US12138322B2
A method for treating melanoma or preventing the development of melanoma comprising administration of a composition comprising 64Zne(Asp)2 in a therapeutically effective amount. Such administration may be via injection such as intratumoral and/or intravenous injection and may be once a day or more than once a day. A composition for the treatment of or prevention of melanoma comprising 64Zne(Asp)2 in a therapeutically effective amount. The composition may be a liquid suitable for injection.
US12138311B2
A topical therapeutic hydrophobic breakable composition includes a carrier comprising (a) about 60% to about 99% by weight of at least one hydrophobic oil; (b) at least one viscosity-modifying agents selected from the group consisting of a fatty alcohol, a fatty acid and a wax; and (c) a tetracycline antibiotic, characterized in that at least part of the tetracycline antibiotic is suspended in the composition; the viscosity of the composition is at least about 30% higher than the viscosity of the carrier without the tetracycline antibiotic; and is higher than the viscosity of the hydrophobic oil and the tetracycline antibiotic without the viscosity modifying agents. The tetracycline is chemically stable in the composition for at least six months; wherein more than about 90% of the tetracycline has not broken down. The composition is packaged as a breakable foam that breaks easily upon application of shear force.
US12138306B2
Disclosed are peptides comprising a monomeric Fc fragment of an immunoglobulin recognized by a neonatal receptor (FcRn); a modified pre-fusion respiratory syncytia virus (RSV) F protein; and a trimerization domain. Disclosed are nucleic acid sequences capable of encoding peptides comprising a monomeric Fc fragment of an immunoglobulin recognized by a neonatal receptor (FcRn); a modified pre-fusion respiratory syncytia virus (RSV) F protein; and a trimerization domain. Also disclosed are methods for eliciting a protective immune response against RSV comprising administering to a subject an effective amount of a composition comprising a monomeric Fc fragment of an immunoglobulin recognized by FcRn; a modified pre-fusion RSV F protein; and a trimerization domain, wherein the administering is to a mucosal epithelium.
US12138301B2
The invention features a compound including a mutant KRAS sequence and a lipid, where the mutant KRAS sequence is conjugated to the lipid by a linker, and (i) the linker includes one or more polyethylene glycol blocks, (ii) the lipid is 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (DSPE), and (iii) the mutant KRAS sequence comprises or consists of the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:1-7 and 22-30. The invention features a composition including one or more compounds of the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The invention also features a method of treating a cancer in a human patient, the method including administering the composition to the patient. Further, the invention features a kit comprising the compound.
US12138299B2
Disclosed herein are methods for enhancing an immune response in an individual in need thereof. The methods, in certain aspects, may comprise administering bacterial aldehyde dehydrogenase, a bacteria that produces aldehyde dehydrogenase, or combinations thereof to an individual. Further disclosed are compositions, such as nutritional compositions, which may comprise bacterial aldehyde dehydrogenase, a bacteria that produces aldehyde dehydrogenase, or combinations thereof.
US12138298B2
The present invention relates to a vector for use in the treatment of a polyglutamine repeat spinocerebellar ataxia, which vector comprises cholesterol 24-hydroxylase encoding nucleic acid.
US12138295B2
A method of treating Crohn's disease in a patient administers an IL-23 specific antibody, e.g., guselkumab, at an initial intravenous dose and subsequence subcutaneous doses.
US12138294B2
Aspergillus flavus is an opportunistic, saprophytic fungus that infects maize and other fatty acid-rich food and feed crops and produces toxic and carcinogenic secondary metabolites known as aflatoxins. In vitro studies showed a five-fold increase in antifungal activity of AGM182 (vs. tachyplesin1) against A. flavus. Transgenic maize plants expressing AGM182 under maize Ubiquitin-1 promoter were produced through Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. PCR products confirmed integration of the AGM182 gene, while RT-PCR of maize RNA confirmed the presence of AGM182 transcripts. Maize kernel screening assay using a highly aflatoxigenic A. flavus strain (AF70) showed up to 72% reduction in fungal growth in the transgenic AGM182 seeds compared to isogenic negative control seeds.
US12138290B2
The present invention relates to developing a plant-based composition for arresting the spread of pathogens from an infected person which can be sprayed in infected places, for rapidly decontaminating the affected areas thereby arresting the spread in larger areas which includes include, office complexes, hospitals, schools, mass transportation, prisons, care facilities, public housing, and mass transportation terminals. The present composition is a mixture containing herbs including lavender, Chinese skullcap, black seed oil, Sida acuta, cryptolepis, Isatis, licorice, sage, medicinal honey and ginger in a colloidal silver base.
US12138287B2
A usage of a Antrodia cinnamomea powder for preparation of a composition for dispelling the effects of alcohol, which means that by administering an effective amount of the Antrodia cinnamomea powder disclosed in the invention to an subject, is capable of accelerating metabolism of alcohol and/or acetaldehyde in the subject's body, reducing a content of alcohol and/or acetaldehyde in blood, and shortening the time of the subject generating intoxicated reaction in order to achieve an efficacy of dispelling the effects of alcohol.
US12138285B2
Microbes expressing cholesterol oxidoreductase (COR) proteins, methods of engineering the microbes expressing COR proteins, compositions and methods of using the microbes are provided.
US12138283B2
Provided is a method of preparing a three-dimensional cell spheroid, the method including forming the cell spheroid by co-culturing adipose-derived stem cells or mesenchymal stem cells with hepatocytes. According to the cell spheroid prepared by the method, the secretome secreted by the adipose-derived stem cells affects hepatocyte maturation, and therefore, hepatic functions of the finally formed three-dimensional cell spheroid, i.e., organoid, may be enhanced. Further, a composition including a culture medium of the adipose-derived stem cells may prevent or treat liver diseases including hepatitis, hepatotoxicity, cholestasis, fatty liver, etc., and may enhance hepatic functions.
US12138279B2
Provided are aptamers and aptamer compositions and particularly, although not exclusively, to a bi-specific aptamer capable of binding a tumor cell antigen and an immune cell surface protein.
US12138277B2
Oligosaccharides are for use in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system, in particular Parkinson's disease, and to pharmaceutical compositions including one or more of the oligosaccharides.
US12138255B2
Pharmaceutical compositions are provided, which comprise cabozantinib or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, wherein the inventive compositions exhibit enhanced bioavailability compared to the currently marketed or commercially available formulations. The present invention also provides manufacturing processes thereof and use of the said inventive compositions for the prevention, treatment or prophylaxis of disorders in human patients in need thereof. The present invention relates to oral pharmaceutical compositions of cabozantinib, methods for their administration, processes for their production, and use of these compositions for treatment of diseases treatable by cabozantinib.
US12138252B2
A pharmaceutical composition for prevention or treatment of a disease or disorder characterized by chronic inflammation, with associated angiogenesis and fibrosis, wherein the disease or disorder is selected from the group consisting of rosacea, psoriasis, erythema multiforme, bullous pemphigoid, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, rheumatoid arthritis, atopic dermatitis, and dermal wound healing. The pharmaceutical composition includes at least one multi-kinase inhibitor selected from the group consisting of axitinib, nintedanib, and lenvatinib.
US12138250B2
6-(2-hydroxy-2-methylpropoxy)-4-(6-(6-((6-methoxypyridin-3-yl)methyl)-3,6-diazabicyclo[3.1.1]heptan-3-yl)pyridin-3-yl)pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyridine-3-carbonitrile, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, amorphous form, polymorph form, or pharmaceutical composition (including solid formulations or liquid formulations) thereof and the use thereof for treating diseases and disorders which can be treated with a RET kinase inhibitor, such as RET-associated diseases and disorders, e.g., proliferative disorders such as cancers, including hematological cancers and solid tumors, and gastrointestinal disorders such as IBS are disclosed.
US12138247B2
Disclosed herein are methods of administering relatively high doses of dexmedetomidine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a human subject, without also inducing significant sedation. The disclosed methods are particularly suitable for the treatment of agitation, especially when associated with neurodegenerative and/or neuropsychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar illness such as bipolar disorder or mania, dementia, depression, or delirium.
US12138246B2
The present disclosure relates to improved methods of treatment with nirogacestat.
US12138241B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to compositions containing cannabinoid, cannabidiol, cannabidiol isomer, or cannabidiol analog and combinations thereof for treating diabetes, and methods for treating diabetes by topically or orally administering compositions containing cannabinoid, cannabidiol, or cannabidiol analog to the patient in need of treatment.
US12138233B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of treating idiopathic hypersomnia with oxybate, preferably a mixture of salts of oxybate (a mixed salt oxybate).
US12138230B2
A pill cutter is provided and has a base, two holders, a driving assembly, and a lid. The two holders are movably mounted on the base and configured to clamp one or multiple pills at the same time. The driving assembly is connected to the two holders and is capable of driving the two holders to move. The driving assembly comprises two wheels and the two wheels are connected to the two holders. The lid is tiltably mounted on the base, and a blade is mounted on the lid and configured to split the pill(s) at the same time. When the two wheels are rotated, the two holders are capable of moving toward each other or away from each other. With the holders driven by the wheels, multiple pills can be clamped by the holders and cut at once, which saves a lot of time.
US12138220B1
A massage device includes a flexible massage housing, a fixing casing, and an air suction and release driving assembly including a chamber body, a plug movably disposed in the chamber body to form a first chamber and a second chamber, and a driving unit coupled to the plug, wherein when the driving unit drives the plug to reciprocate in the chamber body, an air pressure of the first chamber of the chamber body is adjusted, so as to allow the massage device to generate suction.
US12138218B2
Techniques for triggering or massaging a deep back muscle of a user are provided. In an example, an apparatus can include a base, a slanted portion and a trigger portion. The base can include a number of sidewalls. The slanted portion can extend from a first major side of the base and can extend from an edge of a lateral sidewall of the base. The trigger portion can extend from the first major surface and can include a curved portion. A user's body weight and relaxed breathing can trigger or massage the deep back muscle via the trigger portion.
US12138213B2
A tactile stimulation providing apparatus in a form of a vest in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first front panel including a plurality of actuators arranged between one side and the other side thereof; a second front panel including a plurality of actuators arranged between one side and the other side thereof, wherein the one side of the second front panel is fastenable to the other side of the first front panel; and a rear panel including a plurality of actuators arranged between one side and the other side thereof, wherein the one side of the rear panel is fastenable to the one side of the first front panel and the other side of the rear panel is fastenable to the other side of the second front panel.
US12138194B2
The present disclosure relates to a compact medical device and method for controlling the release of waste content from an external stoma of a subject, comprising: a flange; wherein the flange comprises a vent hole and a vent cover for releasing gas waste content; an adhesive layer bound to the flange for attaching to the body of the subject; a displaceable cover for closing and opening the device, wherein the displaceable cover is configured to connect to the flange; an aperture configurated to surround the stoma for the release of waste content.
US12138186B2
This document describes devices, systems, and methods for automatically deploying intravascular devices. For example, this document describes devices, systems, and methods for automatically deploying and controlling intravascular catheter-based devices for treating catastrophic bleeding from large and medium size vessels such as, but not limited to, the aorta or iliac arteries. In some embodiments, an operator/care giver will simply press the system against the patient's body proximate to a desired site of insertion, or will attach the system to the patient proximate to the desired site of insertion. The operator will then activate the system. Thereafter, the system will use built in imaging (e.g., ultrasound) to locate a proper insertion point and then deploy an access needle to attain vascular access. With that, the system will then automatically insert the intravascular device into the patient.
US12138181B2
Medical devices coupled to a sensor, and systems including such devices, can generate data and analysis based on that data, which may be used to identify and/or address problems associated with the implanted medical device, including incorrect placement of the device, unanticipated degradation of the device, and undesired movement of the device. Also provided are medical devices coupled to a sensor, and devices and methods to address problems that have been identified with an implanted medical device.
US12138180B2
Implants and instruments for providing an ideal trajectory for the insertion of instruments and screws during implantation of an interbody implant in a spinal surgery are disclosed.
US12138176B2
In some aspects, a device comprising an implant configured for insertion into a portion of human anatomy, and at least one covering coupled to the implant is provided. According to some aspects, the implant comprises one or more protrusions configured to prevent leakage of material and/or to resist displacement of the implant. According to some aspects, the covering is configured to facilitate improved leakage and/or implant displacement prevention.
US12138175B2
An interbody implant is provided that may expand lordotically and has an additional plate to secure the implant and its expansion.
US12138171B2
The disclosure provides an intervertebral disc and related methods. An upper plate includes an upper vertebra contacting portion and a lower bearing surface portion. The upper vertebra contacting portion includes a convex central portion, and a fin or anchoring element with a transverse hole therethrough. A lower plate has a lower vertebra contacting surface and an upper bearing surface. The lower vertebra contacting surface of the lower plate has a convex central portion. The upper bearing surface has a concavity disposed opposite the convex central portion and wherein the convex central portion and the concavity have nesting curvatures. A core positioned between the upper and lower plates has rigid upper and lower convex surfaces configured to slide and translate over the bearing surfaces of the upper and lower plates.
US12138169B2
Fixation device for fixation of leaflets of a heart valve, the fixation device including a central element defining a central axis. The fixation device further includes a distal portion including at least one arm coupled to the central element, wherein the at least one arm is moveable to a selected position between a fully open position and a fully closed position. The distal portion further includes at least one leg operatively coupled to the at least one arm and configured to move the at least one arm to the selected position between the fully open position and the fully closed position. The at least one arm includes a contact portion configured to engage native heart valve tissue, the contact portion defining a contact portion axis. The distal portion includes a flexure portion configured to enable the contact portion in the selected position to move within a flex angle range between an undeformed contact portion angle relative to the central axis and a flexed contact portion angle relative to the central axis. The flexed contact portion angle is greater than the undeformed contact portion angle. The flex angle range is about 10 degrees to about 45 degrees. The fixation device further includes at least one gripping element moveable relative to the at least one arm to capture a native leaflet therebetween.
US12138162B2
Apparatus (40) for compressing a transcatheter cardiac stent-valve (10) comprises: a first compressor stage (100) including a hollow channel (42) with a tapered interior surface configured for compressing a stent-valve in response to longitudinal advancement of the stent-valve within the channel; and a second compressor stage (102) comprising a crimper for compressing a portion of the stent-valve without longitudinal advancement.
US12138161B2
A prosthetic heart valve is designed to be circumferentially collapsible for less invasive delivery into the patient. At the implant site the valve re-expands to a larger circumferential size, i.e., the size that it has for operation as a replacement for one of the patient's native heart valves. The valve includes structures that, at the implant site, extend radially outwardly to engage tissue structures above and below the native heart valve annulus. These radially outwardly extending structures clamp the native tissue between them and thereby help to anchor the prosthetic valve at the desired location in the patient.
US12138151B2
A constraint arrangement for a stent-graft loaded onto a delivery system having a suture extending circumferentially around a surface of a graft from a first fixed end fixed to a stent-graft to a positionable region, and through the graft at a first constraining perforation into the lumen and returning out of the lumen to the surface of the graft at a second constraining perforation to a second fixed end fixed to the stent-graft, thereby forming a loop of the suture within a lumen of the graft, the loop wrapped circumferentially around a cannula such that a pair of legs of the loop hold the positionable region with respect to the cannula, wherein a bight of the loop extends through a gap between the legs and wherein the release wire extends through the bight thereby capturing the bight and releasably securing the loop around the cannula.
US12138150B2
Systems and methods for performing transcatheter coronary artery bypass grafting procedures are provided. The methods generally involve passing the graft from the aorta to the coronary artery through the pericardial space. The systems include poke-out wires, a coring device, and devices for forming anastomoses at the proximal and distal ends of a vascular graft.
US12138142B2
A moisture management apparatus monitors an area for moisture events and wirelessly transmits moisture-related information to one or more notification devices. An embodiment of the moisture management apparatus includes a substrate and one or more sensors supported by the substrate. The sensor(s) emit wireless signals indicative of the moisture-related information. A sensor event communication system forwards the sensor signals to another device, such as a notification device. The sensor event communication system may monitor other types of patient events. Portions of the moisture management apparatus and/or the moisture event communication system may be embodied in a patient support apparatus, such as a bed.
US12138140B2
A wound covering includes a flexible main body, and a sensor element incorporated into the main body. The sensor element includes a mesh formed from a plurality of fibers, and the sensor element is configured to undergo a change in appearance in response to a change in a parameter associated with wound exudate. The wound covering further includes a supply of therapeutic agent configured to diffuse the therapeutic agent from the wound covering into a wound when the wound covering is placed on the wound.
US12138134B2
A one-piece or multi-piece prosthesis blank for manufacturing a dental prosthesis. The blank is constructed from a gum-colored material and a tooth-colored material. It is characterized by being connected to each other at connecting surfaces, having an interface between the gum-colored and tooth-colored materials. This interface, when viewed along the connecting surfaces has an undulating shape and viewed in the vestibular direction has a radial shape. In order to finish the dental prosthesis, a CAD/CAM device determines the exact course of a gingival line, based on patient-specific data, and produces the prosthesis.
US12138128B2
A hand-held ultrasound system includes integrated electronics within an ergonomic housing. The electronics includes control circuitry, beamforming and circuitry transducer drive circuitry. The electronics communicate with a host computer using an industry standard high speed serial bus. The ultrasonic imaging system is operable on a standard, commercially available, user computing device without specific hardware modifications, and is adapted to interface with an external application without modification to the ultrasonic imaging system to allow a user to gather ultrasonic data on a standard user computing device such as a PC, and employ the data so gathered via an independent external application without requiring a custom system, expensive hardware modifications, or system rebuilds. An integrated interface program allows such ultrasonic data to be invoked by a variety of such external applications having access to the integrated interface program via a standard, predetermined platform such as visual basic or c++.
US12138121B2
An intravascular sensor device can be used to guide treatment of a diseased blood vessel in the body of a patient. In some examples, the intravascular sensor device includes a pressure sensor and an ultrasound transducer. The intravascular sensor device is used to measure a pressure within the diseased blood vessel and acquire an ultrasound image of the diseased blood vessel. The pressure may be measured during hyperemic blood flow that is caused by a pharmacologic vasodilator drug. The measured pressure can be used to calculate a fractional flow reserve value. The ultrasound image can be used to determine a physical dimension of the blood vessel, such as cross-sectional area. The fractional flow reserve value and physical dimensions of the blood vessel can be used to optimize patient treatment.
US12138118B2
The invention concerns a multi-sensor brain detecting apparatus, the detecting apparatus being adapted to obtain two different physical values of a brain of a subject, the detecting apparatus comprising: a set of sensors comprising an ultrasound transducer adapted to produce ultrasound waves, a frame with a position with relation to the brain known with a stereotaxic precision, the frame being adapted to hold a sensor that can be positioned at a specific location by a user of the detecting apparatus without using a tool.
US12138116B2
An intraluminal medical imaging interface device includes an arm assembly comprising one or more longitudinal members and one or more joints coupled to the one or more longitudinal members, and a head assembly coupled to a distal portion of the arm assembly and comprising a proximal portion coupled to the distal portion of the arm assembly and a distal portion. The distal portion of the head assembly includes a mechanical coupling and an electrical coupling configured to separably connect to an intraluminal imaging catheter and to transmit electrical signals between a console and the intraluminal imaging catheter. The arm assembly is configured to couple to a surface to maintain the head assembly at a first position and an orientation with respect to a patient without continued support by an operator. Associated devices, systems, and methods are also provided.
US12138112B2
Techniques for determining fetal situs during an ultrasound imaging procedure are disclosed. The techniques can include obtaining an ultrasound image of a fetus in utero. The fetus will include a torso and a spine and the ultrasound image can comprise a circumferential view of the torso of the fetus. The circumferential view can include at least: (i) an outer border of the torso, and (ii) the spine that includes three landmarks arranged in a triangular orientation. The techniques can further include superimposing a fetal overlay based on an alignment instruction corresponding to an alignment between the outer border of the torso and the three landmarks to obtain an augmented reality image of the fetus. The fetal overlay can include a graphical element indicating a left side and a right side of the fetus. The augmented reality image of the fetus can be output on a display of the ultrasound machine.
US12138109B2
The invention relates to a system for challenging the pericardial space, to provide an indication of the risk of cardiac tamponade in a patient, as well as methods for diagnosis of, and determination of the extent of, a tamponade, and treating a patient in whom there is a detected cardiac tamponade.
US12138104B2
A method for determining respiratory rate from an audio respiratory signal comprising capturing the audio respiratory signal generated by a subject using a microphone. The method also comprises segmenting the audio respiratory signal into a plurality of overlapping frames. For each frame of the plurality of overlapping frames, the method comprises extracting a signal envelope, computing an auto-correlation function, computing an FFT spectrum from the auto-correlation function and computing a respiratory rate of the subject using the FFT spectrum.
US12138102B2
Systems and methods for determining one or more target examination parameters is provided. The methods may include obtaining target examination information of a subject and generating one or more initial examination parameters based on the target examination information. The methods may further include obtaining one or more historical examination parameters associated with the subject and updating at least one of the one or more initial examination parameters based on the one or more historical examination parameters to obtain one or more target examination parameters. The one or more target examination parameters may be used for performing a target examination on the subject.
US12138101B2
Provided is an X-ray image apparatus. The X-ray imaging apparatus include an imaging body and a control circuit. The image body acquires X-ray image data of an object and includes an X-ray generation device and an X-ray sensing device. The X-ray generating device and the X-ray sensing device are disposed to face each other with the object in between. The control circuit reconfigures an X-ray image of the object based on the X-ray image data, acquire size information of the object, rotate the X-ray generation device and the X-ray sensing device about a rotation axis between the X-ray generation device and the X-ray sensing device, and move the object along a direction of the rotation axis with respect to the X-ray generation device and the X-ray sensing device when acquiring the X-ray image data.
US12138100B1
A method for operating an X-ray imaging system includes outputting first X-ray beams onto an X-ray detector by an X-ray source for acquisition of a first X-ray capture of an object under examination. The object under examination is arranged between the X-ray source and the X-ray detector and is passed through by the first X-ray beams. The X-ray detector acquires an entry dose of the first X-ray beams after passage through the object under examination. A parameter value of at least one parameter for output of second X-ray beams by the X-ray source for acquisition of a second X-ray capture of the object under examination is ascertained by a control system. The parameter value is ascertained by the control system according to a specified ascertainment method as a function of a foreground substance of a foreground object, a background substance of a background object, and the entry dose.
US12138097B2
Gamma cameras may be used to obtain two-dimensional images of an emitting object, of which the most common form is the “Anger-type” gamma camera. The primary components in a conventional Anger-type gamma camera include, but are not limited to: a plurality of photo-multiplier tubes, a scintillator material, and a collimator. The disclosed invention claims a novel use of a gamma camera which eliminates the collimator. The new method is a method of forming an initial image from the incident radiation, which does not depend on any mechanical or other means of restricting the incident radiation to be passed on to a position-sensitive radiation detector. This method then uses mathematical deconvolution to produce an image of the object without the need for a collimator and without reliance on a pre-existing image.
US12138087B2
A container system and a method for forming a knob in a container. The container system includes a container, in particular a medical or surgical sterile container preferably having a tub-like container vessel and/or a container cover; at least one separate coupling element; and at least one coupling system for releasably connecting the coupling element to the container. The coupling system includes a male coupling portion formed on the container and a female coupling portion formed on the coupling element. The coupling portions can be coupled to and uncoupled from one another. The male coupling portion is integrally formed in a wall of the container and is designed as a protruding knob having an undercut.
US12138068B2
An illustrative optical measurement system includes a signal generator configured to generate a signal and a processing unit configured to direct the signal generator to apply the signal to a TDC included in the optical measurement system and generate, based on timestamp symbols recorded by the TDC in response to the signal, characterization data representative of a nonlinearity of the TDC.
US12138059B2
A partially-masked electrode includes a conductive material and an insulated coating having an outer surface. The insulated coating defines a contoured opening that exposes or reveals an area of the conductive material, wherein the contoured opening has an upper perimeter at the outer surface of the insulated coating. When the upper perimeter of the insulated surface coating is placed in contact with a tissue of interest, wherein the tissue of interest is proximate a blood pool, the insulated coating creates a seal between the blood pool and the contoured opening so that no blood in the blood pool can contact the conductive material. This seal reduces or eliminates the reception of far field effects in the blood pool by the electrode, making it easier to locate and diagnose unhealthy tissue.
US12138058B2
A non-invasive, wearable and portable medical device for evaluation and monitoring the heart condition for patients with congestive heart failure and a CHF management system is provided comprising a wearable textile-based device utilizing physiologic and biometric sensors, a Signal Acquisition Unit, and a monitoring system executing a suite of software algorithms to monitor and evaluate patients with CHF.
US12138052B1
Blood sample optimization systems and methods are described that reduce or eliminate contaminates in collected blood samples, which in turn reduces or eliminates false positive readings in blood cultures or other testing of collected blood samples. A blood sample optimization system can include a blood sequestration device located between a patient needle and a sample needle. The blood sequestration device can include a sequestration chamber for sequestering an initial, potentially contaminated aliquot of blood, and may further include a sampling channel that bypasses the sequestration chamber to convey likely uncontaminated blood between the patient needle and the sample needle after the initial aliquot of blood is sequestered in the sequestration chamber.
US12138042B2
Methods and systems for facilitating interactive training of body-eye coordination and reaction time
A computer implemented method for facilitating training of body-eye coordination using a computing device having access to a camera is disclosed. The method includes receiving a training video of a player from the camera; superimposing a visual cue onto the training video; extracting a body posture flow of the player from the training video by performing a computer vision algorithm on one or more frames of the training video; determining whether the player has responded to the visual cue by analyzing the body posture flow of the player; and generating a feedback to the player in response to determining that the player has responded to the visual cue. Multi-player embodiments of the present invention are also disclosed.
US12138041B1
A wireless hub includes a vehicle power connector that can draw power from a vehicle battery on a vehicle, a first wireless transmission circuit that can send or receive data with base stations in a long-range wireless network, a second wireless transmission circuit that can provide a short-range wireless network and to transfer data to and from electronic devices, and a network processor that can process data in the first wireless transmission circuit and the second wireless transmission circuit. The wireless hub has an antenna array for millimeter wave communications. Antenna array beamforming techniques can be applied in various wireless systems, including cellular networks, Wi-Fi, radar systems, and satellite communications, to improve coverage, capacity, and link quality. Using antenna arrays, the system can shape and direct the radiation pattern of the transmitted or received signal. Beam steering can steer the main lobe of the radiation pattern in a particular direction. This allows the system to focus the transmitted or received energy towards the intended target, resulting in improved signal strength and reduced interference from other directions.
US12138027B2
Systems and methods are described for the compositing together of model-linked vascular data from a plurality of sources, including at least one 2-D angiography image, for display in a frame of reference of the at least one angiography image. In some embodiments, a linking model comprises a data structure configured to link locations of angiographic images to corresponding elements of non-image vascular parameter data. The linking data structure is traversed to obtain a mapping to the frame of reference of one or more of the angiographic images.
US12138026B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for using patient specific anatomical models and physiological parameters to estimate perfusion of a target tissue to guide diagnosis or treatment of cardiovascular disease. One method includes receiving a patient-specific vessel model and a patent-specific tissue model of a patient anatomy; extracting one or more patient-specific physiological parameters (e.g. blood flow, anatomical characteristics, image characteristics, etc.) from the vessel or tissue models for one or more physiological states of the patient; estimating a characteristic of the perfusion of the patient-specific tissue model (e.g., via a trained machine learning algorithm) using the patient-specific physiological parameters; and outputting the estimated perfusion characteristic to a display.
US12138024B2
According to an aspect there is provided an inflation apparatus (10) for use in an inflation-based non-invasive blood pressure, NIBP, measurement apparatus, the inflation apparatus comprising: an outlet (110) configured to be coupled to a cuff of the inflation-based NIBP measurement apparatus; a plurality of pumps (120) each configured to output a flow of gas to the outlet; and a control unit (130) configured to enable at least one of the plurality of pumps to output a flow of gas to the outlet based on a required flow rate to inflate the cuff and/or to control a flow rate of at least one of the plurality of pumps to output a flow of gas to the outlet based on a required flow rate to inflate the cuff.
US12138022B2
An embodiment optical blood pressure monitor includes a laser Doppler blood flowmeter, which measures the blood flow velocity in a peripheral blood vessel, a photoplethysmography monitor, which measures the pulse waveform in a peripheral blood vessel, a heart rate monitor, which measures data relating to the pulsation of a heart, a characteristic point extraction portion, which extracts a characteristic point relating to the pulsation from the data relating to the pulsation of the heart, a first calculation portion, which determines the pulse wave velocity from the pulse waveform, and a second calculation portion, which determines the blood pressure based on the pulse wave velocity and the blood flow velocity.
US12138021B2
A biometric data measurement system and method, including a transmitting device including a measurement unit configured to measure a first biometric data, a setting unit configured to set a first reference time corresponding to an occurrence time of a first feature value of the first biometric data, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a signal at a time when a predetermined first time period has elapsed since the first reference time, and a receiving device including a measurement unit configured to measure a second biometric data, a setting unit configured to set a second reference time corresponding to an occurrence time of a second feature value of the second biometric data, and a reception unit configured to maintain an awaiting state for the signal during a third time period from a time when a second time period has elapsed since the second reference time.
US12138016B2
Disclosed herein are in vivo non-invasive methods and devices for the measurement of the hemodynamic parameters, such as such as blood pressure, stroke volume, cardiac output, performance of the aortic and mistral heart valves, arterial blood velocity profile, blood viscosity and the blood flow induced arterial wall shear stress, hypertensive/hypotensive and vasodilation/vasocontraction state and aging status of a subject, and the mechanical anelastic in vivo properties of the arterial blood vessels. An exemplary method requires obtaining the peripheral pulse volume waveform (PVW), the peripheral pulse pressure waveform (PPW), and the peripheral pulse velocity waveform (PUW) from the same artery; calculating the time phase shift between the PPW and PVW, and the plot of pulse pressure versus pulse volume; and determining the blood pressures and power law components of the anelastic model from the waveforms PPW and PVW, the cardiac output and heart valves performances from the waveforms PPW and PUW, and the anelastic in vivo properties of the descending, thoracic and abdominal aorta. The disclosed methods and devices can be used to diagnose and treat cardiovascular disease in a subject in need thereof.
US12138011B2
Provided herein are image registration methods comprising providing a wide view image of a target area by a first imager; providing a narrow view image of the target area by a second imager; aligning the narrow view image on the wide view image of the target area; capturing an optical image by an optical imager, wherein the optical imager is configured to locate the optical image in the narrow view image; and displaying the position of the optical image on the narrow view image and the wide view image of the target area; and the systems thereof.
US12138006B2
A sterile adapter retaining device for mounting a surgical drape to a surgical drape installation aid comprises a body having a central portion and plurality of legs extending radially from the central portion. Each leg of the plurality of legs is configured to receive mounted thereon a respective instrument sterile adapter of a plurality of instrument sterile adapters attached to a surgical drape. The body is configured to fit within an interior volume of a surgical drape installation aid in a state of the plurality of instrument sterile adapters mounted on the plurality of legs.
US12137991B2
Various surgical systems are disclosed. A surgical system comprises a robotic tool, a robot control system, a surgical instrument, and a surgical hub. The robot control system comprises a control console and a control unit in signal communication with the control console and the robotic tool. The surgical hub comprises a display. The surgical hub is in signal communication with the robot control system. The surgical hub is configured to detect the surgical instrument and represent the surgical instrument on the display.
