US12149066B2
The present disclosure suppresses increase in device cost in a DC power distribution system that can disconnect a distribution line on which a short-circuit failure has occurred, from an output path. This DC power distribution system includes: a plurality of power conversion devices; one DC busbar; a plurality of distribution lines; a plurality of first current interruption portions respectively connected to input sides of the power conversion devices; a plurality of second current interruption portions connected between the power conversion devices and the DC busbar; and a plurality of third current interruption portions respectively provided on the distribution lines. Interruption current values of the third current interruption portions are set to smaller values than a maximum allowable current value of the power conversion device in which short-circuit current will reach the maximum allowable current value in a shortest time.
US12149064B2
A feeding system that feeds power to a load includes only a single device configured to have neutral point high-resistance between a feeding line and the earth. The device functions as a ground fault overvoltage detection type of ground fault detector. The feeding system further comprises a control device. When the ground fault overvoltage detection type of ground fault detector detects a ground fault, the ground fault overvoltage detection type of ground fault detector transmits, to the control device via a signal line, a signal indicating that the ground fault has occurred. The control device instructs a breaker corresponding to the specific distributed unit in which it is determined that the ground fault has occurred to perform breaking.
US12149055B2
Assembly (1) of a busbar (20), a cable termination (40) (or an insulating element (300) or a bushing (400)) and a voltage sensor (10) in a high-voltage or medium-voltage power network. The cable termination (or the insulating element or the bushing) and the voltage sensor are mechanically and electrically connected to the busbar.
US12149045B2
A light source includes a substrate with a first surface and an opposite second surface. An epitaxial layer is positioned on the first surface of the substrate. The light source also includes at least one light generator in the epitaxial layer positioned such that an optical signal transmitted thereby is directed toward the substrate. A diffuser is positioned on the second surface of the substrate, and at least one monitor photodetector is positioned in the epitaxial layer in an arrangement configured to receive a portion of the optical signal which is reflected by the diffuser. In one form, the light generator may include a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL).
US12149040B2
A multi-wavelength mid-infrared laser pulse train cavity dumped laser based on Nd:MgO:APLN crystal is disclosed. In response to the needs in the field of differential absorption lidar, it is necessary to introduce multi-fundamental frequency light pulse accumulation and superposition, and parametric light synchronization pulse compression technology in the multi-wavelength mid-infrared laser operating mechanism. To this end, a splayed parametric light oscillation cavity formed in conjunction with a Nd:MgO:APLN crystal is disclosed, wherein it is possible to obtain multi-wavelength mid-infrared laser pulse train output with narrow pulse width and high peak power, meeting the needs of differential absorption lidar for mid-infrared lasers.
US12149039B2
A fiber amplifier that is particularly configured to provide gain across a large extent of the C-band spectral range (i.e., a gain bandwidth of at least 42 nm, preferably within the range of 46-48 nm) utilizes a specially-designed discrete Raman amplifier in combination with a high inversion level EDFA to extend the gain bandwidth of a conventional EDFA C-band optical amplifier, while maintaining the gain ripple below an acceptable value. The EDFA provides operation at a highly-inverted level and the specialized discrete Raman amplifier (sDRA) element has particular parameters (dispersion, length, effective area) selected to maintain operation within a “small gain” regime while also extending the long wavelength edge of the gain bandwidth and reducing the gain ripple attributed to the EDFA component.
US12149036B2
A terminal coupled to an end of an electric wire on a front side with respect to an extending direction in which the electric wire extends. The terminal includes a terminal body including a holding section holding the electric wire and a slider slidable relative to the terminal body in the extending direction. The slider includes a pressing portion that presses the holding section toward the electric wire. The terminal body is formed from a folded metal sheet. The holding section includes a holding protrusion that protrudes toward the electric wire and contacts the electric wire. The holding protrusion is formed from a folded metal sheet.
US12149031B2
A switchable subsea connector includes a first connector part, a second connector part removably connected to the first connector part; and a switching unit. The connector parts each include at least one electrical conductor and each switching unit includes at least one individual switching device. Each electrical conductor in at least one connector part is allocated to an individual switching device of the switching unit; wherein each of the individual switching devices includes a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) switch.
US12149025B2
A connector set comprises: a first connector having a first housing; a second connector having a second housing; and a slide member slidably held in one housing out of the first housing and the second housing. The slide member comprises a main body part. The main body part is disposed so that, in a state where the slide member is held by the one housing, part of the main body part overlaps with an operation part of a lever part when viewed along a sliding axis of the slide member. Furthermore, a recess part recessed in an operation direction of the operation part is formed in the main body part.
US12149024B2
An electrical connector assembly including a first connector and a second connector to be mated with each other is provided. The first connector includes a first body, and at least one first terminal and multiple second terminals disposed therein. The second terminals are symmetrically arranged at opposite sides of the first terminal. The second connector includes a second body, at least one third terminal movably disposed in the second body, multiple fourth terminals disposed in the second body and symmetrically arranged at opposite sides of the third terminal, and a driving module electrically connected to at least one of the fourth terminals and structurally connected to the third terminal. In the mating process of the first and second connector, the second terminals and the fourth terminals are electrically connected firstly, to trigger the driving module to move the third terminal to be structurally and electrically connected to the first terminal.
US12149023B2
A subsea wet mateable connector plug part includes a plug body, a plurality of data conductor contacts arranged in the plug body and a plurality of power conductor contacts arranged in the plug body. The data conductor contacts include an even number of pairs of data conductor contacts, each pair being aligned orthogonally with respect to an adjacent pair of data conductor contacts. The pairs of data conductor contacts are so arranged as to form a data cluster. The data cluster includes an outer earth screen adapted to maintain an electrical contact with an earth screen of a cable. The power conductor contacts are spaced from one another in the plug body, outside of and remote from the outer earth screen of the data cluster.
US12149022B2
A subsea wet mateable connector includes a plug and a receptacle. The plug includes a plug body and a shuttle pin moveably mounted in a socket contact. The receptacle includes a receptacle body and a receptacle pin. The connector further including a secondary diaphragm mounted to the plug body and a primary diaphragm mounted to the plug body outside the secondary diaphragm. The primary diaphragm and secondary diaphragm are spaced from one another in a demated state, allowing fluid flow in the space formed therebetween. The primary diaphragm and secondary diaphragm are sealingly engaged in a mated state, forming a continuous protective layer over the receptacle pin in a mated state.
US12149019B2
An electrical pin and sleeve device is disclosed. The pin and sleeve device incorporating one or more features to facilitate easier assembly and use. For example, the pin and sleeve device may include one or more alignment or keys between, for example, the electrical contacts and the thru holes for receiving the contacts formed in the device to prevent improper insertion of the contacts within the device. Additionally, and/or alternatively, one or more alignment or keys between components of the pin and sleeve device such as, for example, between the contact carrier and the body member to prevent improper coupling of the body member relative to the contact carrier or subsequent rotation thereof. Additionally, and/or alternatively, the pin and sleeve device may include one or more tapered or funneled surfaces for preventing wire splaying during insertion of the electrical strands into the contacts.
US12149018B2
A contact device includes a contact housing and a contact element. The contact housing defines a contact receptacle and a latching receptacle opening into the contact receptacle. The contact element includes a contact body arranged within the contact receptacle and extending in a longitudinal direction and adapted to contact a mating contact of a mating contact device, and a latching spring connected to the contact body on a first end and extending along a spring axis into the latching receptacle. The latching spring has a stop inclining obliquely with respect to the spring axis and abutting a face of the latching receptacle and a recess formed through the latching spring at first distance from the stop face.
US12149013B2
An array antenna includes a ground plane, a first dielectric element, a second dielectric element, a first radiator, and a second radiator. The first dielectric element includes a first surface and a second surface, and a first included angle is formed between the first surface and the second surface. The second dielectric element includes a third surface and a fourth surface, and a second included angle is formed between the third surface and the fourth surface. The first surface is adjacent to the third surface. The first radiator includes a first part and a second part. The first part is disposed on the first surface, and the second part is disposed on the second surface. The second radiator includes a third part and a fourth part. The third part is disposed on the third surface, and the fourth part is disposed on the fourth surface.
US12149006B2
Disclosed is a frequency-division duplexing (FDD) type antenna device for implementing spatial-polarization separation of beams using a quad-polarized antenna module array. There is provided an antenna device including first radiating elements, second radiating elements, third radiating elements, and fourth radiating elements, a filter unit including first, second, third, and fourth filters that filter signals of first, second, third, and fourth signal paths, respectively, and a phase setting module configured to set phases of the filtered signals so that a first beam and a second beam radiated through the first and second radiating elements and the third and fourth radiating elements, respectively, are separated in space, wherein the first beam and the second beam have different polarization directions.
US12149004B2
Disclosed herein is a swappable modular-based radiofrequency (RF) frontend that is reconfigurable to form transmitting (TX) and receiving (RX) phased array systems for diverse applications. Such swappable RF frontend may be used with unique spatial and spectral optical processing of complex RF signals over an ultra-wide frequency band. The swappable RF front end may be used in conjunction with an optically upconverted imaging receiver and/or in conjunction with optically addressed phased array technologies transmitters.
US12149002B2
An antenna array, comprising: an antenna feed point, a first antenna wiring, a second antenna wiring and a filter, wherein the first antenna wiring is connected to the second antenna wiring by means of the filter; the antenna feed point is connected to the first antenna wiring; the filter is located within a predetermined range from the antenna feed point; the working frequency band of the first antenna wiring is a first frequency band; the working frequency band of the second antenna wiring is a second frequency band; and the filter is used for filtering out a third frequency band from the first frequency band, such that the second frequency band passes.
US12149001B2
A wireless communication device includes reconfigurable receive transmit antennas having horizontal-polarization antennas and vertical-polarization antennas, where the horizontal-polarization antennas receive or transmit horizontally-polarized signal for a first period of time, where the vertical-polarization antennas transmit or receive vertically-polarized signal for a second period of time, where the horizontal-polarization receive antennas form a receive beam based on receive phase and receive amplitude information provided by a master chip, and where the vertical-polarization transmit antennas form a transmit beam based on transmit phase and transmit amplitude information provided by the master chip.
US12148996B2
A slot array antenna includes a waveguide and a horn. The waveguide has a first surface including multiple slots arranged along a longitudinal direction of the first surface to radiate radio waves. The width of the first surface in the lateral direction is greater than half of a wavelength of the radio waves. The horn, fixedly attached to the waveguide, enlarges towards a radiation direction of the radio waves. The horn has upper and lower portions bent inwards twice with respect to a lateral direction of the first surface to form first and second narrow openings. An opening width of the first narrow opening is less than the width of the first surface. An opening width of the second narrow opening is less than or equal to two fifth of the wavelength. Thus, a side lobe generated due to horizontal polarization of the radio waves is suppressed.
US12148994B1
A radiation absorber device configured to protect a user from radiation from a wireless device, which has a housing made from radiation absorbent material, the housing having an opening, a first chamber and a second chamber, and wherein the first and second chambers are in communication with each other, the first chamber being greater than the second chamber, and wherein the first and second chambers are adapted to together receive a wireless device. The radiation absorber device also has a lid adapted to selectively close the opening of the housing and thus enclose the wireless device therein.
US12148990B2
The present invention relates to an antenna device, and especially, comprises: a printed board assembly (PBA hereinafter) which has a plurality of antenna-related components mounted to one surface, and has a plurality of filters mounted to the other surface; and an antenna board which is stacked and disposed on the one surface side of the PBA, has a plurality of antenna elements mounted to one surface, and is connected to the filters tightly adhering to the other surface, so as to establish an electrical signal line with the filters, wherein the filters are spaced apart from the other surface of the PBA and have clamshell parts integrally formed so as to prevent a signal leakage from the electrical signal line, and thus an advantage is provided of enabling the improvement of the overall heat dissipation performance and filter performance of the filters.
US12148986B2
A radiator for an antenna comprises a feed board and a metal radiating arm The feed board comprises an electrically conductive segment, through which the feed board feeds the metal radiating arm by means of capacitive coupling. The radiating arm includes a first arm segment extending in a first direction, and a second arm segment extending from an outer side region of the first arm segment in a second direction different from the first direction.
US12148983B2
An electronic device includes a main body, a pair of glass lenses configured to be supported by the main body, at least one display module configured to be disposed on the pair of glass lenses, a first support configured to be rotatably connected to the main body, a second support configured to be rotatably connected to the main body and configured to be disposed to be spaced apart from the first support, a communication module configured to be disposed in the first support, a processor configured to be operatively connected to the communication module, a relay module configured to be disposed in the second support and configured to relay at least one signal, and a first antenna configured to be disposed in the second support and configured to be electrically connected to the relay module.
US12148982B2
A disclosed apparatus may include at least one touch sensor and an integrated film that includes at least one antenna, wherein the integrated film is at least partially disposed on the at least one touch sensor such that the at least one touch sensor operates as a radiating element for the at least one antenna. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US12148977B2
Disclosed is a directional coupler circuit that has improved performance in the areas of directivity and frequency range, when compared with conventional directional couplers. The disclosed directional coupler circuit improves performance in at least two ways. The first is by the use of the voltage operational amplifier that unloads the capacitive voltage divider. The second is using forward and reflected transimpedance operational amplifier circuits to provide a short circuit to the coupling coil, namely a forward direction current sample circuit having a forward transimpedance operational amplifier and a reflected direction current sample circuit having a reflected transimpedance operational amplifier.
US12148975B2
A coupler module (1) includes a first component (11) and a second component (21) that are mounted on a substrate. The first component (11) includes a coupler (100) having a main line and an auxiliary line, and the second component (21) includes an external circuit for processing a signal that flows into the main line or the auxiliary line and a plurality of first signal terminals (P5, P6) that are input and output terminals of the external circuit for the signal. The plurality of first signal terminals (P5, P6) are arranged in a first portion (A1) that is one of two portions (A1, A2) obtained by dividing the second component (21) and that is farther from the first component (11).
US12148974B2
Fabrication of superconducting devices that combine or separate direct currents and microwave signals is provided. A method can comprise forming a direct current circuit that supports a direct current, a microwave circuit that supports a microwave signal, and a common circuit that supports the direct current and the microwave signal. The method can also comprise operatively coupling a first end of the direct current circuit and a first end of the microwave circuit to a first end of the common circuit. The direct current circuit can comprise a bandstop circuit and the microwave circuit can comprise a capacitor. Alternatively, the direct current circuit can comprise a bandstop circuit and the microwave circuit can comprise a bandpass circuit. Alternatively, the microwave circuit can comprise a capacitor and the direct current circuit can comprise one or more quarter-wavelength transmission lines.
US12148973B2
The present invention relates to a device for transmitting a signal between a waveguide and a printed circuit board, the device comprising a first access means and a second access means for the signal to be transmitted, a conductor track forming the first access means, a printed circuit board comprising a substrate, and a transition element. The element comprises an upper ground plane and a lower ground plane that is intended to be in direct contact with the waveguide, the lower ground plane comprising a slot forming the second access means of the transmission device, one of the upper ground plane and the lower ground plane being connected to the conductor track.
US12148970B2
A waveguide assembly, comprising an electrical circuit assembly, a dielectric waveguide with a longitudinal axis (A), and a waveguide transition lying therebetween for transmitting an electromagnetic wave between the electrical circuit assembly and the dielectric waveguide. The waveguide transition has a first electrically conductive plate and a second electrically conductive plate which are arranged between the electrical circuit assembly and the dielectric waveguide in an offset manner to each other in the direction of the longitudinal axis (A) of the dielectric waveguide.
US12148966B2
A phase shifter includes a printed circuit board and a trace located on the printed circuit board that is configured to transmit signals. The printed circuit board includes a first part covered by the trace and a second part not covered by the trace, where the second part includes at least one hollowed out area near the trace.
US12148965B2
A fuel cell assembly includes an CCM layer with a sub-gasket frame around it to provide gas manifolds and sealant. A flow path is integrated on the sub-gasket in vicinity of the inlet and outlet manifolds that provides a passage for the gases to/from the active area. The flow path provides a rigid path without deforming or clogging the passage.
US12148962B2
Systems and methods are provided for modularizing a system. Parallel power systems having electronically isolated high voltage systems facilitate modulization. A control system is provided that optimizes the distribution of a power demand and/or a torque request so as to keep the efficiency, durability, drivability and/or safety of the system within an optimum range. In some cases, the distribution of power is uneven, so as to extend the battery life, while in other cases, the power draw on battery systems are kept equal and constant so as to properly manage the state of charge of the parallel power systems. In still other cases, the chosen power distribution keeps the power demand and/or torque request between minimum and maximum levels/capacity, and the power distribution avoids on/off of an individual power system.
US12148961B2
A hydrogen production supply system that produces hydrogen gas to be supplied to a hydrogen storage tank, the hydrogen production supply system including a control circuit configured to control an operation load ratio of the hydrogen production apparatus to a predetermined operation load ratio, to increase the operation load ratio of the hydrogen production apparatus to a first operation load ratio larger than the predetermined operation load ratio at first timing, and to decrease the operation load ratio of the hydrogen production apparatus to the predetermined operation load ratio from the first load operation ratio at second timing, wherein an increase in the operation load ratio at the first timing takes precedence over a decrease in the operation load ratio at the second timing.
US12148960B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a fuel cell system, comprising a cooling circuit for cooling at least one fuel cell, wherein a coolant circulating in the cooling circuit is cooled with a coolant cooler, which also has air flowing through it. The air is supplied by a fan assembly. The fuel cell system also comprises an evaporative cooling unit, which, upstream of the coolant cooler, introduces water into the air supplied by the fan assembly. An increased efficiency of the fuel cell system alongside sufficient cooling of the at least one fuel cell is achieved in that the evaporative cooling unit introduces water at a maximum rate before the fan assembly reaches its maximum air mass flow. The invention also relates to a fuel cell system of this type, as well as a motor vehicle comprising a fuel cell system of this type.
US12148950B2
The present disclosure provides a separator for a zinc secondary battery that can inhibit short circuiting in a zinc secondary battery. The separator for a zinc secondary battery of the disclosure has a porous substrate layer and a titanium oxide-containing porous layer laminated onto the porous substrate layer, wherein the titanium oxide-containing porous layer comprises a titanium oxide represented by TixOy, where 0
US12148946B2
An immersion cooling system for a battery system includes a battery enclosure and G battery cell groups arranged in the battery enclosure. Each of the G battery cell groups include C battery cells, where G and C are integers greater than one. A plurality of dividers are arranged between each of the G battery cell groups. A gas manifold removes vent gases from each of the G battery cell groups.
US12148944B2
A battery installation structure for a vehicle includes a case, configured to allow a plurality of battery modules to be mounted in the case, and a pack end plate mounted so as to form a shock-absorbing space between a wall surface of the case and one end of each of the plurality of battery modules that is parallel to and faces the wall surface, among two opposite ends of each of the plurality of battery modules in a stacking direction of battery cells, the shock-absorbing space including a slanted surface slanted with respect to the wall surface.
US12148942B2
A power tool, in particular a chipping hammer, containing a first and second side handle and a tool housing having an interface for releasably receiving and holding a first and second rechargeable battery, wherein a side-handle axis extending through the first and second side handles is arranged substantially perpendicularly to a working axis extending through the tool housing. The power tool contains a protective apparatus for protecting the first and second rechargeable batteries, the protective apparatus having an internal volume for at least partially receiving the first and second rechargeable batteries.
US12148927B2
A lithium battery including an anode having an active anode material, a cathode having an active cathode material. The cathode material includes lithium nickel cobalt manganese cobalt oxide (NCM). An electrolyte separates the anode and cathode. The electrolyte includes a solvent or solvent mixture and lithium hexafluorophosphate, and a germanium organyl-based electrolyte additive. Also disclosed are uses of the germanium organyl-based electrolyte additive in the lithium battery for enhancing one characteristic selected from the group consisting of reversible capacity, Coulombic efficiency, cyclic stability and combinations thereof.
US12148926B2
A lithium composite transition metal oxide includes nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and manganese (Mn), wherein the lithium composite transition metal oxide includes two or more kinds of first dopants selected from the group consisting of Zr, Al, V, Co, and Mg and two or more kinds of second dopants selected from the group consisting of Ti, Y, Sr, Nb, Ba, and Ca, and particles of the lithium composite transition metal oxide has a crystallite size of 170-300 nm.
US12148912B2
A vehicle thermal management system mounted in a vehicle includes a vehicle driving battery, a liquid heat transfer medium, a heat receiver, and a radiator. The heat receiver causes the heat transfer medium to receive heat through heat exchange with the battery. The radiator causes the heat transfer medium to release the heat through heat exchange with an air outside of the vehicle. The heat transfer medium includes a liquid base material including water and an orthosilicic acid ester compatible with the liquid base material and does not include an ionic rust inhibitor. The orthosilicic acid ester is present, as a concentration of silicon, relative to a total mass of the heat transfer medium within a range between 2000 mass ppm, non-inclusive, and 10000 mass ppm, inclusive.
US12148903B2
The invention is directed to a battery case (1) comprising a compartment (2) for at least one battery module (3). Two first outer beams (4) extending in a first spatial direction (x) and two second outer beams (5) extending in a second spatial direction (y) are arranged essentially perpendicular to the first spatial direction. The first and second beams (4, 5) are forming a frame-like support structure (6). A tub-shaped insert (7) is connected to the grid like support structure (6) from a third direction (z) arranged essentially perpendicular to the first and the second direction (x, y). A closure (8) closes the tub-shaped insert (7) to form the closed compartment (2) for the at least one battery module.
US12148899B2
A battery system that avoids an over discharge with a simple sensor element is provided. The battery system comprises: a battery pack including a plurality of battery cells connected in series, a monitoring unit that monitors a condition of the battery pack, and a control unit that controls a discharge of the battery pack. The control unit calculates capacity condition A of the battery pack at a first discharge cutoff voltage based on the total voltage and the total current, estimates capacity condition B of the battery pack at the first discharge cutoff voltage based on the total current and the temperature, determines an occurrence of an over discharge based on the capacity condition A and the capacity condition B, changes the first discharge cutoff voltage to a second discharge cutoff voltage that is higher than the first discharge cutoff voltage, when the occurrence of the over discharge is determined.
US12148888B2
An electrochemical device includes an electrolyte having a hydroxamate or N-hydroxyamide compound.
US12148882B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a solid-state battery, wherein slurry for a solid electrolyte layer is applied to each of the electrodes, and the electrodes are bound to each other before drying to obtain a solid-state battery. In the solid-state battery, each electrode is in close contact with the solid electrolyte membrane to provide excellent interfacial property, such as reduced resistance. In addition, the thickness of the solid electrolyte membrane may be controlled to a level of several microns to provide an effect of increasing the energy density of a unit cell.
US12148881B2
A composite electrolyte membrane according to the present disclosure includes a phase change layer on a surface in contact with an electrode, for example, a positive electrode. The phase change layer includes a filler, and a physically isolated area between the positive electrode and the composite electrolyte membrane, known as a dead space, is filled with the filler that is liquefied by heat resulting from the increased internal temperature of the battery, thereby reducing the interfacial resistance between the electrolyte membrane and the electrode.
US12148875B2
A lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode current collector, and an electrolyte disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a lithium metal layer on the negative electrode current collector in the negative electrode. The electrolyte includes a first electrolyte layer and a second electrolyte disposed on the first electrolyte layer, wherein the first electrolyte layer faces the negative electrode, and the second electrolyte layer faces the positive electrode. The first electrolyte layer has higher ion conductivity than the second electrolyte layer, and wherein the lithium metal layer is formed by migration of lithium ions from the positive electrode after charging.
US12148860B2
An electronic component (10) for generating and emitting electromagnetic waves or single photons (48) comprises a layer system (12) of semiconductor materials. A middle layer (13) of gallium arsenide is arranged between a first layer (14) of aluminum gallium arsenide and a second layer (16) of aluminum gallium arsenide. A first outer layer (18) of gallium arsenide is provided on the first layer (14) of aluminum gallium arsenide; A second outer layer (20) of gallium arsenide is provided on the second layer (16) of aluminum gallium arsenide.
US12148858B2
A micro-LED chip includes multiple micro-LEDs. At least one micro-LED of the multiple micro-LEDs includes: a first type conductive layer; a second type conductive layer stacked on the first type conductive layer; and a light emitting layer formed between the first type conductive layer and the second type conductive layer. The light emitting layer is continuously formed on the whole chip, the multiple micro-LEDs sharing the light emitting layer. The micro-LED chip further includes: a top spacer formed on a top surface of the light emitting layer; a bottom spacer formed on a bottom surface of the light emitting layer; and an isolation structure formed between adjacent micro-LEDs. An edge of the top spacer is aligned with an edge of the light emitting layer, and an edge of the bottom spacer is aligned with the edge of the light emitting layer.
US12148843B2
A semiconductor device includes a silicon germanium channel, a germanium-free interfacial layer, a high-k dielectric layer, and a metal gate electrode. The silicon germanium channel is over a substrate. The germanium-free interfacial layer is over the silicon germanium channel. The germanium-free interfacial layer is nitridated. The high-k dielectric layer is over the germanium-free interfacial layer. The metal gate electrode is over the high-k dielectric layer.
US12148842B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor substrate includes a first basement, a gate line, a source line, an insulating film, a first pixel electrode, and a first transistor and a second transistor connected parallel at positions between the source line and the first pixel electrode. Each of a first semiconductor layer of the first transistor and a second semiconductor layer of the second transistor includes a first region, a second region, and a channel region. The first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer are in contact with a first surface that is a surface of the insulating film on the source line side. The channel region of each of the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer wholly overlaps the gate line.
US12148839B2
The present application provides a semiconductor device and an electronic device. In the semiconductor device, a metal layer is provided on the side of the active layer facing the buffer layer, and the metal layer includes at least one metal block, so that the metal block is in direct contact with at least part of the active layer, then when the active layer is converted from amorphous silicon to polycrystalline silicon, due to the catalytic effect of the metal block, the size of the crystal grains in the polycrystalline silicon becomes larger, which reduces the crystal grain boundaries in the polycrystalline silicon and improves the mobility of the semiconductor device.
US12148838B2
An active via is taught which comprises at least one via and at least one transistor which acts as a switch element. The resulting active via can be used with 1D, 2.5D or 3D chips to: control circuit elements; reduce EMI between vias; increase the density of vias; improve power and thermal efficiencies of chips; simplify power, data and other routing networks on chips; enable a higher level stacking of dies or layers in a chip while maintaining modularity; etc. A control strategy system can be provided to remove the supply of power to one or more regions of the chip when the regions are not in use and to supply power to those regions when the regions are in use, or to control input and output to regions of the chip. The active vias can be fabricated with Back or Front End Of Line processes.
US12148825B2
A power semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide substrate and has at least a first layer or region formed above the substrate. The silicon carbide substrate has a pattern of pits formed thereon. The power semiconductor device further includes an ohmic metal disposed at least in the pits to form low-resistance ohmic contacts. Each pit of the pattern of pits has a depth that extends short of the first layer.
US12148818B2
A power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor wafer, a thyristor structure, and a bipolar junction transistor. The thyristor structure includes a first emitter layer of a first conductivity type adjacent the first main side, a first base layer of a second conductivity type, a second base layer of the first conductivity type, a second emitter layer of the second conductivity type, a gate electrode, a first main electrode, and a second main electrode arranged. The bipolar junction transistor includes a base electrode electrically separated from the gate electrode, a third main electrode arranged on the first main side and a fourth main electrode arranged on the second main side. The first main electrode is electrically connected to the third main electrode and the second main electrode is electrically connected to the fourth main electrode.
US12148807B2
The present disclosure describes a method to form a semiconductor device with backside contact structures. The method includes forming a semiconductor device on a first side of a substrate. The semiconductor device includes a source/drain (S/D) region. The method further includes etching a portion of the S/D region on a second side of the substrate to form an opening and forming an epitaxial contact structure on the S/D region in the opening. The second side is opposite to the first side. The epitaxial contact structure includes a first portion in contact with the S/D region in the opening and a second portion on the first portion. A width of the second portion is larger than the first portion.
US12148805B2
A semiconductor structure includes an epitaxial region having a front side and a backside. The semiconductor structure includes an amorphous layer formed over the backside of the epitaxial region, wherein the amorphous layer includes silicon. The semiconductor structure includes a first silicide layer formed over the amorphous layer. The semiconductor structure includes a first metal contact formed over the first silicide layer.
US12148803B2
A semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a semiconductor part located between the first electrode and the second electrode, a third electrode located in the semiconductor part, an insulating film located between the third electrode and the semiconductor part, an insulating member located in the semiconductor part at a position separated from the insulating film, a fourth electrode located in the insulating member, and a compressive stress member located in the fourth electrode. The compressive stress member has compressive stress along a first direction. The first direction is from the first electrode toward the second electrode.
US12148801B2
A nitride-based semiconductor device includes a first nitride-based semiconductor layer, a second nitride-based semiconductor layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate electrode, and a third nitride-based semiconductor layer. The first nitride-based semiconductor layer has at least one trench. The second nitride-based semiconductor layer is disposed on the first nitride-based semiconductor layer and spaced apart from the trench. The source electrode and the drain electrode are disposed above the second nitride-based semiconductor layer. The gate electrode is disposed above the second nitride-based semiconductor layer and between the source and drain electrodes, so as to at least define a drift region between the gate electrode and the drain electrode and overlaps with the trench. The third nitride-based semiconductor layer is at least disposed in the trench and extends upward from the trench to make contact with the second nitride-based semiconductor layer.
US12148799B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a silicon carbide layer; a silicon oxide layer; and a region disposed between the silicon carbide layer and the silicon oxide layer and having a nitrogen concentration equal to or more than 1×1021 cm−3. Nitrogen concentration distribution in the silicon carbide layer, the silicon oxide layer, and the region have a peak in the region, a nitrogen concentration at a position 1 nm away from the peak to the side of the silicon oxide layer is equal to or less than 1×1018 cm−3, and a carbon concentration at the position is equal to or less than 1×1018 cm−3.
US12148798B2
An SiC semiconductor device includes an SiC semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type having a main surface, a source trench formed in the main surface and having a side wall and a bottom wall, a source electrode embedded in the source trench and having a side wall contact portion in contact with a region of the side wall of the source trench at an opening side of the source trench, a body region of a second conductivity type formed in a region of a surface layer portion of the main surface along the source trench, and a source region of the first conductivity type electrically connected to the side wall contact portion of the source electrode in a surface layer portion of the body region.
US12148790B2
The present application relates to a capacitor device and a manufacturing method thereof, and a memory. forming a first capacitor structure on a substrate, includes: a first capacitor dielectric layer, a first upper electrode, a plurality of first lower electrodes arranged at intervals; the first capacitor dielectric layer at least covers sidewalls of the first lower electrodes, and the first upper electrode fills up gaps at an outer side of the first capacitor dielectric layer; forming a second capacitor structure on the first capacitor structure, the second capacitor structure includes a second capacitor dielectric layer, a second upper electrode, and a plurality of second lower electrodes arranged at intervals; the second lower electrodes are of a U-shaped structure, bottoms of the second lower electrodes are in contact with tops of the first lower electrodes, the second capacitor dielectric layer is at least located on surfaces of the second lower electrodes.
US12148780B2
An image sensor includes a substrate having a plurality of pixel regions and a deep device isolation pattern disposed in the substrate between the pixel regions. The pixel regions include first, second, third, and fourth pixel regions, which are adjacent to each other in first and second directions. The deep device isolation pattern includes first portions interposed between the first and second pixel regions and between the third and fourth pixel regions and spaced apart from each other in the second direction, and second portions interposed between the first and third pixel regions and between the second and fourth pixel regions and spaced apart from each other in the first direction. The first pixel region includes a first extended active pattern, which is extended to the second pixel region in the first direction and is disposed between the first portions of the deep device isolation pattern.
