US12127759B2
An integrated hysteroscopic treatment system which includes an endoscopic viewing system, a fluid management system, a resecting device and a controller for operating all the systems.
US12127749B1
An osteotome blade that is optimized for cutting and removal of bone cement such as from an intramedullary canal during revision surgery. The blade may have a body and a tip, wherein the body cross-section and tip are trough-shaped and the tip has a swept-back configuration. Further away from the cutting region, the blade may have a transition region and a hub suitable to be grasped in a power tool. There may also be provided a scoring blade, and a method may comprise scoring grooves into bone cement using the scoring blade, followed by removal of bone cement using the cement removal blade.
US12127747B2
Apparatuses, components, devices, methods, and systems for tourniquets are provided. An example tourniquet includes a tensioning device having a housing and a pull-cord assembly and a strap that passes through the housing. An example strap has a first end and a second end. The example strap is arranged to together with the housing form a loop for encircling a limb. An example pull-cord assembly is configured to advance the strap through the housing to tighten the loop.
US12127744B2
An embolic coil implant having a stretch resistant fiber therethrough and dual-functional engagement feature at its proximal end is provided. The stretch resistant fiber can be effective to limiting separation of windings of the embolic coil. The engagement feature can provide an attachment for securing the embolic coil to an engagement system of a delivery tube and for securing the stretch resistant fiber at the proximal end of the embolic coil.
US12127742B2
The present disclosure pertains to medical devices. More particularly, the present disclosure pertains to devices, systems, and methods for closing a wound, such as a tissue defect resulting from an endoscopic mucosal resection or endoscopic submucosal dissection procedure. In one example, a device for closing a wound may include a closure element having a delivery configuration and a deployed configuration, the closure element configured to be disposed about an endcap of an endoscope in a delivery configuration. A release filament may have a distal end releasably coupled to the closure element and a proximal end extendable within the endcap. The closure element may be configured to substantially close about the wound in the deployed configuration.
US12127729B2
A method for evacuating particulates from a surgical site is disclosed. The method comprises communicatively connecting a particulate evacuation module and a surgical hub, wherein the surgical hub comprises a surgical hub enclosure, and wherein the particulate evacuation module is configured to be received within the surgical hub enclosure. The method further comprises removing a particulate from the surgical site and into the particulate evacuation module, analyzing the removed particulate, and modifying an operation of the particulate evacuation module based on the analysis of the removed particulate.
US12127726B2
A method includes obtaining, using at least one processor of an electronic device, an image-query understanding model. The method also includes obtaining, using the at least one processor, an image and a user query associated with the image, where the image includes a target image area and the user query includes a target phrase. The method further includes retraining, using the at least one processor, the image-query understanding model using a correlation between the target image area and the target phrase to obtain a retrained image-query understanding model.
US12127721B1
A personal-hygiene fluid is dispensed from a system including a wall-mountable support bracket, a replaceable dispenser assembly, and a cover shell. The dispenser assembly includes a container holding the fluid and a dispensing pump attached to the container, with the dispenser assembly removably positionable on the bracket. And the shell removably fits onto the bracket and over the container to obscure the container from view. In some embodiments, the dispenser assembly includes a collar attached between the container and the dispensing pump, and the bracket includes a recess that receives the collar to removably mount the dispenser assembly to the bracket. In some embodiments, the shell and the bracket include engaging slide surfaces the enable the shell to vertically slide on and off of the bracket. Also disclosed are a method of replacing the containers of the system, and replacement containers for use in the system and method.
US12127716B2
An ergonomic handle and utensil holder accessory has tubular main body with a wrist rest extending from the distal end. A grip extends upward from the main body and is threadingly engaged with the main body. The handle of a pot, pan, utensil, or other object is inserted into the main body and the grip is screwed in to tightened the holder to the target object. The user grabs the grip by hand such that the user's wrist and forearm rests on the wrist rest. The holder enhances the user's grip on the target object and provides enhanced ergonomics and lifting power.
US12127714B2
A food processing device includes a lower container, a processing plate received atop the lower container, the processing container having a floor, a peripheral sidewall, and at least first and second apertures formed in the floor, the lower container and the processing plate defining a collection volume therebetween, a lid received atop the processing plate and defining a processing volume interior to the lid and the processing plate, a first cutting member positioned in the first opening of the processing plate, and a second cutting member positioned in the second opening of the processing plate.
US12127713B1
A calibration tool for a coffee grinder can receive an image. The image can depict coffee grinds produced by the coffee grinder. The calibration tool can analyze the image using one or more image processing techniques to determine a representative grind size for the coffee grinds. The calibration tool can determine whether the representative grind size of the coffee grinds deviates from a predefined reference size by at least a threshold amount. In response to determining that the representative grind size of the coffee grinds deviates from the predefined reference size by at least the threshold amount, the calibration tool can output an instruction indicating how to calibrate the coffee grinder to more closely adhere to the predefined reference size.
US12127710B2
A barbecue oven that enables operator control of the combustion process through selective control of gas flow through and/or around a hot, oxygenated bed of coals and further enables automatic control of oven temperature through thermostatic regulation of forced draft.
US12127707B1
A telescopic wood-fired pizza oven designed for portability and space efficiency. It consists of a bottom annular ring with an aperture for wood insertion, an inner ledge supporting a circular grill, and a top annular ring with L-shaped receivers to securely lock onto the bottom ring. The top annular ring defines an aperture for pizza insertion with a top door that opens vertically. The top ring also features handles for easy handling and a circular top with a central aperture for ventilation. A folding circular ceramic cooking platform is placed on the grill for optimal pizza cooking. This design allows the oven to collapse into a compact form, making it ideal for storage in recreational vehicles and for transportation to various outdoor settings. The invention provides an authentic wood-fired cooking experience in a portable, easy-to-store format.
US12127697B2
Provided is a cup lid with a retractable drinking spout and drinking cup, including a cup lid body provided with a through hole; a base fixedly connected to the cup lid body and located at a bottom of the through hole; a drinking spout movably installed in the through hole and capable of stretching out from a top of the through hole or retracting into the through hole; and an elastic part arranged in the through hole and having one end in butting connection with the base and the other end in butting connection with the drinking spout, the elastic part pushing the drinking spout to stretch out when popping up, and the elastic part being compressed to accumulate force when the drinking spout retracts.
US12127696B2
An anchor system which can be used to hang framed items from a wall or to secure and anchor a piece of furniture or other object to a wall. The system includes an arrow element, a first washer element, and a second washer element. The arrow element includes a head with several expanding barbs and a body which includes a zip-tie zipper portion. Each washer has a flat body with a front face and a rear face, and a zip-tie receiver portion at its center on its front face, and with several prongs on its rear face opposing the receiver portion.
US12127695B2
An apparatus particularly adapted for displaying a shirt includes a core of resilient material configured to simulate a human torso having a chest simulating surface, a back simulating surface, left and right truncated shoulder surfaces and a truncated waist surface. Each of the left and right truncated shoulder surfaces has an opening formed therein, the opening adapted to receive arm portions of the shirt when the shirt is disposed on the apparatus, and the truncated waist surface has an opening formed therein, the opening adapted to receive a waist portion of the shirt when the shirt is disposed on the apparatus.
US12127690B2
A foldable enclosure apparatus, for a child, including an upper assembly forming an upper portion of an enclosure, and a base assembly connected to the upper assembly and forming a lower portion of the enclosure that supports a base pad. The upper assembly and base assembly are coupled by a side structure of posts, and the upper assembly, base assembly, and side structure are configured so that the foldable enclosure apparatus folds and unfolds effecting closing and opening of the foldable enclosure apparatus between closed and open positions. A flexible frame bassinet is included in the upper portion and dependent from the upper assembly. A changing platform, separate and distinct from the bassinet, is connected to the upper assembly. The changing platform is pivotally mounted to the upper assembly with mounts separate and distinct from mounting of the bassinet, the mounts include a hinged coupling and snap on clamps.
US12127678B2
A sensing unit is configured to generate pressure readings from a phenomena within a sleep environment and to generate temperature readings from a sensed temperature. A processing unit is configured to select a thermoregulation adjustment and to alter a thermal property of a sleep environment based on the selected thermoregulation adjustment.
US12127677B2
A bed frame has a first horizontal frame member and a second horizontal frame member formed parallel to the first horizontal frame member. A crossbeam extends from the first horizontal frame member to the second horizontal frame member. The crossbeam is inserted into the first horizontal frame member and the second horizontal frame member and is retained using a plug. A mounting aperture formed on the first horizontal frame member receives the crossbeam. The mounting aperture has a wide portion above a narrow portion. The wide portion includes a plug area. The narrow portion includes a crossbeam area, which receives the crossbeam. The plug area receives the plug.
US12127676B2
A buoyant pool lounge chair frame and buoyant pool lounge chair using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the buoyant pool lounge chair for supporting a person while the buoyant pool chair is floating in water, frame members collectively form an open chair frame including a back frame and leg frame pivotally coupled thereto. Buoyant cushions are attached to the frame members to form a chair seat, a backrest, and a leg rest. A pair of rear pivotal coupling and clutch assemblies are coupled to the seat frame and to the back frame to adjust and fix the angle of recline of the back frame relative to the seat frame. Similarly, a pair of front pivotal coupling and clutch assemblies coupled to the leg frame and to the back frame to adjust and fix the angle of extension of the leg frame relative to the seat frame.
US12127672B2
A storage system, the system is disclosed having a base; a slot in the base; a spline that slides along the base; a plurality of latches in the spline; a plurality of shelves snapped into the plurality of latches; a cam attached to a bottom of the spline, wherein the cam is slidably inserted into the slot in the base and guides spline along a path along the base.
US12127670B2
A storage assembly comprising at least one storage body comprising the storage body including a first side wall, a second side wall, an end wall, and at least two grooves along the inner surface of the storage assembly, the grooves being substantially coplanar and at least one shelf configured to fit inside the storage body along the substantially coplanar grooves and into the end wall coplanar grooves.
US12127662B2
A refillable stick foundation container is provided. The refillable stick foundation container includes; an assembly accommodating a stick foundation and having a latching protrusion protruding downward from the lower surface thereof; a rotary tube accommodating the assembly inserted thereinto such that the lower surface of the assembly is seated on the bottom thereof, having an open hole which is formed at the bottom thereof and into which the latching protrusion is inserted, and rotating relative to the assembly such that the stick foundation is upwardly exposed or hidden; and a coupling block laterally slidably inserted into and in close contact with the lower surface of the rotary tube and having a latching portion which is formed on the upper surface thereof and to which the latching protrusion is latched.
US12127661B2
A pot for dispensing cosmetic product includes a base having a hollow body surmounted by a neck, the base defining a housing adapted to receive the cosmetic product, at least one refill of cosmetic product mounted on the base, and a cover closing the pot and adapted to be attached on the base or the refill. The base, the refill and the cover are successively stacked. The refill has a tank for storing the cosmetic product, the inner volume of which is at least identical to the inner volume of the housing of the base, the tank being inserted into the housing of the base by descending below the level of the neck of the base.
US12127651B1
Items such as enclosures may be provided with hidden magnets. An enclosure may be formed from a flexible housing layer. The flexible housing layer may be configured to open and close by folding around fold axes. Portions of the flexible layer may include a flexible base layer with openings. Flexible magnets may be embedded within the openings. The flexible magnets may be used in forming a magnetic clasp for the enclosure. The flexible magnets may each have a height and durometer value that closely matches the height and durometer value of an adjacent portion of the flexible base layer, thereby helping to hide the flexible magnets within the housing layer.
US12127637B1
A jam proof zipper device is as described having a shield component coupled to the slider which clears a zipper slider channel entry profile such that all but the tape teeth elements enter or exit the slider channels by steering any encroaching cloth, tape or material away from entering the Y-shaped channel entrance.
US12127635B2
Embodiments are directed toward a latch. The latch preferably has a housing that defines a receiver channel that is configured to receive a latchable member. The latch preferably has a catch that is transitionable between an open configuration and a closed configuration. In the open configuration, the catch is preferably configured to enable insertion and removal of the latchable member into and from the receiver channel. In the closed configuration, the catch is preferably configured to at least partially close the receiver channel and to prevent removal of the latchable member from the receiver channel.
US12127628B2
An article of footwear includes a sole structure effective to increase traction on a support surface and including first and second sets of lugs.
US12127619B2
A method for preparing discontinuous zipper chain for use in apparel manufacturing includes: programming a teeth-securing machine to secure zipper teeth at specified intervals along an edge of each of a pair of zipper tapes; feeding the pair of zipper tapes into the teeth-securing machine so as to secure interlocking zipper teeth to the zipper tapes at the specified intervals, thereby forming a discontinuous zipper chain having successive toothed sections positioned along a length thereof and spaced apart from one another by gap sections without zipper teeth; and spooling or packaging the discontinuous zipper chain for use in apparel manufacturing.
US12127618B2
A brassiere size determination apparatus for clothing with cups covering a user's bust includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires a first volume of at least a lower part of the bust. The determination unit determines a cup size of clothing with cups based on the first volume of the lower part.
US12127612B2
Provided is a multilayer unsupported glove comprising: (A) an outer, first layer of polymer content comprising about 55 wt % or more chloroprene, from 0 wt % to up to about 45 wt % nitrile comprising carboxylated nitrile, and no more than about 5 wt % of another polymer; and (B) laminated to the outer layer, second layer of polymer content that is substantially nitrile 90 wt % or more, wherein the glove is about 0.16 mm or less in thickness, has a tensile strength unaged of greater than about 17 mPa pursuant to ASTM D412:2016 (E 2021) or a tensile strength aged of greater than about 23 MPa, and is accelerator free.
US12127610B2
Disclosed herein is a mask with an odor management mechanism comprising one or more channels, one or more edges with a skin adhesive, or anti-microbial material. Also disclosed herein is a mask with a liner infused with one or more skin.
US12127600B2
An electrically operated aerosol-generating system is provided, including: a heating element to heat an aerosol-forming substrate proximate to the heating element; a power supply to supply power to the heating element; and electric circuitry in communication with the heating element and the power supply, the electric circuitry including a memory and being configured to: regulate a supply of power to the heating element for a heating cycle period in response to a user input, determine a first derivative of an electrical resistance of the heating element with respect to time, determine that there is an adverse condition if the first derivative exceeds a threshold value stored in the memory during a heating cycle period at or subsequent to a predetermined time in the period, and control power supplied to the heating element or provide an indication based on whether there is an adverse condition at the heating element.
US12127595B2
Aerosol provision devices having printed circuit boards are described. One such aerosol provision device defines a longitudinal axis and comprises an electrical connector, a heater assembly configured to heat aerosol generating material received within the device and a printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB comprises a first portion arranged substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis and a second portion arranged substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The heater assembly is electrically coupled to the first portion. The second portion is electrically coupled to the first portion and the electrical connector is electrically coupled to the second portion. Another such aerosol provision device comprises a first coil for heating a heater component and a PCB arranged adjacent to the first coil. The PCB comprises: a first through hole connected to a first end of the first coil; and a second through hole connected to a second end of the first coil.
US12127594B2
A heat-not-burn device includes a heating assembly (300) having a battery (211) in a housing (201), with the battery (211) electrically connected to an electronic controller (212) and to a puff sensor (205) or a switch (206). The housing (201) has a receptacle (221) for receiving a smoking article (100). A plurality of induction coils (222) are electrically connected to the electronic controller (212), with the induction coils (222) longitudinally spaced apart along the receptacle (221). The smoking article (100) has a plurality of spaced apart conductive elements or plates (124) with smoking material (125), such as tobacco, between adjacent conductive elements or plates (124).
US12127593B2
An aerosol generation device includes an electrical power source; a heating chamber; a heater arranged to supply heat to the heating chamber; control circuitry configured to control the supply of electrical power from the electrical power source to the heater; a frame; and a housing having an internal volume containing the electrical power source, the heating chamber, the heater, the control circuity and the frame. The frame is arranged between a first volume of the internal volume containing the heater and the heating chamber, and a second volume of the internal volume containing the electrical power source.
US12127587B2
An electronic vaporizer has an upper section that has an upper housing. The upper section also retains a right cartridge. The right cartridge is retained within the upper housing. The right cartridge further includes a right heater, a right tank, and a right chimney. A cartridge is retained within the upper housing. The left cartridge further includes a left heater, a left tank and a left chimney. The left cartridge is parallel to the right cartridge. A lower section has a lower housing. A battery is retained in the lower housing. The battery is configured to activate the right heater and the left heater.
US12127586B2
An electronic cigarette atomizing core and an atomizer are disclosed. The electronic cigarette atomizing core includes an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve, wherein the outer sleeve is provided with a liquid passing port. An atomization cavity is provided between the bottom of the inner sleeve and the ultrasonic atomization piece. A liquid guide cotton in communication with the liquid passing port is sandwiched between the outer sleeve and the inner sleeve. The inner sleeve is longitudinally provided with a main air groove and an auxiliary air groove at intervals. The cross sectional area of the auxiliary air groove is ¼ to ⅛ the size of the cross sectional area of the main air groove. The main air groove is in communication with the atomization cavity. An auxiliary air inlet, an auxiliary air channel, the auxiliary air groove, and the atomization cavity are in communication with each other.
US12127584B2
A vaporizer accessory case and kit is provided. The device includes a container having a base and a plurality of perimeter sidewalk defining an interior volume. A lid is removably securable to the plurality of perimeter sidewalk, such that the lid encloses the interior volume. An insert is disposed within the interior volume, wherein the insert includes a plurality of divided slots. Each of the plurality of divided slots is dimensioned to removably secure at least one vaporizer accessory therein. In some embodiments, a plurality of sanitary mouthpiece covers is further provided, the plurality of sanitary mouthpiece covers including a first open end opposite a second open end, wherein the second open end is removably securable to a vaporizer mouthpiece.
US12127578B2
The present invention discloses a microencapsuled conjugated linoleic acid glyceride powder and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the steps of preparing raw materials, preparing an aqueous phase and an oil phase, preparing an emulsion, and spray drying. The raw materials comprise, in parts by mass: 60-85 parts of conjugated linoleic acid glyceride, 5-35 parts of starch or colloid, 4-20 parts of small molecule filler, and 0.01-5 parts of antioxidant.
US12127573B2
The present invention discloses a high-voltage electric field low-temperature plasma cold sterilization system circuit and apparatus, and belongs to the field of frequency converter power source circuit technologies. The present invention including a power source module, a voltage/current/power adjustment module, a switch module, and a transformer module. The power source module includes a single-phase frequency converter and a first-stage inductance. An inductance is connected in series between the output end of the frequency converter and a voltage regulator, to play a role of a reactor, harmonic components in sine pulse width modulation waves outputted by the frequency converter are effectively restrained, and spectrum is expanded, so that a harmonic current entering the voltage adjustment module is stable, and heat losses of the voltage adjustment module are reduced to prevent burnout
US12127571B2
The invention relates to a particulate acidulant composition comprising 20-70 wt. % malic acid, 3-40 wt. % lactic acid and 0-40 wt. % of food acid selected from citric acid, fumaric acid, adipic acid, tartaric acid and acetic acid and combinations thereof, wherein the acidulant composition comprises: 40-90 wt. % of M-particles comprising co-crystal of malic acid and partially neutralized polycarboxylic acid selected from malic acid, citric acid, fumaric acid, adipic acid, tartaric acid, and combinations thereof, said M-particles containing at least 30 wt. % malic acid and at least 30 wt. % of the partially neutralized polycarboxylic acid; 5-60 wt. % of L-particles comprising co-crystal of lactic acid and at least partially neutralized carboxylic acid selected from lactic acid, malic acid, citric acid, fumaric acid, adipic acid, tartaric acid, and combinations thereof, said L-particles containing at least 30 wt. % lactic acid and at least 30 wt. % of the at least partially neutralized polycarboxylic acid; and wherein the combination of M-particles and L-particles constitutes at least 50 wt. % of the acidulant composition. The invention also relates to a particulate coating composition, to a method of preparing a food ingredient or a food product and to a confectionery product.
US12127569B2
Described herein are soluble tapioca flour compositions having desirable chemical properties and solubility and viscosity functionality for use in food products such as, beverage mix, infant food, a medicinal product, an emulsion, convenience foods, or a snack-based filling. Such compositions can be used as a partial or complete replacement of maltodextrin and offer a more clean-label alternative.
US12127568B2
A chocolate for frozen desserts having manufacturing suitability when combined with the frozen desserts, good hardness, good flavor, and good melting feeling in the mouth is provided. The chocolate for frozen desserts comprises 15% by mass or more of a cacao component, 3 to 9% by mass of cocoa butter, and 43 to 50% by mass of oils or fats, wherein the oils or fats comprised in the chocolate satisfy the following conditions (a) to (c): (a) comprise 10% by mass or less of a straight-chain saturated fatty acid having 14 or less carbon atoms as a constituent fatty acid; (b) comprise 10 to 25% by mass of a straight-chain saturated fatty acid having 16 to 18 carbon atoms as a constituent fatty acid; and (c) comprise 65 to 85% by mass of an unsaturated fatty acid as a constituent fatty acid.
US12127563B2
A dispensing baked good container assembly includes a container having a pastry bag extend between an upper portion and a lower portion. The pastry bag is flexible. The pastry bag has an internal cavity configured to hold baked good ingredients. The lower portion has a lower dispensing opening at a dispensing tip at a bottom of the pastry bag through which the baked good ingredients are dispensed. The dispensing baked good container assembly includes a support ring coupled to the upper portion of the pastry bag. The support ring is rigid or semi-rigid to support the upper end of the pastry bag and form a funnel providing access to the internal cavity.
US12127562B2
The present invention includes methods and compositions that produce greater pesticidal activity in FR901228 conjugates. FR901228 can be conjugated with one or more thiol containing molecules and produce a new conjugate that exhibits increase pesticidal activity than FR901228 alone.
US12127561B2
The microbial treatment solution according to the present invention includes an acidic hypochlorous acid water and a quantum water. The acidic hypochlorous acid water is at a concentration of 0.5 wt % to 5.0 wt % for the total microbial treatment solution, and the quantum water is 90.0 wt % to 99.5 wt % for the total microbial treatment solution. The quantum water is water passed through a quantum water converter, the quantum water converter comprising a container having an inlet and an outlet and plural fragments installed in the container. The fragment is made of austenitic stainless steel or martensitic stainless steel, and the fragment has a regular hexagonal prism shape. The fragment has a hole that penetrates a bottom surface and a top surface of the fragment, the hole is a circular cross section. The fragment has a spiral groove going around an inner surface of the hole at least once, and the fragment is heat-treated. The plural fragments are arranged so that a central axis of the fragments is parallel to each other, and the arrangement is maintained. The arranged plural fragments are positioned between the inlet and the outlet.
US12127555B2
A shock absorbing device to protect cryogenically frozen biological material includes an outer sleeve and a foam sleeve. The outer sleeve defines an interior volume and has an opening configured to pass a biological material container into the interior volume. The foam sleeve is in the interior volume and has an opening and an interior cavity. The opening of the foam sleeve is aligned with the opening of the outer sleeve to pass the biological material container into the interior cavity. In another embodiment, the shock absorbing device includes a first layer, a foam layer, and a liner layer to retain the foam layer. A first side of the foam layer is adjacent and facing a second side of the first layer. A first side of the liner layer is adjacent and facing a second side of the foam layer.
US12127546B2
A method for remediating developmentally delayed plants within a field of crops using at least one work vehicle during a field operation. The method comprises identifying delayed plants within the field with a sensor on the work vehicle and generating, with a processor, location data associated with the location of the delayed plant with the field. Upon arriving at the location of the delayed plant with the work vehicle, the delayed plant is remediated.
US12127540B2
A fishing accessory with capabilities of grabbing and moving weeds or debris to leave more visibility of the fishing lure as it moves through the body of water. A hollowed-bodied fishing apparatus comprising of a main body in the shape of a frustum of a cone, consisting of a small circular top hole and a large circular bottom hole. The holes of the cone are meant to run along a fishing line and held in place by a sinker or weight. The raised lip of the apparatus is to help attach and reinforce the teeth to the main body. The teeth or grabbers are meant to be used as a means of grabbing onto weeds or debris when the apparatus is gliding through the water. This gives the lure or bait a better chance of being clear of weeds and debris
US12127535B2
A method for external fish parasites, such as sea lice, monitoring in aquaculture, comprising the steps of: —submerging a camera (52) in a sea pen (40) comprising fish (72, 74); —capturing images of the fish (72, 74) with the camera (52); and —identifying external fish parasites such as sea lice on the fish (72, 74) by analyzing the captured images, characterized by the steps of: —distinguishing between at least two different classes of external fish parasites such as sea lice which differ in the difficulty of recognizing the external fish parasites such as sea lice; —calculating quality metrics for each captured image, the quality metrics permitting to identify the classes of external fish parasites such as sea lice for which the quality of the image is sufficient for sea lice detection; and —establishing separate detection rates for each class of sea lice, each detection rate being based only on images the quality of which, as described by the quality metrics, was sufficient for detecting external fish parasites such as sea lice of that class.
US12127530B2
Manure collecting device, comprising a manure pick-up device for picking up manure from a floor of an animal accommodation, and a reservoir for collecting therein manure picked up by the manure pick-up device, wherein the manure pick-up device comprises a housing, comprising a receiving opening to be arranged close to the floor for the purpose of receiving manure in the housing therethrough, a delivery opening arranged close to the reservoir for the purpose of delivering the picked-up manure to the reservoir therethrough, and an at least partially cylindrical inner wall, wherein the inner wall extends at least between the receiving opening and the delivery opening, and a rotatably movable body with a central shaft and at least one arm extending radially relative to the shaft between the shaft and the inner wall, wherein the manure pick-up device is configured such that, while the body moves in rotating manner, the manure is picked up close to the receiving opening by means of the arm and is transported through the housing to the reservoir in co-action with the inner wall.
US12127521B2
Provided area male sterility maintainer line plant, a method for producing the male sterility maintainer line plant, and use of said plant for propagating a male sterility line plant and the male sterility maintainer line plant. In addition, a nucleic acid molecule, a vector, and a host cell for producing the male sterility maintainer line plant are provided.
US12127519B2
A greenhouse screen is described with strips of film material that are interconnected by a yarn system of transverse threads and longitudinal threads by means of knitting, warp-knitting or weaving process to form a continuous product is disclosed. At least some of the strips include a film material in the form of a single- or multilayer polyethylene film having a thickness of 10-70 micrometers. Said film has at least 2-4 wt.-% SiO2 particles having a D50 of 2-10 micrometers. The film is advantageously used as a screen providing light scattering properties particularly suited for greenhouse applications.
US12127518B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for optimizing a greenhouse environment. The method comprises determining environmental targets for the greenhouse environment, and determining environmental actions based on the determined environmental targets. The determination of the environmental targets comprises receiving plant status data indicative of observable characteristics of plant(s), receiving long-term constraint(s) indicative of long-term predictions of a first set of external circumstances, and determining environmental targets, based on the plant status data and the long-term constraint(s). The determination of the environmental actions comprises receiving short-term constraint(s) indicative of current values and/or short-term predictions of a second set of external circumstance, receiving greenhouse environment sensor data, and determining environmental actions based on the environmental targets, the short-term constraint(s), and the sensor data, the environmental actions comprising rules for operating a greenhouse environment installation. The determination of the environmental targets and the determination of the environmental actions comprises extremising an objective function.
US12127516B2
Facility layouts and configurations for an automated crop production system for controlled environment agriculture. In particular implementations the core of the facility comprises a controlled growth environment and a central processing system. The controlled growth environment includes systems for exposing crops housed in modules, such as grow towers, to Controlled environmental conditions. The central processing system may include various stations and functionality both for preparing crop-bearing modules to be inserted in the controlled growth environment, for harvesting crops from the crop-bearing modules after they have been extracted from the controlled growth environment, and for cleaning or washing crop-hearing modules for re-use. The remaining aspects of the crop production facility—such as seeding stations, propagation facilities, packaging stations and storage facilities—are arranged to achieve one or more desired efficiencies relating to capital expenditures or operating costs associated with an automated crop production facility.
US12127508B2
A sensor mount for use with a timber-working device includes a monolithic structure having a base portion configured to be secured to a frame of a timber-working device, and a sensor mounting portion including a cavity configured to receive a contactless sensor. The cavity has a sensor mounting surface for securing the contactless sensor thereto.
US12127503B2
The reel of a combine header includes a rotatable central tube with side members.
US12127493B2
A working machine includes a machine body capable of traveling, a position detector to detect a position of the machine body, and a controller to control the machine body based on the position of the machine body detected by the position detector and a planned travel route. The planned travel route includes a straight section on which the machine body travels straight, and the controller includes a threshold setter to set a threshold according to work, and causes the machine body to perform a recovery movement to make a deviation between the position of the machine body detected by the position detector and the planned travel route less than the threshold when the machine body is at a start point of the straight section or is about to enter the start point of the straight section.
US12133472B2
A magnetic storage device includes a magnetoresistance effect element including a first magnetic layer having a variable magnetization direction, a second magnetic layer having a fixed magnetization direction, and a non-magnetic layer between the first and second magnetic layers. The first magnetic layer includes a first layer that is magnetic, a second layer that is magnetic and farther from the non-magnetic layer than the first layer, and a third layer between the first and second layers. The third layer includes a first portion formed of an insulating material or a semiconductor material and a plurality of second portions surrounded by the first portion and formed of a conductive material.
US12133465B2
A method is provided for making a multilayer functional fiber, where the method includes: providing a scaffold fiber; disposing a first electrode layer enclosing the scaffold fiber; disposing a functional layer enclosing the first electrode layer, the functional layer having a functional characteristic varying as a function of longitudinal position along the functional layer; disposing a second electrode layer enclosing the functional layer; and disposing a cladding layer enclosing the second electrode layer. In another aspect, a multilayer functional fiber is provided produced by, for instance, the above-noted method.
US12133461B2
A compound of the general formula I wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of H, alkoxy, alkyl, fluorinated alkyl, partly fluorinated alkyl, and aryl; R4 is selected from the group consisting of H, halogen, CN, alkoxy, alkyl, fluorinated alkyl, partly fluorinated alkyl, branched or linear, cyclic or open-chain alkyl, amino, aryl, and alkenyl; and at least one A1, A2, A3 or A4 in each case is independently the group Ia wherein each variable is as defined herein.
US12133446B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The OLED display panel includes a substrate; an array functional layer; a light-emitting layer; a thin-film encapsulation layer; and a liquid crystal layer, which is disposed on the thin-film encapsulation layer, including a first liquid crystal region arranged on a non-pixel region and a second liquid crystal region arranged on a pixel region, wherein liquid crystal molecules positioned in the first liquid crystal region are aligned parallel to the substrate.
US12133439B2
A display panel includes a substrate, first light-emitting devices located in a first display area, a first driving circuit, second light-emitting devices located in a second display area, and a second driving circuit. The first driving circuit is configured to actively drive the first light-emitting devices to emit light, and includes a plurality of pixel driving circuits and a signal line. The signal line is located in the second display area, and extends along an edge of the second display area. An orthographic projection of the signal line on the substrate and an orthogonal projection of the first display area on the substrate have a gap therebetween. The second driving circuit is configured to passively drive the second light-emitting devices to emit light. An orthographic projection of at least one of the second light-emitting devices on the substrate is overlapped with an orthogonal projection of the gap on the substrate.
