US12186155B2
An ear cleaning device is provided for removing debris from an ear. In one form, the ear cleaning device includes a shaft, a head connected to the shaft, and a contiguous pocket structure of the head. The contiguous pocket structure includes a plurality of pockets that may be configured to receive debris. In another form, the ear cleaning device has a handle, a bulbous cleaner connected to the handle, and a solid inner core of the bulbous cleaner. The bulbous cleaner has two or more spaced, longitudinal walls disposed outward of the inner core that are configured to remove debris with turning of the ear cleaning device about a longitudinal axis of the device.
US12186154B2
Example dental methods involve using a marker transfer jig that captures the location of one or more fiducial markers on a patient's jaw and then helps position an alternate marker, tool, fixture or some other chosen device on a cast model of the patient's jaw. The cast model with the attached alternate marker, tool, fixture or other chosen device is radiographically scanned and analyzed to aid in various orthodontic and other dental treatments.
US12186151B2
Examples of apparatus, methods, and compositions for endodontic treatments are described. The apparatus can include a fluid platform configured to substantially retain fluid in a tooth chamber during treatment. The fluid platform can help maintain fluid circulation in the tooth chamber as fluid flows into and out of the tooth chamber. The apparatus can also include a pressure wave generator configured to generate acoustic waves that can be used for cleaning root canals and tooth surfaces in the tooth chamber. Examples of pressure wave generators include a liquid jet, an electromagnetic energy delivery device, and an ultrasonic device. The fluid can include antiseptic or antibacterial solutions to assist in tooth cleaning. The fluid may be degassed to have a reduced dissolved gas content (compared to non-degassed fluids used in endodontic treatments), which may improve the effectiveness of the pressure wave generation or the cleaning.
US12186149B1
An electric toothbrush head, including: a housing, wherein the housing is provided with a mounting cavity and a mounting hole communicated with the mounting cavity; a transmission assembly, wherein the transmission assembly is arranged in the mounting cavity and comprises a first transmission rod, a second transmission rod and a third transmission rod, one end of the first transmission rod, one end of the second transmission rod and one end of the third transmission rod are rotatably connected through a rotating shaft, and the other end of the third transmission rod is hinged in the mounting cavity; and a cleaning head, wherein the cleaning head is rotatably mounted in the mounting cavity from the mounting hole, a bottom of the cleaning head is eccentrically provided with a first rotating groove, and another end of the second transmission rod is arranged in the first rotating groove.
US12186146B2
Embodiments of a floss strip and methods of using the same are disclosed herein. The floss strip can include a flossing filament. The flossing filament can have a first end and a second end. The flossing strip can include a first anchor coupled to the flossing filament at the first end of the flossing filament. The flossing strip can include a second anchor coupled to the flossing filament at the second end of the flossing filament. The flossing filament can couple the first and second anchors. The flossing strip can include a tensioning member attached to the flossing filament at an intermediate location between the first anchor and the second anchor.
US12186145B2
The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for providing a holding splint for holding one or more restoration forms. The holding splint is configured for being arranged in a patient's oral cavity on a set of teeth comprising one or more teeth to be restored. The holding splint comprises one or more holding sections configured to hold the one or more restoration forms in order to shape restoration material applied onto one or more surfaces of the one or more teeth to be restored into a predefined form using the one or more restoration forms.
US12186141B2
A cleaning chamber for cleaning a vein viewing device, includes a housing with an access door having an open position and a shut position, wherein when the access door is in the open position the vein viewing device can be placed inside the housing. When the access door is in the closed position the housing and access door together envelop the vein viewing device. A detector detects when the vein viewing device is contained within the housing. A light source is contained within the housing and is arranged to illuminate the exterior surfaces of the vein viewing device when the vein viewing device is detected within the housing.
US12186136B2
Systems and methods are disclosed in which changes in the position and/or orientation of an anatomical structure or of a surgical tool can be measured quantitatively during surgery. In some embodiments, the systems and methods disclosed herein can make use of inertial motion sensors to determine a position or orientation of an instrument or anatomy at different times and to calculate changes between different positions or orientations. In other embodiments, such sensors can be utilized in conjunction with imaging devices to correlate sensor position with anatomical landmarks, thereby permitting determination of absolute angular orientation of a landmark. Such systems and methods can facilitate real-time tracking of progress during a variety of procedures, including, e.g., spinal deformity correction, etc.
US12186134B2
An instrument drive unit includes a housing defining a central longitudinal axis; an inertial measurement unit disposed within the housing and configured to determine a pose of the instrument drive unit; and a controller disposed within the housing, the controller configured to receive the pose of the instrument drive unit from the inertial measurement unit and to generate a corrected output signal which compensates for the pose of the instrument drive unit.
US12186130B2
An intraluminal imaging device is provided. In one embodiment, the imaging device includes a flexible elongate member that may be inserted into a body lumen within a patient. The flexible elongate member may define a longitudinal axis. The imaging device also has an imaging assembly that is disposed at a distal portion of the flexible elongate member. The imaging assembly may have a plurality of ultrasound transducer elements disposed around the longitudinal axis. The imaging assembly further includes a first integrated circuit controller in communication with the plurality of ultrasound transducer elements. The first integrated circuit controller may be annularly shaped. In some embodiments, the imaging assembly may include a second integrated circuit controller in communication with the ultrasound transducer elements and the first integrated circuit controller. The second integrated circuit controller may be annularly shaped.
US12186129B2
Methods and devices for generating ultrasound images during a medical procedure are disclosed. The device may comprise a shaft that includes a working channel for receiving an instrument, the working channel extending from a proximal end of the shaft to a distal end of the shaft, and an ultrasound sensor disposed radially outward of a distal portion of the working channel such that the ultrasound sensor at least partially surrounds the working channel. The ultrasound sensor may be configured to image a single field of view greater than about 90 degrees about the shaft, e.g., simultaneously, while conducting a medical procedure with an instrument inserted through the working channel.
US12186126B2
A needle direction estimation unit estimates a needle direction L based on needle information generated by a needle information generation unit, and outputs the position information of the needle direction L. A search region setting unit sets the needle direction L in a tissue image based on the position information of the needle direction L, and sets a search region F that extends to both sides with a predetermined width r. A needle tip search unit calculates the brightness distribution of the tissue image, determines a maximum brightness point B in the search region F to be the needle tip, and outputs the position information of the needle tip. A needle tip visualizing unit visualizes a needle tip N, which is a predetermined point image, in the tissue image from the position information of the needle tip.
US12186099B2
An optoacoustic probe for optoacoustic imaging of a volume, the optoacoustic probe having a distal end operable to contact the volume and a proximal end. The optoacoustic probe includes at least one primary light source and an auxiliary light source that is configured to generate auxiliary light carried through an optical window to a volume. A detection device is configured to detect signals generated from the auxiliary light or primary light reflecting from the volume or the optical window. A microcontroller including one or more processors is also provided, that receives the signals generated from the auxiliary light reflecting from the volume from the detection device, determines contact between the volume and the optoacoustic probe based on the auxiliary light reflecting from the volume, and prevents the at least one primary light source from generating light until the optoacoustic probe is contacting the volume.
US12186092B2
A computerized method for estimating bone mineral density, z and t-scores and/or fracture risk by receiving single-energy x-rays of the thoracic spine, chest x-ray, lumbar spine, whole body x-ray, hip, arm, leg, hand or foot in addition to imaging technical parameters and clinical parameters such as patient demographics, medical history, and other risk factors. The results are presented to a user for the diagnosis or screening of osteoporosis and/or risk stratification of osteoporotic fractures. A classifier may be trained using a dataset of single energy x-rays correlated to results from dual energy x-ray readings performed in the same patient and of the same body part, along with fracture incidence, to correlate the inputs provided to the desired output. A classifier may also be trained to predict fracture risk directly from x-ray image data and optionally additional patient characteristics.
US12186088B2
A recording device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire vital signs through a sensor device having a plurality of electrodes, a recording unit configured to record a bipolar potential of a main channel which is defined by combining the plurality of electrodes, using the vital signs, an addition unit configured to add a mark to each waveform plotted based on variation of the bipolar potential over time, at a predetermined position on a time axis, and an adjusting unit configured to adjust a position of the mark added to each waveform. The adjusting unit is configured to adjust the position of the mark added to the bipolar potential of the main channel, based on bipolar potentials of reference channels including electrodes included in the main channel.
US12186087B2
A headpiece, acquisition device, system and method for making electroencephalography (EEG) measurements. The EEG headpiece fits, or adjusts to fit, on a person's scalp, each of a plurality of electrodes is located in the headpiece corresponding to selected respective positions on the scalp, the electrodes are electrically connected to at least one electrical transmitter, and the headpiece is attached to the scalp after the electrodes have been located in the headpiece.
US12186083B2
A patient support apparatus includes a frame and a mattress supported by the frame and arranged to support a patient thereon. A sensor is included to detect moisture on the patient and/or the patient support apparatus. The sensor produces signals indicative of the presence of moisture on the patient support apparatus. One or more alerts are output in response to the signals provided by the sensor to notify a caregiver of the presence of moisture on the patient support apparatus.
US12186082B2
Systems and methods for estimating emotional states, moods, affects of an individual and providing feedback to the individual or others are disclosed. Systems and methods that provide real time detection and monitoring of physical aspects of an individual and/or aspects of the individual's activity and means of estimating that person's emotional state or affect and change to those are also disclosed. Real time feedback to the individual about the person's emotional change, change or potential change is provided to the user, helping the user cope, adjust or appropriately act on their emotions.
US12186079B2
A physiological monitor is provided for determining a physiological parameter of a medical patient with a multi-stage sensor assembly. The monitor includes a signal processor configured to receive a signal indicative of a physiological parameter of a medical patient from a multi-stage sensor assembly. The multi-stage sensor assembly is configured to be attached to the physiological monitor and the medical patient. The monitor of certain embodiments also includes an information element query module configured to obtain calibration information from an information element provided in a plurality of stages of the multi-stage sensor assembly. In some embodiments, the signal processor is configured to determine the physiological parameter of the medical patient based upon said signal and said calibration information.
US12186074B2
There is provided a wearable system for determining at least one movement property. The wearable system includes a head-mounted device including at least one movement sensor; a processor connected to the head-mounted device; and a display connected to the processor. The processor includes a medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed cause the processor to: obtain sensor data from the at least one movement sensor; determine at least one movement property based on the obtained sensor data; and display the at least one movement property on the display. There is also provided a method for displaying the at least one movement property.
US12186072B2
Techniques for quantifying respiration using a wearable device are described. According to some aspects, a wearable device includes multiple thermal sensors thermally coupled to one or more heat spreaders. The wearable device may in some cases be small enough to be wearable between the mouth and nose of the patient, such as via an adhesive attachment to the upper lip. When the patient exhales, air is produced through the mouth and/or through the nose. Each heat spreader may absorb heat of exhaled air which may thermally propagate to a thermal sensor coupled to the heat spreader. By measuring the change in temperature over time measured by the thermal sensors, measures of respiration such as respiratory rate, minute volume and/or tidal volume of the patient may be determined. Such measures may be determined by the wearable device or by an external device to which data is transmitted.
US12186061B2
A transducer interface system/method allowing conversion from an analog sensor input to a standardized analog output interface is disclosed. In some preferred embodiments the system/method permits a fiber optic pressure sensor to be interfaced to a standard patient care monitor (PCM) system using standardized Wheatstone Bridge analog interface inputs. Within this context the Wheatstone Bridge sensed output is defined by stimulus from the PCM and modulation of bridge element values by the conditioned output of an analog pressure sensor. The use of analog-to-digital-to-analog conversion in this transducer interface permits retrofitting of PCM devices having analog Wheatstone Bridge inputs with advanced patient monitoring sensors without the need for specialized modifications to the baseline PCM data collection framework. Methods disclosed herein include techniques to connect arbitrary types/numbers of analog sensors to traditional PCM systems without the need for PCM system hardware/software modifications.
US12186054B2
A transmitting element for generating a magnetic field for tracking of an object includes a first spiral trace that extends from a first outer origin inward to a central origin in a first direction. A second spiral trace can extend from the central origin outward to a second outer origin in the first direction. The second spiral trace can extend from the central origin to the second outer origin in the first direction. The first spiral trace and the second spiral trace can be physically connected at the central origin to form the fluorolucent magnetic transmitting element and at least a portion of the first spiral trace overlaps at least a portion of the second spiral trace.
US12186029B2
Provided herein are systems, devices, assemblies, and methods for generating exciter signals, for example, to activate a remotely located tag. The systems, devices, assemblies, and methods find use in a variety of application including medical applications for the locating of a tag in a subject.
US12186018B2
Systems and methods for tracking the position and condition of an eye during an ophthalmic procedure include an ophthalmic device configured to measure characteristics of an eye, an eye tracker configured to capture a stream of eye images, and a logic device configured to analyze the stream of images to determine whether the eye is fixating on a target object, detect a predetermined blink sequence in the first stream of images, delay for a predetermined tear stabilization period, start a stable tear film interval, and during the stable tear film interval, capture at least one measurement of the eye using the ophthalmic device when the eye is fixating. The blink sequence may include a plurality of blinks in succession and the detection of the blink sequence may include processing the images through a neural network trained to detect an open eye and/or a closed eye.
US12186014B2
A combination patient return pad and surgical smoke evacuator includes a return electrode configured to attach to a surface and a suction tube for drawing surgical smoke from a surgical site.
US12186012B2
A flexible circuit including a first segment including a base section of the flexible circuit; a second segment including a lateral wall section; a transition section between the base and lateral wall sections, the transition section being at least partially positioned adjacent a shared region of the base and lateral wall sections; and one or more electrode regions including a respective electrode, the one or more electrode regions being positioned at least partially in the transition section and the second segment.
US12186010B2
In one embodiment, a catheter includes a shaft assembly having a proximal and distal end, which comprises a deflectable segment including lumens running longitudinally therein, electrodes disposed at the distal end, a connector disposed at the proximal end for coupling to processing circuitry, cables disposed in first respective ones of the lumens, each cable electrically coupled to the connector and a respective group of the electrodes, wherein each cable includes a bundle of wires, each wire connected to a respective one of the electrodes in the respective group, an electrical shielding surrounding the bundle, and an electrically insulating jacket surrounding the shielding and sized to allow longitudinal movement of the respective cable within the respective lumen, respective elongated members disposed in second respective ones of the lumens, and connected to the distal end, and a manipulator connected to the elongated members to actuate the distal end via the elongated members.
US12186008B2
A skin care device using an RF needle is disclosed. According to an embodiment, a skin contact part having a plurality of needles and a vacuum pressure formation unit for applying a suction force to the skin contact part are included, and thus a needle can be inserted into the skin by pulling the skin with vacuum pressure. Therefore, the skin is pulled with suction so that an equipment contact surface accurately comes into contact with the skin, and thus a needle can be correctly inserted into the inner layer of the skin.
US12186005B2
Presented are an apparatus and method for fluid evacuation. An exemplary fluid evacuation system includes a surgical apparatus having a fluid conduit therethrough. The fluid conduit includes a gaseous fluid sorbent material. Additionally, the fluid conduit is fluidly coupled with a vacuum tube fluidly coupled with a vacuum source, wherein the vacuum source is operable to create a flow of fluid through the surgical apparatus fluid conduit and the vacuum tube.
US12186003B2
A bi-directional pneumatic impactor for imparting impact forces to an object. The impactor includes a support structure having at least one grip member and a piston reciprocally moveable along a piston axis. A pressure control system coupled with the support structure and adapted to be connected to a supply of pressurized air. The pressure control system reciprocatingly moves the piston along the piston axis to generate forceful impacts at one or both ends of the reciprocal movement. An impact transfer assembly disposed on the support structure is adapted to be coupled with the object whereby the impact transfer assembly transfers impact forces to the object in the driving and/or the retracting directions. A control spool may be used to control the supply of pressurized air to the piston cylinder. The impact transfer assembly may include a hammer pin extending axially through the piston.
US12186001B2
An assembly includes a first portion including an anchor pivotally attached to a first end of the first portion, the anchor to be inserted into an intramedullary canal of a first bone fragment; a second portion pivotally attached to a second end of the first portion and including a first skin-interfacing portion; a second skin-interfacing portion to interface with and secure the assembly to skin adjacent to the first bone fragment; and an actuation mechanism attached between the first portion and the second portion that actuates pivoting of the second portion to the first portion; wherein a lateral force is generated between the first skin-interfacing portion against a second bone fragment, adjacent to the first bone fragment, and a holding force is provided by the anchor when the actuation mechanism is actuated, so the first portion pivots with respect to second portion, while the anchor is in the intramedullary canal.
US12185986B2
Implantable devices for dynamic interconnection between bones, and especially between vertebrae. The devices provide for various types of manipulation of a flexible connection such as a tether, such as by providing an aperture through which the flexible connection is passed and guided, or a post to which a loop of the flexible connection can be attached, or a groove in which a loop of the flexible connection can be placed.
US12185983B2
A receiver assembly includes a receiver with a base defining a central bore for receiving the head of a bone anchor and upright arms defining a channel for receiving a rod, with the central bore having through apertures extending outwardly to outer side surfaces of the receiver and the upright arms having top surfaces, opposite front and back surfaces, vertical tool-engaging slots extending downward from the top surfaces to the through apertures for slidably receiving an insert compression tool, and horizontal tool-engaging grooves on either side of the vertical slots that extend laterally to a front or back surface of the upright arm. The assembly also includes an insert positionable within the central bore with an upward-facing outer engagement surface located within a through aperture and aligned with a vertical tool-engaging slot, and which is configured for compressive engagement by the insert compressing tool to independently lock a position of the receiver with respect to the bone anchor.
US12185981B2
A pedicle screw assembly including a bone fastener having a lower end for engaging bone and an upper end remote from the lower end; a head having a rod-receiving channel attached to the upper end of said bone fastener; a spinal rod insertable into the rod-receiving channel of said head, said spinal rod having an outer surface extending between first and second ends thereof, wherein at least one of the first and second ends has a reduced diameter section. A spinal rod having an outer surface extending between a first end and a second end thereof; wherein the outer surface of said spinal rod has a reduced diameter section at at least one of the first and second ends.
US12185966B2
An apparatus comprises a body assembly, a shaft, an acoustic waveguide, an articulation section, an end effector, an articulation drive assembly, and a locking feature. The shaft extends distally from the body assembly. The waveguide comprises a flexible portion. The articulation drive assembly is operable to drive articulation of the articulation section to thereby deflect the end effector from the longitudinal axis of the shaft. The articulation drive assembly comprises an actuator. The actuator is movable relative to the body assembly to drive articulation of the articulation section. The locking feature is in communication with the actuator. The locking feature is movable between an unlocked state and a locked state. The locking feature is configured to permit movement of the actuator relative to the body assembly in the unlocked state. The locking feature is configured to prevent movement of the actuator relative to the body assembly in the locked state.
US12185963B2
A surgical electrode application instrument of the minimally invasive type, having an effector which forms a rotatable and pivotable instrument head on which are mounted two opposing branches which can be moved towards each other in the manner of tongs, at least one branch of which is formed with a part-circle-shaped notch at the end for holding an electrode wire, and which each have a sickle-shaped cross-section at least in one section. The mutually facing clamping sides in the sickle-shaped section of each branch each have a number of grooves or undercuts which are spaced in the longitudinal direction of the branch and preferably run in parallel in the transverse direction of the branch.
US12185960B2
An endovascular apparatus for crossing through an obstruction in a blood vessel comprises an elongate endovascular wire and a coupling. The coupling when in use transmits ultrasonic energy along the wire from an ultrasonic energy source to an active tip at a distal end of the wire. The coupling is arranged to couple the source to the wire at any of a plurality of discrete operational positions along the length of the wire for said transmission of ultrasonic energy to the active tip.
US12185957B2
A method and instrumentation for performing a patellofemoral arthroplasty orthopaedic procedure includes coupling an anterior cutting block to a femur of a patient such that the cutting block references local anatomy of the femur. The anterior cutting block is used to perform a number of bone cuts to establish a trochlear cavity in the femur. The trochlear cavity is formed such that a trochlear prosthesis may be inset into the cavity and substantially flush with the surrounding cartilage. A finishing burring guide and burr bit may be used to detail the shape and/or size of the trochlear cavity. Additionally, a trochlear drill guide may be used to facilitate establishing peg holes in the patient's femur to receive corresponding pegs of the trochlear prosthesis.
US12185956B2
An arrangement for the preparation of the proximal surface of the tibia and/or the proximal surface of the distal end of the femur and the posterior femoral condyle for a tibia component and/or a femoral component of a prosthetic knee joint. The arrangement includes an electronic system arrangement that receives or measures data information to which the electronic system can utilise this information to communicate control of a blade and/or cutting implement to resect the proximal surface of the tibia and/or distal end of the femur and/or the posterior femoral condyle to required reference plane cuts that provide for balanced angular movement between the femoral component and the tibia component of the prosthetic knee joint throughout an arc of motion from extension, mid-flexion and flexion.
US12185948B2
A surgical device includes an end effector and a handle assembly operably coupled to the end effector. The end effector includes an anvil assembly and a cartridge assembly pivotally coupled to one another. The cartridge assembly includes a staple cartridge, a cartridge carrier, and a strain gauge. The cartridge carrier includes an elongated support channel configured to receive the staple cartridge, the elongated support channel defined by an inner first surface and a pair of inner second surfaces. The inner first surface includes a recess defined therein, and the strain gauge is disposed within the recess. The handle assembly includes a power-pack configured to receive sensor data from the strain gauge of the end effector and to control a function of the end effector in response to the sensor data.
US12185946B2
A surgical instrument that includes a shaft assembly that defines a shaft axis and includes a proximal articulation joint that defines a first articulation axis that is transverse to the shaft axis and a distal articulation joint that defines a second articulation axis that is transverse to the shaft axis and the first articulation axis. The instrument further includes an anvil that is non-removably attached to the shaft assembly and a channel that is removably attachable to the shaft assembly and configured to operably support a surgical staple cartridge.
US12185940B2
A method for closing a wound in a tubular organ using a suture thread includes: a first step of connecting a first edge portion and a second edge portion with the suture thread; and a second step of connecting a third edge portion and a fourth edge portion with the suture thread. The first step includes passing the suture thread through a first position on a mucosal surface of at least one of the first edge portion and the second edge portion. The second step includes passing the suture thread through a third position on the mucosal surface of at least one of the third edge portion and the fourth edge portion. A shortest distance between the wound and the third position is larger than a shortest distance between the wound and the first position.
US12185931B2
Medical or surgical devices, instruments, systems, and methods for use in optically sensing loads acting on a patient's anatomy may include a surgical device or instrument configured for insertion to a surgical site and an interrogator coupled to the surgical device or instrument via an optical fiber having a sensing area at a location of the surgical device or instrument at which a load is to be sensed. The measured load may be used as being indicative of a load acting on a patient's anatomy. Such measured or determined load may be used to make decisions before, during, or after a patient procedure.
US12185925B2
A tri-point tissue-collection needle configured similarly to a fine-needle-aspiration needle is configured to excise intact tissue cores for collection. The distal tip is configured with three beveled points separated by cutting edges, where a single longer/more distal point is trailed by and circumferentially separated from a symmetrical pair of points, providing a bilaterally symmetrical needle cannula distal end. A stylet may be provided through a lumen of the needle during introduction into a patient body, where the distal end surface of the stylet may be configured to complement the tri-point needle end configuration.
US12185919B2
An endoscope apparatus includes: an insertion section; a flow passage; a closed space forming member configured to form a closed space in at least a portion of an intestine; a pump configured to apply pressurization and depressurization to a liquid in the closed space a plurality of times through the flow passage in a state where the liquid is retained in the closed space; a flow passage allowing the liquid in the closed space to which the pressurization and the depressurization are applied the plurality of times through the flow passage to flow out to an outside of the intestine, and a liquid discharge opening.
US12185916B2
An endoscope apparatus includes first and second optical lenses that are separately provided at a distal end portion of an endoscope, and form first and second optical images, respectively, an optical path length changing filter that makes optical path lengths of the first and second optical images different, an image pickup device that performs image pickup of the first and second optical images to generate first and second image pickup signals, and a processor that generates first and second images from the first and second image pickup signals, corrects parallax, removes an area including a figure present only in one of the first and second images, and combines respective focusing areas of the first and second images to generate an endoscope image.
US12185909B2
A method and system for instilling a medium into portions of a luminal network is provided. The method includes generating a model of a luminal network based on images of the luminal network, determining a location of a treatment target in the luminal network, navigating a bronchoscope through the bronchial tree to a target, guiding a catheter through the bronchoscope, dispensing medium to the target from a distal end of the catheter, and removing a quantity of medium from the luminal network.
US12185895B2
A basket is selectively receivable within a dishwashing appliance. The basket includes a plurality of vertically arranged receiving bosses that receive spray tines therein and a lid having a domed interior surface for dispersing liquid dispensed from the spray tines throughout the basket.
US12185894B2
A dishwasher appliance includes a metal rack. A housing and a cover on a side of the metal rack define a housing chamber. Within the housing chamber, one or more rotatable cams are present. Each cam includes a magnet within the cam and pivots about a shaft. Each cam may rotate from a passive position to a retaining position as a result of lifting of the metal rack, which attracts the magnet in each cam, pulling the cam into position. The rack is then lowered onto a retaining surface of each cam, the cam supporting the rack in the raised position.
US12185887B2
Disclosed is a robot cleaner including: a main body forming an outer shape; a pair of rotary mops moving the main body while rotating in contact with a floor; a drive motor rotating the pair of rotary mops; a pump connected to a water tank and driving a nozzle for spraying water to the rotary mop; and a controller for determining water content of the rotary mop in a preliminary step before wet cleaning, and controlling to start the wet cleaning after driving the pump until the water content of the rotary mop satisfy a certain level. Accordingly, it is possible to detect a change in the output current of the motor of the rotary mop of the robot cleaner and determine the water content according to the change in the current value.
US12185884B2
A dispenser includes a front panel that can be opaque, and a body that includes a sidewall extending from a rear wall. Further, the front panel is coupled to the body and an interior cavity is formed therebetween. The sidewall includes an illuminating portion and a viewing portion. The illuminating portion is translucent and the viewing portion is transparent. The viewing portion is located between the front panel and the rear wall and the viewing portion and the illuminating portion indicate a refill status.
US12185874B2
A waste bag holder pivotably coupled to an outdoor cooking station. The waste bag holder is a rod structure with multiple bends along its length to define a u-shaped portion and first and second engaging portions. The u-shaped portion is configured to support a waste bag. The first and second engaging portions are sized and configured to couple to coupling structure to facilitate the waste bag holder to be pivotably moveable between a use position and a stowed position.
US12185867B2
A beverage brewer spray apparatus includes a lid, one or more dispersal members, and a skirt. The lid has obverse and converse surfaces, with at least one recessed region in the obverse surface. The dispersal members extend from the converse surface at open proximal ends. The skirt has a proximal end fixed to and extending outward from the converse surface of the lid. Each dispersal member has a sidewall and a distal end defining an interior of the dispersal member. The sidewall has apertures arranged in a distal section of the sidewall. The lid has through-holes formed between the obverse and converse surfaces, and the dispersal members are fixed to the converse surface such that the through-holes provide fluid communication from the obverse surface of the lid to the apertures through the interiors of the dispersal members. The apertures are configured to direct liquid outward from the dispersal members.
US12185863B2
A brewing cavity and a coffee brewer including the brewing cavity are provided. The brewing cavity includes a brewing cavity shell and a brewing chamber having a groove with an inner diameter less than that of the brewing chamber. A side wall of the groove has a coffee outlet communicatively connected with an exterior. A bottom portion of the groove is provided with a through hole internally provided with a coffee seal ring. A pressure sealing water outlet element is fixedly mounted on an upper end surface of the groove. A filtering portion for filtering coffee is arranged above the pressure sealing water outlet element. A first sliding hole in the filtering portion, a second sealing sliding hole in the pressure sealing water outlet element and a third sealing sliding hole in the coffee seal ring are internally provided with discharge portion capable of sliding along the through hoe axially.
US12185855B2
An adjustable clothes hanger assembly includes an upper member that is longitudinally elongated. A hook is coupled to and extends upwardly from the upper member thereby facilitating the hook to be positioned on a closet rod. A lower member is elongated to have a length that is equal to a length of the upper member. A pair of curved tubes is provided and each of the curved tubes defines a U-shape to hang an article of clothing in the convention of a clothes hanger. Each of the curved tubes insertably receives the upper member and the lower member such that the upper member and the lower member and the pair of curved tubes defines an ovoid shape which has an adjustable length to accommodate various sizes of articles of clothing.
US12185850B1
A cross-linked slatwall shelving system where a plurality of back panels, each having four or more holes penetrating vertically through the entirety of the panels; and two or more rods, each connecting two or more panels by penetrating the holes; wherein one or more panels are penetrated by two different rods that penetrate two different sets of panels forming one or more cross-links. Cross-links reinforce the structural integrity and rigidity of the back panel of a shelving system.
US12185849B2
Provided is a refrigerator. The refrigerator is characterized by enabling at least a part of a refrigerator door to be selectively transparent by a user's operation, such that the user sees through an inside of the refrigerator while the refrigerator door is closed.
US12185848B2
A swing door system for use with a freezer device is provided. The system includes two adjacent swing doors and a mullion in contact with the swing doors. Each swing door has a transparent pane and a non-transparent area. The non-transparent area is proximal to the mullion when the swing doors are in a closed position. The non-transparent areas and the mullion define a non-transparent region. The system has, under a horizontal viewing angle between 0° and 180° with respect to the plane in which the swing doors are arranged when the swing doors are in the closed position, all of the horizontal diameters of the non-transparent region are less than 100 mm.
US12185846B2
A modular wall display system includes a first base plate having a model display surface on a proximal base plate side and a display mounting surface on a distal base plate side. The display system further includes a front vertical member set removably disposed on the proximal base plate side, a rear vertical member set removably disposed on the proximal base plate side, a horizontal side beam set removably disposed in connection with the front vertical member set and the rear vertical member set, a horizontal front beam member removably disposed in connection with the front vertical member set, and a wall anchor module set rigidly disposed to the display mounting surface on the distal base plate side, the wall anchor module set comprising removable a locking surface configured to removably attach to a wall mountable bracket cleat set. The modular wall display system is expandable and wall hangable.
US12185843B2
A folding chair is provided including an upper hinge seat, a plurality of support legs, a lower hinge seat and a plurality of upper support rods. Each of the plurality of support legs having an upper end portion rotatable connected to the upper hinge seat and a lower end portion for supporting on the ground, and each of the plurality of upper support rods having a lower end portion rotatably connected to the lower hinge seat. A middle portion of each support leg is rotatably connected with one of the plurality of upper support rods. The upper hinge seat and the lower hinge seat are connected directly or indirectly when the folding chair is in unfolded state, and the upper hinge seat and the lower hinge seat are separated from each other when the folding chair is in folded state.
US12185838B1
Mattress arrangements include mattress portions with friction enhancing fabrics to secure them in place. The mattress portions can be bases and toppers, mattresses, and supports, or other components. Use of the fabrics eliminates the need for other attachment structures.
US12185834B1
A screw-less and no rivet combined type shelf includes post components, storage layers and connecting components. Each of the post components includes four plates, trapezoidal holes and at least one bent plate. The four plates are connected together. The trapezoidal holes are disposed at one of the four plates. The bent plate is bent into one corresponding trapezoidal hole. Each of the connecting components is disposed to one corresponding storage layer. The connecting components are to assemble the storage layers within the post components. Each of the connecting components includes at least one hook piece as a slope piece. When the hook piece is inserted into the corresponding trapezoidal hole in an upright assembly direction, the hook piece is buckled in the corresponding trapezoidal hole.
