US12167704B2
Memory devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A memory device includes a substrate, a first conductive layer, a phase change layer, a selector layer and a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer is disposed over the substrate. The phase change layer is disposed over the first conductive layer. The selector layer is disposed between the phase change layer and the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer is disposed over the phase change layer. In some embodiments, at least one of the phase change layer and the selector layer has a narrow-middle profile.
US12167700B2
Memory structures including an MTJ-containing pillar that is void of re-sputtered bottom electrode metal particles is provided by first forming the MTJ-containing pillar on a sacrificial material-containing structure, and thereafter replacing the sacrificial material-containing structure with at least a replacement bottom electrode structure. In some embodiments, the sacrificial material-containing structure is replaced with both a bottom electrode diffusion barrier liner and a replacement bottom electrode structure.
US12167696B2
The present disclosure relates to circuitry for driving a piezoelectric transducer to generate an audio output. The circuitry comprises pre-processor circuitry configured to process an input audio signal to generate a processed signal; driver circuitry coupled to the pre-processor circuitry and configured to generate a drive signal, based on the processed signal, for driving the piezoelectric transducer; and processor circuitry configured to determine a resonant frequency of the piezoelectric transducer. The pre-processor circuitry is configured to process the input audio signal based on the determined resonant frequency so as to generate the processed signal.
US12167689B2
Provided is a heterocyclic compound of Chemical Formula 1: wherein: X1 is O or S; L1 is a single bond or an unsubstituted phenylene; L2 is a single bond, or a substituted or unsubstituted: phenylene, naphthylene, or biphenylenyl; Y1 to Y3 are each independently N or CR3, where at least one is N; Ar1a and Ar1b are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted: C6-60 aryl or C1-60 heteroaryl containing 1 to 3 heteroatoms selected from N, O and S; R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen, deuterium, cyano, or a substituted or unsubstituted C1-10 alkyl; each R3 is independently hydrogen, deuterium, halogen, cyano, nitro, amino, or a substituted or unsubstituted: C1-60 alkyl, C1-60 haloalkyl, C1-60 alkoxy, a C1-60 haloalkoxy, C3-60 cycloalkyl, C2-60 alkenyl, C6-60 aryl, C6-60 aryloxy, or a C1-60 heteroaryl containing at least one heteroatom selected from N, O and S; and an organic light emitting device comprising the same.
US12167683B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes a first electrode, a hole transport region disposed on the first electrode, an emission layer disposed on the hole transport region, an electron transport region disposed on the emission layer, and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport region. The emission layer includes a polycyclic compound represented by Formula 1 to thereby achieve high luminous efficiency:
US12167679B2
An organic light-emitting device including a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an organic layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the organic layer comprises an emission layer and satisfies Equations 1 and 2, ET1(HOST)−ET1(AD)>0.05 eV Equation 1 ES1(FD)−ES1(AD)<0 eV, Equation 2 wherein in Equation 1, ET1(HOST) is a triplet energy (eV) of the host, and ET1(AD) is a triplet energy (eV) of the auxiliary dopant, and wherein in Equation 2, ES1(FD) is a singlet energy (eV) of the fluorescent dopant, and ES1(AD) is a singlet energy (eV) of the auxiliary dopant, wherein the emission layer comprises a host, an auxiliary dopant, and a fluorescent dopant, and wherein the auxiliary dopant is selected from compounds represented by Formula 1: wherein in Formula 1, Ar1 and R11 to R16 are the same as described in the specification.
US12167667B2
An apparatus for manufacturing a display device, includes: a stage; a temperature controlling portion on the stage, and to receive a member seated on the temperature controlling portion; and a jig portion facing the temperature controlling portion, the jig portion to move linearly, and to receive an adhesive member. The jig portion includes: a first support plate; a second support plate facing the first support plate; and a pressurization plate on the first support plate and the second support plate, the pressurization plate to receive the adhesive member thereon. An end of the pressurization plate is spaced further from the member than an end of the first support plate and an end of the second support plate when the member is seated on the temperature controlling portion.
US12167665B2
The thickness of a display device including a touch sensor is reduced. Alternatively, the thickness of a display device having high display quality is reduced. Alternatively, a method for manufacturing a display device with high mass productivity is provided. Alternatively, a display device having high reliability is provided. Stacked substrates in each of which a sufficiently thin substrate and a relatively thick support substrate are stacked are used as substrates. One surface of the thin substrate of one of the stacked substrates is provided with a layer including a touch sensor, and one surface of the thin substrate of the other stacked substrate is provided with a layer including a display element. After the two stacked substrates are attached to each other so that the touch sensor and the display element face each other, the support substrate and the thin substrate of each stacked substrate are separated from each other.
US12167660B2
A display device which exhibits light with high color purity is provided. A display device with low power consumption is provided. An embodiment is a display device which includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a light-emitting layer, a common electrode, a first protective layer, and a semi-transmissive layer. The light-emitting layer includes a first region positioned over the first pixel electrode and a second region positioned over the second pixel electrode. The common electrode is positioned over the light-emitting layer. The first protective layer is positioned over the common electrode. The semi-transmissive layer is positioned over the first protective layer. Reflectivity with respect to visible light of the semi-transmissive layer is higher than reflectivity with respect to visible light of the common electrode. The semi-transmissive layer does not overlap with the first region and overlaps with the second region. For example, the semi-transmissive layer may include an opening in a position overlapping with the first region.
US12167658B2
A display apparatus in which a display area is expanded so that an image may be displayed even in an area where components are arranged is provided. The display apparatus includes a substrate including a first area in which a transmissive portion is located and a second area adjacent to the first area, a pixel circuit unit arranged in the first area and including a pixel circuit, a first pixel electrode arranged in the first area and electrically connected to the pixel circuit, the first pixel electrode having a first portion overlapping the pixel circuit unit and a second portion not overlapping the pixel circuit unit, and a metal pattern layer arranged between the substrate and the first pixel electrode and corresponding to the second portion.
US12167655B2
An organic light-emitting display device includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes an organic light-emitting device including a pixel electrode, an organic emission layer, and an opposing electrode; a pixel defining layer covering an edge of the pixel electrode and being configured to define a light-emission region by having an opening which exposes a portion of the pixel electrode; and a reference line overlapping the pixel electrode with an insulating layer between the reference line and the pixel electrode and extending in a first direction. The reference line overlaps with a center point of the opening, and the opening is shifted to one side of the pixel electrode in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US12167650B2
A flexible device includes a substrate including a first region having a first elastic modulus and a second region having a second elastic modulus that is lower than the first elastic modulus, a pixel circuit on the substrate, and a unit device electrically connected to the pixel circuit, wherein the pixel circuit includes a plurality of thin film transistors, a first portion of the plurality of thin film transistors is on the first region of the substrate, and a second portion of the plurality of thin film transistors is on the second region of the substrate.
US12167638B2
A transparent display device may prevent deterioration of light transmittance, which is caused by a repair line, from occurring. The transparent display device comprises a substrate provided with transmissive areas, a non-transmissive area disposed between the transmissive areas, and a plurality of subpixels disposed in the non-transmissive area, a first electrode provided in each of the plurality of subpixels, a driving transistor connected with the first electrode of each of the plurality of subpixels, including an active layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode, a capacitor connected to the driving transistor of each of the plurality of subpixels, including a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode, and an anode line extended from the first electrode of each of the plurality of subpixels to at least partially overlap a driving transistor or a capacitor of an adjacent subpixel of the same color.
US12167637B2
A display device according to the present disclosure includes a substrate including a display area, and at least one non-display area; a light emitting element disposed on the substrate; a first thin film transistor including a first semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode, and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode; a second thin film transistor including a second semiconductor layer, a second gate electrode, and a second source electrode and a second drain electrode; a separation structure located in the non-display area and provided to disconnect an organic light emitting layer of the light emitting element; and a first upper interlayer insulating layer, a second upper interlayer insulating layer, and a third upper interlayer insulating layer interposed between the second gate electrode and the second source electrode and the second drain electrode of the second thin film transistor, and sequentially disposed.
US12167635B2
The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a display device using the same. Between first and second pixel areas having different pixels per inch, a third pixel area is provided to have the same pixels per inch as the first pixel area. In the third pixel area, some of pixels emit light as ON pixels, and remaining background pixels except for the ON pixels are driven as OFF pixels or low luminance pixels.
US12167634B2
An electroluminescent device includes: (1) a first region, a second region, and an intermediate region arranged between the first region and the second region; (2) a conductive coating disposed in the second region; and (3) a nucleation inhibiting coating disposed in the first region, the nucleation inhibiting coating extending to cover at least a portion of the intermediate region, wherein a thickness of the nucleation inhibiting coating in the intermediate region is less than a thickness of the nucleation inhibiting coating in the first region, and wherein a surface of the nucleation inhibiting coating in the first region is substantially free of the conductive coating.
US12167630B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus including a substrate including a surface, first to fourth elements that emit first light or second light, and first to fourth lenses, in which the relationship between the size of the emission area and the relative position of the lenses differs between the first light and the second light so that color misregistration due to the viewing angle is reduced.
US12167624B2
A display device includes: a base substrate; a thin-film transistor layer provided on the base substrate, a light-emitting element layer provided on the thin-film transistor layer; and a sealing film provided on the light-emitting element. Each of light-emitting elements includes: a first electrode; a functional layer; and a second electrode stacked on top of another in a stated order. The display device includes: a display region; a frame region; and a non-display region. The non-display region includes a through hole. The display device includes a separation wall shaped into a frame and provided to the non-display region along an edge of the through hole. The separation wall includes: a first resin layer: and a first metal layer provided on the first resin layer. The first metal layer includes a first protrusion shaped into a canopy, and protruding from the first resin layer toward the display region.
US12167619B2
Provided is an organic electroluminescence device including a first electrode, a hole transport region disposed on the first electrode, an emission layer disposed on the hole transport region, an electron transport region disposed on the emission layer, and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport region. The hole transport region includes a first hole transport layer disposed adjacent to the first electrode, the first hole transport layer including a first organic compound having a first dielectric constant and a second hole transport layer disposed between the first hole transport layer and the emission layer, the second hole transport layer including a second organic having a second dielectric constant which is greater than the first dielectric constant.
US12167616B2
A blue electroluminescent device includes: an anode, a light-emitting layer and a cathode stacked in sequence; wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a first type host material, a second type host material, and a guest doped material, one of the first type host material and the second type host material is a P-type material, and the other of the first type host material and the second type host material is an N-type material. A display panel and a display device are further provided.
US12167614B2
Some embodiments relate to an integrated circuit including a magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) cell. The integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate and an interconnect structure disposed over the semiconductor substrate. The interconnect structure includes metal layers that are stacked over one another with dielectric layers disposed between. The metal layers include a lower metal layer and an upper metal layer disposed over the lower metal layer. A bottom electrode is disposed over and in electrical contact with the lower metal layer. A magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) is disposed over an upper surface of bottom electrode. A top electrode is disposed over an upper surface of the MTJ. A sidewall spacer surrounds an outer periphery of the top electrode. Less than an entirety of a top electrode surface is in direct electrical contact with a metal via connected to the upper metal layer.
US12167613B2
A method includes: providing a modulation circuit including a first resistive element, a second resistive element and a third resistive element; providing a memory array and a regulator connecting the modulation circuit to the memory array, wherein the regulator includes a transistor; determining an operation mode of the memory array; generating a first voltage at a drain terminal of the transistor, wherein the first voltage corresponds to a positive, negative zero temperature coefficient according to a first resistance ratio and a second resistance ratio; during a read operation, providing a first driving current to the memory array in response to the first voltage corresponding to the positive temperature coefficient; and during a write operation, providing a second driving current to the memory array in response to the first voltage corresponding to the negative temperature coefficient.
US12167609B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes following operations. A memory layer is formed over the first gate electrode. A channel layer is formed over the memory layer. A first SUT treatment is performed. A second dielectric layer is formed over the memory layer and the channel layer. A source electrode and a drain electrode are formed in the second dielectric layer. A temperature of the first SUT treatment is less than approximately 400° C.
US12167607B2
A device includes a multi-layer stack, a channel layer, a ferroelectric layer and buffer layers. The multi-layer stack is disposed on a substrate and includes a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of dielectric layers stacked alternately. The channel layer penetrates through the plurality of conductive layers and the plurality of dielectric layers. The ferroelectric layer is disposed between the channel layer and each of the plurality of conductive layers and the plurality of dielectric layers. The buffer layers include a metal oxide, and one of the buffer layers is disposed between the ferroelectric layer and each of the plurality of dielectric layers.
US12167605B2
In a semiconductor device, a stack of alternating gate layers and insulating layers is formed. Channel structures are formed in an array region of the stack. A first staircase is formed at a first section of the stack. A second staircase is formed at a second section of the stack. A dummy staircase is formed at the first section and disposed between the first staircase and the second staircase. The dummy staircase includes dummy group stair steps descending in a second direction parallel to a plane defined by any one of the gate layers and the insulating layers, and dummy division stair steps descending in a third direction and a fourth direction parallel to the plane and perpendicular to the second direction. The third direction and the fourth direction are opposite to each other.
US12167589B2
The present disclosure discloses a method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor structure, and relates to the technical field of semiconductors. The method includes: providing a base, active regions arranged at intervals along a first direction being arranged in the base; forming, on the base, bit line structures arranged at intervals; forming a contact structure between two adjacent ones of the bit line structures; forming a barrier structure on the contact structure, the barrier structures being arranged in correspondence with and connected to the bit line structure, and a first recess being formed between any adjacent barrier structures; and forming a conductive structure in the first recess, the conductive structure including a protective layer and a conductive portion, and the protective layer wrapping a sidewall and a bottom wall of the conductive portion.
US12167584B2
A method for manufacturing a mask structure includes: patterning a sacrificial layer and a second dielectric layer, so as to form pattern structures each including a first pattern and a second pattern, and a width of a lower portion of the pattern structures is less than a width of a upper portion of the pattern structures; forming an initial mask pattern on sidewalls of each of the plurality of pattern structures; filling a first filling layer between adjacent initial mask patterns located on the sidewalls of different pattern structures; removing the second patterns and the initial mask pattern located on sidewalls of each of the plurality of second patterns; removing the first filling layer and the first patterns, so as to form first mask patterns; and forming second mask patterns on the first mask patterns.
US12167582B2
A scalable, detachable interconnect system is provided that includes a shielded-frame structure having alignment features that forms a separable interconnect assembly which can be used to electrically couple at least two semiconductor devices. The interconnect system functions to protect, secure, and align electrical contacts on a first and a second semiconductor device coupled together. In this manner, the interconnect assembly realizes an electrical-mechanical interposer system that can securely connect semiconductor devices (e.g., printed circuit boards and semiconductor device packages) together while presenting electrical optimization features such as internal ground shielding and mechanical properties such as resilience, compliance, reusability, and reliable scrub motion to remove oxide from the pads or bumps.
US12167576B2
There is provided a casing, adapted to a board having a first air vent and a second air vent, including: a base plate; a first side plate and a second side plate provided on a first side and a second side of the base plate, respectively, with both the first side plate and the second side plate having hollowed-out patterns, and after the board being fixed in the casing, the first side plate being opposite to the first air vent, and the second side plate being opposite to the second air vent; a connection backplate on a fourth side of the base plate; and at least one insert plate on the base plate, with an extension direction in which the insert plate extends intersecting with an extension direction in which a third side of the base plate extends. An electronic device including the casing described above is further provided.
US12167567B2
A fan silencer module includes a housing having a first end of the housing, a second end of the housing, and an interior surface between the first end of the housing and the second end of the housing. Acoustic absorbing material is disposed on the interior surface. A honeycomb air flow director is disposed at the second end of the housing. And an electromagnetic interference gasket surrounds an outer edge of the honeycomb air flow director. In an embodiment, a depth of the electromagnetic interference gasket is at least as deep as a depth of the honeycomb air flow director. Also provided is a handle, and a latch actuator, to enable removal and replacement of the fan silencer module and an associated fan module from a chassis.
US12167564B2
A system including a module and an egress passageway is described. The module includes a cooling cells, a heat spreader, and a cover including vents therein. The cooling cells are between the heat spreader and the cover. Each of the cooling cells includes a cooling element configured to draw air in through the plurality of vents and drive air out of an aperture between the heat spreader and the cover at a first flow rate. A stream of hot air having been heated by a heat from a heat-generating structure thermally coupled to the heat spreader is thus provided. The hot air passes through the egress passageway toward an egress. The egress passageway includes at least one inlet through which cool air is drawn at a second flow rate to be mixed with the hot air. The second flow rate is greater than the first flow rate.
US12167563B2
An information handling system may include a processor, a memory device, a video display device, and a PMU. The information handling system further includes a venturi nozzle cooling system exhaust vent including a base chassis including a top cover to form a first portion upper part of a venturi nozzle and a bottom cover to form a second portion lower part of the venturi nozzle at an exhaust vent at a rear wall of the base chassis and an airflow producing device, operatively coupled to the PMU and processor, to pass air from within the base chassis and through the venturi nozzle at the exhaust vent formed by the c-cover and d-cover to accelerate airflow away from the video display device.
US12167562B2
Provided in the present disclosure is a guiderail fixing structure. The guiderail fixing structure comprises: a housing; a transverse fixing component, arranged at the bottom part of the housing, being two mounting stands provided opposite each other, and used for implementing transverse fixing between a guiderail and the housing; and a vertical fixing component, arranged at the bottom part of the housing and within the two mounting stands provided opposite each other, and used for implementing vertical fixing between the guiderail and the housing. The vertical fixing component comprises engaging hooks and an engaging hook part. When the vertical fixing component is employed, the engaging hooks of the vertical fixing component used for engaging are arranged outside of either edge of the guiderail, and the engaging hook part of the vertical fixing component is arranged within the guiderail.
US12167552B2
Disclosed is a flexible display device, which includes a flexible display screen; a housing configured to accommodate the flexible display screen, the housing including a first housing and a second housing slidably connected to each other; and a packaging member disposed on at least one first side plate of the second housing, the packaging member including a first packaging portion and a second packaging portion connected to each other. A notch is formed at an intersection of an outer wall and a top surface of the first side plate, the first packaging portion is disposed in the notch, and the second packaging portion is disposed on the top surface of the first side plate.
US12167547B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to display devices and mounting brackets for securing a bezel to a display device. In one example, a display device comprises a display unit and a bezel comprising at least one pocket. The display device comprises a mounting bracket comprising a display unit attachment portion affixed to the display unit and at least one tongue that extends at least partially into the at least one pocket. Adhesive binds the at least one tongue to at least one surface of the at least one pocket, thereby coupling the bezel to the display unit via the mounting bracket.
US12167545B2
A multilayer substrate includes a resin multilayer body including, in a lamination direction, first and second laminate portions respectively including first and second thermoplastic resin layers, and a first interlayer connection conductor extending through the first thermoplastic resin layer. A storage elastic modulus of the first thermoplastic resin layer is lower than that of the second thermoplastic resin layer at a measurement temperature equal to or higher than a minimum melting point among melting points of metallic elements included in the first interlayer connection conductors and equal to or lower than melting points of the first thermoplastic resin layer and the second thermoplastic resin layer.
US12167537B2
A circuit board unit includes a plurality of circuit boards disposed side by side with a gap in a direction substantially perpendicular to a predetermined direction in which the circuit board unit is detachably mounted to a body of an apparatus. At least one of the plurality of circuit boards includes an end-face terminal on an end face facing an adjacent one of the plurality of circuit boards. The end-face terminal is attachable to and detachable from a terminal of the apparatus that is inserted between an adjacent pair of the plurality of circuit boards in conjunction with a mounting operation of the circuit board unit to the body of the apparatus.
US12167534B2
A ceramic copper circuit board according to an embodiment includes a ceramic substrate and a first copper part. The first copper part is bonded at a first surface of the ceramic substrate via a first brazing material part. The thickness of the first copper part is 0.6 mm or more. The side surface of the first copper part includes a first sloped portion. The width of the first sloped portion is not more than 0.5 times the thickness of the first copper part. The first brazing material part includes a first jutting portion jutting from the end portion of the first sloped portion. The length of the first jutting portion is not less than 0 μm and not more than 200 μm. The contact angle between the first jutting portion and the first sloped portion is 65° or less.
US12167532B2
An insulation structure includes: a first resin layer including first fillers; a second resin layer on the first resin layer and including second fillers; and a third resin layer on the second resin layer and including third fillers. A diameter of each of the first fillers may be more than about 200 nm and equal to or less than about 500 nm. A diameter of each of the second fillers may be more than about 10 nm and equal to or less than about 200 nm. A diameter of each of the third fillers may be equal to or less than about 10 nm. An arithmetic average roughness (Ra) and a ten point average roughness (Rz) of a surface of the insulation structure may be equal to or less than about 30 nm and equal to or less than about 100 nm, respectively.
US12167530B2
Embodiments described herein may be related to apparatuses, processes, and techniques related to EMI shielding and thermal conduction without using any surface area of a PCB. Embodiments of the EMI shield may include a planar top, with one or more walls extending from the planar top to a bottom surface of the PCB, the PCB having a top surface disposed between the bottom surface of the PCB and the planar top. A ground of the PCB may electrically couple with the one or more walls. The bottom of the walls may couple with an EMI gasket applied to a bottom chassis to increase the volume of EMI shielding. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US12167526B2
An extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photolithography system generates EUV light by irradiating droplets with a laser. The system includes a droplet generator with a nozzle and a piezoelectric structure coupled to the nozzle. The generator outputs groups of droplets. A control system applies a voltage waveform to the piezoelectric structure while the nozzle outputs the group of droplets. The waveform causes the droplets of the group to have a spread of velocities that results in the droplets coalescing into a single droplet prior to being irradiated by the laser.
US12167525B2
An extreme ultra violet (EUV) radiation source apparatus includes a collector, a target droplet generator for generating a tin (Sn) droplet, a rotatable debris collection device and a chamber enclosing at least the collector and the rotatable debris collection device. The rotatable debris collection device includes a first end support, a second end support and a plurality of vanes, ends of which are supported by the first end support and the second end support, respectively. A surface of at least one of the plurality of vanes is coated by a catalytic layer, which reduces a SnH4 to Sn.
US12167512B2
An apparatus arranged to heat smokable material to volatilize at least one component of said smokable material is described. An example of the apparatus includes a housing for receiving smokable material; and at least one heater arranged within the housing for heating smokable material removably received within the housing in use. The heater has first and second ends and a hollow central portion in which smokable material is received in use, and is formed from a sheet which is rolled into a tube and sealed along its length to prevent air entering or leaving the heater other than through at least one of the first and second ends.
US12167506B2
An e-vaping device includes a liquid storage portion for storing an e-liquid; a memory device storing cartomizer information; a vaporizer including a heating element, the vaporizer being in fluid communication with the liquid storage portion and configured to vaporize e-liquid stored in the liquid storage portion; a power supply configured to provide power to the vaporizer; a controller configured to control provision of power to the vaporizer based on the cartomizer information; and a switching architecture configured to selectively prevent a flow of current through the heating element, when the memory device sends data to the controller.
US12167502B2
Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, and apparatus for a radio access network (RAN) Network Repository Function (RNRF) configured to receive gNB feature/capability information from gNB formed by network RAN, store the received gNB feature/capability information, and provide gNB feature/capability information to requesting core network nodes or functions so that these nodes/functions may adapt/configure their operation or the services they provide in response to the gNB capabilities.
US12167498B2
This Application describes mechanisms for enterprise remote management of cellular services provided via access credentials, e.g., subscriber identity modules (SIMs) and/or electronic SIMs (eSIMs), for wireless devices. To minimize requirements for user interaction, installation and management of business-supplied cellular service profiles on the wireless device can intercept alert notifications to reduce interruptions and allow for background management of the business-supplied cellular service profiles. Additionally, a business enterprise can use multiple, distinct services to initiate installation of an eSIM to a wireless device. When two different services attempt to install eSIMs on the wireless device in parallel, management software on the wireless device can control an order of installation and disallow duplicate installations of an identical eSIM to the wireless device. The management software can also monitor eSIM installations and manage alert notifications that occur during the eSIM installation process.
US12167496B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method in a mobility management node and such a node for delivering data to a wireless communication device (WCD) served by the mobility management node, operating in a communication network comprising a network entity (NE) and a radio access network (RAN) node serving the WCD, the method comprises: obtaining capability information indicating whether the RAN node supports acknowledgement of a successful delivery of data to the WCD; receiving a data message sent by the NE comprising user data intended for the WCD; sending a control plane message comprising the user data to the RAN node for further delivery to the WCD; sending a response to the NE indicating the outcome of the data delivery.
US12167495B2
The disclosed technology is directed towards intelligently steering a roaming mobile communications device to a roaming carrier that is preferred by the mobile device's home network. When a mobile device requests to connect to a first visited network, decision logic of the home network determines whether the first visited network is the preferred visited network. If not, the home network returns a steer message (via the first visited network) to steer the mobile device to a preferred visited network. In one implementation, the steering decision is performed at the network edge by a home security edge protection proxy (H-SEPP) node coupled to a visiting SEPP (V-SEPP) node, which reduces hops and latency. What the home network considers preferred can be changed (e.g., dynamically) as desired by the home network. Also described is service-based steering that selects a different visited network based on a particular service requested by a mobile device.
US12167494B2
The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for providing support for ad hoc group calls in mission critical services. The method includes listing, by an MCPTT client, a list of MCPTT participants or a functional alias to initiate an ad hoc group call in a MCX on network. The method further includes initiating, by the MCPTT client, the ad hoc group call with a list of MCPTT participants or the functional alias by sending a group call request to an MCPTT server.
US12167490B2
An integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node equipped with at least two radio interfaces comprising a first interface and a second interface, the first interface being configured to establish a first radio link with at least one parent node, the second interface being configured to establish a second radio link(s) with one or more wireless terminals, the IAB node comprising: processor circuitry configured to: detect a radio link failure (RLF) on the first radio link for the first interface, and; perform a re-establishment procedure on the first radio link for the first interface to re-establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with at least one parent node; transmitter circuitry configured to transmit, on the second radio link for the second interface, an RLF notification to the one or more wireless terminals; wherein; the RLF notification indicates that the re-establishment procedure has failed.
US12167489B2
Provided are data transmission methods and apparatuses and a communication device. The method may include: receiving an RRC resume request by a target base station from a terminal device, the RRC resume request message carrying packet data; and acquiring the packet data by the target base station from the RRC resume request message, and sending a retrieve terminal context request message to an anchor base station, the retrieve terminal context request message carrying first information, and the first information being used for the anchor base station to determine whether to send a context of the terminal device to the target base station.
US12167483B2
The present technology is directed to providing enhanced capacity for tenants in a neutral host network (NHN) via multi-connectivity such as dual connectivity or carrier aggregation. The present technology can identify, at a small cell gateway, signaling traffic passing from an access network to a respective core network of an NHN operating at mid-band frequencies and add an interface between the small cell gateway of the NHN and a base station of a tenant network operating at low-band frequencies to establish dual connectivity. Furthermore, the present technology can establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection in a primary cell residing in a macro network operating at low-band frequencies and add, at a fronthaul gateway, one or more secondary cells in a small cell network operating at mid-band frequencies to enable carrier aggregation of the one or more secondary cells with the primary cell the small cell network.
US12167472B2
A wireless device may receive system information block 1 (SIB1) message of a cell. The SIB1 message may indicate a plurality of configuration parameters comprising a common uplink configuration of an uplink bandwidth part (BWP). The common uplink configuration of the uplink BWP may comprise: a common random access channel (RACH) configuration; a first threshold for determining whether to select a resource associated with a first message 1 (msg1) repetition number, wherein msg1 corresponds to physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble; a second threshold for determining whether to select a resource associated with a second msg1 repetition number; and a second RACH configuration associated with feature combination. The second RACH configuration may comprise a first feature combination preamble parameter that indicates the first msg1 repetition number. The wireless device may determine, based on the first threshold, the first msg1 repetition number, and repeatedly transmit, based on the determined first msg1 repetition number, a PRACH preamble of a random access procedure associated with the first feature combination preamble parameter.
US12167466B2
The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or 6th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A user equipment (UE) in a communication system is provided. The UE includes a transceiver, and a controller configured to receive, from a base station, system information including information related to transmission of a random access preamble, and to transmit, to the base station, a physical random access channel (PRACH) including the random access preamble. The PRACH includes at least one primary signal part including a first sequence for measuring a first delay within a symbol, and at least one secondary signal part including a second sequence for measuring a second delay in units of symbols, and a round trip delay (RTD) between the UE and the base station may be determined based on the first delay within the symbol and the second delay in units of symbols.
US12167464B2
A 2-step random access method and device for an unlicensed band are provided. The method is executed by a terminal device and includes: determining, based on an LBT detection result, whether to send an msgA and whether to update a power ramping counter for the msgA, where the power ramping counter is used to determine transmission power for the msgA, and the msgA includes a PRACH and a PUSCH; and determining, based on a sending status of the msgA, whether to update a transmission counter for the msgA.
US12167460B2
One example method for indication of resources in a random-access procedure includes receiving, by a communication device, during a process of a two-step random access to a wireless network, a message including a temporary identifier assigned to the communication device, and transmitting, by the communication device, an acknowledgement message to a network device in the wireless network using a transmission resource that is dependent on the temporary identifier.
US12167458B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may identify an aggregation parameter for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission in a random access procedure, determine a repetition level for the PUSCH transmission based on the aggregation parameter, and transmit, as part of the random access procedure, the PUSCH transmission according to the repetition level. A base station may determine a repetition level for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission in a random access procedure, transmit, to a user equipment (UE), an aggregation parameter indicating the repetition level, and receive, as part of the random access procedure, the PUSCH transmission according to the repetition level.
US12167453B2
Techniques for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive downlink control information (DCI) scheduling sidelink transmissions in one or more sets of multiple transmission time intervals (TTIs) over a shared spectrum. The UE may perform a listen-before-talk (LBT) for one or more of the TTIs in the one or more sets of multiple TTIs, and the UE may transmit, to a base station, an indication of results of the LBT performed for the one or more TTIs. Because the UE may provide the results of the LBT to the base station, the base station may be able to schedule sidelink transmissions from the UE based on the results of the LBT. As such, the UE may experience increased throughput in sidelink communications since the scheduling at the base station may be improved.
US12167452B2
In an 802.11ax network with an access point, a trigger frame offers scheduled and random resource units to nodes for data uplink communication to the access point. To avoid the overall energy level seen by legacy nodes for a communication channel to drop below a detection threshold, the invention provides two tools. First, the scheduled and random resource units may be interleaved over communication channels. Second, unused resource units may be detected, and a node or the access point may send a padding signal on them to increase the overall energy level. The latter may be evaluated during a monitoring period before deciding to emit the signal. As the overall energy level seen by legacy nodes is increased, the risk that such legacy nodes do not detect activity on a 20 MHz channel having only a subpart of its RUs used is reduced. And risks of collisions are consequently reduced.
US12167420B2
The present disclosure provides a communication method, base station and user equipment for configuring a parameter table in a wireless communication system including a base station and a user equipment, the communication method comprising: defining at both the base station and the user equipment a parameter table which includes whole entries of a legacy parameter table and extended entries; and transmitting from the base station to the user equipment a bitmap indication which indicates a sub-table selected from the parameter table, wherein the number of the entries in the sub-table is the same as in the legacy parameter table.