US12137990B2
Systems and methods are described herein for tracking, localization or controlling an elongate instrument or other medical instrument in an image or patient.
US12137985B2
Systems and methods for surgical guidance and image registration are provided, in which three-dimensional image data associated with an object or patient is registered to topological image data obtained using a surface topology imaging device. The surface topology imaging device may be rigidly attached to an optical position measurement system that also tracks fiducial markers on a movable instrument. The instrument may be registered to the topological image data, such that the topological image data and the movable instrument are registered to the three-dimensional image data. The three-dimensional image data may be CT or MRI data associated with a patient. The system may also co-register images pertaining to a surgical plan with the three-dimensional image data. In another aspect, the surface topology imaging device may be configured to directly track fiducial markers on a movable instrument. The fiducial markers may be tracked according to surface texture.
US12137982B2
Methods, systems and devices for pre-operatively planned shoulder surgery guides and implants. Pre-operative planning methods for designing a shoulder surgery guide based on considerations of multiple factors affecting the outcome of shoulder surgery. Methods of using surgery guides and implants in patients undergoing shoulder surgery.
US12137976B2
An ophthalmic optical coherence tomography instrument, method, and computer-readable medium. The instrument includes a scanner defining an apparent point source for scanning sample light across a subject position and an objective having a posterior imaging configuration to project the apparent point source onto a pivot point between the objective and the subject position. The objective is settable between the posterior imaging configuration for scanning the sample light across a retina of an eye at the subject position and an anterior imaging configuration for scanning the sample light across a pivot plane. An axial region from which an interferogram is detectable extends across the pivot plane while the objective is in the anterior imaging configuration. A pupil alignment method uses the anterior imaging modality to obtain a structure position of a structure of an eye's anterior segment and then an offset between the structure position and a reference position.
US12137972B2
An ablation probe comprising an elongate body extending a length along a longitudinal axis from a first end to a second end, the first end extending into a housing and the second end comprising an ablation probe tip configured for insertion into a biopsy tract in a patient. In example forms, the elongate body of the ablation probe can be inserted into a patient through an existing trocar needle or biopsy access cannula following completion of a biopsy. In other example forms, the elongate body of the ablation probe defines a lumen. In one example form, the lumen contains a wire for heating the ablation probe tip, which may be composed of graphite, a resistive metal, or another electrically-resistive material. In another example form, the lumen additionally contains a thermocouple or other temperature sensor for monitoring the temperature of the ablation probe tip. In any of the above example forms, use of the ablation probe to heat tissue following a biopsy effects cauterization of the tissue, stopping bleeding and reducing or preventing the seeding of additional tumors.
US12137968B2
Catheter systems, tools and methods are disclosed for the selective and rapid application of DC voltage to drive irreversible electroporation, with the system controller configurable to apply voltages to an independently selected subsets of electrodes, such that voltages of one polarity are applied to a multiplicity of electrodes on a first medical device and voltages of the opposite polarity to a multiplicity of electrodes on a second medical device. The first and second medical devices can be epicardial catheters positioned such that their opposing distal tips are approximately aligned and whose segments with electrodes collectively wrap around the pulmonary veins.
US12137961B2
An electrosurgical pencil includes a body. The body includes a track extending along a distal end of the body. A treatment blade extends from the distal end of the body and is electrically connected to a first potential of a source of electrosurgical energy. The treatment blade is configured to treat tissue upon activation thereof. A protective guard is configured to slide along a track between a first position concealing a distal end of the treatment blade and a second position exposing the distal end of the treatment blade. A return electrode is disposed on an exposed surface of the protective guard. The return electrode is electrically connected to a second potential of the source of electrosurgical energy. A biasing member includes a first end operably connected to the distal end of the body and a second end operably connected to the protective guard.
US12137956B2
A fracture treatment system can include a pair of implants cross-pinned into the medullary canal of a bone, guided by at least one guide wire with at least two diameters. The system allows for more accurate sizing of the length of implants needed to achieve bicortical purchase for enhanced stability, as well as anti-rotation of the fracture site. The more accurate sizing and placement of the cross-pinned implants additionally allow both ends of the implants to recess beneath or be flush with the outer surface of the bone, which can reduce the risk of infection. The guide wire can allow the implants to be inserted using a cannulated technique for easier surgical procedure and better outcome, with the implants having sufficient wall thickness for the desired length to achieve bicortical purchase while keeping the shaft outer diameter of the implant to be similar to a diameter of the guide wire.
US12137952B2
A device used in conjunction with fixation hardware to provide a two-stage process to address the competing needs of immobilization and re-establishment of normal stress-strain trajectories in grafted bone. A method of determining a patient-specific stress/strain pattern that utilizes a model based on 3D CT data of the relevant structures and cross-sectional data of the three major chewing muscles. The forces on each of the chewing muscles are determined based on the model using predetermined bite forces such that a stiffness of cortical bone in the patient's mandible is determined. Based on the stiffness data, suitable implantation hardware can be designed for the patient by adjusting external topological and internal porous geometries that reduce the stiffness of biocompatible metals to thereby restore normal bite forces of the patient. A method of 3D printing nitinol to create a patient-specific device to facilitate the establishment of a normal stress-strain trajectory in grafted bone.
US12137950B2
Bone nail (1) with a front portion (2), suitable for insertion into the bone and having a free end (3), a rear portion (5) having a free end (6), an outer surface (4); and a nail axis (7); wherein the rear portion (5) has a through hole (8) with a central axis (12) and with an inlet opening (9) located at the rear free end (6) and an outlet opening (10) located on the outer surface (4) of the rear section (5) whereby the through hole (8) is formed for receiving a polyaxial bone screw (11).
US12137944B2
A bone anchor assembly includes a shank having a head and an anchor portion, and a receiver having a first channel to receive a rod and an axial bore with an upper internal thread, interference abutment surfaces below the upper internal thread, and a bottom opening. The assembly also includes an insert having a second channel to receive the rod and opposite lateral protrusions positioned above the interference abutment surfaces upon loading into a first position within the axial bore. The assembly further includes a resiliently expandable retainer positionable within the axial bore adjacent the bottom opening to capture and hold the head in the receiver. After the head is uploaded into the axial bore, the insert is downwardly deployable by tooling into a second position with the opposite lateral protrusions being forced below the interference abutment surfaces and with lower portions of the insert entering into compressive overlapping engagement with the retainer to hold down the retainer within the axial bore.
US12137940B2
The present invention relates to a suction device for foreign substances from the body, which may comprise: a suction body that has an internal space, extends a predetermined length, and is brought into contact with the skin; a gripping tube body that extends from the suction body so as to be able to slide up and down along the outer circumferential surface of the suction body, and which can be wrapped and gripped by hand; and a piston body that is connected to the gripping tube body to be provided in the internal space of the suction body and selectively generates a negative pressure in the internal space while interlocking with the up-and-down motion of the gripping tube body. According to the present invention, foreign substances that penetrated the skin can be quickly sucked and removed through a simple operation.
US12137928B2
A method and device handle having a slide assembly are disclosed for controlling rotational speed of a catheter assembly under various rotational loads. The method includes setting a first current limit in a processor, activating the catheter assembly to rotate, calculating a current value in rotational period of a first current limit, updating a second current limit from the first current limit, and wherein the second current limit is lower than the first current limit.
US12137923B2
A guidewire for use in penetrating through complex and stenosed lesions. The distal tip of the guidewire has a roughened surface to increase frictional engagement with calcified and fibrous tissue to increase the penetration of the distal tip and the guidewire into and through the lesion and reduce the likelihood of deflection of the guidewire tip. The average surface roughness of the distal tip is in the range from 1 micron to 200 microns.
US12137921B2
This surgical bone preparation instrument (1) comprises a main body (5) terminated by a contacting surface (50) adapted to abut on a bone (B), and a sliding body (7) equipped with a cutting element (3) and which is movable in translation with respect to the main body (5). The bone preparation instrument (1) includes a cutting depth control ring (11) that is adjustable by a single hand, which forms an abutment surface (110) against the movement of one of the main body (5) and the sliding body (7) when the sliding body (7) reaches an adjusted cutting depth (D) corresponding to an adjustment position of the control ring (11).
US12137912B2
A staple cartridge assembly for use with a surgical stapling instrument is disclosed. The staple cartridge assembly comprises a compressible adjunct and a staple cartridge. The compressible adjunct comprises attachment regions. The staple cartridge comprises a proximal end, a distal end, a deck, a longitudinal row of staple cavities, staples, bonding zones, and barbs. The attachment regions of the compressible adjunct are configured to be secured to bonding areas defined by the bonding zones. The barbs protrude from the deck, and the barbs are configured to maintain an initial alignment between the attachment regions and the bonding zones prior to attachment of the compressible adjunct to the deck.
US12137908B2
A surgical buttress loading system includes an anvil having a spring assembly biased against a tissue facing surface of an anvil body and a loading tool including a cavity configured to receive the anvil therein, a buttress cartridge including a surgical buttress releasably disposed thereon, an actuator, and a handle operably coupled to the buttress cartridge. When the anvil is positioned within the cavity of the loading tool and the handle is moved to from an unactuated position to an actuated position, the handle moves the actuator to from a retracted position to an extended position and into engagement with the spring assembly of the anvil to lift the spring assembly off of the tissue facing surface and then slides the buttress cartridge towards the spring assembly to move a proximal end portion of the surgical buttress between the spring assembly and the tissue facing surface.
US12137900B2
Generally, a suturing system including apparatus and methods for reinforcing a substrate through which a thread passes. Specifically, embodiments of a thread carrier which passes through a substrate reinforcement element adjoining a substrate to reinforce the substrate at a first location and at a second location through which the thread passes.
US12137889B2
A tissue expander/retractor tool works within a narrow cavity/tunnel to access a deeper structure (e.g., the mitral valve) without consuming a significant amount of space either within the small through-hole or in the vicinity of the entrance to the port. The tool provides the user with direct control of the expansion and separation of a target area. The moving parts of the tool have a closed configuration with a narrow profile for insertion/removal and an open configuration obtained using a remotely-controlled, compact pivot mechanism that provides a broad enlargement capability for the retraction jaws. A pantograph mechanism with input pivots and output pivots is coupled between the retraction jaws and a compound cable (e.g., Bowden cable). A handle is coupled to the other end of the compound cable for displacing the inner wire along the outer tube.
US12137888B2
A fastening mechanism that comprises an actuator, a fastening device attached to a distal end of the actuator, and a device coupler, wherein the fastening device is pivotally attached to the device coupler.
US12137884B2
A sample collection device that includes a body having a proximal end and a distal end, the body defining a channel extending from the distal end to the proximal end. The sample collection device includes an opening at the proximal end of the body that extends into the channel of the body. The body includes an adhering portion having a depressed surface relative to an adjacent exterior surface of the body, the adhering portion configured to receive a sample in response to the sample contacting the depressed surface of the adhering portion. The body is manually maneuverable in response to the channel receiving a finger of a user through the opening of the body.
US12137881B2
The present disclosure relates to visualizing an operative field in the context of a dental operating theater, and more specifically, to a portable, modular, multifunctional intraoral imaging system to assist a practitioner in performing a medical or dental procedure in a confined space (e.g., intraoral cavity or mouth of a patient). The system may include an intraoral camera apparatus having a camera unit equipped with a wireless transmitter, and a viewscreen mounted to an articulated stand or dental delivery unit, wherein the camera wirelessly may transmit an image to a viewscreen located directly in front of a dental practitioner. The practitioner may look directly ahead at a high-definition screen to view the operative field. A dental practitioner may use the apparatus to perform micro-surgical procedures in a confined operative area with less-than-ideal visibility and access, without the present, though generally accepted, physical difficulties and limitations.
US12137878B2
A multifiber assembly and methods of using the same in an endoscopic procedure for transmitting illumination light to, and a response signal reflected from, a target is disclosed. An exemplary device comprises a proximal end, and distal end, and a transition section between the proximal and distal ends. The proximal end includes a first connector to be connected to a light source and a second connector configured to be connected to a spectrometer. The distal end includes a shaft including at least two first optical fibers to transmit light and at least one second optical fiber to transmit a spectroscopic signal. The transition section can couple the first connector to the at least two first optical fibers, and to couple the second connector to the at least one second optical fiber.
US12137873B2
The present specification is directed towards endoscopes, such as colonoscopes, that provide a broader field of view and allow extended access of surgical tools and also enable efficient packing of all necessary elements in the tip section, while maintaining their functionality. Also described are methods and systems for capturing and displaying still and video images using an endoscope corresponding to a left-side looking, a front-looking and a right-side looking viewing element of an endoscopic tip generated in a native aspect ratio.
US12137869B2
An image processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to output second and third images corresponding to a continuous first image respectively to first and second routes, analyze the second image and output an analysis result, and generate a fourth image based on the third image and the analysis result and continuously output the fourth image. When acquiring the third image, the processor completes the generation of the fourth image before acquiring an analysis result by the second image generated based on a same first image as the first image, which is a generation source of the third image.
US12137867B2
A method for correcting a determination threshold of a floor medium and a method of detecting thereof are provided. The method is used for controlling a mobile robot equipped with a sound emitter and a sound receiver to detect and recognize the floor medium during a movement just started. A first detection result of a current floor medium is obtained by actively transmitting and receiving a sound signal, then, a to-be-adjusted detection result of the current floor medium is obtained only by passively receiving the sound signal through the sound receiver, and according to the similarity/difference of the two detection results, the determination threshold is corrected in the case of passively receiving the sound signal, so that the to-be-adjusted detection result is determined to be consistent with the first detection result.
US12137863B2
There is provided a shoe sole cleaning device (10) comprising a lower tray (20) having a bottom wall (22) and one or more side walls (24) which define a first compartment (V1) for cleaning liquid, and an upper tray (30) having a bottom wall (32) and one or more side walls (34) which define a second compartment (V2) for pebbles or crushed stone. The upper tray (30) is shaped and dimensioned such that at least a part thereof is accommodated in the first compartment (V1) of the lower tray (20). The upper tray (30) includes one or more holes (36) communicate between the first and second compartments (V1, V2).
US12137855B2
There is provided a mobile robot including a light source, an image sensor and a processor. The image sensor respectively captures bright image frames and dark image frames corresponding to the light source being turned on and turned off. The processor identifies that the mobile robot faces a cliff when a gray level variation between the bright image frames and the dark image frames is very small, and controls the mobile robot to stop moving forward continuously.
US12137854B2
A cleaner includes a body, a left spin-mop module located on a left side of the body and a right spin-mop module located on a right side of the body, each of the left spin-mop module and the right spin-mop module being rotatable about a first rotational axis to perform mopping, a left spin-drive unit disposed on the left side of the body, the left spin-drive unit being configured to provide a force to rotate the left spin-mop module; and a right spin-drive unit disposed on the right side of the body, the right spin-drive unit being configured to provide a force to rotate the right spin-mop module. Each of the left spin-drive unit and the right spin-drive unit has a second rotational axis that extend in a direction different from the first rotational axis of the respective left spin-drive unit and the right spin-drive unit.
US12137851B2
The invention provides a bathroom fixture in the form of an electronic mirror with a touchlessly operated fluid dispenser. The device provides visual cues to assist in the touchless operation thereof.
US12137846B2
Bath seat comprising: a horizontal support; and a support structure for the horizontal support; where the horizontal support is comprised of at least two support elements that form a separation between them that communicates the upper part with the lower part of the horizontal support; where the separation between the elements is of variable length, characterized in that the structure comprises at least two tubular elements, which serve as vertical support for the two support elements, where the union between said elements is made by: at least one clamp element, configured to surround one of the tubular elements of the structure; at least one friction element, configured to contact the other tubular element; where the clamp element is configured to allow the support to slide along the length of the tubular element; and to allow rotation of the support about the tubular element.
US12137840B2
The present disclosure relates to a food preparation appliance including a food preparation pot and a rotatable tool for chopping and/or blending a food in the food preparation pot wherein the tool is detachably connected to a shaft, which is at least partially outside the food preparation pot in order to be coupled to a drive for rotation. Further, a locking mechanism is provided for connecting the tool to the shaft in a locked manner. The locking mechanism is arranged in such a way that, during operation, the tool can be driven by the shaft in both rotation directions for chopping and/or blending a food.
US12137832B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for a digital power supply that can provide independent power control, and control variable power, for two or more electrical loads. Disclosed embodiments may reduce the magnitude of harmonic currents and/or flicker introduced into a power system. Embodiments include a microprocessor that delivers power to electric loads using phase-controlled AC current. The microprocessor may calculate a power array corresponding to a requested power for each electric load. Logic is provided for populating the power army in a pattern that reduces the magnitude of harmonic currents and flicker.
US12137830B2
A Mounting Bracket A mounting bracket for a window blind including a resiliently deformable friction element, and a hinge assembly, wherein the hinge assembly includes a hinge lever member hingedly coupled to a hinge plate, wherein the hinge lever member has a first configuration in which it lies adjacent to the hinge plate, and a second configuration in which it is angled away from the hinge plate; the resiliently deformable friction element is slidably coupled to the hinge plate and extends from one end thereof; and the hinge lever member exerts a cam action on the resiliently deformable friction element, wherein the resiliently deformable friction element is urged away from the hinge plate as the hinge lever member rotates from its first configuration to its second configuration.
US12137829B2
A multifunctional pillow includes a flexible pillowcase having a first end, an opposite second end, two opposing sides, a top face and a bottom face; a pillow body provided inside the pillowcase, the pillow body being made of a soft material; and a storage bag attached to and provided at the second end of the pillowcase. The pillow is rollable from the first end towards the second end, and the rolled up pillow is insertable into the storage bag, which is sized and shaped to fittingly hold the rolled up pillow. The storage bag can be a flexible bag or a pocket. The multifunctional pillow can be configured into a waist pillow, a wrist rest pillow, or a neck pillow configuration.
US12137824B2
The present invention provides a housing body that is to house a container on which a food and/or beverage item is to be placed and that is to be transported along a transport path, the housing body including: a placement table having a placement position where the container is to be placed; a lid body that is attached to the placement table so as to be openable and closable; an opening/closing mechanism for causing the lid body to transition to a closed state when the container is placed at the placement position of the placement table, and causing the lid body to transition to an open state when the container is moved away from the placement position; and an operation portion for moving the container away from the placement position.
US12137820B2
A shelf assembly for an enclosure includes a shelf panel having an upper surface, a lower surface, and an edge extending between the upper and lower surfaces. The edge includes front, rear, and side edges. A light housing is coupled to the shelf panel and includes one or more walls defining an interior. The light housing includes front, rear, and side portions disposed adjacent to the front, rear, and side edges of the shelf panel, respectively. A plurality of light sources received within the light housing to project light outwardly therefrom.
US12137815B2
According to one embodiment, a seat cushion comprises a second air cell section that is located on the rear side of a seat surface and a third air cell section that is located rearward of the second air cell section. The second air cell section and the third air cell section are adjacent to each other and have a common boundary extending diagonally in the front-rear direction of the seat surface such that the ischial region of a user fits in the boundary.
US12137796B2
A stringer for retaining empty beverage cans is disclosed. The stringer may include a catch at a first end of the stringer. The catch may be configured to be threaded through a hole in a tab of a beverage can. The stringer may also include a stopper that is configured to prevent the beverage cans from falling off of a second end of the stringer. An elongated neck may be positioned between the catch and the stopper that is configured to hold a plurality of beverage cans. The catch, the stopper, and the elongated neck may all be manufactured from a unitary piece of material or may be a combination of different materials. This material may be aluminum to allow the stringer to remain attached to cans during the recycling process or a ferromagnetic metal so that the stringer may be extracted magnetically in the recycling process.
US12137792B2
A thermally insulated solar rechargeable backpack is provided. The device includes a plurality of compartments that are thermally insulated. The plurality of compartments may keep items placed therein either hot or cold. The backpack includes a plurality of zippers to maintain the temperature in the compartments and keep the contents from falling out of the backpack. Additionally, the sides of the backpack have at least one storage pocket. Moreover, a solar panel is disposed on the top of the backpack to power a plurality of USB charging ports for charging electronic devices. In this way, the insulated backpack may be utilized to thermally insulate items to keep them either hot or cold in separate compartments during their transportation and utilize solar energy to provide power through a plurality of charging ports.
US12137786B1
A hair styling device having a rotatable body portion, the body portion comprising a longitudinal axis about which the body rotates. The device has a plurality of projections extending outwardly from the body portion and two or more divider elements extending from the body portion. The device also has a handle attached to the body portion and a blower supported by the handle. The device has a first gas flow conduit in gas flow communication with the blower, the first conduit having a proximal portion supported by the body portion and a distal portion away from the body portion and a first nozzle in gas flow communication with the first conduit and oriented to blow air from the distal portion of the first conduit toward the body portion. Methods for using the hair styling device are described.
US12137782B2
The present disclosure provides various embodiments of cases for lifting portable electronic devices (PEDs) from a compartment of the case. Such a case may comprise a compartment with a rear wall and a front wall coupled to the rear wall with a space disposed between the walls. A lift member may be at least partially disposed within the compartment with an end of the lift member coupled to the front wall. The lift member may comprise a handle and a cradle portion. The cradle portion may support the PED within the compartment and upwardly lift the PED relative to the compartment when the handle is upwardly displaced by a user. Accordingly, a larger portion of the PED is exposed outside of the compartment allowing for easy removal of the PED from the compartment.
US12137781B2
A glasses holder is provided. The glasses holder comprises a body and a recess formed in the body into which glasses may be safely placed. The glasses holder provides a convenient place to safely store the glasses without risking scratching of the lenses. By providing a reliable and consistent place to store the glasses, the glasses holder also limits misplacing of the glasses.
US12137780B2
A case for a portable electronic device includes a housing, a lid, and a hinge rotatably coupling the lid to the housing such that the lid is operable between an open position and a closed position. The hinge includes a first multipole magnet coupled to the lid such that the first multipole magnet rotates with the lid. A second multipole magnet is coupled to the housing and is arranged coaxially with the first multipole magnet and such that the first multipole magnet and the lid rotate relative to the second multipole magnet. The lid is unstable between the open and closed positions, such that, between the open position and the closed position, the lid is biased toward either the open position or the closed position depending on an angle of orientation of the lid relative to the housing.
US12137774B2
Lacing engine systems, apparatus, and methods of operation are discussed. In an example, a lacing engine apparatus can include a housing, a drivetrain, and a lace take-up mechanism for retracting a length of lace cable upon activation. The drivetrain can include various reduction gears to reduce rotational speed out of the motor and power the lace take-up mechanism. The lace take-up mechanism can include structures such as a double-yoke, a radial pulley including an outer rotating disc and an inner stationary disc, a variable take-up spool, or a zip-strip mechanism.
US12137771B2
An article of footwear with a dynamic support system that controls arrays of tiles in the upper of the footwear to adjust the level of support provided in different regions of the upper. Sensors in the sole of the footwear, in the upper of the footwear and/or in an article worn by the wearer of the footwear measure the level of stress or other characteristics and provide input to one or more microprocessors that control motors located in the sole or in the upper of the footwear. When the motors are activated, they may compress or loosen arrays of tiles to adjust the stiffness of the upper in one or more regions of the upper.
US12137769B2
A sole structure for an article of footwear includes a bladder having an inner chamber and a peripheral chamber completely surrounding the inner chamber. The inner chamber defines a first interior void having a tensile element received therein and providing the inner chamber with a constant thickness. The inner chamber may be arcuate and curve continuously from a first end of the bladder to a second end of the bladder. The peripheral chamber extends from and completely surrounds the inner chamber, and has a variable thickness that is greater than the constant thickness of the first inner chamber. The inner chamber and the peripheral chamber are in fluid communication with each other, and the peripheral chamber includes a plurality of deformation zones configured to deform to accommodate a pressure increase within the inner chamber.
US12137767B2
A method of making a midsole for an article of footwear includes forming a plurality of foam layers, arranging the plurality of foam layers in a mold to form the midsole, piercing the plurality of foam layers with pins, and introducing heat with the pins to bond the plurality of layers together.
US12137763B2
Disclosed herein is a hair retainer for a helmet. The hair retainer comprises a helmet mounting portion configured for mounting the hair retainer to a back edge or an underside of the helmet and a hair retaining portion locatable at an underside of the helmet in a hair retaining configuration for retaining hair thereat whilst a user is wearing the helmet.
US12137760B2
The invention relates to a size-adjustable glove (1) which has a thumb covering (4) and at least one first finger covering (5) that has a coupling element (25) in a saddle region between the thumb covering and the first finger covering, said coupling element being suitable for releasably securing the glove to a coupling device of a pole grip.
US12137756B2
A smart cloth includes a cloth body, a control body, actuation air-permeable components, temperature sensing components, and a health-monitoring device. The health-monitoring device includes a bio-sensing module, a blood glucose sensor, a blood pressure measurement module, and a gas bag. The temperature information of the wearer is detected by the temperature sensing components and outputted to the microprocessor of the control body, so that the microprocessor controls the actuation air-permeable components to perform the gas-guiding operation to adjust an apparent temperature of the wearer for providing wearing comfortableness. The bio-sensing module, the blood glucose sensing module, and the blood pressure measurement module detect and provide the detection data information for the wearer anytime and in real-time to provide health-related information to the wearer. Furthermore, the smart cloth may include a gas detection module, allowing the wearer to obtain gas data information anytime and anywhere for alerting and notifying the wearer.
US12137754B2
A variety of body supports are disclosed for supporting a body portion, for example, for supporting a chest in a donned configuration. In some examples, the body support includes a first support panel having one or more first tongues projecting outwardly therefrom, a second support panel having one or more second tongues projecting outwardly therefrom, a connecting section, joining the first support panel to said second support panel in longitudinal spaced relationship along an imaginary longitudinal mid-line of the body support, the first tongue and the second tongue being on opposite transverse sides of a mid-line of the body support, a first fastener and a second fastener. The body support may further include a doffed configuration in which the first support panel and the second support panel are non-contiguous with respect to one another.
US12137753B2
An athletic bra includes a front portion and a rear portion, where the front portion includes a plurality of sections that form regions having different degrees of elasticity. The sections of the front portion are oriented such that a gradient in elasticity is imparted along the front portion between the plurality of sections.
US12137746B2
An aerosol provision system for generating an aerosol for user inhalation comprises a cartridge comprising a housing containing an aerosolizable material, and an aerosol provision device having an interface configured operatively to receive the cartridge. The aerosol provision device is configured in use to cause the aerosolizable material to generate the aerosol for user inhalation by providing heat/power to the aerosol generating material. The cartridge includes a data storage unit configured to store information relating to the cartridge, the aerosol provision device being configured to detect the identifier stored in the data storage unit when cartridge is received by the aerosol provision device. Embodiments of the present technique can be arranged to provide a cartridge with data storage unit integrally formed with one or more walls of the cartridge's housing. In one example the data storage unit is integrally formed with the one or more walls of the housing by embedding circuitry forming the data storage unit in or below a surface of one of the walls of the housing. The embedding of the circuitry of the data storage unit integrally forms the circuitry with the wall of the housing with the effect that removal of the data storage unit causes one or both of the data storage unit or the aerosol generating material to be rendered inoperable.
US12137743B2
An embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of coils which have different numbers of windings and generate an alternating magnetic field when alternating current is applied; a susceptor for generating an aerosol by heating adjacent aerosol-generating substrates using heat generated through the alternating magnetic fields generated from the plurality of coils; and a controller for controlling a predetermined alternating current to be supplied to each of the plurality of coils, wherein the controller controls a first portion and a second portion of the susceptor to be heated differentially by alternating current supplied to the plurality of coils.
US12137738B2
An aerosol generating device includes a first cartridge configured to accommodate a first smokable material and comprising a delivery hole through which an aerosol generated from the first smokable material is delivered; a second cartridge comprising a plurality of chambers for accommodating a second smokable material through which the aerosol delivered from the first cartridge passes, and movably coupled to the first cartridge such that a position of the second cartridge with respect to the first cartridge is changeable; a magnetic body arranged in one of the second cartridge and the first cartridge; and an electromagnet arranged in the other of the second cartridge and the first cartridge to face the magnetic body, and configured to generate magnetism toward the magnetic body such that one of the plurality of chambers is aligned with the delivery hole to form a flow path to a mouthpiece.
US12137737B2
The invention relates to an aerosol-generating device comprising a cavity (10) for receiving an aerosol-generating article (12) containing aerosol-forming substrate (18). The device further comprises a resilient sealing element (38) having a ring shape. The resilient sealing element is arranged surrounding a downstream end of the cavity. The resilient sealing element is configured to interact with the aerosol-generating article received in the cavity by abutting the aerosol-generating article.
US12137735B2
An aerosol generating device includes an aerosol delivering device including a first cartridge in which a first material for generating an aerosol is accommodated, and a second cartridge rotatably coupled to the first cartridge, configured to accommodate a second material, and arranged such that an aerosol generated from the first material passes through the second material, and an atomizer that is connected to the first cartridge and configured to generate the aerosol by atomizing the first material and deliver the aerosol to the second cartridge.
US12137733B2
A hookah device (202) which attaches to a hookah (246). The hookah device (202) comprises a plurality of ultrasonic mist generator devices (201) for generating a mist for inhalation by a user. The hookah device (202) comprises a driver device (202) which controls the mist generator devices (201) to maximize the efficiency of mist generation by the mist generator devices (201) and optimize mist output from the hookah device (202).
US12137732B2
The present invention relates to a vehicle powered electronic hookah system that is designed to be used by a driver or passenger while driving an automobile and while obviating the need to use traditional charcoal for heating the tobacco. The hookah system includes a coil pack for heating tobacco to produce smoke for consumption by a consumer. The coil pack can be provided power using an electronic supply such as a vehicle's electronic power using a cigarette lighter plug or USB connector. Alternatively, a built-in rechargeable battery can be used for providing power to the coil. These power sources obviate the use of charcoal for heating the tobacco and maintain a clean and sanitary smoking area without worry of ashes. The hookah system can be placed in a cupholder in the vehicle and can be rotated in any direction for convenient use.
US12137728B2
The invention relates to a cardboard filter (1) for cigarettes, formed by folding, winding and gluing a cardboard strip (2). According to the invention, the cardboard strip (2) is folded to form a central portion (21) having a series of lobes (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) angularly equally distributed around a central axis (22) of the filter (2) and a peripheral portion (23) surrounding the central portion (21), the lobes (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) and the peripheral portion (23) delimiting gas passage channels (24) around the central axis (22).
US12137726B2
The non-combustible tobacco vaping insert includes a filter having a first diameter, and a tobacco element with a first end contacting the filter, the tobacco element having a second diameter that is smaller than the first diameter of the filter. The cartridge includes a housing, where the cartridge defines an air passage within the housing, and a vaping insert is positioned in at least one first portion of the air passage. The vaping insert is non-combustible and is configured to allow vapor to pass through the vaping insert prior to exiting the cartridge. The vaping insert includes a filter having a first diameter, and a tobacco element with a first end contacting the filter, the tobacco element having a second diameter that is smaller than the first diameter of the filter.