US12133428B2
A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a light-shielding layer. The base substrate includes a display region including repeating units, each repeating unit includes a transparent region and a pixel region, the pixel region includes sub-pixels, each sub-pixel includes a sub-pixel driving circuit and a light-emitting element, and the light-emitting element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode. The light-shielding layer is located on a side of the sub-pixel driving circuit close to the base substrate, at least part of an orthographic projection of the light-shielding layer on a main surface of the base substrate overlaps with an orthographic projection of the sub-pixel driving circuit on the main surface of the base substrate, and the light-shielding layer is connected with the second electrode.
US12133423B2
A display apparatus includes first and second subpixel electrodes on a planarization layer including first and second via holes. The first subpixel includes a first pixel definition layer including a first opening exposing a portion of a first pixel electrode corresponding to a first emission portion. The first pixel electrode is connected to a first pixel circuit through the first via hole. The second subpixel includes a second pixel definition layer including a second opening exposing a portion of a second pixel electrode corresponding to a second emission portion. The second pixel electrode is connected to a second pixel circuit through the second via hole. A second distance defined as a shortest distance from an inner surface of the second opening to the second via hole is greater than a first distance defined as a shortest distance from an inner surface of the first opening to the first via hole.
US12133419B2
There is provided a display device including: a light emitting element; and a drive transistor (DRTr) that includes a coupling section (W1) and a plurality of channel sections (CH) coupled in series through the coupling section (W1), wherein the drive transistor (DRTr) is configured to supply a drive current to the light emitting element.
US12133416B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, and a plurality of pixel units on the substrate. The pixel units are arranged in an array, and two adjacent columns of pixel units are spaced apart from each other to form an interval area. Each pixel unit includes a pixel defining layer and sub-pixels, and the sub-pixels are in pixel areas defined by the pixel defining layer. Cathodes of all sub-pixels in one column of pixel units are connected as one single piece.
US12133398B2
A tandem cell is provided in the present disclosure, which relates to the technical field of photovoltaics, so as to form a functional layer with high film ordering on a bottom cell, thereby improving photoelectric conversion efficiency of the tandem cell. The tandem cell includes: a bottom cell with a textured surface; a hole transport layer formed on the textured surface of the bottom cell; a second ordered induction layer and a perovskite absorption layer formed on the hole transport layer, the second ordered induction layer being located between the hole transport layer and the perovskite absorption layer; and a transparent conductive layer formed on the perovskite absorption layer. An inducing material contained in the second ordered induction layer is organic ammonium salt or inorganic lead compound. The tandem cell according to the present disclosure is a tandem cell with a perovskite solar cell as a top cell.
US12133395B2
The present invention is directed to a perpendicular magnetic structure including a seed layer structure that includes a first seed layer comprising a metal element and oxygen; a second seed layer formed on top of the first seed layer and comprising cobalt, iron, and boron; and a third seed layer formed on top of the second seed layer and comprising chromium. The metal element is one of titanium, tantalum, or magnesium. The perpendicular magnetic structure further includes a magnetic fixed layer structure formed on top of the seed layer structure and having an invariable magnetization direction substantially perpendicular to a layer plane of the magnetic fixed layer structure. The magnetic fixed layer structure includes layers of a magnetic material interleaved with layers of a transition metal. The magnetic material includes cobalt. The transition metal is one of nickel, platinum, palladium, or iridium.
US12133389B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array (MCA) and a pass transistor unit (PTU). The MCA includes memory block(s) that has source selection line(s) (SSL), word lines (WLs), drain selection line(s) (DSL), and dummy WL(s) (DWL). The PTU includes source pass transistor(s) to selectively transmit a source driving signal (source DS) to the SSL, memory pass transistors (MPTs) to selectively transmit a WL DS to the WLs, respectively, drain pass transistor(s) (PT) to selectively transmit a drain DS to the DSL, and dummy PT(s) to selectively transmit a DWL DS to the DWL. The source DS, the WL DS, the drain DS, and the DWL DS may each be associated with a respective voltage range. Sizes of the source PT, the MPTs, the drain PT, and the dummy PTs are set based on the respective voltage ranges.
US12133388B2
A memory device includes a lower source-level semiconductor layer, a source contact layer, an upper source-level semiconductor layer, and an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, and a memory opening fill structure vertically extending through the alternating stack and down to an upper portion of the lower source-level semiconductor layer. The memory opening fill structure includes a vertical semiconductor channel, a memory film laterally surrounding the vertical semiconductor channel, and an annular semiconductor cap contacting a bottom surface of the memory film and contacting a top surface segment of the source contact layer. The annular semiconductor cap may be employed as an etch stop structure during a manufacturing process.
US12133384B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower structure; a first upper structure including lower gate layers on the lower structure; a second upper structure including upper gate layers on the first upper structure; separation structures penetrating the first and second upper structures on the lower structure; a memory vertical structure penetrating the lower and upper gate layers between the separation structures; and a first contact plug penetrating the first and second upper structures and spaced apart from the lower and upper gate layers. Each of the first contact plug and the memory vertical structure includes a lateral surface having a bent portion. The bent portion of the lateral surface is disposed between a first height level on which an uppermost gate layer of the lower gate layers is disposed and a second height level on which a lowermost gate layer of the upper gate layers is disposed.
US12133381B2
A semiconductor device includes a first substrate including an impurity region including impurities of a first conductivity type, circuit devices on the first substrate, a lower interconnection structure electrically connected to the circuit devices, a second substrate on the lower interconnection structure and including semiconductor of the first conductivity type, gate electrodes on the second substrate and stacked and spaced apart from each other in a first direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the second substrate, channel structures penetrating the gate electrodes, and a connection structure. The channel structures may extend perpendicular to the second substrate. The channel structures may include a channel layer. The connection structure may connect the impurity region of the first substrate to the second substrate, and the connection structure may include a via including a semiconductor of a second conductivity type.
US12133378B2
A semiconductor structure including a semiconductor substrate, an active area, a transistor gate, a fuse gate, a first dielectric pattern, a second dielectric pattern and a plurality of metal lines is provided. The active area is disposed in the semiconductor substrate. The transistor gate has a first line segment and a second line segment extending across the active area in a first direction. The fuse gate located between the first line segment and the second line segment extends across the active area in the first direction. The first dielectric pattern is disposed between the active area and the transistor gate. The second dielectric pattern is disposed between the active area and the fuse gate. The metal lines disposed on two opposite sides of the transistor gate are electrically connected to the active device.
US12133375B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: providing a substrate and a plurality of discrete bit line structures located on the substrate, the bit line structure having a metal layer therein, a top surface of the metal layer being lower than a top surface of the bit line structure; forming a first isolation film filled between the adjacent bit line structures, a top surface of the first isolation film being higher than the top surface of the metal layer and lower than the top surface of the bit line structure; forming a first dielectric film on the top and sidewalls of the bit line structure and on the top surface of the first isolation film; and etching to remove the first dielectric film on the top of the bit line structures and the top surface of the first isolation film to form a first dielectric layer, and etching to remove the first isolation film exposed by the first dielectric layer to form a first isolation layer exactly below the first dielectric layer.
US12133368B2
Cooling mass and spring element for low insertion force hot swappable electronic component interface
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a cooling mass. The apparatus includes a cooling block having an opening to receive a portion of the cooling mass. The apparatus having a spring element to be rotated about an axis of rotation. An obstruction between a hot pluggable electronic component and an electro-mechanical connector is to be removed by the spring element's rotation. The cooling mass is to be pressed toward the hot pluggable electronic component in response to a force induced by the spring element's rotation.
US12133356B2
Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components of the data processing system may need to operate in predetermined manners. To manage the operation of the hardware components, the data processing system may cool the hardware components to dissipate heat from the hardware components. The data processing system may include a fan retention mechanism that facilitates orientation of positioning of cooling components used to dissipate the heat from the hardware components.
US12133354B2
An airflow guiding mechanism includes a casing and an airflow guiding member. The airflow guiding member is rotatably disposed in the casing. The airflow guiding member is able to rotate between a first position and a second position. When the airflow guiding member is located at the first position, the airflow guiding member separates two airflow passages at opposite sides of the airflow guiding member from each other. When the airflow guiding member is located at the second position, the two airflow passages communicate with each other.
US12133353B2
An air baffle assembly for air cooling in computer systems is described. The air baffle assembly can include a baffle body removably installed on a printed circuit assembly deployed on a chassis. The baffle body can cover memory components. The air baffle assembly can also include an air dam removably installed on the baffle body. The baffle body has a slot positioned on a side of the baffle body, which can be substantially parallel to a wall of the chassis. The baffle body can further include alignment rails positioned in the slot to guide installation of the air dam into the slot. The installed air dam can reduce a bypass region, thereby reducing airflow through the bypass region and increasing airflow through the memory components.
US12133348B2
According to certain embodiments, an electronic device may include a first housing, a second housing including at least one through-hole and connected to the first housing through a hinge device, a display panel disposed to be supported by the first housing and the second housing, a bending part extending outward from the display panel and including a control circuit, a cover member disposed on at least a portion of the bending part so as to cover at least a part of the control circuit and including a conductive layer, a first waterproof member disposed between the display panel and the first housing so as to surround at least a portion of the bending part, a second waterproof member disposed between the bending part and the first housing, and a third waterproof member filled through the through-hole such that the first waterproof member is connected to the second waterproof member, wherein the cover member includes an exposed part in which at least a part of the conductive layer is exposed, and the exposed part is disposed to at least partially overlap the through-hole.
US12133343B2
A display device includes a bezel annular in shape and a flexible display panel. The flexible display panel includes a display area annular in shape and a pin bonding area connected to the display area. The display area is disposed above the front side of the bezel. The pin bonding area is bent from the front side of the bezel to the outer side of the bezel.
US12133342B2
According to an embodiment, an electronic device is provided. the electronic device may comprise: a housing including a conductive portion and a non-conductive portion; a first substrate; at least one electronic component disposed on the first substrate; a second substrate electrically coupled to the first substrate, the second substrate including a first surface facing a first direction and a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction; at least one contact member disposed between the first surface of the second substrate and the conductive portion of the housing; and a support member disposed between the first surface of the second substrate and the non-conductive portion of the housing.
US12133331B2
A system for the assembly of circuit boards is shown. The system includes an assembly device and a circuit board. The assembly device comprises a substantially planar base plate and guide members. The circuit board includes multiple rigid portions connected by flexible members. The guide members extend into a space partially or completely enclosed in the horizontal direction by the circuit board, and determine the position and orientation of the rigid portions relative to the base plate.
US12133329B2
Provided are a printed circuit board and a method for manufacturing the same, the printed circuit board including: an insulating member; a first pad disposed in the insulating member; a plurality of first vias respectively disposed on a lower side of the first pad in the insulating member and connected to the first pad; and a second via disposed on an upper side of the first pad in the insulating member and connected to the first pad.
US12133328B2
A circuit board having an insulating layer containing a low-temperature sintering ceramic material and wiring. The wiring includes a thermal via having an area of 0.0025 mm2 or more in top view thereof, the thermal via is a stack of layers of tapered conductors, each having tapered end faces, and each end face of the tapered conductors are in direct contact with the insulating layer.
US12133322B2
Electromagnetic interference (EMI) shields having attenuation interfaces are disclosed. A disclosed example EMI shield includes side walls defining sides of the EMI shield, and an attenuation interface to be placed into contact with a circuit board. The attenuation interface includes an inner perimeter having an EMI absorber and an outer perimeter having a metal backing to at least partially surround the EMI absorber.
US12133320B2
An induction feed through system for treating a flow of material is disclosed, including a high voltage energy source energizing a low-turn coil wrapped about an outer wall of a reaction chamber. The flow of electricity through the low-turn coil in turn energizes a high-turn coil wrapped about an inner wall disposed within the outer wall of the reaction chamber. An electrode assembly disposed within the reaction chamber is electrically coupled to and energized by the high-turn coil, in turn generating plasma in the reaction chamber. The plasma is used to excite a flow of material through the induction feed through system. The electromagnetic properties of the plasma further provide direct feedback to the low-turn and high-turn coils.
US12133316B2
An induction heating apparatus is disclosed. The disclosed induction heating apparatus includes: a cooking plate on which a cooking container is seated; and a plurality of induction heating coils installed below the cooking plate and configured to generate a magnetic field, wherein the cooking plate includes: a sintered ceramic plate material; and a reinforcement material layer disposed on a lower surface of the sintered ceramic plate material and provided by a fabric woven with an industrial fiber and a polyamide-based resin.
US12133307B2
A load control system may comprise an electrical load control device and/or a computing device. The electrical load control device may control, for example, motorized window treatments (e.g., shades), lighting controls, and/or sensors (e.g., occupancy, radio window, daylight, etc.). For example, a load control device comprising a motorized window treatment may control the position of a covering material in the window treatment. The computing device may comprise a processor and/or a graphical user interface (GUI). The computing device may be a server and/or a user device, such as a wireless user device (e.g., a cellular phone, tablet, or laptop computer). The computing device may be configured to provide graphical representations that may be displayed on a GUI based on load control information.
US12133304B2
A light emitting module includes 7 colors (2700K 5700K, violet, blue, cyan, lime, and red) of LEDs. With the light emitting module, by causing each of the 7 colors of LEDs to emit at a predetermined intensity, it is possible to emit high color rendering mixed light that has a correlated color temperature from 5000 to 6500K corresponding to the color temperature of daylight, and that can achieve an average color rendering index Ra and a special color rendering index R9 of 98 or greater (99), and a special color rendering index R12 of 94 or greater.
US12133290B2
Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communication technologies, and provide a user equipment UE capability information reporting method and a device. The method includes: UE receives UE capability enquiry information from a network device, where the UE capability enquiry information is used to query a capability of the UE. The UE sends UE capability information to the network device based on the UE capability enquiry information, where the UE capability information is used to indicate that the UE supports a first-type band combination, and the first-type band combination includes a band combination including an intra-band ENDC band combination and NRCA. The UE capability information includes first information and second information, the first information includes a first bandwidth combination set of the intra-band ENDC supported by the UE, and the second information includes a second bandwidth combination set of the NRCA supported by the UE.
US12133289B2
A communication method includes communicating between a terminal device and a first network device via a first uplink capability. The terminal device includes a first communication card and a second communication card. The method also includes sending a first message to the first network device from the terminal device. The first message indicates a second uplink capability to communicate between the terminal device and the first network device. The method additionally includes communicating between the terminal device and a second network device via a third uplink capability.
US12133278B2
Disclosed are a user equipment unit in a wireless communication system, an electronic apparatus, a method, and a storage medium. The user equipment unit in a wireless communication system communicates with an electronic apparatus in the wireless communication system by means of a primary cell and multiple secondary cells. The user equipment unit comprises one or more processing circuits. The processing circuit is configured to perform the following operations: determining whether each of the multiple secondary cells experiences a beam failure; and if it is determined that beam failures have occurred on at least two of the multiple secondary cells, setting a medium access control control element (MAC CE) to notify the electronic apparatus of same, wherein the MAC CE at least comprises index information of all component carriers on which beam failures have occurred.
US12133263B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure provides a method for operating a user equipment (UE) in wireless communication system. The method includes: receiving, from a base station, configuration information for a two-step random access transmission; determining a resource configuration for transmitting a first message of the two-step random access transmission based on the obtained configuration information for the two-step random access transmission, wherein the first message comprises a preamble and data; transmitting, to the base station, the first message according to the determined resource configuration; detecting a second message from the base station as a feedback of the first message; and performing a subsequent operation according to the detected second message.
US12133260B2
A method for sharing channel occupancy time (COT) using listen before talk category 1 (LBT CAT1) and a device are provided in implementations of the disclosure. The method includes the following. A first device establishes an initiation COT (INIT_COT). The first device shares the INIT_COT with a second device, where the INIT_COT is obtained with the LBT CAT1 by the second device and is used for the second device to perform data transmission within the INIT_COT, and a time length of the data transmission is less than or equal to a time length X.
US12133257B2
This disclosure provides an uplink transmission method, user equipment, and a network-side device. The uplink transmission method applied to user equipment includes: receiving a scheduling instruction transmitted by a network-side device, where the scheduling instruction includes a set of interlace indices of resource blocks and a scheduled bandwidth, and an interlace of resource blocks in the scheduled bandwidth indicated by the set of interlace indices of resource blocks includes a guard band physical resource block PRB; performing clear channel detection for the scheduled bandwidth; determining a PRB for data transmission in the interlace of resource blocks based on a detection result of the clear channel detection; and transmitting data by using the PRB for data transmission.
US12133255B2
A method implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for wireless communications includes receiving a signal sequence from a base station (BS) and generating a channel quality indicator (CQI) indication based on the signal, transmitting the CQI indication to the BS, receiving a first control message from the BS comprising configuration information, wherein the configuration information includes information elements for configuring CQI subgroups, determining a CQI subgroup identifier (ID) based on the information elements included in the received first control message, and transmitting an energy harvesting feedback using at least one resource associated with the CQI subgroup ID.
US12133253B2
The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, a base station, and uplink transmission and reception methods. The user equipment comprises a transceiver which, in operation, receives an indication indicating a priority level to be enforced, and circuitry which, in operation, compares a priority level of a first uplink transmission with the indicated priority level to be enforced, the first uplink transmission being granted to the UE prior to scheduling of a second uplink transmission allocated to resources overlapping with resources allocated to the first uplink transmission, wherein the transceiver, in operation, performs the first uplink transmission based on a result of the comparison.
US12133252B2
The present disclosure provides a resource conflict handling method and apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium. The method includes: transmitting, when a first PUSCH and a second PUSCH overlap or conflict with respect to time domain resources, if there is a fourth PUSCH in a third PUSCH included in the first PUSCH that does not overlap or conflict with the second PUSCH with respect to time domain resources, a data block over the fourth PUSCH. The first PUSCH is configured for repeated transmissions of the data block. In this way, the problem of conflict handling in the conflict scenario where the third PUSCH is present can be clarified. Here, available resources can be used as much as possible, and the resource utilization can be guaranteed, such that traffic can be transmitted to a network device as quickly as possible to avoid the delay caused by the resource conflict.
US12133243B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for enhancing sidelink resource utilization for a user equipment (UE) that supports full duplex (FD) communications. For example, an FD UE may receive incoming sidelink communication over a first set of resources and, in FD mode, simultaneously transmit another sidelink communication over the same first set of resources. According to aspects of the present disclosure, the potential interference between the two sidelink communications will be mitigated or reduced, such as by having the FD UE negotiate with other sidelink UEs over transmission power levels and related aspects, such as beam coordination and/or resource subset designation, or the like.
US12133240B2
This disclosure provides a data channel transmission bandwidth determination method and apparatus, a network side device and a terminal. The data channel transmission bandwidth determination method includes: transmitting, to a terminal, scheduling information for scheduling data channel transmission; where the scheduling information includes data channel transmission bandwidth indication information.
US12133239B2
Provided are time domain resource determination and detection methods and apparatuses, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes determining a time domain resource allocation pattern set. The time domain resource allocation pattern set includes at least one of a time domain resource allocation pattern set corresponding to a combination of a first subcarrier spacing (SCS) and a second SCS, where the first SCS is an SCS of a first channel signal, and the second SCS is an SCS of a second channel signal; a time domain resource allocation pattern set indicated by downlink control information (DCI) signaling; or a time domain resource allocation pattern set corresponding to a slot type. A time domain resource allocation pattern in the time domain resource allocation pattern set is used to indicate symbols occupied by the second channel signal. This solves the technical problem in the related art that only the second channel signal is supported to be transmitted on several consecutive symbols in the slot.
US12133234B2
A method, a terminal, and a base station. The method includes: when there are overlapped physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), or there are overlapped PUCCHs, if there are a plurality of channels corresponding to parameter values, or if there are the plurality of channel corresponding to parameter values and the parameter values corresponding to the plurality of channels are different, determining the time value according to parameter values corresponding to each of the plurality of channels or according to parameter values corresponding to part of the plurality of channels or according to part of parameter values corresponding to the plurality of channels, wherein the parameter values are used to determine the time value; performing a timeline condition adjustment for a first symbol of an earliest channel among the overlapped PUCCH and PUSCH or the plurality of overlapped PUCCHs based on the time value.
US12133233B2
The present disclosure discloses a data transmission method, comprising: a terminal device determines, according to the states of a first timer and a second timer corresponding to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process, whether the HARQ process corresponding to a first configuration authorization resource is available for transmitting data to be transmitted; during the operation of the first timer, the terminal device does not perform a new transmission on the HARQ process; and during the operation of the second timer, the terminal device does not perform retransmission on the HARQ process. The present disclosure further discloses a terminal device and a storage medium.
US12133223B2
The present invention provides an uplink control information transmitting method and apparatus. In the method, when a user equipment (UE) is configured with an uplink carrier in an unlicensed spectrum, the UE transmits uplink control information through a pre-defined location and a pre-defined format in a licensed spectrum and/or a pre-defined location and a pre-defined format in an idle unlicensed spectrum according to an uplink (UL) grant transmitted from a base station and the UCI to be transmitted. According to the technical solution provided by the present invention, the UCI is flexibly transmitted in the licensed spectrum or in the idle unlicensed spectrum, thereby improving transmission efficiency and reducing impact on downlink signal scheduling when the UE is configured with the uplink carrier in the unlicensed spectrum and transmits the UCI, and further improving LTE network efficiency.
US12133222B2
Disclosed in embodiments of the present application are a semi-persistent grant uplink transmission method, terminal device and a network-side device. The method comprises: receiving configuration information, wherein the configuration information is used to configure a plurality of semi-persistent grant resources, each of the plurality of semi-persistent grant resources corresponds to at least one unlicensed sub-band.
US12133218B2
Embodiments include methods performed by a wireless device configured to communicate via an uplink (UL) to a network and via a sidelink (SL) to one or more other wireless devices. Such methods include, based on availability of data to be sent via the SL, triggering a SL Scheduling Request (SR) to obtain a first UL grant to facilitate transmission of a Sidelink (SL) Buffer Status Report (BSR) indicating the data available to be sent via the SL. Such methods include, prior to transmitting the SL SR to obtain the first UL grant, transmitting an UL SR to obtain a second UL grant to facilitate transmission of an UL BSR indicating data available to be sent via the UL. Such methods include selectively transmitting the SL BSR using the second UL grant and cancelling the SL SR transmission in response to transmitting the SL BSR using the second UL grant.
US12133214B2
The present specification relates to a method for performing uplink transmission and reception in a wireless communication system. More particularly, a method by which a terminal supporting a plurality of panels performs an uplink transmission in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, configuration information related to the uplink transmission, wherein the configuration information is set on the basis of a first panel type and a second panel type related to the uplink transmission; and performing the uplink transmission by means of a panel corresponding to the first panel type and/or the second panel type, wherein priority of the first panel type can be set to be higher than that of the second panel type.
US12133212B2
Methods and systems for managing communications among network devices are disclosed. An example method can comprise determining a time window for transmission based on a scheduling protocol. The scheduling protocol can specify time windows for using corresponding wireless protocols to transmit signals. Different wireless protocols can be associated with different time windows and different devices. A device can prevent transmissions during the time window, thereby allowing other devices to provide transmissions during the time window according to the scheduling protocol.
US12133208B2
The present disclosure discloses methods and devices for wireless communication. Specifically, a method for resource allocation at a network device is provided. The method includes allocating a first frequency band to at least one first terminal device utilizing a first radio access technology (RAT), and allocating a second frequency band to at least one second terminal device utilizing a second RAT. The first frequency band is at least partly overlapped with the second frequency band, and the overlapped part of the first and second frequency bands is spatially multiplexed between the at least one first terminal device and the at least one second terminal device.
US12133205B2
According to some embodiments, a network node is operable to separately schedule radio transmissions per sub-subframe (SSF). A method in the network node comprises mapping a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) to first resource elements in a first SSF. The first resource elements are associated with a first set of antenna ports. The method includes mapping a second DMRS to second resource elements in a second SSF. The second resource elements are associated with the first set of one or more antenna ports and precoding of the second DMRS differs from a precoding of the first DMRS. The method further includes scheduling a radio transmission during the first SSF precoded in accordance with the first DMRS, and scheduling a radio transmission during the second SSF precoded in accordance with the second DMRS. In particular embodiments, a subframe may comprise two, four, or eight sub-subframes.
US12133203B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and device for information configuration, a method and device for channel estimation method, a transmitting device and a receiving device. The method for information configuration includes: configuring no pilot on a physical resource transmitted on a first time-frequency unit; determining a transmission capability of the physical resource configured without a pilot, and performing rate matching based on the transmission capability.
US12133201B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and an apparatus for handling configured grant (CG) resource for small data transmission (SDT) are provided.
US12133197B2
One embodiment relates to a method for a first terminal to transmit a sidelink signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: a step in which the first terminal determines at least one from among transmission parameters, a CSI-RS transmission configuration, and a DMRS configuration; and a step in which the first terminal transmits the sidelink signal to a second terminal, on the basis of at least one from among the transmission parameters, CSI-RS transmission configuration, and DMRS configuration. The terminal determines, on the basis of establishment of a unicast connection with the second terminal, a first value corresponding to a relative difference from the second terminal by using information included in a message from the second terminal and sensor information, and determines at least one from among the transmission parameters, CSI-RS transmission configuration, and DMRS configuration on the basis of the first value.
US12133191B2
In one embodiment, a method of commissioning a third-party electronic device of a user for use with a tracking service includes detecting, by an application executing on the computing device of the user, the third-party electronic device within a communicative range of the computing device of the user. The third-party electronic device is not associated with the tracking service and is not communicatively coupled with the tracking service. The method includes initiating a commissioning exchange with the third-party electronic device. The method includes providing an output of the commissioning exchange to a tracking system server associated with the tracking service. The method includes receiving an acknowledgement that the third-party electronic device has been commissioned for use with the tracking service. The method includes providing, in response to the acknowledgement, a location associated with the third-party electronic device to the tracking system server.
US12133183B2
A wireless device may determine whether a sidelink transmission has higher priority than an uplink transmission. The determination may be based on comparing a priority value of the sidelink transmission to a first priority threshold for ultra reliable low latency (URLLC) uplink transmissions in response to the uplink transmission being URLLC, and the determination may be based on comparing the priority value of the sidelink transmission to a second priority threshold for non-URLLC uplink transmissions in response to the uplink transmission being non-URLLC. Based on the determining, the wireless device may transmit at least one of the sidelink transmission or the uplink transmission.
US12133170B2
According to one aspect of the disclosure, a network node is provided. The network node is configured to configure each wireless device in a first group of wireless devices comprising at least one wireless device with a first radio network temporary identifier, RNTI, defined to address a group of wireless devices for physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, based wake-up signal, WUS, operation, and cause transmission of signaling including a wake-up signal, WUS, for a first WUS monitoring occasion associated with the first group of wireless devices, where the WUS is configured to cause each wireless device in the first group of wireless devices to perform at least one action.
US12133158B2
Embodiments are directed towards systems and methods for downlink access control in a communications network. An example method includes a base station receiving a request for downlink (DL) communication with a user equipment (UE), and the base station performing the following actions without communicating with the UE regarding the request for the DL communication: determining an unavailability of a resource required for the DL communication; responsive to the determined unavailability, sending a rejection of the request; determining an availability of the resource; and responsive to the determined availability, sending an indication of the availability of the resource required for the DL communication.
US12133157B2
A method and system in the User Equipment (UE) for maintaining rejected network slice selection assistance information (NSSAI) for Single Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (S-NSSAI) not available due to maximum number of UEs reached per access type. The method comprises receiving a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message including at least one of a registration accept, registration reject or CONFIGURATION UPDATE COMMAND message along with at least one of rejected Single Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (S-NSSAI(s)) information and a cause for the S-NSSAI not available due to maximum number of UEs reached from a network. Thereafter, the method includes determining by the UE an access type on which the rejected S-NSSAI(s) is applicable based on the received S-NSSAI(s) information and then maintaining a storage of the rejected NSSAI for the S-NSSAI not available due to the maximum number of the UEs reached per access type based on the determination.
US12133151B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for managing one or more groups of Machine-Type Communication (MTC) devices in a cellular network. According to one aspect, a method for managing one or more groups of Machine-Type Communication (MTC) devices in a cellular network includes an exposure function for exposing network capabilities and events detected by other network functions, characterized by the following steps carried out at the exposure function: —a) receiving, from an MTC application, a request for membership management on the one or more MTC groups, wherein the request includes corresponding one or more MTC group identifiers and an MTC device identifier for the MTC application; and —b) transmitting, towards a user profile server, a corresponding request for membership management, wherein the corresponding request includes the one or more MTC group identifiers, the MTC device identifier and a corresponding MTC application identifier.
US12133150B2
Technologies for adaptive bandwidth reduction for an Internet of Things (IoT) gateway device are disclosed. The IoT gateway device receives data from one or more sensors, and determines a mathematical model to represent the sensor data. Certain aspects of the mathematical model used, such as the quantity of coefficients and the precision of the coefficients are determined based on the sensor data. For example, if the sensor data is within a normal range, a relatively small number of coefficients might be used, but if the sensor data is past or near an alert threshold, a larger number of coefficients might be used, which allows for the behavior of the sensor data to be better represented.
US12133148B2
A system for measuring brake data from a braking assembly of a vehicle. The braking assembly includes a floating portion that moves relative to brake pad wear. The system includes a brake sensor for each wheel. The brake sensors include a fixed sensing element and a target portion attached for movement with the floating portion. The sensing element generates a signal indicating a position of the target portion. The signal is used to determine brake pad thickness. The brake sensor also transmits the signal over a wireless vehicle area network for receipt and processing by a wireless hub in the vehicle area network. The vehicle area network can generate and transmit an alert and/or instructions for an autonomous vehicle based on the signal.
US12133145B1
Disclosed is a modular teleconference system that provides the convenience of a wireless headset for teleconference participants and the determinism associated with a physical connection between the headset and teleconferencing system. Some embodiments include a teleconference adaptor or mini-hub-device that is able to maintain a wireless connection even when disconnected from a teleconference hub device. The hub-device provides one or more cradles, each of which provides a physical connection to a mini hub. When a mini hub is placed in a cradle of a hub-device, the audio channels of the wireless headset are connected to audio channels of the hub-device. The hub-device in turn is connected to a teleconferencing application running on a computing device, such as a personal computer. For each mini hub placed in a cradle of the hub-device, audio from the corresponding wireless headset is integrated with the teleconference audio channel.
US12133144B2
Provided in embodiments of the present application are an access control method and apparatus, a terminal device, and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device receives first configuration information, the first configuration information comprising an access control configuration parameter corresponding to a first access category; and according to the access control configuration parameter, the terminal device executes an access control operation corresponding to an MBMS service.
US12133142B2
Systems and methods are provided for allowing a mobile device user's location and or identity to be determined. According to one aspect of the disclosure, a method of creating a database comprises providing a first wireless router at a point of sale where a credit card is used in a transaction by a credit card holder, obtaining an identity of the credit card holder during the credit card transaction, establishing a wireless link between the first router and a mobile device carried by the credit card holder, obtaining a Media Access Control (MAC) address associated with the credit card holder's mobile device over the wireless link, correlating the identity of the credit card holder with the MAC address of the credit card holder, and storing the correlated identity and MAC address on a server. In some embodiments, a cellular identifier is obtained rather than a MAC address.
