US12168454B2
A method for predicting a future action of an object for a driving assistance system for a highly automated mobile vehicle. At least one sensor signal from at least one vehicle sensor of the vehicle is read in, the sensor signal representing at least one piece of kinematic object information concerning the object that is detected by the vehicle sensor at an instantaneous point in time. A planner signal from a planner of the autonomous driving assistance system is read in, the planner signal representing at least one piece of semantic information concerning the object or the surroundings of the object at a point in time in the past. The kinematic object information is fused with the semantic information to obtain a fusion signal. A prediction signal is determined using the fusion signal, the prediction signal representing the future action of the object.
US12168443B1
Described herein are electric vehicles comprising power distribution systems and methods of operating thereof. Specifically, a power distribution system is mechanically coupled to an electric motor, a road wheel, and an auxiliary unit. This system is configured to switch among multiple operating modes and selectively transfer mechanical power among the electric motor, wheel, and auxiliary unit. For example, the power distribution system is configured to transfer mechanical power between the electric motor and the road wheel, but not the auxiliary unit, when switched to a wheel operating mode. The power distribution system is configured to transfer mechanical power between the electric motor and the auxiliary unit, but not the road wheel, when switched to an auxiliary operating mode. The power distribution system is configured to transfer mechanical power between the electric motor, the auxiliary unit, and the road wheel when the system is switched to a combined operating mode.
US12168441B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to, in response to a vehicle towing a trailer being in reverse, determine a relative orientation of the trailer to the vehicle; while the vehicle is in reverse, in response to the relative orientation exceeding a threshold, brake the vehicle; and then, upon receiving an operator input, permit the vehicle to travel in reverse with the relative orientation exceeding the threshold.
US12168439B2
A vehicle control device that autonomously controls a vehicle so as not to cause rapid deceleration that leads to a deterioration in ride quality. The vehicle control device controls first and second deceleration, means that reduce a speed at a deceleration rate large than a deceleration rate of the first deceleration means. The vehicle control device includes a blind spot area detecting unit that detects a blind spot area of a sensor that recognizes an external environment, and a blind spot object estimating unit that estimates a blind spot object that is a virtual moving body hidden in the blind spot area. When a vehicle approaches the blind spot area at a speed reduced by the first deceleration means, the vehicle is decelerated by the second deceleration means when a type of a moving body detected by the sensor is different from a type of the blind spot object.
US12168437B2
A display device includes a display section provided in a cabin of a vehicle that is capable of autonomous driving, memory, and a processor connected to the memory. The processor is configured to, before conducting a lane change by autonomous driving from a first lane in which the vehicle is running to a second lane that is distinct from the first lane, display a lane display and a confirmation display at the display section. The lane display corresponds to the first lane and the second lane. The confirmation display relates to confirmation of a condition of the second lane.
US12168429B2
A brake booster assembly having a brake booster body and a pushrod as well as a pushrod-pedal coupler are provided. The pushrod travels along a pushrod axis when being pushed. The brake booster assembly includes a pushrod-pedal coupler. The pushrod-pedal coupler comprises a pushrod-attachment end arranged on the pushrod and defining a longitudinal axis parallel to the pushrod axis. A pedal-attachment end is configured to be attached to a pedal and having a pedal pivot axis around which the pedal pivots when being pushed. The pedal pivot axis extends across the longitudinal axis. A coupler hinge is arranged between the pushrod-attachment end and the pedal-attachment end and connects the pushrod-attachment end with the pedal-attachment end. The coupler hinge has a coupler hinge axis that extends across the longitudinal axis and the pedal pivot axis. The pedal pivot axis and the coupler hinge axis are offset along the longitudinal axis.
US12168425B2
The present invention relates to a braking arrangement for a vehicle, the braking arrangement comprising an electric machine electrically connectable to an electric power source, a brake compressor positioned in an air flow conduit, the brake compressor being configured to pressurize a flow of air and to exhaust the pressurized flow of air, and a compressor shaft mechanically connecting the electric machine and the brake compressor to each other, wherein the electric machine is configured to generate a torque on the compressor shaft for operating the brake compressor to pressurize the flow of air, the braking arrangement further comprising an air bearing arrangement, the air bearing arrangement being fluidly connectable to a pressurized brake air tank of the vehicle via an air bearing conduit, wherein the air bearing arrangement is suspending the compressor shaft to at least one of the electric machine and the brake compressor.
US12168424B2
The invention relates to a support of a ball-joint housing for a connecting rod of a windshield wiper actuating linkage system, the support having a ball-joint housing that extends along a longitudinal axis (B) and is configured to be received in a complementary orifice in the connecting rod. According to the invention, the support is configured to be rotationally joined to the connecting rod. The invention also relates to a connecting rod configured to be rotationally joined to such a support, and to the corresponding joining method.
US12168414B2
An airbag device includes a far-side airbag and a first deployment controller configured to control deployment of the far-side airbag. The far-side airbag is provided in a seat backrest of the seat at a location adjacent to a center console, and includes shoulder and head protection air chambers configured to protect respectively a shoulder and a head, of an occupant. The shoulder protection air chamber includes air chamber elements configured to deploy in a vertical tubular shape. The head protection air chamber is configured to deploy in a semicircular shape. A base fabric of the far-side airbag in a deployed state is longer at a side adjacent to the center console than at a side adjacent to the seat. The shoulder protection air chamber is provided with a restraining tether configured to squeeze the shoulder protection air chamber toward the seat when the shoulder protection air chamber is deployed.
US12168410B2
An imaging system includes a mirror assembly. An imager is centrally disposed on the mirror assembly and configured to acquire an image of a biometric feature of a vehicle occupant within a field of view of the imager. A first light source is disposed within the mirror assembly and configured to project a ray of light onto a target surface corresponding to an eye of the vehicle occupant. The first light source is spaced from the target surface by a first distance. The first light source is spaced from the imager by a second distance. The ray of light forms an angle of incidence having legs extending from the target surface to the first light source and to the imager, and wherein the first distance and the second distance are operable to define the angle of incidence in the range of 5° to 15°.
US12168407B2
An improved ratchet binder with a folding handle with two connecting ends and includes an enclosed ratchet gear. The direction of rotation of the enclosed ratchet gear is determined by a knob located on the ratchet gear. The knob includes a handle for improved leverage on the knob. The knob may be lifted and rotated 180 degrees to change the direction of rotation from binding a load (decreasing the distance between the connecting ends) or releasing a load (increasing the distance between the connecting ends). A raised knob also allows free motion of the gear for quick release. The knob is connected to a two-sided pawl that engages with the gear. The pawl includes a pawl spring to provide tension on the knob and to ensure engagement of the pawl with the ratchet gear.
US12168401B2
A regenerative braking controller for an AC motor. To determine an electromagnetic torque for slowing or stopping the motor, the regenerative braking controller accesses a lookup table to retrieve a braking torque value corresponding to a current estimate of rotor velocity. The retrieved braking torque may correspond to a maximum or minimum torque level at which regenerative braking will occur at the current rotor velocity, or to a torque level at which charging current during regenerative braking will be maximized. If an external mechanical brake is present, the regenerative braking controller can forward an external braking torque signal to a controller so that the mechanical brake can apply the remainder of the braking force beyond that indicated by the regenerative braking torque. A method for establishing the braking torques to be stored in the lookup table is also disclosed.
US12168395B2
A vibration-proof bush capable of suppressing incomplete fitting of an upper bush and a lower bush. The vibration-proof bush includes an upper bush configured to be mounted on a vehicle body side and a lower bush configured to be fitted to the upper bush are provided, wherein the vibration-proof bush includes interference portions configured to interfere with each other in a process of fitting the lower bush to the upper bush, and the interference portions form a fitting-sound generation structure in which a sound is generated, when the lower bush is fitted to the upper bush during temporary assembling.
US12168388B2
A vehicle power management system includes a battery, an air conditioner driven by power of the battery, an external power supply device that enables external power supply where the power of the battery is supplied to an external electric device, and a determination unit. The determination unit determines whether an operation restriction of an air conditioner is executed during the external power supply. The determination unit determines that the operation restriction is executed when all of following four conditions are satisfied: (A-1) a target blowout temperature is less than a predetermined blowout threshold temperature during cooling; (A-2) an outside air temperature exceeds a predetermined outside air threshold temperature during cooling; (A-3) a refrigerant temperature after heat is exchanged with an air blown into the vehicle cabin exceeds a predetermined refrigerant threshold temperature during cooling; and (A-4) a blower air volume of the air conditioner exceeds a predetermined threshold air volume.
US12168383B2
A retainer for retaining a pin with a section of a work machine. The retainer includes a body to be reversed between a first state and a second state to secure the pin with the section in each of the first state and the second state. The body defines a retaining portion and a securing portion. The securing portion is fixedly coupled to the retaining portion and defines through-holes. In the first state, the through-holes are aligned with apertures of the section for coupling the body to the section such that the retaining portion acquires first orientations relative to the section to engage the pin according to the first orientations. In the second state, the through-holes are aligned with the apertures for coupling the body to the section such that the retaining portion acquires second orientations relative to the section to engage the pin according to the second orientations.
US12168382B2
A front frame assembly for a motor vehicle includes a suspension attachment structure fixable to a body cell, one or more attachment elements fixed relative to the suspension attachment structure to allow a suspension of the motor vehicle to be coupled to the suspension attachment structure, and an absorption element to absorb a front crash of the motor vehicle, the absorption element being fixed relative to the suspension attachment structure and extending in a projecting manner relative to the suspension attachment structure along a first straight axis until ending with one end opposite the suspension attachment structure, wherein the assembly comprises a channel extending with continuity through the absorption element and the suspension attachment structure between an inlet opening obtained at the end along the first axis and an outlet opening obtained in the suspension attachment structure along a second axis transversal to the first axis.
US12168380B2
A motor vehicle rear axle is of the type having two longitudinal trailing arms. Each trailing arm has a stub-axle bracket at one rear end and, at an opposite front end, a substantially transverse axis of rotation defined by a first joint and a second joint which are intended to be connected to the vehicle body. A first and a second support element are located respectively in front of and behind a trailing arm on the side of its second joint. The free ends of these support elements, located in the longitudinal and vertical median plane of the rear axle, are kept at a longitudinally fixed distance by a connecting element.
US12168373B2
A pneumatic tire having lug grooves in shoulder land portions that each include one end reaching at least a ground contact edge and an other end terminating in the shoulder land portion. Sipes in the shoulder land portions each include one end communicating with a shoulder main groove and an other end terminating in a ground contact region. Lug grooves in intermediate land portions each include one end communicating with the shoulder main groove and an other end terminating in the intermediate land portion. Sipes in the intermediate land portion each include one end communicating with a center main groove and an other end terminating in the intermediate land portion. Sipes in the center land portion each include one end communicating with the center main groove and an other end terminating in the center land portion without exceeding a tire center line.
US12168368B2
A wheel spacer disc for motor vehicles having a plurality of wheel bolt openings, a rim centering element for centering a rim relative to the wheel spacer disc, and a wheel hub centering element for centering the wheel spacer disc relative to a wheel hub. The plurality of wheel bolt openings are designed in each case as stepped openings for the respective partial reception of shaft nuts, wherein a section of the stepped openings having a greater diameter is arranged on a side of the wheel spacer disc on which the rim centering element is arranged.
US12168367B2
The present disclosure relates to an automotive wheel equipped with a resonator module having an improved fastening force and, more particularly, to an automotive wheel equipped with a resonator module having an improved fastening force, the automotive wheel having a first accommodation groove spaced a predetermined distance inward from both sides of the resonator module and being able to accommodate a fastening band therein so that a fastening force between a rim and the resonator module can be improved, and having a second accommodation groove engraved from the bottom of the first accommodation groove to be able to accommodate a stopper of the fastening band.
US12168358B2
A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to perform recording on a recording medium placed at a first position, a placement unit configured to place the recording medium on the placement unit, and a pressing member configured to apply a pressing force to the recording medium placed on the placement unit toward the placement unit in a case where the recording medium is at the first position, and to release the pressing force in a case where the recording medium moves from the first position.
US12168355B2
A recording method according to the present disclosure is a recording method that performs recording on a recording medium, the recording method including a white ink adhesion step of adhering a white ink composition containing a white color material to the recording medium and a non-white ink adhesion step of adhering a non-white ink composition containing a non-white color material to the recording medium, in which the white ink adhesion step and the non-white ink adhesion step are performed by relative scanning between a recording head and the recording medium, the white ink adhesion step and the non-white ink adhesion step are performed by the same relative scanning on the same scanning region of the recording medium, and in the recording region to which the white ink composition and the non-white ink composition are adhered, an adhesion amount of the white ink composition is 60% by mass or less with respect to 100% by mass of an adhesion amount of the non-white ink composition per unit region.
US12168351B2
A liquid ejecting device includes a base portion, a liquid ejecting portion movably provided at the base portion, a medium supporting portion provided at the base portion and configured to support a printing medium in a printing region where the liquid ejecting portion performs printing, and a maintenance portion disposed in a region on the +X direction side of the printing region in the X-axis direction in the base portion. The maintenance portion includes a moisturizing portion that can form a closed space to which nozzle opens, a cleaning portion that can forcibly discharge liquid from the nozzle, and a wiper that can wipe a nozzle surface where the nozzle is provided. The moisturizing portion, the cleaning portion and the wiper are disposed side by side in the Y-axis direction.
US12168348B2
A tank unit is configured to introduce liquid supplied from a container and to lead out liquid toward a head configured to eject the liquid. The tank unit includes a storage section that stores the liquid supplied from the container, an introduction section that introduces the liquid supplied from the container into the storage section, an atmosphere opening section configured to open inside of the storage section to atmosphere, and an outlet section that leads out the liquid stored in the storage section. The introduction section is connected to the storage section, extends in a vertical direction in the storage section, and has an open end located within the storage section. The storage section includes a blocking section including a first protruding section located at a position in the vertical direction facing the open end and a second protruding section extending upward from the first protruding section.
US12168341B2
Provided is a sodium-neutralized ethylene acid copolymer ionomer composition containing a specified silane additive in a specified amount and having enhanced adhesion properties to glass, a masterbatch composition suitable for producing such ionomer composition, an interlayer made from such ionomer composition, and a glass laminate comprising such interlayer.
US12168336B2
The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder.
US12168325B2
Embodiments relate to a method for forming a three-dimensional structure. The method includes determining one or more locations for positioning a sensing device based on structural coordinate information relating to a three-dimensional structure to be formed. The method further includes forming a portion of the three-dimensional structure based on the structural coordinate information. The method further includes positioning the sensing device at a location of the one or more locations.
US12168324B2
A three-dimensional shaping device includes an ejection unit configured to eject a shaping material from a nozzle; a stage; a drive unit configured to change a relative position between the ejection unit and the stage; a cleaning mechanism provided with a brush and a blade; and a control unit. The control unit executes a cleaning operation of bringing at least one of the brush and the blade into contact with the nozzle by causing the nozzle to reciprocate in a manner in which the nozzle crosses the cleaning mechanism for a plurality of times in a cleaning processing. The control unit causes the nozzle to reciprocate such that the nozzle comes into contact with the brush or the blade at different positions in the cleaning operation. The control unit records at least one of material information on a type of the plasticizing material, a cumulative ejection amount of the shaping material ejected from the nozzle, and a use time of the nozzle in association with the nozzle.
US12168317B2
The present disclosure prevents load from being produced in an injection molding machine. The control device for an injection molding machine according to one embodiment of the present disclosure has a determining part that is configured to determine, based on information detected in accordance with a movement of a measurement motor provided in the injection molding machine, whether or not an operation of removing or attaching a screw that rotates in accordance with the measurement motor has been performed.
US12168303B2
A rotary electric shaver includes a head connected to a blade setting base of a main body. The blade setting base has a setting part in which a plurality of blade units are disposed, and a blade frame that holds the setting part. An inner blade part of the blade unit has an inner blade member, and a base part joined to the inner blade member. An outer blade part of the blade unit has an annular outer blade member having a sliding contact surface and a plurality of slits formed in the circumferential direction, a disk-shaped cover, a ball, and a support. A part of the ball surrounded by the cover and the support protrudes from the cover.
US12168302B2
A grasping device includes: a grasping part module including a first surface and a second surface and configured to grasp an object between the first surface and the second surface; an arm part configured to change a position of the grasping part module; an imaging unit provided at a position that moves together with the grasping part module and configured to capture an image of at least a part of the object; and a control unit configured to control, based on specified amount information indicating a contact state in a case where a specified amount of the object and the first surface are in contact with each other, and information indicating a contact state captured by the imaging unit, at least one of the grasping part module and the arm part such that an amount of the object that is grasped approaches the specified amount.
US12168301B2
A robot calibration system includes a calibration fixture configured to be mounted on a substrate processing chamber. The calibration fixture includes at least one camera arranged to capture an image including an outer edge of a test substrate and an edge ring surrounding the test substrate. A controller is configured to receive the captured image, analyze the captured image to measure a distance between the outer edge of the test substrate and the edge ring, calculate a center of the test substrate based on the measured distance, and calibrate a robot configured to transfer substrate to and from the substrate processing chamber based on the calculated center of the test substrate.
US12168293B2
The present invention concerns an apparatus (100) for transferring a vial (200) from a first station (301) to a second station (302), comprising a stock (101) of vials in said first station, a mobile arm (1) provided with at least three gripping elements (2a-2d) movable between one another in a controlled way at least between a first and a second position, wherein the free ends of at least part of said gripping elements (2a-2d) have a magnet (5), and wherein the area of the polygon (P) having as vertexes said free ends in said first position is smaller than the area of the polygon (P) having as vertexes said free ends in said second position.
US12168286B2
A locking pliers includes a first plier and a second plier. The first plier includes a first handle, a first jaw, and an adjusting member. The second plier includes a second jaw, a first connecting member, a toggle link, and a second handle. The second jaw has a first pivoting portion and a second pivoting portion. The first pivoting portion is pivotally connected to the first handle. The first connecting member is pivotally connected to the second pivoting portion. The toggle link is abutted against the adjusting member and has a third pivoting portion pivotally connected to the first connecting member. The second handle is connected to the first connecting member. A first length defined between the first pivoting portion and the second pivoting portion is less than a second length defined between the second pivoting portion and the third pivoting portion.
US12168284B2
A hex headed bit and socket for enhanced non-slip application of torque force having a hex head with contoured fastener engagement surfaces. The contoured fastener engagement surface extends transversely in angular longitudinal inclination. Defined multiple engagement edges correspondingly embed themselves during rotational engagement within the so engaged fastener pulling the hex head bit into the engaged fastener imparting enhanced translateral points of tool engagement for extraction. Recessed areas on flat hexagonal free end tool portion defining alternate spaced pairs of parallel engagement edges.
US12168280B2
A conditioner for filtering and drying recyclable abrasive media, such as steel grit, garnet, or other abrasive media used for abrasive blasting operations for steel structures, such as bridges, tanks, and marine vessels that are being repainted. The conditioner may include a pre-classifier (e.g., a trommel) to separate or filter the abrasive media from larger debris that may be vacuumed with the abrasive media during resurfacing operations. A dryer may use radiation elements (e.g., infrared (IR) lamps) positioned above a conveyor (e.g., vibration tray) that moves the abrasive media beneath the radiation elements. Vacuum airflow may bypass the dryer except for a portion of the vacuum airflow used to remove moisture from the dryer while drying the abrasive media. The conditioner may have a drying portion or the entirety under negative pressures.
US12168273B2
Disclosed is a method for producing a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes heat exchange tubes extending along a first direction and arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a fin. The fin is provided with fin grooves for mounting the heat exchange tubes, and each fin groove is provided with an opening on one side in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction. The method includes: providing a heat exchange tube preform, the heat exchange tube preform having a maximum size in a second direction; providing a fin preform, a fin groove of the fin preform having a minimum size in the second direction, and the maximum size being greater than the minimum size; inserting the heat exchange tube preform into the fin groove of the fin preform, so as to generate a predetermined contact pressure between the heat exchange tube preform and the fin preform by means of the elastic deformation of at least one of the heat exchange tube preform and the fin preform; and welding the heat exchange tube preform and the fin preform together.
US12168271B2
A welding system configured to eliminate effects of arc blow in a welding operation. The welding system comprises welding circuitry, preheat circuitry, a drive roller, and control circuitry configured to perform a reciprocation cycle. The reciprocation cycle may include the steps of: advancing a filler material toward the welding work piece until the filler material is electrically connected to the weld pool; supplying the preheat power to heat the filler material while the filler material is electrically connected to the weld pool; retracting the filler material away from the welding work piece until the filler material is not electrically connected to the weld pool; and terminating supply of the preheat power to the filler material while the filler material is not electrically connected to the weld pool.
US12168268B2
An arc welding system providing improved molten metal droplet transfer. The system includes a welding power source having a welding power supply, a welding waveform generator, and a controller. Two fluxed cored welding wire electrodes are connected to the power source and are powered by the same welding output voltage and current produced by the power source. A feedback circuit is connected to the power source to provide an adaptive response to maintain an average welding output voltage. The controller controls the waveform generator and the power supply to superimpose welding current pulses onto a welding waveform of a CV flux cored arc welding process, that uses CO2 as a shielding gas, to generate a modified waveform of a modified CV flux cored arc welding process. The current pulses are superimposed in time to form molten metal droplets between ends of the two electrodes during the modified welding process.
US12168266B2
A method of making a cutting element for use on an earth-boring tool may include forming the cutting element including a cutting table formed from a superabrasive polycrystalline material. The method may further include polishing a cutting surface of the cutting table by pulsing a laser onto the cutting surface of the cutting table. The cutting element may include a superabrasive polycrystalline cutting table including a cutting surface substantially free of micro-anomalies in the superabrasive material.
US12168258B2
A table saw has a base assembly, a table assembly supported by the base assembly, and a saw assembly supported by at least one of the table assembly and the base assembly. The saw assembly includes a saw blade extending through the table assembly. The base assembly has at least one tube connected to the table assembly.
US12168256B2
The disclosure relates to a method for forming a metal article by additive manufacturing and related apparatus for performing the method. A metal particle suspension including a UV-curable polymeric resin liquid medium, and metal particles distributed throughout the liquid medium is deposited and cured by spatially selective exposure to UV radiation in a layer-by-layer process. Metal particle size can be selected in combination with the applied layer thickness to ensure complete cure throughout the applied layer while providing a high print speed and high spatial resolution. Intermittent or periodic partial curing of an applied layer can be used to maintain a homogeneous distribution of metal particles in the applied layer prior to full curing. The final product is achieved after sintering, which removes the cured binder in a debinding step and also provides the desired final article at close to the full density.
US12168255B2
A method for producing, by additive manufacturing, a part including at least one surface that must be held during the manufacturing, the method including: a step of forming a raw part by additive manufacturing, the raw part including a support including a pillar and a head which is an alveolar element connecting the pillar to the surface to be held; and a step of detaching the support from the rest of the raw part.
US12168253B2
Provided is a ring-rolled member manufacturing method enabling stabilization of the attitude of the ring material without generating a defect and the like in the resulting ring-rolled member even when the main roll of the ring-rolling device is provided with the flange portions positioned on upper and lower sides of the ring material. A ring-rolling device used in the ring-rolled member manufacturing method of the present invention is provided with a main roll 10 and a mandrel roll 20. An outer peripheral face of the main roll includes a recessed portion 12 to accommodate the ring material and an outer peripheral face of the mandrel roll 20, an upper flange portion 11 positioned on an upper side thereof, and a lower flange portion 13 positioned on a lower side thereof. An inner face of the recessed portion includes a rolling face 12S to be in contact with an outer peripheral face of the ring material, an upper face on the upper flange portion side, and a lower face 13S on the lower flange portion side, the lower face 13S having a slope in such a way that an opening of the recessed portion 12 is enlarged. The slope starts from within a range of a distance corresponding to a thickness of the ring-rolled member from a line of intersection between the lower face 13S and the rolling face 12S. An angle of the slope is greater than 0.3° and no greater than 9° with reference to the perpendicular plane.
US12168251B2
The present invention provides a liquid-absorbing raw material processing system and its operation method. The liquid-absorbing raw material processing system is composed of a cutting module, a bulk pulping module, a salt slurry processing module, and a liquid-absorbing raw material manufacturing module, which are connected in series. The operating method of the liquid-absorbing raw material processing system is to process absorptive articles such as diapers or sanitary napkins, etc., which are retained and made into fluff liquid-absorbing raw materials through the purification and separation steps performed by the modules of the liquid-absorbing raw material processing system.
US12168246B2
The invention relates to a device for determining particle size distribution in a bulk material, such as milled or grinded grain for animal feed. The device comprises an inlet for receiving at least a portion of the bulk material, a sorting mechanism for sorting the received bulk material. Said sorting mechanism comprises at least a first sorting device for sorting said received bulk material into at least two sorted partitions wherein the sorting device are capable of sorting different particle sizes and said at least two sorted partitions have different particle sizes. The invention further comprises a motor or actuator for vibrating said sorting device, a weighing system with at least one sensor for weighing the at least two sorted partitions sorted by said sorting mechanism and a data output for generating output data indicative of a weight of the at least two sorted partitions, so as to allow calculation of the particle size distribution in the bulk material received in the inlet and thus provide information regarding the particle size composition of the milled or grinded grain.
US12168243B2
A system includes a robot, a measuring device, and a processor. The robot is configured to dispense, based on at least one process parameter, a liquid adhesive bead onto a substrate. The measuring device is configured to measure at least one characteristic of the bead shape. The processor is configured to determine, based on a reference bead shape and at least one reference process parameter, response surface profile of the liquid adhesive. The processor is configured to compare the measured bead shape to a reference bead shape and, responsive to determining the measured bead shape is different than the reference bead shape, determine, based on the response surface profile, at least one updated process parameter. The updated process parameter is configured to cause the robot to dispense a second bead having the reference bead shape.
US12168239B2
An air/oil separator is provided. The air/oil separator includes an oil manifold having a first air/oil inlet and a second air/oil inlet; a first separation chamber in communication with the first air/oil inlet; and a second separation chamber separate from the first separation chamber, the second separation chamber in communication with the second air/oil inlet.
US12168234B2
A method of producing an inorganic material (S10) according to the present invention includes a vitrification step (S12) of applying shearing stress and compressive stress to a mixed powder (MP) of a plurality of kinds of inorganic compound powders by using a ring ball mill mechanism (70) to vitrify at least a part of the mixed powder (MP); and a dispersion step (S13) of dispersing the vitrified mixed powder (MP) after the vitrification step (S12), where a combined step of the vitrification step (S12) and the dispersion step (S13) is performed a plurality of times to obtain a vitrified inorganic material powder from the mixed powder.
US12168227B2
Actuation systems and methods for use with flow cells. An example apparatus includes a flow cell assembly including a flow cell including at least one channel, a flow cell inlet, and a flow cell outlet. The flow cell assembly includes a gasket assembly operatively fluidically coupled to the flow cell and having a flow cell inlet gasket and a flow cell outlet gasket. The flow cell inlet gasket having a through bore and being fluidically coupled to the flow cell inlet. The flow cell outlet gasket having a through bore and being fluidically coupled to the flow cell outlet. The apparatus includes a reagent cartridge adapted to receive the flow cell assembly and including a pair of reagent cartridge ports adapted to be fluidly coupled to the flow cell inlet gasket and the flow cell outlet gasket.
US12168223B2
A method for making a metal carbide based catalyst for crude oil cracking includes mixing a clay with a phosphorous based stabilizer material to obtain a liquid slurry; adding an aluminosilicate zeolite and an ultrastable Y zeolite to the liquid slurry; adding Al2Cl(OH)5 to the liquid slurry; adding metal carbide particles, having a given diameter, to the liquid slurry to obtain a mixture; and spray drying the mixture to obtain the metal carbide based catalyst. The metal carbide particles are coated with the aluminosilicate zeolite and the ultrastable Y zeolite.
US12168220B2
The present invention relates to catalytically active material, comprising grains of non-graphitizing carbon with iron nanoparticles dispersed therein, wherein dp, the average diameter of iron nanoparticles in the non-graphitizing carbon grains, is in the range of 1 nm to 20 nm, D, the average distance between iron nanoparticles in the non-graphitizing carbon grains, is in the range of 2 nm to 150 nm, and ω, the combined total mass fraction of metal in the non-graphitizing carbon grains, is in the range of 30 wt % to 70 wt % of the total mass of the non-graphitizing carbon grains, and wherein dp, D and ω conform to the following relation: 4.5 dp/ω>D≥0.25 dp/ω. The present invention, further, relates to a process for the manufacture of material according to the invention, as well as its use as a catalyst.
US12168218B1
A method of preparing an adsorbent can include pyrolyzing date pit to provide a date pit char, activating the date pit char, dissolving polyolefin waste in an organic solvent to obtain a solution, dispersing the date pit char in the solution to provide a mixture, extracting the solvent from the mixture to provide a composite, and annealing the composite to provide the adsorbent. The adsorbent can be porous.
US12168211B2
The invention provides improved methods for synthesizing polynucleotides, such as DNA and RNA, using renewable initiators coupled to a solid support. Using the methods of the invention, specific sequences of polynucleotides can be synthesized de novo, base by base, in an aqueous environment, without the use of a nucleic acid template.
US12168200B2
A desulfurization and denitration method includes adding an aqueous solution of a chlorate, an aqueous solution of a peroxide, and an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid to a chlorine dioxide generator to obtain gaseous chlorine dioxide, and mixing the gaseous chlorine dioxide with air to obtain a mixed gas. The gaseous chlorine dioxide is 4-10 vol % of the mixed gas. The method includes letting the mixed gas come into contact with a flue gas to obtain an oxidized flue gas. A molar ratio of the gaseous chlorine dioxide in the mixed gas to nitric oxide in the flue gas is 1-1.8. The final step includes passing the oxidized flue gas to the desulfurization and denitration tower and mixing the oxidized flue gas with a spray of an alkaline absorbent dry powder, and spraying water into the desulfurization and denitration tower to obtain a desulfurized and denitrated flue gas.
US12168190B2
Embodiments relate generally to a self-cleaning filter. A filter may include a tube comprising perforations. The tube may be configured to receive a flow of a liquid from a first direction or a flow of a gas from a second direction opposite to the first direction. The filter may also include a filter media positioned concentrically around the tube, and spacers positioned between the tube and the filter media to create a space between the tube and the filter media. A portion of the filter media is configured to flex inward into the space during the flow of liquid into the filter, and flex outward from the space during the flow of gas exiting the filter.
US12168185B2
An amusement park attraction system including a ride vehicle comprising an input device, and a control system configured to determine a parameter value associated with a force imparted on the input device. The parameter value includes a value of the force imparted on the input device, a value of a deformation caused by the force imparted on the input device, or both. The control system is also configured to control movement of the ride vehicle of the amusement park attraction system based on the parameter value.
US12168180B2
One aspect of the disclosure relates to providing players pricing of in-game virtual items associated with their experience and their progress in the game. For example, the first player and the second player may have similar triggers, similar in-game events, and actually have different prices and currencies inside each story depending on each player's progress in the game, thus creating an individualized experience that may alter from player to player.