US12148775B2
A hyperspectral element includes (1) a multi filter including: a first sub filter through which first wavelength light having a first wavelength passes; and a second sub filter through which second wavelength light having a second wavelength passes, the second wavelength being different from the first wavelength; and (2) a multi detector configured to detect the first wavelength light and the second wavelength light, wherein the first sub filter and the second sub filter may be arranged in series in an optical path of incident light which is incident onto the multi filter.
US12148769B2
The disclosure provides an electronic device includes a substrate and a pattern layer. The substrate with a step structure includes a high-level surface and a low-level surface. The pattern layer includes a first unit pattern and a second unit pattern adjacent to and separated from the first unit pattern, wherein the first unit pattern overlaps a first part of the low-level surface and overlaps a first part of the high-level surface, and the second unit pattern overlaps a second part of the low-level surface and overlaps a second part of the high-level surface.
US12148768B2
Disclosed are an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; a first thin film transistor on the base substrate; where the first thin film transistor includes: a first gate electrode, a first active layer, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode; where the first active layer includes: at least one guide structure extending in a first direction; a silicon-based nanowire, disposed on a side of the guide structure facing away from the base substrate; and an extending direction of the silicon-based nanowire is same as an extending direction of the guide structure.
US12148757B2
Disclosed herein are IC structures, packages, and devices that include Si-based semiconductor material stack monolithically integrated on the same support structure as non-Si transistors or other non-Si-based devices. In some aspects, the Si-based semiconductor material stack may be provided by semiconductor regrowth over an insulator material. Providing a Si-based semiconductor material stack monolithically integrated on the same support structure as non-Si based devices may provide a viable approach to integrating Si-based transistors with non-Si technologies because the Si-based semiconductor material stack may serve as a foundation for forming Si-based transistors.
US12148753B2
A method includes forming an n-type Fin-Field Effect Transistor (FinFET) and a p-type FinFET. The forming of the n-type FinFFT includes: forming a first auxiliary gate stack over a first semiconductor fin; forming an n-type source/drain region on the first semiconductor fin adjacent to the first auxiliary gate stack; and performing a first etch to form a first recess with a first depth on a first top surface of the n-type source/drain region. The forming of the p-type FinFFT includes: forming a second auxiliary gate stack over a second semiconductor fin; forming a p-type source/drain region on the second semiconductor fin adjacent to the second auxiliary gate stack; and performing a second etch to form a second recess with a second depth on a second top surface of the p-type source/drain region. The first depth is greater than the second depth.
US12148750B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a first channel structure configured to transport charge carriers within a first transistor device and a first gate electrode layer wrapping around the first channel structure. A second channel structure is configured to transport charge carriers within a second transistor device. A second gate electrode layer wraps around the second channel structure. The second gate electrode layer continuously extends from around the second channel structure to cover the first gate electrode layer. A third channel structure is configured to transport charge carriers within a third transistor device. A third gate electrode layer wraps around the third channel structure. The third gate electrode layer continuously extends from around the third channel structure to cover the second gate electrode layer.
US12148748B2
Two approaches for on-chip ESD detection include variable dielectric width capacitor, and vertical metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitor MOSCAP array. The variable dielectric width capacitor approach employs metal plates terminated with sharp corners to enhance local electric field and facilitate ready breakdown of a thin dielectric between the metal plates. The vertical MOSCAP array is composed of a capacitor array connected in series. Both approaches are incorporated in an example 22 nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator. Vertical MOSCAP arrays detect ESD events starting from about 6 V with about 6 V granularity, while the variable dielectric width capacitor is suitable for detection of high ESD voltage from about 40 V and above.
US12148746B2
An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first connection tower, and one or more first front side conductors and one or more first front side metal vias. The semiconductor substrate includes a first semiconductor substrate segment having first functional circuitry and a second semiconductor substrate segment having a first electrostatic discharge (ESD) clamp circuit. The first connection tower connects to an input/output pad. The one or more first front side conductors and one or more first front side metal vias connect the first buried connection tower to the first functional circuitry in the first semiconductor substrate segment and to the first ESD clamp circuit in the second semiconductor substrate segment.
US12148741B2
Electronic modules and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, an electronic module includes a molded system-in-package, and a flexible circuit mounted on a side surface of a molding compound layer such that the flexible circuit is in electrical contact with a lateral interconnect exposed along the side surface of the molding compound layer.
US12148729B2
A semiconductor package structure includes a package substrate; a semiconductor chip on the package substrate and electrically connected to the package substrate; an interposer substrate above the package substrate and the semiconductor chip, wherein the interposer substrate includes a cavity recessed inward from a lower surface thereof, wherein the semiconductor chip is positioned within the cavity, at least from a plan view; and an adhesive layer positioned inside and outside the cavity, wherein the adhesive layer is formed on all of upper and side surfaces of the semiconductor chip, or on the side surfaces of the semiconductor chip.
US12148725B2
A bonding structure is provided, including a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate; a first bonding layer disposed on the first substrate; a second bonding layer disposed on the second substrate and opposite the first bonding layer; and a silver feature disposed between the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer. The silver feature includes a silver nano-twinned structure including parallel twin boundaries. The silver nano-twinned structure includes 90% or more [111] crystal orientation. A method for forming a bonding structure is also provided. Each of steps of forming a first silver feature and second silver feature includes sputtering or evaporation coating. Negative bias ion bombardment is applied to the first silver feature and second silver feature during sputtering or evaporation.
US12148720B2
A detection substrate and manufacturing method thereof, a flat panel detector and manufacturing method thereof. The detection substrate includes: a substrate including a detection region, a binding region, a controllable on-off region, and a cutting region; a plurality of detection units including transistors and photosensitive devices located in the detection region, a transistor includes a gate, a first electrode and a second electrode; a photosensitive device is connected to the first or second electrode; a plurality of conductive wires, one end is connected to the gate, and the other end is extended to the binding region; a conductive ring disposed in the cutting region; a plurality of detection wires, one end is connected to the conductive ring, the other end is connected to the conductive wires, the detection wires are passed through the controllable on-off region; the detection wires located in the controllable on-off region can have a disconnected state.
US12148704B2
Electrical interconnect bridge technology is disclosed. An electrical interconnect bridge can include a bridge substrate formed of a mold compound material. The electrical interconnect bridge can also include a plurality of routing layers within the bridge substrate, each routing layer having a plurality of fine line and space (FLS) traces. In addition, the electrical interconnect bridge can include a via extending through the substrate and electrically coupling at least one of the FLS traces in one of the routing layers to at least one of the FLS traces in another of the routing layers.
US12148689B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a package structure including a first side and a second side opposite to the first side; an interposer structure positioned over the first side of the package structure; a first die positioned over the interposer structure; a second die positioned over the interposer structure; and a plurality of middle interconnectors positioned between the first side of the package structure and the first die and between the first side of the package structure and the second die. The plurality of middle interconnectors topographically aligned with the first die include a first density. The plurality of middle interconnectors topographically aligned with the second die include a second density different from the first density.
US12148688B2
A semiconductor substrate includes a first circuit structure and a second circuit structure. The first circuit structure includes a first circuit layer. The first circuit layer includes a first dielectric layer. The second circuit structure includes a second circuit layer. The second circuit layer includes a second dielectric layer. The second circuit structure is disposed on the first circuit structure and is electrically connected to the first circuit structure to constitute the semiconductor substrate. A manufacturing method of the semiconductor substrate is also provided.
US12148677B2
A semiconductor device has a plurality of semiconductor die. A first prefabricated insulating film is disposed over the semiconductor die. A conductive layer is formed over the first prefabricated insulating film. An interconnect structure is formed over the semiconductor die and first prefabricated insulating film. The first prefabricated insulating film is laminated over the semiconductor die. The first prefabricated insulating film includes glass cloth, glass fiber, or glass fillers. The semiconductor die is embedded within the first prefabricated insulating film with the first prefabricated insulating film covering first and side surfaces of the semiconductor die. The interconnect structure is formed over a second surface of the semiconductor die opposite the first surface. A portion of the first prefabricated insulating film is removed after disposing the first prefabricated insulating film over the semiconductor die. A second prefabricated insulating film is disposed over the first prefabricated insulating film.
US12148674B2
A substrate processing method and a substrate processing apparatus for removing material on a substrate are disclosed. In order to remove the material, a processing liquid including a chemical liquid and water is supplied on the substrate so that a liquid layer maintained by surface tension is formed. The material is removed from the substrate by a reaction between the material and the processing liquid. A size distribution of by-product particles formed by the reaction between the material and the processing liquid is measured by a dynamic light scattering method. A supply of the processing liquid is controlled based on the size distribution of the by-product particles.
US12148673B2
Provided are FinFET devices and methods of forming the same. A FinFET device includes a substrate, a first gate strip and a second gate strip. The substrate has at least one first fin in a first region, at least one second fin in a second region and an isolation layer covering lower portions of the first and second fins. The first fin includes a first material layer and a second material layer over the first material layer, and the interface between the first material layer and the second material layer is uneven. The first gate strip is disposed across the first fin. The second gate strip is disposed across the second fin.
US12148670B2
The present application discloses a method for manufacturing fin field effect transistors, comprising: step 1: performing first time etching to form top portions of fins, each of the top portions is divided into a first section and a second section; step 2: forming sacrificial sidewalls on the side surfaces of the second section but not on the side surfaces of the first section; step 3: forming a doped dielectric layer to coat the side surfaces of the first section; step 4: performing a dopant drive process to diffuse dopants of the doped dielectric layer into the first section; step 5: removing the doped dielectric layer and the sacrificial sidewalls; step 6: performing second time etching to form bottom portions of the fins; and step 7: forming a dielectric isolation layer between adjacent fins.
US12148669B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises first semiconductor stack over a substrate, wherein the first semiconductor stack includes first semiconductor layers separated from each other and stacked up along a direction substantially perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate; second semiconductor stack over the substrate, wherein the second semiconductor stack includes second semiconductor layers separated from each other and stacked up along the direction substantially perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate; inner spacers between edge portions of the first semiconductor layers and between edge portions of the second semiconductor layers; and a bulk source/drain (S/D) feature between the first semiconductor stack and the second semiconductor stack, wherein the bulk S/D feature is separated from the substrate by a first air gap, and the bulk S/D feature is separated from the inner spacers by second air gaps.
US12148668B2
Example implementations can include a device with a core including a first dielectric material, the core having a mesa structure, a first layer disposed over opposite faces of the mesa structure of the core, the first layer including a metal material, and a second layer disposed over the mesa structure of the core and the first layer, the second layer including a two-dimensional material. Example implementations can include a method of manufacturing a stackable semiconductor device with a two-dimensional material layer, by depositing, over a substrate, a base layer including a first dielectric material, forming, on the base layer, at least one core having a mesa structure, forming sidewalls on opposite vertical surfaces of the mesa structure of the core, depositing, over the core and the sidewalls, a semiconductor layer including a two-dimensional material, and encapsulating the core, the sidewalls, and the semiconductor layer.
US12148664B2
An embodiment is a method including forming a first interconnect structure over a first substrate, the first interconnect structure comprising dielectric layers and metallization patterns therein, patterning the first interconnect structure to form a first opening, coating the first opening with a barrier layer, etching a second opening through the barrier layer and the exposed portion of the first substrate, depositing a liner in the first opening and the second opening, filling the first opening and the second opening with a conductive material, and thinning the first substrate to expose a portion of the conductive material in the second opening, the conductive material extending through the first interconnect structure and the first substrate forming a through substrate via.
US12148663B2
Tiered-profile contacts for semiconductor devices and techniques for formation thereof are provided In one aspect, a method for forming tiered-profile contacts to a semiconductor device includes: depositing a first oxide layer over the semiconductor device; depositing a second oxide layer on the first oxide layer; patterning contact trenches through the first/second oxide layer down to the semiconductor device; isotropically etching a top portion of the contact trenches selective to a bottom portion of the contact trenches based on the second oxide layer having a greater etch rate than the first oxide layer to make the top portion of the contact trenches wider than the bottom portion; and filling the contact trenches with a contact metal(s) to form the tiered-profile contacts. Other methods to form tiered-profile contacts using sacrificial spacers as well as structures including the present tiered-profile contacts are also provided.
US12148659B2
Generally, the present disclosure provides example embodiments relating to conductive features, such as metal contacts, vias, lines, etc., and methods for forming those conductive features. In an embodiment, a barrier layer is formed along a sidewall. A portion of the barrier layer along the sidewall is etched back by a wet etching process. After etching back the portion of the barrier layer, an underlying dielectric welding layer is exposed. A conductive material is formed along the barrier layer.
US12148647B2
An apparatus includes a substrate holder, a first actuator to rotate the substrate holder, a second actuator to move the substrate holder linearly, a first sensor to generate one or more first measurements or images of the substrate, a second sensor to generate one or more second measurements of target positions on the substrate, and a processing device. The processing device estimates a position of the substrate on the substrate holder and causes the first actuator to rotate the substrate holder about a first axis. The rotation causes an offset between a field of view of the second sensor and a target position on the substrate due to the substrate not being centered on the substrate holder. The processing device causes the second actuator to move the substrate holder linearly along a second axis to correct the offset. The processing device determines a profile across a surface of the substrate based on the one or more second measurements of the target positions.
US12148640B2
In an embodiment a method includes placing a wafer on a receptacle comprising a chuck base, wherein a light port for emitting light from a source of light is an opening located in a surface of the chuck base, and wherein the light port is located underneath the wafer, shining the light from the light port at an edge of the wafer so that light passes by the edge of the wafer and processing the wafer on the receptacle based on the light that passed by the edge of the wafer and that is received by a light sensitive element.
US12148634B2
The present invention relates to a substrate edge etching apparatus including: a substrate support assembly having a horizontally rotatable chuck base with a light through hole vertically penetrating a center thereof and chuck pins disposed on top of the chuck base; a spin motor for rotating the substrate support assembly; a purge gas supply assembly connected to the driving shaft through a bearing, extending vertically from the underside center of the chuck base, and having a hollow hole penetratingly extending therealong to supply a purge gas to the light through hole; and a substrate sensing unit having a light transmission part disposed inside the hollow hole of the purge gas supply assembly and a light reception part disposed apart above the light through hole of the chuck base.
US12148628B2
A leadframe includes a die pad and a set of electrically conductive leads. A semiconductor die, having a front surface and a back surface opposed to the front surface, is arranged on the die pad with the front surface facing away from the die pad. The semiconductor die is electrically coupled to the electrically conductive leads. A package molding material is molded over the semiconductor die arranged on the die pad. A stress absorbing material contained within a cavity delimited by a peripheral wall on the front surface of the semiconductor die is positioned intermediate at least one selected portion of the front surface of the semiconductor die and the package molding material.
US12148625B2
Embodiments of a wet etch process and methods are disclosed herein to provide uniform wet etching of material formed within features (e.g., trenches, holes, slits, etc.), and on more planar areas of a patterned substrate, when a critical dimension (CD) of the features is relatively small compared to the more planar areas of the patterned substrate. In the present disclosure, uniform wet etching is provided by ensuring that wall surfaces adjacent to the material being etched exhibit a neutral surface charge when exposed to the etch solution used to etch the material.
US12148621B2
There is provided a technique that includes: (a) supplying a molybdenum-containing gas containing molybdenum and oxygen to a substrate in a process chamber; (b) supplying an additive gas containing hydrogen to the substrate; and (c) supplying a reducing gas containing hydrogen and having a chemical composition different from that of the additive gas to the substrate, wherein at least two of (a), (b), and (c) are performed simultaneously or to partially overlap with each other in time one or more times or (a), (b), and (c) are performed sequentially one or more times to form a molybdenum film on the substrate.
US12148619B2
A manufacturing method for a semiconductor structure includes: a substrate is provided, the substrate including a first region and a second region; a dielectric layer is formed on the substrate; a first diffusion film layer having a first metal oxide layer is formed on the dielectric layer; the first diffusion film layer corresponding to the second region is removed; a second diffusion film layer is formed on the dielectric layer corresponding to the second region, the second diffusion film layer including a second metal oxide layer interfacing with the dielectric layer; and an annealing treatment is performed to diffuse a first metal element in the first metal oxide layer into the dielectric layer corresponding to the first region and diffuse a second metal element in the second metal oxide layer into the dielectric layer corresponding to the second region.
US12148618B2
A mask structure, a semiconductor structure and methods for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The method for manufacturing the mask structure includes: forming a pattern transfer layer, a first etching stop layer, a first sacrificial layer and a first hard mask layer sequentially stacked from bottom to top; patterning the first sacrificial layer and the first hard mask layer, to obtain a first sacrificial pattern, the first sacrificial pattern exposing the first etching stop layer; forming a first initial mask pattern on side walls of the first sacrificial pattern; removing the first sacrificial pattern; removing, based on the first initial mask pattern, a part of the first etching stop layer of which a top surface being exposed; removing the first initial mask pattern, and using the remaining part of the first etching stop layer on the upper surface of the pattern transfer layer as a first mask pattern.
US12148617B2
A method of semiconductor manufacture comprising forming a plurality of first mandrels as the top layer of the multi-layered hard mask and forming a first spacer around each of the plurality of first mandrels. Removing the plurality of first mandrels and cutting the first spacer to form a plurality of second mandrels. Forming a second spacer around each of the plurality of second mandrels and forming a first self-aligned pattern that includes a plurality of third mandrels. Removing the plurality of second mandrels and the second spacer and etching the multi-layered hard mask to transfer the first-self aligned pattern to a lower layer of the multi-layered hard mask. Forming a second self-aligned pattern, wherein the second self-aligned pattern is intermixed with the first self-aligned pattern and etching the first self-aligned pattern and the second self-aligned pattern into the conductive metal layer.
US12148614B2
Described herein is a technique capable of forming a flat film. According to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a technique that includes: (a) forming a first layer on a substrate by performing a first layer forming cycle once or more, wherein the first layer forming cycle includes: (a1) supplying a first element-containing gas to the substrate in a process chamber; and (a2) supplying a first reducing gas to the substrate a plurality of times, and wherein (a1) and (a2) are sequentially performed; and (b) forming a second layer on the first layer by performing a second layer forming cycle once or more after (a), wherein the second layer forming cycle includes: (b1) supplying a second element-containing gas to the substrate; and (b2) supplying a second reducing gas to the substrate, and wherein (b1) and (b2) are sequentially performed.
US12148608B2
Defluorination processes for removing fluorine residuals from a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer are provided. In one example implementation, a method for processing a workpiece can include supporting a workpiece on a workpiece support. The workpiece can have a photoresist layer. The workpiece can have one or more fluorine residuals on a surface of the workpiece. The method can include performing a defluorination process on the workpiece at least in part using a plasma generated from a first process gas. The first process gas can include a hydrogen gas. Subsequent to performing the defluorination process, the method can include performing a plasma strip process on the workpiece to at least partially remove a photoresist layer from the workpiece.
US12148592B2
A system for melting, sintering, or heat treating a material is provided. The system includes a cathode, an anode, and a focus coil assembly having a quadrupole magnet. The quadrupole magnet includes four poles and a yoke. The four poles are spaced apart and surround a beam cavity. Each of the four poles includes a pole face proximate the beam cavity and an end opposite the pole face. The first and third poles are aligned along an x-axis and configured to have a first magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and a second magnetic polarity opposite the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The second and fourth poles are aligned along a y-axis and configured to have the second magnetic polarity at their respective pole faces and the first magnetic polarity at their respective ends. The yoke surrounds the poles and is coupled to the poles.
US12148587B2
A manufacture method of a concave disc-shaped structure of bimetal strip, particularly to one that is a coaxial positioning method of the guide hole which having elastic disc-shape structure bimetal strips not affected by external stress, which having a bimetal structure which outer edge will not be damaged and does not affect by stress while inner edge pulling closed to the outer edge, it includes: a bimetal strip, a lug, and an assembling jig, having two displaceable positioning holes, and use the guiding surface to make the two positioning holes gradually turn inside to condense to the combining surface of the lugs, so as to achieve the purpose of accurate positioning and combination.
US12148580B2
A method of fabricating and packaging an ohmic micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) switch device may comprise constructing the switch device on an insulating substrate. The switch device may have contacts that consist of a platinum-group metal. The method may further comprise forming an oxidized layer of the platinum-group metal on an outer surface of each of the one or more contacts. The method may further comprise bonding an insulating cap to the insulating substrate, to hermetically seal the switch device. The bonding may occur in an atmosphere that has a proportion of oxygen within a range of 0.5% to 30%, such that, after the switch device has been hermetically sealed within the sealed cavity, an atmosphere within the sealed cavity has a proportion of oxygen within the range of 0.5% to 30%. The platinum-group metal may be ruthenium, and the oxidized layer of the platinum-group metal may be ruthenium dioxide.
US12148570B2
A multilayer electric component includes a body including a dielectric layer and internal electrodes alternately stacked with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween and external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrodes, wherein the internal electrodes include Cu and Ni and a coefficient of variation (CV) value of Cu/Ni (percent by weight) in a region thereof, 5 nm deep from an interface with the dielectric layer is 25.0% or less.
US12148567B1
A nanocomposite electrode and supercapacitor thereof are disclosed. The nanocomposite electrode includes a substrate, at least one binding compound, at least one carbonaceous compound, and vanadium doped spinel ferrite nanoparticles (V-SFNPs). The V-SFNPs have a formula of CoxNi1-xVyFe2-yOz, wherein x=0.1-0.9, y=0.01-0.10, and z=3-5. The substrate is at least partially coated on a first side with a mixture comprising the V-SFNPs, the at least one binding compound, and the at least one carbonaceous compound. Two of the nanocomposite electrodes are combined to form the supercapacitor.
US12148560B2
A coil component includes a support substrate, first and second coil units disposed on the support substrate and spaced apart from each other, and a body having a first core and a second core spaced apart from the first core. The first and second coil units include first and second winding portions having at least one turn around the first and second cores, respectively, and first and second extension portions respectively extending from the first and second winding portions, each of the first and second extension portions surrounding the first and second cores. The first and second winding portions are spaced apart from each other in a direction in which the first extension portion extends from the first winding portion.
US12148550B2
Provided are methods for extending the life of in-service electrical cable having polymeric insulation, comprising injecting into the cable a dielectric gel formulation containing: (a) Si—H endblocked polydiorganosiloxane (H(R2SiO)x(R2Si)H); (b) polydiorganosiloxane endblocked with unsaturated carbon-carbon functionality; (c) hydrosilylation catalyst suitable to cure (a) and (b); and (d) at least one organoalkoxysilane functional additive (e.g., anti-oxidant-based alkoxysilane, voltage stabilizer-based alkoxysilane, hindered amine light stabilizer (HALS)-based alkoxylsilane, UV absorber-based alkoxysilane, etc.), wherein (a) and (b) are cured post-injection into a non-flowable gel, and wherein (d) diffuses into the insulation. The methods may further comprise a hydrolysis/condensation catalyst compatible with the hydrosilylation catalyst so as not to interfere with the cure of (a), (b) and (c), and/or be compatible with optional siloxane crosslinkers, and/or with optional hydrosilylation inhibitors.
US12148536B2
In some embodiments, a method to excite a shock wave in a target assembly includes: splitting a pulsed laser beam into a plurality of pulsed laser beams; spatially shaping the plurality of pulsed laser beams into a plurality of concentric pulsed laser rings of different diameters; and adjusting temporal and/or spatial intervals between the concentric pulsed laser rings to substantially match propagation times of a ring-shaped laser-driven shock wave from one ring to the next in a shock propagation layer of the target assembly.
US12148535B2
The invention relates to a method for predicting a value of a parameter of a system (20). The value of the parameter of the system (20) is predicted by incrementally optimizing a pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic model based on values of parameters of the system (20) received over time. This allows for predicting values of the parameters of the system (20) with improved accuracy. In one embodiment the system (20) comprises a coagulation system (21) comprising an anticoagulant. The predicted value of the parameter of the system (20) can be a point in time at which the coagulation system (21) reaches hemostatic balance after a periodic supply of anticoagulant to the coagulation system (21) is discontinued.
US12148531B2
A framework for generating reasons for imaging studies. An extractor, including a reinforcement learning agent, is trained to select one or more relevant sentences from the training histories of present illness. An abstractor is further pre-trained to generate one or more reasons for study from the one or more relevant sentences. An entity linking system is pre-trained using medical text corpora to map one or more mentions in the one or more reasons for study to one or more standardized medical entities for predicting one or more diagnoses. The reinforcement learning agent may then be re-trained using one or more rewards generated by the entity linking system. One or more reasons for study may be generated from a current history of present illness using the trained extractor, abstractor and entity linking system.
US12148528B1
A medical decision system comprises a platform having a graphical user interface, an electronic record interface, a guideline interface, and a parameter cost interface. Moreover, a controller of the platform performance tunes a clinical pathway for a patient receiving medical care. Essentially, the controller selects an electronic patient identifier corresponding to the patient receiving medical care, extracts, via the electronic record interface, electronic medical record information associated with the selected electronic patient identifier, extracts, via the guideline interface, guidelines associated with medical care of the patient associated with the electronic patient identifier, and extracts, via the parameter cost interface, cost information associated with the extracted electronic medical record information and the extracted guidelines. In this manner, the controller generates a clinical pathway that recommends a future clinical service reconciled with actual costs of care extracted from the cost information, where the generated clinical pathway is based upon a tuning parameter.
US12148527B2
A method is provided to monitor a resident of a dwelling comprising: using a sensor located at the dwelling to sense for resident activity at a location at the dwelling; using a machine learning trained model, trained based at least in part upon resident activity at the location at the dwelling sensed by the sensor to learn an anticipated time of resident activity at the location of the dwelling, to identify the anticipated time of occurrence of resident activity at the location at the dwelling; determining whether the sensor information indicates an occurrence of the anticipated resident activity; and sending an alert indicating a failed anticipated activity event, on a condition that the sensor data indicates none occurrence of the anticipated resident activity.
US12148526B2
A caregiver assistance system for assisting a caregiver in a healthcare facility to perform his or her rounding duties comprises a server in communication with one or more patient beds and one or more electronic devices (e.g. smart phones) that are remote from the beds and that include a display, a user input, and a web browser. The server executes a caregiver assistance application that causes the electronic device to perform the following actions after the web browser of the electronic device accesses a particular URL whose content and function are controlled by the caregiver assistance application: (a) display rounding information on the display relating to a patient associated with the bed, and (b) forward a completion indication to the caregiver assistance application wherein the completion indication is generated in response to a caregiver manipulating the user input when the caregiver has completed a rounding task associated with the patient.
US12148525B2
A system of networked sensors designed to predict the onset of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) symptoms is disclosed. The system is worn by an individual and the sensors collect data correlated with COPD symptoms. The collected sensor data is transmitted from the device to the user's mobile device for analysis. The results of the analysis may be forwarded to a health care provider.
US12148523B2
A system for healthcare resource scheduling is configured to calculate differential demand for a type of healthcare resource; based on the differential demand for the type of healthcare resource, determine, via an optimization engine, a suggested resource assignment; cause an operator device to display a user interface that displays a visual representation of the differential demand for the type of healthcare resource and a visual representation of the suggested resource assignment, wherein the visual representation of the suggested resource assignment is selectable by an operator of the operator device; receive, from the operator device, an operator selection comprising a selection of the suggested resource assignment in the user interface; and transmit an assignment notification to a computing device associated with a particular available resource of the type of healthcare resource.
US12148512B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for improving patient safety using virtual observation. A falls risk assessment and a patient safety risk assessment are initially provided within an electronic health record of a patient. A clinician is prompted at a clinician device to provide input to the falls risk assessment and the patient safety risk assessment for the patient. Based on the input, a safety assessment score is determined for the patient. The safety assessment score is provided to the clinician via the clinician device and the clinician is prompted to initiate an order to place a camera in the room of the patient. Based on the order, a virtual sitter may be assigned to the patient to monitor the camera.
US12148509B2
Methods and systems are provided for accurate and efficient identification and quantification of proteins. In an aspect, disclosed herein is a method for identifying a protein in a sample of unknown proteins, comprising receiving information of a plurality of empirical measurements performed on the unknown proteins; comparing the information of empirical measurements against a database comprising a plurality of protein sequences, each protein sequence corresponding to a candidate protein among a plurality of candidate proteins; and for each of one or more of the plurality of candidate proteins, generating a probability that the candidate protein generates the information of empirical measurements, a probability that the plurality of empirical measurements is not observed given that the candidate protein is present in the sample, or a probability that the candidate protein is present in the sample; based on the comparison of the information of empirical measurements against the database.
US12148504B2
A random data generation circuit includes: a first shift register and a second shift register. The first shift register includes n output ends Q1 to Qn, the second shift register includes n output ends Qn+1 to Q2n, and each of the output ends outputs 1-bit data in a clock cycle of a clock signal; and a parallel-to-serial circuit, coupled to the output ends Q1 to Q2n and configured to convert parallel data output from Q1 to Q2n in a clock cycle into serial data for output. An initial value of the first shift register is different from an initial value of the second shift register. Data may be generated in parallel by using two shift registers, and the parallel data generated by the two shift registers is converted into serial data by using the parallel-to-serial circuit to be output.
US12148495B2
A system includes a plurality of memory dice and a processing device coupled to the plurality of memory dice. The processing device is to determine whether an error correcting code (ECC) check of ECC-protected data read from a die of the plurality of memory dice results in detecting an error. In response to detecting the error from the ECC-protected data, the processing device performs a confirmation check that the error is a result of a defect in the die. In response to the confirmation check confirming the die is defective, the processing device ignores a temperature value from the die when determining whether to trigger a thermal-related operation.
US12148492B2
A semiconductor system includes a controller configured to output parity information that includes an expected value at which an error correction code (ECC) encoding operation has been performed on an address in a test mode of a semiconductor device and configured to receive failure information. The semiconductor system also includes the semiconductor device configured to store an internal parity generated by performing the ECC encoding operation on the address that is input in a normal mode of the semiconductor device and configured to output the failure information generated by comparing the parity information and an output parity generated from the internal parity that is stored in the semiconductor device in the test mode.
US12148484B2
A system includes a memory device including a plurality of groups of memory cells and a processing device that is operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to receive a request to determine a reliability of the plurality of groups of memory cells. The processing device is further to perform, in response to receipt of the request, a scan operation on a sample portion of the plurality of groups of memory cells to determine a reliability of the sample portion that is representative of the reliability of the plurality of groups of memory cells.
US12148477B2
A memory system includes a semiconductor memory device having memory cells arranged in rows and columns, and a controller configured to issue a write command with or without a partial page program command to the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device, in response to the write command issued without the partial page command, executes a first program operation on a page of memory cells and then a first verify operation on the memory cells of the page using a first verify voltage for all of the memory cells of the page, and in response to the write command issued with the partial page command, executes a second program operation on a subset of the memory cells of the page and then a second verify operation on the memory cells of the subset using one of several different second verify voltages corresponding to the subset.
US12148476B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes first, second, third and fourth word lines coupled to first, second, third and fourth memory cells, respectively. A first transistor includes a first gate and is electrically coupled to the first word line. A second transistor includes a second gate and is electrically coupled to the second word line. A third transistor includes a third gate and is electrically coupled to the third word line. A fourth transistor includes a fourth gate and is electrically coupled to the fourth word line. The first gate is included in a first conductive layer. The second gate is included in a second conductive layer arranged away from the first conductive layer. The third and fourth gates are included in a third conductive layer which is integral and continuous.
US12148469B2
According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a memory system that has memory cells with a variable resistance element and a switching element connected between a first wire and second wire, includes forming the variable resistance elements in the memory system in a low resistance state or a high resistance state, and then bringing each of the variable resistance elements into the low resistance state before performing either of a read operation or a write operation by performing an external initialization process that is different from the read operation and the write operation. In some examples, the variable resistance element can be a magnetoresistance type element and the external initialization process may be exposing the memory cells to an external magnetic field.