US12133139B2
The present application discloses systems, methods, and computer-readable media that can utilize a handheld-movement-detection model to detect whether a computing device is moved by hand or otherwise by a person within a vehicle. For instance, the disclosed systems can receive movement data from a computing device and generate filtered signals. Subsequently, the disclosed systems can utilize the handheld-movement-detection model to convert the filtered signals into a binary movement-classification signal (based on a signal threshold) to indicate the presence of handheld movement of a device. Furthermore, the disclosed systems can also utilize movement data from a computing device to detect whether the computing device is mounted and/or to detect vehicular movements. Additionally, the disclosed systems can configure (or adjust) parameters of the handheld-movement-detection model by utilizing movement data from a computing device that is secured to a vehicle and movement data of a computing device that is moveable within the vehicle.
US12133130B2
A method of relaxing frequency measurement by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, system information comprising first configuration information associated with frequency measurement and second configuration information associated with relaxed frequency measurement, the second configuration information comprising at least one of first information associated with a criterion for the terminal with low mobility (low mobility criterion) or second information associated with a criterion for the terminal not at cell edge (not at cell edge criterion), identifying whether at least one of the low mobility criterion or the not at cell edge criterion is fulfilled, and determining whether to perform frequency measurement based on the identifying.
US12133122B2
The present invention relates to a method of transmitting packets by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, wherein the UE is related to a first network and a second network. In particular, the method includes the steps of: transmitting packets containing compressed header information to the first network; receiving, from the first network, a handover command to connect with the second network; and transmitting packets containing a full header information to at least one of the first network or the second network.
US12133115B1
A method and system for proactively reconfiguring communication to a user equipment device (UE) in anticipation the UE experiencing a coverage-throughput reduction when the UE is receiving streaming media. An example method includes (i) predicting, when the UE is receiving streaming media, that the UE is going to experience the coverage-throughput reduction and (ii) based at least in part on the predicting, proactively increasing a quality-of-service (QOS) level of a bearer through which the UE is receiving the streaming media, the proactively increasing occurring before the UE experiences the coverage-throughput reduction so that the QoS level is increased by when the UE experiences the coverage-throughput reduction.
US12133114B2
An event regarding control of a terminal that significantly affects communication quality with which communication between the terminal and an external communication device is performed is predicted by acquiring surrounding information of the terminal using a surrounding environment information collection unit, and a packet loss caused in communication, communication disconnection, and communication quality that does not meet required performance are prevented using communication control to change setting related to communication, such as selection/addition/deletion of a communication counterpart, selection/change of a communication scheme, a change in modulation scheme, coding rate, and number of spatial multiplexings of communication, and a change in setting of an automatic gain controller of a receiver for communication.
US12133102B2
A wireless communication apparatus is provided with: a signal receiving circuit configured to wirelessly receive a measurement value of a sensor from a slave apparatus; a position estimator configured to estimate a position of the slave apparatus; a storage device configured to store a history of the position of the slave apparatus; and a master control circuit configured to display the measurement value of the sensor and the position of the slave apparatus on a display device. When the master control circuit fails to receive the measurement value of the sensor from the slave apparatus, the master control circuit displays, on the display device, a latest position stored in the storage device, together with an error message indicating that communication between the wireless communication apparatus and the slave apparatus is interrupted.
US12133095B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for employing a machine learning-based approach such as adaptive Bayesian optimization to learn over time the most optimized assignments of incoming network requests to service function chains (SFCs) created within network slices of a 5G network. An optimized SFC assignment may be an assignment that minimizes an unknown objective function for a given set of incoming network service requests. For example, an optimized SFC assignment may be one that minimizes request response time or one that maximizes throughput for one or more network service requests corresponding to one or more network service types. The optimized SFC for a network request of a given network service type may change over time based on the dynamic nature of network performance. The machine-learning based approaches described herein train a model to dynamically determine optimized SFC assignments based on the dynamically changing network conditions.
US12133093B2
This disclosure provides a control method, a terminal, and a network-side network element. The control method includes: sending first information, where the first information includes at least one of the following: indication information of whether a terminal supports capability signaling optimization, and a capability of the terminal for capability signaling optimization.
US12133088B2
The present disclosure relates to a base station device, a communication method, and a storage medium in a wireless communication system. There is provided a base station device, comprising a processing circuitry configured to: based on a conflicting beam list, determining that at least one conflicting beam is included in a set of transmitting beams to be used for downlink transmission from a local cell in a future specific period; in response to the determining, send beam scheduling information for the future specific period to a base station of an adjacent cell, the beam scheduling information including at least information on time-frequency resources allocated to the at least one conflicting beam by the local cell.
US12133087B2
A wireless signal extending method is disclosed. A link between an electronic device and a first network node access point (AP) is generated. The electronic device connects to the first network node AP according to backhaul information. It is determined whether a location where the quality of connection signals with the first network node AP meets a preset value is discovered. If a first location where the quality of connection signals with the first network node AP meets the preset value is discovered, a second network node AP is placed at the first location. The second network node AP is enabled to enter in a pairing mode. A push button configuration (PBC) function of the first network node AP is remotely triggered to automatically pair the first network node AP and the second network node AP.
US12133083B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US12133082B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US12133070B2
The invention relates to the technical field of battery charging and swap, and in particular to an off-line battery swap method, a battery charging and swap station, a vehicle with a battery to be swapped, and a readable storage medium. The invention is intended to solve the problem that battery swap cannot be performed at a battery charging and swap station when a vehicle is not connected to a network or a cloud server has a fault. To this end, the off-line battery swap method of the invention includes: switching, by a battery charging and swap station, to a backup battery swap mode upon receiving a battery swap mode switching instruction; establishing, by a vehicle with a battery to be swapped, a communication connection with the battery charging and swap station by using backup connection information; authenticating, by the battery charging and swap station, the vehicle with a battery to be swapped; and performing, by the battery charging and swap station, battery swap for the vehicle with a battery to be swapped where the authentication is successful, the backup connection information being pre-stored in the vehicle with a battery to be swapped. According to the battery swap method of this application, a battery swap procedure can be completed in an off-line state, thereby effectively solving the problem that battery swap cannot be performed when a cloud server has a fault or a vehicle with a battery to be swapped is not connected to a network.
US12133062B2
A method and apparatus for rendering an object-based audio signal considering an obstacle are disclosed. A method for rendering an object-based audio signal according to an example embodiment, the method includes identifying an object-based input signal and metadata for the input signal, generating a binaural filter based on the metadata using a binaural room impulse response (BRIR), determining, based on the metadata, whether an obstacle is present between a listener and an object, modifying the generated binaural filter when it is determined that the obstacle is present, and generating a rendered output signal by convolving the modified binaural filter and the input signal.
US12133059B2
A thin loudspeaker is provided. The thin loudspeaker includes a small magnet and a thin coil diaphragm. The coil diaphragm has a plurality of planar coils and a membrane. The membrane has a plurality of laminated substrates. The planar coils are interconnected, stacked, and respectively formed on the substrates. The magnet is disposed to contact the underside of the coil diaphragm along the common central axis of the planar coils.
US12133031B1
A distribution system that includes central ports connected by lines to respective remote ports includes a visual identification system that enables either identifying the central ports connected with selected remote ports, or identifying the remote ports connected with selected central ports. The visual identification system includes signal paths extending between the central and remote ports. The signal paths are connected to output devices that generate visual, auditory, or tactile feedback to identify the ports. The signal paths operate independently of the lines connecting the ports.
US12133030B2
A method for converting a source video content constrained to a first color space to a video content constrained to a second color space using an artificial intelligence machine-learning algorithm based on a creative profile.
US12133017B2
A sensor data processing apparatus can be coupled to multiple image sensors of different types. The apparatus adjusts frame transmission rates based on the number of sensors and type of image data sourced by the sensors to optimize utilization of bandwidth on a number of transport channels. The apparatus can be configured to transport selected frames in the image data that are identified as critical frames at a higher rate than non-selected frames in the image data.
US12133015B2
A digital X-ray detector includes a width of a data line or a gate line extending across a dummy pixel area is smaller than a width of the data line or the gate line extending across an active area, a width of a dummy gate line or a dummy data line extending across the dummy pixel area is smaller than a width of the gate line or the data line extending across the active area, so that static electricity generated during a manufacturing process does not randomly flow into the active area, but rather flows into the dummy pixel area having the lowest capacitance, and the static electricity may be guided not to the active area but to the dummy gate line or dummy data line in the dummy pixel area, thereby minimizing line defects or block luminance deviation defects caused by the static electricity generated during the manufacturing process.
US12133014B2
An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect that a setting value related to a time has been deleted, and a setting unit configured, in a case where deletion of a setting value related to a time has been detected by the detection unit, to newly generate an option corresponding to the deleted setting value and to set the option as a new setting value related to the time.
US12133004B2
Techniques are disclosed to accurately measure the integration or accumulation of charge measured by photosite readout circuitry due to a photodiode generated current, which is generated by a photodiode as a result of impinging light reflected onto the photodiode that forms part of an imaging sensor. The techniques described herein address shortcomings of photosite operation by using a series of sequential switching states that function to maintain the charge accumulated during idle sampling times between active detection windows.
US12133002B2
An image processing method includes receiving a raw image of an image sensor as a first image; performing remosaicing on the first image to generate a second image in a Bayer format, the performing the remosaicing including: converting the first image into a first color image, performing false color correction on the first color image, re-correcting an over-correction caused in performing the false color correction to generate a second color image, and converting the second color image into the second image in the Bayer format; and generating a full resolution image as an output image based on the second image.
US12133001B2
A method for constructing a high-resolution merged signal from low-resolution signals acquired by an acquisition device includes acquisition of low-resolution signals (BR), measurement and/or estimation of acquisition parameters, pre-merging of the signals as a function of the low-resolution signals and of the parameters, filtering of the pre-merged signal, transmission of the filtered pre-merged signal and of the parameters, calculation of an estimate of the pre-merged signal by an inverse filtering of the filtered pre-merged signal, and determination, according to a variational method, of the high-resolution merged signal from the estimate of the pre-merged signal and of the parameters, a resolution of the merged signal is greater than a resolution of each signal.
US12132997B2
An electronic device with a flash function and a driving method of a flash are provided. The electronic device includes a flash, an image sensor, and a processor. The flash has a red light source, a green light source, and a blue light source. The image sensor is configured to obtain a preview image of a current scene and outputting the raw data of the preview image. The processor obtains a red ratio value and a blue ratio value according to the current scene, and the processor determines the green brightness value, red brightness value and blue brightness value according to the red ratio value, the blue ratio value and an exposure sensitivity for obtaining the preview image. The processor drives the flash according to the calculated red brightness value, the calculated green brightness value, and the calculated blue brightness value.
US12132993B2
A display method. The display method is applied to a control terminal, and the control terminal is used to communicate with an imaging device. The imaging device includes a wide-angle lens and a zoom lens, and the control terminal includes a display interface. The display method includes displaying an image obtained by the wide-angle lens in the display interface, obtaining a first user operation acting on the display interface, and displaying a first detail imaging area in the display interface in response to the first user operation. The first detail imaging area is being used to display an imaging range of the zoom lens.
US12132992B2
A method and apparatus for capturing stabilized digital video in a digital imaging device includes displaying a preview of a subject within a field of view of the imaging device in a user interface of the imaging device. A video comprising a sequence of images is captured, and a motion of the imaging device while capturing the digital video is detected. The subject in one or more images of the sequence of images is detected, and a location of the subject within the images is detected. A stabilized video is obtained by determining shift amounts for the sequence of images of the video taking into account the motion information and location of the subject within the images, obtaining a sequence of modified images by modifying the sequence of images of the video based at least on the shift amounts determined, and combining the modified images to obtain a stabilized video.
US12132990B2
An image stabilization motor, a camera module, and an electronic device are disclosed. The image stabilization motor includes a lens carrier, a sensing component, a base, a bearing assembly, and a driving component. The lens carrier is configured to fasten a lens, the sensing component is fastened to the lens carrier, the bearing assembly is mounted on the base, the driving component is fastened to the base, and the driving component cooperates with the sensing component, so that the lens carrier can rotate around the bearing assembly. In the image stabilization motor, the camera module, and the electronic device, by disposing the bearing assembly, the lens carrier needs to overcome only friction force between the lens carrier and the bearing assembly in an entire rotation process.
US12132988B2
Disclosed is a lens assembly. The disclosed lens assembly comprises: a base; a lens unit which is disposed on one side inside the base and moves forward or rearward in the length-wise direction of the base; an optical path changing unit which is disposed on the other side inside the base, and has a portion fixed to the base and the other portion disposed to be movable inside the base; an auto focusing (AF) drive unit that moves the lens unit forward or rearward; and first and second optical image stabilizing (OIS) drive units that move the optical path changing unit in a tiltable posture.
US12132986B2
A computer vision system used for a vehicle having a camera system including an AI camera having a capability of recognizing 1) surrounding environment, 2) moving objects at the surrounding environment, 3) a parking location and direction, and a capability of setting a non-recognition area, wherein numbers of the moving objects passing through the non-recognition area are more than a predetermined number in a predetermined period, a controller including software programs for controlling functions of the AI camera, a battery and a server designed to communicate to the camera system for processing the data from the camera system via the communication device, wherein the software programs include a function for allowing the AI camera to recognize the surrounding environment between the parking location of the vehicle to the non-recognition area, and wherein the software programs further include a function for controlling power from the battery to the camera system.
US12132984B2
Adaptive control systems using augmented and virtual reality systems chimerically integrated with Artificial Intelligence and the like Homunculi fix vision issues with data based and user tuned solutions in real time.
US12132981B2
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces. In some examples, the electronic device transitions between user interfaces for capturing photos based on data received from a first camera and a second camera. In some examples, the electronic device provides enhanced zooming capabilities that result in visual pleasing results for a displayed digital viewfinder and for captured videos. In some examples, the electronic device provides user interfaces for transitioning a digital viewfinder between a first camera with an applied digital zoom to a second camera with no digital zoom. In some examples, the electronic device prepares to capture media at various magnification levels. In some examples, the electronic device enhanced capabilities for navigating through a plurality of values.
US12132980B2
A dynamic image processing method is executed by an electronic device communicating with a photographing device and reading an executable code to identify a preset object by using artificial intelligence, and perform dynamic image processing for the preset object. The method includes the steps of identifying the preset object, image filtering and forming a concatenated video. In the step of image filtering, a filter condition is set, the filter condition includes detecting a movement variable of the preset object in the initial image, and when the filter condition meets a threshold, a catch moment in the initial image is selected. In the step of forming a concatenated video, at least one video clip in the initial image is selected according to the catch moment, and the video clip is assembled to form the concatenated video. The present disclosure also provides an electronic device and a terminal device.
US12132979B2
An optical device is provided. The optical device includes a main body; a display unit which includes a polarization layer and which is disposed on one surface of the main body; and a camera module which is disposed in the main body and which overlaps the polarization layer in an optical axis direction. A first region of the polarization layer overlapping the camera module in the optical axis direction blocks or reflects at least some incident light when the camera module is not operated.
US12132973B1
Systems and methods are provided herein for providing consistent picture quality during live or non-live streaming of hybrid content. For example, a camera may capture a first piece of hybrid content depicting a scene. The scene may include one or more real objects (e.g., a first person conducting an interview) and a piece of content (e.g., a stream of a second person being interviewed) being displayed on a screen (e.g., television screen). A system may receive the first piece of hybrid content and the source of the piece of content being displayed within the scene. The system may then insert the source of the piece of content into the first piece of content, replacing the depiction of the piece of content, to generate a second piece of hybrid content. The second piece of hybrid content may then be transmitted to one or more devices.
US12132969B2
Systems, apparatus and methods for secure and efficient data transmission across local area networks
In some embodiments, a method includes establishing a connection between a digital content control device that is part of a first LAN and an RCM server. A first authentication code is transmitted from the digital content control device to the RCM server via the network connection such that the RCM server: a) validates the first authentication code, and b) transmits a second authentication code to the digital content control device via the network connection. Using the first authentication code and the second authentication code, a secure two-way communication channel is established between the digital content control device and the RCM server. A set of auxiliary content is received at the digital content control device and from a content provider of a second LAN via the RCM server to be presented with the available programming content on the at least one media device.
US12132962B2
Systems and methods for nonlinear media playback using a linear media player are described. In one implementation, a video tree representing a branching video presentation is provided, and a dynamic playlist is provided to a linear video player. A controller component interacts with the linear video player through a standard interface of the linear video player. During playback of a video content segment in the dynamic playlist by the linear video player, an indication of a user interaction with the playing video content segment is received by the controller component and from the linear video player via the standard interface, and the dynamic playlist is modified based on video content segments in a branch of the video tree. In another implementation, an uncompressed media file is selected and combined with a preceding and/or following media file. The combined files are compressed and a portion of the compressed file corresponding to the original media file is extracted.
US12132959B1
Consumption of online content is tracked to increase a likelihood that the user is paying attention. A request is received from a remote processing device to begin receiving content, and a block of content is assembled, the block of content having a known content playback duration. Additionally, a post block verification duration is associated with the block of content. The assembled block of content is communicated to the remote processing device for playback thereon, and a perception indicator is collected during playback of the block of content. The collected perception indicator is compared against a perception threshold. Also, a post block verification is performed immediately after playback of the block of content for the post block verification duration. A contingency result is then determined based upon the comparison of the perception indicator to the perception threshold, and whether a valid feedback is received within the post block verification duration.
US12132955B2
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) identifying, by a playback device, a media device that provides media content to the playback device; (ii) providing, by the playback device, replacement media content for display; (iii) determining, by the playback device, that while the playback device is displaying the replacement media content a remote control transmitted an instruction to the identified media device; (iv) determining, by the playback device, a playback-modification action corresponding to the instruction and the identified media device; and (v) modifying, by the playback device, playback of the replacement media content in accordance with the playback-modification action.
US12132948B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a local server coupled to a plurality of client devices. The local server may receive encrypted content from one or more content sources and provide the content to the client devices. The local server and client devices may be part of a multi-client environment such as a hotel or conference center. The local server does not decrypt and re-encrypt content, thereby allowing the use of low cost equipment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12132945B2
The present invention provides an apparatus of transmitting broadcast signals, the apparatus including, an encoder for encoding service data, a frame builder for building at least one signal frame by mapping the encoded service data, a modulator for modulating data in the built at least one signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, scheme and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
US12132944B2
Systems and methods for matching live media content are disclosed. At a server, obtaining first media content from a client device, herein the first media content corresponds to a portion of media content being played on the client device, and the first media content is associated with a predefined expiration time; obtaining second media content from one or more content feeds, wherein the second media content also corresponds to a portion of the media content being played on the client device; in accordance with a determination that the second media content corresponds to a portion of the media content that has been played on the client device: before the predefined expiration time, obtaining third media content corresponding to the media content being played on the client device, from the one or more content feeds; and comparing the first media content with the third media content.
US12132934B2
An apparatus for decoding a sequence of pictures from a data stream is configured for decoding a picture of the sequence by deriving a residual transform signal of the picture from the data stream; combining a residual transform signal with a buffered transform signal approximation of a previous picture of the sequence so as to obtain a transform signal representing the picture, the transform signal having a plurality of transform coefficients; and subjecting the transform signal to a spectral-to-spatial transformation. The apparatus is configured for deriving the buffered transform signal approximation from a further transform signal representing the previous picture so that the buffered transform signal approximation has approximations of further transform coefficients of the further transform signal.
US12132933B2
Disclosed is a method and a device for coding a sequence including first and second digital holograms representing respective scenes, the digital holograms being represented by a set of wavelets each defined by a multiplet of coordinates in multidimensional space. The first and second holograms are represented by first and second coefficients respectively associated with wavelets. The coding method includes the following steps: for each second coefficient, determining a remainder by a difference between the second coefficient concerned, associated with a first wavelet defined by a given multiplet, and the first coefficient) associated with a second wavelet defined by a multiplet having as its image the multiplet by a transform in the multidimenisonal space; coding the determined remainders. The transform is determined by analysis of variation between the first scene represented by the first digital hologram and the second scene represented by the second digital hologram.
US12132931B2
Methods and apparatuses for image encoding and image decoding are provided. The image decoding method includes: obtaining deep neural network (DNN) update permission information indicating whether one or more pieces of DNN setting information are updated; based on the DNN update permission information indicating that the one or more pieces of the DNN setting information are updated, obtaining DNN update information necessary for determining one or more pieces of the DNN setting information that are updated; determining the one or more pieces of the updated DNN setting information according to the DNN update information; and obtaining a third image by performing artificial intelligence (AI) up-scaling on a second image according to the one or more pieces of the updated DNN setting information.
US12132930B2
An image coding method includes: deriving a candidate for a motion vector predictor from a co-located motion vector; adding the candidate to a list; selecting the motion vector predictor from the list; and coding a current block and coding a current motion vector, wherein the deriving includes: deriving the candidate by a first derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of a current reference picture and a co-located reference picture is a long-term reference picture; and deriving the candidate by a second derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of the current reference picture and the co-located reference picture is a short-term reference picture.
US12132926B2
A video decoding method includes: deriving an LO motion vector and an LI motion vector for a current block; deriving a refined LO motion vector and a refined L1 motion vector, by applying DMVR to the current block based on DMVR flag information; deriving LO prediction samples of the current block based on the refined LO motion vector and LI prediction samples of the current block based on the refined L1 motion vector; deriving prediction samples for the current block based on the LO prediction samples and the L1 prediction samples, by applying BDOF to the current block based on BDOF flag information; and generating reconstruction samples for the current block based on the prediction samples, in which the DMVR flag information is derived based on a predetermined DMVR application condition, and the BDOF flag information is derived based on a predetermined BDOF application condition.
US12132925B2
A video decoding method includes the steps of: generating a merge candidate list for a first block; selecting one among merge candidates included in the merge candidate list; and performing motion compensation for the first block based on motion information of the selected merge candidate. At this point, an inter-region merge candidate included in an inter-region motion information list may be added to the merge candidate list based on the number of spatial merge candidates and temporal merge candidates included in the merge candidate list.
US12132924B2
A method of decoding a motion vector includes: determining at least one prediction motion vector (PMV) candidate block used to determine a PMV of a current block; determining an availability of a motion vector of the at least one PMV candidate block; when there is a PMV candidate block determined to be unavailable, determining the PMV of the current block by using a default motion vector (MV); and obtaining a motion vector of the current block based on the determined PMV.
US12132919B2
A processor-implemented method for image compression using an artificial neural network (ANN) includes receiving, at an encoder of the ANN, an image and a spatial segmentation map corresponding to the image. The spatial segmentation map indicates one or more regions of interest. The encoder compresses the image according to a controllable spatial bit allocation. The controllable spatial bit allocation is based on a learned quantization bin size.
US12132912B2
In the present invention, an inter-prediction mode based image processing method and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. Specifically, the inter-prediction based image processing method may comprise the steps of: deriving movement information of a control point for specifying a reference block of a current block; dividing the current block into sub-blocks; deriving movement information of the sub-blocks using the movement information of the control point; and generating a prediction block for each sub-block using the movement information of the sub-blocks.
US12132909B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus according to the present invention may generate a prediction block of a current block on the basis of a pre-defined prediction mode, generate a residual block of the current block on the basis of a predetermined transformation type, and reconstruct the current block on the basis of the prediction block and the residual block.
US12132907B2
Methods and apparatus for using wide-angle intra prediction for rectangular blocks enable greater prediction angles. Wide-angle intra prediction enables intra prediction direction angles beyond the conventional 45 and −135 degrees. In one embodiment, when a video block to be coded or decoded is non-square, additional intra prediction directions are enabled in the direction of the longer block edge and more reference samples are available along that edge. An index is used to indicate the prediction direction and can be adapted according to the additional intra predictions in the longer direction, with correspondingly fewer prediction directions along the shorter block edge. This preserves the number of prediction modes that need to be indexed but allows their angles to correspond to the shape of the block.
US12132904B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In residual coding of a current block, the circuitry, in operation, encodes a subblock flag by Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) in both of a first type of residual coding where an orthogonal transform is performed and a second type of residual coding where the orthogonal transform is skipped, the subblock flag indicating whether a non-zero coefficient is included in a plurality of coefficients for a subblock within the current block, wherein a first syntax used for the first type of residual coding is different from a second syntax used for the second type of residual coding; and controls a number of CABAC processes, wherein the encoding of the subblock flag is not counted as the number of CABAC processes.
US12132895B2
This disclosure relates generally to video coding and particularly to methods and systems for selection of interpolation filters for generation of inter-prediction blocks based on motion vector magnitude and/or motion vector pixel resolution. For example, a method for processing a video block of a video stream is disclosed. The method may include receiving a flag from the video stream; determining based on the received flag that the video block is to be inter-predicted by a reference frame according to a motion vector (MV); deriving the MV from a reference MV and an MVD (MV difference) of the video block; deriving a signal indicating an interpolation filter, wherein the signal is based at least on one of a resolution and a magnitude of the MVD; selecting the interpolation filter according to the signal; and performing inter prediction for the video block from the reference frame according to the MV and the selected interpolation filter.
US12132887B2
A video decoding apparatus is a video decoding apparatus for deriving a prediction image by using a reference picture included in a reference picture list. The video decoding apparatus includes: a parameter decoder configured to decode (i) one or more reference picture list structures, and (ii) a first flag indicating whether first reference picture list information is present in a slice header whose nal_unit_type is an IDR picture, the one or more reference picture list structures and the first flag being included in a sequence parameter set, and a second flag indicating whether or not second reference picture list information is present in a picture header, the second flag being included in a picture parameter set; and a prediction parameter derivation unit configured to (i) derive the first reference picture list information by using nal_unit_type or the first flag and the second flag in the slice header, or derive the second reference picture list information by using the second flag in the picture header, and (ii) derive the reference picture list, based on the one or more reference picture list structures. In a case that the first reference picture list is not derived, the number of entries of the one or more reference picture list structures is estimated to be 0.
US12132883B2
A video decoding and encoding method and apparatus, a computer-readable medium, and an electronic device. The video decoding method includes classifying decoded blocks adjacent to a target block according to information about the decoded blocks to obtain at least one category, obtaining a category identifier corresponding to the target block based on coding information corresponding to the target block, determining a target category corresponding to the target block from the at least one category according to the category identifier corresponding to the target block, determining a predictive vector of the target block based on vectors of decoded blocks included in the target category, and decoding the target block based on the predictive vector.
US12132881B2
A stereo camera apparatus includes a housing, a first camera unit attached to the housing, a second camera unit attached to the housing, a processing device that performs image processing by using captured images acquired by capturing of the first camera unit and the second camera unit, and a circuit board on which the processing device is mounted. In the housing, a base length direction of the first camera unit and the second camera unit is a longitudinal direction, the housing and the circuit board are bonded to each other by an adhesive, and in a region in the housing, onto which the adhesive is applied, a length in the base line length direction is shorter than a length in an orthogonal direction that is a direction perpendicular to the base length direction.
US12132880B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for decoding an image. A method includes receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding the image; dividing a first coding block into a plurality of second coding blocks; generating a prediction block of a second coding block based on syntax information obtained from the bitstream; and reconstructing the second coding block based on the prediction block and a residual block of the second coding block, the residual block being obtained by performing a dequantization and an inverse-transform on quantized transform coefficients from the bitstream. The first coding block has a recursive division structure. The first coding block is divided based on at least one of a quad tree division, a binary tree division or a triple tree division.
US12132869B2
The present invention provides for phone interface systems providing for the elderly. The present invention provides for a telephone management system blending landline technology with landline or cell phone networks, and bridging the technology and functionality gap for seniors. Aspects of the invention provide for network interface systems which include interfaces for allowing use of landline systems with cellular technology, providing video displays to allow for touch access to numbers, and to synch actuators and sensors with the interface system.
US12132865B2
A computer-implemented method for providing an objective evaluation to a customer service representative regarding his performance during an interaction with a customer may include receiving a digitized data stream corresponding to a spoken conversation between a customer and a representative; converting the data stream to a text stream; generating a representative transcript that includes the words from the text stream that are spoken by the representative; comparing the representative transcript with a plurality of positive words and a plurality of negative words; and generating a score that varies according to the occurrence of each word spoken by the representative that matches one of the positive words, and/or the occurrence of each word spoken by the representative that matches one of the negative words. Tone of voice, as well as response time, during the interaction may also be monitored and analyzed to adjust the score, or generate a separate score.
US12132864B1
A call processing system and method for processing calls from high volume callers. A frequency of call activity is monitored for callers to determine reception of a call from a high frequency caller. When a call is received from such a caller, provided is information predicted to be requested from the caller prior to the caller being voice connected to a company representative. The retrieved information is then provided to a company representative prior to the caller being voice connected with a company representative as to expedite the call. Additionally, a customized message for the high frequency caller may be generated prior to the caller being voice connected with a company representative whereby the customized message contains information predicted to be responsive to a predicted inquiry from the determined high frequency caller to mitigate the need to connect the caller to a company representative.
US12132859B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing enhanced 911 call functionalities. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a 911 call request from a caller using a calling device associated with an originating telephone number (“TN”), a computing system may determine whether a user profile associated with the caller and/or the originating TN contains registered third parties on a 911 call notification list. Based on a determination that the user profile contains at least one registered third party on the 911 call notification list associated with the caller and/or the originating TN, the computing system may send a message to each of the at least one registered third party indicating that the caller has called 911, and/or may establish a listen-in only bridged connection, a full bridge connection, or a shared communication to the 911 call for each registered third party.
US12132858B2
Real time audio stream validation is provided. An audio stream of a voice communication corresponding to a call is segmented into a plurality of blocks in response to receiving the audio stream from a user. The plurality of blocks is modified to generate a first modified audio stream corresponding to the call that includes hashed values of the plurality of blocks. The first modified audio stream along with the hashed values of the plurality of blocks is sent via a network.
US12132857B1
A system for handling incoming calls by a smartphone that includes a processing device running on the smartphone that is configured to display on a screen of the smartphone a short-time-silent mode button to apply a short-time-silent mode, to apply the short-time-silent mode on the smartphone, to receive an incoming call when the smartphone is on the short-time-silent mode, to activate a vibration mechanism of the smartphone to perform a predefined number of vibrations when received the incoming call when the smartphone is on the short-time-silent mode, to disable a ring mechanism of the smartphone to ring when received that incoming call and during a performance of the predefined number of vibrations, and to transition automatically the smartphone to an audible ringing mode for enabling the ring mechanism to ring upon completing the performance of the predefined number of vibrations.
US12132849B2
The present invention provides a terminal device, and a display screen thereof and an application thereof. The terminal device includes a terminal device body, a display screen, and a camera module. The display screen is provided with a light through hole. The camera module is located below the display screen, and has a front end. The front end of the camera module is fixedly attached to the display screen and the camera module is aligned with the light through hole of the display screen, so that light outside the display screen is received by the camera module via the light through hole.
US12132843B2
A method of operation of a first device storing a first private key and a first public key corresponding to the first private key includes receiving, from a second device, an unsigned certificate including a second public key and second identification information associated with the second public key. The method further includes sending, to a server, a signed certificate corresponding to a signed version of the unsigned certificate. The method further includes receiving, from a third device, a third public key and third identification information associated with the third public key, and based on a request for authentication associated with the third identification information, receiving, from the server, a response that indicates whether the server identifies, within a database, a sequence of signed certificates from the first public key to the third public key.
US12132839B2
First and second devices store respective device data and private keys. The first-device data is additionally stored by the second device and by a proxy; and the second-device data is additionally stored by the first device and by the proxy. In a commitment phase, each of the first and second devices uses its respective device data, private key and a random nonce to generate a respective one-time first-device or second-device commitment value, which it sends to the proxy. In a checking phase, the devices communicate secret-key information to the proxy, which verifies the received one-time commitment values. In a digest phase, the proxy calculates a one-time digest, which it sends to the second device. The second device then verifies the received one-time digest to authenticate the first device.
