US12168803B2
The present invention provides methods of screening for and diagnosing prostate cancer and methods of choosing a therapeutic for prostate cancer based on using KDM5D expression level to identify which patients with hormone sensitive prostate cancer benefit from primary castration and taxane and who with castration resistant prostate cancer would benefit from docetaxel plus an androgen receptor antagonists added to the ongoing castration. The disclosure also provides methods of screening for and diagnosing prostate cancer and methods of choosing a therapeutic for prostate cancer based on a lower KDM5D expression having a more aggressive clinical course of prostate cancer in human patients.
US12168799B2
The invention relates to a new method of sequencing a double stranded target polynucleotide. The two strands of the double stranded target polynucleotide are linked by a bridging moiety. The two strands of the target polynucleotide are separated using a polynucleotide binding protein and the target polynucleotide is sequenced using a transmembrane pore.
US12168798B2
This disclosure provides an integrated and automated sample-to-answer system that, starting from a sample comprising biological material, generates a genetic profile in less than two hours. In certain embodiments, the biological material is DNA and the genetic profile involves determining alleles at one or a plurality of loci (e.g., genetic loci) of a subject, for example, an STR (short tandem repeat) profile, for example as used in the CODIS system. The system can perform several operations, including (a) extraction and isolation of nucleic acid; (b) amplification of nucleotide sequences at selected loci (e.g., genetic loci); and (c) detection and analysis of amplification product. These operations can be carried out in a system that comprises several integrated modules, including an analyte preparation module; a detection and analysis module and a control module.
US12168794B2
Disclosed herein is a method for detecting a binding event between an immobilised primary antibody and a target analyte-secondary antibody-enzyme complex using an electrochemical measurement technique.
US12168782B2
A method for culturing heart tissue by culturing a slice of the heart tissue in a culture medium, wherein the culture medium comprises fetal bovine serum (FBS), vascular endothelial cell growth factor (VEGF), and fibroblast growth factor (FGF); and applying electrical stimulation to the slice while the heart slice is in culture is provided. Methods of screening candidate therapeutic agents for therapeutic effect or cardiotoxicity using the culture system are also provided.
US12168781B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing T cells or NK cells including culturing T cells or NK cells in a culture medium containing a CaMKII inhibitor such as a bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloid compound. The disclosed compounds and methods can be used for maintaining the undifferentiated state of undifferentiated T cells, or for efficiently proliferating T cells or NK cells.
US12168780B2
The invention is directed to modified T cells, methods of making and using isolated, modified T cells, and methods of using these isolated, modified T cells to address diseases and disorders. In one embodiment, this invention broadly relates to TCR-deficient T cells, isolated populations thereof, and compositions comprising the same. In another embodiment of the invention, these TCR-deficient T cells are designed to express a functional non-TCR receptor. The invention also pertains to methods of making said TCR-deficient T cells, and methods of reducing or ameliorating, or preventing or treating, diseases and disorders using said TCR-deficient T cells, populations thereof, or compositions comprising the same.
US12168776B2
The present disclosure provides nucleic acid molecules comprising a first inverted terminal repeat (ITR), a second ITR, and a genetic cassette encoding a miRNA and/or a therapeutic protein. In certain embodiments, the therapeutic protein comprises a clotting factor, e.g., a FVIII polypeptide, a FIX polypeptide, or a fragment thereof. In some embodiments, the first ITR and/or the second ITR is an ITR of a non-adeno-associated virus (AAV). The present disclosure also provides methods of treating bleeding disorders such as hemophilia comprising administering to the subject the nucleic acid molecule or a polypeptide encoded thereby.
US12168767B2
One aspect of the present invention relates to double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) agent capable of inhibiting the expression of a target gene. The sense strand of the dsRNA agent comprises at least one thermally destabilizing nucleotide, and at least one said thermally destabilizing nucleotide occurring at a site opposite to the seed region (positions 2-8) of the antisense strand; and the antisense strand of the dsRNA agent comprises at least two modified nucleotides that provide the nucleotide a steric bulk that is less than or equal to the steric bulk of a 2′-OMe modification, wherein said modified nucleotides are separated by 11 nucleotides in length. Other aspects of the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these dsRNA agents suitable for therapeutic use, and methods of inhibiting the expression of a target gene by administering these dsRNA agents, e.g., for the treatment of various disease conditions.
US12168765B2
This invention pertains to mutant Cas9 nucleic acids and proteins for use in CRISPR/Cas endonuclease systems, and their methods of use. In particular, the invention pertains to an isolated mutant Cas9 protein, wherein the isolated mutant Cas9 protein is active in a CRISPR/Cas endonuclease system, wherein the CRISPR/Cas endonuclease system displays reduced off-target editing activity and maintained on-target editing activity relative to a wild-type CRISPR/Cas endonuclease system. The invention also includes isolated nucleic acids encoding mutant Cas9 proteins, ribonucleoprotein complexes and CRISPR/Cas endonuclease systems having mutant Cas9 proteins that display reduced off-target editing activity and maintained on-target editing activity relative to a wild-type CRISPR/Cas endonuclease system.
US12168754B2
A pyrolysis oil fractionation system for treating a pyrolysis oil feed includes a fractionation column, at least one treatment catalyst bed, and a plurality of distillation trays. The system further includes a condenser to receive a light fraction and produce a condensed gasoline product and a vapor, a receiver coupled to the condenser, a knockout drum, and a distillate stripper coupled to the fractionation column. A method for treating a pyrolysis oil feed includes, in a fractionating column, dehydrohalogenating, decontaminating, and/or dehydrating a pyrolysis oil feed in at least one treatment catalyst bed, and distilling the treated pyrolysis oil feed into a light fraction, a middle fraction, a heavy fraction, and a bottom fraction. The method further includes condensing the light fraction and producing a condensed gasoline product and a vapor, separating a fuel gas product from the vapor, and stripping the middle fraction to produce a distillate product.
US12168749B2
The present invention disclosed a cross-linked plugging agent stimulated by high density brine which comprises: main agent: 21 wt %-53 wt %, gelling agent: 0.5 wt %-9 wt % and pure water; wherein the saline solution is selected from the group consisting of a Dipotassium phosphate (K2HPO4), a Tripotassium phosphate (K3PO4) and a Potassium pyrophosphate (K4P2O7); the gelling agent is selected from the group consisting of a Xanthan gum and a kappa carrageenan. The gelling time is controlled within 0.5-12 h under an experiment temperature of 90° C.-160° C. The final gelling strength is controlled within D-H. The density is controlled within 1.2-1.55 g/cm3.
US12168747B2
Aerogel materials, aerogel composites, and the like may be improved by the addition of opacifiers to reduce the radiative component of heat transfer. Such aerogel materials, aerogel composites, and the like may also be treated to impart or improve hydrophobicity. Such aerogel materials and methods of manufacturing the same are described.
US12168743B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to a surfacing film. The surfacing film includes a base layer. The base layer includes a thermoplastic polyurethane film comprising a reaction product of a reaction mixture of a diisocyanate, a polyester polyol having a melting temperature of at least about 30° C.; and a diol chain extender. There are many reasons to use the surfacing film including easier and more cost effective manufacturing of the surfacing film by directly extruding the base layer by mixing the reaction mixture in an extruder. Another reason to use the surfacing film is that the film has improved resistance to discoloration. Another reason to use the film is that the film shows good toughness.
US12168738B2
An adhesive resin composition including a propylene polymer (A), an ethylene polymer (B), and a thermoplastic resin (C) including a copolymer containing not less than 60 mol % and not more than 99 mol % of structural units derived from 4-methyl-1-pentene, and not less than 1 mol % and not more than 40 mol % of structural units derived from a C2-C20 α-olefin other than 4-methyl-1-pentene, these structural units representing total 100 mol % of the copolymer, the thermoplastic resin (C) showing a melting point Tm of not more than 199° C. or showing substantially no melting point as analyzed with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). The total of the components (A), (B) and (C) includes 45 to 75 parts by mass of the component (A), 5 to 20 parts by mass of the component (B), and 15 to 45 parts by mass of the component (C).
US12168737B2
The present disclosure relates to a matting agent including polymer particles, a matting polymer composition including a matting agent, and a method of producing polymer particles. The polymer particles may be produced by a simple process using a suspension polymerization method, and is relatively easy to control a degree of crosslinking. In addition, in a case where a matting polymer composition is prepared using a matting agent including the polymer particles, it is possible to manufacture a molded article having excellent appearance and matting effect without deterioration of the existing mechanical properties such as impact strength and tensile strength of a thermoplastic polymer, and in particular, an excellent matting effect may be exerted even in the extrusion processing, which has been difficult to achieve in the related art.
US12168734B2
A curable resin composition comprising; component (A) monofunctional 2-(allyloxymethyl) acrylic acid or its ester; component (B) a polyfunctional radically polymerizable compound having an isocyanurate ring; component (C) a radically polymerizable compound; component (D) rubber particles; and component (E) a radical polymerization initiator, the component (C) is a radically polymerizable compound different from the component (A) and the component (B); and when the sum of the component (A), the component (B) and the component (C) is 100 parts by mass, the component (B) is 20 parts by mass or more to 80 parts by mass or less and the component (C) is 0 parts by mass or more to 40 parts by mass or less.
US12168733B2
An ink set includes a reaction liquid containing coagulant; a first ink containing a color material; and a second ink containing a color material. The ink set is used for recording on a non-absorptive recording medium or a low-absorptive recording medium and for imparting the reaction liquid, the first ink, and the second ink to the recording medium in a superimposed manner in this order.
US12168729B2
A low-density, halogen-free epoxy composition that is flame-resistant upon curing and is suitable for use as a potting compound. The epoxy composition includes: (a) an epoxy component; (b) at least one curative; (c) at least one latent curing accelerator; (d) a toughening component that includes nano-sized core shell rubber (CSR) particles having particle size of less than 1 micron; (e) a fire-retardant component that is halogen-free; and (f) hollow microspheres for reducing the density of the composition. The fire-retardant component includes a mixture of: (i) at least one polyphosphate; (ii) at least one metal borate; and (iii) at least one compound selected from alkaline earth metal hydroxides and aluminum hydroxides.
US12168728B2
The use of a mixture (M) comprising (a) from 40 to 70% by volume of an inorganic powder (IP) based on the total volume of the mixture (M), (b) from 30 to 60% by volume based on the total volume of the mixture (M) of a binder (B) comprising (b1) from 50 to 96% by weight of at least one polyoxymethylene (POM) based on the total weight of the binder (B), (b2) from 2 to 35% by weight of at least one polyolefin (PO) based on the total weight of the binder (B), (b3) from 2 to 40% by weight of at least one further polymer (FP) based on the total weight of the binder (B) in a fused filament fabrication process.
US12168724B2
A silicone rubber molded body (10) has an article contact surface (11). The article contact surface (11) has a coefficient of rolling resistance lowered by a fluorination treatment on the article contact surface (11).
US12168723B2
A stretched polyester film and a method for preparing the stretched polyester film are disclosed. The stretched polyester film contains a polyester resin in which a diol component and a dicarboxylic acid component are polymerized, wherein the heat shrinkage rate of the film at 80° C. in the main shrinkage direction is 40% or more, and, upon a first thermal treatment and a second thermal treatment, a first melting temperature (Tm1) and a second melting temperature (Tm2) appear when the film is analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The stretched polyester film has excellent heat shrinkability, along with an increased efficiency of a recycling process of waste plastic containers.
US12168720B2
A method for synthesising polymers through devulcanisation from waste containing elastomers, the method including: a) contacting the waste containing elastomers with a solvent in the presence of a devulcanisation agent, b) heating the mixture produced in step a), at a temperature of between 20° C. and 250° C. for a period of between 15 minutes and 24 hours in the presence of a devulcanisation agent, the concentration of devulcanisation agent, and the ratio between the concentration of devulcanisation agent, expressed as parts per hundred of elastomer (phr) and a volume of solvent, expressed in ml, is: greater than 0.3 phr/ml of solvent or less than 0.2 phr/ml of solvent when the method is carried out in air, greater than 0.06 phr/ml of solvent when the method is carried out in an inert atmosphere.
US12168714B2
An all-donor black color electrochromic polymer is disclosed as well as a method for preparing the all-donor black color electrochromic polymer. The electrochromic polymer comprises conjugated polymers, and the conjugated polymers are chemically linked, or physically blended, or both.
US12168710B2
A rubber composition having excellent abrasion resistance and improved viscoelasticity properties, and a tire manufactured using the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a rubber composition includes a first synthetic rubber and a second synthetic rubber, and has an interaction parameter (χblend) defined by Mathematical Formula 1 at room temperature is 2.0×10−3 or more. The first synthetic rubber is a solution-polymerized modified conjugated diene-based rubber which has a 1,2-vinyl bond content of 50 wt % or more and includes a functional group bonded to at least one terminal, and the second synthetic rubber is a conjugated diene-based rubber which has a 1,2-vinyl bond content of less than 50 wt %.
US12168709B2
A thermosetting resin composition containing a maleimide compound (a) having at least one N-substituted maleimide group, and a compound (b) represented by the following general formula (1) exhibiting no reactivity with the maleimide group of the component (a) (Xb1 represents a single bond or a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms; Rb1 and Rb2 each independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 18 ring carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon group having 5 to 20 ring atoms, an oxygen atom-containing group, or a group containing a combination of these groups; and m and n each independently represent an integer of 0 to 5).
US12168693B2
The present invention relates to treatments of conditions ameliorated by stimulation of an immune response, in particular by the stimulation of antigen-specific T-lymphocytes. Treatment of such conditions according to the invention is effected by the combination of an anti-human CD27 agonistic antibody together with a number of immune checkpoint inhibitors.
US12168683B2
In certain aspects, the disclosure provides multispecific binders (e.g., ActRIIB:TβRII heteromultimers comprising an ActRIIB polypeptide and a TβRII polypeptide). In some embodiments, the disclosure provides for novel binders comprising a TβRII polypeptide and a heterologous portion. The disclosure further provides that such multispecific binders (e.g., ActRIIB:TβRII heteromultimer) may be used to treat various disorders or conditions.
US12168676B2
The disclosure provides therapeutic peptides and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the peptides, which have utility in treating various human diseases. In particular aspects, the disclosed therapeutic peptides are useful as immunotherapeutics for modulating regulatory and effector molecules of the mammalian immune system to mitigate disease.
US12168675B2
The invention features modified alphavirus or flavivirus virus-like particles (VLPs). The invention provides methods, compositions, and kits featuring the modified VLPs. The invention also features methods for enhancing production of modified VLPs for use in the prevention or treatment of alphavirus and flavivirus-mediated diseases. The invention also provides methods for delivering agents to a cell using the modified VLPs.
US12168660B2
The present disclosure relates to derivatives (e.g., hydroxyl, keto, glucuronide, sulfonic acid, and deuterated) of a Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors (FGFR) inhibitor, including methods of preparation thereof, and intermediates in the preparation thereof, which are useful in the treatment of FGFR mediated disease such as cancer.
US12168657B2
The present disclosure relates to inhibitors of NLRP3 useful in the treatment of diseases and disorders inhibited by said protein.
US12168656B1
A process for making (E)-7-(4-((5-(2-chlorobenzylideneamino)-2-thioxo-1,3,4-thiadiazol-3(2H)-yl)methyl)piperazin-1-yl)-1-cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid compound The process including: stirring a solution of 5-(2-chlorobenzylideneamino)-1,3,4-thiadiazole-2(3H)-thione and formaldehyde in ethanol to obtain a reaction mixture; adding ciprofloxacin HCl and triethylamine to the reaction mixture and stirring with reflux; cooling the reaction mixture at room temperature to obtain a solid; and obtaining the 7-(4-((5-(2-chlorobenzylideneamino)-2-thioxo-1,3,4-thiadiazol-3(2H)-yl)methyl)piperazin-1-yl)-1-cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid compound. Its use as an anticancer and/or anti-inflammatory agent.
US12168653B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I): (I) wherein Q is selected from O or S; R1 is an optionally substituted hydrocarbyl group which may optionally include one or more heteroatoms N, O or S in its carbon skeleton, provided that the hydrocarbyl group includes at least one heteroatom N, O or S in its carbon skeleton or is substituted with a substituent comprising at least one heteroatom N, O or S, and provided that the atom of R1 which is attached to the sulfur atom of the remainder of the molecule is not a ring atom of a cyclic group; R2 is an α,α′-substituted cyclic group which may optionally be further substituted; R3 and R4 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, —OH, —NH2, —CN, —R5, —OR5, —NHRs or —N(R5)2; or R3 and R4 together with the carbon atom to which they are attached may form a 3- to 7-membered saturated or unsaturated, optionally substituted cyclic group; and R5 is independently optionally substituted C1-C4 alkyl. The present invention further relates to salts, solvates and prodrugs of such compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and to the use of such compounds in the treatment and prevention of medical disorders and diseases, most especially by the inhibition of NLRP3.
US12168647B2
Described herein are compounds according to Formula (I) wherein Rf is a perfluorinated divalent group comprising 2 to 12 carbon atoms; and Z is selected from —CH═CH2, and —CH2CH═CH. A method of making the compound from a functionalized vinyl ether and ammonia is disclosed. In one embodiment, the functionalized triazine-containing compound is used in the polymerization of a fluoropolymer. In another embodiment, the functionalized triazine-containing compound is used in a curable fluoropolymer composition and cured to form articles.
US12168644B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing 2-alkoxy-4-amino-5-methylpyridines of the formula (I) and/or 2-alkoxy-4-alkylamino-5-methylpyridines of the formula (II) from the corresponding 2-haloaminopyridines and the appropriate alcohols in the presence of base, and to the compounds resulting therefrom.
US12168629B2
The present invention relates to fiber cement flooring products. In particular, the present invention provides fiber cement flooring products, at least comprising cement and fibers, characterized in that these fiber cement flooring products comprise amorphous silica in an amount of between about 2 weight % and about 15 weight % compared to the total dry weight of the fiber cement composition of said fiber cement flooring product. The present invention further relates to methods for the production of such fiber cement flooring products as well as uses of such fiber cement flooring products in the building industry. The present invention further relates to fiber cement formulations and fiber cement materials, which are suitable for the production of fiber cement products for flooring applications.
US12168618B2
A method of recovering phosphoric acid from process water includes directing a process water stream having a pH and a first concentration of phosphoric acid and at least one salt into a vessel, contacting the process water stream with a sorption agent in the vessel, the sorption agent adsorbing phosphoric acid from the process water, withdrawing a first effluent including a first concentration of the at least one salt and a second concentration of phosphoric acid from the vessel, and contacting the sorption agent including the phosphoric acid with water, at least a portion of the phosphoric acid desorbing from the ion exchange media into the water to form a second effluent having a third concentration of phosphoric acid.
US12168617B2
In one aspect, a sterilization apparatus is provided to include a flow channel body comprising an inflow unit configured to provide an inflow channel through which water flows in one direction, a discharge unit configured to provide a discharge channel through which water is discharged, and a bypass channel unit configured to provide a bypass channel through which water bypasses in a different direction from the direction of the water flowing in the inflow unit; a mounting unit formed on the flow channel body and configured to provide an installation space connected to the bypass channel, a UV light emitting unit disposed in the installation space and configured to emit UV light towards the bypass channel; and a holder coupled to the mounting unit and securing the UV light emitting unit inside the mounting unit.
US12168615B1
There is disclosed a method and system for utilizing carbon fibres for purification of rejected brine solution comprising thermally recycling carbon fibres and mechanically reducing the recycled carbon fibres, employing a chemical surface activation process for the reduced carbon fibres, resulting in chemically activated recycled carbon fibres; and exposing the activated recycled carbon fibres along with the brine solution to CO2 gas, resulting in the activated recycled carbon fibres selectively recovering contaminants from the brine solution, wherein adsorption of CO2 molecules is also performed by the activated recycled carbon fibres during the recovery. The thermal recycling of carbon fibres is done via pyrolysis and a G-S-L contact system assists in exposing the activated carbon fibres along with the brine solution to CO2 gas at varying flow rates and contact times for recovering contaminants from the brine solution.
US12168612B2
The present disclosure relates to a strategy to synthesize antimony- and zinc-doped tin oxide particles with tunable band gap characteristics. The methods yield stable and monodispersed particles with great control on uniformity of shape and size. The methods produce undoped and antimony and zinc-doped tin oxide stand-alone and core-shell particles, both nanoparticles and microparticles, as well as antimony and zinc-doped tin oxide shells for coating particles, including plasmonic core particles.
US12168608B2
A polycrystalline element includes a table formed of polycrystalline diamond. The table includes a first surface; a second surface spaced apart from the first surface; and at least one side extending between the first surface and the second surface. The table also includes a plurality of extensions also formed of polycrystalline diamond, wherein at least one extension of the plurality of extensions extends away from at least one of the first surface and the at least one side. The at least one extension of the plurality of extensions includes a first portion that is polyhedral shaped. Optionally, the polycrystalline diamond of at least one extension of the plurality of extensions is contiguous with the polycrystalline diamond of the table. The polycrystalline element may be used in downhole tools for boring and well drilling, machine tools, and bearings.
US12168607B2
A method for manufacturing a carbon nanotube includes: a growing step of growing a carbon nanotube from a catalyst particle by supplying a carbon-containing gas to the catalyst particle in a suspended state; and a drawing step of drawing the carbon nanotube by applying a tensile force to the carbon nanotube in a suspended state.
US12168595B2
Provided is a weight capable of being easily attached to and detached from a load suspended-load rope. The weight is disposed to detect overwinding of a load suspended-load rope suspended from a derricking member of a construction machine. The weight includes a weight body, which has a cylindrical shape enclosing the load suspended-load rope, configured to be suspended from the derricking member through a string-like part. The weight body is formed with a rope insertion space that allows the load suspended-load rope to pass through the rope insertion space in the radius direction of the suspended-load rope. The rope insertion space includes an oblique slit part, which has a shape oblique to the center axis.
US12168591B2
There is provided an elevator guidance device 40 including an identification information acquisition unit 41 configured to acquire identification information for a user heading for an elevator hall, a selected elevator information acquisition unit 42 configured to acquire information on a selected elevator selected from a plurality of elevators as an elevator for the user identified to take, and a guidance indication unit 43 configured to indicate, in an indication mode associated with the user, a leading guidance sign on a route starting from a leading start position, at which leading of the user identified is started, to a landing entrance of the selected elevator, the leading guidance sign leading the user to the landing entrance of the selected elevator.
US12168586B2
A sheet transport device includes a loading unit at which a sheet to be conveyed is loaded, a transport unit configured to impart to the sheet loaded at a sheet loading surface of the loading unit a transport force for transporting the sheet toward an alignment unit, and an adjustment unit configured to adjust the transport force. The adjustment unit includes a movable loading unit formed so that at least part of the sheet loading surface is configured to protrude toward the transport unit and a driving unit configured to displace the movable loading unit in a protruding direction and a retracting direction.
US12168582B2
A drive transmission unit includes a cam member, a motor, a cam follower, and an extension spring. The cam member rotates about a rotation shaft. The cam member includes a first cam defining a maximum distance between the cam follower and the rotation shaft and a second cam having an outer peripheral surface positioned closer to the rotation shaft than the outer peripheral surface of the first cam. The motor rotates the rotation shaft. The cam follower is to be in contact with the cam member and moves in the +B direction and the −B direction by the rotation of the cam member. The extension spring presses the cam follower against the cam member. When the cam follower moves in the −B direction by the rotation of the cam member, this operation includes contact between the outer peripheral surface of the second cam and the cam follower.
US12168574B2
Wall-mountable storage systems suitable for holding bulky and/or heavy construction materials such as boards or panels, or the like, are disclosed. Storage structures can include two substantially similar open frame panels attached to each other by spacer bars to define an internal storage space therebetween. Each panel may include two major outer rails and two minor outer rails, with major inner rails disposed between the major outer rails and with minor inner rails disposed between the minor outer rails. The inner rails may have a first center-to-center spacing and each outer rail may have a second center-to-center spacing with its nearest neighbor inner rail, the second spacing being greater than the first spacing. The first spacing may substantially equal a standardized spacing for wall studs. The outer rails may each have a width greater than a width of the inner rails. The storage structure may form a rectangular cuboid.
US12168573B2
An automation apparatus for dispensing groups of individually packaged products, the apparatus including a storage arrangement adapted to store a plurality of products each contained in an individual package. The storage arrangement includes a first module and a second module, where the first module is adapted to store products having a first frequency demand threshold and the second module is adapted to store products having a second frequency demand threshold that is lower than the first frequency demand threshold. The apparatus further includes a plurality of fixed first discharge assemblies adapted to move selected ones of the individual packages from the first module of the storage arrangement and a second discharge assembly comprising a moveable pick device adapted to move selected ones of the individual packages out of the second module of the storage arrangement.
US12168569B2
A refuse vehicle has a Commercial and a Residential Mode whereby when in Commercial Mode, stops or fins, utilized in Residential Mode to assist in securing a residential container laterally at the front of the vehicle, are adjustable to prevent contact or interference with the cab protector or other portions of the vehicle when in Commercial Mode. The fins may be located and/or rotated, such as at least 30 degrees (from position to position) or above a horizontal or otherwise intermediate the residential and commercial configurations. The fins may preferably be located above a bottom of the crossbar when moving through the dumping cycle so as not to contact the cab protector in Commercial Mode. Preferably, the fins may also be housed on the residential refuse container rather than along the crossbar.
US12168560B2
A container for consumer goods, the container comprising a first substrate layer and a second substrate layer overlying the first substrate layer. A first portion of the first substrate layer and a first portion of the second substrate layer form a compartment region, wherein a perimeter of the compartment region is completely sealed to form a sealed compartment for containing one or more consumer goods. A second portion of the first substrate layer and a second portion of the second substrate layer form an access region directly adjacent to the compartment region. The access region comprises an unsealed area, wherein a perimeter of the access region extends around the unsealed area. The first substrate layer is attached to the second substrate layer at the perimeter of the access region. The unsealed area is separated from the sealed compartment by the completely sealed perimeter of the compartment region. The container further comprises a line of weakness extending at least partially within the unsealed area of the access region. In the first substrate layer only, the container further comprising a second line of weakness in the second substrate layer only. The second line of weakness has a different shape to the first line of weakness, wherein the difference in shape between the first line of weakness and the second line of weakness defines a closure tab in the second substrate layer in the unsealed area of the access region.
US12168555B2
A multifunction receptacle is described which features different combinations of lids and/or accessories. Lids are configurable to permit the user to close the open top end of the multifunction receptacle while providing decorative or utilitarian features on the lid.
US12168546B2
Aspects of a recyclable color blend polymer pallet assembly are disclosed including two engagement stringers having a plurality of perpendicular stringers therebetween and engaged, end to end, to each engagement stringer, and one or more inert support surfaces supported thereby. The one or more support surfaces are a plurality of top slats supported and held directly by the frame comprising the stringers and the engagement stringers. The top slats include a structure that is complementary to a feature defined by the frame and that allows the top slats to mate with and be held by the frame. The pallet assembly demands fasteners for assembling the frame and top slats. In another aspect, the stringers and the engagement stringers each comprise one or more target inserts for reinforcing the frame of the pallet assembly.
US12168545B2
The present disclosure is directed to the transport of one or more loads of items including building materials and/or other items to one or more target surfaces including one or more elevated surfaces. The present disclosure is also directed to the holding of one or more loads of items including building materials and/or other items during transport to one or more target surfaces including one or more elevated surfaces. The present disclosure is also directed to the holding of one or more loads of items including building materials and/or other items on one or more target surfaces including one or more elevated surfaces.
US12168538B2
A high throughput, efficient, and simplified unloading and packaging systems and methods for large-scale production of pharmaceutical units (104) using additive manufacturing. The systems and methods may unload, inspect, package, and trace pharmaceutical units, produced by an additive manufacturing system (900), that are not damaged or deformed. The unloading and packaging system can include one or more unloading and packaging devices (100). The unloading and packaging device can include a modular configuration having modules. Individual modules to be arranged in any relative order, at any location, and with any number in the unloading and packaging device. The flexibility of the modular configuration allows one or more modules to be removed or added at any given time due to, e.g., expansion, downsizing, module repair, module upgrades, etc. High throughput can be achieved by operating unloading and packaging devices independently.
US12168536B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid loading device for loading liquid into a product. The product includes a cavity and a liquid inlet communicated with the cavity. The liquid loading device includes a loading module to load liquid into the cavity through the liquid inlet. A sensor senses a pressure in the cavity and generates at least one pressure value. A controller is coupled to the sensor and the loading module, and controls the loading module to operate based on related data. In addition, the present disclosure also provides a liquid loading method.
US12168535B2
An apparatus for filling and sealing bags intended for containing banknotes includes a generally parallelepiped-shaped container, with side walls, a bottom and an upper lid provided with an opening for allowing entry into the container of a bag, made up of flexible plastic film, and of banknotes intended to be introduced into the same bag. The apparatus includes a pair of sealing bars arranged at the upper end of the container and a system for controlling and moving the bars between their respective opening and closing positions. The control and movement system of the sealing bars has a motor for driving a shaft adapted to rotate at least one driving pulley arranged below in correspondence with a vertical edge of the container, a kinematic connection for closing the bars comprised of a combination of cables and tension springs connecting the driving pulley to the sealing bars and a kinematic connection for opening the bars comprised of a combination of cables and tension springs connecting the sealing bars to a respective fixed anchor point of the container.
US12168532B2
A configurable spacecraft attachment and deployment system and a method of constructing a configurable spacecraft attachment and deployment system are provided herein. In one embodiment, the configurable spacecraft attachment and deployment system includes: (1) a connecting structure configured to secure at least one spacecraft to a launch interface, (2) an actuating assembly configured to constrain the spacecraft to the connecting structure before deployment thereof and release the spacecraft from the connecting structure when deployed, and (3) a deploying mechanism coupled to the connecting structure and configured to eject the spacecraft from the attaching structure, wherein the connecting structure, the actuating assembly, and the deploying mechanism are modular components and the connecting structure and deploying mechanism are selected to form the system based on parameters of the spacecraft.
US12168528B2
The present disclosure relates to a launch system and method. The launch system and method can include at least a preliminary accelerator tube system (PAT) that can be combined with a main accelerator tube system (MAT). The PAT alone or combined with the MAT can be used for launch of a vehicle for testing and/or for delivery of a payload.
US12168527B2
Systems and methods for interlining checked bags between two unaffiliated airlines. The traveler may purchase the interlining service and be assured that the checked bags associated with that service will be automatically transferred from their first flight to their next flight. The traveler does not have to collect the checked bag, and then re-check it onto the second flight, which may allow a traveler to say with in the security zone of the airport, where permitted by airport flow.
US12168515B2
A lavatory system within an internal cabin of a vehicle includes an enclosure defining an interior chamber, a first lavatory unit within the interior chamber, and a second lavatory within the interior chamber. The first lavatory unit is adjacent to the second lavatory unit. In at least one embodiment, a lavatory within an internal cabin of a vehicle includes an interior chamber defined by one or more outer walls, and a storage compartment extending outwardly from at least one of outer walls. The storage compartment defines an internal storage space that connects to the interior chamber. In at least one embodiment, a lavatory includes a first lavatory unit, a second lavatory adjacent to the first lavatory unit, and a containment compartment common to the first lavatory unit and the second lavatory unit.
US12168512B2
A unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a fuselage including a top, a bottom, a cavity that forms a cargo bay between the top and the bottom, and a lower access opening in the bottom for lowering a payload from the cargo bay. A movable stage is coupled to the fuselage and adjustable between an upper position in which the stage is above the cargo bay and a lower position in which the stage is at the bottom of the fuselage, the stage including an opening extending through the stage. The UAV also includes a winch disposed in the fuselage and a tether coupled to the winch. The winch is configured to be secured to the payload and is movable through the opening in the stage so as to raise or lower the payload.
