US12171764B2
This disclosure features methods and compositions for treating diseases of the gastrointestinal tract with a JAK or other kinase inhibitor.
US12171762B2
The disclosure relates to methods for treating or preventing an Insomnia Disorder by administering to a human in need thereof a compound of formula (I), or a compound of formula (IA), (IB), or (IC), or a solvate thereof, in a daily dose of from about 0.5 mg to about 6.0 mg. In certain embodiments, such compounds effectively treat or prevent an Insomnia Disorder in the animal, while producing reduced side effects compared to previously available compounds.
US12171757B2
The present invention relates to the use of crenolanib, in a pharmaceutically acceptable salt form for the treatment of FLT3 mutated proliferative disorders driven by constitutively activated mutant FLT3, and to a method of treatment of warm-blooded animals, preferably humans, in which a therapeutically effective dose of crenolanib is administered to an animal suffering from said disease or condition:
US12171755B2
The disclosure relates to compounds that are, e.g., PAP Associated Domain Containing 5 (PAPD5) inhibitors and methods of use thereof.
US12171752B2
Disclosed is a method of treating post-COVID condition(s) in a patient in need thereof, the method comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of ibudilast, or a pharmaceutical salt thereof.
US12171748B2
The disclosure relates to nitroimidazoles and related compounds and derivatives, formulations thereof, and their use in the prevention and/or treatment of infectious disease in animals. In particular, the disclosure relates to 5-nitroimidazoles and related compounds and derivatives, formulations thereof, and their use in the prevention and/or treatment of infectious disease in animals including bacterial, viral, parasitic or fungal infections. More particularly, the invention relates to metronidazole and related compounds and derivatives, formulations thereof, and their use in the prevention and/or treatment of infectious disease caused by Clostridium species. Most preferably, the nitroimidazole is metronidazole administered in combination with berberine, or a berberine alkaloid, in a synergistic weight ratio of 1:1 or 1:2.
US12171737B2
A method of reducing symptoms of neurodegenerative disease in a human is provided. The method comprises applying to the human a solution or salve to at least one of the skin, the mouth, the nasal cavities, the lungs, the eyes, or the vagina of the human. The applied solution or salve comprises an effective amount of an isomerized or conjugated linoleic acid cation salt having a conjugated diene for at least a measurable improvement in the movement or mental acuity of the human and a structure of —C═C—C═C—. The measurable improvement in the movement or mental acuity of the human is within 4-6 weeks of the applying of the solution or salve. A method of making the conjugated diene and a device for measuring the reduction of systems is also provided.
US12171734B2
The present invention relates to pathogenic bacteria, and is particularly concerned with treating, preventing or ameliorating bacterial infections using novel antibiotic compositions. The invention is especially useful for treating infections of Bacillus and Clostridia species, such as Clostridium difficile, Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium spp. The invention extends to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such formulations. The invention also extends to methods for identifying aerobic Bacillus spp., which exhibit antibacterial activity against other bacteria, such as C. difficile, and to methods for isolating active antibacterial compositions from these aerobic Bacillus spp.
US12171731B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods of treating a steatosis- associated disorder by administering a therapeutic agent selected from a lysosomal enzyme, an autophagy-inducing agent, or a combination thereof. Steatosis-associated disorders discussed herein include GSD Ia, GSD Ib, GSD Ic, NAFLD, and NASH. Other embodiments are directed to methods of reversing steatosis, modulating autophagy, inducing autophagy, and reversing glycogen storage.
US12171728B2
A formulation of a dietary supplement for the improvement of female fertility in the human species based on the use of a definite stoichiometry of resveratrol with different pharmacokinetic profiles is described. The mixture is used alone or in combination with nutrients with antioxidant properties and not, used in female subfertility such as N-acetil-cysteine; Melatonin Vitamins A, C, D, E, B2, B3, B6, B12, folic acid, inositol, zinc, selenium, Coenzyme QIO, A-lipoic acid, arginine and Lycium barbarum berry extracts.
US12171725B2
In one aspect the invention provides an adherence monitoring device for a medication delivery device, the monitoring device including at least one inductive coil sensor which includes at least one inductive controller, at least two inductive coils including a first inductive coil coupled to the housing and a second inductive coil coupled to the housing. The first inductive coil is configured to exhibit a response to an inductive change and provide a first change signal in response to an inductive change, and the second inductive coil is configured to exhibit a response to the inductive change and provide a second change signal in response to the inductive change. The monitoring device also includes a processor configured to receive sensor data from the inductive controller representative of the first and second change signals provided by the first inductive coil and second inductive coil and to compare at least one characteristic of the first change signal and the second change signal to detect the occurrence of a medication usage event or a false triggering event.
US12171721B2
Improved feeding set connectors and cassettes are disclosed for use with peristaltic infusion pumps for safely delivering enteral nutritional fluids to a patient. The connectors provide an easy to use “pump-to-set” integration or “keying” system for specific reusable infusion pumps and their matching feeding sets, and can be utilized by medical professionals having various skill levels. The inventive feeding set cassettes can prevent accidental free flow of enteral fluids into a patient, even upon inadvertent release of the connector from the pumping mechanism.
US12171719B1
A fluid transfer device includes a body having a first connecting portion for connecting with a diluent container, and a second connecting portion for connecting with a medicament container. A first fluid channel extends into the first connecting portion, and a second fluid channel extends into the second connecting portion. A discharge duct is configured to connect to a discharge device. A flow control member is selectively fluidically connectable to the first and second fluid channels, the discharge duct, and a discharge channel. The flow control member is movably disposed in or on the body and is movable relative to the body between first and second control positions. In the first control position, the first and second fluid channels are in fluid communication. In the second control position, the discharge duct is in fluid communication with the discharge channel and the first fluid channel or the second fluid channel.
US12171709B2
An example stimulation device for a male penis includes a pressure field generation device for generating a pneumatic alternating pressure field, and an applicator for applying the alternating pressure field to a portion of a penis that is to be stimulated. The applicator has a pressure chamber, which can receive an alternating pressure field generated by the pressure field generation device. The pressure chamber has an opening in a contact region of the applicator, so that the alternating pressure field can be applied directly to a portion of the penis that is to be stimulated via the opening. A sealing device is arranged on the applicator, which is configured to seal the pressure chamber against the environment when the applicator is applied to the penis.
US12171701B2
A wheelchair for supporting a user, and for providing movement of the user's arm has a wheelchair body supported by wheels for supporting the user for rolling movement, an armrest for supporting the user's arm thereupon, and a movable mounting mechanism for mounting the armrest on the wheelchair body so that the armrest can move between a first position and a second position. A movement mechanism moves the armrest between the first and second positions.
US12171698B2
A funerary method includes disposing a deceased adult human body in supine position on an insert having side walls and end walls. The method further includes providing the insert on a tray having two end panels and a plurality of side panels affixed to a bottom panel, and inserting a first edge of a first fabric segment between a side panel of the tray and a side wall of the insert. The first fabric segment is used to cover at least a portion of a top edge of at least the first side wall of the insert and at least a portion of the deceased human body, such that the deceased human body is sufficiently visible for identification. Thereafter, the insert and the deceased human body are removed from the tray.
US12171693B2
The disclosure provides a method for correcting higher-order aberrations including providing a laser radiation. The method also includes controlling a location of a beam focal point of the laser radiation by a system of scanners and guiding the beam focal point in such a way that the location of the beam focal point is in a cornea of an eye. The method further includes introducing the laser radiation into the cornea of the eye. The method includes cutting a lenslet, wherein a thickness of the lenslet t(X,Y) satisfies a following equation: t(X,Y)=t0+Δt(X,Y)/(n−1), where Δt(X,Y) represents a higher-order wavefront elevation and t0 represents the thickness of the lenslet having a spherical refractive power of D.
US12171688B2
An apparatus includes a body, and anchoring feature, and a guide feature. The body is sized and configured to be positioned on an eye of a patient. The anchoring feature is configured to secure the body to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is configured to guide a cannula into a scleral incision formed in the eye of the patient along a path that is substantially tangential relative to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is sized and configured to allow the cannula to pivot laterally through a range of angular motion at the scleral incision.
US12171687B2
An itch relieving device is disclosed, including a shell, a heating element, a first touch sensing module, a control module and a gear input module. The first touch sensing module is configured for touching a human body to generate a human body sensing signal, the control module is electrically connected with the heating element to control the heating element to be switched on or off according to the human body sensing signal, the gear input module is configured for acquiring a control action to generate a pulse signal, the control module is provided with a storage unit, the control module is electrically connected with the gear input module to change a heating gear according to the pulse signal, the control module records the current heating gear through the storage unit, and the control module controls a heating power of the heating element according to the current heating gear.
US12171682B2
A thumb brace comprising a glove having a thumb portion disposed between a palm side and a back side and comprising a first attachment region positioned adjacent a base of the thumb portion and a second attachment region positioned on the back side of the glove; a first elastic strap whereby the first strap extends a distal end of a thumb metacarpal bone of a user of the brace; a second elastic strap having a first end attached to the palm side of the glove and the second end releasably attached to the second attachment region, whereby the second strap reduces a proximal end of a thumb metacarpal bone of a user of the brace; and a pad attached to the glove such that the pad cushions a CMC joint of the user of the brace from impact.
US12171675B2
A transcatheter heart valve includes a paravalvular seal that is configured for transfemoral delivery. The valve includes a frame and the seal is formed from a plurality of outwardly extending fibers.
US12171671B2
An expandable fusion device is capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space to maintain normal disc spacing and restore spinal stability, thereby facilitating an intervertebral fusion. The fusion device may include a body portion, a first endplate, and a second endplate, the first and second endplates capable of being moved in a direction away from the body portion into an expanded configuration or capable of being moved towards the body portion into an unexpanded configuration. The fusion device is capable of being deployed and installed in both configurations.
US12171670B2
A biocompatible implant, as well as method of fabricating the implant and repairing an annular defect in annulus fibrosus (AF) of an intervertebral disc (IVD) disposed in a functional spinal unit (FSU), includes an insert that provides faces that can interface with the defect to repair or treat the AF. The implant can deliver biological and mechanical factors to enhance healing in an annular defect and prevent recurrence of herniation symptoms. The implant can be fabricated using a hybrid of first fibrous scaffold structure including at least a first layer and a second layer of first fibers fabricated via three-dimensional fiber deposition (3FD) and second fibrous scaffold structure including a third layer and a fourth layer of second fibers formed via melt electrowriting (MEW). Suitable attachment methods, including bio-adhesives can be used to bond the implant to the IVD and/or FSU.
US12171664B2
A bioactive filamentary structure includes a sheath coated with a mixture of synthetic bone graft particles and a polymer solution forming a scaffold structure. In forming such a structure, synthetic bone graft particles and a polymer solution are applied around a filamentary structure. A polymer is precipitated from the polymer solution such that the synthetic bone graft particles and the polymer coat the filamentary structure and the polymer is adhered to the synthetic bone graft particles to retain the graft particles.
US12171663B2
The invention relates to a prosthetic system including; an implanted device including: at least one inflatable element (1) that can be inflated in response to a pressure of a fluid; a tank (2) for the fluid in communication with the inflatable element; a sealed case (3) in which is mounted a motor-driven pump supplied with energy by a wireless energy transfer system, part of which (30) is mounted in the case, this pump being in communication on the one hand with the inflatable element via a one-way discharge obturator and on the other hand with the tank via a one-way suction obturator; a manual command for deflating the inflatable element (1) acting simultaneously on the one-way suction and discharge obturators; the control case (B) integrating another part of the energy transfer system and ensuring the control of the operation of the energy transfer system.
US12171656B2
A prosthetic heart valve for replacing a native valve includes a stent, a valve assembly, and a radiopaque element. The stent has a plurality of commissure attachment features. The valve assembly includes a plurality of leaflets and first and second cuffs. The first cuff has a proximal edge relatively close to the inflow end of the stent. The second cuff may be annularly disposed about the stent radially outward of the first cuff and radially outward of the stent. The proximal edge of the first cuff is coupled to the proximal edge of the second cuff substantially continuously along a circumference of the inflow end of the stent so that a pocket is formed between the first cuff and the second cuff. The radiopaque element is disposed within the pocket and aligned in a longitudinal direction of the stent with at least one of the plurality of commissure attachment features.
US12171654B2
Described are implants for placing in a body, tools for delivering the implants, and systems and methods for using implants and tools for placing in a body and more particularly to nasal implants, tools for delivering nasal implants, and systems and methods for using such implants and tools.
US12171642B2
A bandage comprising a base substrate, a wound covering portion, a first side coupling member and a second side coupling member, and a first side and second side adhesive portion. The base substrate includes a central region, a first side region and a second side region, and comprises an elastic member. The wound covering portion is positioned over the central region. The first side coupling member extends over the first side region. The second side coupling member extending over the second region. The first side adhesive portion is positioned on the first side region. The second side adhesive portion positioned on the second side region. A method of use as well as a protective carrier are likewise disclosed.
US12171638B2
A dental implant for supporting periodontal tissue and the supporting bone is provided. The dental implant includes an implant member with inner canal for insertion into a periodontal bone socket, and an anchoring assembly. The anchoring assembly includes a first fastening element and radially equidistant cylindrical members. The first fastening element engages the implant member within the hollow axial cavity. The root section includes through-holes for radially and forcibly sliding the cylindrical members through them. When the first fastening element apically advances within the hollow axial cavity, the cylindrical members generate an anchoring force to anchor the dental implant.
US12171633B2
Systems and methods for monitoring the status of oral appliances using sensors. One or more oral appliances may include one or more sensor receiver and emitter pairs configured to collect sensor data. Each sensor receiver and emitter pair may include a sensor receiver on or in a first portion of the oral appliance(s) and a sensor emitter on a second portion of the oral appliance(s), where each sensor receiver is configured to receive a signal emitted by a corresponding sensor emitter. At least one processor may be configured to determine the status of the oral appliance(s) and determine whether to modify a treatment plan implemented by the oral appliance(s) based on the status. The status may include one or more of: user compliance, condition of the oral appliance(s), and effectiveness of the oral appliance(s).
US12171630B2
A dental evacuation tip has a body defining an interior passageway extending along a length of the body, and proximal and distal openings to the interior passageway. The proximal and distal openings are spaced apart from one another along the length of the body. The dental evacuation tip is configured so that a mirror apparatus can be removably connected to the dental evacuation tip so that at least a portion of a rod of the mirror apparatus is positioned in the interior passageway and a mirror of the mirror apparatus is proximate the distal opening.
US12171629B2
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a dental component, in particular a dental prosthesis or a partial dental prosthesis, by means of a dental furnace, comprising the following steps: (i) additively manufacturing, in particular by means of 3D printing, a model of the dental component from a model material on the basis of a virtual 3D model of the dental component; (ii) embedding the model in an investment material; (iii) removing the model from the investment material, in particular by heating or burning out, to obtain a negative mold of the model; (iv) inserting a raw material required for manufacturing the dental component into the negative mold; (v) producing the dental component in the negative mold; and (vi) removing the negative mold.
US12171615B2
A device comprises a cannula having a first end, a second end, and a channel between the first end and the second end; an imaging probe couplable to the first end of the cannula, where the imaging probe includes: a transducer, and a reflective surface; and a biopsy device coupled to the cannula, where the biopsy device is configured to collect a tissue sample from an organ of a patient.
US12171605B2
A system for measuring muscle mass of a patient has a dual-energy radiation emission source. A radiation detector is configured to detect radiation emitted from the dual-energy radiation emission source passed through the patient. A processor has a memory with storing instructions, that when executed by the processor, perform a set of operations. The operations include receiving radiation detection data; generating a scan representation; identifying a primary fat target; determining an amount of fat in the primary fat target; comparing the amount of fat in the primary fat target to a reference; and based on the comparison, correcting an estimated amount of lean tissue to generate a corrected muscle mass value.
US12171600B2
A sterile drape can be used to cover a C-arm imaging machine used during a medical procedure. In some configurations, the drape includes a detector body cover, a C-arm body cover, and an elastic banding. The detector body cover can be positioned around a detector of the imaging machine. The C-arm body cover can include a tunnel portion that is positioned to surround a portion of the C-arm extending away from the detector. The elastic banding can extend about a perimeter of a junction between the detector body cover and the C-arm body cover. The elastic banding can provide a biasing force that draws the junction between the detector body cover and the C-arm body cover closed.
US12171595B2
In a gantry for a computed tomography device, a rotary frame is arranged on the tilt frame so that the rotary frame rotates relative to the tilt frame about an axis of rotation. The tilt frame is arranged on the support frame so that the tilt frame tilts about a tilt axis relative to the support frame, such that a tilt angle of the tilt frame relative to the support frame is changeable by a tilting movement of the tilt frame relative to the support frame about the tilt axis. The proximity switch has a proximity sensor and a reference mark, which interacts with the proximity sensor. The proximity switch is also coupled to the support frame and to the tilt frame such that the proximity switch is configured to react to an approach of the tilt angle to a reference angle.
US12171592B2
The present invention is directed to a computing system and method for the real-time automatic identification and tracking of a medical instrument and optionally the identification of at least one anatomical object in an image generated by an imaging system. The method includes generating the image via the imaging system and providing the image to a processor of a computing system. Further, the method includes developing and training at least one machine-learned model to automatically identify or locate the medical instrument and optionally at least one machine-learned model to identify or locate the anatomical object and the surrounding tissue in the image. Moreover, the method includes automatically labeling the identified medical instrument and optionally the identified anatomical object and surrounding tissue on the image. Further, the method also includes displaying the labeled image to a user in real-time.
US12171589B2
A medical packaging device, packaging system, method for producing a packaging device, and method for sterile packaging of a sieve basket with a packaging device. The packaging device defines a receiving space for accommodating a sieve basket in a packaging position, and an insertion opening for inserting a sieve basket into the receiving space. The insertion opening is open in an insertion position. The packaging device is made from a flat material sheet that is folded multiple times. The receiving space has two abutting receiving space flat material sheet surface regions. The regions are delimited by at least three fold lines of the flat material sheet such that the receiving space is closed on all sides except for the insertion opening. The packaging device includes an unfolding securing device for securing the packaging device in the insertion position against being completely unfolded back into the starting position.
US12171588B2
A sterile holder for sterile surgical implants. The implant holder is an ergonomically shaped body of deformable material having an implant-receiving cavity similar in size and shape to the implant. To remove the implant from the holder, the surgeon mates a sterile tool to the implant and gently pries the implant out of the holder by deforming the body. Preferably the tool used to pry the implant out of the body is an insertion tool mated to the implant which is also used to insert the implant in a patient. In this way the surgeon retrieves the implant from its container without touching the container and directly inserts the implant in the patient without risking contamination: sterility is maintained for both the surgeon and the implant. In a preferred embodiment, the implant holder is configured to hold two pedicle screws and their set-screws.
US12171585B2
A computing device for use in a system for mapping brain activity of a subject includes a processor. The processor is programmed to select a plurality of measurements of brain activity that is representative of at least one parameter of a brain of the subject during a resting state. Moreover, the processor is programmed to compare at least one data point from each of the measurements with a corresponding data point from a previously acquired data set from at least one other subject. The processor is also programmed to produce at least one map for each of the measurements based on the comparison of the resting state data point and the corresponding previously acquired data point. The processor may also be programmed to categorize the brain activity in a plurality of networks in the brain based on the map.
US12171576B1
A conformal patch device can be provided to a patient. The patch device can include sensors configured to be positioned over a chest of a patient. The sensors can include PPG sensors, ECG sensors, and SCG sensors. The conformal patch device can adhere to a single continuous area of the chest. Some sensors may attached to a viscoelastic substrate to achieve mechanical isolation from other patch components. The conformal patch device can capture measurements from the sensor doing a time window sufficient enough to detect disordered breathing. The system can determine disordered breathing and related cardiorespiratory parameters during the time window for the patient using the sensor measurements.
US12171573B2
A blood vessel position display device (1) includes an image processing device (31) configured to subject an image for analysis of a target part (2) to image processing to acquire blood vessel information including positions and shapes of blood vessels included in the target part (2), a selection device (32) configured to choose blood vessels as conforming blood vessels in which a parameter obtained from the blood vessel information satisfies specific conditions, an image generation device (33) configured to generate a projection image including display lines at least set to have lengths corresponding to the conforming blood vessels, and a projection device (40) configured to cause the positions of the display lines to correspond to the positions of the conforming blood vessels so as to project the projection image on the target part (2).
US12171568B2
The present invention is directed to a method for inducing an immune response in a subject, including a step of activating neurons in the mesolimbic network of the subject by applying a neurofeedback.
US12171561B2
A wearable cuff based on a carrier material with an integrated signal recorder for measurements of biosignals on the skin of a living body recording at an upper arm of a human body. At least one electrode is connected to the carrier material via a reversibly compressible material. The electrodes, the base of the main circuit, and the conductors of the signal recorder are based on one and the same flexible printed circuit board (FPCB). The carrier material is an elastic material. The conductors exhibit a zig-zag, U-shape, Ω-shape and/or a meandering form. The carrier material includes a woven and/or a nonwoven layer being coated with a thermoplastic polymer layer. A process to make the cuff, a process to measure biosignals on the skin of a living body, for long-term ECG recording at an upper arm of a human body, and the use of the cuff to record biosignals on the skin of a living body.
US12171560B2
A pixel circuit includes a sensing block, a stimulation block, a first line control circuit, and a second line control circuit. The sensing block outputs biometric data of a biosignal in response to a first selection signal. The stimulation block radiates a stimulation signal in response to a second selection signal. The first line control circuit outputs the first selection signal for selecting the sensing block as a target sensing block, and outputs the second selection signal for selecting the stimulation block as a target stimulation block. The second line control circuit processes characteristic data associated with the biometric data and the stimulation signal.
US12171559B2
An adjustment device is configured to collect estimation results of the estimated state of the occupant; determine whether or not it is necessary to check the state of the occupant on the basis of the estimation results; determine a behavior of the occupant on the basis of behavior determination information and set the state of the occupant when it is determined that it is necessary to check the state of the occupant; and output adjustment information for causing an occupant state estimating device to adjust a state estimation condition used for estimating the state of the occupant so that the estimation result of the state of the occupant becomes the set state of the occupant.
US12171558B2
A system and a method of performing screening tests for diagnosing a developmental condition of a human subject may include: receiving one or more profile data elements pertaining to the human subject; receiving one or more first behavioral data elements that may include information that is indicative of a behavior of a human subject from one or more data sources; analyzing the one or more first behavioral data elements in view of the one or more profile data elements to obtain a suspected impediment of development of the human subject; and presenting to the human subject a personalized test, adapted to diagnose the developmental condition of the human subject in view of the suspected impediment, to perform on a UI of a computing device according to the suspected impediment.
US12171554B2
In some examples, a medical system includes a medical device. The medical device may include a housing configured to be implanted in a target site of a patient, a light emitter configured to emit a signal configured to cause a fluorescent marker to emit a fluoresced signal into the target site, and a light detector that may be configured to detect the fluoresced signal. The medical system may include processing circuitry configured to determine a characteristic of the fluorescent marker based on the emitted signal and the fluoresced signal. The characteristic of the fluorescent marker may be indicative of a presence of a compound in the patient, and the processing circuitry may be configured to track the presence of the compound of the patient based on the characteristic of the fluorescent marker.
US12171552B2
A method and an apparatus for separating a composite signal into a plurality of signals is described. A signal processor receives a composite signal and separates a composite signal into separate output signals. Feedback from one or more of the output signals is provided to a configuration module that configures the signal processor to improve a quality of the output signals. In one embodiment, calibration data from multiple calibration data sets is used to configure the demodulation of the composite signal into separate output signals.
US12171540B2
The present disclosure relates to a head-dedicated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device, wherein a head-dedicated image is acquired in a state in which a head of a subject is positioned in a center of a magnetic field of a main magnet installed in a housing, a local coil manufactured in in the form of being inserted into or worn in a human body of the subject is utilized to acquire an image of a selected portion to be examined (for example, an oral region, an ear region, and an eye region) of the head, or a vibration absorber installed around the housing absorbs vibrations caused by the Lorentz force generated by a magnetic field of the main magnet and a current applied to a gradient coil while the image is acquired in a state in which the housing is hung on an installation frame.
US12171529B2
Various examples related to mobile bodily monitoring using ultra-wideband radar are provided. In one example, a method for determining a bodily characteristic includes collecting sets of reflected backscatter data for a sequence of ultra-wideband (UWB) pulses transmitted via an UWB sensor, and a corresponding calibration measurement from a calibration channel; determining reflection coefficients for each tissue interface based on the sets of reflected backscatter data; and determining a fluid level content of the lung tissue based upon the reflection coefficients. The reflection coefficients can be determined from reflection profiles based upon the reflected backscatter data for that sequence of UWB pulses and the corresponding calibration measurement. The UWB sensor can include an array of transmit (TX) and receive (RX) antenna pairs positioned on a body of a user. The reflection profile can be associated with a model of tissue layers in the body between the UWB sensor and lung tissue.
US12171528B2
A blood vessel wall thickness estimation method includes: obtaining behavioral information, which is numerical information about changes over time in positions of a plurality of predetermined points in a blood vessel wall, based on a video including the blood vessel wall obtained using four-dimensional angiography; generating estimation information for estimating a thickness of the blood vessel wall based on the behavioral information obtained in the obtaining; and outputting the estimation information generated in the generating. The estimation information is information in which at least one of the following is visualized: a change in displacement over time; a change in speed over time; a change in acceleration over time; a change in kinetic energy over time; a spring constant obtained from the displacement and the acceleration, and a Fourier coefficient obtained from the change in the displacement over time.
US12171526B2
A dental treatment appliance transmits a pulsed light signal towards the oral cavity and captures images of the oral cavity from light returned from the oral cavity. A controller actuates the treatment of the oral cavity of the user depending on the captured images.
US12171525B2
A method for photographing at least a portion of a subject is disclosed, the method comprising: generating a photography scheme, the photography scheme comprising a set of photography control points, each of the photography control points comprising: a location of the platform relative to the subject; an orientation of the platform relative to the subject; and one or more photography parameters; determining a location and an orientation of the platform carrying the imaging system; navigating the platform to each of the photography control points and operating the imaging system to capture an image of the subject at each of the photography control points according to the associated photography parameters. A method of administering photodynamic therapy to a subject is also disclosed.
US12171516B2
Systems and methods for minimally invasive computer-assisted telesurgery are described. A computer-assisted teleoperated surgery system includes a teleoperated instrument actuation pod. The surgical instrument actuation pod includes a plurality of linear actuators arranged around a surgical instrument. The linear actuators engage with actuator engagement members on the instrument and so drive movable parts on the instrument. The actuation pod is mounted on a teleoperated manipulator. Instrument pod mass is close to the teleoperated manipulator to minimize the pod's inertia, momentum, and gravity effects on the manipulator.
US12171512B2
Disclosed herein are various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. Also disclosed are various medical devices for in vivo medical procedures. Included herein, for example, is a surgical robotic device having an elongate device body, a right robotic arm coupled to a right shoulder assembly, and a left robotic arm coupled to a left shoulder assembly.
US12171502B2
Tool assemblies, system, and methods for manipulating tissue and methods for performing a surgical procedure on a vertebral body adjacent soft tissue. A manipulator moves an end effector, and a screw is coupled to the end effector. A sleeve is disposed coaxially around the screw, and the screw and the sleeve are releasably engaged to one another. A navigation system is configured to track the vertebral body, and one or more controllers control the end effector to advance the screw relative to the sleeve along an insertion trajectory defined with respect to a surgical plan. The screw disengages the sleeve during advancement, and the screw is secured to the vertebral body. A distal working portion of the screw may be freely slidable through a distal end of the sleeve when disengaged. The screw may be a tap marker removably couplable with a tracking device of the navigation system.
US12171500B2
A locating system for a surgical suite includes optical markers coupled to a medical device. A sensor is configured to obtain an initial position data of the optical markers. A laser device is configured to obtain subsequent position data of the optical markers. A controller receives the initial position data from the sensor and the subsequent position data from the laser device. The controller is configured to determine a position of the medical device within the surgical suite and recognize a type of the medical device in response to the optical markers.
US12171499B2
An eye surgery surgical system includes a device for displaying a relative position of a section of a surgery object in a 3D reconstruction of a region of an eye, a device for continuously providing at least two data records relating to at least partly overlapping portions of the region of the eye and of the section of the surgery object to a computer, a computer program for continuously ascertaining the relative position of the section of the surgery object and continuously ascertaining the 3D reconstruction of the eye from the data records provided. The program includes a first routine for continuously ascertaining the relative position of the section of the surgery object and the 3D reconstruction of the region of the eye from the data records provided via a registration method and a second routine for adapting the registration method based on a criterion.
US12171494B2
A method of performing an eye examination test for examining eyes of a user, said method using a computing device, said computing device comprising an image capturing unit arranged for capturing images, said method comprising the steps of capturing, by said capturing unit, an image of said user and its surroundings, dividing, by said computing device, said captured image into a plurality of bins, estimating, by said computing device, light intensity of each of said plurality bins, determining, by said computing device, an area of anomalous light intensity in said captured image based on said step of estimation wherein said estimated light intensity is above a predetermined threshold value, performing, by said computing device, said eye examination test, taking said determined area of anomalous light into account.
US12171493B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating an elastic stiffness map for a volume of an ophthalmic tissue of an eye of a patient. Exemplary systems and methods involve a laser assembly, an optical scanning assembly, an objective lens assembly, a beam control assembly, an eye camera assembly, and a Brillouin spectrometer assembly. Systems and methods can operate to transmit x,y coordinate scan control signals to the optical scanning assembly, transmit z coordinate scan control signals to the objective lens assembly, and generate the elastic stiffness map for the volume of the ophthalmic tissue of the eye based on Brillouin signals generated by a Brillouin spectrometer of the Brillouin spectrometer assembly.
US12171491B2
Systems, devices, and methods for delivering laser energy to a target in an endoscopic procedure are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises providing a first laser pulse train and a different second laser pulse train emitting from a distal end of an endoscope and incident on a target. The first laser pulse train has a first laser energy level, and the second laser pulse train has a second laser energy level higher than the first laser energy level. In an example, the first laser pulse train is used to form cracks on a surface of a calculi structure, and the second laser pulse train causes fragmentation of the calculi structure after the cracks are formed.
US12171482B2
A bariatric surgery operating room configured and operational for treating metabolic syndrome in human patients on an ambulatory basis. The bariatric surgery operating room includes a set of trocars for creating laparoscopy portals through small incisions formed in a human patient's body while supported upon an operating table. A source of inert gas is provided for infusion into the abdominal region of the patient so as to cause tenting of the abdominal region and abdominal distension and tenting in a human patient suffering from obesity and likely to benefit from visceral fat removal within the body of the human patient. A laparoscope is inserted through a first one of said trocars and into the abdominal region of the human patient so that a surgeon can capture video images of the abdominal region of the patient, and display the captured video images within the view of the surgeon. A powered tissue aspiration instrument is inserted through a second one of the trocars and into the mesenteric region of the human patient. Gripping tools are inserted through a third and optionally fourth trocars installed in the patient's abdomen, for gripping anatomical structures in the mesenteric region during visceral fat tissue aspiration operations. The laparoscope is used to capture video images of the mesenteric region of the human patient during visceral fat tissue aspiration operations, and display video images to provide laparoscopic guidance to the surgeon while aspirating visceral fat tissue from the mesenteric region of the human patient so as to treat metabolic syndrome of the human patient in a minimally-invasive manner by reducing three or more risk factors associated with metabolic syndrome.
US12171479B2
An electrosurgery system includes a first generator configured to output an operating signal. The system also includes a pathway for the operating signal, the pathway includes an active electrode and a patient pad. The system also includes a circuit configured to measure a complex impedance of the patient pad. The circuit includes a second generator configured to output a measuring signal. The system also includes a voltage transformer, a current transformer, and a plurality of filters.
US12171476B2
A surgical screw for fixation into bone or soft tissue. The surgical screw includes a cannulated body having a proximal end and a distal end. The distal end of the cannulated body has a tapered tip and a plurality of threads extend around the exterior of the cannulated body. An introducer extends distally from the tapered tip and has a diameter (which can be variable or constant) which is less than a diameter of the tapered tip. The surgical screw is cannulated such that a channel extends through the body from the proximal end to (and sometimes through) the distal end.