US12148468B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells each including a resistance change type memory element configured to store a resistance state and a switch, a read determination circuit that compares a measurement signal from the memory cell selected in the memory cell array with a reference signal to determine a resistance state so as to read information from the resistance change type memory element, and a reference signal correction unit that corrects a level of the reference signal based on a selected position of the memory cell in the memory cell array.
US12148463B2
A dual-port memory cell includes first pull-up and pull-down transistors coupled at a first node between supply and reference voltage nodes, second pull-up and pull-down transistors coupled at a second node between the supply and reference voltage nodes, and first through fourth bit line landing pads in a metal layer. A first pass-gate transistor is coupled between the first bit line landing pad and the first node, a second pass-gate transistor is coupled between the second bit line landing pad and the second node, a third pass-gate transistor is coupled between the third bit line landing pad and the first node, and a fourth pass-gate transistor is coupled between the fourth bit line landing pad and the second node. The first node includes an interconnect between the first and second bit line landing pads, and the second node includes an interconnect between the third and fourth bit line landing pads.
US12148462B2
The embodiments described herein describe technologies for using the memory modules in different modes of operation, such as in a standard multi-drop mode or as in a dynamic point-to-point (DPP) mode (also referred to herein as an enhanced mode). The memory modules can also be inserted in the sockets of the memory system in different configurations.
US12148447B1
The present disclosure generally relates to a magnetic recording device comprising a magnetic recording head. The magnetic recording device comprises a write head and a read head. The write head comprising a trailing shield, a main pole, and a leading shield, and the read head comprises a first shield, a second shield, and a magnetic sensor disposed between the first and second shields. In some embodiments, a shield is disposed between the leading shield and the first shield. A central axis of the write head is aligned with a central axis of the read head. The read head is spaced a distance of about 5 μm to about 20 μm from the write head such that the magnetic recording head is controllable to write data to a media using the write head and read verify the data using the read head.
US12148428B2
A method of controlling a fuel pump includes receiving a first set of data characterizing an audible activation word including a first voice pattern. Control of the fuel pump is authorized in response to the first voice pattern matching a stored voice pattern within a database. A second set of data characterizing an audible command word is received, where the audible command word includes a second voice pattern. The fuel pump is controlled based on the audible command word in response to the second voice pattern matching the stored voice pattern within the database.
US12148420B2
Techniques are described herein for optimizing the presentation of content through obtaining viewership metrics, generating multiple renditions of presentations of content, and selecting optimized renditions of content. One aspect includes associating a request for viewership metrics with a presentation of content, publishing the presentation of content, and receiving information of the viewership metrics associated with the presentation. Another aspect includes copying a presentation of a content item, creating a second presentation of the content item for publishing over one or more channels, and linking the presentation of the content item to the second presentation of the content item, such that a change to one propagates to the other of the presentation of the content item or the second presentation of the content item. In yet another aspect, a content rendition may be selected for presentation based on performance of the rendition out of multiple renditions in an auction.
US12148414B2
Hearing device and method of speech synthesis in a hearing device is disclosed, the method comprising obtaining a pulse input signal based on an input signal; determining one or more pulse parameters including a first pulse parameter based on the pulse input signal; synthesizing a speech signal based on the first pulse parameter; processing the speech signal for provision of an electrical output signal; and converting the electrical output signal to an audio output signal.
US12148403B2
A display panel includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of share bar groups, and a plurality of pixel units. Each of the share bar groups includes a first share bar and a second share bar. Each of the pixel units includes a first thin-film transistor, a second thin-film transistor, and a share thin-film transistor. The first thin-film transistor and the second thin-film transistor are electrically connected to a same one of the data lines. The first thin-film transistor, the second thin-film transistor, and the share thin-film transistor are electrically connected to a same one of the scan lines. The share thin-film transistor is electrically connected to the second thin-film transistor and one of the share bar groups.
US12148401B2
A display substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of photosensitive transistor units, a plurality of photosensitive ESD protection units, and at least one common signal line. The base substrate includes a display region, a peripheral region located at a periphery of the display region, and a binding region located at a side of the display region. The plurality of photosensitive transistor units, the plurality of photosensitive ESD protection units and the at least one common signal line are located in the peripheral region. The plurality of photosensitive transistor units is connected with binding pins in the binding region through a plurality of signal lines. At least one photosensitive ESD protection unit is connected with, and located between, at least one signal line and the common signal line.
US12148399B2
The present application discloses a display device and a driving method thereof. The method of driving the display device includes: acquiring a picture to be displayed; determining whether the picture to be displayed is a heavy-loaded picture; adjusting a first gamma voltage corresponding to the picture to be displayed to a second gamma voltage if the picture to be displayed is the heavy-loaded picture, wherein corresponding to a same gray scale, a voltage value of the second gamma voltage is less than a voltage value of the first gamma voltage; and driving the display device to display the picture to be displayed according to the second gamma voltage.
US12148391B2
An embodiment of a display apparatus includes a scan driver, a pixel, a first scan line electrically connecting the scan driver to the pixel, a second scan line electrically connecting the scan driver to the pixel, and a third scan line electrically connecting the scan driver to the pixel, wherein in operation: the pixel receives first, second, and third scan signals from the scan driver by way of the first, second, and third scan lines, respectively; the first and second scan signals produce a display period of a frame period in the pixel; and the third scan signal produces a black insertion period of the frame period in the pixel.
US12148389B2
A gate driver including a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages including an eighth transistor connected between a third power input terminal and an output terminal, the eighth transistor including a gate electrode connected to a fourth node, a seventh transistor connected between a second power input terminal and the output terminal, the seventh transistor including a gate electrode connected to a third node, an eleventh transistor connected between the third power input terminal and the fourth node, the eleventh transistor including a gate electrode connected to a first node, a twelfth transistor connected between the first node and the third node, the twelfth transistor including a gate electrode connected to the second power input terminal, and a third capacitor connected between the third power input terminal and the fourth node.
US12148385B2
A sensing circuit and a display device including the same are disclosed. The sensing circuit includes: a first external power line connected to a pixel power line applying a pixel driving voltage to pixels; a second external power line connected to the pixel power line; a first selection switch element connected between the first external power line and a voltage source; a current sensor connected to the second external power line; and a second selection switch element connected between the current sensor and the voltage source, wherein the first selection switch element is turned on responsive to a first signal to supply the pixel driving voltage to the first external power line during an image display period, and the second selection switch element is turned on responsive to the second signal and the current sensor measures a current flowing through the second external power line during a sensing period.
US12148374B2
A control device includes a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store a time comparison table. The processor is configured to determine whether a displayed image is a still image. When the displayed image is determined to be a still image, the time comparison table is queried for a corresponding still image judgment duration according to an average pixel level and a type of the still image.
US12148369B2
A display panel including a pixel driving circuit is provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a first pixel driving circuit layer, a second pixel driving circuit layer, and a capacitor. The capacitor is electrically connected with a transistor of the first pixel driving circuit layer. The capacitor includes a first electrode plate. The second pixel driving circuit layer is arranged on the first electrode plate. At least one transistor of the second pixel driving circuit layer at least partially overlaps with the first electrode plate, so that the space occupied by the pixel driving circuit can be saved.
US12148362B2
An input sensing device includes: an input sensor including a transmission electrode, a first reception electrode, and a second reception electrode; and a readout circuit configured to provide a transmit signal to the transmission electrode, to receive a first receive signal from the first reception electrode, and to receive a second receive signal from the second reception electrode, wherein the readout circuit includes: a switching circuit configured to transfer the first receive signal and the second receive signal to a first node and a second node, respectively, during a touch sensing period and to transfer one of the first receive signal and the second receive signal to the first node and the second node during a compensation period; a first output circuit configured to convert a signal of the first node into a first sensing signal; and a second output circuit configured to convert a signal of the second node into a second sensing signal.
US12148354B2
A video stream is encoded using spread spectrum video transport and sent as an analog signal to a display of a VR visor where a decoder integrated with a source driver decodes the analog signal and drives the display. The analog signal is sent wirelessly to the display where it is received, converted to wired format, decoded and displayed. A wireless SSVT analog signal is received at the headset processor and forwarded to the VR visor for reception, conversion, decoding and display. A wireless SSVT analog signal is received at the processor, converted to wired format, sent wirelessly to the display where it is received at a receiver, converted to wired format, decoded and displayed. A video stream is stored in persistent storage on the headset processor using SSVT encoding. The decoder integrated with a source driver of a display is implemented directly on the glass of the display panel.
US12148350B2
The present disclosure provides a driving circuit, a driving method, a driving module and a display device. The driving circuit includes a light-emitting control signal generating circuit and a gate driving circuit; the gate driving circuit is configured to control the gate driving signal output terminal to output the gate driving signal under the control of the potential of the first node, a first input signal provided by the first input terminal and a reset signal provided by the reset terminal, according to a first clock signal provided by the first clock signal terminal and a first voltage signal provided by the first voltage terminal.
US12148341B2
A display apparatus including a display driving circuit and a display panel is provided. The display driving circuit, connected to a display panel including a plurality of pixel groups, includes a controller configured to determine a driving order of each of the plurality of pixel groups in a first horizontal period and to generate image data and a selection signal in a first voltage range, a data driver configured to generate an image signal on the basis of the image data and to transfer the image signal to the plurality of data lines in the first horizontal period, a plurality of output pads respectively connected to the plurality of pixel groups through the plurality of data lines, and a data switching circuit configured to provide the image signal to the display panel through at least one of the plurality of output pads based on the selection signal.
US12148340B1
A computing device can include a base housing; a display housing that includes a display, a display side, a back side and a back side camera; a hinge assembly that couples the base housing and the display housing; an orientation sensor that senses orientation of the display housing; and image circuitry that, based on output of the orientation sensor, controls rendering of imagery acquired by the back side camera to the display.
US12148336B2
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes at least one housing which may have a plurality of states, at least one display, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is set to display a first execution screen of at least one application on a first display area of the at least one display when the at least one housing is in a first state, wherein the first display area corresponds to the first state, identify the transition of the at least one housing from the first state to a second state, display a first screen, which includes at least one graphic object, on the second display area when a first condition is satisfied, wherein the first screen is displayed on the basis of the transition of the at least one housing from the first state to the second state, and display a second execution screen of a first application on at least a portion of the second display region in response to a first input to a first graphic object, corresponding to the first application, among the one or more graphic objects.
US12148334B2
A display device includes: a plurality of pixels at a display area around a transmissive area; a first crack detection pattern at the transmissive area; a 2-1st crack detection pattern on the first crack detection pattern; and a 2-2nd crack detection pattern on the first crack detection pattern, the 2-2nd crack detection pattern being spaced from the 2-1st crack detection pattern, and adjacent to the 2-1st crack detection pattern. In a plan view, the first crack detection pattern overlaps with the 2-1st and 2-2nd crack detection patterns.
US12148333B2
A projection method is provided. The method includes acquiring an image of a real scene using the camera. A target object is identified from the image of the real scene, and a target area is determined according to the target object. In response to a projection command, a projection content of a virtual scene is acquired. The projection content or a part of the projection content is projected outside the target area using a projection device.
US12148329B2
Disclosed are a display module and a display screen. The display module includes: a first frame having a first attachment surface and a first assembly surface, an included angle between the first attachment surface and the first assembly surface being less than 90°; a locking rod movably provided on the first frame; a second frame having a second attachment surface and a second assembly surface, an included angle between the second attachment surface and the second assembly surface being less than 90°, the second assembly surface being parallel to the first assembly surface; and a locking piece provided on the second frame and having a locking hole matched with the locking rod. The display screen includes a first cabinet, a second cabinet and the display module.
US12148325B2
An assembly and/or an edge configuration of a wristband is described herein. In some implementations, a wristband may include a first end portion formed from a first perforated cut in a sheet of material. The first end portion is disposed on a first end of the wristband. The wristband may include a second end portion formed from a second perforated cut in the sheet of material. The second end portion may be disposed on a second end of the wristband that is opposite the first end. The wristband may include a strap portion formed from a percentage cut in the sheet of material. The strap portion may be disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion.
US12148322B2
A simulator is disclosed. The simulator includes a display configured to display a 3D simulated environment and a tracking system configured to track a target. The tracking system also includes a projection configured to illuminate the target and a sensor configured to obtain a depth-image of the target. The tracking system also includes a processor configured to determine the distance of the target and/or an angle of the face of a target from the tracking system and/or display. The simulator also includes a computing unit communicatively coupled to the display and the tracking system. The computing unit is configured to send the 3D simulated environment signal to the display and to perform an adjustment of the 3D simulated environment based on at least one of the distance of the target or an angle of a face of the target relative to at least one of the display or tracking system.
US12148317B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for analyzing and evaluating movement of a subjects and providing feedback. In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving one or more images of a body of the subject captured during performance of a physical movement by the subject, and then inputting the received one or more images into a convolutional neural network (CNN) to infer physical body information. The output from the CNN may be processed again by a subsequent CNN to refine the inferred body information, which may ultimately be used to generate a recommendation to the user for their physical movements.
US12148309B2
Systems and techniques to facilitate intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management via an infrastructure network are presented. In an example, a traffic management system can include a data collection component, a flight path component, and a communication component. The data collection component receives navigation data and parameter data associated with an unmanned aerial vehicle. The navigation data is associated with a starting point and destination for the unmanned aerial vehicle. The parameter data is indicative of information associated with the unmanned aerial vehicle. The flight path component generates flight path data for the unmanned aerial vehicle based on the navigation data, the parameter data and infrastructure network data received from an intelligent sensor node network. The communication component transmits the flight path data to the unmanned aerial vehicle.
US12148300B1
A plow collateral damage mitigating system for the minimization of collateral damage done by otherwise routine and/or careless usage of a plow blade is disclosed herein. In one or more embodiments, the system includes a signal transmission cable configured to be disposed around a periphery of an area that is to be plowed; one or more receivers on a snow plow device or vehicle that are configured to receive at least one signal conveyed by the signal transmission cable; at least one actuator controlling an orientation of a plow blade of the snow plow device; and a control unit configured to automatically control the orientation of the plow blade by means of adjusting the at least one actuator based upon the at least one signal of the signal transmission cable so as to avoid damaging a boundary feature and/or obstruction disposed at the periphery of the area being plowed.
US12148299B1
This document describes systems and techniques that may be used to aggregate information about open parking spots from various different parking providers or organizations.
US12148295B2
A method of predicting traffic volume, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided, which relate to a field of artificial intelligence technology, in particular to big data and deep learning technologies The method includes: generating, for a plurality of traffic regions, a function relation graph and a volume relation graph; generating a volume feature of a target traffic region among the plurality of traffic regions, according to a historical volume information of the target traffic region; generating a volume and function relation feature for the target traffic region, based on the function relation graph and the volume relation graph; and predicting a volume of the target traffic region according to the volume feature and the volume and function relation feature.
US12148294B2
Disclosed is a method and a system for accident rescue in a smart city based on the Internet of Things. The method is implemented by a rescue management platform, including: obtaining monitoring information of a target area by a sensor network platform; judging whether an abnormal accident occurs in the target area based on the monitoring information; determining an accident type of the abnormal accident when the abnormal accident occurs in the target area; generating rescue reminder information based on the accident type, wherein the rescue reminder information includes a rescue mode of the abnormal accident; and sending the rescue reminder information to a rescuer. The system includes a rescue management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object monitoring platform. The method may be executed after the computer instructions stored in the computer-readable storage medium are read.
US12148291B2
A system and method are provided for a device for use with a primary device and a remote control device, the primary device being configured to perform a function, the remote control device including an infrared (IR) transmitter and a wireless transceiver. The IR transmitter is configured to transmit an IR signal based on the primary device control code, and the transceiver is configured to receive a wireless instruction signal. The device comprises a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the device to: obtain primary device data associated with the primary device; generate the wireless instruction signal based on the primary device data; and transmit the wireless instruction signal to cause the remote control device to transmit the IR signal to instruct the primary device to perform the function.
US12148290B2
Computer readable media, methods and apparatuses may be configured for establishing a communication session between a computing device (e.g., a display device) and a remote control device using a signaling frequency. The computing device and the remote control device may be paired based on a pairing request and a pairing response message. The pairing request may comprise address data of the remote control device and address data of the computing device.
US12148288B2
Illumination systems for illuminating a hydrant to improve visible detection of the hydrant. An illumination system may include a housing and a lighting module. The housing includes a mount portion configured to engage onto a projecting support that extends upwardly to position the housing above the hydrant. The lighting module may include an antenna configured to receive an electromagnetic signal, a battery configured to provide electrical power, and at least one light source operatively coupled to the battery and to the antenna, the at least one light source being configured to emit light outwardly from the housing in response to the electromagnetic signal received by the antenna.
US12148275B2
A theft detection device, for coupling to a merchandise product, includes a housing with a first end of a conductive strap attached to the housing. The housing has an opening for a second end of the conductive strap. The conductive strap secures the theft detection device to the product, and activated when the second end of the conductive strap is inserted into the opening. A light sensor, within the housing, senses the amount of light shining on the detection device. A motion sensor, within the housing, senses movement of the detection device. An emitter, within the housing, provides audio signals to a user. A microcontroller, within the housing, is coupled to the light sensor, the motion sensor, and the emitter. The emitter emits an alarm based on data from the light and motion sensors. The emitter emits an alarm when the conductive strap is cut or loosened from the product.
US12148271B1
An apparatus for detecting anomalous dispensing machine obtains a set of test signals that includes electromagnetic signals propagated from internal component of a dispensing machine. The apparatus extracts a set of test features from the test signals. The apparatus obtains a set of baseline signals associated with the dispensing machine, where the baseline signals includes expected electromagnetic signals associated with the internal components of the dispensing machine. The apparatus extracts baseline features from the baseline signals. The apparatus compares each of the test features with the counterpart baseline feature. The apparatus determines whether the deviation between the test features and baseline features is more than a threshold percentage. If it is determined that the deviation between the test features and baseline features is more than the threshold percentage, the apparatus determines that an unverified device is installed at the dispensing machine and disables data communications with the dispensing machine.
US12148270B1
A smart-dust information security and energy optimization process/machine/system is disclosed for use with an ATM. Tiny microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) less than 1 mm in size are deployed and distributed in and around the ATM internal and external components. The MEMS include various sensors to detect component malfunctions and identify security threats (e.g., card skimmers), and also to place the ATM in a reduced energy state whenever possible. MEMS interoperable components and sensors may include, inter alia, batteries, wireless transmitters/receivers, processors, memory, analog-to-digital converters, LIDAR, photo detectors, vibration detectors, motion detectors, wireless signal detectors for detecting Bluetooth or RFID signals, temperature sensors, humidity sensor, a power consumption/induced electromagnetic energy sensors, piezoelectric sensors, sound sensors, etc. The components and sensors are interoperable with one another, and the MEMS are in wireless communication with one another and ultimately with the ATM. Additional features and functionality are disclosed.
US12148262B2
In various embodiments a single reel on a gaming device contains multiple symbols.
US12148260B2
A bill storage unit of an automated teller machine according to an embodiment includes: a lower cassette and an upper cassette which have bills stored therein and are vertically stacked; an external control board disposed outside the lower cassette and the upper cassette to perform power supply and communication signal transmission to the lower cassette and the upper cassette; first and second internal control boards electrically connected to the external control board and disposed inside the lower cassette and the upper cassette to perform power supply and communication signal transmission to each of components inside the lower cassette and components inside the upper cassette; a plurality of connectors interconnected to electrically connect the external control board and the first and second internal control boards; and a position alignment means configured to, when the upper cassette is being stacked on the lower cassette, guide the plurality of connectors to be interconnected at correct positions.
US12148254B2
A method of providing real estate access control includes receiving a voice input at a voice assistant unit; sending the voice input from the voice assistant unit to a language processing system; at the language processing system, processing the voice input to define a message; sending the message from the language processing system to a locking device management system; at the locking device management system, processing the message as one of a command to a locking device and a query regarding the locking device.
US12148244B2
The subject technology displays first augmented reality content on a computing device, the first augmented reality content comprising a first output media content. The subject technology provides for display a plurality of selectable graphical items, each of the selectable graphical items corresponding to a different augmented reality content including a set of media content modified utilizing facial synthesis. The subject technology receives a selection of one of the plurality of selectable graphical items. The subject technology, based at least in part on the selection, identifies second augmented reality content. The subject technology provides the second augmented reality content for display on the computing device.
US12148235B2
A posture evaluating apparatus, method, and system are provided. An image under test is captured by using an image capturing apparatus. Multiple key points in the image under test are identified. The key points correspond to multiple positions located on the main body and include first and second key point groups. A position of the first key point group is obtained, and a first geometric relation is determined via the association of the first key point group. The relative position between the main body and the image capturing apparatus is determined according to the first geometric relation or the number of the key points. Each relative position has a corresponding default geometric relation. The default geometric relation and a second geometric relation formed by the association of the second key point group are compared, and a compared result is generated.
US12148220B2
A method is described for providing a neural network for directly validating an environment map in a vehicle by means of sensor data. Valid or legitimate environment data is provided in a feature representation from map data and sensor data. Invalid or illegitimate environment data is provided in a feature representation from map data and sensor data. A neutral network is trained using the valid environment data and the invalid environment data.
US12148219B2
A method for lane recognition includes, when recognizing a lane in a video, obtaining the video recorded by a monitoring device set up on a road, where the video records a plurality of vehicles running on the road; determining positions of each vehicle in a plurality of video frames of the video; determining a vehicle trajectory of each vehicle in the video based on the positions of the vehicle in the video frames of the video; and recognizing at least one lane in the video based on vehicle trajectories of the vehicles in the video.
US12148213B2
An object recognition ingestion system is presented. The object ingestion system captures image data of objects, possibly in an uncontrolled setting. The image data is analyzed to determine if one or more a priori know canonical shape objects match the object represented in the image data. The canonical shape object also includes one or more reference PoVs indicating perspectives from which to analyze objects having the corresponding shape. An object ingestion engine combines the canonical shape object along with the image data to create a model of the object. The engine generates a desirable set of model PoVs from the reference PoVs, and then generates recognition descriptors from each of the model PoVs. The descriptors, image data, model PoVs, or other contextually relevant information are combined into key frame bundles having sufficient information to allow other computing devices to recognize the object at a later time.
US12148208B2
A processing system including at least one processor may capture a video of a preparation area for a consumable item, may identify at least one item in the video, the at least one item comprising at least one of: at least one ingredient of the consumable item, or at least one tool for preparing the consumable item, and may identify annotation content for the at least one item. The processing system may then modify the video to generate a modified video that includes a visual marker associated with the annotation content and present the modified video via a device associated with a user to be served the consumable item.
US12148206B2
A computer-implemented method comprises receiving, by an image processing system, a depth image captured by a stereo camera on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). One or more pixels of the depth image are associated with corresponding depth values indicative of distances of one or more objects to the stereo camera. The image processing system determines that one or more pixels of the depth image are associated with invalid depth values. The image processing system infers, based on a distribution of the one or more pixels of the depth image that are associated with invalid depth values, a presence of a potential obstacle in an environment of the UAV. The UAV is controlled based on the inferred presence of the potential obstacle.
US12148195B2
An object detection device that detects a specific object included in an input image includes a first candidate region specifying unit that specifies a first candidate region in which an object candidate is included from a first input image obtained by imaging a subject in a first posture, a second candidate region specifying unit that specifies a second candidate region in which an object candidate is included from a second input image obtained by imaging the subject in a second posture different from the first posture, a deformation displacement field generation unit that generates a deformation displacement field between the first input image and the second input image, a coordinate transformation unit that transforms a coordinate of the second candidate region to a coordinate of the first posture based on the deformation displacement field, an association unit that associates the first candidate region with the transformed second candidate region that is close to the first candidate region, and a same object determination unit that determines that the object candidates included in the candidate regions associated with each other by the association unit are the same object and are the specific object.
US12148191B2
The present disclosure provides a method for automated image acquisition and imaging processing. The method may include obtaining imaging information of an object. The method may include determining, based on the imaging information, at least target device positioning information of an imaging device. The method may include causing, based on the target device positioning information of the imaging device, the imaging device to be positioned to perform the image acquisition. The method may include providing, based on the inspection information, guidance information, the guidance information being configured to guide positioning of the object. The method may also include obtaining a target image from an imaging operation by the imaging device. Further, the method may include determining a target image processing algorithm of a medical image.
US12148186B2
A method is provided. The method includes receiving an input image, extracting at least one feature from the input image, determining at least one local tone curve for a portion of the input image based on the extracted at least one feature, the portion of the input image being less than an overall area of the input image, and generating a toned image based on the at least one local tone curve.
US12148178B2
A pattern matching unit carries out a pattern matching between a photographed image obtained by photographing a workpiece with a monocular camera and a first plurality of models having a plurality of sizes and a plurality of angles, and selects a model having a size and an angle with the highest degree of matching. A primary detection unit detects a position and an angle of an uppermost workpiece based on the selected model. An actual load height calculation unit calculates an actual load height of the uppermost workpiece based on a hand height. A secondary detection unit re-detects the position and the angle of the uppermost workpiece based on a model having a size and an angle with the highest degree of matching selected by carrying out a pattern matching between the photographed image and a second plurality of models selected or newly created based on the actual load height.
US12148170B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for remote camera-assisted robot guidance are disclosed. A method includes obtaining images of objects approaching a door of a property; identifying candidate paths to the door based on the images of the objects approaching the door of the property; determining movement capabilities of the objects; storing the candidate paths to the door labeled by the movement capabilities of the objects that took the paths; determining capability information for a robot at the property that indicates movement capabilities of the robot; selecting, from the candidate paths, a path for the robot to take to the door based on the movement capabilities of the robot and the labels of the candidate paths; and providing guidance information to the robot that guides the robot to the door along the selected path.
US12148167B2
The present invention provides an image processing method, wherein the image processing method includes the steps of: using a plurality of corner detection filters to perform corner detection on a specific pixel of image data to generate a plurality of detection results, respectively, wherein the plurality of corner detection filters correspond to a plurality of corners with different directions, respectively; determining which one of the plurality of corners with different directions the specific pixel belongs to according to the plurality of detection results; and according to a specific corner among the plurality of corners to which the specific pixel belongs, performing an image processing operation corresponding to the specific corner on the specific pixel to generate processed image data.
US12148163B2
The present disclosure deals with the quickening of MRI examinations. Subjects of the present disclosure are a method, a system, a computer program product, a use, a contrast agent for use and a kit.
US12148154B2
A method for ascertaining pulmonary fibrosis disease progression or treatment response includes obtaining a first set of computed tomography (CT) images of a lung and determining a first Pulmonary Surface Index (PSI) score for the lung by detecting a first actual lung boundary of the lung within the first set of CT images, determining a first approximated lung boundary within the first set of CT images, and determining the PSI score using inputs based on the first actual lung boundary and the first approximated lung boundary. The method also includes obtaining a second set of CT images of the lung and determining a second PSI score for the lung using inputs based on a second actual lung boundary and a second approximated lung boundary. The method also includes assessing pulmonary fibrosis treatment response or disease progression based on the first PSI score and the second PSI score.
US12148149B2
Monitoring operations of a polishing system includes obtaining a time-based sequence of reference images of a component of the polishing system performing operations during a test operation of the polishing system, receiving from a camera a time-based sequence of monitoring images of an equivalent component of an equivalent polishing system performing operations during polishing of a substrate, determining a difference value for the time-based sequence of monitoring images by comparing the time-based sequence of reference images to the time-based sequence of monitoring image using an image processing algorithm, determining whether the difference value exceeds a threshold, and in response to determining the difference value exceeds the threshold, indicating an excursion.
US12148147B2
A substrate inspection device for inspecting a substrate, includes: a setting part configured to define a group according to a basic state that is not dependent on a presence or absence of a defect in a substrate and set the defined group for each inspection target substrate; an inspection part configured to perform a defect inspection based on a captured image of the inspection target substrate and an inspection recipe corresponding to the defined group to which the inspection target substrate belongs and including a reference image; a recipe creation part configured to create the inspection recipe for each group; and a determination part configured to perform a determination as to whether a group-setting target substrate, for which the group is set by the setting part, belongs to the group defined by the setting part.
US12148145B2
An inspection system for a fabricated object formed by layering powder includes an acquisition unit that acquires an image of a surface of each of layers, an identification unit that identifies a defect portion (protruding portion or recessed portion) on the surface of the powder and a position of the defect portion based on the acquired image, and a determination unit that determines that an abnormality occurs when the defect portion successively occurs at a same position in the plurality of layers.
US12148142B2
An industrial tomography apparatus comprising a tomography scan device configured to perform tomography scans of the products placed in the scanning zone and an electronic processing unit programmed to generate a virtual three-dimensional tomography model of a product scanned by the tomography scan device, and to perform a procedure for inspecting industrial products of known type, each comprising a packet or a container. During the inspection procedure the electronic processing unit inspects the virtual three-dimensional tomography model to assess internal features of the product and/or the shape of the product at predetermined zones and determines whether or not those internal features and/or respectively that shape, correspond to a product with intact packet or container. The apparatus implements a corresponding method for checking the integrity of packets or containers of industrial products which have known features.
US12148137B2
A platform to accurately detect user pose/verify against a reference ground truth and provide feedback using an accuracy score that represents the deviation of the user pose from the reference ground truth, typically established by an expert.
US12148132B2
An image calibration method applied to a wide-angle image and executed by an image calibration apparatus includes applying primary lens distortion correction for the wide-angle image to generate a corrected image, segmenting an foreground image from the corrected image to generate a background image, applying secondary distortion correction for the foreground image based on the pre-defined object to generate a calibrated foreground image, fusing the background image with the calibrated foreground image to generate a fused image, detecting at least one residual empty pixel not overlapped by the calibrated foreground image within the fused image, and utilizing a machine learning algorithm to fill the at least one residual empty pixel of the fused image by extending the background image to provide an output image. The foreground image contains feature pixels relate to a pre-defined object and the background image has empty pixels corresponding to the foreground image.
US12148130B2
Super resolution and color motion artifact correction in a pulsed hyperspectral, fluorescence, and laser mapping imaging system. A method includes actuating an emitter to emit pulses of electromagnetic radiation and sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation with a pixel array of an image sensor. The method includes detecting motion across two or more sequential exposure frames, compensating for the detected motion, and combining the two or more sequential exposure frames to generate an image frame. The method is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises one or more of: electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 513 nm to about 545 nm, from about 565 nm to about 585 nm, from about 900 nm to about 1000 nm, an excitation wavelength of electromagnetic radiation that causes a reagent to fluoresce, or a laser mapping pattern.
US12148106B2
A data processing method and apparatus for an immersive media file, and a computer-readable storage medium, which can enrich presentation forms of immersive media. The method includes: obtaining a recommended viewport box of the immersive media file, the recommended viewport box being used for defining switching information of a viewpoint and switching information of a recommended viewport of the immersive media file; determining a destination viewpoint and a destination recommended viewport according to the switching information of a current viewpoint and the switching information of a current recommended viewport; and switching to the destination viewpoint and the destination recommended viewport, to present the immersive media file.
US12148096B2
Provided is a method and device for outputting a large-capacity 3D model for an augmented reality (AR) device. A method of outputting a large-capacity 3D model for an AR device includes generating a multi-texture and a 3D mesh based on a multi-view image, generating a 3D model using the multi-texture and the 3D mesh, and transmitting, to the AR device, an image of the 3D model in a view, to which a camera of the AR device is directed, according to camera movement and rotation information of the AR device, and the AR device outputs the image in the view, to which the camera is directed.
US12148094B2
Systems and methods for dynamically updating and distributing digital reconnaissance maps for incident response. One example system includes an electronic processor coupled to an electronic communication interface. The processor is configured to receive an incident notification for an incident occurring at an incident scene and to generate a reconnaissance map for the incident scene. The processor is configured to receive a voice communication associated with a first incident responder at the incident scene and determine, for the first incident responder, a location within the incident scene. The processor is configured to determine a location status for the location based on the voice communication and to generate an updated reconnaissance map for the incident scene based on the reconnaissance map, the location, and the location status. The processor is configured to send, via the communication interface, the updated reconnaissance map to an electronic communication device associated with a second incident responder.
