US12212476B2

This disclosure generally relate to a method and system for network policy simulation in a distributed computing system. The present technology relates techniques that enable simulation of a new network policy with regard to its effects on the network data flow. By enabling a simulation data flow that is parallel and independent from the regular data flow, the present technology can provide optimized network security management with improved efficiency.
US12212472B2

A method of adaptively adjusting infrastructure of an enterprise mobile network may comprise inputting into a neural network performance metrics and performance requirements describing a performance gap between processing capabilities and requirements at an enterprise mobile network comprising a Multi-Access Edge Computing platform, Radio Access Networks, cellular network cores, and non-cellular access points, connectivity metrics and requirements describing a connectivity gap between measured and required minimum Quality of Service values for wireless links between a pool of user equipment devices (UEs), and the enterprise mobile network, outputting an adjusted infrastructure component configuration and an adjusted internetwork connectivity configuration predicted to minimize the performance gap and the connectivity gap, adjusting a distribution of computing resources across the enterprise mobile network, according to the adjusted infrastructure component configuration, and adjusting a distribution of communication traffic across the pool of UEs, and the enterprise mobile network, according to the adjusted internetwork connectivity configuration.
US12212462B2

A computer-implemented method (200) of managing a telecommunications network (110), the telecommunication network comprising a network orchestrator (120), a plurality of network nodes (150) and a network ledger (140) for electronically storing data, the method comprising the steps of: the network orchestrator generating an instruction for reconfiguring at least one of the plurality of nodes (210); in response to generating said instruction, requesting and retrieving first status information from the at least one of the plurality of nodes (240); recording the instruction and the first status information to the network ledger (240)); communicating the instruction to the at least one of the plurality of nodes thereby to effect the instructed reconfiguration (230); in response to effecting the instructed reconfiguration, requesting and retrieving second status information from the at least one of the plurality of nodes; and recording said second status information in the network ledger (280).
US12212457B2

Embodiments relate to e.g. a method performed by an orchestration node for managing network interfaces. The orchestration node sends to a function manager, trunk-port specific information of a trunk port to enable the function manager to unambiguously orchestrate trunk ports.
US12212455B2

Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. For example, systems and methods are disclosed for selectively disabling and/or otherwise configuring devices to avoid interference, overlapping service, and/or the like. Signal information for nearby devices can be detected and analyzed to determine device configuration settings.
US12212451B2

In one embodiment, an issue analysis service obtains telemetry data from a plurality of devices in a network across a plurality of time intervals. The service detects a failure event in which a device in the network is in a failure state. The service clusters the telemetry data obtained prior to the failure event into rounds according to time intervals in which the telemetry data was collected. Each round corresponds to a particular time interval. The service applies a machine learning-based classifier to each one of the rounds of clustered telemetry data to identify one or more common traits appearing in the telemetry data for each round. The service generates a trait change report indicating a change in the one or more common traits appearing in the telemetry data across the rounds leading up to the failure event.
US12212448B2

This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for increasing the transmit power of wireless communication devices operating on power spectral density (PSD)-limited wireless channels. Some implementations more specifically relate to tone mapping techniques and packet designs that support duplicate (or “DUP mode”) transmissions to multiple users. In some implementations, an access point (AP) may transmit a PPDU that includes first user data and second user data, where at least the first user data is transmitted in a DUP mode. As such, the first user data may be mapped to a number (N) of tones spanning a first RU in accordance with a dual carrier modulation (DCM) scheme, and a duplicate copy of the first user data may be mapped to N tones spanning a second RU in accordance with the DCM scheme. In some implementations, the second user data also may be transmitted in a DUP mode.
US12212445B2

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive first control signaling identifying a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern that may be uniformly distributed in a time domain and a frequency domain. The DMRS pattern may include a first set of resource elements for the DMRS, a second set of resource elements for guard tones adjacent to and greater in frequency than the first set of resource elements, and a third set of resource elements for guard tones adjacent to and lower in frequency than the first set of resource elements. The UE may receive second control signaling that schedules a data signal to be communicated between the UE and a network node in a set of time-frequency resources. The UE may communicate the data signal according to the second control signaling and the DMRS according to the DMRS pattern.
US12212444B2

A method and a device for transmitting an A-PPDU in a wireless LAN system are proposed. Specifically, a transmission STA generates an A-PPDU and transmits the A-PPDU to a reception STA. A first PPDU and a second PPDU are aggregated into the A-PPDU. The first PPDU includes an L-Header field, a first EDMG-Header field, and a first data field. The second PPDU includes a second EDMG-Header field and a second data field. Zero padding is inserted in the first data field on the basis of the minimum number of symbol blocks of the first PPDU.
US12212439B2

A method for predicting channel state information is described. The method includes determining whether or not geodesic prediction is to be performed and transmitting the determination of whether or not geodesic prediction is to be performed in a first part of uplink control signaling. In response to determining that geodesic prediction is not to be performed, the method includes transmitting a current channel estimate in a second part of uplink control signaling, and in response to determining that geodesic prediction is to be performed, the method includes transmitting either a determined current value of a tangent vector, or a determined step size parameter, or both the determined current value of the tangent vector and the determined step size parameter in the second part of uplink control signaling. Channel state information is predicted based on information provided in the first and second parts of uplink control signaling.
US12212437B2

Capability of a user equipment to support machine learning adaptation by a base station of a reference signal pattern is signaled between the base station and the user equipment. Configuration information from the base station indicates one or more of enabling or disabling of machine learning adaptation of the reference signal pattern, a machine learning model used for machine learning adaptation of the reference signal pattern, updated model parameters for the machine learning model, or whether model parameters received from the user equipment will be used for machine learning adaptation of the reference signal pattern. Model training may be performed or model parameters received, and reference signals are received from the base station. Information on a reference signal pattern may be transmitted by the user equipment to the serving base station. Assistance information may be transmitted by the user equipment to the base station, which configures a reference signal pattern.
US12212436B2

A computing device includes a plurality of baseband processing circuitries. Each baseband processing circuitry of the plurality of baseband processing circuitries is configured to process signals for reception or transmission using a communication standard of a corresponding plurality of communication standards. The computing device further includes an application processor coupled to the plurality of baseband processing circuitries. The application processor is configured to determine a bandwidth of an application executing on the application processor of the computing device, determine a plurality of latencies associated with each baseband processing circuitry of the plurality of baseband processing circuitries, and select a baseband processing circuitry of the plurality of baseband processing circuitries to process transmit or receive data of the application based on the bandwidth and the plurality of latencies.
US12212435B2

A mobile application gateway for connecting devices on a cellular network with individual networks, such as enterprise voice and data networks and/or residential networks. The effects of the present invention are far reaching in terms of transferring effective call control from the cellular network into the control of the individual network such as the enterprise, and enabling new business models for the purchase of cellular service from a public cellular carrier by an enterprise. The invention may consist of a primarily of core network and services components based on the IMS network architecture, and is backward compatible to support legacy systems in place in current telecom and data networks.
US12212425B2

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing a room preview within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide for virtual conferencing between plural participants within a first room of plural rooms, the plural rooms being included within a virtual space for virtual conferencing; and for each of the plural participants, provide a first audio channel associated with audio output of the first room, provide display of a room preview element within the first room, the room preview element corresponding to a live preview of a second room of the plural rooms, and provide a second audio channel associated with audio output of the second room.
US12212422B2

One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting, by a terminal, feedback on a signal from another terminal in a wireless communication system. The method for transmitting feedback information comprises the steps of: receiving signals transmitted by a plurality of terminals; and transmitting feedback information on each of at least parts of the received signals, wherein the feedback information is transmitted together with data of the terminal transmitting the feedback information, and the feedback information includes time information that allows the terminals that transmitted each of the parts of signals that are subject to the feedback to recognize that the feedback information is feedback on the signals transmitted by the same terminals. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, the BS or a network.
US12212417B2

Methods and apparatuses are described herein for selective one-shot hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback by priority level. For example, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may determine a priority associated with each transport block (TB). The each TB may correspond to respective HARQ processes associated with downlink transmissions from a base station (BS). The WTRU may receive, from the BS, a request for the one-shot HARQ feedback with an indication of a priority selected for the one-shot HARQ feedback. The WTRU may generate a HARQ codebook for transmission of the one-shot feedback. The HARQ codebook may comprise one or more information bits corresponding to one or more TBs determined based on the indicated priority. The WTRU may determine, based on a number of the one or more information bits, a transmission power and transmit, at the transmission power, the one-shot feedback comprising the generated HARQ codebook.
US12212409B2

A data transmission method, a data transmission device and a storage medium are provided. The data transmission method includes: obtaining a first parameter, in which the first parameter is used for indicating a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index; determining a transport block size (TBS) index according to a mapping relationship table of MCS indexes and TBS indexes, in which the mapping relationship table includes a first number of TBS indexes, and a number of TBS indexes with values smaller than a preset TBS index value in the first number of TBS indexes is less than a second number; and determining a TBS according to the determined TBS index.
US12212405B2

A transmitter management device includes: a reception unit that receives a virtual switch configuration request from an upper management system; a determination unit that determines a plurality of paths including transfer processing by different optical transmitters on the basis of the configuration request received by the reception unit; and a setting unit that performs a setting for a plurality of the optical transmitters in such a way that a virtual switch that executes transfer processing on the basis of the paths determined by the determination unit is configured for each one of a plurality of the paths.
US12212403B2

In some implementations, methods, systems, and apparatus, including machine-readable media storing executable instructions, are provided for switching radio frequency chains. For example, a gateway for a satellite communication system can include a first radiofrequency chain, a second radiofrequency chain, and a third radiofrequency chain configured to operate in a standby mode. The gateway includes radiofrequency switches configured to (i) switch between coupling the first radiofrequency chain and the third radiofrequency chain to a first antenna feed for the first channel, and (ii) switch between coupling the second radiofrequency chain and the third radiofrequency chain to a second antenna feed for the second channel. The gateway also includes a controller configured to monitor the status of the radiofrequency chains and, based on the monitored status, instruct the radiofrequency switches to switch between different connections of the radiofrequency chains with the antenna feeds.
US12212397B2

A method of operating a radio network element includes receiving user equipment (UE) capability information indicating panel combinations of a multi panel UE (MP-UE), each including at least one antenna panel from among a plurality of antenna panels of the MP-UE; receiving signal strength information corresponding to plurality of transmission reception points (TRPs); based on the signal strength information, determining a plurality of TRP sets corresponding to the plurality of panel combinations, respectively; and generating a plurality of control resource set (CORESET) configurations corresponding to the plurality of panel combinations, respectively, wherein, for each panel combination, the TRP set corresponding to the panel combination indicates at least one TRP from among the plurality of TRPs, and the CORESET configuration corresponding to the panel combination defines one or more CORESETs to be used by the at least one TRP to provide downlink (DL) transmissions to the MP-UE via the panel combination.
US12212388B2

Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for wireless communication configured for estimating a channel using a set of predefined sensing beams to measure reference signals. Estimating the channel may include generating an N×N channel correlation matrix, where N is a number of antenna elements in the antenna array. The implementations further include generating a set of dynamic beam weights to maximize a reference signal received power (RSRP) based on the estimated channel. The set of dynamic beam weights may be based on an eigenvector of the channel correlation matrix. Additionally, the implementations further include applying the set of dynamic beam weights to an antenna array.
US12212386B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a monitoring signal associated with one or more antennas. The UE may identify, based at least in part on the monitoring signal, a blockage associated with the one or more antennas. The UE may perform a beam search using a decreased frequency of occurrence of tracking occasions for the one or more antennas based at least in part on the identification of the blockage associated with the one or more antennas. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12212379B2

An example system for reducing power loss in telecommunications cabling is provided. The system includes a power supply, at least one powered device, and a cabling system electrically and communicatively connecting the power supply to the at least one powered device. The cabling system includes a first positive polarity wire pair and a first negative polarity wire pair. The system includes a corrective circuit module connected to the cabling system. The corrective circuit module includes a second positive polarity wire pair, a second negative polarity wire pair, wiring connecting the first positive polarity wire pair with the second positive polarity wire pair, and wiring connecting the first negative polarity wire pair with the second negative polarity wire pair.
US12212376B2

A method for determining cause of a disconnection between a computing device of a motion tracking system and one or more sensors of the system, the sensors arranged on a person's body, the computing device configured to at least receive data through a wireless communications connection. Each sensor is configured to at least transmit data through the connection. The method includes measuring a signal strength of the connection with each sensor while the communications are established; processing signal strength values corresponding to a sensor when it has been disconnected from the computing device to determine if the sensor has been disconnected due to a distance increase between the person and computing device; and providing or commanding the provision of at least one user perceptible signal when the computing device has determined that at least one sensor has been disconnected due to a distance increase between the person and computing device.
US12212368B2

An optical wireless apparatus that is implemented for transmitting an optical wireless signal via an optical wireless channel includes: an electronic signal source that is configured to provide a data signal and an optical signal source that is configured to convert the data signal into the optical wireless and to emit the same. The optical wireless apparatus is configured to obtain channel information including information associated with a non-linear channel distortion of the optical wireless signal and to perform adaptation of a modulation of the optical signal source by changing an operating state of the electronic signal source for adapting the non-linear channel distortion and/or to perform adaptation of an operating point of the optical signal source for adapting the non-linear channel distortion.
US12212366B2

FSO systems rely on line-of-sight, and thus can be easily impaired due to disruptions such as atmospheric turbulence. There is a need for a more robust communication system allowing longer distances to be bridged and/or downtime to be reduced. An optical transmitter is provided generating at least one optical alignment beam. The transmitter comprises at least one alignment modulator, to modulate the alignment beam with transmitter directional data. A suitable receiver may demodulate this information and use the directional data from the transmitter to simplify the attainment and/or maintenance of a sufficient degree of alignment. Additionally or alternatively, the at least one alignment beam may be used to detect, characterize and/or monitor one or more environmental parameters.
US12212362B2

An apparatus having input and output ports using a plurality of optical connector adapters, wherein the fiber connections can follow a specific mesh pattern has a plurality of fibers inside the apparatus. The fibers pass through at least one mandrel and are designed to produce a leakage in the transmitted light from each fiber of least −30 dBm, wherein the fiber buffer of fibers around the mandrel are partially stripped in at least one section. The apparatus also has an imaging system consisting of at least a lens, camera sensor and an optical filter are placed in proximity to the fiber striped section wherein the optical filter has spectral properties tuned or partially tuned to the operational wavelength of the network and the optical filter is placed in the light path before the camera sensor.
US12212359B2

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for applying digital pre-distortion with frequency selectivity to a transmission signal. An example technique includes determining one or more target parameters of an input signal, the one or more target parameters being based on frequency of the input signal. The technique also includes applying digital pre-distortion with frequency selectivity to the input signal according to the one or more target parameters of the input signal to generate a resulting signal. The technique further includes processing the resulting signal to generate an analog signal for transmission and transmitting the analog signal.
US12212355B2

The present invention envisages a biodegradable cover for a portable device. The cover comprising a top portion including a plurality of adjustable puzzle pieces, wherein said top portion is attached at back wall of said portable device. Each puzzle piece further comprises a square piece and at least one magnetic side piece attached to said square piece, wherein each of said magnetic side piece of first puzzle piece is connected to center of square piece to define length and width of different sizes of portable devices and an expandable portion comprising a right section and a left section, for extending said biodegradable cover along the portable device. The biodegradable cover further includes at least one corner portion to attach said top portion with corners of said portable device.
US12212350B2

Improved Radio Frequency (RF) performance by optimizing temperature may be provided. A plurality of heatmaps may be created associating a plurality of component heat characteristics, of a plurality of components of a device, with a plurality of pre-defined performance trade-off states. Next, a shortest path through the plurality of pre-defined performance trade-off states may be determined. The device may then be placed in successive ones of the plurality of pre-defined performance trade-off states according to the determined shortest path until a Transmit (TX) performance target is met.
US12212349B2

In one embodiment, an integrated circuit includes: a first radio frequency (RF) circuit configured to receive and process a first RF signal having a sub-gigahertz (GHz) frequency to output a first lower frequency signal and to transmit RF signals having the sub-GHz frequency; a second RF circuit configured to receive and process a second RF signal having a frequency of at least substantially 2.4 GHz to output a second lower frequency signal and to transmit RF signals at the at least substantially 2.4 GHz; shared analog circuitry coupled to the first RF circuit and the second RF circuit, the shared analog circuitry to receive at least one of the first RF signal or the second RF signal and output a digital output signal; and a digital circuit coupled to the shared analog circuit, the digital circuit to recover message information from the digital output signal.
US12212346B2

A ground station computing system for communicating with a satellite is provided, including a processor and associated memory storing instructions that cause the processor to execute a software-defined radio (SDR) program. The SDR program is configured to receive signals from a plurality of satellites and determine a doppler shift signature pattern of one of the satellites. The SDR program is further configured to detect, within the received signals from the plurality of satellites, packet preambles from the one of the plurality of satellites, based on correlations between portions of the received signals and the doppler shift signature pattern.
US12212341B2

A decoder for a receiver in a communication system includes an interface configured to receive encoded input data via a communication channel. The encoded input data includes forward error correction (FEC) codewords. A processor is configured to decode the FEC codewords using low density parity check (LDPC) codes defined by a parity check matrix. The parity check matrix is defined by both regular column partition (RCP) constraints and quasi-cyclic (QC) constraints. An output circuit is configured to output a decoded codeword based on the FEC codewords decoded by the processor.
US12212339B2

An error correction circuit, including an error correction code (ECC) encoder configured to generate parity data corresponding to main data based on a parity generation matrix, and to output a codeword including the main data and the parity data to a plurality of memory devices; and an ECC decoder configured to: read the codeword from the plurality of memory devices, generate a syndrome corresponding to the codeword based on a parity check matrix, detect an error pattern based on the syndrome, generate a plurality of estimation syndromes corresponding to the error pattern using a plurality of partial sub-matrices included in the parity check matrix, and correct an error included in the read codeword based on a result of a comparison between the syndrome and the plurality of estimation syndromes.
US12212335B2

An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuit, a comparator circuit, an encoder, and a compensation circuit. The DAC circuit receives a reference voltage and provides an output signal based on the reference voltage. The comparator circuit compares the output signal with an analog input signal and generates a comparison signal. A reset command is generated based on the output signal being greater than the analog input signal. The encoder splits a ripple associated with the reference voltage into multiple pulses in response to a reset command. The compensation circuit generates, responsive to the reset command, compensation pulses to compensate the multiple pulses.
US12212333B2

The application discloses a circuit, including: a positive-terminal p-type transistor; a negative-terminal p-type transistor; a positive-terminal n-type transistor, wherein the positive-terminal p-type transistor and the positive-terminal n-type transistor are cascoded between a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage; a negative-terminal n-type transistor, wherein the negative-terminal p-type transistor and the negative-terminal n-type transistor are cascoded between the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage; a first positive-terminal capacitor, a top plate of the first positive-terminal capacitor is coupled to a gate of the positive-terminal n-type transistor; a first negative-terminal capacitor, a top plate of the first negative-terminal capacitor is coupled to a gate of the negative-terminal n-type transistor; a first control circuit, arranged to generate a first control signal to bottom plates of the first positive-terminal capacitor and the first negative-terminal capacitor according to the positive-terminal output signal, the negative-terminal output signal and the target common mode voltage.
US12212328B2

Apparatus and methods for clock synchronization and frequency translation are provided herein. Clock synchronization and frequency translation integrated circuits (ICs) generate one or more output clock signals having a controlled timing relationship with respect to one or more reference signals. The teachings herein provide a number of improvements to clock synchronization and frequency translation ICs, including, but not limited to, reduction of system clock error, reduced variation in clock propagation delay, lower latency monitoring of reference signals, precision timing distribution and recovery, extrapolation of timing events for enhanced phase-locked loop (PLL) update rate, fast PLL locking, improved reference signal phase shift detection, enhanced phase offset detection between reference signals, and/or alignment to phase information lost in decimation.
US12212320B2

A level-shifter circuit receives one or more input signals in an input level domain and includes provides at an output node an output signal in an output level domain shifted with respect to the input level domain. The circuit includes output circuitry including a first drive node and a second drive node that receive first and second logical signals so that the output signal has a first output level or a second output level in the output level domain as a function of at least one of the first and second logical signals. The circuit includes first and second shift capacitors coupled to the first and second drive nodes as well as capacitor refresh circuitry.
US12212316B1

A system and method for a logic device is disclosed. A plurality of synthetic antoferromagnet (SAF) nanotracks including a first input nanotrack, a second input nanotrack and an output nanotrack are disposed over a substrate along a first axis. Output nanotrack is disposed between the input nanotracks. Each nanotrack have a first end and a second end. A SAF connector nanotrack connects the first input nanotrack, the second input nanotrack, and the output nanotrack. An input value is defined at a first end of the input nanotracks by selectively nucleating a SAF skyrmion at the first end. Presence of the skyrmion is indicative of a first value and absence of the skyrmion indictive of a second value. A charge current is passed along the first axis to move nucleated skyrmion to the second end of the output nanotrack. Skyrmion at the output indicates an output value of the first value.
US12212314B2

A system including circuitry to communicate data across an isolation barrier of a switch driver circuit. For switch driver circuits with galvanic isolation, the circuitry of this disclosure uses the unavoidable common mode voltages caused by the coupling capacitances of the data transfer circuit to evaluate the common mode voltage characteristics, such as the slew rate of a switching event. The switch driver circuit of this disclosure may include a common mode voltage detector to detect and measure features of the unavoidable common mode voltage during a switching event, such as voltage amplitude and slew rate. The common mode voltage detector may couple to a communication interface that provides the common mode voltage information to a controller for the switch driver circuit. In some examples, based on the received information, the controller may adjust the operation of the switching circuit.
US12212309B2

