster, each of the nodes having a unique identifier and a cluster identifier for the cluster, determining a voting configuration for the cluster, the voting configuration defining a quorum of master-eligible nodes of the nodes, the voting configuration being adaptable so as to maintain an optimal level of fault tolerance for the cluster, adding and removing nodes that can change the voting configuration, configuring a cluster configuration through an API, and electing one of the master-eligible nodes as a master node.
US12113849B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data processing method, apparatus, and device, a blockchain system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method is performed by a computer device acting as a blockchain client of the blockchain system, the method including: transmitting an identity query request to an identity chain node, the identity query request including an identity identifier (ID) of the blockchain client and to-be-processed data; receiving node identity information returned by the identity chain node based on the identity ID and the data; determining, according to the node identity information, a target blockchain node configured to process the data within a blockchain node set; transmitting the data ID to the target blockchain node, to query data on at least one of the plurality of application chains based on the data ID through the target blockchain node; and receiving the queried data returned by the target blockchain node.
US12113848B2
The present disclosure provides a method for implementing a bare metal inspection process, a system, a device and a medium. The method includes: installing an Openstack at a control node, installing a network interface card at a bare metal node, and installing an operating system in the network interface card, so that the network interface card generates a first bare metal port at the bare metal node, and in the operating system, generates a second bare metal port corresponding to the first bare metal port; establishing a communication channel between the Openstack and the operating system, and deploying a proxy component on the operating system; creating a first inspection port on the Openstack, creating a second inspection port based on the proxy component, and binding the second inspection port to the second bare metal port.
US12113846B2
The technology described herein is directed towards an uplink video streaming technology including for private networks that use low-cost mobile devices with reduced hardware capabilities (RedCap in 3GPP). The technology adapts the video quality (bitrate) from the content producer side based on the device capability data of the content consumer, leveraging that both are co-located in the same network. The technology can use machine learning to identify correlated devices with suboptimal video quality, and to propose new uplink data rate limiting data (e.g., PRB quota) for the content provider, to enforce an updated (e.g., reduced) video quality independent of any streaming application. The technology reduces spectrum loss, energy consumption and video rebuffering that otherwise often occur when videos are generated with high quality beyond the capabilities of the video consumers (e.g., including RedCap devices).
US12113842B2
A method of managing a network for delivering content to a client device, where content segments are delivered over multicast to a proxy. The received segments are stored at the proxy, before delivery of those segments is made from the proxy to the client device over unicast. Whilst the proxy receives further segments over multicast, it probes the network by making unicast requests for data (dummy data or additional content segments), and receiving those segments over unicast from the content server. The multicast rate reception rate and the unicast (probe) rate are measured and a maximum network throughput is calculated as the sum of these two rates. Subsequent segments are then delivered from the proxy to the client device at the calculated maximum network throughput rate, or at some rate dependent thereon. Thus, the client device will receive segments at a rate that is more indicative of the actual maximum network throughput, so can better use its adaptive bit rate algorithms to determine whether a switch to higher bit rate segments is appropriate.
US12113841B2
A communication system comprises an onboard server situated onboard a mobile platform and a remote server situated outside the mobile platform. The remote server is configured to generate one or more linear media channels for use by the onboard server. The communication system further comprises a virtual media client situated onboard the mobile platform. The virtual media client is configured to receive linear media channels from the onboard server and transmit performance data to the onboard server. The onboard server is configured to receive one or more media requests from a plurality of user media clients onboard the mobile platform. The one or more media requests specify one or more linear media channels. The onboard server is further configured to receive the one or more linear media channels from the remote server, provide the one or more linear media channels to the plurality of user media clients according to the received one or more media requests, provide at least a first linear media channel of the one or more media channels to the virtual media client; and receive a first set of performance data associated with the first linear media channel from the virtual media client.
US12113840B2
A method for generating an online audio discussion forum. The method includes receiving an indication that a first user is interested in speaking with one or more other users, saving the one or more other users to a first selection list, determining that a second user of the one or more other users is interested in speaking with the first user, and upon and in response to the determination, generating an audio discussion forum including the first user and the second user.
US12113836B2
Methods, devices, and system related to wireless communications are disclosed. In one example aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a first access node in a first type of communication network, a request from a wireless device to establish a voice session with an Internet Protocol Multimedia System (IMS); initiating, by the first access node, an IMS voice session establishment for the wireless device; configuring, by the first access node, a Quality of Service (QOS) for the IMS voice session using a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session modification request; and determining, in part based on one or more capabilities of the wireless device, to refrain from triggering a fallback to a second type of communication network for the IMS voice session establishment.
US12113835B2
The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. The disclosure relates to a method and device for providing an augmented reality (AR) service in a communication system. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes generating ambient environment information including at least one piece of information obtained based on an ambient environment of the UE; establishing a session for receiving an AR service description from an application server; receiving, from the application server, the AR service description including pipeline information indicating a transmission path related to the AR service and result information about at least one process requested by the UE; and transmitting the ambient environment information to the application server and receiving at least one media segment of an AR content from the application server based on the ambient environment information.
US12113814B2
A method involves receiving a plurality of security rules from a remote management platform at an endpoint detection and response (EDR) module at a user device. The EDR module subscribes to one or more event types at the user device. The EDR module receives a notification of an event corresponding to one of the subscribed event types. Upon determining that the event is associated with a file stored at the user device, the EDR module instantiates an event tracer tree that is associated with the file. The EDR module generates a file hash value for the file using the event tracer tree. Upon determining that the file hash value satisfies a security rule, the EDR module quarantines the file and reports that the file has been quarantined.
US12113809B2
Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) apparatus and method are provided that correlate and consolidate operation of discrete vendor tools for detecting cyberthreats on a network. An AI engine may filter false positives and eliminate duplicates within cyberthreats detected by multiple vendor tools. The AI engine provides machine learning solutions to complexities associated with translating vendor-specific cyberthreats to known cyberthreats. The AI engine may ingest data generated by the multiple vendor tools. The AI engine may classify hardware devices or software applications scanned by each vendor tool. The AI engine may decommission vendor tools that provide redundant cyberthreat detection. The AI engine may display operational results on a dashboard directing cyberthreat defense teams to corroborated cyberthreats and away from false positives.
US12113808B2
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing a multi-attribute cluster-identifier that supports identifying malicious activity in computing environments. An instance of an activity having an attribute set can be assessed. The attribute set of the instance of the activity is analyzed to determine whether the instance of the activity is a malicious activity. The attribute set of the instance of the activity is compared to a plurality of multi-attribute cluster-identifiers of previous instances of the activity, such that, a determination that the instance of the activity is a malicious activity is made when the attribute set of the instance of the activity corresponds to an identified multi-attribute cluster-identifier. The identified multi-attribute cluster-identifier has a risk score and an attribute set that indicate a likelihood that the instance of the activity is a malicious activity. A visualization that identifies the instance of the activity as a malicious activity is generated.
US12113789B2
A device is configured to identify a physical location within a virtual environment for an avatar that is associated with a user and to obtain a first token from a token map based on the physical location within the virtual environment for the avatar that is associated with the user. The device is further configured to receive physical attribute information for the user in the real world and to obtain a second token from the token map based on the physical attribute information for the user in the real world. The device is further configured to generate an authentication token by combining the first token and the second token and to verify an identify of the user based on the authentication token.
US12113784B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for a trusted (or originator) device to modify the security state of a target device (e.g., unlocking the device) based on a securing ranging operation (e.g., determining a distance, proximity, etc.). The method of some embodiments exchanges messages as a part of a ranging operation in order to determine whether the trusted and target devices are within a specified range of each other before allowing the trusted device to modify the security state of the target device. In some embodiments, the messages are derived by both devices based on a shared secret and are used to verify the source of ranging signals used for the ranging operation. In some embodiments, the method is performed using multiple different frequency bands.
US12113782B2
A waveform analysis unit (102) analyzes a waveform obtained by measuring one of a voltage value and an impedance value of a bus line (300). A device authentication unit (104) determines whether a new device is connected to the bus line, the new device being a device not included in configuration information (1070) which includes one or more devices known to be connected to the bus line, performs authentication for each of the devices connected to the bus line, and when the new device is connected to the bus line, acquires authentication information used for the authentication for the new device, and performs the authentication for the new device. An illegitimate operation determination unit (105) determines whether or not illegitimate operation is performed on the bus line, by using the configuration information, an analysis result from the waveform analysis unit, and an authentication result from the device authentication unit.
US12113779B2
A method of establishing one or more secure channels between network devices comprises exchanging a base key pair between a first network device and a second network device, and for each of a plurality of policies, providing a nonce corresponding to that policy to the first and second devices. The method further comprises generating, for each of the plurality of policies, a session key that is a function of the base key pair and the policy nonce. The method comprises determining, at the first device, that a data packet matches a rule associated with a policy, encrypting the data with a session key that corresponds to the policy to produce an encrypted packet, and conveying the encrypted packet to the second device. At the second device, determining that the encrypted packet matches the rule associated with the policy, and decrypting the encrypted packet with the session key.
US12113778B2
A communication server, interacting with an organization system having users that wish to communicate securely, provides secure communication capability to the users, without the communication server itself having access to unencrypted content of the user communications or to cryptographic keys that would allow the communication server to derive the unencrypted content. Thus, the communication server that provides the secure communication capability need not itself be trusted by the users with access to communicated content. To achieve this, the various entities communicate to exchange cryptographic keys in such a manner that the communication server never obtains usable copies of the cryptographic keys. Secure search capability is also provided by the client devices supplying a set of message tokens obtained by transformations that the communication server cannot replicate, and the communication server maintaining a search index storing the message tokens in association with the (encrypted) messages from which they were obtained.
US12113769B2
A system and method for automatic IP address range allocation is provided. The system and method include a) storing an availability map of IP addresses including a pointer to a next available IP address range of a first size, b) receiving, from a requestor computer device, a request for an IP address range of the first size, c) selecting the next available IP address range of the first size based on the pointer, d) moving the pointer to another available IP address range of the first size, e) placing the selected IP address range of the first size in a quarantine pool, and f) transmitting, to the requestor computer device, the selected IP address range of the first size.
US12113768B2
A system may identify a resource deployed in a computer, where discovery protocol data traffic is unencrypted. The system may receive metadata associated with the discovery protocol data traffic, update the computer network based at least in part on the information included in the metadata, and provide a response to the client. The system may authenticate a request from the client to access the resource using an encrypted protocol, and provide, to the client, access to the resource upon authentication, according to a resource attribute.
US12113767B2
A method for facilitating communications between client devices in geographically separated networks is described. First, message monitoring is conducted by each of a plurality of virtual appliances within a local network to detect a message of a first message type. Responsive to failing to locate a Media Access Control (MAC) address of a destination for the message within a prescribed table by a default gateway, one of the plurality of virtual appliances is selected for handling a forwarding of the message to a plurality of remote networks, and the message via the selected virtual appliance is forwarded to a plurality of gateways associated with a plurality of remote networks. Responsive to locating the MAC address of the destination within the table, the virtual appliance previously handling communications with the destination to forward the message to the destination.
US12113761B2
A system and method for the late-binding of time-based media in real-time. With late binding, the sender may create time-based media before or at the same time an active delivery route to the recipient is discovered. As soon as the route becomes available, the media is transmitted. The existing DNS and email infrastructure is possibly used for route discovery, while any real-time transmission protocol may be used for the actual delivery of the media. “Progressive” emails may also be used for the real-time delivery of time-based media.
US12113753B2
[Object] Transmission efficiency is improved while transmission latency is minimized as possible. [Solving Means] A communication apparatus includes a communication section configured to count an interval allocated in a TDD (Time Division Duplex) mode as one TDD time slot, with a plurality of the TDD time slots counted as one period, the communication section further transmitting periodically, to a communication partner apparatus, multiple application packets corresponding to multiple serial signals generated by multiple applications, and a transmission control section configured to provide, from among the multiple TDD time slots, at least one specific TDD time slot for transmitting a limited portion of the application packets corresponding to at least two of the multiple applications, the transmission control section further shifting, in each period, priorities of the limited portion of the application packets to be transmitted in the specific TDD time slot.
US12113744B2
Provided are an information indication method and related devices. The method includes the following. A network device determines whether a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission corresponding to a first PUCCH format uses an interlace. If the network device determines that the PUCCH transmission corresponding to the first PUCCH format uses an interlace, the network device transmits indication information to a terminal, where the indication information indicates to the terminal information of the interlace used by the PUCCH transmission corresponding to the first PUCCH format.
US12113734B2
Positioning reference signal generation method and device, base station, and readable storage medium
Provided is a positioning reference signal generation method, which includes the following steps: allocating a time-frequency resource to a positioning reference signal, where the time-frequency resource includes at least two consecutive symbols; and according to generation information of the positioning reference signal and the time-frequency resource, taking the at least two consecutive symbols as a combined PRS symbol to generate the positioning reference signal which is consecutive in a time domain based on a preset generation mode. Further provided are a positioning reference signal generation apparatus, a base station and a readable storage medium.
US12113732B2
The present specification proposes a technical feature for increasing a transmission range of a wireless LAN signal. The wireless LAN signal of the present specification, e.g. a transmission physical protocol data unit (PPDU), may be configured on the basis of a duplicate transmission mode. The transmission PPDU of the present specification may comprise a data unit duplicated in frequency. The data unit duplicated in frequency may be configured on the basis of a total bandwidth of the transmission PPDU. The transmission PPDU of the present specification proposes various training fields for the duplicated data unit.
US12113731B2
There is provided mechanisms for multiplexed transmission of data packages towards a terminal device. A method is performed by a network node. The method comprises multiplexing, for the terminal device, at least one data package of a first service having a first QoS requirement with at least one of at least two duplicated data packages of a second service having a second QoS requirement, different from the first QoS requirement. The method comprises transmitting the multiplexed data packages towards the terminal device over at least two independent paths. The duplicated data packages are transmitted on mutually different ones of the at least two independent paths.
US12113727B2
Multiplexing of uplink control information for operation with multiple transmission-reception points
A user equipment (UE) communicates with transmission-reception points (TRPs). When the UE generates uplink control information (UCI), it determines a higher layer index (HLI) value to target the UCI to the appropriate TRP. (Possible values of the HLI are associated with the TRPs.) For UCI on Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), the HLI value may be determined: based on an HLI value configured for a control resource set (CORESET), or for particular Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources; based on UCI type or spatial relation data or an index related to PUCCH resources. For UCI on a configured-grant Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), the HLI value may be based on higher layer signals or an indicator relating to channel sounding on spatial relation data. For UCI on MsgA PUSCH in a two-step random access procedure, the HLI value may be based on PUSCH resource unit or PUSCH opportunity.
US12113720B2
Systems and methods are provided for establishing a plurality of group communication channels for a plurality of sub-sets of a plurality of devices. A situation system identifies a geographical area affected by a situation, and a plurality of devices associated with a plurality of users in the identified geographical area. The situation system causes the plurality of devices to enter a situation mode. The situation system obtains protected data from each of the plurality of devices. The situation system generates a data structure that identifies connections between users of the plurality of users and available modes of communication for each connection. The situation system establishes a plurality of group communication channels for a plurality of sub-sets of the plurality of devices.
US12113707B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for providing a MAC-based redistribution policy between networks in a multi-area network. A network can have a boundary node that communicates to neighboring networks. Boundary nodes can receive policy updates that identify which services are redistributable across network boundaries. Boundary nodes can receive a packet for a service, translate the packet's encapsulation, and forward the packet across the boundary towards a destination node. Boundary nodes can forward the packet such that it originates in the second network from a virtual node.
US12113706B2
Various example embodiments for supporting stateless multicast in communication networks are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting stateless multicast in communication networks may be configured to support stateless multicast in multi-domain packet distribution networks. Various example embodiments for supporting stateless multicast in communication networks may be configured to support stateless multicast in multi-domain packet distribution networks which may be based on Internet Protocol (IP). Various example embodiments for supporting stateless multicast in a multi-domain packet distribution network may be configured to support multicast of packets based on use of internal multicast packets for multicast communication of the multicast packets within sub-domains of the multi-domain packet distribution network and use of external multicast packets for unicast communication of the multicast packets across or between sub-domains of the multi-domain packet distribution network.
US12113700B2
Telemetry monitoring of BGP prefixes in a network topology. A method includes receiving a route for a network topology and determining whether the route corresponds with an existing route stored on a route store. The method includes determining whether any network routing paths have been modified between the existing route and the route in response to determining the route corresponds with the existing route. The method includes generating a path configuration key for each of the at least one network routing path in response to determining at least one network routing path was modified between the existing route and the route.
US12113691B2
A device receives client delay metrics associated with a client device, network delay metrics associated with a network, server delay metrics associated with a server device, and application delay metrics associated with an application provided by the server device, wherein the client device and the server device communicate via the network. The device calculates client delay scores based on the client delay metrics, and calculates network delay scores based on the network delay metrics. The device calculates server delay scores based on the server delay metrics, and calculates application delay scores based on the application delay metrics. The device calculates an end user experience score based on the client delay scores, the network delay scores, the server delay scores, and the application delay scores, and performs an action based on the end user experience score.
US12113690B2
A network path scoring system is disclosed herein that scores quality of network paths to facilitate identification of poorly performing network paths or circuits for investigation. The scoring system builds a profile of additional latencies of a network path binned by circuit load based on historical latency data for the network path. The additional latencies are determined with respect to a base latency of the network path. The network path scoring system determines a weighted average of the additional latencies of a subset of the load bins and a weighted average of expected latencies of the subset of load bins, and a score is calculated with these weighted averages.
US12113682B2
Systems and methods for controlling traffic flow for software experimentation are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a first traffic from a first plurality of users to receive an existing feature or a new feature, determining, from the first traffic, a first portion of the first plurality of users to receive the existing feature (with the first portion bounded by a first lower threshold and/or a first upper threshold) and a second portion of the first plurality of users to receive a new feature (with the second portion bounded by a second lower threshold and/or a second upper threshold). The method also includes providing the existing feature to the first portion, providing the new feature to the second portion, receiving feedback from the first plurality of users, and adjusting the first portion and/or the second portion based on the feedback and based on the bounds.
US12113675B1
In an example implementation consistent with the features disclosed herein, network management system deployments with a large operational footprint are given a longer grace period before they are forced to upgrade than network management system deployments with a small operational footprint. Criticality scores for the network management system deployments are calculated based on the operational footprints of the network management system deployments. The network management system deployments are grouped into criticality groups based on the criticality scores for the network management system deployments. The network management system deployments are forced to upgrade within timelines that are based on the criticality groups in which the network management system deployments are grouped.
US12113673B2
System, function and interface for interconnecting multi-domain network slice control and management
A transport network slice subset management entity is configured to provide an NSSMF of a TN, wherein the transport network slice subset management entity is configured to receive from or send messages to a network slice management entity and to provide configuration information to entities of a transport network. A method for interfacing with a transport network slice subset management entity, comprises the steps receiving, from a request originator, a message comprising a request relating to a network slice subset instance, updating a network slice database of a transport network, according to said request and configuring an entity of a transport network according to said request. A network slice management entity configured to provide an NSMF is configured to send messages to or receive messages from a transport network slice subset management entity.
US12113655B2
Methods and systems for adjusting reference signal reporting based on path loss and fading and cell edge conditions experienced by wireless devices in 5G EN-DC networks. As the path loss increases, a period between reference signal reports (or a frequency of reference signal reports) can be increased. This ensures continued quality of service for the wireless devices. Reference signals can include SRS, DMRS, PTRS, etc.
US12113638B2
When less than all participants of a remote conference consent to being recording, meeting minutes may need to be manually recorded as text for those non-consenting participants to ensure a complete record of the meeting. By signaling a minutes taker via their input device that a current speaker is a non-consenting speaker, the input device may enable or emphasize a textual input component and/or indicia of the current speaker. As a result, a conference server may receive textual content in place of speech for non-consenting participants and record the conference that is complete but omits speech provided by non-consenting participants.
US12113637B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for computer-aided method for developing, customizing, and facilitating the process of dispute, debates and discussions between individuals and groups. The mobile application, computer software, addons to instant messaging and online conference platforms create mental confrontation routines (e.g., dispute, debate or discussion), where opposing sides can formulate their position and support it with arguments or counter-arguments. All arguments and counter-arguments take the form of time-limited video clips, thus creating a personal component, showing the emotional state of parties, body language, facial expression-all that creates a feeling of realistic argument, yet in a structured step-by-step format. The weight of each side's arguments is assessed by judges (one or more) who choose the winner and administer justice.
US12113630B2
A method for determining resource multiplexing is provided. The method includes: when it is determined that a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource of a hybrid automatic repeat request response (HARQ-ACK) of a first type of service and a second PUCCH resource of an HARQ-ACK of a second type of service overlap in a time domain, determining whether the first PUCCH resource and the second PUCCH resource meet a preset timing sequence in the time domain; and if same meet the preset timing sequence condition, then determining performing resource multiplexing processing on the HARQ-ACK of the first type of service and the HARQ-ACK of the second type of service.
US12113627B2
[Problem to be Solved] It is possible to achieve more appropriate retransmission control in wireless LAN systems. [Solution] There is provided a wireless LAN communication device including: a generator that generates a data frame for which a data unit in which an encoding process is performed and a data unit in which a retransmission process is performed are different from each other; and a transmission section that transmits the data frame. The encoding process makes it possible to determine whether or not decoding is successful.
US12113624B2
Embodiments of this application provide a feedback information transmission method and apparatus and a communications device. The method includes: receiving, by a first node, a group of target information sent by a second node, where each piece of target information in the group of target information includes a first information field and a second information field, the first information field includes M bits of feedback information for a group of data channels or a group of transmission resources, M is a positive integer, and the second information field is used for determining a correspondence between the first information field and the group of data channels or the group of transmission resources.
US12113621B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A transmitting device may determine reconstruction information for a time-domain signal and may transmit the reconstruction information with the time-domain signal to a receiving device. The transmitting device may generate the reconstruction information based on estimates of how the receiving device may process the time-domain signal. For example, the transmitting device may apply a channel estimate to samples of the time-domain signal, and further perform clipping and quantization of the samples based on an estimated dynamic analog-to-digital converter (ADC) resolution of the receiving device. The transmitting device may generate the reconstruction information (e.g., using machine learning or other techniques) based on samples having the channel estimate applied and the clipped and quantized samples. The receiving device may process the received time-domain signal and use the reconstruction information to reconstruct the processed time-domain signal.
US12113617B2
The disclosure relates in some aspects to information encoding. Information encoding may involve puncturing bits of a codeword or repeating bits of a codeword. The disclosure relates in some aspects to selecting a puncturing or repetition pattern. In some aspects, a puncture pattern for data encoding is selected based on a criterion that the output and the repetition input of an XOR are not erased. In some aspects, a repetition pattern for data encoding is selected based on a criterion that repetition not be applied for the output and the repetition input of an XOR.
US12113616B2
[Object] To provide a terminal device capable of efficiently performing communication in a communication system in which a base station device and the terminal device communicate with each other. [Solution] A terminal device that communicates with a base station device includes: a higher layer processing unit configured to set an STTI channel setting through signaling of a higher layer from the base station device; and a receiving unit configured to receive a first PDSCH in a case in which the STTI channel setting is not set and receive a second PDSCH in a case in which the STTI channel setting is set. The first PDCCH is mapped to one or more resource blocks, the second PDCCH is mapped to one or more sub resource blocks, and the second PDSCH is demodulated using a reference signal mapped to a symbol including the sub resource block or a resource element before the symbol.
