US12165700B2
A technique reduces power consumption of a bit cell in a memory and provides write assistance to the bit cell. When the bit cell is active, a power-saving write-assist circuit coupled to the bit cell is selectively sized according to a type of memory access. When the bit cell is inactive, the virtual power supply node floats to a predetermined voltage between a first voltage on a first power supply node coupled to the bit cell and a second voltage on a second power supply node coupled to the bit cell. A method for controlling power consumption of a bit cell and assisting a write to the bit cell includes providing a reference voltage to a virtual power supply node coupled to the bit cell. The reference voltage is provided based on an operational state of the bit cell and a type of memory access to the bit cell.
US12165696B2
A memory device includes a memory die bonded to a logic die via a wafer-on-wafer bond. A controller of the memory device that is coupled to the memory die can activate a row of the memory die. Responsive to activating the row, a sense amplifier stripe of the memory die can latch a first plurality of signals. A transceiver can route a second plurality of signals from the sense amplifier stripe to the logic die.
US12165694B2
Disclosed is a nonvolatile memory device which include a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells connected to a plurality of word lines, an address decoder that controls a selected word line among the plurality of word lines based on an address received from an external device including a first temperature sensor, a second temperature sensor that measures a read temperature of first memory cells connected to the selected word line from among the plurality of memory cells, and a temperature compensation circuit that calculates a read level offset based on the read temperature and a program temperature of the first memory cells measured by the first temperature sensor and generates a compensation read voltage based on the read level offset. The address decoder is further configured to provide the compensation read voltage to the selected word line.
US12165690B2
Methods, systems, and devices for adjusting a refresh rate during a self-refresh state are described. A memory system may enter a self-refresh state and execute a first set of refresh operations on a set of rows of memory cells at the memory system according to a first rate. The memory system may determine, based on executing the first set of refresh operations, that a counter associated with the set of refresh operations satisfies a threshold for a second time while the memory system is in the self-refresh state. In response to the counter satisfying the threshold for the second time, a flip-flop circuit at the memory system may modify an output of the flip-flop circuit and the memory system may decrease the rate for executing the refresh operations to a second rate based on the modified output of the flip-flop circuit.
US12165688B2
One example of a memory device includes an array of flash memory cells, an array of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) memory cells, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute first instructions stored in the array of DRAM memory cells to access the array of flash memory cells.
US12165678B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes first to fourth shields, first to fourth terminals, and first magnetic member. The third shield includes a first partial region and a second partial region. The fourth shield includes a third partial region and a fourth partial region. The first magnetic member is provided between a portion of the first shield and a portion of the second shield in a first direction from the first shield to the second shield. The first magnetic member is provided between the first partial region and the third partial region in a second direction crossing the first direction. The portion of the first shield is located between the second partial region and the fourth partial region in the second direction.
US12165668B2
A method of performing at least de-reverberation and noise-reduction of an input sound signal of at least one input channel includes: performing, using at least one filter element, at least one of de-reverberation and noise-reduction of the input sound signal to generate a clean output sound signal; and determining, by a non-intrusive measure (NIM) estimation element, at least one non-intrusive measure (NIM) from the sound signal, wherein the at least one NIM includes at least one of voice activity detection (VAD) posterior, reverberation time, clarity index, direct-to-reverberant ratio (DRR), and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); the de-reverberation is achieved by applying at least one channel shortening (CS) filter component of the at least one filter element in conjunction with the at least one NIM; and the noise reduction is performed in combination with the de-reverberation by the channel shortening (CS) filter component.
US12165666B2
The present invention relates to audio coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR). A system and a method for generating a high frequency component of a signal from a low frequency component of the signal is described. The system comprises an analysis filter bank providing a plurality of analysis subband signals of the low frequency component of the signal. It also comprises a non-linear processing unit to generate a synthesis subband signal with a synthesis frequency by modifying the phase of a first and a second of the plurality of analysis subband signals and by combining the phase-modified analysis subband signals. Finally, it comprises a synthesis filter bank for generating the high frequency component of the signal from the synthesis subband signal.
US12165663B2
Systems and methods for training a machine-learned model are provided. A method can include can include obtaining an unlabeled audio signal, sampling the unlabeled audio signal to select one or more sampled slices, inputting the one or more sampled slices into a machine-learned model, receiving, as an output of the machine-learned model, one or more determined characteristics associated with the audio signal, determining a loss function for the machine-learned model based at least in part on a difference between the one or more determined characteristics and one or more corresponding ground truth characteristics of the audio signal, and training the machine-learned model from end to end based at least in part on the loss function. The one or more determined characteristics can include one or more reconstructed portions of the audio signal temporally adjacent to the one or more sampled slices or an estimated distance between two sampled slices.
US12165660B2
A multi-channel audio signal coding method includes obtaining a to-be-encoded first audio frame, pairing at least five channel signals according to a first pairing manner to obtain a first channel pair set, obtaining a first sum of correlation values of the first channel pair set, where one channel pair has one correlation value, pairing the at least five channel signals according to a second pairing manner to obtain a second channel pair set, obtaining a second sum of correlation values of the second channel pair set, determining a target pairing manner of the at least five channel signals based on the first sum of correlation values and the second sum of correlation values, and encoding the at least five channel signals based on a channel pair set corresponding to the target pairing manner, where the target pairing manner is the first pairing manner or the second pairing manner.
US12165659B2
A sound signal downmix method includes an inter-channel relationship information obtaining step of obtaining an inter-channel correlation value and preceding channel information of every pair of two channels included in N channels, the inter-channel correlation value being a value indicating a degree of a correlation between input sound signals of the two channels, the preceding channel information being information indicating which of the input sound signals of the two channels is preceding, and a downmix step of obtaining a downmix signal by weighting and adding the input sound signals of the N channels, the input sound signal of each channel being weighted based on the inter-channel correlation value and the preceding channel information such that the larger a correlation with an input sound signal of a preceding channel that precedes the channel, the smaller a weight, whereas the larger a correlation with an input sound signal of a succeeding channel that succeeds the channel, the larger the weight.
US12165652B2
A training method includes: acquiring voice data of a user on a plurality of devices, and extracting acoustic features based on the voice data to construct a training data set; inputting the training data set into a neural network model, training the neural network model, and acquiring a loss function of each training of the neural network model; and determining that the training of the neural network model is completed when the loss function converges, wherein the loss function is a weighted sum of a classification loss function, a reconstruction loss function, a difference loss function, and a similarity loss function.
US12165646B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for delta models for providing privatized speech-to-text during virtual meetings. In one embodiment, a system may include a non-transitory computer-readable medium; a communications interface; and a processor. The processor may be configured to execute processor-executable instructions to: join a virtual meeting. Each participant in the virtual meeting may exchange audio streams with other participants in the virtual meeting. The instructions may include receiving, from a video conference provider, a local model for speech recognition. The local model may be a copy of a centralized model. The instructions may include performing speech recognition using the local model on the audio streams. Performing speech recognition may include identifying audio feature data within the one or more audio streams, identifying, based on a vocabulary database, user-specific vocabulary within the audio feature data, and generating, based on the user-specific vocabulary, a private transcription of the audio streams.
US12165643B2
Systems and methods for distributed voice processing are disclosed herein. In one example, the method includes detecting sound via a microphone array of a first playback device and analyzing, via a first wake-word engine of the first playback device, the detected sound. The first playback device may transmit data associated with the detected sound to a second playback device over a local area network. A second wake-word engine of the second playback device may analyze the transmitted data associated with the detected sound. The method may further include identifying that the detected sound contains either a first wake word or a second wake word based on the analysis via the first and second wake-word engines, respectively. Based on the identification, sound data corresponding to the detected sound may be transmitted over a wide area network to a remote computing device associated with a particular voice assistant service.
US12165640B2
A response method, a terminal, and a storage medium. The response method comprises: determining, at a first time point by means of speech recognition processing, a first target text corresponding to the first time point (1001); determining, according to the first target text, a first predicted intention and an answer to be pushed, wherein said answer is used for responding to speech information (1002); continuing to determine, by means of the speech recognition processing, a second target text corresponding to a second time point and a second predicted intention, wherein the second time point is the next successive time point of the first time point (1003); determining, according to the first predicted intention and the second predicted intention, whether a preset response condition is satisfied (1004); and responding according to said answer if the preset response condition is determined to be satisfied (1005).
US12165638B2
A method includes receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance spoken by a user and processing, using a first recognition model, the audio data to generate a non-contextual candidate hypothesis as output from the first recognition model. The non-contextual candidate hypothesis has a corresponding likelihood score assigned by the first recognition model. The method also includes generating, using a second recognition model configured to receive personal context information, a contextual candidate hypothesis that includes a personal named entity. The method also includes scoring, based on the personal context information and the corresponding likelihood score assigned to the non-contextual candidate hypothesis, the contextual candidate hypothesis relative to the non-contextual candidate hypotheses. Based on the scoring of the contextual candidate hypothesis relative to the non-contextual candidate hypothesis, the method also includes generating a transcription of the utterance by selecting one of the contextual candidate hypothesis or the non-contextual candidate hypothesis.
US12165630B2
A method of training a speech model includes receiving, at a voice-enabled device, a fixed set of training utterances where each training utterance in the fixed set of training utterances includes a transcription paired with a speech representation of the corresponding training utterance. The method also includes sampling noisy audio data from an environment of the voice-enabled device. For each training utterance in the fixed set of training utterances, the method further includes augmenting, using the noisy audio data sampled from the environment of the voice-enabled device, the speech representation of the corresponding training utterance to generate noisy audio samples and pairing each of the noisy audio samples with the corresponding transcription of the corresponding training utterance. The method additionally includes training a speech model on the noisy audio samples generated for each speech representation in the fixed set of training utterances.
US12165626B2
In a wave focusing device and a wave emitting device having the wave focusing device, the wave focusing device has a plurality of filters and focuses a wave by a phase overlap. The plurality of filters includes a first filter formed on a substrate, a second filter formed on the substrate and overlapping with the first filter in a first area, and a third filter formed on the substrate and overlapping with the second filter in a second area. A size of the first area is substantially same as that of the second area. A first portion of the second filter in the first area is inverted to a second portion of the second filter in the second area, with respect to a first axis. A wave passing through the wave focusing device is focused at a center of each of the first, second and third filters.
US12165621B2
An apparatus for applying rosin to a bow has a cake of bow rosin and a retainer element joined securely to the cake of bow rosin, the retainer element adapted to be gripped by a user's hand.
US12165620B2
The disclosure provides a support body, an attachment, and a support method. The support body is in an annular shape for supporting an attachment on a head of a drum and includes a body part in an annular shape configured to be able to directly or indirectly support the attachment, wherein the attachment is configured to be supportable via the body part by making a lower end part of the body part be supported by an edge part of the head.
US12165618B2
Apparatus and method for obtaining and displaying appliance photographic image and supplemental data
A management unit including: a demand plan generating unit that obtains control information items related to energy consuming appliances; an obtaining unit that obtains picture data items showing the appliances; a memory which stores the picture data items obtained by the obtaining unit; a selecting unit which selects a picture data item from selection candidates including the picture data items stored in the memory, based on a specified control mode; a processor that executes processing for superimposing the control information items corresponding to the appliances in the picture data item selected by the selecting unit; and an output unit which displays the picture data item with the superimposed control information item.
US12165616B2
A display device and a control method therefor are disclosed. The display device includes: a display; a transmitter configured to transmit an infrared (IR) signal; and one or more processors configured to: control the display to display a multi-screen including a plurality of images based on a plurality of image signals received from a plurality of source devices, each of the plurality of source devices using a same IR protocol; perform, based on a user command indicating a first image from among the plurality of images, a process for selectively controlling a first source device, from among the plurality of source devices, which provides the first image; and transmit an IR signal for selectively controlling the first source device through the transmitter.
US12165609B2
The present application provides a display panel in which transistors in an input pull-up module, a stage transfer output module, and an output pull-up module are provided as P-type low temperature polysilicon thin film transistors, and a transistor in an output pull-down module is provided as an N-type metal oxide thin film transistor.
US12165605B2
An image display method is provided. The method includes: in response to receiving an Nth frame synchronization signal, acquiring an (N+1)th frame image to be displayed and pixel data of pixels in the (N+1)th frame image to be displayed (S12); calculating backlight brightness data of a display screen according to the pixel data by a backlight algorithm (S14); in response to receiving an (N+1)th frame synchronization signal, synchronously sending the (N+1)th frame image to be displayed and the backlight brightness data to the display screen and a backlight driving board respectively (S16). In addition, the present application further discloses an image processing apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium.
US12165601B2
A display device includes: a pixel which emits light at a luminance corresponding to a data voltage applied thereto; and a data driver which supplies the data voltage to the pixel. The data driver includes: a first amplifier which outputs a first reference voltage; a first booster circuit including an input terminal connected to a first input terminal of the first amplifier, and an output terminal connected to a second input terminal of the first amplifier; a second amplifier which outputs a second reference voltage; a resistance string which receives the first and second reference voltages, and generate gamma voltages which are intermediate voltages between the first and second reference voltages; a digital-analog converter which outputs a gamma voltage corresponding to a gray scale of the pixel among the gamma voltages; and a source amplifier which outputs the gamma voltage as the data voltage.
US12165599B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver, a driving controller and a power voltage generator. The display panel displays an image based on input image data. The gate driver outputs a gate signal to a gate line. The data driver outputs a data voltage to a data line. The driving controller drives display areas of the display panel in different driving frequencies. The power voltage generator outputs a data power voltage to the data driver. The driving controller outputs an output data enable signal including a writing period having an active signal and a holding period having an inactive signal for the respective display areas. The power voltage generator generates the data power voltage having a high power voltage level during the writing period and a low power voltage level in at least a portion of the holding period.
US12165598B2
A display device includes: a pixel, a scan driver, an emission driver, and a data driver. The pixel includes: a light emitting element; a first transistor; a second transistor connected between a data line and a first node; a third transistor connected between a second node and a third node connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor; a fourth transistor connected between the second node and a third power line; a fifth transistor connected between the first node and a fourth node; a sixth transistor connected between a first power line and the first node and which is turned off in response to a first emission control signal; a storage capacitor connected between the third node and the fourth node; and a first capacitor connected between the first power line and the fourth node.
US12165597B2
A display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a gate driving circuit including shift register units and clock signal lines including a first clock signal line, a second clock signal line providing a second clock signal, and a third clock signal line providing a third clock signal. An input circuit of a n-th stage shift register unit in the shift register units is connected with the first clock signal line, a first control circuit of the n-th stage shift register unit is connected with the first clock signal line, the second clock signal line, and the third clock signal line, a second control circuit of the n-th stage shift register unit is connected with the second clock signal line, and a phase of the second clock signal is opposite to a phase of the third clock signal.
US12165591B2
A display panel includes a fundamental frequency display frame and a low frequency display frame. In the fundamental frequency display frame, a light emission control signal includes a light emission control period. A bias adjustment signal includes a bias adjustment period. The bias adjustment period is M times greater than the light emission control period. The fundamental frequency display frame includes a fundamental frequency scan stage. The time of the fundamental frequency scan stage is N times greater than the light emission control period. The low frequency display frame includes a fundamental frequency scan stage and a blank stage. The blank stage includes at least a non-bias stage. The time of the non-bias stage is L times greater than the light emission control period. L is not an integer multiple of M.
US12165583B2
A display panel has a first display region, a second display region, a first peripheral region and a second peripheral region. The first peripheral region is located outside the first display region, the second peripheral region is located outside the second display region, and a transmittance of the first display region is greater than a transmittance of the second display region. The display panel includes a substrate, light-emitting devices disposed on the substrate and located in the first display region, first pixel circuits disposed on the substrate and located in the first peripheral region, and a gating circuit disposed on the substrate and coupled to the light-emitting devices and the first pixel circuits. The gating circuit is configured to connect each first pixel circuit to at least two light-emitting devices in a time-division manner to drive the light-emitting devices connected to the first pixel circuit to emit light.
US12165578B2
A display driver includes a nonvolatile memory, an encoder, a decoder, and a compensator. The nonvolatile memory is configured to store accumulated stress data and compensation data corresponding to the accumulated stress data. The encoder is configured to encode the compensation data received from the nonvolatile memory to generate encoded compensation data. The decoder is configured to decode the encoded compensation data to generate decoded compensation data. The compensator is configured to process input image data based on the decoded compensation data and generate accumulated stress data.
US12165560B2
Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate, and a first display region and a second display region that are located on the base substrate, where the first display region includes a plurality of first sub-pixels and a plurality of transparent regions, the second display region includes a plurality of second sub-pixels, and a distribution density of the first sub-pixels is smaller that of the second sub-pixels; and an area occupied by the first sub-pixels is smaller than that occupied by the second sub-pixels.
US12165557B2
To provide a display device capable of displaying a plurality of images by superimposition using a plurality of memory circuits provided in a pixel. A plurality of memory circuits are provided in a pixel, and signals corresponding to images for superimposition are retained in each of the plurality of memory circuits. In the pixel, the signals corresponding to the images for superimposition are added to each of the plurality of memory circuits. The signals are added to the signals retained in the memory circuits by capacitive coupling. A display element can display an image corresponding to a signal in which a signal written to a pixel through a wiring is added to the signals retained in the plurality of memory circuits. Reduction in the amount of arithmetic processing for displaying images by superimposition can be achieved.
US12165550B2
Aspects presented herein relate to methods, devices, and apparatuses for display processing. The apparatus may obtain a first intensity map associated with first luminance information for a scene. The apparatus may also configure a second intensity map based on the first intensity map and at least one coordinate frame from a perspective of a user of a device for display content associated with the scene. The apparatus may also determine whether luminance information for at least one region in the second intensity map is within a suitable luminance range for the display content associated with the scene. The apparatus may also process a set of pixels corresponding to a section in a display associated with the at least one region based on the luminance information being at least one of: within the suitable luminance range, outside of the suitable luminance range, or within an indistinguishable luminance range.
US12165545B2
An electronic label and an electronic label system are disclosed. The electronic label includes: a plurality of display screens; a communicator configured to receive content data to be displayed on the plurality of display screens; and a controller including a serial data interface and configured to transmit, through the serial data interface, the content data to be displayed on the plurality of display screens and a control signal generated by the controller for controlling the plurality of display screens to the plurality of display screens respectively, so as to control the plurality of display screens to display the respective content data received according to the control signal.
US12165544B2
A system including a drone device comprising securable compartments, each of the securable compartments lockable and configured to be unlocked by a user or a remote device is provided. The system also includes a series of sensors provided with the drone device and configured to assess health attributes of the user while the drone is positioned proximate the user and a remote computing system configured to receive sensed information from the drone device and assess health of the user, wherein the remote computing system holographically displays health attributes of the user. The drone device travels to the user to provide or receive healthcare related objects to or from the user. The series of sensors comprise at least one audio sensor and at least one video sensor configured to assess user health attributes about the user's body in a contactless manner based on both audio and visual health attribute readings.
US12165543B2
A removable hat device for a motor vehicle roof is disclosed, having a base housing, a tubular guide, a hat cover body, a hat base, a central cylindrical support column, and an elongated bolt. The base housing includes plurality of rubber coated magnetic feet adapted to removably magnetically adhere to the roof of the motor vehicle. The base housing further includes an upstanding cylindrical sleeve. The tubular guide is fixed to the base housing. The hat cover body is attached to the base housing via a circular ring shaped platform having a plurality of spokes extruding from the central cylindrical support column. The central cylindrical support column is telescopically received in the upstanding hollow cylindrical sleeve of the base housing. The elongated bolt removably extends through the tubular guide, the hat cover body, the upstanding cylindrical sleeve, and locks at the central cylindrical support column.
US12165540B2
A method for generating a virtual reality environment includes detecting an illustrative asset that is common to a first set of assets and a second sets of assets. The method further includes rendering a three-dimensional (3-D) model of the illustrative asset and a 3-D model of the first set of assets using an illustration approach to produce 3-D frames of a first descriptive asset. The method further includes modifying the illustration approach based on an evaluation to produce an updated illustration approach. The method further includes rendering the 3-D model of the illustrative asset and a 3-D model of the second set of assets using the updated illustration approach to produce 3-D frames of a second descriptive asset.
US12165537B2
A method and system of tracking and analyzing data during a medical procedure is provided. A wearable sensor (e.g. EEG system to obtain EEG signals) is worn by a practitioner, where the wearable sensor covers a body part of the practitioner. The practitioner performs a medical procedure on a person. The medical procedure is video recorded. A computer system digitally registers the medical procedure by registering (i) the digital data from the wearable sensor, and (ii) the digital data of the video recording. The computer system synchronizes the registered digital data of (i) and (ii) into a synchronized data set, and sections are then identified for the synchronized data set. The computer system generates sensor data maps from the synchronized data set and the identified sections, which are then useful for the practitioner, colleagues and other learners for feedback and training purposes.
US12165534B2
A computer-aided method of educating a plurality of music students in an ensemble, including: (i) receiving search parameters from a client device for searching a multidimensional database of songs, the multidimensional database of songs being compiled to include dimensions of at least (a) instrument parts which indicate a music component being played by a particular type of instrument, (b) educational concepts present, (c) one or more proficiency levels for each of the instrument parts; (ii) searching the multidimensional database of songs to retrieve one or more songs that match the received search parameters, the one or more songs being songs that match proficiency levels of the plurality of music students in the ensemble; (iii) receiving an indication from the client device of a selected song in the one or more songs; and (iv) providing to the client device method books associated with educational concepts of the selected song.
US12165519B1
Methods for improving compliance with regulations pertaining to vehicle driving records are disclosed. One or more digital images from a camera mounted in a vehicle are received. Based on a determination that the vehicle has hours of service that have not been assigned to a driver, a subset of the one or more digital images corresponding to the hours of service are identified based on the timestamps. The subset of the one or more digital images are processed to identify a correspondence between a face of a person included in the one or more digital images and a face of a known person. Based on the correspondence transgressing a threshold level of correspondence, a user interface is generated for presentation on a device. The user interface includes an interactive user interface element for accepting a recommendation to assign the known person as the driver for the unassigned hours of service.
US12165518B2
A parking assist system for a vehicle includes the following elements. A parking space width calculator is configured to calculate a parking space width between objects. A parking width comparator is configured to compare the parking space width with the width of a virtual parking region. A movement trace detector is configured to detect a movement trace within the virtual parking region. A target detector is configured to determine whether a target faces at least one side of the virtual parking region other than the side near the vehicle. A parking priority setter is configured to set a parking priority for the virtual parking region based on a movement trace and an object. A display selector is configured to display parking space candidates based on parking priority and instructs a driver to select a parking space candidate.
US12165517B2
An in-vehicle device to be mounted on a vehicle including an audio output device configured to output audio and an image output device configured to output an image supplies power to the audio output device during a first period from when a trigger of a passenger getting on the vehicle is detected until when first operation of powering on a power supply of the vehicle is performed, and supplies power to the audio output device and the image output device during a second period from when second operation of shutting down the power supply of the vehicle is performed until when the passenger getting off the vehicle is detected.
US12165510B1
An alert system includes a first housing extending from a first end to a second end; a control system engaged with the first housing, the control system having a power source and an activation control; a second housing; lights on the first housing or the second housing, the lights being controlled by the control system; and a connection extending between the first housing and the second housing the connection including at least one or more wires such that the lights are electronically connected to the control system; the lighting system is used for providing visual alerts.
US12165504B2
Provided is a method executed by a marking device that marks a first pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a pedestrian who is going to cross a roadway and a second pedestrian crossing to be visually recognized by a driver of a vehicle on the roadway. The method includes: marking the first pedestrian crossing and the second pedestrian crossing when one or more conditions including at least a condition that a first pedestrian who is going to cross the roadway from a first side to a second side is detected are satisfied; starting to unmark the first pedestrian crossing from the first side to the second side while the first pedestrian is crossing the roadway; and unmarking the second pedestrian crossing when the first pedestrian has finished crossing the roadway.
US12165502B2
A driving mechanism is provided, including a base, a movable unit, a magnetic element, and a driving assembly. The movable unit is movably disposed on the base. The magnetic element is disposed on the movable unit and has plastic material. The driving assembly is configured to drive the movable unit to move relative to the base, wherein the driving assembly has a coil, and the magnetic element and the movable unit move relative to the base when an electrical current is applied to the coil.
US12165495B2
A security system identifies sensors in communication with the security system, and the partition attribute for each sensor is identified. The partition attribute of each sensor identities one or more partitions of the security system. The security system forms partitions based on the partition attributes.
US12165483B2
Security systems and methods for protecting retail display merchandise from theft are provided. For example, a security system includes a sensor configured to removably engage an input port of an item of merchandise, and a monitoring component configured to wirelessly communicate with the sensor and to removably support the sensor thereon, wherein the monitoring component and the sensor are configured to communicate with one another to determine a proximity of the item of merchandise relative to the monitoring component, wherein the monitoring component and/or the sensor is configured to initiate a security signal when the proximity between the monitoring component and the sensor is not within a predetermined range, and wherein the monitoring component and/or the sensor is configured to initiate a security signal in response to the sensor being removed from the input port of the item of merchandise.
US12165479B2
The present invention provides self-disabling tamper evident gift cards, and methods for making and using the gift cards. The gift cards comprise a hidden lower level activation code, and an upper level activation code that is visible. The gift cards incorporate one or more features that render either the lower level or upper level, or both, activation codes unreadable once the lower level activation code is revealed. This prevents card activation at a later time after a first instance when the activation code is accessed.
US12165476B2
Systems and techniques are provided for enabling all wins multiplier features on gaming devices during multiplayer gaming tournament play. The all wins multiplier features may be simultaneously engaged on multiple gaming devices at a predetermined point in time, and may generally all simultaneously terminate the all wins multiplier feature at the same time. Multiple different all wins multiplier features using different multiplier values may be enabled at different times during a particular tournament session.
US12165475B2
A gaming system and method for a promotional bingo tournament that supports a plurality of personal mobile devices is described. The system associates at least one venue with the promotional bingo tournament. The personal mobile devices that participate in the promotional bingo tournament, wherein each personal mobile device is associated with a player registration identifier. The age authentication component authenticates an age for each player having the player registration identifier. The location authentication component authenticates a location for each personal mobile device corresponding to each player having the player registration identifier. The mobile promotional gaming sub-system is communicatively coupled to each of the plurality of personal mobile devices over a wireless network. The video presentation sub-system is communicatively coupled to the mobile promotional gaming sub-system. The video presentation sub-system includes a leaderboard associated with the promotional bingo tournament game sessions and the promotional bingo tournament session prize.
US12165474B2
Systems and methods for providing bonus games based on positive and negative bonus accumulators are disclosed. The gaming system can generate, responsive to receiving an indication to begin a play of a game, a grid of symbols. Each symbol can have an attribute corresponding to one or more of a positive bonus value, a negative bonus value, and a credit value. The gaming system can calculate a positive accumulator value, a negative accumulator value, and a credit accumulator value based on the attribute. The gaming system can detect a condition to initiate a bonus game, and execute the bonus game based on the positive accumulator value and the negative accumulator value. The gaming system can adjust, responsive to executing the bonus game, a credit balance based on an outcome of the bonus game and the credit accumulator value.
US12165470B2
A game management system manages a casino game performed in a plurality of tables in casino facilities. The game management system includes: a camera obtaining an image by capturing bet gaming tokens; a control device specifying a betting amount on the basis of the type and the number of gaming tokens in the image by specifying a betting target on the basis of a position of the gaming token in the image; a card distribution device determining a game result of the casino game; an arithmetic device calculating a profit of a casino manager for each table and each game of the plurality of tables, on the basis of the betting target, the betting amount, and the game result; and a recording apparatus recording the profit.
US12165463B2
An electronic gaming machine includes a cabinet, a monitor configured to display an electronic game, a mount configured to secure the monitor to the cabinet, the mount including a carriage and a linkage assembly pivotably coupled to the carriage and the cabinet, and a lift assembly for moving the mount relative to the cabinet. The lift assembly includes a harness coupled to the carriage and a drive mechanism coupled to the harness and operable to selectively release and retract the harness for moving the monitor relative to the cabinet.
US12165461B2
There is provided a push button device with which a support plate can be disposed close to a display screen without providing the support plate with a latching mechanism, and which can be easily attached and detached. The invention comprises a push button device that is inserted into the opening of a transparent plate from the front side, and an annular lock plate that is disposed on the back side of the transparent plate and is fitted to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device from the back side. A snap-fit structure that is fixed to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part by rotating the lock plate is provided to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device and to the inner peripheral portion of the lock plate. The lock plate is configured to have a larger diameter than the opening in the transparent plate, and such that the surface on the support plate side hits the support plate in a state of being fixed to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part.
US12165456B2
An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a biometric information acquisition unit that acquires biometric information of a user at an arrival airport; a biometric matching unit that performs a matching process of the biometric information with registered biometric information of a registrant who deposited a baggage with the airline at a departure airport; and a guide unit that outputs guide information including a location of pickup in the arrival airport and a start time of pickup of the baggage associated with the registered biometric information to the user who is authenticated as the same person as the registrant by the matching process.
US12165454B2
Techniques for controlling access to zones of a building. The techniques include determining with a computing device configured to regulate access to a zone of the building, at a time and responsive to a request to access the zone of the building received via an access control interface, whether a user is allowed to access the zone of the building; and in response to the computing device determining that the user is not allowed to access the zone at the time, receiving, via the access control interface, a request to permit access to the zone at the time; determining, with the computing device and at the time, whether to permit access to the zone based on one or more criteria; and outputting a result of determining whether to permit access to the zone.
US12165450B2
An information processing apparatus in the present invention includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a first biometrics information group including biometrics information on a first person detected from a first image captured in a first area from a registered biometrics information group including biometrics information on a plurality of registrants; and a matching unit that matches biometrics information on a second person detected from a second image captured in a second area that is different from the first area against biometrics information included in the first biometrics information group.
US12165447B2
A movable barrier operator comprising a motor, communication circuitry configured to receive a control signal and communicate with a door lock associated with a passageway door, and a controller. The controller is configured to authenticate the control signal, wherein authenticating the control signal includes associating the signal with a first level of access or a second level of access. The controller is further configured to communicate with the door lock via the communication circuitry to permit opening of the passageway door in response to associating the control signal with the first level of access and inhibit opening of the passageway door in response to associating the control signal with the second level of access. The controller is configured to cause the motor to open the movable barrier regardless of association of the control signal with the first level of access or the second level of access.
US12165446B1
Techniques described herein comprise receiving, from a first measurement system associated with a vehicle, first measurement data taken at a first time and second measurement data taken at a second time, different from the first time. Third measurement data taken at the first time and fourth measurement data taken at the second time is received from a second measurement system associated with the vehicle. A probability is determined that an error has occurred in the vehicle based on the first, second, third and fourth measurement data; and the vehicle is controlled based at least in part on the determined probability.
US12165438B2
A computer-implemented method of aircraft tire maintenance is disclosed including the steps of receiving data of a plurality of pressure and temperature measurements, each of the plurality of pressure and temperature measurements having an associated time stamp; determining stable points in the plurality of pressure and temperature measurements; and using the stable points for determining tire maintenance. A computer readable medium with instructions to implement the method and a processing system to implement the method are also disclosed.
US12165436B1
An apparatus comprising an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive data about an interior of a vehicle. The processor may be configured to process the data, determine a number of occupants in the vehicle in response to an analysis of the data and generate a counter signal comprising the number of the occupants in the vehicle. The counter signal may be generated in a format compatible with a toll interface of a toll tag. The toll tag may be implemented in the vehicle. The toll tag may be configured to generate a readable occupant count in response to the counter signal. The readable occupant count may be configured to be scanned by an automatic roadway system.