US12168173B2
A computer implemented method for controlling a game play. The method includes rendering a game view on a display of a computing device, the game view including a first area and a second area; displaying one or more first objects in the first area, the one or more first objects configured to execute one or more actions in the first area, the one or more actions being executed at a first execution speed; detecting a selection of a second object in the second area of the display; and changing an execution speed of the one or more actions being executed by the one or more first objects in the first area to a second execution speed while it is detected that the second object is selected.
US12168171B2
This disclosure relates to unlocking game content for users of an online game. In implementations, affiliations between users may be established, and content may be made available to users individually based on the number of users within an affiliation. Content made available to a first user of the affiliation may be made available to the first user individually and independently from other users included in the affiliation.
US12168170B2
Enhancements to existing gaming controllers facilitating expedient response time and fine-tuned accuracy are described. The enhancements comprise the internal modification of the stock resistance force supplied by the analog stick centering spring mechanism. Through modification, the force of resistance supplied may be increased to over 200 grams of force, or down to 40 grams of force, while maintaining full function of the analog stick mechanism. A second primary enhancement replaces the stock triggers, conventionally equipped with progressive resistance sensors, to a momentary ‘snap-action’ two-way switch, minimizing trigger pull distance, and removing the analog nature of the trigger to achieve optimal performance.
US12168169B2
An ice skate for skating on ice, which ice skate comprises; an upper chassis section comprising a first contact surface having a front end and a rear end, a lower chassis section comprising a second contact surface having a front end and a rear end, and a coupling arrangement comprising a spring back means, which coupling arrangement is arranged to mechanically connect the upper and lower chassis sections. The coupling arrangement is arranged to allow the upper chassis section to pivot relative to the lower chassis section by rolling contact motion between the first and second contact surface such that a momentary contact region (CR) of the first and second contact surfaces moves back and forth between the front and rear ends of the first and second contact surfaces. The spring back means is arranged to urge the momentary contact region (CR) to a neutral position.
US12168165B2
Methods and program products for building a workout are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for generating a workout includes the steps of receiving user input indicating features of a desired workout, generating a workout, wherein the workout comprises a plurality of intervals, and wherein a first interval comprises an interval intensity and an interval duration, and initiating a graphical display that conveys the number of intervals making up the workout and the interval intensity and the interval duration of the first interval.
US12168156B2
The invention relates to a water extinguishing system with a fluid supply for providing an extinguishing fluid, a pump which is configured to pump the extinguishing fluid from the fluid supply into a supply line of a pipe system of the water extinguishing system, a test line which branches off from the supply line of the pipe system and is configured to conduct the extinguishing fluid pumped by the pump away from the pipe system, and a fluid bypass line with a cross section reduced in comparison to the cross section of the test line, where the fluid bypass line is configured to conduct a predefined portion of the extinguishing fluid around an opening element of the test line away from the pipe system, where the water extinguishing system further comprises at least one control device which is configured to determine at least one parameter indicative of the cross-section of the fluid bypass line, and to control the pump test run of the pump on the basis of that parameter. The invention further relates to a corresponding control device and a method for controlling a corresponding pump test run.
US12168153B2
A method of fire suppression may include injecting a reactive agent into a reaction zone to produce a catalytically active species for fire suppression and conveying the catalytically active species to a fire to catalytically interfere with flame chemistry of the fire. Fire in a fuel tank may be suppressed by injecting the reactive agent into a convective flow of a mixture of fuel and oxidizer in a fuel tank, the reactive agent reacting in the fuel tank to release a species which catalytically interferes with flame chemistry to suppress fire in the fuel tank. Fire at an airplane crash may be suppressed by releasing the reactive agent from the container at the crash site to produce an active species to catalytically interfere with a fire at the crash site.
US12168149B2
A fall arrester used by utility linemen, communications and telecommunication workers that comprises a body defined by a pair of spaced apart frame members bridged by a floor, and a cam pivotally mounted to the body and sandwiched between the frame members. The cam includes teeth formed on its cam end and an eye formed at the end of the lever end. A carabiner or other connector is connected to the device through the eye and can be attached to the climber's full body harness. A rope passes between the frame members and between the cam and floor of the body.
US12168144B2
In certain embodiments a light therapy system (e.g., phototherapy device), such as for treatment of Alzheimer's disease, depression, dementia, short-term memory, or for improved learning, improved athletic performance or improved cognitive performance, is provided where the light system comprises a blue light source that operates at a frequency in the range from 20 to 50 Hz (preferably around 40 Hz), whereby the system enables retinal ganglion cells of a human to be exposed in order to stimulate brain waves (gamma oscillations in the human's brain).
US12168135B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods for treating medication refractory epilepsy are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of treating epilepsy is disclosed comprising detecting, using a first electrode array coupled to a first endovascular carrier, an electrophysiological signal of a subject. The method further comprises analyzing the electrophysiological signal using a neuromodulation unit electrically coupled to the first electrode array and stimulating an intracorporeal target of the subject using a second electrode array coupled to a second endovascular carrier implanted within a part of a bodily vessel superior to a base of the skull of the subject.
US12168132B2
An example of a system for delivering neurostimulation energy may include a stimulation control circuit to control the delivery of the neurostimulation energy according to each of stimulation test patterns. The stimulation control circuit may include a sensing input configured to receive an electrospinogram (ESG) signal recording electrical activity from the spinal cord, a measurement circuit configured to determine one or more response parameters for each test pattern using the received ESG signal, and a selection circuit configured to select a neurostimulation therapy pattern from the stimulation test patterns based on the response parameter(s) and one or more selection criteria. The electrical activity includes responses to the delivered neurostimulation energy, and the response parameter(s) are each indicative of one or more characteristics of the responses. The selection may include selecting a type of stimulation waveform from multiple types of stimulation waveform in the stimulation test patterns.
US12168126B2
A modular electrode system for therapeutic application of an electric field to a tissue is described. The modular electrode system includes a flexible scaffold that conforms to a variable convex or concave surface such as a resected tissue cavity or other target tissue area and includes one or more surface electrodes in addition to one or more depth electrodes. The modular electrode system includes a control system that communicates with the plurality of electrodes of the flexible scaffold to deliver a stimulating voltage and receive measured voltage values for real-time optimization of the electric field generated within the tissue.
US12168125B2
The present embodiment comprises: an ultrasonic transducer for generating ultrasonic waves; an inner electrode having a space in which the ultrasonic transducer is accommodated; a window disposed outside the outer periphery of the inner electrode; an LED PCB disposed at the rear of the window and having an LED disposed thereon; and an outer electrode spaced apart from the inner electrode on the window, wherein the inner electrode comprises: a front body having the ultrasonic transducer disposed on the rear surface thereof; and a hollow body protruding backward from the outer periphery of the front body and having a space formed therein, wherein an inner waterproofing ring is disposed between the hollow body and the window.
US12168113B2
Embodiments of the current disclosure are directed toward systems, devices and methods for diabetes management. In particular, the present disclosure relates to systems, devices and methods for dispensing insulin to a patient using a miniaturized and portable patch pump.
US12168105B2
A catheter system for accessing the central venous system through an occlusion in the neck region.
US12168104B2
A bi-directional perfusion cannula is provided that includes an elongate tube for insertion into an artery. The elongate tube has a first aperture at a distal end of the tube which is forward during insertion and configured so that blood can flow into the artery in the direction of insertion, an elbow formed in the elongate tube, and a second aperture formed in or slightly rearward of the elbow and configured for supplying blood into the artery in a second direction which is generally opposite to the insertion direction.
US12168102B2
In some examples, a catheter includes an inner liner, an outer jacket, and a structural support member positioned between at least a portion of the inner liner and at least a portion of the outer jacket. A surface of at least a portion of the structural support member is surface treated to increase an adhesion of the surface to at least one of the inner liner or the outer jacket. Examples surface treatments include physical treatments, chemical treatments, coating treatments, and combinations thereof. In some instances, the at least one portion of the structural support member is a relatively high density portion.
US12168101B2
An aromatherapy sensory tool is designed for users to help self-regulate the body, emotions, and feelings of stress/anxiety or other emotions. The aromatherapy sensory tool includes an outer gas-permeable enclosure, an inner gas-permeable enclosure, a quantity of absorbent filling, and a quantity of aromatherapy fluid. When in use, the outer gas-permeable enclosure prevents the leak of the quantity of aromatherapy fluid while allowing the smell of the quantity of aromatherapy fluid pass through and reach the user. The inner gas-permeable enclosure is designed to contain the quantity of absorbent filling within the outer gas-permeable enclosure. Similarly, the inner gas-permeable enclosure prevents the leak of the quantity of aromatherapy fluid while allowing the smell of the quantity of aromatherapy fluid to exit out of the outer gas-permeable enclosure. The quantity of absorbent filling retains the quantity of aromatherapy fluid and diffuses the quantity of aromatherapy fluid for aromatherapy purposes.
US12168098B2
A heat moisture exchanger (HME) having a rotatable bypass channel includes a rotating cylinder having a first port and an outer cylinder having a second port attached to the rotating cylinder. A half-cylinder shaped foam insert is configured within the rotating cylinder to heat and moisturize air moving through the HME. The cylinder is configured to create a rotational bypass to air using an angled diverter moving between the first port and second port such that the rotating cylinder can be moved between a position for engaging the foam insert and a bypass position for bypassing the foam insert.
US12168095B2
A split passageway resuscitation training device is described. Embodiments of the split passageway resuscitation training device can be implemented with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) mask, a CPR valve (with or without a mask), or a CPR resuscitation bag. The split passageway resuscitation training device can allow a simulated rescuer and a simulated victim to use a CPR mask. For instance, the split passageway resuscitation training device can allow the training rescuer to practice exhaling into the mask without the “live” victim having to inhale the rescuer's breaths. The split passageway resuscitation training device also allows the victim to breathe through a different passageway of the device while wearing the mask.
US12168084B2
The invention is to articles of extracellular matrix. The articles comprise one or more sheets of mammalian extracellular matrix laminated together. A single sheet can be folded over and laminated on 3 sides. Two or more sheets can be laminated to each other at their edges. The sheets can further encase a composition comprising a cell or cells, such as for example, a stem cell. A single sheet can be folded over to encase a composition, or rolled to encase a composition with lamination at either end of the roll, for example. The invention also includes methods of using these articles to regenerate tissue at tissue defects, or heal wounds in damaged tissue.
US12168083B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a bioartificial and primarily acellular fibrin-based construct, wherein a mixture of cell-free compositions containing fibrinogen and thrombin is applied to a surface and subsequently pressurised. An additional aspect of the invention is directed to such fibrin-based bioartificial acellular constructs obtained according to the invention, with improved biomechanical properties, as well as to the use of same in the field of implantology, cartilage replacement or tissue replacement.
US12168077B2
A system for monitoring an excimer bulb includes a thermoelectric energy harvester configured to be located adjacent to the excimer bulb and to convert thermal energy from the excimer bulb into electrical energy having a voltage. The system further includes a controller in electrical communication with the thermoelectric energy harvester and configured to calculate at least one of a remaining useful life of the excimer bulb or a current temperature of the excimer bulb based on the voltage of the electrical energy converted by the thermoelectric energy harvester.
US12168071B2
Provided are treprostinil derivatives with a reduced ability to form undesired impurities in a pharmaceutical formulation, such as a dry powder formulation, further containing a carboxyl group containing inactive ingredient, such as fumaryl diketopiperazine.
US12168065B2
The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition for UV protection and, specifically, to a cosmetic composition for UV protection comprising: a sunscreen having a methoxycinnamate structure; and a specific weight of polar oil. The cosmetic composition for UV protection of the present invention significantly increases UV protection efficiency when exposed to UV light and has a remarkably excellent skin feel.
US12168064B2
One of the purposes of the present invention is to provide an aqueous dispersion for cosmetics comprising black iron oxide, which has excellent dispersion stability, scarcely causes clogging to a pen type container for a long period of time, achieves good color development as a liquid cosmetic, and is capable of imparting the resulting film with water resistance. The other purpose of the present invention is to provide a liquid cosmetic comprising the aqueous dispersion. The present invention provides an aqueous dispersion comprising a black iron oxide, water and hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose phthalate, wherein the black iron oxide is surface-silylated with an alkyltriethoxysilane. The present invention further provides a method for preparing an aqueous dispersion containing the black iron oxide having a surface-silylated with an alkyltriethoxysilane.
US12168061B2
The present invention provides an antibody against glypican-3 (GPC3) and application thereof, and the antibody comprises a single chain antibody and humanized antibody.
US12168055B2
An improved method for MRI-guided sonosensitized focused ultrasound treatment of malignant tissue is disclosed herein.
US12168045B2
A polypeptide for use in medicine is provided. The polypeptide is administered simultaneously, separately or sequentially with an immune checkpoint inhibitor. The polypeptide comprises at least one polypeptide comprising a region of at least 12 amino acids of a self-antigen or a sequence having at least 80% identity to the region. The polypeptide is less than 100 amino acids in length.
US12168030B2
A method for producing stable and bioavailable Actinidia deliciosa powder from kiwifruit, including drying kiwifruit pulp to form dried pulp, separately drying kiwifruit skin to form a dried skin, measuring the insoluble fiber content of the dried pulp and the dried skin, and making a blend by adding the dried skin to the dried pulp in an amount to obtain an insoluble fiber content of 10-15% in the blend. The Actinidia deliciosa powder is free of artificial additives, anti-caking agents, or flow agents and has a moisture content of less than about 2.5%.
US12168026B2
The present invention relates to large scale manufacture of nanoscale microsheets for use in applications such as wound healing or modification of a biological or medical surface.
US12168023B2
Compounds that modulate the conversion of AMP to adenosine by 5′-nucleotidase, ecto, and compositions containing the compounds and methods for synthesizing the compounds, are described herein. The use of such compounds and compositions for the treatment and/or prevention of a diverse array of diseases, disorders and conditions, including cancer- and immune-related disorders, that are mediated by 5′-nucleotidase, ecto is also provided.
US12168014B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising inhibitor(s) of human histone methyltransferase EZH2, and methods of cancer therapy using the EZH2 inhibitor(s).
US12168010B2
The invention relates to the use of at least one inhibitory structural analog or inhibitory functional analog of a coenzyme (such as thiamine for example) of an enzyme group, the enzyme members of which catalyze anabolic and/or catabolic and/or energy-releasing metabolic reactions that are of essential significance for the functionality of the overall metabolism of cells, in particular mammalian cells. The invention is used to treat patients in order to produce a general successive (in particular also continuous) slowing down of the metabolic processes of endogenous cells and exogenous cells in the body of the patient and thus achieve a slowing down of disease-causing processes in particular.
US12168009B2
The present invention features a compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, where R1, R2, R3, W, X, Y, Z, n, o, p, and q are defined herein, for the treatment of CFTR mediated diseases, such as cystic fibrosis. The present invention also features pharmaceutical compositions, method of treating, and kits thereof.
US12168004B2
The present disclosure provides methods for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura, comprising the administration of ubrogepant. In particular, the present disclosure provides methods for the acute treatment of migraine in patients having hepatic impairment; in patients with renal impairment; and in patients concurrently taking CYP3A4 modulators or BCRP and/or P-gp only inhibitors.
US12168002B2
The present disclosure relates generally to modulators of human glycolate oxidase enzyme and methods of use and manufacture thereof.
US12167999B2
The present invention provides methods for inhibiting postoperative inflammatory conditions following ophthalmologic surgical procedures by administering intraocularly during an ophthalmologic surgical procedure a solution including a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent and an alpha-1 adrenergic mydriatic agent, such as a liquid irrigation solution of ketorolac and phenylephrine.
US12167980B2
An ophthalmic device and methods of its use can be applied for treatment of various conditions including eye diseases, such as glaucoma, using minimally invasive surgical techniques. The ophthalmic device can be used to cut the trabecular meshwork (TM) in the eye. The device tip provides entry into the Schlemm's canal and ramped portions elevate the TM under tension and guide it to lateral blades. An entire strip of TM can be removed without leaving TM leaflets behind and without causing collateral damage to adjacent tissues.
US12167978B2
The present disclosure relates to devices and systems for targeted and controlled delivery of a therapeutic agent to a treatment site of an eye. Particularly, aspects are directed to a therapeutic agent delivery device that includes a polymeric substrate having a release region, a delivery region, and a receiving region; one or more reservoirs formed within the release region; a therapeutic agent disposed within the one or more reservoirs; an active, passive, or combination thereof controlled release mechanism for release of the therapeutic agent from the one or more reservoirs into the delivery region; and a circuit formed on the polymeric substrate, the circuit having a current source, a first iontophoresis electrode located within the delivery region for transport of the therapeutic agent from the delivery region into a target tissue via electromigration, and a second iontophoresis electrode located within the receiving region for maintaining electroneutrality within the tissue.
US12167977B2
The present invention relates to a limb orthosis, in particular a knee orthosis, comprising a strap system, wherein a strap as a first section of the strap system is routed in such a manner that the strap crosses over in a first crossover region and that a strap as a second section of the strap system is routed in such a manner that the strap crosses over in a second crossover region.
US12167973B2
Placement apparatus and methods of use for impanation of spacers within an inter-vertebral disc space. In one embodiment, the load-bearing superstructure of the implant is subdivided and the bone forming material is positioned within an internal space of the placement instrument but external to the load bearing elements themselves. At least a portion of the bone graft material is freely contained within the disc space. A method of using the device is also described. In one embodiment, the placement device is used to place the implantable spacers at opposing ends of the disc space using a directly lateral surgical approach.
US12167972B2
Tibial implants, instruments, systems, and methods of implanting a tibial tray during a knee arthroplasty. The inserter instrument may include a main body with a pair of fixed posterior tabs, a moveable anterior tab body with an anterior tab, and a rotatable shaft for controlling movement of the anterior tab body. When the shaft is rotated, the anterior tab body is translated into an expanded position to lock the inserter to the tibial tray, thereby providing precise positioning of the tibial tray during implantation.
US12167965B2
The present disclosure provides collagen bioink compositions and chemically uncrosslinked and crosslinked collagen structures including collagen microparticles and scaffolds. Also provided are methods of their fabrication and use. Applications for using these collagen structures include treatments of damaged tissue, particularly those caused by osteoarthritis.
US12167955B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to prosthetics for augmenting or repairing a tissue defect, such as a ventral or incisional hernia. In some embodiments, a repair prosthetic may include a patch body and a first fastener attached to a first portion of the patch body. A coupler may be attached to and extend from a second portion of the patch body, and a second fastener may be attached to the second portion of the patch body via the coupler. The coupler may be retracted relative to the second portion of the patch body or the second fastener to apply tension to the patch body in some embodiments.
US12167952B2
An abutment for holding a dental prosthesis to a jaw implant, having: an apical section detachably fastening the abutment to the jaw implant, the apical section being structured along a first central axis; a coronal section detachably fastening the dental prosthesis to the abutment, the coronal section being structured along a second central axis, wherein the second central axis extends at an angle to the first central axis; and an indexing element in a shell surface of the coronal section specifying an orientation of a display element that is coupleable to the coronal section for a digital scanning operation, based on an orientation of the first central axis. A display element coupling to an abutment coronal section, and displaying a position and orientation of the abutment for a digital scanning operation, a tooth model system having an abutment and a display element, and a method producing a dental prosthesis.
US12167951B1
Osteotomy drill bit to produce an optimally shaped jawbone opening for a dental implant and abutment
A first dental drill bit for creating a particularly shaped osteotomy in human jawbones includes: a mounting shank and cutting head. The cutting head includes: four blades protruding from an axis of the bit, each blade having a thickness and being positioned 90 degrees to each adjacent blade to form a cruciform-shaped cross-section. Each of the pair of blades are positioned 90 degrees apart, and the blades of each pair are offset laterally a distance about equal to one-half of the blade thickness. Each blade has a shaped periphery that includes: a first radiused periphery; and a second radiused periphery. The first radiused periphery is shaped to form a spherical frustum-shaped socket portion when rotated about the axis of the drill bit, and includes embedded diamond particles. The second radiused periphery is shaped to form a bullet shaped socket portion when rotated about the axis of the drill bit.
US12167950B2
A dental implant including an implant body having a top surface, and at least one non-annular cutaway portion longitudinally extending downwardly from the top surface along one side of the body and outwardly to the periphery, and a method for making the implant. The implant body preferably includes a body portion and a head portion integrally formed with the body portion, the body portion has a periphery and the head portion has a non-circular periphery, and the periphery of the head portion is smaller than the periphery of the body portion.
US12167949B2
A method for evaluating, by computer, at an “updated” time, the conformity of an orthodontic aligner with a dental arch of a patient, referred to as the “support arch.” The method includes the following successive steps: A) producing a digital three-dimensional model of the support arch in its configuration at the updated time, or an “updated reference model”, and determining from the updated reference model, a support surface for the aligner; B) deforming the support surface on the basis of the geometry of the aligner in order to obtain a deformed support surface; C) comparing an external surface of the aligner with the deformed support surface, then determining, on the basis of the comparison, at least one score for the conformity of the aligner with the support arch.
US12167948B2
A dental mouthpiece is provided that may be attached to a high-suction dental adapter for the purpose of assisting the dental staff during dental procedures through chair-side, hands-free suction, and isolation. Such a mouthpiece may comprise a main body portion, a cheek retractor portion, and a suction connector portion. In an embodiment, the main body portion, cheek retractor portion, and suction connector portion may be molded in one piece, preferably by injection molding. The main body portion has an anterior wall inside the curve and a posterior wall outside the curve, and an at least one connector connecting the anterior wall and the posterior wall. The main body portion has an anterior intervening wall and the posterior intervening wall in between the anterior and posterior walls. The anterior intervening wall and the posterior intervening walls have alternating crests and troughs.
US12167946B2
By using key structures which allow an unambiguous relative positioning, it is possible to produce mold blanks consisting of several layers, from which molded bodies can be produced by machining in an automated manner. These bodies may not only have an irregular but predefined shape, but they also have at least one irregular but predefined parting surface between two layers, the positioning on this parting surface relative to the surface being predefined.
US12167936B2
An ultrasound signal processor uses an excitation generator to cause displacement of a membrane or surface while a series of ultrasound pulses are applied to the membrane or surface. Phase differences between a transmitted signal and received signal are examined to determine the movement of the membrane or surface in response to the applied excitation. An examination of the phase response of the membrane or surface provides a determination as to whether the fluid type behind the membrane or surface is one of: no fluid, serum fluid, or purulent fluid.
US12167928B2
A remote operation control system includes a simulation device, a target device and a control device. The control device is coupled to the simulation device and the target device, and is configured to determine first position data and first attitude data of the simulation device when the simulation device moves to a set state, and control the target device to move to a same state as the set state based on the first position data and the first attitude data.
US12167927B2
Real-time monitored computed tomography (CT) reconstruction for reducing a radiation does. During helical CT scanning of a target object, projections may be acquired in either a full mode which subjects the target object to a full radiation dose, or a reduced mode which subjects the target object to a reduced radiation dose (e.g., by reducing the number of projections acquired, reducing the exposure time, etc.). After a sector is acquired in the full mode, a slice of the target object that is influenced by that sector is identified, and a CT image of that slice is reconstructed using projections that have been previously acquired for that slice. When a stopping rule is satisfied based on this partial reconstruction, the full mode is switched to the reduced mode, and at least one subsequent sector is acquired in the reduced mode.
US12167926B2
A radiographic system that includes a radiation generation apparatus configured to emit radiation, a radiographic apparatus configured to generate a radiographic image based on the radiation, a control apparatus configured to communicate with the radiographic apparatus to receive the radiographic image and control operation, the radiographic system includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of dose index values using the radiation image generated based on the radiation.
US12167921B2
If a user enters a bed, a sensor in the pump of the bed can detect the user's presence in the bed.
US12167918B2
A transcutaneous electrical stimulation system is provided that can include a number of features. In one implementation, the system can include a plurality of electrodes configured to be in contact with a skin surface of a patient. The system can further include a flexible hub electrically connected to the electrodes and configured to be in contact with the patient. A bend sensor can be disposed in the hub and configured to measure a curvature of the hub. The system can include a signal processing device electrically coupled to the plurality of electrodes and the bend sensor, the signal processing device being configured to change stimulation settings of the plurality of electrodes based on the curvature of the hub. In some implementations, the system can include a multi-channel stimulator. Methods of use are also provided.
US12167917B2
Pulmonary vein isolation has become a first-line treatment for symptomatic drug refractory atrial fibrillation (AF). In the context of PVI procedures, linear ablation lesions are delivered in order to achieve PV isolation. Electrophysiological maps from data collected by high density (HD) grid catheters can be used to identify conduction gaps associated within circumferential pulmonary vein isolation lesions.
US12167915B2
An electrode assembly (preferably in the form of a nerve cuff) comprises a base with first and second arms extending from opposite sides of the base, and which, in combination, define an arc. First and second electrically conductive electrodes extend along the inner surface of the first and second arms. Each electrode can comprise a single length of foil can or can comprise multiple discrete foil segments. The foils are electrically isolated from each other. Electrical wires, which are in electrical communication with the each of the foils, extend from the nerve cuff and are adapted to be electrically connected to a signal monitor. When the nerve cuff is applied to a nerve, the foils, in combination, substantially surround the nerve, with the first and second electrodes being on opposite sides of the nerve from each other. Also disclosed is a method of using the nerve cuff to monitor a nerve during a lumbar spinal surgery while the patient is anesthetized and paralyzed.
US12167911B2
The disclosure is directed to a method and apparatus for measuring and assessing limb movement properties. The method includes conducting a test protocol with a position, velocity, and resistance meter (PVRM); and obtaining raw data from the PVRM and transmitting the raw data from the PVRM to an electronic device. The method includes processing the raw data to obtain processed data; and obtaining a set of parameters based on the processed data. The method includes obtaining a classification result according to a classifying algorithm based on the set of parameters; and assessing, recording, and displaying a limb movement property according to the classification result.
US12167909B2
The present disclosure may provide imaging methods, systems and storage media. The imaging methods may include: obtaining first imaging data acquired by an imaging device, wherein the first imaging data includes data corresponding to a plurality of cardiac cycles; and performing image reconstruction on data corresponding to the plurality of cardiac cycles in the first imaging data to acquire one or more cardiac cines. Each cardiac cine of the one or more cardiac cines may include cardiac images of a plurality of phases in at least one cardiac cycle.
US12167904B2
Devices, systems, and methods for remotely and, optionally, continuously, reading a temperature of an object, such as a human. In one embodiment, a temperature sensor patch comprises: a sensor circuit, the sensor circuit including: a radiofrequency identification (RFID) chip; and an antenna; and a layer of base material, the sensor circuit being in the layer of material and the layer of base material being configured to permit a signal transfer between the sensor circuit and a surrounding environment.
US12167903B2
An articulating joint comprising a multi-cluster joint where every consecutive pair of links is interfaced by a gimbal, which offers rotation about two orthogonal axes within the same plane. Thus, the articulating joint comprises an alternating sequence of links and gimbals. Furthermore, there may be multiple cables attached to one or more of the links. As these cables are selectively pulled and released, one can achieve any desired articulation of the articulating joint. There may be a transmission member extending through the links and gimbals, parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the joint in its nominal non-articulated condition. This transmission member may be either a tension member that is pulled on (e.g. a cable or flexible pull rod) and that loads the articulating joint in compression, or the transmission member may be a flexible push rod that loads the articulating joint in tension.
US12167900B2
Co-manipulation robotic systems are described herein that may be used for assisting with laparoscopic surgical procedures. The co-manipulation robotic systems allow a surgeon to use commercially-available surgical tools while providing benefits associated with surgical robotics. Advantageously, the surgical tools may be seamlessly coupled to the robot arms using a disposable coupler while the reusable portions of the robot arm remain in a sterile drape. Further, the co-manipulation robotic system may operate in multiple modes to enhance usability and safety, while allowing the surgeon to position the instrument directly with the instrument handle and further maintain the desired position of the instrument using the robot arm.
US12167899B2
An assembly for a surgical arm includes a tool to position a prosthesis and an end effector. The tool has a tool shaft extending along a tool axis and a tool engagement surface. The end effector has a mount attachable to the surgical arm, a body portion extending from the mount, a distal end, and a guide portion is at the distal end of the body portion to receive the tool. The guide portion has a pair of arms, each arm extending to an arm end and the arm ends are spaced apart from one another to provide an opening between the arm ends. A channel is formed between the arms and extends along a guide axis. The arms define an arc-shaped guide engagement surface to enable contact with the tool engagement surface for facilitating alignment of the tool axis and the guide axis.
US12167880B2
Apparatus, consisting of a probe, containing a lumen and having a distal end configured to contact tissue of a living subject. A temperature sensor is located at the distal end, and a pump, having a pump motor, is coupled to deliver a cryogenic fluid through the lumen to the distal end of the probe and to receive the cryogenic fluid returning from the probe. There is a separator, coupled to separate the returning cryogenic fluid into a returning cryogenic liquid and a returning cryogenic gas, and a flow meter, coupled to measure a rate of flow of the returning cryogenic gas. A processor is configured to control a rate of pumping of the pump motor in response to a temperature measured by the temperature sensor and the rate of flow of the returning cryogenic gas.
US12167877B2
Implantable devices for fixation of curved bone such as the pelvic ring pubic symphysis and acetabulum, and methods for the use of the devices are disclosed. The implantable devices are convertible between a flexible state and a rigid state, and include an elongate structure having a proximal bone interface, a main body, and a distal bone interface. In a flexible state, the devices may be inserted along, and conform to a curved pathway, and in the rigid state, the devices may support the mechanical loads required to fixate a fracture.
US12167848B2
A delivery system for delivering an anchor member to a bone of a patient may include a bone punch including an elongate shaft, a head at a proximal end of the elongate shaft, and a piercing tip at a distal end of the elongate shaft. The piercing tip may be configured to be driven into the bone. An anchor member may be disposed over at least a portion of the piercing tip with the piercing tip extending distal of the anchor member. The anchor member may be configured to penetrate the bone of the patient in cooperation with the piercing tip.
US12167844B2
A cinch deployment system includes a delivery system and a releasable cinch including an inner tubular, a compressible gripper having a suture passage, the gripper positioned within the inner tubular housing, and a resilient structure biased to compress the gripper to reduce the size of the suture passage. The resilient structure has a first configuration in which the resilient structure is constrained from applying sufficient compression to the gripper to prevent movement of the gripper on the suture, and a second configuration in which sufficient compression is applied to secure the gripper on the suture. The resilient structure is moved from the first to the second configuration by movement of the retainer moved by the deployment system.
US12167837B2
A video imaging system is provided. The video imaging system is configured to maintain a video image displayed on a display unit in a predetermined orientation based upon a use. The video imaging system includes an endoscope, a camera head unit, a camera control unit configured to determine a focal distance, and a display control unit. The display control unit is configured to process the focal distance to determine a use. The use is processed by the display control unit so as to maintain the video image in the predetermined orientation. The contextual information may be focal distance, image data or endoscopic orientation.