US12148093B2
Rendering systems that can use combinations of rasterization rendering processes and ray tracing rendering processes are disclosed. In some implementations, these systems perform a rasterization pass to identify visible surfaces of pixels in an image. Some implementations may begin shading processes for visible surfaces, before the geometry is entirely processed, in which rays are emitted. Rays can be culled at various points during processing, based on determining whether the surface from which the ray was emitted is still visible. Rendering systems may implement rendering effects as disclosed.
US12148090B2
In some implementations, a method of generating a third person view of a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment is performed at a device including non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. The method includes: obtaining a first viewing vector associated with a first user within a CGR environment; determining a first viewing frustum for the first user within the CGR environment based on the first viewing vector associated with the first user and one or more depth attributes; generating a representation of the first viewing frustum; and displaying, via the display device, a third person view of the CGR environment including an avatar of the first user and the representation of the first viewing frustum adjacent to the avatar of the first user.
US12148087B2
A path tracing system in which the traversal task is distributed between one global acceleration structure, which is central in the system, and multiple local acceleration structures, distributed among cells, of high locality and of autonomous processing. Accordingly, the centrality of the critical resource of accelerating structure is reduced, lessening bottlenecks, while improving parallelism.
US12148083B2
A method for creating avatar content includes receiving, from a user, a first user input selecting a first content including time-series actions of a first avatar and a second avatar, displaying a first user interface for selecting one of the first avatar and the second avatar in the first content, receiving, from the user through the first user interface, a second user input selecting the first avatar, and in response to the receiving the second user input, generating a user-customized content by adding, to the first content, a third avatar associated with the user that performs a same action as the selected first avatar.
US12148077B2
The present disclosure relates to techniques for providing an interactive computer-generated reality environment for creating a virtual drawing using one or more electronic devices. Specifically, the described techniques provide a user with a computer-generated reality environment, which can be based on different types of realities including virtual reality and mixed reality, for creating a virtual drawing on a drawing surface within the computer-generated reality environment. The computer-generated reality environment provides the user with a realistic and immersive experience while creating the virtual drawing.
US12148074B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately and flexibly generating harmonized digital images utilizing an object-to-object harmonization neural network. For example, the disclosed systems implement, and learn parameters for, an object-to-object harmonization neural network to combine a style code from a reference object with features extracted from a target object. Indeed, the disclosed systems extract a style code from a reference object utilizing a style encoder neural network. In addition, the disclosed systems generate a harmonized target object by applying the style code of the reference object to a target object utilizing an object-to-object harmonization neural network.
US12148057B2
Systems and methods for dataset distinctiveness modeling are disclosed. For example, databases may be queried for datasets associated with intellectual property assets, particularly trademarks. A vector representation may be generated for the mark in question, and a vector representation may be generated for the description of goods and/or services associated with the mark. A machine learning model may be trained to predict a distinctiveness score based on the vector representations, similarity metrics between the trademark and other marks, goods and services of the other marks, and context data associated with the trademarks.
US12148055B2
A system for storing data related to a transaction and for facilitating the transaction, the system comprising: an application server coupled with a database and configured to store information associated with a plurality of transactions, the information including account information related to a user account maintained by a first financial institution, a recipient identifier, and account information related to a recipient account maintained with a second financial institution, the application server further configured to: receive transaction data associated with a payment of the transaction, the transaction data comprising an identifier and user account information; identify the recipient account information based on a comparison of the received identifier against the stored recipient identifier; generate transfer instructions data based on the transaction data and recipient account information; and forward the transfer instructions data to the first financial institution based on the user account information to cause a deposit into the recipient account.
US12148054B2
The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method and an Internet of Things system for controlling a gas supply cost based on smart gas. The method is implemented by a smart gas management platform of the Internet of Things system. The method includes: predicting a gas supply quantity for a future preset time period based on a planned gas supply quantity of a gas supplier; predicting a gas demand quantity for the future preset time period based on a gas usage quantity of a historical user; determining a gas gap for the future preset time period based on the gas supply quantity and the gas demand quantity; and determining a gas compensation scheme based on the gas gap, operational requirements of an end of a pipeline, and operational parameters of the end of the pipeline.
US12148052B2
A local productivity prediction and management system including a weather monitoring device and a productivity prediction device. The weather monitoring device 10 including at least one of the following sensors adapted to take weather measurements of local weather conditions. The sensors include a temperature sensor 12, a humidity sensor 13, a rainfall sensor 14 and a sunlight and/or ultraviolet light sensor 15. Wherein, the productivity prediction device is adapted to over time collect local actual livestock production values. The productivity prediction device is also adapted to apply a productivity prediction model which uses one or more correlating patterns between weather measurements and actual livestock production values, whether either are local and/or offsite to provide a set of one or more predicted livestock production values. The productivity prediction device is also adapted to manage a logistical function of livestock product collection and transport with regard to capacity and timing in response to the predicted livestock production value.
US12148051B2
The disclosed technology is directed towards devices (nonhuman entities) participating in social networks. Devices that join a nonhuman social network can share information, can learn from other devices, can assist in performing tasks and so forth. A device can search for an existing nonhuman social network that matches its criteria for joining a nonhuman social network, such as a nonhuman social network of the same type of devices, a nonhuman social network within a certain neighborhood, and so on. A device can form a nonhuman social network if one does not exist that meets the device's social network join criteria. A device's user may need to give approval to join and/or form a social network. A human social network can interact with a nonhuman social network, and there can be hybrid social networks of both human and nonhuman entities. A device can change social networks over time.
US12148049B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for identifying accounts of interest in a network are provided, the method comprising controlling circuitry to: receive information indicative of a plurality of target accounts, the plurality of target accounts including at least a portion of the accounts in the network; monitor for each target account of the plurality of target accounts, at a number of instances of time, connections between that target account and other accounts in the network; using a result of the monitoring, select target accounts associated with an increase of connections to accounts in the network with which the target account has no previous connection, above a first threshold level, as a first set of accounts; using a result of the monitoring, select target accounts associated with a decrease in connections to accounts in the network with which the target account has a previous connection, above a second threshold level, as a second set of accounts; and identify at least one target account of the plurality of target accounts as an account of interest when the at least one target account is present in both the first and second set of accounts.
US12148048B2
A method utilizes a framework for transaction categorization personalization. A transaction record is received. a baseline model is selected from a plurality of machine learning models. An account identifier, corresponding to the transaction record using the baseline model, is selected. The account identifier for the transaction record is presented.
US12148041B2
In one aspect, a share data allocation (SDA) computing device is provided. The SDA computing device includes at least one processor in communication with a database. The at least one processor is configured to receive direct-share participant (DSP) request data indicating an amount each DSP is willing to invest and receive interest-based participant (IBP) request data indicating an amount each IBP is willing to invest. The at least one processor is also configured to apply a first mapping algorithm to the DSP request data and apply a second mapping algorithm to the IBP request data. The at least one processor is further configured to calculate a preliminary allocation of a total amount of assets among the DSPs and the IBPs according to results of an apportionment, and direct allocation of the total amount of assets among the DSPs and the IBPs according to results of a join operator.
US12148037B2
Systems and apparatus for processing a trade order include a computer configured for receiving market data for a financial asset, receiving pricing parameters and receiving proposed order quantity and price data. The computer is further configured for constructing proposed trades based on the proposed order quantity and price data, and for calculating a theoretical price for the financial asset based on the market data, pricing parameters as well as the proposed order price data. In addition, the computer is configured for comparing the constructed trades with the theoretical price, and displaying market data indicators relative to the theoretical price indicators based on the comparison.
US12148032B2
Various techniques are disclosed for offloading the processing of data packets. For example, the offloaded processing can be resident in an intelligent switch, such as an intelligent switch upstream or downstream from an electronic trading platform. The data packets processed through the intelligent switch can be unreliable datagram protocol (UDP) data packets from multiple feeds of financial market data, and the offloaded processing can include line arbitration, gap detection, and/or gap mitigation of redundant copies of UDP data packets from one or more financial market data feeds.
US12148029B1
A method includes using a distributed computing system to form a syndicate, generate a unique identifier for each of a plurality of participants of the syndicate, receive a verification request comprising the unique identifier from each of the plurality of participants, verify that a respective entity is a node on the distributed computing system, receive loan terms templates from each of the plurality of participants, receive a plurality of data from each of the plurality of participants, identify a first subset of participants having an excess of funds and a second subset of participants having a lack of funds, and verify each of the first subset of participants and the second subset of participants. The method includes using a syndicate computing system to automatically execute at least one loan agreement between at least one of the first subset of participants and at least one of the second subset of participants.
US12148022B2
A method for purchasing goods comprising receiving a document listing one or more goods to be purchased, acquiring prices for the good from a plurality of sellers, acquiring at least one price for a comparable good from at least one seller, identifying a best price of the acquired prices, and outputting the best price.
US12148014B1
A digital health solution system includes: a virtual pharmacy including one or more processors configured to operate a web portal for user devices via a network, the web portal serving as a marketplace for digital health solution applications available for download by and activation on user devices; a digital health marketplace including one or more processors configured to, in response to receipt of user input from a user device: determine activation criteria for a selected one of the digital health solution applications; and transmit the activation criteria to the virtual pharmacy, where the one or more processors of the virtual pharmacy are configured to transmit the activation criteria to the user device via the network; and where the user device is configured to, using the activation criteria, at least one of download and activate the selected one of the digital health solution applications.
US12148013B2
Methods and apparatus are described that use machine vision and machine learning to eliminate many of the steps of a typical retail transaction. For example, implementations are contemplated in which a user simply removes an item from a retail location to effect the transaction.
US12148009B2
The invention relates to a campaign management system comprising a computer-data processor memory, a graphical user interface (GUI), the management system (CAMS) processing a plurality of participant records (PREC) according to a user-configured process structure (PS) of a plurality of configured logic templates (CLT) configured on the basis of a plurality of logic templates (LT); the graphical user interface (GUI) is arranged to display graphical elements (GE), each graphical element (GE) being associated with a logic template (LT); wherein said logic templates (LT) comprise user editable parameters (UEP) being editable using the graphical user interface (GUI) and an executable program fragment (EPF) being executable on the basis of said user editable parameters (UEP) and one or more of said participant records (PREC); wherein the graphical elements (GE) are couplable using said graphical user interface (GUI) by a user, the coupling defining the process structure (PS) of said executable program fragments (EPF) of said logic templates (LT) in relation to said participant records (PREC); wherein said process structure (PS) and said participant records (PREC) for processing according to said process structure (PS) represent a campaign (CAM); wherein the participant records (PREC) comprise participant attributes (PA) being processable by said executable program fragments (EPF) of said configured logic templates (CLT) according to said process structure (PS) and wherein the participant attributes (PA) comprise global participant attributes (GPA) and local participant attributes (LPA), wherein said global participant attributes (GPA) are defined across a plurality of campaigns (CAM) defined by different respective process structures (PS), and wherein said local participant attributes (LPA) are defined for a subset of said plurality of campaigns CAM).
US12148004B2
Method and system for delivery of a targeted advertisement by an electric vehicle charging apparatus
System, apparatus and method may control charging a battery of one or more mobile energy storage and power consumption devices, such as installed on electric vehicles (EVs), and delivering a targeted advertisement, provided over a communication network, at an EV charging apparatus selected for charging the battery of the mobile energy storage and power consumption device of an EV, or by a software application on a computing device of an EV user which may perform functions of a process for EV charging.
US12147998B1
This disclosure describes techniques that include a system for supporting payment, data visibility, action recommendations, and advice pertaining to activities across various commercial entities, applications, and/or consumer/commercial entity relationships. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes identifying, by a computing system, interactions with each of a plurality of commercial entities; determining, by the computing system, information about incentive policies for each of the plurality of commercial entities; receiving, by the computing system and from a user device, a request; generate, by the computing system, a recommendation, wherein the recommendation is generated based on the request, the interactions with the plurality of commercial entities, and an analysis of the incentive policies for each of the plurality of commercial entities; output, by the computing system, information about the recommendation to be presented by the user device.
US12147997B1
A technique for collecting environmental data from a remote region comprises use of a collector device with a sensor to collect environmental data and a memory to store the collected data. Collector devices are distributed to locations within the region, and the collector devices collect and store environmental data. Locations within the region are prioritized. Incentives are generated to transport environmental data based, at least in part, on the priorities. When a collector device is transported from the remote region to a location with connectivity to a host system, the stored environmental data is uploaded.
US12147993B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to enhanced chain of custody certification. A computing platform may establish, within a period of time of receiving data, a first distributed ledger that includes the data. The computing platform may receive a request to access the data. The computing platform may compute a first hash of the data indicating a state of the data prior to being accessed, and may record the first hash in a second distributed ledger. After granting data access, the computing platform may receive first information indicating actions performed on the data and second information indicating reasons for accessing the data. The computing platform may compute a second hash of the data indicating a state of the data after being accessed, and may record the second hash and the second information in the second distributed ledger. The computing platform may record, in a third distributed ledger, the first information.
US12147990B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to utilizing an offline and/or online verification or authentication protocol to access, redeem, or otherwise utilize multiple loyalty points and loyalty accounts A method for utilizing various loyalty points includes: receiving, by an application executing on a processor, a request to redeem at least one loyalty point of a plurality of loyalty points of a loyalty points account, receiving, by the application, a cryptogram from a contactless card associated with an account, transmitting, by the application to a server, the cryptogram, determining, by the application based on a decryption result received from the server, that the server decrypted the cryptogram, and authorizing, by the application based on the determination that the server decrypted the cryptogram, the request to redeem the at least one loyalty point.
US12147970B2
Provided is an IC card (100) including a communication unit (102) that performs communication with an external device, a storage unit (104) that has tamper resistance, and that stores key information indicating a private key forming a pair with a public key or a seed value for generating the private key, and a processing unit (110) that, on the basis of object data to be recorded in a P2P database acquired from the external device by communication at the communication unit, and the private key corresponding to the key information, performs control to generate signature data corresponding to the object data, and transmits data including the generated signature data to the external device by communication at the communication unit.
US12147964B2
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing peer-to-peer transfers. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for initiating and managing transfers. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces corresponding to completed transfers. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for providing visually distinguishable message object appearances based on message designation. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for activating accounts for accepting and sending transfers. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for exchanging accounts for use in a transfer. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for splitting transfers between two or more accounts. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for generating and displaying a transfers history list. In some examples, a device provides user interfaces for voice-activation of transfers. In some examples, a device provides visual or haptic feedback corresponding to a transfer operation.
US12147959B2
A system, method and computer readable medium for dynamically determining location-based rules affecting item sales at POS registers for a particular location and for distributing the location-based rules to the POS registers is discussed. A location-based ruleset of rules regulating sales of items at an individual store is created and transmitted to the store along with a rule group to item map file that maps rules and warnings to individual store items. A rules engine at the store provides updated item sale rules and warnings to POS registers based on the location-based ruleset and rule group to item map file. Embodiments thus provide an improved system for updating POS registers at different store locations with location-based rules specific to the store location.
US12147956B2
A method for awarding prizes to users via an electronic game of chance is disclosed. The method includes executing, by a gaming device, a mystery game that includes a recipe that defines a respective probability corresponding to each respective winnable token and a manner by which a winning digital token is randomly selected. The method also includes randomly selecting the winning digital token from the set of winnable digital tokens based on the mystery box recipe, wherein the winning digital token is redeemable for a corresponding winnable item that is represented by the winning token. The method includes awarding the winning digital token to user, wherein the winning token is redeemable for the won item. The method includes upon selecting the winning digital token, transmitting a signal indicative of winning token to a mystery box system that initiates a transfer of the winning token to an account of the user.
US12147953B2
Disclosed are example methods, systems, and devices for integrating payment API services provided by a service provider computing system with a client application. The client application running on a user device may allow a user to make payments and/or to submit payments for approval and may communicate payment information to a client computing system. If a payment is submitted for approval via the client application, the client computing system may make API calls to the service provider computing system to, for example, submit, view, and/or cancel payments. Payments may be approved by a second user using a second device. The service provider computing system initiates fund transfers for approved payments. Payments may be submitted within the operating environment of the client application without use of an application or website of the service provider.
US12147943B1
Disclosed an indexing method and an indexing system for tracking record of composite material production process and quality monitoring, including: obtaining recorded data in production and use processes of composite materials in turn, integrating recorded data in different production and use processes respectively, and adding index marks to products in the different production or use processes according to index information corresponding to integration results; wherein index marks are used for feeding back the recorded data; in addition to a first production process, the recorded data corresponding to any production or use process also comprise the recorded data of the production or use process integrated with previous time series; in a process of integrating the recorded data, if composite material production process comprises a plurality of production detection stations, classifying the recorded data according to a time corresponding to the detection processes of production detection stations, and integrating classification results.
US12147941B2
A method for monetizing ferroelectric process development is described. In at least one embodiment, the method comprises procuring a target material based on a model driven selection which is based on charge, mass and magnetic moment, and/or mass of the atomic constituents of the target material. The method further comprises applying the target material to a fabrication process to build a ferroelectric device. The method further comprises generating a notification indicative of procurement of the target material and application of the target material. The method further comprises electronically transmitting the notification to a customer, wherein the notification includes an invoice having a line item associated with a cost of the procuring of the target material and application of the target material.
US12147929B2
Container devices and delivery systems for using the same are provided. In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a method for delivering packages includes: receiving, at a delivery hub, a first package to be delivered to a recipient; causing the first package to be placed in a container to be delivered to the recipient; associating a first identifier of the first package and a container identifier of the container with the recipient causing the second package to be placed in the container; associating a second identifier of the second package with the identifier of the container; determining, at a second time point, whether the container is ready to be delivered to the recipient; and, in response to determining that the container is ready to be delivered to the recipient, causing the container to be loaded onto a delivery vehicle.
US12147927B1
A system collects information associated with the work performance and work satisfaction of caregiver's who provide in-home care services to seniors. A machine learning system is trained to predict caregiver attrition and generate a user interface display indicative of a risk an individual caregiver will attrit. The system may also be used to determine action steps to reduce the risk of attrition of a caregiver.
US12147918B2
A flight departure control system comprises a central departure control system and a plurality of local departure control systems arranged at or in proximity of individual airports. Passengers check-in for flights via the central DCS and for each passenger a passenger data message is created and sent to the local DCS to which the flight relates. On detection of a fault condition at the central DCS or in communications with the central DCS, the local DCS assume responsibility for flights departing from the airport at which they are located based on the received passenger data messages and unchecked-in passengers check-in directly with the local DCS.
US12147917B2
Systems, methods and software for scheduling and performing self-guided tours (SGTs) of multi-unit residential facilities (MURFs) are provided. For scheduling SGTs, the method includes receiving guest information, payment information, and identification (ID) information from a client device, determining validity of the payment and ID information, and receiving and confirming an SGT tour time. For performing SGTs, the method includes sending property access information to a client device, receiving a trigger from a property access control system indicating that a user of the client device has entered the MURF, providing MURF tour directions to the client device, and receiving tour data for the SGT. The disclosed systems, methods, and software provide prospective tenant users and owners and/or management of MURFs efficient and user-friendly interaction to accomplish and enhance their tour operation experiences.
US12147916B1
The present disclosure relates to a multi-classification non-intrusive identification and detection method for an electrical signal based on naive Bayes, including an expert database module and a signal classification module. An electrical signal training sample of a known category is built based on historical and real-time aircraft signals. Classification is performed based on a built naive Bayes model classifier, to obtain an aircraft signal classification result. P(yi) is separately calculated for each category, a conditional probability is calculated for each feature, and a classification result of a sample signal is obtained through statistic acquisition by using a probability comparison algorithm. A next status is predicted by using a time series prediction method after electrical signal data is classified and determined by using a naive Bayes algorithm.
US12147915B2
Systems and methods for modelling prediction errors in path-learning of an autonomous learning agent
Systems and methods for modelling prediction errors in path-learning of an autonomous learning agent are provided. The traditional systems and methods provide for machine learning techniques, wherein estimation of errors in prediction is reduced with an increase in the number of path-iterations of the autonomous learning agent. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for a two-stage modelling technique to model the prediction errors in the path-learning of the autonomous learning agent, wherein the two-stage modelling technique comprises extracting a plurality of fitted error values corresponding to a plurality of predicted actions and actual actions by implementing an Autoregressive moving average (ARMA) technique on a set of prediction error values; and estimating, by implementing a linear regression technique on the plurality of fitted error values, a probable deviation of the autonomous learning agent from each of an actual action amongst a plurality of predicted and actual actions.
US12147913B2
Provided are techniques for data analysis and rule generation for providing a recommendation. A recommendation structure is built from features of data, where the recommendation structure comprises a plurality of rules, and where each rule of the plurality of rules is associated with a recommendation. The recommendation structure is sent to a model. A feature set comprising a feature and one or more related features is created from the features. In response to determining that a feature worthiness score of the feature set exceeds a threshold, the feature set is input to the model. A rule of the plurality of rules is received from the model, where the rule includes the feature, the one or more related features, and the associated recommendation. In response to receiving a set of values for the feature and the one or more related features, the rule is applied to the set of values to provide the recommendation.
US12147908B2
A method includes generating a content entigen group for content using identigen pairing rules. The method further includes obtaining a contradicting entigen group from a knowledge database based on the content entigen group. The method further includes updating the knowledge database to include the content entigen group. A contradicted entigen of the content entigen group is established to indicate duplication of a contradicted entigen of the contradicting entigen group.
US12147897B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving a data set that includes demographic data and population data; training, based on the data set, a neural network to establish a relationship between different physical layouts of messages and responses to the different physical layouts of the messages; applying the trained neural network to a user profile to predict a physical layout of a message; generating instructions for an electronic device based on the predicted physical layout of the message, the instructions comprising the message; and transmitting the instructions to the electronic device to create a physical label having a layout corresponding to the predicted physical layout of the message.
US12147896B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and non-transitory computer storage media for generating an ambient occlusion (AO) map for a 2D image that can be combined with the 2D image to adjust the contrast of the 2D image based on the geometric information in the 2D image. In embodiments, using a trained neural network, an AO map for a 2D image is automatically generated without any predefined 3D scene information. Optimizing the neural network to generate an estimated AO map for a 2D image requires training, testing, and validating the neural network using a synthetic dataset comprised of pairs of images and ground truth AO maps rendered from 3D scenes. By using an estimated AO map to adjust the contrast of a 2D image, the contrast of the image can be adjusted to make the image appear lifelike by modifying the shadows and shading in the image based on the ambient lighting present in the image.
US12147892B2
Provided is an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to apply a low rank approximation using a matrix decomposition for a first square matrix among a plurality of square matrices based on parameter values of a deep learning model, and obtain a first approximated matrix and a second approximated matrix for the first square matrix, obtain second approximated matrices for each of a plurality of remaining square matrices other than the first square matrix among the plurality of square matrices, based on the first approximated matrix for the first square matrix, and store the first approximated matrix the first square matrix and the second approximated matrices for each of the plurality of square matrices in the memory.
US12147889B2
An artificial neural network and method are provided. The method includes receiving a set of input voltages; converting a respective input voltage in said set of input voltages into a respective set of local currents using a voltage-to-current conversion; multiplying said respective set of local currents by a respective set of binary signals to establish a respective set of conditionally inverted currents; summing said respective set of conditionally inverted currents into a respective local current; summing all respective local currents into a global current; and converting the global current into an output voltage using a load circuit.
US12147886B2
Described are techniques for predictive microservice activation. The techniques include training a machine learning model using a plurality of sequences of coordinates, where the plurality of sequences of coordinates are respectively based upon a corresponding plurality of series of vectors generated from historical usage data for an application and its associated microservices. The techniques further include inputting a new sequence of coordinates representing a series of application operations to the machine learning model. The techniques further include identifying a predicted microservice for future utilization based on an output vector generated by the machine learning model. The techniques further include activating the predicted microservice prior to the predicted microservice being called by the application.
US12147884B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for machine learning. In some implementations, a pre-processing system may identify one or more special features in an input dataset and may generate one or more pruned datasets, respectively, based on the identified special features. The pre-processing system maps each of the pruned datasets to one or more predictions and selectively removes the values associated with one or more special features from the input dataset based on the mapping. In some other implementations, a pre-processing system may map each of the feature sets in an input dataset to multiple predictions in accordance with multiple machine learning algorithms. The pre-processing system evaluates a performance of each of the mappings and selects one of the machine learning algorithms to be used to train the machine learning model based on the performance of each mapping.
US12147866B2
A system comprises a dongle and a diagnostic tool. The dongle includes a vehicle communication transceiver (VCT), a first wireless transceiver, and a vehicle connector. The diagnostic tool includes a processor, a proximity sensing component, an output device, and a second wireless transceiver. The proximity sensing component outputs an output signal. The processor receives the output signal and make a determination that indicates whether the output signal indicates an object is in spatial proximity to the proximity sensing component. The processor outputs using the output device a notification based on the determination. The VCT performs a vehicle communication directly with a vehicle while the vehicle connector is connected to an on-board diagnostic connector (OBDC) of the vehicle. The first and second wireless transceivers communicates with each other to trigger a vehicle communication from the dongle to the vehicle while the vehicle connector is connected to the OBDC.
US12147864B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a radiofrequency chip card. The method comprises the steps of: forming a card body comprising a relay antenna and an insulating cover layer on at least one main face of the card, arranging a module equipped with a radiofrequency module antenna on the card body opposite the relay antenna for radiofrequency coupling; forming a metal insert in the card body, the insert extending up to the edges of the card and comprising a space permeable to the radiofrequency field opening on at least one of the two main faces of the insert and comprising the relay antenna inside and/or opposite this space. Provided also is a corresponding card produced by the method.
US12147863B2
A mobile device includes a smartcard controller that does not rely on power received from an interrogating RF field. The mobile device also includes a small inductive device capable of inductive coupling with an RFID reader. The smartcard controller includes circuitry to modulate an impedance of a port coupled to the inductive element when in the presence of an interrogating RF field at substantially 13.56 MHz.
US12147861B2
Combined use transaction cards are disclosed including preferably the functionality of being usable for conducting a financial transaction along with the additional functionality for activation or access to at least one other event. Many types of non-financial events are contemplated such as for access or entry, employee need, student need, and the like. Such cards preferably utilize electronically readable means as may be provided to such cards, such as including magnetic stripes, RFID transponders, OCR text, and one dimensional or two dimensional bar codes.
US12147858B2
Aspects described herein may allow for a payment card having enhanced edge patterns. The payment card may include a complex edge morphology on the physical card that may make the payment card more likely to be used by consumers and makes the payment card stand out due to the enhanced edge design. The edge of the payment card may be reeded, crenelated, or may include various shapes of various sizes on one or more of the edge walls extending around the payment card. The edge of the payment card may also include dimples, chips, and/or other complex design patterns cut into the face of the payment card close to the edge. The payment card may also include inclusions of other materials, such as metals, ceramic, and/or polymer to be added which fill or partially fill any voids produced by the edge patterns.
US12147855B2
A processor includes a memory and a processing core. The processing core is configured to define, in the memory, a jump table that is indexed by a service identifier and includes start addresses for respective service identifier values, to receive a system call that specifies a service identifier value, and to serve the system call by executing program code starting from a start address corresponding to the specified service identifier value.
US12147852B2
An information handling system includes a console bid manager that may intercept an event from a managed node, transmit notification to eligible management consoles for bids on the event, process the bids to determine one or more interrelated actions in response to the event, and coordinate performance of the one or more interrelated actions in handling the event. The performance of the one or more interrelated actions may be delegated to the eligible management consoles to resolve the event from the managed node.
US12147850B2
A resource scheduling method is provided. The energy storage device pool includes at least one energy storage device. One example method includes: receiving a resource scheduling application request, determining a target energy storage device from the energy storage device pool based on the resource scheduling application request, and allocating an electric power resource to a power consumption device by using the target energy storage device.
US12147846B2
One or more computer processors determine a runtime feature set for a first container, wherein the runtime feature set includes aggregated temporally collocated container behavior. The one or more computer processors cluster the first container with one or more peer containers or peer pods based on a shared container purpose, similar container behaviors, and similar container file structure. The one or more computer processors determine an additional runtime feature set for each peer container. The one or more computer processors calculate a variance between the first container and each peer container. The one or more computer processors, responsive to the calculated variance exceeding a variance threshold, identify the first container as anomalous.
US12147845B2
A virtual machine monitoring device allows for securing a network band of a virtual machine in a virtualization infrastructure system. To achieve this, the virtual machine monitoring device includes: a data acquisition unit that collects hosts on which virtual machines operate, operation statuses of the virtual machines, and used network bands of the hosts; a monitoring unit that specifies, when the used network bands of the hosts exceed a predetermined network band threshold value, virtual machines that operate on the hosts and the operation statuses of which do not satisfy a predetermined reference; a migration determination unit that determines a virtual machine to be migrated among the specified virtual machines and determines a migration destination host; and a migration instruction unit that instructs the virtualization infrastructure control device to perform the migration.
US12147831B2
The present disclosure relates to a manycore system which includes a device memory configured to store data associated with a job requested to be offloaded from a host device, and a plurality of clusters. Each of the plurality of clusters includes a program memory configured to store a program associated with the job requested to be offloaded, a plurality of cores configured to execute one or more threads associated with the job, and a management module configured to allocate one or more tasks associated with the job to the plurality of cores based on job loads of the plurality of cores, and control thread execution corresponding to the one or more allocated tasks. Each core includes thread areas configured to independently store and track an execution state of each thread executed on the core, and each thread executed on the core is independently executed using a separate thread area.
US12147829B2
Provided is a data processing system for a heterogeneous architecture, including, a job decomposing component, configured to decompose a to-be-completed job into a series of tasks executed by an execution subject in the heterogeneous architecture; a task topology generating component, configured to generate a task relationship topology based on an inherent relationship between the decomposed tasks during the job decomposition, where a task node of the task topology includes all node attributes required to execute a corresponding task; an execution subject creating component, configured to create a corresponding execution subject for each task in a computing resource based on the task relationship topology; and an execution subject network component, configured to include one or more data processing paths including various created execution subjects, and fragment actual job data into task data when receiving the actual job data.
US12147828B2
A method of processing media content in Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Network Based Media Processing (NBMP) may include obtaining, from an NBMP source, a workflow having a workflow descriptor (WD) indicating a workflow descriptor document (WDD); based on the workflow, obtaining a task having a task descriptor (TD) indicating a task descriptor document (TDD); based on the task, obtaining, from a function repository, a function having a function descriptor (FD) indicating a function descriptor document (FDD); and processing the media content, using the workflow, the task, and the function.
US12147824B2
Mechanisms of cloning containers to spawn offspring, orchestrate new containers on different execution environments, and enabling intra-container communication while maintaining parent-child relationships are disclosed.
US12147814B2
Dynamic thread count optimizations include determining: (i) a detected quantity of unassigned IO requests; (ii) a quantity of IO requests currently in process; (iii) a thread pipeline value required to fill a thread's pipeline capacity and based on ratio of (a) an IO duration time from when an IO request is issued until a corresponding IO completion is received and (b) an IO processing time from when an IO request is assigned to a thread until it is issued; and (v) an ideal thread quantity based on a ratio of (a) the quantity of IO requests to be processed and (b) the thread pipeline value. Said optimizations also include dynamically activating new threads whenever a quantity of active threads is determined to be less than the ideal thread quantity.
US12147812B2
A processor includes a loop detection unit to detect an OOO-loop based on the reserved resources for execution of the OOO loop. The processor executes the OOO loop by reading source operand data on first iteration of the loop and write back data on the last iteration of the loop while allowing instructions after the loop to be concurrently executed.