US12137722B2
A steam peeling vessel for rotation about an internal axis of rotation, including at least one internal lifter having a longitudinal axis oriented at an oblique angle to the internal axis of rotation of the vessel. The vessel may include at least two internal lifters. The vessel may include a first lifter oriented at a first oblique angle to the axis of rotation, and at least a second lifter oriented at a second oblique angle to the axis of rotation.
US12137713B2
Exemplary embodiments of the disclosure may be drawn to a device having an inlet and a chamber. Immobilized lipase, immobilized protease, and immobilized amylase may be contained within the chamber. The device may also include an outlet, wherein a flow path extends from the inlet, through the chamber, and to the outlet.
US12137711B2
Methods and devices heat or cool viscous materials, such as meat emulsions useful for producing food and other products. The devices have a heat exchanger including a first plate, a second plate attached to the first plate, and a first spacer and a second spacer arranged between the first plate and the second plate. The first plate, the second plate, the first spacer, and the second spacer define at least one temperature controlled passage for a product to pass through the heat exchanger.
US12137710B2
The present invention, which is a food composition for alleviating diabetes that contains Schisandra chinensis fruit water and bean juice as active ingredients, has a high inhibitory activity against α-glucosidase and prevents a rise of the blood sugar after meals, thereby alleviating diabetes. The food composition for alleviating diabetes can be prepared in different forms, such as soy milk, powdered soy milk, other forms of soy milk, or processed bean curd, and used in the preparation of health functional foods for blood sugar control or foods for diabetics according to the Special Purpose Foods of the general foods. In addition, the food composition for alleviating diabetes according to the present invention, when further containing a saccharified material of grain, maintains viscosity similar to that of regular soy milk by preventing agglomeration of the liquid soy milk and improves sensory properties, so it can be suitable for use in beverages such as soy milk or other forms of soy milk.
US12137702B2
The invention relates to a print head comprising a nozzle for printing a food product layer-by-layer and a conveyor for conveying food. The invention further relates to a system comprising such a print head and a container containing food in solid state and having a supply line for providing food in solid state to the reservoir of the print head.
US12137701B2
There is provided a vegetable-based lipid composition comprising very high levels of α-linolenic acid (ALA), together with at least one other long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (typically as fatty acid esters). The composition is obtainable from a single source by conventional processing methods, and has improved stability properties.
US12137698B2
A multilayer sheet for controlling growth of post-harvest pathogens in agricultural product, use thereof for controlling growth of post-harvest pathogens during packaging, storing and/or transportation of agricultural products, and a method comprising the use thereof.
US12137686B1
Termite trailing and recruitment compositions, systems, devices, and methods for using a trail of a percentage 2 phenoxyethanol (2-PE) dissolved in water to form a trail to lead the subterranean termites to termite bait or monitoring stations located about a perimeter of a wood containing structure. The termite bait or monitoring stations can be located up to approximately 20 feet apart from one another, and the trail of a percentage 2 phenoxyethanol (2-PE) dissolved in water. The percentage 2 phenoxyethanol (2-PE) dissolved in water range from approximately 0.1% to approximately 2% depending on the different soil types and localized conditions. The types of soil can commonly include sand, sandy & silty soil, loam and clay soil.
US12137683B2
The invention provides, in various embodiments, a method comprising placing an ex-vivo heart in a chamber of an organ care system; connecting the ex-vivo heart to a perfusion fluid circuit of the organ care system; starting a pump configured to provide, via the perfusion fluid circuit, a perfusion fluid to the ex-vivo heart; synchronizing at least one maximum output of the pump with an r-wave of the ex-vivo heart; testing the ex-vivo heart or the organ care system; adjusting a setting of the organ care system in response to a result of the testing; and after adjusting the setting of the organ care system in response to the result of the testing, re-testing the ex-vivo heart or the organ care system.
US12137681B2
A method performed by a treatment system disposed on a moving platform, the treatment system having one or more processors, a storage and a treatment mechanism, comprising: receiving one or more images of an environment in which the moving platform is operating; identifying, in real-time, a pose of the moving platform using sensor inputs; identifying one or more target objects by processing the one or more images using a machine learning (ML) algorithm; and controlling the treatment mechanism to treat the one or more target objects by orienting the treatment mechanism towards the one or more target objects at least partially based on the pose.
US12137678B2
A strike indicator and strike indicator tooling assembly for use in fishing. The strike indicator comprises two hemispheres that may form a substantially spherical outer dimension around fishing line. The two hemispheres may fit frictionally together to prevent movement or slipping of the fishing line between the two hemispheres once assembled. The hemispheres may be disassembled to replace the fishing line, and reuse the strike indicator. The tooling assembly comprises a top insert, and a bottom insert. The top insert and bottom insert compress around a foam sheet to form the spherical outer form figures of the two hemispheres.
US12137677B1
A pet water fountain is described comprising a bowl for holding an aqueous drinking fluid. The pet water fountain includes a housing configured to cover a portion of the bowl and have a fluid reservoir. The pet water fountain includes a rotatable cone positioned within the housing, the cone tapering outwardly from a bottom end to a top end, the bone bottom end having a fluid inlet to allow the passage of fluid from the bowl through the inlet and into the interior of the conde, the cone top end being in fluid communication with the housing fluid reservoir. The pet water fountain includes a filter ring coupled to the cone top end, the filter ring having an exterior housing and a filter media positioned within the exterior housing, and an electric motor coupled to the rotatable cone for rotatably driving the rotatable cone.
US12137670B2
A dog toy includes a projectile and a slingshot. The projectile is configured to fly through the air while resembling a dog bone. Accordingly, the projectile has a first and second visual pair of bulbous portions disposed at the leading and trailing ends. The trailing end is also shaped as fins for stability in flight, whereas the leading end is heavier in mass. A pair of hooks are at the leading end. A finger grip is attached near, to or formed as part of the trailing end and allows a user to grip the projectile with a user's fingers. The slingshot includes a handle configured to be gripped by the user. A pair of prongs extend from a handle top and form an opening. An elastic band is connected to each prong. A hand guard protects a portion of the user's hand during use.
US12137659B2
A soybean cultivar designated 13430644 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 13430644, to the plants of soybean cultivar 13430644, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 13430644, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 13430644. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 13430644. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 13430644, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 13430644 with another soybean cultivar.
US12137657B2
A soybean cultivar designated 19140644 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 19140644, to the plants of soybean cultivar 19140644, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 19140644, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 19140644. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 19140644. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 19140644, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 19140644 with another soybean cultivar.
US12137643B1
A tower garden for vertical farming includes a vertical column with a plurality of vertical growth modules. The plurality of vertical growth modules are stacked over and connected to each other in a vertical direction and are configured to grow plants in the vertical direction. The tower garden further includes a base positioned below the vertical column. The base is configured to receive a reservoir including an agricultural medium. The tower garden further includes a perforated hose extending from the base of the vertical column in the vertical direction. The perforated hose is configured as a conduit for the agricultural medium to flow upwards and cascade over roots of the plants. Each growth module includes a plastic pocket with a hole.
US12137640B2
A sustainable residential yard flood irrigation valve safety system includes a lower bracket configured to couple to a water flood irrigation feed pipe, a mounting post extends from the lower bracket, a driver support arm pivotally attaches to the mounting post and supports a driver motor. The driver motor rotatably drives an arm through a universal joint pivotally attached to the driver motor and includes a slot configured to receive a manual twist handle of the water flood irrigation feed pipe's flood irrigation valve. An electronic controller associated with the driver motor regulates start and stop times for opening and closing the flood irrigation valve. A camera captures an image as evidence that the valve is open or closed and a water alarm notifies the electronic controller if either the valve does not close or the water level is too high. The electronic controller and drive motor are powered through solar power.
US12137635B1
The present disclosure provides for a tool receiver apparatus for a lawnmower. The apparatus may include a base, a post, an arm, and a sleeve. The base may include a magnet configured for magnetic engagement with a surface of the lawnmower. The post may be disposed on the base and extend upwardly from the base. The arm may extend laterally from the post. The sleeve may be disposed on the arm. The sleeve may include an upper end forming an upper opening, a lower end forming a lower opening, and a passage extending between the upper opening and the lower opening. The sleeve may be configured to receive a tool with a jaw assembly.
US12137631B2
A control system for a harvester having a residue discharge system operable to eject crop residue according to an adjustable residue discharge parameter, the control system including a processor, a memory, a human-machine interface, and a sensor configured to detect at least one of wind speed, wind direction, or humidity. The control system is configured to receive the signal from the sensor, receive an operator input corresponding to a desired residue management strategy selected from at least a first residue management strategy and a second residue management strategy, and adjust the residue discharge parameter based on the desired residue management strategy and the detected at least one of wind speed, wind direction, or humidity.
US12137626B2
A conventional three point hitch of an agricultural tractor for the connection and use of working implements cultivating or excavating the earth and other duties involved in the industry of farming or grading excavation is modified by adding extending and retracting implement-actuators attachable to the existing bottom-lift-arms, therefore supplanting, but still using the existing bottom-lift-arms on the three-point hitch. The implement-actuators assist the implement in correcting the implements centerline when the tractor centerline is off a predetermined centerline path. In addition, the extending of the implement-actuators proportionally, inversely and simultaneously can correct the pivot point of the implement to match the pivot point of the tractor while the tractor performs turns during the working use of the implement.
US12137625B2
A control system for a work vehicle that performs auto-steer driving includes a storage to store a target path for the work vehicle, and a controller configured or programmed to control steering of the work vehicle so that the work vehicle travels along the target path based on a position of the work vehicle identified by a position identifier and the target path stored in the storage. The target path includes parallel main paths and one or more turning paths interconnecting the plurality of main paths. When the work vehicle is turning along one of the turning paths via automatic steering, if the position of the work vehicle becomes deviated from the turning path by more than a reference distance, the controller is configured or programmed to cause an alarm generator to output an alarm.
US12144266B1
A superconducting material includes YBa2Cu3O7-δ and a nano-structured, preferably nanowires, WO3 dopant in a range of from 0.01 to 3.0 wt. %, preferably 0.075 to 0.2 wt. %, based on total material weight. Methods of making the superconductor may preferably avoid solvents and pursue solid-state synthesis employing Y, Ba, and/or Cu oxides and/or carbonates.
US12144247B2
The present application relates to an organic compound, and an electronic device and electronic apparatus thereof. The organic compound of the present application has a structural formula shown in formula 1. When used in an electronic device, the organic compound of the present application can significantly improve the performance of the electronic device.
US12144246B2
A compound is represented by Chemical Formula 1. In Chemical Formula 1, R1 to R4, R11a to R14c, and n are the same as defined in the detailed description.
US12144245B2
Provided are compound represented by Formula 1, an organic electric element including a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic material layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and electronic device thereof, and by including the compound represented by Formula 1 in the organic material layer, the driving voltage of the organic electric element can be lowered, and the luminous efficiency and life time of the organic electric element can be improved.
US12144238B2
A method of manufacturing a display apparatus includes separating a mother substrate that includes a plurality of connected unit display apparatuses into a plurality of separated unit display apparatuses. Each separated unit display apparatus includes a display panel and at least one supporting unit attached below the display panel. The display panel includes a display substrate that has a pad area on which are disposed a plurality of pads and a thin film encapsulation layer on the display substrate. The method further includes consecutively cutting the display panel and the at least one supporting unit of each separated unit display apparatus along cutting lines in the pad area, where a first cut surface of the pad area of the display substrate and a second cut surface of the at least one supporting unit are respectively cut at different angles.
US12144234B2
A display device comprises a substrate including display and peripheral areas, a semiconductor element, a pixel structure, and a plurality of dummy patterns. The semiconductor element is disposed in the display area on the substrate, and the pixel structure is disposed on the semiconductor element. The dummy patterns which have stacked structure are disposed in the peripheral area on the substrate, and contain a material identical to a material constituting the semiconductor element. The dummy patterns are arranged in a grid shape in different layers, and each of the dummy patterns includes a central portion and an edge portion surrounding the central portion. The edge portions of dummy patterns which are adjacent to each other in the different layers among the dummy patterns are overlapped each other in a direction from the substrate to the pixel structure.
US12144232B2
The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises a first curved region located between two second curved regions and corresponding to a corner area of a planar region. The display panel comprises a supporting layer and a panel main body, and the supporting layer comprises a first portion being bent and within the first curved region and a second portion being bent and within the second curved region; the panel main body is disposed on the first portion and the second portion and bent along with the first portion and the second portion. a shrinkage rate of the first portion is greater than a shrinkage rate of the second portion.
US12144230B2
A display device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, a first array unit in the first region and including at least one subpixel having a first light emitting part, and a second array unit in the second region. The second array unit can include a plurality of subpixels, where each of the plurality of subpixels can include a second light emitting part having a smaller area than an area of the first light emitting part. A first driving thin film transistor of at least one subpixel in the first array unit and a second driving thin film transistor of each of the subpixels of the second array unit can include a first active layer and a second active layer, respectively.
US12144228B2
A transparent display device is provided, which may reduce or minimize loss of light transmittance due to a touch sensor and a touch line, and may detect a defective touch sensor in a touch block. The transparent display device with a touch sensor comprises a plurality of transmissive areas and a non-transmissive area disposed between the transmissive areas adjacent to each other, a plurality of pixels provided in the non-transmissive area, including a plurality of subpixels, a touch block including a plurality of touch sensors disposed in the plurality of transmissive areas, a plurality of touch connection portions respectively connected to the plurality of touch sensors, transferring a touch sensing voltage to the connected touch sensor and including a first high resistance area, and a plurality of sensing transistors respectively connected to the plurality of touch sensors, sensing a voltage of the connected touch sensor.
US12144219B2
A tiled display includes: first and second display devices disposed adjacent to each other, the first and second display devices including display areas each having light-emitting areas, and a seam between adjacent ones of the display areas. Each of the first and second display devices includes: a first base part in the display areas, a first support layer on the first base part in the display areas and the seam, a display layer on the first support layer in the display areas and the seam, a second support layer on the display layer in the display areas and the seam, and a second base part on the second support layer in the display areas. The first support layer of the second display device is disposed on the second support layer of the first display device in the seam.
US12144218B2
Provided is a display substrate. In the display substrate, a base substrate includes a display region, a bending region and a pad region. A length of the display region in a first direction is greater than a length of the display region in a second direction. Since the pad region, the bending region and the display region are arranged along the second direction, the pad region is arranged on a side where a long boundary line of the display region is located, such that each signal line led into the display region from the pad region has a relatively short length in the display region.
US12144192B2
An imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion section 23 including a first electrode 21, a photoelectric conversion layer 23A including an organic material, and a second electrode 22 that are stacked. An inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer 23B including a first layer 23C and a second layer 23D, from side of the first electrode, is formed between the first electrode 21 and the photoelectric conversion layer 23A, and ρ1≥5.9 g/cm3 and ρ1−ρ2≥0.1 g/cm3 are satisfied, where ρ1 is an average film density of the first layer 23C and ρ2 is an average film density of the second layer 23D in a portion extending for 3 nm from an interface between the first electrode 21 and the inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer 23B.
US12144191B2
An internal-ion gated electrochemical transistor is provided. In some embodiments, the internal-ion gated electrochemical transistor comprises: a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; a channel formed between the source electrode and the drain electrode, wherein the channel comprises a conducting polymer, wherein the channel serves as a reservoir of positively charged mobile ions; and an ion membrane between the channel and the gate electrode, wherein: in an off state, at least a subset of the positively charged mobile ions are ionically bonded to negatively charged ions of the conducting polymer, and wherein in an on state, at least a subset of the positively charged mobile ions are unbonded from the negatively charged ions of the conducting polymer to induce a current within the channel, and wherein at least one of the off state and the on state is actuated by application of a voltage to the gate electrode.
US12144178B2
Disclosed are three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices and methods of detecting electrical failure thereof. The three-dimensional semiconductor memory device includes a substrate with a first conductivity including a cell array region and an extension region having different threshold voltages from each other, a stack structure on the substrate and including stacked electrodes, an electrical vertical channel penetrating the stack structure on the cell array region, and a dummy vertical channel penetrating the stack structure on the extension region. The substrate comprises a pocket well having the first conductivity and provided with the stack structure thereon, and a deep well surrounding the pocket well and having a second conductivity opposite to the first conductivity.
US12144176B2
Some embodiments include a method of forming an integrated assembly. A stack of alternating first and second materials is formed over a conductive structure. The conductive structure includes a semiconductor-containing material over a metal-containing material. An opening is formed to extend through the stack and through the semiconductor-containing material, to expose the metal-containing material. The semiconductor-containing material is doped with carbon and/or with one or more metals. After the doping of the semiconductor-containing material, the second material of the stack is removed to form voids. Conductive material is formed within the voids. Insulative material is formed within the opening. Some embodiments include integrated assemblies having carbon distributed within at least a portion of a semiconductor material.
US12144173B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a method to integrate NVM devices with a logic or BCD device. In some embodiments, an isolation structure is formed in a semiconductor substrate. The isolation structure demarcates a memory region of the semiconductor substrate, and further demarcates a peripheral region of the semiconductor substrate. The peripheral region may, for example, correspond to BCD device or a logic device. A doped well is formed in the peripheral region. A dielectric seal layer is formed covering the memory and peripheral regions, and further covering the doped well. The dielectric seal layer is removed from the memory region, but not the peripheral region. A memory cell structure is formed on the memory region using a thermal oxidation process. The dielectric seal layer is removed from the peripheral region, and a peripheral device structure including a gate electrode is formed on the peripheral region.
US12144169B2
Provided is a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a floating gate disposed on a substrate; a memory gate disposed on the floating gate; a first spacer disposed sidewalls of the floating gate and the memory gate, and an upper surface of the substrate; a second spacer disposed on the first spacer; a select high-k film disposed on a first portion of a sidewall of the first spacer between the substrate and the second spacer; and a select gate disposed on a second portion of the sidewall of the first spacer between the substrate and the second spacer. A width of a portion of the first spacer is reduced as a distance to the substrate decreases, and the portion of the first spacer is disposed between the substrate and the second spacer.
US12144156B2
In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a power distribution system having integrated cooling includes a chassis defining an interior cavity, an electronics bus structure housed within the interior cavity, and an electrical contactor operatively connected to the electronics bus structure to receive a voltage therefrom. One or more heat dissipation fins can be included extending away from the chassis and configured to dissipate heat from the electronics bus structure to an ambient environment external to the chassis. In embodiments, the electronics bus structure can be sealed within the interior cavity.
US12144153B2
The present invention refers to an electronic control (1) of a compressor (2), the electronic control (1) disposed in an encasement 5 (3), wherein the electronic control (1) comprises: a main board (4) associated to at least an auxiliary board (5,6,7), wherein one of the auxiliary boards (5,6,7) is a heat-generating board (7), wherein the heat-generating board (7) is disposed at a first distance (D1) in relation to a first wall of the encasement (P1), wherein the other auxiliary boards 0 (5.6) are disposed at least at a second distance (D2, D3) in relation to the first wall of the encasement (P1), wherein the first distance (D1) is less than the second distance (D2). A compressor (2) and a cooling equipment are also described.
US12144151B2
A fluid cooling system includes a boiling plate, a compressor, and a condenser. The boiling plate contacts a heat-generating electronic component. The boiling plate receives a liquid such that the liquid absorbs heat from the electronic component and evaporates into a vapor. The compressor is fluidly connected the boiling plate and receives the vapor of the boiling plate. The compressor increases the pressure of the vapor such that the temperature of the vapor increases, and such that a saturation temperature of the vapor increases. The condenser is fluidly connected to the compressor and the boiling plate. The condenser receives the vapor from the compressor and removes heat from the vapor such that the vapor condenses back into the liquid. The boiling plate receives the liquid from the condenser. The system can include a pump that circulates the liquid and the vapor between the boiling plate, the compressor, and the condenser.
US12144149B2
A cooling apparatus for an electronic element includes a first chamber in a non-vacuum state, the first chamber being configured such that a printed circuit board equipped with a heat-generating element is disposed in the first chamber, a second chamber in a vacuum state, the second chamber being configured such that a spray unit configured to spray a refrigerant and a refrigerant supply unit configured to supply the refrigerant to the spray unit are disposed in the second chamber, and an evaporation unit disposed between the first chamber and the second chamber, in which the spray unit sprays the refrigerant, which is supplied by the refrigerant supply unit and condensed in the second chamber, into the second chamber, and in which the evaporation unit evaporates the refrigerant, which is sprayed into the second chamber by the spray unit.
US12144142B2
Described herein is a compact combined active and passive cooling system to cool electronic audio-video circuitry, wherein all of the AV circuitry and cooling system fits within an enclosure that can be installed in a standard wall gang-box located in interior walls of structures. The combined active and passive cooling system uses convection, conduction, and radiation in active and passive cooling modes to dissipate heat generated by the AV circuitry into the room in which the gang box is located, and further uses the wall plate surface to dissipate heat into the room.
US12144135B2
The application discloses a display module and a display device, comprising a flexible circuit board; the flexible circuit board includes a plurality of binding terminals and insulating parts; each of binding terminals includes a first sub-part and a second sub-part connected to each other, the flexible circuit board includes a first binding terminal and a second binding terminal, and the volume of the first sub-pare of the first binding terminal is larger than the volume of the first sub-part of the second binding terminal; and the insulating part includes a first insulating protrusion corresponding to the second binding terminal.
US12144133B2
A head-mounted display includes a main body in which a display is built; a wearing band extending from the main body to a rear side and having a shape enclosing a head of a user as a whole; a right-side extending section configured to make up a right-side part of the wearing band; a left-side extending section configured to make up a left-side part of the wearing band; a movable section configured to make up a part of a rear side of the wearing band, link a rear section of the right-side extending section with a rear section of the left-side extending section, and be movable relative to the right-side extending section and the left-side extending section in a retracting direction in which the length of the wearing band is decreased and in an extending direction in which the length of the wearing band is increased, a first manipulating member operable by a user and rotatably provided on the movable section with an axis section that extends in a front-rear direction; where a vertical width of the first manipulating member is larger than a vertical width of the movable section.
US12144128B2
Various embodiments are directed to a conveyor roller apparatus and methods of using the same. In various embodiments, a conveyor roller apparatus comprises an exterior roller shell configured to support at least a portion of an object disposed on an outer surface thereof to facilitate transportation of the object along a conveyor surface, the exterior roller shell having an at least substantially tubular configuration so as to define an interior roller portion along a central axis thereof; an internal roller housing disposed within the interior roller portion of the exterior roller shell, the internal roller housing comprising a PCB compartment defined by an internal channel within the internal roller housing that is configured for housing the PCB assembly therein; and at least one potting material disposed within the PCB compartment and configured to facilitate a dissipation of heat generated by the PCB assembly from within the PCB compartment.
US12144119B2
A parts replenishment system configured to replenish a parts supply device attached to a parts mounting device with parts includes an instruction device configured to issue an instruction to unload the parts from a storage. The parts replenishment system further includes a presentation device configured to present preprocessing identification information for identifying preprocessing, which is processing on a packaging material for the parts for which an unloading instruction has been issued by the instruction device before replenishment of the parts supply device with the parts.
US12144118B2
Systems and methods for detecting an incorrectly attached heat sink component on an electronic device. The system includes one or more temperature sensors secured to the electronic device and a controller unit comprising one or more processors and one or more computer-readable media, the computer-readable media having stored thereon executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to perform a method for detecting incorrectly attached heat sink components. The method includes receiving temperature data, calculating a thermal ramp rate, comparing the thermal ramp rate to a predetermined threshold ramp rate, and transmitting a fault signal when the calculated thermal ramp rate exceeds the predetermined threshold ramp rate.
US12144115B2
An electronic device including a thermosetting bonding sheet may include: a base substrate including a base substrate body and a plurality of base pads disposed on the base substrate body, a connection substrate including a connection substrate body facing the base substrate body, a plurality of connection pads disposed on the connection substrate body and including a pad hole, and a plurality of connection lines disposed on the connection substrate body and connected to the plurality of connection pads, a solder, at least a portion of which is inserted into the pad hole, disposed on the base pad and configured to electrically connect the base pad to the connection pad, and a thermosetting bonding sheet provided between the base substrate body and the connection substrate body, bonded to the base substrate body and the connection substrate body, and enclosing the solder.
US12144104B2
A high frequency module includes a mounting substrate, an inductor, and a plurality of electronic components. The inductor is arranged on the mounting substrate. The inductor is arranged in an inside of the mounting substrate and has a winding portion formed by winding a conductor portion a plurality of times in a thickness direction of the mounting substrate. A first ground layer is formed in a region that is on an inner side of an outer edge of the winding portion in plan view of the mounting substrate, and the first ground layer is arranged closest to the winding portion in the thickness direction of the mounting substrate among ground layers formed in the region in a plurality of ground layers. The first ground layer is overlapped with an inner region but is not overlapped with at least part of the winding portion in plan view of the mounting substrate.
US12144098B2
A plasma torch includes an electrode, a center pipe, and a coolant passage. The electrode includes an internal passage, a tip portion, a convex portion, and an electrode insert. The center pipe is at least partially arranged in the internal passage of the electrode. The center pipe includes first and second pipe ends. The coolant passage first, second, third, and fourth passages. A coolant flows from the first passage through the second passage and the third passage to the fourth passage. At least a part of the convex portion is arranged in the center pipe. The inner surface of the center pipe includes a first inclined surface having a diameter that decreases toward a distal direction. The distal direction is a direction extending from the second pipe end to the first pipe end. The first inclined surface extends toward the root portion of the convex portion.
US12144096B2
A method for measuring an electron nonextensive parameter of a plasma by using nonextensive statistical mechanics and electric probe is provided. The plasma is described by the nonextensive statistical mechanics and establishes a nonextensive single electric probe theory on the basis of this. The electron nonextensive parameter have been measured which cannot be measured by traditional single probe, and obtained more accurate electron temperature, plasma potential, electron density and floating potential than traditional single probe. The nonextensive electric probe plays a role in plasma diagnosis, which will measure the nonextensivity of plasma and improve the diagnostic accuracy of other plasma parameters.
US12144083B2
A light system including: light branches extending in parallel to one another with each of the light branches have lights that provide light to a region around a vehicle, the light branches include: a primary light branch include: a bias circuit and a switch; and secondary light branches that are controlled by the primary light branch; wherein electricity is provided to the light branches and when all of the lights on the light branches are operating properly the electricity maintains the switch in a closed position; and when any of the lights fail or are not operating properly, electricity is prevented from extending through the light branch, by the lights that have failed, and the electricity continues to extend through the light branches that are operating properly so that the electricity that extends to the switch is not sufficient to maintain the switch in the closed position.
US12144082B2
A load control device for controlling the power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load is able to receive radio-frequency (RF) signals from a Wi-Fi-enabled device, such as a smart phone, via a wireless local area network. The load control device comprises a controllably conductive device adapted to be coupled in series between the source and the load, a controller for rendering the controllably conductive device conductive and non-conductive, and a Wi-Fi module operable to receive the RF signals directly from the wireless network. The controller controls the controllably conductive device to adjust the power delivered to the load in response to the wireless signals received from the wireless network. The load control device may further comprise an optical module operable to receive an optical signal, such that the controller may obtain an IP address from the received optical signal and control the power delivered to the load in response to a wireless signal received from the wireless network that includes the IP address.
US12144079B2
A lighting device includes a photosensitive element, a first pull-up resistor, a light source driver, a current-limiting detecting resistor, a controller and a pull-up resistance adjusting circuit. The two ends of the photosensitive element are respectively connected to a first node and a grounding point. The two ends of the first pull-up resistor are respectively connected to the first node and a second node (connected to an operating voltage source). The detecting signal input end of the controller is connected to the first node via the current-limiting detecting resistor. The voltage input end of the controller is connected to the second node. The driving signal output end of the controller is connected to the light source driver. The first end, second end and third end of the pull-up resistance adjusting circuit are respectively connected to the first node, second node and control signal output end.
US12144058B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and a system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A user equipment (UE) is provided. The UE includes a transceiver, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor controls the transceiver to transmit a first message requesting an event to an opening mediation server, receive event-related information from the opening mediation server in response to the first message, transmit a second message requesting an event to a profile providing server based on the event-related information, and receive information related to event processing from the profile providing server in response to the second message.
US12144048B2
Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to transmit an indication of a link failure on a secondary cell. The indication may be transmitted on resources selected based on one or more conditions. One or more priority rules may be used to resolve collisions. The UE may further make an assumption of a beam or beams to use for communications with the secondary cell following the link failure and prior to receiving an indication from the network of a selected beam.
US12144045B2
A method may be performed by a network entity of a wireless communication network. A first PDU session may be established for a wireless terminal (UE) using a first NodeB base station (MgNB) and a first user plane function entity (UPF1). A second PDU session may be established for the wireless terminal (UE) using a second NodeB base station (SgNB) and a second user plane function entity (UPF2). The first and second PDU sessions may be established for the wireless terminal (UE) using the first and second NodeB base stations so that the first and second PDU sessions are provided concurrently using dual connectivity DC to provide redundant data paths for communication of data for the wireless terminal (UE) through the wireless communication network.
US12144041B2
A method and device for a UE-to-UE relay are disclosed. In one embodiment, the UE-to-UE relay establishes a first PC5 Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with a first remote User Equipment (UE) and establishes a second PC5 RRC connection with a second remote UE to support communication between the first remote UE and the second remote UE via the UE-to-UE relay. The UE-to-UE relay also transmits a first RRC message to a network node to request sidelink transmission resource, wherein the first RRC message includes an identity (ID) of the first remote UE and at least one of following information: a destination ID of the second remote UE, an ID of a Sidelink (SL) Data Radio Bearer (DRB), a third ID of a PC5 quality of service (QoS) flow, and a PC5 QoS profile of the PC5 QoS flow.
US12144022B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, which may be known as user equipment (UE), may be capable of full-duplex communications. The UE may determine that at least a portion of a downlink transmission that the UE may receive while concurrently scheduled to transmit an uplink transmission, may overlap with a clear channel assessment (CCA) procedure (e.g., a listen-before-talk (LBT) operation) in a shared radio frequency spectrum band. The UE may determine that at least a portion of the downlink transmission that overlaps with the LBT resources may be canceled or the downlink transmission may be rate matched and allocated to resources outside of the LBT resources. As a result, the UE may perform an LBT procedure without interference caused by the UE receiving the downlink transmission.
US12144014B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for applying quality metrics for resource unit (RU) allocation in connection with a wireless access point (AP). In response to detecting threshold utilization of an AP by multiple wireless clients, an RU score is initialized. For each initialized RU score, an updated RU score is periodically computed. To perform this computation several steps are performed. First, RU quality metrics are received. Next, each quality metric is multiplied by an associated weighting coefficient. Finally, the quality products are summed to provide an updated RU score. In response to determining that a puncture candidate RU has a puncture candidate RU score below a predetermined threshold, one or more RUs are punctured or otherwise de-prioritized. A request to assign new RUs is received. In response to the request to assign the new RUs, the new RUs are assigned based on the periodically updated RU scores.
US12144013B2
The invention relates to a method for configuring carrier aggregation for a current user equipment (14) located in a wireless communication network in a coverage area of a base station which is capable of emitting a plurality of carrier components with a plurality transmission beams per carrier component, the method comprising: retrieving quality metrics beams from a database (16) comprising quality metrics associated with a carrier component of the plurality of carrier components and with a user equipment of a plurality of user equipments; determining, using the quality metrics, one or more candidate carrier components to be configured or de-configured for the current user equipment as secondary carrier components; configuring or de-configuring said one or more carrier components.
