US12172013B2
A neuromodulation system is provided herein. The system can include a cuff electrode, an electronics package, which can be part of a neuromodulation device; an external controller; a sensor; and a computing device. The neuromodulation device can include an antenna including an upper and a lower coil electrically connected to each other in parallel. The computing device can execute a closed-loop algorithm based on physiological sensed data relating to sleep.
US12172012B2
A method of implanting includes inserting a stimulation element into a head-and-neck region and positioning an electrode array of the stimulation element relative to a target portion of a nerve.
US12172008B2
A method for producing cardiomyocyte cells including implanting a substrate within a heart such that a first portion of the substrate is in physical contact with an endocardium and a second portion of the substrate is not in contact with the endocardium, maintaining the first portion of the substrate in contact with the endocardium for a time at least sufficient to form trabecular fibers extending between the endocardium and the second portion of the substrate, cutting away the trabecular fibers from the endocardium, cutting away the trabecular fibers from the substrate, and removing the trabecular fibers from the heart, wherein the trabecular fibers include cardiomyocyte cells.
US12172001B2
Methods of providing electrical neural modulation to a patient's brain are disclosed herein. The methods involve differentially modulating two or more target regions of the brain. For example, a first target region may be provided with an electrical neural modulation signal that activates that target region while a second target region is provided with an electrical neural modulation signal that suppresses or deactivates that target region. As the implantable pulse generators (IPGs) described herein include independent current sources, such differential modulation can be provided with a single IPG.
US12171996B2
A customized electrical stimulation providing system includes: an electrical stimulation request input unit receiving electrical stimulation mode selection information; an electrical stimulation control unit setting an electrical stimulation control variable according to the electrical stimulation mode selection information and generating a control signal; and an electrical stimulation providing means receiving the control signal generated by the electrical stimulation control unit and providing electrical stimulation, wherein the electrical stimulation mode selection information includes at least one of a beauty mode (muscle loss mode) and a muscle strengthening mode.
US12171994B2
A bearing assembly is configured to retain an end of an impeller of a blood pump and includes a thrust plate having a distal-facing surface and an impeller bearing surface configured to be disposed adjacent the distal-facing surface such that a gap is defined between the distal-facing surface of the thrust plate and the impeller bearing surface. The impeller bearing surface includes at least one washout blade disposed thereon and configured to facilitate blood flow through the gap.
US12171991B2
The present disclosure relates to an injector device comprising: a housing having a distal end and a proximal end; a medicament cartridge disposed within the housing; a needle unit comprising a needle, the needle unit being disposed in the distal end of the housing; and a button disposed in the proximal end of the housing, the button being configured to move the cartridge onto the needle unit to fluidly connect the needle with the cartridge when, in use, the button is pressed from an initial position into a depressed position.
US12171981B2
A pump device for conveying a medical fluid, the pump device includes a membrane forming a pump volume. The membrane is expanded in a filling state of the pump volume with the medical fluid. The expanded membrane exerts a delivery pressure on the pump volume to deliver the medical fluid into a fluid-line system. The pump device also has a throttle device with a channel having an inlet connected to the pump volume and an outlet connectable to the fluid-line system. The delivery of the medical fluid through the outlet is finely adjustable to a flow rate at a time of manufacture. The throttle device has two bodies. The channel is formed between oppositely arranged surfaces of the bodies. The oppositely arranged surfaces are movable relative to each other for the fine adjustment of the flow rate during the manufacture, so that an effective length of the channel is variable.
US12171974B2
Described is a priming device to prime a gas from a fluid delivery system by receiving the gas and a fluid used to push the gas into a chamber, the priming device including a housing having a chamber, an inlet port, and an opening to release gas received into the chamber. The device further includes a valve extending from the inlet port toward the chamber and a cover body comprising one or more flexible protrusions extending axially inward from an inner surface of the cover body. The cover body has an open first end, an open second end, and an axis between the first end and the second end, the first end configured to couple with a male luer connector, the second end configured to couple with the inlet port of the housing, wherein the cover body is moveable relative to the housing.
US12171973B2
A disinfecting device for a Luer-activated device having a septum is disclosed. The disinfecting device includes a cap, a plunger including a standoff and a face, and a disinfectant. When the Luer-activated device is secured to the disinfecting device, the Luer-activated device is engaged with the standoff, but the Luer-activated device septum does not contact the standoff or the face.
US12171969B2
The present invention relates to a dissolvable microneedle comprising needles made of a water-soluble material assembled on one side of a base, which is a sheet material having liquid-permeable cavities, wherein the needles being assembled to the base such that bottom portion of the needles is directly connected to the base, the connection of the bottom portion of the needle s to the base forming through a structure in which the bottom portion of the needles penetrates into the base (102), occupying some or all cavities of the base. The dissolvable microneedle with the structure according to the present invention is convenient to use as the penetrating structure that connects the needle s to the base can be dissolved quickly and efficiently; therefore, the base can be removed from the top skin without the needles embedded within the skin being pulled out. Hence, there is no clearly visible remainder on the top skin, and the active agent contained in or coated on the needles can also be released more effectively.
US12171967B2
The disclosure provides example shunt apparatus and methods for deploying the apparatus. The apparatus includes (a) an inner catheter having first and second ends, where the inner catheter has a plurality of fenestrations extending along a portion of the inner catheter, (b) an outer catheter, where the inner catheter is positioned at least partially within a lumen of the outer catheter, (c) a deployment wire moveably arranged in a lumen of a conduit that is coupled to the outer catheter, and (d) a mesh arranged surrounding at least the first end of the inner catheter, where the mesh has a first end coupled to the inner catheter and the mesh has a second end coupled to the deployment wire, where the mesh is configured to move between a first position in an unexpanded condition having the form of a sheath to a second position in an expanded condition.
US12171962B2
A functionally integratable catheter system comprising functional units that can be assembled to produce different configurations. The functional units include: one or more FICS support catheters; one or more FICS dilators: one or more FICS PTA catheters; and one or more FICS lock-grip handles. Functional units can be provided in a pre-assembled form by the manufacturer, optionally pre-packaged as a device tray, for assembly into different configurations by clinical operators. The configurational adaptability of the FICS platform enables physicians to efficiently address multiple procedural aspects of treatment processes, including lesion access, lesion penetration, guide-wire negotiation, lesion recanalization, and dilation, by providing in situ treatment options, including intraluminal and/or extraluminal recanalization, and enables multi-stage, patient-customized treatments of complex lesions in vivo, including lesion-length-selective, multi-stage angioplasty treatment.
US12171961B2
A catheter system may include a needle assembly coupled to a catheter adapter. The needle assembly may include a housing, an introducer needle, a distal opening, a first magnet, and a second magnet. In response to proximal withdrawal of the introducer needle, the first magnet may move towards the second magnet, which may block the distal opening and/or prevent blood from leaking out the distal opening.
US12171958B2
An elongate, flexible, medical device having distal and proximal ends, including an inner member having a proximal and distal end, a support member extending around the inner member between the proximal and distal end, a plurality of electrically-conductive wires, each braided with the support member having a proximal and distal end, an outer member surrounding the inner member, the support member, and the plurality of electrically-conductive wires and an actuator including a polymer electrolyte layer secured adjacent to the distal end of the elongate, flexible inner member and defining an exterior surface, electrodes distributed about the exterior of the polymer electrolyte layer. The distal end of one of the electrically-conductive wires is electrically connected to one of the electrodes. The polymer electrolyte layer is configured to deform asymmetrically in response to the application of an electrical signal through the plurality of electrically-conductive wires to the plurality of electrodes.
US12171955B2
A catheter procedure system including a bedside system and a remote workstation is provided. The bedside system includes a catheter including an expandable percutaneous intervention device, a robotic catheter system configured to move the catheter, and an inflation device configured to cause expansion of the expandable percutaneous intervention device. The remote workstation includes a user interface configured to receive a at least first user input and a second user input and a control system operatively coupled to the user interface for remotely controlling both the robotic catheter system and the inflation device. The remote workstation includes a monitor configured to display information related to the expandable percutaneous intervention device. The control system controls the robotic catheter system to move the catheter based upon at least the first user input and controls the inflation device to cause expansion of the expandable percutaneous intervention device based upon at least the second user input.
US12171953B2
A catheter and a method of making a device having an outer member, a primer, and an inner liner laminated to the outer member. The primer is provided between the outer member and the inner liner and annealed to secure the inner liner to the outer member.
US12171949B2
A respiratory assistance apparatus includes a flow generator and a humidifier. The humidifier includes a humidification chamber. The humidification chamber comprises a water tub that is configured to receive a volume of water. A lid is hingedly coupled to the water tub for enclosing a volume contained within the water tub.
US12171943B2
A respiratory mask includes a housing and a cushion or seal that seals on a user's face in use. An upper portion of the seal that is disposed on a user's nasal bridge in use can roll toward and/or over the outer surface of the housing to form a rolling bridge feature that adjusts to different nose sizes. As the rolling bridge rolls, an apex of the seal moves away from the user's face to adjust to larger nose sizes. The apex does not move downward and can move upward relative to a location of the apex in a neutral position of the seal.
US12171938B1
Apparatus, methods, and systems for delivery and administration of pharmaceutical, therapeutic and cosmetic substances to users. The method includes providing a removable capsule having an atomizer, inserting the removable capsule in a channel of a base unit of a device. The channel is in fluid communication with a mixing chamber of the base unit, and the base unit defines openings on the base unit configured to receive a portion of a conduit and a removable air mover unit. Further, the method includes dispensing, using the atomizer, the at least one medication from the removable capsule to the mixing chamber of the base unit, and using the removable air mover unit, causing air and the at least one medication within the mixing chamber to be conveyed from the mixing chamber to the conduit such that air and the at least one medication dispensed from the removable capsule exits the conduit.
US12171931B2
Connection pads for coupling fluid-instillation and negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) apparatuses to wound dressing, and methods and wound dressings for breaching a drape after coupling a wound dressing to a fluid-instillation and/or NPWT apparatus.
US12171920B2
A connector arrangement (10) for connecting to a fluid chamber (6) of a blood treatment unit (4) for extracorporeal blood treatments. The connector arrangement (10) includes a connector device (11) with a connector body (47) comprising a port opening (43) and an interior wall (50) defining a port space (39) designed to receive a first fluid port (8A) of the fluid chamber (6). The connector device (11) also incorporates a fluid path (35a) extending from the port space (39) to a first end opening (51) of the connector device (11), and an air path (36a) extending from the port space (39) to a second end opening (52) of the connector device (11), wherein the fluid path (35a) and the air path (36a) are separate paths. Also a system (1) for extracorporeal blood treatment including the connector arrangement (10) and a method for priming the fluid chamber (6).
US12171919B2
A renal therapy system is disclosed. In an example, the renal therapy system includes a home renal therapy machine that stores, to a log file, dates of when renal therapies were performed and a type of each renal therapy that was performed. The system also includes a server that receives the log file from the home renal therapy machine. The server compares the dates and types of performed renal therapies stored in the log file to a device program that specifies dates for performing renal therapies and the types of renal therapies to be performed. The server displays a flag in a user interface of a clinician computer when there is a deviation from the comparison.
US12171918B2
A breast pump includes a main body, a breast milk suctioning shield, and one or more air pumps. The breast milk suctioning shield is assembled in an accommodation space of the main body and detachably connected to the main body. A front end of the breast milk suctioning shield has a breast shielding portion, and a nipple passage extends from a rear end of a center portion of the breast shielding portion. One or more deformable members and a non-deformable supporting member are assembled with an annular connection portion located between the breast shielding portion and the nipple passage. The air pump has an intake port and an exhaust port. The intake port is controlled by a first valve controller to suction the nipple passage and generate a negative pressure, and the exhaust port is controlled by a second valve controller to inflate or deflate the deformable member.
US12171915B2
Provided is a lighting device with an inactivation function, the lighting device allowing the addition of an inactivation function while being equal to conventional lighting devices in device size. The lighting device with the inactivation function includes: a UVC light source to emit ultraviolet light having a peak wavelength in a wavelength range from 200 nm to 230 nm; an LED light source to emit visible light; a single unit of an AC/DC converter to convert an AC voltage derived from an external power source into a DC voltage and output the DC voltage; a UVC light source-specific circuit part to convert the DC voltage output from the AC/DC converter into a voltage for lighting the UVC light source; and an LED light source-specific circuit part to convert the DC voltage output from the AC/DC converter into a current for lighting the LED light source.
US12171914B1
The present invention relates to a system and method of deodorizing air using aqueous ozone as a catalyst. Water is delivered to an electrochemical ozone generator which forms aqueous ozone gas, oxygen gas, and hydrogen gas. The first treatment stage oxidizes airflow extracted from a surrounding environment by combining the airflow with the aqueous ozone gas, oxygen, and hydrogen forming an oxidized airflow. A second stage deodorizes the oxidized airflow to form a deodorized airflow with hydroxide molecules that are created by combining the oxidized airflow with ultraviolet light, titanium oxide particles, and sintered columnar manganese dioxide particles. Residual aqueous ozone gas is converted to oxygen by interaction with the titanium oxide particles and the sintered columnar manganese dioxide particles. The deodorized airflow is vented back to the surrounding environment with ozone gas at or below the human-safe permissible level.
US12171909B2
Provided is a compression resistant implant configured to fit at or near a bone defect to promote bone growth. The compression resistant implant comprises a biodegradable polymer in an amount of about 0.1 wt % to about 20 wt % of the implant and a freeze-dried oxysterol in an amount of about 5 wt % to about 90 wt % of the implant. Methods of making and use are further provided.
US12171908B1
A composition and methods of making or use thereof include a plurality of fibers forming a shape for augmenting tendon to bone repair. The physical presence of the plurality of fibers provides initial fixation, while the use of an osteoinductive material provides long term enhancement of bone formation around the site of the tendon to bone repair.
US12171907B2
A method of making infused bone fibers employs the following steps: cutting or shaving whole bone into bone fibers, washing the bone fibers, demineralizing or decalcifying at least partially the whole bone or bone fibers and infusing the bone fibers with a supernatant of biologic material or a polyampholyte cryoprotectant or a combination of both to create infused bone fibers. The step of infusing includes exposing the bone fibers to a negative pressure or vacuum to draw the supernatant and/or the polyampholyte cryoprotectant into the bone fibers, or alternatively, exposing the demineralized whole bone to a positive pressure to drive the supernatant and/or the polyampholyte cryoprotectant into the bone. The resultant method creates an infused bone grafting composition having bone fibers taken from whole bone, demineralized or decalcified at least partially and infused with one or more of a supernatant of biologic material or a polyampholyte cryoprotectant or both.
US12171903B2
Methods of producing bioresorbable porous biocomposites for orthopaedic applications are provided. In an exemplary embodiment of a resorbable orthopaedic implant of the present disclosure, the implant comprises a porous alloy of at least a first metal and a second metal sintered together, the alloy configured to resorb into a body at substantially an atomic level without flaking off, wherein a porosity of the implant is defined by a first plurality of interconnected holes having a first range of sizes.
US12171897B2
A sterilization and air purification control system and a mounting structure of a waste disposer include a bottom mounting housing and a disposer main machine and a sterilization module. The sterilization module includes an ozone generator driver, a negative oxygen ion generator and an exhaust mechanism. The bottom mounting housing is an accommodating housing and is detachably mounted at a bottom portion of the disposer main machine, an outer edge of the bottom mounting housing is provided with a light strip, the exhaust mechanism is fixedly connected to an inside of one side surface of the bottom mounting housing, and the exhaust mechanism communicates with inner and outer sides of the bottom mounting housing.
US12171894B2
A lighting array including one or more antimicrobial light segments, each light segments including one or more antimicrobial light sources, is configured to emit light sufficient to inactivate one or more microorganisms on a touch screen display surface. The lighting array may individually control activation of the one or more antimicrobial light segments based on user presence information, time of day information, and/or touch screen display usage information. A touch screen display assembly includes a housing, a touch screen display and a lighting array including one or more antimicrobial light segments.
US12171887B2
This invention concerns pharmaceutical compositions for administration via intramuscular or subcutaneous injection, comprising micro- or nanoparticles of the anti-TB compound bedaquiline, suspended in an aqueous pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and the use of such pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment and prophylaxis of a pathogenic mycobacterial infection.
US12171884B2
A nanocarrier including a silica body having a surface and defining a plurality of pores that are suitable to receive molecules therein is described. The nanocarrier also includes a lipid bilayer coating the surface, and a cargo-trapping agent within the phospholipid bilayer. The phospholipid bilayer stably seals the plurality of pores. The cargo-trapping reagent can be selected to interact with a desired cargo, such as a drug.
US12171876B2
Provided in the present disclosure are a compound of formula (I), or an N-oxide, solvate, pharmaceutically acceptable salt or stereoisomer thereof. Further provided are a composition containing the aforementioned compound, and the use thereof in the delivery of a therapeutic agent or prophylactic agent.
US12171875B2
In one aspect, the disclosure relates to compositions for the extended release of drugs in the retina. In a further aspect, the present disclosure provides methods of preparing extended release compositions comprising a therapeutic agent for use in retinal drug delivery. In various other aspects, the present disclosure provides methods for delivery of the disclosed compositions comprising a therapeutic agent to the retina via intravitreal injection. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US12171862B2
The present invention relates to a personal washing composition comprising a detersive surfactant, at least one rheology modifying polymer, at least one cationic conditioning polymer, at least one benefit agent, and an anionic polymer of polysulfonic acid. The composition is a sulfate-free or substantial sulfate-free personal washing composition. The present invention further relates to a method of achieving improved conditioning benefits and/or improved deposition of benefit agents onto hair and/or skin.
US12171861B2
A composition for coating keratin fibres, in the form of a wax-in-water emulsion including, in a first continuous aqueous phase, at least one legume starch having an amylose content greater than or equal to 30%, at least one plasticiser chosen among the polyols, at least one wax, at least one emulsifier and at least one colouring agent. Also, the use of such a composition in order to provide keratin fibres, in particular eyelashes, with a lengthening and curling effect.
US12171855B2
The present invention is directed to a cosmetic composition comprising: (a) one or more esters of sucrose and fatty acids, wherein the fatty acids are selected from those having from about 12 to about 24 carbon atoms, and wherein the sucrose esters are selected from the group consisting of mono-ester, di-ester, tri-ester, tetra-ester, and mixtures thereof; and (b) one or more solvents selected from those having Hildebrand Solubility Parameter of from about 23 to about 31.5 (J/cm3)1/2 and Polar component of Hansen Solubility Parameter of from about 4.5 to about 10.5 (J/cm3)1/2. The cosmetic compositions of the present invention dissolve the sucrose esters in the cosmetic compositions, even when the sucrose esters are contained at higher levels in the compositions and/or even when the sucrose esters are contained in an aqueous phase of the cosmetic composition.
US12171840B2
The present invention discloses an antibody drug conjugate that targets MSLN. The present invention also disclosed a method of making the antibody drug conjugate (ADC). The present invention further discloses a novel MSLN antibody or a functional fragment thereof comprising engineered heavy and light chains.
US12171832B2
Methods for maintaining clinical remission of ulcerative colitis in a human patient are described comprising administration of an antibody that has binding specificity for human alpha4beta7 integrin using a safe dosing regimen of these antibody formulations that is easy to follow, and which results in a therapeutically effective amount of the anti-alpha4beta7 antibody in vivo.
US12171831B2
The present invention relates to bifunctional compounds, which find utility as modulators of targeted ubiquitination, especially inhibitors of a variety of polypeptides and other proteins which are degraded and/or otherwise inhibited by bifunctional compounds according to the present invention. In particular, the present invention is directed to compounds, which contain on one end a VHL ligand which binds to the ubiquitin ligase and on the other end a moiety which binds a target protein such that the target protein is placed in proximity to the ubiquitin ligase to effect degradation (and inhibition) of that protein. The present invention exhibits a broad range of pharmacological activities associated with compounds according to the present invention, consistent with the degradation/inhibition of targeted polypeptides.
US12171828B2
Fraction A of Quil A can be used together with at least one other adjuvant for the preparation of an adjuvant composition, where the included adjuvant components act synergistically to enhance level of immune response and have synergistic immunomodulating activity on the co-administered antigens or immunogens. Other adjuvants can comprise saponins, naturally occurring, synthetic or semisynthetic saponin molecules; e.g. saponins and saponin fractions from Quil A, cell wall skeleton, block polymers, TDM, lipopeptides, LPS and LPS-derivatives, Lipid A from different bacterial species and derivatives thereof, e.g., monophosphoryl lipid A, CpG variants, CT and LT or fractions thereof.
US12171827B2
The invention relates to an immunogenic or vaccine composition against the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-COV-2), comprising a nucleic acid construct encoding a SARS-COV-2 coronavirus Spike (S) protein antigen or a fragment thereof comprising the receptor-binding domain, wherein the nucleic acid construct sequence is codon-optimized for expression in 5 human.
US12171822B2
The application is directed to in vitro-reared Plasmodium sporozoites of human host range wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same. Provided herein are in vitro-reared infectious Plasmodium sporozoites (SPZ) of human host range, particularly P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and P. knowlesi, wherein sporogony from gametocyte stage to sporozoite stage is external to mosquitoes, and methods of producing the same.
US12171817B2
Antigens of Toxoplasma gondii that provide specific and strong delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH) immune response, or which stimulate IFN-γ secretion, are used for testing subjects for infection. Any skin testing format may be adapted for testing for the delayed type hypersensitivity, including a patch, a needle, or a prong. Presence of DTH indicates infection. Alternate methods of detecting a T cell response including monitoring IFN-γ secretion may be used.
US12171814B2
Provided is a protein complex including a botulinum toxin translocation domain and endolysin. When used, the protein complex including a botulinum translocation domain and endolysin according to the present invention exhibits an antibacterial effect and thus can be used as an antibacterial composition or an antibiotic.
US12171813B2
This disclosure relates to methods of and compositions for reducing expression or activity of a variant gene comprising at least one mutation as compared its wild-type gene, comprising introducing into a cell comprising the variant gene one or more DNA sequences encoding two or more gRNAs that are complementary to two or more target sequences in the variant gene, wherein at least one of the gRNAs hybridizes to a target sequence comprising a PAM site in the variant gene that results from a mutation to the variant gene creating the PAM site that does not exist in the wild-type gene or is operably linked to a mutated portion of the wild-type gene, at least one of the gRNAs hybridizes to a target sequence comprising a PAM site in an intron of the variant gene downstream or upstream from the PAM site, and a nucleic acid sequence encoding a CRISPR-associated endonuclease; wherein a CRISPR-associated endonuclease cleaves the variant gene at the target sequences; and expression or activity of the variant gene is reduced in the cell relative to a cell in which the one or more DNA sequences encoding the two or more gRNAs and the nucleic acid sequence encoding the CRISPR-associated endonuclease are not introduced.
US12171808B2
The invention relates to a fusion protein comprising a main protein and one or more extension peptides, wherein the amino acid sequence of the main protein is identical or similar to the amino acid sequence of a mammalian protein or a fragment thereof, and said extension peptide comprises a cluster of O-glycosylated amino acids. The extension peptide is identical to a non-repeated sequence of the mammalian protein and/or identical or similar to SEQ ID NO: 1. The main protein is preferably VWF. The fusion protein has an increased half life as compared to the main protein and may be used to increase the half-life of a binding partner, e.g. FVIII. The invention further relates to the complex formed by the fusion protein, a polynucleotide encoding the fusion protein as well as a vector and host cell comprising the polynucleotide.
US12171804B2
This disclosure provides a method of preventing, alleviating, or treating a condition (i.e., neutropenia) in a patient in need thereof, the condition characterized by compromised white blood cell production in the patient. The method includes administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a protein complex comprising a modified human granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (hG-CSF) covalently linked to an immunoglobulin Fc region via a non-peptidyl polymer at a fixed dose regardless of the patient's weight.
US12171803B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for treating cancer in an individual comprising administering to the individual an effective amount of a TLR agonist and a chimeric CD154 polypeptide. Also provided herein are methods of enhanced immune function.
US12171793B2
The present invention relates to methods of activating live lactic acid bacteria comprising exposing said bacteria to a preparation comprising citrate, wherein said bacteria have the ability to utilize citrate as an external electron acceptor. The present invention further relates to methods to enhance the activity of certain live bacteria in mammals. More specifically the invention relates to improve the wake-up of certain lactic acid bacteria from the freeze-dried state. The present invention also relates to preparations comprising said activated bacteria and therapeutic uses of said activated bacteria.
US12171792B2
Compositions comprising Bacillus pumilis O72NR7 (deposit accession number DSM 32563) are useful for improving myriad performance parameters when fed to animals, including, but not limited to, body weight gain, average daily gain and feed conversion rates. The present disclosure describes animal feed additives and animal feeds comprising Bacillus pumilis O72NR7.
US12171789B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing an extract from edible bird's nest, a bird's nest extract and uses of the bird's nest extract. The method comprises preparing an edible bird's nest (EBN) mixture; and contacting the mixture with an extraction solution to bind a molecule in the mixture, wherein the extraction solution comprises at least one binding moiety selected from the group comprising an opsonin binding moiety, a complement protein binding moiety, a lectin binding moiety, a ficolin binding moiety, a collectin binding moiety, and a pentraxin binding moiety.
US12171783B2
The subject matter disclosed herein is generally directed to compositions and methods for treating diffuse gliomas with histone H3 lysine27-to-methionine mutations (H3K27M-gliomas). Disclosed herein are gene signatures specific for tumor cell types and compositions for treatment of H3K27M gliomas. In one embodiment, PRC1 is targeted in a treatment regimen for H3K27M-gliomas.
US12171779B2
Disclosed herein are crosslinked chondroitin sulfate particles crosslinked chondroitin sulfate particle polyelectrolytes. The particles are useful in drug delivery applications. The particles may be used to treat various conditions, including bacterial and fungal infections.
US12171774B2
Provided herein is a topical analgesic composition that includes an external analgesic agent, one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients, and at least one of a cannabinoid, terpene, and flavonoid. Also provided is a method that includes topically administering to a skin surface of a subject (e.g., human) the topical analgesic composition.
US12171771B2
Described herein are neurotrophic and nootropic compositions and methods for treating subjects with such compositions. In one aspect the composition comprises one or more tryptamines or in pure form or extracts from psilocybin containing mushrooms, or combinations thereof optionally combined with one or more phenethylamines or amphetamines in pure form or extracts from a plant or mushroom, or combinations thereof, optionally one or more erinacines or hericenones in pure form, extracts from Hericium mushroom species (e.g., H. erinaceus, H. coralloides, H. ramosum) or combinations thereof, optionally one or more cannabinoids in pure form or extracts from Cannabis sativa, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, or Cannabis ruderalis, optionally, one or more adversive compounds, and optionally one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients.
US12171761B2
Disclosed herein are inclusion complexes comprising vilazodone or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and an inclusion material, compositions and pharmaceutical formulations comprising the inclusion complexes, and methods for preparing the inclusion complexes, compositions or pharmaceutical formulations.
US12171745B2
Provided herein are methods of treating non-hemorrhagic closed head injury (NHCHI) with 3,3′-diindolylmethane or an analog thereof. In one embodiment, NHCHI covers Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs) including mild to severe concussion, blast injury due to proximity to explosions, cerebral contusion, coup-contrecoup injury, DAI, Second Impact Syndrome, or CHI associated with deceleration injury.
US12171732B2
Composition and methods for treatment or prevention of a respiratory infection in a mammal, including a viral infection, like a coronavirus such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), or variants thereof. The compositions and methods include a therapeutically effective amount of about a 1% solution of N-chlorotaurine in water. The methods include administering N-chlorotaurine by nasal spray to the nostrils, by oral spray to the throat, and by nebulizer to the lungs.
US12171729B2
The present invention provides novel pharmaceutical formulations comprising derivatives of NDGA, including M4N (tetra-0-methyl nordihydroguaiaretic acid) and temozolomide and their use in the inhibition and treatment of neoplastic diseases, including glioblastoma multiforme, lung and other cancers.
US12171722B2
A tubing assembly for use with electronic catheter guidance systems is provided and includes a catheter and an acoustic sensor. The catheter extends in a longitudinal direction and has a proximal end and a distal end that define a lumen therebetween. Further, the catheter is configured for placement within a patient's digestive tract. The acoustic sensor can be located within the lumen of the catheter or in a sampling chamber connected to the catheter. The acoustic sensor can communicate with a processor to deliver sound data to a display device. The appearance of random spikes on a frequency versus time spectrogram can indicate placement of the catheter in the digestive tract, while a rhythmic/repetitive pattern on a frequency versus time spectrogram can indicate placement of the catheter in the respiratory tract. A catheter guidance system and method for accurately placing a catheter in the digestive tract are also provided.
US12171713B2
Systems and methods relating to displaying images are disclosed. In one embodiment, sensor data is received via one or more sensors of a wearable head device comprising a display, the sensor data indicative of a surrounding environment of a user of the wearable head device. An image can be determined based on the sensor data, the image corresponding to the surrounding environment. A visibility of a first portion of the image corresponding to a first portion of the surrounding environment can be enhanced. Enhancing a visibility of a second portion of the image corresponding to a second portion of the surrounding environment can be forgone. The enhanced first portion of the image and a view of the second portion of the surrounding environment can be presented concurrently via the display of the wearable head device.
US12171706B2
An orthosis device for a subject includes a main housing assembly configured to be worn on an upper extremity of the subject, and a body part interface assembly configured to be secured to the portion of the upper extremity and induce, as actuated by a motor mechanism, flexion and extension motion of the secured body part. A flexible intermediate member is interposed between the main housing assembly and the body part interface assembly, and is configured to flex or extend responsive to actuation by the motor mechanism to cause the body part interface assembly to flex or extend the secured body part.
US12171700B2
The embodiments described and claimed herein include an automated securement system that lock a wheeled mobility device into a designated station aboard an autonomous public transit vehicle, thus preventing unintended movement that is discomforting and potentially dangerous for both the WMD user and other passengers. The automated securement system includes features that integrate with typical autonomous public transit vehicles to minimize obstruction during stowage while maximizing effectiveness during deployment.