US12147807B1
Automated methods and systems for tuning parameters of detectors based on metrics are provided. The tuning methods and systems include using machine learning to adjust registers used for setting detector parameters in an automated fashion to achieve optimal performance in a time-efficient manner. The tuning process can include determining available registers provided by the detector and setting values within those registers to a starting value. A binary search in either direction from the starting value is then performed to determine the limits of the parameter values for each register. The register values can then be optimized in view of selected metrics.
US12147805B2
There is provided an apparatus and method, the apparatus comprising storage circuitry to store event information associated with instructions occurring between instrumentation points. The event information indicates a plurality of different types of events expected to occur during execution of the instructions. The event information comprises, for each event, type information indicating a type of that event and an expected number of occurrences of that event. The apparatus is also provided with monitoring circuitry comprising a plurality of programmable counters. The monitoring circuitry is responsive to a start instrumentation point, to assign at least a subset of the plurality of programmable counters to measure, during execution of the program instructions, occurrences of the plurality of different types of events identified in the event information. The monitoring circuitry is responsive to at least one counter deviating from the expected number of occurrences indicated by that counter, to perform a predetermined action.
US12147796B2
Described embodiments provide deployment of updates to multiple clients. A device may provide, to each client of a first plurality of clients, a software update to be executed at the client. The device can transmit, subsequent to providing the software update, to each of the first plurality of clients, a request to check a status of the client. The device can receive from at least one of the first plurality of clients, a response to the request indicative of operational health of the client subsequent to providing the software update to the client. The device determines an operational health statistic of the first plurality of clients subsequent to providing the software update to the first plurality of clients and provides, to each client of a second plurality of clients, the software update to be executed at each client responsive to determining that the operational health statistic satisfies a predetermined threshold.
US12147793B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for sharding dataflow graphs for a device having multiple synchronous tiles. One of the methods includes receiving a representation of a dataflow graph comprising a plurality of nodes that each represent respective matrix operations to be performed by a device having a plurality synchronous tiles. Candidate allocations of respective portions of the dataflow graph to each tile of the plurality of synchronous tiles are evaluated according to one or more resource constraints of the device. One of the candidate allocations is selected based on evaluating each candidate allocation.
US12147787B2
Disclosed herein is a computing device that includes a memory and a processor, which is coupled to the memory. The memory stores processor executable instructions for a robotic process engine. In operation, the robotic process engine generates a robot tray comprising a canvas and dynamically configures the canvas based on inputs. The dynamic configuring includes adding a widget onto the canvas.
US12147781B2
Computer processing and outcome prediction systems and methods used to generate algorithm time prediction polynomials, inverse algorithm time prediction polynomials, determine race conditions, determine when a non-linear algorithm can be treated as if it were linear, as well as automatically generate parallel and quantum solutions from classical software or from the relationship between monotonic attribute values.
US12147775B2
A content generator system receives a request to generate content for a target entity, and one or more keywords. The content generator system retrieves, for the target entity, a current stage identifier linking the target entity to a current stage within a multi-stage objective. The content generator system generates an input vector including the current stage identifier, a target stage identifier, a token embedding comprising the one or more keywords, and a position embedding for each of the one or more keywords, the target stage identifier associated with a target stage within the multi-stage objective different from the current stage. The content generator system generates output text content for the target entity by applying a generative transformer network to the input vector. The content generator system transmits the output text content to a computing device associated with the target entity.
US12147774B2
A method includes: receiving, by a computer device, a user question; extracting, by the computer device and from a knowledge base, multiple answers to the user question; detecting, by the computer device, a first relationship entity that exists in a subset of the multiple answers to the user question; determining, by the computer device, that the first relationship entity is a condition, the condition being a relationship entity that has different values in the subset of the multiple answers; generating, by the computer device, a first follow-up question that solicits a value of the condition; receiving, by the computer device, an answer to the first follow-up question; and determining, by the computer device, a number of the subset of the multiple answers that have a value of the condition that matches the answer to the first follow-up question.
US12147773B2
There is provided a computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data, to answer questions, comprising the steps of: (a) storing in a non-transitory storage medium a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language, in which the machine-readable language uses a shared syntax across factual statements, queries and reasoning, and uses nesting of nodes and passages, as an unambiguous syntax; where the data relates to parts of documents stored in a document store; (b) automatically processing the structured, machine-readable representation of data to answer questions, in which a user's query is automatically translated into the machine-readable language and a system responds to the user's query by utilising the machine-readable language translation of the query.
US12147772B2
A system may include a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor may be configured to perform operations. The operations may include generating a content page and selecting an annotation container for the content page. The operations may include configuring the annotation container and inputting content into the annotation container. The operations may include submitting at least one attribute to the annotation container to associate the attribute with the content. The operations may include including the content and the at least one attribute in container data and extracting a model from the container data. The operations may include importing the model into a dialog skill and embedding the dialog skill into a user interface.
US12147770B2
An information processing device includes an analyzing unit configured to analyze text data representing claims included in patent document data to identify constituent components of an invention for each claim included in the claims, and a display control unit configured to cause a display device to display texts indicating each claim in the claims, in a form in which the texts indicating each claim are partitioned into the constituent components.
US12147767B2
Implementations are described herein for recommending actions based on entity or entity type. In various implementations, a partial free-form natural language input may be received from a user at an input component of a computing device. The partial free-form natural language input may identify an entity without identifying a responsive action and may be directed by the user to an automated assistant that operates at least in part on the computing device. The partial free-form natural language input may be analyzed to identify the entity. Based on the identified entity, a plurality or superset of candidate responsive actions may be identified, filtered, and/or ranked based on one or more signals. The automated assistant may then provide output that recommends one or more of the candidate responsive actions based on the ranking and/or filtering.
US12147764B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for similarity scoring of sentences, while restricting distances between tokenized pairs in the sentences. An embodiment operates by determining a similarity of tokens between a first sequence of tokens and a second sequence of tokens to generate token pairs, determining a distance of relative positioning of token pairs in the first tokenized sequence and the second tokenized sequence and generating a score value that indicates the degree to which the first sentence matches the second sentence based on restricting matches to a maximum value of the distance of relative positions of the token pairs in the first tokenized sequence and the second tokenized sequence.
US12147757B2
A method including receiving an input comprising natural language texts; segmenting the natural language texts into sections; summarizing the natural language texts; developing a first model based on the plurality of sections and the summary of the natural language texts; identifying one or more salient sentences within the natural language texts using the first model; determining a sentence quality score based on how informative a salient sentence is; determining a sentence similarity score based on a salient sentence's similarity to another salient sentence; developing a second model based on the sentence quality score and the sentence similarity score; combining the first model and the second model into a final model; selecting sentences based on the final model; and generating an extractive summarization using the selected sentences.
US12147752B2
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed herein for developing a cell design. Operations of a plurality of electrical cells are simulated to collect a plurality of electrical parameters. A machine learning model is trained using the plurality of electrical parameters. The trained machine learning model receives data having cell layout design constraints. The trained machine learning model determines a cell layout for the received data based on the plurality of electrical parameters. The cell layout is provided for further characterization of electrical performance within the cell layout design constraints.
US12147751B2
An integrated circuit includes a plurality of logic cells arranged in a first row extending in a first direction and including different types of active areas extending in the first direction, a filler cell arranged in a second row adjacent to the first row in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and extending in the first direction, and a first routing wiring line arranged in the second row and connecting a first logic cell and a second logic cell apart from each other by a first distance among the plurality of logic cells. A height of the first row is different from a height of the second row.
US12147750B2
A multiplexer circuit includes first and second fins each extending in an X-axis direction. First, second, third and fourth gates extend in a Y-axis direction perpendicular to the X-axis direction and contact the first and second fins. The first, second, third and fourth gates are configured to receive first, second, third and fourth data signals, respectively. Fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth gates extend in the Y-axis direction and contact the first and second fins, the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth gates, and are configured to receive the first, second, third and fourth select signals, respectively. An input logic circuit is configured to provide an output at an intermediate node. A ninth gate extends in the Y-axis direction and contacts the first and second fins. An output logic circuit is configured to provide a selected one of the first, second, third and fourth data signals at an output terminal.
US12147741B1
A global computer aided engineering (CAE) model representing an electronic product that contains solder joints and an individual detailed solder joint model are received. The solder joint model can include a solder ball, one or more metal pads, a portion of printed circuit board, and a portion of semiconductor chip component. The global CAE model includes locations of the solder joints to be evaluated in a drop test simulation. The solder joint model is replicated at each location to create a local CAE model via a geometric relationship between the global CAE model and the local CAE model. Simulated physical behaviors of the product under a design condition are obtained in a co-simulation using the global CAE model in a first time scale and the local CAE model in a second time scale. Simulated physical behaviors are periodically synchronized based on kinematic and force constraints.
US12147740B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes. A method includes obtaining one or more load cases and one or more design criteria for a modeled object, the one or more design criteria comprising a build material strength model indicating strength relationships between thickness of an object feature and build angle for that object feature resulting from additive manufacturing; iteratively modifying a three dimensional shape of the modeled object in accordance with the one or more design criteria and the one or more load cases, including applying the strength relationships between the thickness of the object feature and the build angle for that object feature on a per-element basis during numerical simulation of the modeled object; and providing the three dimensional shape of the modeled object for use in manufacturing a physical structure.
US12147735B2
A method for user interaction in a CAE/CAD system comprises displaying to a user a graphical user interface (2) with a model display region (3) and a control region (5) for controlling operation of the CAE/CAD system, and an accept button (9). The accept button (9) can be in an active state, signifying that the CAE/CAD system is ready to perform operations defined by user input when the accept button (9) is clicked. When the accept button (9) is in the active state, the CAE/CAD system graphically indicates to the user an extended apply region (11) which, when a clicking operation takes place inside it, will cause the CAE/CAD system to perform the same operations as when the accept button (9) is clicked.
US12147733B2
In an exemplary technique, audio information responsive to received input is provided. While providing the audio information, one or more conditions for stopping the provision of audio information are detected, and in response, the provision of the audio information is stopped. After stopping the provision of the audio information, if the one or more conditions for stopping the provision of audio information have ceased, then resumed audio information is provided, where the resumed audio information includes a rephrased version of a previously provided segment of the audio information.
US12147731B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate playback of multimedia content are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a network interface configured to receive audio content over a playback network. A processor comprising instructions which when executed, cause the processor to detect that a portable playback device has joined the playback network. The processor is to update a state variable to indicate that the portable playback device has joined the playback network. The processor is to play audio content received over the playback network based on the state variable. The processor is to detect that the portable playback device is not joined to the playback network. The processor is to, after detecting that the portable playback device is not joined to the playback network, update the state variable to indicate that the portable playback device is not joined to the playback network.
US12147730B2
A distribution system comprises an audio server (101) for receiving incoming audio from remote clients (103) and for transmitting audio derived from the incoming audio to the remote clients (103). An audio apparatus comprises an audio a receiver (401) which receives data comprising: audio data for a plurality of audio components representing audio from a remote client of the plurality of remote clients; and proximity data for at least one of the audio components. The proximity data is indicative of proximity between remote clients. A generator (403) of the apparatus generates an audio mix from the audio components in response to the proximity data. For example, an audio component indicated to be proximal to a remote client may be excluded from an audio mix for that remote client.
US12147729B2
Provided a method for playing audios. The method includes: acquiring vibration control information corresponding to a target audio, wherein at least one vibration period and vibration attribute information corresponding to the at least one vibration period are recorded in the vibration control information, and each vibration period corresponds to a beat period of a target percussive instrument in the target audio; synchronously playing the target audio and the vibration control information; and when any vibration period of the at least one vibration period is played, controlling a terminal to vibrate based on vibration attribute information corresponding to the vibration period.
US12147726B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a memory, a display, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: displaying, via the display, a first screen related to an external electronic device as a widget using at least a part of a display area of the display, detecting, via the processor, an event associated with at least one application capable of interoperating with the external electronic device, after detecting the event, obtaining a second screen related to the external electronic device, based at least on information related to the detected event, and removing display of the first screen and displaying the second screen on the display.
US12147721B2
An image forming apparatus issues a content display trigger if a predetermined event related to a user operation is received. When the content display trigger is issued, the image forming apparatus acquires web content from a content server based on path information set on a signage setting screen, and displays the acquired web content. If a hyperlink in the web content is pressed on the displayed web content, the image forming apparatus downloads content to be printed that is the linked content, and displays a print dialog on the web content. The image forming apparatus prints the content to be printed if an instruction to print the content to be printed is issued using the print dialog.
US12147715B2
A method for accessing a file in a storage system is provided. The method includes determining, for each file chunk of the file, an authority among differing storage nodes of the storage system and receiving from the authority having ownership of the file chunk, location information for the file chunk. The method includes accessing file chunks of the file as directed by each of the determined authorities.
US12147708B2
A method includes performing a memory operation to access memory cells of a memory sub-system. The method can further include determining, for the memory operation, a quantity of memory cells available to be accessed during the performance of the memory operation. The method can further include determining that a quantity of memory cells that are accessed during the performance of the memory operation comprises fewer than the quantity of memory cells available to be accessed. The method can further include incrementing a counter in response to the determination that the quantity of memory cells accessed is fewer than the quantity of memory cells available to be accessed.
US12147704B2
A data storage device having a flash translation layer configured to handle file-system defragmentation in a manner that avoids, reduces, and/or optimizes physical data movement in flash memory. In an example embodiment, the memory controller maintains in a volatile memory thereof a lookaside table that supplants pertinent portions of the logical-to-physical table. Entries of the lookaside table are configured to track source and destination addresses of the host defragmentation requests and are logically linked to the corresponding entries of the logical-to-physical table such that end-to-end data protection including the use of logical-address tags to the user data can be supported by logical means and without physical data rearrangement in the flash memory. In some embodiments, physical data rearrangement corresponding to the file-system defragmentation is performed in the flash memory in response to certain trigger events, which can improve the input/output performance of the data-storage device.
US12147701B2
A method may include receiving, at a storage device, a command using a storage protocol, wherein the storage device is configured to execute a user program, and executing, at the storage device, a device program based on the command. The command may be a first command, and the method may further include receiving, at the storage device, using the storage protocol, a second command, and sending, from the storage device, using the storage protocol, information about the device program based on the second command. The method may further include sending, from the storage device, using the storage protocol, a list of device programs supported by the storage device based on the second command. The method may further include providing, by the storage device, output data from the device program. The providing may include sending, from the storage device, using the storage protocol, a log message.
US12147698B2
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a register clock driver (RCD) semiconductor chip having first inputs to receive first command and address (CA) signals from a first sub-channel and first outputs to drive first and second instances of the CA information that are decoded from the first CA signals. The RCD semiconductor chip has second inputs to receive second command and address (CA) signals from a second sub-channel. The RCD semiconductor chip has a multiplexer having a first input channel to receive the first CA signals and a second input channel to receive the second CA signals. The RCD semiconductor chip has second outputs to drive third and fourth instances of the first CA information or first and second instances of the second CA information that are decoded from the second CA signals depending on which of the first and second input channels of the multiplexer is selected.
US12147692B2
A technique consolidates data at multiple levels of granularity, the levels including a first level based on whole PLBs (physical large blocks) and a second level based on portions of donor PLBs. The technique further includes tracking PLBs in multiple PLB queues arranged based on storage utilization of the PLBs, and tracking PLB portions in multiple portion queues arranged based on storage utilization of the portions. When consolidating data to create a new PLB, a set of whole PLBs is selected, based on utilization, from the PLB queues, and a set of portions of donor PLBs is selected, based on utilization, from the portion queues. The selections are performed such that the total data size of the selected whole PLB(s) and the selected portion(s) fit within the new PLB.
US12147690B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for enabling a compute node to utilize all the resources of the cluster it is part of when accessing block storage resources. A deployment manager may receive configuration information for each of a set of compute nodes in a cluster, wherein the configuration information of each compute node in the cluster indicates a usage by the compute node of each of a set of block storage volumes (also referred to herein as storage volumes). The deployment manager determines that a first compute node cannot utilize a full amount of the storage volume bandwidth provided by one or more storage volumes assigned to it. A first storage volume of the one or more storage volumes may be reassigned to a second compute node in the cluster and deploys the cluster with the first storage volume mounted on the second compute node.
US12147682B1
Techniques can include: configuring source sites in a replication configuration with a target site; receiving, at a first of the source sites from a host, a write I/O to a target location of a source storage object of the source site; sending a replicated write corresponding to the write I/O from the first source site to the target site, wherein the replicated write writes to the target location of a target storage object of the target site; prioritizing the replicated write, based at least in part, on a site-level priority associated with the first source site; placing the first replicated write in a first queue of a first plurality of queues based, at least in part, on the site level priority associated with the first source site; selecting the first replicated write from said first queue; and servicing the first replicated write.
US12147680B2
In some examples, there is provided a method for a storage controller to receive a request to write data at a virtual location, writing data at the next free physical location in sequence, writing metadata correlating the virtual location with the physical location at the physical location, and writing a counter at the physical location. The recorded metadata can be used to re-construct the mapping between a given physical location and its corresponding virtual location if the virtual block address is somehow lost. The recorded counter can be used to determine the most recently recorded mapping between the virtual location and physical location, thereby resolving any discrepancies between earlier recorded metadata.
US12147679B2
A technique for managing metadata of variable length includes responding to the creation or change in a metadata element by creating at least first and second entries within a metadata page at discontinuous locations. The first entry is located among a first set of regions having uniform length and includes a reference to the second entry, which is located among a second set of regions having variable length. In this manner, the metadata element that does not fit within a fixed-size space is accommodated by multiple discontinuous entries in respective sets of regions.
US12147677B1
A data management method for a solid state storage device is provided. The solid state storage device can selectively perform a TACW operation. While the TACW operation is performed, the controlling circuit determines a specified time interval corresponding to the largest amount of write data. Moreover, a portion of the write data stored in the specific time interval will be moved to another location of the non-volatile memory. When the solid state storage device performs the data remediation process according to the data retention time, the time period of performing the data remediation process is largely shortened. Consequently, the performance of the solid state storage device can be enhanced.
US12147669B2
A memory device includes a first memory group and a control device. The first memory group includes a first non-volatile memory cell configured to store multi-bit data. The control device performs plural program operations to store the multi-bit data in the first non-volatile memory cell. The control device performs, in response to a read command before most significant bit data among the multi-bit data is programmed into the first non-volatile memory cell, a read operation for obtaining bit data, which has been programmed in the first non-volatile memory cell, among the multi-bit data, according to a program state of the first non-volatile memory cell while the plural program operations are performed. The control device outputs data obtained corresponding to the read command.
US12147661B2
A content sharing method includes: receiving a first input for a first electronic device; and displaying a first interface on a screen of the first electronic device in response to the first input, the first interface including at least one of following: a first identifier or N second identifiers, where the first electronic device is one of N electronic devices constituting a target sharing group, the first identifier is an entry to a first content, and the first content is the content shared in the target sharing group by at least two of the N electronic devices; the second identifier is an entry to a second content, and the second content is the content shared in the target sharing group by one of the N electronic devices; and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2.
US12147659B2
In some implementations, a method for custom fitting and manufacturing parametric products comprises: generating a plurality of parametric models of a custom product based on past learned data pertaining to the custom product; generating a first user interface comprising at least a first graphical representation of the custom product, and displaying the first user interface on a computer display device; receiving a plurality of adjustment parameters for improving a fit of the custom product in relation to the user-specific data; based on the plurality of adjustment parameters and the plurality of parametric models, determining two particular parametric models; generating, for the custom product, a parametric fit model having a plurality of fit model parameters, by interpolating a corresponding parameter of a first particular parametric model and a corresponding parameter of a second particular parametric model of the two particular parametric models; transmitting the parametric fit model to a manufacturer to cause the manufacturer to produce a parametric physical product based on the plurality of fit model parameters of the parametric fit model.
US12147642B2
An always on display method and an electronic device relate to the field of terminal technologies. The electronic device receives a screen-off event. In response to the screen-off event, the electronic device may enter the screen-off state. In the screen-off state, the electronic device may display a first screen-off animation in a first screen-off animation group based on a charging status and power information of the electronic device; and after the first screen-off animation ends, if the electronic device detects a first touch operation input by the user, the electronic device may display a second screen-off animation in the first screen-off animation group in response to the first touch operation.
US12147638B2
A display device includes a display area in which red, green, and blue sub-pixels are arranged, and a touch sensing layer including a conductive pattern, the conductive pattern including touch electrodes arranged in a row direction and a column direction in the display area, and trace lines electrically connected to the touch electrodes, respectively, and extending in the column direction in the display area. Here, the conductive pattern includes touch pattern unit blocks arranged along the row direction, each of the touch pattern unit block including some parts of the plurality of trace lines and at least one touch electrode among the plurality of touch electrodes, and the touch pattern unit block has a size corresponding to an integer multiple of a size of a pixel unit block, wherein the pixel unit block is a minimum repetition unit of the red, green, and blue sub-pixels.
US12147637B2
Disclosed are a touch display panel, a touch display apparatus and a touch display mother board. The touch display panel includes: a base substrate, including a display region and a peripheral region; a display function layer, including: at least one organic insulation layer and an encapsulation layer, wherein an orthographic projection of the encapsulation layer on the base substrate covers the display region and part of the peripheral region; and a touch function layer, located on a side of the encapsulation layer facing away from the base substrate and including: a touch conductive layer, an inorganic insulation layer and a protection layer, wherein the touch function layer includes: a first touch conductive layer, and a second touch conductive layer located on a side of the first touch conductive layer facing away from the display function layer, the inorganic insulation layer includes at least: a first inorganic insulation layer located between the first touch conductive layer and the second touch conductive layer, the protection layer is located on a side of the second touch conductive layer facing away from the first inorganic insulation layer, and in at least part of the peripheral region not covered with the orthographic projection of the encapsulation laver on the base substrate, the organic insulation layer makes direct contact with the touch conductive layer or the protection layer.
US12147635B2
An electronic panel includes: a base substrate; a first sensor including a first sensing electrode on the base substrate, a second sensing electrode spaced apart from the first sensing electrode, a first sensing line connected to the first sensing electrode, and a second sensing line connected to the second sensing electrode; and a second sensor including an additional sensing electrode spaced apart from the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode, wherein the additional sensing electrode overlaps the first sensing line on a plane.
US12147634B2
A touch sensor includes a sensing electrode that receives a touch input disposed on a sensing area of a substrate; and a plurality of sensing lines disposed on a non-sensing area of the substrate. Each of the plurality of sensing lines includes a first area and a second area, and first and second metal layers electrically coupled to the sensing electrode. The second metal layer is disposed on the first metal layer, and an insulating layer is interposed between the first and second metal layers. The sensing lines include first and second sensing lines. The first and second sensing lines include the first and second metal layers in the first area. The first sensing line includes the first metal layer without the second metal layer in the second area, and the second sensing line includes the second metal layer without the first metal layer in the second area.
US12147620B2
A computing device detects an indication of a data-linkable context for the electronic stylus and transitions communication between the digitizer of the computing device and the electronic stylus from a user interface mode to a data link mode, based at least in part on the detecting. The computing device communicates between the electronic stylus and the digitizer in the data link mode via the multiple electrostatic antennas of the electronic stylus, based at least in part on the transitioning.
US12147612B2
In accordance with some embodiments, systems, apparatus, interfaces, methods, and articles of manufacture are provided for ascertaining aspects of a presentation and/or of an audience member. A presentation remote can be used to obtain information about the presentation and provide it to the audience member. In some embodiments, a presentation remote may determine if an earlier meeting is running late. If so, the system may alert current attendees.
US12147608B2
A computing system includes: a first input device for receiving a first input data from a user, the first input device includes a computing module for processing a data inputted from the first input device and generating an output data; and a head mounted display, telecommunicatively connected to the first input device by a communication module, for receiving the output data and displaying a binocular virtual image related to the output data; wherein the head mounted display has a first light direction adjuster and a second light direction adjuster for changing the direction of a first light signal and a second light signal emitted by a first emitter and a second emitter respectively, such that the first light signal and the second light signal are emitted relative to the first angle and the second angle of the user's frontal plane towards a first eye and a second eye respectively.
US12147606B2
A tactile stimulation providing system includes: an apparatus for generating first actuator strength values corresponding to representative values of frequency bands of first audio data and second actuator strength values corresponding to representative values of frequency bands of second audio data; and an apparatus for driving actuators, based on the first actuator strength values and the second actuator strength values, wherein a number of the actuators is smaller than a number of the first and second actuator strength values, the first audio data includes information on a first direction, the second audio data includes information on a second direction, an actuator corresponding to first position information is driven based on only at least one of the first actuator strength values, and an actuator corresponding to second position information is driven based on only at least one of the second actuator strength values.
US12147605B2
A portable computer includes a display portion comprising a display and a base portion pivotally coupled to the display portion. The base portion may include a bottom case and a top case, formed from a dielectric material, coupled to the bottom case. The top case may include a top member defining a top surface of the base portion and a sidewall integrally formed with the top member and defining a side surface of the base portion. The portable computer may also include a sensing system including a first sensing system configured to determine a location of a touch input applied to the top surface of the base portion and a second sensing system configured to determine a force of the touch input.
US12147604B2
A touch feedback device includes an optical imaging module, an air supplying module, a sensing module, and a signal processing module. The optical imaging module generates a first floating image. The air supplying device forms an airflow field at the outline and/or around the first floating image. The sensing module is configured to sense the change of the airflow field, including the amount of airflow, the air pressure or the speed of airflow caused by the detected object to correspond to a position information. The signal processing module is configured to determine when the position information is inside the preset trigger area of the first floating image outline area, generates at least one feedback command, wherein the at least one feedback command is sent to the optical imaging module to let the optical imaging module generate a second floating image that is different than the first floating image.
US12147589B2
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a method and system for managing a storage system. In many traditional implementations host bus adapter (HBA) manages the storage device, however frequently the HBA cannot implement the necessary methods to secure a self-encrypting drive (SED). One or more embodiments of the invention use a baseboard management controller (BMC) to manage the security of the SEDs as well as the security life cycle of the SEDs, while the HBA acts as a passthrough conduit between the SED and BMC.
US12147586B2
An information handling system may include a processor, a data processing unit communicatively coupled to the processor, and a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor and the data processing unit and configured for out-of-band management of the information handling system. The management controller may further be configured to obtain a hardware inventory and capabilities of the data processing unit; based on the hardware inventory and capabilities, generate a firmware capsule for execution during a basic input/output system phase of the data processing unit to cause a secure erasure of contents of a memory of the data processing unit; and communicate the firmware capsule to the data processing unit during an operating system phase of the data processing unit and cause the data processing unit to reboot to its basic input/output system phase in order to execute drivers of the firmware capsule in order to securely erase the memory.
US12147585B2
Technologies are shown for storing data from a data object in a distributed application architecture and reassembling the data object from the stored data. A first set of data from the data object is stored on a distributed file system, and a second set of data from the data object is stored on a blockchain. In response to a request for the data object, a script from the blockchain is executed to generate a reassembled data object by: obtaining, from the blockchain, metadata to reassemble the data object, obtaining the second set of data from the blockchain and the first set of data from the distributed file system, and generating the reassembled data object using the first set of data and the second set of data based on the metadata.
US12147581B2
Enabling a web browser extension to perform an asynchronous blocking operation by configuring the web browser to receive from a web browser extension an extension-provided callback function and an indicator, where the extension-provided callback function is configured to perform an asynchronous blocking operation, where the indicator indicates that the extension callback function relates to an asynchronous blocking operation, where the extension-provided callback function is configured to receive a web-browser-provided callback function as a parameter of the extension-provided callback function, and where the extension-provided callback function is configured to call the web-browser-provided callback function after performing the asynchronous blocking operation, and configuring the web browser to call the extension-provided callback function with the web-browser-provided callback function as a parameter of the extension-provided callback function call if the indicator indicates that the extension callback function relates to an asynchronous blocking operation.
US12147580B2
A method, system and apparatus for provisioning a computation into a trusted execution environment, including verifying the trusted execution environment, generating integrity information of the computation, generating sealed data, sending information of the computation, the sealed data, and integrity information to the trusted execution environment, confirming the sealed data, and verifying integrity of the computation information from the integrity information and the computation information.
US12147579B2
A method including receiving, at a data distribution platform, a selection of a data package comprising a high fidelity data package. The method also includes filtering, automatically by a filtering application of the data distribution platform, the high fidelity data package to form a marketing data package. Filtering includes removing sufficient data from the high fidelity data package such that the marketing data package is a marketing data package. The method also includes publishing the marketing data package within the data distribution platform.
US12147575B2
Batch de-identification of unstructured health care documents includes performing optical character recognition (OCR) upon a form-based document so as to produce an initial set of terms. Amongst the initial set of terms, initial specific terms are identified which contain protected information. Each of the identified initial specific terms are then replaced with synthetically generated corresponding terms. Subsequently, additional OCR is performed upon the form-based document so as to produce a new set of terms and new specific terms are identified amongst the new set of terms which are determined to contain protected information. Finally, the new specific terms are compared to the initial specific terms and the form-based document is then added to a repository of de-identified documents only if none of the new specific terms are equivalent to corresponding ones of the initial specific terms. But otherwise, the form-based document is flagged in error.
US12147569B2
A computing device includes a processor and a machine-readable storage storing instructions. The instructions are executable by the processor to: receive an input string including sensitive data to be encrypted; identify a first portion and a second portion of the input string, the first portion comprising the sensitive data; select, from a plurality of hash functions, a hash function based on the second portion; and generate a hash value of the first portion using the selected hash function.
US12147553B2
Disclosed herein are systems and method for securely providing access to data. In one exemplary aspect, a method may comprise receiving a request to access data on a computing device of a user and identifying a location of the computing device. The method may comprise determining whether access to the data is allowed in the location based on a location-based rule of a plurality of location-based rule. The method may comprise, in response to determining that access to the data is allowed in the location, detecting, via sensors of the computing device, (1) at least one other person different from the user or (2) a surveillance device in the location, and determining whether the at least one other person or the surveillance device can view the data without direct access to the computing device. If not, the method may comprise providing access to the data on the computing device.
US12147551B1
A secure data parser is provided that may be integrated into any suitable system for securely storing and communicating data. The secure data parser parses data and then splits the data into multiple portions that are stored or communicated distinctly. Encryption of the original data, the portions of data, or both may be employed for additional security. The secure data parser may be used to protect data in motion by splitting original data into portions of data, that may be communicated using multiple communications paths.
US12147547B2
The information processing apparatus comprises a basic operation seed storage part, a reshare value computation part, and a share construction part. The basic operation seed storage part stores a seed for generating a random number used when computation is performed on a share. The reshare value computation part generates a random number using the seed, computes a share reshare value using the generated random number, and transmits data regarding the generated random number to other apparatuses. The share construction part constructs a share for type conversion using the data regarding the generated random number and the share reshare value received from other apparatuses.
US12147545B2
Systems and methods are provided for monitoring information-security coverage to identify a vulnerability or risk in the information-security coverage. An information-security system can include computing systems, databases, a security server, etc. that can communicate data via a network. The server can be used to obtain data indicating a process for managing or monitoring information-security in the system and data indicating activity on the network, computing systems, server, or databases. The server then determines a metric based on the obtained data and the metric can indicate a risk or vulnerability in information-security coverage in the system. The server can then aggregate the data and transmit the aggregated data to a computing device. The computing device can generate an interface for outputting data for monitoring information-security coverage or identifying a vulnerability or risk in information-security coverage, which can improve the security of the information-security system.
US12147544B2
Systems and methods provided vulnerability proofing of an IHS (Information Handling System) while it is being provisioned for deployment, such as upon receipt at a datacenter. An initial provisioning of the IHS is detected, where no provisioning of the IHS has been conducted other than the factory provisioning of the IHS. A profile is identified that is to be used in provisioning the IHS, where the profile includes configurations for one or more hardware components of the IHS. One or more catalogs are accessed that specify known vulnerabilities of hardware components. For each of the hardware configurations in the profile, configurations that are vulnerable are identified based on the catalogs of known vulnerabilities. If vulnerabilities are identified, further provisioning of the IHS is blocked until the profile is modified to include no hardware configurations with vulnerabilities identified in the catalogs.