Switch modules, driver circuits for switch modules and corresponding methods are provided. In an implementation, a switch module includes a transistor switch including a control terminal, a first load terminal and a second load terminal, and a short circuit detection circuit configured to detect a short circuit state between the first load terminal and the second load terminal and to electrically couple the control terminal and the first load terminal in response to detecting the short circuit state. The short circuit detection circuit is supplied by a voltage between the control terminal and the first load terminal.
US12212307B2

An apparatus is disclosed for a reconfigurable filter. In example aspects, the apparatus includes a filter circuit that has a first filter port and a second filter port. The filter circuit includes a filter network, an acoustic resonator, and a switch circuit. The filter network includes one or more acoustic resonators coupled between the first filter port and the second filter port. The acoustic resonator is coupled to the filter network and coupled between the first filter port and the second filter port. The switch circuit is coupled between the acoustic resonator and the second filter port, and the switch circuit is configured to connect the acoustic resonator into a parallel acoustic resonator arrangement in a first state and connect the acoustic resonator into a serial acoustic resonator arrangement in a second state.
US12212302B2

A surface acoustic wave resonator device and method for manufacturing the same and filter, the surface acoustic wave resonator device includes: a piezoelectric substrate; an interdigital transducer, disposed on the piezoelectric substrate and comprising a first interdigital electrode structure and a second interdigital electrode structure, wherein each interdigital electrode structure comprises an interdigital electrode and an interdigital electrode lead-out part connected with each other; and a first temperature compensation layer, disposed on the piezoelectric substrate and comprising a body part and a protruding part, wherein the body part covers the interdigital transducer, the protruding part is protruded from the body part towards the piezoelectric substrate in a third direction perpendicular to a main surface of the piezoelectric substrate, and is surrounded by the piezoelectric substrate in a direction parallel to the main surface of the piezoelectric substrate.
US12212278B2

The present invention provides a transmission device applied to a photovoltaic tracking support. The photovoltaic tracking support comprises a stand column and a main beam. The main beam is rotatably supported on the stand column, and the main beam supports a photovoltaic assembly. The transmission device comprises a composite chain gear set and a composite chain wheel set. The composite chain gear set has multiple chain gears. The multiple chain gears are coaxially arranged and are arranged in a manner that the teeth are staggered. The composite chain wheel set has multiple chain wheels. The multiple chain wheels are coaxially arranged, and are in one-to-one correspondence to and meshing transmission with the multiple chain gears. One of the composite chain gear set and the composite chain wheel set is rotatably disposed on the stand column, and the other is connected to the main beam. The present invention also provides a photovoltaic tracking support comprising the transmission device. When the transmission device is applied to the photovoltaic tracking support, the shaking amplitude of the photovoltaic tracking support under the action of strong wind can be reduced, wear can be decreased, and the transmission device adapts to grease-free lubrication conditions.
US12212267B2

A motor controller comprises a switch circuit, a control circuit, and a function pin. The switch circuit is coupled to a motor for driving the motor. The control circuit generates a plurality of control signals to control the switch circuit. The function pin is coupled to the control circuit for receiving a function signal. The function signal is configured to inform the motor controller to execute a braking function. The braking function enables a braking time to be a variable value.
US12212259B2

The current document is directed to various types of oscillating resonant modules (“ORMs”), including linear-resonant vibration modules, that can be incorporated in a wide variety of appliances, devices, and systems to provide vibrational forces. The vibrational forces are produced ley back-and-forth oscillation of a weight or member along a path, generally a segment of a space curve. A controller controls each of one or more ORMs to produce driving oscillations according to a control curve or control pattern for the ORM that specifies the frequency of the driving oscillations with respect to time. The driving oscillations, in turn, elicit a desired vibration response in the device, appliance, or system in which the one or more ORMs are included. The desired vibration response is achieved by selecting and scaling control patterns in view of known resonance frequencies of the device, appliance, or system.
US12212258B2

To provide a controller for rotary electric machine and an electric power steering apparatus which can increases decreases an increase amount of the current of d-axis in the negative direction appropriately, and can perform the weakening magnetic flux appropriately, irrespective of increase and decrease in the rotational angle speed, without using the information on the inductance and the interlinkage flux of the rotor. A controller for rotary electric machine, in a case where the current command value of q-axis is a positive value, changes the current command value of d-axis, based on a deviation between an offset q-axis current command value obtained by subtracting the q-axis offset value of the positive value from the current command value of q-axis, and the current detection value of q-axis.
US12212256B2

A method and a control apparatus for determining parameters for controlling an electric drive having an electric machine improve the start-up of the electric drive by applying a current indicator as a signal at three-phase winding connections of the electric machine, and measuring a d-component and a q-component of the stator voltage and of the stator current at the winding connections. In a first measurement step, a rotating current indicator is applied to the three-phase winding connections and the electric machine is oriented such that an exciter current in the q-axis assumes a minimum. In a second measurement step, when the rotor of the electric machine is stationary, a field winding of the electrical machine is short-circuited and a current indicator in form of a binary noise signal is applied to the winding connections. A stator impedance is then determined as a first control parameter.
US12212250B2

A control method of a three-phase multi-level inverter includes: determining a modulation ratio based on output of the three-phase multi-level inverter, where the modulation ratio indicates a ratio of an amplitude value of a sinusoidal modulation wave in pulse width modulation to an amplitude value of a carrier; generating, based on the modulation ratio and a modulation ratio threshold, a common-mode voltage regulation signal for regulating a common-mode voltage in phase voltages of the three-phase multi-level inverter; adding the common-mode voltage regulation signal and a differential-mode voltage regulation signal for regulating a differential-mode voltage in the phase voltages of the three-phase multi-level inverter to obtain a composite regulation signal, where the composite regulation signal is presented as a modulation wave for discontinuous pulse width modulation (DPWM); and generating, based on the composite regulation signal, drive signals for controlling switches of phases of the three-phase multi-level inverter.
US12212245B2

The voltage conversion circuit includes a first direct-current conversion circuit connected to an electric load, a secondary transformer coil connected to the first direct-current conversion circuit, and a primary transformer coil coupled to the secondary transformer coil. The primary transformer coil is configured to generate, based on an initial voltage inputted to the primary transformer coil, an electromagnetic field and couple the electromagnetic field to the secondary transformer coil. The secondary transformer coil is configured to generate an induced current by virtue of the electromagnetic field, generate a secondary output voltage based on the induced current, and transmit the secondary output voltage to the first direct-current conversion circuit. The first direct-current conversion circuit is configured to adjust, based on a predetermined demand voltage of the electric load, the secondary output voltage to obtain a target voltage.
US12212240B2

A method for actuating a DC-to-DC converter, in particular a clocked buck-boost converter that includes at least two switch elements and an inductor or throttle and via which an input voltage is converted into a regulated output voltage, wherein the switch elements are actuated with a variable switch frequency using pulse- and frequency-modulated control signals, where the pulse- and frequency-modulated control signals are derived from a manipulated variable from a regulator, a voltage curve on the switch elements is continuously ascertained or monitored to determine the activation time of the switch elements and to start a new switch cycle, the switch elements are activated if a specified minimum period duration has been exceeded upon detecting a voltage minimum of the ascertained voltage curve on the switch elements.
US12212235B2

A control circuit operates to control a switching stage of an electronic converter. The control circuit includes: first terminals providing drive signals to electronic switches of the switching stage; a second terminal receiving from a feedback circuit a first feedback signal proportional to a converter output voltage; and a third terminal configured to receive from a current sensor a second feedback signal proportional to an inductor current. A driver circuit provides the drive signals as a function of a PWM signal generated by a generator circuit as a function of the first and second feedback signals, a reference voltage and a slope compensation signal. A mode selection signal is generated as a function of a comparison between the input voltage and the output voltage. A feed-forward compensation circuit is configured to source and/or sink a compensation current as a function of a variation in the mode selection signal.
US12212234B2

A controller for a switching regulator incorporates a protection circuit to limit the negative current to a negative current threshold while operating the switching regulator to sink current from the load without damage to the power switches. In some embodiments, in response to the negative current reaching the negative current threshold, the protection circuit turns off the low-side power switch and turns on the high-side power switch for a maximum time period. In the event the negative current has not recovered, the high-side power switch and the low-side power switch are both turned off while the high-side power switch conducts the negative current through the high-side power switch body diode. When the negative current recovers to a recovery level, the low-side power switch can then be turned on. The protection circuit repeats the process each time the negative current is detected to have reached the negative current threshold.
US12212230B2

Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for reducing leakage current in power converters, such as for HVAC systems, to facilitate compatibility with GFCI devices. In various embodiments, the power converter may include components to filter and/or reduce common mode noise, such as by removing high frequency components of the common mode noise, while maintaining leakage current below a trip threshold of a GFCI device.
US12212211B2

A centrifugal compressor includes a compressor impeller, a motor, an inverter, a housing including a motor chamber and an inverter chamber, a conductive member, an insertion hole, and a resin member sealing the insertion hole. A pressure in the motor chamber is higher than that in the inverter chamber. The resin member includes a first resin portion fixed to the housing and a second resin portion which is covered with the first resin portion and which covers the conductive member, the second resin portion having a Young's modulus smaller than that of the first resin portion. The first resin portion and the second resin portion, and the second resin portion and the conductive member are coupled by insert-molding.
US12212189B2

There are provided: a rotor including a rotating shaft and a rotor core; a stator including a stator core and stator windings; bearings; a casing fixed to the stator core and connected to the bearings, which houses the rotor and the stator; and an electrostatic shield connected to the casing. The electrostatic shield has a plurality of opening holes by which a space in which the stator is disposed is communicated with a space in which the rotor is disposed.
US12212185B2

An energy storage device for storing energy generated from operation of a work vehicle includes a ballast providing ballast weight to the work vehicle, a stator of an electric machine mounted on the work vehicle, a rotor of the electric machine fixed for rotation with the ballast, spaced from the stator by a gap, and configured for rotation relative to the stator such that the electric machine is configured to generate electrical current from rotation of the rotor and the ballast relative to the stator and to rotate the rotor and the ballast from electrical current received by the electric machine, and a gap modulator coupled to at least one of the stator and the rotor and configured to selectively adjust the gap between the rotor and the stator based on an operation of the electric machine.
US12212180B2

Provided are a method and system for charging a battery using a fuel cell. The method includes: running the fuel cell; setting a voltage input from the fuel cell as a preset first input adapting voltage (1st IAV), when the input power from the fuel cell is lower than the output power to the battery; detecting whether an output current to the battery reaches a first low detect current (1st LDC) while the battery is being charged based on the first input adapting voltage; and resetting the first input adapting voltage based on a detection result.
US12212179B2

A method for controlling a system including at least one battery having at least one energy storage cell and a power-tool, wherein the system includes at least one acceleration sensor for detecting at least one acceleration value in an X, Y or Z direction, a device for measuring a voltage and a device for discharging the at least one energy storage cell. A system including at least one battery having at least one energy storage cell and a power-tool.
US12212174B1

Recycling of an electrochemical energy storage device is provided. A remaining charge on the electrochemical energy storage device is determined. An impedance profile of the electrochemical energy storage device is determined for the remaining charge. The impedance profile includes an internal impedance of the electrochemical energy storage device at different charge levels from the remaining charge to a complete discharge. A variable discharge load is applied on the electrochemical energy storage device until the complete discharge. The variable discharge load varies with the internal impedance of the electrochemical energy storage device at the different charge levels.
US12212171B1

An integrated charging receptacle including a ring body having an inner ring wall and an outer ring wall, a groove between the inner ring wall and outer ring wall for securing a wire or cable and a USB receptacle having a receptacle jack. The USB receptacle is disposed on a portion of the ring body and faces outward from the outer wall of the ring body. The ring body may be secured around a cup holder mountable in a surface or around an instrument gauge in a surface. The ring body may be secured around a dashboard instrument. The integrated charging receptacle may include a second USB receptacle having a second receptacle jack. The USB receptacle may be powered through an electrical wire passing through a portion of the body groove. The integrated charging receptacle may include at least two additional USB receptacles. The ring body may be substantially translucent.
US12212170B2

A rechargeable battery assembly includes a rechargeable battery having a positive terminal and a negative terminal, and a rigid electrically conductive frame electrically connected to at least one of the positive terminal or the negative terminal of the rechargeable battery. The rigid electrically conductive frame is bent along multiple axes and includes a plurality of conductive frame members that are mechanically coupled together. The rigid electrically conductive frame surrounds the rechargeable battery on at least five sides, thereby providing structural stability to the rechargeable battery assembly during storage and use.
US12212163B2

In a control unit for a battery system, the control unit includes: an input node configured to receive a sensor signal indicating a state of at least one of a plurality of battery cells of the battery system; a first microcontroller configured to generate a first control signal based on the state of the at least one battery cell; a first communication interface configured to receive a second state signal indicating an operation state of a second microcontroller; and a switch control circuit configured to: receive the first control signal; generate a second control signal based on the state of the at least one battery cell; and transmit one of the first and second control signal to a power switch of the battery system based on at least one received state signal indicating an operation state of the first microcontroller and of an operation state of the second microcontroller.
US12212153B2

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for wireless power transmission and reception. A wireless power transmission apparatus may include a primary coil that transmits power to a corresponding secondary coil in a wireless power reception apparatus. The wireless power transmission apparatus may configure characteristics of the wireless power transmission based on a load setting of a wireless power reception apparatus. The wireless power transmission apparatus may take into account a coupling factor and power transfer characteristics of the wireless power reception apparatus in determining a configuration of the wireless power transmission from the wireless power transmission apparatus to the wireless power reception apparatus. In some implementations, a change in wireless power transmission may occur based on a corresponding change in the load. For example, the change in wireless power transmission and the corresponding change in the load may occur in relation to a synchronization event.
US12212148B2

A wireless connector includes: a first unit attached detachably from the outside of a first object; and a second unit attached detachably from the outside of a second object. The first unit includes a first housing to which a first transmission/reception part and a first connector part are secured, the first connector part being attached to the first object and transmitting a to-be-transmitted target between the first connector part and the first object. The second unit includes a second housing to which a second transmission/reception part and a second connector part are secured, the second connector part being attached to the second object and transmitting a to-be-transmitted target between the second connector part and the second object. The first transmission/reception part and the second transmission/reception part are arranged so as to be separated from each other and opposed to each other to wirelessly transmit the to-be-transmitted target.
US12212143B2

A communication terminal device 100 comprises a first power generator 101, a second power generator 102 whose power generation principle is different from the first power generator, a sensor 103 for sensing information, a first communication unit 104 for sending the information using electric power supplied from the first power generator, a second communication unit 105 for sending the information using electric power supplied from the second power generator, the second communication unit uses a communication scheme different from the first communication unit.
US12212141B2

A power conversion device inputs or outputs a power for changing a state quantity of a distribution grid to which a voltage source device is connected, to or from the distribution grid. A grid control unit calculates a power command value of the power conversion device such that a drooping characteristic is provided for compensating for a deviation from a control target of the state quantity obtained from an output of a detector. A frequency characteristic of control computation for calculating a power command value from the deviation in the system control unit is defined such that a first control gain value in a first frequency range including direct current is set corresponding to a slope of the drooping characteristic, and a second control gain value in a second frequency range including higher frequencies than the first frequency range is set to be lower than the first control gain value.
US12212135B2

Temporary outages or degradation of a resource, such as electric power, may be detected by identifying anomalies in waveform data collected by collection points. The collection points may be distributed throughout a resource distribution system and configured to communicate data to a headend system. The headend system processes the data to identify anomalies and to correlate waveform data collected by different collection points. The geographic locations of the collection points with correlated data are used to identify a geographic region. An unmanned aerial vehicle may be used to conduct an inspection of the geographic region and to collect inspection data. The inspection data may be communicated to the headend system. The waveform data and the inspection data may be used to determine the correct resources to deploy to address the cause of the anomaly.
US12212124B2

A medium voltage switchgear or control gear includes at least one first compartment; a cable compartment; a plurality of main components; and a plurality of auxiliary components. The plurality of main components is housed in at least one part of the at least one first compartment. The plurality of auxiliary components is housed in the cable compartment. The second connector is configured to connect to the first connector to connect a cable in the cable compartment to a component of the plurality of main components. The cable compartment is configured to be disconnected from the at least one first compartment and wherein the cable compartment is configured to be spatially separated from the at least one first compartment.
US12212122B2

A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser includes a substrate having a main surface, a first lower distributed Bragg reflector that extends to an edge of the main surface, a III-V compound semiconductor layer disposed on the first lower distributed Bragg reflector, a second lower distributed Bragg reflector disposed on the III-V compound semiconductor layer, an active layer disposed above the second lower distributed Bragg reflector and an upper distributed Bragg reflector disposed on the active layer. The first lower distributed Bragg reflector includes a first layer and a second layer that are alternately arranged. The upper distributed Bragg reflector includes a third layer and a fourth layer that are alternately arranged. The III-V compound semiconductor layer is free of aluminum or has an aluminum composition less than an aluminum composition of the third layer. The first layer has an aluminum composition greater than the aluminum composition of the third layer.
US12212121B2

A VCSEL can include: a substrate that passes light therethrough; a phase matching layer over a top mirror stack; a first metal layer over the phase matching layer; and an end metal region over the first metal layer. The phase matching layer and first metal layer have a cooperative thickness to provide reflectivity of at least a predetermined reflectivity threshold for the emission wavelength. A method of making a VCSEL can include: providing a substrate; forming a first mirror stack above the substrate; forming an active region above the first mirror stack; and forming a reflective end above the active region, the reflective end having a phase matching layer and a first metal layer. The phase matching layer and first metal layer have a combined thickness for the reflective end to have a reflectivity of at least a predetermined reflectivity threshold for an emission wavelength of the VCSEL.
US12212118B2

The present disclosure relates to a light source system suitable for use in a time of flight camera. The light source system includes a light source, such as a laser, and a driver arranged to supply a drive current to the light source to turn the light source on to emit light. The driver includes or is coupled to a capacitor to store energy and then discharge to generate the drive current. The driver can be integrated into a semiconductor die on which the light source is mounted. Thus, the driver can include within it the source of energy for the drive current and the light source and driver can be very close together. Therefore, the light source may be turned on and off very quickly, such as with a relatively large drive current, such as to output a high optical power, short duration light pulse.
US12212114B2

A method of generating an optical pulse train using spectral extension by optical phase modulation, spectral narrowing by optical phase demodulation, and narrow linewidth optical filtering is disclosed. It is also described that the wavelength selection of light using a chromatic dispersion element between the optical phase modulator can enrich the method. Systems include an in-line optical setup and a ring-type laser cavity for mode-locked laser outputs. The duration with which the electrical signals driving the modulators are opposed determines the line width of the optical pulses, and the opposite repetition of the electrical signals defines the rate of repetition of an optical pulse train generated. Four different arrangements of electrical signals in the time domain or phase domain make it possible to control the generation of optical pulses and the wavelength selection of the light. (i) A signal arrangement comprising sinusoidal electrical signals with a slight frequency difference. (ii) A signal arrangement comprising a phase-shift between electrical signals. (iii) A signal arrangement comprising a phase-shift between electrical signals depending on the amplitude of the bits. (iv) A signal arrangement comprising random electric waves that repeat themselves over a predefined period to allow the insertion of controllable time delays between each other.
US12212109B2

A measurement method for producing an electrical cable wherein an end-side end of a supporting sleeve that is secured to the electrical cable is brought into contact with a reference stop of a reference device. An axial distance between the end-side end of the supporting sleeve and an inner conductor part secured to an inner conductor of the electrical cable and the reference stop is detected, and a connection distance (y) between the front end of the inner conductor part and the end-side end of the supporting sleeve, facing the inner conductor part, is derived from the axial distance.
US12212108B2

An attachment for cleaning a socket is provided including a body with an insertion section of the body for insertion into the socket along an insertion direction and with a connection section of the body for connection to a suction inlet of a vacuum cleaner, the attachment including at least one cleaning element for mechanical cleaning of an inner surface of the socket. The attachment includes at least one bearing element attached to the body, wherein the cleaning element is rotatably mounted on the bearing element relative to the body about an axis of rotation aligned along the insertion direction, and at least one drive element attached to the body for automatically rotating the at least one cleaning element about the axis of rotation. A method for cleaning a socket with the attachment is also provided.
US12212106B1

A connector and a data cable are provided, the connector includes a first and second electrical connection structure that can be relatively rotated and electrically connected. The first electrical connection structure includes an electrical connection body and a fixing portion, and the electrical connection body includes a plug and a first conductive board. The fixing portion includes a connecting member and a sleeve member, and the sleeve member is sleeved to the first and second electrical connection structure. At least the second electrical connection structure is rotatably connected to the sleeve member. The connecting member is at least partially accommodated in the sleeve member, which increases the stability and safety thereof, prevent the loosening of components due to frequent rotation or bending of the connector, reduces the likelihood of accidental disconnection, minimizes the risk of connector damage, and facilitates the installation and assembly process of the connector.
US12212102B2