US12167413B2
Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support mechanisms for non-coherent, sequence-based downlink control signaling in a wireless communication system. In aspects, the mechanisms for non-coherent, sequence-based downlink control signaling may include a new non-coherent, sequence-based downlink control channel or signal transmitted from a base station to a user equipment (UE) and configured to convey information bits (e.g., control information bits) to the UE. The UE may receive a signal transmitted over the new non-coherent, sequence-based downlink control channel and may decode the signal to extract the control information. The UE may then apply a control based on the control information received from the base station in the signal over the non-coherent, sequence-based downlink control channel.
US12167400B2
A base station (BS) may receive a plurality of repetitions of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) from a user equipment (UE), and accumulate the received repetitions to obtain a resultant signal. The ability to accumulate repetitions enables the base station to experience a higher probability of successful recovery of the PUCCH payload bits than if decoding were based on the reception of a non-repeated transmission of the PUCCH. The base station may configure the number of repetitions, the temporal gap between the repetitions, and mode of repetition of the PUCCH. In an intra-slot mode, more than one copy may be received from each configured slot, with or without frequency hopping. In an inter-slot mode, one copy is received per configured slot. Different repetitions may be transmitted by the UE in different directions, according to a spatial consistency pattern.
US12167399B2
Provided is a user equipment which: receives resource allocation; determines N number of transmission resources on the basis of the resource allocation, wherein N is an integer greater than 1; determines a transport block size (TBS) associated with the N number of transmission resources and a redundancy version (RV) value for each of the N number of transmission resources; and performs uplink transmission in at least one transmission resource among the N number of transmission resources on the basis of the TBS and an RV value for the at least one transmission resource.
US12167394B2
A base station may transmit, to a wireless device, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) comprising a downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), wherein the PDCCH includes PDCCH candidates from search space sets, associated with control resource sets (coresets), configured for repetition. The base station may transmit, to the wireless device, a transport block via the PDSCH, wherein resource block (RB) numbering of the PDSCH starts from a lowest RB of a coreset with a lowest index among the coresets.
US12167387B2
Aspects relate to grouping sidelink carriers in a wireless communication network. A first wireless communication device, such as a user equipment (UE), may communicate with a base station on a cellular link utilizing a first set of first component carriers (CCs) in a particular frequency band. The UE may identify one or more first carrier groupings for the first set of first CCs with the base station. The UE may communicate with a second wireless communication device, such as a second UE, on a sidelink utilizing a second set of CCs within the same frequency band. The first UE may map at least one second CC to a respective corresponding first CC and apply the one more carrier groupings to the second set of CCs to generate one or more second carrier groupings based on the mapping.
US12167385B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a user pairing method and a related device. The method includes: determining a first generation parameter of a first base sequence of a first user and a second generation parameter of a second base sequence of a second user, and the second base sequence is used to generate a second uplink reference signal of the second user; determining multiplexing evaluation information based on the first generation parameter and the second generation parameter, where the multiplexing evaluation information may include correlation strength between sequences and interference leakage width; determining, based on the multiplexing evaluation information, whether the first user and the second user are successfully paired; and determining, that the first user and the second user multiplex a same communication resource for communication based on being successfully paired.
US12167384B2
Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for sidelink multiple transmission reception points (TRPs) relaying are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a base station includes transmitting communication for a target user equipment (UE) to multiple TRPs for relaying the communication to the target UE over a sidelink. The method may further include configuring, for one or more of the target UE or at least one of the multiple TRPs, a first transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state for a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) between the UE and the at least one of the multiple TRPs.
US12167383B2
Information determination, acquisition and transmission methods, apparatuses and devices, and a storage medium are provided. The information determination method includes: acquiring a target parameter according to a downlink information element and second information, wherein the second information includes at least one of: timing advance information, a predetermined parameter, a number of repeated transmissions of an uplink target information element, a time-domain behavior parameter of the uplink target information element, a predetermined Component Carrier (CC) group, and a correspondence relationship between the downlink information element and an uplink target information element, and the target parameter is spatial transmitting filter information of an uplink target information element.
US12167382B2
An example system comprises a router configured to receive a bandwidth update associated with a change in bandwidth over a wireless channel, determine if the change in bandwidth identified in the bandwidth update results in bandwidth being over-reserved at at least one priority level, previously reserved bandwidth of the wireless channel being associated with a plurality of different priority levels, the previously reserved bandwidth being previously reserved based on a plurality of path requests from a head end router, each path request including at least one priority level and a bandwidth reservation request, if the change in bandwidth results in bandwidth being over-reserved, then preempt a lowest priority path request, based in the preemption of the lowest priority path request, update reserved bandwidth of the wireless channel of at least one priority level, and provide a message to the head end router regarding the change of bandwidth.
US12167380B2
The present disclosure relates to a BWP switching method and device, and a storage medium. The BWP switching method applied to a terminal and can include that, after determining that a terminal is to perform BWP switching, keeping a first BWP currently activated on a carrier to be in an activated state. The method can further include activating a second BWP on the carrier, and controlling the first BWP to be in an inactivated state. The present disclosure enables a terminal to normally process a service of a high priority during BWP switching and after BWP switching is performed.
US12167379B2
A method and apparatus for indicating slot format information is disclosed. The method comprising: t receiving a RRC (radio resource control) signaling indicating a time domain starting position of a slot format information and determining the time domain starting position based on the RRC signaling.
US12167377B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and computer readable media are disclosed. In one aspect, a wireless communications method is disclosed. The method includes receiving, at a wireless terminal from a network node, an uplink cancellation indication. The method further includes determining, at the wireless terminal, an allocation of a reference uplink resources comprising a plurality of uplink time-frequency resources; and determining, by the wireless terminal, one or more of the plurality of uplink time-frequency resources to cancel according to the uplink cancellation indication. The method further includes cancelling, by the wireless terminal based on the uplink cancellation indication, an uplink transmission on the determined one or more of the plurality of uplink time-frequency resources.
US12167369B2
A method and a user equipment (UE) for resource selection approach adaptation are provided. The method includes receiving, from a Base Station (BS), a first Sidelink (SL) transmission resource pool configuration and a second SL transmission resource pool configuration; performing a first resource selection on a first SL transmission resource pool by applying a first resource selection approach; receiving, from the BS, an adaption indication that a second resource selection approach is to be applied; performing, during a transition period between a time at which the adaption indication is received and a time at which the second resource selection approach is applied, a second resource selection on a second SL transmission resource pool by applying a third resource selection approach; and performing, after the transition period, a third resource selection on the first SL transmission resource pool by applying the second resource selection approach indicated by the adaption indication.
US12167363B2
Disclosed in the embodiments of the present application are a method and a device for eliminating non-line of sight (NLOS) in time of arrival (TOA) measurement values, and a terminal. The method includes: modeling a probability density of the first TOA measurement values from each base station to a terminal into a Gaussian mixture model, and selecting the TOA measurement values modeled into the Gaussian mixture model; performing NLOS identification on the selected TOA measurement values to obtain an identification label; and the identification label is used to indicate whether the selected TOA measurement values correspond to NLOS; and correcting the selected TOA measurement values according to the identification label, to eliminate errors caused by NLOS in the selected TOA measurement values.
US12167359B2
The present disclosure relates to a connection management in wireless communications. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, when a multi-universal subscriber identity module (MUSIM) device switches to a second network from a first network upon receiving a paging from the second network and reverts back to the first network after a scheduling gap ends, the MUSIM device releases a connection with the first network.
US12167357B2
A method for transmitting a synchronization signal block (SSB) on an unlicensed spectrum includes: a network device determines that a first transmission opportunity (TXOP) on an unlicensed carrier includes K SSB positions capable of being used to transmit SSBs, where K is less than a number X of SSBs configured by the network device for transmission on the unlicensed carrier, and K and X are both positive integers; and the network device respectively transmits K SSBs of the X SSBs at the corresponding K SSB positions within the first TXOP.
US12167348B2
An electronic device including a first communication circuit supporting a first radio access technology (RAT), a first processor operatively connected with the first communication circuit, a second communication circuit supporting a second RAT, and a second processor electrically connected with the first processor and the second communication circuit is provided. The second processor provides first data to the first processor, obtains first information indicating a first frequency band from the first processor, and transmits the first information to the second communication circuit to control an upper limit of transmission power of a second signal through a second frequency band into a magnitude associated with the first frequency band.
US12167343B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for panel specific uplink power control. A method may include receiving, at a user equipment, an uplink grant indicating an uplink candidate beam for uplink transmission; receiving, at the user equipment, a plurality of power control configurations, wherein one of a plurality of sources of spatial relation information is associated with one of the plurality of power control configurations; determining, at the user equipment, a power control configuration of the plurality of power control configurations for the indicated uplink candidate beam based on an association between a source of spatial relation information and the power control configuration; and transmitting, from the user equipment, uplink data using the indicated uplink candidate beam and the determined power control configuration.
US12167342B2
A UE, communicating with a network node by using TDD, determines a downlink/uplink configuration between the UE and the network node, and a maximum uplink duty cycle for candidate uplink transmit beam(s). The UE compares the maximum uplink duty cycle with an uplink duty cycle of the determined downlink/uplink configuration, and provides to the network node information associated with the comparison. The network node receives the information associated with the comparison and determines whether to modify the downlink/uplink configuration between the user equipment and the network node based on the information associated with the comparison. The network node indicates, in response to a determination the downlink/uplink configuration should be modified, a modified downlink/uplink configuration to the user equipment.
US12167340B2
A terminal device includes: a selecting circuit configured to select a single downlink beam from among a plurality of downlink beams that are used for downlink transmission; a deciding circuit configured to decide that a radio resource associated with a synchronization signal block or a reference signal for estimating a channel state transmitted by the selected downlink beam is a radio resource that is used for a random access process; and a controller configured to control transmission power used for the decided radio resource. The controller increases the transmission power in a case in which the synchronization signal block associated with the reference signal for estimating the channel state of the selected downlink beam selected is not changed.
US12167335B2
The present disclosure provides a discontinuous reception method. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device when a Media Access Control (MAC) entity of the terminal device includes two Discontinuous Reception (DRX) groups and the terminal device transmits a Scheduling Request (SR) on a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) of a first serving cell, at least one DRX group to enter DRX Active Time. The present disclosure also provides another discontinuous reception method, an electronic device, and a storage medium.
US12167329B2
Methods, systems, and devices may assist in power saving in new radio. For example, enable power savings during the connected mode discontinuous reception cycle of the RRC_CONNECTED state of a user equipment.
US12167323B2
Systems and methods for determining a target hotspot list are provided. The system may obtain a first hotspot list generated by a first device. The first hotspot list may include one or more first hotspots detected by the first device. The system may obtain a second hotspot list generated by a second device. The second hotspot list may include one or more second hotspots detected by the second device. The system may generate the target hotspot list related to the second device based on the first hotspot list and the second hotspot list. In some embodiments, the system may further determine a target hotspot in the target hotspot list and send identification information associated with the target hotspot to the second device, such that the second device can be connected with the target hotspot.
US12167321B1
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive synchronization messages from a public cell that indicates synchronization information. The UE may input information received from the one or more synchronization messages into one or more functions provisioned at the UE to derive a set of control resources associated with a private cell. The UE may monitor the set of control resources to receive encrypted system information from the private cell. The UE may decrypt the system information of the private cell by deriving a cell specific broadcast key associated with the private cell. In some examples, the UE may derive the cell specific broadcast key based on the one or more functions provisioned at the UE. As such, the UE may transmit to the private cell via the set of control resources a random access message indicating successful decryption of the system information.
US12167317B2
A method and a UE for access control in a wireless communication system are provided. The method performed by a UE for access control includes while attempting to initiate an UL data transmission procedure with a serving cell during an RRC Inactive state of the UE, receiving a radio resource configuration from the serving cell and transmitting one or more UL packets to the serving cell based on the radio resource configuration when a plurality of conditions is fulfilled. The plurality of conditions includes, at least: an attempt to transmit UL data is not barred by the serving cell, and an amount of pending UL data to be transmitted is less than or equal to a data volume threshold.
US12167316B2
Methods and apparatus for performing wireless communication in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) configured for multi-radio access technology (RAT) operation are disclosed. A method includes the WTRU wirelessly communicating information on a first operating frequency according to a first RAT. The WTRU also wirelessly communicates information on a second operating frequency according to a second RAT.
US12167315B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. A source user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a relay UE, information identifying that the relay UE is one of a plurality of relay UEs selected for cooperative relaying of a communication from the source UE to a destination UE. A channel between the source UE and the relay UE may be one of a plurality of channels comprising a channel between the source UE and each relay UE of the plurality of relay UEs. The plurality of relay UEs may be selected based at least in part on a degree of correlation of the channel between the source UE and the relay UE with at least one other channel of the plurality of channels. The UE may transmit the communication to the plurality of relay UEs for cooperative relaying to the destination UE. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12167313B2
Described herein are systems, devices, methods, and media for providing one or more of interagency networks, interagency network properties, emergency alert transfers, or emergency data sharing.
US12167304B2
An electronic notebook system is described comprising a housing, a computing device, wireless interfaces, antennas, sensors, a touch display configured to receive input via a stylus and/or human digit input, the stylus comprising a pressure and/or an inclination sensor, a microphone, camera, the system configured to provide a user condition interface, receive a user selection of a first user condition, provide an interface configured to receive user details, receive audible user details via the microphone, convert the audible user details received via the microphone to text, perform natural language processing to identify text keywords utilizing sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, paraphrase recognition, and/or co-reference resolution, identify a condition based at least in part on the identified one or more keywords, dynamically generate an alert based at least in part on the identified condition, wirelessly transmit the alert to one or more destinations via at least a first wireless interface and antenna.
US12167299B2
A system enabling accurate context-aware location-based services comprises at least one server computer storing a virtual world system configured to provide spatial data to a location-based services engine (LBS engine) associated therewith. The LBS engine is configured to obtain, from a processing device via a network, processed or semi-processed spatial data associated with a corresponding plurality of client devices, wherein the received spatial data is computed using data fusion algorithms by the processing device. The LBS engine is further configured to assess the spatial data to determine a spatial relationship between the client device and at least one target object stored in the virtual world system. If said spatial relationship matches a certain threshold, the LBS engine generates one or more location-based services for the plurality of client devices considering corresponding contextual data and sends the location-based services to the plurality of client devices via the network.
US12167297B2
A computer system obtains information describing a geographical area segmented into multiple first clusters serviced by a telecommunications network. Multiple test locations are identified within the first clusters. Each test location is located within a grid of the geographical area. Each first cluster is recursively segmented into multiple second clusters until a difference between a number of test locations within each second cluster and a target number of test locations is less than a threshold number of test locations. A route is generated connecting test locations within each second cluster, using a routing application programming interface for performing drive testing of the telecommunications network. The computer system sends the route to one or more computer devices for performing the drive testing at the test locations in a sequence corresponding to the route.
US12167294B2
A method includes identifying a first user device potentially associated with a biohazard and identifying a geographic area associated with the biohazard based on previous location information of the first user device. The method further includes identifying another user device potentially associated with the biohazard based on the geographic area associated with the biohazard and previous location information of the other user device. The method further includes issuing a safety notification to the other user device, where the safety notification includes one or more of the geographic area associated with the biohazard, a safety status request, a safety status level of the first user device, a subset of the previous location information of the first user device, and a subset of the previous location information of the other user device.
US12167287B2
According to a first embodiment, a method may include receiving, by a user equipment, at least one search threshold configuration. The method may further include determining, by the user equipment, at least one carrier measurement to perform according to the at least one received search threshold configuration. The method may further performing, by the user equipment, perform the at least one determined carrier measurement.
US12167283B2
Provided are an information transmission method and device, a storage medium and an electronic device, the method including receiving, by a third transmission node, context information of a first transmission node or a second transmission node transmitted by the first transmission node; and storing, by the third transmission node, the context information.
US12167276B2
The described technology is generally directed towards a transport protocol for latency sensitive applications. The disclosed transport protocol is “semi-reliable” in that it allows for specification of an importance of data being transmitted, thereby allowing important data to be sent reliably, while other data can be dropped if necessary, e.g., under bad network conditions. A deadline can be specified for such other data, and if the other data cannot be sent prior to the deadline, it can be dropped. Furthermore, the disclosed transport protocol can allow for early discovery of network jitter. A client device can send regular acknowledgments which identify most recently received data packets as well as a number of “heartbeat transmissions” received at the client device. A server device can use the acknowledgments to discover and respond to jitter.
US12167274B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for Reflective Quality of Service (RQoS) enhancements. Methods may include enhancements for both UE behavior and network function behavior. Network function behaviors may include enhancements to UPF behavior and SPF behavior. Enhancements to RQoS may include methods for resetting an RQoS indicator (RQI) bit for downlink packets of a flow destined for a UE, methods for generating a flow ID to include in a SDAP header destined for a UE, methods for using the flow ID to limit L3 and L4 header parsing, methods for sending/receiving feedback regarding processing of the RQI bit, methods for maintaining a QFI mapping table, methods for skipping parsing of SDAP header fields, methods for specifying and signaling a QoS Flow Identifier (QFI) range to a UE, methods for limiting downlink header parsing, methods for updating a QFI, and methods for performing high efficiency RQoS processing.
US12167268B2
A user equipment (UE) is configured to perform measurements during two or more measurement gaps (MGs). The UE receives a MG configuration, wherein the MG configuration includes multiple MGs and MG conflict resolution information, determines whether a conflict exists between two or more of the MGs, selects at least one of the two or more MGs that have the conflict based on the MG conflict resolution information and performs signal measurements during the selected at least one of the two or more MGs that have the conflict.
US12167267B2
Some embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product for radio resource management (RRM) scaling factor enhancement without measurement gaps (MGs) in an E-UTRA-New Radio (NR) Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) network. Some embodiments include a user equipment (UE) that receives from a Primary Node (PN), a first NR measurement object (MO) without MG associated with a frequency. The UE receives from a Secondary Node (SN), a second NR MO without MG associated with the same frequency. The UE allocates resources based on a Primary Secondary Component Carrier (PSCC) and determines a scaling factor for determining a total procedure period for obtaining measurements to satisfy the first and the second NR MO without MG. Some embodiments include combining counts of NR MO without MG at a same frequency. Some embodiments include coordination between the PN and the SN so that MOs without MG at a common frequency satisfy the merging rule.
US12167253B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for restricting beams that may lead to inter-base station interference. For example, an implicit restriction of beams may be used by a first and second base station (e.g., a victim and aggressor base station, respectively). In such cases, the first base station may indicate a period, a subband, or both, associated with one or more scheduled uplink beams that the first base station may use for receiving uplink transmissions. The second base station may select beams that avoid interference with the uplink beam(s) of the first base station. Additionally or alternatively, an explicit restriction of beams may be signaled, where the first base station may explicitly indicate a set of downlink beams associated with the second base station that are allowed (e.g., beams that avoid interference with uplink transmissions at the first base station).
US12167249B2
A communication control device includes an acquisition unit that acquires range information about privacy protection of a first radio system, a determination unit that determines a communication parameter of a second radio system that shares and uses the radio wave used by the first radio system based on a method associated with a range identified based on the range information, and a notification unit that notifies the second radio system of the determined communication parameter.
US12167245B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.
US12167243B2
Systems and methods for verifying an identity of a first user involves receiving, at a server, a request from a communicatively coupled device of a second user to access information of the first user. The request includes information retrieved from a passive communication device associated with the first user and location information of the communicatively coupled device. In response, a location of an authenticated mobile device of the first user is determined, and when a location match is present, the identity of the first user is confirmed to the second user, and the second user is permitted to provide input into an account of the first user, such as for rating and reporting the performance of the first user. When a location match is not present, a message is transmitted to the second user indicating the identity of the first user is not confirmed and instructions provided to take action.
US12167239B2
A method comprises generating, based on identity information of a user by an identity management server, a temporary privacy identity identifier of a terminal device, receiving, from the terminal device, a network access request comprising the temporary privacy identity identifier, generating an authentication key of the temporary privacy identity identifier based on the temporary privacy identity identifier and a primary identity authentication key of a domain to which the terminal device belongs, generating a first message based on the temporary privacy identity identifier and the authentication key, sending the first message to the terminal device, receiving a second message from the terminal device based on the first message, performing authentication on the second message based on the temporary privacy identity identifier and the authentication key, and allowing access to a network device by the terminal device after the authentication succeeds.
US12167238B2
A method is provided for establishing secure network communication for a wireless network module of a battery-free insert. The method includes establishing communication with a low security module of an access point of a secure network, wherein a timestamp is not used to establish the communication with the low security module, obtaining a timestamp from the low security module, discontinuing communication with the low security module, and sending a request to a high security module to establish communication with the high security module of the access point. The request includes the timestamp. Communication is established with the high security module using the timestamp for establishing high security communication with the secure network.
US12167237B2
A computer-implemented method for authenticating an individual to one or more IoT devices. The method may include: receiving active behavioral data from the personal electronic device; retrieving an active behavioral profile corresponding to the individual; comparing the active behavioral data with the active behavioral profile; and authenticating the individual based at least in part on the comparison.
US12167236B2
A computer-implemented method for remote management of hardware security modules (HSMs) includes receiving a command request from a mobile device. The command request includes an encrypted key part and an encrypted signing key. The HSM decrypts the command request using a key associated with a security zone of the mobile device. The HSM decrypts the encrypted key part and the encrypted signing key. Decrypting the encrypted key part and the encrypted signing key includes using the key associated with the security zone of the mobile device and a key associated with a remote administrator associated with the mobile device. A command is generated for a domain with a target HSM. The command is generated using the decrypted key part and the decrypted signing key. The command is transmitted to the domain for execution by the target HSM. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12167233B2
Some aspects of the present disclosure include systems and techniques for key exchange and encryption to facilitate secure wireless communication. Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for wireless communication by a first device. The method generally includes determining, at a security system, a first output associated with a first expression having a first value for a variable of the first expression; determining, at the security system, a second value; evaluating, at the security system, a second expression based on the first output and the second value, the second expression being evaluated to determine a second output associated with the first expression with the variable having a third value, the third value being a product of the first value and the second value; and communicating, via a communication interface coupled to the security system, a message based on the second output.
US12167229B2
A method includes: receiving first information, where the first information indicates a data network to which a first anchor user plane function (UPF) network element managed by a second session management function (SMF) network element is connected; determining based on the first information, first rule information to be executed by a first network element managed by the second SMF network element, where the first network element includes at least one of the first anchor UPF network element or a branching point connected to the first anchor UPF network element, where the branching point is a UPF network element having a traffic offload function, where the first rule information indicates a processing method to be performed on a data packet of a first application, and where the data packet of the first application is transmitted through the first anchor UPF network element; and sending second information including the first rule information.
US12167227B2
A system for and a method of controlling generation of a 3D audio stream are disclosed. The method comprises accessing an audio stream; determining a value of a feature associated with the audio stream; selecting one or more 3D control parameters from a set of 3D control parameters, the selecting being based on the value of the feature associated with the audio stream; and generating the 3D audio stream based on the selected one or more 3D control parameters. In some embodiments, the feature is a metric associated with a frequency distribution of correlations of the audio stream.
US12167218B2
Head-wearable apparatus to generate binaural audio content includes a first stem coupled to a first microphone housing that encases first front microphone and first rear microphone that generates acoustic signals, respectively. First microphone housing includes a first front port that faces downward and a first rear port that faces backwards. Apparatus includes second stem coupled to second microphone housing that encases second front microphone and second rear microphone that generate acoustic signals, respectively. Second microphone housing includes second front port that faces downward and second rear port that faces backwards. Apparatus includes binaural audio processor that includes beamformer and storage device. Beamformer generate first beamformer signal based on acoustic signals from first front microphone and first rear microphone, and second beamformer based on acoustic signals from second front microphone and second rear microphone. Storage device stores first and second beamformer signals as a two-channel file.
US12167211B2
An image capture device reduces noise floor using multiple microphones. The image capture device includes a processor that obtains a front microphone signal from a front microphone, the front microphone signal having a noisy noise floor portion, obtains a rear microphone signal from a rear microphone, sets a splice point based on mitigation of the noisy noise floor portion relative to a speech frequency range, and combines a substantially clean noise floor portion of the rear microphone signal at or below the splice point with a remaining portion of the front microphone signal above the splice point to generate a microphone signal.
US12167209B2
A multiple aperture ultrasound imaging system may be configured to store raw, un-beamformed echo data. Stored echo data may be retrieved and re-beamformed using modified parameters in order to enhance the image or to reveal information that was not visible or not discernible in an original image. Raw echo data may also be transmitted over a network and beamformed by a remote device that is not physically proximate to the probe performing imaging. Such systems may allow physicians or other practitioners to manipulate echo data as though they were imaging the patient directly, even without the patient being present. Many unique diagnostic opportunities are made possible by such systems and methods.
US12167205B2
A component of a bone conduction device, such as a passive transcutaneous bone conduction device or an active transcutaneous bone conduction device, or a percutaneous bone conduction device, used to evoke a hearing percept comprising a housing and a bender apparatus located in the housing, wherein the bender apparatus is a device of a piezoelectric bender.
US12167197B2
An audio device may be configured to have multiple modes of operation. The mode of the device may be associated with a particular geometric configuration of the device, such as by swiveling an arm of the device and/or changing the orientation of the device with respect to gravity and/or a surface (e.g., table) on which the device rests. The device may determine the appropriate state based on the current geometry, and based on the state may tune the device for a particular operation suited for that geometry. For example, different signal processing parameters may be applied, different microphones may be enabled and disabled, and/or different acoustic conditions may be provided (for example, different modes of a passive radiator) based on the mode.
US12167194B2
Embodiments provide an ear pad having an annular structure. The ear pad includes an inner layer and an outer layer covering the inner layer. The inner layer and the outer layer are separate of annular structures and are separated by a first medium layer. The inner layer coats a second medium layer. Acoustic impedance of the first medium layer is different from acoustic impedance of the inner layer and the outer layer. The ear pad is configured to close a front cavity space between a housing and an ear of a user, thereby preventing sound leakage and reducing external noise entering the ear of the user. Various ear pad embodiments provide a double-layer structure including the inner layer and the outer layer separated by the first medium layer.
US12167180B2
There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, a projection device, and an information processing system capable of correcting distortion of a projection image by use of any image capturing device. The information processing device detects corresponding points on a projection image and a plurality of captured images on the basis of the projection image and the plurality of captured images, the projection image being projected on a projection surface by a projection device, the plurality of captured images having been obtained by image capturing of the projection image at a plurality of image capturing positions, estimates image capturing parameters including the plurality of image capturing positions and attitudes during image capturing at each of the image capturing positions and projection parameters including a position and an attitude of the projection device on the basis of corresponding point information indicating a relationship between the corresponding points, generates correction data used for geometric correction of an input image on the basis of the corresponding point information, the image capturing parameters, and the projection parameters, and transmits the correction data. The present technology can be applied to an information processing device that controls projection of a projector.
US12167179B2
A projection device includes a display panel including a plurality of OLEDs that emit light in a predetermined direction, and an optical path shift element that shifts an optical path of light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements. The display panel turns on the plurality of OLEDs in a light emission sub-frame, turns off the plurality of OLEDs in a vertical scanning blanking period, and turns on the plurality of OLEDs in a light emission sub-frame, and the optical path shift element fixes the optical path in the light emission sub-frame and shifts the optical path in the vertical scanning blanking period.
US12167177B2
A system and method for projecting a still shot or video projection into a body of water is described herein.
US12167176B1
A spatial light system that may, for example, be used to project image content onto surfaces of a room. The system may include two or more projection units for emitting light onto surfaces within a room. The system may include a controller and two or more projection units, each module including an LED array, an array of light pipes, and a condenser lens. Two or more projection units may be connected to a flexible strip that provides power and data (e.g., serial data) to the projection units, a composable light emitter unit, or a bulb-form projection system. Two or more flex strips or composable light emitter units may be connected together to provide a serially-connected, flexible modular architecture for spatial light systems that allow the projection units to be conformed to a variety of configurations and shapes.
US12167170B2
An image processing system, an image processing method, and a program capable of implementing an association of a person appearing in a video image through a simple operation are provided. The image processing system includes an input device which accepts input of video images captured by a plurality of video cameras, a display screen generating unit which causes a display device to display at least one video image among the video images inputted from the input device, and a tracked person registering unit which is capable of registering one or more persons appearing in the video image displayed by the display device. When a person appears in the video image displayed by the display device, the display screen generating unit selectably displays person images of one or more persons, which are associable with the person appearing in the video image and which are registered by the tracked person registering unit, in a vicinity of the video image.
US12167153B2
A dynamic vision sensor (DVS) color camera (DVS-CCam) operable to acquire a color image of a scene, the DVS-CCam including a DVS photosensor comprising DVS pixels, an illuminator operable to transmit a light pattern characterized by temporal changes in intensity and color to illuminate a scene, an optical system configured to collect and focus on the pixels of the DVS photosensor light reflected by features in the scene from the light pattern transmitted by the illuminator, and a processor configured to process DVS signals generated by the DVS pixels responsive to temporal changes in the reflected light to provide a color image of the scene.
US12167144B2
Provided is an imaging apparatus that includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element, and disposed in matrix on a light-receiving surface, a plurality of light-receiving lenses provided one by one for each of the plurality of pixels in the plurality of pixels, and a control section that controls exposure times of the plurality of pixels. The control section controls the exposure times of the plurality of pixels to allow exposure times of at least two of the pixels, of the plurality of pixels corresponding to each of the light-receiving lenses, to be the same, and exposure times of at least two of the pixels, of the plurality of pixels corresponding to each of the light-receiving lenses, to be different from each other.
US12167138B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for image data encoding/decoding. A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes the steps of: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; adding the generated prediction image to a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream, so as to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format. Therefore, the performance of image data compression can be improved.
US12167137B2
A method for generating a panoramic image is disclosed. The method includes receiving a three-dimensional model of a target space and an initial panoramic image of the target space, the initial panoramic image having a latitude span less than a preset latitude span; determining a first set of coordinate parameters of a camera associated with the initial panoramic image and with respect to a reference frame associated with the three-dimensional model; mapping, based on the first set of coordinate parameters of the camera, data points of the three-dimensional model to a camera coordinate system associated with the camera to obtain an intermediate panoramic image; and obtaining a final panoramic image by merging the initial panoramic image and the intermediate panoramic image, the final panoramic image having a latitude span greater than or equal to the preset latitude span.
US12167131B2
An image capturing apparatus capable of obtaining a high-quality image according to a continuous photographing mode and a shake state. In the image capturing apparatus, a plurality of types of a continuous photographing mode which are different in continuous photographing speed are set, a motion of an object is acquired from an input image, and shake information concerning a shake of the image capturing apparatus is acquired. Exposure conditions for photographing are controlled based on a type of the continuous photographing mode, the motion of the object, and the shake information, and in a case where image combination is performed, the number of images to be combined is determined.
US12167125B2
The present disclosure discloses an active camera relocation method having robustness to illumination includes the following steps: extracting effective plane region image sets of scenes in a current observation image T and a reference observation image R; establishing a matching relationship in the effective plane region image sets T and R; obtaining a camera relative pose Pi guided by each group of matched planes; obtaining information for guiding the motion of a camera by fusing all camera relative poses Pi; determining whether a relocation process is completed by motion steps.
US12167113B1
An enclosure for a video camera and light, the enclosure including a housing; an internal body secured within the housing; one or more connections extending from the housing; an end plate secured to the housing, a first window extending through the end plate; and a second window extending through the end plate; an end cap secured to a second end of the housing and to seal the internal body within the housing; a video recorder positioned within the internal body and positioned such that a field of view extends out of the first window; a light positioned within the internal body, the light being independent of the video recorder and positioned such that a beam of light extends out of the second window and parallel with the field of view; a magnet holder extending from the housing; and a magnet within the magnet holder and engaged magnetically with a switch associated with the light; dislodging the magnet from the magnet holder causes the switch to activate the light.