US12185831B2
A folding frame and an outdoor table or outdoor chair using the folding frame. The folding frame comprises a base, a plurality of support legs hinged around the base, a plurality of extension support bars hinged on the support legs and capable of folding, and a locking mechanism. The base is provided with a plurality of gear racks. Both sides of each gear rack are configured with vertically distributed first teeth part. Both sides of the upper end of the support leg are configured with circularly distributed second teeth part. The upper end of the support leg is positioned between two gear racks, and the second teeth part of the support leg mesh with the first teeth part of the gear rack. When the locking mechanism can lock the unfolded support legs, the gear rack also locks the support legs.
US12185829B2
An oral care implement having a head with a bristle bearing surface. The oral care implement may include a central bristle tuft extending from a central portion of the bristle bearing surface, the central bristle tuft terminating in a domed distal surface. Furthermore, the oral care implement may include a plurality of perimetric bristle tufts extending from the bristle bearing surface and arranged to circumferentially surround the central bristle tuft. Each of the perimetric bristle tufts may have an inclined distal surface that slopes downward towards the central bristle tuft. The bristle bearing surface of the head may have a total surface area (TSA), and the toothbrush may include a tooth cleaning element field having X number of tooth cleaning elements that collectively occupy a total cleaning element area (TCEA) such that 1 X × T C E A T S A = Z and Z is in a range of 0.04 to 0.065.
US12185819B2
The present invention relates to only a cosmetic tool, particularly an Eyebrow Contour Tool. The Eyebrow Contour Tool may be held in one hand, is structured to receive and hold only eyebrow makeup pencils with securing mechanisms, that is for the purpose of outlining and bounding a natural shape of an eyebrow in a symmetrical and consistent form.
US12185811B2
A handheld electric hair drier comprising a main body including a primary fluid inlet, a primary fluid outlet, a fan unit, a heating element, and a fluid flow path, and a handle. The fluid flow path comprises a primary fluid flow path that extends from the main body to the primary fluid outlet along a straight line, a side fluid flow path, and a wall-defined fluid flow path. Air fluid drawn through the side fluid flow path and the wall-defined path enters the fan unit through the primary fluid flow path. The fan unit is arranged on the primary fluid flow path, and the fan unit sucks fluid into the primary fluid flow path and transmits the fluid to pass through the heating element, so that the fluid in the primary fluid flow path is heated. The hair drier can provide high-pressure jet airflow and improve the air supplementing speed.
US12185810B2
A luggage apparatus and method is described herein that introduce a separate wheeled sub-frame that mounts on the base of a luggage apparatus and which allows for dual mode use between an upright mode and a tilt mode. The geometry of the relationship between the bag frame and sub-frame of the luggage apparatus urges the bag to tilt and return upright. The luggage apparatus is securely supported about the sub-frame in both modes with a changing centre of gravity and can be pushed or pulled in either mode.
US12185809B2
A case for boot-like footwear 10 has a pair of complementary L-shaped compartments 20, 30. Each compartment has an elongated region 22, 32 with an upper end and a lower end. A detachable handle member 40, 50 depends from the upper end of each respective elongated region 22, 32. The lower end of each elongated region 22, 32 terminates in a bottom-loading foot region 24, 34. The foot region 24, 34 extends perpendicularly outwardly from the elongated region 22, 32. Each foot region 24, 34 has a selectively-openable bottom for insertion of a boot-like article. In an aspect, the handle members 40, 50 are selectively joinable to one another to form a conjoined handle 70.
US12185797B2
A fastening device configured to be mounted to an elongated profile element of a support arm arrangement, and a method of mounting said fastening device to a support arm arrangement. The support arm arrangement exhibits a cross-sectional profile shape, and the fastening device is configured to hold a tubing member by a holding element, configured to be coupled to the fastening device and to the tubing member. The fastening device includes a contour surface at least partly corresponding with said cross-sectional profile shape, wherein the contour surface is configured for engaging and retaining the fastening device to the elongated profile element when the fastening device is mounted to the elongated profile element.
US12185796B2
A tool-operated adjustment device includes a housing supporting a rotatable spool that is operably coupled to a tension line. The spool is configured to rotate about a first axis in a first direction to wind the tension line, and to rotate in a second direction opposite the first direction to unwind the tension line. The device includes a socket pivotally coupled to the housing and configured to rotate about a second axis. The socket is selectively coupled to the spool to drive rotation of the spool in the first direction. The socket is configured to removably connect and disconnect to a tool configured to rotate the socket about the second axis. The device includes a release mechanism that is configured to selectively release the spool such that the spool is free to rotate in either the first or second direction in response to manual forces applied to the release mechanism.
US12185788B2
Methods and systems are provided for forming a molded foam article. An example method may include molding a plurality of separate pieces of closed-cell foam by exposure to a temperature cycle within a sealed mold to soften the plurality of pieces sufficiently for physical bonding; and forming a molded foam article with the pieces bonded together without an adhesive, wherein, during the temperature cycle, the mold is unsealed at least once to release gases and/or pressure. In another example, a method includes exposing a filled, sealed mold filled with a plurality of pieces of foamed material to a heating cycle; at a threshold temperature, unsealing the filled, sealed mold until a pressure reduces to within a threshold of atmospheric pressure; and, following the unsealing, cooling the filled mold prior to removing a molded foam article.
US12185787B2
A personal air filtering device comprising a rigid component comprising a transparent face shield, a fabric component, wherein the face shield and fabric combine to cover an entire head of a user and form a seal around the user's neck, an intake port with an inlet filter, an exhaust port with an exhaust filter, an air mover causing filtered air to enter the intake port from outside the device and exhaust air to exit the exhaust port, and a controller configured to adjust the rate at which the air mover moves air.
US12185786B2
A helmet, comprising: an outer shell; a head mount, configured to conform to the head of a wearer; and a plurality of connectors, each provided between the outer shell and the head mount and each connected to the outer shell and head mount; wherein the connectors are configured to suspend the head mount within the outer shell such that, in use, an air gap is provided between head mount and the outer shell; wherein the connectors each have a first connection point connected to the outer shell and a second connection point connected to the head mount; and at least one connector is configured such that, under tensile loading between the first and the second connection points, the connector extends with a first modulus of elasticity up to a threshold extension and extends with a second modulus of elasticity beyond the threshold extension.
US12185781B1
The present disclosure relates to technical field of hairdressing supplies manufacturing, and more specifically to a hair weft. The hair weft includes a first hair weft and a second hair weft; the second hair weft is cut and affixed flush to a bottom of the first hair weft, forming the hair weft. The preparation process includes providing a hair transplantation base, a first hair strand, a first hair weft, a second hair weft, a finished hair weft, and cleaning and processing.
US12185769B2
An adjustable bra and method of adjusting the same are provided. The adjustable bra includes a bra garment with a plurality of garment adjusters. Each garment adjuster is configured to adjust at least one adjustable bra feature relating to at least one of the fit or support of the bra garment. The adjustable bra also includes an adjustment mechanism configured with a plurality of adjustment positions. The adjustment mechanism is movable between a plurality of positions corresponding to the garment adjuster position of each garment feature and the adjustment mechanism also includes a singular adjustment point configured to move the garment adjusters between different positions. A corresponding method of adjusting the adjustable bra is also provided.
US12185767B2
An infused undergarment device for use as a delivery device for colonizing the vagina with Lactobacillus in patients who test positive for or report symptoms of vaginitis. The infused undergarment employs a sponge impregnated with Lactobacillus crispatus Freeze Dried Powder. The sponge, having channels to direct the powder, is held in place by a mesh fabric sewn into the groin portion of the undergarment, which allows the c n ay delivery of the powder. The undergarment may also be used to help maintain normal flora of the vagina in the absence of symptoms in a prophylactic manner to prevent future infection. The undergarment is sealed in an opaque aluminum foil package to prevent light and environment air from degrading effectiveness.
US12185758B2
A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system may comprise a liquid storage portion, which includes a housing holding a liquid aerosol-forming substrate. The housing has a first and a second opening. The cartridge may further comprise a first and a second permeable planar heater assembly, wherein the first permeable planar heater assembly is fixed to the housing and extends across the first opening of the housing, and the second permeable planar heater assembly is fixed to the housing and extends across the second opening of the housing. The first and second permeable planar heater assemblies are arranged opposite each other such that they face each other and form an airflow channel in between.
US12185757B2
The present application relates to the technical field of smoking sets, and provided thereby are a cartridge and an electronic cigarette, the cartridge comprising: a liquid storage part inside of which a liquid storage cavity is formed; a gas outlet channel; a porous body which comprises a main body having an atomizing surface, and two side parts arranged opposite to each other; and a container is defined and formed between the two side parts and the main part. The porous body also comprises a connection part which is used to connect the two side parts, used to receive and absorb condensed liquid formed in the gas outlet channel, and has at least one receiving surface facing towards the gas outlet channel; and a heating body which is bound to the atomizing surface.
US12185754B2
A main body unit of an aerosol generation device including a power source; an accommodation portion having a cylindrical shape and configured to store an aerosol source; a suction port part formed with a suction port configured to suck an aerosol made from the aerosol source atomized; and a connector connecting the power source, the accommodation portion, and the suction port part in an axial direction extending a central axis of the maim body unit is provided. The connector includes a first rotation connector configured to release a connection between the power source and the accommodation portion by applying a first torque around the central axis, and a second rotation connector configured to release a connection between the accommodation portion and the suction port part by applying a second torque smaller than the first torque around the central axis.
US12185751B2
A cigarette filter comprises a first filter portion comprising an irregularly folded and packed polymer sheet, and a first cigarette filter wrapping paper surrounding the polymer sheet, wherein the polymer sheet comprises a first polymer layer containing polyolefin or polyester and a second polymer layer positioned on the first polymer layer and containing polyolefin.
US12185747B2
A method of treating Alzheimer's associated pathology includes a step of identifying subject having a pathology that is associated with Alzheimer's disease. A fasting mimicking diet (FMD) is then administered to the subject for a first time period. Methods for treating amyloid plaque formation and/or elevated levels of tau protein as well as neuroinflammation are also provided.
US12185744B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include particular amyloglucosidase (AMG) compositions formulated as a nutriceutical or medicinal food, for example. The AMG compositions are formulated at a specific dosage and/or are lacking in one or more toxins or have substantially reduced levels of toxin, such as deoxynivalenol (vomit toxin). The AMG compositions are provided to individuals in need thereof, such as an individual with or at risk for congenital sucrase isomaltase syndrome, functional bowel disorders, small bowel bacterial overgrowth, protein-calorie malnutrition (marasmus), radiochemotherapy-induced mucositis and/or short-gut syndrome.
US12185743B2
A process for transglucosylation of steviol glycosides. A sweetener composition having at least 95% total glycosylated steviol glycosides.
US12185742B2
A savoury flavour concentrate from seaweed provides for umami and meaty notes when added to savoury food product. The concentrate can be used for the preparation of flavour products or can be added as such. Also described is a process for the preparation of the concentrate from seaweed by boiling seaweed, removing it from the boiling water, and further concentrating the remaining liquid.
US12185737B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a beverage nucleator system that can initiate ice crystal nucleation by application of a directed flow of pressurized gas to the exterior of the fluid container containing a supercooled beverage. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a beverage nucleator system for a supercooled beverage container which may include a frame having a beverage container aperture for receiving a beverage container therein and a gas outlet positioned within the beverage container aperture for directing a flow of pressurized gas at a beverage container received therein.
US12185728B2
A rolling pin system comprising a rolling pin with two ends and a rolling pin diameter, radial expansion device coupled to each end, each radial expansion device including multiple arms, each arm including a pivot component to pivot between two states, each arm including arc sections, each arc section having a diameter of curvatures, in one state, the arc section of the multiple arms cooperating to form a surface of rotation with one diameter of curvature, in the second state, the arc section of the multiple arms cooperating to form a surface of rotation with another diameter of curvature, the other diameter of curvature being greater than the one diameter of curvature.
US12185699B2
The present invention relates to an assembly for transporting and separating live poultry birds, in particular chicks. According to the invention, this assembly comprises: a first conveyor (10) for conveying the poultry birds, a carousel (12) comprising a rotating platform (14), said carousel (12) being configured to ensure, during the rotation of this platform (14), a spatial separation of the poultry birds introduced at the entry thereof so as to place them in a single file, an ejector (18) for ejecting the poultry birds thus separated from the carousel (12) and aligning them towards a discharge conveyor (19).
US12185685B1
A wheat variety designated 6PYSM29B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PYSM29B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PYSM29B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PYSM29B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PYSM29B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PYSM29B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.
US12185681B2
The present invention provides methods of preparing plants, with specific predetermined mutation(s) in one or more NOI(s). The specific predetermined mutation(s) preferably may result in the identification of plants having desired traits.
US12185676B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to providing power and data to an irrigation device. In some embodiments, a decoder unit for an irrigation system that receives power and data from an irrigation control unit over a multi-wire path comprises an input interface configured to couple to the multi-wire path of a decoder-based irrigation control system and to receive an output AC signal modulated with data and transmitted by an encoder of the irrigation control unit over the multi-wire path; a switch coupled to the input interface; a decoder circuit connected to the input interface. In some embodiment, the decoder circuit comprises a control circuit configured to decode the data from the received output AC signal; determine that the irrigation device is to be activated; and output a control signal to the switch.
US12185673B2
An airborne grapple saw system includes a suspension assembly, a hydraulic power pack assembly, and a grapple saw head assembly. The suspension assembly is configured to be suspended from an aerial vehicle. The hydraulic power pack assembly is operatively coupled with the suspension assembly. The grapple saw head assembly is operatively coupled with the hydraulic power pack assembly. The grapple saw head assembly is configured to freely rotate about a vertical axis an unlimited number of revolutions. The grapple saw head assembly includes a saw and first and second grapple arms. The grapple arms are pivotable between an open configuration, where the grapple arms are configured to obtain and release the vegetation, and a closed configuration, where the grapple arms are configured to securely retain the vegetation.
US12185670B2
A bale receiving table having a turntable assembly for an agricultural bale transport vehicle for receiving, forming, and manipulating on the turntable assembly successive layers of mid-size or big bales for tilting up and placement on a load table of the transport vehicle. After a transverse bale layer is assembled on the table, the transverse bale layer may be selectively centered on the turntable assembly and selectively elevated along the vertical axis of the turntable assembly and rotated 90 degrees about its horizontal plane to be aligned longitudinal to the table to form a bale tie layer with the integrated bales aligned longitudinal to the table and the transport vehicle.
US12185663B2
A method of navigating a self-propelled robotic tool (14) within a work area (12) defined by a boundary (13) comprises determining a positioning status comprising a position (P) of the robotic tool (14) within the area; based on the determined position (P) of the robotic tool (14), estimating a boundary distance value indicative of a distance (D1, D2, D3) from the robotic tool (14) to the boundary (13); setting a maximum dead reckoning navigation distance based on the boundary distance value; if a new positioning status cannot be reliably obtained, continuing navigating the robotic tool (14) based on dead reckoning; and if no new positioning status of the robotic tool (14) within the area has been reliably obtained upon reaching the maximum dead reckoning navigation distance, executing a safety operation based on having reached the maximum dead reckoning navigation distance.
US12185656B2
Wastewater containing organic matter may be treated using a multi-zone apparatus. In a first zone, organic matter in the wastewater may, among other things, be converted to at least volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and, thereafter, a portion of the treated wastewater may flow to a second zone that may, among other things, convert the VFAs to methane.
US12185654B2
Speed control of machines and associated implements during transitions of agricultural parameters is described herein. In one embodiment, a processing system comprises processing logic to execute instructions for processing agricultural data and performing speed control of a machine and associated implement during a transition period for adjusting a setting of an agricultural parameter. A communication unit is coupled to the processing logic. The communication unit to transmit and receive data from the implement. The processing logic is configured to execute instructions to adjust the setting of the agricultural parameter and to determine a desired speed control during the transition period based on at least one of a desired transition distance and productivity during the transition period.
US12185653B2
A sensor mounting apparatus for a header of an agricultural system includes a first arched member configured to be coupled to opposite lateral ends of the header, such that the first arched member extends laterally across the header. The sensor mounting apparatus also includes a second arched member configured to be coupled to opposite lateral ends of the header, such that the second arched member extends laterally across the header. The first arched member and the second arched member are configured to couple to one another at respective central portions of the first and second arched members. The first and second arched members are configured to support one or more sensors.
US12193343B2
A vertical variable resistance memory device including gate electrodes spaced apart from each other in a first direction on a substrate, each of the gate electrodes including graphene and extending in a second direction, the first direction being substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate and the second direction being substantially parallel to the upper surface of the substrate; first insulation patterns between the gate electrodes, each of the first insulation patterns including boron nitride (BN); and at least one pillar structure extending in the first direction through the gate electrodes and the first insulation patterns on the substrate, wherein the at least one pillar structure includes a vertical gate electrode extending in the first direction; and a variable resistance pattern on a sidewall of the vertical gate electrode.
US12193342B2
A manufacturing method of a memory device includes following steps. A memory unit including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a memory material layer is formed on a substrate. The second electrode is disposed above the first electrode in a vertical direction. The memory material layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode in the vertical direction. A first spacer layer including a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion is formed on a sidewall of the memory unit. The first portion is disposed on a sidewall of the first electrode. The second portion is disposed on a sidewall of the second electrode. The third portion is disposed above the memory unit in the vertical direction and connected with the second portion. A thickness of the second portion in a horizontal direction is greater than that of the first portion in the horizontal direction.
US12193338B2
A reservoir computer. In some embodiments, the reservoir computer includes a series array of Josephson junctions, a coupling impedance, and a readout circuit. In some embodiments, the series array of Josephson junctions includes a plurality of Josephson junctions, connected in series; the coupling impedance is connected in parallel with the series array of Josephson junctions; and the readout circuit is connected to at least three nodes of the series array of Josephson junctions.
US12193331B2
A thermoelectric module may comprise: a first metal support; a first heat conductive layer; a second heat conductive layer and formed from a resin composition; a plurality of first electrodes arranged on the second heat conductive layer; a plurality of P-type thermoelectric legs and a plurality of N-type thermoelectric legs alternately arranged on the plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of second electrodes arranged on the plurality of P-type thermoelectric legs and the plurality of N-type thermoelectric legs; a third heat conductive layer arranged on the plurality of second electrodes, and made from the same resin composition as the resin composition that forms the first heat conductive layer; and a second metal support arranged on the third heat conductive layer, wherein the second heat conductive layer is arranged to encompass an upper surface of the first heat conductive layer and a side surface of the first heat conductive layer.
US12193328B2
The present invention relates to a compounds of formula I R1-(A1-Z1)r—B1—ZL-A2-(Z3-A3)s-G (I) in which the occurring groups and parameters have the meanings given in claim 1, to the use thereof for the formation of molecular layers, in particular self assembled monolayers, to a process for the fabrication of a switching element for memristive devices comprising said molecular layers and to a memristic device comprising said switching element.
US12193327B2
Donor-acceptor type thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitters based on imidazo[1,2-F]phenanthridine and analogues for full color displays and lighting applications.
US12193322B2
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layer includes an emission layer, and the emission layer includes at least one light-emitting material represented by one of Formulas 1 and 2. The organic layer further includes at least one hole-transporting material represented by one of Formulas 2(1) and 2(2).
US12193320B2
A heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, Ar1 to Ar4, Ar11, and Ar12 are each, independently from one another, as defined herein.
US12193312B2
A display panel includes a substrate including a first region, a second region, a non-display area that surrounds the first region and the second region, and a display area that surrounds the non-display area; a plurality of pixels arranged on the display area; a plurality of dummy pixels arranged on the non-display area and emitting no light; and a plurality of signal lines configured to electrically connect the plurality of pixels to the plurality of dummy pixels. Some of the plurality of dummy pixels are arranged between the first region and the second region.
US12193310B2
A display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate has an opening region, a display region, and an opening peripheral region between the opening region and the display region, and includes a base substrate, the opening peripheral region includes a first barrier dam and an insulating protection layer, the first barrier dam at least partially surrounds the opening region, the insulating protection layer includes at least one first material removal region, and a projection of the first material removal region on the base substrate is overlapped with a projection of the first barrier dam on the base substrate; in the at least one first material removal region, a material of the insulating protection layer is at least partially removed, to form a recess portion in the insulating protection layer or a through hole penetrating the insulating protection layer.
US12193307B2
A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes: a touch electrode, at least located in the display region; and a touch trace, electrically connected with the touch electrode, and disposed on a side of the dam structure away from the base substrate; where the touch trace includes a first trace portion, and an orthographic projection of at least a part of the first trace portion on the base substrate overlaps with an orthographic projection of the first dam portion on the base substrate; the first trace portion comprises at least one first trace sub-portion having an average width of a first width, and at least one second trace sub-portion having an average width of a second width, where the first width is less than the second width.
US12193306B2
A display device includes a display panel configured to display an image. The display panel includes an electrode layer. An input sensing layer is disposed on the display panel. The input sensing layer includes a plurality of sensing electrodes including a first sensing electrode and a second sensing electrode. A plurality of signal lines is electrically connected to the plurality of sensing electrodes. The plurality of signal lines includes a first signal line electrically connected to the first sensing electrode and a second signal line electrically connected to the second sensing electrode. The first signal line has a length different from a length of the second signal line. A distance between the first signal line and the electrode layer is different from a distance between the second signal line and the electrode layer.
US12193303B2
An electronic device includes a transparent substrate, a number of pixel structures and a first trace structure. The transparent substrate includes a transparent region and a trace region. Each of the pixel structures has a sub-pixel structure of first color and a sub-pixel structure of second color. The sub-pixel structure of first color has a light emitting element of first color. The sub-pixel structure of second color has a light emitting element of second color. The first trace structure includes a first main trace, a first auxiliary trace and a second auxiliary trace. The first main trace is disposed in the trace region and surrounds a portion of the transparent region. The first auxiliary trace and the second auxiliary trace are electrically connected to the first main trace, and are electrically connected to the corresponding sub-pixel structure of first color and the corresponding sub-pixel structure of second color, respectively.
US12193294B2
A multi-panel organic light emitting display device is disclosed that includes a plurality of display panels coupled to each other. Each of the plurality of display panels includes: a substrate including an active area and a non-active area; and a display unit including an organic light emitting element on the substrate. Each of the plurality of display panels also includes: a plurality of signal lines disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the display unit; and a plurality of link lines disposed under the substrate. Each of the plurality of display panels further includes a plurality of side lines connecting the plurality of signal lines and the plurality of link lines. Each of the plurality of display panels also includes a driving circuit electrically connected to the plurality of link lines.
US12193292B2
A base substrate of a display substrate includes a display region; a plurality of pixel units in the display region, each pixel unit includes a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit adjacent to each other in a first direction; an initialization signal line extending in the first direction and supplying an initialization signal to the first pixel circuit and the second pixel circuit; a first control signal line extending in the first direction and supplying a gate signal to the first pixel circuit and the second pixel circuit; and a light-emitting control signal line extending in the first direction and supplying a light-emitting control signal to the first pixel circuit and the second pixel circuit; the initialization signal line is on a side of the light-emitting control signal line away from the first control signal line, extends along the first direction and includes segments arranged at intervals.
US12193291B2
A display substrate and a display device. The present display substrate includes a first to a third display region. The first display region includes first pixel repeating units, and allows light from the first side to at least partially penetrate to the second side. The second display region includes second and fourth pixel repeating units. The third display region includes third pixel repeating units. Each first pixel repeating unit is electrically connected to the corresponding fourth pixel repeating unit by means of t transparent connecting traces. The pitch of the first and second pixel repeating units is b1, and the pitch of the third pixel repeating units is b2, the pitch of the transparent connecting traces is D, and the maximum number s of first pixel repeating units in the first direction satisfying s≤2*Floor(b1/((D*t))).
US12193288B2
A display panel includes a driving substrate, a display substrate, and an adhering layer. The driving substrate includes a first bonding electrode and a driving circuit of the display panel. The display substrate includes a second bonding electrode and a display unit of the display panel. The second bonding electrode corresponds to the first bonding electrode of the driving substrate. The adhering layer is disposed between the driving substrate and the display substrate, and includes a conductive glue and an adhesive. The conductive glue is electrically connected to the first bonding electrode of the driving substrate and the second bonding electrode of the display substrate, so that the driving circuit is electrically connected to the display unit, and the adhesive adheres surfaces of the driving substrate and the display substrate facing each other.
US12193280B1
Embodiments described herein generally relate to a display. In one or more embodiments, a sub-pixel circuit includes at least two anodes disposed over a substrate. Adjacent anodes define a well. Adjacent overhang structures are disposed in the well. The overhang structures have an overhang thickness from the substrate to an upper surface of the overhang structures. The overhang thickness and the anode thickness are substantially equivalent. The overhang structures include overhang extensions extending past lower sidewalls. The well has a trench area defined by the lower sidewalls and a bottom surface of the overhang extensions, with a gap between the overhang extensions of the adjacent overhang structures. An organic light emitting diode (OLED) material is disposed over the anode, the upper surface of the overhang structures, under the overhang structures, and within the trench area. A cathode is disposed over the OLED material.
US12193275B2
A display backplane and a mobile terminal are provided. The display backplane includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel units disposed on the substrate, and a barrier layer disposed on the substrate. The pixel unit includes a reflection unit, the barrier layer includes a plurality of barriers arranged between two adjacent pixel units, and two adjacent reflection units are separately provided by the barriers.
US12193273B2
The present disclosure provides a displaying backplane and a displaying device, and relates to the technical field of displaying. The displaying backplane includes: a substrate base plate; a first active layer and a second active layer that are provided on the substrate base plate, wherein the material of the first active layer and the second active layer is an oxide semiconductor, the first active layer has a first channel region and first no-channel regions, and the second active layer has a second channel region and second no-channel regions; a first grid insulating layer covering the first active layer and the second active layer; and a first grid and a second grid that are provided on the first grid insulating layer; wherein the oxygen-vacancy concentration of the first channel region is greater than the oxygen-vacancy concentrations of the first no-channel regions, the second no-channel regions and the second channel region.
US12193266B2
A display panel includes: a back plane; at least one subpixel arranged on the back plane and including a light-emitting material layer; a pixel definition layer provided with first apertures corresponding to subpixels respectively, each subpixel being located within a corresponding first aperture; and a black matrix arranged at a side of the pixel definition layer away from the back plane and provided with second apertures corresponding to the first apertures respectively. A projection of each first aperture onto the back plane is located within a projection of a corresponding second aperture onto the back plane, a center of each second aperture is offset toward a peripheral point of the light-emitting material layer closest to the black matrix relative to a center of the corresponding first aperture, and the light-emitting material layer is in an inclined state relative to the pixel definition layer.
US12193265B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel and an electronic device are disclosed. The OLED display panel includes a display area having a light-emitting area and a non-light emitting area. The OLED display panel includes a cover. The cover includes a base layer, a color resist layer, a black matrix layer, a planarization layer, and a first optical compensation layer. The first optical compensation layer is located corresponding to the black matrix layer.
US12193255B2
A display panel, a method of manufacturing the display panel and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The display panel includes: a substrate, a functional film layer arranged on the substrate, a first bending region capable of being bent along a first direction, a second bending region capable of being bent along a second direction, and a third bending region located between the first bending region and the second bending region. The first direction intersects the second direction. The functional film layer includes a non-hollowed region located in at least one of the first bending region and the second bending region, and a part of the functional film layer located in the third bending region includes a plurality of functional via holes spaced from each other.
US12193252B2
A light emitting device includes: a first electrode and a second electrode with a surface facing the first electrode; an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a quantum dot (e.g., a plurality of quantum dots); and an electron auxiliary layer disposed between the emission layer and the second electrode. The electron auxiliary layer includes a first layer including a first metal oxide, and a second layer disposed on the first layer and including a second metal oxide. A roughness of an interface between the second layer and the second electrode is less than about 10 nm as determined by an electron microscopy analysis. An absolute value of a difference between a conduction band edge energy level of the second layer and a work function of the second electrode may be less than or equal to about 0.5 eV, and a conduction band edge energy level of the first layer may be less than the conduction band edge energy level of the second layer.
US12193247B2
An exemplary imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: an imaging region including a plurality of pixels; a peripheral region located outside of the imaging region; and a blockade region located between the imaging region and the peripheral region. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a photoelectric conversion layer, a pixel electrode to collect a charge generated in the photoelectric conversion layer, and a first doped region electrically connected to the pixel electrode. In the peripheral region, a circuit to drive the plurality of pixels is provided. The blockade region includes a second doped region of a first conductivity type located between the imaging region and the peripheral region and a plurality of first contact plugs connected to the second doped region.
US12193241B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to a ferroelectric memory device. The ferroelectric memory device includes a multi-layer stack disposed on a substrate. The multi-layer stack has a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of dielectric layers stacked alternately. A channel layer penetrates through the plurality of conductive layers and the plurality of dielectric layers. A ferroelectric layer is disposed between the channel layer and both of the plurality of conductive layers and the plurality of dielectric layers. A plurality of oxygen scavenging layers are disposed along sidewalls of the plurality of conductive layer. The plurality of oxygen scavenging layers laterally separate the ferroelectric layer from the plurality of conductive layers.
US12193239B2
A semiconductor memory device includes pairs of metal lines and memory arrays. Each of the memory arrays includes first and second sets of thin film transistors (TFTs), a first switch transistor, and a second switch transistor. The TFTs in the first and second sets are electrically connected to each other in parallel. The first switch transistor is electrically connected in series to one of the TFTs in the first set and one of the metal lines in a corresponding one of the pairs of the metal lines. The second switch transistor is electrically connected in series to one of the TFTs in the second set and the other one of the metal lines in the corresponding one of the pairs of the metal lines.
US12193231B2
In certain embodiments, a method of fabricating a device includes forming, on a substrate, a layer stack of alternating layers of a first spin-on material and a second spin-on material. Each layer of the first spin-on material and the second spin-on material is formed by spin-on deposition. The method includes etching first openings through the layer stack and filling the first openings with a third material. The method includes etching second openings through the layer stack, removing the first spin-on material from the layer stack, and replacing the first spin-on material with a fourth material. The fourth material is a first metal-containing material.
US12193225B2
A semiconductor device has a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate. A second conductivity type first impurity diffusion layer is disposed in a surface region of the semiconductor substrate. A resistance element is configured with a first conductivity type second impurity diffusion layer disposed in the first impurity diffusion layer in the surface region of the semiconductor substrate. In a transistor, a gate is connected to an input portion of the resistance element, a source is connected to the first impurity diffusion layer, and a drain is connected to a voltage source higher than the voltage of the input portion. A current source is connected to the source.
US12193210B2
In a method of forming a wiring, an insulating interlayer including a low-k dielectric material is formed on a substrate. A first etching mask is formed on the insulating interlayer. A first etching process is performed using the first etching mask to form a first opening through the insulating interlayer. The first etching mask is removed. A protection pattern is formed on a bottom and a side of the first opening. A second etching mask is formed on the protection pattern and the insulating interlayer. A second etching process is performed using a second etching mask to form a second opening through the insulating interlayer. The second etching mask is removed. The protection pattern is removed. A wiring is formed in each of the first and second openings.