US12113611B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus is configured to perform mapping an interleaved bit stream into a sequence of 4-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) labels according to a mapping scheme, with a respective PAM4 label including a least significant bit (LSB) and a most significant bit (MSB) respectively corresponding to a bit in the interleaved bit stream; transmitting a sequence of PAM4 symbols generated based on the sequence of PAM4 labels to the ONUs; and wherein, bits from respective one of the N codewords are assigned to LSBs of a first subset of labels, and to MSBs of a second subset of labels, with the first and the second subset of labels being determined based on the interleaving scheme and the mapping scheme and respectively comprising labels located N labels apart in the sequence of PAM4 labels.
US12113606B2
Methods and systems for mobility management in non-terrestrial networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first communication node, includes: during a first time period, communicating with a non-terrestrial communication node utilizing a first communication link, wherein the non-terrestrial communication node provides at least one geographic cell in which a user equipment device (UE) is present during the first time period; during a second time period, communicating with a second communication node utilizing a second communication link, wherein a third communication link is established between the non-terrestrial communication node and the second communication node and the first communication link is no longer utilized during the second time period; and determining to maintain the first communication node as an anchor node for communications between a core network and the UE during both the first and second time periods.
US12113595B2
A method is disclosed of a transmitter configured to transmit one or more physical layer packets, which together have a plurality of measurement signals for channel estimation. The method includes receiving (from a sensing device) a precoding setting request for the measurement signals for channel estimation, wherein the precoding setting request is indicative of one or more precoding settings prioritized for sensing, configuring the transmitter to use precoding settings for the plurality of measurement signals for channel estimation based on the precoding setting request, and transmitting the one or more physical layer packets. A method is also disclosed of a receiver configured to operate as a sensing device.
US12113593B2
A device includes a wireless interface configured for wirelessly transmitting a signal to a receiver; and a precoder unit configured for obtaining a first data signal to be transmitted and a second data signal to be transmitted; and for performing a first multipath-precoding of the first data signal according to a first set of paths between the device and the receiver to obtain a first precoded signal; and for performing a second multipath-precoding of the second data signal according to a second set of paths between the device and the receiver to obtain and a second precoded signal; wherein the precoder unit is configured for generating the first precoded signal and the second precoded signal such that the second precoded signal is delayed with respect to the first precoded signal at the receiver. The device is configured for transmitting the first precoded signal and the second precoded signal.
US12113579B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for fast digital signal processor (DSP) optical receiver recovery, namely for optical modems configured on a client side. This approach can be used in optical protection switching (OPS) applications to allow switching between two client links fast, i.e., within 50 ms. A receiver (Rx) digital signal processor (DSP) in an optical receiver includes circuitry configured to detect traffic is interrupted on a current link, enter a holdoff period, and one of i) receive good traffic during the holdoff period and ii) have the holdoff period expire that causes a notification to a host device and retrain to acquire an optical signal.
US12113567B2
A wireless signal digital conversion device includes: a plurality of RF signal processing units for receiving wireless signals, and adjusting the voltage levels of the wireless signals based on automatic gain values; a plurality of unit ADCs for receiving in-phase signals and quadrature phase signals of the RF signal processing units, and performing analog-to-digital conversion based on different differential reference voltages; an encoder unit for generating binary data having less bits than binary data outputted from the unit ADCs based on the binary data outputted from the unit ADCs; and an automatic gain control unit for generating automatic gain values based on the output of a spatial ADC. A terminal can be linked to an artificial intelligence module, a drone (unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device related to 6G services, and the like.
US12113565B2
Portable electronic devices are provided. Each device may be formed from two parts. A first part may be provided with components such as a display, a touch screen, a cover glass, and a frame. A second part may be provided with a plastic housing, circuit boards containing electrical components, and a bezel. Engagement members may be connected to the first and second parts. The engagement members may be formed from metal clips with holes and springs with flexible spring prongs that mate with the holes in the clips. The metal clips may be welded to frame struts on the frame and the springs may be welded to the bezel. During assembly, the first part may be rotated into place within the second part. Retention clips attached to the frame may be used to secure the two parts together. Assembly instructions and associated connector numbers may be provided within the devices.
US12113554B2
A memory device includes a memory; and at least one processor configured to: obtain a symbol stream including a plurality of symbols; determine a Huffman tree corresponding to the symbol stream, wherein each symbol of the plurality of symbols is assigned a corresponding prefix code from among a plurality of prefix codes based on the Huffman tree; generate a prefix length table based on the Huffman tree, wherein the prefix length table indicates a length of the corresponding prefix code for each symbol; generate a logarithm frequency table based on the prefix length table, wherein the logarithm frequency table indicates a logarithm of a frequency count for each symbol, generate a cumulative frequency table which indicates a cumulative frequency count corresponding to each symbol; generate a compressed bitstream by iteratively applying an encoding function to the plurality of symbols based on the logarithm frequency table and the cumulative frequency table; and store the compressed bitstream in the memory.
US12113550B1
A method for encoding data to be stored in a memory, including: encoding the data to be stored in memory with an error correcting code (ECC) as first encoded data, wherein the ECC is configured to have a minimum Hamming distance of at least 4t+1 in order to correct up to t bit errors and detect up to 3t bit errors where t≥1; determining a Hamming weight of the first encoded data; encoding the determined Hamming weight, wherein for all higher Hamming weights the encoding should have at least 2t+1 bit-positions that change from 1 to 0 per Hamming weight; concatenating the first encoded data and the encoded Hamming weight as concatenated data; and storing the concatenated data in the memory.
US12113548B2
A method and an apparatus for encoding and for decoding a polar code to reduce complexity and improve speed. For encoding, information bits are obtained, an original kernel matrix is adjusted to construct one or more kernel matrices, an appropriate target kernel matrix is selected from the one or more kernel matrices, and polar encoding is performed on the information bits based on the target kernel matrix. For decoding, a to-be-decoded sequence is obtained, and the to-be-decoded sequence is decoded based on a plurality of trellises, where intermediate results obtained in different decoding stages may be reused. For example, in a (t+i)th stage of decoding, an intermediate result obtained in a tth stage of decoding is reused.
US12113545B2
A capacitor digital-to-analog converter (CDAC) includes a clock generator, a random reset control signal generator, a first capacitor array, a first reset circuit and an output buffer. The clock generator generates an internal clock signal and a reset control signal that are regularly toggled. The random reset control signal generator generates a random reset control signal that is irregularly toggled. The first capacitor array includes a plurality of capacitors connected to a first summation node, and generates a first summation voltage corresponding to a first input digital signal based on first and second reference voltages. The first reset circuit initializes the first summation node based on the random reset control signal. The output buffer generates a first analog output voltage by buffering the first summation voltage.
US12113542B2
Described herein are related to a calibration circuit for a digital to analog converter (DAC) including a plurality of DAC cells. The calibration circuit including a chopper circuit configured to receive a first signal from a first DAC cell of the plurality of DAC cells and receive a second signal from a second DAC cell of the plurality of DAC cells. The calibration circuit including a comparator circuit configured to receive the first signal and the second signal from the chopper circuit, provide a third signal indicating at least one of the first signal or the second signal. The calibration circuit also including a second circuit configured to offset a first voltage associated with the comparator circuit and configured to offset a second voltage associated with the chopper circuit.
US12113541B2
An analog-to-digital convertor of an integration type, includes: a charging circuit having a capacitor configured to store electric charges based on an input current; a discharging circuit configured to discharge the electric charges stored in the capacitor; and a counting circuit configured to count a charge-discharge count of the capacitor in a first conversion period and in a second conversion period, in order to convert a current value of the input current into a digital value, wherein the first conversion period includes a first pre-charging period and a first counting period, the second conversion period includes a second pre-charging period and a second counting period, and the analog-to-digital convertor further comprises a phase changing circuit configured to change a first phase of an output signal of the charging circuit in the first counting period to a second phase in the second counting period.
US12113534B2
Provided are a device for adjusting an ultrasonic resonance frequency and a method of controlling the same. A device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a circuit board configured to determine and output a resonance frequency. In addition, the device includes a frequency adjustor connected to at least one of a plurality of circuits mounted on the circuit board.
US12113526B2
A high-voltage switch is adapted for use as a medium-voltage direct current circuit breaker, which provides a low-cost, small-footprint device to mitigate system faults. In one example, a method for operating a wideband optical device includes illuminating the wide bandgap optical device with a light within a first range of wavelengths and a first average intensity, allowing a current to propagate therethrough without substantial absorption of the current, illuminating the wide bandgap optical device with light within the first range of wavelengths and a second average intensity that is lower than the first average intensity to allow a sustained current flow though the wide bandgap optical device, and illuminating the wide bandgap optical device with light within a second range of wavelengths to stop or substantially restrict propagation of the current through the wide gap material.
US12113524B2
A circuit to enhance the driving capability of conventional inverting bootstrapping GaN drivers. When the inverting driver input is logic high and the driver output is off, the voltage stored on the first bootstrap capacitor for turning on the high side (pull-up) FET of the inverting driver is charged to the full supply voltage using an active charging FET, instead of using a diode or diode-connected FET in a conventional bootstrapping driver. The gate voltage of the active charging FET is bootstrapped to a voltage higher than supply voltage by a second bootstrap capacitor that connects to the inverting driver input, which is at a logic high. The second bootstrap capacitor is charged by an additional diode or diode-connected FET connected to the supply voltage when the inverting driver input is a logic low.
US12113523B2
According to an embodiment, an SPnT-type high frequency switch includes a plurality of first MOS transistors, second MOS transistors, and a capacitor. The plurality of first MOS transistors are connected in series between one of a plurality of RF terminals and an RF common terminal. The second MOS transistors have ends each connected to adjacent first MOS transistors among the first MOS transistors. The capacitor is connected between ground and another end of a second MOS transistor having one end connected to another end of a first MOS transistor having one end connected to the one of the RF terminals among the first and second MOS transistors.
US12113522B2
Disclosed is a battery system comprising a solid-state relay assembly comprising a device-side driver circuitry having a device-side switching device, a battery-side driver circuitry having a battery-side switching device, a first recirculation driver circuitry, a first recirculation switching device, a second recirculation switching device, and a second recirculation driver circuitry.
US12113510B2
An acoustic resonator is fabricated with multiple piezoelectric plate thicknesses on a single chip. After conductor patterns are formed on a piezoelectric plate, the plate is bonded to a sacrificial substrate, with the conductor patterns facing the sacrificial substrate. The piezoelectric plate is then thinned to a desired thickness for shunt resonators. A mask is applied to the surface of the plate and selected areas of the piezoelectric plate are further thinned to a desired thickness for series resonators to form a thinned piezoelectric plate. A substrate with swimming pool cavities is bonded to the thinned piezoelectric plate, and the sacrificial substrate is removed.
US12113509B2
An acoustic wave device includes an energy confinement layer, a piezoelectric layer made of Y-cut X-propagation lithium tantalate having a cut angle in a range from about −10° to about 65°, and an IDT electrode. Electrode fingers of the IDT electrode include an Al metal layer and a high acoustic impedance metal layer having a Young's modulus equal to or more than about 200 GPa and an acoustic impedance higher than Al. The high acoustic impedance metal layer is closer to the piezoelectric layer than the Al metal layer. A wavelength specific film thickness tLT of the piezoelectric layer is expressed by tLT≤1λ. The total of normalized film thicknesses obtained by normalizing the film thickness of each layer of the electrode finger by a density and Young's modulus of the Al metal layer satisfies T≤0.1125tLT+0.0574.
US12113502B2
A method of manufacturing a quartz crystal element includes preparing a quartz crystal wafer having a predetermined cutting angle with respect to a crystal axis of a quartz crystal, forming a first resist film having a first tilted part on a first surface of the quartz crystal wafer and dry-etching the first resist film with the quartz crystal, forming a first tilted surface by dry-etching the quartz crystal wafer from the first surface side, forming a second resist film having a second tilted part on a second surface of the quartz crystal wafer and dry-etching the second resist film with the quartz crystal, and forming a second tilted surface tilted by dry-etching the quartz crystal wafer from the second surface side. The quartz crystal element provided with the first tilted surface and the second tilted surface, and having a cutting angle different from the predetermined cutting angle is formed.
US12113501B2
A method for improving the stability and reducing phase variations of an ultra-wideband attenuator, with respect to temperature variations, comprising the steps of providing an attenuator implemented in π-topology and consisting of a serial path between the input and the output of the attenuator, including a first serial resistor Rs1 connected to the input, followed by a serial inductor Ls, followed by a second serial resistor Rs2 connected to the output; a first transistor T1 bridging between the input and the output, for controlling the impedance of the serial path by a first control input provided to the first transistor T1; a first parallel path between the input and ground, including a first parallel transistor T2a followed by first parallel resistor Rp1; a second parallel path between the output and ground, including a second parallel transistor T2b followed by second parallel resistor Rp2; a second control input commonly provided to first parallel transistor T2a and to the second parallel transistor T2b, for controlling the impedance of the first and second parallel paths; unifying the serial resistors to a common serial resistor Rs and splitting the serial inductor Ls to two serial inductors Ls1 and Ls2, such that one serial inductor is connected between the input and a first contract of the common serial resistor Rs and the other serial inductor is connected between the output and the other contact of the common serial resistor Rs; splitting the parallel resistor Rp1 to two smaller resistors, connecting a first smaller resistor to the input, connecting a second smaller resistor to the first smaller resistor via the first parallel transistor T2a and to ground via a third parallel transistor T3a; splitting the parallel resistor Rp2 to two smaller resistors, connecting a third smaller resistor to the output, connecting a fourth smaller resistor to the third smaller resistor via the second parallel transistor T2b and to ground via a fourth parallel transistor T3b; connecting a first feedback capacitor Cfb1 between the common point connecting between the ungrounded port of the second parallel transistor T3a and the first contract of the common serial resistor Rs and connecting a second feedback capacitor Cfb2 between the common point connecting between the ungrounded port of the fourth parallel transistor T3b and the second contract of the common serial resistor Rs; upon controlling the first and second parallel transistors T2a and T2b by the second control input, simultaneously controlling also the third and the fourth parallel transistors T3a and T3b by the second control input; controlling the first and the second control inputs to obtain a desired attenuation between the input and output of the attenuator.
US12113492B2
This application provides a power amplification apparatus, a beamforming system, a transmitter, and a base station. The apparatus includes a power amplifier that amplifies a first signal, a power supply, and a power supply modulator that controls, based on an envelope signal corresponding to the first signal, an operating voltage provided by the power supply to the power amplifier. The apparatus is further configured to amplify a second signal. The first signal is generated based on the part of a target amplified signal whose amplitude falls within a preset amplitude range. The second signal is generated based on the part of the target amplified signal whose amplitude falls beyond the preset amplitude range.
US12113491B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a receiver including an amplifier circuit. The amplifier circuit includes a common-source amplifier having an input and an output, and a common-gate amplifier having an input and an output, wherein the input of the common-gate amplifier is coupled to the output of the common-source amplifier. The receiver also includes a first receive chain coupled to the output of the common-gate amplifier, and a second receive chain coupled to the output of the common-source amplifier.
US12113489B2
Example embodiments provide a process that includes one or more of receiving an audio signal at a feedback compressor circuit, multiplying the received audio signal with a power feedback signal to create a product audio signal, wherein the feedback signal comprises a low-pass filtered signal, applying a power amplifier to the product audio signal, and providing the amplified product audio signal as an output signal to a speaker.
US12113483B2
A dc coupled amplifier includes a pre-driver, and amplifier and a bias control circuit. The pre-driver is configured to receive one or more input signals and amplify the one or more input signals to create one or more pre-amplified signals. The amplifier has cascode configured transistors configured to receive and amplify the one or more pre-amplified signals to create one or more amplified signals, the amplifier further having an output driver termination element. The bias control circuit is connected between the pre-driver and the amplifier, the bias control circuit receiving at least one bias current from the output driver termination element of the amplifier, wherein the pre-driver, the amplifier and the bias control circuit are all formed on a same die.
US12113482B2
An amplifier package includes a plurality of input leads, a plurality of transistor amplifiers having inputs respectively coupled to one of the plurality of input leads, and a quadrature hybrid coupler within the amplifier package and coupled between the plurality of input leads and the plurality of transistor amplifiers, wherein the quadrature hybrid coupler is configured to divide an input signal received from a first of the plurality of input leads between the plurality of transistor amplifiers.
US12113477B1
The devices, systems, and methods described herein are directed to buffering the electrical energy output from a PV array before storing the electrical energy in a battery storage system of the PV system. In some examples, a buffering module receives electrical energy from one or more PV cells at a first level that exceeds a threshold charging rate of a battery storage system. The buffering module temporarily stores the electrical energy before outputting the electrical energy to the battery storage system at a second level that is at or below the threshold charging rate of the battery storage system.
US12113472B2
A system and method are disclosed for determining the mechanical angular position of a rotating member of a prime mover which is connected, directly, or indirectly, to an electric machine, such as a permanent magnet synchronous machine or an induction machine. The electrical angular position of the rotor of the electric machine is determined by a sensorless AC motor control system, such as a Field Oriented Control System or back EMF control system, and is used in turn to determine the mechanical angular position of the rotating member.
US12113471B1
The present disclosure relates to a fan drive system and a fan. The fan drive system comprises an AC power supply, a filter unit, a rectifier unit, a bus capacitor, a switching power supply, a bus voltage isolation detection circuit and a DC motor drive unit. Wherein a speed regulation switch is provided between the AC power supply and the filter unit having an output end connected to an input end of the rectifier unit with an output end connected to an input end of the switching power supply. The circuit is configured to detect voltages at two ends of the bus capacitor, an output end of the switching power supply is connected to the DC motor drive unit for supplying power, and an output end of the circuit is connected to the DC motor drive unit for inputting speed regulation signals. The DC motor drive unit is connected to a DC motor for driving the DC motor.
US12113464B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of DC buses and a plurality of inverter circuits, respective ones of which are coupled to respective ones of the plurality of DC buses. The apparatus further includes a control circuit configured to generate a representative DC voltage signal based on DC voltage signals for respective ones of the DC buses, to generate a first modulation control signal from the representative DC voltage signal, to generate second modulation control signals for the respective inverter circuits from the representative DC voltage signal and the first modulation control signal that are normalized based on the DC voltage signals for the buses and the representative DC voltage signal, and to modulate the inverter circuits responsive to respective ones of the second modulation control signals. The representative DC voltage signal may represent a maximum of the DC voltages for the respective DC buses.
US12113459B2
The present application discloses a self-powered sensing method and sensing device for spheroidal robot, which belongs to the technical field of robot attitude sensing. The design feature is structure of the spheroidal robot, comprises: a spheroidal object (1) and 26 electrode groups (2); the spheroidal object (1) includes 18 regular octagonal surfaces, 8 regular hexagonal surfaces and 24 quadrilateral surfaces; the electrode group (2) is arranged on each regular octagonal surface and each regular hexagonal surface; the electrode group (2) includes a first outer layer semicircular ring electrode (2-1), a second outer layer semicircular ring electrode (2-2) and an inner ring electrode (2-3). The present invention aims to provide a self-powered sensing method and sensing device for spheroidal robot to sense the posture of the spheroidal robot.
US12113454B2
An LLC resonant converter includes a switching circuit for converting a DC voltage into switching signal, a resonant tank coupled to the switching circuit to receive the switching signal and to provide a primary current, a transformer circuit coupled to the resonant tank. The transformer circuit includes a plurality of separated transformers, each has a primary side and a secondary side windings disposed on the PCB, where the primary side winding of each transformer can be selected to couple in series or in parallel with the primary side winding of other transformers to form a dynamically varied equivalent primary side winding, maintaining the turns ratio to fine-tune the resonant tank. The gain curve of the LLC converter can be adjusted by electrically coupling an external excitation inductor, a resonant capacitor or a resonant inductor to the resonant tank, according to the demand of output current.
US12113452B2
The present disclosure provides a power supply control circuit and control method for a switching power supply system. The control circuit includes: a power transistor and current sampling module, a voltage common collector (VCC) charging management module, a switch module, and a voltage regulator clamping module. The power transistor and current sampling module includes: a main switch high-voltage power transistor, a power transistor driver, an auxiliary sampling high-voltage transistor, and a current sampling resistor. The switch module includes a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, and a fourth switch. The present disclosure realizes time-division multiplexing and seamless transition through a reasonable timing of the switch module, thereby enabling multiplexing of high-voltage devices reducing demands for high-voltage processes, saving chip costs, and reducing design difficulty.
US12113446B2
A control circuit for controlling a switching stage of an electronic converter includes a first terminal configured to provide a drive signal and a second terminal configured to receive a first feedback signal. A third terminal receives a second feedback signal and a driver circuit provides the drive signal as a function of a PWM signal. A PWM signal generator circuit generates the PWM signal as a function of the first feedback signal, a reference threshold and the second feedback signal or a slope compensation signal. The control circuit is configured to sense an input signal, provide a first compensation parameter, and provide a first compensating signal as a function of a power of the input sensing signal.
US12113442B2
A stacked voltage regulator (VR) that pre-charges inductor switching node to mitigate EOS. The stacked VR comprises at least three n-type devices (low-side) and three p-type devices (high-side) coupled in series. The three p-type stacked devices are part of a high-side of the VR. Node Vx coupling one of the n-type devices and one of the p-type devices is coupled to an inductor, which is also coupled to a load capacitor. During the inductor charging phase, in the low-to-high transition, a small p-type device is added to pre-charge the inductor switching node (Vx) from “0” to “VDD−Vth” through the low-side by connecting a generated mid-rail “Vdd” to the internal node of the n-type stack for a short period (e.g., about 50 ps). A controlled conductance modulation (CCM) scheme on the high-side top switch during the inductor charging phase is used to mitigate the ringing without controlling the gate drive strength.
US12113433B2
A method for operating a multi-level bridge power converter of an electrical power system connected to a power grid includes receiving a commanded state for one or more switching devices thereof. The method also includes receiving a gate-emitter voltage of one or more of the switching devices. Further, the method includes comparing, via at least one comparator, the gate-emitter voltage of the one or more switching devices to a reference voltage range corresponding to the commanded state of the one or more switching devices. In addition, the method includes determining an actual state of the one or more switching devices based on the comparison. Thus, the method also includes implementing a control action based on the actual state of the one or more switching devices.
US12113405B2
A method for driving a single-phase electric motor includes switching drive electronics to a first on-state during a first on-time interval of a pulse width modulation period, switching the drive electronics to a second on-state during a second on-time interval of the pulse width modulation period, switching the drive electronics to an off-state between the first and second on-time intervals, and measuring the phase current with a current sensor. The first and the second on-time interval of one pulse width modulation period are provided with different interval lengths if a defined effective duty cycle is lower than a first duty cycle threshold value so that one of the first and the second on-time interval has an interval length which is equal to or larger than a defined minimum on-time interval length. The phase current is measured during the first and/or second on-time interval with the defined minimum on-time interval length.