US12167110B2
A method and apparatus may be provided for signaling auxiliary media content over a (DASH) media stream. The method may include receiving one or more auxiliary descriptors, wherein a respective auxiliary descriptor among the one or more auxiliary descriptors includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) referencing one or more auxiliary media presentation descriptions (MPDs) and a stack mode value indicating a stack operation supported by a main DASH media stream. The method may also include retrieving one or more auxiliary media segments based on the URL referenced in the respective auxiliary descriptors among the one or more auxiliary descriptors, and playing the one or more auxiliary media segments and the one or more main DASH media segments from a media source extension (MSE) source buffer at least once in at least one order based on the one or more auxiliary descriptors and the stack mode value.
US12167109B2
A computerized method and system for mobile application clip detection and capturing on a mobile computing device includes receiving a user consent for capturing screen content by a content capture executable. The method and system includes executing the content capture executable in a background and monitoring processing operations in a foreground of the mobile computing device. Upon detecting capturable content from a application executable executing in the foreground, buffering screen content in a first memory device for a first period of time. The method and system includes executing the content capture executable in the foreground, including receiving a clip generation command from the user and generating a content clip from at least a portion of the screen content in the first memory device. Therein, in response to a clip distribution command, the clip is distributed across a networked connection.
US12167107B2
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for editing navigation of a content item is disclosed. The method may include presenting, via a user interface at a client computing device, time-synchronized text pertaining to the content item; receiving an input of a tag for the time-synchronized text of the content item; storing the tag associated with the time-synchronized text of the content item; and responsive to receiving a request to play the content item: playing the content item via a media player presented in the user interface, and concurrently presenting the time-synchronized text and the tag as a graphical user element in the user interface.
US12167106B2
An image capture apparatus obtains image data captured using an image sensor and then generates, as metadata, information relating to a state of the image capture apparatus at the time of capturing the image data as well as to the image data. The image capture apparatus comprises a first output circuit for outputting the image data in a first format to an external apparatus and a second output circuit for outputting a part of the metadata in a second format to the external apparatus. The second output circuit is from the first output circuit.
US12167097B2
Method, systems, and computer-readable media are provided to facilitate content discovery based on augmented context. A first set of images of a graphical display may be acquired and analyzed to identify visual characteristics of an object represented. Attributes of the object may be identified. Specifications may be transmitted to the television receiver and/or a remote data source in order to pull matching information. A user-selectable interface element may be generated for presentation as an option to take an action relating to the object represented. A visual output of the interface element may be output as an overlay on the first set and/or a second set of images displayed by the computing device. A user selection responsive to the outputting of the visual output of the at interface element may be processed. A communication may be transmitted to the television receiver to cause the action responsive to the user selection.
US12167092B2
Playback devices can support playing back audio content of audio-visual content received from a media service, while corresponding video content is synchronously played back on a video display device. In some examples, the device can cause the video display device to display a graphical user interface that includes a plurality of media services associated with a user account, receive a user selection for media playback of audio-visual content from one of the media services, transmit a request for the user-selected audio-visual content to the selected media service, and receive audio and video content of the audio-visual content.
US12167090B2
The present disclosure relates to a system, a method and a computer-readable tangible non-transitory medium for recommending live streaming data. The method includes identifying a set of live streaming programs according to an attribute of the user and a tag of each live streaming program in the set of live streaming programs, generating a first subset of live streaming programs from the set of live streaming programs according to a first criterion, and generating a second subset of live streaming programs from the set of live streaming programs according to a second criterion. The first criterion is different from the second criterion. The present disclosure can recommend contents in a more efficient way and increase user engagements.
US12167088B2
A method of providing a video stream based on machine learning in an electronic device according to various example embodiments may include receiving a source video stream which is streamed from a first device to at least one other device, confirming whether an event is detected on the source video stream using a learning model trained through machine learning on the basis of at least one frame of the source video stream, and determining whether to restrict streaming of the source video stream from the first device on the basis of the event detection. In addition to the method, other example embodiments are possible.
US12167082B2
Systems and methods are related to tracking an attention of a user with respect to content presented on a virtual screen, detecting a defocus event associated with a first region of the content, and determining a next focus event associated with a second region of the content. The determination can be based at least in part on the defocus event and on the tracked attention of the user. The systems and methods can include generating, based on the determined next focus event, a marker for differentiating the second region of the content from a remainder of the content, and in response to detecting a refocus event associated with the virtual screen, triggering execution of the marker associated with the second region of the content.
US12167081B2
Systems and methods are presented for providing personalized content based on gestures, in order to provide a seamless and user-driven feedback capture platform that captures user gestures and provides improved personalized content. The system captures biometric data from the user during the presentation of a first content item from a first content source. The system identifies the feedback indicator from the biometric data captured during the output of the first content item and stores an identifier of the second content item associated with the first content item in the master list. The system generates the master list for display and, in response to receiving a selection of the identifier of the second content item, retrieves for output the second content item from the second content source on the user device.
US12167070B2
A video content controller includes a memory and a microprocessor. The memory is configured to store non-transitory computer-readable instructions and video data representing a temporally-varying scene having a plurality of scene-regions. The microprocessor adapted to execute the instructions to (i) receive a current stream-segment of a video stream corresponding to a first scene-region of the plurality of scene-regions during a current playback-time interval, (ii) download, to a memory, a first video segment of a tagged scene-region within the first scene-region, (iii) receive a first display-region signal indicating at least one of a selection and a feature of the first scene-region, (iv) combine the current stream-segment and the first video segment as a video signal, and (vi) transmit, in response to the first display-region signal, the video signal to a display device.
US12167068B2
Systems, devices and processes for facilitating a Karaoke content watch party (KWP) may include a sync server and a Karaoke presenter user device (KPUD) communicatively coupled thereto. The KPUD executes computer instructions for operations that instruct a content capture device (CCD) to capture and receive a Karaoke Reaction (KR) by a KPUD user and communicate the KR to the sync server. A Karaoke user device (KUD) may be communicatively coupled to the sync server. A content provider provides Karaoke Content (KC) to the KPUD and the KUD. The KC includes a KC segment. The sync server receives the KR from the KPUD, generates Karaoke secondary content (KSC) which includes the KR, communicates the KSC to the KUD, and may also generate Karaoke synchronization information (KSI) and communicate the KSI to the KUD. The KSI facilitates synchronized presentation, by the KUD, of the KR with the KC segment.
US12167063B2
Systems and methods are described for performing adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming. A user device may request a segment of a first version of a plurality of versions of a content asset from a content provider, and may receive the segment. An estimated time to receive a second segment of a second version of the content may be determined based on metrics associated with receipt of the segment of the first version and in a manner that takes into account latency with the network, such that a determination whether to switch to a higher or lower bitrate version of a content asset during ABR streaming may be more accurately made.
US12167062B2
Generative media content (e.g., generative audio) can be dynamically generated based on various inputs, which can include blockchain data. A playback device accesses blockchain data stored via a distributed ledger and generates media content based at least in part on the blockchain data. The playback device can access a library of pre-existing media segments and arrange a selection of pre-existing media segments from the library for playback according to a generative media content model and based at least in part on the blockchain data. The generated media content can then be played back via the playback device.
US12167049B2
A method is provided that includes receiving pictures of a video sequence in a video encoder, and encoding the pictures to generate a compressed video bit stream that is transmitted to a video decoder in real-time, wherein encoding the pictures includes selecting a picture to be encoded as a delayed duplicate intra-predicted picture (DDI), wherein the picture would otherwise be encoded as an inter-predicted picture (P-picture), encoding the picture as an intra-predicted picture (I-picture) to generate the DDI, wherein the I-picture is reconstructed and stored for use as a reference picture for a decoder refresh picture, transmitting the DDI to the video decoder in non-real time, selecting a subsequent picture to be encoded as the decoder refresh picture, and encoding the subsequent picture in the compressed bit stream as the decoder refresh picture, wherein the subsequent P-picture is encoded as a P-picture predicted using the reference picture.
US12167041B2
A method for deriving a value for a first syntax element, Syntax_A. The method comprises determining whether Syntax_A is present in a bitstream. The method comprises, as a result of determining that Syntax_A is not present in the bitstream, deriving the value for Syntax_A to be equal to a first value, B, if a first condition is satisfied, or deriving the value for Syntax_A to be equal to a second value, C, if a second condition is satisfied.
US12167032B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: calculating coefficient values from pieces of attribute information of three-dimensional points included in point cloud data; generating a second code sequence including first information and second information, the first information indicating a total number of zero coefficient values consecutive in a first code sequence in which the coefficient values are arranged, the second information indicating whether each of the coefficient values is 0, the zero coefficient values being included in the coefficient values and having a value of 0; and generating a bitstream including the second code sequence.
US12167029B2
A method of encoding a motion vector predictor index, in particular a Merge index, comprises generating a list of motion vector predictor candidates, in particular merge candidates. The list includes an ATMVP candidate. One of the motion vector predictor candidates in the list is selected. A motion vector predictor index for the selected motion vector predictor candidate is generated using CABAC coding. One or more bits of the motion vector predictor index are bypass CABAC coded. For example, only the first bit of the motion vector predictor index is CABAC coded using a single context.
US12167025B2
According to the present disclosure, an image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus comprises the steps of: acquiring motion prediction information on a current block from a bitstream; generating an affine MVP candidate list including affine motion vector predictor candidates for the current block; deriving CPMVPs for CPs of the current block on the basis of one affine MVP candidate among the affine MVP candidates included in the affine MVP candidate list; deriving CPMVDs for the CPs of the current block on the basis of the motion prediction information; deriving CPMVs for the CPs of the current block on the basis of the CPMVPs and the CPMVDs; and deriving prediction samples for the current block on the basis of the CPMVs.
US12167010B2
A video encoder is provided which generates a bitstream for decoding by a compliant decoder having an interprediction mode for generating a predictor from a reference picture for a subsequent picture having a spatial resolution different from the reference picture. The encoder provides a bitstream in which the decoder can scale the spatial resolution of a block of pixels of the reference picture using a scale factor signaled in the encoded bitstream and using a filter chosen for the particular block of the reference picture and not the reference picture as a whole to form a predictor.
US12167009B2
A video processing method includes: obtaining prediction information of a CU; obtaining, when the CU comprises only one residual TU and a size of the residual TU is less than a size of the CU, a TU partitioning mode of the CU and a residual position of the residual TU, wherein the TU partitioning mode and the residual position are used to determine a horizontal transform type and a vertical transform type; obtaining transform coefficients of the residual TU based on the horizontal transform type and the vertical transform type; and generating a bitstream that is for storing or transmitting and that includes the prediction information, a first flag that indicates the TU partitioning mode, a second flag that indicates the residual position, and the transform coefficients.
US12167002B2
According to the disclosure of the present document, the resources necessary for an LMCS process may be reduced by limiting the range that an LMCS APS occupies in all APSs. Thus, the degree of complexity in LMCS may be reduced, and video/image coding efficiency may be increased.
US12166998B2
A method and an apparatus for video decoding are provided. The apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information of one or more blocks including a current block from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information indicates that local illumination compensation (LIC) is applied to the one or more blocks and includes LIC information of the one or more blocks. The processing circuitry determines a final scaling factor α_f1 and a final offset β_f1 of a first subblock in the current block based on the LIC information. The processing circuitry determines an updated first predictor subblock in a predictor corresponding to the current block based on the final scaling factor α_f1, the final offset β_f1, and the first predictor subblock. An updated value of a first sample in the first predictor subblock is equal to α_f1×p_i1+β_f1. p_i1 is a value of the first sample.
US12166994B2
An encoding method, a decoding method, and a decoder are provided. The method includes the following. A prediction parameter of a current block is determined, where the prediction parameter includes a prediction mode parameter. Neighbouring sample values of the current block are obtained and matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) input sample values of the current block are determined according to the neighbouring sample values of the current block, when the prediction mode parameter indicates that an MIP mode is used to determine an intra prediction value of a chroma component of the current block. An MIP prediction value of the chroma component of the current block is determined according to the MIP input sample values, an MIP weighting matrix, and a shifting parameter. The intra prediction value of the chroma component of the current block is determined by filtering the MIP prediction value.
US12166992B2
An image decoding method, according to the present document, comprises a step of generating residual samples for a current block on the basis of residual information, wherein the residual samples are generated on the basis of information on a transform kernel set and transform coefficients for the current block, the transform coefficients are derived on the basis of the residual information, and the information on the transform kernel set represents a transform kernel set to be applied to the current block from among transform kernel set candidates. At least one bin from among bins of a bin string of the information on the transform kernel set is derived on the basis of context coding, and the context coding is performed on the basis of at least one context model.
US12166989B2
Methods are provided for reducing the computation complexity and on-chip memory requirements as well as the decoding latency introduced by LMCS. In one method, a luma prediction sample is obtained for decoding a luma residual sample, a scaling factor is derived using the luma prediction sample, the scaling factor is used to scale the luma residual sample, and the reconstructed luma sample is calculated by adding the luma prediction sample and the scaled luma residual sample.
US12166985B2
According to the disclosure of the present document, transform skip availability information and palette availability information are signaled via a sequence parameter set (SPS), and transform skip- and/or palette coding-related information can be effectively parsed/signaled on the basis of at least one of the transform skip availability information and the palette availability information. Accordingly, bits that need to be signaled for video/image coding can be reduced, and coding efficiency can be improved.
US12166982B2
An encoder according to one aspect of the present disclosure encodes a block of an image, and includes a processor and memory connected to the processor. Using the memory, the processor partitions a block into a plurality of sub blocks and encodes a sub block included in the plurality of sub blocks in an encoding process including at least a transform process or a prediction process. The block is partitioned using a multiple partition including at least three odd-numbered child nodes and each of a width and a height of each of the plurality of sub blocks is a power of two.
US12166981B2
An image signal decoding method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: splitting a current picture into a plurality of tiles; decoding split information indicating a slice type, wherein the split information indicates whether a rectangular slice is to be applied; and when the split information indicates that the rectangular slice is to be applied, determining a slice on the basis of information indicating the size of a slice.
US12166980B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for block division and encoding in video processing. A method may include obtaining a block to be predicted in an image frame. The method may also include determining, based on a plurality of division modes of the block, a target division mode of the block. The plurality of division modes may include an equal division mode that is configured to divide the block into multiple sub-blocks with a same size. The method may further include dividing, based on the target division mode, the block into a plurality of sub-blocks, and encoding the block based on the plurality of sub-blocks.
US12166978B2
A communication control system is configured to transmit image frame data from a first communication device to a second communication device. The second communication device includes a reception buffer for receiving the image frame data from the first communication device and a reply unit for transmitting, to the first communication device, an ACK frame as a reply at a timing. The first communication device includes: an estimation unit configured to receive the ACK frame from the reply unit and estimating the remaining capacity of the reception buffer based on a reception time of the received ACK frame; an area specifying unit configured to specify an area in the image frame which is necessary for performing image inspection; and a modification unit configured to perform, based on the estimated remaining capacity of the reception buffer, image compression for the areas.
US12166970B2
A decoding method performed by a decoding device, according to the present document, may comprise the steps of: acquiring a sequence parameter set from a bitstream; acquiring a combined inter-picture merge and intra-picture prediction (CIIP) enable flag from the sequence parameter set; determining, on the basis of the CIIP enable flag and the size of a current block, whether a regular merge flag is included in the bitstream; parsing the regular merge flag in the bitstream on the basis that a condition based on the CIIP enable flag and a condition based on the size of the current block are satisfied; generating prediction samples of the current block on the basis of the regular merge flag; and generating a restoration picture on the basis of the prediction samples.
US12166968B2
Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes matrix-based intra prediction methods for video coding, are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream representation of the current video block according to a rule, where the rule specifies a relationship between samples of the current video block and matrices or offset values applied in a matrix weighted intra prediction (MIP) mode during the conversion, and where the MIP mode includes determining a prediction block of the current video block by performing, on previously coded samples of the video, a boundary downsampling operation, followed by a matrix vector multiplication operation, and selectively followed by an upsampling operation.
US12166952B2
Described are methods for identifying the in-field positions of plant features on a plant by plant basis. These positions are determined based on images captured as a vehicle (e.g., tractor, sprayer, etc.) including one or more cameras travels through the field along a row of crops. The in-field positions of the plant features are useful for a variety of purposes including, for example, generating three-dimensional data models of plants growing in the field, assessing plant growth and phenotypic features, determining what kinds of treatments to apply including both where to apply the treatments and how much, determining whether to remove weeds or other undesirable plants, and so on.
US12166950B2
A stereoscopic optical system includes two optical systems disposed in parallel. Each of the two optical systems includes a plurality of lens units and two reflective surfaces disposed on an image side of the plurality of lens units. A distance between adjacent lens units in each of the two optical systems changes during zooming. A distance between optical axes of the two optical systems is narrower on the image side of the two reflective surfaces than on an object side of the two reflective surfaces. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
US12166945B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods may provide for technology to control the printing of halftoning screen signatures for various levels of prints. For example, such prints may include regular edition prints or limited edition prints. During printing, a first halftoning screen is associated with one or more of the regular edition prints and a second halftoning screen is associated with the limited edition print, in some implementations. The second halftoning screen has a spatial frequency that is substantially the same as the first halftoning screen while having a spatial signature different from the first halftoning screen. Additionally, the second halftoning screen further may have spectral properties that are substantially the same as the first halftoning screen. During printing, two different printed copies of an image are formed using the first halftoning screen and the second halftoning screen.
US12166944B2
An image recording device comprises a conveyance mechanism configured to convey a recording medium in a conveyance direction, a head configured to record an image, a moving mechanism configured to move the head with respect to the conveyance mechanism in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction, a sensor configured to detect a position of an orthogonal edge that is an edge of the recording medium in a direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform deriving a correction amount for a recording position of the head in the orthogonal direction based on the edge position detected by the sensor, correcting the recording position of the head by driving the moving mechanism to move the head based on the correction amount, and causing the head to record an image based on image data at the corrected recording position.
US12166942B2
If an operation of canceling a predetermined state includes an operation of powering off the device, even if communication between the device and the information processing apparatus becomes inexecutable after the screen for cancelling the predetermined state is displayed, the information processing apparatus does not execute a notification corresponding to a state in which the communication is inexecutable. If the operation of canceling the predetermined state does not include the operation of powering off the device, the information processing apparatus executes, based on a fact that the communication between the device and the information processing apparatus becomes inexecutable after the screen for cancelling the predetermined state is displayed, the notification corresponding to the state in which the communication is inexecutable.
US12166940B2
A function extension server receives first scan data including a pattern image obtained by encoding additional information, and destination information indicating a destination of the first scan data, decodes the pattern image to acquire the additional information, and transmits the first scan data and the additional information to the destination indicated by the destination information.
US12166939B2
Provided are an image forming apparatus and a wireless tag communication apparatus capable of wirelessly communicating with an external wireless tag. According to a first aspect of an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a conveyance path, an antenna, and a shielding member. On the conveyance path, a sheet is conveyed. The antenna can wirelessly communicate with a first wireless tag of the sheet on the conveyance path. The shielding member shields, at a shielding position, wireless communication between the antenna and a second wireless tag located on a side opposite to the conveyance path with the antenna interposed therebetween. The shielding member moves from the shielding position to an open position to enable wireless communication between the antenna and the second wireless tag.
US12166938B2
A multi-function device (MFD) is disclosed. For example, the MFD includes a communication interface to establish a communication path with a remote server, a user interface to receive a request to create an electronic file based on a scan of a document, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions. The instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to scan the document to create the electronic file of the document, generate an encryption code associated with the electronic file of the document that is scanned, and transmit the electronic file to the remote server.
US12166936B2
The image reading device includes a reading section configured to read an image from a document, a control section configured to perform control related to the reading of the image from the document, a display section configured to display information, and a USB coupling section configured to couple with a USB cable. The control section control to switch to any one of a plurality of mode types. When a power source is turned on, a control section determines one of a plurality of mode types based on USB negotiation, and then makes a liquid crystal display section display information that enables identifying the decided-on mode.
US12166935B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire, by using setting information for extraction of texts from an image, an extraction result by extracting texts from a target image obtained by reading a document, or an output result to be output to an outside based on the extraction result; display the extraction result or the output result together with a first screen configured to receive an instruction to change the setting information; and in response to reception of the instruction, display a second screen configured to accept a change of the setting information related to the target image.
US12166933B2
A medium-discharging device includes: a device main body including a medium-discharging section that discharges a medium; a medium-receiving tray that receives the medium discharged by the medium-discharging section; and a pressing member that is configured to be attached to and detached from to the device main body and presses the medium discharged by the medium-discharging section against the medium-receiving tray in a state in which the pressing member is attached to the device main body, in which the pressing member is configured to switch, in the state in which the pressing member is attached to the device main body, between a first state in which the pressing member comes into contact with the medium-receiving tray and a second state in which the pressing member retreats upward so as to be apart from the medium-receiving tray.
US12166929B2
Disclosed is an image display method of displaying a first image and a second image in a display area, the second image being adjacent to the first image. The image display method includes: performing display with switching between a first display mode and a second display mode. The first display mode is a mode in which the first image displayed as a three-dimensional image and the second image displayed as a three-dimensional image are displayed. The second display mode is a mode in which the first image displayed as a two-dimensional image and the second image displayed as a two-dimensional image are displayed.
US12166927B1
An apparatus including a server is disclosed for providing data-communications services to and configuring contact lists for a plurality of Internet-enabled devices. The apparatus includes a data server communicatively connected to the plurality of user-communications devices. In response to receiving a first data message, from a first device not included in the plurality of devices, that includes contact information and identifies one of the plurality of devices, the device management circuit adds a new contact having the contact information to the respective contact list of the identified one of the plurality of devices.
US12166923B2
Exemplary aspects involve a data-communications apparatus or system communicate over a broadband network with a plurality of remotely-located data-communications circuits respectively associated with a plurality of remotely-situated client entities. The system includes data-communications platform (e.g., UC-CC) that processes incoming data-communication interactions including different types of digitally-represented communications among which are incoming call, and that is integrated with a memory circuit including a database of information sets. Each of the information sets includes experience data corresponding to past incoming data-communication interactions processed by the platform, and with aggregated and organized data based on data collected in previous incoming interactions. The platform accesses the database and may: use past interactions and other data sources; and facilitate an automated self-service experience for users by resolving inquiries discerned through the incoming interactions; and/or effecting call-decision routing of incoming interactions to call-center agents or specialists.
US12166921B2
Device, system and method to initiate electronic actions on calls and manage call-taking resources is provided. A device receives a call for a public-safety answering point (PSAP) and, based on determining human-operated communication devices of the PSAP are engaged on other calls: places the call into a queue; answers the call; and provides, on the call, an inquiry for keywords indicative of mental health of a caller on the call. The device determines, based on a keyword spoken by the caller, an electronic activity configured to maintain the caller on the call, including a prompt to cause the caller to talk. The device provides, while the call is in the queue, the electronic activity on the call, receives a response, and, based on a relative reduction of the queue, the keyword, the response, and/or a measured stress level of the caller, implements an electronic action configured to manage the queue.
US12166919B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for searching and labeling the content of voice conversations. An Engagement Intelligence Platform (EIP) analyzes conversation transcripts to find states and information for each of the states (e.g., interest rate quoted and value of the interest rate). An annotator User Interface (IU) is provided for performing queries, such as, “Find calls were the agent asked the customer for their name and the customer did not answer;” “Find calls where the customer objected after the interest rate for the loan was quoted, “Find calls where the agent asked for consent for recording the call, but no customer confirmation was received.” The EIP analyzes the conversation and labels (e.g., “tags”) the text where the conversation associated with the label took place, such as, “An interest rate was provided.” The labels are customizable, so each client can define its own labels based on business needs.
US12166917B2
A call, directed to a callee, is received from a caller. A computer system determines whether the caller is human. A computer system initiates a call to the callee only if the caller is determined to be human. If the callee initiates a request for help during the call, the system generates requests for help to a plurality of helpers associated with the callee. If any of the helpers accepts the request for help, the system connects that helper to the existing call between the caller and the callee, resulting in a conference call among the caller, callee, and helper.
US12166911B2
A mobile phone may include a housing, a battery at least partially within the housing, and a circuit board assembly at least partially within the housing and positioned along a side of the battery. The circuit board assembly may include a first circuit board defining a first hole, a second circuit board defining a second hole, a wall structure between the first circuit board and the second circuit board and attached to an inner surface of the first circuit board and an inner surface of the second circuit board, and a fastener assembly configured to retain the first circuit board to the second circuit board.
US12166902B2
An electronic resource tracking and storage computer system is provided that communicates with a distributed blockchain computing system that includes multiple computing nodes. The system includes a storage system, a transceiver, and a processing system. The storage system includes an resource repository and transaction repository that stores submitted blockchain transactions. A new resource issuance request is received, and a new resource is added to the resource repository in response. A new blockchain transaction is generated and published to the blockchain. In correspondence with publishing to the blockchain, the transaction storage is updated with information that makes up the blockchain transaction and some information that was not included as part of the blockchain transaction. The transaction storage is updated when the blockchain is determined to have validated the previously submitted blockchain transaction.
US12166899B2
The present disclosure includes secure device communication. An embodiment includes a processing resource, a memory, and a network management device communication component configured to, send public information to a network attached device communication component, and receive a network attached device public key and an encrypted random string value from the network attached device communication component. The network attached device public key and the random string value are received independent of a type of the network attached device communication component due to the public information. The network management communication component is further configured to decrypt the random string value from the network attached device communication component and send, to the network attached device communication component, a message and a signature to authenticate independent of the type of the network attached device communication component due to the public information.
US12166895B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an apparatus, an electronic device, and a medium for data transfer. The method includes generating, based on metadata of to-be-transferred data and a blockchain including a data transfer record, an ownership certificate of an initiator of a transfer for the to-be-transferred data. The method further includes generating a new transfer record for validation by a blockchain system, where the new transfer record includes the ownership certificate and validation information associated with a receiver of the transfer. The method further includes transferring the to-be-transferred data to the receiver in response to that the new transfer record passes validation of the blockchain system. In this way, the data transfer record may be reliably stored in the blockchain, thereby providing reliable integrity protection and data traceability for a storage system.
US12166886B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for authenticated control of content delivery. The method includes receiving a request for an item of content from a computing device, the request comprising a security token associated with the computing device and an identifier of a group of domains, identifying the group of domains from the identifier, and retrieving a security key associated with the group of domains. The method further includes decrypting a signature of the security token, identifying an authentication string, determining that the authentication string matches a server authentication string, and identifying characteristics of the security token. The characteristics of the security token include a confidence score. The method further includes comparing the confidence score of the security token to a threshold, determining that the confidence score does not exceed the threshold, and preventing transmission of content to the computing device.
US12166881B2
A system performs digital notarization using a biometric identification service. A signature requesting service receives a request to validate a digital item with a signature for a person. The signature requesting service provides a payload that identifies the digital item and/or the person to an identity service. The identity service obtains one or more digital representations of biometrics for the person, determines an identity for the person, and returns a data structure including the payload and one or more identity attestations regarding the determined identity. The identity service encrypts at least a portion of the data structure using a private encryption key. A public encryption key for the identity service can then be used to decrypt the portion to verify that the data structure was generated by the identity service after determining the identity. In this way, validation can be verified to the full trust level of the identification service.
US12166876B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to hardware security modules. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising reading a random value from a physically unclonable function (PUF); generating a seed value from the random value; generating a cryptographic key using the seed value; and processing a cryptographic operation using the cryptographic key.
US12166875B2
A working method for a key device and a key device, including: a smart key apparatus receives an authentication instruction, determines a type of the authentication instruction, parses a FIDO2 authentication instruction to obtain a credential if the instruction is the FIDO2 authentication instruction, checks whether the credential is complete by using a changing key corresponding to the FIDO2, if a check is successful, the credential is registered in a FIDO2 mode, and the authentication response is generated and returned to the client; and if the check fails, whether the credential is complete is checked by using the changing key corresponding to a U2F, and the credential is registered in a U2F mode if a check is successful, the authentication response is generated and returned to the client, and an error response is returned to the client if the check fails.
US12166873B2
A method of rotating a set of keys, having a media encryption key (MEK) and a current media encryption key encryption key (MEKEK) encrypted and stored in a self-encrypting drive (SED) having data encrypted with the MEK (MEK(data)), includes decrypting the stored MEK and the current MEKEK. A new MEK (MEK′) and a new MEKEK (MEKEK′) are generated. The MEKEK′ is encrypted to replace the current encrypted MEKEK. A concatenation of the MEK and the MEK′ is encrypted with MEKEK′. The encrypted data MEK(data) is re-encrypted with MEK′.
US12166870B2
In some implementations, a memory device may generate a physical unclonable function (PUF) value. The memory device may access a PUF protection key stored in a non-host-addressable memory region. The memory device may encrypt the PUF value, using the PUF protection key, to generate an encrypted PUF value. The memory device may store the encrypted PUF value in scattered memory locations in the non-host-addressable memory region.
US12166867B1
A node for a quantum key distribution (QKD) network includes an optical input that receives an optical pulse from a hub of the QKD network and an optical splitter that splits the optical pulse into an optical timing pulse and a pre-qubit pulse. The node also includes a qubit encoder controllable to encode the pre-qubit pulse into a photonic qubit; a qubit trigger circuit that controls, based on the optical timing pulse, the qubit encoder while the pre-qubit pulse propagates through the qubit encoder; and an optical output that transmits the photonic qubit to the hub.
US12166855B2
A network element, for use in an automotive network in a vehicle, includes one or more ports, packet processing circuitry and a validation data collector. The one or more ports are configured for communicating over the automotive network in the vehicle. The packet processing circuitry is configured to receive packets from the automotive network via the one or more ports, the packets including time-protocol packets, to process the received packets, and to forward the processed packets to the automotive network via the one or more ports. The validation data collector is configured to derive, from at least some of the time-protocol packets that are processed by the packet-processing circuitry, validation data indicative of compliance of the network element with a vehicle-safety requirement, and to make the validation data accessible from outside the network element.
US12166854B2
Events between one or more host devices and one or more client devices that are connected to a same network (e.g., to a same Wi-Fi network) are scheduled. A fixed length first-in first-out (FIFO) buffer stores a fixed quantity of timing offsets that are calculated in real time based on determined latencies associated with event scheduling involving multiple host devices and/or client devices to provide such scheduling.
US12166852B2
Methods and devices for IQ time skew and conjugation compensation and calibration of a coherent transmitter or transceiver are described. A pilot tone is combined with a digital data signal such that relative powers of the pilot tone in each of two frequency bands of the transmitted data signal may be detected by a pilot tone detector and used to calculate the time skew between I and Q modulation channels of the transmitter. A transmitter DSP applies IQ time skew bias to the data signal to compensate for any calculated IQ time skew. The pilot tone detector also provides the transmitter DSP with the information necessary to detect phase conjugation of the optical signal, which can be corrected by inverting the polarity of the data signal or changing the phase bias point of the optical modulator.
US12166846B2
In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a control plane network function. The control plane network function comprises, a communication unit configured to receive a user plane packet (UPP); a packet analysis unit configured to analyze the received UPP to determine whether to process the received UPP; and a user plane processor configured to process the received UPP if the received UPP is determined to be processed, and to control the received UPP to be transmitted to a user plane network function (UP NF) if the received UPP is determined not to be processed.