US12165434B2
An automated segmentation and identification system/method for identifying geographic atrophy (GA) phenotypic patterns in fundus autofluorescence images. A hybrid process combines a supervised pixel classifier with an active contour algorithm. A trained, machine learning model (e.g., SVM or U-Net) provides initial GA segmentation/classification, and this is followed by Chan-Vese active contour algorithm. The junctional zones of the GA segmented area are then analyzed for geometric regularity and light intensity regularity. A determination of GA phenotype is made, at least in part, from these parameters.
US12165430B2
According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a plurality of optical sensors that are arranged in a detection area and each of which is configured to output a signal corresponding to light irradiating the optical sensor; a detection circuit configured to be supplied with the signals from the optical sensors; and a control circuit configured to output first data and second data for which detection conditions for acquiring the signals differ from each other. The control circuit is configured to output detection information data in which the detection conditions for the first data and the detection conditions for the second data are added as attribute information to a head of a data string in which the first data and the second data are sequentially arranged.
US12165428B2
A portion rectangle estimation unit estimates a specific portion of a human body from an image, and outputs a first portion rectangle. A first human body rectangle estimation unit estimates the human body corresponding to the specific portion in the first portion rectangle based on coordinates of the first portion rectangle, and outputs a first human body rectangle. A second human body rectangle estimation unit estimates the human body from the image, and outputs a second human body rectangle. A second portion rectangle estimation unit estimates the specific portion corresponding to the human body in the second human body rectangle based on coordinates of the second human body rectangle, and outputs a second portion rectangle. A human body integration unit integrates duplicate human rectangles based on at least a relationship between the portion rectangles with respect to a plurality of pairs of mutually corresponding portion rectangles and human body rectangles.
US12165422B2
A mobile object control device of an embodiment includes a lane marking candidate recognizer configured to recognize candidates for a lane marking that demarcates a traveling lane in which a mobile object travels from an image including surroundings of the mobile object captured by an imaging unit, a virtual line setter configured to set at least one or more virtual lines outside of the lane marking recognized in the past as a lane marking that demarcates the traveling lane, when viewed from the mobile object, and a lane marking searcher configured to search for a lane marking that demarcates a current traveling lane of the mobile object on the basis of the lane marking candidates recognized by the lane marking candidate recognizer and the one or more virtual lines.
US12165421B2
A deceleration detection apparatus including an object detection device that detects an object around a subject vehicle, a rainfall detection device that detects a rainfall state around the subject vehicle, a brightness detection device that detects a brightness around the subject vehicle, and an electronic control unit including a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform determining whether a forward vehicle traveling in front of the subject vehicle decelerates, based on an amount of change in a vehicle speed of the forward vehicle detected by the object detection device, a lighting state of a brake lamp of the forward vehicle detected by the object detection device, the rainfall state detected by the rainfall detection device, and the brightness detected by the brightness detection device.
US12165418B2
A first object detection unit detects an object from a captured image and outputs object position information, in a non-high speed processing mode. A switching unit switches to a high-speed processing mode when the first object detection unit outputs the object position information. An image trimming unit extracts a trimmed image from the captured image based on the object position information output from the first object detection unit, in the high-speed processing mode. A second object detection unit detects an object from the trimmed image and outputs the object position information. A protrusion determination unit determines whether the object thus detected protrudes from the trimmed image. When it is determined that the object thus detected protrudes from the trimmed image, the switching unit switches to the non-high speed processing mode.
US12165415B2
System and methods are provided that allow users of shared vehicles to benefit from an enhanced user experience that seamlessly unlocks and/or provides access to features for autonomous vehicles by proactively computing an interest index based on detected contextual behavioral patterns of the pedestrians such as the trajectory a candidate passenger is walking given a locational context.
US12165414B2
A camera system may automatically identify high frequency motion regions in a field of view of the camera system. Analysis of motion events detected at different regions of a scene in the field of view, may be performed. Similar events frequently occurring at a certain region may be recorded/accumulated and compared to a threshold. Regions with high frequency activity may be determined and a user may be notified. If the user is not interested in events within the high activity regions, the regions may be ignored and notifications to the user may cease. The camera system may determine specific actions/events occurring in a region, such as a person approaching or leaving a home.
US12165410B2
A computer-implemented method and computing system for sensing events and optionally and preferably augmenting a video feed with overlay, comprising in some embodiments a data acquisition module, a sensor module, and optionally and preferably an overlay module. By describing the state of an activity with models that capture the semantics of the activity and comparing this description to a library of event patterns, occurrences of events are detected. Detected events are optionally processed by the overlay module to generate video feed augmented with overlay illustrating said events.
US12165402B2
Provided are an image recognition device and an image recognition method capable of improving subject recognition accuracy. The image recognition device (image sensor 1) according to the present disclosure includes an imaging unit (10) and a recognition unit (14). The imaging unit (10) generates image data by capturing a plurality of images in different wavelength bands using imaging pixels (R, G, B, IR) receiving light in four or more types of wavelength bands. The recognition unit (14) recognizes a subject from each of the plurality of pieces of image data for each of the wavelength bands.
US12165397B2
The present disclosure provides is a high-speed image recognition method and apparatus using a 3D CNN. The high-speed image recognition method using the 3D CNN includes: inputting each of a first image clips among image clips constituting an input image to the 3D CNN; acquiring softmax function values calculated in the 3D CNN with respect to each of the first image clips; calculating a score margin by using the softmax function values; comparing the score margin with a predetermined threshold value to determine whether to input at least one additional image clip other than the first image clips among the image clips constituting the input image to the 3D CNN. Therefore, a calculation speed for image recognition can be improved.
US12165391B2
Methods and systems for automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) can involve obtaining results from a manual image review of an image captured by one or more ALPR cameras and processed by an ALPR engine and feeding the results from the manual image review back to the ALPR engine to train the ALPR engine where to search in the image for a license plate. Training of the ALPR engine increase the attach rate of an optical character recognition (OCR) engine with respect to images captured the ALPR camera(s) and processed by the ALPR engine.
US12165388B2
A method for treating plants in a field, in which a specific crop is planted, has the following steps: selecting a treatment tool for treating plants; capturing an image of the field, the image being correlated with positional information; determining a position of a plant to be treated in a field, using a neural network into which the captured image is fed, wherein the neural network has multiple specific classes and a general class, the crop belongs to one of the specific classes, and plants not corresponding to the crop belong to both one of the specific classes and to the general class, or at least belong to the general class; directing the treatment tool to the position of the plant; and treating the plant using the treatment tool.
US12165375B2
Image recognition and report generation is described. A camera component of a mobile device captures image frames of a physical environment. Each frame is run through an image recognition library to identify object(s) of interest. An object of interest is determined and it is an item associated with periodic maintenance. An identification of the identified object of interest is transmitted to a server. The mobile device receives information about the identified object of interest from the server that is based on a location of the mobile device, the information including a maintenance plan for the identified object of interest.
US12165374B2
A determination device includes an acquisition unit that sequentially acquires a plurality of elements included in series data related to a classification target, a score calculation unit that calculates an integrated score for binary classification of the classification target in each time the acquisition unit acquires the elements, a class determination unit that determines a determination result of the binary classification as one of a first class, a second class, and class indetermination, on the basis of comparison between the integrated score and the upper limit threshold value and the lower limit threshold value of the integrated score in each time the acquisition unit acquires the elements, and a remaining time estimation unit that calculates an index value of a remaining time required for the class determination unit to determine a final determination result of the binary classification as one of two classes.
US12165366B2
A point cloud decoding method related to the field of coding technologies and includes reconstructing a point cloud comprising one or more patches. The one or more patches comprise a current patch. The reconstructing process may include transforming coordinates (x2, y2) of a second point of the current patch in a second coordinate system to coordinates (x1, y1) of a first point of the current patch in a first coordinate system, where the coordinates (x1, y1) of the first point of the current patch in the first coordinate system may be obtained based on the coordinates (x2, y2) of the second point of the current patch in the second coordinate system and a transform matrix.
US12165357B2
Provided is a process for generating specifications for lenses of eyewear based on locations of extents of the eyewear determined through a pupil location determination process. Some embodiments capture an image and determine, using computer vision image recognition functionality, the pupil locations of a human's eyes based on the captured image depicting the human wearing eyewear.
US12165354B2
The present application discloses a pose estimation method and device, related equipment and a storage medium. In the pose estimation method, a visual observation model constraint is constructed according to images, a motion model constraint is constructed according to inertial data, and a pose of a camera, an inertial measurement unit or an object that corresponds to the time of each image is calculated according to the visual observation model constraint and the motion model constraint. The pose estimation method adopts a fusion model of the visual observation model constraint and the motion model constraint to improve the accuracy, stability and robustness of pose estimation in a complex scene.
US12165352B2
Disclosed herein are systems and method for determining environment dimensions based on environment pose. In one aspect, the method may include training, with a dataset including a plurality of images featuring an environment and labelled landmarks in the environment, a neural network to identify a pose of an environment. The method may comprise receiving an input image depicting the environment, generating an input tensor based on the input image, and inputting the input tensor into the neural network, which may be configured to generate an output tensor including a position of each identified landmark, a confidence level associated with each position, and a pose confidence score. The method may include calculating a homography matrix between each position in the output tensor along a camera plane and a corresponding position in an environment plane in order to output an image that visually connects each landmark along the environment plane.
US12165348B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and medium are disclosed for precise geospatial structure geometry extraction from multi-view imagery, including a non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by a processor cause the processor to: receive an image of a structure having an outline, the image having pixels with first pixel values depicting the structure and second pixel values outside of the structure depicting a background of a geographic area surrounding the structure, and image metadata including first geolocation data; and generate a synthetic shape image of the structure from the image using a machine learning algorithm, the synthetic shape image including pixels having pixel values forming a synthetic shape of the outline, the synthetic shape image having second geolocation data derived from the first geolocation data.
US12165347B2
Generating edge-depth values for an object, utilizing the edge-depth values in generating a 3D point cloud for the object, and utilizing the generated 3D point cloud for generating a 3D bounding shape (e.g., 3D bounding box) for the object. Edge-depth values for an object are depth values that are determined from frame(s) of vision data (e.g., left/right images) that captures the object, and that are determined to correspond to an edge of the object (an edge from the perspective of frame(s) of vision data). Techniques that utilize edge-depth values for an object (exclusively, or in combination with other depth values for the object) in generating 3D bounding shapes can enable accurate 3D bounding shapes to be generated for partially or fully transparent objects. Such increased accuracy 3D bounding shapes directly improve performance of a robot that utilizes the 3D bounding shapes in performing various tasks.
US12165338B2
Methods and systems for a method for tracking airborne objects include receiving a data set including a plurality buffer images where the data set is associated with a timestamp. Converting each of the plurality of buffer images into a plurality of radial images associated with the timestamp. Subtracting a background image from plurality of radial images to produce a plurality of subtracted images. Denoising each of the plurality of subtracted images to produce a plurality of threshold images. Detecting a track within the plurality of threshold images. Comparing the track across the plurality of threshold images to identify a flying object from the track, and storing a set of geospatial data points and attributes of the flying object.
US12165332B2
A virtual background (VBG) spreading request that includes a replacement VBG is received. The replacement VBG is partitioned into a number of portions matching a number of conference participants. A first portion of the portions is assigned to a conference participant. Images of the conference participant are received. Foreground segments of the images of the conference participant are overlayed onto the first portion to obtain output images. The output images are transmitted for display or are displayed.
US12165317B2
A composite medical imaging system may direct a display device to display an image captured by an imaging device and showing a view of a surgical area and display an augmentation region within the image and that shows supplemental content. The view of the surgical area shows surface anatomy located at the surgical area and an object located at the surgical area. The augmentation region creates an occlusion over at least a portion of the view of the surgical area. The system may detect an overlap in the image between at least a portion of the object and at least a portion of the augmentation region. In response to the detection of the overlap, the system may adjust the image to decrease an extent of the occlusion within the overlap by the augmentation region.
US12165309B2
A method for estimating a region associated with a deformity on a surface portion of the skin of a mammal, the method comprising capturing a three-dimensional image of the surface portion to produce first data, the first data comprising depth data, and generating second data from the first data. The second data comprises curvature data. The method further comprises combining the first data and the second data to produce third data, and performing region growing on the third data.
US12165308B2
A medical imaging system (100, 300, 400, 700) includes a processor and memory with instructions executable by the processor to receive (200) three-dimensional medical image data (122) comprising multiple slices, receive (202) an imaging modality (124) of the three-dimensional medical image data, receive (204) an anatomical view classification (126) of the three-dimensional medical image data, select (206) a chosen abnormality detection module (130) from a set of abnormality detection modules (128) using the imaging modality and the anatomical view classification, wherein at least a portion of the abnormality detection modules is a convolution neural network trained for identifying if the at least a portion of the multiple slices as either normal or abnormal, classify (208) the at least a portion of the multiple slices as normal or abnormal using the abnormality detection module, and choose (210) a set of selected slices (136) from the multiple slices according to a predetermined selection criteria (134) if a predetermined number of the multiple slices are classified as abnormal.
US12165306B2
A rendered image is generated from a semiconductor device design file. The rendered image is segmented based on a grey level of the rendered image. Care areas are determined based on the segmenting. Defect inspection is performed in the care areas. This process can be performed on a wafer inspection tool that uses photon optics or electron beam optics.
US12165305B2
An image processing system includes one or more processors that select one target algorithm from evaluation algorithms, calculate an evaluation value indicating adaptation to image measurement using the target algorithm and one or more evaluation images corresponding to an evaluation lighting pattern for each evaluation lighting pattern, and determine a lighting pattern to be used for the image measurement from evaluation lighting patterns based on the evaluation value.
US12165304B2
Embodiments of this invention provide a measurement map configuration method and apparatus. A wafer to be inspected is provided. The wafer includes a plurality of inspection marks. A first inspection result is obtained based on a first set of inspection marks. A second set of inspection marks is selected based on a preset rule. The second set of inspection marks is less than the first set of inspection marks. A second inspection result is obtained based on the second set of inspection marks. If an overlay accuracy of the second inspection result matches an overlay accuracy the first inspection result, a measurement map for the wafer is set based on target inspection marks. The target inspection marks are the second set of inspection marks of the measurement map.
US12165292B2
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for utilizing a plurality of neural networks in a multi-branch pipeline to generate image masks for digital images. Specifically, the disclosed system can classify a digital image as a portrait or a non-portrait image. Based on classifying a portrait image, the disclosed system can utilize separate neural networks to generate a first mask portion for a portion of the digital image including a defined boundary region and a second mask portion for a portion of the digital image including a blended boundary region. The disclosed system can generate the mask portion for the blended boundary region by utilizing a trimap generation neural network to automatically generate a trimap segmentation including the blended boundary region. The disclosed system can then merge the first mask portion and the second mask portion to generate an image mask for the digital image.
US12165284B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that implement a dual-branched neural network architecture to harmonize composite images. For example, in one or more implementations, the transformer-based harmonization system uses a convolutional branch and a transformer branch to generate a harmonized composite image based on an input composite image and a corresponding segmentation mask. More particularly, the convolutional branch comprises a series of convolutional neural network layers followed by a style normalization layer to extract localized information from the input composite image. Further, the transformer branch comprises a series of transformer neural network layers to extract global information based on different resolutions of the input composite image. Utilizing a decoder, the transformer-based harmonization system combines the local information and the global information from the corresponding convolutional branch and transformer branch to generate a harmonized composite image.
US12165281B2
A computer-implemented method is for the correction of streak artifacts in slice images. In an embodiment, the method includes: receiving at least one initially reconstructed slice image by a processor, the at least one initially reconstructed slice image being based on a plurality of initial projection images; determining at least one variation slice image, via the processor, using a variation algorithm, the at least one variation slice image being based on the at least one initially reconstructed slice image; determining at least one variation projection image based upon the at least one variation slice image; and determining at least one corrected slice image as a function of the at least one variation projection image.
US12165279B2
An artificial intelligence (AI)-based frame interpolation method includes obtaining, from among consecutive frames of an image, feature maps for a first frame at a plurality of levels and feature maps for a second frame at the plurality of levels, obtaining, via a flow estimation neural network, a first optical flow from a first feature map at a certain level to a second feature map at the certain level and a second optical flow from the second feature map at the certain level to the first feature map at the certain level, and obtaining a forward-warped first feature map by forward-warping the first feature map using the first optical flow and a forward-warped second feature map by forward-warping the second feature map using the second optical flow.
US12165273B2
An information processing device includes an acquisition unit, a setting unit, a determination unit, and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires an operation angle that is an angle formed by a first direction in a predetermined space pointed by a user and a second direction in the predetermined space pointed by the user. The setting unit sets, as a reference angle, the operation angle acquired at a time point when an instruction to start moving a virtual object on a line extending in the first direction is detected. The determination unit determines whether or not the operation angle acquired in response to a change in the second direction is equal to or more than the reference angle. The control unit controls a display unit to move the virtual object in a depth direction on the line in the first direction and display the virtual object while maintaining a distance between an intersection where the first direction and the second direction intersect and the virtual object on the basis of a determination result of the determination unit. Consequently, the position of a distant virtual object can be finely adjusted at a hand position where the operation is easy.
US12165269B2
Cloud-based garment design system is disclosed. The cloud-based multiuser garment design system provides automated interactive 3D fashion design, product visualization, made-to-measure pattern drafting and commercialization as a one-step process. The system solves a problem of numerous, laborious and complex steps for manual or computerized fashion design and illustration, pattern drafting that fit different body shapes, heights and sizes, and a resulting 3D product simulation and visualization regardless of design complexity and size or shape of the user. The system provides complex customization of design of fashion and accessories, using individual parametric patterns, which result in realistic final garment preview on a personalized 3D mannequin, by assigning pattern elements to the unique design, using a scripted programming language. The system implements different levels of interaction, allowing usage of created patterns as redistributed design elements inside the system thus provides the basis for internal commercialization of user's work along with the external commercialization of the final design.
US12165263B1
Briefly, embodiments, such as methods and/or systems of real-time visualization of web browser derived content within a gaming environment, for example, are described.
US12165258B2
One or more machine learning models (MLMs) may learn implicit 3D representations of geometry of an object and of dynamics of the object from performing an action on the object. Implicit neural representations may be used to reconstruct high-fidelity full geometry of the object and predict a flow-based dynamics field from one or more images, which may provide a partial view of the object. Correspondences between locations of an object may be learned based at least on distances between the locations on a surface corresponding to the object, such as geodesic distances. The distances may be incorporated into a contrastive learning loss function to train one or more MLMs to learn correspondences between locations of the object, such as a correspondence embedding field. The correspondences may be used to evaluate state changes when evaluating one or more actions that may be performed on the object.
US12165256B2
Some methods described include: receiving, with at least one processor, a point cloud from a pose graph; receiving, with the at least one processor, an image from a driving log of a vehicle, the image corresponding to the point cloud from the pose graph; obtaining, with the at least one processor, image pixel labels for the image; projecting, with the at least one processor, the point cloud in a point cloud coordinate system to an image coordinate system based on the image pixel labels; generating, with the at least one processor, a six-dimensional colored point cloud by combining the point cloud and color information from the image; and transforming, with the at least one processor, the six-dimensional colored point cloud into five-dimensional map tiles to form a colored map layer. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US12165252B2
Techniques for executing computing work by a plurality of chiplets are provided. The techniques include assigning workgroups of a kernel dispatch packet to the chiplets; by each chiplet, executing the workgroups assigned to that chiplet; for each chiplet, upon completion of all workgroups assigned to that chiplet for the kernel dispatch packet, notifying the other chiplets of such completion; and upon completion of all workgroups of the kernel dispatch packet, notifying a client of such completion and proceeding to a subsequent kernel dispatch packet.
US12165244B2
Systems and methods herein describe receiving an image via an image capture device, using a machine learning model, generating an image augmentation decision, accessing an augmented reality content item, associating the generated image augmentation decision with the augmented reality content item, modifying the received image using the augmented reality content item and the associated image augmentation decision, and causing presentation of the modified image on a graphical user interface of a computing device.
US12165242B2
The subject technology determines a level of expertise associated with a user of a messaging system, the level of expertise based at least in part on user activity in a particular product category. The subject technology, based at least in part on the determined level of expertise, selects media content corresponding to a particular product. The subject technology causes display, at a client device, the selected media content related to the particular product.
US12165238B2
The disclosed technology is directed towards presenting communications data to a responding entity that are relevant to an emergency situation at an emergency location. The communications data can be obtained from communications (e.g., text messages, transmitted video, voice calls and the like) that involve at least one user device at the situation, including communications that do not involve the responding entity. Users may opt in to such an emergency service to allow access to their communications, whereby their device locations are tracked and known in the event of an emergency. Upon obtaining the communications data, a responder can receive a view of the scene augmented with the communications data. The view can include a three-dimensional and/or two-dimensional representation of the zone/area of the emergency situation. Filtering can be used to eliminate irrelevant communications, and summarization can be used to combine generally redundant communications.
US12165236B2
A method for qualifying a specimen prepared on one or more hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) slides by assessing an expected yield of nucleic acids for tumor cells and providing associated unstained slides for subsequent nucleic acid analysis is provided.
US12165235B2
A multi-view display device and a display control method are provided. The multi-view display device has a plurality of viewing angles and includes a plurality of logic boards, each of the logic boards corresponds to a respective one of the viewing angles, the logic board is configured to process and transmit image data of the viewing angle corresponding to the logic board, and the logic boards corresponding to the respective viewing angles are driven and controlled independently.
US12165227B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing personalized dining checks created by individualized check item ownership or payment enabled by associating device and table indicia. One method includes: receiving information identifying the mobile devices of one or more patrons and information identifying a table indicia as a result of associating the mobile devices of the one or more patrons with a table indicia; receiving requests for dining items, transaction amounts for each dining item, and payment preferences associated with each dining item from each of the one or more patrons; determining the amounts owed by each patron, based on the dining items requested by each patron, transaction amounts for each dining item, and the payment preference of each patron for each requested dining item; and outputting the amount owed by each patron to an electronic storage medium or display of the mobile device of each patron.
US12165226B1
In one embodiment, the disclosed technology involves a system having a generator set comprising a first engine and an output terminal coupled to a power distributor, a load comprising two or more sub-loads, wherein each of the sub-loads are coupled to the power distributor via one or more respective electrical contactors, and a controller communicably coupled to the electrical contactors and the generator set comprising a processor, and a memory, the memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor cause operations. The operations may include determining a number of sub-loads available, receiving data representing power generation of the generator set, determining which of the available sub-loads to connect in order to balance the generator set to the load, and controlling the respective electrical contactors of the determined sub-loads so as to provide electricity to the determined sub-loads.
US12165220B2
Systems, methods, apparatus and software have been discovered for use by individual users to monitor the geographic location of other people or assets with some relationship to the user. Once some manner of location information is determined, users have the ability to describe that location in various ways and control how that information is shared with other users.
US12165213B2
A job request is transmission data transmitted from the vehicle cloud server 30 to the in-vehicle terminal 20 and includes at least: data collection condition information and collection data designation information indicative of contents of a process to be performed by the in-vehicle terminal 20; and deletion prohibition flag indicative of prohibiting the in-vehicle terminal 20 from deleting the job request under a predetermined condition.
US12165212B1
Techniques utilize augmented reality to identify anomalies in properties or structures based thereon. Augmented reality video glasses can be authenticated and provided stored data of a property in an undamaged state. Imagery of the property can be collected using the augmented reality video glasses. An anomaly associated with the property can be determined.
US12165210B2
Methods and systems disclosed herein describe deploying a plurality of microservices to calculate an insurance rate. The plurality of microservices may operate in parallel to calculate a plurality of partial rates that are combined (e.g., added up) to determine the insurance rate. During the calculating steps, one or more rating factors may be cached and/or stored. The plurality of microservices may reduce the time and/or resources required by a processor to calculate an insurance rate, while the stored rating factors may be displayed to the user to provide greater transparency into how the insurance rate was calculated.
US12165201B2
A computer system includes a memory to store a first set of data including data processing requests or data processing execution results and computer hardware to determine an input relating to a load and filter the first set of data to extract, based on the input relating to the load, a second set of data from the first set of data, thereby leaving a remaining set of data. The second set of data and the remaining set of data both include data processing requests or data processing execution results input or generated by the computer system. The computer hardware prepares electronic messages to be transmitted over a communications network to a plurality of remote user terminals. The electronic messages contain the second set of data but do not contain the remaining set of data. The computer hardware controls a frequency at which the electronic messages containing the second set of data are to be transmitted over the communications network based on the input relating to the load.
US12165182B2
A method includes determining that a chat text provided in a chat session between first and second chat application instances is directed to a transaction negotiation, the chat session for facilitating communication between the chat application instances. The method includes determining, in an image associated with the transaction, first and second image elements that are associated with the transaction. Responsive to the determination that the chat text is directed to the negotiation of the transaction, the method can generate an invoice for a first transaction portion that is associated with the first element. The method can provide the invoice, via the chat session, to the first and/or chat application instance. Responsive to determining that the first transaction portion is performed, the method can determines to indicate, via the image, that the first element is unavailable for additional transactions.
US12165181B2
Methods and software that allow one or more users to utilize custom pricing in the context of an electronic marketplace. Such custom pricing can be implemented by transmitting specifications of custom pricing engines and/or custom design document interrogator engines to the marketplace along with or independently from one or more design documents containing structures to be priced. Various corresponding and related methods and software are described.
US12165177B2
The present technology generally relates to online donations, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for facilitating online vehicle donations.
US12165162B2
A method of displaying a symbol representative of changes in profit/loss (P/L) during a time period, the method includes receiving transaction data of a trade of a quantity of units of a market-traded object transacted at a first time at an average cost per unit, the trade being indicative of opening a position in the market-traded object, receiving a last price of the market-traded object transacted at a second time, wherein a duration between the first time and the second time is an intra-time period within the time period, incrementing an intra-time period counter value, determining an average price from the last price and the average cost per unit, determining whether the last price is greater than the average price, incrementing an above-average-price counter value in response to determining that the last price is greater than the average price, and generating and displaying the symbol, which illustrates a relationship between the above-average-price counter value and the intra-time period counter value.
US12165161B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a session record including properties visited by a consumer during a sample period and extracting, from the session record, a select group of properties associated with a particular category of a predetermined taxonomy of various marketplaces. A breadth value of the select group of properties visited during the sample period is determined according to a number of unique properties of the select group of properties. A depth value of the properties visited during the sample period is also determined according to an extent of consumer interaction with content of properties of the select group of properties. A change point, indicating a state transition along a purchase cycle, is determined based on variations in distributions more than one of the breadth, depth, and recency values without relying on an assumption of a specific parametric family. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12165160B2
A method, system and computer program for providing a loyalty engine for automated cause marketing. The method includes a loyalty program system administrator linking merchants and charities to the loyalty system. Members register with the loyalty engine through loyalty system which is accessible via the Internet. Once the merchants and the charities are linked and the members are registered, by operation of the loyalty engine, the merchants can create a customized loyalty program defined by a plurality of merchant defined rules for administering their loyalty program. The merchant defined rules instruct the loyalty engine as to which charities should receive in-kind donations in connection with one or more transactions by a member that is associated to the loyalty program. Once a loyalty system defined time period or donation threshold has been achieved, the loyalty system releases the donation in-kind to the specific charity. A system is also provided that consists of a server computer including the loyalty engine and the charity utility. The charity utility provides the functions of the method and is linked to a server computer that is connected to the Internet. The computer program of the invention is a web application that enables the members, charities, and merchants to access the functions of the invention via a web browser.
US12165154B2
A method includes acquiring, at a node server, blockchain data for a blockchain address on a blockchain network. The blockchain data includes a plurality of transactions for the blockchain address. The method includes generating a local node trust score for the blockchain address based on the blockchain data. The local node trust score indicates a likelihood that the blockchain address is involved in fraudulent activity. The method includes receiving, from a plurality of remote servers, a plurality of additional local trust scores for the blockchain address. The method includes determining a consensus trust score based on the local node trust score and the plurality of additional local trust scores. Additionally, the method includes receiving a trust request for the blockchain address from a requesting device and sending the consensus trust score for the specified blockchain address to the requesting device.
US12165150B2
Provided herein is a computing system for electronically transmitting a token linked to personally identifying information (PII) of a user to a merchant. The computing system includes a processor in communication at a memory device, and the processor is programmed to: (i) receive PII, issued payment instrument data, and a user identifier associated with a user, (ii) store the PII, issued payment instrument data, and user identifier in the memory device, (iii) receive an identification request for a user associated with a transaction including payment instrument data, (iv) perform a lookup in the memory device to retrieve the PII of the user and the stored user identifier associated with the received payment instrument data, (v) receive a user input identifier from the user to authenticate the user, (vi) generate a token that links the PII of the user to the transaction, and (vii) transmit the token to the merchant.
US12165149B2
Systems, methods, and computer-accessible mediums for user verification through the interaction of a short-range transceiver, such as a contactless card, with a client device are presented. User verification may be provided in the context of reading two types of data from the short-range transceiver, such as a contactless card, using a client device, sending the data to a server, obtaining identifiers from each data type and comparing with stored user identifier data. Matching stored user identifier data to two forms of identification data obtained from a short-range transceiver, such as a contactless card, provides an enhanced ability to verify that the short-range transceiver is being used by an authorized user.
US12165147B2
Technologies are shown for secure management of personal information data involving storing personal information data in a personal information data block and committing the personal information data block to a personal information data blockchain and authorizing access to the personal information data by a platform entity by storing a platform identifier corresponding to the platform entity in authorized access data. An access request is received from the platform entity that includes the platform identifier for the first platform entity. If the platform identifier is verified to be in the authorized access data, the personal information data is obtained from the personal information data blockchain and returned to the platform entity. In some examples, the authorized access data includes permissions that identify portions of the personal information data that the platform entity can access. In other examples, the authorized access data is secured on an authorized access data blockchain.
US12165134B2
In response to detecting a request from a first device associated with a first user to utilize a digital wallet associated with a second user, a computer system determines if the first user is authorized to utilize the digital wallet associated with the second user. Further, in response to determining that the first user is authorized to utilize the digital wallet associated with the second user, the computer system allows the first device restricted access to the digital wallet.
US12165133B2
A method includes initiating, by a merchant computing entity, a digital asset-based payment from a user computing device and sending merchant real-time payment information to a digital asset payment computing entity. The method further includes generating, by the digital asset payment computing entity, a scannable charge code and sending the scannable charge code to the merchant computing entity. The method further includes providing, by the merchant computing entity, the scannable charge code to the user computing device. When the scannable charge code is scanned by the user computing device, the method further includes sending, by the user computing device, user computing device real-time payment information to the digital asset payment computing entity, locking, by the digital asset payment computing entity, an amount of network digital assets, and providing, by the digital asset payment computing entity, a confirmation to the merchant computing entity.
US12165123B2
Various systems, methods, and media for facilitating selection of a transaction mode are provided. User identification information, that identifies a user of a user device that performs an electronic transaction, is obtained. User accounts are determined based on the user identification information. Location information of the user device is also obtained, and a merchant is determined based on the location information of the user device. The user accounts are analyzed and a recommended user account is determined based on a result of the analyzing and the merchant. A notification to be displayed on the user device is generated, with the notification being configured to be used to complete the electronic transaction using the recommended user account.
US12165122B2
A weighing and pricing device includes: a processor that executes a registration process for a product to be purchased by a customer; a transceiver that: establishes a connection between a mobile device possessed by the customer and the weighing and pricing device; and upon establishing the connection, receives, from the mobile device, identification information that identifies the mobile device; and a storage that stores information relating to the product and the identification information in association with each other. After the registration process is interrupted, the transceiver receives, from the mobile device, identification information. The processor specifies the product associated with the stored identification information that corresponds to the identification information received after the registration process. The processor recommences the registration process for the specified product.