US12113398B2
A stator core that is configured by stacking plural core plates and that is housed inside a case of a motor. The plural core plates include an elastic protrusion-equipped core plate provided with plural elastic protrusions arrayed in a circumferential direction. The elastic protrusions extend toward a radial direction outside from an outer peripheral portion of the elastic protrusion-equipped core plate and are bent in an axial direction. The stator core is supported by the case in a state in which the plural elastic protrusions are in contact with an inner peripheral face of the case and elastically flexed.
US12113395B2
An uninterruptible power supply apparatus includes: an electromagnetic contactor including a first terminal that receives a first AC voltage supplied from an AC power supply and a second terminal connected to an AC node; a capacitor that is connected to a DC line and stores DC power; a converter that transmits and receives electric power between the AC node and the DC line; and a controller. In an activation mode, the controller turns on the electromagnetic contactor after controlling the converter such that a frequency and a phase of a second AC voltage supplied from the converter to the AC node match a frequency and a phase of the first AC voltage. In a normal operation mode after the activation mode, the controller controls the converter such that a DC voltage of the DC node attains to a reference voltage.
US12113389B2
The control device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a first index value that is an index of a deterioration state of the power storage device, and a lower limit setting unit that lowers a lower limit value of an allowable range for a second index value indicating a power storage state of the power storage device, when the first index value acquired by the acquisition unit indicates a predetermined degree of deterioration or more.
US12113384B2
A dual battery power management system, its battery controller and method for controlling the same have been provided. The dual battery power management system includes a load module, a battery controller, a first battery and a second battery. The battery controller is electrically connected to the load module for receiving an electrical requirement demanded by the load module. The battery controller is provided with a DC-DC converter and a serial-parallel switch. The first battery is employed to provide a first input voltage which is converted to a converted DC voltage by the DC-DC converter. The second battery is electrically connected to the serial-parallel switch and is used to provide a second input voltage. Upon the aforementioned electrical requirement, the battery controller controls the series-parallel switch to be operated at a serial mode or a parallel mode.
US12113380B2
A pre-charge unit for charging a DC link capacitor includes a printed circuit board including at least one conductive layer; a pre-charge switch on the printed circuit board; and a pre-charge resistor electrically connected in series with the pre-charge switch, wherein the pre-charge resistor is formed by a conductive trace in the at least one conductive layer of the printed circuit board.
US12113377B2
A battery charger identifies the type of battery that is connected to it in order to provide the optimum voltage-current-time profile that is needed to safely and optimally charge and maintain the battery. In some embodiments, the battery current or voltage is monitored during charging, and as the current or the voltage changes while the charger is powered, the changes are measured and used to determine the type of battery that is connected so that the optimum charge profile can be applied.
US12113374B2
According to various embodiments, an augmented reality device may comprise a display, at least one camera, a communication circuit, and at least one processor operatively connected with the display, the at least one camera, and the communication circuit. The at least one processor may be configured to obtain a first image through the at least one camera, identify that a wireless power receiver and a wirelesspower transmitter configured to transmit wireless power to the wirelesspower receiver are included in the first image, receive information regarding the wireless power from the wirelesspower receiver through the communication circuit, and display, on the display, an augmented reality object indicating an arrangement of at least one of the wirelesspower transmitter or the wirelesspower receiver, based on the information regarding the wireless power.
US12113365B2
A wireless charger with magnetic locating function includes an insulating body, a circuit module, a plug module and a wireless charging module. A front of the insulating body is recessed inward to form an opening, and the opening is further recessed inward to form an accommodating space. The circuit module is mounted in the accommodating space. The plug module is connected with the circuit module. The wireless charging module is mounted to the insulating body. The wireless charging module includes a magnetic core equipped with a charging coil, a bracket and an outer board. The charging coil is connected to the circuit module. The bracket covers the charging coil. The bracket has a plurality of accommodating grooves, and each accommodating groove is equipped with one magnetic element. The outer board covers the bracket.
US12113360B2
A method and a device for forecasting an electric load, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring historical load data prior to a forecast date; generating a load sequence based on the historical load data; performing variational mode decomposition on the load sequence, to obtain multiple intrinsic mode components and a residual that are corresponding to the load sequence; and inputting the multiple intrinsic mode components and the residual into respective forecasting models, and determining a load value on the forecast date based on forecasting results of all the forecasting models.
US12113358B2
According to an aspect of the invention there is provided a method of controlling an energy storage system to provide a frequency regulation service for a power network, to which the energy storage system is connected. The energy storage system is controlled according to one or more regulations of the power network to counteract frequency deviations within a frequency contingency deadband of the power network to provide the frequency regulation service for a service period. The energy storage system is one of a plurality of energy storage systems connected to the power network, each energy storage system being operated to counteract the frequency deviations according to the one or more regulations of the power network.
US12113356B2
A photovoltaic power generation system and a method for controlling power balance are provided. The system includes at least two photovoltaic arrays, at least one power balance circuit and a power converter. Each of input ports of the power balance circuit is connected with at least one photovoltaic array, and an output port of the power balance circuit is connected with the power converter. The power balance circuit performs power transfer based on a difference between output powers of the two photovoltaic arrays to control a difference between powers of two output terminals of the power balance circuit to be within a preset range.
US12113351B2
A circuit breaker for protecting against a short circuit and over current. The circuit breaker includes a current sensing circuit configured to determine an input voltage. The circuit breaker also includes a control circuit configured to set a threshold voltage. The circuit breaker further includes a comparison circuit configured to compare the input voltage to the threshold voltage. The circuit breaker, in addition, includes a voltage output circuit configured to output an output voltage based on the comparison circuit.
US12113345B2
A gas insulated bus includes: a first container including a first flange and forming a sealed space in which an insulating gas is enclosed; a second container including a second flange joined to the first flange and forming the sealed space together with the first container; a conductor housed in the sealed space; and an insulating support supporting the conductor in the sealed space. Part of the second flange is an inner flange including a mounting to which the insulating support is attached. The second container includes an extension portion in a portion in which the inner flange is provided, the extension portion extending toward a side opposite to a central axis of the conductor.
US12113336B2
A busbar adapter including a housing being adapted to be attached to a busbar, a printed circuit board, and at least one electric current sensor electrically connected with the printed circuit board, wherein the printed circuit board and the at least one electric current sensor are arranged inside the housing, wherein the housing comprises an upper housing part being adapted for the attachment of one or more devices to be connected through the busbar adapter to a busbar and a lower housing part being adapted for holding the printed circuit board and the at least one electric current sensor, and wherein the lower housing part comprises a first part being adapted for holding the printed circuit board and the at least one electric current sensor and a second part being adapted to be attached to the busbar.
US12113330B2
A semiconductor laser device includes a semiconductor laser chip that emits laser light, a plate-like base, and a block protruding from the base and supporting the semiconductor laser chip. The block has a supporting surface and a wire bonding surface. The supporting surface faces a first side in a first direction perpendicular to the laser light emitting direction, and supports the semiconductor laser chip. The wire bonding surface is a surface to which a wire connected to the semiconductor laser chip is connected. The wire bonding surface is shifted in a second direction perpendicular to the emitting direction and the first direction with respect to the supporting surface. The wire bonding surface is inclined relative to the supporting surface, such that the wire bonding surface is more offset to a second side in the first direction with increasing distance from the supporting surface in the second direction.
US12113327B2
A laser and method for generating an electromagnetic wave signal having high phase coherence. A distributed reflective optical fiber laser resonant cavity is formed by a non-polarization-maintaining gain optical fiber and a pair of fiber Bragg gratings of which both ends are written by a femtosecond laser direct-writing and line-etching method. During optical fiber grating writing, a tiny included angle is introduced between the projection of a laser line-etching direction on a horizontal plane where a central axis of an optical fiber core is located and a radial direction of the optical fiber core, and a tiny included angle is introduced between the laser line-etching direction and the horizontal plane where the central axis of the optical fiber core is located. The laser resonant cavity generates a three-wavelength laser output signal and eventually a millimeter wave or terahertz wave is generated between the output signals for outputting.
US12113319B2
To reduce sparks and arcing if an RJ plug is removed from an RJ jack while a PoE signal is present, the plug includes conductive metal blades. Each blade includes a first portion to conduct electrical signals and/or power (SAOP) between the blade and a wire within the plug. Each blade includes a second portion and a spaced third portion to conduct SAOP between the blade and a contact within a jack. A first electrical resistance value between the second portion and the first portion is at least 5% greater as compared to a second electrical resistance value between the third portion and the first portion.
US12113315B2
A connector includes a female terminal module and a male terminal module that is to be coupled to the female terminal module. The female terminal module includes a female-side inner conductor, a female-side derivative, and a female-side outer conductor. The female-side outer conductor receives therein the female-side inner conductor via the female-side derivative. The male terminal module includes a male-side inner conductor, a male-side derivative, and a male-side outer conductor. The male-side outer conductor receives therein the male-side inner conductor via the male-side derivative and is connected to the female-side outer conductor. The female-side fitting portion of the female-side derivative and the male-side fitting portion of the male-side derivative are fitted to each other with recess-protrusion fitting. The male-side inner conductor includes a male connection portion and the male connection portion is inserted in the female-side fitting portion and connected to the female-side inner conductor.
US12113311B2
A plug connector module (1, 1′) for a modular industrial plug connector has a base body (2, 2′), a holding plate (3, 3′) and at least one contact element (4). The at least one contact element (4) has a contact region (4a, 4a′) and a cable connection region (4b, 4b′) and is held by the holding plate (3, 3′) in the plug connector module (1, 1′). The base body (2, 2′) has at least one cylindrical opening (11) for receiving the contact region (4a, 4a′) of the at least one contact element (4, 4′). The holding plate (3, 3′) has at least one cylindrical opening (10) for receiving the cable connection region (4b, 4b′) of the at least one contact element (4, 4′).
US12113305B2
The invention provides method and apparatus augmenting functionality of an antenna-in-module (AiM) of a user equipment (UE) to proximity detection (and more) besides wireless communication. The AiM may comprise a radiator set and a channel circuit set. The radiator set may comprise one or more radiators, and the channel circuit set may comprise one or more channel circuits. The method may comprise: causing a first subset of the channel circuit set to transmit outgoing electromagnetic (EM) waves by circular polarization of a first rotation sense, causing a second subset of the channel circuit set to receive incoming EM waves by circular polarization of a second rotation sense different from the first rotation sense, accordingly obtaining one or more received detection signals, and executing the proximity detection according to the one or more received detection signals.
US12113294B2
A system may include a meta-surface including multiple unit cells arranged along the meta-surface. Structural parameters of each unit cell may vary along the meta-surface. The system may further include at least a first active feed unit directed toward the meta-surface to generate a first beam. The first active feed unit may be configured to move relative to the meta-surface parallel to a 2-dimensional plane. The first beam is steerable by moving the first active feed unit.
US12113285B2
An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array having a dielectric resonator antenna. The antenna may include a first dielectric block on a printed circuit, a second dielectric block on the first dielectric block, and a third dielectric block on the second dielectric block. At least the second and third dielectric blocks may have different dielectric constants. The antenna may be fed by one or more feed probes. Each feed probe may include respective conductive via and a conductive patch coupled to the conductive via. The conductive via may extend through the first dielectric block. The conductive patch may be sandwiched between the first and second dielectric blocks. The conductive patch may have a width that configures the conductive patch to form a smooth impedance transition between the conductive via and each of the dielectric blocks despite the different materials used to form the antenna.
US12113264B2
A method of forming an integrated microstrip circulator includes translating a ferrite disc into an aperture in a dielectric substrate, securing the ferrite disc in the dielectric substrate with an adhesive to form a composite structure, and forming circuitry on an upper surface of the composite structure and forming surface mount contacts on a lower surface of the composite structure by metallizing the upper and lower surfaces of the composite structure.
US12113263B2
Methods and devices to address antenna termination in absence of power supplies within an electronic circuit including a termination circuit and a switching circuit. The devices include regular NMOS devices that decouple the antenna from the switching circuit in absence of power supplies while the antenna is coupled to a terminating impedance having a desired impedance value through a native NMOS device. The antenna is coupled with the switching circuit via the regular NMOS device during powered conditions while the antenna is decoupled from the terminating impedance.
US12113262B2
A cross-coupling structure for dielectric cavity filters includes a base and a tuner. The base is communicated with plural resonant cavities, a side through hole and a blind hole, and has a first channel formed between two adjacent resonant cavities which are not used for producing cross-coupling, and a second channel the resonant cavities formed between two adjacent resonant cavities which are used for producing cross-coupling. The side through hole is penetrated through the base and communicated with the second channel. The blind hole is formed on a wall of the second channel and has an opening facing the side through hole. The tuner is entered into the second channel from the side through hole and extended into the blind hole and can be adjustably moved between the opening of the blind hole and the bottom of the blind hole to set a cross-coupling amount target value.
US12113256B2
The presently disclosed subject matter relates generally to a highly ionically conductive solid electrolyte membrane and to batteries comprising such solid electrolyte membrane.
US12113255B2
Disclosed is an electrolyte membrane for a membrane-electrode assembly including a block copolymer composed of a hydrophilic domain and a hydrophobic domain.
US12113251B2
A fuel cell system having a fuel cell stack in a housing includes a compressor that provides compressed ambient air to the fuel cell stack and a ventilation system coupled to a suction side of the compressor to provide ventilation of the housing and cool an associated voltage monitoring unit that may be located within the housing or upstream of the housing. The ventilation system may control a valve to supply air from the compressor outlet to the housing to warm the housing and stack when either or both have a temperature below an associated threshold. The ventilation system may include a second valve to control exhaust from the housing based on the temperature of the housing or stack. Stack exhaust may drive a turbine coupled to the compressor. A heat exchanger may be positioned to cool compressed air from the compressor before flowing to the stack.
US12113248B2
The present application relates to the technical field of batteries and discloses a connector for a large cylindrical battery, a battery module, and a battery pack. The connector for the large cylindrical battery is configured for a large cylindrical battery having a positive electrode and a negative electrode on a same side, and includes a plurality of conductive units. Each conductive unit includes a positive-electrode connecting region, a negative-electrode connecting region, and a first current-limiting region provided between the positive-electrode connecting region and the negative-electrode connecting region. Adjacent conductive units are electrically connected to each other via a connection member.
US12113246B2
A battery includes a protective box provided with a guiding channel and a plurality of battery cells in the protective box. The plurality of battery cells include a first battery cell and a second battery cell adjacent to each other. The first battery cell includes a pressure relief end provided with a pressure relief mechanism. The pressure relief mechanism is configured to actuate release of internal pressure of the first battery cell in response to the internal pressure or an internal temperature of the first battery cell reaching a threshold. The guiding channel is configured to guide emissions released from the pressure relief mechanism. The pressure relief end of the first battery cell is staggered with one end of the second battery cell that is close to the pressure relief end, in a direction leaving the guiding channel.
US12113243B2
A connection module includes a FPC and bus bars connected to the FPC and connecting the electrode terminals of power storage elements that are adjacent to each other. The FPC includes a first wiring portion, a second bus bar mount portion, and a third bus bar mount portion to which the bus bars are connected. The FPC further includes a second expandable/contractable portion and a third expandable/contractable portion. The second expandable/contractable portion is continuous from the second bus bar mount portion and allowed to be expanded and contracted in a direction to be closer to and farther away from the first wiring portion and the third bus bar mount portion. The third expandable/contractable portion is continuous from the third bus bar mount portion and allowed to be expanded and contracted in a direction to be closer to and farther away from the second bus bar mount portion.
US12113240B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an insulator configured to attach to and extend along a length of a current collector of a battery cell. The insulator may include a body configured to prevent contact between the current collector and a housing of the battery cell. The insulator may include an attachment feature at a first end of the body. The attachment feature may be configured to attach the body to a first end of the current collector. The insulator may include a protrusion at a second end of the body. The protrusion may be configured to prevent rotation of the body with respect to the current collector.
US12113225B2
A marine battery system configured to provide energy to a marine vessel load is provided. The marine battery system includes a main enclosure body and an auxiliary enclosure body that is detachably coupled to the main enclosure body to define a sealed battery volume. The auxiliary enclosure body is configured to perform a pressure accommodation action responsive to an increase in a temperature within the sealed battery volume. The marine battery system further includes a battery disposed within the sealed battery volume.
US12113211B2
Molten lithium-sulfur and lithium-selenium electrochemical cells are disclosed. A solid electrolyte separates a molten lithium metal or molten lithium metal alloy 106 from a molten sulfur or molten selenium. The molten lithium-sulfur and lithium-selenium cells have low over potential, no side reaction, and no dendrite growth. These cells have high Coulombic efficiency and energy efficiency and thus provide new chemistries to construct high-energy, high-power, long-lifetime, low-cost and safe energy storage systems.
US12113210B2
An all-solid-state battery having excellent load characteristics, and an electrode for an all-solid-state battery for forming the all-solid-state battery are provided. It relates to Goals 12, 3, 7, and 11 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The electrode for an all-solid-state battery includes a molded body of a mixture containing an active material-containing electrode material, a solid electrolyte, and a conductive assistant. The electrode material is in the form of a composite particle having a layer containing a solid electrolyte A1 or solid electrolyte A2 that contains certain elements on its surface. The mixture molded body includes a solid electrolyte B1 or solid electrolyte B2 that contains certain elements between the composite particles. The compositions of the solid electrolyte A1 and the solid electrolyte B1 satisfy a certain relationship, or the composition of the solid electrolyte A2 and the composition of the solid electrolyte B2 satisfy a certain relationship.
US12113195B2
A device for producing a negative electrode, which includes: a pre-lithiation bath containing a pre-lithiation solution, which is sequentially divided into an impregnation section, a pre-lithiation section, and an aging section; a negative electrode roll present outside the pre-lithiation solution, wherein the negative electrode roll is configured to allow a negative electrode structure to be wound and unwound; and one or more pre-lithiation rolls which are present inside the pre-lithiation solution, wherein the one or more pre-lithiation rolls allow the negative electrode structure unwound from the negative electrode roll to move in the pre-lithiation bath, wherein the pre-lithiation roll includes an inner ring, an outer ring which is formed on the inner ring and is rotatable, and a rolling element present between the inner ring and the outer ring, and the outer ring in the pre-lithiation roll comprises a non-conductor.
US12113184B2
A method of making a reference electrode assembly for an electrochemical cell according to various aspects of the present disclosure includes providing a subassembly including a separator layer and a current collector layer coupled to the separator layer. The method further includes providing an electrode ink including an electroactive material, a binder, and a solvent. The method further includes creating a reference electrode precursor by applying an electroactive precursor layer to the current collector layer. The electroactive precursor layer covers greater than or equal to about 90% of a superficial surface area of a surface of the current collector layer. The electroactive precursor layer includes the electrode ink. The method further includes creating the reference electrode assembly by drying the electroactive precursor layer to remove at least a portion of the solvent, thereby forming an electroactive layer. The electroactive layer is solid and porous.
US12113183B2
The presented invention relates to a method for operating an electrical energy store, the ageing behaviour of which is estimated by means of an expected ageing profile, wherein a rapid-charging profile, which is to be used, of the electrical energy store is ascertained depending on a comparison between a detected state of ageing of the electrical energy store and a desired state of ageing, which is determined by means of the expected ageing profile, of the electrical energy store.
US12113180B2
A charge-discharge control circuit, method, device and a storage medium are provided. In some embodiments, the circuit includes: a starting power supply; and a main positive switch unit. In those embodiments, a first terminal of the main positive switch unit is connected to the starting power supply, and a second terminal of the main positive switch unit is connected to a generator of the vehicle and a load of the vehicle. The main positive switch unit is configured to interrupt a current in a first current direction, which is a current direction when the generator charges the starting power supply. The circuit also includes a battery management module configured to detect a voltage of the starting power supply, and control the main positive switch unit to interrupt the current in the first current direction when the voltage of the starting power supply reaches a preset voltage threshold.
US12113165B2
A method (100) for producing a sintered component being a solid electrolyte and/or an electrode including titanium and sulfur for an all-solid state battery, the method including mixing powders (102) so as to obtain a powder mixture comprising titanium and sulfur, pressing (106) a component with the powder mixture, sintering (108) the component under a partial pressure of sulfur comprised between 200 Pa and 0.2 MPa so as to obtain an intermediate sintered component comprising titanium and sulfur, and sintering (114) the intermediate sintered component under a partial pressure of sulfur equal to or smaller than 150 Pa at a temperature plateau comprised between 200° C. and 400° C. so as to obtain a sintered component comprising titanium and sulfur, the solid electrolyte exhibiting the peaks in positions of 2θ=15.08° (±0.50°), 15.28° (±0.50°), 15.92° (±0.50°), 17.5° (±0.50°), 18.24° (±0.50°), 20.30° (±0.50°), 23.44° (±0.50°), 24.48° (±0.50°), and 26.66° (±0.50°) in a X-ray diffraction measurement using CuKα line.
US12113161B2
The present specification provides a new type of a display device in which a wiring process is easily performed after a semiconductor light emitting element having a vertical structure is assembled on a substrate. Here, a semiconductor light emitting device according to an embodiment of the present invention is characterized by comprising: a substrate; a wiring electrode positioned on the substrate; a dielectric film positioned on the wiring electrode; an assembly electrode positioned on the dielectric film; an assembly insulating film positioned on the assembly electrode; a partition wall positioned on the assembly insulting film and defining an assembly groove to which a semiconductor light emitting element is assembled; and the semiconductor light emitting element which is assembled to the assembly groove and provided with conductive electrodes on both ends thereof, wherein the wiring electrode is provided with a protrusion portion, and the protrusion portion protrudes toward the assembly groove and is electrically connected to the conductive electrode on one end of the semiconductor light emitting element.
US12113158B2
A light emitting diode package includes a light emitting diode chip provided at a lower side thereof with a first electrode pad and a second electrode pad, a first lead and a second lead spaced apart from each other and contacting the first electrode pad and the second electrode pad of the light emitting diode chip to be electrically connected thereto, respectively, and a housing formed to surround the first lead and the second lead and having a cavity open at a top portion thereof. The first lead and the second lead have a first lead exposing plane and a second lead exposing plane disposed on a lower surface of the cavity of the housing and partially exposing the first lead and the second lead, respectively.
US12113140B2
Disclosed herein is an integrated component formed by a first wafer having first and second trenches defined in a top surface thereof, and a second wafer coupled to the first wafer and formed by a substrate with a structural layer thereon that integrated an electromagnetic radiation detector overlying the second trench. A first cap is coupled to the second wafer, overlies the electromagnetic radiation detector, and serves to define a first air-tight chamber in which the electromagnetic radiation detector is positioned. A stator, a rotor, and a mobile mass are integrated within the substrate and form a drive assembly for driving the mobile mass. The rotor overlies the first trench. A second cap is coupled to the second wafer, overlies the mobile mass, and serving to define a second air-tight chamber in which the mobile mass is positioned.
US12113139B1
The solar cell includes a substrate having electrode regions and non-electrode regions alternatingly. The electrode regions have a first surface, the non-electrode regions have a second surface, and the first surface has a smaller roughness than the second surface. The solar cell further includes a first tunneling dielectric layer formed over the first surface, a first doped conductive layer arranged on a side of the first tunneling dielectric layer, a passivation layer formed over the second surface and the first doped conductive layer, and at least one first electrode. The at least one first electrode are arranged in the electrode regions, each of the at least one first electrode includes a connecting electrode formed over the electrode regions and multiple spot electrodes. The multiple spot electrodes are arranged below the connecting electrode and connected to the connecting electrode.
