US12145393B1
A greeting card assembly having an electronics unit is embedded into the card. Electronics that play a length of music containing consecutive notes that can be selectively played over the speaker. A graphic of at least one instrument is displayed in the card. At least one activation sensor is provided within the graphic. Each activation sensor can be triggered by touching the graphic where the activation sensor is located. When an activation sensor is triggered, the electronics unit plays only one or two notes from the length of music. In this manner, to play the full length of music, the activation sensor must be repeatedly triggered. By strategically positioning the activation sensor in the graphic of the instrument, the repeated triggering of the activation sensor provides the appearance that a user is actually playing the instrument depicted in the graphic.
US12145388B2
A recording medium according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a recording layer including a leuco dye as a coloring compound; a first barrier film that is provided on each of one surface and another surface opposed to the one surface of the recording layer, and suppresses intrusion of moisture, oxygen, or both; and a second barrier film having chemical resistance and provided on a side surface of the recording layer continuously at least from a peripheral part of the one surface to a peripheral part of the other surface of the recording layer.
US12145386B2
A method for preparing a laser marking system to create a colored laser mark on a specimen by providing a laser marking system and a specimen comprising a surface layer, where the laser marking system has a preset number of laser parameters, and performing an exploration of a first gamut specified by the laser marking system and the specimen. The method further generally comprises creating a design space with a preset number of design points; performing a marking of a sample on the specimen for each design point; measuring the sample using at least one detection device and determining a performance point for each design point; evaluating the performance space with regard to preset performance criteria using an evaluation device; generating an offspring design space with offspring design points; and creating a first gamut using a subset of performance points.
US12145384B2
A printing apparatus includes: a first frame; a second frame fixed to the first frame, the second frame having an accommodation space configured to accommodates a roll, the roll having a printing medium rolled thereon; a pair of support parts supported on the second frame, the pair of support parts being configured to support end faces of the roll in a first direction, at least one of the pair of support parts being supported on the second frame so as to be movable in the first direction; a guide member provided on the first frame; and contact portions provided to the support parts, the contact portions being configured to slide while being in contact with the guide member.
US12145378B2
There is provided a technique that enables correct detection of the remaining amount of liquid such as ink. A liquid ejection apparatus has a liquid ejection head which ejects a supplied liquid, a storage unit which stores a liquid to be supplied to the liquid ejection head, a pivot member which is immersed in a liquid stored in the storage unit and is pivotally movable according to an amount of the liquid, and a detection unit which detects the amount of the liquid using the pivot member, wherein at least one of a specific gravity and size of the pivot member differs according to a specific gravity of a liquid stored in the storage unit.
US12145375B2
A recording apparatus 101 includes a liquid storage portion 46 configured to store liquid, a recording head 22 that ejects liquid supplied from the liquid storage portion 46 onto the medium, and a light emitting unit 301 configured to emit light, wherein the liquid storage portion 46 has a float 48 configured to float on liquid in the liquid storage portion 46 and to move according to movement of liquid surface LS while maintaining a posture, and a front surface 43F in which the liquid in the liquid storage portion 46 is visually checkable from outside the liquid storage portion 46, wherein the float 48 has a front surface 48a that by receiving the light from the light emitting unit 301, appears luminous when viewed from a direction facing the front surface 43F.
US12145367B2
A liquid discharge head includes: a nozzle plate having: a nozzle from which a liquid is to be discharged in a liquid discharge direction; and a nozzle face having the nozzle, the nozzle face directed in the liquid discharge direction; a nozzle protector configured to cover a portion of the nozzle face other than the nozzle; and a channel substrate including: a bonding part bonded to the nozzle protector with an adhesive; and a recess in a transverse portion of the bonding part extending in a transverse direction of the liquid discharge head, the recess filled with the adhesive.
US12145363B2
A liquid ejection apparatus is configured to control a supply of a drive signal to a drive element by a controller so that a target period is either an ejection period or a non-ejection period based on print data. The drive signal includes an ejection pulse and a non-ejection pulse. The controller: does not supply the non-ejection pulse to the drive element when the target period is the non-ejection period and an elapsed time length from the last ejection period is less than the predetermined time length, and supplies the non-ejection pulse to the drive element when the target period is the non-ejection period and the elapsed time length is equal to or longer than the predetermined time length. The predetermined time length is an integral multiple or more of ½ of a natural vibration cycle of a meniscus of a liquid in the nozzle.
US12145345B2
Structurally enhanced preformed layers of multiple rigid unidirectional rods are constructed and arranged for use in fabricating load-bearing support structures and reinforcements in a variety of composite components, e.g. wind turbine blades. Individual preform layers include multiple elongate unidirectional strength elements or rods arranged in a single layer along a longitudinal axis of the preform layer. Individual rods include aligned unidirectional structural fibers embedded within a matrix resin such that the rods have a substantially uniform distribution of fibers and high degree of fiber collimation. The relative straightness of the fibers and fiber collimation provide rods and the preform layers with high rigidity and significant compression strength. A plurality of rods are loosely attached, e.g. knitted, together with a coupling that allows for each rod to be axially displaced, e.g. slideable, relative to another rod.
US12145342B2
A creping blade having a first side face, a second side face, and a shelf extending from the first side face to the second side face, with a scraping edge at the intersection of the first side face and the shelf. The shelf has a first section having a first coefficient of friction and a second section have a second coefficient of friction and the second coefficient of friction is greater than the first coefficient of friction.
US12145340B2
In a method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire, a placement unit is moved relative to a forming drum in a drum circumferential direction to repeatedly perform a one-side step of delivering a reinforcing wire in a folded back state in a length from a central portion toward one side in the width direction of the forming drum and compression bonding the reinforcing wire to an innerliner of an outer surface of the forming drum, and after delivering the reinforcing wire in the length toward the one side in the width direction as described above, perform an other-side step of delivering the reinforcing wire in a folded back state in a length from the central portion toward an other side in the width direction of the forming drum and compression bonding the reinforcing wire to an outer surface of the innerliner.
US12145338B2
The disclosure relates to assemblies of thin-walled tubes and mandrels for use in thin wall catheter liners. For example, an assembly is provided that includes a thin-walled PTFE tube comprising walls with a thickness of less than 0.004 inches, positioned over a filled mandrel comprising PTFE with one or more fillers incorporated therein. The disclosure further provides, independently, thin-walled tubes and filled mandrels, as well as methods of making and using such components.
US12145332B2
A device and method for dispensing air and/or sealant to a tire of a vehicle. Power supply for the air compressor is obtained via powered USB instead of the typical 12 V cigarette lighter connector. The position of the tire which is being inflated can also be determined via the data interface of the USB port. By communication between a compressor control module and the vehicle systems interface, the compressor can automatically switch off when the recommended tire pressure has been reached. The control module can be located in the USB power cord plug, and can provide for changes in voltage to the compressor to maximize power and inflation rate and/or efficiency.
US12145320B2
Systems, methods, and devices may be configured to detect and remediate component failures in three-dimensional object printers (10, 10a-f) preemptively. For example, systems may include: (a) a plurality of printers (10, 10a-f) each configured to produce three-dimensional objects (13), each printer including: (i) a plurality of subsystems; and (ii) at least one sensor; and (b) processor(s) (41, 42) and memory resource(s) (21) storing an inventory of available replacement components for at least some of said subsystems. The one or more memory resources may (21) store instructions that may cause the one or more processors to: (i) identify a predetermined pattern in data sensed during a process of producing a three-dimensional object by a sensor of a printer as an indicator of likely failure of a subsystem or component thereof; and (ii) assign a component in inventory to said printer based on a unique identifier of the printer and the indicator of likely failure identified in the signal.
US12145319B2
Systems and methods of predicting temperature during a build of a three-dimensional (3D) part include determining a temperature profile at a plurality of layers of a part based on geometric characteristics of the 3D part as defined by a 3D part file, and adjusting a process parameter of the build based on the determined temperature.
US12145317B2
There is provided improved laser sintering systems that increase the powder density and reduce anomalies of the powder layers that are sintered, that measure the laser power within the build chamber for automatic calibration during a build process, that deposit powder into the build chamber through a chute to minimize dusting, and that scrubs the air and cools the radiant heaters with recirculated scrubbed air. The improvements enable the laser sintering systems to make parts that are of higher and more consistent quality, precision, and strength, while enabling the user of the laser sintering systems to reuse greater proportions of previously used but unsintered powder.
US12145313B2
This method includes performing adhesion prevention treatment on uncrosslinked rubber powder, which is a material of the rubber product, to prevent mutual adhesion of the uncrosslinked rubber powder, and sequentially and repeatedly forming by supplying raw rubber powder, on which the adhesion prevention treatment has been performed, and irradiating the supplied portion with an electron beam to crosslink the irradiated portion, so that the crosslinked portions are stacked following a shape of the rubber product.
US12145312B2
The present disclosure relates to an additive manufacturing (AM) method for making a three-dimensional (3D) object, comprising a) depositing successive layers of a powdered material (M), at least partially recycled, comprising at least one poly(ether ketone ketone) (PEKK), having a phosphorus content of more than 30 ppm, as measured by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES), and b) selectively sintering each layer prior to deposition of the subsequent layer.
US12145306B2
A manufacturing method and a jig for a high-pressure tank includes a filament winding step in which a reinforcing shaft is inserted from a cap toward the other end of a liner, the axial length of the liner is fixed by the reinforcing shaft, and a fiber-reinforced resin is wound; and a thermal curing step in which the fixing of the reinforcing shaft to the other end of the liner is released so that the liner can change in the axial direction, and the fiber-reinforced resin is heated.
US12145296B2
Transparent articles and methods of producing transparent articles are provided. The transparent article includes hydrophobic nanoparticles dispersed within poly(methyl methacrylate). The method of producing transparent articles includes pouring a transparent article precursor into a mold, the transparent article precursor comprising nanoparticles, a solvent, and a polymer, and the mold comprising a flat surface. The method also includes placing the mold into a container having an adjustable opening and allowing the solvent to evaporate from the transparent article precursor, thereby forming the transparent article over the flat surface of the mold. The method further includes flattening the transparent article, in which flattening the transparent article includes positioning a flat article on a first side of the transparent article, and compressing the transparent article between the flat surface and the flat article.
US12145293B2
A method of drying a green ceramic honeycomb body (20) comprising: moving the body (20) through a drying system (50) comprising interconnected microwave devices (60), wherein each microwave device (D1, D2, D3) comprises an entrance (62a, 62b, 62c) located at an upstream end and an exit (64a, 64b, 64c) located at a downstream end of the microwave device (D1, D2, D3), the ends defining a downstream direction (72) and an upstream direction (74) in each of the devices (D1, D2, D3); removing moisture from the body (20) by irradiating the body (20) with microwave radiation within each of the devices (D1, D2, D3); and flowing air against the outer peripheral wall (22) of the body (20) while the body (20) is located in each of the microwave devices (D1, D2, D3). The flowing is conducted such that one or more of a supply flow and an exhaust flow of air is adjusted in at least one of the devices (D1, D2, D3) such that the air flow in the system is at a predetermined magnitude substantially in the upstream (74) or downstream direction (72).
US12145290B2
A process for the production of panels made of wooden material comprises at least the following phases: supply of a plurality of types of wooden material in the form of flakes and/or dust; forming of at least one support layer in at least one of the types of wooden material on a work surface; forming of at least one final layer on top of the support layer, in another of the types of wooden material other than that of the support layer itself, so as to form a mattress; compacting of the mattress to form a compacted panel made of wooden material, wherein the process comprises, after the formation of the at least one support layer and before the formation of the at least one final layer, at least one steam heating phase and one pressing phase of the at least one support layer to obtain a pre-compacted mattress.
US12145287B2
A superabsorbent polymer hydrogel chopping device is provided. The superabsorbent polymer hydrogel chopping device includes a barrel body having a transfer space to which a hydrogel is transferred therein and a discharge portion through which the hydrogel is discharged is formed to face in a ground direction, a transfer unit installed in the barrel body and configured to transfer the hydrogel in the transfer space, a cutter member installed in the barrel body and configured to pulverize the hydrogel transferred by the transfer unit, and a perforated plate configured to discharge particles of the hydrogel pulverized by the cutter member to the outside of the barrel body.
US12145284B2
A stationary blade for a blade set of a hair cutting appliance is arranged to be moved through hair in a moving direction to cut hair. The stationary blade includes: a first wall portion arranged to serve as a skin facing wall when in operation; a second wall portion at least partially offset from the first wall portion; and at least one toothed leading edge comprising a plurality of teeth and being jointly provided by the first wall portion and the second wall portion. The first wall portion and the second wall portion are connected at a frontal end of the at least one toothed leading edge to provide tips of the teeth. A blade set including the stationary blade and a moveable cutting blade are also arranged to cut hair. A method of fabricating a blade set is also described.
US12145277B2
A robot motion planning technique using an external computer communicating with a robot controller. A camera or sensor system provides input scene information including start and goal points and obstacle data to the computer. The computer plans a robot tool motion based on the start and goal points and the obstacle environment, where the robot motion is planned using either a serial or parallel combination of sampling-based and optimization-based planning algorithms. In the serial combination, the sampling method first finds a feasible path, and the optimization method then improves the path quality. In the parallel combination, both sampling and optimization methods are used, and a path is selected based on computation time, path quality and other factors. The computer converts dense planned waypoints to sparse command points for transfer to the robot controller, and the controller computes robot kinematics and interpolation points and controls the movement of the robot.
US12145275B2
Stop and start detection block (63) determines whether or not a joint portion is in a stopped state before a rotation direction of the joint portion is inverted based on stop flag signal (Stop_Flg). When it is determined that the joint portion is in the stopped state, filter processing block (65) changes a frequency component of a correction amount for correcting backlash to a low frequency lower than a predetermined threshold value.
US12145274B2
An operation parameter adjusting method according to an aspect includes a detecting step for causing a robot to execute a plurality of adjustment operations using candidate values of operation parameters and acquiring detection values of a detecting section, an operation parameter updating step for executing optimization processing for the operation parameters using the acquired detection values to thereby obtain new candidate values of the operation parameters, a repeating step for repeating the operation parameter updating step and the detecting step, and an operation parameter determining step for determining, based on one or more candidate values of the operation parameters obtained by the repeating step, the operation parameter used in the robot system. The detecting step includes a suspension determining step for performing continuation or suspension of the detecting step based on a result of comparison of the acquired detection values of the part of the adjustment operations and a reference value.
US12145271B2
A method for object grasping, including: determining features of a scene; determining candidate grasp locations; determining a set of candidate grasp proposals for the candidate grasp locations; optionally modifying a candidate grasp proposal of the set; determining grasp scores associated with the candidate grasp proposals; selecting a set of final grasp proposals based on the grasp scores; and executing a grasp proposal from the set of final grasp proposals.
US12145260B2
A robot maintenance fixture includes: a fixture body removably attached to a robot mounted in a state of being suspended from a stand; a first hanger portion that can be disposed vertically above a position of the center of gravity of a working part of the robot, the working part being a part driven by an actuator on which maintenance is to be performed, the working part being in a state of being attached to the actuator, and with which the working part can be suspended from the fixture body with a first hanger member; and a second hanger portion that can be disposed vertically above a position of the center of gravity of the actuator in a state of being attached to the robot and with which the actuator can be suspended from the fixture body with a second hanger member.
US12145257B2
A method and apparatus for dispensing and retrieving products is provided. A system may include: a grasping head; first and second grasping members, each grasping member comprising: a top member; a post member; and first and second grasping fingers, where the first and second grasping fingers extend from the post member and are spaced apart from the top member by a predetermined distance, where the first and second grasping members are connected to the grasping head, where at least one of the first and second grasping members is movably connected to the grasping head, where the at least one of the first and second grasping members is movable relative to the other of the first and second grasping members.
US12145252B2
A power tool supportable by a lanyard. The power tool includes a motor housing, a motor arranged in the motor housing, a front housing, an output member extending from the front housing, a gear case, and a gear train arranged in the gear case. The gear train configured to transfer torque from the motor to the output member. The power tool further includes a first fastener securing the front housing to the motor housing and a bracket to which the lanyard is attachable. The bracket is fastened to one of the front housing, the motor housing, or the gear case by a second fastener that does not secure the front housing to the motor housing.
US12145237B2
Method and system, including: a strip of metallic material used by a bender to produce the 3-D signage; a sanding unit coupled to the bender and configured to sand away any dirt, oil, or other undesirable material attaching to the strip of metallic material; and a controller configured to make a measurement of how fast the strip of metallic material is feeding into the bender, and to control an operating speed of the sanding unit based on the measurement.
US12145236B2
Containment and exhaust systems for substrate polishing components are disclosed. In one aspect, a substrate carrier head, includes a polishing pad, a substrate carrier head configured to retain a wafer against the polishing pad, an atomizer configured to atomize a liquid and spread a layer of the atomized liquid over a surface area of the polishing pad, and a chamber configured to contain and exhaust the atomized liquid.
US12145230B2
Device for machining a workpiece (10) comprising a housing (200), at least one machining head (210) carrying a machining tool (211), characterized in that it comprises an air system (300) for evacuating the chips produced during the machining of said workpiece (10) comprising: an air inlet (301) and an air outlet (302) and an air flow channel (303); a means (304) for causing an air flow to flow in said air flow channel (303); and an air passage through-hole (305) delimiting said air outlet, through which said machining tool (211) extends so that said air flow caused to flow in said air channel can be expelled from said housing through said through-hole in order to repel said chips produced by said machining tool out of said enclosure (201) of said housing.
US12145226B2
A welding system includes a torch motion sensing system associated with a welding torch and is configured to sense welding torch orientations or movements. The welding system also includes a processing system that is configured to vary operation of a power source based on the sensed orientations or movements.
US12145223B2
An example system includes an additive manufacturing tool configured to receive a wire from a wire feeder, to receive current from a power source, and to supply the wire to a workpiece during an additive manufacturing process, and a mechanical oscillation system configured to mechanically oscillate a structural component toward and away from the workpiece, wherein the structural component is external to the wire feeder and the power source.
US12145221B2
An apparatus for use in a continuous welding system including a welding head configured to remain stationary relative to translating steel sheets or plates. The apparatus includes a hollow elongate body and a port. The body extends between two closed ends. The port is coupled to a non-oxidizing gas source and in communication with the body. The body defines a plurality of openings. The openings are configured to direct non-oxidizing gas towards the steel sheets or plates to simultaneously shield a weld formed by the welding head from atmosphere and cool the weld.
US12145212B2
The present disclosure discloses a pressure detection assembly and an ultrasonic welding device, the pressure detection assembly includes a first connecting piece, a second connecting piece, a detection unit and an elastic member, wherein the first connecting piece is provided with a first guide portion; the second connecting piece is connected to the first connecting piece, and the second connecting piece is provided with a second guide portion matched with the first guide portion; the detection unit is provided between the first connecting piece and the second connecting piece, and the detection unit is configured to collect the pressure value between the first connecting piece and the second connecting piece; and the elastic member is connected between the first connecting piece and the second connecting piece, wherein the elastic member can make the first connecting piece and the second connecting piece clamp the detection unit.
US12145207B2
A saw blade including a body and a plurality of teeth disposed on the body and defining a cutting portion. At least one tooth of the plurality of teeth have a substrate forming a tip of the at least one tooth. The saw blade further includes a thin film ceramic coating overlaying at least the substrate. The thin film ceramic coating has a greater strength than the substrate.
US12145206B2
A saw blade includes an elongated body with a working edge extending along a longitudinal axis. A first strip composed of carbide or cermet and including at least one first full cutting tooth is coupled to a first portion of the working edge by a first weld fusion zone composed of a ductile material. The first strip is set in a first direction at a first angle out of a plane of the body by a first bend in the first weld fusion zone. A second strip composed of carbide or cermet and including at least one second full cutting tooth is coupled to a second portion of the working edge by a second weld fusion zone composed of a ductile material. The second strip is set in a second direction, opposite the first direction, at a second angle out of the plane of the body by a second bend in the second weld fusion zone.
US12145194B2
Provided are casting products for cooling heating elements, the casting products including: a body made of a metal material; and a cooling pipe providing a path through which a cooling fluid flows, and being made of an aluminum alloy material, wherein the body includes a plate-shaped plate portion, protrusion extensions protruding from the plate portion and extending along the cooling pipe so that at least part of the cooling pipe is fully buried, and a cooling pin structure formed integrally with the plate portion, and the cooling pipe is formed in such a way that a first pipe thickness of the cooling pipe having a cross-sectional shape in a first direction is greater than a second pipe thickness in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the first direction is in parallel to the plate portion, and the second direction is a thickness direction of the plate portion.
US12145189B2
A working element operable to expand an end of a tube includes a main body configured to rotate about an axis, a plurality of roller supports movably coupled to the main body, the roller supports movable relative to the main body between a retracted position and an expanded position, and a plurality of rollers coupled to the roller supports such that a distance between a first roller of the plurality of rollers and a second roller of the plurality of rollers increases when the roller supports move toward the expanded position. The rollers are configured to be inserted into the end of the tube when the roller supports are in the retracted position, and the rollers are engageable with an inner circumference of the tube when the main body rotates about the axis to expand the end of the tube.
US12145178B2
A method for operating a metal printing device has an enclosure in which the metal printing is carried out, the enclosure having an inlet and an outlet, and a fan also being provided, with which the atmosphere in the enclosure can be regenerated, a device also being provided in order to be able to extract particles in particular after a printing process is complete. In a first method step, process gas is extracted from the enclosure and conducted through a regeneration device in order to clean the atmosphere in the enclosure. In a second method step after the printing process is complete, excess particles are removed from the enclosure. A suction fan having a suction line connection is provided, wherein the mode can be switched over using a switchover device connected upstream of the suction fan.
US12145174B1
Systems and methods of dynamically controlling robots are described. A first robot may be controlled to move a pod to a cart-filling station. A first subset of destinations for the cart-filling station may be determined. First control instructions may be sent to a robotic sortation device at the cart-filling station. The first control instructions may be effective to allocate the first set of destinations to the robotic sortation device. A second robot may be controlled to move a first cart associated with a first destination of the first set of destinations to the cart-filling station. The robotic sortation device may select a first item from the pod associated with the first destination. The robotic sortation device may place the first item in the first cart and the second robot may be controlled to remove the first cart from the cart-filling station.
US12145172B2
The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing process of a silicone glove, the silicon glove is divided into a liner, a glove blank and a silicon layer from the inside to the outside, and liquid silicon is sprayed on a surface of the glove blank for once; when spraying the liquid silicon, the glove blank also rotates around its axis while horizontally moving on an assembly line; during spraying, a liquid silicon outflow channel at least includes a finger gap spraying port and a tiger mouth spraying port that are arranged fixedly; an arranging length of the finger gap spraying port is greater than or equal to a length of a finger area of the glove blank; an arranging length of the tiger mouth spraying port is greater than or equal to a length of a tiger mouth area of the glove blank.
US12145171B2
Disclosed is a substrate treating apparatus in which a first treating unit is located rightward of a transportation space. The first treating unit includes a first holder. A second treating unit is located leftward of the transportation space. The second treating unit includes a second holder. The first holder has a center point positioned more rearward than a middle point of the first treating unit in plan view. The second holder has a center point positioned more forward than a middle point of the second treating unit in plan view. The second treating unit has a front end located more rearward than a front end of the first treating unit and more forward than a rear end of the first treating unit. The first liquid reservoir is located leftward of the transportation space and adjacent to and in front of the second treating unit.
US12145166B2
The disclosure relates to a rotary atomizer for applying a spray jet of a coating agent (e.g. paint) to a component (e.g. motor vehicle body component). The disclosure provides that the construction dimensions of the rotary atomizer are coordinated in such a way that the air pressure at the outlet opening of the paint nozzle during operation is lower than the air pressure in the nozzle chamber of the bell cup and in the external rinsing channels in order to prevent a backflow of the coating agent from the outlet opening of the paint nozzle backwards in the direction of the nozzle chamber due to the pressure difference.
US12145155B2
A controller detects an error based on a most recent height of a nozzle at detection of contact of a nozzle with a sample by a liquid surface sensor and a previous height of the nozzle at detection of contact of the nozzle with the sample by the liquid surface sensor, and upon detection of the error, provides an error notification in a manner different from that at detection of another error.
US12145151B2
The current invention relates to the method and apparatus to separate biological entities from a fluid sample. The claimed methods separate biological entities based on size of entities by using acoustic pressure nodes in a microfluidic device. The claimed methods further separate biological entities with magnetic labels and by using a magnetic device. The claimed methods further include combination of microfluidic devices and magnetic devices to separate biological entities from a fluid sample.
US12145147B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to microfluidic devices and methods of making microfluidic devices. An exemplary method of making a microfluidic device comprises: providing a substrate; depositing, onto the substrate, a hydrophobic material; and etching, into the substrate, at least one hydrophilic channel into the hydrophobic substrate.
US12145144B2
A fluid-solids contactor comprising an annular rotating fluidized bed and a method of using the same are disclosed. The fluid-solids contactor includes a vessel and a plurality feed inlets disposed thereon. The vessel comprises a stationary inner wall, an outer wall, and a chamber formed between the stationary inner wall and the outer wall. The feed inlets are configured to create an annular rotating bed with mixture of solids and a fluid when the solid particles and a fluid are fed into the chamber. The stationary inner wall of the vessel is permeable to the fluid such that the fluid from the chamber can be continuously withdrawn from the solids to the space within the stationary inner wall of the vessel.
US12145138B2
A catalyst structure that allows prevention of aggregation of fine particles of a functional material, suppresses decrease of catalyst activity, and thus enables the extension of the lifetime of the catalyst structure. A catalyst structure is provided with: a support that is formed from a zeolite-type compound and has a porous structure; and at least one functional material present in the support. The functional material includes a first element that is at least one metallic element selected from the group consisting of cobalt, nickel, and iron. The support has paths connected to each other. The functional material including the first element is present in at least the paths of the support.
US12145136B2
Conversion of heavy aromatics to lighter aromatics with low ring saturation and hydrocarbon cracking
A catalyst may include a metallic function derived from a metal constrained within cages and/or channels of a microporous material, wherein the cages and/or channels of the microporous material are defined by 8 tetrahedral atoms or fewer; and an acidic function derived from an additional zeolite having cages and/or channels defined by 10 or more tetrahedral atoms, wherein the microporous material providing the metallic function and additional zeolite providing the acidic function are coupled by a binder.
US12145134B1
A thermal method of forming ferric oxide nano/microparticles with predominant morphology is described using different solvents. Methods of using the Fe3O4 nano/microparticles as catalysts in the reduction of nitro compounds with sodium borohydride to the corresponding amines and decomposition of ammonium salts.
US12145131B2
The present invention discloses a polymeric lanthanum nanocomposite, and a preparation method and application thereof and relates to the field of environmental functional materials. The preparation method includes the following steps: (1) mixing lanthanum chloride heptahydrate with concentrated hydrochloric acid and dissolving the mixture in alcohol, adding a resin polymer, and stirring at room temperature; (2) draining the resin after the stirring for use; (3) adding the resin to a precipitant solution, and stirring at room temperature and then filtering out the resin; and (4) washing the resin with water until the resin is neutral, adding a NaCl solution, stirring and then filtering out the resin, and drying to obtain the polymeric lanthanum nanocomposite. The prepared polymeric lanthanum nanocomposites have a relatively more uniform distribution, and show a higher phosphorus adsorption rate.
US12145125B2
Filling bodies for the use in unstructured packings. The filling body has a fibre-reinforced carbon flat material. Two strip regions of the carbon flat material, which are separated by a cut, transition into two connecting regions of the carbon flat material.
US12145120B2
Present disclosure provides a method of forming a liquid-encapsulated core material, encapsulated core material compositions, and uses thereof, where the encapsulated core material is formed by providing an interfacial fluid layered on a host fluid, and passing a core material through the interfacial fluid and into the host fluid such that the interfacial fluid forms a shell around the core material. By so encapsulating the core material, it is protected from the host fluid.
US12145111B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for producing a foamed adhesive. A method for foaming an adhesive includes feeding an adhesive from a supply storage tank to a pump, conveying the adhesive outputted by the pump through an adhesive flow meter, injecting an air into the adhesive once the adhesive travels through the adhesive flow meter, feeding a mixture of the adhesive and air to a static mixer, mixing the mixture homogeneously with the static mixer such that the adhesive is foamed, and transporting the foamed adhesive to a product storage tank.
US12145109B2
A process for the preparation of a filtration membrane, which includes providing an aqueous suspension of vesicles having transmembrane proteins incorporated therein, the vesicles being formed from an amphiphilic block copolymer having reactive end groups; providing a porous support; functionalizing a surface of the porous support to introduce reactive groups on the surface which are capable of reacting with the reactive end groups of the amphiphilic block copolymers of the vesicles; depositing said suspension of vesicles on a surface of the porous support; and providing reaction conditions such that covalent bonds are formed between the vesicles and the surface.
US12145103B1
A two or particularly three-phase process, and corresponding apparatus, desulfurizes sour hydrocarbon gas, e.g., natural gas, generally better than known, using a fixed-bed, two-phase processes in terms of the amount of H2S scavenged and the breakthrough time of H2S. The three-phase process is effective in scavenging H2S at ambient temperature and pressure, using a copper salt catalyst impregnated on alumina or other generally inert support, which is regenerable.
US12145102B2
A filter media can include a fiber coated with a barrier coating that is substantially non-reactive to reactive species, and a photocatalytic coating disposed on the barrier coating, wherein the photocatalytic coating generates reactive species in response to illumination with optical radiation.
US12145101B2
The invention relates to a system and method for CO2 capture. The system includes a fleet of CO2 producing assets comprising a fleet of assets having at least two individual assets that produce CO2 containing gas streams, and a set of modular CO2 capture units to capture the CO2 from the CO2 containing gas streams produced by the fleet of assets, wherein at least one of the individual assets is equipped with not less than two modular CO2 capture units, and at least one of the modular CO2 capture units is operated at more than one of the assets during the service life of the modular CO2 capture unit. The method for CO2 capture includes providing the fleet of assets and equipping them with a set of modular CO2 capture units. Advantage over current approaches is performance is optimized across a fleet of assets rather than at an individual site.
US12145098B2
A negative-carbon footprint concrete composition includes CO2-sequestering aggregate that sequesters carbon dioxide (CO2) from a CO2 containing gas and cementitious material. The negative-carbon footprint concrete composition has a negative carbon footprint relative to an ordinary concrete composition.
US12145093B2
According to the present disclosure, features, components and techniques useable for providing air cleaner arrangements are provided. Many of the features relate to an axial seal arrangement provided on a filter cartridge. A typical filter cartridge, for use with these features, is a filter cartridge having opposite flow ends. Example media arrangements that fit this characterization are described. Seal arrangements provided with an axial housing sealing engagement surface are shown. A seal arrangement is provided. Also, air cleaner assemblies having advantageous features therein are provided. Further, air cleaner housings are described, with selected, preferred features for engagement with filter cartridges.