US12167835B2
An endoscopic device includes a flexible shaft extending distally from a handle which, during use remains outside a living body, the shaft comprising a pull wire extending therethrough from the handle and a distal tip rotatably coupled to a distal end of the shaft, the distal tip comprising an imager directed distally from a distal face of the distal tip, the imager including a chip and a lens, a distal end of the pull wire being coupled to the distal tip in combination with an actuation mechanism coupled to a proximal end of the pull wire so that, actuation of the actuation mechanism, pulls the pull wire proximally through the shaft rotating the distal tip relative to the shaft to alter a field of view of the imager.
US12167832B2
An observation window is mainly disposed in a distal end surface region positioned above a horizontal axis, a first treatment tool outlet port is mainly disposed in a distal end surface region positioned below the horizontal axis, and a position of a center of a front water supply port in a direction of a vertical axis is disposed between a position of a center of the observation window and a position of a center of the first treatment tool outlet port in the direction of the vertical axis.
US12167831B2
Provided are an adhesive for an endoscope, a cured product of the adhesive for an endoscope, an endoscope produced using the adhesive for an endoscope, and a method for producing an endoscope. The adhesive for an endoscope includes at least one epoxy resin (A) selected from the group consisting of bisphenol A epoxy resins, bisphenol F epoxy resins, and phenol novolac epoxy resins, a polyamine compound (B), and a specific compound (C) having an epoxy group.
US12167829B2
Disclosed is a method for operating an endoscope system and an endoscope system comprising an image sensor and a processing device, the image sensor comprising an image sensor output, the processing device comprising an input connected to the image sensor output. The method comprising: consecutively receiving frames captured by the image sensor; receiving a first capture signal, indicative of an operator performing a first action associated with capturing a still image of the frames captured by the image sensor; storing a first plurality of frames of the frames captured by the image sensor; determining one or more quality properties of each of the first plurality of frames; and selecting a designated frame of the first plurality of frames based on the one or more quality properties.
US12167828B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus that includes a feature detecting unit that detects a feature of first image data, where the first image data is obtained by capturing an image of a blood vessel by IndoCyanine Green (ICG) fluorescence imaging. The image processing apparatus further includes an enhancement processing unit that controls a degree of an enhancement process performed on the first image data, on the basis of the feature.
US12167827B2
An autonomous cleaning device is provided. The autonomous cleaning device includes: a device body; and a drive module, a cleaning module and a sensing module, wherein the drive module, the cleaning module and the sensing module are detachably assembled to the device body, respectively.
US12167817B2
Systems and methods for automated cooking are described. In one embodiment, an automated kitchen system includes a robotic device and a computing device having a memory storing instructions and a processor. The instructions cause the processor to identify a recipe associated with an order for at least one food item. The instructions cause the processor to identify an ingredient based on the set of instructions of the recipe. The instructions cause the processor to determine a measurement associated with the ingredient based on the set of instructions of the recipe. The instructions cause the processor to cause the robotic device to retrieve a measured portion of the ingredient based on the measurement and deliver the measured portion of the ingredient to cookware. The instructions cause the processor to cause the robotic device to execute a task in response to the measured portion of the ingredient being delivered to the cookware.
US12167809B2
A method of operating an apparatus for receiving one or more mail items is described. The method includes activating the communication between a user interface device and a remote device; generating, by an electronic control unit, at least one random alphanumeric code; sending, via a network interface device, the random alphanumeric code to the remote device; sending, by the remote device and via the network interface device, an unlock signal based on the random alphanumeric code to the electronic control unit. An unlock signal is processed by the electronic control unit to unlock the movable closure element and allow one or more mail items to be introduced in or withdrawn from the internal cavity.
US12167808B2
A leak resistant lid assembly for a beverage container where the lid assembly has a straw or similar means for a user to drink liquid is disclosed. The lid assembly may include a base, a straw that extends through the base, a gasket, and a grommet. The base may have a primary opening that receives the straw and a secondary opening in the top of the base, where the secondary opening acts as a vent to prevent a vacuum from occurring when drinking from a straw. The grommet may have a spiral ring may help create a flow path for air from inside the beverage container to the exterior environment.
US12167804B2
A storage rail assembly and an end cap system for a storage rail assembly are provided. A storage rail assembly includes a first rail configured to be coupled to a wall. The first rail extends from a left end to a right end along a first longitudinal axis. The assembly further includes a first left end cap coupled to the left end of the rail, the left end cap including a concave pocket extending inwardly from a left face of the first left end cap and having a pocket contact surface; and a right end cap coupled to the right end of the rail, the right end cap including a projection extending outwardly from a right face of the right end cap, wherein the projection is configured to be received in a pocket of a second left end cap to form a horizontal rail assembly.
US12167800B2
A handle adjustment mechanism (30) includes at least one stand (32) and an engaging structure (31). The at least one stand (32) is installed on a frame (10) of a child crib (100). A positioning structure (33) is on the at least one stand (32). The engaging structure (31) is coupled to a handle (20) of the child crib (100) and configured to engage with or disengage from the positioning structure (33) for adjusting a position of the handle (20) relative to the at least one stand (32) to position the handle (20) at different heights relative to the frame (10). The handle adjustment mechanism (30) is easy to operate for allowing a caregiver to put the child in or take the child out of the child crib (100).
US12167793B2
According to an aspect of some embodiments of the present disclosure there is provided a chair including a base component, a seat component connected to the base component by a central hinge, and a back-rest component connected to the seat component by a back hinge, wherein when the chair is in a sitting position, the seat component is lower than the central hinge. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US12167780B1
A necklace manager of an interactive necklace can sense user conditions and transmit messages to recipient computing devices. The necklace manager can compare sensed user conditions from the interactive necklace sensors to predefined user condition templates to determine a match. The matching predefined user condition template can be mapped to a user intent. The necklace manager can, in response to mapping the sensed user conditions to the user intent, transmit a message to a recipient device that is based on the mapped user intent and a user identifier. In some implementations, the recipient device can be an other interactive necklace that performs a mapped interactive necklace action in response to the received message. For example, a wearer of the recipient interactive necklace can perceive sentiments, emotions, and/or reactions from a user wearing the originating interactive necklace by perceiving interactive necklace actions triggered by the received message.
US12167774B2
A peg insole including an integrally molded unitary foam body covered. The foam body may be covered with a cover layer, such as a stretchable fabric, on a top surface of the foam body opposite the pegs. The foam body is includes a base layer with a plurality of pegs protruding therefrom. The foam body may include a contoured shaped to comfortably fit a patient's foot including, for example, a medial support portion, a lateral support portion, and a heel cup. The peg insole may be used, for example, in a medical shoe. Also provided is a method for forming the peg insole.
US12167771B2
In example aspects, materials are repurposed for article manufacturing. That is, in some instances, materials in the manufacturing supply chain are potentially subject to disposal. However, aspects of this disclosure sustainably repurpose those materials (that might otherwise be disposed of) to be used in articles. In some aspects, the repurposed materials may be obscured with a concealing layer.
US12167768B2
A modular footwear having individual versatility is provided comprising an insole for primary support and a sole provided thereon. The footwear further comprises a heel provided on the insole having a heel counter provided on an upper periphery of the heel and wherein the insole defines a channel for receiving an attachment means to securely attach the footwear to the individual.
US12167766B2
Ground-engaging components for articles of footwear include an upper-facing surface and a ground-facing surface opposite the upper-facing surface. At least the ground-facing surface may be formed to include a matrix structure, and this matrix structure may include a plurality of open cells (e.g., in a heel region and/or an arch region) and a forefoot region including a plurality of closed forefoot support cells. The ground-engaging component may be engaged with a midsole member (e.g., including a foam midsole element and/or one or more fluid-filled bladders), and this combination may form a sole structure that is engaged with an upper to form an article of footwear.
US12167754B2
An atomizer includes a main body. The main body includes an e-liquid chamber, a heating chamber, a heating element, and an e-liquid channel. The heating element is disposed in the heating chamber. The main body further includes at least one e-liquid inlet and at least one e-liquid outlet communicating with two ends of the e-liquid channel, respectively. The at least one e-liquid inlet is disposed in a bottom part of the e-liquid chamber. The at least one e-liquid outlet is connected to the heating chamber. The main body further includes a mouthpiece connected to and communicating with the heating chamber; when a user inhales smoke or vapor through the mouthpiece, the e-liquid is sucked from the e-liquid chamber into the e-liquid channel by a suction force, flows into the heating chamber.
US12167753B2
An aerosol generating article includes aerosol generating material having first and second regions and an inductively heatable susceptor in the first region. The first region can be located upstream of the second region or downstream of the second region relative to an aerosol flow direction within the article. A method for manufacturing an aerosol generating article and an aerosol generating system are also described.
US12167751B2
A smoking substitute apparatus is disclosed, having: an air inlet; an outlet; and a flow passage formed between the air inlet and the outlet. A vaporization chamber is in communication with the flow passage, the vaporization chamber having an aerosol generator configured to generate an aerosol from an aerosol precursor by heating. The aerosol generator comprises a vaporizer element loaded with aerosol precursor, the vaporizer element being heatable by a heater and presenting a vaporizer element surface to air in the vaporization chamber. The air inlet, flow passage, outlet and the vaporization chamber are configured so that the cooling rate of the vapor is such that the time taken to cool to 50° C. is not less than 16 ms under certain conditions.
US12167739B2
A pet food product comprising a fat component in an amount of from 2.0 wt % to 8.0 wt % by total weight of the pet food product, and a proteinaceous component in an amount of from 6.0 wt % to 14.0 wt % by total weight of the pet food product, wherein said proteinaceous component comprises polypeptides and free amino acids, wherein the ratio of the fat component to the proteinaceous component is from about 0.45:1.0 to about 0.0:1.0, and wherein the amount of free amino acids in the pet food product is at least 0.5 wt % by total weight of the pet food product.
US12167738B2
The present invention relates to a method for providing an individualized nutritionally complete diet for an animal, in particular an animal with one or more pathological condition(s). The present invention also relates to a device for providing an individualized nutritionally complete diet for an animal, having means adapted to execute the steps of the method. The present invention also relates to a computer program to cause the device to execute the steps of the method. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon the computer program is further provided. Kits and compositions are further provided.
US12167734B2
The systems and methods can include calculating a dwell time or density of workpieces in a vessel; and modulating the one or more conditions of the system based on the dwell time or density of workpieces in the vessel. In an example, the system includes a vessel configured to carry a working fluid and a plurality of workpieces at least partially submerged in the working fluid; a delivery train configured to introduce workpieces into the vessel; a first counting sensor configured to generate an entrance signal based upon a workpiece introduced into the vessel; a transport train configured to transport workpieces introduced into the vessel to an exit of the vessel; a removal train configured to remove workpieces from the vessel through the exit; and a second counting sensor configured to generate an exit signal based upon a workpiece removed from the vessel through the exit.
US12167733B2
The present disclosure concerns methods of using novel bacterial strains of 0617-T307, 0917-T305, 0917-T306, 0917-T307, 0118-T319, 0318-T327, and 0418-T328, the cell broth and novel metabolites produced from the bacterial strains, that can inhibit the growth of a variety of microbial species for a variety of crops. The methods include use of novel, potent antimicrobial metabolites produced from the strains corresponding to compounds having Formulas (I), (II), and (III):
US12167715B2
A gating system comprising a gate, footplate, formed latch assemblies, formed tab end assemblies, c-bracket, and parallel structural members which provides infinite mounting points to connect gates to slotted floor slates with a footplate. The gating system simplifies the design, manufacture, installation, and operation of animal management.
US12167713B2
The present invention is directed in part to soybean variety CL1941232, CL1941326, CL1941886, CL1941882, CL1941366, CL1941287, CL1941298, CL1941446, CL1941831, and/or CL1942000 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to soybean variety CL1941232, CL1941326, CL1941886, CL1941882, CL1941366, CL1941287, CL1941298, CL1941446, CL1941831, and/or CL1942000 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1941232, CL1941326, CL1941886, CL1941882, CL1941366, CL1941287, CL1941298, CL1941446, CL1941831, and/or CL1942000, e.g., in a breeding program.
US12167711B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011227. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011227, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011227 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011227.
US12167706B2
A meter apparatus for dispensing agricultural products into a product conduit carrying a product air stream at a product air pressure. A sealed tank is pressurized to a tank pressure that is substantially equal to the product air pressure, and a meter roller mounted on a shaft is mounted in a housing below the sealed tank. A drive is operative to rotate the shaft and the meter roller. Clearance spaces are provided each side of the meter roller. Bearings mount the shaft to the housing, and seals are mounted to the shaft and to the housing between the right and left bearings and the meter roller. The housing defines right and left chambers between the seals and the meter roller. The purging conduit carries a purging air stream at a purging air pressure that is greater than the product air pressure into the chambers, and through the clearance space.
US12171148B2
Various fabrication methods are disclosed. In one such method, at least one structure is formed on a substrate which protrudes outwardly from a plane of the substrate. A beam is used to form a layer of material, at least part of which is in direct contact with a semiconductor structure on the substrate, the semiconductor structure comprising at least one nanowire. The beam has a non-zero angle of incidence relative to the normal of the plane of the substrate such that the beam is incident on one side of the protruding structure, thereby preventing a portion of the nanowire in a shadow region adjacent the other side of the protruding structure in the plane of the substrate from being covered with the material.
US12171144B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic compound having the following structure, and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) and an organic light emitting device including the organic compound. The organic compound can be a bipolar compound having a p-type moiety and an n-type moiety and has high energy level and proper energy bandgap for an emissive layer of the OLED. As the organic compound is applied into the emissive layer, the OLED can maximize its luminous properties as holes and electrons are recombined uniformly over the whole area in an emitting material layer (EML).
US12171143B2
The present application relates to a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, an organic optoelectronic diode and a display device. In Chemical Formula 1, each substituent has the same definition as in the specification.
US12171134B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel comprises a substrate, a source and drain metal layer, a first planarization layer, an auxiliary metal layer, a second planarization layer, an anode and a light emitting pixel. The anode comprises a first anode part corresponding to the light emitting pixel. By removing the auxiliary metal layer directly below the first anode part, the orthographic projection of the auxiliary metal layer on the substrate is outside the orthographic projection of the first anode part on the substrate, which helps to eliminate horizontal diffraction fringes.
US12171129B2
A display device includes a substrate having transmissive areas and a non-transmissive area disposed between the transmissive areas. A first pixel is provided in the non-transmissive area, and includes a first subpixel, a second subpixel and a third subpixel. A second pixel is disposed adjacent the first pixel in the non-transmissive area, and includes a third subpixel. The first pixel and the second pixel share the first subpixel and the second subpixel.
US12171108B2
An organic electroluminescence device according to an embodiment includes a first electrode, a hole transport region disposed on the first electrode, an exciton diffusion layer disposed on the hole transport region and including a first host represented by Formula 1, an emission layer disposed on the exciton diffusion layer and including a second host, a third host, and a phosphorescent dopant, an electron transport region disposed on the emission layer, and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport region. The organic electroluminescence device exhibits high efficiency and a long service life.
US12171105B2
Methods, systems, and devices for memory device with a split pillar architecture are described. A memory device may include a substrate arranged with conductive contacts in a pattern and openings through alternative layers of conductive and insulative material that may decrease the spacing between the openings while maintaining a dielectric thickness to sustain the voltage to be applied to the array. After etching material, an insulative material may be deposited in a trench. Portions of the insulative material may be removed to form openings, into which cell material is deposited. Conductive pillars may extend perpendicular to the planes of the conductive material and the substrate, and couple to conductive contacts. The conductive pillars and cell material may be divided to form a first and second storage components and first and second pillars.
US12171096B2
A microelectronic device comprises a base structure, a memory array overlying the base structure, and a conductive pad tier overlying the memory array. The base structure comprises a logic region including logic devices. The memory array comprises vertically extending strings of memory cells within a horizontal area of the logic region of the base structure. The conductive pad tier comprises first conductive pads substantially outside of the horizontal area of the logic region of the base structure, and second conductive pads horizontally neighboring the first conductive pads and within the horizontal area of the logic region of the base structure. Memory devices and electronic systems are also described.
US12171086B2
A thermal management device for a circuit breaker includes: a heat pipe having an evaporator section, an adiabatic section and a condenser section; a busbar having a first portion including at least a portion of the adiabatic section of the heat pipe; a conducting busbar having a first end, a second end opposite the first end and a groove disposed on a top surface of the conducting busbar, the first end disposed adjacent to primary contacts, the second end integrated in the first portion of the busbar, the groove extending from the first end to the second end and including the evaporator section and the at least a portion of the adiabatic section of the heat pipe embedded therein; and an array of fins integrated to the second portion of the busbar, the condenser section of the heat pipe extending through the array of fins.
US12171079B1
The present disclosure discloses an emergency starting power supply for vehicles, belonging to the technical field of emergency starting power supply for vehicles. The emergency starting power supply for vehicles includes a shell, a power source, a circuit board, and an output terminal. The shell is provided with a first accommodating space and a first mounting part. The power source and circuit board are housed in the first accommodating space. The power source is electrically connected to the circuit board and the output terminal, respectively. The first mounting part is provided with a second accommodating space. At least a portion of the output terminal is housed in the second accommodating space. The output terminal is configured to output a current for starting an engine of the vehicle.
US12171067B2
There is provided a method for manufacturing a printed wiring board that effectively suppresses pattern failure and is also excellent in fine circuit forming properties. This method includes: providing an insulating substrate including a roughened surface; performing electroless plating on the roughened surface of the insulating substrate to form an electroless plating layer less than 1.0 μm thick having a surface having an arithmetic mean waviness Wa of 0.10 μm or more and 0.25 μm or less and a valley portion void volume Vvv of 0.010 μm3/μm2 or more and 0.028 μm3/μm2 or less; laminating a photoresist on the surface of the electroless plating layer; performing exposure and development to form a resist pattern; applying electroplating to the electroless plating layer; stripping the resist pattern; and etching away an unnecessary portion of the electroless plating layer to form a wiring pattern.
US12171065B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a first printed circuit board disposed in an internal space of the housing and including first conductive terminals, and a second printed circuit board disposed parallel to the first printed circuit board in the internal space and including second conductive terminals electrically connected to the first conductive terminals. The second printed circuit board includes at least some conductive terminals of the second conductive terminals, or at least one connection failure prevention structure disposed around at least some conductive terminals of the second conductive terminals.
US12171062B2
Objects of the present invention are to provide an electrically conductive adhesive which is capable of suppressing a rise in an electric resistance value of a joining part between an electronic component and a substrate under high temperature and high humidity while a specific resistance value is suppressed to be low; an electronic circuit using such electrically conductive adhesive; and a method for manufacturing such electronic circuit. According to the present invention, provided is the electrically conductive adhesive which includes an electrically conductive filler, a surface of the electrically conductive filler being a coating layer including silver, a compounded amount of the electrically conductive filler being 29.0 vol. % to 63.0 vol. % with respect to the electrically conductive adhesive, a compounded amount of the silver being 3.5 vol. % to 7.0 vol. % with respect to the electrically conductive adhesive. In addition, also provided are an electronic circuit using the electrically conductive adhesive of the present invention and a method for manufacturing such electronic circuit.
US12171051B2
An optical heating device for heating a substrate includes: a chamber for accommodating the substrate; a pair of transmissive windows disposed on the wall of the chamber, the transmissive window facing each other for allowing light for heating to enter inside the chamber; a support member for supporting the substrate to face each of the main surfaces of the substrate and the pair of transmissive windows each other; a plurality of LED elements for emitting light toward the substrate supported by the support member; a flash lamp for emitting light toward the substrate supported by the support member; and a first lighting control unit for controlling the lighting of the flash lamp after a predetermined time has elapsed since the time of lighting the LED elements.
US12171048B2
A telephone number (TN) from a group of telephone numbers may be assigned/allocated to a user device (e.g., an internet-of-things (IoT) device, a computing device, a sensor, a smart meter, a tablet, a network device, a session initiation protocol (SIP) device, a web real-time communication (webRTC) enabled device, and/or any other device that is configured for communication (e.g., voice communication, video communication, signal communication, etc.) for a time period (e.g., the duration of timer, etc.) during which the TN may be used to make and/or receive calls. Once the time period expires the TN may be placed in a group of telephone numbers available to be assigned/reassigned to user devices.
US12171037B2
Embodiments of a next generation Node-B (gNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. A gNB may be configurable to operate as a master gNB (MgNB). The MgNB may transmit radio-resource control (RRC) signaling to provide information for dual connectivity to allow the UE to utilize radio resources of both a master cell group (MCG) associated with the MgNB and a secondary cell group (SCG) associated with a secondary gNB (SgNB). The MgNB may transmit, to the SgNB, an SgNB release request message that indicates a partial suspension of the dual connectivity, wherein: a first portion of a configuration for the SCG is to be maintained and a second portion of the configuration for the SCG is to be released.
US12171035B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are presented for utilizing a narrowband assisting network (NBAN) and a positioning assisting network (PAN) to assist in establishing and managing communications on a THz band wireless communication network. The THz network may be capable of transmitting/receiving with high bandwidth, but may be resource intensive and may be constrained to line-of-sight (LoS) communications. The NBAN and PAN may help to minimize the resources consumed by the THz network. The NBAN may identify a set of nodes of the THz network as candidates for establishing a connection with a user equipment (UE). The PAN may determine a position of each candidate relative to the UE, and may communicate the position to the respective candidate and to the UE, which may use the position information to expedite a beam alignment procedure. The NBAN may provide scheduling and other control signaling for the THz network.
US12171016B2
There is provided mechanisms for interference handling. A method is performed by a radio access network node. The method comprises obtaining an indication of interference in a time/frequency interval. The method comprises querying a neighbouring radio access network node about scheduling in the time/frequency interval of uplink wireless transmission from any terminal device served by the neighbouring radio access network node. The method comprises receiving a response from the neighbouring radio access network node. The response comprises information identifying uplink reference signal resources/ports, and their scheduling, as to be used by the terminal device scheduled in the time/frequency interval.
US12171010B2
The invention relates to a method for allocating radio resources to a transmitting terminal for performing direct communication transmission over a direct link connection. The transmitting terminal receives a system information broadcast from the base station, which comprises information on a temporary transmission radio resource pool, indicating radio resources for performing a direct communication transmission, and comprises configuration information on the resource pool to limit the amount of time that the temporary radio resource pool is usable by the transmitting terminal.
US12171004B2
The present invention relates to a method of performing measurement by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of: when an uplink data transmission occurs in a measurement gap, determining a starting point of a temporary measurement gap based on a completion time of the uplink data transmission; transmitting information about the temporary measurement gap including the starting point of the temporary measurement gap; transmitting an uplink data during the measurement gap; and performing measurements during the temporary measurement gap.
US12170995B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a control message from a base station indicating a configuration of an uplink waveform for full-duplex communications at the UE. The UE may receive an additional control message scheduling a set of uplink resources and a set of downlink resources for the full-duplex communications. The set of uplink resources and the set of downlink resources may at least partially overlap in a time-domain. A frequency-domain gap between the set of uplink resources and the set of downlink resources may be based on the first uplink waveform and a first downlink waveform used by the base station. The UE may communicate with the base station on the set of uplink resources and the set of downlink resources in accordance with the frequency-domain gap.
US12170987B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device in a node for wireless communications. A first node first receives first information, the first information being used for determining a target carrier; then detects a first signaling in a first candidate resource set; and when the first signaling is detected, operates a first signal in a first carrier, and the first signaling is used for determining time-frequency resources occupied by the first signal; the first signaling carries a first identifier, and the first identifier is used for identifying the first carrier; the first candidate resource set comprises a positive integer number of candidate resource group(s), and the first signaling occupies a candidate resource group in the first candidate resource set. The present disclosure configures different Carrier Indicator Fields (CIFs) for the first carrier to optimize the mode of blind detection, thus improving performance of the system.
US12170984B2
One example discloses a wireless Access Point (AP) device, configured to operate within a wireless local area network (WLAN), including: a controller configured to generate a reserve slot time trigger frame and a request to transmit trigger frame; wherein the controller is configured to be coupled to an antenna; wherein the antenna is configured to transmit the trigger frames over a physical media to a set of user station devices (STAs) and exchange traffic with the set of STAs over the physical media; wherein the reserve slot time trigger frame is configured to reserve a slot time on the physical media; and wherein the request to transmit trigger frame is configured to command a first STA from the set of STAs to transmit data buffered in the first STA to the AP device.
US12170980B2
This application provides a wireless communication resource allocation method. A network device allocates, to a terminal device, a first resource pool used to carry communication data and a second resource pool including a candidate resource of the first resource pool, the network device measures a quality parameter of at least one physical resource in the first resource pool and the second resource pool, and the network device sends first indication information to the terminal device when a quality parameter of a first physical resource in the first resource pool satisfies a preset condition #1. The first indication information is used to indicate that the first physical resource in the first resource pool is replaced with a second physical resource, and the second physical resource is a physical resource in the second resource pool.
US12170972B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising, embedding information for time synchronization to a SSB, encrypting the SSB and transmitting in a cellular communication network the encrypted SSB comprising the information for time synchronization.
US12170966B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for frequency hopping adaptation. An example method generally includes receiving signaling scheduling a user equipment (UE) to transmit physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetitions with frequency hopping; adapting transmission of the PUSCH repetitions with frequency hopping, for one or more full duplex slots; and transmitting the PUSCH repetitions in accordance with the adaptation.
US12170963B1
An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: determine at least one parameter used to determine an energy cap for a time period for at least one network node within a cluster of at least one network node comprising the at least one network node; determine the energy cap for the time period for the at least one network node within the cluster, based on the at least one parameter; wherein the energy cap for the time period for the at least one network node is determined so that energy consumed by the cluster during a time window comprising multiple time periods does not exceed an energy constraint, the multiple time periods comprising the time period; and transmit the energy cap for the time period to the at least one network node within the cluster at a beginning of the time period.
US12170951B1
Methods for resource and slice allocation for multi-mode operation in Open RAN architectures are described. A programmable radio exposure function switches between real-time and near-real-time modes of operation for a radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller of a telecommunications system. An application programming interface is exposed by the radio exposure function and performs radio resource management for the telecommunications system. The application programming interface communicates with services and/or applications to control RAN functions, and allocates RAN resources of the telecommunications system to a user equipment for the services and/or applications. A machine learning module is embedded within the radio exposure function and trained to identify network slices of the telecommunications system for the services and/or applications.
US12170947B2
Embodiments herein provide a method for managing CAG information. The method includes receiving, by an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), a registration request message from a User Equipment (UE) through a cell for registering to a network. Further, the method includes determining, by the AMF, that the UE is one of unauthorized to the cell when the cell is a CAG cell, and authorized to access the network only through a CAG cell when the cell is a non-CAG cell. Further, the method includes sending, by the AMF, a registration reject message to the UE, where the registration reject message includes a CAG information list.
US12170945B2
A method and device for protecting a local area network including nodes allowing an extension of wireless communication coverage in order to increase the range of the local area network by coordinating a plurality of access points integrated in the nodes, the nodes being interconnected by a backhaul subnetwork, each node in the backhaul subnetwork transmitting at least one wireless network referred to as a fronthaul network, the method includes the steps of: detecting a connection of a station by a cable connection to a network switch included in the local area network, the network switch being connected to the backhaul subnetwork by a cable connection, establishing secure connections between each node if the connection of the station by a cable connection to the network switch is detected, managing the nodes of the network connected to the network switch with filtering rules applied to the data received by the nodes.
US12170944B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing distributed content to a mobile device (e.g., in a mobile vehicle) through multiple content access points along a particular route are presented. In some embodiments, a computing device may receive a selection of media content and a selection of a particular route from a plurality of routes to enable navigation of a mobile vehicle from a start point to an end point calculated based on at least a number of content access points along each route. A computing device may divide the media content into a plurality of segments and send each segment to a respective planned content access point of a plurality of planned content access points along the particular route. In some embodiments, a mobile computing device within a mobile vehicle may receive a segment from each planned content access point to enable continuous uninterrupted playback of the media content.
US12170941B2
A communication device and method can include one or more processors operatively coupled to memory, a sensor and an output device, where the one or more processors to perform operations of identifying target person locations using internet searching and short range communication enabled devices such as Bluetooth LE devices.
US12170940B2
The subject matter described herein provides systems and techniques to automatically configure a proximal device, such as a smart watch, a tablet, or any other smart device, based on configuration information sent from the user equipment (UE) to the proximal device when the local communications connection, such as a wireless connection, between the devices is weak. If it is determined that there is a weak local communications connection between the UE and the proximal device the UE may automatically send network configuration information to the proximal device. If it is determined that there is a weak local communications connection between the UE and the proximal device the UE may automatically turn on its mobile hotspot, and automatically send the mobile hotspot configuration information to the proximal device.
US12170937B2
Communication systems and methods for receiving and converting multicast data are disclosed. An example communication system includes an airborne central processing unit configured to: convert multicast data received on a multicast fast path via a satellite to unicast data, forward the unicast data to a user device within a vehicle, collect one or more metrics regarding the multicast data, and transmit the one or more metrics to a satellite ground station via the satellite.
US12170936B2
Techniques are discussed herein for efficiently supporting broadcast of location assistance data (AD) in a wireless network to assist in locating a user equipment (UE). A location server (LS) may send some location AD, which may be optionally ciphered, to base stations for broadcast in cells supported by the base stations. Capability information provided by a UE to the LS indicating a level of support by the UE for receiving broadcast AD and supporting ciphering may enable the LS to determine whether, and what type of, additional AD needs to be sent to the UE by point to point means. An LS may use capability information received from a large number of UEs to assist in determining the types of location assistance data to be broadcast and usage of ciphering.
US12170934B2
Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a storage medium that can efficiently perform an immigration examination. The information processing apparatus includes: an examination unit that, based on user information acquired from a user who completed a departure examination of a first country but has not started boarding for a second country and related to the user, performs an immigration examination of the second country; and a transmission unit that transmits a notification related to the immigration examination.
US12170927B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for control of Quality of Service (QoS). A method applied in a base station for control of QoS includes: receiving a Core Network (CN) flow identifier and information on a corresponding QoS parameter of a Packet Data Network (PDN) connection as transmitted from a CN control network element and creating a mapping relation between the CN flow identifier and the corresponding QoS parameter; and utilizing, after determining based on the received information on the QoS parameter of the PDN connection that a radio bearer satisfying a requirement of the QoS parameter exists between a user terminal and the base station, the existing radio bearer satisfying the requirement of the QoS parameter, creating a mapping relation between the existing radio bearer and the CN flow identifier of the PDN connection and transmitting information on the mapping relation to the user terminal.
US12170926B2
In a wireless local area network system, a station (STA) may transmit a low latency queue activation signal. The STA may receive a low latency queue activation approval signal. The present invention may comprise a step for transmitting data by the STA via a low latency queue.
US12170914B2
A method and an apparatus for detecting a downlink transmission, a method and an apparatus for transmitting configuration information, a method and an apparatus for a downlink transmission are provided. The method for detecting a downlink transmission includes: a user equipment (UE) detects a target signal of a downlink transmission within a first detection period; the UE determines whether a detection result satisfies a predetermined adjustment condition in response to detecting no target signal; and the UE extends the first detection period currently used by a physical downlink control channel to a predetermined second detection period in response to determining that the detection result satisfies the predetermined adjustment condition.