US12113137B2
A SPAD-type photodiode comprising a depletion area in a first portion of a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type and further comprising a gate electrically-insulated from the substrate, extending into the substrate from an upper surface of the substrate, and separating the first portion of the substrate from a second portion. The photodiode further comprises a first region of the second conductivity type extending from the upper surface of the substrate into the second portion.
US12113131B2
A SiC transistor device includes a SiC semiconductor substrate, a SiC epitaxial layer formed on the top surface of the SiC semiconductor substrate, a source structure formed in the top surface of the SiC epitaxial layer, a source contact structure electrically coupled to the top surface of the source structure, and a gate structure that includes a gate dielectric, a metal gate, and a gate insulation. A first backside metal contact is formed on the bottom surface of the SiC semiconductor substrate, a stress inducing layer is formed on the first backside metal contact, and a second backside metal contact is formed on the stress inducing layer.
US12113130B2
A transistor comprises a top source/drain region, a bottom source/drain region, a channel region vertically between the top and bottom source/drain regions, and a gate operatively laterally-adjacent the channel region. At least one of the top source/drain region, the bottom source/drain region, and the channel region are crystalline. All crystal grains within the at least one of the top source/drain region, the bottom source/drain region, and the channel region have average crystal sizes within 0.064 μm3 of one another. Other embodiments, including methods, are disclosed.
US12113128B2
An integrated circuit chip and a method of fabricating the IC chip to include a transistor having a thick gate oxide in combination with STI. The method provides a wafer for which a source region location, a drain contact region location, an extended drain region location and a gate region location have been defined and forms an STI structure overlying the extended drain region location. After growing a gate oxide layer over the gate region location and a portion of the extended drain region location, the method forms a gate structure on the gate oxide layer, the gate structure having a gap overlying the intersection of an edge of the STI structure with the gate oxide layer.
US12113126B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first electrode; a first semiconductor layer of first conductivity type provided on the first electrode; a second semiconductor layer of second conductivity type provided on the first semiconductor layer; a second electrode provided on the second semiconductor layer; a first trench reaching the first semiconductor layer from the second semiconductor layer; a first semiconductor region provided in the second semiconductor layer, the first semiconductor region being in contact with the first trench and the first semiconductor region having a higher concentration of impurities of second conductivity type than the second semiconductor layer; and a first insulating film provided in the second semiconductor layer and the first insulating film being in contact with the first semiconductor region.
US12113119B2
An FET, a method for manufacturing such FET, and an integrated circuit are disclosed. The FET includes a substrate carrying a gate electrode, a gate dielectric layer, and a channel layer sequentially stacked on the substrate. An insulating layer, an etching stop layer, and a protective layer are stacked sequentially on the channel layer. Source and drain electrodes are also formed. A material of the channel layer includes a 2D material. The FET defines two through holes extending through the insulating layer, the etching stop layer, and the protection layer and the channel layer is exposed, the two through holes carry the source and drain electrodes to form a top or direct contact with the channel layer.
US12113118B2
A method includes forming a silicon liner over a semiconductor device, which includes a dummy gate structure disposed over a substrate and S/D features disposed adjacent to the dummy gate structure, where the dummy gate structure traverses a channel region between the S/D features. The method further includes forming an ILD layer over the silicon liner, which includes elemental silicon, introducing a dopant species to the ILD layer, and subsequently removing the dummy gate structure to form a gate trench. Thereafter, the method proceeds to performing a thermal treatment to the doped ILD layer, thereby oxidizing the silicon liner, and forming a metal gate stack in the gate trench and over the oxidized silicon liner.
US12113116B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor fin, a silicon layer, a gate structure, gate spacers, and source/drain structures. The semiconductor fin is over the substrate. The silicon layer is over the semiconductor fin. The gate structure is over the silicon layer, in which the gate structure includes an interfacial layer over the silicon layer, a gate dielectric layer over the interfacial layer, and a gate electrode over the gate dielectric layer. The gate spacers are on opposite sidewalls of the gate structure and in contact with the interfacial layer of the gate structure, in which a bottom surface of the interfacial layer is higher than bottom surfaces of the gate spacers. The source/drain structures are on opposite sides of the gate structure.
US12113115B2
A thin film transistor may be manufactured by forming a gate electrode in an insulating layer over a substrate, forming a gate dielectric over the gate electrode and the insulating layer, forming an active layer over the gate electrode, and forming a source electrode and a drain electrode contacting a respective portion of a top surface of the active layer. A surface oxygen concentration may be increased in at least one of the gate dielectric and the active layer by introducing oxygen atoms into a surface region of a respective one of the gate dielectric and the active layer.
US12113113B2
A semiconductor device includes a pair of fin structures on a semiconductor substrate, each including a vertically stacked plurality of channel layers, a dielectric fin extending in parallel to and between the fin structures, and a gate structure on and extending perpendicularly to the fin structures, the gate structure engaging with the plurality of channel layers. The dielectric fin includes a fin bottom and a fin top over the fin bottom. The fin bottom has a top surface extending above a bottom surface of a topmost channel layer. The fin top includes a core and a shell, the core having a first dielectric material, the shell surrounding the core and having a second dielectric material different from the first dielectric material.
US12113110B2
A nitride semiconductor device having a field effect gate is disclosed. The disclosed nitride semiconductor device includes a high-resistance material layer including a Group III-V compound semiconductor, a first channel control layer on the high-resistance material layer and including a Group III-V compound semiconductor of a first conductivity type, a channel layer on the channel layer control layer and including a nitride semiconductor of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type, and a gate electrode having a contact of an ohmic contact type with the first channel control layer.
US12113104B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate interconnect, extending in a first direction, and configured to transmit an input signal, and a transistor including gate electrodes extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and spaced apart from one another, and connected to the gate interconnect, and source and drain regions alternately arranged along the first direction, so that each gate electrode is sandwiched between the source and drain region which are adjacent to each other. The semiconductor device also includes drain interconnects, arranged above the drain regions, and connected to the drain regions, respectively, an output interconnect, connected to the drain interconnects, and configured to transmit an output signal output from the drain regions, and stubs connected to the drain interconnects, respectively. At least one of the stubs is connected to one of the drain interconnects at an end opposite from the gate interconnect.
US12113093B2
Display substrates, display panels, and display devices. A display substrate includes a display area including a first display area, a second display area, and a third display area disposed between the two display areas, sub-pixels disposed in the above three display areas, pixel circuits corresponding to the sub-pixels one to one and signal lines. A light transmittance of first display area is greater than that of second display area, and that of third display area. Pixel circuits corresponding to sub-pixels in first display area are arranged in third display area. Pixel circuits corresponding to sub-pixels arranged along a first direction in display area are connected to a same one of the signal lines. At least one of the signal lines simultaneously connected with pixel circuits corresponding to sub-pixels in first display area, sub-pixels in second display area, and sub-pixels in third display area.
US12113088B2
In a light detection device, the semiconductor substrate has first and second main surfaces facing each other. The semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of cells. Each of the plurality of cells includes at least one avalanche photodiode. The plurality of pad electrodes are arranged on the first main surface so as to be spaced apart from the plurality of cells. The plurality of wiring portions are arranged on the first main surface. Each of the plurality of wiring portions connects the cell and the pad electrode corresponding to each other. The semiconductor substrate includes a peripheral carrier absorbing portion configured to absorb carriers located at a periphery of the peripheral carrier absorbing portion. The peripheral carrier absorbing portion is provided around each pad electrode and each wiring portion when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the first main surface.
US12113069B2
A FET IC structure made using a back-side access process that mitigates or eliminates thermal conductivity problems. In some embodiments, electrically-isolated thermal paths are formed adjacent the FET and configured to conduct heat laterally away from the FET to generally orthogonal thermal pathways, and thence to thermal pads externally accessible at the “top” of the completed IC. In some embodiments having a thermally-conductive handle wafer, electrically-isolated thermal paths are formed adjacent a FET and configured to conduct heat laterally away from the FET. Thermal vias are formed sufficiently so as to be in thermal contact with the handle wafer and with the conventional metallization layers of the device superstructure, at least one of which is in thermal contact with the lateral thermal paths. In some embodiments, the lateral thermal paths may use dummy gates configured to conduct heat laterally away from a FET to generally orthogonal thermal pathways.
US12113065B2
A fin-based field effect transistor (finFET) device may include a fin structure having a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. The finFET device may include a first gate structure disposed over at least part of the first portion, a first source/drain region disposed in the first portion, and a second drain/source region disposed in the third portion. Each of the first, second and third portions may include one or more fin portions. The total fin count in the second portion is fewer than the total fin count in the first portion. The second portion may include a drift region. Methods of fabricating a finFET are also disclosed. The finFET device provides a lower on-resistance and a higher breakdown voltage than conventional finFETs.
US12113061B2
A semiconductor device having relatively linear and constant parasitic capacitance of an operation range includes a first component having a negatively charged carrier channel and a second component comprising a positively charged carrier channel. The first component has source terminal and a drain terminal. The second component has bias terminal. Both components share a gate terminal that is electrostatically coupled to the negatively charged carrier channel of the first component and the positively charged carrier channel of the second component to produce a capacitance profile that stays relatively linear and constant as a voltage at the gate terminal changes.
US12113055B2
A method comprises depositing a protection layer over a first substrate, wherein the first substrate is part of a first semiconductor die, forming an under bump metallization structure over the protection layer, forming a connector over the under bump metallization structure, forming a first dummy plane along a first edge of a top surface of the first semiconductor die and forming a second dummy plane along a second edge of the top surface of the first semiconductor die, wherein the first dummy plane and the second dummy plane form an L-shaped region.
US12113054B2
The present disclosure provides for a stacked memory combining RAM and one or more layers of NVM, such as NAND. For example, a first layer of RAM, such as DRAM, is coupled to multiple consecutive layers of NAND using direct bonding interconnect (DBI®). Serialization and overhead that exists in periphery of the NVM may be stripped to manage the data stored therein. The resulting connections between the RAM and the NVM are high bandwidth, high pincount interconnects. Interconnects between each of the one or more layers of NVM are also very dense.
US12113053B2
A LED chip transfer method comprises: providing a driving substrate having at least one set of binding points, the set of binding points comprising a first and second binding points; forming a compensation layer covering the first and second binding points; providing a chip substrate comprising a substrate and chips; performing a first alignment treatment to form a first groove and a second groove on the compensation layer; forming a first and second via holes spaced from each other by the first groove and the second groove, forming a first transfer electrode and a second transfer electrode disconnected from each other on the compensation layer, inserting the first pin and the second groove into the first groove and the second groove to bind with the first transfer electrode and the second transfer electrode; and stripping the substrate from the chip.
US12113052B2
A microelectronic device comprises a first microelectronic device structure and a second microelectronic device structure attached to the first microelectronic device structure. The first microelectronic device structure comprises a memory array region comprising a stack structure comprising levels of conductive structures vertically alternating with levels of insulative structures, and staircase structures at lateral ends of the stack structure. The memory array region further comprises vertical stacks of memory cells, at least one of the vertical stacks of memory cells comprising stacked capacitor structures, each stacked capacitor structure comprising capacitor structures vertically spaced from each other by at least a level of the levels of insulative structures, transistor structures, each transistor structure operably coupled to a capacitor structure and to one of the conductive structures of the levels of conductive structures, and a conductive pillar structure vertically extending through the transistor structures.
US12113049B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, an interposer on the package substrate, semiconductor devices in individual mounting regions on a first surface of the interposer, respectively, first conductive connection members, and a molding member on the interposer. The interposer has first bonding pads in the individual mounting regions, respectively. The semiconductor devices each have chip pads electrically connected to the first bonding pads. The first conductive connection members are between the first bonding pads and the chip pads. The molding member covers the semiconductor devices and fills gaps between the first surface of the interposer and the semiconductor devices. At least one of the individual mounting regions includes a pad-free region with a cross shape and pad regions defined by the pad-free region, and the first bonding pads are in the pad regions.
US12113047B2
An ink leveling device includes a stage on which a target substrate is disposed, base frames disposed at sides of the stage, moving members coupled to the base frames and movable upward and downward, and at least one plate coupled to the moving members and disposed to press the target substrate. Light-emitting element ink is disposed on the target substrate.
US12113044B2
A semiconductor device package and a fabrication method thereof are disclosed. The semiconductor package comprises: a package component having a first mounting surface and a second mounting surface; and a first electronic component having a first conductive pad signal communicatively mounted on the first mounting surface through a first type connector; wherein the first type connector comprises a first solder composition having a lower melting point layer sandwiched between a pair of higher melting point layers, wherein the lower melting point layer is composed of alloys capable of forming a room temperature eutectic.
US12113039B2
A sintering powder comprising: a first type of metal particles having a mean longest dimension of from 100 nm to 50 μm.
US12113038B2
A thermal compression flip chip (TCFC) bump may be used for high performance products that benefit from a fine pitch. In one example, a new TCFC bump structure adds a metal pad underneath the TCFC copper pillar bump to cover the exposed aluminum bump pad. This new structure prevents the pad from corroding and reduces mechanical stress to the pad and underlying silicon dielectric layers enabling better quality and reliability and further bump size reduction. For example, a flip chip connection may include a substrate; a metal pad on a contact side of the substrate and a first passivation layer on the contact side of the substrate to protect the metal pad from corrosion.
US12113037B2
In certain aspects, a three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes a first semiconductor structure, a second semiconductor structure, a third semiconductor structure, a first bonding interface between the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure, and a second bonding interface between the second semiconductor structure and the third semiconductor structure. The first semiconductor structure includes an array of NAND memory strings and a first semiconductor layer in contact with sources of the array of NAND memory strings. The second semiconductor structure includes a first peripheral circuit of the array of NAND memory strings including a first transistor, and a second semiconductor layer in contact with the first transistor. A third semiconductor structure includes a second peripheral circuit of the array of NAND memory strings including a second transistor, and a third semiconductor layer in contact with the second transistor. The second semiconductor layer is between the first bonding interface and the first peripheral circuit. The second peripheral circuit is between the second bonding interface and the third semiconductor layer.
US12113035B2
Provided a semiconductor device comprises, a plurality of semiconductor patterns spaced in a first direction; a plurality of mold insulating layers between the plurality of semiconductor patterns, a plurality of silicide patterns contacting the plurality of semiconductor patterns; and a plurality of first metal conductive films between the plurality of mold insulating layers and connected to each of the silicide patterns, wherein each of the silicide patterns includes a first sidewall that faces the semiconductor pattern, and a second sidewall which faces the first metal conductive film, the first sidewall of the silicide pattern and the second sidewall of the silicide pattern extends in the first direction, and the first sidewall of the silicide pattern and the second sidewall of the silicide pattern are curved surfaces.
US12113025B2
A method includes forming a redistribution structure over a carrier, the redistribution structure having conductive features on a surface of the redistribution structure distal the carrier; forming a conductive pillar over the surface of the redistribution structure; attaching a die to the surface of the redistribution structure adjacent to the conductive pillar, where die connectors of the die are electrically coupled to the conductive features of the redistribution structure; and attaching a pre-made substrate to the conductive pillar through a conductive joint, where the conductive joint is on the conductive pillar and comprises a different material from the conductive pillar, where the conductive joint and the conductive pillar electrically couple the redistribution structure to the pre-made substrate.
US12113023B2
Disclosed herein are microelectronic structures including bridges, as well as related assemblies and methods. In some embodiments, a microelectronic structure may include a substrate and a bridge.
US12113020B2
Exemplary semiconductor processing methods include forming a via in a semiconductor structure. The via may be defined in part by a bottom surface and a sidewall surface formed in the semiconductor structure around the via. The methods may also include depositing a tantalum nitride (TaN) layer on the bottom surface of the via. In embodiments, the TaN layer may be deposited at a temperature less than or about 200° C. The methods may still further include depositing a titanium nitride (TiN) layer on the TaN layer. In embodiments, the TiN layer may be deposited at a temperature greater than or about 300° C. The methods may additionally include depositing a fill-metal on the TiN layer in the via. In embodiments, the metal may be deposited at a temperature greater than or about 300° C.
US12113019B2
A microelectronic device comprises pillar structures extending vertically through an isolation material, conductive lines electrically coupled to the pillar structures, contact structures between the pillar structures and the conductive lines, and interconnect structures between the conductive lines and the contact structures. The conductive lines comprise one or more of titanium, ruthenium, aluminum, and molybdenum. The interconnect structures comprise a material composition that is different than one or more of a material composition of the contact structures and a material composition of the conductive lines. Related memory devices, electronic systems, and methods are also described.
US12113013B2
A device includes: a first dielectric material; a first metal line in the first dielectric material; a second dielectric material disposed on the first dielectric material and the first metal line; a second metal line in the second dielectric material; and a plurality of metal vias disposed on a same level and connecting the first metal line and the second metal line, wherein the plurality of metal vias comprise a first top via and a bottom via having different sidewall profile angles.
US12113009B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a first lead including a mounting portion for the semiconductor element and a first terminal portion connected to the mounting portion, and a sealing resin covering the semiconductor element and a portion of the first lead. The mounting portion has a mounting-portion front surface and a mounting-portion back surface opposite to each other in a thickness direction, with the semiconductor element mounted on the mounting-portion front surface. The sealing resin includes a resin front surface, a resin back surface and a resin side surface connecting the resin front surface and the resin back surface. The mounting-portion back surface of the first lead is flush with the resin back surface. The first terminal portion includes a first-terminal-portion back surface exposed from the resin back surface, in a manner such that the first-terminal-portion back surface extends to the resin side surface.
US12113005B2
A method includes forming a plurality of dielectric layers, forming a plurality of redistribution lines in the plurality of dielectric layers, etching the plurality of dielectric layers to form an opening, filling the opening to form a through-dielectric via penetrating through the plurality of dielectric layers, forming an insulation layer over the through-dielectric via and the plurality of dielectric layers, forming a plurality of bond pads in the dielectric layer, and bonding a device to the insulation layer and a portion of the plurality of bond pads through hybrid bonding.
US12113003B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a package structure including a first side and a second side opposite to the first side; an interposer structure positioned over the first side of the package structure; a first die positioned over the interposer structure; a second die positioned over the interposer structure; and a plurality of middle interconnectors positioned between the first side of the package structure and the first die and between the first side of the package structure and the second die. The plurality of middle interconnectors respectively includes a middle exterior layer positioned between the first side of the package structure and the interposer structure, a middle interior layer enclosed by the middle exterior layer, and a cavity enclosed by the interposer structure, the package structure, and the middle interior layer.
US12112996B2
Provided is a semiconductor device having high planarity in an in-plane direction. This semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first plating film pattern, a second plating film pattern, and an insulating layer. The semiconductor substrate has a first surface, and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface. The first plating film pattern includes a first portion that covers a first regional portion of the first surface, and a second portion that is stacked to cover a portion of the first portion. The second plating film pattern includes a third portion that covers a second regional portion different from the first regional portion of the first surface, and also includes a fourth portion that is stacked to cover a portion of the third portion. A portion between the second portion and the fourth portion is filled with the insulating layer.
US12112991B1
A system on wafer assembly structure and an assembly method thereof. The system on wafer assembly structure comprises: a wafer layer, a dielectric layer and a circuit board layer sequentially stacked, and each provided with a bonding region, a testing region and an alignment region, respectively, a first assembly, and a second assembly, wherein the first assembly is arranged on one side of the wafer layer far away from the dielectric layer, and comprises a bearing portion and at least one latch portion connected with each other, and the bearing portion is detachably connected with the wafer layer. The second assembly is at least partially arranged around the first assembly. The second assembly has a hole portion for accommodating a latch portion, and the inner diameter of the hole portion is larger than the outer diameter of the latch portion.
US12112989B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed herein. An exemplary method comprises forming first and second semiconductor fins in first and second regions of a substrate, respectively; forming first and second dummy gate stacks over the first and second semiconductor fins, respectively, and forming a spacer layer over the first and the second dummy gate stacks; forming a first pattern layer with a thickness along the spacer layer in the first region; form a first source/drain (S/D) trench along the first pattern layer and epitaxially growing a first epitaxial feature therein; removing the first pattern layer to expose the spacer layer; forming a second pattern layer with a different thickness along the spacer layer in the second region; form a second S/D trench along the second pattern layer and epitaxially growing a second epitaxial feature therein; and removing the second pattern layer to expose the spacer layer.
US12112970B2
A substrate transfer apparatus includes a body portion having a holding region on a surface thereof corresponding to a substrate. The body portion moves so that the surface thereof approaches the substrate up to at least a first distance. A plurality of vacuum holes are distributed in the holding region and form negative pressure to provide suction force to the substrate disposed at the first distance. At least some of the plurality of vacuum holes are disposed at equal intervals at an edge of the holding region and have the same width. A plurality of air holes are distributed in the holding region and form positive pressure to provide a buoyancy force to the substrate close to the holding region at a second distance smaller than the first distance.
US12112965B2
A wafer supporting mechanism and a method for wafer dicing are provided. The wafer supporting mechanism includes a base portion and a support portion. The base portion includes a first gas channel and a first outlet connected to the first gas channel. The support portion is connected to the base portion and including a second gas channel connected to the first gas channel. An accommodation space is defined by the base portion and the support portion.
US12112962B2
An arrangement apparatus includes a stage, an arrangement part, and a control part. The stage supports a substrate. The arrangement part holds a die and arranges multiple dies on the substrate supported by the stage. The control part has a map data indicating arrangement positions of the dies and generated based on a positional relationship among patterns formed by an exposure apparatus, and controls, based on the map data, relative positions between the stage and the arrangement part when arranging the dies on the substrate.
US12112961B2
A system includes at least one sensor and at least one controller. The at least one sensor is configured to generate a first weight signal corresponding to a first weight of a first lot of substrates, and a second weight signal corresponding to a second weight of a second lot of substrates. The at least one controller is coupled to the at least one sensor to receive the first weight signal and the second weight signal. The at least one controller is configured to convert a weight difference between the first weight and the second weight into a number of substrates each having a predetermined weight. The at least one controller is further configured to, based on the converted number of substrates, control a processing apparatus to rotate the first lot of substrates and the second lot of substrates simultaneously.
US12112956B2
Provided are a chip interconnection package structure and method, including: forming a sacrificial pattern layer on a support structure; forming an interconnection winding pattern layer on the sacrificial pattern layer, wherein the interconnection winding pattern layer is corresponding to a sacrificial pattern of the sacrificial pattern layer in position; forming a first insulating layer on the interconnection winding pattern layer; forming a plurality of chips arranged at intervals on the first insulating layer, wherein the plurality of chips are respectively corresponding to the interconnection winding pattern of the interconnection winding pattern layer in position; and removing the support structure, and forming, on one side of the sacrificial pattern layer, a first interconnection hole penetrating through the sacrificial pattern, the interconnection winding pattern and the first insulating layer, and making the first interconnection hole aligned and communicated with a first interconnection pin of the chip corresponding in projection position.
US12112947B2
A method of crystallizing an amorphous silicon film includes depositing the amorphous silicon film on a seed layer formed over a substrate while heating the amorphous silicon film at a first temperature, and forming a crystal nucleus in an outer layer of the amorphous silicon film by causing migration of silicon in the outer layer by heating the amorphous silicon film at a second temperature higher than the first temperature.