US12145092B2
An air conditioner includes a main body, a fan configured to form an airflow inside the main body, a motor including a shaft to which the fan is coupled, and a motor cover to which the motor is fixed. The motor cover includes a body including a rear surface formed in a truncated cone shape, and a vortex breaker which protrudes toward the fan from the rear surface body along an outer periphery of the body, so as to prevent air, which is discharged from the fan, from forming a vortex.
US12145089B2
An impending bypass switch includes a housing having a fluid inlet for admitting fluid into an interior of the housing. A piston is displaceable in the interior of the housing in response to a pressure variation of the fluid in the interior. A magnetic sensor is configured to receive a current and is fixedly mounted to the housing. A magnet is mounted to the piston to be displaced with the piston. Displacement of the magnet relative to the magnetic sensor causes a change in the current through the magnetic sensor. The change in the current is indicative of an impending bypass of a component.
US12145083B2
A grease recovery unit, particularly for use in a food service establishment, for separating oily substances from water in waste food has an inlet 2 connected via a valve 26 to a strainer 24, where solids are collected. The valve 26 is interlinked with the strainer 24 so that the valve closes the inlet 2 when the strainer 24 is removed. Oily substances from the food waste is separated from water by at least one hydrocyclone 30. Water that is separated is passed out of outlet 4 and the oily substances are passed into a collector 3. Fatty substances in the oily substances are held in a fluid state by a silicon heater pad 60.
US12145081B1
A fluid flow control device comprising an insert body having a first portion with a first permeability and second portion with a second permeability that is different from the first permeability. The insert body can be shaped for sealing insertion into a fluid flow structure for fluid flow therethrough. The first portion and the second portion can be arranged in the insert body to cause uniform fluid flow velocity of fluid in the fluid flow structure at an exit of the insert body when the fluid passes through the first portion and the second portion when the insert body is placed inside the fluid flow structure.
US12145068B2
This application discloses a map generation method performed by an electronic device. The method includes: randomly placing first M sub-level maps of N sub-level maps in a predetermined map region, N>M, and the first M sub-level maps not overlapping with each other and at least one of the first M sub-level maps is not connected to the others of the first M sub-level maps; selecting, among the remaining N−M sub-level maps, one or more to-be-placed sub-level maps; and iteratively placing the to-be-placed sub-level maps at target candidate regions adjacent the at least one of the first M sub-level maps in accordance with a predetermined condition to obtain a target map, wherein the predetermined condition comprises: after a to-be-placed sub-level map is placed at one of the target candidate regions, the sub-level map is connected to the at least one of the first M sub-level maps.
US12145066B2
Systems and methods for a unitary physics engine and image smoothing is provided. In this method, a game and a plug-in physics engine are initialized on multiple gaming systems. Time advancement messages are received by a controller within the physics engine from a reflector, causing the physics engine to compute events in a queue up to the time of the timing message, according to the same set of physics rules. This causes a deterministic computation of all object positions within the game that is identical across all gaming systems. In between the deterministic calculations, the local gaming system may compute speculative object positions, based upon the last deterministic position and the accelerations, velocities and object attributes at that moment. These speculative calculations may be performed at least as often as the frame rate of the display (typically 30, 60 or 120 frames per second). Once the next deterministic calculations are refreshed, the true position of the objects may be compared against the current speculative position, and if needed, a reconciliation may be performed.
US12145059B2
Disclosed are a game special effect generation method and apparatus, and a storage medium and an electronic device, which belong to the technical field of game development. The method comprises: in response to a game running event, acquiring a picture file or a video file (S110), wherein sound spectrum information is stored in a color channel of the picture file or the video file; reading the sound spectrum information in the picture file or the video file (S120); and generating a special effect animation in a game according to the sound spectrum information (S130).
US12145058B2
An apparatus, method and computer program are described comprising: receiving first interaction data at a first user in a multi-user virtual environment, wherein the multi-user virtual environment comprises a plurality of users including the first user; receiving metadata relating to the first interaction data at the first user; and rendering a first object to the first user in accordance with the first interaction data and the metadata, wherein the metadata includes instructions for selectively modifying one or more of the rendering of the first object and an interaction of the first user with the virtual environment.
US12145057B2
Using a camera or other tracking hardware, the attention of a player of a computer game (based on gaze direction, for instance) is tracked at key/predetermined points during game play. For example, when the player enters a new area in the game such as a simulated room, town, etc., it is determined what the player's gaze focuses on more, e.g., a dog huddled in the corner, a nobleman with obvious signs of wealth, or a shifty appearing figure in the shadows. Based on this input, one or more factors of future gameplay are determined, such as an order in which to present encounters/challenges, adjusting a character's “morality” score/flag, adjusting bonuses/penalties to non-player character (NPC) interactions, etc.
US12145052B2
A game controller for a mobile device, the game controller including a first handle, a second handle, a bridge, and a flat, flexible cable. The first handle is configured to contact and support a mobile device. The first handle includes a user-accessible, first hardware interface on a main body portion of the first handle that is configured to accept touch inputs. The second handle is configured to contact and support the mobile device. The second handle includes a user-accessible, second hardware interface on a main body portion of the second handle that is configured to accept touch inputs. The bridge couples the first handle to the second handle. The bridge is in sliding engagement with the first handle and the second handle. The flat, flexible cable is configured to conduct an electrical signal between the first handle and the second handle.
US12145048B2
The present disclosure relates to technology adapted for improved assessment of brain injuries in a human subject. For example, in some embodiments the invention relates to improved processing of data collected via an instrumented mouthguard device, including identification of false impacts. It will be appreciated that the invention is not limited to such a field of use, and is applicable in broader contexts. For example, the technology may be applied to detect other changes in physical performance, beyond head injuries. Furthermore, the technology may be applied in respect of other wearable devices which detect/measure head impacts, for example helmets.
US12145038B2
A golf club head including a striking face, a periphery portion surrounding and extending rearwards from the striking face, wherein the striking face comprises a front surface configured to strike a golf ball and a rear surface opposite the front surface, a support arm spaced from the rear surface of the striking face, the support arm extending from the periphery portion, wherein the support arm extends from the sole to the topline, a first damping element residing between the support arm and the rear surface of the striking face, a second damping element located between the support arm and the striking face, the second damping element in contact with the rear surface of the striking face and the support arm, and wherein the second damping element wraps around the support arm.
US12145036B2
A travel cover having a rigid top cap, a rigid bottom cap, and an elongated flexible enclosure extending between and bonded to said rigid top cap and said rigid bottom cap. The elongated enclosure is openable and closable to receive and retrieve contents. The travel cover has a longitudinally expanded mode for carrying contents and a collapsed mode for folding the enclosure into the rigid top cap and the rigid bottom cap to form a compact carrying case.
US12145033B2
Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion having a front portion and a back portion with a back wall portion, a face portion coupled to the front portion, a plate portion located in the body portion, a first filler material in the body portion between the plate portion and the back wall portion, a second filler material in the body portion between the plate portion and the face portion, and a mass portion. A distance between the mass portion and the face portion is greater than a distance between the plate portion and the face portion. A thickness of the plate portion is different from a thickness of the face portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12145031B2
A hopscotch trampoline has a trampoline with a bed suspended across a trampoline frame. The bed has a bed center, a bed middle, and a bed periphery. A trampoline length is greater than a trampoline width. A hopscotch field is formed on the bed. The hopscotch field includes successive areas. The successive areas are at least partially linearly oriented. Contact sensors mounted on each area and the contact sensors are electrically connected by an electrical connection and electrically connected to a control panel harness. A middle crossbar can extend underneath the bed and connecting a right vertical post to a left vertical post.
US12145029B2
Embodiments described herein relate to methods, systems, and devices that can be leveraged to retrieve pickleballs from a court surface. More particularly, the present embodiments relate to a portable, light-weight, hand-held pickleball collector.
US12145028B2
A ball structure includes a light-permeable ball, a lighting module and a waterproof cap. The light-permeable ball is disposed with an opening. The lighting module includes a light-permeable sleeve disposed in the light-permeable ball, and a circuit board set. An end of the light-permeable sleeve has an open end corresponding to the opening. The circuit board set includes a circuit board received in the light-permeable sleeve, and a lighting element, a vibration switch, an electricity storage element and a charge connector all electrically installed on the circuit board. The charge connector is exposed from the opening. The waterproof cap plugs and seals the opening and the open end. Therefore, the ball structure has functions of lighting and charging.
US12145023B2
An electric treadmill includes a treadmill frame, an endless belt, a motor coupled to the endless belt for driving the endless belt to rotate, a brake device and a lifting device. The brake device has a rotating disc coaxially fixed to a motor shaft of the motor and a magnetic brake mechanism. The magnetic brake mechanism has at least one magnetic portion for applying a drag force against rotation of the rotating disc. The lifting device is operable to drive the magnetic brake mechanism to move between a first position where the magnetic portion is located close to the rotating disc and a second position where the magnetic portion is located away from the rotating disc. When there is no electric power supplied to the electric treadmill, the magnetic brake mechanism will automatically move to the first position due to gravity to stop rotation of the endless belt.
US12145009B2
A davit assembly comprises a vertical structural column connecting a horizontal structural beam between a longer forward beam portion and a shorter rearward beam portion thereof, an angled support brace tensioned between a lower region of the structural column and an end of the shorter rearward beam portion and a primary rigging anchor slidably engaging the forward beam portion.
US12145007B2
The application relates to a dual cytokine fusion protein composition, pharmaceutical composition, and/or formulation thereof comprising IL-10 or IL-10 variant molecules fused to a single chain variable fragment scaffolding system and a second cytokine, where the second cytokine is linked in the hinge region of the scFv. The application also relates to methods of using the dual cytokine fusion protein composition for treating cancer, inflammatory diseases or disorders, and immune and immune mediated diseases or disorders.
US12145005B2
Provided is a particle beam treatment apparatus irradiating an irradiation target with a particle beam. The apparatus includes: an accelerator that generates the particle beam in an acceleration space; and an irradiation unit that virtually divides the irradiation target into a plurality of layers and irradiates each layer while performing scanning with the particle beam with a scanning electromagnet. The accelerator includes a particle generation unit generating particles that are to accelerate in the acceleration space, and the accelerator sets a parameter of the particle generation unit based on at least one of the layers of the irradiation target and adjusts an intensity of the particle beam based on the set parameter.
US12145002B2
These teachings provide for accessing stored patient surface information for a given patient and geometry information for a patient support setting. These teachings then provide for generating a patient-position solution that will avoid collisions during a subsequent administration of radiation treatment as a function, at least in part, of that patient service information and the geometry information. That patient-position solution is presented via a user interface in conjunction with conducting at least one simulation scan of the given patient using the patient support setting. To avoid collisions, these teachings will also support an option to modify the treatment plan rather than the patient position using the patient image model shown in the user interface.
US12145001B2
We describe a method and a computer system for analysing a radiation treatment plan using a dose of flash radiation to irradiate a volume within a patient and a radiation treatment system using the same. The computer system comprises a processor which is configured to obtain oxygen pressure information for the volume to be irradiated; obtain parameters from a patient treatment plan; input the obtained oxygen pressure information and parameters in to a model which predicts complex damage within the irradiated volume caused by the dose of flash radiation; output a prediction, using the model, of the complex damage caused within the volume by the dose of flash radiation; and quantify, using the prediction, a level of damage to healthy tissue within the irradiated volume. Complex damage is damage which is more complex than a double strand break within DNA in patient tissue and the model is a function of energy of particles within the radiation and oxygen pressure which varies with time.
US12144998B2
Methods and related devices for impinging light on tissue, for example within a body of a patient, to induce various biological effects are disclosed. Biological effects may include at least one of inactivating and/or inhibiting growth of one or more pathogens, upregulating a local immune response, stimulating enzymatic generation of nitric oxide to increase endogenous stores of nitric oxide, releasing nitric oxide from endogenous stores of nitric oxide, and inducing an anti-inflammatory effect. Wavelengths of light are selected based on intended biological effects for one or more of targeted tissue types and targeted pathogens. Light treatments may provide multiple pathogenic biological effects, either with light of a single wavelength or with light having multiple wavelengths. Devices and methods for light treatments are disclosed that provide light doses for inducing biological effects on various targeted pathogens and targeted tissues with increased efficacy and reduced cytotoxicity.
US12144988B2
A method and system is provided for administering a Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) or Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) at a pulse interval of is set equal to the period of a curve that best fits a section of a person's electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded before the pulse train.
US12144987B2
Transdermal electrical stimulation (TES) applicators that are wearable and configured to attached to a subject's pinna (ear) and adapted to apply TES to modulate the subject's cognitive and/or physiological state. These apparatuses may be configured so that they can be worn against the ear (e.g., the cymba of the ear) to deliver TES. Also described herein are methods of using them to modulate a subject's cognitive state. These TES applicators may also be adapted to function as audio headphones for concurrent delivery of TES and audible signals (e.g., music).
US12144974B2
A control apparatus for an implantable heart pump is provided, which comprises an implantable first control unit, which is electrically connected to the heart pump in a main operating state for controlling operating parameters of the heart pump. The control apparatus also comprises an interface, which is electrically connected to the first control unit and is intended to wirelessly transcutaneously transmit data and/or to wirelessly transcutaneously transmit energy between the first control unit and a further control unit provided for extracorporeal use. The control apparatus also comprises an implantable second control unit, which is electrically connected to the heart pump in an auxiliary operating state for controlling operating parameters of the heart pump, and an implantable switch, which is electrically connected to the first control unit and the second control unit. The switch is set up to change over between the main operating state and the auxiliary operating state.
US12144965B2
An automated system for regulating a patient's blood glucose, including a blood glucose sensor, an insulin injection device, and a processing and control unit.
US12144952B1
An improvement to a tattoo machine assembly consists of a bifurcated armature bar which has a steel plate spring secured to the two halves of the armature bar to allow the artist to vary the spring rate afforded the armature bar and the tattoo needle secured thereto by switching out the steel plate spring for a different steel plate spring having a different plate thickness and, therefore, a different spring rate.
US12144950B2
An apparatus includes an external body, a floor attached to the external body, an applicator pad, and a cover. The external body defines an internal cavity and extends between a bottom and top end. The applicator pad extends from the floor into the internal cavity defined by the external body. The applicator pad has an absorbent material that can absorb an electro-lubricant. The applicator pad is dimensioned to be grasped by a pair of jaws of a surgical instrument. The cover is associated with the top end of the external body and partially defines the internal cavity of the external body. The cover allows the pair of jaws to enter the internal cavity via the cover to grasp the applicator pad.
US12144944B2
An insertion apparatus for inserting an object into a body comprising a housing, a piercing structure with a lumen, wherein the piercing structure extends distally from the housing, a vacuum chamber that communicates with the lumen of the piercing structure, a plunger configured to fit within the vacuum chamber, a guidewire, and a pressure monitoring channel communicating with the lumen, wherein the insertion apparatus is configured to be operated with a single hand.
US12144941B2
A support device to support a catheter assembly may include a platform, which may include an upper surface and a bottom surface. The support device may include an extension element coupled to the upper surface of the platform. The extension element may include a distal end, which may include a first connector configured to couple to the catheter assembly, and a proximal end, which may include a second connector. The extension element may include a valve that may be movable between a first position and a second position. In response to the valve being moved to the first position, a fluid pathway extending through the cannula and the extension element may be open and straight. In response to the valve being moved to the second position, the fluid pathway may be closed. The support device may include a cannula, which may be swaged within the extension element.
US12144939B2
A catheter inserter (100) including an actuator assembly (125) to move a catheter assembly outside a housing (101) by engaging the catheter assembly multiple times, in an example. The inserter includes a needle assembly (140) in a housing that has a first position with a needle extending from the housing and a second position with the needle retracted into the housing. A catheter assembly (180) is removably positioned in the housing and includes a catheter (181) and a hub (182) connected to the catheter. An actuator assembly (125) is further mounted to the housing and operates to selectively engage a guidewire assembly to move the guidewire past the needle and to selectively engage the catheter assembly to move the catheter and the hub outside the housing.
US12144934B2
An intermittent catheter, preferably a female intermittent catheter, is provided in an assembly. The assembly may include a cap which may be attachable to the base of the assembly in use, and/or a seal which misaligns with sealing surfaces of a chamber wall and a moveable insert in use. It may have a two-step deployment, and/or a sheath that pulls out a storage chamber. Internal and external housing may define the storage chamber. The housing may have a filling aperture and/or the storage chamber may comprise an insert configured to move axially in response to rotation.
US12144933B2
A urinary catheter having a sensor or indicator affixed therein in a location that will be in the flow of urine when catheter is in use. The indicator comprises an electrolytic wicking material having an anode and a cathode thereon separated across the gap. The wicking material may be paper. The indicator further includes an output transducer positioned and connected relative to the anode and cathode such that a circuit which energizes the output transducer is created when urine flows. The indicator is configured to generate an output signal received at a remote location so that a medical practitioner can monitor proper usage of the catheter. There may be multiple anode/cathode pairs connected in series or parallel to increase voltage or current. Also, a capacitor and/or an antenna may be provided for the output transducer to boost the output signal.
US12144916B2
A monitoring system performs a method for detecting a disruption of a fluid connection between a first fluid containing system and a second fluid containing system. The monitoring system generates a monitoring signal which is representative of a fluid pressure in respect of the first fluid containing system and which is responsive to the disruption of the fluid connection, and a tracking signal which corresponds to and is more smoothed over time than the monitoring signal. The monitoring system further sets a detection range in a given relation to the tracking signal so that the detection range follows changes in the tracking signal, and detects a condition indicative of the disruption by comparing a current pressure value of the monitoring signal to the detection range. The monitoring system may be connected to or part of an apparatus for blood treatment and operable to detect a disconnection of an extracorporeal blood circuit from a vascular system of a patient, e.g. downstream of a blood pump in the extracorporeal blood circuit.
US12144903B2
A window shade pocket system comprises a pocket; a roller shade mounted within the pocket; and an ultraviolet (UV) light source within the pocket. The system may also include a controller that controls a motor engaged to the roller shade, wherein the controller controls the speed of the motor to allow a portion of the roller shade to be under the UV light source for a predetermined amount of time to allow for sanitization of the portion of the roller shade. The method may comprise adjusting, by a processor, a roller shade within a pocket; and activating, by the processor, an ultraviolet (UV) light source within the pocket, wherein the UV light source sanitizes at least a portion of the roller shade.
US12144902B2
This document describes self-cleaning devices. In one aspect, a self-cleaning device includes a fabric having a surface covered with a photocatalyst, one or more light sources embedded in the fabric, and a triggering mechanism that activates a cleaning cycle by activating the one or more light sources. The triggering mechanism can include a pressure sensor. The triggering mechanism can be configured to activate the cleaning cycle in response to detecting a decrease in pressure being applied to the pressure sensor.
US12144900B2
The invention relates to sterilizing one or more samples of an organic product placed in a chamber of a sterilization device. The method includes, introducing a specified quantity of a gaseous composition comprising a predefined proportion of ozone and carbon monoxide through at least one inlet of the chamber. The method includes, subjecting each sample with ultraviolet light and the gaseous composition for predefined time period in a controlled atmosphere maintained at 90-100% humidity level and a temperature of −10 to 5 degree Celsius within the chamber. The method includes releasing the gaseous composition through at least one outlet from the chamber upon completion of the predefined time period, while simultaneously introducing purified air into chamber through the at least one inlet, until presence of the gaseous composition in the atmosphere of the chamber reaches below a threshold value.
US12144898B2
According to some embodiments, a carrier for reducing a likelihood of a pathogen binding to cell structures of a host comprises a core, surface features extending from an exterior surface of the core, wherein the surface features are configured to bind to target areas of cell structures of the host to at least partially block the pathogen from binding to said target areas as a result of competitive inhibition, and a plurality of binding sites along the exterior surface, wherein the binding sites are configured to attract at least one portion of the pathogen, wherein the binding sites are recognizable by the pathogen and are able to be bound by the pathogen, thereby at least partially immobilizing the pathogen and reducing the likelihood of the pathogen binding to target areas of cell structures of the host.
US12144897B2
A method of treatment or prevention of HIV and other viral infection comprising the administration of a biopolymer-based hydrogel nanoparticles and/or microparticles. In preferred embodiments, the particles comprise chitosan, hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC), and linseed oil polyol. These biopolymer-based hydrogel nanoparticles and/or microparticles are antiviral agents that can be employed alone or in combination with other drugs for treatment of the viral infection. Further, the pre-treatment with the particles is highly effective at inhibiting viruses. Therefore, this antiviral biopolymer-based hydrogel nanoparticles and/or microparticles may also be employed as a prophylactic.
US12144895B2
The disclosure features a lipid nanoparticle (LNP) formulation comprising a plurality of LNPs and a stabilizing agent that mitigates the degradation of the LNPs or a subpopulation thereof. Lipid nanoparticles further including therapeutics and/or prophylactics such as RNA are useful in the delivery of therapeutics and/or prophylactics to mammalian cells or organs to, for example, regulate polypeptide, protein, or gene expression. Methods of manufacturing LNP formulations and screening for a stabilizing agent are also disclosed.
US12144894B2
A delivery system is described that includes a controlled release device that includes a crosslinked poly(glycerol sebacate) (PGS) or other glycerol ester and a controlled release compound, the controlled release device being provided in a contracted state and being expandable to a three-dimensional expanded state in a target location. The delivery systems provides an expandible, flexible biodegradable elastomer loaded with an active ingredient to allow for extended release for different dosage forms for either human or animal health products in vivo, delivered through the gastrointestinal tract.
US12144888B2
Disclosed herein are immunoconjugates comprising a CD46 binding domain and effector agent. Further provided herein are methods of treating cancer comprising administering to a subject having cancer a pharmaceutical composition comprising immunoconjugates comprising a CD46 binding domain and effector agent.
US12144880B2
A dye composition I may include: a) oxidative dye(s); b) anionic polymer thickener(s); and c) antioxidant(s) including thiol-derived reducer(s). A kit may include (1) the dye composition I and (2) oxidizing composition II, including at least one oxidant. The oxidation base may include a para-phenylenediamine, bis(phenyl)alkylenediamine, para-aminophenol, ortho-aminophenol, heterocyclic base, or mixture thereof, optionally in addition salt form.
US12144878B2
The present invention relates to a multiple-compartment device (1) composed of a closed envelop (2) divided in at least two distinct compartments (7a) and (7b) separated from one another by at least one internal frangible seal (8), wherein one of the compartments (7a) containing a composition (A), comprising one oxidation dye precursor, one anionic surfactant, one amphoteric surfactant chosen from betaine; and another one of the compartments (7b) containing an oxidizing composition (B) comprising at least one oxidizing agent.
US12144876B2
A radioisotope elution system is provided that has a component in a cabinet with a door equipped with an authentication system to open. The system may also have a user interface equipped with an authentication system. The radioisotope elution system has a dose calibrator equipped with a lifting mechanism for lifting and/or lowering the vial to be tested in the dose calibrator. The lifting mechanism may be controlled for preventing the vial from being lifted during a quality control test on a sample of eluate in the vial. This feature prevents a user from tampering and/or interfering with the vial while a quality control testing is in progress. There also is provided a radioisotope elution system with a scanning system for entering information about the radioisotope generator and/or the patient in the system. Systems ensuring that the eluant reservoir contains a saline solution are proposed.
US12144872B1
A lipid-, polymer-, and metal-based system of modified nanostructures of active biomedical and pharmaceutical agents used for in vivo (whole body/organ or tissue-specific) imaging. The modified nanostructure system involves various combinations of excipients (lipids, oils, surfactant, polymers, metals, carbon, nanotubes, etc.) in a formulation that allows a user to: (1) sustain the bioluminescent, fluorescent, or contrast signal for a longer period than conventional systems without repetitive administration (e.g., nanostructure system of luciferin), (2) target specific sites of interest (e.g., organ, tissue, receptors, proteins, etc.) for enhanced imaging of the targeted site (e.g. nanostructure system of XenoLight DIR with CREKA allows imaging of tumor vasculature), and (3) increase bioluminescent, fluorescent, or contrast signal flux.
US12144866B2
The present disclosure provides a method to translocate a molecule across cellular membrane by using a transferrin-binding protein. The transferrin-binding protein is capable of specifically binding to transferrin and not disturbing the interaction between transferrin and transferrin receptor.
US12144865B2
The present invention relates to novel binder-prodrug conjugates (APDCs) where binders are conjugated with inactive precursor compounds of kinesin spindle protein inhibitors, and to antibody-drug conjugates ADCs and to processes for producing these APDCs and ADCs.
US12144858B2
The invention relates to a constitutively active pro-inflammatory caspase, comprising shuffled p10 and p20 domains, for use in a method of stimulating an immune response in an individual. The invention further relates to an immune-stimulating composition, comprising said constitutively active pro-inflammatory caspase, comprising shuffled p10 and p20 domains and a pharmacologically acceptable excipient, and its use in a method of treating an individual.
US12144857B2
Methods of preparing influenza viruses having altered immunodominant epitopes in HA, e.g., having one or more residues in one or more of antigenic sites A-E in HA altered, and viral vectors, e.g., influenza virus VLPs or non-influenza viruses or VLPs thereof expressing or having influenza HAs with altered immunogenicity as a result of altered immunodominant epitopes therein are provided.
US12144845B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for restoring or augmenting bactericidal activity of an antibiotic in an organ or tissue in which pulmonary surfactant is present. More specifically, the present disclosure describes that inhibition of antibiotics due to environmental factors, such as the presence of pulmonary surfactant in an organ or tissue such as the respiratory epithelium can be sidestepped or overcome and the effectiveness of the antibiotic in that milieu restored or augmented by co-administration of an antibiotic and a lysin.
US12144844B2
This disclosure relates to treating internal disc disruption or a connective tissue injury. The treatment involves injecting, or otherwise administering, a therapeutic composition into an animal, such as a human being, in need thereof. The therapeutic composition may contain transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-β1) or transforming growth factor beta 2 (TGF-β2), fibroblast growth factor (FGF), and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient or a secondary agent.
US12144843B2
The present invention discloses methods and compositions for treating or ameliorating a condition associated with increased or decreased myofibroblast activities and use thereof.
US12144841B2
The present invention discloses Fuke Qianjin Capsules and a quality control method therefor. The capsules are made of Radix et caulis flemingiae, Caulis mahoniae, Herba andrographis, Zanthoxylum dissitum Hemsl., Caulis spatholobi, Radix angelicae sinensis, Radix codonopsis, and Radix rosa laevigata as raw materials. Each of the Fuke Qianjin Capsules contains not less than 2.0 mg of Z-ligustilide, and a total amount of andrographolide and dehydroandrographolide is not less than 1.9 mg. A new standard for controlling quality of the Fuke Qianjin Capsules has been established through an analysis of chemical ingredients in the Fuke Qianjin Capsules. This standard adds a variety of core ingredient content to the existing pharmacopoeia standards. According to the Fuke Qianjin Capsules made in this range, the consistency of effects between different batches is more stable. Moreover, the more the types of core ingredients are limited, the more stable the consistency of the drug effect.
US12144835B2
A combined drug contains Lachnospiraceae bacteria and human immunoglobulin (HIg). HIg has a therapeutic effect on radiation injuries, and the combination of Lachnospiraceae bacteria and HIg can further improve this therapeutic effect. The combination drug can be administered to patients who were undergoing radiotherapy and to people who accidentally receive excessive irradiation.
US12144828B2
Methods and compositions related to the use of a protein with kynureninase activity are described. For example, in certain aspects there may be disclosed a modified kynureninase capable of degrading kynurenine. Furthermore, certain aspects of the invention provide compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer with kynurenine depletion using the disclosed proteins or nucleic acids.
US12144826B2
Methods are provided for treating a subject for an EGFRvIII expressing glioblastoma. The methods of the present disclosure involve administering to the subject a molecular circuit that is primed by EGFRvIII to induce one or more encoded therapeutics specific for one or more antigens expressed by the glioblastoma. Nucleic acids containing sequences encoding all or portions of such circuits are also provided, as well as cells, expression cassettes and vectors that contain such nucleic acids. Also provided are kits for practicing the described methods.
US12144818B2
Methods of administering immunoconjugates that bind to CD37 are provided. The methods comprise administering an anti-CD37 immunoconjugate, optionally in combination with an anti-CD20 therapy, to a person in need thereof, for example, a cancer patient, at a therapeutically effective dosing regimen that results in minimal adverse effects.
US12144805B2
Provided are pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating or preventing edema, using an anti-T cell agent, an anti-TGF-β1 agent, or an anti-angiotensin agent, preferably a combination of at least two such agents. The pharmaceutical compositions can be formulated for systemic or local administration, and are preferably administered topically.
US12144797B2
The present invention provides a compound belonging to furanocoumarin derivative having core structure (A) as given below, its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, isomer or a combination thereof for the treatment and/or prevention of a parasitic mediated disease. The present invention also provides a method for manufacturing and isolating said compound as well as method for treatment and prevention of parasitic mediated disease using said compound. In a preferred embodiment, the parasite is Plasmodium falciparum, the disease mediated by the said parasite is malaria and the furanocoumarin derivative having core structure (A) is Anisolactone.
US12144785B2
Vitamin K is effective in counteracting cardiovascular disorders such as the reduction in arterial elasticity normally associated with the aging process. A pharmaceutical composition or nutritional formulation comprising vitamin K can be used to combat age-related stiffening of the arteries, and the consequences thereof, namely pulmonary congestion, hypertension, left ventricular hypertrophy, congestive (right sided) heart failure, left sided or left ventricular failure, chronic cardiac failure, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, Mönckeberg's sclerosis and stroke. In various embodiments, vitamin K can also be used to reduce or reverse calcification of a blood vessel in pre-existing cardiovascular disorders such as arteriosclerosis.
US12144777B2
A method to improve neurologically-intact survival rates after cardiac arrest may include performing CPR on an individual in cardiac arrest while the individual is in a supine position in general alignment with a horizontal plane. The method may include elevating the individual's head, shoulders, and heart relative to the individual's lower body while the individual's lower body remains generally aligned with the horizontal plane to cause blood to actively drain venous blood from the brain to reduce intracranial pressure. The method may include performing chest compressions on the individual and actively decompressing the individual's chest while the individual's head, shoulders, and heart are elevated.
US12144772B2
Total energy shaping control methods and devices for powered orthosis for controlling the device to counteract forces exerted on the person including inertial forces.