US12165120B2
A system for awarding prizes to users via an electronic game of chance is disclosed. The system is configured to generate digital tokens that are cryptographically linked to respective virtual representations of a set of winnable items. The system further includes a mystery box system that is configured to serve a mystery box game to a client device, wherein the mystery box game includes a mystery box recipe that designates a respective probability of winning each winnable digital token of the set of digital tokens and is configured to randomly select a winning digital token from the set of digital tokens in accordance with the mystery box recipe. The mystery box system is further configured to award the winning digital token to the user, wherein the winning digital token is redeemable for the respective winnable item corresponding to the winning digital token.
US12165117B2
The systems and methods that generate a one-touch frame are provided. A line of code including a tag is inserted into a webpage. The tag includes a link to a server from which parameters for the frame are obtained. The browser uses the parameters to generate the frame, In addition, the server or a local memory of a computing device on which the frame is generated also store credentials associated with a user account. These credentials are also obtained and incorporated into the frame. The frame may then be activated to perform one-touch functions using the credentials.
US12165113B1
Embodiments are described herein for systems and methods for authenticating tokenized and/or dynamic physical checks, and authorizing transfers of funds in response to the authentication. In particular, in certain embodiments, a method includes identifying, using at least one processor, a dynamic authentication code of a physical check. The method also includes automatically authenticating, using the at least one processor, the physical check based at least in part on the identified dynamic authentication code. The method further includes automatically authorizing, using the at least one processor, a transfer of funds in response to the authentication of the physical check.
US12165111B2
The present invention relates to the determination of repair operations for a damaged vehicle. More particularly, the present invention relates to determining repair operations, for example whether to repair or replace parts of a damaged vehicle and associated labour time required, for a damaged vehicle using images of the damage to the vehicle. Aspects and/or embodiments seek to provide a computer-implemented method for determining repair operations that are required to repair a damaged vehicle, using images of the damage to the damaged vehicle.
US12165108B2
Systems and methods are provided for coordinating decisions between noncommunicating parties using quantum physics. The procedure includes recognizing and identifying features of a coordinating decisions between non-communicating parties (CDNP) problem, expressing these features in a precise and mathematical manner, finding a solution using quantum states and measurements, and physically implementing the solution. Since quantum mechanics can violate Bell inequalities, quantum solutions to a CDNP problem have advantages over non-quantum solutions.
US12165106B2
A system for classifying data stored in a collaborative work environment. The system includes a gateway service that receives and processes queries from client devices. The gateway service is configured to query classifications of each API call to determine whether a result of servicing that API call contains classified data. In response to determining that a field of a result of servicing an API call contains classified data, determining whether the API call can be serviced based on the classification.
US12165101B2
In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.
US12165088B2
A system for shift design and assignment comprises an interface configured to receive scheduling input data which includes labor demand data, worker data, and scheduling configuration data, and a processor configured to generate a set of shift candidates, determine a set of decision variables, determine a cost function, determine a set of constraints, and determine simultaneously, using a SAT, a MP solver, or a MIP solver, a subset of the shift candidates selected in a final schedule and a set of shift assignments of which worker is assigned to which selected shift candidate of the subset of the shift candidates such that the hard constraints are fully respected, violations to the soft constraints are minimized, and the cost function is minimized.
US12165086B2
A method of determining and optimizing the location of a new insurance agency is disclosed to increase market penetration of underrepresented markets. The method comprises the use of a scoring algorithm to rank various geographic regions or related zip codes. The scoring algorithm may be implemented by a location modeling system based on variables selected by a user.
US12165081B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing predictive data analysis operations. For example, certain embodiments of the present invention utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform predictive data analysis operations by generating a predicted eligibility score for a predictive entity using a cross-feature-type eligibility prediction machine learning framework.
US12165080B2
Big data searches, statistical computation and artificial intelligence is leveraged to determine the likelihood that a user will renounce an object post-resource event. Specifically, the present invention relies on object-identifying data and user data to key a plurality of data mining searches of big data sources. In response to extracting responsive data from the big data sources, the present invention implements statistical computing to determine a go/no-go indicator that indicates either that (i) the user is unlikely to renounce (i.e., abandon, fail to use and/or return) the object post-resource event, or (ii) the user is likely to renounce (i.e., abandon, fail to use and/or return) the object post-resource event. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used to analyze previous likelihood of renunciation determinations to determine a confidence level which is used in the statistical computation of the go/no-go indicator.
US12165075B2
A server includes memory and a processor that obtains a log created by a first node monitored on a V2X network, selects predetermined information therefrom, and performs supervised machine learning using the selected predetermined information as training data to create a model for a monitoring node that monitors the first node. The log associatively includes a time, and at the time: first node status information as indicated by at least one of sensor or control data on the first node; first anomaly information indicating whether an anomaly occurred on the first node; and second anomaly information indicating whether an anomaly occurred on a second, surrounding node of the first node that communicates with the first node. When the first anomaly information indicates an anomaly, or when the first and second anomaly information indicate no anomaly and an anomaly, respectively, the associated status information is selected as the predetermined information.
US12165070B2
An analog signal processing circuit comprising: a first promoter operably linked to a nucleic acid sequence encoding a first output molecule, wherein said promoter is responsive to a cooperative input signal comprising at least two cooperative inputs, and wherein expression of said at least two cooperative inputs is tunable.
US12165068B2
A method of training a deep neural network, such as would be used in facial recognition, includes training the deep neural network to normalize feature vectors to a learned value representing the radius of a multi-dimensional hypersphere using a convex augmentation of the primary loss function.
US12165067B2
Systems and methods for anomaly detection in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for training a system for detecting anomalous samples. The method draws data samples from a data distribution of true samples and an anomaly distribution and draws a latent sample from a latent space. The method further includes steps for training a generator to generate data samples based on the drawn data samples and the latent sample, and training a cyclic discriminator to distinguish between true data samples and reconstructed samples. A reconstructed sample is generated by the generator based on an encoding of a data sample. The method identifies a set of one or more true pairs, a set of one or more anomalous pairs, and a set of one or more generated pairs. The method trains a joint discriminator to distinguish true pairs from anomalous and generated pairs.
US12165066B1
Some embodiments provide a method for training a machine-trained (MT) network that processes input data using network parameters. The method maps a set of input instances to a set of output values by propagating the set of input instances through the MT network. The set of input instances includes input instances for each of multiple categories. For a particular input instance selected as an anchor instance, the method calculates a true positive rate (TPR) for the MT network as a function of a distance between the output value for the anchor instance and the output value for each input instance not in a same category as the anchor instance. The method calculates a loss function for the anchor instance that maximizes the TPR for the MT network at low false positive rate. The method trains the network parameters using the calculated loss function.
US12165063B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to the restoration of degraded images acquired via a behind-display camera. One example provides a method of training a machine learning model, the method comprising inputting training image pairs into the machine learning model, each training image pair comprising an undegraded image and a degraded image that represents an appearance of the undegraded image to a behind-display camera, and training the machine learning model using the training image pairs to generate frequency information that is missing from the degraded images.
US12165056B2
A computer-implemented method of training an auxiliary machine learning model to predict a set of new parameters of a primary machine learning model, wherein the primary model is configured to transform from an observed subset of a set of real-world features to a predicted version of the set of real-world features.
US12165052B2
In some examples, an individually-pruned neural network can estimate blood pressure from a seismocardiogram (SCG). In some examples, a baseline model can be constructed by training the model with SCG data and blood pressure measurement from a plurality of subjects. One or more filters (e.g., the filters in the top layer of the network) can be ranked by separability, which can be used to prune the model for each unseen user that uses the model thereafter, for example. In some examples, individuals can use individually-pruned models to calculate blood pressure using SCG data without corresponding blood pressure measurements.
US12165049B2
An imaging device connected to a neural network is provided. An imaging device having a neuron in a neural network includes a plurality of first pixels, a first circuit, a second circuit, and a third circuit. Each of the plurality of first pixels includes a photoelectric conversion element. The plurality of first pixels is electrically connected to the first circuit. The first circuit is electrically connected to the second circuit. The second circuit is electrically connected to the third circuit. Each of the plurality of first pixels generates an input signal of the neuron. The first circuit, the second circuit, and the third circuit function as the neuron. The third circuit includes an interface connected to the neural network.
US12165043B2
Some embodiments provide a neural network inference circuit for executing a neural network that includes multiple layers of computation nodes. At least a subset of the layers include non-convolutional layers. The neural network inference circuit includes multiple cores with memories that store input values for the layers. The cores are grouped into multiple clusters. For each cluster, the neural network inference circuit includes a set of processing circuits for receiving input values from the cores of the cluster and executing the computation nodes of the non-convolutional layers.
US12165042B2
Neural network hardware acceleration data parallelism is performed by an integrated circuit including a plurality of memory banks, each memory bank among the plurality of memory banks configured to store values and to transmit stored values, a plurality of computation units, each computation unit among the plurality of computation units including one of a channel pipeline and a multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) element configured to perform a mathematical operation on an input data value and a weight value to produce a resultant data value, and a computation controller configured to cause a value transmission to be received by more than one computation unit or memory bank.
US12165038B2
Apparatus and methods for training a neural network accelerator using quantized precision data formats are disclosed, and, in particular, for adjusting floating-point formats used to store activation values during training. In certain examples of the disclosed technology, a computing system includes processors, memory, and a floating-point compressor in communication with the memory. The computing system is configured to produce a neural network comprising activation values expressed in a first floating-point format, select a second floating-point format for the neural network based on a performance metric, convert at least one of the activation values to the second floating-point format, and store the compressed activation values in the memory. Aspects of the second floating-point format that can be adjusted include the number of bits used to express mantissas, exponent format, use of non-uniform mantissas, and/or use of outlier values to express some of the mantissas.
US12165037B2
An embodiment method comprises applying domain transformation processing to a time-series of signal samples, received from a sensor coupled to a dynamical system, to produce a dataset of transformed signal samples therefrom, buffering the transformed signal samples, obtaining a data buffer having transformed signal samples as entries, computing statistical parameters of the data buffer, producing a drift signal indicative of the evolution of the dynamical system as a function of the computed statistical parameters, selecting transformed signal samples buffered in the data buffer as a function of the drift signal, applying normalization processing to the buffered transformed signal samples, applying auto-encoder artificial neural network processing to a dataset of resealed signal samples, and producing a dataset of reconstructed signal samples and calculating an error of reconstruction. The error of reconstruction reaching or failing to reach a threshold value is indicative of the evolution of dynamical system over time.
US12165025B2
Provided is a process including: obtaining, for a plurality of entities, entity logs, wherein: the entity logs comprise events involving the entities, a first subset of the events are actions by the entities, at least some of the actions by the entities are targeted actions, and the events are labeled according to an ontology of events having a plurality of event types; training, with one or more processors, based on the entity logs, a predictive machine learning model to predict whether an entity characterized by a set of inputs to the model will engage in a targeted action in a given duration of time in the future; and storing the trained predictive machine learning model in memory.
US12165020B2
Rapid and data-efficient training of an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm are disclosed. Ground truth data are not available and a policy must be learned based on limited interactions with a system. A policy bank is used to explore different policies on a target system with shallow probing. A target policy is chosen by comparing a good policy from the shallow probing with a base target policy which has evolved over other learning experiences. The target policy then interacts with the target system and a replay buffer is built up. The base target policy is then updated using gradients found with respect to the transition experience stored in the replay buffer. The base target policy is quickly learned and is robust for application to new, unseen, systems.
US12165013B1
Techniques for training local decoders for use in a local and global decoding scheme for quantum error correction of circuit-level noise within quantum surface codes such that the decoding schemes have fast decoding throughout and low latency times for quantum algorithms are disclosed. The local decoders may have a neural network architecture and may be trained using training data sets comprising simulated rounds of syndrome measurements for respective simulated quantum surface codes in addition to information such as syndrome differences, qubit placements, and temporal boundaries within the simulated rounds of syndrome measurements in order to train the local decoders for arbitrarily sized quantum surface codes and arbitrary numbers of rounds of syndrome measurements. Following a local decoding stage in which a large number of data errors have been corrected by a local decoder, error correction for remaining errors may continue with a more efficient global decoding stage.
US12165012B2
A method of mitigating errors in quantum computing, wherein the method comprises: performing (S101) an operation on the state of a qubit in a group of qubits a plurality of times, wherein the operation has a first error rate, and wherein each performance of the operation comprises: performing a first operation comprising: a gate operation, a symmetry operation, and a first basis operation; or performing a second operation comprising: the gate operation, the symmetry operation, and a second basis operation; wherein the first and second basis operations are different basis operations selected from a set of basis operations; and measuring the state of the qubit; wherein the probability of performing the first operation is a first probability, and the probability of performing the second operation is a second probability; obtaining (S102) a symmetry measurement for the group of qubits after each performance of the operation using the symmetry operation, wherein the group of qubits comprises a plurality of qubits; wherein the symmetry measurement is a first symmetry outcome if the number of errors is even or a second symmetry outcome if the number of errors is odd; obtaining (S103) a first state measurement by determining the average state of the qubit for the first symmetry outcome; obtaining (S104) a second state measurement by determining the average state of the qubit for the second symmetry outcome; fitting (S105) the first state measurement to a first curve having the form (I); fitting the second state measurement to a second curve having the form (II); wherein n is an error rate and A and γ are fitting parameters; and extrapolating (S106) the average state of the qubit at a second error rate using the first and second fitted curves; wherein the second error rate is lower than the first error rate. A cosh ( ( 1 - γ ) n ) cosh ( n ) ( I ) A sinh ( ( 1 - γ ) n ) sinh ( n ) ( II )
US12165007B2
The disclosure describes various aspects of a software-defined quantum computer. For example, a software-defined quantum computing architecture for allocating qubits is described that includes an application programming interface (API); a quantum operating system (OS) on which the API executes, with the quantum OS including a resource manager and a switch; and a plurality of quantum cores connected by the switch of the quantum resource OS. Moreover, the resource manager of the quantum resource OS determines an allocation of a plurality of qubits in the plurality of quantum cores.
US12165006B1
A technique for performing lattice surgery without using twists is disclosed. Also, an error correcting code and decoder is provided that allows for error decoding of Pauli measurements performed in association with a lattice surgery operation. This allows for overall run-times of lattice surgery to be reduced. For example, some level of errors are tolerable, because they can be corrected, thus fewer measurement rounds (dm) may be performed for a given round of Pauli measurements. Additionally, a temporal encoding of lattice surgery technique is provided, which may additionally or alternatively be used to shorten run times. Also, a quantum computer layout is provided, wherein the layout includes a core computing region and a cache region. Also, protocols for swapping logical qubits between the core and cache are provided.
US12164998B2
A scanning apparatus is provided that includes communications circuitry and a universal power interface configured to receive a removable power source connected thereto. The scanning apparatus includes a control system that can establish a first communication connection with the charging cradle in accordance with a normal mode, establish a second communication connection with the charging cradle in accordance with a low power mode, and determine a type of the removable power source connected to the scanning apparatus. In response to determining that a first type of removable power source is connected, suspend the second communication connection and use the first communication connection for transmitting data/information to the charging cradle, and in response to determining that a second type of removable power source is connected, suspend the first communication connection and use the second communication connection for transmitting data/information to the charging cradle.
US12164992B2
A distribution system for use in an induction system with an object processing system. The distribution system provides dissimilar objects into one of a plurality of receiving units. The distribution system includes an air intake system with an opening that is a fixed distance from a conveyor section, said air intake system aiding in moving an object on the conveyor section from the conveyor section to one of a plurality of adjacent transport units.
US12164989B2
Example embodiments of information-shielding cards and systems and methods of fabricating the same are provided. An information-shielding card can comprising a substrate comprising a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, a chip embedded in the second layer, and a quick-response (QR) code formed on the second layer. The second layer can be disposed between the first layer and the third layer. The first layer can comprise a first material that is transparent when exposed to a non-visible light, the second layer can comprise a second material that is opaque when exposed to visible light and when exposed to non-visible light, and the third layer comprises a third material that is transparent when exposed to a non-visible light.
US12164986B2
Generally, a computing device displays, on a display device of the computing device, a barcode to be read by a scanning device. When a barcode is displayed on the display device a determination is made as to whether the barcode is not fully displayed on the display device due to hardware of the computing device such as a punch hole in the display device for a camera, speaker, or microphone. If the barcode is not fully displayed due to the hardware of the computing device, the display of the barcode is modified so that the barcode is fully displayed on the display device despite the hardware of the computing device. Additionally or alternatively, if the scanning device has not completed the scan within a threshold amount of time, the display of the barcode on the display device is modified, such as by increasing or decreasing the resolution of the barcode.
US12164981B2
According to one embodiment, in a processing circuit of a computation system, a plurality of comparators corresponds to the respective columns, each including a first input node, a second input node, and an output node, the first input node receiving any one of the second signals, the second input node receiving a signal corresponding to a global reference signal provided to each second input node, the output node outputting a local signal. A global circuit is provided common to the plurality of comparators, the global circuit generating a global signal according to a plurality of the local signals, the global circuit generating the global reference signal by an SAR method according to the global signal. The processing circuit disables some of the plurality of comparators according to the local signals and the global signal.
US12164980B2
A method of communicating between applications is provided. The method includes establishing a communication bridge between a first application and a second application. The first application is located within a first computing device and the second application is located within a second computing device. The communication bridge comprises a set of communication channels. Each communication channel is associated with an application programing interface (API) function of the first application. The method also includes receiving, from the second application, a first request for the first application to perform a first operation. The method further includes providing the first request to the first application. The method further includes receiving a first result of the first operation from the first application. The method further includes providing the first result of the first operation to the second application.
US12164974B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may determine first thermal attribute values associated with multiple information handling systems (IHSs) with respect to a period of time as the IHSs execute a first workload; determine multiple variance ranges respectively associated with the first thermal attributes; periodically determine second thermal attribute values associated with the IHSs as the IHSs execute a second workload; determine that a thermal attribute value of the second thermal attribute values exceeds a respective variance range of the variance ranges as a first information handling system (IHS) of the IHSs executes the second workload; generate an alert based at least on the thermal attribute value exceeding the respective variance range; and in response to the alert, transfer at least a portion of the second workload from the first IHS to a second IHS of the IHSs.
US12164973B2
An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to facilitate receiving a manifest corresponding to graph nodes representing regions of memory of a remote client machine, the graph nodes corresponding to a command buffer and to associated data structures and kernels of the command buffer used to initialize a hardware accelerator and execute the kernels, and the manifest indicating a destination memory location of each of the graph nodes and dependencies of each of the graph nodes; identifying, based on the manifest, the command buffer and the associated data structures to copy to the host memory; identifying, based on the manifest, the kernels to copy to local memory of the hardware accelerator; and patching addresses in the command buffer copied to the host memory with updated addresses of corresponding locations in the host memory.
US12164968B1
Methods and systems are described herein for generating and assigning resources based on timestamps. A plurality of permission messages associated with a plurality of authorization events may be received with each permission message including an authorization timestamp indicating a generation time of a corresponding permission message. In addition, a plurality of data records may be received with each data record including a corresponding plurality of parameters. Based on the permission messages and the data records, a resource multiplier is generated, and resources assigned to each data record are multiplied based on the resource multiplier.
US12164967B2
An apparatus comprising neural processors, a command processor, and a shared memory is provided. The command processor, in response to receiving a context start signal indicating a start of a context of a neural network model from a host system, directly accesses a memory in the host system to read command stream data for the neural network model. The command processor selects a current command and determines whether the current command is a branch command or a command describing neural network model tasks. The command processor selects a command among commands in the command stream data as a next command to be executed, based on a determination on whether the current command is the branch command or the command describing neural network model tasks.
US12164966B1
A system and method of dynamic task allocation and warehouse scaling. The method includes receiving a request to process a task. The method includes monitoring a plurality of execution nodes of a datastore to determine a plurality of central processing unit (CPU) utilizations. Each CPU utilization of the plurality of CPU utilizations is associated with a respective execution node of the plurality of execution nodes. The method includes identifying, by a processing device based on the plurality of CPU utilizations, a particular execution node associated with a maximum CPU utilization to process the task. The method includes allocating the task to the particular execution node.
US12164965B2
Systems and methods that enable the efficient and adaptive allocation of resources dedicated to a container-based computation (e.g., one or more information processing tasks) are provided. A container controller is employed to launch and dynamically update (e.g., manage) the resource allocation (e.g., indicated by a selected configuration) for a set of containers. The container controller implements a Markov Decision Process (MDP)-based control loop to adaptively configure (e.g., allocate resources for) and reconfigure the set of containers. In some embodiments, the MDP of the control loop is a single-state MDP (e.g., a multi-armed bandit decision process). In such embodiments, each possible configuration for the set of containers is an arm on the multi-armed bandit.
US12164961B2
This disclosure provide various techniques for decreasing the amount of energy consumed on an electronic device by one or more background processes. By implementing a fast energy accounting engine that may quickly detect changes in energy usage by the background processes and report the changes to a dynamic activity scheduler, a system may decrease the overall energy consumed by the one or more background processes.
US12164956B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement thread scheduling for multithreaded data processing environments are disclosed. Example thread schedulers disclosed herein for a data processing system include a buffer manager to determine availability of respective buffers to be acquired for respective processing threads implementing respective functional nodes of a processing flow, and to identify first ones of the processing threads as stalled due to unavailability of at least one buffer in the respective buffers to be acquired for the first ones of the processing threads. Disclosed example thread schedulers also include a thread execution manager to initiate execution of second ones of the processing threads that are not identified as stalled.
US12164949B2
A method includes identifying two virtual machines (VMs) to be migrated from a source host. The method further includes determining that the two VMs correspond to identical memory pages in a memory deduplicaiton module. The method further includes recording, in hypervisor memory, an indication that the two VMs correspond to the two identical memory pages in the memory deduplication module. The method further includes sending, by a processing device of the hypvervisor, a single memory page of the two identical memory pages to a first destination host.
US12164948B2
A fine-grain selectable partially privileged container virtual computing environment provides a vehicle by which processes that are directed to modifying specific aspects of a host computing environment can be delivered to, and executed upon, the host computing environment while simultaneously maintaining the advantageous and desirable protections and isolations between the remaining aspects of the host computing environment and the partially privileged container computing environment. Such partial privilege is provided based upon directly or indirectly delineated actions that are allowed to be undertaken on the host computing environment by processes executing within the partially privileged container virtual computing environment and actions which are not allowed. Aspects of the host computing environment operating system, such as the kernel, are extended to interface with container-centric mechanisms to receive information upon which actions can be allowed or denied by the kernel even if the process attempting such actions would otherwise have sufficient privilege.
US12164942B2
Information, such as information pertaining to a remote desktop, may be presented concurrently with an image of the remote desktop on an unused area of a display screen. The information may be presented with a selectable and adjustable transparency.
US12164939B2
A dynamic interface layout method includes that a width of a screen of an electronic device is divided into a plurality of columns. The electronic device displays a first interface on the screen. After detecting an interface refresh signal, the electronic device obtains a first column quantity corresponding to a width of a second interface to be displayed after refreshing. The first column quantity is a quantity of columns included in the width of the second interface. The electronic device determines a second column quantity according to a layout rule corresponding to a first element on the second interface. The second column quantity is a quantity of columns included in a width of the first element. The electronic device displays the second interface on the screen.
US12164938B2
Techniques are described for dynamic input interaction. In an embodiment, a media stream originating from client computer system(s) in a media session is received. Using a portion of the media stream, the process requests generating an interactive input request related to the portion. Based on the generated interactive input request, UI elements that represent the interactive input request are generated on the user interface(s) of the media session on the client computer system(s). Based on the location information of the participant UI element associated with a user, the process determines the user input data of the user for the interactive input request.
US12164935B2
A message display method includes receiving, by a terminal device, a message from a second application (APP) when displaying an interface of a first APP, wherein the first APP and the second APP are different applications (APPs), displaying the message in a pop-up window display manner on the interface, accepting a first operation comprising sliding, double-taping, or touching and holding the pop-up window of the message, and displaying, in response to the first operation, content of the message in a split-screen display manner.
US12164934B1
A computerized task automation system provides for software robots encoded with a set of instructions that cause the software robot to interact with one or more applications to perform one or more tasks with the one or more applications to complete a task in a manner that a user would perform the task. The system responds to an execution request that specifies a first software robot by retrieving the first software robot and enabling execution. The first software robot has encoded a first instruction that requires the software robot to await occurrence of a first trigger that specifies occurrence of a first event in order to execute the first instruction, and a second trigger that specifies occurrence of a second event in order to execute the first instruction. Execution of the first software robot is initiated only upon occurrence of the first and the second trigger.
US12164928B2
A system booting method for a computer system having a plurality of central processing units and a booting unit is disclosed. The system booting method includes determining, by the booting unit, a booting mode of the computer system; transmitting a booting signal, which is related to the booting mode, to the plurality of CPUs of the computer system; and entering a multi-CPU booting mode or entering an independent booting mode of the plurality CPUs according to the booting signal.
US12164926B2
Disclosed herein is a highly energy-efficient architecture targeting the ultra-low-power sensor domain. The architecture achieves high energy-efficiency while maintaining programmability and generality. The invention introduces vector-dataflow execution, allowing the exploitation of the dataflows in a sequence of vector instructions and to amortize instruction fetch and decode over a whole vector of operations. The vector-dataflow architecture allows the invention to avoid costly vector register file accesses, thereby saving energy.
US12164916B2
System comprising several edge computing devices (ECDs), each equipped with a sensor, a memory, a Central Processing Unit (CPU), and a digital communication interface, enabling the ECD to communicate across a digital communication network. Each ECD is equipped with an interpreting software function, designed to execute on the CPU and interpret computer code received via the digital communication interface and stored in the memory. This is based on a query language with a predetermined syntax that defines queries sent from a particular requesting ECD to one or multiple responding ECDs. The system also includes an interactive Graphical User Interface (GUI) that allows a user to visually view and interactively change computer code stored in various ECDs using a visual notation system. The GUI communicates updated computer code to any concerned ECDs reflecting changes made by the user and receives computer code stored in the ECDs to provide a visual view.
US12164915B2
Systems and methods classifying software components based on multiple information sources are provided. An exemplary method includes retrieving a number of sources including a project documentation file, source code, and dependent project list associated with a software component, extracting a number of entities from the number of sources, processing the number of entities based on a machine learning model, mapping the number of entities to a set of rules, generating a number of categorizations based on the mapping of the number of entities to the set of rules, and ranking the number of categorizations based on the set of rules.
US12164910B2
Tracking controller configuration is provided. Each ECU of a plurality of ECUs is queried for feature codes indicative of elements of functionality implemented by the respective ECU. Each of the feature codes corresponds to a target quantity of ECUs involved in implementing the functionality. An alert is indicated responsive to the querying returning a different quantity of ECUs implementing the functionality than the target quantity.
US12164898B2
In some implementations, a system may receive code for a package to be deployed on a cloud computing platform. The system may cause the cloud computing platform to build the package from the code. The system may install the package on the cloud computing platform in a first non-production environment, wherein the first non-production environment is a development environment. The system may automatically test the package in the first non-production environment based on first testing information for the first non-production environment in a configuration file associated with the code. The system may deploy the package on the cloud computing platform in a production environment. The system may automatically test the package in the production environment based on second testing information for the production environment in the configuration file.
US12164894B2
Methods, devices and media for two-pass source code transformation from a first high-level programming language to a second high-level programming language are described. Two different source code transformation technologies are combined to produce a two-pass source code transformation method: a compiler-based source code transformation technique is used in a first pass, and a parse-tree-based source code transformation technique is used in second pass. The second pass may be used to automatically refactor the source code to enhance desired properties of the second programming language. A two-pass C-to-Rust transformation technique, CRustS, is described which automatically generates Rust source code that exhibits memory safety and overcomes other limitations of existing tools such as C2Rust.
US12164889B1
Techniques are described for enabling users of an information technology (IT) and security operations application to create highly reusable custom functions for playbooks. The creation and execution of playbooks using an IT and security operations application generally enables users to automate operations related to an IT environment responsive to the identification of various types of incidents or other triggering conditions. Users can create playbooks to automate operations such as, for example, modifying firewall settings, quarantining devices, restarting servers, etc., to improve users' ability to efficiently respond to various types of incidents operational issues that arise from time to time in IT environments.
US12164883B2
A method includes retrieving a plurality of datasets from respective memory registers of a memory and storing the retrieved plurality of datasets in respective register portions of a first register. A dataset of data-processing coefficients are stored in a second register. First processing is applied using, as the first operand, a first sub-set of dataset elements stored in the first register, and using, as the second operand, the data-processing coefficients, obtaining a first result. Second processing is applied using, as the first operand, a second sub-set of dataset elements stored in the first register comprised in a second window having a size equal to the dataset size, and using, as the second operand, the replica of the dataset of data-processing coefficients, obtaining a second result. An output is generated based on the first and second results. The first and second processing may perform multiply accumulate (MAC) operations.
US12164876B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an interactive system that allows addition of appropriate response content. An interactive system 100 includes a history DB 105b that stores search history information containing an acquired key, which is a keyword acquired from an input sentence acquired by user operation, a new candidate key, which is an unknown word, and a query sentence, which is response content retrieved using the acquired key. A query sentence generation unit 109 generates a new query sentence on the basis of the search history information, by using a search key contained in the query sentence and the new candidate key.
US12164871B2
A full attention mechanism of a multilingual transformer model is converted into a Longformer attention mechanism to generate a Longformer multilingual transformer model. The Longformer multilingual transformer model is finetuned to perform a summarization task based on episode-description:episode-transcript pairs, thereby generating a finetuned Longformer multilingual transformer model. The Longformer multilingual transformer model also can further be finetuned to perform a summarization task based on article-summary:full-original-article pairs. A summary of a query episode transcript can be generated using the single-finetuned Longformer multilingual transformer model and/or the double-finetuned Longformer multilingual transformer model. The multilingual transformer-based model enables systems, methods and computer products to be capable of generating multilingual abstractive summaries.
US12164870B2
The present disclosure provides a neural document embedding based ontology mapping. Conventional methods that map ontology concepts across domains/species extensively take help of bridging ontologies. Initially the system receives a Human Phenotype (HP) Identification number (ID) pertaining to a phenotype. A first HP ID vector is computed from the HP ID using a trained word2vec model. A second HP ID vector is computed from the HP ID using a trained Doc2vec model. An average HP ID vector is computed based on the first HP ID vector and the second HP ID vector. A plurality of cosine similarity scores are computed based on a comparison between the average HP ID vector and a plurality of average MP ID vectors. The plurality of MP IDs are sorted based on the plurality of cosine similarity scores. The plurality of MP IDs corresponding to the HP ID are selected based on a selection threshold.
US12164869B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to generate and utilize an automated document parser for parsing documents exchanged as part of fulfillment of historical component orders by a given supplier in a supply chain for first and second organizations to identify first and second organization-specific component identifiers utilized by the first and second organizations and a given supplier-specific component identifier utilized by the given supplier for a given component. The processing device is further configured to determine a common component identifier for the given component based at least in part on mapping an association between the first and second organization-specific component identifiers, to consolidate first and second component orders by the first and second organizations that utilize the first and second organization-specific component identifiers into an aggregated component order that utilizes the common component identifier, and to process the aggregated component order utilizing suppliers in the supply chain.
US12164865B2
Examples of the disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for processing a document, a device, and a medium. The method includes: obtaining document parameter information of a document to be created in response to satisfying a preset online document creation condition; and generating a new target online document based on the document parameter information. The preset online document creation condition includes at least one of the following conditions: a preset document update period is reached, and a target data object is collected through the target online document in the update period; and a size of data in a first online document reaches a preset size of data, or a first online document is determined to fail to completely bear a size of data to be written in a next data collection period or a data collection task.