US12168506B2
An apparatus for ingesting boundary layer flow on an aircraft, the apparatus includes a blended wing body, wherein the blended wing body is characterized by having no clear dividing line between wings and main body of the aircraft, wherein the blended wing body includes a nacelle located aft of a leading edge of the blended wing body, wherein the nacelle includes a propulsor configured to propel the aircraft, a primary duct, and a flow augmentation arrangement, wherein the flow augmentation arrangement is configured to accelerate a boundary layer flow in the airflow, wherein the flow augmentation arrangement further includes a secondary duct, wherein the secondary duct configured to ingest the boundary layer flow in the airflow from an inlet proximal to a forward portion of the nacelle to an outlet proximal to a rear portion of the nacelle and a tertiary duct between the primary duct and the secondary duct.
US12168483B2
A steering apparatus includes a turning shaft movable in a vehicle widthwise direction, a pinion shaft meshed with the turning shaft and a first housing that retains therein the turning shaft and the pinion shaft. An inner circumferential surface of the first housing facing with the turning shaft is provided with an inclined portion that continuously changes an internal diameter. When a portion where a tooth of the turning shaft and a tooth of the pinion shaft are meshed with each other is defined as a meshed portion, the inclined portion is formed below at least the meshed portion.
US12168482B2
A steering column for a motor vehicle comprising a steering shaft that is mounted rotatably in a steering shaft bearing unit and a rotation limitation device that is configured to limit rotation of the steering shaft. The rotation limitation device may have a slotted guide carrier that is fastened to one end of the steering shaft and a spiral slotted guide track. A sliding block may be guided movably in the slotted guide track. The sliding block may be fastened to a lever that is held tiltably on the steering shaft bearing unit and that has a counterstop that can be brought into operative engagement with a stop component that is fastened to the steering shaft, for limiting rotation of the steering shaft.
US12168480B2
The present disclosure provides a kit assembly for a truck body including a plurality of composite panels that may be shipped from a manufacturer to a customer for subsequent assembly of the truck body. The composite panels of the kit assembly may be flat, rigid, and lightweight to facilitate shipment. The composite panels of the kit assembly may also include embedded anchors and/or adhered connectors to facilitate alignment and subsequent assembly of the cargo body using common mechanical fasteners.
US12168467B2
A method for energy-optimized operation of a rail vehicle fleet. The fleet includes n rail vehicles, each with a state-influencing system for influencing a vehicle state to generate and/or consume electrical energy and a computer unit trained by machine learning. For every i of 1 to n during operation of the rail vehicle fleet an action to be applied to the state-influencing system of the i-th rail vehicle is selected by the computer unit of the i-th rail vehicle while taking into account at least one target criterion for the i-th rail vehicle and according to vehicle, location, and/or route-related status parameters. The action, when applied to the state-influencing system of the i-th rail vehicle, contributes to the optimization of an electrical total energy balance of the state-influencing systems of the rail vehicle fleet, and the selected action is applied to the state-influencing system of the i-th rail vehicle.
US12168465B2
Disclosed is a gearbox for rail vehicle, a bogie for rail vehicle and a rail vehicle. The gearbox for rail vehicle includes a primary gearbox (1) configured to connect with a traction motor, and a secondary gearbox (2) arranged on both sides of the primary gearbox (1) along a longitudinal direction of the rail vehicle, wherein a framework bearing beam is formed by connecting the primary gearbox (1) and the secondary gearbox (2), the primary gearbox (1) is configured to transmit power from the traction motor to the secondary gearbox (2), and the secondary gearbox (2) are configured to transmit power from the primary gearbox (1) to wheelsets of the rail vehicle.
US12168460B2
Proposed is a shared vehicle service providing method based on a shared vehicle management server communicating with a shared vehicle and a user device. Also proposed is a shared vehicle service providing method for managing an article of a shared vehicle user on the basis of a shared vehicle management server. For example, proposed is a shared vehicle service providing method in which a shared vehicle management server manages dispatch of a shared vehicle and an article of a user on the basis of data acquired from the shared vehicle and a user device.
US12168459B2
Disclosed is a vehicle path control apparatus including a memory provided to store danger driving vehicle data, a communication device provided to receive road information from an external server, and a processor configured to identify a danger driving vehicle driving on a road based on the road information and the danger driving vehicle data, select an unmanned vehicle driving within a preset distance from the danger driving vehicle based on the road information, generate a driving path of the unmanned vehicle for obstructing a course of the danger driving vehicle based on an expected path of the danger driving vehicle, and control the communication device to transmit information on the driving path to the unmanned vehicle.
US12168458B2
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to vehicle maneuvering using predictive control with automated driving and contingency planning to preserve safety and increase comfort. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a controller, an operator command associated with a vehicle maneuver while automated driving is engaged. The method also includes adjusting a motion command associated with the vehicle maneuver by applying a predictive control according to motion estimates outputted from the automated driving and the operator command, the predictive control using motion constraints that are constant between time intervals for the vehicle maneuver. The method also includes controlling, by the controller, a vehicle using the motion command for a time step during the time intervals.
US12168448B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate switching between autonomous and manual driving modes. In order to do so, the vehicle's computer may conduct a series of environmental, system, and driver checks to identify certain conditions. The computer may correct some of these conditions and also provide a driver with a checklist of tasks for completion. Once the tasks have been completed and the conditions are changed, the computer may allow the driver to switch from the manual to the autonomous driving mode. The computer may also make a determination, under certain conditions, that it would be detrimental to the driver's safety or comfort to make a switch from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode.
US12168447B2
A method for information processing, a device, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes the following. At an in-vehicle electronic device, in response to a determination that a received voice input is associated with switching a source device for switching a rendered content shown at the in-vehicle electronic device, voiceprint information of the voice input is obtained. A user identity corresponding to the voiceprint information is identified. A mapping table between user identities and connected electronic devices or connectable electronic devices is searched for a first electronic device corresponding to the identified user identity. In response to searching out the first electronic device, a first channel for transmission of rendered content between the in-vehicle electronic device and the first electronic device is established, so as to render a first presenting content which is received from the first electronic device through the first channel.
US12168440B2
A vehicle travel control apparatus includes an information acquiring section; a determining section that determines whether a special road terrain exists; and a speed control section that controls a speed of the subject vehicle. The speed control section is further configured to: when the special road terrain exists but a preceding vehicle does not exist, increase or decrease the speed of the subject vehicle with respect to a pre-set vehicle speed in the energy efficiency zone such that the energy efficiency is improved; and when the special road terrain and a preceding vehicle exists and the speed of the subject vehicle is planned to increase in the energy efficiency zone, control the speed of the subject vehicle in an inter-vehicle distance maintenance zone such that the subject vehicle has an inter-vehicle distance to the preceding vehicle longer than a pre-set inter-vehicle distance.
US12168435B2
A vehicle includes an engine, an electric machine, a disconnect clutch, and a controller. The engine and the electric machine are each configured to generate power. The disconnect clutch is disposed between the engine and the electric machine. The controller is programmed to, in response to a command to start the engine, close the disconnect clutch to transfer power from the electric machine to the engine. The controller is further programmed to control the torque of the disconnect clutch via increasing a pressure applied to the disconnect clutch based on a first-order model of the pressure applied to the disconnect clutch. The controller is further programmed to adjust the model based on a difference between an expected pressure to the disconnect clutch and a measured pressure of the disconnect clutch during a time period prior to transferring torque through the disconnect clutch.
US12168434B2
A vehicle includes an engine, an electric machine, and a controller. The engine and the electric machine are configured to simultaneously generate power in a hybrid mode. The controller is programmed to, responsive to a power demand decreasing to less than a first threshold while the vehicle is operating in the hybrid mode, shutdown the engine. The controller is further programmed to, responsive to the power demand decreasing to less than the first threshold and an operator input to extend the hybrid mode, override shutting down the engine.
US12168430B2
A trailer braking system comprises a vehicles having a continuously-variable hydrostatic transmission, and a trailer coupled for towing by the vehicle and having an associated braking system operable from the vehicle. The vehicle transmission includes a first pressure sensor arranged to measure a fluid pressure at a predetermined point within the transmission, and a rotation sensor arranged to determine a rotation direction of a predetermined component in a driveline of the vehicle. A control unit coupled to the first pressure sensor and rotation sensor determines when a PUSH condition exists based on a particular combination of pressure and rotational direction, and operates the trailer brakes in response. One or more back-up systems to confirm the existence of a PUSH condition may be provided.
US12168421B2
An apparatus, a system, and a method for providing a smart multi-tier power running board (PRB) with ground sensing technologies. The apparatus includes one or more support bars, one or more steps, an actuator connected to one end of each support bar of the one or more support bars, one or more sensors, and a controller coupled to the actuator and the one or more sensors. The controller is configured to: obtain data indicative of a request to move the one or more support bars from a stowed position to a deployed position; determine, based on sensor data detected by the one or more sensors, the deployed position for moving the one or more support bars; and control, based on the determined deployed position, the actuator to move the one or more support bars from the stowed position to the deployed position.
US12168419B2
When an autonomous driving vehicle picks a user up, a control device performs departure condition confirmation processing. The departure condition confirmation processing includes first authentication processing that performs authentication of the user outside the autonomous driving vehicle based on first authentication information, door lock release processing that releases a door lock in response to the completion of the first authentication processing, second authentication information provision processing that makes the user acquire second authentication information different from the first authentication information in response to the completion of the first authentication processing, second authentication processing that performs authentication of the user inside a vehicle cabin of the autonomous driving vehicle based on the second authentication information, and start permission processing that permits the start of the autonomous driving vehicle in a case where the second authentication processing is completed.
US12168418B2
A device, system, and method for an electronic response to a potential carjacking is provided. A device receives: a location and vehicle ignition status of a vehicle; and sensor data generated by one or more sensors that are onboard the vehicle, the sensor data different from the location and the vehicle ignition status. The device determines whether the location of the vehicle is associated with a carjacking type of location, and whether a combination of the vehicle ignition status and the sensor data meet a carjacking threshold condition. When both the location of the vehicle is associated with the carjacking type of location and the carjacking threshold condition is met, the device: outputs an alert at the vehicle indicative of, or associated with, the potential carjacking; and/or causes, a notification to be transmitted to a communication device associated with a public safety agency or a monitoring service.
US12168412B2
A centralized occupancy detection system enables monitoring of multiple seats, or more generally, multiple stations, with a single sensor. One illustrative vehicle includes: one or more stations each configured to accommodate an occupant of the vehicle, a radar-reflective surface, and a radar transceiver configured to use the radar-reflective surface to detect an occupant of at least one of the stations. Another illustrative vehicle includes: multiple stations to each accommodate an occupant of the vehicle, and a radar transceiver configured to examine each of the multiple stations to determine whether that station has an occupant.
US12168403B2
Provided is an electrically powered slide rail that can operate in a smooth manner. The electrically powered slide rail includes a rail having a channel-shaped cross section and extending in a fore and aft direction, a slider received by the rail and slidably engaged by the rail, a screw assembly including a screw member supported by the slider so as to be rotatable around an axial line extending in the fore and aft direction, an electric motor supported by the slider and configured to rotate the screw member, and a screw engaging portion formed in the rail so as to extend in the fore and aft direction and engage the screw member. In the vehicle seat fitted with the electrically powered slide rail, the rail is connected to a floor of a vehicle, and the slider is connected to a seat cushion.
US12168397B2
A charging frequency between a transmitting coil and a receiving coil of a wireless power transfer (WPT) system is found by setting an input voltage to the transmitting coil at a fixed voltage, shunting the receiving coil, determining a first input current frequency range in which a resonant frequency is expected to be found, frequency polling within the first input current frequency range using a set of polling frequencies in the first input current frequency range, and selecting as the charging frequency a polling frequency having a lowest input current. The first input current frequency range may be found by setting the first input current frequency range based on regulation, international electromagnetic frequency allotments, or prior experience with WPT between the transmitting coil and the receiving coil. A frequency range around the input current minima is selected to poll for a charging frequency that approximates the resonant frequency.
US12168390B2
The demand for automotive glazings, on which the intensity of the light transmitted can be controlled by the user, has been increasing as the public becomes more aware of the technology. The most common methods employed to make such glazings utilize Suspended Particle Devices (SPD) and Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal (PDLC) films. With both, the light transmission of the glazing changes in response to an alternating current electrical field. A problem with this technology is that the voltage required is far higher than that of the typical automotive electrical system. The disclosure provides a touch potential safe, small, lightweight and inexpensive means for controlling the light transmission of multiple glazing circuits by combining a single flyback voltage converter with multiple variable amplitude sinewave generators all coordinated by a micro-controller.
US12168387B2
System and apparatus for carbon dioxide detection within an automobile. Specifically, this disclosure describes apparatuses and systems for optical gas detection in a stationary and moving vehicle. There is a need for a such a system to prevent loss of life and contribute to a safer traffic environment. This disclosure provides a highly efficient optical measurement system based on principals of optical absorption spectroscopy. It detects the presence of neglected children and animals and changes the vehicle's interior environment accordingly so as to preclude many potentially dangerous conditions. The present disclosure can also optimize ventilation for a driver. To this end, a driver can maximize alertness and attentiveness.
US12168385B2
A thermal management system includes a refrigerant loop system that includes a compressor, a refrigerant four-way reversing valve, a plate heat exchanger, a throttle valve, another plate heat exchanger, and a gas-liquid separator, to form a refrigerant loop, and a motor liquid cooling loop system includes a motor liquid cooling loop that circulates coolant through a motor, and a pipe in the motor liquid cooling loop is connected to a liquid cooling channel in the plate heat exchanger to exchange heat with the refrigerant loop system using the plate heat exchanger.
US12168378B2
A system includes: a state module configured to selectively set a present state to a first state; a valve control module configured to determine first target open and closed states for valves of a suspension system based on the present state and to open and close the valves of the suspension system according to the first target open and closed states, respectively; a pump control module configured to, when the valves are in the first target open and closed states, respectively, selectively operate an electric pump of the suspension system in a first direction and increase a pressure of hydraulic fluid in a first portion of the suspension system including an accumulator, where the valve control module is configured to decrease the pressure in the first portion after the increase; and a diagnosis module configured to selectively diagnose a fault in the accumulator based on a pressure during the decrease.
US12168375B1
A motion control system includes an absorber fixed relative to an axis, a spring fixed relative to the axis, and a mass coupled to the absorber and the spring and configured to move relative to the axis. The spring is configured to bias the mass toward a neutral position and with the absorber configured to dampen movement of the mass. The mass includes an internal surface and an external surface spaced from the internal surface. The external surface extends between a first end and a second end, with the first end closer to the axis than the second end. At least a portion of the external surface tapers away from the axis and toward the internal surface further from the first end to direct debris away from the axis.
US12168372B2
A tire can include a three-dimensional sipe formed into a tire tread. The three-dimensional sipe can be formed in a tread element of the tire tread and can include a three-dimensional pattern. The three-dimensional sipe can have a first frequency of oscillation at a top end of the three-dimensional sipe and a second frequency of oscillation at a bottom end of the three-dimensional sipe with the first frequency of oscillation being different from the second frequency of oscillation.
US12168370B1
A hub guard configured to install to a wheel hub assembly and to protect a hub cap of the wheel hub assembly is disclosed. In embodiments, the hub guard is configured to permit access to the hub cap for inspection, maintenance, and performance of various operations.
US12168360B2
The present invention addresses the problem of printing a high-resolution inkjet image on an article to be printed made of a metal or a resin by adjusting wet-spreading of an ink. The problem is solved by a method for producing a printed article which is an inkjet-printed product of an article to be printed made of a metal or a resin, the method including: an underlying layer forming step of forming an underlying layer containing a crosslinkable resin on at least a part of a surface of the article to be printed; a semi-crosslinking step of semi-crosslinking the crosslinkable resin contained in the underlying layer; and a printing step of performing inkjet printing on at least a part of a surface of the underlying layer after the semi-crosslinking step to form an inkjet-printed layer.
US12168347B2
In a control system, a controller is configured to determine presence or absence of an obstructed area within the intermediate section, and control movement of the moving body in accordance with a selected one of controlling methods including a first and a second control methods. The first control method causes the moving body to move at a first constant speed in the processing section defined within the intermediate section and at a second constant speed faster than the first constant speed in at least a part of a non-processing section within the intermediate section and other than the processing section, the first control method being selected when the obstructed area is absent. The second control method causes the moving body to move at the first constant speed in the processing section and the non-processing section, the second control method being selected when the obstructed area is present.
US12168344B2
There is provided a printing device to which an external component is attachable. The printing device includes: a housing; a print head provided inside the housing; a guide portion configured to guide a printing medium to the print head in a conveying direction; and a first engagement portion engageable with a first attaching portion of the external component. The housing includes a first frame, a second frame opposite the first frame in a widthwise direction crossing the conveying direction, and a connecting portion extending in the widthwise direction to connect the first frame to the second frame. The print head is supported by at least one of the first frame and the second frame. The guide portion is fixed to the connecting portion. The first engagement portion is formed in one of the guide portion and the connecting portion.
US12168343B2
A recording device includes a recording head for performing recording on a recording medium, a transporter for transporting the recording medium, a platen for supporting the recording medium, a heater for heating the recording medium supported by the platen, and a control unit, wherein the control unit causes the heater to heat the recording medium at a predetermined and constant heating temperature, causes the recording head and the transporter to record a first test pattern of a predetermined recording density, and a second test pattern of a recording density different from the predetermined recording density on the recording medium, and the recording density of the first test pattern and the recording density of the second test pattern can be set in the heater, and are associated with heating temperature different from each other.
US12168333B2
An apparatus configured to separate substances comprising: a frame structure; a hollow drum, wherein the hollow drum is driven in rotation and comprises a perforated circumferential surface and an at least partially open end side; a press belt wrapped around the perforated circumferential surface; a product intake wedge, wherein the product intake wedge guides a product flow into the apparatus; a support apparatus comprising a support element, wherein the support element is located on a side of the press belt opposite the hollow drum; and a device configured to discharge separation material pressed through the perforated circumferential surface, wherein: the separation material is pressed into a hollow space of the hollow drum, the separation material is pressed from the end side of the hollow drum, and a cooling device cools the separation material with a cryogenic cooling medium.
US12168315B2
Molded articles having a decorative effect include at least 75% by weight neutralized acid copolymer. The molded articles include from 0.1% to 5% by weight polyamide-based pigment masterbatch. The polyamide-based pigment masterbatch includes from 30% to 95% by weight polyamide and from 5% to 70% by weight of a first pigment associated with the polyamide. The molded articles further include from 0.1% to 5% by weight of a second pigment derived from a liquid-based pigment masterbatch; and from 0.1% to 0.7% by weight of oil-based carrier derived from the liquid-based pigment masterbatch. Methods for preparing the molded articles include dry blending a neutralized acid copolymer, a polyamide-based pigment masterbatch, and a liquid-based pigment masterbatch to form an initial mixture; feeding the initial mixture to an injection molding apparatus; and molding the initial mixture with the injection molding apparatus to form the molded article.
US12168313B2
A method for producing an elastomeric skin having visually spotted appearance may include providing a liquid skin forming composition having solid spot forming particles having a longest dimension that is at least 40 μm and spraying the liquid skin forming composition in the form of a spray of droplets onto a mold surface. The provision of solid spot forming particles that are comparable in size to the droplet size may aid in projecting the solid spot forming particles forward upon impact on the mold surface such that a percentage thereof appear visible on the front face of the elastomeric skin after demolding thereby resulting in a front face with a spotted appearance without having to use multiple liquid skin forming compositions.
US12168308B2
The veneer lathe comprises rotatable spindles for engaging the ends of a block, a centering device for measuring dimensions of the block for determining optimal centering of the block, the centering device comprising centering spindles for engaging each end of the block, transfer arms moveable in the axial direction of the spindles for engaging the ends of the block and in a direction that is perpendicular to the axial direction for transferring the block from the centering device to a peeling position, a knife assembly comprising a knife and a nose bar, which is in the form of a rotatable roll, and a support device comprising a lower roll and an upper roll at a distance from the lower roll for supporting the block during peeling.
US12168304B2
A hair clipper cover assembly includes a sleeve for insertably receiving a hair clipper. The sleeve is comprised of a friction enhancing material thereby facilitating the sleeve to frictionally engage a surface upon which the hair clipper is placed. In this way the sleeve inhibits the hair clipper from traveling on the surface as a result of vibration produced by the hair clipper when the hair clipper is turned on. Thus, the sleeve inhibits the hair clipper from falling off of a table. The sleeve has a pair of lever slots that is each integrated into the sleeve thereby facilitating a respective one of the lever slots to accommodate a blade adjustment lever on the hair clipper. The sleeve has a power button opening and a power cord opening to accommodate a respective power button and a power cord of the hair clipper.
US12168294B2
A modular robot with a drive platform including: a first lateral drive module having at least two wheels and at least one motor for driving at least one of the wheels, a second lateral drive module having at least one wheel and at least one motor for driving the at least one wheel, a front crossmember module connecting first ends of the first and the second lateral drive module, and a rear crossmember module connecting first ends of the first and the second lateral drive module. One of the two lateral drive modules has a control unit for controlling the motors of the two lateral drive modules. The two drive modules have first connecting devices at their respective ends and the two crossmember modules have second connecting devices in the region of their respective ends. The first and the second connecting devices have mechanical connections. At least one of the two drive modules has at least one docking device for docking an application unit on the drive platform and the at least one docking device has mechanical and/or electrical connections.
US12168288B2
Rotary tools for operating on energized power lines are described herein. The rotary tool may be used to manipulate wire ties wrapped around the conductors and to clean the conductors. The rotary tool may comprise a planetary gear set. A ring gear may comprise a receiving portion through which an end of the wire tie is received and, as the ring gear rotates, the wire tie is fed through the receiving portion and unwound about the conductor. A spring-loaded rod assembly may also be used, having a rod that is kept proximal to the conductor by the spring. The rod may be inserted between the conductor and the wire tie and rotated along with the ring gear to unwind the wire tie. The rod may comprise wire bristles to abrade corrosive material off the conductor. The rotary tool may be remotely operated by a robotic unit.
US12168287B2
A power tool comprises a housing and an inner assembly mounted at least partially within the housing and configured to move between a first position and a second position with respect to the housing. The inner assembly comprises a motor assembly. The power tool also comprises a mounting frame for guiding the inner assembly between the first position and the second position and having a cable guide for guiding at least part of a cable connected between the motor assembly and a component fixed relative to the housing.
US12168279B2
A blade for a skate for skating on ice. The blade includes ice-contacting material with an ice-contacting surface for contacting the ice. The ice-contacting surface has a machined longitudinal profile with a radius of curvature that varies smoothly over a majority of the length of the blade. Such a radius of curvature may, in some cases, be an elliptical arc.
US12168278B2
The blocking device includes a blocking portion configured for blocking the semi-finished optical element and including a support member configured for providing a rigid support to the semi-finished optical element, the support member including a support element made of a shape-memory material having a rigid state below a predetermined temperature and a plastic state above the predetermined temperature, the support element assuming in the absence of external forces a predetermined memory shape when heated above the predetermined temperature, the support member having a contact face onto which the first face of the semi-finished optical element is to be applied; saind blocking portion including at least one of a heating device configured for heating the support element above the predetermined temperature and a cooling device configured for cooling the support element below the predetermined temperature.
US12168277B2
A technique appropriately controls transfer order of a pallet. A pallet transfer system includes a transfer device, a pallet storage, a work station, a machine tool, and a control device. The control device transfers a second pallet from the work station to the pallet storage when the machining of the workpiece attached to a first pallet is completed in a state where the first pallet is in the machine tool and the second pallet is in the work station, and the control device transfers the first pallet from the machine tool to the work station after completion of the transfer of the second pallet from the work station to the pallet storage, or in parallel with the transfer of the second pallet from the work station to the pallet storage.
US12168267B2
A method for treating an internal defect in a part made of a material, involves: a) detecting and locating the internal defect in the part; b) defining, inside the part, at least one target volume which at least partially includes the defect; c) for each target volume, simultaneously irradiating the target volume by at least two beams which converge in the target volume and are continuous, whereby a treated area is obtained. The energy applied to the target volume by each beam is less than a threshold energy for sintering the material, and the sum of the energies applied to the target volume by each of the beams is greater than or equal to a transformation threshold energy that corresponds to the threshold energy for sintering or melting the material; the material of the part is partially transparent to said beams.
US12168265B2
Systems comprising a light source, thin membrane immersed in an aqueous solution and a system to direct and focus light from the light source to a spot on the membrane are provided. Methods of thinning and etching a membrane are also provided, as are membranes comprising a nanopore with a Gaussian curve shaped cross-section.
US12168249B1
A device for transporting a plunger that includes an outer housing defining an interior chamber a lid, the lid configured to releasably and sealingly engage the first end of the cylindrical wall member, the lid including a planar surface and a fan member operatively mounted in the lid.
US12168242B2
The invention relates to a surface-treatment facility (10) for surface-treating vehicle bodies (12), said facility comprising at least two floor-bound transport carriages (20), each of which comprises a fastening device (18), to which vehicle bodies (12) can be fastened. Each transport carriage (20) can be shifted by means of its own drive that can be carried therewith. The surface-treatment facility (10) also comprises a substantially gas-tight treatment chamber (14) that is delimited by a housing (15). The vehicle bodies (12) can be moved, at least temporarily, in the treatment chamber (12) by means of a relevant transport carriage (20). The surface-treatment facility (10) further comprises a travel region (22), arranged outside the housing (15), in which the transport carriages (20) can be moved, at least temporarily. Furthermore, the surface-treatment facility (10) comprises a gap (30) which is formed in the housing (15) between the travel region (22) and the treatment chamber (14) and through which the fastening device (18) of the relevant transport carriage (20) protrudes if the transport carriage (20) is in the travel region (22) A first atmosphere can be generated in the travel region (22) and a second atmosphere, which is different from the first atmosphere, can be generated in the treatment chamber (14).
US12168228B2
A rotatable platform is provided for use in Lab-on-disc (LoD) applications. A LoD microfluidic device has the rotatable platform and is suitable for analysis of a fluid sample. Real-time monitoring of cells is also provided, using a centrifugal microfluidic platform. A mobile LoD device is provided, which can be used in remote destinations and for point of care applications. A method for monitoring microorganisms under the constant supply of nutrients includes the step of inoculating the cells in a culture chamber in a rotatable microfluidic platform, rotating the platform such that liquid in a reservoir connected to or located on the platform, the liquid comprising nutrients for the cells, is constantly supplied to the cells in the culture chamber by means of shear/centrifugal force resulting from rotating the platform, and continuously monitoring the cells during rotation of the platform by means of imaging, electrochemical and/or electrical measurements.
US12168221B2
Catalyst comprising nickel and copper, in a proportion of 1% to 50% by weight of nickel element relative to the total weight of the catalyst, in a proportion of 0.5% to 15% by weight of copper element relative to the total weight of the catalyst, and an alumina support, said catalyst being characterized in that: the mole ratio between nickel and copper is between 0.5 and 5 mol/mol; at least one portion of the nickel and copper is in the form of a nickel-copper alloy; the nickel content in the nickel-copper alloy is between 0.5% and 15% by weight of nickel element relative to the total weight of the catalyst, the size of the nickel particles in the catalyst is less than 7 nm.
US12168219B2
This document relates to oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst materials that include molybdenum, vanadium, beryllium, oxygen, and optionally aluminum.
US12168215B2
The present disclosure relates to hydrocarbon emission control systems. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to substrates coated with hydrocarbon adsorptive coating compositions, air intake systems, and evaporative emission control systems for controlling evaporative emissions of hydrocarbons from motor vehicle engines and fuel systems.
US12168206B2
A system includes a recirculation line, a mainline flow meter operable to measure a flowrate of fluid flowing through the recirculation line, a mixing chamber, an inlet line coupled between the recirculation line and the mixing chamber, at least one chemical injection port coupled to the inlet line, a dedicated feed pump operably associated with each chemical injection port, and an outlet line coupled between the mixing chamber and the recirculation line. The mixing chamber includes a plurality of mixing zones, a mixing blade assembly that includes at least one blade within each mixing zone, and a motor coupled to the mixing blade assembly and operable to rotate the mixing blade assembly. Each of the dedicated feed pumps is coupled to a separate chemical supply and is operable to pump a chemical to the corresponding chemical injection port for injection into the inlet line.
US12168201B1
To capture carbon dioxide from ambient air, a housing having at least five openings and one cooling route for a coolant from a base station to circulate within the housing may be used. The housing may include five openings: one for ambient air to enter the housing, one for the coolant to enter the housing, one for the coolant to exit the housing, one for air to exit the housing and one, the below most, for a carbon dioxide to exit the housing. The cooling route is between the openings for the coolant, formed by at least one partially insulated pipe with an uninsulated pipe surface portion. The housing further includes at least one disc made of a solid carbon dioxide sorbent material for capturing carbon dioxide and being arranged within the cooling route with a direct physical contact to the un-insulated pipe surface portion.
US12168198B2
A resource recovery system for reducing carbon dioxide emissions is revealed. Salt is delivered to a first plasma decomposition unit and decomposed into sodium and chlorine. The sodium is sent to a hydrolysis unit and mixed with water to get pure hydrogen and sodium hydroxide which are respectively sent to a power generation unit for power generation and a carbon dioxide absorption unit to react with carbon dioxide from air and produce a mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate. Then the mixture is delivered to an electric heating unit and broken into carbon dioxide and sodium hydroxide. The carbon dioxide is sent to a second plasma decomposition unit and decomposed into carbon and oxygen gas which is delivered to the power generation unit for generating power. Thereby catalysts, power required, and coproducts are obtained during operation of the system. Therefore, the system offers energy, environmental, and economic benefits.
US12168191B2
A filter arrangement for threadably securing to a filter head includes a housing having a surrounding wall defining an interior volume, an open mouth providing access to the interior volume and an end opposite of the open mouth. The surrounding wall has an exterior and an interior. A filter media construction is operably held within the interior volume. A sleeve, distinct from the housing, is secured to the exterior of the surrounding wall adjacent to the housing mouth and extending partially along the surrounding wall. The sleeve has an exterior and an interior. The exterior of the sleeve defines mounting threads constructed and arranged to removably mount with the filter head, when the filter arrangement is secured to the filter head. The interior of the sleeve is against the exterior of the surrounding wall. A first seal member is oriented against the sleeve to create a seal with a filter head, when the filter arrangement is secured to the filter head. A filter assembly includes a filter arrangement and a filter head. The filter arrangement is removably secured to the filter head by a threaded connection between the sleeve and the filter head. A system includes an engine utilizing a liquid and a filter assembly in fluid communication with the engine to filter the liquid. Methods of making filter arrangements include utilizing structures characterized above.
US12168189B2
A silt and debris catching apparatus comprises a housing component and a catchment component. The housing component is adapted to fit within a valve box assembly. The catchment component is coupled to the housing component and includes a filter. The filter retains material that enters the valve box assembly.
US12168187B2
A filtration system interconnection structure having a filter manifold and a filter cartridge in magnetic communication with one another, such that a latching mechanism of the manifold secures the filter cartridge within a manifold sump when the filter cartridge is inserted therein. The magnetic communication is formed between two complementary coded polymagnets capable of producing a magnetic shear force when in close proximity to one another. The magnetic shear force removes a latch blocking structure from interfering with the latch, allowing the latch to secure the filter cartridge. Movement of the latch blocking structure coded polymagnet relative to the filter cartridge coded polymagnet may be perpendicular or parallel with respect to each other such that a shear force is generated therebetween, allowing for actuation of the latch blocking mechanism against a biasing force, and allowing the latch to move radially inwards against a separate biasing force.