US12144770B2
Methods and systems for connecting a patient support apparatus to a hospital network and locating the patient support apparatus are provided. A patient support apparatus is associated with a communication device having a first and second communication interface for transmitting and/or receiving a first and second type of wireless signal. The patient support apparatus is electrically connected to a node serving as a power output and a wireless communication system connected to the hospital network. In response to the electrical connection, the communication device activates the first communication interface to form a wireless link with the node. In response to the patient support apparatus being electrically disconnected from the node, the communication device activates the second communication interface. The patient support apparatus is located by the node based on the second type of wireless signal.
US12144758B1
A therapeutic footwear device used to stretch the muscles of the foot to assist with correcting and rehabilitating deformities and pain conditions in the feet, legs, and back of the user. The device includes a rigid base which supports the user's foot, straps that spread the user's toes, and inserts and contours that elevate the user's toes to assist in stretch during rest, during exercise performance, and during medical treatment.
US12144751B2
A crimping device includes a housing and a crimping band. The housing has a lumen for receiving a prosthetic valve. The crimping band is adjustably coupled to the housing and has a first end portion, a second end portion, and a loop. The loop of the crimping band is disposed within the lumen and move between first and second configurations. In the first configuration, the loop has a first diameter and is configured such that the prosthetic valve in a radially expanded configuration can be positioned radially within the loop. In the second configuration, the loop has a second diameter and is configured to apply a radial force on the prosthetic valve to move the prosthetic valve to a radially compressed configuration. The loop of the crimping band is configured to contact less than half of an axial length of the prosthetic valve.
US12144744B2
A bone material dispensing device is provided. The bone material dispensing device comprises a housing having a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal axis, the proximal end having a first opening and the distal end comprising a frame having a front wall, a back wall, and an air gap, the back wall having a back opening and the front wall having a second opening such that the first opening, the back opening and the second opening are configured to slidably receive at least a portion of a plunger, the front wall comprising a generally flat contact surface configured to engage a funnel; and a locking member pivotably connected to an upper surface of the housing and extending adjacent to the upper surface of the housing, the locking member comprising a locking surface extending adjacent to the distal end of the housing, the locking member being movable in a locking position to lock the portion of the funnel with the housing. A bone material dispensing system and a method of implanting bone material with the bone material dispensing system are also provided.
US12144741B2
An intervertebral implant for being implanted between adjacent vertebrae is provided. The implant includes a generally elongate implant body having a length extending between opposite longitudinal ends thereof, a superior face and an inferior face. The superior face and inferior face include cortical teeth adjacent to the implant body longitudinal ends. Additionally, the superior and inferior faces include longitudinally central teeth intermediate the cortical teeth and have bone engaging ends. The central teeth have a sharper configuration than that of the cortical teeth bone engaging ends for biting into the softer central bone material of the vertebrae. The cortical teeth are arranged in a first density per unit area and the central teeth are arranged in a second density per unit area that is less than the first density.
US12144737B2
An example implant device includes a base having a surface that mates with bone, and a plurality of tapered protrusions positioned on the base and extending from the surface of the base that mates with bone. A surface of the plurality of tapered protrusions includes a textured surface to increase area for bone growth. An example method for inserting the implant device into bone includes forcing the plurality of tapered protrusions of the implant device into the bone, and securing the implant device in place without cement due to the plurality of tapered protrusions cutting into the bone for fixation of the implant device.
US12144735B2
The application discloses an artificial acetabular cup and a manufacturing method thereof. The artificial acetabular cup has an annular base and a dome extending from the annular base. At least a part of the inner layer of the dome is a solid layer, at least a part of the outer layer of the dome is a porous structure layer, and the thickness of the inner layer is less than that of the porous structure layer. The artificial acetabular cup of the present application has lower production cost and better performance.
US12144727B2
A prosthetic mitral valve with improved blood flow to the left ventricular outflow tract. The prosthetic mitral valve includes an expandable outer stent having an atrial end and a ventricular end, and an expandable inner stent attached to and at least partially positioned within the outer stent. The inner stent has an inflow end, an outflow end and a tether connector securing a tether. A valve assembly including a cuff and a plurality of leaflets may be disposed within the inner stent. The tether connector is positioned at the inflow end of the inner stent so as to shorten the overall length of the prosthetic valve.
US12144716B2
A multi-laminar electrospun nanofiber scaffold for use in repairing a defect in a tissue substrate is provided. The scaffold includes a first layer formed by a first plurality of electrospun polymeric fibers, and a second layer formed by a second plurality of electrospun polymeric fibers. The second layer is combined with the first layer. A first portion of the scaffold includes a higher density of fibers than a second portion of the scaffold, and the first portion has a higher tensile strength than the second portion. The scaffold is configured to degrade via hydrolysis after at least one of a predetermined time or an environmental condition. The scaffold is configured to be applied to the tissue substrate containing the defect, and is sufficiently flexible to facilitate application of the scaffold to uneven surfaces of the tissue substrate, and to enable movement of the scaffold by the tissue substrate.
US12144713B2
A male incontinence control device with a main elastomeric tubular body, a knob to occlude the urethra, and a feature in the tubular body to accept a spacing device/insert. The length of the spacer will define the minimum internal circumference of the main tube to optimize comfort and performance. There may be multiple sizes of spacers or adjustable spacers, in addition to attachable or adjustable knob embodiments. Removal features are designed to minimize body contact for increased comfort and performance.
US12144712B2
A material for distributing fluid can include a first side edge, a second side edge, a first end edge, and a second end edge. The material can include a first surface and a second surface opposite from the first surface. The material can be liquid impermeable and at least one of the first surface and the second surface include at least one channel. The channel can include a channel width, a channel length, and a channel depth. The channel width can be from 0.1 mm to 2.5 mm. The channel depth can be configured such that the channel does not extend completely through the material.
US12144706B2
A monolithic dental implant formed from an additive manufacturing method can include a non-porous portion and a porous structure. The porous structure can increase osseointegration of the dental implant and increase the secondary stability.
US12144703B2
Tooth-positioning appliances and apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for producing and using tooth-positioning appliances are provided. An example tooth-positioning appliance for adjusting the position of teeth of a patient includes a tooth-clasping arrangement shaped to secure the orthodontic appliance to at least one tooth and a flexible arrangement connected to the tooth-clasping arrangement. The flexible arrangement is less rigid than the tooth-clasping arrangement.
US12144694B2
The invention relates to a flexible electrode (8) made of a metal base material (10) with a coating (18) made of polycrystalline doped electrically conductive diamond and an intermediate layer (20) between the base material (10) and the coating (18), wherein the base material (10) is in the form of a needle or wire, wherein at least one circumferential, circular or spiral groove (12) is formed in the base material (10) about a longitudinal axis (17) of the base material (10).
US12144687B2
An apparatus for correcting a posture of an ultrasound scanner for artificial intelligence-type ultrasound self-diagnosis, includes an ultrasound scanner including an ultrasound probe configured to acquire and transmit an ultrasound image of a patient; a mapper configured to acquire a body map of the patient in which a plurality of virtual interested organs is arranged on a body image; a scanner navigator configured to calculate current position coordinates of the ultrasound scanner on the body map and the ultrasound image; augmented reality glasses configured to display the ultrasound image and a virtual object image; and a processor configured to determine whether the patient has a disease and a risk degree of the disease based on an artificial neural network result of an implemented deep learning neural network trained on ultrasound training images provided with the ultrasound image.
US12144682B2
A diagnostic facility is described. The facility accesses a set of trained machine learning models. For each of a plurality of stages of a diagnostic ultrasound protocol for blood vessels, the facility causes an ultrasound device to capture from the person an ultrasound artifact of a type specified for the stage that features a blood vessel specified for the stage; applies one of the trained machine learning models to the captured ultrasound artifact to produce a prediction; and determines a score for the stage based at least in part on the produced prediction. The facility combines the determined scores to produce a diagnosis grade for the person.
US12144681B2
Provided is an ultrasonography system capable of suppressing image quality deterioration of an ultrasound image and achieving reduction in diameter of an ultrasound endoscope. An ultrasonography system includes an ultrasound transducer array in which a plurality of ultrasound transducers are arranged, a cable that is connected to the plurality of ultrasound transducers, the cable having a non-coaxial cable that includes a first cable bundle consisting of a plurality of signal wires and a plurality of ground wires, and a first shield layer with which the first cable bundle is coated, and an outer coat with which a second cable bundle consisting of a plurality of the non-coaxial cables is coated, a memory that stores static capacitance data indicating static capacitance of each signal wire included in the first cable bundle, and a processor that periodically corrects transmission and reception sensitivity of each ultrasound transducer based on the static capacitance data stored in the memory.
US12144679B2
An intraluminal sensing system is provided, which includes an intraluminal device. The intraluminal device includes a flexible elongate member that can be positioned within a body lumen of a patient, and an ultrasound sensor at a distal portion of the flexible elongate member and configured to emit an ultrasound pulse in a longitudinal direction and to receive ultrasound echoes from the pulse. The system also includes a processor circuit in communication with the ultrasound sensor. The processor circuit is configured to compute a velocity spectrum of particles moving within the body lumen based on the received ultrasound echoes and, based on the velocity spectrum, compute a skew index indicative of a position or alignment of the ultrasound sensor within the body lumen. The processor circuit is also configured to output an indication of the skew index.
US12144673B2
An inspection apparatus includes a measurement apparatus that measures an inner diameter and a blood flow velocity in an artery from a fetus to a placenta of a pregnant woman, a calculation apparatus that calculates a Reynolds number based on the inner diameter and the blood flow velocity in the artery measured by the measurement apparatus, and a determination apparatus that determines, for a pregnant woman who is 20 weeks or more pregnant, that the fetus may be developing FGR in a case that the Reynolds number is less than a first threshold value.
US12144668B2
A multi-mode system and method for imaging a patient's breast with x-rays in one or more of a CT mode, a narrow-angle tomosynthesis mode, a wide angle tomosynthesis mode, and a mammography mode, using essentially the same equipment, on one or more compressions or immobilizations of the breast.
US12144666B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising: a first radiation source configured to produce a first divergent radiation beam toward an object; a second radiation source configured to produce a second divergent radiation beam toward the object; and an image sensor; wherein the object is configured to rotate with respect to the image sensor, the first radiation source, and the second radiation source, and wherein relative positions among the image sensor, the first radiation source, and the second radiation source are fixed.
US12144665B2
A radiography apparatus includes an upright imaging stand that is used for radiography on a subject, a camera as a detection sensor that immediately detects a state of the subject with respect to the upright imaging stand, a tablet terminal, and a reflective member. The tablet terminal displays a notification screen including an image output from the camera. The reflective member reflects the notification screen such that the subject facing the upright imaging stand visually recognizes the image.
US12144659B2
Systems and methods to determine a risk factor related to dehydration and thermal stress of a subject are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals, by one or more sensors worn on a body of a subject, conveying information related to one or more of location of the subject, motion of the subject, temperature of the subject, cardiovascular parameters of the subject; store information related to the subject; obtain the output signals; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of a water loss metric that correlates with estimated percentage of bodyweight of the subject lost in water; obtain heat index information for a contextual environment surrounding the subject; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of an exertion metric that correlates with exertion of the subject due to work; and determine in an ongoing manner values for an aggregated risk factor of the subject.
US12144656B2
A method for personalized monitoring of a user's health, e.g. on a personal electronic device, optionally in combination with a computing device. The method obtains (32) sensor data from one or more sensors associated with the user and generates (33), based on the sensor data, measurement values of a primary parameter. The method further identifies (31), among a default set of secondary parameters, one or more selected secondary parameters which, for the user, are found to correlate with the primary parameter. The method may further generate (34), based on the sensor data, measurement values of the selected secondary parameter(s) so as to selectively provide measurement values that are relevant for the health of the user as monitored by the primary parameter. Alternatively or additionally, the method may present the selected secondary parameter(s) to the user to inform the user about relevant secondary parameter(s).
US12144655B2
A live subject tissue detection device includes a light source configured to emit light onto the tissue of a subject, a photodetector configured to receive light reflected from the tissue and light reflected from the blood flow, wherein the light reflected from the blood flow has a Doppler shift relative to the light reflected from the tissue, and generate a high frequency Doppler signal based on the Doppler shift, a detection circuitry configured to receive the high frequency Doppler signal from the photodetector and convert the high frequency Doppler signal into a low frequency signal, and at least one processor configured to compute parameters of the low frequency signal, compare the parameters of the low frequency signal to respective reference values, and determine a presence of live tissue based on the comparison.
US12144653B2
An illustrative biopotential measurement system includes a plurality of electrodes each configured to record a different signal included in a plurality of signals representative of electrical activity of a target within a user; a plurality of non-inverting operational amplifier circuits each connected to a different electrode included in the plurality of electrodes and each configured to output a different amplified signal included in a plurality of amplified signals representative of amplified versions of the plurality of signals; and a common-mode feedback circuit configured to measure a common-mode signal between the plurality of amplified signals and provide the common-mode signal to the non-inverting operational amplifier circuits. The non-inverting operational amplifier circuits are configured to use the common-mode signal to generate voltage-divided feedback signals used to generate the plurality of amplified signals.
US12144644B2
An apparatus for evaluating the tongue strength and coordination of a subject includes an intermediate device such as a lever which is pivotably attached to a coupling device and extends into a cavity of a nipple element. The lever is detached from the nipple and pivotable in response to deformation of the nipple element by a tongue force exerted on the nipple element by a subject during a suck-swallow-breathe sequence. The coupling device includes a sensing device to wirelessly transmit sensor outputs to a mobile device paired to the sensing device. The sensing device includes at least one sealed chamber defined by a membrane and a sensor. In one example, a first membrane and sensor senses pressure change in a fluid in the apparatus, and a second membrane and sensor is actuated by the intermediate device to sense deformation of the nipple element. A method using the apparatus is provided.
US12144618B2
A device and method for detecting a sign parameter are provided. A luminous source (01) is utilized to irradiate human skin tissue(s) for a preset time. The luminous source (01) can emit light with set wavelength(s) and capable of being absorbed by substance(s) for characterizing human body sign(s) in a human body. A photoelectric sensor (02) is configured to detect absorbance of the human body to the light emitted by the luminous source (01) within the preset time, and send a detection result to a processor (03). The processor (03) is configured to calculate substance concentration(s) of the substance(s) for characterizing the human body sign(s) in the human body according to the detection result sent by the photoelectric sensor (02). Therefore, blood samples of subjects do not need to be collected, and the substances for characterizing the human body signs can be detected through a non-invasive method.
US12144616B2
An eyewear device, method for use with an eyewear device, and a non-transient computer readable medium for detecting blood sugar levels are disclosed. The eyewear device has a frame including a first rim configured to support a first lens, a second rim configured to support a second lens, and a bridge connecting the first rim to the second rim. The bridge is configured to receive a nose of a user when the eyewear device is worn by the user. Blood sugar levels are detected by monitoring behavior of a pupil of an eye of the user with a sensor, comparing the monitored behavior with known blood sugar level behaviors, identifying a match responsive to the comparison between the monitored behavior and one of the known blood sugar level behaviors corresponding to a particular blood sugar level, and selecting the particular blood sugar level as a blood sugar level of the user.
US12144610B2
A method for user recognition and emotion monitoring based on a smart headset is provided. The smart headset includes an earplug part and a main body, wherein the earplug part is provided with a first microphone and a wearing detection sensor, and a housing of the main body is provided with a signal amplification circuit, a communication module, and a microcontroller. The wearing detection sensor is to detect whether a user wears the smart headset, and the first microphone is to obtain a sound signal in an ear canal. The sound signal is amplified, and then is outputted to the microcontroller. The amplified sound signal is transmitted by the microcontroller to a smart terminal paired with the smart headset to extract a heart sound signal characteristic, and legality of—identity of the user is validated and emotional state of the user is inferred according to the heart sound signal characteristic.
US12144605B2
Systems and methods for detecting medically related events at a point of sale are disclosed herein. An example method of detecting droplets associated with a sneeze or cough at a point of sale includes: capturing, by an image sensor associated with a checkout workstation, one or more images; analyzing, by one or more processors, the images captured by the image sensor associated with the checkout workstation, to detect an indication that one or more droplets associated with a sneeze or cough are present upon one or more equipment associated with the checkout workstation; and triggering, by the one or more processors, a disinfection of the checkout workstation responsive to detecting the indication that the one or more droplets associated with the sneeze or cough are present upon the one or more equipment associated with the checkout workstation.
US12144603B2
Devices, systems, and methods are described including an invasive medical device with a magnetic region. The magnetic region can include a discontinuity in the magnetic region providing a diameter transition, a plurality of spaced magnetic regions can be provided or the magnetic regions can be encoded with data. Systems and methods are described that include ways to read the data.
US12144594B2
Systems and methods for assisting user with hearing by amplifying sound using an amplifier with gain and amplitude controls for a plurality of frequencies; and applying a learning machine to identify an aural environment and adjust the amplifiers for optimum hearing.
US12144593B2
An apparatus for measuring bio-signals is provided. According to an example embodiment, the apparatus for measuring bio-signals includes: a light source configured to emit light onto an object; an image sensor including: a pixel array configured to detect the light emitted by the light source and reacted by the object and a pixel binning unit configured to bin data of the light, detected by the pixel array, by using at least two different binning sizes; and a processor configured to acquire a plurality of bio-signals respectively based on data of the at least two different binning sizes, which are output from the image sensor.
US12144575B2
A method for disengagement detection of a surgical instrument of a surgical robotic system, the method comprising: determining whether a user's head is unstable prior to disengagement of a teleoperation mode; determining whether a pressure release has occurred relative to at least one of a first user input device or a second user input device for controlling a surgical instrument of the surgical robotic system during the teleoperation mode; and in response to determining the user's head is unstable or determining the pressure release has occurred, determining whether a distance change between the first user input device and the second user input device indicates the user is performing an unintended action prior to disengagement of the teleoperation mode.
US12144574B2
A system and method of assisting tool exchange includes a computer-assisted device having a manipulator configured to have at least one tool of multiple tools mounted thereon and a control unit coupled to the manipulator. The control unit is configured to detect initiation of a tool exchange, locate a source of a replacement tool to be mounted to the manipulator, determine, based on the located source, a configuration of the manipulator that facilitates mounting of the replacement tool to the manipulator, and command movement of the manipulator into the configuration. In some embodiments, the control unit is configured to determine the configuration further based on a type of the source of the replacement tool. In some embodiments, to locate the source of the replacement tool, the control unit is configured to locate at least a part of an assistant or locate a tool holding device.
US12144569B2
A foot pedal assembly for controlling a robotic surgical system. The foot pedal assembly including a foot pedal base, a foot pedal and a sensor. The foot pedal moves relative to the foot pedal base and has a contact surface extending from a distal end to a proximal end of the foot pedal. The contact surface is to come into contact with a foot of a user during use of the foot pedal assembly for controlling the robotic surgical system and the distal end is farther away from a heel of the foot than the proximal end during use of the assembly for controlling the robotic surgical system. The sensor is coupled to the contact surface of the foot pedal at a position closer to the proximal end than the distal end, and the sensor is operable to sense a target object positioned a distance over the contact surface.
US12144568B2
A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for schematically representing a spatial position of an instrument used in a robotic surgery system is disclosed. The instrument includes an end effector coupled to a positioning device for spatially positioning the end effector in a surgical workspace in response to input signals generated by movement of a hand controller of an input device in an input device workspace. The method involves causing a processor circuit to calculate a current three-dimensional spatial position of the instrument within the surgical workspace for current input signals received from the input device. The method also involves causing the processor circuit to generate display signals for displaying a graphical depiction of the surgical workspace on a display in communication with the processor circuit, the graphical depiction including a planar representation includes an instrument movement region having a boundary indicating limitations to transverse movement of the instrument within the surgical workspace, and a two-dimensional projection of the current spatial position of the positioning device and the end effector onto the planar representation.
US12144567B2
In another embodiment, a hip joint navigation jig is provided that includes an anatomical interface comprising a bone engagement portion. A registration jig is also provided that is coupled, e.g., removeably, with the anatomical interface. A rotatable member is provided for rotation about an axis that is not vertical when the jig is mounted to the bone adjacent to a hip joint and the registration jig is coupled with the anatomical interface. An anatomy engaging probe is coupled with the rotatable member for rotation about the axis and is translatable to enable the probe to be brought into contact with a plurality of anatomical landmarks during a procedure. An inertial sensor is coupled with the probe to indicate orientation related to the landmarks, the sensor being disposed in a different orientation relative to horizontal when the probe is in contact with the landmarks.
US12144566B2
A method and system implementing a method for detecting a catheter in fluoroscopic data and updating a displayed electromagnetic position of the catheter on a 3D rendering is provided including navigating a catheter to a target area and acquiring fluoroscopic data from a fluoroscopic sweep of the target area. An initial catheter detection is performed to detect catheter tip candidates in each 2D frame of the fluoroscopic data using a shallow neural network. A secondary catheter detection is performed to detect catheter tip candidates in each 2D frame of the fluoroscopic data using a deep neural network. False-positive catheter tip candidates are removed by reconstructing a 3D position of the catheter tip and finding an intersecting point of rays corresponding to each 2D frame.
US12144551B1
Disclosed are techniques to navigate soft tissue structures based on preoperative imaging for joint arthroplasty. Particular embodiments are useful for direct anterior approach total hip arthroplasty but may be applicable in other approaches and/or other surgical procedures. In some embodiments, the patient is imaged with MRI safe markers on the skin prior to surgery. These markers remain on the patient prior to and during surgery. The position of various muscular, venous, and nervous structures can be provided to the surgeon prior to making the incision, allowing him or her to navigate the soft tissue during dissection.
US12144549B2
A spinal implant system includes a spinal implant template configured to provide three dimensional coordinates of a selected implant configuration. An implant bending device includes work surfaces engageable with a spinal implant to manipulate the spinal implant to the selected implant configuration and an implant contact sensor. Surgical instruments, spinal constructs, implants and methods are disclosed.
US12144546B2
An example system for tracking motion of an eye during an eye treatment includes an image capture device configured to capture a plurality of images of an eye. The system includes controller(s) including processor(s) that receive the plurality of images from the image capture device. The processor(s) implement a plurality of trackers. Each tracker is configured to detect a respective feature in the plurality of images and provide, based on the respective feature, a respective set of data relating to motion of the eye. The respective features detected by the plurality of trackers are orthogonal relative to each other and the respective sets of data provided by the plurality of trackers are independent of each other. The processor(s) coalesce the sets of data from the plurality of trackers and determine an indicator of the motion of the eye based on the coalesced sets of data.
US12144545B2
A system and method for an eye test application for mobile devices and in particular to applications for self-determination of eyeglass prescription via mobile computing devices comprising Simultaneous Split Point Focus (SSPF) and Low Latency Dynamic Distance Monitoring (LLDDM) for enabling self-determination of eyeglass prescription for a user via a mobile computing device, the device comprising: volatile and non-volatile memory for storing data; a processor configured for executing program instructions stored in the non-volatile memory; a visual display screen adapted to receive image information from the processor to present instructions and images to a user; and a camera configured to receive images of the user's pupils during a test situation; wherein the system comprises application program instructions for directing the processor to undertake a method for determining an eyeglass prescription, the method comprising: determining if an eye of the user is myopic, and if the user's eye is myopic; determining Principal and Axis Meridians of a user's eyes while the user is observing the image information on the display screen; enabling the system of LLDDM for real time determination of the refractive power errors in the Principal and Axis Meridians of a user's eyes in while the user is observing the SSPF image information on the display screen; calculating Sphere, Cylinder and Axis prescriptions from the Principal and Axis Meridian values obtained via the LLDDM system; and displaying the calculated prescription values to the user.
US12144544B2
A system, method and computer program product for estimating future axial elongation of an individual's eye as a way to predict and track refractive error progression of an individual. The method includes: receiving, via a computer interface, data relating to refractive change in a prior pre-determined time period for the individual from a reference timepoint; receiving data representing an age of the individual and data representing a current axial length value of the eye as measured at the reference timepoint; calculating, by said processor, a future axial elongation of the eye as a function of the age of the individual, the current axial length value of the eye as measured at the reference timepoint, and the refractive change in the prior pre-determined time period; generating, an output indication of said computed axial elongation of the eye, and using said output indication to select a myopia control treatment for said individual.
US12144541B2
A system includes a pulse waveform generator and an ablation device coupled to the pulse waveform generator. The ablation device includes at least one electrode configured for ablation pulse delivery to tissue during use. The pulse waveform generator is configured to deliver voltage pulses to the ablation device in the form of a pulsed waveform. The pulsed waveform can include multiple levels of hierarchy, and multiple sets of electrodes can be activated such that their pulsed delivery is interleaved with one another.
US12144531B2
A screw guide assembly includes a guide body extending along a central longitudinal axis. The guide body has a proximal end portion having an attachment face extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and a distal end portion having a screw support member extending away from the longitudinal axis. The screw support member is configured to allow for the insertion of a screw at an angle oblique relative to the longitudinal axis. A wire guide is removably inserted into the screw support member. A method of inserting a screw using the assembly is also disclosed.
US12144528B2
A nail for compressing two bone parts to treat bone fractures or osteotomies is provided. The nail has an elongate smooth portion and an elongate threaded portion that is constructed for generating axial compression along a length of the elongate threaded portion between two bone parts. The nail may also have one or more apertures for installing one or more crossing screws through the nail. An installation instrument particularly constructed to install the provided nail is provided. A first and second portion of the provided nail installation instrument may rotate relative to one another when a locking mechanism is disengaged, but are locked in position relative to one another when the locking mechanism is engaged, which enables installation of the provided nail.
US12144527B2
A method of providing access to an intervertebral disc has been developed that involves using the patient's bony pedicle as an anchoring spot for a pedicle screw that temporarily attaches to the access port. Because this new procedure eliminates the need for the surgical table as an anchor, it also eliminates the assembly components extending from the table to the port at the access site, thereby unencumbering the surgeon's view and workspace while providing minimally invasive access.
US12144524B2
An orthopedic fixation device for affixing the screw head of a polyaxial pedicle screw has a tulip, a saddle, and a ring. The tulip has an interior cavity and two opposed threaded arms and a lower ledge. The saddle is inserted into the tulip body, and has a U shaped groove for receiving a spinal fixation rod. The ring has a diameter that is smaller than the widest diameter of the screw head, and is formable into a diameter larger than the widest diameter of the screw head when the screw head is pushed into the ring. The ring has a connection portion that mates with a connection portion of the saddle. The screw head is clamped within the tulip body between the saddle and the ring when a cap is threaded between the tulip arms.
US12144517B2
Retrieval of material from vessel lumens can be improved by electrically enhancing attachment of the material to the removal device. The removal device can have a core assembly that includes a hypotube coupled to a first electrical terminal and a pushwire coupled to a second electrical terminal, the pushwire extending through the hypotube lumen. An insulating layer separates the hypotube and the pushwire, and an interventional element is coupled to a distal end of the pushwire. The interventional element can be disposed adjacent to a thrombus. An electrical signal is delivered to the interventional element to promote adhesion of the thrombus to the interventional element. The electrical signal can optionally be a periodic waveform, and the total energy delivered can be between 0.75-24,000 mJ and the peak current delivered via the electrical signal can be between 0.5-5 mA.
US12144516B2
Described herein are shock wave devices and methods for the treatment of calcified heart valves. One variation of a shock wave device may comprise an elongated flexible tube carried by a sheath. The tube may have a fluid input end, which may be located near a proximal end of the sheath. The tube may include a loop portion. The loop portion may be configured to be at least partially accommodated within a cusp of the heart valve. The tube may be fillable with a conductive fluid. In some variations, the shock wave device may include an array of electrode pairs associated with a plurality of wires positioned within the loop portion of a tube. The electrode pairs may be electrically connectable to a voltage source and configured to generate shock waves in the conductive fluid in response to voltage pulses.
US12144514B2
A method for performing percutaneous spinal interbody fusion on a spine of a patient can include inserting without direct visualization a neuro-monitoring dilating probe into the patient, performing neuro-monitoring via the neuro-monitoring dilating probe, advancing the neuro-monitoring dilating probe into a disc space, passing a second dilator over the neuro-monitoring dilating probe, and advancing the second dilator into the disc space. A kit for performing percutaneous spinal interbody fusion can include a neuro-monitoring dilating probe, a second dilator, a tissue removal tool, an access portal comprising an adjustable depth stop, and a discectomy verification device.
US12144498B2
A laparoscopic suturing device is provided. The suturing device can pass a suturing needle back and forth between jaws of a jaw assembly to suture tissue at a surgical site in a minimally invasive procedure. The jaw assembly can have a pivotable jaw member in each jaw to position the jaw assembly and needle in a low-profile stowed configuration for insertion through a low diameter surgical port. The jaw assembly can be actuated by a handle assembly that provides simultaneous needle passing from a driving jaw to a receiving jaw and latching the needle within the receiving jaw in a single trigger cycle.
US12144497B2
The present disclosure describes apparatuses and methods related to suture anchors. One such apparatus involves an inserter instrument for a suture anchor implant comprising a handle; a hollow outer barrel shaft extending from one end of the inserter instrument to an opposing end at an anchor screw attachment tip; and an inner barrel shaft extending along a length of the inserter instrument within a cavity of the hollow outer barrel shaft. The inserter instrument further includes a tension sensor coupled to an end of the inner barrel shaft, which can measure an amount of tension applied to an opposing end of the inner barrel shaft and output an electrical signal indicating a value of the measured tension, such that an electronic display communicatively coupled to the tension sensor can display the value of the measured tension indicated by the electrical signal.
US12144495B2
An apparatus for sealing a puncture through a vessel wall including a positioning assembly, a sheath releasably engaged with the positioning assembly, and a support member axially advanceable through the sheath. The positioning assembly includes a positioning element positioned at a distal portion of the positioning assembly and a sealant disposed at a distal portion of the positioning assembly. The sheath guides the sealant and positioning assembly to the puncture in the vessel wall.
US12144494B2
The present disclosure discussed a device, method and/or system for temporarily closing and/or constricting one or more blood vessels upstream and/or downstream of the vascular intervention site to allow for aspiration of vascular debris resulting from a peripheral vascular surgical procedure so as to effectively remove such debris.
US12144486B2
The present disclosure provides a wireless scanning device, including: a scanning housing, including: an image detector configured for acquiring 2D-images at a first 2D-frame-rate; and one or more processor(s) coupled to the image detector such that the 2D-images can be processed by the processor(s) to form processed data; a wireless module being coupled to the processor(s) such that the wireless module receives the processed data from the processor(s) and wirelessly transmits the processed data.
US12144485B2
An evacuation station for a surface cleaning apparatus has a housing having an air flow path extending from an evacuation station air inlet to an evacuation station air outlet. An air treatment assembly comprising an air treatment member, is moveable from an in use position in which the air treatment member is positioned in the air flow path and a second position in which the air treatment member is disconnected from the air flow path. The air treatment assembly is moveable only laterally as it is moved from the in use position to the second position.