US12171697B1
A cremation box includes a base and a lid. The base has a rectangular bottom section with a pair of long base panels and a pair of short base panels formed by creases in the cardboard. Each of the long base panels has a pair of long base transverse edges cut along lines substantially in line with the creases between the base rectangular bottom section and the short base panels, creating a pair of flaps on opposite sides of the short base panels. When assembled, the flaps are secured to the long base panels to form four corners. The lid has a similar bottom section, long panels and short panels formed by creases, and flaps that form corners. The flaps are secured to the long panels by tabs and cuts in the panels.
US12171677B2
A balloon comprising: a center portion having a proximal end, a distal end opposite the proximal end, and a length between the proximal end and the distal end. The center portion comprises: a first nominal diameter and a first radial modulus at the proximal end; a second nominal diameter and a second radial modulus at the distal end; further wherein, the first nominal diameter is equal to the second nominal diameter, such that, when the balloon is inflated to a nominal pressure, the center portion has a constant diameter over the length; and further wherein, the first radial modulus is smaller than the second radial modulus, such that, when the balloon is inflated above a nominal pressure, the center portion adopts a tapered shape in which the proximal end has a first stretched diameter and the distal end has a second stretched diameter, the first stretched diameter being larger than the second stretched diameter.
US12171676B2
A stent, shunt, or plug, for at least partial insertion into a patient, can include a deformable elongated tubular body including a proximal portion and a distal portion and defining a longitudinal lumen of the tubular body therebetween. The deformable elongated body can be capable of an expanded state and a collapsed state. The tubular body can include a sheath and a plurality of magnetizable or magnetic elements for providing magnetic repulsion, after being magnetically actuated, to maintain the tubular body to maintain the expanded state.
US12171673B2
There invention relates to a handle (100) for coupling to orthopaedic surgical instruments used in joint arthroplasty. The handle is universal. The handle comprises a body (102) having a proximal end (106), a distal end (104), and an open-ended channel (108) extending between the distal end and the proximal end. The channel is configured for receiving a shaft of a first orthopaedic instrument (10) such that the shaft extends completely through the handle, and the handle is in a sliding relationship with the shaft. The channel is also configured for separately and independently receiving a handle-attachment portion located at a proximal end of a second orthopaedic surgical instrument (500, 502, 504) such that the handle and the second orthopaedic surgical instrument are held in a fixed relationship.
US12171660B2
A transcatheter device for treating the tricuspid valve regurgitation. The transcatheter device comprises a main shaft, a proximal portion, a distal tail, and a spacer body mounted on the main shaft and located between the proximal portion and the distal tail. This transcatheter device could be used for treating tricuspid valve regurgitation in a patient's heart. All or part of the transcatheter device is supported by the main shaft. The spacer body is mounted on the shaft, which travels through the spacer body. Also disclosed are a coaptation assembly that comprises the transcatheter device, and a method of treating tricuspid valve regurgitation using the transcatheter device.
US12171648B2
A filter, including a main body part. The main body part includes a heart-proximal end, a plurality of connecting segments, and a first filter mesh connecting between the heart-proximal end and the plurality of connecting segments. An end of the connecting segments that is connected to the first filter mesh is bent towards a central longitudinal axis of the filter to form a bending part. A vertical distance between a proximal end of the bending part and the central longitudinal axis of the filter is less than a vertical distance between a distal end of the bending part and the central longitudinal axis of the filter.
US12171646B2
The present disclosure generally relates to an absorbent pad for use in a garment. The absorbent pad includes: a liquid impermeable barrier layer; a functional layer attached to the barrier layer, the functional layer comprising a liquid absorbent component; a liquid impermeable peripheral sealing element bonded to peripheries of the functional layer and barrier layer; and a peripheral attaching element having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion bonded to the peripheral sealing element. The second portion of the peripheral attaching element is detached from the peripheral sealing element and is arranged to be attached to a fabric body of the garment, thereby attaching the absorbent pad to the garment.
US12171628B2
The present invention relates to a dental blank, in particular a parallelepipedal block, having an upper surface and a lower surface, which is composed of a flesh-coloured material and a tooth-coloured material. The flesh-coloured material and the tooth-coloured material are bonded together. The interface between the materials with elevations and depressions formed in or at the interface extends through an optionally curved plane, which plane is parallel to or oblique to at least a portion of the surfaces of the blank.
US12171620B2
There are provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method for an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus capable of activating an ultrasound probe only by an operation of an apparatus main body and achieving power saving. The ultrasound probe includes an ultrasound unit that acquires ultrasound image data, a probe-side first communication circuit and a probe-side second communication circuit each of which performs wireless communication with the apparatus main body and which have transmission capacities different from each other and power consumptions different from each other, and a power supply controller that selects one communication circuit among the probe-side first communication circuit and the probe-side second communication circuit according to a power supply mode of the ultrasound probe and performs wireless communication with the apparatus main body by using the selected communication circuit.
US12171617B2
It has been discovered that even mild changes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure or intracranial pressure (ICP) can be detected immediately as evidenced by distortions in the ONS surface structure. Further, the changes in the ONS persist after the CSF pressure has returned to normal. The stability of ONS distortions provides a means of detecting transient changes in brain pressure even when the use of the diagnostic ultrasound is delayed. One embodiment provides systems and methods for detecting or diagnosing brain injury by detecting distortions or deformations of the ONS, preferably using ultrasound.
US12171616B2
Disclosed is a Brillouin-optical coherence-speckle based multi-mode elasticity measurement device, including a Brillouin-optical coherence elastography common-path scanning unit, a Brillouin scattering elastography system, an optical coherence elastography system, a speckle elastography system, and a time sequence controller, where the Brillouin scattering elastography system and the optical coherence elastography system share the Brillouin-optical coherence elastography common-path scanning unit. According to the present invention, advantages that Brillouin scattering elastography can perform high-precision measurement on a bulk elasticity modulus, optical coherence elastography can rapidly obtain an elasticity distribution of an entire sample to perform three-dimensional elasticity mapping, and laser speckle elastography can perform wide-field elasticity measurement are utilized to perform in-situ synchronous imaging on elasticity distribution of lesion tissue, so that scientific basis and technical support are provided for early diagnosis of clinical diseases.
US12171614B2
For three-dimensional segmentation from two-dimensional intracardiac echocardiography imaging, the three-dimension segmentation is output by a machine-learnt multi-task generator. Rather than the brute force approach of training the generator from 2D ICE images to output a 2D segmentation, the generator is trained from 3D information, such as a sparse ICE volume assembled from the 2D ICE images. Where sufficient ground truth data is not available, computed tomography or magnetic resonance data may be used as the ground truth for the sample sparse ICE volumes. The generator is trained to output both the 3D segmentation and a complete volume (i.e., more voxels represented than in the sparse ICE volume). The 3D segmentation may be further used to project to 2D as an input with an ICE image to another network trained to output a 2D segmentation for the ICE image. Display of the 3D segmentation and/or 2D segmentation may guide ablation of tissue in the patient.
US12171611B2
A method for determining respiratory induced blood mass change from a four-dimensional computed tomography (4D CT) includes receiving a 4D CT image set which contains a first three-dimensional computed tomographic image (3D CT) and a second 3D CT image. The method includes executing a deformable image registration (DIR) function on the received 4D CT image set, and determining a displacement vector field indicative of the lung motion induced by patient respiration. The method further includes segmenting the received 3D CT images into a first segmented image and a second segmented. The method includes determining the change in blood mass between the first 3D CT image and the second 3D CT image from the DIR solution, the segmented images, and measured CT densities.
US12171601B2
Systems, methods, and devices for medical imaging are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for imaging an anatomic region includes receiving, from a detector carried by an imaging arm of an x-ray imaging apparatus, a plurality of images of the anatomic region. The images can be obtained during manual rotation of the imaging arm. The imaging arm can be stabilized by a shim structure during the manual rotation. The method can also include receiving, from at least one sensor coupled to the imaging arm, pose data of the imaging arm during the manual rotation. The method can further include generating, based on the images and the pose data, a 3D representation of the anatomic region.
US12171597B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for monitoring body parts of a patient simultaneously by means of high-resolution and high-sensitivity detection techniques which detect radiation emitted by a tracer. It is an object of the present invention a device for the enhanced determination of a fine location of at least one tracer within a body part of a patient which comprises a first pair of high-resolution detectors opposing detectors, and a second pair of high-sensitivity detectors and movable opposing detectors, and the device being configured to determine based on signals from the first pair of opposing detectors, position the second pair of opposing detectors based on the coarse location, and determining a fine location of the tracer based on signals from the second pair of opposing detectors, allowing to determine the location of a tracer with high spatial resolution and high sensitivity.
US12171596B2
The present disclosure may provide a SPECT system. The SPECT system may include a collimator including a group of first pinholes and a group of second pinholes. The group of first pinholes may be configured to remain open. The group of second pinholes may be configured to alternate between an open configuration and a blocked configuration. The collimator may be configured to allow photons to traverse through at least one group of the group of first pinholes or the group of second pinholes. The SPECT system may also include a detector configured to detect at least a portion of the photons that have traversed the collimator.
US12171591B2
An imaging system and methods including a gantry defining a bore and an imaging axis extending through the bore, and at least one support member that supports the gantry such that the imaging axis has a generally vertical orientation, where the gantry is displaceable with respect to the at least one support member in a generally vertical direction. The imaging system may be configured to obtain a vertical imaging scan (e.g., a helical x-ray CT scan), of a patient in a weight-bearing position. The gantry may be rotatable between a first position, in which the gantry is supported such that the imaging axis has a generally vertical orientation, and a second position, such that the imaging axis has a generally horizontal orientation. The gantry may be displaceable in a horizontal direction and the system may perform a horizontal scan of a patient or object positioned within the bore.
US12171587B2
Method of estimating a hearing loss, a hearing loss estimation system and a computer readable medium
A method of estimating a hearing loss based on a parameterized representation of a plurality of audiograms and a hearing estimation system adapted to carry out the method.
US12171584B2
An apparatus and a method for estimating a body component are provided. According to an example embodiment, the apparatus for estimating a body component includes: a sensor configured to obtain, from an object of a user, a first spectrum in a first concentration period of a body component and a second spectrum in a second concentration period of the body component; and a processor configured to extract a first feature vector based on the first spectrum and the second spectrum, to extract a second feature vector based on a standard spectrum and the second spectrum, and to perform first calibration by generating an estimation model for estimating the body component, generation of the estimation model being based on a similarity between the first feature vector and the second feature vector.
US12171574B2
A fastener according to the present disclosure includes a main unit, an adjuster unit which extends from the main unit and which is capable of being elastically inflected, and a cover unit coupled to the main unit through the adjuster unit. The cover unit is configured to be, by elastic flection of the adjuster unit, both in a state apart from the main unit and in a state latched with the main unit so as to cover the main unit, and with the cover unit being in the state latched with the main unit, a side surface of the main unit and a surface of the adjuster unit are apart from each other, the surface of the adjuster unit facing the side surface.
US12171571B2
Device and method for determining an efficacy of chronic pain treatment including providing a first set of at least one stimulus to a subject, obtaining first measurements of at least two physiological parameters in response to the first set of at least one stimulus, providing chronic pain treatment to the subject, providing a second set of at least one stimulus to the subject, obtaining second measurements of the at least two physiological parameters in response to the second set of at least one stimulus; and determining an efficacy of the chronic pain treatment by applying a classification algorithm on the first and second measurements of the at least two physiological parameters.
US12171562B1
An apparatus is provided. A strip has first and second end sections, and a first face and second face. Two electrocardiographic electrodes are provided on the strip with one of the electrocardiographic electrodes provided on the first face of the first end section of the strip and another of the electrocardiographic electrodes positioned on the first face on the second end section of the strip. A flexible circuit is mounted to the second face of the strip and includes a circuit trace electrically coupled to each of the electrocardiographic electrodes. The apparatus includes a wireless transceiver and a battery.
US12171555B2
Disclosed here are devices, systems, and methods for continuous monitoring of biomarkers using a wearable, non-intrusive microneedle sensor patch platform. In some aspects, a wearable, non-intrusive microneedle sensor device includes a microneedle sensor unit couplable to an electronics unit, where the microneedle sensor unit comprises a substrate, an array of spiked microneedle structures configured as electrochemical sensor electrodes, an array of base structures that encase a lower portion of spiked microneedle structures, and electrical interconnections that electrically couple the electrodes to the electronics unit for processing of detectable signals associated with one or multiple biomarkers in a biofluid.
US12171548B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for determining an estimate of an analyte level over time. The invention includes sampling sensor data using an analyte sensor positioned at least partially subcutaneously; storing a plurality of datasets of sensor data, each at a different rate; determining an estimated analyte level based on the datasets; and outputting the estimated analyte level to a display. Numerous additional aspects are disclosed.
US12171547B2
Systems and methods are provided to determine a time to provide guidance to a user regarding management of a physiologic condition such as diabetes. The determination may be based upon a model or pattern. The time to deliver guidance may be calculated to be useful to a user in the management of a glucose concentration level.
US12171546B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that performs ultra-fast tracer imaging on a subject using positron emission tomography. During operation, the system performs a high-temporal-resolution, total-body dynamic PET scan on the subject as an intravenously injected radioactive tracer propagates through the vascular system of the subject to produce PET projection data. Next, the system applies an image reconstruction technique to the PET projection data to produce subsecond temporal frames, which illustrate the dynamic propagation of the radioactive tracer through the vascular system of the subject. Finally, the system outputs the temporal frames through a display device.
US12171542B2
Systems and methods for estimating quantitative histological features of a subject's tissue based on medical images of the subject are provided. For instance, quantitative histological features of a tissue are estimated by comparing medical images of the subject to a trained model that relates histological features to multiple different medical image contrast types, whether from one medical imaging modality or multiple different medical imaging modalities. In general, the trained model is generated based on medical images of ex vivo samples, in vitro samples, in vivo samples or combinations thereof, and is based on histological features extracted from those samples. A machine learning algorithm, or other suitable learning algorithm, is used to generate the trained model. The trained model is not patient-specific and thus, once generated, can be applied to any number of different individual subjects.
US12171541B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes sequence controlling circuitry configured: to obtain, during a time period after excitation of a first nuclide in a hyperpolarized state but no later than before obtainment of a first magnetic resonance signal from the first nuclide, a second magnetic resonance signal from a second nuclide that is different from the first nuclide and is in a non-hyperpolarized state, by exciting the second nuclide; and to control each of gradient magnetic field waveforms so as to cause both a first sum indicating a sum of application amounts of a gradient magnetic field related to the excitation of the second nuclide and a second sum indicating a sum of application amounts of a gradient magnetic field related to the obtainment of the second magnetic resonance signal to be close to zero, no later than before the obtainment of the first magnetic resonance signal.
US12171537B2
An MRI image processing and analysis system may identify instances of structure in MRI flow data, e.g., coherency, derive contours and/or clinical markers based on the identified structures. The system may be remotely located from one or more MRI acquisition systems, and perform: error detection and/or correction on MRI data sets (e.g., phase error correction, phase aliasing, signal unwrapping, and/or on other artifacts); segmentation; visualization of flow (e.g., velocity, arterial versus venous flow, shunts) superimposed on anatomical structure, quantification; verification; and/or generation of patient specific 4-D flow protocols. A protected health information (PHI) service is provided which de-identifies medical study data and allows medical providers to control PHI data, and uploads the de-identified data to an analytics service provider (ASP) system. A web application is provided which merges the PHI data with the de-identified data while keeping control of the PHI data with the medical provider.
US12171520B2
A image guided motion scaled surgical robotic system (160) employs a surgical robotic arm (168) and an image guided motion scaled surgical controller (162). In operation, responsive to an input signal indicative of a user defined motion of the surgical robotic arm (168) within an anatomical region, the image guided motion scaled surgical controller (162) controls an actuated motion of the surgical robotic arm (168) within the anatomical region based on a map (164) of a motion scale delineated within an imaging of the anatomical region.
US12171519B2
A medical apparatus comprises an instrument channel arranged to be inserted into the body of a patient to enable a medical instrument to be inserted through the instrument channel into the body of the patient. It further comprises at least one support structure arranged to be located around the body of the patient, a plurality of guide ports each arranged to be inserted into the body of the patient, a plurality of control linkages each of which is at least partly supported on the at least one support structure, and a plurality of control actuators. Each of the control linkages may be arranged to extend through one of the guide ports, to be connected to the medical instrument, and to be moved by a respective one of the control actuators thereby to manipulate the medical instrument within the body of the patient.
US12171517B2
A system includes first and second manipulating means, and a means for detecting mounting of an imaging means to the first manipulating means, a means for determining a first reference frame for the imaging means while the imaging means is mounted to the first manipulating means, a means for controlling a tool means relative to the first reference frame by maintaining a position and orientation of a distal portion of the tool means relative to the imaging means in the first reference frame based on a position and orientation of an input means relative to a display means, a means for detecting mounting of the imaging means to the second manipulating means, a means for determining a second reference frame for the imaging means while the imaging means is mounted to the second manipulating means, and a means for controlling the tool means relative to the second reference frame.
US12171513B2
A patient-side apparatus of a surgical system according to an embodiment may include: manipulator arms with multi-degree of freedom, each of which includes a distal end portion provided with a tool holding part configured to hold an elongated surgical tool; an arm base to which base end portions of the manipulator arms are attached; a base; and a positioner that includes links and joints to connect the base and the arm base such that the positioner movably holds the arm base. The links include a first link that is connected to a central portion of the arm base in a longitudinal direction of the arm base with a first roll joint arranged between the first link and the arm base. The positioner holds the arm base such that a first rotation axis of the first roll joint is inclined with respect to both a vertical direction and a horizontal plane.
US12171509B2
The disclosure relates to a robotic system for removing bony material from an anatomical structure of a patient, comprising:—a base (4), —an end effector (2) configured to hold a surgical tool (1), —an actuation unit (3) configured to translate the end effector relative to the base at least along one feed axis (A), —a control unit coupled to the actuation unit (3) and configured to turn off the tool (1) and command the actuation unit (3) to translate the end effector (2) along the feed axis (A) while the tool is turned off, the control unit comprising a feedback unit configured to measure a force exerted by the surgical tool (1) onto the anatomical structure during said translation of the end effector (2) and, based on the measured force, detect a contact of the tool with bony material of the anatomical structure.
US12171470B2
A spinal stabilization system includes a plurality of anchors and at least one bridge. Each anchor includes a clamp configured to engage an anatomical element, the clamp movable between a fully open position and a fully closed position; a locking screw configured to selectively prevent the clamp from being moved into the fully open position; and a bridge interface. The at least one bridge is a rigid member having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, each of the first end and the second end having an anchor interface. The bridge interface is configured to receive the anchor interface.
US12171457B2
An atherectomy system includes an atherectomy burr having one or more blood flow enhancement features that permit an increased level of blood flow past the burr relative to a blood flow that would result absent the one or more flow enhancement features. A drive mechanism is adapted to rotatably actuate the atherectomy burr.
US12171452B2
A surgical instrument includes a housing including an actuator disposed thereon and an elongated shaft extending therefrom. The elongated shaft includes an end effector assembly including a pair of opposing jaw members including a knife channel defined therein. An articulation section is disposed between the housing and the end effector assembly and is configured to articulate the end effector assembly upon actuation of the actuator, the articulating section and a proximal end of the knife channel defining a first distance therebetween. A knife assembly includes a knife having a length, the proximal end including an engagement feature disposed thereon. A knife drive rod is configured to engage the engagement feature to secure the knife drive rod to the knife such that the distal end of the knife extends beyond the engagement feature and wherein the knife length is less than the length of the first distance.
US12171443B1
This disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for facilitating flow within vasculature or other body lumens, channels or passages involving a magnetic field generated by an external magnetic control system and/or facilitating clearance of obstructions (e.g., clots, fluid obstructions) within in-dwelling devices (e.g., shunts, drains, conduits, ports, catheters) involving magnetic particles (e.g., nanoparticles, microparticles) controlled by an external magnetic control system (e.g., one or more rotating permanent magnets or an electromagnetic control system).
US12171436B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward systems, methods, and apparatuses that include an occlusion device having a barrier member. The barrier member may include an enlargeable portion and a tail portion extending from the enlargeable portion. The enlargeable portion and the tail portion are releasably coupled to the delivery catheter such that the tail portion is radially unsupported and collapsible upon deployment.
US12171427B2
A modular surgical instrument system that comprises modular components and a control circuit electrically couplable to the modular components. The modular components comprise a shaft and a handle assembly. The handle assembly comprises a disposable outer housing. The disposable outer housing is movable between an open configuration and a closed configuration. The handle assembly further comprises a control inner core receivable inside the disposable outer housing in the open configuration. The disposable outer housing is configured to isolate the control inner core in the closed configuration. The modular components further comprise a loading unit releasably couplable to the shaft and a staple cartridge releasably couplable to an end effector. The loading unit comprises the end effector. The control circuit is configured to generate an interrogation signal, detect a response signal, determine a modular configuration of the modular surgical instrument system, and assess authenticity of the modular configuration.
US12171425B2
An anchor and suture assembly is provided for use with an endoscopic suturing device with a needle holder arm. The anchor assembly includes an anchor tip and an anchor body. The anchor tip has a blunt end that may be rounded or beaded, a capture groove, a tab groove and a plug portion positioned between the capture groove and the tab groove. The anchor body has first and second ends, tip tabs, retainers for removably retaining the anchor body relative to the needle holder arm, and a suture opening. The anchor tip is fixed relative to the anchor body by plastic deformation of the tip tabs into the tab groove. A suture extends into the suture opening of the anchor body and is fixed therein.
US12171424B2
A suture assembly includes a translation assembly that is axially translatable within a working channel of an endoscope and is adapted to releasably secure and/or release a needle and a distal end cap that is securable to an end of the endoscope and is adapted to releasably secure and/or release the needle in order to pass the needle back and forth between the translation assembly and the distal cap. An attachment mechanism configured to releasably secure the distal endcap to an end of the endoscope.
US12171422B2
Filamentary fixation devices may be used in a variety of surgical procedures to secure soft tissue to bone. The present invention provides various devices, systems, kits and instrumentation for performing such surgical procedures including preparation of soft tissue and bone, preparation and manipulation of such filamentary fixation devices, and insertion and utilization of the fixation devices within a patient's anatomy. In one embodiment, a method for securing soft tissue to bone, the method includes accessing the soft tissue and the bone, passing a filament through the soft tissue, preparing a bore hole in the bone, loading the filament into a filamentary fixation device, implanting the filamentary fixation device, with the filament, into the bore hole, and tensioning the filament so that the filamentary fixation device and filament are secured within the bore hole.
US12171418B2
A closure device for sealing an atrial septal defect is provided. The closure device includes a distal closure portion and a proximal closure portion. The distal closure portion includes a distal membrane covering a plurality of distal fingers that extend in a distal plane. The proximal closure portion includes a proximal membrane covering a plurality of proximal fingers that extend in a proximal plane. The closure device also includes a waist section extending axially between the plurality of distal fingers and the plurality of proximal fingers. The distal closure portion is configured to sealingly engage one of the left or right side of a septal wall, the proximal closure portion is configured to sealingly engage the other of the left or right side of the septal wall, and the waist section is configured to be positioned and centered in an atrial septal defect between the left and the right septal wall.
US12171414B2
A device for transperineal biopsy with a movable arm of a robot, comprising: an ultrasound probe being mounted around a first axis; a surgical instrument with a needle, which is movable along a first trajectory; and a moving device comprising at least a first pair of arms facing one another and arranged around a first longitudinal axis of the ultrasound probe so as to move, preferably oscillate, around the axis along a second trajectory, in order to guide and support the needle at a free end of each guide arm; and a connection interface to connect the device to a movable arm of a robot and having an operating module, which comprises a plurality of actuators each to move a respective said ultrasound probe or said guide arms, and a separation module arranged on the operating module and configured to transmit the motion to the ultrasound probe or to the arms.
US12171401B2
An endoscopic system for sensing one or more characteristics at an environment of a worksite comprises a shaft comprising a proximal end portion and a distal end portion; an electrically active sensor system comprising a sensor positioned to sense at least one characteristic of an environment in which the distal end portion of the shaft is located; an electrical power transmission line electrically coupled to the sensor and extending along the shaft, the electrical power transmission line configured to transmit power to the sensor; and a floating ground element electrically isolated from an earth ground and operably coupled to the electrically active sensor system. An overall capacitance between the electrical power transmission line and the floating ground element is greater than an overall capacitance between the floating ground element and earth ground.
US12171398B2
An illustrative system includes first and second electrical circuits, a free space optics interface assembly, and a feedthrough assembly. The free space optics interface assembly may include an optical transmitter having an input that is electrically coupled to the first electrical circuit, and an optical receiver having an output that is electrically coupled to the second electrical circuit. The feedthrough assembly electrically connects the input of the optical transmitter to the first electrical circuit and includes a first conductive receptacle electrically coupled to a first input pin of the optical transmitter, a second conductive receptacle electrically coupled to a second input pin of the optical transmitter, a first conductive pad providing electrical connection of the first input pin of the optical transmitter to the first electrical circuit, and a second conductive pad providing electrical connection of the second input pin of the optical transmitter to the first electrical circuit.
US12171386B2
The L shape half mitt is a wiping towel formed into a mitt style shape, and providing an additional open side so the user can easily slide the hand inside the cavity of the mitt from either of two adjacent openings and accessing the one corner as a stiffened cleaning edge and having two open sides and two closed sides and allowing the user to wrap the extra amount of towel material around the hand of the user or an item placed within the pocket cavity and to wrap the opened flap of material around the item placed within.
US12171384B2
A surface cleaning apparatus adapted for wet cleaning includes a heated fluid delivery system that dispenses heated liquid and steam vapor. The heated fluid delivery system can include a heated liquid outlet and a steam vapor outlet. The apparatus can further include a liquid delivery system, and/or a recovery system.
US12171383B2
An autonomous coverage robot detection system includes an emitter configured to emit a directed beam, a detector configured to detect the directed beam and a controller configured to direct the robot in response to a signal detected by the detector. In some examples, the detection system detects a stasis condition of the robot. In some examples, the detection system detects a wall and can follow the wall in response to the detected signal.
US12171378B2
A system includes a local device and a remote computing system. The local device is disposed in a toilet paper dispenser and includes a sensor and a first processor. The sensor is configured to measure a distance to a toilet paper roll. The first processor is configured to calculate, using the measured distance to the toilet paper roll, a percentage of toilet paper remaining on the toilet paper roll. The first processor is further configured to transmit, when it is determined that the percentage of toilet paper remaining is less than a minimum threshold, sensor data across a wireless communications network. The remote computing system includes a second processor configured to receive the sensor data and send an alert for display on a user device in response to receiving the sensor data.
US12171371B2
A tortilla fryer incorporating a plurality of cone pairs, each cone pair among the plurality of cone pairs including an inner cone which is horizontally received within an outer cone; the tortilla fryer further incorporating a support frame, wherein each cone pair is fixedly attached to and supported within the support frame; the tortilla fryer further incorporating cone binding chain and spring arm assemblies which operatively interconnect the support frame and the cone pairs' inner cones, the chain and spring arm assemblies resisting horizontal movements of the inner cones out of the outer cones.
US12171363B2
An apparatus (900) is provided for the preparation of a beverage, including at least one beverage outlet nozzle (910) for discharging the beverage into a beverage container (940), characterized in that the apparatus includes a cleaning structure (100) for cleaning an exterior surface of the beverage outlet nozzle. With such cleaning structure, residues and ingredients of beverages may be removed from the exterior surface of the beverage outlet nozzle.
US12171349B2
A ring chamber (11) is formed between the ring element (2) and the lid element (1). Through the channels (6) the ring chamber (11) is in fluid communication with the inside of the container (3). The upper circumferential rim (12) forms a sealing surface matching a corresponding surface of the sealing lip (5) and cooperates therewith to form a sealing contact between the ring element (2) and the lid element (1). The ring element (2) is essentially rigid whereas the lid element (1) including the sealing lip (5) is substantially flexible. Accordingly, in a sealing configuration, the ring chamber (11) is sealed towards the outside. By deforming the sealing lip (5) the sealing contact is interrupted and liquid can be drunk. The deformation is reversible re-establishing the sealing configuration by the restoring force of the deformed lid element (1)/sealing lip (5), when deforming forces are sufficiently reduced.
US12171346B2
Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses directed to a container for storing a liquid, the container including a textured surface configured to increase the liquid's dissolved oxygen content, the textured surface having fluid-obstructions configured to disrupt a flow of the liquid in at least one direction, said disruptions being effective to decrease a surface tension associated with the liquid and increasing a surface area associated with the liquid.
US12171326B2
The present disclosure relates to a clothes dryer having a structure capable of cleaning a heat exchanger. The clothes dryer includes a main body, a drum rotatably provided in the main body, a heat exchanger provided to supply hot and dry air to an inside of the drum, and a cleaning device detachably installed in the main body to clean the heat exchanger, wherein the cleaning device includes a brush provided to come into contact with at least one surface of the heat exchanger, and a brush handle provided to move the brush.
US12171324B2
The present invention is directed to a device, system and method of attaching an electronic device to a belt, and to a belt having an attached electronic device, that will sit away from the user's body when in use and will be held close to the user's body when not in use. The various embodiments of the present invention also enable the easy transition of the electronic device from the in-use position to the stored position and vice versa. One embodiment of the present invention utilizes two belt clips and a gooseneck electronic device holder to achieve these goals.
US12171323B2
A pouch or pocket may act as a container and may be used to securely hold objects (e.g., cell phone, keys, wallet, etc.) during athletic activity (e.g., running). The pouch may be a standalone item or integrally formed as part of other items. The pouch may hold the object to be stored in place within the pouch or pocket. The pouch may provide some cushioning or impact force attenuation to protect the object being held within the pouch or pocket. Additionally, the pouch may be attached to a garment, such as running clothes. The pouch includes an outer envelope sealable by a closure and a one-way valve with foam layers located inside the pouch. After the object is placed in the pouch, the closure is closed, and the air within the pouch is expelled via the one-way valve by compressing the foam layers from the outside.