US12171471B2
A bone screw kit includes a support member, a screw, an extension sleeve, a connecting rod, a locking screw, a screw driver and an extension sleeve remover. The support member has two wings. An external wall of one axial end of the screw driver has ribs and one first snap. The first snap has oppositely a first outer diameter and a second outer diameter less than the first outer diameter. A through hole having a second snap is disposed on the locking screw furnished thereinside with grooves. The second snap has a first inner diameter less than the first outer diameter but larger than the second outer diameter. The locking screw and the screw driver are disposed in the support member and the extension sleeve. The extension sleeve having two extension wings sleeves the support member. Engagement structures are provide to engage the wing and the inner extension wing.
US12171463B2
The present invention comprises methods and devices for generating and providing contrast medium for sonography of structures such as ducts or cavities. The invention provides for creation of a contrast medium comprising detectable acoustic variations between two phases, for example, a gas and a liquid. Sonography is the primary means of imaging but other conventional detection means may also be employed with the present invention.
US12171462B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a medical implant introducer (100) and methods of its use. The introducer (100) may include a handle (120), an implant-holding cavity disposed distally from the handle (120), a fluid supply conduit (122) fluidly coupled to an interior portion of the implant-holding cavity, and a distal nozzle (110) having a proximal portion, a distal portion, a middle portion in between the proximal portion and the distal portion, the middle portion having a tapered profile such that the proximal portion is larger than the distal portion, and a distal opening (112), wherein an implant in the implant-holding cavity may be expelled from the introducer (100) through the distal opening (112).
US12171456B2
A rooter includes a rotatable element, an actuator for causing the rotatable element to rotate, and a coupling feature for rotatably coupling an elongated medical instrument to the rotatable element. The rotatable element may be at least partially contained within the interior of a housing or another element that remains substantially stationary as the actuator causes the rotatable element to rotate. The rooter may be used with a variety of elongated medical instruments, such as wires, mascerators, needles, drill bits, trocars, catheters, tubes and other elongated instruments that are used to enable or effect medical procedures within the body of a subject. The rooter may be used for a variety of purposes, including, without limitation, the introduction of an elongated medical instrument into the body of a subject or its removal from the subject's body; removing, breaking up, or eliminating obstructions (e.g., blood clots, plaques, etc.) from the body of a subject; and obtaining samples from a subject's body.
US12171451B2
A medical device includes an end effector at a distal end of the medical device, an actuator coupled to a proximal end of the end effector, a pivot arm pivotally coupled to the end effector distal of the proximal end of the end effector, where actuation of the actuator pivots the end effector relative to the pivot arm, and a lock on the end effector and the pivot arm, where the lock has a first state permitting the end effector to pivot relative to the pivot arm and a second state restricting the end effector from pivoting relative to the pivot arm.
US12171444B2
An extension conduit for use with a system for aspirating thrombus includes a passageway extending between a distal end and a proximal end of the extension conduit, and a combined hydraulic and electrical control carried on the extension conduit and configured to be activated by a user to activate an electric switch while opening a valve to allow flow through the passageway.
US12171441B2
Methods of extracting bone and/or cellular material from a patient for possible use in a later surgical procedure, which involves that patient or even a different patient, are provided. An embodiment of the method generally comprises extracting bone and/or cellular material from a patient undergoing a routine surgical procedure, saving the material, and then sending it to a storage, separation, and processing facility (e.g., a “biobank”) for use in a later surgical procedure involving that patient, or a different patient. The material may be cancellous bone, cortical bone chips, or bone marrow. The extracted bone and/or cellular material can be processed at the biobank and used in a multitude of different medical procedures (e.g., as an allograft infused with stem cells for use in a fusion procedure).
US12171438B2
A recapturable external LAA exclusion clip system includes a clip comprising first and second clip struts, at least one of the struts having a connector interface comprising a first portion of a lock, and a delivery device comprising a handle and an end effector. The handle comprises jaw and lock controls. The end effector is connected to the handle and comprises a clevis and first and second jaws. The jaws are connected to the clevis and operatively connected to the jaw control to actively articulate at least one of the jaws with respect to the other. At least one of the jaws has a connector comprising a second portion of the lock operatively connected to the lock control to removably lock with the first portion of the lock. The first and second portions of the lock have a locked state and are configured to unlock the locked state upon actuation of the lock control.
US12171433B2
Described here are systems, devices, and methods for providing remote manipulation or traction to tissue using one or more graspers, delivery devices, and magnetic control assemblies. The graspers may be configured for insertion into the patient during a minimally-invasive procedure, such as a laparoscopic operation. The graspers may be configured to releasably connect to tissue. In some embodiments, the grasper may comprise a clip, a clamp, a suction device, a coil, or the like, and may be configured to connect to any suitable tissue. Delivery devices may be configured to releasably engage a grasper to deliver the grasper, remove it from the patient, or reposition it. The delivery devices may additionally be configured to actuate the grasper to attach it to tissue and/or detach it from tissue. The magnetic control elements may be configured to be positioned externally of the body to move, reposition, and/or hold the grasper.
US12171429B2
Provided is a surgical stapler (100), said surgical stapler (100) comprising an end effector (1), a closure mechanism (2), a first drive mechanism (10), and a cutting apparatus. The end effector (1) comprises a staple compartment assembly (11) and a staple anvil (12); surgical staples are provided in the staple compartment assembly (11); the closure mechanism (2) is configured to drive the staple compartment assembly (11) and the staple anvil (12) into joining so as to hold a target tissue; a staple pushing assembly is configured to suture the target tissue by pushing the surgical staple from the staple compartment assembly (11) into the target tissue; the first drive mechanism (10) is configured such that: during the closure phase, the first drive mechanism (10) is removably connected to the closure mechanism (2) so as to drive the closure mechanism (2) to close the end effector (1); in the staple pushing phase after the closure phase, the first drive mechanism (10) separates from the closure mechanism (2) and drives the staple pushing assembly to push the surgical staple out of the staple compartment assembly (11); the cutting apparatus is configured to cut the target tissue during the cutting phase after the target tissue as a whole has been sutured under the drive of the first drive mechanism (10).
US12171428B2
An apparatus includes a shaft assembly, an end effector, and a drive member visualization assembly. The end effector includes a first jaw, a second jaw, a staple cartridge, and a drive member capable of actuating along a firing stroke to fire a plurality of staples out of the staple cartridge or to sever tissue. The drive member visualization assembly provides an electronic indication linked to a physical location of the drive member within the upper jaw and the lower jaw during the firing stroke.
US12171420B2
An example retraction system includes a first retraction assembly, the first retraction assembly including a first arm coupled to a rack, a second arm coupled to the rack, a first retractor blade coupled to the first arm and a second retractor blade coupled to the second arm. The retraction system also includes a second retraction assembly, the second retraction assembly including a carriage configured to engage a blade post having a blade coupled to a distal end and a handle coupled to a proximal end, the blade post adjustable relative to the carriage. The retraction system also includes a third retractor blade coupled to the blade post.
US12171417B2
A surgical handpiece and an autoclavable surgical handpiece are disclosed. The surgical handpiece and the autoclavable surgical handpiece include a housing and a visible light emitter disposed within the housing. The surgical handpiece includes a cable adjacent to the housing and a strain relief member coupled to the cable, the strain relief member being disposed adjacent to the housing and configured to transmit visible light emitted by the visible light emitter therethrough. The autoclavable surgical handpiece includes a potting material disposed between the visible light emitter and the housing, the potting material having a melting point above 120 degrees Celsius and being configured to thermally insulate the visible light emitter and to transmit visible light emitted by the visible light emitter therethrough.
US12171400B2
An illumination optical system includes: a condenser lens; a first light guiding member configured to guide the light input to a first entrance end face by reflecting the light inside the condenser lens, and output the light from a first exit end face; a pupil generating lens configured to generate a pupil with the first exit end face serving as an object surface; and a second light guiding member configured to guide the light input to a second entrance end face by reflecting the light inside the second light guiding member, and output the light from a second exit end face.
US12171397B2
Violet light and green light are mixed and emitted at a first light amount ratio. A contrast difference value ΔC1 of first mixed color light emission between a blood vessel contrast of a blue image of first mixed color light emission and a blood vessel contrast of a green image of first mixed color light emission at a specific blood vessel depth satisfies a first condition, and a cross-point blood vessel depth VD1 of first mixed color light emission corresponding to a cross-point CP1 between the blood vessel contrast of the blue image of the first mixed color light emission and the blood vessel contrast of the green image of the first mixed color light emission satisfies a second condition.
US12171396B2
An endoscope apparatus includes: an imaging device; a light source device; an illumination light control circuit; a first processing circuit; and a second processing circuit. The light source device emits first support illumination light in a first time period. The first processing circuit acquires a first support image obtained with the first support illumination light. The second processing circuit extracts first diagnosis support information on the basis of the first support image. The light source device emits second support illumination light being as a result of dimming control on the basis of the first diagnosis support information in a second time period. The first processing circuit acquires a second support image with the second support illumination light. The second processing circuit acquires support display information on the basis of the second support image. The first processing circuit executes image processing, based on the support display information, on the display image.
US12171390B2
A dishwasher and method for treating dishes according to a cycle of operation, the dishwasher comprising a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber and a dish rack movably received within the treating chamber. The dishwasher configured for receiving dishes for treatment during the cycle of operation, and moveable relative to the tub. A sprayer located within the treating chamber, configured to emit spray into the dish rack, where a diverter and thermally-responsive actuator within the sprayer can change the direction of the spray.
US12171389B2
A dishwasher includes a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber, a rotatable spray arm comprising an outlet, and a liquid supply conduit fluidly coupled to the spray arm. A pump can be fluidly coupled to the liquid supply conduit and operated to flow liquid through an aperture in the liquid supply conduit and through the outlet in the rotatable spray arm.
US12171387B2
A dishwasher comprises an image sensor, first and second drawers, first and second actuators configured to respectively extend or retract the first and second drawers, and a computer system. The computer system is configured to receive images from the image sensor, determine whether an object is within a threshold distance, and in response to determining that an object is moved to within the threshold distance, use a washwear recognition system to determine whether the object comprises an washwear item. A determined washwear type and a washwear dimension are used to identify an unoccupied location in of a size and configured suitable to receive the washwear item. In response to identifying an unoccupied location of a size and configured suitable to receive the washwear item, an actuator among the first actuator and the second actuator is caused to extend a corresponding drawer to thereby receive the item of dishware.
US12171382B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for determining product use by acoustically sensing actuations of product dispensers to determine how much product remains, and, optionally, alert a provider when low product states exist.
US12171381B2
A counter mount fluid dispenser has a spout having an opening for dispensing a fluid. The connection shaft extends downwardly from the spout. A swivel base is mounted to the connection shaft. The swivel base swivels relative to the connection shaft. The swivel base includes a mounting shaft having a mounting shaft nut that is configured with the spout to engage a countertop by clamping force. The mounting shaft nut has a mounting shaft nut lower extension. A mounting shaft nut external thread is formed on an external surface of the mounting shaft nut lower extension. A mounting shaft nut retainer is threaded to the mounting shaft nut lower extension.
US12171369B2
A method and apparatus for an air fryer cooking appliance. The air fryer cooking appliance may include an upper body and a lower body configurable between at least one stowed position and at least one deployed position. The upper body may include a heating device and an air circulating device. The lower body may include a food container. The food container may receive the upper body in the stowed position.
US12171367B2
An artificial gravity heating system includes a cylindrical compartment formed of a hollow cylinder having a bottom base and an open top end. An electric motor rotates the cylindrical compartment to provide centripetal motion of materials inside the cylindrical compartment. While rotating, the materials move towards an inner wall of the cylindrical compartment. A heating element is conductively coupled along an outer wall of the cylindrical compartment for heating the materials against the inner wall via conduction. A temperature sensor is operatively coupled to the cylindrical compartment for monitoring a temperature of the cylindrical compartment. A controller is configured to control operation of the heating element based on the temperature monitored via the temperature sensor. An artificial gravity heating method is used to process materials including heating ingredients to cook food. The artificial gravity heating system may also be configured as a vapor generator dehydrator or a thermal gas generator.
US12171366B1
The present disclosure relates to the operation of a kitchen appliance (100). A processor (122) receives (220) a stored sequence of user settings and at least one recorded parameter, and applies (226) the stored sequence of user settings to the kitchen appliance. A sensor (140) senses at least one sensed parameter while the stored sequence of user settings is applied to the kitchen appliance (100). The processor (122) determines (228) a difference between the at least one sensed parameter and corresponding recorded parameter(s) and, if the determined difference exceeds a difference threshold, adjusts (234) at least one user setting applied.
US12171361B2
A system for preparing a brewed beverage from at least one flavorant includes a housing, a receptacle connectable to the housing for holding the at least one flavorant and a reservoir connectable to the housing. The receptacle including a first fluid inlet and a second fluid inlet and a first fluid flow path fluidly connects the reservoir to the first fluid inlet and a second fluid flow path fluidly connects the reservoir to the second fluid inlet.
US12171357B2
A decorative artificial tree comprising: a base stand; a plurality of connectable trunk sections; a plurality of leaved branch sections connectable to the trunk sections; a decorative object; a microcontroller; and, a motorised rotary mechanism comprising a support bar connected thereto, at one end of the support bar there is a counterweight, at the opposing end of the support bar the decorative object is attached; such that, in use when the motorised rotary mechanism is activated, the decorative object travels around the decorative tree.
US12171356B1
Disclosed is a packaging container for bread and wine for Communion that includes a sanitary structure which includes: a first storage portion which has a structure forming a storage space of a predetermined volume in which wine is able to be stored and having an open upper surface; a second storage portion which is rotatably mounted on the upper surface of the first storage portion; a first sealing film in the form of a transparent thin film that is mounted to seal the upper surface of the second storage portion and made of an elastic material having a predetermined elastic restoring force; a second sealing film in the form of a thin film that is mounted to seal a lower surface of the second storage portion and made of the elastic material having the predetermined elastic restoring force; a first tearing; and a second tearing portion.
US12171352B1
A placemat and tether system may include a mat body, a plurality of anchors and an elongated tether. The mat body may be characterized by a front side and a back side. Each anchor in the plurality of anchors may include an anchor block on the front side and a suction cup that extends from the back side, opposite the anchor block. The elongated tether may have an anchor end and a retention end, where the anchor end is removably coupleable to one of the plurality of anchors via a compression fit. The elongated tether may have three distinct segments—a first segment with a circular cross section; a second segment that is removably coupleable, via a compression fit, to the retention end to thereby form a loop; and a third segment with an elastic winding section configured to facilitate stretching along a length of the elongated tether.
US12171343B2
A convertible children's seat may include a chair component, and enclosure component, and soft goods. The chair component may include a base, a stationary plate mounted to the base, and a seat back mounted to and rotatable about the stationary plate. The soft goods may be wrapped around the chair component and the enclosure component. The seat back may be configured to rotate between an open configuration and a closed configuration. The chair component is configured to be removably mounted to the enclosure component. A children's seat apparatus may include a chair component and an enclosure component. A method for implementing a convertible children's seat may include providing the convertible children's seat and causing the convertible children's seat to be moved between an open configuration and a closed configuration when the seat back is rotated about the stationary plate.
US12171340B2
A connection structure includes a first apparatus and a second apparatus. The first apparatus includes a first contact portion and a surrounding wall surface. The second apparatus includes a second contact portion and a hollow projection. The first apparatus and the second apparatus are connected as being rotatable relatively to each other around a magnetic force direction and attachable to and detachable from each other, as a result of attraction by magnetic force. The projection is located with a clearance being interposed between the wall surface and the first contact portion, where the projection can be tilted in accordance with pulling including a direction component perpendicular to the magnetic force direction. In the first apparatus, a clearance between a top portion and the projection in a first direction is larger than a clearance between the top portion and the projection in a second direction different from the first direction.
US12171339B2
An articulable sleep system has a first head section, a second head section, and a joined leg section that are each separably articulable. A head motor system includes first and second head motors operably connected to the first and second head sections. A leg motor system includes first and second leg motors operably connected to the joined leg section. A first user controlling device is hard wired to each of the first head motor, the first leg motor, and the second leg motor. A second user controlling device hard wired to each of the second head motor, the first leg motor, and the second leg motor.
US12171336B2
A display system for coupling to visual communication products has a frame and a display surface, wherein the display system presents a coupling device for coupling to the frame, associated with an accessory that can be manually coupled and decoupled, defining a support. For this purpose, the coupling device presents a flattened body, of a length according to the thickness of the frame, having an end front flange which determines an elbow, and which defines an insertion groove in the profile of the frame, having at its opposite end an elastically deformable rear clipping flange. In this way, the coupling device presents on its front side edge an opening defined by a semi-sphere acting as a positioning pin where the accessory is coupled.
US12171335B1
An apparatus for secured concealment of a firearm allowing rapid deployment of same. A firearm is conveniently stored in a secure location while being concealed from view. The firearm may be quickly retrieved by releasing or triggering a mechanism which rapidly deploys the firearm to a position in which the grip is projected outward from the concealed location for an ambidextrous draw.
US12171331B2
Provided are a shelf assembly and a storage cabinet, which relate to the technical field of storage apparatuses. The shelf assembly includes: a plurality of shelves, mounting rods, the outer peripheral walls of which are provided with external threads in the axial direction, moving members corresponding to the shelves, and driving members corresponding to the moving members. The moving members are connected to the corresponding shelves; internal thread holes in threaded fit with the mounting rods are formed on the moving members; and the driving members are connected to the corresponding moving members and are used for driving the moving members to rotate. The storage cabinet includes a cabinet body and the shelf assembly arranged in the cabinet body.
US12171330B2
There is provided a customizable shower caddy. The shower caddy includes connectors that can be set at various heights along a rod that is supported between a shower basin or tub at the bottom and a ceiling at the top. Product holders can be connected to the connectors at different positions about the rod. This provides flexibility in the layout of which direction the product holders extend from the rod, which enables the shower caddy to be set up for use in a corner, along a wall or in the center of the shower or tub.
US12171327B2
A desk comprising a utility system whereas extended channels are routed or carved into top, bottom and side surface areas of said desk to allow metal or plastic devices to snap or slide into said channels to hold and store various gadgets, smart phone, tablets, panels, backpacks, thus transforming a normal desk into a multi-purpose workstation that will greatly enhance the user experience.
US12171313B2
A piece of jewelry includes at least one chain having two ends, at least one of the two ends including a hollow clip fixed by a fixing device, the clip consisting of two half-shells, each half-shell including an extended edge delimiting a hollow internal space of the half-shell, the edges including notches into which the chain can be inserted, the half-shells being hinged together by an articulation between a closed position in which the two edges are brought together to close the clip and an open position in which the two edges are separated over at least part of their extents in order to allow a portion of the chain to be inserted between the two edges and through the internal space and so that the portion of the chain is retained in the clip by being blocked as to extraction and translation once the clip is closed.
US12171309B2
A zipper locking hasp is described which adapts to most conventional zippers without modification to the zipper or to the movable slider parts of a zipper. The hasp is comprised of a plate component with prongs pivotally joined to a channel component. The plate component is fabricated having narrow prongs designed to fit through the conventional aperture present on most zipper sliders. In normal operation, when a zipper is closed, a pair of sliders is brought together along the zipper chain. When the hasp is open, the prongs formed by the plate are inserted through apertures in adjacent sliders which inhibits movement of each slider relative to one another. When the hasp is closed, holes provided in the plate and channel assembly are aligned. A shackle of a padlock can be inserted through the aligned holes keeping the plate and channel components mated locking the zipper.
US12171305B1
An energy return device for footwear has a flattenable conical disk with a ring spring arranged around the base of the conical disk. A rigid upper heel-receiving plate is connected to the apex of the flattenable conical disk. The heel-receiving plate may be rigidly or semi-rigidly attached to the apex of the conical disk to stabilize an angle of the heel-receiving plate. There may be a conical damping disk between a lower surface of the heel-receiving plate and an upper surface of the conical disk. There may be protrusions on the bottom of the heel-receiving plate which interact with pockets in the upper surface of the conical disk, for example distorting the conical damping disk. There may be viscoelastic inserts in the pockets, for example providing damping in place of or in addition to the damping disk.
US12171302B2
A footwear system includes a sensorized insole and a charger. The sensorized insole has an insole bulk having a foot-facing upper surface. A sensor is embedded in the insole bulk for measuring a parameter of a user's foot, a battery is embedded in the insole bulk for providing energy to the sensor, and a receiver pod is embedded in the insole bulk and is spaced from the foot-facing upper surface for wirelessly receiving energy and providing energy to the battery. The charger provides energy to the receiver pod, and includes a cable for connecting to an energy source, and a transmitter pod electrically connected to the cable for receiving energy from the cable and wirelessly transmitting energy to the receiver pod. The transmitter pod is positionable against the foot-facing upper surface to wirelessly provide energy to the receiver pod through the insole bulk.
US12171294B2
A helmet comprising and outer liner and an inner liner slidably coupled to an interior surface of the outer liner is disclosed. The outer liner comprises an interior surface and the inner liner comprises an exterior surface. The inner liner is composed of an elastically deformable material. A majority of the interior surface of the outer liner and a majority of the exterior surface of the inner liner are both substantially parallel to a pseudo-spherical surface having a coronal cross section that is circular with a first radius and a sagittal cross section that is circular with a second radius different from the first radius. The inner liner is elastically deformable along the interior surface of the outer liner in response to rotation of the outer liner relative to the inner liner caused by an impact to the helmet.
US12171290B2
An artificial lash extension system includes multiple lash extensions, each including a knotless base and clusters of two or more artificial hairs. Each of the multiple lash extensions include a first adhesive that joins the clusters to the knotless base. The multiple lash extensions attach to an underside of natural eyelashes of an eye with a second adhesive.
US12171289B2
A case for storing artificial lash extensions includes a body having a first outer sidewall having first curved surface, and first storage slots extending inward from the first curved surface of the first outer sidewall. Each of the first storage slots includes a first floor that extends inward from the first curved surface. The case includes a gasket configured to releasably hold the artificial lash extensions in the first plurality of storage slots.
US12171282B2
An electroadhesive clutch can be coupled to a textile. The clutch can include a first electrode assembly comprising a first conductive member, and a second electrode assembly comprising a second conductive member overlaying in part the first conductive member. In an example, the clutch includes or uses an elastic encasing within which the first and second electrode assemblies are positioned. The elastic encasing can form a first bond with the first conductive member at a first location of the elastic encasing and a second bond with the second conductive member proximate a second location of the elastic encasing different than the first location.
US12171273B2
A system for assembling electronic cigarette parts comprising cartridges and for filling the cartridges includes a first conveyor; a first group of carrier units connected to the first conveyor to be movable independently along the first conveyor and to receive and hold the parts; a first group of working stations for assembling/inspecting the cigarette parts on the first conveyor; a second conveyor, downstream of the first conveyor; and a second group of carrier units connected to the second conveyor to be movable independently along the second conveyor and to receive and hold the parts; a second group of working stations for assembling/inspecting the parts on the second conveyor; and a filling station, disposed between the first and second conveyors to receive the parts from the first conveyor, fill the respective cartridges, and feed the parts with the filled cartridges towards the second conveyor.
US12171272B2
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a housing; a cavity; an aperture at least partially defined by the housing and being positioned at an end of the cavity for insertion of the article into the cavity through the aperture; a cover element arranged for movement relative to the housing between a closed position partially covering the aperture and an open position partially uncovered; a sensor including a Hall effect sensor to provide an electrical signal indicative of a position of the cover element; an electrical heater to heat the article within the cavity and extending around an outer surface of an article received within the cavity; and an indicator element for movement relative to the sensor when moved between the closed and the open positions, the signal being determined by a position of the indicator element relative to the sensor, the indicator element including a magnetic material.
US12171269B2
Disclosed are an atomizer, an atomization system and an operation method of the atomization system. The atomizer includes an atomization pipe, a reservoir and a flexible block piece. The atomization pipe includes an opening. The opening penetrates through an outer surface of the atomization pipe. The reservoir is disposed in the atomization pipe. The opening is communicated with the reservoir. The flexible block piece is disposed in the opening. The flexible block piece allows an injection needle to pass through the flexible block piece and enter the reservoir. The atomization system includes a base and the atomizer, and the atomizer is detachably connected to the base. The flexible block piece is filled in the opening to play a sealing role, and when specific liquid is consumed, the specific liquid can be injected into the reservoir by penetrating the injector into the flexible block piece, thus achieving reuse of the atomizer.
US12171267B2
Provided is a heater for a cigarette-type electronic cigarette device. A heater for a cigarette-type electronic cigarette device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is configured to a circumference of a cigarette inserted thereinto by a predetermined length and includes a heating member that is disposed to surround a circumference of the cigarette when the cigarette is inserted and is heated through an eddy current induced by electromagnetic induction to heat the cigarette, a heat insulation member that is disposed to surround a circumference of the heating member and blocks the heat generated by the heating member from moving to the outside, and a coil member that is wound multiple times around a circumference of the heat insulation member and that generates a magnetic field that causes electromagnetic induction to the heating member when power is applied.
US12171250B2
This invention provides a cooked-rice improver having flavor sustaining and/or flavor enhancement effects of cooked rice. The improver is obtained by mixing low-decomposition starch having a predetermined molecular weight and dextrin having a predetermined DE value at a predetermined ratio. This invention provides a cooked-rice improver flavor sustaining and/or flavor enhancement actions on cooked rice, and cooked rice produced by using the same. The cooked-rice improver contains low-decomposition starch having the molecular weight of 500,000 to 5,000,000 and dextrin having a DE value greater than one and equal to or lower than fifty at a ratio of 1:9 to 9:1 in a mass ratio.
US12171246B2
The present invention relates to a multiple decorating tip intended for culinary preparations. More particularly, it is a modular device adaptable to a piping bag, a siphon, a pressure plunger or a pastry syringe allowing simultaneous, homogeneous, regular and rapid exit of a culinary preparation through different orifices including the shape can be chosen by the user. The device being made up of the association of at least three elements: a connection tip to the container; a reversible support with two parts, one lower and one upper, the latter attaching to the connection tip; a decorating tip plate with at least two decorating tip, the decorating tip plate being clamped between the upper part support and the lower part support.
US12171245B2
A food product made with simple ingredients, including fruit paste and cocoa butter-based particles, is disclosed. The food product is shelf stable and provides an eating experience resembling a chocolate truffle. Methods of making a food product are also described.
US12171243B2
A plant based allergen-free coffee creamer or whitener composition is described that includes components such as a) water; b) at least one sugar ingredient; c) at least one vegetal oil; d) acacia gum; e) xanthan gum, Tragacanth or gellan; and f) optionally a flavor modification agent and/or optionally a cereal component, wherein the composition is substantially free of sunflower lecithin and of nut component(s) and the components equal 100% by weight.
US12171241B2
The present invention relates to a clipping machine for producing sausage-shaped products, like sausages, by filling a flowable filling material into a tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing and closing said tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing by a closure device, like a closure clip, and a method for controlling the clipping machine. The clipping machine comprises a filling tube for feeding the filling material into the tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing stored on the filling tube and being closed at its first end, a casing brake assembly for applying a braking force to the tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing while being pulled-off from the filling tube, gathering means for gathering the filled tubular or bag-shaped packaging casing and for forming a plait-like portion thereto, the gathering device including a first displacer unit and a second displacer unit, a clipping device having a first and a second closing tool being reversibly movable between an opened position and a closed position, for applying at least one closure device to the plait-like portion and closing said closure device when the closing tools are in their closed position, and at least one drive device for driving at least one component of the clipping machine, including at least one electric motor. The clipping machine further comprises a motor driver unit adapted to operate the electric motor in an accelerating mode for increasing the speed of the electric motor, in a driving mode for maintaining the speed of the electric motor, and in an electric braking mode for decreasing the speed of the electric motor, and a control unit adapted to control the at least one motor driver unit such that during the braking mode electric braking energy is recovered.
US12171238B2
A cooking appliance may control operations of a steam supply device configured to supply steam into a cooking space and a heating unit configured to heat an inside of the cooking space, thereby maintaining a temperature in the cooking space at a boiling point of water or less during cooking.
US12171236B2
A light stable, environmentally friendly, broad spectrum antimicrobial disinfectants comprising of active metal ions and method of preparing the same are provided. The compositions are non-toxic, cost-effective formulations, comprising of metal ions, biopolymer, and complexing agent. The compositions are very effective with the dosing and treatment regime designed to give a 6-log reduction in bacteria and virus count and also expected to yield 30 days or more of residual efficacy.
US12171234B2
A sexual attraction pheromone exclusively obtained from Tribolium castaneum male insects, a method to obtain said pheromone and a device useful for controlling insects in grain silos are disclosed. The device comprises an outer shell, a membrane impregnated with the sexual attraction pheromone and a nucleus containing an insecticide formulation comprising effective amount of an isolated microsclerotia of Beauveria bassiana and an agronomically acceptable carrier.
US12171223B2
A composition comprising a) one or more seeds and b) a liquid coating wherein the liquid coating is a non-aqueous liquid formulation, wherein said non-aqueous liquid formulation comprises a) one or more Poly(organic acids) [P(OA)]s, and/or their salts, completely dissolved in b) a Non-aqueous Organo Solvent Delivery System (NOSDS), wherein the NOSDS is a delivery system for adding the one or more [P(OA)]s and/or their salts to the surface of said one or more said seeds.
US12171219B2
A storage bag (100) includes a main tube (102) extending from a first end to a second end and defining a first inner surface and outer surface. The main tube includes a first angled edge (128) and a second angled edge (132) extending from the first end of the main tube and forming a first angled interface. The storage bag also includes a port tube (104) extending from a first end to a second end and defining a second inner surface and outer surface. The second end of the port tube includes a third angled edge and a fourth angled edge extending from the second end of the port tube, forming a second angled interface. The second angled interface of the port tube is positioned over the first angled interface of the main tube. A portion of the port tube not overlapping the main tube is sealed to itself to form an angled drainage area (182).
US12171211B2
A device, system, and method of controlling pests are disclosed. The system includes an active infrared sensor including infrared emitters and photodetectors. The active infrared sensor is configured to determine an active infrared signature for a monitored space, determine whether the active infrared signature is outside a predetermined window in relation to a baseline signature, and activate a controller in response to determining that the active infrared signature is outside the window. The controller is configured to perform a pest control action in response to activation. The pest control action may include notifying a remote system. The active infrared sensor may be included in a housing having a first opening, a second opening, and a passage sized to receive an insect. The active infrared sensor may be coupled to the housing such that the active infrared sensor is positioned to illuminate part of the passage.
US12171209B1
An apparatus for tying knots can include a body defined by a length along a longitudinal axis of the body and by an outer surface that extends around the longitudinal axis of the body from a first end of the body to a second end of the body. A trench in the body can extend from the outer surface of the body toward the longitudinal axis for the length of the body. A channel can extend for the length of the body and is exposed at the first and second ends of the body. A neck can be between the trench and the channel, the neck can be configured to contain first and second flexible lines extending in the channel extending from the first end of the body to the second end of the body and a line guide can be on the outer surface of the body configured to hold the first or second line at an oblique angle relative to a direction of the longitudinal axis.
US12171206B2
A harvesting unit with one or more pumps including one or more suction nozzles directed towards the seabed, one or more inlets that lead from the suction nozzle to the pump, an outlet to a sorting device, one or more motors for driving the one or more pumps, where the sorting device, which at least separates bottom-dwelling marine organisms from bycatch and foreign bodies, has an outlet for bottom-dwelling marine organisms leading to a collecting unit, a structural main frame that carries at least the harvesting unit, and a towing and launching system for deployment and propulsion of the harvesting unit.