US12144473B2
A toilet seat and toilet chair with detachable seat members that can be easily removed from around a child's neck. The apparatus includes a first seat member and a second seat member, wherein the first and second seat members are detachable. The apparatus includes a first latch disposed at a first end of the second seat member between the first and second seat members, and a second latch disposed at the second end of the second seat member between the first and second seat members opposite the first latch. During use, a user may detach the first and second seat members via the first and second latches. The second seat member may be later reconnected to the first seat member via the first and second latches.
US12144470B2
A method for loading a stack of interfolded paper units into a dispenser includes inserting a stack of interfolded paper units into an interior volume of the dispenser through a dispenser opening. The dispenser has a lid having a dispensing aperture, as well as a movable platen that has a paper-engaging surface, and which is urged upwardly toward the dispenser opening. A bottom wall of the dispenser is disposed opposite the dispenser opening, and a lock of the dispenser is selectively engageable with the platen. The stack is placed on the platen and a downward force is exerted on the top surface of the stack to thereby push the platen downward until the platen has been engaged by the lock and has reached a locked position in which the paper-engaging surface has an oblique orientation relative to the bottom wall of the dispenser.
US12144459B2
A chafer device is provided to offer protection against wind, helping keep sterno burners from being extinguished so that food can be kept warm. The present invention provides a chafer device that comprises a skirt member and an attachment member. The skirt member is removably attached to a top perimeter of a chafing dish frame via the attachment member. The skirt member wraps around the chafing dish frame and extends downward from the top perimeter of the chafing dish frame to form a wall around the chafing dish frame, thereby enclosing a heat source below the chafing dish frame.
US12144457B2
Provided is a cooking utensil for cooking by variously combining multi-structured composite bases according to a user's selection. The cooking utensil includes: a base portion made of a composite material and formed to have different thermal conductivities of a heat source according to cooking ingredients and cooking methods; a body portion into which the cooking ingredients are put and to which the base portion is detachably coupled; and a lid configured to seal an upper part of the body portion.
US12144448B1
A parcel receptacle assembly which can be attached to a door or other partition separating an interior and an exterior of an enclosure, to facilitate secure and weatherproof delivery of parcel packages and/or other items from outside the enclosure to inside the enclosure, may include a frame assembly. The frame assembly may be configured for deployment around an opening in the partition, with a frame opening aligning with the opening in the partition. A cover may be movable between a closed position over the frame opening and an open position to expose the frame opening. A parcel receptacle may be attached to the frame assembly at the interior the enclosure, facing the frame opening. The parcel receptacle may receive parcel through the frame opening from outside the enclosure. The door panel may be selectively closed and secured over the frame opening to protect the parcel from environmental damage and/or theft.
US12144444B2
A mobile beverage holder assembly is structured for use with a piece of luggage and/or a seat back pocket to support at least one beverage container in an upright position. A mobile beverage holder assembly includes a mounting unit having a mounting member with a mounting aperture formed there through, wherein the mounting aperture is dimensioned for mounting over a handle of the piece of luggage. The mobile beverage holder assembly also includes a beverage holder unit directly interconnected to the mounting unit. The beverage holder unit comprises one or more beverage holders, each of which are dimensioned to receive and support at least one beverage container in an upright, operative orientation.
US12144440B2
A modular merchandising display system which, for example, allows for the ability to easily mount and remove samples of household hardware products (e.g. cabinet or bath hardware) and visualize the hardware mounted to e.g. kitchen or bath cabinets, by allowing a person to remove the sample hardware and hold it up to e.g. kitchen or bath cabinets. The display system includes at least one slat wall piece, at least one display channel on a first side of the slat wall piece configured for displaying at least one item and for providing interchangeability of the displayed item; and at least one frame piece framing the at least one slat wall piece.
US12144424B2
A bracket for a floating shelf comprises rods secured to and extending from a solid plate to be secured to a wall. Interleaved arrays of countersunk bores and slots extend through the solid plate and arranged to extend laterally from one lateral side of the solid plate to an opposite lateral side of the solid plate. An array of webs in the plate is interleaved between the arrays of bores and slots. Each web has a lateral width less than or equal to inch so that fastener inserted through the bores and slots can always find a stud. The plate has a perimeter and at least one cutout at a lateral end sized to receive a tool to separate the bracket from the shelf.
US12144422B2
A table includes a supporting frame and a panel assembly supported by the supporting frame. A panel assembly includes a panel, a plurality of connectors, and one or more elongated members connected to the panel by the plurality of connectors. The one or more elongated members include a first elongated member disposed adjacent to but spaced apart from a first portion of the outer periphery of the panel, creating a gap in between. The presence of the gap allows one to hang objects, such as water bottles, bags, umbrellas, directly or indirectly to the first elongated member.
US12144420B1
A storage device includes a mounting component, a storage component, and at least one elastic piece. The mounting component and the storage component are mounted on wall surfaces at intervals in a gravity direction. The at least one elastic piece is connected between the mounting component and the storage component. The at least one elastic piece, the mounting component, and the storage component are enclosed to define a storage space. Under driving of an external force, the at least one elastic pieces is deformed to define an entrance of the storage space. The storage device prevents articles stored therein from falling, thus reducing a potential safety hazard.
US12144419B1
A flip-top table has a tabletop attached to a frame through a pivoting assembly. The tabletop is made from a ballistic resistant material and serves as a ballistic shield, rotating from its horizontal working position to a vertical shielding position. A front modesty panel is also ballistic-resistant and is mounted on the frame's front side with either a fixed connected to the frame or a hinged connection to the tabletop. A lift speed restrictor is connected between the tabletop and the frame, preventing the tabletop from being lifted too quickly and toppling the table, and it includes a biasing mechanism that provides a lifting force and helps to hold the tabletop in the shielding position. Visual markings on the table indicate to persons that the table can be used as a ballistic shield. Casters allow one or more tables to be quickly moved and repositioned into a defensive arrangement.
US12144410B2
A nail display device comprising a display configured to be removably mounted relative to a nail of a user, and at least one control board associated with the display to control media displayed on the display.
US12144406B2
A jewelry clasp includes respective first and second clasp parts and a slider. At least part of the first clasp part in an attached position thereof is received in a housing of the second clasp part. At least one of the first and second clasp parts includes a magnet, and the other of the first and second parts includes a part magnetically attractable by the magnet so that the first clasp part in its attached position is held to the second clasp part by magnetic attraction. The slider is attached to and slideable in relation to the housing of the second clasp part, and is slideable between a releasing state and a locking state. In the releasing state, the first clasp part may be detached from the second clasp part, and in the locking state the first clasp part is prevented from being detached from the second clasp part.
US12144398B2
In an example, a wearable article includes a nonwoven textile sheet having a first portion and a second portion contiguous with the first portion. The first portion has a first density and a first modulus of elasticity. The second portion has a second density less than the first density and has a second modulus of elasticity less than the first modulus of elasticity. The first portion is shaped differently than the second portion as an integral implement of the wearable article. A method of manufacturing a wearable article may comprise thermoforming the first portion while the second portion contiguous with the thermoformed first portion is not thermoformed.
US12144390B1
Protective headwear comprising an elliptical crown with an upper end and a lower end, a top with an energy absorbing core layer adjacent thereto and wherein the top is attached to the upper end of the elliptical crown, a brim attached to the lower end of the elliptical crown and wherein a protective cage is coincident with the elliptical crown, and protective structural ribs coplanar with the brim. The protective headwear may comprise a fitting insert. The protective headwear may comprise an engagement strap, and when the engagement strap is pulled, it bends the brim towards a user's head. The protective headwear may comprise a belt with a holder for one or more golf tees and/or pencils.
US12144384B2
A removable chamois comprising a panel with a face, a backside, a frontside, a right side, and a left side, wherein the backside is wider than the frontside. A pad coupled to the face of the panel. A first waist strap and a second waist strap coupled to the backside of the panel, wherein the distal end of the first waist strap is coupled to a first waist buckle and the distal end of the second waist strap is coupled to a second waist buckle, wherein the first waist buckle is configured to detachably couple to the second waist buckle.
US12144382B2
A personal protection system including a surgical garment that may be mounted to a helmet including an electrically powered assembly, such as a fan. The garment includes a shell adapted for being disposed over the helmet of the personal protection system. The garment also includes a transparent face shield coupled to the shell and an indicia, the indicia being an optically perceivable marking on the garment. The garment may also include a memory, the memory for storing data for regulating the operation of the electrically powered assembly mounted to the helmet. The helmet may also include a sensor for detecting the indicia to selectively allow the actuation of the electrically powered assembly based on the presence or absence of the indicia being positioned adjacent the sensor.
US12144376B2
A laser heater assembly for a vaporizer includes a power source, a laser source, a lens, and a reaction chamber. The lens is disposed within the optical path. During operation, the laser source emits light, the light propagating along an optical path during operation of the light source. The lens receives the emitted light from the laser source, and outputs a modified light having an energy profile that is substantially spatially uniform. The modified light traverses at least a portion of an opening of the reaction chamber and vaporizes a vaporization substance (e.g., a dry plant material) received within the reaction chamber. The emitted light can be collimated light, and the modified light can be a homogeneous line profile beam.
US12144373B2
An aerosol generation device includes a casing; an aperture in the casing through which aerosol generating material is insertable into the aerosol generation device; a closure moveable relative to the aperture between a closed position in which the closure covers the aperture, an open position in which the aperture is unobstructed by the closure, and an activation position that is different from the open position; and a detector arranged to detect movement of the closure from the closed position to the open position and between the open position and the activation position.
US12144369B2
A tubular element for an aerosol-generating article is provided, the tubular element including: a wrapper that forms a first longitudinal passageway; and a gel comprising an active agent, the wrapper including paper, the wrapper being water-resistant, the gel including an active agent including an aerosol former, and the gel including the active agent includes between 60 percent and 95 percent by weight of glycerol. An aerosol-generating article including a tubular element, and a method of manufacturing a tubular element, are also provided.
US12144367B2
An aerosol generating article includes a body of aerosol forming material, a first inductively heatable susceptor having a first resonant frequency, and a second inductively heatable susceptor having a second resonant frequency that is different from the first resonant frequency. An aerosol generating system includes the aerosol generating article with an aerosol generating device, the device including an induction coil defining a place, preferably a cavity, adapted to receive, in use, an aerosol generating article, and a controller adapted to control the induction coil to selectively and/or sequentially generate a first electromagnetic field with a first frequency and a second electromagnetic field with a second frequency that is different to the first frequency.
US12144358B2
A food processing apparatus for processing food products, in particular meat products, includes a press for pressing the food products with specific pressing parameters and a control unit which is connected on its output side to the press and sets the pressing parameters. A first analyzing device for analyzing the food products before pressing and for generating corresponding first analysis parameters of the food products is provided. The first analysis parameters represent product properties of the analyzed food product. The control unit is connected to the first analyzing device and sets the pressing parameters depending on the first analysis parameters.
US12144355B1
A method of preventing or inhibiting fungal infestation of plants using an extract of Pyropia yezoensis. In an embodiment, the fungal infestation is caused by Podosphera xanthii. In an embodiment, the plants comprise a cucurbit plant. In an embodiment, the cucurbit plant comprises cucumber.
US12144351B2
The present invention relates to herbicidal mixtures and their methods and uses for controlling undesirable vegetation in glufosinate-tolerant corn, wherein the herbicidal mixtures comprise L-glufosinate and at least one herbicidal compound II selected from clethodim, cycloxydim, haloxyfop, haloxyfop-methyl, haloxyfop-P, haloxyfop-P-methyl, quizalofop, quizalofop-ethyl, quizalofop-tefuryl, quizalofop-P, quizalofop-P-ethyl, quizalofop-P-tefuryl, chlorimuron, chlorimuron-ethyl, foramsulfuron, halosulfuron, halosulfuron-methyl, iodosulfuron, iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium, nicosulfuron, prosulfuron, rimsulfuron, thifensulfuron, thifensulfuron-methyl, tritosulfuron, imazamox, imazamox ammonium, imazapic, imazapic ammonium, imazapyr, imazapyr isopropylammonium, imazethapyr, imazethapyr ammonium, diclosulam, flumetsulam, florasulam, metosulam, thiencarbazone, thiencarbazone-methyl, atrazine, simazine, ter-buthylazin, bromoxynil and its salts and esters, bentazone, bentazone-sodium, pyridate, carfentrazone, carfentrazone-ethyl, flumiclorac, flumiclorac-pentyl, flumioxazin, fluthiacet, fluthiacet-methyl, saflufenacil, sulfentrazone, tiafenacil, trifludimoxazin, picolinafen, bicyclopyrone, cloma-zone, isoxaflutole, mesotrione, sulcotrione, tembotrione, tolpyralate, topramezone, fenquinotrione, glyphosate, glyphosate dimethylammonium, glyphosate-isopropylammonium, glyphosate-potassium, glyphosate-trimesium (sulfosate), pendimethalin, acetochlor, butachlor, dime-thenamid, dimethenamid-P, metazachlor, metolachlor, S-metolachlor, pethoxamid, flufenacet, pyroxasulfone, 2,4-D and its salts and esters, clopyralid and its salts and esters, dicamba and its salts and esters, quinclorac, quinclorac dimethylammonium, quinmerac, diflufenzopyr, diflufenzopyr-sodium, cinmethylin, MCPA and its salts and esters and other compounds.
US12144337B2
A semi-active suspension system includes a suspension element having a damping coefficient range. The suspension element optionally includes an implement end and a chassis end. The semi-active suspension system includes a suspension control circuit in communication with the suspension element. The suspension control circuit optionally includes a kinematic assessment circuit in communication with one or more sensors. The kinematic assessment circuit is configured to measure or determine kinematic characteristics of one or more of the agricultural implement and the chassis. The suspension control circuit optionally includes a damping control circuit, and the damping control circuit generates a specified damping characteristic based on the measured or determined kinematic characteristics. The damping control circuit optionally directs the suspension element to operate within the damping coefficient range based on the specified damping characteristic.
US12144332B1
The fishing knot tying device is a mechanical apparatus. The fishing knot tying device is a manually operated device. The fishing knot tying device incorporates a barrel structure, a corkscrew structure, and a cord structure. The cord structure is configured for use with fishing tackle. The corkscrew structure inserts into the barrel structure such that the corkscrew structure rotates within the barrel structure. The fishing tackle inserts into the barrel structure. The cord structure inserts through the barrel structure. The cord structure attaches to the corkscrew structure. The corkscrew structure ties a knot structure in the cord structure. The knot structure secures the cord structure to the fishing tackle.
US12144328B2
A low-profile disk-shaped base member which is designed for placement on a ground surface or floor, where the base member includes an elevated central hub portion with an opening extending therethrough. A lower cap element is releasably connectable in sealed relation to the hub from the bottom of the base member to form a cavity or chamber below the central opening in the base member. The chamber houses a rotatable ball or spherically shaped liquid delivery mechanism within its confines which extends upwardly through the central opening in the base member. The chamber is adapted to store a liquid consumable product, such as a liquid supplement or treat, for controlled delivery to the pet as the pet licks the ball.
US12144326B1
An aquarium includes a container defining a perimeter and an aquarium space that contains a fluid. A filter holder is coupled to the container and defines a filter space and a pump housing is coupled to the filter holder. A bypass outlet and a filter outlet each defined by one of the filter holder and the pump housing. A pump is disposed within the pump housing and is operable to draw a portion of the fluid from the aquarium space to produce a fluid flow. A spout is coupled to the filter holder and includes a spout outlet. The spout is movable between a first position in which the filter outlet is open and the fluid flow passes from the pump to the spout outlet and the bypass outlet is blocked such that the fluid flow does not pass through the bypass outlet, and a second position in which the filter outlet is blocked and the bypass outlet is open such that the fluid flow passes through the bypass outlet.
US12144315B2
A small animal lifting device has a u-shaped portion, a connector, and a handle. The u-shaped portion includes spaced apart tines that allow an animal's legs to pass through and extend beyond the tines and at the same time cradle the animal's body for lifting and transport. The connector links the handle to the tines and maintains the spaced apart arrangement of the tines. The handle is preferably centered with the u-shaped portion so the animal can be lifted based on its center of gravity.
US12144314B2
The animal litter sifter comprising, a sifter receptacle having an internal chamber with an opening, and having a top edge, a sifter frame sized to rest on the top edge of the sifter receptacle, wherein the sifter receptacle having an opening substantially aligned with the sifter receptacle opening, and a sifter basket having a plurality of side walls converging towards a bottom extending into the sifter receptacle and secured to the sifter frame, wherein at least one sidewall having an impermeable and the remaining sidewalls having a plurality of passages therethrough.
US12144304B2
The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated JRFX6624, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line JRFX6624 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line JRFX6624, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line JRFX6624, and plants produced according to these methods.
US12144301B2
Novel Stevia rebaudiana plant cultivars, a process for preparing superior compositions comprising steviol glycosides, and the advantageous use of the compositions comprising steviol glycosides in consumables, including food and beverage products, are disclosed.
US12144300B2
A stevia cultivar, designated ‘16265046’, is disclosed. The embodiments of the invention relate to the plant parts of stevia cultivar ‘16265046’, to the plants of stevia ‘16265046’ and to methods for producing a stevia plant produced by crossing the cultivar ‘16265046’ with itself or another stevia variety, including methods using marker assisted breeding. The embodiments further relate to hybrid stevia seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar ‘16265046’ with another stevia cultivar. Twelve highly polymorphic SNPs loci and the corresponding genomic sequences used to identify plant variety ‘16265046’-derived plant materials are also disclosed.
US12144286B2
One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts a predictive agricultural characteristic at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the agricultural characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.
US12144284B2
A combine harvester includes a threshing device 4 configured to perform a threshing process of threshing reaped grain culm in a threshing chamber 23, in which the threshing chamber 23 includes a threshing cylinder 31 configured to rotate around a front-rear axis X, and an arc-shaped receiving net 32 provided extending along an outer circumferential portion of the threshing cylinder 31, and a top plate 30 covering an upper portion of the threshing chamber 23 is supported detachably along the rotation axis direction of the threshing cylinder 31.
US12144283B2
A robotic lawn mower includes a mowing system, a housing, a working assembly and an energy source device. The mowing system includes a cutting assembly, a driving mechanism, and a height adjusting mechanism. The cutting assembly includes a mowing member for cutting the grass and a mounting shaft for mounting the mowing member. The mounting shaft is capable of rotating about a first axis relative to the housing. The driving mechanism includes a driving shaft for driving the cutting assembly to rotate. The height adjusting mechanism is used to adjust the movement of the cutting assembly along the first axis to achieve different cutting heights of the mowing member. When the height adjusting mechanism adjusts the cutting assembly to move along the first axis, the mounting shaft moves relative to the driving shaft along the first axis.
US12144280B2
A seed metering system for metering a plurality of seeds includes a meter housing having a first side and a second side. A seed inlet is positioned at the first side and an aperture is positioned at the second side. The seed metering system further includes a hub mounted within the aperture, a retaining member located at the hub, and a metering member positioned on the hub. The metering member compressively engages the retaining member.
US12144272B1
Disclosed is a self-cleaning lawn spike, which includes a shoe board, a bottom surface of the shoe board having a plurality of vertically downward protruding cleats, a floating board is disposed below the shoe board, and the floating board is provided with through holes corresponding to cleats one by one, and the cleats are movably connected to corresponding through holes; a rebound device is disposed between the shoe board and the floating board; the rebound device pushes the floating board downward, but not beyond the tips of the cleats, effectively removing leaves, soil and other debris caught on the cleats during puncturing.
US12150390B2
An electronic structure includes a first substrate having a first under bump metallization (UBM) region and a second UBM region formed thereon. One or more solder bumps is deposited onto the first UBM region. A downstop formed on the second UBM region is wider, shallower and more rigid than any one of the solder bumps formed on the first UBM region. A second substrate is joined to the first substrate by the one or more solder bumps located on the first UBM region, and a height of the downstop limits a distance between at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, or between an object and at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate.
US12150385B2
There is provided a piezoelectric actuator including a vibration plate; first and second piezoelectric layers; individual electrodes; a first common electrode arranged between the vibration plate and the first piezoelectric layer; a second common electrode arranged between the first piezoelectric layer and the second piezoelectric layer; a first surface electrode which is arranged on the second piezoelectric layer and which is in conduction with the first common electrode; and a second surface electrode which is arranged on the second piezoelectric layer and which is in conduction with the second common electrode. The piezoelectric actuator further comprises an inspection electrode which is arranged on the second piezoelectric layer at an end portion of the second piezoelectric layer, which is overlapped with the one of the first and second common electrodes, and which is not in conduction with any of the individual electrodes, and the first and second common electrodes.
US12150382B2
The thermoelectric module includes a first thermoelectric element including a first thermoelectric conversion layer and a first electrolyte layer stacked in order along a stacked direction, a second thermoelectric element including a second electrolyte layer and a second thermoelectric conversion layer stacked in order along the stacked direction, and a first current collector located between the first thermoelectric element and the second thermoelectric element in the stacked direction.
US12150377B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for monitoring and controlling electronic devices using wired and wireless protocols are disclosed. The systems and apparatus may monitor their environment for signals from electronic devices. The systems and apparatus may take and disambiguate the signals that are received from the devices in their environment to identify the devices and associate control signals with the devices. The systems and apparatus may use communication means to send control signals to the identified electronic devices. Multiple apparatuses or systems may be connected together into networks, including mesh networks, to make for a more robust architecture.
US12150376B2
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and comprising an emission layer; and an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode, wherein the electron transport region comprises a first auxiliary layer and a second auxiliary layer, the first auxiliary layer is between the emission layer and the second auxiliary layer, the first auxiliary layer comprises a first compound, the second auxiliary layer comprises a second compound, the second compound comprises at least one π electron-depleted nitrogen-containing ring, and the organic light-emitting device satisfies equations: T1(EML)≥T1(AXL1)+0.3 eV and T1(AXL2)≥T1(AXL1)+0.5 eV.
US12150375B2
Provided are a dipolar molecule-stabalized perovskite material and an optoelectronic device. The invention aims to provide the perovskite material with the stable dipolar molecules and the optoelectronic device, which can indirectly enhance an interaction between metal cations and halogen anions, reduce a defect state density in the perovskite material, and inhibit ion migration in the perovskite material by utilizing dipolar groups in a dipolar molecule stabilizer. A component of the perovskite material with the stable dipolar molecules is D: A′ 2An-1BnX3n+1 or D: ABX3, wherein A′ is an organic amine cation, A is a monovalent cation, B is a metal cation, X is a monovalent anion, and D is the dipolar molecule stabilizer. A thermal stability, a phase stability and a photoluminescence stability of the material are remarkably enhanced, and working stabilities and efficiencies of the perovskite material and the optoelectronic device are remarkably improved.
US12150371B2
A display substrate, a preparation method and a repair method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a driver circuit layer and an emissive structure layer overlappingly disposed on a base, the driver circuit layer including a drive transistor, an auxiliary cathode wire and a repair electrode, an anode of the emissive structure layer being connected to a drain electrode of the drive transistor, a cathode of the emissive structure layer being connected to the auxiliary cathode wire, and the repair electrode being configured so as to connect the drain electrode of the drive transistor and the auxiliary cathode wire when repairing a bright spot defect.
US12150365B2
A display apparatus including an organic light-emitting display panel and a touch sensing unit disposed on the organic light-emitting display panel is disclosed. The touch sensing unit includes a touch electrode and a wiring part connected to the touch electrode. The wiring part of the touch sensing unit passes a protruding member disposed on a non-display region of the organic light-emitting display panel, and forms a first wiring part which does not overlap the protruding member, a second wiring part overlapping the protruding part, and a connection wiring part disposed between the first and second wiring parts and having a wiring width less than the first and second wiring parts so as to overlap an edge of the protruding member.
US12150363B2
Embodiments of the application provide a display panel, a display screen and a display device. The display panel includes a backplane, a color filter layer, and a black matrix between the backplane and the color filter layer. The backplane includes a base substrate, the color filter layer includes a plurality of sub-pixel color filters, and the plurality of sub-pixel color filters are arranged along a plane of the color filter layer and spliced together to form the color filter layer.
US12150359B2
A display device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, a common electrode common to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a light-emitting layer sandwiched between the plurality of pixel electrodes and the common electrode. The light-emitting layer includes quantum dots covered by ferritin. Each of the plurality of pixel electrodes and the quantum dots are bonded via a peptide modifying the ferritin.
US12150358B2
Provided is a display device. The display device includes: one or more pixels placed in an active area and a pixel circuit associated with the pixels; and a power supply line placed in an inactive area outside the active area and connected to the pixel circuit. At least one side of the power supply line may be covered with an overcoating layer. The overcoating layer includes a first portion adjacent to the side of the power supply line and a second portion which is farther from the power supply line than the first portion. The first portion has a smaller thickness than the second portion. The first portion may be about half the thickness of the second portion.
US12150356B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate that includes a non-active area and an active area, the non-active area including a bending area and a pad area. The display device also includes a gate driving circuit, a driving integrated circuit, and a plurality of lines connecting the driving integrated circuit to the gate driving circuit. The plurality of lines includes a first group of lines that transmits a signal having a first average voltage, a second group of lines that transmits a clock signal, and a third group of lines that transmits a signal having a second average voltage different from the first average voltage. The second group of lines is located between the first group of lines and the third group of lines.
US12150351B2
The present disclosure relates to a chip-on-film bonding structure, a display module, and a terminal equipment. The chip-on-film bonding structure includes: a chip on film including a first pin, the first pin including a first end and a second end that are arranged to be opposite to each other; and a flexible circuit board including a second pin connected to the first pin, the second pin including a third end and a fourth end that are arranged to be opposite to each other; in which the first end and the third end overlap to form a first active contact region; and the second end and the fourth end respectively extend outward from two opposite sides of the first active contact region, to form a first exposed region at the second end and to form a second exposed region at the fourth end.
US12150346B2
A display device can include a light-emitting element; a driving transistor including a first electrode connected to a first node, a gate electrode connected to a second node, and a second electrode connected to a third node connected to the light-emitting element, the driving transistor being configured to apply a current the third node during a sampling operation and control a high-potential voltage applied to the first node according to a data voltage applied to the gate electrode to apply the high-potential voltage to the third node during a light-emitting operation. Also, the display device can include a switching circuit to apply a current for charging the data voltage to the second node by connecting the second node with the third node during the sampling operation; and a blocking device to block leakage current from flowing from the switching circuit to the second node when the switching circuit is off.
US12150340B2
Embodiments disclose a display panel and a display device including the display panel. The display panel includes a first area in which a plurality of first pixels are disposed, a second area including a pixel area in which a plurality of second pixels are disposed and a plurality of light-transmitting areas disposed between the plurality of second pixels, and a polarizing plate including a plurality of first light-transmitting patterns disposed in the plurality of light-transmitting areas, wherein, in the polarizing plate, an area in which the first light-transmitting patterns are formed has a higher light transmittance than a remaining area in which the first light-transmitting patterns are not formed.
US12150329B2
The present disclosure relates to a display panel, a display device, and a method for manufacturing a display panel. The display panel includes a display area, an aperture area, and an inner non-display area between the display area and the aperture area. The display area is arranged with an electroluminescent device. The electroluminescent device includes a common layer extending to the inner non-display area. The inner non-display area is arranged with a partition bar at least partially surrounding the aperture area. The common layer located in the inner non-display area is partitioned by the partition bar.
US12150326B2
A display device includes: ferritin encaging a first quantum dot and modified with a first peptide bound to a first pixel electrode; and ferritin encaging a second quantum dot and modified with a second peptide bound to a second pixel electrode. A first metal material and a second metal material are of different types.
US12150312B2
A method of forming an array of capacitors comprises forming a plurality of horizontally-spaced groups that individually comprise a plurality of horizontally-spaced lower capacitor electrodes having a capacitor insulator thereover. Adjacent of the groups are horizontally spaced farther apart than are adjacent of the lower capacitor electrodes within the groups. A void space is between the adjacent groups. An upper capacitor electrode material is formed in the void space and in the groups over the capacitor insulator and the lower capacitor electrodes. The upper capacitor electrode material in the void space connects the upper capacitor electrode material that is in the adjacent groups relative to one another. The upper capacitor electrode material less-than-fills the void space. At least a portion of the upper capacitor electrode material is removed from the void space to disconnect the upper capacitor electrode material in the adjacent groups from being connected relative to one another. A horizontally-elongated conductive line is formed atop and is directly electrically coupled to the upper capacitor electrode material in individual of the groups. Other methods, including structure independent of method of manufacture, are disclosed.
US12150300B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers containing a terrace region having a plurality of steps, memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack, a retro-stepped dielectric material portion overlying the terrace region, first laterally isolated contact structures including a respective first contact via structure and a respective first dielectric spacer, and second laterally isolated contact structures including a respective second contact via structure and a respective second dielectric spacer. The respective first contact via structure contacts a top surface of a respective first electrically conductive layer in the respective step of the plurality of steps. The respective second contact via structure extends through the respective first electrically conductive layer in the respective step and contacts a top surface of a respective second electrically conductive layer which underlies the first electrically conductive layer in the respective step.
US12150297B2
An integrated circuit (IC) structure in a memory device is described. In an example, the IC structure includes a memory cell including a bitline (BL) extending along a first direction and a channel extending along a second direction above and diagonal to the BL. In the example, a wordline (WL) extends in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction of the BL and intersects with the channel to control a current in the channel along a gated channel length. In some examples, the channel is electrically coupled on a first side to a storage capacitor via a storage node contact (SNC) and on a second side to the BL via a bit line contact (BLC) located on an underside or backside of the channel.
US12150295B2
Provided are a memory and a method for manufacturing the same, and relates to the technical field of semiconductors. The manufacturing method of a memory comprises: providing a substrate; forming a plurality of sacrificial pillars arranged at intervals between each two adjacent ones of the bit line isolation walls; forming a supplementary layer on surfaces of the sacrificial pillars; performing ion implantation to the supplementary layer; etching the supplementary layer; forming insulating pillars between adjacent sacrificial pillars; removing the sacrificial pillars and the remaining supplementary layer; and forming a plurality of node contact plugs in the contact holes.
US12150289B2
A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming a spacer structure having a rectangular ring horizontal cross-sectional shape over a transistor, a portion of the spacer structure horizontally overlapping a drain region of the transistor. A masking structure is formed over the spacer structure and the transistor, the masking structure exhibiting an opening therein horizontally overlapping the drain region of the transistor and the portion of the spacer structure. A portion of an isolation structure overlying the drain region of the transistor is removed using the masking structure and the portion of the spacer structure as etching masks to form a trench vertically extending through the isolation structure to the drain region of the transistor. A drain contact structure is formed within the trench in the isolation structure. Microelectronic devices, memory devices, and electronic systems are also described.