US12168181B2
Systems and methods to support player-initiated proof of in-game participation by unique digital articles in in-game events are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may execute instances of a game; manage player accounts associated with the players; record usage information pertaining to player-owned unique digital articles on a permanent registry; present a player interface for a player to select an in-game event; store video information of the selected in-game event; and record references to the stored video information on the permanent registry such that the video information is accessible for viewing by users of the permanent registry.
US12168175B2
A method for gaming including generating game state data during execution of a video game for a game play of a player. The method includes determining a gaming context of a current point in the game play based on the game state data. The method includes inputting the game state data and the gaming context to an artificial intelligence (AI) model trained to identify one or more levels of user immersion defining user engagement with the video game. The method includes using the AI model to determine a level of user immersion for gaming for the current point in the game play, wherein the level of immersion exceeds a threshold indicating that the player is highly engaged with the video game. The method includes automatically generating an indicator that is presented to an environment surrounding the player, wherein the indicator provides notification that the player should not be interrupted.
US12168164B2
A device for training and rehabilitation of a limb is provided. The device provides a board with a plurality of movement tracks to allow for controlled movement of the limb in various directions. Blockers and other controlling structures may be arranged on the device to limit range of motion of the movement of the limb.
US12168158B2
An adjustable carriage assembly is configured to be mounted on a frame member of a weight rack and includes a locking structure for locking the carriage assembly in place on the frame member. The carriage assembly may include a moveable carriage with a plurality of rollers that engage the frame member, as well as one or more handles for gripping to adjust the position of the carriage assembly and a connection structure for connection of an implement or accessory. Various implements and accessories can be connected to or used in connection with the carriage assembly, including various weightlifting implements and accessories that are pivotably connected to the carriage assembly.
US12168152B2
A remotely-triggered wildfire defense spraying system installed on property with a building, and adapted for spraying the building and property with an environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor for defending against wildfire by inhibiting fire ignition and flame spread caused by hot flying wildfire embers created during a wildfire storm. The wildfire defense spraying system includes: a storage tank containing environmentally-clean liquid fire inhibitor comprising an alkali metal salt of a nonpolymeric carboxylic acid, and triethyl citrate (TEC) dissolved in water according to a prespecified formulation, wherein the environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor remains stable without the formation of solids at expected operating temperatures, and for immediate spraying on property. A fluid pumping loop having a hydraulic pump system is connected to spray heads and the storage tank, and is operably controlled by a remote control switch. When the hydraulic pump system is remotely activated by a remotely generated trigger signal (e.g. from a mobile smartphone or remote wildfire detection system), the hydraulic pump system pumps environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor from the storage tank and through the spray heads to produce a spray pattern of environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor covering the combustible surfaces on the property. As water molecules in the sprayed environmentally-clean water-based liquid fire inhibitor evaporate to the environment, fire-inhibiting alkali metal salt crystalline coatings form on the sprayed combustible surfaces, inhibiting fire ignition and flame spread in the presence of wildfire embers.
US12168151B2
A fire protection sprinkler system includes a horizontal barrier that covers two adjacent racks, and the vertical flue space between the racks. The horizontal barrier is provided at a predetermined height, and has a width that is at least equal to a width of the rack, and a depth that is at least equal to a sum of a depth of the rack, a depth of the other rack, and a depth of the vertical flue space. In addition, the horizontal barrier is a sheet having one or more apertures. The system also includes a rack level fire protection sprinkler connected to a fluid supply conduit, and being disposed in the vertical flue space below the horizontal barrier. The rack level sprinkler has a K-factor of 11.2 gpm/(psi)1/2 or greater, and is vertically spaced from commodities stored on the rack and the other rack covered by the horizontal barrier.
US12168145B2
In the context of a multi-criteria optimization workspace, a control circuit provides a user opportunity to modify radiation treatment plan optimization objective values, wherein the optimization objectives include at least one of a radiation treatment plan complexity optimization objective and a radiation treatment delivery time optimization objective. These teachings then provide for the control circuit receiving input from the user comprising a change to at least one of these optimization objective values. By one approach the control circuit first accesses a prioritized list of clinical goals and automatically generates optimization objectives as a function of the prioritized list of clinical goals. The control circuit then generates a seed optimized radiation treatment plan as a function of the automatically generated optimization objectives and subsequently generates a collection of different radiation treatment plans by varying the automatically generated optimization objectives to thereby characterize a trade-off exploration space for the multi-criteria optimization workspace.
US12168141B2
In combined methods for treating a patient using time-varying magnetic field, treatment methods combine various approaches for aesthetic treatment. A magnetic field generating device is placed proximate to a body region of the patient. The magnetic field generating device generates a time-varying magnetic field with a magnetic flux density in a range of 0.5 to 7 Tesla. The time-varying magnetic field is applied to the body region of the patient in order to cause a contraction of a muscle within the body region. A second therapy may be used by applying one or more of optical waves, radio frequency waves, mechanical waves, negative or positive pressure or heat to the body region of the patient.
US12168139B2
In some examples, an ambulatory medical device is provided. The ambulatory medical device includes at least one sensor configured to acquire data descriptive of the patient, one or more processors in communication with the at least one sensor, a patient care component executable by the one or more processors, and a limited functionality component executable by the one or more processors. The patient care component is configured to perform one or more primary operations of the ambulatory medical device at least in part by accessing the data descriptive of the patient. The limited functionality component is configured to exchange information with a communication device and to not affect the one or more primary operations of the ambulatory medical device.
US12168131B2
Devices, systems, and techniques are described for selecting an evoked compound action potential (ECAP) growth curve based on a posture of a patient. The ECAP growth curve defines a relationship between a parameter defining delivery of stimulation pulses delivered to the patient and a parameter of an ECAP signal of a nerve of a patient elicited by a stimulation pulse. In one example, a medical device detects a posture of a patient and selects an ECAP growth curve corresponding to the detected posture. The medical device selects, based on the ECAP growth curve corresponding to the detected posture and a characteristic of a detected ECAP signal, a value for a parameter for defining delivery of the stimulation pulses to the patient and controls delivery of the stimulation pulses according to the selected value for the parameter.
US12168127B2
An ankle cuff for managing incontinence in a patient, comprising: a body; a first micro-needle electrode array located on an inner face of the body; a second micro-needle electrode array separately located from the first micro-needle electrode array; a pulse generator electrically coupled to the first and second micro-needle electrode arrays; in use, the body is configured to be worn around an ankle of the patient such that individual micro-needles of the first and second micro-needle electrode arrays insert into an epidermis of the patient; and a controller, wherein the controller controls the pulse generator to pulse the first and second micro-needle electrode arrays to electrically stimulate the posterior tibial nerve for managing incontinence in the patient.
US12168123B2
The present disclosure generally provides methods of implanting an implantable device in contact with a brain of a subject. Also provided are kits and systems for the implantation of one or more implantable devices.
US12168122B2
New methods for implanting a cardiac therapy system include implanting a lead of the system substernally anterior of the heart without attaching to the myocardium or pericardium. An illustration includes placement of an anchor beneath the sternum in the vicinity of one of the sternal angle, a location superior of the ventricles, the area bounded by the 2nd or 3rd ribs, and level with the aortic arch. A tension element or tether is attached to the anchor and a lead is introduced over the tension element or tether and secured in a desired position relative to the anchor. Other examples also include implantation, substernally, of a lead without the use of a pre-tunneling tool or sheath over the lead itself, for example by using an advancing tool for pushing the lead into position.
US12168117B2
Syringe assemblies are described herein. A syringe assembly includes an assembly housing, a first syringe, a second syringe, and a connecting gear. The first syringe is disposed within the assembly housing. Each plunger is movable within the respective syringe cavity and defines a respective chamber in the respective syringe cavity, wherein the respective chamber is in fluid communication with the respective syringe port, the respective plunger comprising a respective gear rack extending longitudinally along the respective plunger. The connecting gear is rotatably coupled to the assembly housing. The connecting gear is configured to be in meshed engagement with at least one of the first gear rack and the second gear rack of the syringes.
US12168108B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to drug-coated balloon catheters for treating strictures in body lumens and methods of using the same. A drug-coated balloon catheter for delivering a therapeutic agent to a target site of a body lumen stricture includes an elongated balloon having a main diameter. The balloon catheter includes a coating layer overlying an exterior surface of the balloon. The coating layer includes one or more water-soluble additives and an initial drug load of a therapeutic agent.
US12168103B2
A method for delivering fluid to the brain of a subject using an intraparenchymal catheter, the method comprising the step of inserting the catheter 5 into the brain using a posterior to anterior approach and methods of treating neurodegenerative disorders using this delivery method, as well as methods for delivering fluid to an elongate structure of the brain using an intraparenchymal catheter, the method comprising the step of inserting a catheter into the brain along an insertion axis that is substantially aligned with a long axis of the elongate structure.
US12168092B2
According to some embodiments there is provided a replaceable flow tract for use with an inhaler device which delivers at least one substance to a user, the inhaler device comprising a housing shaped to receive the flow tract and to further receive a construct comprising source material from which the at least one substance is released; the replaceable flow tract comprising: a conduit comprising: a first opening; a second opening configured for being in fluid communication with a mouthpiece; and a third opening having an elastic sealing member extending therefrom, the elastic sealing member shaped and sized for pressing against the construct when the construct is within the housing.
US12168087B2
Blood from a blood source is drawn into a fluid flow circuit. A mononuclear cell product is separated from the blood, followed by at least a portion of the mononuclear cell product being conveyed into an electroporation device without disconnecting the blood source from the fluid flow circuit. The electroporation device opens pores in a membrane of at least one of the cells of the mononuclear cell product to allow DNA material (which is added to the mononuclear cell product prior to electroporation) to enter and modify the genome of the cell. At least a portion of the modified mononuclear cell product is returned to the blood source. The mononuclear cell product may be washed prior to being conveyed into the electroporation device. The modified mononuclear cell product may be washed after exiting the electroporation device.
US12168086B2
An anchorage device is provided that is configured to surround an implantable medical device. The anchorage device includes a substrate formed from a first material and a second material. At least one of the first and second materials includes a hemostatic agent. Kits, systems and methods are disclosed.
US12168078B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include an uncovered ultraviolet light emitting panel for use in supporting instruments in an operating room. The panel fits inside an autoclave for sterilization and can be utilized without a sterile cover. In use, the panel irradiates surgical instruments and the nearby air continuously.
US12168067B2
A composition includes polydatin and at least one photoisomerization stabilizer and cosmetically acceptable carrier. The at least one photoisomerization stabilizer confers photostabilization to trans-polydatin by at least about 5%, relative to an otherwise identical composition without the at least one photoisomerization stabilizer.
US12168066B2
A hair care composition is disclosed comprising from 0.5 to 45% by weight of a salt of acyl glutamate and an anti-dandruff agent of piroctone olamine, wherein the salt of acyl glutamate and the anti-dandruff agent are present in a weight ratio of from 5:1 to 50:1, and wherein the composition does not comprise other anionic surfactants in addition to the salt of acyl glutamate.
US12168059B2
Provided herein are oligonucleotides, trimeric peptides, and peptide-oligonucleotide-conjugates. Also provided herein are methods of treating a muscle disease in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject oligonucleotides, trimeric peptides, and peptide-oligonucleotide-conjugates described herein.
US12168057B2
The present invention provides compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US12168054B2
The present disclosure relates to a combination of an anti-CSF-1R antibody or anti-CSF-1 antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof or an inhibitor of CSF-1R activity and an HDAC inhibitor, e.g., entinostat, and methods of using the combination for administering to subjects in need thereof for the treatment of cancer.
US12168052B2
Recombinant SARS-CoV2 vaccine compositions and methods are presented that have unexpected cross-reactivity against a variety of other coronaviruses, and particularly against SARS-CoV1, MERS-CoV, OC43-CoV, and HKU1-CoV in addition to significant reactivity against SARS-CoV2A. Moreover, the vaccine compositions presented herein also produced cross-reactive memory B cells as well as cross-reactive memory T cells with cross-reactivity spanning a relatively wide range of different coronaviruses.
US12168047B2
The present disclosure provides fusion proteins comprising Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) antigens, nucleic acid molecules encoding the same, vectors comprising nucleic acid molecules, compositions comprising the same, and methods of eliciting an immune response against tuberculosis.
US12168037B2
Described herein are methods and compositions for the treatment of cancer and cancer metastasis. Methods for the reduction or prevention of cancer metastasis are also described. In particular, the present invention discloses the use of the IL-1α pro-piece peptide in the treatment cancer and cancer metastasis.
US12168031B1
Methods for treating a patient having constipation, the methods including consuming first, a prescribed daily first diet upon waking from sleep that can include specified: a liquid, an oil, a fruit, a vegetable, a first main meal, or a combination thereof; consuming second, a prescribed daily second diet including a salad, oil, and water; consuming third, a prescribed daily second main meal contemporaneously with consuming the salad, or at least 60 to 90 minutes after consuming the salad; consuming fourth, at least a minimum portion of additional water, after waiting a minimum of 45 minutes from consuming the salad, or after waiting 60 to 90 minutes after a main meal, or both; and then exercising or a sedentary waiting, for a period of time, while consuming additional water.
US12168027B2
Provided herein are methods and articles of manufacture for use with cell therapy for the treatment of diseases or conditions, e.g., cancer, including for predicting and treating a toxicity. In some embodiments, the toxicity is related to cytokine release syndrome (CRS). The methods generally involve assessing a change in a factor indicative of tumor burden in a subject that is associated with and/or correlate to a risk of developing toxicity. In some aspects, the methods can be used to determine if the subject is at risk or likely at risk for developing a toxicity following administration of the cell therapy. Also provided are methods for treating a subject having a disease or condition, in some cases involving administration of the cell therapy, based on assessment of risk of developing a toxicity following administration of the therapy. Also provided herein are reagents and kits for performing the methods.
US12168022B2
Provided herein are methods for treating a pulmonary infection in a patient in need thereof, for example, a nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infection for at least one treatment cycle. The method comprises administering to the lungs of the patient a pharmaceutical composition comprising a liposomal complexed aminoglycoside comprising a lipid component comprising electrically neutral lipids and an aminoglycoside. Administration comprises aerosolizing the pharmaceutical composition to provide an aerosolized pharmaceutical composition comprising a mixture of free aminoglycoside and liposomal complexed aminoglycoside, and administering the aerosolized pharmaceutical composition via a nebulizer to the lungs of the patient. The methods provided herein result in a change from baseline on the semi-quantitative scale for mycobacterial culture for a treated patient, and/or NTM culture conversion to negative during or after the administration period.
US12168011B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a sterile liquid pharmaceutical composition suitable for administration by inhalation comprising ensifentrine particles, wherein the process comprises: (a) heating ensifentrine particles at a temperature of from 100° C. to 220° C. to obtain sterile ensifentrine particles; and (b) combining the sterile ensifentrine particles with a sterile liquid vehicle to produce the sterile liquid pharmaceutical composition suitable for administration by inhalation. A process for producing an ampule comprising the sterile liquid pharmaceutical composition is also described.
US12168005B2
The invention provides methods of treating cancer characterized by the presence of one or both of wild type isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) gene and wild type IDH1 enzyme, by administering compounds that inhibit mutant IDH1 enzyme, such as Ivosidenib (AG-120, IVOSIDENIB®). The invention also provides cell-based methods for determining anti-cancer activity of test compounds under in vitro conditions of low concentrations of magnesium ion and/or glucose.
US12168001B2
The present invention provides methods, compositions (e.g., eyedrop or spongarion composition), and uses for alleviating and preventing age-associated vitreous degeneration in a mammal, comprising administrating to the mammal in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of L-ergothioneine, an analog or derivative thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, acid, ester, polymer, analog or derivative thereof, as an active ingredient. In particular, L-ergothioneine is capable of scavenging chronic reactive oxygen species directly and radically to mitigate and prevent HA depolymerization and HA decreasing-viscosity in the mammal's vitreous body; and/or improving vitreous liquefaction in the mammal.
US12167998B2
Disclosed are compounds having enhanced potency in the modulation of NMDA receptor activity. Such compounds are contemplated for use in the treatment of conditions such as depression and related disorders. Orally available formulations and other pharmaceutically acceptable delivery forms of the compounds, including intravenous formulations, are also disclosed.
US12167984B2
This disclosure provides an enhanced operating table and room, an insulated conductor, and a filtration system. The table includes an attachment, controlling parameters during surgery, a control, and a console. The attachment is moveable relative to at least one reference point. The console allows monitoring parameters during surgery. The room includes sensors integrated throughout and a data module in communication with the sensors. The data module receives data from the plurality of sensors, stores the received data in memory, and analyzes and processes the stored data. The insulated conductor includes an electrical conductor and an insulator. The insulator partially electrically or thermally insulates the electrical conductor. The filtration system removes particles within a fluid A transducer generates a pressure gradient to promote the particles to flow. Alternatively, the filtration system can include a robotic system. The robotic system charges particles such that the particles within the fluid adhere.
US12167982B2
The present invention relates to a supply device (1) for providing at least one supply product, comprising a mounting unit (2) for mounting the supply device on a support, preferably a ceiling of a room, and an extension arm (3), wherein the extension arm (3) is arranged pivotably around a vertical pivot axis (30) relative to the mounting unit. The extension arm (3) further comprises at least one terminal (4, 4′, 4″) which is directly integrated with the extension arm (3) for a supply device.
US12167976B2
A gastrointestinal balloon system includes a gastrointestinal balloon and a check valve located within the gastrointestinal balloon. The check valve is configured to allow fluid flow into and out of the gastrointestinal balloon. The check valve includes a string coupled to the check valve, the string having a loop on a proximal end and a catheter having a lumen. The lumen is configured to receive a grasping tool. The grasping tool extends out a distal end of the catheter for grabbing the loop to align the catheter with the check valve. Also, a check valve, two-wat valve, and method of using the same in a gastrointestinal balloon.
US12167970B2
An implant for therapeutically separating bones of a joint has two endplates each having an opening through the endplate, and at least one ramped surface on a side opposite a bone engaging side. A frame is slideably connected to the endplates to enable the endplates to move relative to each other at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the implant, in sliding connection with the frame. An actuator screw is rotatably connected to the frame. A carriage forms an open area aligned with the openings in the endplates. The openings in the endplates pass through the carriage to form an unimpeded passage from bone to bone of the joint. The carriage has ramps which mate with the ramped surfaces of the endplates, wherein when the carriage is moved by rotation of the actuator screw, the endplates move closer or farther apart.
US12167963B2
An implant includes a central body and anchoring arms that extend proximally from the implant's downstream end portion and that are movable with respect to an upstream end portion of the implant. The implant is advanced into the heart using a catheter and is implanted at a native atrioventricular valve by positioning: (i) the anchoring arms in the ventricle, (ii) the central body between the native valve's leaflets, and (iii) a distal end of an elongate element into the ventricle. The elongate element is (1) pulled to apply a proximally-directed force to the anchoring arms to move the anchoring arms' distal ends axially with respect to the upstream end portion while the distal ends of the anchoring arms remain radially fixed with respect to a central longitudinal axis of the implant, and (2) removed from the subject's body. Other embodiments are also described.
US12167960B2
An accommodating intraocular lens (AIOL) for implantation within a capsular bag of a patient's eye comprises first and second components coupled together to define an inner fluid chamber and an outer fluid reservoir. The inner region of the AIOL provides optical power with one or more of the shaped fluid within the inner fluid chamber or the shape of the first or second components. The fluid reservoir comprises a bellows region with fold(s) extending circumferentially around an optical axis of the eye. The bellows engages the lens capsule, and a compliant fold region between the inner and outer bellows portions allows the profile of the AIOL to deflect when the eye accommodates for near vision. Fluid transfers between the inner fluid chamber and the outer fluid reservoir to provide optical power changes. A third lens component coupled to the first or second component provides additional optical power.
US12167958B2
A multi-spiral, self-expanding stent is constructed from superposed individual spiral strands. Each spiral strand comprises a terminal bend that separates the strand into a first portion and a second portion. Particularly, the first portion of each strand bends in a first spiral direction to the terminal bend, and the second portion bends in the opposite direction after the terminal bend. Advantageously, the disclosed stent is able to change its shape, diameter, and length to accommodate the corresponding shape, diameter, and length of patient's diseased vessel.
US12167953B2
An animal irradiation system includes a radioactive source and an irradiation fixing apparatus having irradiated bodies. The radioactive source includes a beam outlet having a first central axis. Radioactive rays generated by the radioactive source exit from the beam outlet and irradiate the irradiated bodies. The radioactive rays define a main axis around the first central axis. The irradiation fixing apparatus includes a box body, which is divided into multiple accommodating chambers around a second central axis. Each accommodating chamber accommodates an irradiated body. Multiple first irradiation holes corresponding to the accommodating chambers are formed on the box body. The radioactive rays pass through the first irradiation holes and then irradiate the irradiated bodies. A maximum distance from an inner wall of each first irradiation hole to the first central axis is less than a minimum distance from an inner wall of the beam outlet to the first central axis.
US12167940B2
Methods and systems for performing computer-assisted image-guided surgery, including robotically-assisted surgery. A method of displaying image data includes displaying image data of a patient on a handheld display device, tracking the handheld display device using a motion tracking system, and modifying the image data displayed in response to changes in the position and orientation of the handheld display device. Further embodiments include a sterile case for a handheld display device, display devices on a robotic arm, and methods and systems for performing image-guided surgery using multiple reference marker devices fixed to a patient.
US12167933B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for ultrasound imaging and a related equipment, the method for ultrasound imaging comprising: obtaining ultrasound body data of a test object; determining position information of a target anatomical structure from the ultrasound body data; determining an ultrasound image of the target anatomical structure from the ultrasound body data according to the position information of the target anatomical structure; and displaying the ultrasound image.
US12167932B2
Arrangements described herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods for categorizing a waveform that includes processing a signal containing ultrasound data about the waveform, identifying one or more morphological variables of the waveform based on the ultrasound data, identifying one or more categories that correspond to a range of combinations of the morphological variables, and categorizing the waveform as belonging to one of the one or more categories. In some arrangements, the method may further include visualizing the waveforms, determining a probability that the waveform belongs to each of the one or more categories, and/or displaying the probability that the waveform falls into each of the one or more categories. Morphological variables may include quantifying absolute peak onset, number/prominence of auxiliary peaks, and systolic canopy length.
US12167925B2
A control terminal includes a hardware processor. The processor performs a synchronization process to synchronize irradiation timing signals between an imaging device among multiple radiographic imaging devices and a radiation irradiation device, the radiographic imaging devices generating dynamic image data, the radiation irradiation device controlling continuous irradiation of a subject with radiation. The processor identifies, among the radiographic imaging devices, the radiographic imaging device that has an irradiation timing signal synchronized with an irradiation timing signal of the radiation irradiation device.
US12167922B2
An apparatus comprising a radiation source, coincident positron emission detectors configured to detect coincident positron annihilation emissions originating within a coordinate system, and a controller coupled to the radiation source and the coincident positron emission detectors, the controller configured to identify coincident positron annihilation emission paths intersecting one or more volumes in the coordinate system and align the radiation source along an identified coincident positron annihilation emission path.
US12167920B2
Example headsets and electrodes are described herein. Example electrode units described herein include a housing having a cavity defined by an opening in a side of the housing and an electrode. In some such examples, the electrode includes a ring disposed in the opening and an arm, where the arm has a first portion extending outward from the opening away from the housing and a second portion extending from an end of the first portion toward the housing and into the cavity, and the first and second portions connect at a bend.
US12167913B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a hypersaturation index for measuring a patient's absorption of oxygen in the blood stream after a patient has reached 100% oxygen saturation. This hypersaturation index provides an indication of the partial pressure of oxygen of a patient. In an embodiment of the present invention, a hypersaturation index is calculated based on the absorption ratio of two different wavelengths of energy at a measuring site. In an embodiment of the invention, a maximum hypersaturation index threshold is determined such that an alarm is triggered when the hypersaturation index reaches or exceeds the threshold. In another embodiment, an alarm is triggered when the hypersaturation index reaches or falls below its starting point when it was first calculated.
US12167910B2
A method of imaging an implant device in a computing device is provided. The computing device includes a processor interconnected with a memory and a display. The method includes, at the processor: obtaining a first magnetic resonance (MR) image of a patient tissue, the first MR image containing a first magnetic field strength indicator; responsive to the implant device being inserted in the patient tissue, obtaining a second MR image of the patient tissue, the second MR image containing a second magnetic field strength indicator smaller than the first magnetic field strength indicator; registering the second MR image with the first MR image; generating a composite image from the first MR image and the second MR image; and presenting the composite image on the display.
US12167905B2
Methods and a system are provided for assessing postpartum hemorrhage risk and postpartum hemorrhage stages in a clinical setting. Generally, a clinician may indicate that the mass of several bloody items, indicated in type and quantity, is to be measured using a scale. The mass of bloody items is compared to the known unused dry mass of such items in order to accurately determine the quantitative blood loss (QBL) of a patient at the bedside. The cumulative QBL can be updated by weighing additional items. Based on the cumulative QBL, the patient's vital signs, and other factors, a corresponding hemorrhage stage is identified and communicated to the clinician. Recommendations specific to the hemorrhage stage are provided to a clinician. Some recommendations are selectable actions that trigger automatic placement of medical orders and notifications to relevant medical services, such as a blood bank or anesthesia.
US12167896B2
In one aspect, a system for endovascular treatment of a blood vessel includes a control unit, an ultrasound device, an actuator, and a catheter having a treatment portion. The ultrasound device is communicatively coupled to the control unit. The ultrasound device includes an ultrasound probe having a subject contact surface. The actuator is coupled to the ultrasound probe and is operable to move the subject contact surface of the ultrasound prove relative to a treatment zone of a subject. The control unit is configured to determine a position of the treatment portion of the catheter as the catheter is advanced through the blood vessel, and move the subject contact surface of the ultrasound probe relative to the treatment zone of the subject with the actuator to follow the position of the catheter as the catheter is advanced through the blood vessel.
US12167893B2
Systems and methods that facilitate the pre-operative prediction of post-operative tissue function to assist a clinician in planning for and carrying out a surgical procedure. In particular, systems and methods that facilitate the pre-operative prediction of post-resection lung tissue function, thus assisting a clinician in determining the location(s) and volume(s) of lung tissue to be resected.
US12167889B2
A balloon for renal nerve modulation is disclosed. The balloon may include a polymer material forming a balloon wall having an outer surface and flexible circuits comprising a base selectively adhered to the exterior surface of the balloon wall. Adhesive is selectively applied to the outer surface of the balloon, to the flexible circuit or to both such that the adhesive is selectively deposited on the at least a portion of the at least two pads or on the at least a portion of the at least two pads and to a portion of the distal spline. The portion of the at least two pads or the portion of the at least two pads and a portion of the distal spline are adhered to the outer surface of the balloon and a remainder of the flexible circuit moves freely with respect to the outer surface of the balloon.
US12167886B2
A surgical instrument includes a housing, an end effector and an elongated shaft extending therebetween. The end effector is movable between open and closed configurations. The elongated shaft includes a distal portion that is movable between aligned and articulated configurations. The surgical instrument further includes a driving assembly that induces motion in the end effector between open and closed configuration and maintains a closure pressure in the range of about 3 kg/cm2 to about 16 kg/cm2 between aligned and articulated configurations of the elongated shaft.
US12167884B2
An electrosurgical system includes an electrosurgical instrument having an electrode with a polymeric dielectric coating; and an electrosurgical generator, which includes a power converter configured to generate RF energy; a sensor coupled to the power converter and configured to sense a parameter of the RF energy; and a controller coupled to the sensor and the power converter. The controller is configured to control the power converter to output an RF waveform to achieve conductor breakthrough through the polymeric dielectric coating. The controller is further configured to determine whether the conductor breakthrough occurred based on the parameter; and execute a treatment algorithm based on a determination of the conductor breakthrough.
US12167882B2
Various methods of treating a heart of a patient having a cardiac arrhythmia are disclosed. The method can comprise dissecting tissue at an inferior aspect of a right inferior pulmonary vein of the patient to create an oblique sinus defect, dissecting tissue to open a space between a superior vena cava and a left atrium, and dissecting tissue to open a space across a transverse sinus between a pulmonary artery and a roof of the left atrium. The method can further comprise passing a catheter through an oblique sinus defect underneath the heart and beyond a left ventricle and passing a first flexible guiding device across the transverse sinus and under the superior vena cava and the pulmonary artery.
US12167879B2
A cryoablation catheter system comprises a cryoablation catheter having a shaft, a guidewire lumen member and an expandable balloon attached to the shaft and the guidewire lumen member, and an auxiliary device configured for use in combination with the cryoablation catheter, the auxiliary device including a location sensor configured to provide a sensor output indicative of a location of the location sensor within a localization volume responsive to a localization field. A user-accessible relative position indicator is located on one or both of the cryoablation catheter and the auxiliary device and is configured to provide an indication of a relative position of the cryoballoon and the location sensor.
US12167875B2
A system for installing a vertebral stabilization system. The system includes an installation tool including a handle portion and a shaft extending distally from the handle portion. The shaft includes a conduit and a staple mechanism. The system also includes a flexible implant member extending along the conduit configured to be advanced out from a distal end of the shaft, and a staple housed in the staple mechanism. The staple is configured to secure the flexible implant member to a vertebra. The handle portion is configured to selectively advance the flexible implant member from the shaft and to selectively actuate the staple mechanism.
US12167871B2
A fastener configured for spinal applications includes a head having a channel adapted to receive a spinal rod and a shaft extending from the head to a distal tip and having a thread, at least a portion of the thread being serrated. The serrated portion of the thread includes peaks and troughs and can extend along about 35 percent of a length of the thread.
US12167868B1
A method for removing an eye and ocular structures through a supraorbital fossa in a camel is disclosed herein, the method comprising: making a U-shaped incision along a supraorbital fossa of the camel; dissecting one or more tissues surrounding the supraorbital nerve in the camel; and removing eye globe and surrounding tissues through the supraorbital fossa.
US12167865B2
A minimally invasive blood clot capturing invention made of nitinol. The nitinol is shaped into a plurality of fingers to form a frame for a basket and funnel to capture and remove blood clots. The basket and funnel being delivered to the blood clot by a catheter. The basket and funnel are capable of being collapsed within a catheter capable of being deployed into a blood vessel, and capable of being retracted into the catheter for removal from the blood vessel.
US12167862B2
An orthopaedic surgical instrument system includes a compression socket configured for coupling with a selected one of a number of compressible bases. Each compressible base is shaped to conform with a posterior surface of either a dome patella implant component or an anatomical patella implant component.
US12167856B2
Devices and methods are described for occluding the left atrial appendage (LAA). The device excludes the LAA from blood flow to prevent blood from clotting within the LAA and subsequently embolizing, particularly in patients with atrial fibrillation. The implantable device is delivered via transcatheter delivery into the LAA and secured within the LAA. The implant comprises an expandable and compliant frame and an expandable and conformable tubular foam body. The device may have a thromboresistant cover at a proximal end. The frame may have recapture struts inclining radially outwardly from a central hub. The frame may have axially extending side wall struts, with adjacent pairs of side wall struts joined at one or more apexes. Anchors extend from the frame and into the foam to engage tissue.
US12167853B2
Disclosed herein are non-woven graft materials for use in specialized surgical procedures involving nerve repair and regeneration. Some embodiments describe electrospun fiber products such as conduits, wraps, or grafts comprising a resorbable hybrid-scale matrix to facilitate nerve repair and regeneration.
US12167839B2
An endoscope (10) includes an endoscope shaft (13), with a distal shaft portion (20), a central shaft portion (30) and a proximal shaft portion (40), and a light admission face (11) at the distal shaft portion (20). A cross section of the central shaft portion (30) is smaller than the cross section of the distal shaft portion (20) and smaller than the cross section of the proximal shaft portion (40).