US12171321B2
A cosmetic-product applicator including a gripping element adapted to be gripped by a user, an application tip having a shape the external envelope of which is of revolution, a cylindrical rigid core extending in a longitudinal direction, said core being rigidly secured to the gripping element or formed in a single piece with the gripping element, and a hollow stick mounted so as to be able to rotate freely but translationally fixed on the core, the hollow stick extending longitudinally from the gripping element to the application tip. The application tip is rigidly connected to the hollow stick or formed in a single piece with the hollow stick, and the core extends in the hollow stick over the whole length of the hollow stick measured in the longitudinal direction, with the optional exception of a connection zone between the hollow stick and the application tip.
US12171317B2
The present disclosure relates to a luggage article including a rear panel; a grip handle including a pair of spaced-apart tubes mounted on the rear panel; a recess defined between the tubes; and a removable pocket removably mountable in the recess between the tubes, wherein the removable pocket and the recess include corresponding inter-engaging engagement features to at least partially retain the pocket within the recess.
US12171312B2
A watch system may include a watchband including a flexible member configured to be mounted onto a wrist of a user, and a puck including watch functionality. The watchband may have an end that has a concave curved shape. The puck may have a connection interface that has a convex curved shape. The connection interface may be to be removably coupled to the end of the watchband. The watchband and the puck may have corresponding locking features that are configured to rotationally and translationally fix the puck to the watchband. The corresponding locking features may be configured to be engaged when the watchband is translated relative to the puck and rotated relative to the puck by a predetermined rotation angle.
US12171307B2
A lace-receiving assembly includes a substrate, a first sheet, and a lace guide. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first sheet includes a third surface and a fourth surface opposite the third surface. The third surface is bonded to the first surface to define a channel extending between the substrate and the first sheet. The lace guide is disposed within the channel.
US12171304B2
An upper for an article of footwear includes a three-dimensional engineered textile having an inner section, an outer section, and an intermediate section disposed between the inner section and the outer section. The intermediate section is attached to the inner section on one side and the outer section on an opposite side. The intermediate section extends through at least a forefoot region of the upper. In the forefoot region, the intermediate section includes a plurality of curving portions arranged adjacent to each other such that each curving portion of the plurality of curving portions is spaced apart from neighboring curving portions by one or more gaps. Air is configured to flow from an interior of the upper to an exterior of the upper through the one or more gaps between neighboring curving portions of the plurality of curving portions in the forefoot region of the upper.
US12171300B2
A sole structure for an article of footwear includes a midsole and a fluid-filled chamber. The midsole includes a plurality of projections. At least one of the plurality of projections forms a first portion of a peripheral side wall of the sole structure. The fluid-filled chamber includes a central portion, a plurality of lobes extending outward from the central portion, and a plurality of channels formed between the plurality of lobes. A first lobe of the plurality of lobes is disposed between at least two of the plurality of projections such that the first lobe forms a second portion of the peripheral side wall of the sole structure.
US12171299B2
A footwear construction unit for receiving a decorative component is provided along with an embellished shoe that incorporates the construction unit. The construction unit comprises an upper unit body and a weight-bearing wall extending downwardly from the upper unit body, which together at least partially define an interior upraised area that, in some aspects of the invention, accommodates at least a portion of the decorative component to elevate the decorative component above the walking surface and to protect it from dirt and abrasion. In other aspects of the invention, the decorative component may extend across the arch, down the inner heel, through a décor-receiving channel inset in the weight-bearing wall, and/or onto other surfaces herein disclosed.
US12171296B2
A footwear article includes a collar elevator that returns an ankle collar from a lowered state that is conducive to donning up to a raised state that secures the wearer's foot during wear. The collar elevator includes a lever arm. The lever arm may be deformable and biased towards the raised state. The lever arm may be articulated with a biasing force urging the lever arm to the raised state. The lever arm may have a variety of cross sections as well. The lever arm extends from a base, which may a sole portion of the footwear article. The lever arm and the base may be monolithic, permanently joined, removably joined, or otherwise connected.
US12171291B1
Provided are an artificial eyelash extension system and its manufacturing method. The artificial eyelash extension system includes a plurality of eyelash extensions, each of which includes a plurality of eyelash filaments and a support surface. Each eyelash filaments has a base and a tip. The support surface is configured to receive adhesive for applying the eyelash extension to a user's natural eyelashes or eyelid. The support surface extends in a first direction across the bases of the plurality of eyelash filaments and includes a plurality of protrusions that extend in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction.
US12171288B2
An artificial eyelash extension system is described. The system uses a plurality of eyelash filaments. A support strip is attached to the bases of the eyelash filaments. An adhesive element is applied before the artificial eyelash extension system is packaged for sale to a user. A method for applying artificial eyelash extensions is also described.
US12171280B1
A comfortable absorbent bra including a brassiere assembly, a pocket assembly, and a laces assembly. Brassiere assembly includes a first cup and a second cup. The first cup and second cup have a shape that is in contact with the shape of the woman's breast. The first cup and second cup are held in place through a bridge and backstraps included in laces assembly. Pocket assembly includes a first pocket and a second pocket. First pocket and second pocket have a half-circle shape with a concave portion. A portion of the periphery of first pocket and second pocket are attached to an internal portion of the first cup and second cup respectively creating a receiving portion for the woman's breast.
US12171275B2
Systems and methods for monitoring of biometric and contextual variables to assist in screening for, quantification of, and prediction of smoking behavior, and for assisting in smoking cessation are described.
US12171274B2
An electrically operable aerosol-generating system is provided, including: a charging device including a primary power source; and an elongated aerosol-generating device including a secondary power source, the charging device having a docking arrangement configured to engage with the aerosol-generating device, the docking arrangement including a docking space defined between a first end, and an opposing second end spaced from and fixed relative to the first end, the docking space accommodating a longitudinal dimension of the aerosol-generating device, and a latching projection is configured to extend from the first end or the second end to engage with a distal end or a proximal end of the aerosol-generating device.
US12171261B2
The present disclosure relates to vaporization systems and interchangeable elements forming such systems. In particular, a plurality of control devices may be interchangeably combined with one or more cartridges to provide an overall vaporization system that provide customizable vaporization characteristics for a consumer. The vaporization system further can include at least one external connection device for charging and/or data communication.
US12171260B2
An aerosol-generating article comprising an aerosolizable material comprising nicotine; a solid basic material; and a wetting agent; wherein in use, the wetting agent is combined with the solid basic material and the aerosolizable material on actuation of a combining mechanism by a user.
US12171252B2
Compositions wherein foodstuffs act as carriers of freeze-dried probiotics provide new means for administration of probiotics. The products that are easily shipped may be eaten as purchased or mixed with other ingredients to provide variety in the diet while administering beneficial probiotic organisms to the gastrointestinal tract.
US12171248B2
A method for treating a forage to increase digestibility by a ruminant comprises providing a forage for a ruminant comprising a level of ammonia that is from 0.0% to about 1.4% of dry matter (wt/wt). An alkali is applied at a dosage of from about 0.25% to about 0.75% of dry matter (wt/wt) to the forage. At least one exogenous carbohydrase enzyme is applied to the forage after application of the alkali and the forage is subsequently fed to the ruminant.
US12171240B2
A method of producing a dough with a reduced amount of added sugar comprising adding a raw starch degrading alpha-amylase and a glucoamylase, wherein the raw starch degrading alpha-amylase is a GH13_1 amylase; in particular the raw starch degrading alpha-5 amylase has an amino acid sequence with at least 70% identity to SEQ ID NO:1.
US12171232B1
Synthesis of a compound N-[(4,6-dimethylpyrimidin-2-yl)carbamothioyl]pyridine-3-carboxamide and its use as an insecticidal agent.
US12171229B2
The present invention relates to novel heteroaryl-triazole and heteroaryl-tetrazole compounds of the general formula (I), in which the structural elements Y, Q1, Q2, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 have the meaning given in the description, to formulations and compositions comprising such compounds and for their use in the control of animal pests including arthropods and insects in plant protection and to their use for control of ectoparasites on animals.
US12171224B2
Agricultural compositions comprising a non-pesticide choline salt or a non-ammonium water conditioning agent, optionally, a polysaccharide, optionally, a dispersant or surfactant, and optionally, water, as well as methods of making and applications thereof.
US12171221B2
Drift reduction adjuvant composition and agricultural sprays containing such agricultural compositions contain water, a Newtonian responding polymer such as guar gum, an emulsifier such as a polyoxyethylene sorbitan emulsifier, and an oil. When the agricultural spray containing the drift reduction adjuvant composition and a pesticide is delivered from an agricultural nozzle, it produces fewer droplets less than 150 μm in diameter and either reduces, maintains or increases (e.g., by up to 30 percentage points) the number of ultra-coarse droplets above 622 μm in diameter compared to an agricultural spray of the pesticide without the drift reduction adjuvant composition sprayed under the same conditions.
US12171215B2
A pest repeller comprises a pest detector operable to detect the presence of a pest and then to generate an internal trigger signal, a speaker operable to produce ultrasound, and an antenna operable to transmit wirelessly and to receive wirelessly external trigger signals. A controller is configured to receive internal trigger signals from the pest detector and to receive external trigger signals from the antenna. Upon receiving an internal trigger signal, the controller is configured to provide a speaker drive signal to drive the speaker to produce the ultrasound, to generate an external trigger signal and to provide the external trigger signal to the antenna for transmission of the external trigger signal. Upon receiving an external trigger signal, the controller is configured to provide a speaker drive signal to drive the speaker to produce the ultrasound.
US12171207B2
A trolling head includes first and second body portions. Each body portion includes a first end and a second end with a body portion thru-hole therebetween. Each body portion includes a mating surface extending from the first end to the second end. Each body portion includes a groove disposed within the mating surface, which extends from the first end to the second end. The mating surfaces of the first and second body portions are configured to attach together such that the grooves of the first and second body portions align to form a tunnel. The tunnel extends from the first ends to the second ends of the first and second body portions and is sized to receive a fishing line therethrough. The body portion thru-holes of the first and second body portions also align to form a trolling head thru-hole sized to receive a fish eye mimic therein.
US12171202B2
A rearing apparatus for rearing an organism includes: a box-shaped rearing case; at least one perching member that is held in the rearing case and for perching the organism; and a separating member that is provided in the rearing case and that is movable along the perching member. The separating member is configured to separate the organism perched at the perching member from the perching member by the separating member moving along the perching member.
US12171199B2
An animal feed/water container mounting system is described that can be cost effective, safe for the animals, resistant to spillage, durable, and easy to manufacture/install. The container mounting system may be used to mount an animal feed/water container to a vertical member. The container subject to mounting may include a bail and a container lip. The vertical member may have a front surface. The mounting system may include a bail hanging unit for hanging the bail and may include a container mounting bracket. The container mounting bracket may include multiple mounting bracket retaining tabs interspersed along the length of the container mounting bracket. The tabs may be designed to support a container lip of the container at a plurality of locations along the length of the container mounting bracket.
US12171198B2
Aspects of this disclosure include a system for providing non-contact, computer-vision based monitoring of the health and pollination activity of a beehive. The system may include camera positioned proximate to a beehive. The camera may include an onboard processor that analyzes video of the beehive captured by the camera and calculates an activity value that estimates a number of bees moving about the beehive. The video calculated activity values may be uploaded to a server where they can be accessed via a user device. The user device may allow the user to display interactive plots of the activity values over a variety of time bases. The disclosed beehive monitoring system relies on relatively lost-cost hardware and requires neither modification to the hive nor special constraints on the placement of the camera.
US12171192B1
An assisted guidance region has a plurality of zones, each with an associated set of behavioral guidance characteristics. Behavioral guidance is extended to a wayward dog who has moved outside of an alert zone by providing stimuli to shepherd the dog back in. Calculation of relative movement direction outside of and relative to the alert zone is preferably based upon reading a future position guidance zone value located in a path of sequential future position guidance zone values stored in said data table that are defined in direction by a displacement from said second represented current position relative to said first represented current position and defined in location sequentially extending away from both of said second represented position and said first represented current position. In some embodiments, two or more calculation techniques are selected from or used in combination to determine relative movement direction.
US12171185B2
A hybrid tomato plant, designated HM 7103 is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid tomato designated HM 7103, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid tomato designated HM 7103, and to methods for producing a tomato plant by crossing the hybrid tomato HM 7103 with itself or another tomato plant.
US12171169B2
A drip irrigation lateral comprising a water conduit manufactured of a polymeric composition comprising pyrethroid.
US12171163B2
A harvesting vehicle includes a header having a cutter bar, a crop transport draper and a reel mounted above the cutter bar to sweep the crop to the draper. The operation of the header is autonomously monitored and controlled to reduce operator loads or to run autonomously by detecting: reel wrapping; differential rates of flow of crop on the header at different locations; where the crop to be cut is at least partly lodged so that stems of the crop are not vertical; the presence of a crop streak of uncut or poorly cut crop behind the cutter bar and/or a band of disturbed soil behind the cutter bar. The detector is arranged to control ground speed, header height, reel height and operation.
US12171160B2
A mowing machine may include a central cutting deck generally disposed in a neutral mowing plane and a wing cutting deck pivotable with respect to the central cutting deck. A main gearbox may be connected to a wing gearbox by a wing driveline. The main gearbox may be disposed a sufficient distance forward of the central cutting deck and the wing cutting deck to permit the wing cutting deck to pivot about a hinge in a range of motion without disconnecting the wing driveline from either the main gearbox or the wing gearbox.
US12178148B2
A storage device includes a memory cell including a variable resistance element and a switching element having snapback current-voltage characteristics. The switching element includes a first conductive layer in contact with the variable resistance element, a second conductive layer, and a switching layer provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The switching layer includes at least one switching member and a first insulating layer having a thermal conductivity higher than 1.4 W/m/K. A cross-sectional area of the switching member at a connection surface between the switching layer and the first conductive layer and a cross-sectional area of the switching member at a connection surface between the switching layer and the second conductive layer are each smaller than a cross-sectional area at a connection surface between the first conductive layer and the variable resistance element.
US12178145B2
Disclosed semiconductor devices include a substrate, a device pattern structure disposed over the substrate, and a heat insulating layer disposed on the device pattern structure. The device pattern structure includes metal-organic frameworks.
US12178141B2
There is provided a method of selectively patterning a device structure. A hollow shadow wall is formed on a substrate. The hollow shadow wall is formed of a base lying on a surface of the substrate, and one or more side walls connected to the base. The one or more side walls extend away from the surface of the substrate and around the base to define an internal cavity of the hollow shadow wall. A device structure supported by the substrate adjacent to the shadow wall is selectively patterned by using a deposition beam to selectively deposit a layer of deposition material on the device structure. The deposition beam has a non-zero angle of incidence relative to a normal to the surface of the substrate and an orientation in the plane of the substrate's surface, such that the shadow wall prevents deposition on a surface portion of the device structure within a shadow region defined by the shadow wall. The one or more side walls of the hollow shadow wall are removed once the device structure has been selectively patterned, and thereby selectively patterning the device component.
US12178135B2
A semiconductor device includes a base, a detector on the base and including a first surface on which a detection portion is provided, and a resin package on the base and including an exposure hole to externally expose the detection portion of the detector. At least a portion of an outer peripheral edge of the first surface of the detector is exposed in the exposure hole. The resin package includes a depressed portion along the portion of the outer peripheral edge that is exposed in the exposure hole.
US12178128B2
A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode that is opposed to the first electrode; and an organic photoelectric conversion layer that is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and includes, as a first organic semiconductor material, a benzothienobenzothiophene-based compound represented by a general formula (1).
US12178122B2
Provided is a compound that has a long pot life of a solution and is able to achieve low driving voltage, high efficiency, and long lifespan of an organic electroluminescent device. The present disclosure relates to a compound having a triphenyl triazine structural moiety and including a group that has a structure in which a substituted or unsubstituted carbazole group and a predetermined number of carbazole rings are directly bonded via a single bond, as described in the specification.
US12178119B2
A light-emitting device with high emission efficiency and high reliability is provided. The light-emitting device includes a host material and a guest material in a light-emitting layer. The host material has a function of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission and the guest material emits fluorescence. The guest material has a molecular structure including a luminophore and protecting groups, and five or more protecting groups are included in one molecule of the guest materials. When the protecting groups are introduced into the molecule, triplet excitation energy transfer from the host material to the guest material by the Dexter mechanism is inhibited. As the protecting group, an alkyl group or a branched-chain alkyl group is used. A light-emitting device with improved emission efficiency can be obtained with the use of a material having a five-membered ring skeleton in the host material.
US12178117B2
Provided are a composition and an organic light-emitting device including the same, wherein the composition includes a platinum-containing organometallic compound, a first compound, a second compound, and a third compound.
US12178114B2
Provided are an azide-based compound, an organic light-emitting device including the azide-based compound, and a method of manufacturing the organic light-emitting device.
US12178110B2
The apparatus for manufacturing a display apparatus includes: a carrier; a support arranged to be spaced apart from the carrier; a driver connected to the support to linearly move the support; and an elastic portion arranged between the driver and the support to provide an elastic force to the support, wherein the support includes: a first surface on which a substrate is to be mounted; and a second surface projecting upward from the first surface to selectively contact the carrier.
US12178106B2
An electronic device includes a substrate, at least one first mesh unit, at least one second mesh unit, and a plurality of diodes. The substrate has a first region and a second region, in which the first region includes a transparent area. The first mesh unit is disposed in the first region, in which the first mesh unit includes a plurality of first mesh openings. The second mesh unit is disposed in the second region, in which the second mesh unit includes a plurality of second mesh openings. The diodes are disposed in the second region. One of the second mesh openings overlaps at least one of the diodes in a top view direction of the electronic device, and the first mesh unit and the second mesh unit are different in mesh pattern.
US12178104B2
An organic light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate including a plurality of pixels having a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of organic light emitting elements disposed at the plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of light extraction patterns disposed on the plurality of organic light emitting elements and having different size at each of the plurality of sub-pixels, an encapsulation part disposed on the plurality of organic light emitting elements, and a planarization layer configured to planarize an upper portion of the plurality of the encapsulation part. The plurality of light extraction patterns are disposed on the planarization layer.
US12178102B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a base substrate and a conductive member, wherein the conductive member is located on the base substrate and includes a first conductive sub-layer, a second conductive sub-layer and a third conductive sub-layer stacked in sequence; the first conductive sub-layer is closer to the base substrate than the third conductive sub-layer; a conductivity of the first conductive sub-layer is smaller than that of the second conductive sub-layer, and a melting point of the third conductive sub-layer is larger than that of the second conductive sub-layer; the second conductive sub-layer includes a first surface close to the first conductive sub-layer and a second surface close to the third conductive sub-layer, the first surface and the second surface are oppositely arranged; the third conductive sub-layer protrudes from the second surface along a width direction of the conductive member.
US12178095B2
A flexible display is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes at least one first pattern including a plurality of display elements configured to display an image and extending in a first direction. The display device also includes at least one second pattern extending in a second direction and overlapping at least a portion of the first pattern. The second pattern has a curved shape in the first direction and the second direction crosses the first direction. The first and second patterns form at least one cavity region defining a space therebetween and the first and second patterns form a mesh structure.
US12178085B2
A display panel includes a display substrate and a cover plate connected through an optical adhesive layer. The display substrate includes a plurality of light emitting elements, a pixel defining layer, and an encapsulation layer; the encapsulation layer includes a first inorganic encapsulation layer, a first organic encapsulation layer, and a second inorganic encapsulation layer; the display panel includes a display region and a frame region including a cutting region and a dam glue region where a dam glue is located; at least one of a plurality of cover plate alignment marks is between the dam glue and the display region and is overlapped with the second inorganic encapsulation layer, and at least one of the plurality of cover plate alignment marks is between the dam glue and the cutting region.
US12178084B2
Provided are a display substrate, a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. A portion of a pixel definition layer that is in contact with a light-emitting functional layer is configured to have the performance of switching between hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity when an external condition changes. When film layers of the light-emitting functional layer are formed, due to the inconsistent hydrophilicity or hydrophobicity of the film layers of the light-emitting functional layer, when a hydrophilic light-emitting functional layer is formed, the pixel definition layer switches, under processing via the external condition, the portion of the pixel definition layer that is in contact with the light-emitting functional layer to be hydrophobic, and when a hydrophobic light-emitting functional layer is formed, the pixel definition layer switches, under processing via the external condition, the portion of the pixel definition layer that is in contact with the light-emitting functional layer to be hydrophilic.
US12178080B2
A light emitting device includes a transistor, a light reflection layer, a first insulation layer that includes a first layer thickness part, a second layer thickness part, and a third layer thickness part, a pixel electrode that is provided on the first insulation layer, a second insulation layer that covers a peripheral section of the pixel electrode, a light emission functional layer, a facing electrode, and a conductive layer that is provided on the first layer thickness part. The pixel electrode includes a first pixel electrode which is provided in the first layer thickness part, a second pixel electrode which is provided in the second layer thickness part, and a third pixel electrode which is provided in the third layer thickness part. The first pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode, and the third pixel electrode are connected to the transistor through the conductive layer.
US12178079B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display device including a substrate, an optical device located under the substrate in a display area, and a subpixel layer located over the substrate in the display area, wherein the subpixel layer includes at least one of first transistor with a first characteristic are located at a first area overlapping with the optical device, and at least one of second transistor with a second characteristic are located at a second area not overlapping with the optical device.
US12178076B2
An apparatus includes a pixel that includes a current path including a light emitting element and a first transistor, a second transistor, and a third transistor connected to a signal wire. One of source and drain regions of the second transistor is connected to one node of the light emitting element and a first power supply. One of source and drain regions of the third transistor is connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor. An isolation portion is disposed between a first conductivity type first diffusion region that makes up one of the source and drain regions of the second transistor and a first conductivity type second diffusion region that makes up one of the source and drain regions of the third transistor. A depth of the first diffusion region is greater than a depth of the second diffusion region.
US12178074B2
A display device includes a display panel, a mold frame, and graphite sheets. The mold frame includes a mold slot portion therethrough to support the display panel. The graphite sheets include a central portion on a rear surface of the display panel, and end portions passing through the mold slot portion to be on the rear surface of the mold frame. The graphite sheet is rolled and arranged in a mounting space between the display panel and a back cover, such that heat generated from the display panel may be dissipated to the outside via the graphite sheet and the back cover.
US12178072B2
A display device is provided. A boundary of a projection of a first opening on a substrate is located between an inscribed circle and a circumscribed circle of a boundary of a projection of a corresponding subpixel on the substrate, so that the first opening cannot completely cover the corresponding subpixel. In this way, a light condensing effect in a non-planar display area is reduced, a bad experience with certain viewing angles in conventional non-planar display areas for users is improved, and user experience is enhanced.
US12178062B2
An OLED display substrate includes a base substrate with a display region arranged thereon. First, second and third sub-pixels are arranged in the display region. A first electrode layer, a pixel defining layer, a second electrode layer, and organic functional layers are arranged in the display region. The organic functional layers include first, second and third light-emitting layers. The first light-emitting layer covers the display region and is an integral structure. The second and third light-emitting layers are arranged on a side of the first light-emitting layer towards the second electrode layer. An orthographic projection of each sub light-emitting layer of the second and third light-emitting layers on the base substrate completely covers an orthographic projection of an opening of the pixel defining layer on the base substrate, and does not overlap with orthographic projections of other openings of the pixel defining layer on the base substrate.
US12178060B2
An electroluminescent device, a method for manufacturing the electroluminescent device, a display panel and a display device are provided in the embodiments of the present application. The electroluminescent device includes an anode layer, a first hole injection layer and a hole transport layer. The first hole injection layer is located between the anode layer and the hole transport layer; the first hole injection layer includes at least two secondary hole injection layers, and an equivalent resistance value of the at least two secondary hole injection layers is greater than a first threshold value.
US12178059B2
A detection device includes a photodiode, and a thin-film transistor coupled to the photodiode. The thin-film transistor includes a semiconductor layer between a light-blocking layer and the photodiode, and an electrode layer between the semiconductor layer and the photodiode, and the electric layer includes a source electrode and a drain electrode of the thin-film transistor. The source electrode extends to a position facing the light-blocking layer with the semiconductor layer interposed therebetween.
US12178051B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) cell structure is formed. The MRAM cell structure includes a bottom electrode, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack and a top electrode. A first insulating cover layer is formed over the MRAM cell structure. A second insulating cover layer is formed over the first insulating cover layer. An interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed. A contact opening in the ILD layer is formed, thereby exposing the second insulating cover layer. A part of the second insulating cover layer and a part of the first insulating cover layer are removed, thereby exposing the top electrode. A conductive layer is formed in the opening contacting the top electrode.
US12178032B2
A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a first source/drain feature, a second source/drain feature, a third source/drain feature, a first dummy fin disposed between the first source/drain feature and the second source/drain feature along a direction to isolate the first source/drain feature from the second source/drain feature, and a second dummy fin disposed between the second source/drain feature and the third source/drain feature along the direction to isolate the second source/drain feature from the third source/drain feature. The first dummy fin includes an outer dielectric layer, an inner dielectric layer over the outer dielectric layer, and a first capping layer disposed over the outer dielectric layer and the inner dielectric layer. The second dummy fin includes a base portion and a second capping layer disposed over the base portion.
US12178025B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image from one surface of the display panel; a first rigid member disposed at another surface of the display panel; a first adhesive layer disposed at an upper portion of the first rigid member; a first heat-dissipation layer disposed at an upper portion of the first adhesive layer; and an extension part extending from the first heat-dissipation layer and covering a lateral surface of the display panel.
US12178024B2
A cooling system includes a first cooling passage in which a first cooling object is cooled by first coolant, a flow passage that supplies the first coolant to a second cooling object from the first cooling passage, a flow rate regulation mechanism that regulates a flow rate of the first coolant flowing in the first cooling passage, and a controller that controls the flow rate regulation mechanism. The controller controls the flow rate regulation mechanism so that the flow rate of the first coolant flowing in the first cooling passage is lower when temperature of the first cooling object is lower than temperature of the first coolant, than the flow rate when the temperature of the first cooling object is equal to or higher than the temperature of the first coolant.
US12178010B2
A liquid-cooled printed circuit board chassis, such as a Eurocard chassis, is manufactured without brazing by 3D printing a plurality of components, smoothing and completing the components by subtractive manufacture, and then aligning and assembling the final chassis, all without application of heat. Horizontal cooling channels 3D printed within the chassis components are in thermal contact with board slots, and are divided into subchannels by closely spaced internal walls that function as thermal baffles. The baffles are tilted at oblique angles to increase their cooling efficiency, and to enable AM manufacture without temporary support structures. Elastomer seals between components can connect the cooling channels to vertical connecting channels. EMI seals can be formed between the components by EMI gaskets. The components can be aligned by alignment pins, and joined together by bolts, screws, and/or adhesives. An intermediate horizontal extension can be included to accommodate shorter printed circuit boards.
US12177993B2
A modular and configurable electrical device group 10 for measurement, control and display, comprising a first sub-group 11 having a base mountable enclosure unit 21, and a second sub-group 12 having a neck mountable enclosure unit 22, together with a programmable computing receptacle assembly 390, a plurality of function modules 300, a display module 350 and optionally a battery module 380; each member of the group 10 being an independently configurable application specific electrical control device, or as a slave or a master, or in combination to another member; the function module 300 may be an add-on function module 300A, and the display module 350 may be an add-on display module 350A, the function modules 300 mounted with a precisely engaging electrical arrangement till a defined engagement dimension, the function module 300 and the display module 350 securely removed, the display module 350 may have no display component.
US12177990B2
An electronic component module includes a substrate including a first main surface and a second main surface, and using a side near the second main surface as a mounting side, an external terminal by a solder ball made of first solder, on the second main surface, and a first electronic component mounted by using second solder, on the first main surface, and a melting point of the first solder is higher than a melting point of the second solder.
US12177985B2
An apparatus for manufacturing a display device including: a photographing member configured to photograph a first alignment mark, a second alignment mark, a third alignment mark, and a fourth alignment mark, which are provided in a display panel; and a control member configured to set an imaginary reference point, taking into account the first alignment mark, the second alignment mark, the third alignment mark, and the fourth alignment mark, which are photographed by the photographing member. The control member sets a first position which is included in the imaginary reference point and at which a first imaginary straight line connecting the first alignment mark to the third alignment mark and a second imaginary straight line connecting the second alignment mark to the fourth alignment mark cross each other.
US12177983B2
An electronic component housing package includes an insulating substrate including a first surface with a mounting region mounting an electronic component, a second surface located opposite to the first surface, a plurality of side surfaces located between the first surface and the second surface, and a corner portion located between two of the side surfaces; an external connection conductor located on the second surface; and a corner conductor connected to the external connection conductor. The corner conductor is located from the external connection conductor toward the corner portion in a manner to increase the distance from the second surface.
US12177978B2
A circuit board includes a glass substrate having a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface; a first coil wiring pattern formed on the first surface and a second coil wiring pattern formed on the second surface, the first and second coil wiring patterns constituting part of a coil; a through hole extending through a predetermined portion of the glass substrate from an end of the first coil wiring pattern to an end of the second coil wiring pattern; a through hole inner conductive surface formed on the inner side of the through hole, the first and second coil wiring patterns and the through hole inner conductive surface constituting the coil wound around a direction perpendicular to an axis of the through hole and to a direction in which the first and second coil wiring patterns extend.
US12177977B2
A flexible printed circuit board includes a base film having an insulating property and a plurality of interconnects laminated to at least one surface side of the base film. The plurality of interconnects includes a first interconnect and a second interconnect in a same plane. An average thickness of the second interconnect being greater than an average thickness of the first interconnect. A ratio of the average thickness of the second interconnect to the average thickness of the first interconnect is greater than or equal to 1.5 and less than or equal to 50. The first interconnect includes a first conductive underlayer and a first plating layer, and the second interconnect includes a second conductive underlayer, a second plating layer, and a third plating layer.