US12144011B2
A wireless communication system may include a plurality of nodes that use a medium access control (MAC) protocol to communicate over a shared medium or a primary channel. The MAC protocol may include a non-transmitting state during which one or more nodes are silent in the primary channel while two nodes in the wireless communication system are in communicating over the primary channel. Systems and methods described herein use medium access protocol (MAC) underlay signaling, which may include measuring or sensing availability for spectrum or transmitting data without the loss of network throughput over a secondary channel in a wireless communications system. In some embodiments, the systems and methods described herein use dynamic spectrum access (DSA) protocols to switch the channel of communication in the wireless communication system.
US12144008B2
Proposed is a method for operating a first device (100) in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a second device, a sidelink service and at least one ID associated with the sidelink service; and determining a communication range associated with the second device on the basis of mapping information and the at least one ID associated with the received sidelink service.
US12144004B2
The present invention relates to a communication technique for convergence of an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. A method for communicating by a base station according to the present invention comprises transmitting control information relating to at least two services to a terminal; and transmitting data relating to the at least two services to the terminal, wherein at least one of a control region for transmitting the control information and a data region for transmitting the data may include at least two frequency bandwidths corresponding to each of the at least two services.
US12144003B2
The present disclosure provides a user equipment and a method for performing data transmission. The method includes receiving at least one of downlink control information (DCI) or higher layer signaling from a base station; determining a transmission format of the data transmission based on at least one of the DCI or the higher layer signaling; and performing the data transmission based on the determined transmission format. The present disclosure also provides a base station and a method for performing data transmission.
US12144002B2
This disclosure relates to a method, a device, and a storage medium for instructing a minimum scheduling offset. The method for instructing the minimum scheduling offset is applied in terminal equipment and includes: in a switch back period, receiving a minimum scheduling offset switching indication, the minimum scheduling offset switching indication to instruct switching the minimum scheduling offset from a first minimum value to a second minimum value; and causing the minimum scheduling offset to switch back to a third minimum value in another switch back period after the switch back period.
US12143997B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a base station may use a downlink control information (DCI) message to indicate timing resources to a user equipment (UE) for multiple downlink data repetitions in a slot. In a first implementation, the base station may indicate an explicit time domain resource allocation (TDRA) for one repetition in the TDRA field of the DCI, and the UE may determine implicit TDRAs for the other repetitions based on the explicit TDRA. In a second implementation, the base station may indicate a total TDRA for the full set of repetitions in the TDRA field, and the UE may divide the total TDRA into individual TDRAs for the repetitions. The UE may receive the downlink data repetitions based on determining the TDRAs and may transmit a feedback message in response based on a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) codebook.
US12143995B2
Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing techniques for a user equipment (UE) to transmit a configured grant (CG) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) including an uplink control information (UCI) without transmitting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The UE determines, based on a configuration received from the base station, a first set of CG PUSCHs. Each CG PUSCH of the first set of CG PUSCHs overlaps with the PUCCH, and is configured to transmit data from the UE to the base station. The UE further determines a second set of CG PUSCHs by excluding a third set of CG PUSCHs from the first set of CG PUSCHs. and select a CG PUSCH from the second set of CG PUSCHs to carry the UCI contained in the PUCCH. The UE further transmits the selected CG PUSCH including the UCI without transmitting the PUCCH.
US12143985B2
This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. A terminal: receives a first uplink grant from a network device; sends first uplink data in to-be-sent data to the network device by using the first uplink grant; receives a second uplink grant from the network device; and sends second uplink data to the network device by using the second uplink grant, where the second uplink data is at least a part of uplink data in the to-be-sent data except the first uplink data, where the terminal is in a first state, and where the first state includes an idle state or an inactive state. The embodiments of this application help reduce a latency in a data transmission process.
US12143978B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for PDCCH enhancements for group-based paging indications. A user equipment device may be configured to receive, from a network, an indication of a paging occasion via a PG-RNTI and/or via at least 6 bits of a DCI. A value of the PG-RNTI may be associated with the paging occasion as well as a set of UEs, including the UE. The UE may be configured to monitor the paging occasion based on the value of the PG-RNTI and receive, during the paging occasion, a paging indication via at least six bits of a DCI, where each bit of the at least six bits may indicate a paging indication for a particular set of UEs and the particular set of UEs may be a subset of the set of UEs. The UE may also be configured to, in response to determining that the UE has a paging message, decode a corresponding PDSCH.
US12143976B2
A configuration for configuring and updating the spatial relationship of multiple physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources in a single message, thereby reducing signaling overhead. A user equipment (UE) constructs a message associated with at least one of a plurality of component carriers (CCs) or a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs) indicating a same spatial relation for the at least one of the plurality of CCs or the plurality of BWPs. The UE transmits the message to a base station. The base station transmits a message to the UE configuring multiple spatial parameters for the at least one of the plurality of CCs, the plurality of BWPs, or a plurality of uplink/downlink resources.
US12143969B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication by a first network entity. The techniques may generally involve generating a message having a section with entries that represent time and frequency resources for transmitting data and reference signals over a fronthaul interface using modulation compression, transmitting the message to a second network entity via the fronthaul interface, and processing data and reference signal transmissions on the fronthaul interface in accordance with the section.
US12143962B2
A method of performing a paging reception and a UE using the same are provided. The method includes: receiving a paging message, wherein the paging message comprises a first list; determining whether a UE identity of the UE included in the first list; determining whether a paging cause corresponding to the UE identity indicated by a second list of the paging message after determining that the UE identity included in the first list; and forwarding the paging cause to an upper layer of the UE in response to the paging cause being indicated by the second list.
US12143960B2
Aspects include systems and methods for compressed direct current (DC) location reporting, such as DC location reporting in uplink (UL) carrier aggregation (CA) deployments in a wireless network. Various aspects may include a UE computing device determining and indicating DC locations only for a subset of a plurality of component carriers (CCs) in a channel bandwidth to a base station and/or a UE computing device determining and indicating DC locations for a subset of activation permutations for bandwidth parts (BWPs) of a plurality of CCs in a channel bandwidth that is less than all possible activation permutations of the BWPs of the plurality of CCs in the channel bandwidth.
US12143958B2
A method for state estimation of a UE connected to a wireless communication network, comprising obtaining (S1) of measurement information related to a 5 range-related measurement concerning a UE. The measurement information comprises data of the range-related measurement, a time at which the range-related measurement was performed, an identity of the UE and data enabling determination of a measuring position. The range-related measurement consists of data defining a distance between the UE and the measuring 10 position. A state estimation of the UE is performed (S2) based on the measurement information. Methods for propagating the measurement information through the network are also disclosed as well as network nodes performing such method.
US12143947B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify a first transmit power limit based at least in part on at least one of a specific absorption rate limit, a maximum permissible exposure limit, or a power density limit. The UE may modify, based at least in part on a scaling factor associated with a time interval, the first transmit power limit to obtain a modified first transmit power limit. The UE may transmit a signal based at least in part on the modified first transmit power limit. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12143945B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to power spectral density (PSD) limit. A device may generate a frame comprising one or more elements to be sent to a first station device, wherein the frame is to be sent using a 6 GHz band. The device may include in the frame, information associated with a PSD limit on a per bandwidth size basis of the 6 GHz band. The device may cause to send the frame to the first station device.
US12143935B2
The present disclosure relates to: a communication technique for merging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates than 4G systems; and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technologies. The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for transmitting a power saving signal.
US12143906B2
A method performed by a vehicle to everything application enabler (VAE) client of a wireless device for using a service in a wireless communication network for vehicle to anything (V2X) wireless devices. The VAE client receives, from a V2X application specific client, a V2X message of a service with a service ID; and determines a network node for receiving an uplink V2X message based on the service ID. The VAE client further transmits the uplink V2X message to the determined network node with the service ID.
US12143899B2
Example message transmission methods and apparatus are provided. One example method includes obtaining a first correspondence by a core network device, where the first correspondence includes a correspondence between target device information and first time sensitive networking (TSN) domain information. The target device information is used to identify a target device, and the first TSN domain information is used to identify a TSN domain to which a first TSN device belongs. The core network device receives a multicast message from a second TSN device, where the multicast message includes second TSN domain information which is used to identify a TSN domain to which the second TSN device belongs. The core network device sends the multicast message to the target device when determining, based on the second TSN domain information and the first correspondence, that the second TSN device and the first TSN device belong to a same TSN domain.
US12143892B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, devices, and computer programs for determining a change in a position and/or orientation of a mobile apparatus. In an aspect, described is a method of determining a change in a position and/or orientation of a mobile apparatus that includes: acquiring a first data stream indicating a first estimated change in at least one of a position or an orientation of the mobile apparatus in respective ones of a plurality of time frames; acquiring a second data stream indicating a second estimated change in the at least one of the position or the orientation of the mobile apparatus in the respective ones of the plurality of time frames; and determining a change in the at least one of the position or the orientation of the mobile apparatus using the first estimated change or the second estimated change.
US12143890B2
Methods and devices useful in performing precise indoor localization and tracking are provided. By way of example, a method includes locating and tracking, via a first wireless electronic device, a plurality of other wireless electronic devices within an indoor environment. Location ambiguity mitigation is performed using characteristics of signals received by a reference node used to generate a radio frequency map of electronic devices.
US12143889B2
Disclosed is a technique of determining a measure of proximity between two devices (4, 6). A method implementation of the technique comprises obtaining a first device signature comprising an indication of a first point in time and a first parameter characteristic of a first measurement performed by a first sensor (10) comprised in the first device (4); obtaining a second device signature comprising an indication of a second point in time and a second parameter characteristic of a second measurement performed by a second sensor (12) comprised in the second device (6); and determining, based on the first device signature and the second device signature, the measure of proximity between the first device (4) and the second device (6).
US12143874B2
A core network apparatus in which a communication terminal is connected to an appropriate service network without depending on network identification information is provided. A core network apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to acquire, when a service network that provides a service for a communication terminal and the communication terminal are connected to each other, identification information of the communication terminal and identification information of a base station included in a connection request message transmitted from the base station connected to the communication terminal; a control unit configured to determine whether a first service associated with the identification information of the communication terminal coincides with a second service associated with the identification information of the base station; and a transmission unit configured to transmit connection information of a service network that provides the second service to the base station when the first service coincides with the second service.
US12143873B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a mobility robustness implementation method, a device, and an apparatus, used to detect unnecessary handover from a 5GS to an EPS. The method comprises: a first network-side apparatus determining first measurement information after a terminal has performed inter-system handover; and sending the determined first measurement information to a second network-side apparatus, such that the second network-side apparatus notifies, according to the first measurement information, the terminal to continue measuring a cell signal under a source system of the inter-system handover. In the method, when inter-system handover occurs, the first network-side apparatus enables the terminal to continue measuring the cell signal under the source system by means of the first measurement information, thereby determining whether the terminal has performed an unnecessary handover.
US12143869B2
This application provides a communication method and apparatus, to help a terminal device obtain a better service. The method includes: sending, by an access network device, an initial user equipment UE message to a core network device; and receiving, by the access network device, an initial context setup request message sent by the core network device, where the initial context setup request message includes first information, and the first information is used to indicate at least one network slice preferentially used by a terminal device.
US12143868B2
A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing sidelink communication by a UE. The method may comprise the steps of: performing sidelink communication on the basis of a first RAT; switching an RAT for the sidelink communication from the first RAT to a second RAT; and performing the sidelink communication on the basis of the second RAT.
US12143854B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a data transmission method, apparatus and device, the method includes: sending, by a first device, first indication information to a second device if the first device does not receive a data packet sent by a data source device in a first time slot successfully, where the first device and the second device are configured to receive the data packet sent by the data source device in a same time slot; receiving the data packet sent by the data source device or the second device when the second device receives the data packet sent by the data source device in the first time slot successfully; and receiving the data packet sent by the data source device when the second device does not receive the data packet sent by the data source device in the first time slot successfully. The reliability of data transmission is improved.
US12143847B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure enable a user equipment (UE) to perform measurement object (MO) merging for channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) layer 3 (L3) measurements. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12143841B2
The base station simulator 10 as a signal analysis device performs communication with the UE 70 by simulating a base station to test the operation of the communication function of the UE 70, and includes a reception unit 21a that receives a signal to be measured modulated by an OFDM method from the UE 70; an analog signal processing unit 22 that calculates signal data of the signal to be measured received by the reception unit 21a; a data analysis unit 27c that calculates power of the signal data for each frequency in each time, based on the signal data; and an analysis result display unit 28c that displays a distribution of the power of the signal data on a time axis and a frequency axis.
US12143833B2
An example method of testing a cell site includes capturing a transmission from a radio at the cell site on a mobile device located at the cell site, receiving position data on the mobile device while capturing the transmission, and verifying that the position data identifies the cell site on the mobile device. The mobile device receives a signal from the radio at the cell site at a frequency and validates a measurement of a voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) of the signal at the frequency. The mobile device validates a power up of the radio at the cell site without detecting an alarm, and the mobile device validates that a connection on a port of an antenna at the cell site is coupled to a low-band connection or a high-band connection.
US12143825B2
One example method includes an optimized approach to real-time utilization, data transfer, data storage, and transience in a T Hz-enabled zone that may be implemented in edge networks, data management, and machine learning. Multiple policies can be enforced based on new sets of attributes such as data type, location, and device movement within a zone or between zones.
US12143816B2
Disclosed are example methods, systems, and devices that allow for the generation and provisioning of digital credentials, which may demonstrate that a trusted entity has validated individual identity attributes, or sets of attributes, of a user. Digital credentials may also demonstrate one or more extrapolations resulting from deductions or inductions from validated identity attributes. A receiver device may indicate which identity attributes or extrapolations are sought by displaying a QR or other code and/or via a transmission using NFC or other wireless communication, and a user device may access corresponding digital attributes in an ID wallet to be provisioned via code or transmission. Digital credentials may restrict uses and usability of identity attributes. Cryptographic keys and/or distributed ledger records may allow recipients to verify authenticity of digital credentials. The same identity attribute may be proven by showing validation by multiple selectable trusted entities.
US12143801B2
An audio asset library containing audio assets formatted in accordance with a file format for spatial audio includes asset metadata that enables simulated reality (SR) application developers to compose sounds for use in SR applications. The audio assets are formatted to include audio data encoding a sound capable of being composed into a SR application along with asset metadata describing not only how the sound was encoded, but also how a listener in SR environment experiences the sound. A SR developer platform is configured so that developers can compose sound for SR objects using audio assets stored in the audio library, including editing the asset metadata to include transformation parameters that support dynamic transformation of the asset metadata in the SR environment to alter how the SR listener experiences the composed sound. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US12143799B2
Provided is an acoustic signal encoding method capable of encoding an acoustic signal having a large number of channels at a sufficient bit rate. In this acoustic signal encoding method, the acoustic signal of a plurality of channels are encoded by executing encoding device. Firstly, the masking threshold corresponding to the spatial masking effect of hearing is calculated. Then, the amount of information for allocating the acoustic signal of the plurality of channels to each channel is determined by the calculated masking threshold. Then, the acoustic signal of the plurality of channels are encoded with the amount of information allocated to each. This makes it possible to encode the acoustic signal of the plurality of channels at a sufficient bit rate.
US12143795B2
An electronic device including a speaker with a porous sheet, a speaker is provided. The electronic device includes a main body, a sound generator, which includes a voice coil, a sound body surrounding the voice coil, and a terminal that is at least partially exposed to an outside of the sound body, a printed circuit board (PCB) connected to the terminal and extending outwardly from the main body, and a porous sheet inserted into the main body and spaced apart from the terminal.
US12143776B2
An external device of a prosthesis, including an electronics component, which can be a sound processor of a hearing prosthesis, and a power component, which can be a battery, the power component being removably attached to the electronics component, wherein the BTE device is configured with electrostatic discharge protection between the electronics component and the power component.
US12143762B2
In an embodiment, an earphone having a solid earphone body is provided. A first mounting recess is formed in a first end of the earphone body. A first acoustic driver is disposed in the first mounting recess. At least a first sound bore is formed in the solid earphone body. The at least a first sound bore fluidly communicates with the first mounting recess and a first exit port formed at a second end of the earphone body. The second end of the earphone body is configured to be placed in an ear canal of a user. The earphone can be fabricated by a method that includes defining negative spaces for the first acoustic driver and the at least a first sound bore in a virtual model of the earphone body.
US12143755B2
An image processing device includes: a first processor configured to perform image processing on an inputted image, the image processing including diagnostic process; a second processor configured to perform selection processing to select and transmit a portion of the inputted image to an external image processing apparatus connected to an external network; and an interface configured to receive a processing result of the diagnostic process by the external image processing apparatus.
US12143754B2
A position and pose determination unit (103) is configured to determine a position and an pose of the video acquisition unit (110) in such a way that a level of hiding caused by overlapping of objects becomes low based on environmental object information indicating an environmental object including a structural object present in the monitored area and a placed object placed in the structural object, and staying characteristic information indicating a staying characteristic of the object determined depending on the environmental object. The analysis and display unit (111) is configured to perform at least one of analyzing a video captured by the video acquisition unit (103) at the position and the pose determined by the position and pose determination unit (110) and displaying the video.
US12143748B1
A mounting system capable of mounting objects to support structures. The mounting system includes a wall mount including a display bracket configured to hold the object, a fixed support bracket coupleable to a vertical support structure, and a linkage assembly. The linkage assembly has a low-profile stowed configuration in which the object is held in a raised position close to the support structure. The linkage assembly moves to another configuration to move the object. The object can be held in a lowered position. A biasing mechanism can facilitate convenient movement of the object.
US12143747B2
Systems and methods are provided for presenting subtitles. The systems and methods include accessing, by a user device, a video discovery graphical user interface that includes a plurality of videos; receiving a user input that gradually reduces volume of the user device; determining that the volume of the user device has gradually been reduced by the user input until a mute state has been reached in which audio output of the user device is disabled; and in response to determining that the volume of the user device has gradually been reduced until the mute state has been reached, automatically causing subtitles of a first video of the plurality of videos to be displayed during playback of the first video.
US12143743B2
A pixel includes a photosensitive circuit, a sense node, a first transistor and a first capacitor. A first electrode of the first capacitor is connected to a control terminal of the first transistor. A second electrode of the first capacitor is to a node of application of a first control signal.
US12143742B2
Solid-state imaging elements are disclosed. In one example, a solid-state imaging element includes a plurality of pixels. A pixel signal line transmits a pixel signal of a pixel, a reference signal line transmits a reference signal to be compared with the pixel signal, a first comparator outputs a first output signal according to the pixel signal on the basis of a voltage difference between the pixel signal and the reference signal, a second comparator outputs a second output signal according to the pixel signal on the basis of the voltage difference between the pixel signal and the reference signal, a first capacitor unit between the pixel signal line or the reference signal line and the first comparator and set to a first gain, and a second capacitor unit between the pixel signal line or the reference signal line and the second comparator and set to a second gain.
US12143737B2
A photoelectric converter includes a structure in which a first substrate and a second substrate are stacked, wherein a pixel array including a plurality of pixels is arranged on the first substrate, and at least part of a sample-and-hold circuit configured to sample and hold a signal output from the pixel array is arranged on the first substrate, and wherein at least part of a delta-sigma AD converter configured to convert an analog signal output from the sample-and-hold circuit into a digital signal is arranged on the second substrate.
US12143732B2
An image processing method and a related electronic device. The method includes: starting a camera in response to a first operation; acquiring, by the camera, a first image in response to a second operation; performing first image processing on the first image to obtain a second image in a second color space; obtaining a second parameter based on a first parameter of a first ambient light source, where the first parameter includes a white balance parameter of the first ambient light source, the second parameter is used to identify light source information of the first ambient light source in a third color space, and the third color space is different from the first color space and the second color space; performing second image processing on the second image based on the second parameter to obtain a target image; and storing the target image.
US12143727B2
A composite reception and emission apparatus comprises: a plurality of first-type devices that receives or emits energy; a plurality of second-type devices whose type is different from a type of the first-type devices; and a base body. The first-type devices and the second-type devices measure a full solid angle, and are arranged on the base body such that a device closest to each of the first-type devices in an orientation space is at least one of the second-type devices, and a device closest to each of the second-type devices in the orientation space is at least one of the first-type devices.
US12143710B2
An electronic apparatus and a method by which the electronic apparatus provides recommendation information related to photography are provided. The method includes identifying a subject included in a preview image recognized by a first camera, obtaining information of the identified subject, obtaining information related to light in surroundings of the identified subject, determining a recommended photographing composition based on the information of the identified subject and the information related to the light in the surroundings of the subject, and providing information about the determined recommended photographing composition.
US12143706B2
A wearable device includes a dial plate, a watch body and an angle detection member. The dial plate is provided with an accommodating groove. The watch body is at least partially disposed in the accommodating groove and is rotatably connected to the dial plate, and the watch body is provided with a functional component. The angle detection member includes an annular resistor and a conductive connector electrically connected to the annular resistor. One of the annular resistor and the conductive connector is disposed at the dial plate, and the other is disposed at the watch body. The annular resistor is in sliding connection with the conductive connector.
US12143702B2
The imaging apparatus comprises a retractable structure with active and inactive positions. An outermost lens group and a lens group actuator are movable along an optical axis. In the inactive position the lens group and the lens group actuator reside close to an image sensor. The lens group actuator is positioned to the same level as the image sensor. In the active position the outermost lens group and the lens group actuator are further from the image sensor along the optical axis. The retractable structure may protrude from the device, covering the imaging apparatus. In one example the structure is reversed, the image sensor protrudes from the device while the outermost lens group is fixed to the device body.
US12143701B2
An image capturing module including an image capturing unit, a lens set and a first adhesive layer is provided. The lens set is disposed on the image capturing unit. The lens set has a light incident surface and a light emitting surface opposite to each other and has at least one side surface, the light emitting surface faces the image capturing unit, and the side surface is connected between the light incident surface and the light emitting surface. The first adhesive layer covers the side surface of the lens set. In addition, a manufacturing method of the image capturing module is also provided.
US12143698B2
A method creating a high-speed hyperspectral video by acquiring images from a hyperspectral high speed camera and forming a of a three-dimensional data cube by including spectra for each pixel in addition to a two-dimensional spatial information of an image taken with a general camera. Dividing successive three-dimensional data cubes obtained by photographing images with a spectral scanning type hyperspectral camera. Acquiring the three-dimensional data cubes for each specific time point and creating three-dimensional data cubes for as many as the number of spectra. Then separating a region corresponding to a moving object and a region corresponding to a background from the created data cubes. Acquiring spectral values according to spatial locations of the images and reconstructing a three-dimensional data cube with all spectral values for each specific time point with regard to the region with motion through a generative adversarial network algorithm.
US12143693B2
A method and apparatus for publishing multimedia data, and a device and a medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring to-be-published multimedia data; in response to acquiring a multimedia publishing request from a first multimedia platform, sending the multimedia publishing request to a second multimedia platform indicated by the multimedia publishing request, where the multimedia publishing request is configured to request the second multimedia platform to publish to-be-published multimedia data; and publishing the to-be-published multimedia data on the first multimedia platform and sending the to-be-published multimedia data to the second multimedia platform.
US12143688B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for utilizing a content recommendation system powering a streaming media publisher channel to enhance an ad creative being shown to the user via awareness or performance campaigns. This method allows the platform to present the most relevant Machine Language (ML) personalized in-channel content to the publisher platform users in endemic banners that run on the platform which then correspondingly helps drive user reach. An example embodiment operates by implementing personalized content banners that may act as a hook for channel users opening their streaming device, both active and lapsed, to enter back into the channel.
US12143687B2
Media streaming connections are maintained even when media playback is paused or otherwise temporarily halted through the use of dummy segments that are delivered via the media streaming connection, thereby preventing non-use of the connection. In some implementations, the dummy segments are requested by the media client device. In other implementations, dummy segments are transmitted by the media server device when no other requests are received, when notification of paused playback is received, or when conditions otherwise warrant. The dummy segments may be relatively blank, contain redundant imagery, or otherwise be easily compressible to reduce bandwidth consumption on the network. Received dummy segments are recognized and discarded by the media player device, as appropriate.
US12143678B2
Methods and apparatuses that utilize machine learning techniques to dynamically adjust the placement of secondary content that is displayed across numerous user devices over time are described. The user devices may comprise electronic computing devices, such as a mobile phones and digital televisions. The secondary content may be displayed within open slots of webpages or display screens in response to being selected for display during a real-time bidding process for the open slots. In some cases, in response to a bid request for an open slot within a webpage or display screen, a computer-implemented bid generation system for determining the selection and placement of secondary content may identify the secondary content to be displayed within the open slot, determine a bid amount for the identified secondary content, and transmit a bid response that includes the bid amount and the identified secondary content.
US12143677B2
In some embodiments, a method selects an account associated with an application that is displaying content. A plurality of contact options is retrieved where the contact options in the plurality of contact options are able to receive pull notifications for the account. The method ranks the plurality of contact options based on information associated with the account and generates a plurality of pull notification options using the ranking of the plurality of contact options. The plurality of pull notification options is output to the application for display on the application. A pull notification option in the plurality of pull notification options is associated with information to cause an associated contact option to be contacted upon selection of the pull notification option.
US12143652B2
The transcoding of a contribution feed into a plurality of output feeds in various formats can be monitored to ensure that unnecessary data is not transmitted in the contribution feed. Each output feed can be transcoded using respective values for a set of video format parameters. These values can be aggregated and analyzed to determine the lowest values for individual parameters that are being used for the various output feeds. A video encoder for the contribution feed can then dynamically modify the video format parameters used to encode the contribution feed in order to avoid encoding and transmitting data that is not actually used for these output streams, which can conserve resources such as network bandwidth, or enable those resources to be used more advantageously to send data that will actually result in higher quality video presentation in the output formats for current limitations or conditions.
US12143641B2
A video processing method is provided. The method includes: performing a conversion between a video including a plurality of pictures each including at least one slice and a bitstream of the video, wherein the bitstream conforms to a format rule. The format rule specifies that a first flag in the bitstream indicates whether a picture header syntax structure of a picture is included in a slice header of a slice of the picture; and responsive to any of six flags in a picture parameter set associated with the picture is equal to 1, the first flag is equal to 0.
US12143635B2
An encoder, decoder, encoding method and decoding method for 3DoF+ video are disclosed. The encoding method comprises receiving (110) multi-view image or video data comprising a basic view and at least a first additional view of a scene. The method proceeds by identifying (220) pixels in the first additional view that need to be encoded because they contain scene-content that is not visible in the basic view. The first additional view is divided (230) into a plurality of first blocks of pixels. First blocks containing at least one of the identified pixels are retained (240); and first blocks that contain none of the identified pixels are discarded. The retained blocks are rearranged (250) so that they are contiguous in at least one dimension. A packed additional view is generated (260) from the rearranged first retained blocks and encoded (264).
US12143632B2
Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes matrix-based intra prediction methods for video coding, are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes encoding a current video block of a video using a matrix intra prediction (MIP) mode in which a prediction block of the current video block is determined by performing, on previously coded samples of the video, a boundary downsampling operation, followed by a matrix vector multiplication operation, and selectively followed by an upsampling operation; and adding, to a coded representation of the current video block, a syntax element indicative of applicability of the MIP mode to the current video block using arithmetic coding in which a context for the syntax element is derived based on a rule.
US12143631B2
This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for an adaptive resolution change. According to an aspect of an invention, a motion compensation interpolation filter is selected based on a value of a scaling factor, wherein the motion compensation interpolation filter is specified by 16 fractional sample positions and 8 interpolation filter coefficients corresponding to each of the fractional sample position.
US12143627B2
Devices, systems, and methods for asymmetric weighted bi-predictive merging in video coding are described. In a representative aspect, a method for decoding video data includes determining that a current video block of the video data is predicted from an asymmetric bi-predictive merge candidate, where different weights are used for a first reference block and a second reference block, and making, based on the determination, a determination between enabling and disabling a coding tool for the current video block. In a case that the current video block is predicted from an asymmetric bi-predictive merge candidate, the coding tool is not applied to the current video block.
US12143607B2
A method comprising obtaining a bitstream, the bitstream comprises a transform unit syntax and a coding unit syntax, the transform unit syntax includes a value of a first flag and a value of a second flag related to, respectively, a first chroma transform block and a second chroma transform block of a current transform unit or a current sub-transform unit within the current transform unit, the first or second flag specifies whether the first or second chroma transform block contains at least one transform coefficient levels not equal to 0, the coding unit syntax includes a value of a third flag specifying whether a transform tree structure is present or not; and deriving a value of a fourth flag based on the values of the first, second, and third flags, the fourth flag specifies whether a luma transform block contains at least one transform coefficient levels not equal to 0.
US12143605B2
Transform modes are derived for inter-predicted blocks using side information. A prediction residual is generated for a current video block using a reference frame. Side information associated with one or both of the current video block or the reference frame is identified. A trained transform is determined from amongst multiple trained transforms based on the side information, in which each of the trained transforms is determined using individual side information types and combinations of the individual side information types and the side information represents values of one of the individual side information types or one of the combinations of the individual side information types. The prediction residual is transformed according to the trained transform, and data associated with the transformed prediction residual and the side information are encoded to a bitstream.
US12143603B2
Provided is a video decoding method including obtaining split information indicating whether a current block is to be split from a bitstream; splitting the current block into two or more sub-blocks when the split information indicates that the current block is to be split; determining lower horizontal coding order information of the sub-blocks of the current block according to higher horizontal coding order information applied to the current block, based on at least one of split information, size information, and neighboring block information of the current block; and decoding the sub-blocks according to the lower horizontal coding order information.
US12143602B2
An information processing apparatus that communicates with a storage device that stores, at a plurality of resolutions, tile images obtained by dividing a picked-up image into a plurality of predetermined regions and to which encoding processing including intra-frame encoding and inter-frame encoding has been performed comprises: a designation unit for designating a predetermined region of the picked-up image for a preset tour in advance; a request unit for requesting the storage device to transmit the tile image including the predetermined region with higher resolution from among the plurality of resolutions; and a display control unit for cutting out the predetermined region from the tile image and cause a display unit to display the cut-out predetermined region, wherein, when the predetermined region is designated in advance, wherein, when the predetermined region is designated in advance, the request unit requests the storage device to transmit the tile image including the predetermined region.
US12143597B2
Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for decoding a video signal. A decoder partitions a video picture into a plurality of coding units (CUs) comprising a lossless CU. The decoder may further receive a high-level syntax. The high-level syntax may include, for example, a first flag that indicates whether a residual coding scheme is switchable.
US12143595B2
A transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus, a transmission method, a reception method, and a program by which whether or not a GDR technology is to be used can be suitably controlled according to a situation are provided. An acquisition unit sequentially acquires a frame image drawn in a frame buffer. A GDR usage determination unit determines, on the basis of the frame image or a communication situation, whether or not the GDR is to be used. An encode processing unit encodes, according to the determination as to whether or not the GDR is to be used, the frame image into any one of an ordinary I-frame and data including an I-slice in the GDR. A transmission unit transmits the I-frame or the data including an I-slice.