US12112944B2
The disclosure provides a preparation method of GaN field effect transistor based on diamond substrate, and relates to the technical field of semiconductor manufacturing. The method includes the following steps: preparing a GaN heterojunction layer on the front-side of a SiC substrate; thinning the SiC substrate; etching the SiC substrate; growing a diamond layer; removing a sacrificial layer and the diamond layer on the sacrificial layer; preparing a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode on the front surface of the GaN heterojunction layer; etching the SiC substrate and the GaN heterojunction layer to form a source through hole communicated with the source electrode; and removing the through hole mask layer, and preparing back grounding metal to complete the preparation of the diamond substrate GaN transistor device.
US12112943B2
A method for forming a film that includes forming a boron nitride film on a substrate, and forming a boron-containing silicon film on the boron nitride film.
US12112935B2
An ion guide or ion trap that comprises a plurality of electrodes (102) is disclosed. The ion guide or ion trap includes a detector (205) that can detect light or particles (114) emitted from the ion guide or ion trap due to electrical breakdown, and a control circuit (111) that can control the ion guide or ion trap in response to the detector (205) detecting light or particles (114) emitted from the ion guide or ion trap.
US12112933B2
An imaging mass spectrometer according to one mode of the present invention includes: an analysis execution section (1, 31) configured to perform a mass spectrometric analysis on each of a plurality of measurement points set within a two-dimensional area on a sample, to collect mass spectrum data over a predetermined mass-to-charge-ratio range for each measurement point; a condition memory section (32) configured to store a data matrix creation condition to be used for creation of a data matrix based on the mass spectrum data acquired by the analysis in the analysis execution section; and a data matrix creation section (42) configured to begin, in the middle of an execution of the analysis by the analysis execution section or subsequently to the completion of the analysis, the creation of the data matrix based on mass spectrum data already collected until then, according to the data matrix creation condition stored in the condition memory section.
US12112932B2
An ion detector includes: a first electron multiplier for detecting first ions having a first polarity; a second electron multiplier for detecting second ions having a second polarity different from the first polarity; a first anode for capturing electrons emitted from the first electron multiplier; a second anode for capturing electrons emitted from the second electron multiplier; and a switching circuit including a first input terminal electrically connected to the first anode, a second input terminal electrically connected to the second anode, and an output terminal, the switching circuit selectively connecting one of the first input terminal and the second input terminal to the output terminal.
US12112930B2
A method includes placing a wafer on a wafer holder, depositing a film on a front surface of the wafer, and blowing a gas through ports in a redistributor onto a back surface of the wafer at a same time the deposition is performed. The gas is selected from a group consisting of nitrogen (N2), He, Ne, and combinations thereof.
US12112928B1
A PECVD apparatus includes a transfer chamber, a load lock, a cleaning chamber, a spin-drying chamber, a deposition chamber, and an unload lock; wherein the load lock, the cleaning chamber, the spin-drying chamber, the deposition chamber, and the unload lock are successively spirally arranged on a side wall of the transfer chamber; and a spiral conveyor device is arranged in the transfer chamber, wherein the spiral conveyor device includes a conveyor rod, a spiral drive mechanism, and a plurality of conveyor assemblies; wherein the conveyor rod is vertically arranged in the transfer chamber, and the plurality of conveyor assemblies are spirally arranged on the conveyor rod, and wherein the spiral drive mechanism is configured to drive the conveyor rod to undergo a spiral ascending or descending movement.
US12112927B2
A substrate processing apparatus (100), comprising a reaction chamber (50), an outer chamber (80) at least partly surrounding the reaction chamber (50) and forming an intermediate volume (70) therebetween, and a substrate support (40) within the reaction chamber (50), comprising a hollow inner volume (42), wherein the hollow inner volume (42) and the intermediate volume (70) are in fluid communication through a channel (45) extending from the hollow inner volume (42) to the intermediate volume (70).
US12112925B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes: a plasma processing chamber; a radio frequency power source; a sample stage on which a sample is mounted; an electrode which is arranged inside the sample stage and electrostatically chucks the sample; a DC power source which applies a DC voltage to the electrode; and a control device which controls an output voltage of the DC power source so that an electric potential difference between an electric potential of the sample and an electric potential of an inner wall of the plasma processing chamber is reduced to an electric potential difference within a predetermined range during interruption of plasma discharge.
US12112919B2
Systems, devices, and methods are discussed relating to plasma sources using load current switch timing of zero volt switching resonant topology.
US12112917B2
There is provided a sample holder which is for use in a charged particle beam system and which can prevent damage to a sample stage during transportation of a cartridge. The sample holder includes: the cartridge having the sample stage for holding a sample therein; and a holder base having a mounting portion to which the cartridge can be mounted. The cartridge has: a tilt mechanism for tilting the sample stage; and a lock lever which, when the cartridge has been taken out from the mounting portion, makes contact with the sample stage and limits tilt of the stage.
US12112903B2
A mechanical knob which may be designed and tuned according to various design conditions (size and the like of the knob) without restriction conditions such as a size, height, and the like, its push and rotation operations may be performed, and many parts are unnecessary unlike the conventional mechanical knobs. The mechanical knob apparatus includes a dial configured to transmit a force at which a user rotates or presses the knob to perform the rotation or push rotation of the knob as an exterior part of the knob exposed to the outside, a push operation unit coupled to the dial through a radial bearing to perform the push operation, and a rotation operation unit coupled to the dial to perform both the push operation and the rotation operation.
US12112878B2
An asymmetric spiral inductor is provided. The asymmetric spiral inductor includes a first winding, a second winding and a third winding. The first winding has a first end and a second end and is implemented in the ultra-thick metal (UTM) layer of a semiconductor structure. The second winding, which has a third end and a fourth end, is implemented in the re-distribution layer of the semiconductor structure and has a first maximum trace width. The third winding, which has a fifth end and a sixth end, is implemented in the UTM layer of the semiconductor structure and has a second maximum trace width smaller than the first maximum trace width. The second and third ends are connected through a first through structure, the fourth and fifth ends are connected through a second through structure, and the first and sixth ends are the two ends of the asymmetric spiral inductor.
US12112874B2
The present disclosure relates to an inductor including a coil, an inner core disposed inside the coil, and an outer core formed in a rectangular ring shape to accommodate the coil and the inner core therein, wherein the inner core is manufactured separately from the outer core, and at least one end of both ends of the inner core in an axial direction is spaced apart from the outer core.
US12112865B2
A system, comprising a bus bar having a first through-hole formed therein and a first current sensor that is disposed adjacent to the first branch. The first through-hole is arranged to define, at least in part, a first branch of the bus bar and a second branch of the bus bar. The first branch has different length and/or thickness than the second branch. The first current sensor is arranged to measure an electrical current through the bus bar.
US12112862B2
A method for manufacturing a spiral tube which is made of a resin material and spirally covers a periphery of a wire harness along an extending direction of the wire harness, the method includes extrusion molding a tube material which is made of the resin material, heating and softening the tube material and forming the spiral tube, and spirally wounding the spiral tube around the wire harness and cutting the spiral tube.
US12112855B2
Systems and methods are provided for secure messaging with constrained user actions. An example method includes causing presentation of an interactive user interface, the interactive user interface enabling messaging with end users, each end user being associated with a respective phone number. Selection of a particular end user is received via the interaction user interface and the interactive user interface is updated to include a selectable option which triggers transmission of a standardized consent message to a particular phone number associated with the particular end user. A reply message is received from the particular phone number indicating the affirmative consent. The interactive user interface is updated, with the updated interactive user interface including an input portion configured to receive arbitrary information for transmission to the particular phone number.
US12112842B2
An aspect of the invention provides a method and a product for determining a modification of the therapy management by using a processor unit which retrieves few data related to the blood glucose measurement performed over a predetermined time period; retrieve the medication delivery parameter executed by the delivery device over said predetermined time period; retrieve from the memory data associated to the CIR of the patient; and determine a modification to the therapy based on at least a part of the retrieved data.
US12112836B2
A computer implemented method for designing chemical reactions for catalyst construction is described. The method includes extracting historical data including historic chemical reaction data and historic catalyst construction yield data and converting the historic chemical reaction data into graph models to represent molecular structure data. The method also includes incorporating the graph models into a chemical reaction algorithm and training a vectorized cognitive deep learning network of the chemical reaction algorithm by using the graph models and a property of the historic chemical reaction data to produce a catalyst chemical reaction model. Further, the method includes validating the catalyst chemical reaction model by inputting the historic chemical reaction data and comparing a generated property corresponding to the catalyst chemical reaction model to the property of the historic chemical reaction data. Lastly, the method includes updating the training of the catalyst chemical reaction model.
US12112835B2
The invention relates to a method for determining polymeric product properties (1), wherein a prediction model (7) is provided for calculating polymeric product properties (1) based on production parameters on a computer system, which production parameters comprise formulation portions (2) specifying raw material portions for polymeric production and comprise processing parameters (3) specifying process properties during polymeric production, wherein user input is provided to the computer system, which user input comprises user production parameters (4) specifying a set of production parameters, user product parameters (5) specifying polymeric product properties and a proximity metric for quantifying conformity with the user product parameters (5), wherein the computer system applies the user production parameters (4) to the prediction model (7) to calculate resultant product properties (8), wherein the computer system applies the proximity metric to the resultant product properties (8) with respect to the user product parameters (5) to determine at least one proximity value indicating a match between the user product parameters (5) and the resultant product properties (8). The invention also relates to a corresponding computer system for determining polymeric product properties.
US12112833B2
Methods for index hopping sequence read filtering are provided. Each read in a plurality of reads from a multiplexed reaction comprises an insert portion, and first (molecular identifier) and second (sample index) non-insert portions. For each of a plurality of hashes, a hash data structure is formed with a representation of each read. Each representation comprises a hash of the first non-insert portion of the corresponding read. Read pairs are identified in the hash data structures. Each pair includes a first and second read sharing a common hash value but differing index values. An entry is added into a heterogeneous data structure, for each such pair, that includes the first and second non-insert portions of the first and second reads of the pair. Reads with first non-insert portion values appearing more than a threshold number of times in the heterogeneous data structure are removed from the plurality of reads.
US12112829B2
A memory array circuit includes a memory array and a set of dummy cells surrounding the memory array. The first memory array includes a first set of memory cells located in an inner area of the memory array and a second set of memory cells located along an edge of the memory array. Each dummy cell includes one or more active regions and multiple gate structures over the one or more active regions.
US12112827B2
A method includes measuring a linearity of a first pull-up circuit, a second pull-up circuit, a third pull-up circuit, a first pull-down circuit, a second pull-down circuit and a third pull-down circuit using an initial pull-up code and an initial pull-down code, each of the first pull-up circuit, the second pull-up circuit and the third pull-up circuit having a respective resistance value determined based on a respective pull-up code, and each of the first pull-down circuit, the second pull-down circuit and the third pull-down circuit having a respective resistance value determined based on a respective pull-down code, and determining a calibration setting indicator based on the measurement result, the calibration setting indicator indicating a calibration method of a transmission driver including the first pull-up circuit, the second pull-up circuit, the third pull-up circuit, the first pull-down circuit, the second pull-down circuit and the third pull-down circuit.
US12112823B2
A method for repairing a memory device with faulty memory cells. The method includes defining a RA environment comprising a location of each of the faulty memory cells and a plurality of SR and a plurality of SC. The method further includes repairing the faulty memory cells based on an RA training process using the defined RA environment and mapping of the location of each faulty memory cell with the plurality of SC or SR. The method further includes training, based on a determination that indicates the at least one faulty memory cell among the faulty memory cells is left unrepaired and the at least one SC or SR is remaining, a first NN to perform an action for repairing of the faulty memory cells such that a maximum number of faulty memory cells are reparable and a minimum number of SC and SR are utilized during the repairing.
US12112819B2
Apparatus might include an array of memory cells and a controller for access of the array of memory cells. The controller might be configured to cause the apparatus to apply a sense voltage level to a control gate of a memory cell of the array of memory cells, generate N determinations whether the memory cell is deemed to activate or deactivate while applying the sense voltage level, wherein N is an integer value greater than or equal to three, deem the memory cell to have a threshold voltage in a first range of threshold voltages lower than the sense voltage level in response to a majority of the N determinations indicating activation of the memory cell, and deem the memory cell to have a threshold voltage in a second range of threshold voltages higher than the sense voltage level in response to a majority of the N determinations indicating activation of the memory cell.
US12112814B2
Technology for open block boundary group programming of non-volatile memory such as NAND. The open block boundary group could potentially be read in response to a request from a host for the data stored in the group. In an aspect, the memory system will determine whether programming a group of memory cells in a selected block will result in an open block. If it will not result in an open block, then the memory system uses a first set of programming parameters to program the group. However, if it will result in an open block then the memory system uses a second set of programming parameters to program the boundary group. The programming parameters may include verify levels and/or a program voltage step size. The second set of programming parameters can tighten Vt distributions, which mitigates mis-reads if the boundary group is read.
US12112795B2
A memory device and operating method of the memory device are provided. The memory device comprises a memory cell storing data based on a first voltage, a row decoder selecting a wordline of the memory cell based on the first voltage, and a wordline predecoder configured to generate a “predec” signal, which is for generating a wordline voltage to be provided to the row decoder. The wordline predecoder is driven by the first voltage and a second voltage, which is different from the first voltage, receives a row address signal, associated with selecting the wordline, and an internal clock signal associated with adjusting operating timings of elements included in the memory device. The wordline predecoder performs a NAND operation on the row address signal and the internal clock signal, and provides the “predec” signal generated based on a result of the NAND operation to the row decoder.
US12112792B2
A memory device includes an array of memory cells configured on a die or chip and coupled to sense lines and access lines of the die or chip and a respective sense amplifier configured on the die or chip coupled to each of the sense lines. Each of a plurality of subsets of the sense lines is coupled to a respective local input/output (I/O) line on the die or chip for communication of data on the die or chip and a respective transceiver associated with the respective local I/O line, the respective transceiver configured to enable communication of the data to one or more device off the die or chip.
US12112790B2
A method for determining a target locking time for a delay locked loop of a memory apparatus are provided. The method includes, a system inputting a first set of input signals to the memory apparatus in accordance with a first set of first operational parameters and a set of second operational parameters, the system measuring a first set of output signals from the memory apparatus in response to the first set of input signals to determine whether the delay locked loop fails at any combination of the first set of first operational parameters and the set of second operational parameters, the system determining a first candidate operational parameter from the first set of first operational parameters under which the delay locked loop does not fail for each of the set of second operational parameters, and the system determining the target locking time based on the first candidate operational parameter.
US12112787B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for access based targeted refresh operations. A memory bank has a first sub-bank and a second sub-bank. A refresh control circuit detects an aggressor in one of the sub-banks. Responsive to an access in the other sub-bank, the refresh control circuit performs a targeted refresh operation based on the sub-bank based on the aggressor address.
US12112782B2
An approach for minimizing stack height and reducing resistance of an MRAM (Magnetoresistive random-access memory) is disclosed. The approach leverages an MRAM device with a T shape magnetic bottom electrode. The T shape magnetic bottom electrode can be made from a lower resistance metal such as cobalt. Furthermore, the method of creating the MRAM can include, depositing a low-k dielectric layer, forming bottom electrode via within the low-k dielectric layer, depositing bottom electrode metal liner on the bottom electrode via, depositing bottom electrode magnetic metal on the bottom electrode metal liner, planarizing the bottom electrode magnetic metal, depositing coupling layer and an MRAM stack on the bottom electrode magnetic metal, patterning and etching anisotropically the MRAM stack and depositing in-situ conformal dielectric layer and forming a top contact via on the MRAM stack.
US12112780B2
A recording medium includes a recording layer. The recording layer includes an aliphatic polymer, and a multiphoton absorption compound containing at least one bond selected from the group consisting of a carbon-carbon double bond, a carbon-nitrogen double bond, and a carbon-carbon triple bond, and having a multiphoton absorption characteristic. When the thickness of the recording layer is 100 μm, the transmittance of the recording layer in the thickness direction with respect to light having a wavelength of 405 nm is greater than or equal to 80%.
US12112779B1
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head that includes a write head configured to write data to the magnetic disk, a read head configured to read data from the magnetic disk, and a heater configured to adjust a flying height of the write head, and a controller that includes a first detection unit configured to detect the flying height of the write head, a second detection unit configured to detect a positioning error of the magnetic head with respect to a track of the magnetic disk, and a memory configured to store a first threshold and a second threshold.
US12112778B2
Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising one or more disks; an actuator mechanism configured to position a selected head among one or more heads proximate to a corresponding disk surface of the one or more disks; and one or more processing devices. The one or more processing devices are configured to detect adjacent track interference (ATI) due to a write operation in an adjacent sector to a subject sector on the corresponding disk surface; and to generate a readback servo trajectory for the subject sector, based on a position error signal (PES) for the subject sector, a PES for the adjacent sector, and the ATI.
US12112769B2
Provided is a method of performing automatic interpretation based on speaker separation by a user terminal, the method including: receiving a first speech signal including at least one of a user speech of a user and a user surrounding speech around the user from an automatic interpretation service providing terminal, separating the first speech signal into speaker-specific speech signals, performing interpretation on the speaker-specific speech signals in a language selected by the user on the basis of an interpretation mode, and providing a second speech signal generated as a result of the interpretation to at least one of a counterpart terminal and the automatic interpretation service providing terminal according to the interpretation mode.
US12112768B2
A method, an apparatus, and logic to post-process raw gains determined by input processing to generate post-processed gains, comprising using one or both of delta gain smoothing and decision-directed gain smoothing. The delta gain smoothing comprises applying a smoothing filter to the raw gain with a smoothing factor that depends on the gain delta: the absolute value of the difference between the raw gain for the current frame and the post-processed gain for a previous frame. The decision-directed gain smoothing comprises converting the raw gain to a signal-to-noise ratio, applying a smoothing filter with a smoothing factor to the signal-to-noise ratio to calculate a smoothed signal-to-noise ratio, and converting the smoothed signal-to-noise ratio to determine the second smoothed gain, with smoothing factor possibly dependent on the gain delta.
US12112764B2
A method is disclosed to estimate the delay between an original signal and the corresponding captured signal. The signals are transformed and buffered to two sets of spectral descriptors for a similarity measure. The method advantageously offers robust delay estimation for inconsistent delays and adverse spectral distortions.
US12112762B2
An apparatus for encoding directional audio coding parameters including diffuseness parameters and direction parameters includes: a parameter calculator for calculating the diffuseness parameters with a first time or frequency resolution and for calculating the direction parameters with a second time or frequency resolution; and a quantizer and encoder processor for generating a quantized and encoded representation of the diffuseness parameters and the direction parameters.
US12112756B2
An interaction method triggered by a mouth-covering gesture and an intelligent electronic device are provided. The interaction method is applied to an intelligent electronic device arranged with a sensor. The intelligent electronic device includes a sensor system for capturing a signal of a user putting one hand on a mouth to make a mouth-covering gesture. The interaction method includes: processing the signal to determine whether the user puts the hand on the mouth to make the mouth-covering gesture; and in a case that the user puts the hand on the mouth to make the mouth-covering gesture, determining a mouth-covering gesture input mode as an input mode for controlling an interaction to trigger a control command or trigger another input mode, by executing a program on the intelligent electronic device.
US12112751B2
An electronic device, according to various embodiments, comprises a communication interface, a processor, and a memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: obtain a user utterance; confirm context information associated with the user utterance; on the basis of the context information, select, as a target device, at least one external electronic device from among a plurality of external electronic devices; and via the communication interface, transmit at least a part of the context information to the at least one external electronic device selected as the target device. Various other embodiments are possible.
US12112742B2
Provided are an electronic device for correcting a speech input, and an operating method thereof. The method may include receiving a first speech signal; obtaining first text; obtaining an intent of the first speech signal and a confidence score of the intent, by inputting the first text to a natural language understanding model; identifying a plurality of correction candidate semantic elements capable of being correction targets in the first text; receiving a second speech signal; obtaining second text; identifying whether the second speech signal is a speech signal for correcting the first text; comparing the plurality of correction candidate semantic elements in the first text with a semantic element in the second text, based on the confidence score; and correcting at least one of the plurality of correction candidate semantic elements in the first text.
US12112739B2
Provided are an information processing device and an information processing method capable of responding to an utterance of a user with a correct pronunciation. The information processing device generates a response text indicating contents of a response to an utterance of a user on the basis of an utterance text indicating contents of the utterance of the user, and outputs the response text to which pronunciation information indicating a reading of a character string included in the response text is added.
US12112732B2
A sensing system for a keyboard. Each key sensor comprises passive and active resonant circuits. The passive resonant circuit has a resonant frequency and the active resonant circuit excites the passive resonant circuit at the resonant frequency. A sensor driver drives the active resonant circuit with an RF drive signal, a multiplexing system multiplexes the drive signal such that simultaneously driven key sensors are separated by at least (k−1) keys, and a detector detects a level of RF signal from a driven key sensor for sensing a position and/or velocity of a key.
US12112728B2
Holders and dispensers for guitar picks or plectra have an elongated base portion and an upper surface adapted for holding one or more of said picks or plectra, the base portion having right and left sides and having proximal and distal ends. The proximal end is configured for loading and dispensing picks. The base portion upper surface slopes upwards from the proximal to distal end; with the upper surface defining a plurality of pick positions. The side walls extend along the sides of said base portion rising above the base portion. The side walls have flanges each defining an elongated slots above the base portion. The proximal ends of the base portion and the channels are open to receive and dispense the picks and/or plectra. A key-ring slot may be present at the distal end.
US12112721B2
Various embodiments disclose a method and an apparatus including a display, a memory including information on a number of duty cycles per one refresh period for emitting light by pixels of the display corresponding to each of a plurality of refresh rates of the display, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control the electronic device to perform an operation according to a first number of duty cycles based on the display operating at a first refresh rate, and perform an operation according to a second number of duty cycles based on the display operating at a second refresh rate, wherein the first number is less than the second number based on the first refresh rate being higher than the second refresh rate.
US12112718B2
A video display includes a display panel with gate drivers and source drivers. Each of said the source drivers is arranged to receive a discrete-time continuous-amplitude signal representing a video stream over a transmission medium and to decode the signal using demodulation to produce a plurality of samples for output on outputs of the source drivers. At least one of the source drivers is arranged to extract a gate driver timing control signal from the signal and to output the gate driver control signal to the gate drivers in order to synchronize the gate drivers with outputs of the source drives, whereby the video stream is displayed on the display panel of the display unit.
US12112716B2
A method for driving a pixel matrix is provided, and the pixel matrix includes multiple sub-pixels arranged in a matrix. Voltages applied along any one of data lines change in polarity once every four sub-pixels or every two sub-pixels, any one of the data lines controls voltage inputs of sub-pixel respectively connected to two sides thereof or controls voltage inputs of two sub-pixels both connected to one side thereof. The method includes: receiving an image data and acquiring original pixel data according to the image data; generating a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage according to the original pixel data; and loading the first driving voltage or the second driving voltage to the pixel matrix along any one of the data lines. The invention also provides a display device corresponding to the method. The invention can avoid crosstalk, bright dark lines and improve display effect.