US12170902B2
A cyber security appliance can inoculate a fleet of network devices by analyzing each endpoint of a secure connection. The appliance can receive a hostname for a malicious web server. The appliance can generate an unencrypted target fingerprint based on sending a series of unencrypted connection protocol requests to the malicious web server and an encrypted target fingerprint based on sending a series of encrypted secure connection protocol requests to the malicious web server. The appliance can build a combined web server fingerprint for the malicious web server based on both the encrypted target fingerprint derived and the unencrypted target fingerprint. The appliance can determine a set of suspicious IP addresses based on the combined web server fingerprint for the malicious web server. The appliance can inoculate a fleet of network devices against a cyberattack using the IP addresses to preemptively alert the fleet of cyber-attack.
US12170885B2
Systems and methods for adjusting bass levels of a multi-channel audio signal include, among other features, (i) receiving the multi-channel signal via a playback device; (ii) separating, from the multi-channel signal, low-frequency signals comprising frequencies less than a threshold frequency; (iii) determining electrical energies of the low-frequency signals; (iv) determining a first energy by summing the electrical energies of the low-frequency signals; (v) consolidating the low-frequency signals into a consolidated low-frequency signal; (vi) determining a second energy by determining an electrical energy of the consolidated low-frequency signal; (vii) generating a gain-adjusted low-frequency signal by adjusting a gain of the consolidated low-frequency signal based on both (a) the first energy and (b) the second energy; (viii) generating a gain-adjusted multi-channel signal by mixing the gain-adjusted low-frequency signal back into the multi-channel signal; and (ix) using the gain-adjusted multi-channel signal to play back gain-adjusted multi-channel audio content via the playback device.
US12170880B2
An example method of operation includes identifying a loudspeaker array profile defining characteristics of a loudspeaker array stored in memory, identifying a three-dimensional venue geometry value stored in the memory, defining virtual receivers to simulate acoustic characteristics within the venue geometry, defining a number of passive acoustic filter permutations to perform within a range of passive acoustic filter settings, and each passive acoustic filter setting is unique and has one or more passive acoustic filters to apply to one or more loudspeakers in the loudspeaker array, selecting performance criteria to apply to the loudspeaker array to represent its sound coverage uniformity at a given location throughout the venue geometry, calculating the performance criteria of the loudspeaker array via a passive acoustic filter setting selected from one or more of the passive acoustic filter permutations by performing a simulation with the passive acoustic filter settings, identifying an optimized passive acoustic filter setting from a specific permutation, with which the loudspeaker array achieves optimal uniform sound coverage in the venue geometry, and applying the optimized passive acoustic filter setting to the loudspeaker array.
US12170879B2
A method provides binaural sound to a person through electronic earphones. The binaural sound localizes to a sound localization point (SLP) in empty space that is away from but proximate to the person. When an event occurs, the binaural sound switches or changes to stereo sound, to mono sound, or to altered binaural sound.
US12170878B2
An unmanned moving body includes a directional speaker that outputs sound in an orientation direction and a processor that obtains one or more instances of sensing data. The processor: determines whether or not a second target is present in a vicinity of a first target in accordance with at least one of the one or more instances of sensing data; calculates a positional relationship between the first target and the second target when it is determined that the second target is present; and determines a first position of the unmanned moving body in accordance with the positional relationship and causes the unmanned moving body to move to the first position, the first position being a position that places the first target and the second target within a range over which the sound from the directional speaker reaches at at least a predetermined quality.
US12170863B2
A device has one or more loudspeakers housed in a rigid loudspeaker frame and a back cover, affixed to the rigid loudspeaker frame, with a base layer and a raised layer fitted against a back side of the rigid loudspeaker frame, and the base layer has a uniform layer thickness and the raised layer is a non-uniform grid of raised supports which extend beyond a height of the uniform layer thickness to create a plurality of enclosed portions having the uniform layer thickness.
US12170861B2
An electronic monitoring system is provided that allows for an access point to transmit variable target wake time durations to a wireless device based upon the detection of a categorized triggering event being sensed by the wireless device. The system allows for one or more components to be deactivated during the variable target wake time duration, as to reduce power consumption during periods of inactivity. A method of varying the target wake time duration in a wireless imaging device based upon the detection of a categorized triggering event being sensed by the wireless device is also provided.
US12170859B2
To generate multiple types of images of the same subject, an electronic apparatus includes a drive control unit that controls the drive of an image sensor, a division unit that divides an image capture region of the image sensor into at least first and second regions, and an image generation unit that generates a first image by capturing an image of the same subject in the first region and generates a second image by capturing an image of the same subject in the second region.
US12170855B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pulse shaping circuit that shapes an output from a diode of avalanche amplification type into a pulse, and a pulse conversion circuit that converts a pulse signal output from the pulse shaping circuit. The pulse conversion circuit converts a pulse signal having a first amplitude and output from the pulse shaping circuit into a pulse signal having a second amplitude smaller than the first amplitude.
US12170846B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic apparatus to: receive an instruction to perform image capturing preparation processing; control to display a captured image which is captured by an image pickup element but not to display a first item to indicate setting information related to image capturing and a second item to indicate information related to a result of the image capturing preparation processing, on a display, in a case of a first state including a state of not receiving the instruction; and control to display, 1) the second item at a position corresponding to the result of the image capturing preparation processing and 2) the first item, along with the captured image, on the display, in a case where the instruction is received.
US12170831B2
This disclosure provides an image capturing apparatus including an image capturing unit, which comprises a determination unit for determining a subject and a shooting environment based on data obtained by the image capturing unit; an air cooling unit for rotating a fan for cooling the image capturing apparatus; and a control unit for controlling a fan rotation number per unit time of the air cooling unit, wherein the control unit sets a fan rotation number upper limit value of the air cooling means according to the result of determination by the determination unit.
US12170829B1
A video processing method and device, storage medium and program product are provided. The method includes: in response to a template editing operation triggered on a video editing interface, acquiring a video draft template indicated by the template editing operation and an initial video material, wherein an editing track is presented on the video editing interface, an initial video track clip formed based on the initial video material is presented on the editing track, the video draft template includes editing information, and the editing information is for indicating an editing operation for a video material to be filled; filling the initial video material in the video draft template to form a target video track clip, wherein the target video track clip is for presenting an editing effect obtained by editing the initial video material by means of editing processing; and presenting the target video track clip on the editing track.
US12170813B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein can be operable to facilitate different reporting treatment for certain join requests received during a fast channel change. A gateway device may automatically detect the FCC (Fast Channel Change) via a configured interval. The gateway device may be configured such that if a subsequent IGMP (Internet group management protocol) join request was received within the configured interval since a previous join request, the previous join request may be ignored. According to the configuration of the gateway device, in a FCC, only the first channel and the last channel are reported, and the middle channel changes may be ignored.
US12170807B2
Techniques and systems are provided for processing user interface content. For example, a server computer can receive a user interface event corresponding to a user interface of a device (e.g., a client device, another server computer, or other device). An application associated with the user interface event can be determined, and an interface model can be generated using the application associated with the user interface event. The interface model defines state information for one or more graphic objects of the user interface. The state information results from the user interface event. The server computer can send the interface model to the device, which enables the device to render the user interface.
US12170804B2
For establishing cooperation among an external device 30, a video display device and a remote control terminal and to achieve cooperative operation among these devices that affords a high level of operability to a user with less burden, the video display device to which an external device and a remote control terminal that remotely operates the external device can be connected, comprising: a connection detection section configured to detect a connection of the external device to the video display device; a cooperation establishment section configured to generate a start signal for initiate an application software accepting an operation instruction to the external device on the remote control terminal when the connection detection section detects the connection of the external device; and a communication interface configured to transmit the start signal to the remote control terminal.
US12170802B2
A cloud-based computing system is configured to (i) maintain a scheduled playlist of media items, a current playback position within the scheduled playlist, and a priority media item for playback, (ii) receive, from a first playback device associated with an account, a first request to play back the scheduled playlist, (iii) transmit the priority media item to the first playback device for playback before any media item from the scheduled playlist, (iv) receive, from a second playback device associated with the account, a second request to play back the scheduled playlist, (v) determine that the priority media item should not be transmitted to the second playback device, and (vi) after determining that the priority media item should not be transmitted to the second playback device, transmit one or more media items from the scheduled playlist to the second playback device based on the current playback position within the scheduled playlist.
US12170795B2
An image coding method includes: an image acquisition step of acquiring a coding-target image; a feature map generation step of generating a feature map, based on the image; a contraction function generation step of performing fractal compression of the feature map and generating a contraction function; and an entropy encoding step of performing entropy encoding of the contraction function.
US12170792B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure includes receiving a bitstream including residual information; deriving quantized transform coefficients for a current block based on the residual information included in the bitstream; deriving residual samples for the current block based on the quantized transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed picture based on the residual samples for the current block.
US12170788B2
A method of encoding a motion information predictor index for an Affine Merge mode, comprising: generating a list of motion information predictor candidates; selecting one of the motion information predictor candidates in the list as an Affine Merge mode predictor; and generating a motion information predictor index for the selected motion information predictor candidate using CABAC coding, one or more bits of the motion information predictor index being bypass CABAC coded.
US12170787B2
A display device is provided that comprising circuitry configured to transmit, to a reproduction device, an extended display identification data (EDID) that includes the display information representing a performance of the display device. The circuitry further receives HDR video data from the reproduction device including HDR information that includes brightness characteristic information in frame data when the display information includes information representing a display performance of the HDR video, contains the EDID containing information of a 4k resolution or higher, displays an image of the received HDR video data in accordance with brightness designated by the HDR information, and adjusts a brightness of the image of the received HDR video data to a brightness capability for the display of the image.
US12170773B2
An image coding device that suppresses degradation of subjective image quality while improving the coding efficiency of residual coefficients of two chroma components. The image coding device that codes image data constituted by one luma component and two chroma components, comprises quantizing unit that performs an orthogonal transform on each of components of a block obtained by dividing an image to be coded, and quantizes transform coefficients of each of the components obtained from the orthogonal transform; and coding unit that codes residual coefficients obtained by the quantizing unit, wherein when coding the transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform of the two chroma components in an integrated manner, the coding unit quantizes transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform obtained from the integration using a predetermined quantization matrix, and codes residual coefficients obtained from the quantizing.
US12170769B2
A video encoding method includes: storing quantized data of frames which have undergone a quantization process by serially storing the quantized data of the frames on a per quantized data of one frame basis; determining a quantization parameter to be used when performing a quantization process of a next frame immediately following the frames, based on quantized data of a predetermined number of frames among the quantized data of the frames; performing the quantization process of the next frame based on the quantization parameter to generate quantized data of the next frame; and executing encoding processes for entropy encoding quantized data of frames including the next frame in parallel between the frames including the next frame.
US12170766B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for video processing are described. The video processing may include video encoding, video decoding, or video transcoding. One example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule. The format rule specifies that a first field at a sequence level or a picture level or a slice level controls a value of a second field in an adaptation parameter set.
US12170765B2
Instructions embedded on a computer-readable medium, when executed on one or more computer devices, improve video coding performance while using a merge mode in motion estimation. The instructions comprise instructions to perform one or more refinement searches on a plurality of candidate regions of a current frame. The instructions also comprise instructions to determine one or more distortion values based, at least in part, on reduced candidate regions and instructions to code motion data based, at least in part, on the one or more refinement searches.
US12170758B2
Systems and techniques are provided for overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC). A method can include determining an OBMC mode is enabled for a current subblock of video data; for a neighboring subblock(s) adjacent to the current subblock, determining whether a first, second and third condition are met, the first condition comprising that all reference picture lists for predicting the current subblock are used to predict the neighboring subblock; the second condition comprising that identical reference pictures are used to determine motion vectors associated with the current subblock and the neighboring subblock, and the third condition comprising that a difference between motion vectors of the current subblock and the neighboring subblock do not exceed a threshold; and based on determining that the OBMC mode is enabled and the first, second, and third conditions are met, determining not to use motion information of the neighboring subblock for motion compensation of the current subblock.
US12170754B2
This application relates to an apparatus and method for providing a wrap-around view based on three-dimensional (3D) distance information. The apparatus may include a camera module, a sensor module, and a controller. The camera module acquires image information in all directions, and the sensor module measures 3D spatial information in all directions. The controller is configured to generate 3D distance information by projecting the measured 3D spatial information onto a two-dimensional (2D) plane, to generate a 3D model in a 3D space by using the generated 3D distance information, and to generate a wrap-around view by mapping the acquired image information to the generated 3D model.
US12170752B2
Using the techniques discussed herein, a set of images is captured by one or more array imagers (106). Each array imager includes multiple imagers configured in various manners. Each array imager captures multiple images of substantially a same scene at substantially a same time. The images captured by each array image are encoded by multiple processors (112, 114). Each processor can encode sets of images captured by a different array imager, or each processor can encode different sets of images captured by the same array imager. The encoding of the images is performed using various image-compression techniques so that the information that results from the encoding is smaller, in terms of storage size, than the uncompressed images.
US12170749B2
A cloud link system is connected with another cloud link system. In a list of cloud services includes a first cloud service connected to the cloud link system without the another cloud link system and a second cloud service connected to the another cloud link system.
US12170746B2
An image reading apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a casing, a reading unit, a support shaft, a first cable, and a second cable. The reading unit includes a reading sensor configured to read an image of the sheet conveyed in the conveyance path through the transparent member. The support shaft supports the reading unit in a manner of moving in a moving direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the reading unit. The first cable is connected to a first connecting portion disposed in the reading unit, the first cable being held by the reading unit on one side in the longitudinal direction with respect to the support shaft. The second cable is connected to a second connecting portion disposed in the reading unit, the second cable being held by the reading unit on the other side in the longitudinal direction with respect to the support shaft.
US12170742B2
A computer-implemented method and system for improving caller verification is provided. The method comprises registering an intended communications session by generating a key using, at least, a first call time window identifier, and storing the key in a database; in response to registering the intended communication session, receiving a request for caller verification, wherein the request comprises data representing a second call time window identifier; in response to receiving the request for caller verification, generating a comparison key based on the request; comparing the comparison key with the key stored in the database; and verifying the intended communication session in response to comparing the comparison key with the key.
US12170735B2
A chip device with a logic circuitry (105) protected by a randomized logic encryption based on a key (K) for preventing a designated usage of the logic circuitry (105) by an unauthorized user comprises: a physically unclonable function, PUF, (110), a storage (120), and a chip enabler (130) with one or more registers (132). The physically unclonable function, PUF, (110) is configured to generate a device-individual response (Re) based on a challenge (Ch). The storage (120) has stored the challenge (Ch) and a data element (C), the data element (C) being an encryption of the key (K) with the response (Re) of the PUF (110) as encryption key. The enabler (130) is configured to enable the logic circuitry (105) for the designated usage only, when the key (K) is transferred to the register(s) (132), the key (K) being a decryption of the data element (C) with the response (Re) as the encryption key.
US12170733B2
According to the present invention, the convenience of a utilization management technology for a usage target object is enhanced and the security risk is reduced. This utilization control device (1) is capable of communicating only in a near field communication (63) and stores a first public key that is paired with a first secret key stored in a management device (2). When hole data is received with a first signature from a provider terminal (3), the first signature is verified by means of the first key, and when the signature verification is established, the hole data is set to an own device (1). The hole data includes a second public key that is paired with a second secret key stored in the management device (2). When a utilization permit card is received with a second signature from a user terminal (4), the second signature is verified with the second public key, and when the signature verification is validated, transaction information included in the utilization permit card is acquired. In addition, with reference to the acquired transaction information, when a condition specified by the transaction information is satisfied, a utilization limit to the object to be utilized (a house (50)) is released.
US12170731B2
A method for generating a block for a blockchain utilizing an all-or-nothing transform includes: storing, in a memory of a blockchain node in a blockchain network, a blockchain comprised of a plurality of blocks including at least a most recent block; receiving a plurality of blockchain transactions; applying an all-or-nothing transform (AONT) to the plurality of blockchain transactions to generate a plurality of pseudomessage blocks; generating a new block header including at least a timestamp and a hash value associated with the most recent block; generating a new block including at least the generated new block header and the plurality of pseudomessage blocks; and transmitting the generated new block to a plurality of additional blockchain nodes in the blockchain network.
US12170726B2
A method for personalizing embedded secure elements, eSE, allows for simplified manufacturing before being integrated into host devices. An eSE implements services executed by an embedded operating system, OS, whereupon it is loaded into the eSE. The non-personalized eSE comprises an OS loader and a master cryptographic key common to a plurality of secure elements. It can therefore be produced in large numbers. The OS loader obtains an operating system package from a server and installs it. In response to the installation, the OS loader generates a derivation cryptographic key by diversifying the master cryptographic key, and then the OS generates personalized data by deriving pre-personalization data with the derivation key. The eSE, deployed in the field in a simple non-personalized state, is fully personalized without exchanging secret personalized data.
US12170724B2
A system and method for determining a secret crypto-graphic key shared between a sending unit and a receiving unit for secure communication includes obtaining, by the sending unit, a random bit sequence, and transmitting, at the sending unit, a first sequence of electromagnetic pulses to the receiving unit via a communication channel, wherein each electro-magnetic pulse of the first sequence of electromagnetic pulses corresponds to a bit of the random bit sequence according to a ciphering protocol, the signal loss is determined in the communication channel caused by an eavesdropper, and an information advantage is estimated over the eavesdropper based on the determined signal loss. Privacy amplification is performed based on the estimated information advantage in order to establish a shared secret crypto-graphic key.
US12170710B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, to manage devices during emergent conditions are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, by a first computing device, data indicating a function of a second computing device. The actions further include determining, by the first computing device, a context of the second computing device. Based on the context of the second computing device, the actions further include determining, by the first computing device, whether to activate the function of the second computing device. Based on determining whether to activate the function of the second computing device, the actions further include determining, by the first computing device, whether to output, to the second computing device, an instruction to activate the function.
US12170689B2
A computer-implemented method and system for managing and configuring flow specification (FlowSpec) messages for a customer network by a controller device coupled to the customer network. Network traffic is monitored by the controller device flowing through the customer network detect a network attack in the customer network. The controller device enables a network user to configure a Flowspec message responsive to the detected network attack. The controller device preferably enables the network user to either 1) manually configure a FlowSpec message or 2) configure a Flowspec message utilizing one or more pre-existing FlowSpec rulesets preferably defined for that customer network. The controller device then enables the network user to either 1) display to the network user the mitigation actions to be performed by the configured Flowspec message and save the configured Flowspec message in a data repository without announcement of the configured Flowspec message to the customer network; or 2) announce the configured Flowspec message to the customer network and save the configured Flowspec message in a data repository responsive to selection by the network user.
US12170687B2
A method for determining a spam URL includes: (a) extracting a URL from an e-mail; (b) determining whether the extracted URL is a redirecting URL; (c) when the extracted URL is a redirecting URL, accessing a redirection URL that is connected as a result of access to the extracted URL; (d) when the redirection URL is a redirecting URL, accessing a redirection URL that is connected as a result of access to the redirection URL; (e) repeating operation (d); (f) when a last accessed URL in one of operations (c), (d), and (e) is not a redirecting URL, determine whether the last accessed URL is a spam URL; and (g) when it is determined that the last accessed URL is a spam URL, determining the extracted URL, the last accessed URL and any redirection URL connected between the extracted URL and the last accessed URL as spam URLs.
US12170682B1
A system and method for application endpoint validation and securement is presented. The method includes: detecting an application endpoint on a resource deployed in a computing environment; generating in a security database: a representation of the application endpoint, and a representation of the resource, wherein the security database includes a representation of the computing environment; determining a network path between the resource and an external network, the network path including the application endpoint and a reachability parameter; initiating active inspection of the application endpoint over the network path; and initiating a mitigation action in the computing environment in response to determining through active inspection that the application endpoint is exposed to the external network.
US12170672B1
A network system to provide mutable access tokens for access requests that eliminate a need for token replacement. The system allows an access token to be changed to update data in the token. When data stored with the token changes, such as when a user or partner has a change in status, a new token is not required to be requested, generated, dispersed, or stored. Conventional systems refuse the API call request and require the new token be provided. The described system instead completes the request while simultaneously notifying the user to subsequently retrieve an updated access token. Requesting, generating, communicating, and presenting a new token requires additional time, bandwidth, computing capacity, and system interactions. While performing new token acquisition in conventional systems, devices are forced to perform additional interactions, which may result in a time delay or in one or more devices exceeding capacity, becoming overloaded, and seizing.
US12170671B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for secure selection of a user profile in a shared context. For example, a method may include: determining, by one or more processors, an association between a user device and a shared user profile; determining, by the one or more processors, that the user device is within a predetermined proximity of a multiuser device; determining, by the one or more processors, the shared user profile associated with the user device as a result of determining that the user device is within the predetermined proximity of the multiuser device; receiving, by the one or more processors, biometric verification from the first user; and activating, by the one or more processors, the first specific user profile associated with the first user on the multiuser device as a result of determining that the first user has successfully provided biometric verification.
US12170664B2
Embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product that enable secure access to cameras in smart buildings. Some embodiments control outbound video from an environment such as a local network through an intelligent on-event video pushing mechanism. The local intelligent on-event video pushing mechanism hides the IP address of a source video camera, transcodes the video to a reduced size for wide area distribution, and pushes video to a recipient upon an event triggered received within the local environment (e.g., the local network.) Embodiments enable a remote video client on the far-side of the local network firewall to view the video streams of cameras on the near-side of the local network firewall when an event or trigger occurs.
US12170644B2
Techniques for binding communication flows to unique addresses and/or ports, and configuring networking devices internal to a network to apply policy without the need to further introspect a given stream. Further, by creating mappings of unique addresses and/or ports to flows, the network devices are able to enforce policy without needing to coordinate with an edge node of the network at which the communication session terminates. Further, the techniques may include providing an SDN controller with a mapping between a unique address/port and a network flow, determining flow-specific policy to enforce on the flow, and programming one or more network devices to enforce the flow-specific policy in the network using the unique address/port.
US12170641B2
The disclosed technology is generally directed towards monitoring electronic communications to detect content in a communication that is attempting to influence the recipient user in some way. A user can specify influential intent preference data, such as which electronic communications services/applications to monitor for such influential intent content, and the types of the influential intent to monitor for, e.g., political influence types, advertisement influence types, and so on. A user also can specify remedial or other actions to take upon detection, e.g., block such content, alert on detecting such content and so on. An electronic influence manager server and/or application program can perform the monitoring and/or take the actions. Also described is reporting on the communications with influential intent, user actions with respect thereto. Reputation data can also be collected and used with respect to sources of communications with influential intent.
US12170638B2
A method and a system include providing for a group conversation between plural users including a first user and a second user; determining that the second user is active within one of the main conversation view or the experience page; upon determining that the second user is active in the main conversation view, providing a first graphical element for display on a first device associated with the first user, the first graphical element including an avatar and name of the second user; and upon determining that the second user is active in the experience page, providing a second graphical element for display on the first device associated with the first user, the second graphical element including the avatar and name of the second user together with an icon representing the experience page.
US12170637B2
An apparatus for data communication includes a sensor-transceiver and control logic. The sensor-transceiver is coupled to a sensor and connects by an Ethernet link of a communication network in a vehicle to a processor-transceiver that is coupled to a processor. In an upstream direction from the sensor-transceiver to the processor-transceiver, the sensor-transceiver transmits data to the processor-transceiver over the Ethernet link at an upstream data rate, and in a downstream direction from the processor-transceiver to the sensor-transceiver, receives data from the processor-transceiver over the Ethernet link at a downstream data rate. The control logic is configured to select the upstream data rate for communication in the upstream direction to be higher than the downstream data rate for communication in the downstream direction when operating in a first mode, and to select the upstream data rate to be lower than the downstream data rate when operating in a second mode.
US12170631B2
A method performed by a STA may comprise transmitting a first negotiation message to an AP and receiving a second negotiation message from the AP. The first negotiation message and the second negotiation message may negotiate a block acknowledgement agreement. The method may further comprise receiving a data unit, from the AP, the data unit having a duration field indicating a duration of a block-ACK frame. The duration of the block-ACK frame may be determined based on the negotiated block ACK agreement. A block-ACK frame may be transmitted within the duration indicated by the duration field.
US12170628B2
Various schemes pertaining to distributed-tone resource unit (dRU) transmission schemes with frequency-domain duplication in a 6 GHz low-power indoor (LPI) system are described. An apparatus distributes a plurality of subcarriers of a resource unit (RU) to generate a dRU with frequency-domain duplication on a plurality of frequency subblocks. The apparatus then communicates with a communication entity on the plurality of frequency subblocks.
US12170627B2
One aspect of a user terminal according to the present invention includes: a receiving section that receives a downlink shared channel transmitted from a plurality of transmission/reception points; and a control section that controls transmission of a transmission confirmation signal corresponding to the downlink shared channel, based on downlink control information including at least one of a count value and a total value of DL assignment jointly controlled in the plurality of transmission/reception points.
US12170622B2
In some embodiments, a method receives a set of packets for a flow and determines a set of features for the flow from the set of packets. A classification of an elephant flow or a mice flow is selected based on the set of features. The classification is selected before assigning the flow to a network resource in a plurality of network resources. The method assigns the flow to a network resource in the plurality of network resources based on the classification for the flow and a set of classifications for flows currently assigned to the plurality of network resources. Then, the method sends the set of packets for the flow using the assigned network resource.
US12170609B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for determining data transmission destinations across an electronic network. The method includes receiving a resource data packet to be transmitted to one of a plurality of data centers across a network. The resource data packet is associated with a user identifier that corresponds to one of one or more users. The method also includes determining a target data center for the resource data packet based on the user identifier associated with the resource data packet. One or more character of the user identifier associated with the resource data packet designates the target data center for the user associated with the user identifier of the resource data packet. The method further includes causing a transmission of the resource data packet to the target data center based on the user identifier associated with the resource data packet.
US12170608B2
Techniques are described for predicting future behavior of links in a network and generating dynamic thresholds for link metrics for use in path selection. In one example, a computing system receives historical values of a link metric for links of a network. The computing system executes a machine learning system which processes the historical values of the link metric to generate: (1) a predicted future value of the link metric for each link; and (2) a threshold for the link metric indicating whether the predicted future value for each link is anomalous. The computing system computes a path based on the predicted future values of the link metric and the threshold for the link metric. The computing system provisions the computed path, thereby enabling a network device to forward network traffic along the computed path.
US12170607B2
A transmission apparatus performs communication with a transmission side transmission apparatus via a transmission path of an active system and a transmission path of a standby system. The transmission apparatus includes: a memory configured to have a capacity that is as large as delay caused due to a maximum path difference between the transmission path of the active system and the transmission path of the standby system is allowable; and a memory connection control unit configured to switch connection of the memory and cause a signal of the transmission path of the active system or the transmission path of the standby system to be accumulated in the memory.
US12170606B2
In a method performed by a first node associated with a first domain of a communications network, a first message is sent (302) to a second node associated with a second domain of the communications network. The first message comprises an indication of a resource in the first domain that is available to the second domain. The first message further comprises an anonymised first global unique identifier associated with the first domain.
US12170601B2
A network management device determines at least one of that an individual error occurs in a target terminal device when a difference between (i) a response time for the target terminal device and (ii) an average response time that is an average value of the response time for each of two or more terminal devices belonging to a group to which the target terminal device belongs is larger than a first predetermined value, and that a group error occurs in a target group when a difference between (i) a current average response time that is an average value of the response time and (ii) a previous average response time that is an average value of a previous response time for two or more terminal devices belonging to the target group is larger than a second predetermined value, the previous response time being immediately prior to the response time.
US12170600B2
Techniques are described in which a network management system processes network event data received from the AP devices. The NMS is configured to dynamically determine, in real-time, a minimum (MIN) threshold and a maximum (MAX) threshold for expected occurrences for each event type, wherein the MIN thresholds and MAX thresholds define ranges of expected occurrences for the network events of the corresponding event types. The NMS applies an unsupervised machine learning model to the network event data to determine predicted counts of occurrences of the network events for each of the event types and identify, based on the predicted counts of occurrences and the dynamically-determined minimum threshold values and maximum threshold values for each event type, one or more of the network events as indicative of abnormal network behavior.
US12170595B1
Systems and methods enable static analysis of Service Assurance Policies (SAPs) for conflict detection in design time and enable conflict resolution in runtime. Conflicts degrade network slice performance and can, in some cases, disable a network. According to one implementation, a network device stores, for a Service Design and Creation (SDC) function, a Unified Network Slice Assurance Template (UNSAT) with multiple SAPs for a network slice configuration. The UNSAT includes a functional block identifying a first SAP associated with a functional category of a network function, and a resource block identifying a second SAP associated with a resource category of network infrastructure. The network device performs, based on the multiple SAPs, design time conflict identification that detects when actions from the multiple SAPs that are associated with a same network function conflict with each other and provides a notification when the design time conflict identification identifies a conflict.
US12170592B2
Systems, methods, and devices that relate to an inspection system deployed in a core network. The inspection system includes one or more inspection agent nodes located close to an edge of the core network configured to generate one or more network reports based on information from one or more access nodes. An inspection manager node is in communication with the one or more inspection agent nodes to receive one or more network reports from the one or more inspection agent nodes, derive an actual network behavior of the one or more access nodes based on the one or more network reports, detect a discrepancy between an expected network behavior and the actual network behavior, and trigger a reconfiguration of at least one of the one or more access nodes based on the discrepancy.
US12170591B1
Disclosed is an online optimization method for a power consumption policy of a terminal of Internet of things (IoT), including: performing comprehensive scanning on a user terminal and a link, and obtaining a link behavior graph; inputting the link behavior graph into a simulation based optimization (SBO) system to obtain power consumption parameters for minimizing power consumption of the user terminal; performing centralized storage on the link behavior graph and the power consumption parameters; regularly sending, by the user terminal, operation data to a server, and evaluating, by the server, whether a power consumption policy needs to be optimized; and issuing, by the server, a parameter update instruction to complete the upgrading of the power consumption policy of the user terminal. In the present disclosure, the update of the power consumption policy of the user terminal can be conveyed more quickly and more efficiently.
US12170587B2
A transmitting apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure transmits a plurality of first transmission data and a plurality of second transmission data by using an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing) method. The transmitting apparatus includes frame configuring circuitry, which in operation, generates a frame including a first period in which a preamble is transmitted, a second period in which the plurality of first transmission data is multiplexed by a time division multiplexing method and is transmitted, and a third period in which the plurality of second transmission data is multiplexed by a frequency division multiplexing method and is transmitted; and transmitting circuitry that transmits the frame.
US12170584B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network, the method including performing channel estimation based on received signaling, the channel estimation providing a channel estimate value for each subcarrier of a set of subcarriers. The received signaling covers a number NPRB of Physical Resource Blocks, PRB, in frequency domain, each PRB having a number NSC of subcarriers. The set of subcarriers has a number NSUB of subsets of subcarriers, subcarriers of the same subset being associated to the same PRB of the number NPRB of PRBs. The channel estimation associates different channel estimate values to different subcarriers of one or more of the NSUB subsets. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US12170580B2
An approach is provided for a meeting assist process to receive, over one or more communications networks, a meeting request for meeting assistance, the request including meeting background information, the meeting assist process instantiating an information gathering module to automatically parse the background information to form one or more queries for collecting data across a plurality of data sources, query a plurality of data sources to gather information, and distribute the gathered information automatically to predetermined locations. The meeting assist process further instantiates a meeting artificial intelligence module to monitor the meeting and apply artificial intelligence to automatically detect and track meeting progress, and automatically instantiates a summarization artificial intelligence module upon the meeting ending to generate a meeting analysis including at least a post-meeting summary and sentiment analysis, and automatically distributes the meeting analysis to a shared repository database or a predetermined email list.