US12143594B2
Compression technology comprises deriving chroma quantization parameter (Qpc) based on luma Qp using luma-to-chroma Qp mapping table. Such a table may be shared by the encoder and the decoder. However, in some cases, signaling such a table in the data stream instead of having it fixed by a standard may be advantageous. The syntax used to encode, signal and decode this table has a cost in terms of bitrate. The present principles propose to signaling of a luma-to-chroma mapping table in the data stream according to different embodiments.
US12143585B2
A video decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving transform coefficients by performing de-quantization on the basis of quantized transform coefficients for a target block; deriving modified transform coefficients on the basis of an inverse reduced secondary transform (RST) of the transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of residual samples for the target block on the basis of an inverse primary transform of the modified transform coefficients, wherein an inverse RST using a transform kernel matrix is performed on transform coefficients of an upper-left 4×4 region of an 8×8 region of the target block, and modified transform coefficients of the upper-left 4×4 region, an upper-right 4×4 region, and a lower-left 4×4 region of the 8×8 region are derived through the inverse RST.
US12143583B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry: performs a transform process of (i) applying a first transform to a prediction residual signal indicating a difference between a current block to be encoded and a prediction image of the current block and (ii) further applying a second transform to a transform result of the first transform; and in the second transform, selects one transform basis (i) from a first group of candidates when a size of the current block is a first block size and (ii) from a second group of candidates when the size of the current block is a second block size different from the first block size, the first group including one or more candidates for a transform basis, the second group being different from the first group.
US12143562B2
An imaging pixel formed by a photodetector connected to a reading circuit comprising: an integration capacitance, a transistor for resetting the integration capacitance, a coupling transistor between the photodetector and the integration capacitance, a memorisation capacitance, a second transistor for resetting the memorisation capacitance, a memorisation switch between the integration capacitance and the memorisation capacitance, to enable different configurations corresponding to different phases of assessing parameters of the pixel and in particular a ratio R=Cint/Cmem.
US12143557B2
Compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) techniques that produce spatially encoded images from a first series of images where each spatially encoded image has first and second views of an image of the first series of images superimposed with a pseudo-random binary spatial pattern, that transform the first view and/or the second view such that the first view is rotated 180° relative to second view, that deflect each spatially encoded image by a temporal deflection distance that varies as a function of time-of-arrival, and that integrate the spatially encoded images into a CUP image.
US12143545B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a case where a utilizer performs a process related to an electronic document, perform highlighted display of an operator for executing an expected process on a display screen based on process content information indicating a content of the expected process expected to be executed on the electronic document.
US12143541B2
Systems and methods for operating a multi-channel intercom system for audio communications between users, with reduced crosstalk, are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive, by a first user station, a modulation carrier signal; capture a first audio signal from a first user, wherein the first audio signal has a first phase; at a rate based on the modulation carrier signal, invert the first phase of the first audio signal to generate a phase-flipped audio signal; transfer the phase-flipped audio signal to a second user station; at a second rate based on the modulation carrier signal, invert a phase of the phase-flipped audio signal to generate an intermediate audio signal; and present a second audio signal based on the intermediate audio signal to the second user.
US12143538B2
A communication logging system facilitates communications between two or more users. A secured database stores communications from each user, and the system notifies the intended recipients of the communications. The system records times of creation of the communications, times of access to the communications, and who created and/or accessed the communications. The communications may not be altered or deleted once recorded, so there is a permanent source of reliable evidence as to the content of the communications and information associated therewith.
US12143537B1
Apparatuses and methods concerning providing a data-communications virtual assistant are disclosed. As an example, one apparatus includes a data-communications server. The data communications server is configured to process user-data-communication between a client station and another client station participating in data-communications via the data-communications server, where each client station is associated with one client entity. The server is also configured to identify a context for each user-data-communication between the client station and the other client station, where the context corresponds to at least one communications-specific characteristic associated with the user-data-communication.
US12143536B2
Embodiments for intelligently matching a user to an agent for a communication session are disclosed. In one example, a system that comprises a computing device that is configured to initiate a first communication session with a first agent client device and generate interaction data associated with the user from the first communication session. A user segment classification is determined for a user account. A user request is received to initiate a second communication. The computing device identifies an agent account of a second agent to participate in the second data communication session. T second communication session is initiated between a client device and a second agent client device associated with the agent account.
US12143532B2
One example method of operation may include determining a call received from a calling party and intended for a subscriber device has an elevated likelihood of being a scam call, determining a percentage of calls over a current period of time being filtered as scam calls by a carrier server, when the percentage of calls being filtered as scam calls during the current period of time is above a call threshold percentage, retrieving call history information associated with a subscriber profile of the subscriber device, identifying one or more call patterns from the call history information of the subscriber profile corresponding to the received call, and determining whether to permit the received call based on the identified one or more call patterns.
US12143529B2
A system and method for programmatically managing device connectivity to a network that includes provisioning connectivity devices with an account of a communication platform, where for a set of the connectivity devices, provisioning includes uniquely associating network operating identifiers of each of the connectivity devices with a corresponding programmatic device resource in the communication platform, setting communication metering properties in a programmatic connectivity plan resource in the communication platform and associating the connectivity plan resource to at least a subset of the device resources of the connectivity devices, and activating network communication status of the connectivity devices; servicing communications from the connectivity devices; and programmatically managing the communications from the connectivity devices through at least the device resources and the connectivity plan resources.
US12143528B2
A node of a wireless communication network (150; 160; 170; 210; 220; 230; 240) receives an indication from a user equipment (10). The indication indicates that a limitation of volume charged packet data services is required for the user equipment (10). Depending on the received indication, the node (150; 160; 170; 210; 220; 230; 240) prevents transmission of packet data associated with the volume charged packet data services and allows transmission of packet data associated with one or more other packet data services.
US12143525B2
The present application provides an electronic device, including a cover plate, a display screen, and a support, where the cover plate and the display screen are stacked and disposed around the support, the cover plate includes a first region and a second region, the second region is located between an edge of the cover plate and the first region, the display screen is located between the first region and the support, elastic convex portions are disposed between the second region and the support, and the elastic convex portion each elastically abut between the second region and the support. In the present application, through the arrangement of the elastic convex portions between the second region of the cover plate and the support, a problem that the support impacts on the cover plate in a process of assembling the electronic device is resolved, and an assembly yield of the electronic device is improved.
US12143517B2
The invention discloses a challenge screening method for improving the stability of a strong Physical Unclonable Function (PUF). If the stability of the group of challenges (GOCs) is quantized by 1 or 0, the GOCs are defined as stable challenges or unstable challenges respectively; the GOCs and the stability of corresponding responses are defined as a challenge-stability pair (CSP); a machining learning training dataset is constructed through CSPs for obtaining a screening model, to associate the challenge stability with the screening model; during actual application of the strong PUF, the challenge stability of a strong PUF is determined through the screening model, and stable challenges of the strong PUF are screened out to form a stable challenge set, which is input into the strong PUF to extract identity information. The challenge screening method can effectively improve the stability of various strong PUFs and has better effect with external disturbance increasing.
US12143513B2
An apparatus for a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) service establishes a secure session with a V2X server by using a transport layer security (TLS) handshake on the basis of an X.509 certificate of the V2X server. The apparatus generates a signed V2X message having a digital signature generated on the basis of a pseudonym certificate. The apparatus encodes the signed V2X message on the basis of the X.509 certificate.
US12143508B2
A blockchain application creates, stores and retrieves digital certificate information for online meetings with hashing and blockchains. The created plural digital certificates are secure, tamper proof, sharable on social media, loadable on electronic devices, storable in digital wallets, revocable and can also have an expiration date and time.
US12143503B2
Disclosed is technology that verifies, in pairwise manner, proof of ownership-association of decentralized online resources owned by or affiliated with a single entity by visiting a first resource using a first location identifier, ingesting a first scannable image that contains a first plurality of assertions of ownership of online resources by a single entity and extracting a first public key of the first resource. The technology also visits a second resource using a second location identifier, ingests a second scannable image that contains a second plurality of assertions and extracts a second public key of the second resource. Then, the technology verifies, using the first public key, a signature from the first complementary assertion, verifies, using the second public key, a signature from the second complementary assertion, and determines, based on the pair of verifications, whether the first and second resources are owned by a single entity.
US12143502B2
A computer-implemented method, comprising: dividing a first binary image into a plurality of variable-sized chunks, wherein the first binary image is an aggregate of a plurality of files, and wherein the dividing does not depend on file boundaries; and computing hashes of the variable-sized chunks, and storing the hashes in a content addressable storage (CAS) with the hashes as keys.
US12143501B2
In embodiments detailed herein describe an encryption architecture with fast zero support (e.g., FZ-MKTME) to allow memory encryption and integrity architecture to work efficiently with 3DXP or other far memory memories. In particular, an encryption engine for the purpose of fast zeroing in the far memory controller is detailed along with mechanisms for consistent key programming of this engine. For example, an instruction is detailed which allows software to send keys protected even when the controller is located outside of a system on a chip (SoC), etc.
US12143493B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which utilize authentication tokens recorded to a blockchain to identify and/or authenticate participants of a network-based communication session such as a network-based meeting. When joining the meeting, the participant may provide a token recorded on a blockchain to the communication service from the blockchain. The communication service may then identify and/or authenticate the user based upon the provided token. Various user-specific customizations and settings may then be applied and the user may be admitted to the meeting without having to enter a waiting room and be explicitly let in.
US12143489B2
Provided is a communication system including: a first device configured to transmit encrypted information that is encrypted by using a first encryption key; and a second device configured to execute a predetermined process based on the encrypted information obtained from the first device, and a second encryption key that is common to the first encryption key. The first device includes a first change section configured to change the first encryption key in the case where a first condition is satisfied. The second device includes a second change section configured to change the second encryption key in the case where a second condition is satisfied, the second condition being common to the first condition.
US12143488B2
A system enables secure communication between a first and a second communicator on a communication channel. The system can use multiple rotating cryptographic keys that are rotating according to a predetermined schedule to encrypt the communication between the first and the second communicator. The system can record the authority associated with the communication channel on a block chain. To determine whether the first and the second communicator have the authority to access the communication channel, the system can compute the authority of the first and the second communicator by checking the block chain from an initial block to a last block. The system can encrypt multiple communications sent via the communication channel using the multiple rotating cryptographic keys and can send the communications via the communication channel.
US12143484B2
The present application relates to networking technologies, communication cube technologies, and, more particularly, to methods, apparatus, techniques, and means for communication security, encryption, and privacy in network communications.
US12143483B2
In an embodiment, processing of biometric data is split between a processor on a peripheral device and a processor of a host device that is coupled with the peripheral device. One embodiment provides a method comprising, on a peripheral device coupled with a host device, capturing biometric data using a biometric sensor of a peripheral device and pre-processing the captured biometric data using a processor of the peripheral device. The processor of the peripheral device is separate from a processor of the host device and resides within a chassis or housing of the peripheral device. The method additionally includes pre-validating the pre-processed biometric data to determine whether the pre-processed biometric data meets a minimum quality threshold and transmitting the pre-validated biometric data to the host device for validation.
US12143467B2
Some embodiments are directed to a computer-implemented method (500) of determining a set of coefficients for homomorphically multiplying an encrypted value by a scalar. The encrypted value is represented by multiple respective value ciphertexts encrypting the value multiplied by respective powers of an even radix. The scalar multiplication is performed as a linear combination of the multiple respective value ciphertexts according to the set of coefficients. The set of coefficients are determined as digits of a radix decomposition of the scalar with respect to the radix. The determined digits lie between minus half the radix, inclusive, and plus half the radix, inclusive. It is ensured that no two subsequent digits are both equal in absolute value to half the radix.
US12143464B2
There is provided mechanisms for communicating non-IP data over a PDN of PDN type IPv4, IPv6, or IPv4IPv6. A method is performed by a core network gateway node. The method comprises communicating IP packets over a packet data network of PDN type IPv4, IPv6, or IPv4IPv6 with an application server, the IP packets comprising an IP header and being addressed to a wireless device. The method comprises communicating header-less payload packets over the packet data network with the wireless device. The header-less payload packets correspond to the IP packets having the IP header removed and represent the non-IP data.
US12143460B2
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both. The partition into slices may be overlapping or non-overlapping, and the same slice (or the whole content) may be fetched via multiple tunnel devices.
US12143459B2
Systems and methods for providing an aspirational safe driving incentive to drivers having the propensity or ability to improve high risk driving behaviors are provided. Drivers exhibiting high risk driving behaviors may be identified, and initial vehicle telematics data associated with each of the drivers may be collected and analyzed in order to determine which drivers have propensity or ability to improve their high risk driving behaviors. These candidate drivers may receive a probationary safe driving incentive along with feedback configured to improve the drivers' high risk driving behaviors. Updated vehicle telematics data associated with each candidate driver may be collected in order to evaluate an extent to which each candidate driver has improved his or her high risk driving behaviors. Accordingly, a candidate driver's probationary safe driving incentive may be modified or maintained based on the extent to which the candidate has improved upon high risk driving behaviors.
US12143455B2
An ID management server acquires a plurality of user IDs respectively identifying a plurality of users associated with a group ID identifying a group to which the users belong, acquires, by using the user IDs, at least one service information piece about at least one available service among a plurality of service information pieces about a plurality of services available for each of the user IDs, and outputs the acquired at least one service information piece in the group to a shared terminal shared by the users associated with the group ID to cause the shared terminal to show the at least one service information piece in the group.
US12143453B2
Hybrid edge computing that includes a nimble framework that identifies services for available in a marketplace. The nimble framework defines a location for computing the services selected from the group consisting of a center server, an edge provision server and an edge node. The hybrid edge computing further includes a third party provider making are request for a service to the nimble framework. The hybrid edge computing further includes a virtualized service being provided by the nimble framework to the third party provider including a matched service to the third party provider request for the service, and an optimal location for computing.
US12143445B2
A distributed data storage system that includes endpoint nodes, gateway nodes, and one or more gateway name servers. A gateway name server receives from clients resolution requests to resolve to a gateway node and resolves the resolution requests to a gateway node address of a gateway node. A gateway node receives client requests to access an endpoint node and redirects the requests to endpoint nodes identified by a gateway node whose address was resolved to by a gateway name server. An endpoint node receives from a client a retrieval request to retrieve data based on being redirected to the endpoint node. When a retrieval request is received and the endpoint node stores the data, the endpoint node sends the data to the client. When a retrieval request is received and the endpoint node does not store the data, the endpoint node forwards the retrieval request to another endpoint node.
US12143439B2
A method for managing application migration includes: inferring dependencies and connectivity among applications executing on a distributed system, in which the applications are operatively connected through a network; generating a target infrastructure node (IN) configuration template based on the inferred dependencies and connectivity; making a determination that a configuration of a target IN satisfies the target IN configuration template, in which an application is executing on an IN, in which the application is not executing on the target IN, in which the distributed system comprises the IN and the target IN; initiating migration, based on the determination, the application to the target IN.
US12143436B2
Group online communication and collaboration has become part of people's daily life. Therefore, it is critical to provide a meeting initiator to efficiently present his/her information, and control his/her presented information. It is also critical for the speed and efficiently to process the meeting initiator's requests for his/her presented information to be quickly reaching to other meeting participants during a meeting. This invention facilitates a unique user interface (UI) for the meeting initiator to efficiently present information and to control presented information through a unique withdrawing (un-post) operation. Specially, this invention deploys dynamic workspaces technology together with post and un-post (withdraw) operations that greatly improves the speed and efficiency for processing the meeting initiator's requests and for monetizing the meeting activities.
US12143434B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for smart upload automation in which actions are automatically performed on a set of digital assets against a target item. In one embodiment, a system includes a network, a server machine, a client machine and a data storage device, each of which is coupled to the network. The client machine designates digital assets and a target item against which the assets will be uploaded. The digital assets are uploaded by the client machine to the data storage device via the network. The server machine automatically performs actions on the digital assets without intervention by the client machine, where the actions are associated with or in some way defined by the target item. The actions may include setting metadata values of the digital assets based upon metadata associated with the target item, or generating different renditions of the digital assets.
US12143428B2
The disclosed system enables a wideband codec audio call between a mobile device and a wireless telecommunication network support center by ensuring that multiple components of the network participating in the call and multiple legs that make up the call all communicate using the same wideband codec. A leg among the multiple legs is a connection between two components participating in the call. While all the legs making up the call between the caller and the callee have to be wideband, the system can enable any branching legs in the call, for example, those directed to a third party, to be either wideband or narrowband.
US12143427B2
A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message containing a Session Description Protocol (SDP) offer for a communications session is sent to a first endpoint. The SDP offer includes a first parameter indicating whether the communications session will include media encoding TTY data, audio data, or both TTY data and audio data. An error response is received that indicates the device has rejected the first parameter. Based on the error response to the first endpoint, a modified SIP message containing the SDP offer for the communications session is sent to the first endpoint. The SDP offer of the modified message excludes the first parameter indicating whether the communications session will include media encoding TTY data, audio data, or both TTY data and audio data.
US12143414B2
A method comprises generating, by a test application in a test system of the zero trust network, a test packet comprising a unique token identifying the penetration test based on a test log, wherein the test log indicates that the penetration test is to be performed on a communication between a source microsegment and a target microsegment, transmitting, by the test application, the test packet to a policy enforcement point in the target microsegment, wherein a result log stores data, in association with the unique token, regarding at least one of a reception or processing of the test packet by the policy enforcement point, and comparing, by a log application in the test system, the test log and the result log to determine that the test packet has impermissibly passed through the policy enforcement point or been processed by the policy enforcement point.
US12143409B2
Facilitating web page spectroscopy in a communications network is provided herein. A system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise receiving first data that describes a first communication packet flow and second data that describes a second communication packet flow. The operations can also comprise training a model based on the first data and the second data, as a result of which the model is trained to detect respective behaviors represented by the first data and the second. Further, the operations can comprise extracting a common parameter from third data that describes a third communication packet flow and fourth data that describes a fourth communication packet flow based on the model.
US12143406B1
A method for detecting a cyberattack is provided. A set of packet capture training data has data elements labeled as being normal or cyberattack data. Metrics in the data are identified that are associated with either cyberattack data or normal data. Statistical measures are developed from these metrics. The training data and statistical measures are used to train a machine learning network. Real packet capture data is obtained and statistical measures are developed for this real data. The trained machine learning network, real data and real statistical measures are utilized to classify the real data as cyberattack data or normal data. Users are alerted if the trained machine learning data identifies cyberattack data in the real packet capture data.
US12143405B2
There are provided systems and methods for injecting computing code for detection of malicious computing attacks during suspicious device behavior. A service provider, such as an electronic transaction processor for digital transactions, may detect activities of a computing device when using computing services. The service provider may determine that those activities are suspicious or high risk. In order to determine if the computing device is being used by a malicious user, such as to perform an automated computing attack against the service provider, the service provider may determine one or more probes that may be inserted to a corresponding user interface displayable by the computing device. The probe may attempt to differentiate between real human users and automated and/or malicious users. Computing code for the probe may be injected into the computing code for the user interface and may be provided when the user interface is output.
US12143378B2
Systems and methods for providing multi-factor authentication based on visual objects associated with an out of band shared secret delivery channel and at least one user device of a telecommunication network include an access point communicatively coupled to an authentication system. The authentication system is structured to generate a set of visual objects, cause the set of visual objects to be output by a first user device, transmit, via an out of band shared secret delivery channel, a visual object request to cause a secondary user device to output one or more out of band visual objects, receive an indication of object selection from the set of visual objects, determine that the indication of the object selection is associated with a visual selection match among the set of visual objects, and based on the visual selection match, authenticate access to an application associated with the authentication system.
US12143377B2
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor that may determine that an application was accessed through a portal. Based on a determination that the application was accessed through the portal, the processor may determine whether a first credential type or a second credential type was supplied to access the application, in which the first credential type may include a set of personal credentials of a user and the second credential type may include a set of single sign-on credentials that the user may use to access multiple applications. The processor may also output a trace that may indicate an identification of the application that was accessed and the type of the credential supplied to access the application, in which a backed entity may analyze the data included in the trace.
US12143374B2
A method of providing secure communication between first and second devices comprises the first device and the second device connecting to a server via a secure communication channel. Encryption keys for the devices are generated and data relating to the encryption keys are exchanged via the server in the secure communication channel. A peer-to-peer connection for exchanging data is generated using encrypted connection information for the devices.
US12143372B2
A system and method for secure wireless control of a device including, but not limited to, replay attack protection, man-in-the-middle protection, data obfuscation, and challenge-response authentication. The system includes a control device, a controlled device interface, a controlled device, a control device interface, and a wireless link. The controlled device interface and the control device interface manage secure communications between the control device and the controlled device over the wireless link. The controlled device can include a medical device such as, for example, but not limited to, an insulin pump and a wheelchair.
US12143327B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and devices for reference signal (RS) transmission. In example embodiments, a method implemented in a network device is provided. According to the method, a first set of RS resources are determined for RS transmission by the network device. The first set of RS resources are associated with a first number of RS ports to be used for RS transmission and correspond to a first set of resource elements (REs) interpolated with unused REs in frequency domain. A first RS configuration for RS transmission is generated based on the first set of RS resources. Information on the first RS configuration is transmitted to a terminal device served by the network device.
US12143324B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a base station may configure a user equipment (UE) to perform demodulation reference signal (DMRS) enhancement whereby the UE may transmit physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) repetitions with different DMRS densities (e.g., a first DMRS density configuration having a first or default DMRS pattern within a transmission time interval (TTI) that is higher than a second DMRS density configuration having fewer DMRSs than the normal DMRS pattern or no DMRSs within the TTI). The UE may identify TTIs (e.g., slots) that satisfy one or more phase continuity rules, and may perform DMRS enhancement in the identified TTIs, and may restart a mapping sequence indicated in the DMRS mapping pattern at each bundle interval boundary or when consecutive uplink symbol periods within a bundling interval do not satisfy a phase continuity condition.
US12143320B2
A client device for associating phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) antenna ports to demodulation reference signal (DMRS) antenna ports, the client device being configured obtain configuration information related to a set of PTRS antenna ports, obtain control information indicating at least one of one or more codewords, a set of DMRS antenna ports assigned to the one or more codewords, or transmission configuration indication (TCI) information indicating one or more TCI states, and determine an association between the set of PTRS antenna ports and the set of DMRS antenna ports based on the configuration information related to the set of PTRS antenna ports and the control information.
US12143316B2
Methods and apparatus for software-controlled active-backup mode of link aggregation for RDMA and virtual functions. A Network Interface Controller (NIC) includes hardware implementing first and second physical functions (PFs) including transmit and receive resources to support data transfers via first and second ports. A bonding group is created with the first and second PFs. The first PF as an active PF and used for primary data transfers while implementing the second PF as a backup PF. On a link or port failure of the active PF, the bonding group is reconfigured to employ transmit and receive resources of the backup PF such that those resources are shared with the active PF. Data transfers are then performed using the shared resources of the active PF and the backup PF. Embodiments may support RDMA data transfers using PF bonding and the solution may be implemented in virtualized environments including virtual machines (VMs) in a manner transparent to the VMs.
US12143314B2
Techniques are disclosed for processing data packets and implementing policies in a software defined network (SDN) of a virtual computing environment. A plurality of servers are communicatively coupled to network interfaces of one of a skinny NIC or a smart NIC. The skinny NIC is configured to provide network interfaces for virtual machines hosted on a corresponding server. The smart NIC is configured to enable virtual machine communications within a virtual network in accordance with associated policies.
US12143313B1
A system and method for a switching network is disclosed. A plurality of first switching assemblies, second switching assemblies and intermediate switching assemblies with each of the first switching assemblies, second switching assemblies and intermediate switching assemblies having at least two input ports and output ports is provided. Selective one of the two input ports is configured to receive a data to be processed and delivered at a designated one of the output ports. Received data passes through one or more selective first switching assemblies, one or more intermediate switching assemblies and one or more selective second switching assemblies, before the received data is delivered to the designated port. A plurality of additional data is received in one or more of the input ports to be delivered to one or more designated output ports is processed before the received data is delivered to the designated one of the output ports.
US12143310B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing intent-based orchestration using network parsimony trees. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a request for network services that comprises desired characteristics and performance parameters for the requested network services without information regarding specific hardware, hardware type, location, or network, a computing system might generate a request-based parsimony tree based on the desired characteristics and performance parameters. The computing system might access, from a datastore, a plurality of network-based parsimony trees that are each generated based on measured network metrics, might compare the request-based parsimony tree with each of one or more network-based parsimony trees to determine a fitness score for each network-based parsimony tree, and might identify a best-fit network-based parsimony tree based on the fitness scores. The computing system might identify and might allocate network resources based on the identified best-fit network-based parsimony tree, for providing the requested network services.
US12143307B2
A creation method for creating an action resource, an execution method of an action, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The creation method includes receiving a first creation request that includes a target resource; creating a first action resource, which is a resource used for triggering a first action for the target resource, according to the first creation request; creating the first action resource includes: creating at least one of a first conflict priority attribute and a first conflict priority effective time attribute for the first action resource; the first conflict priority attribute represents a priority of the first action resource relative to an action resource that conflicts with the first action resource and is aimed at the target resource, and the first conflict priority effective time attribute represents a time range in which the first action resource has exclusive access to the target resource.
US12143287B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a method for determining a sequence of bus nodes in a multi-drop communication bus. The method includes for each bus node: sending a request to the bus node using an bus node physical identifier to set the bus node to a loopback mode; transmitting at least one signal to the bus node via the multi-drop communication bus; receiving from the bus node a loopback signal caused by the at least one signal; and measuring a roundtrip delay between the at least one signal and the loopback response signal. The method further includes solving the physical order of the bus nodes in the multi-drop communication bus based on the roundtrip delays.
US12143283B2
A method, apparatus, and system for network monitoring are provided. The method retrieves and processes performance data files from each technology type in the network. These performance data files are then loaded into a time series database. At least one key performance indicator is derived from the data. The performance data is organized by region and pool level and then displayed by region and pool level. The method provides configurable thresholds for key performance indicators and alerts users to those thresholds. The apparatus provides a display allowing both monitoring and test functions to be selected. The display is automatically updated based on a predetermined, selectable time interval.
US12143277B2
A method performed by a computing system includes collecting information on transactions in a telecommunication system, using the information on transactions to create a plurality of event objects, each of the event objects associated with a telecommunication event, associating each of the event objects with a Key Performance Indicator (KPI), applying the event objects to a plurality of inference functions, each inference functions using the set of parameters as inputs and the KPIs of the event objects as outputs to create a model that infers a relationship between the set of parameters and the KPIs, and analyzing metadata from each of the inference functions to determine which of the set of parameters was used to predict an outcome leading to the KPI.
US12143276B2
A plurality of tickets can be received. A pattern pertaining to an issue with an application can be determined by at least one artificial neural network. The pattern can be indicated among at least a portion of the plurality of tickets. The portion of the plurality of tickets can be grouped into a group comprising a primary ticket and at least one secondary ticket. Automation steps can be accessed from a database. The automation steps can be implemented to resolve the issue for the primary ticket. Responsive to the resolving the issue by implementing the automation steps from the database for the primary ticket, the secondary ticket can be closed.
US12143273B2
It is an objective of the present disclosure to reduce computational complexity for obtaining a network topology configuration capable of efficiently accommodating a plurality of traffic demands assumed between nodes present in a network. A device of the present disclosure includes: a computation traffic generation unit that creates a traffic demand matrix whose elements are values individually obtained by demands between nodes present in a target network area from a plurality of traffic demand matrices created based on predicted traffic demands between the nodes; and a network topology generation unit that generates a network topology based on the traffic demand matrix generated by the computation traffic generation unit and port information of the nodes in the network area.
US12143272B2
A network capacity planning system for forecasting and scheduling of network capacity for electronic devices is provided. A server monitors usage of a network associated with the electronic devices. The server analyzes a frequency of a transmission of data packets between the electronic devices and the network, and a time duration of a network busy time based on predetermined thresholds. The server uses results of the analysis to drive a dynamic mechanism, which identifies when a bandwidth associated with the network needs to be upgraded to support the growing network bandwidth requirements. The server adjusts a network capacity value of a network routing device associated with the network to support the required bandwidth for an operation of the electronic devices.
US12143271B2
Placing virtual network functions (VNFs) in nodes of an infrastructure are disclosed. A request for services may identify a series of VNFs. Requests may be grouped by time windows such that all requests in a time window are placed together. Placing the requests includes identifying which nodes host which VNFs. Some of the VNFs may already exist in the infrastructure. Placing the requests may include generating a placement plan that accounts, for example, for available resources, links in the infrastructure, node restrictions, service level agreements, quality of service requirements, and user priorities. Once generated, the plan is executed. Chains of VNFs can be replaced when service degrades or based on user location.
US12143265B1
Methods and systems for managing entitlements for data processing systems are disclosed. A management controller for the data processing system may utilize an out of band communication channel to obtain a list of the entitlements for the data processing system from a management server. The management controller may compare the features included in the list of the entitlements to features included in a list of existing enabled features for the data processing system to obtain a difference. The management controller may modify operation of hardware components of the data processing system to resolve the difference. By doing so, the management controller may monitor entitlements for the data processing system, the entitlements being based on user subscriptions for features of the data processing system.
US12143264B2
Techniques are disclosed for migrating one or more services from an edge device to a cloud computing environment. In one example, a migration service receives a request to migrate a first set of services from the edge device to the cloud computing environment. The migration service identifies a hardware profile of a computing device (or devices) of the cloud computing environment that matches the edge device, and then configures the computing device to execute a second set of services that corresponds to the first set of services. The migration service establishes a communication channel between the edge device and the computing device, and then executes a set of migration operations such that the second set of services is configured to execute as the first set of services. The computing device may operate in a virtual bootstrap environment or dedicated region of the cloud computing environment.
US12143259B2
Techniques for determining an impact that a congested switch port is having on a network and for estimating a reason as to why the congested switch port is congested are disclosed. Configuration data and performance data from a network are obtained. Based on the configuration data, a shortest path between a storage port and a host port is identified. A particular switch port is also identified as a result of that port being congested. An impact as to how the switch port, due to its congestion in the particular shortest path, is impacting or is being impacted by other switch ports in the network is determined. An alert, which includes information indicating the impact, is triggered.
US12143254B2
Proposed are a method and a device for transmitting an NGV frame in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a transmission device generates an NGV frame and transmits same via a first band. The NGV frame includes an L-STF, L-LTF, L-SIG, RL-SIG, NGV-SIG, NGV-STF, NGV-LTF and NGV-Data. The NGV-Data includes at least one midamble. The at least one midamble is generated on the basis of a sequence of the NGV-LTF. The sequence of the NGV-LTF includes two time sequences which, in a frequency domain, are mapped to a tone including two tone units, and in a time domain, are repeated in a single OFDM symbol. The at least one midamble includes one or two OFDM symbols.
US12143233B2
A shared conference space system is configured for use with a shared conference space. The shared conference space system determines identities of a set of conference participants of a shared conference space using a sensor. The shared conference space system associates the identities of the set of conference participants to a shared conference space digital calendar associated with the shared conference space and outputs to a display of the shared conference space system a portion of the shared conference space digital calendar including the identities of the set of conference participants.