US12150283B2
A cooling assembly for a data center rack includes: a chassis; a heat exchanger connected to the chassis, the heat exchanger being disposed vertically at least in part between upper and lower ends of the chassis, and at least one lower bracket connected to a lower end portion of the chassis. The heat exchanger includes: a cooling coil for circulating a cooling fluid therethrough; and a plurality of fins connected to the cooling coil, the fins being spaced from one another to allow air flow therebetween. Each of the at least one lower bracket is a single piece of sheet metal bent into shape and includes a supporting wall extending frontward from the lower end portion of the chassis, the supporting wall being configured to receive at least in part a lower end of the data center rack thereon.
US12150269B2
A chassis adapted to receive a holding seat includes a bottom plate and the holding seat. The bottom plate has a chassis rail. The holding seat is adapted to be received in the chassis, and the holding seat includes a first base, a handle, and a connecting rod. The first base has a base rail. The handle is pivotally connected to the first base. A first end of the connecting rod is pivotally connected to the handle, and a second end of the connecting rod is slidably disposed in the base rail and the chassis rail.
US12150268B2
According to one embodiment, a containment system for an electronics rack that includes a top structure that is movably coupled on top of the electronics rack, a first side structure that is movably coupled to a first side of the electronics rack, and a second side structure that is movably coupled to a second side of the electronics rack that is opposite to the first side, each of the structures is arranged to move along an axis and at least partially beyond either a front end or a back end of the electronics rack creating a containment region that is at least partially surrounded by the top structure, the first side structure, and the second side structure.
US12150261B2
A hinge component, a foldable screen assembly and a foldable terminal device are provided. The hinge component includes a support assembly and a linkage assembly, the support assembly includes at least three support members, the at least three support members are arranged side by side, and two adjacent support members are movably connected. The linkage assembly is connected with the at least three support members to achieve a mutual linkage of the at least three support members.
US12150251B2
An electronic device having at least one circuit board. The circuit board has a predetermined pattern of solder bumps facilitating a ground connection with a first enclosure member and/or a second enclosure member. The at least one circuit board is sandwiched between the first and second enclosure members, each of the first and second enclosure members has a surface facing the circuit board and the surface facing the circuit board has a bead extending therefrom contacting the predetermined pattern of solder bumps to complete the ground connection.
US12150244B2
A wiring substrate includes an insulating layer, a conductor layer formed on a surface of the insulating layer and including a conductor pad, a covering layer formed on the insulating layer and covering a portion of the insulating layer, an optical waveguide positioned on the surface of the insulating layer and including a core part, and a conductor post including plating metal and formed on the conductor pad such that the conductor post is penetrating through the covering layer and connected to a component. The insulating layer has a component region covered by the component when the component is connected to the conductor post, the core part has an end surface facing the opposite direction with respect to the insulating layer and exposed in the component region and a distance between the end surface and the surface of the insulating layer is greater than a thickness of the covering layer.
US12150243B2
A package assembly includes a substrate, an electronic component and a cover. The electronic component and the cover are disposed on the substrate, wherein the electronic component is located within a chamber between the cover and the substrate. A cooling liquid may be filled in a heat dissipation space of the cover, so as to dissipate the heat generated by the electronic component. Furthermore, the cooling liquid may be filled in the chamber where the electronic component is located, so as to directly dissipate the heat generated by the electronic component.
US12150242B2
An LED circuit board structure includes first color LEDs, second color LEDs, third color LEDs, a carrier board, first testing wires, first connecting wires, second testing wires and second connecting wires. Each of the first testing wire is located at the carrier board and electrically connects two first color LEDs in a pixel-front-side-pattern region in parallel. The first connecting wire electrically connects two first testing wires in adjacent two pixel-front-side-pattern regions. Each of the second testing wire is located at the carrier board and electrically connects two second color LEDs in a pixel-front-side-pattern region in parallel. The second connecting wire electrically connects two second testing wires in adjacent two pixel-front-side-pattern regions.
US12150235B2
An example method includes: receiving, from a treatment planning process, information that is based on a dose distribution for an irradiation target; and performing at least one of the following operations: moving structures to trim spots of a particle beam so that the spots of the particle beam approximate pre-trimmed spots for which characteristics are obtained based on the information received; moving structures to produce a trimming curve for a layer of an irradiation target based on a specification of a trimming curve for the layer included in the information received; moving structures to produce a single trimming curve for all radiation fields of an irradiation target based on specifications of the single trimming curve included in the information received; or moving structures based on configuration information for the structures in the information received.
US12150232B2
A high voltage power supply can be compact with shielded electronic components. The power supply can include multiple stages separated by circuit boards. Electronic components for each stage can be directly soldered to adjacent circuit boards. Traces can pass through and electrically couple electronic components on each side of the circuit board between them.
US12150228B2
A PEF cooking appliance includes a PEF generator, and a carrier configured to receive a storage container for food. The carrier includes at least two PEF electrodes spaced apart to enable insertion of the storage container there between. At least one the PEF electrodes is connected to the PEF generator. The carrier is embodied as a drawer with a top cover pivotably attached thereto The drawer includes a base, with one of the two PEF electrodes being integrated into the base of the drawer and another one of the two PEF electrodes being integrated into the cover of the drawer.
US12150222B2
A scalable DC power distribution and control system suitable for commercial buildings includes one or more power and control hubs. Each DC power and control power hub provides power and control for any suitable distributed DC loads such as light-fixtures. AC power from the electric utility is applied to the power and control hub and is converted to DC power for distribution to DC loads within the space using low-voltage cables.
US12150216B1
The present disclosure discloses a driving circuit of a hand warmer and a hand warmer. The driving circuit of a hand warmer includes a charging control circuit, a heating control unit and a temperature regulating circuit. The temperature regulating circuit is configured to electrically connect the battery and the heating control unit, and includes a main control unit and a stepless regulating device electrically connected with the main control unit, the stepless regulating device is configured to be operated by a user to generate a stepless regulating signal within a preset regulating range. The main control unit is configured to receive the stepless regulating signal to generate a heating control signal and output the heating control signal to the heating control unit, so that the heating control unit outputs a driving signal according to the heating control signal to drive the heating element to heat within a preset temperature range.
US12150214B2
In one embodiment, a method includes configuring a router to act as a BNG and establishing, by the router, a connection between CPE and the BNG. The method also includes receiving, by the router, end-user and access parameters and communicating, by the router, the end-user and access parameters to one or more 5G NFs by interacting with one or more SBIs. The method further includes allowing, by the router, the CPE access to the one or more 5G NFs in response to communicating the end-user and access parameters to the one or more 5G NFs.
US12150210B2
A mobile communication network receives capability information from a user equipment (UE) where the capability information indicates a version of the UE which the network uses to determine a 3GPP Release version of the UE. Based on the 3GPP release version, the network determines what type of system information (e.g., System Information Blocks (SIBs)) the UE requires, and transmits the required system information to the UE. Legacy UEs receive only legacy SIBs and non-legacy UEs receive one or more non-legacy SIBs in addition to the legacy SIBs.
US12150209B2
This document describes techniques for detecting and providing user notification of mismatched devices. A device mismatch of a pair of wireless devices may be detected. A wireless indication of the device mismatch may be provided to another wireless device. That wireless device may provide a user notification that the pair of wireless devices are mismatched.
US12150207B2
A subscriber identity module comprising a test profile this test profile being intended to include data enabling, when the subscriber identity module is included in a device, the execution of a final quality control test on the device, the subscriber identity module further comprising a profile selector configured, when a location information provided to the subscriber identity module includes a predefined triggering information, to select the test profile.
US12150205B2
A method, an apparatus, and a system for selecting a session management network element, where the method includes: A mobility management network element determines a first DNAI corresponding to a first session of a terminal device. The mobility management network element selects, for the first session of the terminal device, a first session management network element that supports all or a part of DNAIs in the first DNAI. Based on this solution, the mobility management network element selects the session management network element for the terminal device. The session management network element supports all or a part of the DNAIs in the first DNAI. Therefore, a user plane network element selected by the session management network element also supports all or a part of the DNAIs in the first DNAI, such that a proper session management network element is selected for the terminal device.
US12150202B2
In response to a vehicle being switched from an IGN OFF state (non-operating state) to an IGN ON state (operating state) in a state in which a mobile terminal has been activated, the use of wireless communication (Wi-Fi communication) by the mobile terminal via a network using an in-vehicle device as a base station can be started. In response to the vehicle being switched from the IGN ON state (operating state) to the IGN OFF state (non-operating state) in the state in which the mobile terminal has been activated, the use of wireless communication (Wi-Fi communication) by the mobile terminal via the network using the in-vehicle device as the base station is stopped.
US12150198B2
In the present invention, a user equipment (UE) receives an UL grant that can be used while the UE is not in RRC_CONNECTED state. If the UE receives a message indicating to leave RRC_CONNECTED state, the UE starts a time alignment timer (I-TAT) when the UE leaves RRC_CONNECTED state. The UE transmits UL data using the UL grant if the UL data becomes available for transmission when the UE is not in RRC_CONNECTED state and if the I-TAT is running.
US12150193B2
One method includes: communicating with a first base station by utilizing a first SIM and communicating with a second base station by utilizing a second SIM; transmitting a request signal to the second base station in response to a connection setup process between the user equipment and the first base station; and receiving a configuration message from the second base station in response to the request signal.
US12150184B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for first integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node establishing a signaling connection with an IAB donor node and a sidelink connection with a second IAB node or a user equipment (UE). The first IAB node may include a mobile termination unit and a distributed unit and may support sidelink communications. In some cases, the first IAB node may report an indication of sidelink communications support, receive an indication of sidelink communication authorization, and receive sidelink configuration information. The first IAB node may transmit one or more data messages to the IAB donor on the signaling connection and transmit one or more data messages to the second IAB node or the UE via the sidelink connection.
US12150181B2
A base station transmits, to a wireless device, a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to initiate a random access procedure on an unlicensed cell. The base station, in response to a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure indicating a clear channel for uplink transmission of a first preamble of the random access procedure, receives the first preamble via a random access channel (RACH) of the unlicensed cell and transmits a second PDCCH for a random access response (RAR). The base station, in response to the LBT procedure indicating an LBT failure, receives a second preamble based on a random access resource selection procedure, and does not transmit the second PDCCH for the RAR.
US12150168B2
Methods and apparatuses for control signaling for an unlicensed spectrum band. A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a downlink control information (DCI) format and determining a type of channel access procedure based on a field in the DCI format. The type of channel access procedure is one of: a first type of channel access procedure that includes a random time duration for sensing; a second type of channel access procedure that includes a positive and deterministic time duration for sensing; or a third type of channel access procedure that does not include a time duration for sensing. The method further includes performing a channel access procedure based on the determined type of channel access procedure and transmitting an uplink transmission on a channel with shared spectrum channel access after performing the channel access procedure.
US12150162B2
Methods for resource allocation and provisioning in a wireless user equipment for sidelink communication with another wireless user equipment are disclosed. For example, a preemption procedure is implemented for allocating active Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) processes in a MAC layer of the wireless user equipment to efficient transmit or receive transport blocks. The preemption procedure may be based on preemption status parameters and preemption priority parameters associated with various transport blocks competing for the HARQ process resources.
US12150160B2
A terminal capable of reducing the resource regions in an uplink component band without increasing signaling even if a plurality of acknowledgment signals to downlink data transmitted respectively in a plurality of downlink component bands are transmitted from one uplink component band. A terminal (200) for making communication using the plurality of downlink component bands, wherein a PCFICH reception section (208) obtains CFI information indicating the number of symbols used for a control channel to which resource allocation information relating to downlink data addressed to a device is allocated for each of the downlink component bands, a mapping section (214); sets a resource region to which an acknowledgment signal to the downlink data is allocated for each of the plurality of downlink component bands according to the CFI information of each of the downlink component bands in an uplink component band set to the device, and maps the acknowledgment signals into the resource regions corresponding to the downlink component bands used for the allocation of the downlink data.
US12150155B2
The present disclosure relates to resource indication methods and apparatus. In one example method, a network device configures resource configuration information for a terminal device. The terminal device determines channel state information based on the resource configuration information, and sends the channel state information. The resource configuration information is used to indicate a first reference signal resource set, L second reference signal resource sets, and a type of the first reference signal resource set. The first reference signal resource set includes resources for M first reference signals, and a resource for one of the M first reference signals is used to measure a channel.
US12150150B2
A user equipment (UE) capability reporting method and apparatus to improve a success rate of UE rollback configuration to a CA mode and improve transmission bandwidth of UE. The UE may report, based on received first capability enquiry request information, second capability enquiry request information, and multi-RAT request condition, a second band combination in a first RAT and a second multi-RAT band combination in the first RAT and a second RAT. The second multi-RAT band combination, which meets the multi-RAT request condition, is used to configure the UE to be in a multi-RAT multi-connectivity mode of the first RAT and the second RAT. In a process in which the UE reports the second band combination, the UE preferentially reports a first CA band combination.
US12150149B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technologies with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond the 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. Further, the present disclosure provides a method and device for setting the maximum number of MIMO layers for each bandwidth part in a next-generation mobile communication system.
US12150147B2
A downlink control information (DCI), such as a blanking DCI (bDCI) message may be transmitted by a base station (e.g., eNB) and received by a mobile device (e.g., UE). The bDCI may indicate that the eNB will not transmit a subsequent DCI to the UE for a duration of time. The UE may be in continuous reception mode or connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) mode. The UE may therefore determine to enter a sleep state or take other action. The bDCI may specify an explicit blanking duration, or an index indicating a blanking duration from a lookup table, and/or the blanking duration (and/or a blanking duration offset value) may be determined in advance, e.g., semi-statically. When the UE is in C-DRX mode, the UE may be configured such that either the sleep/wake period of the C-DRX mode or the blanking period of the bDCI may take precedence over the other.
US12150144B2
A terminal is disclosed that includes a processor, coupled to a transceiver, that monitors a PDCCH (Physical downlink control channel) candidate in a first search space during a random access procedure. The transceiver receives a random access response or a PDSCH (Physical downlink shared channel) for contention resolution from a base station, based on information included in the PDCCH candidate. The transceiver receives a PDSCH or transmits an uplink signal based on information included in a PDCCH candidate monitored in the first search space, until a second search space of a type other than the first search space is configured after the random access procedure is completed. In other aspects, a base station, a communication method, and an apparatus are also disclosed.
US12150141B2
The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Provided is a method performed by a user equipment (UE), the method including receiving downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs); identifying a value of a hybrid automatic repeat and request (HARQ) feedback timing indicator included in the received DCI; and performing the HARQ feedback transmission, based on the identified value of the HARQ feedback timing indicator, wherein in case that the value is identified as a non-numerical value, HARQ feedback information for the plurality of PDSCHs is not transmitted based on the DCI and the HARQ feedback information for the plurality of PDSCHs is transmitted after an other DCI including a numerical value of the HARQ feedback timing indicator is received.
US12150135B2
Technology is disclosed for a user equipment (UE) operable for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission. The UE can be configured to: decode a multiple-PUCCH transmission indicator, wherein the multiple-PUCCH transmission indicator enables multiple-PUCCH transmissions from the UE via a plurality of transmission-reception points (TRPs); decode one or more PUCCH resource fields in a downlink control information (DCI); and identify from the one or more PUCCH resource fields in the DCI: one or more PUCCH resources associated with a primary TRP of the plurality of TRPs, wherein the one or more PUCCH resources associated with the primary TRP are used for hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback; or one or more PUCCH resources associated with a secondary TRP of the plurality of TRPs, wherein the one or more PUCCH resources associated with the secondary TRP are used for HARQ-ACK feedback.
US12150122B2
A user equipment (UE) may partition a plurality of channels including physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs) and physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs) into two groups, the plurality of channels being scheduled for transmission on a first set of component carriers (CCs) for communicating data and a second set of CCs for communicating control information and data, determine a first subset of PUSCHs of the one or more PUSCHs that is in the second set of CCs, determine that a first PUCCH of the one or more PUCCHs overlaps in time with at least a part of at least one PUSCH of the first subset of PUSCHs, and multiplex the first PUCCH with a first PUSCH of the first subset of PUSCH based on the determination that the first PUCCH overlaps in time with at least a part of the at least one PUSCH.
US12150120B2
A data transmission method and device, the method including obtaining, by a terminal device, a first resource and a second resource, where at least one first uplink transmission opportunity is configured for the first resource, a second uplink transmission opportunity is configured for the second resource, the first uplink transmission opportunity comprises X repeated first uplink transmission resources, the second uplink transmission opportunity comprises Y repeated second uplink transmission resources, and both X and Y are each integers greater than or equal to 1, and sending, by the terminal device, uplink data to a network device using the second uplink transmission opportunity in response to sending using N closest first uplink transmission opportunities before the second uplink transmission opportunity being blocked, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
US12150115B2
The present invention provides a method performed by user equipment and user equipment. The method comprises: receiving downlink control information (DCI) comprising sidelink communication scheduling information and transmitted by a base station; determining the number of bits in an indication field for lowest index of the subchannel allocation to the initial transmission; and determining a resource index of a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH).
US12150110B2
A communications device includes a transmitter configured to transmit signals to one or more other communications devices via a wireless access interface, the one or more communications devices configured to perform device-to-device communications. A receiver is configured to receive signals from the one of the other communications devices via the wireless access interface, and a controller controls the transmitter and receiver to transmit or to receive the signals via the wireless access interface to transmit or to receive data represented by the signals. The wireless access interface provides a scheduling region including plural predetermined sections of communications resources, and plural sections of shared communications resources. Transmission of a scheduling assignment message in a section of the scheduling region informs other devices of a group that a communications device will transmit signals representing data in a corresponding section of the shared communications channel.
US12150109B2
A pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) is provided. The device of a radio unit (RU) of a base station in a wireless communication system includes at least one transceiver and at least one processor coupled to the at least one transceiver, wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive a first control message including a section extension field from a digital unit (DU) via a fronthaul interface, identify additional information based on the section extension field, and acquire a beamforming weight based on the additional information, wherein the first control message is configured to schedule a terminal in a control plane.
US12150094B2
A wireless communication method and apparatus are provided. One example method includes: receiving first PEI by a first terminal device, using, by the first terminal device, at least one of the first subgroup ID or the second subgroup ID.
US12150093B2
A method of communicating data between a radio network infrastructure and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises establishing at a radio network infrastructure element there is data available for communication between the radio network infrastructure and the terminal device and transmitting a paging message for the terminal device from the radio network infrastructure element. The paging message comprises an indication of an identifier for the terminal device and an indication of a network allocated resource for use in subsequently communicating the data between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device. In response to receiving the paging message the terminal device transmits to the radio network infrastructure element a paging response indicating the terminal device received the paging message, after which the data is communicated between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device using the network allocated resource.
US12150082B2
In some implementations, a ultra-wideband (UWB) device comprises a Global Anchor for a network of UWB anchors having a plurality of clusters and initiator anchors (Init-Anchors). The Global Anchor may obtain metric information comprising a centrality metric value of each Init-Anchor from information communicated to the Global-Anchor in a first control phase. The Global Anchor may determine a slot schedule for a second control phase, wherein: determining the slot schedule is based on the centrality metric values of the plurality of Init-Anchors; the slot schedule comprises an allocation of time slots of the second control phase among the plurality of Init-Anchors for wireless radio frequency (RF) communication; and the allocation of time slots includes a first set of time slots for upstream communication followed by a second set of time slots for downstream communication. The Global Anchor may send the slot schedule to an Init-Anchor of the plurality of Init-Anchors.
US12150071B2
A method for transmitting sidelink data, a terminal device, and a network device are provided. The method comprises: a first terminal device receives power indication information, the power indication information being used for indicating a power adjustment value; the first terminal device adjusts, according to the power adjustment value, transmission power for transmitting sidelink data or a sidelink reference signal to a second terminal device. The method for transmitting sidelink data, the terminal device, and the network device ensure that a receiving terminal obtains a desired SINR when receiving sidelink data.
US12150070B2
A resource sharing method and apparatus, a terminal, and a network device are provided. The method includes: determining, by the terminal, a first uplink emission power of a first user identification card and a second uplink emission power of a second user identification card, wherein a sum of the first uplink emission power and the second uplink emission power is less than or equal to a maximum uplink emission power of the terminal.
US12150069B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. In addition, a method of a terminal in a wireless communication system, includes: receiving system information including first uplink waveform information for an initial access; transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message based on the first uplink waveform information; receiving an RRC connection response message including second uplink waveform information for uplink data transmission; and transmitting data based on the second uplink waveform.
US12150062B2
A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes determining a first operating state in accordance with a first message traffic generated by a non-session based application executing in the UE, setting a state machine in the UE to the first operating state, and transmitting a first message in accordance with the state machine.
US12150061B2
An aviation connectivity gateway module for remote access to an aircraft's systems and remotely offloading its aircraft data. The module broadly comprises a CPU, a first set of communication elements, a second set of communication elements, a memory, a battery, an IMU, a GPS module, and a number of antennas. The module responds to remote prompts and offloads aircraft data when the aircraft is powered off. An aviation connectivity gateway module for complete BVLOS cellular network connectivity broadly comprises a CPU, a set of electronic connectors, a memory, an IMU, a GPS module, a first cellular connectivity element, a second cellular connectivity element, and a number of antennas. The module switches between the first cellular communication element and the second communication element based a status of the aircraft.
US12150055B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal, a storage medium and an electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining transmission information of a group Wake up signal (WUS) according to at least one of the following configuration information: one or more sequences corresponding to the group WUS, time domain location information corresponding to the group WUS, and frequency domain location information corresponding to the group WUS, wherein the group WUS is a WUS corresponding to a group of one or more terminals; and transmitting the WUS according to the transmission information.
US12150051B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication base station device capable of reducing the power consumption of a terminal when broadband transmission is performed with only an uplink. With this device, a setting unit sets mutually different terminal IDs per a plurality of uplink unit bands for a terminal that communicates using a plurality of uplink unit bands and prescribed downlink unit bands which are fewer in number than the uplink unit bands; a control unit that respectively allocates resource allocation information per a plurality of uplink unit bands to a PDCCH arranged in a prescribed downlink unit band; and a PDCCH creation unit that creates a PDCCH signal by respectively masking the resource allocation information per a plurality of uplink unit bands with the terminal ID that has been set per a plurality of uplink unit bands.
US12150046B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, provided are a procedure and a communicator for initial registration of UE or periodic or mobility-based registration for achieving Network Slice Specific Authentication and Authorization in 5GS. Furthermore, a communicator for achieving a function related to Network Slice Specific Authentication and Authorization in 5GS is provided by providing Network Slice Specific Authentication and Authorization initiated by a network, a procedure, initiated by the network and initiated based on completion of the Network Slice Specific Authentication and Authorization, for changing a UE configuration, a de-registration procedure initiated by the network, and a communicator.
US12150035B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and apparatus for managing CAG related procedure in a wireless communication network is provided.
US12150030B2
A communication control apparatus includes: an acquisition section (231) that acquires information concerning a service to be received, using a communication system (1), by a communication apparatus connected to the communication system (1) that includes a relay base station (30) to which the communication apparatus is connectable and a donor base station (20) which provides the relay base station (30) with a wireless backhaul line; and a determination section (232) that determines a path through which data exchanged between the communication apparatus and the donor base station (20) passes on a basis of the information concerning the service.
US12150025B2
System, method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing mobile device support services
A method is provided for providing mobile device support services. The method may include monitoring a mobile device status. The method may additionally include performing device diagnostics based at least in part on captured device status data to identify potential faults that may affect mobile device functionality. A corresponding system, apparatus, and computer program product are also provided.
US12150022B2
A method that is performed by an information processing device that communicates with a plurality of vehicles includes identifying any vehicle located in a disaster area out of the plurality of vehicles, sending a first message asking a user of the identified vehicle whether the vehicle is being used as an evacuation spot for spending the night, and determining whether the vehicle is being used as the evacuation spot, based on a first response to the first message.
US12150014B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for providing broadcast and multicast services to wireless devices while in Idle and Inactive modes a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular base station of a cellular network. The wireless device may receive information indicating whether provision of a broadcast or multicast service in one or more of an inactive mode or an idle mode is supported by the cellular network. The wireless device may receive the broadcast or multicast service in one or more of the inactive mode or the idle mode based at least in part on the information indicating whether provision of the broadcast or multicast service in one or more of the inactive mode or the idle mode is supported by the cellular network.
US12150007B1
A quick action menu system may be configured to perform operations that include: causing display of a graphical user interface (GUI) at a client device, the GUI comprising a display of a persistent icon at a position within the GUI; receiving a selection of the persistent icon from the client device; accessing user profile data associated with a user of the client device responsive to the input that selects the persistent icon; and causing display of a quick actions menu to display content associated with the user profile data.
US12150006B2
Systems and methods for geofence information delivery are disclosed. A multiplicity of devices constructed and configured in network communication in a region of interest via a peer-to-peer network. The multiplicity of devices store cached geofence information for the region of interest. The multiplicity of devices on the peer-to-peer network are operable to convert between an IP address and a geographic location. Each of the multiplicity of devices is operable to query peer devices on the peer-to-peer network for geofences associated with an IP address or a geographic location. At least one peer device is operable to deliver one or more geofences associated with the IP address to the querying device via zero-configuration networking or web service.
US12149996B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for cell measurement scheduling mode selection. According to certain aspects, a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), generally includes selecting a first scheduling mode for performing cell measurements while the UE is in an idle state, in response to detecting at least one first triggering condition based on a comparison of a serving cell measurement to one or more neighbor cell measurements and performing cell measurements in accordance with the first scheduling mode, wherein the UE performs cell measurement more frequently when the first scheduling mode is selected than when a second scheduling mode is selected.
US12149990B2
This application provides communication methods, devices, and systems for improving communication efficiency. One communication method includes: receiving, by a target access network device and from a source access network device, a handover request message sent by a source access network device, wherein the handover request message is used to for requesting to hand over a terminal device from the source access network device to the target access network device; and obtaining, by the target access network device, network slice selection assistance information supported by the terminal device, wherein the network slice selection assistance information supported by the terminal device is used to indicates a network slice supported by the terminal device.
US12149987B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support a super slot configuration for new radio (NR) sidelink over millimeter wave (mmW) operating frequencies. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes obtaining a sidelink resource pool configuration including configuration of one or more super slots, wherein each super slot includes a plurality of slots contiguous in a time domain The UE may select one or more sidelink resource slots for sidelink transmissions in a sidelink resource pool and transmit an enhanced sidelink control information (eSCI) message in a first slot of a first super slot, wherein the eSCI message indicates a reservation of slots corresponding to the one or more sidelink resource slots. The UE may then send the sidelink transmissions on at least one slot of the reserved slots. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12149985B2
5G and 6G wireless networks can use artificial intelligence models to optimize performance by measuring the rate of message faults, and in particular the rate of various types of faults. For example, the amplitude faults include a modulation amplitude distorted by a small or large amplitude change, and whether the faults cluster in the high or low amplitude modulation portions of a constellation chart, among many other inputs related to network operations. The artificial intelligence model can be configured to predict the subsequent network performance according to each modulation scheme available to the network, thereby enabling the network to select a more effective modulation scheme. Alternatively, the artificial intelligence model can select the preferred modulation scheme and recommend the change to the network operators, or it can implement the change automatically if enabled to do so.
US12149980B2
A mobile network base station equipped with a dynamic domain scheduler configured to dynamically allocate resources to various domains associated with the base station based on real-time usage. Individual domains of the network base station may be configured to prioritize different types of network traffic. In some case, a domain specific scheduler may be associated with each domain in order to balance individual loads within each domain.
US12149966B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for beam indication latency reduction via symbol level beam sweeping capability reporting. A wireless device may transmit, to a base station, a report associated with symbol level beam sweeping. The wire wireless device may receive, from the base station, a symbol level beam sweeping configuration. The symbol level beam sweeping configuration may be based, at least in part, on the report. The wireless device may perform synchronization signal block (SSB) measurements according to the report and the symbol level beam sweeping configuration.
US12149962B2
According to an example embodiment, a method of operating a node of a wireless communication network. An early measurement configuration is transmitted to a communication device. The early measurement configuration includes a received signal threshold for early measurement reports. A logged MDT measurement configuration is transmitted to the communication device. A release message is transmitted to the communication device. After transmitting the release message, a resume/setup message is transmitted to the communication device. After transmitting the resume/setup request message, a logged MDT measurement report is received from the communication device. The logged MDT measurement report includes a plurality of signal measurements for a respective plurality of frequencies, and the logged MDT measurement report includes the early measurement configuration. Related methods of operating a communication device, nodes, communication devices, and computer program products are also discussed.
US12149957B2
A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network is provided. The infrastructure equipment is a non-terrestrial network part of the wireless communications network configured to transmit one or more spot beams to provide a wireless access interface for transmitting signals to and receiving signals representing data from a communications device within a coverage region of a cell or one of the spot beams, the spot beam forming a cell. The method comprises broadcasting system information for receipt by the communications device, the system information including information relating to at least one of a cell or a spot beam of a neighbouring infrastructure equipment and a second spot beam of the infrastructure equipment, wherein the system information is broadcast in accordance with at least one predetermined condition.
US12149956B2
Disclosed are a method for a first UE to transmit a feedback signal in a wireless communication system supporting sidelink, and a device for same, according to various embodiments. The method for the UE to transmit a feedback signal includes the steps of: receiving a sidelink signal from a second UE; and determining whether to transmit the feedback signal for the first sidelink signal on the basis of the sidelink signal, wherein the sidelink signal includes angle information pertaining to the transmission of the feedback signal, and whether to transmit the feedback signal is determined on the basis of the angle information.
US12149953B2
A computer implemented method of cell overlap analysis of a communication network. The method includes determining coverage area of a first and a second cell of the communication network, wherein determination of the coverage area of a cell is based on user distribution in the respective cell; determining intersecting area as an area where the determined coverage area of the first cell and the determined coverage area of the second cell overlap; and determining a first impact value reflecting impact of the overlap on the first cell as a ratio of the determined intersecting area and the determined coverage area of the first cell.
US12149951B2
A dual band LTE small cell base station communicates on both licensed bands and unlicensed bands. The small cell base station modifies the communication protocol utilized by the licensed band to enable communication over an unlicensed band. This modification involves replacing the physical (PHY) layer of the licensed band communication protocol with the PHY layer of a to-be-used protocol in an unlicensed band.
US12149936B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for dynamically onboarding a UE between private 5G networks. In one aspect, a private 5G (P5G) federation system can receive a request from a user device for registration with a serving private 5G network, which is part of a P5G federation system. The P5G federation system can further determine that the user device is authenticated with a home private 5G network of the user device, which is also part of the P5G federation system. The P5G federation system can transmit, to the serving private 5G network, a security profile of the user device that is received from the home private 5G network. As follows, the P5G federation system can facilitate onboarding of the user device to the serving private 5G network with the security profile.