US12166842B2
Methods performed by an Edge Data Network (EDN) and a User Equipment (UE) for enabling Application Context Change (ACR) are disclosed. More specifically, methods performed by a UE and an EDN node for enabling ACR are provided. The method disclosed herein can provide solutions to many open issues in the Third-Generation Partnership Project standard with respect to applying Application Function (AF) influence during an ACR.
US12166840B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a computer-implemented method of receiving a header associated with an object, where the header includes a limit value that specifies a quantity of times the object is to be served from a cache device before revalidation, and a current count value that specifies a number of times that the object has been served since a most-recent revalidation or load, receiving a request for the object from a requesting device, and upon determining that the current count value is below the limit value, serving the object to the requesting device from the cache device, or upon determining that the current count value matches the limit value, transmitting a request for revalidating the object.
US12166838B2
It is possible to enable a reception side to easily recognize that metadata is inserted into an audio stream. A metafile including meta information for acquiring an audio stream into which metadata is inserted through a reception device is transmitted. The identification information indicating that the metadata is in into the audio stream is inserted into the metafile. At the reception side, it is possible to easily recognize that the metadata is inserted into the audio stream based on the identification information inserted into the metafile.
US12166834B2
The present disclosure relates to a scene pushing method, a scene implementing method, a scene pushing apparatus, a scene implementing apparatus, a terminal, a server, and a system. The scene pushing method is applied to a management terminal, and comprises: sending a scene query request to a cloud scene server, such that the cloud scene server queries, from a plurality of edited scenes, one or more scenes to be pushed, the edited scenes comprising scenes edited by a mobile terminal or a vehicle-mounted terminal of a first user; receiving said one or more scenes to be pushed returned by the cloud scene server; and screening said one or more scenes to be pushed to obtain a target scene, and pushing the obtained target scene to a target vehicle-mounted terminal, the target vehicle-mounted terminal comprising a vehicle-mounted terminal of a second user. According to the technical solutions of embodiments of the present disclosure, the finely-selected and optimized scene can be pushed to the vehicle-mounted terminal, the user experience is optimized, and an autonomously-set combined scene is automatically triggered quickly and intelligently according to the scene conditions of the vehicle-mounted terminal.
US12166832B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and storage media for detecting events based on updates to node profiles from electronic activities. Exemplary implementations may access an electronic activity transmitted or received via an electronic account associated with a data source provider; generate a plurality of activity field-value pairs; maintain a plurality of node profiles; identify a first state of a first node profile of the plurality of node profiles; update the first node profile using the electronic activity; identify a second state of the first node profile subsequent to updating the first node profile using the electronic activity; detect a state change of the first node profile based on the first state and the second state; determine that the state change satisfies an event condition; and store an association between the first node profile and an event type corresponding to the event condition.
US12166830B1
A system for presenting a clinical process of a patient in a clinical facility having a network, a system backend communicable with the network, and at least one mobile device communicable with the system backend, the mobile device comprising a mobile processor and a display, the mobile processor configured to operate in at least one first user interface mode and at least one second user interface mode, where the mobile processor is configured to enable the operation of at least one built-in function when operating in the at least one first user interface mode and where the mobile processor is configured to disable the operation of the at least one built-in function when operating in the at least one second user interface mode. The mobile processor operating in the at least one second user interface mode is configured to present a list of one or more patients each with a corresponding clinical process, each patient listing configured to re-enable access to the at least one built-in function associated with the corresponding clinical process of the listed patient.
US12166829B2
The disclosure herein describes platform-level migration for deep learning training (DLT) jobs from a checkpointed stated between a source node and a destination node. The checkpointing is performed through capturing GPU state (e.g., device state) and CPU state (e.g., host state). The GPU state includes GPU data (e.g., model parameters, optimizer state, etc.) that is located in the GPU and GPU context (e.g., the default stream in GPU, various handles created by libraries). Restoring the DLT job on the destination node involves resumption of processing of a destination GPU at the same checkpointed state.
US12166827B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, connecting a plurality of subscriber networks via switched, shared, or dedicated Ethernet connections using a wired network, where the plurality of subscriber networks includes a first network and a second network, providing a provisioning and activation application that enables a user to selectively activate or deactivate a connection to one or more of the plurality of subscriber networks or a cloud service provider, as a first orderable item, and select a plurality of network configuration attributes, as a second orderable item, and based on a request for the connection to the one or more of the plurality of subscriber networks or the cloud service provider, activating the connection that follows the selected plurality of network configuration attributes. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12166826B2
Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide example user plane connection establishment methods apparatuses, and systems to establish a user plane connection between an access network gateway and an interworking function network element-user plane. One example method includes determining, by an interworking function network element-control plane, granularity information of a user plane connection between an interworking function network element-user plane and an access network gateway. The interworking function network element-control plane can then send the granularity information of the user plane connection to the interworking function network element-user plane and the access network gateway, where the granularity information of the user plane connection is used to establish the user plane connection between the interworking function network element-user plane and the access network gateway.
US12166820B2
Replicating multiple storage systems utilizing coordinated snapshots, including identifying a replica dataset stored across two or more target storage systems, wherein the replica dataset is a replication target for a source dataset stored across two or more source storage systems; identifying two or more local replicated checkpoints that are replicated from the two or more source storage systems to the two or more target storage systems, wherein two or more local source checkpoints for the two or more local replicated checkpoints are associated with a coordinated source checkpoint for the source dataset; and determining, based on the two or more local replicated checkpoints, a coordinated target checkpoint for the replica dataset.
US12166812B2
Systems and methods of delegating media capturing functionality from one device to another are presented. A first device configured with an object recognition engine captures a media representation of an environment and identifies an object within that environment. Then based on matched object traits from a database, the engine selects a delegation rules set, and delegates certain media capturing functionality to a second device according to the selected delegation rules set.
US12166811B2
This application relates to apparatus and methods for identifying and remediating poor user experiences on computing devices. In some examples, a user speed determination device is configured to receive a content delivery request for delivery of content to a user device. The computing is also configured to obtain user identification data, obtain user device data and determine a user device speed based on the user identification data and the user device data. The computing device then sends a user device speed indicator to a content delivery device to cause the content delivery device to deliver remediated content to the user device when the user device speed is determined to be less than a predetermined speed threshold. The user identification data can include an IP address and the user device data can include user agent data, user connection data and user resource timing data.
US12166809B2
A method of electronic communication assistance is provided. The method includes receiving, via an artificial intelligence assistant computing facility, an electronic communication from a first user intended to be received by a second user; and determining, via the artificial intelligence assistant computing facility, a capacity of the second user to receive the electronic communication. The method further includes determining, via the artificial intelligence assistant computing facility and based at least in part on the capacity of the second user, a time to send the electronic communication; and transmitting, via the artificial intelligence assistant computing facility, the time to the first user.
US12166807B2
A server is provided. The server includes a communication interface and a processor. The processor renders a virtual world image including an avatar corresponding to a user; transmits the virtual world image to a user terminal device through the communication interface; based on receiving, from the user terminal device through the communication interface, a first user command to add a virtual display device to the virtual world image, renders the virtual world image on which content displayed on a display device corresponding to the virtual display device is displayed through the virtual display device.
US12166802B2
Systems and methods for secure browser session transfer are provided. The system may include memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors may be configured to establish a connection with an active web session of a first browser. The one or more processors may be configured to transfer, based on the established connection, the active web session to a second browser so as to preserve a first set of objects of the active web session of the first browser. The one or more processors may be configured to receive one or more parameters as a first input in the active web session of the second browser. The one or more processors may be configured to execute a plurality of actions in the active web session of the second browser that are responsive to the receipt of the first input.
US12166798B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for managing security associated with applications are provided. In an example, a central security gateway may determine first security policy information associated with a first application. The central security gateway may establish a first encrypted connection with a first device of the first application. The central security gateway may manage, based upon the first security policy information and using the first encrypted connection, security associated with the first application. The central security gateway may determine second security policy information associated with a second application. The central security gateway may establish a second encrypted connection with a second device of the second application. The central security gateway may manage, based upon the second security policy information and using the second encrypted connection, security associated with the second application.
US12166787B2
An online portal receives digital content from a user device. The online portal is communicably coupled to a computer server hosting an online media service in the public or non-public domain. The user device is associated with an online account on the online media service. Based on the digital content, at least one requirement associated with the online account is identified. One or more respondent services are determined satisfy the requirement. By each respondent service, the digital content is processed using a respective machine learning model trained, based on user-attributable content, to generate a respondent evaluation. A quorum of respondent evaluations is generated. The quorum of respondent evaluations is determined to achieve a respondent consensus. Responsive to determining that the respondent consensus satisfies an approval condition, the digital content is sent from the online portal to the computer server for posting the digital content on the online media service.
US12166784B1
A method performed by a cybersecurity system that receives a registration request of a wireless device over a 5G network and, in response, selects a network slice associated with a capability, a traffic characteristic, and includes network resources. The system dynamically provisions security resources for multiple network slices based on respective security requirements, which are determined by monitoring network traffic associated with functions or applications supported by the network slices. The system allocates the selected network slice including security resources that satisfy its security requirement to support the wireless device.
US12166781B2
An attack analyzer includes: a security log acquisition unit acquiring a security log including an abnormality detection signal generated by a security sensor mounted on an electronic control device constituting an electronic control system and indicating that the security sensor has detected an abnormality; a failure information acquisition unit acquiring failure information indicating a failure occurred in the electronic control device; a prediction table storage unit storing a prediction table showing a correspondence relationship between a predicted attack route in the electronic control system and a predicted abnormality detection signal predicted to be generated by the security sensor; an attack route estimation unit; and an attack information output unit outputting attack information indicating the attack route.
US12166779B2
A device detects anomalies on an input stream of events. Each event includes a value. The device has: a modeling unit configured to represent each event into at least one histogram over a predefined tree data structure to obtain a model of the input stream; a change detection and adaptation module configured to detect a long term change of the distribution of the events in the input stream based on the model of the input stream; and a scoring unit configured to calculate an anomaly score representing the probability of an anomaly in the input stream of events based on the model of the input stream and the detected long term change.
US12166769B2
Results of an authentication process are received. The authentication process allows for a graded level of authentication using a plurality of authentication types (e.g., a username/password and a fingerprint scan). Encrypted data is then accessed. The encrypted data has been encrypted using a plurality of encryption levels. The data is unencrypted based on the graded level of authentication. In a second embodiment, a system and method are provided that establish a communication session (e.g., a voice or email communication session). The communication session is between a plurality of users. During the communication session, an indication is received to change an encryption level for the communication session. In response to receiving the indication to change the encryption level for the communication session, an encryption level of the first communication session is dynamically changed from a first level of encryption to a second level of encryption.
US12166758B2
Techniques are described for providing network provisioning by a network management system (NMS) based on fingerprint information determined by a network access control (NAC) system. An example method includes receiving, by the NAC system, a network access request for a client device to access an enterprise network; obtaining, by the NAC system, fingerprint information of the client device associated with the network access request, wherein the fingerprinting information comprises information specifying one or more attributes associated with the client device; authenticating, by the NAC system, the client device to access the enterprise network; sending, by the NAC system and to the NMS, the fingerprint information of the client device; and provisioning, by the NMS, one or more network resources associated with the client device based on the fingerprint information of the client device.
US12166754B2
A computer-implemented method to secure an interaction between at least two users in a network, whereas at least two network nodes are connected via the network. The method includes: a first user connects to the network via a first of the two network nodes, the first user creates in the network a first identity corresponding to the first user via a software application running on the first network node, whereas the creation includes the first user providing first biometric information characterizing the first user, the first biometric information is stored in encrypted form by a computer-implemented identity management system, a second user accesses the network via a second network node, the second user requests via the network consent of the first user, whereas the request is sent via the identity management system, the first user denies or approves the request of the second user via the software application.
US12166753B2
A method of connecting a software-defined data center (SDDC) to a cloud platform to enable the cloud platform to deliver cloud services to the SDDC includes the steps of: deploying an agent platform appliance that is connected to a management network of the SDDC; and deploying a plurality of agents on the agent platform appliance, wherein the agents include a first agent that is configured to issue a command to a component of the SDDC to perform an operation requested by a cloud service of the cloud platform and a second agent that is configured to acquire an authentication token for authenticating to the component of the SDDC, and wherein the second agent acquires the authentication token from the component of the SDDC, and the first agent acquires the authentication token from the second agent and transmits the command and the authentication token to the component of the SDDC.
US12166752B2
A user terminal comprising a communication interface and a processor, transmits a user authentication request to an account management server so as to perform authentication in association with a user account; when a request to access an external server is received, transmits the request to access the external server to the account management server when first one-time password (OTP) information and second OTP information are received from the account management server, establishes a first communication channel with a relay server by using the first OTP information; establishes a second communication channel between the relay server and the external server by using the second OTP information; and communicates with the external server via the first communication channel and the second communication channel.
US12166747B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for managing secret information. A material set may be created. The material set may correspond to a material set name (MSN). The material set may be configured to contain secret information and information for identifying destinations that are authorized to access the secret information. The secret information may be managed by using the MSN to identify and track the secret information and without exposing the secret information.
US12166739B2
A novel architecture for a data sharing system (DSS) is disclosed and seeks to ensure the privacy and security of users' personal information. In this type of network, a user's personally identifiable information is stored and transmitted in an encrypted form, with few exceptions. The only key with which that encrypted data can be decrypted, and thus viewed, remains in the sole possession of the user and the user's friends/contacts within the system. This arrangement ensures that a user's personally identifiable information cannot be examined by anyone other than the user or his friends/contacts. This arrangement also makes it more difficult for the web site or service hosting the DSS to exploit its users' personally identifiable information. Such a system facilitates the encryption, storage, exchange and decryption of personal, confidential and/or proprietary data.
US12166732B2
Disclosed embodiments provide a framework for implementing automated bots configured to automatically and in real-time process messages exchanged with a user to determine whether to present an opt-in offer for supplemental communications. An agent bot processes ongoing messages exchanged in real-time during a first communications session as these messages are exchanged to determine whether to present an opt-in authorization request for supplemental communications. If the user approves the request, contact information associated with the user is used to facilitate a second communications session through which the user is prompted to provide an opt-in confirmation. The opt-in confirmation and the approval of the opt-in authorization request is provided to allow for transmission of the supplemental communications to the user.
US12166724B2
A method of channel state information (CSI) reporting by a first user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), a radio resource control (RRC) message to configure a first priority level for a logical channel; performing a sidelink (SL) communication with a second UE; generating a Medium Access Control (MAC) control element (CE) for a CSI report for the SL communication with a second priority level in a fixed value; determining a prioritization between the MAC CE including the CSI report and data from the logical channel according to the fixed value of the second priority level and the first priority level; and transmitting, to the second UE or the BS, at least one of the MAC CE and the data from the logical channel based on the determined prioritization.
US12166721B2
A method for controlling acknowledgement signalling in a multi-point communication system comprises receiving (S10), in a wireless device, a data item over a first signalling path out of a plurality of possible signalling paths. Signalling path information associated with the received data item is obtained (S20). A transmission of an acknowledgement message for the data item is initiated (S40) to be performed over a second signalling path out of the plurality of possible signalling paths selected in dependence of the obtained signalling path information. Alternatively, or in combination, initiating of a transmission of an acknowledgement message comprising attaching of information of the identity of the second signalling path to the acknowledgement message. Methods, performed in a network node, assisting the wireless device are also disclosed. Devices for the methods are also presented.
US12166718B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for transmitting and receiving, between an access point (AP) and one or more stations (STAs) in a basic service set (BSS), an indication of a puncturing event. In some examples, the transmitting and receiving may use non-legacy elements configured to provide information about the puncturing event. In certain aspects, the disclosure provides methods for transmitting and receiving, between the AP and one or more STAs, an indication of an operating band switch. In some examples, the transmitting and receiving may use non-legacy elements configured to provide information about the operating band switch.
US12166710B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a DMRS configuration method and a user equipment. Said method comprises: determining a time domain position of a first DMRS according to a first PUSCH duration and DMRS configuration information, the first PUSCH being obtained by splitting a second PUSCH.
US12166698B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced bandwidth selection for wireless devices. A device may generate a request frame with at least one of a first indication of a bandwidth for which a second device is to measure a first noise level or a second indication of a resource unit for which the second device is to measure a second noise level. The device may send the request frame to the second device. The device may identify a response frame received from the second device, the response frame having a third indication of the first noise level or the second noise level and a fourth indication of the bandwidth or the resource unit. The device may determine, based on the first noise level or the second noise level, a parameter associated with a subsequent frame to send to the second device.
US12166685B2
A method for implementing collective communication, a computer device, and a communication system are provided, to resolve problems of high communication latency and resource consumption in the conventional technology. The method includes: identifying a work request having no communication dependency, and when forwarding work requests, directly forwarding the work request identified as having no communication dependency, and forwarding, after queue management, a work request that is not identified as having no communication dependency. According to the application, communication latency caused when the work request having no communication dependency is managed by using a queue can be avoided, and resource consumption caused by performing related management can be reduced, to improve overall communication performance of collective communication.
US12166677B2
Techniques for load balancing encrypted traffic based on security parameter index (SPI) values of packet headers and sets of 5-tuple values of the packet headers are described herein. Additionally, techniques for including quality of service (QoS)-type information in SPI value fields of packet headers are also described herein. The QoS-type information may indicate a particular traffic class according to which the packet is to be handled. Further, techniques for pre-configuring a backend host such that encrypted traffic may be migrated to the backend host from another backend host without causing temporary service disruptions are also described herein.
US12166670B2
A first router generates session establishment metrics for use in network path selection. For example, a plurality of routers connect a client device to a network service instance hosted by a server. A first router is connected to the network service instance via first and second paths. The first router receives session performance requirements for a session between the client device and the network service instance. The first router forwards, along the first path, network traffic for the session by modifying a first packet of the session to include a session identifier for the session. The first router determines that session establishment metrics for the session do not satisfy the session performance requirements. In response, the first router forwards, along the second path, the network traffic for the session by modifying a second packet of the session to include the session identifier for the session.
US12166668B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a path fault detection method and apparatus, a related device, and a storage medium, and belong to the field of communication technologies. In embodiments of this application, a return path is determined according to a forward path. In a path fault detection process, the return path through which a fault detection packet fed back by a tail node to a head node passes includes the forward path. In this way, if the head node receives the fault detection packet fed back by the tail node, it indicates that the forward path is not faulty.
US12166665B2
This application discloses a multi-hop transmission method and an apparatus, which are applicable to fields such as V2X, internet of vehicles, intelligent connected vehicles, assisted driving, and intelligent driving, to resolve a problem that a multi-hop transmission latency is large in a conventional technology. In example embodiments, terminal devices participating in multi-hop transmission may share a shared resource pool. A first terminal device and a second terminal device participating in the multi-hop transmission are used as an example. The multi-hop transmission method includes: sending, by the first terminal device, data to the second terminal device on a first resource in the shared resource pool; and if the first terminal device fails to send the data on the first resource, retransmitting, by the first terminal device, the data to the second terminal device on a second resource in the shared resource pool.
US12166663B2
A system and method for selecting a client gateway device to establish a path between client devices is provided. A method includes associating a first client gateway device of a first geographic region and a second client gateway device of a second geographic region with a first communication endpoint of a first client device, and associating a third client gateway device with a second client device, wherein the third client gateway device is a gateway of the first geographic region. The method also includes receiving a communication invitation directed to the first communication endpoint from the second client device via the third client gateway device, and responsive to receiving the communication invitation, selecting one of the first client gateway device or the second client gateway device. The method further includes establishing a communication path between the second client device and the first client device via the selected client gateway device and the third client gateway device.
US12166655B2
A method for providing varying amounts of simulated latencies for a mainframe is disclosed. The method includes modifying routing to pass through a simulated latency injector system; setting an initial latency amount for the target mainframe; when the mainframe application is determined to be unstable, modifying the OSA routing to bypass the simulated latency injector system; when the mainframe application is determined to be stable in the first monitoring, initiating a planned latency injection schedule for injecting latencies in differing amounts until a target latency amount is reached; performing monitoring for the stability of the mainframe application; modifying an injected latency amount back to the initial latency amount when the mainframe application is determined to be unstable in the monitoring; and applying another latency amount specified in the planned latency injection schedule when the mainframe application is determined to be stable.
US12166654B2
A computer-implemented process for estimating user experience of online gaining, including the step of monitoring the flow of network packets of an online game at a monitoring location between a client gaining device and a game server to generate estimates of at least one of latency and jitter in the flow of network packets of the online game as a measure of user experience of the online game.
US12166645B2
A client device uses a hostname-based feature mapping table. A randomized MAC address and a hostname of the client device is obtained from the memory of the client device. A user interface receives a selection. to indicate the hostname is to be changed to a new hostname. The client device is associated with a network access device when the new hostname is determined to be unique. A list of features and associated rules are displayed in the user interface for associating with the new hostname. Features and associated rules are selected from the list to link to the new hostname. A feature mapping table is presented in the user interface to show the features and associated rules linked to the new hostname.
US12166634B2
A wireless communication method and a terminal device. The method comprises: a first terminal triggering, according to first indication information sent by a second terminal, at least one of the following items to perform configuration of parameters: a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) reconstruction process or a PDCP data recovery process, a radio link control (RIX) reconstruction process, a media access control (MAC) resetting process, and a full configuration process.
US12166632B2
A method for balancing sensors within a sensor system, the method including receiving, at a gateway, data from a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors being connected to one of a plurality of sensor modules or the gateway; determining, at the gateway, that a signal strength from a first sensor falls below a threshold, the first sensor being one of the plurality of sensors; and based on the determining, allocating the first sensor to connect to a different one of the plurality of sensor modules, or to the gateway if connected to one of the plurality of sensor modules.
US12166618B2
A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, a receive chain switching configuration for a multi-carrier environment. The UE also receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on one or more carriers of the multi-carrier environment with multiple receive chains, in accordance with the receive chain switching configuration. The UE decodes downlink control information (DCI) from the PDCCH for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduling across multiple carriers in the multi-carrier environment. The UE performs receive chain switching based on the PDSCH scheduling from the decoded DCI and the receive chain switching configuration.
US12166617B2
Systems and methods for enabling pre-compensation of timing offsets in OFDM receivers without invalidating channel estimates are described. Timing offset estimations may be sent along with the received OFDM symbols for FFT computation and generating a de-rotated signal output. The timing offset estimation may provide a reference point for dynamic tracking of timing for an OFDM signal and estimated based on an integral value associated with the OFDM signal.
US12166606B2
A method for designing a channel estimation and data detection networks is provided herein. The problem of channel estimation for linear systems has effectively been solved—not the case for non-linear systems. A deep learning framework for channel estimation, data detection, and pilot signal design is described to address the nonlinearity in such systems.
US12166601B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device, method, apparatus and computer readable storage media for generating a tunnel endpoint identifier (TEID) for packet tunneling. In example embodiments, a TEID is generated at a downstream device for a tunnel from an upstream device to the downstream device at least in part based on a target address of an information packet to be transmitted in the tunnel. The generated TEID is sent towards the upstream device for establishment of the tunnel.
US12166596B2
Device Assisted Services (DAS) for protecting network capacity is provided. In some embodiments, DAS for protecting network capacity includes monitoring a network service usage activity of the communications device in network communication; classifying the network service usage activity for differential network access control for protecting network capacity; and associating the network service usage activity with a network service usage control policy based on a classification of the network service usage activity to facilitate differential network access control for protecting network capacity.
US12166595B2
A physical layer transceiver for connecting a host device to a wireline channel medium includes a host interface for coupling to the host device, a line interface for coupling to the channel medium, a transmit path operatively coupled to the host interface and the line interface, a receive path operatively coupled to the line interface and the host interface, and adaptive filter circuitry operatively coupled to at least one of the transmit path and the receive path for filtering signals on the at least one of the transmit path and the receive path, the adaptive filter circuitry including a non-linear equalizer. The non-linear equalizer may be a neural network equalizer based on a multi-layer perceptron or a radial-basis function, or may be a linear equalizer with a non-linear activation function. The non-linear equalizer also may have a front-end filter to reduce input complexity.
US12166587B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for efficiently managing simultaneous data transmissions of a plurality of terminals. To this end, provided are a base wireless communication terminal including: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal; and a processor configured to control an operation of the base wireless communication terminal, wherein the processor is configured to: transmit a trigger frame triggering a multi-user uplink transmission of a plurality of terminals, receive multi-user uplink data through resources allocated to the plurality of terminals, and transmit a block ACK through the resources in response to the received multi-user uplink data, wherein the transmission of the block ACK in each resource is terminated at the same time, and a wireless communication method using the same.
US12166584B2
The present specification proposes a method for resuming a PHY-level HARQ operation in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system. The method may include transmitting a resume signal including information related to resumption of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission. The method may include transmitting a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) after transmitting the resume signal. The PPDU and the resume signal may be transmitted in different transmission opportunities (TXOPs).
US12166581B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage medium for rate matching for TBoMS are provided. An example method includes calculating a slot length for each UL slot of a plurality of UL slots, the slot length for each UL slot being associated with a plurality of rate matching output bits, each UL slot including a starting point for the plurality of rate matching output bits, the slot length for each UL slot being associated with a starting boundary, the plurality of UL slots being associated with at least one of a single TB or a single rate matching. The example method may include allocating one or more bits of the plurality of rate matching output bits for a modulation process. The example method may include refraining allocating at least one bit of the plurality of rate matching output bits for the modulation process, the at least one bit corresponding to UCI multiplexing.
US12166580B2
In a data transmission method, a first chip receives a first data stream sent by a second chip, where the first data stream is a data stream obtained through encoding by using a first forward error correction (FEC) code type; and the first chip encodes the first data stream at least once, to obtain a second data stream, where the second data stream is a concatenated FEC code stream obtained through encoding by using at least the first FEC code type and a second FEC code type.
US12166578B2
A new radio (NR) bit prioritization procedure that may be executed by a UE and a base station is disclosed, resulting in transmission and reception of modulation symbols having prioritized bits. For example, a transmitter may encode a code block using low-density parity-check code to generate a stream of encoded bits. The transmitter may arrange the encoded bits in one or more modulation symbols according to a relative priority of the encoded bits. The highest priority bits may be located in the most significant bits of the modulation symbol, and therefore be less likely to experience errors. A receiver may receive the modulation symbols and reorder the encoded bits according to the coding scheme based on the relative priority prior to decoding the encoded bits. The prioritization of the bits within the modulation symbols may provide improved block error rates over sequential mapping of encoded bits to symbols.
US12166572B2
An electronic monitoring system and method are provided. The electronic monitoring system monitors communication of data between a device primary radio of a monitoring device and a hub primary radio through a primary communication path. Communication of the data is transferred to a secondary communication path between a device secondary radio of the monitoring device and a hub secondary radio in response to the detection of a disruption on the primary communication path resulting from interference or jamming of communications over the primary communication path. The primary and secondary radios operate a different frequencies.
US12166558B2
Selective radiation of radio frequency (RF) reference beams in a wireless communications system (WCS) based on user equipment (UE) locations is disclosed. The WCS may include a radio node that communicates RF communications signals in a coverage area via RF beamforming. Thus, the radio node is required to periodically radiate a number of RF reference beams in different directions of the coverage area to help UEs to identify a best-possible RF beam(s). However, radiating the RF beams in different directions periodically can increase power consumption of the radio node, particularly when the UEs are concentrated at a handful of locations in the coverage area. In this regard, the radio node can be configured to selectively radiate a subset of the RF reference beams based on a determined location(s) of the UE(s) in the coverage area, thus making it possible to reduce computational complexity and power consumption of the radio node.
US12166555B2
Various embodiments herein provide techniques for reducing computational complexity in multiple input multiple output (MIMO, e.g., massive MIMO (mMIMO)) communications, such as efficient decomposition of a channel covariance matrix. Embodiments enable accurate mMIMO channel estimation with relatively low computational complexity compared with prior techniques. Additionally, embodiments may provide efficient beamforming and/or spatial compression. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12166546B2
Systems and methods are described for radio frequency (RF) calibration in a multiple antenna system (MAS) with multi-user (MU) transmissions (“MU-MAS”) exploiting uplink/downlink channel reciprocity. The RF calibration is used to compute open-loop downlink precoder based on uplink channel estimates, thereby avoiding feedback overhead for channel state information as in closed-loop schemes. For example, a MU-MAS of one embodiment comprises a wireless cellular network with one or multiple beacon stations, multiple client devices and multiple distributed antennas operating cooperatively via precoding methods to eliminate inter-client interference and increase network capacity.
US12166538B2
A communication system includes a plurality of repeater devices arranged at a plurality of different locations and are communicatively coupled over wired mediums. A first repeater device of the plurality of repeater devices obtains mmWave radio frequency (RF) and communicates, over a wired medium, the mmWave RF signal of the specified frequency to a second repeater device. The second repeater device extracts a plurality of different RF signals, corresponding to different communication protocols, from the mmWave RF signal and down-converts the extracted plurality of different RF signals. The second repeater device wirelessly distributes, from the mmWave RF signal, two or more different RF signals to end-user devices, packs content received from the end-user devices, and transmits upstream in the mmWave RF signal to the communication device via the first repeater device.
US12166535B2
A vehicle includes a wireless transceiver configured to communicate with an infrastructure device in a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) channel having a predetermined channel frequency, the V2X channel being divided into a plurality of subchannels; and a controller, configured to responsive to the wireless transceiver detecting a wireless signal within the frequency of the V2X channel, measure a power spectral density (PSD) gradient of the wireless signal across at least two subchannels of the V2X channel, and compare a magnitude of the PSD gradient against a predetermined gradient threshold, and responsive to verifying the magnitude of the PSD gradient of the wireless signal is greater than the gradient threshold, identify there is an interference to the V2X channel.
US12166532B2
Provided is an optical receiver including: a heterodyne detection unit that converts, by heterodyne detection, a subcarrier multiplexed signal in which a plurality of optical signals transmitted from a plurality of optical transmitters are multiplexed, into an electrical signal in an intermediate frequency band; a filter unit that removes a carrier component from the electrical signal in the intermediate frequency band, generated by the conversion, to extract a subcarrier component; an analog-digital conversion unit that performs analog-digital conversion on a signal having the subcarrier component, extracted by the filter unit; and a digital signal processing unit that performs digital signal processing for each subcarrier on a digital signal generated by the analog-digital conversion performed by the analog-digital conversion unit.
US12166511B2
An antenna structure includes a housing, a first feed source, a second feed source, and a resonance circuit. The housing includes a first and a second radiator spaced to each other and grounded. The first feed source feeds current into the first radiator to activate a first mode, a second mode, and a third mode to generate radiation signals in a first frequency band, a second frequency band, and a third frequency band. The second feed source feeds current into the second radiator to activate a fourth mode to generate radiation signals in a fourth frequency band. The resonance circuit adjusts a radiation frequency band of the second radiator according to an impedance of the resonance circuit. The first radiator adjusts the third mode according to the radiation frequency band of the second radiator. A wireless communication device employing the antenna structure is also provided.
US12166501B1
A combinational circuit (e.g., multiplexer or demultiplexer) comprises a sub-circuit that comprises first and second current paths from an input of the combinational circuit to an output of the combinational circuit, such that substantially all input current at the input of the combinational circuit is conducted by the sub-circuit via the first and second current paths to the output of the combinational circuit. The first current path comprises a first inductor and a first switch; and the second current path comprises a second inductor and a second switch. The first inductor is part of an output LC transmission line of the sub-circuit; the second inductor is part of an input LC transmission line of the sub-circuit; and the first and second inductors are sized such that parasitic capacitances of the first and second switches are substantially absorbed by the input and output LC transmission lines.