An electrical connector includes at least one terminal assembly. The terminal assembly includes: a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal being narrow-edge coupled; and an insulating block fixing the first signal terminal and the second signal terminal. A length of the first signal terminal is greater than a length of the second signal terminal. A first connecting portion of the first signal terminal is provided with at least one exposing area, which is exposed to the insulating block and exposed in air medium. The first connecting portion has at least one widening portion and at least one narrow portion connected to each other along a length direction thereof. A width of the widening portion is greater than a width of the narrow portion. The exposing area is provided at the widening portion. A second connecting portion of the second signal terminal is completely wrapped in the insulating block.
US12212101B2

A mating terminal module includes a number of mating conductive terminals. Each mating conductive terminal includes a mating portion. The mating conductive terminals include a first mating signal terminal and a second mating signal terminal. The first mating signal terminal further includes a first connecting portion. The second mating signal terminal further includes a second connecting portion. The first connecting portion extends in a direction toward the second connecting portion, and the second connecting portion extends in a direction toward the first connecting portion. The present disclosure also discloses a mating backplane connector and a backplane connector assembly having the mating terminal module. Compared with the prior art, the present disclosure can achieve a better effect of impedance stabilization.
US12212095B2

Apparatus for opposed terminals of an electrical device includes magnetic material carried by a cover formed of an electrically insulative material and concurrently covering the terminals, and a magnetic attraction between the magnetic material and the terminals magnetically coupling the cover to the terminals. In another embodiment, the apparatus includes covers formed of an electrically insulative material and connected by hinges to the electrical device for movement between open positions away from the terminals and closed positions covering the respective terminals.
US12212093B2

An electrically insulating touch protection device for an electrical conductor includes an insulating tube and a housing receiving an end of the electrical conductor. The housing has an end section pointing toward the insulating tube. The end section has a first segment and a second segment. The first segment is inserted into the insulating tube and the second segment is placed on the insulating tube.
US12212091B2

Provided is a connector apparatus including: a circuit board; a connector; and a mold resin portion, wherein the circuit board includes a conductor path, the connector includes a housing with a cylindrical shape and made of a resin, and a terminal projecting outward in an axial direction of the housing from inside the housing, the terminal being configured to connect to the conductor path, the mold resin portion collectively covers the circuit board, the terminal located outside the housing, and a portion of the housing; the housing and the mold resin portion include a welded portion formed by welding together constituent materials of the housing and the mold resin portion, and the welded portion is provided around an entire periphery of the housing and has a difference between a maximum width and a minimum width along a circumferential direction of the housing of 30% or less of the maximum width.
US12212090B2

An electrical connector includes a first terminal set including first terminals and first material bridges forming electrical connections between the first terminals, a second terminal set including second terminals and second material bridges forming electrical connections between the second terminals, and an insulating body formed on the first and second terminal sets by insert molding. The insulating body has a top surface thereof provided with first and second punching holes that expose the first and second material bridges for allowing a preset cutting tool to be used to cut the first and second material bridges and carry out waste removal, so that the first terminals and the second terminals are independent without producing electrical connections.
US12212086B2

An electrical connector for mounting on an external circuit board includes: an insulating body; a terminal module assembled on the insulating body and including a plurality of mating terminals, an insulating carrier with an accommodating cavity, plural intermediate terminals fixed on one side of the insulating carrier and electrically connected to the mating terminals, plural pin terminals fixed on the other side of the insulating carrier, and a magnetic module accommodated in the accommodating cavity and electrically connected to the intermediate terminals and the pin terminals, wherein the insulating carrier is a two-piece housing, the intermediate terminals are held in one housing piece, and the pin terminals are held in the other housing piece.
US12212085B2

It is aimed to prevent the damage of terminal fittings. A connector device (A) is provided with a case formed with an opening portion in a front surface and having an open lower surface, and a board connector including L-shaped terminal fittings and a housing to be mounted into the opening portion. The terminal fitting includes a penetrating portion extending in a front-rear direction and a board connecting portion extending downward from a rear end of the penetrating portion and to be accommodated into the case. The housing includes a terminal holding member for holding the penetrating portions penetrating therethrough, the terminal holding member being mounted into the opening portion from behind, and a protecting member separate from the terminal holding member, the protecting member surrounding front end parts of the penetrating portions by being mounted into the opening portion from front.
US12212078B2

Multi-band phased array antennas include a backplane, a vertical array of low-band radiating elements that form a first antenna beam, first and second vertical arrays of high-band radiating elements that form respective second and third antenna beams and a vertical array of RF lenses. The first, second and third antenna beams point in different directions. A respective one of the second radiating elements and a respective one of the third radiating elements are positioned between the backplane and each RF lens, and at least some of the first radiating elements are positioned between the RF lenses.
US12212076B2

A phased array antenna comprises an array of reflective cells, each cell being defined by a wall positioned within the array the wall arranged to define a waveguide, and having a moveable reflector positioned within the wall. Each reflector is arranged such that it is not in electrical contact with its respective wall and such that, in use it can be moved to tune the antenna. A feed and subreflector are positioned within the array and arranged to transmit and/or receive electromagnetic signals to and/or from the array.
US12212075B2

The disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes a plurality of units. Each of the units includes an integrated substrate. The integrated substrate includes a first dielectric layer, a first conductive layer, a second dielectric layer, and a second conductive layer. The first dielectric layer has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The first conductive layer is disposed on the first side. The second dielectric layer has a third side facing the second side and a fourth side opposite to the third side. The second conductive layer is disposed on the fourth side. A loss tangent of at least one of the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer is less than or equal to 0.1 and greater than 0. The electronic device of an embodiment of the disclosure may improve product yield.
US12212072B2

The present disclosure provides an antenna system, which includes a defected ground structure board and an antenna structure board. The defected ground structure board includes a first insulating plate and a defected ground structure layer, and the defected ground structure layer is disposed on the first insulating plate. The antenna structure board is disposed on the defected ground structure board. The antenna structure board includes at least one antenna body and a second insulating plate, the at least one antenna body is disposed on the second insulating plate, and the second insulating plate is disposed on the defected ground structure layer.
US12212068B2

Disclosed is an electronic device including an antenna module comprising a first array antenna disposed on a first surface, a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) disposed on a second surface which is parallel to the first surface, and a connector, a wireless communication circuit electrically connected with the antenna module through the connector, and a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) electrically connected with the antenna module through the connector, the FPCB comprising a second array antenna, wherein the wireless communication circuit is configured to transmit and receive a first signal via the first array antenna, and to transmit and receive a second signal which is distinct from the first signal via the second array antenna.
US12212064B2

Methods and apparatus for implementing an arrangement of antennas in an apparatus are described. The combining of antennas and related components using Ball Grid Array (BGA) technology and various spacing/heat routing techniques allows for a group of antennas and related ICs to be implemented as a printed circuit board mountable package. Multiple antenna packages can be mounted on a printed circuit board to allow for different numbers of antennas to be included in a device depending on communications needs. The antenna package is well suited for mm-wave applications.
US12212063B2

An electronic device is provided. The electronic devices includes a housing at least partially including a conductive portion, an antenna structure including a printed circuit board including a plurality of insulating layers, at least one first conductive patch including a first feeding point, and a second feeding point, and at least one second conductive patch including a third feeding point, and a fourth feeding point, and an antenna module including a wireless communication circuit configured to transmit or receive a first signal through the at least one first conductive patch and to transmit or receive a second signal of a second frequency band through the at least one second conductive patch.
US12212061B2

An antenna apparatus including an antenna capable of having both a wide-band characteristic and an omni-directional characteristic is provided. An antenna apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a feeding antenna, and a passive element part disposed in a Z-direction of the feeding antenna, in which the passive element part is disposed in parallel to an XY-plane orthogonal to the Z-direction, is made of a conductor, and includes a passive element with a plurality of slots formed therein.
US12212059B2

An information handling system to wirelessly transmit and receive data at an antenna may include a processor; a memory; a power management unit; a bottom metal chassis of a base housing containing components of the information handling system; a vent formed into the bottom metal chassis; a slot formed between the vent and a terminal edge of the bottom metal chassis; and an antenna located within the bottom metal chassis and behind the vent to, upon execution of the processor, create radiating radio frequency (RF) bands along an edge of the vent.
US12212055B2

This application provides an antenna decoupling structure, a MIMO antenna, and a terminal. The antenna decoupling structure includes a grounding stub and a capacitor structure, where a first end of the grounding stub is connected to an antenna floor, to form an equivalent inductor; and a first end of the capacitor structure is connected to the antenna floor, and a second end of the capacitor structure is connected to a second end of the grounding stub, so that the equivalent inductor and the capacitor structure form an LC resonant structure, where a parameter corresponding to the LC resonant structure meets a decoupling requirement for at least one target decoupling frequency band. Because the resonant frequency depends on the inductance and the capacitance that correspond to the LC resonant structure, antenna miniaturization can be realized by reducing a size of each portion of the decoupling structure.
US12212051B2

Apparatus and methods for electrically adjustable antenna stencils for controlling antenna pattern for beamforming are provided. In certain embodiments, a mobile device includes a front-end system including a plurality of radio frequency signal conditioning circuits, an antenna array including a plurality of electrically-adjustable stencils each connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of radio frequency signal conditioning circuits, and a control circuit configured to control the plurality of electrically-adjustable stencils to control an antenna pattern of the antenna array.
US12212048B2

A microwave-doppler detecting module and device thereof are provided, wherein the microwave-doppler detecting module includes an electromagnetic reflecting surface and at least a pair of antithetical dipoles spacingly disposed to the electromagnetic reflecting surface. When the first and second radiating source poles respectively extended from a first and second feed ends of the pair of antithetical dipoles are respectively fed by the same excitation signal feed source at the first feed end and the second feed end, the current and the potential distribution of the first radiating source pole and the second radiating source pole can present an antithetical distribution state and antithetically coupled to the midpoint of the connection of the first feed end and the second feed end, so as to reduce the size requirement of the microwave-doppler detecting module and to avoid detection dead zone from occurring.
US12212045B2

An electronic device comprises: a housing including a front plate, a rear plate, and side portions surrounding a space formed by the front plate and the rear plate; a display visible through the front plate; and an antenna module disposed in the space, wherein the antenna module comprises: a printed circuit board (PCB) including a first surface facing a first direction and a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction; at least one first antenna disposed on the first surface of the PCB; an IC chip disposed on the second surface of the PCB; an insulation member comprising an insulating material covering at least a portion of the IC chip; and a second antenna disposed on a surface of the insulation member facing the second direction, wherein the IC chip may be configured to feed the first antenna, the first antenna may be configured to radiate a first signal of a first frequency band, and the second antenna may be configured to radiate a second signal.
US12212041B2

A plug-in electronic expansion module for pump electronics of a centrifugal pump for expanding the pump electronics with at least one additional function has a housing having a lower face and connecting formations thereon for attachment to a pump housing of the pump electronics. Electronics in the module housing provide the additional function. A base is provided on the lower face, and an electrical interface connected to the pump electronics includes a flat support projecting tongue-like from the base on the lower face of the module housing through an opening in the pump housing and carrying contact-forming electrical traces.
US12212038B2

An electronic device includes a middle frame, an antenna board, and a fastener. The middle frame is provided with a mounting cavity, and an inner wall of the mounting cavity is provided with a limiting portion. The antenna board is placed in the mounting cavity, and the fastener is capable of being clamped between the limiting portion and an upper end face of the antenna board, to restrict the antenna board from moving upward along a depth direction of the mounting cavity. This application can resolve a problem of operation inconvenience in antenna board mounting when a mounting space for mounting the antenna board is small, and can further resolve a problem that a peripheral component is easily damaged in a mounting process.
US12212035B2

Embodiments of the present invention provides an antenna and an antenna system. The antenna includes a body member, a head member integrally connected to a first edge of the body member, wherein the head member forms a fold having a first angle towards the front face of the body member, and a first arm member and a second arm member, wherein the first arm member and the second arm member are integrally connected to the body member corresponding to the second edge and the third edge of the body member, and wherein the set of arm members each form a fold having a second angle towards the front face of the body member.
US12212034B2

The present disclosure provides a waveguide conversion device and wireless communication system. The waveguide conversion device includes: a waveguide cavity including a waveguide transmission cavity and a waveguide back cavity facing each other; a base substrate between the waveguide transmission cavity and the waveguide back cavity, the base substrate including at least a first substrate; and a conversion module on the first substrate and including a balanced antenna, a first differential strip-line and a second differential strip-line, wherein the balanced antenna is in a region where the waveguide transmission cavity faces the waveguide back cavity, the balanced antenna includes a first output port and a second output port; a first end of the first differential strip-line is connected to the first output port of the balanced antenna, and a first end of the second differential strip-line is connected to the second output port of the balanced antenna.
US12212029B2

A digital phase shifter of the present invention is a digital phase shifter in which digital phase shift circuits are cascade-connected, each of the digital phase shift circuits including a signal line, a pair of inner lines provided on both sides of the signal line, a pair of outer lines provided on outer sides of the inner lines, a first ground conductor connected to one ends of the inner lines and one ends of the outer lines, a second ground conductor connected to the other ends of the outer lines, and a pair of electronic switches provided between the other ends of the inner lines and the second ground conductors. The digital phase shift circuits include a multi-row structure constituted by a front row and a rear row, and an inter-row connection structure in which the outer line in the front row and the outer line in the rear row are connected, and the number of the digital phase shift circuits from an input end of an uppermost side digital phase shift circuit in the front row to an input end of an uppermost side digital phase shift circuit in the rear row is set such that a phase of a signal input to the front row uppermost side digital phase shift circuit and a phase of a signal input to the rear row uppermost side digital phase shift circuit are anti-phase with each other.
US12212028B2

A manufacturing arrangement for a fuel cell stack includes at least a first alignment station having a first alignment structure for receiving a bipolar plate and a second alignment structure for arranging a membrane electrode assembly at one side of the bipolar plate, preferably on top of the bipolar plate, in a predefined orientation for aligning the bipolar plate and the membrane electrode assembly, whereby a pre-assembled fuel cell unit is provided; a fastening station for fastening the membrane electrode assembly to the bipolar plate, whereby an assembled fuel cell unit is provided; and a second alignment station having at least one third alignment structure for aligning the assembled fuel cell units for providing a fuel cell stack, as well as a method for manufacturing a fuel cell stack, and a fuel cell stack having been manufactured by such an arrangement and/or method.
US12212020B2

A cell module assembly includes a plurality of battery cells, each of the battery cells having electrode leads, a case configured to receive the battery cells, a cover plate located at an open upper surface of the case so as to be coupled to the case, and a busbar unit located at the front and the rear of the case, from which the electrode leads of the received battery cells protrude. The case is configured to have a U shape in which a base plate defining a bottom surface of the case and side plates defining opposite side surfaces of the case are coupled to each other, and the busbar unit includes a busbar frame, one side of which is bent, whereby a process of manufacturing the cell module assembly is simplified and the battery cells are easily received in the case.
US12212006B2

This application relates to the battery field, and specifically, to an electrode plate, an electrochemical device, and an apparatus. The electrode plate of this application includes a current collector and an electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the current collector, where the current collector includes a support layer and a conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the support layer, a single-sided thickness D2 of the conductive layer satisfies 30 nm≤D2≤3 μm, the support layer is made of a polymer material or a polymer composite material, and a thickness D1 of the support layer satisfies 1 μm≤D1≤30 μm; and the electrode active material layer includes an electrode active material, a binder, and a conductive agent.
US12212005B2

Disclosed is a lithium battery comprising: a cathode; an anode including a passivation film; and an electrolyte interposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the passivation film includes 0.5 wt % or more and less than 5 wt % of sulfur (S), and the passivation film has a heating value of 50 J/g or less when a nail penetrates the passivation film. The lithium battery has improved penetration characteristics.
US12211997B2

Provided is a lithium secondary battery which includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide powder having a layered structure and a nickel content accounting for 85 atm % or more of total transition metals, and wherein the lithium composite transition metal oxide powder undergoes a 3% or less change in lithium-oxygen (Li—O) interlayer spacing in a state-of-charge (SOC) range of 58% to 72%.
US12211994B2

Provided an electrode for secondary batteries, the electrode including: a substrate; and a plurality of active material layers arranged on the substrate and each including an active material, wherein at least one of the plurality of active material layers includes a binder, and a content of the binder is about 1.0 part by weight to about 1.7 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of a total weight of the plurality of active material layers.
US12211982B2

An electrical energy store for the storage of electrical energy for a motor vehicle, includes a housing which delimits a receptacle space, storage cells which are arranged in the receptacle space for the storage of the electrical energy, and a line element, which accommodates a through-flow of a coolant fluid for cooling the energy store. The line element has at least one longitudinal region which is routed in the receptacle space and is constituted of a first material having a first melting temperature, and at least one outflow opening that terminates in the receptacle space. A closure element closes the outflow opening and is constituted of a second material, which differs from the first material and has a second melting temperature which is lower than the first melting temperature. The closure element is to be melted for the release of the outflow opening. The storage cells are constituted as solid-body accumulators.
US12211981B2

An energy storage system includes: a housing, in which volume-variable storage cells are arranged; and a device for controlling a temperature of the storage cells, the device being assigned to the storage cells. The device has contact sections for contacting the storage cells. The device has flexible regions for adapting a position of the contact sections to a position of the storage cells. The contact sections adjoin the flexible regions.
US12211977B2

Disclosed is a battery management system and a battery pack and the battery management system includes: a pack voltage sampling unit for periodically sampling a pack voltage of a battery pack; a pack current sampling unit for sampling a pack current of the battery pack; and a control unit for, when the pack voltage sampling of the battery pack is completed, recording a time from a sampling start time of the pack voltage to a sampling completion time of the pack voltage as a first time, and transmitting a voltage sampling synchronization signal for measuring a cell voltage of a battery cell to a plurality of lower-level battery management systems.
US12211976B2

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a main circuit board, a battery, a battery protection module disposed on one side surface of the battery, a protective holder that surrounds at least part of the battery protection module, and a flexible printed circuit board that extends from one side surface of the battery protection module and that is connected to the main circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board includes a first portion extending from the battery protection module in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction toward the main circuit board, a second portion extending from the first portion while being bent, a third portion extending from the second portion in a third direction opposite to the second direction, a fourth portion extending from the third portion in the first direction, and a connector connected to an end portion of the fourth portion and connected to the main circuit board.
US12211975B2

Disclosed is a battery module, which includes a cell stack formed by stacking a plurality of battery cells; a bus bar frame assembly including a bus bar frame configured to cover one longitudinal end and the other longitudinal end of the cell stack and a plurality of bus bars fixed on the bus bar frame and electrically connected to the battery cells; and a FPCB assembly including a first FPCB extending along a longitudinal direction of the cell stack to cover at least a portion of an upper surface of the cell stack, a second FPCB extending from one longitudinal end of the first FPCB and electrically connected to the bus bars, and a connector having a connector pin inserted into a pin insert hole formed in the second FPCB.
US12211948B1

A method of fabricating multijunction solar cell including an upper solar subcell and having an emitter of p conductivity type with a first band gap, and a base of n conductivity type with a second band gap greater than the first band gap; a lower solar subcell disposed below the upper solar subcell having an emitter of p conductivity type with a third band gap, and a base of n conductivity type with a fourth band gap greater than the third band gap; and an intermediate grading interlayer disposed between the upper and lower solar subcells and having a graded lattice constant that matches the upper first subcell on a first side and the second solar subcell on the second side opposite the first side, and having a fifth band gap that is greater than the second band gap of the upper solar subcell.
US12211945B2

A power diode includes a semiconductor body having an anode region and a drift region, the semiconductor body being coupled to an anode metallization of the power diode and to a cathode metallization of the power diode, and an anode contact zone and an anode damage zone, both implemented in the anode region, the anode contact zone being arranged in contact with the anode metallization, and the anode damage zone being arranged in contact with and below the anode contact zone, wherein fluorine is included within each of the anode contact zone and the anode damage zone at a fluorine concentration of at least 1016 atoms*cm-3.
US12211944B2

Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor stack and a second semiconductor stack over a substrate, wherein each of the first and second semiconductor stacks includes semiconductor layers stacked up and separated from each other; a dummy spacer between the first and second semiconductor stacks, wherein the dummy spacer contacts a first sidewall of each semiconductor layer of the first and second semiconductor stacks; and a gate structure wrapping a second sidewall, a top surface, and a bottom surface of each semiconductor layer of the first and second semiconductor stacks.
US12211936B2

Methods and structures for forming strained-channel finFETs are described. Fin structures for finFETs may be formed in two epitaxial layers that are grown over a bulk substrate. A first thin epitaxial layer may be cut and used to impart strain to an adjacent channel region of the finFET via elastic relaxation. The structures exhibit a preferred design range for increasing induced strain and uniformity of the strain over the fin height.
US12211935B2

A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate of a first conductivity; a first region of the first conductivity formed in the substrate; a second region of the first conductivity formed in the first region, wherein the second region has a higher doping density than the first region; a source region of a second conductivity formed in the second region; a drain region of the second conductivity formed in the substrate; a pickup region of the first conductivity formed in the second region and adjacent to the source region; and a resist protective oxide (RPO) layer formed on a top surface of the second region. An associated fabricating method is also disclosed.
US12211933B2

A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes first to third semiconductor regions, a structure body, a gate electrode, and a high resistance part. The structure body includes an insulating part and a conductive part. The insulating part is arranged with the third semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region, and a portion of the first semiconductor region. The conductive part is located in the insulating part. The conductive part includes a portion facing the first semiconductor region. The high resistance part is located in the first semiconductor region and has a higher electrical resistance than the first semiconductor region. A plurality of the structure bodies includes first to third structure bodies. The second and third structure bodies are next to the first structure body. The high resistance part overlaps a circle center of an imaginary circle passing through centers of the first to third structure bodies.
US12211930B2