US12171196B2
Monitoring of animals in a herd has various challenges. A method and a system for monitoring and measuring the behavior of a plurality of animals in a herd chamber is provided. The disclosure provides a method to develop a model to identify the animal interactions between a given set of herds of two or more animals. The system uses image, RFID sensors, animal phenotyping information such as species, breed, age and reproduction cycle information to generate an animal profile. This profile is used to quantify the interaction into an aggression score to the animals in the given herd. The aggression score over a given duration can help herd manager to put the animals with similar aggression score together. This will also help analyze the temporal aspects of the aggression score for a given animal and take preventive measures.
US12171189B2
An absorbent pad with drawstring system; the absorbent pad with drawstring system includes an absorbent pad having a drawstring system and a planar body with multiple layers configured to absorb liquid-waste and collect solid-waste. The absorbent pad with drawstring system is provided for use in both professional environments and private households for collecting solid-waste and liquid-waste for sanitary containment and disposal of the solid-waste and the liquid-waste.
US12171186B2
A mechanical manifold valve for robotic milking that is designed to operate at varying pressures, and which is operated automatically according to the pressure in at least one of the teat cups, such that the pressure in that teat cup influences the operation of the manifold valve, thereby controlling the pressure in at least one additional teat cup.
US12171181B1
A novel maize variety designated X90V902 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X90V902 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X90V902 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X90V902, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X90V902 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X90V902 and methods of using maize variety X90V902 are disclosed.
US12171178B2
The present invention relates to a novel Brassica juncea varieties designated PWRG-1, PWRG-2, and PWSGC, which have a reduced pungent flavor and/or odor traits. The invention provides seeds of the varieties PWRG-1, PWRG-2, and PWSGC, plants and parts thereof of the varieties, a tissue culture derived from the varieties, hybrids produced from varieties, and lines derived from varieties, as well as genetically modified forms of the foregoing plants and tissue culture. Also provided are methods of producing PWRG-1, PWRG-2, and PWSGC plants, hybrid plants, and lines derived from varieties PWRG-1, PWRG-2, and PWSGC. In addition, products produced from the plants of the present invention are provided.
US12171173B2
A flower stem insertion device for forming flower bouquets includes an outer portion fabricated from a relatively flexible polymer material and having a plurality of apertures disposed to ultimately configure a preselected flower bouquet when stem portions of preselected flowers are inserted through the apertures. The flower stem insertion device further includes a deformable inner portion fabricated from Floral foam configured to cooperate with the outer portion such that when the stem portions of the preselected flowers are ultimately inserted through the apertures, the stem portions penetrate the deformable inner portion a predetermined distance sufficient to maintain the position of each preselected flower relative to the outer portion.
US12171171B1
On a user interface presented on a display screen, an alteration point marker is rendered on a circular shape representing a center pivot irrigation system. A fine position control may also be rendered on the display screen. The fine position control may comprise a first icon and a second icon, wherein the first icon is for repositioning the alteration point marker in a first circular direction, and wherein the second icon is for rotating the alteration point marker in the second circular direction.
US12171165B1
A nut picking system suitable for picking chestnuts having a gathering assembly, and a conveyor assembly. The gathering assembly has an intake and a mesh belt associated with the intake. The gathering assembly gathers chestnuts and burrs through the intake to from the mesh belt at the dispensing axle. The conveyor assembly includes a frame, bed rollers and a conveyor drive. The frame has a conveyor sides, a feed and discharge end. Each bed roller has a first end and a second end and outer surface. The bed rollers are rotatably coupled to the frame, and are spaced apart from each. The bed rollers include a plurality of spaced apart fingers extending outwardly from the outer surface and terminating in a tip. The fingers have a length that is greater than the bed roller spacing. The conveyor drive rotates the bed rollers. Methods are likewise disclosed.
US12171161B2
The disclosure relates to an assembly for a mower of a mowing or chopping machine, which comprises a tool carrier, which is formed with a carrier disk and which is configured to be mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation to a mower of a mowing or chopping machine; and cutting tools, which are each formed with a cutting blade located radially outwardly to the axis of rotation and a holding section located radially inwardly to the axis of rotation and which are detachably mounted to the carrier disk in an assigned carrier section, wherein the cutting tools are each mounted to the tool carrier by a mounting bolt, wherein the mounting bolt is in each case mounted to the cutting tools in a non-detachable manner. The disclosure furthermore relates to a replacement cutting tool and a mower for a mowing or chopping machine.
US12178142B2
The subject disclosure is directed towards layered substrate structures with aligned optical access to electrical devices formed thereon for laser processing and electrical device tuning. According to an embodiment, a layered substrate structure is provided that comprises an optical substrate having a first surface and a second surface and a patterned bonding layer formed on the second surface that comprises a bonding region and an open region, wherein the open region exposes a portion of the second surface. The layered substrate structure further comprises a device chip bonded to the patterned bonding layer via the bonding region and comprising at least one electrical component aligned with the optical substrate and the open region. The at least one electrical component can include for example, a thin film wire, an air bridge, a qubit, an electrode, a capacitor or a resonator.
US12178140B2
A thin film heterostructure of a topological insulator (TI) with a normal metal (NM) is used as a highly energy efficient and low power dissipation spin Hall Material (SHM). The TI material is sputter deposited onto a substrate and cooled in high vacuum, and an NM material is sputter deposited onto the TI film. The structure and method is compatible with complementary metal oxide (CMOS) processes, and with growth of large-area TI films for wafer-level device fabrication.
US12178137B2
A memory device with in-array magnetic shield includes an electrically conductive structure embedded within an interconnect dielectric material located above a first metal layer. The electrically conductive structure includes a bottom electrode. The memory device further includes a magnetic tunnel junction stack located above the bottom electrode, a dielectric filling layer surrounding the magnetic tunnel junction stack, one or more connecting vias extending through the dielectric filling layer and the interconnect dielectric material until a top portion of the first metal layer, and one or more dummy vias located between the one or more connecting vias and the magnetic tunnel junction stack for conducting an external magnetic field around the memory device.
US12178136B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) stack on a substrate, performing an etching process to remove the MTJ stack for forming a MTJ, performing a deposition process to form a polymer on a sidewall of the MTJ, and removing the polymer to form a rough surface on the sidewall of the MTJ. Preferably, the MTJ could include a pinned layer on the substrate, a barrier layer on the pinned layer, and a free layer on the barrier layer, in which the rough surface could appear on sidewall of the pinned layer, sidewall of the barrier layer, and/or sidewall of the free layer.
US12178134B2
Circuitry for driving a transducer for an object detection system, the circuitry comprising drive circuitry configured to generate a drive waveform for the transducer, current monitor circuitry for monitoring a current through the transducer, and system identification circuitry. The system identification circuitry is configured to determine a characteristic of the transducer based on a first signal indicative of a drive voltage for the transducer and a second signal indicative of the current through the transducer. The circuitry is operative to adjust the drive waveform based on the determined characteristic of the transducer.
US12178115B2
A light emitting element includes a first electrode, a hole transport region on the first electrode, an emission layer on the hole transport region and containing a light emitting polymer compound derived from a mixture of a polyphenylene vinylene-based compound having a weight average molecular weight of about 1.3×106 to about 1.6×106 and an organic compound represented by Formula 1, and a second electrode on the emission layer, wherein, the mixture contains the polyphenylene vinylene-based compound and the organic compound in a molar ratio of about 9:1 to about 8:2, and the light emitting element may thus include an emission layer having improved flexibility and strength.
US12178113B2
A manufacturing method of a mask includes forming a first mask layer, forming a second mask layer on the first mask layer, forming a photoresist pattern layer on the second mask layer, removing a first area of the second mask layer, which is exposed through the photoresist pattern layer, defining an opening through the first mask layer, removing a portion of the photoresist pattern layer to expose a portion of a second area of the second mask layer, and removing the portion of the second area of the second mask layer.
US12178112B2
A mask assembly includes a first mask area including first opening areas, and a second mask area including second opening areas having centers located at vertices of virtual squares in a row direction and a column direction, half-etching areas having centers located at centers of the virtual squares, and a non-etching area surrounding the second opening areas and the half-etching areas. Each of the second opening areas includes a base portion and at least one protrusion portion protruding from the base portion.
US12178109B2
A display device includes: a display element provided to a display region; an analysis element provided to a frame region disposed around the display region; and a sealing layer sealing the display element and the analysis element. The display element includes: a TFT layer including a resin film; and a light-emitting element layer including a first electrode, a functional layer, and a second electrode. The analysis element includes: a first metal film formed on the resin film; an analysis layer formed on the first metal film; a second metal film formed to cover at least a portion of an edge of the analysis layer, and electrically connected to the first metal film; and a ground wire electrically connected through the first metal film to the second metal film.
US12178105B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device; the display panel realizes the connection between the connecting wire and the touch metal by allowing the connecting wire to be connected to the bonding line through a via hole, and makes a length of a part in which a projection of the connecting wire on the substrate overlaps with a projection of the bonding line on the substrate less than a length of the bonding line, so that the length of the overlapped portion of the connecting wire and the touch metal layer is reduced, thereby reducing parasitic capacitance and voltage drop, and alleviating the problem of large voltage drop of the touch layer.
US12178092B2
The present application provides a display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of constant voltage traces, and a plurality of drive traces located in a display area. The display panel further includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a shield layer between the first metal layer and the second metal layer, wherein the first metal layer includes a gate trace, the shield layer includes a plurality of shield traces, and the second metal layer includes the drive trace. An overlap region of the drive trace and the gate trace on the shield layer overlaps with the shield trace.
US12178083B2
Disclosed is a display device possessing: a substrate having a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region; a pixel over the display region; a passivation film over the pixel; a resin layer over the passivation film; a first dam over the peripheral region and surrounding the display region; and a second dam surrounding the first dam. The passivation film includes; a first layer containing an inorganic compound; a second layer over the first layer, the second layer containing an organic compound; and a third layer over the second layer, the third layer containing an inorganic compound. The second layer is selectively arranged in a region surrounded by the first dam. The resin layer is selectively arranged in a region surrounded by the second dam.
US12178077B2
A display device may include a plurality of pixel circuits disposed adjacent to each other, the plurality of pixel circuits including a plurality of active patterns disposed to correspond to the pixel circuits, respectively. Each of the active patterns includes a first initialization channel region to which an initialization voltage is applied, a second initialization channel region to which the initialization voltage is applied, and a third initialization channel region to which the initialization voltage is applied, the second initialization channel region of each of the active patterns is connected to the first initialization channel region of the adjacent active patterns, and a first end region of the third initialization channel region is connected between the first initialization channel region and the second initialization channel region.
US12178075B2
A display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area. A light transmittance of the first display area is greater than a light transmittance of the second display area. The display panel includes: first pixels located in the first display area, each first pixel includes a plurality of first sub-pixels and each of the first sub-pixels includes a first pixel electrode; and second pixels located in the second display area, each second pixel includes a plurality of second sub-pixels and each of the second sub-pixels includes a second pixel electrode. Among the first sub-pixels and the second sub-pixels of a same color, an area of the first pixel electrode of one first sub-pixel is smaller than an area of the second pixel electrode of one second sub-pixel.
US12178073B2
A display device is provided including a substrate. The substrate includes a pixel area and a light-blocking area. A light-emitting element is arranged in the pixel area of the substrate. An insulating layer is disposed on the substrate. The insulating layer has an opening corresponding to the light-blocking area and an insulating pattern corresponding to the pixel area. A light control pattern at least partially surrounds the insulating pattern of the insulating layer and is arranged in the opening corresponding to the light-blocking area.
US12178064B2
An opto-electronic device includes a substrate, a first electrode disposed over the substrate, a semiconducting layer disposed over the first electrode, a second electrode disposed over the semiconducting layer, the second electrode having a first portion and a second portion, a nucleation inhibition coating disposed over the first portion of the second electrode; and a conductive coating disposed over the second portion of the second electrode, wherein the nucleation inhibition coating is a compound of Formula (I)
US12178063B2
Provided are an organic light emitting device and a display apparatus. The organic light emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an emitting layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the emitting layer includes a host material and a dopant material doped in the host material; the host material and the dopant material satisfy: |HOMODopant|<|HOMOHost|,|LUMODopant|<|LUMOHost|; wherein, HOMODopant is a highest occupied molecular orbit (HOMO) energy level of the dopant material, HOMOHost is a HOMO energy level of the host material, LUMODopant is a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy level of the dopant material, and LUMOHost is a LUMO energy level of the host material.
US12178055B2
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer and a memory control circuit, the memory control circuit including a plurality of first transistors; a first metal layer overlaying the first single crystal layer; a second metal layer overlaying the first metal layer; a plurality of second transistors disposed atop the second metal layer; a third metal layer disposed atop the plurality of third transistors; and a memory array including word-lines and memory cells, where the memory array includes at least four memory mini arrays, where at least one of the plurality of second transistors includes a metal gate, where each of the memory cells includes at least one of the plurality of second transistors, where the memory control circuit includes at least one digital to analog converter circuit, and where the device includes a hybrid bonding layer.
US12178054B2
Methods, systems, and devices for split pillar architectures for memory devices are described. A memory device may include a substrate arranged with conductive contacts in a pattern and openings through alternative layers of conductive and insulative material that may decrease the spacing between the openings while maintaining a dielectric thickness to sustain the voltage to be applied to the array. After etching material, an insulative material may be deposited in a trench. Portions of the insulative material may be removed to form openings, into which cell material is deposited. Conductive pillars may extend perpendicular to the planes of the conductive material and the substrate, and couple to conductive contacts. The conductive pillars may be divided to form first and second pillars.
US12178048B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a transistor formed on the semiconductor substrate; a first insulating layer adjacent to the transistor in a first direction along a main surface of the semiconductor substrate, the first insulating layer being formed toward an inside of the semiconductor substrate; a first conductive layer connected to a gate of the transistor, a part of the first conductive layer being opposed to the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer disposed between the first insulating layer and the first conductive layer; and a first semiconductor layer disposed between the second insulating layer and the first conductive layer.
US12178029B2
An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and at least partially defining an internal volume of the electronic device, an electromagnetic radiation emitter and an electromagnetic radiation detector disposed in the internal volume, and an optical component disposed in the aperture. The optical component can include a first and second transparent portions disposed above the electromagnetic radiation detector and the electromagnetic radiation emitter, and an opaque portion disposed between the first and second transparent portions. A conductive component can be in electrical communication with the opaque portion and one or more components of the electronic device.
US12178027B2
An apparatus includes a ear piece case housing, a receptacle within the ear piece case housing and configured to hold an earpiece, an earpiece connector at the receptacle and configured to electrically connect with the earpiece, and electromagnetic shielding materials integrated into the ear piece case housing to electromagnetically isolate the earpiece while the earpiece is contained within the case housing. The ear piece case housing may include a charger and a removable slide cover adapted for sliding over the charger.
US12178026B2
A display device includes a display panel; a chassis disposed at a rear side of the display panel; a control circuit board disposed on the chassis; a shield case disposed on the control circuit board; and a fan disposed on the chassis and adjacent to the shield case. The shield case includes a main portion spaced apart from the control circuit board in a third direction, and side portions extending toward the chassis from opposite sides of the main portion. Dimples are formed in an inner surface of the main portion facing toward the control circuit board.
US12178021B2
Systems and methods are disclosed relating to welding-type power supplies. In some examples, the power supplies may have no vents, which may help prevent environmental contaminants from entering the power supplies. Instead, the power supplies include one or more thermal interfaces configured to conduct heat generated by internal circuitry of the power supply from the interior of the power supply to an exterior of the power supply. Additionally, the thermal interface(s) may be configured for attachment to one or more exterior heat dissipating devices.
US12178008B2
A cooling apparatus includes a cold plate made of a metal, a casing, a pump, a ground wire, and a conductive component. The pump includes a motor to drive an impeller, and a circuit board to control the motor. The circuit board is connected to the ground wire. The conductive component electrically connects the cold plate to the ground wire.
US12178007B2
A cooling apparatus includes: a first member including a first surface in contact with a cooling target, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and radiating fins protruding from the second surface; and a second member including a third surface facing the second surface, a refrigerant flows between the first member and the second member, the second member includes a first protrusion protruding from the third surface toward a space, the space existing between the radiating fins in a flow direction of the refrigerant, the first protrusion includes a first slope inclined to the third surface, the first slope includes a first end and a second end, the first end is closer to the second surface than the second end, the second end is closer to the third surface than the first end, the first end is positioned downstream in the flow direction from the second end.
US12178006B2
A device including a microchannel heat sink having a first layer circle A and circle B fins and a second layer circle A and circle B fins, wherein circle A fins includes a plurality of outer ring fins and circle B fins includes a plurality of inner ring fins; a cover assembly, in which the cover assembly includes adaptors, a liquid channel, a vapor channel, and a TRV chamber; a thermal regulation valve (TRV), wherein the thermal regulation valve (TRV) is configured to enable dynamic responses for temperature control in the microchannel heat sink; and a temperature sensing mechanism, in which the temperature sensing mechanism is configured to be operable for detecting temperature variations and converting the temperature variations to pressure variations.
US12178003B2
A fan module and computing device with the fan module are disclosed. The fan module includes a handle configured to actuate between an operation state and a release state. The handle in the release state allows a user to vertically remove the fan module from its respective fan module slot and away from the bottom panel.
US12177989B2
An electrical device that includes a ball grid array (BGA) component, comprising signal processing circuitry, a component mounting surface, and a BGA, which has solder balls that are spaced apart from each other on the component mounting surface. The electrical device also includes a plurality of electrical wires, each electrically coupled directly to a corresponding one of the solder balls of the BGA component. The electrical device further includes a wire fixation element, through which the plurality of electrical wires at least partially pass through. The wire fixation element is coupled to the plurality of electrical wires and configured to fix the electrical wires relative to each other so that the electrical wires do not move relative to each other.
US12177987B2
A sensor module includes a housing, a board unit, an external connector, and a joining member. The housing includes a first case, and a second case that is welded to the first case. The board unit includes a sensor element, and is arranged in the housing. The external connector is provided to the second case, and includes an elastically deformable terminal that is electrically connected to the board unit. The joining member is mounted on the board unit and welded to the housing.
US12177984B2
An electronic component package includes a base tape having an elongated shape and including housing portions, each of which houses an electronic component, and a cover tape covering the base tape. The electronic component package includes first and second seal portions welded to sandwich the housing portions between the first and second seal portions and be parallel or substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction x of the electronic component package. A peeling strength of the first seal portion between the base tape and the cover tape is higher than a peeling strength of the second seal portion between the base tape and the cover tape.
US12177971B2
A wiring board includes an insulating layer comprising organic resin with inorganic particles, a first metal layer on a first surface, and a second metal layer disposed on a second surface. The insulating layer has a thickness of 75-1000 μm and a storage modulus of 4 GPa-7 GPa. The first metal layer has a thickness of 1.5-10 μm and a coverage of 5%-25%. The second metal layer has a thickness of 3-10 μm or 25-100 μm and a coverage of 85% or more. A surface part of the insulating layer on the first metal layer side has a higher ratio of organic resin than a surface part of the insulating layer on the second metal layer side.
US12177970B2
A support substrate (1), in particular a metal-ceramic substrate, as a support for electric components, comprising: —at least one metal layer (10) and—an insulating element (30), in particular a ceramic element, a glass element, a glass ceramic element, and/or a high temperature-resistant plastic element. The at least one metal layer (10) and the insulating element (30) extend along a main extension plane (HSE) and are arranged one over the other in a stacking direction (S) running perpendicularly to the main extension plane (HSE), wherein in a completed support substrate (1), a binding layer (12) is formed between the at least one metal layer (10) and the insulating element (30), and an adhesive layer (13) of the binding layer (12) has a surface resistance which is greater than 5 Ohm/sq.
US12177964B2
A circuit board includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a third substrate, a plurality of conductive structures and a conductive via structure. The second substrate is disposed between the first substrate and the third substrate. The third substrate has an opening and includes a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and a third dielectric layer. The opening penetrates the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer, and the third dielectric layer fully fills the opening. The conductive via structure penetrates the first substrate, the second substrate, the third dielectric layer of the third substrate, and is electrically connected to the first substrate and the third substrate to define a signal path. The first substrate, the second substrate, and the third substrate are electrically connected through the conductive structures to define a ground path, and the ground path surrounds the signal path.
US12177954B2
An induction heating device for a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping of tools into and/or out of a tool holder, includes: an induction heating unit comprising one induction coil configured, in a shrink-clamping and/or unshrink-unclamping process, to heat-expand a portion of a tool holder arranged in a receiving region of the induction heating unit; a magnetic flux conducting unit comprising one magnetic flux conducting element for conduction of magnetic flux generated by the induction coil; and a bearing unit configured for a movable support of the magnetic flux conducting element, wherein a large portion of all points of the magnetic flux conducting element each have a respective movement path predetermined partially by the bearing unit, wherein each of the movement paths has an essential movement component oriented perpendicularly to a radial direction of the receiving region and at the same time perpendicularly to an axial direction of the receiving region.
US12177951B2
An LED system includes an LED array, a plurality of driver circuits, a power supply, a bus and a feedback circuit. Each of the plurality of driver circuits is connected to and driving one of a plurality of LED subarrays in the LED array. Each of the plurality of driver circuits includes a comparator circuit, a local voltage register, and a global voltage register. The comparator circuit determines, as a local minimum voltage, a lowest voltage in the corresponding LED subarray. The global minimum voltage is determined by comparing all the local minimum voltages. The feedback circuit provides the power supply with a feedback signal reflecting the global minimum voltage and causes the power supply to adjust the voltage output to the LED array.
US12177950B2
A method for driving a unidirectional current through an electrical load, such as one or more LED modules, by applying thereto a PWM-modulated signal that swings between a high value and a low value envisages choosing said high value and said low value as nonzero values having a same sign.
US12177946B2
A two-wire lighting control device, may include a controllably conductive device, a signal generation circuit, and a filter circuit. The controllably conductive device may apply an AC line voltage to a load, being conductive for a first duration of time and non-conductive for a second duration of time within a half-cycle of the AC line voltage. The signal generation circuit may generate a non-zero-magnitude signal. And, the filter circuit may receive a signal from the controllably conductive device during the first duration of time and the non-zero-magnitude signal from the signal generation circuit during the second duration of time. The non-zero-magnitude signal may, in effect, fill-in or complement the signal from the controllably conductive device, and any delay variation as a function of the firing angle of the controllably conductive device through the filter circuit may be mitigated by the presence of the non-zero-magnitude signal.
US12177916B2
Each base station executes: a first process of acquiring a first signal from a first terminal from among signals simultaneously received from N terminals, and acquiring first data by demodulating and decoding the first signal; a second process of generating a second signal, which is a replica of a signal arriving from the first terminal based on the first data; a third process of acquiring signals by excluding the second signal from the signals simultaneously received from the N terminals; and sequentially repeating the first to third processes for the extracted signals, with one of N−1 terminals as a new first terminal. The base station shares the first data with other base stations through a backbone line, and, if the N terminals is larger than the M receive antennas in number, executes the second and third processes, using the first data received from another base station.
US12177904B2
A random access method and device are provided, which can reduce the bit used to indicate the TA. The method includes: a terminal device determines a first TA; the terminal device sends a first message in a random access process based on the first TA.
US12177901B2
The present application relates to a method and apparatus for uplink data transmission or reception. One embodiment of the subject application provides a method for uplink data transmission performed by a User Equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a base station (BS), a first signalling indicating a first channel access priority class value, wherein the first channel access priority class value is used by the BS for initiating a channel occupancy; receiving, from the BS, a second signalling scheduling a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) for transmitting uplink data; performing a channel access procedure; and transmitting, to the BS, the uplink data on the PUSCH in response to the channel access procedure being successful.
US12177896B2
A proxy sensing-based channel access procedure is discussed for shared spectrum networks. Within a given network, a distribution of proxy nodes may be deployed around a network operating area. A control node, which controls the proxy sensing mode for the network, may configure the active network nodes to conduct communications via the shared communication spectrum without first performing any type of channel sensing on the shared communication spectrum. The control node may then also configured the proxy nodes to perform channel sensing on the shared spectrum for the entire network. Using the reported channel sense results from the proxy nodes, the control node may determine whether detected interference is occasional or persistent, and whether to take some action to modify the communications or operations of the network.
US12177894B2
A data transmission method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a message 1 including a random access preamble to a first network device; receiving DCI and a message 2 including downlink data scheduled by the DCI from the first network device, wherein the DCI and/or the message 2 include/includes first information, which is used to schedule ACK/NACK feedback information of the message 2; and sending the ACK/NACK feedback information to the first network device based on the first information. According to the application, the first information is used to schedule the ACK/NACK feedback information, therefore the terminal device may send the ACK/NACK feedback information of the message 2 to the first network device in an MT-EDT scenario based on the first information, thereby improving robustness of transmission of the downlink data in the message 2.
US12177892B2
An extremely high throughput (EHT) station (STA) configured for trigger based (TB) transmission may decode an trigger frame (TF) received from an access point (AP). The TF may include an assignment of resources comprising one or more 20 MHz channels. The EHT STA may determine which of the one or more assigned channels are available for transmission and which of the allocated channels are unavailable when the EHT STA is assigned more than one 20 MHz channel. The EHT STA may encode a EHT TB PPDU in response to the trigger frame. The EHT TB PPDU may be encoded to include an EHT preamble followed by a data field. The EHT preamble may be encoded to indicate channel availability. The EHT STA may generate signalling to cause the EHT STA to transmit the encoded EHT TB PPDU only on the assigned channels that have been determined to be available.
US12177886B2
A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that determines a priority of a channel state information (CSI) report based on at least one of a type of downlink control information triggering the CSI report, a parameter used for transmission of the downlink control information, or presence or absence of uplink (UL) data allocated to an uplink shared channel used for transmission of the CSI report; and a transmitting section that transmits, in a case where transmission of the CSI report and transmission of another UL signal overlap with each other, one of the CSI report and the another UL signal based on the priority.
US12177877B2
This disclosure provides a sending method, an interference handling method, a terminal, and a network-side device. The sending method includes: sending first information to a network-side device in a case of interference, where the first information includes at least one of the following: first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate first expectation information autonomously determined by the terminal, and the first expectation information includes a type of each transmission time position in a transmission period; and carrier type information, where the carrier type information corresponds to the first expectation information, or the carrier type information corresponds to second expectation information selected and determined by the terminal.
US12177868B2
Methods and apparatuses are described herein for Intra-UE Prioritization in uplink (UL) transmissions. In an example, an apparatus may receive first information indicating a first uplink grant associated with a first transmission and second information indicating a second uplink grant associated with a second transmission. The apparatus may determine, based on the first information and the second information, that the first transmission and the second transmission overlap at least partially in time. The apparatus may determine a first priority associated with the first transmission and a second priority associated with the second transmission. The apparatus may then cause, based at least in part on the first priority and the second priority, at least one of: prioritization of one transmission over another transmission, or preemption of the first transmission by the second transmission.
US12177863B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A target user equipment (UE) may communicate (e.g., transmit, receive) a message indicating a relay UE for relaying wireless communications between the target UE and a base station. The relay UE is selected from a set of candidate relay UEs based on existing sidelink relay communication links at the relay UE, candidate target UEs associated with the relay UE, existing communication sidelinks between the target UE and the candidate relay UEs, or any combination thereof. The target UE may receive a first control signal indicating a sidelink relay communication link for communicating messages between the first UE and the base station via the relay UE, and receive a second control signal activating the sidelink relay communication link. The target UE may then communicate a message to or from the base station via the relay UE and the sidelink relay communication link.
US12177856B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing signaling for indicating a scheduled full duplex (FD) uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) traffic scheduling combination for differentiation of FD traffic. In some aspects, a BS may transmit a downlink control information (DCI) message that includes an indication of the scheduled FD UL and DL traffic scheduling combination. The FD UL and DL traffic scheduling combination may identify scheduled UL and DL transmissions for FD mode operation. The UE may receive the DCI message and identify the scheduled FD UL and DL traffic scheduling combination. In some aspects, the BS may provide a DCI message to the UE that indicates whether a DL transmission is being scheduled that at least partially overlaps with a scheduled UL transmission. The UE may initiate a power save mode based on the received DCI message.
US12177854B2
A method for resource configuration includes determining that a first resource and a second resource are multiplexed in a first target mode. The first resource is a candidate resource, on the SL, configured to transmit control information. The second resource is a candidate resource, on the SL, configured to transmit data. The first target mode is time-division multiplexing (TDM) or frequency-division multiplexing (FDM).
US12177849B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for transmission of one or more UCIs with colliding PUSCH. In one embodiment, a method implemented in a wireless device (WD) is provided. The method includes determining a first uplink control information (UCI) and a second UCI, the first UCI associated with a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and the second UCI associated with a second PUCCH; and combining the first UCI and the second UCI and/or disregarding at least one of the first UCI and the second UCI and/or transmitting at least one of the first UCI and the second UCI in a time resource.
US12177844B2
A first apparatus performs radio communication by performing operations that include: obtaining second bits by attaching cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits to first bits associated with sidelink control information (SCI); obtaining third bits based on channel coding for the second bits; obtaining fourth bits by rate matching on the third bits based on the number of modulation symbols which is obtained based on the number of first bits, the number of CRC bits, a beta-offset value, an alpha value, the number of symbols associated with a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH), the number of resource elements (REs) associated with transmission of the SCI for each symbol, and a gamma value which is the number of vacant REs in a resource block to which a last symbol associated with the SCI belongs; and transmitting the SCI via the PSSCH based on scrambling, modulation, and mapping for the fourth bits.
US12177834B2
The methods and apparatuses for signaling framework for flexible beam management in a wireless communications network. A method performed by a UE comprises: receiving, from a network node, via a higher layer, a configuration of at least one information element (IE), said configuration comprising at least: an identifier (ID) unique to each IE and ID(s) of one or more uplink (UL) resource(s) and/or downlink (DL) resource(s) that is/are used to indicate at least a spatial filter or beam direction for transmission of at least a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resource and/or a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource, and/or a Sounding reference Signal (SRS) resource; and applying the configuration provided in the at least one IE for the transmission of the PUSCH resource, and/or the PUCCH resource and/or the SRS resource. There is also provided a method performed by a network node, a UE and a network node.
US12177831B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing low-latency uplink scheduling requests. For instance, a user equipment (UE) can determine a time of transmission of uplink (UL) data by the UE to a UL device. The UE can further generate control data comprising the determined time of transmission and size information for the UL data. The UE can further provide the control data to the UL device prior to providing the UL data to the UL device. The UE can further receive a UL grant from the UL device. The UE can further provide the UL data to the UL device in response to receiving the UL grant.
US12177824B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for informing a user equipment (UE) that which beam the UE is being served, for example, such as in relation to bandwidth part (BWP) switching in a non-terrestrial network (NTN). According to certain aspects, a network entity may transmit to a user equipment (UE) signaling indicating at least one BWP switch. The network entity provides, to the UE, an indication of a serving synchronization signal block (SSB) for the UE to use after the BWP switch.
US12177820B2
A method and apparatus for slot structure indication is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication node includes: transmitting a physical channel to a wireless communication device, wherein the physical channel comprises a slot format related information (SFI) field for SFI indication; configuring a period of the physical channel monitoring occasion for a wireless communication device to receive the SFI field; and transmitting the period to the wireless communication device via a higher layer signaling.
US12177815B2
Disclosed are a resource determination method and device. On a network side, a resource determination method provided in the embodiments of the present application includes: determining a correlation between a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state and a time domain resource; and determining, according to the correlation, the time domain resource corresponding to the TCI state.
US12177807B2
An interface conversion device of a mobile communication system includes: a delay amount measurement unit that measures a delay amount from a difference between an input time at which the mobile communication system has acquired a periodically transmitted time-synchronization signal and an output time at which the mobile communication system outputs the time-synchronization signal; a memory that stores delay amount history information including the measured delay amount; a variation evaluation unit that measures a variation amount indicating an instantaneous variation of the delay amount, using the delay amount history information and evaluates whether the variation amount is within an allowable range; and an anomaly detection unit that detects a communication anomaly in the mobile communication system on the basis of a result of the evaluation.