US12177973B2
A printed wiring board includes a base layer having insulating properties, a first conductive layer directly or indirectly stacked on the base layer front surface, and including a copper foil, a second conductive layer directly or indirectly stacked on the base layer back surface, and including a copper foil, a stacked body for a via hole, the stacked body being stacked on an inner periphery and a bottom of a connection hole that extends through the first conductive layer and the base layer in a thickness direction, and being configured to electrically connect the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer to each other, and having an electroless copper plating layer. Each copper foil contains a copper crystal grain oriented in a plane orientation, and an average crystal grain size of copper of each copper foil is 10 μm or greater, the electroless copper plating layer includes palladium.
US12177967B2
The invention relates to an electrically conductive film (10) having an electrically nonconductive substrate layer (12), and an electrically conductive metal layer (14) that has a structure produced by material removal and that on a first side is joined, at least in sections, to the substrate layer (12).
US12177965B2
A component carrier includes a stack with at least one electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one electrically insulating layer structure. The at least one electrically conductive layer structure includes a first trace. A tapering trench is formed in the at least one electrically insulating layer structure beside and below the first trace. A method of manufacturing the component carrier is also described.
US12177963B2
A printed circuit board of an information handling system includes a pair of signal vias including a pair of keepout objects. Each one of the keepout objects surrounds one of the signal vias. The printed circuit board includes a pair of signal traces that includes a positive signal trace and a negative signal trace, wherein the pair of signal traces are between the keepout objects, and wherein a width of each of the signal traces is increased.
US12177962B2
There is provided an insulating resin circuit substrate including an insulating resin layer and a circuit layer consisting of a plurality of metal pieces disposed to be spaced apart in a circuit pattern shape on one surface of the insulating resin layer, in which in a case where a surface of the insulating resin layer in a gap between the metal pieces is analyzed by SEM-EDX, the area rate of a metal element constituting the metal pieces is less than 2.5%.
US12177955B2
A ventilation system for an oven is provided. A side duct assembly includes a substantially vertical exit duct portion adjacent to an oven cavity wrapper defining an oven cavity of the oven, the substantially vertical exit duct portion having an air intake configured to receive a cavity air flow from an air intake along a side of a cavity wrapper. The side duct assembly further includes an angled duct portion defining an air passage angled upwards and towards a rear of the oven, the angled duct portion having an input end configured to receive the cavity air flow from the top of the substantially vertical exit duct portion and an output end configured to provide the cavity air flow into a mixing zone at the rear of the oven for mixing the cavity air flow with an electronics air flow from oven electronics into a combined air flow.
US12177938B2
Systems and methods are provided for controlling device retry behavior. The method is performed by receiving an error code generated in response to a resource request from the wireless device, associating the error code with a timeframe for resending the resource request from the wireless device, and sending the error code and the timeframe to the wireless device in response to the resource request.
US12177936B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, capability signaling indicating one or more phase coherency capabilities of the UE for maintaining phase coherence across multiple uplink messages within a time interval, wherein each phase coherency capability is based on one or more channel usage characteristics associated with the time interval. The UE may receive, from the base station, a downlink message scheduling a set of uplink messages from the UE to the base station within the time interval. The UE may transmit the set of uplink messages within the time interval based on the downlink message and in accordance with at least one of the one or more phase coherency capabilities.
US12177931B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may obtain one or more parameters associated with a dual subscriber operation of the UE that includes communicating using a first subscriber entity and a second subscriber entity. The UE may transmit one or more uplink communications via one or more of the first subscriber entity or the second subscriber entity using a coexistence management configuration that is based at least in part on the one or more parameters. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12177930B2
The invention relates to a method for operating an application server providing a service to a multipath enabled mobile entity connected to the application server with a first bearer of a first access network of a first mobile communications network, wherein the application server is external to the mobile communications network, whereas the method comprises the steps of receiving an indication that the mobile entity has an option to use another bearer not belonging to the first mobile communications network for accessing the application server, and of transmitting a request message towards a policy control entity of the first mobile communications network requesting the policy control entity to disconnect the first bearer.
US12177928B2
A wireless user device uses a wireless network slice. To use the slice, the wireless user device exchanges source signaling with a source Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF). During the exchange of the source signaling, the wireless user device exchanges target signaling with target AMFs. The wireless user device determines AMF characteristics of the target AMFs based on the target signaling. The wireless user device selects one of the target AMFs based on the AMF characteristics and slice requirements of the wireless network slice. The wireless user device exchanges slice signaling with the selected one of the target AMFs, and in response, exchanges data with the wireless network slice.
US12177925B2
Systems, apparatus and methods enable layer 2 (L2) relaying optimizations for a remote user equipment (UE) to receive system information (SI) from a relay UE. The relay UE may establish a sidelink communication channel with the remote UE that is in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state, an RRC inactive state, or an out-of-coverage (OOC) state with respect to the base station. The relay UE decodes a relay SI request received through the sidelink communication channel from the first remote UE. The relay SI request indicates requested system information. The Relay UE obtains the requested system information or a subset of the requested system information from a memory device or from the base station and encodes a relay SI response to send to the first remote UE. The relay SI response includes the requested system information or the subset of the requested system information.
US12177924B2
Techniques discussed herein can facilitate reduced frequency of triggering a RLF (Radio Link Failure) timer and/or a false RLF procedure via employing one or more mechanisms for associating BFR (Beam Failure Recovery) and RLF. A first mechanism that can be employed in various embodiments can perform one or more RLF-related actions (e.g., stopping a T310 timer, resetting a N310 counter) upon BFR success. A second mechanism that can be employed in various embodiments can comprise revising one or more RLF parameters (e.g., N310, N311, T310, Out-of-sync threshold, in-sync threshold, etc.) based on the presence of a strong BFR mechanism.
US12177917B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for establishing data paths over multiple access network for a multi-access data connection. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver that communicates with a mobile communication network via a first access network and/or a second access network. Via the transceiver, the processor transmits a request, over the second access network, to establish a data connection and receives a first request to set up a first data bearer for the data connection over the first access network in response to the request. Via the transceiver, the processor receives a second request to set up a second data bearer for the data connection over the second access network in response to the request, where both the first data bearer and the second data bearer are used to carry traffic of the data connection.
US12177914B2
In a wireless local area network (LAN) system, a station (STA) may transmit a first physical protocol data unit (PPDU) including information indicating that a first traffic identifier (TID) is mapped to a first link and a second TID is mapped to a second link. The STA may transmit traffic pertaining to the first TID through only the first link, and traffic pertaining to the second TID through only the second link.
US12177913B2
A radio communication system includes a radio access network (1) and a radio terminal (2). The radio access network (1) includes a first base station (11) that manages a first cell (110) and a second base station (12) that manages a second cell (120). The radio terminal (2) supports dual connectivity involving a bearer split in which a network bearer between the radio terminal (2) and a core network (3) is split over the first base station (11) and the second base station (12). The radio access network (1) is configured to transmit, to the radio terminal (2), first control information that relates to an access stratum and is necessary for the dual connectivity involving the bearer split. It is thus possible to provide, for example, a control procedure or signalling necessary for starting dual connectivity involving a bearer split.
US12177908B2
The invention provides a random access mechanism for short feedback procedure. An AP provides a random-access NFRP trigger frame defining a random access for the stations to a plurality of RU tone sets. A non-AP station randomly selects a responding RU tone set from the plurality of RU tone sets and send a NDP feedback report response on the selected responding RU tone set. A dedicated backoff counter may be used for the purposes of contention to the random RU tone sets. A subsequent UL MU transmission can then be scheduled by the AP for the NDP responding stations. No unused RU is expected, improving the random-access network efficiency. Also, the number of non-AP stations that can be targeted by the random-access NFRP trigger frame can be easily increased.
US12177905B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters of a physical random access channel (PRACH) occasion, for a random access procedure, corresponding to a reference signal (RS). The wireless device determines an uplink carrier from, a normal uplink (NUL) carrier and a supplemental uplink (SUL) carrier, based on a transmission power reduction value associated with the RS. The wireless device transmits, via the PRACH occasion on the determined uplink carrier, a preamble for the random access procedure.
US12177902B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method for clear channel assessment, and more particularly, to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for performing an efficient clear channel assessment for spatial reuse of a communication system. For this, provided are a wireless communication terminal comprising: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal; and a processor configured to control an operation of the terminal, wherein the processor is configured to: perform a backoff procedure of a channel for data transmission, suspend the backoff procedure when a wireless signal having a signal strength higher than a predetermined first clear channel assessment (CCA) threshold is received through the channel, identify whether the received wireless signal is a wireless signal of the same basic service set (BSS) as the terminal, and determine whether to resume the backoff procedure based on a CCA threshold determined according to the identification result and a wireless communication method using the same.
US12177900B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a bandwidth part (BWP) to switch to after identifying consistent uplink listen-before-talk (LBT) failures on a first BWP based on parameters indicated by a base station. For example, the base station may transmit a switching parameter to the UE that the UE then uses to switch to a second BWP based on identifying the consistent uplink LBT failures on the first BWP. Subsequently, after selecting the second BWP, the UE may attempt to use the second BWP for uplink transmissions (e.g., after performing a random access procedure). Additionally, the UE may indicate the consistent uplink LBT failures to a base station associated with the failed BWP based on a type of cell that is using that failed BWP.
US12177899B2
A method and a device for use in wireless communication nodes are disclosed in the present disclosure. A first node firstly performs channel listening to determine that K1 sub-bands out of K sub-bands are idle; and then transmits a first control information block and a second control information block on a first channel; the first channel occupies the K1 sub-bands of the K sub-bands; K1 repetitions of the first control information block are respectively transmitted by the K1 sub-bands, while the second control information block is transmitted only once on the first channel; the first control information block is used to indicate a sub-band occupied by the second control information block. The present disclosure categorizes UCI and transmits in different ways, so that different groups of UCI can be mutually indicated, thus enhancing the uplink transmission efficiency and performance on Unlicensed Spectrum.
US12177893B2
A communication method, an access point and a station are provided. The method includes: receiving, by an access point, a sending request sent by a first station, and sending clear to send information to the first station; when the access point receives feedback information sent by the first station, allocating, by the access point, a channel to the first station, and allocating a channel to a second station based on remaining bandwidth; generating a first trigger frame, and sending the first trigger frame to the first station and the second station; and receiving uplink data sent by the first station and the second station. According to the application, bandwidth utilization of the access point and data transmission efficiency can be improved.
US12177890B2
Provided are a random access method and device, and a first communication node and a second communication node. The random access method is applied to a first communication node and includes the following. First timing advance information and first preamble information corresponding to the first timing advance information are sent to a second communication node.
US12177885B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a first higher layer configuration for a cancellation indication (CI). Further, the first higher layer configuration may include a set of reference frequency resources. Also, the WTRU may receive a grant indicating a frequency allocation and a time allocation for a scheduled transmission. Further, on a condition that the CI is received, the WTRU may interrupt the scheduled transmission. Additionally, the CI may indicate a subset of frequency resources of the set of reference frequency resources for each of a set of time symbols. Also, the WTRU may cancel the scheduled transmission on a condition that the subset of frequency resources of a set of time symbols overlaps with the frequency allocation and the time allocation for the scheduled transmission. In a further example, the first higher layer configuration may include an applicable maximum priority and the grant may include a priority index.
US12177873B2
Provided by the embodiments of the present invention are a determination method, a terminal, and a network device, relating to the technical field of communications, and intended to solve the problem of uplink transmission delay in the related art when a UE uses semi-static scheduling for uplink transmission on an unlicensed band. The method include: receiving first information from a network device; the first information is used to indicate M candidate transmission opportunities for an uplink data channel in a first period, the first period is a period of semi-static scheduling resources on an unlicensed band, and M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and determining M candidate transmission opportunities for the uplink data channel in the first period according to the first information.
US12177872B2
A resource allocation method and a device are provided. The method is applied to a terminal device in sidelink communication, and includes: determining a first numerical value of a first counter at a first occasion; in a case that the first numerical value is greater than a first preset value, determining an occupancy status of a first transmission resource associated with the first occasion, where the first preset value is an integer greater than or equal to 0; and selecting a target resource for information transmission based on the occupancy status of the first transmission resource.
US12177867B2
The invention relates to a method for dynamically indicating a TDD reconfiguration to the mobile station by encoding the dynamic TDD re-configuration indication into the DCI or CRC calculated for the DCI. In one embodiment, the TDD configuration indication is implicitly encoded as an RNTI into the CRC, when scrambling the CRC for the DCI with a TDD-RNTI. In another embodiment, the TDD configuration indication is part of the DCI payload, while the CRC for the DCI is scrambled with a cell identifier, identifying the target cell for which the dynamic TDD re-configuration is to be applied. In still another embodiment, the TDD configuration indication is part of the DCI payload, where the DCI payload further includes an invalid parameter indicating to the mobile station that the DCI carries the TDD configuration indication.
US12177862B2
A wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device are disclosed, the method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first Downlink Control Information (DCI); and determining, by the terminal device, a priority and/or a processing time of first information scheduled by the first DCI according to at least one of an indication field in the first DCI, a searchspace for receiving the first DCI, a resource set for receiving the first DCI, a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) for scrambling a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) of the first DCI, or a format of the first DCI.
US12177860B2
An apparatus and a method of wireless communication are provided. The method by a user equipment (UE) includes being configured with an information element (IE) from a base station and performing a configured grant (CG) transmission using a first parameter from the IE, wherein the first parameter is used to perform at least one of the followings: uplink control information (UCI) multiplexing in a CG resource, indicating a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) priority, indicating a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) priority, indicating a validity of a PUSCH transmission scheme, indicating a repetition number for the PUSCH transmission scheme, or power control for a CG PUSCH. This can solve issues in the prior art, support HARQ-ACK codebooks in CG, support a PUSCH transmission scheme switching, support power control for CG, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.
US12177852B2
A user equipment (UE) may map a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) sequence to a first symbol in a set of resource blocks (RBs) of an uplink long burst, and the first symbol may occur at the beginning of the uplink long burst. The DMRS sequence may be “front-loaded” in the uplink long burst. The DMRS sequence may be dependent upon RB locations. When the DMRS sequence is mapped to the beginning of an uplink long burst, uplink control information (UCI) may be mapped in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). A UE may map UCI in a PUSCH after the DMRS sequence is mapped to the beginning of the uplink long burst. When the base station receives an uplink long burst including the front-loaded DMRS and the UCI mapped in the PUSCH, the base station may identify the DMRS for channel estimation/interference cancelation of the UCI carried on the PUSCH.
US12177846B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for indicating sidelink processes for sidelink feedback. A second user equipment (UE) may request hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) responses from a first UE for a particular set of sidelink processes over a physical sidelink feedback channel. To indicate multiple sidelink processes, the second UE may indicate, in sidelink control information, a window of sidelink processes. The window may be a sliding window that starts with a starting sidelink process and extends through other sidelink processes. The second UE may transmit data for the sidelink processes in the sliding window and receive feedback for the indicated sidelink processes. In some aspects, the first UE may select, in coordination with the second UE, the sidelink processes for which feedback is to be provided.
US12177845B2
In an aspect, a PDCCH and a PDSCH are transmitted by a BS to a UE, whereby the PDCCH includes a first DCI part and the PDSCH includes a second DCI part (e.g., a 2-part DCI). In an example a first grant associated with the second DCI part is offset relative to a slot position of the second DCI part, whereas a second grant associated with the second DCI part is offset relative to the slot position to which the first grant is offset. In another aspect, two or more grants are grouped together, with the respective group being mapped to a PUCCH.
US12177842B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may precode a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) communication using a first delay-Doppler precoder. The UE may precode a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) communication using one or more second delay-Doppler precoders. The UE may transmit the PSCCH communication and the PSSCH communication in a slot after precoding the PSCCH communication and the PSSCH communication. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12177839B2
A base station (BS) and a method for system information (SI) modification procedure are provided. The method includes transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), downlink control information (DCI) with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a paging radio network temporary identifier (P-RNTI), the DCI including an SI modification bit and a public warning system (PWS) notification bit. The DCI enables the UE to perform an SI acquisition procedure in a case that the SI modification bit is set. The DCI enables the UE to acquire at least one of an earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS) notification and a commercial mobile alert system (CMAS) notification immediately after the UE determines that the PWS notification bit is set.
US12177827B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may obtain group control information in a group common physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), determine resources for communicating on a shared channel based on the group control information, and communicate on the resources of the shared channel. A base station may configure a user equipment (UE) group comprising at least one UE, transmit, in a group common physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), group control information for scheduling the at least one UE for communicating on a shared channel, and communicate on the shared channel with the at least one UE.
US12177823B2
A method for indicating buffered downlink data, a method for obtaining downlink data and an access point are provided. The method for indicating buffered downlink data includes: generating a beacon frame, where the beacon frame includes an information bit for indicating buffered downlink data, and the information bit for indicating buffered downlink data is configured to indicate whether downlink data is buffered in the beacon frame; and transmitting, in a listening frequency band of each station, the beacon frame to the corresponding station, where the listening frequency band is a frequency band at which the corresponding station listens to obtain the downlink data.
US12177819B2
Implementations of the present application provide a wireless communication method and a terminal device, which can avoid a communication conflict between a side link and an uplink and a downlink, thereby improving the communication performance on the side link and the uplink and the downlink. The wireless communication method comprises: a first terminal device receiving first information sent by a second terminal device, wherein the first information is used to indicate first resources and/or second resources, the first resources are resources used by the second terminal device to perform cellular communication, and the second resources are resources used by the second terminal device to perform sidelink communication with a third terminal device; and the first terminal device performing, on resources other than the resources indicated by the first information, sidelink communication with the second terminal device.
US12177814B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a low cost (LC) user equipment (UE) to signal to a base station (BS) capabilities to receive physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) in wireless communications systems. In an exemplary method, a UE signals to a base station (BS) a plurality of parameters for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) reception by the UE and receives a PDCCH according to the plurality of parameters.
US12177813B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a sidelink configuration that indicates a set of sidelink slots comprising a first subset of sidelink slots to be used for first transmissions of sidelink communications and a second subset of sidelink slots to be used for second transmissions of the sidelink communications. The UE may communicate based at least in part on the sidelink configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12177806B2
A method, apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided for using time of arrival (TOA) based TTOAVAL or TTOA value for uplink to downlink channel synchronization at a user equipment (UE) required for required for establishing an RRC connection and/or maintaining the RRC connection due to UE mobility. In an example implementation, the method may include determining, by a user equipment (UE), a first time of arrival (TOA) based timing advance index value; and performing, by the user equipment (UE), uplink channel synchronization based at least on the first time of arrival (TOA) based timing advance index value.
US12177805B2
A method for adjusting transmit timing is disclosed. The method includes determining a reference timing advance value TAref, receiving a time offset parameter; and adjusting downlink transmit timing based on i) detected downlink receive timing of radio node and ii) the reference timing advance value TAref and the time offset parameter.
US12177801B2
According to an example embodiment, a method may include transmitting, by a wireless node in a wireless network, a sidelink synchronization signal (S-SSB) block, including a sidelink primary synchronization signal (S-PSS), a sidelink secondary synchronization signal (S-SSS), a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH), and a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS), wherein the demodulation reference signal is based on at least a sidelink demodulation reference signal initialization value for the sidelink synchronization signal block to provide sidelink priority-related information for the sidelink synchronization signal block.
US12177799B2
A terminal includes a controller configured to determine a candidate resource location where a resynchronization signal of a neighbor cell is possibly transmitted based on information on the neighbor cell; and a receiver configured to receive the resynchronization signal of the neighbor cell based on the candidate resource location.
US12177796B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for determining dynamic power sharing in a dual connectivity network. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12177794B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for sharing a maximum transmit power limit between a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT. In one aspect, a wireless communication apparatus may reduce the maximum transmit power limit of a first uplink signal associated with the first RAT to obtain a first transmit power. The wireless communication apparatus may allocate a second transmit power remaining from the maximum transmit power limit to a second uplink signal associated with the second RAT. The wireless communication apparatus may reduce the maximum transmit power limit when the wireless communication apparatus is located at a cell edge, and a higher priority of the first RAT in relation to the second RAT may otherwise result in the second transmit power of the second uplink signal not satisfying a threshold.
US12177787B2
Methods and apparatus for changing cell range coverage are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include circuitry configured to transmit subframes of radio frames using a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), where the subframes are divided into first and second sets. The circuitry may include a first power control loop utilized for the first set of subframes and a second power control loop utilized for the second set of subframes. The first power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the first set of subframes, and the second power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the second set of subframes. The circuitry may be configured with a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for a first eNodeB and a second PUCCH for a second eNodeB to simultaneously communicate with the first and the second eNodeBs.
US12177785B2
Disclosed are an energy saving signal transmission method, a network-side device and a terminal, relating wireless communications. The method of the present application comprises: a base station using higher-layer signaling/physical-layer signaling to configure, for a terminal, a first transmission opportunity for transmitting a first energy saving signal, and/or configure, for the terminal, a second transmission opportunity for transmitting a second energy saving signal; and using the first transmission opportunity to transmit the first energy saving signal to the terminal, and/or using the second transmission opportunity to transmit the second energy saving signal to the terminal.
US12177779B2
A method includes obtaining network traffic information based on network traffic received during a time window. The method also includes determining a network service type using a machine learning classification system operating on the network traffic information. The method also includes determining a latency requirement based on the network service type. The method also includes adjusting one or more Target Wakeup Time (TWT) intervals and a wake duration based on the latency requirement to optimize power consumption of a Wi-Fi station.
US12177776B2
Systems and methods provide user equipment (UE) access parameters for access control when, for example, the UE is accessing a non-public network, the UE is accessing a private slice in a public land mobile network (PLMN), the UE is accessing a non-public network for PLMN service, and/or the UE is accessing a private slice in a PLMN for a non-public network service.
US12177771B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a metal smart card comprising a metal insert having a peripheral edge extending to the peripheral edge of the card and at least one printed cover sheet. The method comprises the steps of assembling a printed support sheet and at least one insert using an assembly tray comprising elements for positioning the support sheet and each insert, and extracting each metal smart card from the printed support sheet by cutting or machining the sheet around a periphery of the insert. Other embodiments disclosed.
US12177770B2
This disclosure is directed to providing a seamless and secure connection between an electronic device (e.g., a mobile device such as a cellular phone) and a network during network switching. A device (e.g., a network interface card) may be used to hold SIM card stacks or embedded SIM (eSIM) stacks and intelligently and automatically configure network interfaces to maintain seamless and secure data link connection during network switching, thus providing the electronic device connection to networks with enhanced or optimized quality of service (QoS).
US12177753B2
Methods and systems are provided for auto-configuring a newly purchased user equipment (UE) device with content consumption material that is associated with a user. These methods and systems are provided by way of receiving, in response to the user having purchased the UE device, purchase information (e.g., a credit card number) and a UE device identifier (e.g., a serial number of a purchased UE device). After receipt of this information, a database is searched to identify a user account that is associated with the purchase information. The user account identifies content consumption material that has been processed by other UE devices to enable the user to consume content. A communication is then transmitted to the UE device that causes the UE device to be configured with the identified content consumption material.
US12177750B2
A communication control device controls wireless communication of a mobile object. The wireless communication includes: a cost information obtaining unit for obtaining from another mobile object being in surroundings of the mobile object, cost information representing a cost for the other mobile object to perform direct wireless communication between mobile objects; a connection information obtaining unit for obtaining communication connection information available for the other mobile object; a communication path setting unit for setting, based on the communication connection information, a plurality of communication paths including a communication path using direct communication with the other mobile object; and a communication path selecting unit for selecting, based on the cost information obtained by the cost information obtaining unit and the communication connection information obtained by the connection information obtaining unit, a communication path to be used for data communication among the plurality of communication paths.
US12177748B2
This disclosure relates to embodiments New Radio (NR) vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. Some of embodiments generate system information block (SIB) messages having configurations for V2X communication modes, and transmit the SIB messages to a user equipment (UE). V2X communication modes include unicast, groupcast and broadcast modes. An example configuration includes a sidelink communication using a V2X communication mode.
US12177744B2
Support for multicast and broadcast data transmissions and acknowledgement feedback for the transmissions are being considered in 5G new radio (NR). Resource allocation techniques are provided to allocate uplink control channel resources for acknowledgement of downlink multicast/broadcast (MC/BC) data transmissions. An apparatus, such as a user equipment, receives a multicast/broadcast (MC/BC) configuration indicating a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource set for transmitting MC/BC acknowledgment (ACK)/negative acknowledgment (NACK), and a unicast configuration indicating a second PUCCH resource set for transmitting unicast ACK/NACK feedback. The apparatus also receives MC/BC data from a base station. The apparatus determines a first PUCCH resource from the first PUCCH resource set for transmitting MC/BC ACK/NACK feedback in response to the received MC/BC data and based on the received MC/BC configuration. The apparatus transmits the MC/BC ACK/NACK feedback to the base station in the determined first PUCCH resource.
US12177741B2
This document presents a system to identify patterns of life associated with the users of radio frequency emitting devices radiating within a monitored volume. These recurring commonalities in human activity can be derived from collected data and subsequent analytics that provide intelligence about those emitters and associated humans present within the monitored environment. The Hlin system provides unique identifiers for detected emitters; insights into the current network relationships between emitters, past and current; human relational networks within the monitored volume; and can identify previous emitter locations prior to detection by the Hlin system. These patterns of life provide a foundation for predicting interactions between humans associated with emitters active in structures within a monitored volume. The Hlin system may also utilize collected information to trace or track devices, and associated users, through the monitored volume.
US12177739B2
An approach is described for a method for a radio access node (RAN) node in a fifth generation (5G) wireless communication or a new radio (NR) system that includes the following steps. The method includes generating a request for location information of a user equipment (UE). The method further includes transmitting the request to an access and mobility function (AMF). The method further includes receiving a response from the AMF, wherein the response comprises the location information of the UE.
US12177738B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method and system for tracking and determining a position of an object along a planned route, the method comprising: providing information of at least one predetermined route and determining a planned route based on the information of the at least one predetermined route; determining a primary position of the object based on at least one of: signals received from a satellite positioning system and the planned route; tracking a first position of the object via the satellite positioning system; and comparing whether the first position matches with the planned route. If the first position is found to deviate from the planned route, determining a secondary position of movement of the object based on measurements of at least one of: an inertia sensor and an acceleration sensor; wherein at least one of acceleration, speed and direction of the object is measured. Determining the secondary position indication of the object based on the first position and the secondary position of movement of the object; comparing whether the secondary position indication matches with at least one of: the planned route and the at least one predetermined route, and determining the current position of the object based on: at least one of: the at least one predetermined route and the planned route; and at least one of: the first position and the secondary position indication.
US12177737B2
Techniques for determining levels of interactions amongst entities in a group are provided. A plurality of mobile electronic devices detect signal data indicating when pairs of devices are proximate to one another. A receiver receives the detected signal data, and a data structure representing a contact network is generated based on the received detected signal data. Based on the contact network, a first metric is generated comprising a quantification of an average number of other entities in the contact network with which an entity in the contact network will have interactions in a predetermined amount of time. Based on the contact network, a second metric is generated comprising a quotient comprising of a size of a component of the contact network divided by an overall network size of the contact network. Based on the first and second metric, a level of interaction amongst entities in the group is determined.
US12177736B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a first position of a first user, identifying a first context associated with the first user, determining, based on the first position and the first context, at least a first action that is recommended to be taken, and providing at least one output that provides an indication of the at least a first action. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12177726B2
A communication method may be applied to a scenario in which a terminal is handed over from a source access network element to a target access network element, and the method includes: obtaining session information of a first session of the terminal, where the session information includes first service type information; obtaining first information, where the first information indicates service type information of local offloading supported by the target access network element; and if the target access network element supports local offloading of a service corresponding to the first service type information, determining that the target access network element processes the first session.
US12177719B2
The present disclosure provides a buffer status report transmission method, a terminal and a scheduling device. The method includes: transmitting a buffer status report to a scheduling device, where the buffer status report is used to indicate at least one piece of target information as follows: a data size of and a corresponding channel for sidelink data to be transmitted; a transmission type of sidelink data to be transmitted; a transmission object of sidelink data to be transmitted; beam information of sidelink data to be transmitted; and a buffer type of sidelink data to be transmitted.
US12177714B2
The disclosure relates to a method and a device for controlling a data rate in a network slice of a wireless communication system. A method for controlling a bit rate of a network slice by a session management function (SMF) device of a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a slice control policy information from a policy and charging function (PCF) device, transmitting, to a user plane function (UPF) device, a parameter for controlling each slice based on the received slice control information, and receiving, from the UPF device, a response signal for whether the transmitted parameter is acceptable.
US12177706B2
Suggested are a method and an apparatus for reporting beam information in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method performed by a terminal may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, downlink control information for triggering beam reporting; receiving, from the base station, a resource related to beam reporting; and reporting, to the base station, first beam information or second beam information, on the basis of the resource related to beam reporting.
US12177703B2
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to perform measurements on reference signals or synchronization signal. In an example, timing requirements for performing such measurements can be dynamically changed depending on, at least, a measurement on one of the reference signal or the synchronization signal.
US12177702B2
A measurement gap processing method, a terminal, and a network node are provided. The method includes: obtaining a measurement gap configured by a first network node for the terminal and a measurement gap configured by a second network node for the terminal, where the measurement gaps configured by the first network node and the second network node for the terminal are different; and determining, based on the measurement gap configured by the first network node for the terminal and the measurement gap configured by the second network node for the terminal, a measurement gap for use by the terminal.
US12177700B2
A wireless testing system is provided that testing transmission speeds associated with a WLAN or other wireless network. In one instance, a network transmission between a device in a telecommunications network and a modem be measured and initiated via an application executed on a mobile device. One or more Wi-Fi speed tests may also be performed to determine a transmission speed between a wireless device associated with the premises and the modem of the WLAN. To conduct the Wi-Fi speed test, a mobile device (such as the mobile device executing the application) may transmit, in some instances in response to an input to the mobile device, an instruction to the test controller to conduct the Wi-Fi speed test. The measured transmission speeds may be controlled by a controller that may store the speed test results in a network repository available to the mobile device.
US12177697B2
Evaluating a radio frequency for user in a selected cell-area in a wireless network that is or will be served by a base-station operating at the radio frequency involves identifying user equipment within the selected cell-area that are or can be served by the base-station, identifying potentially interfering devices operating at the same radio frequency as the base-station, and estimating an interference impact from the identified potentially interfering devices to communication between the base-station and the identified user equipment.