US12166495B2
The current disclosure is related to digital-to-analog converters (DACs) with localized frequency multiplication circuits. For example, an electronic device may include a local oscillator (LO) providing clock signals, a digital front-end providing digital signals, a DAC, (e.g., a radio frequency DAC (RFDAC)), and one or more antennas. The DAC may include a number of cells (e.g., unit power amplifiers). Moreover, each cell may provide a unit power analog signal upon activation with a higher frequency than the received digital signals and clock signals. The DAC may provide an output signal (e.g., an analog signal) based on combining (e.g., aggregating) the unit power analog signals of the activated cells for transmission by the one or more antennas.
US12166492B2
The disclosure provides a voltage droop monitor (VDM) and a voltage droop monitoring method. The method includes: receiving a first reference clock signal and delaying the first reference clock signal as a first clock signal; delaying the first clock signal as a corresponding second clock signal; receiving the corresponding second clock signal from the corresponding first DCDL and generating a corresponding third clock signal via modifying a phase of the corresponding second clock signal; receiving the corresponding third clock signal; receiving a second reference clock signal; and collectively outputting a TDC code combination based on the second reference clock signal and the corresponding third clock signal, wherein the TDC code combination varies in response to a voltage variation of a to-be-monitored voltage.
US12166490B2
A method controls duty cycle distortion of clock signals. An electronic device obtains an input clock signal having a first frequency and a sampling clock signal having a second frequency that is lower than the first frequency. The sampling clock signal has a random noise distribution. The sampling clock signal is applied to sample high voltage duty cycles and low voltage duty cycles of the input clock signal for a duration of time to obtain a sampling result. The electronic device determines a duty cycle distortion level of the input clock signal in the duration of time based on the sampling result. A duty cycle control signal is generated based on the duty cycle distortion level to control the high voltage duty cycles of the input clock signal.
US12166487B2
A scan flip-flop circuit includes a selection circuit including first and second input terminals coupled to first and second I/O nodes, a flip-flop circuit coupled to the selection circuit, a first driver coupled between the flip-flop circuit and the first I/O node, and a second driver coupled between the flip-flop circuit and the second I/O node. The selection circuit and drivers receive a scan direction signal. In response to a first logic level of the scan direction signal, the selection circuit responds to a first signal received at the first input terminal, and the second driver outputs a second signal responsive to a flip-flop circuit output signal. In response to a second logic level of the scan direction signal, the selection circuit responds to a third signal received at the second input terminal, and the first driver outputs a fourth signal responsive to the flip-flop circuit output signal.
US12166481B2
A method, a unit and circuits for implementing Boolean logics based on computing-in-memory transistors. The method is implemented by using the characteristics and the read-write mode of the computing-in-memory transistor; the basic unit consists of a computing-in-memory transistor and a pull resistor; the pull resistor in the basic unit is connected in series with the transistor, and the gate of the transistor is independent; the basic units can implement sixteen Boolean logic operations through different circuit structures and voltage configuration schemes. Compared with the logic circuit structure of the conventional CMOS transistors, the present disclosure can implement more logic operations with fewer transistors, which greatly optimizes circuit density and computing speed caused by data transmission between storage units and process units.
US12166472B2
A filter device with multiple piezoelectric plate thicknesses if fabricated on a single chip by bonding a piezoelectric plate to a surface of a substrate having swimming pool shunt and series cavities. Non-selected areas of the plate have a thickness for shunt resonators and form shunt membranes of the plate that span the swimming pool shunt cavities. Selected areas of a back surface of the plate have a thickness for series resonators and form series membranes of the plate that span the swimming pool series cavities but not the swimming pool shunt cavities. The thickness for series resonators is thinner than that for shunt resonators. Shunt interdigital transducers (IDTs) are on a front surface of the plate over the swimming pool shunt cavities; and series IDTs are on a front surface of the plate over the swimming pool series cavities.
US12166461B2
A band pass filter includes a resonator including a first inductor and a first capacitor coupled in series between a first port and a second port, a second inductor coupled in parallel with the resonator, a second capacitor coupled in parallel with the resonator, and a third capacitor coupled between one end of the second capacitor and the ground to perform a low pass filter function.
US12166456B2
Amplifying a signal includes outputting an output signal from a Class D amplifier configured to operate as a current driver to a load, such as a loudspeaker, the output of the Class D amplifier controlled by a feedback loop, and, in the feedback loop: performing analog filtering using an active analog filter on an error signal that is based on the output of the Class D amplifier and a reference signal, digitizing a filtered output of the analog filter to produce a sequence of digital values, performing digital filtering on the sequence of digital values to produce a sequence of filtered digital values, and generating a pulse signal to control the output of the Class D amplifier based on the sequence of filtered digital values. The digital filter reduces a destabilizing effect of the loudspeaker's inductance. Associated circuits, systems, modules and electronic devices are disclosed.
US12166446B2
A heater-integrated fuse is provided at a neutral point of a stator coil, and when a short-circuit failure of an inverter is detected, a fuse part of the heater-integrated fuse is cut by heating.
US12166444B2
A multi-phase permanent magnet rotor motor comprises a plurality of phase coil windings with each phase coil winding having two free ends and the plurality of phase coil windings being without a common node. A controller is provided comprising a plurality of full-bridge inverters. Each full-bridge inverter has two output ends electrically connected to the two free ends of a corresponding phase coil winding. The controller is configured to operate the plurality of full-bridge inverters to output pulse modulated control signals to their respective phase coil windings. The outputted pulse modulated control signals can comprise a combination of sine wave signals and full-bridge space vector modulation signals.
US12166440B2
An apparatus includes a controller that measures a first voltage across a first circuit path including a series connection of a first switch and a shunt resistor. The first voltage generated based on first current supplied from a first winding of a motor including multiple windings. Based on the magnitude of the first voltage, the controller determines an ON-resistance of the first switch. The ON-resistance can be used final office action any suitable purpose. For example, the controller can be configured to use the determined ON-resistance of the first switch to controller operation of a motor including the first winding. For example, the determined ON-resistance can be used as a basis to determine an amount of current through first switch and corresponding first winding of the motor.
US12166437B2
Described is a method of controlling operation of a synchronous motor. The method comprises, during constant power/speed motor operation, determining a value of a stator voltage (vs2) for an orthogonal rotating reference frame of the motor. Comparing the value of the determined stator voltage (vs2) to a threshold voltage (vs_max12), said threshold voltage (vs_max12) having a value between that of a maximum stator voltage (vs_max02) for a basic speed mode of operation of the motor and that of a maximum stator voltage (vs_max22) of the motor closed loop controller. If the determined value of the stator voltage (vs2) is greater than or equal to the value of the threshold voltage (vs_max12), then controlling operation of the motor in a flux weakening mode of operation until a value of a current component (id−Δid) in a d-axis reaches a maximum negative value (−idmax), or until the value of the stator voltage (vs2) is less than the value of the threshold voltage (vs_max12).
US12166436B2
A system for producing high-intensity electricity utilizing gravitational waves, the system (100) comprising a first quantum antenna (102) configured to capture gravitational waves, carrying the potential energy of the sun; a second quantum antenna (104) configured to capture gravitational waves, carrying the potential energy from sedentary supermassive black holes; a plasma collision roundabout (106) configured to allow collision of the gravitational waves, captured using the first quantum antenna (102) and the second quantum antenna ( ), fostering the fusion of atoms of the materials transported by each of the gravitational waves; a wave collision roundabout (108) configured to merge the gravitational waves captured using the first quantum antenna (102) and the second quantum antenna (104), to a fusion wave; a plurality of converters (110a-110n) configured to transform the intensity of the produced electric power; and a battery (112) configured to store the energy produced.
US12166434B2
Described herein are devices incorporating Casimir cavities, which modify the quantum vacuum mode distribution within the cavities. The Casimir cavities can create energy differences within layers or device to drive energy from or to a portion of a layer disposed adjacent to or contiguous with the Casimir cavity by modifying the quantum vacuum mode distribution incident on one portion of the layer to be different from the quantum vacuum mode distribution incident on another portion of the layer. Additionally, Casimir cavities in which the cavity layer comprises a conductor that can be used to carry a flow of electrical power induced by the presence of the Casimir cavity.
US12166432B2
A system including a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller, a modified relay feedback test (MRFT) block, a memory block, a biasing block, a dq0-to-abc transformation block, a switch configured to selectively couple output signal of the biasing block or the PID controller output signal to the input of the dq0-to-abc transformation block, a three phase digital pulse width modulator, electronic switches, a voltage sensor configured to measure the output of each voltage of the three phases on the load and produce voltage data signals (Voa, Vob, Voc), and an abc-to-dq0 transformation block having an input being a representative of the phase voltages on the load, and producing an output being a representative of these voltages in the dq0 format.
US12166426B2
The power converter includes a capacitor connected to a power conversion unit, and a busbar module having a busbar covered with a molded insulating resin. The busbar module includes a fixed portion provided integrally with the busbar module and fixed to a casing by a fastener. The fixed portion has a shape protruding toward the capacitor from the busbar when the busbar module and the capacitor are viewed in a height direction. The fixed portion is located between the busbar and the capacitor unit.
US12166413B2
An integrated circuit for a power supply circuit, including: a first command value output circuit outputting a first command value to turn on a transistor of the power supply circuit for a first time period; an on signal output circuit outputting an on signal to turn on the transistor; a delay circuit delaying the on signal by a predetermined time period; a correction circuit correcting the first command value, to output a second command value to turn on the transistor for a second time period; and a driver circuit turning on and off the transistor based respectively on the delayed on-signal and the second command value. The correction circuit corrects the first command value based on the predetermined time period and a ratio between the second time period and another time period from when the transistor is turned off to when an inductor current of the power supply circuit reaches a predetermined value.
US12166412B2
The invention relates to controlling an on-board charger for a battery of an electric vehicle to provide a more flexible output DC voltage range by adjusting a turn ratio of a transformer circuit to selectively integrate or exclude one of two winding portions of a primary winding of the transformer circuit.
US12166401B2
A system and method for generating rotation of a body includes a rotating body configured to rotate about a rotation axis, at least one permanent flanking magnet and a bias object (or material non-uniformity) both arranged at least partially on or within the rotating body, and a drive or ring element. An axial gap between the ring element and the rotating body exists in an axial direction parallel to the rotation axis. The ring element may be a ferrous body, permanent magnet or electromagnet, and the bias object may be made from one or more materials of magnetic states, such as magnetic, ferromagnetic, paramagnetic, and diamagnetic or be a change in material properties of the rotating body. In some embodiments, a center of the ring element is not aligned with the rotation axis. Also, in some embodiments, the speed of, or rotational forces on, the rotating body may be adjusted by adjusting the axial gap or the magnetic field strength of the drive element and/or the flanking magnet(s) or by applying radial forces on the drive element. The rotating body may be connected to a shaft and drive an alternator to generate clean energy.
US12166399B2
A high-efficiency, high specific power electric motor/generator for aircraft use provides a cantilevered external rotor removed from load thrust and vibration by an isolator and hearing set between the rotor and stator reducing material demands and weight otherwise required for stiffness to preserve close rotor/stator proximity.
US12166385B2
An electrically excited machine that includes a machine rotor and an exciter device for the electrical excitation of the electrically excited machine. The exciter device can include at least one energy transfer system integrated in and/or arranged inside the machine rotor. The machine rotor can include a rotor winding. The electrically excited machine can also include a machine stator. The machine stator can be arranged outside of the electrically excited machine.
US12166373B2
A circuit arrangement and to a method for operating the circuit arrangement, particularly a circuit arrangement for the DC power supply of a plurality of parallel electrolysers, where the circuit arrangement has a rectifier which converts an input-side alternating voltage into an output-side first DC voltage. Each electrolyser is respectively connected in parallel to the output of the rectifier by a down converter converting the first DC voltage into a second DC voltage such that the second DC voltage drops over the electrolyser. Each of the down converters is controllable and/or regulatable in order to adapt the level of the second direct voltage.
US12166372B2
A linear charger includes a constant current charging circuit and a thermal regulation circuit. The constant current charging circuit is arranged to generate a charging current, and includes a first transconductance amplifier, wherein the first transconductance amplifier has a positive terminal, a negative terminal, and an output terminal. The thermal regulation circuit is coupled to the output terminal and the negative terminal of the first transconductance amplifier, and is arranged to generate and modulate a thermal regulation current and an amplifier reference voltage with temperature, and transmit the thermal regulation current and the amplifier reference voltage to the output terminal and the negative terminal of the first transconductance amplifier, respectively.
US12166355B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for determining a power curve for a fluid turbine. Determining a power curve for a fluid turbine includes receiving an indication of a fluid speed condition; if a predetermined load compliant with an MPPT protocol for the fluid turbine operating under the fluid speed condition is available, obtaining the predetermined load; and applying the predetermined load to the fluid turbine, thereby adjusting a rotational velocity in accordance with the MPPT protocol and the fluid speed condition; if the predetermined load is unavailable, applying a plurality of candidate loads in an iterative manner in accordance with the MPPT protocol and the fluid speed condition; determining an MPPT-compliant load that generates greater power; applying the MPPT-compliant load to the fluid turbine; and storing the MPPT-compliant load in association with the fluid speed condition for subsequent application.
US12166352B2
A power management system includes a first receiver for receiving information specifying reverse power flow from a base power meter measuring at least the reverse power flow output from a facility to a power grid, a second receiver for receiving information specifying each of individual output powers of two or more adjustment power supplies provided in the facility, and a controller for specifying each of individual reverse power flows of the two or more adjustment power supplies managed as the reverse power flow. The controller specifies individual reverse power flows of the two or more adjustment power supplies, by executing a correction process of correcting a discrepancy between a sum of the individual output powers of the two or more adjustment power supplies and the reverse power flow based on the individual output powers of the two or more adjustment power supplies.
US12166349B2
A power supply device includes a power generator, a drive source, a plurality of power supply lines, a plurality of batteries, a current value calculation part 11, a demanded battery power calculation part 12, and a power summation part 13. The current value calculation part 11 calculates the C-rates CR1, CR2, CR3 and CR4 of the batteries based on the charge levels of the batteries. The demanded battery power calculation part 12 calculates a demanded power P or Q of the batteries based on the calculated C-rates CR1, CR2, CR3 and CR4 and the capacities of the batteries. The power summation part 13 sums the demanded power P or Q of the batteries and power demanded by electrical loads. The control unit 9 controls the drive source such that the power generator generates power calculated by the power summation part 13.
US12166347B2
Provided is a capacity design method and apparatus for performing solar power generation of a residential complex that may calculate a capacity of a solar power generator and an energy storage device to achieve energy independence of a residential complex including a plurality of housings and reduce burden affecting a grid.
US12166344B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing load reduction optimization. In one aspect, a method includes accessing load reduction parameters for a load reduction event, accessing energy consumption models for multiple systems involved in the load reduction event, and performing, based on the load reduction parameters and the energy consumption models, a plurality of simulations of load reduction events that simulate variations in control parameters used to control the multiple systems. The method also includes optimizing, against a load reduction curve, the load reduction event by iteratively modifying the control parameters used in the plurality of simulations of load reduction events, and outputting the optimal load reduction event with optimized control parameters.
US12166343B2
An overcurrent protection circuit includes a hiccup controller which is configured to hiccup-drive a switching element such that an on-period and an off-period alternate. The hiccup controller controls at least one of the on- and off-period according to a temperature sense signal. The temperature sense signal can be generated by detecting at least one of temperature of the switching element and a difference in temperature between the switching element and another element. When at least one of temperature of the switching element and the difference in temperature between the switching element and the other element is higher than a predetermined threshold value, the hiccup controller can reduce the on-period ton and increase the off-period.
US12166340B2
A method for detecting faults in a low voltage three-phase network including: checking if any of three phases of the three-phase network satisfies first conditions for a predetermined duration of time; if at least two phases satisfy the first conditions, detecting an inter-phase fault by checking if the current level in at least two phases exceed a threshold and if the corresponding current flows are in the same direction; if only one of the three phases satisfies the first conditions, for the phase which has satisfied the first conditions, checking if a second condition is satisfied and, in a positive case, detecting a mono-phase fault.
US12166337B2
A connection structure for a housing member and a protective tube, the connection structure includes: a wire-shaped transmission member; a housing member for housing a first portion which is a portion of the wire-shaped transmission member; and a protective tube for covering a second portion which is another portion of the wire-shaped transmission member. The housing member includes: a housing body portion for housing the first portion, and an extended portion that protrudes toward the second portion from the housing body portion, and an end portion of the protective tube covers the extended portion.
US12166330B2
A light-emitting device includes: a light-emitting element; a package in which the light-emitting element is arranged; an optical member fixed to the package, the optical member having a lens portion having a lens surface including a first lens, and a non-lens portion that is a portion that does not overlap the lens surface in a top view; and one or more adhesives fixing the optical member to the package. The package has an emission surface through which light from the light-emitting element exits the package. The optical member has an incidence surface on which the light exiting the package enters the optical member, and the lens surface from which the light that has entered the optical member exits the optical member.
US12166321B2
A patch panel assembly, bezel and modular jacks are disclosed which allow modular jacks to be positioned closer together to increase patch panel density. In particular the modular jacks are equipped with features which engage openings which are offset, allowing for the modular jacks to be positioned closer together, in particular when arranged in adjacent parallel rows.
US12166320B2
According to one embodiment, a storage system includes a circuit board, a connector, a first memory system, and a second memory system. The connector is on the circuit board and includes first and second slots, the first slot having a first terminal group of first terminals aligned in a first direction, and the second slot being separated from the first slot in a second direction not parallel with the first direction and having a second terminal group of second terminals aligned in the first direction. The first terminal group is reverse to the second terminal group in terminal arrangement order in the first direction. The first memory system is connectable to the first terminal group, while the first memory system is inserted into the first slot. The second memory system is connectable to the second terminal group, while the second memory system is inserted into the second slot.
US12166315B2
An electrical connector is provided including a housing retaining a plurality of terminals. The housing is mated with a mating electrical connector along a mating direction. The housing includes a receiving region receiving the mating electrical connector, a sound path adjacent to the receiving region, and a partition wall dividing the receiving region and the sound path from each other. The sound path includes an open end on a first end and a closed end on a second end along the mating direction.
US12166313B2
An electric vehicle charger for charging a vehicle has a housing. A holster is fixedly attached to the housing having a latch partition and a plug partition. The plug partition houses a plug latch. A plug having a male charging connector is inserted into the hosung, where a spring-loaded latch positioned on a male charging connector engages and disengages the plug latch. The plug partition has a curvature that allows the plug to be inserted into the holster at an angle for engaging the spring-loaded latch with the plug latch. The spring-loaded latch disengages from the plug latch by a radial movement along the path of the curvature.
US12166308B2
The present application provides a mounting bracket assembly for fixing a charging socket and a charging socket assembly. The mounting bracket assembly has a mounting frame and a locking member. The mounting frame defines an installation region configured for receiving the charging socket, and provided with a connection structure configured for installing the locking member. The locking member and the connection structure are movably connected between the pre-locking position and the final-locked position. When the locking member and the connection structure are connected to each other at the pre-locking position, the charging socket is receivable within the installation region of the mounting frame. After the charging socket is received in the installation region, the locking member is moved from the pre-locking position to the final-locked position, and the charging socket is detachably fixed in the installation region. The mounting bracket assembly or the charging socket assembly provided by the present application simplifies working procedures and effectively improves working efficiency.
US12166307B2
A connector includes a terminal fitting and an upper housing and a lower housing slidable in a direction orthogonal to an overlapping direction while being overlapped to sandwich the terminal fitting. A resilient lock piece cantilevered in the overlapping direction with respect to the lower housing is formed on a side edge part of the upper housing. A lock projection to be locked by the resilient lock piece when the both housings are overlapped is formed on a side surface of the lower housing. A stopper for locking the resilient lock piece when the both housings are slid is formed on the side surface of the lower housing. The stopper is disposed at a position further separated from a base end portion of the resilient lock piece than the lock projection.
US12166304B2
Connector assemblies for making connections to a subassembly, such as a processor card, may include signal contact tips formed of a material different than that of an associated cable conductor. The signal contact tips may be formed of a super elastic material, such as nickel titanium. The connector assembly may include ground contact tips that similarly make a pressure contact to the electrical component may be electrically connected to a shield of the cable shield Housing modules that interlock or interface with a support member may be employed to manufacture connectors with any desired quantity of signal and ground contact tips in any suitable number of columns and rows. Each module may terminate a cable and provide pressure mount connections between signal conductors and the shield of the cable and conductive pads on the subassembly, and conductive or lossy grounded structures around the conductive elements carrying signals through the module.
US12166303B2
A conductor connection device with a contact element at one side thereof, a printed circuit board with the conductor connection device, and a utility meter with the printed circuit board are provided. In order to reduce production costs of the conductor connection device without increasing the production costs of the printed circuit board or the utility meter and without affecting operational safety, the conductor connection device comprises a conductor clamping element that is accessible via the second side thereof, and the printed circuit board comprises a through-hole that is aligned with the conductor clamping element.
US12166298B2
There is disclosed an antenna arrangement for a portable electronic device, comprising: a ground plane having an edge; and arranged along the edge, in sequence, a feed section, a grounded coupling section, and an extended coupling section. The feed section comprises an RF feed on the ground plane and a feed line extending from the RF feed having a first portion extending substantially perpendicularly from the edge of the ground plane, and a second portion extending from an end of the first portion, substantially parallel to the edge of the ground plane, in a direction away from the grounded coupling section. The grounded coupling section comprises a first conductive element extending substantially parallel to the edge of the ground plane and arranged to overlap or run adjacent to at least a part of the second portion of the feed line of the feed section, and a conductive member to connect the first conductive element to the ground plane. The extended coupling section comprises a conductive meander line extending generally parallel to the edge of the ground plane, one end of the conductive meander line being connected to or configured to couple with a portion of the grounded coupling section, the other end of the conductive meander line being connected to a second conductive element extending substantially parallel to the edge of the ground plane.
US12166296B2
The antenna architectures disclosed herein may include a magnetic dipole antenna that includes a radiating element formed in an open loop that includes at least first and second portions that are positioned opposite each other. The magnetic dipole antenna may further include an electrically conductive via connecting the first and second opposing portions of the radiating element. The magnetic dipole antenna may further include an antenna feed disposed within the electrically conductive via. The first portion of the radiating element may be shorter in length than the second, opposite portion of the radiating element, and the difference in length between the first and second portions of the radiating element may form a capacitive gap across the radiating element. Various other systems, apparatuses, wearable electronic devices, and methods of manufacturing are also disclosed.
US12166285B2
Disclosed is an antenna device, antenna system, and methods to create, and install or modify, an antenna profile for an antenna device so as to direct remotely the propagation of radio frequency signal from the antenna device to targeted radio frequency geographic coverage areas. Ports may be selected to activate spatial segments created by the configuration of the reflectors, joined about a cylindrical core, which may be quadrants when the reflectors are configured into a cross-like shape. The system provides aid in orienting an antenna, upon installation, to a pre-designated geographic heading. Optionally, the tilt of each quadrant of an antenna device may be determined so as to ensure proper radio frequency coverage.
US12166284B2
An antenna structure, a radar, and a terminal may be applied to the field of millimeter-wave radars and can extend a 3 dB bandwidth of the antenna structure. The antenna structure includes: A main feeder and at least one patch unit group, where the at least one patch unit group is connected in series to the main feeder in a length direction of the main feeder, and each of the at least one patch unit group includes at least two patch units disposed in a V-shaped structure. Each patch unit group is connected in series to the main feeder through the two patch units that are disposed in the V-shaped structure and that are in each patch unit group.
US12166282B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of conductive structures having first sides and second sides opposite the first sides, wherein the second sides of the plurality of conductive structures are configured to be physically coupleable with a printed circuit board (PCB) of a receiver, a transmitter, or a transceiver. The first sides of the plurality of conductive structures are configured to be spaced from the PCB by a first distance when the plurality of conductive structures is physically coupled with the PCB. The apparatus includes an antenna having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The second side of the antenna is disposed closer to the plurality of conductive structures than the first side of the antenna when the plurality of conductive structures is physically coupled with the PCB.
US12166264B2
The present disclosure is directed to a mounting bracket adapted for adjusting the downtilt of an antenna. The mounting bracket includes a first member and a second member. The first member is coupled to the second member at one end via a first pair of securing features and is coupled to an antenna mounting bracket at an opposing end via a second pair of securing features. The first member is configured to rotate about the first and second pairs of securing features relative to the second member and antenna mounting bracket, respectively. The second member includes two slots on opposing sides that extend longitudinally along a length of the second member in a vertical direction, each of the first pair of securing features extends through and is configured to slide within a respective slot such that, when an antenna is secured to the antenna mounting bracket, sliding the first pair of securing features in a first direction increases an angle of downtilt for the antenna and sliding the first pair of securing features in a second direction decreases the angle of downtilt for the antenna. The second member is configured to be secured to a mounting structure. Other adjustable downtilt antenna mounting brackets and related assemblies are described herein.
US12166263B2
An apparatus for and a method of a coaxial-to-waveguide power combiner/divider. The apparatus includes a single-fin coaxial-to-waveguide power combiner/divider, including a waveguide having one open end, one closed end, and two sides that are broader than two other sides; two fins in a plane within the waveguide, wherein the plane is configured to be parallel to the broader sides of the waveguide; and at least one coaxial input joined to each of the two fins. Signals may be applied to the at least one coaxial input joined to each of the two fins are in phase with each other, and a number of the at least one coaxial input joined to each of the two fins may include one of a same number and a different number.
US12166259B1
A reversible superconducting circuit includes two Josephson transmission lines. Inductors connect Josephson Junctions in the array. Each transmission line passes a fluxon along the Junctions. The circuit includes an interface with first and second shunt capacitors coupled to the first and second transmission lines, and a third shunt capacitor, forming a connecting circuit with the first and second shunt capacitors. The shunt capacitors include Josephson junctions in parallel. The connecting circuit receives an input fluxon and transmits an output fluxon. The circuit also includes a Josephson Junction and inductor in parallel with the third shunt capacitor, forming a storage circuit. The storage circuit stores a SFQ. The output fluxon has polarity based on the SFQ stored when the first fluxon is received. The input fluxon causes the polarity of the stored SFQ to be the same as the polarity of the input fluxon, immediately after the input fluxon is received.
US12166243B2
A secondary battery comprises: an electrode assembly in which a first electrode plate having a first non-coated part protruding in a first direction, a second electrode plate having a second non-coated part protruding in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a separator between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, are wound; a first current collecting plate electrically coupled to the first non-coated part; a second current collecting plate electrically coupled to the second non-coated part, and having an end part protruding beyond the first current collecting plate by penetrating the winding center of the electrode assembly; and an insulation member between the end part of the second current collecting plate and the first current collecting plate, wherein the end part of the second current collecting plate is coupled with the insulation member.
US12166228B2
A portable electronic device with a battery switching function is provided. The portable electronic device has two battery switching assemblies corresponding to each battery. Each battery switching assembly has a primary fastener and a secondary fastener corresponding to each other. When the primary fastener is engaged with the secondary fastener, the secondary fastener engages with the corresponding battery so that the battery cannot be detached from the casing of the portable electronic device. When the primary fastener and the secondary fastener are disengaged, the Hall sensor corresponding to the primary fastener sends a signal to a control unit. Then the control unit turns off the power supply of the corresponding battery and switches to another battery to supply power, or closes a specific application to reduce power consumption.
US12166198B2
Provided are electrodes that include an electrode dry mixture and a dry electrolyte material intermixed with the electrode dry mixture; and a binder intermixed with the electrode dry mixture and the dry electrolyte material, said binder comprising fibrils; the electrode dry mixture, dry electrolyte material, and said binder in the form of a dry electrode film. The electrolyte material may include a glass ceramic and, optionally, an air-stabilizing dopant. The glass ceramic may include Li3PS4. The electrodes may include a composite cathode of the dry electrode film and optionally further include a solid-state electrolyte layer. Also provided are methods for forming the electrodes, optionally where the methods may be applicable for a solvent-free process to form electrodes and electrochemical cells and batteries including the electrodes.
US12166197B2
In an embodiment, a Li-ion battery cell comprises an anode electrode with an electrode coating that (1) comprises Si-comprising active material particles, (2) exhibits an areal capacity loading in the range of about 3 mAh/cm2 to about 12 mAh/cm2, (3) exhibits a volumetric capacity in the range from about 600 mAh/cc to about 1800 mAh/cc in a charged state of the cell, (4) comprises conductive additive material particles, and (5) comprises a polymer binder that is configured to bind the Si-comprising active material particles and the conductive additive material particles together to stabilize the anode electrode against volume expansion during the one or more charge-discharge cycles of the battery cell while maintaining the electrical connection between the metal current collector and the Si-comprising active material particles.
US12166195B2
A method reduces internal resistance of a battery (204, 300). In the method, a charging current is directed to a battery (204, 300), where the charging current includes spin-polarized and charged electrons. A dedicated spin generator (203) is capable of providing the charging current including spin-polarized and charged electrons. Next, the battery (204, 300) has been manufactured so that the battery includes either ferroelectric or pyroelectric material at least either in an anode (305), in a cathode (302), or in an other element of the battery (204, 300). The material can be selected to be polyvinylidene fluoride (“PVDF”) or modified materials thereof. After at least one cycle of charging of the battery (204, 300), the battery (204, 300) with reduced internal resistance is obtained.
US12166194B2
A method of recovering a used battery and apparatus for recovering the capacity of a secondary battery comprising: (1) preparing a secondary battery with deteriorated lifespan characteristics; (2) heating the secondary battery with deteriorated lifespan characteristics while pressing the secondary battery with deteriorated lifespan characteristics to compress a positive electrode, negative electrode, or separator included in the secondary battery; and (3) charging/discharging the secondary battery with deteriorated lifespan characteristics, the secondary battery having been pressed and heated, and the secondary battery with deteriorated lifespan characteristics may be charged and discharged while being pressed and heated, thereby exhibiting an effect of recovering the capacity of the secondary battery with deteriorated lifespan characteristics.
US12166177B2
An electrolyte composition, for use in particular in a lithium-air battery, includes (A) a fluorinated cation of structure R1R2R3N+-(linker1)-O-(linker2)-(FC), wherein R1, R2 and R3 are C1-C6 linear or branched alkyl groups, linkers linker1 and linker2 contain alkylene or oxyalkylene chains and FC is a fluorinated alkyl group; (B) an anion; (C) a solvent containing at least one —O—CH2—CH2—O— or —O—CH2—CHMe-O— group, an ϵ-caprolactone oligomer, or a dialkyl sulfoxide; and (D) a lithium salt.
US12166167B2
According to one embodiment, a secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator. The positive electrode includes a first electrolyte containing aluminum ions. The negative electrode is capable of allowing lithium ions to be inserted and extracted. The separator is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator has lithium ion conductivity.
US12166163B2
A lower sheet disposed below a display panel includes a heat radiation layer having a first side and a second side facing the first side. A first film layer is disposed on the first side of the heat radiation layer. A second film layer is disposed on the second side of the heat radiation layer. A first resin layer is disposed between the heat radiation layer and the first film layer. A second resin layer is disposed between the heat radiation layer and the second film layer. A sealing layer is disposed on lateral sides of the heat radiation layer. The sealing layer directly contacts an entirety of the lateral sides of the heat radiation layer, and directly contacts at least a portion of lateral sides of the first resin layer and the second resin layer.