US12170577B2
Techniques may include receiving, by a computing device, a first set of video streams from a videoconferencing service, the video streams corresponding to one or more videoconference participants. In addition, the techniques may include receiving a second set of video streams from one or more cameras communicably coupled with the computing device. The techniques may include receiving settings for one or more video streams of a third set of video streams, the settings indicating one or more video feed properties. Moreover, the techniques may include producing a third set of video streams from the first set of video streams according to the one or more video feed properties. Also, the techniques may include outputting one or more video streams of the second set of video streams and the third set of video streams.
US12170575B2
A method may include transmitting, to a wireless device, radio resource control (RRC) messages that include parameters of a multicast and broadcast service (MBS). The parameters may indicate a first feedback operation with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback being enabled and may indicate a second feedback operation with the HARQ feedback being disabled. A group common downlink control information (DCI) may indicate one of the first feedback operation or the second feedback operation. The method may also include transmitting a first group common DCI, which may schedule a first transport block (TB) of the MBS and may indicate the first feedback operation. The method may further include receiving, based on the first group common DCI indicating the first feedback operation, a first HARQ feedback for the first TB.
US12170574B2
The present application relates to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, the method includes: receiving a first group of downlink transmissions; transmitting a first HARQ-ACK codebook for the first group of downlink transmissions in response to channel access procedure for transmitting the first HARQ-ACK codebook being successful; receiving a second group of downlink transmissions; determining whether to retransmit HARQ-ACK feedback for the first group of downlink transmissions; transmitting a combined HARQ-ACK codebook in response to determining to retransmit the HARQ-ACK feedback for the first group of downlink transmissions and channel access procedure for transmitting the combined HARQ-ACK codebook being successful, wherein the combined HARQ-ACK codebook includes a first sub-codebook corresponding to the first group of downlink transmissions and a second sub-codebook corresponding to the second group of downlink transmissions; and transmitting a second HARQ-ACK codebook for the second group of downlink transmissions in response to determining not to retransmit the HARQ-ACK feedback for the first group of downlink transmissions and channel access procedure for transmitting the second HARQ-ACK codebook being successful.
US12170572B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an encoder device may receive, from a base station, in accordance with a buffer configuration of the encoder device or a buffer report associated with the encoder device, an indication of a set of transport blocks (TBs) for a network coded sidelink retransmission, the set of TBs associated with one or more sidelink transmissions. The encoder device may transmit the network coded sidelink retransmission based at least in part on encoding TBs, included in the set of TBs, that are stored in a buffer of the encoder device. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12170564B2
Disclosed are beam training methods and devices. A beam training method includes: a transmitting end determining a first mapping relationship between BPL identifiers, CRIs, and transmitting beams; the transmitting end configuring a first reference signal resource for a receiving end, and transmitting configuration information of the first reference signal resource to the receiving end, the configuration information including a first BPL identifier; the transmitting end determining a first transmitting beam; the transmitting end transmitting a reference signal to the receiving end, by using the first transmitting beam within the first reference signal resource, so that the receiving end receives the reference signal on the first reference signal resource.
US12170562B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiver may receive, from a transmitter, an indication of a signature of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The receiver may receive a signal that is transmitted by the transmitter and redirected by the RIS. The receiver may receive, from the RIS, a sequence associated with the signature of the RIS indicating that the signal is transmitted using a link associated with the RIS. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12170551B2
A method of transmission over multiple wireless channels in a multiple antenna system includes storing channel modulation matrices at a transmitter; receiving quantized channel state information at the transmitter from plural receivers; selecting a transmission modulation matrix using the quantized channel state information from the stored channel modulation matrices; and transmitting over the multiple channels to the plural receivers using the selected transmission modulation matrix. In another embodiment, the method includes storing, at one or more receivers, indexes of modulation matrices generated by a capacity enhancing algorithm; upon a selected one of the one or more receivers receiving a transmission from the transmitter, the selected receiver selecting a modulation matrix from the stored modulation matrices that optimizes transmission between the transmitter and the selected receiver; the selected receiver sending an index representing the selected modulation matrix; and receiving the index at the transmitter from the selected receiver.
US12170550B2
Systems and methods for wireless simultaneous transmit and receive (STAR) using multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radiofrequency (RF) front-ends are provided. A MIMO front-end can be based on the use of a symmetrical pair of arrays, in which one is used for communication while the other is used inside an RF-shielded chamber to act as a reference for subtracting self-interference between transmitters and receivers. In addition to the two arrays, the symmetry of the system can include two identical passive microwave multi-beam beamforming networks. The beamformer networks can be, for example, Butler Matrix based, true-time delay microwave networks, or Rotman lens based.
US12170545B2
A communication network includes a coherent optics transmitter, a coherent optics receiver, an optical transport medium operably coupling the coherent optics transmitter to the coherent optics receiver, and a coherent optics interface. The coherent optics interface includes a lineside interface portion, a clientside interface portion, and a control interface portion.
US12170544B2
Optical signal processing circuit, optical reception apparatus, and optical signal processing method
An optical signal processing circuit (1) includes: an FDE-MIMO equalizer (2) configured to generate, based on continuous subcarrier signals including a target subcarrier signal in an optical multicarrier signal to be received, the continuous subcarrier signals that have been subjected to frequency-domain MIMO equalization processing; and a TDE-MIMO equalizer (3) configured to generate, based on the continuous subcarrier signals that have been subjected to the frequency-domain MIMO equalization processing, the target subcarrier signal that has been subjected to time-domain MIMO equalization processing.
US12170542B2
An optical transmitter includes an I-component optical modulation unit, a Q-component optical modulation unit, and a 2×2 optical coupler. The I-component optical modulation unit generates modulated light based on an I-component data signal. The Q-component optical modulation unit generates modulated light based on a Q-component data signal. The 2×2 optical coupler receives the modulated light generated by the I-component optical modulation unit from a first input port, receives the modulated light generated by the Q-component optical modulation unit from a second input port, generates two optical QAM signals having a phase conjugate relationship from the modulated light which has been input from the first input port and the modulated light which has been input from the second input port, outputs one of said two optical QAM signals from a first output port, and outputs the other one of said two optical QAM signals from a second output port.
US12170530B1
A method for decoding polar codes based encoded data comprises receiving the polar codes based encoded data, determining a rate at which the data is encoded, based on the determined rate, selecting suitable implemented super nodes in a flexible-rate polar decoder, and decoding the polar codes based encoded data. A flexible-rate polar decoder is created by receiving polar codes corresponding to a set of desired overheads, generating, for each overhead, a binary tree using fast successive cancellation decoding, generating a unified binary tree by determining locations of super nodes within each binary tree, representing the determined locations having same node index among different binary trees as super locations in the unified binary tree, each super location including more than one super node, and implementing the unified binary tree on an application specific hardware structure to create the flexible-rate polar decoder.
US12170523B2
This disclosure relates to a current-to-digital converter suitable for wide-ranging current sensing applications. In particular, the current-to-digital converter comprises a delta-sigma analogue-to-digital converter which utilizes a successive-approximation-register to control a modulation of the sensed current so that the digital conversion of the modulated sensed current by the delta-sigma analogue-to-digital converter may be done with high precision.
US12170503B2
A distributor unit for a tracking unit for a solar collector, the distributor unit including at least one first line section with a first rotational block, which is designed to establish a fluidic connection between the first line section and a base element, in particular an upright, and a second line section with a second rotational block, which is designed to establish a fluidic connection between the second line section and a first support arm of the solar collector. The first line section is rotatably connected to the first rotational block, and the second line section is rotatably connected to the second rotational block.
US12170501B2
Systems and methods are provided for controlling two or more linear generators each operating according to a repeated behavior to constitute a cycle. A control system utilizes control circuitry to determine a desired phase offset between operation cycles of a first linear generator and a second linear generator of the two or more linear generators. During operation, an actual phase offset between the first linear generator and the second linear generator is determined. The control circuitry of the control system is used to modify the operation of at least one of the first linear generator or the second linear generator to achieve the desired phase effect.
US12170499B2
According to one embodiment, a motor drive apparatus includes a first inverter, a second inverter, and a controller. This controller rotationally moves, at the time of startup of a motor, a rotor of the motor to an initial position by DC excitation of supplying DC exciting currents from the first and second inverters to the phase windings of the motor and, after this rotational movement, PWM-controls switching of the first and second inverters in such a manner that a rotational speed of the rotor becomes a target rotational speed. Then, the controller carries out the DC excitation fey which a zero-axis current in each of the phase windings becomes approximately zero.
US12170492B2
An electric power conversion apparatus includes a semiconductor module, a control circuit board and a wireless communication unit. The semiconductor module has at least one semiconductor element built therein. The control circuit board is configured to control the semiconductor module. The wireless communication unit is configured to wirelessly communicate electrical signals between the semiconductor module and the control circuit board. The wireless communication unit includes a first communication device provided on the control circuit board so as to face the semiconductor module, and a second communication device provided on the semiconductor module so as to face the control circuit board. Moreover, there are no obstacles on a straight path between the first and second communication devices.
US12170486B2
A method for controlling a switching mode power supply is disclosed. An auxiliary winding feedback voltage of the switching mode power supply is sampled and held to obtain an auxiliary winding sample hold voltage. The auxiliary winding feedback voltage is sampled and held at an inflection point time to obtain an auxiliary winding inflection point voltage when the switching mode power supply operates in DCM or CRM. A secondary rectifier forward voltage signal is generated based on the auxiliary winding sample hold voltage and the auxiliary winding inflection point voltage before the switching mode power supply operates in CCM. A correction voltage is provided based on the secondary rectifier forward voltage signal when the switching power supply operates in CCM. An error amplifier signal is generated based on the correction voltage. The output power of the switching mode power supply is adjusted based on the error amplifier signal.
US12170480B2
A controller for a multi-level converter compares a first voltage proportional to an input voltage or an output voltage with a second voltage proportional to a voltage of a flying capacitor and adjusting a slope of a ramp signal for generating a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal so that the second voltage follows the first voltage in controlling the multi-level converter.
US12170478B2
A power delivery sub-system included in a computer system employs a primary voltage regulator circuit that generates a primary supply voltage on a primary power supply node. The power delivery sub-system also includes multiple bypass voltage regulator circuits that source corresponding bypass currents to a local power supply nodes in an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes multiple circuit blocks coupled to corresponding ones of the local power supply nodes, and multiple local voltage regulator circuits coupled to the primary power supply node. When a voltage level of a given local power supply node drops below a threshold value, a corresponding local voltage regulator circuit sources a supply current to the given local power supply node.
US12170477B2
A power conversion device includes two lower arm switching elements connected in parallel to each other and a lower arm driver circuit that drives the two lower arm switching elements. The two lower arm switching elements respectively include gate terminals and detection terminals used to detect counter-electromotive forces. The power conversion device includes a common connection line that connects the two detection terminals to each other and connects the two detection terminals to an addition circuit of the lower arm driver circuit. A combined electromotive force is transmitted via the common connection line.
US12170471B2
A device for attaching a motor protector includes: an accommodating member; and a fixation member to which the accommodating member accommodating a motor protector is detachably attached. The fixation member includes a base portion and at least two arm portions. The two arm portions sandwich and hold the accommodating member once the accommodating member is pushed to inside of the two arm portions. The fixation member further includes assisting portions that extend from the base portion to a side of the accommodating member, are caused to pass through assisting portion insertion holes provided in the accommodating member and stick out inside the accommodating member and at positions where the assisting portions sandwich the accommodating member with the arm portions, and cause an elastic force to act on the accommodating member in a case where the accommodating member moves in a direction that is parallel to the base portion.
US12170468B2
An electric drive system including: a rotary motor system including a hub assembly, a first rotating assembly, a second rotating assembly, and a third rotating assembly, wherein the hub assembly defines a rotational axis about which the first rotating assembly, the second rotating assembly, and the third rotating assembly are coaxially aligned and are capable of independent rotational movement independent of each other; a multi-bar linkage mechanism connected to each of the first and third rotating assemblies and connected to the hub assembly and constraining movement of the hub assembly so that the rotational axis of the hub assembly moves along a defined path that is in a transverse direction relative to the rotational axis and wherein the multi-bar linkage mechanism causes the rotational axis of the hub assembly to translate along the defined path in response to relative rotation of the first rotating assembly and the third rotating assembly with respect to each other.
US12170465B2
An electronic module for controlling a motor includes a module housing including a bottom surface, walls, and an open face, a printed circuit board (PCB) arranged along a plane within the module housing; a plurality of power terminals; and a plurality of power switches mounted on the PCB to switchably connect a supply of electric power from a power source to the plurality of power terminals. The plurality of power terminals includes first portions projecting outside the module housing through one of the walls along a direction substantially parallel to the plane for coupling to a plurality of wires couplable to the motor, and second portions extending substantially perpendicularly to the plane and electrically contacting the PCB.
US12170453B2
A charging stand to which a printing device is capable of being detachably mounted, the charging stand including: a housing having a mounting surface on which the printing device is capable of being detachably mounted and a bottom surface; a first storage part provided on the bottom surface and configured to store an AC adapter; and a first guide part provided on the bottom surface of the housing, the first guide part being configured to allow a power supply cable extending from the AC adapter stored in the first storage part to be inserted therein, and the first guide part being configured to guide the power supply cable to an outer edge of the housing, wherein the first guide part has a bent portion bent at an intermediate portion in an extension direction, the extension direction extending from the first storage part toward the outer edge of the housing.
US12170449B2
A wireless power transmitting device according to an embodiment of the present specification relates to a wireless power transmitting device for transmitting wireless power to a wireless power receiving device, and comprises: a power conversion circuit including a primary coil for transmitting the wireless power to the wireless power receiving device; and a communication/control circuit for communicating with the wireless power receiving device and controlling the power conversion circuit, wherein, before transmitting the wireless power to the wireless power receiving device, the communication/control circuit temporarily applies driving power to the primary coil and then stops the transmission of the driving power, and obtains a quality factor on the basis of a change in the voltage or current of the primary coil during a period of time in which the transmission of the driving power is stopped.
US12170444B2
A method for calibrating a unit controller with a managing process determining a position of a decoupler mechanism on the pumping unit. The managing process can calibrate the unit controller with a dual pump mode in response to determining the decoupler mechanism is in a coupled position. The managing process can calibrate the unit controller with a single pump mode in response to determining the decoupler mechanism is in a decoupled position with the pumping unit operating with the first fluid end coupled to the power end and the second fluid end decoupled from the power end. The system controller can pump a wellbore treatment fluid in accordance with the pumping unit in i) the dual pump mode or ii) the single pump mode.
US12170439B2
A system including an arc flash sensor that detects an arc flash event and an arc flash mitigation device in communication with the sensor. The mitigation device includes a path of least resistance having a path input and a path output. The arc flash sensor is located downstream the output. The mitigation device includes an electro-mechanical switch between the input and the output and an actuator. The mitigation device also includes a bypass power switch device that includes a solid-state circuit interrupter and that conduct current between the input and the output in response to an open-circuit condition of the switch. A system controller is provided to generate a trigger to activate the actuator to generate the open-circuit condition of the switch, which causes the power switch device to interrupt a fault current associated with a fault event in response to detection of the arc flash event.
US12170435B2
A data storage device may include one or more disks, an actuator arm assembly comprising one or more magnetic recording heads, a laser diode positioned inside a laser diode cavity, and one or more processing devices configured to initiate a write operation, wherein initiating the write operation comprises activating a magnetic recording head corresponding to the laser diode, and applying a forward bias to the laser diode; apply a first reverse bias to the laser diode during at least one intervening event; and transition from applying the first reverse bias to the at least one laser diode to applying the forward bias to the at least one laser diode.
US12170430B2
An electric wire connector having fire-extinguishing function includes: a protective holder (100) comprising a conductor cap (120) and an insulator gap (140), wherein the conductor cap (120) accommodates a conductor part 12 of an electric wire connection part (10), wherein the insulator cap (140) wherein the insulator cap (140) has an inner diameter larger than an inner diameter of the conductor cap (120) and accommodates an insulator part (14) of the connection part (10); a metal tube (200) installed within the conductor cap (120) and press-fits in the conductor part (12); and a fire-extinguishing module (300) installed in the insulator cap (140) and having a fire-extinguishing tunnel (302), wherein the fire-extinguishing tunnel (302) is provided in the insulator cap (140), wherein the insulator part (14) is inserted in the fire-extinguishing tunnel, wherein the fire-extinguishing powder is ejected in response to a heat of a fire.
US12170429B2
A rotary connector includes a case, a rotor, a flexible cable, an external connection terminal, and a terminal holder. The case includes an outer cylindrical part, the rotor includes an inner cylindrical part, disposed within a housing space of the case, and is rotatably held by the case, the flexible cable is housed in a wound state between the inner cylindrical part and the outer cylindrical part within the housing space, the external connection terminal is provided on an end portion of the flexible cable, and the terminal holder holds the external connection terminal, such that the external connection terminal is movable in a first axis direction and in a second axis direction and is rotatable about a rotation center axis that is parallel to the first axis direction. The first axis direction intersects the second axis direction.
US12170424B2
A contact includes a cantilever beam and a protection tab. The cantilever beam extends from a beam connected end to a beam free end along an insertion direction. The protection tab extends from a tab connected end to a tab free end in a direction opposite to the insertion direction. The tab free end is positioned adjacent to the beam free end.
US12170416B2
In a connecting method, when a flexible conductor is exposed on a top surface of a connection object, a contact is disposed on the top surface of the connection object at the predetermined position in a state where the connection object is kept as it is, and when the flexible conductor is exposed on a bottom surface of the connection object, the contact is disposed on the top surface of the connection object at the predetermined position in a state where a part of the connection object where the connection part is disposed is inverted such that the connection part faces a top surface side of the connection object while being retained at the predetermined position.
US12170415B2
A plug-in connector device has a printed circuit board element, a first plug-in connector element which is electrically and mechanically connected to the printed circuit board element by a soldered connection, and a second plug-in connector element which is electrically and mechanically connected to the printed circuit board element by electrical press-in contacts. The second plug-in connector element has a housing section with a recess in which the first plug-in connector element is arranged in such a way that outer surfaces of the first plug-in connector element make contact with inner surfaces of the recess.
US12170405B2
The present disclosure relates to an antenna element comprising a lower conducting plane, an upper conducting plane and an upper dielectric layer structure that is positioned between the conducting planes. The upper dielectric layer structure comprises a plurality of conducting vias that electrically connect the conducting planes to each other and circumvent an upper radiating patch formed in, below or above the upper conducting plane. The conducting vias circumvent at least one intermediate radiating patch that is formed in the upper dielectric layer structure, and a lowest intermediate radiating patch that is closest to the lower conducting plane is connected to a feed arrangement that comprises at least one feeding probe that extends via a corresponding aperture in the lower conducting plane and is electrically connected to the lowest intermediate radiating patch.
US12170400B2
An antenna device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The antenna device includes a carrier, an antenna portion, a first portion and a second portion. The antenna portion is located on the carrier. The first portion is located on the carrier. The second portion is located on the carrier and is configured for blocking a material from entering the antenna area, wherein the material covers a lateral surface of the carrier.
US12170397B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first part, a second part, a connection part disposed and coupled to the first part and the second part such that the first part and the second part are rotatable, a first antenna module disposed in the first part and includes an antenna array, a second antenna module disposed in the second part and includes an antenna array, a processor disposed in the first part, an IFIC disposed in the first part and electrically connected to the first antenna module and the processor, a second IFIC disposed in the second part and electrically connected to the second antenna module and the processor and an FPCB disposed over the first part, the connection part, and the second part, and is configured to transfer a digital signal or a baseband I/Q signal between the processor and the second IFIC.
US12170396B2
A tool is provided with a connector that can be configured to removably receive a corresponding connector of an extender having an antenna to electrically connect the extender to the tool. With the connector of the tool electrically connected to the connector of the extender, the controller can be configured to utilize the antenna.
US12170378B2
In the manufacture of pasted current collectors for bipolar batteries, a method of making pasted substrates includes several steps. The substrates can be a plastic sheet, an embedded plastic mesh, a metal mesh, an absorbent glass mat (AGM), or some other material. One step involves applying paste material to an elongate strip of substrate material. Another step involves cutting the elongate strip of substrate material into multiple individual substrates. Further steps can involve punching via a rotary punch, crush cutting, ultrasonic cutting, concealing lateral sections via folding, and/or using one or more mask overlays.
US12170376B1
Energy storage devices, battery cells, and batteries of the present technology may include a first battery cell. The first battery cell may include an anode current collector, and an anode active material disposed on the anode current collector. The first battery cell may include a cathode current collector and a cathode active material disposed on the cathode current collector. The current collectors may be polymeric materials. The batteries may include a first conductive band electrically coupled with the first battery cell. The first conductive band may be seated on the second surface of one of the anode current collector or the cathode current collector. The first conductive band may extend about a perimeter of the one of the anode current collector or the cathode current collector. The batteries may include a cell module including a first flexible extension electrically coupled with the first conductive band.
US12170368B2
A method of manufacturing a positive electrode active material for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes a water-washing step of washing a lithium-nickel composite oxide containing Li, Ni, and an element M with water, and conducting a filtration to form a washed-cake, a mixing step of mixing, while heating, the washed-cake and a tungsten compound without lithium while heating to obtain a tungsten mixture, and a heat treatment step of heat-treating the tungsten mixture, wherein a water content of the washed-cake is 3.0% by mass or more and 10.0% by mass or less, a ratio of a number of tungsten atoms contained in the tungsten mixture to a total number of nickel and the element M atoms contained in the lithium-nickel composite oxide is 0.05 at. % or more and 3.00 at. % or less, and a temperature of the mixing step is 30° C. or higher and 70° C. or lower.
US12170354B2
A method of preparing a lithium secondary battery is provided which may effectively perform pre-lithiation, wherein, a closed square band-shaped lithium foil having an opening formed at a center thereof is prepared during the preparation of the lithium secondary battery, and a negative electrode is disposed in the opening of the lithium foil, but pre-lithiation of the negative electrode may be performed without a separate pre-lithiation process by disposing the negative electrode and the lithium foil so as not to overlap with each other and disposing a negative electrode tab so as to be in contact with the lithium foil.
US12170339B2
The impurity concentration in the oxide semiconductor film is reduced, and a highly reliability can be obtained.
US12170338B2
A logic circuit includes a thin film transistor having a channel formation region formed using an oxide semiconductor, and a capacitor having terminals one of which is brought into a floating state by turning off the thin film transistor. The oxide semiconductor has a hydrogen concentration of 5×1019 (atoms/cm3) or less and thus substantially serves as an insulator in a state where an electric field is not generated. Therefore, off-state current of a thin film transistor can be reduced, leading to suppressing the leakage of electric charge stored in a capacitor, through the thin film transistor. Accordingly, a malfunction of the logic circuit can be prevented. Further, the excessive amount of current which flows in the logic circuit can be reduced through the reduction of off-state current of the thin film transistor, resulting in low power consumption of the logic circuit.
US12170336B2
The present disclosure relates to oxide semiconductor transistors, methods of manufacturing the same, and/or memory devices including the oxide semiconductor transistors. The oxide semiconductor transistor includes first and second compound layers provided on a substrate, a channel layer in contact with the first and second compound layers, a first electrode facing a portion of the channel layer, a second electrode facing the first compound layer with the channel layer therebetween, and a third electrode facing the second compound layer with the channel layer therebetween. An oxygen concentration of a region of the channel layer facing the first electrode is greater than that of the remaining regions of the channel layer. A buffer layer may further be provided between the channel layer and the second and third electrodes. The first and second compound layers may include oxygen and a metal.
US12170334B2
A semiconductor structure includes a stack of semiconductor layers disposed over a substrate, a metal gate structure disposed over and interleaved with the stack of semiconductor layers, the metal gate structure including a gate electrode disposed over a gate dielectric layer, a first isolation structure disposed adjacent to a first sidewall of the stack of semiconductor layers, where the gate dielectric layer fills space between the first isolation structure and the first sidewall of the stack of semiconductor layers, and a second isolation structure disposed adjacent to a second sidewall of the stack of semiconductor layers, where the gate electrode fills the space between the second isolation structure and the second sidewall of the stack of semiconductor layers.
US12170330B2
An apparatus includes at least one vertical transistor, where the at least one vertical transistor includes: a substrate including a first semiconductor material, an array of three dimensional (3D) structures above the substrate, a sidewall heterojunction layer positioned on at least one vertical sidewall of each 3D structure, and an isolation region positioned between the 3D structures. Each 3D structure includes the first semiconductor material. The sidewall heterojunction layer includes a second semiconductor material, where the first and second semiconductor material have different bandgaps.
US12170329B2
According to various embodiments, there is provided a MOSFET device. The MOSFET device may include a substrate; a first doped region disposed in the substrate; a second doped region disposed in the substrate, wherein the first doped region and the second doped region are laterally adjacent to each other; a third doped region disposed in the first doped region; a fourth doped region disposed in the second doped region; a gate disposed on the substrate, over the first and second doped regions, and between the third and fourth doped regions; and at least one high resistance region embedded in at least the second doped region, wherein the first doped region has a first conductivity type, wherein the second doped region, the third doped region, and the fourth doped region have a second conductivity type, wherein the first conductivity type and the second conductivity type are different.
US12170321B2
A semiconductor device a method of forming the same are provided. The method includes forming a fin extending from a substrate and forming a gate dielectric layer along a top surface and sidewalls of the fin. A first thickness of the gate dielectric layer along the top surface of the fin is greater than a second thickness of the gate dielectric layer along the sidewalls of the fin.
US12170317B2
A semiconductor device having a large storage capacity per unit area is provided. The semiconductor device includes a memory transistor. The memory transistor includes a conductor including an opening, a first insulator provided in contact with an inner side of the opening, a second insulator provided in contact with an inner side of the first insulator, a third insulator provided in contact with an inner side of the second insulator, a first oxide provided in contact with an inner side of the third insulator, and a second oxide provided in contact with an inner side of the first oxide. An energy gap of the second oxide is narrower than an energy gap of the first oxide.
US12170313B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) with a buried trap rich region and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a trap rich isolation region embedded within the bulk substrate; and a heterojunction bipolar transistor above the trap rich isolation region, with its sub-collector region separated by the trap rich isolation region by a layer of the bulk substrate.
US12170312B2
A method of manufacturing a superjunction silicon carbide semiconductor device is provided, enabling a reduction of the number of times a combination of epitaxial growth and ion implantation for forming a parallel pn structure is performed. In the method of manufacturing the superjunction silicon carbide semiconductor device, forming an epitaxial layer 2a, 2b of a second conductivity type on a front surface of a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate 1 of a first conductivity type and selectively forming semiconductor regions 4a, 4b of the first conductivity type by implanting nitrogen ions in the epitaxial layer are repeated multiple times, thereby forming the parallel pn structure.
US12170306B2
The present disclosure relates to an imaging device and an electronic device that make it possible to obtain a better pixel signal. A photoelectric conversion part that converts received light into a charge; a holding part that holds a charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion part; and a light shielding part that shields light between the photoelectric conversion part and the holding part are provided. The photoelectric conversion part, the holding part, and the light shielding part are formed in a semiconductor substrate. The light shielding part of a transfer region that transfers the charge from the photoelectric conversion part to the holding part is formed as a non-penetrating light shielding part that does not penetrate the semiconductor substrate. The light shielding part other than the transfer region is formed as a penetrating light shielding part that penetrates the semiconductor substrate. The present technology is applicable to an imaging device.
US12170303B2
A semiconductor device capable of realizing a capacitative element of which a capacitance value has low bias dependence and of which capacitance density is high without lowering operating voltage is provided. The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first capacitative element stacked on the semiconductor substrate; and a second capacitative element which is stacked on an opposite side to a side of the semiconductor substrate of the first capacitative element and of which a capacitance value has bias characteristics being opposite to bias characteristics of a capacitance value of the first capacitative element, wherein the first capacitative element and the second capacitative element are connected in parallel.
US12170296B2
Disclosed is an image sensor comprising a semiconductor substrate that includes first through fourth pixel regions, each including first through fourth photoelectric conversion sections, and a pixel separation structure disposed in the semiconductor substrate and separating the first through fourth pixel regions from each other. The second pixel region is spaced apart in a first direction from the first pixel region. The fourth pixel region is spaced apart in a second direction from the first pixel region. The second direction intersects the first direction. The semiconductor substrate includes first impurity sections disposed on corresponding central portions of the first through fourth pixel regions, and a second impurity section disposed between the second and fourth pixel regions. Impurities doped in the first impurity sections have a conductivity type different from that of impurities doped in the second impurity section.
US12170295B2
A photomask according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a mask substrate; and a first test pattern and a second test pattern disposed along a first edge of the mask substrate, wherein the first test pattern has a first outer shape and a first inner shape, the second test pattern has a second outer shape, and the second outer shape of the second test pattern is larger than the first inner shape of the first test pattern and smaller than the first outer shape of the first test pattern.
US12170292B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate; a first transistor including a first active layer including silicon, a first gate, a first source and a first drain; a second transistor including a second active layer including an oxide semiconductor, a second gate located on a side of the second active layer facing away from the base substrate, a second source and a second drain; a first insulating layer including an inorganic material; and a planarization layer including an organic material. The first insulating layer includes a first insulating sublayer and a second insulating sublayer. The second insulating sublayer is located on a side of the first insulating sublayer facing away from the base substrate, and a compactness of the second insulating sublayer is greater than a compactness of the first insulating sublayer.
US12170291B2
Provided is a display device with extremely high resolution, a display device with higher display quality, a display device with improved viewing angle characteristics, or a flexible display device. Same-color subpixels are arranged in a zigzag pattern in a predetermined direction. In other words, when attention is paid to a subpixel, another two subpixels exhibiting the same color as the subpixel are preferably located upper right and lower right or upper left and lower left. Each pixel includes three subpixels arranged in an L shape. In addition, two pixels are combined so that pixel units including subpixel are arranged in matrix of 3×2.
US12170288B2
A wiring structure includes a structure body including a pattern, a first conductive layer above the structure body, the first conductive layer having a shape, the shape crossing an edge of a pattern of the structure body and reflecting a step of the edge of the pattern of the structure body, a first insulating layer above the first conductive layer, the first insulating layer having a first opening overlapping the edge of the pattern of the structure body in a plane view, and r is arranged with a second opening in a region overlapping the semiconductor layer in a plane view, a second conductive layer in the first opening, the second conductive layer being connected to the first conductive layer.