US12112711B1
The disclosure provides a processor and a pixel degradation compensation method thereof. The processor includes a processing circuit and a pixel degradation compensation circuit. The pixel degradation compensation circuit generates a current degradation value based on current sub-pixel data. The current degradation value represents the degradation effect of the current sub-pixel data on a corresponding sub-pixel in a display module. The pixel degradation compensation circuit may adjust the current degradation value to generate an adjusted degradation value corresponding to the current sub-pixel data. The adjusted degradation value is accumulated to a total degradation value corresponding to the current sub-pixel data. The pixel degradation compensation circuit compensates the current sub-pixel data based on the total degradation value corresponding to the current sub-pixel data so as to generate compensated current sub-pixel data to the display module.
US12112707B2
A pixel circuit includes a driving circuit, a first control circuit and a second control circuit. The driving circuit is configured to receive a data signal in response to a scan signal, and generate, in response to a first enable signal, a driving signal according to a first voltage and the data signal. The first control circuit is configured to: receive a first input signal in response to a first control signal, and transmit a third input signal in response to the first input signal; and receive a second input signal in response to a second control signal, and transmit a second enable signal in response to the second input signal. The second control circuit is configured to transmit the driving signal to an element to be driven in response to one of the third input signal and the second enable signal.
US12112706B2
A driving transistor is configured to control driving current for the light-emitting element. A first capacitive element and a second capacitive element are connected in series between a gate and a source of the driving transistor. A first switching transistor is configured to switch connection/disconnection between a data line and an intermediate node located between the first capacitive element and the second capacitive element. A second switching transistor is configured to switch connection/disconnection between the gate and a drain of the driving transistor. A third switching transistor is configured to switch connection/disconnection between the intermediate node and a reference power line. A fourth switching transistor is configured to switch supply/non-supply of driving current from the driving transistor to the light-emitting element. A fifth switching transistor is configured to switch connection/disconnection between an anode of the light-emitting element and a reset power line.
US12112704B2
A pixel circuit is disclosed that includes first through sixth transistors, first and second capacitors, and a light emitting element. A gate electrode of the second transistor receives a first gate signal. A gate electrode of the third transistor receive a second gate signal. Gate electrodes of each of the fourth and fifth transistors receive a third gate signal. A gate electrode of the sixth transistor receives an emission signal. First electrodes of the first transistor and the first capacitor each receive a first power supply voltage. A cathode electrode of the light emitting element receives a second power supply voltage. A first electrode of the fourth transistor receives an initialization voltage.
US12112703B2
A pixel circuit, a display device, and a mobile terminal including the display device are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes one or more first switch elements configured to be turned on in response to a first gate signal; one or more second switch elements configured to be turned on in response to a second gate signal; one or more third switch elements configured to be turned on in response to a third gate signal; an internal gate signal generator configured to receive the first gate signal and the second gate signal to output the third gate signal; and a driving element configured to drive a light emitting element.
US12112701B2
A display device includes a display panel including a first pixel, a second pixel, and a connection line connecting the first pixel and the second pixel. Each of the first pixel and the second pixel includes a light emitting element, a first transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode electrically connected to the light emitting element, and a gate electrode, a second transistor connected between a first driving voltage line and a connection node and including a gate electrode connected to an emission line, a third transistor connected between a second driving voltage line and the connection node and including a gate electrode connected to the emission line, and a capacitor connected between the gate electrode of the first transistor and the connection node. The connection node of the first pixel is electrically connected to the connection node of the second pixel through the connection line.
US12112678B2
A hybrid pulse-width-modulation pixel includes a light controller responsive to a variable power signal specifying different powers and a pixel controller. The pixel controller is operable receive a pixel luminance signal comprising multiple bits specifying a desired light-controller luminance, generate the variable power signal in response to the pixel luminance signal, and drive the light controller to emit light at different luminances in response to the variable power signal for different time periods. The pixel controller is operable to provide the variable power signal at a constant first power for a first time period and provide the variable power signal at a constant second power different from the constant first power for a second time period.
US12112677B2
The present application discloses a drive circuit. The drive circuit includes: a first module, configured to generate image data; and a second module, configured to set a state value corresponding to the next image data based on a frame refresh rate corresponding to the current image data, a state value corresponding to the current image data and a state value corresponding to the previous image data.
US12112675B2
The present invention discloses a display panel grayscale compensation method, a grayscale compensation device, and a grayscale compensation system. The grayscale compensation method, by acquiring at least one set of image data corresponding to bonding point grayscale values of the display panel, and by dividing the display panel into a main display region and sub-display regions through the image data, can determine grayscale compensation values corresponding to pixels in the sub-display region according to the average gamma value of each sub-display region, which can increase precision of a single grayscale compensation of the pixels in the display panel.
US12112671B2
An electronic device includes a communication module configured to communicate with an external device having a battery capacity greater than a battery capacity of the electronic device, a display, and at least one processor. The processor is configured to control the communication module to transmit a communication start request to the external device, and in a case where the electronic device receives notification information from the external device, change an operation mode of the electronic device from a first mode to a second mode. The display performs displaying a normal operation of the electronic device in the first mode, and the display performs displaying based on the notification information in the second mode.
US12112660B2
A signage system that is used to mount a sign atop a post so that the sign is higher than the post. A wire frame connects the sign to the top of a post. The wire frame has support sections that extend into a sign through the bottom edge of the sign. The wire frame also has mounting sections that extend away from the sign and are sized and shaped to engage the open top end of a post. The wire frame further includes lateral sections that extend between the support sections and the mounting sections. The lateral sections are aligned along a common line that runs parallel to the bottom edge of the sign. The support sections, lateral sections, and mounting sections are all coplanar.
US12112659B2
A product sample display structure holding multiple vertical shafts, each vertical shaft supporting a wing support bracket that may be positioned at a selected vertical location on the shaft. Vertically adjusting the wing support brackets allows the structure to hold wings of varying heights or from different manufacturers. A display board clamp includes a block having perpendicular slots offset from the midline of the blocks.
US12112650B2
Autonomous and manually operated vehicles are integrated into a cohesive, interactive environment, with communications to each other and to their surroundings, to improve traffic flow while reducing accidents and other incidents. All vehicles send/receive messages to/from each other, and from infrastructure devices, enabling the vehicles to determine their status, traffic conditions and infrastructure. The vehicles store and operate in accordance with a common set of rules based upon the messages received and other inputs from sensors, databases, and so forth, to avoid obstacles and collisions based upon current and, in some cases, future or predicted behavior. Shared vehicle control interfaces enable the AVs to conform to driving activities that are legal, safe, and allowable on roadways. Such activities enable each AV to drive within safety margins, speed limits, on allowed or legal driving lanes and through allowed turns, intersections, mergers, lane changes, stops/starts, and so forth.
US12112649B2
Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of a vehicle by automatically initiating activation of an automated functionality, such as autoland functionality of an aircraft, in the absence of user input within one or more monitoring periods. One method involves identifying a triggering event, identifying a monitoring period associated with the triggering event, monitoring one or more components for user input within the monitoring period associated with the triggering event, and automatically initiating activation of an automated functionality associated with the vehicle in the absence of user input within the monitoring period associated with the triggering event. In some implementations, the monitoring period adaptively and dynamically varies during operation.
US12112648B2
A system for determining a vehicle operating state is provided. The system includes at least two particle detectors, a controller and a memory. A sample volume used by each particle detector of the at least two particle detectors configured to be collected in a different location relative to the vehicle than another sample volume used by another particle detector of the at least two particle detectors and at least one sample volume is configured to be collected in an environment where particles are disturbed by the vehicle. The controller is configured to determine at least one operating state of the vehicle based at least in part on a comparison of output signals of the at least two particle detectors. The at least one memory is used to store at least operating instructions implemented by the controller in determining the at least one operating state of the vehicle.
US12112647B2
Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) scale rendered analysis, orthomosaic, and 3D mapping and landing platform systems. More specifically, some embodiments relate to systems, methods, and means for the collection and processing of images captured during a UAV flight sequence. In some embodiments, the UAV landing platform retrieves flight information and initial map information over a unidirectional virtual private network from a multitenant cloud-based scheduling application. The UAV landing platform sends the initial map information to a UAV over a WiFi, Bluetooth, or radio frequency network and initiates a drone flight sequence once the drone flight sequence has been approved by a local user. The UAV landing platform receives property image data from a UAV after a UAV flight sequence has ended and transmits the received property image data back to the cloud application.
US12112646B2
A method for controlling flight of an aircraft system comprises deriving a liability map using mapping data related to one or more ground hazard categories, wherein each ground hazard category is associated with a type of hazard on a ground surface. The liability map comprises a plurality of risk liability values (L1 and/or L2) associated with the one or more ground hazard categories. The liability map is used to control one or more parameters for controlling flight of the aircraft system.
US12112645B2
Disclosed is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) positioning method based on a millimeter-wave radar, including a calibration stage and a positioning stage. The calibration stage includes: acquiring ground coordinates of the unmanned aerial vehicle; and extracting feature points from radar point cloud data and get the ground coordinates of the feature points. The positioning stage includes: acquiring radar point cloud data of a current frame and pre-processing; acquiring UAV motion data and fuse the data with radar point cloud data; extracting characteristic line segment from radar point cloud data; registering the characteristic line segment of the current frame with the characteristic line segment of the previous frame, and finding matching feature points and newly added feature points; and obtaining the ground coordinates of UAV and the ground coordinates of newly added feature points based on the ground coordinates of matched feature points on the map.
US12112631B2
A parking guidance system and a method for allocating a parking space for a vehicle and for navigating the vehicle to the parking space are provided. The system has a detection unit for detecting an occupancy state of a parking space and/or a parking area containing a plurality of parking spaces, at least one mobile terminal with which a request from at least one vehicle driver for a parking space for his vehicle to reach a destination can be transmitted to the parking guidance system, which request comprises instantaneous position data of the vehicle. The parking guidance system is designed to select an available parking space in accordance with the request and to transmit a selection suggestion for a parking space to the mobile terminal and comprises a navigation system designed to determine a route from the location of the vehicle at the time of the parking space request to the available parking space. The parking guidance system is designed to select parking spaces in a manner that is fed back to the route guidance.
US12112612B2
Pest control systems and methods are described. The systems comprise a portable electronic device which is configured to identify one or more of multiple PCDs within a range of a portable electric device which have been activated, and to provide an indication to a user corresponding to at least one of the identified activated PCDs.
US12112597B2
The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method performed by a gaming system. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a scheme for further improving an attraction power of a game provided in relation to the gaming system. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding gaming system and a computer program product.
US12112582B2
A method of collecting vehicle data by a vehicle, may include acquiring the vehicle data of the vehicle; receiving information on whether consent to provision of information is provided for collection of the vehicle data; and transmitting a piece of the vehicle data in which the consent to provision of the information is given, to a vehicle data management server by use of a communication device of the vehicle.
US12112579B2
A connected component platform (CCP) is disclosed. The CCP receives user information and sensor derived data. The system also includes an overall data evaluator to access a performance database and use the user information in conjunction with information from the performance database to evaluate the received user information as a method to develop user guidance data in the area of suspension tuning and suspension maintenance recommendations. The system further includes a data evaluation results formator to receive the user guidance data from the overall data evaluator, format the user guidance data into a user accessible digital format, and output the user guidance data in the user accessible digital format.
US12112578B2
Provided is a system and method for creating a luggage manifest using a b-type message and a passenger name record number, the method including: a) identifying, by at least one of at least one processor, a baggage source message (BSM) associated with an arrival of a luggage item of a passenger, wherein the BSM includes an airport code associated with an airport and travel data of a first mode of travel carrier of the luggage item; b) matching, by at least one of the at least one processor, a passenger name record (PNR) number of the passenger included in the BSM with a PNR number in a manifest for a second mode of travel different from the first mode of travel, wherein the second mode of travel is local to the airport code; c) based on a match being found in b), extracting, by at least one of the at least one processor, an International Air Transport Association (IATA) license plate number from the BSM; and d) creating, by at least one of the at least one processor, a luggage item manifest record for the luggage item, wherein the luggage item manifest record includes the IATA license plate number and the PNR number of the passenger, and wherein the luggage item manifest record is accessible by predetermined electronic acquiring devices configured to scan an originating hardcopy bag tag identifier (OH-BTI) associated with or printed on an originating hardcopy bag tag from the first mode of travel carrier that is attached to the luggage item.
US12112577B2
Provided is a system and method of optical character recognition of a bag tag, the method including: a) obtaining, by at least one of at least one processor, image data representative of at least one image of printed passenger information associated with an airline travel carrier on an originating hardcopy bag tag or a printed instrument comprising at least a portion of the printed passenger information on the originating hardcopy bag tag to create a digital passenger information (DPI) data record linked to the airline travel carrier, wherein the originating hardcopy bag tag is issued for a luggage item of a passenger, and wherein the DPI data record comprises an International Air Transport Association (IATA) license plate number, a passenger name record (PNR) number, an airline code, an airline name, a name of the passenger, or any combination thereof; b) accessing, by at least one of the at least one processor, passenger return flight information from a computer system associated with the airline travel carrier, based on the DPI data record; and c) printing, by a printing device, a return leg travel IATA bag tag for a return flight associated with the passenger return flight information.
US12112575B2
A method and apparatus for detecting a liveness based on a phase difference are provided. The method includes generating a first phase image based on first visual information of a first phase, generating a second phase image based on second visual information of a second phase, generating a minimum map based on a disparity between the first phase image and the second phase image, and detecting a liveness based on the minimum map.
US12112574B2
An apparatus for providing a virtual or augmented reality experience, includes: a screen, wherein the screen is at least partially transparent for allowing a user of the apparatus to view an object in an environment surrounding the user; a surface detector configured to detect a surface of the object; an object identifier configured to obtain an orientation and/or an elevation of the surface of the object, and to make an identification for the object based on the orientation and/or the elevation of the surface of the object; and a graphic generator configured to generate an identifier indicating the identification for the object for display by the screen, wherein the screen is configured to display the identifier.
US12112572B2
Systems and methods for warning a user that media assets associated with another user depict the user with an undesired expression are provided. A plurality of media assets associated with a first user and depicting a second user may be identified. A set of expressions of the second user that the second user has indicated as undesirable may be retrieved. The depictions of the second user in the plurality of media assets and the expressions that the second user has indicated are undesirable may be compared. If it is determined that one or more of the media assets depict the second user with an undesirable expression, a notification may be generated to the second user indicating that one or more media assets of the first user depict the second user with an expression that the second user has indicated as undesirable.
US12112566B2
A video monitoring system captures image frames of a patient in various positions. The captured image frames are analyzed by the system for changes in a patient's position or movement, frames in which the system detects one or both of patient movement and repositioning are retained. The system analyzes an area of interest within each image frame that corresponds to an area in the camera's view field with the patient. Sequential image frames are compared for motion, only frames without motion, where the patient is still, are analyzed.
US12112557B2
This application relates to a method for processing image data of a microbial culture medium to recognize colony forming unit (CFU). In one aspect, the method includes receiving, at a processor, captured image data of the microbial culture medium from a user device, and preprocessing, at the processor, the captured image data. The method may also include counting, at the processor, the number of CFUs included in the preprocessed image data to derive result data including the counted number of CFUs. The method may further include automatically inputting information included in the result data into a predetermined template to generate document data corresponding to the captured image data, and transmitting at least one of the result data or the document data to the user device.
US12112556B2
An image recognition method includes: obtaining a target three-dimensional (3D) image; inputting the target 3D image to a first recognition model; and obtaining the image type of the target 3D image outputted by the first recognition model. The first recognition model is configured to perform image recognition on the target 3D image to obtain an image type of the target 3D image. A convolutional block of the first recognition model is the same as a convolutional block of a second recognition model, and configured to perform image recognition on the target 3D image. The second recognition model is obtained by training an original recognition model using a target training sample, the target training sample including cubes obtained by rotating and sorting N target cubes obtained from a 3D sample image, N being a natural number greater than 1.
US12112552B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for lane marker detection. A set of feature tensors is generated by processing an input image using a convolutional neural network. A set of localizations is generated by processing the set of feature tensors using a localization network, a set of horizontal positions is generated by processing the set of feature tensors using row-wise regression, and a set of end positions is generated by processing the set of feature tensors using y-end regression. A set of lane marker positions is determined based on the set of localizations, the set of horizontal positions, and the set of end positions.
US12112542B2
To present a region which is not fully monitored, provided is a monitoring device comprising a detection means, an estimation means, a determination means, and a presentation means. The detection means detects a person from an image. The estimation means estimates a region which is being viewed by the person who is detected by the detection means. On the basis of the region estimated by the estimation means, the determination means determines a region which requires special attention within a monitoring area. The presentation means presents information indicating the region which requires special attention determined by the determination means.
US12112541B2
A bed system includes: an imaging device; a bed on which the imaging device is to be installed; and a controller configured to process an image acquired by the imaging device to predict a possibility of overturning of a user, in which, when it is determined that a state of the user is a first state, the controller predicts the possibility of overturning of the user based on a first parameter, when it is determined that the state of the user is a second state, the controller predicts the possibility of overturning of the user based on a second parameter, the first state is a state of the user different from the second state, and the first parameter is different from the second parameter.
US12112539B2
A video processing method, an electronic device and a storage medium are provided, and relate to the field of artificial intelligence, and particularly relates to the fields of deep learning, model training, knowledge mapping, video processing and the like. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of first video frames, and performing fine-grained splitting on the plurality of first video frames to obtain a plurality of second video frames; performing feature encoding on the plurality of second video frames according to multi-mode information related to the plurality of second video frames, to obtain feature fusion information for characterizing fusion of the multi-mode information; and performing similarity matching on the plurality of second video frames according to the feature fusion information, and obtaining a target video according to a result of the similarity matching.
US12112537B2
A group captioning system includes computing hardware, software, and/or firmware components in support of the enhanced group captioning contemplated herein. In operation, the system generates a target embedding for a group of target images, as well as a reference embedding for a group of reference images. The system identifies information in-common between the group of target images and the group of reference images and removes the joint information from the target embedding and the reference embedding. The result is a contrastive group embedding that includes a contrastive target embedding and a contrastive reference embedding with which to construct a contrastive group embedding, which is then input to a model to obtain a group caption for the target group of images.
US12112533B2
A method and an apparatus for data calculation in a neural network model, and an image processing method and apparatus. The method for data calculation includes: reading weight data shared by a group of data processing of a data processing layer in a neural network model, into a GroupShared variable of a thread group of a graphics processing unit (GPU), dividing input data of the data processing layer based on the number of threads in the thread group, reading, for each group of input data, weight data corresponding to the group of input data for a data processing in the group of data processing from the GroupShared variable, and performing, by each thread in the thread group, the data processing by using a group of read input data and weight data corresponding to the group of input data, to obtain a calculation result corresponding to the group of input data.
US12112515B2
A method for generating a labeled set of images for use in machine learning based stray light characterization for space-related optical systems. The method includes (a) obtaining a set of images simulated for a space-related optical system, wherein the images of the set of images contain stray light simulated for the space-related optical system, (b) for each image of the set of images, identifying one or more clusters of light contained in the respective image and labeling the respective image by the one or more clusters of light, wherein the one or more clusters of light include at least one cluster of stray light, and (c) creating, based on the labeled images of the set of images, a plurality of new labeled images by applying transformations to the labeled images to generate an augmented set of labeled images.
US12112513B2
A non-standard user interface object identification system includes an object candidate extractior that extracts one or more objects from an image, a first similarity analyzer that determines object type candidates of the one or more objects in accordance with similarities between the one or more objects and a standard user interface (UI) element, a second similarity analyzer that selects object type-specific weight values in accordance with layout characteristics of the one or more objects and determines object types of the one or more objects using the object type candidates and the object type-specific weight values, and an object identifier that receives type and characteristic information of a search target object and identifies the search target object in accordance with characteristic information and the object types of the one or more objects.
US12112510B2
This disclosure relates generally to coding and decoding of 3-dimensional (3D) mesh and specifically to fast and efficient packing of parts of a 3D mesh into a map in a 2-dimensional (2D) space. In one example, a 3D mesh frame is decomposed into charts. The charts are iteratively projected and packed into a 2D map to achieve improved compactness by using an image filtering technology. The image filtering technology may involve perform efficient convolution and correlation processing using fast Fourier transform.
US12112505B2
A computer-implemented method for determining whether a camera component of a camera is damaged is described. The method comprises obtaining information relating to one or more damage indicators; obtaining, from the camera, at least one image which has been taken when light from a light source has been incident on the camera component; dividing the image into one or more areas; analysing each area to determine whether it comprises at least one of the one or more damage indicators; and based on said analysing, providing an indication of whether the camera component is classified as damaged or undamaged.
US12112503B2
The present application discloses a method and an apparatus for calibrating external parameters of an image acquisition device, a device and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of vehicle positioning. The specific implementation solution is as follows: acquiring an image captured by the image acquisition device; determining a plurality of marking points on a calibration plate in the image; determining a first conversion matrix based on coordinates of each of the marking points in the image pixel coordinate system and the calibration plate coordinate system; determining a second conversion matrix based on coordinates of at least one wheel grounding point of the vehicle in the calibration plate coordinate system and the vehicle body coordinate system; and determining external parameters of the image acquisition device by using the first conversion matrix and the second conversion matrix.
US12112502B2
According to one embodiment, a three-dimensional map estimation apparatus includes a processor that selects an imaging apparatus from a plurality of imaging apparatuses and then estimates a position and orientation for a moving object on which the selected imaging apparatus is mounted based on images captured by the selected imaging apparatus. The processor outputs a first position and orientation estimation result for the moving object based on images from selected imaging apparatuses. The processor calculates a second position and orientation estimation result indicating an estimated position and orientation for the moving object using the first position and orientation estimation result. The processor estimates a three-dimensional map for the surroundings of the moving object based on the second position and orientation estimation result.
US12112497B2
A navigation system for a host vehicle may include a processor programmed to: receive from a camera onboard the host vehicle at least one captured image representative of an environment of the host vehicle, wherein the camera is positioned at a first location relative to the host vehicle; receive point cloud information from a LIDAR system onboard the host vehicle, wherein the LIDAR system is positioned at a second location relative to the host vehicle; analyze the at least one captured image and the received point cloud information to detect one or more objects in the shared field of view region; determine whether a vantage point difference between the first location of the camera and the second location of the LIDAR system accounts for the one or more detected objects being represented in only one of the at least one captured image or the received point cloud information.
US12112484B2
There is provided a method for generating a learning model, the method including: acquiring an endoscopic image captured by an endoscope and manipulation information regarding a manipulation of an endoscope operator in each stage of operation of the endoscope by the endoscope operator operating the endoscope; and generating a learning model learned so as to output the manipulation information of a next stage in a case where the endoscopic image and the manipulation information are input, based on training data including the acquired endoscopic image and manipulation information, and the manipulation information of the next stage.
US12112483B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for anatomic structure segmentation in image analysis, using a computer system. One method includes: receiving an annotation and a plurality of keypoints for an anatomic structure in one or more images; computing distances from the plurality of keypoints to a boundary of the anatomic structure; training a model, using data in the one or more images and the computed distances, for predicting a boundary in the anatomic structure in an image of a patient's anatomy; receiving the image of the patient's anatomy including the anatomic structure; estimating a segmentation boundary in the anatomic structure in the image of the patient's anatomy; and predicting, using the trained model, a boundary location in the anatomic structure in the image of the patient's anatomy by generating a regression of distances from keypoints in the anatomic structure in the image of the patient's anatomy to the estimated boundary.