US12132829B2
There is herein disclosed a method of communication between a client pair, the client pair including an upstream client and a downstream client, the method being performed over a first optical fiber in an optical fiber pair and including: transmitting a downstream DWDM signal over the first optical fiber, wherein the downstream DWDM signal has a first frequency and contains first data originating from the upstream client, transmitting an upstream DWDM signal over the first optical fiber, wherein the upstream DWDM signal has a second frequency and contains second data originating from the downstream client, wherein the first frequency is different to the second frequency, and performing Quantum Key Distribution over the second optical fiber of the optical fiber pair.
US12132825B2
Technologies for accelerated key caching in an edge hierarchy include multiple edge appliance devices organized in tiers. An edge appliance device receives a request for a key, such as a private key. The edge appliance device determines whether the key is included in a local key cache and, if not, requests the key from an edge appliance device included in an inner tier of the edge hierarchy. The edge appliance device may request the key from an edge appliance device included in a peer tier of the edge hierarchy. The edge appliance device may activate per-tenant accelerated logic to identify one or more keys in the key cache for eviction. The edge appliance device may activate per-tenant accelerated logic to identify one or more keys for pre-fetching. Those functions of the edge appliance device may be performed by an accelerator such as an FPGA. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12132818B2
Malicious website detection has been very crucial in timely manner to avoid phishing. User privacy also needs to be maintained at the same time. A system and method for classifying a website URL have been provided. The system is configured to achieve end-to-end privacy for machine learning based malicious URL detection. The system provides privacy preserving malicious URL detection models based on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) approach either using deep neural network (DNN), using logistic regression or using a hybrid approach of both. The system is utilizing a split architecture (client-server) where-in feature extraction is done by a client machine and classification is done by a server. The client machine encrypts the query using FHE and sends it to the server which hosts machine learning model. During this process, the server doesn't learn any information about the query.
US12132814B2
Interface devices and systems that include interface devices are disclosed. In some implementations, a device includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive data, a lane margining controller in communication with the transceiver and configured to control the transceiver to transmit, through a margin command, to an external device, a request for requesting a state of an elastic buffer of the external device, and control the transceiver to receive the state of the elastic buffer of from the external device, and a port setting controller adjust a clock frequency range of a spread spectrum clocking scheme based on the state of the elastic buffer.
US12132809B2
Various embodiments improve the operation of computers by providing methods of transmitting data with low latency and high bandwidth. Data may be transmitted in a packet composed of data flits, the data flits having at least two different formats configured to implement different communication protocols. In some embodiments, a given flit may be transmitted using two different modulation methods, with a first part of the flit transmitted using a first modulation method, such as a binary method, and a second part of the flit using a higher-order modulation method.
US12132804B2
An asset, such as a module, may be used to provide access to a resource. The asset may include identifiers that indicate a type, version, or format of the asset. At least in some instances, an enterprise may desire to store and maintain assets of a particular type. Accordingly, the assets may be converted subsequent to receiving a request for the resource for which the asset is used to provide access. The converted assets may be output to a cache memory of a device attempting to access the resource and/or saved on a database to provide to additional computing devices attempting to access the resource.
US12132799B2
Using tokens from silent push notifications during application sessions to develop device confidence
Aspects disclosed are directed to a system and methods that device authentication. The system at least transmits a silent push notification to an application installed on a client device. The silent push notification includes a push token provided by a push service and an embedded secret. A response to the silent push notification can be received with a further embedded secret. The embedded secret and the further embedded secret can be compared to determine if they match. If the embedded secret and the further embedded secret match, the client device can be authenticated.
US12132797B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media are provided for predicting the likelihood or probability of a subscriber of a service to cancel or not renew a subscription. A method, according to one implementation, includes a step of receiving data pertaining to aspects of a service that is provided by a service provider to a subscriber in accordance with a subscription. The data may include one or more impact factors each having a positive, neutral, or negative influence on the likelihood of subscriber churn. The method also includes a step of using the one or more impact factors to predict the likelihood that the subscriber will cancel the subscription.
US12132796B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for tracking session events for an iframe. The program and method provide for accessing session events corresponding to user interaction by plural first devices with respect to a webpage, the session events comprising first session events associated with a first tracking tag corresponding to a main window of the webpage, the session events further comprising second session events associated with a second tracking tag corresponding to an iframe of the webpage; determining, based on the first session events associated with the first tracking tag, first zoning information corresponding to the main window of the webpage; determining, based on the second session events associated with the second tracking tag, second zoning information corresponding to the iframe of the webpage; and causing, based on the first and second zoning information, display of zoning metrics on a second device.
US12132795B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a data recommendation method performed by a computer device. The data recommendation method includes: obtaining a service object set associated with a target user in a plurality of fields in response to a data recommendation request for the target user in a target field, performing cross-field cross-encoding on the plurality of fields and the service object set to obtain a target field interest feature of the target user in the target field; obtaining to-be-recommended service object features of a plurality of to-be-recommended service objects in the target field; and obtaining a target to-be-recommended service object feature matching with the target field interest feature of the target user from the to-be-recommended service object features, and returning a target to-be-recommended service object corresponding to the target to-be-recommended service object feature to the target user.
US12132792B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide a method and electronic device for supporting an edge computing service (e.g., a multi-access edge computing (MEC) service). An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises a network interface, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire, using the network interface, information relating to applications which can be provided within a base station or to at least one external server connectable through the base station by the at least one external server; select an external server including an application corresponding to a specified condition, on the basis of the information relating to the applications; and perform data transmission with the selected external server. Various embodiments are possible.
US12132787B2
A communication method and apparatus includes: An access gateway function network element sends a session establishment request message of a terminal to a session management function network element. The session management function network element sends, to the access gateway function network element, at least one of a session identifier and an address of the terminal that correspond to an established session. The access gateway function network element obtains virtual interface information corresponding to the identifier of the established session. The access gateway function network element further sends the virtual interface information and the at least one of the session identifier and the address of the terminal to the terminal, so that the terminal establishes a first association relationship between the virtual interface information and the at least one of the session identifier and the address of the terminal.
US12132786B1
Remote applications within remote sessions and local applications do not behave similarly to provide users with a seamless experience. For example, a user may exploit multiple monitors with a local application but cannot with a remote application. Accordingly, embodiments of the invention provide users with the ability to exploit multiple monitors within a single remote session in a manner similar to the one in which they utilize multiple monitors on their desktop computer, laptop etc. Other embodiments extend this so that a user can exploit multiple client devices within a single remote session such that whilst the remote session is established upon a user's portable electronic device, for example, they can also exploit the keyboard, mouse, and monitor of their fixed electronic device for all or part of the session or exploit peripherals and other electronic devices associated with these client devices.
US12132779B2
Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for managing communications within a supercluster or across superclusters, including a first supercluster having a plurality of first machines and a publish-subscribe (Pub-Sub) channel to which each of the plurality of first machines is subscribed. A second supercluster has a plurality of second machines and a bridge between the first supercluster and the second supercluster. A first machine is configured to receive, via the bridge, an availability status and resource allocation information of each second machine and publish, on the Pub-Sub channel of the first supercluster, the availability status and the resource allocation information.
US12132778B2
Sharing data in a data exchange across multiple cloud computing platforms is described. An example method can include copying, to a first cloud computing entity using a consumer account of the first cloud computing entity, a first subset of a data set associated with a provider account of a second cloud computing entity, wherein the provider account of the second cloud computing entity does not have access to the first cloud computing entity, and then copying, to a third cloud computing entity using a consumer account of the third cloud computing entity, a second subset of the data set, wherein the provider account of the third cloud computing entity does not have access to the first cloud computing entity, for which the first subset of the data set is different from the second subset of the data set.
US12132776B2
One example process may include determining, via a virtual private network (VPN) server, one or more client devices are currently content sharing during a conference including a plurality of active client devices, monitoring, via the VPN server, communication session parameters of one or more of the client devices which are forwarding the shared content to the VPN server, and the shared content is destined for one or more of the other client devices, modifying, via the VPN server, one or more of the communication session parameters of the one or more client devices which are forwarding the shared content to the VPN server, and determining whether the modified one or more communication session parameters have increased a performance of the one or more other client devices.
US12132767B2
A session change over system monitors nodes to determine whether they are operational, and transfers user equipment from one node to another when nodes are not operational. The session change over system receives one or more health check messages from one or more foreign nodes which communicate with user equipment. The session change over system inspects each health check message to determine whether a foreign node is not operational. The session change over system identifies user equipment in communication with the foreign node at a time before the foreign node was not operational. The session change over system communicates with the identified user equipment in place of the foreign node.
US12132766B2
Provided are an inter-area media service switching method, a server, a system and a storage medium. A first MEC-CDN node acquires mobile information about a user device from a core network, where the user device establishes a connection with the first MEC-CDN node, and acquires a media service from the first MEC-CDN node; in response to determining, according to the mobile information, that the user device is pre-moved out of a coverage range of the first MEC-CDN node, the first MEC-CDN node determines a second MEC-CDN node and/or a second MEC platform to which the second MEC-CDN node is attached, and establishes a connection with the second MEC-CDN node; the first MEC-CDN node migrates state information about the user device onto the second MEC-CDN node; and in response to determining that the user device enters a coverage area of the second MEC-CDN node, the second MEC-CDN node establishes a connection with the user device, so that the user device acquires the media service from the second MEC-CDN node.
US12132765B2
A remote access system for policy-controlled computing with a client device connected to a remote software environment is disclosed. The client device communicates with the remote software environment that securely runs applications. Restrictions for a local application that runs on the client device are enforced using a first plurality of policies. A mid-link server enforces restrictions on the remote software environment using a second plurality of policies. The second plurality of policies are updated for each client device, and corresponding enterprise, a country, and a present location of each of the client device of the plurality of client devices. A mirror function that emulates sensor input from the client device as if it is happening inside the remote software environment.
US12132762B2
Provided are an electronic device and method for detecting a malicious server. The method includes acquiring first feature information of a server Internet protocol (IP) of a malicious website, acquiring second feature information of a server IP of a comparative website, comparing the first feature information with the second feature information, and determining that the malicious website has been changed to the comparative website on the basis of the comparison result.
US12132759B2
Inline package name based supply chain attack detection and prevention is disclosed. An indication that a client device has made a request to a remote server for a package is received. A data appliance then performs an action responsive to the received indication. In an example implementation, the data appliance makes a determination of whether the request for the package is associated with a nonexisting package.
US12132745B2
A platform for threat investigation in an enterprise network receives threat data from managed endpoints, and is augmented with data from cloud computing platforms and other third-party resources. The resulting merged data set can be incrementally updated and used to automatically launch investigations at appropriate times.
US12132740B2
Clients that fail to access a resource may compute backoff times for waiting before retrying to access the resource. The clients may reference a sequence of time windows where the time windows may have increasing numbers of time slots. The clients may select respective time slots in a first time window. If the clients again fail to access the resource, then the time slots selected by the clients may at least partly determine which time slots the clients select in a next (second) time window. The time slot selections in the second time window may be at least partly randomly selected. A client may randomly select a time slot in the second time window from among a proper subset of time slots in the second time window. The proper subset may be based on which time slot the client selected in the first time window.
US12132734B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a method that includes receiving, at an edge component of a cloud-based secure access service, a corresponding access designation for each of a plurality of endpoints, each access designation specifying a type of access a corresponding endpoint has to remaining ones of the plurality of endpoints and other accessible network resources; based on the corresponding access designation of each of the plurality of endpoints, updating a routing table at the edge component, to include routing information for a subset of the plurality of endpoints having access to at least one other endpoint of the plurality of endpoints or to the other accessible network resources; and enabling routing of network traffic, via the cloud-based secure access service, between any number of the plurality of endpoints based at least in part on the routing table.
US12132730B2
A method, system, and computer program product for behavior-based Internet of Things (IoT) device security are provided. The method detects an action from a set of IoT devices. A context is identified for the action and at least one IoT device of the set of IoT devices. The action and the context are validated for the at least one IoT device. The action is identified as an anomaly based on the validating of the action and the context. A potential state change is identified for the at least one IoT device based on the anomaly. The method determines a responsive action based on the potential state change and the anomaly.
US12132729B2
A computer-implemented method is provided to automatically adjust a device setting of a plurality of networked devices. The method includes performing autonomously at a device of the plurality of networked devices, receiving a request to update a device setting to a new value, comparing a characteristic of the plurality of networked devices to a corresponding characteristic of the device, determining one or more similar devices of the plurality of devices that satisfy a similarity criteria based on a result of the comparison, and accessing the one or more similar devices to change the device setting of the one or more similar devices to the new value.
US12132716B2
A computing platform is configurable to cause initiating a communication session with a user, the user having a user account associated with a workflow data object, the workflow data object being configured to represent a plurality of operations included in a workflow. The computing platform is also configurable to cause identifying a verified status indicator associated with at least one of the plurality of operations, the verified status indicator comprising a verified credential associated with at least one of the plurality of operations. The computing platform is also configurable to cause identifying a transfer operation associated with the verified status indicator and identifying a target entity associated with the transfer operation. The computing platform is also configurable to cause implementing the identified transfer operation based, at least in part, on identified target entity.
US12132709B2
A firewall system provides two network paths for network flows: one path through a firewall on a host device and another path through an alternative hardware or software system that handles network flows that have been analyzed and allowed by the firewall. The firewall system can then transfer network flows between the two paths according to the status of each network flow.
US12132703B2
Systems and methods are provided for prevent network outages and improve communication effectiveness by implementing an automatic discovery method that enables the AP to act dynamically to determine its persona as a WAN AP or LAN AP. Based on the determination, the AP can receive the appropriate configuration settings in a configuration file from the central controller (e.g., Aruba central config service) for its dynamic persona. In some examples, the administrator user may define an AP identifier (e.g., MAC addresses) of the network devices in the corresponding microbranch for authentication and authorization.
US12132695B2
A message sending method includes: receiving N message inputs that is performed in a message input area by a user; displaying N message objects in a message template display area in response to the N message inputs, where the N message objects are used to indicate message contents of N message templates edited by the N message inputs; and sending the message contents indicated by the N message objects to a target contact.
US12132686B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device in a node for wireless communications. A first node transmits a first signal, and the first signal is used for random access; in response to transmitting the first signal, monitors a first-type channel in a first resource set to detect a first-type signaling; monitors the first-type channel in a second resource set to detect a second-type signaling; receives a target signaling, the target signaling is used to determine a target time; and when the target signaling is a third-type signaling, in response to receiving the target signaling, stops monitoring the first-type channel in the first resource set after the target time; when the target signaling is a fourth-type signaling, in response to receiving the target signaling. The above method can quickly recover a beam for unicast service and a beam for PTM/multicast groupcast service after beam failure.
US12132678B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The method may include a user equipment (UE) transmitting, to a base station, signaling indicating a capability of the UE to utilize a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for channel state information (CSI) reporting. Upon receiving the signaling, the base station may transmit the DMRS and the UE may update a parameter of a CSI report in response to the received DMRS. The UE may then transmit the CSI report to the base station and the base station may utilize the CSI report for subsequent communications with the UE.
US12132676B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to adaptation of secure sounding signal. A device may determine a negotiated bandwidth to be used when communicating with a first station device. The device may determine a first bit stream used to generate a cyclic shift diversity (CSD) value based on the negotiated bandwidth, wherein a first number of bits is used for the first bit stream when a first negotiated bandwidth is used, and wherein a second number of bits is used for the first bit stream when a second negotiated bandwidth is used. The device may determine a second bit stream used to generate a random phase. The device may determine a secure a long training field (LTF) based on a combination of the first bit stream and the second bit stream. The device may cause to send a frame to the first station device, wherein the frame comprises the secure LTF.
US12132671B2
Some embodiments provide a novel method for deploying different virtual networks over several public cloud datacenters for different entities. For each entity, the method (1) identifies a set of public cloud datacenters of one or more public cloud providers to connect a set of machines of the entity, (2) deploys managed forwarding nodes (MFNs) for the entity in the identified set of public cloud datacenters, and then (3) configures the MFNs to implement a virtual network that connects the entity's set of machines across its identified set of public cloud datacenters. In some embodiments, the method identifies the set of public cloud datacenters for an entity by receiving input from the entity's network administrator. In some embodiments, this input specifies the public cloud providers to use and/or the public cloud regions in which the virtual network should be defined. Conjunctively, or alternatively, this input in some embodiments specifies actual public cloud datacenters to use.
US12132662B2
A port extender provides individual flow control for ports multiplexed from a network device. The port extender is configured to multiplex a network device port across the front panel ports on the port extender. The port extender also determines that an input buffer for the network device port is overloaded, and generates a Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) frame identifying that the network device port is congested. The port extender sends the PFC frame via the network device port to the network device. The PFC frame causes the network device coupled to the network device port to discontinue sending data for transmission from the plurality of ports on the port extender.
US12132658B2
A method for operation of a broadband access network of a telecommunications network includes: a central office point of delivery and/or a load management entity or functionality thereof detects that an increased load situation is currently happening or determines that an increased load situation is likely to happen or that a specific task is to be performed; the central office point of delivery triggers the use of additional virtualized network functions and/or additional micro services and an additional message router and load balancing entity for handling the increased load situation and/or for performing specific tasks within the telecommunications network and/or within the central office point of delivery; and upon detection of a normal load situation, the central office point of delivery releases the use of the additional virtualized network functions and/or additional micro services and the use of the additional message router and load balancing entity.
US12132657B1
According to some embodiments, a system for managing customer premises equipment is provided. The system comprises a plurality of server groups, where each server group of the plurality of server groups is associated with a respective one of a plurality of hash values. The system comprises a load balancer that is configured to receive first signaling from a customer premises equipment associated with a first customer, the first signaling indicating a first hash value of the plurality of hash values, determine a first server group of the plurality of server groups to service the customer premises equipment based on the first hash value, select a first server of a plurality of servers in the first server group to service the first message, and route the first signaling to the first server to service the first signaling.
US12132633B1
A system for bandwidth estimation includes an interface and a processor. The interface communicates with a fat-tree (FT) network including multiple switches including (i) leaf switches belonging to a bottom level, (ii) spine switches belonging to a top level and (iii) intermediate switches belonging to one or more intermediate levels. Links connect between selected ones of the switches. The processor is to calculate, for a given level of the FT network that is divided into multiple groups of switches, oversubscription ratios for the respective groups, an oversubscription ratio of a group being indicative of a ratio between (i) a first available bandwidth on the links connecting the switches in the group to a lower level, and (ii) a second available bandwidth on the links connecting the switches in the group to a higher level, and to report a figure of merit of the FT network based on the oversubscription ratios.
US12132628B2
A technique for monitoring a redundancy status of a connection established between a User Equipment, UE, and a cellular network is disclosed, wherein the connection is established using redundant communication paths between the UE and the cellular network. A method implementation of the technique is performed by a first node of the cellular network and comprises triggering determining a current redundancy status of the connection, the current redundancy status indicating whether or not the redundant communication paths are fully disjoint on at least a portion of the redundant communication paths, and triggering sending a redundancy notification to a second node of the cellular network, the redundancy notification including an indication of the determined current redundancy status.
US12132626B1
A method for automated retrieval of performance data and incident resolution based on an incident report in a telecommunications carrier network comprising a radio access network. The incident report is delayed relative to the retrieved performance data, and the method includes receiving an incident report based on first data associated with a first cell site, where the first data is associated with a first time; querying the first cell site for performance data of the first cell site responsive to the incident report; receiving performance data from the first cell site responsive to the query, where the performance data is associated with a second time that is later than the first time; and implementing a control response at the first cell site responsive to the received performance data, where the control response is to resolve an incident indicated by the incident report.
US12132623B2
A method includes subscribing, by an agent, to telemetry flow data from each network device of a plurality of network devices and receiving, by the agent, a plurality of streams of telemetry flow data from the plurality of the network devices. Each of the plurality of streams corresponds to a different one of the plurality of network devices. The method further includes aggregating, by the agent, data from at least one stream of the plurality of streams of the telemetry flow data received over a period of time and, at the end of the period of time and/or when the data from the at least one stream exceeds a data threshold, sending, by the agent, the aggregated telemetry flow data to a network analyzer device.
US12132622B2
Disclosed is a network management system that provides an interface to enable diagnostics and troubleshoot of a remotely managed multi-site network. Some embodiments provide a natural language interface, while other embodiments provide a chatbot type interface that communicates with a technician via traditional text information on a display screen. The diagnostic and troubleshooting capabilities search a central data store that receives device property information from each site of the multi-site network. Based on devices or users that match portions of the entity, queries to the data store are initiated to obtain additional data on the devices. A response to the query is then provided based on the properties of the devices.
US12132614B2
According to one embodiment, a policy determination apparatus includes a policy determination unit, a change condition determination unit, and a change request unit. The policy determination unit determines a first policy that the first routing control apparatus uses for controlling a routing destination of a request including first destination data. The change condition determination unit determines, based on the monitoring data, whether or not a predetermined policy change condition is satisfied. When it is determined that the policy change condition is satisfied, the change request unit requests the first policy determination apparatus to change a second policy.
US12132613B2
In implementations of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for access point (AP) validation. The method comprises detecting a trigger event for validating a network including a plurality of APs, and selecting a target AP from the plurality of APs based on a neighbor table of an AP associated with the detected trigger event. The method further comprises determining a validation case corresponding to the detected trigger event from a knowledge base. The method further comprises sending the validation case to the target AP, and, receiving a result of performance of the validation case from the target AP in response to the validation case being performed. Implementations of the present disclosure can validate whether the network change takes effect in the network automatically, and can improve the validation efficiency of the network changes.
US12132608B2
An electronic device includes a first processor; a first commissioning element to communicate with external devices using wireless communication and a first memory storing programs for commissioning a target device onto a communication network. The communication network has configuration data including a network identifier and a network key. The programs provide a user interface for commissioning the target device. The target device includes a second processor, a second wireless radio, and a second commissioning element to receive the network configuration data. The target device decodes the network configuration data to commission the target device onto the communication network. The electronic device sends the network configuration data to the target device and receives confirmation that the target device has successfully connected to the communication network. The electronic device displays the success in a user interface.
US12132607B2
The present disclosure discloses an equipment access method, a data exchange method, and related devices. The equipment access method configures configuration information of the networked device based on a preset generation strategy. The configuration information includes scenario configuration information of the networked device in at least one application scenario, and the scenario configuration information includes at least one of a first descriptor set and a functional instruction set, and data source configuration information. By preloading the scenario configuration information, device functions of a networked device can be redefined based on the target configuration information, making the device functions more diverse. Based on loaded scenario configuration information, the networked device establishes a communication connection between the networked device and the target device, so that the networked device can be connected to the target device, therefore effectively avoiding being cracked by malicious programs, ensuring security of the networked device and data.
US12132601B2
According to an aspect of the present disclosure there is provided a communication device comprising circuitry configured to modulate a four-dimensional input signal by combining the four real-valued signal components of the input signal into a transformed signal and multiplying the transformed signal by carrier signals using two different carrier frequencies to obtain a transmit signal, and transmit the transmit signal.
US12132598B2
A method for communications is proposed. The method may comprise receiving a signaling message from a network node. The signaling message may indicate a subcarrier spacing numerology for a synchronization signal transmission. The method may further comprise determining the subcarrier spacing numerology, based at least in part on the signaling message.
US12132596B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security- and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method by a base station in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: transmitting, to a terminal, downlink control information comprising resource allocation information for a virtual domain and resource allocation information for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); multiplexing the PDSCH in a virtual domain resource on the basis of the resource allocation information for the virtual domain; and performing discrete fourier transform (DFT) precoding for the multiplexed PDSCH.
US12132594B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a base station used for Unlicensed Spectrum. The base station first transmits K1 radio signals in a reference time window and then receives K1 HARQ feedbacks, and performs Q1 energy detections respectively in Q1 time sub-pools on a first frequency sub-band; the K1 HARQ feedbacks are respectively used for determining whether the K1 radio signals are correctly received; a first radio signal is a radio signal of the K1 radio signals, the first radio signal carries part of bits comprised by a first bit block; a first HARQ feedback is used for determining whether the first radio signal is correctly received, HARQ feedback(s) other than the first HARQ feedback among the K1 HARQ feedbacks is(are) used for determining the Q1 time sub-pools. The present disclosure increases the chance of access to Unlicensed Spectrum and the utilization ratio of spectrum resources.
US12132587B2
A method comprising: accessing a response mapping defining a set of safety-critical functions associated with a safety-critical latency threshold and a set of safety responses, each safety response corresponding to a safety-critical function; executing a time-synchronization protocol with a transmitting system to calculate a clock reference; accessing a safety message schedule indicating an expected arrival time for each safety message in a series of safety messages based on the clock reference; for each safety message in the series of safety messages, calculating a latency of the safety message based on an arrival time of the safety message and the expected arrival time; and in response to a latency of a current safety message in the series of safety messages exceeding the safety-critical latency threshold, initiating the safety response corresponding to the safety-critical function for each safety-critical function in the set of safety-critical functions.
US12132586B2
A communication system for high bandwidth communication over a Controller Area Network (CAN) communication bus. The communication system comprises at least one transmitting node and at least one receiving node. A controller unit of the transmitting node codes and transmits a data field by modulating a sequence of pulses with varying durations defined by deviating a number of level transitions of a known cyclic signal waveform by a series of delays. The series of delays indicates a sequence of data symbols to be transmitted and the series of delays is calculated by applying different modulation calculations for odd and even elements of the data field.
US12132576B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for terminating HARQ retransmissions. A wireless receiver may determine that a transmission of a first TB based on a first redundancy version is not received from a wireless transmitter. Based on the determination, the wireless receiver may transmit, to the wireless transmitter, a HARQ ACK to terminate one or more HARQ retransmissions associated with the different redundancy versions of the first TB.
US12132574B2
This application provides methods and apparatus for sending feedback information. By binding a BAR-BA feedback manner, that is, first a request and then a feedback, when it is determined that data retransmission is performed by using a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) mechanism, duration of an acknowledgment operation performed by a data receive end on retransmitted data may be increased. Alternatively, the receive end estimates duration required for feeding back a receiving status of the retransmitted data, and feeds back the duration to a transmit end. The transmit end may therefore adaptively adjust duration of the retransmitted data based on a feedback capability of the receive end, to ensure that the feedback of the receive end on the receiving status of the retransmitted data is within a short inter-frame space (SIFS).
US12132573B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a communication method, a device and a storage medium. A network device instructs a terminal device to feed back a target HARQ-ACK codebook by carrying one-shot HARQ-ACK request information used to instruct the terminal device to perform uplink feedback in DCI, the terminal device transmits the target HARQ-ACK codebook to the network device through a target uplink channel after a delay requirement is met; or, when the delay requirement is not met, the terminal device does not transmit the target uplink channel, or the terminal device transmits the target uplink channel to the network device, but the target uplink channel does not include a valid target HARQ-ACK codebook. Through the method, processing delays when the DCI schedules a PDSCH and does not schedule a PDSCH can be determined, thus ensuring transmission of the one-shot HARQ-ACK information.
US12132570B2
A method includes: determining a first sequence based on a first parameter, a second parameter, and a third parameter, where the first sequence is determined based on the third parameter and a second sequence, the second sequence is determined based on the first parameter and the second parameter, the first parameter and the second parameter are root indexes of the second sequence, and the third parameter is a time domain cyclic shift value; and sending a signal based on the first sequence.
US12132562B2
Methods and systems for low earth orbit satellite communications, utilizing fractionated satellites and constellations with large baselines. The latter, combined with spatial multiplexing protocols, provides access to user equipment on the ground with much greater spatial resolution than hitherto possible. Methods include overcoming the problem posed by the round-trip delay of satellite links when adaptive, downlink, beamforming is attempted in Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) systems. Methods include using of uplink and downlink pilot signals which eliminate the need for controlling the physical integrity of the fractionated satellite through an electromechanical servo-control system in space.
US12132543B2
A communication device, method, and computer program product reduce power consumption when one or more transmit chains can be inactivated without unsatisfactory uplink communication quality in single data layer transmit diversity (TxDiv) or multiple input multiple output (MIMO) mode. The communication device monitors uplink signal quality of the uplink data stream while connected in single layer mode to a base node using multiple transmit chains. The controller device deactivates transmit chain(s) while the uplink signal quality remains satisfactory. The controller re-activates the inactivated transmit chain(s) in response to the uplink signal quality becoming unsatisfactory.
US12132534B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications for opportunistic sounding for low latency applications are described. An access point (AP) may communicate with one or more stations (STAs), and may communicate a control message indicating more than one periodic service periods for wireless communication with the one or more STAs. The AP may transmit, via a transmit beam, a data message during a first service period of the more than one periodic service periods based on a first compressed beamforming estimate (CBF) for the transmit beam being satisfactory for the first service period and transmit one or more sounding signals during the first service period after transmitting the data message based on the first CBF being suboptimal for a second service period that occurs after the first service period. The STA(s) may transmit, and the AP may receive, an indication of a second CBF based on the one or more sounding signals.
US12132524B2
Optical network systems are disclosed, including systems having transmitters with a digital signal processor comprising forward error correction circuitry that provides encoded first electrical signals based on input data; and power adjusting circuitry that receives second electrical signals indicative of the first electrical signals, the power adjusting circuitry supplying third electrical signals, wherein each of the third electrical signals is indicative of an optical power level of a corresponding to one of a plurality of optical subcarriers output from an optical transmitter.
US12132518B2
A method (100) and system (300) for determining an identity and a position of at least one electronic label in a retail environment is provided. The system comprising a camera (310) arranged to capture at least one image of the electronic label and wherein the camera is arranged to transmit a control signal. The system further comprises an electronic label (320) adapted to receive the control signal and adapted to change its optical output in response to said control signal, and the electronic label is arranged in the field of view of the camera. Further, the system comprises a control unit (330) adapted to communicate with the camera (310) and configured to detect an identifier of the electronic label (320) by analyzing the optical output in the image and configured to determine position of the electronic label based on the position of the electronic label in the image.
US12132517B2
A method and system for maintaining an optimized point ahead angle (Θa) between an uplink beam (U0) from a first terminal (10) to a second terminal (20), and a downlink beam (D0) from the second terminal (20) to the first terminal (10). While transmitting data via a transmission channel (Tx) from the first terminal (10) to the second terminal (20), a directional variation (ΔΘ) is applied to an initial point ahead angle (Θ0) for emitting the uplink beam (U1,U2) along different point ahead angles (Θ1,Θ2). A respective intensity (I1,I2) is determined of a part of the uplink beam (U1,U2), received by the second terminal (20), emitted by the first terminal (10) along a respective point ahead angle (Θ1, Θ2). The initial point ahead angle (Θ0) is adjusted towards an optimized point ahead angle (Θa) based on the respective intensity (I1,I2) as function of the different point ahead angles (Θ1,Θ2).
US12132514B2
There is provided a system for generating a spectrogram signal representative of a spectrogram of an initial signal, the system comprising: a temporal phase modulator for receiving the initial signal and quadratically modulating a temporal phase of the initial signal in a periodic series of consecutive quadratic time lenses in order to obtain a temporal phase modulated signal; a spectral phase modulator for quadratically modulating a spectral phase of the temporal phase modulated signal to obtain a given signal representative of a series of consecutive spectra; and a sensor for detecting the given signal in a temporal domain in order to obtained a sensed signal and outputting the sensed signal, the sensed signal being representative of the spectrogram of the initial signal.