US12193209B2
A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The method includes following operations. A substrate including active regions and isolation regions is provided. First trench structures are formed on the substrate, the first trench structure passing through the active region and the isolation region. Bit line contact structures are formed in the first trench structures. Bit line structures are formed on the bit line contact structures, at least part of the bit line structure being positioned in the first trench structure. Bit line protection structures are formed on the bit line structures, the bit line protection structure at least covering an upper surface of the bit line structure. Capacitor contact assemblies are formed, the capacitor contact assembly including a first capacitor contact structure and a second capacitor contact structure which covers an upper surface and part of a side wall of the first capacitor contact structure.
US12193203B2
A damping film for shielding an electronic device from an electrical and/or magnetic field, in particular damping film for shielding an electronic device having components for wireless charging from an electrical and/or magnetic field, comprising a first carrier layer, a first adhesion layer which is in direct contact with the first carrier layer, a damping layer which is in direct contact with the first adhesion layer, wherein the damping layer comprises a damping material consisting of a magnetically soft substance, a second adhesion layer which is in direct contact with the damping layer, in particular is in direct contact with the damping layer on the side facing away from the first adhesion layer, and a second carrier layer which is in direct contact with the second adhesion layer.
US12193194B2
Systems and methods for a datacenter cooling system are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a thermal test vehicle (TTV) includes an air-cooled heat element associated with a plurality of fins to enable air cooling of a TTV and includes a liquid-cooled heat trace associated with a cold plate to enable liquid cooling of a TTV, where an air-cooled heat element and a liquid-cooled heat trace generate heat to enable separate or concurrent testing of air cooling and liquid cooling in a datacenter cooling system.
US12193191B2
An appliance or board housing may include a housing pan, a printed circuit board (PCB), a spacer frame, and a thermally conductive insulator pad (TCIP). The housing pan may define an internal bottom surface. The PCB may be held within the housing pan above the internal bottom surface. The spacer frame may include a skeletal platform extending beneath the PCB in support thereof. The TCIP may be held on the spacer frame between PCB and the housing pan.
US12193180B2
The disclosure provides an electronic device including a support plate and a first panel. The support plate includes a first bridge member and a second bridge member. The first panel is disposed on the support plate and includes a substrate, a signal line, a third bridge member, and a fourth bridge member. The signal line is disposed on the substrate. The third bridge member penetrates through the substrate and is electrically connected to the signal line and the first bridge member. The fourth bridge member penetrates through the substrate and is electrically connected to the signal line and the second bridge member.
US12193173B1
An electronics box for insertion into a wall box includes a housing having walls that define an inner volume of the housing. A wall includes an edge having part disposed along an outer surface of that wall, and a tab disposed within the inner volume at a first predetermined distance from the outer surface of the wall and extending along a direction parallel to the outer surface of the wall past the edge. Another wall includes an edge having a part along an outer surface of that wall, and an opening completely surrounded by the wall at a second predetermined distance from that edge. Upon the parts of the edges of the walls being brought in contact, the tab is inserted into the opening, the tab and the opening being dimensioned such that the tab securely fits into the opening and secures the walls together.
US12193160B2
A printed circuit board includes: a core substrate including a plurality of core layers; a plurality of magnetic members embedded in each of the plurality of core layers; a first coil pattern disposed on the core substrate; and a second coil pattern disposed below the core substrate.
US12193156B2
A wiring substrate includes a first insulating layer, a conductor layer formed on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer formed on the first insulating layer such that the second insulating layer is covering the conductor layer, and a coating film formed on a surface of the conductor layer such that the coating film is adhering the conductor layer and the second insulating layer. The conductor layer includes a conductor pad and a wiring pattern, and the conductor pad of the conductor layer has a mounting surface including a first region and a component mounting region formed such that the second insulating layer has a through hole exposing the component mounting region and that the first region is covered by the second insulating layer and roughened to have a surface roughness higher than a first surface roughness of a surface of the wiring pattern facing the second insulating layer.
US12193151B2
A high-frequency circuit board includes: a first insulating layer having a first dielectric constant; a first metal layer provided to stack over the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer provided to stack over the first metal layer, and having a second dielectric constant lower than the first dielectric constant; a second metal layer provided to stack over the second insulating layer, on which a compound semiconductor device is mounted; and first vias penetrating the second insulating layer and connecting the first metal layer with the second metal layer.
US12193146B2
A heater includes: a flexible printed wiring board including a base film and a metal foil provided on one side of the base film; a heater circuit portion that is formed from the metal foil and generates heat when energized; and a heat conductive foil portion that is formed from the metal foil at a position away from the heater circuit portion and is maintained in a non-energized state.
US12193143B2
A first circuit board includes a positive output pin and a negative output pin of a power conversion circuit, each of which has a shape projecting from a second main surface. A second circuit board has a positive through via and a negative through via, each of which has a shape extending between a third main surface and a fourth main surface. The second main surface of the first circuit board and the third main surface of the second circuit board are physically in close contact with each other. The positive output pin is inserted through the positive through via to reach the fourth main surface. The negative output pin is inserted through the negative through via in such a manner as to reach the fourth main surface. The load receives a current supplied from the power conversion circuit through the positive output pin and the negative output pin.
US12193135B2
In an x-ray source, an isolation circuit can isolate bias voltage at a cathode from a bias voltage at an alternating current source (AC source). The isolation circuit can transfer alternating current from the AC source to the cathode. The isolation circuit can be made repeatedly with minimal variation or failed parts, can be light, and can be small. The isolation circuit can include planar transformer(s). Each planar transformer can include a primary trace on a primary circuit board and a secondary trace on a secondary circuit board. The primary trace and the secondary trace can each include a spiral shape. The primary trace can be located in close proximity to the secondary trace such that alternating electrical current through the primary trace will induce alternating electrical current through the secondary trace.
US12193134B2
X-ray generating apparatus includes X-ray generating unit having first and second bottom surfaces and side surface; driving circuit; accommodation housing accommodating the X-ray generating unit and the driving circuit; and insulating component arranged in the accommodation housing and having first insulating member arranged between the driving circuit and the accommodation housing and second insulating member arranged between the X-ray generating unit and the accommodation housing. First space is defined between the first insulating member and the accommodation housing, second space is defined between the second insulating member and the accommodation housing, third space is defined between the side surface and the second insulating member, fourth space is defined by the second bottom surface and internal surface of the first insulating member. The second space communicates with the third space, the first space communicates with the fourth space.
US12193126B2
A linear lighting device may include an elongated housing that defines a cavity. The linear lighting device may include plurality of emitter printed circuit boards configured to be received within the cavity. Each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards may include a plurality of emitter modules mounted thereto. Each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards may include a control circuit configured to control the plurality of emitter modules mounted to the respective emitter printed circuit board based on receipt of one or more messages. The linear lighting device may include a total internal reflection lens for each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards. The total internal reflection lens may be configured to diffuse light emitted by the emitter modules of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards.
US12193124B2
System and method for controlling one or more light emitting diodes. For example, the system includes: a current regulator including a first regulator terminal and a second regulator terminal, the first regulator terminal being configured to receive a diode current flowing through the one or more light emitting diodes, the current regulator being configured to generate a sensing signal representing the diode current, the second regulator terminal being configured to output the sensing signal; a bleeder controller including a first controller terminal and a second controller terminal, the first controller terminal being configured to receive the sensing signal from the second regulator terminal, the bleeder controller being configured to generate a first bleeder control signal based at least in part on the sensing signal, the second controller terminal being configured to output the first bleeder control signal.
US12193123B2
A lighting system includes control adapters and a lighting controller that sends commands and data over an AC power line to power and control the lamps associated with the control adapters. Lighting themes are uniquely programmable color and intensity that are applied to a collection of control adapters to achieve different lighting modes instantly, without the delay that programming each control adapter individually incurs. The plurality of control adapters receive theme lighting information over the power line and store the theme information in memory. The lighting controller sends a single command to the collections of the control adapter groups to apply the theme or a multiple of themes to run in sequence as a pattern. Each control adapter retrieves and applies the theme information associated with the pattern.
US12193121B2
The present laminated glass includes a pair of glass plates facing each other; an interlayer positioned between the pair of glass plates; and a plurality of linear members arranged in parallel to heat a transparent region of the pair of glass plates, wherein each of the plurality of linear members has a line width of greater than or equal to 2 μm and less than or equal to 30 μm, and wherein at least part of the plurality of linear members has the line width that is not constant.
US12193113B2
The system allows real time collection and processing of massive data from many network elements. It has an elastic architecture that scales horizontally to support different network sizes. The system in a uniform data format for downstream consumption. It employs a pub/sub data distribution mechanism that supports multiple concurrent downstream subscribers efficiently in real-time.
US12193108B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for identifying roaming messages at network functions in a home public land mobile network (PLMN). A method includes receiving, at a home security edge protection proxy (SEPP) for the home PLMN, a request message from a consumer network function in a visitor PLMN and adding, at the home SEPP, a header to the request message indicating that the request message originated in the visitor PLMN. The method includes receiving, at a producer network function in the home PLMN, the request message and determining, at the producer network function, that the request message originated in the visitor PLMN by finding the header indicating that the request message originated in the visitor PLMN. The method includes applying, at the producer network function, a roaming-specific policy while processing the request message in response to determining that the request message originated in the visitor PLMN.
US12193088B2
A method executed by a relay UE is provided. The relay UE receives an incoming SideLink (SL) transmission from the first remote UE on the first RLC channel, wherein the first RLC channel is associated with an SL Radio Bearer (SLRB) ID, in which the incoming SL transmission includes the first identifier, which includes the SLRB ID and a first UE ID. The relay UE sends an outgoing SL transmission to a second remote UE on a second RLC channel according to the SLRB ID and the first UE ID.
US12193082B2
An emulated wireless access point (AP) at a first PMC device (PMC1) establishes a first tunneled direct link setup (TDLS) session between a first station module (STA1) incorporated into the PMC1 and a second station module (STA2) incorporated into a second PMC device (PMC2). Following establishment of the TDLS session, the wireless AP is allowed to sleep; and most infrastructure management duties are handled by the STA1 during the session. PMC device battery charge may be conserved as a result. The emulated wireless AP may also establish a second TDLS link to a third station module (STA3) incorporated into a third PMC device (PMC3). The STA1 may then bridge data traffic flow between the STA2 and the STA3. Such bridging operation may enable communication between two PMC devices otherwise unable to decode data received from the other.
US12193077B1
A communication device maintains a first backoff counter that corresponds to a first channel segment, and a second backoff counter that corresponds to a second channel segment. The communication device determines whether the communication device is permitted to transmit via the first channel segment simultaneously with receiving via the second channel segment. In response to determining that the communication device is not permitted to transmit via the first channel segment simultaneously with receiving via the second channel segment, the communication device suspends the second backoff counter when transmitting via the first channel segment. In response to determining that the communication device is permitted to transmit via the first channel segment simultaneously with receiving via the second channel segment, the communication device counts the second backoff counter while transmitting via the first channel segment.
US12193076B2
A method of operating a user equipment, UE, in a wireless communication system includes receiving a first random access procedure message from a base station, the first random access procedure message containing a channel occupancy time, COT, sharing indicator that indicates a shared COT period associated with the first random access procedure message, and transmitting a second random access procedure message to the base station within the shared COT period. A method of operating a base station includes transmitting a first random access procedure message to a user equipment, UE, the first random access procedure message containing a channel occupancy time, COT, sharing indicator that indicates a shared COT period associated with the first random access procedure message, and receiving a second random access procedure message from the UE within the shared COT period.
US12193074B2
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes initiating a Small Data Transmission (SDT) procedure for transmitting a first set of data packets to a base station (BS) via an uplink (UL) transmission, determining, while the UE is in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Inactive state, whether to prioritize the UL transmission over a sidelink (SL) transmission when there is a conflict between the UL transmission and the SL transmission during the SDT procedure, where the SL transmission is for transmitting a second set of data packets to another UE.
US12193065B2
The present invention provides a terminal device comprising: transmission unit configured to transmit a first message including user data to a base station device in a random access procedure in a mobile communication network; and control unit configured to control the transmission unit to: in a case where a predetermined condition to transition from an inactive state to a connected state is satisfied, transmit the first message that includes predetermined information for notifying the base station device that the terminal device needs to transition to the connected state; and in a case where the predetermined condition is not satisfied, transmit the first message that does not include the predetermined information.
US12193064B2
A method of configuring an uplink grant-free transmission and a device thereof are provided. The method includes: acquiring a transmission location of an uplink grant-free transmission according to a current configuration parameter; acquiring, according to the transmission location, a corresponding subframe time slot, and initiating the uplink grant-free transmission to a network side on the subframe time slot; where the current configuration parameter includes one or more of: a starting location, a subframe internal offset and a transmission period, where the starting location includes a starting location indicated by a system frame number and a subframe number or a starting location indicated by a subframe number.
US12193059B2
Systems and methods of providing RAT co-existence and congestion control in V2V communications are generally described. A vUE detects specific non-LTE RAT transmissions in a listening period of a PSCCH or PSSCH, determines whether a metric has been met and reselects to a non-overloaded channel to communicate with other vUEs or the eNB. The manner of reselection is dependent on the RAT specific or V2X service priorities of the channels, as well as whether the channels are V2V service dependent.
US12193058B2
The present disclosure relates to a user equipment, a network side device, a wireless communication method and a storage medium. The user equipment of the present disclosure comprises a processing circuit, the processing circuit being configured to: generate channel occupancy time (COT) sharing indication information, wherein the COT sharing indication information comprises time frequency resources used by other user equipments when the user equipment shares a COT with the other user equipments; and send the COT sharing indication information to the other user equipments. By using the user equipment, the network side device, the wireless communication method and the storage medium of the present disclosure, COT sharing can be supported in a D2D communication mode, thereby enabling a channel to be utilized more reasonably, and simplifying a usage process of an unauthorized frequency band in D2D communication.
US12193056B2
A method, a User Equipment, a computer program and a computer readable medium for Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) monitoring are provided. The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for Physical Downlink Control CHannel (PDCCH) monitoring, performed by User Equipment (UE). The method includes: a first switching step, including: switching from monitoring a PDCCH of a serving cell according to a second Search Space Set (SSS) group to monitoring the PDCCH according to a first SSS group, under a first condition based on a time threshold and/or based on a Channel Occupancy Time (COT) duration occupied by a base station of a serving cell.
US12193045B2
A wireless communication method, a terminal device, and a storage medium are provided. The wireless communication method includes the following. The terminal device determines a channel transmission state according to a priority of data or a signaling associated with a first channel and/or a priority of data or a signaling associated with a second channel in a case where the first channel conflicts with the second channel, where at least one of the first channel and the second channel transmits sidelink (SL) related information.
US12193041B2
The disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for protecting Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications (also known as intelligent transport systems (ITS) communications) from spurious emissions of nearby wireless devices operating in near-band or adjacent frequency bands. The system detects radio signals of a nearby ITS communication device, determines its radio communication parameters, and determines an interference condition based on whether the wireless device may interfere with the ITS communication device. The system also requests a change, based on the interference condition, in the radio subsystem communication parameters of the wireless device. The system also determines a geographic location of the wireless device, and, based on whether the requested change complies with a regulatory requirement of the determined geographic location, implements the requested change.
US12193019B2
Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed. In one representative method, a wireless transmit and receive unit (WTRU) may receive information associated with one or more configured grants (CGs), may select a first CG corresponding to a first CG configuration, and may transmit, on a CG occasion associated with the first CG, a transport block (TB) using resources associated with the first CG. The WTRU may also start a CG timer for the first CG responsive to a transmission of the TB, and receive a HARQ Acknowledgement (ACK) indication indicating a HARQ-ACK feedback value and associated with a HARQ Process ID (PID) in Downlink Feedback Information (DFI) of Downlink Control Information (DCI). In this representative method, after reception of the HARQ ACK indication and on condition that a HARQ-ACK feedback value is equal to ACK, the WTRU may stop the CG timer and may flush a HARQ buffer associated with the HARQ PID.
US12193009B2
The present application relates to an information transmission method and device, a computer equipment and a storage medium. A terminal determines SR resources and PUSCH resources according to control signaling sent by a network side device; if the SR resources and the PUSCH resources are overlapped in time domain, and the SR resources and/or the PUSCH resources satisfy preset conditions, the SR information is multiplexed into the PUSCH resources. A specific method of sending SR is provided when the SR is overlapped with the PUSCH in time domain, thereby guaranteeing the SR transmission.
US12193007B2
Provided are a method for accessing a channel in an unlicensed band and a device using same method. The method is configured such that a wireless device transmits data units, receives feedback information about the data units, and adjusts a contention window size used in a determination of whether there is an access to the channel in the unlicensed band on the basis of the feedback information. The wireless device can adjust the contention window size by using feedback information about, from among the data units, data units which at least partially overlap in reference duration.
US12193002B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive, from a base station, information associated with training or configuring an assisting device to provide assistance for a unicast link of a user equipment (UE). The wireless communication device may train the assisting device based at least in part on the information associated with the training or configuring the assisting device. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12192991B2
The invention refers to a method in a user equipment, UE (100) of a wireless communications network, wherein the communications network provides a radio connection of the UE to a base station, gNB (200), comprising the steps of sending the gNB (200) UE capability information indicative of multiple input multiple output, MIMO, capabilities, receiving from the gNB (200) configuration information for a transmission configuration indication, TCI, state configuration associated to spatial quasi co-location, QCL, assistance, and receiving from the gNB (200) physical download control channel, PDCCH, information to determine PDSCH scheduling referring to the TCI state; the invention further refers to a corresponding method in a gNB, and to a corresponding UE and gNB.
US12192987B2
Disclosed are an information transmission method, a terminal apparatus, a chip, a computer readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program. The method comprises: if a sidelink (SL) Buffer Status Report (BSR) is triggered by an event, and if a first condition is met, executing at least one of the following: triggering a scheduling request (SR); transmitting a first uplink channel comprising the SR; packeting a BSR, wherein the BSR at least comprises the SL BSR; or performing transmission of a second uplink channel comprising the packeted BSR.
US12192986B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may identify a set of resources for exchanging, with a second UE, resource availability information associated with a sidelink channel. The set of resources are not allocated to a legacy UE. Accordingly, the first UE may exchange, with the second UE and using the set of resources, the resource availability information associated with the sidelink channel. Alternatively, the legacy UE may receive, from the second UE, a communication on a sidelink channel and determine that the communication is associated with resource availability information for the sidelink channel Accordingly, the first UE may discard the communication based at least in part on the communication being associated with resource availability information for the sidelink channel. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12192985B2
A method includes determining traffic priority information of a first wireless network that includes a first radio configured to communicate according to a first communication protocol on multiple overlapping channels. The method includes determining an operating mode of a second radio as a power save operating mode based on the traffic priority information of the first wireless network. The second radio is included in a second wireless network and is configured to communicate according to a second communication protocol on the overlapping channels. The power save operating mode is configured to avoid interference on the overlapping channels with traffic in the first wireless network. The method includes operating the second radio in the determined power save operating mode.
US12192974B2
A wireless communications network includes a base station configured for operating a wireless communications network cell of the wireless communications network so as to provide communication in a plurality of slots. Each slot includes a plurality of associated physical resources. The wireless communications network includes at least one transmitter configured for transmitting a signal in the wireless communications network cell by mapping the signal into a number of part signals and for transmitting the number of part signals with a corresponding number of associated slots using a corresponding number of sets of physical resources, each set containing at least a subset of the associated plurality of physical resources of the slot. Each set of physical resources is received at the base station shifted with a set-individual offset and with respect to a synchronized start of the slot.
US12192969B2
Disclosed are various techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) configured to operate in discontinuous reception (DRX) mode receives a configuration of a plurality of first positioning reference signal (PRS) resources, receives a configuration of a plurality of second PRS resources, selects one or more pairs of a first PRS resource of the plurality of first PRS resources and a second PRS resource of the plurality of second PRS resources, each pair of the one or more pairs satisfying one or more DRX pruning rules and one or more bundling conditions, and receives or transmitting the first PRS resource and transmitting or receiving the second PRS resource during one or more DRX cycles of the DRX mode.
US12192968B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, which may be otherwise known as user equipment (UE) may support repetition of physical downlink control channels (PDCCH) and handling a combined PDCCH candidate associated with multiple search space sets. For example, a UE may combine a first PDCCH candidate corresponding to a first search space set and a second PDCCH candidate corresponding to a second search space set to form a combined PDCCH candidate. The UE may decode the combined PDCCH candidate based on one or more factors, for example, such as a blind decoding PDCCH candidate threshold. As a result, the UE may decode the combined PDCCH candidate in addition to decoding of individual PDCCH candidates, thereby providing increased flexibility for downlink control information (DCI) and improving the reliability of PDCCH.
US12192966B2
A method and device in a node for wireless communications. A first node firstly transmits a target signaling; and then transmits a first signaling and a second signaling; and transmits a first signal in a first radio resource set; the target signaling is used to determine a target reference signal; the first signaling and the second signaling are respectively used to indicate a first radio resource pool and a second radio resource pool; the type of multicarrier symbols comprised in the first radio resource pool is a first type; there is at least one of multicarrier symbols comprised in the second radio resource pool that is of a type other than the first type; the present disclosure, by transmitting a first signal on resources other than cellular link uplink resources, manages to enhance the chance of feedback information transmission in sidelink, thereby improving the spectrum of the sidelink transmission.
US12192954B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a paging message that indicates a set of resources corresponding to a channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (CSI-RS) associated with a plurality of refined sub-beams of a synchronization signal block (SSB) beam. The UE may transmit, in a transmission associated with a physical random access channel (PRACH), an indication of a selected sub-beam of the plurality of refined sub-beams. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12192951B2
A system and method for accurately determining a distance between two network devices using a Channel Sounding application is disclosed. The network devices each guarantee a fixed phase relationship between the transmit circuit and the receive circuit. In one embodiment, this is achieved by disposing the divider outside the phase locked loop and using the output of the divider to create the clocks for both the transmit circuit and receive circuit. In another embodiment, one or more dividers are disposed outside the phase locked loop, each having a reset, such that they can be initialized to a predetermined state. Further, by utilizing a divider with a reset, the quadrature signal generator is guaranteed to output clocks for the transmit circuit and the receive circuit that have a constant phase relationship.
US12192948B2
A beam fingerprint-based positioning method, performed by a communication node located in a target space, may include: performing measurements on positioning signals transmitted from at least one reference node through a plurality of directional beams in a beam sweeping scheme; transmitting a result of the measurements to a central node; and receiving information on a position of the communication node from the central node.
US12192935B2
A method of operating a communications device to transmit data to or to receive data from a wireless communications network comprises detecting a first synchronisation signal at the communications device received via a wireless access interface of a cell of the wireless communications network, the first synchronisation signal being transmitted with a first periodicity with respect to a time divided structure of the wireless access interface, the first synchronisation signal being configured to carry an indication of an identifier of the cell, generating a first estimate of the cell identifier carried by the first synchronisation signal, and configuring a transmitter of the communications device to transmit data to the wireless communications network and configuring a receiver of the communications device to receive data from the wireless communications network based on the first estimated cell identifier.
US12192934B2
A time synchronization process may include receiving a time sensitive network (TSN) configuration creation request that includes an identifier of a target user equipment (UE) and a trigger condition. The request is transmitted by an application function entity (AF). A TSN authorization request is transmitted to a unified data management entity (UDM) and is used for requesting the UDM to transmit, after confirming authorization, a TSN activation request to an access and mobility management function entity (AMF) registered by the target UE. Control signaling used for performing a TSN time synchronization operation is transmitted to the target UE.
US12192929B2
This disclosure describes methods and systems for configuring, requesting, performing, and reporting timing measurements of reference signals in a wireless network for purposes of time synchronization between various reference signal transmission-reception points of the wireless network. The reference signal timing measurements may be used to derive time offsets for performing time synchronization and calibration of the transmission-reception points that help improve geographical positioning of wireless devices in the wireless network.
US12192920B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A scheduling device may indicate that a transmit power remains constant for a duration of time. A transmitting user equipment (UE) may transmit reference signals on dedicated resources for automatic gain control (AGC) training. As the transmit power from the transmitting UE may remain constant, a receiving UE may determine an AGC configuration for current and subsequent transmissions based on measurements made on the dedicated resources. By using a prior transmission to determine an AGC configuration for a current transmission, a training symbol may not be included in each slot. A symbol formerly used for AGC training in the current transmission may be used to carry sidelink information.
US12192912B2
The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. The disclosure provides a method and a device for controlling transmission power of an uplink signal in consideration of multiple transmission points/panels/beams by a terminal for cooperative communication between the multiple transmission points/panels/beams.
US12192903B2
A low power wake on radio circuit detects if an RF signal is present on an input to the wake on radio circuit. An RF sense circuit supplies an RF sense signal indicating whether the RF signal is present on the input. The RF sense signal is used to incrementally turn on digital decode logic to determine if a radio transmission that is unique to the wake on radio circuit has been received. If the unique radio transmission have been received, the wake on radio circuit supplies a wakeup signal to the rest of the system.
US12192898B2
A terminal device, initially, maintains, in at least one memory, a configuration for a Radio Resource Control, RRC, inactive state. The configuration includes information on a radio access network notification area, RNA. The terminal device, then, acquires information on an expected latency of incoming RRC messages within the RNA. In response to triggering a RRC connection resume procedure, the terminal device performs the following: First, the terminal device transmits a RRC connection resume request to a target access node and starts a timer defined based on the expected latency. In response to the timer expiring, the terminal device initiates monitoring of incoming RRC messages. In response to receiving a RRC connection resume message, the terminal device initiates the RRC connected state.
US12192886B2
A communication method in a wireless communication system supporting device-to-device (D2D) communication is provided. The communication method includes transmitting a first message including information for identifying a relay to discover a relay user equipment (UE) that performs a relay function in the D2D communication, and receiving a second message including information about the relay UE that performs the relay function, from the relay UE that has received the first message, the second message being transmitted in response to the first message.
US12192881B2
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. Disclosed is a method of operating a second telecommunication network to manage access of Disaster Inbound Roamers, DIR, from a first telecommunication network, to the second telecommunication network, comprising the step of: the second telecommunication network broadcasting a message indicating to User Equipments, UEs, of the first telecommunications network that they are able to roam on the second telecommunication network.
US12192878B2
A method for identifying alternate delivery endpoints for mobile originated data and monitoring reports in a communications network includes establishing, by a network exposure function (NEF) in a communications network, priority rules in a priority configuration database that define routing priority indicators corresponding to a plurality of applications functions (AFs) and receiving a service request or notification request message directed to one of the plurality of AFs from a consumer network function (NF) in the communications network. The NEF accesses a context database to validate context information associated with a destination AF belonging to the plurality of AFs. If the destination AF is unavailable or is not in proximity to the NEF, an event notification request message associated with the service request or notification request message is directed to a prioritized AF specified in the priority configuration database, wherein the prioritized AF is a peer of the destination AF.
US12192873B2
Proposed is a method for communicating, by a vehicle, with a user terminal in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise: detecting an event which has occurred to a user of the user terminal; and transmitting a message for requesting assistance associated with the safety of the user. In addition, the message for requesting the assistance may include information regarding the event which has occurred to the user and information regarding a duration time of the assistance.
US12192872B2
A method for an apparatus operating in a wireless communication network. The method includes transmitting a plurality of functional safety containers offset in time along with at least one associated functional safety indicator that indicates a relevance according to at least one safety integrity level, wherein at least one of the plurality of functional safety containers comprises data, especially V2x data that comprises at least one of a vehicle operating parameter and a roadway event, or industrial data that comprises a machine operating parameter, or building technology data that comprises building operational data.
US12192847B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for recommending pick-up points. The method may include obtaining information of a searched point of interest determined by a user; determining a first set of candidate pick-up points based at least on the information of the searched point of interest, the first set of candidate pick-up points including a plurality of candidate pick-up points; determining at least one recommended pick-up point through a preset algorithm based at least on the first set of candidate pick-up points, and displaying the at least one recommended pick-up point to the user.
US12192843B2
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electronic device and a communication method thereof. The electronic device includes a housing comprising a first plate and a second plate facing a direction opposite the first plate; a first transceiver disposed in the housing; a second transceiver disposed in the housing and to having a data throughput lower than that of the first transceiver; at least one processor operatively connected to the first transceiver and to the second transceiver; and a memory operative connected to the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising: determining whether the data throughput of the first transceiver is equal to or greater than a designated reference value, monitoring a temperature of the first transceiver when the data throughput is equal to or greater than the designated reference value, and determining whether to perform a handover from the first transceiver to the second transceiver based at least in part on whether the monitored temperature is equal to or higher than a first designated reference temperature.
US12192834B2
Because of the line-of-sight character of optical wireless communication and a limited field-of-view of optical receivers, the coverage of an access point (120) and the overlapping coverage area of adjacent access points (120) in an optical system are smaller as compared to a RF system. It turns more challenging to support an end point (110) to roam securely in an optical multi-cell wireless communication network (100). To address that problem, a subsystem is disclosed to select for the end point (110) a candidate access point out of the plurality of access points (120) in view of one or more neighbor relationships, and to inform the end point (110) about the candidate access point to trigger the end point (110) to start a procedure for pre-establishing a new pairwise transient key between the end point (110) and the candidate access point (120) for a secure handover.
US12192833B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a mobility management method, user equipment, and a base station. The mobility management method may include: receiving, by the user equipment (UE) in a connected state, a source identifier of the UE from a first base station, where the source identifier is used to uniquely identify the UE in the first base station; entering, by the UE, a low-overhead state after satisfying a low-overhead activation condition; storing, by the UE in the low-overhead state, a connection context of the UE in the connected state, and camping on a cell according to a cell reselection criterion in a moving process.
US12192832B2
Examples of this disclosure include a method performed by a wireless device for determining security keys. The method comprises, for each candidate primary secondary cell (PSCell) of a plurality of candidate PSCells for conditional addition or conditional change by the wireless device for dual connectivity, receiving, from a network node, a respective value associated with the candidate PSCell, wherein the value associated with the candidate PSCell is different to the value associated with at least one other candidate PSCell. The method also comprises determining, for each of at least one candidate PSCell of the plurality of candidate PSCells, a respective security key for communications between the wireless device and the candidate PSCell, wherein the respective security key is determined based on a master key and the respective value associated with the candidate PSCell.
US12192818B2
A bearer creation system creates dedicated bearers for sessions requested by user equipment devices based on a policy associated with the user equipment device. The bearer creation system detects that a request to initiate a session has been sent by user equipment associated with a policy. The bearer creation system compares the request to initiate the session to information indicated by the policy, and determines whether to create a dedicated bearer for the session based on the comparison. The bearer creation system creates a dedicated bearer for the session based on a determination that a dedicated bearer should be created.
US12192815B2
A communication method includes: determining a first central unit (CU)-user plane (UP) and a user plane function (UPF) network element that correspond to a quality of service (QoS) flow, where an access network device to which the first CU-UP belongs supports at least two CU-UPs; determining a first packet delay budget (PDB) for transmitting the QoS flow between the first CU-UP and the UPF network element; and sending the first PDB to the access network device, where the first PDB is used by the access network device to schedule an air interface resource. After the CU-UP corresponding to the QoS flow is determined, the PDB of the CU-UP corresponding to the QoS flow may be sent to the radio access network (RAN) device.
US12192810B2
A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that allocates a plurality of PDCCH candidates to at least one of a plurality of search space (SS) sets, based on maximum numbers of monitored physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates and non-overlapped control channel elements (CCEs) per slot per transmission/reception point, and a receiving section that monitors the plurality of allocated PDCCH candidates, wherein each of the plurality of SS sets corresponds to any of a plurality of transmission/reception points. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately monitor a downlink control channel.