US12143230B2
In an embodiment, a sidelink signal transmission or reception method for a first terminal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a signal for assigning one or more first resources; transmitting, to a second terminal, a sidelink signal by using the one or more first resources; receiving, from the second terminal, HARQ non-acknowledgement (NACK) feedback on the sidelink signal; and receiving, from the base station, a signal for assigning a second resource as an initial transmission resource, wherein the second resource is used as a retransmission resource for the sidelink signal.
US12143222B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for same, the method comprising the steps of: receiving control information for disabling at least one among a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat and request (HARQ) processes; receiving a downlink signal on the basis of the control information; and determining whether to perform HARQ feedback for the downlink signal on the basis of a HARQ-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook determined on the basis of the control information, wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook is determined on the basis of at least one enabled HARQ process among the plurality of HARQ processes.
US12143221B2
A method performed by a UE is provided. The method includes receiving DCI on a PDCCH from a BS, the DCI indicating a PDSCH; receiving a MAC CE command on the PDSCH; determining, according to the DCI, whether a HARQ ACK feedback for a data reception on the PDSCH is needed to be transmitted; and applying, after determining that the HARQ ACK feedback is needed to be transmitted, the MAC CE command after a first slot identified by a first value of n+K0+K1+Np+M, where n is an index of a slot in which the DCI is received, K0 and K1 are slot offsets, Np indicates an approximated delay determined by a TA value, and M indicates a processing delay.
US12143206B2
According to some embodiments, a method in a network node comprises: determining that uplink control information, UCI, and a data payload will be sent via a physical uplink shared channel on a slot/subslot transmission; determining a modulation coding scheme, MCS, offset for transmission of the UCI via the physical uplink shared channel; and communicating the MCS offset to a wireless device. According to some embodiments, a method in a wireless device comprises: determining that UCI and a data payload will be sent via a physical uplink shared channel on a slot/subslot transmission; receiving a MCS offset for transmission of the UCI via the physical uplink shared channel; and communicating, to a network node, the UCI using the MCS offset. The UCI and the data payload may be sent via the physical uplink shared channel with a slot/subslot transmission or a short transmission time interval (sTTI).
US12143205B1
A PHY device in an Ethernet network in a vehicle includes a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver communicates with a peer PHY over a bidirectional Ethernet link in the vehicle, the transceiver supports communication modes that are separately configurable for transmission and reception, and are selected from (i) a data mode for communication of data, and (ii) a retraining mode for recovering from reception failure, and reception of retraining signals in the retraining mode is less sensitive to interference than reception of data signals in the data mode. The processor sets the transceiver for data mode transmission to, and data mode reception from the peer PHY, and in response to detecting that during data mode reception a reception quality has degraded to below a specified threshold, set the transceiver to reception in the retraining mode while concurrently transmitting to the peer PHY in the data mode.
US12143200B2
A terminal apparatus includes circuitry and a transmitter. The circuitry, in operation, generates a reference signal using a cyclic shift value and an orthogonal sequence, which are associated with each other. The orthogonal sequence is one of two orthogonal sequences corresponding to a first orthogonal sequence [1, 1] and a second orthogonal sequence [1, −1]. The cyclic shift value is one of 12 cyclic shift values ranging from 0 to 11. The transmitter, in operation, transmits the reference signal multiplexed with a data signal. Two of the cyclic shift values having a difference of 6 are respectively associated with the two orthogonal sequences.
US12143199B2
Multi-carrier resource allocation method based on wireless-powered backscatter communication network
The present invention relates to a multi-carrier resource allocation method based on a wireless-powered backscatter communication network. The method comprises following steps: S1. constructing a wireless-powered backscatter communication system; S2: according to circuit power and transmit power constraints, establishing a resource allocation optimization problem taking a maximum total transmission rate of the system as an objective function; S3: according to the objective function and constraint conditions, decomposing an optimization sub-problem taking the transmit power of the backscatter transmitter as a variable; S4: after substituting optimal transmit power of the backscatter transmitter into an original problem, decomposing a sub-problems taking an energy allocation coefficient as a variable from an original optimization problem; S5: converting non-convex problems containing coupling variables into convex problems, creating a Lagrangian function, obtaining an optimal solution form according to a KKT condition, and iteratively updating corresponding variables using a gradient descent method until convergence.
US12143195B1
A communication receiver can determine an angle of arrival (AoA) of a communication signal. The communication receiver includes multiple receiving antennas and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines multiple phase shifts over multiple instances in time from first samples of a communication signal as observed by a reference receiving antenna selected from among the multiple receiving antennas, samples the communication signal as observed by the selected receiving antennas from among the multiple receiving antennas over the multiple instances in time to provide second samples of the communication signal, removes the multiple phase shifts from corresponding samples from among the second samples of the communication signal to provide phase corrected second samples of the communication signal, and determines the AoA of the communication signal from the phase corrected second samples of the communication signal.
US12143194B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: at least one antenna module including at least one antenna, and a processor configured to: control the electronic device to receive, through the at least one antenna module, a reference signal (RS) corresponding to each of frequency bands of multiple component carriers (CC) configured for carrier aggregation (CA), identify a reception signal strength of the reference signal corresponding to each of the frequency bands with regard to the multiple CCs, identify at least two CCs operating in the CA among the multiple CCs, based on reception signal strengths of multiple reference signals corresponding to the multiple CCs, and determine at least one reception beam corresponding to the at least one antenna module based on reception signal strengths of at least two reference signals corresponding to the at least two identified CCs.
US12143193B1
A device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium that for two-dimensional blind single-input multiple-output channel identification for image restoration. The method includes receiving, by a receiver having independent channels, a two-dimensional image data matrix then transforming the received two-dimensional image data matrix to a one-dimensional image vector. Channel parameters can then be estimated using the one-dimensional image vector. The method can then construct a restored image using the estimated channel parameters and the two-dimensional image data matrix.
US12143188B2
The present invention relates to a network device, a user equipment, a wireless communication method and a storage medium. The network device comprises a processing circuit, configured to: provide to the user equipment a transmitted beam for sending an uplink signal from a plurality of transmitted beams on a plurality of antenna boards of the user equipment, and generate configuration information which indicates the transmitted beam for sending the uplink signal. By means of the network device, the user equipment, the wireless communication method and the storage medium, the network device can inform the user equipment of the selected uplink transmitted beam in the case that the user equipment is provided with a plurality of antenna boards, so as to optimize the process of determining the uplink transmitted beam.
US12143186B2
A method for wireless communication includes: receiving, at a base station: (1) a capability report for each of a plurality of antenna panels of a first user device; and (2) an initial antenna panel index for the first user device; transmitting, to the first user device, configuration information corresponding to each antenna panel of the plurality; selecting first configuration information corresponding to the antenna panel with the initial antenna panel index; and receiving a first uplink transmission from the first user device, wherein the first user device uses a selected first antenna panel corresponding to the initial antenna panel index and the first configuration information corresponding to the selected first antenna panel. In other aspects, rather than initially transmitting configuration information corresponding to each antenna panel, the base station may transmit the configuration information for each panel as it is selected by the first user device for an uplink transmission.
US12143182B1
Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.
US12143181B2
A base station may transmit beams to user equipment. The user equipment may receive the beams and transmit a signal to a base station. The base station may determine signal characteristics associated with the beams based on the signal and compare the signal characteristics with predefined signal characteristics that correspond to potential locations of the user equipment. Based on this comparison, the base station may determine a position of the user equipment and transmit a targeted beam based on the position of the user equipment. The base station may also track the position of the user equipment and provide an updated targeted beam based on an updated position of the user equipment. Accordingly, the base station may efficiently form and update the targeted beam based on the predefined signal characteristics, thereby reducing an amount of time required to establish and maintain communication with the user equipment.
US12143179B2
A method includes receiving an indication to transmit a first set of signals using a first standard (e.g., Long Term Evolution) via a first set of antennas of a radio frequency device and a second set of signals using a second standard (e.g., New Radio) via a second set of antennas. The method also includes transmitting the first set of signals via the first set of antennas using a first power based on positions of the first set and second set of antennas, exposure conditions of the first set and the second set of signals on a user, and/or priorities of the first and the second set of signals. Moreover, the method includes transmitting the second set of signals via the second set of antennas using a second power based on the positions of the antennas, the exposure conditions of the signals on the user, and/or priorities of the signals.
US12143171B2
A method of communicating between a first electronic communication device of a plurality of electronic communication devices and a wireless communication initiating device for reading the first electronic communication device. The method comprises receiving, at the first electronic communication device, a communication signal from the wireless communication initiating device and determining a first characteristic value relating to the communication signal. The method further comprises receiving at least a second characteristic value relating to a communication signal received by at least a second electronic communication device that is connected to the first electronic communication device and initiating communication with a reading device based on the first and second value.
US12143163B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for measuring signal quality of an antenna. The apparatus according to the present invention includes a communication unit configured to receive signal quality measurement data from a plurality of terminal devices disposed at predetermined positions within a network, a signal quality calculation unit configured to calculate a signal quality measurement value of an antenna based on the signal quality measurement data received from any one of the plurality of terminal devices, a rotation determination unit configured to compare a target signal quality value of the antenna with the calculated signal quality measurement value and determine a rotation direction and an angle of the antenna on the basis of a difference value between the target signal quality value and the signal quality measurement value, and a control unit configured to transmit an adjustment signal including information on the determined rotation direction and the determined angle of the antenna to a clamping device configured to adjust a rotation of the antenna.
US12143158B1
A method, system, and apparatus for emulating impairments in a communication system.
US12143154B2
The present invention relates to a dual GPON Small Form-Factor Pluggable optical module, projected to provide connection to two SC optical fiber connectors, and to be incorporated in any state of the art SFP transceiver host to allow double GPON-OLT channels. The module comprises a case housing a specific set of technical elements such as bidirectional optical subassemblies, high-speed electrical interface, and all the necessary electronic circuits, printed circuit board and flex-printed circuit board to ensure proper assembly and electronic performance of all elements.
US12143143B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a backscatter communication method and a related apparatus. The method includes: An excitation device determines a first sequence, generates a first signal, and sends the first signal, where the first signal carries the first sequence; after receiving the first signal, a backscatter device modulates backscatter device data onto the received first signal to obtain a second signal, and backscatters the second signal, to implement first scrambling on the backscatter device data by using the first sequence; and a receiving device determines the first sequence, receives the second signal from the backscatter device, and demodulates the received second signal based on the first sequence, to obtain the backscatter device data carried on the second signal.
US12143136B2
To provide a radio-frequency module and a communication apparatus that are capable of suppressing degradation in filter characteristics while reducing the sizes of the radio-frequency module and the communication apparatus. A radio-frequency module (1) includes a common terminal, a first filter (21), a second filter (22), a mounting substrate (3), and an external connection terminal (8a). The first filter (21) is connected to the common terminal and transmits a first signal in a first frequency band. The second filter (22) is connected to the common terminal and transmits a second signal in a second frequency band. The mounting substrate (3) has the first filter (21) mounted thereon. The first filter (21) is connected to the mounting substrate (3) with the external connection terminal (8a). The second filter (22) is laminated on the first filter (21). The external connection terminal (8a) is the common terminal.
US12143134B2
Methods and apparatuses for downconverting high frequency subbands to a lower frequency band and recovering signals-of-interest. The system includes a controller, a signal generator, an optical source, a dual-drive mach zehnder modulator (DDMZM), a photodetector, and a dechipping/image (DI) rejector. The controller outputs chipping frequencies to the signal generator which generates local oscillator (LO) tones shifted by the respective chipping frequencies. The optical source outputs an optical signal to the DDMZM which has first and second arms and modulators. The first modulator receives a signal from a source and modulates it onto the optical signal propagating through the first arm to form a first modulated optical signal. The second modulator receives the shifted local oscillator tones and modulates them onto the optical signal propagating through the second arm to form a second modulated optical signal. The DDMZM outputs a signal which is a combination of the first and second modulated optical signals to the photodetector which generates a corresponding electrical signal. The dechipping/image (DI) rejector receives the electrical signal and one of the chipping frequencies and outputs a signal that maximizes signals in one high frequency subband while suppressing signals in other high frequency subbands.
US12143114B2
A digital-to-time converter (DTC) circuit. The DTC circuit includes a charge node. A variable current source has a source input and a source output. The source input is coupled to a DTC digital input and the source output is coupled to the charge node. A capacitor has a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode. The first capacitor electrode is coupled to the charge node. A comparator has a first comparator input, a second comparator input, and a comparator output. The first comparator input is coupled to the charge node, the second comparator input is coupled to a reference voltage terminal, and the comparator output is coupled to a DTC output. A pre-charge circuit has a pre-charge control input and a pre-charge output. The pre-charge control input is coupled to a DTC pre-charge input and the pre-charge output is coupled to the capacitor.
US12143110B2
An integrated circuit is built with enhancement mode Gallium Nitride (GaN) components. The integrated circuit comprises a comparator circuit which compares an input voltage with a reference voltage to provide a controllable constant current source, the comparator having a drive transistor having a positive threshold voltage, the drive transistor being switched on and off based on a comparison result of the comparator. The circuit may drive ring oscillators and may provide pulse width modulation with variable duty cycle at constant frequency.
US12143099B2
A switching element driving method executed in a switching element driving device including a plurality of switching elements and a driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of switching elements, the switching element driving method including: detecting temperatures of the plurality of switching elements; calculating a switching determination temperature that serves as a reference for changing switching speeds of the switching elements from the plurality of detected temperatures; and changing the switching speeds of all the switching elements based on the switching determination temperature.
US12143093B2
A substrate for a surface acoustic wave device or bulk acoustic wave device, comprising a support substrate and an piezoelectric layer on the support substrate, wherein the support substrate comprises a semiconductor layer on a stiffening substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is closer to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of the piezoelectric layer than that of silicon, the semiconductor layer being arranged between the piezoelectric layer and the stiffening substrate.
US12143088B2
A balun includes: first wiring that has a first end connected to a first balanced line and a second end connected to a second balanced line; second wiring that has a grounded first end and a second end; third wiring that has a first end connected to the second end of the second wiring and a second end connected to an unbalanced line and is electromagnetically coupled to the second wiring; a first capacitor that has a first end connected to the first end of the third wiring and a grounded second end; and a second capacitor that has a first end connected to the second end of the third wiring and a grounded second end. The first wiring is electromagnetically coupled to at least one of the second wiring and the third wiring.
US12143083B2
Various embodiments for controlling a resonant frequency of a resonator are described. A system includes at least one resonant circuit and an active variable reactance circuit that controls a resonant frequency of the at least one resonant circuit. The active variable reactance circuit includes an electrically-controllable switching element and a switch controller sub-circuit configured to switch the electrically-controllable switching element at a frequency of a radio-frequency (RF) current or voltage passing through or across a device such that the RF current flowing from a first terminal to a second terminal is substantially sinusoidal.
US12143081B2
Disclosed is a method for increasing a perceived loudness of an audio data signal comprising the steps of obtaining a first digital audio data signal; determining at least one temporal amplitude peak in the first digital audio data signal; generating a second digital audio data signal by reducing the at least one temporal amplitude peak in the first digital audio data signal based on a predicted perceptual difference model representing a predicted perceptual difference between the first digital audio data signal and a peak reduced version of the first digital audio data signal; and generating a third digital audio data signal by amplifying the second digital audio data signal so that a peak of the second digital audio data signal has a predetermined signal value, wherein a perceived loudness of the third digital audio data signal is larger than a perceived loudness of the first digital audio data signal.
US12143078B2
A method for matching a pair of composite circuit elements (CEs) included in a circuit includes fabricating N CEs (e.g., resistors, transistors, current sources, capacitors) designed to match and switches configurable, according to M different combinations, to connect N/2 of the N CEs to form a first composite CE and to connect a remaining N/2 of the N CEs to form a second composite CE. Sequentially in time, for each combination of the M combinations, the switches are configured to form the first and second composite CEs according to the combination and a characteristic of the circuit is measured that includes the formed first and second composite CEs. The characteristic indicates how well the formed composite CEs match. A final combination of the M combinations is chosen whose measured characteristic indicates a best match and the final combination is used to configure the switches to form the composite CEs.
US12143075B2
A circuit for downlink/uplink operational mode switching in a TDD wireless communication system comprises a field-effect transistor operatively connected to a power amplifier on the downlink path of a RF front-end apparatus in a TDD wireless communication system, a first voltage generator connected to a large-value first resistor, a second voltage generator connected to a second resistor, a large-value hold capacitor, and a sample-and-hold circuit configured to be switched between a reception configuration, wherein the first voltage generator is connected to the gate of the field-effect transistor and the large-value capacitor is connected to the first voltage generator through the first resistor, and a transmission configuration, wherein the gate of the field-effect transistor is connected to the hold capacitor and the hold capacitor is connected to the second voltage generator through the second resistor.
US12143072B2
Progressive wave, low characteristic impedance parametric amplifier and manufacturing method thereof
A traveling wave superconducting parametric amplifier is provided. The traveling wave superconducting parametric amplifier includes a chain of superconducting elements having a nonlinear kinetic inductance connected in series, said superconducting elements being deposited on a substrate. The traveling wave superconducting parametric amplifier also includes a dielectric layer of sub-micrometer thickness deposited on the substrate and covering said superconducting elements, and a conductive layer forming a ground plane deposited on top of the dielectric layer, the superconducting elements and the ground plane forming a microstrip-type transmission line. A method for producing such a traveling wave parametric amplifier is also provided.
US12143060B2
In various representative aspects, an assembly for connecting and electrically bonding two solar panel rail guides. More specifically, the assembly provides a splice that slides within two solar panel rail guides and includes an elongated spring element that is inserted into an elongated slot in the splice and enables the two solar panel rail guides to be electrically bonded together when various bonding techniques are used to allow portions of the spring to penetrate the oxidation layers of the inner surfaces of the rail guides as they are joined together. Another embodiment that utilizes a bonding element that is inserted into an elongated slot of a splice and also enables two solar panel rail guides to be electrically bonded when the rail guides are joined.
US12143057B2
A switching method for six-step motor drive with an output inverter that provides commutation switching of power to the phase windings of a driven motor includes regulating the current to the output inverter and to the motor by a variable bus. switching six transistors of a three phase H-bridge and six associated freewheeling diodes of the output inverter by a pair of two transistors to commutate power to the phase windings conducting during conduction steps, and at each commutation step one off-going transistor is switched off and one on-going transistor is switched on the switching method further comprising monitoring of the back emf on two legs of the phase windings of the motor for determining commutation timing, and commutating the output inverter through non-simultaneous switching of the off-going transistor with switching of the on-going transistor.
US12143056B2
A stepper motor controller includes a first error amplifier, a second error amplifier, and a comparator. The first error amplifier has a first input adapted to be coupled to a current sensor to receive a sensed drive current, a second input adapted to receive an expected drive current and an output to provide a first error signal based on a comparison of the sensed drive current and the expected drive current. The second error amplifier has a first input adapted to be coupled to a voltage sensor to receive a sensed drive voltage, a second input coupled to the output of the first error amplifier and an output to provide a second error signal based on a comparison of the sensed drive voltage and the first error signal. The comparator has a first input adapted to receive a reference signal, a second input coupled to the output of the second error amplifier and an output to provide a stepper motor control signal based on a comparison of the reference signal and the error signal.
US12143051B2
A driving apparatus of semiconductor manufacturing equipment is disclosed. The driving apparatus includes a first driver for applying a signal driving a first motor and a second driver for applying a signal driving a second motor. The first driver and the second driver drive the first motor and the second motor in different schemes. The driving apparatus further includes a controller that performs integrated control of the first driver and the second driver. Each of the first driver and the second driver is connected with the controller through an I/O cable. The controller identifies the first driver or the second driver using information input through the I/O cable. The controller changes a signaling scheme depending on a driving mode of the motor corresponding to the identified driver.
US12143040B2
A drive system includes an electric machine with a rotor having an externally excited rotor winding, and a stator having stator winding sets, each with at least three stator windings; a control unit controlling the electric machine supply the rotor winding with a first current signal, and the stator windings with different current phases of a multi-phase second current signal, thus producing a rotary magnetic field generating a torque on the rotor; at least one inverter, the multi-phase current signal being provided based on the at least one inverter; and at least one rectifier providing a DC signal, the first current signal being based at least on the DC signal and on an AC harmonics component. Harmonics of a current phase of the multi-phase current signal are reduced based on the supply of the AC harmonics component.
US12143030B2
A method of converting an alternating current (AC) voltage to a direct current (DC) voltage by an AC-to-DC converter. The method includes producing an AC virtual waveform approximately synchronized to the AC voltage. The method further includes detecting a cessation of the AC voltage, continuing to produce the AC virtual waveform during the cessation of the AC voltage, and detecting a resumption of the AC voltage. Upon detecting the resumption of the AC voltage, the method includes applying the AC virtual waveform to a control loop implemented by the AC-to-DC converter for a period of time, and after the period of time, the method includes applying an output of a phase-locked loop to the control loop instead of the AC virtual waveform.
US12143028B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include an electrical assembly. The electrical assembly can include a converter including a DC side and an AC side, the DC side configured for connection to a DC network, the AC side configured for connection to an AC network, the converter including at least one switching element; a circuit interruption device operably connected to the AC side of the converter; a DC voltage modification device operably connected to the DC side of the converter, the DC voltage modification device including a DC chopper; and a controller configured to selectively control the or each switching element, the circuit interruption device and the DC voltage modification device, wherein the controller is configured to be responsive to a converter internal fault by carrying out a fault operating mode.
US12143027B2
In an inverter that includes a smoothing capacitor and a plurality of power modules, the smoothing capacitor includes a plurality of columnar unit capacitors each having electrodes at both ends thereof, a one-end-side bus plate connected to the electrode at one end of each unit capacitor, and an other-end-side bus plate connected to the electrode at the other end of the unit capacitor. The unit capacitors are arranged, with axes thereof parallel to each other, side by side in a direction perpendicular to the axes. The power modules are arranged at positions equally distant from a center of the inverter and equally distant from the smoothing capacitor.
US12143026B2
This power conversion device includes: a semiconductor power module including a module busbar; a capacitor module including a capacitor element, a capacitor case formed in a bottomed tubular shape and storing the capacitor element with sealing resin interposed therebetween and a capacitor busbar having one end electrically connected to the capacitor element and another end extending outward from the capacitor case and electrically connected to the module busbar; and a power conversion device case formed in bottomed tubular shape and storing the semiconductor power module and the capacitor module. An outer surface of a bottom wall of the capacitor case and an inner surface of a bottom wall of the power conversion device case are thermally connected to each other. The capacitor module has a heat dissipation member located toward an opening side of the capacitor case relative to the capacitor element and thermally connected to the sealing resin.
US12143020B2
A power apparatus applied in a solid state transformer structure includes an AC-to-DC conversion unit, a first DC bus, and a plurality of bi-directional DC conversion units. First sides of the bi-directional DC conversion units are coupled to the first DC bus. Second sides of the bi-directional DC conversion units are configured to form at least one second DC bus, and the number of the at least one second DC bus is a bus number. The bi-directional DC conversion units receive a bus voltage of the first DC bus and convert the bus voltage into at least one DC voltage, or the bi-directional DC conversion units receive at least one external DC voltage and convert the at least one external DC voltage into the bus voltage.
US12143019B2
A multiphase power stage that includes addressing and communication techniques to read temperatures of the phases for thermal load balancing is disclosed. The disclosure describes driver modules that can be assigned addresses for serial communication on a common communication bus by temporarily communicating the addresses over dedicated pulse width modulation connections between the driver modules and the controller. After assignment, a temperature request message, addressed to a driver module, can trigger the driver module to transmit an analog temperature signal to a common temperature bus coupled between the driver modules and the controller. The temperatures of the driver modules may be collected in order to activate and deactivate driver modules based on their temperatures, which can balance a thermal load on the multiphase power stage.
US12143018B2
Disclosed is a DC voltage converter, including a plurality of dividing modules positioned in parallel and synchronized in an interleaved manner, all the dividing modules being controlled by one and the same error signal sampled for each dividing period.
US12143007B2
A method and system for balancing output currents of parallel connected first and second DC/DC converters is provided. In operation, the first converter (i) receives, via a communications line connected between the converters such as a CAN bus, a value of the output current of the second converter and (ii) uses this value in weighing an output voltage comparison performed by the first converter for generating the output current of the first converter to thereby adjust the output current of the first converter based on this value. Likewise, the second converter (i) receives, via the communications line, a value of the output current of the first converter and (ii) uses this value in weighing an output voltage comparison performed by the second converter for generating the output current of the second converter to thereby adjust the output current of the second converter based on this value.
US12143003B2
Disclosed is a method and a control circuit. The method includes operating a buffer circuit (1) in a first operating mode or a second operating mode. Operating the buffer circuit (1) in the first operating mode includes buffering, by a capacitor parallel circuit including a first capacitor (11) and a second capacitor (12), power (Po) provided by a power source (3) and received by a load (4). Operating the buffer circuit (1) in the second operating mode includes supplying power to the load (4) by the second capacitor (12), and regulating a first voltage (Upn) across the second capacitor (12), wherein regulating the first voltage (Upn) comprises transferring charge from the first capacitor (11) to the second capacitor (12).
US12143000B2
The invention relates to a power converter (300) which is designed to receive an input voltage (350) and output and output voltage (360). The power converter comprises multiple switches (371, . . . , 387). The power converter also comprises a control unit which is connected to the multiple switches, wherein the control unit is designed to control the multiple switches of the power converter based on data in a database using an input parameter or an output parameter. The invention also relates to a method for operating a power converter. The method comprises the step of controlling multiple switches of the power converter using a control unit, which is connected to the multiple switches, based on data in a database using an input parameter or an output parameter.
US12142996B2
A tubular motor assembly using a coreless motor structure is provided includes: a steel tube body and a coreless motor, wherein one end of a motor main body is inserted at one end of a battery circuit board housing; a control circuit board and/or a power supply battery is provided within the battery circuit board housing; the other end of the motor main body is connected to a primary gear ring; a motor shaft of the motor main body is connected to a primary planetary gear assembly; the other end of the primary gear assembly is connected to a secondary/tertiary gear ring through a brake outer sleeve; the primary planetary gear assembly is connected to a secondary planetary gear assembly through a brake structure; and a tertiary planetary gear assembly is connected to an output shaft.
US12142984B2
An electromechanical transducer apparatus for converting between mechanical energy and electrical energy is disclosed and includes first and second magnetic flux generators including pole pieces coupled to direct magnetic flux. The magnetic flux generators are disposed such that opposite polarity pole pieces are spaced apart in adjacent relation. A pair of reciprocators are coupled for reciprocating movement between the pole pieces and are spaced apart by first and second air gaps. A closing piece completes a magnetic circuit and when the reciprocators are disposed such that the first air gap is smaller than the second air gap, magnetic flux generated by the first magnetic flux generator flows in a first direction via the first air gap through the closing piece. When the reciprocators are disposed such that the second air gap is smaller than the first air gap, magnetic flux generated by the second magnetic flux generator flows in a second opposite direction via the second air gap through the closing piece. A current carrying coil is disposed to electromagnetically interact with the magnetic flux.
US12142974B2
The DC electric motor has a stator which comprises a permanent magnet with a number p of pole pairs, and has a rotor which can rotate in relation to the stator and has a hollow-cylindrical iron-free winding with a geometric axis and a number Q of sub-coils, and a collector with a number K of collector segments, wherein the sub-coils are arranged distributed over the periphery of the rotor. The brush-commutated DC electric motor furthermore has at least one pair of brushes which are in contact with the collector and by means of which the sub-coils are energized. The arrangement of the brushes and the interconnection of the sub-coils are selected in such a way that in each case a number n≥2 of sub-coils, which are each arranged offset by 360°/n in a rotationally symmetrical manner with respect to the axis of the rotor, are always supplied with the same current at the same time.
US12142972B2
To provide an electric driving device and an electric power steering device with a smaller area of power supply wiring in a circuit board and higher reliability of the circuit board. An electric driving device includes a motor and an electronic control unit that controls rotation of the motor. The electronic control unit includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board, a power supply wiring module, and a heat sink. The first circuit board is provided with a transistor that outputs an electric current to excite a motor coil. The second circuit board includes a control circuit that controls an electric current supplied to the transistor. The power supply wiring module is configured by molding, with resin, a choke coil for noise removal, a capacitor, and wiring that supplies electric power to at least one of the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The heat sink is sandwiched between the power supply wiring module and the second circuit board.
US12142969B2
A rotor unit 1 used in an electric motor, the rotor unit 1 including a rotor core 5, a rotary shaft 3 inserted in an inner periphery of the rotor core 5, a plurality of magnets 6 attached to an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core 5, and a cover member 4 covering an outer periphery of each of the plurality of the magnets 6, in which the rotary shaft 3 is provided, on an outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft 3, with a caulking part 3c configured to restrict an axial movement of the rotor core 5 with respect to the rotary shaft 3, and the caulking part 3c is configured to restrict an axial movement of the cover member 4 with respect to the rotor core 5.
US12142967B2
An electric machine includes a housing, a stator assembly within the housing, a rotor assembly within the housing, and a dam assembly including a first dam element. The first dam element is arranged on one end of the electric machine. The first dam element includes an air inlet. The air inlet is configured to receive a supply of pressurized air.
US12142956B2
A portable charger includes: an AC input unit; a DC output unit; a power conversion circuit; and a controller. The DC output unit includes a start switch. When the start switch is operated by a user, the start switch instructs the controller to control the power conversion circuit such that the DC output unit outputs DC power. However, when at least one of the AC input unit and the DC output unit is unconnected, the start switch is disabled.
US12142955B2
A vehicle battery charging apparatus for wirelessly charging a device. The apparatus has a charging device compartment with a platform for retaining the device, and a battery charger housing for retaining a wireless battery charger. One or more housing vents are provided in the battery charger housing. And, a blower is in air communication with the battery charger housing to communicate air with the battery charger housing through the one or more housing vents to cool the wireless battery charger.
US12142951B2
A power transmission apparatus that wirelessly transmits electric power to a power reception apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect whether an object different from the power transmission apparatus and the power reception apparatus exists, a communication unit configured to perform a communication with the power reception apparatus of information used for performing detection by the detection unit, and a request unit configured to make a request to the power reception apparatus for continuing the communication of information in a case where ending of the communication of information is requested from the power reception apparatus before the communication of information used for performing detection by the detection unit ends.
US12142950B2
A set of shielded coils for wireless power transmission into a medical implant is described in which the external, power transmission coil is blocked at least on one side by a shield with a broken ring and radial fingers while the power receiver coil inside the medical implant is surrounded by a shield having a broken ring connecting radial fingers and ribs around its circumference. The finger and rib configurations minimizes eddy currents in the shields. A ground plane of the implant's internal circuitry, which is within the shield along with the receiver coil, can cap off the cupped receiver shield to form a Faraday cage with it. The metal or other conductive shielding prevents large electric fields from the coils from penetrating into the tissue of the subject while simultaneously allowing magnetic fields inductively couple the coils for charging. An implant with sensitive electrodes that measure minute voltages from a brain or other tissues is protected from capacitively driven voltage swings or other transients during charging.