A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a channel layer, an insulating layer, source/drain contacts, a gate dielectric layer, and a gate electrode. The channel layer over the substrate and includes two dimensional (2D) material. The insulating layer is on the channel layer. The source/drain contacts are over the channel layer. The gate dielectric layer is over the insulating layer and the channel layer. The gate electrode is over the gate dielectric layer and between the source/drain contacts.
US12211929B1

Structures for a heterojunction bipolar transistor and methods of forming a structure for a heterojunction bipolar transistor. The structure comprises an intrinsic base including a first semiconductor layer, a collector including a second semiconductor layer, and an emitter including a third semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer, which comprises silicon-germanium, includes a first portion and a second portion adjacent to the first portion. The second semiconductor layer includes a portion on the first portion of the first semiconductor layer, and the third semiconductor layer includes a portion on the second portion of the first semiconductor layer. The structure further comprises a dielectric spacer laterally between the portion of the second semiconductor layer and the portion of the third semiconductor layer.
US12211925B2

Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having oxide sub-fins, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having oxide sub-fins, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes an oxide sub-fin structure having a top and sidewalls. An oxidation catalyst layer is on the top and sidewalls of the oxide sub-fin structure. A vertical arrangement of nanowires is above the oxide sub-fin structure. A gate stack is surrounding the vertical arrangement of nanowires and on at least the portion of the oxidation catalyst layer on the top of the oxide sub-fin structure.
US12211924B2

A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a dummy gate structure across a fin protruding from a substrate, forming gate spacers on opposite sidewalls of the dummy gate structure, forming source/drain epitaxial structures on opposite sides of the dummy gate structure, forming a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on the source/drain epitaxial structures and outer sidewalls of the gate spacers, replacing the dummy gate structure with a replacement gate structure, etching back the replacement gate structure to form a recess between the gate spacers, performing a first non-conformal deposition process to fill the recess with a first gate cap material, and planarizing the first gate cap material to remove a portion of the first gate cap material outside the recess.
US12211922B2

Gates having air gaps therein, and methods of fabrication thereof, are disclosed herein. An exemplary gate includes a gate electrode and a gate dielectric. A first air gap is between and/or separates a first sidewall of the gate electrode from the gate dielectric, and a second air gap is between and/or separates a second sidewall of the gate electrode from the gate dielectric. A dielectric cap may be disposed over the gate electrode, and the dielectric cap may wrap a top of the gate electrode. The dielectric cap may fill a top portion of the first air gap and a top portion of the second air gap. The gate may be disposed between a first epitaxial source/drain and a second epitaxial source/drain, and a width of the gate is about the same as a distance between the first epitaxial source/drain and the second epitaxial source/drain.
US12211921B2

Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for forming a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) incorporating a fin top hardmask on top of a channel region of a fin. Because of the presence of the fin top hardmask, a gate height of the FinFET can be reduced without affecting proper operations of vertical gate channels on sidewalls of the fin. Consequently, parasitic capacitance between a gate stack and source/drain contacts of the FinFET can be reduced by lowering the gate height of the FinFET.
US12211915B2

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first gate oxide layer, and a first source/drain doped region. The first gate oxide layer is disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and the first gate oxide layer includes a main portion and an edge portion having a sloping sidewall. The first source/drain doped region is disposed in the semiconductor substrate and located adjacent to the edge portion of the first gate oxide layer. The first source/drain doped region includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is disposed under the edge portion of the first gate oxide layer in a vertical direction, and the second portion is connected with the first portion.
US12211913B2

A semiconductor storage device includes a first stacked body including first insulating films and first conductive films that are alternately stacked in a first direction. A first columnar body and a second columnar body extend within the first stacked body in the first direction. A second conductive film is provided above the first stacked body, and extends in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction. A third insulator is adjacent to the second conductive film and extends in the third direction. A third conductive film is adjacent to the third insulator and extends in the third direction. A third columnar body is provided on the first columnar body. A fourth columnar body is provided on the second columnar body. A thickness of a third semiconductor portion in the first direction is greater than a thickness of the second conductive film in the first direction.
US12211909B2

An apparatus includes a substrate of a first conductivity, an extended drain region of a second conductivity formed over the substrate, a body region of the first conductivity formed in the extended drain region, a source region of the second conductivity formed in the body region, a drain region of the second conductivity formed in the extended drain region, a first dielectric layer formed over the body region and the extended drain region, a second dielectric layer formed over the extended drain region, and between the first dielectric layer and the drain region, a first gate formed over the first dielectric layer, and a second gate formed over the second dielectric layer, wherein the second gate is electrically connected to the source region.
US12211902B2

In a semiconductor device, a source region is made of an epitaxial layer so as to reduce variation in thickness of a base region and variation in a threshold value. Outside of a cell part, a side surface of a gate trench is inclined relative to a normal direction to a main surface of a substrate, as compared with a side surface of a gate trench in the cell part that is provided by the epitaxial layer of the source region being in contact with the base region.
US12211897B2

The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device with a plurality of semiconductor channel layers. The semiconductor channel layers include a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer disposed over the first semiconductor layer. A strain in the second semiconductor layer is different from a strain in the first semiconductor layer. A gate is disposed over the plurality of semiconductor channel layers.
US12211887B2

A semiconductor device includes a first terminal, a second terminal positioned away from the first terminal, a first resistive segment coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal, a third terminal positioned away from the first terminal and the second terminal, a second resistive segment coupled between the second terminal and third terminal, a first floating plate disposed physically proximate the first resistive segment and including a first end coupled to one of the first terminal and the second terminal, and a second floating plate disposed physically proximate the second resistive segment and including a first end coupled to one of the second terminal and the third terminal.
US12211883B2

A method for manufacturing an image display device includes: providing a second substrate that includes a first substrate, and a semiconductor layer grown on the first substrate, the semiconductor layer including a light-emitting layer; providing a third substrate including: a circuit including a circuit element formed on a light-transmitting substrate, a first insulating film covering the circuit, and a conductive layer including a light-reflective part formed on the first insulating film; bonding the semiconductor layer to the third substrate; forming a light-emitting element from the semiconductor layer; forming a second insulating film covering the conductive layer, the light-emitting element, and the first insulating film; forming a via extending through the first and second insulating films; and electrically connecting the light-emitting element and the circuit element by the via.
US12211881B2

An imaging device includes a sensor array with a number of pixels. In an embodiment, the imaging device can be operated by capturing a first low-spatial resolution frame using a subset of pixels of the sensor array and then capturing a second low-spatial resolution frame using the same subset of pixels of the sensor array. A first depth map is generated using raw pixel values of the first low-spatial resolution frame and a second depth map is generated using raw pixel values of the second low-spatial resolution frame. The first depth map can be compared to the second depth map to determine whether an object has moved in a field of view of the imaging device.
US12211879B2

An intermediate connection member includes a first insulating substrate portion, a second insulating substrate portion, an insulating layer portion provided between the first insulating substrate portion and the second insulating substrate portion and formed from a different material from the first insulating substrate portion and the second insulating substrate portion, a plurality of first wiring portions provided between the first insulating substrate portion and the insulating layer portion so as to extend in a first direction such that both end portions of the plurality of first wiring portions in the first direction are exposed to an outside, and a plurality of second wiring portions provided between the second insulating substrate portion and the insulating layer portion so as to extend in the first direction such that both end portions of the plurality of second wiring portions in the first direction are exposed to the outside.
US12211877B2

The present disclosure relates to an image sensor having a photodiode surrounded by a back-side deep trench isolation (BDTI) structure, and an associated method of formation. In some embodiments, a plurality of pixel regions is disposed within an image sensing die and respectively comprises a photodiode configured to convert radiation into an electrical signal. The photodiode comprises a photodiode doping column with a first doping type surrounded by a photodiode doping layer with a second doping type that is different than the first doping type. A BDTI structure is disposed between adjacent pixel regions and extending from the back-side of the image sensor die to a position within the photodiode doping layer. The BDTI structure comprises a doped liner with the second doping type and a dielectric fill layer. The doped liner lines a sidewall surface of the dielectric fill layer.
US12211868B2

A photodetector device includes a photodetector array comprising an array of photodetectors and a plurality of metal structures arranged between photodetectors of the array of photodetectors, wherein the plurality of metal structures are arranged in a first pattern; and a transparent substrate comprising a plurality of diffusion structures being patterned according to a second pattern that matches the first pattern. Each diffusion structure of the plurality of diffusion structures is configured to redirect light that is incident thereon. Additionally, the transparent substrate and the photodetector array are coupled together such that the first pattern is aligned with the second pattern and the plurality of diffusion structures covers the plurality of metal structures.
US12211864B2

Disclosed in the present application are a camera module, and a photosensitive assembly and a manufacturing method therefor. The photosensitive assembly comprises a circuit board, a photosensitive chip electrically connected to the circuit board, and a shaping member provided on the circuit board. A lower surface of the photosensitive chip is attached to the shaping member to form an accommodating space with the shaping member and the circuit board. The accommodating space is configured so that the photosensitive chip is bent downward during a process of assembling the photosensitive assembly. In this way, the photosensitive chip is bent into a shape adapted to the actual focal plane during the assembly process, so as to improve the imaging quality.
US12211861B2

Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for forming a pixel sensor. The method comprises forming a photodetector in a substrate. The substrate is patterned to define an opening above the photodetector. A gate electrode is formed within the opening, where the gate electrode has a top conductive body overlying a bottom conductive body. A first segment of a sidewall of the top conductive body contacts the bottom conductive body. A floating diffusion node is formed in the substrate laterally adjacent to the gate electrode. A second segment of the sidewall of the top conductive body overlies the floating diffusion node.
US12211833B2

An electrostatic discharge protection structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate structure disposed on the semiconductor substrate, a first well region of a first conductivity type disposed in the semiconductor substrate, a first doped region of the first conductivity type, a second doped region of a second conductivity type, a third doped region of the first conductivity type, and a fourth doped region of the second conductivity type. The first and second doped regions are disposed in the first well region and connected with each other. The second doped region is an emitter of a first bipolar junction transistor. The third and fourth doped regions are disposed in the semiconductor substrate and connected with each other. The third and second doped regions are located at two opposite sides of the gate structure in a first horizontal direction. The third doped region is an emitter of a second bipolar junction transistor.
US12211829B2

A semiconductor package according to the inventive concept includes a first semiconductor chip configured to include a first semiconductor device, a first semiconductor substrate, a plurality of through electrodes penetrating the first semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of first chip connection pads arranged on an upper surface of the first semiconductor substrate; a plurality of second semiconductor chips sequentially stacked on an upper surface of the first semiconductor chip and configured to each include a second semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor device controlled by the first semiconductor chip, and a plurality of second chip connection pads arranged on an upper surface of the second semiconductor substrate; a plurality of bonding wires configured to connect the plurality of first chip connection pads to the plurality of second chip connection pads; and a plurality of external connection terminals arranged on a lower surface of the first semiconductor chip.
US12211824B2

A power semiconductor package includes first power semiconductor dies attached to a metallization layer of at least one first power electronics carrier and second power semiconductor dies attached to a metallization layer of at least one second power electronics carrier. A first lead frame includes a first structured metal frame electrically connected to a load terminal of each first power semiconductor die, and a second structured metal frame electrically connected to a load terminal of each second power semiconductor die and to the metallization layer of the first power electronics carrier. A second lead frame above the first lead frame includes first and second leads electrically connected to the metallization layer of the second power electronics carrier, a third lead between the first and second leads and electrically connected to the first structured metal frame, and a fourth lead electrically connected to the second structured metal frame.
US12211822B2

Stacked semiconductor die assemblies with heat sinks and associated methods and systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, a controller carrying one or more memory dies may be attached to a front side of a substrate. The substrate may include a heat sink formed on its back side such that the heat sink can establish a thermal contact with the controller. Further, the heat sink may be coupled to a thermally conductive pad of a printed circuit board (PCB) that carries the substrate. In this manner, the controller may be provided with a heat path toward the PCB to dissipate thermal energy generated during operation. In some cases, the substrate may include a set of thermal vias extending from the heat sink toward the controller to enhance the thermal contact between the controller and the heat sink.
US12211820B2

Wafer bonding apparatus and method are provided. A method includes performing a first plasma activation process on a first surface of a first wafer. The first plasma activation process forms a first high-activation region and a first low-activation region on the first surface of the first wafer. A first cleaning process is performed on the first surface of the first wafer. The first cleaning process forms a first plurality of silanol groups in the first high-activation region and the first low-activation region. The first high-activation region includes more silanol groups than the first low-activation region. The first wafer is bonded to a second wafer.
US12211819B2

Electrical connection between electrodes provided respectively at facing positions in joint surfaces of substrates to be joined by chip lamination technology is conducted more securely. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: a first step of embedding electrodes in insulating layers exposed to the joint surfaces of a first substrate and a second substrate; a second step of subjecting the joint surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate to chemical mechanical polishing, to form the electrodes into recesses recessed as compared to the insulating layers; a third step of laminating insulating films of a uniform thickness over the entire joint surfaces; a fourth step of forming an opening by etching in at least part of the insulating films covering the electrodes of the first substrate and the second substrate; a fifth step of causing the corresponding electrodes to face each other and joining the joint surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate to each other; and a sixth step of heating the first substrate and the second substrate joined to each other, causing the electrode material to expand and project through the openings, and joining the corresponding electrodes to each other.
US12211812B2

A semiconductor storage device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first stacked body, and a second stacked body. The first stacked body is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and includes a first trace, a first pad connected to the first trace, and a first insulator. The second stacked body is provided between the first stacked body and the second substrate and includes a second trace, a second pad connected to the second trace, and a second insulator. The first pad includes a plurality of first electrode portions connected to the first trace. The first insulator is provided between the plurality of first electrode portions. The plurality of first electrode portions are bonded to the second pad.
US12211802B2

A package structure includes a plurality of semiconductor die, an insulating encapsulant and a redistribution layer. Each of the plurality of semiconductor dies includes a semiconductor substrate, conductive pads disposed on the semiconductor substrate, conductive posts disposed on the conductive pads, and at least one alignment mark located on the semiconductor substrate. The insulating encapsulant is encapsulating the plurality of semiconductor dies. The redistribution layer is disposed on the insulating encapsulant and electrically connected to the plurality of semiconductor dies.
US12211799B2

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an integrated circuit die with vertical interconnect features to enable direct connection between vertically stacked integrated circuit dies. The vertical interconnect features may be formed in a sealing ring, which allows higher routing density than interposers or redistribution layer. The direct connection between vertically stacked integrated circuit dies reduces interposer layers, redistribution process, and bumping processes in multi-die integration, thus, reducing cost of manufacturing.
US12211797B2

According to one embodiment, a flexible substrate includes a support plate including a first surface, a line portion including a flexible insulating base located on the first surface and a wiring layer disposed on the insulating base, and a protective member covering the line portion, and the wiring layer includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer stacked on the first metal layer, the second metal layer has a first film thickness in a first area and a second film thickness in a second area, and the second film thickness is greater than the first film thickness.
US12211794B2

An aspect of the disclosure relates to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a first electrically conductive structure, a thin film crystal layer located on the first electrically conductive structure, and a second electrically conductive structure including metal e.g. copper. The second electrically conductive structure is located on the thin film crystal layer. The first electrically conductive structure is electrically connected to the second electrically conductive structure through the thin film crystal layer. The thin film crystal layer may be provided as a copper diffusion barrier.
US12211771B2

Implementations of semiconductor packages may include a substrate, a first die coupled on the substrate, and a lead frame coupled over the substrate. The lead frame may include a die attach pad. Implementations of semiconductor packages may also include a second die coupled on the die attach pad. The second die may overlap the first die.
US12211768B2

A heat sink is a multilayer cooler for cooling a contacting heat-generating element by flowing a coolant from a fluid inlet to a fluid outlet, and includes a heat-receiving plate, a channel plate, an orifice plate, a header plate, and a bottom plate stacked in this order from the top surface and bonded by diffusion bonding. The channel plate has many cooling micropaths arranged in a matrix. The orifice plate has jet orifices for jetting a coolant into the cooling micropaths and drain orifices for draining the coolant from the cooling micropaths. The header plate includes a baffle that separates the fluid inlet from the fluid outlet. The baffle includes a plurality of parallel plates and first end plates and second end plates that alternately close openings at an end and at the opposite end of the parallel plate. The baffle and the peripheral wall define a supply channel.
US12211767B2

A semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a through silicon via structure that is located in the substrate; a first heat dissipation layer that is around a side wall of the through silicon via structure, and a material of which is a metal semiconductor compound; and a second heat dissipation layer that is around the side wall of the through silicon via structure and located between the first heat dissipation layer and the through silicon via structure, and a heat conductivity of which is greater than a heat conductivity of the first heat dissipation layer.
US12211763B2

A method of manufacturing semiconductor devices, such as QFN/BGA flip-chip type packages, arranging on a leadframe one or more semiconductor chips or dice having a first side facing towards the leadframe and electrically coupled therewith and a second side facing away from the leadframe. The method also includes molding an encapsulation on the semiconductor chip(s) arranged on the leadframe, where the encapsulation has an outer surface opposite the leadframe and comprises laser direct structuring (LDS) material. Laser direct structuring processing is applied to the LDS material of the encapsulation to provide metal vias between the outer surface of the encapsulation and the second side of the semiconductor chip(s) and as well as a metal pad at the outer surface of the encapsulation.
US12211755B2

A system may include a wafer that includes ICs and defines cavities. Each cavity may be formed in a BEOL layer of the wafer and proximate a different IC. The system may also include an interposer that includes a transparent layer configured to permit optical signals to pass through. The interposer may also include at least one waveguide located proximate the transparent layer. The at least one waveguide may be configured to adiabatically couple at least one optical signal out of the multiple ICs. Further, the interposer may include a redirecting element optically coupled to the at least one the waveguide. The redirecting element may be located proximate the transparent layer and may be configured to receive the at least one optical signal from the at least one waveguide. The redirecting element may also be configured to vertically redirect the at least one optical signal towards the transparent layer.
US12211752B2

A method for forming a semiconductor device includes patterning a substrate to form a strip including a first semiconductor material, forming an isolation region along a sidewall of the strip, an upper portion of the strip extending above the isolation region, forming a dummy structure along sidewalls and a top surface of the upper portion of the strip, performing a first etching process on an exposed portion of the upper portion of the strip to form a first recess, the exposed portion of the strip being exposed by the dummy structure, after performing the first etching process, reshaping the first recess to have a V-shaped bottom surface using a second etching process, wherein the second etching process is selective to first crystalline planes having a first orientation relative to second crystalline planes having a second orientation, and epitaxially growing a source/drain region in the reshaped first recess.
US12211751B2

A semiconductor device includes a single diffusion break (SDB) structure dividing a fin-shaped structure into a first portion and a second portion, an isolation structure on the SDB structure, a first spacer adjacent to the isolation structure, a metal gate adjacent to the isolation structure, a shallow trench isolation (STI around the fin-shaped structure, and a second isolation structure on the STI. Preferably, a top surface of the first spacer is lower than a top surface of the isolation structure and a bottom surface of the first spacer is lower than a bottom surface of the metal gate.
US12211731B2

A wafer processing method includes a wafer accommodating step of accommodating a wafer in a vacuum chamber, a protective sheet disposing step of disposing a protective sheet on a front surface of the wafer, a decompression step of decompressing the inside of the vacuum chamber, after the wafer accommodating step and the protective sheet disposing step, a press-fitting step of pressing the protective sheet against a peripheral marginal area of the wafer in the vacuum chamber to press-fit the protective sheet to the peripheral marginal area, after the decompression step, and a conveying-out step of opening the vacuum chamber to atmosphere to bring the protective sheet into close contact with the front surface of the wafer by atmospheric pressure and conveying out the wafer, after the press-fitting step.
US12211727B2

In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method that includes aligned a first wafer with a second wafer. The second wafer is spaced apart from the first wafer. The first wafer is arranged on a first electrostatic chuck (ESC). The first ESC has electrostatic contacts that are configured to attract the first wafer to the first ESC. Further, the second wafer is brought toward the first wafer to directly contact the first wafer at an inter-wafer interface. The inter-wafer interface is localized to a center of the first wafer. The second wafer is deformed to gradually expand the inter-wafer interface from the center of the first wafer toward an edge of the first wafer. The electrostatic contacts of the first ESC are turned OFF such that the first and second wafers are bonded to one another by the inter-wafer interface.
US12211722B2

Provided is a magnetic collet. The magnetic collet includes adsorption rubber including a plurality of individual holes passing therethrough from a contact surface, which is one surface of the adsorption rubber, coming into contact with a semiconductor chip to the other surface thereof, and a metal plate including a common hole which passes therethrough from one surface of the metal plate to the other surface thereof and provides a common passage connected to the individual holes and stacked on the adsorption rubber.
US12211718B2

A system for monitoring alignment of a second component relative to a first component includes a camera, and a controller including a processor and a nontransitory memory. The controller is configured to receive a first captured image from the camera when the second component is in a predetermined position relative to the first component, receive a selection of a region of interest (ROI) in the first captured image, identify a visible feature of the second component within the ROI of the first captured image, receive captured images from the camera during a subsequent operation, identify a second captured image when the second component is expected to be in the predetermined position relative to the first component, and determine if the second component is in the predetermined position relative to the first component based on the second captured image and the identified visible feature of the first captured image.
US12211711B2