US12192808B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive synchronization signal block (SSB) related measurement configurations exclusively in a system information block (SIB). The UE may receive SSB frequency lists for idle measurements in both a SIB or a radio resource control (RRC) message, such as an RRC release message. In some examples, the UE may receive SSB related measurement configurations or SSB frequency lists for idle measurements in a SIB and an RRC message. Additionally or alternatively, the UE may receive SSB frequency lists in a SIB and an RRC message, while SSB measurement configurations for SSB frequencies out of a sync raster may exclusively be indicated in the RRC message. The UE may therefore experience improved coverage and reliability and, in some examples, may promote low latency for wireless communications relating to multiple radio access technologies, among other benefits.
US12192806B2
A predictive modeling approach to managing cellular network infrastructure is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method can include receiving raw data from a plurality of data sources populated while operating a cellular network. The method can then generate per-logical cell site data by normalizing the raw data based on a set of LCSs in the cellular network to generate per-LCS data. The method can then generate an example from the per-LCS data and generate a predicted energy consumption value for the given LCS by inputting the example into a predictive model (e.g., a decision tree-based model, such as an XGBoost model). From this output, the method can determine if the predicted energy consumption value is higher than an expected energy consumption value (e.g., a historical range of consumption). If so, the method can then label the given LCS as an outlier.
US12192805B2
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide reception assisted access and interference management for a communication network.
US12192803B2
This application provides a channel measurement method and an apparatus, which may be used in a field such as vehicle-to-everything V2X, smart internet of vehicles, autonomous driving, or an unmanned driving. In a sidelink channel report procedure, a transmit end apparatus for sidelink communication indicates one or more candidate time intervals to a receive end apparatus. The receive end apparatus may attempt to obtain an available PSSCH for sending a channel measurement report on one or more time domain resources corresponding to the one or more candidate time intervals.
US12192792B2
A self-optimizing operating system for next-generation cellular networks is provided. The system provides telecommunications operators with an efficient and flexible network control platform that hides low-level network details through a virtual network abstraction and allows them to define centralized and high-level control objectives with no need for in-depth and detailed knowledge of cross-layer optimization theory or the underlying wireless protocol stack implementation.
US12192781B2
A user terminal includes a receiving section that receives information to be used to determine a set of resource blocks in a given interval in a given band in a carrier, and a control section that determines, as a frequency-domain resource to be assigned to an uplink shared channel or a downlink shared channel, the set determined based on the information. Accordingly, it is possible to appropriately control assignment of frequency-domain resources to an uplink shared channel or downlink shared channel transmitted by interlace transmission.
US12192778B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.
US12192775B2
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.
US12192770B2
A method is provided that is performed in a wireless network to detect a rogue wireless device. The method comprises detecting a suspect wireless device in the wireless network based on messages transmitted by the suspect wireless device using a first Media Access Control (MAC) address that is also used by a valid wireless device in the wireless network. When a suspect wireless device is detected, the method next includes sending to the valid wireless device in the wireless network a request configured to cause the valid wireless device to change its MAC address. After the valid wireless device has changed its MAC address, the method involves observing messages transmitted by the suspect wireless device in the wireless network. The method then includes determining that the suspect wireless device is a rogue device when the suspect wireless device continues to transmit messages using the first MAC address.
US12192764B2
A method for delegated authorization at a security edge protection proxy (SEPP) includes intercepting, from a consumer network function (NF) that does not support access token based authorization, a service based interface (SBI) service request for accessing a service provided by a producer NF that requires access token based authorization. The method further includes operating as an access token authorization client to obtain a first access token on behalf of the consumer NF. The method further includes using the first access token to enable the consumer NF to access the service provided by the first producer NF. The SEPP may also operate as an access token authorization server on behalf of an NRF that does not support access-token-based authorization.
US12192763B1
A wireless communication network includes a plurality of first electronic devices configured for wireless communication, at least one second electronic device configured for wireless communication, and at least one access point configured to wirelessly receive client data from, and transmit network data to, the plurality of first electronic devices and the at least one second electronic device. The wireless communication network further includes a virtual private wireless communication sub-network that includes the plurality of first electronic devices and excludes the at least one second electronic device. The virtual private wireless communication sub-network is configured to enable each of the plurality of first electronic devices to automatically connect with the wireless communication network.
US12192758B2
A method performed by a first network entity (121, 131) for authenticating an event in a communications network (101, 102, 103, 104) is provided. The first network entity (121, 131) is configured to receive an event signal. The first network entity (121, 131) is also configured to authenticate the event if the received event signal correlates with an 5 output signal of a closed-loop shift register in the first network entity (121,131). Furthermore, the first network entity (121, 131) is configured to trigger a change in the closed-loop shift register in order to obtain a subsequent output signal from the closed-loop shift register. A first network entity (121, 131) for authenticating an event is also provided. Further, a wake-up receiver circuit (1210) comprising the first network entity 10 (121, 131) is provided, as well as, a wireless device (1200) comprising the wake-up receiver circuit (1210). Furthermore, a second network entity (110, 111, 112, 113) and a method therein for authenticating an event in at least one first network entity (121, 131) in a communications network (101, 102, 103, 104) are also provided. Also, a radio base station comprising the second network entity (110, 111, 112, 113) is provided, as well as, 15 computer programs and communications networks.
US12192755B2
A device may receive a consent address from a user device accessing an application that requires application data associated with consent of a user of the user device, and may provide, to the user device, a consent form associated with the consent address. The device may receive, from the user device, user authentication data provided via the consent form and via a first option or a second option, and may provide, to an application server device associated with the application, a notification indicating that the user authentication data was received. The device may provide, to a cloud service provider web services device, an authorization code and an authorization token based on providing the notification. The cloud service provider web services device may cause the application data to be provided to the application server device based on receiving the authorization code and the authorization token.
US12192743B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a V2X message sending method, apparatus, and system, and relate to the field of Internet of Vehicles. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, first configuration information, where the first configuration information is used for determining a first transmission resource pool; determining the first transmission resource pool based on the first configuration information; selecting a first transmission resource from the first transmission resource pool in a first transmission resource obtaining manner when a preset condition is met; and sending a V2X message by using the first transmission resource.
US12192741B2
Techniques for using a network to decompose an HRTF data set to generate approximation data and to render an audio signal using the approximation data are disclosed herein. An input HRTF data set is fed into the network, which then generates approximation data that includes mixing channel gains, FIR filter coefficients, and basis filter shapes. This approximation data controls various components in the network. When the input HRTF data set is fed as input into the network, then the output of the network is an output approximated HRTF data set. The network iteratively fine tunes the approximation data until the output approximated HRTF data set sufficiently matches the input HRTF data set. After the approximation data is sufficiently tuned, the approximation data is later used by the network to render an audio signal.
US12192737B2
An example may include detecting, via a controller, one or more microphones and one or more speakers in an area, measuring, via the one or more microphones, an initial frequency response of an audio signal generated by the one or more speakers inside the area and generating an initial room performance rating, comparing the initial frequency response to a target frequency response, creating audio compensation values to apply to the one or more speakers based on the comparison, and applying the audio compensation values to the one or more speakers.
US12192733B2
A method for audio processing, the method comprising: determining at least one input audio object that includes an input audio object signal and an input audio object location, wherein the input audio object location includes a distance and a direction relative to a listener location; depending on the distance, applying a delay, a gain, and/or a spectral modification to the input audio object signal to produce a first dry signal; depending on the direction, panning the first dry signal to the locations of a plurality of speakers around the listener location to produce a second dry signal; depending on one or more predetermined room characteristics, generating an artificial reverberation signal from the input audio object signal; mixing the second dry signal and the artificial reverberation signal to produce a multichannel audio signal; and outputting each channel of the multichannel audio signal by one of the plurality of speakers.
US12192732B2
The present disclosure provides an acoustic device. The acoustic device may include a shell including a first accommodation cavity, a speaker configured in the first accommodation cavity. The speaker may include one or more magnetic circuit assemblies, a voice coil, a vibration assembly, and a vibration transmission plate. The one or more magnetic circuit assemblies may form a magnetic gap. One end of the voice coil may be arranged in a magnetic gap, and another end of the voice coil may be connected with the vibration assembly. The vibration assembly may be connected with the vibration transmission plate, and the vibration transmission plate may be connected with the shell.
US12192727B2
The present invention provides a multifunctional acoustic device includes a cover enclosing an accommodating cavity and an acoustic member. The cover has a sound hole. The acoustic member includes a housing, a vibration system having a diaphragm, and a magnetic circuit system driving the diaphragm. The diaphragm divides a space of the housing into a front acoustic cavity and a rear acoustic cavity. The multifunctional acoustic device includes a sound channel communicating the sound hole with the front acoustic cavity and a sealing element located between the sound hole and the sound channel. The sealing element is arranged on a peripheral side of the sound channel so that the acoustic member communicates with an outside only through the sound channel.
US12192711B2
There are included a first speaker processing step in which a first speaker 2 produces sound based on a first filtered signal, a gain multiplication step in which a gain multiplication unit 4 generates a gain multiplied signal by multiplying a second filtered signal by a gain, a second speaker processing step in which a second speaker 5 produces sound based on the gain multiplied signal, and a gain control step in which a gain control unit 7 controls the gain such that a root mean square of a collected sound signal collected by a microphone 6 installed at a mute position, which is a position at which the sound produced by the first speaker and the sound produced by the second speaker are to be muted, is relatively small.
US12192709B2
A vehicle receives a message for audible output and designation of a specified recipient. The vehicle uses one or more vehicle sensors to detect a location of the specified recipient. Further, the vehicle determines an audible output level projected to be sufficient for the recipient to hear the message at the location, responsive to detecting the location and outputs the message through speakers of the vehicle at the determined audible output level.
US12192702B2
The invention provides a MEMS speaker including a substrate enclosing a cavity, a cantilever beam at least partially suspended above the cavity, a piezoelectric actuator away from the cavity, a polymer layer away from the cavity and attached to the cantilever beam and the piezoelectric actuator for completely covering the cantilever beam, the piezoelectric actuator and the cavity, and a piezoelectric composite vibration structure formed by the polymer layer. The cantilever beam includes a first section fixed to the substrate, a second section extending from the first section to the cavity and suspended above the cavity, and a third section extending from the second section away from the first section, an end of the third section away from the second section being suspended; and the piezoelectric actuator is only fixed with the third section.
US12192700B2
An audio spot forming system (S) is an audio spot forming system which transmits an alert sound to a vehicle traveling on a road, the audio spot forming system including a first parametric speaker (1) configured to emit a sideband wave, and a second parametric speaker (2) configured to emit a carrier wave, in which the sideband wave and the carrier wave are caused to intersect with each other on the road to form an audio spot.
US12192692B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a support member disposed inside the housing and forming a connection passage, a printed circuit board disposed on the support member and including a first area and a second area spaced apart from the first area, and a conductive pattern disposed on the support member and including a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion may be electrically connected to a first electrode disposed in the first area, the second portion may be electrically connected to a second electrode disposed in the second area, and the first area and the second area may be electrically connected to each other via a shunt member.
US12192686B2
An apparatus and method for optically remapping projected pixels to maximize the utilization and to optimize the distribution of remapped projection pixels to achieve optimal visual performance (generally uniform resolution and luminance). A device interposed between a projector and an imaging surface for optically remapping projected pixel locations with minimal aberration. When this device is interposed between a projector and an imaging surface, it changes the terminal location of each focused pixel such that it maximally coincides with the imaging surface, which is often a surface of complex curvature and very different from the native focal surface of the projector. One implementation of the technology includes a device that uses multiple optical surfaces.
US12192675B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for recreating keyboard and mouse sounds within a virtual working environment. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first client device of a first participant of a group of participants within a virtual working environment, a timing of keyboard and mouse input detected at the client device, the group of participants having been selected from among plural participants of the virtual working environment; generating, in response to the receiving, keyboard and mouse sounds that correspond to the timing of the keyboard and mouse input; and providing the generated keyboard and mouse sounds to one or more second client devices of respective one or more second participants of the group of participants, for presentation on the one or more second client devices.
US12192672B2
This disclosure describes an apparatus and system for classifying audio and video data captured by a portable recording device. The portable recording device may comprise a camera system enclosure that captures audio and video data that reflects a user's point-of-view perception of their surroundings. The video and/or audio data may be transmitted in real-time, or near real-time, to a Central Multimedia Management (CMM) System at a Network Operations Center, or one or more mobile computing devices, via one or more networks. Alternatively, or additionally, the video and/or audio data may be stored within memory of the portable recording device. This disclosure further describes a CMM system that may act as a central repository of multimedia data from one or more portable recording device(s). The CMM system may further generate and assign incident report forms for each individual instance of real-time data that is recorded by a portable recording device.
US12192662B2
An image sensor may include an array of image sensor pixels. The array of image sensor pixels may be controlled by row driver circuitry. The row driver circuitry may include row drivers that receive power supply signals from transconductance amplifier circuitry. The transconductance amplifier circuitry may include multiple amplifiers with output ports shorted to one another. Each amplifier may include input transistors, cross-coupled transistors with a low threshold voltage, and additional transistors coupled in series with the cross-coupled transistors and having a moderate or high threshold voltage.
US12192659B2
PLS resistance is improved in a solid-state imaging element in which all pixels are simultaneously exposed. A front-stage transfer transistor transfers a charge from a photoelectric conversion element to a front-stage charge holding region and a rear-stage charge holding region which have different capacities. A rear-stage transfer transistor transfers the charge from the rear-stage charge holding region to a floating diffusion region. An intermediate transfer transistor transfers a charge, which remains in the front-stage charge holding region after the charge has been transferred from the rear-stage charge holding region to the floating diffusion region, to the floating diffusion region via the front-stage charge holding region.
US12192657B2
Improved is performance of a solid-state image sensor that detects presence or absence of a photon. The solid-state image sensor includes a light-receiving substrate and a logic substrate. In the solid-state image sensor, there is disposed, on the light-receiving substrate, a plurality of avalanche photodiodes, each of the avalanche photodiodes generating a current corresponding to incident of a photon. Furthermore, in the solid-state image sensor, there is disposed, on the logic substrate, a counter that counts the number of photons on the basis of a current of a selected avalanche photodiode among the plurality of avalanche photodiodes.
US12192654B2
Indirect time-of-flight (i-ToF) image sensor pixels, i-ToF image sensors including such pixels, stereo cameras including such image sensors, and sensing methods to obtain i-ToF detection and phase detection information using such image sensors and stereo cameras. An i-ToF image sensor pixel may comprise a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel including a photodiode, a single microlens covering the plurality of sub-pixels and a read-out circuit for extracting i-ToF phase signals of each sub-pixel individually.
US12192653B2
In an advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS), RAW sensor image processing for a machine vision (MV) application is important. Due to different color, e.g., red/green/blue (RGB), color components, being focused by the lens at different locations in image plane, the lateral chromatic aberration phenomenon may sometimes be observed, which causes false color around edges in the final image output, especially for high contrast edges, which can impede MV applications. Disclosed herein are low-latency, efficient, optimized designs for chromatic aberration correction (CAC) components. An in-pipeline CAC design may be used to perform on-the-fly CAC without any out-of-pipeline memory traffic; enable use of wide dynamic range (WDR) sensors; uses bicubic interpolation; support vertical and horizontal chromatic aberration color channel offsets, reduce CAC line memory requirements, and support flexible look-up table (LUT) down-sampling factors to improve the spatial precision of correction and accommodate popular image sensor resolutions.
US12192651B2
Methods, systems, and media for generating compressed images are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: identifying a multi-plane image, MPI, that represents a three-dimensional image, wherein the MPI comprises a plurality of fronto-parallel planes; splitting the MPI into a plurality of sub-volumes, wherein each sub-volume in the plurality of sub-volumes includes a subset of the plurality of fronto-parallel planes; calculating, for each sub-volume of the MPI, a depthmap; converting each depthmap to a mesh, wherein each mesh corresponds to a layer of a plurality of layers associated with a multi-depth image, MDI, to be rendered; calculating, for each layer of the plurality of layers, an image; and storing the meshes corresponding to the plurality of layers of the MDI and the images corresponding to the plurality of layers of the MDI as the MDI.
US12192642B2
An information processing system (10) comprises: an acquiring means (110) for acquiring skin color information which is information relating to skin color of a target; an estimating means (120) for estimating luminance information of skin of the target on the basis of the skin color information; and a control means (130) for controlling at least one of camera parameter relating to exposure and illumination (19) when imaging the target on the basis of the luminance information. According to such the information processing system, it is possible to image a target with an appropriate condition.
US12192641B2
An environmental capture system (ECS) captures image data and depth information in a 360-degree scene. The captured image data and depth information can be used to generate a 360-degree scene. The ECS comprises a frame, a drive train mounted to the frame, and an image capture device coupled to the drive train to capture, while pointed in a first direction, a plurality of images at different exposures in a first field of view (FOV) of the 360-degree scene. The ECS further comprises a depth information capture device coupled to the drive train. The depth information capture device and the image capture device are rotated by the drive train about a first, substantially vertical, axis from the first direction to a second direction. The depth information capture device, while being rotated from the first direction to the second direction, captures depth information for a first portion of the 360-degree scene. The image capture device captures, while pointed in the second direction, a plurality of images at different exposures in a second FOV that overlaps the first FOV of the 360-degree scene. The depth information capture device and the image capture device are rotated by the drive train about the first axis from the second direction to a third direction. The depth information capture device, while being rotated from the second direction to the third direction, captures depth information for a second portion of the 360-degree scene. The image capture device, while pointed in the third direction, captures a plurality of images at different exposures in a third FOV that overlaps the second FOV of the 360-degree scene.
US12192636B2
A display control unit of an illustrative embodiment simultaneously displays a plurality of cut-out images cut out from respective ranges of a wide-angle moving image.
US12192633B2
An image capturing assembly including a mounting base, a driving component, a first gear, a second gear, a lens assembly, a third gear and a resistance component. The driving component is disposed on the mounting base. The first gear is connected to the driving component and configured to be driven by the driving component. The second gear is pivotally connected to the mounting base and connected to the first gear. The driving component is configured to drive the second gear via the first gear. The lens assembly is fixed to the second gear. The third gear is pivotally connected to the mounting base and engaged with the second gear. The resistance component presses against the third gear to allow the third gear to transmit a resistance against the second gear during a rotation of the second gear.
US12192625B2
A method for mitigating motion blur in a visual-inertial tracking system is described. In one aspect, the method includes accessing a first image generated by an optical sensor of the visual tracking system, accessing a second image generated by the optical sensor of the visual tracking system, the second image following the first image, determining a first motion blur level of the first image, determining a second motion blur level of the second image, identifying a scale change between the first image and the second image, determining a first optimal scale level for the first image based on the first motion blur level and the scale change, and determining a second optimal scale level for the second image based on the second motion blur level and the scale change.
US12192621B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for setting modes for an underwater camera. In some implementations, a scheduler repeatedly: obtains data of a current context of an underwater camera; determines whether the current context satisfies first criteria associated with continued activation of one or more modes that are currently activated and satisfies second criteria associated with activation of one or more modes that are not currently activated; selects modes to be active based on (i) determining whether the current context satisfies the first criteria and (ii) determining whether the current context satisfies the second criteria; and activating any of the modes that are to be active and that are not currently activated, or deactivating any of the modes that are currently activated that are not included in the one or more modes that are to be activated.
US12192611B2
Provided is an information processing device including a light source control section that changes intensity of light of a light source which irradiates eyes of a user, a reception section that receives, from an event driven vision sensor including a sensor which generates an event signal when detecting a change in intensity of a light to be incident thereon, the event signal indicating a position and a time of the change in intensity of the light reflected by the eyes of the user, and a visual line detection section that identifies the light source corresponding to the event signal on the basis of a relative positional relation among the eyes of the user, the light source, and the vision sensor, and of the event signal generated at the same time that control is carried out by the light source control section, to detect a visual line of the user.
US12192609B2
A light source device that generates illumination light, the light source device including: a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements that emit light beams having different wavelength bands; and a control unit that controls a light emission profile of the plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements and drives the plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements, in which the light emission profile includes a strong light emission period in which light emission is performed with a predetermined light intensity and a weak light emission period in which light emission is performed with a light intensity weaker than the predetermined light intensity, and the control unit executes a restoration control process of converting into a light emission amount in the strong light emission period while maintaining a total amount of the light emission amount in the strong light emission period and the light emission amount in the weak light emission period constant.
US12192607B2
Systems and processes for cameras with a reconfigurable lens assembly are described. For example, some methods include automatically detecting that an accessory lens structure has been mounted to an image capture device including a mother lens and an image sensor configured to detect light incident through the mother lens, such that an accessory lens of the accessory lens structure is positioned covering the mother lens; responsive to detecting that the accessory lens structure has been mounted, automatically identifying the accessory lens from among a set of multiple supported accessory lenses; accessing an image captured using the image sensor when the accessory lens structure is positioned covering the mother lens; determining a warp mapping based on identification of the accessory lens; applying the warp mapping to the image to obtain a warped image; and transmitting, storing, or displaying an output image based on the warped image.
US12192601B2
Provided are methods and systems for managing, distributing, and publishing content. An exemplary method can comprise receiving, in a content management system, an asset for distribution. The method can also comprise generating a metadata object according to a submission standard or requirement of a destination asset distribution platform. The destination asset distribution platform can be external to the content management system and the metadata object can comprise data indicative of or associated with the asset.
US12192589B2
This application provides a multicast service transmission method and apparatus, to deliver a multicast service regardless of whether there is a device supporting multicast in a system, so as to improve flexibility and reliability of the multicast service transmission. The method performed by a session management network element includes: receiving a first message or a second message, where the first message requests to add a terminal device to a multicast service, the second message is used to update a PDU session of the terminal device, and the PDU session is associated with the multicast service; and determining, based on multicast capability information of the terminal device and/or multicast capability information of an access network device, a delivery mode of the multicast service, where the access network device is an access network device currently accessed by the terminal device or a target access network device of the terminal device.
US12192583B2
A content compilation system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code configured to provide an editorial interface. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive compilation authoring data via the editorial interface, identify one or more end-user(s) for receiving a content compilation, access a consumption profile of the end-user(s), obtain, using the consumption profile and a first authoring criterion in the compilation authoring data, content items from one or more content sources. The software code further aggregates, using a second authoring criterion in the compilation authoring data, the content items into content subsets, groups, using a third authoring criterion, at least some of the content subsets to produce the content compilation, computes a desirability score predicting the desirability of the content compilation to the end-user(s), and provides, when the desirability score satisfies a predetermined threshold, the content compilation to the end-user(s).
US12192580B2
A digital broadcast receiving apparatus executing a function with a higher added value can include: a broadcast receiving unit configured to receive broadcasting data of broadcasting program contents and location information from a broadcast transmission path, a reference destination for obtaining data related to the broadcasting data being described in the location information; a communication unit configured to receive communication data of the program contents from the reference destination described in the location information via a communication line; a recording/reproducing unit configured to record and reproduce the broadcasting data of the broadcasting program contents received by the broadcast receiving unit; an outputting unit configured to output the broadcasting data of the broadcasting program contents reproduced from the recording/reproducing unit to external equipment; and a server function unit for external equipment. The outputting unit can include a state where the location information is outputted together with reproduced broadcasting data.
US12192574B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining a preference of a user for or against a participant of an event when a media asset relating to the event is being played based on monitoring user reactions to the event. Specifically, the media guidance application may detect a change of at least one of the biometric state (e.g., pulse rate, blood pressure, etc.) and physiological state (e.g., facial expression, gesture, body movement, etc.) with a user. The media guidance application may determine that an event has occurred within the sporting event that triggered the change. The media guidance application may determine that the user favors the first participant over the second participant, if the user reacts positively towards a score for the first participant in the event.
US12192573B1
Provided is an apparatus for converting and transmitting horizontal and vertical videos based on machine learning. The apparatus for converting and transmitting horizontal and vertical videos based on machine learning includes a receiver unit which receives a horizontal video taken by a camera from the camera; an object detection unit which detects objects in the received horizontal video by using an object recognition model learned by machine learning; a video segmentation unit which generates a plurality of segmentation videos by using the result detected from the object detection unit; a video synthesis unit which arranges the plurality of segmentation videos to fit the size of a screen of a vertical video and generates a vertical video, wherein the segmentation videos may be videos segmented from the horizontal video including at least one object detected from the object detection unit, videos in which the additional videos are synthesized to videos segmented from the horizontal video to comprise at least one object detected from the object detection unit, or the additional videos.
US12192572B2
Methods and systems for packaging, transcoding, and fragmenting files (e.g., video content) are described. Video content may be transcoded into fix size, variable duration fragments files that satisfy a target fragment file size. Those fragment files may be received, decoded to recover original frames of the underlying video, and then repackaged as new fragment files that are grouped based on overall file size. As a result, the new fragments may have different playback durations, but their overall file sizes may be the same and/or within a target fragment file size (TFS).
US12192570B2
Devices and methods for routing content are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for routing content include receiving audio data representing a command from a first electronic device, determining content that is associated with the command, sending responsive audio data to the first electronic device, and sending instructions to the second electronic device to output the content associated with the command. In some embodiments, a method for routing contents includes determining a state of the second electronic device and sending instructions to output the content to a selected one of the first and second electronic devices based on the state of the second electronic device.
US12192563B2
A method includes determining a first streamer from a plurality of streamers that are streaming a first video stream, receiving the first video stream from the determined first streamer, timestamping the first video stream, transmitting the timestamped first video stream to a plurality of devices, transmitting a timestamped second video stream generated at a host device to the plurality of devices, and causing, at each of the plurality of devices, synchronized display of the first and the second video streams based on the time stamps.
US12192562B2
A request for a latency value associated with the a is received at a latency agent associated with the sink from a processing engine. The latency value associated with the sink is determined. The determined latency value associated with the sink is provided from the latency agent associated with the sink to the processing engine. A latency adjustment value is received at the latency agent associated with a sink from the processing engine. A latency associated with the sink is adjusted by the latency agent associated with the sink to match the received latency adjustment value.
US12192556B2
A content caching method for a satellite terrestrial integrated network with differentiated interests and access modes, including: collecting user proportion information, content popularity distribution information, cache capacity information, and link delay information in the satellite terrestrial integrated network; determining a content caching problem of the collaboration of base stations and a satellite for a delay optimization based on differentiated user interests and differentiated access modes; solving the content caching problem to obtain a content caching strategy of the collaboration of the base stations and the satellite; and based on the obtained content caching strategy, caching contents in the base stations and the satellite to provide a content service for base station access users and satellite access users in the satellite terrestrial integrated network.
US12192554B2
An electronic device includes a wireless transceiver configured to receive content primitives via a wireless communication channel. The electronic device also includes control circuitry control circuitry coupled to the wireless transceiver, and configured to perform content provisioning operations based on the received content primitives, wherein the content provisioning operations comprise generating content image data and transmitting the content image data to the wireless communication channel using the wireless transceiver. In response to a bandwidth condition of the wireless communication channel being less than a threshold, the control circuitry is configured to perform adjusted content provisioning operations that decrease an amount of content image data conveyed by the wireless transceiver to the wireless communication channel.
US12192553B1
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for determining an number of slots for achieving a desired reach specified in a media content delivery schedule. The system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product aspects is designed with a simulation framework tuned to predict an estimate the needed number of slots based on a reach specified in the delivery schedule.
US12192552B2
A method and system for controlling media-content presentation. An example method includes a computing system detecting that a media-player device has moved from a home location of the media-player device to a visited location and that the media-player device is connected with a media-presentation device at the visited location. Further, the example method includes, responsive to the detecting, the computing system causing the media-player device to output, for presentation by the media-presentation device at the visited location, media content selected by the computing system based on the media-player device having moved from the home location to the visited location. For instance, the computing system could cause the media-player device to output, for presentation by the media-presentation device, a message welcoming a user to the visited location and/or information about the visited location such as information about tourist attractions at the visited location for instance.
US12192545B2
Systems and methods are described herein for a media guidance application to determine that a user has switched away from a source transmitting a media asset with which the user was engaged and detect, while the user is switched away from the source, that secondary content transmitted by the source during a break of playback of the media asset relates to the media asset. In response to detecting that the secondary content relates to the media asset, the media guidance application may access a database to determine whether the secondary content specifically corresponds to the media asset, and, in response to determining that the secondary content specifically corresponds to the media asset, the media guidance application may generate for display the secondary content to the user.
US12192541B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for performing adaptive audio bitrate selection. An example embodiment operates by receiving a data streaming request. The embodiment then streams data at a first audio bitrate. The embodiment then determines whether there is a streaming discontinuity associated with the data. The embodiment then determines, in response to the determination that there is a streaming discontinuity, whether a network condition satisfies one or more conditions based on one or more streaming parameters. The embodiment then, in response to the determination that the network condition satisfies the one or more conditions, adjusts the first audio bitrate to a second audio bitrate during the streaming discontinuity. The embodiment then continues to stream the data, subsequent to the streaming discontinuity, at the second audio bitrate to complete the data streaming request.
US12192537B2
An encoder (300) configured to receive an input video (302) comprising respective frames, each frame being divided into a plurality of tiles and each tile being divided into a plurality of blocks. The encoder is configured to generate a base encoded stream (310) using a base encoder (306), determine (334) a temporal mode for one or more further encoded enhancement streams (328) generated using an enhancement encoder and generate the one or more further encoded enhancement streams (328) according to the determined temporal mode. The temporal mode is either a first temporal mode that does not apply non-zero values from a temporal buffer or a second temporal mode that does apply non-zero values from the temporal buffer (332). Generating the one or more further encoded enhancement streams comprises applying a transform (348) to each of a series of blocks. The temporal mode is determined for one or more of a frame, tile or block.
US12192521B2
A method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to obtain volumetric data of at least one three-dimensional (3D) visual content, derive a mesh from a frame of the volumetric data, the mesh including a plurality of base mesh vertices, determine a displacement of at least one vertex, that is not of the base mesh vertices, based on a series of projections from at least one of the plurality of base mesh vertices that is a neighboring one of the plurality of base mesh vertices to the at least one vertex, predicting the at least one vertex based at least on the determined displacement, and encode the volumetric data based on the predicted at least one vertex.
US12192509B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry that decodes a current block in a current picture with a subblock-based temporal motion vector prediction (SbTMVP) mode. A first collocated block in a first collocated picture is determined based on a first displacement vector candidate of the current block corresponding to a first SbTMVP candidate. The processing circuitry determines first motion information of a current template of the current block based on one or more pieces of motion information of the first collocated block or a neighboring block of the first collocated block. The processing circuitry determines one of a first reference template and a first subblock reference template in a first reference picture based on the first motion information and determines a first template matching cost based on the current template and the one of the first reference template and the first subblock reference template.
US12192499B2
There is provided a method of decoding a received set of encoded data, the method comprising: receiving an encoded dataset; identifying from the dataset an ordered set of node symbols and data symbols, wherein a node symbol comprises a predetermined number of elements wherein each element indicates if a subsequent node symbol or data symbol is to be expected in the dataset and a data symbol is a predetermined number of bits which represent an encoded value; constructing, based on said ordered set, an ordered tree having a predetermined number of layers from the identified node symbols and data symbols.
US12192491B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are disclosed. The method of decoding an image according to the present invention, comprises, obtaining a single stream including subpicture information of a plurality of subpictures; selecting a subpicture to be extracted from among the plurality of subpictures; determining the single stream as a stream to be extracted and obtaining a sub stream for the subpicture to be extracted from the stream to be extracted, by removing or using at least one piece of subpicture information included in the stream to be extracted.
US12192485B2
An on-vehicle device uploads information concerning a vehicle to an external device with a predetermined period, and includes a processor that uploads, to an external device, trimming information where a target area is trimmed from image information that is captured by the vehicle.