US12167838B2
A lighting module includes a housing portion, a clip portion having a receiving space between configured to receive a speculum, an arm portion extending from the clip portion and including a lighting element, and a power source electrically connected to the lighting element. Also, a speculum assembly including a speculum and a lighting module is disclosed. Finally, a method of using a lighting module is disclosed.
US12167826B2
An automated cleaning device includes a chassis, a controller operably connected to a drive assembly and configured to move the chassis within an area to be cleaned in repeated cleaning cycles, a cleaning unit carried by the chassis, a sensor configured to detect material drawn into the cleaning unit and provide a debris signal corresponding to an amount of material drawn into the cleaning unit, the controller being operably connected to the sensor and configured to generate a high-material indicator in response to the debris signal exceeding a predetermined debris threshold, and determining whether the autonomous cleaner is in a high traffic area when the chassis moves within the area to be cleaned based on locations of high-material indicators.
US12167816B2
A portable food processing apparatus describes a food processing chamber including a blade arrangement and a housing including a motor for driving said blade arrangement, a microcontroller for controlling said motor and at least one motion sensor communicatively coupled to said microcontroller. The microcontroller is adapted to evaluate sensor data produced by the at least one motion sensor in order to detect a predefined motion pattern in said sensor data, said predefined motion pattern corresponding to an operation setting of the motor; and control said motor in accordance with said operation setting upon detection of the predefined motion pattern.
US12167814B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to grills and methods of adjusting airflow through a fuel bowl of a grill. In one example, a grill includes a cooking grate and a fuel bowl configured to removably support the cooking grate. The fuel bowl includes an ash grate at a bottom surface. A base supports the bottom surface of the fuel bowl. The base comprises a first base side wall that defines a first base venting aperture, and a second base side wall opposite to the first base side wall that defines a second base venting aperture. A venting drawer is slidably received within the base, with the venting drawer comprising a first drawer side wall that defines a first drawer venting aperture, and a second drawer side wall opposite to the first drawer side wall and defining a second drawer venting aperture.
US12167807B1
A frame lit mirror component includes an extruded frame member. The extruded frame member further includes a mirror mounting edge. The mirror mounting edge extends along a longitudinal direction of the extruded frame member. The mirror mounting edge is sized to receive an edge of a mirror. A light source volume extends along the longitudinal direction of the extruded frame member. An angle exists between the mirror mounting edge and the light source volume. The light source volume is sized to receive a light source, such that when the light source is in an on-state light radiates from the light source volume.
US12167805B2
One or more embodiments relate to a liner cover for a robotic mannequin able to reproduce on demand at least one portion of the morphology of an individual by controlling a plurality of shells that are movable with respect to a frame of the robotic mannequin, the cover including a stack of layers, the stack of layers including an inner layer with an elastomer base, an outer layer including at least one textile, disposed around the inner layer, and applying at least one mechanical constraint on at least one portion of the inner layer, at least one element for reducing the transmission of mechanical constraints between the inner layer and the outer layer.
US12167801B2
A merchandise display hook and method for dispensing one or more items of merchandise from a merchandise display hook and/or for loading one or more items of merchandise onto the display hook are provided. The display hook may include at least one rod configured to be mounted to a display fixture and to receive one or more items of merchandise thereon. The display hook may also include a helix disposed about the rod and extending at least partially along a length of the rod. The helix is configured to rotate in a dispensing direction for dispensing the one or more items of merchandise from the rod and/or an opposite loading direction for loading the one or more items of merchandise onto the rod.
US12167798B2
An ergonomic chair comprising a seat, a lower leg support, a chest support and a hip support. The seat is configured to support the posterior thigh and/or buttocks of a seated user, the seat being configured to urge the hip of the seated user in a forward direction. The lower leg support is configured to support the anterior side of the lower legs of the seated user. The chest support is configured to support the chest of the seated user in a forward leaning position of the seated user. The hip support is configured to support the anterior hip of a seated user as the seat urges the seated user's hip forwardly towards the hip support.
US12167797B2
The invention provides a seat clip (1) for attaching a seat to a frame of a chair, comprising an upper portion (2) arranged to be attached to the seat (6), a lower portion (3) comprising a latching element (5) arranged to be reversibly attached to the frame (7) by positive locking, and an intermediate portion (4) connecting the upper portion (2) to the lower portion (3) and being flexible, such that the seat clip can be deformed when pressure is applied to the intermediate portion (4) and/or the lower portion (3) in order to attach the latching element (5) to the frame (7).
US12167792B2
A cabinet storage system includes a front vertical member, a rear vertical member and planar horizontal members coupled with the front vertical member and the rear vertical member and extending therebetween to form a multi-shelf storage container. The system also including a slide coupled with the multi-shelf storage container, the multi-shelf storage container slideable out of a cabinet carcass in which the multi-shelf storage container is mounted. The system also includes a swivel. The swivel including a base and a rotatable table. The base fixedly coupled with a planar surface of one of the planar horizontal members, and a horizontal shelf fixedly coupled with the rotatable table in a plane parallel with the one of the planar horizontal members.
US12167790B1
A universal mount platform for office and industrial modular workstations including a linear dual-rail mount platform module. A linear dual-rail mount platform module has two double rail slot columns coupled by two sets of dual rails. Mount slots between dual rails are set and maintained by spacers or end plates.
US12167788B2
A dispenser includes a container, an applicator and a head part. The head part has the applicator, and is axially moveable relative to an outlet of the container. The head part includes a passage connected to the applicator in a fluid conducting manner, the passage further being connected to the container in a fluid conducting manner in an activated state of the dispenser and with no fluid communication being possible in a storage state of the dispenser. The passage extends along an outer circumferential surface of the head part, the head part having a base with a seal configured to seal with respect to the outlet of the container in the storage state of the dispenser.
US12167787B2
A caddy for a pesticide spray canister includes a generally cylindrical sleeve which encloses the canister with an expandable pocket disposed on one exterior side of the sleeve wall and a pouch formed by a pouch wall affixed to the exterior of said sleeve wall. The caddy also includes a small canister pouch and a generally circular top secured to the upper rim of the sleeve wall, the top having a central aperture defined therein for receiving the spray canister pump handle and a second aperture defined therein disposed radially outward from the central aperture for accommodating a spray hose attachment fitting.
US12167767B2
A sole structure for an article of footwear includes a midsole having a medial edge and a lateral edge. The sole structure also include a first lower rib extending from the medial edge to the lateral edge of the midsole. The first lower rib includes a portion spaced from the midsole between the medial edge and the lateral edge. The sole structure further includes a medial flex member disposed between the midsole and the first lower rib near the medial edge and a lateral flex member disposed between the midsole and the first lower rib near the lateral edge. The medial flex member and the lateral flex member are configured to flex the first lower rib relative to the midsole in response to a force of a predetermined magnitude.
US12167765B2
Systems, methods, and devices for protecting a user head are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise receiving, by a processor operatively coupled to a helmet device, helmet data comprising at least one of statistical data, statistical models, or natural intelligence algorithms. The computer-implemented method can also comprise inflating, by a gas delivery system of the helmet device, a pressure chamber element of the helmet device based on the helmet data. Furthermore, the computer-implemented method can comprise scanning, by a sensor system of the helmet device, surrounding environments of the helmet device for object data.
US12167764B2
A protective headwear liner may include an encasement and a moldable and hardenable material within the encasement. The encasement is deformable to a U-shape while containing the material prior to hardening of the material. The U-shape may have a flat front and two flat sides corresponding to a front and sides of a person's head, respectively, wherein the two flat sides are joined to the flat front by curves. The material is configured to retain the U-shape following hardening of the material.
US12167763B2
Afforded is a medical head-cooling cap set that heightens scalp-cooling efficiency and that fitted on to a user's head produces no pressuring feeling nor slips out of place. The cap set is constituted from a head-cooling cap, an inner cap, and an outer cap. Two first belts that are drawn out from either side of the outer-cap opening part and stretch to the exterior are linkable by a first fastener, and after the head has been passed into the opening and the outer cap has been donned, the belts can be fastened neck-area-forward by the fastener; meanwhile, two second belts that extend from alongside the rear part mid-brim and head front brim-ward are linkable by a second clasp, and after the head has been passed into the opening and the outer cap has been donned, the second belts can be fastened around the forehead by the clasp.
US12167755B2
An aerosol provision device is provided. The device comprises a heater assembly configured to heat aerosol generating material, an input interface configured to receive an input for selecting an operating mode from a plurality of operating modes and a controller. The controller is configured to detect operation of the input interface and cause the heater assembly to begin heating the aerosol generating material in dependence on the detected operation of the input interface.
US12167748B2
A hookah including a glass tube and a push rod. The bottom end of the push rod is disposed in the glass tube and is movable in the inner wall of the glass tube when being pushed by force. The tobacco material is loaded in the glass tube and between the bottom end of the push rod and the opening of the glass tube; and smoke produced by the atomization of the tobacco material flows in an air passage of the push rod.
US12167747B2
A device for use while burning smoking material and inhaling the resulting smoke is disclosed. The device can include a filter comprising a filter element having a shaped rim structure and a recess formed in a surface of a body of the filter along a curved face extending from the first end to the second end, the recess extending radially into the body. The smoking accessory can include a capsule containing a flavoring agent disposed within the recess. The device may be received by a first end a tubular member formed to receive a smoking material, that when burned passes smoke into the device.
US12167741B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of food science and engineering, and specifically to a method for improving the stability of anthocyanins. In the method, a starch and an anthocyanin are mixed in an aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid, treated at a certain high hydrostatic pressure condition to enable the starch to be gelatinized and to interact with the anthocyanin, and then stored at a certain temperature, so that interaction between the anthocyanin and the starch is further enhanced to form a complex. The method can improve the stability of anthocyanins, which helps to improve the quality of products and extend the shelf life of products.
US12167732B2
A stable aqueous suspension includes a composition which includes nanoparticles, wherein said nanoparticles include a nucleic acid at least partially encapsulated in a matrix comprising calcium phosphate. The nanoparticle compositions and suspensions have high nucleic acid loading and high stability, and may be used for protecting crops against insects and for down-regulating expression of a target gene in an insect pest species in order to prevent and/or control pest infestation.
US12167731B2
A field of biological fungicides with a broad range of antifungal activity coming from plant extracts from the order of Brassicales or molecules revealing similar chemical structure. In particular, Applicants surprisingly provided a new usage of a combination of sulfonyl and sulfinyl containing aliphatic glucosinolates, their by-products and synthetic analogues as efficient antifungal compounds with broad spectrum of activity.
US12167729B2
This disclosure is related to methods of preserving biological samples such as organs, and tissue. The present disclosure relates to methods of subzero preservation of biological tissue samples, such as entire organs from mammals, e.g., humans. The present disclosure is based, at least in part, on the discovery that biological tissue samples can be supercooled while minimizing formation of ice crystals by reducing liquid-air interfaces and lowering the melting point of the tissue samples, e.g., organs, or liquid in the tissue samples by use of cryoprotective agents while ensuring uniform distribution of cryoprotective agents throughout the biological sample by using improved perfusion techniques.
US12167718B2
An interactive pet feeder where the rate of release of an edible treat for the animal can be regulated by the user. The interactive pet feeder may therefore be configured to release an edible treat depending upon the level of engagement that the pet maintains with the feeder and adjusted by the user to maintain the animal's interest.
US12167712B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011202. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011202, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011202 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 CH011202.
US12167710B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011166. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011166, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011166 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 CH011166.
US12167709B2
The invention provides seeds and plants of cucumber hybrid DRCB6028, cucumber inbred line BAP-Y319-5013GY, and cucumber inbred line BAPY314-5002GY. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid DRCB6028, cucumber inbred line BAP-Y319-5013GY, and cucumber inbred line BAPY314-5002GY and to methods for producing a cucumber plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a cucumber plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of cucumber hybrid DRCB6028, cucumber inbred line BAP-Y319-5013GY, and cucumber inbred line BAPY314-5002GY comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US12171138B2
Organic light emitting materials and devices comprising phosphorescent metal complexes comprising ligands comprising aryl or heteroaryl groups substituted at both ortho positions are described. An organic light emitting device, comprising: an anode, a hole transport layer; an organic emissive layer comprising an emissive layer host and an emissive dopant; an electron impeding layer, and electron transport layer, and a cathode disposed, in that order, over a substrate.
US12171125B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a sub-pixel including a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element, the light-emitting element including a first electrode; a first insulating layer, the first electrode being connected with the pixel circuit through a first via hole penetrating the first insulating layer; a pixel definition layer including an opening; the first electrode includes a main body portion and a connecting portion, the main body portion is at least partially overlapped with the opening, the connecting portion is at least partially overlapped with the first via hole, a size of the connecting portion at the first via hole in a first direction is ⅕ to ⅘ of a size of the main body portion in the first direction.
US12171124B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a preparation method thereof and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a display region and an edge region located around the display region; the edge region includes a composite insulating layer disposed on a substrate, a power cord disposed on the composite insulating layer and an isolation dam disposed on the power cord, wherein the isolation dam is provided with auxiliary power cords. Both an auxiliary power cord of the isolation dam adjacent to the display region and an auxiliary power cord of the isolation dam away from the display region are lapped on the power cord.
US12171122B2
A display panel includes a substrate including a first display area, a second display area, a first display element in the first display area, and a second display element in the second display area; a first pixel circuit in the first display area and electrically connected to the first display element; a second pixel circuit arranged outside the second display area and electrically connected to the second display element; an inorganic insulating layer arranged over the substrate and including a groove corresponding to the second display area; and a connection wiring arranged inside the groove and electrically connecting the second display element to the second pixel circuit, wherein the connection wiring and at least one of conductive layers of the second pixel circuit include a same material, and the connection wiring includes portions having different widths depending on a position of the connect wiring arranged in the second display area.
US12171113B2
A flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) substrate includes a flexible substrate, an inorganic barrier layer, an OLED device, and an adhesive-filling layer. The inorganic barrier layer is disposed on the flexible substrate. The OLED device is disposed on the inorganic barrier layer. The adhesive-filling layer covers the OLED device and the inorganic barrier layer. The flexible substrate further comprises a base substrate, a bending portion, and a covering portion. A thin film transistor layer is disposed on the base substrate, and the bending portion is connected to the base substrate and the covering portion. The covering portion covers the adhesive-filling layer and is stacked above the base substrate.
US12171111B2
A display panel includes a first insulation film including a first hole exposing a portion of an upper surface of an auxiliary electrode, a second insulation film including a second hole overlapping the first hole of the first insulation film, an electrode pattern disposed on a portion of an upper surface of the first insulation film and overlapping the second hole of the second insulation film, a first electrode of a light emitting device disposed on the second insulation film, a bank overlapping a portion of an upper surface of the first electrode and disposed on the second insulation film, a light emitting layer of the light emitting layer disposed on the portion of the upper surface of the auxiliary electrode, and a second electrode of the light emitting device, contacting the portion of the upper surface of the auxiliary electrode overlapping the first hole of the first insulation film, thereby allowing the cathode electrode and the auxiliary electrode to be electrically connected with each other.
US12171110B2
A display substrate and a preparation method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate (200/300/400) includes a display region (201/301/401) and an opening region (2011/3011/4011), the display region (200/300/400) surrounds the opening region (2011/3011/4011), a first barrier wall (2012/3012/4012) is between the display region (201/301/401) and the opening region (2011/3011/4011), and the first barrier wall (2012/3012/4012) surrounds the opening region (2011/3011/4011); the first barrier wall (2012/3012/4012) includes a first metal layer structure, and at least one side surface, surrounding the opening region (2011/3011/4011), of the first metal layer structure includes a recess (2012A/3012A/4012A). The display substrate combines the imaging device with the display region of the display substrate and has a better encapsulation effect.
US12171104B2
Some embodiments relate to a ferroelectric random access memory (FeRAM) device. The FeRAM device includes a bottom electrode structure and a top electrode overlying the ferroelectric structure. The top electrode has a first width as measured between outermost sidewalls of the top electrode. A ferroelectric structure separates the bottom electrode structure from the top electrode. The ferroelectric structure has a second width as measured between outermost sidewalls of the ferroelectric structure. The second width is greater than the first width such that the ferroelectric structure includes a ledge that reflects a difference between the first width and the second width. A dielectric sidewall spacer structure is disposed on the ledge and covers the outermost sidewalls of the top electrode.
US12171102B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first word line over a substrate, the first word line including a first conductive material; a first bit line intersecting the first word line; a first memory film between the first bit line and the first word line; and a first conductive spacer between the first memory film and the first word line, the first conductive spacer including a second conductive material, the second conductive material having a different work function than the first conductive material, the first conductive material having a lower resistivity than the second conductive material.
US12171101B2
A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure comprising alternating conductive structures and insulative structures arranged in tiers, each of the tiers individually comprising a conductive structure and an insulative structure, strings of memory cells vertically extending through the stack structure, the strings of memory cells comprising a channel material vertically extending through the stack structure, and another stack structure vertically overlying the stack structure and comprising other tiers of alternating levels of other conductive structures and other insulative structures, the other conductive structures exhibiting a conductivity greater than a conductivity of the conductive structures of the stack structure. Related memory devices, electronic systems, and methods are also described.
US12171100B2
There are provided a semiconductor memory device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes a gate stack comprising a plurality of first interlayer insulating patterns and a plurality of conductive patterns alternately stacked, a dummy stack comprising a plurality of second interlayer insulating patterns and a plurality of sacrificial insulating layers, a plurality of step-shaped grooves defined at different depths in the gate stack, a plurality of openings passing through the dummy stack and spaced apart from each other, a first gap-fill insulating pattern filling the plurality of step-shaped grooves, a second gap-fill insulating pattern filling the plurality of openings, a plurality of conductive gate contacts passing through the first gap-fill insulating pattern and connected to the plurality of conductive patterns, and a plurality of conductive peripheral circuit contacts passing through the second gap-fill insulating pattern.
US12171095B2
A memory structure includes: a substrate including a memory array region and a peripheral circuit region; a plurality of bit line structures disposed in the memory array region of the substrate; a dummy bit line structure disposed on the substrate, wherein the dummy bit line structure is disposed in the memory array region and immediately adjacent to the peripheral circuit region; a plurality of contacts disposed between the bit line structures and in the memory array region; a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate and in the peripheral circuit region; and a protective structure disposed in the memory array region and immediately adjacent to the peripheral circuit region, wherein the protective structure includes the dummy bit line structure and a top surface of the protective structure is higher than top surfaces of the bit line structures.
US12171091B2
A transistor includes a gate structure that has a first gate dielectric layer and a second gate dielectric layer. The first gate dielectric layer is disposed over the substrate. The first gate dielectric layer contains a first type of dielectric material that has a first dielectric constant. The second gate dielectric layer is disposed over the first gate dielectric layer. The second gate dielectric layer contains a second type of dielectric material that has a second dielectric constant. The second dielectric constant is greater than the first dielectric constant. The first dielectric constant and the second dielectric constant are each greater than a dielectric constant of silicon oxide.
US12171085B2
The disclosure provides an evaporative cooling logic control method and apparatus of an inductive vibration device. The method includes the following steps: S1, starting a vibration device, and acquiring data; and S2, displaying an effective output current by a power amplifier, and judging whether the effective output current is larger than 600 amperes or not. The method has the beneficial effects that a spray auxiliary cooling mode of the inductive vibration device, which is adjusted by the logic control method of the disclosure, has simple structure and reliable function, the phenomenon of insufficient induced draft and heat dissipation capacity of the prior fan of the moving coil induction ring can be effectively solved, the radial expansion can be reduced, and the method is especially suitable for heat dissipation of the moving coil induction ring of the inductive vibration device with large moving coil induction ring current and large.
US12171081B2
A crossbar is provided that is operable to be removably installed in a sled for a modular server and/or information handling system, for example a network equipment building system. The crossbar includes a frame, a keystone portion of the frame forming a keystone air duct, and a riser guide extending from the frame. The keystone portion is operable to direct air flow through the keystone air duct towards a heat sink and/or a CPU. The riser guide is operable to align a riser to be plugged into a motherboard installed in the sled. The frame is operable to be a structural component that is substantially coupled to the sled chassis.
US12171078B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display including a first area and a second area, a first housing supporting the first area and forming a first space on a rear surface of the first area, a second housing supporting the second area and forming a second space on a rear surface of the second area, a hinge structure connecting the first housing and the second housing to be foldable around a folding axis, a first bracket connecting the first housing and the hinge structure and having a first opening penetrating through a surface thereof, a second bracket connecting the second housing and the hinge structure and having a second opening penetrating through a surface thereof, and an FPCB extending from the first space to the second space across the folding axis in an extension direction.
US12171069B2
An explosion-protected housing having a housing body, a frame part and at least two separate covers. The housing body delimits an interior space which is open at one side by means of a housing opening. The frame part has a circumferential web surrounding the housing opening. Extending within the circumferential web is a central web of the frame part that divides the housing opening into at least two opening portions. A cover abutment surface is formed, against which the covers bear in their closed position. An encirclingly closed flameproof gap is formed between each cover and the cover abutment surface when the cover is situated in the closed position and is detachably fastened by means of one or more connecting units to the frame part.
US12171060B2
A device for current determination includes a shunt and a device for temperature measurement including a printed circuit board, an evaluation unit and a temperature sensor. The printed circuit board has a milled groove which runs spirally around the temperature sensor, so that the temperature sensor is arranged on a printed circuit board plateau defined by the milled groove and is displaceable in a direction that is parallel to a normal vector of a plane defined by the printed circuit board. When the temperature sensor is displaced relative to the plane of the printed circuit board, a restoring force is brought about between the printed circuit board and the temperature sensor, wherein the shunt includes a resistance region having a substantially flat surface, wherein the device for current determination is arranged in the resistance region on the surface of the shunt in such a way that the temperature sensor is arranged in thermal connection with the resistance region of the shunt, wherein voltage taps are arranged on both sides of the temperature sensor and electrically contact the surface of the shunt in order to detect a potential difference along the resistance region.
US12171045B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and device for reporting terminal capability for multiple radio transmission schemes.
US12171042B2
A base station may include a processor configured to configure a default time period for periodic service requests for discontinuous reception (DRX) for user equipment (UE) devices serviced by the base station. The processor may be further configured to obtain a signal quality value for a UE device serviced by the base station; determine that the obtained signal quality value is less than a low signal quality threshold; and configure a longer time period for the periodic service requests for DRX for the UE device, in response to determining that the obtained signal quality value is less than the low signal quality threshold.
US12171039B2
A Method and Apparatus for measurement in non-terrestrial network is provided. The method includes receiving a measurement configuration IE and a conditional reconfiguration IE, performing conditional reconfiguration evaluation based on the measurement configuration IE and a conditional reconfiguration IE, considering the first cell as a triggered cell and applying the stored condRRCReconfig IE of the first cell. In the evaluation, at least two comparisons are performed based on a distance hysteresis and distance between the terminal and one or more reference positions.
US12171036B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling a radio resource of an electronic device are disclosed. According to various embodiments of the present invention, the method can comprise the steps of: receiving, from an electronic device, an assistance information message related to overheating of the electronic device using a first radio resource; transmitting, to the electronic device, a first radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message for allocating, to the electronic device, a second radio resource that has been reduced more than the first radio resource; receiving, from the electronic device, a first RRC reconfiguration completion message as a response to the first RRC connection reconfiguration message; and transmitting, to the electronic device, a second RRC connection reconfiguration message for allocating, to the electronic device, a third radio resource that has been expanded more than the second radio resource at a first time point after the first RRC reconfiguration completion message has been received.
US12171020B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station in a wireless communications system. The UE may perform a random access procedure to communicate with the base station. The base station may configure the UE with criteria for selecting a transmission mode. The UE may select a transmission mode for transmitting repetitions of physical random access channel (PRACH) transmissions according to current conditions satisfying the criteria. The criteria may be different based on a contention free random access (CFRA) procedure type or a purpose of the CFRA procedure. The transmission modes may include repetitions of PRACH on multiple random access channel (RACH) occasions, multiple component carriers (CCs), multiple frequency allocations of a same CC, superposition of preambles, different RACH resources, or different PRACH formats.
US12171019B2
The present disclosure provides a random access resource processing method and device. The method includes: receiving first indication information from a network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate whether a preset random access resource is available; and transmitting first acknowledgment information to the network device.
US12171013B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource configuration including a plurality of sub-slot PUCCH resources for the UE. The UE may determine that a sub-slot PUCCH resource, of the plurality of sub-slot PUCCH resources, for use with an uplink transmission crosses a slot boundary. The UE may adjust the uplink transmission based at least in part on determining that the sub-slot PUCCH resource crosses the slot boundary. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12171012B2
Methods and apparatus for supporting band steering and/or channel steering in wireless communications systems, e.g. WiFi communications systems, are described. An access point aggregates information, e.g., from messages being communicated between the access point and client devices being serviced by the access point, and generates reports. The generated reports are communicated to a control device, e.g. a radio resource management (RRM) device. In some embodiments, generated reports include one or more of: i) message header information, e.g. resource unit (RU) allocation and/or use information and/or BSS color information, ii) collision reports, iii) received signal strength indicator (RSSI) reports, signal to noise ratio (SNR) reports, iv) interference reports; v) power information; vi) access point measurement information; and vii) access point control information. The control device uses the received reports from APs, in making bandsteering decisions with regard to individual client devices, and channel change decisions with regard to access points.
US12171006B2
Disclosed are a PUCCH transmission method, and a related apparatus. The method comprises: a terminal determining a target interlace from at least two interlaces, wherein the at least two interlaces are resources configured for the terminal for a PUCCH transmission; and the terminal performing a PUCCH transmission according to the target interlace. In an embodiment of the present invention, a target interlace is determined from at least two interlaces to realize an interlace-based PUCCH transmission.
US12171000B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond the 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. Further, the present disclosure may be applied to a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving channel state information in a communication system.
US12170998B2
Method and apparatus for performing DRX operation based on resource allocation information in NR V2X
Provided are a method for performing wireless communication by a first device, and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise: starting a timer for an active time; receiving, from a second device through a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) based on a first sidelink (SL) resource, a first sidelink control information (SCI) including information related to a time domain of a second SL resource and information related to a frequency domain of the second SL resource; receiving, from the second device through a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) related to the PSCCH based on the first SL resource, a second SCI and data; determining a value of a SL discontinuous reception (DRX) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) round trip time (RTT) timer, based on a time interval between the first SL resource and the second SL resource; and starting the SL DRX HARQ RTT timer.
US12170996B2
A wireless node comprising a radio, and a processor operably coupled to the radio, wherein the processor is configured to determine a number of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource repetitions for transmitting a PUCCH message; and wherein the radio is configured to transmit an indication, to a wireless device, of the number of PUCCH repetitions for a PUCCH message, and receive repetitions of the PUCCH message from the wireless device based on the number of PUCCH repetitions.
US12170990B2
A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving one or more configuration messages indicating a plurality of component carriers (CCs) and one or more CC selection criteria associated with the plurality of CCs. The method further includes receiving a downlink message and transmitting, based on the downlink message, one or more repetitions of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback message using a particular CC of the plurality of CCs. The particular CC is selected by the UE from the plurality of CCs based on the one or more CC selection criteria.
US12170989B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a cancellation indication that indicates a set of resources in which to cancel an uplink or sidelink communication. The UE may transmit a combined signal including a data signal and a cancellation signal. The UE, to transmit the combined signal, may transmit the data signal on one or more subcarriers other than subcarriers included in the set of resources indicated by the cancellation indication, and transmit the cancellation signal on a set of cancellation subcarriers for performing signal shaping of the data signal. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12170988B2
Aspects relate to direct current (DC) tone indication on the sidelink A wireless communication device (e.g., a UE) may transmit an indication of its sidelink DC tone to one or more other UEs via respective sidelinks. In an example, a transmitting UE may transmit an indication of its sidelink DC tone within second stage sidelink control information included within a data region of a slot. A receiving UE may further transmit an indication of its sidelink DC tone to a transmitting UE over a sidelink between the transmitting UE and receiving UE or a base station in wireless communication with the transmitting and receiving UEs may provide the indication of the sidelink DC tone of the receiving UE to the transmitting UE.
US12170985B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing frequency domain resource allocation schemes for use in unlicensed spectrum. A wireless device may determine a frequency domain resource allocation scheme for use for uplink communication in unlicensed spectrum. The wireless device may receive information indicating a frequency domain resource allocation for an uplink communication in unlicensed spectrum in accordance with the frequency domain resource allocation scheme. The wireless device may perform the uplink communication using the indicated frequency domain resource allocation.
US12170981B2
A resource allocation method includes generating a first frame and sending the first frame. The first frame includes a plurality of user information fields. Each user information field of the plurality of user information fields includes one user identifier subfield and is used to allocate a resource to a user identified by the user identifier subfield. Two or more user information fields in the plurality of user information fields have corresponding values of corresponding user identifier subfields that are the same.
US12170975B2
The present disclosure relates to signal transmission methods, devices, and systems. One example method includes sending, by a network device, a plurality of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks in one or more burst set windows, where the one or more burst set windows include a plurality of candidate positions that are used to transmit the plurality of SS/PBCH blocks. SS/PBCH blocks sent at positions corresponding to at least two particular indexes have a quasi co-located (QCL) relationship.
US12170974B2
The present application provides a latency compensation method, a device, and a storage medium, comprising: a UE or a base station acquiring a latency compensation parameter, and performing latency compensation for reference time information according to the latency compensation parameter; and the UE performing time synchronization with the base station according to the reference time after compensation information. By performing latency compensation for the reference time information, an error of the reference time information caused by a propagation latency between the base station and the UE may be compensated, such that the reference time information is more accurate, and the time synchronization accuracy, which the UE subsequently performs time synchronization by using the reference time information after latency compensation to obtain, is improved.
US12170973B2
One embodiment is directed to a communication system comprising a remote unit comprising a remote unit local clock and a controller communicatively coupled to the remote unit using a switched Ethernet network. The remote unit is configured to synchronize the remote unit local clock to a reference timing source using timing messages communicated over the switched Ethernet network with the remote unit. The communication system is configured to transmit the timing messages and baseband data so as to reduce a level of contention encountered by the timing messages in connection with being communicated over the switched Ethernet network.
US12170970B2
Embodiments include methods, performed by a network node in a wireless network, for signaling resynchronization signal (RSS) configurations of neighbor cells to one or more user equipment (UEs). Such methods include encoding a plurality of parameters of respective RSS configurations of one or more neighbor cells. For each particular neighbor cell, the parameters can include one or more RSS frequency locations and an RSS time offset for the particular neighbor cell, and the encoding can be based on a bitmap and a parameter associated with the particular neighbor cell (e.g., a physical cell ID). Such methods also include transmitting, to the one or more UEs, at least a portion of the encoded parameters of the respective RSS configurations of the neighbor cells. Embodiments also include complementary methods performed by UEs, as well as network nodes and UEs configured to perform such methods.
US12170967B2
An SRS power control method includes: receiving configuration information from a network device, where the configuration information is used to configure N power control parameter sets, a power control parameter set includes a path loss estimation reference signal (path loss RS), the path loss RS is associated with a neighboring cell and/or a serving cell, and N is a positive integer; and performing power control on at least one SRS unit according to the N power control parameter sets, where the at least one SRS unit is used for positioning, and an SRS unit is an SRS resource set or an SRS resource.
US12170965B2
According to an example aspect, there is provided an apparatus, configured to receive, by a user terminal, configuration for a grant-free transmission on a shared radio resource, the grant-free transmission comprising at least one collision avoidance transmission and at least one data transmission, wherein the at least one collision avoidance transmission precedes the at least one data transmission, determine a first transmission power for the at least one data transmission, determine a second transmission power for the at least one collision avoidance transmission based on information indicative to the a location of the user terminal proportionate to the a location of an access node providing a radio cell, and transmit the at least one collision avoidance transmission at the second determined power and the at least one data transmission at the determined first transmission power.