US12177687B2
Example methods and apparatus to recognize metered devices connected to proprietary WiFi extenders are disclosed herein. In some examples, a first device comprising at least one memory including a table, and at least one processor to broadcast a first message to a network extender, the first message including a first address associated with a second device and a message identifier, identify, in response to obtaining a second message including the message identifier, a second address embedded on a data link layer of the second message, and store the second address in the table in association with the second device.
US12177683B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for provisioning radio-based networks with locality rules. In one embodiment, at least one locality rule associated with an organization is accessed. The locality rule(s) require that at least a subset of network traffic for a radio-based network remain within a particular geographic area. The radio-based network includes a radio access network and an associated core network. A topology for the radio-based network is determined based at least in part on the locality rule(s). The radio-based network is provisioned or reconfigured for the organization to have the topology complying with the at least one locality rule.
US12177680B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US12177675B2
In some implementations, a device of a network may receive, from a user equipment (UE), a request associated with enabling the UE to access a network, wherein the request includes a first routing indicator. The device may identify an authentication manager, of the network, that is mapped to the first routing indicator in an entry of a routing table of the network. The device may route the request to the authentication manager of the network to permit the authentication manager to authenticate the UE. The device may purge, based on the request being routed to the authentication manager, the entry to remove the first routing indicator from the routing table. The device may store, after purging the entry, a second routing indicator in the entry to map the second routing indicator to the authentication manager, wherein the second routing indicator is different from the first routing indicator.
US12177665B2
A system is provided for processing mobile resource transfers using secure tokens on a distributed register. In particular, each mobile device may be associated with a unique, immutable data identifier that may be stored within the distributed register. Resource transfers initiated by the mobile device may be authenticated by the resource transfer servers using the secure token associated with the mobile device along with the resource transfer data or metadata transmitted by the mobile device. Based on the historical data associated with the mobile device in conjunction with the secure token and resource transfer data and metadata, the resource transfer server may initiate an authorization process on the resource transfer requested by the mobile device. In this way, the system provides a secure way to process mobile resource transfers.
US12177660B2
The present invention discloses a Bluetooth mesh network system having quick provisioning mechanism that includes an infrared control apparatus and nodes. The infrared control apparatus generates a provisioning activation infrared signal. Each of the nodes receives the provisioning activation infrared signal and generates a group key according to predetermined group number information thereof to perform communication according to the group key based on a Bluetooth mesh network communication protocol.
US12177655B2
A wireless device receives, from a first base station, an indication of a conditional handover towards a cell, wherein the indication comprises a cell identifier of the cell and at least one handover execution condition. The wireless device transmits, to the first base station and based on the wireless device determining that the at least one handover execution condition is met by the cell, a notification indicating that the wireless device executes the conditional handover towards the cell.
US12177648B2
Sound objects are identified within a content item, and location metadata is extracted from the content item for each sound object. A reference layout is generated, relative to a user position, for the sound objects based on the location metadata. A user's gaze is then determined using pupil tracking, body movement data, head orientation data, or other techniques. Using the reference layout, a sound object along a path defined by the gaze of the user is identified, and audio of the identified object is enhanced.
US12177647B2
Systems and methods for preserving headphone rendering mode (HRM) in object clustering are described. In an embodiment, an object-based audio data processing system includes a processor configured to receive a plurality of audio objects, wherein an audio object of the plurality of audio objects is associated with respective object metadata that indicates respective spatial position information and an HRM; determine a plurality of cluster positions by applying an extended hybrid distance metric to a spatial coding algorithm to calculate a partial loudness for each of the audio objects; render the audio objects to the cluster positions to form a plurality of clusters by applying the extended hybrid distance metric to the spatial coding algorithm to calculate object-to-cluster gains; and transmit the clusters to a spatial reproduction system.
US12177646B2
An audio bitstream is decoded into audio objects and audio metadata for the audio objects. The audio objects include a specific audio object. The audio metadata specifies frame-level gains that include a first gain and a second gain respectively for a first audio frame and a second audio frame. It is determined, based on the first and second gains, whether sub-frame gains are to be generated for the specific audio object. If so, a ramp length is determined for a ramp used to generate the sub-frame gains for the specific audio object. The ramp of the ramp length is used to generate the sub-frame gains for the specific audio object. A sound field represented by the audio objects with the sub-frame gains is rendered by audio speakers.
US12177640B2
An audio signal switching device is configured to route a source signal to one of multiple connected amplifiers and or more connected speakers in accordance with user-selected parameters. Unselected amplifiers may be muted at their inputs and have outputs switched to a protective load. The device may include connections to route an amplified signal through external effects loops and/or bypass such loops. The device may include a bypassable signal attenuator between the selected amplifier's output and a selected speaker. Systems and methods of using such devices and processing signals in accordance with the disclosure are also disclosed.
US12177639B2
A wearable electronic device may be formed from a layer of fabric having opposing first and second ends. The ends may have first and second respective ear openings that receive a user's ears and may have speakers for playing audio. A soft central portion of the fabric between the ends may overlap the user's eyes. The wearable electronic device may have control circuitry that receives power from a power source. Sensors may be used to gather sensor information such as biometric sensor information. The sensors, control circuitry, and power source may be mounted in a stiff edge portion of the fabric. The stiff edge portion of the fabric may have an elongated strip shape and may extend along an upper edge of the central and the electronic device. Stiffener structures sandwiched between inner and outer layers of the fabric may be used to support speakers.
US12177621B2
Disclosed in the embodiments of the present application is a headset communication system. The headset communication system comprises: a bone conduction headset, comprising a first Bluetooth module; an intercom device, comprising a first external interface; an external communication module, comprising a second external interface and a second Bluetooth module. The external communication module is detachably provided in the intercom device and being coupled to the intercom device by means of the first external interface and the second external interface, and the bone conduction headset and the intercom device perform Bluetooth pairing by means of the first Bluetooth module and the second Bluetooth module so as to establish a Bluetooth connection.
US12177615B2
A system includes at least one sound producing device comprising at least one speaker stacked vertically and configured to be housed in a corner of furniture of a pontoon watercraft and generating constructive interference gains in at least one zone at a particular sound stage at a height above a deck of the pontoon watercraft.
US12177613B2
This application provides an ultra-short-throw picture and screen alignment method which includes that: a first lateral projected image and a second lateral projected image are acquired by two cameras when an ultra-short-throw projector projects a picture; image processing is performed on the first lateral projected image and the second lateral projected image to obtain a projection position in a projection area and a screen position in a screen area; and the picture is adjusted according to the screen position and the projection position, so that a position of an adjusted projection picture and a target position coincide. In this application, the projected images are acquired by the two cameras, thereby ensuring acquisition of complete images.
US12177609B2
A communication apparatus (10) includes: a communication unit (11) configured to transmit sensor information detected using at least two or more sensors, the two or more sensors being adapted to detect states of a mobile body in directions different from one another with the mobile body being a base point; a moving state recognition unit (12) configured to recognize a moving state; a peripheral state recognition unit (13) configured to recognize a peripheral state of the mobile body; and a communication control unit (14) configured to determine a priority level of each of the two or more sensors based on the moving state and the peripheral state and perform communication control so that the sensor information detected by the sensor having a high priority level is transmittable in quality higher than that of the sensor information detected by the sensor having a low priority level.
US12177605B2
There is provided a remote conference system that remotely implements a conference using a plurality of operating devices respectively operated by a plurality of participants, and the remote conference system includes a hardware processor that: outputs a first image shared by the plurality of participants to cause the first image to be displayed on each of the plurality of operating devices; determines an output destination on a basis of a state of a requesting device operated by a requester among the plurality of operating devices; and outputs a second image different from the first image to cause the second image to be output from the output destination determined by the hardware processor in a state in which the first image is displayed on the requesting device.
US12177599B2
An image capturing method, applicable to an electronic device including an image capturing device and a processor, is provided. The image capturing device has a field of view (FOV). The image capturing method includes: capturing a plurality of images of the FOV by using the image capturing device, and recording a plurality of images within a capture frame in the FOV from the images, where a capturing range of the capture frame is smaller than or equal to the FOV; moving the capture frame to a perspective-moving target within the FOV in response to a setting operation on the perspective-moving target; and generating a moving-perspective video from the recorded images.
US12177595B2
A video device, a wireless audio device and a method for performing audio and video (AV) synchronization between the video device and the wireless audio device are provided. The method includes: utilizing a controller of the video device to determine a video delay of the video device; utilizing the controller to determine an audio delay of the video device; utilizing the controller to receive information of a communications quality of the wireless audio device from the wireless audio device, to determine a wireless communications delay between the video device and the wireless audio device according to the communications quality; utilizing the controller to generate a time map information according to the video delay, the audio delay and the wireless communications delay; and transmitting the time map information from the video device to the wireless audio device for AV synchronization between the video device and the wireless audio device.
US12177593B2
Photoelectric conversion apparatus and system having photodiodes to perform avalanche multiplication
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first pixel and a second pixel, each of which includes a photodiode, and a signal processing circuit including a control circuit and a counter. The control circuit is connected to the photodiode and a circuit configured to generate a pulse signal, and performs control, based on the pulse signal, so as to be in a standby state or a recharge state. The counter counts the number of periods in which avalanche multiplication has occurred in the standby state. A third pulse of the pulse signal for the second pixel is input to the control circuit in a period from when a first pulse of the pulse signal for the first pixel is input to the control circuit to when a second pulse of the pulse signal for the first pixel subsequent to the first pulse is input to the control circuit.
US12177588B2
The photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel. The pixel includes a photoelectric conversion unit and a signal processing circuit. The photoelectric conversion unit includes an avalanche diode that multiplies charge generated by an incident of photon by avalanche multiplication, and outputting a first signal in accordance with the incident of photon. The signal processing circuit includes a logic circuit that outputs a third signal in response to the first signal and a second signal. The signal processing circuit includes a first element having a first withstand voltage and a second element having a second withstand voltage lower than the first withstand voltage, and is configured such that the first signal is input to the first element and the second signal is input to the second element.
US12177586B2
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for image data processing. In certain embodiments, an image processing pipeline may be configured to receive a frame of the image data having a plurality of pixels acquired using a digital image sensor. The image processing pipeline may then be configured to determine a first plurality of correction factors that may correct each pixel in the plurality of pixels for fixed pattern noise. The first plurality of correction factors may be determined based at least in part on fixed pattern noise statistics that correspond to the frame of the image data. After determining the first plurality of correction factors, the image processing pipeline may be configured to apply the first plurality of correction factors to the plurality of pixels, thereby reducing the fixed pattern noise present in the plurality of pixels.
US12177582B2
A detector includes a unit cell array in which a plurality of unit cells are arranged. The plurality of unit cells include a first unit cell including a first conversion element and a first amplification transistor including a control electrode connected to the first conversion element, the first unit cell being configured to output a signal obtained by amplifying the signal charge by the first amplification transistor, and a second unit cell including a second amplification transistor including a control electrode connected to a constant voltage source, the second amplification transistor being configured to output a signal corresponding to a voltage of the constant voltage source by the second amplification transistor. The first unit cell and the second unit cell are disposed in an irradiated region in the unit cell array, the irradiated region being configured to be irradiated with the energy beam.
US12177562B2
An image-capturing apparatus is provided. The image-capturing apparatus has an imaging sensor, a controller, and a communication interface. The controller controls operation timings of the image-capturing apparatus. The communication interface outputs an image captured by the imaging sensor and control information of the imaging sensor to the outside at timings controlled by the controller. The controller can control the operation timings of the image-capturing apparatus in accordance with a synchronization signal input to the image-capturing apparatus. The controller synchronizes the synchronization signal and the operation timings of the image-capturing apparatus before the control information is output to the outside, when an instruction to output the control information to the outside is input while the synchronization signal and the operation timings are not synchronized.
US12177560B2
The control circuit for controlling an image sensor of the disclosure includes a processor, a command circuit, a power management circuit and an image controller. The image sensor captures at least one image and generates at least one image data corresponding the at least one image in response to the controlling command. The power management circuit generates a driving power in response to a timing interrupt signal when the processor is in a low power mode. The command circuit is driven by the driving power when the processor is in the low power mode. The image controller is driven by the driving power to controls the command circuit to generate the controlling command when the processor is in the low power mode. The image controller controls the power management circuit to stop generating the driving power according to a data number of the at least one image data.
US12177558B2
An apparatus includes one or more processors and logic encoded in one or more non-transitory media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to receive a first image of an object, wherein the first image was captured by a first camera in a set of cameras. The logic is further operable to determine first keypoints and a first pose for the object based on the first image. The logic is further operable to receive a second image from a second camera in the set of cameras. The logic is further operable to determine an overlap of the first image and the second image based on locations of the first keypoints, the second keypoints, the first pose, and the second pose. The logic is further operable to determine a synchronization error between the first image and the second image based on the overlap.
US12177556B2
A photographing control method includes receiving a photographing parameter for a trajectory point from a control terminal, obtaining mobile-platform attitude data for the trajectory point, establishing a correspondence relationship between the photographing parameter for the trajectory point and the mobile-platform attitude data for the trajectory point, and, in response to detecting that a current operation attitude of a mobile platform matches the mobile-platform attitude data for the trajectory point, controlling a photographing device of the mobile platform to perform photographing according to the photographing parameter.
US12177549B2
A camera, camera lens, image sensor, and a shape memory alloy (SMA) motor are stacked within a frame. The SMA motor is located on an out-light side of the camera lens. The image sensor is located between the lens and the SMA motor and is fastened to the SMA motor. The SMA motor is configured to actuate the image sensor to shift on a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the camera lens. The camera may be associated with an electronic device.
US12177547B2
An embodiment includes: a base; a circuit board which is disposed on the base and which includes first and second terminals; a housing disposed on the circuit board; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a first coil disposed on the bobbin; a sensing magnet disposed on the bobbin; a magnet disposed in the housing; a first position sensor which is disposed in the housing and which corresponds to the sensing magnet; a second coil disposed between the base and the magnet; and a second position sensor which is disposed on the circuit board and which includes a first sensor and a second sensor, wherein each of the first sensor and the second sensor is a driver integrated circuit including a hall sensor and a driver, a clock signal is provided to the first terminal of the circuit board, a data signal is provided to the second terminal of the circuit board, and the driver of each of the first position sensor, the first sensor, and the second sensor transmits/receives the clock signal through the first terminal of the circuit board, and transmits/receives the data signal in a time-division manner through the second terminal of the circuit board.
US12177541B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for generating a summary for a piece of content using a thumbnail container. This may be accomplished by a system receiving a thumbnail container related to a piece of content. The system may also receive user information, a device characteristic, and/or content information related to the piece of content and use the received data to select a machine learning model. The selected machine learning model can identify one or more thumbnails of the thumbnail container as a thumbnail of interest to a user. The system can then generate a summary of the piece of content based on the thumbnail identified by the machine learning model and display the generated summary for the user.
US12177538B2
Techniques are described herein for editing video that is being streamed from one or more remote streaming sources without the latency experienced by prior approaches. Unlike prior approaches, the video editing is performed by one or more server devices that belong to the cloud network to which the original content streams are being transmitted. The editing performed by the cloud-based server devices is based on production commands received from a remote production-control device that does not belong to the cloud. However, because video does not need to make a round-trip from the cloud network and the remote production-control device, latency in generation of the output video is significantly reduced.
US12177534B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the technical field of computer processing, and provide an effect playback method and system for a live room, and a device. The method comprises: recognizing an article in a live room; determining a corresponding effect according to a target attribute of the article and the live room, wherein the correspondence among the article, the target attribute, and the effect is preset; and playing back the effect in the live room.
US12177531B2
The embodiments relate to a method including generating a bitstream defining a presentation including an omnidirectional visual media content; encoding into the bitstream a parameter to indicate viewport-control options for viewing the presentation, wherein the viewport-control options includes options controllable by a receiving device and options not-controllable by the receiving device and sending the bitstream to the receiver device; receiving one of the indicated viewport-control options from the receiver device as a response; streaming the presentation to the receiver device; when the response has included an indication on a viewport-control controllable by the receiving device, the method also includes receiving information on viewport definitions from the receiver device during streaming of the presentation and adapting the presentation accordingly; when the response has included an indication on a viewport-control not-controllable by the receiving device, the presentation is streamed to the receiver device according to the viewport-control specified in the response.
US12177521B2
Methods and systems are proposed herein to address the inefficiencies in the recommendation schemes available. More specifically, the embodiments disclosed herein provide a new recommendation scheme, whereby a user enters various criteria for what he/she would like to be recommended. For example, the system may receive a user preference for content recommendations from a user. The system may retrieve a user profile for the user. The system may compare the user preference to the user profile to determine a criterion for content recommendations for the user. The system may receive a content attribute for content provided by a content provider. The system may match the criterion to the content attribute. The system may, in response to matching the criterion to the content attribute, generate for display a recommendation to the user for the content.
US12177516B2
Methods and apparatus to determine media viewing information for hybrid content delivery are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to monitor network traffic associated with at least one device during a media session, determine viewing information associated with the media session based on a consumption data message in the network traffic, the consumption data message transmitted by the at least one device, determine a program identifier of primary content received by the at least one device, the program identifier indicative of a program presented as the primary content by the at least one device, associate a panelist identifier with the viewing information and the program identifier of the primary content, and generate a media session report based on the panelist identifier, the viewing information, and the program identifier.
US12177514B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit, at least one processor, and a memory operatively coupled to the at least one processor. The electronic device may be configured to be connected to an external electronic device by using the wireless communication circuit, transmit audio data and video data for reproduction of multimedia in the external electronic device by using the wireless communication circuit, determine whether an input to the multimedia is detected, when the input to the multimedia is detected, transmit information instructing to stop synchronization between the audio data and the video data to the external electronic device.
US12177510B1
A system, method and apparatus are described for improving video production technology. A video production server receives livestream videos from spectators at live events. The video production server creates video-on-demand presentations based on the livestream video clips. The video production server may also receive natively-created video clips of live events after live events have ended. The natively-created video clips each comprise location, date and time information as metadata. When natively-created video clips are received by the video production server, each clip is associated with a particular, past live event by comparing the location, date and time information of each clip to a database of live events identified by each event's location, date and time. The video production server may then update a particular video-on-demand presentation with an associated natively-created video clip, resulting in an updated video-on-demand presentation using both livestream video clips and natively-created video clips.
US12177507B2
A broadcast receiving system includes: a first receiving unit receiving broadcast data for a first transmission method; a second receiving unit receiving broadcast data for a second transmission method; a first decoding unit decoding the broadcast data received by the first receiving unit; a second decoding unit decoding the broadcast data received by the second receiving unit; a video output unit outputting video, the video being generated based on data decoded by the first or second decoding unit; an operation input unit receiving control information from a remote controller; and a control unit controlling the units based on the control information received by the operation input unit. The remote controller includes a button to output control information for switching between a display state and a non-display state of service, the service being linked with a broadcasting program.
US12177503B2
Methods and systems for determining projected amounts of viewing time of a TV program by end-users are disclosed. Data including end-user type, a TV program descriptor, TV network, and start time of transmission may be received. End-users may be identified by end-user type. A machine-learning model applied to the data and viewing history data may generate parameters for determining how much of the TV program they are each expected to view during a sequence of time intervals. For each end-user, the parameters may be applied to make a determination of temporal-fraction values of the TV program the end-user is expected to view during the time interval, and for each time interval, conditioning values used to condition the determination for the next time interval. Projected subtotals of viewing time may be determined, based on the temporal-fraction values. A projected total amount viewing time of the TV program may then be determined.
US12177500B2
An information processing apparatus as a server apparatus that performs transfer from an imaging apparatus to a client terminal includes: a control unit that performs: initial information transfer processing of obtaining additional information on the basis of associated information and transmitting the associated information and the additional information to a client terminal in response to reception of the associated information that is information associated with an image captured by the imaging apparatus and has a smaller data amount than a captured image, and main image transfer processing of transmitting an image transmitted from the imaging apparatus to the client terminal according to request information generated by selection processing in the client terminal.
US12177499B2
Various arrangements for performing dynamic content insertion are presented. Content items that have been output for presentation may be tracked across multiple viewing sessions. One or more insertion rules may be evaluated that are mapped to a content item. The content item may be determined to have met an output rate threshold. An alternative piece of content may be selected for insertion based on the content item having met the output threshold rate. A streaming content viewer device may be triggered to substitute the alternative content item to replace the content item.
US12177496B2
A system for generating high-resolution video from low-resolution images is configured to access a first video stream and a second video stream capturing an environment. The first video stream is captured by a first video capture device. The second video stream is captured by a second video capture device. Image frames of the first video stream are temporally synchronized with corresponding image frames of the second video stream. The system is also configured to generate a composite video stream with a higher resolution than the first or second video streams. Each composite image frame of the composite video stream is generated using a respective image frame of the first video stream and a temporally synchronized corresponding image frame of the second video stream as input.
US12177487B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: obtaining image information; and updating a decoded picture buffer (DPB) on the basis of the image information, wherein the step of obtaining the image information comprises the steps of: obtaining an output layer set (OLS) DPB parameter index for a target OLS; and obtaining DPB parameter information relating to the target OLS on the basis of the OLS DPB parameter index.
US12177481B2
Disclosed herein is a method of transmitting point cloud data, including encoding geometry data of point cloud data, encoding attribute data of the point cloud data based on the geometry data, and transmitting the encoded geometry data, the encoded attribute data, and signaling data.
US12177479B2
During a streaming session of tile based immersive video, upon request to switch from at a current tile segment associated with a current tile to a new tile segment associated with a new tile at a reference time, an encoder (300) is providing to generate one or more complementary frames of the new tile segment allowing a decoding, by a requesting player, of the new tile segment from the reference time.
US12177478B2
A method of coding at least one image comprising the steps of splitting the image into a plurality of blocks, of grouping said blocks into a predetermined number of subsets of blocks, of coding each of said subsets of blocks in parallel, the blocks of a subset considered being coded according to a predetermined sequential order of traversal. The coding step comprises, for a current block of a subset considered, the sub-step of predictive coding of said current block with respect to at least one previously coded and decoded block, and the sub-step of entropy coding of said current block on the basis of at least one probability of appearance of a symbol.
US12177467B2
Methods of constraining and adjusting the applications of Combined Inter- and Intra-Prediction (CIIP) mode employed in video coding standards, such as the now-current Versatile Video Coding (VVC), are performed at a computing device. In one method, the computing device determines whether to apply decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) and bidirectional optical flow (BDOF) on a bi-prediction block. In another method, the computing device determines whether each CU among the neighboring CUs of the current CU is respectively CIIP-coded, and employing a unified criterion that does not depend upon a determination whether the current CU is intra- or CIIP-coded in the course of using the intra-mode of the neighboring CIIP-coded CU in the formation of the Most Probable Mode (MPM) candidate list for the current CU.
US12177456B2
An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data. The method comprises: receiving, from the video signal, a picture frame that includes a first component and a second component; determining a classifier for the second component from a set of samples of the first component associated with a respective sample of the second component; when the set of samples of the first component associated with the respective sample of the second component is divided by a virtual boundary, copying one or more central subsets of the set of samples of the first component to a first boundary position and a second boundary position of the set of samples of the first component; determining a sample offset for the respective sample of the second component according to the classifier; and modifying the value of the respective sample of the second component based on the determined sample offset.
US12177444B2
Video decoding innovations for multithreading implementations and graphics processor unit (“GPU”) implementations are described. For example, for multithreaded decoding, a decoder uses innovations in the areas of layered data structures, picture extent discovery, a picture command queue, and/or task scheduling for multithreading. Or, for a GPU implementation, a decoder uses innovations in the areas of inverse transforms, inverse quantization, fractional interpolation, intra prediction using waves, loop filtering using waves, memory usage and/or performance-adaptive loop filtering. Innovations are also described in the areas of error handling and recovery, determination of neighbor availability for operations such as context modeling and intra prediction, CABAC decoding, computation of collocated information for direct mode macroblocks in B slices, reduction of memory consumption, implementation of trick play modes, and picture dropping for quality adjustment.
US12177442B2
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.
US12177438B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: performs quantization on a plurality of transform coefficients of a current block to be encoded, using a quantization matrix when orthogonal transform is performed on the current block and secondary transform is not performed on the current block; and performs quantization on the plurality of transform coefficients of the current block without using the quantization matrix when orthogonal transform is not performed on the current block and when both orthogonal transform and secondary transform are performed on the current block.
US12177431B2
The present invention provides an image encoding method and an image decoding method. The image encoding method of the present invention comprises: a first dividing step of dividing a current image into a plurality of blocks; and a second dividing step of dividing, into a plurality of sub blocks, a block, which is to be divided and includes a boundary of the current image, among the plurality of blocks, wherein the second dividing step is recursively performed by setting a sub block including the boundary of the current images as the block to be divided, until the sub block including the boundary of the current image does not exist among the sub blocks.
US12177429B2
This invention provides a division pattern determining apparatus for determining a division pattern for dividing a region to be encoded in image data using a neural network, comprising: a determining portion configured to execute on the image data of the region to be encoded a determination for a plurality of blocks of different sizes whether or not to divide each block using a neural network and determine a division pattern of one or more blocks included in the region to be encoded on the basis of the determination, wherein the neural network of the determining portion is constituted by a plurality of layers; and wherein when a size of a block for which whether or not to divide is to be determined is large, information from an intermediate layer positioned in an upper position is used.
US12177418B2
According to the disclosure of the present document, by signaling NAL unit-related information for a first picture and a collocated reference picture-related information for a second picture following the first picture in a decoding order, a collocated reference picture with respect to the second picture can be limited, and thus the image coding efficiency can be enhanced.
US12177416B1
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for using a compensating window to correct tolerance-placement effects on camera focus are provided. The system may receive a first captured image of a first test target from a surface of a target plane. The first captured image may be captured using a first lens of a camera. The system may determine a first modulation transfer function measurement for the first captured image. The system may determine that the first modulation transfer function measurement is within a threshold measurement. The system may send an alert indicative that the first lens is within the threshold measurement.
US12177401B2
An image reading apparatus including an upper unit provided so as to be openable and closeable with respect to a lower unit, wherein the lower unit includes a two dimensional sensor that is disposed so as to face a medium fed from a medium support portion that supports the medium and detects movement of the medium in a two dimensional coordinate system, and a cover that switches a state in conjunction with opening and closing of the upper unit, exposes the two dimensional sensor in a state in which the upper unit is closed, and covers the two dimensional sensor in a state in which the upper unit is opened.
US12177394B2
An image forming apparatus includes a displayer, a controller, and an image former. The controller is capable of setting a screen to be displayed on the displayer, as an initial screen, and is capable of making settings as to whether a specific screen for displaying apparatus information is displayed on the displayer in preference to the initial screen. In a case where settings are made to display the specific screen on the displayer in preference to the initial screen, the controller displays the specific screen on the displayer in preference to the initial screen.
US12177389B1
A method is disclosed. For example, the method executed by a processor of a multi-function device (MFD) includes generating an alignment image based on execution of a copy function while an alignment mark is attached to a continuous velocity transport (CVT) platen glass of a CVT of the MFD, determining a misalignment of an illumination profile area, a position of a sensor, and the CVT based on the alignment image, and providing a corrective action to perform an alignment of at least one of the illumination profile area, the position of the sensor, and the CVT via a display of the MFD.
US12177387B2
One variation of a method for stock keeping in a store includes: accessing an image captured by a fixed camera within the store; retrieving a field of view of the fixed camera; estimating a segment of an inventory structure in the store depicted in the image based on a projection of the field of view onto a planogram of the store; identifying a set of slots within the inventory structure segment; retrieving a product model representing a set of visual characteristics of a product type assigned to a slot, in the set of slots, by the planogram; extracting a constellation of features from the image; if the constellation of features approximates the set of visual characteristics in the product model, detecting presence of a product unit of the product type occupying the inventory structure segment; and representing presence of the product unit, occupying the inventory structure segment, in a realogram.
US12177382B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing automated robocall detection. In various embodiments, a computing system may compare first abstracted raw data, obtained from a portion of call data from a first call from a first originating party, with each of a plurality of abstracted raw data, obtained from portions of call data from a plurality of calls from a corresponding plurality of originating parties. In some instances, the plurality of abstracted raw data and the first abstracted raw data may each include at least one of word count data, phoneme count data, inter-word timing data, voice pitch estimation data, and/or background noise data. The computing system may determine whether the first abstracted raw data is indicative of the first call being a suspected unsolicited or unwanted communication, based at least in part on the comparison. If so, the computing system may perform one or more tasks.
US12177379B2
A centralized and robust threat assessment tool is disclosed to perform comprehensive analysis of previously-stored and subsequent communication data, activity data, and other relevant information relating to inmates within a controlled environment facility. As part of the analysis, the system detects certain keywords and key interactions with the dataset in order to identify particular criminal proclivities of the inmate. Based on the identified proclivities, the system assigns threat scores to inmate that represents a relative likelihood that the inmate will carry out or be drawn to certain threats and/or criminal activities. This analysis provides a predictive tool for assessing an inmate's ability to rehabilitate. Based on the analysis, remedial measures can be taken in order to correct an inmate's trajectory within the controlled environment and increase the likelihood of successful rehabilitation, as well as to prevent potential criminal acts.
US12177378B2
A mobile device can include ranging circuitry to determine distance to another mobile device. A first wireless protocol can establish an initial communication session to perform authentication and/or exchange ranging settings. A second protocol can perform ranging, and other wireless protocols can transmit content. In one example, the distance information can be used to display a relative position of another device on a user interface of a sending device. The user interface can allow a user to quickly and accurately select the recipient device for sending the data item. As another example, the distance information obtained from ranging can be used to trigger a notification (e.g., a reminder) to be output from a first mobile device or used to display a visual indicator on a receiving device. Proximity of a device (e.g., as determined by a distance) can be used to suggest recipient for a new communication.