US12177804B2
This document discloses a solution for synchronizing a terminal device to a network clock. According to an aspect, a method comprises as performed by the terminal device: receiving a control message from at least one access node, the control message comprising a first clock value indicating a transmission time of the control message; determining a geographical location of the terminal device and a geographical location of the at least one access node; computing, on the basis of the geographical locations of the terminal device and the at least one access node and further on the basis of the first clock value transmission time of the control message, a second clock value indicating a reception time of the control message at the terminal device; and updating a clock of the terminal device by using the second clock value.
US12177803B2
Orthogonal multiplexing of high efficiency (HE) and extremely high throughput (EHT) wireless traffic
This disclosure provides systems, methods, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for orthogonal multiplexing of high efficiency (HE) and extremely high throughput (EHT) wireless traffic. Devices in a wireless local area network (WLAN) may operate under HE or EHT conditions. An access point (AP) may support both HE and EHT communications with WLAN devices. To enable substantially simultaneous downlink HE and EHT transmissions and substantially simultaneous uplink HE and EHT transmissions, the AP may support orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) of HE and EHT transmissions. For example, pre-HE and pre-EHT modulated fields, HE and EHT modulated fields, and payloads may be aligned in time for the HE and EHT transmissions. The AP may ensure orthogonality for multiplexing the HE and EHT transmissions based on the alignment. In some implementations, a trigger frame may be utilized to indicate uplink transmission alignments.
US12177798B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for sidelink group coordination for group-specific synchronization reference are provided. For example, a method can include determining, by a user equipment, whether a first condition is met for coordination on group synchronization reference for a group of user equipment. The method can also include determining, by the user equipment, whether a second condition is met to act as group synchronization reference user equipment for the group. The method can further include transmitting, by the user equipment, a group synchronization reference signal when determined to act as the group synchronization reference user equipment. The method can additionally include performing, by the user equipment, a reduced synchronization search when determined not to act as the group synchronization reference user equipment.
US12177793B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for receiving an aggregate bandwidth configuration including, a downlink (DL) bandwidth configuration indicating DL resources for one or more DL receptions, and an uplink (UL) bandwidth configuration indicating UL resources for one or more UL transmissions, calculating a maximum power reduction backoff value based on the UL bandwidth configuration, and transmitting UL information for at least one of the one or more UL transmissions based on the maximum power reduction backoff value.
US12177790B2
A high-frequency signal processing apparatus and a wireless communication apparatus can achieve a decrease in power consumption. For example, when an indicated power level to a high-frequency power amplifier is equal to or greater than a second reference value, envelope tracking is performed by causing a source voltage control circuit to control a high-speed DCDC converter using a detection result of an envelope detecting circuit and causing a bias control circuit to indicate a fixed bias value. The source voltage control circuit and the bias control circuit indicate a source voltage and a bias value decreasing in proportion to a decrease in the indicated power level when the indicated power level is in a range of the second reference value to the first reference value, and indicate a fixed source voltage and a fixed bias value when the indicated power level is less than the first reference value.
US12177778B2
An energy-constrained wireless mesh network is disclosed suitable for unattended sensor devices in rural or off-grid areas. The mesh network can be used in both a secure and insecure mode as desired. A series of rounds is used to communicate synchronously between a base station and wireless devices that are multiple hops away from the base station. Adaptive data rate techniques may be used to optimize data exchanges between networked devices.
US12177769B2
Systems/methods are disclosed wherein, responsive to instructions received from a destination device, wireless transmissions to the destination device are enabled comprising first, second, third and/or fourth non-overlapping intervals of time; respective first, second, third and/or fourth pluralities of subcarriers; respective first, second, third and/or fourth sets of frequencies; and respective first, second, third and/or fourth air interfaces that differ from one another in a physical layer aspect thereof. Analogous systems/methods of wirelessly receiving from the destination device are also disclosed.
US12177767B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Accordingly, methods for handling frequency scanning in a wireless communication network include scanning, by a UE, a first set of frequencies present in a Most Recently Used (MRU) frequency list.
US12177766B2
An emergency vehicle detector with false detection processing. Wifi MAC address patterns and SSID pattern identification is used to identify and estimate range of emergency vehicles that contains a Wifi Access Point and exclude other Wifi Beacons by comparing to a location specific database. False alarms are detected and silenced.
US12177763B2
A radio access control method is provided. The method includes a terminal device receiving access control information sent by an access network device, the access control information indicating a barred service type and a barred data transmission attribute to the terminal device. The terminal device determines whether to send a radio resource control connection request to the access network device based on the barred service type and the barred data transmission attribute. The data transmission attribute comprises a transmission scheme type, and the transmission scheme type is used to indicate a transmission scheme used by the terminal device for transmitting service data used by the terminal device, thereby improving network resource utilization.
US12177761B2
A communication system includes a central cloud server that decreases a gain of a currently active path, which corresponds to a primary communication path between a radio access network (RAN) node and one or more user equipment (UEs) via a first set of edge devices, until the currently active path becomes dormant. A gain of a dormant path, corresponding to a secondary communication path is increased until the dormant path becomes a new active path. Further, at least one edge device of the second set of edge devices is caused to transmit one or more beams of radio frequency (RF) signals in one or more specific directions towards one or more new neighboring nodes to establish the secondary communication path that is used as a backup communication path between the RAN node and the one or more UEs via a second set of edge devices different from the first set of edge devices.
US12177755B2
Provided is a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication module that supports a dynamic multi-link to configure a wireless ad hoc network. The BLE communication module includes a master configured to scan an advertising message transmitted from a slave of another BLE communication module and a slave connected to the master through an internal interface and configured to receive a scan message transmitted from a master of the other BLE communication module and transmit an advertising message corresponding to the scan message. Each of the master and the slave has a predetermined multi-port and a routing table for processing transmitted or received data.
US12177746B2
Systems and methods for simplified message grouping and display are provided. In example embodiments, a plurality of messages are received within a conversation which is accessible by a plurality of client devices. Messages are grouped into different cards based on criteria associated with the cards. During a transition between displaying a first of the cards to a second of the cards, an animation may be displayed.
US12177740B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for generating a map of physical features in a physical environment. Feature datasets are received from several mobile agents. A feature dataset includes data describing a detected physical feature, a geolocation of the feature, and a timestamp representing when the physical feature was detected. The geolocation data for the different feature datasets are integrated into a map of the physical environment and displayed to a user. One or more regions of interest are identified on the map. The regions of interest include geographical areas for which no feature datasets or an insufficient number of feature datasets have been collected. In response to identifying the regions of interest, one or more mobile agents are instructed collect supplemental feature datasets for the regions of interest. The map is updated with the supplemental feature datasets for the identified regions of interest.
US12177732B2
A network handover method and a terminal device, the method including obtaining, by a terminal device, a link quality parameter of a data link of the terminal device, determining that a 5G system accessed by the terminal device is unavailable in response to the link quality parameter meeting a specified condition, and handing over from the 5G system to a non-5G system in response to the 5G system being unavailable, where the link quality parameter includes quantities of uplink and downlink data packets received in a duration, and here the specified condition comprises the quantity of downlink data packets received in the duration by exceeding a first threshold and a quantity of sent uplink data packets being 0, or a quantity of uplink data packets sent in the duration exceeding a second threshold and the quantity of received downlink data packets being 0.
US12177731B2
A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication is disclosed. The UE includes one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied hereon, and at least one processor coupled to the one or more nontransitory computer-readable media, and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to provide a measurement report to a source base station and receive a handover command through the source base station. The measurement report includes measurements of a target base station associated with a first universal subscriber identity module (USIM) of the UE. The handover command contains information of the target base station and information of at least one candidate target base station associated with a second USIM of the UE.
US12177728B2
A terminal device and a method of operating a terminal device in a wireless communication network. The method comprises establishing, by the terminal device, a first radio connection with a first network access node for transmission of data via a first bearer and a second radio connection with the first network access node for transmission of data via a second bearer. Based on a difference between quality of service for the data transmission via the first bearer and the second bearer, a third radio connection is established between the terminal device and a second network access node for transmission of the data via the first bearer; and the third radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node, a fourth radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node for transmission of the data via the second bearer.
US12177710B2
A device control system is disclosed. The system includes a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal. After enabling a wireless hotspot function, the first mobile terminal establishes a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) connection to the second mobile terminal, and transmits data to the second mobile terminal in a MIMO Wi-Fi antenna working mode. The first mobile terminal may monitor a remaining battery level and/or a device temperature of the mobile terminal. When the remaining battery level is less than a first battery level threshold and/or the device temperature is greater than a first temperature threshold, the first mobile terminal switches the Wi-Fi antenna working mode as SISO, limits a maximum forwarding rate of a TCP packet or a UDP packet to a first rate, and/or no longer responds to a probe request. In this way, power consumption of the first mobile terminal is reduced.
US12177709B2
In a wireless local area network system, a station (STA) may transmit, to an access point (AP), low-latency queue capability information including information related to whether the STA supports a low-latency queue. The STA may receive, from the AP, low-latency queue operation information including information related to a low-latency queue activation condition. The present invention may include a step of allowing the STA to transmit a low-latency queue activation signal to the AP on the basis of the low-latency queue activation condition.
US12177696B2
A computer system obtains information describing a geographical area segmented into multiple first clusters serviced by a telecommunications network. Multiple test locations are identified within the first clusters. Each test location is located within a grid of the geographical area. Each first cluster is recursively segmented into multiple second clusters until a difference between a number of test locations within each second cluster and a target number of test locations is less than a threshold number of test locations. A route is generated connecting test locations within each second cluster, using a routing application programming interface for performing drive testing of the telecommunications network. The computer system sends the route to one or more computer devices for performing the drive testing at the test locations in a sequence corresponding to the route.
US12177694B2
There are provided measures for enabling/realizing flexible and adaptive QoS monitoring for unicast/groupcast over sidelink communication, which may preferably be capable of enhancing support of unicast/groupcast services over sidelink communication. Such measures exemplarily comprise obtaining a request for QoS monitoring for unicast/groupcast over sidelink communication with a specified quality-of-service profile, which indicates at least one target QoS metric to be monitored, determining a QoS monitoring procedure, wherein a scheme for enforcing QoS monitoring over sidelink communication in collaboration with at least one unicast/groupcast receiving-side device is decided, and performing the QoS monitoring procedure, wherein QoS monitoring messages are exchanged with the at least one unicast/groupcast receiving-side device over the sidelink communication with the specified QoS profile in accordance with the decided scheme and the at least one target quality-of-service metric is derived based thereon.
US12177693B2
A method is performed by a distributed unit of a radio access network node having a split architecture. The method includes determining a status or error of the distributed unit. The DU sends, to a control unit of the radio access network node, an indication indicating the status or error of the distributed unit. The message indicates the status or error of the distributed unit for at least one cell served by the distributed unit and/or at least one functionality performed by the distributed unit. The distributed unit receives instructions from the control unit of the radio access network node, and the instructions are at least partially based on the indicated status or error.
US12177691B2
A first edge device includes a processor that communicates position information of the first edge device and a time-of-day. Based on the time-of-day and a specific initial access information, the processors sets: a first beam index for an uplink communication and a second beam index for a downlink communication, a specific physical cell identity indicating a first base station to which the first edge device is to be connected, a first wireless carrier network (WCN) from amongst a plurality of different WCNs at the edge device, and a beam configuration to service one or more user equipment in a surrounding area of the first edge device. The processor obtains control signals from the central cloud server and configures parameters of amplifier gains and phase responses associated with a first antenna array or a second antenna array of the first edge device, based on the obtained control signals.
US12177690B2
Systems and methods are provided for dynamically modifying an antenna profile to increase network performance. Initially, it is determined that one or more user devices communicating using at least a first wireless communication protocol and operating using uplink split mode are connected to a sector. Performance of a plurality of other user devices communicating using a second wireless communication protocol and connected to the sector are monitored. Upon determining that the performance of at least one user device of the plurality of other user devices is below a threshold, the antenna profile is dynamically adjusted to narrow a beam associated with the first wireless communication protocol such that at least one or more user devices capable of communicating using at least the first wireless communication protocol is unable to communicate using the first wireless communication protocol.
US12177685B2
Embodiments are directed towards providing document change alerts in a cloud-based wireless network system. A list of a plurality of target radio frequency design sheets is obtained. One or more cloud-based folders is then search for the plurality of target radio frequency design sheets. One or more corresponding target radio frequency design sheets are identified during the search. A last-modified date of the corresponding target radio frequency design sheet is compared to a target date. In response to the last-modified date of the corresponding target radio frequency design sheet being more recent than the target date: a most recent version of the corresponding target radio frequency design sheet is maintained and an older version of the corresponding target radio frequency design sheet is archived. A modification notification is then sent to at least one user associated with the corresponding target radio frequency design sheet that changed.
US12177679B2
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.
US12177676B2
The disclosure described herein configures a base station and client devices for communication using dynamic spectrum access within a frequency spectrum that includes selecting, from a list of available channels, a set of channels as active channels. The active channels include uplink channels and downlink channels. An uplink channel and a downlink channel are assigned to a plurality of client devices based on locations the client devices, wherein at least some client devices have active channels in common. Acknowledgements from the subset of client devices having the common active channel are grouped, the acknowledgements containing medium access control (MAC) commands specific to the subset of client devices, where each message of a plurality of messages on the uplink channels is followed by a downlink acknowledgement.
US12177662B2
A method performed by a UE. The method incudes generating a SUCI comprising: i) an encrypted part in which a Mobile Subscription Identification Number of a SUPI is encrypted and ii) a clear-text part comprising: a) a Mobile Country Code of the SUPI, b) a Mobile Network Code of the SUPI, c) a public key identifier for a public key of a home network of the user equipment, and d) an encryption scheme identifier that identifies an encryption scheme used by the UE to encrypt the Mobile Subscription Identification Number in the SUCI. The method also includes transmitting the SUCI to an authentication server in the home network for forwarding of the SUCI to a de-concealing server capable of decrypting the Mobile Subscription Identification Number.
US12177658B2
A first dual SIM user equipment (UE) has a first wireless connection to first Citizens Broadband radio Services Devices (CBSD) of a first network and a second wireless connection to a second CBSD of a second network. Different encryption and different frequency hopping patterns are used with regard to communicating the same voice packet information over the first and second wireless connections. The same voice information is attempted to be redundantly communicated over the two connections, e.g. concurrently or with a slight delay with regard to the two connections. The CBRS communications are typically less reliable than cellular licensed spectrum communications, and a particular encrypted voice packet may, and sometimes is lost; however, the redundancy is used to compensate for expected losses. Successfully recovered encrypted voice packets are sent from the CBSDs to a packet synchronizer which performs decryption and combines the recovered packets into a single packet stream.
US12177654B2
A cell selection or reselection method includes: when a first identifier of the terminal is in an idle state or an inactive state, determining a cell selection or reselection priority of the first identifier according to an operating cell of a second identifier of the terminal. The second identifier is different from the first identifier.
US12177641B2
The utility model discloses a dome-shaped diaphragm loudspeaker driver with a novel structure that comprises: a magnetic circuit assembly, a front plate mounted on one (top) side of the magnetic circuit assembly, a top dome-shaped diaphragm protruding from the middle of the top plate, which is being fixed between the front plate and the magnetic circuit assembly. A harmonic eliminator used to eliminate harmful soundwaves or resonances is being placed between the magnetic circuit assembly and the top diaphragm. One end of the harmonic eliminator is installed in the middle of the magnetic circuit assembly; the other (top) end of the harmonic eliminator extends to the inner side of the top diaphragm. The harmonic eliminator is designed with a structured concave-convex sound-absorbing surface for the purpose of eliminating standing waves and deviating harmful sound waves, thereby acoustic distortions. When harmful sound waves are generated behind the top diaphragm, the concave and convex-shaped surfaces on the harmonic eliminator cancel out the harmful sound waves and the remaining ones are guided and then below the harmonic eliminator, so that the harmful sound waves behind the top diaphragm will not be reflected to the top diaphragm. In this embodiment, the harmful sound waves mainly refer to standing waves.
US12177638B2
A Bluetooth communication system is provided, which comprises a Bluetooth host device and a Bluetooth device set. The connections between the Bluetooth host device and the Bluetooth device set complies with the specification of Bluetooth Low Energy Audio technology. The Bluetooth device set comprises at least a first member device and a second member device. The first member device and the second member device may be configured in a first mode wherein uplink audio signal transmission is allowed, and the connections are carried out by isochronous streaming channels respectively. The first member device transmits captured voice data to the Bluetooth host device, while the second member device does not. When an event is triggered, the first member device can notify the second member device through the Bluetooth host device, so that the first member device and the second member device can carry out subsequent voice input handover procedures.
US12177637B2
A speaker includes a housing including a front housing provided in a conductive material; a driver including a diaphragm; a magnetic circuit including a permanent magnet; and an electric circuit including a voice coil to which current is applied based on an input electrical signal, and a first electric circuit configured to vibrate the driver based on the voice coil and a magnetic field formed by the magnetic circuit; wherein the diaphragm include a coating that is surface-coated with a conductive material so as to have a capacitance with the front housing.
US12177628B2
A speaker arrangement structure includes: a speaker device provided in an A-pillar (front pillar) of a vehicle and configured to turn and transmit sound, produced upward, toward a vehicle compartment; a curtain airbag extending in an up-down direction along an extending direction of the A-pillar and attached to the front pillar; and a bracket configured to attach a lower end of the curtain airbag to the front pillar. The speaker device is arranged below the bracket.
US12177624B2
This application relates to earbuds configured with one or more biometric sensors. At least one of the biometric sensors is configured to be pressed up against a portion of the tragus for making biometric measurements. In some embodiments, the housing of the earbud can be symmetric so that the earbud can be worn interchangeably in either a left or a right ear of a user. In such an embodiment, the earbud can include a sensor and circuitry configured to determine and alter operation of the earbud in accordance to which ear the earbud is determined to be sitting in.
US12177623B2
According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for a wearable terminal device including circuitry configured for performing the following. The apparatus receives, via a bone conduction sensor, a bone conduction signal and, via at least one microphone over the air, an audio signal. The bone conduction signal and the audio signal are, at least in part, substantially concurrently recorded signals. The apparatus calculates a value of a similarity metric for evaluating an extent of similarity between the bone conduction and audio signals. In response to the value exceeding a pre-defined threshold, the apparatus causes performing one or more actions including executing, in response to detecting a voice command, the voice command and/or modifying, if the audio signal is received via a plurality of microphones over the air, one or more audio focusing parameters of the plurality of microphones for increasing the value of the similarity metric.
US12177612B2
A projection display system includes a light source assembly, a wavelength adjusting assembly, and a modulation assembly. The light source assembly is configured to emit projected light. The wavelength adjusting assembly is disposed on an optical path of the projected light for adjusting spectrum of the projected light, and a ratio of luminous efficacy of adjusted projected light to luminous efficacy of monochromatic light corresponding to a dominant wavelength of the projected light is greater than a preset ratio, and color gamut of the adjusted projected light satisfies a preset color gamut coverage. The modulation assembly is disposed on a light exiting path of the wavelength adjusting assembly and configured to modulate light emitted by the wavelength adjusting assembly and output corresponding image light to form projection image.
US12177610B2
An electronic apparatus in communication with an external apparatus generates an image list indicating images to be provided to the external apparatus and performs control such that the image list is transmitted to the external apparatus in a case where an obtainment request for the image list is received from the external apparatus. The electronic apparatus starts generating a cache of the image list after a predetermined operation pertaining to establishing communication with the external apparatus is made and before receiving the obtainment request for the image list, and transmits the image list based on the cache to the external apparatus in response to receiving the obtainment request.
US12177607B2
One example method for mediating participant interactions during a video webinar meeting includes establishing a video webinar meeting; admitting a host and a plurality of participants to the video webinar meeting; not distributing audio streams from the plurality of participants to other participants in the video webinar meeting; receiving, from a first participant, a first submission to be posed during the video webinar meeting; determining a priority for the first submission based on one or more parameters; and distributing an audio stream associated with the first participant to the host and the remaining plurality of participants based on the priority to enable the first participant to pose the first submission.
US12177601B2
A control apparatus connected to a plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, includes a receiver that receives state information indicating whether a state is a first state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is not connected to or synchronized with a specific synchronization source or a second state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is connected to and synchronized with the specific synchronization source, from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, a hardware processor that makes a first determination that at least one of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses is in the first state or a second determination that all of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses are in the second state, based on the state information received from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, and an outputter that outputs whether a determination result by the hardware processor is the first determination or the second determination.
US12177590B2
A light detecting device includes a photoelectric conversion unit configured to generate a photoelectric charge, a first charge holding unit that includes a first capacitive element and holds the photoelectric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit, a second charge holding unit configured to hold the photoelectric charge transferred from the first charge holding unit, a first transistor arranged on a wiring connecting the first charge holding unit and the second charge holding unit to transfer the photoelectric charge held in the first charge holding unit to the second charge holding unit, and a second transistor configured to cause a pixel signal of a voltage value corresponding to a charge amount of the photoelectric charge held in the second charge holding unit to appear on a signal line.
US12177589B2
A pixel circuit includes a photodiode configured to photogenerate image charge in response to incident light. A floating diffusion is coupled to receive the image charge from the photodiode. A transfer transistor is coupled between the photodiode and the floating diffusion. The transfer transistor is configured to transfer the image charge from the photodiode to the floating diffusion. A reset transistor is coupled between a reset voltage and the floating diffusion. A plurality of capacitor-switch pairs is coupled between the reset transistor and a bias voltage source. Each of the plurality of capacitor-switch pairs includes a lateral overflow integration capacitor (LOFIC) and a switch transistor coupled to the LOFIC.
US12177583B2
An image sensor includes: a first pixel having a first photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light to generate a charge, a first accumulation unit that accumulates the charge generated by the first photoelectric conversion unit, and a first output unit that is connected to the first accumulation unit; a second pixel having a second photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light to generate a charge, a second accumulation unit that accumulates the charge generated by the second photoelectric conversion unit, and a second output unit that is connected to and disconnected from the second accumulation unit via a second connection unit; and an adjustment unit that adjusts capacitances of the first accumulation unit and the second accumulation unit if a signal based on the charges generated by the first photoelectric conversion unit and the second photoelectric conversion unit is output from the first output unit.
US12177575B2
An electronic apparatus and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes at least one camera, a distance sensor, an illumination sensor, a display, a light-emitting module configured to generate a flash, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: displaying a camera preview image, acquiring a distance between the apparatus and an object depicted in the preview image, acquiring a brightness in the local environment, detecting whether a shadow of the electronic apparatus is depicted in the preview image, based on the acquired distance and the acquired brightness, detecting whether a shadow is disposed within the field-of-view of the camera, and in response to detecting the shadow of, configuring a brightness value for a flash to reduce the shadow.
US12177572B2
A tracking system is disclosed utilizing one or more dynamic vision sensors (e.g., an event camera) configured to generate luminance-transition events associated with a target object, a depth estimation unit configured to generate based on the luminance-transition events depth data/signals indicative of a distance of the target object from the event camera, a spatial tracking unit configured to generate based on the luminance-transition events spatial tracking signals/data indicative of transitions of the target object in a scene of the target object, and an error correction unit configured to process the depth and spatial tracking data/signals and generate error correcting data/signals for the tracking of the target object by the one or more dynamic vision sensors.
US12177571B2
An image capturing device includes an optical zoom lens module, a processing module, and a motion sensing module. The optical zoom lens module captures an image corresponding to a first field of view according to a preset parameter. An auto-framing unit of the processing module defines a second field of view according to the position of a main object in the image corresponding to the first field of view, and the second field of view is smaller than the first field of view. The processing module controls the optical zoom lens module to capture images corresponding to the second field of view. When the motion sensing module detects that a suspected object enters the first field of view, it transmits a switching signal to the processing module, which controls the optical zoom lens module to capture the image corresponding to the first field of view.
US12177570B2
A camera assembly comprising a casing, a carrying component, a magnetic component, a light sensing component, and a carrying board. The casing comprises a lens accommodating groove, a housing, and a base on which the housing is disposed. The lens accommodating groove is disposed between the housing and the base. An opening of the lens accommodating groove is disposed at the housing. The carrying component comprises a carrying body and a first coil disposed on a periphery of the carrying body. The carrying component is assembled in the lens accommodating groove. The magnetic component is disposed on a periphery of the first coil and on an inner wall of the lens accommodating groove. The light sensing component comprises a light sensing member, a baseplate, and a second coil.
US12177568B2
Provided are a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a signal processing program, an imaging apparatus, and a lens apparatus capable of accurately removing an offset from an output signal of a blurring detection sensor. The signal processing device comprises the blurring detection sensor and a processor. The processor is configured to execute processing of extracting a first feature amount relating to the offset from the output signal of the blurring detection sensor, processing of integrating the output signal, processing of extracting a second feature amount relating to the offset from a value obtained by integrating the output signal, processing of calculating the offset on the basis of the first feature amount and the second feature amount, and processing of subtracting the calculated offset from the output signal.
US12177546B2
An electronic device includes a housing and a camera module in the housing. The camera module includes a camera housing, a lens assembly disposed in the camera housing, an image sensor disposed in the camera housing and at least partially aligned with an optical axis of the lens, a metal plate including a first area that overlaps the image sensor when viewed in a direction of the optical axis and a second area around the first area, and a circuit board at least partially attached to the metal plate and electrically connected with the image sensor. A slit that penetrates the metal plate or a recess concavely defined in a surface of the metal plate is defined in the second area of the metal plate.
US12177537B2
A program production apparatus or the like that is suitable for reflecting information with respect to persons who distribute or broadcast programs as well as viewers. A program production apparatus 1 generates program data using a character. A performance determination unit 5 determines a performance using the character. A program production unit 7 generates the program data using the performance determined by the performance determination unit 5. The performance determination unit 5 adjusts movement of the character and/or adjusts at least one from among lines spoken by the character, BGM, and sound effects, according to the file format of the program data generated by the program production unit 7, so as to determine the performance.
US12177536B1
Aspects of the present disclosure reduce visual artifacts and provide robust video signals to end-user equipment. According to an aspect, a system includes a splice point controller that analyzes video to detect and compensate for content boundary misalignments. The splice point controller can process video streams by analyzing splice point parameters and/or dynamically updating adjustment values associated with splice points to ensure appropriate transitions from primary content to secondary or alternate content. After determining an adjustment value for a splice point, the splice point controller can provide splice point adjustment feedback to a signal processing engine and/or to a secondary content source as part of synchronizing outputs of a transcoder farm and/or the secondary content source. For example, the splice point controller can operate to align a splice point adjustment value associated with an SCTE-35 descriptor with an actual live splice point time that is included with a live broadcast.
US12177533B2
The current invention relates to a computer-generated method for optimizing placement of advertising content across multiple different devices. The system can allocate advertising campaigns and plans to various inventory types based on the probability of accurate consumer matching. Consumer matching can be achieved by generation of look-alike models in a consumer's device graph to predict future consumption behavior. The system includes an interface through which an advertiser can access relevant information about inventory and success of a given placement.
US12177532B2
The current invention relates to a computer-generated method for optimizing placement of advertising content across multiple different devices. The system permits targeting of advertising content to consumers on TV and mobile devices that can be operated from within a multi-channel video programming distributor's environment. The system is able to use hard and soft constraints to come up with a number of possible targets for an advertising campaign and can then provide tools for optimizing those targets. The system can allocate advertising campaigns and plans to various inventory types based on the probability of accurate consumer matching. Consumer matching can be achieved by generation of look-alike models in a consumer's device graph to predict future consumption behavior. The system includes an interface through which a user can adjust various constraints and optimize a distributor's revenue yield from advertising.
US12177528B2
Systems and methods are described herein for providing a search result based on an ambiguous voice query. The system comprises receiving an ambiguous voice query relating to an object from a user, retrieving a viewing history of the user for about a list of media assets viewed by the user, determining, from the list of media asset, a media asset that is likely to contain the object based at least in part on metadata of the media asset and the ambiguous voice query, searching content of the determined media asset to identify a segment within the media asset that contains the object, and generating a display of information about the object identified from the segment.
US12177508B2
A system includes a primary playback system and a secondary playback system. The primary playback system plays back selected content. The secondary playback system plays back supplemental media associated with the content played back on the primary playback system. A media playback function (such as associated with the secondary playback system) monitors playback of the content on the primary playback system. For example, a first processing thread of the media playback function initially synchronizes playback of supplemental media on the secondary playback system with respect to playback of the content on the primary playback system. Based on further monitoring of playing back the content on the secondary playback system, a second processing thread of the media playback function verifies synchronization (and, when needed, initiates re-synchronization) of playback of the supplemental media on the secondary playback system with respect to playback of the content on the primary playback system.
US12177506B2
A content access device and system may allow portable remote devices to be paired with a variety of different devices, allowing remote control through a network connection. Content access devices may expose application program interfaces, allowing incoming network traffic to control operation of the device much in the same way that a local infrared remote would. Routing content commands through an external application server may also yield other benefits, such as allowing more customized selection of information and advertising content to users based on their viewing history.
US12177501B2
Content providers may wish to display different versions of content to different users, which may require different versions of the content to be deliverable. The assignment of a particular version of the content to a particular user may also need to persist over time for that particular user. It may be desirable that this functionality occurs at an edge server of a content delivery network, rather than at an origin server. In some embodiments, the edge server may receive a user request including a user identifier for content from a user device; identify an experiment key for the user request based at least in part on the user identifier, the experiment key associated with an experimental version of the content; and transmit an experiment fetch request including the experiment key to an edge cache to retrieve the experimental version of the content.
US12177495B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: obtaining data units each including three-dimensional points; encoding the three-dimensional points included in each of the data units; and generating a bitstream including encoded data obtained by encoding the three-dimensional points. In the encoding: geometry information of three-dimensional points included in a data unit to be encoded is converted into occupancy maps using an N-ary tree; each of the occupancy maps is converted into an index using a table indicating a correspondence relation between occupancy maps and indexes, and the encoded data is generated by encoding the index; the table is updated according to the index resulting from the conversion, and is stored into the memory; and when it is determined that the table stored in the memory is not to be initialized, encoding of a next data unit is started using the table stored in the memory.
US12177490B2
Object There is the problem in the related art that the relationship between a patch size which is a unit of processing of a neural network and the sizes of input and output pictures is not clearly defined. Solution A video decoding apparatus for generating a decoded picture by decoding coded data, the video decoding apparatus comprising: resolution inverse conversion circuit that performs a post-filtering by using a neural network specified by resolution conversion information; and neural network filter circuit that derives: (i) first information relating to a size of a picture, (ii) second information specifying a size of a picture resulting from applying the post-filtering, (iii) third information indicating a patch size for the post-filtering, and (iv) fourth information for output patch derived by using the third information, wherein a product of a value of the first information and a value of the fourth information is equal to a product of a value of the second information and a value of the third information.
US12177486B2
A method of decoding is provided. The method includes receiving a video bitstream including a picture unit (PU), where any decoding capability information (DCI) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit, video parameter set (VPS) NAL unit, sequence parameter set (SPS) NAL unit, or picture parameter set (PPS) NAL unit referred to by the PU precedes a picture header (PH) NAL unit of the PU and a first video coding layer (VCL) NAL unit of the PU; and decoding a coded picture from the PU to obtain a decoded picture.
US12177484B2
A method and device for processing a video signal using a reduced transform are provided. A method for decoding a video signal includes splitting a current block into a plurality of subblocks based on a first flag for a split direction of the current block, determining a subblock, to which a transform is applied, among the plurality of subblocks based on a second flag for a position of a transform target block, determining a transform target area in the subblock, and applying an inverse transform including a horizontal transform and a vertical transform to transform coefficients of the transform target area. The transform target area is determined based on a transform type applied to the subblock and a size of the subblock.
US12177483B2
A method for decoding an image according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: deriving a residual coefficient of a current block; dequantizing the residual coefficient; deriving a common residual signal by performing inverse transform of the dequantized residual coefficient; and deriving a first residual signal of a first chroma component and a second residual signal of a second chroma component on the basis of the common residual signal.
US12177480B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and method that enable linking between a 3D spatial region and an atlas tile group. Link information is generated and signaled, in which the link information is stored in a file together with a bitstream of a point cloud expressing an object having a three-dimensional shape as a set of points, and the link information links a 3D spatial region of the point cloud with an atlas tile group. On the basis of the link information, the 3D spatial region and the atlas tile group that correspond to a desired three-dimensional space are selected. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an information processing apparatus, an image processing method, an information processing method, or the like.