US12170964B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for uplink power control. One method includes receiving uplink power control parameters. The method includes determining a first transmit power for the first uplink transmission based on a corresponding first set of uplink power control parameters. The method includes determining a second transmit power for the second uplink transmission based on a corresponding second set of uplink power control parameters. The method includes performing the first uplink transmission using a first uplink transmission beam pattern or a first spatial domain transmission filter based on the first transmit power. The method includes performing the second uplink transmission using a second uplink transmission beam pattern or a second spatial domain transmission filter based on the second transmit power.
US12170961B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in which an predictive discontinuous reception (DRX) bypass service is provided. The bypass service may provide flow control signaling that enables an uplink grant to be transmitted to an end device regardless of the DRX mode. The bypass service may provide for an immediate grant for uplink data and may improve latency. The bypass service may also provide flow control signaling for downlink data that may cause the end device to wake up from a DRX mode and receive downlink data. The bypass service also provides predictive scheduling that allows an external network, such as a multi-access edge computing network to establish a DRX-free downlink connection before completion of data processing. The flow control signaling may include a quality of service flow identifier value that correlates to the bypass service.
US12170958B2
Disclosed in the present application are power-saving signal configuration and transmission methods and apparatuses. In the present application, a base station configures search space set configuration information of a power-saving signal, and sends same to a terminal. The power-saving signal search space set configuration information includes first configuration information and second configuration information; the first configuration information is search space set configuration information of a power-saving signal used when the terminal is in a short DRX cycle; and the second configuration information is search space set configuration information of a power-saving signal used when the terminal is in a long DRX cycle.
US12170957B2
A device wake-up method, including sending, by a night watch device, in response to the night watch device receiving a wireless packet sent by a terminal, a wake-up notification to a nursing device managed by the night watch device, where the night watch device implements a night watch function, where a wireless network including a plurality of night watch devices that includes the nigh tight watch device, and the wireless network further includes a plurality of nursing devices that includes the nursing device, where each night watch device of the plurality of night watch devices is configured to manage one or more nursing devices of the plurality of nursing devices, and, when no terminal is connected to the wireless network, the night watch device is in a shallow sleep state or a wake-up state and the nursing device is in a deep sleep state.
US12170929B2
A disclosure according to the present specification provides a method of having an access by a terminal subscribing to a first public land mobile network (PLMN). The method may comprise a step of transmitting a first request message to a network node via a base station. The base station may be a base station of a second PLMN that broadcasts system information including information about the first PLMN. The method may comprise a step of receiving, from the network node, a first response message that is a response to the first request message. The first response message may include information indicating that there is a service failure in the first PLMN. The method may comprise a step of transmitting a second request message to the second PLMN or reselecting another PLMN instead of the first PLMN, which has a service failure, on the basis of the first response message including the information.
US12170928B2
The present technique provides a terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the terminal device comprising a receiver, a transmitter and a controller, wherein the controller is configured: to conduct a first measurement of a parameter associated with a radio signal transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network and received by the receiver; to determine whether the measured parameter meets a predetermined criteria; and when the measured parameter is determined to meet the predetermined criteria, to conduct a second measurement of a parameter associated with a radio signal transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network and received by the receiver. The present technique also provides an associated method and circuitry.
US12170916B2
A method for measuring beams includes determining a measurement period duration in accordance with periods of one or more periodic beam failure detection (BFD) reference signals (RSs) of a BFD RS set, wherein the BFD RSs of the one or more BFD RSs of the BFD RS set have a quasi-co-located (QCL) relationship with demodulation RSs (DMRSs) of PDCCH receptions monitored by a user equipment (UE), monitoring a subset of the one or more BFD RSs having the QCL relationship with the DMRSs of PDCCH receptions monitored by the UE that occur during a measurement period, and determining that measures of all BFD RSs in the subset of the one or more BFD RSs do not meet a specified threshold, and based thereon, reporting a beam failure (BF) instance.
US12170907B2
A method and a device in a node for wireless communications. A first node monitors or drops monitoring a first signal in a first resource block; and transmits a second signal in a second resource block. The second resource block corresponds to a first index; the first resource block is reserved for a HARQ-ACK for a bit block set transmitted in a third resource block; when a first condition set is fulfilled, a spatial relation of the second signal is unrelated to the first index; when the first condition set is unfulfilled, the first index is used for determining the spatial relation of the second signal; the first condition set relates to whether the first signal is conveyed in the first resource block. The method above provides an easy implementation of beamforming in a V2X system, which optimizes gains of beamforming and also prevents complicated signaling interaction.
US12170906B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device, includes a receiver configured to receive a first field, receive at least one of a plurality of second fields having been multiplexed and transmitted, and decode the one of the second fields to obtain a frame in a case where first information identifying the wireless communication device is not set in the first field, and a controller configured to suppress access to a wireless medium during a period indicated by a value set in the frame.
US12170899B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, comprising: receiving a first message from a service-consuming second network entity in a second mobile network for a service-providing first network entity in a first mobile network, the first message comprising a first callback resource identifier, generating a second callback resource identifier on the basis of the first callback resource identifier, wherein the second callback resource identifier comprises a domain name of a security edge node in the first network, and transferring a callback message from the first network entity to the security edge node, the callback message comprising the second callback resource identifier.
US12170893B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Embodiments herein provide a method for determining whether a base station is genuine or rouge in a wireless network. If a received authentication key matches with the authentication key generated in the UE, the method includes identifying a base station as genuine base station and carrying out a normal procedure. If the received authentication key does not match with the generated authentication key, the method includes identifying the base station as a rouge base station. The authentication key can be a digital signature (DS), a Message Authentication Code-Integrity (MAC-I), and a hash of MIB/SIBs including PCI.
US12170892B2
The presence of a wireless device and/or accessory that cannot maintain an independent network connection can be detected by network connected wireless devices and the location of the detected device and/or accessory can be reported to a device location service. As the wireless devices and/or accessories do not have independent network connections, periodic maintenance is performed on those devices by nearby owner devices to which the wireless devices and/or accessories are paired or associated. Described herein are systems, methods, and associated devices to maintain a locatable wireless device by a set of multiple owner devices for that wireless device.
US12170891B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for providing connectivity between Information Handling Systems (IHSs) and Human Interface Devices (HIDs) in shared workspaces are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: determine that the IHS is located in a shared workspace and, in response to the determination, establish an encrypted wireless communication session with a peripheral device assigned to the shared workspace without a pairing process between the peripheral device and the IHS.
US12170886B2
A method for perceptual rendering of audio for playback by a playback speaker system includes optimizing a first finite impulse response (FIR) filter associated with a first channel of audio input of audio associated with a source, for application to a first speaker in a playback speaker system for output by a first transducer of the first speaker. The method includes optimizing a second finite impulse response (FIR) filter associated with a second channel of audio input of the audio associated with the source, for application to a second speaker in the playback speaker for output by at least one transducer of the second speaker, wherein optimizing the second FIR Filter further comprises modifying the second FIR filter to include at least one coefficient defined based upon a relationship between the first transducer and a second transducer.
US12170884B2
A processing device according to an embodiment includes: a frequency characteristics acquisition unit configured to acquire frequency characteristics of at least one sound pickup signal; a smoothing processing unit configured to perform smoothing processing so as to generate second spectral data smoother than first spectral data based on the frequency characteristics; a first compression unit configured to calculate a first difference value corresponding to a difference between the second spectral data and the first spectral data in a first band, and to compress the second spectral data based on the first difference value; and a filter generation unit configured to generate a filter, based on the second spectral data.
US12170883B2
Spatial audio is rendered at a companion device or server connected to a wearable device, where the spatial audio is rendered based on a first pose estimate of the wearable device that is estimated at the companion device or server. The rendered spatial audio is then transmitted to the wearable device. The rendered spatial audio is refined at the wearable device based on a second pose estimate of the wearable device that is estimated at the wearable device. The refined spatial audio is then provided for playback via speakers of the wearable device.
US12170881B2
[Problem] To generate acoustic profile information using a simple operation and without increasing the cost of a multichannel audio device. [Solution] A wireless recording playback terminal 5 is positioned at a listening point of a multichannel audio device 2 as a measuring microphone. The wireless recording playback terminal 5 records, as channel playback data in accordance with a test signal playback command received from the multichannel audio device 2, a test signal outputted from a speaker 3 that corresponds to the channel designated by the command. The wireless recording playback terminal 5 also plays back the sound source of the test signal and records the played-back sound source as sound source playback data without being outputted to the outside from the speaker. An acoustic profile information generation server 4 compares these playback data to measure the delay time and attenuation rate of the channel playback data with respect to the sound source playback data, generates the acoustic profile information of the designated channel on the basis of the result of this measurement, and sets the generated acoustic profile information to the multichannel audio device 2.
US12170877B2
A package structure of a micro speaker includes a substrate having a hollow chamber. A diaphragm is disposed on the top surface of the substrate. The diaphragm includes a first portion suspended over the hollow chamber and a second portion surrounding the first portion. In a plan view, the second portion of the diaphragm and the hollow chamber do not overlap. A coil is embedded in the first portion of the diaphragm. At least one dummy structure is embedded in the second portion of the diaphragm, and it is electrically isolated from the coil structure by the diaphragm. A carrier board is disposed on the bottom surface of the substrate. A permanent magnetic element is disposed on the carrier board and in the hollow chamber. A package lid is wrapped around the substrate and the diaphragm, and has a lid opening that exposes a portion of the diaphragm.
US12170876B2
Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a video sound output system that execute an output process of an acoustic signal in synchronization with a video signal. The information processing apparatus includes a control section that detects a position of a sound source appearing in a video displayed on a screen of a display unit and that uses one or more vibrators to vibrate the display unit and thereby control output of sound such that a sound image of sound in synchronization with the video is localized at the position where the sound source appears on the screen displaying the video. In a case of displaying videos of two or more video sources on individual windows, the control section localizes a sound image of a sound source detected from the video of each video source at a position where the sound source appears in the corresponding window.
US12170873B2
Example techniques may involve performing aspects of a spatial calibration. An example implementation may include detecting a trigger condition that initiates calibration of a media playback system including multiple audio drivers that form multiple sound axes, each sound axis corresponding to a respective channel of multi-channel audio content The implementation may also include causing the multiple audio drivers to emit calibration audio that is divided into constituent frames, the multiple sound axes emitting calibration audio during respective slots of each constituent frame. The implementation may further include recording the emitted calibration audio. The implementation may include causing delays for each sound axis of the multiple sound axes to be determined, the determined delay for each sound axis based on the slots of recorded calibration audio corresponding to the sound axes and causing the multiple sound axes to be calibrated.
US12170866B2
A microphone includes a housing. The microphone includes a windscreen coupled with the housing. The windscreen and the housing define a central volume. The microphone includes an audio module within the central volume. The audio module includes a receiver capsule, a carrier unit coupled with the receiver capsule, and a counterweight coupled with the carrier unit. The microphone includes a suspension element that is coupled with the housing and carrier unit to suspend the audio module within the central volume. The suspension element includes an inner body that contacts the carrier unit. The suspension element includes first and second flanges extending outward from the inner body. The first and second flange are fixedly coupled with the housing. A cross-section of the first and second flange includes an arched region that extends at least partially to an inner wall of the housing. The arched regions are oriented in opposite directions.
US12170857B2
There is provided a pixel circuit including an optically sensitive material (OSM) layer and a readout circuit. The OSM layer is arranged upon the readout circuit, and used to sense light energy to generate signal charges to be integrated in a floating diffusion. The readout circuit includes a source follower for amplifying a voltage on the floating diffusion within a readout interval, and the voltage on the floating diffusion is not changed by an external voltage pulse within the readout interval.
US12170854B2
Some examples described herein include a noise-reduction circuit for an image sensor. The noise-reduction circuit can include a reference frame generator configured to generate a reference frame based on a set of image frames received from an image sensor during a calibration phase. The noise-reduction circuit can also include a memory coupled to the reference frame generator. The memory can receive the reference frame from the reference frame generator and store the reference frame for subsequent use during a noise-reduction phase. The noise-reduction circuit can further include a processor coupled to the memory. The processor can retrieve the reference frame from the memory and use the reference frame to reduce noise in an image frame received from the image sensor during the noise-reduction phase.
US12170853B2
The present disclosure relates to an imaging device capable of achieving miniaturization and height reduction of a device configuration, reducing generation of a flare or a ghost, preventing separation of a lens. A size relation of “solid-state imaging element>lens non-effective region>lens effective region” is established in a vertical direction with respect to an incident direction of incident light. The present disclosure is applicable to an imaging device.
US12170847B2
An industrial camera includes an electric zoom optical system, an imaging unit generating a captured image with a number of pixels larger than a number of pixels of an inspection target image, an image generation unit executing downscaling a captured image corresponding to an output region of the imaging unit, an interface unit receiving designation of a zoom magnification, and a calculation unit calculating an optical magnification of optical zooming and a magnification of the downscaling based on the zoom magnification. When the zoom magnification is smaller than or equal to a predetermined magnification, an inspection target image is generated by downscaling a captured image at a scaling magnification calculated based on the zoom magnification. When the zoom magnification is larger than the predetermined magnification, the zoom optical system is driven at the optical magnification calculated based on the zoom magnification to generate an inspection target image.
US12170843B2
An apparatus and a method for photographing an object are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a first button corresponding to a first mode and a second button corresponding to a second mode are exposed on a display, and when a user input for selection of the first button occurs, at least one camera is controlled to obtain a first image of the object; one of a plurality of photographing modes is selected as a photographing mode for the object through a result of object recognition based on the obtained first image; and one or more second images of the object are obtained by controlling the at least one camera and at least one lighting on the basis of the selected photographing mode.
US12170841B2
A system is provided for reducing infrared (IR) light emitting diode (LED) power in a night mode for LED operations. The system may include an input power source, one or more LEDs coupled to the input power source, an auto-exposure controller (AEC) coupled to one or more LEDs, and one or more transistor switches coupled between the one or more LEDs and the AEC. The AEC may be coupled to an image sensor of an imaging system and may configure attributes of exposure frames for the image sensor. The AEC may generate a plurality of pulses that control one or more transistor switches. The AEC may execute an algorithm that synchronizes the activation of one or more LEDs to occur during the exposure frame.
US12170837B2
The description relates to cameras, such as security cameras, and providing guidance for positioning cameras to achieve desired goals. One example can receive an image of a scene overlaid with transparent indicators that reflect accuracy of object detection in individual regions of the image. The example can correlate input received from the user on the display relative to the regions. The example can analyze subsequent images of the scene with rules derived from the input from the user.
US12170836B2
A device identification method includes a first electronic device that receives a first operation, displays a first interface, and starts a camera, where the first interface includes a preview image captured by the camera, and a second electronic device is included in the preview image; the first electronic device determines a second operation is related to the second electronic device in the preview image according to an image recognition technology and a wireless positioning technology; and the first electronic device outputs a second interface when the first electronic device detects the second operation by a user, where the second interface includes one or more controls for controlling the second electronic device such that the second electronic device is presented in real time in an augmented reality display manner.
US12170835B2
This application discloses a shooting method, a graphical interface, and a related apparatus. In the method, an electronic device can display a preview interface, and the preview interface is used to display a preview image captured by a camera in real time. The electronic device may include a plurality of look-up table (LUT) templates, and these LUT templates may change a color value of the preview image, so that a display effect of the preview image is similar to or the same as a display effect of a movie, where the display effect may refer to hue, luminance, saturation, and the like. In other words, a shooting mode related to a movie is provided in the method.
US12170824B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for switching the output of an overriding multimedia device from a first input to a second input or a combination of the first input and the second input. An example embodiment operates by receiving audio data relating to a multimedia switching event. The example embodiment further operates by determining that audio data corresponds to a multimedia switching action. In response, the example embodiment operates by generating a multimedia switching actuation signal that instructs an overriding multimedia device to switch its output from the first multimedia signal to the second multimedia signal. Subsequently, the example embodiment operates by transmitting the multimedia switching actuation signal to the overriding multimedia device.
US12170823B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for scheduling a communication session for casting a vote relating to a media asset based on metadata of the media asset. A media guidance application may receive a frame of a media asset including voting information and metadata including communication data related to the voting information. The communication data may include a destination and a communication format. In response to receiving a command from a user input device, the media guidance application may extract the communication data from the metadata, generate a command to engage in communications using the communication data, and transmit the communication data and the command to a communication module. The media guidance application may then receive a trigger to engage in the communications. In response to the trigger, the media guidance application may instruct the communication module to execute the command to cast a vote.
US12170821B2
Methods, systems, and media for aggregating and presenting content relevant to a particular video game. In some embodiments, the method comprises: identifying videos related to a video game; selecting videos relevant to each of a plurality of categories; selecting videos based on popularity; receiving a request to present a user interface related to the video game; determining user subscription information for a user associated with the request; selecting videos based on user subscription information; causing the user interface to be presented including representations of: videos relevant to a first category in a first portion, videos selected based on popularity in a second portion, and videos selected based on the user subscription information in a third portion; receiving a request to present a video selected via the user interface; and causing the user device to present the requested video.
US12170810B2
Example techniques relate to a soundbar that provides information associated with a media item. In an example implementation, the soundbar plays back audio associated with the particular media item. The soundbar also sends instructions to cause a mobile device to display graphical representations of first information associated with the particular media item while the soundbar playing back the particular media item. The soundbar further sends a request for second information associated with the particular media item, receives, from a server of a cloud computing service, data representing the requested second information associated with the particular media item, causes a television to display graphical representations of the requested second information associated with the particular media item on a display of the television while the sound-bar playback device is playing back the audio associated with the particular media item.
US12170794B2
An image encoding device includes a prediction unit configured to generate prediction errors being a difference between a predicted image obtained by prediction processing for an input image and the input image, a first transform unit configured to generate first transform coefficients by performing orthogonal transform on the prediction errors, a second transform unit configured to generate second transform coefficients by performing LFNST processing on the first transform coefficients, a quantization unit configured to generate quantization coefficients by performing quantization processing on the second transform coefficients, and an encoding unit configured to encode the quantization coefficients, wherein the encoding unit encodes information indicating whether a range of possible values at least taken by the second transform coefficients is to be a range determined based on a bit depth or a fixed range.
US12170793B2
There is described a method of decoding video data from a bitstream. The bitstream comprising video data corresponding to one or more slices. The decoding comprises parsing the syntax elements, and not permitting use of a subpicture and/or parsing of subpicture information in combination with at least one syntax element that indicates that a picture to be decoded contains only one slice. The bitstream is decoded using said syntax elements.
US12170790B2
A method of encoding a motion vector predictor index, in particular a Merge index, comprises generating a list of motion vector predictor candidates, in particular merge candidates. The list includes an ATMVP candidate. One of the motion vector predictor candidates in the list is selected. A motion vector predictor index for the selected motion vector predictor candidate is generated using CABAC coding. One or more bits of the motion vector predictor index are bypass CABAC coded. For example, only the first bit of the motion vector predictor index is CABAC coded using a single context.
US12170786B2
An image decoding method includes obtaining feature data of a current optical flow and feature data of a current residual image from a bitstream; obtaining the current optical flow and first weight data by applying the feature data of the current optical flow to an optical flow decoder; obtaining the current residual image by applying the feature data of the current residual image to a residual decoder; obtaining a preliminary prediction image from the previous reconstructed image, based on the current optical flow; obtaining a final prediction image by applying sample values of the first weight data to sample values of the preliminary prediction image; and obtaining a current reconstructed image corresponding to the current image by combining the final prediction image with the current residual image.
US12170783B2
Video coding schemes may include one or more filters to reduce coding artifacts and improve video quality. These filters may be applied to decode video data in a predetermined sequence. The output from one or more of these filters may be selected for different images, blocks, or sets of video data and then copied and/or routed to a display or a buffer storing reference data that is used to decode other video data in a data stream. Providing the ability to select which filter output is used for display and as a reference may result in better video quality for multiple types of video data. The filters that are selected for display and for reference may be different and may vary for different images, blocks, and data sets.
US12170782B2
A method for determining intra-prediction modes for prediction units (PUs) of a largest coding unit (LCU) is provided that includes determining an intra-prediction mode for each child PU of a PU, and selecting an intra-prediction mode for the PU based on the intra-prediction modes determined for the child PUs.
US12170772B2
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.
US12170757B2
Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques for real-time codec encoding of video files using hardware-assisted accelerators that utilize a combination of parallel and sequential processing, in which at least a part of intra-frame block prediction is performed with parallel processing.
US12170755B2
A method and system for synchronization of image data is provided. A plurality of image-capture devices is controlled to acquire a plurality of video clips of at least one object. Each video clip of the plurality of video clips is acquired by a corresponding image-capture device of the plurality of image-capture devices in a moving state. From the plurality of image-capture devices, a set of sensor data is acquired. Such data corresponds to the plurality of image-capture devices and is associated with a movement of the plurality of image-capture devices. Thereafter, relative offsets between the set of sensor data are determined by using cross-correlation and matching frames in each of the plurality of video clips is further determined, based on the relative offsets.
US12170753B2
Provided is a multi-viewpoint 3D display screen, comprising: a display panel, comprising a plurality of composite pixels, wherein each composite pixel of the plurality of composite pixels comprises a plurality of composite subpixels, and each composite subpixel of the plurality of composite subpixels comprises a plurality of subpixels corresponding to a plurality of viewpoints of the multi-viewpoint 3D display screen; and a grating, directly bonded to the display panel. In the multi-viewpoint 3D display screen, the grating without a pad layer can be realized, and meanwhile, a 3D viewing effect under a predetermined distance is ensured, and an overall thickness and weight are reduced, thereby being convenient for installation and transportation. A 3D display terminal is also provided.
US12170751B2
An information processing device includes: a first communicator that receives a printing job including user information; a storage that stores the printing job received by the first communicator; a second communicator that receives a printing request including the user information and identification information of a printing device; a controller that acquires, from the storage, the printing job including the user information included in the printing request and sets a destination of the acquired printing job to the printing device corresponding to the identification information of the printing device included in the printing request; and a management unit that manages printing usage information for each of one or more pieces of user information, in which the second communicator transmits the printing job.
US12170748B2
An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a recording medium includes a display unit configured to perform display relating to a setting of image processing performed by the image forming apparatus, and a detection unit configured to detect a user's finger at a position separate from a surface of the display unit by a first distance in a vertical direction perpendicular to the surface of the display unit, and detect the user's finger at a position separate from the surface by a second distance longer than the first distance, wherein in a case where the display unit is in an off state, the display unit turns on when the detection unit detects the user's finger at the position separate from the surface by the second distance.
US12170744B2
An apparatus for providing a connection to a wide area network for voice calls includes a wide area network circuit configured to transmit voice call data packets, a phone connection circuit configured to receive a voice call signal from a phone, a processor circuit configured to generate voice call data packets based on a voice call signal received by the phone connection circuit and a power management circuit configured to switch off at least a part of the apparatus to reach a power down mode of the apparatus, if a supply voltage drops below a supply voltage threshold.
US12170739B2
Wearable antenna systems in the form of suspenders are disclosed. Such communications suspenders may employ antenna elements having a reduced visual signature while maintaining the load bearing functionality of traditional suspenders. The antenna system can establish mesh networking communications and communicatively couple to portable radios via a communications device. Some of the antenna elements may be within the communications suspenders. A plurality of straps are pivotably coupled to an intermediate portion at one end and a demountable fastener at the other end that couples to the user's garment item (e.g., trousers, shorts, skirts, and similar articles). The straps may include RF shielding material positioned to reflect RF radiation that emanates from the antenna elements away from the user. The antenna elements may be formed using a conductive composition that includes fully exfoliated graphene sheets present as a percolated network in a polymer matrix.
US12170730B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for validating transactions using a cryptogram. One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method of processing a remote transaction initiated by a communication device provisioned with a token. The method comprises receiving, by a service provider computer, from an application on the communication device, a request for a token authentication cryptogram, wherein the token authentication cryptogram includes encrypted user exclusive data. The service provider computer may generate the token authentication cryptogram to include the user exclusive data. The service provider computer may send the token authentication cryptogram to the application, where the token authentication cryptogram can be used to validate the transaction, and the user exclusive data is extracted from the token authentication cryptogram during validation.
US12170723B2
Methods for splitting and recovering a key, a storage medium, a computer program product, and a key management system (170), wherein the key management system (170) comprises a management device (110) used for managing user equipment of users in a user group and a hardware security module (160) connected to the management device (110). The method for splitting a key comprises: at the hardware security module (160): obtaining the number of the users in the user group and a first predetermined value (202); randomly generating a transaction key associated with the processing authority of the current transaction on the basis of messages of other users except the splitting user in the user group (204); splitting the transaction key into a plurality of sub-keys the same as the users in number, wherein each sub-key in the plurality of sub-keys corresponds to one user in the user group (206); and encrypting the plurality of sub-keys by using public keys of the users corresponding to the plurality of sub-keys, respectively (208).
US12170718B2
Systems and methods for improving homomorphic encryption are provided. A processor receives an encrypted ciphertext; splits the encrypted ciphertext into a plurality of smaller digits; applies a homomorphic floor function to clear a least significant bit from a current smaller digit; scales down the encrypted ciphertext, using modulus switching, thereby changing the ciphertext modulus to a new modulus; applies a bootstrapping procedure for a sign evaluation function to determine a sign of the scaled down encrypted ciphertext; and transmits the sign with the ciphertext to a server for subsequent use.
US12170708B2
A data synchronization method and apparatus, applied to a first data service module. The method includes receiving a first request from a second service module, where the first request is used to request to synchronize service data of a first service module; obtaining the service data of the first service module; and sending the service data of the first service module to the second service module. In solutions provided in the present disclosure, the first data service module replaces the first service module to synchronize the service data of the first service module for the second service module.
US12170702B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for modifying the transmission of media content update packets based on a determination that the elapsed uplink time and remaining downlink time in the aggregate are within a satisfactory round-trip delay time. In this regard, the method, apparatus, and computer program product are configured to correlate a returned media content update packet with an associated device update packet or packets. Correlating media content update packets with an associated device update packet may require identifying a returned packet containing a media content update by analyzing packets containing video streams to identify packets comprising reference video frames. Identifying reference video frame packets may assist in identifying the associated uplink packet or packets containing device pose and position or other user input.
US12170701B2
In some implementations, techniques may include requesting a set of input video streams from a videoconferencing service. The input video streams can be received at a computing device and the streams can correspond to one or more videoconference participants. In addition, the techniques may include receiving settings for one or more output video streams of a set of output video streams. These settings can indicate one or more output video stream properties. The techniques may include producing the set of output video streams from the set of input video streams according to the one or more output video stream properties. Moreover, the techniques may include outputting one or more output video streams of the set of output video streams.
US12170699B2
A system and method are used to manage GUI for group video calls. The method ensures effective communication and control over shared video content during group video calls. The method enables to combine feed videos from a plurality of attendee accounts and other shared video content to be displayed in one single slide. Further, the method allows control over slide presentations and positioning of participant videos by cursor movement of the host account holder or the presenter. This allows the participants to follow the presenter, while viewing the presentation slides and other feed videos. Furthermore, the method allows users to switch mouse cursor control and feed video positions between the presenter and the participants by clicking on the video on a primary slot. Additionally, the host has special controls that may be passed to a selected number of participants and the participant feed videos are arranged in two sections.
US12170697B2
Processing network requests includes receiving a request for a target media element available at a requested location. The request can identify a media repository that stores the target media element. A substitute media element that has content approximately equivalent to content of the target media element can be determined. The substitute media element can be stored on a sub-network connected to the network. A selection page having a link to the location of the substitute media element on the sub-network can be generated. A response to the request for the target media element can include the selection page, so as to offer a user a choice of media source.
US12170695B2
A method and system for connecting a communication to a client including at a system bridge, establishing a client subscription connection with a client device; receiving an incoming communication request at the system bridge; publishing an incoming communication notification from the system bridge to the client device; receiving a client communication at the system bridge; and merging the incoming communication request into the client communication at the system bridge.
US12170688B1
A distributed denial of service attack is detected. In response to detection of the attack, application layer properties of network traffic associated with a web application under attack are analyzed. Changes to distributions of the application layer properties are identified. A signature is generated based, at least in part, on identifying a combination of application layer properties whose distributions have changed, and which identifies traffic increased since onset of the attack. A mitigation rule is generated based, at least in part, on the signature.
US12170686B2
Systems and methods for providing fleet remediation of compromised workspaces are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: receive, from a first local management agent configured to provide a first workspace in a fleet of workspaces, an indication that the first workspace has suffered a security compromise, where the first workspace is instantiated based upon a first workspace definition; and in response to the indication, transmit a second workspace definition to a second local management agent configured to provide a second workspace in the fleet of workspaces, where the second workspace is instantiated based upon the first workspace definition, and where the second local management agent is configured to instantiate a third workspace based upon the second workspace definition.
US12170685B2
Computational/communication system security tools are provided. Such tools report at least one multi-dimensional (or multi-component) data-object (based on the monitored events) to an administrator of the system. The multiple components of the data object provide multiple risk indicators (e.g., risk scores) along various dimensions of security for such systems. Thus, tools provide multi-dimensional monitoring and reporting of risks and security threats to computational/communication systems. The tools may also provide at least one risk mitigation action (e.g., quarantining and/or prohibiting particular risky entities, entity groups, and/or entity activities) based on the enhanced monitoring and detection methods presented herein.
US12170683B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for determining a level of abusive network behavior suspicion for groups of entities and for identifying suspicious entity groups. A suspiciousness metric is developed and used to evaluate a multi-view graph across multiple views where entities are associated with nodes of the graph and attributes of the entities are associated with levels of the graph.
US12170673B2
A system may receive first level authentication data from a first user, authorize first level access to a secure device, and transmit a push notification including a second factor authentication key to a first user device responsive to first factor authentication data matching stored authentication data for the first user. The system may receive a wireless communication from the first user device attenuated by one or more beam attenuating materials to form a first attenuated beam profile. In response to a match of the first attenuated beam profile to a stored beam profile beyond a predetermined threshold, the system may associate the second factor authentication key as an authorized login credential for the first user. The system may receive the second factor authentication key from the first user and authorize the second factor authentication data to grant the first user second level access to the secure device.
US12170667B2
A network device for providing a LAN GUI to a client device. The network device receives a request for access by the client device to the LAN GUI. The network device analyzes a LAN GUI access whitelist and determines whether the client device is in the LAN GUI access whitelist. The client device is granted access to the LAN GUI without receiving a password from the client device when the client device is determined to be in the LAN GUI access whitelist. An address entry page may be presented to add the MAC address of the client device to the LAN GUI access whitelist and a password page may be presented to display the LAN GUI password. When the client device is not in the LAN GUI access list, a login page is presented for entering the password to obtain access to the LAN GUI.
US12170656B1
A method for authenticated asset assessment is provided. The method involves executing a scan assistant on an asset to allow a remote scan engine to execute one or more scan operations on the asset for determining a state of the asset. The scan assistant may verify the identity of the scan engine by checking that a certificate received from the scan engine is signed with a private key associated with the scan engine. In some embodiments, the authentication may be performed as part of a TLS handshake process that establishes a TLS connection between the scan engine and the scan assistant. Once the scan engine is authenticated, the scan engine may communicate with the scan assistant according to a communication protocol to collect data about the asset. Advantageously, the disclosed technique reduces security risks associated with authenticated scans and improves the performance of authenticated scans.
US12170655B2
The present disclosure relates to a microcontroller comprising a memory module for storing a digital certificate, a network module for establishing a connection with a network, and a processor. The processor is configured to establish a connection with a network computer located in the network, to request a digital certificate from the network computer, to receive the digital certificate from the network computer, to store the digital certificate in the memory module, and to exchange user data with the network computer, provided that a previous verification of the digital certificate of the microcontroller has been successful. The present disclosure further relates to a method for communication between a microcontroller and a network computer as well as to a network computer and a communication system.