US12166161B2
A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a driving backplane with a connecting electrode, an insulating layer arranged on the connecting electrode, and a light-emitting unit arranged on the driving backplane. The insulating layer includes an opening exposing part of a surface of the connecting electrode. The light-emitting unit is electrically connected with a bump electrode, and the bump electrode is electrically connected with the connecting electrode through the opening. The opening has a ridge and furrow profile, which can increase an area of a sidewall of the opening, such that a contact area between the bump electrode and the sidewall is increased to prevent peeling or cracking between the films.
US12166153B2
A light-emitting device includes doped layer arranged on a substrate. The doped layer is n-doped or p-doped. A multiple quantum well is arranged on the doped layer and includes a plurality of adjacent pairs of quantum wells and quantum barriers. An electron blocking layer is arranged on the multiple quantum well. The doped layer, the electron blocking layer, the quantum wells, and all of the quantum barriers except for the last quantum barrier include a first III-nitride alloy. The last quantum barrier includes a second III-nitride alloy that is different from the first III-nitride alloy. The second III-nitride alloy has a bandgap larger than a bandgap of the last quantum well and smaller than a bandgap of the electron blocking layer. An interface between the last quantum barrier and the electron blocking layer exhibits a polarization difference between 0 and 0.012 C/m2.
US12166150B2
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 micro-LED 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.
US12166149B2
A light-emitting diode 100 includes a first region 1, for example of the P type, formed in a first layer 10 and forming, in a direction normal to a basal plane, a stack with a second region 2 having at least one quantum well formed in a second layer 20, and including a third region 3, for example of the N type, extending in the direction normal to the plane, bordering and in contact with the first and second regions 1, 2, through the first and second layers 10, 20. A process for producing a light-emitting diode 100 in which the third region 3 is formed by implantation into and through the first and second layers 10, 20.
US12166148B2
A method for efficiently sealing the back of photovoltaic modules as part of a repair. The photovoltaic modules pass through several process stages one after another, beginning with a selection of repairable photovoltaic modules, their anonymization and cleaning, followed by further process stages. The further process steps include drying, coating, and treating the coating with pulsed infrared radiation. The process is completed with a check of the process and a functional test using a flash test. The process conditions and apparatus configurations in the process stages are described in detail.
US12166138B1
A solar cell is provided, including a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, an emitter formed on the first surface of the substrate and including a textured structure on a side away from the first surface, a passivation structure formed on the textured structure, first electrodes penetrating the passivation structure and in electrical contact with the textured structure of the emitter, and conductive eutectic layers each formed between a respective first electrode and the emitter and including first conductive particles and second conductive particles. Each of the first conductive particles has a shape different from a shape of any of the second conductive particles. The first conductive particles and the second conductive particles have a first number, the first conductive particles have a second number, and a ratio of the second number to the first number in a range of 20% to 80%.
US12166137B2
Aligned metallization approaches for fabricating solar cells, and the resulting solar cells, are described. In an example, a solar cell includes a semiconductor layer over a semiconductor substrate. A first plurality of discrete openings is in the semiconductor layer and exposes corresponding discrete portions of the semiconductor substrate. A plurality of doped regions is in the semiconductor substrate and corresponds to the first plurality of discrete openings. An insulating layer is over the semiconductor layer and is in the first plurality of discrete openings. A second plurality of discrete openings is in the insulating layer and exposes corresponding portions of the plurality of doped regions. Each one of the second plurality of discrete openings is entirely within a perimeter of a corresponding one of the first plurality of discrete openings. A plurality of conductive contacts is in the second plurality of discrete openings and is on the plurality of doped regions.
US12166133B2
A semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a gate structure located on the substrate, wherein the gate structure comprises a first conductive layer, a barrier layer and a second conductive layer which are stacked in sequence; wherein the first conductive layer includes a first polysilicon layer, a first metal layer and a second polysilicon layer, wherein the first polysilicon layer is adjacent to the substrate and the second polysilicon layer is contiguous to the barrier layer; and wherein the first metal layer is located between the first polysilicon layer and the second polysilicon layer. The gate structure of the embodiments of the application has a straight profile and an excellent electrical performance.
US12166131B2
A semiconductor device includes thin film transistors each having an oxide semiconductor. The oxide semiconductor has a channel region, a drain region, a source region, and low concentration regions which are lower in impurity concentration than the drain region and the source region. The low concentration regions are located between the channel region and the drain region, and between the channel region and the source region. Each of the thin film transistors has a gate insulating film on the channel region and the low concentration regions, an aluminum oxide film on a first part of the gate insulating film, the first part being located on the channel region, and a gate electrode on the aluminum oxide film and a second part of the gate insulating film, the second part being located on the low concentration regions.
US12166130B2
In some embodiments, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first semiconductor material layer separated from a second semiconductor material layer by an insulating layer. A source region and a drain region are disposed in the first semiconductor material layer and spaced apart. A gate electrode is disposed over the first semiconductor material layer between the source region and the drain region. A first doped region having a first doping type is disposed in the second semiconductor material layer, where the gate electrode directly overlies the first doped region. A second doped region having a second doping type different than the first doping type is disposed in the second semiconductor material layer, where the second doped region extends beneath the first doped region and contacts opposing sides of the first doped region.
US12166129B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate having a base and a fin over the base. The semiconductor device structure includes a nanostructure over the fin. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate stack wrapping around an upper portion of the fin and the nanostructure. The semiconductor device structure includes an inner spacer between the fin and the nanostructure. The semiconductor device structure includes a film in the inner spacer. A first dielectric constant of the film is lower than a second dielectric constant of the inner spacer. The semiconductor device structure includes a low dielectric constant structure in the film.
US12166127B1
In an embodiment, a method includes forming a plurality of semiconductor fins over a substrate, the plurality of semiconductor fins comprising a first fin, a second fin, a third fin, and a fourth fin; forming a first dielectric layer over the plurality of semiconductor fins, the first dielectric layer filling an entirety of a first trench between the first fin and the second fin; forming a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer, the second dielectric layer filling an entirety of a second trench between the second fin and the third fin, the forming the second dielectric layer comprising: forming an oxynitride layer; and forming an oxide layer; and forming a third dielectric layer over the second dielectric layer, the third dielectric layer filling an entirety of a third trench between the third fin and the fourth fin.
US12166125B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. One form of the method includes: providing a base, where a channel stack and a tear-off structure span the channel stack being formed on the base, and the channel stack including a sacrificial layer and a channel layer; forming a groove in channel stacks on both sides of a gate structure; laterally etching the sacrificial layer exposed from the groove to form a remaining sacrificial layer; forming a source/drain doped region in the channel layer exposed from the remaining sacrificial layer; forming an interlayer dielectric layer on the base; etching the interlayer dielectric layer on one side of the source region to expose a surface of the channel layer corresponding to the source region; etching the interlayer dielectric layer on one side of the drain region to expose the surface of the channel layer corresponding to the drain region; forming a first metal silicide layer on a surface of the channel layer corresponding to the source region; forming a second metal silicide layer on a surface of the channel layer corresponding to the drain region; forming a first conductive plug covering the first metal silicide layer and a second conductive plug covering the second metal silicide layer. In the present disclosure, contact resistance of the first conductive plug, the second conductive plug, and the source/drain doped region is reduced.
US12166124B2
Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having germanium-doped nanowire/nanoribbon channel structures, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having germanium-doped nanowire/nanoribbon channel structures, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a vertical arrangement of nanowires above a substrate. Individual ones of the vertical arrangement of nanowires have a relatively higher germanium concentration at a lateral mid-point of the nanowire than at lateral ends of the nanowire.
US12166108B2
The present disclosure describes a structure with a conductive plate and a method for forming the structure. The structure includes a gate structure disposed on a diffusion region of a substrate, a protective layer in contact with the diffusion region and covering a sidewall of the gate structure and a portion of a top surface of the gate structure, and a first insulating layer in contact with the gate structure and the protective layer. The structure further includes a conductive plate in contact with the first insulating layer, where a first portion of the conductive plate laterally extends over a horizontal portion of the protective layer, and where a second portion of the conductive plate extends over a sidewall portion of the protective layer covering the sidewall of the gate structure. The structure further includes a second insulating layer in contact with the conductive plate.
US12166100B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers over a substrate, wherein the first semiconductor layers and the second semiconductor layers are separated and stacked up, and a thickness of each second semiconductor layer is less than a thickness of each first semiconductor layer; a first interfacial layer around each first semiconductor layer; a second interfacial layer around each second semiconductor layer; a first dipole gate dielectric layer around each first semiconductor layer and over the first interfacial layer; a second dipole gate dielectric layer around each second semiconductor layer and over the second interfacial layer; a first gate electrode around each first semiconductor layer and over the first dipole gate dielectric layer; and a second gate electrode around each second semiconductor layer and over the second dipole gate dielectric layer.
US12166099B2
Methods for forming a semiconductor device structure are provided. The methods may include forming a molybdenum nitride film on a substrate by atomic layer deposition by contacting the substrate with a first vapor phase reactant comprising a molybdenum halide precursor, contacting the substrate with a second vapor phase reactant comprise a nitrogen precursor, and contacting the substrate with a third vapor phase reactant comprising a reducing precursor. The methods provided may also include forming a gate electrode structure comprising the molybdenum nitride film, the gate electrode structure having an effective work function greater than approximately 5.0 eV. Semiconductor device structures including molybdenum nitride films are also provided.
US12166095B2
Methods for tuning effective work functions of gate electrodes in semiconductor devices and semiconductor devices formed by the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a channel region over a semiconductor substrate; a gate dielectric layer over the channel region; and a gate electrode over the gate dielectric layer, the gate electrode including a first work function metal layer over the gate dielectric layer, the first work function metal layer including aluminum (Al); a first work function tuning layer over the first work function metal layer, the first work function tuning layer including aluminum tungsten (AlW); and a fill material over the first work function tuning layer.
US12166080B2
The application relates to a semiconductor transistor device, having a source region, a body region including a channel region extending in a vertical direction, a drain region, a gate region arranged aside the channel region in a lateral direction, and a body contact region made of an electrically conductive material, wherein the body contact region forms a body contact area, the body contact region being in an electrical contact with the body region via the body contact area, and wherein the body contact area is tilted with respect to the vertical direction and the lateral direction.
US12166072B2
An example apparatus includes a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region formed in a substrate to form an active area of the apparatus. The first source/drain region and the second source/drain region are separated by a channel. The apparatus includes a gate opposing the channel. A sense line is coupled to the first source/drain region and a storage node is coupled to the second source/drain region. An isolation trench is adjacent to the active area. The trench includes a dielectric material with a conductive bias opposing the conductive bias of the channel in the active area.
US12166070B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor transistor structure, which includes: a substrate formed with a well region of a first conductive type, a gate structure being disposed on the substrate; a source/drain region of a second conductive type disposed in the well region of the first conductive type, the source region and the drain region being located on two sides of the gate structure respectively; a contact hole formed at a position corresponding to the source/drain region; and a conductive metal filled in the contact hole, the bottom of the contact hole being implanted with impurity ions for decreasing the contact resistance of the contact hole, and the impurity ion concentration at a peripheral region where the bottom of the contact hole comes into contact with the source/drain region being lower than the impurity ion concentration at a middle region.
US12166064B2
A display device comprises electrodes spaced apart from one another in a first direction and in a second direction intersecting the first direction, each of the electrodes having a shape extending in the second direction, a first insulating layer disposed on the electrodes, light-emitting elements disposed on the first insulating layer, each of the light-emitting elements including ends disposed on the electrodes spaced apart from one another in the first direction, and a second insulating layer at least partially disposed on the light-emitting elements. The second insulating layer comprises extended portions extending in the second direction, and at least one pattern portion connected to the extended portions. The at least one pattern portion includes a part having a width greater than a width of each of the extended portions in the first direction.
US12166060B2
The present disclosure relates to an image pickup device and an electronic apparatus that enable further downsizing of device size. The device includes: a first structural body and a second structural body that are layered, the first structural body including a pixel array unit, the second structural body including an input/output circuit unit, and a signal processing circuit; a first through-via, a signal output external terminal, a second through-via, and a signal input external terminal that are arranged below the pixel array, the first through-via penetrating through a semiconductor substrate constituting a part of the second structural body, the second through-via penetrating through the semiconductor substrate; a substrate connected to the signal output external terminal and the signal input external terminal; and a circuit board connected to a first surface of the substrate. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, the image pickup device, and the like.
US12166058B2
An image pickup element includes: a semiconductor substrate including a photoelectric conversion section for each pixel; a pixel separation groove provided in the semiconductor substrate; and a fixed charge film provided on a light-receiving surface side of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the fixed charge film includes a first insulating film and a second insulating film, the first insulating film being provided contiguously from the light-receiving surface to a wall surface and a bottom surface of the pixel separation groove, and the second insulating film being provided on a part of the first insulating film, the part corresponding to at least the light-receiving surface.
US12166056B2
Reflected light from a back-illuminated photoelectric conversion element is to be reduced. The photoelectric conversion element includes an on-chip lens, a substrate, a front-surface-side reflective film, and a back-surface-side reflective film. The on-chip lens condenses incident light. A photoelectric conversion unit that performs photoelectric conversion on the condensed incident light is disposed in the substrate, and the back surface side of the substrate is irradiated with the condensed incident light. The front-surface-side reflective film is disposed on the front surface side that is a different side from the back surface side of the substrate, and reflects transmitted light that is the incident light having passed through the photoelectric conversion unit. The back-surface-side reflective film is disposed on the back surface side of the substrate, has an opening of substantially the same size as the condensing size of the condensed incident light, and further reflects the reflected transmitted light.
US12166052B2
Provided is an image sensor including a sensor array including a plurality of light-sensors respectively including an optoelectronic device, the optoelectronic device including a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and an active layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, the active layer including a plurality of quantum dot layers having different energy bands, and a circuit including circuits respectively connected to the plurality of light-sensors and configured to readout an optoelectronic signal generated from each of the plurality of light-sensors.
US12166049B2
An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. A semiconductor pattern is disposed on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate and it extends in a first direction perpendicular to the first surface. A buried transmission gate electrode is disposed in a transmission gate trench extending from the first surface of the semiconductor substrate to an interior of the semiconductor substrate. A first gate electrode at least partially surrounds a side wall of the semiconductor pattern and has a ring-shaped horizontal cross-section. A color filter is disposed on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US12166042B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate; a continuous buried oxide layer (BOX) formed on the substrate; and a plurality of nanosheet gate-all-round (GAA) device structures on the BOX, wherein a first plurality of stacked gates of the nanosheet GAA device structures are disposed in a logic portion of the substrate and have a first nanosheet width, wherein a second plurality of stacked gates of the nanosheet GAA device structures are disposed in a high density region of the substrate and have a second nanosheet width less than the first nanosheet width, wherein the nanosheet GAA device structures are disposed directly on the continuous buried oxide layer, and wherein a bottom layer of the nanosheet GAA device structures is a bottom gate formed directly on the BOX.
US12166041B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first fin extending from a substrate; a second fin extending from the substrate; a gate spacer over the first fin and the second fin; a gate dielectric having a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, the first portion extending along a first sidewall of the first fin, the second portion extending along a second sidewall of the second fin, the third portion extending along a third sidewall of the gate spacer, the third portion and the first portion forming a first acute angle, the third portion and the second portion forming a second acute angle; and a gate electrode on the gate dielectric.
US12166040B2
An integrated circuit includes a substrate, at least one n-type semiconductor device, and at least one p-type semiconductor device. The n-type semiconductor device is present on the substrate. The n-type semiconductor device includes a gate structure having a bottom surface and at least one sidewall. The bottom surface of the gate structure of the n-type semiconductor device and the sidewall of the gate structure of the n-type semiconductor device intersect to form an interior angle. The p-type semiconductor device is present on the substrate. The p-type semiconductor device includes a gate structure having a bottom surface and at least one sidewall. The bottom surface of the gate structure of the p-type semiconductor device and the sidewall of the gate structure of the p-type semiconductor device intersect to form an interior angle smaller than the interior angle of the gate structure of the n-type semiconductor device.
US12166037B2
A semiconductor device and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes forming a fin structure on a substrate, forming a superlattice structure with first and second nanostructured layers on the fin structure, forming a polysilicon structure around the superlattice structure, forming a source/drain opening within the superlattice structure, forming a first conductivity type S/D region within a first portion of the S/D opening, forming an isolation layer on the first conductivity type S/D region and within a second portion of the S/D opening, forming a second conductivity type S/D region on the isolation layer and within a third portion the S/D opening, and replacing the polysilicon structure and the second nanostructured layers with a gate structure that surrounds the first nanostructured layers. Materials of the first and second nanostructured layers are different from each other and the second conductivity type is different from the first conductivity type.
US12166035B2
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes an isolation structure formed over a semiconductor substrate. A first fin structure and a second fin structure extend from the semiconductor substrate and protrude above the isolation structure. A first gate structure is formed across the first fin structure and a second gate structure is formed across the second fin structure. A gate isolation structure is formed between the first fin structure and the second fin structure and separates the first gate structure from the second gate structure. The gate isolation structure includes a bowl-shaped insulating layer that has a first convex sidewall surface adjacent to the first gate structure and a second convex sidewall surface adjacent to the second gate structure.
US12166028B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for preparing the semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a storage node contact and a capacitor isolating structure. The storage node contact is located on the substrate, and the capacitor isolating structure is located on the substrate, covers a side wall of the storage node contact and includes a first air gap.
US12166018B2
A stretchable display device includes a lower substrate; a plurality of first substrates which is disposed on the lower substrate and includes a first area in which a plurality of sub pixel including a display element and a driving element is disposed and a second area excluding the first area; a plurality of second substrates configured to couple adjacent first substrates among the plurality of first substrates; and a plurality of connection lines which are disposed on the plurality of second substrates and are configured to couple the plurality of sub pixels, and in the second area, a first contact pad and a second contact pad are disposed and the first contact pad and the second contact pad are coupled to the plurality of connection lines via a plurality of contact holes.
US12166015B2
A semiconductor package includes a lower semiconductor device, a plurality of conductive pillars, an upper semiconductor device, an encapsulating material, and a redistribution structure. The plurality of conductive pillars are disposed on the lower semiconductor device along a direction parallel to a side of the lower semiconductor device. The upper semiconductor device is disposed on the lower semiconductor device and reveals a portion of the lower semiconductor device where the plurality of conductive pillars are disposed, wherein the plurality of conductive pillars disposed by the same side of the upper semiconductor device and the upper semiconductor device comprises a cantilever part cantilevered over the at least one lower semiconductor device. The encapsulating material encapsulates the lower semiconductor device, the plurality of conductive pillars, and the upper semiconductor device. The redistribution structure is disposed over the upper semiconductor device and the encapsulating material.
US12166003B2
A transistor amplifier includes a semiconductor layer structure comprising first and second major surfaces and a plurality of unit cell transistors on the first major surface that are electrically connected in parallel, each unit cell transistor comprising a gate finger coupled to a gate manifold, a drain finger coupled to a drain manifold, and a source finger. The semiconductor layer structure is free of a via to the source fingers on the second major surface.
US12165988B2
An electronic device includes a substrate comprising outward terminals. An electronic component is connected to the outward terminals. External interconnects are connected to the outward terminals and include a first external interconnect connected to a first outward terminal. A lower shield is adjacent to the substrate bottom side and is laterally between the external interconnects. The lower shield is electrically isolated from the first external interconnect by one or more of 1) a dielectric buffer interposed between the lower shield and the first external interconnect; or 2) the lower shield including a first part and a second part, the first part being laterally separated from the second part by a first gap, wherein the first part laterally surrounds lateral sides of the first external interconnect; and the second part is vertically interposed between the first outward terminal and the first external interconnect.
US12165983B2
An integrated circuit assembly may be formed comprising a stepped electronic substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, wherein the first surface comprises a first surface portion or lower step and a second surface portion or upper step. At least one integrated circuit device may be electrically attached to the first surface portion of the first surface of the stepped electronic substrate and an anisotropic conductive layer on the second surface portion of the first surface of stepped electronic substrate. The anisotropic conductive layer may be used to electrically couple the integrated circuit assembly with an additional integrated circuit assembly.
US12165973B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin structure over a substrate, forming a sacrificial gate structure over the fin structure, and etching a source/drain (S/D) region of the fin structure to form an S/D recess. The fin structure includes first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers alternately stacked. The method further includes depositing an insulating dielectric layer in the S/D recess, depositing an etch protection layer over a bottom portion of the insulating dielectric layer, and partially removing the insulating dielectric layer. The method further includes growing an epitaxial S/D feature in the S/D recess. The bottom portion of the insulating dielectric layer interposes the epitaxial S/D feature and the substrate.
US12165966B2
A package including a device die and an encapsulant is provided. The device die includes a semiconductor substrate, an interconnect structure, a conductive via, and a dielectric layer. The interconnect structure is disposed over the semiconductor substrate. The conductive via is disposed over and electrically coupled to the interconnect structure. The dielectric layer is disposed over the interconnect structure and laterally encapsulating the conductive via, wherein the dielectric layer includes a sidewall and a bottom surface facing the interconnect structure, and the sidewall of the dielectric layer is tilted with respect to the bottom surface of the dielectric layer. The encapsulant laterally encapsulates the device die.
US12165954B2
Power electronics systems including power electronics device assemblies having cold plates are described. A cold plate includes an S-cell having a body with a graphite or graphite-composite material. The body defines a power device recess. The S-cell is disposed within a cavity of the cold plate. The cold plate further includes a bond material bonding the S-cell to a base wall of the cavity.
US12165950B2
A power semiconductor component includes at least one power semiconductor device disposed within a housing and a heat sink having an area a exposed on a first surface of the housing. A wiring substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface. A heat dissipation region with increased thermal conductivity is disposed on the second main surface. The heat dissipation region has an area A on the second main surface, and a
US12165946B2
A semiconductor package and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die, a molding compound, a heat dissipation module and an adhesive material. The first and second semiconductor dies are different types of dies and are disposed side by side. The molding compound encloses the first and second semiconductor dies. The heat dissipation module is located directly on and in contact with the back sides of the first and second semiconductor dies. The adhesive material is filled and contacted between the heat dissipation module and the molding compound. The semiconductor package has a central region and a peripheral region surrounding the central region. The first and second semiconductor dies are located within the central region. A sidewall of the heat dissipation module, a sidewall of the adhesive material and a sidewall of the molding compound are substantially coplanar.
US12165944B2
An electro-optical package. In some embodiments, the package includes: a carrier; a first integrated circuit, on the carrier; a first bonding layer, between the carrier and the first integrated circuit; a thermoelectric cooler, on the carrier; a second integrated circuit, on the thermoelectric cooler; and a first wire bond. The first wire bond may connect a first pad, on the first integrated circuit, to a second pad, on the second integrated circuit, the first pad and the second pad having a height difference less than 100 microns.
US12165930B2
An adaptive modeling method for generating misregistration data for a semiconductor device wafer (SDW) including calculating a fitting function for a group of SDWs (GSDW) having units, including measuring an SDW in said GSDW, thereby generating test data sets corresponding to the units, removing non-unit-specific values (NUSVs) from the test data sets, thereby generating cleaned test data sets, and analyzing the cleaned test data sets, thereby generating the fitting function, and generating misregistration data for at least one additional SDW (ASDW) in the GSDW, including measuring the ASDW, thereby generating run data sets, removing NUSVs from the run data sets, thereby generating cleaned run data sets, fitting each of the cleaned run data sets to the fitting function, thereby generating coefficient sets, and calculating misregistration data for the ASDW, at least partially based on the fitting function and the coefficient sets.
US12165926B2
A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The structure includes a first and second gate electrode layers, and a dielectric feature disposed between the first and second gate electrode layers. The dielectric feature has a first surface. The structure further includes a first conductive layer disposed on the first gate electrode layer. The first conductive layer has a second surface. The structure further includes a second conductive layer disposed on the second gate electrode layer. The second conductive layer has a third surface, and the first, second, and third surfaces are coplanar. The structure further includes a third conductive layer disposed over the first conductive layer, a fourth conductive layer disposed over the second conductive layer, and a dielectric layer disposed on the first surface of the dielectric feature. The dielectric layer is disposed between the third conductive layer and the fourth conductive layer.
US12165919B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure includes: a substrate is provided; and an intermediate layer is formed on the substrate, an I-shaped member and a wall-shaped member are formed in the intermediate layer, a top surface of the wall-shaped member is not lower than a top surface of the I-shaped member, and a bottom surface of the wall-shaped member is not higher than a bottom surface of the I-shaped member.
US12165910B2
A manufacturing method for a semiconductor structure includes: patterning and etching a semiconductor substrate to form a concave region; forming a first protective layer on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, the surface of the semiconductor substrate being a surface of a non-etched region except the concave region; forming an isolation structure in the concave region; and removing the first protective layer on the surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US12165902B2
A substrate holder includes a central support portion configured to support a central portion of a substrate, and an circumferential support portion arranged on an outside of the central support portion and configured to support a circumferential portion on an outside of the central portion, and the circumferential support portion is configured to support the circumferential portion so that at least a partial region of the circumferential portion is curved toward the substrate holder with a curvature greater than that of the central portion.
US12165901B2
A system and method for cleaning ring frames is disclosed. In one embodiment, a ring frame processing system includes: a plurality of blades for mechanically removing tapes and tape residues from surfaces of a ring frame; a plurality of wheel brushes for conditioning the surfaces of the ring frame; and a transport mechanism for transporting the ring frame.
US12165898B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed toward an adjustable wafer chuck. The adjustable wafer chuck is configured to hold a wafer. The adjustable wafer chuck comprises a base portion and a pad portion. The base portion comprises a plurality of adjustable base structures. The pad portion is disposed on a first side of the base portion. The pad portion comprises a plurality of contact pads disposed on the plurality of adjustable base structures. Each of the adjustable base structures are configured to move along a plane in a first direction and configured to move along the plane in a second direction that is opposite the first direction.
US12165891B2
Systems and methods for identifying a single failure in a heater array and compensating for the failure are described. The methods include identifying two X buses and two Y buses of the heater array having a location of the failure. A confirmation of the single failure within the heater array is performed after identifying the two X and two Y buses. Once the single failure is confirmed, the location of the failure is identified. The methods include compensating for the single failure by adjusting a duty cycle of a heater at the location of the failure, adjusting additional duty cycles of heaters along the same X bus as the failed heater and the same Y bus as the failed heater, and maintaining remaining duty cycles of power provided to remaining heaters of the heater array.
US12165889B2
An optical heating device for heating a substrate includes: a chamber for accommodating the substrate; a support member for supporting the substrate in the chamber; a flash lamp disposed to face a first main surface of the substrate supported by the support member; a plurality of LED elements for emitting light from outside a flash light irradiation space that is sandwiched between the substrate supported by the support member and the flash lamp, the light traveling toward the first main surface of the substrate or a second main surface of the substrate that is the opposite side of the first main surface; and a light blocking member disposed between the flash lamp and a plurality of the LED elements in a separating direction, and outside the flash light irradiation space, for blocking the light emitted from the flash lamp and traveling toward a plurality of the LED elements.
US12165886B2
A substrate processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a stage; a plurality of holders configured to hold a substrate; a liquid supply configured to supply a liquid to a surface of the substrate opposite to the stage; a cooler configured to supply a cooling gas to a space between the stage and the substrate; a mover configured to change a distance between the stage and the substrate; and a controller configured to control the cooler and the mover. The controller performs a cooling process that at least includes a supercooling process and a freezing process (solid-liquid phase), and a thawing process after the cooling process. In the cooling process, the controller controls the mover to set the distance to a first distance, and in the thawing process, the controller controls the mover to set the distance to a second distance longer than the first distance.
US12165884B2
Discussed is a self-assembly apparatus for a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices, and a method for self-assembly of the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices, whereby the apparatus includes a chamber accommodating the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices and a fluid; a transferor to transfer a substrate to an assembly position; a magnet to apply a magnetic force to the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices; a position controller to control a position of the magnet; and a vibration generator in contact with the fluid to generate a vibration in the fluid to separate the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices from each other while in the fluid, wherein an electric field is produced in the substrate while the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting devices are moved according to a change of the position of the magnet.
US12165883B2
The present invention discloses a semiconductor device and an oxygen removal method thereof. The semiconductor device comprises: a process cavity, an oxygen removal pipe and an oxygen detection device, wherein the oxygen detection device comprises an oxygen detection pipe, a switching ball valve and an oxygen sensor; the oxygen detection pipe comprises a first pipe, a second pipe and a third pipe which are arranged in parallel and all connected to the oxygen removal pipe and the switching ball valve; the oxygen sensor is arranged on the third pipe; and, the switching ball valve is constructed in such a way that the switching ball valve communicates the first pipe with the second pipe in an oxygen removal stage and communicates the first pipe with the third pipe in an oxygen detection stage.
US12165882B2
A method of producing a semiconductor device including: providing a temporary fixing laminate having a supporting substrate; machining a semiconductor member that is temporarily fixed to the supporting substrate; and separating the semiconductor member from the supporting substrate by irradiating the temporary fixing laminate with light from a side of a rear surface of the supporting substrate. A plurality of the irradiation target regions set at the rear surface are sequentially irradiated with light, and each of the irradiation target regions includes a part of the rear surface. The irradiation target regions adjacent to each other partially overlap with each other as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the rear surface, and a region in which the plurality of the irradiation target regions are combined includes the entire rear surface.
US12165875B2
Recesses may be formed in portions of an ILD layer of a semiconductor device in a highly uniform manner. Uniformity in depths of the recesses may be increased by configuring flows of gases in an etch tool to promote uniformity of etch rates (and thus, etch depth) across the semiconductor device, from semiconductor device to semiconductor device, and/or from wafer to wafer. In particular, the flow rates of gases at various inlets of the etch tool may be optimized to provide recess depth tuning, which increases the process window for forming the recesses in the portions of the ILD layer. In this way, the increased uniformity of the recesses in the portions of the ILD layer enables highly uniform capping layers to be formed in the recesses.
US12165856B2
A plasma chamber for a UV light source includes a plasma generation region that defines a plasma confinement region. A port is positioned adjacent to a side of the plasma generation region that allows generated light to pass out of the chamber. A high voltage region is coupled to the plasma generation region. A grounded region is coupled to the high voltage region that defines an outer surface configured to be coupled to the ground and is dimensioned for receiving a surrounding inductive core. A width of the high voltage region is greater than the width of the grounded region.
US12165846B2
There is provided a plasma processing apparatus. The apparatus comprises a chamber having a processing space for performing plasma processing on a substrate and a combining space for combining electromagnetic waves, a dielectric window separating the processing space from the combining space, an antenna unit having a plurality of antennas radiating the electromagnetic waves to the combining space and functioning as a phased array antenna, an electromagnetic wave output unit that outputs the electromagnetic waves to the antenna unit, a stage on which the substrate is placed, a gas supply unit that supplies a gas for ALD film formation to the processing space, and a controller that controls the gas supply unit to supply the gas to perform the ALD film formation and control localized plasma to move at a high speed in the processing space by causing the antenna unit to function as the phased array antenna.
US12165841B2
A direct drive system for providing RF power to a substrate processing system includes a direct drive enclosure including a first direct drive circuit located in the direct drive enclosure and operating at a first frequency and a first connector connected to the first direct drive circuit. A junction box is arranged adjacent to the direct drive enclosure and includes a first capacitive circuit connected to the first direct drive circuit; a second connector located on one side of the junction box, connected to one terminal of the first capacitive circuit and mating with the first connector of the direct drive enclosure; third and fourth connectors connected to another terminal of the first capacitive circuit; and a coil enclosure arranged adjacent to the junction box and including first and second coils and fifth and sixth connectors mating with the third and fourth connectors of the junction box.