US12142946B2
A wireless power reception method including transmitting a first foreign object status packet and a second foreign object status packet to a wireless power transmitter; receiving, from the wireless power transmitter, a first foreign object detection indicator including a positive response signal or a negative response signal for the first foreign object status packet and a second foreign object detection indicator including a positive response signal or a negative response signal for the second foreign object status packet; power receiving of performing a first power transmission procedure when both the first foreign object detection indicator and the second foreign object detection indicator include the positive response signal, or performing to a second power transmission procedure of requesting termination of power transmission or performing to a third power transmission procedure different from the termination of the power transmission when at least one of the first foreign object detection indicator and the second foreign object detection indicator includes the negative response signal.
US12142942B2
A charging device has a first printed circuit board (PCB) having a top metal layer and a bottom metal layer, where a first plurality of charging cells is provided on the top metal layer of the first PCB and a second plurality of charging cells is provided on the bottom metal layer of the first PCB. The charging device may have a second PCB having a top metal layer and a bottom metal layer, where a third plurality of charging cells is provided on the top metal layer of the second PCB and a fourth plurality of charging cells is provided on the bottom metal layer of the second PCB. An adhesive layer may join the first and second PCBs. One or more interconnects may be provided between the bottom metal layer of the first PCB and the top metal layer of the second PCB.
US12142936B2
A wireless power system for an exercise machine for providing electrical power wirelessly to an electrical energy storage device or electrical energy consuming device attached to a movable carriage of an exercise machine. The wireless power system for an exercise machine generally includes an exercise machine which includes a frame having one or more rails. A carriage is movably positioned upon the rails to allow an exerciser to move the carriage when performing an exercise. A wireless power receiver is attached to the carriage that wirelessly receives electrical energy transferred from a wireless power transmitter. An electrical energy storage device or an electrical energy consuming device attached to the movable carriage is electrically connected to the wireless power receiver to receive electrical power from the wireless power receiver.
US12142935B2
An accessory attachment system includes a baseplate that provides an attachment interface on a support surface. The baseplate is configured to engage with an accessory to secure the accessory to the support surface. The baseplate and the accessory are configured to electrically connect to each other through a wireless electrical power link.
US12142928B2
A hydraulic fracturing system is disclosed as including a singular mobile platform of at least one mobile power unit (MPU) and at least one first switch gear that is configured to handle electric power from the MPU. The MPU is configured to generate voltage that matches the capabilities of an electrical bus from the at least one switch gear such that a combined electrical current generated as a result of the generated voltage and required load is provided to the electrical bus to the components of the hydraulic fracturing system. Further, the hydraulic fracturing system may include electrical fracturing equipment with at least one second switch gear to support the at least one first switch gear in handling electric power from the MPU. A datavan may be included in the system to control load shedding, load sharing, and power distribution for the electrical fracturing equipment comprising the at least one second switch gear.
US12142916B1
An energy management system and methods of using the same are disclosed. The energy management system is configured to deploy a first instantiation of a first hardware driver at a first electronic control device collocated with a first power plant apparatus, wherein the first hardware driver is configured to communicate with and enable control of the first power plant apparatus. The energy management system is configured to detect that the first instantiation of the first hardware driver at the first electronic control device has failed, and at least partly in response to detecting that the first instantiation of the first hardware driver at the first electronic control device has failed, utilize a second instantiation of the first hardware driver, stored in memory remote from the first electronic control device, to enable control of the first power plant apparatus.
US12142915B2
The present invention provides a flywheel having a high energy density, a designing method which facilitates the designing of the flywheel, and an energy storage system which can achieve both an increase in storage energy and a reduction in weight by adopting the flywheel. A flywheel A includes: a low-density disk 10 having a low average density; and a high-density outer edge section 11 which is provided on the outer circumference of the low-density disk 10, and has an average density higher than that of the low-density disk 10.
US12142914B2
Provided is a sensor network and method for monitoring electric power systems, collecting high-resolution data, and securely feeding it into an advanced time-series database. An apparatus for monitoring a power grid by collecting high-resolution electrical measurement data comprises an operative pair of signal analysers, the operative pair comprising: a micro-synchrophasor configured to operate in the frequency-domain to process an electrical signal and collect a first set of data points; and a power quality monitor configured to operate in the time-domain to process the electrical signal and collect a second set of data points; wherein the apparatus is configured to apply the same synchronised timestamp to the collected first and second sets of data points. A method for monitoring a power grid and collecting high-resolution electrical measurement data comprises the steps of collecting (101) a first set of data points using a micro-synchrophasor operating in the frequency-domain, collecting (102) a second set of data points using a power quality monitor operating in the time-domain, and applying (103) a synchronised timestamp to the collected first and second sets of data points.
US12142911B2
A bipole power transmission scheme typically includes a first converter station that is positioned remote from a second converter station, along with first and second transmission conduits which interconnect the first and second converter stations to permit the transmission of power between the first and second converter stations. The first converter station has first and second power converters, with the first power converter including a first DC terminal that is connected with the first transmission conduit, at least one AC terminal which is connected with a first AC network, and a second DC terminal that is interconnected with a third DC terminal of the second power converter by a first interconnection which defines a first neutral area. The second power converter additionally includes a fourth DC terminal that is connected with the second transmission conduit and at least one AC terminal which is connected with a second AC network.
US12142909B2
Improvements to a power input circuit of an electric motor drive system are provided. The power input circuit is provided between a power source (e.g., battery), and a load (e.g., an inverter and a motor in the electric motor drive system). The power input circuit can comprise controllable switches for reverse polarity protection and isolation of the inverter under supply short circuit condition. In addition, an improvement to a power input circuit can comprise connection of a power supply (e.g., voltage regulator) to the external power source input side of a reverse polarity protection circuit in the power input circuit to mitigate against microcontroller restart from post-failure shutdown condition. Connection of a low-power diode in series with the voltage regulator also provides for reverse polarity protection.
US12142894B2
Example embodiments relate to lasers that include loop resonators. One example laser includes a loop resonator forming a closed loop light path. The loop resonator includes an optical gain medium configured to lase. The loop resonator is configured to, during lasing, present a pair of modes: a mode of light propagating in a clockwise direction in the closed loop light path of the loop resonator (termed CW mode) and a mode of light propagating in a counter-clockwise direction in the closed loop light path of the loop resonator (termed CCW mode). The laser also includes a first light output configured to output laser light from the laser. Additionally, the laser includes an optical power modulating unit. The optical power modulation unit is configured to modulate an optical power of the CW mode of the loop resonator and an optical power of the CCW mode of the loop resonator.
US12142891B2
In a surface emitting laser package, a surface emitting laser element and a substrate may be electrically connected through a diffusion part. In detail, according to the surface emitting laser package, a housing includes a step, the diffusion part is disposed at the step of the housing, and the surface emitting laser element and the substrate may be electrically connected through a connection wiring extending through the housing to correspond to the step and a conductive line disposed at one side of the diffusion part.
US12142890B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include optical transmitters and transceivers with improved reliability. In some embodiments, the optical transmitters are used in network devices, such as in conjunction with a network switch. In one embodiment, lasers are operated at low power to improve reliability and power consumption. The output of the laser may be modulated by a non-direct modulator and received by integrated optical components, such as a modulator and/or multiplexer. The output of the optical components may be amplified by a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). Various advantageous configurations of lasers, optical components, and SOAs are disclosed. In some embodiments, SOAs are configured as part of a pluggable optical communication module, for example.
US12142888B2
A joined body (10) includes an optical material (11) and a cooling material (12) that are capable of transmitting light and are joined together. At a joining interface between the optical material (11) and the cooling material (12), the joined body (10) is capable of transmitting light, and also an atom contained in the optical material (11) diffusively enters the cooling material (12) in such a degree that an interference fringe is not generated in the joined body (10). A diffusive entry length of an atom contained in the optical material (11) into the cooling material (12) may be in a range from approximately 1.0 nm to approximately 10 μm.
US12142886B2
A magazine for processing wire end ferrules, which are connected to one another via connection pieces to form a wire end ferrule strip, having a housing with at least one housing base and an inlet opening for introducing the wire end ferrule strip. A transport wheel is rotatably mounted in the housing and has multiple recesses for receiving individual wire end ferrules of a wire end ferrule strip, neighboring recesses separated from one another by a rim. An opening is formed in the housing base and the wire end ferrules can be successively brought into an assembly position via a rotation of the transport wheel to a position in which a wire end ferrule is arranged above the opening and a connection piece between the wire end ferrule and the neighboring wire end ferrule is at least partially cut through by the rim of the corresponding recess.
US12142879B2
A connector in the present disclosure is a connector to be connected to a mating connector while being connected to a cable in which an outer periphery of a wire is covered with a shield body, and includes an inner conductor and an outer conductor. The inner conductor is connected to a core of a coated wire. The outer conductor includes a large-diameter tube portion, a small-diameter tube portion and a shield connecting portion. The shield connecting portion is connected to the shield body. The large-diameter tube portion is formed into such a tubular shape that a tubular mating outer conductor provided in the mating connector is fittable thereinto. The small-diameter tube portion is formed into a tubular shape having a smaller diameter than the large-diameter tube portion and accommodates the inner conductor.
US12142876B2
A connector 10 includes a housing 20 and CPA 30 that assures the state of complete mating between the connector 10 and a mating connector. The housing 20 includes a CPA retention portion 23 that retains the CPA 30. A sliding surface 61, on which the CPA 30 slides, and side walls 62, disposed upright on both the right and left sides of the sliding surface 61, are disposed on the CPA retention portion 23. In the right and left side walls 62, through-holes 63 are opened alternately with respect to a slide direction. The connector, which includes the CPA, includes a housing having a low profile.
US12142874B2
A connector connection structure includes: a first connector; a second connector electrically connected to the first connector; a unit to which the first connector is ground-connected; and a seal member sealing a gap between the first connector and the unit. The unit has a hole portion that includes a first portion and a second portion having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the first portion. The first connector includes shield shell provided with a contact portion having a contact part that is to abut an inner peripheral surface. A radius of the first portion is larger than a distance from a central axis of an electric wire of the first connector to a contact part in a neutral state. A core wire of the electric wire is electrically connected to a terminal portion of the second connector via a terminal portion of the first connector.
US12142873B2
An electronic device and a waterproof member of the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a device body, a cable, and a waterproof member. The device body includes a socket. The cable includes a plug unit and a cable body. The plug unit is disposed at one end of the cable body and is adapted to be connected to the socket. The waterproof member is sleeved over at least a portion of the plug unit and includes an elastic material.
US12142872B2
A thermoconductive structure includes a waterproof casing, a socket and a thermoconductive plate. The socket is accommodated in the waterproof casing and includes a metal housing having an inserting opening and a side opening defined on a side of the inserting opening. The thermoconductive plate is movably disposed on the metal housing. One surface of the thermoconductive plate protrudes from an inner surface of the metal housing through the side opening. Another surface of the thermoconductive plate is provided with a soft thermoconductive element. The soft thermoconductive element is disposed between an inner surface of the waterproof casing and the thermoconductive plate. When a plug is inserted into the metal housing, the plug pushes the thermoconductive plate to make the soft thermoconductive element be compressed by the thermoconductive plate and the waterproof housing.
US12142869B2
This electronic component can reduce assembly costs and also lighten the load to a connection part, and comprises: an electronic component body; a terminal that extends in a prescribed direction from the electronic component body, and has a retaining unit; and a coil spring that is externally fitted to be in electrical contact with the terminal, and that is retained by the retaining unit, wherein the coil spring is in electrical contact with a printed board in a compressed state. The terminal is fitted loosely in a fitting hole of the printed board, for example. Also, the coil spring comprises an electrically conductive coating, for example.
US12142867B2
A female electrical contact for an electrical connector includes a conductive socket for a male electrical contact, including an opening, a peripheral wall and a bottom; and a stamped crown including a plurality of stamped conductive beams, the plurality of beams substantially regularly located along the peripheral wall in the socket, each beam having a main direction of extension substantially from the opening to the bottom of the socket, and including a plurality of corrugations along the main direction of extension, the corrugations including summits towards inside the socket and valleys towards the peripheral wall, wherein each beam is configured to elastically deform when coming into contact with the male contact on relative displacement of the male contact towards the bottom of the socket, and to contact the male electrical contact on a plurality of the summits of the corrugations when the male electrical contact is inserted in the socket.
US12142852B2
An antenna device includes: a ground plate; an opposing conductive plate provided with a power supply point installed at a predetermined distance from the ground plate; and a short-circuit portion provided in a central region of the opposing conductive plate and electrically connecting the opposing conductive plate and the ground plate. A parallel resonance at a predetermined target frequency is generated by an inductance provided in the short-circuit portion and a capacitance between the ground plate and the opposing conductive plate; and the ground plate is arranged asymmetrically with respect to the opposing conductive plate.
US12142840B2
An antenna device comprises a plurality of antennas. The antennas include first antennas which form a first array and second antennas which form a second array. The first antennas include two first predetermined antennas arranged along a first line. A longitudinal direction of one of the first predetermined antennas and another longitudinal direction of a remaining one of the first predetermined antennas intersect with each other and define a horizontal plane. Each first antenna mainly radiates a horizontally polarized wave which is in parallel to the horizontal plane. Each second antenna mainly radiates a vertically polarized wave which is perpendicular to the horizontal plane. The second antennas include two second predetermined antennas arranged along a second line. When the first and second lines are projected onto the horizontal plane along a direction perpendicular to the horizontal plane, the first and second lines intersect with each other.
US12142830B2
A frequency reconfigurable (FR) slot-based UHF antenna for use in Cube-Sat is described. The antenna includes a dielectric circuit board, a metallic layer, a meandered slot line formed in the metallic layer, a feed horn is connected to a first edge of the circuit board, a reverse biased varactor diode, a ground terminal connected to the metallic layer and a biasing circuit configured to bias the reverse biased varactor diode. The biasing circuit causes the antenna to resonate in a frequency range of 300 MHz to 450 MHz. The meandered slot line includes a heptagonal path connected to and enclosing a rectangular path. An open end of the feed horn is directed towards the apex of the heptagonal path. The reverse biased varactor diode is connected to the metallic layer across the rectangular path and parallel to a central axis.
US12142824B2
Reconfigurable antenna systems integrated with a metal case are provided herein. In certain embodiments, user equipment (UE) for a cellular network includes a metal case and an antenna system for transmitting and/or receiving wireless signals. The antenna system includes a tuning conductor formed in the metal case, a patch antenna element that is spaced apart from the tuning conductor, and a switch electrically connected in series between the tuning conductor and a ground voltage. The switch electrically connects the tuning conductor to the ground voltage in an on state and electrically disconnects the tuning conductor from the ground voltage in an off state.
US12142823B2
The disclosure relates to a pivotable connection device (100) comprises a first and a second bracket (101, 102), a locking member (103), a spring (105), and an abutment member (104). The first and the second bracket (101, 102) are pivotable connected to each other, and the spring (105) is located between the locking member (103) and the abutment member (104). In a first mode of operation (M1), the locking member (103) is displaced towards the abutment member (104) such that the spring (105) is compressed, and such that the first and second bracket (101, 102) are pivotable in relation to each other. In a second mode of operation (M2), the locking member (103) is displaced towards the first bracket (101) by the spring (105), such that the locking member (103) overlaps the first and the second bracket (101, 102) and prevents pivoting. The disclosure further relates to a vehicle (200).
US12142822B2
A wiring module includes: a functional sheet disposed between a roof panel forming a roof part of a vehicle and an interior member forming a ceiling shape of a vehicle interior to planarly extend over the roof panel and the interior member; and a transmission member provided on the functional sheet, wherein the functional sheet includes a layer having at least one of a heat insulation function, an acoustic insulation function, and a radio wave shielding function, the transmission member is electrically connected to a vehicle-side apparatus mounted to a side of the vehicle, and the transmission member is formed to extend to a position where the transmission member can perform a power supply to or communication with a roof-side apparatus mounted to the roof part in the functional sheet.
US12142806B2
An apparatus at least comprising a first contact partner which has a first metal contact surface, a 3-dimensional injection molded layer serving as second contact partner which has a second metal contact surface, and which comprises a synthetic injection-moldable material, and a plurality of deformable microstructures being situated between said first contact partner and said second contact partner. Said deformable microstructures are serving as electric pressure contacts which electrically connect said first metal contact surface and said second metal contact surface after having assembled said first contact partner and said second contact partner. Said apparatus comprises an electrically isolating bonding agent, preferably an electrically isolating bonding agent comprising a polymeric material or a polymeric-based compound material. Said bonding agent being situated between said first contact partner and said second contact partner.
US12142802B2
Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments provide a hardware and software architecture enabling electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (“EIS”) to be performed on multiple electrochemical devices, such as fuel cells, at the same time without human interaction with the electrochemical devices and to use EIS to dynamically monitor the performance of a fuel cell system. Embodiment methods may include determining an impedance of a set of fuel cells using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, determining an ohmic polarization of the set of fuel cells from the impedance, determining a concentration polarization of the set of fuel cells from the impedance, comparing the ohmic polarization of the set of fuel cells to a first threshold, comparing the concentration polarization of the set of fuel cells to a second threshold, and initiating a corrective action when the ohmic polarization is above the first threshold or when the concentration polarization is below the second threshold.
US12142799B2
An electrochemical element stack that includes a plurality of stacked electrochemical elements, each of the electrochemical elements including a plate-like support provided with an internal passage. The plate-like support includes: a gas-permeable portion through which gas passes between the internal passage located inside the plate-like support and the outside; an electrochemical reaction portion covering the gas-permeable portion; and a first penetrated portion forming a supply passage through which fuel gas flows from the outside of the plate-like support to the internal passage. The plate-like supports of two adjacent electrochemical elements are opposed, an outer face of the first electrochemical element on which the electrochemical reaction portion is arranged is electrically connected to an outer face of the second electrochemical element on which the electrochemical reaction portion is not arranged, and a flowing portion through which air flows along the two adjacent outer faces is formed between the two outer faces.
US12142796B2
A secondary battery includes an electrode body configured such that a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate are tacked on each other with a separator being interposed therebetween, an exterior body having an opening and housing the electrode body, a sealing plate sealing the opening, and an external terminal attached to the sealing plate. Tabs provided at the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate are electrically connected to the external terminal via a current collector arranged between the electrode body and the sealing plate. The current collector has a first connection portion connected to the tabs and a second connection portion with a fuse portion. The fuse portion is fused when overcurrent flows in the current path. A portion of the fuse portion facing the electrode body is covered with a fuse portion insulating member made of a material whose melting point is 200° C. or higher.
US12142790B2
An electrode assembly includes: a first electrode plate having a first electrode uncoated portion spaced apart from both ends in a longitudinal direction thereof, and a base tab on one surface of the first electrode uncoated portion; a second electrode plate having a second electrode uncoated portion spaced apart from both ends in a longitudinal direction thereof, and a base tab on one surface of the second electrode uncoated portion; a separator between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate; a tab cover tape attached to the one surfaces of the first electrode uncoated portion and the second electrode uncoated portion; an uncoated portion cover tape attached to each of the other surfaces of the first electrode uncoated portion and the second electrode uncoated portion; and an insulating tape attached onto the second electrode plate at a position corresponding to the first electrode uncoated portion.
US12142789B2
A separator for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the present invention comprises a porous substrate and a filler layer disposed upon the substrate. The filler layer includes phosphate particles and a reticulated polyvinylidene fluoride resin. The filler layer has a polyvinylidene fluoride resin content of 15 mass % to 40 mass %, inclusive. The D10 particle size (D10) of the phosphate particles on a volume basis is 0.02 μm to 0.5 μm, inclusive, and is smaller than the average pore size of the pores in the substrate. The BET specific surface area of the phosphate particles 30 is 5 m2/g to 100 m2/g, inclusive.
US12142788B2
A polyolefin separator for an electrochemical device, the separator having a plurality of pores having an average pore size of 20 nm to 40 nm and a maximum pore size of 50 nm or less and including a polyolefin resin having a polydispersity index (PDI) of in a range of 2.5 to 4.2. The polyolefin separator may have a strain rate of 25% or less as measured when a tensile stress is applied at 60° C. at 15 MPa for 60 seconds, and the polyolefin separator may have a recovery time of 200 seconds or less to reach a recovery rate of 70% as measured after removing a tensile stress applied at 70° C. at 2 MPa for 180 seconds.
US12142787B2
A battery includes a battery cell provided with a pressure relief mechanism configured to be actuated in response to internal pressure or temperature in the battery cell reaching a threshold to release the internal pressure, a collection pipe configured to accommodate a firefighting medium, and a firefighting pipe configured to connect to the collection pipe to allow the firefighting medium to be fed to the firefighting pipe. The firefighting pipe is configured to discharge the firefighting medium toward the battery cell in response to the pressure relief mechanism being actuated. Two ends of the firefighting pipe are a first end and a second end respectively. The first end is configured to connect to the collection pipe to allow the firefighting medium to enter the firefighting pipe through the first end, and the second end is closed.
US12142785B2
In a battery pack, a heat-resistant cap is coupled to an end of a battery block including battery cells each having a discharge valve on an end surface thereof and arranged in plural rows. A valve-side end surface of battery cell is arranged at a first end of the battery block to which heat-resistant cap is coupled. Heat-resistant cap includes closing plate providing a first discharge gap between the closing plate and end surface of the battery block, a peripheral wall coupled to a periphery of closing plate and providing a second discharge gap between the peripheral wall and an outer circumference of the battery block, a partition wall disposed between end surfaces of adjacent battery cells and partitioning the first discharge gap into portions at end surfaces of battery cells.
US12142782B2
An electrochemical cell includes a first unit cell including a first power generation element and a first inner container which accommodates the first power generation element; a second unit cell including a second power generation element and a second inner container which accommodates the second power generation element; an outer container which accommodates the first unit cell and the second unit cell. A surface of the first inner container is provided with a convexity that has a curved surface and/or a flat surface, and a surface of the second inner container is provided with a concavity that has a curved surface and/or a flat surface. The electrochemical cell includes a fit portion in which the convexity is fitted in the concavity.
US12142777B2
Disclosed herein is a stacked battery pack that includes a plurality of unit cells stacked in a stacking direction. Each of the plurality of unit cells includes a resin holder, a flat cell housed in the resin holder, and a metal plate covering the flat cell, thereby the flat cell is sandwiched between the resin holder and the metal plate in the stacking direction.
US12142776B2
A battery for a motor vehicle includes a plurality of battery cells and a housing. The battery cells are arranged within the housing and designed for storing energy and discharging electrical energy. The housing includes at least a first housing element and a second housing element. The first housing element and the second housing element are fixedly connected to each other. The first housing element and the second housing element each include a base surface and two lateral surfaces. The base surface is arranged between the lateral surfaces. A first distance by which the lateral surfaces extends away from the base surface is greater than a second distance by which the lateral surfaces are spaced apart from each other. The base surface and the lateral surfaces of the first housing element have the same dimensions as the base surface and the lateral surfaces of the second housing element.
US12142773B2
A gasket of a cylindrical battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a cylindrical part, and a ring part which extends from one end part of the cylindrical part in the axial direction toward an inner side thereof in the radial direction. A surface of the ring part which is opposite the cylindrical part side in the axial direction has, an approximately flat surface, A protrusion is provided on the side of the ring part which is toward the cylindrical part in the axial direction. Said protrusion: is positioned with gaps in the radial direction in relation to both the cylindrical part and an inner end of the ring part in the radial direction; and protrudes in the axial direction.
US12142769B2
Provided is a novel oxygen reduction catalyst having good stability and higher oxygen reduction performance. The oxygen reduction catalyst includes a composite oxide comprising a conductive tin oxide containing Zr.
US12142764B2
A positive electrode mixture layer for a lithium-ion secondary battery suitable for producing a lithium-ion secondary battery with high rate characteristics at an ordinary temperature and low temperatures and low internal resistance (DCR) at low temperatures, characterized by including a positive electrode active material, a binder, and a conductive additive, in which the conductive additive includes carbon black, a carbon nanotube (1) having an average fiber diameter of 80 to 400 nm, and a carbon nanotube (2) having an average fiber diameter of 0.4 to 3.0 nm, the content rates of the carbon black, the carbon nanotube (1), and the carbon nanotube (2) in the conductive additive are 40 to 80% by mass, 10 to 50% by mass, and 1 to 30% by mass, respectively, and the content rate of the conductive additive in the positive electrode mixed layer is 0.1 to 5.0% by mass.
US12142754B2
A method of fabricating nanocomposite anode material embodying a lithium titanate (LTO)-multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT) composite intended for use in a lithium-ion battery includes providing multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNTs), including nanotube surfaces, onto which functional oxygenated carboxylic acid moieties are arranged, generating 3D flower-like, lithium titanate (LTO) microspheres, including thin nanosheets and anchoring the acid-functionalized MWNTs onto surfaces of the 3D LTO microspheres by π-π interaction strategy to realize the nanocomposite anode material.
US12142747B2
The present application provides a heat-exchanging component, a method for manufacturing the heat-exchanging component, a system of manufacturing the heat-exchanging component, a battery and an electricity-consuming apparatus. The heat-exchanging component provided by the embodiments of the present application includes a first plate body and two second plate bodies. The first plate body includes a first main body, a first convex portion and a second convex portion, and the first convex portion and the second convex portion protrude from a surface of the first main body away from the accommodating space; in a thickness direction of the first main body, a size of the first convex portion protruding from the first main body is smaller than a size of the second convex portion protruding from the first main body; the first flow passage is formed inside the first convex portion.
US12142742B2
A method of cooling an array of battery cells within a chamber in a housing, the battery cells being electrically connected via a busbar having at least one terminal tab for connection to an electrical terminal in the housing, the method comprising the steps of: supplying coolant through an opening in the housing into the chamber; and diverting at least a part of the coolant flow from its inlet flow path due to impingement of the flow upon part of the terminal tab.
US12142738B2
Disclosed is a power storage unit which can safely operate over a wide temperature range. The power storage unit includes: a power storage device; a heater for heating the power storage device; a temperature sensor for sensing the temperature of the power storage device; and a control circuit configured to inhibit charge of the power storage device when its temperature is lower than a first temperature or higher than a second temperature. The first temperature is exemplified by a temperature which allows the formation of a dendrite over a negative electrode of the power storage device, whereas the second temperature is exemplified by a temperature which causes decomposition of a passivating film formed over a surface of a negative electrode active material.
US12142726B2
An all-solid-state secondary battery having a higher level of safety than a conventional lithium-ion secondary battery using an electrolyte solution, specifically, a thin-film-type solid-state secondary battery, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. As a solid electrolyte, a mixed material obtained by co-evaporation of SiO and an organic complex of lithium is used. That is, a solid electrolyte layer formed using a mixed material of an inorganic material and an organic material is used in a solid-state secondary battery. The ratio of oxygen to silicon in the solid electrolyte layer is higher than 1 and lower than 2.
US12142723B2
Provided is a solid electrolyte composition including: an inorganic solid electrolyte having ion conductivity of a metal belonging to Group 1 or Group 2 in the periodic table; and binder particles including a resin represented by a specific formula. In addition, provided are a sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, an electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, and an all-solid state secondary battery that include the above-described solid electrolyte composition, and a method of manufacturing the sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery and a method of manufacturing the all-solid state secondary battery.
US12142719B2
An electrode plate stacking apparatus for a prismatic secondary battery is provided. The present invention provides an electrode plate stacking apparatus for a prismatic secondary battery, wherein a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate are supplied alternately on a stack base and a separator is provided between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate, the apparatus comprising, a vacuum belt conveyor for moving electrode plates along a transfer line, a first swing unit capable of performing a swing motion about an axis parallel to a horizontal plane, configured to unload an electrode plate from the vacuum belt conveyor and load it onto the stack base, wherein one of the vacuum belt conveyor and the stack base is configured to be inclined with respect to the horizontal plane to allow the first swing unit to load or unload the electrode plate at both ends of the swing motion, and an electrode plate alignment unit configured to align an electrode plate on the vacuum belt conveyor by adjusting position of the vacuum belt conveyor.
US12142718B2
A light emitter mounting board for improving light extraction efficiency includes an insulating substrate, an electrode layer, a resin layer, a coating layer, and a reflective electrode. The resin layer is located on the electrode layer and has a through-hole portion extending in a thickness direction. The coating layer covers a surface of the resin layer and an inner peripheral surface of the through-hole portion. The coating layer includes an in-hole portion covering the inner peripheral surface and having a lateral thickness gradually increasing from the surface of the resin layer toward the electrode layer. The reflective electrode extends at least on a surface of the in-hole portion of the coating layer and on an exposed portion of a surface of the electrode layer.
US12142710B2
A micro LED display device includes a circuit substrate, an epitaxial structure layer, a metal conductive layer, a light conversion layer and a light-shielding structure. The epitaxial structure layer includes a first surface, a second surface, and a plurality of micro LED units separated from each other. The micro LED units are electrically connected to the circuit substrate. The metal conductive layer is disposed on the second surface and directly contacts the epitaxial structure layer, and has a plurality of light conversion region each corresponds to one of the micro LED units. The light conversion layer is disposed in a part of the light conversion regions. The light-shielding structure does not cover the light conversion regions. In the direction perpendicular to a bonding surface of the circuit substrate, the thickness of the metal conductive layer is greater than that of the epitaxial structure layer.
US12142696B2
A thin film transistor is provided. The thin film transistor includes abase substrate; a gate electrode on the base substrate; an active layer on the base substrate, the active layer including a polycrystalline silicon part including a polycrystalline silicon material and an amorphous silicon part including an amorphous silicon material; a gate insulating layer insulating the gate electrode from the active layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode on the base substrate; and an etch stop layer on a side of the polycrystalline silicon part away from the base substrate. An orthographic projection of the etch stop layer on the base substrate covers an orthographic projection of the polycrystalline silicon part on the base substrate, and an orthographic projection of at least a portion of the amorphous silicon part on the base substrate.
US12142678B2
A semiconductor device includes a vertical field-effect transistor including: a first gate trench and a second gate trench extending in a first direction, the second gate trench being deeper than the first trench; a first gate insulating film and a first gate conductor inside the first gate trench; and a second gate insulating film and a second gate conductor inside the second gate trench. The first gate conductor and the second gate conductor have the same potential. When a total number of first gate trenches is denoted by n, a total number of second gate trenches is at least 2 and at most n+1. In a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the second gate trench is disposed at each of farthest ends of a region in which the first gate trenches and the second gate trenches are disposed.
US12142673B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to transistor with wrap-around extrinsic base and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a substrate; a collector region within the substrate; an emitter region over the substrate and which comprises silicon based material; an intrinsic base; and an extrinsic base overlapping the emitter region and the intrinsic base; an extrinsic base overlapping the emitter region and the intrinsic base; and an inverted “T” shaped spacer which separates the emitter region from the extrinsic base and the collector region from the emitter region.
US12142672B2
An emitter contact layer, an emitter layer, a base layer, a p-type base layer, a collector layer, and a sub-collector layer are crystal-grown over a first substrate in this order with the main surface as the Group III polar surface. The emitter contact layer includes a nitride semiconductor that is made n-type at a relatively high concentration. The emitter layer includes a nitride semiconductor having a bandgap larger than that of the nitride semiconductor constituting the emitter contact layer. The base layer includes an undoped nitride semiconductor having a bandgap smaller than that of the nitride semiconductor constituting the emitter layer. The p-type base layer includes the same nitride semiconductor as the base layer and made p-type.