US12112482B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for image segmentation utilizing context, such as with a machine learning (ML) model that injects context into various training stages. Many embodiments utilize one or more of an encoder-decoder model topology and select criteria and parameters in hyper-parameter optimization (HPO) to conduct the best model neural architecture search (NAS). Some embodiments are particularly directed to resizing context frames to a resolution that corresponds with a particular stage of decoding. In several embodiments, the context frames are concatenated with one or more of data from a previous decoding stage and data from a corresponding encoding stage prior to being provided as input to a next decoding stage.
US12112470B2
Systems and methods for generating a probabilistic tree of vessels are provided. An input medical image of vessels of a patient is received. Anatomical landmarks are identified in the input medical image. A centerline of the vessels in the input medical image is determined based on the anatomical landmarks. A probabilistic tree of the vessels is generated based on a probability of fit of the anatomical landmarks and the centerline of the vessels. The probabilistic tree of the vessels is output.
US12112465B2
A measurement and reconstruction method for a turbine blade strain field of with integrates an imaging technology and an infrared photoelectric measurement technology. The imaging technology is mainly responsible for the measurement of the strain field on a target blade surface, so as to use a digital image processing technology to obtain blade strain field data. The infrared photoelectric measurement technology is mainly aimed at the strain at blade edges, which uses temperature difference between the blade edges and blade gaps to perform strain measurement. Measurement results of the two modes are finally converted into blade strain parameters, thereby reconstructing the target blade strain field based on host computer software.
US12112464B2
An autonomous and non-autonomous vehicle tire imaging and inspection system and methods thereof installed onboard a vehicle providing frequent status for inner and outer tire sidewalls, tire tread wear and tread depth, recorded in memory, transmitted to an onboard diagnostics unit, displayed on a dashboard and optionally transmitted to a network. Autonomous and non-autonomous vehicle vehicles may require passing a safety compliance inspection before driving and receive an insurance compliance approval to operate said vehicles.
US12112462B2
A detection unit configured to detect a detection target from an image to be processed by detection processing capable of adjusting at least one setting, a correction cost estimation unit configured to estimate a correction cost needed for correction needed in a case where a result of detection by the detection unit is corrected, an adjustment cost estimation unit configured to estimate an adjustment cost needed in a case where the setting of the detection processing is adjusted to the detection target, and a display control unit configured to perform control to display the correction cost and the adjustment cost on a display unit in a comparable manner are included.
US12112459B2
A system and a method include a display and a control unit including one or more processors configured to create a filter, and apply the filter to spectrum graphs of digital images to create modified spectrum graphs of the digital images. The digital images being digital charts including grid lines and data lines. The control unit is configured to convert the modified spectrum graphs to modified digital images. The modified digital images being modified digital charts that include the data lines, and at least some of the grid lines are removed from the digital charts of the digital images.
US12112439B2
Systems and methods for immersive and collaborative video surveillance, in the commercial security industry are provided. Some methods can include receiving a video data stream from a surveillance camera in a monitored region via a cloud network, a user interface device of or coupled to a virtual reality headset displaying the video data stream, and the user interface device receiving user input corresponding to a movement of a user's body to navigate the video data stream and simulate the user navigating the monitored region from within the monitored region.
US12112436B2
In a computer-implemented method of implementing real-world limitations in shared environment, an environment engine is configured to receive a user selection of a shared environment, wherein the shared environment represents a real-world environment. The environment engine retrieves spatial data associated with the shared environment and retrieves environmental sensor data associated with the shared environment. The environmental sensor data is contemplated to capture a varying ambient environment of the shared environment, which includes at least one of audio data and image data associated with the real-world environment. The environment engine is further configured to render a first user avatar and a second user avatar within the shared environment.
US12112419B2
The technique of this disclosure suppresses a reduction in visibility of a predetermined object in virtual viewpoint image data. An image processing apparatus includes: an image capturing information acquisition unit configured to acquire image capturing information indicating a position and orientation of each of a plurality of image capturing apparatuses; an object information acquisition unit configured to acquire object information indicating a position and orientation of an object to be captured by the image capturing apparatuses, the object having a specific viewing angle; and a determination unit configured to determine, based on the acquired image capturing information and the position and orientation of the object indicated by the acquired object information, an image to be used for generating a virtual viewpoint image according to a position and orientation of a virtual viewpoint among a plurality of images based on capturing by the image capturing apparatuses.
US12112418B2
Mesh-tracking based dynamic 4D modeling for machine learning deformation training includes: using a volumetric capture system for high-quality 4D scanning, using mesh-tracking to establish temporal correspondences across a 4D scanned human face and full-body mesh sequence, using mesh registration to establish spatial correspondences between a 4D scanned human face and full-body mesh and a 3D CG physical simulator, and training surface deformation as a delta from the physical simulator using machine learning. The deformation for natural animation is able to be predicted and synthesized using the standard MoCAP animation workflow. Machine learning based deformation synthesis and animation using standard MoCAP animation workflow includes using single-view or multi-view 2D videos of MoCAP actors as input, solving 3D model parameters (3D solving) for animation (deformation not included), and given 3D model parameters solved by 3D solving, predicting 4D surface deformation from ML training.
US12112412B1
A digital language and a process for defining a digital language are disclosed to describe stylistic intent across multiple image files. The digital language is implemented as part of an image and brand style system for defining, selecting, manipulating, and combining digital images by using inference from each image's self-declaring, stylistic, visual role among a communal group, that can be expressed at the file level itself, from the point of inception, and is resilient from pixel transformation while remaining agnostic of creative tool, thereby allowing any delivery medium to change the visual style of the images without the loss of aesthetics. This results in the ability to change multiple images and branded works using a new and consistent style/palette.
US12112392B2
In one illustrative configuration, a system and method of air quality monitor minimization/optimization is disclosed. The method may include providing at least a first air quality monitor on a site. The first air quality monitor may be configured to generate a first set of attached parameters. The method may further include providing a SCADA system, on the site, configured to generate a set of SCADA data. The SCADA data, the first set of attached parameters may be processed to determine a redundant/sub-optimized air quality monitor, which may be removed. In other illustrative configurations, the system and method may be utilized to locate and/or quantify emissions.
US12112390B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for controlling an electrical system using setpoints. Some embodiments include control methods that monitor an adjusted net power associated with the electrical system and adjust the setpoint based on a comparison of the adjusted demand to the setpoint. If the adjusted demand has not exceeded the demand setpoint, the setpoint is reduced. If the adjusted demand has exceeded the demand setpoint, the setpoint is increased.
US12112386B2
Provided is a process of inferring insurability scores, the process including: receiving a request for an insurance comparison webpage; sending instructions to present one or more webpages of a website having a plurality of user inputs configured to receive a plurality of attributes of the user; receiving the attributes; determining an insurability score with an insurability model based on the received attributes of the user; and sending instructions to display a value indicative of the insurability score.
US12112377B2
Disclosed are a system and method, also referred to herein as an architecture, for efficiently communicating a high volume of data from a server over an electronic communications network to geographically disperse recipients, where one or more of those recipients may receive a customized version of that data, e.g., content, timing and/or form. As the data is generated, timing information and/or changes to information regarding customizations is incorporated forming a data stream which is communicated to local data publishers (“LDP's”). Upon receipt, the LDP's extract the data, customization, or timing information and act accordingly when transmitting the received data to the recipients. Customization is applied to update local control databases which specify the customizations for subsequently received data before transmission. By acting on the messages in real time, e.g., as they are received, the LDP's, even if they don't receive the messages at the same time, then perform the same functions in the same relative order relative to the data stream.
US12112375B2
Systems are provided for compressing portfolios of open option positions. Market participants may provide constraints, such as net delta and gamma values within a specific tolerance. A compression engine uses a linear, integer and/or linear-quadratic programming solver to analyze portfolios of multiple market participants and identify multilateral option spread trades that result in portfolios that are compressed subject to the constraints.
US12112373B2
In one implementation, a system to provide a secure crossing network for trading digital blockchain assets outside of an exchange can include a crossing network program that is configured to provide a crossing network for the digital blockchain assets and a computer system with a secure enclave that is configured to provide the trusted execution environment within which processing of programs is secure from observation and manipulation by other operations outside of the secure enclave. The execution of the crossing network program in the secure enclave receiving, from client devices, crossing network orders to trade assets within the crossing network; matching at least a portion of the crossing network orders in an order book; obtaining, using a pricing oracle, pricing information for transactions in the exchange; and determining a reference price for the matched orders within the crossing network based on the pricing information from the exchange.
US12112372B2
A system for error detection m a trading network comprises a memory operable to store a plurality of trader profiles, wherein a particular trader profile is associated with a particular trader. The particular trader profile comprises first contact data associated with a first client device and second contact data associated with a second client device. The memory is further operable to store at least one trading order associated with the particular trader. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to detect an alert associated with the first client device. In conjunction with detecting the alert, the processor is operable to determine a current status of the at least one trading order and to generate a status message regarding the determined status. The processor is further operable to transmit the status message to the second client device, wherein the transmission is based at least in part on the second contact data.
US12112369B2
A system may identify, using a machine learning model, a series of recurring events associated with an account and may generate, using the machine learning model, a prediction of a future date on which a predicted event, associated with the series of recurring events, is to occur. The system may determine that a condition associated with the account is satisfied and may determine that a current date is within a threshold number of days of the future date based on the prediction of the future date. The system may transmit, to a user device, a notification based on determining that the current date is within the threshold number of days of the future date and that the condition associated with the account is satisfied, wherein the notification includes information for presentation of an input element that enables an action to be performed in connection with the account.
US12112367B2
The invention relates to two computer implemented methods providing virtual fitting room functionality to a human. The two computer implemented methods allow for a simple and efficient garment selection process by the human.
US12112360B2
Embodiments herein provide a method for dynamically generating consumption artifacts for platforms using independent processing of usage event data streams. The method includes (i) obtaining usage event data streams through calls to an API, (ii) updating a technical lifecycle event map, (iii) initializing time streams of consumption impacts at a configurable time stream interval, (iv) performing independent logic processing for each category of time stream of consumption, (v) invoking specific algorithms and data models for a plurality of computation modules to process each consumption event in real-time across multiple timestreams, and (vi) mapping the processed technical data to predefined technical structures using a headless API to dynamically generate a set of consumption artifacts that are associated with usage consumptions to transmit to external systems.
US12112356B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for intelligent assessment models for non-fungible electronic resources. The present invention is configured to receive, from a user input device, a request to value a non-fungible token (NFT) of a resource, wherein the NFT is recorded in a distributed ledger; retrieve, using a valuation engine, one or more attributes associated with the NFT from one or more metadata layers of the NFT; initiate a machine learning model on the one or more attributes associated with the NFT; predict, using the machine learning model, a value of the NFT; and transmit control signals configured to cause the user input device to display the value of the NFT.
US12112354B1
Techniques are disclosed, using one or more computers. for bidding on digital advertising space associated with media content on a digital platform. Popularity is determined of a plurality of electronic communication and associated clips on a digital platform. A clip is detected which meets a threshold for approaching an activity level of user activity indicating the popularity of the clip. The clip meeting the threshold is labeled as a non-fungible token (NFT) indicating available digital advertising space associated with the clip. In response to the labeling of the clip, monetary bidding is received, based on the NFT by entities buying digital advertising space for digital advertising content associated with the NFT.
US12112353B2
Methods, systems, and devices for providing in-flight communication sessions. In some examples, a communication session delivery system may provide network access service or other types of content once a passenger has completed a brand interaction. The brand interaction may be any number of options that a brand partner may require in exchange for access to content. The communication session delivery system may choose from a plurality of reward offers and then display the chosen offers to a passenger. The chosen offers may be selected based on profile information of a passenger and characteristics targeted by a brand partner. The passenger may then choose an offer and perform the required brand interaction. Once the brand interaction has been verified, the passenger may receive the reward associated with the offer.
US12112351B2
The embodiments disclose a method for displaying contextual targeted advertising to healthcare professionals including receiving in a master database a plurality of words that includes titles and keywords associated with plural distinct medical healthcare professional specialties, generating, with a first processor, plural taxonomy and vocabulary based on the received plurality of words of the plural distinct medical healthcare professional specialties, tracking, with a second processor, a context of frequent browsing and reading history of online life sciences content of a healthcare professional user, identifying, with the second processor, a distinct medical healthcare professional specialty associated with the healthcare professional user based on matches in the master database with the context, comparing, with a third processor, contextual targeted advertising with the matches, and converting, with the third processor, advertising queries from advertisers to displayed targeted advertising presented to healthcare professional user based on the matches.
US12112346B2
A system for and method of generating alternative pricing is provided. A user accesses an online portal to set a pricing scheme for products. The user inputs a credit card price for one or more products along with a desired cash discount rate or amount. The invention can then generate a second price for each product and check said prices for compliance against one or more rules and regulations set by credit card issuers, state governments, and/or federal governments. Some embodiments of the invention include notifying the user of non-compliance and automatically providing iterative pricing checks to find the best compliant price. The invention can also generate a reference or point-of-sale code which can be utilized by a consumer to view a final resulting price list.
US12112344B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to preemptively identify and prioritize risks for retailers from shrink loss. Specifically, features of the present disclosure provide actionable prescriptions to prevent shrink based on the output of a hybrid machine learning (ML) system that accurately identifies shrink risk factors and implements a cost-effective shrinkage control plan to reduce the retail theft. The shrinkage control plan may then be displayed to the user on a display device (or user interface) in order to allow for the user (e.g., store manager) to implement the recommendations developed by the recommendation engine.
US12112339B1
Disclosed herein is a compliance evaluation system, which may implement a software-based compliance evaluation tool for accurate notation, capture, and reporting of all potential compliance problems within a technical, a procedural or a process domain associated with a software program. The compliance evaluation system may enable a rapid and pro-active response to reported potential compliance problems by routing the reported potential compliance problems to appropriate analyst computers before the potential compliance problems become real and serious for company and vendors.
US12112338B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing assistance for customer service agents are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a computing device, customer interaction data that reflects an interaction between a first user and a second user. The actions further include receiving, by the computing device, a customer summary file that reflects characteristics of the first user. The actions further include, based on the customer interaction data and the customer summary file, determining, by the computing device, instructions for the second user to continue interacting with the first user during the interaction between the first user and the second user. The actions further include, based on determining the instructions, providing, for output to the second user, the instructions for the second user to continue interacting with the first user.
US12112334B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to methods and systems for enabling generation and management of a secondary account. The secondary account may be generated in relation to a primary account, such that at least a portion of a transaction conducted using the secondary account may be charged to the primary account. In some embodiments, the secondary account may be associated with a number of protocols to be applied to a transaction. When a transaction is initiated using the secondary account, a service provider may consult an itinerary to dynamically generate a set of protocols which is relevant to the transaction based on a time period during which the transaction is initiated. In some embodiments, portions of the transaction may be split up and transmitted to different authorization entities for authorization.
US12112333B2
A secure authentication system, computer program recording medium and method enable secure transaction with authentication to eradicate fraud. A customer is authenticated via a customer application executed on a communication device. A customer-paced communication session is enabled between the customer application and a transaction system via a network connection. A customer continuity factor is monitored in maintaining the communication session. In response to receiving a customer request via the customer application, a level of trust in current authentication of the customer is determined based on the user continuity factor. In response to the level of trust being below a trust threshold, the customer is directed via the customer application to provide a customer request comprising a customer-supplied image having a specified contextual element. The communication session is re-authenticated to process the user input by the transaction system based on verification of the received user-supplied image.
US12112323B2
A system, method and computer-readable medium for providing comprehensive security to business systems by distributing the security for accessing the business systems across databases at a plurality of locations. The distributed security simplifies security maintenance and is used to control all aspects of a business. The generation of bills, pings converter boxes, schedules pay per view, etc. are handled by the distributed security.
US12112318B2
A system that can transfer tokens of multiple classes from issuers to recipients is disclosed. The system generates class-specific token specification that include parameters that must be satisfied for the first user to acquire, from another user of the system, any token that is created according to the class-specific token specification. The system will save the records for each of the class-specific token specifications to a digital ledger that is accessible to users of the system. When a transfer request is received for a particular token, the system will execute a smart contract by (a) accessing the digital ledger to verify that a class-specific token specification exists which corresponds to the class of the particular token, and (b) in response to the verifying write, to the digital ledger, a first ledger entry that includes a record indicating that the amount of the particular token has been transferred to the recipient.
US12112316B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method for submitting a tokenization request via an access device. Embodiments allow tokens to be retrieved for complex mobile devices as well as basic card-type devices. Token requests can be formatted as authorization request messages and transmitted along authorization communication channels.
US12112314B2
A method for utilizing an object distributed ledger executed by a computing entity includes obtaining, in accordance with a securely passing process, control over a secure first pending transaction associated with a transaction item. The method further includes determining a set of candidate contingent assets for the secure first pending transaction based an identity of the transaction item, an identity of a requesting computing entity, and an authenticated value of the transaction item. The method further includes facilitating selection of at least one candidate contingent asset of the set of candidate contingent assets utilizing an asset selection approach to produce a set of selected contingent assets. The method further includes generating a non-fungible token (NFT) in accordance with the securely passing process to represent a corresponding set of smart contracts of the set of selected contingent assets in the object distributed ledger.
US12112313B2
Methods and systems of managing payment cards are disclosed. A financial institution computing system includes a token database storing a plurality of tokens and token information, a network interface circuit enabling the financial institution computing system to exchange information over a network; and a token management circuit. The token management circuit enables a graphical user interface on a customer device over the network that can be used to generate new token requests, re-provision token requests, and management requests. The management requests enable and disable tokens, such that transactions against a payment card account using an enabled token are completed, and transactions against the payment card account using a disabled token are denied.
US12112311B2
A system and method are disclosed in which a symbol associated with an ATM of a plurality of ATMs is made available to a customer in response to a request for access to the ATM. The symbol identifies the ATM to the user in locations having multiple ATMs, thus avoiding confusion for the user. The symbol may be used for any of the possible transactions between the user and the ATM, such as balance inquiries, deposits, transfers, and cash withdrawals.
US12112289B2
Disclosed are a method and device for managing a project by using cost payment time point settings. A project is efficiently operated by dividing a project based on a minimum unit task and designing a plurality of child projects connected in sequential order such that a plurality of child projects proceed in order.
US12112288B2
Techniques for forecasting solar power generation include a computing device determining a clear-sky solar power generation level for a photovoltaic installation; receiving, from a first measurement device, measurement data indicating an amount of cloud cover at a first location of the first measurement device, wherein the first measurement device and the photovoltaic installation are located in a same geographical area; and generating a solar power generation forecast for the photovoltaic installation based on the clear-sky solar power generation level and the measurement data.
US12112285B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for measuring employee engagement. An example method includes receiving, by communications circuitry, an exogenous event report and identifying, by a frequency modulator and based on the exogenous event report, a frequency at which to deliver an employee survey to an employee. The example method further includes causing, by an engagement engine, delivery of the employee survey to the employee based on the identified frequency and receiving, by communications circuitry, a response to the employee survey. The example method further includes storing the received response in a memory as a measure of employee engagement.
US12112282B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for automated commercial parking site management. In one embodiment, a method can include determining, by one or more processors coupled to memory, a first request to park a tractor and a trailer, determining that a commercial parking site has a first available parking location for the tractor, determining that the commercial parking site has a second available parking location for the trailer, and causing presentation of a request to confirm a first parking reservation at a device associated with the first request, where the first parking reservation includes a first cost for the first available parking location and the second available parking location. The method may include determining that the first parking reservation is confirmed, and sending navigation directions to an address for the commercial parking site.
US12112274B2
A system and method incorporating Robotic Processing Automation (RPA) and machine leaning to finding telecom expense management information accessed through a site or portal such that RPA bots are able to learn the most effective way to access the information using the minimum amount computing resources and allowing for the RPA bot to self-modify to optimize and adjust to changing environments on the site or portal with minimal or even no manual intervention.
US12112272B2
IOT Big Data information management and control systems and methods for distributed performance monitoring and critical network fault detection comprising a combination of capabilities including: IOT data collection sensor stations receiving sensor input signals and also connected to monitor units providing communication with other monitor units and/or cloud computing resources via IOT telecommunication links, and wherein a first data collection sensor station has expert predesignated other network elements comprising other data collection sensor stations, monitor units, and/or telecommunications equipment for performance and/or fault monitoring based on criticality to said first data collection sensor station operations, thereby extending monitoring and control operations to include distributed interdependent or critical operations being monitored and analyzed throughout the IOT network, and wherein performance and/or fault monitoring signals received by said first data collection sensor station are analyzed with artificial intelligence, hierarchical expert system algorithms for generation of warning and control signals.
US12112252B1
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for brand matching using multi-layer machine learning. A method may include generating, based on a first embedding vector and a second embedding vector as inputs to a twin neural network, a third embedding vector and a fourth embedding vector; generating, based on the first embedding vector and the second embedding vector as inputs to a difference neural network, a difference vector indicative of a difference between the first embedding vector and the second embedding vector; generating a concatenated vector by concatenating the third embedding vector with the fourth embedding vector and the difference vector; generating, based on the concatenated vector as an input to a feedforward neural network (FFN), a score between zero and one, the score indicative of a relationship between a first entity and a second entity.
US12112249B2
A system, computer program product, and method are presented for performing multi-objective automated machine learning, and, more specifically, to identifying a plurality of machine learning pipelines as Pareto-optimal solutions to optimize a plurality of objectives. The method includes receiving input data directed toward one or more subjects of interest and determining a plurality of objectives to be optimized. The method also includes ingesting at least a portion of the input data through one or more machine learning (ML) models. The method further includes aggregating the plurality of objectives into one or more aggregated single objectives. The method also includes determining a plurality of Pareto-optimal solutions, thereby defining a plurality of ML pipelines that optimize the one or more aggregated single objectives. The method further includes selecting one ML pipeline from the plurality of ML pipelines.
US12112232B1
Media playback process initiated from an engraved plaque attached to a tombstone, urn, mausoleum, or crypt is a special process that causes one or more media files pertaining to a deceased person or pet to play on a visitor's smart phone after the visitor has scanned a special engraved plaque or scanning code attached to the deceased person or pet's tombstone, urn, mausoleum, or crypt. The special process includes: a first person selling a subscription or one-time sale to a second person, first person building a database, first person creating a special scanning code, first person engraving the special engraved plaque or scanning code, first person attaching the special engraved plaque or scanning code to the tombstone, urn, mausoleum, or crypt, third person scanning the special engraved plaque or scanning code, and third person watching one or media files on their smart phone.
US12112231B2
A dynamic two-dimensional code group generation method for generating a two-dimensional code group for dynamically displaying, repeatedly in sequence, a plurality of two-dimensional codes arranged in a time series includes a base identifying step of determining a first setting value of a base two-dimensional code serving as a base from among first setting values identified by evaluation values each associated with a corresponding one of the two-dimensional codes in the two-dimensional code group; and a data block arrangement step of generating and arranging a data block in a storage two-dimensional code identified on the basis of a second setting value corresponding to the first setting value determined in the base identifying step, the data block being based on content of target information to be coded.