A baking apparatus, may include a processing chamber including a lower chamber and an upper chamber connected by a ring shutter; a baking plate in the processing chamber adjacent to a region in which the lower chamber and the ring shutter overlap; an active flow controller including a first module and a second module in the lower chamber adjacent to the baking plate; a first auxiliary flow controller on a lower part of the ring shutter, adjacent to the lower chamber; and a second auxiliary flow controller in the upper chamber adjacent to the ring shutter. The active controller may be configured to move based on movement of the first module in a first direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the baking plate. The active flow controller may be configured to control airflow around the second module by movement of the second module.
US12211708B2

First and second concentration measurement parts (415, 425) are provided in first and second supply liquid lines (412, 422) in which first and second supply liquids flow, respectively. A dissolved concentration of gas in the second supply liquid is lower than that in the first supply liquid. In the first and second supply liquid lines, respective one ends of first and second branch lines (51, 52) are connected to respective positions on the upstream side of the concentration measurement parts. The other ends of the first and second branch lines are connected to a mixing part (57), and by mixing the first and second supply liquids, a processing liquid is generated. Respective flow rate adjustment parts (58) of the first and second branch lines are controlled on the basis of respective measured values of the first and second concentration measurement parts so that the dissolved concentration of the gas in the processing liquid can become a set value. It is thereby possible to prevent the supply liquid containing particles or the like caused by the concentration measurement part from being contained into the processing liquid to be supplied to a substrate and also to adjust the dissolved concentration of the gas in the processing liquid to the set value with high accuracy.
US12211703B2

A method of forming a semiconductor device includes: forming a first semiconductor layer on a semiconductor substrate, the first semiconductor layer being of the same dopant type as the semiconductor substrate, the first semiconductor layer having a higher dopant concentration than the semiconductor substrate; increasing the porosity of the first semiconductor layer; first annealing the first semiconductor layer in an atmosphere including an inert gas; forming a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer; and separating the second semiconductor layer from the semiconductor substrate by splitting within the first semiconductor layer. Additional methods of forming a semiconductor device are described.
US12211697B2

A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: providing a base having first contact layers and a second contact layer; forming an initial electrical connection layer; forming a lower mask layer including a first and a second pattern regions, and on an upper surface of the base, orthographic projections of two first contact layers fall within an orthographic projection of one first pattern region, and an orthographic projection of one second contact layer falls within an orthographic projection of one second pattern region; patterning the first pattern region to form two first sub-pattern regions discrete from each other; and etching the initial electrical connection layer to form first electrical connection layers and a second electrical connection layer discrete from each other, in which the first electrical connection layers correspond to the first sub-pattern regions, and the second electrical connection layer corresponds to the second pattern region.
US12211696B2

The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure. The method includes: forming a conformal layer over a first patterned layer over a substrate; forming a second layer over the conformal layer and between portions of the first patterned layer; performing a first etching to form a second patterned layer and a patterned conformal layer; performing a second etching to remove a portion of the first patterned layer to form a first inclined member of the first patterned layer tapered away from the substrate and lining a vertical portion of the patterned conformal layer, and to remove a portion of the second patterned layer to form a second inclined member of the second patterned layer tapered away from the substrate and lining the vertical portion of the patterned conformal layer; and performing a third etching to remove the vertical portions of the patterned conformal layer.
US12211691B2

Dry development of resists can be useful, for example, to form a patterning mask in the context of high-resolution patterning. Dry development may be advantageously accomplished by a method of processing a semiconductor substrate including providing in a process chamber a photopatterned resist on a substrate layer on a semiconductor substrate, and dry developing the photopatterned resist by removing either an exposed portion or an unexposed portion of the resist by a dry development process comprising exposure to a chemical compound to form a resist mask. The resist may be an EUV-sensitive organo-metal oxide or organo-metal-containing thin film EUV resist.
US12211689B2

Described herein is a technique capable of improving a controllability of a thickness distribution of an oxide film formed on a surface of a substrate. According to one aspect of the technique, there is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: (a) forming a first oxide layer by supplying an oxygen-containing gas and an hydrogen-containing gas to a heated substrate at a first pressure less than an atmospheric pressure and by oxidizing a surface of the substrate; and (b) forming a second oxide layer by supplying the oxygen-containing gas and the hydrogen-containing gas to the heated substrate at a second pressure less than the atmospheric pressure and different from the first pressure and by oxidizing the surface of the substrate on which the first oxide layer is formed.
US12211686B2

Methods of forming SOI substrates are disclosed. In some embodiments, an epitaxial layer and an oxide layer are formed on a sacrificial substrate. An etch stop layer is formed in the epitaxial layer. The sacrificial substrate is bonded to a handle substrate at the oxide layer. The sacrificial substrate is removed. The epitaxial layer is partially removed until the etch stop layer is exposed.
US12211681B2

A method for determining the integrity of at least one complex based on at least one biological sample and at least one matrix, including at least the following steps:—acquiring at least one image,—analyzing the image sent by extracting light intensity values representative of at least one spectral band,—relating the light intensity values to one another to obtain representative spectral data,—determining a state of integrity of the complex by comparing each of the representative spectral data by similarity grouping with a determined similarity threshold,—triggering at least one first alert, by the analysis unit, when the representative data are similar to the first state of integrity or to the second state of integrity.
US12211678B2

A recipe updating method of a plasma processing apparatus includes: performing a plasma processing on a substrate mounted on a stage using a first recipe including an application timing of a radio-frequency power for plasma generation; measuring a reference timing at which a temperature of the stage drops to a minimum value and a first maximum value of the temperature of the stage in association with the first recipe; performing the plasma processing on the substrate using a second recipe obtained by changing the application timing of the first recipe to the reference timing; measuring a second maximum value of the temperature of the stage in association with the second recipe; and updating the first recipe to the second recipe when the second maximum value is smaller than the first maximum value.
US12211672B2

An apparatus for plasma etching having an electrostatic chuck including a base layer, a bonding layer, an adsorption layer including a plurality of protrusions on the bonding layer and contacting a lower surface of a substrate, and an edge ring spaced apart from and surrounding a lateral surface of the substrate; a plurality of coolant suppliers injecting a coolant between the plurality of protrusions; a plurality of pipes supplying the coolant to the plurality of coolant suppliers to circulate the coolant in a predetermined direction; a cooling device in which the plasma etching process includes first and second operations, wherein the coolant is injected to cause the electrostatic chuck to reach a first temperature during the first operation, and reach a second temperature during the second operation; and a controller controlling a valve connected to the plurality of pipes to determine a circulation direction of the coolant.
US12211670B2

A method includes receiving, from one or more sensors, sensor data associated with manufacturing equipment and updating one or more values of a digital replica associated with the manufacturing equipment based on the sensor data. The digital replica comprises a model reflecting a virtual representation of physical elements and dynamics of how the manufacturing equipment operates. One or more outputs indicative of predictive data is obtained from the digital replica and, based on the predictive data, performance of one or more corrective actions associated with the manufacturing equipment is caused.
US12211667B2

Methods and systems for acquiring transmission electron microscope video data on a rolling-shutter detector at an enhanced frame rate and without temporal distortions are described. Also described are methods to enhance the dynamic range of image and diffraction data acquired using a transmission electron microscope. The disclosed methods and systems may also be applicable to photon detection and imaging systems.
US12211665B2

A charged particle beam device suppresses sample deformation caused by placing a sample on a suctioning surface of an electrostatic chuck mechanism, the sample having a temperature different from the suctioning surface. The charged particle beam device includes the electrostatic chuck mechanism; a stage which moves a sample, which is to be irradiated with a charged particle beam, relative to an irradiation position of the charged particle beam; an insulating body which is disposed on the stage and constitutes a dielectric layer of the electrostatic chuck; a first support member which supports the insulating body on the stage; a ring-shaped electrode which encloses the surroundings of the sample and is installed on the insulating body in a contactless manner, and to which a predetermined voltage is applied; and a second support member which supports the ring-shaped electrode.
US12211664B2

The disclosure describes assemblies and systems for use in reel-to-reel imaging of ultrathin samples. The assemblies and the systems disclosed herein are adapted for use with a plurality of detectors and are configured for use in a variety of electron microscopes. Also, methods of using such assemblies and systems are disclosed.
US12211655B2

An apparatus includes a case having an elliptical cross-section capable of receiving a plurality of capacitive elements. One or more of the capacitive elements provide at least one capacitor having a first capacitor terminal and a second capacitor terminal. The apparatus also includes a cover assembly that includes a deformable cover mountable to the case, and, a common cover terminal having a contact extending from the cover. The cover assembly also includes at least three capacitor cover terminals, each of the at least three capacitor cover terminals having at least one contact extending from the deformable cover. The deformable cover is configured to displace at least one of the at least three capacitor cover terminals upon an operative failure of at least one of the plurality of the capacitive elements. The cover assembly also includes at least four insulation structures. One of the four insulation structures is associated with one of the at least three capacitor cover terminals. The apparatus also includes a first conductor capable of electrically connecting the first capacitor terminal of a capacitor provided by one of the plurality of capacitive elements to one of the at least three capacitor cover terminals and a second conductor capable of electrically connecting the second capacitor terminal of the capacitor provided by one of the plurality of capacitive elements to the common cover terminal.
US12211653B2

A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer structure in which each of a plurality of dielectric layers of which a main component is ceramic and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked. The plurality of internal electrode layers include Ni and Sn. Each of an upper section and a lower section of the plurality of internal electrode layers includes multiple internal electrode layers each having a Sn concentration higher than that of each internal electrode layer of a center section interposed between the upper and lower sections in a stacking direction, which are constituted by top 5% or more and bottom 5% or more of the plurality of internal electrode layers, respectively.
US12211651B2

A ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer structure having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers that are alternately stacked, the dielectric layers being mainly composed of ceramic, the internal electrode layers being formed so as to be alternately exposed to two edge faces opposite to each other of the multilayer structure, and cover layers respectively disposed on top and bottom faces of the multilayer structure in a stack direction, the cover layers being mainly composed of ceramic, wherein at least one of a Sn concentration with respect to a main component ceramic in the cover layer or a Sn concentration with respect to a main component ceramic in a side margin section is higher than a Sn concentration with respect to a main component ceramic in a capacity section.
US12211648B2

An ultracapacitor assembly is provided. The ultracapacitor assembly includes a plurality of ultracapacitors. The ultracapacitor assembly further includes a first bus bar and a second bus bar. The second bus bar is spaced apart from the first bus bar. The ultracapacitor assembly includes a discharge resistor coupled between the first bus bar and the second bus bar. The ultracapacitor assembly further includes a first plurality of switching devices and a second plurality of switching devices. Each switching device in the first plurality of switching devices is coupled between the first bus bar and a corresponding ultracapacitor of the plurality of ultracapacitors to selectively couple the corresponding ultracapacitor the discharge resistor via the first bus bar. Each switching device in the second plurality of switching devices is coupled between the second bus bar and a corresponding ultracapacitor to selectively couple the corresponding ultracapacitor the discharge resistor via the second bus bar.
US12211646B1

Electromagnetic actuators are provided, which generate bidirectional linear force output without magnetic bias from current or permanent magnets. Systems and methods based on the electromagnetic actuators are also provided.
US12211642B2

The superconducting coil includes: a winding frame; and at least two superconducting rectangular wire layers provided in such a manner that a superconducting rectangular wire is spirally wound on an outer surface of the frame such that wires adjacent to each other in an axial direction of the frame are arranged side by side and separated, the wire including an NbTi-based or Nb3Sn-based wire having a surface coated with copper or copper alloy, in which at least a thermoplastic fusible resin is provided in a separated section between the adjacent wires, and when viewed in a cross section including an axis of the frame, at least one of voids that are partitionable on outer surfaces of a total of three wires and a total of four wires located on the two adjacent layers and adjacent to each other are 4% or less in terms of a void ratio (V1).
US12211639B2

A power inductor such as a variable voltage converter power inductor having a temperature sensor embedded therein is disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the sensor may be disposed between the core and the coil or winding. The sensor may be positioned in the cavity of a bobbin or the core itself.
US12211634B2

A soft magnetic alloy or the like combines high saturated magnetic flux density, low coercive force and high magnetic permeability μ′. A soft magnetic alloy having the composition formula (Fe(1−(α+β))X1αX2β)(1−(a+b+c+d+e))BaSibCcCudMe. X1 is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Co and Ni, X2 is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Al, Mn, Ag, Zn, Sn, As, Sb, Bi, N, O and rare earth elements, and M is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Nb, Hf, Zr, Ta, Ti, Mo, μ′ and V. 0.090≤a≤0.240, 0.030.
US12211628B2

A containment enclosure for shielding an outer cask containing an inner canister loaded with nuclear waste such as spent fuel rods. The enclosure includes a lower base portion at least partially embedded in a concrete pad and an upper radiation shielding portion defined by a shield jacket coupled to and supported by the lower base portion at a circumferential joint. Cavities of the base and shielding portions collectively define a contiguous containment space for the cask. A portion of the cask resides in each of the base and shielding portions which completely enclose and shield the cask to minimize radiation dosage of personnel in the environment surrounding the cask. The cask is cooled by a natural convectively-driven ambient cooling air ventilation system including air inlets at the circumferential joint of the enclosure. The concrete pad may be part of a spent nuclear fuel storage installation comprising plural cask containment enclosures.
US12211606B2

Embodiments are directed to improving performance criterion in a control session. Information associated with an agent may be obtained. A predicted expenditure may be generated based on the information and a performance model. The predicted expenditure may be transformed into specific-units amounts of multiple resource types based on the characteristics information. Each specific-units amount may be transformed into a normalized-units amount based on one or more normalized-units amounts of one or more other resource types. An instruction may be provided to the agent based on the normalized-units amounts. Metrics based on monitoring the agent may be obtained. One or more portions of the metrics may be compared to one or more outputs of the performance model. One or more outputs of the model may be modified based on the comparison to increase a correlation between one or more outputs and the metrics.
US12211601B2

Methods comprising an integrated, multiscale artificial intelligence-based system that reconstructs drug-specific pharmacogenomic networks and their constituent functional sub-networks are described. The system uses features of the functional topology of the three-dimensional architecture of drug-modulated spatial contacts in chromatin space. Discovery of a drug pharmacogenomic network is made through the selection of candidate SNPs by imputation, determination of the predicted causality of the SNPs using machine learning and deep learning, use of the causal SNPs to probe the spatial genome as determined by chromosome conformation capture analysis, combining targeted genes controlled by the same cell and tissue-specific enhancers, and reconstruction of the pharmacogenomic network using diverse data sources and metrics based on the results of genome-wide association studies. Knowledge-based segmentation methods are used to deconstruct the pharmacogenomic network into its constituent efficacy and adverse event sub-networks for applications in clinical decision support, drug re-purposing, and in silico drug discovery.
US12211593B2

A method, according to some implementations, includes obtaining trial design simulation results for a set of trial designs and determining a set of Pareto designs in the set of trial designs based at least in part on the trial design simulation results and one or more performance parameters. The method further includes determining a set of convex hull designs in the set of trial designs, determining a set of recommended designs based at least in part on the set of Pareto designs and the set of convex hull designs, and transmitting the set of recommended designs.
US12211592B2

There is provided a method for a machine learning based method of analysing drug-like molecules by representing the molecular quantum states of each drug-like molecule as a quantum graph, and then feeding that quantum graph as an input to a machine learning system.
US12211586B2

A device includes a first memory subarray, a first modulation circuit, a second memory subarray, a second modulation circuit and a control signal generator. The first modulation circuit is coupled to the first memory subarray. The second memory subarray is located between the first memory subarray and the first modulation circuit along a direction. The second modulation circuit is coupled to the second memory subarray. The control signal generator is configured to generate a first control signal to trigger the first modulation circuit according to a first length of the first memory subarray along the direction, and configured to generate a second control signal to trigger the second modulation circuit according to a second length of the second memory subarray along the direction.
US12211583B2

In a memory system having multiple memory sockets for removable insertion of memory modules therein, off-module data buffers are disposed in a data signaling data path between a memory control component and the memory sockets, and an off-module buffer controller is disposed in a control signaling path between the memory control component and the memory sockets. The off-module buffer controller receives control signals transmitted by the memory control component and re-drives/re-transmits the control signals to the memory sockets. The off-module buffer controller generates buffer-control signals in response to the control signals and outputs the buffer-control signals to the off-module data buffers to multiplex host-control-component access to the memory sockets.
US12211582B2

An in-memory computation (IMC) circuit includes a memory array formed by memory cells arranged in row-by-column matrix. Computational weights for an IMC operation are stored in the memory cells. Each column includes a bit line connected to the memory cells. A switching circuit is connected between each bit line and a corresponding column output. The switching circuit is controlled to turn on to generate the analog signal dependent on the computational weight and for a time duration controlled by the coefficient data signal. A column combining circuit combines (by addition and/or subtraction) and integrates analog signals at the column outputs of the biasing circuits. The addition/subtraction is dependent on one or more a sign of the coefficient data and a sign of the computational weight and may further implement a binary weighting function.
US12211581B2

A memory device includes a driver that drives a data line connected with an external device, an internal ZQ manager that generates an internal ZQ start signal, a selector that selects one of the internal ZQ start signal and a ZQ start command from the external device, based on a ZQ mode, a ZQ calibration engine that generates a ZQ code by performing ZQ calibration in response to a selection result of the selector, and a ZQ code register that loads the ZQ code onto the driver in response to a ZQ calibration command from the external device.
US12211574B2

Various aspects include methods and devices for implementing the methods for error checking a memory system. Aspects may include receiving, from a row buffer of a memory, access data corresponding to a column address of a memory access, in which the row buffer has data of an activation unit of the memory corresponding to a row address of the memory access, determining multiple error correction codes (ECCs) for the access data using the column address, and checking the access data for an error utilizing at least one of the multiple ECCs. In some aspects, the multiple ECCs may include a first ECC having data from an access unit of the memory corresponding with the column address, and at least one second ECC having data from the access unit and data from the activation unit other than from the access unit.
US12211566B2

The present disclosure provides a method for programing flash memory devices. The method may include programming a selected page of the NAND flash memory device according to programming data. The selected page may include memory cells corresponding to a word line. The programming of the selected page may include programming operations with programming voltages applied on the word line and a read operation performed on the selected page.
US12211565B2

Provided is an operation method of a memory controller which includes obtaining first read data from a second external device based on a first read command received from a first external device and performing error correction and decoding on the first read data to determine whether reading is successful or unsuccessful, performing a hard decoding-based read recovery operation and a soft decoding-based read recovery operation when a read failure occurs as a result of the first read operation, determining whether there is a second read command queued when the hard decoding-based read recovery has failed, temporarily stopping the read recovery operation for the first read data when there is the second read command queued and obtaining second read data by reading data from the second external device based on the second read command and performing error correction and decoding on the second read data.
US12211560B2

A memory device includes an array of memory cells associated with wordlines and control logic. The control logic performs operations that cause a corrective read operation to be performed at a selected memory cell. The operations include: causing a first voltage to be applied to a first wordline associated with the selected memory cell; causing a second voltage, having a lower magnitude than the first voltage, to be applied to wordlines adjacent to the first wordline and associated with each of two neighbor memory cells of the selected memory cell; in response to determining that current flows through the two neighbor memory cells and the selected memory cell between a bitline and a source line of the array, identifying a first corrective read voltage; and causing the first corrective read voltage to be applied to the first wordline during a read operation for the selected memory cell.
US12211559B2

A memory device includes a memory cell array and a page buffer circuit, wherein the page buffer circuit includes page buffer units including upper page buffer units and lower page buffer units and cache units arranged between the upper page buffer unit and the lower page buffer units. The cache units include upper cache units and lower cache units. Each page buffer unit includes a sensing node and a pass transistor. The upper cache units share a first combined sensing node, and, the lower cache units share a second combined sensing node. In a data transmission period, sensing nodes respectively included the page buffer units are electrically connected to one another through serial connections of the pass transistors respectively included in the page buffer units.
US12211556B2

A method includes determining that a program operation includes a first pass to apply a first voltage distribution to a plurality of memory cells and a second pass to apply a second voltage distribution to the plurality of memory cells, performing the first pass of the program operation using a first sensing time, and performing the second pass of the program operation using a second sensing time during the second pass of the program operation, where the first sensing time is shorter than the second sensing time.
US12211555B2

Disclosure includes systems, methods and devices to program a memory device, involving a first and a second programming operations on a memory cell of the memory device. In the first programming operation, the memory cell is programmed into an intermediate state. In the second programming operation, the memory cell is programmed from the intermediate state into a target state. The first programming operation includes providing a bias voltage to a bit line coupled to the memory cell and providing a programming voltage to a word line coupled to the memory cell. An amplitude of the bias voltage provided to the bit line depends on the intermediate state or the target state the memory cell to be programmed into. Accordingly, no verification operation need to be performed on the memory cell in the first programming operation.
US12211553B2

A storage system includes a non-volatile memory (NVM) device, having a memory cell array, and a storage controller. The storage controller receives a write command and data from a host and controls the NVM device to write the data in the memory cell array. Additionally, the storage controller determines a memory region of the memory cell array in which the data will be written, clusters a plurality of word lines into a plurality of groups on the basis of feature information of the plurality of word lines, rearranges an access order in units of groups according to the feature information, and accesses the word lines in the rearranged order to write the data in the memory region.
US12211550B2