US12177376B2
This application discloses a coordinated control method and system for electronic devices. When triggering coordinated control, a second electronic device sends remote view logic information associated with a running business to a first electronic device. The first device directly locally loads an application-related interface based on an interface layout file included in the remote view logic information. In this way, for the first device end, a component, a parameter, and the like that are related to the running application of the second device do not need to be customized on the first device end for the running application, and only the remote view logic information transmitted to the first device needs to be loaded. Distributed application logic may be defined for all running applications of the second device on a side of the second device, and then the second device synchronizes the distributed application logic with the first device.
US12177375B2
A recording device comprising a base, a top cover, at least one computer with a wi-fi dongle coupled to the base that is configured to automatically upload a .zip file of the audio files to a cloud network when the device is turned on and in range of a preferred wifi network, a hook switch coupled to the base, and electrically coupled to the computer, at least one rechargeable battery electrically coupled to the computer, an LED that indicates battery charge electrically coupled to the computer, at least one USB-A connector electrically coupled to the computer for charging the power source, a rotary dial coupled to the base and configured to extend through an opening in the top cover, a power button electrically coupled to the computer, and a handset removably supported by the top cover and electrically coupled to the computer.
US12177374B2
To provide a mobile terminal test device capable of efficiently testing a mobile terminal compatible with NSA while suppressing a test configuration to be small. A mobile terminal test device includes a first analysis unit 24a and a second analysis unit 24b that analyze a signal received from a mobile terminal, a selection unit 22 that selects ports for a first port 21a, a second port 21b, a first port 31a, and a second port 31b connected to the mobile terminal, and ports connected to the first analysis unit 24a and the second analysis unit 24b, and a control unit 6 that causes the selection unit 22 to select the ports to be connected to the first analysis unit 24a and the second analysis unit 24b, from a connection state between the port and the mobile terminal.
US12177371B2
A security device includes a physical unclonable function (PUF) cell array that includes a plurality of PUF cells connected with a first word line, a controller that selects a target PUF cell of the plurality of PUF cells and outputs a control signal based on the target PUF cell, a decoder that applies a first voltage to the first word line in response to the control signal, a bit line selection circuit that outputs a target current across a bit line connected with the target PUF cell and a sum current corresponding to a sum of currents across the remaining bit lines connected with other PUF cells, and a bit determiner that outputs a target bit of the target PUF cell based on the target current and the sum current, and the security device generates a security key based on the target bit for responding to an authentication requests.
US12177370B2
Disclosed is a physical unclonable function generator circuit and method. In one embodiment, a physical unclonable function (PUF) generator includes: a PUF cell array that comprises a plurality of bit cells, wherein each of the plurality of bit cells comprises at least two pre-charge transistors, at least one enable transistor, and at least two storage nodes, wherein the at least two storage nodes are pre-charged with substantially the same voltages by the respective at least two pre-charge transistors allowing each of the plurality of bit cells having a first metastable logical state; and an authentication circuit, coupled to the PUF cell array, wherein the authentication circuit is configured to access and determine second logical states of bit cells in at least one row of the PUF cell array by turning on the at least one enable transistor and turning off the at least two pre-charge transistors of each of the bit cell in the at least one row of the PUF cell array, and based on the determined second logical states of the bit cell in the at least one row of the PUF cell array, to generate a PUF signature.
US12177369B1
A method, server, system, and computer program product creates a three-dimensional (3D) virtual certificate of authenticity (COA) that is a multimedia container having a media file that provides for an experiential presentation in the 3D COA itself. The multimedia container with media file lends credibility to the authenticity of the 3D COA. The ownership of the 3D COA can be stored in a blockchain as a non-fungible token, and easily transferred from one claimant of the 3D COA to another.
US12177368B2
A method for authorizing I/O (input/output) commands in a storage cluster is provided. The method includes generating a token responsive to an I/O command, wherein the token is specific to assignment of a storage node of the storage cluster. The method includes verifying the I/O command using the token, wherein the token includes a signature confirming validity of the token and wherein the token is revocable.
US12177365B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, via a client device, a resource transfer request for resources to be transferred to a transferee account; generating a secure data object based on request data of the resource transfer request, the secure data object including a first hash computed based on an input string comprising a transferee account identifier; signing the secure data object using a private key of a transferee resource account management system; and sending the signed secure data object to a messaging address associated with a transferor account.
US12177362B2
An attribute information conversion device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: issue first access information and second access information linked to each other in response to a request upon reception of the request for conversion from attribute information of a first type of a user that may be used in a first service into the attribute information of a second type that may be used in a second service different from the first service; perform, upon acquisition of the attribute information of the user from a terminal through the first access information, conversion of the acquired attribute information from the attribute information of the first type into the attribute information of the second type; and output the converted attribute information to a terminal that has made access through the second access information.
US12177361B2
Techniques are provided for thwarting attackers in a computing system which uses network management interfaces (NMIs). Before submitting NMI form data, a user computing device queries a server using a user id to obtain a signature which defines a shuffling map and random data such as a random key. The NMI form data is divided into portions and the random data is appended to each portion to provide respective data units, or buckets of data. The data units are then shuffled according to the shuffling map before being transmitted to a server, with the signature or an identifier of the signature included in a header. At the server, the data units are unshuffled to recover the data units, and the random data is removed to recover the form data portions. The instructions of the form data can then be executed.
US12177352B2
Systems and methods for secure stateless client-server communication. User credentials in a client authorization request are authenticated and used to generate a JSON web token (JWT). The JWT header and signature are encrypted and included in an HTTP-only cookie. The JWT payload is encrypted and sent to the client in a response body along with the HTTP-only cookie. Each subsequent client request includes the cookie and has the encrypted JWT payload in the request header. Upon receiving the request, the server decrypts the encrypted JWT payload from the header and decrypts the encrypted JWT header and signature from the cookie, then reconstructs the JWT from the JWT header, payload and signature. The server validates the JWT and, if valid, processes the request according to authorizations in the JWT payload.
US12177351B2
Systems as described herein may include authorizing the sharing of data and sharing data between a variety of systems. A request to share data may be provided to a first system. The system may create sharing session data using smart contracts executed by a distributed network system. Sharing session data may be stored using a smart contract. A second system may obtain the sharing session data and verify the sharing session based on the execution of the smart contract. On verification of the sharing session, a variety of data may be shared between the systems identified in the sharing session data. The sharing session data may be established between two systems and/or a number of systems. Smart contracts may provide a variety of functions for authorizing the sharing of data between systems. Additionally, encrypted data may be stored and/or obtained using a smart contract.
US12177349B1
Methods, machine readable media and systems for evaluating, through one or more simulations, the leakage of sensitive data in an integrated circuit, such as cryptographic data or keys, are described. The embodiments can use machine learning models, such as one or more neural networks to generate one or more leakage related scores for each portion in a set of portions of the cryptographic data. In one embodiment, leakage data associated the first set of POIs with one or more neural networks is processed by the one or more neural networks to identify the POIs that leak the most and determine one or more scores for each portion in the set of portions of the cryptographic data.
US12177343B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing chiplet binding to a disaggregated architecture for a system on a chip are described. In one embodiment, system includes a plurality of physically separate dies, an interconnect to electrically couple the plurality of physically separate dies together, a first die-to-die communication circuit, of a first die of the plurality of physically separate dies, comprising a transmitter circuit and an encryption circuit having a link key to encrypt data to be sent from the transmitter circuit into encrypted data, and a second die-to-die communication circuit, of a second die of the plurality of physically separate dies, comprising a receiver circuit and a decryption circuit having the link key to decrypt the encrypted data sent from the transmitter circuit to the receiver circuit.
US12177341B2
An integrated-circuit radio transmitter chip comprises a transmitter, a cryptographic engine and control circuitry for the cryptographic engine. The cryptographic engine performs a cryptographic operation by receiving input data, performing a first process to generate first result data and a second process to generate second result data. The first and second result data are used to generate output data. In response to determining that the transmitter is active, the control circuity controls the cryptographic engine to perform the first process and prevents the cryptographic engine from performing the second process while the transmitter is active. The control circuitry controls the cryptographic engine to perform the second process in response to determining that the transmitter is not active.
US12177330B2
Some embodiments are directed to a computer-implemented method for converting a first computation network of operations arranged to compute a function into a second computation network of FHE operations arranged to compute the same function. For example, a set of expansion factors (αi) may be determined for matrix operations in the first computation network. Real-valued matrices may be converted by scaling the real-valued matrices with their corresponding expansion factor and rounding. An accuracy measure for the second computation network can be iteratively optimized.
US12177328B2
Embodiments protect against memory-based side-channel attacks by efficiently shuffling data. In an example implementation, in response to a data access request by an encryption methodology regarding a first data element from amongst a plurality of data elements stored in memory, a storage address of a second data element of the plurality is determined. This storage address is determined using (i) an address of the first data element in the memory, (ii) a permutation function, and (iii) a random number. In turn, the first data element is stored at the determined storage address of the second data element and the second data element is stored at the address of the first data element. In this way, embodiments protect encryption methodologies from memory-based side-channel attacks.
US12177319B1
Implementations selectively message member account data to client applications to reduce server load. When a monitored load on cloud servers meets a criteria, a hold status may be triggered. During the hold status, member accounts may be monitored and client applications may be transmitted push messages, for example when a change is detected in a member's monitored account. The push messages can contain the detected changes, such as a posted transaction that triggered the message. Implementations of the client application can be configured to display local data (stored from the push messages) during the hold status in response to a member's request to access/view their account. Because server to client communication is limited to messages that contain member account changes, an overall server load can be reduced.
US12177296B2
Embodiments may relate to synchronizing nodes in a peer-to-peer network. A method comprises listening for a first multicast beacon during a duration of a discovery interval. The discovery interval comprises time intervals configured for a plurality of nodes in a squad. The method further comprises, in response to receiving the first multicast beacon during the duration of the discovery interval, transmitting a unicast synchronization request to a transmitter of the first multicast beacon. The unicast synchronization request comprises a node list. The method further comprises comparing the node list in the unicast synchronization request to a stored node list comprising node information for the squad, determining node information differences based on the comparison, and in response to determining the one or more node information differences, requesting node information from nodes associated with the node information differences and transmitting a second multicast beacon comprising the one or more node information differences.
US12177294B2
According to one embodiment, a network system features a first virtual private cloud (VPC) network and a second VPC network. The first VPC network includes a first plurality of gateways. Each gateway of the first plurality of gateways is in communications with other gateways. Similarly, a second VPC network includes a second plurality of gateways. Each of the second plurality of gateways is communicatively coupled to the each of the first plurality of gateways to support data exchanges between resources deployed in different public cloud networks.
US12177290B1
Systems and methods for installing an application on a multi-function device which is not internet enabled are provided herein. The system comprises an internet enabled device comprising a processor, a display, and a memory including computer program code. The computer program code is configured to receive user input indicating the selection of an application, and download a file comprising application data. The system further includes a multi-function device being remotely located from the internet enabled device. The multi-function device comprises a processor, a display and a memory including computer program code. The computer program code is configured to cause the processor to engage in data communication with the internet enabled device, receive the file comprising the application data, install the application within the memory, and cause, on the display of the multi-function device, presentation of an interface that enables user interfacing with the underlying application function of the application.
US12177289B2
A remote assistance method includes: a first device as an assisted device obtains first information and starts a first remote assistance application in the first device, where the first information includes an application identifier of a second application for controlling a second device and an identifier for indicating that the second device supports a remote control; the first device sends a remote assistance request to a third device as an assisting device using the first remote assistance application, where the remote assistance request carries the application identifier; the third device receives the remote assistance request and starts a second remote assistance application, where a control interface of the second application is displayed in the second remote assistance application; and a control instruction is received on the control interface.
US12177288B2
A method and system for centralized control of user devices is disclosed. The method for centralized control of user devices via universal IP services registrar includes receiving a request to register a user device for a plurality of services, registering the user device for the plurality of services by creating a user settings profile for the user for each of the plurality of services, receiving data from the plurality of registered services, and transmitting received data to the user device in accordance with the user profile.
US12177286B2
A method and related system of operations include obtaining, from a client computing device, a request comprising a request header field that is populated with a first domain name and updating the request by modifying the request header field to comprise a second domain name. The method further includes sending the updated request to a server, receiving a response comprising a response header, and updating the response by modifying a response header field of the response header to indicate the first domain name as an origin domain of the response. The method further includes sending the updated response to the client computing device.
US12177285B2
A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid). The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer, releasing congestion from the Web by fetching the information from multiple sources, and relieving traffic from Web servers by offloading the data transfers from them to nearby peers.
US12177281B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for controlling delivery of content are provided. In some embodiments, a system for controlling delivery of content is provided. The system includes processing circuitry configured to: transmit, to a server, a plurality of requests for blocks of the content; while at least some of the plurality of requests are still outstanding: detect a change of a service characteristic of a connection between the system and the server; determine a preferred number of outstanding requests; and cancel at least some of the requests from the plurality that are still outstanding based on the preferred number and a count of the requests from the plurality that are still outstanding.
US12177278B2
An example playback device includes programming for executing functions including, while connected to both (i) a local area network and (ii) an audio playback network configured separately from the local area network and arranged for playback of media content via at least the playback device, receiving from a network device via the local area network, a request for the network device to connect to the audio playback network. The functions also include, in response to the request, transmitting to the network device via the local area network, a message indicating an identifier of the audio playback network and a password for accessing the audio playback network. The functions also include exchanging one or more messages with the network device via the audio playback network to authenticate the network device for the audio playback network and receiving an audio playback command from the network device via the audio playback network.
US12177273B2
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging systems by enabling users in an electronic chat conversation to run applications together. In some embodiments, when one user in a chat launches an application, an icon or other visual representation of the application appears in a portion of the chat window (e.g., in a “chat dock”) for other users in the chat to access.
US12177267B2
A Framework for Live Uplink Streaming (PLUS) session between a PLUS source (100) and a PLUS sink (200) is initiated and controlled by the PLUS sink. The PLUS source registers with the PLUS sink and indicates its capabilities. The PLUS sink requests establishment of the session and further controls the session once established. The PLUS sink sends control requests that include control information to the PLUS source, thereby controlling media streaming at the PLUS source remotely.
US12177263B1
Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating an access envelope that can be used to provide recommended access permissions and access rules for access roles. An access policy automation service may monitor actions requested by a user or system operating within a workflow from computing resources in a computing environment. The service may automatically update an access envelope associated with the user or system with permissions allowing the user or system to perform the requested actions. The envelope can then be used in a role definition to provide appropriate permission to users who may be performing similar operations.
US12177260B2
Zero trust and micro-segmentation techniques may be collectively used to enhance network security. To establish, refine, and enforce a zero-trust least-privileged policy, the network may be segmented to put each device of the network into a respective network of one, which forces all network traffic to pass through a zero-trust gatekeeper. The gatekeeper may then monitor and analyze the traffic to establish, refine, and enforce the zero-trust least-privileged policy, which reduces network access to only a limited set of network actions and/or paths. Using the gatekeeper, network traffic may be monitored to progressively establish the policy as well as to continually refine the policy. Recommended actions may be determined based on the analysis of the monitored network traffic and provided to the user to allow user feedback on the communication rules of zero-trust policy.
US12177257B2
A resource database which stores structured data describing resources from a diverse array of origins (e.g., an application or cloud environment) is built and maintained to support querying, policy enforcement, and remediation of resources from any origin. Structured data representing resources are obtained from any origin for insertion and categorized based on their type and/or origin. Resources within a category have a shared set of potential object paths as defined by the hierarchical tree structure of their structured data. Resources may be correlated across categories based on having values at different object paths in common. Queries and rules/policies can thus reference resources of any category and also resources across different categories based on correlations between the resources, thereby extending rule/policy enforcement and incident remediation across multiple different origins of resources.
US12177244B2
One variation of a method for emulating a known attack on a computer network includes: generating a set of data packets by recombining packet fragments within a packet capture file representing packet fragments transmitted between machines during a prior malicious attack on a second network; defining transmission triggers for transmission of the set of data packets between pairs of agents connected to a target network based on timestamps of packet fragments in the packet capture file; initiating transmission of the set of data packets between the pairs agents according to the set of transmission triggers to simulate the malicious attack on the target network; and, in response to absence of a security event related to the simulation in a log of a security technology deployed on the target network, generating a prompt to reconfigure the security technology to respond to the malicious attack.
US12177238B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, an electronic device, and a medium for detecting an abnormality in a network. The method for detecting an abnormality in a network includes acquiring a reference tensor and a target tensor representing traffic in the network, the reference tensor and the target tensor having at least dimensions of source, destination, and time of the traffic. The method further includes determining a target core tensor of the target tensor based on a reference decomposition factor of the reference tensor related to the dimensions of source and destination of the traffic. The method further includes determining that there is an abnormality in the network if a difference between the target core tensor of the target tensor and a reference core tensor of the reference tensor is greater than a preset value.
US12177235B2
Methods and systems are described whereby a server can forward a request from a device behind a NAT router to a system to determine if the request is suspicious. A server can receive a message via a network device, such as a NAT router, disposed at a location. The message can originate from one of a plurality of computing devices located downstream of the network device. The server can determine that the message originated from a compromised device and transmit a signal to facilitate execution of a first process on the computing devices located downstream from the compromised device, wherein, upon execution, the first process is configured to compare information located in a local storage of the computing device with a predetermined list of domains.
US12177234B2
Systems and methods for using a kernel module to provide computer security are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for providing computer security may include launching a kernel module at the kernel-level of a computing device, redirecting, using the kernel module, communications traffic away from a browser executing on the computing device, decoding, using the kernel module, the received traffic to create decoded traffic, analyzing the decoded traffic, using the kernel module, for content having particular characteristics and create analyzed traffic, encoding, using the kernel module, at least a portion of the analyzed traffic to create encrypted traffic, and directing the encrypted traffic to the browser.
US12177232B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for utilizing machine learning to predict future deceitful domain names and determine preferred security responses. As such, the system allows for use of a machine learning engine to collect new domain name registration information from a plurality of sources and predict future name registrations associated with said sources. A single user may register deceitful domain names through a plurality of domain name registration systems. By collecting data from multiple servers, the system may identify data trends and generate predictions of future domain names independently of any individual server. Thus, the system may benefit a number of entities, by providing real-time data analysis that would not be obtainable by any one entity operating alone. Additionally, the system may provide a single managing entity with real-time suggestions that may decrease the likelihood of a security incident involving a particular domain name.
US12177231B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of providing real-time scanning of IP addresses. In aspects, input may be received by a real-time IP scanning system. The system may generate one or more work orders based on the input. A scanner associated with the system may access a work order and attempt to communicate with one or more devices identified by the work order. If the attempted communication with a device is successful, a protocol analyzer may be used to provide a predefined payload to the device. If the response from the device matches an expected string, the device may be determined to be a safe and/or legitimate device. If the response from the device does not match an expected string, the device may be determined to be a malicious device.
US12177222B2
The present disclosure provides a publication portal within an application. The systems and methods include receiving a request to create a communication portal, receiving a request to create a new information space associated with the communication portal, receiving an identification of one or more users and associated user access permissions, at least one user of the one or more users having a user access permission to access the communication portal, and providing access to the communication portal and the information space to the at least one user having the user access permission to access the communication portal, receiving information to be posted as an information card within the information space and layout information associated with the information card, receiving a request from a first user of the at least one user to access the information space, and providing the information card and the layout information to the first user.
US12177219B1
A permissions management system (PMS) defines the permissions associated with a user and thereby the activities the user can perform with any specific object and/or application or class of objects and/or applications. However, such a PMS requires an administrator to either authorise each permission individually or default permissions to a configuration previously established. The former is time consuming and the latter does not eliminate the former in establishing the roles initially or new roles or custom configurations. According, methods and systems for automating the establishment of permissions and their ongoing maintenance are presented based upon an initial discovery phase of actions performed by either the user or an administrator followed by an automated harmonization phase and a verification phase. This verification phase may employ human interactions or be automated exploiting an artificial intelligence engine.
US12177217B2
Systems and methods for securing a network, for admitting new nodes into an existing network, and/or securely forming a new network. As a non-limiting example, an existing node may be triggered by a user, in response to which the existing node communicates with a network controller node. Thereafter, if a new node attempts to enter the network, and also for example has been triggered by a user, the network controller may determine, based at least in part on parameters within the new node and the network controller, whether the new node can enter the network.
US12177214B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for a data obfuscation authentication security display session. The invention provides a secondary authentication by recognizing the initial access to a display screen and overlaying and presenting false information on the screen. The false screen may mimic that of a real account screen, but the personal information about the user is false. The invention then requires the user to perform a secondary authentication to gain access information on the display session that is not false. The invention may allow for a duress code implementation in place of the secondary authentication, which initiates security protocols, include a continuum based protocol arrangement of security protocols.
US12177212B2
In a telecommunication network, a Serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF) may be coupled with a Fifth Generation (5G) Equipment Identity Register (EIR) via an N17′ interface. In some examples, the S-CSCF can use the N17′ interface instead of a diameter protocol for communicating with the 5G-EIR. The S-CSCF can send a request to the 5G-EIR including a Permanent Equipment Identifier (PEI) associated with a user equipment (UE). In response, the S-CSCF can receive identity data indicative of whether the UE is authorized, not authorized, partially authorized, or unknown. Based on the identity data, the S-CSCF can authenticate a user equipment (UE) accessing a network. In some examples, the S-CSCF may route requests between a 5G-EIR and an EIR. In some examples, this authentication step can comprise a second-level authentication to identify stolen or fraudulent devices and to prevent such devices from accessing the network.
US12177211B2
Techniques and apparatus for providing peer-based management of user accounts are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory and logic coupled to the at least one memory. The logic may be configured to receive a request from at least one first user account to unlock a second user account locked responsive to a fraud event, determine a safe authentication value for the fraud event, and unlock the second user account responsive to the at least one first user account being a safe authentication account and the safe authentication value being over a safe authentication threshold value. Other embodiments are described.
US12177203B2
Techniques are disclosed for identifying and authenticating prospective certificate authority customers of a secure socket layer (SSL) certificate prior to receiving an order from the customer. The CA generates a list of prospective customers of digital certificates (e.g., by scanning networked servers via the Internet for the presence of an installed digital certificate). The CA retrieves data for each customer on the list and determines, based on a set of approval criteria, which prospective customers to target in enrollment campaigns. For each approved customer, the CA initiates an enrollment process prior to receiving a request from the customer to provide a certificate.
US12177198B2
A method and system for authenticating answers to Domain Name System (DNS) queries originating from recursive DNS servers are provided. A verification component provides a verification that a DNS query originated from the recursive DNS server. An authoritative DNS server receives the query via a network, such as the Internet, and provides an answer to the query to an authentication component. The authentication component then provides an authentication, such as a digital signature, which confirms that the received answer was provided by the authoritative DNS server, and then communicates the answer and the authentication to the verification component via the network. The verification component then verifies that the authentication corresponds to the received answer and sends the answer to the recursive DNS server. When the verification component receives an answer in the absence of a corresponding authentication, the verification component drops the answer.
US12177194B1
A method includes receiving, from a user device, a request to store data in a computer storage medium. The method includes generating a local encryption key for a user of the user device. The method includes providing the local encryption key to the user of the user device. The user maintains the local encryption key separate from the user device. The method includes generating a storage encryption key for encrypting the data for storage in the computer storage medium. The method includes encrypting the data with the storage encryption key to generate encrypted data. The method includes encrypting the storage encryption key with the local encryption key to generate an encrypted storage encryption key. The method includes transmitting the encrypted data and the encrypted storage encryption key to the computer storage medium. The method includes removing the storage encryption key and the encrypted storage encryption key from the user device.
US12177193B2
A middleware system and corresponding methods are described whereby data communications, either inter-device or intra-device, are coordinated using a set of cryptographic identifiers that correspond to computing elements, such as interfaces, methods, parameters, classes, among others. The cryptographic identifiers are coupled to data messages being sent across the middleware system and processed to indicate adherence to protocol standards and/or to cause transformation of the data messages such that the receiver receives a data message adhering to their acceptable protocol standards.
US12177191B2
Information output device, camera, information output system, information output method, and program
An information output device includes: a first output unit that outputs acquired information acquired by a sensor; and a second output unit that converts personal information included in the acquired information into attribute information from which identification of an individual is impossible, and outputs the attribute information.
US12177187B2
A network device may create an encrypted packet and may duplicate the encrypted packet to create a plurality of encrypted packets that includes a first set of encrypted packets that is associated with a first receiving network device and a second set of encrypted packets that is to be associated with a second receiving network device. The network device may modify the second set of encrypted packets by replacing a first virtual destination address in the second set of the plurality of encrypted packets with a second virtual destination address that identifies a virtual tunnel endpoint of the second receiving network device. The network device may encapsulate and may send, based on the first virtual destination address and the second virtual destination address, individual encapsulated encrypted packets to the first receiving network device or the second receiving network device.
US12177185B1
Techniques are described for enabling users of a cloud provider network to create policies used to control the use of temporary security credentials by computing resources other than a computing resource to which the credentials were issued. An identity and access management service encodes, into temporary security credentials, information about the virtual private network to which the credentials are issued. When a computing resource subsequently issues requests to perform actions and uses the temporary security credentials to sign the request, the cloud provider network further adds, to the network traffic, information associated with the virtual private network from which the request originates. A user can then create a policy with a statement indicating that request are to be permitted only if, e.g., the identity of the virtual private network as encoded in the temporary security credentials matches the identity of the virtual private network identified by the information included in the request.
US12177184B1
A system and method for providing dynamic network traffic policies is provided. The method includes: inspecting a workload for a cybersecurity object, the cybersecurity object indicating a cybersecurity risk, wherein the workload is deployed in a cloud computing environment having a firewall connected to an external network; detecting the cybersecurity risk on the workload based on the cybersecurity object; generating a policy for the firewall based on the cybersecurity risk; and configuring the firewall to apply the generated policy.
US12177174B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for communication using multiple media content items stored on both a sending device and a receiving device. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive an application package. The application generates a message from input text and matches a portion of the text input to an audio content item using mapping data. The application generates a message including the text input and an identifier to the audio content item. A receiving system receives an application package. The application receives the message and locates the audio content item on the application package using the identifier and presents the message, including the text and the audio content item.
US12177170B2
A system for communicating wireless signals over a cable network includes a wireless over cable (WoC) amplifier configured to communicate wireless frequency band signals with a modem. The system may also include a WoC splitter configured to communicate the wireless frequency band signals with the WoC amplifier directly or via one or more cables, and a WoC adapter configured to receive the wireless frequency band signals from the WoC splitter via one or more cables and transmit the wireless frequency band signals wirelessly to one or more wireless communication devices.
US12177152B2
An information transmission method and a terminal are provided. The method includes: transmitting sidelink control information SCI and target control information according to a resource mapping pattern; where the resource mapping pattern is used to indicate transmission resources for a physical sidelink shared channel PSSCH scheduled by the SCI and for the target control information, and the target control information is next-stage SCI or sidelink feedback control information SFCI.
US12177151B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for mapping a phase-tracking reference signal to resource elements. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12177148B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE measures a first set of reference signals to determine a first channel state of a first channel between a first TRP and the UE. The UE measures interference received at the UE. The UE sends a first CSI report generated corresponding to the first channel state. The UE sends a second CSI report generated corresponding to the interference.
US12177146B2
A system for assisting data transmission over virtual channel(s) is disclosed. The system includes an interface aggregator unit which includes a processing subsystem which includes a trigger generator module which generates and transmits a trigger signal to at least two sensors for maintaining a data synchronization. The processing subsystem also includes a receiver module which receives the multiple first data packets and the multiple second data packets. The processing subsystem also includes a byte-prepend module which generates first data and second data by prepending at least one first byte to each of the multiple first data packets and at least one second byte to each of the multiple second data packets respectively. The processing subsystem also includes a combiner module which generates merged data. The processing subsystem also includes a transmission control module which controls a transmission of the merged data to the host processor, thereby assisting the data transmission over the virtual channel(s).
US12177145B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives, from one or more transmission-reception points (TRPs), one or more on-demand downlink positioning reference signals (DL-PRS), the one or more on-demand DL-PRS having one or more downlink transmission parameters, and transmits, to the one or more TRPs, one or more uplink positioning reference signals (UL-PRS), the one or more UL-PRS having one or more uplink transmission parameters, wherein values of the one or more uplink transmission parameters are the same as or within a threshold of values of the one or more downlink transmission parameters.
US12177142B2
The disclosure pertains to methods and apparatus for transmitting uplink data to a wireless network asynchronously comprising generating data for transmission to the network on an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) transport channel, selecting between transmitting the data to the network orthogonally or non-orthogonally, and transmitting the data on the selected physical channel.
US12177141B2
The present specification proposes a technical feature for increasing a transmission range of a wireless LAN signal. The wireless LAN signal of the present specification, e.g. a transmission physical protocol data unit (PPDU), may be configured on the basis of a duplicate transmission mode. The transmission PPDU of the present specification may comprise a data unit duplicated in frequency. The data unit duplicated in frequency may be configured on the basis of a total bandwidth of the transmission PPDU. The transmission PPDU of the present specification proposes various training fields for the duplicated data unit.
US12177134B1
Techniques are described for dynamically computing a segment routing policy for a segment routing for traffic engineering (SR-TE) path. For example, in a discontinuous SR network in which SR islands (e.g., groups of neighboring routers that are enabled for segment routing) are separated by one or more routers not enabled for segment routing, instead of returning a failure because one or more routers along a path are not enabled for SR, an ingress router may generate an SR-TE operations, administrations, and management (OAM) Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) traceroute packet send the packet to a first border router of the RSVP-enabled devices along a computed path to trigger the creation of a resource reservation Label Switched Path (LSP) through the RSVP-enabled devices. In this way, segment routed LSP may be established to tunnel through the resource reservation LSP for a SR-TE path used in an SR-TE policy.
US12177132B1
A data replication and switching device and method, including a plurality of data communication ports, a management port, at least one replicator respectively associated with the data communication port, a Layer 1 (“L1”) switch, and a L1 bypass. At least some data received via the at least one of the plurality of ports can be routed to at least one of the plurality of data communication ports and, in response to the configuration data received via the at least one management port, the data replication and switching device can route at least some of the data received via the data communication port to bypass the L1 switch or to route at least some of the data received via the data communication port to the L1 switch.