US12147543B2
A vulnerability management system calculates an impact factor based on vulnerability information, which indicates a magnitude of an impact of a vulnerability of a container in an application execution system on the application execution system. The vulnerability information is information in which the vulnerability and an evaluation value thereof are associated with each other. An access frequency factor is calculated based on access frequency information, the access frequency factor being an evaluation value of a vulnerability deriving from a form of communication performed by the container. The access frequency information is related to a transmission or reception range and a transmission or reception frequency of data of the container. A weighting determination value is calculated based on the impact factor and the access frequency factor, the weighting determination value indicating a priority of a measure against the vulnerability of the container; and the order of measures is determined.
US12147540B2
A system for implementing a secure boot event includes a system on a chip (SoC). The SoC includes key hashes stored within one-time programmable memory. Each of the key hashes is configured for use with one of a plurality of candidate authentication key sets. The SoC further includes firmware stored within RAM. The firmware includes a secondary bootloader, a plurality of public keys, and corresponding signatures. The public keys and corresponding signatures are configured for use with one of the key sets. The SoC further includes a primary bootloader utilizing fuses stored within the programmable memory. The fuses activate a selected key hash based upon an ecosystem in which the system is to operate. The selected hash and a corresponding public key and signature define an active authentication key set. During the event, the primary bootloader utilizes the active authentication key set to authenticate a downloaded update to the firmware.
US12147530B2
The disclosure herein describes deploying a Virtual Secure Enclave (VSE) using a universal enclave binary and a Trusted Runtime (TR). A universal enclave binary is generated that includes a set of binaries of Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs) associated with Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) hardware backends. A TEE hardware backend is identified in association with a VSE-compatible device. A VSE that is compatible with the identified TEE hardware backend is generated on the VSE-compatible device and an ISA binary that matches the TEE hardware backend is selected from the universal enclave binary. The selected binary is linked to a runtime library of the TR and loads the linked binary into memory of the generated VSE. The execution of a trusted application is initiated in the generated VSE using a set of interfaces of the TR. The trusted application depends on the TR interfaces rather than the selected ISA binary.
US12147522B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable medium disclosed herein relate to identity verification and authorization method. In one embodiment, the system can generate and send a message to a device associated with a user based on an initiated request from the user and a determination the user should be authenticated, wherein the message requests a content-based response from the user to authenticate the user. In another embodiment, the system can receive the content-based response from the user in reply to the message, wherein the content-based response comprises SMS (short message service) metadata, emoji, photo, video, audio, or a combination thereof. In another embodiment, the system can authenticate the user based on a determination of a confirmed match between the content-based response from the user and a response key preselected by the user.
US12147509B2
Techniques are provided for system protection using verification of software digital identity values. One method comprises obtaining a first software digital identity value for a system, wherein the first software digital identity value aggregates software identifiers of software components of the system at a first time; comparing a second software digital identity value to the first software digital identity value, wherein the second software digital identity value aggregates software identifiers of the plurality of software components of the system at a second time subsequent to the first time; and performing an automated remedial action based on a result of the comparison. The comparison may be performed: (i) when the system attempts to connect to a service over a network and/or (ii) when the system is installed, configured and/or activated at a remote location.
US12147506B2
A diagnostic assistance system for assisting a person in performing diagnosis of an object includes target data storage means for storing target data indicating a state of the object, diagnostic task means for providing each of a first user and a second user with the target data to enable each of the first user and the second user to perform a diagnostic task of the object, diagnostic result means for receiving a result of diagnosis of the object by each of the first user and the second user, and sharing means for enabling the first user and the second user to share result of diagnosis by each of the first user and the second user. The diagnostic task includes a first sub-task of investigating the target data to output a first diagnostic result and a second sub-task of using the first diagnostic result to output a second diagnostic result.
US12147504B2
Images of an insect are subjected to at least a first convolutional neural network to develop feature maps based on anatomical pixels at corresponding image locations in the respective feature maps. The anatomical pixels correspond to a body part of the insect. A computer calculates an outer product of the first feature map and the second feature map to form an integrated feature map. Extracting fully connected layers from respective sets of integrated feature maps and applying the fully connected layers to a classification network for identifying the genus and the species of the insect.
US12147503B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for debiasing training data based upon information seeking behaviors are provided. Users associated with a set of training data are segmented into information seeking behavior groups corresponding to varying degrees of information seeking behaviors of the users. Biases for the information seeking behavior groups may be estimated based upon information seeking behaviors of users within the information seeking behavior groups. The training set of data is debiased using the biases to generate a debiased training set of data. A model may be trained to perform a task based upon the debiased training set of data.
US12147496B1
Systems and methods to automatically generate training data for machine learning models may include an imaging device to capture imaging data, an image processing or rendering system to receive the imaging data and render a three-dimensional model of an object of interest overlaying the imaging data, an automatic mask extraction or generation system to extract or determine a mask, label, or annotation associated with the three-dimensional model and a plurality of pixels associated with the object of interest from a perspective of the imaging device, and a machine learning model to receive the imaging data and the mask as training data.
US12147492B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for estimating an expectation value of a quantum mechanical observable. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a first operator associated with the observable, wherein the first operator comprises a linear combination of terms. One or more constraints on expectation values of one or more of the terms in the linear combination are determined. A second operator is defined, wherein the second operator comprises a combination of the first operator and one or more of the determined constraints. The expectation value of the quantum mechanical observable is estimated using the second operator.
US12147491B2
A computer-implemented method for analyzing data obtained for a chemical and/or biological process comprises: obtaining a result of statistical data analysis on the data obtained with respect to the chemical and/or biological process; calculating, for values of process parameters obtained at groups of time points during batch processes of the chemical and/or biological process, a ratio of a correlation value to a confidence value of the correlation value, the correlation value indicating a correlation between the values of the process parameter and at a process output value; calculating, for process parameters, an average of absolute values of the ratios calculated for the values of the process parameter obtained at different groups of time points during the batch processes; excluding the values of one of the process parameters having a smallest average; and iterating, until at least one specified condition is met.
US12147490B2
A method for overcoming intermittent, temporary, or other fetching failures by using multiple attempts for retrieving a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed. The URL fetching may use direct or non-direct fetching schemes, or a combination thereof. The non-direct fetching method may use intermediate devices, such as proxy server, Data-Center proxy server, tunnel devices, or any combination thereof. Upon sensing a failure of a fetching action, the action is repeated using the same or different parameters or attributes, such as by using different intermediate devices, selected based on different parameters or attributes, such as different countries. The repetitions are limited to a pre-defined maximum number or attempts. The fetching attempts may be performed by the client device, by an intermediate device in a non-direct fetching scheme, or a combination thereof. Various fetching schemes may be used sequentially until the content is retrieved.
US12147489B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for dynamically determining a server for enrollment with a management system. An example method can include receiving user input at an application executing on a user device, such as a portal application that provides access to and authentication for other applications through a catalogue of application icons. If the user input includes a first URL but that URL produces an error when used in conjunction with extensions associated with a management server, the application can automatically use extensions associated with an application-support server. The application can then retrieve a second URL from the application-support server and use it for performing enrollment steps at the management server. The enrollment steps can include authenticating the user at an identity service and determining the user's group ID for enrollment, for example.
US12147487B2
An embodiment may involve receiving, at a web server application, a query specifying a file, a block number of a block of data within the file, and a block size, wherein the file includes entries representing differences between snapshots of configuration data; identifying, based on the block size, the block of data within the file; storing the block in a non-transitory memory that is accessible to the web server application; and in response to the query, transmitting, by the web server application, a set of the entries within the block formatted for display in a list component of a graphical user interface.
US12147479B2
A computer-implemented method is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a text field of a user interface, input text strings containing medical data; identifying, based on language semantics and grammatical structure, a keyword and one or more data values from the input text strings; providing the keyword as an input to a query of a medical data category database to obtain one or more categories associated with the keyword, the one or more categories including a first category; retrieving, from a template database, a first template associated with the first category, the first template including one or more fixed blocks and one or more variable blocks; inserting a data value corresponding to the keyword into a variable block of the first template to generate a replacement text string; and displaying the replacement text string in place of the input text strings in the text field.
US12147474B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a graph node sampling system and a computer-implemented method, where structure information of nodes in a graph neural network is stored in a set of data structures, and attribute data of the nodes is stored in another set of data structures. Node sampling may be performed by a sampling unit in a solid state drive. A node sampling unit selects, reads, and collects attribute data of a sampled node and a neighboring node of the sampled node, and transfers the data to a main memory. The method and system according to the embodiments of the present disclosure can save bandwidth consumed by node sampling in large applications such as a graph neural network.
US12147468B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for performing on-demand feature extraction from a raw image of an object for analysis. A query is executed to retrieve an image of an object. Using one or more parameters of the query, a raw image of the object is compressed to generate a compressed image of the object. One or more features associated with the object are extracted from the compressed image of the object. Based on the compressed image of the object, the image of the object is generated using the extracted one or more features of the object.
US12147463B2
Disclosed is a method, performed by an electronic device, for address matching. The method comprises obtaining a first data set indicative of a first address. The method comprises determining, based on the first data set, using an entity extraction technique, one or more first elements indicative of the first address. The method comprises obtaining based on at least one of the one or more first elements, a second data set. The method comprises the second data set comprises one or more second elements indicative of a second address. The method comprises applying a natural language processing, NLP, technique to the first data set and the second data set, to obtain one or more similarity scores. The method comprises obtaining a set of weights associated with corresponding first elements of the first address.
US12147458B1
In an aspect, a data processing system stores an integrated hierarchical and spatial database comprising all geospatial units of each geographical entity stored within a plurality of datasets from one or more data publishers and stores integrated hierarchical and spatial relationship information for each geospatial unit with respect to other geospatial units, receives a query to the integrated hierarchical and spatial database, wherein the query specifies a geographic place, a geospatial unit, a time period, a search topic, or any combination thereof, to be applied across the one or more data publishers, the plurality of datasets, and a plurality of hierarchies of the plurality of datasets, and transmits a response to the query, wherein the response includes one or more search results linked together across the one or more data publishers, the plurality of datasets, the plurality of hierarchies, or any combination thereof.
US12147457B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for determining priority discrepancies between audio data and records data. In one example, the system includes an electronic computing device. The electronic computing device compares audio data associated with a public safety incident to records data associated with the public safety incident, determines discrepancies between the audio data and the records data, and determines an organization and a type associated with the public safety incident. The electronic computing device also determines, based on the organization and the type, priority discrepancies included in the discrepancies and generates a geographical map that includes the priority discrepancies and that is configured for display on a display device.
US12147450B2
Techniques for providing an efficient real-time hierarchy based on change events are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: storing a hierarchy table comprising hierarchy data that represents a snapshot state of a hierarchy tree of entities at a first point in time and having been last updated at the first point in time; receiving one or more user requests to change entity data representing entities of the hierarchy tree; storing one or more change events in a queue based on the user request(s); receiving a query request for the hierarchy tree; in response to the receiving of the query request, generating a query result based on the hierarchy table stored in the database and the change event(s) stored in the queue; and performing a function of an enterprise application platform using the query result.
US12147437B2
System and method herein interpret results of a semantic clustering Structured Query Language (SQL) Cognitive Intelligence (CI) query by identifying dominant traits of a query input to determine a ranking of query results by identifying influential tokens of the query input based on data statistics and observing the dominant traits in influential tokens of a query output, wherein the identifying the dominant traits of the query input comprises incorporating co-occurrence measurements.
US12147436B2
A battery information processing system having: an acquisition unit configured to acquire battery information including use histories of batteries, a classification unit configured to classify the batteries for each property on the basis of properties of the batteries and store the battery information in a plurality of databases classified for each property, a selection unit configured to select a database including high priority battery information from the plurality of classified databases, a determination unit configured to determine the selected database as a database for selecting a combination of a plurality of batteries in a case in which a property of an assembled battery calculated by combining a plurality of batteries satisfies a criterion, and a presentation unit configured to present combination information of the plurality of batteries selected in a descending order from the highest coincidence.
US12147433B2
A method may include storing a vector space representation of a set of concepts in a semantic ontology, wherein locations of the set of concepts in the vector space are based on weights of a neural network trained using triples from the semantic ontology; presenting a semantic search user interface including: a text input portion to receive a search query from an input device; a suggested search portion; and a search results portion; receiving, from a user computing device, the search query; converting, using at least one processor, the search query into a vector; computing, using the at least one processor, a set of possible concepts related to the search query based on a distance between the vector and other concepts in the vector space representation; and presenting the set of possible concepts related to the search query in the suggested search portion of the semantic search user interface.
US12147432B2
The present disclosure describes hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) techniques. A HTAP system comprises a first processing engine configured to perform online transactional processing, a second processing engine configured to perform online analytical processing, and a storage in communication with the first processing engine and the second processing engine. The first processing engine, the second processing engine, and the storage may be modularized and configured to be decoupled from each other. The system may be configured to capture data by the first processing engine in real time, organize the data in a first format in a first part of the storage for use by the first processing engine, propagate the data to a second part of the storage subsystem, and organize the data in a second format in the second part of the storage for use by the second processing engine.
US12147424B1
Mechanisms are provided for processing a sequential database natural language query. A process model is preprocessed to generate mapping data structure(s). The mapping data structure(s) map elements of the sequential process to other elements of the sequential process to thereby identify sequential and dependent characteristics of the sequential process. A sequential database natural language (SDNL) query interpretation engine is configured with the mapping data structure(s) and natural language processing is performed on a query to generate extracted features. The configured SDNL query interpretation engine operates on the extracted features and the mapping data structure(s) to generate intent information for the query. Executable database queries are generated based on the intent and executed on a database to return a response to the query.
US12147419B2
Database systems and methods are provided for providing record data to an application extension associated with a native application at a client device. One method involves a cross-platform service at the client device receiving a plurality of requests for data for one or more records at the database system from the native application, aggregating a subset of the plurality of requests into a batched request, providing the batched request to the database system over a network, receiving a batched response to the batched request from the database system over the network, and for each request of the subset of the plurality of requests of the batched request, mapping a respective data set of the batched response to a respective request and providing the respective data set to the application extension in response to the respective request via the native application.
US12147416B2
A method for managing a transaction data structure, the method may include (a) receiving, at a first point in time that corresponds to a first value of a clock signal, a request to commit a transaction, and updating a status of the transaction, within the transaction data structure, as being a commit in progress; (b) updating the status of the transaction within the transaction data structure as being committed following (i) a completion of the committing, and (ii) a change of a value of the clock signal from the first value to a second value that differs from the first value; and (c) updating, using a background process, a database segment (DS) version metadata associated with the transaction regarding the completion of the committing. The DS version metadata belongs to a DS version metadata data structure. The DS version metadata data structure and the transaction data structure are selectively accessed during transactions.
US12147409B2
Input means 611 receives an input of a size-specific correlation index. Index specification means 612 specifies the size-specific correlation index to be used for searching among size-specific correlation indexes based on a predetermined threshold of the number of record pairs determined to be couplable when coupling a base table including a target column and an external table. Candidate column search means 613 searches for a column whose distance to the target column is equal to or less than a distance threshold from the external table by using the specified size-specific correlation index, calculates a correlation value indicating the degree of correlation between the found column and the target column, and searches for a column whose correlation value is equal to or larger than a correlation value threshold as a candidate column.
US12147401B2
Techniques described herein elect how data is deduplicated in a storage system. A similarity hash signature for a data unit is calculated. A digest table is searched for a similarity hash signature within a predetermined distance of the similarity hash signature for the data unit. Based on the search, either a similarity hash signature or a strong hash signature of the data unit is added to the digest table.
US12147396B2
A data processing method in the form of a data compression method is provided in which a plurality of integers are accessed. Each of the plurality of integers is split to generate a first plurality of numbers respectively paired with a second plurality of numbers. A first tuple is generated based on the first plurality of numbers. A second tuple is generated based on the second plurality of numbers and the first plurality of numbers. The first tuple and the second tuple are stored. A system and computer readable medium enabling the data processing method are further provided.
US12147394B2
Techniques are described for ensuring end-to-end fair-share resource utilization during cross-region replication. In certain embodiments, a fair-share architecture is used for communication among pipeline stages performing a cross-region replication between different cloud infrastructure regions. Cross-region replication-related jobs are distributed evenly from a pipeline stage into a temporary buffer in the fair-share architecture, and then further distributed evenly form the fair-share architecture to parallel running threads of next pipeline stage for execute. Techniques for static and dynamic resource allocations are also disclosed.
US12147390B2
Automatic file system capacity management techniques are provided using file system utilization prediction. One method comprises obtaining input data representing a utilization of a storage capacity of a file system of a given storage system; predicting a future utilization of the storage capacity of the file system based on a portion of the obtained input data; and automatically adjusting the storage capacity of the file system based at least in part on a result of a comparison of the predicted utilization of the storage capacity to a current utilization of the storage capacity. The comparison of the predicted utilization to a current utilization of the storage capacity may comprise comparing the current utilization of the storage capacity to the predicted utilization of the storage capacity for at least first and second time periods following a current time period to determine a trend of the utilization of the storage capacity.
US12147377B2
Systems and methods are provided for supporting wide-protocol interface across a multi-die interconnect interface. Data signals of a wide-protocol interface are split into a plurality of data streams. A handshake signal is established between a first circuit and a second circuit, whereby the first circuit and second circuit are dies of a multi-die device. The first circuit transmits the plurality of data streams to the second circuit via a plurality of multi-die interconnect channels. Each data stream of the plurality of data streams are compressed based on the handshake signal in order to provide wide-protocol interface with reduced number of required pins.
US12147368B2
An electronic device and a method of transmitting USB commands are provided. The method includes: (A) allocating a buffer area in a memory; (B) receiving a USB command; (C) retrieving control transfer information of the USB command; (D) storing the control transfer information in the buffer area; (E) repeating steps (B) to (D) until a condition for ending a control aggregation is met; (F) generating an aggregated USB command according to the content of the buffer area; and (G) transmitting the aggregated USB command.
US12147353B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for read-modify-write support in multi-banked data RAM cache for bank arbitration. An example data cache system includes a store queue including a plurality of bank queues including a first bank queue having a write and read port configured to receive a respective write and read operation, storage coupled to the store queue including a plurality of data banks including a first data bank having a first port configured to receive the write or the read operation, first through third multiplexers, and bank arbitration logic including first arbiters including a first arbiter and second arbiters including a second arbiter, the first arbiter coupled to the second arbiter, the second and third multiplexers, the second arbiter coupled to the first multiplexer.
US12147350B2
A method for cleaning valid bits in a cache memory is provided. The method includes performing a valid-bit-cleaning process to sequentially clean a valid bit corresponding to each address of the cache memory when an integrated circuit is booted up or enters a working state from a sleep mode. In response to a flash memory controller reading data from a specific address of the flash memory, the method includes notifying the cache memory controller to suspend the valid-bit-cleaning process, and utilizing the cache memory controller to write the data into the specific address of the cache memory and to set the valid bit corresponding to the specific address as valid. In response to the valid bit being set as valid, the method includes reading the data from the specific address of the cache memory, transmitting the data to the processor, and resuming the valid-bit-cleaning process.
US12147344B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to provide coherency across disjoint caches in clustered environments. It is determined whether a data object is owned by an owner node, where the owner node is one of multiple nodes of a cluster. If the owner node for the data object is identified by the determining, a request is sent to the owner node for the data object. However, if the owner node for the data object is not identified by the determining, selects a node in the cluster is selected as the owner node, and the request for the data object is sent to the owner node.
US12147343B2
A multiprocessor system may include a plurality of processors including a first processor and a second processor; a first cache memory corresponding to the first processor; a second cache memory corresponding to the first processor and the second processor and storing a plurality of cache lines; and a controller manages data stored in the second cache memory. The second cache memory includes at least one first cache line in which data is written by the first processor and at least one second cache line in which data is written by the second processor. The controller: receives a command associated with a data update from the first processor, and in response to the command, sets the first cache line as a clean cache line or an invalidated cache line while not setting the second cache line as a clean cache line or an invalidated cache line.
US12147337B2
Garbage collection roots for an application may be identified based on a garbage collector implemented in a programming environment. A garbage collection root may correspond with an object and a class definition. Retained memory values may be determined for the garbage collection roots via a graph dominator. A retained memory value may indicate an amount of memory employed by a garbage collection root. Application classes and associated class memory values may be determined. An application class may include one or more of the garbage collection roots associated with object class definitions positioned within a portion of a class definition hierarchy corresponding with the respective application class. A class memory value may aggregate the retained memory values for garbage collection roots included within an application class. A source of a change in memory usage between application versions may be identified based on the application classes and class memory values.
US12147335B1
This disclosure provides for host-controller cooperation in managing NAND flash memory. The controller maintains information for each erase unit which tracks memory usage. This information assists the host in making decisions about specific operations, for example, initiating garbage collection, space reclamation, wear leveling or other operations. For example, metadata can be provided to the host identifying whether each page of an erase unit has been released, and the host can specifically then command each of consolidation and erase using direct addressing. By redefining host-controller responsibilities in this manner, much of the overhead association with FTL functions can be substantially removed from the memory controller, with the host directly specifying physical addresses. This reduces performance unpredictability and overhead, thereby facilitating integration of solid state drives (SSDs) with other forms of storage. The disclosed techniques are especially useful for direct-attached and/or network-attached storage.
US12147333B2
According to one embodiment, a controller of a memory system writes write data associated with a set of received write requests to a first write destination storage region in a first write mode of writing a plurality of bits per memory cell, without writing the write data to a second storage region. When receiving from a host a first request to cause a state of the first write destination storage region to transition to a second state in which writing is suspended, the controller transfers un-transferred remaining write data from a write buffer of the host to an internal buffer, and writes the remaining write data to the second storage region in a second write mode of writing 1 bit per memory cell.
US12147330B2
In an approach for smart test data workload generation, a processor receives a plurality of expected image frames for a user interface application to be tested. The plurality of expected image frames is pre-defined and represents a series of workflows and operations of the user interface application to be expected based on a design requirement. A processor calculates a first set of hash-values for each corresponding expected image frame. A processor samples the user interface application with a frequency to a plurality of testing image frames during a test run on the user interface application. A processor calculates a second set of hash-values for each sampled testing image frame. A processor compares the first set of hash-values to the second set of hash-values. A processor verifies that the second set of hash-values matches the first set of hash-values.
US12147326B2
A behavioral sensor for creating consumable events can include: a feature extractor coupled to receive an event stream of events performed by a circuit, wherein the feature extractor identifies features of a particular event of the event stream and associates the particular event with a time; and a classifier coupled to receive the features of the particular event from the feature extractor, wherein the classifier classifies the particular event into a classified event associated with the time using predefined categories based on the received features of the particular event; whereby the classified event and subsequent classified events extracted from the event stream within a time frame are appended in a time series forming the consumable events.
US12147321B2
A system and method providing the user of a media gateway appliance (“MGA”) with graphical depictions of Linux system memory and Android high zone and low zone memory usage, as well as processor usage. The depictions provide a user with a time line of the MGA's utilization of these resources, enabling a user to obtain a detailed history of system resource use and loading. These detailed depictions can be displayed upon a monitor associated with the MGA, or upon a screen associated with a separate device such as a smartphone, tablet or computer system.
US12147307B2
Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing data protection of file system data on a host. The method includes identifying, by a data protection agent, a backup access event associated with a backup of a file system stored on a backup storage; in response to identifying the backup access event: obtaining backup metadata associated with the backup from a data protection manager; generating a placeholder file system using the backup metadata and storing the placeholder file in a virtual hard disk file; and performing backup access services using the placeholder file and the backup metadata to facilitate transfer of file system data of the backup to an application associated with the backup.
US12147306B2
One example method includes obtaining respective information concerning each asset in a group of assets, performing a deduplication check to identify an entity that will perform deduplication of backups of the assets, based on the information obtained concerning the group of assets, and based on an outcome of the deduplication check, sizing one or more proxy instances that will be needed to create the backups, spawning the proxy instances, and using the proxy instances to create the backups of the data assets.
US12147305B2
A request to restore a database to a particular point in time is received. It is determined that a closest preceding backup to the particular point in time is an incremental backup. One or more transaction log file segments needed to restore the database to the particular point in time are determined. An updated incremental backup is generated by applying the one or more determined transaction log file segments to the incremental backup. The updated incremental backup is restored to a primary system.
US12147296B1
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to obtain a testing data set associated with a test scenario comprising a configuration phase and execution of test suites, the testing data set comprising a first portion generated from the configuration phase and additional portions generated from execution of the test suites. The processing device is also configured to generate a first data structure based on analyzing the first portion of the testing data set in a first namespace, and to insert at least a portion of the first data structure into additional namespaces each comprising a corresponding one of the additional portions of the testing data set generated from execution of one of the test suites. The processing device is further configured to generate additional data structures based on analyzing the additional portions of the testing data set and the inserted components of the first data structure in the additional namespaces.
US12147291B2
An image forming apparatus includes a wireless tag communication device to write data to, and read data from, a wireless tag attached to a sheet. An image forming device in the apparatus is configured to form an image on the sheet. A controller in the apparatus is configured to determine whether a writing of data to a wireless tag was successful based on a notification from the wireless tag communication device and generate investigation support information if the writing was not successful and control the image forming device to form an investigation support image corresponding to the investigation support information if the writing was not successful.
US12147290B2
An example computer-implemented method is for managing a compute system with FRUs. The computer-implemented method includes receiving status information corresponding to the FRUs. The status information is collected from the FRUs in response to the compute system being powered on. The computer-implemented method also includes, in response to a predetermined condition being met, sending for each of the FRUs, one or more instructions to erase a dynamic portion of electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) located at a respective FRU; and sending for each of the FRUs, one or more instructions to write a portion of the status information corresponding to the respective FRU in the dynamic portion of the EEPROM at the respective FRU. Moreover, the EEPROM at each FRU includes the dynamic portion and a read-only portion.
US12147289B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a processor with variable rated power; and a power control unit which controls power consumption of the processor. When processing based on a specific application as an application program to implement a specific function is executed in foreground, the power control unit sets rated power corresponding to at least the specific function.
US12147287B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for providing energy information to memory. An embodiment includes determining, by a host, that a charge level of an energy source coupled to the host has reached or exceeded a threshold value, and transmitting, from the host to a memory device coupled to the host, signaling indicative of an energy mode for the memory device, wherein the signaling is transmitted based at least in part on determining that the charge level of the energy source has reached or exceeded the threshold.
US12147283B2
A receiver detection system includes a media access control (MAC) circuit, a common-mode voltage detector, and a receiver detector. The common-mode voltage detector is configured to detect whether a common-mode voltage satisfies a voltage condition, and to send a ready signal to the receiver detector after the common-mode voltage satisfies the voltage condition. The receiver detector is configured to start a detection process according to the ready signal and a detection start signal from the MAC circuit. In the detection process, the receiver detector sends out a detection signal for detecting whether a receiver exists, and then outputs a detection result to the MAC circuit, wherein the detection result indicates whether the receiver exists. The receiver detection system can prevent the receiver detector from starting the detection process before the common-mode voltage satisfies the voltage condition.
US12147267B2
A computing device can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a display housing that includes a display and a camera; a base housing that includes a keyboard and a camera viewfinder display for the camera; and a hinge assembly that couples the display housing and the base housing.
US12147264B2
A clock distribution circuit includes a global distribution circuit, a first local distribution circuit and a second local distribution circuit. The global distribution circuit receives external clock signals and generates internal clock signals and primary reference clock signal set according to the external clock signals. The first local distribution circuit receives the internal clock signals and the primary reference clock signal set and generates a secondary reference clock signal set according to the internal clock signals and the primary reference clock signal set. The second local distribution circuit receives the internal clock signals and the secondary reference clock signal set and generates a thirdly reference clock signal set according to the internal clock signals and the secondary reference clock signal set.
US12147260B2
A start-up circuit for a self-biasing generator provides a reference voltage or a reference current, the start-up circuit including an impedance circuit. In response to a start-up signal input to the start-up circuit, the impedance circuit is coupled to a bias voltage line of a current mirror circuit of the self-biasing generator, thereby inducing current to flow in the self-biasing generator and starting the self-biasing generator. A bypass current source is coupled to the current mirror circuit and to the impedance. The bypass current source is configured to be driven by a current in the current mirror circuit and to supply current to the impedance in proportion to the current in the current mirror circuit, thereby limiting the current induced to the self-biasing generator by the start-up circuit.
US12147249B2
The sensing system S extracts a target area to be subjected to short-distance sensing by the UGV 2 on the basis of the long-distance sensing data obtained by the UAV 1 in the air performing long-distance sensing on a lower place, perform movement control for moving the UGV 2 toward the target area. And then, the sensing system S acquires short-distance sensing data obtained by performing short-distance sensing on the whole or a part of the target area by the UGV 2 that has moved according to the movement control.
US12147246B2
A controller is configured or programmed to obtain at least either of a pitch angle of a watercraft and an angular velocity of the pitch angle, obtain a present thrust of an outboard motor, and set a target thrust of the outboard motor based on the present thrust of the outboard motor and at least either of the pitch angle of the watercraft and the angular velocity of the pitch angle. The controller is configured or programmed to control a drive source such that a thrust of the outboard motor becomes the target thrust.
US12147237B2
An objective of the present invention is to make it possible to obtain, with a simple operation, a target route for autonomous travel suited to, for example, a user's sense of values. A target route generation system for a work vehicle includes a storage part 30A that stores basic data necessary for generating a target route P for autonomous travel, a priority item selection part 34 that prompts selection of a priority item with regard to generation of the target route P, and a target route generation part 30D that generates the target route P based on the basic data and the selected priority item.
US12147236B2
Systems and methods for path planning by creating a three dimensional weighted graph representing a physical area wherein the third dimension comprise planes, wherein each plane represents a time unit, further wherein nodes can be connected only between different planes.
US12147235B2
A method for generating a robot exploration path for a robot to move along includes: establishing a point cloud scene according to single-frame point cloud data collected by the robot, the point cloud scene includes a plurality of data points; classifying and marking each of the data points, the classification mark includes a ground point and an obstacle point, and taking the data points marked as ground points as a ground point cloud; generating a confidence map according to the ground point cloud, the confidence map is configured to display a location and a confidence of each of the ground points in the ground point cloud; generating a plurality of access nodes according to the confidence map; and generating an exploration path according to the access nodes.
US12147224B2
Systems and methods are provided for maintaining an air conditioning system. A system can include one or more sensors positioned inside of the air conditioning system configured to transmit current sensor data to a remote location. A data repository contains historic sensor data and corresponding air conditioning system status data. A neural network is trained using the historic sensor data and the corresponding air conditioning system status data to predict a future air conditioning system status based on the transmitted current sensor data. A server computer system is configured to predict the future air conditioning system status based on the current sensor data using the neural network, and a graphical user interface is configured to display the predicted future air conditioning system status to a remote client. The current sensor data is stored in the data repository and the neural network is further trained based on the current sensor data.
US12147223B2
A method and system for monitoring condition of one or more industrial drives includes, in an embodiment, one or more industrial drives associated with a server. The server receives data associated with the one or more industrial drives and transmits the data to a HiL system associated with the server. The server configures the HiL system to generate one or more models replicating the one or more industrial drives and associated components. Upon configuring, the one or more industrial drives are tested, and a result of testing is provided to the site. The result of testing is compared with field data of the industrial drives to determine and monitor a condition of the industrial drives.
US12147215B2
A control device comprises a plurality of command application units, a plurality of platform units, and a shared memory. The command application units are each provided with a command mediation method designation unit that outputs, to the platform unit, identification information pertaining to a platform unit to be subject to cooperative control and a mediation method classification. The platform units are each provided with: an inter-platform communication unit that transmits a command value, the identification information, and the mediation method classification between the platform units via the shared memory; and a command mediation unit that acquires the command value, the identification information, and the mediation method classification from all platform units to be subject to cooperative control, mediates the command values on the basis of the identification information and the mediation method classification, and outputs the mediated command values to the shared memory.