US12192484B2
The present invention concerns a method of encapsulating subpicture bitstreams in at least one media file, the subpicture bitstreams corresponding to encoded media data of a subpicture corresponding to a rectangular region of video data, the method comprising: obtaining the plurality of subpicture bitstreams; encapsulating each subpicture bitstream in a subpicture track; generating at least one base track referencing at least two subpicture tracks and forming a spatial arrangement of the at least two subpicture tracks; generating information describing APS referenced by samples of the at least two subpicture tracks; encapsulating the subpicture tracks, the at least one base track and the information describing APS in the at least one media file.
US12192482B2
When intra prediction is to be used, an encoder determines whether an adaptive basis selection mode is to be used and whether a size of the current block matches a determined size. When the adaptive basis selection mode is to be used and the size matches the determined size, the encoder fixes the first transform basis for the current block to a first determined transform basis in the adaptive basis selection mode, and generates first transform coefficients by performing first transform of residual signals of the current block using the first determined transform basis; quantizes the first transform coefficients when an intra prediction mode for the current block is a determined mode; and generates second transform coefficients by performing second transform of the first transform coefficients using a second transform basis, and quantizes the second transform coefficients, when the intra prediction mode is not the determined mode.
US12192473B2
This disclosure relates generally to video coding and particularly to methods and systems for providing schemes for setting allowable motion vector different values when implementing adaptive resolution for motion vector difference. An example method for processing a current video block of a video stream is disclosed. The method may include receiving the video stream; determining that the current video block is inter-coded based on a prediction block and a motion vector (MV), wherein the MV is to be derived from a reference motion vector (RMV) and a motion vector difference (MVD) for the current video block. The method further include in response to determining that the MVD is coded with an adaptive MVD pixel resolution: determining a reference MVD pixel precision for the current video block; identifying a maximum allowed MVD pixel precision; determining a set of allowable MVD levels for the current video block based on the reference MVD pixel precision and the maximum allowed MVD pixel precision; and deriving the MVD from the video stream according to at least one MVD parameters signaled in the video stream for the current video block and the set of allowable MVD levels.
US12192463B2
Innovations in control and use of chroma quantization parameter (“QP”) values that depend on hum 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.
US12192459B2
An example method of video processing includes: determining, for a conversion between a chroma block of a current processing unit of a current subpicture of a current picture of a video and a bitstream of the video, that a cross component adaptive loop filtering operation is applied to the chroma block, wherein the current picture comprises one or more subpictures; and performing the conversion based on the determining, wherein in the cross component adaptive loop filtering operation, a chroma sample of the chroma block is filtered based on information of luma samples, and wherein one or more luma samples located outside the current processing unit are excluded from the filtering of the chroma sample.
US12192455B2
The present invention provides an image encoding method and an image decoding method. The image decoding method, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: decoding information associated with a clipping range of a current block; and performing sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering on the basis of the information associated with the clipping range, wherein the information associated with the clipping range may include information on the maximum and minimum values of a pixel value included in the current block.
US12192441B2
A decoder includes circuitry configured to receive a bitstream, identify a first frame, locate a first independent reference region within the first frame, extract the first independent reference region from the first frame, decode a second frame using the first independent reference region as a reference for the second frame.
US12192436B2
An interocular distance measurement method is implementable by a three-dimensional display device including a display, a barrier, a detector, and a controller. The display displays a parallax image. The barrier provides parallax between eyes of a user. The detector detects a position of a face of the user. The method includes displaying an image, detecting a first position, detecting a second position, and calculating an interocular distance. The displaying an image includes displaying an image for interocular distance measurement. The detecting a first position includes detecting a first position of the face of the user in response to an instruction from the user. The detecting a second position includes detecting a second position of the face of the user in response to an instruction from the user. The calculating an interocular distance includes calculating an interocular distance of the user based on the first and the second positions.
US12192433B2
Based on scanned data obtained by a scan unit reading a first chart printed and output by a printing unit and colorimetric data obtained by a colorimetry unit measuring the first chart, correction information for correcting a sensed value of the scan unit is generated. The first chart includes a patch extending in a main scanning direction substantially perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction and having a uniform density, and a position adjustment pattern formed outside the patch for identifying a position in the main scanning direction on the patch. A first generation unit generates the correction information by causing a pixel position of an end portion of the patch in the scanned data and a colorimetry position of an end portion of the patch in the colorimetric data to correspond to each other and determining a corrected value of the sensed value at a specific pixel position.
US12192425B2
An image reading device includes a motor 3, a reading section 7 that reads an image on a medium 5, a first transporting roller 9 that transports the medium in a transport direction F by driving force of the motor and that is provided upstream of the reading section in the transport direction, a second transporting roller 11 that transports the medium in the transport direction by driving force of the motor and that is provided downstream of the reading section in the transport direction, and a measuring section 17, using an encoder sensor 15, configured to measure the rotational position of an encoder scale 13, wherein the encoder scale 13 is provided on a rotation shaft 19 of the second transporting roller 11.
US12192419B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on each of media; a plurality of sheet feeding cassettes each configured to store the media; a media sensor which is provided on a conveyance path through which the media are fed from any of the plurality of sheet feeding cassettes to the image forming unit, and is configured to detect a type of the conveyed media; a memory configured to store, for each sheet feeding cassette, the type of media stored in each of the plurality of sheet feeding cassettes; and a controller configured to output, to a display, a selection screen for selecting a sheet feeding cassette in which media to be used in calibration of adjusting a density of the image to be formed by the image forming unit are stored.
US12192417B2
A control apparatus includes: a display control unit that can display on a display unit a display screen in the form of tabs including multiple tabs and multiple menu screens corresponding to the multiple tabs, respectively, and that displays on the display unit a display screen including a menu screen corresponding to a predetermined tab in accordance with that the predetermined tab is selected on the display screen, in which after the display control unit is activated in accordance with a power-on operation on the control apparatus, the display control unit displays on the display unit a display screen including a menu screen corresponding to a target tab displayed last before the control apparatus is powered off.
US12192416B2
An image processing system includes: a laminator that laminates an image surface of paper on which an image is formed, and an image reader that is disposed downstream of the laminator in a paper transport direction and reads the image surface of the paper after the lamination by the laminator.
US12192415B2
Provided is an image control apparatus that includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor obtains read image data generated by reading an image formed on a sheet, sets read proof image data generated by reading a proof image formed on a sheet in a proof output as first correct image data, sets input image data as second correct image data, determines which one of the first correct image data and the second correct image data is used as correct image data in an image check for each page, and performs the image check by comparing the read image data obtained by the hardware processor with the first correct image data or the second correct image data determined as the correct image data by the hardware processor.
US12192414B2
A picture frame and methods of setup, gifting, and/or use. Network connection allows digital frames to be set up remotely by a first user for a second user. The first user can upload photos from electronic devices or from photo collections of community members before the second user receives the frame device. The frame is thus ready for display upon powering on by the second user. An integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer and can capture gesture-based feedback. The displayed photos are automatically shown and/or changed according to the detected viewers. The photos can be filtered and cropped at the receiver side. Clustering photos by content is used to improve display and to respond to photo viewer desires.
US12192403B2
Systems and methods of caller identity verification and notification are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may include: configuring a notification application, executing at a first computing device associated with a first user, the first user associated with an entity; receiving, from the notification application executing on the first computing device, an indication when the first user initiates a particular call to a second user; determining an application associated with the entity and installed on the second computing device of the second user, the application having an icon displayed at a screen of the second computing device; and instructing the application, executing on the second computing device, when the second computing device has received the particular call from the first user, to update an appearance of the icon associated with the application to display an indicator with regard to that the first user is associated with the entity.
US12192401B2
Calls that can be secure (e.g., are conducted with end-to-end encryption) may originate with some or all of the call being unsecured. Then, upon a triggering event such as a user deciding that sensitive information will be discussed or a “sniffer” determining that the call is being monitored by a spoofed endpoint, triggers a transition of the call from an unsecure connection to a secure connection without terminating and reestablishing the call. Accordingly, an unsecure call, such as one utilizing Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) signaling and Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) and transitioned to Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure RTP (SRTP) to allow a previously unsecured call to become secured with end-to-end encryption.
US12192396B2
This application discloses a call display method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium, which fall within the field of instant messaging. The method includes displaying an outgoing call-interface, the outgoing call-interface being prior to a call connection between the first terminal and a second terminal; and displaying recent information in the outgoing call-interface, the recent information being social network information recently posted by a second user account corresponding to the second terminal.
US12192377B2
This disclosure describes systems and techniques for using controlling access to user information using ephemeral user identifiers. In one aspect, a method includes determining, for a given domain, engagement by a user with content provided by the given domain for display by an application at a client device of the user. A determination is made, based on the engagement by the user, to extend, for the given domain, a linkage between user identifiers for a user of the application. In response to determining to extend, for the given domain, the linkage between the user identifiers for the user of the application, one or more future domain-specific ephemeral user identifiers for the user and the given domain are obtained. An attestation record that includes a current domain-specific ephemeral user identifier and the one or more is generated and sent to the given domain.
US12192376B2
A method and apparatus for realizing secure signature, the method includes: when a PIN verification instruction is received, verifying a first calculation result in the instruction by using a second shared key generated according to a terminal public key and a signature module private key, if the verifying is failed, replacing a stored signature module key pair with a regenerated signature module key pair; otherwise, generating PIN verification signature data and storing the PIN verification signature data, generating a second calculation result according to a second shared key and the PIN verification signature data and sending the second calculation result to the terminal; when a signature operation instruction is received, determining whether the PIN verification signature data in the instruction is consistent with the stored PIN verification signature data, if yes, signing an intermediate data to be signed by using a signature private key.
US12192372B2
Systems and methods are described herein for providing provable provenance for assessment results. For example, an AI model and/or a dataset may be assessed using an assessment service to determine whether a bias exists within the AI model and/or the dataset. The results of the assessment may be provided to an auditing service to confirm the assessment results. The systems and methods described herein provide for provable provenance for the assessment results such that the auditing service can verify whether a model and validation dataset provided by a client are the same that were used during an assessment and have not been tampered with by a malicious party.
US12192366B2
A computer implemented system for anonymous electronic verification of location credentials including at least one processor and data storage is described in various embodiments. The system includes cryptographic mechanisms and electronic communication between one or more computing systems that in concert, provide verification of a prover's location credentials in accordance to logical conditions of a verifier's policy without providing additional information to a verifier entity.
US12192358B1
A technology is described for device communication with computing regions. An example method may include receiving at a first computing region a request for a computing resource. In response to receiving the request, a device associated with the request may be authenticated using authentication credentials for the device. An identity token that indicates permission for the device to access the computing resource in a second computing region may be generated and the identity token and instructions to connect to the second computing region may be provided to the device. The device may present the identity token to the second computing region in order to access the computing resource in the second computing region.
US12192355B2
A method for positioning a device includes: sending a query instruction to a server, wherein the query instruction is configured to query a target coordinate location of the terminal device. The method also includes receiving a query response from the server. The query response includes the target coordinate location and a target public key digest. The target coordinate location is obtained by encrypting a coordinate location that is positioned for the device. The target coordinate location is sent to the server as well as the target public key digest synchronously. The method also includes determining a target private key based on the target public key digest; and decrypting the target coordinate location using the target private key to obtain the coordinate location located by the device.
US12192353B2
A system for securely managing a plurality of hardware security modules (HSMs). One example provides a host device, a first HSM, and a second HSM. The host device is configured to designate the first HSM as a primary HSM, and activate a security association mode in the primary HSM. The first HSM is configured to generate a multi-HSM exchange key (“MEK”), and encrypt the MEK using a temporary key generated with a key agreement protocol between the first HSM and the second HSM. The first HSM shares the encrypted MEK with the second HSM via the host device. The host device deactivates the security association mode, and the first HSM receives a traffic encryption key (“TEK”). The first HSM encrypts the TEK using the MEK, and shares the encrypted TEK with the second HSM via the host device. The second HSM decrypts the TEK using the MEK.
US12192347B2
Disclosed is a public random number generation method based on a blockchain, including: selecting a node group G containing N trusted nodes; determining a first time point tm and a second time point tn respectively for generating an m-th/n-th block, wherein the former is earlier, and the m-th block is fixed and cannot be tampered at tn; at the first time point tm, enabling each of the N trusted nodes to separately generate a sub-random number rj as a component forming a random number X, wherein j=1, 2, . . . , N, on which delayed encryption is performed, with corresponding results placed in the m-th block; and at the second time point tn, decrypting the delayed encryption results to obtain decrypted data of them all that are all of sub-random number rj, on which operation is performed to obtain the random number X as a final available public random number.
US12192346B2
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method and to a system for authenticating a transaction over a secure network. The method comprises, prior to authorization of a transaction: receiving, by a digital service server, from a merchant plug-in (MPI) computing device, via a directory server, a token and a first cryptogram for the transaction; decrypting, by the digital service server, the token into sensitive data; generating, by the digital service server, a first message including a validation result and the sensitive data; and transmitting, by the digital service server, the first message to an issuer server to authenticate the transaction.
US12192344B2
Disclosed is a method of establishing secure communications between nodes in a cloud environment. The method includes receiving a log-in of a first user, receiving a log-in of a second user and presenting to the first user one or more options to use a secure inter-user communication security service leveraging quantum teleportation in order to communication with the second user, wherein the secure inter-user communication security service optionally uses a quantum EPR processor (QEP). The one or more options include applying the secure inter-user communication security service using QEP to generate EPR Bell state pairs and applying security via quantum teleportation for communications between the first user and the second user and applying the secure inter-user communication security service to securely control communication between a first container associated with the first user and a second container associated with the second user and associated daemons leveraging the QEP.
US12192342B2
This document relates to using secure MPC to select digital components in ways that preserve user privacy and protects the security of data of each party that is involved in the selection process. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a first computing system of a secure MPC system and from a client device, a digital component request and a nonce. The first computing system generates, based on the nonce and a function, an array including a share of a Bloom filter representing user group identifiers for user groups that include a user of the client device as a member. For each of multiple user group identifiers, the first computing system calculates, in collaboration with one or more second computing systems of the secure MPC system and using the array, a respective first secret share of one or more user group membership condition parameters.
US12192341B2
Disclosed herein are a method for protecting data for information centric in-network computing and a system using the same. The method includes: preparing, at a computing node, a an encryption key pool that includes a security key for sharing a symmetric key used for encrypting result data according to a user's request and matching information; preparing, at an INC agent receiving the user's request, a synchronization key pool for sharing the security key through the matching information; and creating, by the computing node, a processor for executing output processing of the result data and allocating a security key to the processor based on the matching information of the encryption key pool when a security key exists. The security key is allocated to the computing node which is determined to perform the request in the INC agent.
US12192340B2
This disclosure relates to protecting the security of information in content selection and distribution. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a client device and by a first computing system of multi-party computation (MPC) systems, a digital component request including first secret shares of data identifying user groups that include a user of the client device as a member. The first computing system transmits a contextual digital component request to a content platform. The first computing system receives, from the content platform, selection data for multiple digital components. The selection data includes first vector data defining a contextual-based vector of values selected based in part on the set of contextual signals. The first computing system obtains, for each digital component, second vector data defining a user group-based vector of values selected based in part on a respective user group corresponding to the digital component.
US12192335B2
The present disclosure discloses configuring a device to determine, for encrypted content, a content access key pair including a content access public key and a content access private key, the encrypted content being determined by encrypting content utilizing a symmetric key; configuring the device to determine, for a folder, a folder access key pair including a folder access public key and a folder access private key; configuring the device to encrypt the content access private key by utilizing the folder access public key; configuring the device to encrypt the symmetric key by utilizing the content access public key; configuring the device to transmit the encrypted content, the encrypted content access private key and the encrypted symmetric key to a stateless server for storage; and configuring the device to access the encrypted content by decrypting the encrypted content access private key and the encrypted symmetric key. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US12192322B2
Methods and systems described herein improve blockchain storage operations in a variety of environments. A blockchain compression system may determine that a blockchain compression condition associated with a blockchain having a first plurality of blocks has been satisfied. In response, the system compresses the first plurality of blocks using a first hash tree into a first root hash value and stores the first plurality of blocks in a first database. The blockchain compression system generates a first new era genesis block that includes the first root hash value and a first database address of the first database at which the first plurality of blocks are stored. The blockchain compression system stores the blockchain at one or more nodes in a blockchain network. The blockchain includes the first new era genesis block and any previous new era genesis blocks. This may effectively reduce storage requirements for the blockchain, in various embodiments.
US12192317B2
Systems and/or methods of the present disclosure enable ledger interoperability using a controller to perform an operation between a first user and a second user on separate entity-specific distributed ledgers, where the separate entity-specific distributed ledgers are both operatively linked to a membered common distributed ledger. The controller burns a first quantity of first entity-specific tokens from the first entity-specific distributed ledger and mints a second quantity of the common tokens on the membered common distributed ledger, where the first quantity of first entity-specific tokens and the second quantity of the common tokens represent an equivalency. The controller moves the second quantity of common tokens from a first encrypted storage to a second encrypted storage of the membered common distributed ledger, burns the second quantity of the common tokens and mints a third quantity of the second entity-specific tokens on the second entity-specific distributed ledger to complete the operation.
US12192307B2
The DISTRIBUTIVE ON-DEMAND ADMINISTRATIVE TASKING APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“DODAT™ embodiments”), in many embodiments, transform ticket and user inputs via DODAT™ components into payment and work product outputs.
US12192302B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for formatting and generating teaching media for different contexts. A system can receive, from a client computing device, media content having one or more media modalities each having presentation attributes. The system can determine initial formatting rules for the media content based on the presentation attributes of the one or more media modalities. The system can identify a destination format for the media content having a formatting requirement for each of the one or more media modalities of the media content. The system can modify the initial formatting rules for the media content based on the formatting requirement for each of the one or more media modalities. The system can generate an information resource having the destination format based on the modified formatting rules for the media content.
US12192295B2
A batch of CRUD operations can be coupled with the resource discovery operation and directly conducted on the matched resources, without initiating new CRUD requests. New functionality at the Originator and Receiver can differentiate the resources for which criteria matching is applied from the resources included in the discovery/filtering results. Enhanced functionality at the Originator and Receiver can combine discovery with RESTful operations targeting a resource set different than but related the discovered resources. Other enhancements may be used to request discovery of resources in a specified relationship to those matching a filter, or to request group formation based on the result.
US12192281B2
Methods and systems for a networked storage system is provided. One method includes transforming by a processor, performance parameters associated with storage volumes of a storage system for representing each storage volume as a data point in a parametric space; generating by the processor, a plurality of bins in the parametric space using the transformed performance parameters; adjusting by the processor, bin boundaries for the plurality of bins for defining a plurality of service levels for the storage system based on the performance parameters; and using the defined plurality of service levels for operating the storage system.
US12192279B2
A system supporting transferring content between an on-premises network and a public cloud network includes a first cloud computing platform comprising a first software instance having a first IP address, a subnet configured to extend across on-premises network and a public cloud network, a first gateway associated with the on-premises network, a second gateway associate with the public cloud network, a secure communication path between the first and second gateways. The subnet comprises a shared IP address range between the public cloud network and the on-premises network, and the first IP address of the first software instance is the same as an IP address of the first software instance that resided on the on-premises network.
US12192267B2
A server computer system, comprises a processor; a communications module coupled to the processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions that, when executed, configure the processor to receive, via the communications module and from a client device, a signal including a request to configure a transfer of data to a particular data record; determine that the particular data record is associated with a third party server; obtain a trust score associated with the particular data record; determine that the trust score satisfies trust criteria; and responsive to determining that the trust score satisfies trust criteria, enable one or more transfer features associated with a real-time transfer protocol.
US12192255B2
For each device in a collaborative environment, qualities of system characteristics are determined. Based on the respective qualities of each device, a subset of devices is identified, including at least one device having a highest first quality and at least one device having a highest second quality, each corresponding to a different system characteristic. One or more devices from the subset of devices are then selected, based on the first quality and the second quality of each device of the subset of devices, to perform a function associated with the respective system characteristic.
US12192244B2
Systems and methods are described herein for assessing the device posture of user devices requesting access to a managed resource and for determining a confidence level in the device's posture. In an example, a user device can request a managed resource. A server can receive the request and retrieve an associated access policy. The access policy can include policy attributes to use for assessing the user device's device posture. The server can calculate a device attribute score for each policy attribute. The server can also calculate a confidence score for each device attribute score that measures the confidence level in the device attribute score. Using the two scores, the server can calculate a device posture score. Access to the resource can be granted or denied based on whether the device posture score exceeds a threshold score designated in the access policy.
US12192233B2
A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to provide phishing attack protection based on identity provider verification. The at least one processor is further configured to capture an image of a browser web page to which the user has navigated and identify the domain name associated with the browser web page. The at least one processor is further configured to determine that the captured image matches an image of a known identity provider web page. The at least one processor is further configured to detect a phishing attempt in response to the determination that the images match and that the domain name associated with the browser web page differs from the domain name associated with the identity provider web page.
US12192228B2
Embodiments include a method for vulnerability management of a computer system. The method includes collecting vulnerability information over a network from a publishing source. The vulnerability information includes a known vulnerability of a first computer asset, where at least some of the vulnerability information is a set of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) published online. Further, at least some of the CVEs is in a human-readable format. The method further includes collecting system information of the computer system subject to the vulnerability management, where the system information includes information about a second computer asset of the computer system. The method further includes processing the collected vulnerability information and the collected system information by interpreting the human-readable CVEs and correlating the interpreted CVEs with the collected system information. A potential vulnerability of the second computer asset is identified based on the correlation between the interpreted CVEs and the collected system information.
US12192225B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing entity interaction risk analysis operation. The entity interaction risk analysis operation includes: monitoring an entity, the monitoring observing an electronically-observable data source; identifying an interaction between the entity and another entity based upon the monitoring; analyzing the interaction between the entity and the another entity; determining whether the interaction between the entity and the another entity is non-sanctioned; and, performing a security operation in response to the analyzing the interaction and the determining whether the interaction is non-sanctioned.
US12192223B1
Various embodiments include systems and methods to implement a process for determining expected exploitability of security vulnerabilities. Vulnerability information corresponding to a security vulnerability is input into a multi-headed neural network. A first feature vector is output via a probability of exploitation head of the multi-headed neural network. The first feature vector is extracted from the vulnerability information and comprises a first set of features. A second feature vector is extracted from code snippets and an abstract syntax tree analyzer, with the second feature vector including a second set of features related to the security vulnerability. The two feature vectors are concatenated to produce a third feature vector, and a regression model is used to determine a probability of exploitation for the security vulnerability based at least in part on the third feature vector.
US12192215B2
Embodiments described herein provide a design architecture for co-designing a controller and a watermarking signal for a cyber-physical system. During operation, the architecture can determine, in conjunction with each other, respective values of a first set of parameters indicating operations of the controller and a second set of parameters representing the watermarking signal. Here, the watermarking signal is combinable with a control signal from the controller for monitoring an output signal of the cyber-physical system for detecting malicious data at different time instances. Subsequently, the architecture can determine a state manager for determining the states of the cyber-physical system from the monitored output signal based on the first and second sets of parameters. The architecture can also determine a detector capable of identifying presence of an attack from the states of the cyber-physical system at a plurality of time instances using the watermarking signal.
US12192208B2
An apparatus comprises means for: causing information indicating a first security protocol profile of a first security protocol from a first security node of a first network to be sent from a first security node of a first network to a second security node of a second network, wherein the first security profile has one or more of: a modification policy; a data type policy; and a cipher suite; and causing the first security node to communicate with the second security node in accordance with the first security profile.
US12192193B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving the security of computer authentication using light communications data provided by, e.g., environmental Li-Fi light sources. A mobile device may receive light communications data from a light source, such as a Li-Fi-enabled light bulb in a physical environment of the mobile device. That light communications data may indicate a variation in a modulation of light intensity of the light source over a time period. That variation might be used to provide a time- and/or location-specific key. The mobile device may determine the key by processing the light communications data and transmit a request for content that comprises the key. Access to content may be provided to the mobile device based on the key.
US12192182B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a container (100) providing a service to a user in a cloud environment, wherein the container is generated from a container image (51) which comprises an encrypted software package, the container image further comprising a decryption entity, wherein the method comprises the steps of receiving a message to set up the container (100) out of the container image (51), the message comprising an access identifier allowing access to a restricted area (60) to which the access is not provided without the access identifier, the restricted area comprising a plurality of decryption keys, and accessing the restricted area (60) using the access identifier received with the message, and retrieving a decryption key from the restricted area (60) based on the access identifier, and decrypting the encrypted software package with the retrieved decryption key in order to generate a decrypted software package, providing the service to the user based on the decrypted software package.
US12192169B2
A load control system may be provided including control devices and a system controller. The system controller may be configured to broadcast a service set identifier (SSID) and provide a wireless network connection to a network device. The system controller may provide a web page to the network device, wherein the web page may include an indication of target system controllers. The target system controllers may be used for configuring (e.g., associating) the control devices. The system controller may receive an indication of a target system controller selected to associate the control devices. The system controller may determine an address and port number of the target system controller identified by the network device. The system controller may provide, to the network device, the web page from the target system controller while the network device is connected to the system controller via the wireless network connection.
US12192164B2
After a data packet containing an active medium access control (MAC) address of a connected device enters a customer-premises equipment (CPE), the active MAC address of the connected device is replaced with an earlier MAC address of the connected device. Before the data packet with the earlier MAC address exits the CPE, the earlier MAC address of the connected device is replaced with the active MAC address of the connected device.
US12192159B2
Techniques are described for generating a notification in connection with a video content item are provided. An example method comprises receiving, from at least a portion of the plurality of user devices, a plurality of messages via the first message interface, determining whether a message from the plurality of messages is associated with participant information that would be of interest to a content creator of the video content item, and responsive to determining that the message is associated with the participant information that would be of interest to the content creator of the video content item, causing a creator interface including a second message interface to be presented on a user device associated with the content creator, wherein the second message interface presents a notification concerning the participant information by modifying an appearance of the message in the second message interface based on the participant information.
US12192152B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for configuring and utilizing measurement gaps (MGs) based on bandwidth part (BWP) in intra-frequency measurements in New Radio (NR) involved networks. Various embodiments describe how to utilize (or not utilize) one or more configured MGs so that a user equipment (UE) and/or an access node (AN) may improve throughput performance, network efficiency and other efficiencies. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12192147B2
Upon receiving a first DCI that does not contain explicit indication about a group identifier and/or a new feedback indicator, the UE determines whether group-based acknowledgement feedback is active. If so, the allocates the first DCI to a default group. The UE determines whether to toggle a new feedback indicator value for the default group based on a comparison of field values in the first DCI and those in the default group. The UE then transmits on an uplink channel acknowledgement feedback of the first group to the base station for the downlink data according on the new feedback indicator.
US12192146B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for skipping or using actual repetitions. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, a configuration indicating resources for a first repetition and a second repetition in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). In certain aspects, the method may also include transmitting the first repetition, wherein the first repetition includes a larger symbol length than the second repetition, the resources for the first repetition multiplex a plurality of transmissions from first UEs including the UE, the resources for the second repetition multiplex a plurality of transmissions from second UEs, and a quantity of the first UEs is larger than a quantity of the second UEs.
US12192143B2
A method and apparatus for positioning in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for positioning includes receiving SIB1, acquiring SI, transmitting a UECapabilityInformation, transmitting a provideCapabilities and transmitting a RequestAssistanceData, The ProvideAssistanceData includes a first PRS data and a data related to the second PRS data. The UECapabilityInformation includes a second capability information related to PRS measurement. The provideCapabilities includes a first capability information related to PRS measurement.
US12192141B2
The present disclosure relates to resource determining methods and apparatus. One example method includes receiving, by a terminal, N pieces of channel measurement reference signal configuration information, where each of the N pieces of channel measurement reference signal configuration information is used to indicate a time domain resource occupied by a channel measurement reference signal on one carrier, serving cell, or bandwidth part, and N is a positive integer, and determining, by the terminal based on the N pieces of channel measurement reference signal configuration information, an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol occupied by a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a first time unit.
US12192139B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for handling positioning reference signals in a wireless communication system. The positioning reference signals may be assigned priorities that may be used to facilitate various operations of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) such as positioning related services, collision avoidance, measurement and reporting, etc. The WTRU may be configured with multiple muting patterns associated with the positioning reference signals and may switch between different muting patterns based on the priorities of the positioning reference signals and/or other downlink (DL) or uplink (UL) transmissions that may overlap or collide with the positioning reference signals.
US12192132B2
A method and device for SRS transmission, a network device and a UE are provided. The method includes: a serving cell transmits, to a UE, a first configuration for positioning, the first configuration is configuration of a first SRS resource or configuration of a first SRS resource set; and the serving cell receives a first location information request from a location server, the first location information request is used for requesting the serving cell to measure the SRS transmission from the UE; here, a second location information request is transmitted to a neighbor cell by the location server, the second location information request is used for requesting the neighbor cell to measure the SRS transmission from the UE.
US12192130B1
A communications system for a restaurant includes multiple field communications units, a portable communications device, and processing circuitry. The field communications units include a speaker and a microphone. The portable communications device is transportable by an order taker of the restaurant. The processing circuitry obtains a user input to transition the portable communications device between multiple different channels. The multiple different channels correspond to one of the multiple field communications units. The processing circuitry transitions the portable communications device to one of the multiple different channels according to the user input. The processing circuitry facilitates end-to-end bi-directional audio communication between the order taker and a customer by operating the portable communications device and the one of the multiple field communications units to exchange audio data over the one of the multiple different channels.
US12192127B2
Various schemes pertaining to designs of a distributed-tone resource unit (dRU) on a frequency subblock of a wide-bandwidth physical-layer protocol data unit (PPDU) in 6 GHz low-power indoor (LPI) systems are described. A communication entity generates a PPDU with subcarriers of a resource unit (RU) distributed on a frequency subblock of a plurality of frequency subblocks of a wide bandwidth. The communication entity then transmits the PPDU over the wide bandwidth. Each of the plurality of frequency subblocks includes a 20 MHz, 40 MHz or 80 MHz frequency subblock. The wide bandwidth includes an 80 MHz, 160 MHz or 320 MHz bandwidth. The subcarriers of the RU are distributed on the frequency block by applying a constant shift to a dRU on a 20 MHz, 40 MHz or 80 MHz bandwidth.
US12192119B2
A computer-readable medium storing instructions for a universal API (Application Programming Interface) for multiple network resources. The instructions cause a processor to perform receiving, from a user interface, a request associated with a set of different network resources. The request includes one or more operations for the different network resources. The instructions may cause parsing the request to identify each of the operations, and performing the operations on the network resources. The instructions may also cause collecting, from the network resources, responses to the operations that were performed; and generating a consolidated response that includes the responses. The consolidated response may be generated according to a schema defining valid syntax for communications.
US12192117B1
A converged small cell communication system includes a mobile network core, a data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) core, and a common policy platform for managing a service flow of a user equipment within a communication vicinity of the small cell communication system. The mobile network core includes a policy engine and a packet data network gateway (PGW). The DOCSIS core includes a packetcable multimedia (PCMM) unit having a policy server and an application manager, and a cable modem termination system (CMTS).
US12192115B2
A network allocation vector setting method including: detecting each channel of n channels to determine m occupied busy channels of the n channels and a time duration in which each busy channel is occupied; and setting network allocation vectors of at least m busy channels of the n channels according to l time durations.