US12170280B2
A method of manufacturing a gate structure includes at least the following steps. A gate dielectric layer is formed. A work function layer is deposited on the gate dielectric layer. A barrier layer is formed on the work function layer. A metal layer is deposited on the barrier layer to introduce fluorine atoms into the barrier layer. The barrier layer is formed by at least the following steps. A first TiN layer is formed on the work function layer. A top portion of the first TiN layer is converted into a trapping layer, and the trapping layer includes silicon atoms or aluminum atoms. A second TiN layer is formed on the trapping layer.
US12170273B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure set forth IC dies, microelectronic assemblies, as well as related devices and packages, related to direct chip attach of dies and circuit boards. An example microelectronic assembly includes a die with IC components provided over the die's frontside, and a metallization stack provided over the die's backside. The die further includes die interconnects extending between the frontside and the backside of the die, to electrically couple the IC components and the metallization stack. The assembly further includes backside conductive contacts, provided over the side of the metallization stack facing away from the die, the backside conductive contacts configured to route signals to/from the IC components via the metallization stack and the die interconnects, and configured to be coupled to respective conductive contacts of a circuit board in absence of a package substrate between the die and the circuit board.
US12170271B2
A micro-light-emitting diode (LED) display includes a number of micro-LED pixel elements and multiple optical sensors integrated with the micro-LED pixel elements. A transparent conductor layer is disposed over the micro-LED pixel elements and optical sensors.
US12170258B2
In certain aspects, a memory device includes a semiconductor layer, a peripheral circuit including a peripheral transistor in contact with the semiconductor layer, an array of memory cells disposed beside the semiconductor layer and the peripheral circuit, and bit lines coupled to the memory cells. Each of the memory cells includes a vertical transistor extending in a first direction, and a storage unit coupled to the vertical transistor. Each of the bit lines extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A respective one of the bit lines and a respective storage unit are coupled to opposite ends of each one of the memory cells in the first direction.
US12170257B2
In certain aspects, a three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes a first semiconductor structure, a second semiconductor structure, and a bonding interface between the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure. The first semiconductor structure includes an array of memory cells and a first semiconductor layer in contact with sources of the array of NAND memory strings. The second semiconductor structure includes a second semiconductor layer, a first peripheral circuit of the array of memory cells including a first transistor in contact with a first side of the second semiconductor layer, and a second peripheral circuit of the array of NAND memory strings including a second transistor in contact with a second side of the second semiconductor layer opposite to the first side.
US12170255B2
A semiconductor device is configured to include: a base member of a semiconductor material which forms a thin plate shape; a front face electrode which is placed on a front surface of the base member; a rear face electrode which covers a rear surface of the base member; and a via hole which forms a hole shape provided with the front face electrode as a bottom and being open onto the rear surface, and through which the front face electrode and the rear face electrode are electrically connected to each other; wherein, at a circumferential edge portion of the base member on its side where the rear surface is located, a protrusion portion which protrudes in a thickness direction is disposed.
US12170252B2
A base substrate, high-k substrate layers on the base substrate with discrete decoupling capacitors embedded, high density substrate layers on the high-k substrate layers supporting wiring and wiring spacing of less than 2 up to about 10 micron width, pitch connectivity between the upper surface of the base substrate and a lower surface of the set of high density substrate layers supports less than 50 up to about 300 micron pitch, the pitch connectivity on an upper surface of the set of high density substrate layers supports less than about 150 micron pitch. A method including attaching a set of metal posts at each contact on a lower surface of a set of high density substrate layers, attaching to a handler, attaching an interconnect layer to a base substrate, and attaching the set of high density substrate layers to the base substrate while aligning each metal post with a contact.
US12170251B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor package comprising a redistribution substrate that has a first trench that extends through a top surface of the redistribution substrate, a first semiconductor chip on the redistribution substrate, a capacitor chip on a bottom surface of the first semiconductor chip, and an under-fill layer on the bottom surface of the first semiconductor chip. The redistribution substrate includes a plurality of dielectric layers vertically stacked, a plurality of redistribution patterns in each of the dielectric layers, and a plurality of dummy redistribution patterns in the first trench. The dummy redistribution patterns vertically overlap the first semiconductor chip. An uppermost surface of the dummy redistribution pattern is located at a level higher than a level of a bottom surface of the first trench.
US12170248B2
An interconnection structure, including: a first BEOL (Back-End-Of-Line) level which includes a first MLG (Multi-Layer Graphene) layer which includes at least one first line structure of MLG material; and a first isolation layer which includes an electrically isolating material and is disposed above and beside the at least one first line structure of MLG material; a second BEOL level which includes a second MLG layer (includes MLG material) disposed above the first isolation layer; a connection path electrically connecting first MLG layer to second MLG layer; and at least one via with serrated edges mitigating misalignment impacts and providing low via to line contact resistance, where the connection path includes one of the at least one via, where a width of the at least one first line structure of MLG material is greater than a diameter of the one of the at least one via, and where both MLG layers are intercalation doped.
US12170238B2
A semiconductor die package and a method of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor die package includes a package substrate, semiconductor dies over the package substrate, and an underfill element over the package substrate and surrounding the semiconductor dies. A portion of the underfill element is located between the semiconductor dies. The semiconductor die package also includes lid structures respectively attached to the top surfaces of the semiconductor dies. In plan view, each lid structure is located within the periphery of the top surface of the corresponding semiconductor die. Each lid structure is disconnected from other lid structures, and a gap is formed between adjacent lid structures and located over the portion of the underfill element.
US12170232B2
The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method and measurement method of a semiconductor structure, and a semiconductor structure, relating to the technical field of semiconductors. The manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure includes: providing a base including multiple gate trenches; and forming a gate structure in each of the gate trenches, wherein each gate structure includes a barrier layer and a conductive layer, the barrier layer and the conductive layer are sequentially stacked, the barrier layer is in contact with a bottom wall of each of the gate trenches, and a material of the conductive layers includes polysilicon.
US12170228B2
In an embodiment, a method includes forming a first fin and a second fin within an insulation material over a substrate, the first fin and the second fin includes different materials, the insulation material being interposed between the first fin and the second fin, the first fin having a first width and the second fin having a second width; forming a first capping layer over the first fin; and forming a second capping layer over the second fin, the first capping layer having a first thickness, the second capping layer having a second thickness different from the first thickness.
US12170226B2
A method for separating dies from a semiconductor substrate having dies adjoining a first surface of the substrate includes: attaching the substrate to a carrier via the first surface; generating first modifications by introducing laser irradiation into an interior of the substrate via a second surface of the substrate, the first modifications extending between the first surface and a vertical level in the interior that is being spaced from the second surface, the first modifications laterally surrounding the dies; generating second modifications by introducing laser irradiation into the interior via the second surface, the second modifications sub-dividing the substrate into a first part between the first surface and the second modifications, and a second part between the second surface and the second modifications; separating the parts along a first separation area defined by the second modifications; and separating the dies along a second separation area defined by the first modifications.
US12170223B2
A method of fabricating a redistribution circuit structure including the following steps is provided. A conductive via is formed. A photosensitive dielectric layer is formed to cover the conductive via. The photosensitive dielectric layer is partially removed to reveal the conductive via at least through an exposure and development process. A redistribution wiring is formed on the photosensitive dielectric layer and the revealed conductive via.
US12170218B2
A method includes detecting a location of a particle on a bottom surface of an electrostatic chuck; moving a platform to a position under the bottom surface of the electrostatic chuck and right under the particle; and rotating the platform about a center of the platform to remove the particle from the bottom surface of the electrostatic chuck.
US12170214B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing system and a method for manufacturing semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device manufacturing system includes a conditioner connected to a semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus, a data collector connected to the conditioner and a processor connected to the data collector. The conditioner is configured to control a temperature and a humidity of an air and deliver the air to the semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus. The data collector is configured to collect data from the conditioner. The processor is configured to receive the data transferred from the data collector.
US12170206B2
A film having film continuity can be formed. There is provided a technique including: preparing a substrate having a metal-containing film formed on a surface thereof; and slimming the metal-containing film by pulse-supplying a halogen-containing gas to the substrate.
US12170205B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to method of forming trench and via features using dielectric and metal mask layers. Particularly, embodiments of present disclosure provide a hard mask stack including a first dielectric mask layer, and second dielectric mask layer and a metal mask layer, wherein the first dielectric mask layer and second dielectric mask layer have a high etch selectivity.
US12170202B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method of fabricating a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming an opening in a substrate and depositing a conformal metal layer in the opening. The depositing includes performing one or more deposition cycles. The deposition includes flowing a first precursor into a deposition chamber and purging the deposition chamber to remove at least a portion of the first precursor. The method also includes flowing a second precursor into the deposition chamber to form a sublayer of the conformal metal layer and purging the deposition chamber to remove at least a portion of the second precursor. The method further includes performing a metallic halide etching (MHE) process that includes flowing a third precursor into the deposition chamber.
US12170200B2
A crystal growth method of the present disclosure includes: preparing a crystal growth-derived-layer forming substrate including (a) a substrate having a surface layer, (b) a mask pattern which is formed on the surface layer and which includes a plurality of strip bodies, and (c) a plurality of crystal growth-derived layers which are formed between and on the plurality of stripe bodies so as to have gaps therebetween above the plurality of strip bodies and which differ in lattice constant from the substrate having the surface layer; and growing semiconductor layers on the plurality of crystal growth-derived layers. The semiconductor layers are respectively grown on the plurality of crystal growth-derived layers formed so as to be separated from each other, and semiconductor layers on two adjacent ones of the plurality of crystal growth-derived layers are separated from each other.
US12170195B2
A method includes performing a first post Chemical Mechanical Polish (CMP) cleaning on a wafer using a first brush. The first brush rotates to clean the wafer. The method further includes performing a second post-CMP cleaning on the wafer using a second brush. The second brush rotates to clean the wafer. The first post-CMP cleaning and the second post-CMP cleaning are performed simultaneously.
US12170193B2
A temperature estimation apparatus includes an estimation unit configured to successively estimate temperature data by successively inputting given time series process data relating to conditions inside a processing space in which plasma processing is performed, into a time series model generated in advance that correlates data values, in each time period, of time series process data relating to conditions inside the processing space, with a data value, at a respective time point, of time series temperature data measured inside the processing space.
US12170192B2
Implementations of the present disclosure relate to systems for abating F-gases present in the effluent of semiconductor manufacturing processes. In one implementation, a system is provided that includes a water and oxygen delivery system. The water and oxygen delivery system includes a water vapor reagent source fluidly coupled with a chamber foreline via a first conduit; and an oxygen reagent source fluidly coupled with the chamber foreline via a second conduit fluidly coupled with the first conduit. The system further includes a plasma source fluidly coupled with the water and oxygen delivery system via the chamber foreline.
US12170182B2
The present disclosure relates generally to ion implantation, and more particularly, to systems and processes for adjusting a ribbon beam angle of an ion implantation system. An exemplary ion implantation system includes an ion source configured to generate a ribbon beam, a wafer chuck configured to hold a wafer during implantation by the ribbon beam, a dipole magnet disposed between the ion source and the wafer chuck, and a controller. The dipole magnet includes at least two coils configured to adjust a ribbon beam angle of the ribbon beam at one or more locations along a path of the ribbon beam between the ion source and the wafer held in the wafer chuck. The controller is configured to control the ion source, the wafer chuck, and the dipole magnet.
US12170174B2
A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body that includes internal electrodes laminated in a first direction, and a pair of main surfaces including a center region facing in the first direction; and a pair of external electrodes connected to the internal electrodes and facing each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a dimension of the ceramic body in the first direction being 1.1 times or more and 1.6 times or less a dimension of the ceramic body in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction, the center region being formed at a center portion of at least one of the pair of main surfaces in the second direction.
US12170173B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a substantially rectangular parallelepiped multilayer body including dielectric ceramic layers and internal electrode layers laminated alternately in the lamination direction, first and second main surfaces opposed to each other in the lamination direction, first and second lateral surfaces opposed to each other in the width direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the lamination direction, and first and second end surfaces opposed to each other in the length direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the lamination direction and the width direction, and a pair of external electrodes at both ends of the multilayer body in the length direction to cover at least the first and second end surfaces, and connected to the internal electrode layers. A first protrusion is provided at each of four corners on a surface of at least one of the first and second main surfaces having a substantially rectangular shape.
US12170170B2
A multilayer electronic component, includes: a body including a dielectric layer, and first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed in a first direction with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; a first connection portion including a first conductive layer disposed on the third surface and connected to the first internal electrode, and a first insulating layer disposed on the first conductive layer; a second connection portion including a second conductive layer disposed on the fourth surface and connected to the second internal electrode, and a second insulating layer disposed on the second conductive layer; a first external electrode including a first electrode layer connected to the first conductive layer, wherein the first external electrode is disposed on any one of the first, second, fifth, and sixth surfaces; and a second external electrode including a second electrode layer connected to the second conductive layer.
US12170169B2
A super capacitor module for a vehicle with a high voltage power source includes a super capacitor, high power control electronics for controlling and actuating charging of the super capacitor, a high-powered DC-DC converter connected to super capacitor and adapted to be connected to a low voltage power supply system, a voltage comparison circuit connected to the super capacitor and adapted to be connected to a low voltage power source, the super capacitor module being adapted to be connected to at least one electric control units (ECC) for a vehicle and/or a starter motor for a vehicle.
US12170168B2
An electrode suitable for constructing an electrochemical double layer capacitor and/or supercapacitor is provided that includes an electrode material a metal organic framework (MOF), wherein the MOF includes an inorganic building unit including metal atoms selected from group 1 to group 12 elements, and functional groups of organic linkers including oxygen (O) and one or more atoms selected from the group comprising phosphorus (P), arsenic (As), antimony (Sb), silicon (Si), selenium (Se) and bismuth (Bi). The functional groups of the organic linkers can include phosphonate, arsonate, phosphonic acid, phosphinic acid, arsonic acids and/or arsenic acids, monoester and/or diester forms thereof. Further, the metal atoms may be selected from zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), gold (Au) and silver (Ag). The use of the MOF as a semiconductor in semiconductor applications, a semiconductive device, such as a photovoltaic cell, including the MOF are also provided.
US12170167B2
An electromagnetic actuating device (8) is for a variable valve drive, in particular electromagnetic switching valve lever systems. The electromagnetic actuating device comprises a base plate (3), a housing which is secured to the base plate (3) and a coil. The housing is designed as a bracket housing (12) and can form part of the magnetic circuit.
US12170162B2
The present invention comprises Magnetic Tunnel Junctions and Bit-Patterned Media with a warped geometry with the purpose of attaining large thermal stability factors and dramatically increasing the scalability of the magnetic bits while still allowing the reduction of switching current density and switching magnetic field, and also increasing switching speed. The warped shape allows providing thermal stability to the bits through dynamic exchange energy barrier and also by providing additional net magnetic anisotropy through shape-induced reduction of the demagnetization field. The dynamic exchange energy barrier in turn allows engineering the damping torque and the free-layer's magnetic parameters to a much larger extent than the current planar technology. It also allows much faster magnetic-field-induced switching of patterned bits than it is possible with current hard disk drive technology, through the use of precession torque instead of conventional damping torque.
US12170161B2
A process and a system for producing a stock solution for production of a ferrofluid is provided. The process includes contacting an acidic solution in a reaction container filled with an excess of a bulk material containing Fe(III) and optionally Fe(II). The acid reacts with the bulk material to form the stock solution (Ls) having dissolved ferric (Fe(III)) and optionally ferrous (Fe(II)) ions which is then separated from the bulk material.
US12170157B2
Disclosed is an armored cable assembly which may include a plurality of conductors and a metal sheath disposed over the plurality of conductors. The metal sheath may have a plurality of revolutions extending helically along a lengthwise axis, each of the plurality of revolutions including a first section having a curved profile, a second section extending from the first section, the second section having a planar profile, and a third section extending from the second section. The third section may include a free end angled towards an interior cavity of the metal sheath, the free end extending past a plane defined by a bottom most point of the first section of an adjacent revolution, the plane extending perpendicular to the second section.
US12170155B2
This application discloses a conductive paste, a preparation method thereof, and a preparation method of a conductive film using the conductive paste. The conductive paste comprises: a thermoplastic polyurethane, conductive particles, and an organic solvent, the thermoplastic polyurethane and the conductive particles being proportionally mixed in the organic solvent, and the thermoplastic polyurethane being dispersed in the form of particles among the conductive particles. A thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer is used as a binder, and the conductive particles are mixed in the organic solvent containing the thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer. The conductive particles ensure the conductivity of the conductive film prepared using the conductive paste. The thermoplastic polyurethane has strong adhesion ability, and is suitable for use on the surface of most substrates, to form a conductive film with good adhesion and no cracking.
US12170150B2
Via a graphical interface, virtual representations of an anatomical region of a human and a medical device selection mechanism are displayed. The medical device selection mechanism includes a plurality of implantable leads each medically implantable in the anatomical region. In the graphical interface, a user-selected implantable lead is moved from the medical device selection mechanism to the anatomical region. A first side of the user-selected implantable lead is initially displayed when the user-selected implantable lead is moved to the anatomical region. In the graphical interface, the user-selected implantable lead is automatically rotated in the anatomical region, such that a second side of the user-selected implantable lead is displayed after the user-selected implantable lead has been automatically rotated. The second side is opposite the first side.
US12170144B1
The embodiments disclose an equipment measuring and testing system for a medical facility including a plurality of sensors coupled to at least one medical device located in at least one operating room configured to measure operation performance levels to be within a predetermined range of compliance standards, a wireless communication device coupled to each sensor of the plurality of sensors configured to wirelessly transmit measured operation performance levels to a server, a server coupled to the plurality of sensors configured to determine if the at least one medical device is within the predetermined range of compliance standards and alert a user of a compliance status based on the determination, and a plurality of settings actuators coupled to the at least one medical device and the server configured to adjust settings of the at least one medical device to be within the predetermined range of compliance standards.
US12170130B2
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate a communication interface to read from and/or to write to one or more entries of a bio-ledger and/or a biosphere ledger of a particular individual stored at a secure storage device and at least one processor to generate signals and/or states representative of behavioral profile content for a particular user based, at least in part, on signals and/or states obtained from one or more sensors, wherein the at least one processor to identify or predict, or a combination thereof, a change in omic state for the particular individual based at least in part on the one or more bio-ledger entries, the behavioral profile content, or the one or more biosphere ledger entries, or a combination thereof.
US12170127B2
Methods, systems, and devices for buffer configurations for communications between memory dies and a host device are described. A memory device may include a buffer having a first interface coupled with a host device and a second interface coupled with a memory die of the memory device. The first interface may communicate information with the host device at a first frequency and according to a first signaling scheme, and the second interface may communicate information with the memory die at a second frequency and according to a second signaling scheme. The first frequency may be higher than the second frequency, and the second signaling scheme may include a greater quantity of voltage levels than the first signaling scheme.
US12170111B2
An operating method of a non-volatile memory device includes simultaneously performing a program operation on a plurality of selection transistors included in a plurality of cell strings each including a corresponding selection transistor of the selection transistors and a plurality of memory cells, each of the cell strings being coupled between a common source line and a corresponding bit line of a plurality of bit lines; sequentially performing verification operations on respective groups of the selection transistors, the groups being coupled to respective selection lines; and sequentially storing results of the verification operations into respective data latch circuits within each of a plurality of page buffers coupled to the bit lines.
US12170102B1
An apparatus includes a substrate. A laser is deposited above the substrate. The laser includes one or more non-self-supporting layers of crystalline material. The laser has a length along a light path in a range of about 40 um to about 350 um. An optical input coupler is configured to receive light from the laser. A waveguide is deposited proximate the optical input coupler. The waveguide is configured to communicate light from the laser via the optical input coupler to a near-field transducer that directs energy resulting from plasmonic excitation to a recording medium.
US12170099B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods for encoding telemetry data as audio waveforms. Action cameras may be used to capture telemetry data, which in some applications, may be more useful than its audio/visual media capture. For example, a user may desire the “look-and-feel” of one camera but would like to use the telemetry track information from an action camera. In so-called “piggybacking” operation, the user may rigidly affix the two cameras and use the video track with the telemetry track in post-processing. Unfortunately, time-aligning the two tracks can result in relative drift over time. Various embodiments of the present disclosure transfer telemetry data as data-over-audio. The data-over-audio may be sampled according to the recipient device and recorded at capture. Subsequent post-processing may be performed with the time-aligned tracks.
US12170098B2
The present disclosure discloses a sound detection method. The method includes: obtaining an initial sound signal and a spatial distribution spectrum of the initial sound signal; segmenting the initial sound signal, to obtain a target sound segment, and obtaining a timestamp corresponding to the target sound segment, the target sound segment including a speech of at least one object, and the timestamp being used for indicating a start time of the target sound segment and an end time of the target sound segment; segmenting the spatial distribution spectrum by using the timestamp, to obtain a spatial distribution spectrum segment corresponding to the target sound segment; and inputting the target sound segment and the spatial distribution spectrum segment into a sound detection model, to obtain a first sound detection result, the first sound detection result being used for describing whether sound of multiple objects exists in the initial sound signal.
US12170095B2
Real-time modification of audio of humans allows for the audio to be modified so that an expression of a subject human may be changed. Customer service agents may have more successful interactions with customers if they provide vocalization attribute in their speech that are appropriate, such as to provide a particular emotional state. By determining an appropriate vocalization attribute, and any deviation from a customer service agent's current vocalization attribute, a modification to the audio of the customer service agent's speech may be determined and applied. As a result, agents may not have a vocalization attribute that is best suited to successfully resolve a purpose of the interaction, altered to have the customer be presented with the customer service agent's speech having the best-suited vocalization attribute.
US12170091B2
A downmix unit 110 obtains downmix signals which are signals obtained by mixing input sound signals of a left channel input and input sound signals of a right channel input. A left channel signal subtraction unit 130 and a right channel signal subtraction unit 150 code the difference between the input sound signals and a multiplication value of the downmix signals and a subtraction gain for each of the left channel and the right channel. In such a configuration, a left channel subtraction gain estimation unit 120 and a right channel subtraction gain estimation unit 140 determine the subtraction gain such that the quantization errors resulting from the two processes of coding/decoding are reduced.
US12170088B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device according to an embodiment includes a microphone, a communicator comprising communication circuitry, and a processor configured to control the communicator to transmit a control command to an external audio device for reducing an audio output level of the external audio device in response to a trigger signal for starting a voice control mode being received through the microphone and to control the electronic device to operate in the voice control mode.
US12170083B1
Systems and methods for presence-based account data association with devices are disclosed. For example, a presence event may be detected and details of the presence event may be utilized to determine whether and how to initiate, maintain, or end an account-association session associated with a secondary device. A current session status and a determination as to whether a primary device is associated with a previously-utilized primary account identifier for the secondary device may be used to determine whether connection notifications should be sent and/or whether the secondary device should be within a threshold distance from a primary device to establish the account-association session.
US12170072B2
A method for automatically switching input/output (“I/O”) between partitioned systems based on system events includes monitoring a system state for each of two or more systems sharing an electronic display, where each of the two or more systems includes a processor executing an instance of an operating system, selecting a system of the two or more systems sharing the electronic display in response to determining that a change has occurred in the system state of the of the selected system, and switching an input of an I/O switch to send data for display of one or more elements of the selected system to the electronic display.
US12170071B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for alignment of hardware and software Vsync signals through filtering out delayed timestamp signals in a hardware timestamp signal used to generate the software Vsync. The alignment may occur when a display client is operating in a video mode but not a command mode. A compositor or processing unit may receive a hardware Vsync signal from a display using a video mode, generate a hardware timestamp signal based on the hardware Vsync signal, determine a delay for a pulse in the hardware timestamp signal based on a delay for a set of previous frames, determine whether the delay for the pulse is over a threshold, and control rendering and transmission of a frame to the display based on the delay for the pulse being over the threshold. Thus, accurate Vsync signal synchronization may occur.
US12170065B2
A pixel circuit, a pixel drive method and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes an energy storage control circuit, an energy storage circuit, a first initialization circuit, a drive circuit, and a light-emitting element. The first initialization circuit writes a first initial voltage into a control terminal of the drive circuit under control of a first initialization control signal. The energy storage control circuit control a second end of the energy storage circuit to be connected to the first voltage terminal under control of an energy storage control signal in a refresh frame, and is configured to control the second end of the energy storage circuit to be disconnected from the first voltage terminal under control of the energy storage control signal in an initialization phase included in a hold frame and a data writing phase included in the hold frame.
US12170064B2
A pixel circuit, a driving method for a pixel circuit, and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a drive module, a data write module, a first compensation module, a second compensation module, a light-emitting module, a storage module and a coupling module. The data write module is configured to write a voltage related to a data voltage to a control terminal of the drive module. The drive module is configured to provide a drive signal to the light-emitting module according to the voltage of the control terminal to drive the light-emitting module to emit light. A first terminal of the second compensation module is connected to the control terminal of the drive module, a second terminal of the second compensation module is connected to a first terminal of the first compensation module.
US12170057B2
A light-emitting circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a light-emitting element, a first switching circuit, a second switching circuit, a first capacitor, a current source, and a third switching circuit. The first switching circuit, the second switching circuit, and the third switching circuit are synchronously turned on or synchronously turned off. This not only controls the current flowing through the first switching circuit through the first capacitor, the second switching circuit and the current source to the third power line, and but also controls the current flowing through the third switching circuit, the second transistor through the first capacitor, the second switching circuit and the current source flow to the third power line. Since the current passes through the first transistor and the second transistor, the current flowing through the light-emitting element is reduced, improving adverse effects of parasitic capacitance and wire resistance to the two transistors.
US12170044B2
Two-dimensional compositing that preserves the curvatures of non-flat surfaces is disclosed. In some embodiments, a mapping is associated with a two-dimensional rendering that maps a potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering to a canvas. The mapping is generated from a three-dimensional model of the potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering. The potentially variable portion of the two-dimensional rendering is dynamically modified according to the mapping to reflect content comprising the canvas or edits received with respect to the canvas.
US12170034B2
A self-laminating rotating cable marker label is constructed of a transparent film having a first adhesive area, an adhesive-free smooth area, and a second adhesive area. A print-on area forms one side of the transparent film, the print-on area adapted to receive indicia identifying the cable about which the marker label is applied. A perforation extends across the transparent film providing a line of separation of the transparent film. When wrapped around a cable, the second adhesive area overlies the print-on area such that the cable identifying indicia is visible through the transparent second adhesive area. As the transparent film is wrapped around the cable, the first adhesive area adheres to the cable. The remainder of the transparent film is rotated, breaking the perforation, whereby the smooth area of the film in contact with the cable provides smooth rotation of the label around the cable.
US12170032B2
A system for aiding in the probation, parole, and social reentry of a justice-involved person (JIP) is provided. The system may be used by both the probation and parole officers, and other justice team members (referred to generally as the justice team), as well as the justice-involved person to better connect JIPs to local services and for engagement and progress tracking.
US12170009B2
A detection system (10) for hazard detection is provided. The detection system (10) includes a control loop (16); an addressable base unit (18) connected to the control loop (16), the base unit (18) including a first near-field communication module (22) storing a unit address; and a mounting unit (20) removably coupled to the base unit (18), the mounting unit (20) including a second near-field communication module (24) operable to read the unit address from the first near-field communication module (22) and store the unit address so that the mounting unit (20) is thereby addressable via the control loop (16).
US12169994B2
A device for processing a medium includes: a conveyor for conveying the medium; an internal storage for storing the medium, the internal storage being disposed inside a body of the device and connected to the conveyor; an external storage for storing the medium, the external storage being disposed outside the body and connected to the conveyor; a temporary storage for storing the medium temporarily, the temporary storage being connected to the conveyor; and a controller for controlling the conveyer to perform at least one of collection processing and replenishment processing, the collection processing being processing of conveying the medium from the internal storage to the external storage via the temporary storage, the replenishment processing being processing of conveying the medium from the external storage to the internal storage via the temporary storage.
US12169991B2
A multi-layer packaging material can include a layer of material with an outer surface and an inner surface. The layer of material formable into a package. An electronic circuit can be fixedly attached to the layer of material. The electronic circuit can include a clock, a processor in logical communication with the clock, a radio receiver, a transmitter, and a digital storage. The digital storage can include software executable upon demand. The software can be operative with the processor to cause the electronic circuit to receive and store radio signals from multiple reference points.
US12169987B2
Transportation systems can represent a set of operating states of a vehicle to a user of the vehicle and generally include a system for representing a set of operating states of a vehicle to a user of the vehicle. The system includes a portion of the vehicle having a vehicle operating state; a digital twin system receiving vehicle parameter data from one or more inputs to determine the vehicle operating state; and an interface for the digital twin system to present the vehicle operating state to the user of the vehicle.
US12169984B2
Aspects of the technology described herein improve an object recognition system by specifying a type of picture that would improve the accuracy of the object recognition system if used to retrain the object recognition system. The technology described herein can take the form of an improvement model that improves an object recognition model by suggesting the types of training images that would improve the object recognition model's performance. For example, the improvement model could suggest that a picture of a person smiling be used to retrain the object recognition system. Once trained, the improvement model can be used to estimate a performance score for an image recognition model given the set characteristics of a set of training of images. The improvement model can then select a feature of an image, which if added to the training set, would cause a meaningful increase in the recognition system's performance.
US12169972B2
An object recognition control device includes an image data acquisition unit configured to acquire image data captured by a camera that images a periphery of a vehicle; a traveling speed information acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a traveling speed of the vehicle; a recognition processing unit configured to recognize, as a specific object, the image data acquired by the image data acquisition unit in a case in which a score indicating a likelihood of the specific object is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold; and a presentation processing unit configured to present, to a driver of the vehicle, information on the specific object recognized by the recognition processing unit. The recognition processing unit is further configured to lower the predetermined threshold when the information about the traveling speed acquired by the traveling speed information acquisition unit indicates that the traveling speed of the vehicle is high.
US12169967B1
A system and method allows a light colored image of an object such as a check to be detected and captured on a light colored background for uploading to a server for processing. Detection involves detecting edges of objects on the image, drawing a rectangle around the detected edges, testing for an aspect ratio of the rectangle within an approved range, testing for the rectangle being outside of a margin of the image and being a certain percentage of the image, and testing for blur within a tolerable range.
US12169966B2
A method of optimizing the detection of abnormalities in images of products generates a first image similar to training images and a second image similar to testing images with normal images and the images showing abnormalities inputted into a generative adversarial network (GAN). The GAN determines a first similarity ratio between the first image and the training image and generates a parameter based on the first similarity ratio for adjusting the GAN. A second similarity ratio between the second image and the testing image is determined. The testing image is deemed a normal image when the second similarity ratio is larger than the specified threshold value, and deemed to be an image revealing abnormalities when the second similarity ratio is less than or equal to the specified threshold value. A terminal device and a computer readable storage medium applying the method are also provided.
US12169964B2
A system and method for providing weakly-supervised online action segmentation that include receiving image data associated with multi-view videos of a procedure, wherein the procedure involves a plurality of atomic actions. The system and method also include analyzing the image data using weakly-supervised action segmentation to identify each of the plurality of atomic actions by using an ordered sequence of action labels. The system and method additionally include training a neural network with data pertaining to the plurality of atomic actions based on the weakly-supervised action segmentation. The system and method further include executing online action segmentation to label atomic actions that are occurring in real-time based on the plurality of atomic actions trained to the neural network.