US12165839B2
Systems and method for the preparation and delivery of biological samples for charged particle analysis are disclosed herein. An example system at least includes an ion filter coupled to select a sample ion from an ionized sample supply, the ion filter including a quadrupole filter to select the sample ion from the sample supply, an energy reduction cell coupled to receive the selected sample ion and reduce a kinetic energy of the sample ion, a validation unit coupled to receive the sample ion and determine whether the sample ion is a target sample ion, a substrate coupled to receive the sample, wherein the substrate is electron transparent, an ion transport module coupled to receive the sample ion from the ion filter and transport the sample ion to the substrate, and an imaging system arranged to image, with a low energy charged particle beam, the sample located on the substrate, wherein the substrate is arranged in an analysis location. The imaging system including a charge particle emitter coupled to direct coherent charged particles toward the sample; and a detector arranged to detect interference patterns formed from interaction of the coherent charged particles and the sample.
US12165834B2
The present disclosure is related to a Schottky thermal field (TFE) source for emitting an electron beam. Electron optics can adjust a shape of the electron beam before the electron beam impacts a scintillator screen. Thereafter, the scintillator screen generates an emission image in the form of light. An emission image can be adjusted and captured by a camera sensor in a camera at a desired magnification to create a final image of the Schottky TFE source's tip. The final image can be displayed and analyzed to for defects.
US12165829B2
A single beam plasma or ion source apparatus, including multiple and different power sources, is provided. An aspect of the present apparatus and method employs simultaneous excitation of an ion source by DC and AC, or DC and RF power supplies. Another aspect employs an ion source including multiple magnets and magnetic shunts arranged in a generally E cross-sectional shape.
US12165817B2
A system and method for operating a rotatable knob module with adjustable tactile feedback. The rotatable knob module includes a knob configured to continuously rotate about a center axis and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to determine a current trailer angle, define a virtual center position of the knob based on the current trailer angle, and adjust a rotational torque of the knob when the knob is rotated from a first rotational position to a second rotational position based on a relative virtual rotational distance of the second rotational position from the virtual center position.
US12165812B2
In a multilayer ceramic capacitor, a proportion of a glass component in a first side surface-side base electrode layer is about 60% or more in a first range from a tip in a vicinity of a second end surface of the first side surface-side base electrode layer to a position of a length which is about 10% of a dimension in a length direction of the first side surface-side base electrode layer, and a proportion of a glass component in a second side surface-side base electrode layer is about 60% or more in a second range from a tip in a vicinity of a first end surface of the second side surface-side base electrode layer to a position of a length which is about 10% of a dimension in a length direction of the second side surface-side base electrode layer.
US12165808B2
An energy storage apparatus suitable for mounting on a printed circuit board using a solder reflow process is disclosed. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes: a sealed housing body (e.g., a lower body with a lid attached thereto) including a positive internal contact and a negative internal contact (e.g., metallic contact pads) disposed within the body and each respectively in electrical communication with a positive external contact and a negative external contact. Each of the external contacts provide electrical communication to the exterior of the body, and may be disposed on an external surface of the body. An electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) (also referred to herein as an “ultracapacitor” or “supercapacitor”) energy storage cell is disposed within a cavity in the body including a stack of alternating electrode layers and electrically insulating separator layers. An electrolyte is disposed within the cavity and wets the electrode layers. A positive lead electrically connects a first group of one or more of the electrode layers to the positive internal contact; and a negative lead electrically connects a second group of one or more of the electrode layers to the negative internal contact.
US12165806B2
An ultracapacitor that includes an energy storage cell immersed in an advanced electrolyte system and disposed within a hermetically sealed housing, the cell electrically coupled to a positive contact and a negative contact, wherein the ultracapacitor is configured to output electrical energy within a temperature range between about −40 degrees Celsius to about 210 degrees Celsius. Methods of fabrication and use are provided.
US12165792B2
An arrester assembly including a first terminal electrically connected to an energized conductor and a second terminal electrically connected to a ground conductor. The arrester assembly further includes a plurality of arrester modules electrically connected in series between the first terminal and the second terminal and a disconnect device electrically connected in series with the plurality of arrester modules between the first terminal and the second terminal. Components of the arrester assembly are coordinated to disconnect or isolate failed surge arresters without creating a short circuit condition.
US12165786B2
The present disclosure relates to an air-to-air through-wall bushing including a conductor, insulation surrounding the conductor, a ventilation inlet at a first end of the bushing, and a ventilation outlet at a second end of the bushing. The bushing is arranged through a wall and a pressure difference between a first pressure on a first side of the wall and a second pressure on a second side of the wall is provided The inlet and outlet allow cooling air to pass through a ventilation channel within the bushing driven by the provided pressure difference.
US12165782B2
Disclosed is a method for forming a square-wire conductor, which includes: providing a circular conductor with a diameter d; passing the conductor through a gap of a longitudinal calendering roller to longitudinally calender the conductor up and down to form a conductor with flat upper and lower surfaces, the gap L1 of the longitudinal calendering roller is 0.886 d to 0.911 d; longitudinally and transversely straightening the conductor; passing the conductor through a gap of a transverse calendering roller to transversely calender the conductor left and right to form a conductor with flat left and right surfaces, the gap L2 of the transverse calendering roller is 0.886 d to 0.911 d; and longitudinally and transversely straightening the conductor.
US12165770B2
Methods and systems useful for detecting neurological disorders and for measuring general cognitive performance, in particular by measuring eye movements and/or pupil diameter during eye-movement tasks.
US12165768B2
A computer-implemented system may include a treatment device configured to be manipulated by a user while the user is performing a treatment plan, a patient interface comprising an output device configured to present telemedicine information associated with a telemedicine session, and a first computing device configured to: receive treatment data pertaining to the user while the user uses the treatment device to perform the treatment plan; identify at least one aspect of the at least one measurement pertaining to the user associated with a first treatment device mode of the treatment device; determine whether the at least one aspect of the measurement correlates with a secondary condition of the user; and, in response to a determination that the at least one aspect of the at least one measurement is correlated with the at least one secondary condition of the user, generate secondary condition information indicating at least the secondary condition.
US12165760B2
A device may receive, from an imaging device, a two-dimensional image of a patient being operated on by a user, where the two-dimensional image captures a portion of the patient, and where the portion of the patient is provided between a focal point of an imaging source of the imaging device and a detector plane of the imaging device. The device may translate the two-dimensional image along a frustum of the imaging source, and may generate one or more images in a three-dimensional space based on translating the two-dimensional image along the frustum of the imaging source. The device may provide the one or more images in the three-dimensional space to an augmented reality device associated with the user.
US12165751B2
Methods and system to provide glycemic control and therapy management based on monitored glucose data, and current and/or target HbA1C levels are provided.
US12165738B2
Various SRAM non-clamping write driver with write-assist are disclosed, including a write driver circuitry that does not clamp the Bitlines (BLs) during the write operations, and a negative BL Write-Assist (WA) circuit that provides a negative BL boost desirable for use with high-density bit cells. When used with memories other than those having high-density bit cells, the negative BL WA improves the minimum voltage (Vmin) and frequency of operation.
US12165732B2
A sense amplifier is provided. A first terminal of a first invertor is connected to a power node and a second terminal of the first invertor is connected to a cell current source. A first terminal of a second invertor is connected to the power node and a second terminal of the second invertor is connected to a reference current source. The first invertor is cross coupled with the second invertor at a first node and a second node. A pre-charge circuit is connected to the first node and the second node. A first pull up transistor and a second pull up transistor are connected between a supply voltage node and the power node. A signal level detector circuit is connected to the second pull up transistor. The signal level detector circuit switches on the second pull up transistor when a remaining voltage on one of the first node and the second node is below a reference voltage.
US12165731B2
A method of operating a memory device is provided. A clock signal is received. Each clock cycle of the clock signal initiates a write operation or a read operation in a memory device. A power nap period is then determined. The power nap period is compared with a clock cycle period to determine that the power nap period is less than the clock cycle period of the clock signal. A header control signal is generated in response to determining that the power nap period is less than the clock cycle period. The header control signal turns off a header of a component of the memory device.
US12165728B2
The automated test equipment is configured to establish communication, e.g. by uploading a program to the DUT using a first interface, such as a debug interface or a generic interface having access to the processing unit for external control. A typical use case of the first interface is debug access to the DUT, which typically requires limited data rates. In the case of the invention the first interface is an ATE access for test execution. The first interface configures the DUT to open a second interface running at much higher data rate, which is higher than the first interface, for additional communication. Additionally, the second interface may have extended capabilities compared to the first interface, such as presenting its own memory to the processing unit of the DUT as a normal system memory.
US12165725B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile first memory with first storage areas. A controller executes a first read operation on a second storage area of the first storage areas. When an error correction in the first read operation fails, the controller acquires a first measured value being a value of a read voltage for suppressing the number of occurrences of error bits in the second storage area. The controller updates, on the basis of the first measured value, one of first candidate values of the read voltage with a second candidate value. When the error correction in a second read operation for a third storage area of the first storage areas fails, the controller executes the read operation once or more on the third storage area by using, as the read voltages, different first candidate values of the first candidate values.
US12165723B2
A method of forming a memory device having magnetic tracks individually comprising a plurality of magnetic domains having domain walls, includes forming an elevationally outer substrate material of uniform chemical composition. The uniform composition material is partially etched into to form alternating regions of elevational depressions and elevational protrusions in the uniform composition material. A plurality of magnetic tracks is formed over and which angle relative to the alternating regions. Interfaces of immediately adjacent of the regions individually form a domain wall pinning site in individual of the magnetic tracks. Other methods, including memory devices independent of method, are disclosed.
US12165718B2
Provided herein may be a memory device and a method of operating the same. The memory device may include a plurality of memory cells, a program operation performer configured to perform a plurality of program loops on the plurality of memory cells, a step voltage calculator configured to calculate a step voltage, the step voltage being a difference of magnitude between program voltages that are applied in any two consecutive program loops, a reference bit determiner configured to determine a reference number of fail bits based on a magnitude of the step voltage, and a verification result generator configured to generate verification result information based on a result of a comparison between the reference number of fail bits and a number of on-cells, among the plurality of memory cells, identified in a verify operation that is included in a program loop, among the plurality of program loops.
US12165717B2
Methods and apparatus for a novel memory array are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method is provided for reading a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) array. The method includes activating the bit line select gates to equalize voltage levels on a plurality of bit lines, deactivating the bit line select gates to maintain the equalized voltage levels on the plurality of bit lines using a bit line capacitance associated with each bit line, and activating a selected word line to access selected memory cells connected to the selected word line. The method also includes activating bit line select gates to pass first data from a first bit line and second data from a second bit line to the sense amplifier. The first data is from a selected memory cell and the second data is reference data. The method also includes determining sensed data from the first and second data.
US12165713B2
A memory system includes: a connector including a first terminal and a second terminal, each of which is capable of being connected to a host device; a non-volatile memory; and a controller connected between the connector and the non-volatile memory. The controller includes: a control circuit including a first node and a second node; a first signal line connected between the first terminal and the first node and capable of being pulled up to a first power level or a second power level; a second signal line connected to the second terminal; and a first resistance element including one end connected to the first signal line and the other end connected to the second signal line.
US12165709B2
A method includes performing, over a time period, a quantity of write operations associated with a quad-level cell (QLC) memory block, determining the time period exceeds a threshold time, designating the QLC memory block as a bimodal, determining a voltage threshold level of a last successful read operation associated with the QLC memory block, and setting a read threshold level of at least a portion of the QLC memory block at the voltage threshold level of the last successful read operation.
US12165704B2
A memory device includes: a memory cell array comprising a plurality of memory cells; a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the memory cell array; a write circuit configured to write data into the plurality of memory cells; and a controller coupled to the temperature sensor and the write circuit, wherein the controller is configured to determine a target write pulse width used by the write circuit based on the detected temperature of the memory device.
US12165698B2
A static random access memory (SRAM) device disclosed herein includes an array of SRAM cells powered between first and second voltages. A reference voltage generator generates a reference voltage that is proportional to absolute temperature, with a magnitude curve of the reference voltage being based upon a control word. A low dropout amplifier sets and maintains the second voltage as being equal to the reference voltage. Control circuitry generates the control word based upon process variation information about the SRAM device. In one instance, the control circuitry monitors a canary bit-cell and increments the control word, to thereby increase the magnitude curve of the reference voltage, until the canary bit-cell fails. In another instance, the control circuitry measures the oscillation frequency of a ring oscillator, and selects the control word based upon the measured oscillation frequency.
US12165691B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for performing operations by a memory device in a self-refresh state. An example includes an array of memory cells and a controller coupled to the array of memory cells. The controller is configured to direct performance of compute operations on data stored in the array when the array is in a self-refresh state.
US12165684B2
The present disclosure is drawn to a magnetoresistive device including an array of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, each memory cell comprising a magnetic tunnel junction, each row comprising a word line, and each column comprising a bit line; a column select device that selects a bit line. The magnetoresistive device also includes a sense amplifier comprising a first input corresponding to a selected bit line, a second input corresponding to a reference bit line, and a data output. The plurality of columns comprise a reference column, the reference column comprising a conductive element coupled to the magnetic tunnel junctions in the reference column.
US12165682B2
A method of writing data to a transparent substrate comprises forming a first voxel by focusing a first laser pulse on a first location in a transparent substrate; and forming a second voxel by focusing a second laser pulse on a second location in the transparent substrate. The first laser pulse and the second laser pulse have different amplitudes, resulting in the first and second voxels having different strengths. Also provided are a system useful for implementing the method; an optical data storage medium obtainable by the method; and a method of reading data from the optical data storage medium.
US12165673B2
A radio frequency connection between a far field voice detection device and a further device is used to determine a first angular direction from the far field voice detection device to the further device. The determined first angular direction is then used to emphasize, during a noise processing of a plurality of sounds received via use of a plurality of microphones of the far field voice detection device, a first one of the plurality of sounds relative to a remainder of the plurality of sounds.
US12165671B2
Techniques for performing conversation recovery of a system/user exchange are described. In response to determining that an action responsive to a user input cannot be performed, a system may determine a topic to recommend to a user. The topic may be unrelated to the original substance of the user input. The system may have access to various data representing a context in which a user provides an input to the system. The system may use these inputs and various data at runtime to make a determination regarding whether a user should be recommended a topic, as well as what that topic should be. The system may cause a question be output to the user, with the question asking the user about the topic, for example whether the user would like a song played, whether the user would like to hear information about a particular individual (e.g., artist), whether the user would like to know about a particular skill (e.g., a skill having a significantly high popularity among users of the system), or whether the user would like to know about some other topic. If the user responds affirmatively to the recommended topic, the system may pass the user experience off to an appropriate component of the system (e.g., one that is configured to perform an action related to the topic). If the user responds negatively, does not respond at all, or the system is unsure whether the user's response was affirmative or negative, the system may cease interaction with the user, thereby enabling the user to interact with the system as the user desires.
US12165665B2
A method is described that processes an audio signal. A discontinuity between a filtered past frame and a filtered current frame of the audio signal is removed using linear predictive filtering.
US12165657B2
A method for channel identification of a multi-channel audio signal comprising X>1 channels is provided. The method comprises the steps of: identifying, among the X channels, any empty channels, thus resulting in a subset of Y≤X non-empty channels; determining whether a low frequency effect (LFE) channel is present among the Y channels, and upon determining that an LFE channel is present, identifying the determined channel among the Y channels as the LFE channel; dividing the remaining channels among the Y channels not being identified as the LFE channel into any number of pairs of channels by matching symmetrical channels; and identifying any remaining unpaired channel among the Y channels not being identified as the LFE channel or divided into pairs as a center channel.
US12165656B2
An audio encoder comprises a multi-channel receiver which receives an M-channel audio signal where M>2. A down-mix processor down-mixes the M-channel audio signal to a first stereo signal and associated parametric data and a spatial processor modifies the first stereo signal to generate a second stereo signal in response to the associated parametric data and spatial parameter data for a binaural perceptual transfer function, such as a Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF). The second stereo signal is a binaural signal and may specifically be a (3D) virtual spatial signal. An output data stream comprising the encoded data and the associated parametric data is generated by an encode processor and an output processor. The HRTF processing may allow the generation of a (3D) virtual spatial signal by conventional stereo decoders. A multi-channel decoder may reverse the process of the spatial processor to generate an improved quality multi-channel signal.
US12165655B1
An artificial intelligence system that conducts dialogs with one or more participants to achieve an educational outcome, such as teaching material with a Socratic question-and-answer method, reviewing material to reinforce ideas or to prepare a participant for future tests or events, or evaluating a participant's knowledge or communication skills. The system may use an artificial intelligence engine that can understand and generate natural language, such as a large-language model like ChatGPT. Text-to-speech and speech-to-text converters may be coupled to the AI engine to enable the system to communicate directly with participants using spoken language. The system may provide an interface for entry of contextual information for a dialog, such as background information on topics for discussion. It may provide an interface for moderation of a dialog, for example by a teacher, lawyer, thesis advisor, etc. System may evaluate the performance of the participants at the end of a dialog.
US12165651B2
Systems and methods for optimizing voice detection via a network microphone device (NMD) based on a selected voice-assistant service (VAS) are disclosed herein. In one example, the NMD detects sound via individual microphones and selects a first VAS to communicate with the NMD. The NMD produces a first sound-data stream based on the detected sound using a spatial processor in a first configuration. Once the NMD determines that a second VAS is to be selected over the first VAS, the spatial processor assumes a second configuration for producing a second sound-data stream based on the detected sound. The second sound-data stream is then transmitted to one or more remote computing devices associated with the second VAS.
US12165645B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for annotating content data such as video data with annotation data (e.g., images, emoji, memes, stylized text, sounds) in near real time. Example methods may include determining transcribed text from the content data, associated annotation data with the transcribed text, and annotating the content data with some or all transcribed text and annotation data. Example methods may further include editing the annotated content data to generate modified annotated content data and sending the annotated content data and/or modified annotated content data to a device.
US12165644B2
Systems and methods for media playback via a media playback system include capturing sound data via a network microphone device and identifying a candidate wake word in the sound data. Based on identification of the candidate wake word in the sound data, the system selects a first wake-word engine from a plurality of wake-word engines. Via the first wake-word engine, the system analyzes the sound data to detect a confirmed wake word, and, in response to detecting the confirmed wake word, transmits a voice utterance of the sound data to one or more remote computing devices associated with a voice assistant service.
US12165642B2
A vehicle-mounted device operation system, includes: an operating part that is located in a vehicle cabin, and configured to be subjected to operation for manually operating a vehicle-mounted device; a sound collector that is located in the vehicle cabin, and configured to collect speech of an occupant; and a processor configured to determine whether a command to the vehicle-mounted device is included in a content of the speech of the occupant collected by the sound collector, activate the vehicle-mounted device according to the command, when the processor determines that the command to the vehicle-mounted device is included in the content of the speech of the occupant, and highlight the operating part for the vehicle-mounted device activated by the processor.
US12165635B2
The intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact.
US12165633B2
The present disclosure relates to Communicational and Conversational Artificial Intelligence, Machine Perception, Perceptual-User-Interface, and a professional training method. A chatbot may comprise at least one skills module. The chatbot engages with trainee(s) on communicational training on a subject matter provided by the skills module. A trainer may create, remove, or update a skills module with interaction skills and training materials through an onboarding module. A trainee can upload recorded interactions to a skills module for evaluation or for role playing an interaction without a trainer or partner. An administrator may monitor a trainee's performance, and correlate with the organization's metrics. Based on the evaluation, the trainer or chatbot may provide the trainee with feedback and recommended improvement plans. The chatbot may be implemented in an Internet-of-Things or any device. The subject matters may extend to cover different industries/markets. The trainer may be a professional or individual.
US12165629B2
Systems and methods are provided for training of an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model during runtime of a transcription system, the system includes a background processor configured to operate with the transcription system to display a speech-to-text sample of an audio segment of a cockpit communication with an identifier which is converted using an ASR model wherein the background processor receives a response by a user during runtime of the transcription system and display of the speech-to-text sample and causes a change to the identifier to either a positive or negative attribute upon a determination of the correctness of a conversion process of the speech-to-text sample using the ASR model by review of a display of the content of the speech-to-text sample; and to train the ASR model based on information associated with the content of the speech-to-text sample in accordance with the response by the user.
US12165622B2
An audio infusion system and method are disclosed. A source audio track is separated into a plurality of audio tracks (e.g., instrumental, vocal, or mixes thereof) and the audio tracks are individually processed to generate a plurality of binaural beat tracks. At least one spatialized track is also generated by filtering the source audio track to provide a filtered track, generating one or more spatialization trajectories based on certain audio feature(s) of the source audio track (e.g., tempo) and a target end-state effect, and spatializing the filtered track using the spatialization trajectories. Other tracks may also be generated, such as one or more infrasonic tracks, ultrasonic tracks, enhanced bass tracks, and/or subharmonic tracks. The tracks may be played simultaneously or mixed for delivery to an end user device.
US12165619B2
The invention is a micro-tuning device for pianos and other keyboard-operated stringed musical instruments. A mass is secured to a single string or choir of strings in the musical instrument by an attachment device between the bridge and the agraffe, nut or V-bar, thereby reducing the speaking length and increasing the pitch of the string.
US12165610B2
An operating method of a display driver integrated circuit (DDI) includes determining whether a change to a level of a first logic voltage supplied to a logic circuit of the DDI is required, based on determining that a change to the level of the first logic voltage is required, transmitting a logic voltage setting command to a power management integrated circuit (PMIC), and receiving, from the PMIC, a second logic voltage having a level different from the first logic voltage and corresponding to the logic voltage setting command.
US12165607B2
An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of signal lines, each of which includes first and second line portions and an inner connection portion (connection portion) that connects the first and second line portions. The first and second line portions of one of two adjacent signal lines are made of first and second conductive layers, respectively, and the first and second line portions of the other of the two adjacent signal lines are made of second and first conductive layers, respectively. The position of the connection portion of each of the signal lines is determined in accordance with the layout position of that signal line in the line region.
US12165600B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display area, a first peripheral area, a second peripheral area, and a bending area, a data distributor in the second peripheral area, a data driver in the second peripheral area, first data connection line groups including first data connection lines connected to the data distributor and receiving a data signal output from the data driver in response to a first distribution selection signal, second data connection line groups including second data connection lines connected to the data distributor and receiving the data signal in response to a second distribution selection signal, first power connection lines positioned between one of the first data connection line groups and one of the second data connection line groups and second power connection lines positioned between one of the first data connection line groups and one of the second data connection line groups.
US12165596B2
Disclosed are a pixel driving circuit, a display panel and a control method thereof. The pixel driving circuit includes a signal generating module, an input terminal of the signal generating module is connected to a scan line, and the signal generating module is configured to generate a second scan signal according to a first scan signal, and the second scan signal is output from a first output terminal; and, a light-emitting driving module, a first controlled terminal, a second controlled terminal, a third controlled terminal of the light-emitting driving module are connected to the first output terminal of the signal generating module in one-to-one correspondence.
US12165592B2
There is provided a display device including a substrate, a circuit layer, and an element layer. A display area of the substrate includes a main display area in which emission areas are arranged side by side, and at least one sub-display area surrounded by the main display area. The at least one sub-display area further includes light transmission areas located between the emission areas. The circuit layer includes light-emitting pixel drivers respectively electrically connected to the light-emitting elements of the element layer, data lines transmitting data signals to the light-emitting pixel drivers, first dummy lines extending in a first direction intersecting the data lines, and second dummy lines extending parallel to the data lines and paired with the data lines, respectively. The second dummy lines include reset transmission lines extending from the non-display area to the at least one sub-display area.
US12165589B2
A pixel circuit, a driving method, and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a driving module, a data write module, a first compensation module, a second compensation module, a light-emitting module, a storage module, and a coupling module. The data write module is configured to write a voltage related to a data voltage to a control terminal of the driving module. The driving module is configured to provide a drive signal for the light-emitting module according to the voltage of the control terminal to drive the light-emitting module to emit light. A first terminal of the second compensation module is connected to the control terminal of the driving module, a second terminal of the second compensation module is connected to a first terminal of the first compensation module, and a second terminal of the first compensation module is connected to a first terminal of the driving module.
US12165576B2
A pixel includes a first light source including at least one first light emitting element between a first split electrode and a second power supply; a second light source unit including at least one second light emitting element between a second split electrode and the second power supply; a driving-current generator including a first transistor between a first power supply and the first and second light source units and generating a driving current corresponding to a first data signal; a first switching unit including a first switching element between the driving-current generator and the first light source; and a second switching unit including a second switching element between the driving-current generator and the second light source unit and controlling an electrical connection between the first and second light source units in response to a second data signal.
US12165571B2
A driving circuit board includes a driving circuit board includes: a plurality of driving electrode regions on a surface of the driving circuit board; a plurality of driving electrodes symmetrically arranged on the plurality of driving electrode regions; and a driving circuit electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of driving electrodes, wherein the plurality of driving electrodes include at least one dummy electrode that is not connected to the driving circuit.
US12165567B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device. The display device includes: a first source driver IC configured to receive pixel data to be written into sub-pixels of a first display area and a gamma compensation voltage for each grayscale and output a data voltage to be supplied to data lines of the first display area; a second source driver IC configured to receive pixel data to be written into sub-pixels of a second display area and the gamma compensation voltage for each grayscale and output a data voltage to be supplied to data lines of the second display area; a first programmable gamma IC configured to supply a first gamma reference voltage set to the first and second source driver ICs; and a second programmable gamma IC configured to supply a second gamma reference voltage set to the first and second source driver ICs.
US12165561B2
A display substrate, a method for driving the same, a display device, and a high-precision metal mask are provided. The display area includes a first display sub-area in which pixels are distributed at a high density (e.g., a high resolution), and a second display sub-area in which pixels are distributed at a low density (e.g., a low resolution), and a transition display sub-area, with a distribution density of pixels (a resolution) between the distribution density of pixels in the first display sub-area and a distribution density of pixels in the second display sub-area, is arranged between the first display sub-area and the second display sub-area.
US12165559B2
A display method comprises: acquiring multiple frames of images to be displayed, one frame of two adjacent frames of the images to be displayed being an image in an odd-numbered row, the other frame being an image in an even-numbered row, the resolution of the image in the odd-numbered row being M*(a*N), the resolution of the image in the even-numbered row being M*(a*N) or (M−1)*(a*N), and a being 1 or 2; and causing an odd-numbered display group to display the image in the odd-numbered row, and causing an even-numbered display group to display the image in the even-numbered row, the odd-numbered display group comprising M*(a*N) odd-numbered display units, the even-numbered display group comprising (M−1)*(a*N) even-numbered display units, the odd-numbered display unit in the i-th row comprising a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel in a pixel unit in the i-th row.
US12165558B2
A display device includes a plurality of pixels, a power supply, a voltmeter, and a timing controller. The power supply is configured to generate an initialization voltage to be supplied to a sensing pixel among the pixels. The voltmeter is configured to measure a first value of the initialization voltage supplied to the sensing pixel during an active period of a frame period and a second value of the initialization voltage supplied to the sensing pixel during a vertical blank period of the frame period. The timing controller is configured to generate rewrite image data that is supplied to the sensing pixel during the vertical blank period. The rewrite image data is generated from image data applied to the pixels during the active period and a difference between the first and second values.
US12165555B2
A direct current-to-direct current (“DC-DC”) converter includes: a first converter which outputs a first power voltage in a normal mode or a power saving mode based on a inductor current generated therein, where the first converter operates in a first driving manner in the normal mode, and operates in a second driving manner in the power saving mode; a second converter which outputs a second power voltage based on a inductor current generated therein, where the second converter operates in a third driving manner in the power saving mode, and a magnitude of the second power voltage in the power saving mode is different from that in the normal mode; and a mode selector which supplies a mode control signal to the first and second converters, where the first and second converters are driven in the normal mode or the power saving mode based on the mode control signal.
US12165553B2
Gate driver including pull-up circuit and pull-down circuit and display apparatus including the same
A gate driver includes: a pull-up circuit configured to pull up a gate output signal to a high voltage in response to a signal at a first node of the pull-up circuit; a first pull-down circuit configured to pull down the gate output signal to a low voltage in response to a signal at a second node of the first pull-down circuit; a second pull-down circuit configured to pull down the gate output signal to the low voltage in response to a signal at a third node of the second pull-down circuit; a first selection circuit configured to activate the first pull-down circuit and deactivate the second pull-down circuit based on a first selection signal; and a second selection circuit configured to activate the second pull-down circuit and deactivate the first pull-down circuit based on a second selection signal.
US12165548B2
Disclosed is a display device. A display device according to the present disclosure comprises: a housing having an opening; a roller extending longitudinally and located inside the housing; a display panel that is wound on or unwound from the roller and partitions a certain space into a first space and a second space when located outside the housing after passing through the opening; a sensor that is adjacent to a sensing area formed in at least one among the first space and the second space, and senses whether or not there are objects that have entered the sensing area; and a control unit that, on the basis of the information acquired by the sensor, controls whether to perform an operation for winding or unwinding the display panel on or from the roller.
US12165546B2
A sign holder assembly for a shelving system, in which the shelving system includes a first support post and a second support post, with each support post configured to support a side of a shelf, includes a cross member configured to be coupled to and extend between the first support post and second support post. The assembly further includes a support bracket having a base member configured to be positioned about a portion of the cross member in one of a plurality of positions along a length of the cross member, an extension portion extending from the base member, and a securement member projecting from the extension portion and spaced from the base member.
US12165538B1
A telesurgical mentoring platform with a wheeled base, a lower rack mounted on the base, an upper rack extending vertically from the lower rack, a compactly foldable articulated arm that is configured to extend horizontally outward away from the upper rack and configured to connect to a connector piece holding an end effectuator at its distal end, a tablet personal computer; the console configured to be readily mobilized on the floor of an existing operating room and is capable of providing a connectivity point for communication, audiovisual, and data transfer services in an operating room.
US12165531B1
Techniques for facilitating an autonomous operation, such as an autonomous navigation, of an unmanned vehicle based on one or more fiducials. For example, image data of a fiducial may be generated with an optical sensor of the unmanned vehicle. The image data may be analyzed to determine a location of the fiducial. A location of the unmanned vehicle may be estimated from the location of the fiducial and the image. The autonomous navigation of the unmanned vehicle may be directed based on the estimated location.
US12165527B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for observer-based landing control of a vehicle are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, and at least one processor to execute instructions to at least in response to determining an aircraft is in a flight plan flare regime, determine an estimate state of an aircraft parameter based on an execution of a transfer function of an observer model, the execution of the transfer function based on an altitude command corresponding to the flare regime, determine a gain value based on the aircraft parameter, determine an altitude control input based on the estimate state and the gain value, determine an altitude command output based on the altitude control input and longitudinal dynamics of the aircraft, the longitudinal dynamics generated in response to the aircraft executing the altitude command output, and control an elevator of the aircraft based on the altitude command output.
US12165525B2
Methods and systems are provided for assisting operation of an aircraft when diverting from a flight plan using a comparative vertical profile display. A vertical profile display includes a first graphical representation of a first vertical profile corresponding to a first lateral route defined by a flight plan for the aircraft and a second graphical representation of a second vertical profile corresponding to a modified lateral route different from the first lateral route displayed concurrently on the vertical profile display. The first vertical profile corresponding to the first lateral route is depicted on the vertical profile display in a first plane and the second vertical profile corresponding to the modified lateral route is depicted on the vertical profile display in a second plane different from the first plane.