US12164859B2
Methods for generating a categorized, ranked, condensed summary of a transcript of a conversation, involving obtaining a diarized version of the transcript of the conversation, storing textual monologues from the transcript, determining classifications as to the textual monologues based on a classifier algorithm, associating the classifications with the textual monologues, creating textually-modified rephrasings of the textual monologues based on text and classification thereof, storing the textually-modified rephrasings, aggregating the textually-modified rephrasings based on associated clustering and scoring, and transmitting summary information pertaining to the aggregated textually-modified rephrasings to a user device.
US12164857B2
Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer-readable media for generating and presenting customized information cards. In some implementations, an indication of a data set is received. Data indicating a selection of an element of the data set is received. An indication of items in the data set that are associated with the selected element is received. Data is received indicating a selection of one or more of the items that are associated with the selected element of the data set. Card data defining an information card for the selected element of the data set is stored. The card definition data can indicate the selected one or more items and a reference to the data set.
US12164855B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to a method for identifying pre-routed metal lines in a higher layer of a multi-layered structure. The method may recognize gaps in the pre-routed metal lines of the higher layer, and also, the method may automatically fill the gaps with conductive stubs to modify the pre-routed metal lines in the higher layer as a continuous metal line with an extended length.
US12164853B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for generating a layout of a semiconductor device. The method includes placing a first cell and a second cell adjacent to the first cell, placing a first conductive pattern in a first track of the first cell extending in a first direction, wherein the first conductive pattern is configured as an input terminal or an output terminal of the first cell, placing a second conductive pattern in a first track of the second cell extending in the first direction, wherein the second conductive pattern is configured as an input terminal or an output terminal of the second cell, and aligning the first conductive pattern with the second conductive pattern.
US12164852B2
A layout method for an integrated circuit includes the following steps: providing a layout, the layout including a first element region and a second element region, a spacing region being provided between the first element region and the second element region; and detecting whether a width of the spacing region is less than a preset width, and if yes, marking at least one of the first element region, the second element region and the spacing region, the preset width being a minimum width meeting a requirement, wherein the requirement is to fill the spacing region with at least one dummy pattern. A layout apparatus employing the layout method for the integrated circuit can quickly and accurately position a poorly-placed element region in the layout, improve the layout efficiency and layout precision of the integrated circuit, and lay a foundation for improving photolithography quality.
US12164843B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving design and/or engineering data (D/E data) corresponding to a prototype representation of a product and transmitting one or more inputs derived from the D/E data to one or more digital engineering tools for processing. The method also includes receiving engineering-related data outputs from the one or more digital engineering tools and receiving data corresponding to one or more common validation and verification (V&V products). The method further includes identifying one or more requirements for the product based on the data corresponding to the one or more common V&V products; determining whether or not the one or more requirements have been satisfied; and presenting information corresponding to the engineering-related data outputs and/or the data corresponding to the one or more common V&V products. The method also includes receiving instructions from the user device, and performing one or more manipulations of the D/E data.
US12164836B2
Systems and methods to support an application that is voice-controlled are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may establish a synchronous two-way communication session between a first and a second user; present application information to the first and second user; detect first voice-control information from the first user and second voice-control information from the second user; control operations of the application based on the detected voice-control information; generate and/or determine results of the application based on the detected voice-control information; present the results to the users, and/or other steps.
US12164834B2
An example method involves causing a control device to display a graphical user interface that comprises an indication of a first zone of a media playback system, wherein the media playback system comprises the first zone and a second zone, and wherein the graphical user interface does not comprise an indication of the second zone. The example method further involves detecting, by the control device, an input that indicates a command to cause the first zone to form a zone group with the second zone and play back a target media in synchrony with the second zone. The method further comprises, based on the detected input, causing the first zone to form a zone group with the second zone and play back the target media in synchrony with the second zone.
US12164825B1
A method for taking a screenshot includes: acquiring an initial position indicated by a stylus on a screen of a terminal device at a first moment, in response to an instruction of enabling a remote screenshot function; acquiring a target position indicated by the stylus on the screen at at least one second moment after the first moment; and remotely capturing screen content corresponding to the initial position and the target position at the at least one second moment in response to a screenshot instruction, to acquire the screenshot.
US12164818B2
A printing apparatus includes a communication interface, a user interface, a memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to, when a print instruction has been received via not the communication interface from an external device but the user interface, cancel printing of internal data stored in the memory in response to receiving a cancel instruction via the user interface. The controller is further configured to, when the print instruction has been received via not the user interface but the communication interface from the external device, continue the printing, without canceling the printing based on the cancel instruction.
US12164811B2
A system can include a memory device and a processing device coupled with the memory device. The processing device can receive, from a host system, a command of a type; determine a weighted count of the command according to the type of the command; track, based on the weighted count, a first count of commands of the type; determine whether the first count of commands of the type satisfies a threshold criterion for commands of the type; and responsive to determining that the first count of commands of the type satisfies the threshold criterion, transmit a notification to the host system to refrain from transmitting commands of the type.
US12164799B2
Data associated with a source system is ingested. After the data is ingested, a post-processing metadata conversion process is performed including by selecting an entry of a chunk metadata data structure and determining that a data chunk associated with the selected entry is not referenced by at least a threshold number of objects. In response to determining that the data chunk associated with the selected entry is not referenced by at least the threshold number of objects, metadata of a tree data structure node corresponding to a chunk identifier associated with the data chunk is updated to store a reference to a chunk file storing the data chunk and the selected entry is removed from the chunk metadata data structure.
US12164791B2
Methods, systems, and devices for initializing memory systems are described. A memory system may transmit, to a host system over a first channel, signaling indicative of a first set of values for a set of parameters associated with communicating information over a second channel between a storage device of the memory system and a memory device of the memory system. The host system may transmit, to the memory system, additional signaling associated with the first set of values for the set of parameters. For instance, the host system may transmit a second set of values for the set of parameters, an acknowledgement to use the first set of values, or a command to perform a training operation on the second channel to identify a second set of values for the set of parameters. The memory system may communicate the information over the second channel based on the additional signaling.
US12164788B2
A system on chip is provided. The system on chip includes: a plurality of memory controllers respectively connected to a plurality of memory devices; a plurality of logic circuits, each logic circuit being configured to perform a data processing operation using at least one of the plurality of memory controllers; and a bus connection interface configured to select a first hash function from among a plurality of hash functions based on a first address region corresponding to first addresses received from a first logic circuit from among the plurality of logic circuits, obtain hashed first addresses by applying the first hash function to the first addresses, and connect at least one of the plurality of memory controllers to the first logic circuit using a first access method that corresponds to the hashed first addresses.
US12164785B2
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for data loss prevention of a storage device. In some embodiments, the data loss preventing method includes receiving, from a host system, a query plan corresponding to necessary data to be stored in a volatile memory. The data loss preventing method further includes generating, based on the query plan, a data priority list corresponding to the necessary data. The data loss preventing method further includes selecting, based on the data priority list, at least one portion of the volatile memory, when a main power supplied by the host system drops to or below a power level threshold. The data loss preventing method further includes moving the necessary data to the at least one portion of the volatile memory.
US12164784B2
Provided herein may be a memory controller and a memory system including the same. The memory controller may include a plurality of control cores configured to control a plurality of zone blocks respectively corresponding to logical address groups provided by a host, a buffer memory configured to store information about a zone group including zone blocks which are controlled by different control cores among the plurality of zone blocks, the information about zone group being generated based on information about an available space in each of the plurality of zone blocks, and a wear-leveling controller configured to control the plurality of control cores to perform a global wear-leveling operation of swapping pieces of data between the zone blocks included in the zone group based on a wear-level of the plurality of zone blocks.
US12164782B2
Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided. The memory includes a plurality of non-volatile memory packages coupled to the switch, with each non-volatile memory package including a plurality of non-volatile memory dies. The controller monitors a wear level of each non-volatile memory package in the plurality of non-volatile memory packages connected to the controller via the switch. The controller determines whether a wear level of a first non-volatile memory package of the plurality of non-volatile memory packages exceeds a wear level threshold. The controller also can transfer data from the first non-volatile memory package to a second non-volatile memory package of the plurality of non-volatile memory packages through the switch based on the wear level of the first non-volatile memory package exceeding the wear level threshold. Thus, the controller may facilitate a persistent switch-based storage controller, thereby improving memory capacity of the storage device.
US12164780B2
Various embodiments provide an electronic device and method for determining the lifespan and failure of a nonvolatile memory storage device. The electronic device and the method according to various embodiments may be configured to determine whether the storage device has failed in response to a connection with the storage device, output a guidance message for replacing the storage device when the storage device fails, confirm whether the storage device has a function of autonomously identifying its state when the storage device is normal, check the lifespan of the storage device based on state information received from the storage device when the storage device has the function, estimate the lifespan of the storage device when the storage device does not have the function, and output the guidance message for replacing the storage device based on the lifespan.
US12164777B2
A storage device includes a non-volatile memory and a memory controller. The memory controller selects a selection memory block to store data in response to pattern data corresponding to a logical address associated with a write request, and provides, to the non-volatile memory, a physical address of the selection memory block, as well as data and a write command associated with the write request.
US12164774B2
Provided is a method for regulating, via a hardware performance throttling block (PTB) of a memory module, the performance of a memory system in response to read and write requests from a processing system which hosts the memory system. The host system sends memory service requests to the memory system in the form of memory read requests and memory write requests. The host system sends requests to throttle, that is, to limit the responses of the memory system in response to memory requests; the host system sends to the memory system various parameters indicative of current memory usage. In response to the throttling request, the PTB of the memory module either stops any reception of memory requests, or limits (throttles) the number of memory read requests, write requests, or both for a specified number of clock/command cycles. The PTB also determines when full, un-throttled performance may be resumed.
US12164771B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for dividing a logical address space into a first and at least a second set of data portions. Exclusive ownership of the first set may be assigned to a first storage node of a storage cluster. Exclusive ownership of the second set may be assigned to at least a second storage node of the storage cluster. One or more IO requests associated with one or more of the first set of data portions and the at least a second set of data portions may be processed without transferring data portions between the first the at least a second storage node based upon the exclusive ownership of the first set of data portions by the first storage node and the exclusive ownership of the at least a second set of data portions by the at least a second storage node.
US12164764B2
According to one embodiment of the present application, a touch sensitive processing method is provided. The touch sensitive processing method, comprising: mutual capacitance sensing via touch electrodes of a touch panel to get one or more continuous images of the touch panel; calculating a center of circle corresponding to a knob placed on the touch panel according to the one or more continuous images; and when the center of circle is detected, setting up a rejection area corresponding to the center of circle.
US12164760B2
A background image displayed by a terminal includes a first region presenting a first image effect and a second region presenting a second image effect. The terminal may superimpose and display an icon display element in the first region, and when superimposing and displaying the icon in the first region, the terminal is permitted to present the icon as a first display effect associated with the first image effect. Further, when the terminal receives an operation of moving the icon by a user, the terminal is permitted to move, in response to the operation, the icon display element to the second region that presents the second image effect, for superimposing and displaying. In this case, the icon automatically presents, in the second region, a second display effect associated with the second image effect. In this way, interactive displaying of the background image and the icon is implemented.
US12164749B2
An information processing apparatus that controls a display to display an operation target; determines a contact size of an object on the display; and enables or disables an operation input for the operation target based on the contact size.
US12164748B2
The present disclosure generally relates to logging user activities during a subset of a recurring time period. In some embodiments, based on received physiological data, a computer system enables logging of one or more user activities to be performed during a subset of a recurring time period. In some embodiments, based on performance of the one or more user activities during a subset of a recurring time period, a computer system enables logging of one or more user activities to be performed during a subset of a recurring time period for a predetermined period of time.
US12164747B2
In response to detecting that an external device is within communication range of an electronic device and in accordance with a determination that the external device is in a pairing mode, the electronic device displays an affordance corresponding to a pairing application of the electronic device. In response to detecting that an external device is within communication range of an electronic device and in accordance with a determination that the external device is not in the pairing mode, the electronic device forgoes display of the affordance. In response to user input corresponding to selection of the affordance, the electronic device displays a user interface associated with initiating a process to pair the electronic device and the external device.
US12164744B2
Systems and methods herein describe generating a shared list of media elements. The system detects a selection of an application icon within a chat interface and generates an application interface. The application interface comprises a media library. The system initiates a first user time limit and detects a selection of a media element from the media library. The system adds the media element to a shared list of media elements. Upon expiration of the first user time limit, the system initiates a second user time limit and detects a selection of a second media element from the media library. The system adds the second media element to the shared list of media elements. Upon expiration of the second user time limit, the system stores the shared list of media elements.
US12164742B2
Provided are a device state identification method, a device state identification apparatus, and an intelligent terminal. The method includes: obtaining state information of a device corresponding to a device identifier displayed in a scene list page, the scene list page being configured to display different device identifiers contained in different scenes; marking, in response to the state information of the device indicating that the device is in an abnormal state, the device identifier corresponding to the device based on the state information of the device.
US12164740B2
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method to display a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application, display, on the GUI, a projection of a three-dimensional object onto a projection plane, receive a selection of a first region of the object, obtain a geometric information related to the first region, wherein the geometric information comprises at least one of a geometric relationship of the first region to a second region of the object or an identification of a shape belonging to the first region, determine, based on the geometric information, a spatial orientation of the first region of the object relative to the projection plane, and display, on the GUI, an indication of the spatial orientation of the first region.
US12164732B2
A capacitive touch-sensor system comprises an electrode array coupled to an electromagnetic-noise source, a hardware interface, and associated output logic. The electrode array acquires sensory signal. The hardware interface exposes a touch-position output of the capacitive touch sensor. The output logic determines that an anomalous sensory electrode of the electrode array is proximate to a touchpoint, the anomalous sensory electrode providing an anomalous response to noise from the electromagnetic-noise source. Pursuant to determining that the anomalous sensory electrode is proximate to the touchpoint, the output logic identifies a non-anomalous sensory electrode of the electrode array which is usable to detect the noise. If an amplitude of the sensory signal from the non-anomalous sensory electrode exceeds a predetermined threshold, then the output logic invalidates the sensory signal for touchpoint resolution. If the sensory signal is not invalidated, the output logic computes the touch-position output based in part on the sensory signal.
US12164730B2
A human body detecting sensor system includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a drive circuit, a detection circuit, and a comparison circuit. The second electrode is connected to the first electrode via a capacitor. The drive circuit generates a first signal having a prescribed frequency for driving the first electrode. The detection circuit detects a second signal generated at the second electrode in response to the first signal being supplied to the first electrode. The comparison circuit compares the first signal with the second signal. The comparison circuit detects a touch and/or an approach of an object, which has an impedance in a certain range corresponding to a human body, with respect to at least one of the first and second electrodes when a phase difference between the first signal and the second signal is within a prescribed range.
US12164721B2
A display panel and a mobile terminal are disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of touch control electrodes spaced apart from each other and a plurality of touch control lead lines spaced apart from each other. The touch control electrodes include a plurality of touch control electrode columns. At least part of the touch control lead lines include a first line section and a second line section which extend along different directions. The first line section of the touch control lead lines overlaps the corresponding touch control electrodes, and the second line section at least overlaps the touch control electrodes, which are closest to the non-display area, of the corresponding touch control electrode columns.
US12164718B2
An electronic device including: a display panel having an active area in which a plurality of pixels are disposed and a peripheral area disposed around the active area; a plurality of sensing electrodes disposed in the active area; and a first sensing line connected to one of the plurality of sensing electrodes and including a first portion disposed in the peripheral area, a second portion extending from the first portion and disposed in the active area, and a third portion extending from the second portion and disposed in the peripheral area.
US12164716B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel, including a display substrate (1); and a touch electrode (2) and a shielding electrode (6) arranged on the display substrate (1); where the shielding electrode (6) and the touch electrode (2) are sequentially arranged in a direction away from the display substrate (1); and an orthographic projection of the shielding electrode (6) on the display substrate (1) at least partially overlaps an orthographic projection of the touch electrode (2) on the display substrate (1), the shielding electrode comprises shielding units arranged in an array, in a row direction of the array, M shielding units each having a load value x are provided, M*x≤P; and in a column direction of the array, N shielding units each having a load value y are provided, N*y≤P; P is a maximum load capacity of a driver chip for providing signals for the shielding electrode.
US12164707B2
Various methods and systems are provided for a rotary user interface for a touchscreen display. In one embodiment, a rotary user interface for a touchscreen display comprises: an alignment touchscreen nib; a rotary interface wheel; and a rotary touchscreen nib coupled to the rotary interface wheel and rotatable relative to the alignment touchscreen nib via the rotary interface wheel. The rotary user interface may further include a confirmation touchscreen nib coupled to the rotary interface wheel.
US12164706B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a touch device for sensing a position of a stylus including a resonance circuit, including: a plurality of electrode; and a touch controller configured to receive a sensing signal from the electrodes to determine a position of the stylus, wherein the electrodes includes electrodes in which directions of currents induced in the electrodes by the resonance circuit are opposite to each other.
US12164701B1
A user-upgradeable modular component keyboard for an information handling system comprising a replaceable keyboard layout structure having a plurality of keys and operatively coupled to a replaceable keyboard power and connectivity module via a key switch data connector and a releasable fastener. The replaceable keyboard power and connectivity module housing a keyboard controller for communicating detected keystrokes to the information handling system and a power source for powering the keyboard controller, the replaceable keyboard power and connectivity module having a key switch data connector first side to operatively couple to a key switch data connector second side on the replaceable keyboard layout structure for transfer of data and power, and the replaceable keyboard power and connectivity module having a releasable fastener first side for operative coupling to a releasable fastener second side on the replaceable keyboard layout structure.
US12164699B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing operations comprising: capturing, by an electronic mirroring device, a video feed received from a camera of the electronic mirroring device, the video feed depicting a user; identifying a finger of a hand of the user in the video feed; determining a direction within the video feed to which the finger is pointing; and accessing a first menu option based on the direction within the video feed to which the finger is pointing.
US12164688B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for transient-based decoding of neural signals. In one aspect, a device such as a brain-computer interface (BCI), includes at least one processor configured to receive a plurality of neural signals from a subject. The at least one processor can detect, from the plurality of neural signals, first neural activity unique to a first defined temporal window corresponding to an onset phase of an intended action of the subject. The at least one processor can detect, from the plurality of neural signals, second neural activity unique to a second defined temporal window, occurring after the first temporal window and corresponding to an offset phase of the intended action. The at least one processor can generate at least one output indicative of the intended action, responsive to detecting at least one of the first neural activity or the second neural activity.
US12164685B2
A method for managing a user interface in a smart glass is provided. The method includes identifying an eye gesture of the user of the smart glass, based on an eye-tracking signal indicative of a pupil location of the user, assessing a user intention for an application displayed in a user interface in the headset based on the eye gesture, and activating the application based on the user intention. A smart glass for use with the above method is also provided.
US12164681B2
A survey method includes presenting a participant with a calibrating stimulus through a survey channel, wherein the survey channel can measure a reactive aspect of the participant's response to stimuli, measuring the reactive aspect of the participant's response to the calibrating stimulus through the survey channel, presenting the participant with a survey stimulus through the survey channel, measuring the reactive aspect of the participant's response to the survey stimulus through the survey channel, and evaluating the reactive aspect of the participant's response to the survey stimulus based on the reactive aspect of the participant's response to the calibrating stimulus. A computer-implemented survey method includes calibrating a survey system to determine individual cutoff times for individual participants in a survey, presenting survey content to the participants, monitoring the participants' responses to the survey content, and evaluating the individual participants' responses to the survey content based on the individual participants' cutoff times.
US12164677B2
Methods and systems are described for novel uses and/or improvements to federated learning. As one example, methods and systems are described for improving the applicability of federated learning across various applications and increasing the efficiency of training a global model through federated learning. As another example, methods and systems are described for ensuring comprehensive training data is available to models assigned by the federated learning server. Additionally, methods and systems are described for improving the rate of training a global model through federated learning.
US12164667B2
An application privacy analysis system is described, where the system obtains an application and analyzes it for privacy related data use. The system may determine privacy related activities of the application from established sources of such data and/or may decompile the application and analyze the resulting code to determine the privacy related activities of the application. The system may execute the application and monitor the communications traffic exchanged by the application to determine privacy related activities of the application. The system may store the results of such analyses for future reference.
US12164665B2
Disclosed is a method and a device for processing a file. According to an embodiment, the method comprises selecting a portion of the file to be encrypted; encrypting the selected portion of the file as encrypted data; and amending the file by replacing the selected portion with predefined data and appending the encrypted data at an end of the file.
US12164662B2
A block chain defining authority and access to confidential data may not be encrypted, and the access to the block chain can be regulated by the block chain itself and an access control server operating in an enterprise information technology (IT) environment. To incorporate authority defined in multiple sources, such as the block chain and the access control server, a token can be created containing multiple layers of permissions, i.e. constraints, coming from multiple sources. Each additional permission attenuates the authority granted by the token. When a processor controlling the access to the block chain receives the token, the processor can check the validity of the token and the authority granted by the token to determine whether the requester is authorized to access at least a portion of the block chain.
US12164660B2
Methods and systems for a media guidance application that provides advanced parental control features such as allowing parents to establish parental controls in a dynamic and individualized manner and allowing parents to track and/or limit the amount of time that a child views media content of a particular type.
US12164659B2
In a dataset exchange environment in which datasets are available for exchange or transformation, a dataset validation platform may be configured to update a cryptographically signed record based on each dataset that is available via the data exchange environment. The dataset validation platform may be further configured to control access to the datasets based on whether a request to access a particular dataset is compliant with an availability requirement of the particular dataset. The dataset validation platform may be further configured to update the cryptographically signed record based on requests to access the datasets, transformations that are based on the datasets, or modifications to the availability requirement of the datasets, such as a modification to a privacy limitation or other availability requirement indicating a criteria for usage of the requested dataset.
US12164657B2
Techniques are disclosed for determining the authenticity of a digital-origin document based, at least in part, on the code of the document. By determining authenticity based on the code of the document, authentication may take into account several features that are not detectable on the rendered image of a digital-origin document. The document class of a target document is initially determined. Anomalies are then detected in the code using various detectors, including but not limited to metadata-based detectors and content-based detectors. The output of the detectors may be combined to generate a document anomaly score that indicates likelihood that the document is not authentic.
US12164645B2
In some aspects, a system may receive security vulnerability indicators associated with one or more cloud-based applications and/or properties associated with one or more cloud-based images used to create cloud instances. The system may determine, for each indicator and/or property, a corresponding remediation recommendation. The system may generate a graphical user interface that provides the indicators and/or properties with the corresponding remediation recommendations. The system may transmit, based on a user setting, a corresponding message for each indicator and/or property. The system may trigger, based on at least one of the indicators and/or properties, an automated remediation script that instructs a cloud environment to perform an action for a cloud-based application and/or image associated with the at least one indicator and/or property. The system may transmit one or more status indicators associated with the automated remediation script. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12164641B1
An operational mode can be designated for a computing device, such as an integrated circuit. In particular, an input signal may be used to determine an operational mode, which may lead to bypassing or otherwise restricting one or more boot operations to permit use of the computing device. Such an approach provides improved flexibility to permit use of the computing device for testing or debugging while maintaining security features used during other operational modes.
US12164633B2
Systems and methods include causing a scan by Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) system of a plurality of users associated with a tenant in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application where the scan includes any of identifying malware in content in the SaaS application and identifying confidential data in the content in the SaaS application; during the scan which is covering historical data in the SaaS application, receiving notifications of the content being actively modified by any of the plurality of users; and including the content being actively modified in the scan with the historical data. The systems and methods can further include maintaining geolocation of the any of the plurality of users; and causing the content being actively modified in the scan to be processed by the CASB system based on the geolocation.
US12164628B2
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed in relation to a vector space model that may be used to characterize a category of messages. In one of many possible implementations, the frequency of words found within a piece of text is determined. These frequencies are compared against the frequencies of words within a given corpus like the Oxford English Corpus by first converting the frequencies to probabilities via the inverse cumulative distribution function assuming a normal distribution of frequencies then via taking the absolute difference in frequencies. A small difference reduces the weight of the given word whereas a large weight increases the weight of the word, leading to excellent word ranking for automated feature selection filtering without the need for a negative corpus.
US12164624B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for using machine learning models to identify appropriate security patterns to follow during the application development process. A computing device can receive a request to identify a collection of security patterns to apply to an application and then identify a plurality of features associated with the application. Next, the computing device can submit the plurality of features to a random forest machine learning model and receive a first set of security patterns in response. Then, the computing device can submit the plurality of features to a k-nearest neighbor (KNN) machine learning model and receive a second set of security patterns in response. Then, the computing device can identify a subset of the security patterns that is included in both the first set of security patterns and the second set of security patterns and return the subset of the security patterns.
US12164619B1
A method for enhancing detection of fraudulent data is provided that includes the step of analyzing, by an electronic device, voice biometric data captured while the user was speaking to determine whether the captured voice biometric data exhibits anomalies associated with fraudulent voice audio data. Moreover, the method includes the steps of analyzing circumstances under which the voice biometric data was captured, analyzing mannerisms of the user while the voice biometric data was captured, and calculating a risk score based on at least the results of the analyses. Furthermore, the method includes the steps of comparing the risk score against a threshold value, and in response to determining the risk score fails to satisfy the threshold value generating an alert having a risk level corresponding to the risk score.
US12164615B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to computing devices and methods for authenticating a user. In one example, a method for authenticating a user at a computing device comprises activating a fingerprint reader integrated into a power key of the computing device, and activating a visual indicator at the power key to indicate a status of the fingerprint reader. Based at least in part on activating the fingerprint reader, a standby function of the power key is disabled. A fingerprint of the user is received via the fingerprint reader and used to authenticate the user. After authenticating the user, the visual indicator is deactivated and the standby function of the power key is re-enabled.
US12164603B2
A machine learning based system can identify an entity as the likely subject of a multimodal message (e.g., a social media post having a short text phrase overlaid on an image) by creating embeddings for an image of the multimodal message and one or more string embeddings from text of the multimodal message. The embeddings can be weighted to maximize information gain, then recombined and compared against a result embedding database to identify an entity as the subject of the multimodal message.
US12164602B2
Disclosed is an image analysis system which includes a first analyzer and a second analyzer. The first analyzer generates first features by encoding images through a first model and adjusts a weight of the first model based on the first features. The second analyzer generates second features based on the first features by encoding the images through a second model, classifies the second features into classes, respectively, and adjusts a weight of the second model based on mutual information and a correlation between a first class among the classes which features corresponding to an original image group from among the second features are classified as and a second class among the classes which features corresponding to an augmentation group of the original image group from among the second features are classified as.
US12164599B1
Volumetric quantification can be performed for various parameters of an object represented in volumetric data. Multiple views of the object can be generated, and those views provided to a set of neural networks that can generate inferences in parallel. The inferences from the different networks can be used to generate pseudo-labels for the data, for comparison purposes, which enables a co-training loss to be determined for the unlabeled data. The co-training loss can then be used to update the relevant network parameters for the overall data analysis network. If supervised data is also available then the network parameters can further be updated using the supervised loss.
US12164567B2
Computer-implemented method, apparatus and computer program for automatic analysis of a RDF, Resource Description Framework, dataset. The RDF dataset comprising a set of triples, wherein the RDF dataset is provided as an undirected graph comprising nodes and edges, wherein nodes represent entities and edges represent links between entities.
US12164566B2
A method may include receiving a workspace definition defining a graph workspace for a heterogeneous graph having a plurality of vertex tables and/or edge tables. Upon validating the workspace definition, the graph workspace for the heterogeneous graph may be created in accordance with the workspace definition. The graph workspace may include a label for each table of the plurality of vertex tables and/or edge tables comprising the heterogeneous graph. Each vertex and edge of the heterogeneous graph may be uniquely identified based on a label of a corresponding table and one or more key attributes. A graph processing algorithm operating on the heterogeneous graph may be executed based on the graph workspace. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
US12164565B2
Systems and methods are described for processing ingested data in an asynchronous manner as the data is being ingested to detect potential anomalies. For example, one or more streaming data processors can convert data as the data is ingested into a comparable data structure, determine whether the comparable data structure should be assigned to an existing data pattern or a new data pattern, and optionally update a characteristic of the data pattern to which the comparable data structure is assigned. The streaming data processor(s) can perform these operations automatically in real-time or in periodic batches. Once one or more comparable data structures have been assigned to one or more data patterns, the streaming data processor(s) can analyze the comparable data structures assigned to a particular data pattern to determine whether any of the comparable data structures appear to be anomalous.
US12164563B2
There is provided a content providing system in which a script that is generated by a creator and includes identification information of content and comment information is stored in a predetermined storage medium to be browsable by a user, the content providing system including a control unit that performs control to execute reading, according to a script selected by the user, content indicated by content identification information included in the script by using a right that the user has already obtained by a contract with a specific service, and provide the content to the user, and control to read a comment according to the comment information included in the script and provide the comment to the user at least one of before or after the provision of the content, in which the control unit controls the provision of the content or the comment according to a context of the user.
US12164558B2
Techniques and solutions are described for clustering, with reduced memory consumption, observations in a data set. A first observation is received. A distance is determined between the first observation and a first cluster. It is determined that the distance satisfies a threshold, and the first observation is added to a first sample of the first cluster. A first set of means is calculated for the first sample using data of the first observations and data of at least a second observation of the first sample. A second set of means is calculated for the plurality of elements for the first cluster using the first set of means for the first sample and at least a third set of means for at least a second sample of the first cluster. An identifier of the first observation is added to a collection of observation identifiers classified in the first cluster.
US12164554B2
A document classification method includes: obtaining a document; extracting document keywords and a document abstract from the document; determining, according to the document keywords and the document abstract, a first classification label of the document; receiving a second classification label of the document, the second classification label being determined according to the document keywords, the document abstract, and the first classification label; obtaining a classification efficiency value of the documents, the classification efficiency value indicating a confidence level of the second classification label; and determining the second classification label as a final classification label of the document if the classification efficiency value is greater than or equal to a first threshold. The document classification method described above may improve the speed of document classification by computer, thereby improving the efficiency of document classification.
US12164547B2
In an aspect, an artificial intelligence advisory system for vibrant constitutional guidance, the system comprising a computing device; an advisory module operating on the computing device, wherein the advisory module is configured to receive at least a user input from a user client device; evaluate the content of the user input to identify a theme of conversation; locate an advisor client device operated by an informed advisor utilizing the identified theme of conversation; and an artificial intelligence advisor operating on the computing device, wherein the artificial intelligence advisor is configured to match the theme of conversation to a repository response utilizing a first machine-learning process, wherein the repository response contains a plurality of textual outputs related to the theme of conversation; select a textual output contained within the repository response; and transmit the textual output to the user client device.
US12164526B1
In some implementations, a device may identify an event relating to a potential transaction between a user and an entity. The device may determine, responsive to identifying the event, a profile associated with the user based on an aggregation of data relating to one or more events, including the event, associated with the user and the entity. The device may evaluate the profile to identify a type of content to include in a communication for the user. The device may cause transmission of the communication, including the type of content, for the user.
US12164524B2
Systems and methods are described for customizable data streams in a streaming data processing system. Routing criteria for the customizable data streams are defined by a user, an automated process, or any other process. The routing criteria can be defined using graphical controls. The streaming data processing system uses the routing criteria to determine data that should be used to populate a particular data stream. Further, processing pipelines are customized such that a particular processing pipeline can obtain data from a particular user defined data stream and write data to a particular user defined data stream. Data is routed through the user defined data streams and customized processing pipelines based on a data route. A data route for a set of data may include multiple user defined data streams and multiple processing pipelines. The data route can include a loop of processing pipelines and data streams.
US12164520B2
Systems for fine-grained control of query execution are disclosed. The system receives and stores access control rules to be applied to queries. The system applies access control rules to a received query to determine one or more actions corresponding to the received query. Based on the access control rules, the system can allow execution of the query without conditions, allow execution of the query under a set of conditions, or prevent execution of the query.