US12177131B2
A computing node includes a NIC and processing circuitry configured to select a subset of computing resources from a set of available computing resources to initiate a parameter sweep associated with a parameter sweep request received. A plurality of settings is applied to each computing resource of the subset to generate a plurality of resource mappings during the parameter sweep. Each resource mapping of the plurality of resource mappings indicates at least one computing resource of the subset and a corresponding at least one setting of the plurality of settings. Telemetry information for the subset of computing resources is retrieved, the telemetry information is generated during the parameter sweep. A resource mapping of the plurality of resource mappings is selected based on a comparison of the telemetry information with an SLO. A reconfiguration of the available computing resources is performed based on the selected resource mapping.
US12177129B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a network node, an indication of one or more data radio bearers between the UE and the network node that are configured for application data unit (ADU) traffic. The UE may communicate, with an application server, one or more ADU traffic flows through the network node using the one or more data radio bearers. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12177122B2
The present invention relates to an end system comprising at least one input port adapted to receive frames, and a configuration table comprising, for each identification value, a received frame of parameters for processing that frame. The end system is adapted to determine a processing protocol between an ARINC 664 P7 type protocol and an IEEE 802 type protocol of each frame received via the input port exclusively from the processing parameters corresponding to the identification value of that frame in the configuration table, independently of the type of this frame.
US12177119B2
A method may include storing and updating published resource entitlements for a plurality of client devices at a computing device. The method may also include using a plurality of virtual delivery appliances to receive connection requests from the client devices, with the connection requests including connection leases having associated resource entitlements the client devices are respectively permitted to access, and request validation of the connection leases from the computing device. At the computing device, responsive to validation requests from the virtual delivery appliances, the connection leases may be compared to the updated published resource entitlements and validated based thereon. At the virtual delivery appliances, the client devices may be provided with access to virtual sessions corresponding to the published resource entitlements responsive to the virtual session request validations from the computing device.
US12177118B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data frame sending method and a network device. The method includes: A first node obtains routing label stack information of a first path, where the first path is used to transmit a service, and the routing label stack information indicates each node on the first path to establish a channel of the service on the node of the first path. The first node inserts the routing label stack information and service attribute information into a payload area of a first data frame, where the service attribute information indicates each node on the first path to configure a resource for the service. The first node sends the first data frame.
US12177110B1
Techniques for resource-based network traffic management are described. A service of a cloud provider network receives a traffic policy, the traffic policy identifying a path to a gateway to an external network, the path identifies at least one network function in the path by a resource identifier of the cloud provider network. Traffic policy association data is received, the traffic policy association data associating the traffic policy with one or more virtual networks hosted by the cloud provider network. A network configuration of the cloud provider network is updated to route network traffic from a first virtual network to the gateway to the external network through the network function.
US12177105B2
Methods to predict end of streaming media using a prediction model are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to generate a prediction model using a mean value of a bandwidth of a transmission of a streaming media to a user device and an amplitude of the streaming media, and identify an end of a streaming media session when an output of the prediction model satisfies a threshold.
US12177097B2
An example method according to some embodiments includes receiving flow data for a packet traversing a network. The method continues by determining a source endpoint group and a destination endpoint group for the packet. The method continues by determining that a policy was utilized, the policy being applicable to the endpoint group. Finally, the method includes updating utilization data for the policy based on the flow data.
US12177094B2
A system is configured to determine multiple sub-requests from one of service requests received from a user device. The system associates each sub-request to at least one knowledge domain. The sub-requests are transmitted to a decentralized network. In turn, the decentralized network generates one or more responses associated with each knowledge domain in each sub-request. At this stage, the system relates multiple responses corresponding to the received service request to a same identifier (i.e., a common identifier) and provide the responses related to the identifier to the user device as a single service request response.
US12177092B2
Methods and apparatuses for improving wireless network performance and efficiency by dynamically configuring network selection and session management functions within a wireless networking environment are described. In some cases, a network and service management system within the wireless networking environment may perform adjustments to the configuration of network slices and protocol data unit (PDU) sessions associated with user equipment (UE) devices utilizing network services provided by the wireless networking environment. The network and service management system may utilize machine learning techniques to provide real-time selection and reconfiguration of network slices and PDU sessions running within the wireless networking environment.
US12177088B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that determine internet traffic data loss from internet traffic data including bulk ingested data utilizing an internet traffic forecasting model. In particular, the disclosed systems detect that observed internet traffic data includes bulk ingested internet traffic data. In addition, the disclosed systems determine a predicted traffic volume for an outage period from the bulk ingested internet traffic data utilizing an internet traffic forecasting model. The disclosed systems further generate a decomposed predicted traffic volume for the outage period. The disclosed systems also determine an internet traffic data loss for the outage period from the decomposed predicted traffic volume while calibrating for pattern changes and late data from previous periods.
US12177074B2
Methods of managing a fleet of devices are provided, as are methods for configuring a standby device for a job in a workflow environment, and methods for performing a job in a workflow environment. Device information is analyzed, such as information pertaining to verification systems. Device instructions are sent to various locations on a device network in response to a deviation from a parameter value having been detected. The deviation from the parameter value may correspond to printed media and/or indicia produced by one or more devices. A workflow device and a standby device are provided, and the workflow device sends configuration data to the standby device. The standby device installs configuration data and is introduced into the workflow environment.
US12177070B2
The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of determining network segmentation. The innovation can search a network to determine a set of network entities, the network entities belonging to the network, and determine network factors of each network entity in the set of network entities. The innovation can evaluate each network factor and determine segmentation candidates based on the evaluation of each network factor. The innovation can determine a risk ranking for each network factor for each network entity and aggregate each risk ranking into a segmentation score for each network entity. The innovation can determine a segmentation candidate when a network entity segmentation score satisfies a threshold score. The innovation can generate a sub-network that is part of the network for the segmentation candidate, and transfer the segmentation candidate to the sub-network.
US12177063B2
A method is disclosed for reducing inaccuracies in counts related to communication of messages in a manner that efficiently uses computer resources, including processing power and/or memory. An alert condition pertaining to delivery of a plurality of messages is received. The alert condition specifies a threshold number of dropped or failed deliveries. Based on a first time period elapsing, a first system check is performed. Based on a second time period elapsing, a second system check is performed. The second system check includes, based on a detection that the first message has failed during the second time period, decrementing the count for the dropped queue associated with the plurality of messages and incrementing a count for a failed queue associated with the plurality of messages, and, based on a detection that a second message has been dropped during the second time period, incrementing the count for the dropped queue.
US12177058B2
A method is provided for a terminal, which includes identifying information on a number of slots for PUCCH transmission via an RRC signal; obtaining information on a starting symbol for the PUCCH transmission and information on a PRB for the PUCCH transmission; identifying a slot index for the PUCCH transmission for the PUCCH transmission; and performing, based on the information on the starting symbol, the information on the PRB, and the slot index, the PUCCH transmission in a plurality of slots corresponding to the number of slots. The information on the starting symbol and the information on the PRB are applied to a PUCCH of each of the plurality of slots. The PUCCH of each of the plurality of slots includes at least four symbols. The information on the starting symbol and the information on the PRB are obtained based on a combination of the RRC signal and physical signal.
US12177054B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. PAPR may be relevant to managing transmitter power, receiver sensitivity, or both, and transmissions of a particular device may consider various PAPR reduction strategies to manage transmission power at the device. However, relay devices may be configured to forward communications from multiple transmitting devices, and PAPR may not be considered for aggregate signaling via such a relay device. In some examples of the described PAPR management techniques, assisting transmitters may be configured to transmit PAPR reduction signaling that may be received by a relay device, such that an aggregated signal that is received and forwarded by the relay device may have lower PAPR. Additionally, or alternatively, in some examples of the described PAPR management techniques, a relay device itself may inject PAPR reduction signaling into a received signal to reduce PAPR of a transmission by the relay device.
US12177053B2
A user terminal configured to perform communication with an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network. The user terminal including a receiver configured to receive signals transmitted by the infrastructure equipment in accordance with a wireless access interface and a transmitter configured to transmit signals to the infrastructure equipment in accordance with the wireless access interface. The user terminal is configured to receive an indication on a downlink of the wireless access interface of one of a plurality of different subcarrier spacing which the communications device should use to transmit or to receive the signals representing the data.
US12177052B1
A method is provided for detecting an access zone configuration of a downlink wireless transmission received from a wireless network by a receiver. The method includes steps of activating the receiver, synchronizing the receiver with the wireless network, detecting, by the receiver after the step of synchronizing, a received access zone of the downlink wireless transmission, determining a base symbol of the detected access zone, ascertaining a first gap and a second gap from repetitive information contained within the determined base symbol, concluding, from the ascertained first and second gaps, that the detected access zone is part of a multiple access zone configuration, and registering, after the step of concluding, the receiver with the wireless network.
US12177043B2
A computer-implemented method, performed in a network node, for estimating one or more relative channel gains and one or more channel phases associated with a wireless propagation channel (H) between N transmit antennas (220) and M receive antennas (230) in a line-of-sight, LOS, multiple-input multiple-output, MIMO, communication system (200), the method comprising configuring a channel equalizer to compensate for differences in complex gain over the wireless propagation channel (H) between the N transmit antennas (220) and the M receive antennas (230), configuring a phase tracker to compensate for differences in phase between a set of transmit side oscillators (240) at the N transmit antennas (220) and a set of receive side oscillators (250) at the M receive antennas (230), obtaining a set of equalizer coefficients (W) from the channel equalizer indicative of relative complex gain differences of propagation paths between the N transmit antennas (220) and the M receive antennas (230), obtaining a set of phase compensation values (E) from the phase tracker representing estimated phases of the set of transmit side oscillators and the set of differences of propagation paths between the N transmit antennas (220) and the M receive antennas (230), obtaining a set of phase compensation values (E) from the phase tracker representing estimated phases of the set of transmit side oscillators and the set of receive side oscillators, and upon the channel equalizer meeting a convergence criterion, estimating the one or more relative channel gains and the one or more channel phases based on an inverse function of the set of equalizer coefficients (W) and the set of phase compensation values (E).
US12177035B2
A system and method enabling the concurrent provision of multiple multi-user band transmissions, each via a single cable, to a media gateway appliance, thereby providing the media gateway appliance with an increased array of user bands for the provision of program content. The multiple multi-user band transmissions can originate from a single multi-output single-cable interface, or from multiple single-output single-cable interface. This enables the switching fabric and internal tuners of a given media gateway appliance to select any one of the provided user bands and demodulate program content therefrom.
US12177018B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for PUCCH/PUSCH DMRS bundling. A UE may transmit, to a network entity, a first indication of a maximum DMRS bundling duration for maintaining transmit phase coherence for transmitted DMRS. The UE may receive, from the network entity based on the first indication of the maximum DMRS bundling duration, a second indication of at least one of a DMRS bundling activation or a DMRS bundling duration. Based on the at least one of the DMRS bundling activation or the DMRS bundling duration, the UE may transmit at least one UL repetition including bundled DMRS.
US12177011B2
Provided is a terminal which can suitably apply precoding to a PDCCH. In the terminal (100), when a first CC is notified of scheduling information for each of a first component carrier (CC) and a second CC, a restriction determination unit (105) determines, on the basis of a subcarrier interval of the CC to be scheduled by means of the scheduling information among the first CC and the second CC, the maximum number of blind decodings when the scheduling information is blind-decoded. An extraction unit (102) performs the blind decoding on the basis of the maximum number of blind decodings and extracts the scheduling information.
US12177000B2
An electronic device and method for delivery of extended emergency notifications through sensory feedback is provided. The electronic device receives a signal from an Emergency Alert System (EAS) that includes one or more of a broadcast system or an Internet-based system. The electronic device extracts emergency information from the received signal. Thereafter, the electronic device determines an external device that is communicatively coupled to the electronic device. The electronic device controls the external device to generate a type of sensory feedback that corresponds to an emergency alert. The type of sensory feedback is generated based on at least a portion of the emergency information.
US12176985B2
The present specification provides a method fir transmitting learning class information, the method being performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system and comprising the steps of: transmitting a random access (RA) preamble to a base station; receiving a random access response (RAR) from the base station in response to the RA preamble; performing a radio resource control (RRC) connection procedure with the base station; determining the learning class information, wherein the learning class information is information about the degree of performance improvement in online learning, and the online learning is artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm-based learning following the activation of the wireless communication system; transmitting the learning class information to the base station; and performing channel state information (CSI) feedback according to the learning class information.
US12176981B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of simultaneously communicating with a group of wireless communication devices. For example, a device may include a wireless communication unit to communicate with at least one group of a plurality of wireless communication devices over a wireless communication medium, wherein the wireless communication unit is to reserve the wireless communication medium for a time period, during which the wireless communication unit is to simultaneously transmit two or more different wireless communication transmissions to two or more wireless communication devices of the group, respectively. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12176979B2
A communication system includes a plurality of radio chains, each configured to generate an electrical signal having a predetermined frequency that is distinct that of the other radio chains. One or more antennas are connected to the plurality of radio chains to emit and/or receive an electromagnetic signal with a frequency corresponding to that of the electrical signal generated by the radio chains, and an electronic selection circuit has inputs connected to the radio chains and one or more outputs connected to the antennas, which are configured to selectively emit the electromagnetic signal associated with each radio chain according to distinct and different radiation patterns. The electronic circuit controls the antennas to select a radiation pattern associated with the corresponding electrical signal generated by the radio chains, which is associated with the electrical signal of a given radio chain varies according to the radiation pattern selected for the electrical signal of one or more of the other radio chains distinct from the radio chain. A method for selecting a radiation pattern associated with the antennas of a communication system.
US12176974B2
A first field of a preamble includes a plurality of indications of respective numbers of spatial or space-time streams for respective receivers to enable each receiver among the multiple receivers to determine a respective set of one or more training sequences, in a plurality of training sequences, that corresponds to the receiver. A second field of the preamble includes respective modulation and coding scheme information for the respective receivers. The preamble is generated such that i) the first field is transmitted prior to the plurality of training sequences, and ii) the second field of the preamble is transmitted after the plurality of training sequences are transmitted. A data portion of the multi-user data unit is generated using respective modulation and coding schemes for the respective receivers. Thee multi-user data unit is transmitted such that data for the respective receivers are transmitted via respective sets of one or more spatial or space-time streams.
US12176970B2
Systems and methods providing antenna element feed path component management for facilitating millimeter wave communication are described. Embodiments can enable and provide mitigation of thermal, power consumption, and/or maximum permissible exposure issues with respect to millimeter wave communication, such as by 5th generation (5G) or new radio (NR) compliant user equipment. Accordingly, embodiments are configured to manage transceiver antenna element feed path components to mitigate thermal, power consumption, and/or MPE concerns. For example, a communication device configured in accordance with concepts herein may reduce or otherwise control temperatures of various components, device power consumption, and/or user exposure to millimeter wave energy, such as to improve user experience, avoid component failure, extend battery life, etc.
US12176967B2
Described are systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for wireless in-ear-monitoring (IEM) of audio. A system includes transmitter(s) configured to map orthogonal sub-carriers of a digital signal to narrowband receivers to form receiver-allocated audio channels, modulate the digital signal, and transmit the signal as an ultra-high frequency (UHF) analog carrier wave comprising the orthogonal sub-carriers to the nearby receiver. A narrowband receiver is configured to demodulate and sample the sub-carriers allocated to the receiver. Sub-carriers can be positioned orthogonal to one another in adjacent sub-bands of the frequency domain and beacon symbols and pilot signals can be iteratively provided in the same portion of the frequency domain for each channel. The receiver can use non-data-aided and data-aided approaches for synchronization of the time domain and frequency domain waveforms of the received signal to the transmitted signal prior to sampling the allocated sub-carriers.
US12176966B2
A wireless microphone system comprises system equipment (for example, rack-mounted equipment including receivers/transceivers, distribution amplifier), one or more transmission line accessories, and a transmission line network connecting the accessories with the system equipment. The transmission line accessory compensates for downlink RF losses on transmission lines between accessories and between an accessory and system equipment. Compensation parameters for the transmission line accessory is determined by the system equipment by generating an uplink RF test signal by an RF source at the system equipment. The RF source may be varied over a plurality of frequencies to determine the compensation parameters over the plurality of frequencies. The system equipment subsequently instructs the transmission line accessory to configure an adjustable RF gain circuit (and also possibly a compensation filter) accordingly. The wireless microphone system may also discover accessories on the transmission line network to facilitate installation and maintenance.
US12176965B2
Embodiments of disclosure relate to a method and an electronic device for identifying aggressor nodes in communication network. The method comprises receiving data related to a plurality of nodes of the communication network, from a network management entity, wherein the data comprises information on aggressor nodes and one or more victim nodes associated with the aggressor nodes; predicting an interference pattern indicating an interference caused by each of the aggressor nodes on the one or more victim nodes for at least one of a plurality of time instances, using a trained estimation model; and identifying at least one aggressor node having a possibility to interfere with the one or more victim nodes during the at least one of the plurality of time instances based on the interference pattern.
US12176963B2
A system can comprise a radio unit that comprises a transmitter and a receiver. The system can further comprise a first hardware component that communicatively couples the transmitter and the receiver. The system can further comprise a second hardware component that is configured to transmit an analog signal from the transmitter to the receiver via the first hardware component. The system can further comprise a third hardware component that is configured to evaluate operation of the radio unit based on the analog signal received at the receiver.
US12176962B2
A system includes a movable part that is rotatably movable, the movable part comprising a first portion and a second portion; transceiver circuitry configured to transmit a radio signal towards the movable part and to receive a receive radio signal from the movable part; and evaluation circuitry configured to determine a rotational position of the movable part based on the receive radio signal. The first portion of the movable part has a first electromagnetic reflectivity for the radio signal and the second portion of the movable part has a second electromagnetic reflectivity for the radio signal. The first electromagnetic reflectivity differs from the second electromagnetic reflectivity.
US12176959B2
Provided is a high-speed optical transmission-reception apparatus including a digital-signal processing circuit and optical modulation and optical reception modules, in which a flexible printed circuit is used as a high-frequency interface for the optical modulation and optical reception modules, a mechanism for connecting the high-frequency line pattern to the flexible printed circuit is provided on a package substrate of the digital-signal processing circuit, and the package substrate and the optical modulation and optical reception modules are connected by the flexible printed circuit.
US12176957B2
A method and an apparatus are described that split a broadband optical signal into a plurality of narrow-band portions. Each of said narrow-band portions is combined in the same optical channel with an optical local oscillator (OLO). Furthermore, the OLO is spectrally separate from, or non-overlapping with, the corresponding narrow-band portion of the signal in the same channel. This functionality is achieved by launching the broadband optical signal and a local oscillator optical comb (LOOC) into separate waveguides at the input star coupler of an arrayed-waveguide grating. The waveguides of the output star coupler carry the narrow-band portions of the broadband optical signal along with the respective non-overlapping spectral lines of the OLO.
US12176956B2
An IC-TROSA optical network system includes at least one optical network coupled to subscriber device(s) and a hub device. The hub device includes a hub coherent optical transceiver device with a hub IC-TROSA device that couples the hub device to the subscriber device(s) via the optical network(s). The hub IC-TROSA device includes an optical hybrid mixer subsystem, a first receive connection that receives first optical signals from the subscriber device(s) via the optical network(s) and provides them to the optical hybrid mixer subsystem, and a second receive connection that receives second optical signals from the subscriber device(s) via the optical network(s) and provides them to the optical hybrid mixer subsystem. The optical hybrid mixer subsystem mixes the first and second optical signals and provides mixing results for conversion to first and second electrical signals that are then transmitted to a hub signal processing subsystem.
US12176954B2
The present application relates to a repeater and a communication system. The repeater comprises a proximal device for connecting with a donor antenna and a remote device for connecting with a retransmission antenna; wherein the proximal device comprises a first multi-band combining and splitting network, a first bidirectional signal amplifying link, a first uplink and downlink combining and splitting network, and a first laser transceiver component; the remote device comprises a second multi-band combining and splitting network, a second bidirectional signal amplifying link, a second uplink and downlink combining and splitting network, and a second laser transceiver component; the first laser transceiver component is connected to the second laser transceiver component through an optical fiber. Through the above methods, the present application can reduce loss and cost.
US12176953B2
Fiber optic networks, optical network units, and methods of configuring a fiber optic network and an optical network unit using a variable ratio coupler are disclosed. In one embodiment, a fiber optic network includes a feeder optical cable. The first optical network unit and the second optical network unit each includes a variable ratio coupler operable to selectively set a split-ratio among a plurality of split-ratios, and a fiber optic transceiver module. The fiber optic network further includes a first drop cable optically coupling the first optical network unit to the feeder optical cable at a first position, and a second drop cable optically coupling the second optical network unit to the feeder optical cable at a second position. A first split-ratio of the first optical network unit is based on the first position and a second split-ratio of the second optical network unit is based on the second position.
US12176944B2
Systems and methods for monitoring an Optical Multiplex Section of a communication network are provided. A method, according to one implementation, includes the step of obtaining parameters related to optical signals traversing an Optical Multiplex Section (OMS) of a communication network. The OMS, in this example, includes multiple fiber spans defining a primary path and one or more protection paths. The method further includes the step of using the obtained parameters to determine a Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) value associated with optical signals transmitted over the primary path. In response to determining that the SNR value falls below a predetermined threshold, the method includes the step of performing a switching action to enable transmission of optical signals over one of the one or more protection paths.
US12176941B2
A cognitive radio device may include a radio frequency (RF) detector, an RF transmitter having a selectable hopping frequency window, and a controller. The controller may be configured to cooperate with the RF detector and RF transmitter to detect a jammer signal, determine a jammer type associated with the jammer signal from among a plurality of different jammer types based upon a game theoretic model, and operate the RF transmitter to change the selectable hopping frequency window responsive to the determined jammer type of the jammer signal.
US12176932B2
Devices and methods related to wideband multiplexer for radio-frequency (RF) applications. In some embodiments, a multiplexer may include a common path configured to receive a plurality of RF signals. The multiplexer may further include a first path having an output coupled to the common path and configured to provide a band-pass response for a frequency band BX. The multiplexer may further include a second path having an output coupled to the common path such that RF signals in the first and second paths are combined and routed through the common path. The second path may be configured to provide a band-stop response for the frequency band BX such that the common path includes a wideband response that includes the frequency band BX and one or more other frequency bands.
US12176929B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle landing system is disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, provided is an unmanned aerial vehicle landing system comprising: a step in which a server receives, from a wireless terminal, pixel coordinates of image data of an image sensor provided in an unmanned aerial vehicle; a coordinate transformation step in which the server transforms the pixel coordinates to absolute coordinates of the unmanned aerial vehicle on the basis of status information of the unmanned aerial vehicle; and a step in which the server transmits the absolute coordinates to the unmanned aerial vehicle. when receiving image data captured by an image sensor included in an unmanned aerial vehicle, displaying the image data on a display included in the user terminal, by a user terminal; transforming pixel coordinates into absolute coordinates of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on information on a state of the unmanned aerial vehicle, by the user terminal; and transmitting the absolute coordinates to the unmanned aerial vehicle, by the user terminal.
US12176925B2
The present invention relates to a sigma-delta analogue-to-digital converter. The sigma-delta analogue-to-digital converter comprises a transconductance stage having first, second and third terminals. A capacitor is connected in parallel at the third terminal. Further, the sigma-delta analogue-to-digital converter comprises a quantiser at the third terminal of the transconductance stage with feedback by a voltage digital-to-analogue converter for feeding back a feedback signal to one of the terminals of the transconductance stage.
US12176924B2
Systems, methods, non-transitory computer-readable media configured to perform operations associated with a storage medium. One system includes the storage medium and an encoding/decoding (ED) system, the ED system being configured to receive a set of input log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) of a component of the plurality of components, determine an extrinsic estimation function based on a set of features of the set of input LLRs, analyze the extrinsic estimation function to obtain a plurality of extrinsic LLR values, map the plurality of extrinsic LLR values to an input LLR of the set of input LLRs, and output, for each component, a plurality of updated LLR values based on the mapping.
US12176920B2
Bose-Chadhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) encoder and method for generating a BCH signal for navigation signal
Embodiment herein provide a Bose-Chadhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) encoder for generating a BCH signal. The BCH encoder (1) includes a memory for storing a minimum distance to be used for generating the BCH signal for a BCH code (n, k) and a polynomial generator for generating a generator polynomial for the BCH code (n, k) and encoding the generator polynomial to obtain the BCH signal. The polynomial generator includes a set of k registers (4) connected in series to receive the information bits and output an encoded bit based on a clock signal, a first gate (5) to receive a code length, a number of information bits, and the minimum distance as input, a second gate (6), and a finite field adder circuit (7) for determining a finite field sum of the output of each register of the set of k registers (4).
US12176918B2
An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may comprise one or more substrates, and a decoder coupled to the one or more substrates, the decoder including logic to perform a first decode stage with a first fixed quantization width, and perform a second decode stage with a second fixed quantization width that is different from the first fixed quantization width. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12176911B2
An audio processing apparatus having an echo canceling mechanism is provided. An audio transmission circuit receives an input digital audio signal from an external device. A DAC circuit performs conversion according to the input digital audio signal to generate an output analog audio signal to an external display device for power amplification and playback. An ADC circuit performs analog-to-digital conversion on an amplified signal generated by a power amplification circuit and a received audio signal generated by an audio receiving device to generate an amplified digital signal and a received digital audio signal. A processor implements an echo canceling algorithm to perform echo cancellation according to the amplified digital signal and the received digital audio signal to generate an output digital audio signal to be transmitted to the external device through the audio transmission circuit.
US12176910B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method for digital-to-analog conversion includes: mapping a uniformly distributed input code to a non-uniformly distributed input code of a switched capacitor digital-to-analog converter (DAC), the non-uniformly distributed input code including a most significant code (MSC) and a least significant code (LSC); transferring a first charge from a set of DAC capacitors to a charge accumulator based on the MSC; forming a second charge based on the LSC; and transferring the second charge from the set of DAC capacitors to the charge accumulator, where each capacitor of the set of DAC capacitors is used for each value of the non-uniformly distributed input code, each capacitor of the set of DAC capacitors provides a same corresponding nominal charge within each value of the non-uniformly distributed input code, and where the same nominal charge is proportional to a value of the non-uniformly distributed input code.
US12176904B2
According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a circuit includes: two or more metal wires, respective XOR gates coupled to each of the two or more top metal wires, a shift register having outputs coupled to the XOR gates, an OR gate configured to receive each of the outputs of the XOR gates, and a latch configured to receive an output of the OR gate and transmit an output signal corresponding to an alarm signal.
US12176886B2
A high-frequency apparatus includes a resin substrate, a first device including a substrate and provided on the resin substrate, and a second device provided adjacent to the first device on the resin substrate. Each of the first device and the second device includes an acoustic wave device. The second device includes a piezoelectric substrate and a functional element provided on the piezoelectric substrate. The substrate of the first device includes Si or a laminated material including Si. The piezoelectric substrate of the second device includes LiTaO3, LiNbO3, or a laminated material including LiTaO3 or LiNbO3. The resin substrate includes glass.
US12176880B2
A bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator includes a substrate, a piezoelectric layer disposed above the substrate, a first electrode disposed below the piezoelectric layer, a second electrode disposed above the piezoelectric layer, a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and a third dielectric layer disposed between the substrate and the piezoelectric layer, and a bonding layer disposed between the third dielectric layer and the substrate. The first dielectric layer is disposed below the piezoelectric layer and includes a cavity. The third dielectric layer is disposed below the first dielectric layer and includes a protruding structure protruding towards the piezoelectric layer. The second dielectric layer overlays the third dielectric layer including the protruding structure, the second dielectric layer and the protruding structure of the third dielectric layer constituting a double-wall boundary structure surrounding the cavity.
US12176879B2
An acoustic wave device includes a first substrate, an acoustic wave element provided on a first surface of the piezoelectric layer, a second substrate, a first metal layer provided on the first surface and conductively connected to the acoustic wave element, a second metal layer provided on a second surface of the second substrate, a third metal layer that connects the first metal layer to the second metal layer, is thicker than the first metal layer and the second metal layer, and contains copper or silver, and a first conductive layer that covers a side surface of the third metal layer, and a third surface of the first metal layer in a region surrounding another region where the third metal layer is bonded to the first metal layer, is thinner than the third metal layer, and contains a component other than copper, silver, and tin as a main component.
US12176864B2
Circuits and methods for achieving good amplifier AM-AM and AM-PM metrics while achieving good power, PAE, linearity, and EVM performance. Embodiments compensate for a non-linear distortion profile (e.g., an AM-PM and/or AM-AM profile) in an amplifier by pre-processing an input signal, such as a radio-frequency signal, to alter the non-linear distortion profile of the input signal so as to compensate for the non-linear distortion profile imposed by a coupled device, such as an amplifier. An inventive aspect includes linearizing an output from an amplifier having a first non-linear distortion profile, including passing an input signal having a second non-linear distortion profile through a reflective hybrid coupler to a non-linear termination circuit, and reflecting a modified input signal from the non-linear termination circuit back through the reflective hybrid coupler as an output signal, the output signal having a third non-linear distortion profile shaped to compensate for the first non-linear distortion profile.
US12176861B2
A power amplifier circuit includes a first amplifier that, in a region where an input signal level is a first level or higher, amplifies a signal split from an input signal and outputs an amplified signal; a first converter connected to an output side of the first amplifier and converts an impedance on the output side of the first amplifier; and at least one or more second amplifiers that, in a region where the input signal level is a second level or higher, amplify a signal split from the input signal and output an amplified signal. Output sides of the second amplifiers are connected in series with an output side of the first converter.
US12176854B2
A communication device, method and computer program product provide efficient average power tracking (APT) powering of transmit power amplifiers with fewer switching mode power supplies (SMPSs) to reduce size and cost of the communication device. A controller of the communication device detects an output voltage level of a battery supply of a communication device power amplifiers (PAs) assignable to respective transmit uplinks. The communication device includes a smaller second number of switching mode power supplies (SMPSs). The communication device includes linear regulator(s) that are powered by one of (i) output voltage of the battery supply and (ii) one of the one or more SMPSs. Controller selects a combination of SMPSs and linear regulators to power active PAs. The controller determines APT supply voltage value for each PAs and assigns the SMPS(s) and the linear regulator(s) to the PAs to achieve a highest overall or combined system power efficiency.