US12132508B2
The sensitivity of a reception filter for receiving a reception signal in a second frequency band corresponding to the 4G or 5G standard is prevented from being degraded by a harmonic of a third transmission signal in a third frequency region corresponding to the 4G or 5G standard. A radio-frequency circuit includes an antenna terminal, a relay terminal, a transmission filter, a reception filter, a variable low-pass filter, and a switch. A first transmission signal in a first frequency band is input to the relay terminal. In communication using the first frequency band, the variable low-pass filter passes the first transmission signal input via the relay terminal. When another harmonic circuit performs communication using the third frequency band, the variable low-pass filter attenuates, among harmonics of the third transmission signal in the third frequency band, a harmonic input via the relay terminal.
US12132500B2
A method for accelerating bit error correction in a receiver in a radio communication network, wherein the receiver is configured to update soft bit values associated with each code bit of a block code based on parallel parity checks. The method includes receiving a block code encoded message, and for any group of two or more rows of a parity-check matrix of the block code: when the two or more rows are non-overlapping: combining the two or more rows in a row group for parallel updating, updating, in parallel, the parity checks of the row group for the received message, and forming a message estimate based on the updated parity checks. Corresponding computer program product, apparatus, and receiver are also disclosed.
US12132496B2
A method and circuit for recovering data from a digital bitstream received from an analog to digital converter includes asynchronously oversampling the digital bitstream at a sampling rate dictated by an estimate of a clock rate of the analog to digital converter and a nominal oversampling factor. The method and circuit also includes calculating widths of bits of the digital bitstream, and calculating a learned oversampling factor using the calculated widths of a predetermined number of bits of the digital bitstream and a minimization function. The method and circuit also includes calculating data bits to be inserted to a digital filter for digestion using the calculated widths of the bits of the digital bitstream and the learned oversampling factor.
US12132488B2
Described embodiments include a circuit having a quadrature phase generator circuit having differential generator inputs, in-phase differential generator outputs and quadrature-phase differential generator outputs. A first frequency multiplier circuit has first differential multiplier inputs and a first multiplier output, wherein the first differential multiplier inputs are coupled to the in-phase differential generator outputs. A second frequency multiplier circuit has second differential multiplier inputs and a second multiplier output. The second multiplier differential inputs are coupled to the quadrature-phase differential generator outputs. A transformer includes a primary inductor and a secondary inductor, wherein the primary inductor is coupled between the first and second multiplier outputs, and the second inductor is coupled between an output voltage terminal and a ground terminal.
US12132484B2
Whether a voltage difference reaches a hysteresis voltage of a hysteresis comparator is used to efficiently update a charge of a capacitor and achieve lower power consumption. On the other hand, since the advanced voltage holding circuit is designed to consume lower power, the refresh time must be designed longer, which makes it impossible to do a large number of yield tests. Thus, the test time in conjunction with the relevant application circuit can be greatly shortened, and the testability and reliability of a voltage holding device can be increased.
US12132482B2
Circuitry is provided that includes programmable fabric with fine-grain routing wires and a separate programmable coarse-grain routing network that provides enhanced bandwidth, low latency, and deterministic routing behavior. The programmable fabric may be implemented on a top die that is stacked on the active interposer die. The programmable coarse-grain routing network and smart memory circuitry may be implemented on an active interposer die. the smart memory circuitry may be configured to perform higher level functions than simple read and write operations. The smart memory circuitry may carry out command based low cycle count operations using a state machine without requiring execution of a program code, complex microcontroller based multicycle operations, and other non-generic microcontroller based smart RAM functions.
US12132481B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to buffer an input voltage. An example apparatus includes first inverter circuitry to invert the input voltage and produce a first inverted voltage; second inverter circuitry coupled to the first inverter circuitry, the second inverter circuitry to invert the first inverted voltage and produce a second inverted voltage at a rate based on a first current controlled transistor; third inverter circuitry coupled to the second inverter circuitry, the third inverter circuitry to invert the second inverted voltage and produce a third inverted voltage at a rate based on a second current controlled transistor; and fourth inverter circuitry coupled to the third inverter circuitry, the fourth inverter circuitry to invert the third inverted voltage and produce an output voltage, wherein the output voltage matches the input voltage.
US12132480B2
A circuit is disclosed, comprising: an inverter comprising first and second inverter transistors, each having: a gate terminal connected in common to a drive node, a source terminal, connected to respective first and second voltage rails, and a drain terminal connected to a common first resistor, wherein an inverter output node is connected between the first resistor and the drain terminal of a shorting one of the transistors; a tying transistor connected between the drive node and the voltage rails to which the shorting transistor is connected; a biasing circuit connected to the tying transistor's control terminal and configured to be controlled by a local drive signal and bias the tying transistor control terminal to a voltage such that the tying transistor ties the drive node of the relevant voltage rail in response to the drive signal having a first state; and a circuit for providing the local drive signal.
US12132477B2
A device including an inverter circuit, a hysteresis control circuit, and a high-side input level shifter. The inverter circuit having an output and including at least two series connected PMOS transistors connected, at the output, in series to at least two series connected NMOS transistors. The hysteresis control circuit coupled to the output to provide feedback to the at least two series connected PMOS transistors and to the at least two series connected NMOS transistors. The high-side input level shifter connected to gates of the at least two PMOS transistors and configured to shift a low level of an input signal to a higher level and provide the higher level to one or more of the gates of the at least two PMOS transistors.
US12132476B2
A power supply switch circuit includes a first transistor that switches supplying of a first power supply voltage to a power supply terminal of a power amplifier, a switch controller that controls the first transistor and to which a second power supply voltage is applied, and a voltage selector that selects a higher voltage among the first power supply voltage and the second power supply voltage. The selected higher voltage is applied to a body terminal of the first transistor or a gate terminal of the first transistor.
US12132472B2
A classification circuit generates first information for classifying an operating state of a power semiconductor element into one of a plurality of predetermined operating regions. A selector circuit generates second information for selecting a plurality of modes with different switching speeds, based on a user input. A characteristic control circuit stores a drive adjustment signal in advance for each of combinations of the operating regions and the modes and outputs the drive adjustment signal in a combination of one operating region and one mode that is selected in accordance with the first information and the second information. A gate drive circuit charges/discharges a gate at a charge rate and a discharge rate variably set in accordance with the drive adjustment signal from the characteristic control circuit, at the time of on/off of the power semiconductor element.
US12132465B2
A tunable bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator includes: a first electrode adapted to be coupled to an oscillator circuit; a second electrode adapted to be coupled to the oscillator circuit; and a piezoelectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a Bragg mirror. The Bragg mirror has: a metal layer; and a dielectric layer between the metal layer and either of the first electrode or the second electrode. The tunable BAW resonator also includes: a radio-frequency (RF) signal source having a first end and a second end, the first end coupled to the first electrode, and the second end coupled to the second electrode; and an amplifier circuit between either the first electrode or the second electrode and the Bragg mirror metal layer.
US12132462B2
A magnetically-tunable ferrimagnetic radio frequency (RF) circuit sub-assembly can include a resonant cavity comprising a first magnetically conductive member spaced apart from a second magnetically conductive member, and a side wall. The sub-assembly can include first and second ferrimagnetic elements arranged in spaced apart relation within the resonant cavity. The sub-assembly can include a transmission line comprising a first portion located for RF coupling to the first ferrimagnetic element and a second portion located for RF coupling to the second ferrimagnetic element.
US12132460B1
A computing device for calibrating high-speed communication interfaces to transmission lines may include an impedance-matching driver with a plurality of independently controllable impedance stages that facilitate matching an impedance of a transmission line. The computing device may also include a controller communicatively coupled to the impedance-matching driver via a plurality of control signals grouped into a first group of control signals that control a first stage included in the independently controllable impedance stages and a second group of control signals that control a second stage included in the independently controllable impedance stages. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US12132459B2
Disclosed herein are example techniques to facilitate calibrating a portable playback device. An example implementation involves determining that a playback device is to perform an equalization calibration of the playback device and initiating the equalization calibration. Initiating the equalization calibration involves (i) outputting audio content, (ii) capturing audio data representing reflections of the audio content within an area in which the playback device is located, (iii) determining an acoustic response of the area in which the playback device is located, (iv) selecting a stored acoustic response from the acoustic response database that is most similar to the determined acoustic response of the area in which the playback device is located, and (v) applying to the audio content, via the playback device, a set of stored audio calibration settings associated with the selected stored acoustic area response.
US12132456B2
A noise detecting circuit including an amplifier circuit amplifying an input signal indicating a noise level of a circuit to be detected and output an amplified signal; a filtering circuit receiving and filtering the amplified signal and output a filtered signal; and a comparing circuit receiving and compare the filtered signal to a reference voltage and output an output signal; wherein the filtering circuit includes: an output terminal; and a first filter selectively coupled to the output terminal, including: a sub-output terminal; a switch selectively coupling the sub-output terminal to the output terminal; a resistor, wherein a terminal of the resistor is coupled to the amplifier circuit and another terminal of the resistor is coupled to the sub-output terminal; and a capacitor, wherein a terminal of the capacitor is coupled to the sub-output terminal and another terminal of the capacitor is coupled to a reference voltage source.
US12132454B2
A radiofrequency, RF, power amplifier, including at least one field-effect transistor, FET, wherein a source terminal of the at least one FET is connected to ground. At least one diode is included, wherein a cathode of the at least one diode is connected to a drain terminal of the at least one FET and an anode of the at least one diode is connected to ground. An output network is connected to the drain terminal of the at least one FET. An input network is connected to a gate terminal of the at least one FET.
US12132453B2
Embodiments of RF amplifiers and packaged RF amplifier devices each include an amplification path with a transistor die, and an output-side impedance matching circuit having a T-match circuit topology. The output-side impedance matching circuit includes a first inductive element connected between the transistor output terminal and a quasi RF cold point node, a second inductive element connected between the quasi RF cold point node and an output of the amplification path, and a first capacitance connected between the quasi RF cold point node and a ground reference node. The RF amplifiers and devices also include a baseband termination circuit connected to the quasi RF cold point node, which includes a third inductive element, a resistor, and a second capacitance in series between the quasi RF cold point node and the ground reference node and a third capacitance between a baseband termination circuit node and the ground reference node.
US12132443B2
The disclosure describes a method for detecting an arc in a direct-current (DC) circuit comprising a DC load, a DC source supplying the DC load, and a circuit arrangement arranged between the DC source and the DC load. A power flow P between an input and an output of the circuit arrangement is suppressed by means of a switching circuit through cyclical interruption such that the power flow P is enabled in an active time window with the first period Δt1 and the power flow P is suppressed in an inactive time window with the second period Δt2. Via detection of an input current Iin flowing at the input and/or an input voltage Uin applied to the input and comparison of values of the input current Iin and/or input voltage Uin detected in the inactive time window with a current threshold value ITH or a voltage threshold value UTH an arc presence criterion is signaled if the input current Iin detected in the inactive time window falls below the current threshold value ITH and/or the input voltage Uin detected in the inactive time window does not exceed the voltage threshold value UTH. The application also describes a circuit arrangement for detecting an arc and a photovoltaic (PV) inverter including such a circuit arrangement.
US12132439B2
A solar power system can include a rail and a solar module disposed on the rail. A clamp assembly can couple the solar module to the rail. The clamp assembly can have a clamped configuration in which the solar module is secured to the rail and an unclamped configuration. The clamp assembly can comprise an upper clamp member, a lower clamp member coupled to the rail, and a stabilization member mechanically engaging the upper clamp member and the lower clamp member. The stabilization member can prevent rotation of the lower clamp member relative to the rail when the clamp assembly is in the clamped and unclamped configurations. In the unclamped configuration, the stabilization member can be biased such that the upper clamp member is disposed at a sufficient clearance above the rail to permit the insertion of the solar module between the upper clamp member and the rail.
US12132434B2
A driver device includes a control circuit for controlling an output stage circuit for supplying an output current to a coil, and makes a movable part move with the magnetism generated by the supplied output current. The control circuit can perform holding control to hold the state of the movable part unchanged by suspending its movement. During the holding control by the control circuit, application of an external force tending to change the state of the movable part against the holding control is detected based on the state of supply of electric power to the coil by the output stage circuit, the output current, or the current flowing through the output stage circuit.
US12132432B2
An energy conversion device is provided, including: a first electrical motor control circuit, where the first electrical motor control circuit is connected with a battery pack; a second electrical motor control circuit, where the second electrical motor control circuit is connected with the first electrical motor control circuit in parallel; and a controller, configured to: when operating in a first control mode, control the first electrical motor control circuit to charge and discharge the battery pack to heat the battery pack, and control the second electrical motor control circuit to output torque.
US12132429B2
A power conversion device and a motor system according to the present disclosure comprises an inverter circuit which is connected to a motor, a switch circuit, and a control circuit. The power conversion device and the motor system are characterized in that the inverter circuit and the switch circuit are capable of two-level operation and three-level operation, and the control circuit switches between the two-level operation and the three-level operation on the basis of the motor torque command and the rotational speed command. As a result, it is possible to reduce the total loss in the power conversion device and the motor.
US12132425B2
A motor drive system includes an electric motor, a drive circuit and a control unit. The drive circuit provides a driving current to the electric motor. A current command generator of the control unit generates a current command according to a torque command and a motor operating information. The driving current is converted into a d-axis current and/or a q-axis current by the control unit. Consequently, the driving current is close to the d-axis current command and/or the q-axis current command corresponding to the current command. If a value of the torque command is positive, the current command generator generates the corresponding current command according to a MTPA lookup table. If the value of the torque command is negative, the current command generator generates the corresponding current command according to a zero recycle lookup table.
US12132418B2
An apparatus and method for managing power output of a converter has been provided by present disclosure having an electrical entry power sensor for measuring power drawn by an electrical entry of a household, a power drawn increase prediction module, a power budget controller managing power allocation to restrict a current level output by the power converter so as to prevent power drawn by the electrical entry from exceeding a predefined limit should the greatest probable jump in power drawn occur, a user interface allowing a user to request changes to said current level output by the power converter to charge an electric vehicle, wherein the power budget controller makes suggestions to said user to adjust said power drawn and has the user confirm said changes in order to reallocate said allocation according to said user's adjustments.
US12132414B2
A power supply that supplies power to a capacitive load comprises: a converter; an inverter; a resonant transformer; a detector configured to detect output frequency or output current and output voltage; and a controller configured to control the inverter, wherein the controller is configured to: calculate output power; adjust the output frequency within a predetermined frequency search range, adjust the output voltage within a predetermined voltage search range, and specify, as a frequency target value, a minimum value of the output frequency with which the output power reaches predetermined output power; and control the inverter so that the output frequency will be the frequency target value, adjust the output voltage within the predetermined voltage search range, and specify, as a voltage target value, a value of the output voltage with which the output power is target output power.
US12132409B1
A power converter including a transformer, a resonant circuit including the transformer and a resonant capacitor having a characteristic resonant frequency and period, and output circuitry connected to the transformer for delivering a rectified output voltage to a load. Primary switches drive the resonant circuit, a switch controller operates the primary switches in a series of converter operating cycles which include power transfer intervals of adjustable duration during which a resonant current at the characteristic resonant frequency flows through a winding of the transformer. The operating cycles may also include energy recycling intervals of variable duration for charging and discharging capacitances within the converter. A gate driver includes a transformer, a plurality of switches, a current monitor, and a controller that operates the switches in a series of driver operating cycles having adjustable ON periods and adjustable transition periods during which capacitances are resonantly charged and discharged.
US12132403B1
An isolated, power factor corrected, converter, for operation from a three-phase AC source, comprises three power processors, each power processor connected to one of the three phases. Each power processor comprises a cascade of a first and a second power conversion stage. At least one of the first and second power converters in each power processor is configured to provide galvanic isolation through a DC Transformer between the power processor input and output. At least one of the first and second power converters in each power processor is configured to provide power factor correction at the AC source. Substantially all of the bulk energy storage and low frequency filtering is provided by storage elements at the output of the power system. Low voltage semiconductor devices may be cascaded to implement low output capacitance high voltage switches in a multi-cell resonant converter for high voltage applications.
US12132401B2
An apparatus includes a PWM ramp generator coupled between a switching node of a power converter and a first input of a comparator, the PWM ramp generator including a first resistor and a first capacitor connected in series between the switching node and the first input of the comparator, and a second resistor and a second capacitor connected in parallel between the first input of the comparator and a feedback node, and a PFM control circuit including an error amplifier and a current zero crossing detection comparator, wherein the error amplifier is coupled between a second input of the comparator and a reference node, and the PFM control circuit is configured to generate gate drive signal for the power converter when the power converter is configured to operate in a PFM mode.
US12132399B2
A power supply unit for a tattoo machine includes a power operating unit electrically connected to a power supply device. The power operating unit is electrically connected to an operating unit. The power operating unit can output a DC power and can control a current value or a voltage value of the DC power according to operation of the operating unit. A modulating unit is electrically connected to the power operating unit and the operating unit. The modulating unit modulates the DC power according to the operation of the operating unit and outputs a square wave power or the DC power. The modulating unit can control frequency or a work cycle of the square wave power according to the operation of the operating unit. An output end of the DC power supply unit is electrically connected to the tattoo machine to output the square wave power or the DC power.
US12132398B2
In some examples, a circuit includes an amplifier, a resistor, and a damping network. The amplifier has an amplifier output and first and second amplifier inputs. The first amplifier input is adapted to be coupled to a first terminal, and the second amplifier input is configured to receive a reference voltage. The resistor is coupled between the amplifier output and the first amplifier input. The damping network is coupled between the amplifier output and the first terminal.
US12132392B2
A power conversion device including a semiconductor switching element having a control electrode terminal and two main electrode terminals and configured to control a current flowing between the two main electrodes by a drive signal applied to the control electrode terminal; and a drive circuit configured to generate the drive signal in synchronization with an input signal and to turn on/off the semiconductor switching element by the drive signal. The drive circuit is configured to detect the current flowing between the two main electrode terminals of the semiconductor switching element at a timing at which the semiconductor switching element is turned off, and to adjust a drive capacity.
US12132389B2
A resonance conversion device including an LLC synchronous resonance converter, a synchronous rectification controller, and a dead time adjustment circuit is provided. The LLC synchronous resonance converter includes a resonance tank and multiple synchronous rectification switches. The synchronous rectification controller controls the synchronous rectification switches, which are turned on with a delay based on a dead time length. The dead time adjustment circuit inductively couples electric energy at an output of the LLC synchronous resonance converter to the resonance tank, and provides a dead time control signal according to a resonance voltage variation of the resonance tank so that the synchronous rectification controller adjusts the dead time length according to the dead time control signal.
US12132380B2
An air extraction and heat dissipation structure for paper shredders, wherein the outer wall of the main handle is inlaid with switch button, the right side of the handle is connected with the power cord hook, the end of the handle is fixed with the connecting rod, and the bottom end of the rod is connected with a main body. The motor is arranged on the inner side of the heat dissipation port, the end of the motor is connected with the dust suction device, at the lower left end of which the dust storage chamber is arranged, and a dust suction channel is fixed at the right end of the chamber. The bottom end of the channel is connected with rollers, the left side of the rollers is provided with a suction cup, and the surface of the suction cup is provided with a dust suction port for paper shredders.
US12132371B2
In a stator, a stator winding is provided in a stator core and includes phase windings. A neutral-point bus bar is connected to a coil end portion of the stator winding in a radial direction thereof. The coil end portion includes first and second end portions that are joined together. The first tip end portion extends in a fixed direction in the circumferential direction. The second tip end portion extends in a direction opposite the fixed direction in the circumferential direction. The neutral-point bus bar includes a main body portion extending in the circumferential direction and connection portions extending in the radial direction from the main body portion. The connection portions are respectively connected to the phase windings in a state in which the connection portions do not protrude further towards a side opposite the stator core than the main body portion in the axial direction is.
US12132366B2
An in-wheel working device including: a stator fixed to the inside of a housing, a rotor rotatably installed in the stator, a rotating part rotatably installed in the housing, and rotated with the rotor, a resolver fixing part fixed to the inside of the housing, and a resolver moving part. The resolver moving part includes a resolver rotor positioned outside the resolver fixing part and facing the resolver fixing part, and a cover part fixed to the rotating part and covering the resolver rotor.
US12132363B2
A rotor including: a drive shaft rotating about an axis of rotation, a plurality of annular rotor plates, identical to each other, mounted on the drive shaft, superposed along the axis of rotation and including a plurality of openings, a pair of closing plates which are located at the ends of said plurality of rotor plates, a plurality of bars, passing through at least part of said plurality of openings of the plurality di rotor plates, a pair of short-circuit rings located a the ends of said plurality of bars and wherein an active ratio between a first area occupied by the plurality of openings and a total area of the rotor plate is greater than or equal to 0.30, that is, R1=A1/AT≥0.30.
US12132358B2
An apparatus for facilitating propulsion of a vehicle. The apparatus comprises a housing with an interior space, an inlet, and an outlet, a propulsion mechanism, and a gimbal. The propulsion mechanism is disposed in the interior space and comprises and an upper rotor and a lower rotor rotatably mounted on a first portion and a second portion of a spindle. The upper rotor rotates in a first direction and the lower rotor rotates in a second direction opposite to the first direction. Upper rotor blades have a first blade pitch and lower rotor blades have a second blade pitch opposite to the first blade pitch. The rotating of the upper rotor and the lower rotor creates a fluid flow from the inlet to the outlet for generating a directional thrust. The gimbal rotatably attaches the propulsion mechanism to the housing. The housing is rotatable for vectoring the directional thrust.
US12132355B2
A rotor includes a rotor core including a first slit, a second slit radially inward of the first slit, and a third slit radially inward of the second slit, a first magnet in the first slit, a second magnet in the second slit, and a third magnet in the third slit. A first angle defined by a line segment connecting a reference point and the end portion of the first slit and a line segment connecting the reference point and the end portion of the first magnet is larger than a second angle defined by a line segment connecting the reference point and the end portion of the second slit and a line segment connecting the reference point and the end portion of the second magnet.
US12132347B2
Provided is a system for uninterrupted power using an array of capacitive elements (e.g., ultra-capacitors). The system may include an input, which may receive power from a first power source. A direct current (DC) bus may be connected to the input and may receive power from the input. An array of capacitive elements (e.g., ultra-capacitors) may be connected to the DC bus. An output may be connected the DC bus. The output may include an alternating current (AC) power supply, which may supply power to at least one facility. At least one controller may control charging and discharging of the array of capacitive elements (e.g., ultra-capacitors) connected to the DC bus to supply power from the DC bus to the output. A method and computer program product are also disclosed.
US12132343B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of charging technologies, and particularly to a charging method and apparatus, a charging device, and a charging system. The charging method is configured for charging a battery. The method includes: acquiring a number of charging cycles and a charging temperature of the battery; determining a target charging parameter according to the number of charging cycles and the charging temperature; and charging the battery according to the target charging parameter. By means of the method, the embodiments of the present invention can determine in real time a target charging parameter for charging a battery according to different aging degrees and temperature states of the battery, thereby improving the safety of charging.
US12132335B2
A charging device, method, and device are provided. The charging device may include a charging circuit that may include at least a first charging module and a second charging module. The charging device may include a switching circuit that may connect the first charging module and the second charging module. The switching circuit may control, in response to normal charging with the first charging module, the first charging module to enter a charging state or may control both the second charging module and the first charging module to enter the charging state, or may control, in response to abnormal charging with the first charging module, the second charging module to enter the charging state.
US12132331B2
A wireless power transmission apparatus comprises: a plurality of transmission coils configured to transmit a wireless power to a wireless power reception apparatus; a shielding coil which is arranged on at least one surface of a dielectric substrate, and is configured in a loop shape having at least two turns so as to surround the plurality of transmission coils; and a capacitor configured to connect one point to the other point of the shielding coil. The plurality of transmission coils are arranged inside the shielding coil disposed on the dielectric substrate, and the direction of a magnetic field formed at one side and the other side of the plurality of transmission coils adjacent to the shielding coil is formed to be opposite to the direction of a magnetic field formed around the shielding coil so that the shielding coil shields external exposure of electromagnetic waves by the plurality of transmission coils.
US12132324B2
The present disclosure provide techniques for communicating energy request reports and energy reports. A method includes sending an energy request indication in an energy request occasion, the energy request indication indicating a request for a user equipment (UE) to send an energy request report to the network node. The method further includes sending the energy request report, the energy request report indicating a request for a network node to transmit power to the UE or a request for time for the UE to harvest energy. The method further includes sending an energy report indication in an energy report occasion, the energy report indication indicating a request for the UE to send an energy report to the network node. The method further includes sending the energy report, the energy report indicating to the network node at least one communication capability of the UE based on an energy level of the UE.
US12132312B2
An energy storage and delivery system includes an elevator, where the elevator is operable to move one or more blocks from a lower elevation to a higher elevation to store energy (e.g., via the potential energy of the block in the higher elevation) and operable to move one or more blocks from a higher elevation to a lower elevation (e.g., by gravity) to generate electricity (e.g., via the kinetic energy of the block when moved to the lower elevation). The energy storage system can, for example, store electricity generated from solar power as potential energy in the stacked blocks during daytime hours when solar power is available, and can convert the potential energy in the stacked blocks into electricity during nighttime hours when solar energy is not available, and deliver the converted electricity to the electrical grid.
US12132304B2
An over-energy protection circuit, a residual current device, an electronic device, and a power distribution box. The protection circuit has relatively high operating reliability, and includes: a first over-energy absorption circuit, a second over-energy absorption circuit, and a residual current determining circuit. The first over-energy absorption circuit receives a first electrical signal output from a current transformer; and when a voltage value of the first electrical signal is greater than or equal to a first preset threshold, performs step-down processing on the first electrical signal to obtain a second electrical signal, and outputs the second electrical signal to the second over-energy absorption circuit; or when a voltage value of the first electrical signal is less than a first preset threshold, outputs the first electrical signal to the second over-energy absorption circuit.
US12132302B2
Disclosed is a circuit assembly having a novel structure that enables circuit components to be laid out in a lower case with high design flexibility and higher spatial efficiency. A circuit assembly includes: a lower case for accommodating lower circuit components; an upper case for covering the lower case; upper circuit components attached to the upper case, and a fastening member holder for holding a fastening member for fixing the upper circuit components to the upper case, the fastening member holder being provided in the upper case.
US12132301B2
An electrical junction box includes a case body having a plurality of connector portions, a power supply side circuit board accommodated in the case body and a spare connector mounting portion provided in an upper portion of the case body and configured such that a spare connector is attached to and detached from the spare connector mounting portion. The spare connector includes a fuse configured to electrically connect the power supply side circuit board to a device side terminal connected to an end of an electric wire configured to be electrically connected to an electronic device.
US12132278B2
An unlocking circuit for a charging station when powered off is provided. A microcontroller unit outputs a first level signal and a second level signal when an auxiliary power supply is cut off. A first signal processing circuit receives the first level signal and converts the first level signal into a first control signal for unlocking an electronic lock. A second signal processing circuit receives the second level signal and converts the second level signal into a second control signal including information about action effectiveness of the electronic lock. An action execution circuit receives the first control signal and the second control signal, and responds to the first control signal and the second control signal to unlock the electronic lock.
US12132275B2
An electrical plug connector, in particular a built-in plug connector, for mounting on the rear side of a device wall, control panel, or the like includes a housing with least one insertion opening for a complementary plug connector, preferably a cable plug, wherein a projecting connecting flange protrudes on the insertion-side end of the housing, which connecting flange has through holes for feeding through fasteners. A seal with a central cutout in the region of the insertion opening has passages for feeding through the fasteners. The insertion-side surface of the connecting flange as well as all insertion-side structures inside the boundary of the connecting flange are covered by the seal.
US12132271B2
The construction of a medical device having a disposable element is disclosed. Detachable elements comprising a body having a retention feature, an electrical contactor, and sensors are also disclosed. Further disclosed are detachable elements comprising a body having a hole and a retention pocket, an electrical contactor, and a printed circuit board assembly (PCB) in contact with the innermost surface of the body that forms the retention pocket. Further disclosed are detachable elements comprising a body having an opening and a printed film comprising conductive elements, where the conductive elements comprise a sensor configured to be aligned with the opening to expose the sensor. Further disclosed are reusable components having matching retention features.
US12132270B2
An antenna structure includes a ground element, a feeding radiation element, a shorting radiation element, a connection radiation element, a first radiation element, and a second radiation element. The feeding radiation element has a feeding point. The feeding radiation element is coupled through the shorting radiation element to the ground element. The connection radiation element is coupled between the first radiation element and the shorting radiation element. The second radiation element is coupled to the feeding radiation element. A coupling slot region is formed and substantially surrounded by the feeding radiation element, the shorting radiation element, the connection radiation element, the first radiation element, and the second radiation element.
US12132264B2
Disclosed is a low band dipole that has four dipole arms in a cross configuration, and a simplified cloaking structure to substantially prevent interference with radiated RF energy from nearby high band dipoles. Further disclosed is a feed network and dipole stem balun configuration that power divides and combines two distinct RF signals, without the use of a hybrid coupler, so that the four dipole arms collectively radiate the two RF signals respectively at a +45 degree and −45 degree polarization orientation relative to the orientation of the dipole arms.
US12132259B2
A wireless communication device is provided. The wireless communication device includes a circuit substrate, an antenna cover, a first antenna array and a first power divider. The first antenna array is arranged between the circuit substrate and the antenna cover. The first antenna array includes two first antenna elements and two second antenna elements. The first antenna elements are disposed on a first surface of the circuit substrate. The second antenna elements are arranged on the antenna cover and correspond to the first antenna elements, respectively. Each of the second antenna elements and a corresponding one of the first antenna elements are separated from and coupled to each other. In response to the two first antenna elements being fed with a first signal provided by a signal source from the first power divider, the first antenna array is configured to generate a radiation pattern having a first polarization direction.
US12132252B2
The invention relates to an antenna system for an outer wall of a vehicle, comprising an antenna assembly having a housing, a base body made of an electrically insulating material, and a support plate, wherein electronic components for a plurality of antenna modules are arranged on the base body.
US12132251B2
An antenna module of the electronic device includes a first radiator and a second radiator. The first radiator and the second radiator respectively correspond to different communication frequency bands, and the first radiator includes: a first sub-radiator, a second sub-radiator, a first connection portion, and a second connection portion. A common feeding structure is disposed between the first sub-radiator and the second radiator, and the first sub-radiator is connected to the second sub-radiator through the first connection portion and the second connection portion. The common feeding structure and the first sub-radiator are disposed on a non-metallic area of an inner side surface of a housing of the electronic device, the second sub-radiator is disposed on a non-metallic area of an outer surface of the housing, and the second radiator is disposed on a non-metallic area of the inner side surface or a non-metallic area of the outer surface.
US12132248B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an antenna array including a plurality of antenna patterns collectively configured to provide a scan-angle coverage. Each of the antenna patterns includes a curved surface.
US12132229B2
A lead tab for a secondary battery may include a metal plate and a plurality of concavo-convex patterns formed on a surface of the metal plate. The plurality of concavo-convex patterns may be formed through a surface treatment of applying predetermined laser light energy onto the surface of the metal plate. The external energy may have an output value decided on the basis of the material of the metal plate, and the surface of the metal plate may be treated with the decided output value.
US12132228B2
A battery unit of a vehicle includes a plurality of cell stacks which each include a respective plurality of cells electrically interconnected to one another, an electrical attachment contact, and a contact key element. The contact key element has a contact region and is electrically insulating outside of the contact region. In a first contact position of the contact key element the plurality of cell stacks are interconnected electrically to one another via the contact region and in a subsequent second contact position of the contact key element the plurality of cell stacks that are interconnected electrically to one another are electrically connected to the electrical attachment contact.