US12192113B2
The embodiments herein relate to a method and a network device for network slicing, the method comprising: receiving, from a terminal device, a request for at least one of reserving and assigning a network slice for an application; determining whether the application is previously known in terms of application profile or application identity; the determination being performed by matching against a plurality of application profiles and/or application identities residing in an application profile/identity database; if the application is determined to be known, providing a cost for setting up or for assigning a network slice for the application indicated in the request; and if the application is determined to be unknown, assigning a profile to the application and at least one of configuring and assigning a default network slice to the application.
US12192111B1
A method comprising receiving, by a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity, a plurality of PDCP SDUs for transmission, discarding at least one PDCP SDU from the plurality of PDCP SDUs for transmission, and transmitting a discard notification, the discard notification indicating the discarding of the PDCP SDU is disclosed.
US12192103B2
A LRE (logical routing element) that have LIFs that are active in all host machines spanned by the LRE as well as LIFs that are active in only a subset of those spanned host machines is provided. A host machine having an active LIF for a particular L2 segment would perform the L3 routing operations for network traffic related to that L2 segment. A host machine having an inactive LIF for the particular L2 segment would not perform L3 routing operations for the network traffic of the L2 segment.
US12192102B2
Systems and methods for improving network element security. The methods comprise: obtaining a transport frame by the network element; analyzing, by the network element, the transport frame to determine whether or not any vulnerable overhead field values in at least one of a header of a mapping layer frame and a header of a transport layer frame have values other than expected values; modifying, by the network element, at least one reserved target field value in the transport frame when a determination is made that the at least one vulnerable overhead field value has a value other than the expected value; and communicating, by the network element, the transport frame with the modified at least one reserved target value over a network.
US12192101B2
Described are methods and devices for communication between local networks and global networks. In some examples, a method comprises storing mapping data for multiple hosts in a global network and in a local network. The method further comprises receiving a first data packet from one of the multiple hosts in the local network. The first data packet comprises a first source address being the local network address of the host in the local network, a first destination address being the local network address of the host in the global network and payload data. The method further comprises determining, based on the mapping data, the global network address of the host in the local network and a global network address of the host in the global network, and sending a second data packet over the global network.
US12192099B2
Systems and methods for orchestrating a virtualized 5G gNB are provided. In one example, a system for orchestrating wireless service includes a scalable cloud environment configured to implement a base station using a plurality of virtualized base station entities. Each virtualized base station entity of the plurality of virtualized base station entities configured to implement at least some functions for one or more layers of a wireless interface used to communicate with UEs. The scalable cloud environment further configured to implement a service orchestration tool including one or more interfaces configured to receive common configuration parameters that are applicable to multiple sites of an operator and to receive site-specific configuration parameters that are unique to respective sites of the operator. The service orchestration tool configured to automatically generate deployment files for the plurality of virtualized base station entities based on the common configuration parameters and the site-specific configuration parameters.
US12192098B2
The forwarding node includes a first processor, a first memory, and a network adapter. The network adapter includes a second processor, a second memory, and a transceiver. The transceiver includes a first port and a second port. The transceiver is configured to receive a broadcast packet through the first port. The second processor is configured to store a first entry in the second memory. The transceiver is configured to send the broadcast packet through the second port. The transceiver is configured to receive a response packet of the broadcast packet through the second port. The second processor is configured to query the first entry based on first address information to determine the first port. The transceiver is configured to send the response packet through the first port. The second processor is configured to store a second entry in the second memory.
US12192097B2
Methods of computing a flooding topology (FT) for a network are presented. The methods include a process for computing a FT that includes all nodes in the network and a process for ensuring that all nodes in the FT have at least two links in the FT. Some of the methods minimize a number of links of the nodes in the FT. Some of the methods also constrain some of the nodes in the FT to a maximum number of links. Some of the methods compute a first FT for nodes whose maximum number of links in the FT equal their number of links in the network, then compute a second FT for remaining nodes in the network, then combines the two FTs to compute a complete FT for the network.
US12192095B2
In some implementations, a provider edge device associated with a link aggregation group (LAG) may maintain, according to a link aggregation control protocol (LACP), a set of links that connect the PE device to a consumer edge device. The provider edge device may determine that the provider edge device and another provider edge device associated with the LAG are not receiving link aggregation control protocol data units (LACPDUs) from the consumer edge device. The provider edge device may cause the set of links to have a maintain LAG status, which causes the provider edge device to keep up the set of links and to cease maintaining the set of links according to the LACP. The provider edge device may route, based on causing the set of links to have the maintain LAG status, one or more packets to or from the consumer edge device via the set of links.
US12192089B2
This application provides a method for quality of experience QOE measurement and a communication apparatus. A network device configures configuration information for QOE measurement for a terminal device when signal quality is lower than a specific threshold. In addition, the terminal device may also perform QOE measurement or report a measurement result when the quality is lower than the specific threshold.
US12192082B1
Methods, systems, and computer program products to generate a telemetry pipeline. In embodiments, the system includes a communication interface that receives one or more user-defined functions for the telemetry pipeline. The system also includes control logic that implements programmatically the one or more user-defined functions to collect telemetry data at a plurality of layers in the telemetry pipeline based on the one or more user-defined functions and calculate smart metrics at different layers of the plurality of layers in the telemetry pipeline. The smart metrics may be calculated at a layer closest to where associated telemetry data is collected.
US12192074B2
Provided are a data collection method and apparatus, network device, and storage medium. The method includes: receiving, by a first network data analytics function (NWDAF), a first message sent by a consumer, the first message is provided for requesting or subscribing to an NWDAF analytics service, wherein the first message includes a first parameter, the first parameter at least including at least one of: an event identifier (ID), a data collection time parameter, or area information; inquiring, by the first NWDAF through a first network device before starting data collection, whether an existing NWDAF is collecting or has already stored data matching the first parameter, and executing, by the first NWDAF, a corresponding data collection strategy according to an inquiry result.
US12192065B2
The present disclosure relates to the generation of analytics in a mobile network. The disclosure is concerned with tracing and exposing data information, which is used for generating analytics outputs to enable examination of the analytics outputs. The disclosure provides network entities and methods, which support the analytics generation and examination thereof, respectively. For instance, a first network entity for analytics generation is configured to receive, from a second network entity, a request for providing analytics information associated with at least one generated analytics output. Further, the first network entity is configured to provide the analytics information to the second network entity, wherein the analytics information comprises data information used to generate the at least one generated analytics output, wherein the data information comprises reference to data or data itself.
US12192058B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for network slicing with programmable data-plane pipelines, comprising creating slice contexts, where creating the slice contexts comprises creating control-plane and data-plane data for each of a plurality of network slices, and storing the control-plane and the data-plane data to produce slice contexts, mapping resources of network switch hardware to the slice contexts to create a resource mapping, instantiating the plurality of network slices on the network switch hardware using the resource mapping, receiving frames from one or more external sources, identifying a network slice corresponding to each frame, and enriching a header of each of the frames, based upon the identification of the network slice for each frame, to direct each frame to a data-plane pipeline.
US12192055B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for custom-defined network routing. In one implementation, a set of custom defined network flow rules is received at an edge router of a primary network, which is in communication with a customer network. The set of custom defined network flow rules correspond to network traffic associated with the customer network. The set of custom defined network flow rules is stored in a forwarding table on the edge router. A packet of data is received at the edge router. The packet of data is attributed to the customer network. The set of custom defined network flow rules is applied to the pack of data using the forwarding table.
US12192029B2
Methods and systems are provided for power management in communication devices, particularly based on cable connectivity. A power management component in a system may be configured to manage power use in the system based on measurements associated with a signal path used for communication by the system via a communication port, wherein the managing includes. Managing the power use may include determining, based on the measurements, connectivity related information associated with connectivity of the system via the communication port; applying, based on the connectivity related information, one or more power use reduction measures, wherein the one or more power use reduction measures include transitioning between different power related states; and monitoring one or more conditions to determine when to stop, undo, or reverse at least one of the one or more power use reduction measures.
US12192022B1
Systems and methods for video conference content auto-retrieval and focus based on learned relevance is provided. A method may include determining collaborative documents each associated with at least one user participating in a video conference, and providing one or more first inputs to a machine learning model, the one or more first inputs identifying the plurality of collaborative documents, and comprising an indication of a request to identify a collaborative document that is most relevant to a first subject discussed during the video conference at a first point in time. The method may further include determining, based on one or more first outputs of the machine learning model, the collaborative document that is the most relevant to the first subject discussed during the video conference at the first point in time, and providing the determined collaborative document for presentation on one or more client devices while the first subject is being discussed during the video conference.
US12192007B2
Systems, methods, and devices for efficient and robust handling of acknowledgements in new radio unlicensed bands (NR-U) environments. A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may receive control information and a data transmission from a gNB in a first interval (i.e., transport block or channel occupancy time), wherein the control information may include an indication of uplink resources. The data transmission may require some sort of acknowledgement (i.e., HARQ feedback). The WTRU may attempt to transmit the acknowledgement in the indicated uplink resources, but the gNB may not receive the acknowledgement. The WTRU may receive control information and a data transmission from the gNB in a second interval, including an indication to aggregate any previously unsuccessful acknowledgement transmissions. The WTRU may transmit an aggregated acknowledgement including previous unsuccessful acknowledgements and any additional acknowledgements from the current interval. In some cases, look-before-talk procedures may be used.
US12191995B2
A digital receiver based on one-dimensional hard demapping of an input symbol stream (FEC encoded) is configured to utilize LLRs created to have bit-specific magnitude values to improve the probability that the included decoder (such as an LDPC decoder) properly recovers each bit from the original stream. The digital receiver may be used with various types of data modulation schemes (e.g., PAM3, PAM4, DSQ8, etc.), with a specific set of LLR magnitudes created for each modulation scheme.
US12191977B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for satellite operations with secure enclave for secure inband hosted payload operations are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a method for payload operations comprises receiving, by a vehicle, host commands from a satellite operation portion of a host spacecraft operations center (SOC). The method further comprises reconfiguring a payload and at least bus component on the vehicle according to the host commands. Also, the method comprises transmitting, by the vehicle, host telemetry to the satellite operation portion of the host SOC. In addition, the method comprises receiving, by the vehicle, hosted commands from a secure enclave of the host SOC. Additionally, the method comprises reconfiguring the payload on the vehicle according to the hosted commands. Further, the method comprises transmitting, by a payload antenna on the vehicle, host payload data, hosted payload data, and the encrypted hosted telemetry to the secure enclave.
US12191976B2
This disclosure provides a beam information indication method and an apparatus. The terminal device obtains reference domain information of a plurality of beams and a first offset corresponding to each moment, to update beam domain information, where the first offset indicates an offset of domain information of the plurality of beams relative to the reference domain information of the plurality of beams. In technical solutions provided in this disclosure, domain information of the plurality of beams can be updated with low signaling overheads. The technical solutions may be applied to a satellite communication system, to implement interference management of satellite beams.
US12191968B2
The present technology relates to a communication apparatus and a communication method that permit realization of more reliable communication. Provided is a communication apparatus that includes a control section that performs control such that plural aggregated subframes are sent in a predetermined sequence for each frame included in each of spatially multiplexed streams when a frame is sent to another communication apparatus as plural spatially multiplexed streams. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a communication apparatus included in a wireless LAN system.
US12191964B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may measure a reference signal over a first subset of a set of measurement occasions using a serving UE receive beam according to a serving beam measurement periodicity. The UE may measure the reference signal over a second subset of the set of measurement occasions using a first subset of candidate UE receive beams of a set of candidate UE receive beams. The UE may measure the reference signal over a third subset of the set of measurement occasions using a second subset of candidate UE receive beams of the set of candidate UE receive beams. The UE may perform beam switching to a candidate UE receive beam of the set of candidate UE receive beams based at least in part on a result of measuring the reference signal.
US12191959B2
Aspects presented may enable RF sensing to be adaptive to the environment to improve the sensing, performance, and/or the spectrum efficiency of cellular systems and the power efficiency of RF sensing nodes. In one aspect, an RF sensing node extracts one or more features for a set of objects of an area via at least one non-RF sensor. The RF sensing node transmits, to a network entity, the one or more features or at least one non-RF measurement derived from the one or more features. The RF sensing node receives, from the network entity, an RRS transmission configuration derived based on the one or more features or the at least one non-RF measurement transmitted to the network entity.
US12191950B2
A communication device for use in a cellular network includes a plurality of antenna panels for communication with cells in a cellular network, circuitry for carrying out a panel selection process based on received power level for selecting an antenna panel, and circuitry for performing measurement cycles requiring determination of respective power levels. The circuitry for performing measurement cycles measures a first received power level from said neighbor cell with the antenna panel selected for said neighbor cell and measures a second received power level from said neighbor cell with the antenna panel selected for said serving cell. The circuitry for performing measurement cycles measures a third power level received for said neighbor cell with the antenna panel selected for said serving cell and adjusting said third power level with an offset function, said adjusted third power level being used as the respective power level for said neighbor cell.
US12191947B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a feedback radio node in a radio access network, the feedback radio node being configured with a set of feedback codebooks. Each codebook of the set indicates an arrangement of one or more subpatterns of feedback bits into feedback information. The method includes transmitting feedback signaling representing feedback information determined based on a codebook selected from the set of feedback codebooks. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.
US12191942B2
A wireless communication method and apparatus in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system are disclosed. A wireless communication method according to one embodiment may include generating a high-efficiency Wi-Fi (HEW) frame including at least one of an HEW-SIG-A field and an HEW-SIG-B field which include channel information for communications according to an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) mode, and transmitting the generated HEW frame to a reception apparatus.
US12191933B2
A near-field communication antenna includes a conductive plane; and four slots in the conductive plane.
US12191932B2
A surface mount device inductor has a package casing sized to attenuate electromagnetic coupling between the inductor coils of the surface mount device inductors. The surface mount device inductor includes an inductor coil, an anode structure disposed over a first end of the inductor coil and a cathode structure disposed over a second end of the inductor coil opposite the first end, the cathode structure being spaced apart from the anode structure. One or both of the anode structure and the cathode structure comprise a shield portion disposed at least partially over the inductor coil to thereby reduce electromagnetic coupling between adjacent surface mount device inductors. The package casing makes the surface mount device inductors self-shielding. The surface mount device inductors can be incorporated into a radiofrequency module, and can be incorporated into a front end system of a wireless mobile device.
US12191928B2
Technology described herein can detect and statistically analyze frequency domain power data for enabling real-time adjustment of one or more parameters of a radio system. In an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a read circuit communicatively coupled to the processor, wherein the processor controls the read circuit to read power data in a frequency domain from a radio system, and an analysis component communicatively coupled to the processor and that compares the power data in the frequency domain to a power threshold, wherein, based on a result of the power data being compared to the power threshold, the analysis component sorts the power data into bins at a storage component communicatively coupled to the processor. In one or more embodiments, power data in the frequency domain is collected at a frequency of a subcarrier and/or at a frequency between subcarriers.
US12191919B2
A body area network (BAN) architecture including a plurality of ultra-wideband (UWB) BAN node devices, a control node device, and a remote node device is described. The plurality of UWB BAN node devices measures real-time physiological data of a patient and transmits the physiological data to the control node device using UWB signals. The control node device encodes the UWB signals using an spectral amplitude coding-optical code division multiple access (SAC-OCDMA) encoder, modulates the encoded UWB signals using an on-off keying (OOK) scheme, combines the modulated UWB signals into an optical signal using an optical coupler, and transmits the combined optical signal through a free space optical (FSO) link to the remote node device. The remote node device decodes the combined optical signal using an SAC-OCDMA decoder, converts the decoded optical signal into an electrical signal, and analyzes the physiological data based on the electrical signal.
US12191918B2
A body area network (BAN) architecture including a plurality of ultra-wideband (UWB) BAN node devices, a control node device, and a remote node device is described. The plurality of UWB BAN node devices measures real-time physiological data of a patient and transmits the physiological data to the control node device using UWB signals. The control node device encodes the UWB signals using an spectral amplitude coding-optical code division multiple access (SAC-OCDMA) encoder, modulates the encoded UWB signals using an on-off keying (OOK) scheme, combines the modulated UWB signals into an optical signal using an optical coupler, and transmits the combined optical signal through a free space optical (FSO) link to the remote node device. The remote node device decodes the combined optical signal using an SAC-OCDMA decoder, converts the decoded optical signal into an electrical signal, and analyzes the physiological data based on the electrical signal.
US12191917B2
A body area network (BAN) architecture including a plurality of ultra-wideband (UWB) BAN node devices, a control node device, and a remote node device is described. The plurality of UWB BAN node devices measures real-time physiological data of a patient and transmits the physiological data to the control node device using UWB signals. The control node device encodes the UWB signals using an spectral amplitude coding-optical code division multiple access (SAC-OCDMA) encoder, modulates the encoded UWB signals using an on-off keying (OOK) scheme, combines the modulated UWB signals into an optical signal using an optical coupler, and transmits the combined optical signal through a free space optical (FSO) link to the remote node device. The remote node device decodes the combined optical signal using an SAC-OCDMA decoder, converts the decoded optical signal into an electrical signal, and analyzes the physiological data based on the electrical signal.
US12191914B2
A system, a non-transitory computer readable media and a method for intra data center optical communication, the method may include (a) receiving an optical input signal by a coherent optical receiver of a second unit of a data center; wherein each input optical signal represents a transmitted optical signal that was transmitted by a coherent transmitter of a first unit of the data center; wherein the transmitted optical signal is generated by modulating a transmitter laser signal that is outputted from a laser of the coherent transmitter; (b) generating, by a controllable laser of the coherent optical receiver, a reference signal; wherein a frequency of the reference signal is controlled by a processor of the coherent optical receiver; and (c) recovering data embedded in the optical input signal; wherein the recovering of the data comprises optically processing the reference signal and the optical input signal.
US12191913B2
An apparatus includes an optical PSK transmitter configured to output carrier-suppressed optical signal phase-modulated according to a M-PSK constellation without substantial amplitude modulation. The apparatus includes an optical phase modulator, a driver configured to drive the modulator with a PAM-N electrical signal, N>M, and a signal encoder configured to map an input bit stream to the PAM-N electrical signal.
US12191910B2
An optical module includes an optical source, a first polarization splitter-rotator, a second polarization splitter-rotator, a first port, a second port, a third port, and a fourth port. The optical source produces an optical signal. The first polarization splitter-rotator generates a first source optical signal based at least in part on the optical signal. The second polarization splitter-rotator generates a second source optical signal based at least in part on the optical signal. The first port transmits, to a first device, the first source optical signal and receives, from the first device, a first modulated optical signal. The first polarization splitter-rotator produces a second modulated optical signal. The second port transmits, to a second device, the second source optical signal and receives, from the second device, a third modulated optical signal. The second polarization splitter-rotator produces a fourth modulated optical signal.
US12191908B2
An optical wireless communications receiver for a portable communications device, the receiver being configured to receive radiation signals on which communication data is encoded, wherein the receiver is comprised in or on or configured for mounting to at least part of a periphery or edge of the device. Advantageously, the optical wireless communications comprises a plurality of, receiver elements distributed along or around the receiver and/or comprises an optical guide configured to receive radiation and convey at least part of the radiation along the optical guide to at least one of the receiver elements.
US12191890B2
A system and method for data compression with encryption, that produces a conditioned data stream by replacing data blocks within an input data stream to bring the frequency of each data block closer to an ideal value, produces an error stream comprising the differences between the original data and the encrypted data, and compresses the conditioned data.
US12191885B1
A method of detecting an error includes, in part, defining a bit pattern using a first multitude of bits, a second multitude of bits, the bits of an error correction code (ECC), and at least one user selected bit. The method further includes, in part, receiving a first value represented by the first multitude of bits and the at least one user selected bit; receiving a second value represented by the second multitude of bits; receiving a third value represented by the ECC bits. The method further includes, in part, generating a syndrome value from the first, second and third values; and using a subset of the syndrome value bits to detect the error in the first, second or third values. The third value is determined in accordance with the first and second values.
US12191884B2
This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for low-density parity check (LDPC) coding. Some aspects more specifically relate to extending LDPC codewords to produce longer codewords. In some examples, a first wireless device may generate a baseline LDPC code by performing a first lifting on a base matrix, which may produce an LDPC code used for a current Wi-Fi implementation. The first wireless device may then perform a second lifting or a re-lifting (such as a cyclic lifting, a product lifting, a swapping lifting, or a combination thereof) to generate an extended lifted code. This extended lifted code may be an extension of the first LDPC code such that the first LDPC code may be preserved as part of the extended code. Then first wireless device may then transmit the extended LDPC code as an extended or lifted codeword.
US12191883B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques for compactly describing lifted low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. A method by a transmitting device generally includes selecting a first lifting size value and a first set of lifting values; generating a first lifted LDPC code by applying the first set of lifting values to interconnect edges in copies of a parity check matrix (PCM) having a first number of variable nodes and a second number of check nodes; determining a second set of lifting values for generating a second lifted LDPC code for a second lifting size value based on the first lifted PCM and the first set of lifting values; encoding a set of information bits based the first lifted LDPC code or the second lifted LDPC code to produce a code word; and transmitting the code word.
US12191862B2
A phase interpolator with a DAC outputting a first and second value responsive to a control code. A first current mirror generates a first current proportional to the first value. A second current mirror generates a second current proportional to the second value. A first FET pair comprising a first and second FET such that the source terminals of the first FET and the second FET are electrically connected and connect to the first current mirror. A second FET pair comprising a third and fourth FET such that the source terminals of the third FET and the fourth FET are electrically connected and connect to the second current mirror. A first terminal outputs a phase adjusted clock signal as compared to the clock signal, from the first FET and the third FET. A second terminal outputs an inverted phase adjusted clock signal, from the second FET and the fourth FET.
US12191858B2
The invention is based on the integrated application of a thermal-electric active device (phonon transistor). Phonon transistors consist of resistors that respond to temperature changes with a metal-insulator phase transition, or possibly other resistors suitable for heat generation. These resistors are thermally and electrically coupled to each other as needed, and are thermally and electrically insulated from each other. The thermal-electric system built in this way is suitable for the implementation of high-integration logic networks.
US12191854B2
Systems and methods for improving the power, performance, and area (PPA) for a voltage mode driver and on die termination (ODT). A voltage mode driver having first and second circuits in a pulldown design. The first circuit has a plurality of nMOS devices in parallel, the plurality of nMOS devices being common to a first resistor. The second circuit is in parallel with the first circuit and has an nMOS device in series with a second resistor. The second circuit is configured to be enabled when the pulldown impedance of the first circuit, with the second circuit disabled and all of the nMOS devices of the first circuit turned on, is greater than a desired pulldown impedance. The voltage mode driver may also be a pullup design, or have both pulldown and pullup stages.
US12191851B2
A method of operating a power-on (PO) signal generator (which generates a PO signal and includes a supply-variation sensitivity-reducing (SVSR) load coupled between a first reference voltage and a first node, and a first transistor coupled between the first node and a second reference voltage, the SVSR load including a first resistor coupled between the first reference voltage and a second node, and a second transistor coupled between the second node and the first node, each of a control input of the SVSR load and a gate terminal the first transistor being coupled to a monitored voltage) includes: when the monitored voltage rises above a threshold voltage of the first transistor, turning on the first transistor, and pulling first and second voltages correspondingly on the first and second nodes, a third voltage of the second transistor, and the PO signal down to a logical low value.
US12191849B2
A high-voltage power supply device includes a voltage generation unit for outputting a DC high-voltage, a switching unit using a semiconductor switching element, the switching unit being configured to output an output voltage by the voltage generation unit to a voltage output terminal in a conduction state, a driver for driving a control terminal of the semiconductor switching element, and a controller for controlling the switching unit via the driver. The driver includes a high-frequency transformer provided with primary and secondary windings, a distribution of a stray capacitance per number of unit turns of the primary winding between the primary and secondary windings in an extension direction of the primary winding being symmetrical to a midpoint of the primary winding, a rectifier for rectifying an AC current induced in the secondary winding, and a balanced output type high-frequency excitation unit for exciting the primary winding differentially.
US12191841B2
A method for forming an acoustic wave device, including steps of: forming an acoustic wave sensing part and an acoustic wave reflecting part, wherein the step of forming the acoustic wave sensing part includes: providing a first substrate, forming a sensing layer on the first substrate, forming a bottom electrode on a side of the sensing layer, and forming a filling layer on the sensing layer and the bottom electrode; and wherein the step of forming the acoustic wave reflecting part includes: providing a second substrate, forming a reflecting element on the second substrate, and forming a cover layer on the reflecting element; joining the acoustic wave sensing part and the acoustic wave reflecting part; removing the first substrate; and forming a top electrode on another side of the sensing layer, wherein the bottom electrode, the top electrode and the reflecting element are arranged correspondingly to each other.
US12191834B2
A dynamic range control unit (210) configured to apply dynamic range control, referred to as DRC, to an audio signal (211). The DRC unit (210) is configured to downsample a subband signal (212) derived from the audio signal (211), to provide a downsampled subband signal (321), to determine a DRC gain (329) based on the downsampled subband signal (321), and to apply the DRC gain (329) to the subband signal (212), to provide a compressed subband signal (213) of a compressed audio signal (214).
US12191833B2
Temperature compensation circuits and methods for adjusting one or more circuit parameters of a power amplifier (PA) to maintain approximately constant Gain versus time during pulsed operation sufficient to substantially offset self-heating of the PA. Some embodiments compensate for PA Gain “droop” due to self-heating using a Sample and Hold (S&H) circuit. The S&H circuit samples and holds an initial temperature of the PA at commencement of a pulse. Thereafter, the S&H circuit generates a continuous measurement that corresponds to the temperature of the PA during the remainder of the pulse. A Gain Control signal is generated that is a function of the difference between the initial temperature and the operating temperature of the PA as the PA self-heats for the duration of the pulse. The Gain Control signal is applied to one or more adjustable or tunable circuits within a PA to offset the Gain droop of the PA.
US12191828B2
A radio-frequency module includes a first power amplifier, a second power amplifier, a switch, a plurality of first filters, and a second filter. The first power amplifier amplifies a transmission signal of a first frequency band and outputs the amplified transmission signal. The second power amplifier amplifies a transmission signal of a second frequency band and outputs the amplified transmission signal. The pass bands of the plurality of first filters are contained within the first frequency band. The pass band of the second filter is contained within the second frequency band. The second power amplifier has a greater output power level than the first power amplifier. The first output terminal of the first power amplifier is switchably connectable to the plurality of first filters via the switch. The second output terminal of the second power amplifier is connected to the second filter without the switch interposed therebetween.
US12191826B2
A method of adjusting an impedance of a power amplifier of a radio frequency system for matching with an antenna switch die is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes connecting the power amplifier to the antenna switch die via an impedance adjustment circuit, the impedance adjustment circuit including an input node, an output node, a plurality of electrical components arranged between the input node and the output node, and at least one switch configured to selectively electrically connect at least one of the electrical components to the input node and the output node. The method further includes determining an Error Vector Magnitude of the radio frequency system for each of a plurality of states of the at least one switch, and controlling the at least one switch to enter the state of the plurality of states that minimizes the Error Vector Magnitude of the radio frequency system.
US12191817B2
A power amplifier (PA) linearization technique with a wider linearized power range is proposed. Proposed two types of linearizers with cross-coupled PMOS and NMOS configuration. The idea is to use a complimentary device compared with the PA core device, and the behavior of Cgs of the linearizer are also complimentary to the PA itself. In the other words, the overall Cgs of the PA with the linearizer would be constant without leading to non-linear waveform. Both linearizers can effectively compensate not only AMAM but also AMPM. First type of linearizer can be integrated with PA cores, and second type of linearizer can be used in the IMN. Both linearizers have effective IM3 reduction in different corner.
US12191812B2
Low-leakage switch circuit techniques to reduce leakage current of an off-state switch, while maintaining a low on-resistance. The low-leakage switch circuit may allow measurement of low current signals in a transimpedance amplifier with improved accuracy without, the need for calibration. The low-leakage switch circuit may include a bootstrapping path connecting two or more terminals or voltage nodes of an off-state switch in the switch circuit. The bootstrapping path is configured to bootstrap major leakage current contributors in the switch circuit, such as the substrate diode leakage, the subthreshold leakage, or combinations thereof.
US12191811B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including an upper-channel implant transistor is provided. The method includes forming one or more fins extending in a first direction over a substrate. The one or more fins include a first region along the first direction and second regions on both sides of the first region along the first direction. A dopant is shallowly implanted in an upper portion of the first region of the fins but not in the second regions and not in a lower portion of the first region of the fins. A gate structure extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction is formed overlying the first region of the fins, and source/drains are formed overlying the second regions of the fins, thereby forming an upper-channel implant transistor.
US12191808B1
The present invention belongs to the field of radio frequency integrated circuit technology, and specifically relates to a transformer-based distributed multicore oscillator and an integrated circuit and a terminal thereof. The oscillator includes four MOS transistors M1˜M4, two transformers T1 and T2, two coarse capacitors arrays CG1 and CG2, two fine capacitors arrays CD1 and CD2, two tail inductances Ltail1 and Ltail2. A first cross-coupled transistors pair is constisted by two MOS transistors M1 and M2, and a second cross-coupled transistors pair is constisted by two MOS transistors M3 and M4. Two pair are adjacent and are set in centre of the layout. Two signal output ports are defined by two drain regions of any two MOS transistors from the two pairs. The present invention synchronously solves the problem of high thermal phase noise and low-frequency flicker phase noise in existing oscillators.
US12191802B2
A coupling system for use with a solar tracker includes a support rail defining a channel for receipt of a solar module therein, the support rail including an aperture defined therein that is in open communication with the channel and a clamp assembly selectively coupled to the support rail, a first portion of the clamp assembly configured to receive a portion of a torque tube therein and a second portion of the clamp assembly configured to selectively extend through the aperture of the support rail when the clamp assembly is transitioned from a first, unlocked position, to a second, locked position.
US12191800B2
The present invention provides an automatic solar tracking photovoltaic power generation device, comprising a box body and a solar panel arranged above the box body. The bottom of the solar panel is equipped with a continuously adjustable component. Inside the box body, there are interconnected worm gear and worm components, and a gear transmission component. The worm gear and worm components are connected to the continuously adjustable component. The present invention solves the problems of existing devices, such as single-direction adjustment and low collection efficiency. It automatically tracks the sun in both latitude and longitude directions, with continuous adjustment. During normal operation, no manual intervention is required. It is easy to use, with a self-locking structure, minimal impact from wind loads, and self-reporting of faults.
US12191795B2
A voltage fluctuation suppressing device for an alternating current generator provided in the alternating current generator and configured to suppress voltage fluctuation by excitation control based on an output voltage includes a processor, and a memory configured to be able to communicate with the processor. The processor is configured to: detect a load current of each of output terminals; identify in-use output terminals based on the detection of the load current; detect inter-terminal voltages of the output terminals including the identified output terminals; and control excitation by using an output voltage calculated from the detected inter-terminal voltages.
US12191789B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a drive system including an induction generator comprising some primary windings that has a main winding and an auxiliary winding, the drive system being capable of supplying electric power required by an auxiliary inverter, even in a regenerative mode of operation in which only the auxiliary winding is energized. The maximum current value of a converter for power generating is set on the basis of the maximum output power of the auxiliary winding of the induction generator and the minimum voltage applied to the auxiliary winding unless a traction inverter is in a regenerative mode of operation, and the non-load current value of the induction generator is set such that the maximum current in the auxiliary winding under the situation of the traction inverter being in the regenerative mode of operation does not exceed the maximum current in the converter for power generating.