US12177474B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry that determines, based on a syntax element in a coded video bitstream, that a current block in a current picture is coded in a subblock-based frame-rate up conversion (FRUC) mode and determines a corresponding block of the current block based on an offset vector indicating an offset between the current block and the corresponding block in the current picture. The processing circuitry determines a temporal motion vector predictor (TMVP) of a first subblock in the corresponding block based on a subblock in a forward reference picture and a subblock in a backward reference picture. The subblocks in the forward and backward reference pictures are matched using the subblock-based FRUC mode. The processing circuitry determines a TMVP of a subblock in the current block based on the TMVP of the first subblock in the corresponding block.
US12177473B2
Systems and techniques are provided for coding video data based on an optical flow correction and a residual correction. For example, a decoding device can obtain a frame of encoded video data associated with an input frame, the frame of encoded video data including an optical flow correction and a residual correction. A predicted optical flow can be generated based on one or more reference frames and a reference optical flow. A corrected prediction frame can be generated based on the predicted optical flow and the optical flow correction. A predicted residual can be generated based on at least the corrected prediction frame and a first reference frame included in the one or more reference frames. The decoding device can generate a reconstructed input frame based on the corrected prediction frame, the predicted residual, and the residual correction.
US12177469B2
A prediction method for an image block comprising a first prediction sub-block and a second prediction sub-block, the prediction method comprising: parsing a first index from a bitstream, wherein the first index is used to obtain prediction information of the first prediction sub-block; parsing a second index from the bitstream; comparing the first index with the second index; adjusting the second index in the event that the second index is equal to or greater than the first index; and obtaining prediction information of the second prediction sub-block according to the adjusted second index.
US12177463B2
A video source device for wireless display sharing, including: an encoder operable to dynamically switch between encoding a video full-frame into a first bitstream at a first resolution, and a video sub-frame into a second bitstream at a second resolution, wherein the second resolution is higher than the first resolution; processing circuitry operable to decide between encoding the video full-frame and encoding the video sub-frame based on an amount of available wireless transmission bandwidth, a number of pixels in a changed region of the video full-frame, spatial complexity of a changed region of the video full-frame, temporal complexity of a changed region of the video full-frame, or a category of region change of the video full-frame; and a transmitter operable to wirelessly transmit the first bitstream and the second bitstream to a video sink device.
US12177462B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to methods and apparatus for compressing video content using deep generative models. One example method generally includes receiving video content for compression. The received video content is generally encoded into a latent code space through an encoder, which may be implemented by a first artificial neural network. A compressed version of the encoded video content is generally generated through a trained probabilistic model, which may be implemented by a second artificial neural network, and output for transmission.
US12177460B2
There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform obtaining video data, obtaining a coding unit (CU) block, determining whether a flag of the CU block is set to a predetermined flag condition, determining whether a tree type of the CU block is set to a predetermined tree type, determining whether to signal an adaptive color transform (ACT) flag based on any of whether the flag of the CU block is set to the predetermined flag condition and whether the tree type of the CU block is set to the predetermined tree type, and coding the video data based on a whether the ACT flag is signaled.
US12177457B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for aligning across layers in a coded video stream. A video bitstream having multiple layers is decoded. One or more subpicture regions are identified from among the multiple layers of the decoded video bitstream, the subpicture regions including a background region and one or more foreground subpicture regions. An enhanced subpicture is decoded and displayed based on a determination that a foreground subpicture region is selected. The background region is decoded and displayed based on a determination that a foreground subpicture region was not selected.
US12177453B2
The present invention relates to an image encoding and decoding technique, and more particularly, to an image encoder and decoder using unidirectional prediction. The image encoder includes a dividing unit to divide a macro block into a plurality of sub-blocks, a unidirectional application determining unit to determine whether an identical prediction mode is applied to each of the plurality of sub-blocks, and a prediction mode determining unit to determine a prediction mode with respect to each of the plurality of sub-blocks based on a determined result of the unidirectional application determining unit.
US12177452B2
Systems and methods are described for video coding. In some embodiments, inter prediction of a sample in a current block is performed by rounding an initial motion vector and determining a rounding error vector caused by the rounding. An unrefined prediction of the sample is generated using the rounded motion vector. Unrefined predictions are similarly generated for other samples in the current block. Based on the unrefined predictions, a spatial gradient is determined for each sample position in the block. A refined prediction is generated for each sample position by adding, to the unrefined prediction, a scalar product between the spatial gradient and the rounding error vector at the sample position. Example methods can reduce the number of reference pixels used to predict a current block and thus may reduce memory access bandwidth.
US12177450B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus include features of generating a prediction block by performing intra prediction on a current block, determining whether to apply position dependent intra prediction combination (PDPC) to the prediction block, and generating a final prediction block of the current block, by applying PDPC to the prediction block based on the determination. The determining whether to apply PDPC to the prediction block may include determining whether a size of the current block satisfies a predetermined condition. Based on the size of the current block satisfying the predetermined condition, it may be determined to apply PDPC to the prediction block. Based on the size of the current block not satisfying the predetermined condition, a determination of a color component of the current block may be skipped and it may be determined not to apply PDPC to the prediction block.
US12177448B2
Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for decoding a video signal. A decoder obtains a reference picture I associated with a video block within the video signal. The decoder may further obtain reference samples I(i,j) of the video block from a reference block in the reference picture I. The decoder may also obtain a first down-sampling filter and a second down-sampling filter to respectively generate luma and chroma inter prediction samples of the video block. The decoder may further obtain a third down-sampling filter and a fourth down-sampling filter to respectively generate the luma and chroma inter prediction samples of the video block when the video block is coded by affine mode. The decoder may also obtain inter prediction samples of the video block based on the third and fourth down-sampling filters being applied to the reference samples I(i,j).
US12177437B2
Innovations in control and use of chroma quantization parameter (“QP”) values that depend on luma QP values. More generally, the innovations relate to control and use of QP values for a secondary color component that depend on QP values for a primary color component. For example, during encoding, an encoder determines a QP index from a primary component QP and secondary component QP offset. The encoder maps the QP index to a secondary component QP, which has an extended range. The encoder outputs at least part of a bitstream including the encoded content. A corresponding decoder receives at least part of a bitstream including encoded content. During decoding, the decoder determines a QP index from a primary component QP and secondary component QP offset, then maps the QP index to a secondary component QP, which has an extended range.
US12177426B2
A method of filtering an image is disclosed, the method comprising: receiving filter coefficients and first component sample values corresponding to samples surrounding a reference sample, and inputting said filter coefficients and first component sample values into a cross component filter to produce a cross component filter output; wherein said cross-component filter uses a restricted number of bits to represent said filter coefficients and/or first component sample values to produce said filter output.
US12177424B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and an image processing method capable of reducing a mounting load required for image processing. The decoding unit decodes a bitstream including a parameter set in which the maximum number of the number of parameter sets referenced as the adaptive loop filter is defined as a fixed value to generate a decoded image. The filter unit references the parameter set decoded by the decoding unit and applies the adaptive loop filter to the decoded image generated by the decoding unit. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an image processing system that performs image processing using an adaptive loop filter.
US12177422B2
A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus according to the present document may comprise the steps of: parsing a prediction weighted table syntax from a bitstream; parsing number information about weighted reference pictures in a reference picture list from the prediction weighted table syntax; deriving a weighting factor-related flag about the reference picture list on the basis of the number information; performing weighted prediction on a current block on the basis of the weighting factor-related flag so as to derive prediction samples of the current block; generating residual samples on the basis of residual information obtained from the bitstream; and reconstructing a current picture on the basis of the prediction samples and the residual samples, wherein the prediction weighted table syntax is parsed from a picture header of the bitstream.
US12177410B2
A method for transmitting video, according to embodiments, comprises: a pre-processing step of processing video data; a step of encoding the video data; and/or a step of transmitting a bitstream including the video data. A method for receiving video, according to embodiments, comprises the steps of: receiving video data; decoding the video data; and/or rendering the video data.
US12177405B2
Image forming apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program
An image forming apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires service information; a storage unit that stores the service information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a control unit that controls, based on the service information stored in the storage unit, accounting processing performed along with execution of a function of the image forming apparatus. The control unit executes first accounting processing based on a fact that first service information is stored in the storage unit, and executes second accounting processing different from the first accounting processing based on a fact that second service information different from the first service information is stored in the storage unit.
US12177404B2
Moving images are switched naturally when development of a story is switched according to a situation. An image display system includes a display unit that displays a moving image, an acquisition unit that acquires a motion of a user viewing the moving image displayed by the display unit, a determination unit that determines whether or not the motion of the user acquired by the acquisition unit satisfies a predetermined switching condition in which the user does not recognize switching between images even when the moving image displayed by the display unit is switched from first moving image data to second moving image data different from the first moving image, and a switching unit that switches the moving image displayed by the display unit from the first moving image data to the second moving image data when the determination unit determines that the switching condition is satisfied.
US12177400B2
An image forming device operates in a first operation when executing a first program and operates in a second operation when executing a second program. A controller of the image forming device transmits first USB configuration information to a terminal device when operated in a first operation and transmit second USB configuration information to the terminal device when operated in a second operation. The image forming device does not communicate with the terminal device when operated in the second operation in a case where the second USB configuration information is not transmitted to the terminal device, and communicates with the terminal device by transmitting the second USB configuration information in a case where operating in the second operation and communicating with the terminal device which receives the first USB configuration information.
US12177397B2
An image forming apparatus that reads a print position adjustment chart using an auto document feeder (ADF) and specifies an appropriate image reading size to include paper edges of the chart is provided.
US12177385B2
A communication directed to a recipient is stored in a message box of the recipient. A forwardee is identified based on an analysis of the communication. A request is received to transmit the communication to the forwardee. The communication is forwarded to a message box of the forwardee.
US12177373B2
An electronic device includes a display; a camera module disposed to overlap at least a portion of the display and comprising at least one first image sensor module to generate a first Bayer image processed by a first color filter array and at least one second image sensor module to generate a second Bayer image processed by a second color filter array; and a processor. The first color filter array includes at least one first red pixel, at least one first green pixel, and at least one first blue pixel. The second color filter array includes at least one second red pixel, at least one second green pixel, and at least one second blue pixel. A proportion of the least one second blue pixel in the second color filter array is greater than a proportion of the least one first blue pixel in the first color filter array.
US12177372B2
A mobile terminal that operates on a secondary battery, the mobile terminal including: a power receiver that wirelessly receives electric power, and supplies the secondary battery with the electric power received; a display unit that provides a display indicating that the power receiver is receiving the electric power; and a display controller that causes the display unit to provide the display differently in accordance with magnitude of the electric power received by the power receiver.
US12177366B1
A method and system for linking a physical artifact to a non-fungible token (NFT) with a digital certificate and/or a digital certificate of authenticity (COA) are disclosed herein. The method and system use multiple attestations along with digital ledger technology to provide a digital certificate of authenticity for an object such as a work of art, collectible, or a non-fungible token (NFT) when the NFT is minted. An extended physical backed token (EPBT) is also generated for the physical artifact.
US12177364B2
A technique for locking a blockchain transaction based on undetermined data, using a blockchain network. A locking node may include a locking script in a blockchain transaction to lock a digital asset. The locking script includes a public key for a determined data source and instructions to cause a validating node executing the locking script to verify the source of data provided in an unlocking script by: a) generating a modified public key based on the public key for the determined data source and based on data defined in the unlocking script; and b) evaluating a cryptographic signature in the unlocking script based on the modified public key. The blockchain transaction containing the locking script is sent by the locking node to the blockchain network. The lock may be removed using a cryptographic signature generated from a private key modified based on the data.
US12177358B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for distributed consensus using multi-signature. The apparatus includes one or more processors and executable memory for storing at least one program executed by the one or more processors. The at least one program may send a Pre-Prepare message for processing distributed consensus on a transaction to nodes participating in the distributed consensus in a blockchain network, verify the nodes using message authentication code values included in Prepare messages received from the nodes, send the nodes an A-Prepare message for announcing that the Prepare messages are received from a number of verified nodes equal to or greater than a quorum required for the distributed consensus, generate a multi-signature value using multi-signature fragment values included in Commit messages received from the nodes, and send an A-Commit message including the multi-signature value to the nodes, thereby processing consensus on the transaction.
US12177353B2
Systems and methods for a dynamic encryption model in which dynamic encryption keys are associated with an access token having an expiration time. The access token is generated for a user session of a user application seeking to make API calls to a service provider system. When the access token expires, or becomes otherwise invalid, the dynamic encryption keys are discarded, and any further API calls are made using an updated access token and updated dynamic encryption keys. The dynamic encryption keys are used to encrypt specially designated fields of API calls and/or API call results.
US12177348B2
A method for misbehaviour warnings in an intelligent transportation system (ITS) including determining at a network server that an ITS station is misbehaving. In response to determining that the ITS station is misbehaving, the network server transmits a misbehaviour warning message to the ITS station indicating that the ITS station is misbehaving. In response to transmitting the misbehaviour warning message and determining that the ITS station is continuing to misbehave, the network server includes information of the ITS station in a certificate revocation list (CRL) and transmits the CRL.
US12177345B2
The invention relates to an information processing apparatus that generates a pair of a first signature key and a first verification key, publishes the first verification key outside the information processing apparatus, acquires a second verification key that is generated and published by an own apparatus, generates a secret value table including a plurality of secret values and indices, transmits signed transmission data obtained by signing transmission data with the first signature key, the transmission data including processing target data comprising at least a part of delivery target data and an index corresponding to a secret value that has been associated with the processing target data based on the secret value table, receives certification data from the own apparatus, verifies a signature of the certification data using the second verification key, and transmits the certification data to a data providing apparatus, when the signature of the certification data is successfully verified using the second verification key.
US12177344B2
The present invention relates to a method and system of cybersecurity; and particularly relates to an encryption method and system on the basis of cognitive computing for xenomorphic cryptography or unusual form of cryptography; said method comprises generating a Functional Neural Network or KeyNode (KN) of the system by programming a chain of multiple nodes also called Artificial Mirror Neurons (AMN) based on captured information of reaction time and emotional response to a simple task; racing the nodes in the Functional Neural Network or KeyNode (KN) as an encryption device or cipher for the time of use; generating a password at the time of use based on the sum of intrinsic values of the nodes in the racing network at this time and adopting the generated password for authentication. The present invention can be applied to secure online and mobile communication especially at the dawn of 5G with generalization of open API lifestyle platforms so as to allow real-time identification for digital cryptocurrency payments and other public distributed ledger technology (DLT) mechanisms.
US12177336B2
A method of provenance verification comprises providing a plurality of security devices, each security device being provided with a key set comprising: a secret key, and a plurality of shared keys, each shared key being derived by generating a hash of the secret key and a salt value that is specific to a pair consisting of said security device and another of the plurality of security devices. The method also comprises configuring each security device to: generate and/or receive one or more messages; and perform at least one cryptographic operation on the message or messages, and/or on data derived therefrom, using a respective secret key of the security device and/or one of said shared keys.
US12177331B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for data processing in an equity incentive system, which are applied in an equity incentive system, such as an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) system. A first device obtains a mapping relation that includes a correspondence between at least one data type and at least one encryption scheme, determines a first encryption scheme corresponding to a data type of first data based on the mapping relation, generates a first data packet based on the first encryption scheme, and transmits the first data packet to a second device. In this way, the first device uses different encryption schemes based on different data types, and the second device obtains the first data by decryption based on an encryption identifier That is, according to the present disclosure, different encryption schemes are used for different data types, thereby improving data security without affecting normal use.
US12177323B2
Methods for building, transmitting, and receiving frame structures in power line communications (PLC) are described. Various techniques described herein provide a preamble design using one or more symbols. One or more preamble symbols may be interspersed within a header portion of a PLC frame to facilitate estimation of a frame boundary and/or sampling frequency offset, for example, in the presence of impulsive noise.
US12177317B2
According to the present specification, disclosed is a method for preventing the transmission of a negative response when an AF subscribed to a notification service for a user plane management event receives a notification from an SMF, and when it is determined that a subsequent action according to the notification cannot be processed immediately but can be processed after a predetermined period of time.
US12177310B2
The present application discloses a method and apparatus for processing a notification trigger message, which method and apparatus relate to the technical field of computers. One specific implementation of the method comprises: receiving a notification trigger message formed by triggering a notification, wherein the notification trigger message includes an identifier of a current push message corresponding to the notification; determining whether the identifier of the current push message exists in a message cache, and if the identifier of the current push message exists in a message cache, ignoring the notification trigger message, wherein the message cache is used for storing an identifier of a push message corresponding to a notification that has been responded to. The implementation can avoid multiple responses of a client to an identical notification.
US12177309B2
An image processing method includes displaying an object following page in a first session page in response to an object following operation performed on a first image, the object following page including a setting control corresponding to at least one display object in the first image. The first session page is a page corresponding to a local user account. The method also includes creating an object following relationship between a selected display object and the local user account in response to a trigger operation performed on the setting control in the object following page. The object following relationship provides an image update prompt to the local user account, the image update prompt prompting to view an image associated with the selected display object. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium counterpart embodiments are also contemplated.
US12177307B2
Digital media distribution frequency management systems and methods are disclosed for reducing digital media across digital networks and platforms. A set of impression identifiers (IDs) is determined for a digital media asset as displayed on graphic user interfaces (GUIs) of open web digital channel(s). An identifier of a user is determined as well as an impression count of the user based on the set of impression IDs and an open web ID of the user. An impression frequency message is pushed to an application programming interface (API) of an online based digital media content distribution platform. The impression frequency message may comprise the identifier of the user. The online based digital media content distribution platform is configured to suppress or allow the digital media asset to be displayed to the user on a GUI of the online based digital media content distribution platform based on the impression frequency message.
US12177306B2
Provided are methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for offline mapping and navigation. The disclosed technology can determine a current region associated with a current location of a navigation device. Predicted travel destinations from the current region can be determined based on aggregated travel data. The aggregated travel data can include previous travel destinations from within the current region. Based on the current region and the predicted travel destinations, additional regions associated with the current region can be determined. Further, connectivity information can be determined based on network data. The connectivity information can be associated with network connectivity within the additional regions. The additional regions can be prioritized based on the connectivity information. Furthermore, portions of offline map data associated with the respective additional regions can be sent to the navigation device in an order partly based on the priority of the additional regions.
US12177304B2
A multi-tenant media communication platform system and methods. The platform system includes media communication micro-services and micro-service configuration for a plurality of entities configured for use of the platform system. Enrolling an entity in the platform system includes setting entity configuration for use of the platform system by the entity. A micro-service request is processed according to the entity configuration. The micro-service request is a request for use of at least one micro-service of the platform system on behalf of the entity. Use of each micro-service is accounted for on behalf of the entity. Billing information for the entity is generated based on the accounting for the use of each micro-service on behalf of the entity. Entity configuration includes micro-service configuration, and micro-service configuration specifies at least one of: an endpoint mapping to at least one application logic URI, an event callback URI, and an event application logic URI.
US12177298B2
In one embodiment, a controller identifies access points forming an overhead mesh of access points in an area, each access point comprising one or more directional transmitters each configured to transmit a beam cone in a substantially downward direction towards a floor of the area. The controller determines coverage areas on the floor of the area for the one or more directional transmitters of the access points in the overhead mesh. The controller generates, based on the coverage areas, alternating communication schedules for the access points such that a client device at any given location on the floor of the area is within range of a plurality of receiving access points in the overhead mesh and at least one transmitting access point in the overhead mesh at a certain point in time. The controller sends the communication schedules to the access points.
US12177297B2
Networking systems and methods for establishing and maintaining virtual computing clouds are disclosed. A networking system can comprise a server and various instances of a software agent, each agent being installed on a computing device participating in a virtual computing cloud. The server can maintain account setting for a user, wherein the settings can indicate which files on indicated computing devices are included in the virtual computing cloud. The networking system can selectively synchronize data between the computing devices automatically and in a secure manner, and can transmit data in real time to simulate local storage when synchronization of certain files is inappropriate in light of file incompatibility. As a result, the networking system can provide the user with a seamless, automatic system and method for accessing a total computing environment.
US12177295B1
Techniques for providing network applications are described. For instance, system(s) may install a network application onto a virtual server. While installing the network application, the system(s) may monitor the installation in order to identify events. The system(s) may then generate a first file that includes file events, a second file that includes registry events, and a third file that includes service events. Additionally, the system may copy the software files installed on the virtual server. The system(s) may then generate a software package that includes the files and store the software package on a virtual storage device. After storing the software package, the system(s) may make copies of the software package and store the copies on multiple virtual storage devices. The system(s) may then use the virtual storage devices to install and launch the network application on virtual servers.
US12177291B2
The virtual presentation technology in this invention can significantly reduce data load on a network and thus reduce the network bandwidth requirement. This allows serving more requests for data transaction over a network with fixed network bandwidth. In addition, with traditional Internet file sharing products, e.g. the then-existed Yahoo Group online service, in order to stop sharing a file, the file must be physically deleted that prevents resharing the file unless expensively recreating them. In addition, traditional email and instant message does not allow a user to delete a previously posted or shared message from a UI of a recipient. Therefore, the user could be embarrassed if the posted message is not proper to the recipient. This invention has overcome the problems to allow user instantly deleting posted information of file or folder from recipient's UI without physically deleting the file, and deleting previously posted messages from recipient's UI.
US12177287B2
A method for providing watermark to subscribers is provided. The method comprises observing a request for a first content from a subscriber, determining if the subscriber can receive a watermark, generating a second content comprising the watermark if the subscriber can receive a watermark, causing the subscriber to fetch the first content, and causing the subscriber to fetch the second content comprising the watermark overlaying the first content.
US12177277B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a device and a host. The device includes a device stream buffer. The host includes a processor to execute at least a first application and a second application, a host stream buffer, and a host scheduler. The first application is associated with a first transmit streaming channel to stream first data from the first application to the device stream buffer. The first transmit streaming channel has a first allocated amount of buffer space in the device stream buffer. The host scheduler schedules enqueue of the first data from the first application to the first transmit streaming channel based at least in part on availability of space in the first allocated amount of buffer space in the device stream buffer. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12177274B2
Facilitating collaboration in a multiuser communication session includes detecting initiation of an interaction between a user of a first device and a virtual object in a multiuser communication session, where the first device and a second device are active in the multiuser communication session, and where state information is synchronized among the first device and second device in the multiuser communication session. In accordance with detecting the initiation of an interaction between the user and the virtual object, synchronization of state information is suspended by the first device, where the state information is related to the interaction between the user and the virtual object. A representation of the multiuser communication session at the first device and a representation of the multiuser communication session at the second device are inconsistent in accordance with the suspended synchronization of the state information.
US12177272B2
One disclosed example method includes a video conference provider establishing a main meeting of a video conference and multiple associated sub-meetings at the request of a host client device associated with a host of the meeting. The method further includes the video conference provider determining that a self-selection mode for the sub-meetings is enabled and transmitting notifications to participant client devices associated with the participants of the meeting. Each notification identifies a list of sub-meetings from which a participant can select a sub-meeting to join. The method further includes the video conference provider receiving and forwarding a request from a participant client device to connect to a selected sub-meeting, and receiving an automatic approval from the host client device. The video conference provider further connects the participant client device to the selected sub-meeting.
US12177270B2
Media, methods, and systems are provided for real-time updates of collaborative documents in a group-based communication system. Collaborative documents may allow for multiple users to simultaneously modify and edit a document. When a collaborative document is created, a server may create an ephemeral channel and an identifier for the collaborative document. As users connect to the collaborative document, the users may be assigned a temporary subscription to the collaborative document. Real-time events, such as indications that a user is typing, indications that a user is connected in the collaborative document, and changes to the collaborative document may be published to the user via the temporary subscription. When the user disconnects from the document, the real-time events may no longer be communicated.
US12177265B2
A system and method for deploying cybersecurity resources includes sourcing cybersecurity operations data that includes a plurality of distinct datasets derived from a handling of a target cybersecurity event; extracting, from the cybersecurity operations data, at least cybersecurity task feature data relating to a plurality of cybersecurity tasks and metadata, wherein each cybersecurity task of the plurality of cybersecurity tasks includes an identification of an operation executed when handling or the target cybersecurity event and an identification of an operator executing the operation; deriving timestamp data for each operation executed by a respective operator of each respective cybersecurity task of the plurality of cybersecurity tasks instantiating, by computer processors, a cybersecurity event data structure; using entries of the cybersecurity event data structure to compute allocation values for cybersecurity resources for handling impending cybersecurity events; and deploying, within a security operations center (SOC) of the cybersecurity service, the cybersecurity resources.
US12177258B2
Methods and systems provide for augmenting images and displayed objects using extended reality (XR) images. Image data may be received that includes real-world image data displayed on a display of the client device, which is monitored by a guide software component, and XR images. A person may be identified from the real-world image data, and, in response to identifying the person, stored information may be retrieved from a record associated with the identified person in a database in communication with the client device. The guide software component may then modify the XR images in response to identifying the person to include the retrieved information associated with the identified person. Additional XR images may be used to provide informative content at spatial anchor locations within the real-world image data.
US12177256B1
A compliance check system to provide compliance validation for a user system is described. The compliance check system includes a compliance checker plug-in on a device used to access a secured resource. The compliance checker plug-in receives a request for compliance validation prior to providing access to a secured resource, and triggers one or more compliance checkers. In one embodiment, the compliance checker is a device encryption compliance checker configured to determine whether a device drive is encrypted. In one embodiment, the compliance checker is a password compliance checker configured to determine whether passwords in the user system comply with password compliance requirements. The compliance checker plug-in further to verify the compliance status of the device, based on data from the compliance checkers. In one embodiment, when the compliance status of the device is failure, the compliance check system to redirect to an install site, to remediate the failure by installing software and reconfiguring the device. When the compliance status of the device is passing, permitting access to the secured resource.
US12177253B2
A method and system for authenticating application program interface (API) invokers using a common application program interface framework (CAPIF) is provided. The method includes establishing by a CAPIF core function (CCF) a secure Transport Layers Security (TLS) connection with at least one API invoker, on receiving a connection request from the at least one API invoker to access at least one service API on a CAPIF-2e interface. Further, the method includes determining by the CCF at least one security method to be used by the at least one API invoker for a CAPIF-2e interface security (C2eIS) of the at least one API invoker for accessing the at least one service API on a CAPIF-2e interface. The method further includes enabling the C2eIS by an API exposing function (AEF) the at least one API invoker based on the determined at least one security method.
US12177252B2
Systems and methods are described for leveraging the knowledge and security awareness of well-informed users in an organization to protect other users and train them to identify new phishing attacks. Initially, a report of a message being suspicious may be identified and it may be determined whether message is a malicious phishing message. In an example, a well-informed user of an organization may report the message as suspicious. Further, on determining the message to be a malicious phishing message, a simulated phishing message or a template may be created. The simulated phishing message may then be communicated to one or more devices of one or more users.
US12177249B2
A content management system comprising one or more processing devices, a network interface, and a memory system configured to store programmatic instructions configured to cause the one or more processing devices to perform the following operations is described. An electronic document may be generated and rendered, where the content management system may configure the electronic document as a mesh document, with both forward links and backlinks to other electronic resources. The forward links and/or backlinks may be to local electronic resources or remote electronic resources. The mesh document may be transmitted to client device over an encrypted channel, and the client device may render the electronic document. In response to an activation of a forward or backlink, the corresponding resource may be accessed from a data store, transmitted via the encrypted channel to the client device, and the client device may render such resource.
US12177248B2
The security of network connections on a computing device is protected by detecting and preventing compromise of the network connections, including man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. Communications are intercepted by a client-side proxy before being sent to a recipient designated by an application. The intercepted communication is inspected, and a first connection is determined to be used to send the communication based on the inspection. Finally, before the communication is sent via the first connection, an action is performed by the client-side proxy resulting in an indication that the first connection is compromised. The action may include comparing data associated with the first connection to data associated with known compromised connections. In various embodiments, additional security responses may subsequently be performed by the client-side proxy based on the indication that the first connection is compromised.
US12177246B2
Processes and machines are disclosed for detecting malicious email campaigns based on unique but similarly spelled attachments. Email log(s) from network appliances are retrieved, filtered, normalized, and converted into field-based organized data for comprehensive analysis. Cluster analysis is performed. Filenames of email attachments are transformed into numerical vectors and a cosine similarity termset analysis is performed on the numerical vectors. Data is organized into time bins for burst detection. Statistical analysis is performed on the time bins. Pattern recognition is performed to identify alphanumeric similarities in the filenames of the attached files in order to detect malicious email campaigns. Machine learning may be used to optimize the cosine similarity threshold and other query variables, and to update existing cybersecurity filters and firewalls. Mitigation can be performed to remove malicious emails that were delivered to recipient mailboxes.
US12177243B1
Various embodiments include systems and methods of implementing vulnerability check synchronization. Vulnerability check synchronization may occur between computing resources at multiple different locations including a first location and a second location. Custom vulnerability check information associated with a particular security vulnerability may be received via a security console user interface that is located at the first location. A selection may be received, via the security console user interface, of a particular distributed engine to be utilized to perform a scan of one or more assets based at least in part on the custom vulnerability check information. Responsive to a determination to initiate the scan of the one or more assets, transfer of the custom vulnerability check information to the particular distributed engine via one or more networks may be automatically initiated.
US12177241B2
Various embodiments described herein disclose an endpoint modeling and grouping management system that can collect data from endpoint computer devices in a network. In some embodiments, agents installed on the endpoints can collect real-time information at the kernel level providing the system with deep visibility. In some embodiments, the endpoint modeling and grouping management system can identify similarities in behavior in response to assessing the data collected by the agents. In some embodiments, the endpoint modeling and grouping management system can dynamically model groups such as logical groups, and cluster endpoints based on the similarities and/or differences in behavior of the endpoints. In some embodiments, the endpoint modeling and grouping management system transmits the behavioral models to the agents to allow the agents to identify anomalies and/or security threats autonomously.
US12177240B2
The present invention is generally directed to the detection of an intrusion event in a computer network and a control network. More particularly, the present invention provides a system, framework, architecture, etc. for intrusion detection functions for network elements and control elements used in high demand and/or mission critical environments, including, but not limited to, power stations, sub-stations, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), rail, traffic control systems, chemical, oil & gas, critical manufacturing, and industrial applications.
US12177239B2
An attack analyzer includes: a security log acquisition unit acquiring a security log including an abnormality detection signal generated by a security sensor mounted on an electronic control device constituting part of an electronic control system and indicating that the security sensor has detected an abnormality; an alive signal acquisition unit acquiring an alive signal; a prediction table storage unit storing a prediction table showing a correspondence relationship between a predicted attack route in the electronic control system and a predicted abnormality detection signal predicted to be generated by the security sensor; an attack route estimation unit estimating, using the prediction table, the attack route of an attack received by the electronic control system from the abnormality detection signal and the alive signal included in the security log; and an attack information output unit outputting attack information indicating the attack route.
US12177237B2
Provided is a communication information integration system 1 in which a communication information integration apparatus 3 classifies collected first communication information for each terminal apparatus 4, generates summary information summarizing the classified communication information corresponding to the terminal 4, and transmits the generated summary information to the corresponding terminal apparatus 4, the terminal apparatus 4, upon receiving the summary information, extracts a difference between the first communication information and second communication information collected by the terminal apparatus 4, using the second communication information and the summary information, generates difference communication information based on the extracted difference, and transmits the generated difference communication information to the communication information integration apparatus 3, and the communication information integration apparatus 3, upon receiving the difference communication information from the terminal apparatus 4, integrates the difference communication information into the first communication information.
US12177230B2
Systems and methods of managing fraudulent devices are provided. The system detects a request for a connection to communicatively couple a technician computing device with a receiver computing device. The system identifies connection data for the connection. The system requests, based on the connection data, a plurality of account values. Each of the plurality of account values is associated with an account that the technician computing device used to establish the connection. The system generates a score indicating a fraudulent level of the account based on the plurality of account values. The system terminates, responsive to a comparison of the score with a fraud threshold, the connection. The system transmits, to a ticketing system, a support ticket generated responsive to the comparison of the score with the fraud threshold.