A TCAM comprises a plurality of first search lines, a plurality of second search lines, a plurality of memory cell strings and one or more current sensing units. The memory cell strings comprise a plurality of memory cells. The current sensing units are coupled to the memory cell strings. In a search operation, a determination that whether any of the data stored in the memory cell strings matches a data string to be searched is made according to whether the one or more current sensing units detect current from the memory cell strings, or according to the magnitude of the current flowing out from the memory cell strings detected by the one or more current sensing units. Each memory cell includes a first transistor, a second transistor and an inverter. The first search line is coupled to the second search line by the inverter.
US12211546B2

Embodiments relate to the field of semiconductor technology, and proposes a semiconductor device and a memory. The semiconductor device includes a pull-up circuit integration region, a pull-down circuit integration region and a compensation circuit integration region not overlapped with one another. The semiconductor device further includes an output circuit, and the output circuit includes: a pull-up circuit, a pull-down circuit, and a compensation circuit. The pull-up circuit is connected to a signal output line, and the pull-up circuit is positioned in the pull-up circuit integration region. The pull-down circuit is connected to the signal output line, and the pull-down circuit is positioned in the pull-down circuit integration region. The compensation circuit is configured to enhance a drive capability of an output signal from the signal output line, and the compensation circuit is positioned in the compensation circuit integration region.
US12211538B2

Methods, systems, and devices for techniques to manufacture ferroelectric memory devices are described. In some cases, a memory array may be manufactured using a self-aligned manufacturing technique. For example, a continuous layer of dielectric material may be formed over an assembly which includes an array of transistors coupling contacts on the surface of the assembly with a set of digit lines. In some cases, an array of cavities may be etched into the dielectric material, each cavity exposing a set of contacts. A set of bottom electrodes corresponding to the set of contacts may be formed on sidewalls in each cavity, for example by depositing a layer of electrode material and etching the electrode material using a variety of hard masks.
US12211536B1

A system and method for a logic device is disclosed. A plurality of substrates are provided. At least one input nanomagnet is disposed over each of the plurality of substrates. The plurality of input nanomagnets are disposed substantially equidistant from each other. The plurality of input nanomagnets are each a single domain nanomagnet. A spacer layer is disposed over the plurality of input nanomagnets. An output magnet is disposed over the spacer layer.
US12211532B2

According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a disk-shaped recording medium, a magnetic head including a write head, a read head, and a heater, and a controller including a reference signal generator outputting a reference signal having a constant voltage amplitude at the same frequency as a high-frequency component of a gap measurement signal recorded in the recording medium, a measurer measuring a component amplitude of a reproduced signal of the gap measurement signal and an amplitude of the reference signal, and a heater controller controlling a power value of heater power supplied to the heater based on the measured values of the component amplitude and the amplitude of the reference signal.
US12211529B1

A computer-implemented method for preparing a disk for a disk drive for operation includes: writing first and second servo information in a first portion of a servo sector for a track of the disk; writing third and fourth servo information in a second portion of the servo sector; in a single revolution of the disk, reading a first signal associated with the first servo information, a second signal associated with the second servo information, a third signal associated with the third servo information, and a fourth signal associated with the fourth servo information; based on the first signal, the second signal, the third signal, and the fourth signal, determining a repeatable runout value for the servo sector; and storing the repeatable runout value for the servo sector in a location that is accessed during operation and used during the operation as a repeatable runout correction factor for the track.
US12211514B2

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for facilitating error-free communication of data by enabling transfer of data over audio signal in near-ultra sonic frequencies with specially designed audio emitted using a mixture of frequencies to achieve maximum stability. The method may include randomized emission of data bits over a plurality of frequency ranges to allow temporal and frequency voting. The audio signal transmitted may be received by pre-processing the received audio signal to remove unused frequency bands and unwanted audio artifacts introduced during transmission. The pre-processed audio signal may be further applied with a plurality of audio processing levels to denoise, smoothen the audio signal by going through noise subtraction using unique noise profiles and spectrally gate using curated thresholds. The audio signal may be then demodulated using a unique confidence score based on the power of all the frequencies emitted to find the data transmitted.
US12211510B2

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory storing recording data including a content of a conversation and at least one instruction, and a processor configured, by executing the at least one instruction, to input first data corresponding to a first voice in the content of the conversation into a first neural network model and acquire category information of the first data, and acquire category information of second data corresponding to a second voice in the content of the conversation. The processor is configured to, based on the category information of the first data and the category information of the second data being different, train the first neural network model based on the category information of the second data and the first data.
US12211508B2

A server-side processing method for implementing an active initiation of a dialogue is disclosed, comprising: establishing a communication connection with a voice client, in response to a received request for establishing a connection from the voice client; receiving an information stream sent by the voice client through the communication connection; performing a dialogue decision-making process according to the information stream, obtaining and outputting an adapted dialogue content to the voice client upon determining that it is an active dialogue scenario. A server and a system for implementing an active initiation of a dialogue are also provided. The disclosed solutions realize intelligent decision-making for voice interaction, and can actively initiate a dialogue based on server-side decision-making, improving interaction experience and realizing intelligent interaction.
US12211506B2

In an embodiment, an integrated circuit may include one or more CPUs, a memory controller, and a circuit configured to remain powered on when the rest of the SOC is powered down. The circuit may be configured to receive audio samples from a microphone, and match those audio samples against a predetermined pattern to detect a possible command from a user of the device that includes the SOC. In response to detecting the predetermined pattern, the circuit may cause the memory controller to power up so that audio samples may be stored in the memory to which the memory controller is coupled. The circuit may also cause the CPUs to be powered on and initialized, and the operating system (OS) may boot. During the time that the CPUs are initializing and the OS is booting, the circuit and the memory may be capturing the audio samples.
US12211505B2

A voice command resolution apparatus, including a memory configured to store instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to: recognize a voice command of a user in an input sound, analyze a non-speech sound included in the input sound, and determine at least one target Internet of things (IoT) device related to execution of the voice command, based on an analysis result of the non-speech sound.
US12211495B2

Apparatus (5) for assessing a quality of a communication session (3) between at least one first party (1) and at least one second party (2a, 2b . . . 2N), over a telecommunication network (4), comprising means for: monitoring (S1) said communication session by continuously receiving an audio stream associated with said communication session; converting (S2) language of said audio stream into text data; determining (S3), from said text data, at least first understandability quality features (UQFA, UQFG) and an information quality feature (IQF), said first understandability quality feature being representative of at least word articulation and grammar correctness within said language, and said information quality feature being representative of a comparison of the semantic content of said audio stream with a set of contents related to said audio stream; assessing (S4) said quality from said quality features.
US12211494B2

Automated systems and methods are provided for processing speech, comprising obtaining a digitally-encoded speech representation corresponding to a telecommunication interaction, wherein the digitally-encoded speech representation includes at least one of a voice recording or a transcript derived from audio of the telecommunication interaction; obtaining a digitally-encoded data set corresponding to at least one structured feature of the telecommunication interaction; obtaining a reference set, wherein the reference set includes a set of binary-classified existing satisfaction classifications; obtaining a trained machine learning algorithm, wherein the machine learning algorithm has been trained using a first plurality of reference telecommunication interactions which include user-provided satisfaction scores; extracting a feature set from the digitally-encoded speech representation; and by the machine learning algorithm and based on at least one structured feature and the feature set, generating a predicted satisfaction classification for the telecommunication interaction.
US12211481B2

Disclosed herein are systems using acoustic metamaterial surfaces comprising arrangements of unit cells arranged to introduce time delays to an incident acoustic wave. In embodiments the relative positions of two or more acoustic metasurfaces (81, 82) is selected or adjusted to control the acoustic output of the system such that the acoustic output of the system is a non-linear combination of the respective operations performed by the plurality of acoustic metasurfaces (81, 82), the non-linear combination being a convolution of the respective operations performed by the plurality of acoustic metasurfaces that is determined as a function of the relative positioning between the acoustic metasurfaces (81, 82). Also disclosed are applications of such acoustic metasurfaces in noise-reducing structures.
US12211477B2

An acoustic panel has two substantially parallel skins between which cavities forming Helmholtz resonators are arranged. One of the skins is bored with orifices, each of which opens into one of said cavities and forms a neck of the resonators. One or more of said cavities includes of a hollow structure having the shape of a triangular-based prism.
US12211474B2

A wheel for reducing a resonance noise in a vehicle may include a cylindrical-shaped rim on which a tire is mounted, and waveguides mounted on the rim, disposed in a cavity which is a space between the rim and the tire, having a ‘U’-shaped internal passage through which a sound wave generated in the cavity enters, and configured to reflect the sound wave entering the internal passage to generate a sound wave having an inverse phase, wherein a center portion of the internal passage extends in an axial direction of the rim, and first and second end portions of the internal passage are connected to a center portion of the internal passage to allow the sound wave to propagate and extend in a circumferential direction of the rim.
US12211463B2

A device and a method for outputting video content for display on a display. At least one processor displays a first video content on the display, receives a second video content to display, obtains a first luminance value for the first video content, extracts a second luminance value from the second video content, adjusts a luminance of a frame of the second video content based on the first and second luminance values and outputs the frame of the second video content for display on the display. The video content can comprise frames and a luminance value can be equal to an average frame light level for the most recent L frames of the corresponding video content. In case a luminance value is unavailable, a Maximum Frame Average Light Levels of the first video content and the second video content can be used instead.
US12211462B1

Described herein is a system and method for calculating variable refresh rate (VRR) flicker of a display used for information handling systems. VRR display data is provided to the display which generates a raw optical waveform. The raw optical waveform is captured by an optical sensor. The captured raw optical waveform is weighted using an inverse Fast Fourier Transform from a Temporal Contrast Sensitivity Function (TCSF). Calculating the flicker value of the weighted optical waveform over a defined moving window is performed. The flicker average and flicker maximum of the flicker value is used to determine a VRR flicker value.
US12211461B2

Provided is a display apparatus including: a liquid crystal panel; a source driver configured to output a grayscale voltage to the liquid crystal panel; a timing controller configured to transmit a source control signal to the source driver; a scaler configured to transmit image data corresponding to content received from an external source to the timing controller; and a controller configured to adjust a driving scan rate of the liquid crystal panel to correspond to a set scan rate of the content, and control at least one of the scaler or the timing controller to adjust a data rate of an output signal based on the driving scan rate.
US12211458B2

A display device and a method for adjusting a viewing angle thereof are disclosed. The display device includes a display panel and a direct-lit backlight module. The direct-lit backlight module includes a backplate disposed opposite to the display panel, at least one first rotating assembly fixed to a side of the backplate facing the display panel, at least one light source assembly disposed between the backplate and the display panel and connected to the at least one first rotating assembly, and a first rotation control center. The first rotating assembly controls the light source assembly to rotate and tilt relative to the display panel thus adjusting an angle between a light emitting surface of the light source assembly and the display panel. The first rotation control center is connected to the first rotating assembly to control the operation of the first rotating assembly.
US12211457B1

A device may include an electronic display having multiple illuminators that generate light at a first wavelength and a quantum dot layer that converts a portion of the light from the first wavelength to a second wavelength. The first wavelength may vary based on a brightness level of the illuminator, and the amount of light generated by the illuminator that is converted to the second wavelength may vary based on the first wavelength. The electronic display may also include a display pixel to regulate the light emitted from the electronic display at a pixel location based on compensated image data. The device may also include image processing circuitry to determine a luminance contribution to the light from the illuminator for the pixel location, determine per color component compensation values based on the luminance contribution, and generate the compensated image data based on the per color component compensation values.
US12211439B2

Provided is a display panel. The display panel includes a base substrate and a plurality of pixel circuits disposed on the base substrate. At least two pixel circuits in a same column are coupled with a same first initial power line, such that only a small quantity of signal lines need to be disposed on the base substrate.
US12211436B2

A display panel and a display apparatus, the display panel includes a first display area and a second display area, and a light transmittance of the first display area is greater than a light transmittance of the second display area. The display panel includes sub-pixel units located in the first display area and pixel driving units located in the second display area. Each of the sub-pixel units includes first sub-pixels, the pixel driving units are electrically connected with the first sub-pixels, and each of the pixel driving units includes a plurality of first pixel driving circuits connected in parallel.
US12211433B2

A display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. In the display substrate, each signal line includes a first conductive portion; for at least one signal line, the display substrate includes a multi-layer insulating pattern on a side of the first conductive portion away from the base substrate; a first insulating pattern in the multi-layer insulating pattern includes a hollow, and an orthographic projection of the hollow on the base substrate is at least partially in a region surrounded by an orthographic projection of the first conductive portion on the base substrate; and for at least one clock signal line included in the at least one signal line, a ratio between a size of the hollow in a first direction and a size of a shift register unit in the first direction ranges from ¾ to 1.
US12211431B2

A display device may include: a first pixel coupled to a first scan line, a first data line, and a first sensing line; a second pixel coupled to the first scan line, a second data line, and a second sensing line; a first sensing channel corresponding to the first pixel and including a first sampling capacitor; and a second sensing channel corresponding to the second pixel and including a second sampling capacitor. During a first period, the first sensing channel may store a first sampling signal in the first sampling capacitor while the first sensing line is coupled to the first sensing channel, and the second sensing channel may store a second sampling signal in the second sampling capacitor while the second sensing line is disconnected from the second sensing channel.
US12211423B2

A display panel includes: sub-pixels each including a storage capacitor configured to have a data voltage written thereto; a capacitor node line connected to the storage capacitor of at least one of the sub-pixels; a compensation reference voltage line configured to receive a compensation reference voltage; a first power supply voltage line configured to receive a first power supply voltage; a first connection transistor configured to connect the compensation reference voltage line to the capacitor node line based on an emission signal; and a second connection transistor configured to connect the first power supply voltage line to the capacitor node line based on the emission signal.
US12211422B2

A display device includes: a display layer and a sensor layer, which senses an external input. The display layer includes: a plurality of pixels and a plurality of sensors, each of which includes a sensing element and a sensor driving circuit connected to the sensing element. The sensor driving circuit includes: a reset transistor, an output transistor, and a switch transistor including a first electrode connected to the sub-readout line, a second electrode connected to a readout line, and a third electrode for receiving a switch signal generated based on the external input.
US12211418B2

A display data adjustment method is provided, including the following. First display data is received, and first grayscale values of first sub-pixels of different colors in the first display data are converted from a first color gamut space into color values in a second color gamut space. First weight values are generated according to the color values. Lookup tables are compared according to the first grayscale values of the first sub-pixels to obtain groups of first high grayscale values and first low grayscale values corresponding to the first sub-pixels. Second high grayscale values and second low grayscale values are obtained by calculation according to the groups of the first high grayscale values and the first low grayscale values and the first weight values. The second high grayscale values or the second low grayscale values are selected as second grayscale values of second sub-pixels in second display data.
US12211416B2

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for determining a time delay for synchronizing one or more parameters. In an embodiment, a plurality of frames is presented on a display device. A brightness level is modulated in one or more frames of the plurality of frames. A plurality of image frames of a face of a user is received. The plurality of image frames are obtained from a video stream recorded by an image sensor during the presentation of the plurality of frames on the display device. The plurality of image frames are processed to determine the time delay between when the modulating the brightness level is performed in the one or more frames and when the modulating the brightness level in the one or more frames is reported by the image sensor.
US12211415B2

A compensation method a pixel circuit and a display panel are provided. In the compensation method, a gate potential and a source potential of a driving transistor in a writing stage are obtained and a compensation coefficient of the pixel circuit is determined, and then a light-emitting current flowing through the driving transistor in a light-emitting stage is determined based on the compensation coefficient, the gate potential and the source potential of the driving transistor in the writing stage. The compensation coefficient can adjust transmission loss of the gate potential and the source potential of the driving transistor in the writing stage, so as to ensure that the light-emitting current flowing through the driving transistor in the light-emitting stage is desired, without causing the phenomenon of shift in brightness.
US12211402B2

A display device is disclosed. The display device of the present disclosure comprises: a housing extended to be long; a roller provided inside the housing; and a display panel which is wound around or unwound from the roller, wherein the housing includes first and second base frames assembled together with a lower frame, the lower frame is assembled together with or fixed to the first base frame and/or the second base frame by at least one fixed pin so as to prevent sagging caused by a weight increase.
US12211401B2

An identification system, for use with a recessed floor box that provides access to one or more wiring devices, includes a label holder configured to couple with a plate mounted in the recessed floor box and a label removably stored in the label holder. The label includes information about the one or more wiring devices.
US12211398B2

Aspects relate to augmented reality (AR) methods and systems for simulated operation of an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. An exemplary AR system includes at least an aircraft component of an eVTOL aircraft, a computing device configured to operate a flight simulator to simulate flight in an environment and simulate at least a virtual representation interactive with the flight simulator, where the at least a virtual representation includes an aircraft digital twin of the at least an aircraft component, and a mesh network configured to communicatively connect the at least an aircraft component and the computing device and communicate encrypted data.
US12211387B2

A system for urban air mobility monitors flight separation for compliance with a safe separation distance. A reference formation airspace is established for a reference air taxi based on minimum longitudinal, lateral and vertical parameters. When penetration of the reference formation airspace is detected, a penetration airspace is established. A centroid of the penetration airspace is determined and a target separation to the centroid is supplied to the air taxi to reestablish safe separation. The extent of separation is also safely contained by the presence of virtual air taxis whose positions on the periphery of the penetrated airspace serve to limit potential penetration of surrounding air taxi air spaces.
US12211379B2

Disclosed are embodiments that provide a transportation environment data service. The transportation environmental data service includes harvesting services that crawl roadside infrastructure solutions to obtain sensor data collected from sensors physically positioned at the roadside infrastructure. In some cases, the roadside infrastructure solutions perform additional processing on the sensor data. For example, some roadside infrastructure performs object detection and/or object recognition. When encountering these solutions, the edge or harvesting service also collects the object detection and/or object recognition information. Customers can subscribe to various data services provided by the transportation environment data service. For example, some subscribers indicate an interest in any updates of environmental data for a particular region. Other subscribers are interested in video data associated with any vehicular accidents detected by the transportation environment data service.
US12211374B2

A universal remote control (URC) is programmed to control a particular type and make of electronic consumer device using a graphical user interface. A plurality of images is displayed on the user-interface. Each image of the plurality of images is a digital photograph of an electronic consumer device or a remote control device usable to control the corresponding electronic consumer device. A user selects the digital photograph of the particular type and make of electronic consumer device or its corresponding remote control device. Codeset information associated with the selected device is transmitted to the URC such that the URC is programmed to control the selected device. If the codeset information is a codeset identifier, then it is displayed on the user interface. The user enters the codeset identifier into the URC such that the URC is programmed to control the selected device.
US12211361B2

An activity support apparatus supports an activity of a worker at a disaster site. The activity support apparatus comprises a vibration data acquisition unit that acquires vibration data of vibrations generated by the worker, an activity level estimation unit that estimates an activity level of the worker based on the vibration data acquired by the vibration data acquisition unit, and a notification unit that notifies the activity level estimated by the activity level estimation unit.
US12211360B2

A control device for a premises security system is provided. The control device includes processing circuitry configured to receive a plurality of video streams associated with the plurality of image capture devices, stitch together at least a portion of the plurality of video streams to generate a three-dimensional (3D) view, determine an alarm event associated with the premises security system, and overlay at least one virtual object onto the 3D view, where the at least one virtual object indicates the alarm event and data associated with the alarm event.
US12211357B1

Methods, systems, and devices for intruder detection are described. A security and automation system may include a camera configured to monitor a zone of a premises. The security and automation system may detect a person in the zone, for example using the camera, a motion sensor, or another sensor. The security and automation system may determine that the person has remained in the zone for a threshold duration. The security and automation system may generate a notification (e.g. an audiovisual notification) based on determining that the person has remained in the zone for the duration. In some examples, the notification may include a verbal message, a flashing light, etc., to indicate to the person that video recording was initiated. The techniques described herein may inform an intruder that video is being recorded, which may discourage an intruder from an intended action (e.g., theft, property damage, etc.), among other benefits.
US12211346B2

Methods and systems are provided for managing a wagering system. In one exemplary embodiment, state information of a live event such as a sports game may be received in real time. During the event, a plurality of possible future states of the event and their associated probabilities (and odds) may be determined based on the state information, historical information, and current in-game information. A betting market is created for betting on the possible future states at determined odds. The betting market is closed and winning and losing bets are resolved based on updated state information.
US12211345B2

Embodiments of the invention include a gaming device that has a video display. When the player initiates the game, an animation is shown. If the game had a losing outcome, the animation is very short and allows the player to quickly try for a win. If instead the game has a winning outcome the gaming device spins reels or otherwise shows the player how much he or she has one. The animation may also indicate progress toward a mystery jackpot or a group mystery jackpot.
US12211337B2

Gaming systems and methods for placing one or more sports bets at an electronic gaming machine (“EGM”) and for redeeming any winnings for one or more placed sports bet at an EGM.
US12211334B2

A device for verifying a machine-readable security feature of a document of value, having: a transport device configured to transport the document on a transport plane, a radiation emitter that is arranged on a first flat side and emits radiation in the direction towards the first flat side, a sensor that is arranged on the first flat side and is configured to receive at least part of the luminescent radiation, a reflector arranged and configured on the second flat side-so as to at least partly reflect the luminescent radiation of the security feature of the document of value to the sensor, and an evaluation unit.
US12211331B2

An automated computerized parcel locker system is provided, which includes multiple lockers in a common housing, each having one or more sensors that indicate whether an item is present in the locker, the status of the locker door, and the like. The parcel locker system includes routines that allow for automatic processing of parcels delivered to an incorrect locker, missing parcels, objects other than delivered parcels placed into the lockers, and the like. The routines also allow for automated and semi-automated management, servicing, and use of the lockers, for example to indicate to a courier or other user which lockers are available for delivery and which contain delivered parcels.
US12211324B2