US12170652B2
A packet transmission method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium, and relates to the field of communications technologies. A first device obtains service type information of an original packet. The first device generates an encapsulating security payload (ESP) packet of the original packet based on a target security association, where the ESP packet includes a packet header, an ESP header, a service type field, a first encrypted part, and an ESP authentication data field, and the service type field includes the service type information. The first device sends the ESP packet to a second device. The second device parses the service type field to obtain the service type information of the original packet. The second device performs a target operation on the ESP packet based on a service policy and the service type information of the original packet.
US12170649B2
Systems, methods, and software are included herein to manage domain name system (DNS) requests to DNS servers. In one implementation, a computing device joins a local network and identifies a connection to a first DNS server associated with the local network. The computing device further implements first DNS rules based on the connection to the first server and monitors when a second DNS server is available using the local network. When the second DNS server becomes available, the computing device implements second DNS rules in place of the first DNS rules, wherein the second DNS rules direct DNS requests to the second DNS server in place of the first DNS server.
US12170647B2
A network device may receive IPv6 fragments of a flow. Source and/or destination port information may be encoded into an upper sixteen bits of an identification number of an IPv6 fragment header of each of the IPv6 fragments. The network device may extract the source and/or destination port information from the IPv6 fragments, and may perform a spoof check of the IPv6 fragments. The network device may drop any of the IPv6 fragments that fail the spoof check, to generate remaining IPv6 fragments, and may translate the remaining IPv6 fragments into IPv4 fragments based on the source and/or destination port information. The network device may forward the IPv4 fragments toward an IPv4 cloud network.
US12170642B2
Managing failover between information handling systems, including receiving, at an interface of a smart network interface card (smartNIC) of a primary information handling system, a packet, the primary information handling system communicatively couped to a secondary information handling system; determining whether the packet was transmitted by a network interface card (NIC) of the secondary information handling system; determining that the packet was transmitted by the NIC of the secondary information handling system, and in response, determining whether the packet is an address resolution protocol (ARP) request; determining that the packet is an ARP request, and in response, cloning a medium access control (MAC) address of the NIC of the secondary information handling system at the smartNIC of the primary information handling system; and forwarding the ARP request to a uplink connection.
US12170640B2
Various embodiments include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for sharing and managing media galleries. Consistent with these embodiments, a method includes receiving a request from a first device to share a media gallery that includes a user avatar; generating metadata associated with the media gallery; generating a message associated with the media gallery, the message at least including the media gallery identifier and the identifier of the user avatar; and transmitting the message to a second device of the recipient user.
US12170632B2
This disclosure is directed towards improved methods for identifying one or more base stations for connection with user equipment. The user equipment may establish a connection with a base stations based on an estimated location of the base station. Additionally, the user equipment may receive an indication from the base station to scan for additional base stations at additional estimated locations. Further, the user equipment may determine one or more connection parameters (e.g., distance from communication hub to user equipment, angle of communication hub relative to user equipment, shadowing at the communication hub, and the like) associated with the base stations within the geographical area. The user equipment may establish connection with base stations that are determined to have the best signal strength based on the connection parameters.
US12170629B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a first configuration communication associated with a first shared channel communication that includes a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS) having a first configurable DMRS lifespan, wherein the first configuration communication comprises a DMRS sharing indication associated with reuse of the first DMRS associated with a second shared channel communication. The UE may receive the first shared channel communication. The UE may receive the second shared channel communication based at least in part on the DMRS sharing indication. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12170619B1
Congestion control by adding a congestion signal tag header to each of one or more transmission packets prior to transmission of the transmission packets by the first node to a second node, the congestion signal tag header specifying one or more congestion signal types and, for each of the congestion signal types, specifying a congestion signal value by providing an initial congestion signal value for the congestion signal value; receiving one or more return packets generated by the second node in response to receipt of the transmission packets, the return packets including a congestion signal reflection header having one or more return congestion signal values, and the return congestion signal values corresponding respectively to the congestion signal types; and determining whether transmission rate control is necessary based on the return congestion signal values.
US12170617B2
Virtual machine environments are provided in the switches that form a network, with the virtual machines executing network services previously performed by dedicated appliances. The virtual machines can be executed on a single multi-core processor in combination with normal switch functions or on dedicated services processor boards. Packet processors analyze incoming packets and add a services tag containing services entries to any packets. Each switch reviews the services tag and performs any network services resident on that switch. This allows services to be deployed at the optimal locations in the network. The network services may be deployed by use of drag and drop operations. A topology view is presented, along with network services that may be deployed. Services may be selected and dragged to a single switch or multiple switches. The management tool deploys the network services software, with virtual machines being instantiated on the switches as needed.
US12170613B2
Disclosed is a mechanism implemented by an ingress node in a network. The mechanism comprises receiving a packet in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) format. A first segment list is pushed onto the packet. The first segment list describes a segment routing point to multipoint (SR P2MP) path as a list of multicast segment identifiers (SIDs) each comprising a multicast adjacency label. The packet is transmitted from a downstream interface along the SR P2MP path.
US12170612B2
In one embodiment, a device of a data mesh divides a data query into a first subquery and a second subquery for different data sources in the data mesh, based on query routing data associated with the device. The device performs the first subquery in the data mesh, to obtain a first subquery response. The device also performs the second subquery in the data mesh, to obtain a second subquery response. The device provides a query response that aggregates the first subquery response and the second subquery response.
US12170611B2
Systems and methods include, in a node in a Segment Routing network, learning an adjacency Segment Identifier (SID) of a directly connected neighbor; and programming forwarding entries including a primary path and backup path associated with the adjacency SID. The programming is only performed for adjacency SIDs of directly connected neighbors, for use as a Point of Local Repair (PLR). This addresses holes in Topology Independent Loop Free Alternative (TI-LFA) node protection scheme for Segment Routing Traffic Engineering (SR-TE) paths.
US12170605B1
A method for injecting a test plugin into a user-space network protocol stack executing on a device under test (DUT) and executing the test plugin during testing of the DUT includes transmitting, from a test system and to a first DUT, a first test plugin. The method further includes injecting the first test plugin into a user-space network protocol stack executing on the first DUT while the user-space network protocol stack is executing. The method further includes executing the first test plugin. The method further includes, while the first test plugin is executing, transmitting test packets to the DUT and receiving packets from the DUT. The method further includes reporting, from the DUT and to the test system, results generated from execution of the first test plugin.
US12170594B2
An E2EO module stores action data which is linked to a condition relating to a combination of an operation status of a specific type of element and an operation status of another type of element linked to the specific type of element, and which indicates an action to be executed on the specific type of element that satisfies the condition. The E2EO module identifies, based on the current status indicated by the inventory data, a combination of a current operation status of the specific type of element included in the communication system and a current operation status of another type of element linked to the specific type of element. The E2EO module executes, when the identified combination satisfies the condition linked to the action data, the action indicated by the action data on the specific type of element.
US12170593B1
A controller device manages a plurality of network devices. The controller device includes one or more processing units configured to receive an indication of a stateful intent, the data structure including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, each node of the plurality of nodes being representative of a respective network device of the plurality of network devices. The one or more processing units are configured to determine, using an abstract function configured at a node of the plurality of nodes, a stateless intent for implementing the stateful intent and generate low level configuration data for the plurality of network devices based on the stateless intent. The one or more processing units are configured to interface with one or more of the plurality of network devices to configure the one or more of the plurality of network devices with the low level configuration data.
US12170590B2
Methods and devices for propagating transactions in a network of nodes, each node having one or more connections to other nodes. The method includes receiving a plurality of incoming transactions over a time period; combining the plurality of incoming transactions using network coding to generate a composite message; sending the composite message to one or more nodes in the network; and determining an adjusted time period based on an equilibrium constant parameter and a count of transactions in the plurality of incoming transactions received over the time period.
US12170589B2
Provided is a transmitting device for enlarging the size of a data eye of a transmission signal. The transmitting device includes an output driver including a plurality of driver circuits that drive a plurality of multi-level signals onto an output node, and a logic circuit configured to detect a direction of a pull-up or pull-down operation of each of the plurality of driver circuits by transitions of the plurality of driver control signals and generate pulse signals. The plurality of multi-level signals are driven based on a plurality of driver control signals and pulse signals, respectively, and the logic circuit provides a pulse signal to at least one static driver circuit connected to a driver control signal that does not transition, from among the plurality of driver circuits.
US12170588B2
A method and a device for wireless communication are disclosed. The base station transmits a first radio signal on first frequency-domain resources in a first time window, and then transmits a first signaling. The center frequency of the first frequency-domain resources is a first frequency; the first frequency-domain resources comprise X subcarrier(s); a center frequency of a first carrier to which the first frequency-domain resources belong is a second frequency; an interval between the first frequency and the second frequency in frequency domain is related to a subcarrier spacing of the X subcarrier(s); the first signaling is used to determine a feature ID of a transmitter of the first radio signal in the first carrier. The present disclosure can independently configure the center frequency of a carrier and the center frequency of a user equipment to avoid resource waste and reduce synchronization complexity.
US12170585B2
To increase positioning accuracy, channel characteristics are determined taking into account receive filter response and transmit filter response. For example, upon receiving assistance data for positioning an apparatus, a transmit sequence is generated using the assistance data; and a combination of the transmit sequence is generated by combining the transmit sequence. Further, a receive filter response is determined, a transmit filter response is obtained, and a combined filter response is generated using the receive filter response and the transmit filter response. Reference signals received over a channel are measured by sampling them into a plurality of time-domain samples, and the channel is estimated from the plurality of time-domain samples using the combined filter response and the combination of the transmit sequence. Then, per channel characteristics, a value of the channel characteristics based on the channel estimated is determined.
US12170583B1
An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to receive, by at least one network switch, a communication comprising a virtual logical device tag. The processing device is also configured, responsive to determining that the virtual logical device tag is a host-specific virtual logical device tag associated with a given host-specific virtual logical device of a given host device that is part of a multi-host link aggregation bond, to direct the communication to a given link for the given host device. The processing device is further configured, responsive to determining that the virtual logical device tag is a service-generic virtual logical device tag for a service provided by host devices which are part of the multi-host link aggregation bond) collectively, to select one of the host devices in accordance with a distribution algorithm and to direct the communication to a selected link for the selected host device.
US12170573B2
In one embodiment, a device may transmit, via a network to an application, a series of sensor measurements captured by the device, each sensor measurement having an associated timestamp based on a clock of the device. The device may receive, from the application, an indication that at least a portion of the series of sensor measurement were not received by the application. The device may determine, for those sensor measurements not received by the application, timestamp differences between their timestamps and a current time of the clock of the apparatus, after receiving the indication. The device may resend the portion of the series of sensor measurements to the application and their timestamp differences.
US12170570B2
Wireless message faults are an increasing problem n 5G and especially 6G due to network crowding and pathloss attenuation at higher frequencies, among other emergent problems. Therefore, disclosed are methods to diagnose and repair faulted messages by the receiver. For example, an AI program can determine the signal quality of each message element according to the modulation quality, SNR, and other waveform measurements, and thereby identify just a portion of the message that contains all of the likely faults. That portion can then be retransmitted instead of the entire message, saving substantial time. In addition, the AI program can select which message elements of the two versions has the best signal quality, and prepare a merged message from those best-received signals.
US12170567B2
An embodiment of the disclosure provides a method of generating an electron density map of a D-region of the ionsphere. The method can comprise: defining a plurality of grid pixels corresponding to a portion of the D-region of the ionosphere; receiving a plurality of electromagnetic signals, each of the plurality of electromagnetic signals having propagated along a distinct propagation path through a portion of the D-region corresponding to one or more of the plurality of grid pixels; clustering the plurality of electromagnetic signals based on similarities in a point-of-origin of the plurality of electromagnetic signals; determining a path-averaged electron density curve for each of the plurality of clustered signals; determining a basis representation of an electron density curve of the plurality of grid pixels, which is consistent with the path-averaged electron density curves; and generating, based on the basis representation, an electron density map for the D-region of the ionosphere.
US12170566B2
An apparatus and method for operating an avionics data network includes a network switch core configured for a time-sensitive networking (TSN) schema, a set of ARINC 664 (A664) and a set of TSN networking end nodes communicatively connected with the network switch core. The network switch core is configured to receive, from the first set of networking end nodes, a set of data frames, determine the respective schema of the set of data frames, police the set of data frames based on the determined respective schema using a set of predetermined rules, forward the set of data frames to a predetermined queue on an egress port of the network switch core based on the determined respective schema, and transmit set of data frames to an end node of the second set of networking end nodes having a corresponding schema.
US12170541B2
A communication system includes a cloud server that further includes a processor. The processor obtains sensor data associated with a defined indoor area and a plurality of optical nodes in defined indoor area. The processor further obtains location coordinates of the plurality of optical nodes in the defined indoor area. The processor then causes the master communication device to form a laser beam-based wireless communication network in the defined indoor area based on the obtained sensor data and the location coordinates of the plurality of optical nodes.
US12170540B2
Systems and methods for reducing detection and interference of signals communicated from a communication device. The methods comprise: coupling an RF-to-FSO converter to a port of the communication device; providing a first radio frequency signal from the communication device to the RF-to-FSO converter via the port; using the first radio frequency signal by the RF-to-FSO converter to modulate an optical signal; and emitting the modulated optical signal from the RF-to-FSO converter through free space.
US12170538B2
Radio frequency architecture for reducing mutual interference between multiple wireless communication modalities. One embodiment provides a portable communications device including a housing and an RF antenna system including a first RF antenna, a second RF antenna, and a third RF antenna in the housing. The portable communications device includes an RF transceiver system including a first RF transceiver, a second RF transceiver, and a third RF transceiver operating in respective bands and an isolator circuit coupled to the RF antenna system and the RF transceiver system and configured to provide RF isolation between the first RF transceiver, the second RF transceiver, and the third RF transceiver. The isolator circuit includes an RF coupler featuring six RF coupler ports coupled to the first RF antenna, the second RF antenna, the third RF antenna, the first RF transceiver, the second RF transceiver, and the third RF transceiver through respective phasor shaping networks.
US12170537B2
A radio frequency, RF, receiver circuit that is configured to simultaneously monitor a two or more different RF frequencies. The RF receiver circuit uses a sub-sampler to sub-sample an RF signal that is at any of the monitored RF frequencies, and the sub-sampled signal is then demodulated and a digital code that was encoded in the RF signal is recovered. The RF receiver circuit may be particularly low power, in part owing to using the same sub-sampler for each of the two or more monitored RF frequencies, and not relying on superheterodyning. Furthermore, monitoring two or more different RF frequencies simultaneously means that signals received on the monitored RF frequencies may be acted on very quickly. These characteristics make the RF receiver circuit particularly suitable for use in low-power wake-up receivers, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wake-up receivers.
US12170535B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a digital pre-distortion (DPD), a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a power amplifier (PA), a first coupler obtaining a feedback signal from an output of the power amplifier, a circulator obtaining a reverse signal in which the output of the power amplifier is reflected, a transmission filter, a second coupler obtaining a filter-feedback signal from an output of the transmission filter, an antenna, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) converting a composite signal including the feedback signal, the filter-feedback signal, and the reverse signal into a digital composite signal, a separation circuit, and a pulse inter-modulation cancellation (PIMC) circuit in which the separation circuit, based on the digital composite signal and an input signal of the DPD, obtains a digital signal of the feedback signal, a digital signal of the filter-feedback signal, and a digital signal of the reverse signal.
US12170534B2
A method of data compression in which the total size of the compressed data is determined and based on that determination, the bit depth of the input data may be reduced before the data is compressed. The bit depth that is used may be determined by comparing the calculated total size to one or more pre-defined threshold values to generate a mapping parameter. The mapping parameter is then input to a remapping element that is arranged to perform the conversion of the input data and then output the converted data to a data compression element. The value of the mapping parameter may be encoded into the compressed data so that it can be extracted and used when subsequently decompressing the data.
US12170532B2
A communication device includes a convolutional interleaver and an encoder. The convolutional interleaver is configured to receive blocks of data defining symbol blocks that are encoded using a block code to correct an error in a block of data and to interleave the symbol blocks into a stream of interleaved symbol blocks. The encoder is configured to encode a set of symbol blocks among the interleaved symbol blocks with an error-correcting code to correct single bit errors in the set of symbol blocks. The error-correcting code is configured to generate an error-correcting block and to add the error-correcting block to the set of interleaved symbol blocks.
US12170526B2
A semiconductor device comprising at least one transmit path is provided. The transmit path comprises an input node for receiving a digital baseband signal. Further, the transmit path comprises digital mixer circuitry coupled to the input node and configured to generate an upconverted digital baseband signal by upconverting a frequency of the digital baseband signal. Additionally, the transmit path comprises Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) circuitry coupled to the digital mixer circuitry and configured to generate an analog radio frequency signal based on the upconverted digital baseband signal. The transmit path comprises first analog mixer circuitry coupleable to an output of the DAC circuitry, and second analog mixer circuitry coupleable to the output of the DAC circuitry. Further, the transmit path comprises a first output node coupleable to an output of the first analog mixer circuitry, and a second output node coupleable to an output of the second analog mixer circuitry.
US12170518B2
Passive Ethernet by-pass switches, methods of using the same, and systems including the passive Ethernet by-pass switches include a first connection configured to be coupled to a first Ethernet port, a second connection configured to be coupled to a second Ethernet port, and switching circuitry including at least one internal switch operable to allow network communication between the first connection, the second connection, and at least one Ethernet controller, the at least one internal switch including a depletion mode transistor operable to bridge the first connection to the second connection to establish communication between the first connection and the second connection.
US12170511B2
An LC filter includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers layered therein, plate electrodes, capacitor electrodes, inductor vias, and ground vias. The plate electrodes are provided on different layers of the multilayer body. The capacitor electrodes each define a capacitor between itself and the electrode. The inductor via is connected with the electrode and the capacitor electrode, while the inductor via is connected with the electrode and the capacitor electrode. The ground vias connect the plate electrodes to each other. The inductor via and the capacitor electrode define a resonance circuit that receives a signal from an input terminal. The inductor via and the capacitor electrode define a resonance circuit that transfers a signal to the output terminal.
US12170507B2
A protection circuit for an acoustic filter and/or a power amplifier is disclosed. In one aspect, the protection circuit includes a bidirectional coupler that helps secure a measurement of power at an antenna. The power measurement is compared to a threshold by a detector, and if the power measurement is above the threshold, a signal is sent that causes debiasing of a power amplifier stage, which reduces power levels of signals being amplified by the power amplifier stage and correspondingly lowers the power level going through a filter associated with the power amplifier stage. By lowering the power level going through the power amplifier stage and the filter, both elements are protected against over power conditions allowing functionality to be maintained.
US12170506B2
A low noise amplifier (LNA) with configurable feedback that includes a filter circuit for improved stability is presented. The filter circuit includes an L-C tank. The filter circuit further includes a resistor in parallel with the L-C tank. The filter circuit is tunable/adjustable/programmable. The filter circuit further includes a capacitor selectively arranged in parallel with the L-C tank. The filter circuit is coupled to an input of the LNA via a series resistor. The filter circuit is coupled between the input and an output of the LNA via one or more switches. The LNA includes a first stage with a common-source transistor and a common-gate transistor. The LNA further includes a wideband feedback circuit coupled between the input and output of the first stage. The LNA includes a source-follower circuit. The source follower circuit is configurable as a second stage, or a feedback circuit, coupled to the filter circuit.
US12170505B2
Envelope tracking systems for power amplifiers are provided herein. In certain embodiments, an envelope tracker is provided for a power amplifier that amplifies a radio frequency (RF) signal. The envelope tracker controls a power amplifier supply voltage of the power amplifier based on an envelope signal indicating an envelope of the RF signal. The envelope tracker includes a first controllable resistance between a first regulated voltage and the power amplifier supply voltage and a second controllable resistance between a second regulated voltage and the power amplifier supply voltage. The first regulated voltage and the second regulated voltage are of different voltage levels.
US12170497B2
An inverter control device 200 includes a PWM control unit 220 that generates a PWM pulse for controlling an inverter 100, and a pulse edge control unit 250 that performs pulse edge control for correcting (shifting) a phase of a pulse edge of the PWM pulse generated by the PWM control unit 220. The PWM control unit 220 generates a PWM pulse by using a modulation rate based on a voltage command (Vd*, Vq*). The pulse edge control unit 250 corrects the PWM pulse so that a phase difference between a zero cross point where the modulation wave changes across 0 and a pulse edge of the PWM pulse falls within a predetermined range.
US12170496B2
A motor control device includes: a power source device including a DC-output power conversion device having a first mode for outputting first voltage and a second mode for outputting second voltage higher than the first voltage; a power supply device; and a control device, and controls a motor. When a flying object takes off, the control device controls the power conversion device in the second mode. When the control device judges that flight information which is one or both of information of a motor parameter obtained along with control for the motor and information of an environmental factor relevant to the flight altitude satisfies a predetermined condition, or when the control device has received an operation mode signal for which the first mode is selected on the basis of the flight information during control for the motor, the control device controls the power conversion device in the first mode.
US12170491B2
A circuit arrangement for generating an AC voltage has at least one modular inverter including a cascade of inverter units, a control device for controlling the inverter units, and a data transmission system for signal transmission between the control device and the inverter units. Each of the inverter units is connected to a respective DC voltage source, has a control input and a data output and is configured, depending on control signals received from the control device via the control input, to make the respective DC voltage source available on the output side for generating the AC voltage. The data transmission system has a control line and at least one data line each connected to the control device. The control line is connected to the control inputs of the inverter units and the at least one data line is connected to the data outputs of the inverter units.
US12170487B2
An insulating transformer includes a plurality of sub-insulating transformers connected in series. Polarity directions of all sub-windings are identical. When a current I flows from a first main terminal to a third main terminal through the first sub-winding, an interphase capacitance, and the second sub-winding, excitation inductance of the first sub-winding and excitation inductance of the second sub-winding are configured to have opposite polarities.
US12170476B2
A cooling system includes a rotor structure, a first end plate and a second end plate. The rotor structure includes a silicon steel, magnets and a shaft. The first end plate is at a first end of the silicon steel, and the first end plate is recessed with a first-shaped oil groove and a second-shaped oil groove. The second end plate is at a second end of the silicon steel, and the second end plate is recessed with a first-shaped oil groove and a second-shaped oil groove. The first-shaped oil groove of the first end plate is connected to the second-shaped oil groove of the second end plate to form a first cooling path. The second-shaped oil groove of the first end plate is connected to the first-shaped oil groove of the second end plate to form a second cooling path.
US12170474B2
An electric machine adapted for use in a gas turbine engine includes a shaft extending along a central axis, a magnetic rotor drum, and a non-magnetic rotor hub rotatably coupled with the shaft and the magnetic rotor drum. The magnetic rotor drum includes a rotor and a plurality of magnets arranged circumferentially about the central axis.
US12170472B2
A motor lead coupler is configured to provide a metal-to-metal sealed connection between a first motor lead extension and a second motor lead extension. The motor lead coupler includes a first plurality of receivers on a first end of the body, a second plurality of receivers on a second end of the body, and a plurality of intermediate terminals. Each of the first plurality of receivers is configured to receive a corresponding one of the first plurality of leads, and each of the second plurality of receivers is configured to receive a corresponding one of the second plurality of leads. Each of the intermediate terminals is connected between a corresponding pair of the first plurality of receivers and the second plurality of receivers. The motor lead coupler includes pressure test ports that can be used to pressure test the connection between individual leads and the motor lead coupler.
US12170456B2
An energy system of a building includes a power storage device, and a controller that, during a period of time for which energy costs are lowest, charges a power storage device to a maximum state of charge, and during a period of time for which energy costs are not lowest and an immediate subsequent period of time is predicted to have higher energy costs, charges the power storage device to a target state of charge that is less than the maximum state of charge and that depends on predicted power demand during the subsequent period of time.
US12170455B1
This invention provides an energy storage device manager, a system comprising the energy storage device manager, computer-readable media configured for providing the energy storage device manager, and methods of using the energy storage device manager. The energy storage device manager can optionally control charge buses and/or load buses to modulate the state of charge of an energy storage device. The energy storage device manager can optionally be configured with a plurality of modes that target different states of charge. The plurality of modes can optionally comprise a maintain mode which targets a nominal (e.g. 50%) charge state and a high-charge mode that targets a state of charge greater than the maintain mode. The plurality of modes can optionally further include an in-use mode which targets a state of charge greater than the maintain mode, and turns on a load bus that is turned off in the preparation mode. The energy storage device manager can optionally be configured to determine a charge start time to execute the preparation mode. The energy storage device manager can optionally be configured to determine the charge start time based on forecast data (e.g. power prediction forecast determined based on weather forecast).
US12170451B2
A method for controlling a battery energy storage system and a battery energy storage system including at least three battery energy storage units, a switching arrangement, and a control arrangement configured to select at least two battery energy storage units such that a sum of short circuit currents of the selected battery energy storage units is below a short circuit current limit, which is less than a sum of short circuit currents of the at least three battery energy storage units, and such that a sum of discharge or charge powers of the selected battery energy storage units equals to or exceeds a power limit, and such that states of charge of the selected battery energy storage units are within a determined range, and to control the switching arrangement to couple only the selected at least two battery energy storage units to a DC power connection.
US12170428B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel smart socket having a function of electric leakage protection. The novel smart socket includes an upper cover, a base and a middle-layer support, where a reset button is arranged on the upper cover; a tripping device is arranged on a circuit board and includes a tripper, a lock catch element and an electromagnetic assembly. The electromagnetic assembly includes a tripping iron core, a tripping spring and an accommodation frame, where an end of the tripping iron core is in linkage connection with the lock catch element; and one end of the lock catch element is in linkage connection with a linkage shaft and is located in the first cavity. The present disclosure simplifies an internal structure, and improves reliability of the novel smart socket having a function of electric leakage protection.
US12170423B2
A connector structure (1) includes a connector (100) and a flexible printed circuit (200). The connector (100) includes a connector body (110) having a terminal portion (116) and a positioning projection (120) configured to position the flexible printed circuit (200) relative to the connector body (110) so as to bring an electrode portion (222) into contact with the terminal portion (116) at a right position being set in advance. An insertion hole (210h) through which the positioning projection (120) is inserted is formed in the flexible printed circuit (200) at a position spaced from the electrode portion (222). As the positioning projection (120) is inserted gradually into the insertion hole (210h), the positioning projection (120) moves the flexible printed circuit (200) so that the flexible printed circuit (200) is aligned with the right position.
US12170419B2
An electrical connector may include a first terminal and a second terminal, which are adapted to be connected to together, and the first terminal has a first base, and a signal base and a spacer plate are formed in the first base. A plurality of guiding flanges protrude from the spacer plate, and the spacer plate has a plurality of pin holes thereon, and two plug rods separated by the spacer plate are installed in the first base. The second terminal comprises a second base, and a signal socket and two plug rod bases are formed in the second base, and the signal socket is connected to the two plug rod bases. Each of the plug rod bases has a plug hole, and a guiding space is formed between the two plug rod bases to receive the spacer plate.
US12170418B2
A display apparatus including: a display panel; a chassis assembly supporting the display panel; a printed circuit board accommodated in the chassis assembly, and configured to drive and control the display panel; and a connector installed on the printed circuit board, and including a seating portion and a connector terminal positioned on one side of the seating portion, wherein the connector is connected to the cable by seating a surface of a body of a cable on the seating portion in a vertical direction while the surface of the body of the cable faces the seating portion and contact-coupling a cable terminal formed at one end of the body of the cable with the connector terminal.
US12170404B2
An antenna includes a radiating element on a forward-facing surface of an underlying reflector, and a multi-element planar broadband lens in front of and within a radio frequency (RF) transmission path of the radiating element. The broadband lens includes first lens elements having first RF characteristics and second lens elements having second RF characteristics, which are different from the first RF characteristics. The first lens elements are arranged as a plurality of the first lens elements, which are encircled by an array of the second lens elements. Each of the first lens elements includes a first LC circuit, and each of the second LC circuits includes a second LC circuit with a smaller inductance relative to the first LC circuit.
US12170395B2
Suggested is a combo antenna module configured to implement the same antenna performance as that of a combo antenna module having a general size, even in a state in which the size thereof is reduced by adjusting, within a set range, a distance at which magnetic sheets disposed on the top and the bottom of an antenna sheet are spaced apart. The suggested combo antenna module comprises: an antenna sheet; a top magnetic sheet disposed on the upper surface of the antenna sheet; and a bottom magnetic sheet disposed on the lower surface of the antenna sheet, wherein the top magnetic sheet includes a projecting region which overlaps with the bottom magnetic sheet while having the antenna sheet therebetween, and the top magnetic sheet and the bottom magnetic sheet are spaced apart at a distance within a set range at a side portion of the projecting region.
US12170389B2
An interconnector for a stack of solid oxide cells of the SOEC/SOFC type, intended to be arranged between two adjacent electrochemical cells, which includes a flat face whereon at least one first group of identical first elements in relief and a second group of identical second elements in relief are formed, the first elements in relief having different geometric features with respect to the second elements in relief, the height of each first element in relief being different from the height of each second element in relief, the contact width of each first element in relief being different from the contact width of each second element in relief.
US12170386B2
A battery pack includes a housing, a cell assembly, a cell support member, a first sensor, and a second sensor. The cell assembly is disposed in the housing; and the cell support member is at least configured to support the cell assembly. The cell assembly includes a plurality of cells which are sheet-shaped, the plurality of cells are stacked, and a cell among the plurality of cells includes an encapsulation member configured to encapsulate the cell and a tab disposed at at least one end of the cell assembly and protruding from the cell. The first sensor is configured to detect a temperature of the cell and is disposed on a side of the tab facing towards the cell support member. The second sensor is configured to detect a parameter related to leakage of the cell and is disposed in the cell assembly.
US12170385B2
The battery pack includes a casing, at least two battery cells, and a system including a cartridge in which the battery cell is received and a lead jig, wherein the cartridge is configured to be opened and closed to attach/detach the battery cell, and the lead jig is configured to be mounted/demounted on/from a lead of the battery cell, and when the battery cell is received in the cartridge and stacked in a thickness direction and the lead jig is mounted on the lead of the battery cell, an electrical connection is established between the battery cells without welding the leads of the battery cells.
US12170374B2
A secondary battery includes: a solid electrolyte layer which contains a tantalum oxide as a solid electrolyte; a positive-electrode active material layer which is disposed on an upper surface of the solid electrolyte layer and contains a nickel hydroxide (Ni(OH)2) as a positive-electrode active material; and a negative-electrode active material layer disposed on a lower surface of the solid electrolyte layer so as to be opposite to the positive-electrode active material layer and containing a titanium oxide (TiOx) or a titanium oxide (TiOx) and a silicon oxide (SiOx) as a negative-electrode active material. There is provided a secondary battery capable of improving electricity storage performance by improving a self-discharge.
US12170373B2
A sulfur-carbon composite including a porous carbon material including interior and exterior surfaces coated with a polymer including an ion conductive functional group and an electron conductive functional group; and sulfur present on at least a portion of inside pores and on a surface of the porous carbon material.
US12170372B2
The invention belongs to the technical field of material synthesis, and discloses a nitrogen-doped hollow cobaltosic oxide and a preparation method and application thereof. A chemical formula of the nitrogen-doped hollow cobaltosic oxide is Co3O4—COF-T-D@C—N; and the COF-T-D is a covalent organic framework. Due to an open hollow structure, the nitrogen-doped hollow cobaltosic oxide of the invention has a large specific surface area, thus having a large contact area with an electrolyte, which is convenient for lithium ions to transport therein. The open hollow structure also prevents a volume effect from being generated during charging and discharging, and nitrogen is introduced for doping, so that granules can be gradually activated to increase the specific surface area and active sites, a discharge (cycle) stability of the material is improved, and a rate performance of the material is improved.