US12177226B2
An authentication management method includes: generating an authentication state based on an authentication result by an authentication terminal, an authentication rule or rules and identity information, and notifying a vehicle application of the generated authentication state. An authentication rule stored in a storage defines a plurality of authentication levels according to security levels, and authentication by an authentication element in at least one of the authentication levels includes possession authentication by a hardware encryption module with physical security.
US12177221B2
A system for computer security of a remote device having a processor includes a way to determine an operating mode of the remote device and a way to validate a resource (e.g., program, script, web address). When an attempt is made to access a resource, the operating mode of the remote device is determined and when the operating mode of the remote device is a corporate operating mode, then the resource is evaluated using a corporate protection file. Otherwise, when the operating mode of the remote device is determined to be a personal operating mode, then the resource is evaluated using a personal protection file. When the resource validation determines that the resource is approved, access to the resource is provided; otherwise, access to the resource is prevented.
US12177216B1
A native application on a client computing device enables secure user authentication via an identity provider (IdP) for accessing services of a web service provider. The native application forwards a redirect request generated by a main gateway of the service provider and including an IdP uniform resource locator (URL) to a system browser of the client computing device. The redirect request directs the system browser to a broker gateway of the service provider that registers an authentication response handler and redirects the system browser to the IdP URL to enable a user of the native client computing device to authenticate. After the broker gateway receives an IdP authentication response from the IdP following authentication by the user, the broker gateway provides the IdP authentication response to the native application for providing back to the main gateway. The main gateway finally processes the authentication response to complete the authentication request.
US12177208B2
A method for transmitting security settings between a first automation engineering field device and a second automation engineering field device includes: identifying and authenticating an operator by means of a service unit; assigning an authorization group based on the identifying and authenticating of the operator; in the case, in which the operator is assigned the administrator authorization group: encrypting at least one security setting, which is present in cleartext, by the first field device; exporting the encrypted security setting; importing the encrypted security setting into the second field device; decrypting the encrypted security setting; loading the decrypted security setting into the data memory of the second field device and operating the second field device with the loaded security setting of the first field device.
US12177205B2
In one embodiment, an edge device of a network maintains intermediate certificates derived from root certificates of different cloud services that identify the edge device to those different cloud services. The edge device receives identity information for a particular device in the network. The edge device generates, using at least one of its intermediate certificates and the identity information for the particular device, one or more local digital identity certificates for the particular device. The edge device causes the particular device to be onboarded to a target cloud service from among the different cloud services, in part by providing the one or more local digital identity certificates to the particular device and to the target cloud service.
US12177202B2
A method of providing login information may include sending, from a service web page executed on a browser, a login request to an authentication web page executed on the browser, executing, by the authentication web page, a single sign on (SSO) agent in an electronic device, sending, by the authentication web page, a request for authentication information of a user to the SSO agent, generating and transmitting, by the SSO agent, a random number to the authentication web page, generating and transmitting an encrypted eigenvalue on an authentication web server based on the random number to the SSO agent, calling, by the SSO agent, an authentication application programming interface (API) server, and transmitting the eigenvalue, validating the eigenvalue on the authentication API server, and receiving, by the SSO agent, a result of the validating from the authentication API server, and transmitting the authentication information to the authentication web server.
US12177201B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for managing security credentials for an authentication management client on a client device. In one non-limiting example, a computing device is configured to receive an authentication request from an authentication management client of a client and determine an affinity of the authentication management client based at least in part on the authentication request. The computing device is configured to determine that the authentication management client is supported based at least in part on the affinity. The computing device is configured to generate a session for the authentication management client based at least in part on a security credential being received from the authentication management client.
US12177195B2
A sensor communications system provides for the secure transfer of sensor measurement data from sensor devices to a remote, network connected server system. The sensor devices include processor to encrypt a sensor measurement data stream using the public key of an asymmetric key pair and to transmit the encrypted sensor measurement data stream through the local network interface. The remote server system includes a network gateway and a compute server with the compute server being couplable to the network gateway and an authorization server storing the private key of the asymmetric key pair. The compute server operates to decrypt the encrypted sensor measurement data stream using the private key and to process the decrypted sensor measurement data stream for presentation a user of the remote server system.
US12177190B2
A secure translator is described herein for use with an insecure device. An insecure device is a computing device that either does not have the ability to or can no longer communicate at desired security levels. The secure translator is configured to act as a proxy for insecure devices, allowing for full translation of any inbound communication to be secured, with information scrubbed or otherwise manipulated, then translated over a direct connection to the insecure device.
US12177186B2
A device may transmit a packet for communicating via a tunnel. The packet may be associated with a protocol. The device may determine that the packet has been dropped by a security device. The device may selectively encrypt, after determining that the packet has been dropped, the packet using a null encryption for transport layer security (TLS) or a combination of encryption associated with the protocol and TLS encryption to generate an encrypted packet. The device may transmit the encrypted packet for communicating via the tunnel.
US12177180B2
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for improving packet filtering efficiency by reducing processing time and/or by reducing memory usage. Any of various types of data structures, such as flat hash maps and/or ruletrees, may be used by a packet filtering appliance to search for cybersecurity policy packet filtering rules that should be applied to in-transit packets. The packet filtering appliance may search the index data structures for matches of search objects, in the form of values that the packet filtering appliance extracts from in-transit packets, to threat indicator matching criteria of the policy rules. Each of the index data structures may map rule identifiers (rule IDs) of policy rules to keys that are based on (or that comprise) the matching criteria of those rules.
US12177179B2
Disclosed embodiments may include a method for prioritizing messages. The system may include receiving one or more messages comprising message data and application sender data. From the message data and application sender data, the system may determine a ranking of importance of the one or more messages, and then determine whether a first message is urgent. If the first message is urgent, the system may send the first message to the user device. If the first message is not urgent, the system may determine a set time for the first message to be sent and send the first message to the user device at the set time.
US12177168B2
An Ethernet Physical Layer (PHY) device includes a link interface and a transceiver. The link interface is configured to connect to a full-duplex wired Ethernet link. The transceiver is configured to receive first Ethernet signals carrying first data at a first data rate over the Ethernet link in a first direction, the first Ethernet signals occupying a first frequency band, and to transmit second Ethernet signals carrying second data at a second data rate different from the first data rate, over the Ethernet link in a second direction that is opposite the first direction, the second Ethernet signals occupying a second frequency band that is different from the first frequency band.
US12177159B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to methods and apparatuses for Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-Acknowledge (HARQ-ACK) feedback in multi-Transmit-Receive Point (TRP) transmission. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method can include: transmitting configuration information indicating at least one Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource set; indicating a PUCCH resource of the at least one PUCCH resource set via Downlink Control Information (DCI), wherein the indicated PUCCH resource is at least for carrying a HARQ-ACK; and detecting the HARQ-ACK at least on the indicated PUCCH resource. Embodiments of the present disclosure can increase the robustness of multi-TRP transmission.
US12177158B2
A user terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives a first PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel) from a first transmission/reception point (TRP), and a second PDSCH from a second TRP, the second PDSCH overlapping the first PDSCH in at least one of time and frequency resources, and a control section that performs control for transmitting a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) for the first PDSCH to the first TRP, and transmitting a second HARQ-ACK for the second PDSCH to the second TRP. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the HARQ-ACK control can be preferably implemented even in the case of using the multi-TRP.
US12177153B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to wireless communications involving successively-received messages. As may be implemented consistent with one or more aspects characterized herein, a preamble section (122) of a currently-received message (120) is used in decoding a previously-received message (110), for wireless transmissions from a wireless transmitter (102) on a wireless communications channel (101). The current and previous message are received in succession with a time gap (130) therebetween.
US12177150B2
Various solutions for slot aggregation design in non-terrestrial network (NTN) communications with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may receive a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) time bundling configuration. The apparatus may determine a duration interval of the DMRS time bundling configuration. The apparatus may perform channel estimation cross slots based on the duration interval.
US12177137B1
Embodiments of an overlay network with innovative virtual network switches and related network interface controllers are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the overlay network may comprise at least one virtual network switch (VNS), wherein each VNS is installed within a corresponding first processing endpoint which is logically above a virtualization layer of a virtual network. And, the VNS may be configured to intercept data packets transmitted on a network layer logically below the virtualization layer of the virtual network. The VNS may comprise: (a) a manager element configured to connect to at least one virtual network interface controller (VNIC), each VNIC being installed within a corresponding second processing endpoint of the virtual network, the second processing endpoint being separate from the first processing endpoint; (b) a replicator node configured to replicate and route the data packets; and (c) a switch controller configured to control the first replicator node.
US12177133B2
Techniques in dynamic routing for advanced deep learning provide improvements in one or more of accuracy, performance, and energy efficiency. An array of processing elements comprising a portion of a neural network accelerator performs flow-based computations on wavelets of data. Each processing element comprises a compute element enabled to execute programmed instructions using the data and a router enabled to route the wavelets via static routing, dynamic routing, or both. The routing is in accordance with a respective virtual channel specifier of each of the wavelets and controlled by routing configuration information of the router. The static techniques enable statically specifiable neuron connections. The dynamic techniques enable information from the wavelets to alter the routing configuration information during neural network processing.
US12177130B2
Some embodiments provide a method for performing deep packet inspection (DPI) for an SD-WAN (software defined, wide area network) established for an entity by a plurality of edge nodes and a set of one or more cloud gateways. At a particular edge node, the method uses local and remote deep packet inspectors to perform DPI for a packet flow. Specifically, the method initially uses the local deep packet inspector to perform a first DPI operation on a set of packets of a first packet flow to generate a set of DPI parameters for the first packet flow. The method then forwards a copy of the set of packets to the remote deep packet inspector to perform a second DPI operation to generate a second set of DPI parameters. In some embodiments, the remote deep packet inspector is accessible by a controller cluster that configures the edge nodes and the gateways. In some such embodiments, the method forwards the copy of the set of packets to the controller cluster, which then uses the remote deep packet inspector to perform the remote DPI operation. The method receives the result of the second DPI operation, and when the generated first and second DPI parameters are different, generates a record regarding the difference.
US12177125B2
The present application discloses a method, an apparatus, a device for controlling traffic limitation and a storage medium, and belongs to the field of data processing. The method for controlling traffic limitation includes: acquiring, in response to a present request, a first timestamp of the present request; acquiring a pre-created traffic limitation instance, the traffic limitation instance including N storage blocks, a total number of instance requests, a traffic limitation request threshold number, an identifier of a storage block for a previous request, a second timestamp of the previous request and request waiting time; updating the traffic limitation instance based on a time interval between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, the unit time length, and the traffic limitation request threshold number; and determining whether to perform traffic limitation based on the request waiting time in the updated traffic limitation instance.
US12177121B2
A node configured to operate in a network that operates one or more of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6), the node comprising circuitry configured to receive a packet from another node in the network, wherein the node supports both a reduced mode and a non-reduced mode, and determine whether there is an identifier in the packet that indicates whether the packet is based on the reduced mode or the non-reduced mode. The identifier can be utilized to determine whether a destination address in the packet is either an IPv6 destination address or an SRv6 micro-Segment Identifier (uSID).
US12177120B2
Techniques for loop prevention while allowing multipath in a virtual L2 network are described. In an example, a network virtualization device can generate a first L2 bridge protocol data unit by applying a first loop detection protocol specific to only the first port and the first host machine. The network virtualization device can transmit, to the first compute instance via the first port, a first frame that includes the first L2 BPDU. The network virtualization device can receive, from the first compute instance via the first port, a second frame. The network virtualization device can determine that the second frame comprises the first L2 BPDU. The network virtualization device can determine that a loop exists between the network virtualization device and the first compute instance based on the first loop detection protocol and the first L2 BPDU of the second frame.
US12177101B2
A method performed by an Internet of Things (IoT) device is disclosed. The method includes connecting to an access point of a network, transmitting data to a management server via the access point according to a first schedule, wherein the management server is separate from the access point, receiving a configuration parameter from the management server via the access point, wherein the configuration parameter defines a second schedule that is different from the first schedule, and responsive to receiving the configuration parameter transmitting data to the management server via the access point according to the second schedule, wherein the second schedule was determined by the management server such that when the IoT transmits data to the management server according to the second schedule, a number of connections with the access point by IoT devices that occur at a same time does not exceed a threshold number of connections.
US12177099B2
Technologies for collecting metrics associated with a processing resource (e.g., central processing unit (CPU) resources, accelerator device resources, and the like) over a time window are disclosed. According to an embodiment presented herein, a network device receives, in an edge network, a request to provide one or more metrics associated with a processing resource, the request specifying a window indicative of a time period to capture the one or more metrics. The network device obtains the one or more metrics from the processing resource for the specified window and provides the obtained one or more metrics in response to the request.
US12177093B2
There is provided a method for applying a penalty to a cloud service provider, while upgrading resources in a system providing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), for improved maintenance of resources according to a service level agreement (SLA), comprising iteratively: detecting a change in a number of expected resources or a number of provided resources; and upon determining that a previous unavailability event was ongoing, calculating the penalty for the previous unavailability event using a quadratic proportional function. The method also comprises computing a total penalty as the sum of the penalties for each previous unavailability event; and applying the total penalty to the cloud service provider of the IaaS. There is provided a method and network node for upgrading resources in a system based on dependencies and service level agreement (SLA) requirement including a penalty for outage of the resources, wherein calculating the penalty comprises using the quadratic proportional function.
US12177091B2
There are provided measures for network objectives management. Such measures for enabling network objectives management in radio access networks exemplarily comprise receiving a key performance indicator optimization input indicative of a key performance indicator and an optimization direction of said key performance indicator, deriving at least one key performance indicator entry based on said key performance indicator optimization input, said at least one key performance indicator entry comprising at least said optimization direction of said key performance indicator and prioritized target values for said key performance indicator, storing said at least one key performance indicator entry, deciding, for a cognitive function, a target value for said key performance indicator of said prioritized target values for said key performance indicator expected to be achieved by said cognitive function, and providing said decided target value for said key performance indicator and said optimization direction of said key performance indicator to said cognitive function.
US12177089B1
An information technology (IT) network includes configuration items (CIs) that may constantly change, where the CIs describe hardware components or software components that are configured to operate on the IT network. Machine learning techniques can be employed determine whether a CI has been changed (e.g., added, updated, or removed) in the IT network. For example, a software code or a log message associated with a CI can be analyzed to determine whether the CI is a newly added or updated within the IT network.
US12177082B2
Techniques for reacting to device event state changes that are shared over a network of user devices
Techniques are disclosed for coordinating state information between devices in a network of devices. In one example, a first user device can obtain event information identifying an event (e.g., triggering of an alarm) associated with another user device and state information identifying a state of the other device. The first user device can report the state and event information to devices in the network. Observers corresponding to each user device can identify the occurrence of the event corresponding to the event information for each user device. An action (e.g., output an audio chime) can be performed by each device with an observer that identifies the occurrence of the event corresponding to the event information for each user device.
US12177081B2
An example system including a vehicle multi-zone monitoring platform, including a network layout circuit structured to interpret a virtual network layout for a vehicle having a multi-zone network; a network characterization circuit structured to interpret network activity for the vehicle; and a network analysis circuit structured to determine a virtual network map in response to the virtual network layout and the network activity, and to provide the virtual network map to a user interface.
US12177076B2
A method for restoring a network slice includes receiving a request to restore the network slice to a previous configuration, the previous configuration and a current configuration of the network slice being stored in a datastore, generating sets of subtrees from device-specific data in the current configuration and the previous configuration to be added, removed, or replaced in the current configuration, and restoring the network slice to the previous configuration based on the sets of subtrees.
US12177075B2
Analytics information is generated in a new generation mobile network. A first network entity generates the analytics information, and a second network entity and a third network entity support the analytics generation. The first network entity is configured to obtain, from the second network entity or from one or more third network entities, past and/or current association information for an area of interest. Further, it is configured to provide analytics information based on the obtained association information for the area of interest. The past and/or current association information indicates one or more other network entities and/or network properties that, respectively, have been and/or are mapped to or serving the area of interest.
US12177060B2
A wireless communications system includes a pre-distortion actuator configured to receive a carrier-modulated signal and convert the carrier-modulated signal into an output signal, the pre-distortion actuator comprising a behavioral model that models a transmit chain of the system including at least one amplifier and at least one antenna and predict an input-output relationship of the transmit chain of the system between an input to the transmit chain to an output of the transmit chain. The system includes a phased antenna array configured to transmit the output signal. The phased antenna array includes a plurality of antenna elements, each antenna element electrically coupled to a respective power amplifier. The pre-distortion actuator is configured to generate the output signal by applying a correction to the carrier-modulated input signal that cancels out nonlinearities The behavioral model is updated based on feedback from a receiver from a previous output signal transmitted to the receiver.
US12177057B2
Device, methods, and systems for implementing aspects of orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation in wireless systems are described. In an aspect, the device may include a surface of an object for receiving an electromagnetic signal. The surface may be structured to perform a non-electrical function for the object. The surface may generate an electrical signal from an electromagnetic signal. The electromagnetic signal may be received from a transmitter. The transmitter may map digital data to a digital amplitude modulation constellation in a time-frequency space. The digital amplitude modulation constellation may be mapped to a delay-Doppler domain and the transmitter may transmit to the surface according to an orthogonal time frequency space modulation signal scheme. The apparatus may further include a demodulator to demodulate the electrical signal to determine digital data.
US12177055B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitting device may generate a waveform having an original amplitude. The transmitting device may reduce a peak portion of the original amplitude that is above a mirror level according to a reduction function that is based at least in part on a difference function associated with a difference between the mirror level and the peak portion, to obtain a reduced peak amplitude for the waveform. The transmitting device may transmit the waveform with the reduced peak amplitude. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12177050B2
A method of transmitting a frame is provided by a device in a WLAN. The device sets as additional data subcarriers some of subcarriers which are not set as data subcarriers in at least part of fields included in a frame of a legacy frame format, and allocates information to the additional data subcarriers.
US12177046B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a device, such as an internet of things (IoT) device, may include a configuration or software (e.g., in baseband) that is common for multiple applications of the device. In some aspects, the device may select a setting for at least some if not each of a set of parameters associated with or defining a device profile of the device based on an application of the device. The device may perform a mapping procedure to map the settings for the parameters associated with the device profile to one or more baseband configurations or baseband handles and the device may customize the baseband of the device using the one or more baseband configurations. As such, the device may operate or communicate using the baseband that is customized based on the device profile and application of the device.
US12177044B2
A data receiving device may include a dummy stage block. The dummy stage block may include m dummy stages, wherein m is a natural number greater than or equal to two. Each of the m dummy stages may be configured to remove inter-symbol interference (ISI) from a dummy input signal using dummy coefficient information to generate a dummy output signal free of the ISI. Each of the m dummy stages may be further configured to output the dummy output signal. A normal stage block may include n normal stages, wherein n is a natural number greater than or equal to two. Each of the n normal stages may be configured to remove ISI from an input signal using coefficient information to generate an output signal free of the ISI and may be further configured to output the output signal.
US12177042B2
This application provides a communication method and apparatus, so that a terminal device sends uplink pilot signals, the terminal device obtains a first delay information set based on downlink pilot signals from a network device, and the network device jointly considers the first delay information set and the uplink pilot signals to perform uplink channel estimation. The first delay information set may indicate a delay position of a strong path, and uplink channel estimation accuracy can be improved.
US12177040B2
Embodiments for wirelessly programming a control system of a machine, such as a vehicle, are provided. As machines typically include an intricate collection of electronic devices that communicate to one another via a complex network, the ability to reliably program such devices over a wireless connection is extremely unreliable due to network limitations or requirements, such as defined communication protocols or standards. Embodiments relate to a machine interfacing device that can wirelessly communicate with a client device that serves as both a diagnostics and programming interface. The machine interfacing device, physically coupled to the control system, can independently convert and intelligently manage communications to and from electronic devices of the machine control system. The client device can determine compatibility between the machine and the machine interfacing device, and retrieve compatible programming messages from a remote server, thereby expanding the overall utility of the machine interfacing device.
US12177039B2
A method includes providing a plurality of processes interconnected by a network, each of the plurality of processes being configured to hold a block of data destined for others of the plurality of processes. A set of data for all-to-all data exchange is received from one or more of the processes. The set of data is configured as a plurality of blocks of data in a matrix as matrix data, the matrix being distributed among the plurality of processes. The matrix data is transposed by changing the position of selected blocks of data of the plurality of blocks of data relative to the other blocks of data of the plurality of the blocks of data, without changing the structure of each of the blocks of data. The transposed matrix data is over the network and is then received, repacked, and conveyed to destination processes.
US12177033B2
In some implementations, a computing device can present accessory state information. For example, the computing device can receive accessory state information from various accessories and present status items representing the current state of the accessories. The status items can be prioritized according to classifications assigned to accessories and/or accessory state information. The status items can be filtered based on a role assigned to the user of the computing device. Additional implementations and details are described in the paragraphs that follow.
US12177028B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for enhancing HARQ-ACK timing procedure. In one aspect, a method can include encoding, by a next generation NodeB (gNB), one or more sets of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) with respect to a listen before talk (LBT) operation on an unlicensed spectrum, transmitting, by the gNB, the encoded one or more sets of PDSCHs to the UE, and determining, by the gNB, scheduling for receiving a HARQ-ACK from the UE corresponding to the one or more sets of PDSCHs based on the LBT operation.
US12177025B2
In a mobile communication system according to the present invention, with the separate use of a plurality of component carriers or with the use of a carrier set including the plurality of component carriers aggregated, a base station performs radio communication with a user equipment corresponding to the component carrier or a user equipment corresponding to the aggregated carriers. In particular, in a case where the base station performs radio communication with the user equipment corresponding to the aggregated carriers with the use of the aggregated carriers, each of a plurality of transport blocks created by dividing a transport channel is transmitted per each of the plurality of component carriers constituting the aggregated carriers, and control information related to radio communication between the base station and the user equipment corresponding to the aggregated carriers is transmitted such that physical information of the corresponding component carrier is identifiable. Accordingly, communication control is performed efficiently while improving a communication speed correspondingly to the aggregated carriers.
US12177015B2
Proposed are a method and a device for receiving a PPDU in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a reception STA receives a PPDU through a broadband from a transmission STA, and decodes the PPDU. The broadband is a 320 MHz band or a (160+160) MHz band. The PPDU includes an STF signal. The STF signal is generated on the basis of a first STF sequence for the broadband. The first STF sequence is obtained by applying a phase rotation to a sequence in which a second STF sequence for a 80 MHz band is repeated. The first STF sequence is a sequence in which a preconfigured M sequence is repeated, and is defined by a formula {M−1 −M 0 −M −1 M 0 M −1 −M 0 −M −1 M 0 −M 1 M 0 M 1 −M 0 −M 1 M 0 M 1 −M}*(1+j)/sqrt(2). A first preamble puncturing pattern includes all patterns of a band obtained by puncturing a 20 MHz band in the 320 MHz band or the (160+160) MHz band.
US12177009B1
Systems, methods, and techniques are provided for a radio link control (RLC) sublayer. An example satellite or user terminal can include a divisional of layer 2 of the OSI protocol layer structure. An example method includes providing a RLC sublayer on top of a MAC sublayer and adaptively switching, via the RLC sublayer and based on external data, between an unacknowledged mode and an acknowledged mode for the electronic communications. If the RLC sublayer is operating in the unacknowledged mode, the RLC sublayer provides one or more of (1) fragmentation and reassembly of service data units; (2) a use of RLC headers; and/or (3) no delivery guarantees. If the RLC sublayer is operating in the acknowledged mode, the RLC sublayer provides reliability in a sequence delivery service and one or more of (1) fragmentation and reassembly of service data units; and/or (2) the use of RLC headers.
US12177003B2
Methods and apparatus for data plane control of network time sync protocol in multi-host systems. A network interface controller (NIC) is configured to implement a network data plane that is associated with a software-based control plane implemented in the multi-host system. The NIC includes a primary timer and secondary timers at distributed endpoints such as network ports. The NIC receives network time packets having network timestamps and employs a secondary timer to associate a local timestamp with the packets. The network and local timestamps are compared by a network intellectual property block (network IP) in the data plane datapath to adjust the primary and secondary timer(s) to match the network time. The network IP uses a 2-bit wire protocol to increment and/or decrement the primary and secondary timer(s) that enables the timers to be adjusted with a nanosecond granularity.
US12177002B2
A wavelength division multiplexing structure comprises a first wavelength division multiplexer and a second wavelength division multiplexer, each comprises N filtering units, a branch side interface connected to each filtering units, and a line side interface, N being a positive integer; each filtering unit corresponds to one central wavelength; the line side interface of the first wavelength division multiplexer and that of the second wavelength division multiplexer are connected by an optical fiber; the N filtering units are divided into multiple filtering unit groups, and the multiple filtering unit groups are cascaded in series or cascaded in a series-parallel combination; filter units in each filtering unit group are cascaded in series; and a cascade mode and/or cascade position corresponding to each filter unit in the first wavelength division multiplexer and the second wavelength division multiplexer is at least related to the center wavelengths corresponding to the filter unit.
US12176999B2
A method of verifying display of primary visual information on a screen of an electronic visual display device in which primary visual information is displayed on the screen of the display device. Visual verification information is simultaneously displayed at a verification location of the screen. The verification location is monitored using an optical detector to determine if the visual verification information is displayed. Display of the primary visual information is verified if it is determined that the verification information has been displayed.
US12176994B2
Dynamic in-route reconfiguration in a satellite network includes receiving at least one of transmit power capability and demand requirements from one or more active satellite terminals of the satellite network, determining a resulting in-route configuration during operation of the satellite network based on the received at least one of transmit power capability and demand requirements, comparing the determined resulting in-route configuration to a current in-route configuration. When the determined resulting in-route configuration is different from the current in-route configuration, establishing the determined resulting in-route configuration as the current in-route configuration and storing the established current in-route configuration in a dynamic in-route reconfiguration manager, and transmitting the established current in-route configuration to the one or more active satellite terminals.
US12176992B2
Embodiments include methods for operating a network node in a non-terrestrial network (NTN) that utilizes one or more polarization modes for serving one or more cells. Such methods include transmitting, to one or more user equipment (UEs), an indication of at least one polarization mode configured for use in a first cell of the first NTN. The at least one polarization mode can be indicated in various ways, both explicitly and implicitly. Such methods also include transmitting and/or receiving one or more signals or channels in the first cell according to one or more configured polarization modes including the at least one indicated polarization mode. Other embodiments include complementary methods for operating UEs, as well as network nodes and UEs configured to perform such methods.
US12176988B2
Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for configuring and implementing secondary cell beam failure recovery procedures. For example, some embodiments are directed to a user equipment (UE) that includes radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry coupled to the radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to detect that a first beam associated with a secondary cell (SCell) is misaligned. The first beam is associated with a first reference signal (RS). The processor circuitry can further be configured to configure a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure for the SCell and perform the BFR procedure to replace the first beam with a second beam, wherein the second beam is associated with the SCell.
US12176968B1
A system for interfacing with a cinematography battery pack includes a proximity tag module configured to control the function(s) of the cinematography battery pack. A NFC/RFID chip is configured to transmit data for the cinematography battery pack. The NFC/RFID chip is configured to receive instructions to control the function(s) of the cinematography battery pack. A microcontroller (MCU) is in communication with the NFC/RFID chip. The MCU is configured to provide the data for the cinematography battery pack to the NFC/RFID chip. The MCU is configured to receive the instructions to control the function(s) of the cinematography battery pack from the NFC/RFID chip. A proximity tag read/write device includes a control module configured to receive the data for the cinematography battery pack from the NFC/RFID chip. The control module is configured to transmit the instructions to the NFC/RFID chip to control the function(s) of the cinematography battery pack.
US12176960B2
Method and apparatus for transferring a data signal including receiving a digital data signal by a first data input of a transmitter multiplexer; inverting the digital data signal by a first inverter, thereby providing an inverted digital data signal; receiving the inverted digital data signal by a first inverted data input of the transmitter multiplexer; counting, by a first counter, a clock signal; transmitting, by the first counter and in response to the first counter counting a threshold number of clock cycles, a first selection signal to a first selection signal input of the transmitter multiplexer; and alternately transmitting, in response to the first selection signal and by a first digital data signal output of the transmitter multiplexer, the digital data signal and the inverted digital data signal as the transmitter output signal to a receiver, the receiver and the digital data signal output operably coupled to a data link.
US12176951B1
A system architecture is described that allows mapping of different RF-wave directions (e.g., Angles of Arrival or “AoA-s”) to different optical-carrier wavelengths. Such mapping enables the transmission of all information captured by a phased array, including spatial information of the incoming RF waves, using a single optical fiber.
US12176949B2
A radio frequency (RF) transceiver comprising: a transmitter configured to produce a plurality of optical carriers; a multi-wavelength electro-optic modulator configured to receive the plurality of optical carriers from the transmitter, wherein the electro-optic modulator is configured to modulate each optical carrier using a same input RF signal, but with a different efficiency for each optical carrier so as to generate an arbitrary number of RF links with various efficiencies using a single modulation electrode; and a receiver designed to produce a synthesized transfer function based on a truncated Fourier Series and configured to use the synthesized transfer function to adjust intermodulation distortion response to optimize dynamic range for the transceiver's operating resolution bandwidth and noise characteristics.
US12176948B2
A robust wireless communications network is deployed by retrofitting spatially distributed light sockets with integrated light/communicator modules. Each light/communicator module comprises an electric lamp and a communicator unit, the communicator unit having an RF transceiver, an antenna, and a Broadband processor for communicating with other nodes in the wireless communication network, using a suitable mesh network protocol. A power conversion unit is optionally provided in each integrated light/communicator module so that the individual components of the module may operate on the standard light socket power or selectably from other power sources.
US12176947B2
A visible light communication (VLC) system transmits and receives visible light signals across a VLC channel that includes an air-water interface. A transmitter may be configured generates and transmits a visible light signal across the VLC channel to a remote device, and a signal modulator controls the transmitter to generate the visible light signal from a digital transmission signal in accordance with a modulation setting. A receiver processes a remote visible light signal received across the VLC channel from the remote device. A signal demodulator converts the remote visible light signal to a received digital signal.
US12176939B2
A transceiver circuit includes transmit circuitry comprising a transmit baseband filter and a driver amplifier having an output coupled to a power amplifier, receive circuitry comprising a low noise amplifier and a receive baseband filter, mixer circuitry and a magnetic circuit, wherein the mixer circuitry and the magnetic circuit are coupled between the transmit baseband filter and the driver amplifier, and are further coupled between the low noise amplifier and the receive baseband filter, wherein the mixer circuitry and the magnetic circuit are shared between the transmit circuitry and the receive circuitry in a time division duplexing (TDD) communication system.
US12176938B2
An exterior cover of an electronic device is provided. the exterior cover includes a cover portion including a front surface facing in a first direction, a rear surface facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a recess formed on the rear surface; and a support member having a shape corresponding to the recess and including a magnetic material accommodated therein to be detachably provided on the rear surface of the cover portion. The cover portion includes at least one metallic member disposed inside thereof, and the at least one metallic member at least partially overlaps the recess.
US12176931B2
A communication system provides reliable wideband communications with reduced power consumption in a user equipment (UE) receiver. A UE may include receiver circuitry to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from a wireless network and output an analog baseband signal. The RF signal includes M copies of a duplicated signal in a frequency domain. The analog baseband signal includes the M copies of the duplicated signal uniformly offset from one another in the frequency domain by a bandwidth F and including a gap between adjacent copies. The UE further includes an anti-aliasing analog filter an analog to digital converter (ADC). The ADC samples an output of the anti-aliasing analog filter at a sampling frequency selected to obtain a digital baseband signal comprising a combined digital copy of the M copies of the duplicated signal folded over each other.