US12164518B2
Example solutions for performing federated graph queries use schemas and include: generating a logical graph using a query input and generating a physical plan using a query planning schema for double-nested loops, the outer loop for each permutation of data stores in a set of data stores, and the inner loop for each data store—ceasing when the logical graph has been fully consumed. A query cost is determined for each of the permutations, and a physical plan is selected based on the query cost, for example minimizing the query cost, and the query is executed based on the selected physical plan. The cost may be determined based on a weighted combination of factors such as freshness of the data, latency, power consumption, environmental impact (e.g., carbon footprint), energy efficiency, and network burden.
US12164510B2
Systems and methods for providing suggestions responsive to search queries for a search engine are disclosed. Such suggestions may include one or more related search queries and/or a spell correction. Related search queries may be provided by converting the search query into a document vector space, determining documents that are similar to the query in the vector space, and determining prior search queries to which those similar documents are responsive. Spell corrections may be provided by comparing n-tuple word combinations in the search query to a library of correct n-tuple word combinations and making appropriate corrections.
US12164507B2
A method executed by a computing device includes determining whether a set of words are included in a word set. When the set of words are in the word set, the method further includes determining a set of identigens for each word of the word set to produce sets of identigens, where a set of identigens of the sets of identigens represents one or more different meanings of a word of the word set. The method further includes interpreting, using identigen pairing rules, the sets of identigens to produce an entigen set. The method further includes assigning a single new entigen to represent the entigen set, where the single new entigen represents a most likely meaning interpretation of the word set.
US12164506B2
A device described herein may maintain a distributed ledger that is also maintained by at least one other device, where the distributed ledger includes at least a particular record. The device may receive a first record and a second record for recordation to the distributed ledger, where the first and second records each include a reference to the particular record, and where the first and second records further respectively include first and second values. The device may compare, based on the first and second records each including the reference to the same particular record, the first value to the second value. The device may determine, based on the comparing, a sequence of the first and second records, and may maintain information indicating that the distributed ledger includes the first and second records. The information may further indicate the determined sequence of the first and second records.
US12164502B2
The disclosure relates to, among other things, systems and methods for facilitating the verification of the integrity of digital content. Embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods may provide mechanisms for generating a secure and unambiguous record of the creation and/or modification of digital content and/or other media associated with events. Further embodiments may provide for a ledger configured to capture a record of creation and/or modification actions performed in connection with digital content.
US12164487B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for consolidating multiple databases into a single or a smaller number of databases is described. An improved structure of target database may be achieved by removing constraints used when creating legacy databases. According to some aspects, these and other benefits may be achieved by combining multiple source tables into a single target table with errors being identified and addressed during the creation of the instructions to generate the target table. In implementation, this may be effected by converting values from a source table and values from a target table into normalized versions of those values and then comparing the normalized values. A benefit includes verifying that the data from the source table is being properly reflected in the target table.
US12164477B2
A repository of replicated chunk files is analyzed to identify chunk files that meet at least a portion of combination criteria. Selected chunk files are associated together under a data protection grouping container. Erasure coding is applied to the data protection grouping container including by utilizing the selected chunk files as different data stripes of the erasure coding and generating one or more parity stripes based on the different data stripes.
US12164459B2
The present disclosure aims to enable a total of 127 or more USB devices to be connected on the same network regardless of connection sites. A USB connection control system of the present disclosure is a USB connection control system including a plurality of USB-network conversion devices and a management device being connected to each other via a network, in which the management device holds, per user, connection information defining a connection destination of a USB device connected to the USB-network conversion device, and at least one of the plurality of USB-network conversion devices receives, from the management device, the connection information corresponding to identification information unique to the at least one of the plurality of USB-network conversion devices and communicates with a to-be-connected USB-network conversion device based on the received connection information, and to establish connection with a USB device that is connected to the to-be-connected USB-network conversion device.
US12164453B2
A hub includes: a multi-function control unit; a microprocessor; at least one sharing port connected to the multi-function control unit, which controls the at least one sharing port to connect with a computing device; a USB audio control unit connected to the multi-function control unit; an audio processing module connected to the USB audio control unit and the microprocessor; a wireless module connected to the audio processing module and the microprocessor and used for wireless communication with a mobile device; and an audio input and output module connected to the audio processing module and the microprocessor, and including an audio cable jack used for connecting with an audio input and output device, and/or a built-in speaker and a microphone. The microprocessor controls the audio processing module to select and process audio signal sharing among the computing device, the mobile device, and the audio input and output device.
US12164440B2
Access to an array is efficiently performed without reveling an accessed position. A storage 10 stores an array of concealed values [x′→] of an array x′→ and an array of addresses a′→ corresponding to respective elements of the array of concealed values [x′→]. A refresh unit 11 determines a concealed value [F] of a random parameter F, an array of concealed values [x→] of an array x→ generated by permutating the array x′→ with random permutation ρ, and an array of public tags b→ calculated from respective elements of the array of addresses a→ with the function TagF. An access unit 12 performs a desired access to an element of the array of concealed values [x→] corresponding to a tag that is calculated from a concealed value [j] of an access position j with the function Tag and the concealed value [F] of the parameter.
US12164438B2
In a method of operating a computer system, an instruction loop is executed by a processor in which each iteration of the instruction loop accesses a current data vector and an associated current vector predicate. The instruction loop is repeated when the current vector predicate indicates the current data vector contains at least one valid data element and the instruction loop is exited when the current vector predicate indicates the current data vector contains no valid data elements.
US12164429B2
Stride-based prefetcher circuits for prefetching data for next stride(s) of a cache read request into a cache memory based on identified stride patterns in the cache read request, and related processor-based systems and methods are disclosed. A stride-based prefetcher circuit (“prefetcher circuit”) observes cache read requests to a cache memory in run-time to determine if a stride pattern exists. In response to detecting a stride pattern, the prefetcher circuit prefetches data from next memory location(s) in the detected stride from higher-level memory, and loads the prefetch data into the cache memory. This is because there is a higher likelihood that when a stride in the cache read requests to the cache memory is detected to exist, subsequent cache read requests to the cache memory will more likely than not continue with the same stride. The cache hit rate of the cache memory may be increased as a result.
US12164424B2
A distributed cache apparatus includes storage comprising a range of stored data and a processing device. A first cache level of the storage is segmented into a plurality of first data sub-ranges of the range of stored data, and each of the first data sub-ranges is associated with one of a first subset of a plurality of node devices. A second cache level of the storage is segmented into a plurality of second data sub-ranges of the range of stored data, and each of the second data sub-ranges is associated with one of a second subset of the node devices. Each of the second data sub-ranges is smaller than each of the first data sub-ranges. The processing device is configured to process a read request for data within the range of stored data by accessing one of the second subset of the node devices.
US12164421B1
This disclosure provides for improvements in managing multi-drive, multi-die or multi-plane NAND flash memory. In one embodiment, the host directly assigns physical addresses and performs logical-to-physical address translation in a manner that reduces or eliminates the need for a memory controller to handle these functions, and initiates functions such as wear leveling in a manner that avoids competition with host data accesses. A memory controller optionally educates the host on array composition, capabilities and addressing restrictions. Host software can therefore interleave write and read requests across dies in a manner unencumbered by memory controller address translation. For multi-plane designs, the host writes related data in a manner consistent with multi-plane device addressing limitations. The host is therefore able to “plan ahead” in a manner supporting host issuance of true multi-plane read commands.
US12164415B2
Debug engine receives a capture file over the network interface and initiate playback by executing the capture file with the processor. The capture file comprises real-time local network environment video synchronized with data captured by a local browser at a local station interacting with a local network gateway device over a local network. The capture file is played back, using a mock server including transmitting HTTP requests from the capture file at the developer station to the mock gateway server. Additionally, HTTP responses are received from the capture file at the mock gateway server, in synch with actions in the real-time local network environment video. A GUI engine renders a GUI on the developer computer from real-time GUI code generated from the capture file playback as modified by processing the HTTP responses.
US12164410B2
Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle testing are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining, by a computing system, data indicative of a test of an autonomous vehicle computing system. The method can include determining, by the computing system, one or more autonomous vehicle capabilities that are tested by the test. The method includes determining, by the computing system, a testing scenario that corresponds to the test. The testing scenario can generated at least in part using real-world data. The method includes associating, by the computing system, the data indicative of the test with data indicative of the one or more autonomous vehicle capabilities that are tested by the test and data indicative of the testing scenario. The method includes storing such associated data in in an accessible memory.
US12164409B1
Systems and methods for data corroboration and forecasting in which a sever generates structured customer feedback data from unstructured customer verbatim data and uses unsupervised machine learning modeling techniques to identify similar word clusters within the structured customer feedback data, classifies the identified word clusters into multiple categories of customer issues, and detects one or more trending customer issues within the multiple categories. The server may also retrieve web/mobile application usage analytics data and system logs data and use unsupervised machine learning modeling techniques to corroborate customer web/mobile navigation and service issues associated with the structured customer feedback data.
US12164399B2
A data processing system of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) may include a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU). The CPU may be configured to monitor a behavior of a graphics processing unit (GPU), operate the GPU to perform a randomly controlled operation using a random number generator, operate the GPU to perform an idle period, and operate the GPU to repeat the randomly controlled operation. The idle period may be performed between each repetition of the randomly controlled operation, and each repetition may utilize the random number generator.
US12164391B2
Embodiments for a method performing data migration such as backups and restores in a network by identifying characteristics of data in a data saveset to separate the data into defined types based on respective characteristics, assigning a data label to each defined type by receiving user selection or automatically merging or selecting a priority label, from among many labels associated with a file, defining migration rules for each data label, discovering assigned labels during a migration operation; and applying respective migration rules to labeled data in the data saveset. The migration rules can dictate storage location, access rights, replication periods, retention periods, and similar parameters.
US12164386B2
A plurality of portions of a content file are stored. It is determined that the content file has a size that is greater than a threshold size. In response to determining that the content file has the size that is greater than the threshold size, a plurality of component file metadata structures are generated for each of the plurality of portions of the content file. A component file metadata structure of the plurality of component file metadata structures corresponds to one of the portions of the content file. Each of the plurality of component file metadata structures includes corresponding metadata that enables data chunks associated with a corresponding portion of the content file to be located.
US12164384B2
Techniques are provided to manage data on shutdown of a data storage system. For example, a method comprises initiating a process to shut down a data storage system which comprises storage devices that store data associated with one or more non-persistent logical storage resources of a virtual storage layer which is configured by the data storage system. In response to initiating the process to shut down the data storage system, the method comprises: storing configuration data associated with the virtual storage layer, the configuration data comprising unique identifiers associated with the one or more non-persistent logical storage resources; and performing a data backup process to persistently store a copy of the data associated with the one or more non-persistent logical storage resources to a backup storage system.
US12164383B2
An example file server manager updates a selected share of a destination distributed file server based on a snapshot of at least a portion of a selected share of a source distributed file server. The selected share of the destination distributed file server is updated while the source distributed file server serves client requests for storage items of the selected share of the source distributed file server. The file server manager receives a request to failover from the source distributed file server to the destination distributed file server and configures the destination distributed file server to service read and write requests for storage items of the selected share of the destination distributed file server. The file server manager further redirects client requests for storage items of the selected share of the source distributed file server to the destination distributed file server by updating active directory information.
US12164371B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: an integrity circuit to receive data and generate a protection code based at least in part on the data; a cryptographic circuit coupled to the integrity circuit to encrypt the data into encrypted data and encrypt the protection code into an encrypted protection code; a message authentication code (MAC) circuit coupled to the cryptographic circuit to compute a MAC comprising a tag using header information, the encrypted data, and the encrypted protection code; and an output circuit to send the header information, the encrypted data, and the tag to a receiver via a link. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12164368B2
Methods, systems, and devices for error detection signaling are described. In some examples, a memory device may include circuitry to detect one or more error conditions. As the memory device is operated, it may store or output a value (e.g., a high value, a “1”) indicating the absence of an error condition. Upon the occurrence of an error condition, the memory device may either store or output a value (e.g., a low value, a “0”), which may allow for the error to be corrected or mitigated. Because storing or driving the value signifying the error condition may require a driver of the memory device to be coupled with a power supply, storing or outputting the value signifying an absence of an error condition (e.g., unless a normal or valid condition is detected) may mitigate errors that would otherwise render a safety mechanism of the memory device ineffective.
US12164360B2
The vehicular advertisement display device includes a processor. The processor is configured to display advertisement information on a display unit provided on an outer surface of the vehicle main body. The processor is also configured to reduce power consumption of the vehicle based on the vehicle state.
US12164355B2
A power saving apparatus and method for a host system to proactively decide to save power and increase battery life when bus powered peripheral devices are connected to the System's USB TYPE-C ports. The Host (or Host System) decides if a Bus Powered Device (BPD), hub or a peripheral device requires application services, or a device-initiated wake based on wake policies of a respective Universal Serial Bus (USB) 3.2, THUNDERBOLT 3 (TBT3), USB4, DISPLAYPORT (DP) Protocol. Thereafter, the Host decides based on S0, Low Power System standby entry—wake time latency requirement along with USB TYPE-C IO Protocol policies, to trigger the system power delivery (PD) Controller to remove power to the BPD. To save power, the Host System Wake logic power partition is also powered off.
US12164353B2
A system and method for determining power-performance state transition thresholds in a computing system. A processor comprises several functional blocks and a power manager. Each of the functional blocks produces data corresponding to an activity level associated with the respective functional block. The power manager determines activity levels of the functional blocks and compares the activity level of a given functional block to a threshold to determine if a power-performance state (P-state) transition is indicated. The threshold is determined in part on a current P-state of the given functional block. When the current P-state of the given functional block is relatively high, the threshold activity level to transition to a higher P-state is higher than it would be if the current P-state were relatively low. The power manager is further configured to determine the thresholds based in part on one or more of a type of circuit being monitored and a type of workload being executed.
US12164349B2
Various embodiments relate to power reset. A system may include a power source and a load configured to couple to the power source. The system may also include a modem configured to receive a first signal from a remote device and generate a second signal responsive to receipt of the first signal. Further, the system may include circuitry. The circuitry may be configured to responsive to the second signal, disconnect the load from the power source for a time duration. The circuitry may further be configured to reconnect the load to the power source after the time duration. Associated methods and mobile units are also disclosed.
US12164345B2
This disclosure relates to the technical field of electronic devices and provides a rotating mechanism, a support apparatus, and an electronic device. The rotating mechanism includes a base, a first door panel, a first connector, and a first main swing arm. The first door panel is hinged to the base, the first connector is hinged to the first door panel, and the first connector is configured to connect a first housing. One end of the first main swing arm is hinged to the base, and the other end of the first swing arm is hinged to the first connector. When the rotating mechanism rotates between an unfolded state and a folded state, a rotation angle of the first main swing arm relative to the base is smaller than a rotation angle of the first door panel relative to the base.
US12164336B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic device, including a flexible display, a frame part configured to support the flexible display and comprise a first frame and a second frame disposed so as to be slidable with respect to the first frame, a driving part configured to change a shape of the flexible display based on a relative position between the first frame and the second frame, and a controller, wherein the controller performs a designated operation in response to reception of an input signal. Other example embodiments are possible.
US12164330B2
A finger-worn wearable ring device may include a ring-shaped housing, a printed circuit board, and a sensor module that includes one or more light-emitting components and one or more light-receiving components. The wearable ring device may further include a communication module configured to wirelessly communicate with an application executable on a user device.
US12164317B2
A voltage regulation circuit includes a voltage regulator that is configured to provide a stable output voltage based on an input voltage; and a control circuit, coupled to the voltage regulator, and configured to provide an injection current to maintain the stable output voltage in response to an enable signal provided at an input of the control circuit transitioning to a predetermined state and cease providing the injection current when the control circuit detects that a voltage level of the output voltage is higher than a pre-defined voltage level.
US12164315B2
A control system for a compressed air system is configured to implement an “away mode” of operation that provides for a temporary override of the operation of the compressed air system, which can be easily enabled and disabled. During a period of down time, when the away mode of operation is enabled, the control system causes the compressed air system to operate in a limited capacity (e.g., maintaining limited system pressure, flow, higher dewpoint/humidity level, etc.) to minimize energy usage and limit unnecessary wear on system equipment without shutting down the compressed air system.
US12164312B2
Disclosed herein is a method of detecting stalled state of a dynamic pool equipment unit, comprising receiving a plurality of movement features relating to a dynamic pool equipment unit deployed in a water pool which are captured during a predefined sampling window and comprise (1) motion features of the pool equipment unit, and (2) operational features of electric motor(s) of the pool equipment unit, determining a movement pattern of the pool equipment unit using one or more statistical models applied to the plurality of movement features which are trained to estimate a stalled state of the pool equipment unit in which the pool equipment unit is pitched up and unable to advance on a slopped obstacle in the water pool, and causing the pool equipment unit to stop attempted advance in a current direction responsive to determining that the pool equipment unit is in the stalled state.
US12164309B2
According to the present invention, a drone control system includes: a flying drone; a cloud server configured to transmit and receive information to and from the drone by wireless communication; and a ground control system configured to establish a flight plan of the drone by connecting the drone and the cloud server by the wireless communication.
US12164306B1
Techniques are described for determining to modify a coordinate system in response to the occurrence of a condition. As non-limiting examples, such conditions comprise distance traveled, speed of the vehicle (or system), an amount of computational resources available, a time since the last change, a number of objects present, the presence (or absence) of a particular object proximate the vehicle, a distance to a proximate object, based on a particular frequency, or the like. Such modifications may improve the operation and safety of a computing system used for path planning and trajectory generation by allowing lower precision numerical representations to be used in safety-critical situations while avoiding potential computational errors that would otherwise result from using such a representation.
US12164305B2
In a self-position estimation method, an actual self-position of a mobile object 1 is specified from self-positions each estimated by using a plurality of algorithms. The plurality of algorithms includes an MCL algorithm (11) and an algorithm (12) different from the MCL algorithm. In a case where reliability of an estimated value of the self-position obtained by using the MCL algorithm is low, the estimated value of the self-position obtained by using the MCL algorithm is corrected using an estimated value of the specified self-position or an estimated value of the self-position obtained by using the algorithm (12).
US12164303B2
An electronic device having a moving part is provided. The electronic device includes a moving part; a light emitting element; an optical sensor; a memory; a communication interface; and a controller configured to: based on the electronic device moving and being in a recording mode, output light from the light emitting element; receive the light reflected from a ground by the optical sensor; acquire information about a moving path of the electronic device based on the received light and store the information in the memory; and based on receiving a control signal for moving the electronic device along the moving path from a user terminal device through the communication interface, set an operation mode of the electronic device as a travel mode, and control the moving part so that the electronic device moves along the moving path.
US12164302B2
A method for configuring a neural network which is designed to map measured data to one or more output variables. The method includes: transformation(s) of the measured data is/are specified which when applied to the measured data, is/are meant to induce the output variables supplied by the neural network to exhibit an invariant or equivariant behavior; at least one equation is set up which links a condition that the desired invariance or equivariance be given with the architecture of the neural network; by solving the at least one equation a feature is obtained that characterizes the desired architecture and/or a distribution of weights of the neural network in at least one location of this architecture; a neural network is configured in such a way that its architecture and/or its distribution of weights in at least one location of this architecture has/have all of the features ascertained in this way.
US12164293B2
A remote operation device that remotely operates a mobile object by communication includes processing circuitry configured to acquire information on non-prime remote operation devices that are allowed to remotely operate the mobile object by the communication; detect a communication delay time in the communication with the mobile object; determine whether or not the detected communication delay time exceeds a delay time determination threshold; determine, when it is determined that the communication delay time exceeds the delay time determination threshold, a switching destination remote operation device from among the non-prime remote operation devices depending on whether or not a switching determination condition is satisfied on a basis of the acquired information on the non-prime remote operation devices; and output switching instruction information for remotely operating the mobile object to the determined switching destination remote operation device.
US12164288B2
The system comprises: control servers, transport robots, and workstations, the workstations comprising working areas and waiting areas. The control servers are configured to determine a target container to be transported, a first transport robot and a second transport robot that transport the target container, and a target workstation that operates the target container in response to a system task, plan walking paths for the first transport robot and the second transport robot, and send transport instructions to the first transport robot and the second transport robot. The first transport robot is configured to transport the target container from a storage area to a waiting area of the target workstation according to a planned walking path in response to a transport instruction, place same in the waiting area of the target workstation, and wait to execute other transport instructions.
US12164287B2
Provided is a control apparatus comprising a control unit configured to control a control target by a control model machine-learned so as to output an operation amount of the control target according to a state of equipment provided with the control target; a simulation unit configured to simulate, by using a simulation model, the state of the equipment in a case where the operation amount, which is output by the control model, is given to the control target; and a stop unit configured to stop control of the control target by the control model, based on a simulation result.
US12164281B2
A hand-guided garden, forestry and/or construction working apparatus has an inactive state, an active state and a variable setting, as well as an apparatus operator control element which can be activated by a user. In the inactive state, the garden, forestry and/or construction working apparatus is designed to be transferred into the active state triggered by activation of the apparatus operator control element, and in the active state the garden, forestry and/or construction working apparatus is designed to change the setting and not to be transferred into the inactive state triggered by activation of the apparatus operator control element.
US12164279B2
In order to provide an estimation apparatus estimating a true value from observation data without determining a state equation for a target to be controlled, the estimation apparatus includes a prediction section and an update section. The prediction section executes linear prediction on time-series data, which includes observation values acquired from a sensor attached to the target to be controlled, to calculate an estimate value before update relating to a state of the target to be controlled. The update section updates the estimate value before update by using the observation value acquired from the sensor. The prediction section may calculate the estimate value before update by weighted linear prediction on the time-series data of the observation values.
US12164278B2
Techniques described herein relate to methods and systems for thermal management of a thermal environment. The method may include using thermal data items from computing devices and time series analysis to predict future thermal values for the thermal data items; performing a clustering analysis using the predicted future thermal values to assign cluster labels to the computing devices; using the cluster labels and the predicted future thermal values to assign predicted thermal status labels to the computing devices; assigning a confidence value to the predicted thermal status labels and ranking the computing devices based on the confidence values; performing an analysis to determine a thermal data item contributing to the assigned thermal status; and sending the results to a thermal environment administrator.
US12164256B2
An image forming apparatus includes an accommodating portion, an image forming unit, a skew correcting portion, a conveyance unit, a detection unit, a re-conveyance unit, and a control unit. The control unit controls the re-conveyance unit such that the re-conveyance unit stops a sheet in the second conveyance path temporarily and starts to convey the sheet at a first timing after a second timing and before a third timing, where the second timing is a timing such that if the sheet is started to convey to the first conveyance path at the second timing, the conveyance unit decelerates the conveyance speed when the sheet reaches to the detection unit, and the third timing is a timing such that if the sheet is started to convey to the first conveyance path at the third timing, the conveyance unit decelerates the conveyance speed when the sheet reaches to the skew correcting portion.
US12164253B2
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a varnish applying apparatus, an input unit, a first image processing unit, and a second image processing unit. The image forming apparatus forms a toner image on a recording material on the basis of image data obtained by subjecting first image data to data change processing. The varnish applying apparatus forms a varnish image on the recording material on the basis of image data obtained by subjecting second image data to the data change processing.
US12164252B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging member, an exposing unit to expose a surface of the photosensitive member, and a developing member to supply toner with normal polarity at a developing portion. A controller, during a non-image formation when a toner image is not formed on a surface of the photosensitive member, controls such that a developing voltage is changed in a predetermined voltage width by applying a first developing voltage while the area of the photosensitive member on which a first surface potential is formed passes through the developing portion and by applying a second developing potential of an opposite polarity side rather than the first developing voltage while the area of the photosensitive member on which a second surface potential is formed passes through the developing portion, and the controller controls such that the surface potential becomes a side of the normal polarity rather than the first developing voltage.
US12164248B2
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive member, a charging member, a developing member, a transfer member, a voltage applying portion, and a controller. The controller is capable of changing a trailing end voltage to a first trailing end voltage lower than a transfer voltage applied to the transfer member by the voltage applying portion when a toner image is transferred from the photosensitive member to a recording material and to a second trailing end voltage higher than the first trailing end voltage. In an image forming operation after rotation of the photosensitive member is stopped in a state in which the image forming operation is not completed, the controller carries out control so that the second trailing end voltage is applied when a trailing end of the recording material with respect to a feeding direction passes through a transfer portion.
US12164242B2
A developing roller comprising an electroconductive substrate and an electroconductive elastic layer constituted by a single layer on an outer periphery of the substrate. The elastic layer contains a diene-based rubber, has a thickness of 0.30 mm or more, and the elastic layer has a crown shape in which an outer diameter of a center portion in a longitudinal direction along an axis of the substrate is larger than an outer diameter of each of both end portions in the longitudinal direction. Elastic moduli E11, E12 and E13 in a first region of the elastic layer in cross-sections at positions P1, P2 and P3 of the elastic layer are each 500 MPa or more.
US12164234B2
An actuator device aligns an optical element of a projection exposure apparatus. The actuator device includes a shaft. The first end portion of the shaft is deflectably suspended from a base point of a supporting structure by way of a joint. The second end portion of the shaft is fixed on the optical element. At least one actuator unit has a translator fixed on the shaft and a stator mechanically connected to the supporting structure to apply a deflection force to the shaft to radially deflect the shaft from a middle position. A compensation device is set up to apply to the shaft, independently of the deflection force, a compensation force which increases in accordance with the deflection of the shaft from the middle position and which counteracts a restoring force acting on the shaft in the direction of the middle position caused by the weight of the optical element
US12164233B2
Disclosed is a method of determining a complex-valued field relating to a sample measured using an imaging system. The method comprises obtaining image data relating to a series of images of the sample, imaged at an image plane of the imaging system, and for which at least two different modulation functions are imposed in a Fourier plane of the imaging system; and determining the complex-valued field from the imaging data based on the imposed modulation functions.
US12164231B2
A chemically amplified positive resist composition is provided comprising (A) a sulfurane or selenurane compound having formula (A1) wherein M is sulfur or selenium and (B) a base polymer containing a polymer comprising repeat units having formula (B1). The resist composition exhibits a high resolution during pattern formation and forms a pattern with improved LER and CDU.
US12164220B2
Fabric drop-down diffusers are disclosed. An example drop-down diffuser includes a hoop to be supported adjacent an end of an air duct, and a first fabric sheet to hang downward from the hoop. The first fabric sheet to define a first wall of an air chamber adjacent the hoop on a side of the hoop opposite the air duct. The first fabric sheet to completely surround the air chamber along a circumferential path corresponding to the hoop. The hoop to be transverse to the air duct and positioned so that air delivered by the air duct is to pass through the hoop and into the air chamber. The drop-down diffuser also includes a second fabric sheet to be coupled to the first fabric sheet. The second fabric sheet to define a second wall of the air chamber.
US12164217B2
A projection system for projecting sewing patterns onto a surface comprises a vertical beam, a projector, and a cart. The vertical beam includes (a) a floor engaging portion at a bottom end and (b) a ceiling engaging portion at a top end, the ceiling engaging portion being vertically movable with respect to the floor engaging portion such that, when in use, the floor engaging portion and the ceiling engaging portion engage a floor and a ceiling, respectively, to anchor the projection system adjacent the surface. The projector is configured to receive data representing the sewing patterns and to project the sewing patterns. The cart is operably attached to the projector and slidably attached to the vertical beam, wherein sliding the cart vertically adjusts a height of the projector above the surface.
US12164212B2
A laminated camera protector for a portable electronic device, the protector including adhesive layers to position the glass layer of the screen protector within 0.1 mm of the lens surface to reduce or eliminate flaring from a flash. The protector may further include a light isolating insert axially aligned with the camera flash.
US12164207B2
A display device includes: a TFT substrate including a thin film transistor; a light-emitting element including a first electrode and a second electrode overlapping each other in a plan view, and a light-emitting layer placed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a third electrode capable of forming an electrical field between the second electrode and the third electrode; an optical adjustment element overlapping the light-emitting layer in a plan view and having an optical characteristic that changes in accordance with a potential difference between the second electrode and the third electrode; and light scattering bodies included in at least one of the TFT substrate, the light-emitting element, and the optical adjustment element.
US12164206B2
Provided area a TFT substrate, a liquid crystal display panel, a display module and an electronic device. In the TFT substrate provided by the embodiment of the present application, by arranging the preset electrode and the common electrode to be connected to the same line connector, if there is a short circuit between the preset electrode and the common electrode, it can be avoided that the voltage signal on the preset electrode being pulled down to lead the abnormal display conditions, such as vertical gradient lines on the display screen.
US12164205B2
Disclosed are a display substrate, a liquid crystal display panel (100) and a display device. The display substrate (9) includes: a base substrate (1), a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array on the base substrate, a plurality of data lines (D) extending in a first direction (X), a plurality of gate lines (G) extending in a second direction (Y), and a common electrode (2) arranged in a minimum area enclosed by the data lines and the gate lines; wherein the minimum area includes two sub-pixels, the common electrode includes a main electrode (21) with strip-shaped which is arranged at the junction of the two sub-pixels and a plurality of branch electrodes (22) with strip-shaped which are symmetrically distributed on two sides of the main electrode, and the extending directions of a part of the plurality of branch electrodes arranged on a same side of the main electrode are identical.
US12164190B2
According to one embodiment, a camera module includes a liquid crystal panel, an image sensor and an optical system. The liquid crystal panel is configured to display a coded aperture pattern. The optical system is interposed between the liquid crystal panel and the image sensor. The liquid crystal panel includes a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules and dichroic dye molecules aligned following the liquid crystal molecules.
US12164189B2
Provided are a liquid crystal panel which has good visibility and in which a decrease in the display quality is sufficiently suppressed, and a head mounted display and a liquid crystal display device using the same. The liquid crystal panel includes a liquid crystal layer, a spacer, and a light-shielding section between a first substrate a second substrate facing the first substrate. The light-shielding section includes column-direction light-shielding sections arranged in a column direction and shielding parts between the pixels aligned in a row direction from light, and row-direction light-shielding sections arranged in the row direction and shielding parts between the pixels aligned in the column direction from light. The row-direction light-shielding sections include one that includes a first light-shielding section including an arrangement region of the spacer and a second light-shielding section adjacent to the first light-shielding section in the column direction.
US12164182B2
The present disclosure provides a contact lens comprising a first colourant which is a blue-blocking colourant having an absorption maximum (λmax) in the range of from 415 nm to 455 nm and a second colourant, wherein the second colourant is a polymerizable dye having an absorption maximum (λmax) in the range of from 470 nm to 600 nm, and optionally also comprising a third colourant which is a colourant having an absorption maximum in the range of from greater than 600 nm to 800 nm. A method of making the lens is also provided.
US12164171B2
A camera module includes a liquid lens; a first connection substrate disposed on one of a top or a bottom of the liquid lens; a second connection substrate disposed on a remaining one of the top or the bottom of the liquid lens; a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of the liquid lens; and a controller configured to output a heating voltage corresponding to the sensed temperature, wherein at least one of the first or second connection substrate includes a heater configured to generate heat in response to the heating voltage, and wherein the heater is disposed at a position corresponding to at least one of an upper surface or a lower surface of the liquid lens.
US12164168B2
An adapter panel arrangement including a chassis and a panel of adapters. The adapters defining rearward cable connections and forward cable connections of the panel arrangement. Openings permitting access to the rearward and forward cable connections of the adapters are provided. The chassis further including a removable rear chassis portion to provide access to cable routing areas within the chassis interior.
US12164158B2
A package includes an electronic die, a photonic die underlying and electronically communicating with the electronic die, a lens disposed on the electronic die, and a prism structure disposed on the lens and optically coupled to the photonic die. The prism structure includes first and second polymer layers, the first polymer layer includes a first curved surface concaving toward the photonic die, the second polymer layer embedded in the first polymer layer includes a second curved surface substantially conforming to the first curved surface, and an outer sidewall of the second polymer layer substantially aligned with an outer sidewall of the first polymer layer.