US12147205B2
A system for providing property security includes servers configured to communicate in real time or near real-time over a Wide Area Network with a local signaling device associated with a physical property. The servers are further configured to register the local signaling device associated with the physical property to utilize functions provided by third party monitoring services that are communicatively coupled to the local signaling device. The registration includes configuring, at least in part, through user data entry into a web-based interface, a set of predefined steps to be taken by the servers in connection with the functions provided by the third-party monitoring services. The servers are further configured to receive a security signal from the local signaling device, and in response to receiving said security signal, execute the predefined steps. The execution includes communicating instructions to the third-party monitoring services mapped to one or more end-user devices.
US12147204B2
A panel monitor for retrofitting existing control panels is provided that includes a wide voltage range input. The wide voltage range input is capable of accepting digital signals ranging from 0V to about 500V. More particularly, the wide voltage range input can include at least one high voltage low current linear regulator coupled to a low input current opto-isolator. The panel monitor can further include a communication module that enables remote functionalities for the existing control panels.
US12147203B2
A method for operating a fluid dispenser is provided. The method includes receiving, by the fluid dispenser, an interrogation signal from a remote electronic device, and in response to receiving the interrogation signal, transmitting, by the fluid dispenser and to the remote electronic device, an identification of a fluid type of the fluid stored within the fluid dispenser. The method further includes dispensing fluid from the fluid dispenser in response to an actuation request and based upon a fluid-specific setting received from the remote electronic device. A method for programming a fluid dispenser is also provided. The method includes detecting, by a remote electronic device, a fluid type of a fluid stored within the fluid dispenser, and transmitting one of a first fluid-specific setting and a second fluid-specific setting to the fluid dispenser based upon a detected fluid type of fluid stored within the fluid dispenser.
US12147195B2
A balance spring (1) intended to equip a balance of a horological movement, wherein the balance spring (1) is made of a niobium and titanium alloy containing: niobium: the remainder to 100 wt %; titanium with a weight percentage that is greater than or equal to 1 wt % and less than 40 wt %; traces of other elements chosen from among O, H, C, Fe, Ta, N, Ni, Si, Cu and Al, each of said elements being in the range 0 to 1,600 ppm of the total weight, and the sum of said trace elements being less than or equal to 0.3 wt %.
US12147194B2
A horological mechanism including a barrel drum mounted pivotally free around a barrel shaft, a barrel spring being housed inside the barrel drum, this barrel spring including a first external coil wherein it is attached to the barrel drum, and a last internal coil, the barrel spring being attached to the barrel shaft, the winding of the barrel spring being done by a winding rod which meshes with the barrel drum, a barrel ratchet being fixedly mounted on the barrel shaft, the horological mechanism also including a finishing geartrain which includes a first finishing wheel with which the barrel ratchet meshes and which transmits a driving force from the barrel drum to an escapement mobile the purpose of which is to maintain the oscillations of a regulating member which, by its oscillations, regulates the rate of the horological mechanism.
US12147190B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a development device, a fixing device, an apparatus main body, and a fan including a rotating shaft that extends in a longitudinal direction of the photosensitive drum and a blade around the rotating shaft. The development device develops a toner image on the photosensitive drum. The fixing device fixes the toner image from the photosensitive drum to a recording material. The apparatus main body is provided with a discharge port from which the toner-fixed recording material is discharged. A length of the fan rotating shaft in the longitudinal direction is longer than a diameter of a rotational trajectory of the blade. The fan is provided on a downstream side of the fixing device in a discharge direction in which the recording material is discharged from the discharge port and overlaps a part of the development device when viewed in a vertical direction.
US12147181B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main casing including an image forming unit and a discharge tray, and an optional device configured to be removably attached to the main casing. The main casing includes a conveying path through which a sheet is conveyed from the image forming unit, a discharge path through which the sheet is conveyed toward one of the discharge tray and the optional device, the discharge path diverging from the conveying path, and a return path including a first path through which the sheet is conveyed temporarily out of the main casing via an opening formed in the main casing, and a second path through which the sheet is conveyed toward the image forming unit. The first path diverges from the conveying path. The second path diverges from the first path. The optional device is disposed closer to the discharge tray than the opening.
US12147179B2
A fixing device includes an endless belt, a rotatable pressing member contacting an outer circumferential surface of the belt, and a sliding member inside of the belt. The sliding member forms a nip portion by nipping and feeding the belt between itself and the rotatable pressing member and slides on an inner circumferential surface of the belt. The rotatable pressing member nips and feeds the recording material in the nip portion in cooperation with the belt and fixes a toner image on the recording material by applying heat and pressure. The sliding member includes a substrate extending in a widthwise direction of the belt, and the substrate is made of metal and includes a plurality of projections projecting toward the rotatable pressing member.
US12147177B2
An image forming apparatus includes an attachment portion to which any one of a first fixing apparatus and a second fixing apparatus is selectively attached, and a power supply circuit including a plurality of power supply paths. The first fixing apparatus includes a plurality of first heating elements grouped into a plurality of groups, and a number of the plurality of groups is equal to a number of the plurality of power supply paths. The second fixing apparatus includes at least one second heating element grouped into at least one group whose number is smaller than the number of the power supply paths. In a state where the second fixing apparatus is attached to the image forming apparatus, a power supply path of the plurality of power supply paths in which a power line has a largest allowable current value is electrically connected with the at least one second heating element.
US12147176B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming part that forms an image at an image formation position on one surface of a recording medium; a transport part that transports the recording medium while holding a front end side of the recording medium so that the recording medium passes the image formation position; a transport body that transports the recording medium together with the transport part while supporting the other surface of the recording medium on which an image is to be formed by the image forming part; and a support part that supports the other surface of the recording medium, and the support part starts the support before the other surface of the recording medium is separated from the transport body as a result of transport by the transport part.
US12147173B2
A transfer unit transferring a developer image onto a transfer medium includes: (1) an image bearing member on which the developer image is formed; (2) a cleaning member provided to extend in a width direction of the image bearing member to abut thereagainst, and remove developer on the image bearing member; and (3) a seal member that prevents the developer removed by the cleaning member from leaking outside the transfer unit. The seal member opposes a tip portion of the cleaning member. In the transfer unit, a first unit is provided with the image bearing and cleaning members, and a second unit is provided with the seal member and can engage with the first unit. The second unit engages with the first unit so that the seal member abuts against the cleaning and image bearing members.
US12147172B2
A developing device comprising a developing roller in which a vicinity of an outer surface of a surface layer is hardened, a toner supply roller, and a toner, wherein the developing roller has fine particles comprising an organosilicon compound and having a substantially hemispherical shape on the outer surface, a particle diameter of the fine particles is within a specific range, and the toner comprises silica particles as an external additive and a adhesion rate of the silica particles is 50% or more.
US12147166B2
An apparatus for manufacturing semiconductors includes a power amplifier to power a laser, a catalyst disposed in the power amplifier, an inlet port, and an exhaust port. The inlet port introduces a mixing gas to an interior of the power amplifier during a cleaning operation so that the mixing gas contacts a surface of the catalyst having a build-up thereon. The mixing gas reacts with and removes the build-up by generating gaseous by-products. The exhaust port removes the gaseous by-products from the power amplifier.
US12147159B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a polymer mixture over a substrate, curing the polymer mixture to form a polymer material, and patterning the polymer material. The polymer mixture includes a polymer precursor, a photosensitizer, a cross-linker, and a solvent. The polymer precursor may be a polyamic acid ester. The cross-linker may be tetraethylene glycol dimethacrylate. The photosensitizer includes 4-phenyl-2-(piperazin-1-yl)thiazole. The mixture may further include an additive.
US12147155B2
A mask correction method, a mask correction device for double patterning, and a training method for a layout machine learning model are provided. The mask correction method for double patterning includes the following steps. A target layout is obtained. The target layout is decomposed into two sub-layouts, which overlap at a stitch region. A size of the stitch region is analyzed by the layout machine learning model according to the target layout. The layout machine learning model is established according to a three-dimensional information after etching. An optical proximity correction (OPC) procedure is performed on the sub-layouts.
US12147154B2
In a method of manufacturing a reflective mask, a photo resist layer is formed over a mask blank. The mask blank includes a substrate, a reflective multilayer on the substrate, a capping layer on the reflective multilayer, an absorber layer on the capping layer and a hard mask layer, and the absorber layer is made of Cr, CrO or CrON. The photo resist layer is patterned, the hard mask layer is patterned by using the patterned photo resist layer, the absorber layer is patterned by using the patterned hard mask layer, and an additional element is introduced into the patterned absorber layer to form a converted absorber layer.
US12147141B2
The present invention relates to a TFT liquid crystal display, more specifically, to a cholesteric liquid crystal display employing both field-induced nematic vertical alignment texture and field-induced eddy alignment texture as video astable states and cholesteric planer texture and focal conic texture as power-free bistable states. Thus, the display provides not only video speed motion pictures with unlimited grayscale but also excellent static images.
US12147138B2
An active matrix substrate includes a substrate that is transparent, and a plurality of pixels positioned on the substrate. Each pixel includes a thin-film transistor (TFT) positioned on the substrate, a first color filter layer disposed on the substrate so as to cover the TFT, a contact hole being provided in the first color filter layer, a pixel electrode that is positioned on a bottom face and a side face of the contact hole, and on the first color filter layer, and that is electrically connected to the TFT via the contact hole, and a second color filter layer disposed within the contact hole.
US12147137B2
An array substrate includes a base substrate, pixel electrodes and common electrodes, first scan lines, second scan lines and data lines. The pixel electrode has first electrode strips disposed at intervals in a row direction. The common electrodes and the pixel electrodes are disposed on the same layer, and the common electrodes have second electrode strips disposed at intervals. The second electrode strips and the first electrode strips are alternatively arranged. The first scan line is located between two adjacent rows of pixel electrodes. The second scan line is located between two adjacent columns of pixel electrodes and is electrically connected to the first scan line, and the second scan line has a scan signal input terminal. The data line has a data signal input terminal. An orthographic projection of the data line on the base substrate intersects with a central region of the pixel electrode on the base substrate.
US12147130B2
According to one embodiment, in a display device a first panel includes a first polarizing plate, a second polarizing plate, and a first liquid crystal panel interposed between the first polarizing plate and the second polarizing plate, a second panel includes a third polarizing plate, a fourth polarizing plate, and a second liquid crystal panel interposed between the third polarizing plate and the fourth polarizing plat, and a polarizing plate, which is located second from a surface close to an illumination device and a surface closest to an observer, has an extinction ratio that is lower than that of each of the other polarizing plates.
US12147128B2
A display panel and display device, and a method for manufacturing the display panel. The display panel includes a substrate and an edge trace. The substrate includes a first display region and at least two bending regions, and two adjacent ones of the at least two bending regions are bent to a same side or opposite side of the substrate. The edge trace includes a first segment, a second segment and a third segment which are connected in sequence. The first segment of the edge trace and the third segment of the edge trace are respectively located in the two adjacent ones of the at least two bending regions, and the second segment of the edge trace is located in the first display region.
US12147124B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed on a viewer side relative to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, a polarizer disposed on the viewer side relative to the liquid crystal layer, and a phase difference layer disposed between the polarizer and the liquid crystal layer, and also includes a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix shape. The first substrate includes a reflective layer that reflects light, a first electrode and a second electrode that can generate a transverse electrical field in the liquid crystal layer, and a first horizontal alignment film in contact with the liquid crystal layer. The second substrate includes a second horizontal alignment film in contact with the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer takes a twist alignment when no voltage is applied.
US12147120B2
A display device of the present disclosure includes: a display panel; a frame which is positioned in a rearward direction of the display panel, and to which the display panel is coupled; a substrate which is positioned between the display panel and the frame, and fixed to the frame; a plurality of light sources mounted on the substrate to form a row and a column; a reflective sheet which is positioned on the substrate, and has a plurality of holes through which each of the plurality of light sources passes; and a light pattern which is formed on the reflective sheet, and converts a color of a light provided by the plurality of light sources, wherein the reflective sheet includes: a first hole positioned adjacent to an edge of the reflective sheet; a second hole which is positioned adjacent to the first hole and positioned farther than the first hole from the edge of the reflective sheet; a first area positioned around the first hole; and a second area positioned around the second hole, wherein the light pattern includes: a first light pattern positioned in the first area; and a second light pattern positioned in the second area, wherein an area of the first light pattern is larger than an area of the second light pattern.
US12147119B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a frame, a backlight module, a working panel, and a spacer. The backlight module is disposed in the frame. The working panel is disposed on the frame. The spacer is disposed between the frame and the working panel. At least a portion of the working panel and at least a portion of the spacer are in direct contact with an adhesive.
US12147118B1
A planar illumination device of an embodiment includes substrates, a reflector plate, and a plurality of optical sheets. The substrates are provided with a plurality of light sources and have a planar shape or a curved shape. The reflector plate is disposed on the substrates and has reflection surfaces surrounding the light sources. The plurality of optical sheets is disposed at the emission side of the reflector plate. The reflector plate includes flat parts on one side of a frame of the reflector plate. The optical sheets include respective a fixing region. The fixing region of the optical sheets is fixed to the flat parts. The flat parts on the side are sandwiched between both sides respectively provided with a pin protruding in a thickness direction. The optical sheets are provided with holes at positions corresponding to the pins to engage with the pins.
US12147115B2
A display medium comprising: a multilayered substrate including a polarized light separation layer and a phase difference layer; and a first reflective layer provided on a surface of the multilayered substrate on a side with the polarized light separation layer, wherein: the polarized light separation layer can reflect circularly polarized light which has one rotation direction DA, and can transmit circularly polarized light which has an opposite rotation direction to the rotation direction DA; the first reflective layer can reflect circularly polarized light which has one rotation direction DB1, and can transmit circularly polarized light which has an opposite rotation direction to the rotation direction DB1; and the rotation direction DA of the circularly polarized light that the polarized light separation layer can reflect and the rotation direction DB1 of the circularly polarized light that the first reflective layer can reflect are the same as each other.
US12147109B2
An apparatus for controlling the temperature of a heater provided in a liquid crystal element is configured to apply a drive voltage which is set to a value relatively higher than when the liquid crystal element is operated at a rated voltage value and/or a rated frequency, to at least a partial region of the liquid crystal element, and detects current consumption flowing through the partial region. The apparatus variably sets a temperature control target value of the heater according to the detected magnitude of the current consumption.
US12147091B2
An approach to harvesting electrical energy from a user blinking is disclosed. The approach uses an apparatus that includes a piezoelectric film attaching to a user's eyelid, a wire connecting the piezoelectric film to an electronic component; and an antenna surrounding an eye of the user connecting to the electronic component. The approach includes harvesting electrical energy from a user blinking with the piezoelectric film and the antenna wirelessly transmitting the electrical energy to smart contact lens worn by the user.
US12147090B2
Self-locking eyeglass system, comprising at least one locking element and at least one frame element, wherein the frame element additionally comprises a connection element, which is intended for connecting with a locking element, and wherein the frame element is non-interrupted in its external circumference, and wherein the connection element is provided on the inner side, wherein the self-locking eyeglass system additionally comprises two hinge elements, which each comprises an adapter element, which matches a recess in the frame element, wherein each hinge element has a connection element, which coincides with the frame element's connection element, when the hinge elements are mounted in the at least one frame element's recess, and wherein each hinge element is secured to the at least one frame element by a locking element, whereby a convenient, flexible and uncomplicated way to assemble, separate, replace and service a self-locking eyeglass system is achieved.
US12147089B2
The present invention discloses a camera optical lens with seven-piece lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence, a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, a sixth lens having a positive refractive power and a seventh lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: 0.30≤R7/R5≤1.50 and −3.00≤R13/R14≤−1.00. The camera optical lens according to the present invention has excellent optical characteristics, such as large aperture, wide-angle, and ultra-thin.
US12147088B2
The disclosure provides a camera lens group, sequentially including, from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens with a refractive power, a second lens with a negative refractive power and an image-side surface thereof being concave, a third lens with a positive refractive power, a fourth lens with a positive refractive power and an image-side surface thereof being convex, and a fifth lens with a negative refractive power, wherein an air space is provided between any two adjacent lenses from the first lens to the fifth lens, and at least one lens from the first lens to the fifth lens is provided with an aspheric surface which is in non-rotational symmetry. An effective focal length fx, in an X-axis direction and an effective focal length fy, in a Y-axis direction, of the camera lens group satisfy 0.90
US12147084B2
A cooling device for cooling a heat generating component, wherein the cooling device comprises a heat sink and at least one heat pipe that is in thermal contact with the heat sink, wherein the at least one heat pipe comprises a thermal contact area that is configured for thermal contact with a heat generating component, and the at least one heat pipe is configured in a shape that provides mechanical spring properties. Such a heat generating component may comprise a pluggable module. Also disclosed is a receptacle assembly comprising a frame having an interior cavity configured for accommodating a heat generating component and having an opening for receiving the heat generating component, characterized in that it comprises a cooling device. Disclosed is also a system comprising a receptacle assembly, and a printed board assembly (PBA) comprising a receptacle assembly.
US12147081B2
The present disclosure relates to an epoxy tube for an optical fiber connector. The tube can be mounted to a ferrule hub by a snap fit connection. The connection between the tube and the ferrule hub allows for float of the epoxy tube where the epoxy tube is not rigidly attached to the hub. The epoxy tube can be configured to move about an arc of rotational circular movement while remaining linear such that the epoxy tube does not bend or transfer forces to the hub.
US12147066B2
An optical stack (100) includes a substrate (110), a radio-wave anti-reflection sheet (130) configured to reduce reflection from the optical stack (100) of radio waves at a predetermined operating frequency (f), and a visible light reflective, infrared light transmissive multilayer optical film (120) disposed between the radio-wave anti-reflection sheet (130) and the substrate (110). For radiation substantially normally incident on the radio-wave anti-reflection sheet (130) and for a first frequency range at least 20 GHZ wide, centered on the predetermined operating frequency (f), and disposed between about 1 GHZ and about 120 GHZ, a return loss of the optical stack (100) is asymmetric about the predetermined operating frequency (f) in the first frequency range. The optical stack (100) has a largest return loss S11L in the first frequency range of less than −10 dB and a difference between the largest return loss S11L and a smallest return loss S11S in the first frequency range is less than about 2 dB.
US12147064B2
The present disclosure provides a component, such as a MEMS mirror or other generally disc-shaped component, having a variable mesh pattern across a backside surface thereof. The variable mesh includes ribs having a first thickness near a center portion or axis of rotation of the components, and a second narrower thickness at portions farther from the center or axis of rotation.
US12147047B1
Methods and systems for propagating light into a waveguide are provided. The system may include a light source configured to generate light. The system may include at least one mirror configured to direct the light into one or more rays of light. The system may include a Surface Relief Grating disposed on a Volume Bragg Grating. The Surface Relief Grating may receive the one or more rays of light and may diffract the one or more rays of light. The Volume Bragg Grating may be disposed on the waveguide in which the waveguide may be configured to receive the one or more rays of light from the Volume Bragg Grating and propagate the one or more rays of light throughout the waveguide such that an off-Bragg condition is exhibited by the one or more rays of light propagating through the waveguide.
US12147043B2
A system comprising (1) at least one optical element having a nonplanar surface, (2) at least one photonic integrated circuit disposed on the nonplanar surface of the optical element, the photonic integrated circuit comprising (A) an optical core that contains an optically anisotropic organic material and (B) a cladding disposed over the optical core. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US12147041B2
A diffraction light guide plate capable of increasing the area of an output image without increasing the total size thereof and having an advantage that the pupil position of a user is not limited. The diffraction light guide plate comprises first and second diffraction optical elements, wherein the first diffraction optical element is an element capable of receiving light incident onto the first diffraction optical element and outputting the received light toward the second diffraction optical element, and the second diffraction optical element is an element capable of emitting light therefrom out of the incident light from the first diffraction optical element.
US12147038B2
An electronic device may include a display that produce images. The display may generate light for an optical system that redirects the light towards an eye box. The optical system may include a waveguide that propagates the light in a first direction towards the output coupler. The output coupler may couple the light out of the waveguide towards the eye box while inverting a parity of the light about the first direction. The coupler may include a first element such as a set of partial mirrors or diffractive gratings that redirects a first portion of the light in a second direction. The coupler may include a second element that redirects a second portion of the light in a third direction opposite the second direction. The first element may redirect the second portion and the second element may redirect the first portion towards the eye box.
US12147026B2
The present invention comprises a compact optical see-through head-mounted display capable of combining, a see-through image path with a virtual image path such that the opaqueness of the see-through image path can be modulated and the virtual image occludes parts of the see-through image and vice versa.
US12147023B1
Systems, devices, apparatuses and methods for high quality imaging of objects in a wide field of view and broad spectral band with extended depth of field in the object space and with a pre-set parallax for objects located at different distances, for applications in photography, machine vision, optical inspection, and cinematography. Extension of the depth of field is achieved by imaging with a multi-focus optical system that simultaneously forms in its common image plane the images of the illuminated objects, which are spaced apart along the optical axis. Multifocality of the optical imaging system can be achieved with one or more multi-focus lenses made of birefringent optical materials, optical crystals or polymers with stress-induced birefringence, designed so the optic axis of the birefringent material of each of the multi-focus lenses forms an angle with its optical axis in the range from approximately 10° to approximately 90°. The aplanatic and achromatic optical design of the multi-focus optical system, high image quality in a wide field of view and broad spectral band over the entire extended common object field is achieved.
US12147022B2
Microscopic analysis of a sample includes a system using dark-field illumination. A mid-IR optical source generates a mid-infrared beam, which is directed onto the sample to induce a temperature change by absorption of the mid-infrared beam. A visible light source generates a light illuminating the sample on a substrate and creating a scattered field and a reflected field along a collection path of the system. A pupil mask is positioned along the collection path to block the reflected field while allowing the scattered field to pass therethrough. A camera is positioned at an end of the collection path to collect the scattered field and generate a dark-field image of the sample.
US12147018B2
An optical imaging lens including a first lens element to an eighth lens element arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis is provided. A periphery region of the image-side surface of the first lens element is concave. An optical axis region of the object-side surface of the fourth lens element is convex. The sixth lens element has positive refracting power. An optical axis region of the object-side surface of the seventh lens element is convex, and an optical axis region of the image-side surface of the seventh lens element is concave.
US12147016B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens, sequentially arranged from an object side optical imaging system, and a refractive index of at least one of the lenses is 1.67 or greater.
US12147012B2
There is provided a method for manufacturing an optical element comprising a base material, and a stack covering of layers formed on the base material. The method of the present disclosure comprises a multi-layers forming step for forming an optical multi-layered part of the stack covering, and an outermost surface forming step for forming an outermost surface part of the stack covering. A pressure condition for the formation of the stack covering is made discontinuous between the multi-layers forming step and the outermost surface forming step. In the outermost surface forming step, a silicon oxide-containing layer is formed prior to a formation of a fluorine compound-containing layer.
US12147009B2
A substrate for a display article includes (a) a primary surface; and (b) a textured region on at least a portion of the primary surface, the textured region comprising: (i) one or more higher surfaces residing at a higher mean elevation parallel to a base-plane disposed below the textured region and extending through the substrate; (ii) one or more lower surfaces residing at a lower mean elevation parallel to the base-plane that is less than the higher mean elevation; and (iii) a high-index material disposed on each of the one or more lower surfaces residing at the lower mean elevation, the high-index material forming one or more intermediate surfaces residing at an intermediate mean elevation parallel to the base-plane that is greater than the lower mean elevation but less than the higher mean elevation, the high-index material comprising an index of refraction that is greater than the index of refraction of the substrate.
US12147003B1
In some embodiments, a velocity model for a seismic exploration subsurface volume is updated by beam tomography. A set of beams is generated from an input seismic data set, and a beam group is assembled for each beam. Each beam group includes the original beam and a set of related beams (if any). If no related beams are found for a given original beam, the original beam is discarded. The beams in a group are then aligned vertically (in depth or time), and a tomography matrix is assembled from the alignment adjustment values for the beams. The tomography matrix is used to perform a tomographic update of the velocity model, and the updated velocity model is used to generate an image of the subsurface volume. The described systems/methods allow efficiently generating accurate images of subsurface volumes, including in areas having complex geologic structures, allowing reduced image inaccuracies/artifacts.
US12147001B2
Apparatus and method for capturing still images and video using diffraction coded imaging techniques
An apparatus and method are described for capturing images in visible light as well as other radiation wavelengths. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises: a diffraction coded imaging system including a plurality of apertures arranged in a diffraction coded array pattern with opaque material blocking array elements not containing apertures; and a light- or radiation-sensitive sensor coupled to the diffraction coded imaging system array and positioned at a specified distance behind the diffraction coded imaging system array, the radiation-sensitive sensor configured to sense light or radiation transmitted and diffracted through the apertures in the diffraction coded imaging system array.
US12146996B2
A sensor comprising a vapor cell including a vapor of alkali atoms is disclosed. The sensor further comprises a first photonic integrated circuit (PIC) configured to direct light of a first wavelength into the vapor cell and incident on the vapor of alkali atoms, wherein the light of the first wavelength is configured to excite the alkali atoms to a first excited state from a ground state. The sensor further comprises a detector configured to detect a response of the alkali atoms, after the alkali atoms are excited from the first excited state to a Rydberg state, to incident electromagnetic radiation.
US12146991B2
The noise calculation unit applies a statistical process for the measurement signal of the first number of data to calculate the noise value. The calculation threshold setting unit sets the calculation threshold based on the noise value. The period determination unit determines a period where a difference between the measurement signal and a moving average value calculated in a previous cycle exceeds the calculation threshold, to be the non-calculation period of the baseline. The moving average calculation unit is configured such that the measurement signal in a period excluding the non-calculation period is moving-averaged for each second number of data to calculate the moving average value. The first number of data and the second number of data are set independently.
US12146990B1
Various embodiments relate to a light detecting and ranging (LiDAR) system including: a space-qualified transmitter including a space-qualified microelectromechanical system (MEMS); a space-qualified receiver; a space-qualified short-range imager connected to the space-qualified receiver; a space-qualified long-range imager connected to the space-qualified receiver.
US12146986B2
An optical device may include a laser component to emit a source beam and an optical component to split the source beam to generate a first beam and a second beam. The optical device may include a multiplexing component to multiplex the first beam and the second beam to form a first multiplexed beam, an optical system to receive the first multiplexed beam and demultiplex the first beam and the second beam, and a scanning component to scan a field of view with the first beam and the second beam and receive the first beam and the second beam reflected from the field of view. The optical system may multiplex the first beam and the second beam reflected from the field of view to form a second multiplexed beam, and a demultiplexing component may demultiplex the first beam and the second beam reflected from the field of view.
US12146981B2
A TDM MIMO FMCW radar comprises an array of physical receivers with a first spacing in a first direction and a plurality of physical transmitters arranged with a second spacing in said first direction. A virtual array signal of a range-Doppler bin relating to a scene with a moving object is processed by a phase compensation method, which introduces a phase ambiguity between the subarrays. A positive or negative spatial phase change rate with respect to the first direction is computed based on elements of the compensated virtual array signal corresponding to one subarray at a time. From this, based on the spacings, a spatial phase change between a pair of the subarrays is predicted. Next, a residual phase shift between said pair of subarrays is determined by comparing an actual phase shift of the compensated virtual array signal and the predicted spatial phase shift.
US12146976B2
Examples include a system for controlling traffic signalling devices at an intersection, including a first radar sensor that detects road users in a first detection region on a first traffic route, outputting first radar sensor data indicating first sensor detected positions and a first sensor detected radial velocities, and a second radar sensor that detects road users in a second detection region on a second traffic route, outputting second sensor data indicating second sensor detected positions and a second sensor detected velocities. The first radar sensor and second radar sensor are at different locations, or different orientations, or both, and configured such that the first and second detection region have an overlap. An electronic data processing device combines the first radar sensor data and second radar sensor data into combination signals, and controls the traffic signalling devices based at least partially on the combination signals.
US12146975B2
This specification relates to estimation of a location of a mobile device using one or more locator devices. In a first aspect, this specification describes an apparatus comprising: means for receiving, from a set of locator devices at known locations, each locator device comprising an antenna array, bearing measurements indicative of one or more bearings from the antenna array of each of the plurality of locator devices to a mobile device; means for estimating a position of the mobile device using the known location of each locator device and the bearing measurements from each locator device; means for determining, for each of the bearing measurements, an error based on the bearing measurement and the estimated position of the mobile device; means for identifying one or more bearing measurements having an error in excess of a threshold; and means for re-estimating the position of the mobile device such that the contribution of the identified one or more bearing measurements to the re-estimated position is reduced.
US12146974B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus of transmitting control information for sidelink positioning. The method of transmitting control information for sidelink positioning in an NR-V2X communication system according to one aspect may comprise the steps of: determining at least one transmission slot for transmission of first positioning sidelink control information (PSCI) and second PSCI; determining at least one physical channel for transmission of the first PSCI and the second PSCI; mapping the first PSCI and the second PSCI to the determined at least one transmission slot and the determined at least one physical channel; and transmitting the mapped first PSCI and the second PSCI. The apparatus is capable of communicating with at least one of another apparatus, a user equipment (UE) related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station (BS) or a network.
US12146966B2
A distance measurement apparatus comprises a light emitter that emits a plurality of light beams toward a scene in different directions and at different timings, a light receiver that includes an array of a plurality of light-receiving elements and detects reflected light from the scene produced by the emission of each light beam with the plurality of light-receiving elements, and a signal processing circuit that generates and outputs output data including measurement data indicating the positions or distances of a plurality of points in the scene on the basis of a signal outputted by the light receiver. The output data includes the data of a plurality of blocks, and individual time data is attached to each of the plurality of blocks.
US12146964B2
An image processing method includes a step of acquiring, from an image data acquisition device and a three-dimensional data acquisition device that are calibrated, a plurality of pieces of unit image data in which image data and three-dimensional data are associated with each other, for a target object, for each angle of view of the image data acquisition device; a step of estimating a plane, based on a plurality of pieces of three-dimensional data included in the plurality of pieces of unit image data; a step of acquiring image group data by grouping a plurality of pieces of image data included in a plurality of pieces of unit image data belonging to the estimated plane; and a step of selecting image data necessary to form the plane from among the plurality of pieces of image data included in the image group data. Thus, image data can be reduced.
US12146963B2
The present technology relates to an imaging device and an electronic device that enable construction of an imaging device that outputs information required by a user with a small size. A single-chip imaging device includes: an imaging unit in which a plurality of pixels is arranged two-dimensionally and that captures an image; a signal processing unit that performs signal processing using a captured image output from the imaging unit; an output I/F that outputs a signal processing result of the signal processing and the captured image to an outside; and an output control unit that performs output control of selectively outputting the signal processing result of the signal processing and the captured image from the output I/F to the outside. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an imaging device that captures an image.
US12146960B2
A method for depth mapping of objects in a scene by a system of a moving/movable platform is disclosed. According to some embodiments, the method includes actively illuminating the scene with pulsed light that is generated by at least one pulsed light illuminator and receiving, responsive to illuminating the scene, reflections on at least one image sensor that comprises a plurality of pixel elements. The method may further include gating at least one of the plurality of pixel elements of the at least one image sensor for converting the reflections into pixel values for generating reflection-based images that have at least two depth-of-field ranges and an overlapping DOF region. In addition, the method may include determining, based on at least one first pixel value of a first DOF in the overlapping DOF region, and based on at least one second pixel value of a second DOF in the overlapping DOF region, depth information of one or more objects located in the overlapping DOF region of the scene.
US12146958B2
A method of analyzing the shape of an object using a LiDAR sensor includes determining the first to Mth shapes of first to Mth layers (where M is a positive integer of 2 or more) related to a target object using clustered LiDAR points and analyzing the determined first to Mth shapes according to a predetermined priority to determine the shape of the target object.