US12170370B2
The present invention relates to a lithium composite oxide having improved stability and electrical characteristics as a positive electrode material by inhibiting an interfacial side reaction in the lithium composite oxide and improving the stability of a crystal structure and ion conductivity, and a lithium secondary battery including the same.
US12170367B2
A method of preparing a positive electrode active material precursor for a secondary battery includes preparing a positive electrode active material precursor by a co-precipitation reaction while adding a transition metal-containing solution containing transition metal cations, a basic solution, and an ammonium solution to a batch-type reactor, wherein a molar ratio of ammonium ions contained in the ammonium solution to the transition metal cations contained in the transition metal-containing solution added to the batch-type reactor is 0.5 or less, and a pH in the batch-type reactor is maintained at 11.2 or less.
US12170366B2
Disclosed is a composition suitable for use as an anode in a lithium ion rechargeable batter. The composition includes milled silicon powder particles and superconducting carbon particles. A carbon coat covers the surface of each milled silicon particle and encapsulates a plurality of superconducting carbon particles. Also, disclosed is a method of preparing the disclosed composition.
US12170357B2
A battery system includes: a plurality of battery cells, each of the battery cells having a venting side including a venting exit configured to allow venting products to exit the battery cells during a thermal runaway and a cooling side opposite the venting side; a cooling plate, the cooling side of the battery cells being in thermal connection with a first side of the cooling plate; and a battery housing enclosing the battery cells in a cell chamber. A guiding channel is formed between a second side of the cooling plate opposite the first side and a channel wall of the battery housing facing the second side of the cooling plate, and a passage fluidly connects the cell chamber and the guiding channel. Thus, when the venting products are emitted by the battery cells from the venting side into the cell chamber, the venting products are directed along a venting path from the cell chamber through the passage into the guiding channel and through the guiding channel to an environment of the battery system via a system exit.
US12170355B2
The invention concerns a process for the recovery of metals such as Ni and Co from a Li-containing starting material. In particular, this process concerns the recovery of metals M from a Li-containing starting material, wherein M comprises Ni and Co, comprising the steps of: Step 1: Providing said starting material, comprising Li-ion batteries or their derived products; Step 2: Removing Li in an amount of more than the maximum of (1) 30% of the Li present in said starting material, and (2) a percentage of the Li present in said starting material determined to obtain a Li:M ratio of less than 0.70 in a subsequent acidic leaching step; Step 3: Subsequent leaching using relative amounts of Li-depleted product and a mineral acid, thereby obtaining a Ni- and Co-bearing solution; and, Step 4: Crystallization of Ni, Co, and optionally Mn. Due to the lower reagent consumption and higher Ni and/or Co concentration during hydrometallurgical processing, the invention is an efficient and economic process for the production of crystals suitable for battery material production.
US12170352B2
Separator and electrolyte composites include a porous self-supporting separator film between or adjacent one or two electrolyte films. The electrolyte films may contain a glyme or mixture of glymes, LiX salt and complexing agent, such as PEO. The porous self-supporting separator film may be used dry or wetted with a liquid electrolyte composition. Solid state batteries and electrochemical cells are disclosed that include the described separator and electrolyte composites in combination with an anode and a cathode.
US12170351B2
The present disclosure provides a solid electrolyte material having a high lithium ion conductivity. The solid electrolyte material according to the present disclosure includes Li, Zr, Y, M, and X. M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb and Ta. X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cl and Br.
US12170346B2
A first pixel configured to emit light of a first color, a second pixel configured to emit light of a second color; and a third pixel configured to emit light of a third color are provided. The first pixel includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel each including a quantum dot light-emitting layer. A light-emission peak wavelength of the second subpixel is longer than a light-emission peak wavelength of the first subpixel.
US12170344B2
A display device includes a base substrate, a partitioning wall on the base substrate, wherein the partitioning wall includes a first partitioning wall, and a second partitioning wall on the first partitioning wall, and a light emitting element spaced from the partitioning wall and located in a space surrounded by the partitioning wall in a plan view. The first partitioning wall and the light emitting element include a same material. The second partitioning wall includes a transparent conductive oxide.
US12170341B2
A photodiode, such as a linear mode avalanche photodiode can be made free of excess noise via having a superlattice multiplication region that allows only one electrical current carrier type, such as an electron or a hole, to accumulate enough kinetic energy to impact ionize when biased, where the layers are lattice matched. A photodiode can be constructed with i) a lattice matched pair of a first semiconductor alloy and a second semiconductor alloy in a superlattice multiplication region, ii) an absorber region, and iii) a semiconductor substrate. A detector with multiple photodiodes can be made with these construction layers in order to have a cutoff wavelength varied anywhere from 1.7 to 4.9 μm as well as a noise resulting from a dark current at a level such that an electromagnetic radiation signal with the desired minimum wavelength cutoff can be accurately sensed by the photodiode.
US12170335B2
The present disclosure describes a semiconductor device and methods for forming the same. The semiconductor device includes nanostructures on a substrate and a source/drain region in contact with the nanostructures. The source/drain region includes epitaxial end caps, where each epitaxial end cap is formed at an end portion of a nanostructure of the nanostructures. The source/drain region also includes an epitaxial body in contact with the epitaxial end caps and an epitaxial top cap formed on the epitaxial body. The semiconductor device further includes gate structure formed on the nanostructures.
US12170328B2
A semiconductor device includes a GaN FET on a silicon substrate and a buffer layer of III-N semiconductor material, with a columnar region, a transition region surrounding the columnar region, and an inter-columnar region around the transition region. The columnar region is higher than the inter-columnar region. The GaN FET includes a gate of III-N semiconductor material with a thickness greater than twice the vertical range of the top surface of the buffer layer in the columnar region. A difference between the gate thickness over the columnar region and over the transition region is less than half of the vertical range of the top surface of the buffer layer in the columnar surface. The semiconductor device may be formed by forming a gate layer of III-N semiconductor material over the barrier layer by a gate MOVPE process using a carrier gas that includes zero to 40 percent hydrogen gas.
US12170320B2
A method of applying and then removing a protective layer over a portion of a gate stack is provided. The protective layer is deposited and then a plasma precursor is separated into components. Neutral radicals are then utilized in order to remove the protective layer. In some embodiments the removal also forms a protective by-product which helps to protect underlying layers from damage during the etching process.
US12170311B1
A method includes growing an epitaxial layer over a substrate, forming a plurality of gates in the epitaxial layer, forming a breakdown voltage enhancement and leakage prevention structure in the epitaxial layer comprising a body ring structure, forming a source and a body region in the epitaxial layer, forming an interlayer dielectric layer over the epitaxial layer, forming a gate-source Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) diode structure in the interlayer dielectric layer, forming a source contact connected to the source, and a first terminal of the gate-source ESD diode structure, forming a gate contact connected to the plurality of gates and a second terminal of the gate-source ESD diode structure, and forming a drain contact underneath the substrate.
US12170308B2
A light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate including a plurality of pixels each including an emission area; a light extraction pattern including a plurality of concave portions in the emission area; and a light emitting portion over the light extraction pattern, wherein at least one of the plurality of concave portions has a curvature of 0.217 μm−1 to 0.311 μm−1.
US12170304B2
An imaging element has at least a photoelectric conversion section, a first transistor TR1, and a second transistor TR2, the photoelectric conversion section includes a photoelectric conversion layer 13, a first electrode 11, and a second electrode 12, the imaging element further has a first photoelectric conversion layer extension section 13A, a third electrode 51, and a fourth electrode 51C, the first transistor TR1 includes the second electrode 12 that functions as one source/drain section, the third electrode that functions as a gate section 51, and the first photoelectric conversion layer extension section 13A that functions as the other source/drain section, and the first transistor TR1 (TRrst) is provided adjacent to the photoelectric conversion section.
US12170302B2
Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method. In the method, a semiconductor substrate is received. A photodetector is formed in the semiconductor substrate. An interconnect structure is formed over the photodetector and over a frontside of the semiconductor substrate. A backside of the semiconductor substrate is thinned, the backside being furthest from the interconnect structure. A ring-shaped structure is formed so as to extend into the thinned backside of the semiconductor substrate to laterally surround the photodetector. A series of trench structures are formed to extend into the thinned backside of the semiconductor substrate. The series of trench structures are laterally surrounded by the ring-shaped structure and extend into the photodetector.
US12170285B2
Provided is a display device. The display device includes an upper substrate; and a lower substrate disposed on a lower portion of the upper substrate and including an outer region extending outward from the upper substrate at one side, wherein each of the upper substrate and the lower substrate includes a protruding region extending along an edge of each of the upper substrate and the lower substrate, and a recessed region surrounded by the protruding region in a plan view and having a thickness smaller than that of the protruding region, wherein the protruding region includes a first protruding region that is adjacent to the outer region and extends in a first direction, a second protruding region that extends in the first direction and is positioned opposite to the first protruding region, a third protruding region that extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction and connects the first protruding region and the second protruding region, and a fourth protruding region that extends in the second direction and is positioned opposite to the third protruding region, wherein the first protruding region includes a 1-1 protruding region, and the 1-1 protruding region includes a 1-1-1 protruding region and a 1-1-2 protruding region disposed between the 1-1-1 protruding region and the recessed region and having a thickness between a thickness of the 1-1-1 protruding region and the thickness of the recessed region.
US12170283B2
Capacitor cells are provided. A first PMOS transistor is coupled between a power supply and a first node, and has a gate directly connected to a second node. A first NMOS transistor is coupled between a ground and the second node, and has a gate directly connected to the first node. A second PMOS transistor is coupled between the second node and the power supply, and has a gate directly connected to the second node. A second NMOS transistor is coupled between the first node and the ground, and has a gate directly connected to the first node. Sources of the first and second NMOS transistors share an N+ doped region in the P-type well region. The first NMOS transistor is disposed between the second NMOS transistor and the first and second PMOS transistors. Source of the first PMOS transistor is directly connected to the power supply.
US12170282B2
A semiconductor device and method of making same. The semiconductor device includes: a first conductivity type transistor and a second conductivity type transistor, wherein each of the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type includes a gate insulating film formed on a base, a metal gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, and side wall spacers formed at side walls of the metal gate electrode, wherein the gate insulating film is made of a high dielectric constant material, and wherein offset spacers are formed between the side walls of the metal gate electrode and the inner walls of the side wall spacers in any one of the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type transistor, or offset spacers having different thicknesses are formed in the first conductivity type transistor and the second conductivity type transistor.
US12170281B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first active pattern extended in a first direction on a substrate; a second active pattern extended in the first direction and spaced apart from the first active pattern in a second direction on the substrate; a field insulating layer between the first active pattern and the second active pattern on the substrate; a first gate electrode on the first active pattern; a second gate electrode on the second active pattern; and a gate isolation structure separating the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode from each other on the field insulating layer, wherein a width of the gate isolation structure in the second direction varies in a downward direction from the upper isolation pattern.
US12170279B2
Semiconductor devices and method of forming the same are provided. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes two first source/drain features and a first number of nanostructures that are stacked vertically one over another and extend lengthwise between the two first source/drain features. The second transistor includes two second source/drain features and a second number of nanostructures that are stacked vertically one over another and extend lengthwise between the two second source/drain features.
US12170262B2
An electrical connection wire connects an electrical connection pad of an electrical chip and an electrical connection pad of a carrier substrate to which the electronic chip is mounted. A dielectric layer surrounds at least the bonding wire. The dielectric layer may be a dielectric sheath or a hardened liquid dielectric material. A dielectric material may also cover at least a portion of the electrical chip and carrier substrate. A liquid electrically conductive material is deposited and hardened to form a local conductive shield surrounding the dielectric layer at the bonding wire.
US12170247B2
A semiconductor memory device includes first memory layers and second memory layers arranged in alternation in a first direction. First memory layers and second memory layers include memory strings and first wirings connected to these memory strings in common. First memory layers and second memory layers include: signal amplifier circuits electrically connected to the first wirings; second wirings connected to the signal amplifier circuits; first switch transistors connected to the second wirings; third wirings electrically connected to the second wirings via the first switch transistors; and fourth wirings electrically connected to the second wirings without via the first switch transistors. The semiconductor memory device includes: first via-contact electrodes extending in the first direction and connected to the third wirings in first memory layers; and second via-contact electrodes extending in the first direction and connected to the fourth wirings in second memory layers.
US12170243B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an apparatus comprising a semiconductor substrate. A conductive pillar is disposed in the semiconductor substrate. An isolation region is disposed in the semiconductor substrate and extends laterally around the conductive pillar. The isolation region is configured to electrically isolate the conductive pillar from a surrounding portion of the semiconductor substrate. An opening is disposed in the isolation region. A dielectric anchor is disposed in the isolation region. The dielectric anchor extends vertically through the semiconductor substrate along a side of the opening. The dielectric anchor anchors the conductive pillar to the semiconductor substrate.
US12170242B2
A method for forming a package structure may comprise applying a die and vias on a carrier having an adhesive layer and forming a molded substrate over the carrier and around the vias, and the ends of the vias and mounts on the die exposed. The vias may be in via chips with one or more dielectric layers separating the vias. The via chips 104 may be formed separately from the carrier. The dielectric layer of the via chips may separate the vias from, and comprise a material different than, the molded substrate. An RDL having RDL contact pads and conductive lines may be formed on the molded substrate. A second structure having at least one die may be mounted on the opposite side of the molded substrate, the die on the second structure in electrical communication with at least one RDL contact pad.
US12170229B2
A semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor. The first and second transistors operate under a lower gate voltage than the third and fourth transistors. The first transistor has a first active gate structure and the second transistor has a second active gate structure. The first and second active gate structures are separated by a first gate isolation structure along a first direction. The third transistor has a third active gate structure and the fourth transistor has a fourth active gate structure. The third and fourth active gate structures are separated by a second gate isolation structure along the first direction. The variation of a first distance between respective sidewalls of the first gate isolation structure is equal to the variation of a second distance between respective sidewalls of the second gate isolation structure along the first direction.
US12170227B2
A device includes a bottom transistor, a top transistor, and an epitaxial isolation structure. The bottom transistor includes a first channel layer, first source/drain epitaxial structures, and a first gate structure. The first source/drain epitaxial structures are on opposite sides of the first channel layer. The first gate structure is around the first channel layer. The top transistor is over the bottom transistor and includes a second channel layer, second source/drain epitaxial structures, and a second gate structure. The second source/drain epitaxial structures are on opposite sides of the second channel layer. The second gate structure is around the second channel layer. The epitaxial isolation structure is between and in contact with one of the first source/drain epitaxial structures and one of the second source/drain epitaxial structures, such that the one of the first source/drain epitaxial structures is electrically isolated from the one of the second source/drain epitaxial structures.
US12170209B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: at least one processing part for etching a polysilicon film or an amorphous silicon film formed on a substrate using an alkaline chemical liquid; a reservoir configured to recover and store the chemical liquid used in the at least one processing part; processing lines configured to supply the chemical liquid stored in the reservoir to the at least one processing part; a circulation line configured to take out the chemical liquid from the reservoir and to return the same to the reservoir; and a first gas supply line connected to the circulation line and configured to supply an inert gas to the circulation line. The circulation line includes an ejection port configured to eject a mixed fluid of the inert gas supplied by the first gas supply line and the chemical liquid taken out from the reservoir into the chemical liquid stored in the reservoir.
US12170184B2
A transmission electron microscope capable of obtaining a hollow-cone dark-field image and visually displaying irradiation conditions thereof includes an irradiation unit for irradiating a specimen with an electron beam, an objective lens for causing the electron beam transmitted through the specimen to form an image, beam deflectors positioned higher than a position where the specimen is placed, an objective movable aperture for passing only a portion of the electron beam transmitted through the specimen, and a deflection coil control unit. The deflection coil control unit controls a deflection angle of the electron beam using the beam deflectors such that the specimen is irradiated with the electron beam at a predetermined angle with respect to an optical axis while the electron beam is moving in a precessional manner and only a diffracted wave and/or a scattered wave having a desired angle passes through the objective movable aperture.
US12170181B2
A pyrotechnic circuit breaker comprising: a casing, at least two connection terminals, an internal electrical circuit connecting the two connection terminals and formed for example by an electrical conductor, an opening member, which is movable and arranged to open a part to be opened of the internal electrical circuit when moving between an initial position and a final position, so as to form at least two discrete portions of conductor after opening, a pyrotechnic actuator arranged to move the opening member from the initial position to the final position, an inner chamber defined by an internal wall formed in the casing, and receiving the part to be opened, an insulating grease, arranged in the inner chamber, wherein the insulating grease is arranged on or covers at least two predetermined parts of the internal wall.
US12170179B2
Exemplary embodiments include a device for connecting and disconnecting a high-voltage circuit. The device includes a first main terminal and a second main terminal, a first intermediate terminal connected to the first main terminal by a first impedance, a first arc quenching chamber arranged between the first intermediate terminal and the first main terminal, a second intermediate terminal connected to the first intermediate terminal by a second impedance, the first intermediate terminal being connected in series between the first main terminal and the second intermediate terminal, a second arc quenching chamber arranged between the first intermediate terminal and the second intermediate terminal, and a mobile armature making it possible to connect, in the disconnection direction, the second main terminal on the one hand and, on the other hand and in succession, the first main terminal, the first intermediate terminal and the second intermediate terminal.
US12170175B2
A multi-layer ceramic capacitor includes: a multi-layer unit including ceramic layers laminated in a first direction and electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers, positions of end portions of the electrodes falling within a range of 0.5 μm in a second direction; and side margins each containing manganese or magnesium and silicon and facing each other in the second direction. When each margin is equally divided into an inner region and an outer region, a total concentration of manganese and magnesium in the outer region is higher than a total concentration of manganese and magnesium in the inner region and higher than a total concentration of manganese and magnesium in the ceramic layers, and a concentration of silicon in the inner region is not less than a concentration of silicon in the outer region and higher than a concentration of silicon in the ceramic layers.
US12170166B2
Disclosed is a radiation and magnetic field generating apparatus irradiating photon beam radiation to in-body affected tissue of a subject. The apparatus includes a radiation generating unit that irradiates the photon beam radiation to the subject and induces generation of secondary electrons in an area of the subject where the photon beam radiation is irradiated, a magnetic field generating unit that includes an insertion structure for forming a low-density space and forms a magnetic field in an area in which the secondary electrons are generated, and a synchronization control unit that controls formation of the magnetic field and controls the formation of the magnetic field such that the secondary electrons move while avoiding normal tissue adjacent to the affected tissue.
US12170163B2
Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a coil pattern embedded in a resin body. The resin body includes a winding core area surrounded by the coil pattern and having a first surface and a substantially flat second surface different in the circumferential direction position from the first surface, and a first surrounding area covering the first surface of the winding core area. The coil pattern includes first sections extending along the first surface of the winding core area and second sections extending along the second surface of the winding core area. One ends of the first sections are connected respectively to their corresponding one ends of the second sections. The other ends of the first sections are connected respectively to their corresponding other ends of the second sections.
US12170159B1
Cables, including electrical cables. The cables are provided with a series of elements designed to interlock with each other when a first length of cable is pressed against a second length of cable, the element including protrusions and spaces between the protrusions. A user folds a length of cable on itself or on another cable, snugly pressing the protrusions into the spaces, to store the cable, or to restrict the movement of the cable during use. In this manner, movement of the cable is restricted into the configuration set by the user, and preventing the cable from becoming tangled, knotted, or so forth.
US12170156B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a power equipment and method for providing the same. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a power equipment. The power equipment includes a high voltage part, a low voltage part, and an insulation oil adapted to impregnate the high voltage part and insulate the high voltage part from the low voltage part. The insulation oil is partially filled with polymer particles with a lower thermal expansion coefficient than the insulation oil. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the degree of expansion of the insulation medium can be reduced in a cost-effective way.
US12170152B2
A BWR fuel assembly is elongated along a fuel assembly axis and comprises a lower tie plate, an upper tie plate axially spaced from the lower tie plate, a bundle of fuel rods extending axially between the lower tie plate and the upper tie plate, and a tubular fuel channel extending from the lower tie plate to the upper tie plate with encasing the fuel rods. The fuel assembly comprises an interaction device mounted on the lower tie plate and configured to interact with the fuel channel. The interaction device has an inactive configuration and an active configuration.
US12170151B2
A reactor building includes a spent fuel pool, spent fuel racks, and traveling rails. The spent fuel racks are located in the spent fuel pool and are configured to store nuclear spent fuel. A protection slab is located above the spent fuel racks. The traveling rails are fixed to a lower surface of the protection slab. The rails are parallel to each other. The spent fuel racks are located between the rails. A fuel transfer machine is suspended from the rails.
US12170129B2
A data receiving circuit includes: a first amplification module configured to receive a data signal and a reference signal, compare the data signal and the reference signal in response to a first sampling clock signal, and output a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal; a decision feedback control module configured to generate a second sampling clock signal in response to the enable signal; a decision feedback equalization module configured to, when the enable signal is in a first level value interval, perform decision feedback equalization in response to the second sampling clock signal and stop performing the decision feedback equalization when the enable signal is in a second level value interval; and a second amplification module configured to process the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal and output the first output signal and the second output signal.
US12170124B2
An example method for scan-based voltage frequency scaling can include performing a plurality of at-speed scan operation on a system on chip (SoC) at a plurality of respective voltage values. The example method can include entering data gathered from at least one of the plurality of at-speed scan operations into a database. The entered data is associated with the respective plurality of voltage value. The example method can include determining a particular voltage value of the respective plurality of voltage values at which a parameter of the SoC reaches a threshold. The example method can include indicating the determined particular voltage in the database. The indicated determined particular voltage in the database can be used for performing one or more operations using the SoC.
US12170120B2
The memory array of a memory includes sub-arrays with memory cells arranged in a row-column matrix where each row includes a word line and each sub-array column includes a local bit line. A row decoder circuit supports two modes of memory circuit operation: a first mode where only one word line in the memory array is actuated during a memory read and a second mode where one word line per sub-array are simultaneously actuated during the memory read. An input/output circuit for each column includes inputs to the local bit lines of the sub-arrays, a column data output coupled to the bit line inputs, and a sub-array data output coupled to each bit line input. Both BIST and ATPG testing of the input/output circuit are supported. For BIST testing, multiple data paths between the bit line inputs and the column data output are selectively controlled to provide complete circuit testing.
US12170114B2
A three-dimensional (3D) memory device and method for reading the same are provided. The device includes memory cell strings each including multiple memory cells. In each memory cell string, a topmost memory cell is connected to a top selection gate connected to a bit line, and a bottommost memory cell is connected to a bottom selection gate. The method includes sequentially programming multiple memory cells in a memory cell string according to a programming sequence; in reading a memory cell, applying a corresponding bit line voltage to the memory cell string according to the programming sequence of the memory cell.
US12170113B2
A system includes a memory device including a memory array and control logic, operatively coupled with the memory array, to perform operations including receiving a set of commands to concurrently program a set of cells of the memory array with dummy data, the set of cells corresponding to a group of retired wordlines of the plurality of wordlines, in response to receiving the set of commands, obtaining the dummy data, and concurrently programming the set of cells with the dummy data by causing a ganged programming pulse to be applied to the set of cells.
US12170108B2
Circuits and methods are described herein for controlling a bit line precharge circuit. For example, a control circuit includes a first latch circuit and a second latch circuit. The first latch circuit is configured to receive a first light sleep signal. The first latch circuit generates a second light sleep signal according to a clock signal. The second latch circuit is configured to receive the second light sleep signal. The second latch circuit generates a third light sleep signal according to a sense amplifier enable signal. The second latch circuit provides the third light sleep signal to a bit line reading switch, so the bit line reading switch is cutoff after a sense amplifier is enabled.
US12170106B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes first to third conductor layers, and a three-terminal-type memory cell connected to the first to third conductor layers. The first memory cell includes a fourth conductor layer, a magnetoresistance effect element, a two-terminal-type first switching element, and a two-terminal-type second switching element. The fourth conductor layer includes a first portion connected to the first conductor layer, a second portion connected to the second conductor layer, and a third portion which is connected to the third conductor layer. The magnetoresistance effect element is connected between the third conductor layer and the fourth conductor layer. The first switching element is connected between the second conductor layer and the fourth conductor layer. The second switching element is connected between the first conductor layer and the third conductor layer.
US12170092B2
The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a method, and a program that can obtain a signal with higher sound quality. The signal processing device includes: a calculation unit that calculates a parameter for generating a difference signal corresponding to an input compressed sound source signal on the basis of a prediction coefficient and the input compressed sound source signal, the prediction coefficient being obtained by learning using, as training data, a difference signal between an original sound signal and a learning compressed sound source signal obtained by compressing and coding the original sound signal; a difference signal generation unit that generates the difference signal on the basis of the parameter and the input compressed sound source signal; and a synthesis unit that synthesizes the generated difference signal and the input compressed sound source signal. The present technology can be applied to a signal processing device.
US12170087B1
Techniques for altering audio being output by a voice-controlled device, or another device, to enable more accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) by the voice-controlled device. For instance, a voice-controlled device may output audio within an environment using a speaker of the device. While outputting the audio, a microphone of the device may capture sound within the environment and may generate an audio signal based on the captured sound. The device may then analyze the audio signal to identify speech of a user within the signal, with the speech indicating that the user is going to provide a subsequent command to the device. Thereafter, the device may alter the output of the audio (e.g., attenuate the audio, pause the audio, switch from stereo to mono, etc.) to facilitate speech recognition of the user's subsequent command.
US12170078B2
A sound bypass device configured to transmit engine-generated sound pulses from an engine to a sound outlet whilst preventing flow of gases to the sound outlet, the sound bypass device comprising: an input tube configured to conduct the engine-generated sound pulses from the engine; and a sound transmission device connected to the input tube at a first end and to the sound outlet at a second end, the sound transmission device comprising: a first volume connected to the first end, a second volume connected to the second end, and a flexible diaphragm separating the first volume from the second volume and configured to transfer variations in pressure in the first volume to the second volume; wherein the first volume has a cross-sectional area that is greater at the diaphragm than at the first end and the second volume has a cross-sectional area that is greater at the diaphragm than at the second end.
US12170077B2
An acoustic attenuation panel includes a perforated acoustic wall, a first honeycomb structure coupled to the perforated acoustic wall and including a plurality of acoustic cells defined by peripheral partitions, a second honeycomb structure including a plurality of acoustic cells defined by peripheral partitions, and a septum which includes a plurality of macro-perforations and is positioned between the first honeycomb structure and the second honeycomb structure. Each acoustic cell of the first honeycomb structure and each acoustic cell of the at least second honeycomb structure are arranged opposite a single perforation of the septum.
US12170069B2
A display system includes a circuit device and a first light source driver to an n-th light source driver. The circuit device performs local dimming control on a display device including a display panel and a backlight. The first light source driver to the n-th light source driver drive the backlight based on dimming information of the local dimming control. An i-th light source driver PWM-drives an i-th light source element group among the first light source element group to the n-th light source element group provided in a target area based on dimming information for the target area. The target area is an area to be driven by the first light source driver to the n-th light source driver among a plurality of areas of the backlight in the local dimming control.
US12170068B2
In a backlight apparatus, a master driving circuit generates a transmission frame including a training period including a clock training pattern and a data period including a plurality of data packets respectively corresponding to the plurality of blocks. A plurality of slave driving circuits correspond to the plurality of blocks, respectively, and are connected to the master driving circuit in a daisy chain structure. Each slave driving circuit receives the transmission frame through the daisy chain structure, recovers a clock based on the clock training pattern, and drives the plurality of light emitting elements included in a corresponding block among the plurality of blocks based on its own data packet among a plurality of data packets.
US12170066B2
Provided are a photoelectric detection circuit and a driving method thereof, a display apparatus and a manufacturing method thereof. The photoelectric detection circuit includes: a first reset sub-circuit, a second reset sub-circuit, a first storage sub-circuit, a data read sub-circuit and a photosensitive device. A first terminal of the data read sub-circuit, a first terminal of the first storage sub-circuit, a first electrode of the photosensitive device and a first terminal of the first reset sub-circuit are connected to a first node. A second electrode of the photosensitive device is connected to a common voltage line. The data read sub-circuit is configured to transmit a voltage of the first node to a data read line in response to a signal of a scan line. The first reset sub-circuit is configured to reset the voltage of the first node.
US12170063B2
A pixel circuit, a display apparatus, and a driving method. The pixel circuit include: a driving circuit, a data writing circuit, a compensation circuit, a light emission control circuit, a first reset circuit, a second reset circuit, and a light-emitting element. The data writing circuit is for writing a data signal into the first terminal of the driving circuit based on a writing control signal; the first reset circuit is for applying a first reset voltage to the control terminal of the driving circuit based on a first reset control signal; and the second reset circuit is for applying a second reset voltage to a first electrode of the light-emitting element based on a second reset control signal. The writing control signal and the second reset control signal are synchronized in each write frame, and the writing control signal remains at an invalid level in each skip frame.
US12170061B2
A display device includes a pixel including a first sub-pixel emitting light of a first color and a second sub-pixel emitting light of a second color. Each of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel includes: a pixel circuit layer disposed on a substrate, the pixel circuit layer including a pixel circuit, and a display element layer disposed on the pixel circuit layer, the display element layer including a light emitting element which includes an anode electrode and a cathode electrode. The pixel circuit layer includes a first contact part disposed between the substrate and the display element layer, the anode electrode and the pixel circuit being connected to each other through the first contact part to supply an anode signal to the light emitting element. A plurality of first contact parts which include a first contact part in the first sub-pixel and a first contact part in the second sub-pixel are arranged along a first direction.
US12170053B2
An image processing apparatus comprises one or more processors and one or more memories containing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to function as a specification unit configured to, based on a parameter of an image capturing unit, specify a region captured by the image capturing unit in a display screen in which display panels are arrayed, and a correction unit configured to, based on a direction from a pixel in the region to the image capturing unit, obtain a correction amount of a luminance value of the pixel, and based on information for correcting an individual difference regarding a luminance of a display panel, correct the correction amount.
US12170039B2
A display device includes: a display area including a plurality of pixels arranged to have a non-uniform horizontal resolution in a first direction; a peripheral area extending around the display area; a circuit area at a side of the peripheral area; a first main crack detection line in the peripheral area and extending along a first edge of the peripheral area; a first switching element in the circuit area and connected to a first end of the first main crack detection line; and a first data line connected to the first switching element and extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction through the display area. Twice a distance between the first data line and a center of the display area is equal to or greater than a length of the first data line in the second direction.
US12170031B2
A cannulation simulation device and methods for using the device are described. The device is designed to teach dialysis technicians/nurses or patients to cannulate arteriovenous (AV) fistulas for hemodialysis. The simulator includes one or more artificial fistulas. The simulator includes a pad of simulated flesh that can cover the artificial fistula(s). The pad can be reversed, rotated, and replaced with thicker or thinner pads. A personal simulation device for teaching self-cannulation can include a sleeve for a limb that can carry an artificial fistula. A clinical simulation device can include a plurality of artificial fistulas held in a support. Optionally, the artificial fistulas can vibrate to simulate an actual fistula.
US12170028B2
An unmanned helicopter platform includes a fuselage, a tail coupled with the fuselage, a payload rail coupled with and extending along the fuselage and a main rotor assembly coupled with the fuselage. The tail includes a tail rotor and a tail rotor motor. The tail is removably coupled to the fuselage. The main rotor assembly includes a main rotor having an axis of rotation and a main rotor motor.