An apparatus that includes a parameter acquisition circuit, a property translation circuit, a parameter conditioning circuit, and a vehicle property provisioning circuit. The parameter acquisition circuit interprets a vehicle parameter value. The property translation circuit interprets a property request value, the property request value defining, at least in part, a requested vehicle property. The parameter conditioning circuit generates, in response to the property request value, vehicle property data from the vehicle parameter value, and the vehicle property data corresponds to the requested vehicle property. The vehicle property provisioning circuit transmits the vehicle property data to an external device in response to the property request value.
US12211313B2

A customer analysis apparatus (10) includes an image acquisition unit (110) and an image processing unit (120). The image acquisition unit (110) acquires a first image generated by a first image capture unit (22) and a second image generated by a second image capture unit (24). The image processing unit (120) processes the first image and the second image. More specifically, the image processing unit (120) generates product information indicating a product (50) taken out from a product shelf (40), by processing the first image and the second image. Further, the image processing unit (120) generates customer attribute information of a customer taking out the product (50), by processing the first image. Then, the image processing unit (120) causes a result storage unit (130) to store the product information and the customer attribute information in association with each other.
US12211296B2

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for automatically detecting and classifying tumor regions in a tissue slide. The method generally includes obtaining a digitized tissue slide from a tissue slide database and determining, based on output from a tissue classification module, a type of tissue of shown in the digitized tissue slide. The method further includes determining, based on output from a tumor classification model for the type of tissue, a region of interest (ROI) of the digitized tissue slide and generating a classified slide showing the ROI of the digitized tissue slide and an estimated diameter of the ROI. The method further includes displaying on an image display unit, the classified slide and user interface (UI) elements enabling a pathologist to enter input related to the classified slide.
US12211291B2

An apparatus for detecting a lane boundary includes one or more processors configured to: input an image representing a region around a vehicle into a classifier to identify the types of objects represented in respective pixels of the image, and detect a boundary of the travel lane by determining, for each of pixel lines in a direction crossing the travel lane in the image, whether the position corresponding to a pixel group including a predetermined number of contiguous pixels is inside the travel lane in order along a scanning direction from one end to the other end of the pixel line, depending on the order of the types of objects represented in the pixel group and the result of determination whether the position corresponding to the immediately preceding pixel group with respect to the scanning direction is inside the travel lane.
US12211286B2

An autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle detecting system for monitoring a geographic area includes an unmanned blimp adapted to hover in air, at least one camera mounted on the blimp to scan at least a portion of the geographic area, a location sensor to determine a location of the blimp, and a controller arranged in communication with blimp, the at least one camera, and the location sensor. The controller is configured to position the blimp at a desired location in the air based on inputs received from the location sensor, and monitor the geographic area based on the images received from at least one camera. The controller is also configured to detect a presence of an unmanned aerial vehicle within the geographic area based on the received images, and determine whether the detected unmanned aerial vehicle is an unauthorized unmanned aerial vehicle based on the received images.
US12211277B2

A method for querying data obtained from a distributed sensor network, comprising: receiving sensor data representing an aspect of an environment with a sensor of the distributed sensor network; communicating a representation of the sensor data to a fog node through an automated communication network; determining, by the fog node, a correspondence of a query received through the automated communication network to characteristics of the representation of the sensor data; and selectively communicating, in response to the query, at least one of: the sensor data having the determined characteristics corresponding to the query, an identification of the sensor data having the determined characteristics corresponding to the query, and the data representing the sensor data having the determined characteristics corresponding to the query.
US12211273B2

A method and systems for evacuating a building during an incident are provided. An exemplary method includes tracking location of personnel in the building, monitoring incident sensors, detecting an incident based, at least in part, on the incident sensors, activating alert systems, locating unevacuated personnel in the building, and displaying the location of the unevacuated personnel on a fire alarm control panel (FACP).
US12211271B2

To determine the head pose of a user, a head-mounted display system having an imaging device can obtain a current image of a real-world environment, with points corresponding to salient points which will be used to determine the head pose. The salient points are patch-based and include: a first salient point being projected onto the current image from a previous image, and with a second salient point included in the current image being extracted from the current image. Each salient point is subsequently matched with real-world points based on descriptor-based map information indicating locations of salient points in the real-world environment. The orientation of the imaging devices is determined based on the matching and based on the relative positions of the salient points in the view captured in the current image. The orientation may be used to extrapolate the head pose of the wearer of the head-mounted display system.
US12211267B2

The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus, medium and device for extracting a river drying-up region and frequency, and belongs to the technical field of remote sensing. The method for extracting a river drying-up region and frequency can be applied to efficiently acquiring river drying-up information for a long time within the large spatial region. With the inverse normalized difference water index (iNDWI) and the maximum value composite (MVC) method for the remote sensing images, the present disclosure omits the troublesome step of separately extracting a river range for each image in the conventional method. In addition, the present disclosure quickly obtains the drying-up frequency by counting the total number of available images and the number of non-water images at the same pixel position, and yields a greater efficiency for extracting the river drying-up region and frequency.
US12211251B2

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for predicting locations of utility assets. One of the methods includes receiving an input image of an area in a first geographical region; generating, from the input image and using a generative adversarial network, a corresponding reference image; and generating, by an object detection model and from the reference image, an output that identifies respective locations of one or more utility assets with reference to the input image.
US12211244B2

A segmentation neural network is extended to provide classification at the segment level. An input image of a document is received and processed, utilizing a segmentation neural network, to detect pixels having a signature feature type. A signature heatmap of the input image can be generated based on the pixels in the input image having the signature feature type. The segmentation neural network is extended from here to further process the signature heatmap by morphing it to include noise surrounding an object of interest. This creates a signature region that can have no defined shape or size. The morphed heatmap acts as a mask so that each signature region or object in the input image can be detected as a segment. Based on this segment-level detection, the input image is classified. The classification result can be provided as feedback to a machine learning framework to refine training.
US12211240B2

An illustrative apparatus may identify, within an image frame captured by an image capture system, a signal region that includes pixels having auto-exposure values exceeding an auto-exposure value threshold. The apparatus may adjust, based on the auto-exposure values of the pixels included within the signal region, one or more auto-exposure parameters used by the image capture system to capture an additional image frame. Additionally, the apparatus may determine, based on a size of the signal region within the image frame, whether to change the auto-exposure value threshold. Corresponding apparatuses, systems, and methods for managing auto-exposure of image frames are also disclosed.
US12211237B2

The invention relates to a method and a device for producing a thermal map of an area, wherein the thermal map is generated by a combination of two thermal images of different properties, and both thermal images comprise pixels associated with the area and have been recorded by satellites. The two thermal images are recorded at different times using different recording devices. Furthermore, a radiometric precision of the first thermal image is higher than that of the second thermal image, and a spatial resolution of the second thermal image is higher than that of the first thermal image. The two thermal images are used to determine a measurement value offset of a first pixel group belonging to the second thermal image and spatially associated with the area, and then corrected absolute measurement values of the pixels belonging to the second thermal image and spatially associated with the area are determined. A precise thermal map of the area is then created on this basis. The invention also relates to a method for determining a time series of thermal maps and a computer programme product for carrying out the method described.
US12211236B2

Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques to render images depicting light interacting with media that have volume attenuation, using optimized spectral rendering that emulates rendering of the media in tristimulus color rendering schemes.
US12211230B2

A relative position calculator calculates relative position and attitude of a vehicle based on images captured by an image capturing apparatus on the vehicle. An absolute position calculator extracts a marker from an image captured by the image capturing apparatus, and calculates absolute position and attitude of the vehicle, based on position and attitude of the one extracted marker. A corrector calculates the corrected position and attitude, not using the absolute position and attitude calculated based on the position and attitude of the marker when a difference or ratio of an apparent height and width of the marker in the image is equal to or smaller than a threshold, but using the absolute position and attitude calculated based on the position and attitude of the marker when the difference or ratio is larger than the threshold.
US12211226B2

A method for rapidly calculating intersection over union (IOU) between a target region and a designated region in an image is used in an electronic device. The electronic device detects a target object from an image received from a monitored location, and determines a designated region, a target region, and a combined region from the image, the target region including the target object. The electronic device calculates a first area of the designated region, a second area of the target region, and a third area of the combined region, and calculates a value of IOU according to formula of SIOU=(S1+S2−S3)/S2. S1 represents the first area, S2 represents the second area, and S3 represents the third area. The electronic device issues an intrusion warning in or concerning a monitored region according to a comparison result between the value of IOU and a preset threshold.
US12211217B2

A method of detecting moving objects, including the following steps: extracting first and second images from a video of an observed space; detecting corner points in the images; using the points, extracting a feature vector; identifying corresponding points in the images; determining a homography to perform image registration between the images; applying a warping of the second image based on the homography to obtain a warped second image; calculating a difference in individual pixels between the warped second image and the first image to identify pixels that differ; obtaining a third image by comparing the second warped image against the first image; identifying a bounding box in the third image for each group of adjacent pixels; calculate the optical flow based on the first image and the warped second image; extracting from the optical flow a matrix corresponding to the magnitude of the optical flow.
US12211212B2

An image segmentation method includes the following steps: obtaining a target image; inputting the target image into a machine learning model to obtain an image segmentation parameter value corresponding to the target image; executing an image segmentation algorithm on the target image according to the image segmentation parameter value to obtain an image segmentation result, wherein the image segmentation result is segmenting the target image into object regions; and displaying the image segmentation result. In addition, an electronic device and storage medium using the method are also provided.
US12211209B2

Described herein are systems and methods for the simulation of the upper airway of a subject. One embodiments provides a method (100) including the initial step (101) of receiving one or more tomographic images of the subject. At step (102) a three dimensional geometric model of the upper airway is generated from the one or more tomographic images. The geometric model includes a network of interconnected deformable mesh elements collectively defining a fluid domain (310) and a solid domain (320). The solid domain (320) defining a single unitary model of the entire upper airway region segmented into a plurality of predefined geometric regions, each being defined by one or more common anatomical parameters. At step (103), a computer simulation is performed on the geometric model to simulate behaviour of the upper airway when the subject is positioned in a predefined position. The computer simulation includes (103a) performing a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis on the fluid domain and then (103b) performing a Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) analysis between the fluid and solid domains under the influence of an applied gravity effect. Finally, at step (104), subject-specific parameters are output which are indicative of the behaviour of the upper airway.
US12211205B2

A computer-implemented method and system for predicting orthodontic results based on landmark detection includes: acquiring a crown point cloud, a set of tooth point clouds, and tooth labels; extracting global dentition features and local tooth features, performing feature fusion on the global dentition features, tooth labels of individual teeth, and the local tooth features of the individual teeth to obtain fused features of the individual teeth, and extracting landmarks of the individual teeth and offset vectors from points in the tooth point clouds to the landmarks; fusing the landmarks of the individual teeth and the tooth point clouds, extracting tooth attention features, acquiring dentition attention features, and fusing the dentition attention features, the global dentition features, and the local tooth features to obtain a point cloud with fused landmarks; and acquiring pre- and post-treatment rigid transformation parameters, and obtaining a post-treatment crown model prediction result.
US12211197B2

A substrate processing apparatus processes a substrate. The substrate processing apparatus includes at least one processing unit that processes the substrate, first and second cameras that image different subject areas, and an association processing unit that generates association information indicating association between each of the subject areas and each of the first and second cameras by processing an image captured by each of the first and second cameras.
US12211181B2

The present application provides an image display method and an image display device. The image display method performs a gray-scale compensation on each data line, thereby preventing a problem of color crosstalk in a display panel. At the same time, an original image in the display panel is edge blurred, which can reduce an impact of the color crosstalk.
US12211179B2

The disclosure discloses a method, a medium, and a device for enhancing event camera image reconstruction by fusing visible images, and belongs to the field of image processing. In order to solve the problem that the reconstructed image of the event camera is likely affected by noise and lacks of photorealistic, the method provided by the disclosure adopts an enhancement module based on the improved Transformer model to fuse the intensity image reconstructed from the event stream and the reference image selected from the visible image sequence captured by an optical sensor, so that makes the reconstructed image has an appearance close to the visible image while maintaining the characteristics of high dynamic range of the event camera.
US12211176B2

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for image processing. The system may obtain at least one image of an object. For each of the at least one image, the system may determine a recognition result of the image. The recognition result may include an image type of the image, a type of a lesion in the image, a region of the lesion in the image, and/or an image feature of the image. Further, the system may process the at least one image of the object based on at least one recognition result corresponding to the at least one image.
US12211165B2

Disclosed is a method to determine influence of a deformation of a curve on a surface. A processor obtains deformations of the curve and desired deformations of the surface. The processor obtains a first point on the surface and determines the influence of the deformation of the curve on the surface by determining a second point on the curve and iterating over a desired deformation of the surface and a corresponding curve. To iterate, the processor determines a desired position of the first point of the desired deformation, determines a position of the first point based on a position of the second point on the corresponding curve and a parameter indicating the influence, and calculates a difference between the desired position of the first point and the determined position of the first point. Based on the difference, the processor adjusts the parameter, and determines the influence based on the parameter.
US12211161B2

A modeling system receives, in association with generating a three-dimensional (3D) virtual reset, a selection of a 3D virtual object. The modeling system presents, at a user interface, the 3D virtual object in the 3D virtual reset at a first position. The modeling system receives, via the user interface, an edit to the 3D virtual object in the 3D virtual reset. The modeling system updates the presentation of the 3D virtual reset by showing the edit. The modeling system stores the 3D virtual reset by including, in the 3D virtual reset, information about the 3D virtual object and information about the edit.
US12211159B2

Systems and methods are provided for capturing by a camera of a user device, a first image depicting a first environment of the user device; overlaying a first virtual object on a portion of the first image depicting the first environment; modifying a surface of the first virtual object using content captured by the user device; storing a second virtual object comprising the first virtual object with the modified surface; and generating for display the second virtual object on a portion of a second image depicting a second environment.
US12211153B2

In one aspect, a first device includes at least one processor and storage with instructions executable by the processor to receive input from a camera and to identify, based on the input from the camera, a first lighting condition of a scene showing a user. Responsive to the first lighting condition satisfying a first criterion, the instructions are executable to transmit a first video stream showing the user's face as captured by the camera to a second device. Responsive to the first lighting condition not satisfying the first criterion, the instructions are executable to use a model to generate a 3D representation of the user's face according to one or more parameters related to the user and to transmit a second video stream to the second device that shows the 3D representation. The model is also trained under lighting conditions satisfying one or more criteria.
US12211150B2

A system comprising: processors and memory containing instructions to control processors to: receive images representing an interior of a physical environment, identify, using neural network for object recognition, an object in an image, the object is associated with a location relative to the physical environment, identify, using neural network for object recognition, another object in another image, determine if objects in the images are located near or at a similar location based on location information associated with the objects, if the objects are located near or at a similar location, then objects are an instance of a single object, store similar location associated with the single object, display an interactive walkthrough visualization of a 3D model of the physical environment including the single object, receive request regarding object location through the interactive walkthrough visualization, and provide the similar location of the single object for display in the interactive walkthrough visualization.
US12211136B2

Systems and methods of geometry processing, for rasterization and ray tracing processes provide for pre-processing of source geometry, such as by tessellating or other procedural modification of source geometry, to produce final geometry on which a rendering will be based. An acceleration structure (or portion thereof) for use during ray tracing is defined based on the final geometry. Only coarse-grained elements of the acceleration structure may be produced or retained, and a fine-grained structure within a particular coarse-grained element may be Produced in response to a collection of rays being ready for traversal within the coarse grained element. Final geometry can be recreated in response to demand from a rasterization engine, and from ray intersection units that require such geometry for intersection testing with primitives. Geometry at different resolutions can be generated to respond to demands from different rendering components.
US12211134B2

An animation operation method includes: correlating a predetermined motion of an animation with a predetermined motion of at least one of a hand and a finger of a user which is detected by a detection device; and performing the predetermined motion of the animation corresponding to the predetermined motion when the predetermined motion is detected by the detection device.
US12211126B2

The application relates to a run-length stripping method for generating skeleton lines of complex plain river networks, including following steps: 1. constructing an empty raster field, each raster row generates an empty run-length linked list; 2. completing raster compression on each row, and compressing the continuous grids into run-length units and inserting them into the raster row run-length linked list; 3. establishing a raster field river boundary grid search template; 4. setting two discriminant functions to judge whether a grid on a raster field is a redundant grid; 5. searching all boundary grids along a raster field boundary, and marking and stripping all redundant grids based on two discriminant functions respectively; 6. analyzing whether the boundary grid is stripped, if so, returning to continue stripping, otherwise, entering the next step; 7. converting the non-stripped grid into skeleton line data in vector form.
US12211125B2

Systems and methods of guiding a clinician in a medical procedure for a nodule involve receiving three-dimensional (3D) image data, generating a volumetric vector map based on the 3D image data, and displaying the volumetric vector map in a way, e.g., via a heat map, that assists a clinician in performing a medical procedure. The systems and methods involve identifying volumetric parameters of the nodule in the 3D image data, generating a voxel map based on the volumetric parameters, identifying a maximum attenuation value in the 3D space of the voxel map, applying a differential equation, e.g., a gradient, to the 3D space of the voxel map from a voxel with the maximum attenuation value to other voxels within the voxel map, and generating a volumetric vector map based on the result of applying the differential equation.
US12211114B2

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method that may include defining an object model containing a structural representation of events and artefacts through which contracts are created, changed, and brought to an end. The method may include accessing a machine learning classifier comprising a plurality of rule sets. The method may include applying the plurality of rule sets to one or more words of each corresponding contract document. The method may include linking identified one or more core attributes and one or more words of each corresponding contract document to an applicable object of the object model, determining prevailing terms of each corresponding contract document, and evaluating contract data variables and assigning a contract data risk value to one or more of contract data values. The method may include alerting a user when a contract risk exceeds a threshold value.
US12211111B2

A method enables communication between a process client and a wireless process server to carry out an area-specific process in an area. The method includes a step of transmitting a message from a wireless process server to a wireless communication device operated by the process client. The message includes information related to the area-specific process for enabling the process-client to better arrange time before the area-specific process is scheduled to carry out in the area. In a specific embodiment, the wireless communication server sends a message to notify the process client about a location and an estimate time for the process client to carry out the area-specific process. In another preferred embodiment, the communication system enables the process client to employ a wireless communication device owned by the process client.
US12211108B2

A system and method for conducting a short duration interactive video introduction session between a requesting user and an unknown person of interest is provided. One embodiment receives a user request to conduct a short duration interactive video introduction with the unknown person of interest who is a member of a social media site, communicates a short duration interactive video introduction invitation with a selectable link to an electronic device of the unknown person of interest, communicatively couples the electronic device of the requesting user and the electronic device of the unknown person of interest in response to receiving an acceptance of the short duration interactive video introduction invitation by the unknown person of interest, conducts the short duration interactive video introduction between the requesting user and the unknown person of interest, and ends the short duration interactive video introduction session upon expiration of a predefined duration.
US12211106B2

A computing device for determining a new credit card number that is a continuation match with an old credit card number of a credit card account that has changed numbers comprises a processing element programmed to: receive transactional data for a plurality of credit card numbers, determine a plurality of old credit card numbers and a plurality of new credit card numbers, determine a plurality of clusters of new credit card numbers, convert the transactional data for each old credit card number and the associated cluster of new credit card numbers into snapshots with an image-like data format, train a modified siamese network with instances of snapshots of an old credit card number, a first new credit card number, and a second new credit card number, and use the modified siamese network to determine one new credit card number that is an upgrade of one old credit card number.
US12211104B2

A policy management system can manage a set of insurance policies, for example by performing automated operations to renew policies for subsequent terms. Some insurance policies may be associated with the same household, company, or other insured party, but may be associated with different cars or other insured elements. The policy management system can have a policy consolidator that identifies database records for a target policy and a related source policy, and can consolidate data from the source policy into the record of the target policy. Thereafter, the policy management system can perform policy renewal operations and other policy management operations together based on the consolidated data in the record for the target policy.
US12211091B2

In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to facilitating the vehicle pick up of orders at shopping facilities. In some embodiments, there is provided a system including: an electronic interface configured to receive an order corresponding to a customer; a control circuit configured to: determine the location of the customer; determine shopping facilities near the customer's location; determine time intervals when the order will be available for pick up at each of the shopping facilities; transmit a visual representation indicating the time intervals of availability at the shopping facilities; and a shopping facility where the order is made available for pick up by the customer during one of the time intervals.
US12211088B2

An approach for product localization is described that includes detecting one or more movement activities of a user in an indoor environment, and determining a respective position for each of the one or more movement activities using a sensor associated with the user. The approach further includes identifying one or more stoppage locations from the detected one or more movement activities, and receiving a list of one or more purchased items purchased by the user in the indoor environment. Finally, the approach further includes correlating at least one of the more purchased items with at least one of the one or more stoppage locations, and predicting the location of the one or more purchased items based on the correlating.
US12211084B2

A computer-implemented method for providing a vehicle recommendation to a user may include: obtaining one or more vehicle images via a device associated with the user; identifying one or more user-selected images of the one or more vehicle images based on user interaction with the one or more vehicle images performed by the user via a user interface; identifying one or more first-level attributes from the one or more user-selected images; obtaining one or more vehicle identifications from the one or more user-selected images; determining one or more second-level attributes based on the one or more vehicle identifications; determining a value of each of the one or more first-level attributes and the one or more second-level attributes; determining the vehicle recommendation based on the value; and transmitting, to the device associated with the user, a notification indicating the vehicle recommendation.
US12211083B2