US12191787B2
According to one embodiment, a motor drive apparatus is an apparatus which drives a motor including a plurality of phase windings in a mutually unconnected state, and includes first and second inverters. The first and second inverters are first and second modules each of which is configured in such a manner that a switching circuit including a positive side terminal and negative side terminals and a drive circuit intended to drive the switching circuit are accommodated in one package, and which possess configurations identical to each other, and the first and second modules are arranged on a circuit board in a state where the negative side terminals of the modules are respectively close to each other.
US12191785B2
A motor drive receives a position feedback signal from a position sensor operatively connected to a motor. The motor drive receives a command signal defining a desired operation of the motor. A processor in the motor drive generates an acceleration feedforward signal from the command signal and an acceleration reference signal from the command signal and the position feedback signal. The processor also generates an estimated disturbance acceleration from the acceleration reference signal. The acceleration feedforward signal is multiplied by a first gain to obtain a first product, and the estimated disturbance acceleration by a second gain to obtain a second product. The first and second gains are functions of first and second portions of the system inertia. A current reference signal is generated based on the first product and second products, and an output voltage to the motor is generated from the current reference signal.
US12191784B2
The present invention concerns a method and a device for determining a position of a rotor of a three-phase motor using a FOC system. The invention: —determines, by a proportional-integral controller, a first control voltage vector at a first instant, —transforms the first control voltage vector using an inverse Park transform, —sums the transformed first control voltage vector to a regular polygonal voltage pattern applied during a given duration, —performs a PWM from the sum of the transformed first control voltage vector and the regular polygonal voltage pattern, —controls the motor with the pulse-width modulation, —measures the current at each phase of the motor, —estimates the position of the rotor from the measured currents and from the regular polygonal voltage pattern, —determines, at a second instant, a second control voltage vector from the measured currents and from the estimated position.
US12191779B2
An AC/DC converter stage for a converter system with an input series structure. The AC/DC converter stage includes two input terminals for inputting an AC input voltage and at least a first circuit branch with at least two switches that are electrically connected in series at a first connection point, where a first input terminal of the two input terminals is electrically connected to the first connection point of the first circuit branch. At least one first electrical storage provides a DC output voltage and is electrically connected in parallel to the first circuit branch. At least one controllable bidirectional switch is electrically connected between the two input terminals.
US12191776B2
An electrical system can include an isolated bidirectional converter (having an input couplable to a grid connection and an output couplable to a battery) and an isolated converter (having an input coupled to the input of the isolated bidirectional converter and couplable to the grid connection, with an AC output coupled to a convenience outlet). The electrical system can further include a controller that controls operation of the converters to operate in one of a plurality of modes including a charging mode in which the isolated bidirectional converter operates in a forward direction to charge the battery and the non-isolated converter powers the convenience outlet from the grid connection, and a non-charging mode in which the isolated bidirectional converter operates in a reverse direction to power the non-isolated converter from the battery and the non-isolated converter powers the convenience outlet.
US12191772B2
The present invention discloses a direct current power supply system for urban rail transit cascaded direct-hanging stations, belonging to the field of power electronic technologies. The power supply system includes a 110 kV high-voltage power grid, a 35 kV medium-voltage power grid, a cascaded H-bridge medium-voltage direct-hanging converter, a 650V-800V common direct current bus, a standby power supply and direct current electric loads. The cascaded H-bridge medium-voltage direct-hanging converter is formed by 3n modules in cascade, and each module is formed by an H-bridge converter and an isolated DC/DC converter connected in series. The present invention can replace an alternating current load power supply system based on a power frequency transformer, improve the efficiency and power density of the load power supply system of a subway station, reduce the no-load loss and extra cost introduced by the power frequency transformer, and achieve the purposes of energy saving, emission reduction and cost saving.
US12191767B2
A feedback loop circuit of a voltage regulator includes a loadline and a compensation circuit. The loadline generates a feedback signal according to a sensed current signal that provides information of an inductor current of the voltage regulator, and outputs the feedback signal to a controller circuit of the voltage regulator for regulating an output voltage of the voltage regulator. The compensation circuit generates a compensation signal to compensate for a deviation of the output voltage, wherein the feedback signal generated from the loadline is affected by the compensation signal.
US12191761B2
A signal output circuit including a first transistor coupled to a power supply line to receive a power supply voltage, a diode provided between the power supply line and a gate electrode of the first transistor, and a current generation circuit provided on a ground side with respect to the diode, the current generation circuit being configured to generate a current for the diode, upon turning on of the first transistor, and to increase the current, upon the power supply voltage dropping below a predetermined level.
US12191760B2
A pulse width modulation (PWM) system includes a PWM circuit and a controller. The PWM circuit includes a counter, a period register, and a duty cycle register. The controller is coupled to the PWM circuit. The controller is configured to calculate a period value and a duty cycle value. The controller is also configured to load the duty cycle value into the duty cycle register responsive to a count value of the counter being equal to a value of the duty cycle register and the duty cycle value being less than the period value.
US12191755B2
A dynamic scaling circuit includes: a damping control circuit; a sampling circuit; and a controller. The damping control circuit has a first input, a second input, a third input, an output, and a ground terminal. The sampling circuit has a first input, a second input, an output, and a ground terminal. The first input of the sampling circuit is coupled to the output of the damping control circuit. The controller has an input, a first output, a second output, and a third output. The first output of the controller is coupled to the second input of the damping control circuit. The second output of the controller is coupled to the third input of the damping control circuit. The third output of the controller is coupled to the second input of the sampling circuit.
US12191753B2
A DC-DC converter that converts a DC input voltage supplied from a DC power supply and that outputs a DC voltage with a different potential is shown. The DC-DC converter includes the following. A control circuit controls a switching element in accordance with a potential difference between a feedback voltage proportional to an output voltage and a predetermined reference voltage. A current supply circuit that causes a predetermined current to flow. A voltage correction circuit that corrects the reference voltage or the feedback voltage. The voltage correction circuit is configured to determine a voltage correction amount, based on information about a resistance on a load side input from outside when a current of the current supply circuit is output, and correct the reference voltage or the feedback voltage.
US12191751B2
An electric motor (1), in particular, an external rotor motor, has a stator (10) with a stator core (11), a non-rotatably attached shaft (20), that extends in the axial direction (A) of the motor, and a rotor bell (30), rotatably arranged relative to the non-rotatable shaft (20). The rotor bell (30) has cooling ribs in an open, spoke-like design rotatably mounted on the shaft (20) by at least one first stator-side bearing shield (31). A cooling device (40) is arranged between and connects the shaft (20) and the stator core (11). The cooling device (40) has a plurality of axial flow openings (41) arranged in the circumferential direction that causes cooling when the motor rotates during operation.
US12191747B1
An assembly for generating electricity includes a circular track configured to rotate about a first axis of rotation, the circular track comprising a first magnet having a face that is at an angle with respect to the first axis of rotation, a second magnet positioned at a center of the circular track, wherein a face of the second magnet is an opposite polarity to the face of the first magnet such that the second magnet repels the first magnet to rotate the circular track, and a device for converting rotational motion from the circular track into electricity.
US12191746B2
The present disclosure discloses a split type motor, including an air channel and an armature module, wherein the armature module includes a housing, a stator assembly, a rotor assembly, and a printed circuit board (PCB); the housing is cylindrical; the rotor assembly includes a rotating shaft, a magnetic ring, a first bearing, and a second bearing; the housing is provided with a first bearing chamber and a second bearing chamber; an elastic component is arranged between the first bearing and the magnetic ring; the air channel includes an inner ring and an outer ring concentrically arranged; the inner ring encloses and forms a circular through cavity matched with the housing; a ventilation cavity is formed between the inner ring and the outer ring; and several flow guide plates are arranged in the ventilation cavity.
US12191744B2
A method for manufacturing a motor lead cable includes the steps of forming one or more motor leads and placing external armor around the one or motor leads. The step of forming each of the one or more motor leads includes providing an insulated conductor, providing an open capillary tube that has opposing sides that have not been joined together, placing the insulated conductor inside the unclosed capillary tube, approximating the sides of the unclosed capillary tube around the insulated conductor, and welding the sides of the capillary tube together to form a closed capillary tube around the insulated conductor.
US12191740B2
A drive device for an actuator for a brake device of a motor vehicle. The drive device has an electric machine having a rotor rotatably mounted in a housing and a stator fixed to the housing. A bearing shield is situated in the housing that has an axially extending sleeve-shaped bearing segment for the rotatable bearing of a drive shaft, which bears the rotor. The bearing shield has an axially extending sleeve-shaped retaining segment held with a frictional fit in a sleeve-shaped end segment of the housing and has a diameter that is greater than the diameter of the bearing segment. A radially extending annular disk-shaped floor segment of the bearing shield is between the retaining segment and the bearing segment. The retaining segment has a first axial partial segment connected to the floor segment, and a second partial segment connected to the first partial segment.
US12191736B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device includes a housing, a contact member attached to the housing, a plate displaceable with respect to the base, an elastic member supporting the plate with respect to the base. The base, the plate and the elastic member are arranged inside the housing. A magnetic gap is formed with the plate and the base. The plate connects with the contact member.
US12191711B2
The invention relates to a stator device (2) for an electric machine (1), comprising —a stator body (3), —a plurality of cooling channels (9a-9x) that are designed to cool the stator body (3) and extend along the stator body (3) in an axial direction, and —a cooling fluid connection device (7) that delimits a connection channel (12) axially outwards and in a radial manner, said connection channel extending in the circumferential direction, wherein the axial end of each cooling channel opens into the connection channel, and the connection channel extends radially inwards further than the cooling channels (9a-9x).
US12191708B2
Apparatus for use as a motor or generator, comprising: a first part; a second part movable relative to the first part and spaced from the first part by an air gap; and a plurality of spaced electromagnet elements (120) provided on the first part, each electromagnet element being operative to apply a magnetic field in the air gap in response to application of an electric current; wherein each electromagnet element comprises: a pole piece comprising: an outer section (124 A, 124B) defining an elongate air-gap facing surface (125 A) of area A1, perimeter P1, lateral width W1, and longitudinal length L1, wherein Li is greater than W1; and a coil-winding section of cross-sectional area A2, cross-sectional perimeter P2, lateral width W2, and longitudinal length L2; and an electrically conductive coil (128) wound around the coil-winding section of the pole piece; characterised in that P2 is less than P1 and in that W2 is substantially equal to L2.
US12191700B2
A device and a method for managing batteries of a vehicle are disclosed. The device may include: batteries arranged in a vehicle, a plurality of temperature sensors mounted at different locations of the batteries, and a controller that, when a failure occurs at an arbitrary temperature sensor among the plurality of temperature sensors, estimates a temperature value at the failed temperature sensor using big data, and controls discharge of the batteries based on the estimated temperature value.
US12191691B2
An auxiliary power case can include a frame; a panel coupled to the frame, where the panel defines at least a portion of a recess; a rechargeable battery disposed at least in part in the recess; and a power interface operatively coupled to the rechargeable battery.
US12191686B2
A system for modular dynamically adjustable capacity storage for a vehicle is provided. The system includes a battery pack including a plurality of battery cells, a negative terminal including a chassis ground connection, and a plurality of positive battery pack terminals. The negative terminal and the plurality of positive battery pack terminals are useful for connecting at least one electrical circuit through the battery pack. The system further includes a battery cell switching system, including a plurality of solid-state switches connected to each of the battery cells. The plurality of solid-state switches is operable to selectively connect a portion of the battery cells in parallel, selectively connect the portion of the battery cells in series, and selectively connect one of the plurality of battery cells to one of the plurality of positive battery pack terminals.
US12191677B2
An apparatus for wireless power reception includes a receiver coil and a rectifier having a first input and a second input, the first input coupled to a first terminal of a receiver coil, the second input coupled to a second terminal of the receiver coil through a resonant capacitor. The apparatus further includes a first capacitor and a first switch network connected in series between the first input and ground and a second capacitor and a second switch network connected in series between the second input and ground, each of the first switch network and the second switch network including at least a plurality of field-effect transistors (FETs) connected in parallel, wherein the first switch network and the second switch network configured to adjust an impedance coupled to the receiver coil, the impedance associated with an Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK) modulation used by the apparatus.
US12191675B2
A device including a visual or audible signaling means and a motion sensor, and logic for activating or controlling the signaling means in response to a sensed motion according to an embedded logic is disclosed. The device may be used as a toy for amusement, and may be shaped like a play ball or as a handheld unit. The device may be powered from a battery, which may be charged from an AC power directly or contactless by using induction or by converting electrical energy from harvested kinetic energy. The embedded logic may activate or control the signaling means, predictably or randomly, in response to the sensed acceleration magnitude or direction, such as sensing the crossing a preset threshold or sensing the peak value. The visual means may be a numeric display for displaying a value associated with the count of the number of times the threshold has been exceeded or the peak magnitude of the acceleration sensed.
US12191653B2
A temporary power delivery system includes a power source, a booth stringer, and a portable GFCI device. The GFCI device is receives current from the power source by a first terminal and delivers current to the booth stringer by a second terminal. An electronic processor of the GFCI device compares a combined magnitude of current flowing through first and second phase conductors of the GFCI device to a magnitude of current flowing through a neutral conductor of the GFCI. The electronic processor also compares a first voltage between the first phase conductor and neutral conductor to a second voltage between the second phase conductor and neutral conductor. A circuit breaker of the GFCI device is opened if a difference between the combined magnitude of phase conductor current and neutral conductor current exceeds a first threshold or a difference between the first voltage and second voltage exceeds a second threshold.
US12191643B2
Provided are a joining structure, a joining method, an exterior body for a wire harness, and a wire harness capable of firmly joining members having different physical properties while reducing the thickness of a joint part. The joining structure 10 joins a first member 1 made of a first resin and a second member 2 made of a second resin, wherein: the second resin has physical properties having a higher foaming ratio than the first resin; and a recessed joint part 3 is provided which reaches at least the inside of the first member 1 from the outer surface side of the second member in a state in which the first member 1 and the second member 2 are superimposed. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing the joining structure 10 comprises the steps of: superimposing a first member 1 made of a first resin and a second member 2 made of a second resin having physical properties having a higher foaming ratio than the first resin; and joining the first member 1 and the second member 2 by forming the recessed joint part 3 by pressing and hot-melting the second member 2 until the recessed joint part 3 reaches at least the inside of the first member 1 from the outer surface side of the second member 2.
US12191642B2
A dry joint for jointing a cable with a wet or semi-wet/semi-dry design to a cable with a wet, semi-wet/semi-dry or dry design and a method of manufacturing a cable dry joint are provided. A cable with a wet or semi-wet/semi-dry design having an end of cable water barrier is also provided. A dry joint water barrier suitable for rendering a joint dry is also provided, where at least one of the jointed cables is of a wet or semi-wet/semi-dry design.
US12191638B2
A prechamber spark plug. The prechamber spark plug includes a housing having an external thread with a start of thread, a central electrode and a ground electrode, the central electrode and the ground electrode being arranged in a prechamber, and a cap that closes the prechamber in the direction of a combustion chamber, through-holes for a connection between the prechamber and an outer side of the prechamber spark plug being configured in the housing.
US12191626B1
Horizontal Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (HCSELs) with angled facets may be fabricated by a chemical or physical etching process, and the epitaxially grown semiconductor device layers may be transferred through a selective etch and release process from their original epitaxial substrate to a carrier wafer.
US12191624B2
A cooling system for a laser includes: a laser, a housing of the laser having a water inlet and a water outlet; an air cooling mechanism including a first pipeline, an air cooling module, a cooling liquid tank, and a water pump; wherein the air cooling module, the cooling liquid tank, and the water pump are sequentially connected through the first pipeline, both ends of the first pipeline is connected to the water inlet and the water outlet, respectively; the water pump is closer to the water inlet; a water cooling mechanism including a second pipeline and a water chiller in communication with the second pipeline, both ends of the second pipeline being connected to the water inlet and the water outlet, respectively; and a solenoid valve with one inlet and two outlets arranged at a junction of the water outlet, the first pipeline, and the second pipeline.
US12191618B2
An electrical assembly includes a metallic component having a bottom portion that is buried in the earth, a top portion that is above the earth, and an outer surface. A water-impermeable electrically-conductive covering is applied to the outer surface at the bottom portion and is in electrical contact with the earth. The covering includes a water-impermeable polymeric matrix that protects the metallic component from corrosion, and a particulate carbonaceous material that is dispersed in the polymeric matrix and that allows for the metallic component to be electrically grounded.
US12191615B2
An electrical apparatus includes first and second welded members that are welded together. The first welded member has a first metal part and a first resin part covering part of the first metal part. The second welded member has a second metal part and a second resin part covering part of the second metal part. The first metal part has a first standing terminal portion exposed from the first resin part and standing in a standing direction. The second metal part has a second standing terminal portion exposed from the second resin part and standing in the standing direction. The first and second standing terminal portions are welded to each other so that a weld is formed therebetween. The first and second resin parts partially overlap each other in the standing direction. The weld is within a projection region of the first and second resin parts in the standing direction.
US12191614B2
A header power connector includes a header housing assembly including an outer housing having cavities that receive corresponding inner housings, which hold terminals for electrically connecting upper and lower busbars. The inner housings are movable relative to the outer housing to accommodate misalignment of the corresponding upper and lower busbars. The terminals are movable in the terminal channels of the inner housings to accommodate misalignment of the corresponding upper and lower busbars.
US12191613B2
An information handling system includes a plug-in connector interface and an accelerator module installed into the plug-in connector interface. The plug-in connector interface is located at a location on a printed circuit board of the information handling system. The information handling system instantiates a workload on a processor, and allocates a processing resource of the accelerator module to the workload based upon the plug-in connector interface being located at the location.
US12191607B2
An electric connector assembly includes an insulating housing, a plurality of rows of contact terminals disposed in the insulating housing and including a plurality of signal terminals and a plurality of ground terminals, and a conductive shell assembled on the insulating housing. The conductive shell contacts and is connected with the ground terminals to electrically connect the ground terminals together.
US12191602B2
A quick release device for releasing an electrical modular connector comprises a connector boot attached to the network cable and assembled with the electrical modular connector; a passage formed on a top side of the connector boot, wherein the passage comprises first, second, and third structures together with the top of the connector boot to enclose the passage as a tunnel; a slide insert having a first and a second ends opposed to the first end, wherein the slide insert is positioned through the passage, wherein the first end faces the electrical jack; and a rotatable hook having a free end and a pivot end configured to pivot on the first end of the slide insert along a longitudinal direction of the slide insert, wherein the free end of the rotatable hook engages with a clip and bias the clip to release the electrical modular connector from the electrical jack when the slide insert moves away from the electrical jack.
US12191599B2
A high current terminal assembly, including a terminal including a first end, a second end, and a radially outward facing surface, and a shroud at least partially surrounding the terminal, the shroud including a third end arranged proximate to the first end, a fourth end forming a first flange, and a first hole forming a radially inward facing surface, wherein the terminal is arranged in the first hole and the radially inward facing surface is operatively arranged to engage the radially outward facing surface.
US12191593B2
A jumper terminal belt structure (10) includes a metal stamping member (1) and a soft insulative body (2). The metal stamping member (1) includes multiple jumper terminals (11) and multiple connecting bridges (12) connected between the multiple jumper terminals (11). The soft insulative body (2) includes multiple insulative seats (21) covering an end of each jumper terminal (11) and multiple tying portion (22) connected between the multiple insulative seats (21). Each connecting bridge (12) and each tying portion (22) are separated from each other and arranged at intervals. Therefore, the jumper terminal belt structure (10) has an advantage of being easily cut and flat incisions.
US12191592B2
A connector body includes mating guide parts having mating recesses into which counterpart mating guide parts are inserted, the reinforcing bracket includes a body part attached to end wall parts of the mating guide parts, and a pair of left and right connection arms connected to both ends of the body part, the connection arms extending to the longitudinal center of the connector body and being attached to side wall parts of the mating guide parts, the connection arm includes a side plate part and a side wall upper cover part connected to an upper end of the side plate part, at least a part of the outside of the side plate part is covered with an outside part of the side wall part, and the side wall upper cover part is curved such that a tip faces the mating recess and covers at least a part of the upper surface of the inside part of the side wall part.
US12191582B2
An antenna device comprising a first antenna, a second antenna and a circuit board. The first antenna includes a first insulating layer, a first signal-feeding line and two first grounding lines. The first signal-feeding line is disposed on a first surface of the first insulating layer. The first grounding lines are disposed on a second surface of the first insulating layer. The second antenna includes a second insulating layer, a second signal-feeding line and two second grounding lines. The second signal-feeding line is disposed on a first surface of the second insulating layer. The second grounding lines are disposed on a second surface of the second insulating layer. The first insulating layer and the second insulating layer intersect at about 90 degrees. The first and second antennas are disposed on a first surface of the circuit board. The first axis and the second axis are adjacent and substantially parallel.
US12191576B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, an antenna structure disposed in an inner space of the housing and including a substrate having a first substrate surface and a second substrate surface facing a direction opposite the first substrate surface, and configured to have a first dielectric constant, a plurality of antenna elements disposed on the substrate at a designated interval and forming a directional beam in a direction toward which the first substrate surface faces, and at least one dielectric disposed on the first substrate surface and configured to have a second dielectric constant, and a wireless communication circuit disposed in the inner space and configured to at least one of transmit or receive a wireless signal in at least one frequency band through the plurality of antenna elements.
US12191570B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for radar calibration that utilizes external shielding structures to be constructed around the body frame of a system to manage external signature presence and block unwanted signal emissions and intrusions. The inventive structures can adapt to desired user requirements or to environmental change as needed. The variable shielding with isolating connectors to the body frame of the system allows for aerodynamic needs to be sustained due to the mesh design while also protecting against electromagnetic spectrum interference and electro-optical short wave and long wave infrared signature emissions. The shielding can also be formed to emit a known or desired radio frequency response based on geometric shapes in order to influence radar cross-section readings. Communication with external environment is completed through the use of the shielding as a series of antennas.
US12191563B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device may include a feeding unit configured to be provided with a feeding signal from a communication circuit of the electronic device, an antenna electrically connected to the feeding unit, a first electronic component disposed in the electronic device, a first mounting unit positioned in a first direction of the feeding unit and including a portion of the first electronic component, disposed near the antenna, a ground configured to provide a reference potential to the feeding unit, a first ground terminal and a second ground terminal, positioned on the first electronic component and included in a circuit configured to electrically connect the ground to the first electronic component, a first bead positioned between the second ground terminal and the first mounting unit, a first switch positioned at a side of the ground to electrically connect the ground to the first ground terminal or electrically connect the ground to the second ground terminal, and at least one processor configured to control an operation of the first switch.
US12191558B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device includes: a housing including a lateral member including a conductive member including an inner surface and an outer surface facing the inner surface, an antenna structure disposed in an inner space of the housing and including a substrate, and a plurality of antenna elements disposed at a first interval at the substrate, a plurality of through-holes penetrating the inner surface to at least a part of the outer surface and corresponding to the plurality of antenna elements, and a wireless communication circuit disposed in the inner space and configured to transmit or receive a radio signal in a specified frequency band through the antenna structure, wherein first opening portions of the plurality of through-holes formed in the inner surface are disposed at the first interval, and second opening portions of the plurality of through-holes formed in the outer surface are disposed at a second interval greater than the first interval.
US12191553B2
A transmission line includes a substrate including insulator layers, a mounting electrode on a front layer of the substrate, a signal conductor, a first ground conductor, a first connecting electrode that electrically connects the mounting electrode and the signal conductor and is between the signal conductor and the first ground conductor in a laminating direction, a first inter-layer connecting conductor that is electrically connected between the mounting electrode and the first connecting electrode and is bonded to the first connecting electrode, and a second inter-layer connecting conductor that is electrically connected between the signal conductor and the first connecting electrode, is bonded to the first connecting electrode, and does not overlap with the first inter-layer connecting conductor when viewed in the laminating direction. The first ground conductor does not overlap with at least a portion of the first connecting electrode when viewed in the laminating direction.
US12191548B2
A hybrid redox fuel cell system includes a hybrid redox fuel cell including an anode side through which a reductant is flowed and a cathode side through which liquid electrolyte is flowed, and a trickle bed reactor including a catalyst bed fluidly connected to the cathode side of the hybrid redox fuel cell. Furthermore, the liquid electrolyte includes a metal ion at a higher oxidation state and the metal ion at a lower oxidation state, and power is generated at the hybrid redox fuel cell by way of reducing the metal ion at the higher oxidation state to the lower oxidation state at the cathode side while oxidizing the reductant at the anode side.
US12191546B2
A flow battery comprising: a first tank having a variable internal volume and containing a first ionic solution having a first oxidation state, and wherein the first tank is substantially evacuated of any gas; a second tank having a variable internal volume and containing a second ionic solution having a second oxidation state that is different from the first oxidation state, and wherein the second tank is substantially evacuated of any gas; a reaction chamber operatively coupled with the first and second tanks such that the first ionic solution within the reaction chamber is separated from the second ionic solution by an ion exchange membrane; a first pump configured to pump the first ionic solution through the reaction chamber; and a second pump configured to pump the second ionic solution through the reaction chamber.
US12191540B2
Disclosed is a membrane humidifier for a fuel cell, which can prevent, without a separate gas filtering device, performance deterioration of a fuel cell due to harmful gases during a humidifying process. The humidifier comprises: a housing unit comprising a first fluid inlet, a first fluid outlet, a second fluid inlet, and a second fluid outlet, wherein the humidity of the first fluid introduced via the first fluid inlet is different from the humidity of the second fluid introduced via the second fluid inlet; at least one first cartridge installed inside the housing unit, the first cartridge having a plurality of hollow fiber membranes therein; and a gas filter provided in the first cartridge or between the inner circumferential surface of the housing unit and the first cartridge so as to capture harmful gases contained in the first or second fluid.
US12191536B2
A method for producing a bipolar plate strand comprises: providing a first and a second unipolar plate strand, the unipolar plate strands comprising a plurality of webs and a plurality of channels extending between two adjacent webs in each case, guiding the unipolar plate strands towards a rolling gap of a pair of rollers of a rolling device provided with rolling structures, local heating of one surface area of a surface of at least one of the unipolar plate strands, the surface area immediately before or upon entry of the unipolar plate strands into the rolling gap being heated to a joining temperature, and joining the unipolar plate strands at the at least one surface area to form a bipolar plate strand during transport of the unipolar plate strands through the rolling gap under the action of pressure.
US12191531B1
This disclosure provides an energy storage device, a welding method for an energy storage device, and an electricity-consumption device. The energy storage device includes an end cap, a housing, and a current collector arranged between the end cap and the housing. The current collector includes a main body and a welding portion, and the main body and the welding portion are integrally formed. The main body has a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface. The end cap is connected to the first surface of the main body, the housing is connected to the second surface of the main body, and the welding portion is connected to an outer peripheral side surface of the end cap, an outer peripheral side surface of the housing, and an outer peripheral side surface of the main body.
US12191529B2
A secondary battery includes a power generation element including a plurality of electrodes. The electrodes are stacked on each other in a stacking direction with a separator interposed therebetween. Each of the electrodes includes a current collector led out in a first direction intersecting the stacking direction. Each of a plurality of current collectors led out in the first direction includes an end part, and the end part includes a first bent part that is bent in a second direction intersecting the first direction. Each of a plurality of first bent parts overlaps and is in contact with an adjacent first bent part in the second direction. At least one of the first bent parts terminates at a middle point on an end face along the second direction of the power generation element.
US12191513B2
This application provides a battery module, including: a plurality of batteries, arranged sequentially along a thickness direction of the battery module; side plates, disposed on two opposite ends of the plurality of batteries in a width direction of the battery module; and a composite pad, disposed between two corresponding adjacent batteries along the thickness direction. The composite pad includes a cushion material sheet and a connecting strip disposed around the cushion material sheet. A first bulge is disposed on the connecting strip. A first via hole is disposed on each side plate. The first via hole corresponds to the first bulge. The first bulge is inserted into the first via hole so that the connecting strip is fixedly connected to the side plate.
US12191511B2
The disclosed technology relates to an electrical feedthrough for a battery cell. The electrical feedthrough may include a pin configured to form an external battery terminal, an insulator surrounding the pin and configured to electrically isolate the pin, a channel, and a serpentine tab electrically coupled to the pin at a first end. The serpentine tab is nested within the channel to minimize use of space within an enclosure of the battery cell thereby increasing energy capacity of the battery cell by eliminating the need to allot space within the enclosure to accommodate the tab.
US12191510B2
A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly; a case having a sealing portion surrounding the electrode assembly; and a lead electrically connected to the electrode assembly and extending in a first direction, wherein the lead includes a first region in contact with the electrode assembly and located inside the case; a second region exposed to an outside of the case; and a third region located between the first region and the second region and overlapping the sealing portion of the case, wherein the third region has a width greater than that of the first region and the second region in a second direction and has a thickness smaller than that of the first region and the second region in a third direction, and wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction, and the third direction is perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction.
US12191502B2
Described are aqueous rechargeable hydrogen batteries operating in the full pH range (e.g., pH: −1 to 15) with potential for electrical grid storage. The pH-universal hydrogen batteries operate with different redox chemistry on the cathodes and reversible hydrogen evolution/oxidation reactions (HER/HOR) on the anode. The reactions can be catalyzed by a highly active ruthenium-based electrocatalyst. The ruthenium-based catalysts exhibit comparable specific activity and superior long-term stability of HER/HOR to that of state-of-the-art Pt/C electrocatalyst in the full pH range. New chemistries for aqueous rechargeable hydrogen batteries are also provided.
US12191499B2
A rectangular secondary battery includes a rectangular casing that contains an electrode body, a sealing plate that seals an opening of the rectangular casing, a first positive electrode tab group that is composed of a plurality of positive electrode tabs, a positive electrode terminal that is attached to the sealing plate, a second positive electrode current collector that constitutes a positive electrode current collector member that is electrically connected to the first positive electrode tab group and the positive electrode terminal, and a second insulator. The second insulator includes a base portion that is disposed between the sealing plate and the second positive electrode current collector. The first positive electrode tab group is bent and connected to the second positive electrode current collector, the region being disposed along the sealing plate. A first wall portion is disposed between the first positive electrode tab group and the rectangular casing.
US12191497B2
A rechargeable metal halide battery shows increased metal halide utilization with the introduction of electronegative heteroatom-enriched conductive additives into a metal halide cathode incorporated into an electrically conductive material. The electronegative heteroatom-enriched conductive additives include nitrogen-doped carbon, such as nitrogen-doped single layer graphene, and oxygen-enriched carbon, such as acid-treated carbon black. The modified batteries utilize 20-30% more metal halide than unmodified batteries resulting in enhanced specific capacity and energy density.
US12191490B2
The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery which is provided with a negative electrode mixture layer that exhibits excellent electrolyte absorbing properties. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one embodiment of the present disclosure is characterized by being provided with a negative electrode having a negative electrode collector and a negative electrode mixture layer that is provided on the surface of the negative electrode collector, and is also characterized in that: the negative electrode mixture layer contains graphite particles A and graphite particles B, which serve as a negative electrode active material, and a rubber binder which serves as a binding agent; the graphite particles A have an internal void fraction of 5% or less; the graphite particles B have an internal void fraction of from 8% to 20%; if the negative electrode mixture layer is divided into two halves in the thickness direction, the outer surface-side half contains more graphite particles A than the negative electrode collector-side half; and from 90% to 100% of the all rubber binder contained in the negative electrode mixture layer is contained in the negative electrode collector-side half.