US12170025B2
Disclosed are systems and associated methods for calculating and displaying formation flight information, to include aircraft spacing, predicted trajectory data, collision avoidance alerts, time on target details, and chalk-specific information, on an augmented reality display designed to interface with aviation helmets. Two or more networked computing devices, each on a separate aircraft, collect some combination of aircraft altitude, location, and inertial data, preform certain calculations, and then develops a virtual overlay according to aircraft relative position and nearby aircraft trajectories. The virtual overlay is further informed by compass and gyroscopic data from an operatively coupled augmented reality display device. The developed virtual overlay is then transmitted to the display device for viewing by the pilot. The display of relevant formation flight information using augmented reality tools may result in improved formation flight spacing, emergency procedure response, and collision avoidance.
US12170021B2
Provided is an information processing method of determining the influence of the event on the traffic condition, and this method includes a first link setting step of setting a link, related to an occurrence position of the event, as a target link, a determining step of determining a degree of influence of the event on the traffic condition of the target link, and a second link setting step of setting a link adjacent to the target link as a new target link based on a determination result of the determining step, in which the processing in the determining step is performed on the target link specified in the second link setting step.
US12170010B2
System and methods for delivering defibrillator incident information to a PSAP in real-time during emergency use of an AED are described. Such information is utilized by a telecommunicator at a PSAP to provide better guidance to volunteer caregivers during potential cardiac arrest incidents. In another aspect the AED's current instruction state and optionally the time in that state is provided to the PSAP.
US12170006B2
Motion detectors can include a housing defining a first cavity and an aperture extending through the housing. A circuit board can be disposed in the first cavity. An infrared sensor and a light sensor can be mounted on the circuit board. A lens can extend across the aperture. A wall can extend between the lens and the circuit board such that the wall, the lens, and the circuit board define a second cavity at least partially within the first cavity and the second cavity contains the infrared sensor and the light sensor.
US12170003B2
A gaming machine presents a game in which an upgradeable object accrues value. The gaming machine includes a player input interface, a credit input mechanism and a game controller configured to perform operations. The game controller presents a primary game, in which a plurality of reels are simulated, spins the plurality of simulated reels each time a player makes a wager, determines, a number of scatter symbols stopped and displayed from the reels, triggers, a bonus game in which an appearance of the upgradeable game object is upgradeable and in which a credit value associated with the upgradeable game object is upgradeable, upgrades the appearance of the object, increases the credit value associated with the object, and adds the credit value associated with the object to the credit balance of the player.
US12169997B2
A system for controlling how wagering odds for individual plays inside of a live sporting event are combined with the broadcast of the live sporting event on a display with a mobile device that is paired with a set top box.
US12169995B2
A system evaluates currency in an area using image processing. In some examples, the system receives an image of an area from an image sensor, processes the image to identify at least one item of currency in the area, determine a value of the currency irrespective of validity, and counts the currency. In various examples, the system receives an image of an area from an image sensor; processes the image to identify at least one item of currency in the area; determines whether the currency has an error condition; and when the currency is determined to have the error condition, provides output on the error condition. In a number of examples, the system receives an image of an area from an image sensor; processes the image to identify at least one item of currency in the area; determines whether the currency is valid; and when the currency is determined to be suspect, provides output on the currency.
US12169989B2
A job site security system contains a wireless communications node and a device such as a tool, a battery, a charger, etc., which contains a controller. Each tool has a locked state and an unlocked state as determined by the controller. Each tool is (initially) in the locked state. When the wireless communications node transmits a signal to the device the controller changes the locked state to the unlocked state allowing the device to be used. A method for securing a job site is also provided.
US12169985B1
Techniques for determining a direction that a vehicle turned through an intersection using vehicle telematics data associated with the vehicle are provided. A first simplified line representative of the vehicle trip may be generated using the telematics data and may be compared to a boundary of a region associated with the intersection to identify spatial data points and times associated with the vehicle's entrance to and exit from the region associated with the intersection. A second simplified line representative of the portion of the vehicle trip through the intersection may be generated based on the identified spatial data points and times, and the second simplified line may be substringed into two segments. Angles associated with the first (entrance) segment and second (exit) segment may be measured, and a direction associated with the vehicle's turn through the intersection during the vehicle trip may be identified based on the angles.
US12169977B2
An apparatus may include an ultrasonic sensor stack, a foldable display stack and a transmission enhancement layer. The foldable display stack may include a display stiffener and display stack layers. The display stack layers may form one or more display stack resonators configured to enhance ultrasonic waves transmitted by the ultrasonic sensor stack in a first ultrasonic frequency range. In some implementations, a transmission enhancement resonator may include the display stiffener and the transmission enhancement layer. In some examples, the transmission enhancement resonator may include at least a portion of the ultrasonic sensor stack. The transmission enhancement resonator may be configured to enhance the ultrasonic waves transmitted by the ultrasonic sensor stack in the first ultrasonic frequency range.
US12169975B2
This specification relates to reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) scenes from two-dimensional (2D) images using a neural network. According to a first aspect of this specification, there is described a method for creating a three-dimensional reconstruction of a scene with multiple objects from a single two-dimensional image, the method comprising: receiving a single two-dimensional image; identifying all objects in the image to be reconstructed and identifying the type of said objects; estimating a three-dimensional representation of each identified object; estimating a three-dimensional plane physically supporting all three-dimensional objects; and positioning all three-dimensional objects in space relative to the supporting plane.
US12169971B2
A system detects a transaction outcome by obtaining video data associated with a transaction area and analyzing the video data to obtain at least one video transaction parameter concerning transactions associated with the transaction area. The transaction area can be a video count of items indicated in the video data as detected by an automated item detection algorithm applied to the video data. The system obtains at least one expected transaction parameter concerning an expected transaction that occurs in the transaction area, such as a scan count of items scanned at a point of sale terminal. The system automatically compares the video transaction parameter(s) to the expected transaction parameter(s) to identify a transaction outcome that may indicate fraudulent activity such as sweethearting in a retail environment.
US12169968B2
Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience between two users of eyewear devices to allow one user of an eyewear device to share a personal attribute of the user with a second user. The personal attribute can be selected from a list of attributes, such as Bitmojis®, avatars, symbols, and tests. In an example, the personal attribute can reflect the mood of the first user. The personal attribute received by the first user is displayed proximate a portion of the first user, such as a head or mouth, on the display of the first user's eyewear device. The personal attribute may be displayed in a speech bubble proximate the first user.
US12169950B2
Provided are an image sensor module, an image processing system, and an image compression method. The image compression method of compressing image data generated by an image sensor includes: receiving pixel values of a target pixel group of image data on which compression is to be performed, and reference values of reference pixels to be used in compression of the target pixel group; determining an averaging direction in which an averaging calculation is to be performed on target pixel values; averaging the pixel values of target pixels in the averaging direction; generating balance information including compensation values to be applied to the average values based on the reference pixels; and generating a bitstream based on the average values, the balance information, and compression information.
US12169946B2
An angular direction identifying device includes: a photographed image acquiring unit configured to acquire a photographed image by a camera provided in a movable body; an angular direction information acquiring unit configured to acquire angular direction information in a case where a predetermined physical object suggesting an angular direction is shown in the photographed image, the angular direction information indicating the angular direction suggested by the predetermined physical object; and a view-axis angular direction identifying unit configured to identify an angular direction in which a view axis of the camera is pointed, based on the angular direction information and a position relation between the predetermined physical object in the photographed image and the view axis of the camera.
US12169918B2
An AR calibration system for correcting AR headset distortions. A calibration image is provided to a screen and viewable through a headset reflector, and an inverse of the calibration image is provided to a headset display, reflected off the reflector and observed by a camera of the system while it is simultaneously observing the calibration image on the screen. One or more cameras are located to represent a user's point of view and aligned to observe the inverse calibration image projected onto the reflector. A distortion mapping transform is created using an algorithm to search through projection positions of the inverse calibration image until the inverse image observed by the camera(s) cancels out an acceptable portion of the calibration image provided to the screen as observed through the reflector by the camera, and the transform is used by the headset, to compensate for distortions.
US12169916B2
An inpainting method includes obtaining an image including an object having a delicate shape and identifying a target region within the image, where the target region is adjacent to the object. The method also includes using a first mask to separate the image into a number of semantic categories and aggregating neighboring contexts for the target region based on the semantic categories. The method further includes restoring, based on the aggregated contexts, textures in the target region without affecting the delicate shape of the object. In addition, the method includes displaying a refined image including the restored textures in the target region and the object.
US12169902B2
In one implementation, a method of displaying content is performed at a device including a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes scanning a first physical environment to detect a first physical object in the first physical environment and a second physical object in the first physical environment, wherein the first physical object meets at least one first object criterion and the second physical object meets at least one second object criterion. The method includes displaying, in association with the first physical environment, a virtual object moving along a first path from the first physical object to the second physical object. The method includes scanning a second physical environment to detect a third physical object in the second physical environment and a fourth physical object in the second physical environment, wherein the third physical object meets the at least one first object criterion and the fourth physical object meets the at least one second object criterion. The method includes displaying, in association with the second physical environment, the virtual object moving along a second path from the third physical object to the fourth physical object, wherein the second path is different than the first path.
US12169901B2
According to one aspect, a system for augmented reality visualization of benign paroxysmal position vertigo (BPPV) disorder. The system includes a camera configured to capture an image sequence, a processing unit configured to generate at least one virtual model of an inner ear, wherein the at least one virtual model of the inner ear comprises an accurate anatomical representation of a real human inner ear; and a display configured to display the at least one virtual model of the inner ear over the image sequence.
US12169895B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that generate a height map for a digital object portrayed in a digital image and further utilizes the height map to generate a shadow for the digital object. Indeed, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate (e.g., utilizing a neural network) a height map that indicates the pixels heights for pixels of a digital object portrayed in a digital image. The disclosed systems utilize the pixel heights, along with lighting information for the digital image, to determine how the pixels of the digital image project to create a shadow for the digital object. Further, in some implementations, the disclosed systems utilize the determined shadow projections to generate (e.g., utilizing another neural network) a soft shadow for the digital object. Accordingly, in some cases, the disclosed systems modify the digital image to include the shadow.
US12169879B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses of virtual prop allocation and provide non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums storing instructions for virtual prop allocation. A method of virtual prop allocation includes obtaining a geographic location and state information of at least one terminal device participating in a first scene, and determining a first virtual prop associated with the first scene based on the geographic location and the state information of the at least one terminal device participating in the first scene. Further, the method includes determining geographic location information for releasing the first virtual prop, and transmitting, to a first terminal device in the at least one terminal device, the geographic location information for releasing the first virtual prop.
US12169871B1
Methods and systems for locational visualization of financial statements are described. In an example, a method may receive, in a financial institution system, a request to display a record associated with a financial transaction, determine a location of a merchant associated with the financial transaction using merchant information, request, from an online mapping service, a customizable map interface associated with the location of the merchant, receive the customizable map interface, and display the customizable map interface integrated into the record associated with the financial transaction.
US12169868B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, via a host platform, a payment authorization request message for a payment transaction of a digital wallet hosted by the host platform from a payment gateway of an electronic payment network, verifying that a payment account in the digital wallet has sufficient funds to satisfy an amount of the payment transaction and transmitting a payment authorization response to the payment gateway, pausing clearing and settling of the authorized payment transaction, executing a blockchain transaction via a blockchain ledger of a cryptocurrency network to exchange fiat currency from the payment account for cryptocurrency based on the amount of the payment transaction, prior to a due date of the authorized payment transaction, executing a second blockchain transaction to exchange the cryptocurrency for a new amount of fiat currency, and settling the authorized payment transaction based on the new amount of fiat currency received from the second blockchain transaction.
US12169867B1
Systems and methods are provided for assessing an account takeover risk for one or more accounts of an individual. The account security procedures for each of a number of services with which the user has an account may be analyzed. Publicly accessible information regarding the user may also be collected and analyzed. The collected information and security procedures may be compared in order to determine one or more vulnerabilities to hostile account takeover of one or more of the analyzed accounts. An alert may be generated regarding a determined takeover risk, which may include suggested actions for remedying the risk.
US12169858B2
An online concierge system may determine recommended search terms for a user. The online concierge system may receive a request from a user to view a user interface configured to receive a search query. The online concierge system retrieves long-term activity data including previous search terms entered by the user while searching for items to add to an online shopping cart. For each previous search term, the online concierge system retrieves categorical search terms corresponding to one or more categories to which the previous search term was mapped. The online concierge system determines a set of nearby categorical search terms and sends, for display via a client device, the set of nearby categorical search terms as recommended search terms.
US12169857B2
A method and a system to present samples of products to customers by transporting the samples to the customer's location with an autonomous vehicle. The sample can be a product, a component of a product, a material or a device to gather information in defining the product. The autonomous vehicle is adapted for off road travel and may enter buildings, it can be carried to a nearby location by a street adapted vehicle. Information may be transmitted electronically but physical presence is essential. The customer or the customer's agent receives a presentation of the product definer and a selection of a final product is made. In other cases the autonomous vehicle delivery separate or installed technical equipment to examine the presentation location and assist in the final product selection. For example, photographs from multiple locations can measure a room for installation of carpets or draperies, etc.
US12169853B2
The present invention teaches a system, method and computer program for enabling local or regional merchants to participate in an automated cause marketing (ACM) program using mobile devices. The ACM program that may provide benefits to several parties involved in fundraising for one or more supported organizations, including one or more supported organizations, advertising providers, merchants, and individuals. Merchants are able to access enhanced analytics regarding their transactions with members and non-members of the ACM program and can use these enhanced analytics to realize an increased number of or revenue from transactions with members. The present invention also teaches a system and method for enabling advertising providers to acquire and analyze data associated with consumers-merchant transactions. The present invention provides the above features optimally using mobile devices. Furthermore, the present invention, may enable a member to disseminate its charitable preferences and contribution notifications to members of its electronic social networks.
US12169852B2
An apparatus and a method by which a content such as an advertisement corresponding to a user at the reception apparatus side can be selectively outputted to the reception apparatus are provided. A transmission apparatus transmits signaling data (MPD) having a user information setting region, a control information file capable of being accessed or generated applying user information-set data generated by a process for the MPD, and a user information-corresponding advertisement capable of being acquired and reproduced on the basis of description data of the control information file. The reception apparatus sets user information to the user information setting region of the MPD, applies the generated user information-set data to acquire a control information file of a user information-corresponding advertisement, applies the description data of the acquired control information file to acquire the user information-corresponding advertisement, and outputs the user information-corresponding advertisement.
US12169850B1
A system and method for enhancing e-commerce product listings is disclosed, performed on a server. The method involves importing listing data through Application Programming Interface (API) connections and analyzing this data to calculate a multimodal vector embedding. A quality score is estimated based on the embedding and real-time market data metrics. The method generates content elements, including product images, textual descriptions, and infographics, by applying a controlled generation algorithm through a text-to-image diffusion model. This model integrates loss-guidance and attention injection mechanisms to produce a controlled layout of the product images, producing content that is visually appealing and market-relevant. The resulting content elements are stored in the server's data storage, ready for e-commerce display.
US12169849B2
A system and process to create a lookalike model for a target audience to deliver advertisements are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the method comprises selecting survey data from a survey database that relates to an advertisement. A heterogenous treatment effect (HETE) model is trained on the survey data. Persuadable customers are identified from the survey database for the advertisement based on the HETE model. An optimized customer list is generated using personally identifiable information.
US12169844B2
Techniques described herein relate to a method for identifying breakpoints. The method may include obtaining, by a breakpoint identification device, an entity group data set corresponding to an entity group; generating, using the entity group data set, an enhanced entity group data set comprising the entity group data set and a derived data item; performing a clustering analysis using at least a portion of the enhanced entity group data set to obtain a plurality of entity clusters; training a machine learning (ML) model using the enhanced entity group data set to obtain a trained ML model; using the trained ML model and a set of simulated entities to perform a breakpoint analysis; generating a breakpoint graph based on the breakpoint analysis; and providing recommendations to an interested entity based on a breakpoint identified using the breakpoint graph.
US12169842B2
A method for triggering image processing based on vibration data analysis may include receiving vibration data captured using a vibration sensor mounted to a shelving unit including; analyzing the vibration data to determine whether a vibration is a result of an engagement of a person with a retail shelf; in response to a determination that the vibration is the result of the engagement of the person with the retail shelf, triggering analysis of an image of captured after the beginning of the engagement of the person with the retail shelf; in response to a determination that the vibration is not the result of the engagement of the person with the retail shelf, forgoing triggering the analysis of the image; and providing information based on a result of the analysis of the image.
US12169841B2
A contactless card reader comprises a contactless card reader front-end coupled to a processor. A communications module is coupled to the processor and a set of sensors is coupled to the processor. The set of sensors determines parameters related to the location, orientation and motion of the card reader. The processor receives the parameters from the set of sensors and utilizes the parameters and scenario configuration data to evaluate a rule. The result of the evaluation of the rule results in a limitation on the operation of the card reader. The communications module is configured to intermittently receive the scenario configuration data from external sources.
US12169839B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product is provided for authenticating a transaction. The method includes: receiving, on a mobile device associated with a user, a request from an authentication system, the request associated with a transaction requested by the user; obtaining, with the mobile device from a portable payment device, account data via radio frequency communication; obtaining, with the mobile device, mobile device location data including at least one of the following: GPS location data, telephone carrier location data, wireless network location data, or any combination thereof; encrypting, with the mobile device, at least a portion of the account data and the mobile device location data, resulting in at least one encrypted data packet; and transmitting, with the mobile device to the authentication system, the at least one encrypted data packet.
US12169834B2
A system for extending the utility of blockchain environments when such environments become too large or complex, is disclosed. The system systematically creates a second generation, or child blockchain that can retain machine-readable links to the parent blockchain which, in turn, can be archived and referenced, when necessary, for historical reference. Accordingly, the system serves to reduce the size of the working blockchain thereby making it easier to store the blockchain, and further serves to increase the speed of queries to interrogate the current state of the blockchain. By reducing the size of the working blockchain, the present invention seeks to extend the utility of large blockchains by segregating and archiving historical or older transactions recorded in the blockchain. The system and process further include methodologies to create links between the current blockchain and the archived sections of the blockchain to ensure the integrity of the full historical ledger.
US12169822B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for a geofence-based location tracking and notification triggering system. One of the methods includes obtaining location information associated with a user device; accessing information indicating entities located within one or more threshold distances of the obtained location; determining whether a user of the user device satisfies constraints specified by the entities; and generating a notification to be provided to the user device, the notification indicating information associated with at least one entity for which the user satisfies specified constraints. Preferably, the notification is in the form of a text messages, which provides advantages for real-time notifications with increased spatial relevance to a user.
US12169814B2
A method for dedicating a set of digital tokens of a single type includes obtaining a set of digital tokens of the single type from a pool of digital tokens of the single type that includes the set of digital tokens of the single type; and individually, separately and uniquely marking a record for each of the set of digital tokens of the single type with a first identifiable characteristic dedicated only to the set of digital tokens of the single type by adding data with the first identifiable characteristic and limited only to the set of digital tokens of the single type to the record for each of the set of digital tokens of the single type.
US12169804B1
A method and system of providing users with dynamic content about a specific task during access of an application based on previous in-app activity by the app's community of users for the task. The system identifies experienced user activity that represents an efficient performance of the task. The activity is stored in a repository for use by a dynamic content generation module. When subsequent users appear to need assistance in performing the task, the system can present content that is based on the more experienced users' activity. As additional data is collected, this content can be updated.
US12169801B2
Improved software technology and techniques for enabling creation and management of a customized work breakdown structure (“WBS”) for a specific project may comprise various phases. For instance, a first phase may involve defining an organization-level WBS comprising a first set of customized, multi-dimensional WBS codes that serve as a starting point for the WBS codes to use for projects being handled by the organization, a second phase may involve defining a project-level WBS comprising a second set of customized, multi-dimensional WBS codes to use for a particular project being handled by the organization, and a third phase may involve using the defined project-level WBS to manage certain aspects of the particular project. Further, access to customize WBS variables may be regulated based on user access permissions information indicated by an organization and/or project-level WBS.
US12169795B2
To provide ride services within a mapping application in a client computing device without directing the user to a separate ride service application, the mapping application invokes one or several ride service APIs to access ride service data from various ride service providers. For example, the mapping application receives a request for travel directions to a destination and generates multi-modal travel directions which include a route segment where the mode of transportation is a ride service. The mapping application invokes one or several ride service APIs to retrieve a price estimate, estimated wait time, or any other suitable information regarding the ride service route segment. Accordingly, the mapping application provides the multi-modal travel directions to a user including information regarding the ride service route segment.
US12169789B2
Systems and methods of selecting machine learning models/algorithms for a candidate dataset are disclosed. A computer system may access historical data of a set of algorithms applied to a set of benchmark datasets; select a first algorithm of the set of algorithms; apply the first algorithm to an input dataset to create a model of the input dataset; evaluate and store results of the applying; and add the first algorithm to a set of tried algorithms. The computer system may select a next algorithm of the algorithm set via submodular optimization based on the historical data and the set of tried algorithms; apply the next algorithm to the input dataset; capture a next result based on the applying; add the next result to update the set of tried algorithms; and repeat the submodular optimization. The procedure may continue until a termination condition is reached.
US12169788B2
Blepharometric data (data describing eyelid position as a function of time) is recorded and processed for the purposes of predicting a future risk and/or current occurrence of neurological events such as seizures. For example, in one embodiment, blepharometric data is recorded via infrared reflectance oculography spectacles, and processed in real time thereby to extract a set of blepharometric artifacts. Where those artifacts indicate prolonged spiking in blink calmness (for example, based on spiking in negative inter-event duration, or negative IED), an alert is able to be generated thereby to indicate that the subject is at risk of a seizure in a proximal time period. This provides an opportunity to implement mitigation measures, for example, to reduce the likelihood of the seizure manifesting, and/or to mitigate harm should the seizure occur.
US12169785B2
An embodiment includes parsing an input dataset associated with a first node of a decision tree, where the input dataset includes a set of profile values for a set of projected usage parameters for a computing environment. The embodiment identifies a structure of the dataset using a recursive neural network that predicts a question sequence in a hierarchical tree format. The embodiment calculates a first deviation from the predicted question sequence and determines whether the deviation exceeds a threshold value. The embodiment generates a modified input dataset using a disambiguation rule and calculates a second deviation of the modified structure from the predicted question sequence and determines whether the deviation exceeds the threshold value. The embodiment assembles a customized hierarchical path using a generative model and assembles the customized hierarchical path by performing iterations of generating a series of candidate questions until a leaf node is reached.
US12169780B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating misuse index for explainable artificial intelligence in computing environments, according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes mapping training data with inference uses in a machine learning environment, where the training data is used for training a machine learning model. The method may further include detecting, based on one or more policy/parameter thresholds, one or more discrepancies between the training data and the inference uses, classifying the one or more discrepancies as one or more misuses, and creating a misuse index listing the one or more misuses.
US12169779B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that enable parameter-efficient transfer learning, multi-task learning, and/or other forms of model re-purposing such as model personalization or domain adaptation. In particular, as one example, a computing system can obtain a machine-learned model that has been previously trained on a first training dataset to perform a first task. The machine-learned model can include a first set of learnable parameters. The computing system can modify the machine-learned model to include a model patch, where the model patch includes a second set of learnable parameters. The computing system can train the machine-learned model on a second training dataset to perform a second task that is different from the first task, which may include learning new values for the second set of learnable parameters included in the model patch while keeping at least some (e.g., all) of the first set of parameters fixed.
US12169777B2
Artificial-intelligence-based river information system. In an embodiment, a first training dataset is used to train a travel time prediction model to predict a travel time along the waterway for a given trip. In addition, a second training dataset is used to train a river level prediction model to predict a river level along the waterway for a given time. For each of a plurality of trips, a request is received that specifies the trip and a time of the trip, and, in response to the request, the travel time prediction model is used to predict a travel time for the trip, and the river level prediction model is used to predict a river level of the waterway at one or more points along the trip. Then, a voyage plan is generated based on one or both of the predicted travel time and the predicted river level.
US12169752B1
An authentication method includes RFID tags authenticating RFID readers. A tag sends a tag identifier and a reader challenge to a reader in response to one or more commands from the reader. The reader then either derives a response to the reader challenge itself or has a verification authority derive the response. The response may be derived from parameter(s) in the reader challenge, and may be derived using a cryptographic key. The reader then sends the response to the tag along with one or more commands. The tag verifies the response before executing action(s) associated with the command(s).
US12169749B2
An RFID module is disposed at a position where the RFID module is electromagnetically coupled to the conductor. An RFIC receives power induced by receiving an electromagnetic wave for power reception to output a transmission signal. A power reception coupling unit is electromagnetically coupled to the conductor to receive power. A transmission coupling unit is electromagnetically coupled to the conductor to output a transmission signal to the conductor.
US12169743B2
An Application Programming Interface (API) is provided for interaction between a User Interface (UI) of a device and microservices provided from a cloud processing environment. The API provides a single device-type independent backend to the frontends of the microservices. The UI defines the data types and specific data that it needs for processing from a given microservice. The backend calls the appropriate microservice through the corresponding frontend of the microservice. The microservice may engage other microservices resulting in output being returned to the backend. The backend provides only the output associated with the data types and the specific data back to the UI.
US12169739B2
A method of automatically setting up a computer system execution environment based on declarative statements about environment requirements input by a user. The method comprises analyzing a manifest file by a decision engine application executing on a computer system to identify computer system environment requirements; determining available computer system resources by the decision engine application; defining by the decision engine application a computer system execution environment that meets the computer system environment requirements identified in the manifest file; invoking at least one pluggable interaction component executing on the computer system by the decision engine based on the computer system execution environment defined by the decision engine application; and setting-up by the at least one pluggable interaction component at least some of the computer system execution environment defined by the decision engine application.
US12169732B2
One example process may include modifying a status of a container after a communication session associated with the container has ended, receiving a token from a client device to establish a communication session with a virtual machine, assigning the client device to the container, updating a container state file to include the token, a file version and a client device identifier, and responsive to assigning the client device, initiating one or more container processes with the container and maintaining one or more container processes already operating in an active status with the container prior to the assignment.
US12169731B2
A processing system selects a reset sequence based on a sideband connected configuration of a plurality of processing units. The processing system identifies whether the plurality of processing units is in the sideband connected configuration, so that the plurality of processing units works together on assigned operations. Based on the identification, the processing system selects and executes one of a plurality of available reset sequences. The processing system is thus able to tailor the executed reset sequence for the configuration of the plurality of processing units, thereby reducing the number of overall system resets and improving processing efficiency.
US12169729B2
A technique for varying firmware for different virtual functions in a virtualized device is provided. The virtualized device includes a hardware accelerator and a microcontroller that executes firmware. The virtualized device is virtualized in that the virtualized device performs work for different virtual functions (with different virtual functions associated with different virtual machines), each function getting a “time-slice” during which work is performed for that function. To vary the firmware, each time the virtualized device switches from performing work for a current virtual function to work for a subsequent virtual function, one or more microcontrollers of the virtualized device examines memory storing addresses for firmware for the subsequent virtual function and begins executing the firmware for that subsequent virtual function. The addresses for the firmware are provided by a corresponding virtual machine at configuration time.
US12169719B1
A programmable hardware system for machine learning (ML) operations includes a core and an inference engine. The core receives commands from a host. The commands are in a first instruction set architecture (ISA) format. The core divides the commands into a first set for performance-critical operations, in the first ISA format, and a second set of performance non-critical operations, in the first ISA format. The core executes the second set to perform the performance non-critical operations of the ML operations and streams the first set to inference engine. The inference engine generates a stream of the first set of commands in a second ISA format based on the first set of commands in the first ISA format. The first set of commands in the second ISA format programs components within the inference engine to execute the ML operations to infer data.
US12169716B2
A processor includes a time counter and a register scoreboard and provides a method for statically dispatching custom or extended instructions with preset execution times based on a write time of a register in the register scoreboard and the time counter provided to an execution pipeline.
US12169693B2
A system comprises a communications module; at least one processor coupled with the communications module; and a memory coupled to the at least one processor and storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, configure the at least one processor to provide, via the communications module, a first encryption key of an encryption key pair to a client device; receive, via the communications module and from a conversation agent server, a fulfillment request based on a natural language input transmitted from the client device to the conversation agent server; determine that the fulfillment request includes a request for personal data; obtain the requested personal data; encrypt the personal data with a second encryption key of the encryption key pair; and provide, via the communications module and to the conversation agent server, the encrypted personal data for transmission to the client device.
US12169672B2
Computer systems and methods are provided for increasing a rate of simulation for quantum computing devices. A quantum computing device includes a plurality of gates, each of which is coupled to one or more modes. In the provided computer systems and methods, a device definition and state information for the quantum computing device are received. The state information includes a plurality of input patterns, each of which indicates a number of input bosons that correspond to a respective mode of the quantum computing device, and an amplitude that corresponds to each input pattern. The device definition includes a plurality of sets of gate values that indicate modification by a respective gate of an input pattern probability. A first group of input patterns is generated for a first gate. The first group of input patterns includes a subset of the plurality of input patterns that meet grouping criteria.
US12169654B2
After a first server obtains a change instruction to change a connection destination of a specific printing apparatus connected to the first server to a second server, the first server sets the printer information of the specific printing apparatus to a locked state. While the printer information is in the locked state, the first server allows processing to reference the printer information and denies processing to update the printer information. After the second server stores the printer information received from the first server, the second server notifies each of the first server and an application server cooperating with the second server that the printer information has been stored. After the first server obtains the change instruction, the first server instructs the specific printing apparatus to connect to the second server.
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Methods, systems, and devices for caching for a multiple-level memory device are described. First data may be received for writing to a memory device that include multiple-level cells that are programmable using multiple programming modes. Based on receiving the first data, the first data may be written to first multiple-level cells using a first programming mode. Based on writing the first data to the first multiple-level cells, the first data may be transferred from the first multiple-level cells to second multiple-level cells using a third programming mode. Later, second data writing to the memory device may be received. Based on receiving the second data, a determination of whether to write the second data to third multiple-level cells using the first programming mode or a second programming mode may be made based on available multiple-level cells that are ready for programming.
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Various implementations described herein relate to systems and methods for a storage device (e.g., a Solid State Drive (SSD)) to perform a Compute Function (CF). One or more embodiments include a method by which a data transfer is annotated to call out a computation to be performed by the storage device on data before, after, or in parallel with reading the data from or writing the data to the storage device. One or more embodiments include a storage device including a controller, wherein the controller is configured to perform a method including receiving a command from a host, the command identifying the CF, and in response to receiving the command, performing the CF on at least one of internal data stored in the storage device or external data transferred from the host to determine the computation result of the CF.
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Examples disclosed herein describe prompt modification techniques for automated image generation. An image generation request comprising a base prompt is received from a user device. A plurality of prompt modifiers is identified. A processor-implemented scoring engine determines, for each prompt modifier, a modifier score. The modifier score for each prompt modifier is associated with the base prompt. One or more of the prompt modifiers are automatically selected based on the modifier scores. A modified prompt is generated. The modified prompt is based on the base prompt and the one or more selected prompt modifiers. The modified prompt is provided as input to an automated image generator to generate an image, and the image is caused to be presented on the user device.
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A stretchable array substrate includes: a resin base member and an array layer. The resin base member includes bodies disposed apart from each other and hinges that couple the bodies. The array layer includes electrical wiring lines stacked on the hinges. The hinges each includes a linear portion and a bend that meanders and couples second ends of two of the linear portions. The electrical wiring lines include: a first electrical line stacked on the linear portion; and a second electrical line stacked on the bend. The first electrical line is provided with: a joint stacked on the first end of the linear portion; and a thin wiring portion closer to the second end of the linear portion than the joint and having a length in a width direction intersecting a longitudinal direction of the first electrical line smaller than a length in the width direction of the joint.