US12149927B2
A method performed by a mobile terminal for verifying at least one privacy profile setting for positioning of the mobile terminal to a location network node in a communications network is provided. The method includes receiving a request from the location network node for the mobile terminal to provide a position of the mobile terminal. The method further includes checking the at least one privacy profile setting of the mobile terminal for permission to provide position information of the mobile terminal. The method further includes determining whether to send the positioning information of the mobile terminal to the location network node based on the checking the at least one privacy profile setting. Methods performed by a network node are also provided.
US12149926B2
Method, systems and devices for a master node which is accessed by a user equipment, UE, the UE accessed a source secondary node are provided. The method comprises transmitting, to the target secondary node, an addition request message, receiving, from the target secondary node, an addition request acknowledge message with identification information of a target primary secondary cell in response to the addition request message, determining at least one mobility triggering condition of the target primary secondary cell, and transmitting, to the UE, a secondary node change type message having the at least one mobility triggering condition of the target primary secondary cell, to make the UE perform a handover from the source secondary node to the target secondary node when determining the target primary secondary cell meets at least one of the at least one mobility condition.
US12149925B2
Provided in the present disclosure are a communication method and device. The method comprises: sending discontinuous reception (DRX)-related information of a second network device to a first network device; receiving a time interval configured by the first network device, wherein the time interval is obtained by the first network device according to the DRX-related information of the second network device; and carrying out an operation for the second network device according to the time interval, wherein the first network device serves a first type network of a first operator, and the second network device serves a first type network of a second operator.
US12149919B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for automatically transitioning between communication modes of wearable audio output devices based solely on acoustic analysis. The audio output devices may operate in one of three electroacoustic modes. In the transparency mode, an audio output device may pass through the speech signal of a nearby user. In the peer-to-peer mode, the audio output device may establish a direct low-latency radio frequency (RF) link to another audio output device. In the telephony mode, the audio output device may communicate with another audio output device using networked telephony. The disclosed methods and systems perform acoustic analysis of the near-field speech signal of a local wearer of the audio output device and the far-field speech signal of a remote talker to determine the best mode for the audio output device to use and to seamlessly transition between the modes as the acoustic environment between the wearers changes.
US12149917B2
A method, apparatus and computer program, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of input signals representing a sound space; using the received plurality of input signals to obtain spatial metadata corresponding to the sound space; using the received plurality of input signals to obtain a first spatial audio signal corresponding to the spatial metadata; and associating the first spatial audio signal with the spatial metadata to enable the spatial metadata to be used to process the first spatial audio signal to obtain a second spatial audio signal.
US12149904B2
Methods, systems, and media for identifying a plurality of sets of coordinates for a plurality of devices are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: identifying each device in a plurality of devices associated with a user account; instructing the plurality of devices to perform an audio sequence; receiving a plurality of transit times from the plurality of devices; determining a plurality of distances based on the plurality of transit times; determining a plurality of sets of coordinates based on the plurality of distances; associating to each of the plurality of devices a corresponding unique one of the plurality of sets of coordinates; and causing at least one of the plurality of devices to play spatial audio determined from the plurality of sets of coordinates.
US12149897B2
Example techniques relate to voice interaction in an environment with a media playback system that is playing back audio content. In an example implementation, while playing back first audio in a given environment at a given loudness: a playback device (a) detects that an event is anticipated in the given environment, the event involving playback of second audio and (b) determines a loudness of background noise in the given environment, the background noise comprising ambient noise in the given environment. The playback device ducks the first audio in proportion to a difference between the given loudness of the first audio and the determined loudness of the background noise and plays back the ducked first audio concurrently with the second audio.
US12149896B2
Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods for estimating acoustic properties of an environment. In an example method, a first audio signal is received via a microphone of a wearable head device. An envelope of the first audio signal is determined, and a first reverberation time is estimated based on the envelope of the first audio signal. A difference between the first reverberation time and a second reverberation time is determined. A change in the environment is determined based on the difference between the first reverberation time and the second reverberation time. A second audio signal is presented via a speaker of a wearable head device, wherein the second audio signal is based on the second reverberation time.
US12149890B2
Disclosed herein, among other things, are apparatus and methods for neural network-driven frequency translation for hearing assistance devices. Various embodiments include a method of signal processing an input signal in a hearing assistance device, the hearing assistance device including a receiver and a microphone. The method includes performing neural network processing to train a processor to identify acoustic features in a plurality of audio signals and predict target outputs for the plurality of audio signals, and using the trained processor to control frequency translation of the input signal.
US12149883B2
A method of autonomously preventing fouling of a submerged vessel, the method comprising: activating, by one or more computing devices, a at least one transducer and at least one sensor at a first area; generating, by one or more computing devices, a predetermined sound wave from the at least one transducer; monitoring, by one or more computing devices, data collected by the at least one sensor; altering, by one or more computing devices, the at least one transducer, wherein the alteration is based on the data collected by the at least one sensor; and autonomously adjusting, by one or more computing devices, at least one of the at least one transducer, wherein at least one of the transducers is activated.
US12149875B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for method for parameter adjustment of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) distributed terminal based on Internet of Things and a system. The method includes: based on at least one transmission node on a transmission link, obtaining terminal information of at least one set of terminals and transmission status information of the at least one transmission node; in response to the transmission status information satisfying a preset status condition, predicting a malfunction risk coefficient of the at least one set of terminals at at least one set of future time points; and based on the malfunction risk coefficient and in combination with a device parameter of the at least one set of terminals, judging whether to adjust a control parameter of the at least one set of terminals in advance.
US12149871B2
A projector including an electro-optical panel in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed, an optical path shifting element configured to change an optical path of light emitted from the plurality of pixels, and a control circuit configured to control a state of the optical path shifting element such that light emitted from a predetermined pixel among the plurality of pixels reaches a first position on a display screen in the first unit period, control a state of the optical path shifting element such that light emitted from the predetermined pixel reaches a second position on the display screen in the second unit period, and control a state of the optical path shifting element in a transition period in which a unit period transitions from the first unit period to the second unit period based on a type of image indicated by an input image signal.
US12149865B2
A conference system, including a remote device and a local device, is disclosed. The remote device includes a voice broadcasting element. The local device includes several image capture elements and a processor. When the remote device is communicatively connected through an internet to the local device, several image capture elements obtain a number of people present in a local environment of the local device. The processor, coupled to several image capture elements, generates a voice message according to the number of people present, and the processor transmits the voice message to the remote device, so that the voice broadcasting element of the remote device plays the voice message.
US12149855B2
An increase in a load current in a processing circuit is reduced. A light receiving device includes an imaging unit that photoelectrically converts light received in a plurality of pixels to acquire an analog image signal, a conversion unit that converts the analog image signal acquired by the imaging unit into digital image data, and a data processing unit that executes data processing on the digital image data and reduces a load of the data processing in a period in which the conversion unit executes conversion as compared to a period in which the conversion unit does not execute conversion.
US12149854B2
The photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel including a photoelectric conversion unit that outputs a pulse in response to incidence of a photon and a pulse counting unit that counts the pulse. The pulse counting unit includes first and second counters, a selection circuit for selecting a signal input to the first and second counters, and a control unit. The control unit controls the selection circuit to perform a first connection mode in which a counter of a first number of bits is configured by the first and second counters, and a second connection mode in which a counter of a second number of bits smaller than the first number of bits is configured by at least one of the first and second counters. The second connection mode includes a third connection mode in which pulses are counted in parallel by the first and second counters.
US12149852B2
A solid-state imaging element and an electronic device are provided. A pixel at least includes a photoelectric conversion unit that performs photoelectric conversion, an FD unit to which charge generated in the photoelectric conversion unit is transferred, and an amplification transistor that has a gate electrode to which the FD unit is connected. A reference signal is input to a MOS transistor. The reference signal is referred to when AD conversion is performed on a pixel signal according to an amount of light received by the pixel. Then, a shared structure is employed in which a predetermined number of pixels share an AD converter that includes a differential pair including the MOS transistor and the amplification transistor. Each of the pixels is provided with a selection transistor that is used to select a pixel for which AD conversion is performed on the pixel signal.
US12149848B2
An apparatus includes a pixel array in which pixels including first, second, and third pixels are arranged. In a top plan view of the pixel array, the first and second pixels are arranged along a first direction, and the first pixel is away from the second pixel in a positive direction of the first direction. The first and third pixels are arranged along a second direction and are connected to a first line. The second pixel is connected to a second line. The first and second lines are connected to first and second processing circuits, respectively. The first and second processing circuits are arranged along the first direction, and the first processing circuit is away from the second processing circuit in a negative direction of the first direction. Calculation processing is performed on outputs from the first and second lines.
US12149842B2
To reduce power consumption in a solid-state image sensor that detects weak light. The solid-state image sensor includes a photodiode, a resistor, a measuring unit, and a control unit. The photodiode photoelectrically converts incident light and outputs a photocurrent. The resistor drops a potential of one end of the photodiode to a value lower than a power supply potential every time a photocurrent is output. The measuring unit measures illuminance of the incident light on the basis of a frequency of dropping of the potential of one end. The control unit controls the power supply potential to a lower value as the measured illuminance is higher.
US12149840B2
A system includes a processor, a light source controlled by the processor and configured to emit a light, and an event based vision sensor controlled by the processor. The sensor includes a plurality of pixels. At least one of the plurality of pixels includes a photosensor configured to detect incident light and first circuitry configured to output a first signal based on an output from the photosensor. The first signal indicates a change of amount of incident light. The sensor includes a comparator configured to output a comparison result based on the first signal and at least one of a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage. The processor is configured to apply one of the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage to the comparator selectively based on an operation of the light source.
US12149830B2
Various embodiments include a dynamic flex circuit that may be used in a camera with a moveable image sensor. The dynamic flex circuit may include one or more fixed end portions, a moveable end portion, and an intermediate portion. In some embodiments, the fixed end portion may be connected to another flex circuit of the camera. The moveable end portion may be coupled with the moveable image sensor. The intermediate portion may be configured to allow the moveable end portion to move with the moveable image sensor. Some embodiments include a reinforcement arrangement that reinforces one or more portions of the dynamic flex circuit.
US12149829B2
A camera module according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes a camera housing, a lens assembly, and an optical image stabilizer assembly, at least a portion of which is fixed to the camera housing, which changes a path of light travelling toward the lens assembly. The optical image stabilizer assembly includes a fixed part fixed to the camera housing and including a first light transmitting member, a moving part rotatable relative to the fixed part and including a second light transmitting member, a sealing member disposed between and connecting the first and second light transmitting members, and an elastic member that elastically connects the moving part to at least one of the camera housing or the fixed part. The sealing member accommodates a liquid therein and is deformable responsive to moving part rotation.
US12149814B2
A camera module comprises: a first housing; a lens module arranged in the first housing; a second housing coupled to the first housing; a substrate arranged in an inner space of the first housing and the second housing; an image sensor arranged on the substrate; and an adhesive member arranged between the first housing and the second housing, wherein the second housing includes a stepped portion on which the substrate is arranged, and a protrusion portion formed on an inner surface of the second housing to be in contact with a side surface of the substrate.
US12149810B2
An imaging device includes an imaging unit that captures an object, a first housing, a second housing that supports the imaging unit and is rotatably supported in a tilt direction with respect to the first housing in order to change an imaging direction of the imaging unit, and a tilt stopper that is in contact with both the first housing and the second housing to regulate rotation of the second housing in the tilt direction with respect to the first housing.
US12149806B2
An image pickup apparatus includes a sensor unit, a lens unit and a lens frame, a housing configured to hold the sensor unit and the lens unit, a connecting member that connects the lens frame and the housing, a cover member that covers part of a first lens disposed furthest to the image sensor, and an elastic member disposed between the first lens and the cover member. A thermal expansion coefficient of the connecting member is larger than that of each of the housing and the lens frame. The lens frame includes a first lens holding portion configured to hold the first lens. A connecting position between the connecting member and the lens frame is disposed on the image sensor side of each of a connecting position between the housing and the connecting member and a position of the first lens holding portion.
US12149799B2
A streaming assistance system may be provided which may be connected to at least two network links, for example via respective network interfaces. Both network links may have different characteristics, e.g., in terms of throughput, utilization, latency, etc. The streaming assistance system may assist in the streaming of media content to a client device by identifying a media fragment which is likely to be requested by the client device in the (near) future, selecting a network link to be used for the streaming of the media segment, and effecting a prefetching of the media segment via the selected network link. In some embodiments, the streaming assistance system may be a DASH Aware Network Element (DANE).
US12149797B2
Systems and methods for enhancing virality for a content item are disclosed herein. A content item is uploaded to a content sharing platform over a communication network. Feedback on the content item is received from the content sharing platform over the communication network. Based on the feedback, a virality score for the content item is determined and a determination is made as to whether the virality score meets a virality criterion. In response to a determination that the virality score does not meet the virality criterion, a virality enhancement technique is selected from a virality enhancement database, the content item is modified by applying the virality enhancement technique to the content item, and the modified content item is uploaded to the content sharing platform over the communication network.
US12149795B2
This application provides a method and apparatus for presenting an audiovisual work, a device, and a medium, and belongs to the field of artificial intelligence. The method includes: displaying a map control of the audiovisual work, the map control displaying a map associated with a plot of the audiovisual work; determining a marker point on the map in response to a location marking operation on the map; and presenting a plot clip in the audiovisual work that corresponds to the marker point.
US12149789B2
Systems and methods are described for selecting content item identifiers for display. The system may identify a set of content items that are likely to be requested in the future based on a history of content item requests. The system then selects a first plurality of content categories using a category selection neural net and selects a first set of recommended content items for the first plurality of content categories. The system increases a reward score for the first plurality of content categories based on receiving a request for a content item that is included in the first set of recommended content items. The system also decreases the reward score for the first plurality of content categories based on determining that the requested content item is included in the set of content items that are likely to be requested in the future. The neural net is trained based on the reward score of the first plurality of content categories to reinforce reward score maximization. The trained neural net is the used to select content items for display.
US12149781B2
Systems and methods for determining whether a first electronic device detects a media item that is to be output by a second electronic device is described herein. In some embodiments, an individual may request, using a first electronic device, that a media item be played on a second electronic device. The backend system may send first audio data representing a first response to the first electronic device, along with instructions to delay outputting the first response, as well as to continue sending audio data of additional audio captured thereby. The backend system may also send second audio data representing a second response to the second electronic device along with the media item. Text data may be generated representing the captured audio, which may then be compared with text data representing the second response to determine whether or not they match.
US12149780B2
A streaming media device includes a printed circuit board hosting components configured to access internet data. An audio/visual connector is linked to the printed circuit board, wherein the audio/visual connector is adapted for connection to an audio/visual device, wherein the audio/visual connector is adapted to operate with a first audio/visual interface having sufficient power to fully operate the printed circuit board and a second audio/visual interface having insufficient power to fully operate the printed circuit board. A power connector is linked to the printed circuit board, wherein the power connector selectively receives power based on the audio/visual connector utilizing one of the first audio/visual interface and the second audio/visual interface.
US12149777B2
The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium for presentation of a matching scheme. The method comprises: acquiring a set of matching schemes; transmitting, to a first terminal, attribute information of matching schemes in the set of matching schemes, so that the first terminal displays attribute information of matching schemes comprised in the set of matching schemes; in response to a selection request for one of matching schemes transmitted by the first terminal, determining the selected matching scheme as a matching scheme to be explained; in response to a presentation request for the matching scheme to be explained that is transmitted by a second terminal, transmitting attribute information of the matching scheme to be explained to the second terminal, so that the second terminal presents a target information streaming page comprising at least a part of attribute information of the matching scheme to be explained.
US12149776B2
Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. A beacon may be transmitted at a first modulation rate less than a second modulation rate used to transmit data. A signal characteristic may be received from a user device. The user device may be connected to the network in response to the signal characteristic satisfying a threshold. Data may be transmitted to the user device at the second modulation rate.
US12149774B2
A method for interacting with a graphical user interface (GUI) of a television operating in a step mode in which movement of a cursor among menu items displayed on the GUI is performed stepwise in accordance with a manipulation of a direction key of the remote controller, the method including receiving, by the television, from a remote controller a signal corresponding to spatial movement of the remote controller detected by the remote controller that instructs the television to switch from (i) the step mode to (ii) a position mode of the GUI in which the movement of the cursor among the menu items is performed in accordance with the spatial movement of the remote controller and switching from the step mode of the GUI to the position mode of the GUI based on the signal.
US12149773B2
Voice-based interaction with video content being presented by a media player application is enhanced through the use of an automated assistant capable of identifying when a spoken utterance by a user is a request to playback a specific scene in the video content. A query identified in a spoken utterance may be used to access stored scene metadata associated with video content being presented in the vicinity of the user to identify one or more locations in the video content that correspond to the query, such that a media control command may be issued to the media player application to cause the media player application to seek to a particular location in the video content that satisfies the query.
US12149771B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for distributing content outside the confides of a television so as to enhance user experience of the content. An example media device embodiment operates according to a method that includes receiving a data stream containing content and at least one non-TV experience trigger; causing the content to be played on the TV; and providing the non-TV experience trigger to at least one appropriate accessory device in a manner synchronous with playing the content on the TV, to thereby extend playback of the content beyond the TV.
US12149769B2
A method and system for uploading a media file container from a first device to a second device are described herein, including receiving an instruction to upload the media file container and in response, reading a metadata box of the media file container to locate a track box containing information about video data in a media data box, identifying sample frames of the video data throughout a duration of the video data in the media data box using information from the track box, packaging the identified sample frames, and uploading the packaged sample frames of the video data prior to completing upload of the media file container.
US12149762B2
Audio video synchronization and alignment or alignment of audio to some other external clock are rendered more effective or easier by treating fragment grid and frame grid as independent values, but, nevertheless, for each fragment the frame grid is aligned to the respective fragment's beginning. A compression effectiveness lost may be kept low when appropriately selecting the fragment size. On the other hand, the alignment of the frame grid with respect to the fragments' beginnings allows for an easy and fragment-synchronized way of handling the fragments in connection with, for example, parallel audio video streaming, bitrate adaptive streaming or the like.
US12149748B2
A picture may be divided into sub-pictures/slices/tiles. For example, the picture may be divided into sub-picture(s), and subpicture-related information may be used for coding. The sub-picture-related information may be generated by an encoding device and transmitted to a decoding device. According to embodiments of the present document, sub-picture-related information can be efficiently signaled.
US12149734B2
Exemplary embodiments include systems and methods for coding a video comprising a plurality of pictures including a current picture, a first reference picture, and a second reference picture, where each picture includes a plurality of blocks. In one method, for at least a current block in the current picture, a number of available bi-prediction weights is determined based at least in part on a temporal layer and/or a quantization parameter of the current picture. From among available bi-prediction weights a pair of weights are identified. Using the identified weights, the current block is then predicted as a weighted sum of a first reference block in the first reference picture and a second reference block in the second reference picture. Encoding techniques are also described for efficient searching and selection of a pair of bi-prediction weights to use for prediction of a block.
US12149732B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods and systems for coding video. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining encoded video data comprising a plurality of blocks and obtaining a motion vector predictor (MVP) candidate block from a MVP list based on a MVP index. The method further includes in accordance with a determination that a block of the plurality of blocks is designated for a warp extend mode, determining whether the MVP candidate block is suitable for the warp extend mode. The method also includes, in accordance with a determination that the MVP candidate block is not suitable for the warp extend mode, identifying a backup MVP candidate block that is suitable for the warp extend mode. The method further includes obtaining a warp model from the backup MVP candidate block; and performing a warp extend operation on the block using the warp model.
US12149731B2
At least a method and an apparatus are provided for efficiently encoding or decoding video. For example, a plurality of different motion prediction modes are obtained for a current block. The current block is encoded or decoded based on a combination of the plurality of different motion prediction modes with corresponding weights, wherein the combination with the corresponding weights comprising at least two inter prediction modes, or an inter prediction mode and an intra prediction mode. Both triangle prediction and multi-hypothesis prediction are allowed to be indicated in one or more lists of possible motion vector candidates, such as, e.g., in advanced motion vector prediction (AMVP) mode.
US12149730B2
A method for determining a prediction block for decoding or encoding a current block in a current picture of a video stream. The method includes obtaining a pair of initial motion vectors, the pair of initial motion vectors comprising a first initial motion vector and a second initial motion vector. The method also includes determining whether or not to refine the initial motion vectors. The method further includes refining the initial motion vectors as a result of determining to refine the initial motion vectors. The step of determining whether or not to refine the initial motion vectors comprises: i) determining whether a first prediction scheme and/or a second prediction scheme is enabled and ii) determining to refrain from refining the initial motion vectors as a result of determining that either the first prediction scheme or second prediction scheme is enabled or determining to refine the initial motion vectors as a result of determining neither the first prediction scheme nor second prediction scheme is enabled.
US12149729B2
In some embodiments, a method selects a first template of pixels that is outside of a first block and a second template of pixels that is outside of the first block. Then, the method selects a first region of pixels that are inside the first block and a second region of pixels that are inside the first block. A first weight is calculated based on the first template of pixels and the first region of pixels and a second weight is calculated based on the second template of pixels and the second region of pixels. The first weight and the second weight are used in a motion prediction search for a second block.
US12149728B2
A video decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus comprises deriving control points (CPs) for the current block; obtaining motion vectors for the CPs; deriving a motion vector of a sub-block or a sample unit in the current block on the basis of the obtained motion vectors; deriving a prediction sample for the current block on the basis of the derived motion vector; and generating a reconstruction sample on the basis of the prediction sample. The method enables effective performance of inter prediction through the motion vectors (transformation prediction), not only when an image in the current block is moved in a plane, but also when the image in the current block is rotated, zoomed in, zoomed out, or transformed into a parallelogram. Accordingly, the amount of data for the residual signal for the current block can be eliminated or reduced, and the overall coding efficiency can be improved.
US12149719B2
A video data stream is rendered reducible in a manner so that the reduction leads to a restriction of pictures of the reduced video data stream to merely a predetermined subarea of the pictures of the original video data stream and in a manner so that transcoding, such as re-quantization, may be avoided and a conformance of the reduced video data stream relative to the codec underlying the original video data stream be maintained. This is achieved by providing the video data stream with information including an indication of the predetermined subarea and replacement indices for redirecting the indices included by the payload portion so as to refer to, and/or replacement parameters for adjusting the first set of coding parameter settings so as to result in, a second set of coding parameter settings.
US12149712B2
A video decoding method according to the present document comprises a step of deriving transform coefficients for a current block on the basis of residual information, wherein the step of deriving the transform coefficients comprises a step of deriving a zero-out block indicating a region in which effective transform coefficients may exist in the current block, wherein the zero-out block is derived on the basis of flag information indicating whether multiple transform selection (MTS), in which a plurality of transform kernels are used, can be applied to the current block.
US12149710B2
There are provided encoding and decoding methods, and corresponding systems which are beneficial in connection to performing a search among regions of interest, ROIs, in encoded video data. In the encoded video data, there are independently decodable ROIs. These ROIs and the encoded video frames in which they are present are identified in metadata which is searched responsive to a search query. The encoded video data further embeds information which associates the ROIs with sets of coding units, CUs, that spatially overlap with the ROIs. In connection to independently decoding the ROIs found in the search, the embedded information is used to identify the sets of CUs to decode.
US12149707B2
An example method includes determining, for each respective coding block of a plurality of coding blocks of a current coding tree unit (CTU) of video data in a current picture of video data, a respective search area of a plurality of respective search areas, wherein at least one of the plurality of search areas includes samples of the current picture located outside of the current CTU, and wherein at least one of the plurality of search areas does not include samples of the current picture located outside of the current CTU; selecting, for each respective coding block and from within the respective search area for the respective coding block, a respective predictor block of a plurality of predictor blocks; and reconstructing samples of each respective coding block based on samples included in a corresponding predictor block in the plurality of predictor blocks.
US12149704B2
When removing a block distortion occurring in a local decoded image, a loop filtering part 11 of an image coding device carries out a filtering process on each of signal components (a luminance signal component and color difference signal components) after setting the intensity of a filter for removing the block distortion for each of the signal components according to a coding mode (an intra coding mode or an inter coding mode) selected by a coding controlling part 1.
US12149701B2
An image encoder or decoder includes circuitry and a memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, predicts a first set of samples for a first partition of a current picture with one or more motion vectors including a first motion vector and predicts a second set of samples for a first portion of the first partition with one or more motion vectors from a second partition different from the first partition. The samples of the first set of samples of the first portion of the first partition and of the second set of samples of the first portion of the first partition are weighted. A motion vector for the first portion of the first partition is stored which is based on one or both of the first motion vector and the second motion vector. The first partition is encoded or decoded using at least the weighted samples of the first portion of the first partition.
US12149697B2
This application provides example encoding methods and example encoders. One example method includes performing bit truncation on a to-be-encoded block when a bit rate control condition is satisfied. A first cost value corresponding to the bit truncation can then be calculated. The to-be-encoded block can then be predicted to determine a prediction residual of the to-be-encoded block when the bit rate control condition is satisfied. A second cost value corresponding to the prediction can then be calculated based on the prediction residual. The first cost value can then be compared with the second cost value to determine an encoded bit.
US12149679B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: obtaining reference line index information and prediction information for a current block; determining an intra prediction mode of the current block on the basis of the prediction information; deriving a reference sample of the current block on the basis of the intra prediction mode and the reference line index information; and generating a prediction sample of the current block on the basis of the reference sample, wherein the intra prediction mode includes a non-directional intra prediction mode, and the reference sample is derived from among surrounding samples of the current block on the basis of the non-directional intra prediction mode and the reference line index information.
US12149675B2
Systems and techniques are provided for camera synchronization. An example method can include determining, for each camera of a plurality of cameras, a common point within an exposure time corresponding to a frame being requested from each camera. The method can include determining, based on the common point determined for each camera of the plurality of cameras, a respective synchronization error of each camera from the plurality of cameras. The method can include adjusting, based on the respective synchronization error, a duration of the frame at one or more cameras from the plurality of cameras, wherein the adjusted duration of the frame aligns the common point within the exposure time at each camera for the frame.
US12149670B2
An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire color information on a specific color included in an inspection image, and a determination condition for determining a color shift with respect to the specific color; and a controller configured to: determine, based on the color information and the determination condition acquired by the acquisition unit, test image data representing a plurality of test images to be formed by an image forming apparatus; output the determined test image data to the image forming apparatus in order to form the plurality of test images; acquire luminance data on the plurality of test images, the luminance data being output from a color sensor; acquire spectral data on the plurality of test images, the spectral data being output from a spectroscopic sensor.
US12149664B2
A job management server, which is connected to a Web application server and a job processing apparatus via a network, comprises: a registration unit which registers, when a job received from the Web application server is added with information indicating that a request source of the job is the job processing apparatus, the job in a first job queue, and to register, when the job is not added with the information, the job in a second job queue having a lower priority than the first job queue; and a transmission unit which transmits the job registered in the first job queue in response to a request from the job processing apparatus while a user utilizes a Web application via the job processing apparatus.
US12149661B2
A document supporting portion includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion. The first supporting portion has a first supporting surface that supports a document. The second supporting portion has a second supporting surface that supports the document together with the first supporting surface and provided so as to be slidable between a first position at which the second supporting portion located above the first supporting portion and a second position at which the second supporting surface supports the document together with the first supporting surface. In a state where the second supporting portion is located at the first position, the second supporting surface constitutes a portion of an upper surface of the document feeding apparatus.
US12149660B2
In order to achieve designation of a talk room of a chat service to share image data generated by scanning in an image processing apparatus, the image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat server, based on received information indicating a talk room of the chat server, the chat server controlling displaying of information indicating received image data on the talk room, includes a scanning unit configured to scan an image of an original document and generate image data based on the image, a designation unit configured to designate a talk room of the chat server, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data generated by the scanning unit and information indicating the talk room designated by the designation unit to the chat server.
US12149653B2
Methods and systems for rotating elements displayed by computing devices are described herein. At least one image of a user of a computing device may be captured by a camera of the computing device. An angle of the eyes of the user with respect to the computing device may be determined. Based on that determined angle, at least one element of content displayed by the computing device may be rotated so as to allow for display of that element in an orientation consumable by the user. For example, the element might be rotated at an angle corresponding to the angle of the eyes of the user with respect to the orientation of the computing device.
US12149648B2
An electronic device and method of preventing deterioration by an operation of an antenna are provided. The electronic device includes a display configured to be folded and unfolded, and provide content, a sensor configured to detect a state change of the display, an antenna configured to transmit and receive an electromagnetic wave, and at least one processor electrically connected to the display, the sensor, and the antenna, in which the at least one processor is configured to detect a state change of the display by using the sensor, identify one or more operating electronic circuitry among electronic circuitries in the electronic device, determine an electronic circuitry in which deterioration is caused by an operation of the antenna among the one or more operating electronic circuitry, based on the state change of the display, and deactivate a certain beam among beams generated by the antenna to reduce deterioration of the determined electronic circuitry.
US12149634B2
A signed media bitstream comprises data units and signature units. Each signature unit is associated with one or more nearby data units and include at least one fingerprint derived from the associated data units and a digital signature of the at least one fingerprint. A storing method comprises: receiving a segment of the media bitstream; identifying N≥2 instances of a repeating data unit in the received segment; pruning up to N−1 of the identified instances of the repeating data unit; and storing the received segment after pruning. A validation method comprises: receiving a segment of the media bitstream stored in accordance with the storing method; and validating a signature unit using a digital signature contained therein. Despite the pruning of the repeating data unit, the received associated data units can be successfully validated, either directly or indirectly, by means of different embodiments herein.
US12149630B2
In some embodiments, an authentication system may be configured to process one or more tokens that incorporates one or more tailored-wavelength-range coded patterns, codes represented within a steganographic image, or “overlapping” codes. As an example, such a token may include (i) one or more invisible-ink-printed patterns printed using infrared ink corresponding to different tailored wavelength ranges within the infrared light spectrum, (ii) one or more steganographic images in which invisible-ink-printed patterns are interweaved within the steganographic images, (iii) visible-ink-printed patterns and invisible-ink-printed patterns printed substantially within the visible ink portions of the visible-ink-printed patterns, or (iv) other features, where the invisible-ink-printed patterns correspond to one or more authentication codes or other data for token authentication.
US12149619B2
A processor with an elliptic curve cryptographic algorithm and a data processing method thereof are shown. The processor has a first register, storing a private key pointer pointing to a private key. In response to a single elliptic curve cryptographic instruction of an instruction set architecture, the processor reads a ciphertext input from a first storage space within a system memory, performing a decryption procedure using the elliptic curve cryptographic algorithm on the ciphertext input based on the private key obtained by referring to the first register to decrypt the ciphertext input and generate a plaintext output, and programming the plaintext output into a second storage space within the system memory.