US12132221B2
A battery pack includes a cell-stacked body in which a plurality of battery cells including gas release valves are stacked, a gas release duct which connects the gas release valves of the plurality of battery cells, and a battery case which accommodates the cell-stacked body and the gas release duct. The battery pack is capable of discharging a gas from the gas release duct to an outside of the battery case. A check valve configured to allow a flow of the gas from the gas release valves to the outside of the battery case and to restrict entry of a foreign matter from the outside of the battery case is provided in the battery case.
US12132210B1
Techniques for preparing an electrocatalyst include growing and immobilizing an earth-abundant metal on an MXene two-dimensional (2D) substrate using a solvothermal, hydrothermal, or electrodeposition process. The earth-abundant metal may include NiFeOOH. The earth-abundant metal may include Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ti, V, Cr, and a combination thereof. The earth-abundant metal may be nanoparticles. The nanoparticles may include multiple metals. The electrocatalyst may be provided for an oxygen evolution reaction. The electrocatalyst may produce a current density of 500-1000 mA/cm2 for at least 20 hours without degradation thereof.
US12132207B2
A positive electrode slurry composition, a positive electrode and a secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a slurry composition includes a lithium iron phosphate-based positive electrode active material, a binder, a conductive agent, a dispersant, and a solvent, wherein the dispersant includes a nitrile-based copolymer and a polymer dispersant containing an oxyalkylene unit, wherein the oxyalkylene unit is present in an amount of 60 wt % or more, based on the total weight of the polymer dispersant.
US12132201B2
A negative electrode using a binding agent excellent in binding property, the negative electrode being capable of using water as an alternative solvent to an organic solvent during production of the negative electrode. A negative electrode including: a compound obtained through condensation of polyacrylic acid and a polyaminobenzene derivative represented by general formula (1) below and/or a self-condensation product of the polyaminobenzene derivative; a cellulose derivative; and a negative electrode active material.
US12132200B2
The present disclosure provides a positive electrode for a secondary battery which includes a positive electrode active material and a lithium-based alloy. Also, the present disclosure provides a method of preparing the positive electrode for a secondary battery which includes the steps of forming a positive electrode material mixture layer including a positive electrode active material and forming a coating layer including a lithium-based alloy on the positive electrode material mixture layer, or forming a positive electrode material mixture layer by coating a positive electrode collector with a slurry for forming a positive electrode, which includes a positive electrode active material and a lithium-based alloy, and rolling the positive electrode collector.
US12132198B2
The cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery according to embodiments of the present invention includes a lithium-transition metal composite oxide particle including a plurality of primary particles, and the lithium-transition metal composite oxide particle includes a lithium-sulfur-containing portion formed between the primary particles. Thereby, it is possible to improve life-span properties and capacity properties by preventing the layer structure deformation of the primary particles and removing residual lithium.
US12132197B2
A battery pack may include a battery pack case and battery cells accommodated in the battery pack case; the inner space of the battery pack case may include a first area, a second area, a third area, and a fourth area; a first battery cell may be provided in the first area, a second battery cell may be provided in the second area, a third battery cell may be provided in the third area, and a fourth battery cell may be provided in the fourth area; and the first battery cell, the second battery cell, the third battery cell, and the fourth battery cell each have a first discharge voltage plateau and a second discharge voltage plateau, and an average discharge voltage in the first discharge voltage plateau may be higher than an average discharge voltage in the second discharge voltage plateau.
US12132188B2
A thermal management system, for use in a vehicle, is provided in which coolant flows two cooling circuits can be mixed with each other as needed by a multi-way valve at an interface between a first cooling circuit for a battery and a second cooling circuit for an electric motor for driving the vehicle.
US12132183B2
A method for producing a mechanical and thermal system for a modular battery. The system has a module, which involves a module housing of the module being connected, on a thermally conductive module side, to a cooling apparatus. The module includes an energy storage unit and a power electronics unit, arranged on a circuit board, which are thermally isolated from each other by a first and a second thermally conductive element, which dissipates heat to the module side thermally connected to the cooling apparatus, and are integrated in the module housing, by virtue of the energy storage unit being connected to the first thermally conductive element, which contacts the module side connected to the cooling apparatus, and by virtue of the circuit board and the energy storage unit having the second thermally conductive element arranged between them, which second thermally conductive element contacts the module side connected to the cooling apparatus.
US12132180B2
The invention relates to a battery cooling element having: an outer surface for resting at least in regions against a battery cell and/or for resting at least in regions against a battery module comprising at least two battery cells; an inner chamber for receiving a cooling medium, which inner chamber is surrounded at least in regions by the outer surface; and a cooling medium inlet connected to the inner chamber and a cooling medium outlet connected to the inner chamber, wherein the outer surface is made, at least in regions, of a thermally conductive, flexible film which can be shaped by a fluid pressure of the cooling medium.
US12132179B2
Efficiency of a battery module is achieved using an actively cooled high power electrical interface. The battery module comprises a plurality of battery cells, at least one busbar coupled to the battery cells, a connector electrically coupled to the at least one busbar, and at least one cooling component that is thermally coupled to the first connector. The battery cells may be arranged in two layers, each layer containing a plurality of battery cells connected by a busbar. The connector comprises a contact through which the battery module may be coupled to an external circuit. The at least one cooling component provided cooling for the battery cells and the connectors and may be placed on the surface of the battery module or between layers of battery cells.
US12132173B2
A secondary battery comprises an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a separator, and a second electrode alternately stacked and wound about a central axis. A first non-coating portion that is not coated with an electrode active material protrudes farther than the separator in a first direction along the central axis and a second non-coating portion that is not coated with the electrode active material protrudes farther than the separator in a second, opposite direction along the central axis. The first non-coating portion contacts a first connection part disposed on an end of a first can of the battery, and the second non-coating portion contacts a second connection part disposed on an end of a second can. At least one of the first connection part or the second connection part comprises a protrusion having a shape protruding towards the electrode assembly.
US12132171B2
An inorganic solid electrolyte-containing composition is a composition containing an inorganic solid electrolyte, a binder, and an organic solvent, where the composition contains, as the binder, at least two kinds of binder A and binder B which differ in adsorption rate with respect to the inorganic solid electrolyte, and an adsorption rate of the inorganic solid electrolyte-containing composition is 15% or more, and an adsorption rate of the binder B is less than 10%.
US12132170B2
The present application relates to an electrolyte and an electrochemical device including the same. The electrolyte includes a diboronic acid compound and a nitrile compound, so that the storage performance and cycle performance of the electrochemical device using the electrolyte can be remarkably improved.
US12132169B2
A composite solid electrolyte for a solid-state electrochemical cell is provided. The electrolyte may include a plurality of aramid nanofibers, such as a branched aramid nanofiber network, an ionically conductive polymer, such as poly(ethylene oxide) or quaternary ammonia functionalized polyvinyl alcohol (QAFPVA), and an optional divalent ion salt. The electrolyte is particularly suitable for use with zinc ions, where the divalent ion salt may comprise zinc trifluoromethanesulfonate Zn(CF3SO3)2. An electrochemical cell or battery is provided incorporating such a composite solid electrolyte that cycles ions, such as zinc ions or hydroxide ions, suppresses or minimizes dendrite formation, while having good ionic conductivity and being flexible. This flexibility provides the ability to create deformations in the electrochemical cell, such as protrusions and recesses that may define a corrugated pattern. Such a battery may be a rechargeable structural battery with a corrugated surface profile that can be used to form load-bearing structural components.
US12132168B2
A battery including: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a first solid electrolyte layer that is positioned between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and that contains a metal alloyable with lithium; and a second solid electrolyte layer that is positioned between the negative electrode and the first solid electrolyte layer and that is free of the metal.
US12132160B2
A method of manufacturing a driving backplane for display includes: forming a first conductive pattern layer including first conductive lines on a base; and forming a second conductive pattern layer including electrode groups and second conductive lines on a side of the first conductive pattern layer away from the base. The first conductive lines and the second conductive lines cross and are insulated from each other; an electrode group includes a first electrode and a second electrode electrically connected to a corresponding second conductive line. Orthogonal projections, on the base, of the first electrode and a corresponding first conductive line have an overlapping region, and a portion of the first electrode, whose orthogonal projection on the base is located in the overlapping region, is in contact with a portion of the first conductive line, whose orthogonal projection on the base is located in the overlapping region.
US12132159B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) package includes a package substrate, an LED chip disposed on a first surface of the package substrate, and a first external connection pad and a second external connection pad disposed on a second surface of the package substrate opposite the first surface. The first external connection pad includes a first side, a second side, a third side and a fourth side, the first side being parallel to the second side, and the third side being parallel to the fourth side. The first side is spaced farther from a center of the package substrate than the second side. A length of the first side is shorter than a length of the second side.
US12132152B2
A light-emitting diode includes a semiconductor light-emitting stack and a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) structure. The semiconductor light-emitting stack has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The DBR structure is disposed on one of the first surface and the second surface of the semiconductor light-emitting stack, and includes at least one set of first light-transmitting layers and at least one set of second light-transmitting layers stacked on each other in the first direction. The first light-transmitting layers has interface roughness greater than that of the second light-transmitting layers.
US12132134B2
A retinomorphic sensor array and a convolution method are used for image processing therefor, wherein the optoelectronic sensor has a vertically stacked heterostructure provided with a bottom electrode, a dielectric layer, a channel layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode on a base, the source and drain electrode are mutually opposite and are arranged at two ends of the channel layer, the bottom electrode, the source and drain electrode are made of a material used by a flexible electrode, an inert metal or a semimetal, the dielectric layer is made of an insulating material, the channel layer is made of a bipolar material, and the base comprises a substrate and an insulating material layer generated on a surface of the substrate.
US12132132B2
A semiconductor body comprises a buried layer of a first type of conductivity, a first region of the first type of conductivity, a shallow region of a second type of conductivity at a first surface of the semiconductor body, a sinker of the first type of conductivity located at the first surface of the semiconductor body, and a separating region of the first type of conductivity encircling at least one of the sinker and the buried layer. The first region is between the buried layer and the shallow region.
US12132127B2
There is disclosed ultrahigh-efficiency single- and multi-junction thin-film solar cells. This disclosure is also directed to a substrate-damage-free epitaxial lift-off (“ELO”) process that employs adhesive-free, reliable and lightweight cold-weld bonding to a substrate, such as bonding to plastic or metal foils shaped into compound parabolic metal foil concentrators. By combining low-cost solar cell production and ultrahigh-efficiency of solar intensity-concentrated thin-film solar cells on foil substrates shaped into an integrated collector, as described herein, both lower cost of the module as well as significant cost reductions in the infrastructure is achieved.
US12132125B2
A bypass mechanism for a photovoltaic module which switches out the electronics and switches in a bypass mechanism.
US12132110B2
Disclosed is a synaptic transistor, including a substrate, an expansion gate electrode disposed to extend in one direction on the substrate, a gate insulating layer including ions, covering the expansion gate electrode, and disposed on the substrate, a channel layer disposed on the gate insulating layer to correspond to one end of the expansion gate electrode, source and drain electrodes spaced apart from each other, covering both ends of the channel layer, and disposed on the gate insulating layer, and a pad electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer to correspond to the other end of the expansion gate electrode.
US12132103B2
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a semiconductor channel layer, a semiconductor barrier layer, a patterned semiconductor capping layer, and a patterned semiconductor protection layer disposed on a substrate in sequence. The HEMT further includes an interlayer dielectric layer and a gate electrode. The interlayer dielectric layer covers the patterned semiconductor capping layer and the patterned semiconductor protection layer, and includes a gate contact hole. The gate electrode is disposed in the gate contact hole and electrically coupled to the patterned semiconductor capping layer, where the patterned semiconductor protection layer is disposed between the gate electrode and the patterned semiconductor capping layer. The resistivity of the patterned semiconductor protection layer is between the resistivity of the patterned semiconductor capping layer and the resistivity of the interlayer dielectric layer.
US12132102B2
A field-effect transistor (FET) includes a fin, an insulator region, and at least one gate. The fin has a doped first region, a doped second region, and an interior region between the first region and the second region. The interior region is undoped or more lightly doped than the first and second regions. The interior region of the fin is formed as a superlattice of layers of first and second materials alternating vertically. The insulator layer extends around the interior region. The gate is formed on at least a portion of the insulator region. The insulator layer and the gate are configured to generate an inhomogeneous electrostatic potential within the interior region, the inhomogeneous electrostatic potential cooperating with physical properties of the superlattice to cause scattering of charge carriers sufficient to change a quantum property of such charge carriers to change the ability of the charge carriers to move between the first and second materials.
US12132099B2
A Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor (LDMOS) transistor with implant alignment spacers includes a gate stack comprising a first nitride layer. The first nitride layer is formed on a silicon layer. The gate stack is separated from a substrate by a first oxide layer. The gate stack includes a polysilicon layer formed from the silicon layer, and a second oxide layer is formed on a sidewall of the polysilicon layer. A drain region of the LDMOS transistor is implanted with a first implant aligned to a first edge formed by the second oxide layer. A second nitride layer conformingly covers the second oxide layer. A nitride etch-stop layer conformingly covers the second nitride layer.
US12132084B2
A type, size, and location of a crystal defect of an epitaxial layer of a semiconductor wafer containing silicon carbide are detected from a PL image by crystal defect inspection equipment. Detected crystal defects include a triangular polymorph stacking fault generated in the epitaxial layer during epitaxial growth and high-density BPDs extending from the stacking fault and present bundled between the stacking fault and a perfect crystal. Next, a chip region free of the triangular polymorph stacking fault and free of the high-density BPD in a specified area that is in the termination region and is located closer to a chip center than is a specified position is identified as a conforming product. A semiconductor chip set as a conforming product may contain high-density BPDs outside the specified area.
US12132076B2
A capacitance structure and a forming method thereof are provided, and the forming method includes: an annular gasket is formed on a substrate, and after a central through hole exposing a part of a surface of the substrate is formed in a center of the annular gasket, a first capacitance structure is formed in the central through hole; a dielectric layer covering the substrate, the annular gasket and the first capacitance structure is formed; the dielectric layer is etched to form an etching hole communicating with the central through hole in the dielectric layer; and a second capacitance structure connected to the first capacitance structure is formed in the etching hole.
US12132071B2
A display device includes a lower metal layer disposed on a surface of a substrate and including a first opening overlapping a rear emission pixel in a plan view; a first electrode and a second electrode disposed in each of the rear emission pixel and a front emission pixel, the first electrode and the second electrode being spaced apart from each other on the lower metal layer; first light emitting elements disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode disposed in the rear emission pixel; second light emitting elements disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode disposed in the front emission pixel; and a reflective layer disposed on the first light emitting elements and overlapping the rear emission pixel in a plan view, the reflective layer overlaps at least one of the first light emitting elements in a plan view.
US12132063B2
Electromagnetic noise is inhibited in a semiconductor package provided with rewiring. The semiconductor package includes a semiconductor integrated circuit, wiring, and a ferromagnetic material. In addition, in the semiconductor package including the semiconductor integrated circuit, the wiring, and the ferromagnetic material, the wiring connects the semiconductor integrated circuit to a predetermined external terminal. Further, in the semiconductor package including the semiconductor integrated circuit, the wiring, and the ferromagnetic material, the ferromagnetic material is provided between the wiring and the semiconductor integrated circuit.
US12132060B2
An imaging device capable of image processing is provided. The imaging device can retain analog data (image data) obtained by an image-capturing operation in a pixel and extract data obtained by multiplying the analog data by a predetermined weight coefficient. When the data is taken in a neural network or the like, processing such as image recognition can be performed. Since enormous volumes of image data can be retained in pixels in the state of analog data, processing can be performed efficiently.
US12132056B2
The present application provides a display panel and a display device, the display panel includes a transistor located in a display region, the transistor is at least one of a main transistor, an auxiliary transistor, and a voltage divider transistor. The transistor includes a channel located above a semiconductor layer and a source electrode and a drain electrode located on an electrode layer. The drain electrode includes a drain electrode tip region, and an orthographic projection of the drain electrode tip region on the semiconductor layer is located outside the channel.
US12132046B2
Disclosed are semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of gate structures that are spaced apart from each other in a first direction on a substrate and extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a plurality of separation patterns penetrating immediately neighboring ones of the plurality of gate structures, respectively. Each of the plurality of separation patterns separates a corresponding one of the neighboring gate structures into a pair of gate structures that are spaced apart from each other in the second direction. The plurality of separation patterns are spaced apart from and aligned with each other along the first direction.
US12132042B2
The ability of a grounded gate NMOS (ggNMOS) device to withstand and protect against human body model (HBM) electrostatic discharge (ESD) events is greatly increased by resistance balancing straps. The resistance balancing straps are areas of high resistance formed in the substrate between an active area that includes a MOSFET of the ggNMOS device and a bulk ring that surrounds the active area. A Vss rail is coupled to the substrate beneath the MOSFET through the bulk ring. The substrate beneath the MOSFET provides base regions for parasitic transistors that switch on for the ggNMOS device to operate. The straps inhibit low resistance pathways between the base regions and the bulk ring and prevent a large portion of the ggNMOS device from being switched off while a remaining portion of the ggNMOS device remains switched on. The strap may be divided into segments inserted at strategic locations.
US12132033B2
A lighting apparatus a first group of at least one first solid state emitter, each first solid state emitter including a first light emitting diode (“LED”) that, when excited, emits light having a peak wavelength in a range between about 440 nm and about 475 nm, and a second group of at least one second solid state emitter, each second solid state emitter comprising a second LED that, when excited, emits light having a peak wavelength in a range between about 390 nm and about 415 nm. Between about 2% and about 15% of a spectral power of light emitted from the lighting apparatus is light having wavelengths in the range between about 390 nm and about 415 nm.
US12132032B2
The disclosure relates to a micro component structure and a manufacturing method thereof, and a transfer method for a light-emitting diode (LED) chip. The micro component structure includes a substrate (300), multiple stacked adhesive layer structures spaced on a first surface (300a) of the substrate (300), and multiple LED chips (20) correspondingly disposed on the multiple stacked adhesive layer structures. Each of the multiple LED chips (20) has two extraction electrodes (21) at a surface facing toward the multiple stacked adhesive layer structures. Each of the multiple stacked adhesive layer structures includes a photolysis adhesive layer (31′) and a pyrolysis adhesive layer (32′) that are stacked. The photolysis adhesive layer (31′) is in contact with the first surface (300a). The pyrolysis adhesive layer (32′) is located between the two extraction electrodes (21) and has a thickness greater than a height of each of the two extraction electrodes (21).
US12132031B2
The embodiment of the present application provides a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The display panel comprises a light-emitting device layer, a first optical structure layer, a second optical structure layer and an anti-reflection layer. The light-emitting device layer comprises light-emitting diodes and a retaining wall. The second optical structure layer is filled in the opening areas. Meanwhile, a refractive index of the second optical structure layer is greater than a refractive index of the first optical structure layer. The light extraction rate and display effect are improved with the optical structure layers with different refractive indexes and the retaining wall.
US12132025B2
There is provided a metal-coated Al bonding wire which can provide a sufficient bonding reliability of bonded parts of the bonding wire under a high temperature state where a semiconductor device using the metal-coated Al bonding wire is operated. The bonding wire includes a core wire of Al or Al alloy, and a coating layer of Ag, Au or an alloy containing them formed on the outer periphery of the core wire, and the bonding wire is characterized in that when measuring crystal orientations on a cross-section of the core wire in a direction perpendicular to a wire axis of the bonding wire, a crystal orientation <111> angled at 15 degrees or less to a wire longitudinal direction has a proportion of 30 to 90% among crystal orientations in the wire longitudinal direction. Preferably, the surface roughness of the wire is 2 μm or less in terms of Rz.
US12132020B2
Devices and techniques including process steps make use of recesses in conductive interconnect structures to form reliable low temperature metallic bonds. A fill layer is deposited into the recesses prior to bonding. First conductive interconnect structures are bonded at ambient temperatures to second metallic interconnect structures using direct bonding techniques, with the fill layers in the recesses in one or both of the first and second interconnect structures.
US12132018B2
A transmission circuit includes: an upper-layer clock bonding pad configured to transmit a clock signal; M upper-layer data bonding pads configured to transmit data signals; a lower-layer clock bonding pad electrically connected with the upper-layer clock bonding pad, and an area of the lower-layer clock bonding pad is smaller than that of the upper-layer clock bonding pad; and M lower-layer data bonding pads electrically connected with the M upper-layer data bonding pads in a one-to-one correspondence, and an area of a lower-layer data bonding pad is smaller than that of an upper-layer data bonding pad. The upper-layer clock bonding pad and the upper-layer data bonding pads are located on a first layer, the lower-layer clock bonding pad and the lower-layer data bonding pads are located on a second layer.
US12132015B2
Embodiments include inductors and methods to form the inductors. An inductor includes a substrate layer that surrounds a magnetic layer, where the magnetic layer is embedded between the substrate layer. The inductor also includes a dielectric layer that surrounds the substrate and magnetic layers, where the dielectric layer fully embeds the substrate and magnetic layers. The inductor further includes a first conductive layer over the dielectric layer, a second conductive layer below the dielectric layer, and a plurality of plated-through-hole (PTH) vias in the dielectric and substrate layers. The PTH vias vertically extend from the first conductive layer to the second conductive layer, and the magnetic layer in between the PTH vias. The magnetic layer may have a thickness that is substantially equal to a thickness of the substrate layer, where the thickness of the magnetic layer is less than a thickness defined between the first and second conductive layers.
US12132014B2
A power semiconductor apparatus provided with a first conductor section connected to a direct-current terminal for transmitting direct-current power; a second conductor section connected to an alternating-current terminal for transmitting alternating-current power; a semiconductor element which is disposed between the first conductor section and the second conductor section and is for converting the direct-current power to the alternating-current power; and an interposition section disposed between the first conductor section and the second conductor section, in which the interposition section has a first conductor layer connected to the first conductor section, a second conductor layer connected to the second conductor section, and a plurality of insulation layers disposed between the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer, with one or a plurality of third conductor layers sandwiched between the plurality of insulation layers.
US12132012B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; an integrated circuit region formed in the semiconductor substrate; and a seal ring arranged in the semiconductor substrate and around the integrated circuit region and configured to protect the integrated circuit region, wherein the seal ring has a wavy structure.
US12132009B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface; a plurality of first pads disposed on the first surface of the substrate and a plurality of second pads disposed on the second surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the plurality of first pads; a semiconductor chip disposed on the first surface of the substrate and connected to the plurality of first pads; a dummy chip having a side surface facing one side surface of the semiconductor chip, disposed on the first surface of the substrate spaced apart from the semiconductor chip in a direction parallel to the first surface of the substrate, the dummy chip having an upper surface positioned lower than an upper surface of the semiconductor chip in a direction perpendicular to the first surface of the substrate; an underfill disposed between the semiconductor chip and the first surface of the substrate, and having an extension portion extended along the facing side surfaces of the semiconductor chip and the dummy chip in the direction perpendicular to the first surface of the substrate, an upper end of the extension portion being disposed to be lower than the upper surface of the semiconductor chip; and a sealing material disposed on the first surface of the substrate, and sealing the semiconductor chip and the dummy chip.
US12132002B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques and configurations for layered interconnect structures for bridge interconnection in integrated circuit assemblies. In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a substrate and a bridge embedded in the substrate. The bridge may be configured to route electrical signals between two dies. An interconnect structure, electrically coupled with the bridge, may include a via structure including a first conductive material, a barrier layer including a second conductive material disposed on the via structure, and a solderable material including a third conductive material disposed on the barrier layer. The first conductive material, the second conductive material, and the third conductive material may have different chemical composition. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US12131993B2
An interconnect structure is formed on a substrate in a semiconductor device. The interconnect structure includes a dielectric layer and a metal layer. The dielectric layer includes a region and a plurality of protrusions. The metal layer is disposed on the region and between the protrusions, wherein tops of the protrusions are exposed with respect to the metal layer. In a top view of the semiconductor device, the protrusions are distributed in the region. Any straight path crossing through a central region of the region is always intersected with a portion of the protrusions.
US12131992B2
A semiconductor structure and method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a package structure. The package structure includes a passivation layer formed over an interconnect structure; an electrically-conductive structure formed on the passivation layer and extending through the passivation layer to electrically contact the interconnect structure; a dielectric structure formed over the passivation layer and surrounding the electrically-conductive structure to expose at least a portion of a top surface of the electrically-conductive structure; and a metallic protection structure formed on the top surface of the electrically-conductive structure exposed from the dielectric structure. The top surface of the metallic protection structure is aligned with or lower than a top surface of the dielectric structure.
US12131990B2
Semiconductor structures and fabrication methods are provided. The semiconductor includes a substrate; a plurality of discrete fins on the substrate; a gate structure on the substrate, and across the plurality of discrete fins by covering portions of sidewall surfaces and top surfaces of the plurality of discrete fins; a plurality of doped source/drain layers in the plurality of discrete fins and at both sides of the gate structure; a conductive layer, formed at one or two sides of the gate structure, connecting multiple doped source/drain layers of the plurality of doped source/drain layers, and with a top surface lower than a top surface of the gate structure; and a conductive plug on the conductive layer and in contact with a portion of a surface of the conductive layer.
US12131987B2
Biometric sensor module for a chip card, and method for producing such a module. Method for producing a biometric sensor module for a chip card, including steps of providing a dielectric carrier including a front face and a back face, both forming main faces of the carrier, attaching a biometric sensor for detecting fingerprints to the back face, a detection area covered by the sensor on the back face being placed opposite a detection area on the front face, producing electrically conductive connection pads on the back face of the carrier which are electrically connected to the biometric sensor, at least one connection pad includes a region that is wettable with a solder material, extending over an area of between 0.2 and 5 square millimetres.
US12131983B2
A semiconductor device, includes: a semiconductor element having element main surface and element back surface spaced apart from each other in thickness direction and including a plurality of main surface electrodes arranged on the element main surface; a die pad having a die pad main surface where the semiconductor element is mounted; a plurality of leads including at least one first lead arranged on one side in first direction orthogonal to the thickness direction with respect to the die pad, and arranged around the die pad when viewed in the thickness direction; a plurality of connecting members including a first connecting member bonded to the at least one first lead, and configured to electrically connect the main surface electrodes and the leads; and a resin member configured to seal the semiconductor element, a part of the die pad, parts of the leads, and the connecting members.
US12131976B2
A semiconductor structure with a heat dissipation structure includes a first device wafer includes a front side and a back side. A first transistor is disposed on the front side. The first transistor includes a first gate structure disposed on the front side. Two first source/drain doping regions are embedded within the first device wafer at two side of the first gate structure. A channel region is disposed between the two first source/drain doping regions and embedded within the first device wafer. A first dummy metal structure contacts the back side of the first device wafer, and overlaps the channel region.
US12131968B2
The present invention provides a sensor mounted wafer, including: a lower case in which a mounting groove is formed; a circuit board on which a plurality of electronic components having different heights are mounted, and placed in the mounting groove; an upper case in which a plurality of insertion grooves having different depths are formed, and bonded together to the lower case so that the plurality of electronic components are inserted into the plurality of insertion grooves; and an adhesive layer placed between the mounting groove and the plurality of insertion grooves, in which the insertion grooves are formed to have different depths according to the heights of the plurality of the electronic components.
US12131962B2
A diaphragm position of a valve may be detected and/or determined such that operation of the diaphragm may be monitored. A sensor included in the valve may generate sensor data that may be used to monitor the position of the diaphragm, which in turn may be used to determine a flow of a fluid through the valve. In this way, the sensor may be used to determine whether the diaphragm is properly functioning, may be used to identify and detect failures of the diaphragm, and/or may be used to quickly terminate operation of an associated deposition tool. This may reduce semiconductor substrate scrap, may reduce device failures on semiconductor substrates that are processed by the deposition tool, may increase semiconductor processing quality of the deposition tool, and/or may increase semiconductor processing yields of the deposition tool.
US12131960B2
To provide a new temperature distribution evaluation method, a temperature distribution evaluation device, and a soaking range evaluation method, as the temperature distribution evaluation method which evaluates a temperature distribution of a heating area 40A provided in a heating device 40, the present invention is a temperature distribution evaluation method which, in the heating area 40A, heats a semiconductor substrate 10 and a transmitting and receiving body 20 for transporting a raw material to and from the semiconductor substrate 10, and evaluates a temperature distribution of the heating area 40A on the basis of a substrate thickness variation amount A of the semiconductor substrate 10. Accordingly, temperature distribution evaluation can be implemented for a high temperature area at 1600-2200° C. or the like at which it is hard to evaluate the temperature distribution due to the limit of a thermocouple material.
US12131946B2
The present invention relates to a method of forming contact holes of a CMOS device and a method of making a CMOS device. Because a carbon cap layer or a carbon rich layer is formed on a etching stop layer, when etching reaches the etching stop layer with less depth, great polymer protecting the etching stop layer from etching will be formed in the etching stop layer. As such, when etching reaches the contact holes with more depth, the contact holes with less depth may be protected from over-etching until etching the contact holes with more depth is finished. Over-etching may be avoided, and meanwhile the contact holes with more depth may be fully etched to avoid from under-etching.
US12131939B2
A substrate transfer robot for transferring a substrate in a vacuum chamber, includes: a transfer arm platform having coupling holes, wherein link connecting members with blades are engaged at front and rear areas of the transfer arm platform and a support shaft of a lower support is inserted into the lower space of one of the coupling holes; and a first and a second transfer arm part each including an end effector for supporting the substrate, multiple transfer link arms, multiple subordinate link arms and a common link arm that are connected to each other or to the transfer arm platform, wherein, the transfer link arms include at least some of drive shafts, interlocked with transfer driving motors or speed reducers, and output shafts interlocked with the drive shafts, and wherein the end effectors are positioned at different heights from each other through using a bracket.
US12131938B2
An automatic wafer carrying system and a method for transferring a wafer using the system are provided. The system includes: a vacuum chamber, including a plurality of wafer carrying stations; a plurality of first paddles and second paddles, all located inside the vacuum chamber and capable of rotating synchronously separately, where each of the plurality of second paddles and a corresponding first paddle form a pair of paddles to carry a wafer jointly; a double-ferrule magnetofluid, connected to the vacuum chamber in a sealed manner, and connected to the plurality of first paddles and the plurality of second paddles, to drive the first paddles or the second paddles or both the first and second paddles to rotate; a first drive mechanism, connected to the double-ferrule magnetofluid, to drive the plurality of first paddles and the plurality of second paddles through the double-ferrule magnetofluid to rotate synchronously in the same direction; and a second drive mechanism, also connected to the double-ferrule magnetofluid, to implement relative rotation of the plurality of first paddles and the plurality of second paddles through the double-ferrule magnetofluid. The system can reduce movement steps of a wafer during transfer, so as to improve transfer accuracy and stability of the wafer and reduce a position error of the wafer.
US12131937B2
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a transfer system comprising a transfer robot configured to transfer a transfer target object by an end effector based on an operation instruction, and a controller configured to output the operation instruction to the transfer robot, wherein at least any one of the end effector and the transfer target object has at least any one of a sensor and a camera, the controller calculates a relative position between the end effector and the transfer target object based on at least any one of a detected result of the sensor and a captured result of the camera, and the controller determines a teaching position of the end effector with respect to the transfer target object based on the relative position, and outputs the operation instruction to the transfer robot such that the end effector is disposed at the teaching position.