US12164153B2
The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic adapter for interconnecting first and second optical fiber connectors in coaxial alignment along an optical axis. The fiber optic adapter includes a housing with a first end and an opposite, a second end. The housing includes first and second adapter halves that each include an axial cavity defined by a top side-wall, a bottom side-wall, a right side-wall, and a left side-wall. The fiber optic adapter includes a first ferrule alignment structure located within the axial cavity of the first adapter half of the housing and a second ferrule alignment structure located within the axial cavity of the second adapter half of the housing. The fiber optic adapter includes double cantilever wings respectively positioned on the right and left side-walls of each one of the first and second adapter halves of the housing. The double cantilever wings are slotted to provide dual arm clips configured to elastically deform for attachment into an aperture defined by a bulkhead structure.
US12164152B2
A semiconductor structure including a semiconductor substrate, a first patterned dielectric layer, a grating coupler and a waveguide is provided. The semiconductor substrate includes an optical reflective layer. The first patterned dielectric layer is disposed on the semiconductor substrate and covers a portion of the optical reflective layer. The grating coupler and the waveguide are disposed on the first patterned dielectric layer, wherein the grating coupler and the waveguide are located over the optical reflective layer.
US12164139B2
The application provides a backlight module, a display screen, a rearview mirror and a vehicle, and relates to the field of display technology, and the backlight module may greatly reduce a risk of separation between a reflection unit and a light-guide plate. The backlight module includes: a light-guide plate, including: a light-outlet surface and a backlight surface set opposite to each other, and a side surface, wherein the side includes a first sub-side surface and a second sub-side surface connected to each other: a light-emitting unit, arranged at the first sub-side surface of the light-guide plate; and a reflection unit, including: a main reflection unit and a side-reflection unit, wherein the side-reflection unit is arranged at the second sub-side surface of the light-guide plate, the side-reflection unit includes at least a first side-reflection subunit and a plurality of connecting parts, the first side-reflection subunit includes at least a plurality of first reflection parts, each of the first reflection parts is connected with at least one of the connecting parts, a first gap presents between the main reflection unit and a part of the first reflection part where the first reflection part is not connected with the connecting part, and a second gap presents between two adjacent first reflection parts.
US12164136B2
A display device includes an image display element, a collimator, a first light guide formed of a flat plate transparent to light, a second light guide formed of a plate member transparent to the light and having one surface that is a flat surface in contact with one of surfaces of the first light guide and the other surface that is a sawtooth surface, and a beam splitter formed on an interface between the first and second light guides to transmit a part of the light and reflect the remainder thereof. The sawtooth surface is configured by alternately combining a first surface non-parallel to a propagating direction of the light propagating through the second light guide after passing through the interface and configured to transmit the light and a second surface substantially parallel to the propagating direction.
US12164134B2
A method of reducing optical artifacts includes injecting a light beam generated by an illumination source into a polarizing beam splitter (PBS), reflecting a spatially defined portion of the light beam from a display panel, reflecting, at an interface in the PBS, the spatially defined portion of the light beam towards a projector lens, passing at least a portion of the spatially defined portion of the light beam through a circular polarizer disposed between the PBS and the projector lens, reflecting, by one or more elements of the projector lens, a return portion of the spatially defined portion of the light beam, and attenuating, at the circular polarizer, the return portion of the spatially defined portion of the light beam.
US12164132B2
Optical stacks are described that include a reflective polarizer disposed between an infrared reflector and an infrared absorber.
US12164129B2
An optical filter comprising a first lens, and first and second optical elements. The first lens has an optical axis, configured to focus beams propagating parallel to the optical axis at a focal point. The first optical element has a first semi-reflective surface, the first semi-reflective surface being curved and having a first radius of curvature around a first centre of curvature on the optical axis. The second optical element has a second semi-reflective surface. The first radius of curvature is between 1 and 10,000 times the distance between the first semi reflective surface and the focal point along the optical axis. The first and second semi-reflective surfaces are arranged to form a resonator. The first lens and the first and second semi-reflective surfaces are arranged along the optical axis such that light is transmittable along an optical path through the lens and the resonator. The optical filter further comprises one or more expansion elements located outside of the optical path, and arranged such that expansion of the expansion elements causes relative movement of the first and second semi-reflective surfaces.
US12164126B2
A photonic integrated circuit device can comprise one or more layers having different refraction indices that cause optical coupling issues and losses from layer variations. A film of material can be applied to a layer of the photonic integrated circuit to avoid the issues to increase the optical bandwidth of the photonic integrated circuit device and decrease sensitivity to manufacturing and design processes.
US12164123B2
In the optical sheet according to an embodiment, at least one organic dye that selectively absorbs light in a specific wavelength band is added to a prism pattern layer, whereby it is possible to provide an optical sheet by a simpler manufacturing process than before, in which the color gamut is enhanced while a decrease in luminance due to light absorption is minimized. In addition, it is possible to secure optical and mechanical properties while preventing a degradation of organic dyes due to UV curing by adjusting the composition of the prism pattern layer.
US12164115B2
A dual-aperture zoom camera comprising a Wide camera with a respective Wide lens and a Tele camera with a respective Tele lens, the Wide and Tele cameras mounted directly on a single printed circuit board, wherein the Wide and Tele lenses have respective effective focal lengths EFLW and EFLT and respective total track lengths TTLW and TTLT and wherein TTLW/EFLW>1.1 and TTLT/EFLT<1.0. Optionally, the dual-aperture zoom camera may further comprise an optical OIS controller configured to provide a compensation lens movement according to a user-defined zoom factor (ZF) and a camera tilt (CT) through LMV=CT*EFLZF, where EFLZF is a zoom-factor dependent effective focal length.
US12164113B2
The present disclosure discloses an optical engine and an AR device. The optical engine includes a self-luminous display chip and a lens assembly provided on a light outlet side of the self-luminous display chip, wherein the lens assembly includes at least three lenses. The above solution solves the technical problem of large volume of optical engine.
US12164111B2
A head mounted display includes a combiner configured to receive display light from a micro-display. The world-facing surface of the combiner has a curvature that corresponds to a user's vision correction prescription. The head mounted display also includes a corrective layer having a second curvature that corresponds to the user's vision correction prescription. The corrective layer is disposed on the eye-facing surface of the combiner such that the focal point of the display light is adjusted for the specific user as the display light exits the combiner towards the user's eye.
US12164108B2
Embodiments of this application relates to the field of wearable device technologies, and provides a mask and a head-mounted display device. The mask includes a support, an elastic support, and a face fitting spring plate. Lens holes are disposed in the support, the face fitting spring plate is connected to the support by using the elastic support, a middle part of the face fitting spring plate is sunken to the support, an eyepiece hole facing the lens holes is disposed in the face fitting spring plate, and a nose support is disposed in a middle part on a lower side edge of the face fitting spring plate. The head-mounted display device includes the mask and a display device connected to the mask. In the mask, the face fitting spring plate can be deformed under an external force.
US12164105B2
One aspect disclosed is a method including determining a location from a positioning system receiver, determining, using a hardware processor and the location, that the location is approaching a path of direction of visual direction information, displaying the visual direction information on a display of a wearable device in response to the determining, determining, using the positioning system receiver, whether the turn of the visual direction information has been made, determining, by the hardware processor, a first period of time for display of the content data based on whether the turn of the visual direction information has been made, powering on the display and displaying, using the display, content data for the first period of time, turning off the display and the hardware processor following display of the content data.
US12164101B2
A MEMS optical device including: a semiconductor body; a main cavity, which extends within the semiconductor body; a membrane suspended over the main cavity; a piezoelectric actuator, which is mechanically coupled to the membrane and can be electronically controlled so as to deform the membrane; a micro-lens, mechanically coupled to the membrane so as to undergo deformation following the deformation of the membrane; and a rigid optical element, which contacts the micro-lens and is arranged so that the micro-lens is interposed between the rigid optical element and the membrane. The micro-lens and the main cavity are arranged on opposite sides of the membrane.
US12164092B2
This zoom optical system (ZL(1)) has a plurality of lens groups (G1-G7), wherein when during zooming, distances between adjacent lens groups vary. The plurality of lens groups include: a first focused lens group (G6) that moves during focusing; and a second focused lens group (G7) that is disposed closer to an image plane side than the first focused lens group and moves during focusing along a trajectory that is different from that of the first focused lens group. The first focused lens group (G6) and the second focused lens group (G7) both have a negative refractive power and satisfy the following conditional expression, 0.40
US12164084B2
The disclosure provide an optical imaging lens assembly, which sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens having a negative refractive power; a second lens having a refractive power; a third lens having a refractive power; a fourth lens having a refractive power; a fifth lens having a refractive power; and a sixth lens having a positive refractive power; wherein ImgH is a half of a diagonal length of an effective pixel region on an imaging surface of the optical imaging lens assembly, ImgH satisfies: ImgH>5 mm; and Semi-FOV is a half of a maximum field of view of the optical imaging lens assembly, Semi-FOV satisfies: tan(Semi-FOV)>1.2, which makes the optical imaging lens assembly have features of a large image surface, a large wide angle, etc.
US12164079B1
Disclosed is a multi-channel early warning system for real-time monitoring of meteorological data, relates to the field of data monitoring technology, and comprises a meteorological data acquisition module, a meteorological data processing module, a terrain analysis module, a UAV deployment module, a ground situation acquisition module, an emergency degree analysis module, an early warning terminal, and a database. Data acquisition of a disaster-affected site is performed using a UAV. The UAV has the characteristics of being flexible and fast, and can be quickly deployed in a disaster-affected region to monitor the ground situation in real time, comprehensively assessing the impact of meteorological disasters. Then an emergency rescue level corresponding to the meteorological disaster site is analyzed, and different warning manners are provided for different emergency rescue levels, so that people's ability to monitor and respond to meteorological disasters can be greatly improved, and the relevant departments can take corresponding rescue and protection measures, thereby effectively reducing the impact and loss of disasters.
US12164077B2
A sensing system includes a light emission control unit that controls light emission of a light source by using a light emission pattern determined in advance, a pixel array unit in which pixels that detect a change in a received light amount as an event and generate an event signal indicating presence or absence of detection of the event are two-dimensionally arranged, and a signal corrector that performs correction of the event signal on the basis of the light emission pattern.
US12164069B2
Provided are a detection substrate and a ray detector. The detection substrate includes: a base substrate; a plurality of detection pixels located on the base substrate, at least one detection pixel serves as a detection marking pixel. The detection marking pixel includes: a storage capacitor, a first electrode plate of the storage capacitor coupled to a bias voltage end; a discharge circuit configured to write a signal of the bias voltage end into a second electrode plate of the storage capacitor under the control of a first scanning signal end; and a reading circuit coupled to an external reading circuit, the reading circuit configured to write the voltage of the second electrode plate of the storage capacitor into the external reading circuit and write a reference signal of the external reading circuit into the second electrode plate of the storage capacitor under the control of a second scanning signal end.
US12164066B2
Methods of scintillation, scintillation devices, and metal halide hybrids that may be used as X-ray scintillators. The metal halide hybrids may include organic metal halide hybrids, inorganic metal halide hybrids, or organic-inorganic metal halide hybrids. The metal halide hybrids may have a 0D structure. The metal halide hybrids may be in the form of one or more discrete crystals.
US12164064B2
A LIDAR system includes a plurality of LIDAR units. Each of the LIDAR units includes a housing defining a cavity. Each of the LIDAR units further includes a plurality of emitters disposed within the cavity. Each of the plurality of emitters is configured to emit a laser beam. The LIDAR system includes a rotating mirror and a retarder. The retarder is configurable in at least a first mode and a second mode to control a polarization state of a plurality of laser beams emitted from each of the plurality of LIDAR units. The LIDAR system includes a polarizing beam splitter positioned relative to the retarder such that the polarizing beam splitter receives a plurality of laser beams exiting the retarder. The polarizing beam is configured to transmit or reflect the plurality of laser beams exiting the retarder based on the polarization state of the laser beams exiting the retarder.
US12164047B2
An embodiment is a method for a terminal to perform an operation in a wireless communication system, the method including the steps of: transmitting a request positioning reference signal (PRS) to anchor nodes (ANs); receiving response PRSes for the request RPS from the ANs; and measuring the location of the terminal by using the request PRS and the response PRSes, wherein the terminal transmits scheduling information related to the request PRS and the response PRSes to the ANs.
US12164035B2
Examples are disclosed herein relating to signal processing in a time of flight (ToF) system. One example provides, a method comprising emitting, via a light source, amplitude-modulated light toward an object, acquiring, via an image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, a plurality of image frames capturing light emitted from the light source that is reflected by the object, wherein the plurality of image frames are acquired at two or more different frequencies of the amplitude-modulated light and collectively form a multifrequency frame, and for each pixel of the multifrequency frame, determining a brightness level, applying an adaptive denoising process by setting a kernel size based on the brightness level, and performing a phase unwrapping process to determine a depth value for the pixel.
US12164031B2
An example method and system for filtering point cloud data includes obtaining point cloud data from a LIDAR device. The point cloud data may include at least a first pulse-length range and a second pulse-length range. The first range may include one or more first-length pulses and the second range may include one or more second-length pulses. The method may further include filtering the point cloud data by determining respective magnitudes of each of the one or more first-length pulses and each of the one or more second-length pulses, comparing the magnitudes of the first-length pulses to a first threshold, comparing the magnitudes of the second-length pulses to a second threshold, and removing any pulses having a magnitude less than the respective thresholds. The method may further include determining, based on the filtered point cloud data, objects in an environment around the LIDAR.
US12164028B2
An optical sensing system is provided. The optical sensing system includes a first light source, a second light source, a light sensor, and a processor. The processor is configured to: control the first light source to scan a horizontal detection area; control the light sensor to capture a first frame by receiving first reflective lights from the horizontal detection area; obtain a first reflection pattern, and analyze the first reflection pattern to determine whether an object is within the first portion; if so, control the second light source to scan a first vertical detection area; control the light sensor to capture a second frame from the first vertical detection area; process the second frame to obtain a second reflection pattern, and analyze the second reflection pattern to determine whether the object is detected by a misjudgment.
US12164027B1
Disclosed herein are electronic devices, detectors, systems, and methods for estimating a distance to an exterior object. Light pulses from an emitter on the electronic device or detector are received by at least one pair of light detectors positioned at different distances from the emitter. One or more ratios of strengths of signals of the light detectors are used to determine the object's distance. The ratios may be compared to a proximity curve to obtain the object's distance. If the ratio exceeds a critical distance value, a determination may be made that the exterior object has been separated from the electronic device. Wearable electronic devices, such as smart watches, may use the detectors, systems, and methods to determine if a user is wearing the electronic device.
US12164024B2
Example embodiments relate to techniques for using vehicle image radar to estimate rain rate and other weather conditions. A computing device may receive radar data from a radar unit coupled to a vehicle. The radar data can represent the vehicle's environment. The computing device may use the radar data to determine a radar representation that indicates backscatter power and estimate, using a rain rate model, a rain rate for the environment based on the radar representation. The computing device may then control the vehicle based on the rain rate. In some examples, the computing device may provide the rain rate estimation and an indication of its current location to other vehicles to enable the vehicles to adjust routes based on the rain rate estimation.
US12164019B2
A pointing device for detecting motion relative to a surface includes a transmitter configured to emit an electromagnetic signal toward the surface. The pointing device further includes a receiver configured to receive a reflection of the electromagnetic signal from the surface. The pointing device further includes a processor configured to determine the motion based on a Doppler-shift between the electromagnetic signal and its reflection.
US12164017B2
An e-commerce business model has witnessed several cases where packages with faulty goods, returned by buyers, without procured object, rather replaced by different device. This disclosure relates a method to detect whether object under test a desired object. A plurality of back-scattered signals is received from the object under test occluded by packaging with continuous motion on conveyer based on first antenna-radar combination. The plurality of back-scattered signals is processed by applying four-tap difference filter to obtain motion-filtered data matrix. A low pass filter is applied on the motion-filtered data matrix to obtain enveloped motion-filtered data matrix. A sliding constant false alarm rate is applied on the enveloped motion-filtered data matrix to determine detection threshold value. A check is performed to detect whether the object under test is the desired object based on whether intensity of the plurality back-scattered signals exceeds the detection threshold value.
US12164015B2
Systems, devices, methods, and techniques for self-correcting current measuring are disclosed. Advanced material inductive measuring devices can obtain a reading of a monitored current in a monitored source. The advanced material allows the measuring device to operate at low temperatures disproportionate to saturation levels. Readings by the measuring device that are beyond a top-end limit of the measuring system or otherwise outside of a desired band can be transformed or transposed by employing a transformation to correct the reading to be within an acceptable ratio error band.
US12164014B2
A method for measuring concomitant fields in a magnetic resonance (MR) system is provided. The method includes applying a measurement pulse sequence in a plurality of acquisitions. Applying the measurement pulse sequence further includes applying a first bipolar gradient pulse in a first acquisition, applying a second bipolar gradient pulse in reverse polarities from the first bipolar gradient pulse in a second acquisition, and applying the measurement pulse sequence without a bipolar gradient pulse in a third acquisition. The method further includes acquiring MR signals emitted from the subject, and generating phase images based on the MR signals. The method also includes generating volumetric vector field maps based on the phase images, wherein the volumetric vector field maps include concomitant field at each spatial location in a 3D volume, the concomitant field represented as a vector. In addition, the method includes outputting the volumetric vector field maps.
US12164012B2
A magnetic resonance (MR) system compensation interface having: a hardware subinterface configured to receive individual hardware parameters from an individual scan unit of an MR system; a model determination unit configured to determine an imperfection model on the basis of the hardware parameters; a compensation model determination unit configured to determine a compensation model on the basis of the imperfection model; an application subinterface configured to receive application data assigned to an application; and a compensation unit configured to determine compensated application data on the basis of the received application data and the determined compensation model.
US12164006B2
The invention concerns a measuring device configured to be connected to first and second terminals of an electric device, such as a battery cell, and to determine at least one electrical property of the electric device. The measuring device comprises an impedance measuring arrangement configured to, when the electric device is connected to the first and second terminals, connect the electric device to a measurement circuit, wherein the impedance measuring arrangement is further configured to: provide a time-varying test current (Itest) through the measurement circuit; measure a voltage (Ucell) over the electric device while the time-varying test current (Itest) is provided; and determine a phase shift and a magnitude ratio between the measured voltage (Ued) and the time-varying test current (Itest) in the measurement circuit, wherein the time-varying test current (Itest) comprises a plurality of superimposed discrete frequencies, wherein said discrete frequencies are distributed over a frequency range and separated from each other so as to avoid frequency overlap due to spread spectrum between adjacent frequencies.
US12164004B2
A diagnostic process for a cabling of a three phase motor in a “delta-inside” configuration with a soft starter to a three phases power supply including, after cabling a soft starter with the thyristor outputs of the soft starter to the motor windings inputs, cabling the motor windings outputs to the main phases and powering the power supply or prior to startup of the motor, at least a test process including: measuring with voltage sensors, connected to the Mains inputs, voltage sensors connected to the motor outputs of the thyristors of the soft starter and observer functions within the soft starter the frequency, voltage and phase angle of the Mains and motor lines in order to compare such voltages and phases without triggering the thyristors; calculating the differential angle Δθ between the motor electric rotation angle θM and the Mains rotation angle θA; comparing the calculated differential angle Δθ with known differential angles corresponding to a correct cabling differential angle and faulty cablings differential angles in test process steps to determine the status of the cabling, and wherein a result of the test process steps is displayed to show the status of the cabling.
US12164003B2
A method of monitoring main contact conditions of main contacts in an automatic transfer switch is provided. The automatic transfer switch is coupled to a plurality of electrical power sources and an electrical load. The method includes: measuring, by sensors, temperatures of a plurality of main contacts coupled to the plurality of power sources; determining if the measured temperatures indicate a temperature rise at one or more main contacts of the plurality of main contacts; in response to determining that the measured temperatures indicate a temperature rise at the one or more main contacts, comparing a current value of the temperature rise with stored temperature rise values that represent main contact damages; and determining an amount of main contact damage at the one or more main contacts based on the comparison.
US12163997B2
A system for testing is provided. The system includes an electronic circuit and an automatic testing equipment (ATE). The electronic circuit includes a voltage monitor including a resistive divider receiving at its voltage input an input voltage and coupled at its output to an input of a comparator. A reference input of the comparator is coupled to a generator supplying a reference voltage setting one or more thresholds of the comparator. The electronic circuit includes a Built In Self Test Module coupled to the ATE and to the inputs and output of the comparator. The BIST module is being configured upon receiving respective commands from the ATE to test a reaction time of the comparator and an offset of the comparator. The ATE performs a respective test of the ratio of the resistor divider by a first voltage measurement and a test of the reference voltage provided by the generator.
US12163991B2
A micro strip to waveguide transition comprising a waveguide module and a section of printed circuit board (PCB). The waveguide module comprises a waveguide aperture and a repetitive structure, the waveguide aperture being arranged extending through the module for attaching a waveguide to an external side of the module, the repetitive structure comprising a plurality of protruding elements arranged to surround the waveguide aperture on an internal side of the module and to define a passage into the waveguide aperture on the internal side, wherein the repetitive structure is configured to attenuate electromagnetic signal propagation in a frequency band past the repetitive structure while allowing propagation via the passage, the transition further comprising a PCB with a patch antenna connected to a transmission line and arranged to face the passage into the waveguide aperture.
US12163990B2
A probe configured to measure the magnetic permeability of a magnetic body includes a first signal conductor and a second signal conductor that form a pair of signal conductors, the first and second signal conductors being a signal transmission path, and tip ends of the first and second signal conductors being disposed away from a surface of the magnetic body by a predetermined gap length and at a predetermined interval from each other; a linear conductor that electrically connects the tip ends of the first and second signal conductors and that extends between the tip ends; and a first ground conductor and a second ground conductor that form a pair of ground conductors disposed in the vicinity of the pair of signal conductors, tip ends of the first and second ground conductor being in contact with the surface of the magnetic body.
US12163982B2
The present disclosure is directed to an inspection tool having a probe head with a probe card with a plurality of probes for performing testing, each of the probes being configured with a first end attached to the probe card and a second end for engaging microbumps coupled to a semiconductor die, the plurality of probes including a first set of probes having a first cross-sectional dimension, the first set of probes being arranged in a first set of locations on the probe card, and a second set of probes having a second cross-sectional dimension, the second set of probes being arranged in a second set of locations on the probe card, and a stage for holding the semiconductor die.
US12163978B2
Disclosed are an identifying method and an identifying system for a centrifuge rotor. The identifying method for a centrifuge rotor is based on a centrifuge rotor identifying system which includes a code disk with a plurality of pairs of magnetic poles, a Hall sensor and a controlling device. The method includes the following steps: according to a predetermined code rule, detecting the duration of each level signal generated from the Hall sensor; according to the total number of windows of the code disk and the duration of each level signal, determining the preliminary code; according to the predetermined code rule, determining the code starter; and based on the code starter, ordering the preliminary code to the rotor final code.
US12163972B2
Proposed is a technique for facilitating work of cause investigation of a defect by an operator. The present disclosure proposes an automatic analyzer including: a reagent dispensing unit configured to aspirate a reagent from a reagent vessel that contains the reagent, and discharge the reagent into a reaction vessel that contains a reaction liquid containing a sample; a storage unit configured to store a type of the sample and concentration-related information determined for each type of the sample and related to a concentration of a component to be measured contained in the sample; a detection unit configured to detect a measurement concentration that is the concentration of the component to be measured contained in the reaction liquid; and a determination unit configured to determine whether an abnormality occurs in the reagent vessel based on the concentration-related information and the measurement concentration.
US12163971B2
A driving mechanism for moving a vessel having a disposal box placed thereon in a front-rear direction the same as an opening/closing direction of a drawer is provided lower than a bottom surface of the vessel. A first rail extended in a movement direction of an operating unit, a second rail extended in a movement direction of the vessel provided in the drawer, and toothed pulleys for rotating a toothed belt within a horizontal plane are arranged. The first rail, the second rail, and the toothed belt are placed side by side without overlapping with each other in a vertical direction. As a result, the operation of taking out the disposal box in which used sample dispensing tips or reaction vessels are accumulated is simple.
US12163970B2
A method of inspecting a component for anomalous regions includes recording a plurality of sensor readings using one or more sensors, each reading corresponding to a different region of the component; determining an appearance metric for each reading; and determining a nominal appearance metric based on individual values of the appearance metric for a first subset of the readings. The method includes, for a particular sensor reading outside the first subset: determining a difference between the nominal appearance metric and the appearance metric of the particular sensor reading; updating the nominal appearance metric based on the particular sensor reading; and, based on the difference exceeding a threshold: determining that the particular sensor reading is anomalous and corresponds to an anomalous region of the component, and recording additional sensor readings of the anomalous region using one or more sensing parameters that differ from those used to record the anomalous sensor reading.
US12163968B2
The subject invention pertains to compositions of novel analogs of red blood cells that are distinguishable from white blood cells in a hematological instrument and processes for manufacturing such analogs. The processes for creating the compositions include washing, shrinking, and fixing cells at temperatures at or below room temperature.
US12163967B2
Blood typing systems and methods are provided. In one embodiment, the method may be achieved by applying a sample to a surface of a substrate having one or more binding agents immobilized thereon, wherein the one or more binding agents are capable of binding to one or more substances in the sample; substantially removing unbound material from at least a portion of the substrate having immobilized binding agent; and detecting substances bound to the one or more binding agents immobilized on the substrate; wherein the applying the sample to the surface of the substrate step is concurrent with the removing unbound material from at least a portion of the substrate step. Systems and other methods are also described and illustrated.
US12163959B2
Compositions and methods are disclosed for treating cancer patients and identifying patients with a malignancy that are likely to respond to treatment with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 and other anti-cancer and immune-modulating therapeutics.
US12163953B2
Various embodiments relate to p-phenylene ethynylene compounds as bioactive and detection agents. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of inducing germination of microbial spores including contacting the microbial spores with a p-phenylene ethynylene compound. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method for detecting an enzyme, a method of protein analysis, or a method of detecting a chemical agent, including introducing a p-phenylene ethylylene compound to a composition including an enzyme substrate, and analyzing the fluorescence of the p-phenylene ethynylene compound. Various embodiments provide sensors that include a p-phenylene ethynylene compound and an enzyme substrate.
US12163935B2
The invention relates to a method for analysing hydrocarbons, with the implementation of a gas chromatography separation according to a first controlled temperature profile, to separate a sample into a plurality of analytes and the detection of at least one of said analytes by measurement of a variation of the resonance frequency of at least one resonator of nano-electromechanical system (NEMS) type covered with a functional layer made to vibrate at the resonance frequency thereof, under the effect of an adsorption or desorption of the analyte by the functional layer, the resonator being subjected to a second controlled temperature profile, lower than the first profile.
US12163934B2
The exemplary embodiments may provide a collective insulating sleeve for a plurality of chromatography columns or may provide separate insulating sleeve for each of the chromatography columns in a plurality. As a result, column ovens are not needed, and pre-heaters may not be required for each chromatography column in some exemplary embodiments. Thus, parallel column arrangements in the exemplary embodiments may be more compact than conventional arrangements.
US12163925B2
A device for estimating a mechanical property of a sample is disclosed herein. The device may include a chamber configured to hold the sample; a transmitter configured to transmit a plurality of waveforms, including at least one forcing waveform; and a transducer assembly operatively connected to the transmitter and configured to transform the transmit waveforms into ultrasound waveforms. The transducer assembly can also transmit and receive ultrasound waveforms into and out of the chamber, as well as transform at least two received ultrasound waveforms into received electrical waveforms. The device also includes a data processor that can receive the received electrical waveforms; estimate a difference in the received electrical waveforms that results at least partially from movement of the sample; and estimate a mechanical property of the sample by comparing at least one feature of the estimated difference to at least one predicted feature, wherein the at least one predicted feature is based on a model of an effect of the chamber wall. Finally, the device can also include a controller configured to control the timing of the ultrasound transmitter and data processor.
US12163918B1
Compositions and methods for protein electrophoresis are described herein. In various embodiments, the compositions and methods of the disclosure provide for reduced protein fragmentation relative to the protein fragmentation caused by alternative compositions and methods.
US12163917B2
A sensor system (1, 1S) including a current DA converter (42) outputting a control current (Ip) of a sensor element (3S), a control unit (4C) generating a control current instruction value (Ipcmd) corresponding to magnitude of the control current and inputting this instruction value to the current DAC, an instruction value sequence generating unit (47) generating, instead of the control current instruction value, an inspection instruction value sequence (RChcmd) in which predetermined inspection current instruction values (Chcmd) inputted to the current DAC are arranged in order and by which failure of the current DAC can be detected, an inspection current detection unit (71) detecting an inspection current value (Ichv) of an inspection current (Ich) outputted from the current DAC, and a failure detection unit (8) detecting failure of the current DAC from an inspection current value sequence (RIchv) in which the inspection current values are arranged in order of detection.
US12163915B2
A gas sensor system for measuring a plurality of gases in an environment. The gas sensors system comprises multiple gas sensors where each of the gas sensors includes a pair of electrodes separated by a semiconducting material. The gas pairs of electrodes of the gas sensors are separated by different distances in each of the gas sensors. Resistivity of the semiconducting material of the gas sensors changes in the presence of a first gas and a contact resistivity between the electrodes and the semiconducting material of gas sensors changes in the presence of a second gas. From measurements of total resistivity of each of the gas sensors the presence and/or the concentration of both the first and the second gas sensors can be determined.
US12163912B2
An SOx sensor includes a lithium garnet electrolyte, a sensing electrode, a reference electrode, and a heating element. The sensing electrode includes Li2SO4 and at least one metal oxide or second metal sulfate. One surface of the sensing electrode is disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the lithium garnet electrolyte. A current collector is disposed on at least a portion another surface of the sensing electrode to electrically couple the sensing electrode to the reference electrode via a potentiometer. The reference electrode is disposed on the lithium garnet electrolyte. The heating element is capable of heating the sensing electrode and the lithium garnet electrolyte to a temperature sufficient to achieve a sensor response time of less than about 30 minutes.
US12163904B2
A method of quantitatively analyzing a carbon based hybrid negative electrode including the steps of preparing a secondary battery including a carbon based hybrid negative electrode, where the carbon based hybrid negative electrode comprises a carbon based negative electrode active material and a non-carbon based negative electrode active material, measuring a lattice d-spacing of the carbon based negative electrode active material in the carbon based hybrid negative electrode during charging/discharging of the secondary battery using an X-ray diffractometer and then plotting a graph of a change in lattice d-spacing value as a function of charge/discharge capacity, detecting an inflection point of a slope of the graph during discharging; and then, quantifying capacity contribution of the carbon based negative electrode active material and the non-carbon based negative electrode active material in the total discharge capacity of the secondary battery by the inflection point of the slope of the graph.
US12163902B2
An x-ray weld inspection apparatus has at least one x-ray source, at least one x-ray detector, a motor arrangement configured to move the at least one x-ray source and the at least one x-ray detector substantially along a weld, and a control device. The control device comprises memory and at least one processing core, configured to control the motor arrangement to move the at least one x-ray source and the at least one x-ray detector during an x-ray weld scan substantially along the direction of the weld. At least one section of the weld is imaged at least twice during a single x-ray scan, producing at least two imaging data sets, respectively. An angle of incidence of x-rays at the at least one section of the weld is different for the imaging data sets.
US12163896B2
An inspection device for use in a fluid container having at least an opening includes a housing sized to fit through the opening. The housing has at least two fluid flow channels extending therethrough, each having an inlet and an outlet, and a pump maintained in the housing within each fluid flow channel. The pumps are selectively controlled to maneuver the housing within the fluid container. The inspection device continues with a method of in-situ inspection of a container having at least one opening to receive a fluid, that includes up-loading a virtual model of the container into a computer, inserting the device into the container, generating a position signal by the device and receiving the position signal on a computer. A virtual image of the device in the virtual model of the container is generated to determine an actual position of the device within the container.