US12169961B2
Disclosed herein is digital object generator that makes uses a one-way function to generate unique digital objects based on the user specific input. Features of the input are first extracted via a few-shot convolutional neural network model, then evaluated weight and integrated fit. The resulting digital object includes a user decipherable output such as a visual representation, an audio representation, or a multimedia representation that includes recognizable elements from the user specific input.
US12169953B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for decoding point cloud data. Data corresponding to a point cloud is received. A number of contexts associated with the received data is reduced based on reducing a size of an array corresponding to syntax elements for predictive tree-based coding of the point cloud. The data corresponding to the point cloud is decoded based on the reduced number of contexts.
US12169952B2
Methods and devices for encoding a point cloud. A current node associated with a sub-volume is split into further sub-volumes, each further sub-volume corresponding to a child node of the current node, and, at the encoder, an occupancy pattern is determined for the current node based on occupancy status of the child nodes. A probability distribution is selected from among a plurality of probability distributions based on occupancy data for a plurality of nodes neighbouring the current node. The encoder entropy encodes the occupancy pattern based on the selected probability distribution to produce encoded data for the bitstream and updates the selected probability distribution. The decoder makes the same selection based on occupancy data for neighbouring nodes and entropy decodes the bitstream to reconstruct the occupancy pattern.
US12169943B2
Depth information is extracted from a stereoscopic image pait by an image processing system. For each pixel of a target image of the stereoscopic image pair, a final disparity cost vector is computed having cost components corresponding to different disparities. The final disparity cost vector is stored in association with that pixel. That pixel is assigned the disparity corresponding to the lowest cost component of the final disparity cost vector, wherein the extracted depth information comprises the disparities assigned to the pixels of the target image. For at least a subset of the pixels of the target image, the final disparity cost vector is computed for each of those pixels by computing, with respect to the reference image, a set of matching costs for that pixel and the different disparities, and combining the matching costs with the one or more final disparity cost vectors stored in association with one or more of the adjacent pixels of the target image.
US12169942B2
A method for training an image depth estimation model. A sample environmental image, sample environmental point cloud data and sample edge information of the sample environmental image are input into a to-be-trained model; initial depth information of each of pixel points in the sample environmental image and a feature relationship between each of the pixel points and a corresponding neighboring pixel point of each of the pixel points are determined through the to-be-trained model, the initial depth information of each of the pixel points is optimized according to the feature relationship to obtain optimized depth information of each of the pixel points, and a parameter of the to-be-trained model is adjusted according to the optimized depth information to obtain the image depth estimation model.
US12169941B1
A system and method for determining a position an object moving along a trajectory crosses a target plane, by obtaining a plurality of images of an object moving along a trajectory in an environment, the plurality of images capturing the object at different positions along the trajectory, obtaining a plurality of images of an object moving along a trajectory in an environment, the plurality of images capturing the object at different positions along the trajectory, the plurality of images being obtained from two or more cameras positioned at different positions in the environment, each of the two or more cameras having a field of view (FOV) that includes the trajectory of the moving object and a target plane, the target plane being a plane that the moving object crosses during movement along the trajectory, each of the two or more cameras obtaining the images at a different timing.
US12169939B2
A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a 3D image including an object depicted in the image, the 3D image comprising an ordered set of 2D images; determining a contour around the object in a first of said 2D images; and determining a contour around the object in a second of said 2D images, the second 2D image being non-contiguous with the first in said ordered set, having an intermediate region comprising one or more intermediate ones of said 2D images between the first and second 2D images within said ordered set. In each of the first and second 2D images, inside of the contour is classified as foreground and outside of the contour is classified as background. The method further comprises performing a 3D geodesic distance computation to classify points in the intermediate region as foreground of background.
US12169934B2
A system, device and method of imaging using a real-time, AI-enabled analysis device coupled to an imaging device during an image scan of a subject includes: receiving data corresponding to a plurality of image frames from the imaging device and user input identifying a region of interest (ROI) in a first image frame; providing data corresponding to the first image frame, including the identified ROI and data corresponding to the remaining image frames to the AI-enabled data processing system; accepting a plurality of valid image frames from the plurality of image frames based on a predefined set of computer vision rules and a minimum accepted frame threshold; calculating, frame by frame, an ROI function value of the plurality of valid image frames; determining whether a predetermined ROI function value has been reached; and alerting an operator of the imaging device that the predetermined ROI function value has been reached.
US12169929B2
A configuration that analyzes reflection light of light emitted to a user face and executes both facial-expression analysis and biometric-signal analysis together is realized. The configuration has a light-receiving section that receives reflection light of light emitted to a user face, and a light-reception-signal analyzing section that analyzes a light-reception signal of the light-receiving section. The light-reception-signal analyzing section has a facial-expression analyzing section that analyzes user-skin-surface reflection light and generates facial-expression analysis information, and a biometric-signal analyzing section that analyzes subepidermal reflection light and generates bioanalysis information. The light-reception signal of the light-receiving section includes skin-surface reflection light and subepidermal-tissue reflection light, and the facial-expression analyzing section extracts a low frequency component from the light-reception signal, acquires the skin-surface reflection light, and executes facial-expression analysis. The biometric-signal analyzing section extracts a high frequency component from the light-reception signal, acquires the subepidermal-tissue reflection light, and executes a biometric-signal analysis process.
US12169925B2
A neural network is trained for use in a substrate thickness measurement system by obtaining ground truth thickness measurements of a top layer of a calibration substrate at a plurality of locations, each location at a defined position for a die being fabricated on the substrate. A plurality of color images of the calibration substrate are obtained, each color image corresponding to a region for a die being fabricated on the substrate. A neural network is trained to convert color images of die regions from an in-line substrate imager to thickness measurements for the top layer in the die region. The training is performed using training data that includes the plurality of color images and ground truth thickness measurements with each respective color image paired with a ground truth thickness measurement for the die region associated with the respective color image.
US12169922B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for generating synthetic images, include: obtaining a captured image of a symbol that encodes data; producing a synthetic image from the captured image using a trained machine learning model, wherein the trained machine learning model has been trained using first images and second images of examples of symbols, wherein the second images have a second image quality that is different than a first image quality of first images, and wherein parameters of the machine learning model have been adjusted responsive to image features to tradeoff content loss versus style loss using measurements of information content correlation between third images produced during training and each of the first images and the second images, the measurements being from a comparison metric; and providing the synthetic image for use by a program configured to identify information in images of symbols.
US12169917B2
A processor-implemented method with data processing using a neural network includes: determining a first translated image by translating a first image based on a second image, the first image and a second image that having different distortions, such that a distortion of the first image corresponds to a distortion of the second image; determining a first retranslated image by translating the first translated image such that a distortion of the first translated image corresponds to a distortion of the first image; and training a first deformation field generator configured to determine a first relative deformation field that represents a relative deformation from the first image to the second image and a second deformation field generator configured to determine a second relative deformation field that represents a relative deformation from the second image to the first image, based on a loss between the first retranslated image and the first image.
US12169915B2
A computer-implemented method for processing electronic medical images, the method including receiving a plurality of electronic medical images of a medical specimen. Each of the plurality of electronic medical images may be divided into a plurality of tiles. A plurality of sets of matching tiles may be determined, the tiles within each set corresponding to a given region of a plurality of regions of the medical specimen. For each tile of the plurality of sets of matching tiles, a blur score may be determined corresponding to a level of image blur of the tile. For each set of matching tiles, a tile may be determined with the blur score indicating the lowest level of blur. A composite electronic medical image, comprising a plurality of tiles from each set of matching tiles with the blur score indicating the lowest level of blur, may be determined and provided for display.
US12169914B2
A modular architecture is provided for denoising Monte Carlo renderings using neural networks. The temporal approach extracts and combines feature representations from neighboring frames rather than building a temporal context using recurrent connections. A multiscale architecture includes separate single-frame or temporal denoising modules for individual scales, and one or more scale compositor neural networks configured to adaptively blend individual scales. An error-predicting module is configured to produce adaptive sampling maps for a renderer to achieve more uniform residual noise distribution. An asymmetric loss function may be used for training the neural networks, which can provide control over the variance-bias trade-off during denoising.
US12169906B2
An information processing apparatus includes a position processing unit, a correction unit, and a display control unit. The position processing unit estimates a head position of a user and estimates a position of a predetermined part of a body of the user based on the estimated head position. The correction unit corrects the position of the predetermined part estimated by the position processing unit based on the head position and an angle of inclination of a head of the user. The display control unit executes processing of displaying an image operated by the user to be overlapped with a space visually recognized by the user based on the position corrected by the correction unit.
US12169899B2
Embodiments provide for three-dimensional cloth modeling are provided. A first mesh comprising a plurality of faces defined by a plurality of edges is accessed, and a render mesh is generated using quadrangulated tessellation of the first mesh, where the render mesh comprises quad faces. One or more attributes of the plurality of faces of the first mesh are transferred to one or more of the quad faces of the render mesh using a stochastic transfer operation. The render mesh is displayed via a graphical user interface (GUI).
US12169896B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for preemptively reserving buffer space for primitives and positions in a graphics pipeline are disclosed. A system includes a graphics pipeline frontend with any number of geometry engines coupled to corresponding shader engines. Each geometry engine launches shader wavefronts to execute on a corresponding shader engine. The geometry engine preemptively reserves buffer space for each wavefront prior to the wavefront being launched on the shader engine. When the shader engine executes a wavefront, the shader engine exports primitive and position data to the reserved buffer space. Multiple scan converters will consume the primitive and position data, with each scan converter consuming primitive and position data based on the screen coverage of the scan converter. After consuming the primitive and position data, the scan converters mark the buffer space as freed so that the geometry engine can then allocate the freed buffer space to subsequent shader wavefronts.
US12169888B2
A floor plan image generating methodology is provided. The methodology includes: acquiring a boundary of a target building and a layout constraint of the target building; outputting multiple first floor plan images according to the layout constraint of the target building; selecting multiple second floor plan images from the multiple first floor plan images; applying a layout constraint of each of the second floor plan images to the boundary of the target building, and obtaining a layout of the target building corresponding to each of the multiple second floor plan images; inputting the layout of the target building and the boundary of the target building into a floor plan image generating network; and obtaining a predicted floor plan image of the target building outputted by the floor plan image generating network.
US12169880B2
Image generation using a hierarchical, model-based system includes generating a first region of an image using a first neural network model. The first region of the image is provided to a second neural network model as input. A second region of the image is generated using the second neural network model. The second region of the image shares a boundary with at least a portion of the first region of the image.
US12169878B2
A drone is used to map difficult transition spaces within buildings such as staircases between different levels of a multi-level building. The mapping technique used may vary based on the type of building space. For instance, for linear staircases, an orthogonal trajectory path or a smooth trajectory path may be used to map the transition space. The orthogonal trajectory path and the smooth trajectory path may be derived, at least in part, on initial and terminating points provided by a user. For circular staircases, a user may move the drone from the initial point to the terminating point, and the drone may determine a trajectory path based on the user's movement of the drone from the initial point to the terminating point.
US12169875B2
A model training method and apparatus for image recognition, and a non-transitory storage medium are provided. The model training method includes: obtaining a multi-label image training set including a plurality of training images each annotated with a plurality of sample labels; selecting target training images from the multi-label image training set for training a current model; performing label prediction on each target training image using the current model, to obtain a plurality of predicted labels of the each target training image; obtaining a cross-entropy loss function corresponding to the plurality of sample labels of the each target training image, a positive label loss being greater than a negative label loss and having a weight greater than 1; converging the predicted labels and the sample labels of the each target training image according to the cross-entropy loss function, and updating parameters of the current model, to obtain a trained model.
US12169873B2
Some embodiments are directed to a regulatory compliance tool implemented via a back-end application computer server. A location based regulatory compliance data store may contain electronic records associated with a set of locations. Each electronic record may include, for example, an electronic record identifier and at least one regulatory compliance parameter. The computer server may receive, from a user via an interactive graphical user interface display, a set of task indications associated with regulatory compliance. The computer server may also receive, from the user, a selected location from a set of potential locations. The computer server may then retrieve, from the location based regulatory compliance data store, information about the at least one regulatory compliance parameter associated with the selected location. The computer server may then update the display based on the retrieved information about the at least one regulatory compliance parameter associated with the selected location.
US12169865B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for creating an open loop prepaid gift account. The system identifies a request to purchase an open loop prepaid gift account which can be used to make a purchase at a merchant, presents a menu from which a customer can select the merchant, and receives a selection. Based on the selection, the system presents an option to load funds onto the open loop prepaid gift account and, upon receipt of payment, creates the open loop prepaid gift account and loads the open loop prepaid gift account with money, wherein information associated with the open loop prepaid gift account is encoded onto a physical card, and wherein merchant information is printed on the physical card according to an authorization from the merchant, the merchant information including at least one of a legal name, a trade name, a logotype, and a marketing tagline of the merchant.
US12169863B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to an automatic ordering method including a network-connected machine-readable code scanner identifying a product, and a network-connected weigh scale identifying a current weight of the product, the method further triggering an automatic order process when the current weight crosses a predetermined threshold. In an illustrative example, the automatic order process may send a signal to a user's network-connected personal device containing a notification that the product's current weight has crossed the predetermined threshold. The user may be presented one or more options, for example, regarding product purchase. In some examples, user setup selections may provide input to a function that determines the predetermined weight threshold. Various examples may include a network server. Online merchants providing online ordering of the product may also connect to the network server, for example. Various automatic ordering methods may advantageously facilitate and/or promote just-in-time delivery of consumable products.
US12169861B2
A social gift registry provides tools to aid those planning for major milestones in life to engage a network of friends, family, and others in communicating information about the life event, helping to identify and track gifts for the celebrants, and enabling the management of the activities involved in the celebration.
US12169859B1
Techniques are generally described for displaying outfit recommendations using a recurrent neural network. In various examples, a computing device may receive a first state vector representing an outfit comprising at least one fashion item. First image data depicting a second fashion item of a first item category may be received. A recurrent neural network may generate a first output feature vector based on the first state vector, the first image data, a first attribute vector, and the first item category. The first output feature vector may be compared to other feature vectors representing other fashion items in the first category to determine distances between the first output feature vector and the other feature vectors. A set of fashion items may be recommended and displayed based on the distances between the first output feature vector and the other feature vectors.
US12169854B2
This disclosure describes a vehicle-motion-analysis system that can align axes for a provider device and a corresponding transportation vehicle based on the provider device's location and motion data as a basis for generating driving-event scores for particular driving events. In particular, the disclosed systems can generate axes-rotation parameters that align axes of a provider device with axes of a transportation vehicle. In addition, the disclosed systems can identify motion paths, motion patterns, or other driving behaviors that occur during particular driving events. Further, the disclosed systems can generate driving-event scores for such driving events and can customize a graphical user interface based on the driving-event scores to reflect a provider rating and/or a location rating.
US12169838B2
A communications server apparatus for managing authentication of a user based on one or more authentication events in a session is provided, to, in one or more data records, generate, for each authentication event, data indicative of a trust score corresponding to the authentication event; and generate, data indicative of a security score based on the trust scores corresponding to the one or more authentication events in the session, and, in response to receiving request data indicative of an authentication request associated with the user corresponding to a transaction in the session, the transaction having a value indicator, authenticate the user if the security score satisfies a condition for authentication corresponding to the transaction according to the value indicator, wherein security scores for satisfying the condition are variable according to value indicators of transactions.
US12169837B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to verifying external accounts in real-time using dynamic smart contracts. A computing platform may receive a consumer request to initiate a transaction, at an enterprise organization, with an entity associated with an account. The computing platform may use the received consumer request to generate a smart contract profile associated with the entity. The computing platform may use the smart contract profile associated with the entity to determine a trust score associated with the entity. The computing platform may gather data indicating external accounts associated with the entity. The computing platform may use the data indicating the external accounts associated with the entity to determine a confidence threshold value. The computing platform may compare the trust score associated with the entity to the confidence threshold value to verify the legitimacy of the account associated with the entity.
US12169829B2
Methods and systems for digital asset management are discussed herein. Physical assets, such as a seat or group of seats in a venue (e.g., sports stadium, concert hall, movie theater, etc.) or a housing unit or group of housing units (e.g., apartment, condominium, hotel room, etc.) may be tokenized and associated with a minted non-fungible token (NFT). The NFT may be entered into a distributed ledger such that, when the asset is involved in a transaction (e.g., rented, purchased, etc.), a record of the transaction is securely and permanently entered into the distributed ledger. By utilizing the NFT and the distributed ledger during the transaction of the asset, all participants involved can be assured that proper and secure compensation is being provided for use of the asset.
US12169825B2
The present disclosure is generally directed to an apparatus for generating a non-fungible token (NFT), the apparatus may include at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least processor, wherein the memory containing instructions configuring the at least processor to receive user data and classify the user data to a plurality of interest categories. The processor may be configured to generate a recommendation for an NFT as a function of the plurality of interest categories, where generating the recommendation further may include identifying a value function as a function of the plurality of interest categories. The processor may be configured to optimize the value function, generate the recommendation as a function of the optimization, and mint the NFT as a function of the recommendation.
US12169811B1
A computer-implemented method includes receiving, from a mobile device, a deposit request including a first check image for funds to be deposited into a user account, determining a risk level associated with the deposit request, requesting a second check image having a restricted endorsement based on the risk level, receiving the second check image having the restricted endorsement, determining a confidence level based on the restricted endorsement, and transferring the funds to the user account based on the confidence level.
US12169806B2
A system for expense management including an expense management apparatus. The expense management apparatus configured to receive, from a client device, at least one parameter associated with an event, construct at least one query based on the at least one parameter, transmit the at least one query to a database, receive, from the database, responsive data responding to the at least one query, construct a benchmark, using a processing arrangement, associated with the at least one parameter, and transmit the benchmark to the client device.
US12169798B2
A system and method for processing third party behavioral assessments that receives data for a first and second behavioral assessment, the first behavioral assessment assessing a first behavioral characteristic of a first person and the second behavioral assessment assessing a second behavioral characteristic of the first person; utilizes the first and second behavioral characteristics to calculate a behavioral parameter for the first person; compares the behavioral parameter against corresponding behavioral parameters for respective persons for a team; provides a user interface to a user device that is configured to receive a team dynamic selection; receives a hypothetical scenario dataset that describes how the first person would work with the respective persons of the team; determines an impact of including the first person in the team, based on the desired dynamic for the team and the hypothetical scenario dataset; and displays the impact via the user interface.
US12169793B2
A system and method for controlling a system, comprising estimating an optimal control policy for the system; receiving data representing sequential states and associated trajectories of the system, comprising off-policy states and associated off-policy trajectories; improving the estimate of the optimal control policy by performing at least one approximate value iteration, comprising: estimating a value of operation of the system dependent on the estimated optimal control policy; using a complex return of the received data, biased by the off-policy states, to determine a bound dependent on at least the off-policy trajectories, and using the bound to improve the estimate of the value of operation of the system according to the estimated optimal control policy; and updating the estimate of the optimimal control policy, dependent on the improved estimate of the value of operation of the system. The control system may produce an output signal to control the system directly, or output the optimized control policy. The system preferably is a reinforcement learning system which continually improves.
US12169790B2
An abduction apparatus 1 includes: a probability calculation unit 2 configured to calculate, with respect to each of candidate hypotheses generated using observation information and knowledge information, a probability that the candidate hypothesis is an explanation regarding the observation information; a closed world assumption probability calculation unit 3 configured to calculate, with respect to the candidate hypotheses, a closed world assumption probability that the candidate hypothesis is an explanation regarding a first-order predicate logic literal to which a new truth value is determined as a result of assuming a closed world assumption; and a solution hypothesis determination unit 4 configured to determine a solution hypothesis that is a best explanation regarding the observation information from the candidate hypotheses using the probability and the closed world assumption probability.
US12169775B2
A vehicle includes one or more sensors configured to obtain raw data related to a scene, one or more processors, and machine readable instructions stored in one or more memory modules. The one machine readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the vehicle to: process the raw data with a first neural network stored in the one or more memory modules to obtain a first prediction about the scene, transmit the raw data to a computing device external to the vehicle, receive a second prediction about the scene from the computing device in response to transmitting the raw data to the computing device, and determine an updated prediction about the scene based on a combination of the first prediction and the second prediction.
US12169770B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for compressing a neural network model. One or more indices corresponding to a multi-dimensional tensor associated with a neural network are reordered. A set of weight coefficients associated with the one or more reordered indices is unified. A model of the neural network is compressed based on the unified set of weight coefficients.
US12169768B1
Techniques for generating unregistered internet domain names using machine learning (e.g., neural networks) are presented. The techniques can include identifying, using an electronic processor, a subset of registered domain names having at least one specified characteristic, vectorizing, using an electronic processor, a training subset of domain names in the subset of registered domain names to obtain a set of vectors, training, using an electronic processor, a machine learning algorithm with the set of vectors to produce a trained machine learning model, generating, using an electronic processor, at least one output domain name by the trained machine learning model, and outputting the at least one output domain name.
US12169767B1
Techniques for responding to a healthcare inquiry from a user are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for responding to a healthcare inquiry from a user, according to a set of instructions stored on a memory of a computing device and executed by a processor of the computing device, the method comprising the steps of: classifying an intent of the user based on the healthcare inquiry; instantiating a conversational engine based on the intent; eliciting, by the conversational engine, information from the user; and presenting one or more medical recommendations to the user based at least in part on the information.
US12169765B2
A machine learning scheme can be trained on a set of labeled training images of a subject in different poses, with different textures, and with different background environments. The label or marker data of the subject may be stored as metadata to a 3D model of the subject or rendered images of the subject. The machine learning scheme may be implemented as a supervised learning scheme that can automatically identify the labeled data to create a classification model. The classification model can classify a depicted subject in many different environments and arrangements (e.g., poses).
US12169761B2
Control system (1) for a state of a quantum harmonic oscillator, comprising: —a harmonic oscillator (3) in a Schrödinger's cat type state, —a stabilisation device (10) with a predetermined parity of a number of bosons of the state, which device is configured to use first and second frequency combs each comprising at least as many rays as a mean number of bosons in the state, and —a multiphonic dissipation device (20) which is suitable for removing at least one pair of bosons simultaneously from the oscillator, the dissipation device being activated only between two successive time peaks of the frequency combs over a time period greater than the inverse of the product of the mean number and the inverse of the characteristic time of the multiphonic dissipation, a time period separating two activation periods being less than a characteristic loss time of a boson.
US12169758B2
An electronic device includes a quantum processor having a plurality of qubits and a processor. The processor runs a plurality of instances of a quantum program substantially in parallel on the quantum processor using a separate set of qubits from among the plurality of qubits for each instance of the quantum program. The processor then acquires an output for each instance of the quantum program from the quantum processor. The processor next uses the outputs for generating an output of the quantum program.
US12169757B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and a method for extracting a computer readable code from a captured image of a mailpiece or parcel using downsampling and edge detection. The system can include a reader configured to capture an image of an item having a computer readable code positioned thereon and a processor in data communication with the reader. The processor can generate captured image data of the item including the computer readable code, downconvert the captured image data to generate a downconverted image data and detect an edge of the computer readable code. The processor can also identify a position of the computer readable code in the downconverted image data and store or process only the identified computer readable code.
US12169754B2
This disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods related to tool tracking. In an example embodiment, a method may involve detecting, by a tool monitoring device, a failure of a wireless communication system included in a tool that is stored in an enclosure. The tool monitoring device may determine that the failure is attributable to a temperature in the enclosure being outside an operating temperature range of the wireless communication system. A notification of the failure and/or a description of a cause for the failure may be displayed on a display screen of the tool monitoring device and/or transmitted to a tool tracking device. In an example implementation, the tool tracking device is located outside a vehicle, the enclosure is a toolbox placed in the vehicle, and the tool monitoring device, which is configured to monitor an operational status of the wireless communication system, is located in the vehicle.
US12169748B2
The present disclosure includes in one instance an optical article comprising a data rich plurality of retroreflective elements that are configured in a spatially defined arrangement, where the plurality of retroreflective elements comprise retroreflective elements having at least two different retroreflective properties, and where data rich means information that is readily machine interpretable. The present disclosure also includes a system comprising the previously mentioned optical article, an optical system, and an inference engine for interpreting and classifying the plurality of retroreflective elements wherein the optical system feeds data to the inference engine.
US12169747B2
A scanner is provided having an integrated or retrofitted amber filter placed in front of white illumination LEDs. When an object/item is placed within a field of view of a lens of the scanner, the white illumination LEDs are illuminated and pass through the amber filter, which filters out light in the light spectrum of approximately 340-500 nm. The object/item is illuminated with light approximately above 500 nm and reflected back through a portion of the lens that covers an imaging sensor resulting in an object/item image in the light spectrum approximately above 500 nm, which improves the user experience by removing the glaring blue light component of the white LEDs illumination while not impacting the performance of the object/item recognition when processed for a transaction being conducted at a transaction terminal that is interfaced to the scanner.
US12169746B2
A system uses GPU accessible, high-speed memory to store compressed or raw video printer data. The system transmits this video data over one or more frames of an HDMI interface and a circuit reconstructs the video data for a page from one or more HDMI frames for communication to a printer.
US12169741B2
A method and apparatus of a network device that allocates a shared memory buffer for an object is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network device receives an allocation request for the shared memory buffer for the object. In addition, the network device allocates the shared memory buffer from shared memory of a network device, where the shared memory buffer is accessible by a writer and a plurality of readers. The network device further returns a writer pointer to the writer, where the writer pointer references a base address of the shared memory buffer. Furthermore, the network device stores the object in the shared memory buffer, wherein the writer accesses the shared memory using the writer pointer. The network device further shares the writer pointer with at least a first reader of the plurality of readers. The network device additionally translates the base address of the shared memory buffer to a reader pointer, where the reader pointer is expressed in a memory space of the first reader.
US12169740B1
A method and system of providing users with a tool to interact with content from a primary app through a secondary app are disclosed. The secondary app obtains source data from the primary app and determines whether the data includes labels that can trigger the application of a particular configuration in the presentation of the content. Changes made to the source data in the secondary app that relate to substantive or key data for the content do not affect the source data in the primary app. However, changes made in the secondary app that relate to non-substantive data can be propagated back to the primary app.
US12169734B2
A secondary pool of VMs is used to run secondary services or jobs, which may be evicted upon failure of a corresponding primary VM. Upon detection of a failure of a primary resource, the secondary services or jobs are evicted from secondary pool resources, and the secondary pool resources can be automatically allocated to the jobs of the failed primary resource. In this regard, a secondary job may be thought of as a preemptible job and comprises services or jobs that are lower priority than the service or job on the primary resource. By using computing resources in the secondary pool to run secondary or preemptible jobs, this technology makes use of what would be otherwise idle resources. This beneficially avoids having to allocate additional and separate computing resources for secondary jobs, leads to more efficient use of network resources, and reduces costs.
US12169730B2
Techniques that enable a hypervisor to (1) maintain shared memory pages and (2) handle memory accounting for VMs that are suspended to and resumed from the volatile memory of a host system are provided. Regarding (1), the hypervisor can maintain shared memory pages in volatile memory across the suspend-to-memory and resume-from-memory operations, without having to save their reference counts. Regarding (2), the hypervisor can keep track of the volatile memory reserved and consumed by VMs as they are suspended and resumed, without erroneously double counting that memory.
US12169728B2
Technology is disclosed for non-fragmenting memory ballooning. An example method may involve: receiving, by a processing device, a request associated with a memory balloon; searching for available memory chunks in a memory, wherein the memory is fragmented and comprises a set of available chunks that are separate from each other; selecting, by the processing device, a first chunk and a second chunk of the set of available chunks, wherein the first chunk is smaller than the second chunk and is selected before the second chunk; and associating the first chunk and the second chunk with the memory balloon.
US12169723B2
A method and system for simultaneous recording of the pixels of a screen in the form of a video and at least one of: events received via an accessibility API and snapshots of the UI obtained via an accessibility API. All captured elements are associated with timestamps such that the video, events and UI snapshots can retrospectively be replayed and retain their synchronisation. The recording is performed via an app that runs on the same device being recorded and the recorded session may be uploaded to server via a network. A second app, running on a second device may be used to download the recorded sessions and be used to play, pause, and scrub, such that the pixels, accessibility events and the UI can be inspected at any time from the recorded session.
US12169718B2
An apparatus comprises decoder circuitry to decode an instruction that includes an opcode to indicate a protected load operation, a source field for source memory address information, and a destination field to identify a destination register. The apparatus also comprises memory to store an allocate load-protect (LP) data structure with an entry for the identified destination register. The entry comprises an IP field and a status field. The apparatus also comprises load elision circuitry to (a) use the allocate LP data structure to determine whether the identified destination register has active status for the IP; (b) in response to determining that the identified destination register has active status for the IP, cause the instruction to be elided; and (c) in response to determining that the identified destination register does not have active status for the IP, cause the instruction to be executed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12169712B2
Methods and apparatuses for using secrets and a secrets framework are described. In some embodiments, the method comprises executing, by a computing system, application code that includes a reference to a secret value inaccessible to the application code, the reference being in the form of a handle that contains the secret value, including passing the handle to injector code; and executing the injector code, including accepting the handle; obtaining the secret value from the handle; and using the secret value in an operation on behalf of the application code.
US12169705B2
Provided is a control system, including: an acquisition unit, configured to acquire, from an mobile object, version information of each of a plurality of programs for controlling each of a plurality of mobile object control units included in the mobile object; a storage control unit, configured to store the acquired version information; a selection unit, configured to select an update program of at least one mobile object control unit among the plurality of mobile object control units; and an output control unit, configured to output the selected update program to the mobile object, wherein the selection unit is configured to select update program of at least one mobile object control unit among a plurality of mobile object control units included in the mobile object, based on the newly acquired version information, when the newly acquired version information newly acquired is not consistent with the stored version information.
US12169703B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing graphics pipeline optimizations are disclosed. A user interface (UI) is generated to allow a user to analyze shaders and determine resource utilization on any of multiple different target graphic devices. The UI allows the user to manipulate the state associated with the target graphics device for a given graphics pipeline. After being edited by the user, the state of the graphics pipeline is converted into a textual representation and input into a meta-app. The meta-app creates an application programming interface (API) construct from the shader source code and textual representation of the state which is compiled by a driver component into machine-level instructions. Also, resource usage statistics are generated for a simulated run of the graphics pipeline on the target graphics device. Then, the machine-level instructions and resource usage statistics are displayed in the UI for the user to analyze.
US12169700B2
A method and apparatus are provided for manufacturing integrated circuits performing invariant integer division x/d. A desired rounding mode is provided and an integer triple (a,b,k) for this rounding mode is derived. Furthermore, a set of conditions for the rounding mode is derived. An RTL representation is then derived using the integer triple. From this a hardware layout can be derived and an integrated circuit manufactured with the derived hardware layout. When the integer triple is derived a minimum value of k for the desired rounding mode and set of conditions is also derived.