US12149612B2
Authentication of a user of an OAuth client by an OAuth authorization server, comprising exposing an authentication state machine, where the states of the state machine are hypermedia-based representations of login resources, and transitions between states are represented by hypermedia links, wherein the authentication state machine is exposed to the client by an API adhering to the principles of REpresentational State Transfer (REST). When the final state of the state machine has been reached, a secondary access token is issued to the client, thereby authenticating the user, wherein hypermedia representations which are sent to the client are encoded so as to be readily parsable by the client.
US12149611B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments for implementing periodic management of cryptographic keys. An embodiment includes a processor configured to perform operations comprising receive a first input associating a first set of subscribers with a first data stream published by the first publisher device, and a first cryptographic key. Processor may transmit, to the first publisher device, a first confirmation, indicating that the first cryptographic key is ready for use, for example. In some embodiments, processor may release the first cryptographic key to a first set of subscribers, receive a second input from a publishing user, associating a different, second set of subscribers with the first data stream, and receive a second cryptographic key after a certain time period. Processor may further transmit, to the first device, a second confirmation, indicating that the second cryptographic key is ready for use, and release the second cryptographic key to the second set of subscribers.
US12149608B2
An apparatus method and computer media for implementing a white-box block cipher in a software application to create a secure software application having the same functionality as the software application. An implementation of a block cipher is created by: applying an isomorphism between an original finite field representation and a composite field representation, and using this isomorphism to reconstruct the cipher as operations that use only the elements of the composite field, including XOR, linear transformation and S-box; decomposing original S-box into several algebraic steps and merging some of these into other parts of the cipher; in the non-linear step of S-box, implementing the inversion in the original finite field representation with algorithm in the composite field representation; applying an initial threshold implementation of m input shares and n output shares to generate lookup tables for the non-linear step of S-box; applying further threshold implementations to different steps of the cipher to generate lookup tables. The block cipher is applied to at least a portion of the software application to create the secure software application and thereby increase security of a computing platform executing the secure software application.
US12149606B2
Disclosed are methods and systems to use p-adic numbers to permit a RSA cryptosystem to send rational numbers or to add randomness to the RSA cryptosystem. An embodiment may convert at the source device a rational number to an integer as p-adic based Hensel code representation of the rational number at the source device and then recover the rational number at the destination device by reversing the Hensel code back to the original rational number. Another embodiment may use a g-adic inverse of a message value together with a random number to obtain a different rational number to encrypt for each different random number resulting in different ciphertexts representing the same message value while still recovering the original message value despite having a different ciphertexts for the same message value. The various embodiments further retain the multiplicative homomorphism of the RSA cryptosystem since the p-adic Hensel codes are also multiplicative homomorphic.
US12149603B2
A clock port attribute recovery method includes a network device setting a value of a port attribute of a clock port of the network device to a first value based on the clock port not receiving any one of three types of clock messages: N synchronization messages, follow-up messages, and delay response messages within a timeout interval, where the first value indicates that a message is lost on the clock port. Based on a case that a recovery condition is met, the network device sets the value of the port attribute of the clock port to a second value, where the second value indicates that a status of the clock port is that the message is not lost.
US12149593B2
In a communication apparatus communicating with a server based on connection information and firmware for connecting to the server, in order to appropriately communicate with various servers, the communication apparatus is configured to communicate with a first server based on first connection information and first firmware for connecting to the first server, and acquire, from the first server, second firmware for connecting to a second server different from the first server.
US12149592B2
A system and method for facilitating contextual communications that includes creating a contextual resource that is initially associated with at least at first communication session; receiving an incoming communication request and establishing a second communication session; associating the second communication session with the contextual resource; setting contextual information of the contextual resource; performing at least one contextual communication action.
US12149590B2
A method including storing, by a first device, stored information indicating a stored first communication parameter utilized by the first device to communicate data in a mesh network; transmitting, by the first device while communicating the data with a second device in the mesh network, a request to receive determined information indicating a determined first communication parameter; receiving, by the first device based at least in part on transmitting the request, the determined information indicating the determined first communication parameter; comparing, by the first device, the determined first communication parameter and the stored first communication parameter; and selectively transmitting, by the first device, a message indicating the determined first communication parameter to the second device based at least in part on a result of the comparing. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US12149580B2
The adaptive progressive downloading of a content broadcast in real time on a radiocommunication network, implemented by a multimedia stream player terminal connected to the radiocommunication network is disclosed. A method implements, before playing the content, a configuration, according to at least one characteristic of the radiocommunication network, of a depth of buffer dedicated to the temporary storage of the content before playing, in the multimedia stream player terminal.
US12149579B2
A point cloud data transmission method according to embodiments may include acquiring point cloud data, encoding the point cloud data, and transmitting a bitstream including the encoded point cloud data and signaling information.
US12149577B2
A system for routing media comprises a cloud computing device, networked device(s) placed on a local network deployed at a location being surveilled, the networked device(s) comprising media device(s) each configured to generate media stream data as the location is being surveilled, and a gateway device placed on the local network and having network connectivity to the cloud computing device, the gateway device configured for detecting the networked device(s), obtaining, based on the detecting, rule(s) indicative of when the media stream data is to be routed via the gateway device and when the media stream data is to be routed directly to the cloud computing device, monitoring parameter(s) associated with the local network and/or an environment of the location to determine whether the rule(s) is satisfied, and, when the rule(s) is satisfied, instructing at least one of the networked device(s) to route the media stream data according to the rule(s).
US12149576B2
A device manager includes a processor and memory, coupled to the processor, that stores a program of instructions. The processor is configured to execute the program of instructions to determine an availability of at least a portion of a cloud-based media management system configured to provide media automation services to a managed device, and in response to determining that the at least a portion of a cloud-based media management system is unavailable, transmit a status message to the managed device, wherein the status message indicates that the managed device is to emulate the at least a portion of a cloud-based media management system.
US12149568B2
In an approach to meeting summarization for disconnected participants, one or more computer processors detect a start of a collaborative meeting. One or more computer processors monitor a connection to the collaborative meeting of each of one or more participants. One or more computer processors determine a first participant of the one or more participants has disconnected from the collaborative meeting. One or more computer processors record the collaborative meeting. One or more computer processors determine the first participant has re-connected with the collaborative meeting. One or more computer processors synthesize, a first summary of a portion of the collaborative meeting missed by the first participant. One or more computer processors to synthesize, a second summary of a portion of the collaborative meeting recorded after the first participant re-connected with the collaborative meeting. One or more computer processors present the first summary and the second summary to the first participant.
US12149566B1
Various embodiments comprise a wireless communication network to support Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) voice calling. In some examples, the wireless communication network comprises Call Session Control Function (CSCF) circuitry and E.164 Number Mapping (ENUM) circuitry. The CSCF circuitry receives a Mobile Originating Session Initiation Protocol (MO IMS) invite message from an originating User Equipment (UE). The CSCF circuitry performs an ENUM query for the destination number to route the invite to the terminating UE network. The ENUM circuitry responds with routing information and realm information for the terminating UE. The CSCF circuitry stores the realm type in association with the MO SIP invite and transfers the MO SIP invite. The CSCF circuitry receives an error response from the peer network for the SIP invite. The CSCF circuitry determines if retry is allowed based on the realm type. If retry is allowed, the CSCF circuitry transfers a retry request.
US12149562B1
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for multi-channel interactions are provided. An example method includes receiving a request for an authenticated session associated with a first user and establishing the authenticated session with the first user. Establishing the authenticated session includes establishing a first communication channel with the first user and establishing a second communication channel with the first user. The method further includes generating a candidate response data object based upon one or more user inputs received via the first and/or second communication channel. In response, the method includes determining a first response format for conveying one or more data entries defined by the candidate response data object to the first user via the first communication channel and determining a second response format for conveying the one or more data entries defined by the candidate response data object to the first user via the second communication channel.
US12149560B2
The present subject matter provides various technical solutions to technical problems facing ADS-B cyber-attacks. One technical solution for detecting and mitigating ADS-B cyber-attacks includes receiving extracting information from received ADS-B signals, detecting a cyber-attack based on a selected subset of ADS-B information, determining a detection probability, and outputting a ADS-B cyber-attack type and probability. This solution may further include determining and implementing a cyber-attack mitigation to reduce the probability or effect of the detected cyber-attack. These solutions operate based on current ADS-B receiver technology, and can be combined with existing ADS-B receivers to detect message injection attacks, modification attacks, and jamming attacks. The technical solutions described herein use machine learning (ML) algorithms and statistical models to detect anomalies in incoming ADS-B messages. This enables these solutions to be trained in different environments, which further improves the cyber-attack detection accuracy and reduces likelihood of false alarms or miss detections.
US12149558B1
The present disclosure relates to cybersecurity architectures and systems for assessing and quantifying security threats and risks associated with machine-readable codes, such as quick response codes, barcodes, data matrix codes, and other types of codes. A security application comprises a multi-context threat assessment system configured to analyze a broad spectrum of risk assessment attributes across multiple contexts. These contexts relate to the machine-readable code itself, target network resources identified by the code, entities affiliated with the code, end-users interacting with the code, and enterprise systems policies. The system can evaluate various risk assessment attributes for each of these contexts to more accurately quantify potential security risks associated with the machine-readable codes. The security application further includes an API for extending its threat assessment capabilities to various digital ecosystems and an AI-powered learning network comprising language models and computer vision systems to enhance threat detection and risk quantification capabilities.
US12149557B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are utilized to analyze multi-channel data based on a security model in a computer network environment. One system includes a plurality of data channels configured to access entity data and a processing circuit communicatively coupled to a data channel of the plurality of data channels, the processing circuit configured to identify at least one vulnerability, determine an impact of the at least one vulnerability, assign the first property to a first cybersecurity dimension, generate a cybersecurity risk score based at least on the impact of the at least one vulnerability, and generate a multi-dimensional score for a target computer network environment based on the cybersecurity risk score.
US12149553B1
Security event data from each of a plurality of security data sources is received, each unit of the security event data being associated with a security event involving one or more human users included in a monitored set of human users. The security event data is used to generate for each of at least a subset of the monitored set of human users a user-specific security risk score that is determined based at least in part on: a level of access to protected resources that a user has; an attack type that has been attempted with respect to the user; and an action taken by the user, as reflected in the security event data associated with the user from two or more of said security data sources.
US12149550B2
Network security anomaly detection systems and methods include a processor, in communication with the network, receiving network device status information. A variational autoencoder receives the device status information, optimizes the device status information, and determines whether the device status information qualifies as an anomaly. Optimized device status information is compared to either non-anomalous or anomalous device status data in a latent space of the variational autoencoder. The latent space preferably includes an n-D point scatter plot and hidden vector values. The processor optimizes the device status information by generating a plurality of probabilistic models of the device status information and determining which of the plurality of models is optimal. A game theoretic optimization is applied to the plurality of models, and the best model is used to generate the n-D point scatter plot in latent space. An image gradient sobel edge detector preprocesses the device status information prior to optimization.
US12149549B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for unused identity and access management rights detection. In various examples, a first skill-usage vector associated with a first profile may be determined. A first nearest neighbor algorithm and the first skill-usage vector may be used to determine a second skill-usage vector grouped together with the first skill-usage vector in a feature space, where the second skill-usage vector is associated with a second profile. A first rights vector associated with the first profile may be determined. The first rights vector associated with the first profile may be compared to a second rights vector associated with the second profile. At least one unused right associated with the first profile may be determined based at least in part on the comparing of the first rights vector to the second rights vector.
US12149548B2
The present disclosure provides a hierarchical method of identifying unauthorized network traffic in a network by applying, at one of a first plurality of nodes of a network, a first level of network traffic analysis to identify received network traffic as one of authorized or suspicious network traffic, the one of the first plurality of nodes having a first path for traffic routing and a second path to one of a second plurality of nodes of the network, the second path being used for forwarding the suspicious network traffic to the one of the second plurality of nodes; tagging the received network traffic as the suspicious network traffic; and sending the suspicious network traffic to the one of the second plurality of nodes over the second path, the second network node applying a second level of network analysis to determine if the received network traffic is authorized, unauthorized or remains suspicious.
US12149541B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for partitioning an OS or hypervisor utilized on a computing device from the process of proxy control. For example, a proxy may be installed on a separation kernel or firmware on a computing device that routes all data traffic received via a network connection to a cloud which performs various services such as IP reputation management, URL reputation detection and validation, malicious file filtering through potential malware detection.
US12149524B1
The disclosed method includes: receiving first and second user requests; executing, using a traffic security system, a first security operation associated with a network; executing, using the traffic security system, a second security operation associated with the network; determining, using an API authorizer, whether the first user request associated with the first user originates from a first approved application; and determining, using the API authorizer, whether the second user request associated with the second user originates from the first approved application or a second approved application. In response to the API authorizer determining the first user request and the second user request originate from the approved applications, the method includes: directing, an API entry point, to activate APIs for responding to the first and second user requests; and coordinating or distributing, using a network load balancer, execution of the first and second user requests.
US12149518B2
The present embodiments relate to entry and management of identifiers and credentials. The present embodiments display a credential affordance that, upon selection, provides a credential-assistance user interface for enabling swift access to various credential and management options. The credential affordance can be displayed based on a determination by electronic device that a webpage includes a text entry field associated with a set of one or more restricted resources (e.g., document and/or webpage).
US12149517B2
A server system stores data associating a secret of the memory device configured in an endpoint, a first identification, and device information of the endpoint. After receiving a request to bind a second identification to the endpoint, the server system can tie identity data of the endpoint to the second identification. For example, after receiving a validation request containing identity data generated by the memory device, the server system can verify a verification code in the identity data based at least in part on the secret of the memory device. The verification code is generated from a message presented in the identity data and a cryptographic key derived at least in part from the secret. Based on validating the identity data, the server system can provide a validation response to indicate that the identity data is generated by the endpoint having the second identification.
US12149513B2
An apparatus to facilitate protecting data transfer between a secure application and networked devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor to provide a trusted execution environment (TEE) to run an application, wherein the processor is to utilize the application in the TEE to: generate encrypted data of the application; copy the encrypted data to a local shared buffer; interface with a source network interface controller (NIC) to initiate a copy over a network of the encrypted data from the local shared buffer to a remote buffer of a remote platform, wherein the source NIC operates outside of a trust boundary of the TEE; and communicate at least one message with the remote platform to indicate that the encrypted data is available and to enable the remote platform to verify integrity of the encrypted data, wherein the one least one message comprises an authentication tag.
US12149512B2
A multitude of systems and methods are provided. An encryption method and system utilizing vector label input threshold encryption is included, enabling decentralized confidentiality and decentralized, fine-grained, and attributed-based access control, enabling clients to define by whom, when, and how their data is accessed. Additionally, the disclosed systems and methods can include publish/subscribe mechanisms while achieving confidentiality-preserving and decoupled publish/subscribe messaging and strong total order for publications even with crytographic access control enforced.
US12149507B2
Systems and methods are provided for maintaining data privacy in a communication system. The method includes: providing a proxy network which creates a plurality of ingress processing elements and a plurality of egress processing elements, wherein the ingress processing elements and the egress processing elements each include at least a private processing unit and a private memory area; receiving a request at a selected ingress processing element from a first server; routing the request from the selected ingress processing element to a selected egress processing element; forwarding the request from the selected egress processing element to a second server; and erasing both the selected ingress processing element and the selected egress processing element.
US12149503B2
Provided is a gateway device capable of reducing influence on intra-vehicle network communication from a cyber security attack that infringes availability represented by a DoS attack from an extra-vehicle network. Included are: an external-network-side transfer processing unit that transfers a communication frame received from an external network to an internal network; an internal-network-side transfer processing unit that transfers the communication frame transferred from the external network via the external-network-side transfer processing unit to the internal network; a transfer notification unit that gives a transfer notification to notify transfer of the communication frame from the external-network-side transfer processing unit to the internal-network-side transfer processing unit; and a monitoring unit that determines whether to transfer the communication frame based on at least one of a frequency of the transfer notification to the internal-network-side transfer processing unit and a transfer data amount of the communication frame transferred from the external-network-side transfer processing unit.
US12149501B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a method and an entity for transmitting a plurality of media access control, MAC, addresses. A method performed at a first entity for transmitting a plurality of media access control, MAC, addresses, comprises: transmitting (S101), to a second entity, a message including a first parameter and a second parameter. The first parameter and the second parameter indicate the plurality of MAC addresses. The plurality of MAC addresses may comprise a plurality of source MAC addresses; and/or a plurality of destination MAC addresses. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a plurality of MAC addresses may be simultaneously transmitted among the nodes in the communication network, and thus the efficiency of the communication network may be further improved.
US12149498B2
A method including receiving, by a first device in communication with a second device in a mesh network, communication information indicating a meshnet address associated with the second device to be utilized for communicating meshnet data with the second device; and updating, by the first device, a meshnet address map to indicate an association of the second user device with the meshnet address. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US12149497B1
The disclosed technology provides solutions for creating a channel through which a content creator can interact with consumers that access the creator's content over different media platforms. A process of the disclosed technology can include steps for: enrolling a content creator in a communication service for directly communicating with content consumers, identifying a communication session initiation between a content consumer and the content creator, creating a private communication channel, and facilitating transmission of communications between the content consumer and the content creator through the private communication channel. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US12149494B2
An information display method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: on the basis of an email sharing operation triggered by a sharer, sharing, according to sharee information, a target email to a sharee corresponding to the sharee information; obtaining a first identifier corresponding to the sharee; and displaying, on an email display interface of the target email on an email client of the sharer, the first identifier corresponding to the sharee. The technical solution can simplify user viewing operations, thus increasing information viewing efficiency and improving user experience.
US12149490B2
Systems and methods are described for providing scan based imaging using an electronic eyewear device. The methods include scanning a scene using the electronic eyewear device to capture at least one image in an environment of a first user and identifying at least one physical marker in the scanned scene. Upon identification of the at least one physical marker in the scanned scene, a message (e.g., preselected AR content) is passively sent to at least one of directly to a second user or to at least one physical marker at a remote location for presentation to the second user. The message may be sent without use of the first user's hands to make a selection. The physical markers may be associated with a fixed object, a human face, a pet, a vehicle, a person, a logo, and the like.
US12149488B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums which provide for an agent support application with a plurality of plug-in communication support assistants. Each of the plurality of plug-in communication support assistants monitors communications between the agents and customers for different conversational triggers. Conversational triggers may be any conversation, either by the agent or the customer, that the communication support assistant is trained to detect. Upon detecting one of these conversational triggers, the plug-in communication support assistant provides one or more suggestions to the agent.
US12149487B2
A wireless device receives a first configuration message comprising a cell specific time division duplex (TDD) uplink (UL)-downlink (DL) pattern indicating a number of uplink slots. A size of a sidelink resource pool bitmap based on the number of the uplink slots is determined. The wireless device receives, based on the size of the sidelink resource pool bitmap, a second configuration message comprising a sidelink resource pool bitmap. One or more sidelink slots are determined by applying the sidelink resource pool bitmap to the uplink slots. The wireless device transmits one or more transport blocks via the one or more sidelink slots.
US12149475B2
A method of downlink channel state information (DL CSI) computation and reporting is proposed to support high velocity in new radio (NR) systems. In a first novel aspect, two CSI reference slots are defined. CSI reference slot for CSI measurement is defined for determining which CSI-RS/SSB occasion(s) is used for computing CSI. CSI reference slot for CSI computation is defined for determining the slot where UE assumes the CSI computation should be based upon the channel at that time onwards. In a second novel aspect, UE can be configured with a CSI computation period consisting of one or N slots and can be divided into multiple sub-periods without overlap. UE can be configured to compute and report wideband CSI and subband CSI for the whole CSI computation period and/or for each sub-period.
US12149471B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for flexible reconfiguration of the sounding reference signal (SRS). In one embodiment, a method implemented in a network node includes signaling a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration, the SRS configuration including an SRS configuration parameter that indicates whether to use one of a staggered comb and a non-staggered comb for an SRS transmission; and receiving the SRS transmission according to the one of the staggered comb and the non-staggered comb indicated by the SRS configuration parameter. In one embodiment, a method implemented in a WD includes receiving a SRS configuration, the SRS configuration including an SRS configuration parameter that indicates whether to use one of a staggered comb and a non-staggered comb for an SRS transmission; and transmitting the SRS transmission according to the one of the staggered comb and the non-staggered comb indicated by the SRS configuration parameter.
US12149468B2
A method performed by user equipment, including: step A of acquiring time-domain configuration information and/or time-domain indication information; and step B of determining timing-related information according to the time-domain configuration information and/or the time-domain indication information and/or other information.
US12149463B2
The present invention discloses one or more computer-readable media comprising instructions to: determine SRS resource allocation information to configure uplink resources for an SRS, the uplink resources to include a plurality of bandwidth ranges within a sounding bandwidth; perform a LET procedure in individual bandwidth ranges of the plurality of bandwidth ranges to detect at least one bandwidth range available for the SRS; and generate the SRS for transmission within the at least one bandwidth range.
US12149460B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wireless communication method and a device. The method includes sending, by a network device, configuration signaling to a terminal device. The configuration signaling includes multiple sets of configuration information for a first type of channel, and/or a correspondence between the multiple sets of configuration information for the first type of channel and at least one set of configuration information for a second type of channel.
US12149457B2
This disclosure relates to a downlink transmission method and a terminal device. The downlink transmission method includes: the terminal device determines the multiplexing mode of the first SSB and the downlink signal according to the PCID carried by the first SSB; the terminal device receives the first SSB and/or the downlink signal according to the multiplexing mode. By determining the multiplexing mode of the first SSB and the downlink signal through the PCID carried by the first SSB, it is possible to support the multiplexing of the SSB from different cells and other downlink signals, thus better supporting multi-TRP transmission between cells.
US12149435B2
A method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: a first network device sends route information of a destination network device, where the route information includes a destination address of the destination network device, a primary next-hop address, and a backup next-hop address, the primary next-hop address includes a common address of the first network device and a second network device, for example, a loopback address, and the backup next-hop address includes an address of the first network device, for example, an IP address of the first network device. By using this method, when a fault occurs in a connection between the second network device and the destination network device, another network device may directly send a packet to the first network device according to the backup next-hop address, to ensure normal packet forwarding.
US12149432B2
Techniques are described for providing a method and apparatus for determining source address validation of a data packet in a network in the presence of asymmetric routing. When a data packet is received by a node such as a router, a reverse path forwarding lookup is performed to determine if the data packet was received on a next-hop interface and if the reverse path forwarding fails, a Shortest Path First (SPF) computation at the router advertising the source route will be performed using the link state database to determine whether the data packet arrived from a valid path of the network.
US12149427B2
Systems and methods are described for adjusting an operating characteristic associated with a premises device. The premises device may receive one or more communications that indicate an adjustment to the operating characteristic associated with the premises device.
US12149426B1
Methods and systems are provided to collect and update data on client devices connected to WiFi access points is provided. An inventory of WiFi cable modems and WiFi access points coupled to the WiFi cabled modems within a specific network is periodically collected. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of WiFi cable modems and WiFi access points coupled to the WiFi cabled modems are periodically updated. Traps are periodically received from the WiFi access points. The traps are parsed to collect an inventory of client devices wirelessly connected to the WiFi access points and a time at which a client device connected to the WiFi access point. The WiFi access points are periodically polled to collect data on client devices, the data including a period of time that a client device has been connected to a WiFi access point and a physical location of the client device.
US12149425B2
Keepalive packets are transmitted between a sender node and a receiver node at an interval that varies depending on the transit times of previously transmitted keepalive packets. The transit time is based on when a keepalive packet is transmitted to the receiver node and when a corresponding feedback packet is received from the receiver node. The transmission interval varies depending on the path conditions between the sender node and the receiver node, which may be reflected in the transit time.
US12149424B2
Internet of Things (IoT) event objects can be tailored to specific device types and capabilities. An IoT event object can use a flexible definition of an event that can be reconfigured. An IoT event object allows for the ability to set different triggering conditions and priorities. Individual event definitions can be extended to create more complex events. A Notification Handler supports sending a request or command in response to an event that requires action.
US12149419B1
Computer-implemented methods selecting a cloud computing system for deployment of a workload are provided. Aspects include obtaining an input function that characterizes the workload and obtaining a plurality of performance models, wherein each of the plurality of performance models corresponds to one of a plurality of cloud computing systems including the cloud computing system. Aspects also include applying the input function into each of the plurality of performance models, calculating one or more of a gain, a phase shift, and a stability margin for each of the plurality of performance models, and selecting the cloud computing system from the plurality of cloud computing systems based at least in part on the one or more of the gain, the phase shift, and the stability margin.
US12149415B2
A method for telemetry analysis of a digital twin includes analyzing network traffic sent or received by a host network. Entities exchanging data with the host network are identified. A plurality of applications within the host network used for sending or receiving the exchanged data may be identified. A digital twin of the host network is developed based upon the identified entities exchanging data with the host network and the applications within the host network used for sending or receiving the exchanged data. Stimuli may be applied to the digital twin, and the likelihood of a change in state within the host network is assessed based upon the applied stimuli.
US12149409B2
An electronic device is provided, which includes a housing, at least one wireless communication circuit located inside the housing and configured to: receive, from an AP device through a wireless medium, a target wake time (TWT) element indicating a TWT service period and a type of traffic that is associated with latency of the traffic; in response to receiving the TWT element, generate data frame associated with the type of traffic indicated by the TWT element; and transmit, to the AP device through the wireless medium, the data frame associated with the type of traffic during the TWT service period indicated by the TWT element.
US12149406B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing Internet of Things (IoT) network-connected devices.
US12149405B2
Some aspects provide for establishing a radio connection for the wireless communication, determining a configuration for whether to segment one or more packets for the wireless communication using the established radio connection, and communicating the one or more packets based on the determined configuration. Some aspects provide for assembling a first frame comprising one or more packets, transmitting the first frame, determining whether a portion of one or more packets was truncated during the assembling of the first frame, and transmitting a second frame comprising at least the truncated portion of the one or more packets of the first frame. Some aspects provide for receiving a first frame comprising one or more packets, determining that a portion of one or more packets is truncated, and determining whether to ignore as padding at least the truncated portion of the one or more packets of the first frame.
US12149396B2
A terminal apparatus is provided. The terminal apparatus obtains synchronization signal and physical broadcast channel (PBCH) blocks (SSBs) in a plurality of beams; then determines a target beam in the plurality of beams based on an association relationship between an SSB index and a first random access preamble, where the first random access preamble is determined based on a cyclic shift and/or an order of symbols; and finally sends the random access preamble by using the target beam to initiate a random access request. A communication device receives the first random access preamble in the random access request sent by the terminal apparatus, and then, determines, based on the association relationship, the target beam accessed by the terminal apparatus. The first random access preamble is determined based on the cyclic shift and/or the order of symbols.
US12149393B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for reducing Peak Average Power Ratio (PAPR) in signal transmissions are described. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes determining, for an input sequence, an output sequence. The output sequence corresponds to an output of a convolutional modulation between a set of coefficients and an intermediate sequence. The intermediate sequence is generated by inserting N zero coefficients between coefficients of the input sequence. The number of non-zero coefficients in the set of coefficients is based on N, N being a positive integer. Values of the non-zero coefficients correspond to values between 0 to π/2 to reduce a peak to average power ratio of the output sequence. The method also includes generating a waveform using the output sequence.
US12149377B1
A system and method to monitor individual appliance performance. A monitor module is provided for aggregating data from a plurality of appliances wherein the module includes. Included in the monitor device is a gateway device configured to capture operational data relating to each of the plurality of appliances and an analyzing device configured to determine individual operational characteristics for each of the appliances from analysis of the captured operational data. A notification device is further provided which is configured to provide information to a user regarding the determined operational characteristics for each of the appliances.
US12149370B2
There is provided a wireless end-user device configured to assign one of classifications to each of end-user applications to allow for a differential network access control of the end-user applications. The classifications include a background classification and a foreground classification. The differential network access control includes a service usage control policies applicable when a network service is available via a wireless modem, the service usage control policies including a first policy that allows data associated with a first end-user application of the end-user applications to be communicated via the wireless modem, and a second policy that defers the data associated with the first end-user application to be communicated via the wireless modem until a state change occurs. The wireless end-user device is configured to dynamically select from the service usage control policies based on whether the background classification or the foreground classification is assigned to the first end-user application.
US12149367B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of communications, particularly to a feedback information transmission method. The method comprises: sending, by a first terminal, a sidelink hybrid auto repeat request ACK (HARQ-ACK) codebook via a physical uplink channel within a target time unit for sending sidelink HARQ-ACK information within the target time unit, the sidelink HARQ-ACK codebook including sidelink HARQ-ACK information corresponding to at least one sidelink data.
US12149355B2
The present disclosure provides an information transmission method and apparatus, a storage medium and an electronic apparatus. The method includes: confirming, by a transmitting terminal, activation/deactivation of PC5 HARQ retransmission; and retransmitting, by the transmitting terminal according to negative acknowledgement response information from a receiving terminal, V2X service data to the receiving terminal over PC5.
US12149333B2
Various arrangements are presented for using an estimated timing advance for user equipment communications. A location of an instance of user equipment may be determined. An estimated distance between the user equipment and a communication satellite may be determined using the determined location of the user equipment and an estimated satellite location. An estimated timing offset using the calculated estimated distance may be determined. An uplink data frame may be transmitted by the user equipment to the satellite such that a timing of transmission of the uplink data frame is based on the calculated estimated timing offset.
US12149332B2
A mobile communication system for sending data to one or more satellite resources over a wireless connection includes one or more processors and a memory coupled to the processors. The memory stores data into a database and program code that, when executed by the processors, causes the mobile communication system to receive a primary service data stream and a secondary service data stream, and determine a bandwidth utilization efficiency of the wireless connection between the mobile communication system and the one or more satellite resources. In response to determining the wireless connection has available headroom, the primary service data stream is combined with the secondary service data stream to create an aggregated data packet. In response to determining the aggregated data packet is less than or equal to the size of the available headroom, the mobile communication system transmits the aggregated data packet over the wireless connection.
US12149327B2
A wireless communication system includes a first communication device and a second communication device. The first communication device comprises a first digital signal processor (DSP) that obtains a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals corresponding to different communication protocols from a plurality of communication systems. The first DSP upconverts a frequency of each of the plurality of RF signals to a different frequency. The first DSP maps and aligns the plurality of RF signals corresponding to the different communication protocols in the mmWave RF signal based on a number of source antennas from which the plurality of RF signals are obtained. Furthermore, the first DSP multiplexes the plurality of RF signals corresponding to different communication protocols into a mmWave RF signal of a specified frequency. The first DSP further transmits the mmWave RF signal of the specified frequency along with a defined pilot tone to the second communication device.