US12191489B2
A negative active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a secondary particle in which a plurality of natural graphite primary particles are agglomerated, the plurality of primary particles including natural graphite, and the secondary particle including pores, and an amorphous carbon positioned in the pores, wherein an area of the amorphous carbon is about 10% to about 30% based on a total area of 100% of the negative active material, in a cross-section of the negative active material.
US12191488B2
A positive electrode active material includes a nickel-based lithium composite metal oxide having a Ni content of 80 atm % or greater among transition metals except lithium, and in the form of a single particle or pseudo-single particle. The nickel-based lithium composite metal oxide has a coating layer positioned on the surface thereof, wherein the coating layer contains cobalt. The positive electrode active material also satisfies [Equation 1] 1≤XY/Z≤3, wherein X is the molar number (mol %) of Co in the coating layer based on 100 moles of the nickel-based lithium composite metal oxide, Y is the average particle diameter (μm) of nodules of the nickel-based lithium composite metal oxide, and Z is D50 (μm) of the positive electrode active material, wherein Z is from 5 μm to 12 μm.
US12191485B2
The present invention relates to various lithium ion battery cathodes as well as lithium ion batteries incorporating one or more of these cathodes. The present invention further relates to processes of preparing the lithium ion battery cathode.
US12191480B2
A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery according to an embodiment contains: a first composite oxide component represented by general formula Liα[LixMnyCozMe(1−x−y−z)]O2 (in the formula, Me is at least one selected from among Ni Fe, Ti, Bi, Nb, W, Mo, and Ta, 0.5<α<0.85, 0.05
US12191478B2
The present application relates to an anode active material and a preparation method thereof, and a device using the anode active material. The anode active material provided by the present application includes anode active particles having silicon element, a first conductive material and a second conductive material, wherein the first conductive material and the second conductive material form a three-dimensional conductive network structure, at least a portion of the anode active particles are accommodated in the three-dimensional conductive network structure, and a ratio of the total surface area of the first conductive material to the total surface area of the anode active particles is less than 1000. The capacity retention rate and expansion ratio of the anode active material with progression of the cycle are significantly improved.
US12191472B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one aspect of the present application comprises: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; a heat-resistant layer that is formed on at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the heat-resistant layer includes heat-resistant particles, at least the surface of said heat-resistant particles comprising a metal compound, the average thickness of the heat-resistant layer is within the range 0.5 μm-5 μm, the porosity of the heat-resistant layer is 25%-55%, the average surface roughness (Ra) of the heat-resistant layer is 0.35 μm or less, and the electronegativity of metal ions of the metal compound is 13.5 or greater.
US12191461B2
The present application discloses a battery cell holder, a battery module, a battery, and an electrical apparatus. The battery cell holder includes: a holder body and an insulating member. The holder body is provided with at least one first channel in a first direction, and the insulating member is arranged on an outer surface of the holder body. The insulating member covers part or all of the outer surface, and the surface of the insulating member facing away from the holder body is capable of fixing a battery cell. By providing the holder body with the first channel, and fixing the battery cell to the holder body on the peripheral side of the first channel, after the battery cell radiates heat, the heat flows out through the first channel, so that the temperatures of the battery cell itself and the environment surrounding the battery cell can be reduced, thereby alleviating the battery safety problem caused by the accumulation of heat during the use of the battery.
US12191459B2
A secondary battery includes a positive electrode plate and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode active material including a core and a shell enveloping the core. A chemical formula of the core is Li1+xMn1−yAyP1−zRzO4, where the first coating layer includes a crystalline pyrophosphate LiaMP2O7 and/or Mb(P2O7)c, the second coating layer includes a crystalline phosphate XPO4, and the third coating layer is carbon. The non-aqueous electrolyte includes a first additive including one or more selected from a group consisting of compounds represented by formula 1 and compounds represented by formula 2.
US12191458B2
A protection method for a secondary battery includes evacuating the secondary battery through an injection opening of the secondary battery to within 100 kPa, introducing a first reactant into the secondary battery through the injection opening until a pressure of the secondary battery rises by more than 1 Pa and maintaining the pressure for more than 1 ms, evacuating the secondary battery through the injection opening to within 100 kPa, and introducing a second reactant into the secondary battery through the injection opening until the pressure rises by more than 1 Pa and maintaining the pressure for more than 1 ms, thereby forming a protection layer on an internal surface of the secondary battery.
US12191456B2
An apparatus and a method for inspecting a leak of a battery cell are provided. An apparatus for inspecting a battery cell leak to inspect whether a battery cell leaks includes: a vacuum chamber including an upper chamber and a lower chamber and configured to set a receiving space to a controlled pressure different from an external first pressure, the upper chamber and the lower chamber being arranged to face each other with the receiving space for a battery cell therebetween and providing sealing for the receiving space; a vacuum pipe valve fluidly connected to the receiving space for the battery cell to set the receiving space to a second pressure less than the first pressure; and a thickness measuring sensor configured to measure a before-vacuum thickness of the battery cell under the first pressure and measure an after-vacuum thickness of the battery cell under the second pressure. According to the present disclosure, an apparatus and a method for inspecting a battery cell leak, capable of easily and precisely capturing damage to an exterior material of a battery cell are provided.
US12191454B2
The all-solid-state secondary battery of the disclosure comprises a positive electrode collector layer, a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a negative electrode layer and a negative electrode collector layer stacked in that order, wherein the positive electrode layer has a positive electrode active material layer and an insulating layer disposed around the perimeter edges of the positive electrode active material layer, and when the all-solid-state secondary battery is viewed from the stacking direction, the outer edges of the positive electrode active material layer on the solid electrolyte layer side are further inward than the outer edges of the positive electrode active material layer on the positive electrode collector layer side, and the outer edges of the positive electrode collector layer are further inward than the outer edges of the positive electrode active material layer on the positive electrode collector layer side.
US12191442B2
This application relates to an electrochemical device and an electronic device including the same. In particular, this application provides an electrochemical device, including a cathode, an anode and an electrolytic solution, where the anode includes a carbon material and hydroxyalkyl methylcellulose, and the electrolytic solution includes propionate. The electrochemical device of this application has excellent cycle, storage and low-temperature performance.
US12191438B2
A method for producing a power storage device includes: compressively deforming in which case long-side walls of the power storage device after initial charging and aging but before permanent sealing are pressed toward an electrode body to compress the electrode body and further plastically deform at least one of the case long-side walls so that the case long-side walls continue to press the electrode body even after the pressing is released; after this compressively deforming, hermetically permanently sealing the case of the power storage device in which the inside of the case is in communication with the outside; and releasing the pressing applied in the compressively deforming.
US12191433B2
The present disclosure provides a display module, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display module includes: a display panel including a substrate; a chip on film connected to the display panel; a circuit board connected to the chip on film; and a first film layer attached to surfaces of the display panel and the circuit board facing away from the substrate and covering at least the chip on film and the circuit board.
US12191428B2
A lighting device disclosed in an embodiment of the invention includes: a lighting module emitting a first light and a second light; and a lens disposed on the lighting module to block light of a shorter wavelength among the first light and the second light and transmit light of a longer wavelength, wherein the lighting module includes: a substrate; a plurality of light emitting devices disposed on the substrate and emitting a first light; a resin layer covering the plurality of light emitting devices; and a phosphor layer disposed on the resin layer to convert the first light into second light, wherein the first and second light travel through the phosphor layer in the lens direction, and the second light may pass through the lens.
US12191425B2
A display device may include: a base layer including a plurality of islands, at least one first bridge configured to connect the islands in a first direction, and at least one second bridge configured to connect the islands in a second direction; and at least one pixel including a plurality of sub-pixels in the base layer. Each of the sub-pixels may include: a first electrode and a second electrode in one island of the islands and spaced from each other; a third electrode and a fourth electrode in one bridge of the at least one first bridge and the at least one second bridge and spaced from each other; at least one first light emitting element between the first electrode and the second electrode; and at least one second light emitting element between the third electrode and the fourth electrode.
US12191420B2
A nitride semiconductor light emitting element includes: n-side and p-side nitride semiconductor layers; and an active layer. The active layer includes a plurality of well layers and a plurality of barrier layers. The plurality of well layers include first well layers, and second well layers positioned closer to the p-side nitride semiconductor layer than the first well layers. At least one of the plurality of barrier layers positioned between the first well layers and at least one of the plurality of barrier layers positioned between the second well layers respectively include a first barrier layer containing an n-type impurity, and a second barrier layer, wherein a concentration of the n-type impurity in the second barrier layer is lower than a concentration of the n-type impurity in the first barrier layer, and wherein the second barrier layer is positioned closer to the p-side nitride semiconductor layer than the first barrier layer.
US12191418B2
The disclosure describes various aspects of monolithic integration of different light emitting structures on a same substrate. In an aspect, a device for light generation is described having a substrate with one or more buffer layers made a material that includes GaN. The device also includes light emitting structures, which are epitaxially grown on a same surface of a top buffer layer of the substrate, where each light emitting structure has an active area parallel to the surface and laterally terminated, and where the active area of different light emitting structures is configured to directly generate a different color of light. The device also includes a p-doped layer disposed over the active area of each light emitting structure and made of a p-doped material that includes GaN. The device may be part of a light field display and may be connected to a backplane of the light field display.
US12191415B2
Increasing the power conversion efficiency of silicon (Si) photovoltaics is a key enabler for continued reductions in the cost of solar electricity. Disclosed herein is a multi-junction photovoltaic cell that does not utilize a conventional interconnection layer and instead places a wide bandgap oxide conductor, for example, a metal oxide such as TiO2, between a top light absorption layer having a relatively large bandgap and a bottom light absorption layer having a relatively small bandgap. The advantageous omission of a conventional interconnection layer between the two subcells is enabled by low contact resistivity between the top and bottom light absorbing layers provided by the wide bandgap oxide conductor. The absence of the conventional interconnect between the subcells significantly reduces both optical losses and processing steps. The disclosed photovoltaic cell may thus enable low-cost, high-efficiency multi-junction devices through less complex manufacturing processes and lower material costs.
US12191410B2
Semiconductor devices comprising a semiconductor edge filter, a first light absorbing region overlying the semiconductor edge filter and a second light absorbing region underlying the semiconductor edge filter are disclosed. The semiconductor edge filter has a high reflectivity over a first wavelength range absorbed by the overlying light absorbing region and a high transmission over a second wavelength range absorbed by the underlying light absorbing region.
US12191408B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to the field of solar cells, and in particular to a solar cell and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell includes: a substrate having a front surface and a rear surface; a first tunnel layer and a first doped conductive layer sequentially formed over the front surface of the substrate, the first tunnel layer and the first doped conductive layer are each aligned with a metal pattern region on the front surface; and a second tunnel layer and a second doped conductive layer sequentially formed over the rear surface of the substrate, and in a respective Raman spectrum, a full width at half maximum corresponding to the first doped conductive layer is not greater than a full width at half maximum corresponding to the second doped conductive layer.
US12191407B2
Each solar cell 1 includes: a silicon substrate 2; a diffusion layer 3; a first collection electrode 4 contacting the diffusion layer 3; a first connection electrode 5 contacting the diffusion layer 3 and the first collection electrode 4; an insulation layer 7 having an opening portion extending therethrough; a second collection electrode 8 contacting the insulation layer 7 and connected to the single crystal silicon substrate 2 via the opening portion 70; and a second connection electrode 9 contacting the second collection electrode 8. The first connection electrode 5 and the second connection electrode 9 are separated from each other. The second collection electrode 8 and the single crystal silicon substrate 2 are separated from each other via the insulation layer 7 in almost all or all of an overlapping area of each two adjacent PERC solar cells 1.
US12191405B2
In a method for manufacturing a solar cell panel according to an embodiment of the present invention, a step of forming an electrode comprises the steps of: forming a main electrode part on a conductive region; and forming a connection electrode part on the main electrode part by using a paste comprising metal particles having a first metal, a solder material having a second metal different from the first metal, and an adhesive material.
US12191401B2
Present disclosure provides a method including: forming a semiconductor stack having at least one SiGe layer; forming a plurality of fins from the semiconductor stack by a first etching operation, each of the plurality of fins comprising a first portion and a second portion over the first portion, the first portion being separated from the second portion by a SiGe portion; forming a poly gate stripe orthogonally over the plurality of fins; forming a recess on each of the plurality of fins abutting the poly gate; recessing the SiGe portion by a second etching operation through the recess; forming a first spacer and a second spacer to surround the SiGe portion; and removing the SiGe portion.
US12191400B2
An oxide thin film transistor includes: a gate electrode, a metal oxide active layer and a source-drain metal layer, which are on a base substrate. The metal oxide active layer includes a first metal oxide layer and a second metal oxide layer stacked on the first metal oxide layer in a direction away from the base substrate; the first metal oxide layer is a carrier transport layer; the second metal oxide layer is a carrier isolation layer; an electron transfer rate of the carrier transport layer is greater than an electron transfer rate of the carrier isolation layer. The first metal oxide layer includes a primary surface facing toward the base substrate and a primary surface away from the base substrate; the first metal oxide layer further includes a lateral surface around the primary surfaces; the second metal oxide layer covers the lateral surface of the first metal oxide layer.
US12191395B2
Disclosed herein are dual gate trench shaped thin film transistors and related methods and devices. Exemplary thin film transistor structures include a non-planar semiconductor material layer having a first portion extending laterally over a first gate dielectric layer, which is over a first gate electrode structure, and a second portion extending along a trench over the first gate dielectric layer, a second gate electrode structure at least partially within the trench, and a second gate dielectric layer between the second gate electrode structure and the first portion.
US12191394B2
A strained vertical channel semiconductor device, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic apparatus including the same are provided. The method includes: providing a vertical channel layer on a substrate, wherein the vertical channel layer is held by a first supporting layer on a first side in a lateral direction, and is held by a second supporting layer on a second side opposite to the first side; replacing the first supporting layer with a first gate stack while the vertical channel layer is held by the second supporting layer; and replacing the second supporting layer with a second gate stack while the vertical channel layer is held by the first gate stack.
US12191381B2
A semiconductor device includes an IGBT region in which an IGBT element is formed and an FWD region in which an FWD element is formed. The IGBT region includes a first region and a second region different from the first region. The FWD region and the first region of the IGBT region have a carrier extraction portion that facilitates extraction of carriers injected from a second electrode compared to the second region when a forward bias for causing the FWD element to operate as a diode is applied between a first electrode and the second electrode.
US12191380B2
Methods for improving profiles of channel regions in semiconductor devices and semiconductor devices formed by the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes forming a semiconductor fin over a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor fin including germanium, a germanium concentration of a first portion of the semiconductor fin being greater than a germanium concentration of a second portion of the semiconductor fin, a first distance between the first portion and a major surface of the semiconductor substrate being less than a second distance between the second portion and the major surface of the semiconductor substrate; and trimming the semiconductor fin, the first portion of the semiconductor fin being trimmed at a greater rate than the second portion of the semiconductor fin.
US12191379B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin structure in which first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers are alternatively stacked, the first and second semiconductor layers having different material compositions; forming a sacrificial gate structure over the fin structure; forming a gate spacer on sidewalls of the sacrificial gate structure; etching a source/drain (S/D) region of the fin structure, which is not covered by the sacrificial gate structure and the gate spacer, thereby forming an S/D trench; laterally etching the first semiconductor layers through the S/D trench, thereby forming recesses; selectively depositing an insulating layer on surfaces of the first and second semiconductor layers exposed in the recesses and the S/D trench, but not on sidewalls of the gate spacer; and growing an S/D epitaxial feature in the S/D trench, thereby trapping air gaps in the recesses.
US12191378B2
A fin field effect transistor device structure includes a fin structure formed over a substrate. The structure also includes a liner layer and an isolation structure surrounding the fin structure. The structure also includes a gate dielectric layer formed over the fin structure and the isolation structure. The structure also includes a gate structure formed over the gate dielectric layer. The structure also includes source/drain epitaxial structures formed on opposite sides of the gate structure. The fin structure includes a protruding portion laterally extending over the liner layer.
US12191375B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a ferroelectric structure including a channel region and a source/drain region, a gate dielectric layer disposed over the channel region of the ferroelectric structure, a gate electrode disposed on the gate dielectric layer, and a source/drain contact disposed on the source/drain region of the ferroelectric structure. The ferroelectric structure includes gallium nitride, indium nitride, or indium gallium nitride. The ferroelectric structure is doped with a dopant.
US12191369B2
Multi-gate devices and methods for fabricating such are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes forming a semiconductor stack on a substrate, wherein the semiconductor stack includes a first semiconductor layers and a second semiconductor layers alternatively disposed, the first semiconductor layers and the second semiconductor layers being different in composition; patterning the semiconductor stack to form a semiconductor fin; forming a dielectric fin next to the semiconductor fin; forming a first gate stack on the semiconductor fin and the dielectric fin; etching to a portion of the semiconductor fin within a source/drain region, resulting in a source/drain recess; and epitaxially growing a source/drain feature in the source/drain recess, defining an airgap spanning between a sidewall of the source/drain feature and a sidewall of the dielectric fin.
US12191364B2
Present invention relates to a semiconductor device including a buried gate structure. A semiconductor device comprises a substrate; a first fluorine-containing layer over the substrate; a trench formed in the first fluorine-containing layer and extended into the substrate; a gate dielectric layer formed over the trench; a gate electrode formed over the gate dielectric layer and filling a portion of the trench; a second fluorine-containing layer formed over the gate electrode; and a fluorine-containing passivation layer between the gate dielectric layer and the gate electrode.
US12191363B2
Structures and methods that facilitate the formation of gate contacts for vertical transistors constructed with semiconductor pillars and spacer-like gates are disclosed. In a first embodiment, a gate contact rests on an extended gate region, a piece of a gate film, patterned at a side of a vertical transistor at the bottom of the gate. In a second embodiment, an extended gate region is patterned on top of one or more vertical transistors, resulting in a modified transistor structure. In a third embodiment, a gate contact rests on a top surface of a gate merged between two closely spaced vertical transistors. Optional methods and the resultant intermediate structures are included in the first two embodiments in order to overcome the related topography and ease the photolithography. The third embodiment includes alternatives for isolating the gate contact from the semiconductor pillars or for isolating the affected semiconductor pillars from the substrate.
US12191360B2
A method of forming a gate structure on a substrate with increased charge mobility. In some embodiments, the method may include depositing an amorphous carbon layer on a silicon carbide layer on the substrate to form a capping layer on the silicon carbide layer, annealing the silicon carbide layer at a temperature of greater than approximately 1800 degrees Celsius, forming a hard mask on the silicon carbide layer by patterning the amorphous carbon layer, etching a trench structure of the gate structure into the silicon carbide layer using the hard mask, removing the hard mask to expose the silicon carbide layer, depositing a silicon dioxide layer on the silicon carbide layer using an ALD process, performing at least one interface treatment on the silicon dioxide layer, depositing a gate oxide layer of the gate structure on the silicon dioxide layer, and depositing a gate material on the gate oxide layer.
US12191359B2
A process of forming a gate insulating film in a silicon carbide semiconductor device. The process includes performing a first stage of a nitriding heat treatment by a gas containing oxygen and nitrogen, followed by depositing an oxide film, and then performing a second stage of the nitriding heat treatment by a gas containing nitric oxide and nitrogen. The amount of nitrogen at the treatment starting point of the first stage of the nitriding heat treatment is greater than the amount of nitrogen at the treatment starting point of the second stage of the nitriding heat treatment. The amount of nitrogen at the treatment ending point of the second stage of the nitriding heat treatment is greater than the amount of nitrogen at the treatment ending point of the first stage of the nitriding heat treatment.
US12191353B2
A transistor can include a plurality of source regions and a plurality of drain regions arranged in an alternating manner, with each of the source regions and the drain regions being implemented as a first type active region, and a plurality of gate structures implemented relative to the source regions and the drain regions such that application of a voltage to each gate structure results in formation of a conductive channel between a respective pair of source and drain regions. The transistor can further include a body region configured to provide the respective conductive channel upon the application of the voltage to the corresponding gate structure, with the body region being implemented as a second type active region. The transistor can further include a recessed region defined by an end of each drain region and one or both of the gate structures adjacent to the drain region.
US12191346B1
An integrated passive device has a device core of a first metal material and defined by a first side and a second side. Conducting polymer layers are disposed on each of the first side and the second side, and a pattern of one or more direct recesses to the device core are defined in the conducting polymer layers. Bonding material layers are on at least selected areas of the device core that are generally coextensive with the pattern of one or more direct recesses in the conducting polymer layers. First conductive structures of a second metal material different from the first metal material extend from the first side and the second side of the device core. Each of the conductive structures are bonded to a respective one of the bonding material layers. An insulating dielectric encapsulates at least the device core and the conducting polymer layers.
US12191342B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a first terminal and a second terminal; and a conductor arranged on the substrate between the first terminal and the second terminal to constitute an inductor shaped for forming a first loop and a second loop. A first crossing of the conductor with itself is present between the first loop and the second loop. The first loop and the second loop define a first enclosed area and a second enclosed area, respectively. The first enclosed area is smaller than the second enclosed area.
US12191339B2
Disclosed are a light emitting diode and a method for manufacturing a light emitting diode. The light emitting diode includes a first-type layer, a light emitting layer, a second-type layer and an electrode layer; the first-type layer includes a first-type gallium nitride; the light emitting layer is located on the first-type layer; the light emitting layer includes a quantum point; the second-type layer is located on the light emitting layer; the second-type layer includes a second-type gallium nitride or an indium tin oxide; and the electrode layer is located on the second-type layer.
US12191335B2
An image sensor includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface which is opposite to the first portion, and a pixel isolation portion provided in the substrate and configured to isolate unit pixels from each other. The pixel isolation portion includes a first filling insulation pattern extending from the first surface toward the second surface and having an air gap region, the first filling insulation pattern including a first sidewall and a second sidewall which is opposite to the first sidewall, a conductive structure including a first portion on the first sidewall, a second portion on the second sidewall, and a connection portion connecting the first portion and the second portion, and an insulating liner provided between the first portion and the substrate and between the second portion and the substrate.
US12191334B2
A semiconductor device includes a pixel array comprising a first pixel and a second pixel. The semiconductor device includes a metal structure overlying a portion of a substrate between the first pixel and the second pixel. The semiconductor device includes a first barrier layer adjacent a sidewall of the metal structure. The semiconductor device includes a passivation layer adjacent a sidewall of the first barrier layer. The first barrier layer is between the passivation layer and the metal structure.
US12191330B2
An image sensor including a plurality of avalanche photodiodes formed inside and on top of a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type having a front side and a back side, wherein: trenches vertically extend in the substrate from its front side to its back side, the trenches having, in top view, the shape of a continuous grid laterally delimiting a plurality of substrate islands, each island defining a pixel including a single individually-controllable avalanche photodiode, and including a doped area of collection of an avalanche signal of the pixel photodiode the lateral walls of the trenches are coated with a first semiconductor layer having a conductivity type opposite to that of the collection area, and a conductive region extends in the trenches, the conductive region being in contact with the surface of the first semiconductor layer opposite to the substrate.
US12191326B2
A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a stacked photoelectric converter for each of pixels. The stacked photoelectric converter has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements stacked therein. The plurality of photoelectric conversion elements each has different wavelength selectivity. This solid-state imaging device further includes a plurality of data output lines from which pixel signals based on electric charges outputted from the photoelectric conversion elements are outputted. A plurality of data output lines is provided for each predetermined unit pixel column. The plurality of the data output lines is equal in number to an integer multiple of the photoelectric conversion elements stacked in the stacked photoelectric converter.
US12191322B2
Provided is a semiconductor device exemplified by an inverter circuit and a shift register circuit, which is characterized by a reduced number of transistors. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor. One of a source and a drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first wiring, and the other thereof is electrically connected to a second wiring. One of a source and a drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to the first wiring, a gate of the second transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor, and the other of the source and the drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to one electrode of the capacitor, while the other electrode of the capacitor is electrically connected to a third wiring. The first and second transistors have the same conductivity type.
US12191317B2
A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a substrate including a display area, the display area including a plurality of pixels configured to display an image and a pad area adjacent to the pad area and configured to transfer electrical signals. At least a portion of the pad area is bendable. The display device also includes an insulating layer formed over the substrate and including a bending groove in the pad area. The bending groove includes a sidewall. A plurality of peripheral wires is formed over the insulating layer, and a cutoff portion is connected to the sidewall and disposed between adjacent peripheral wires.
US12191313B2
A region containing a high proportion of crystal components and a region containing a high proportion of amorphous components are formed separately in one oxide semiconductor film. The region containing a high proportion of crystal components is formed so as to serve as a channel formation region and the other region is formed so as to contain a high proportion of amorphous components. It is preferable that an oxide semiconductor film in which a region containing a high proportion of crystal components and a region containing a high proportion of amorphous components are mixed in a self-aligned manner be formed. To separately form the regions which differ in crystallinity in the oxide semiconductor film, first, an oxide semiconductor film containing a high proportion of crystal components is formed and then process for performing amorphization on part of the oxide semiconductor film is conducted.
US12191310B2
A semiconductor structure is provided. A logic cell with a logic function includes a plurality of first transistors in an active region over a semiconductor substrate, a second transistor in the active region, a third transistor in the active region, and first and second isolation structures on opposite edges of the active region and extending along the first direction. Each first transistor includes a first gate electrode extending along the first direction. The second transistor includes a second gate electrode extending along the first direction. The third transistor includes a third gate electrode extending along the first direction. The first gate electrodes are disposed between the first and second isolation structures. The second gate electrode is disposed between the first gate electrodes and the first isolation structure. The third gate electrode is disposed between the first gate electrodes and the second isolation structure.
US12191306B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for forming an integrated chip. The method includes forming an epitaxial structure having a first doping type over a first portion of a semiconductor substrate. A second portion of the semiconductor substrate is formed over the epitaxial structure and the first portion of the semiconductor substrate. A first doped region having the first doping type is formed in the second portion of the semiconductor substrate and directly over the epitaxial structure. A second doped region having a second doping type opposite the first doping type is formed in the second portion of the semiconductor substrate, where the second doped region is formed on a side of the epitaxial structure. A plurality of fins of the semiconductor substrate are formed by selectively removing portions of the second portion of the semiconductor substrate.
US12191304B2
In a method of forming a FinFET, a first sacrificial layer is formed over a source/drain structure of a FinFET structure and an isolation insulating layer. The first sacrificial layer is recessed so that a remaining layer of the first sacrificial layer is formed on the isolation insulating layer and an upper portion of the source/drain structure is exposed. A second sacrificial layer is formed on the remaining layer and the exposed source/drain structure. The second sacrificial layer and the remaining layer are patterned, thereby forming an opening. A dielectric layer is formed in the opening. After the dielectric layer is formed, the patterned first and second sacrificial layers are removed to form a contact opening over the source/drain structure. A conductive layer is formed in the contact opening.
US12191299B2
The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, which includes a substrate, an active structure, and a shallow trench isolation. The active structure is disposed in the substrate and includes a first active area, a second active area disposed outside the first active area, and a third active area disposed outside the second active area. The shallow trench isolation is disposed in the substrate to surround the active structure. Through the second active area and the third active of the active structure, the structural stability of the semiconductor device may be enhanced to improve the stress around the semiconductor device, thereby preventing from structural collapse or deformation.
US12191298B2
Solid state lights (SSLs) including a back-to-back solid state emitters (SSEs) and associated methods are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, an SSL can include a carrier substrate having a first surface and a second surface different from the first surface. First and second through substrate interconnects (TSIs) can extend from the first surface of the carrier substrate to the second surface. The SSL can further include a first and a second SSE, each having a front side and a back side opposite the front side. The back side of the first SSE faces the first surface of the carrier substrate and the first SSE is electrically coupled to the first and second TSIs. The back side of the second SSE faces the second surface of the carrier substrate and the second SSE is electrically coupled to the first and second TSIs.
US12191295B1
An electronic assembly heterogeneously integrates radio-frequency (RF) transistor chiplets into a host wafer, and the chiplets have interconnections to host wafer circuits. The assembly has at least one RF transistor chiplet having a chiplet circuit including a high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) or a heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT). The host wafer has at least one host wafer circuit for the purpose of producing bias conditions that optimize performance of the HEMT or HBT. The host wafer circuit includes first circuitry to provide a DC bias of the HEMT or HBT; or second circuitry configured to sense radio-frequency operating conditions of the HEMT or HBT. The electrical interconnects are between the chiplet and the wafer, and electrically connect the host wafer circuit to the chiplet circuit.
US12191286B2
Some embodiments of the disclosure provide for a lighting system including a substrate. The lighting system includes several blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) supported by the substrate. The lighting system includes at least one red LED supported by the substrate. The lighting system includes a light conversion material covering the blue LEDs and the at least one red LED.
US12191276B2
The present invention provides a mounting apparatus, including a bonding stage holding a substrate on which a semiconductor chip is arranged; a base stand; a mounting head mounted with a pressing tool that presses the semiconductor chip on the substrate; and a film arranging mechanism provided on the base stand and moving a cover film along the bonding stage to arrange the cover film between the semiconductor chip pressed by the substrate and the pressing tool. The film arranging mechanism includes film guides guiding the cover film and defining a height with respect to the bonding stage; and lifting mechanisms connected to the film guides via springs and lifting and lowering the film guides with respect to the bonding stage.
US12191273B2
In one instance, a semiconductor package includes a metal leadframe having a first plurality of openings extending partially into the leadframe from the first side and a second plurality of openings extending partially into the leadframe from the second side together forming a plurality of leads. A pre-mold compound is positioned in the second plurality of openings that at least partially supports the plurality of leads. The semiconductor package has a plurality of bumps extending from the landing sites to a semiconductor die and a molding compounding at least partially covering the plurality of bumps and the metal leadframe. Other packages and methods are disclosed.
US12191269B2
A three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes a first semiconductor structure and a second semiconductor structure. A first semiconductor structure includes a first substrate, and a memory array structure disposed on the first substrate. The second semiconductor structure is disposed over the first semiconductor structure, and the second semiconductor structure includes a second substrate, and a peripheral device in contact with the second substrate. The second substrate is formed between the peripheral device and the first semiconductor structure.
US12191268B1
Expansion compensating structures are formed in redistribution layers of a wafer-level chip-scale integrated circuit package (WLCSP) or other IC package having a low-expansion substrate. The structures include micromechanical actuators designed and oriented to move solder bumps attached to them in the same direction and distance as a function of temperature as do pads to which they may be connected on a higher-expansion substrate such as a printed circuit board. Expansion compensated IC packages incorporating these expansion compensating structures are provided, as well as expansion compensated assemblies containing one or more of these IC packages. Methods of fabricating expansion compensated IC packages requiring minimal changes to existing commercial WLCSP fabrication processes are also provided. These devices and methods result in assemblies having improved board-level reliability during thermal cycling, and allow the use of larger IC die sizes in WLCSP technology.
US12191254B2
An electronic device comprises a stack comprising tiers of alternating conductive structures and insulative structures overlying a source tier, and strings of memory cells extending vertically through the stack. The strings of memory cells individually comprise a channel material extending vertically through the stack. The electronic device comprises an additional stack overlying the stack and comprising tiers of alternating additional conductive structures and additional insulative structures, and pillars extending through the additional stack and overlying the strings of memory cells. Each of the pillars is horizontally offset in a first horizontal direction and in a second horizontal direction transverse to the first horizontal direction from a center of a corresponding string of memory cells. The electronic device comprises conductive lines overlying the pillars, and interconnect structures directly contacting the pillars and the conductive lines. Related electronic devices, systems, and methods are also described.
US12191253B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a fuse element, and a fuse medium. The fuse element is disposed within the substrate. The fuse medium surrounds a lateral surface of the fuse element.