US12131936B2
An alignment apparatus includes a rotational support configured to rotate around a central axis, a rotation actuator, an edge sensor, and control circuitry. The rotational support includes substrate supports configured to concurrently support a substrate, and ring supports configured to concurrently support a focus ring. The rotation actuator is configured to rotate the rotational support around the central axis. The edge sensor is configured to generate an edge signal that changes in accordance with each of an edge position of the substrate and an edge position of the focus ring. The control circuitry is configured to control the rotation actuator to adjust a posture of the substrate to a first target posture based on the edge signal, and to control the rotation actuator to adjust a posture of the focus ring to a second target posture based on the edge signal.
US12131933B2
There is provided a load port, including: a frame including an opening via which a transfer target object is capable of passing in a substantially horizontal posture; a load port door configured to engage with a container door capable of opening and closing a loading/unloading port of a storage container including slots capable of accommodating the transfer target object in a multi-stage manner, and to open and close the opening of the frame; and a mapping mechanism configured to map information on an accommodation state including presence or absence of the transfer target object in each of the slots in the storage container via the opening and the loading/unloading port.
US12131932B2
A transfer system and a transfer method are provided. The transfer system includes trolley member and a control device. The trolley member moves on a transport rail. The control device is configured to send a first control signal to the trolley member when the trolley member moves to a first preset site. The trolley member grabs a first-type carrier according to the first control signal. The control device is further configured to send a second control signal to the trolley member when the trolley member moves to a second preset site. The trolley member grabs a second-type carrier according to the second control signal. The first-type carrier is configured to carry a semiconductor material, and the second-type carrier is configured to carry a semiconductor material different from the semiconductor material carried by the first-type carrier.
US12131928B2
A dynamic dispatching method for semiconductor manufacturing system relates to a dynamic dispatching rule based on self-organization for dispatching in a semiconductor manufacturing system, including S1: setting roles and parameters of self-organization units, and defining key nodes in a production environment; S2: constructing a negotiation mechanism between the self-organization units, and designing a decision-making and dispatching subject ESOU; S3: according to a decision instruction of the ESOU, designing a LSOU allocation dispatching unit for distinguishing single-batch processing and multi-batch processing; and S4: designing a dispatching mechanism based on the self-organization units to implement dynamic semiconductor dispatching. The dynamic dispatching method includes three aspects: role definitions of self-organization units, a negotiation mechanism between the self-organization units and a decision-making method thereof. The simulation based on a real industry benchmark production line shows that the method improves the work movement, throughput and on-time delivery rate by 4.9%, 9.06% and 20.23%.
US12131923B2
A current detection section detects a current value of a swing shaft motor 14 and generates a first output. A first processing section obtains a contact pressure corresponding to the first output from the first output using first data indicating a correspondence relationship between a contact pressure applied to a semiconductor wafer by a top ring and the first output. A second processing section obtains a second output corresponding to a contact pressure obtained by the first processing section using second data indicating a correspondence relationship between the contact pressure obtained by the first processing section and the second output.
US12131914B2
A method for processing a substrate that includes: loading the substrate in a plasma processing chamber; performing a cyclic plasma etch process including a plurality of cycles, where each cycle of the plurality of cycles includes: generating a first plasma from a first gas mixture including a fluorosilane and oxygen; performing a deposition step by exposing the substrate to the first plasma to form a passivation film including silicon and fluorine; generating a second plasma from a second gas mixture including a noble gas; and performing an etch step by exposing the substrate to the second plasma.
US12131912B2
Embodiments of the invention describe semiconductor devices with high aspect ratio fins and methods for forming such devices. According to an embodiment, the semiconductor device comprises one or more nested fins and one or more isolated fins. According to an embodiment, a patterned hard mask comprising one or more isolated features and one or more nested features is formed with a hard mask etching process. A first substrate etching process forms isolated and nested fins in the substrate by transferring the pattern of the nested and isolated features of the hard mask into the substrate to a first depth. A second etching process is used to etch through the substrate to a second depth. According to embodiments of the invention, the first etching process utilizes an etching chemistry comprising HBr, O2 and CF4, and the second etching process utilizes an etching chemistry comprising Cl2, Ar, and CH4.
US12131911B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a first epitaxial layer over a substrate to form a wafer, depositing a dielectric layer over the first epitaxial layer, patterning the dielectric layer to form an opening, etching the first epitaxial layer through the opening to form a recess, forming a second epitaxial layer in the recess, etching the dielectric layer to expose a top surface of the first epitaxial layer, and planarizing the exposed top surface of the first epitaxial layer and a top surface of the second epitaxial layer.
US12131909B2
Selective deposition of a sacrificial material on a semiconductor substrate, the substrate having a surface with a plurality of regions of substrate materials having different selectivities for the sacrificial material, may be conducted such that substantial deposition of the sacrificial material occurs on a first region of the substrate surface, and no substantial deposition occurs on a second region of the substrate surface. Deposition of a non-sacrificial material may then be conducted on the substrate, such that substantial deposition of the non-sacrificial material occurs on the second region and no substantial deposition of the non-sacrificial material occurs on the first region. The sacrificial material may then be removed such that net deposition of the non-sacrificial material occurs substantially only on the second region.
US12131898B2
A method is provided that includes operations as follows: bonding an epitaxial layer formed with a first semiconductor substrate and an ion-implanted layer that is formed between the epitaxial layer and the first semiconductor substrate, to a bonding oxide layer of a second semiconductor substrate; separating the first semiconductor substrate from the epitaxial layer, by removing the first semiconductor substrate together with a portion of the ion-implanted layer and keeping the epitaxial layer; and forming a first semiconductor device portion on the epitaxial layer, and an interconnect layer on the first semiconductor device portion.
US12131897B2
A method for processing a semiconductor wafer is provided. The method includes polishing the semiconductor wafer with a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) tool. The method includes transferring the polished semiconductor wafer to an interface tool from the CMP tool. The method includes discharging a mist spray over the polished semiconductor wafer in the interface tool. The method includes transferring the semiconductor wafer form the interface tool to a cleaning tool for a cleaning process.
US12131892B2
A method includes the following steps. A wafer is disposed on a wafer-mounting surface of a wafer holder that is disposed in a chamber. The wafer-mounting surface is in parallel with a gravity direction. A gas is flown from a gas source to vacuum sealing device. An inductive coil wrapping around a vacuum sealing device excites the gas into plasma. The plasma is injected to the wafer.
US12131888B2
A method for processing a substrate includes forming a patterned layer over the substrate, the layer including an opening, where a surface of the opening includes a sidewall and a bottom wall. The method includes processing the patterned layer with an anisotropic process by generating a flux of gas clusters over the substrate in a first process chamber, where the gas clusters include radical precursors; exposing the substrate to the flux of gas clusters. The method includes sustaining plasma including ions in a second process chamber; and exposing the substrate to the ions by directing the ions toward the bottom wall of the opening.
US12131883B2
Method and apparatus for usable beam current and brightness in Schottky thermal field emission (TFE)
A system for determining Schottky thermal field emission (TFE) usable current and brightness of a Schottky TFE source is provided, the system including: one or more processors, configured to: acquire and store in a memory a Schottky TFE emission image in a digital format; and determine Schottky TFE usable beam current and brightness for the based on experimentally developed algorithms that utilize usable current criteria and usable emission current density, the usable current criteria being generated based on properties of a central beam component and an outer beam component of Schottky TFE beam current.
US12131876B2
A membrane switch includes a first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern and a processor. The first circuit layer is aligned with the second conductive pattern. The first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern have different shapes. When the second conductive pattern is contacted with and covered by the first conductive pattern, a conductive contact surface is formed. The conductive contact surface has a resistance value corresponding to an area of the conductive contact surface. A processor judges whether a key signal is generated according to the resistance value.
US12131865B2
An IPT system magnetic flux pad includes two substantially planar coils (17) in close proximity to each other above a magnetically permeable core (14). The coils (17) each define a pole area (11, 12) and the distance between one or more adjacent turns of the coils (17) located in a region between the pole areas (11, 12) being different from the distance between one or more adjacent turns of the coils (17) located outside the region between the pole areas (11, 12).
US12131863B2
An inductor structure and a manufacturing method for the same are provided. The inductor structure includes conductive layers and conductive elements. The conductive layers overlap in a vertical direction. Each of the conductive elements is coupled between two conductive layers of the conductive layers.
US12131848B2
A varistor can include a monolithic body including a plurality of dielectric layers stacked in a Z-direction that is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction. The monolithic body can have a first end and a second end that is spaced apart from the first end in the longitudinal direction. A first external terminal can be disposed along the first end. A second external terminal can be disposed along the second end. A first plurality of electrodes can be connected with the first external terminal and can extend from the first end towards the second end of the monolithic body. A second plurality of electrodes can be connected with the second external terminal and can extend from the second end towards the first end of the monolithic body. At least one of the first external terminal or the second external terminal can include a conductive polymeric composition.
US12131846B2
A connecting cable includes a first end, a second end and a heat dissipation channel in communication with the first end and the second end. The first end is adapted to connect with a first component. The second end is adapted to connect with a second component. The present disclosure also discloses a cable connector, a charger, and a charger assembly having the connecting cable. Compared with the prior art, in the present disclosure, by providing the heat dissipation channel in the connecting cable, the heat generated by the electronic device can be discharged in time through the heat dissipation channel. Therefore, the heat dissipation performance is improved.
US12131839B2
A method for rejuvenating a strand-blocked cable having a conductor comprised of a plurality of conductor strands with interstitial volume therebetween blocked by a PIB based mastic, the conductor being surrounded by a polymeric cable insulation. The method comprising installing injection adapters that seal the cable ends of the cable and are usable to inject fluid into the interstitial volume between the conductor strands of the cable; elastically expanding the polymeric cable insulation through the application of pressure to the interstitial volume between the conductor strands of the cable; and injecting at least one injection fluid in which the PIB based mastic is mostly insoluble into the interstitial volume between the conductor strands of the cable.
US12131831B2
A neutron absorber member is configured to be inserted into a control rod guide tube of a spent fuel assembly. The neutron absorber member includes a first plate and a second plate. The first plate extends along a longitudinal axis between a first end and a second end. The first plate has a slot formed therethrough at the first end. The slot extends from the first end towards the second end. The second plate is disposed within the slot of the first plate. The first plate and the second plate are arranged to have a cross-sectional shape of a cruciform.
US12131826B2
A syringe pump includes a lead screw, a motor, and a sliding block assembly. The lead screw has threads and the motor is coupled to the lead screw to rotate it. The half-nut housing has a half nut and a barrel cam. The half nut is disposed within the half-nut housing. The half nut has half-nut threads at an end adjacent to the lead screw void. The half nut engages or disengages with the threads of the lead screw. The half nut includes a half-nut cam-follower surface and a half nut slot. The barrel cam is disposed within the half-nut housing and engages with the half-nut cam-follower surface. The barrel cam includes a pin to fit within the half nut slot such that the barrel cam rotates between a first position and a second position to actuate the half nut between the engagement position and the disengagement position, respectively.
US12131822B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a Self-Validating System (SVS) which includes an Electronic Self-Validating Module (ESVM) that may be employed within a medical device, operable to receive and to transmit wireless transmissions to and from a personal electronic mobile device, the mobile device executing a Self-Validating Medical Device Remote Control (SVMDRC) application, also known as the mobile app, operable to control the ESVM, the mobile device and the ESVM further executing a pre-determined sequence of instructions at a pre-determined frequency, operable to perform a set of safety (validation) checks on the mobile device, and the ESVM. In an illustrative example, changes (updates) to the mobile device's operating system, the app, or the hardware on the mobile device may be detected by the mobile device, and may advantageously re-validate the mobile device automatically.
US12131816B2
A device may receive, from a plurality of sensors, sensor data relating to a user. The device may include a plurality of types of sensors including a spectrometer and one or more of an accelerometer, a heart rate sensor, a blood pressure sensor, a blood sugar sensor, a perspiration sensor, a skin conductivity sensor, or an imaging sensor. The device may process the sensor data, from the plurality of types of sensors, relating to the user to determine a health condition of the user. The device may provide, via a user interface, information identifying the health condition of the user based on processing the sensor data, from the plurality of types of sensors, relating to the user.
US12131813B1
A medication dispenser apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a container configured to hold medication, a display interface, and a controller configured to perform, in sequence, a learning operation in which the controller learns a medication dispensing regimen of the container, a validation operation in which the controller validates the learned medication dispensing regimen; and a notification operation in which the controller provides on the display interface a status of use of the container for medication dispensing in relation to the learned medication dispensing regimen.
US12131810B2
A computer system automatically generates and provides real-time feedback to a healthcare provider about a selected Evaluation and Management (E/M) level to assign to a patient encounter. The system provides the feedback while the healthcare provider is creating the clinical note that documents the patient encounter. The system may also automatically generate and suggest E/M levels to the healthcare provider for approval by the healthcare provider while the healthcare provider is creating the clinical note.
US12131809B2
A method and a device for acquiring character information in a picture, a non-transitory storage medium, a page processing method, and a knowledge graph construction method are disclosed. The method for acquiring character information in a picture includes: acquiring a picture and extracting at least one piece of character information in the picture; and checking-and-correcting the at least one piece of character information based on a knowledge graph.
US12131808B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein may include a parallel-processing graph-database solution for protein-sequence analytics to determine a viable therapeutic for a given condition, and may include: determining a protein sequence for the given condition; using sequence database to compare a query sequence of the sequence of the given condition with sequences of other known proteins in the sequence database using the sequence database to determine a similarity of the query sequence with sequences of the other known proteins in the sequence database based on the comparison; and querying a graph database based on the similarity of sequences to identify potential therapeutics that could be have an inhibitory effect on the given condition.
US12131797B2
A data transmission circuit, method and memory device are provided. A comparison circuit is configured to compare global data with bus data to output a comparison result on whether the number of different bits between the global data and the bus data exceeds a preset threshold; a correction circuit is configured to check and/or correct the global data to generate corrected data; a first data conversion circuit is configured to invert the corrected data and transmit the inverted corrected data to the data bus when exceeding the preset threshold, and transmit the corrected data to the data bus when not exceeding the preset threshold, and the first data conversion circuit is further configured to output a mark signal; and a recovery circuit is configured to transmit data or inverted data on the data bus to a serial-parallel conversion circuit according to a value of the mark signal.
US12131793B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to 3D self-selecting-memory array of memory cells are described. The method relates to a solution for improving the fault-tolerant capability of memory devices, including: applying a triple-modular-redundancy calculation in a programming phase of the memory cells of a memory array, and adopting a sequence of two opposite dual polarity algorithms applied along a selected bit line and in parallel on the at least three selected word lines of the memory array.
US12131780B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a memory device, including a plurality of content addressable memory (CAM) units arranged in rows and columns and configured to store a plurality of data states, respectively. A CAM unit of the plurality of CAM units includes a first ferroelectric memory element, a plurality of word lines extending along the rows and configured to provide a search query to the plurality of CAM units for bitwise comparison between the search query and the data states of the plurality of CAM units, and a plurality of match lines extending along the columns and configured to output a plurality of match signals, respectively from respective columns of CAM units. A match signal of a column is asserted when the data states of the respective CAM units of the column match corresponding bits of the search query.
US12131779B2
A memory device includes a plurality of memory units and a global responder (RSP) unit. Each memory unit includes a memory array of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, and an RSP unit. The memory array receives horizontal input data rotated for storage as data candidates in columns of the array. At least one of the rows is a calculation row receiving per-bit-line Boolean AND operations between bits of a marker row and bits of a row of data of the data candidates. The RSP unit includes wired-OR circuitry operative on the calculation row to generate a responder signal indicating whether there is one cell in the calculation row having a predefined value identifying a data candidate in the memory array. The global RSP unit receives multiple responder signals, one from at least two of the RSP units, and performs Boolean OR operations on the multiple responder signals.
US12131778B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus to select an enhanced write pulse for a write operation in a memory device. In one approach, stronger reset pulses are triggered when there is an increased risk of memory cell threshold voltage degradation. Memory cells read by a relatively higher number of read operations are recorded by a controller of a memory device by updating a lookup table with addresses of the memory cells read. For a new write operation, the controller determines if a reset on set write operation is to be performed. The controller also searches the lookup table to determine if an address for the target bits or codeword of the write operation are in the lookup table. If both conditions are satisfied, then the magnitude of the write pulse is increased for programming the memory cells.
US12131777B2
A resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) cell includes a field-effect transistor (FET) and a resistive element. The FET having a gate port, a drain port, and a source port. The gate port is connected to a word-line (WL) of the ReRAM cell, the source port is connected to a bit-line (BL) of the ReRAM cell, and a first port of the resistive element is connected to the drain of the FET. A second port of the resistive element is connected to a source-line (SL) of the ReRAM cell. During reset operation SL is connected to a high-voltage and BL to a low-voltage. During set operation SL is connected to a low-voltage and BL to a high-voltage. Using this common source configuration overcomes the requirement for a wider FET width of the prior art so as to accommodate the current supply needed during reset operation, and avoids overstressing of the FET.
US12131776B2
A memory device including a static random-access memory that includes two cross-coupled inverters and an access transistor having a gate connected to a word line. The memory device further includes one or more logic gates electrically coupled to the static random-access memory, and a non-volatile memory electrically coupled to the static random-access memory and configured to store data and be read using the static random-access memory, wherein the non-volatile memory is connected on one side to the access transistor and on another side to the two cross-coupled inverters.
US12131775B2
A static random access memory (SRAM) or other bit-storing cell arrangement includes memory cells and a hierarchical bitline structure including local bitlines for subsets of the memory banks and a global bitline spanning the subsets. A keeper circuit for the global bitline is replaced by bias circuitry on output transistors of the memory cells.
US12131773B2
A memory device includes pages each constituted by memory cells, and a page write operation and a page erase operation are performed. First and second impurity layers and first and second gate conductor layers in each memory cell is connected to a source line, a bit line, a word line, and a driving control line. In a page read operation, page data is read. In the page write and read operations, a selected driving control line is lowered to zero volt at a first reset time, the driving control line is isolated from a driving circuit at a second reset time, thereby putting the driving control line in a zero-volt floating state, and a selected word line is set at zero volt at a third reset time, thereby putting the driving control line in a negative-voltage floating state by capacitive coupling between the word line and the driving control line.
US12131766B2
Methods, systems, and devices for memory array with multiplexed select lines are described. In some cases, a memory cell of the memory device may include a storage component, a first transistor coupled with a word line, and a second transistor coupled with a first select line to selectively couple the memory cell with a first digit line. A third transistor may be coupled with the first digit line and a sense component common to a set of digit lines and a set of select lines. A second select line may be coupled with the third transistor and configured to couple the sense component with the first digit line and to couple the sense component with a second digit line. The sense component may determine a logic state stored by the memory cell based on the signal from the first digit line and the signal from the second digit line.
US12131757B2
A storage drive assembly is provided. The storage drive assembly includes a storage drive sized and shaped for insertion into a slot within a chassis, a latching mechanism coupled to a first end of the storage drive, the latching mechanism including an actuation component actuable to transition the latching mechanism from a locked state in which the latching mechanism restricts displacement of the storage drive relative to the chassis to an unlocked state in which the latching mechanism enables displacement of the storage drive assembly relative to the chassis, and a drive secure cover plate adapted to removably mate with the latching mechanism in the locked state, the mated drive secure cover plate preventing physical access to the actuation component.
US12131752B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure may be configured to receive, from a first terminal device, at least one edited segment among a plurality of segments of an image file and at least one edited segment among a plurality of segments of metadata, update the image file and the metadata stored in the one or more memories, determine, in response to a second terminal device accessing the image file, whether an image file the second terminal device has is the latest version, and determine, in response to determining that the image file the second terminal device has is not the latest version, a transmitting device to transmit the at least one edited segment of the image file and the at least one edited segment of the metadata to the second terminal device.
US12131746B2
Despite many practical limitations imposed by mobile device platforms and application execution environments, vocal musical performances may be captured and continuously pitch-corrected for mixing and rendering with backing tracks in ways that create compelling user experiences. Based on the techniques described herein, even mere amateurs are encouraged to share with friends and family or to collaborate and contribute vocal performances as part of virtual “glee clubs.” In some implementations, these interactions are facilitated through social network- and/or eMail-mediated sharing of performances and invitations to join in a group performance. Using uploaded vocals captured at clients such as a mobile device, a content server (or service) can mediate such virtual glee clubs by manipulating and mixing the uploaded vocal performances of multiple contributing vocalists.
US12131741B2
An audio transmission method includes: a second device sends noise energy data on the second device end and transmission efficiency data to a first device; the first device determines a first bit rate based on the noise energy data, and determines a second bit rate based on the transmission efficiency data; the first device encodes an audio stream based on a lower bit rate of the first bit rate and the second bit rate to obtain audio data; the first device sends the audio data obtained by encoding to the second device.
US12131739B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media including instructions for performing operations for continuous authentication based on facial skin micromovements is disclosed. The operations may include receiving during an ongoing electronic transaction, first signals representing coherent light reflections associated with first facial skin micromovements during a first time period and second signals representing coherent light reflections associated with second facial skin micromovements during a second time period. The operations may also include determining, using the first and second signals, that a specific individual is associated with the first and second facial skin micromovements. The operations may also include receiving during the ongoing electronic transaction third signals representing coherent light reflections associated with third facial skin micromovements. The operations may further include determining, using the third signals, that the third facial skin micromovements are not associated with the specific individual, and initiating an action based on the determination.
US12131734B2
According to one embodiment, a communication data log processing apparatus includes a processor including hardware. The processor receives communication data contained in a communication data log as a log of the communication data containing a speech sentence and meta information. The processor determines a section to which the received communication data should belong based on the speech sentence and the meta information.
US12131729B2
A language model score calculation apparatus calculates a prediction probability of a word wi as a language model score of a language model based on a recurrent neural network. The language model score calculation apparatus includes a memory; and a processor configured to execute converting a word wi-1 that is observed immediately before the word wi into a word vector ϕ(wi-1); converting a speaker label ri-1 corresponding to the word wi-1 and a speaker label ri corresponding to the word wi into a speaker vector ψ(ri-1) and a speaker vector ψ(ri), respectively; calculating a word history vector si by using the word vector ϕ(wi-1), the speaker vector ψ(ri-1), and a word history vector si-1 that is obtained when a prediction probability of the word wi-1 is calculated; and calculating a prediction probability of the word wi by using the word history vector si-1 and the speaker vector ψ(ri).
US12131728B2
The present application provides a method of training a natural language processing model, which relates to a field of artificial intelligence, and in particular to a field of natural language processing. A specific implementation scheme includes: performing a semantic learning for multi-tasks on an input text, so as to obtain a semantic feature for the multi-tasks, wherein the multi-tasks include a plurality of branch tasks; performing a feature learning for each branch task based on the semantic feature, so as to obtain a first output result for each branch task; calculating a loss for each branch task according to the first output result for the branch task; and adjusting a parameter of the natural language processing model according to the loss for each branch task. The present application further provides a method of processing a natural language, an electronic device, and a storage medium.
US12131720B2
Provided is a transmissive display apparatus capable of naturally combining a projection image on a real space scene. A beam splitter splits a light incident from a real space scene into first and second portions. An image sensor generates a real space image according to the second portion of the incident light. A light modulator passes at least a part of the first portion of the incident light according to a masking image. A control and projection image generation unit selects a target object and generates the masking image based on a target object area to cause a light modulator to block a foreground of the real space scene and pass a background of the real space scene. A projection unit generates a projection image light corresponding to the projection image combines the projection image light with a part of the first portion of the incident light.
US12131711B2
A data processing method spoiled to a display apparatus includes, obtaining first image data including first pixel values of pixels; obtaining a brightness control value of each backlight unit according to first pixel values of pixels corresponding to the backlight unit; determining relative positional relationships between a first pixel and at least two first backlight units in a plane perpendicular to a thickness direction of the display apparatus, the first backlight units including a backlight unit corresponding to the first pixel and backlight unit(s) adjacent thereto; determining an optical diffusion coefficient of each first backlight unit at a corresponding position of the first pixel according to the relative positional relationships; and determining a backlight brightness characteristic value of the first pixel according to a brightness control value of each first backlight unit and the optical diffusion coefficient of each first backlight unit at the corresponding position of the first pixel.
US12131709B2
A dynamic backlight control method, a dynamic backlight module, and a storage medium are provided in the present application. A lamp bead of the dynamic backlight module includes a green chip and at least two blue chips. The dynamic backlight control method includes: receiving a source signal; and when the source signal is a pure blue signal, turning off the green chip, and driving more than two of the blue chips to output blue light.
US12131707B2
A display apparatus may include a first drive circuit configured to output a driving signal, the driving signal including a first period during which the driving signal has a first value, a second period during which the driving signal has a second value different from the first value, and a third period during which the driving signal has a third value between the first value and the second value; a second drive circuit configured to receive the driving signal and generate a gate signal based on the driving signal; and a display panel including a light emitting device that is configured to emit light based on the gate signal, wherein a length of at least one of the first period, the second period, or the third period is adjustable based on a temperature associated with the display apparatus.
US12131701B2
The present application discloses a display panel, an integrated chip and a display apparatus. The display panel includes: a first display area and a second display area; and pixel circuits including first pixel circuits and second pixel circuits, wherein the first pixel circuits are configured to provide driving currents to light emitting elements of the first display area, and the second pixel circuits are configured to provide driving currents to light emitting elements of the second display area, the pixel circuits receive a bias adjustment signal, the bias adjustment signal includes a first bias adjustment signal and a second bias adjustment signal, the first pixel circuits receive the first bias adjustment signal, and the second pixel circuits receive the second bias adjustment signals, a voltage value of the first bias adjustment signal is V1, and a voltage value of the second bias adjustment signal is V2, wherein V1≠V2.
US12131674B2
An electronic device including: a display module including a front surface and a rear surface opposite the front surface and including a module hole that penetrates from the front surface to the rear surface; and an electronic module overlapping the module hole. The display module includes a crack detection wiring including a hole wiring disposed in a hole area, and a first detection wiring and a second detection wiring of the crack detection wiring are connected to the hole wiring and disposed on different layers with a detection insulating layer interposed therebetween.
US12131670B2
An electronic shelf label and a method for assembling the same. The electronic shelf label including: a housing, the housing including a front housing and a rear housing, the front housing and the rear housing being coupled with each other, a chamber being provided between the front housing and the rear housing, the rear housing including an opening; a motherboard, the motherboard being located in the chamber; a back plate, the back plate covering the opening, the motherboard being detachably coupled to the back plate, the back plate being detachably coupled to the rear housing, and an orthographic projection of the back plate in a plane where the rear housing is located being located in the rear housing.
US12131663B2
A method of operating a welding system includes receiving welding data corresponding to a welding session for a weld, receiving a location selection from an operator, and displaying on a display a graphical representation of welding parameters of the welding selection corresponding to the location selection. The welding data includes welding parameters, including a work angle of a welding torch, a travel angle of the welding torch, a contact tip to work distance, a travel speed of the welding torch along a path of the weld, an aim of the welding torch, or any combination thereof. The location selection corresponds to a point along the path of the weld traversed by the welding torch.
US12131654B2
An architecture related to advanced networking equipment providing aerial coverage data to unmanned aerial vehicles. A method can comprise based on object data, determining a number value associated with a group of beams configured to be emitted by serving cell equipment, based on down tilt data, determining a beam of the group of beams, and based on the object data and the down tilt data, determining that the serving cell equipment is capable of servicing an unmanned aerial vehicle.
US12131644B2
A traffic control device includes: a passage schedule calculation unit which calculates, on the basis of vehicle information about vehicles that enter an intersection, passage schedules according to which the vehicles pass through the intersection; a collision determination unit which determines, on the basis of the passage schedules, whether the vehicles have a possibility of a collision; a passage rank setting unit which sets passage ranks for the vehicles if there is the possibility of the collision; and a passage schedule adjustment unit which calculates an adjustment period on the basis of a result of comparing the passage schedules for the vehicles determined to have the possibility of the collision, and delays, by the adjustment period, a passage schedule for a vehicle that has a low passage rank among the vehicles determined to have the possibility of the collision, to adjust the passage schedule.
US12131643B2
System and method for sharing data about an object in accordance to various aspects. A mobile device comprises: a memory; a sensor to detect an object and generate data about the object; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the at least one processor configured to: receive the data from the sensor; determine a relevance of the data; and choose an interface for transmitting the data based on the relevance.
US12131639B2
A computing device for navigation of a vehicle, the computing device comprising a processor and a display screen presenting a map showing multiple routes for navigating to a destination. The display screen also presents prices and travel times for the multiple routes. Responsive to a user selection of one of the multiple routes, the processor cooperates with a radiofrequency data transceiver to communicate with one or more other vehicles or with a central server to negotiate a traffic reprioritization for a user-selected route to the destination.
US12131637B2
A driving support system includes a first monitoring device on a first object, the first monitoring device having a first controller, a first camera, and a first display, a second monitoring device on a second object, the second monitoring device having a second controller and a second camera, and a server in communication with the first and second monitoring devices. The first and second controllers each detect a target in images acquired from the respective first or second camera, calculate target information for the target, and transmit the target information to the server. The server generates list information including the target information the first and second monitoring devices, and transmits the list information to the first and second monitoring devices. The first controller further generates a map according to the list information received from the server, and displays the map on the first display.
US12131636B2
A LED Traffic Light to aid people who have issues with color blindness. For the main LED traffic light, there is a solid matrix of LEDs on the complete face facing traffic. The light pattern displayed will indicate red, yellow, or green and the light patterns shown will differ for red, yellow, and green. Auxiliary lights can be employed with the main LED traffic light to indicate whether or not turns can be made.
US12131632B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for traffic flow control considering a bus stop in a connected environment, comprising: determining an influence region of the bus stop; dividing the influence region of the bus stop into influence subregions; collecting vehicle information of each of the influence subregions at time t; comparing lane changing pressures of different influence subregions of the bus stop; determining a predicted count of lane changing vehicles of each of the influence subregions based on lane changing pressure differences; and selecting optimal lane changing vehicles to complete lane changing. A vehicle density distribution in the influence region of the bus stop can be dynamically regulated through vehicle information interaction in the connected environment, thereby making the spatial distribution of the traffic flow more balanced, saving vehicle traveling time, and improving the operation efficiency of the traffic flow.
US12131626B2
A food texture presentation apparatus of the present embodiment includes a force stimulation presentation unit, a vibration stimulation presentation unit, and a temperature stimulation presentation unit that present different kinds of haptic stimuli in the oral cavity, a selection unit that selects a haptic stimulus to be presented, according to the food texture, and a force stimulation controller, a vibration stimulation controller, and a temperature stimulation controller that control respectively the force stimulation presentation unit, the vibration stimulation presentation unit, and the temperature stimulation presentation unit that present the selected haptic stimulus.
US12131614B2
RFID devices for use in electronic surveillance article (“EAS”) systems may be differently configured, resulting in different performance at the operating frequency or range of frequencies of an EAS system. The performance of differently configured RFID devices may be converged or rendered substantially similar by testing the performance of such RFID devices in a range of frequencies. At least one of the RFID devices is reconfigured to converge the performance of the RFID devices in the range of frequencies if the performance of the RFID devices is not sufficiently similar. This may include changing the configuration of an antenna, an RFID chip, and/or a non-functional component of an RFID device and/or the location in which an RFID device is associated to an article. Differently configured RFID devices may all be manufactured from the same initial configuration, with different RFID devices being differently processed before incorporation in an EAS system.