US12163892B2
A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for accurate Raman spectroscopy. The method may include executing at least one iteration of the steps of: (i) performing, by an optical measurement system, a calibration process that comprises (a) finding a misalignment between a region of interest defined by a spatial filter, and an impinging beam of radiation that is emitted from an illuminated area of a sample, the impinging beam impinges on the spatial filter; and (b) determining a compensating path of propagation of the impinging beam that compensates the misalignment; and (ii) performing a measurement process, while the optical measurement system is configured to provide the compensating path of propagation of the impinging beam, to provide one or more Raman spectra.
US12163890B2
Sensor plant and method for identifying stressors in crops based on characteristics of sensor plants
One variation of a method for identifying stressors in crops based on fluorescence of sensor plants includes: accessing a set of spectral images of a sensor plant sown in a crop, the sensor plant of a sensor plant type including a set of promoters and a set of reporters configured to signal a set of stressors present at the sensor plant, the set of promoters and set of reporters forming a set of promoter-reporter pairs; accessing a reporter model linking characteristics extracted from the set of spectral images of the sensor plant to the set of stressors based on signals generated by the set of promoter-reporter pairs in the sensor plant type; and identifying a first stressor, in the set of stressors, present at the sensor plant based on the reporter model and characteristics extracted from the set of spectral images.
US12163888B2
Apparatus and methods for analyzing single molecule and performing nucleic acid sequencing. An apparatus can include an assay chip that includes multiple pixels with sample wells configured to receive a sample, which, when excited, emits emission energy; at least one element for directing the emission energy in a particular direction; and a light path along which the emission energy travels from the sample well toward a sensor. The apparatus also includes an instrument that interfaces with the assay chip. The instrument includes an excitation light source for exciting the sample in each sample well; a plurality of sensors corresponding the sample wells. Each sensor may detect emission energy from a sample in a respective sample well. The instrument includes at least one optical element that directs the emission energy from each sample well towards a respective sensor of the plurality of sensors.
US12163881B2
A gas detection that includes a projector including a light source that emits laser light having a wavelength at which an absorption rate by a detection target gas is high and a spatial light modulator that modulates the laser light emitted from the light source, a projection control unit that controls projection light to be projected toward a retroreflector by causing the light source to emit the laser light and setting a pattern of a modulation part of the spatial light modulator, a light receiver that receives reflected light of the projection light reflected by the retroreflector and measures an intensity of the received reflected light; and a leakage determination unit that acquires the intensity of the reflected light from the light receiver and determines leakage of the detection target gas in a detection space with the retroreflector based on the intensity of the reflected light.
US12163880B2
A device and a spectrometer for quantitatively detecting carbon 14 isotope by a dual-wavelength method. Two mid-infrared lasers with different wavelengths are locked in an optical cavity of a sample chamber, to ensure the two lasers are collinear. The cavity length of the optical cavity is adjusted by a cavity length adjusting unit, to tune the mode frequency of the optical cavity, and then tune the frequencies of the two mid-infrared lasers, so that the frequencies of the two mid-infrared lasers match with different energy levels of the target isotope molecule simultaneously. After the frequencies of the mid-infrared lasers match with the energy levels of the target isotope molecule simultaneously, the target isotope molecule is excited by two mid-infrared lasers simultaneously, and the optical cavity output signal of the second mid-infrared laser passing through the optical cavity is detected.
US12163879B2
Methods of detecting material in an object are provided. The method includes emitting an entangled photon pair having a sensing photon and a local photon, directing the sensing photon to the object including a predetermined material, directing the local photon to a detector, and detecting a change in the local photon when the sensing photon encounters the predetermined material in the object.
US12163878B2
Methods and assemblies may be used for determining and using standardized spectral responses for calibration of spectroscopic analyzers. The methods and assemblies may be used to calibrate or recalibrate a spectroscopic analyzer when the spectroscopic analyzer changes from a first state to a second state, the second state being defined as a period of time after a change to the spectroscopic analyzer causing a need to calibrate or recalibrate the spectroscopic analyzer. The calibration or recalibration may result in the spectroscopic analyzer outputting a standardized spectrum, such that the spectroscopic analyzer outputs a corrected material spectrum for an analyzed material, and defining the standardized spectrum. The corrected material spectrum may include signals indicative of material properties of an analyzed material, the material properties of the material being substantially consistent with material properties of the material output by the spectroscopic analyzer in the first state.
US12163871B2
A sampler including an inlet, an outlet and a flushing device. The sampler adapted such that a sample fluid flows from the inlet, out the outlet and into sample containers. The flushing device is adapted to flush a pressurised pressurized flushing fluid past all surfaces of the sampler which are adapted to contact the sample fluid.
US12163866B2
The invention relates to an adapter part (9) for connecting a medical hollow body (11) to a tension/compression measuring device (3), comprising a first connecting end (13), which is designed to connect the adapter part (9) to an interior (15) of a medical hollow body (11) in a fluid-tight manner, and comprising a second connecting end (17), which has a pressure chamber (19) and is designed to operatively connect the adapter part (9) to a tension/compression measuring device (3), so that a pressure in the pressure chamber (19) can be adjusted by means of the tension/compression measuring device (3), a hollow channel (21) passing through the adapter part (9) from the pressure chamber (19) to the first connecting end (13).
US12163851B2
A micromechanical component for a sensor device, including a substrate, at least one first counter-electrode, at least one first electrode adjustably situated on a side of the at least one first counter-electrode facing away from the substrate, and a capacitor sealing structure, which seals gas-tight an interior volume, including the at least one first counter-electrode present therein and the at least one first electrode present therein. The at least one first counter-electrode is fastened directly or indirectly to a frame structure fastened directly or indirectly to the substrate, and the frame structure framing a cavity, and the at least one first counter-electrode at least partially spanning the cavity in such a way that at least one gas is transferable between the cavity and the interior volume via at least one opening formed at and/or in the at least one first counter-electrode.
US12163848B2
A method for identifying the probe abnormality includes: obtaining current temperature data of a plurality of probes, and calculating a temperature difference value between every two pieces of current temperature data; comparing the temperature difference value with a preset temperature difference, and when the temperature difference value exceeds the preset temperature difference, determining that at least one of the plurality of probes is abnormal; and heating the device to a preset temperature, and determining an abnormal probe from the plurality of probes.
US12163847B2
To provide a controller and a control method which can estimate a temperature of the temperature estimation with good accuracy without depending on detection information of other sensors other than the temperature sensor, even if the temperature sensor is attached to a position away from the temperature estimation point. A controller is provided with a sensor temperature detector that detects a sensor temperature based on an output signal of a temperature sensor attached to a temperature estimation object; and a temperature estimator that calculates an estimated temperature of the temperature estimation point, based on the current detection value of sensor temperature or the current correction value of sensor temperature, the detection value of sensor temperature before the step time or the correction value of sensor temperature before the step time, and a thermal time constant.
US12163845B2
A semiconductor includes a multilayer substrate including an insulating plate and a plurality of circuit boards disposed on a top face of the insulating plate, a semiconductor element disposed on a top face of one of the plurality of circuit boards, and having a main electrode disposed on a top face thereof, and a temperature measurement device for measuring a temperature of the semiconductor element. The temperature measurement device includes a cable unit composed of an insulated optical fiber, and a temperature measurement unit provided on one end of the cable unit, the temperature measurement unit being bonded to the main electrode of the semiconductor element using a bonding material.
US12163833B2
Aspects relate to an optical device providing a large spot size spectrometer. The optical device includes an optical head, an optical window, and a spectrometer. The optical head includes a plastic molded part having an aperture and a plurality of reflectors around the aperture formed therein. Each reflector may include a respective lamp assembled therein. The optical window is configured to receive a sample, to pass input light from the lamps to the sample and to pass scattered light from the sample towards the aperture. The aperture is configured to filter a first portion of scattered light containing unusable sample information and to pass a second portion of the scattered light to the spectrometer.
US12163832B2
A superconducting electronic signal output circuit includes a signal source section configured to provide a voltage and/or current signal. The signal source section comprises a superconducting nanowire single photon detector, SNSPD, a switchable output section connected to the signal source section and having a first superconducting switch configured to selectably cause the signal to be output to an output of the superconducting electronic signal output circuit, and a switchable sink section connected to the signal source section and the switchable output section and having a second superconducting switch configured to selectably cause the signal to be directed to a reference potential.
US12163827B2
By a control device, a control method, or a non-transitory tangible storage medium storing a control program for controlling an optical sensor that includes a plurality of single photon avalanche diodes for each light reception pixel and receives light from a sensing area, a light reception signal waveform is acquired. The light reception signal waveform includes: a reflection light output component; and an external light output component, and a reflection intensity of the reflection light is estimated based on a correlation between a reflection light response number and an external light response number.
US12163824B2
A passenger's weight measurement device for a vehicle seat includes an upper rail provided on a lower rail that is fixable to a vehicle floor, the upper rail being movable in at least one of rear and front directions; a load sensor fixed onto the upper rail; and a frame provided on the load sensor and below the vehicle seat. In plan view, the load sensor protrudes from the frame in at least one of left and right directions.
US12163823B2
A weight estimation apparatus 1 includes: an impulsive force calculation unit 2 calculating an impulsive force using an acceleration response indicating vibration generated in a structure by the moving object (vehicle 27) moving through the structure, and a weight estimation unit 3 estimating a weight of the moving object using the impulsive force.
US12163813B2
An optical encoder includes a first grating pattern having a first pitch, a second grating pattern having a second pitch, a third grating pattern having a third pitch different from the second pitch, and a light receiving element configured to receive light from the third grating pattern in an order from a side of a light source, wherein first moire fringes including a shadow of the third grating pattern are formed on an exit plane of the third grating pattern due to a difference between the second pitch and the third pitch, and wherein the light receiving element receives light that forms second moire fringes in which the shadow of the third grating pattern is smoothed more than in the first moire fringes by placing the third grating pattern and the light receiving element away from each other.
US12163808B2
The described techniques address issues associated with hybrid current or magnetic field sensors used to detect both low- and high-frequency magnetic field components. The hybrid sensor implements a DC component rejection path in the high-frequency magnetic field component path. Both digital and analog implementations are provided, each functioning to generate a DC component cancellation signal to at least partially cancel a DC component of a current signal generated via the high-frequency magnetic field component path. The hybrid sensor provides a high-bandwidth, high-accuracy, and low DC offset hybrid current solution that also eliminates the need for DC decoupling capacitors in the high-frequency path. A modification is also described for implementing a Sigma-Delta (ΣΔ) quantization noise reduction path to reduce the quantization noise and to improve accuracy.
US12163803B2
A task processing method includes obtaining a task data loading request; and searching for target task data in a task database according to the task data loading request, where the task database stores task data corresponding to one or more tasks, and the target task data includes a coordinate of a waypoint of a target route of a target task. The method further includes controlling a movable object to reproduce the target task corresponding to the target task data. Controlling the movable object to reproduce the target task includes controlling the movable object to move according to the target route corresponding to the target task data.
US12163800B2
A method of providing turning path guidance for a vehicle includes determining parameters of a turn region of a roadway using a controller of the turning path guidance system. The parameters include lane data and turning angle data. Positions of objects in and around the turn region of the roadway are detected using a sensor system of the vehicle. A map of the turn region is generated based on the lane data, turning angle data and that shows the detected objects using the controller. A turning path for the vehicle for navigating the turn in the turn region that avoids the detected objects is determined using the controller. The map with the turning path is displayed on a display screen in the vehicle.
US12163799B2
An interactive system for use in connection with recreational vehicle usage includes a server system, including an off-road trail database containing trail data, trail condition information, and points-of-interest information, as well as a trip mapping system accessible by any of a plurality of riders, allowing a rider to create a route based on the data in the off-road trip database. The server system further includes a trail maintenance interface accessible by users affiliated with an authorized group to edit the trail data, trail condition information, and points-of-interest information associated with the authorized group. The server system includes a location data management system configured to receive location data, allowing a rider to publish location information to one or more other riders, and a user feedback interface configured to receive trip data from riders for publication, including information describing an actual route and user data associated with that route.
US12163796B2
Methods, systems, apparatus and computer program code are provided for predicting a destination location of a vehicle which include processing a first and a second graph neural network to generate a prediction of a destination location.
US12163790B2
The subject technology provides for visualizing a route traversed by a user during a movement event by periodically obtaining position information data from a receiver of a navigation system during a movement event. A path traversed by a user of a device that includes the receiver during the movement event is estimated based on the position information data. One or more previously mapped features within a proximity of the estimated path on a map are determined. The estimated path is matched to the map based on the previously mapped features to obtain a map-matched path. A display device is caused to render the map-matched path on an image of the map.
US12163779B2
A head-measuring device is disclosed and includes a support frame. The head-measuring device also includes a plurality of movable arms comprising a first set of movable arms and a second set of movable arms. The first set includes a first outermost arm, the second set includes a second outermost arm opposite the first outermost arm, and each movable arm is movable between a first position and a second position. The head-measuring device also includes a stationary arm coupled to the support frame such that the stationary arm is approximately equidistant between the outermost arms as the outermost arms are moved between the first and second positions. The plurality of movable arms are parallel to each other and to the stationary arm. The first and second sets of movable arms are mechanically linked such that the first set moves synchronously with the second set between the first and second positions.
US12163776B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method for measuring a three dimensional shape with improved accuracy. The apparatus includes a stage, at least one lighting unit, a plurality of image pickup units and a control unit. The stage supports an object to be measured. The lighting unit includes a light source and a grid, and radiates grid-patterned light to the object to be measured. The image pickup units capture, in different directions, grid images reflected from the object to be measured. The control unit calculates a three dimensional shape of the object from the grid images captured by the image pickup units. The present invention has advantages in capturing grid images through a main image pickup portion and sub-image pickup portions, enabling the measurement of the three dimensional shape of the object in a rapid and accurate manner.
US12163774B1
Disclosed herein are solar-based semi-mobile recharge skids (“solar skids”) for augmenting on-site fixed charging stations and/or mobile recharge stations, as well as for autonomous operation—that is, the solar skids may operate in conjunction with fixed charging stations, mobile recharge stations, both, or neither (i.e., operating independently). These solar skids are able to supply DC power for charging high-power electric-based autonomous vehicles—including providing variable charging power levels if needed—in a relatively short period of time and at relatively low cost. Various implementations are also directed to modular—based solar skids that can be interconnected for even higher levels and greater availability of recharge power.
US12163764B2
A system and method for enhanced aircraft-based targeting senses RF emissions or other signals associated with a target while navigating a trajectory through a GPS-challenged airspace. While the target is being observed, the aircraft targeting system tracks GPS-challenged state vectors (e.g., via an onboard inertial reference system) and pressure altitudes consistent with each observation. When the aircraft emerges from the GPS-challenged airspace, the targeting system determines multiple GPS-driven subsequent absolute positions of the aircraft. The targeting system determines a refined estimate of the target location via batch factor graph optimization of measurements taken while inside and outside of the GPS-challenged airspace.
US12163762B2
Firearm associated electronic devices are provided. In one aspect a firearm associated device has a housing having a holding area and an opening through which a removable component may be positioned in the holding area, a door movable relative to the housing and having a door latch that moves along a path as the door moves and a housing latch movable between a first latch position where the housing latch is not in the path to a second latch position where the housing latch blocks movement of the door latch from a first range of positions where the door prevents the removable component from passing through the opening to a second range of positions where the door does not prevent the removable component from passing through the opening. A housing latch biasing member biases the housing latch into the second latch position. When the door latch is in the first range of positions and the housing latch is in the second latch position the door latch is movable along the path but is blocked by the housing latch from passing to the second range of positions.
US12163754B2
The invention relates to a firearm comprising a barrel comprising a gas opening, and a gas system, which gas system comprises a gas block, a gas piston, a force transmitter assembly, an indexing part and an indexing counterpart, gas openings. The gas block is fixedly attached to the barrel and the gas piston is positioned by the indexing part. In the gas system gas is configured to pass through the gas opening of the barrel via the gas openings of the gas system into the gas block and to set the gas piston to movement. In the gas system the gas piston during its movement backwards is configured to close the gas opening of the barrel for a defined time period and the gas piston is not transmitting power/energy from combustion gas to the force transmitter assembly unless the gas opening/-s is/are closed.
US12163747B2
A trigger mechanism or fire control for trigger operable devices includes a housing; a sear having a sear body coupled to the housing and including a primary engagement surface and an active sear support reset geometry; and a sear support coupled to the housing and having a body with a sear engagement surface and a passive sear support reset geometry. The primary engagement surface of the sear is moved into an overlapping condition with the sear engagement surface of the sear support as the sear is moved from a discharged position to a reset position after actuation of the trigger operable device. In addition, interaction between the active sear support reset geometry and the passive sear support reset geometry causes a mechanical displacement of the sear support to a reset position.
US12163745B2
This disclosure relates to a fin structure including a main body and at least one minor structure. The main body includes a main plate and two side plates. The main plate has at least one through hole. The two side plates are respectively connected to two opposite sides of the main plate and protrude from the main plate. The at least one minor structure protrudes from the main plate and is located at a side of the main plate. The at least one minor structure is spaced apart from the two side plates. The at least one minor structure partially covers the at least one through hole. The at least one minor structure has a length, in a longitudinal direction of the main plate, less than a length of the at least one through hole of the main plate.
US12163744B2
A heat exchanger includes an inner fin arranged in a refrigerant passage. The inner fin has side wall portions formed so as to extend in a predetermined direction and arranged parallel to each other. A gap formed between the side wall portions facing each other is a passage portion through which refrigerant flows. Each of the side wall portions has a plurality of openings arranged in the predetermined direction. An inclined surface inclined with respect to the predetermined direction is formed in a part of the side wall portion located between the openings adjacent to each other.
US12163741B2
A heat exchanger having multiple plates which are mutually parallel and parallel to a longitudinal direction, the exchanger having a length measured in the longitudinal direction, the plates being stacked with spacing so as to define a first series of passages for the flow, in a general flow direction parallel to the longitudinal direction, of at least a first refrigerant fluid and a second refrigerant fluid, at least one passage of the first series being defined between two adjacent plates.
US12163733B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet defining a storage space therein and a door configured to open and close the storage space. The door includes a top recess that is recessed downward from a top surface portion of the door, a microphone module accommodated in the top recess and configured to receive a voice command from a user, a controller configured to control an operation of the refrigerator based on the voice command received at the microphone module, a door cover that covers the top recess a microphone-module mount provided at the door cover, wherein the microphone module is accommodated in the microphone-module mount, and a voice input hole defined in the microphone-module mount and configured to transmit a sound of the voice command from an outside of the door cover to an interior of the microphone-module mount.
US12163728B2
An appliance cabinet includes a structural envelope having an exterior surface and an interior surface that defines an insulating cavity, wherein the insulating cavity defines an at least partial vacuum. A plurality of silica-based agglomerates are disposed within the insulating cavity, wherein each agglomerate of the plurality of silica-based agglomerates includes silica-based powder insulation material that is water-densified and is at least substantially free of a material binder. A secondary insulation material is disposed within interstitial spaces defined between the plurality of silica-based agglomerates, wherein the plurality of silica-based agglomerates defines an interior structure that resists inward compressive forces exerted as a result of the at least partial vacuum defined within the insulating cavity.
US12163710B2
A refrigerator includes a compressor, a condenser, an evaporator, switching valve, an ice-making device, a controller, and a first refrigerant pipe and a second refrigerant pipe connected between the condenser and the evaporator. The switching valve is configured to guide the refrigerant condensed in the condenser to the first refrigerant pipe or the second refrigerant pipe. The ice-making device allows the first refrigerant pipe to pass therethrough and is configured to cool water stored in an ice-making tray. The controller is configured to control the switching valve to guide the refrigerant to the ice-making device through the first refrigerant pipe. In response to a temperature of the ice-making tray falling to a level lower than or equal to a reference temperature, the controller is configured to control the switching valve to prevent the refrigerant from being guided to the first refrigerant pipe and supply water to the ice-making tray.
US12163705B2
An ejector refrigeration circuit 1 including: a two-phase circuit 2 including: a heat rejection heat exchanger 12 including an inlet 12a and an outlet 12b; and an ejector 14 including a high pressure inlet 14a, a low pressure inlet 14b and an outlet 14c; the ejector high pressure inlet 14a is coupled to the heat rejection heat exchanger outlet 12b; and an evaporator 18 including an inlet 18a and an outlet 18b; the outlet 18b of the evaporator 18 is coupled to the low pressure inlet 14b of the ejector 14; and the ejector refrigeration circuit 1 further including a vapour quality sensor 20 positioned at the outlet 12b of the heat rejection heat exchanger 12.
US12163691B2
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system in which a primary water loop is used as a heat transfer reservoir for both heating and cooling. A plurality of micro chillers are provided, with each micro chiller being connected to the primary water loop. Each micro chiller includes its own heat engine. Each micro chiller includes one or more fan coil units that exchange heat between the micro chiller and the air in a building. In a first mode a micro chiller transfers heat from the air in the building to the water circulating within the primary water loop. In a second mode the micro chiller transfers heat from the water circulating in the primary water loop to the air in the building. A primary water loop regulation system is provided to control the temperature of the water circulating in the primary water loop.
US12163688B2
The present disclosure relates to a motor driving apparatus and an air conditioner including the same. The motor driving apparatus and the air conditioner including the same according to an embodiment of the present disclosure include: a switching device disposed between an inverter and a motor, wherein while windings of the motor are connected in a first connection, an output current at a first level is output from the inverter, and while the windings of the motor are connected in a second connection, the output current at the first level is output from the inverter, such that it is possible to determine whether the switching device for switching connection of the motor is abnormal.
US12163687B2
Control device (10) includes air conditioning controller (31) and air conditioning load factor calculator (32). Air conditioning load factor calculator (32) calculates air conditioning load factors 36a and the like for rooms. Air conditioning controller (31) calculates a distribution of air volumes of air conveyed from an air conditioning room to the rooms based on air conditioning load factors (36a). Air conditioning controller 31 controls air conveyance fans (3a to 3d) in accordance with the distribution of the air volumes.
US12163684B2
An air-conditioning control system includes: an enclosure with a ventilation opening; a particle sensor detecting particles; and a controller. The controller controls an amount of particles in a predetermined region, is switchable between first and second states, an amount of particles is controlled such that in the second state the particles existing in the predetermined region are reduced to be less than in the first, compares a detection value acquired from the particle sensor and a threshold in a case of the first state, performs a predetermined process based on the comparison, and in response to predetermined conditions being satisfied when in the second state, (a) acquires the detection value from the particle sensor, (b) determines a correction value based on the acquired detection value and a reference value, and (c) corrects, as targets for the comparison, either the threshold or the detection value, by using the correction value.
US12163680B2
A problem to be solved by the present disclosure is to enhance the reliability of determination of occurrence or non-occurrence of surging. Whether or not surging occurs depends on front-rear differential pressure. Therefore, by determining occurrence or non-occurrence of surging on the basis of the front-rear differential pressure, a second unit can detect and avoid surging with higher accuracy than when determining by using the pressure on an outlet side of a second fan.
US12163676B2
A nozzle assembly for a fan unit includes an inner nozzle having a tapered outer diameter and a flow path radially inward from the tapered outer diameter with respect to a longitudinal axis of the nozzle assembly. The flow path is configured to guide a fluid flow and to expel the fluid flow through an inner outlet of the inner nozzle to a surrounding environment. The nozzle assembly also includes an outer nozzle disposed radially outward from the inner nozzle with respect to the longitudinal axis. The outer nozzle and the tapered outer diameter of the inner nozzle define an annular flow path therebetween. The annular flow path is configured to guide the fluid flow and to expel the fluid flow to the surrounding environment through an outer outlet of the outer nozzle. A cross-sectional area of the outer outlet is adjustable via movement of the inner nozzle, the outer nozzle, or both along the longitudinal axis of the nozzle assembly.
US12163665B2
A fuel nozzle assembly for a gas turbine combustion chamber includes a housing having a first port connected to a first low calorific gas supply, a second port separate from the first port and connected to a second low calorific gas supply, and a third port separate from the first port and the second port and connected to a high calorific fuel supply. The fuel nozzle assembly may further include a first gallery in the housing connected to the first port, a second gallery in the housing separate from the first gallery and connected to the second port, and a third gallery in the housing separate from the first and second galleries and connected to the third port. The fuel nozzle assembly may further include a plurality of injection holes circumferentially disposed in the housing and configured to inject gas from each respective gallery into a can combustor.
US12163663B2
An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This assembly includes a combustor, a fuel-air mixer and a mixer guide. The combustor includes a bulkhead. The fuel-air mixer includes an inner passage, a sidewall and a fuel circuit. The inner passage extends axially along an axis within the fuel-air mixer. The sidewall extends circumferentially around and axially along the inner passage. The fuel circuit includes a first fuel passage and a first fuel nozzle outlet fluidly coupled with the first fuel passage. The first fuel passage is embedded within the sidewall and extends along the inner passage. The fuel circuit is configured to direct fuel into the inner passage through the first fuel nozzle outlet. The mixer guide couples the fuel-air mixer to the bulkhead. The mixer guide is configured to slide axially along the fuel-air mixer.
US12163652B2
The disclosure discloses a photoelectric core module and a lamp, the photoelectric core module includes an insulating housing that has an accommodating space; a photoelectric module that is fixedly mounted to the insulating housing and is accommodated in the accommodating space; and a light-emitting mask that is assembled on the insulating housing in a non-detachable manner and sealing the accommodating space; and light emitted by the photoelectric module is capable of passing through the light-emitting mask.
US12163642B2
A lighting device includes a light emitting module and an optical element including first and second liquid crystal cells. Each of the first and second liquid crystal cells includes first and second transparent electrodes extending in a first direction and third and fourth transparent electrodes extending in a second direction. The light emitting module includes a light source, a light guide plate including an end surface into which light emitted from the light source is incident and a first surface from which the light incident into the end surface is emitted, and a prism sheet disposed opposite to the first surface. The second substrate of the first liquid crystal cell and the first substrate of the second liquid crystal cell are adjacent to each other. The first surface includes a plurality of first grooves extending in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction.
US12163640B2
An assembly comprises a housing, a bezel and a lens, or a housing heat sink, a housing rim, a bezel and a lens, wherein the housing or the housing heat sink comprises a first surface and the bezel or the housing rim comprises a second surface, a portion of a first surface of the housing or housing heat sink is molded to a portion of the second surface forming an interface surface, the interface surface having an interface angle that does not deviate more than 90 degrees, measured from a central axis perpendicular to the bezel and the housing around which the bezel and the housing are molded, for all interface angles about the central axis.
US12163639B2
A cover body includes: a multi-color molded body including a first resin portion having a gate mark on an outer surface thereof, and a second resin portion having a color different from a color of the first resin portion and adhering to the outer surface of the first resin portion to cover the gate mark. An outer surface of the second resin portion includes a stepped portion that overlaps with the gate mark.
US12163636B2
A lighting device for a motor vehicle, wherein the lighting device has a circuit board with a multiplicity of light-emitting diodes arranged thereon, a transparent optical layer, and a reflector element, wherein the reflector element is arranged between the circuit board and the optical layer, wherein the reflector element has multiple segments into which the reflector element is subdivided, wherein a segment is associated with each light-emitting diode so that light emitted by the light-emitting diodes can be reflected by the reflector element and can pass through the optical layer. Two light-emitting diodes are arranged in a segment. In addition, a lighting system and a motor vehicle are provided.
US12163633B2
Provided is a light-emitting device, a lighting appliance, and a street light that emit light with minimal negative effects on the behavior of sea turtles and which makes irradiated objects easily visible to humans. The light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element having an emission peak wavelength within a range from 400 nm to 490 nm; and a first phosphor having an emission peak wavelength within a range from 570 nm to 680 nm, wherein the light-emitting device, lighting appliance, and street light emit light that has a correlated color temperature of 1950 K or less, an average color rendering index Ra of 40 or greater, a full width at half maximum of an emission spectrum indicating a maximum emission intensity in an emission spectrum of the light-emitting device of 110 nm or less, and a sea turtle light attraction index T derived from Equation (1) of 0.416 or less.
US12163631B1
A solid-state light replacement includes a housing, a pair of electrical connections on the housing, a substrate within the housing and dividing the housing into at least two sections, at least one solid state light mounted to the substrate in one of the at least two sections and electrically connected to the pair of electrical connections, and at least one solid state installation error indicator light mounted to the substrate in another of the at least sections and electrically connected to the pair of electrical connections in an opposite polarity from the connection of the at least one solid state light to the pair of electrical connections.
US12163617B2
A vacuum adiabatic body of the present embodiment may include a first plate, a second plate, a seal configured to seal the first plate and the second plate to provide a vacuum space, and a support configured to maintain the vacuum space. Optionally, the support may include a first support having a first support plate formed in a grid shape, and a plurality of spacer coupling portions configured to protrude from the first support plate. Optionally, the support may a second support having a second support plate formed in a grid shape, and a plurality of spacers configured to protrude from the second support plate and coupled to each of the plurality of spacer coupling portions to form a plurality of bars together with the plurality of spacer coupling portions. Optionally, the support may a radiation resistance sheet supported by a portion of the plurality of bars and spaced apart from at least one of the first support plate and the second support plate. Optionally, the plurality of spacer coupling portions may be arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows in the first support plate. Optionally, only a spacer coupling portion having the same shape may be provided in some columns of a plurality of columns, and spacer coupling portions having a different shape may be provided in some other columns.
US12163611B2
A bayonet coupling system includes a bayonet, a bayonet coupler, and a seal. The bayonet includes a bayonet tube configured to enable the flow of hydrogen fuel therethrough, and a flange coupled to the bayonet tube. The seal is configured to surround the bayonet tube and contact the flange along one side of the flange. The bayonet coupler includes a bayonet coupler tube having an inside diameter larger than an outside diameter of the bayonet tube, the bayonet coupler tube configured to receive the bayonet tube and to seal against the flange at the seal. The bayonet coupler is fixedly mounted directly or indirectly to a hydrogen storage tank such that a longitudinal axis of the bayonet coupler is inclined a predetermined angle with respect to horizontal to prevent a substantial thermal gradient from forming at the seal.
US12163609B2
A plug connector for connecting lines for liquid or gaseous media, includes a connector body and a locking element for securing the plug connector relative to a mating plug connector. Moreover, an indicator element and a guide receptacle for receiving the indicator element in a displaceable manner are formed, wherein the indicator element is received in the guide receptacle such that the indicator element is displaceable between a rest position and an indicator position, wherein the indicator element has an indicator surface, which is visible in the indicator position of the indicator element and, in the rest position of the indicator element, is at least partially concealed, wherein the indicator surface, when it is visible, serves to signal that the plug connector is plugged into the mating plug connector correctly, and/or that the locking element is locked correctly.
US12163599B2
A non-contact actuation assembly configured to operate a communication line of an infrastructure system through a panel having an external face configured to be directed into an interior of a building structure, and an opposite internal face, said assembly comprising; an actuator configured to be positioned adjacent said external face by a user during operation, said actuator comprising an actuating member constituted by at least one of a magnetic member and a magnetizable member; and an operator configured to be disposed adjacent said internal face during operation, and control communication at said communication line, said operator comprising an operating member constituted by a matching one of said magnetic member and said magnetizable member; wherein upon said positioning of said actuator adjacent said external face, in register with said operator, said actuating member and said operating member are configured to be magnetically coupled such that said operator is switchable, upon disposition of said actuator member with respect to said external face, at least between a first state in which communication in said communication line is established and a second state n which communication in said communication line is obstructed.