US12142659B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a p-type transistor including: a first channel region; a first gate dielectric layer on the first channel region; a tungsten-containing work function tuning layer on the first gate dielectric layer; and a first fill layer on the tungsten-containing work function tuning layer; and an n-type transistor including: a second channel region; a second gate dielectric layer on the second channel region; a tungsten-free work function tuning layer on the second gate dielectric layer; and a second fill layer on the tungsten-free work function tuning layer.
US12142658B2
A semiconductor device is fabricated by a method including the following steps: a first step of forming a semiconductor film containing a metal oxide over an insulating layer; a second step of forming a conductive film over the semiconductor film; a third step of forming a first resist mask over the conductive film and etching the conductive film to form a first conductive layer and to expose a top surface of the semiconductor film that is not covered with the first conductive layer; and a fourth step of forming a second resist mask that covers a top surface and a side surface of the first conductive layer and part of the top surface of the semiconductor film and etching the semiconductor film to form a semiconductor layer and to expose a top surface of the insulating layer that is not covered with the semiconductor layer.
US12142655B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: an isolation region; nanostructures protruding above a top surface of the isolation region; a gate structure wrapped around the nanostructures, the gate structure having a bottom surface contacting the isolation region, the bottom surface of the gate structure extending away from the nanostructures a first distance, the gate structure having a sidewall disposed a second distance from the nanostructures, the first distance less than or equal to the second distance; and a hybrid fin on the sidewall of the gate structure.
US12142647B2
A method of forming a semiconductor including forming a source/drain feature adjacent to a semiconductor layer stack disposed over a substrate. The method further includes forming a dummy fin adjacent to the source/drain feature and adjacent to the semiconductor layer stack. The method further includes performing an etching process from a backside of the substrate to remove a first portion of the dummy fin adjacent to the source/drain feature, thereby forming a first trench in the dummy fin, where the first trench extends from the dummy fin to the source/drain feature. The method further includes forming a first dielectric layer in the first trench and replacing a second portion of the dummy fin with a source/drain contact.
US12142646B2
According to one embodiment, a nitride semiconductor includes a base body, a nitride member, and an intermediate region provided between the base body and the nitride member. The nitride member includes a first nitride region including Alx1Ga1-x1N (0
US12142641B2
A method for making a semiconductor gate-all-around (GAA) device may include forming source and drain regions on a semiconductor substrate, forming a plurality of semiconductor nanostructures extending between the source and drain regions, and forming a gate surrounding the plurality of semiconductor nanostructures in a gate-all-around arrangement. Furthermore, the method may include forming at least one superlattice may be within at least one of the nanostructures. The at least one superlattice may include a plurality of stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers including a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions.
US12142636B2
A method includes forming a first nanosheet fin extending vertically from a first region of a substrate corresponding to a logic device and forming a second nanosheet fin extending vertically from a second region of the substrate corresponding to an input/output device. The first nanosheet fin includes first semiconductor channel layers vertically stacked over the first region. The second nanosheet fin includes an alternating sequence of semiconductor sacrificial layers and second semiconductor channel layers vertically stacked over the second region. An encapsulation layer is epitaxially grown along sidewalls of the alternating sequence of semiconductor sacrificial layers and second semiconductor channel layers, and an oxide layer is formed in contact with a top surface of an uppermost second semiconductor channel layer of the alternating sequence of semiconductor sacrificial layers and second semiconductor channel layers and in contact with opposite sidewalls of the encapsulation layer.
US12142632B2
A foldable electronic device may bend about a bend axis. A foldable display panel may be configured to bend along the bend axis as the foldable device is folded. A display cover layer may overlap the display panel. The display panel may have an array of pixels configured to display an image viewable through the display cover layer. The display cover layer may be formed from a layer of glass. A recess may be formed in the layer of glass that runs parallel to the bend axis and that overlaps the bend axis. The recess forms a flexible locally thinned portion in the glass that allows the display cover layer to bend. A rough surface texture and polymer coating may be provided in the recess. The recess may have shallowly sloping walls.
US12142624B2
An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface in a vertical direction, a first isolation structure disposed in the semiconductor substrate for defining pixel regions, a visible light detection structure, an infrared light detection structure, and a reflective layer. The visible light detection structure and the infrared light detection structure are disposed within the same pixel region. The visible light detection structure includes a first portion disposed between the second surface and the infrared light detection structure in the vertical direction and a second portion disposed between the infrared light detection structure and the first isolation structure in a horizontal direction. The infrared light detection structure is disposed between the reflective layer and the first portion in the vertical direction. The second portion is not sandwiched between the reflective layer and the second surface in the vertical direction.
US12142621B2
A method of manufacturing a connection structure, connection structure, film structure, and a method of manufacturing a film structure capable of mounting an electronic component having a plurality of terminal rows on a mounting surface by using existing equipment, including: a pasting step of pasting, from a film structure including a tape-shaped base material and a connection film formed thereon, connection films having a unit region of a predetermined length in the length direction of the base material and a predetermined width in the width direction to a first or second electronic component having a plurality of terminal rows; and a connecting step of connecting terminals of the first and second electronic components through the connection films, wherein the film structure includes, in the unit region, in addition to portions corresponding to the plurality of terminal rows, a non-pasting portion in which the connection film is not pasted.
US12142620B2
A saddle-gate source follower transistor is described, such as for integration with in-pixel circuitry of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor (CIS) pixels. The saddle-gate source-follower transistor structure can include a channel region having a three-dimensional geometry defined on its axial sides by trenches. A gate oxide layer is formed over the top and axial sides of the channel region, and a saddle-gate structure is formed on the gate oxide layer. As such, the saddle-gate structure includes a seat portion extending over the top of the channel region, and first and second fender portions extending over the first and second axial sides of the channel region, such that the first and second fender portions are buried below an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate (e.g., buried into trenches formed in side isolation regions).
US12142611B2
A layout method includes: generating a design data including an electronic circuit; and generating a design layout by placing a cell corresponding to the electronic circuit. The cell includes a first transistor and a second transistor over the first transistor. The first transistor includes a gate extending in a first direction, a first active region arranged in a first layer and extending in a second direction, and a first conductive line and a second conductive line arranged on two sides of the first active region. The second transistor includes the gate, a second active region arranged in a second layer over the first layer and extending in the second direction, and a third conductive line and a fourth conductive line arranged on two sides of the second active region. At least one of the four conductive lines includes a first portion non-overlapped with the gate in the first direction.
US12142606B2
A standard cell includes: a gate interconnect; a dummy gate interconnect formed to be adjacent to the gate interconnect on the right side of the gate interconnect in the figure in the X direction; a pad provided between the gate interconnect and the dummy gate interconnect; a nanosheet formed to overlap the gate interconnect as viewed in plan and connected with the pad; and a dummy nanosheet formed to overlap the dummy gate interconnect as viewed in plan and connected with the pad.
US12142601B2
A micro light-emitting diode package structure including a first base layer, a second base layer and a display unit is provided. The second base layer is disposed on the first base layer and has an opening. The opening exposes a part of the first base layer, and the opening and the exposed first base layer define a containing groove. The display unit is disposed in the containing groove, and the display unit includes a control circuit board and a micro light-emitting diode assembly. The micro light-emitting diode assembly is disposed on the control circuit board and electrically connected to the control circuit board.
US12142597B2
A method includes forming a first through-via from a first conductive pad of a first device die, and forming a second through-via from a second conductive pad of a second device die. The first and second conductive pads are at top surfaces of the first and the second device dies, respectively. The first and the second conductive pads may be used as seed layers. The second device die is adhered to the top surface of the first device die. The method further includes encapsulating the first and the second device dies and the first and the second through-vias in an encapsulating material, with the first and the second device dies and the first and the second through-vias encapsulated in a same encapsulating process. The encapsulating material is planarized to reveal the first and the second through-vias. Redistribution lines are formed to electrically couple to the first and the second through-vias.
US12142595B2
Apparatus and method for tool mark free stich bonding. In some embodiments, a method for wire bonding can include feeding a wire through a capillary tip and attaching a first end of the wire to a first location, thereby forming a ball bond. The method can further include moving the capillary tip towards a second location while the wire feeds out of the capillary tip. The method can further include attaching a second end of the wire to the second location while preventing contact between the capillary tip and the second location, thereby forming a stitch bond without a tool mark at the second location.
US12142585B2
Devices and methods for enhancing insertion loss performance of an antenna switch are disclosed. In one example, a semiconductor device formed to serve as an antenna switch is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate, a dielectric layer and a polysilicon region. The substrate includes: an intrinsic substrate; a metal-oxide-semiconductor device extending into the intrinsic substrate; and at least one isolation feature extending into and in contact with the intrinsic substrate. The at least one isolation feature is disposed adjacent to the metal-oxide-semiconductor device.
US12142581B2
A substrate assembly and a display device are provided. The substrate assembly includes a substrate, a first conductive line, and a second conductive line. The first conductive line is disposed on the substrate, wherein a voltage is applied to the first conductive line. The second conductive line is disposed on the substrate, wherein in a top view, at least a portion of the second conductive line extends along a first direction. The first conductive line and the second conductive line are at least partially overlapped in a normal direction of the substrate. A distance between the first conductive line and the second conductive line in the normal direction is greater than or equal to 3500 angstroms, and less than or equal to 4500 angstroms.
US12142570B2
Disclosed embodiments include composite-bridge die-to-die interconnects that are on a die side of an integrated-circuit package substrate and that contacts two IC dice and a passive device that is in a molding material, where the molding material also contacts the two IC dice.
US12142565B2
Vias, along with methods for fabricating vias, are disclosed that exhibit reduced capacitance and resistance. An exemplary interconnect structure includes a first source/drain contact and a second source/drain contact disposed in a dielectric layer. The first source/drain contact physically contacts a first source/drain feature and the second source/drain contact physically contacts a second source/drain feature. A first via having a first via layer configuration, a second via having a second via layer configuration, and a third via having a third via layer configuration are disposed in the dielectric layer. The first via and the second via extend into and physically contact the first source/drain contact and the second source/drain contact, respectively. A first thickness of the first via and a second thickness of the second via are the same. The third via physically contacts a gate structure, which is disposed between the first source/drain contact and the second source/drain contact.
US12142544B2
A semiconductor package may include vertically-stacked semiconductor chips and first, second, and third connection terminals connecting the semiconductor chips to each other. Each of the semiconductor chips may include a semiconductor substrate, an interconnection layer on the semiconductor substrate, penetration electrodes connected to the interconnection layer through the semiconductor substrate, and first, second, and third groups on the interconnection layer. The interconnection layer may include an insulating layer and first and second metal layers in the insulating layer. The first and second groups may be in contact with the second metal layer, and the third group may be spaced apart from the second metal layer. Each of the first and third groups may include pads connected to a corresponding one of the first and third connection terminals in a many-to-one manner. The second group may include pads connected to the second connection terminal in a one-to-one manner.
US12142541B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip including a chip pad; a lower redistribution structure on the semiconductor chip, the lower redistribution structure including a lower redistribution insulating layer and a lower redistribution pattern electrically connected to the chip pad of the semiconductor chip; a molding layer on at least a portion of the semiconductor chip; and a conductive post in the molding layer, the conductive post having a bottom surface and a top surface, the bottom surface of the conductive post being in contact with the lower redistribution pattern of the lower redistribution structure and the top surface of the conductive post having a concave shape.
US12142531B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a pre-deposition treatment of materials utilized in metal gates of different transistors on a semiconductor substrate. In an embodiment, a method includes exposing a first metal-containing layer of a first device and a second metal-containing layer of a second device to a reactant to form respective monolayers on the first and second metal-containing layers. The first and second devices are on a substrate. The first device includes a first gate structure including the first metal-containing layer. The second device includes a second gate structure including the second metal-containing layer different from the second metal-containing layer. The monolayers on the first and second metal-containing layers are exposed to an oxidant to provide a hydroxyl group (—OH) terminated surface for the monolayers. Thereafter, a third metal-containing layer is formed on the —OH terminated surfaces of the monolayers on the first and second metal-containing layers.
US12142526B2
A stacked field-effect transistors (FETs) layout and a method for fabrication are provided. The stacked FETs include a buried interconnect within the stacked devices which provides power to buried components without requiring a wired connection from a top of the stacked FET to the buried components. The buried interconnect allows for efficient scaling of the stacked devices without extraneous wiring from a top of the device to each epitaxial region/device within the overall device.
US12142522B2
A method for manufacturing an electronic device includes at least a step (1) of preparing a structure comprising (i) an adhesive film provided with a base material layer, an adhesive resin layer (A) provided on a first surface side of the base material layer, and an adhesive resin layer (B) provided on a second surface side of the base material layer, (ii) an electronic component attached to the adhesive resin layer (A) of the adhesive film, and (iii) a support substrate attached to the adhesive resin layer (B) of the adhesive film; a step (2) of sealing the electronic component with a sealing material; a step (3) of peeling the support substrate from the structure by reducing an adhesive force of the adhesive resin layer (B) by applying an external stimulus; and a step (4) of peeling the adhesive film from the electronic component.
US12142520B2
Middle-of-line (MOL) interconnects that facilitate reduced capacitance and/or resistance and corresponding techniques for forming the MOL interconnects are disclosed herein. An exemplary MOL interconnect structure includes a device-level contact disposed in a first insulator layer and a ruthenium structure disposed in a second insulator layer disposed over the first insulator layer. The device-level contact physically contacts an integrated circuit feature, and the ruthenium structure physically contacts the device-level contact. An air gap separates sidewalls of the ruthenium structure from the second insulator layer. A top surface of the ruthenium structure is lower than a top surface of the second insulator layer. A via disposed in a third insulator layer extends below the top surface of the second insulator layer to physically contact the ruthenium structure. A remainder of a dummy contact spacer layer may separate the first insulator layer and the second insulator layer.
US12142514B2
A clamp ring including an inner periphery of increased diameter at locations where inwardly extending tabs are not located reduces the risk a workpiece that is placed in close proximity to the clamp ring or which contacts the clamp ring during processing will stick to the clamp ring.
US12142501B2
A substrate processing system includes a substrate processing apparatus and a control device. The substrate processing apparatus includes a chamber, and a placing table provided inside the chamber. The placing table places a substrate thereon, and includes a base and an electrostatic chuck provided on an upper surface of the base. The electrostatic chuck has a plurality of division regions each provided with a heater therein. The substrate processing system also includes a control device that includes a measuring unit that measures a resistance value of the heater for each of the division regions, an estimating unit that estimates a temperature of each of the division regions based on the resistance value of the heater measured by the measuring unit, and a power controller that controls a power supplied to the heater for each of the division regions based on the temperature estimated by the estimating unit.
US12142500B2
A platform is of a side storage pod. The platform includes an upper surface and kinematic pins extending from the upper surface within a chamber of the side storage pod to engage a lower surface of a side storage container in the chamber to level the side storage container in the chamber.
US12142497B2
A heating platform for heating a wafer is provided. The heating platform includes a support carrier, a detection module and a first heating module. The wafer is supported by the support carrier. The detection module is configured to monitor a surface condition of the wafer supported by the support carrier. The first heating module is disposed at a side of the support carrier. The first heating module includes a plurality of heating units electrically connected to the detection module, and the heating units is arranged in an array. A thermal treatment and a manufacturing method are further provided.
US12142486B2
According to an embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of conductive layers that are stacked in plurality in a first direction via an inter-layer insulating layer, that extend in a second direction which intersects the first direction, and that are disposed in plurality in a third direction which intersects the first direction and the second direction. In addition, the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor layer that has the first direction as a longitudinal direction; a tunnel insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the semiconductor layer; a charge accumulation layer that contacts a side surface of the tunnel insulating layer; and a block insulating layer that contacts a side surface of the charge accumulation layer. Furthermore, in the same nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, an end in the third direction of the plurality of conductive layers is rounded.
US12142484B2
An etching method in accordance with the present disclosure includes providing a substrate, which includes a silicon-containing film, in a chamber; and etching the silicon-containing film with a chemical species in plasma generated from a process gas supplied in the chamber. The process gas includes a phosphorus gas component and a fluorine gas component.
US12142483B2
A substrate processing apparatus configured to process a substrate includes a substrate holder configured to hold, in a combined substrate in which a first substrate and a second substrate are bonded to each other, the second substrate; a periphery removing unit configured to remove, starting from a periphery modification layer formed on the first substrate along a boundary between a peripheral portion to be removed and a central portion of the first substrate, the peripheral portion from the combined substrate held by the substrate holder; and a collection unit equipped with a collection mechanism configured to collect the peripheral portion removed by the periphery removing unit.
US12142482B2
Using the first robot, the carrier standing by in the load lock chamber is deposited into the reaction chamber without mounting the wafer before processing, and cleaning gas is supplied while the reaction chamber is maintained at a predetermined cleaning temperature, and the carrier that has been cleaned in the reaction chamber is transferred to the load lock chamber using the first robot. The carrier and susceptor are cleaned at a predetermined frequency. After that, the carrier is carried out from the reaction chamber, and the reaction gas is supplied to the reaction chamber to form a polysilicon film on the surface of the susceptor.
US12142481B2
In one aspect, a method includes depositing a first glass layer on a metallization layer and depositing an etch stop layer on the first glass layer. The method further includes depositing a second glass layer on the etch stop layer and polishing the second glass layer down to at least a surface of the etch stop layer.
US12142480B2
Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include providing a silicon-containing precursor to a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. A substrate may be disposed within the processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include depositing a silicon-containing material on the substrate. The silicon-containing material may extend within the one or more recessed features along the substrate and a seam or void may be defined by the silicon-containing material within at least one of the one or more recessed features along the substrate. The methods may also include treating the silicon-containing material with a hydrogen-containing gas, such as plasma effluents of the hydrogen-containing gas, which may cause a size of the seam or void to be reduced.
US12142475B2
Methods of manufacturing memory devices are provided. The methods improve the quality of a selectively deposited silicon-containing dielectric layer. The method comprises selectively depositing a silicon-containing dielectric layer in a recessed region of a film stack. The selectively deposited silicon-containing dielectric layer is then exposed to a high-density plasma and annealed at a temperature greater than 800 ° C. to provide a silicon-containing dielectric film having a wet etch rate of less than 4 Å/min.
US12142469B2
Embodiments herein provide plasma processing chambers and methods configured for fine-tuning and control over a plasma sheath formed during the plasma-assisted processing of a semiconductor substrate. Embodiments include a sheath tuning scheme, including plasma processing chambers and methods, which can be used to tailor one or more characteristics of a plasma sheath formed between a bulk plasma and a substrate surface. Generally, the sheath tuning scheme provides differently configured pulsed voltage (PV) waveforms to a plurality of bias electrodes embedded beneath the surface of a substrate support in an arrangement where each of the electrodes can be used to differentially bias a surface region of a substrate positioned on the support. The sheath tuning scheme disclosed herein can thus be used to adjust and/or control the directionality, and energy and angular distributions of ions that bombard a substrate surface during a plasma-assisted etch process.
US12142467B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a substrate processing chamber, a substrate processing apparatus, and a substrate processing method for self-assembled monolayer (SAM) deposition of low vapor pressure organic molecules (OM) followed by further substrate processing, such as atomic layer deposition.
US12142463B2
Disclosed herein are devices, systems, and methods for transporting a substrate for vacuum processing. The transport may be provided by a substrate carrying device that includes a support area by which a substrate carrier may be moveably supported. The substrate carrying device includes a plurality of electrodes that are galvanically separated from one another. The substrate carrying device includes a plurality of substrate carrying regions arranged consecutively in series with respect to one another, each substrate carrying region including an electrode of the plurality of electrodes and also including a substrate receiving device configured to receive a substrate placed in the substrate carrying region, preferably in physical contact with the electrode.
US12142457B2
A charged particle beam device 1 includes: a plurality of detectors 7 for detecting a signal particle 9 emitted from a sample 8 irradiated with a charged particle beam 3 and converting the detected signal particle 9 into an output electrical signal 17; an energy discriminator 14 provided for each detector 7 and configured to discriminate the output electrical signal 17 according to energy of the signal particle 9; a discrimination control block 21 for setting an energy discrimination condition of each of the energy discriminators 14; and an image calculation block 22 for generating an image based on the discriminated electrical signal. The discrimination control block 21 sets energy discrimination conditions different from each other among the plurality of energy discriminators 14.
US12142446B2
An auxiliary contact system of a contactor includes an auxiliary movable contact, an auxiliary static contact corresponding to the auxiliary movable contact, and a rotation member configured to be rotatable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, a main movable contact of the contactor is driven by the rotation member to an electric contact position in which the main movable contact contacts a main static contact and the auxiliary movable contact is in the electric contact position contacting the auxiliary static contact. In the second position, the main movable contact of the contactor is driven by the rotation member to an electric separation position where the main movable contact is separated from the main static contact and the rotation member pushes the auxiliary movable contact to the electric separation position separated from the auxiliary static contact.
US12142441B2
An MEMS structure-based adjustable capacitor is provided, comprising: a lower plate A, a movable plate B, an upper plate C, a fixed apparatus D and one or more connecting conductors E; a lower end of the fixed apparatus D is fixedly connected to the lower plate A, an upper end of the fixed apparatus D is fixedly connected to the upper plate C, a structure B4 is provided at a middle part of movable plate B, and the movable plate B is able to move up and down along the fixed apparatus D; the lower plate A is provided with a lower electrode A1, and the movable plate B is provided with a movable electrode B1 and adjustment electrodes B2; the lower electrode A1 and the movable electrode B1 constitute a unit capacitor; and the upper plate C is provided with an upper electrode C1 and adjustment electrodes C2.
US12142438B2
An element body includes a principal surface arranged to constitute a mounting surface and a first side surface adjacent to the principal surface. An external electrode includes a first electrode portion disposed on the principal surface and a second electrode portion disposed on the first side surface. The first electrode portion includes a sintered metal layer, a conductive resin layer formed on the sintered metal layer, and a plating layer formed on the conductive resin layer. The second electrode portion includes a first region and a second region. The first region includes a sintered metal layer and a plating layer formed on the sintered metal layer. The second region includes a sintered metal layer, a conductive resin layer formed on the sintered metal layer, and a plating layer formed on the conductive resin layer. The second region is located closer to the principal surface than the first region.
US12142431B2
A dielectric material is provided. The dielectric material includes at least one layer of a substantially continuous phase material. The material is selected from the group consisting of an organic, organometallic, or combination thereof in which the substantially continuous phase material has delocalized electrons.
US12142426B2
A method for making an electrode for an ionic liquid-based supercapacitor comprising two electrodes (anode, cathode) separated by an ionic polymer electrolyte separator, comprising: a step for making a carbon paste resulting from mixing carbon materials, ionic liquids and a binder, so as to obtain an active material for the electrode at room temperature, and a step for forming the electrode from mechanically processing the active material. A supercapacitor comprising a stack of a cathode electrode, an electrolyte separator and an anode electrode, the cathode and anode electrodes being electrically connected to current collectors, wherein the electrolyte separator comprises a polymer with an ionic liquid and the electrodes comprise a carbon-based active material mixed with an ionic liquid electrolyte and a binder.
US12142416B2
An electrical machine having a winding support having multiple grooves, which carries at least one winding. The winding is formed by a conductor which has multiple groove sections which each extend within one of the grooves of the winding support and which are conductively connected by connecting sections of the conductor, which are outside the grooves. The conductor has an insulation layer applied to the conductor at least in the groove sections. The insulation layer has layer thicknesses different from one another for at least two of the groove sections.
US12142407B2
According to one configuration, an inductor device includes a core fabricated from multiple different types of magnetically permeable material. The inductor device includes an electrically conductive path extending through the core. A magnetic permeability of the core varies in magnitude depending on a distance with respect to the electrically conductive path.
US12142401B2
A wiring member includes: a base member including a holding surface; a wire-like transmission member disposed on a side of the holding surface; and a wire-like member disposed on the side of the holding surface, wherein the wire-like member intersects with the wire-like transmission member at a plurality of positions from a side opposite to the base member, and the wire-like member is fused to the holding surface on both sides of the wire-like transmission member.
US12142400B2
One object is to be able to easily attach an elastic waterproofing member to a wiring member. A wiring module (10) includes a wiring member (20), and an elastic waterproofing member (30, 130, 230, 330) in which a penetration accommodating portion (32) is formed that is capable of accommodating a portion in a longitudinal direction of the wiring member. The elastic waterproofing member includes a first split waterproofing member (36, 136) and a second split waterproofing member (38, 138), the first split waterproofing member and the second split waterproofing member are obtained by splitting the elastic waterproofing member so as to longitudinally split the penetration accommodating portion, and the first split waterproofing member and the second split waterproofing member are kept in a joined state, with a portion in a longitudinal direction of the wiring member accommodated in the penetration accommodating portion.
US12142398B2
The present disclosure suppresses, in a wire with terminal provided with a sealing member, buckling of a wire during insertion into a terminal mounting hole. A wire with terminal includes a wire having a core wire made of a conductor and an insulation coating covering the outer periphery of the core wire, a terminal connected to a lengthwise end portion of the wire, a tubular sealing member enclosing the outer periphery of the insulation coating, and a reinforcing material adhered to the outer peripheral surface of the insulation coating. The lengthwise end portion of the wire with terminal including the terminal and the sealing member is inserted into a terminal mounting hole of a housing. Also, the reinforcing material is provided in an area extending rearward from a rear end portion of the sealing member in an insertion direction into the terminal mounting hole.
US12142395B2
Coated conductors having a conductor at least partially surrounded by a polymeric composition. The polymeric composition contains a broad-molecular-weight-distribution high-density ethylene-based polymer and a narrow-molecular-weight-distribution linear-low-density ethylene-based polymer, and has a density of at least 0.95 g/cm3. Also disclosed are processes for preparing the polymeric composition and for making the coated conductors. Further disclosed are articles of manufacture containing the same.
US12142394B2
The invention relates to an electrically insulating composite material (1) comprising a polyepoxide matrix (2) of cycloaliphatic type or of diglycidyl ether type in a content of less than 40% by mass, from 20 to 75% by mass of one or several micrometric and/or mesometric filler(s) (3), and from 0.1 to 20% by mass of at least one ionic liquid (4), the masses being expressed relative to the total mass of the electrically insulating composite material (1). The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such an electrically insulating composite material (1), as well as its use for an electrically insulating support (9) in a metal-enclosed substation (5).
US12142392B2
The present disclosure relates to a bushing comprising a conductor tube, a support tube, arranged within the conductor tube, a draw-rod configured to run through the support tube, and a contact arrangement arranged to be drawn into the conductor tube by the draw-rod. The contact arrangement comprises a sealing plug arranged for sealingly engaging an inside wall of the conductor tube to prevent liquid from passing the sealing plug into the conductor tube.
US12142380B2
An apparatus, and method, for building a longevity profile, the apparatus including at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive longevity measurement data of a user, where the longevity measurement data includes at least a transcriptomic datum. The processor further configured to determine at least a longevity hallmark as a function of the longevity measurement data and generate a longevity profile of the user of the user as a function of a longevity machine-learning model, wherein the longevity machine-learning model receives the at least a longevity hallmark and the longevity measurement as inputs and outputs the longevity profile, and transmit the longevity profile to an output device.
US12142355B2
Health care information for multiple patients is processed to classify patients into categories. Additional data fields related to a category in which a patient is classified are added to the patient record. These data fields are populated in part by automatically processing the existing patient data. Such automatic processing can result in a probability that the underlying data supports having a particular value stored in one of the added data fields, and this probability also can be stored. Over time, additional data can be obtained from patients, caregivers and other sources, for structured data fields based on data entry forms for patient reported outcomes, caregiver reported outcomes, events of interest, survival and resource utilization. A set of factor scores is computed for each patient, for each category in which the patient is classified. An outcome score is computed for each patient for each category in which the patient is classified, using an outcome function defined for that category, as a weighted function of one or more of the factor scores. The outcome function for a category is standardized across all patients classified in that category.
US12142353B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing improved management of hospital information systems are provided. An example of a method for providing improved management of a hospital information system includes providing an interface for electronic entry of a set of request parameters, the request parameters comprising at least one product identifier for a product to be purchased by a healthcare organization and at least one change to a healthcare information system related to the at least one product, receiving the set of electronic request parameters, generating, via the request management circuitry, an action plan defining at least one action for implementation of the at least one change to the healthcare information system, monitoring, via the request management circuitry, for completion of the at least one action, and in response to detection of completion of the at least one action, implementing the at least one change to the healthcare information system.
US12142352B2
A modular patient analytics system, including: an integrated machine learning module configured to receive patient data and to apply machine learning models to the received patient data; machine learning services that includes default machine learning models and trained machine learning models; a testing service configured to receive real time patient data, to run a machine learning model to produce a model output, and to provide the model output to the integrated machine learning module; a model training service configured to receive site training data, to train a machine learning model using the site training data, and to provide the trained machine learning model to the machine learning services; and a classification service configured to receive and provide pseudo labels for patient data from the site data for use in semi supervised learning of machine learning models as well as model validation on updated and existing machine learning models.
US12142350B2
Disclosed is a method for predicting an affinity between a drug and a target substance, which is performed by a computing device including at least one processor according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. The method for predicting an affinity between a drug and a target substance may include: extracting a feature value of each of the drug and the target substance by using a first neural network; performing a cross attention between the feature values by using a second neural network; and predicting the affinity between the drug and the target substance based on a result of performing the cross attention by using a third neural network.
US12142348B2
A memory device comprising a programmable command-and-address (CA) interface and/or a programmable data interface is described. In an operational mode, two or more CA interfaces may be active. In another operational mode, at least one, but not all, CA interfaces may be active. In an operational mode, all of the data interfaces may be active. In another operational mode, at least one, but not all, data interfaces may be active. The memory device can include circuitry to select: an operational mode; a sub-mode within an operational mode; one or more CA interfaces as the active CA interface(s); a main CA interface from multiple active CA interfaces; and/or one or more data interfaces as the active data interfaces. The circuitry may perform these selection(s) based on one or more bits in one or more registers and/or one or more signals received on one or more pins.
US12142347B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing logical operations using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus comprises an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry comprising a primary latch coupled to a sense line of the array. The sensing circuitry can be configured to perform a first operation phase of a logical operation by sensing a memory cell coupled to the sense line, perform a number of intermediate operation phases of the logical operation by sensing a respective number of different memory cells coupled to the sense line, and accumulate a result of the first operation phase and the number of intermediate operation phases in a secondary latch coupled to the primary latch without performing a sense line address access.
US12142346B2
A memory device includes memory cells operably connected to column signal lines and to word signal lines. The column signal lines associated with one or more memory cells to be accessed (e.g., read) are precharged to a first voltage level. The column signal lines not associated with the one or more memory cells to be accessed are precharged to a second voltage level, where the second voltage level is less than the first voltage level.
US12142342B2
According to an exemplary embodiments, the disclosure is directed to a memory circuit which includes not limited to a first half sense amplifier circuit connected to a first plurality of memory cells through a first bit line and configured to receive a unit of analog electrical signal from each of the first plurality of memory cells and to generate a first half sense amplifier output signal corresponding to the first bit line based on a first gain of the half sense amplifier and an accumulation of the units of analog signals, a locking code register circuit configured to receive a locking data and to generate a digital locking sequence, and a source selector circuit configured to receive the digital locking sequence and to generate a first adjustment signal to adjust the first half sense amplifier output signal corresponding to the first bit line by adjusting the first gain.