US12165520B2
A hybrid dispatch method for autonomous vehicles and manually-driven vehicles is provided and includes steps of: receiving travel information from a terminal, the travel information including a start position and an end position; matching manually-driven vehicle adapted to the travel information according to manually-driven vehicle matching rules; determining whether the travel information meets compliance rules for autonomous vehicles; matching autonomous vehicles adapted to the travel information according to autonomous vehicle matching rules when the travel information meets the compliance rules for autonomous vehicles; providing the matched manually-driven vehicles and the matched autonomous vehicles to the terminal for the user to select. Furthermore, a server and a storage medium are also provided.
US12165516B2
Traffic collisions involving autonomous vehicles can be greatly reduced by timely initiation of evasive action. However, calculating a suitable sequence of actions capable of avoiding or minimizing the collision may require the speed of a supercomputer. Therefore, disclosed is a method for the autonomous vehicle to transmit an emergency message with sensor data to a nearby access point in 5G or 6G, and the access point can forward the data to a supercomputer trained in collision avoidance. The supercomputer, millions or billions of times faster than vehicle computers, explores many sequences of actions and selects the one most likely to avoid the collision or if unavoidable, the sequence of actions that results in the least harm. Again using an exclusive channel, the supercomputer and the access point can relay the selected sequence to the autonomous vehicle, for immediate collision avoidance or harm minimization.
US12165514B2
A vehicle parking management method, comprising: on at least one of a vehicle and a mobile device, acquiring current parking place information and a plurality of additional information of a parking lot, the current parking place information at least comprising a location of an unoccupied parking place, each additional information in the plurality of additional information being configured for identifying associated data; on the basis of the current parking place information and the additional information, generating a parking place distribution image, the parking place distribution image at least indicating the unoccupied parking place and the additional information; presenting the parking place distribution image; and in response to that an operation targeting the unoccupied parking place or the additional information is detected, generating a navigation indication related to a target unoccupied parking place.
US12165508B2
The present invention is directed to a helmet wearing determination system including a imaging means that is installed in a predetermined position and images a two-wheel vehicle that travels on a road; and a helmet wearing determination means that processes an image imaged by the imaging means, estimates a rider head region corresponding to a head of a person who rides on the two-wheel vehicle that travels on the road, compares image characteristics of the rider head region with image characteristics according to the head at a time when a helmet is worn or/and at a time when a helmet is not worn, and determines whether or not the rider wears the helmet.
US12165498B2
The present invention relates to a security surveillance microwave sensor having a reduced false report rate by means of biological signal detection, which monitors and determines a malfunction state or a false alarm generated by environmental factors by detecting humans, animals or objects approaching within a predetermined distance using a microwave signal. The present invention may extend the monitoring distance of security surveillance, set an IF frequency band disturbed by a human body, amplify the IF frequency or use a change in the voltage level to extend the monitoring distance, manage a monitoring state by double-checking transmission and reception of security signals, and reduce the false report rate by distinguishing the false alarms or the malfunction state of the sensor.
US12165485B2
The present invention relates to a light guiding arrangement (1) for transmitting electromagnetic radiation, in particular ultraviolet and/or infrared radiation, and a spark and/or flame detector that uses same. The light guiding arrangement (1) comprises a housing (10) and a light guiding rod (20), wherein the housing (10) has a light entrance opening (12) and a light exit opening (14) situated opposite, wherein the light guiding rod (20) is arranged in the housing (10) between the light entrance opening (12) and the light exit opening (14), wherein the light guiding rod (20) is mounted resiliently on at least one side in the housing (10).
US12165480B1
This disclosure describes, in part, systems for enabling physical retail stores and other facilities to implement both automated- and manual-checkout techniques for customers of the stores and/or facilities. For example, the described systems may enable a retail store to implement technology where users are able to pick items from shelves and other inventory locations and exit the store without performing manual checkout of the items, as well as technology to allow users to pay for their items using point-of-sale (POS) and/or other manual-checkout techniques. The systems described herein thus enable hybrid retail facilities, as opposed to a retail facility that is either entirely traditional or entirely enabled for automated checkout.
US12165478B1
Self-orchestration and -management of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) leveraging the use of extended Reality (XR) amongst support personnel to perform the maintenance/repair. Issues and events required to address the issues are identified at the ATM and a maintenance queue is generated, and subsequently managed, at the ATM that includes an ordered listing of the events and assigned support personnel for each event, along with access credentials for each support personnel. Management of the maintenance queue includes notifying the support personnel of their event assignments of the requisite timing requirements. XR is used to facilitate maintenance and repair in a collaborative and, in some instances simultaneous, manner between remote and onsite support personnel. Various different XR operational modes are implemented to assist support personnel in accomplishing the assigned events without the need for extensive training and/or experience.
US12165466B2
Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses, computer-readable media, and/or methods that are configured to concurrently utilize presented game components in multiple games or game features within the same or different game. Accordingly, a gaming device can be configured to enable randomly-presented game components, such as slot game symbols, to be concurrently useable in one or more other games, and/or one or more other game features within the same overall game. Hence, one or more symbols presented in a first game segment are also available in a second game segment, where the game segments may be interrelated or alternatively independent from one another.
US12165460B2
An article supply apparatus capable of supplying an article, comprises an accommodation unit in which articles are accommodated; a supply unit which supplies at least one of the articles accommodated in the accommodation unit; an operation unit capable of performing an operation in order to supply the at least one of the articles from the supply unit; a lock unit which locks the operation unit so as to make the operation to the operation unit unavailable; a control unit which releases a lock of the lock unit; and a notification control unit, capable of notifying a first state where the lock of the lock unit and a second state where the operation of the operation unit is completed, wherein a way of notification of the first state is different from that of the second state.
US12165457B1
The operation of one or more cash handling devices may be remotely modified by updating locally stored cash dispensing data at each of the one or more cash handling devices based at least in part on optimization data generated at a monitoring server. Operational data is received from the one or more cash handling devices and utilized to generate historical data within a historical database. Optimization parameters are received for each of one or more cash handling devices, and the optimization parameters are utilized together with the generated historical data to generate optimization data utilizing one or more optimization models. The optimization data is transmitted to applicable cash handling devices to cause the cash handling device to update locally stored executing instructions causing operation of the cash handling device to dispense cash into one or more register tills.
US12165452B2
An electronic key terminal includes a first case and a second case, an elastic member including a planar portion and a wall portion protruding from at least a part of a periphery of the planar portion in a direction from the first case toward the second case, and an electronic board housed in a space defined by the first case and the second case. The wall portion includes protruding portions protruding from opposing sides of the wall portion. The electronic board is partially disposed between the third planar portion and the protruding portions.
US12165443B1
Techniques and systems for testing, evaluating and/or otherwise assessing the operation of vehicles are discussed herein. Aspects relate to a system and method comprising: receiving user interface configuration data; deriving therefrom a user interface configuration for a set of widgets; for each widget in the set of widgets, sending a request for a subset of data items of each of a plurality of data topics associated with a corresponding plurality of vehicle components, each said data topic being derived from a vehicle logging system and being associated with the vehicle run; receiving the requested subset of data items of each of the plurality of data topics for the vehicle run; and displaying, in a user interface comprising the set of widgets configured in accordance with the user interface configuration data, a visualization based on the subset of data items of the plurality of data topics for the vehicle run.
US12165435B2
A document management system performs name matching operations to validate an identity claimed by a recipient of a document. To validate a claimed identity the document management system compares name data obtained from an identity data source with name data corresponding to a recipient entity of a document to determine whether name features of the identity source name data match recipient name data. The name matching operations may include applying a set of name matching rules to the identity source name data and the recipient name data to determine whether features that differ between the identity source name data and the recipient name data are acceptable alternative representations. Responsive to successfully validating the identity, the system may authorize the recipient to perform actions on the document. Identity source name data may be received from a variety of identity data sources, such as an identity document or a trusted service provider.
US12165425B2
Systems and methods for identifying a presence of a completed document are disclosed. The system may receive an image file from a client device associated with a first document, identify one or more image regions within the image file corresponding to a presence of one or more extractable data entries, selectively extract the one or more extractable data entries, and determine whether the one or more extractable data entries match one or more stored data entries. When the one or more extractable data entries match, the system may determine the status of the first document as completed. When the one or more extractable data entries do not match, the system may proactively replace one or more inconsistent extractable data entries with corresponding stored data entries to form a corrected first document, and generate a request for a client to verify the corrected first document.
US12165413B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for receiving an initial image of the area, receiving an updated image of the area, detecting at least one of a person in the area or a movement in the area based on the updated image, comparing the updated image and the initial image to identify a change in the area, and determining a presence or an absence of the occlusion based on the change in the area and the at least one of the person or the movement in the area.
US12165412B2
An embodiment of an electronic processing system includes an image-processing circuit, a pose circuit, and a score circuit. The image-processing circuit is configured to receive a captured image of at least one product disposed in a display structure, and to identify each of the at least one product in the captured image. The pose circuit is configured to determine a respective pose of each of the at least one product, and to compare the respective pose of each of the at least one product to a respective canonical pose of each of the at least one product. And the score circuit is configured to generate a pose score in response to a respective comparison for each of the at least one product. For example, such an electronic processing system can be configured to detect a respective improper pose of one or more products, and to generate a pose score that is related to the number of improper poses detected, and the average “distance” between each improper pose and the respective canonical pose (e.g., label facing straight out from the display structure). And the electronic processing system can be configured to perform the described functions in real time.
US12165405B2
Ray-tracing for terrain mapping is provided. A system of an aerial vehicle can identify points generated from data captured by a sensor of the aerial vehicle. The points can each indicate a respective altitude value of a portion of terrain. The system can determine, based on the altitude values of the points, a threshold altitude of the terrain, and can identify a boundary defined in part based on the threshold altitude of the terrain. The system can generate a terrain map for the terrain based on applying a ray-tracing process to the points. The ray-tracing process can be performed within the boundary, using the points as respective sources and the aerial vehicle as a destination. The system can present a graphical representation of the terrain map in a graphical user interface of the aerial vehicle.
US12165403B2
Methods of providing digital images of living tissue that may include: obtaining data of a propagating wavefield through living tissue; obtaining a reference digital image of the living tissue; selecting a holographic computational method of wavefield imaging; selecting a wavefield based on one or more parameters; calculating a sampling ratio by dividing a number of data samples in the data subset by a number of image samples in the data subset; decimating the data subset; generating a new digital image based on the selected holographic computational method of imaging, the decimated data subset, and parameters corresponding to the data subset; and determining a quantitative difference measure between the reference digital image and the new digital image based on the changing of one or more parameters selected from the group consisting of field sampling, imaging sampling, and image quality.
US12165400B2
The technology relates to controlling a vehicle based on a railroad light's activation status. In one example, one or more processors receive images of a railroad light. The one or more processors determine, based on the images of the railroad light, the illumination status of a pair of lights of the railroad light over a period of time as the vehicle approaches the railroad light. The one or more processors determine based on the illumination status of the pair of lights, a confidence level, wherein the confidence level indicates the likelihood the railroad light is active. The vehicle is controlled as it approaches the railroad light based on the confidence level.
US12165398B2
The present disclosure relates to training method and apparatus for an object recognition model. There provides a training sample optimization apparatus for a neural network model for object recognition, comprising: for each training sample in a training sample database, a fluctuation determination unit configured to determine a fluctuation of model prediction of the training sample relative to a corresponding labeled identity of the training sample in a case of training the neural network model; and an optimization unit configured to determine whether the training sample can be used for training of the neural network model in the next training epoch, based on the fluctuation of the training sample.
US12165395B2
One embodiment provides a method, comprising: training, using deep imitation learning, a neural network associated with a predetermined ghosting model to predict player movements for at least one player during at least one sequence in a game; receiving, at an information handling device, tracking data associated with a player movement path for at least one player during the at least one sequence; analyzing, using a processor, the tracking data to determine at least one feature associated with the at least one player at a plurality of predetermined time points during the at least one sequence; and determining, using the predetermined ghosting model and the at least one feature, a ghosted movement path for the at least one player beginning from one of the plurality of predetermined time points. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US12165393B1
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for the management of lane-departure (LD) events. One method includes training a classifier for LD events and loading the classifier into a vehicle. LD events are detected based on outward images using the classifier, while the turn signal is monitored to prevent false triggers. If an LD event is detected, rules are checked for alerting the driver and deciding whether to alert the driver or not. Subsequently, additional rules are checked for reporting the event and deciding whether to report the event to a Behavior Monitoring System (BMS) or to discard it. The method also includes a solid line departure model that identifies crossing dashed, solid-white, and solid-yellow lanes, delaying alerts and event generation until a significant portion of the vehicle crosses over the lane. The model also outputs a confidence score reflecting the amount of vehicle deviation from the driving lane.
US12165387B2
A method of inspecting a composite structure formed of plies of tows is provided. The method involves receiving an image of an upper ply overlapping lower plies, the upper ply tow ends defining a boundary between plies, and applying extracted sub-images to a trained machine learning model to detect the upper or lower ply. Probability maps are produced in which pixels of the sub-images are associated with probabilities the pixels belong to an object class for the upper or lower ply. The method may also involve transforming the probability maps into reconstructed sub-images, stitching together a composite image, and applying the composite image to a feature detector to detect locations of tow ends of the upper ply. The method may also involve comparing the locations to as-designed locations of the tow ends, inspecting the composite structure, and indicating a result of the comparison.
US12165376B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: classify an acquired image by using a rule in which an element of an image, which is common in each type of a form shown by the image, is defined; and perform a process of setting a region in which at least one element is displayed except for the element defined by the rule used in classification in the classified image, to be unclear, and cause a display device to display the processed image.
US12165373B2
A method to assess a subject diagnosis is provided. The method includes receiving an image from an image-capturing device, the image comprising an area of interest in a test cartridge, and finding a border of the area of interest of the test cartridge and applying a geometrical transformation on an area delimited by the border of the test cartridge to bring the image of the area of interest in the test cartridge to a selected size and a selected shape. The method also includes identifying a target region within the area of interest of the test cartridge, evaluating a quality of the image based on a characteristic feature of the target region, and providing commands to adjust an optical coupling in the image-capturing device when the quality of the image is lower than a selected threshold.
US12165370B2
A method of encoding point cloud data using a planar coding mode is disclosed. The planar coding mode may be signaled using a planar mode flag to signal that a current volume is planar. A volume is planar if all of its occupied child nodes are on one side of a plane bisecting the volume. A planar position flag may signal which side of the volume is occupied. Volume data for already-coded occupied volumes of the point cloud is tracked using a data structure stored in memory. Entropy coding may be used to code the planar mode flag and/or the planar position flag. Context determination for coding may take into account a distance between the volume and a closest already-coded occupied volume among those tracked already-coded occupied volumes that have a same index in the data structure as the current volume.
US12165364B2
Image analysis apparatus, image analysis method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
An image analysis apparatus includes one or more processors configured to execute (a) acquiring, from a measurement device, spectral images for a plurality of wavelengths, obtained by imaging a measurement target, (b) acquiring a target range in each of the spectral images, (c) performing multivariate analysis of each pixel based on a gradation value of the pixel for each wavelength in the target range, (d) generating an analysis image including an analysis result of the multivariate analysis for each pixel in the target range, and (e) storing the generated analysis image into a memory.
US12165360B1
Machine vision devices may be configured to automatically connect to a remote management server (e.g., a “cloud”-based management server), and may offload and/or communicate images and analyses to the remote management server via wired or wireless communications. The machine vision devices may further communicate with the management server, user computing devices, and/or human machine interface devices, e.g., to provide remote access to the machine vision device, provide real-time information from the machine vision device, receive configurations/updates, provide interactive graphical user interfaces, and/or the like.
US12165356B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for object modeling using augmented reality. An object modeling mode for generating three-dimensional models of objects is initiated by one or more processors of a device. The processors of the device detect an object within a field of view. Based on a position of the object, the processors select a set of movements forming a path for the device relative to the object and cause presentation of at least one of the movements. The processors detect a set of object surfaces as portions of the object are positioned in the field of view. In response to detecting at least a portion of the object surface, the processors modify a graphical depiction of a portion of the object. The processors then construct a three-dimensional model of the object from the set of images, depth measurements, and IMU readings collected during the reconstruction process.
US12165355B2
To improve pose estimation accuracy, a pose estimation apparatus according to the present invention extracts a person area from an image, and generates person area image information, based on an image of the extracted person area. The pose estimation apparatus according to the present invention further extracts a joint point of a person from the image, and generates joint point information, based on the extracted joint point. Then, the pose estimation apparatus according to the present invention generates feature value information, based on both of the person area image information and the joint point information. Then, the pose estimation apparatus according to the present invention estimates a pose of a person included in the image, based on an estimation model in which the feature value information is an input, and pose estimation result is an output.
US12165350B2
The invention provides a verification method of the dynamic virtual image display distance of a user interface, comprising the following steps: creating a tested image database; wherein the tested image database comprises a tested image displayed according to a standard virtual image display distance; displaying a first tested image; projecting a first image on a stacked image element; wherein the first image is displayed at a first virtual image display distance, which is the same with a first standard virtual image display distance of the first tested image; capturing the first tested image and the first image; performing a first reliability evaluation procedure for the first image and the first tested image; and calculating a first overlap ratio for the first image and the first tested image to verify accuracy of the user interface.
US12165346B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for performing depth estimation on image data. In one example, a device performs depth estimation on first and second images captured using one or more cameras having a color filter array. Each image of the first and second images comprises multiple color channels. Each color channel of the multiple color channels corresponds to a respective color channel of the color filter array. The device performs the depth estimation by estimating disparity from the color channels of the first and second images.
US12165328B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for image reconstruction and processing. The method may include obtaining image data of an object acquired by an imaging device. The method may include determining one or more regions of interest (ROIs) of the object. The method may also include determining, based on each ROI of the one or more ROIs, a target portion of the image data corresponding to the ROI among the image data. The method may further include reconstructing, based on the target portion of the image data, one or more images of the ROI.
US12165315B2
An ultrasound imaging system is disclosed that includes an ultrasound probe including a plurality of ultrasound transducers configured to acquire ultrasound images, a processor and non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon logic that, when executed by the processor, is configured to perform operations including receiving ultrasound imaging data, detecting one or more blood vessels within the ultrasound imaging data, identifying at least one blood vessel of the one or more blood vessels as an artery or as a vein, and rendering a visualization of at least a subset of the one or more blood vessels on a display. The logic may, when executed by the processor, cause performances of further operations including identifying the at least one blood vessel as the artery at least one differentiating characteristic of a plurality of differentiating characteristics of blood vessel type.
US12165296B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to a system for selective enhancement of skin features in an image. The system includes an interface configured to receive as input an original image, and a processing device in communication with the interface. The processing device is configured to process the original image using a neural network to detect one or more skin imperfections in the original image, generate a neural network mask of the original image for the one or more skin imperfections in the original image, generate one or more source patches based on the original image, and, replace the one or more skin imperfections in the original image with the one or more source patches to generate a patched skin image.
US12165295B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that generate inpainted digital images utilizing a cascaded modulation inpainting neural network. For example, the disclosed systems utilize a cascaded modulation inpainting neural network that includes cascaded modulation decoder layers. For example, in one or more decoder layers, the disclosed systems start with global code modulation that captures the global-range image structures followed by an additional modulation that refines the global predictions. Accordingly, in one or more implementations, the image inpainting system provides a mechanism to correct distorted local details. Furthermore, in one or more implementations, the image inpainting system leverages fast Fourier convolutions block within different resolution layers of the encoder architecture to expand the receptive field of the encoder and to allow the network encoder to better capture global structure.
US12165291B2
Joint minimum entropy method for simultaneous processing and fusion of multi-physics data and images
A method for the simultaneous imaging of different physical properties of an examined medium from multi-physics datasets and for digital enhancement and restoration of multiple multidimensional digital images is described. The method introduces nonnegative joint entropy determined as a joint weighted average of the logarithm of the corresponding density of the model parameters and/or images and/or their attributes. The joint entropy measures are introduced as additional constraints, and their minimization results in enforcing of the order and consistency between the different model parameters and/or multiple images and/or their transforms. The method does not require a priori knowledge about specific physical, analytical, empirical or statistical relationships between the different model parameters and/or multiple images and their attributes, nor does the method require a priori knowledge about specific geometric or structural relationships between different model parameters, images, and/or their attributes.
US12165290B1
An image processing method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: acquiring a to-be-processed image; determining a weather type corresponding to the to-be-processed image; according to the weather type, acquiring an environment noise feature in the to-be-processed image corresponding to the weather type; and obtaining a non-noise image feature of the to-be-processed image according to the environment noise feature, and according to the environment noise feature, the non-noise image feature and the to-be-processed image, generating a denoised image corresponding to the to-be-processed image.
US12165288B2
A method for removing periodic noise from a reconstructed light field image includes the steps of: acquiring a light field image of a sample; acquiring an optical center position map without the sample; calibrating the imaging centers of the microlenses and performing reconstruction on the light field image; transforming a reconstructed light field image to the frequency domain and generating an image frequency spectrum; preprocessing the image frequency spectrum; generating a low-pass filter; multiplying the low-pass filter with the preprocessed image frequency spectrum, and then setting the frequency spectrum value of the low-frequency component to zero; performing binarization on the reconstructed light field image frequency spectrum to obtain an image mask; removing the high-frequency periodic noise component from the original frequency spectrum of the reconstructed light field image; and transforming the filtered reconstructed light field image frequency spectrum back to the spatial domain to obtain the reconstructed light field image.
US12165278B2
A hardware downscaling module and downscaling methods for downscaling a two-dimensional array of values. The hardware downscaling unit comprises a first group of one-dimensional downscalers; and a second group of one-dimensional downscalers; wherein the first group of one-dimensional downscalers is arranged to receive a two-dimensional array of values and to perform downscaling in series in a first dimension; and wherein the second group of one-dimensional downscalers is arranged to receive an output from the first group of one-dimensional downscalers and to perform downscaling in series in a second dimension.
US12165274B1
A system and method for dynamically modifying and rendering 3D models in digital environments, particularly in virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) settings. The system receives information about a 3D model, information regarding the digital environment, and placement information for aligning the 3D model within the digital environment. A configuration interface is generated based on a catalogue of variants, allowing users to modify the 3D model's textures and colors. Modifications are received via the configuration interface, and the 3D model is updated and stored as an instance. The instance, saved as a pluggable piece of code, can be uploaded in real-time to render the modified 3D model in the digital environment.
US12165267B2
Disclosed herein are aspects for altering avatar backgrounds and rendering volumetric avatars in a three-dimensional virtual environment. An aspect begins by receiving, from a first device of a first user, configuration settings specifying how a background of a first user's avatar is to be presented to a second user in the 3D virtual environment. The aspect continues by capturing a video stream of the first user and altering portions of the video stream. The configuration settings and the video stream with the altered background are used to render the first user's avatar. Another aspect begins by receiving configuration settings and a video stream with a background. The aspect continues by rendering a front surface, back surface, and side surface of an avatar based on the configuration settings and video stream.
US12165250B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation unit acquiring an input operation for a message composed of at least one of text and an image, a recording control unit recording the message in accordance with the acquired input operation, and a reproduction control unit reproducing the recorded message to display the message on a display unit.
US12165249B2
This application provides a display method and an electronic device. The method includes: in a process of displaying a first transition animation on a first screen of the electronic device, if the first transition animation displayed on the first screen is interrupted, continuing, by the electronic device, to play an unfinished part of the first transition animation on a switched-to second screen, allowing a transition animation of the electronic device to be applied to more scenarios to improve user experience.
US12165241B1
A three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction method is provided. The method includes obtaining a two-dimensional (2D) pixel coordinate of a pixel in a 2D image of an object and a direction of a ray; projecting the 2D pixel coordinate to a 3D space to obtain a plurality of 3D points on the ray; for each 3D point of the plurality of 3D points: predicting a signed distance value for the 3D point; predicting a validity probability for the 3D point; and predicting an intensity value for the 3D point; obtaining a rendering loss based on the predicted signed distance values, the validity probabilities, and the intensity values of the plurality of 3D points to update a 3D reconstruction network; and extracting a 3D model of the object based on the updated 3D reconstruction network.
US12165232B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure related to systems and methods of managing litigation support services. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, from a user device, one or more requests related to litigation support services, the one or more requests specifying a litigation-related event and associated scheduling information; receiving an indication of acceptance of one or more of the requests from one or more user devices associated with litigation support service providers; and transmitting, to the user device, the indication of acceptance.
US12165228B1
In an illustrative embodiment, an automated system determines rental income and location quality for geographic regions using customized data sets. The system can generate customized location feature sets for applying to trained location quality prediction models where the feature sets include hybrid features combining aspects of two or more items of the location feature data into a single hybrid feature and the geographic regions are sized to a predetermined granularity level. Each feature set associated with a geographic region can be applied to a machine learning data model trained to predict rental property income at the respective predefined region from the customized location feature sets. Using the output data from the machine learning data model, the system can calculate location metrics quantifying a rental property income and the location quality for the geographic region.
US12165223B2
Implementations of various methods and systems to transform renewable energy units with two waypoints or a destination waypoint or a series sequence of waypoints into community objects which have associated price-time priority queues for transformed renewable energy units. The present disclosed invention relates to combining the concepts of objected oriented programming, market price queues, renewable energy, navigation systems and social networking and transmission as a fungible asset class or renewable energy linked to transmission as an open market.
US12165221B2
A system and method for a podcast community that creates an avenue for listeners to provide feedback to podcasters. These solutions include websites, web applications, mobile applications and algorithms that connect people listening to podcasts around the world. The mobile application creates a forum where podcast listeners can listen and comment on podcast episodes. Listeners can interact with each other, podcasters and featured guests on the applications. Users and podcasters can also attach media files to comments and podcasts respectively.
US12165208B2
Systems and methods for offering and purchasing tokenized securities on a blockchain platform meeting current and future federal, state, and offering and holding entity rules and regulations. Tokenized securities purchased during or after the tokenized securities offering are tradable on a secondary market. The server computer of the tokenized securities provides an automated transfer capability for tokenized securities holders.
US12165200B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for tracking and visualizing an order are described. An exchange computer system (ECS) can receive an order from a user, generate an order and tag the order with the order identification. The ECS can transmit data to the user that causes a graphical user interface (GUI) to display tracking status. The ECS can conduct an operation associated with the order, and a stage of order execution can be determined. The order execution stages can vary based on a type of the order. Data indicative of the stage of the order execution and the order identification can be obtained in response to receiving the request for information indicative of the order status of the order. The ECS can transmit data that causes a GUI to display the order status that indicates the stage of the order.
US12165199B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, a group account service providing server capable of converting a private account into a group account in real time through a terminal of the host of a comprises: an account management unit configured to convert a first account into a group account when a group account conversion request for the first account of a host of a group is generated; a transaction ledger management unit configured to record change information in a transaction ledger for the group account when the change information including at least one of a transaction occurrence event and an information occurrence event is generated for the group account; a virtual ledger management unit configured to generate a virtual ledger to be mapped to the transaction ledger when the first account is changed to the group account.
US12165193B2
Techniques are described herein for selecting, curating, normalizing, enriching, and synthesizing the results of user experience (UX) tests. In some embodiments, a system receives input defining or modifying a theme schema for classifying results of user experience tests. Responsive to receiving the input, the system trains a themer model based at least in part on example classifications in a training dataset, where the classifications map results to themes within the theme schema. When a new set of results for a user experience test is received, the trained machine learning model may generate a set of predicted themes to classify the test results. The output of the model may be used to render user interfaces and/or trigger other actions directed to optimizing a product's design.
US12165190B2
The present disclosure relates to an in-store automatic payment method and system applied to an unmanned store service, wherein the method and the system reduce the burden of excessively collecting videos from a number of fixed cameras installed in the related art by using an egocentric video, computer computation overhead, and installation expense and operating expense of a system for an unmanned store. The method includes: collecting, by a mobile terminal, an egocentric video; detecting, by at least one among multiple devices, a purchase target item from the egocentric video; calculating, by at least one among the multiple devices, a level of reliability for the purchase target item from the egocentric video; and registering, by at least one among the multiple devices, the purchase target item on a selected-item list of a user when the level of reliability is equal to or greater than a preset threshold.
US12165186B2
A device may receive user data associated with a product or service, the user data including a user identifier associated with a user. The device may identify a business application that is relevant to the product or service, the business application being designed to provide the user with a business offer related to the product or service. In addition, the device may provide the user data to the business application and receive, from the business application, business application state data and user response data, the business application state data specifying a partially completed transaction associated with the product or service, and the user response data including information associated with the partially completed transaction. The device may store the business application state data and the user response data, and perform an action based on the business application state data.
US12165183B2
A system and method are provided for managing multiple transactional workflows. The method includes saving each transactional workflow with a unique identifier, mapping the unique identifier to an entity associated with the client device used to initiate the corresponding transactional workflow, providing a first option for the client device to retrieve from the server device details of the plurality of transactional workflows, and receiving a request at a later time to retrieve details of the plurality of transactional workflows. The method also includes performing an authentication process, using the predetermined identifying information to determine unique identifiers of the corresponding saved transactional workflows, providing a second option for the client device to resume one or more of the transactional workflows, and resuming the corresponding one or more transactional workflows. Each transactional workflow is saved in a format that permits the server device to execute and complete a binding outcome.
US12165178B1
Systems and methods are provided to generate subscription recommendations within a membership platform. Exemplary implementations may: obtain subscribership information for subscribers of a membership platform; for an individual subscriber, identify other ones of the subscribers who commonly subscribe to the content creators subscribed to by the individual subscriber; for individual ones of the other ones of the subscribers, identify other ones of the content creators the other ones of the subscribers subscribe to but the individual subscriber does not; for individual ones of the other ones of the content creators, determine individual quantities of the other ones of the subscribers that are commonly subscribed; rank the other ones of the content creators based on the individual quantities; generate one or more subscription recommendations; effectuate presentation of the one or more subscription recommendations; and/or perform other operations.
US12165176B1
Systems and methods for providing authentication circles to pursue financial goals and/or share expenses with others are provided. One or more provider computing systems are communicatively coupled to one or more user devices. Users may join a circle and make contributions via electronic messages that may allow for acceptance in a one-click fashion. Members may, for example, plan for and share expenses for a trip and compare the expenses with budgets.
US12165171B2
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for data record compression using graph-based techniques.
US12165158B2
A method and apparatus for managing capabilities of an account of a user system at a commerce platform are described. The method may include receiving, at the commerce platform, a request from a user system that identifies an account at the commerce platform and includes a capability requested for the account, where the requested capability corresponds to a desired functionality of the account. The method may also include mapping the requested capability to a compliance plan that defines a set of account data to be collected before activation of the capability for the account by the commerce platform. Furthermore, the method may include transmitting a message, generated by the commerce platform, that comprises a listing of additional data to be provided by the user system before activation of the capability for the account, where the additional data comprises a minimal set of account data defined by the compliance plan less any data already associated with the account at the commerce platform. The method may also include, in response to receiving, by the commerce platform, at least one response from the user system that includes the additional data, activating the capability for the account.
US12165153B2
In some implementations, a backend server and/or a middleman server may receive, from a front-end device, a request including an indication of a physical identifier associated with a user. The backend server and/or the middleman server may determine that the physical identifier is associated with an indication of theft. Accordingly, the backend server and/or the middleman server may transmit the indication of theft to one or more additional backend servers associated with the user. Additionally, the backend server and/or the middleman server may transmit, to a user device, a coded message indicating theft, where the coded message is sent using a communication method consistent with a setting associated with the user. In some implementations, the backend server and/or the middleman server may transmit a one-time authorization to the front-end device and may store an indication not to authorize an additional request including the indication of the physical identifier.