US12163588B2
A sealing device includes a functional layer having a first major surface and a second major surface and a barrier layer directly or indirectly connected to the second major surface of the functional layer, wherein the functional layer has a surface roughness having a waviness factor Wf. Also disclosed is a method for producing a sealing device and the use of a sealing device for waterproofing of a substrate.
US12163587B2
There is provided a gasket comprising a rigid core (2) defining an aperture (4). The core has a serrated profile (8) on at least one of its upper and lower outer surfaces and the core is divided into upper and lower parts (2a, 2b) each having a respective outer surface (6a, 6b) and also an inner surface (42, 44) opposite the outer surface. The gasket also includes an optional sealing facing (12, 14) on the at least one outer serrated profile surface, wherein an inner insulating layer (40) is located between the said upper and lower parts so that it is operable to substantially reduce electrical conduction between the said upper and lower parts. There is described a method of production of the gasket and use of the gasket.
US12163578B2
A vehicle driving apparatus includes a rotating shaft driven by the power source, a fluid pump driven by the rotating shaft. The fluid pump includes a rotor rotated by the rotating shaft, and a case. The case includes a fluid discharge port provided on an inner peripheral surface of an insertion hole through which the rotating shaft is inserted. The rotating shaft includes an attachment portion fittable to a shaft hole, and an internal flow path. A supply groove communicating with the internal flow path is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the rotating shaft. The fluid pump is attached to the attachment portion of the rotating shaft such that positions of the discharge port and the supply groove in an axial direction of the rotating shaft overlap each other. The attachment portion is provided on each of both sides of the supply groove in the axial direction.
US12163576B2
A hybrid gearbox for a mechanical driven equipment in a train system is disclosed. The hybrid gearbox is connected between a power source and a load, to be driven. The hybrid gearbox includes a layshaft gear, capable of adjusting the transmission ratio between the power source and the load and a motor-generator unit, configured to adjust the transmission speed ratio arranged.
US12163567B2
A flywheel assembly 10 comprising: at least one flywheel mass support 14, the or each said support having a shaft 19 that extends along a rotational axis 18 about which the support 14 can rotate in use, the or each said support 14 comprising a plurality of openings 24 that are each offset from said rotational axis 18, a flywheel mass 12 comprising a plurality of openings 16 that are each arranged to align with a corresponding opening in said support; and means 23 for coupling said flywheel mass 12 to the or each said support 14 so that the mass 12 can rotate with the or each support 14 in use, said coupling means 23 being configured to extend through the aligned openings in the or each support 14 and said flywheel mass 12; wherein said flywheel mass 12 comprises a plurality of generally planar flywheel mass elements sandwiched together to form a stack of elements, each said element including a plurality of openings 16 that align with the openings 24 in the or each said support 14 and with openings in neighbouring elements in said stack, said flywheel elements being coupled together and aligned with one another to form said flywheel mass solely by means of the coupling means 23 that extends through the aligned openings in said elements and the or each said support 14.
US12163566B2
One example vibration damping bracket provided in some embodiments of this application includes a fastening bracket, a first bracket body, a second bracket body, a first vibration damping component, and a second vibration damping component. The first bracket body is elastically connected to the fastening bracket by using the first vibration damping component. The second bracket body is elastically connected to the first bracket body by using the second vibration damping component. The first vibration damping component includes a metal elastic part configured to absorb vibration, and the second vibration damping component includes a rubber elastic part configured to absorb vibration.
US12163557B2
A connecting rod with a body, first and second fastening heads provided at each end of the body and connected by first and second connection systems to first and second elements, the first fastening head comprising an extension which is screwed into a housing of the body to adjust the length of the connecting rod. The connecting rod includes an anti-rotation system with a key, positioned astride the first fastening head and the body, which has a first part cooperating with the body so as to be rotationally immobilized with respect to the body and also a second part cooperating with the first fastening head and the first connection system so as to be immobilized with respect to the first fastening head.
US12163542B2
In a first aspect of the invention, this is achieved by a joining system for furniture parts comprising female coupling recess formed in a first furniture part, a male coupling tongue projecting from an adjoining second furniture part, said female coupling recess being adapted to receive the male coupling tongue, said male coupling tongue comprising a first locking element configured for a snap joint interlocking engagement with a matching second locking element in said female coupling recess, the male coupling tongue being configured to be more flexible than the female coupling recess. The joining system comprises an upper guiding surface arranged on a first side of the female coupling recess on the first furniture part, forming an essentially non-resilient guide for the male coupling tongue upon insertion thereof, limiting movement of said male coupling tongue in a direction towards said first side of the female coupling recess. The joining system comprises a lower guiding surface arranged on a second side of the female coupling recess on the first furniture part, located opposite to said first side thereof, said lower guiding surface is configured to force the male coupling tongue to resiliently deflect whilst in engagement with said upper guiding surface upon further insertion thereof in a deflection movement towards said first side of the female coupling recess, until the first locking element of the male coupling tongue snaps together with the matching second locking element of the female coupling recess.
US12163534B1
A fan fixing device adapted to mount a fan in an electronic device is provided. The fan includes a frame, a first side plate, and a second side plate. The fan fixing device includes a fixing base and a fixing piece. The fixing base includes a side wall with an opening. The fixing piece is detachably mounted around the fan, and includes a main body with a first side, a second side, and a third side, a first fixing part, a second fixing part, and a buckling part. The first fixing part is fixed on the first side plate. The second fixing part is fixed on the second side plate. The buckling part is located on the third side, and includes an inner surface facing the frame and an outer surface clamped in the opening, to fix the fan on the fixing base.
US12163527B2
Disclosed is a swing angle adjustment device for an electric fan oscillating head, and an electric fan applying same. By means of an arc reinforcing sleeve, in which one end is in sliding fit with a planetary gear addendum-circle surface and the other end is in clearance with a sun gear addendum-circle, being made on the lower end surface of a planet carrier, the swing angle adjustment device which is for an electric fan oscillating head and can prevent a planetary-gear crank from dislocation is constituted; by means of a small-diameter non-involute toothed ratchet wheel and a pawl being arranged on a large, a non-involute toothed ratchet wheel and pawl clutch device is formed, such that the swing angle adjustment device for an electric fan oscillating head is constituted in such a way that the clutch device has no slip under normal conditions; by means of a rotor position sensing signal acquisition device, in which high- and low-voltage elements are isolated from each other, being arranged, on a rotor of an electric motor, to connect to an angle adjustment control chip, a closed-loop electric-control-type swing angle adjustment device, in which angle adjustment is convenient, for an electric fan oscillating head is constituted; and by means of using a screw-free structure and a built-in layout for a bearing sleeve positioning plate, a magnetic attraction brake device, and components that are related to an electrical signal sampling system, the structure of the swing angle adjustment device is compact.
US12163520B2
A rotary pump including: a pump housing including a delivery chamber, having an inlet and an outlet for a fluid; a delivery member which can be rotated about a rotational axis in the delivery chamber in order to deliver the fluid; a setting structure which can be moved translationally back and forth in the pump housing relative to the delivery member in and counter to a setting direction in order to adjust the delivery volume of the rotary pump; a setting device for generating a setting force which acts on the setting structure in the setting direction; a restoring spring for exerting a restoring force which acts on the setting structure counter to the setting direction; and an additional spring for exerting an additional force which acts on the setting structure in or counter to the setting direction.
US12163515B2
A fluid delivery system includes a reservoir for storing fluid, a rotary pump having a first pump port and a second pump port, a first fluid conduit connecting the first pump port to the reservoir, and a second fluid conduit connecting the second pump port to the reservoir. The rotary pump rotates in a first delivery direction in a normal mode and in a second delivery direction in an alternative mode. A first valve separates the first pump port from the reservoir when the rotary pump is in its alternative mode, and a second valve separates the second pump port from the reservoir when the rotary pump is in its normal mode.
US12163513B2
A membrane pump usage condition detection system and a method of determining a membrane pump usage condition. The membrane pump usage condition detection system comprises a membrane pump defining a flow path arranged to be opened and closed by at least one valve, a measuring device; a comparator; and a signal generator. The measuring device is configured to determine an electrical characteristic between two points on the flow path of the membrane pump, one point arranged upstream of the at least one valve and the other point arranged downstream of the at least one valve. The measuring device measures the electrical characteristic when the at least one valve is closed. The comparator is configured to monitor the electrical characteristic. The signal generator is arranged to provide an output signal when the electrical characteristic is indicative of a membrane pump usage condition.
US12163510B2
A control method and a control device applied to an electric fracturing apparatus are provided. The electric fracturing apparatus includes a plunger pump and a first motor configured to drive the plunger pump, and the method includes: acquiring a preset displacement of the plunger pump; acquiring a rotation speed of the first motor and a discharge pressure of the plunger pump; determining a real-time displacement of the plunger pump based on the rotation speed of the first motor and the discharge pressure of the plunger pump and adjusting the real-time displacement; and upon the real-time displacement reaching the preset displacement, allowing the first motor to be kept in a stable operation state.
US12163509B2
An air compression device includes: a compressor device for the compression of air, wherein the compressor device has a compressor axis and the compressor axis is defined by a direction in which air is compressed by the compressor device; an electric motor for driving the compressor device, wherein the electric motor has an electric motor axis formed by an axis of rotation of the electric motor; and a transmission that mechanically connects the electric motor to the compressor device. The transmission arranges the compressor device and the electric motor at an angle to one another, and the compressor axis and the electric motor axis enclose an angle between 10° and 80°, in particular 20° and 70°, more specifically 30° and 60°.
US12163506B2
Wind turbine ice protection control systems and methods for controlling ice protection measures at a wind turbine are provided. The ice protection control system operates in multiple locations: the first being at least one remote wind turbine site and the second at least one offsite control office location. The ice protection control system includes sensors on at least one wind turbine at least one remote site for sensing internal and external environmental conditions and/or wind turbine outputs. The sensors output data which is received by a network at the wind turbine and then sent to a second network at an offsite location where it is analyzed to determine actions to be taken. In this way, multiple wind turbines at multiple wind turbine remote sites can be controlled by a single control system. Systems and methods for creating, retrieving, and storing sensor data within the ice protection control systems are also discussed.
US12163505B2
The present disclosure is related to pitch systems for blades of wind turbines. The pitch system comprises a pitch bearing having a first bearing ring connected to a hub of the wind turbine, and a second bearing ring connected to a blade. The pitch system also includes an annular gear and a pitch drive having a motor, a gearbox, a main brake, and a pinion. In addition, the pitch system includes an auxiliary brake system comprising an auxiliary brake and an auxiliary pinion to engage with the annular gear, where the auxiliary brake is configured to switch between an active state, wherein braking forces are applied to the annular gear to maintain the blade in an instantaneous position, and an inactive state. The present disclosure further relates to wind turbines comprising such pitch systems and methods for applying an emergency pitch braking torque to a pitch system.
US12163491B2
A heat shield for protecting a windward side of a vehicle from a high enthalpy flow is disclosed. The heat shield includes a centerbody sidewall and a centerbody base extending aft of the centerbody sidewall. The centerbody sidewall and the centerbody base define a heat shield outer surface that is non-axisym metric. Also disclosed is an aerospike nozzle defined at least partially by the heat shield, an engine including a high pressure chamber and the aerospike nozzle, and a vehicle including the engine.
US12163480B2
An engine system and method of operation therefor are provided. The system is a two-stroke internal combustion engine having an exhaust valve assembly that controls the exhaust cycle relative to crankshaft timing. The exhaust valve assembly is positioned between exhaust port and an exhaust pipe. The exhaust valve assembly comprises a rotary exhaust valve and valve phasing assembly. The rotary exhaust valve comprises a valve body defining a valve void therethrough. The use of the rotary exhaust valve allows for alteration or calibration of the fixed time and location at which the intake port and exhaust port are opened and closed by the piston with respect to the respective engine cycle. Notably, while still uncovered by the piston, the exhaust port may be closed due to full misalignment of the valve void and the exhaust port, while the intake port remains open, allowing for cylinder charging.
US12163469B2
A module ensuring an acoustic attenuation of a flow of a first fluid and a heat exchange between the first fluid and a second fluid. The module comprises a perforated first wall with a cutout, a second wall, a cellular structure extending from the second wall to the first wall, a recess provided in the cellular structure between a perforated bottom and a perforated top, and a heat exchanger which is fixed inside the recess between the bottom and the top and in which the second fluid circulates. Such a module ensures an attenuation of sound waves and a heat exchange without limiting the attenuation surface.
US12163468B1
A system is provided for an aircraft. This system includes a propulsor rotor and a powerplant configured to drive rotation of the propulsor rotor. The powerplant includes a turbo-compounded intermittent internal combustion engine and a dual rotor electric machine. The turbo-compounded intermittent internal combustion engine includes a turbine rotor operatively coupled to the propulsor rotor through the dual rotor electric machine. The dual rotor electric machine includes a first rotor, a second rotor, a first stator and a second stator. The first stator and the second stator are arranged radially between and axially aligned with the first rotor and the second rotor.
US12163466B2
An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This assembly includes a housing, a combustor and a fuel injector assembly. The housing includes a case and a diffuser plenum radially within the case. The case extends axially along and circumferentially about a centerline. The combustor is disposed within the diffuser plenum. The combustor includes a bulkhead, a hood, a combustion chamber and a hood cavity. The bulkhead is axially between the combustion chamber and the hood cavity. The hood is between the hood cavity and the diffuser plenum. The fuel injector assembly projects radially into the diffuser plenum from the case. The fuel injector assembly includes a fuel nozzle and a steam nozzle. The fuel nozzle is configured to inject fuel into the combustion chamber. The steam nozzle is configured to inject steam into the hood cavity.
US12163458B2
A non-pressurized fluid reservoir for a vehicle coolant system includes a bottle configured to store fluid. The bottle has a neck defining an inner circumferential surface that is devoid of threads. The reservoir further includes a cap having a lid and a shank extending from the lid. The shank has an outer circumferential surface and with a spiral ramp supported on the outer circumferential surface to encircle a portion of the shank. The shank is receivable within the neck with the spiral ramp adjacent to the inner circumferential surface to mitigate fluid leaks through the neck.
US12163449B2
The present disclosure provides a lubrication system comprising: a pump having an inlet in fluid communication with a lubricant source and an outlet; a cooler having an inlet in fluid communication with the outlet of the pump and an outlet; a lubrication filter having an inlet in fluid communication with the outlet of the cooler and an outlet; a first delivery path in fluid communication with the outlet of the lubrication filter, the first delivery path being configured to deliver cooled, filtered lubricant to a bearing system of an engine; and a second delivery path in fluid communication with the outlet of the pump, the second delivery path being configured to deliver uncooled, unfiltered lubricant to piston cooling nozzles of the engine.
US12163443B2
A turbine rotor blade includes: a rotor blade body which includes a blade root fixed to a rotation shaft extending along an axis, a base portion integrally formed on the outer radial side of the blade root, a blade body integrally formed on the outer radial side of the base portion, and a fin protruding from an axial end surface of the base portion; and a damper piece which is provided across an inner peripheral region of the axial end surface on the inner radial side of the fin and an inner peripheral surface of the fin facing the inner radial side.
US12163441B2
A turbocharger includes: a housing; a plurality of covers each of which encloses at least a part of an outer surface of the housing, the plurality of covers including at least a first cover and a second cover, each of the plurality of covers accommodating an insulator between the cover and the outer surface of the housing; and a connecting piece directly arranged on the outer surface of the housing and connecting the first cover and the second cover.
US12163421B2
A system for monitoring and establishing physical properties of a subsurface formation at a testing site having a source well and one or more receiver wells may include a pump, a data collection system, and a controller. The controller may cause the pump to extract fluid from and inject fluid into the source well based on one or more measures indicative of an amount of liquid in the source well. The controller may receive measures related to pressures in the receiver wells and physical properties of the subsurface formation may be determined based on the measures related to pressures in the receiver well. In some cases, noise may be removed from the measures related to pressures in the receiver wells to facilitate determining the physical properties of the subsurface formation.
US12163419B2
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes operating a downhole tool by transmitting first data to one or more surface processors in a telemetry sequence. The first data may include a flex word having a first identifier identifying a first payload, and the first data is transmitted using a synchronized time sequence. The method includes detecting, by the downhole tool, an operating condition that occurs while the downhole tool is downhole. Based on the operating condition, the method includes dynamically changing the flex word to comprise a second identifier identifying a second payload transmitted in second data in the telemetry sequence to the one or more surface processors, and the second data is transmitted in the telemetry sequence using the synchronized time sequence.
US12163417B1
An integrated drilling system includes a rotary steerable control unit and an electromagnetic LWD control unit deployed in an external collar. The rotary steerable control unit is deployed below the electromagnetic LWD control unit and is configured to control a direction of drilling of the integrated drilling system. A near bit electromagnetic antenna is deployed in a recess on the collar circumferentially about the rotary steerable control unit. At least one electromagnetic transmitter and at least one electromagnetic receiver are deployed in corresponding recesses in the collar circumferentially about the electromagnetic LWD control unit with the at least one transmitter and at least one receiver configured to make electromagnetic logging measurements while drilling. An electrical jumper provides an electrical connection between the near bit electromagnetic antenna and the electromagnetic LWD control unit.
US12163413B1
A method can include receiving dielectric data from a downhole dielectric tool of a drillstring disposed in a borehole in a target material that includes a target material boundary between the target material and one or more other materials; generating a geosteering command, based at least in part on the dielectric data, that calls for orienting a drill bit of the drillstring with respect to the target material boundary; and issuing the geosteering command to a geosteering actuator of the drillstring.
US12163408B2
A process for workover of a hydrocarbon recovery well, wherein hydrocarbons are mobilized and well pressure increased by steam injection, the hydrocarbons produced to surface in emulsion fluids. The emulsion fluids are directed into a produced emulsion line at surface at a first pressure, steam injection is then discontinued into the well while continuing emulsion production at reduced pressure, at least some of the emulsion fluids are redirected to an additional line at a second pressure lower than the first pressure as pressure in the well decreases, the emulsion fluids are pumped from the additional line into the produced emulsion line at a third pressure higher than the second pressure, and a well kill fluid is injected into the well to allow the workover after the well pressure decreases.
US12163405B2
An apparatus configured to be positioned on a tubular string in a wellbore formed in a subsurface formation. The apparatus comprises a generator assembly disposed on the tubular string and configured to output power to a downhole tool. The generator assembly includes a first generator configured to output a first power to the downhole tool. The generator includes a second generator configured to function as an exciter for the first generator.
US12163404B2
A wellsite monitoring system includes a base station, a plurality of access points, and a wellsite communication interface. The base station is configured to provide communication between the wellsite and a remote system. Each of the access points is configured to communicate with base station. The wellsite communication interface is interfaced to well service equipment, and is configured to communicate with the access points via a wellsite protocol used by the base station, and to present an authentication credential to the base station. The base station is also configured to verify an identity of the wellsite communication interface via the authentication credential, and to enable communication with the wellsite communication interface based on verification of the identity of the wellsite communication interface.
US12163397B2
A wellbore system includes a hanger lock energizing ring, a hanger lock ring, and a shoulder ring. The wellbore system further includes a seal energizing ring coupled to the shoulder ring. The wellbore system also includes a seal element being driven into an energized position by the seal energizing ring. The wellbore system further includes a seal lock energizing ring being driven to move via one or more extensions. The wellbore system includes a seal lock ring being supported, at least in part, by the seal energizing ring. Both the hanger lock ring and the seal lock ring are set, substantially simultaneously, responsive to movement of the one or more extensions.
US12163396B2
A tubing spool of a wellhead assembly can include a body having a body cavity, a first channel, and a second channel disposed therein, where the body cavity is configured to receive a tubing hanger used to couple to and suspend a tubing string, where the first channel is configured to be in communication with a tubing string cavity within the tubing string, where the second channel is configured to be in communication with an annulus located between the tubing string and a production casing, and where the first channel and the second channel are each configured to facilitate flow of at least one of a plurality of fluids in either direction independently of each other. The tubing spool can also include a first back pressure valve disposed within the first channel and a second back pressure valve disposed within the second channel.
US12163395B2
A downhole vibration tool includes a head unit, a housing, a power system, a control system, at least one electrical motor, an engagement system, at least one vibration module, and at least one tractor section. The head unit is configured to attach to a conveyance system in a wellbore. The housing is configured to receive the cable head and house the power system, the control system, the at least one electrical motor, the engagement system, the vibration module and the at least one tractor section. The engagement system is configured to extend outward from the housing and contact the wellbore.
US12163391B2
An actuator including an impulse generation arrangement including an atmospheric pressure chamber, and a valve connected fluidly to the chamber, a prime mover arrangement including a device piston, and a hydrostatic pressure source, and a hydraulic chamber disposed between and fluidically connecting the impulse generation arrangement and the prime mover arrangement. A method for actuating a downhole tool including signaling the trigger in an actuator, opening the atmospheric chamber of the actuator, causing a low pressure pulse in the actuator, and moving the device piston with the pulse. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and the actuator disposed within or as a part of the string.
US12163389B2
A resettable mechanism and a method of controlled actuation of a hydraulically operated downhole tool to allow selective operation of the downhole tool in a wellbore. The resettable mechanism provides an inner sleeve member which is longitudinally moveable between a first and second position which opens and closes a fluid pathway to at least one actuation port on the downhole tool. Movement of the inner sleeve member is controlled via an indexing mechanism operated by drop balls. An embodiment of a casing recovery system is described mechanism operated wherein a downhole pulling tool is selectively actuated so as to prevent operation of the pulling tool while a hydraulically operated casing cutter is cutting casing.
US12163385B1
A tool for use in a wellbore includes an annular body having an inner flow passage extending axially therethrough, at least one gripping member positioned around an outer perimeter of a retainer section of the annular body, and a gate member positioned in the inner flow passage. When the gate member is in a closed configuration, an upstream portion of the inner flow passage is sealed from a downstream portion of the inner flow passage by the gate member. When the gate member is in an open configuration, the upstream portion of the inner flow passage is fluidly connected to the downstream portion of the inner flow passage. At least one static mixing blade extends through the downstream portion of the inner flow passage to mix fluid when it flows through the open gate member.
US12163380B2
This drilling bit includes a bit body centered on a tool central axis, a plurality of buttons protruding from a tip surface of the bit body, a discharge flow path disposed from the tip surface of the bit body over an outer peripheral surface, and a blow hole that extends inside the bit body and is open at the tip surface. The discharge flow path has a first flow path which has a groove shape located on the tip surface and extending in a tool radial direction, and at which the blow hole is open, and a second flow path located outward in the tool radial direction from the blow hole on the tip surface to communicate with the first flow path, and extending in a tool circumferential direction.
US12163379B2
An extension ladder having a base section having a first box shaped base rail having a base side and a groove extending along the side. The extension ladder has a fly section having a first box shaped fly rail, and a follower bracket attached to the first box shaped fly rail and extending outward toward the first box shaped base rail. The groove is sized to engage the follower bracket which constrains the fly section to have limited motion relative to the base section and a left to right and front to rear directions while permitting the fly section to slide freely relative to the base section when the fly section is extended. A method for using an extension ladder. A method for producing an extension ladder.
US12163377B2
A system includes a window treatment adjacent to a window of a room. At least one motor drive unit is associated with the window treatment, for varying the position of the window treatment. A sensor measures a light level (e.g., an outdoor light level) at the window. A controller provides signals to the motor drive unit to automatically adjust the position of the window treatment so as to control a penetration distance of sunlight into the room when the window treatment is partially opened. The controller is configured to position the window treatment in a bright override position if the measured light level is at least a bright threshold value. The controller is configured to select the bright threshold value from among at least two predetermined values. The selection depends on an angle of incidence between light rays from the sun and a surface normal of the window.
US12163372B2
A fenestration unit comprising a frame having a center, a sash coupled to the frame, an interior pane coupled to the sash, a spacer coupled to the interior pane, an exterior pane coupled to the sash and the spacer, the exterior pane including an inward-facing surface, and a peripheral shield disposed on the inward-facing surface of the exterior pane such that, when viewed at direct angle, the peripheral shield hides the spacer, the sash, and at least part of the frame.
US12163370B2
A vehicle barrier gate system which is positioned above a roadway through which vehicles pass. Some of the various embodiments of the present disclosure include a gate comprised of an arm and barrier which is adjustable between a raised position in which a vehicle may pass and a lowered position in which a vehicle is prevented from passing. The gate may be movably connected to a ceiling or an overhead support structure positioned above the roadway. Various types of actuators may be utilized to adjust the gate along a linear and/or angular path between the raised and lowered positions. A control unit may be in communication with one or more sensors and/or an authorization system to control the actuator. The gate may include a breakaway mechanism which allows the gate to be manually raised or lowered in the event of actuator failure or a vehicle ramming through the gate.
US12163364B2
A roller including: a main body portion configured to include an outer ring and a rotatable inner ring on an inner circumferential side of the outer ring; and a covering portion disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the outer ring, the covering portion being made of a synthetic resin in which reinforced fibers are dispersed, wherein the covering portion includes a region in which arrangement directions of the reinforced fibers are aligned.
US12163360B2
A latch assembly for a closure panel of a vehicle includes a power release actuator, a pawl, a ratchet, and a multi-stage geartrain. The multi-stage geartrain includes a first compound gear and a second sector gear in meshed engagement with the compound gear. The sector gear includes an arm extending radially therefrom. In a rest position, a gap is defined between the arm and a cam surface of a pawl. Actuation of the power release actuator actuates the multi-stage geartrain and pivots the arm through the gap and into contact with the pawl. During pivoting through the gap, inertia is increased and the arm contacts the pawl with an impulse force. Continued rotation of the arm causes further rotation of the pawl and release of the ratchet. The arm is disposed within an axial height defined by the multi-stage geartrain, and torque applied to the arm increases during rotation.
US12163359B2
A door lock, in particular a motor vehicle door lock. This lock is provided with a locking mechanism substantially formed by a rotary latch and at least one pawl. A lever chain is also provided for directly or indirectly acting on the locking mechanism. The lever chain has at least one actuation lever and an actuated lever optionally acted upon by the actuation lever. In addition, at least one damping element is created for the lever chain. According to the invention, the damping element is arranged on the actuation lever and/or the actuated lever.
US12163354B2
An urban transformation and construction method is disclosed that creates a tropical style swimming lagoon at vacant and/or abandoned sites. The transformation includes demolishing at least part of the vacant or abandoned site, excavating material from within the site; forming a basin for a large water body having a surface area of at least 3,000 m2, and constructing water containment walls on a first section of the basin to form a waterfront perimeter. The shape of the waterfront perimeter is mainly curved, the basin has a maximum width of 300 meters, and the bottom is covered with a non-permeable material. A sloped access area is constructed in a second section of the basin to form a beach. A barrier is constructed to control access into the area including the beach. At least one recreational facility is constructed including restaurants, bars, kiosks, stores, and/or cafes about the waterfront perimeter.
US12163353B2
An inflatable tent storage assembly for a tent being storable includes a box having a square shape. The box has a front wall, a back wall, a bottom wall and a top wall. The box has an interior where a tent is stored in a closed position within. The tent has a mattress being inflatable. A pump is positioned within the interior of the box and the pump fills and removes air from the mattress. In addition, a solar panel is integrated within the top wall of the box and a battery is in electric communication with the solar panel. A switch is position on the front wall of the box. The switch includes a fill position, a drain position, and an off position. A handle is positioned on the front wall of the box and a pair of wheels is positioned on the bottom wall of the box.
US12163345B2
A void form is composed of molded pulp and includes bottom-facing openings. Fresh concrete placed on top of a substrate material covering the void form structure is formed with a void space underneath that allows soil to expand.
US12163336B2
An improved mounting block has a base plate portion and a face plate portion. Base plate portion has an outer surface extending outward from a mounting surface and is selectively attachable to the face plate portion. One of the face plate portion and the base plate portion has a plurality of snap fit teeth formed thereon, and the other has a plurality of snap fit receivers, configured to selectively receive the snap fit teeth. Face plate portion may include flange flex grooves formed in an attachment flange, allowing walls to deflect independently from corners, such that the flange flex grooves allow the attachment flange to flex outward from the outer surface. Base plate portion may include alignment ribs extending outward from the outer surface, such that the flange flex grooves formed in the attachment flange interface with the alignment ribs formed on the base plate portion.
US12163319B2
A plumbing system is provided with a digital mixer valve providing a principal stream having a controlled temperature and flow rate. A fluid delivery device is also provided downstream of the digital mixer valve, the fluid delivery device having two or more sets of outlets, each of the two or more sets of outlets comprising at least two outlets, and having an outlet operating valve being disposed upstream of each set of outlets and being operable to control fluid flow to the set of outlets downstream thereof. A communication link is also provided between the digital mixer valve and the outlet operating valves. The digital mixer valve is configured, in use, to adjust the temperature and flow rate of the principal stream in dependence upon which set of outlets or combination of sets of outlets is in operation at a given time.
US12163317B1
An apparatus for covering outdoor faucets including a mounting plate connected to outside wall with four screws that contours to the shape of the exterior wall, a bottom flap connected to mounting plate that allows access to faucet nozzle when in the open position and a plastic faucet hood cover connected to the upper part of the mounting plate that provides cover for faucet water control handle when in the closed position.
US12163312B2
The remote operation system has a mutual communication function of communicating with each of plural work machines and a remote operation device which remotely operates a cooperating work machine as a remote operation target among the plural work machines. The remote operation system includes a first support process element that acquires captured image which is captured by an actual machine image-capturing device of a first work machine establishing communication by a first communication path and transmits the captured image to the remote operation device and a second support process element that recognizes that one designation operation is performed, which is a portion of plural operations for causing a second work machine establishing communication by a second communication path and in which a changing situation corresponding to the operation appears in the captured image and that transmits a command signal corresponding to the one designation operation to the second work machine.
US12163307B2
A fatigue life optimized modular bucket assembly for a work machine and a method of manufacturing thereof are disclosed. The bucket assembly includes a bucket core having a pair of side sections, a continuous wrapper, a supporting element, and a receptacle; and an extension module having a pair of side bars, a guard module, an edge module, and, optionally, a set of extension plates. The method includes prebuilding the bucket core, receiving an order, providing parts for the extension module, and assembling the bucket core and the extension module parts. The bucket assembly may include universal and customizable components without exhibiting reduction to fatigue life commonly associated with weld seams.
US12163300B2
A method for connecting an offshore structure (2) to a subsea pile (1) includes inserting a connecting portion (14) of the structure inside the subsea pile. The connecting portion (14) comprises a plurality of outwardly moveable clamping members (5). Moving each of the plurality of clamping members (5) into gripping contact with an inside surface of the subsea pile provides a mechanical connection. The method may also include a grouting step to make the connection permanent.
US12163298B1
A pet waste collection device is described. The pet waste collection device includes a handle and a bag holder.
US12163287B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides fine cellulose fibers that satisfy, in measurement using an automatic fiber shape analyzer, all of (i) the length weighted average fiber length of fibers having a fiber length of at least 100 μm is 110-500 μm, (ii) the average fiber diameter is at most 42.5 μm, (iii) the fine fiber area ratio is at most 90%, (iv) the number frequency of fibers having a fiber length of 20-56 μm is at most 97% among fibers having a fiber length of less than 100 μm, (v) the number frequency of fibers having a fiber length of at least 411 μm is at most 54% among fibers having a fiber length of at least 100 μm, and (vi) the average fiber diameter is 20-150 nm in terms of specific surface area.
US12163286B2
A system and method of cleaning an imprinting fabric used to make bath tissue, paper towel, or facial tissue, in which the imprinting fabric is washed with water from high pressure impact showers and flooding showers, and water remaining on the imprinting fabric after the step of washing is removed with a vacuum roll on a sheet side of the imprinting fabric. The system and method does not involve removing water from the fabric with a uhle box on the sheet side of the imprinting fabric.