US12176930B2
Techniques to dynamically adjust the corner frequency of a high-pass filter in response to a time-domain amplitude value of an output signal, thereby preserving accuracy while promptly recovering the signal's baseline value. A system can be configured to filter frequency-domain values of an input signal based on a filtering characteristic. The filtering characteristic can be set dynamically in response to a time-domain value of an amplitude of an output signal. The filtering characteristic can comprise a corner frequency, and the system can include a high-pass filter configured to filter out frequency components at frequencies lower than the corner frequency. The system is configured to dynamically change the corner frequency from a first value to a second value, in response to the time-domain value of the amplitude crossing a threshold value. The system may dynamically change the corner frequency within a time interval after the crossing.
US12176928B2
Disclosed are a VCD vector compression method and device based on circuit toggle behaviors. The method comprises: converting a VCD format file into a current matrix model, wherein three dimensions of the current matrix model are one time dimension and two spatial dimensions; performing preliminary screening based on an overall toggle feature: dividing the current matrix into several time segments in accordance with an equal interval in the time dimension, and performing screening according to the overall toggle feature, and forming a preliminary screened current distribution matrix by the screened time segments; performing fine screening based on region toggle features: performing further screening according to local toggle features, and forming a fine screened current distribution matrix by the screened time segments; and re-outputting the fine screened current distribution matrix as a VCD format file after vector compression.
US12176917B2
A memory system includes a memory device and a controller. The memory device outputs a codeword read from plural memory cells in response to a request. The controller is configured to establish a plurality of variable nodes and a plurality of check nodes from the codeword, perform a second flipping function operation for estimating flipping necessity and flipping frequency regarding the plurality of variable nodes based on the plurality of check nodes, determine, based on the flipping necessity and the flipping frequency, which iterative operation is performed during a first flipping operation for decoding the codeword, and perform the first flipping operation through a determined iterative operation to obtain the plurality of variable nodes.
US12176916B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. A first node generates a first bit block, performs channel coding and then transmits a first radio signal. The first bit block comprising all bits in a second bit block and all bits in a third bit block is used for an input of the channel coding, and an output of the channel coding is used for generating the first radio signal. A Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) bit block of a fourth bit block is used for generating the third bit block. The fourth bit block comprises all bits in the second bit block and all bits in a fifth bit block, the bits in the fifth bit block are of fixed values, and the fifth bit block is composed of K bits, the K being a positive integer.
US12176913B2
An analog-to-digital converter may comprise a code voltage generating part that generates a conversion code voltage according to the conversion digital code; a voltage comparing part that generates a comparison result signal by comparing the input analog voltage and the conversion code voltage; a shifting register that receives a clock signal and generates a 1-st to a n-th control pulse signals; and a code generating part that generates the conversion digital code with receiving by comparison result signal and the 1-st to the n-th control pulse signals.
US12176912B2
An electronic device which may include an analog-to-digital converter circuit that converts a level of an input signal to digital input values in response to a clock signal, an oscillator that generates the clock signal, a first equalization circuit that generates digital output signals by equalizing the digital input values, a first phase detector circuit that detects phases of the digital output signals and generates digital phase values, a loop filter that generates a first digital output value based on the digital phase values, a second equalization circuit that generates digital intermediate values by equalizing the digital input values, and a second phase detector circuit that detects phases of the digital intermediate values and to generate a second digital output value. The oscillator may adjust a frequency of the clock signal based on the first digital output value and the second digital output value.
US12176908B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, implementing a first stage including a first number of phase rotators in parallel generating respective clock phases offset by a fixed amount; a second stage including a second number of phase rotators receiving outputs from the first number of phase rotators of the first stage, the second stage outputting a first weighted sum of respective clock phases generated by the second number of phase rotators. The subject disclosure further includes the second number of phase rotators being less than the first number of phase rotators, and a total number of bits dedicated to phase selection being split across the first stage and the second stage. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12176897B2
An input buffer circuit includes a reception sensing part that receives an input signal pair to generate an intermediate signal pair, a comparison buffering part that buffers the intermediate signal pair to generate a buffered signal pair, an intrinsic buffered signal of the buffered signal pair being controlled to a first logic state as a level of the intrinsic intermediate signal is higher than a level of the complementary intermediate signal, a complementary buffered signal of the buffered signal pair is controlled to a second logic state as a level of the intrinsic intermediate signal is higher than a level of the complementary intermediate signal, and a hysteresis control part that drives the buffered signal pair to have forward hysteresis by using at least one of the intrinsic buffered signal and the complementary buffered signal.
US12176896B2
An integrated circuit (IC) may include a plurality of compute tiles in a data processing array. Each compute tile is configured to perform a data processing function. The IC may include a plurality of interface tiles in the data processing array. The plurality of interface tiles are communicatively linked to the plurality of compute tiles. The IC may include a plurality of programmable stream switches disposed in the plurality of compute tiles and the plurality of interface tiles. The IC may include a functional safety circuit. The functional safety circuit is connected to a selected programmable stream switch of the plurality of programmable stream switches. The functional safety circuit is configured to perform a functional safety function on a plurality of data streams routed to the functional safety circuit from the selected programmable stream switch.
US12176893B2
A switching circuit comprises a first series switch coupled to a first output port, the first series switch including a first field-effect transistor (FET), a second FET, a third FET, a fourth FET, a fifth FET, and a sixth FET, a second series switch coupled to a second output port, and coupling circuitry configured to couple a gate of the fifth FET and a gate of the sixth FET to a first node, a source of the fifth FET and a drain of the sixth FET to a second node, a source of the first FET and a drain of the second FET to a third node, a gate of the first FET and a drain of the fifth FET to a fourth node, a gate of the second FET and a source of the sixth FET to a fifth node, the fourth node and the fifth node to a first gate voltage, and the first node to a second gate voltage that is different than the first gate voltage.
US12176889B2
An integrated circuit includes a power-on reset (POR) circuit, a watchdog timer, a first AND gate and a power management control circuit. The POR circuit is used to receive an input voltage to generate a POR signal and generate a clock signal. The watchdog timer is used to generate a timeout signal according to the clock signal when the POR signal has an enabling voltage, the clock signal enabling generation of timeout pulses in the timeout signal at predetermined time intervals. The first AND gate including a first input terminal for receiving the POR signal; a second input terminal for receiving the timeout signal; and an output terminal for outputting a reset signal according to the POR signal and the timeout signal. The power management control circuit is used to reset an output current in response to a reset pulse in the reset signal.
US12176888B2
Methods and devices to reduce gate induced drain leakage current in RF switch stacks are disclosed. The described devices utilize multiple discharge paths and/or less negative body bias voltages without compromising non-linear performance and power handling capability of power switches. Moreover, more compact bias voltage generation circuits with smaller footprint can be implemented as part of the disclosed devices.
US12176887B2
A power stage includes: a first transformer; a second transformer; a third transformer; a GaN (gallium nitride) enhancement mode power transistor configured to conduct a load current when driven by a gate current derived from energy transferred by the first transformer; a GaN depletion mode transistor configured to turn off the GaN enhancement mode power transistor absent a threshold voltage applied across a gate and a source of the GaN depletion mode transistor; a voltage clamping device or circuit configured to turn off the GaN depletion mode transistor when reverse biased by a bias current derived from energy transferred by the second transformer; and a GaN enhancement mode transistor configured to turn on the GaN depletion mode transistor when driven by a gate current derived from energy transferred by the third transformer.
US12176884B2
A surface acoustic wave resonator, a filter, a manufacturing method thereof and a communication device. The surface acoustic wave resonator includes a piezoelectric material layer, an interdigital transducer and a dielectric layer; the interdigital transducer is located at a side of the piezoelectric material layer, and the dielectric layer is located between the interdigital transducer and the piezoelectric material layer. Therefore, the surface acoustic wave resonator can reduce the electromechanical coupling coefficient of the surface acoustic wave resonator by arranging the dielectric layer between the interdigital transducer and the piezoelectric material layer. In addition, the surface acoustic wave resonator can adjust the electromechanical coupling coefficient of the surface acoustic wave resonator by controlling the thickness of the dielectric layer.
US12176883B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to acoustic wave filter. The acoustic wave filter can include different types of acoustic wave resonators. The acoustic wave filter can include shunt acoustic wave resonator that has lower second harmonic distortion than other acoustic wave resonators of the acoustic wave filter. In certain embodiments, the shunt acoustic wave resonator can be a surface acoustic wave resonator. Related multiplexers, radio frequency modules, wireless communication devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US12176882B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to multiplexers with acoustic wave resonators. The multiplexer includes a first filter and a second filter. The first filter includes a plurality of bulk acoustic wave resonators and a shunt surface acoustic wave resonator. The shunt acoustic wave resonator can have a resonant frequency in a passband of the second filter. The passband of the second filter is below a passband of the first filter. In certain applications, the first filter is a receive filter and the second filter is a transmit filter.
US12176873B2
The present application relates to a method and a circuit for dynamic range control based on peak level and RMS level double-level detection. The method includes: processing an input signal by an equalizer, to obtain an equalized signal; detecting a signal peak level and a signal RMS level of the equalized signal, to obtain the signal peak level and the signal RMS level; adjusting a parameter configuration of a dynamic range controller according to the signal peak level and the signal RMS level; adjusting a dynamic gain of the dynamic range controller according to the parameter configuration, and adjusting the equalized signal by using the adjusted gain, and then outputting the adjusted equalized signal. The method can not only control the dynamic range of the signal but also improve the clipping distortion of the signal.
US12176871B2
An adaptive continuous-time linear equalizer (CTLE) includes a CTLE cell including input terminals and output terminals, a low-pass filter configured to respectively output low-band differential signals obtained by respectively low-pass filtering differential output signals, and an error amplifier configured to amplify a difference between the low-band differential signals and output the difference as a control voltage. The CTLE cell includes first and second transistors each including an input terminal and an output terminal and an offset compensator configured to adjust a potential difference between a supply voltage source and the output terminal according to the control voltage.
US12176863B2
There is disclosed an amplifier circuit comprising: an amplifier having input and output terminals; a temperature dependent variable impedance unit comprising: a first terminal, a second terminal and a variable impedance unit control terminal; a transistor comprising a transistor control terminal coupled to the variable impedance unit control terminal; a first resistor coupled in parallel with the conduction channel; a capacitor coupled in series with the conduction channel between the conduction channel and one of: the first terminal; and the second terminal; and wherein: the first terminal is coupled to one of: the input terminal and the output terminal; the second terminal is for coupling to a reference node; and the variable impedance unit control terminal is configured to receive a control signal that is based on a measured temperature indicative of a temperature of the amplifier circuit and thereby provide a temperature dependent variable impedance for the amplifier circuit.
US12176862B2
An amplifier circuits inductive/magnetic sensor interface can include a main signal path including one or more amplifiers configured to receive an input signal and to produce an output signal based on the input signal. The input signal may include a square-wave demodulated signal having an associated modulation frequency and an undesired frequency component at twice the modulation frequency of the square-wave demodulated signal. The amplifier circuit may include a gain feedback loop configured to set a gain of the amplifier circuit. The amplifier circuit may include a ripple reduction feedback loop configured to receive an intermediate signal on the main signal path and extract the undesired frequency component of the intermediate signal to produce a filtered version of the intermediate signal and provide the filtered version of the intermediate signal to the main signal path.
US12176860B2
A high frequency amplifier includes an asymmetrical Doherty amplifier having a carrier amplifier, a peak amplifier, a branch circuit, and a phase adjusting circuit, a driver amplifier, and a base member mounting a first circuit board mounting the driver amplifier, the carrier amplifier, and the peak amplifier and a second circuit board mounting the circuits. The branch circuit divides a path of a RF signal into input paths of the peak and carrier amplifiers. The driver amplifier, the carrier amplifier, and the peak amplifier have rear surfaces in contact with the base member. The electrical length from the output terminal of the driver amplifier to the input terminal of the peak amplifier, when converted based on a phase of the signal, is from (2n+1)×π−π/4 to (2n+1)×π+π/4, where n is an integer greater than or equal to zero.
US12176858B2
Systems and methods for amplifying a signal is described. A circuit may convert an input radio frequency (RF) signal into a first RF signal with power level matching a power capacity of a first transistor of a first size in a carrier amplifier stage, a second RF signal with power level matching a power capacity of a second transistor of the first size in a peaking amplifier stage, and a third RF signal with third power level matching a power capacity of a third transistor of a second size in another peaking amplifier stage. The circuit may amplify the first, second, and third RF signals to generate first, second, and third amplified RF signals, respectively. The circuit may combine the first, second, and third amplified RF signals, into an output RF signal that is an amplified version of the input RF signal.
US12176850B2
A wireless self-charging power pack including a solution processed conductive thin film integrating a solar cell with a solid-state supercapacitor. Additionally, a method of forming a wireless self-charging power pack including integrating a solar cell with a solid-state supercapacitor by forming a layer of conductive thin film between the solar cell and the solid-state supercapacitor through solution processing of the material forming the conductive thin film.
US12176848B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for an adaptive photovoltaic system. Solar panel strings comprise solar panels. An adaptive maximum power point tracking (“MPPT”) translator module is in electrical communication with the solar panels of the solar panel strings. An adaptive MPPT translator module comprises a voltage converting unit. An adaptive MPPT translator module is configured to control the solar panels of the solar panel strings according to a MPPT translator algorithm so that each of the solar panel strings vary in number of the solar panels and in power output capacity of the solar panels and physical configurations of the solar panel strings are adaptive to power needs, physical surfaces, and environmental geometric space constraints. A power bus provides electrical communication between the adaptive MPPT translator module and a power hub in electrical communication with a power demand.
US12176846B2
A solar module racking system including a frame. The frame includes pre-wired receptacles for rapid assembly of solar modules. The frame receives and mechanically supports each solar module. The frame arranges the solar modules in a first planar direction, in a second planar direction, and in a vertical direction that is normal to the first and second planar directions. Each pre-wired receptacles individually and electrically connect each of the solar modules after insertion of that module into the frame. The solar module racking system provides a 2 by 1 by 1 configuration or a 1 by 2 by 1 configuration for the plurality of solar modules corresponding to the first planar direction, the second planar direction, and the vertical direction. A first module and a second module are arranged in the first planar direction or the second planar direction, respectively.
US12176845B2
A hybrid solar wind power generation device includes a wind-driven module and a solar module drivingly connected with a drive shaft of a power generator. The wind-driven module has a wind-driven blade set drivable by wind power to drive the drive shaft for driving the power generator to generate power. The solar panel set has multiple solar panels arranged at intervals to drive the motor for driving the solar panel and the drive shaft to rotate. Both the wind-driven module and the solar module serve to drive the drive shaft for driving the power generator to generate power. During the process of power generation, the sunlight passes through the hollow sections between the wind-driven blades and the solar panels in rotation and project onto the ground. This improves the shortcoming that the sunlight is blocked from the space under the equipment.
US12176841B2
A new method and circuit arrangement for operating a stepper motor in a voltage-based operating mode with a control loop over the whole operating range of speeds of a stepper motor. The method/circuit arrangement includes calculating a load angle of the stepper motor. The load angle is then used to calculate a voltage-based control signal suitable for operating a known motor driver circuit, such as a chopper, to drive the stepper motor coils. This enables improved control over the stepper motor which can improve control stability.
US12176840B2
A motor driver of setting pulse width modulation at commutation time points of a motor is provided. A commutation control circuit outputs a phase control signal and a commutation starting signal according to a preset phase angle and a commutation signal of the motor. A pulse width modulation calculating circuit determines a starting time point of each of a plurality of cycles of a pulse width modulation signal according to the commutation starting signal. The pulse width modulation calculating circuit determines time of each of the plurality of cycles of the pulse width modulation signal according to the phase control signal. The pulse width modulation calculating circuit determines widths of a plurality of pulse waves of the pulse width modulation signal according to a target rotational speed of the motor. A motor driver circuit drives the motor according to the pulse width modulation signal.
US12176837B2
A method for flying start control of a motor, a computer readable medium, and a power conversion system having an inverter and a controller configured by computer executable instructions in a memory to perform flying start of a rotating motor by field weakening control to control the motor responsive to the motor speed exceeding the rated speed or other non-zero threshold at startup of the power conversion system. The method includes measuring a motor speed of a motor, responsive to startup of a power conversion system, and performing a flying start operation using field weakening control to control the motor responsive to the motor speed exceeding a non-zero threshold at startup of the power conversion system.
US12176835B2
A method for operating a planar drive system is specified. The planar drive system comprises a stator, a plurality of rotors and a main controller. The stator comprises a plurality of energizable stator conductors. Energizing of stator conductors of the stator can be controlled via the main controller. Each rotor comprises a magnet device having at least one rotor magnet. A magnetic interaction can be produced between energized stator conductors of the stator and the magnet devices of the rotors in order to drive the rotors. At least one individual rotor identifier is assigned to each rotor. An identification of the rotors is carried out by providing position information of the rotors and rotor identifiers of the rotors and linking the provided position information of the rotors to the provided rotor identifiers of the rotors via the main controller.
US12176833B2
The present invention is directed at a method for operating rotating machinery, such as an electric motor, by means of a variable speed drive (VSD). The variable speed drive is provided for identifying mechanical resonance points by means of a sensor and corresponding speeds of the machinery; storing the speeds at which the identified mechanical resonance points occur; and bypassing the speeds at which the identified mechanical resonance points occur during operation of the rotating machinery. The invention is also directed at a variable speed drive for performing said method.
US12176822B2
A method of monitoring condition of a modular multilevel converter, wherein the modular multilevel converter includes submodules having a capacitor and controllable switches. The method including selecting a submodule, controlling the controllable switches of the selected submodule to form a current path through the submodule by controlling at least one controllable switch to a conducting state and at least one controllable switch to a blocking state, disconnecting the voltage of the capacitor of the selected submodule from the submodule, performing measurements on at least one controllable switch that was controlled to a blocking state.
US12176815B2
An apparatus for power conversion comprises a voltage transformation element, a regulating element, and a controller; wherein, a period of the voltage transformation element is equal to a product of a coefficient and a period of the regulating circuit, and wherein the coefficient is selected from a group consisting of a positive integer and a reciprocal of said integer.
US12176810B2
A novel oscillator, an amplifier circuit, an inverter circuit, an amplifier circuit, a battery control circuit, a battery protection circuit, a power storage device, a semiconductor device, an electric device, and the like are provided. The semiconductor device includes an oscillator including a first transistor containing a metal oxide, and a second transistor to a fifth transistor, in which a first potential is supplied to a gate of the second transistor and a gate of the third transistor when the first transistor is turned on, and the first potential is held when the first transistor is turned off. The oscillator supplies a first signal based on the first potential to a first circuit. The first circuit performs at least one of shaping and amplification on the first signal. The second transistor and the fourth transistor are connected in series, and the third transistor and the fifth transistor are connected in series. A source or a drain of the third transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the fourth transistor, and a source or a drain of the fourth transistor is electrically connected to the gate of the third transistor.
US12176808B2
A high-side switch and a low-side switch respectively drive the inductor in a first phase and a second phase periodically. The inductor current during a longer phase of the first phase and the second phase is measured as a first portion. Peak of the inductor current at a transition from the shorter phase to the longer phase is estimated. The estimating includes comparing an estimated magnitude with a first magnitude of the inductor current at the transition in a first period, and changing the estimated magnitude. The comparing and changing are repeated until the estimated magnitude equals the first magnitude to identify the peak. A second portion of the inductor current during the shorter phase is generated based on the estimated magnitude. The first and second portions are provided as an emulated current of the inductor current.
US12176806B2
The present disclosure relates to a power factor correction circuit, a control method, and an electrical appliance. The power factor correction circuit may include: a power regulation branch, including a first switching unit, a second switching unit and a branch sampling resistor connected in series sequentially; an inductive branch, connected between an AC power source and a power regulation branch; a rectifier branch, including a first rectifier unit and a second rectifier unit, the rectifier branch may include a main line sampling resistor; a capacitance branch; a control circuit sampling a branch current flowing through each of the branch sampling resistors and a main line current flowing through the main line sampling resistor respectively, and controlling the switching of each power regulation branch sequentially. With the branch sampling resistor and the main line sampling resistor, the overall cost of the power factor correction circuit may be reduced.
US12176805B2
A control architecture that overcomes limitations of conventional ac-dc converters and enables bidirectional active and reactive power processing is provided. In one implementation, for example, this may be achieved through the use of unrectified sensed ac signals in the generation of the control commands for the converter. This control architecture, in this example implementation, eliminates or at least reduces zero crossing distortions in the ac current of the converter even with relatively low bandwidth controllers. The concept can be applied to different power stage topologies.
US12176803B2
Increases in current drawn from power supply nodes in a computer system can result in unwanted drops in the voltages of the power supply nodes until power supply circuits can compensate for the increased load. To lessen the effects of increases in load currents, a decoupling circuit that includes a diode may be coupled to the power supply node. During a charge mode, a control circuit applies a current to the diode to store charge in the diode. During a boost mode, the control circuit can couple the diode to the power supply node. When the voltage level of the power supply node begins to drop, the diode can source a current to the power supply node using the previously stored charge. The diode may be directly coupled to the power supply node or be part of a switch-based system that employs multiple diodes to increase the discharge voltage.
US12176798B2
A rotary table includes a housing having a first groove, a second groove and a drainage channel connecting the first groove and the second groove, a motor, a shaft located in the housing and provided with a guide portion, and a leak detection belt set in an accommodation chamber in the housing and embedded in the second groove. In this way, if liquid enters the housing, the guide portion of the shaft guides the liquid into the first groove, so that the liquid reaches the second groove along the drainage channel. At this time, the leak detection belt can be used for leakage detection to protect key components.
US12176795B2
The present invention provides a rotary electric machine which suppresses a temperature rise of bearings by reducing heat transfer from internal air to the bearings and heat conduction from a rotor core, and improves the lubrication life of the bearings. A rotary electric machine of the present invention comprises a rotor including a shaft; a stator placed facing the rotor with a certain gap (an air gap) therebetween and supported by a stator frame; bearings which sustain the shaft; and end brackets which hold the bearings, wherein one of the end brackets includes a heat insulating layer on an inner side or an outer side of the machine to prevent heat from flowing into the bearings.
US12176793B2
The invention relates to a method for regulating an acceleration of a turbomachine, the turbomachine comprising a combustion chamber, a high-pressure turbine located downstream of the combustion chamber and which drives a high-pressure shaft in rotation, and a low-pressure turbine located downstream of the high-pressure turbine and which drives a low-pressure shaft in rotation, characterized in that the method comprises the following steps: injecting mechanical power onto the high-pressure shaft until a speed of the high-pressure shaft attains a target value, then extracting mechanical power from the high-pressure shaft so as to maintain the speed at the target value.
US12176790B2
A brushless motor includes a motor part and a gear part. The motor part includes: a rotating shaft, having a first gear; a rotor, having a bottom wall and a side wall, the bottom wall being fixed to the rotating shaft; magnets, fixed to the side wall and arranged side by side in a circumferential direction of the rotor; a stator, provided between the rotating shaft and the magnets in a radial direction of the rotor and wound with a coil; and a motor housing, rotatably supporting the rotating shaft, and accommodating the rotor and the stator. The gear part includes: a second gear, meshed with the first gear; an output shaft, having an output part, having a base end side thereof fixed to the second gear, and parallel to the rotating shaft; and a gear housing, rotatably supporting the output shaft, and accommodating the second gear.
US12176785B2
A waterproof fan includes: a rotating blade configured to be rotatable about a rotation axis; a rotor including a permanent magnet; a stator including a plurality of stator cores located on an inner diameter side relative to the rotating blade, the plurality of stator cores extending in a radial direction relative to the rotation axis, and windings each wound around a respective stator core; a circuit board electrically connected to the windings; a waterproof cover including a first resin, the waterproof cover covering the circuit board; and a molded portion including a second resin, the molded portion covering at least the stator, the waterproof cover includes: a partitioning portion separating the windings from the circuit board; and a protruding portion protruding from the partitioning portion into a space between the windings, and gaps between the windings, and the partitioning portion and the protruding portion are filled with the second resin.
US12176784B2
A magnetic field apparatus includes a main magnet that generates a magnetic field with respect to an armature, a member made of a soft magnetic material and disposed adjacent to an end surface of the main magnet on a side opposing the armature, an auxiliary magnet that increases a magnetic flux of a magnetic pole of the main magnet on the side opposing the armature and disposed adjacent to the main magnet and the member in a relative moving direction between the magnetic field apparatus and the armature, and a restricting part that restricts the magnetic flux of the main magnet passing through an end surface of the member along a third direction that is perpendicular to both a first direction in which the main magnet and the armature oppose each other, and a second direction corresponding to the relative moving direction between the magnetic field apparatus and the armature.
US12176780B2
In a brushless motor including a stator core and a rotor which rotates with respect to the stator core, a coil support wall supports a coil wound around a core main body part from a radially inner side of the core main body part. A first wall part and a second wall part constituting the coil support wall are connected to each other at an angle at a portion of a tooth tip part protruding from a tooth main body part along a circumferential direction of the core main body part, and a thickness dimension of the second wall part is equal to or larger than a thickness dimension of the first wall part along a radial direction of the core main body part.
US12176778B2
In a rotating electric machine that includes an armature with an armature coil, the armature coil is formed by winding an electrical conductor wire. The electrical conductor wire includes a plurality of element wires in a bundled state and an insulating coat covering the bundled element wires. Each of the element wires includes an electrical conductor through which electric current flows, and a fusing layer that covers a surface of the electrical conductor. In the bundled state of the element wires, the fusing layers of the element wires are in contact with and fused to one another. Between adjacent parts of the electrical conductor wire wound to form the armature coil, there are formed gaps due to differences in straightness between different parts of the electrical conductor wire. The gaps are filled with a filler.
US12176776B2
According to one embodiment, a stator includes a stator core and a stator coil configured by joining a plurality of coil segments mounted in slots of the stator core. Extending portions of the coil segments include a plurality of first extending portions, an inclined portion, and a joining end portion and a hook-shaped portion provided at an extending end of the inclined portion. The joining end portions are arranged side by side in a radial direction such that distal end surfaces are located at substantially the same height, the hook-shaped portions are meshed with each other, and a first engagement surface of one of the joining end portions faces and abuts on a first engagement surface of the other of the joining end portions.
US12176773B2
The rotary electric machine (1) comprises a casing (10), a stator (40) comprising a stator body (41) secured within the casing and comprising first (411) and second (412) longitudinal end faces, notches (44) arranged and extending longitudinally within the stator body between the first and second longitudinal end faces, a coil passing longitudinally through the stator body through the notches and comprising first (43) and second (42) coil head assemblies extending in projection from at least one of the first and second longitudinal end faces of the stator body, a first chamber (15) in the shape of a ring portion arranged around the first coil head assembly and a second chamber (14) in the shape of a ring portion arranged around the second coil head assembly, the first and second chambers being in fluid communication with one another by the notches, one among the first and second chambers being a coolant inlet chamber and the other among the first and second chambers being a coolant discharge chamber such that a flow of coolant between the first and second annular chambers is forced into the notches while the rotary electric machine is in operation.
US12176772B2
The invention relates to an impregnation device for trickle impregnation of a stator of an electric machine with a synthetic resin which cures under an increase in temperature, the stator having a hollow cylindrical stator core and at least one winding, a drive shaft being arranged coaxially inside the stator and being drivable by a drive motor, at least one holding device being arranged on the drive shaft, by means of which holding device the stator can be detachably connected to the drive shaft.
US12176768B2
A motor driving apparatus includes: a first inverter including: a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a first end of each of the windings; a second inverter including: a plurality of second switching elements and connected to a second end of each of the windings; and a controller configured to control a switching state of the plurality of first switching elements and the plurality of second switching elements based on a driving mode of the motor in one sampling period.
US12176760B2
An interior permanent magnet motor includes a rotor with permanent magnets spaced apart in a circumferential direction, and a rotor core with core pieces positioned between adjacent permanent magnets. The permanent magnets include a pair of corner portions at each of an end on an outside in a radial direction and an end on an inside in the radial direction. Each of the core pieces includes at least one of an outer support portion that supports one corner portion of the pair of corner portions at the end of the permanent magnets on the outside in the radial direction or an inner support portion that supports one corner portion of the pair of corner portions at the end of the permanent magnets on the inside in the radial direction, and restricts movement of the permanent magnets in the radial direction.
US12176757B2
A stator mount and a tool for adjusting the position of a stator mount of a stator of a generator of a wind turbine. The stator mount comprises a support member having a plurality of elongate both holes which provide adjustability between the stator mount and the frame of a generator housing, or between separate components of the stator mount itself. The stator mount may comprise one or more adjustment devices for adjusting the position of the stator mount in use. A tool is provided which may be used to adjust the position of the stator mounts. The tool attaches to the frame of the generator and comprises one or more adjustment devices for adjusting the position of the stator in use.
US12176750B2
A method and system creating a distributed network suitable for transferring information between devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to power generating server devices designed to act as nodes within a distributed network. Specifically, the present disclosure provides specialized devices designed to generate power using solar panels to power servers that are capable of operating as nodes within a distributed network.
US12176744B2
A battery charger usable with rechargeable battery. The battery charger includes a housing and a handle. The housing includes a connection rail. The connection rail slidably interfaces with the rechargeable battery. The connection rail extends parallel to a plane. The handle is movably coupled to the housing. The handle can be positioned in at least a first position and a and a second position. In the first position, at least a portion of the handle intersects with the plane. In the second position, the plane is not obstructed by the handle.
US12176743B1
A charging stand is provided to place and store a plurality of electronic equipment when being charged at the same time. The charging stand includes a charging stand main body and a support baffle portion. The support baffle portion includes a first support baffle, a second support baffle and a third support baffle, which are connected with the charging stand main body. Charging placement spaces and spacings are formed among these support baffles.
US12176742B2
A rechargeable battery jump starting device and a rechargeable battery assembly for use in the portable rechargeable battery jump starting device. The portable rechargeable battery jump starting device maximizes the power conducted from the rechargeable battery assembly to a battery being jump started.
US12176740B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for electrical switching. In some examples, electrical switching is performed by a plurality of switching arrangements. The plurality of switching arrangements may be connected in parallel to one another.
US12176737B2
An acquisition unit of management unit acquires monitoring data including at least one of voltage and state of charge of a plurality of power storage packs connected in parallel. A switch controller can individually control on/off of a plurality of switches based on a voltage difference between the plurality of power storage packs or an SOC difference between the plurality of power storage packs. When calculating the entire capacity of the plurality of power storage packs, a capacity calculator also adds the capacity of power storage pack connected to a switch in an off state in a case where the switch can be controlled to an on state in future.
US12176726B2
Disclosed are an artificial intelligence algorithm-based wireless power transmitter, wireless power receiver, and wireless power charging system that are capable of high-speed response to environmental changes and that can optimize the power efficiency of a wireless power receiver, estimate a dynamic location from a signal received from the wireless power receiver using artificial intelligence technology, and dynamically transmit wireless power to a prioritized wireless power receiver according to a power state.
US12176714B2
A first energy converter that can consume a first physical energy form of a first energy delivery network can be controlled to produce a second physical energy form of a second energy delivery network and inject the second physical energy form into the second energy delivery network. A second energy converter that can consume the second physical energy form of the second energy delivery system can be controlled to produce the first physical energy form of the first energy delivery network and inject the first physical energy form into the first energy deliver network. The controlling of the first energy converter and the controlling of the second energy converter can be coordinated. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US12176711B2
Disclosed techniques relate to orchestrating power consumption reductions across a number of hosts. A current value for an aggregate power threshold of a plurality of hosts may be identified. During a first time period, an aggregate power consumption of the plurality of hosts may be managed using the current value for the aggregate power threshold. A triggering event indicating a modification to the aggregate power threshold is needed may be detected. A new value for the aggregate power threshold may be determined based on the triggering event. During a second time period, the aggregate power consumption of the plurality of hosts may be managed using the new value for the aggregate power threshold.
US12176705B2
The aim of the invention is to detect an arc in an assembly for transmitting a direct voltage. This aim is achieved by a communication transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, the secondary winding being connected to a transmitting device, which is designed to impress a communication signal onto the secondary winding of the communication transformer, and the primary winding being connected to one of the direct voltage lines in order to feed a communication signal transformed by the communication transformer to one of the direct voltage lines. In order to detect, in the assembly, the arc signal caused by an arc, the secondary winding is connected to an arc detection unit, which is designed to detect an arc signal transformed by the communication transformer.