US12131607B1
An application enabling a player to utilize a portable computing device, such as a Smartphone, to function as a game controller for a gaming machine. The portable computing device is paired with the gaming machine using a pairing based, short range protocol. The portable computing device enables manual user input or use of motion controllers for controlling skill based games in a casino environment. The application can receive a configuration from the gaming machine to replicate or mimic the controls and the gaming images, thus enabling the player to play the game at a short distance from the machine. The player can select an image/theme for integration into the game during play.
US12131605B2
A boxed battery dispenser configured to hold a plurality of battery trays. Each battery tray of the plurality of battery trays is configured to hold a plurality of batteries, and each battery tray can be independently removeable from the dispenser.
US12131602B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure establish unlock codes for groups of physical locks and include a single code reset or override device to render the combination of each lock settable. In embodiments, based on a request to reset a first unlock code associated with one of the physical locks, a replacement unlock code is generated and transmitted to a mobile communications device, whereupon the first unlock code can be changed to the replacement unlock code.
US12131600B2
The invention provides a security system for non-public, normally-open facilities such as schools. A security perimeter spaced apart from the normally-open door passively scans persons attempting access and actuates facility closure if a security threat is detected. Security threats include: a person without any security token, a person with a security token that does not match their current bio-data, and a person who although they have a security token matching their current bio-data exhibits one or more physiological traits consistent with mental or physical distress.
US12131599B1
Tracking component decisions may comprise generating a data structure in association with an output determined by a component. This data structure, along with one or more data structures generated in association with other outputs generated by the same or different components of the vehicle, may be used to determine a trace that identifies component(s) that determined outputs that affected a particular component's generation of an output. The data structures and/or traces may be used to determine whether a component is the source of an error, a portion of the component that is the source of the error, unintended impacts to unmodified portions of components, among additional or alternate uses discussed herein.
US12131598B2
The present application discloses a testing method and apparatus for a vehicle perception system, a device and a storage medium, and relates to data processing and, in particular to the field of artificial intelligence such as automatic driving, intelligent transportation, etc. A specific implementation scheme lies in: acquiring an actual speed and a perceptual speed of a test object, where the perceptual speed of the test object is a speed of the test object perceived by the vehicle perception system; determining, according to the actual speed of the test object and the perceptual speed of the test object, speed reporting delay time of the vehicle perception system, where the speed reporting delay time is used to reflect sensitivity of the vehicle perception system to perceive a speed of an obstacle.
US12131596B2
A steering device for detecting an error of a road wheel actuator according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes an electronic control unit and a road wheel actuator. The electronic control unit may be electrically connected with a steering wheel of a vehicle, and the road wheel actuator may be electrically connected with the electronic control unit. When the vehicle starts, the electronic control unit may rotate the steering wheel in one direction or an opposite direction to the one direction by driving the road wheel actuator and measure data of the road wheel actuator. A method of determining an error of a road wheel actuator according to another exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first operation, a second operation, and a third operation.
US12131589B2
A meter apparatus and method of operating a removable meter apparatus are described. The meter apparatus includes a tag associated with unique tag identification information and configured to be permanently affixed to a location housing at a unique physical location, and includes a removable meter unit configured to mate with the location housing and receive the tag identification from the tag and report the tag identification to a data manager configured to associate an identifier of the removable meter unit with the tag identification and unique physical location, and associate configuration information for the physical location with the removable meter unit and the tag identification. The unique physical location can comprise a single-space parking location.
US12131585B2
The example embodiments provides a processing system including an extraction unit that extracts a feature amount of light reflected by a cornea of a person from an image generated by a first imaging apparatus, a comparison unit that specifies an imaging apparatus corresponding to the extracted feature amount of the light based on the extracted feature amount of the light and a reference feature amount indicating a feature of light emitted by each of a plurality of imaging apparatuses at a time of imaging, and a biometric detection unit that performs biometric detection based on a result of whether or not the first imaging apparatus matches the specified imaging apparatus.
US12131580B2
A face detection method includes: acquiring a target image; invoking a face detection network, and processing the target image by using a feature extraction structure of the face detection network, to obtain original feature maps corresponding to the target image; the original feature maps having different resolutions; processing the original feature maps by using a feature enhancement structure of the face detection network, to obtain an enhanced feature map corresponding to each original feature map; the feature enhancement structure being obtained by searching a search space, and the search space used for searching the feature enhancement structure being determined based on a detection objective of the face detection network and a processing object of the feature enhancement structure; and processing the enhanced feature map by using a detection structure of the face detection network, to obtain a face detection result of the target image.
US12131565B2
Disclosed is an approach of on-device partial recognition that includes performing partial recognition on an image of a document captured by a mobile device to detect and/or recognize a specific area (e.g., barcodes, non-relevant text, etc.) and filling the recognized area with a solid color. Because the solid color area has a maximum compression ratio, this approach can lead to image size reduction and increased network throughput for client-server based data recognition where further processing such as advanced data extraction is performed at the server side. The approach can be enforced with neural network algorithms to exclude non-relevant information (e.g., logos, phrases, words, etc.).
US12131560B2
A user authentication method and a user authentication apparatus acquire an input image including a frontalized face of a user, calculate a confidence map including confidence values, for authenticating the user, corresponding to pixels with values maintained in a depth image of the frontalized face of the user among pixels included in the input image, extract a second feature vector from a second image generated based on the input image and the confidence map, acquire a first feature vector corresponding to an enrolled image, and perform authentication of the user based on a correlation between the first feature vector and the second feature vector.
US12131556B2
In various examples, object fence corresponding to objects detected by an ego-vehicle may be used to determine overlap of the object fences with lanes on a driving surface. A lane mask may be generated corresponding to the lanes on the driving surface, and the object fences may be compared to the lanes of the lane mask to determine the overlap. Where an object fence is located in more than one lane, a boundary scoring approach may be used to determine a ratio of overlap of the boundary fence, and thus the object, with each of the lanes. The overlap with one or more lanes for each object may be used to determine lane assignments for the objects, and the lane assignments may be used by the ego-vehicle to determine a path or trajectory along the driving surface.
US12131550B1
In one example, a method is provided that includes receiving lidar data obtained by a lidar device. The lidar data includes a plurality of data points indicative of locations of reflections from an environment of the vehicle. The method includes receiving images of portions of the environment captured by a camera at different times. The method also includes determining locations in the images that correspond to a data point of the plurality of data points. Additionally, the method includes determining feature descriptors for the locations of the images and comparing the feature descriptors to determine that sensor data associated with at least one of the lidar device, the camera, or a pose sensor is accurate or inaccurate.
US12131548B2
Disclosed is a method for training shallow convolutional neural networks for infrared target detection using a two-phase learning strategy that can converge to satisfactory detection performance, even with scale-invariance capability. In the first step, the aim is to ensure that only filters in the convolutional layer produce semantic features that serve the problem of target detection. L2-norm (Euclidian norm) is used as loss function for the stable training of semantic filters obtained from the convolutional layers. In the next step, only the decision layers are trained by transferring the weight values in the convolutional layers completely and freezing the learning rate. In this step, unlike the first, the L1-norm (mean-absolute-deviation) loss function is used.
US12131547B2
An information processing apparatus (10) includes a time and space information acquisition unit (110) that acquires high-risk time and space information indicating a spatial region with an increased possibility of an accident occurring or of a crime being committed and a corresponding time slot, a possible surveillance target acquisition unit (120) that identifies a video to be analyzed from among a plurality of videos generated by capturing an image of each of a plurality of places, on the basis of the high-risk time and space information, and analyzes the identified video to acquire information of a possible surveillance target, and a target time and space identification unit (130) that identifies at least one of a spatial region where surveillance is to be conducted which is at least a portion of the spatial region or a time slot when surveillance is to be conducted, from among the spatial region and the time slot indicated by the high-risk time and space information, on the basis of the information of the possible surveillance target.
US12131541B2
This relates generally to a method and a system for spatio-temporal polarization video analysis. The spatio-temporal polarization data is analyzed for a computer vision application such as object detection, image classification, image captioning, image reconstruction or image inpainting, face recognition and action recognition. Numerous classical and deep learning methods have been applied on polarimetric data for polarimetric imaging analysis, however, the available pre-trained models may not be directly suitable on polarization data, as polarimetric data is more complex. Further compared to analysis of the polarimetric images, a significant number of actions can be detected by polarimetric videos, hence analyzing polarimetric videos is more efficient. The disclosure is a spatio-temporal analysis of polarization video. The disclosed techniques include configuring a set of parameters from the polarization video to train a spatio-temporal deep network architecture for analyzing polarimetric videos for computer vision applications.
US12131535B2
A method for recognizing at least one object in images by a camera and a processor is provided. The at least one object includes content information and operation direction information. The operation direction information includes inspection direction, re-inspection direction, and a combination thereof. The method includes a first re-inspection step, the first re-inspection step includes using the processor to inspect whether the re-inspection direction of one of the at least one object matches a paring relationship. If so, the processor processes the content information of the at least one object and another one object to generate computational result.
US12131533B2
Implementations of the subject technology provide visualizations of non-visible features of a physical environment, at the location of the non-visible features in the physical environment. The non-visible features may include wireless communications signals, sounds, airflow, gases, subsonic and/or ultrasonic waves, hidden objects, or the like. A device may store visual contexts for visualizations of particular non-visible features. The device may obtain a depth map that allows the device to determine the location of the non-visible feature in the physical environment and to overlay the visualization on a user's view of that location. In this way, the non-visible feature can be visualized its correct location, orientation, direction and/or strength in the physical environment.
US12131527B2
An ultrasonic computation apparatus includes first and second ultrasonic transducer arrays arranged on opposing ends thereof, and further comprises first and second ultrasonic propagation regions arranged between the first and second ultrasonic transducer arrays and proximate respective ones of the first and second ultrasonic transducer arrays, and an intermediate computational structure arranged between the first and second ultrasonic propagation regions. Respective first and second input signals applied to respective ones of the first and second ultrasonic transducer arrays cause propagation of corresponding ultrasonic waves through the respective first and second ultrasonic propagation regions towards the intermediate computational structure. The intermediate computational structure is configured to receive the propagating ultrasonic waves from the respective first and second ultrasonic propagation regions and to generate from the received propagating ultrasonic waves an additional signal that is a function of the first and second signals.
US12131519B2
A method and a system for pollutant identifying and early warning based on cluster analysis include steps of: installing multiple high-definition cameras on a river or a sluice dam, capturing pollutant images in front of the sluice dam at certain intervals, and transmitting the pollutant images captured by the high-definition cameras to a computer; reading the pollutant images transmitted to the computer; extracting a main pollutant color in the pollutant images through cluster analysis; calculating a difference between the main pollutant color and RGB data in a pollutant color gamut database, and setting an aberration threshold to identify the pollutant color; performing scale conversion with two sets of common point image pixel coordinates and actual plane coordinates to calculate a current pollutant area; and judging whether a polluted area exceeds a critical value according to a preset pollutant area threshold, thereby realizing early warning.
US12131515B2
A system and method for real-time image transformation monitoring for a display unit receives, via a pixel buffer, pixels of source image data and appends fiducial data to each pixel, the fiducial data corresponding to a reference checksum associated with a transformation map for one or more transformations of the source image into an output image for display. When source image data is read out of the pixel buffer, e.g., as a sequence of pixel datasets, an image transformation monitor extracts the fiducial data appended to each dataset and incorporates each set of extracted fiducial data into a checksum calculation for the current source image. When the transformed output image is complete, the cumulative checksum calculation for the current source image is compared to the reference checksum, determining a system status or detecting a system fault based on whether or not the checksum calculation and reference calculation are equivalent.
US12131513B2
The medical image processing apparatus includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires a medical image; a classification unit that classifies, on the basis of the medical image acquired by the image acquiring unit, the medical image or a region of interest included in the medical image; a notification information generating unit that generates, in accordance with a classification result of the classification, first notification information for display and second notification information for storage, the second notification information differing from the first notification information; and a storage that stores the medical image and the second notification information.
US12131508B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for mesh coding (encoding and/or decoding). In some examples, an apparatus for coding mesh includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes, using a point cloud compression (PCC) decoder and from a bitstream, a point cloud that includes first points corresponding to vertices in a three dimensional (3D) mesh frame. The 3D mesh frame represents a surface of an object with polygons. The processing circuitry decodes, from the bitstream, first connectivity information of the 3D mesh frame. The first connectivity information has been signaled in the bitstream. The processing circuitry infers, second connectivity information of the 3D mesh frame, from the first points of the point cloud. The second connectivity information is not signaled in the bitstream. The processing circuitry reconstructs the 3D mesh frame based on the point cloud, the first connectivity information and the second connectivity information.
US12131496B2
A method for identifying objects by shape in close proximity to other objects of different shapes obtains point cloud information of multiple objects. The objects are arranged in at least two trays and the trays are stacked. A depth image of the objects is obtained according to the point cloud information, and the depth image of the objects is separated and layered to obtain a layer information of all the objects. An object identification system also disclosed. Three-dimensional machine vision is utilized in identifying the objects, improving the accuracy of object identification, and enabling the mechanical arm to accurately grasp the required object.
US12131484B1
A multi-object tracking method based on authenticity hierarchizing and occlusion recovery relates to the technical field of multi-object tracking for security management and control of complex scenes. The method includes the following steps: image acquisition, object detection, authenticity hierarchizing, hierarchical association and outputting tracks. The multi-object tracking method is helpful to solve the long-term puzzling occlusion problem in the field of multi-object tracking, the constructed new algorithm framework can achieve an advanced tracking performance, improve the adaptability of the method to complex environments, and adapt to more difficult video surveillance security control tasks.
US12131477B2
Described herein is blood flow imaging based on an area under a time-enhancement curve predicted by a computer learning model. Image data comprising a plurality of corresponding images capturing at least a portion of one or both an increase phase and a decline phase of a contrast agent in a cardiovasculature of interest is inputted to a machine learning model to predict an area under a time-enhancement curve of the contrast agent within the cardiovasculature of interest, the predicted area under the time-enhancement curve representing the total sum of contrast agent concentration time product within the cardiovasculature of interest. In an example, a computer implemented method for blood flow imaging comprising: obtaining image data comprising a plurality of corresponding images capturing at least a portion of one or both an increase phase and a decline phase of a contrast agent in a cardiovasculature of interest; providing the image data to a machine learning model to predict an area under a time-enhancement curve of the contrast agent within the cardiovasculature of interest; determining a blood flow characteristic through the region of interest based on the area under the time-enhancement curve. Systems and non-transitory computer-readable media for executing the method are also described.
US12131476B2
Provided is a system and method for estimating the motion of a target inside a tissue based on surface deformation of the soft tissue. The system consists of an acquisition unit, a reference input unit, two surface extraction units, a target position extraction unit, a feature calculation unit, and a target motion estimation unit. The method includes: the acquisition unit acquires an image Ii of the soft tissue; the surface extraction unit extracts a surface fi of the soft tissue from Ii; the reference input unit acquires a reference image Iref of the soft tissue; the surface extraction unit and the target position extraction unit respectively extract a reference surface fref of the soft tissue and a target reference position tref from Iref, the feature calculation unit calculates deformation feature Ψi of fi relative to fref, the target motion estimation unit estimates the target displacement based on Ψi and tref.
US12131475B2
Systems and methods are configured for preprocessing of images for further content based analysis thereof. Such images are extracted from a source data file, by standardizing individual pages within a source data file as image data files, and identifying whether the image satisfies applicable size-based criteria, applicable color-based criteria, and applicable content-based criteria, among others, utilizing one or more machine-learning based models. Various systems and methods may identify particular features within the extracted images to facilitate further image-based analysis based on the identified features.
US12131471B2
Systems and methods for analyzing pathologies utilizing quantitative imaging are presented herein. Advantageously, the systems and methods of the present disclosure utilize a hierarchical analytics framework that identifies and quantify biological properties/analytes from imaging data and then identifies and characterizes one or more pathologies based on the quantified biological properties/analytes. This hierarchical approach of using imaging to examine underlying biology as an intermediary to assessing pathology provides many analytic and processing advantages over systems and methods that are configured to directly determine and characterize pathology from underlying imaging data.
US12131469B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for grouping cells in a slide image that share a similar target, comprising receiving a digital pathology image corresponding to a tissue specimen, applying a trained machine learning system to the digital pathology image, the trained machine learning system being trained to predict at least one target difference across the tissue specimen, and determining, using the trained machine learning system, one or more predicted clusters, each of the predicted clusters corresponding to a subportion of the tissue specimen associated with a target.
US12131467B2
An image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that acquires image data of a radiograph, calculates an exposure index related to noise in the radiograph on the basis of the image data that is acquired, and causes a notifier to notify of a matter based on the exposure index that is calculated.
US12131466B2
State of the art deep network based Universal Lesion Detection (ULD) techniques inherently depend on large number of datasets for training the systems. Moreover, these system are specifically trained for lesion detection in organs of a Region of interest (RoI) of a body. Thus, requires retraining when the RoI varies. Embodiments herein disclose a method and system for domain knowledge augmented multi-head attention based robust universal lesion detection. The method utilizes minimal number of Computer Tomography (CT) scan slices to extract maximum information using organ agnostic HU windows and a convolution augmented attention module for a computationally efficient ULD with enhanced prediction performance.
US12131462B2
One or more systems and/or techniques for capturing images, determining landmark information and/or generating mouth designs are provided. In an example, one or more images of a patient are identified. Landmark information may be determined based upon the one or more images. The landmark information includes first segmentation information indicative of boundaries of teeth of the patient, gums of the patient and/or one or more lips of the patient. A first masked image may be generated based upon the landmark information. A mouth design may be generated, based upon the first masked image, using a first machine learning model. A representation of the mouth design may be displayed via a client device.
US12131455B2
An image list indicating a group of captured images obtained by image capturing of a photographic subject from different image capture positions and in different image capture directions relative to the photographic subject is displayed on a display unit, and an instruction for selecting any captured image from the image list is accepted in accordance with a user operation. A three-dimensional model of the photographic subject is displayed on the display unit, and a mark indicating the position of the captured image for which the instruction for selection has been given is superimposed and displayed on the displayed three-dimensional model. Accordingly, the user can easily grasp a portion of the photographic subject (three-dimensional model) corresponding to the selected captured image.
US12131433B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for adjusting a virtual face model, an electronic device and a storage medium, so as at least to solve the technical problems of tedious operation steps and poor user experience of conventional solutions for adjusting a virtual image. A specific implementation solution includes: a real human face in a reality scene is identified to obtain a first virtual face model of the real human face in a virtual scene; in response to a face-pinching operation acting on the real human face, the face-pinching operation is identified to determine at least one to-be-adjusted key point in the first virtual face model and an adjustment manner of the at least one to-be-adjusted key point; and the first virtual face model is adjusted to a second virtual face model based on the adjustment manner of the at least one to-be-adjusted key point.
US12131432B2
A computer server system comprises a communications module; a processor coupled with the communications module; and a memory coupled to the processor and storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to receive, via the communications module and from a requesting device, a signal that includes a request to send a stored-value card to a recipient, the request identifying one or more parameters of the stored-value card; generate the stored-value card and a three-dimensional object representing the stored-value card according to the one or more parameters; and send, via the communications module and to a mobile device of the recipient, a signal that includes the three-dimensional object representing the stored-value card for display in augmented reality.
US12131430B2
The embodiments provide a method of augmenting environmental scenes and an autonomous vehicle testing system. The method includes: obtaining, from an autonomous vehicle, image data representing an image, which depicts an environment where the autonomous vehicle drives; generating virtual object graphics representing virtual object(s) that, when rendered over the image, result in an object-augmented image; generating global scene graphics based on the object-augmented image that, when rendered along with the object-augmented image, result in a visual representation as the environment would appear when experiencing predetermined weather conditions; generating detailed weather effect graphics representing detailed weather effect(s); generating a composite weather-object-augmented image based on the virtual object graphics, the global scene graphics, and the detailed weather effect graphics; and causing the composite weather-object-augmented image to be inputted into an onboard vehicle controller of the autonomous vehicle.
US12131427B2
A mesh model of a 3D space is modified based on semantic segmentation data to more accurately represent boundaries of an object in the 3D space. In one aspect, semantic segmentation images define one or more boundaries of the object. The semantic segmentation images are projected to a 3D mesh representation of the 3D space, and the 3D mesh representation is updated based on the one or more boundaries in the projected semantic segmentation image. In another aspect, the 3D mesh representation is updated based on one or more boundaries defined by the semantic segmentation images as applied to a point cloud of the 3D space.
US12131419B2
A method of rendering an image includes receiving information of a virtual camera, including a camera position and a camera orientation defining a virtual screen; receiving information of a target screen, including a target screen position and a target screen orientation defining a plurality of pixels, each respective pixel corresponding to a respective UV coordinate on the target screen; for each respective pixel of the target screen: determining a respective XY coordinate of a corresponding point on the virtual screen based on the camera position, the camera orientation, the target screen position, the target screen orientation, and the respective UV coordinate; tracing one or more rays from the virtual camera through the corresponding point on the virtual screen toward a virtual scene; and estimating a respective color value for the respective pixel based on incoming light from virtual objects in the virtual scene that intersect the one or more rays.
US12131417B1
A computer system displays virtual objects overlaid on a view of a physical environment as a virtual effect. The computer system displays respective animated movements of the virtual objects over the view of the physical environment, wherein the respective animated movements are constrained in accordance with a direction of simulated gravity associated with the view of the physical environment. If current positions of virtual objects during the respective animated movement of the virtual objects corresponds to different surfaces at different heights detected in the view of the physical environment, the computer constrains the respective animated movements of the virtual objects in accordance with the different surfaces detected in the view of the physical environment.
US12131409B2
A calibration method for an x-ray computerized tomography system and a method of tomographic reconstruction are provided. The calibration method includes steps of measuring at least one point spread function (PSF) at each of a plurality of points, compressing each PSF, and in one or more storing operations, storing the compressed PSFs in a computer-accessible storage medium. The PSF measurements are made in a grid of calibration points in a field of view (FOV) of the system. In the measuring step, an absorber is positioned at each of the calibration points, and an x-ray projection is taken at least once at each of those absorber positions. In the method of tomographic image reconstruction, projection data from an x-ray tomographic projection system are input to an iterative image reconstruction algorithm. The algorithm retrieves and utilizes a priori system information (APSI) The APSI comprises comprising point spread functions (PSFs) of all voxels in a voxelization of the field of view that are compressed in the form of vectors of parameters. For utilization, each retrieved vector of parameters is decompressed so as to generate a discretized PSF.
US12131407B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for generating a virtual image. The method includes extracting an audio feature of an audio input of a target object; and acquiring an expression parameter and a pose parameter associated with the target object based on the audio feature. The method further includes generating, based on the audio feature, auxiliary information related to a texture for at least a portion of the target object and a geometric shape of at least a portion of the target object. The method further includes generating a virtual image of the target object based on the expression parameter, the pose parameter, and the auxiliary information.
US12131405B2
A system includes an augmented reality (AR) device having a first display, processing hardware, and a memory storing software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to monitor media content including a sequence of moving images displayed on a second display separate from the AR device and controlled by a media player device, detect, based on monitoring the media content, an image in the sequence of moving images for enhancement by one or more AR effects. The processing hardware further executes the software code to render the one or more AR effects on the first display, and transmit, contemporaneously with rendering the one or more AR effects on the first display, a signal configured to pause or loop the playing of the media content on the second display.
US12131400B2
The present disclosure generally pertains to image processing circuitry configured to: obtain biometric feature data being indicative of at least one biometric feature of a user of an imaging device; obtain image data from the imaging device used by the user; and associate the biometric feature data with the image data for verifying the user.
US12131390B2
In response to receiving a request from a querying entity, such as a seller of goods or services, embodiments of a service engine present to a client computing device of the querying entity a set of queries about goods or services sold by the querying entity and other characteristics of the business of the querying entity. The service engine may intelligently determine which queries to present based on responses to preceding queries. The service engine may then compare the entries in response to the queries against stored rules for a one or more of a plurality of tax jurisdictions, the stored rules being about establishing nexus for purposes of remitting transaction tax in the certain tax jurisdiction. The service engine may then determine information regarding potential lack of tax compliance of the querying entity based on the comparison, and notify accordingly.
US12131382B2
System and method for dynamically managing message flow. According to the example embodiments, an intermediary network device or a client device dynamically manages the flow of messages received from an electronic exchange by analyzing the client device's capabilities, such as CPU utilization. Based on a percentage of total CPU utilization, the level of throttling is dynamically adjusted, such that if the percentage of CPU utilization, or load, increases, then throttling is increased from a lower level to a higher level. Similarly, if the percentage of CPU utilization decreases significantly enough, then throttling is decreased to a lower level.
US12131381B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to improving the efficiency of an electronic trading system for interest rate swaps (“IRS”) by allowing for IRS contracts to be funded in a base currency while the cash flows, e.g. coupon payments, price alignment interest, variation margin, are denominated in a local currency different from the base currency. Thereby cash flows may be netted and offset minimizing the magnitude of funds needed to be moved and reducing the number of transactions processed by the electronic trading system as well as the consumption of computational resources thereby. Furthermore, the disclosed embodiments facilitate entering into IRS transactions is a currency different from the currency of cash flows while eliminating Herstatt risk due to volatility of foreign exchange rates, which allows for increased off shore participation and thereby increased transaction volume.
US12131380B2
Method and systems for monetizing financial brokerage accounts are disclosed. One aspect for certain embodiments includes mining data from financial brokerage accounts and monetizing the mined data and providing to the customer an unlimited number of free trades for an unlimited period of time.
US12131375B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a risk-based fraud identification and risk analysis system. For example, the system may receive application data from a first borrower user, determine a segment associated with the application data, apply application data to one or more machine learning (ML) models, and receive a score based at least in part upon output of the ML model.
US12131374B2
In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for provisioning an electronic device with an account are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for providing usage information of an account are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for providing visual feedback on a representation of an account are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing the tracking of a category are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing a transfer of items are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing an authentication credential connected with an account are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for activating a physical account object are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing balance transfers are described.
US12131367B2
A computer method for identifying product in a distributor's inventory system that fulfills a product request made via a natural language query. the natural language query is received as a product request including multiple words in sequential order. The words are vectorized into word-vectors that are concatenated and used to generate a query embedding. The query embedding is processed utilizing a trained product category classifier that predicts which product category the requested product belongs. Forward and backward sequence vectors are generated from the sequentially ordered words of the query that are concatenated and processed using a trained model specific to the predicted product category. The sequence vectors represent positional relationships between the words of the natural language query. Thereafter, the system identifies product attribute(s) embodied in the natural language query that each correspond to a predetermined key-characteristic of the category.
US12131366B2
This disclosure includes systems and methods for providing purchase recommendations to a user that may include items frequently purchased with a product selected by the user. The determination of which items are frequently purchased with which other items may account for both online and in-store transactions and may further account for both pairwise and multi-wise relationships. The recommendations may be provided on an electronic user interface, such as a website, in response to the user's selection of the product through the electronic user interface. The recommendations may be tailored to the user's selected product so that the recommended items are available in the same delivery channel as the user-selected product.
US12131357B2
A system and process for coordinating streaming content or messages is provided. A network-connected server maintains a database containing media content-related data, such as the text of a message, accompanying media, time of airing, payment, and related comments. A user can view these feeds or streams of these consciousness messages by downloading a mobile application or browsing to a website. The application can also be used to create, schedule, and pay for a media content message.
US12131347B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing context-aware selection and recommendation of applications and services on a mobile device. The selection of the preferred applications is based on the context of the user and the context of the applications. A comparison engine related to a recommendation module performs a similarity computation between context attribute vectors of the user and the applications. Based on the similarity computation, a rank-order is produced that determines in what order the application icons should be presented to the user. A digital wallet is also disclosed that maintains the reward points awarded to the user as crypto/virtual tokens based on the instant principles. Unlike prevailing techniques, the reward points are awarded in a context-aware manner after reconciling the conflicting or contradictory usage habits of the user.
US12131345B2
Embodiments of vehicle data systems for use in distributed computer network are disclosed. Particular embodiments may determine and enhance vehicle data from various data sources distributed across the computer network, and utilize the enhanced vehicle data in the determination of normalization metrics that account for geography and population density or spatial behavioral patterns. Embodiments may utilize these normalization metrics to determine or predict one or more metrics about participants in a network.
US12131344B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for applying attribute definitions to various survey data and utilizing attribute definitions to generate survey analyses. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems intelligently determines attribute definitions to apply to digital surveys, digital survey questions, and digital survey responses. The disclosed systems can determine attribute definitions to apply to survey data based on user input, associated survey templates, associated prior use of attribute definition, analysis of the text of digital surveys, and a variety of other attributes of survey data. The disclosed systems can generate digital survey analysis by utilizing attribute definitions applied to a variety of types of survey data.
US12131343B2
Systems and methods for pre-processing data to facilitate efficient and accurate machine learning are provided. The data may include market data. The pre-processing may include partitioning the data into windows assigning categories to windows generate a series of vectors. The series of vectors then being input into a computer system that executes a machine learning algorithm to efficiently train a neural network used to identify structure or patterns therein.
US12131340B2
A method and system for forming service compositions to provide service components to business processes. Service components independently needed by each business process are identified. At least one of the service components is needed by at least two business processes. At least two different service components are needed by at least one business process. At least two service compositions are specified. Each service composition includes at least one service component. At least one service composition comprises at least two service components. An optimal subset of the service compositions is ascertained, such that the total cost of deploying the service compositions in the optimal subset to provide the service components independently needed by each business process does not exceed the total cost of deploying the service compositions in any other subset of the service compositions to provide the service components independently needed by each business process.
US12131339B2
A power tool is provided that can include a body, a battery pack interface coupled to the body, an electronic controller coupled to the body, and a sled configured to engage with the battery pack interface. The sled can include a battery, and a boost converter electrically connected to the battery. An output of the boost converter can be configured to be electrically connected to the battery pack interface to provide a boosted voltage to the power tool.
US12131330B1
Methods and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for detecting fraudulent or suspicious transactions, e.g., in a business-to-business context. One of the methods includes: receiving, at an ingestion engine, raw data from a plurality of heterogeneous data sources; using the ingestion engine to produce structured object data, the structured object data derived from the raw data; applying a classification service to produce a partial fingerprint from the structured object data wherein the partial fingerprint classifies the structured object data; applying a fingerprinting process to the partial fingerprint to produce a full fingerprint for the structured object data; applying an enrichment engine to add data to the full fingerprint to produce an enriched fingerprint for the structured object data; and applying a verdict engine to determine a verdict on the object based at least in part on the enriched fingerprint for the structured object data.
US12131322B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses for personalizing transactions. The systems, methods, and apparatuses may include an acceptance device receiving an account credential, generating a transaction request message, transmitting the transaction request message, and receiving an authorization response message comprising a multimedia object associated with the account credential. The acceptance device may output the multimedia object.
US12131321B2
A data processing method, an apparatus, a device, and a medium in a blockchain fund settlement system are provided. A data processing method in a blockchain fund settlement system, performed by at least one processor of a settlement institution terminal, includes: querying, on a blockchain, a settlement request that is to be processed by the settlement institution terminal between a fund settlement initiator and a fund settlement recipient, the settlement request being generated by an initiator terminal of the fund settlement initiator and recorded on the blockchain; receiving the settlement request based on the querying; and generating a settlement result of a settlement performed according to the settlement request, and recording the settlement result on the blockchain.