US12112225B2
Example aspects include methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable medium for receiving, by an antenna of a tag tracking/detection system, a tag signal of a tag in the tag tracking/detection system; determining, based on a strength or pattern of the tag signal, whether the tag signal comprises a reflected signal that is reflected by one or more reflective surfaces, wherein the one or more reflective surfaces are configured to focus tag signals of tags in a target location of the tag tracking/detection system toward the antenna of the tag tracking/detection system; and generating an output signal responsive to the tag signal comprising the reflected signal that is reflected by the one or more reflective surfaces, wherein the output signal is indicative of the tag being detected in the target location.
US12112218B2
There are provided a chart manufacturing apparatus, a chart manufacturing method, a program, and an image forming system that do not need to switch backgrounds in a case of measuring a chart using two types of backgrounds having colors different from each other. The chart manufacturing apparatus that forms, on a transparent substrate, a chart (102) measured by applying a first background color and a second background color, forms a first measurement background image (130) on a transparent substrate (100) using a coloring material corresponding to a first background color, forms a first patch group (122) including one or more first patches (126) using a coloring material of a first color at a position corresponding to the first measurement background image, and forms a second patch group (120) including one or more second patches (124) at a position where the first measurement background image is not formed.
US12112211B2
Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a method and system for optimizing resources for cloud-based scalable distributed search data analytics service. The method may include generating a computing capacity rightsizing recommendation on the computing capacity based on the computing utilization metrics and generating a memory capacity rightsizing recommendation on the memory capacity based on the memory utilization metrics. The method may further include determining a recommended instance type for the service resource unit based on the computing capacity rightsizing recommendation and the memory capacity rightsizing recommendation. The method may further include performing a storage volume check on the service resource unit to obtain a storage volume check result. The method may further include determining whether to accept the recommended instance type as a final optimization recommendation based on the storage volume check result, the computing capacity rightsizing recommendation, and the memory capacity rightsizing recommendation.
US12112208B1
A method for automated switching of workloads on computing devices to increase returns such as rewards or transaction fees in a cryptocurrency blockchain network is disclosed. A plurality of signals impacting the profitability of mining for a plurality of different cryptocurrencies and plurality of different mining pools are monitored. In response to the plurality of signals indicating a different cryptocurrency and mining pool combination is more profitable, the computing device workload is automatically switched. Switching cost may be calculated and used to prevent unprofitable switches. The signals may be used to train a machine learning model that may be used to predict future profitability for automatic switching.
US12112207B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to selection of a set of nodes in a HPC system for running one or more computational jobs. In some examples, the selection of the set of nodes includes gathering information about a cluster of nodes in a high-performance computing system. The HPC system may be in a production state with one or more computational workloads getting executed thereon. In some examples, periodically sending one or more test-computing jobs for execution on each node to measure one or more performance metrics thereof. Receiving measured performance metrics from each node, in response to the one or more test-computing jobs executed thereon. Recording in a database, the measured performance metrics received from each node. Selecting the set of nodes from the cluster of nodes, based on the database, and based on a request received to nm one or more computational jobs on the HPC system.
US12112193B2
In some examples, a system includes an operating system (OS) kernel, one or more hardware processors, and a kernel scheduler. The kernel scheduler receives a first indication that a first thread is to wait for an event, receives a second indication that the first thread has transitioned to a blocked state in which the first thread is blocked on the event, and receives a third indication from a second thread delivering the event, the third indication to unblock the first thread. In response to the third indication, the kernel scheduler causes a transition of the first thread from the wait state to an active state if the first thread is in the wait state and has not yet transitioned to the blocked state, and causes a transition of the first thread from the blocked state to a ready state if the first thread is in the blocked state.
US12112192B2
One or more computer operations are triggered and executed when multiple sets of conditions that define a split trigger and that are evaluated at multiple locations are satisfied. The operations may involve allocating or deallocating computing resources (e.g., by establishing or tearing down a persistent connection), generating a message to be displayed on a computing device, altering stored data, and/or other activity. In an illustrative client/server computing environment, a first set of client conditions of a first split trigger is evaluated at a client device, using parameters observable at the client without interaction with a server. When the first of client conditions is satisfied, the client transmits a signal to a server that then evaluates a first set of server conditions of the first split trigger. If the first sets of client conditions and server conditions are satisfied, the computer operation(s) associated with the split trigger are executed.
US12112188B2
The technology disclosed herein enables customized hardware initialization code to be provided over a computer network and used to enable a virtual machine to boot in a more secure manner. An example method may include: receiving a request to start a virtual machine; transmitting, by a processing device, configuration data of a host device over a computer network to a service, wherein the configuration data comprises a resource identifier of the host device; receiving hardware initialization code over the computer network from the service, wherein the hardware initialization code comprises the resource identifier; updating, by the processing device, the virtual machine to comprise the hardware initialization code; and causing the virtual machine to execute in a trusted execution environment of the host device, wherein the virtual machine executes the hardware initialization code and uses the resource identifier.
US12112187B2
Scalable visualization of a containerized application in a multiple-cluster environment is disclosed. Deployment information that identifies a deployment status on a plurality of clusters of a set of resources that compose a containerized application is obtained. User interface imagery that identifies the set of resources, wherein each resource in the set is represented in the user interface imagery by only one corresponding resource representation, irrespective of a number of clusters on which the resource is deployed, is generated. A corresponding group deployment status indicator based on a deployment status of the resource on each cluster on which the resource was to be deployed is determined for at least one resource. The corresponding group deployment status indicator is included in association with the resource representation that corresponds to the resource. The user interface imagery is presented on a display device.
US12112185B2
According to an embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a task and a notification unit. The task stores, in a storage unit, notification information to be notified to a virtual machine as a notification destination via a virtual machine monitor after execution of predetermined processing. The notification unit collectively notifies the virtual machine monitor of a plurality of pieces of notification information stored in the storage unit.
US12112184B2
A value-added content providing method for a computer system includes receiving an input message indicating to present a pop-up window in a display area of the computer system; obtaining a content area in the display area according to the input message; analyzing the content area to generate an analysis content; and providing and displaying a value-added content in the pop-up window according to the analysis content.
US12112183B2
Methods and apparatus for contention window size adjustment are described. A method includes: receiving a first group of feedback signals indicating a first state corresponding to data transmitted in a first band used by a carrier, the first group of feedback signals comprising at least one first feedback signal; receiving a second group of feedback signals indicating a second state corresponding to data transmitted in the first band used by the carrier; determining a first scaling factor α for one of the at least one first feedback signal; determining a ratio of the first group of feedback signals to the first group of feedback signals and the second group of feedback signals; and comparing the ratio to a threshold to determine a contention window size (CWS) of the first band, wherein the first scaling factor α substitutes a weight of the one of the at least one first feedback signal in determination of the ratio of the first group of feedback signals to the first group of feedback signals and the second group of feedback signals.
US12112179B1
The apparatus employs adaptive machine learning for dynamic reconfiguration of process parameter. It consists of a processor and memory. Initially, it detects a dependency factor as a function of a plurality of operational factors of a process. Then it determines a primary factor and at least a secondary factor as a function of the dependency factor. Using at least a processor, modify a processor, the primary factor as a function of a specified modification protocol. Further, it eliminates the at least a secondary factor. Last, using the at least a processor, it generates using the at least a processor, a modification set of the operational factors.
US12112166B2
The present disclosure provides a data processing method and an apparatus and a related product for increased efficiency of tensor processing. The products include a control module including an instruction caching unit, an instruction processing unit, and a storage queue unit. The instruction caching unit is configured to store computation instructions associated with an artificial neural network operation; the instruction processing unit is configured to parse the computation instructions to obtain a plurality of operation instructions; and the storage queue unit is configured to store an instruction queue, where the instruction queue includes a plurality of operation instructions or computation instructions to be executed in the sequence of the queue. By adopting the above-mentioned method, the present disclosure can improve the operation efficiency of related products when performing operations of a neural network model.
US12112163B2
A memory interface circuit includes an instruction decoder configured to receive an instruction from a processor to generate a corresponding control code. An execution circuit is configured to receive the control code from the instruction decoder and access a memory and generate an arithmetic result according to the control code.
US12112162B2
For performing incremental analysis, analysis tools may reuse analysis information computed earlier for intermediate representation (IR) objects that remain unchanged between versions of program. But identification numbers (IDs) of unchanged IR objects change over versions due to changes with each run of incremental analysis, thereby making it difficult to reuse analysis information as tools require IDs of unchanged IR objects from previous versions. Present disclosure provides method and system for mapping IR objects for facilitating incremental analysis. The system first extracts attributes associated with each IR object present in previous version to create data structure for storing IR objects. The system then determines unchanged lines between versions to create line number map. Thereafter, system uses line number map to create ID-based IR mapping between ID of each unchanged IR object present in each unchanged line in current version and ID of each IR object stored in data structure.
US12112157B2
A firmware upgrade method and a firmware upgrade system based on a multi-stream transmission mode of a DisplayPort interface are provided. The firmware upgrade method includes: configuring a host to obtain firmware information of the displays through a DisplayPort auxiliary channel, and select a target display for firmware upgrade; and executing a firmware upgrade process including: configure the host to send a upgrade start command and firmware upgrade data to the target display; and configuring each display to: determine whether the upgrade start command and the firmware upgrade data reach the target display, and if not, send the upgrade start command and the firmware upgrade data to the next display, if so, execute a firmware upgrade preparation process according to the upgrade start command, and write the firmware upgrade data into the firmware storage device of the target display.
US12112150B2
A code repository stores application code. A code management determines, based at least in part on requested features selected in a graphical user interface, code requirements that include attributes of application code needed to achieve the requested features. The code management system determines, based at least in part on the determined code requirements and the metadata for each entry of application code stored in the code repository, one or more candidate application code entries from the code repository. The code management system presents the candidate application code entries for user selection in the graphical user interface. After receipt of a user selection of a selected application code, the selected application code is provided to a computing device associated with the user.
US12112144B2
Methods and systems that facilitate automatic generation of Application Programming Interface (API) specification from web traffic. Methods include obtaining a plurality of API requests and responses to the plurality of API requests. Methods include processing these API requests and responses to API requests to identify one or more attributes, such as, for example, variables, query parameters, response status codes, and response schemas. Methods include identifying variables using a tree data structure to represent resource paths. Methods include identifying query parameters based on resource items in resource paths. Methods include determining that the API call does not conform to the API specification by comparing one or more attributes of the API call with the attributes of the API specification.
US12112132B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing natural language processing operations using an attention-based text encoder machine learning model that is trained using a multi-task training routine that is associated with two or more training tasks (e.g., a multi-task training routine that is associated with two or more sequential training tasks, a multi-training routine that is associated with two or more concurrent training tasks, and/or the like).
US12112131B2
Embodiments described herein provide a system and method for extracting factual information. The system transforms a query into a natural language prompt in a format of a query subject and a queried relation. The system encodes, via an embedding layer of a pre-trained language model, the natural language prompt into a first embedding. The system encodes, via the adapter model, the first embedding into a second embedding based on a probability that the second embedding returns the factual information when the second embedding is fed the first attention layer of the pre-trained language model. The system decodes, by the first attention layer of the pre-trained language mode, the second embedding into a response to the query. The system extracts the factual information from the decoded response to the query.
US12112130B2
A text style transfer system is described that generates different stylized versions of input text by rewriting the input text according to a target style. To do so, the text style transfer system employs a variational autoencoder to derive separate content and style representations for the input text, where the content representation specifies semantic information conveyed by the input text and the style representation specifies one or more style attributes expressed by the input text. The style representation using counterfactual reasoning to identify different transfer strengths for applying the target style to the input text. Each transfer strength represents a minimum change to the input text that achieves a different expression of the target style. The transfer strengths are then used to generate style representation variants, which are each concatenated with the content representation of the input text to generate the plurality of different stylized versions of the input text.
US12112129B2
A method of training a neural network as a natural language processing, NLP, model, comprises: inputting annotated training data to first architecture portions of the neural network, the first architecture portions being executed respectively in a plurality of distributed client computing devices in communication with a server computing device, the training data being derived from text data private to the client computing device in which the first architecture portion is executed, the server computing device having no access to any of the private text data; deriving from the training data, using the first architecture portions, weight matrices of numeric weights which are decoupled from the private text data; concatenating the weight matrices, in a second architecture portion of the neural network executed in the server computing device, to obtain a single concatenated weight matrix; and training, on the second architecture portion, the NLP model using the concatenated weight matrix.
US12112126B2
Disclosed is a platform that manages worker users in a temporary staffing environment via an artificial machine learning model. The temporary staffing platform matches available workers to available shifts/gigs. Additional features include generating provisional or near-miss matches and informing workers how to turn those near-misses into full matches, plotting a gig-career path to develop additional skills, gamify development, and automatically generate resumes. The platform generates a set of skill tags associated with each shift/gig performed by the user. Designing of resume text files by the artificial machine learning model includes procedurally generated descriptions of experience the a user has based on the recording of each shift/gig performed by the user and the skill tags associated with each recorded shift/gig, wherein a format of the resume text file is formulated by the artificial machine learning model evaluating a mix of skill tags and employers amassed by the user.
US12112124B1
A computing system that facilitates generating customized health forms for a patient is disclosed herein. Subsequent to receiving a patient identifier from a client computing device, a server electronic health records application (EHR) transmits clinical data assigned to the patient identifier to a server health form application. Based on the clinical data assigned to the patient, the server health form application generates a customized health form for the patient using form data. The server health form application then transmits the customized health form to a client health form application for presentment on a display of the client computing device. The server health form application updates the customized health form for the patient as the patient responds to questions and as the server health form application receives sensor data from the client computing device.
US12112109B2
A safety control device intended to process a control signal and generate a safety control order. The device has: a control input, a protection circuit, a coupler having an emitter circuit designed to emit a second signal and a receiver circuit for providing a third signal, a switch, a pulse generator designed to cyclically control opening and closure of the switch, and a processing circuit designed to execute a method for safely processing the third signal. Also disclosed are a contactor having such a control device and a method for safely processing a control signal.
US12112108B2
Various embodiments of a method and apparatus for determining parametric timing yield and bottlenecks are disclosed which take into account correlation between electrical circuit paths through common timing arcs of an integrated circuit chip under design. Monte Carlo samples of timing arc delays are generated and used in computing timing yield and identify yield bottlenecks.
US12112098B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for sharing and synchronizing virtual content. A method may include receiving, from a host application via a wearable device comprising a transmissive display, a first data package comprising first data; identifying virtual content based on the first data; presenting a view of the virtual content via the transmissive display; receiving, via the wearable device, first user input directed at the virtual content; generating second data based on the first data and the first user input; sending, to the host application via the wearable device, a second data package comprising the second data, wherein the host application is configured to execute via one or more processors of a computer system remote to the wearable device and in communication with the wearable device.
US12112090B1
A system including a secondary visual digital display on the customer-facing side of a cash register or point-of-sale terminal display. The customer-facing digital display presents advertising content, videos, informational content, or any other form of content that the business or location owner or operator would like to have displayed to customers. An application program, as described below, is stored and/or loaded on memory storage in the secondary display and run by a microprocessor in the secondary display, or alternatively, is stored and/or loaded on a separate device, and run by a microprocessor in the secondary display or in the separate device. The content may be displayed based upon context. The content can be programmed and managed by the business or location owner or operator, by a third party service that creates and provides content for sale to business/location owners and operators, or by a third party service/operator that manages a system (including, but not limited to, the obtaining and downloading of content) as part of a negotiated contract with the owner or operation of a business or location (or multiple businesses or locations).
US12112089B2
Aspects of the present invention relate presentation of digital content, in a see-through display, representing a known location in an environment proximate to a head worn computer. In embodiments, a wearable head device comprises a see-through display and one or more processors configured for determining a geo-spatial location associated with the wearable head device, receiving from one or more sensors a geo-spatial location associated with a second wearable device, presenting virtual content on the see-through display, receiving from one or more sensors a signal associated with a movement of the second wearable head device, presenting a movement path of the second wearable head device on the see-through display, presenting an event indicator on the see-through display, and presenting attributes associated with a geo-spatial location on the see-through display.
US12112071B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a first pin that receives a first signal, a second pin that receives a second signal, third pins that receive third signals, a fourth pin that receives a write enable signal, a memory cell array, and a memory interface circuit that obtains a command, an address, and data from the third signals in a first mode and obtains the command and the address from the first signal and the second signal and the data from the third signals in a second mode. In the first mode, the memory interface circuit obtains the command from the third signals and obtains the address from the third signals. In the second mode, the memory interface circuit obtains the command from the first signal and the second signal and obtains the address from the first signal and the second signal.
US12112063B1
A memory controller includes a request queue and associated logic for efficiently managing the request queue based on various timing constraints of the memory device. A single request queue for the memory device stores read and write requests spanning different banks of the memory device. In each memory controller cycle, selection logic may select both a row request and a column request (relating to a different bank than the row request) for issuing to the memory device based on a set of timing status bits. Following issuance of requests, the memory controller updates the queue to maintain the queued requests in a time-ordered, compressed sequence. The memory controller furthermore updates the timing status bits that are used by the selection logic to select requests from the queue based on a history of past memory requests.
US12112060B2
Methods, systems, and devices for multi-host communications are described. In some examples, a memory system may be coupled with multiple host systems. The memory system may facilitate communications between the multiple host systems For example, a first host system may be coupled with a first buffer of the memory system and a second host system may be coupled with a second buffer of the memory system. The first host system may have read and write access to the first buffer and read access to the second buffer. In response to a write operation being initiated by the first host system, data may be written to the first buffer. The second host system may read the data written to the first buffer. The second host system may take an action or respond based on the data read from the first buffer.
US12112055B2
An embodiment of an electronic storage system includes one or more storage drives, at least one or more of the storage drives supporting erasure coding (EC); and a controller including logic to control local access to the one or more storage drives. The controller, in response to a write command, is to for one or more storage drives, allocate an intermediate buffer in the storage drive's non-volatile memory (NVM) to store intermediate data. The controller is to issue commands to a first storage drive to read old data, compute the intermediate data of the first storage drive as XOR of the old data and new data received in the write command, and atomically write the intermediate data of the first storage drive to the intermediate buffer of the first storage drive and write the new data to the first storage drive's NVM. The controller is to read the intermediate data of the first storage drive from the intermediate buffer of the first storage drive. The controller is further to issue commands to one or more EC storage drives to read the old data, compute result data as the old data XOR a galois field coefficient of the one or more EC storage drives multiplied by the intermediate data, and atomically write the old data to the intermediate buffer of the one or more EC storage drives and write the result data to the one or more EC storage drive's NVM. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12112054B2
Disclosed is a method for preforming the data mirror comprising: receiving from an application executing on a computing device a request to write data to a first local persistence memory of the computing device; issuing an async write operation to mirror the write request to write a same data to a second local persistence memory of the computing device by using a supplemental device; performing a write operation to write the data to the first local persistence memory by using a central processing unit (CPU) from the processing resource of the computing device; in response to determining that the write operation is completed and the async write operation is completed, determining a status check result indicating if the async write operation is successful; and sending the status check result to the application.
US12112051B2
A valid node management method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are disclosed. The method includes: establishing a valid node management table corresponding to a first physical management unit; storing valid node management data in the valid node management table, wherein the valid node management data reflects a distribution status of a valid node in the first physical management unit; receiving an operation command from a host system, wherein the operation command is configured to change a data storage status of the first physical management unit; and updating the valid node management data in the valid node management table in response to the operation command.
US12112049B2
A self-managed DRAM module configured to reduce energy consumption. A module is described that includes a plurality of DDR channels and a management engine configured to read and write data blocks to DDR channels according to a process that includes: allocating a set of sub-channels for each DDR channel, wherein each sub-channel includes a subset of the set of DRAM chips; wherein a write operation of a data block includes: encoding the data block to generate an ECC codeword; and writing the ECC codeword into the subset of DRAM chips of a specified sub-channel; and wherein a read operation of the data block includes: reading the ECC codeword from the subset of DRAM chips of the specified sub-channel; and decoding the ECC codeword to obtain the data block.
US12112048B2
The present disclosure generally relates to improving adaptive tuning of different clock rates of a memory device. Rather than clock rates only being determined off of one parameter such as workload, the clock rates now will be determined using multiple parameters. The tuning may be based on system parameters to allow the system to withstand challenges that arise during the operation. The clock frequency table is maintained in the device controller. The table holds the clock frequency of each component. The disclosure proposes modifying the table according to different system environment parameters to maintain performance or reduce power consumption. Adaptive tuning allows a more flexible system design that can adapt according to the current system status. Adaptive tuning also reduces peak power consumption, improves performance, and better quality of service (QoS) compatibility characteristics.
US12112047B2
Techniques lock a storage area in a storage system including a first storage node and a second storage node. Such techniques involve adjusting a value of at least one of a first counter at the first node and a second counter at the second node in response to receiving a data access request for the storage area at at least one of the first node and the second node. Such techniques further involve allocating a lock flag to the first node in response to a ratio of the value of the first counter to the value of the second counter being greater than a first threshold, the lock flag indicating that the storage area is locked by the first node. Accordingly, storage resources required by nodes that are accessed more frequently in statistics are effectively reduced, and the efficiency of applying stripe lock reduction are improved.
US12112040B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes causing a plurality of I/O queues to be created between an initiator and a storage target device. The created I/O queues are reserved for I/O requests for which adjustments of current priorities of extents of data associated with the I/O requests are to be performed. The method further includes determining identifying information of an I/O request sent from the initiator to the storage target device and determining whether the I/O request was sent from the initiator to the storage target device using one of the created I/O queues. In response to a determination that the I/O request was sent using a first of the created I/O queues having one of the adjustments associated therewith, a tiering manager of the storage target device is instructed to perform the adjustment on the current priority of the extent of data associated with the I/O request.
US12112035B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises: displaying a particular view of a plurality of views of a continuous content stream of individually actionable content items; wherein the plurality of views, each including a different subset of the individually actionable content items, responds to different sets of signaling gestures; automatically recognizing, while the continuous content stream is being displayed, a mode change from a control mode to a signal mode in the particular view of the plurality of views; receiving a touch input in the particular view of the plurality of views and, in response, generating output data indicating a signaling gesture classification that is accepted by the particular view and is for the touch input; updating, according to the output data, the particular view of the plurality of views; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
US12112033B2
In an electronic device capable of running multiple software applications concurrently, applications, documents, cards, or other activities can be selected for hibernation so as to free up system resources for other activities that are in active use. A determination is made as to which activities should hibernate, for example based on a determination as to which activities have not been used recently or based on relative resource usage. When an activity is to hibernate, its state is preserved on a storage medium such as a disk, so that the activity can later be revived in the same state and the user can continue with the same task that was being performed before the activity entered hibernation.
US12112022B2
A user interface augmentation system includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to perform operations including: searching a system screen for a base point UI serving as a base point for display of an additional user interface (UI) to be added to the system screen; displaying a new screen with a transparent background in such a way as to overlap the system screen; and displaying the additional UI at a position based on the base point UI on the new screen.
US12112008B2
Methods and systems for simulating light interaction and physical materials in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a resource-constrained device are provided. Simulating physical materials, such as glass and metal, in a GUI can allow a user to feel more natural in interacting with the GUI. The user experience can be further enhanced if the simulated physical materials in the GUI can interact with the device's environment in a manner similar to how the actual physical materials would interact. However, continually polling various sensors can be resource-intensive, especially for resource-constrained mobile devices. Accordingly, a mobile device can intelligently determine whether to begin a reduced detail mode, and then render user interface objects in the reduced detail mode to conserve resources.