US12176704B2
A power supply apparatus includes: a first battery configured to supply power; a first converter configured to step down a voltage output from the first battery to a first voltage; a second converter configured to step down the voltage output from the first battery to a second voltage lower than the first voltage; a third converter configured to convert the first voltage into the second voltage; a fourth converter configured to convert the second voltage into the first voltage; a first controller configured to supply the first voltage output from the first converter to at least one of a first load or the third converter; and a second controller configured to supply the second voltage output from the second converter to at least one of a second load or the fourth converter.
US12176702B2
The present disclosure relates to electronic equipment, and especially relates to an alternating current transmission circuit. The alternating current transmission circuit includes power supply circuit and a switch circuit coupled with the power supply circuit. The switch circuit includes a main control circuit, a surge detection circuit, and a first switch device connected in series in the power supply circuit. The main control circuit is signal connected with the first switch device and configured to control on-off of the power supply circuit by controlling the first switch device. An input terminal of the surge detection circuit is connected with the power supply circuit, and an output terminal of the surge detection circuit is connected with the main control circuit.
US12176692B2
An electrical junction box includes a body having an accommodation space, a first cover attached around a pivot shaft of the body to cover a part of the accommodation space, a second cover attached to the body to cover another part of the accommodation space and a conductor portion to transmit electric power. The first cover includes an interfering portion to move around the pivot shaft in accordance with pivoting of the first cover when the first cover is being opened or closed. The second cover includes an interfered portion to be arranged on a movement locus of the interfering portion when the second cover is closed, and not arranged on the movement locus when the second cover is opened. The conductor portion includes a portion arranged in the part of the accommodation space and to be isolated from the outside by the first cover.
US12176688B1
A system, method, and apparatus lubricating a wire or cable during manufacturing, wherein the wire is aligned with an entry to a spraying enclosure and passes through a first seal of the spraying enclosure. Lubricant is sprayed onto the wire inside of the spraying enclosure while the unapplied, but sprayed, lubricant is collected at the bottom of the spraying enclosure. The wire passes through a second seal of the spraying enclosure, is aligned, and exits from the spraying enclosure.
US12176686B2
A multi-spark gap for an overvoltage protector, having multiple electrodes and insulation elements arranged between the electrodes, a holding arrangement for mechanical holding and for making electrical contact with the electrodes of the multi-spark gap, wherein the holding arrangement has at least a first electrically conductive clamping element, a second electrically conductive clamping element, and a first electrically conductive connecting element, wherein the electrodes are arranged between the first clamping element and the second clamping element, wherein the first clamping element makes electrical contact with the first electrode of the multi-spark gap, and wherein the second clamping element makes electrical contact with the last electrode of the multi-spark gap, and wherein the at least first connecting element mechanically connects the first clamping element and the second clamping element to one another.
US12176681B2
An optical kit includes a base including a main surface; and a holding unit provided on the main surface to hold an optical system. The holding unit includes a lens holding unit that holds a lens, a reflector holding unit that holds a corner reflector, a first aperture member holding unit that holds a first aperture member, a second aperture member holding unit that holds a second aperture member, and a third aperture member holding unit that holds a third aperture member. The reflector holding unit includes a first mechanism that holds an entirety of the corner reflector so as to be rotatable along the main surface, and a second mechanism configured to adjust an optical axis of a diffracted light in each of a reflective diffraction grating and a mirror.
US12176680B2
In some implementations, an electrical drive circuit may include a first optical load terminal to receive an anode of a first optical load. The electrical drive circuit may include a junction section that includes a first electrical junction and a second optical load terminal to receive a cathode of the first optical load and an anode of a second optical load. The electrical drive circuit may include a third optical load terminal to receive a cathode of the second optical load; a first switch connected between the third optical load terminal and a common ground; a coupling capacitor connected between the first electrical junction and a second electrical junction; a second switch connected between the second electrical junction and the common ground; and an inductor connected from a second branch of the second electrical junction and between the second electrical junction and the common ground.
US12176671B1
An electrician plier is provided, it includes a first head and a second head. The first head is provided with a first positioning member and a first rotating disc, and the first rotating disc is connected to the first head, first crimping teeth and first crimping grooves are provided at a periphery of the first rotating disc, first positioning holes are defined on the first rotating disc, and the first positioning member is matched and connected with the first positioning holes. The second head is provided with a second positioning member and a second rotating disc, and the second rotating disc is connected to the second head, and second crimping teeth and second crimping grooves are provided at a periphery of the second rotating disc, and second positioning holes matched and connected with the second positioning holes are defined on the second rotating disc.
US12176668B2
A lever connector for contacting electrical conductors may include features and improvements over other lever connectors. The lever connector includes a housing, a busbar located within the housing, one or more lever mechanisms, and one or more resilient members that connect the lever mechanisms to the busbar. The lever mechanism includes a lever located on a near side of the busbar bridge and a lifting mechanism located on a far side of the busbar bridge opposite the near side of the busbar bridge. The resilient member includes a fixed section connected to the busbar bridge and a clamping section connected to the lifting mechanism. When the lever is actuated and lifted upwards and away from the housing, the lifting mechanism moves the clamping section of the resilient member to release away from the busbar base surface. When the lever is closed and pushed downward toward the housing, the lifting mechanism moves the clamping section of the resilient member downward to push the electrical conductor against the busbar base surface, thereby making electrical contact between the electrical conductor and the busbar.
US12176662B2
The present invention relates to a carrier rail (1) for a carrier rail system, comprising: an elongate carrier profile (2); a busbar (4) having at least one electrical conductor (40) for electrically connecting electrical or electronic components (3), wherein the busbar (4) extends along the carrier profile (2); and an adapter element (5) having a first connection (6) and a connecting element (8) and also an adapter housing (9) for carrying the first connection (6) and/or the connecting element (8), wherein the first connection (6) can be coupled electrically and/or by means of signals to the busbar (4) via the connecting element (8), and wherein the first connection (6) is configured for connecting a corresponding second connection (70) of an electrical or electronic component (7) such that the electrical or electronic component (7) can be coupled electrically and/or by means of signals to the busbar (4) via the connecting element (8). The invention also relates to a carrier rail system that comprises the carrier rail according to the invention.
US12176658B2
A connector including a casing, a base, a rear plug, a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals, a middle shielding, an upper shielding and a lower shielding. The base is disposed in the casing and includes an upper portion, a middle portion and a lower portion. The rear plug is disposed at a side of the lower portion. The first terminals are insert molded on the upper portion. Each of the second terminals includes a first portion and a second portion that are connected in a bent manner. The first portions are insert molded on the lower portion, and the second portions are insert molded on the rear plug. The middle shielding passes through the middle portion and is disposed between the first terminals and the second terminals. The upper shielding and the lower shielding are fixed to the base.
US12176656B2
An electrical connector includes first and second adjacent electrical contacts that each define respective first and second mating ends, the first mating end of a first one of the first and second adjacent electrical contacts defines a first contact surface, the second mating end of a second one of the first and second adjacent electrical contacts defines a second contact surface electrically isolated from the first contact surface; and a dielectric material positioned between the first and second adjacent electrical contacts. When a mating connector applies a force to the first contact surface and the second contact surface, the first and second mating ends and the dielectric material all move in a first direction.
US12176649B2
The present invention includes a plug bolt and a bolt seat. The plug bolt includes a bolt pin having a receiving hole that receives a circuit device including an RFID chip electrically connected with a main circuit and a radiation unit. The receiving hole defines a hole body arranged in an axial direction, and an open hole bottom at a bottom of the hole body. The main circuit includes a lower contact point. The radiation unit induces an effect of coupling feed with respect to the hold body to make the bolt pin forming an upper monopole antenna. The bolt seat includes a lower monopole antenna and a locking hole into which the bolt pin is insertable. When the lower monopole antenna is electrically connected with the lower contact point, the upper and lower monopole antennas jointly form a standard dipole antenna to emit a signal that is monitorable.
US12176642B2
A flat flexible cable (FFC) is configured to facilitate high-speed communications, such as USB Superspeed 3.0 signals, between processors. The FFC includes at least two differential signal pairs arranged directly adjacent to one another on opposite sides of an isolation gap consisting of non-conductive material. The size of the isolation gap may be tailored in proportion to the frequency of signals supported by the FFC.
US12176625B2
Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for position-based playback of multichannel audio. Some embodiments include (i) determining first and second positions of first and second playback devices, respectively, (ii) receiving media content comprising multichannel content, (iii) generating first audio according to a first sound characteristic based on the received multichannel audio content and the first position of the first playback device, (iv) generating first audio according to a first sound characteristic based on the received multichannel audio content and the first position of the first playback device, and (v) causing synchronous playback of the generated first audio via the first playback device and the generated second audio via the second playback device.
US12176620B2
According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an antenna device comprises: a first antenna array including an array of a plurality of first radiation patches, a communication circuit configured to transmit and/or receive a radio signal using at least one of the first radiation patches, and at least one first isolator comprising a conductor disposed in an area between two adjacent first radiation patches among the first radiation patches. The first isolator may include a first portion, a second portion disposed in parallel with the first portion, and a third portion electrically connecting the first portion with the second portion. The first portion and the second portion may be configured to generate current flows having a phase difference of 180 degrees with respect to each other.
US12176611B2
A small cell includes a housing and an antenna support bracket mountable within the housing. The bracket includes a base member and a flange member. The base member supports a substrate of an antenna. The flange member is positioned along a first edge of the base member and extends away from the base member in a first direction. The flange member includes at least one generally hook-shaped arm member configured to engage a hook receiving element integrated with or attached to a sidewall of the small cell housing. The antenna support bracket may further include a second flange member positioned along a second edge of the base member and extending in a second direction opposite to the first direction. A non-conductive spacer may be adhered to a surface of the second flange member to provide electrical isolation between an electrically conductive fastener and the surface of the second flange member.
US12176608B2
An antenna module, comprising: a first radiating element having a flat plate shape; a second radiating element having a flat plate-shape, disposed at a position different from a position of the first radiating element in a direction normal to the first radiating element, and having a resonant frequency different from a resonant frequency of the first radiating element; and a first feed line extending from a feed circuit, passing through the second radiating element, and configured to transmit a radio frequency signal to the first radiating element, wherein the first feed line includes, at a position different from a position of the second radiating element in a path from the feed circuit to the first radiating element, a shift region extending in a direction orthogonal to the direction normal to the first radiating element.
US12176602B2
An electronic device. An antenna module of this electronic device includes a plurality of antenna branches; a common feed structure is disposed between the plurality of antenna branches; the plurality of antenna branches are divided into a first group of antenna branches and a second group of antenna branches; the first group of antenna branches and the second group of antenna branches respectively correspond to different communication bands; and the common feed structure and the first group of antenna branches are disposed on an inner surface of a housing of the electronic device, and the second group of antenna branches are disposed on an outer surface of the housing of the electronic device.
US12176601B2
Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device including an antenna. An electronic device may include: a housing, a main substrate s disposed in an inner space of the housing and including a first surface facing a first direction and a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, and an antenna module disposed on the main substrate, wherein the antenna module includes a first substrate disposed on the first surface of the main substrate and including at least one antenna, the main substrate including multiple through-holes, multiple antenna structures disposed to penetrate the multiple through-holes, respectively, and include at least one antenna element including at least one antenna spaced at a designated interval, and matching structure comprising impedance matching circuitry disposed on the first substrate and configured to match impedance for the at least one antenna element included in each of the multiple antenna structures.
US12176598B1
An assembly for installing mobile radio antenna systems that do not cause any passive intermodulation interferences. The assembly includes brackets for clamping around conduits, support bars, support plates, arms, frame, and the like for coupling different components of the mobile radio antenna system. The brackets, threaded rods, threaded bolts, hex nuts, and the like of the assembly are made from plastic to avoid generating interferences.
US12176592B2
An electrical component, such as an RF device or thermal bridge, for use with a printed circuit board. The component has a first dielectric layer having a top and a bottom, a first conductive trace positioned on the bottom of the dielectric layer, and a first ground layer positioned on the bottom of the dielectric layer and spaced apart from the first conductive trace. For RF applications, a second conductive trace is positioned on top of first dielectric, a second dielectric is positioned on top of the second conductive trace, and a second ground plane is positioned on top of the second dielectric. A printed circuit board having a third conductive trace may then be coupled to the first conductive trace by a first solder layer.
US12176587B2
Systems and methods of managing the voltage of fuel cells during no-load or low load events are disclosed. The systems may employ one or more valves such as an inlet and outlet valve for metering the fuel (e.g., hydrogen) and/or oxidant (e.g., oxygen) provided to the fuel cell. The voltage or voltage rise may be limited by starving the fuel cell of, for example, oxygen. A controller may be employed for controlling the one or more valves during a no-load or low load event such as start-up, idling, or stopping.
US12176584B2
One embodiment provides a gas diffusion layer for a fuel cell constituting a unit cell of the fuel cell. The gas diffusion layer includes a base layer that includes short carbon fibers and has a reinforcing portion formed in a predetermined area thereof in a thickness direction with continuous carbon fibers oriented in the reinforcing portion. The reinforcing portion is formed adjacent to a first surface of the base layer. A micro porous layer is formed on the first surface of the base layer.
US12176563B2
A rechargeable energy storage system includes a plurality of battery cells and a wall structure disposed adjacent to the plurality of battery cells and having an inner layer and an outer layer. An interior reinforcement structure includes a first sheet metal member and a second sheet metal member each having a plurality of vertical sections and a plurality of horizontal sections. The first and second sheet metal members define an aligned load transfer section wherein one of the plurality of horizontal sections of the first sheet metal member is vertically aligned with one of the plurality of horizontal sections of the second sheet metal member. The first and second sheet metal members define a crush region wherein one of the plurality of horizontal sections of the first sheet metal member is vertically misaligned with all of the plurality of horizontal sections of the second sheet metal member.
US12176561B2
An aerospace battery may include a housing and a battery pack core. The housing may include a thin dual layer casing. The battery pack core is disposed in the housing and may include at least one cell district that includes a plurality of pouch cell batteries. A ceramic material may surround the at least one cell district and a closed cell foam may fill open space between the ceramic material and the housing.
US12176549B2
The present invention relates to a battery comprising a crosslinked intumescent layer selected from a coating and a self-supported film or sheet the layer being formed from a curable intumescent composition comprising: (a) a resin component comprising one or more oligomeric or polymeric compounds having a plurality of functional groups; (b) optionally a curing agent having a plurality of functional groups that are reactive with the functional groups of the oligomeric or polymeric compound of resin component (a); and (c) a compound providing an expansion gas upon thermal decomposition; wherein compounds (a) to (c) differ from each other, to an article comprising a battery, wherein the crosslinked intumescent layer is applied to a part of the article adjacent to the battery between the battery and the article, to methods to provide fire protection to a battery or an article comprising a battery or to reduce or prevent thermal runaway of a battery.
US12176545B2
This application provides a positive electrode plate, including a positive current collector, a positive active material layer on at least one side of the positive current collector, and a safety layer between the positive active material layer and the positive current collector. The positive active material layer includes a positive active material. The safety layer includes a binding material, a conductive material, and an overcharge-sensitive material. The overcharge-sensitive material is a polymer that includes a monosaccharide structural unit and that includes at least one of a carbonate group and a phosphate group. An average diameter x of the conductive material and a weight-average molecular weight y of the overcharge-sensitive material satisfy Formula 1.
US12176541B2
An electrochemical cell includes an anode that includes silicon, a conductive carbon, a lithium titanate, lithium metal, or a combination of any two or more thereof; a separator; a cathode having a cathode active material and a redox active species either mixed into the cathode or coated onto the cathode; and an electrolyte that includes a salt; and an aprotic solvent comprising a fluorinated ether solvent, a carbonate solvent, or a mixture thereof, with the proviso that the redox active species has substantially no solubility in the electrolyte. The redox active species may be a redox active organic compound or polymer.
US12176518B2
The invention relates to a rechargeable lithium battery comprising a composite anode containing as the electrochemically active component one or more metal nitrogen compounds according to the general formulas (I) and/or (II) LixM2z(NH)0.5x+z (I) LimM2n(NH2)1+n (II), wherein (I) and (II) are present in any mixing ratio and M2=an alkaline earth element or any mixture thereof, with x=0-4; z=0-2; m=1 or 0; n=1 or 0, where (m+n)=1, a separator, a cathode, containing lithium-insertable compounds selected from metal oxides, lithium metal oxides, lithium oxides and lithium hydroxide and an electrolyte, the electrochemically active component of the composite anode being embedded in a transition metal-containing electronically or mixed-conductive network.
US12176514B2
Disclosed herein is a process for making an electrode active material, including: (a) forming a mixture, (b) transferring the mixture into saggars, crucibles or open cups, (c) calcining the mixture at a temperature in the range of from 700 to 1000° C., (d) cooling down the resultant electrode active material, (e) applying a robot to take at least two samples of 10 mg to 10 g of every saggar, crucible or open cup to be analyzed, or per defined period of time, respectively, (f) transferring the samples to another robot or to another part of the same robot, where the robot makes an electrode material mix from samples of the same saggar, crucible or open cup, and (g) transferring the electrode material mix to a test unit to perform electrochemical tests, where the robot performs steps (f) to (g) with several samples in parallel.
US12176512B2
A method for direct recycling of degraded lithium-ion battery (LIB) cathodes includes relithiating degraded lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide (NCM) by mixing the cathode particles with a eutectic molten-salt solution and heating the mixture at ambient pressure over a period of time, followed by a short-time thermal annealing. Combining low-temperature relithiation using the eutectic molten-salt solution with thermal annealing provides successful regeneration and full recovery of the LIB to its original storage capacity, cycling stability and rate capability to the levels of the pristine materials. The method is useful to recycle and remanufacture degraded cathode materials for LIB or sodium-ion batteries.
US12176505B2
The present invention provides a battery module, which includes: a battery group formed by stacking a plurality of battery cells, each of which includes electrode tabs; a cooling housing including a cooling plate located corresponding to one side of sides of the battery group, in which the electrode tabs are not extended, and side plates located on both sides of the battery group perpendicular to the one side of the sides, thus to house the battery group; a cover plate located on the other side of the battery group; and a front cover part and a rear cover part, which are located at outermost front and rear of the battery group on both sides in a direction in which the electrode tabs are extended.
US12176504B2
A battery module housing includes a top plate and a bottom plate forming an upper wall and a lower wall, respectively, and a first side plate and a second side plate forming side walls, respectively, the battery module housing having a rectangular tube shape provided to accommodate battery cells in an inner space thereof, wherein the battery module housing has four bonding portions each including an adhesive along a longitudinal direction, the bonding portions located at two sites between opposing side edges of the top plate and top surfaces of the first side plate and second side plate, respectively, and at two sites between opposing side edges of the bottom plate and bottom surfaces of the first side plate and second side plate, respectively.
US12176491B2
An electrolyte includes a compound of formula 1: formula 1. R1 and R2 are each independently selected from H, halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-10 alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C3-10 cycloalkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2-10 alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2-10 alkynyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-10 alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted C6-10 aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C3-10 heteroaryl group, or any combination thereof. R is selected from a substituted or unsubstituted C1-10 alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C3-10 cycloalkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2-10 alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2-10 alkynyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-10 alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted C6-10 aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted C3-10 heteroaryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C3-10 heterocycloalkyl group, a butyrolactam group, or any combination thereof.
US12176479B2
An all-solid-state battery includes a positive electrode current collector layer; a positive electrode active material layer; a negative electrode current collector layer; a negative electrode active material layer; a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer and formed of a solid electrolyte; and at least one of a first intermediate layer formed between the positive electrode current collector layer and the positive electrode active material layer, and a second intermediate layer formed between the negative electrode current collector layer and the negative electrode active material layer.
US12176476B2
The present invention relates to the use of a porous polymer etched ion-track membrane as separator for batteries comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a liquid electrolyte comprising at least one salt of a cationic ion in solution in a solvent, and to batteries comprising such a membrane as porous separator.
US12176471B2
Solid-state lighting devices including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and more particularly polarization structures for LED devices are disclosed. Polarization structures are disclosed that are integrated within light-emitting devices and are capable of receiving unpolarized light and providing polarized light that exits the light-emitting devices. Polarization structures may be formed on or in various surfaces within light-emitting devices, such as one or more surfaces of cover structures and/or LED chips. LED packages with multiple LED chips and multiple polarization structures are also disclosed. The LED chips may be arranged to be electrically activated and deactivated independently of one another such that corresponding LED packages are capable of electronically switching between different orientations of polarized and/or unpolarized light.
US12176457B2
A light emitting device includes: a first light emitting element that comprises a pair of first electrodes; a second light emitting element that comprises a pair of second electrodes; a covering member that integrally covers the first and second light emitting elements such that lower surfaces of the pair of first electrodes and lower surfaces of the pair of second electrodes are exposed from a lower surface of the covering member; a pair of first external connection electrodes, each comprising: a first portion that covers the lower surface of a respective first electrode, and a second portion that covers a portion of the lower surface of the covering member; and a pair of second external connection electrodes, each comprising: a first portion that covers the lower surface of a respective second electrode, and a second portion that covers a portion of the lower surface of the covering member.
US12176444B2
The invention relates to an optoelectronic component comprising a carrier, an optoelectronic semiconductor chip arranged on the upper side of the carrier, and a frame which is arranged on the upper side of the carrier and which frames the optoelectronic semiconductor chip. An underside of the frame, which faces the upper side of the carrier, has at least one recess. In a spatial area framed by the frame on the upper side of the carrier, there is arranged a potting material which is in contact with the frame and at least partly fills the recess in the frame.
US12176437B2
A thin-film transistor is disclosed. The thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode disposed on a substrate, an oxide semiconductor layer disposed so as to overlap at least a portion of the gate electrode in the state of being isolated from the gate electrode, a gate insulation film disposed between the gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer, a source electrode connected to the oxide semiconductor layer, and a drain electrode connected to the oxide semiconductor layer in the state of being spaced apart from the source electrode, wherein the oxide semiconductor layer includes indium (In), gallium (Ga), zinc (Zn), tin (Sn), and oxygen (O), the content of indium (In) in the oxide semiconductor layer is greater than the content of gallium (Ga), the content of indium (In) is substantially equal to the content of zinc (Zn), and the content ratio (Sn/In) of tin (Sn) to indium (In) is 0.1 to 0.25.
US12176435B2
A method for forming a FinFET device structure is provided. The method includes forming a gate dielectric layer over a fin structure. The method also includes forming a gate electrode layer over the gate dielectric layer. The method further includes forming a first dielectric layer formed over the gate dielectric layer. In addition, the method includes forming a first conductive layer on the gate dielectric layer. A bottom surface of the first conductive layer is in direct contact a top surface of the gate electrode layer, a sidewall of the first conductive layer is in direct contact the first dielectric layer and spaced apart from the gate dielectric layer.
US12176432B2
Disclosed is a trench-type MOSFET and a method for manufacturing the same. The method comprises: forming a trench in a semiconductor substrate; forming a first insulating layer and a shielding conductor in the trench; forming an opening on two sides of the shielding conductor in the trench, wherein the opening is separated from the shielding conductor by the first insulating layer; forming a gate dielectric layer and a gate conductor in the opening, wherein the trench extends from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate into the semiconductor substrate, the first insulating layer covers a sidewall and a bottom of the trench and separates the shielding conductor from the semiconductor substrate, the gate dielectric layer at least covers a sidewall of the opening. The method simplifies the process steps of forming the trench-type MOSFET compared with the prior art, and reduces process errors.
US12176431B2
A semiconductor device comprises an insulating region surrounding an active area having a channel direction and a transverse direction that is transverse to the channel direction. A source region and a drain region are disposed in the active area, and are spaced apart along the channel direction. A channel is disposed in the active area and is interposed between the source region and the drain region. The channel comprises a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). A gate line is oriented along the transverse direction and is disposed on the channel and has a gate width in the channel direction. The gate line comprises gate material. A gate line terminus is disposed at each end of the gate line. Each gate line terminus comprises the gate material. Each gate line terminus has a width in the channel direction that is at least 1.2 time the gate width.
US12176428B2
Provided is a cadmium selenide-indium arsenide heterojunction bipolar transistor. The device includes a first layer comprising a collector of the transistor made of n-type cadmium selenide, a base layer containing indium arsenide, and an emitter layer that reverts to cadmium selenide. The inventive device includes a large neutron cross section via the cadmium selenide layer. The cadmium selenide layer holds a high reaction rate with neutrons thus altering the electrical signal of the HBT in a neutron environment. The inventive HBT also yields higher gains than current homojunction bipolar transistors, such as those utilizing pure indium arsenide or silicon.
US12176426B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a bipolar transistor structure including a semiconductor fin on a substrate. The semiconductor fin has a first doping type, a length in a first direction, and a width in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A first emitter/collector (E/C) material is adjacent a first sidewall of the semiconductor fin along the width of the semiconductor fin. The first E/C material has a second doping type opposite the first doping type. A second E/C material is adjacent a second sidewall of the semiconductor fin along the width of the semiconductor fin. The second E/C material has the second doping type. A width of the first E/C material is different from a width of the second E/C material.
US12176424B2
A method includes forming a first active fin structure and a second active fin structure on a substrate. A dummy fin structure is formed on the substrate, the dummy fin structure being interposed between the first active fin structure and the second active fin structure. The dummy fin structure is removed to expose a first portion of the substrate, the first portion of the substrate being disposed directly below the dummy fin structure. A plurality of protruding features is formed on the first portion of the substrate. A shallow trench isolation (STI) region is formed over the first portion of the substrate, the STI region covering the plurality of protruding features, at least a portion of the first active fin structure and at least a portion of the second active fin structure extending above a topmost surface of the STI region.
US12176423B2
A power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer structure comprising a wide bandgap semiconductor material. The semiconductor layer structure includes a drift region of a first conductivity type and a plurality of fin structures protruding from the drift region. The fin structures comprise respective source regions of the first conductivity type and respective channel regions between the respective source regions and the drift region. Related devices and methods are also discussed.
US12176420B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. One form of a semiconductor structure includes: a substrate including a device unit region, where the device unit region includes a first sub-unit region configured to form a first device and a second sub-unit region configured to form a second device, where a driving current of the first device is greater than a driving current of the second device; a fin protruding from the substrate; a first gate spanning the fin in the first sub-unit region; and a second gate spanning the fin in the second sub-unit region. In some implementations, the second sub-unit region is disposed in the device unit region, and the second device generates less heat than the first device. Therefore, compared with a solution in which the device unit region includes only a first device region, overall heat from the device unit region can be reduced, thus ameliorating a self-heating effect in the device unit region and enhancing the performance of semiconductors.
US12176407B2
A method to form a transistor device with a recessed gate structure is provided. In one embodiment, a gate structure is formed overlying a device region and an isolation structure. The gate structure separates a device doping well along a first direction with a pair of recess regions disposed on opposite sides of the device region in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A pair of source/drain regions in is formed the device region on opposite sides of the gate structure. A sidewall spacer is formed extending along sidewalls of the gate structure, where a top surface of the sidewall spacer is substantially flush with the top surface of the gate structure. A resistive protection layer is then formed on the sidewall spacer and covering the pair of recess regions.
US12176399B2
A method of manufacturing a silicon carbide epitaxial substrate includes: preparing a silicon carbide single-crystal substrate having a polytype of 4H and having a principal surface inclined at an angle θ from a {0001} plane in a <11-20> direction; growing a silicon carbide epitaxial layer on the principal surface having a basal plane dislocation, the basal plane dislocation having a portion extending in a <1-100> direction and a portion extending in a <11-20> direction; and irradiating the silicon carbide epitaxial layer with an ultraviolet light having a predetermined power and a predetermined wavelength for a predetermined period of time to stabilize the basal plane dislocation. After the irradiating, the basal plane dislocation does not move even when the basal plane dislocation is irradiated with an ultraviolet light having a power of 270 mW and a wavelength of 313 nm for 10 seconds.
US12176397B2
The present invention introduces a new shielded gate trench SBR (Super Barrier Rectifier) wherein an epitaxial layer having special MSE (multiple stepped epitaxial) layers with different doping concentrations decreasing in a direction from a substrate to a top surface of the epitaxial layer, wherein each of the MSE layers has an uniform doping concentration as grown. Forward voltage Vf is significantly reduced with the special MSE layers. An integrated circuit comprising a SGT MOSFET and a SBR formed on a single chip obtains benefits of low on-resistance, low reverse recovery time and high avalanche capability from the special MSE layers.
US12176382B2
A light-emitting display device includes: a substrate, a plurality of pixels on the substrate, each pixel including an opening area, a light extraction pattern disposed in each opening area, the light extraction pattern including: a plurality of concave portions spaced apart from each other, and a protruding portion surrounding each of the plurality of concave portions, and a light-emitting device layer including: a light-emitting layer over the light extraction pattern, and a non-emission area overlapping a top portion of the protruding portion between the two adjacent concave portions.
US12176381B2
A display device may include a substrate including a plurality of pixel regions, each including a first region and a second region; and a pixel in each of the pixel regions. The pixel may include a display element portion including a plurality of light emitting elements that emit a light of a first color. The display element portion may include a color filter on the first surface of the substrate and corresponding to the second region, a first electrode and a second electrode on the color filter and spaced apart from each other in a first direction, the plurality of light emitting elements, which are between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first contact electrode on the first electrode and a second contact electrode on the second electrode, and a color conversion layer on the first contact electrode and the second contact electrode and including color conversion particles.
US12176378B2
A display panel including a circuit board having pads thereon, and a plurality of pixel regions arranged on the circuit board, each of the pixel regions including a first LED stack disposed on the circuit board, a first bonding layer disposed between the first LED stack and the circuit board, a second LED stack disposed on the first LED stack, a third LED stack disposed on the second LED stack, first through-vias passing through the first LED stack and the first bonding layer, second through-vias passing through the second LED stack, and third through-vias passing through the third LED stack, in which the first through-vias pass through the first LED stack and the first bonding layer, and are connected to the pads of the circuit board.
US12176375B2
An image sensor structure including a substrate, a nanowire structure, a first conductive line, a second conductive line, and a third conductive line is provided. The nanowire structure includes a first doped layer, a second doped layer, a third doped layer, and a fourth doped layer sequentially stacked on the substrate. The first doped layer and the third doped layer have a first conductive type. The second doped layer and the fourth doped layer have a second conductive type. The first conductive line is connected to a sidewall of the second doped layer. The second conductive line is connected to a sidewall of the third doped layer. The third conductive line is connected to the fourth doped layer.
US12176373B2
Disclosed is a light receiving element including an on-chip lens, a wiring layer, and a semiconductor layer disposed between the on-chip lens and the wiring layer. The semiconductor layer includes a photodiode, a first transfer transistor that transfers electric charge generated in the photodiode to a first charge storage portion, a second transfer transistor that transfers electric charge generated in the photodiode to a second charge storage portion, and an interpixel separation portion that separates the semiconductor layers of adjacent pixels from each other, for at least part of the semiconductor layer in the depth direction. The wiring layer has at least one layer including a light blocking member. The light blocking member is disposed to overlap with the photodiode in a plan view.
US12176358B2
An apparatus includes pixels each including a conversion unit. The conversion unit includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, and a third semiconductor region of the first conductivity type in order from a light incident surface side, and includes an in-pixel separation portion of the second conductivity type. The second semiconductor region includes a first end and a second end opposing the first end. The conversion unit further includes a fourth semiconductor region between the first and second ends. The in-pixel separation portion separates the first semiconductor region into a first region overlapping the first end and a second region overlapping the second end in a top view from the light incident surface side. A concentration of a second conductivity type impurity is lower in the fourth semiconductor region than in the in-pixel separation portion.
US12176355B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, which includes a plurality of first electrode plates and a plurality of second electrode plates, and one of the second electrodes plate is disposed corresponding to one of the first electrode plates; each of the second electrode plates includes a first additional conductive sublayer, a first semiconductor sublayer, and a first metal sublayer stacked, and the first metal sublayer is electrically connected with the first additional conductive sublayer.