US12176852B2
A voltage setting circuit includes a frequency comparator that compares the oscillation frequencies of a first distributed voltage-controlled oscillator and a second distributed voltage-controlled oscillator and a frequency determination circuit that determines the levels of the oscillation frequencies of the first distributed voltage-controlled oscillator and the second distributed voltage-controlled oscillator. The bias to be supplied to the first distributed voltage-controlled oscillator and the bias to be supplied to the second distributed voltage-controlled oscillator are determined in accordance with a result of the determination. The bias at a time when the levels of the oscillation frequencies are reversed is determined to be the optimum bias, and the optimum bias is supplied to the core circuit.
US12176830B2
The invention relates to a vehicle drive train and to a method for operating a drive train with an electromotive drive (4), wherein a rotational speed and a drive torque of the drive (4), which are convertible via a toothed transmission stage (12) for an output (19), and the drive (4) is controlled by means of a control signal (40), wherein the control signal (40) has superimposed thereon a periodic torque change signal (5), which is in phase with a tooth stiffness change of the toothed transmission stage (12), wherein a signal strength of the torque change signal (5) is lower with decreasing tooth stiffness than with increasing tooth stiffness.
US12176818B2
A power source device includes a transformer, a rectifying circuit, a series circuit, a switching element and a capacitor. The transformer includes first and second primary windings and a secondary winding. The rectifying circuit includes first and second output terminals and fully rectifies an AC voltage. The series circuit in which an inductor and a rectifying element are connected in series and connected between the first output terminal and a connecting point where one end of the first primary winding and one end of the second primary terminal are connected. The switching element is connected between the other end of the second primary winding and the second output terminal and switched between an on state and an off state. The capacitor is connected between the other end of the first primary winding and the second output terminal. An inductance of the inductor is set so that a voltage of the capacitor is higher than an output voltage of the rectifying circuit.
US12176811B2
A switched capacitor voltage converter circuit includes: a switched capacitor converter and a control circuit. The switched capacitor converter includes at least one resonant capacitor, switches and at least one inductor. The control circuit generates a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal according to a first voltage or a second voltage and generates a control signal according to the PWM signal and a zero current detection signal. The control signal controls the switched capacitor converter by operating the corresponding switches to switch electrical connection of the inductor, so as to convert the first voltage to the second voltage or convert the second voltage to the first voltage.
US12176799B2
A non-rotating alternating current (AC) generating device for generating an AC current, includes: two or more generator units which are placed next to each other, wherein the generator unit includes a round bar-shaped core member, a field magnet in which an electric line is wound and a first hollow portion is formed in the central portion, the field magnet disposed on the outside of the core member through the first hollow, an armature in which an electric line is wound and a second hollow portion is formed in the central portion, the armature disposed on the outside of the core member through the second hollow portion, a pole piece which is provided between the field magnet and the armature, and insulating plates which are disposed between the field magnet and the pole piece and between the armature and the pole piece.
US12176781B2
A system for estimating parameters of an electromagnetic load may include an input for receiving an input excitation signal to the electromagnetic load, a broadband content estimator that identifies at least one portion of the input excitation signal having broadband content, and a parameter estimator that uses the at least one portion of the input excitation signal to estimate and output one or more parameters of the electromagnetic load.
US12176771B2
A conductor wire insulating film separating method disclosed includes: a preparing step involving preparing rectangular cross-section coil pieces each of which is a conductor wire coated with insulating film and used to provide a stator coil of rotary electric machine; a delivering-in step involving, after the preparing step, delivering coil pieces into a laser separator, with coil pieces aligned such that extremities thereof are adjacent to each other; an applying step involving, after the delivering-in step, continuously applying film removing laser to the extremities of the aligned coil pieces such that the laser is applied to one extremity and then to another extremity, thus removing at least portions of the insulating film from the extremities of the coil pieces; and a delivering-out step involving delivering the coil pieces, from which the at least portions of the insulating film have been removed by the applying step, out of the laser separator.
US12176762B2
The invention relates to an electric machine comprising a permanent magnet arrangement and an electromagnetic arrangement. The electromagnetic arrangement comprises a first number of excitation coils, each excitation coils being wound around a pole core. The permanent magnet arrangement comprises a second number of magnet segments formed of a permanently magnetic material. An air gap is arranged between the electromagnet arrangement and the permanent magnet arrangement. The magnet segments have a permanent magnetisation in a first magnet segment volume. At least one magnet segment comprises a demagnetised region in a second magnet segment volume.
US12176761B2
An aspect of the present invention provides a rotor rotatable about a central axis, the rotor including: a rotor core having a ring shape; a rotor magnet fixed to a radially outer face of the rotor core; and a protective member circumferentially wound around the rotor magnet to press the rotor magnet from radially outward of the rotor magnet. The rotor magnet includes a hanging portion on which a first end of the protective member is hung circumferentially.
US12176755B2
Systems are provided for an electric motor. In one example, a system may include a plurality of segmented slots positioned around an inner surface of a stator, wherein each of the plurality of segmented slots comprises a first section comprising a first width and a second section comprising a second width, the second width different than the first.
US12176738B1
A system for recovering and storing inertial energy from an apparatus for lifting and lowering objects, and a method of using the system. The system converts inertial energy to electricity and uses the electricity to charge battery banks. The system can handle high rates of energy transfer, is easily scalable, and can be configured in a portable enclosure.
US12176735B2
An electronic device supporting a wireless charging function is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a wireless charging coil disposed in the housing, a plurality of piezoelectric elements disposed around the wireless charging coil, a touch panel apart from the wireless charging coil in one direction, and at least one processor electrically connected with the wireless charging coil, the plurality of the piezoelectric elements, and the touch panel, wherein the at least one processor may be configured to obtain pressure data of an external device placed on the touch panel using the plurality of the piezoelectric elements, determine alignment of the external device and the wireless charging coil based on the pressure data, and output an alignment notification according to a result of determining the alignment.
US12176725B2
Described herein are devices, systems, and methods for wireless power transfer utilizing a midfield source and implant. In one variation, a midfield source may be realized by a patterned metal plate composed of one of more subwavelength structures. These midfield sources may manipulate evanescent fields outside a material (e.g., tissue) to excite and control propagating fields inside the material (e.g., tissue) and thereby generate spatially confined and adaptive energy transport in the material (e.g., tissue). The energy may be received by an implanted device, which may be configured for one or more functions such as stimulation, sensing, or drug delivery.
US12176723B2
A light bulb includes one or more LEDs and a housing containing the one or more LEDs. At least a portion of the housing is at least partially transparent to one or more wavelengths of light emitted by the one or more LEDs. A driver is disposed within the housing and electrically connected to the one or more LEDs for driving the one or more LEDs. A non-metallic base is formed at an end of the housing. A contactless electrical power receiver is disposed within the non-metallic base and electrically connected to the driver. The contactless electrical power receiver is configured to contactlessly receive electrical power from an external power source and provide the received electrical power to the driver. A light bulb socket configured for contactless power transfer to the light bulb is also provided herein.
US12176719B2
Various enhancements to grid-interactive inverters in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment includes input terminals configured to receive a direct current, output terminals configured to provide an alternating output current to the utility grid, a controller, an output current sensor, and a DC-AC inverter stage comprising a plurality of switches controlled by control signals generated by the controller. In addition, the controller is configured to: generate control signals that cause the switches in the DC-AC inverter stage to switch a direct current in a bidirectional manner; measure the alternating output current; perform frequency decomposition of the output current; and generate control signals that cause the switches in the DC-AC inverter stage to switch current in a way that the magnitude of a plurality of unwanted current components is subtracted from the resulting output current.
US12176717B2
A grid system includes a voltage source, a plurality of consumers connected to the voltage source via a distribution grid, and a grid control unit for transmitting a power command value to a device provided to each consumer. The consumer is provided with a power generation device, a power storage device, and power conversion devices for converting respective powers of the power generation device and the power storage device. The power conversion devices respectively include power command correction means for correcting the power command value from the grid control unit on the basis of the frequency of voltage at a power receiving point X2 which is a connection point between the consumer and the distribution grid. The power command value for the power conversion device of the power generation device is set to be greater than the power command value for the power conversion device of the power storage device.
US12176708B2
An electric power control system and methods are described herein in which a determined effective impedance between a first sensor and a second sensor is determined and instructions to an adjusting device based on the determined effective impedance are provided. In one example a controller is configured to determine at least one component of the supplied electric power at the plurality of sensors based on a determined effective impedance. In another example, a controller is configured to determine at least one estimated component of the supplied electric power based on the determined effective impedance. In another example, a controller is configured to compare one or more comparison variables from a first time period to one or more comparison variables of a second time period.
US12176703B2
A terminal protection network, which comprises one or more terminal protection circuits (204, 206, 208), each having at least two terminals (T1, T2) connected respectively to at least two of three terminals (T1, T2, T3) of a primary component (202) in the electronic device; and one or more clamping circuits (240_1, . . . , 240_N), each having two terminals (T1, T2) connected respectively to the primary component (202) and a corresponding auxiliary component (220_1, . . . , 220_N) in the electronic device.
US12176700B2
The present disclosure provides a system, apparatus and method for providing rapid shutdown for photovoltaic power systems and provides a system, apparatus and method for providing arc sensing for photovoltaic power systems. An AC current can be put on the DC bus to control PV panel shutdown. Local mean decomposition can be used to sense arcing on the DC bus.
US12176698B2
A cable holder may include a first housing shell, a second housing shell, and a hinge connecting the first housing shell to the second housing shell pivotably between an open position and a closed position and may further include a first connection element for making connection to a second connection element of a second cable holder. The second connection element is preferably at least substantially a negative shape of the first connection element, such that the first connection element and the second connection element may establish a linear-motion bearing with the respective counterpart.
US12176689B2
Techniques, systems and articles are described for preparing electrical cables for connections to a power grid. In one example, a cable-cross-section-measurement tool includes a housing defining a cavity, wherein the housing is configured to position an end-face of an electrical cable within the cavity; a camera disclosed within the cavity of the housing, wherein the camera is configured to capture an image of the end-face of the electrical cable; and a telecentric lens optically coupled to the camera, wherein the telecentric lens comprises a non-angular field of view configured to reduce, in the image, distortion from parallax associated with at least one portion of the end-face of the electrical cable that is oriented at an oblique angle relative to an optical axis of the telecentric lens.
US12176684B2
A discharge device includes a discharge member, a support portion, and a protruding piece. The discharge member discharges when a voltage is applied thereto. The support portion has a flat-plate shape and supports the discharge member. The protruding piece is inclined relative to the support portion and protrudes in a direction intersecting the support portion. The support portion preferably includes a holding portion that holds the discharge member. The discharge member is preferably a bundle of fibers. The support portion preferably includes a pair of first surfaces. The holding portion preferably holds the discharge member on one first surface of the pair of first surfaces. The protruding piece is preferably inclined, relative to the support portion, in a direction in which the discharge member is located.
US12176678B2
In at least one embodiment of the method of operating a laser device (100) having a plurality of laser diodes (1) which can be controlled independently of one another, wherein controlled laser diodes are each operated with an operating current (I), and wherein each laser diode can be operated for a proper operation in a nominal current range (ΔI), a step A) is carried out in which an input current (I_0) or an input voltage (U_0) is applied to the laser device. Furthermore, a step B) is carried out in which a characteristic value is determined that is representative of a number N of laser diodes that can be operated in the respective nominal current range with the input current applied in step A) or with the input voltage applied in step A). If the characteristic value is representative of N≥1, M laser diodes are controlled in a step C) in such a way that the M laser diodes are each operated in the nominal current range, wherein 1≤M≤N is selected.
US12176675B2
A semiconductor laser device is configured so that, on at least one of the respective opposing surfaces of a semiconductor laser chip and a sub-mount and the respective opposing surfaces of the sub-mount and a heatsink, one or more treatment regions are provided where adhesion of a bonding material or bonding material used for their bonding is reduced, wherein the one or more treatment regions are placed to define, in a traveling direction of light, different coverages depending on a position in an array direction of multiple light emitting regions.
US12176666B2
A control module adapted to be attached to a power adapter is described. The control module comprises a plurality of contact elements including a first contact element adapted to receive a line voltage and a second contact element adapted to receive a reference voltage; a first actuator extending from a housing of the control module and adapted to engage with a connector of a power adapter; a second actuator extending from the housing of the control module and adapted to engage with a tamper resistance element of a power adapter; a control circuit adapted to generate a signal; and a third contact element coupled to the control circuit; wherein the control circuit generates to the signal adapted to be routed to the power adapter by way of the third contact element to detect a change in a state of a switch of a power adapter.
US12176663B2
An electronic connector includes a rigid central region and at least one branch that extends away from the rigid central region. A flexible part is disposed at one end of the at least one branch and adjacent to the rigid central region. A conductor terminal is located at an opposing end of the at least one branch. A rigid part is disposed between the flexible part and the conductor terminal. At least one flexible element is disposed adjacent to one surface of the flexible part. The flexible part of the at least one branch and the at least one flexible element combine to permit the at least one branch to be both (i) sufficiently flexible to permit the at least one branch to be bent, and (ii) sufficiently rigid to permit the at least one branch to subsequently return to its original shape.
US12176660B1
A modular device backbone may include a controller and two or more backplates configured to be distributed throughout a user space and further configured to couple with swappable devices. Any of the two or more backplates may include a configuration storage device to store backplate-based configuration information including a backplate identifier and a controller address for communicating with the controller, and a communication unit to transmit the backplate-based configuration information. Upon coupling of a particular swappable device to a particular backplate, the particular swappable device may receive the backplate-based configuration information from the particular backplate and further communicate with the controller using the controller address to receive controller-based configuration information from the controller, which may include information for communicating with additional swappable devices.
US12176659B2
In an embodiment, a smart connector includes an Application Specific Electronics Packaging device formed by an Application Specific Electronic Packaging manufacturing process, and a separate printed circuit board electrically connected to electrical components of the Application Specific Electronic Packaging device. The Application Specific Electronic Packaging manufacturing process includes forming a continuous carrier web having a plurality of lead frames, overmolding a substrate onto the fingers of each lead frame, each substrate having a plurality of openings which exposes a portion of the fingers, electroplating the traces, and electrically attaching at least one electrical component to the traces to form a plurality of Application Specific Electronic Packaging devices. In some embodiments, the printed circuit board has electrical components configured to control the functionality of the electrical components. In some embodiments, the printed circuit board has electrical components configured to modify properties of the smart connector.
US12176654B2
A connector including a housing; a lock arm that holds the housing and a counterpart housing in a fitted state; and a detector that is in a state of being movable with respect to the lock arm when the housing and the counterpart housing are properly fitted, wherein: the detector is arranged at one side surface among two side surfaces of the lock arm.
US12176645B2
The electrical connector includes a contact module received within an insulative housing. The contact module includes an upper contact unit and a lower contacts unit stacked with each other. Each of the upper contact unit and the lower contact unit includes a front/outer contact part and a rear/inner contact part each including a plurality of side by side arranged contacts integrally formed with a plurality of plastic tie bars at different positions via insert-molding. The contacts include a plurality of differential pair signal contacts and a plurality of grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other along a transverse direction. Each plastic tie bar includes an insulative primary part integrally formed with all contacts via a first insert-molding process, and a conductive secondary part integrally formed with the primary part and the grounding contacts via a second insert-molding process after the first insert-molding process.
US12176638B2
Various configurations of connector assemblies are disclosed herein. Each variation of connector assembly includes at least one conductive outer housing, one or more dielectrics, and conductors, some of which may be configured as compressible electrical contacts manufactured from a tube. One embodiment of the compressible electrical contact includes a first contact end, a second contact end opposing the first contact end, and a plurality of cut sections defined by at least one cut angle measured between a pair of outwardly extending opposing inner surfaces, an innermost cut distance, and an outermost cut distance. Each of the plurality of divaricated-cut sections is based on at least one divaricating pattern.
US12176633B2
An antenna device according to embodiment includes: a first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer disposed on the first dielectric layer; a third dielectric layer disposed on the second dielectric layer; a first antenna including a first feed via passing through the first dielectric layer and a first antenna patch disposed in a first surface of the first dielectric layer; and a second antenna including a second feed via passing through the first dielectric layer and a second antenna patch disposed in the first surface of the first dielectric layer, wherein a dielectric constant of the second dielectric layer is lower than a dielectric constant of the first dielectric layer and a dielectric constant of the third dielectric layer, and the second dielectric layer has a cavity overlapping the second antenna patch.
US12176630B2
A system includes a transceiver to communicate with a predetermined target; one or more antennas coupled to the transceiver each electrically or mechanically steerable to the predetermined target; and an edge processing module coupled to the transceiver and one or more antennas to provide low-latency computation for the predetermined target.
US12176629B2
The present disclosure provides a holographic antenna and an electronic device, and belongs to the field of communication technology. The holographic antenna includes a resonant structure, which includes a first and a second dielectric substrate opposite to each other, a first electrode layer on a side of the first dielectric substrate close to the second dielectric substrate, a second electrode layer on a side of the second dielectric substrate close to the first dielectric substrate, and a tunable dielectric layer between the first and second electrode layers. The first electrode layer includes slit openings therein, and the second electrode layer includes patch electrodes thereon; orthographic projections of a slit opening and a patch electrode corresponding to each other on the first dielectric substrate at least partially overlaps with each other; and the orthographic projection of the slit opening on the first dielectric substrate at least includes an arc segment.
US12176627B2
A method for compensating a movement of an antenna structure having a directive antenna mounted thereto is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining sensor data from a motion sensor, where the sensor data is indicative of the movement of the antenna structure relative to a reference orientation. Moreover, the motion sensor is associated with a set of calibration parameters such that when applied to the obtained sensor data, calibrated sensor data is formed. Further, the method comprises generating a compensation signal at an output for controlling a beam direction of the directive antenna based on the formed calibrated sensor data such that the beam direction is an intended direction of the directive antenna and such that the (unwanted) movement of the antenna structure is compensated. The method further comprises re-calibrating the motion sensor in order to generate a set of calibration coefficients upon either one of an expiry of a predefined time period, a counter reaching a counter threshold, or upon a measured antenna parameter or signal parameter diverging from a parameter range. Once, one of these conditions are fulfilled, the re-calibration is performed by obtaining a received signal strength indication (RSSI) while the beam direction is controlled based on the generated compensation signal, generating the set of calibration coefficients based on the obtained RSSI, and updating the set of calibration parameters for the motion sensor with the determined set of calibration coefficients.
US12176615B2
An electronic device is provided, and the manufacturing method of which is to stack a carrier structure on a circuit board having a reflector via a plurality of conductive elements, dispose a micro strip and an antenna layer communicatively connected to the reflector respectively on opposite sides of the carrier structure, dispose an antenna spacer on the carrier structure, cover the antenna spacer with an encapsulation layer, and form an antenna portion communicatively connected to the antenna layer on the encapsulation layer. Therefore, a better antenna performance can be obtained by disposing the micro strip on the bottom layer of the carrier structure and disposing the antenna layer on the top layer of the carrier structure.
US12176607B2
The present disclosure provides a base station. The base station includes a multi-function board, a radome and at least one antenna element. The radome is configured to cover the multi-function board. The at least one antenna element is provided between the multi-function board and the radome. The multi-function board is configured to integrate with at least two of functions of a radio board, an EMC cover, an AC board, an antenna reflector, and an Antenna board.
US12176606B2
Disclosed is a roof antenna for a vehicle, comprising an electronics module and a separate antenna cap for protecting the electronics module or as a design element, said cap being provided with a positioning means for positioning the antenna cap on a roof panel of a vehicle. Also disclosed is an antenna assembly comprising a roof antenna and a roof panel of a vehicle.
US12176604B2
Base station antennas include an externally accessible active antenna module releasably coupled to a recessed segment that is over a chamber in the base station antenna and that is longitudinally and laterally extending along and across a rear of a base station antenna housing. The base station antenna housing has a passive antenna assembly that cooperates with the active antenna module.
US12176593B2
A circulator includes a central circuit having a first superconducting island, a second superconducting island, a third superconducting island, and a central island, each in electrical communication with each other via a plurality of Josephson junctions.
US12176582B2
A battery cell, a battery, an electrical device, and a method and device for manufacturing the battery cell. In some embodiments, the battery cell comprises a battery core, a shell, an end cover, and a first insulating component. The battery core comprises a main body part and electrode tabs protruding from the main body part. The shell has a first opening and is configured to accommodate the battery core. The end cover is configured to cover the first opening. The first insulating component comprises an insulating main body and an insulating part, wherein the insulating main body is located on a side, facing the electrode tabs, of the end cover, and the insulating main body is configured to isolate the battery core from the end cover.
US12176576B2
Provided is a solid electrolyte membrane for a solid-state battery, including at least two solid electrolyte layers and at least one volume-swelling layer, wherein the volume-swelling layer is disposed between the solid electrolyte layers. The solid electrolyte membrane includes (a) an ion conductive solid electrolyte material, and the volume-swelling layer includes (b) inorganic particles, wherein the inorganic particles form an alloy with lithium and include a metal, metal oxide or both. Thus, it is possible to provide a solid electrolyte membrane for a solid-state battery fundamentally prevented from a short-circuit by inhibiting growth of lithium dendrite.
US12176562B2
The application provides a battery pack and a vehicle. The battery pack includes a battery box, reinforcing members being arranged on a bottom surface of the battery box; and at least one battery unit, located in the battery box. The battery unit includes: end plates; side plates, the side plates and the end plates being connected end to end in sequence to define an accommodating cavity, and the side plates being stacked on the reinforcing members in a height direction of the battery box; and a plurality of battery cores, located in the accommodating cavity.
US12176560B2
A modular composite battery enclosure containing multiple individual composite structures attached together. The individual composite structures form covers that enclose an open area for housing a battery system of battery cells and cooling devices. The composite battery enclosures are lightweight and made of materials that can function to absorb energy and insulate the battery housing area. The composite structures contain a core material adhered and sandwiched between fiber layers.
US12176559B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of energy storage devices, and provides a battery cell assembly, a battery module, and a battery pack. The battery cell assembly includes: at least two battery cells and an insulation film. The at least two battery cells are stacked. Each battery cell includes an electrode assembly and a battery housing. The electrode assembly is accommodated in the battery housing. The electrode assembly includes a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator disposed between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate. The insulation film surrounds a periphery of the at least two battery cells to wrap the at least two battery cells together.
US12176556B2
A plate element for a battery module for receiving battery cells of the battery module includes a first plate element part and a second plate element part. The first plate element part is connected to the second plate element part. The first plate element part includes a first base body and a first organosheet arranged on the first base body. The second plate element part includes a second base body and a second organosheet arranged on the second base body.
US12176555B2
A battery module including a plurality of battery cells; and a spacer between the battery cells, the spacer including a support frame, and at least one pressing member coupled to the support frame, the at least one pressing member including a plate surface facing one of the battery cells and being in contact with an outside of a can of the one battery cell.
US12176548B2
Provided is a fuel cell catalyst composition comprising a C12A7:X− inorganic material having a structure in which oxygen anions of C12A7 are replaced by halogen (X) anions, or comprising a C12A7:X−-based inorganic material which is a C12A7:X− partially converted to electride. A fuel cell comprising the fuel cell catalyst composition in a catalyst layer is also provided. Also provided is a method of producing a fuel cell catalyst composition, comprising a step of heat-treating C12A7:X− at temperature of 1000-1300° C. for at least 20 hours under a nitrogen atmosphere.
US12176546B2
A cell includes a first current collector and a second current collector. A tail end of the first current collector exceeds a tail end of the second current collector by at least half a circle in a winding direction. The tail end of the first current collector does not include an active material and is bonded on an outer peripheral surface of an outermost circle of the first current collector by a first adhesive, the first adhesive is a double-sided tape or a hot melt adhesive. The cell is bonded with another double-sided tape or another hot melt adhesive on a side opposite from the tail end of the first current collector.
US12176542B2
A method of manufacturing an all-solid-state battery cell includes depositing an interlayer directly onto an anode current collector; depositing a solid electrolyte onto the interlayer opposite the anode current collector; forming a cathode on the solid electrolyte opposite the interlayer, wherein the cathode contains one or more lithium-containing compounds; and applying pressure to achieve uniform contact between layers. The manufactured all-solid-state battery cell is anode-free prior to charging. The interlayer is configured such that lithium metal is deposited between the interlayer and the anode current collector during charging, the interlayer prevents contact between the lithium metal and the solid electrolyte, and the interlayer has a greater density than a density of the solid electrolyte.
US12176533B2
In one arrangement, the present disclosure relates to a positive electrode active material including a nickel-cobalt-manganese-based lithium transition metal oxide which contains nickel in an amount of 60 mol % or more based on a total number of moles of metals excluding lithium, wherein the nickel-cobalt-manganese-based lithium transition metal oxide is doped with doping element M1 (where the doping element M1 is a metallic element including Al) and doping element M2 (where the doping element M2 is at least one metallic element selected from the group consisting of Mg, La, Ti, Zn, B, W, Ni, Co, Fe, Cr, V, Ru, Cu, Cd, Ag, Y, Sc, Ga, In, As, Sb, Pt, Au, and Si), where the doping element M1 can be in an amount of 100 ppm to 10,000 ppm, and the doping element M1 and the doping element M2 are included in a weight ratio of 50:50 to 99:1.
US12176530B2
A positive electrode plate that has a positive electrode active material layer formed on a positive electrode core, wherein the positive electrode core has, on an edge side, a thick portion which has a thickness that is greater than the thickness of a portion of the positive electrode core that has the positive electrode active material layer formed on both sides, and the positive electrode plate has a first region that extends into the thick portion from the portion of the positive electrode core that has the positive electrode active material layer formed on both sides and a second region that is positioned outside the first region in the thick portion. The average maximum diameter of the metal crystal grains that compose the first region is smaller than those of the second region.
US12176527B2
A positive electrode active material, including: a secondary particle formed from a primary particle. The secondary particle includes an inner part and an outer part that wraps the inner part. A ratio of an average particle size of primary particles in the outer part to an average particle size of primary particles in the inner part is G, and 1.1≤G≤10. The outer part is a region from an interface of the secondary particle to a surface of the secondary particle, and the inner part is a region from the interface of the secondary particle to a center of the secondary particle. The positive electrode active material in this disclosure improves cycle performance while ensuring good rate performance.
US12176515B2
According to various aspects of the present invention, a positive electrode composition for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes an active material capable of inserting and extracting lithium ions, and a conductor, wherein the active material is a lithium-nickel-cobalt-manganese complex oxide; the conductor is a carbon black and carbon nanotubes; the carbon black has a BET specific surface area of 100 to 400 m2/g, and a DBP absorption of 210 to 380 ml/100 g; and the carbon nanotubes have an average diameter of 7 to 15 nm.
US12176511B2
A method for manufacturing a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery including a patterned lithium metal that homogenizes the electron distribution in the lithium electrode and prevents the growth of the lithium dendrites when driving the lithium secondary battery.
US12176502B2
A processor of a battery apparatus detects voltages of a first terminal and a second terminal of a relay coil included in a relay before closing the relay to operate the heater, and diagnoses the heater based on a voltage which the voltage of the first terminal and the voltage of the second terminal correspond to among a high voltage and a low voltage for driving the relay, and a voltage for diagnosis.
US12176497B2
Systems and apparatus may carry out analysis of battery physical phenomena, and characterize batteries based on phenomena occurring in particular time and/or frequency domains. These systems may be additionally responsible for charging and/or monitoring a rechargeable battery. Examples of battery physical phenomena include mass transport (e.g., diffusion and/or migration) in battery electrolytes, mass transport in battery electrodes, and reactions on battery electrodes.
US12176487B2
An electrolyte including a dinitrile compound, a trinitrile compound, and propyl propionate. Based on the total weight of the electrolyte, the weight percentage of the dinitrile compound is X, the weight percentage of the trinitrile compound is Y, and the weight percentage of the propyl propionate is Z, wherein about 2.2 wt %≤(X+Y)≤about 8 wt %, about 0.1≤(X/Y)≤about 6, 1 wt %
US12176486B2
An electrolyte including a dinitrile compound, a trinitrile compound, and propyl propionate. Based on the total weight of the electrolyte, the weight percentage of the dinitrile compound is X, the weight percentage of the trinitrile compound is Y, and the weight percentage of the propyl propionate is Z, wherein, about 2 wt %≤(X+Y)≤about 11 wt %, about 1≤(X/Y)≤about 6, about 40 wt %≤Z≤about 50 wt %, and about 0.01<(Y/Z)≤about 0.3; wherein the trinitrile compound comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of 1,3,5-pentanetricarbonitrile; 1,2,3-propanetrinitrile, 1,3,6-hexanetricarbonitrile; 1,2,6-hexanetricarbonitrile, 1,2,3-tris(2-cyanoethoxy)propane; 1,2,4-tris(2-cyanoethoxy)butane, 1,1,1-tris(cyanoethoxymethylene)ethane, 1,1,1-tris(cyanoethoxymethylene)propane, 3-methyl-1,3,5-tris(cyanoethoxy)pentane, 1,2,7-tris(cyanoethoxy)heptane, 1,2,6-tris(cyanoethoxy)hexane, and 1,2,5-tris(cyanoethoxy)pentane.
US12176484B2
The present invention relates to an organic electrolyte including at least one cyclic nitrile-based compound; and at least one chain type nitrile-based compound, and a secondary battery including the same.
US12176482B1
Disclosed is a solid electrolyte membrane, a method for manufacturing the same, and an all-solid-state battery containing the same. More specifically, the solid electrolyte membrane includes a first solid electrolyte layer and a second solid electrolyte layer stacked adjacent to each other, and the first solid electrolyte layer has a structure in which particulate binders are dispersed, and the second solid electrolyte layer has a structure in which fibrous binders are entangled or connected to each other, and thus the strength may be improved without lowering the ionic conductivity of the solid electrolyte membrane. The solid electrolyte membrane may be substantially free of solvent.