US12169688B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to natural language processing. In some embodiments, a computer system receives unlabeled content. In some embodiments, the computer system embeds, using a machine learning model, the unlabeled content, where the embedding generates an unlabeled vector. In some embodiments, the computer system determines, from a plurality of labeled vectors stored in a vector index, a first set of labeled vectors that match the unlabeled vector, where the first set of labeled vectors are generated from a set of labeled content stored in a database. In some embodiments, the computer system assigns a new label to the unlabeled content, where the new label is selected from the first set of labeled vectors. In some embodiments, the computer system stores the newly labeled content in the database. The disclosed techniques may advantageously provide for automatically labeling content based on its semantic rather than its syntactic meaning.
US12169687B2
Disclosed is a method giving an alternative to typing, cell selecting, single list selecting and pasting in arguments for a built-in spreadsheet function and flex copy paste capabilities through the use of a broad spectrum of selection list panels supporting multiple selections from multiple lists with fixed and/or situationally specific specification options. Those and other arguments can be invisible in the spreadsheet formula text while more understandably visible in UIs. Also disclosed is function and flex copy-paste control of cell formatting overriding any cell formatting otherwise applied to those cells employing a broad spectrum of specification types and selection list panels not previously utilized for spreadsheet functions or copy paste.
US12169680B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for converting Portable Document Format (PDF) documents to LaTeX files. The methods and systems use machine learning models to identify and extract PDF portions of a PDF document. The methods and systems create a LaTeX file for the PDF document using the PDF portions extracted by the machine learning models. The methods and systems provide an output with the LaTeX file for the PDF document. The LaTeX file is used to perform different actions on the PDF document.
US12169679B2
A transmission gate structure includes first and second PMOS transistors positioned in a first active area, first and second NMOS transistors positioned in a second active area parallel to the first active area, and four metal segments parallel to the active areas. A first metal segment overlies the first active area, a fourth metal segment overlies the second active area, and second and third metal segments are a total of two metal segments positioned between the first and fourth metal segments. A first conductive path connects gates of the first PMOS and NMOS transistors, a second conductive path connects gates of the second PMOS and NMOS transistors, a third conductive path connects a source/drain (S/D) terminal of each of the first and second PMOS transistors and first and second NMOS transistors and includes a first conductive segment extending across at least three of the four metal segments.
US12169675B2
Techniques for generating one or more non-final layouts for an analog integrated circuit are disclosed. The techniques include generating a non-final layout of an analog integrated circuit based on device specifications, partitioning the non-final layout into a plurality of subcells, merging the verified sub-cells to form a merged layout of the analog integrated circuit, and performing quality control checks on the merged layout. Additionally or alternatively, generating the non-final layout can include determining an allowable spacing between adjacent cells of different cell types or inserting one or more filler cells into a filler zone in the non-final layout.
US12169673B2
A Toffoli magic state to be injected in preparation of a Toffoli gate may be prepared using a bottom-up approach. In the bottom-up approach, computational basis states are prepared in a fault tolerant manner using a STOP algorithm. The computational basis states are further used to prepare the Toffoli magic state. The STOP algorithm tracks syndrome outcomes and can be used to determine when to stop repeating syndrome measurements such that faults are guaranteed to be below a threshold level. Also, the STOP algorithm may be used in growing repetition code from a first code distance to a second code distance, such as for use in the computational basis states.
US12169671B2
A method and system for migrating an existing ASIC design from one semiconductor fabrication process to another are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for migrating the existing ASIC design comprises parsing the gate-level netlist one row at a time into one or more standard cells forming the ASIC design, forming a plurality of mapping tables having mapping rules for mapping the parsed one or more standard cells into equivalent target standard cells implemented in the second semiconductor fabrication process, mapping the parsed one or more standard cells into the equivalent target standard cells using the plurality of mapping tables, and generating a target gate-level netlist describing the ASIC design in terms of the equivalent target standard cells.
US12169670B2
Implementations of a method of designing a module semiconductor product may include receiving a selection of a module type, one or more die, a placement of one or more wires, clips, or pins; and generating, using a processor, a module configuration file. The method may include generating a module bonding diagram using a build diagram system module; selecting one or more SPICE models corresponding with the die; and generating a product SPICE model and a three dimensional model for the module semiconductor product. The method may include generating one or more datasheet characteristics of the module semiconductor product with at least the product SPICE model and the product simulation module, generating a product datasheet for the module semiconductor product using the datasheet formation module, and providing access to at least the module bonding diagram, the product SPICE model, the three dimensional model, and the product datasheet to the user.
US12169666B2
Systems and techniques for rendering multi-layer computer-aided design related documents are described. A described technique includes accessing layers associated with a floorplan, the layers including a visual layer that depicts the floorplan and an interactive layer that enables user interaction with the visual layer. The layers can have different sizes. The technique includes determining outer boundaries for a selected layer. The technique includes generating a boundary layer based on a polygon defined by the outer boundaries that surrounds layer content. The technique includes scaling, based on the boundary layer, one or more of the layers to have a size that is within a threshold distance of the boundary layer's size, and after scaling, aligning the visual layer and the interactive layer in a merged graphics layer so that the interactive layer can detect user interaction with a corresponding portion of the visual layer.
US12169665B1
In some embodiments, a method for creating a design for a physical device is provided. A computing system receives a design specification. The computing system generates a proposed design based on the design specification. The computing system determines a vector of loss values based on the proposed design. The computing system determines a scalar loss value based on a distance between the vector of loss values and a volume representing desired characteristics of the physical device. The computing system updates the proposed design based on the scalar loss value.
US12169661B2
A microphone module system comprising a microphone module with memory. The microphone module is connected to an original factory installed microphone of a vehicle and connected to an aftermarket radio to allow the original factory installed microphone to be compatible with an aftermarket radio. The microphone module includes a computer program that calibrates the factory installed microphone with the aftermarket radio that is originally embedded in the module memory. A method to remotely flash the module comprises steps of transferring a computer program to the microphone module, installing the microphone module in the vehicle, and calibrating the microphone module with the original factory microphone. The computer program may be specific to a make/model of a vehicle or universally applicable to all vehicles.
US12169659B2
Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device for managing a screen of a display and an operation method in the electronic device. According to an embodiment, the electronic device may include: a display module including a display configured to be deformable, a memory, and at least one processor electrically coupled to the display module and the memory. The at least one processor may be configured to: obtain first state information related to a screen for displaying objects of execution applications, obtain second state information related to deformation of the display, generate a view of a mini-application executable on the screen based on the first state information and the second state information, and control the display module to display the screen configured to include the generated view of the min-application in a display area visible to the outside based on the deformation of the display.
US12169656B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet feeding units, a job reception unit configured to receive a print job, an instruction reception unit configured to receive a reservation instruction for reserving at least one sheet feeding unit of the plurality of sheet feeding units, an identification unit configured to identify a sheet feeding unit from among the plurality of sheet feeding units based on a setting of the received print job, and a notification unit configured to notify, in response to an execution instruction of a print job in which a sheet feeding unit for which the instruction reception unit has received the reservation instruction is identified, and in which a specific setting is not made, a user of information indicating that the sheet feeding unit is reserved.
US12169651B2
Disclosed are various approaches for decreasing the latency involved in reading pages from swap devices. These approaches can include setting a first queue in the plurality of queues as a highest priority queue and a second queue in the plurality of queues as a low priority queue. Then, an input/output (I/O) request for an address in memory can be received. The type of the I/O request can be determined, and then the I/O request can be assigned to the first queue or the second queue of the swap device based at least in part on the type of the I/O request.
US12169650B1
A system may include one or more processors configured to receive a frame comprising a quantity of commands, a quantity of storage devices, and a buffer map. In response to the frame, the one or more processors may read, using the buffer map and from a memory, (1) input data for each of one or more storage devices corresponding to the quantity of storage devices and (2) an identifier of each of the one or more storage devices. The one or more processors may send, to the one or more storage devices, a plurality of commands corresponding to the quantity of commands, based at least on the input data for each storage device and the identifier of each storage device.
US12169649B2
A storage device includes a memory controller, including: a controller configured to receive a read command from an external device, determine whether the read command is a general read command or a read-ahead command; continue an erase operation or a program operation currently in progress if the read command is a read-ahead command; and temporarily suspend an erase operation or a program operation currently in progress and process the read command if the read command is a general read command.
US12169645B2
A data processing system is provided to include a storage unit and a controller in communication with the storage unit and configured to program write data to a first area as at least one of the plurality of storage areas with a priority over a second area as at least one of the plurality of storage areas and transfer data of the first area to the second area. The controller is further configured to adjust a size of the first area based on 1) a number of times saturated by the write data for the first area, a saturation occurring due to a size of the write data written to the first area being greater than a certain size and 2) an overflow size of the write data corresponding to a difference between the size of the write data and the certain size.
US12169638B2
An information management system creates a modified representation of backup files in a backup copy on restore to overcome the difficulties and challenges imposed by the legal and administrative requirements on the handling of personally information without making changes to the backup copy. In an example, a restore modification component searches backup data files as they are restored from a backup copy but before the restored data files are written into the primary storage system. When the restore modification component identifies a backup data file with a record that matches search criteria defined in the modification repository, the restore modification component replaces one or more of the restored data field values in the record with replacement data values obtained from the modification repository according to respective replacement rules. In this way, the information management system can create a modified representation of the backup copy data without modifying the backup copy.
US12169635B2
A system creates a mapping of a storage intent, defined for a digital asset, to one of the primary storage tiers, in a primary protection storage system, which matches the storage intent. The system receives a request to store a copy of the digital asset and stores the copy with the storage intent in the primary storage tier, based on the mapping of the storage intent to the primary storage tier. Upon receiving a request to replicate the copy of the digital asset, the system creates a mapping of the storage intent to one of the secondary storage tiers, in a secondary protection storage system, which matches the storage intent. The system replicates each copy of the digital asset, which is stored in the primary storage tier, and the storage intent to the secondary storage tier, based on the mapping of the storage intent to the secondary storage tier.
US12169634B2
A data storage device comprising a non-volatile storage medium configured to store data, a data port configured to receive and transmit data between a host computer system and the data storage device, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive, via the data port, a notification activation, and receive, via the data port, a command data structure comprising a command for the data storage device to perform an operation. The controller is further configured to in response to receiving the command data structure, perform the operation, the operation being defined by an in-progress state and a completed state, and in response to determining that the operation is in the completed state and in response to determining the notification activation, transmit, via the data port, a response data structure comprising an indication that the operation is in the completed state.
US12169633B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may retrieve, from a solid state drive (SSD), information that includes an original storage size of the SSD, a number of terabytes written, and a number of program/erase (P/E) cycles that occurred within the SSD; determine that a number of terabytes written is not above the threshold value of terabytes written; determine a threshold number of P/E cycles remaining associated with the SSD; determine that a number of P/E cycles remaining of the SSD is above the threshold number of P/E cycles remaining associated with the SSD; determine an overprovisioning percentage, which would produce a write amplification factor at or below a write amplification factor threshold, based at least on the number of P/E cycles remaining; determine configuration data for the SSD; and configure the SSD with the configuration data.
US12169632B2
A storage system having high performance and high reliability includes a non-volatile storage device, a storage controller configured to control data to be read and written from and to the storage device using a storage function; and a volatile memory. In the reading and writing, the storage controller generates a log and stores the log in a log memory, writes the log stored in the memory to the storage device, and collects a capacity of the storage area of the memory storing the log written to the storage device. In collecting a free area of the memory, the storage controller executes a base image saving method of writing in the storage device in units of storage areas having a plurality of logs and collecting a free area, and a garbage collection method of writing in the storage device in units of logs and collecting a free area.
US12169631B2
One example method includes analyzing an IO pattern comprising IOs issued by a client application, based on the analyzing, generating a rule relating to an NFIT, using the rule to modify the NFIT, and after the NFIT is modified, changing a configuration of SCM firmware based on the NFIT. Because the modified SCM firmware may have a configuration directly related to the IO pattern, the SCM may function relatively more efficiently and effectively for that IO pattern.
US12169624B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for voice-based device operation mode management. Example methods may include determining that a device is coupled to an accessory device, and determining that being coupled to the accessory device triggers activation of a first operation mode at the device. The first operation mode presents digital content at the display in a user interface having a first content density that is less than a second content density of a second operation mode. Example methods may include causing the device to activate the first operation mode, receiving first voice data indicative of a request to change the device operation mode to the second operation mode, and causing the device to activate the second operation mode.
US12169622B2
Computer systems and corresponding methods are provided for computer assisted research in a network are provided that generate interface screens that include a map view of a plurality of selectable objects disposed in a nuclear arrangement in segmented rings about a first level object. The computing device is configured to receive selections of the displayed objects and expand the display to include additional segmented levels all surrounding the first level object.
US12169619B2
Methods and systems are described for identifying and marking content items that have or have not been shared to social media or content hosting services. The methods and systems use a marking engine to access a content item in a content library and identify the content hosts or social media sites to which the content item was previously transmitted. A marking engine may create a user interface, generate a thumbnail of each content item, and generate a graphical indicator for each identified content host. A marking engine may generate for display thumbnail representations of each content item with graphical indicators of each of the identified content hosts. A marking engine may sort thumbnails by metadata associated with the corresponding content items, such as creation time and date, location, share status, and other classifications and filters, to indicate which content items are ready to be shared to a content host.
US12169614B2
A touch sensor device (TSD) includes TSD electrodes associated with a surface of the TSD. Also, an overlay that includes marker electrode(s) is also associated with a region of the surface of the TSD. The TSD also includes drive-sense circuits (DSCs) operably coupled to the plurality of TSD electrodes. A DSC is configured to provide a TSD electrode signal to a TSD electrode and simultaneously to sense a change of the TSD electrode signal based on a change of impedance of the TSD electrode caused by capacitive coupling between the TSD electrode and the marker electrode(s) of the overlay. Processing module(s) is configured to process a digital signal generated by the DSC and other digital signals generated by other DSCs determine the region of the surface of the TSD that is associated with the overlay and to adapt sensitivity of the TSD within that region.
US12169611B2
A position detection system includes a display device that displays image data by driving pixel electrodes, and a touch panel including a sensor electrode and a touch sensor. An active pen communicates with the touch sensor using a frequency included in a frequency band. The display device suppresses a frequency component in the frequency band in capacitive noise that occurs in the sensor electrode due to a voltage vibration in an interconnect in the display device caused by driving of the pixel electrodes. The display device selectively operates in either of a first operation mode in which driving of the pixel electrodes suppresses the frequency component included in the capacitive noise that occurs in the sensor electrode, and a second operation mode in which driving of the pixel electrodes does not suppress the frequency component included in the capacitive noise that occurs in the sensor electrode.
US12169607B2
A display device including a touch sensor and a driving method thereof, and more particularly, a curved display device including a touch sensor and a driving method thereof, are presented. The display device includes: a touch sensor unit including a plurality of touch sensors; and at least one touch surface curved to along a first direction, wherein the touch surface includes a center region and edge regions positioned at both sides of the center region along the first direction, and wherein a sensitivity of the touch sensor in the center region is higher than a sensitivity of the touch sensors in the edge regions.
US12169606B2
According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an electronic device includes: a housing; a touch circuit including a plurality of TX electrodes, and a plurality of RX electrodes arranged to cross over the plurality of TX electrode; a flexible display which includes the touch circuit, and which can be withdrawn from the inner space of the housing; a touch controller; and a processor operatively connected to the touch circuit, the flexible display and the touch controller, wherein the touch controller applies a driving signal by using the plurality of TX electrodes of the touch circuit, acquires the driving signal by using the plurality of RX electrodes, confirms a capacitance value on the basis of the acquired driving signal, and confirms information about a folded area of the flexible display on the basis of the capacitance value, and the processor can set an activation area for an unfolded area of the flexible display on the basis of the folded area of the flexible display. Various embodiments, in addition to various embodiments disclosed in the present document, are also possible.
US12169597B1
Keyboard and trackpad configurations and related methods utilize data from one or more bending sensors to adjust a driving signal for a haptic actuator on a haptic trackpad. In one example, a method for adjusting a driving signal for a haptic actuator on a force-sensing haptic trackpad in a deformable keyboard includes using at least data from a bending sensor to determine that the keyboard is bending. At least on condition of determining that the keyboard is bending, the method includes using the data from the bending sensor to adjust an initial haptic driving signal to an adjusted haptic driving signal. The haptic actuator is driven with the adjusted driving signal to generate haptic output via a touch receiving surface of the force-sensing haptic trackpad.
US12169591B2
Broadly speaking, the present techniques relate to a method, apparatus and system for improving a user's engagement or emotion during a human-computer interaction, by dynamically adjusting the human-computer interaction in response to detected user emotion.
US12169589B1
A hardware unit relies on non-flashable circuitry for improving security for a system connected to a public or private network. The hardware unit can be added to a network without substantial modifications to the other devices already connected to the network. The hardware unit includes a switch that has at least two positions. In one of the two positions, the hardware unit detects and blocks or drops data packets or frames that contain an instruction of a known file-sharing protocol other than a reading instruction when the instruction is not addressed to a runtime file but transmits all the data packets or frames when the instruction is addressed to a runtime file. Thus, a cyber attack may be prevented instantaneously by what it attempts to do, typically the creation, insertion, deletion, update, renaming, or writing of files to compromise code or data while retaining the usual browser functionality.
US12169588B2
Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement the secure external data storage. A computing system may include a system-on-chip as a main processing complex and one or more secure elements that execute specialized functions related to sensitive information. While the secure element may use an external flash for storage for performance reasons, storing sensitive information on an external flash may expose the sensitive information if the external flash is ever compromised. The disclosed techniques and apparatuses provide an integrated secure element, of a system-on-chip, which leverages a secure channel with a secure flash to manage a cryptographic key for securing sensitive information stored on an unsecured external flash to prevent the exposure of sensitive information.
US12169583B2
A system, process, and computer-readable medium for securely transferring user personal identification information (PII) across platforms, based on specific permissions, are described. One or more aspects provide greater control, to a user, of when that user's PII may be released from a secure storage in a first platform and securely provided to a second platform. The timing of those releases of the PII may be controlled by specific authorizations from the user via one or more processes. Also, in addition to improving the security associated with the PII transferred between platforms, one or more aspects improve users' experiences by permitting controlled reuse of users' PII to simplify how users provide their PII to separate processes being performed on separate platforms.
US12169579B1
A system includes a server configured to store a plurality of imagery configured to be presented in an email template on an electronic device. The server is configured to receive a request to retrieve an imagery of the plurality of imagery for use in the email template. The system also includes a controller configured to perform operations that include monitoring information associated with the request, comparing monitored information associated with the request with expected information associated with the request, and determining unauthorized usage of the email template based on a mismatch between the monitored information and the expected information.
US12169574B2
The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods associated with communicating privacy rights pertaining to data captured from a vehicle. An example method executed by a processor of a data capture apparatus in a vehicle can include capturing an image. In an example scenario, the image may include an individual who is located outside the vehicle. Furthermore, in some cases, the image can be a part of a video clip containing multiple images. The method further includes generating an identifier for identifying the image(s). The identifier can be a machine-readable symbol such as, for example, a QR-code symbol or a barcode. A notification that includes the identifier may be generated and conveyed to the individual for use by the individual to exercise his/her rights to privacy with respect to the images in which he/she is present.
US12169558B2
The rule learning unit 81 performs rough sets analysis using training data that includes threat information including a plurality of explanatory variables representing a threat event and a discrimination result of discriminating the threat information, to learn a decision rule specifying the discrimination result depending on a combination of the explanatory variables. The input unit 82 inputs the threat information to be analyzed. The analysis unit 83 applies the input threat information to the decision rule to identify the discrimination result of the threat information, and the explanatory variable as a basis for the discrimination result.
US12169556B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for enabling the automatic detection of executable code from a stream of bytes. In some embodiments, the stream of bytes can be sourced from the hidden areas of files that traditional malware detection solutions ignore. In some embodiments, a machine learning model is trained to detect whether a particular stream of bytes is executable code. Other embodiments described herein disclose systems and methods for automatic feature extraction using a neural network. Given a new file, the systems and methods may preprocess the code to be inputted into a trained neural network. The neural network may be used as a “feature generator” for a malware detection model. Other embodiments herein are directed to systems and methods for identifying, flagging, and/or detecting threat actors which attempt to obtain access to library functions independently.
US12169553B2
The technology disclosed herein enables consumer devices to verify the integrity of services running in trusted execution environments. An example method may include: acquiring, by a broker device, integrity data of a first trusted execution environment of a first computing device and integrity data of a second trusted execution environment of a second computing device, wherein the first trusted execution environment executes a first service and the second trusted execution environment executes a second service; storing the integrity data of the first trusted execution environment and the integrity data of the second trusted execution environment in a data storage device as stored integrity data; correlating integrity data of the first trusted execution environment with the first service and the integrity data of the second trusted execution environment with the second service; and providing, by the broker device, the stored integrity data to a plurality of consumer devices.
US12169552B2
Systems and methods for implementing trusted clients using secure execution environments. An example method comprises: receiving, by a server, a measurement from a client application running in a secure execution environment implemented by a client computing device; responsive to validating the measurement, transmitting a first confidential data item to the client application running in the secure execution environment; receiving, from the client application running in the secure execution environment, a second confidential data item derived from a local state of the client application modified by the first confidential data item; and updating, in view of the second confidential data item, a local state of a server application.
US12169547B2
A communications device for managing an authentication event is provided, which is configured to generate location data indicative of a geolocation associated with the communications device, retrieve, from a key that is obfuscated and stored in the communications device, the key, sign the location data with the retrieved key, and transmit request data to a communications server apparatus for requesting the authentication event, the request data comprising the signed location data. A method and a communications system for managing an authentication event are also provided.
US12169545B2
An identity provider (IdP) defines an interface for obtaining device posture signals in a flexible manner. Third-party signal providers author plugins that conform to the defined interface and make the plugins available to the organizations that use their services. The plugins incorporate the third-party signals into the authentication logic of the IdP, allowing the authentication logic to obtain organization-defined information about client device posture of the client devices on which user authentication is taking place. This permits different organizations that use the IdP to tailor their authentication processes to the particular types of signals available to them, and to their own particular organization policies. This allows, for example, conformity to organization policies such as user data use policies.
US12169542B2
Various example embodiments are directed to a fingerprint authentication method and a fingerprint authentication device. The fingerprint authentication method includes acquiring target fingerprint data of a user using at least one fingerprint sensor, determining a preliminary authentication result of the target fingerprint data based on at least one historical fingerprint data stored in memory, performing a matching check on the preliminary authentication result, and determining a final authentication result of the target fingerprint data based on results of the matching check.
US12169533B2
A site reception unit receives designation of a web site where a search window for searching for data existing in a prescribed data pool is to be displayed. A page reception unit receives designation of one or more web pages for displaying the search window among one or more web pages constituting the web site the destination of which has been received. A search window position reception unit receives destination of a position for displaying the search window for each web page the destination of which has been received. A construction unit constructs the web site so as to display the search window at the designated position for a user who has accessed the web site.
US12169529B1
One aspect of the subject matter described herein comprises a database management system. The database management system comprises a communication circuit, an interface, and a processor. The communication circuit receives information from databases via a communication network. The interface allows user operation and interaction via the communication network and the database management system. The processor provides data to and receives data from the interface, including a plurality of alphanumeric records comprising at least one unique identifier, obtains database records from other databases for each unique identifier, identifies a number of alphanumeric records in the plurality having events in their histories, determines a percentage of alphanumeric records in the plurality having negative events in their histories, generates a report including the determined percentages, and conveys the report to the user.
US12169527B2
System and methods are directed to operations associated with an approximate nearest neighbor search engine. More specifically, a vector semantically representing content to be added to a search index may be received. The search index may include a neighborhood graph having a plurality of nodes, where each node of the plurality of nodes is associated with content in a content repository. A plurality of nodes within the search index determined to be most semantically similar to the received vector semantically representing content to be added to the search index may be identified. The node corresponding to the received vector semantically representing content to be added to the search index to the search index may be added to the search index and a listing of nearest neighbors associated with each of the of the plurality of nodes may be updated to include an identifier associated with the added node.
US12169522B2
A method includes receiving a content feed that includes audio data corresponding to speech utterances and processing the content feed to generate a semantically-rich, structured document. The structured document includes a transcription of the speech utterances and includes a plurality of words each aligned with a corresponding audio segment of the audio data that indicates a time when the word was recognized in the audio data. During playback of the content feed, the method also includes receiving a query from a user requesting information contained in the content feed and processing, by a large language model, the query and the structured document to generate a response to the query. The response conveys the requested information contained in the content feed. The method also includes providing, for output from a user device associated with the user, the response to the query.
US12169521B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for generating a summary based on trip information. The program and method include operations for: determining that one or more criteria associated with a user correspond to a trip taken by the user during a given time interval; retrieving a plurality of visual media items generated by a client device of the user during the given time interval; determining location information for the plurality of visual media items; automatically generating a trip graphic to represent the trip based on the plurality of visual media items generated by the user during the given time interval and the determined location information; and causing the trip graphic to be displayed on the client device.
US12169516B1
A system and method for identifying citations from documents and constructing an enriched citation database may include obtaining a document comprising texts, constructing pre-processing filters and citation filters and converting short citations and immediately preceding citations into full citations. The pre-processing filters may include a first set of regular expressions matching non-citation text patterns and applying the pre-processing filters to the document to remove text patterns that match at least one of the first set of regular expressions generates a pre-processed document. The citation filters may include a second set of regular expressions matching citation text patterns and context text patterns and applying the citation filters to the pre-processed document may identify one or more citations and corresponding contexts that match at least one of the second set of regular expressions. The one or more citations and corresponding contexts may then be stored in a citation database.
US12169508B2
Systems and methods for disambiguating company profiles are disclosed. The system builds a database of candidate companies with timed attributes. The system further ingests timed company metadata using a PostgreSQL database. The system disambiguates location and geocoding by matching text patterns and cross-referencing one or more identified location components against one or more geocode databases and classifies and disambiguates company name component from a company name associated with the company using a conditional random field (CRF) model. Further, the system disambiguates employee attributes using a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model algorithm and train a tree model for pre-selection of candidate companies for the company. The system trains a similarity model for comparison of the candidate companies and in response to a determination that two given candidate companies are same merge the company profiles associated with the given candidate companies.
US12169500B1
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for generating, extracting, classifying, and formatting object metadata using natural language processing in an electronic network. The present disclosure is configured to identify at least one input source, comprising at least one input data; parse the at least one input data; output, by an extraction layer, at least one product metadata and a term importance score associated with the input data to a metadata storage, the extraction layer comprising an NLP attribute extraction model; assemble, by an assignment layer, a corpus of text data and key phrases based on the product metadata from the extraction layer, the assignment layer comprising an NLP classification model; classify and verify, by the assignment layer, the product metadata; and output, by a generative layer, at least one generative metadata to the metadata storage, the generative layer comprising a pretrained generative NLP model.
US12169496B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing a search request received from a user. A method includes providing access to content items associated with metadata. The method includes providing information about at least one search previously performed for a user, and providing access to information describing relationships between at least one of the content items and the metadata. The method includes receiving a present input from the user intended to identify a desired content item. Upon determining that results from the previous search did not satisfy the search request from the user, the method includes determining an intent shared by the previous search and the present input based on comparing (i) the relationship information, (ii) the previous search, and (iii) the present input. The method also includes selecting and presenting a subset of content items based on comparing the shared intent and the metadata.
US12169494B2
A method including receiving, from a device, interaction data associated with an event including a first identifier, identifying a second identifier associated with the first identifier, identifying one or more previous interactions associated with the first identifier or the second identifier, annotating the interaction data based on the identified one or more previous interactions, wherein the annotation indicates a preference for previous interactions associated with the first identifier or previous interactions associated with the second identifier, and transmitting an indication that the event is associated with one or more of the previous interactions, wherein the one or more previous interactions are determined based on the preference indicated by the annotation.
US12169482B2
Database servers may maintain a database according to a database schema. A database change management system can include a profile service configured to collect database profile information. A forecast service can be configured to use SQL parsing to generate change objects and generate a forecast report indicative of a prediction of a failure or success of an implementation of the set of changes.
US12169479B2
The present invention makes it possible to maintain availability and scale out file performance, while suppressing costs. A unified storage has a plurality of controllers and a storage apparatus (storage device unit), and each of the plurality of controllers is equipped with one or more main processors (CPU) and one or more channel adapters (FE-I/F). Each main processor causes a block storage control program to operate and thereby process data inputted to and outputted from the storage apparatus, each channel adapter has a processor (CPU) that performs transmission and reception to and from a main processor after receiving an access request, and the processors in the plurality of channel adapters cooperate to cause a distributed file system to operate, and distributively store data, written as a file, to the plurality of controllers.
US12169465B2
A Peripheral Component Interconnect express (PCIe) device includes a Direct Memory Access (DMA) device including a plurality of functions; and a PCIe interface device for performing communication between a host and the DMA device. The PCIe interface device includes a reset operation controller for, when a plurality of reset signals are received from the host, grouping operations, which are the same as one another among reset operations respectively corresponding to the plurality of reset signals, determining a processing order of the reset operations, and performing the reset operations according to the processing order.
US12169463B2
Control circuitry controls the operations of a central processing unit, CPU, which is associated with a nominal clock frequency. The CPU is further coupled to an I/O range and configured to deliver input to an application. The control circuitry controls the CPU to poll the I/O range for input to the application. The control circuitry also monitors whether or not each poll results in input to the application and adjusts a clock frequency at which the CPU operates to a clock frequency lower than the nominal clock frequency if a pre-defined number of polls resulting in no input is detected.
US12169454B2
A computing system, method and apparatus to cache a portion of a data block. A processor can access data using memory addresses in an address space. A first memory can store a block of data at a block of contiguous addresses in the space of memory address. A second memory can cache a first portion of the block of data identified by an item selection vector. For example, response to a request to cache the block of data stored in the first memory, the computing system can communicate the first portion of the block of data from the first memory to the second memory according to the item selection vector without accessing a second portion of the block of data. Thus, different data blocks in the first memory of a same size can be each cached in different cache blocks of different sizes in the second memory.
US12169449B1
As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for test-related automatic tracing. A new requirement defined for an application is identified. The new requirement is processed, using a machine learning model, to predict each portion of the new requirement covered by existing test features. One or more new test features are caused to be created for the new requirement, based on the prediction of each portion of the new requirement covered by existing test features.
US12169448B2
A device for processing bit strings of a program flow including a data memory and an interface that is designed to output a second bit string, and a bit string manipulator that is designed to analyze the first bit string at a predetermined bit string section for information that indicates a target state of the program flow, and to manipulate the first bit string in the bit string section to obtain the second bit string.
US12169444B2
An illustrative approach accelerates file indexing operations for block-level backup copies in a data storage management system. A cache storage area is maintained for locally storing and serving key data blocks, thus relying less on retrieving data on demand from the backup copy. File indexing operations are used for populating the cache storage area for speedier retrieval during subsequent live browsing of the same backup copy, and vice versa. The key data blocks cached while file indexing and/or live browsing an earlier backup copy help to pre-fetch corresponding data blocks of later backup copies, thus producing a beneficial learning cycle. The approach is especially beneficial for cloud and tape backup media, and is available for a variety of data sources and backup copies, including block-level backup copies of virtual machines (VMs) and block-level backup copies of file systems, including UNIX-based and Windows-based operating systems and corresponding file systems.