US12149316B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication. Various aspects support beam switching and changing antenna array configurations for communicating in a near field range. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a beam group indicator to a network entity, and the UE and the network entity may perform beam switching operations associated with switch communication beams in association with changes to a distance between the UE and the network entity. In some such examples, the beam switching may switch from using beam weights for communications in a far field range to beam weights for communications in a near field range. Additionally or alternatively, the network entity may change configurations of an antenna array used to communicate with the UE in association with changes to the distance. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12149312B2
A signal transmission method provided in embodiments of the present invention may include the following steps: A network device sends configuration information to a terminal device, where the configuration information includes service periodicity information of an antenna panel. The terminal device activates, based on the configuration information, an antenna panel associated with the configuration information.
US12149311B2
An apparatus, method and computer readable medium for special thermal density reduction by antenna thinning. A system comprises N transmit/receive (TX/RX) chains, where each TX/RX chain comprises an RFFE and each RFFE comprises one or more thermal sensors configured to measure heat in the RFFE. An antenna array coupled to the plurality of TX/RX chains. A codebook that comprises a plurality of code words configured to respond to real-time heat measurements from the thermal sensors in each TX/RX chain is configured to switch off selected TX/RX chains to reduce thermal density at the antenna array while maintaining M RFFEs switched on, where M
US12149310B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an apparatus may determine a time-averaged power limit of a set of antennas. The apparatus may modify an antenna switching configuration based at least in part on the time-averaged power limit. The apparatus may transmit a signal using an antenna, from the set of antennas, associated with the modified antenna switching configuration, wherein the antenna is associated with a higher power limit than one or more other antennas. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12149300B2
An information processing device is configured to receive a test signal related to a content. Accordingly, the information processing device can discriminate the status of a transmission path based on the state of the received test signal.
US12149297B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security or safety services.
US12149296B2
The described systems and related test methods provide significant improvement in test accuracy, as well as reduction of test time for Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) system level testing. Systems may include a real time spectrum analyzer, a network analyzer, and a switching/filtering/coupling network controlled by an information processing device, such as a general purpose computer. These systems can scan all frequencies at each receiver.
US12149295B2
Methods and systems for automated testing of extremely-high frequency devices are disclosed. A device under test (DUT) is set in a simultaneous transmit and receive mode. The DUT receives a lower frequency radio frequency (RF) signal from a test unit and up-converts the lower frequency RF signal to a higher frequency RF signal. The DUT transmits the higher frequency RF signal using a first antenna, and receives the higher frequency RF signal using a second antenna. The DUT down-converts the received higher frequency RF signal to a received test RF signal and provides the received test RF signal to the test unit for comparing measurements derived from the received test signal to a design specification for the DUT.
US12149293B2
A reflector assembly at a power beam receiver includes at least two sets of reflection surfaces positioned to shift some incoming light away from the center of the beam and towards the periphery. These surfaces may be positioned obliquely to one another, for example orthogonally. By shifting a portion of the power beam away from a higher-intensity center and toward a lower-intensity periphery, the reflector assembly may improve receiver efficiency without substantial redirection of power outside of a power-collecting surface of the receiver.
US12149285B2
In an optical wireless communication system including: an optical wireless communication apparatus that moves along with a first optical wireless station; and a second optical wireless station opposed to the first optical wireless station, the optical wireless communication apparatus includes at least one reference light transmitting unit that transmits reference light to the second optical wireless station with a position in front in a moving direction of the first optical wireless station defined as a transmission position, the second optical wireless station includes a reference light receiving unit that receives the reference light transmitted from the at least one reference light transmitting unit, an estimation unit that estimates an influence of atmospheric air on transmission of signal light based on a reception state of the reference light received by the reference light receiving unit, a compensation unit that performs compensation processing on the signal light based on the influence of the atmospheric air estimated by the estimation unit, and a signal light transmitting unit that transmits the signal light on which the compensation processing has been performed by the compensation unit in an arrival direction of the reference light.
US12149283B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and testing methods for performing testing operations over multiple types of links and through multiple potential points of failure to segment sources of problems, which may relate to reported or actual instances of service disruption in a network communication environment. The apparatus may perform service layer testing directly via an optical link, in addition to via Ethernet service layer testing. The apparatus may further conduct tests on other layers as well, including the physical layer, the network layer, and the link layer. To facilitate efficient testing, the apparatus may integrate programmable workflow profiles that specify tests to be conducted, and may interface with a cloud platform for sharing results of the tests, providing end-to-end testing of various components and types of links (whether optical or electrical, including wired and wireless links). Results of the tests may provide guidance to resolve detected problems.
US12149277B2
An antenna apparatus having an antenna. The antenna comprises a first radiator section and a second radiator section coupled to each other, and a third radiator section, a fourth radiator section, and a fifth radiator section that are distributed on a same side of the first and second radiator sections, wherein the third radiator section is coupled to a junction of the first and second radiator sections and is grounded, and the fourth and fifth radiator sections are separately disposed on two sides of the third radiator section, wherein the fourth radiator section is grounded by a first switch, and the fifth radiator section is grounded by a second switch.
US12149270B2
The present application provides a data acquisition method, a data acquisition apparatus, a data acquisition device and a storage medium. The data acquisition method includes: obtaining a first storage flag for indicating a flag bit at which first data starts to be acquired and stored; when a first data acquisition clock is asynchronous with a second data acquisition clock, obtaining a second storage flag being a storage flag bit corresponding to the first storage flag after the first storage flag crosses from the first data acquisition cock to the second data acquisition clock, according to the first data acquisition clock and the second data acquisition clock; and performing anti-jitter processing on the second storage flag to obtain a third storage flag, and acquiring second data according to the third storage flag, a delay between the first data and the second data acquired each time is kept unchanged.
US12149268B2
A terahertz full-duplex co-local oscillator solid-state front-end transmitting circuit is disclosed, which belongs to the technical field of terahertz communication. The overall structure of the solid-state front-end transmitting circuit adopts a new system, wherein the circuit comprises two branches that are parallel and driven by a local oscillator source. A branched waveguide directional coupler is configured to output two driving signals provided by the same local oscillator source respectively to two branch circuits with required powers. Two transmission signals generated from the two branches are combined into one signal for transmission through an orthogonal mode coupled duplexer, so as to fulfill the construction of a full-duplex co-local oscillator solid-state front-end transmission circuit.
US12149267B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to devices, wireless communication apparatuses, methods, and circuitry for a t-switch with gate shunting. One aspect is an apparatus including a first differential switch having a control input. The apparatus further includes a second differential switch coupled to the first differential switch, the second differential switch a control input. A shunt capacitor is coupled between a first output and a second output of the first differential switch, and a first input and a second input of the second differential switch. A first shunt switch having a control input, an input, and an output has the input and the output coupled to the control input of the first differential switch. A second shunt switch having a control input, an input, and an output, has the input and the output coupled to the control input of the second differential switch.
US12149262B1
Length-adapter input parameters for length-adaptive encoding include a data word length and a length-adapted codeword length, which are positive integers. Length-adapter output parameters include a primary data word length, a secondary data word length, a primary codeword length, and a secondary codeword length. A received data word is split according to splitter parameters into a primary data word based on the primary data word length and a secondary data word based on the secondary data word length. The primary data word is encoded in accordance with primary encoder parameters to generate a primary codeword from a primary code. The secondary data word is encoded in accordance with secondary encoder parameters to generate a secondary codeword from a secondary code. The primary and secondary codewords are combined in accordance with combiner parameters to generate a length-adapted codeword transmitted via a channel to a decoder.
US12149248B2
In described examples of an integrated circuit (IC), an oscillator includes Schmitt trigger delay cells connected in a ring topology. The Schmitt trigger delay cells have a high input threshold approximately equal to Vdd and a low input threshold approximately equal to Vss to increase delay through each cell. An output buffer receives a phase signal from an output terminal of one of the Schmitt trigger delay cells and converts a transition phase signal to a faster transition clock signal. The output buffer has control circuitry that generates non-overlapping control signals in response to the phase signal, to control an output stage to generate the fast transition clock signal while preventing short circuit current in the output stage.
US12149239B2
A switched current source circuit, comprising first and second voltage source nodes; a load; a current source; and capacitor switching circuitry comprising a load node, a capacitor and a plurality of switches configured, based on a control signal, to adopt a biasing configuration followed by an active configuration, wherein in the biasing configuration, the load node is conductively connected to the second voltage source node to bias a voltage level at the load node, and the capacitor is connected so that it at least partly charges; and in the active configuration, the load node is conductively connected via the load to the first voltage source node, and via the capacitor to the current source to increase a potential difference between the first voltage source node and the load node.
US12149238B2
An apparatus includes an apparatus input to receive a voltage input, an apparatus output to drive an output metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) at least partially based upon the voltage input, a current source circuit to provide a current source to the apparatus output when the voltage input rises above a first threshold and before the voltage input rises above a second threshold, a voltage clamp circuit to provide a clamped output voltage to the apparatus output when the voltage input rises above the second threshold, and a current sink circuit to provide a current sink to the apparatus output when the voltage input falls below the second threshold and before the voltage input reaches the first threshold.
US12149236B2
In an example, a system includes a first transistor and a second transistor, the first transistor and the second transistor configured to provide current to a load. The system also includes a sense transistor coupled to the first transistor, the sense transistor configured to sense a current flowing through the first transistor. The system includes an amplifier coupled to the sense transistor, where the amplifier includes a first input, a second input, and an output. The system also includes pre-bias circuitry coupled to the amplifier, where the pre-bias circuitry is configured to provide a voltage to the first input of the amplifier responsive to the first transistor being off, where the voltage biases the amplifier.
US12149220B2
Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for volume adjustment are disclosed herein. An example method includes collecting data corresponding to a volume of an audio signal as the audio signal is output through a device, when an average volume of the audio signal does not satisfy a volume threshold for a specified timespan, determining a difference between the average volume and a desired volume, and applying a gain to the audio signal to adjust the volume of the audio signal to the desired volume, the gain determined based on the difference between the average volume and the desired volume.
US12149217B2
A transmission/reception module includes a substrate including a transmission signal input terminal, a reception signal output terminal, and an antenna terminal, an antenna switch circuit provided on the substrate and configured to output a transmission signal input from the transmission signal input terminal to the antenna terminal and configured to output a reception signal input from the antenna terminal to the reception signal output terminal, and a first inductor included in an input/output filter circuit provided between the antenna switch circuit and the antenna terminal. The first inductor includes a conductor whose winding axis direction is orthogonal to the substrate.
US12149209B2
An amplifier comprising a main branch amplifier and an auxiliary branch amplifier, wherein one branch is a constant current-biased branch, and another branch is a voltage biased branch, with the branches connected in cascode configuration to form a load modulated amplifier.
US12149194B2
A power supply circuit configured to supply electric power to a rotary electric machine that includes: a first phase winding including a first winding portion and a second winding portion; and a second phase winding including a third winding portion and a fourth winding portion, the power supply circuit including: a first circuit connected to the first phase winding; and a second circuit connected to the second phase winding. The first circuit includes: first to third arms, and a first switch. The second circuit includes: fourth to sixth arms; and a second switch.
US12149192B2
A device for restoring energy parameters of a battery is provided. The device includes a supporting frame, a controller, and a battery container configured to receive the battery therein, the battery container being operably coupled to a controlling inverter and a motor comprising a motor reductor. The controlling inverter is configured to regulate a rotational speed of the motor. The motor reductor is configured to facilitate rotation of the battery container. Methods of restoring energy parameters of a battery are also provided.
US12149191B2
A drive signal output section of a vibration generator outputs a one-shot drive signal, as a first drive signal, that rises on a positive side when a vibrator is vibrated, that has a voltage changing on the positive side, and that applies force to move the vibrator or a vibration target vibrated in conjunction with the vibration of the vibrator in a first direction, and thereafter, outputs a one-shot drive signal, as a second drive signal, such that a timing when a movement of the vibrator or the vibration target peaks in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction coincides with a timing of start of rise of the signal, so as to increase amplitude of the vibration of the vibrator or the vibration target by the one-shot signal that is not displaced on a negative side.
US12149187B2
A vibration wave motor, includes a vibrator including an electro-mechanical energy conversion element and an elastic body, and a contact body, wherein the elastic body includes a flat plate portion on which the electro-mechanical energy conversion element is fixed, and a protruding portion, wherein the protruding portion includes a contact portion, a side wall portion, and a coupling portion that is configured to couple the contact portion and the side wall portion, and wherein a predetermined inequality is satisfied, where a thickness of the side wall portion in a direction orthogonal to the pressure direction is t1, and a distance in the pressure direction from a second surface of the flat plate portion to the coupling portion is h1, the second surface of the flat plate portion facing a first surface of the flat plate portion on which the electro-mechanical energy conversion element is fixed.
US12149179B2
A power converter includes a full-bridge circuit, power converting circuit, transformer, and controller. The full-bridge circuit includes a series-connected unit made of first and second switches and a series-connected unit made of third and fourth switches and is connected to power transmitting terminals. The power converting circuit is connected to power receiving terminals. The transformer includes power transmitting coil and power receiving coil. The power transmitting coil is connected to full-bridge circuit. The power receiving coil is connected to power converting circuit. The controller turns on the first and second switches alternately and also the third and fourth switches alternately. A resistive load is connected to the power receiving terminals. The controller serves to determine a phase difference between the time when first switch is turned on and the time when third switch is turned on to decrease with a decrease in measured voltage developed at the power receiving terminals.
US12149176B2
A multiphase current-sharing configuration may include at least two power supplies providing respective output-currents in the current-sharing configuration. One or more of the power supplies may itself be a multiphase power supply. A first power supply of the current-sharing configuration may detect a phase difference between an external control signal provided to the first power supply to control the output voltage of the first power supply, and an internal control signal provided by a VCO of the first power supply. The phase difference may be provided to an integrator to cause the internal control signal to track the external control signal when the external control signal is available, and maintain a present operating frequency of the internal control signal in case the external control signal is lost, in which case the internal control signal may be used to uninterruptedly control the output voltage of the first power supply.
US12149173B2
A method for controlling a multiphase DC-DC converter with two or more phase circuits, each with a switch arranged to control an inductor current through an inductor, the phase circuit is arranged to generate a phase current contributing to a total current to be delivered to an output side of the multiphase DC-DC converter. The method includes switching two or more of the phase circuits in Boundary Conduction Mode to generate interleaved phase current pulses, with a period length and a nominal turn-on time period of the switch; and, in at least one of the two or more of the phase circuits being switched, and for successive phases, repeatedly adapting the turn-on time period for controlling the length of the pulses of the inductor current to minimise a difference from the period length.
US12149167B2
Disclosed embodiments may include a power converter system with fault handling. Embodiments may include first and second power converters each including an output terminal and a control terminal, the first and second power converters to regulate voltage or current at their respective output terminals based on a voltage at their respective control terminals, the output terminals coupled to each other, and the control terminals coupled to each other; wherein the first power converter comprises: a circuit to detect a fault condition associated with the first power converter and to generate a first fault signal at the control terminal of the first power converter after the detecting the fault condition associated with the first power converter; wherein the second power converter comprises: a circuit to change an operating mode of the second power converter after generating the first fault signal at the control terminal of the first power converter.
US12149157B2
A controller applied to a power converter is installed in a primary side of the power converter. The controller includes a capacitor, an adjustment signal generation circuit, and a discharge circuit. The capacitor is used for generating a tracking voltage. The adjustment signal generation circuit is used for generating an adjustment signal according to a feedback voltage and the tracking voltage. The discharge circuit is used for discharging the capacitor according to the feedback voltage and the adjustment signal. The tracking voltage is used for tracking a state of a magnetizing current of a magnetizing inductor of the primary side of the power converter, and when the tracking voltage consists with the state of the magnetizing current, the tracking voltage is applied to at least one of zero-voltage switching (ZVS) control and quasi-resonant (QR) control of the power converter.
US12149155B2
An apparatus configured to measure a load current provided to a load of a switching converter includes a pulse generation circuit configured to generate a control pulse based on a power switch driving signal of the switching converter, a reference current generation circuit configured to generate a reference current based on the control pulse, a clock generation circuit configured to generate a clock signal based on the control pulse and the reference current, and a clock counter configured to count the number of cycles of the clock signal during a switching period of the switching converter. The reference current generation circuit is configured to adjust the reference current to compensate for a leakage current generated in the clock generation circuit during the switching period.
US12149153B2
Providing mobile electric power comprising a power generation transport configured to convert hydrocarbon fuel to electricity and an inlet and exhaust transport configured to: couple to at least one side of the power generation transport such that the inlet and exhaust transport is not connected to a top side of the power generation transport, provide ventilation air and combustion air to the power generation transport, collect exhaust air from the power generation transport, and filter the exhaust air.
US12149151B2
A system includes a permanent magnet generator (PMG) with a generator shaft defining a longitudinal axis. A brake system includes a brake shaft with a first end operatively connected to the generator shaft for selectively rotating with the generator shaft or braking to slow the generator shaft. A shear shaft is operatively connected to a second end of the brake shaft axially opposite the first end along the longitudinal axis. The brake system includes a press fit sleeve engaged about the brake shaft and an actuator. The actuator is operatively connected to actuate a pawl between a first position spaced apart from the press fit sleeve for normal operation of the PMG, and a second position engaged with the press fit sleeve to apply braking forces to the press fit sleeve and to the generator shaft.
US12149149B2
An electric machine including an annular armature assembly and a non-rotating annular field winding assembly coaxial with the armature assembly and separated by a gap from the armature assembly. The field winding assembly including a field coil support structure having an annular array of recesses formed therein and extending about the field coil support structure. The field winding assembly further including a plurality of superconducting coils, each disposed in a recess of the annular array of recesses. A generator and a method for generating electrical power are disclosed.
US12149146B2
The disclosure relates to an electrical motor comprising a stator (101) being a stationary part in the electrical motor, the stator (101) having a plurality of poles mounted in a radial direction, a rotor (102) having a plurality of magnets and arranged to rotate freely around the stator (101), the stator (101) and the rotor (102) are moulded into an epoxy layer of a housing of the motor in such a way that a channel (106) is formed allowing a cooling medium flowing through the internal part of the electrical motor.
US12149142B1
Electromagnetic inertial force generators are provided, which include radially polarized permanent magnets providing bias flux across axial gaps to combine with axial coil flux to linearize the actuator output. Coil cooling in the electromagnetic inertial force generators is improved by embedding the coils in the stationary portion of the actuator, allowing for direct transfer of coil heat, and reducing oscillating stresses on coil leads.
US12149141B2
One variation of a system for an electric motor includes a set of coil assemblies defining: an inner radial facet, an outer radial facet, a first axial facet, and a second axial facet opposite the first axial facet. Additionally, each coil assembly in the set of coil assemblies includes a receiving member arranged at the outer radial facet of the coil assembly. Furthermore, the system includes a rotor comprising a set of magnetic elements: encompassing the inner radial facet, the outer radial facet, the first axial facet, and the second axial facet of the set of coil assemblies; and defining a radial magnetic tunnel. The system also includes a housing: engaging the receiving member of each coil assembly, in the set of coil assemblies to couple the housing to the set of coil assemblies; and includes a shaft coupled to the set of magnetic elements.
US12149138B2
Electrical insulator assemblies fitted onto stator teeth each have a first flange and a second flange. An outer peripheral surface of the first flange has first and second recessed parts on first and second sides of a through hole in a circumferential direction. The first recessed part is open radially outwardly to the first side in the circumferential direction and to a second side in an axial direction. The second recessed part is open radially outwardly to the second side in the circumferential direction and to the second side in the axial direction. The first flange has a projection formed on a side surface on the first side in the circumferential direction and protruding to the first side in the circumferential direction and a projection formed on a side surface on the second side in the circumferential direction and protruding to the second side in the circumferential direction.
US12149132B2
The disclosure relates to a generator segment of a segmented generator, in particular of a permanently excited segmented rotary generator, of a wind turbine, comprising a rotor segment of a rotor, and a stator segment of a stator, wherein the rotor segment and the stator segment in an operation position are disposed so as to be mutually spaced apart in a radial direction by an air gap, and are disposed so as to be mutually spaced apart in an axial direction by an axial spacing; wherein the rotor segment and the stator segment are able to be disposed and/or displaced relative to one another along a rotation axis by the axial spacing, between an operation position and a transport position that is different from the operation position.
US12149129B2
A rotor for an electrical machine includes a core including a plurality of rotor poles circumferentially spaced apart from one another about a hub. A winding is wound about the rotor poles. The winding passes longitudinally through a respective winding gap between each circumferentially adjacent pair of rotor poles. A cooling tube extends through at least one of the respective winding gaps.
US12149128B2
An axial flux motor for an appliance includes a stator yoke. A plurality of stator teeth extend from the stator yoke in an axial direction and are positioned about a central rotational axis. Each stator tooth includes a plurality of laminations that extend in the axial direction and form a “T” shaped member. The plurality of stator teeth are overmolded with a polymeric material to define a plurality of axial stator poles. At least one winding extends around the plurality of axial stator poles. A ring-shaped rotor rotates about the central rotational axis of the stator yoke. The rotor is positioned proximate an axial end of the plurality of axial stator poles.
US12149125B2
A motor includes a cylindrical rotor core, and a magnet group including first magnets and second magnets alternately arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotor core. A first magnetic flux line generated in the first magnets extends along a radial direction of the rotor core, and a second magnetic flux line generated in the second magnets is inclined with respect to the first magnetic flux line. The rotor core includes an inner portion located on a radially inner side of the magnet group and an outer portion located on a radially outer side of the magnet group. The outer portion includes a first iron core that covers the first magnet from the radially outer side, and a second iron core that covers at least a portion of the second magnet in the central axis direction of the rotor core from the radially outer side.
US12149122B2
The stator for rotary electric machine comprises a stator frame and a cylindrical magnetic mass inserted in the stator frame, the magnetic mass including a plurality of stacks of compacted magnetic sheets and longitudinal channels uniformly distributed over at least one diameter of the magnetic mass, the channels leading to each side of the magnetic mass. At least three bundles of compacted magnetic sheets are separated by spacers forming two discharge pipes extending circumferentially and radially between the stator frame and a central housing of the stator intended to receive a rotor of the rotary electric machine and communicating with the channels, the stator frame comprising at least two discharge openings connected to different pipes such that a fluid injected on either side of the magnetic mass escapes from the stator via the discharge pipes, the fluid passage section of the discharge pipes being configured to modify the temperature distribution in the magnetic mass.
US12149111B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for controlling an operation of a secondary battery using a relative deterioration degree of an electrode. The method includes determining a SOC of the secondary battery whenever a pulse current flows through the secondary battery; determining an electrochemical reaction resistance from a voltage change amount measured during a preset initial time in each pulse current section and determining a lithium ion diffusion resistance from a voltage change amount measured during a remaining time except for the initial time; determining a deterioration-biased electrode by comparing a deterioration diagnosing resistance ratio, which is a relative ratio of the lithium ion diffusion resistance to the electrochemical reaction resistance, with a preset reference deterioration diagnosing resistance ratio; and adaptively adjusting an operation condition of a next charging/discharging cycle according to the type of the deterioration-biased electrode.
US12149109B2
A portable charging adapter system for charging a vaporizer device is described. In some embodiments, the system includes a charging adapter including a charging adapter housing. The charging adapter can include a charging dock positioned along a first surface of the charging adapter housing and a power coupling feature positioned along a second surface of the charging adapter housing. The portable charging adapter system can include a cap that includes a cap housing having an inner chamber. The cap can include a securing element coupled to the inner chamber having at least one cantilevered spring configured to engage the power adapter for securing a coupling of the cap to the charging adapter. Related device, systems, and methods are also described.
US12149107B2
A system and method for system for controlling power supplied to electronic components (12) powered by a battery (11) of a vehicle (10), the system comprising: a vehicle control unit (14) including a controller (16) and a transmitter (18) for transmitting wirelessly vehicle control signals (20); a wireless latching relay (22) including a receiver (24) configured for receiving the vehicle control signals (20) from the transmitter (18), and a latching relay (26); wherein the relay (26) is connected in series with the negative terminal (25) or positive terminal (29) of the battery (11).
US12149106B2
An indexed sequence of bits in a buffer is allocated for tracking a battery charging state. The indexed sequence of bits has a first number of bits. A battery voltage of a rechargeable battery is sampled at a sampling rate. For each sampled battery voltage, the battery voltage is compared with a voltage threshold. A next bit position in the indexed sequence of bits is identified. In accordance with a determination that a comparison result is true, a predefined first value is added to the next bit position. A second number of bits that are filled with the predefined first value is determined. A ratio between the second number and the first number is also determined. In accordance with a determination that the ratio exceeds a threshold step-down ratio, a battery charge voltage is stepped down. The rechargeable battery is charged to a step-down voltage.
US12149104B2
A management method for a battery system having parallel battery packs includes a charging control operation of sequentially closing battery packs having a low voltage value level and completing a charging of the battery packs. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a management method for a battery system having parallel battery packs which is applicable to multiple parallel battery packs being charged in parallel, to solve the technical problems that a safe and stable operation of the entire battery packs cannot be ensured caused by the failure of the battery packs, and excessive current impact may be generated due to an excessive voltage difference among the battery packs.
US12149103B2
The present invention provides a high reliability secondary cell system in which a power supply is multiplexed without using a lead storage battery. This secondary cell system 10 has two or more battery groups comprising a plurality of cells 21 connected in series, each of the battery groups 11, 12, 13 is connected in parallel. Disposed in each battery group 11, 12, 13 are open/close switches 31a, 31b, 32a, 32b, 33a, 33b that disconnect the battery group from a circuit of the secondary cell system 10. This secondary cell system 10 can comprise an active balancer 14 connected in parallel with the battery groups 11, 12, 13.
US12149090B2
The invention relates to an offshore wireless power transfer system for water vessels at least partially electrically driven comprising a primary interface coupled with a power source and a secondary interface coupled with the water vessel, the interfaces providing unidirectional or bidirectional power transfer which can be inductive, capacitive, and/or magnetodynamic. The primary interface can have connected power transfer sections which can be switchable. Inductive system can include inductive loops, capacitive system can include capacitive plates and magnetodynamic can include magnetic elements and loops. The system can be thermally managed. The interfaces can be buoyant or nonbuoyant, level adjustable. The power transfer can take place at about/under/above water level. The secondary interface can be mobile or coupled with a mobile device. The interfaces can include electrocomponents. The system can provide data transmissions, and be provided in a cloud-based communication system, a hydrogen powering system and a modular system.
US12149087B1
A power conversion device for a photovoltaic system includes a first boost isolation DC/DC converter and a controller. The first boost isolation DC/DC converter includes a transformer, an input terminal of the first boost isolation DC/DC converter is connected to a first photovoltaic component, and an output terminal of the first boost isolation DC/DC converter is connected to a DC bus. The controller is configured to receive a bus voltage of the DC bus and a bus output current output by the first boost isolation DC/DC converter, and output, based on the bus voltage and the bus output current output by the first boost isolation DC/DC converter, a switch control signal that controls the first boost isolation DC/DC converter to perform maximum power point tracking control of the first photovoltaic component.
US12149082B2
This command generation device generates a control command for a power conversion device which converts DC power outputted by a DC power supply device to AC power and supplies the same to a bus, and which converts AC power from the bus to DC power and supplies the same to the DC power supply device. Said command generation device comprises: a virtual power generation calculation unit which simulates the driving of a virtual power generator and, on the basis of a rotor model that calculates the rotational speed of the virtual power generator, calculates the root-mean-square voltage and phase of the virtual power generator; a bus calculation unit which calculates the voltage and phase at a point of contact between the power conversion device and the bus; a phase difference angle calculation unit which calculates the phase difference angle between the phase of the virtual power generator and the phase at the point of contact; a target power determination unit which determines a target value for the effective power of the power conversion device on the basis of the root-mean-square voltage of the virtual power generator, the voltage at the point of contact and the phase difference angle; and a command generation unit which generates a control command for the power conversion device on the basis of the determined target value for the effective power.
US12149078B2
A method for intelligently adjusting a power flow based on a Q-learning algorithm includes: converting a variable, an action, and a goal in a power grid to a state, an action, and a reward in the algorithm, respectively; selecting an action from an action space, giving an immediate reward based on a result of power flow calculation, and correcting a next state; forwardly observing a next exploration action based on a strategy in the Q-learning algorithm; updating a Q value in a corresponding position in a Q-value table based on the obtained reward; if a final state is not reached, going back to step 2; otherwise, increasing the number of iterations by 1; if the number of iterations does not reach predetermined value K, that is, Episode
US12149077B1
A blockchain-based new energy power data transmission method for a photovoltaic module, comprising the following steps: S1, acquiring photovoltaic new energy power data; S2, converting the photovoltaic new energy power data acquired in S1 into photovoltaic new energy power image data; S3, processing the photovoltaic new energy power image data to obtain processed photovoltaic new energy power image data; and S4, transmitting the processed photovoltaic new energy power image data to a photovoltaic new energy power management platform. The invention can guarantee the security of acquired photovoltaic new energy power data and prevent the data from being tampered.
US12149071B2
A device, a method for determining relative positions of power consumers based on a high-frequency signal, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The device is applied to a distribution transformer supply zone. The device includes a resonance or signal generator and a direction detector, the resonance or signal generator is disposed in a user electricity meter, the direction detector is disposed on a power line, the resonance or signal generator is configured to transmit a high-frequency signal or generate resonance in response to the high-frequency signal; the direction detector is configured to monitor a voltage and a current of the high-frequency signal flowing into the user electricity meter, and determine, based on a phase difference between the voltage and the current, a relative position relationship of two adjacent user electricity meters on the power line.
US12149069B2
The present disclosure is applicable to the technical field of vehicles, and provides a jumper cable for emergency start of vehicles, an integrated starting power supply device, and a vehicle starting method. The jumper cable includes input terminals, clamping ends, and a charging portion. The charging portion includes a main charging circuit, a bypass charging circuit, and a microcontroller. The microcontroller is configured to control the bypass charging circuit to be switched on to pre-charge a vehicle battery and control the main charging circuit to be switched on to charge the vehicle battery when a relative relationship between an output voltage and an input voltage of the bypass charging circuit meets a preset loading condition so as to enable a vehicle to be started and ignited.
US12149068B2
The present invention provides topologies of phase-controlled IGBT bridge type and GTO bridge type Fault Current Limiter (FCL), which allow the precise limitation of fault currents to the desired values and can keep these values constant despite variations (dynamic behavior) of the fault currents. According to an embodiment of the invention, the topologies enable to use a phase control approach for optimal firing angles calculation. This control approach can be used in the proposed FCL topologies and other controlled bridge topologies such as SCRs bridge, GTO bridge, and IGBT/IGCT/Mosfet bridge topologies.