US12146953B2
Some embodiments relate to the application of a system and a signal processing method for data acquired from a Scanning Acoustic Microscope (SAM) to obtain a high axial resolution and enhanced imaging. The SAM is one of ultrasound imaging methods used for NDE. Embodiments may provide methods for decreasing or reducing the duration (width) of the pulses scattered/reflected by multiple objects/scatters. Such embodiments can accomplish this by eliminating, or at least partially eliminating, the background noise by deconvolving the system responses (i.e., reference signals) obtained from either theoretical modeling or experimental acquiring. In one embodiment, the method minimizes the pulse duration by using a regression technique to predict the spectra responses outside a frequency band.
US12146946B2
A method for obtaining flight path information comprises: receiving, at a network entity, a capability report indicating a capability of a UE to report a flight path of the UE; and transmitting, from the network entity, a flight path report message that requests the UE to provide: partial-path reporting by reporting first flight path information indicative of a portion of the flight path of the UE that is less than all of the flight path; or triggered reporting by reporting second flight path information in response to occurrence of a trigger event, the second flight path information indicative of at least some of the flight path of the UE; or differential reporting by reporting third flight path information indicative of a difference between a present flight path of the UE and a previous flight path of the UE; or any combination thereof.
US12146945B2
An example method to determine an object spin rate may include training a neural network with a set of initial data. The set of initial data may be generated based on a plurality of initial radar signals of a plurality of initial objects in motion. The method may include receiving a radar signal of a particular object in motion. The method may include converting the radar signal into an input vector. The input vector may include time and frequency information of the particular object in motion. The method may include providing the input vector as input to a trained neural network. The method may include determining a spin rate of the particular object in motion based on an analysis performed by the trained neural. The analysis may include analyzing the input vector including time and frequency information of the object in motion in view of the set of initial data.
US12146942B2
In some aspects, a system may receive, from a first one-dimensional radar array, first information based at least in part on first reflections associated with an azimuthal plane. The system may further receive, from a second one-dimensional radar array, second information based at least in part on second reflections associated with an elevation plane. Accordingly, the system may detect an object based at least in part on the first information and may determine an elevation associated with the object based at least in part on the second information. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12146940B2
A radar system may comprise a first wireless communications system Transmission Reception Point (TRP)configured as a transmitter for sending a transmit signal toward a target, a second wireless communications system TRP configured as a receiver for receiving an echo signal corresponding to a reflection of the transmit signal from the target, and a radar server. The first wireless communications system TRP and the second wireless communications system TRP may be part of a cellular communications system. The second wireless communications system TRP may be configured to generate one or more measurement reports containing one or more of delay, Doppler frequency, and/or angle-of-arrival information. The second wireless communications system TRP may be configured to send the one or more measurement reports to an entity within the cellular communications system.
US12146939B1
Embodiments described herein provide for a technique to enable sensor data gathered by multiple electronic devices, such as smart home devices, to be fused into a single coordinate space to enable a higher sensor resolution at each device. For example, multiple sensor equipped devices may communicate over a network to share sensor data between devices. Each device can combine local sensor data with remote sensor data received from other devices to increase the angular resolution of the detected sensor data. To enable this combination, motion characteristics of commonly detected objects can be used to enable the devices to determine a set of relative positions. Coordinate space transformations can then be computed based on the relative positions. Sensor data can be fused using the determined coordinate space transformations.
US12146935B2
A system and method for performing production testing on high power semiconductor devices is disclosed. The system includes signal generators, RF meters, sockets, couplers and connectors which also function as switches when connected to an external cable. A calibration process is executed which allows the controller to create a correlation between measurements taken by the RF meter and the actual voltages, and power levels present at the device under test. By performing this calibration, it is possible to perform production testing of devices much more quickly and reliably.
US12146933B2
Methods and systems for performing motion correction on imaging data. The methods include accessing a set of imaging data. The set of imaging data includes first imaging data for a first time point, second imaging data for a second time point, and third imaging data for a third time point. A location of a region of interest (ROI) is identified in the different imaging data. Differences between the locations of ROI across the imaging data are determined and aggregated to generate an aggregate motion score for the respective imaging data in the set of imaging data. One of the imaging data is then selected as reference imaging data for motion correction based on the aggregate motion score. Motion correction of the set of imaging data is performed based on the selected reference imaging data. Similar comparisons on images may be performed for peak enhancement of MRI imaging data.
US12146929B2
An apparatus for detachably fastening an NMR probe head with a pedestal box to an NMR magnet system of an NMR spectrometer has a holding system rigidly connected to the magnet system. A base plate of the holding system fastens detachably to the probe head pedestal box. A receiving device on or in the base plate receives all electric, electronic, optical, pneumatic, and thermal feed lines and optionally discharge lines required for the operation of the probe head. A lower side of the base plate in contact with an upper side of the pedestal box comprises multiple connecting elements into which the feed lines and discharge lines merge. The upper side of the pedestal box comprises receiving elements into which the feed lines and discharge lines from the connecting elements merge in a predetermined relative assembled position.
US12146923B2
An apparatus comprises a solid state device and a switch in series with the solid state device. The apparatus comprises a leak detection component connected to the solid state device. The apparatus comprises a gate driver configured to drive a gate of the solid state device. The gate driver comprises test circuitry configured to apply a test voltage to the gate of the solid state device. The test voltage is less than a threshold voltage of the solid state device. The leak detection component is configured to detect a leakage of the solid state device.
US12146917B2
A battery system includes a multi-cell rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) and an electronic controller configured to process RESS cell data. The controller is programmed with a battery cell open circuit voltage (OCV) versus state of charge (SOC) data table used to calculate a peak OCV movement for a representative battery cell at predetermined capacity and maximum discharge/charge rate. The controller is configured to acquire voltage data for one of the cells during active RESS cycling. The controller is also configured to pass the acquired voltage data through a first-order lag filter algorithm to generate an overpredicted OCV for the subject cell. The controller is additionally configured to determine an overpredicted SOC value for the subject cell in the data table using an OCV value from the overpredicted OCV. Furthermore, the controller is configured to regulate the RESS using the determined overpredicted SOC value for the subject cell.
US12146913B2
Arrangements and techniques for testing mobile devices within a test module. The test modules are portable and may be stacked to provide a modular testing system. A pulley system may be used to move an actuator arm horizontally in the X and Y directions. The actuator arm may be moved vertically in the Z direction such that a tip may engage a touchscreen of a mobile device being tested or a user interface element of the mobile device.
US12146910B2
According to a certain embodiment, the test system includes a first test board, a test executable integrated circuit, and a first measuring apparatus. A device under test (DUT) is mounted on the first test board. The test executable integrated circuit is mounted on the first test board, and is configured to read firmware stored in the DUT in advance and to test the DUT. The first measuring apparatus instructs the test executable integrated circuit to start a test of the DUT. There are provided the test system, the test method, and the non-transitory computer readable medium, capable of reducing costs required for tests and also of shortening test time.
US12146904B2
A method for identifying a location of a fault in an electrical power distribution network that includes identifying an impedance of an electrical line between each pair of adjacent utility poles, measuring a voltage and a current of the power signal at a switching device during the fault, and estimating a voltage at each of the utility poles downstream of the switching device using the impedance of the electrical line between the utility poles and the measured voltage and current during the fault. The method calculates a reactive power value at each of the utility poles using the estimated voltages, where calculating a reactive power value includes compensating for distributed loads along the electrical line that consume reactive power during the fault, and determines the location of the fault based on where the reactive power goes to zero along the electrical line.
US12146903B2
A DC meter for an electrical vehicle charging station having a pair of DC power supply lines extending from a charging station controller to an electrical vehicle connector, the DC meter comprising a meter unit and a sensor unit. The meter unit comprises a user interface, a sensor interface for connection to the sensor unit, a metering interface for connection to the charging station controller, and a microprocessor configured to receive and process signals received from the sensor unit, to exchange data with the charging station controller and to receive commands from the user interface and output information to the user interface. The sensor unit is separate and connected at a point distal from the meter unit via an interconnection cable for the transmission of measurement signals.
US12146900B2
A current measurement system comprising a multi-phase open loop current transducer for measuring phase currents (I1, I2, I3) flowing in a plurality n of primary conductors of a multi-phase electrical system. The transducer comprises a housing, a magnetic core including first and second core parts and a plurality n+1 of magnetic field detectors mounted in the housing between the first and second core parts in which portions of the primary conductors traversing the current transducer housing are positioned. The system further comprises a non-volatile memory in which information on at least one coupling matrix (K), pre-defined in a calibration procedure, is stored.
US12146894B2
The present disclosure is directed to a device and method for lid angle detection that is accurate even if the device is activated in an upright position. While the device is in a sleep state, first and second sensor units measure acceleration and angular velocity, and calculate orientations of respective lid components based on the acceleration and angular velocity measurements. Upon the device exiting the sleep state, a processor estimates the lid angle using the calculated orientations, sets the estimated lid angle as an initial lid angle, and updates the initial lid angle using, for example, two accelerometers; two accelerometers and two gyroscopes; two accelerometers and two magnetometers; or two accelerometers, two gyroscopes, and two magnetometers.
US12146892B2
A sample tube rack (10) for receiving at least one sample tube is provided, comprising: a bottom surface (12) comprising at least one opening (14) for receiving the sample tube, and at least two guiding elements (16, 16′, 16a-d) arranged on the bottom surface (12) adjacent to the opening (14), wherein each guiding element (16, 16′, 16a-d) extends substantially parallel to a vertical axis (18) of the opening (14) from the bottom surface (12) towards a top side (20) of the sample tube rack (10). The guiding elements (16, 16′, 16a-d) are arranged at different positions (17a-d) around the opening (14), such that a tube compartment (24) for receiving the sample tube is formed by the guiding elements (16, 16′, 16a-d) and the opening (14), wherein the guiding elements (16, 16′, 16a-d) are spaced apart from each other along a perimeter (21) of the opening (14), thereby forming at least two clearances (22) between the guiding elements (16, 16′, 16a-d) along the perimeter (21) of the opening (14).
US12146879B2
An apparatus for inspecting an antibiotic and a method for determining antibiotic sensitivity using the same is provided. The antibiotic susceptibility inspection time which has conventionally taken longer than 24 hours is shortened to about 2 hours or less, the efficacy of the target substance is monitored in real time, the identification of the microorganism, the kind of the antibiotic capable of treating the microorganism, and the minimum dosage thereof are quickly confirmed. Microbial infections requiring prompt diagnosis and treatment can be effectively treated.
US12146878B2
A reagent test paddle includes a contamination detection medium, a reference color bar, at least one chemical test medium, and a unique identifier. The contamination detection medium includes a reagent that changes color in the presence or when exposed to a hostile or inhospitable environment. Each chemical test medium includes a regent that is responsive to a respective analyte in a biological sample. The reference color bar includes reference color samples of different colors. The unique identifier, like a serial number, identifies the particular paddle and its chemical test medium so it can be uniquely and anonymously associated with a user. A method includes capturing and interpreting digital images of a biologically unexposed and subsequently exposed reagent test paddle at various delay times within an automatically calibrated environment; locating the paddle in a plurality of digital images, extracting the reference color bar and locating the contamination detection medium and chemical test medium in each digital image. Color changes of the chemical test medium and contamination medium are detected at various delay times after sample exposure. To determine validity of test results, the method further compares the detected colors of the contamination detection medium with predetermined colors expected for no contamination and contamination.
US12146877B2
The specification provides an assay electrode including a composite containing a matrix and a multiplicity of graphene particles dispersed therein.
US12146875B2
The present invention is related to novel methods for categorizing and treating a population of subjects having cystic fibrosis (CF) and who are at risk of severe pulmonary exacerbation comprising detecting the expression levels of genes in a gene panel consisting of TLR2, ADAM9, PLXND1, CD163, CD36, CD64, CSPG2, IL32, HPSE, and HCA112 and aggressively treating the subject when the expression levels of the genes from the gene panel predicts the subject is at risk for severe pulmonary exacerbation.
US12146873B2
A method of operating a pore field-effect transistor (FET) sensor for detecting particles, wherein the pore FET sensor comprises a FET wherein a gate is controlled by a pore filled by a fluid, comprises: controlling a first voltage (Vcis) to set the FET in a subthreshold region; controlling a second voltage (Vtrans) to set a voltage difference between the first and second voltages (Vtrans) such that an effective difference in gate voltage experienced between a minimum and a maximum effective gate voltage during movement of a particle in the fluid is at least kT/q; and detecting a drain-source current in the FET, wherein the particle passing through the pore modulates the drain-source current for detecting presence of the particle.
US12146872B2
A method and system for monitoring and identifying the quality of a welding performed by a welding machinery on a metallic component, which includes establishing a plurality of classes that describe possible weld defects on the metallic component; identifying a plurality of features that are relative to the functioning of the welding machinery; acquiring the values assumed by the plurality of features during the execution of a current welding on a metallic component; and processing the values assumed by the plurality of features during the execution of the current welding to establish the probabilities of the future outcome of the welding of belonging to each of the classes of the plurality of classes.
US12146866B2
Disclosed herein is a system for facilitating assessment of a physical asset, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the system may include a device disposable on a location of the physical asset. Further, the device may include a sensor configured for generating an information. Further, the at least one device may include a communication interface communicatively coupled with the sensor. Further, the device may include a power source electrically coupled with the sensor and the communication interface. Further, the system may include an assessment system communicatively coupled with the device. Further, the assessment system may include a communication device configured for receiving the information and transmitting an assessment to a user device. Further, the assessment system may include a processing device communicatively coupled with the communication device. Further, the assessment system may include a storage device communicatively coupled with the processing device.
US12146863B2
An ultrasonic flaw detection device comprises a flaw detection unit for transmitting and receiving ultrasound, a swinging mechanism for supporting the flaw detection unit to swing around a swinging axis, and a locking mechanism for switching between a swinging state and a locked state. The ultrasonic flaw detection device controls the locking mechanism and swinging mechanism such that when the flaw detection unit is moved along a direction tangential to a surface to be inspected from a position removed from a first end part of the surface to be inspected to a lock release position, the flaw detection unit is put in the locked state such that a direction tangential to a contact surface and the direction tangential to the surface to be inspected coincide, and the flaw detection unit is switched from the locked state to the swinging state after the flaw detection unit reaches the lock release position.
US12146859B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for real-time visualization of a material during ultrasonic non-destructive testing. The system includes a graphical user interface (GUI) capable of showing a three-dimensional (3-D) image of a composite laminate constructed of a series of two-dimensional (2-D) cross sections. The GUI is capable of displaying the 3-D image as each additional 2-D cross section is scanned by an ultrasonic testing apparatus in real time or near real time, including probable defect regions that contain a flaw such as an air pocket, delamination, or foreign object within the composite. Furthermore, in one embodiment, the system includes an artificial intelligence capable of highlighting foreign objects within the 3-D image in real time or near real time and providing data regarding each object area, such as the depth, size, and/or type of each defect.
US12146845B2
A component residual stress testing platform based on neutron diffraction and experimental method thereof are provided, the testing platform includes a component support, a rotating mainshaft, a first thrust cylindrical roller bearing, a first cylindrical roller bearing, a bearing spacing sleeve, a second cylindrical roller bearing, a sleeve, and a first fixed baffle. The rotating mainshaft is disposed on the component support. The first thrust cylindrical roller bearing, the first cylindrical roller bearing, the bearing spacing sleeve and the second cylindrical roller bearing are sleeved on the rotating mainshaft, the sleeve is sleeved outside the first cylindrical roller bearing, the bearing spacing sleeve and the second cylindrical roller bearing, a component to be tested is sleeved on the sleeve. The testing platform can support, move, tilt and rotate the component to be tested in a process of a residual stress testing.
US12146842B2
Portable microwave material gauge for determining the quality of a pavement material is provided. The gauge includes an electromagnetic field generator configured to generate an electric field mode that penetrates into the material wherein the material includes a heterogeneous material including at least one of a pavement material and a soil material, a calibration data set, a sensor of size and shape to support the electric field mode and to determine the response of the pavement material to the electric field wherein determining the response includes determining a change in the permittivity as a function of a change in the quality of the material; and an analyzer configured to correlate the sensor permittivity response to the calibration data set wherein correlating the response includes using stored relationships between the material quality and the sensor response using calibration samples having changes in permittivity as a function of quality.
US12146839B1
A deep learning-based quality inspection system by learning only non-defective manufactured product data may include: an input unit receiving a non-defective manufactured product image data set; a preprocessor preprocessing a model to learn the images with a same size by not applying a cropping task to cut and process only an area at a specific location within each image for each of the plurality of images included in the image data set, but applying a resizing task of adjusting each image to a desired size and a padding task of adjusting the size of the image while maintaining a ratio of each image as it is; and a controller extracting a non-defective manufactured product feature which becomes a non-defective manufactured product criterion from the preprocessed image, and generating a plurality of fake defective manufactured product features by adding a Gaussian noise feature to the extracted non-defective manufactured product feature.
US12146838B2
In an embodiment, a method for detecting cracks in road segments is provided. The method includes: receiving raw range data for a first image by a computing device from an imaging system, wherein the first image comprises a plurality of pixels; receiving raw intensity data for the first image by the computing device from an imaging system; fusing the raw range data and raw intensity data to generate fused data for the first image by the computing device; extracting a set of features from the fused data for the first image by the computing device; providing the set of features to a trained neural network by the computing device; and generating a label for each pixel of the plurality of pixels by the trained neural network, wherein a received label for a pixel indicates whether or not the pixel is associated with a crack.
US12146834B2
In an embodiment, a bloom engine is created that can detect the formation of both fat bloom and sugar bloom in a chocolate product. A Raman spectrometer is used to generate a first or reference spectrum of a chocolate product. Based on peaks of the spectrum known to be associated with sugar and peaks of the spectrum known to be associated with fat, a ratio of sugar to fat for the chocolate product is determined based on the reference spectrum. Later, a second spectrum is generated from the chocolate product, and a ratio of sugar to fat is similarly determined for the second spectrum. Changes in the ratios between the two samples are used to detect fat or sugar bloom. Other features of the bloom engine including removing or reducing bloom from the chocolate product using a laser associated with the spectrometer and applying a design to the chocolate product in bloom using the laser.
US12146830B2
An optical scanning system including a radiating source capable of outputting a source light beam, a de-scan lens that is configured to output a de-scanned light beam, the de-scanned light beam is created by focusing light reflected from the sample and the de-scan lens is located approximately one focal length of the de-scan lens from an irradiation location where the light beam irradiates the sample, a focusing lens that is configured to output a focused light beam, a collimating lens that is configured to output a collimated light beam, a polarizing beam splitter that is configured to be irradiated by the collimated light beam, and a detector that is configured to be irradiated by at least a portion of the collimated light beam that is not reflected by the polarizing beam splitter.
US12146820B2
A test system for measuring the gas permeation parameters of an ultra-low permeability medium in multi-field and multi-phase coupling conditions, comprising a triaxial permeation chamber, a deformation monitoring apparatus, a temperature sensing control apparatus, a volume/pressure controller, a bias stress loading apparatus, a gas injection apparatus, an outlet buffer container, and an ultra-low permeation flow monitoring apparatus. During the test, first applying temperature and triaxial stress control to a rock-soil mass sample; using the gas injection apparatus to inject high-pressure gas into the rock-soil mass sample; after permeation, the high-pressure gas enters the outlet buffer container and the ultra-low permeation flow monitoring apparatus to acquire the gas permeation flow; and, in the test process, the deformation monitoring apparatus can measure the local absolute deformation of the rock-soil mass sample. Full-process monitoring of the gas permeation of an ultra-low permeability medium in multi-field and multi-phase coupling conditions is thereby implemented.
US12146812B2
A gas inspection management system includes: an inspection information database that stores inspection results and information on links to inspection images for objects of inspection; an access condition receiver that receives an input of an access request and an input of condition specification from a manager; a hardware processor that: selects part or all of the objects from the inspection information database, based on the access request, acquires information on the inspection results and the information on the links for the selected objects, and generates a display image including the information on the inspection results and the information on the links for the selected objects; and a display that displays the display image.
US12146802B2
A load sensor includes: a first base member and a second base member disposed so as to face each other; an electrically-conductive elastic body disposed on an opposing face of the first base member; and a conductor wire disposed between the second base member and the electrically-conductive elastic body and configured as a plurality of element wires being twisted. Each element wire is configured as an electrically-conductive member which has a linear shape and of which the surface is covered by a dielectric body. A twist pitch of the plurality of element wires satisfies a conditional expression “p≤12nd”. In the expression, p is the twist pitch of the plurality of element wires, n is the number of the element wires included in the conductor wire and d is the outer diameter of each element wire.
US12146801B2
A temperature sensing device for a temperature-based tamper detection system includes an integrated circuit (IC) and a logic circuit. The logic circuit sends an enable signal to the IC, causing it to measure the device temperature, and initiates a security timer. In response to not receiving the device temperature before the security timer expires, the logic circuit outputs a tamper event signal and an error code. The logic circuit can disable the enable signal in response to not receiving the device temperature before the timer expires. In some implementations, the logic circuit is a first logic circuit, and the IC includes an analog integrated circuit (AIC) and a second logic circuit. The second logic circuit receives the enable signal from the first logic circuit, causes the AIC to measure the device temperature, and outputs a ready signal and the device temperature to the first logic circuit.
US12146786B2
An optical fiber sensing system that includes an optical fiber provided in a monitor area, a detection unit that detects an anomaly that has occurred in the monitor area and identifies a location on the optical fiber where the anomaly is detected, based on a vibration pattern included in an optical signal received from the optical fiber, and a control unit that displays an arrangement situation of the optical fiber in an overlapping manner on a map of the monitor area, displays a mark indicating a location on the optical fiber where the anomaly is detected, in an overlapping manner on the map of the monitor area, and displays information indicating a detail of the anomaly.
US12146776B2
A device determines a propagation time of an acoustic signal through cross-correlation analysis between a transmission signal and a reception signal. The device generates the transmission signal to satisfy (1) a ratio of a height of a peak other than a maximum peak in an autocorrelation function of the transmission signal to a height of the maximum peak being 0.8 or less and (2) a duration of the transmission signal being at least five times a shortest period of the transmission signal or at least 20 times a half width at half maximum of the autocorrelation function of the transmission signal.
US12146765B2
There is provided a survey marker, and an image processing apparatus, method, and program capable of accurately detecting a survey marker from a captured image obtained by image capturing. The survey marker has a planar shape and includes a plurality of circles concentrically disposed, the plurality of circles including adjacent circles each having a different color. A candidate region extraction unit extracts a candidate region from a captured image obtained by image capturing of the survey marker, the candidate region being a candidate of a region in which the survey marker appears. A feature amount extraction unit extracts a feature amount of the candidate region. A discrimination unit discriminates the survey marker on the basis of the feature amount. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a case of detecting a survey marker installed on the ground from a captured image obtained by aerial image capturing.
US12146763B2
A computer-implemented method for the self-calibration of an inertial sensor. The method includes: establishing data that relate to the inertial sensor; subdividing the data into training data and test data; setting a first target accuracy value for a first artificial neural network that includes linear activation functions; training the first artificial neural network using the training data; inputting the test data into the trained first artificial neural network in order to obtain a first output value of the first artificial neural network; establishing a first output accuracy value based on a comparison result between the first output value and the test data; storing weightings and the linear activation functions of the first artificial neural network in a memory unit of the inertial sensor if the first output accuracy value is greater than the first target accuracy value, or otherwise, training the first artificial neural network again using the training data.
US12146762B1
An object tracking system includes objects being tracked that have a communication means. The objects can be in either periodic or continuous communication. A receiver is capable of receiving data from the objects. A processor and database are provided joined to the receiver. The processor updates the database with the received positional data, and linked time data for each object. The processor and database are also capable of sorting the historic positional data, planned positional data, and current positional data by the time data linked to the position data to generate sorted positional data. A display is joined to the processor to receive and display the sorted positional data and linked time data.
US12146749B1
A server computer receives a routing request for providing a ride service and retrieves a start location and destination from the request. The server computer identifies a plurality of routes connecting the start location and destination among historical route information collected over a period of time. The routes are traveled by one or more vehicles and reported during the period of time. The server computer identifies a selected route, including a plurality of waypoints, among the plurality of routes based on the selected route having a higher probability to be taken. The server computer multiplies an identified time duration for each waypoint with a determined adjustment factor for each time duration to determine an augmented time duration for each waypoint, determines a sum of all the augmented time durations as the estimated time for arrival, and transmits the estimated time of arrival to the user device.
US12146746B2
A control unit 15 of an in-vehicle device 1 configured to acquire, from landmark data LD that is map data including position information of one or more features, plural pieces of position information of a feature which is drawn on a road surface and which exists at or around a vehicle. Then, the control unit 15 is configured to calculate a normal vector of an approximate plane calculated based on the acquired plural pieces of the position information. Then, the control unit 15 is configured to calculate at least one of a pitch angle or a roll angle of the vehicle based on the orientation of the vehicle and the normal vector.
US12146741B2
An augmented-reality device is used with a surveying system to guide a base station, such as a total station, during relock after loss of line of sight with a surveying instrument, such as a surveying pole with a reflective prism. A position of the surveying instrument in relation to the augmented-reality device is calculated while an object in the environment blocks line of sight from the base station to the surveying instrument. A position of the surveying instrument in relation to the environment is calculated based on the position of the surveying instrument in relation to the augmented-reality device. The position of the surveying instrument in relation to the environment is used by the base station to point toward to the surveying instrument.
US12146726B1
A replaceable container cover system having a cover adapted to fit about and be repeatably attached to and/or unattached from at least a portion of a container, wherein at least one aperture formed through the cover is alignable with at least one aperture formed through the container; an attachment element having at least one aperture formed through at least a portion of the attachment element; and at least one fastener, wherein if at least a portion of the at least one fastener is attached to at least some of the attachment element, the cover, and/or the container, at least a portion of the at least one fastener passes through the at least one aperture formed through the attachment element, the at least one aperture formed through the cover or the at least one aperture formed through the attachment element, and the at least one aperture formed through the container.
US12146722B2
A water gun or toy water gun for dispensing liquid is disclosed. The gun includes at least one liquid dispensing outlet and at least one chamber housing that defines at least one chamber for storing liquid to be dispensed through the liquid dispensing outlet. For replenishing with liquid in a fast and convenient manner, the chamber is designed to be substantially uniform in cross section. An opening through which the liquid may be received in the chamber is also substantially the same size as the cross-section of chamber. The gun includes a lid that is pivotally movable between a closed position in which at least a portion of the opening is concealed by the lid and an open position in which the at least a portion of the opening is revealed by the lid.
US12146716B2
Embodiments of the invention discussed herein surround cleaning of firearms which are configured to pass through internal aspects such as through a barrel and/or breach of a firearm. Included in some embodiments is a driver adaptor which is configured to allow the powered or mechanically assisted rotation of a cleaning system when inserted into the barrel or breach of a firearm for more rapid and efficient cleaning. Included in some embodiments is a barrel guard for the protection for the muzzle end of the barrel, the cleaning system, and the user.
US12146715B2
A holding support for a v-shaped heat exchanger having a flat base plate, which on a plate edge forms a spreading finger holder with holding fingers for holding flat tubes of the v-shaped heat exchanger and on a further plate edge forms a support for supporting the holding support. In a v-shaped heat exchanger two holding supports may be used to support the v-shaped heat exchanger on a surface.
US12146703B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet and a shelf. The cabinet has a rear wall and opposing side walls extending forward from the rear wall. The rear wall and opposing side walls define an internal cavity. The shelf is disposed within the internal cavity, has a base portion defining a plurality of aligned grooves, and has an extendable portion having a plurality of aligned protrusions. Each protrusion is disposed and slidable within one of the aligned grooves. The extendable portion is configured to transition between first and second positions relative to the base portion via sliding the plurality of aligned protrusions within the plurality of aligned grooves.
US12146701B2
Disclosed is an electronic device in which a multi joint hinge, which couples a door of the electronic device, is applied. The electronic device includes a main body having a storage space therein, a door configured to open and close the storage space, and a hinge coupled to the door and the main body in order to rotate the door with respect to the main body. The hinge includes a first bracket supported by the main body, a second bracket supported by the door, a link rotatably coupled between the first bracket and the second bracket, a resilient member provided on the link and having an elasticity; a cam provided on the second bracket and formed in a shape to contact with the resilient member, so that according to a rotation direction of the door, the elasticity of the resilient member acts as an opening force or a closing force of the door, and a cam stopper integrally formed with the second bracket to prevent the cam from being moved by the elasticity of the resilient member.
US12146697B2
An inside air-conditioning device includes a refrigerant circuit (50) and a refrigerant that is sealed in the refrigerant circuit (50). The refrigerant circuit (50) includes a compressor (10), a condenser (25), an electronic expansion valve (13), and an evaporator (17). The refrigerant contains at least 1,2-difluoroethylene.
US12146690B2
A fluid temperature control device includes a magnetic circuit portion and a coil waterproof structure. The magnetic circuit portion includes a magnetic working substance container containing a magnetic working substance, and a coil that applies a magnetic field to the magnetic working substance container. The magnetic working substance container allows a fluid to flow through it to exchange heat with the magnetic working substance. The coil waterproof structure hinders water generated in the magnetic working substance container from flowing to the coil.
US12146673B2
An apparatus and a method for setting a combination desired temperature for a plurality of air conditioners installed in a target zone, and a method for calculating base relationship information of the target zone include setting a combination desired temperature of a top-priority air conditioner among the air conditioners by at least one test driving of the top-priority air conditioner, the combination desired temperature of the top-priority air conditioner being a desired temperature of the top-priority air conditioner for realizing a comfortable temperature range of the target zone; and in response to a temperature of at least one temperature sensor among temperature sensors being outside the comfortable temperature range while the top-priority air conditioner is driven at the combination desired temperature of the top-priority air conditioner, adjusting the combination desired temperature of the first air conditioner through test driving of the first air conditioner.
US12146672B2
An air conditioning system includes an air conditioner, a detector, a transmitter, and a control unit. The air conditioner includes an indoor unit. The detector detects a user action toward the indoor unit. The transmitter transmits first information on the indoor unit to a terminal of the user. The control unit causes the transmitter to transmit the first information to the terminal when the detector detects the user action.
US12146663B2
A solid fuel burning cabinet circular heating appliance achieves improved emissions performance by providing a secondary air combustion path that preheats secondary combustion air. The firebox is selectively insulated such that areas of the firebox that do not preheat combustion air retain heat in the firebox while areas of the firebox that transfer heat into the combustion air transfer heat through the firebox into the incoming combustion air. The exhaust air path from the firebox to a chimney is also uninsulated to allow relatively quick heat transfer into a room in which the appliance is installed.
US12146660B2
A combustor for a gas turbine engine, the gas turbine engine defining a longitudinal centerline extending in a longitudinal direction, a radial direction extending orthogonally outward from the longitudinal centerline, and a circumferential direction extending concentrically around the longitudinal centerline, the combustor including: a liner at least partially defining a combustion chamber, the liner further defining a gap; and an intermediate member disposed at least partially within the gap of the liner and in fluid communication with the combustion chamber, wherein the intermediate member is retained at a relatively fixed position with respect to the liner by a support extending between the intermediate member and a case of the gas turbine engine.
US12146655B2
A light fixture includes side wall sections having first surfaces facing towards each other, a light source on the first surface of at least one of the side wall sections and positioned so that a maximum intensity direction of a light distribution pattern of the light source is towards the other side wall section, and a lens section that constitutes an optical diverter that directs a first part of light emitted by the light source obliquely via a gap between first edges of the side wall sections and a second part of the light obliquely via a gap between second edges of the side wall sections. Thus, the light fixture can illuminate both a floor and a ceiling so that light emitted to unwanted directions and potentially causing unwanted bright spots and/or glare can be kept at a low level.