A method for recommending a product, includes: providing product information having a product description, a main image, and a plurality of alternate images; for each alternate image: performing saliency segmentation to obtain a segment and a background, defining a segment bounding box enclosing the segment, extracting image feature from the segment bounding box, extracting textual feature from the product description, extracting main image feature from the main image, matching the image feature of the segment bounding box to the textual feature and the main image feature, and determining the alternate image as a qualified alternate image if the image feature of the segment bounding box matches the textual feature and the main image feature; and when a number of the qualified alternate image equals to or is greater than a threshold number, recommending the product to customers.
US12211081B2

Methods and systems for providing a product bundle recommendation are disclosed. One method includes receiving a selection of a first product. Data relating to historical customer shopping activity and data describing online shopping sessions in which products are selected for addition to historical shopping carts to which the first product was previously added is accessed. A list bundled products having a complementary relationship with the first product is generated. At least one product from the list of bundled products is selected and the at least one product is presented on a user interface on a customer device as a recommendation for purchase with the first product. A filter may be applied to the list of bundled products, such as a price filter. The method may be performed by a system including one or more computing devices communicating via a network with one or more data storage devices.
US12211080B2

One embodiment sets forth a technique for performing matrix operations. The technique includes traversing a tree structure to access one or more non-empty regions within a matrix. The tree structure includes a first plurality of nodes and a second plurality of nodes corresponding to non-empty regions in the matrix. The first plurality of nodes includes a first node representing a first region and one or more second nodes that are children of the first node and represent second region(s) with an equal size formed within the first region. The second plurality of nodes include a third node representing a third region and one or more fourth nodes that are children of the third node and represent fourth region(s) with substantially equal numbers of non-zero matrix values formed within the third region. The technique also includes performing matrix operation(s) based on the non-empty region(s) to generate a matrix operation result.
US12211073B2

The present disclosure relates to improving recommendations for small shops on an ecommerce platform while maintaining accuracy for larger shops. The improvement is achieved by retraining a machine-learning recommendation model to reduce sample selection bias using a meta-learning process. The retraining process comprises identifying a sample subset of shops on the ecommerce platform, and then creating shop-specific versions of the recommendation model for each of the shops in the subset. Each shop-specific model is created by optimizing the baseline model to predict user-item interactions in a first training dataset for the applicable shop. Each of the shop-specific models is then tested using a second training dataset for the shop. A loss is calculated for each shop-specific model based on the model's predicted user-item interactions and the actual user-item interactions in the second training dataset for the shop. A global loss is calculated based on each of the shop-specific losses, and the baseline model is updated to minimize the global loss. The model includes small and large-shop weight parameters that are applied to user-item interaction scores and that are learned during the re-training process.
US12211072B2

The disclosure describes, in part, techniques for performing pre-authorization during a transaction between a merchant a customer. For instance, a payment service may receive, from a merchant device, payment information of a payment instrument that is used to satisfy a cost of a first item. The payment service may then send an authorization request to a card payment network to hold a first amount of funds based on previous purchase activity. The payment service may further send the merchant device information associated with the customer. Next, the payment service may receive an indication that the customer requests to purchase a second item. In response, the payment service may send a request to the card payment network to capture a second amount of funds that is based on the cost of the first item and a cost of the second item. In response, the payment service may receive approval from the card payment network.
US12211060B2

A system is provided that generates values associated with a promotion impact measure for each promotional campaign based on historical data and an expected audience. A number of inventory units is determined for each promotional campaign that corresponds to a promotion inventory utilization type, based on a difference in estimated demand value for the inventory units for a specified duration for a scatter inventory utilization type and current value of actual demand units for the specified duration and a gross sum of the values for defined number of weeks of each promotional campaign and a plurality of constraints. Inventory units are allocated among each inventory utilization type based on number of inventory units for each promotional campaign to meet defined parameters for the defined amount of inventory units for specified durations until the end of the specified upcoming time-frame. Content is distributed via a channel based on allocated inventory units.
US12211051B2

A method for holding an anomalous privileged operation, that includes receiving, by a privileged operations monitor executing on a client device, a privileged operation request to copy data or modify data, obtaining a plurality of metrics for the privileged operation request, calculating an anomaly score for the privileged operation request, based on the plurality of metrics, making a first determination, based on the anomaly score, that the privileged operation request is anomalous, and based on the first determination, placing a hold on the privileged operation request.
US12211046B1

Systems and methods an enhanced drive-up banking experience with automatic authentication are provided herein. The system includes a communication interface structured to communicatively couple to a network, sensors, a processor, and memory. The system performs operations including receive an indication that a user has activated a user session on a user device; detect, by the sensors, whether that the user device has entered a first geolocation area; receive a first pre-staged transaction request for a first pre-staged transaction, from a user device; generate a first notification indicating a first transaction device and a first provider employee for completing the first pre-staged transaction; receive a second notification indicating that a user associated with the user device is at the first transaction device; verify the pre-staged transaction; responsive to verifying the pre-staged transaction, complete, by the transaction device management circuit, the pre-staged transaction.
US12211040B1

Embodiments provide an alert management and real-time verification system. The system obtains an electronic file that includes a cashier's check data structure comprising cashier's check information for one or more cashier's checks presented at a first institution. The system automatically parses the cashier's check information into one or more cashier's check events according to routing numbers in the cashier's check information. The system sends an electronic verification request message to each second institution identified by one of the routing numbers. The electronic verification request message includes an account number and an amount of the corresponding cashier's check. On receiving a response to the message, the system determines, based on the electronic verification response message, whether the cashier's check has been verified, and sends an electronic response message to the first institution that indicates whether the cashier's check has been verified.
US12211039B2

A method for establishing an externally verifiable proof of work comprises receiving signal information to be kept private; storing the signal information as one or more data packages in a data package store; and receiving a request for a first data package from a first mining node and a request for a second data package from a second mining node. The method further comprises randomly selecting a data package awaiting processing from the data package store and sending the selected data package to the first mining node and to the second first mining node. The method further comprises receiving a first private data output from the first mining node and receiving a second private data output from the second mining node. The method further comprises accessing a commitment database and cross checking that a database entry for a first data package identifier and a second data package identifier are validated.
US12211035B2

A method for providing consent for provisioning data in an opaque blockchain, includes: receiving, by a receiver of a processing server, a consent request for data associated with the processing server stored on a blockchain, the consent request including at least two digital signatures, where a first digital signature is generated by a regulating entity and a second digital signature is generated by a moderating entity in the blockchain network; validating, by a processing device of the processing server, the first digital signature and the second digital signature; digitally signing, by the processing device of the processing server, the received consent request using a private key of a first cryptographic key pair; and transmitting, by a transmitter of the processing server, the digitally signed consent request to the regulating entity.
US12211034B2

A method is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, by a virtual terminal, virtual terminal configuration data from a virtual terminal configuration data source via a virtual terminal configurations API. The method also includes transmitting, by virtual terminal, to a device reader, a value, and receiving, by the virtual terminal, access data from a user device via the device reader. The method further includes transmitting, by the virtual terminal, a transaction request comprising at least the value and the access data to a transaction platform via a transaction API, and receiving, by the virtual terminal, a transaction response from the transaction platform via the transaction API.
US12211032B2

A method of increasing security of digital assets stored in an isolated device by associating the isolated device with a plurality of accounts of the user each configured to store a limited value of digital assets, each of the plurality of accounts is assigned an asymmetric cryptographic key pair (comprising a unique private key encrypting the respective account and a corresponding public key identifying the respective account), transmitting, via a unidirectional secure channel, the public key assigned to each of the plurality of accounts to one or more computing nodes connected to a network community regulating the digital assets and transferring a value of the digital assets by transmitting, to one or more of the computing nodes, the private key of one or more of the plurality of accounts cumulatively storing the transferred value thus releasing the limited value stored in the respective account(s).
US12211030B2

A device may receive an authorization request, associated with a transaction made by a user device as part of a checkout procedure of a website, that includes a virtual transaction card identifier of a virtual transaction card that is being used for the transaction, and a first merchant identifier for a merchant associated with the website. The device may perform a first authorization procedure to determine whether the first merchant identifier, included in the authorization request, satisfies a threshold level of similarity with a second merchant identifier associated with a request to generate the virtual transaction card that occurred prior to receiving the authorization request. The device may determine whether to forego a second authorization procedure based on a result of the first authorization procedure, and cause an authorization response, that includes an indication of whether the transaction is approved, to be provided to another device associated with the merchant.
US12210980B2

In certain embodiments, access to a plurality of sites associated with a plurality of users may be obtained. The plurality of sites may comprise categories of the plurality of users and interactions among the plurality of users. Based on the plurality of sites, a plurality of interaction datasets and a plurality of timing datasets may be generated. The plurality of interaction datasets and the plurality of timing datasets may be provided as inputs to a machine learning model and the machine learning model may be configured based on the inputs. Subsequent to the configuration, an interaction dataset and a timing dataset associated with a user may be provided to the machine learning model. A predicted length of time for the user may be obtained via the machine learning model and one or more settings of a program may be configured to the user based on the predicted length of time.
US12210978B2

The present disclosure provides a point autoencoder including an encoder receiving a 3D point cloud and extracting a global feature and a decoder reconstructing the 3D point cloud from the global feature; a dual autoencoder including the point autoencoder; and a method for dimensional transformation of a point cloud using the dual autoencoder. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to extract features from an input point cloud using a Bias-Induced Decoding (BID) layer, perform reconstruction of a 3D point cloud from the corresponding feature information, and reconstruct a 3D point cloud by using only high-dimensional global features as an input. Also, the present disclosure reduces the amount of storage space used and reduces computational complexity than the conventional structure employing a fully connected layer.
US12210975B2

A data analysis apparatus using a first neural network comprises: a setting unit configured to receive output data from the first input layer, set a weight of each layer in the first intermediate layer based on the output data and a second learning parameter, and output said weight to the first output layer; a weight processing unit included in the first output layer, the weight processing unit being configured to weight each output data with the weight of each layer of the first intermediate layer that was set by the setting unit; and a calculation unit included in the first output layer, the calculation unit being configured to calculate prediction data based on each output data that was weighted by the weight processing unit and a third learning parameter.
US12210974B2

Systems and methods for monitoring of icon in an external display device are disclosed. Images of an icon displayed in a display device may be continually captured as video frames by a video camera of an icon monitoring system. While operating in a first mode, video frames may be continually analyzed to determine if the captured image matches an active template icon known to match the captured image of the icon. While the captured image matches the active template icon, operating in the first mode continues. Upon detecting a failed match to the active template icon, the system starts operating in a second to search among known template icons for a new match. Upon finding a new match, the active template icon may be updated to the new match, and operation switches back to the first mode. Times of transitions between the first and second modes may be recorded.
US12210963B2

A neural processing device is provided. The neural processing device comprises: an activation buffer in which first and second input activations are stored, an activation compressor configured to generate a first compressed input activation by using the first and second input activations, and a tensor unit configured to perform two-dimensional calculations using the first compressed input activation, wherein the first compressed input activation comprises first input row data comprising at least a portion of the first input activation and at least a portion of the second input activation, and first metadata corresponding to the first input row data.
US12210947B2

The technology relates to using on-board sensor data, off-board information and a deep learning model to classify road wetness and/or to perform a regression analysis on road wetness based on a set of input information. Such information includes on-board and/or off-board signals obtained from one or more sources including on-board perception sensors, other on-board modules, external weather measurement, external weather services, etc. The ground truth includes measurements of water film thickness and/or ice coverage on road surfaces. The ground truth, on-board and off-board signals are used to build the model. The constructed model can be deployed in autonomous vehicles for classifying/regressing the road wetness with on-board and/or off-board signals as the input, without referring to the ground truth. The model can be applied in a variety of ways to enhance autonomous vehicle operation, for instance by altering current driving actions, modifying planned routes or trajectories, activating on-board cleaning systems, etc.
US12210937B2

A method of improving usability and transparency of machine-learning aspects of applications providing various types of services is disclosed. Based on a request submitted through an administrative user interface, a data readiness check is performed on underlying data associated with the application. Based on a successful completion of the data readiness check, a configuration file is retrieved from an application server. The configuration file specifies a plurality of keys for generating a machine-learned model for the application. The machine-learned model is trained based on the plurality of keys specified in the configuration file. The machine-learned model is selected from a plurality of machine-learned models based on dry runs of the each of the plurality of models. The machine-learned model is activated with respect to the application. Scores are identified from the underlying data items based on the selected machine-learned model.
US12210925B2

The present invention provides an RFID tag and a processing method for an RFID tag. The RFID tag is mainly applied to a rubber product. The RFID tag includes: a substrate, a chip and an antenna; a chip is arranged on a substrate, wherein the chip has a predetermined code thereon to enable a reader to identify; an antenna, in which the antenna is in a communication connection with a chip, and is configured for transmitting a radio frequency signal between the chip and a reader; the substrate is further provided with a connecting part, and the antenna is connected to the substrate through the connecting part. The RFID tag in the present invention solves the problem in the related art that a substrate in a RFID tag is not reliably connected to an antenna.
US12210918B2

An identification card includes a ceramic substrate with opposite surfaces, and an accommodating part. A marking joint part is arranged in the accommodating part, and the orthogonal projection of the accommodating part on the ceramic substrate covers the orthogonal projection of the marking joint part on the ceramic substrate. The marking joint part includes a bearing layer and a marking part arranged on the bearing layer. The bearing layer and the marking part are of an integrated structure. The ceramic substrate is provided with an accommodating part for setting a marking joint part to ensure the flatness of the identification card, and the orthogonal projection of the accommodating part on the ceramic substrate covers the orthogonal projection of the marking joint part on the ceramic substrate.
US12210909B2

Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for executing, within the container orchestration system, the application using one or more resource units, each resource unit including an application container and an ancillary container, the ancillary container executing a set of GPU metric exporters, receiving, from the application and for each resource unit, a GPU metric including a GPU utilization associated with a respective resource unit, determining, for each resource unit, a custom GPU metric based on a respective GPU metric, the custom GPU metric aggregating values of the respective GPU metric over a time period, determining, by an autoscaler, an average GPU metric based on one or more custom GPU metrics, and selectively scaling, by the autoscaler, the application within the container orchestration system based on the average GPU metric by adjusting a number of resource units executing the application.
US12210905B2

Provision of multiple register allocation sizes for threads is described. An example of a system includes one or more processors including a graphics processor, the graphics processor including at least a first local thread dispatcher (TDL) and multiple processing resources, each processing resource including a plurality of registers; and memory for storage of data for processing, wherein the one or more processors are to determine a register size for a first thread; identify one or more processing resources having sufficient register space for the first thread; select a processing resource of the one or more processing resources having sufficient register space to assign the first thread; select an available thread slot of the selected processing resource for the first thread; and allocate registers of the selected processing resource for the first thread.
US12210903B1

In an approach, a processor indexes system documents of a computer system using a text search engine, resulting in a search index, where the computer system is described by a set of system parameters with values stored in the system documents. A processor provides a set of scheduling rules for allocating computing resources of the computer system, each scheduling rule comprising a search query referencing one or more of the system parameters. A processor executes search queries by the text search engine against the search index, resulting in scored system documents and associated search queries. A processor ranks at least part of the set of scheduling rules using scores of the associated search queries. A processor selects scheduling rules in accordance with the ranking. A processor executes the selected scheduling rules for scheduling a workload on the computer system.
US12210901B2

The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for collecting, organizing, and managing third-party content from multiple sources associated with a user account to present as synthesized tasks in a consolidated graphical user interface and minimize the distraction provided by multiple interfaces. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems analyze content from various web-based data sources, collect relevant content, create synthesized tasks associated with the relevant content, and present the relevant content to the user grouped into synthesized tasks in a single graphical user interface. Additionally, the disclosed systems can prioritize the generated synthesized tasks within the graphical user interface and provide productivity metrics based on the degree to which an associated user interacts with the synthesized tasks.
US12210900B2

A mechanism is described for facilitating intelligent thread scheduling at autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting dependency information relating to a plurality of threads corresponding to a plurality of workloads associated with tasks relating to a processor including a graphics processor. The method may further include generating a tree of thread groups based on the dependency information, where each thread group includes multiple threads, and scheduling one or more of the thread groups associated a similar dependency to avoid dependency conflicts.
US12210899B1

Data payloads from an external data storage system are processed in an observability pipeline system. In some aspects, the observability pipeline system defines a leader role and worker roles. The leader role generates a data discovery task based on configuration information for a data collection task. A worker role executes the data discovery task, which includes communicating with an external data storage system to identify a data payload that is stored on the external data storage system and contains event data that meet event filter criteria. The leader role generates data collection tasks based on the data payload. Worker roles execute the data collection tasks. Executing a data collection task includes: communicating with the external data storage system to obtain a subset of filtered event data from the data payload; and streaming the subset of filtered event data to an observability pipeline process.
US12210898B1

The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for dynamically managing or distributing models across a plurality of shards. The method includes determining that a first model is to be added to a first shard of a plurality of shards, the first shard being determined based at least in part on a predetermined cost function, adding the first model to the first shard, and restarting the first shard. The first model is associated with a first tenant. The first shard comprises at least one second model that is associated with a second tenant.
US12210896B2

A network device can include packet processing circuitry to provide support for virtual functions. The packet processing circuitry can perform operations such as receiving data traffic from a virtual machine, determining an egress rule for the data traffic based on a rule table, and encapsulating the data traffic according to the egress rule.
US12210893B2

A first request to establish a transport including a first key is received from a first client supported by a host system. A second request to establish the transport including a second key is received from a second client supported by the host system. A determination as to whether the first key matches the second key is made. In response to determining that the first key matches the second key, a first end point of the transport is provided to the first client and a second end point of the transport is provided to the second client.
US12210875B2

A first set of instructions, which is provided access to a first address space, is scheduled for execution at a first hardware thread of a processor. Prior to executing an instruction of a second set of instructions, which accesses a second address space, at the first hardware thread, a determination is made that the second address space is accessible from a second hardware thread of the processor.
US12210874B2

Apparatus and methods for processing of a vector load or store micro-operation with mask information as a no-operation (no-op) when a mask vector for the vector load or store micro-operation has all inactive mask elements or processing vector load or store sub-micro-operation(s) with active mask element(s) are described. An integrated circuit includes a load store unit configured to receive load or store micro-operations cracked from a vector load or store operation, determine that a mask vector for the vector load or store micro-operation is fully inactive, and process the vector load or store micro-operation as a no-operation. If the mask vector is not fully inactive, the vector load or store micro-operation is unrolled into vector load or store sub-micro-operation(s) which have active mask element(s). Vector load or store sub-micro-operation(s) which have inactive mask element(s) are ignored.
US12210870B2

An application processor receives first and safety state information from first and second microcontrollers, and respective first and second sets of bytes forming a first identifier of the first microcontroller and a second identifier of the second microcontroller. The processor concatenates a safety message including the first and second safety state information, the safety message including the first set of bytes and the second set of bytes. The processor transmits the safety message to a second application processor of a safety controller, which separates, the first set of bytes and the second set of bytes, compares at least one of the first set of bytes and the second set of bytes to a data structure of known microcontroller identifiers, and verifies the safety state information based on identifying a match.
US12210856B2

Systems and methods for performing dynamic code management, such as dynamic management of JavaScript tags in webpages or code segments in native applications, are disclosed. A user device loading a web or native application can access a factor, such as a user device-specific attribute or a piece of content of the webpage or native application being loaded. That factor can be applied to a rule that is evaluated (e.g., by the user device or a code server) to select one or more desired segments of code (e.g., JavaScript tags or native application code) to be executed by the user device from a pool of available code (e.g., pre-embedded code or dynamically injected code).
US12210848B2

The technology provides a model-based approach for multilingual text rewriting that is applicable across many languages and across different styles including formality levels or other textual attributes. The model is configured to manipulate both language and textual attributes jointly. This approach supports zero-shot formality-sensitive translation, with no labeled data in the target language. An encoder-decoder architectural approach with attribute extraction is used to train rewriter models that can thus be used in “universal” textual rewriting across many different languages. A cross-lingual learning signal can be incorporated into the training approach. Certain training processes do not employ any exemplars. This approach enables not just straight translation, but also the ability to create new sentences with different attributes.
US12210847B2

A sentence generation device has: an estimation unit for receiving input of a first sentence and a focus point related to generation of a second sentence to be generated based on the first sentence, and estimating importance of each word constituting the first sentence using a pre-trained model; and a generation unit for generating the second sentence based on the importance, and thus makes it possible to evaluate importance of a constituent element of an input sentence in correspondence with a designated focus point.
US12210844B2

Included are input means for inputting first data that is data relating to a plurality of letters included in a text string that is a generation target, and generating means for generating second data that is data relating to the text string that satisfies predetermined constraint conditions including at least a condition relating to plausibility of the sequence of letters, on the basis of the first data.
US12210843B2

A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data is implemented by a voice assistant. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing in a memory a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language (‘machine representation’); the machine representation including representations of user speech or text input to a human/machine interface; and (b) automatically processing the machine representations to analyse the user speech or text input.
US12210831B2

In various examples there is a computer-implemented method of database construction. The method comprises storing a knowledge graph comprising nodes connected by edges, each node representing a topic. Accessing a topic type hierarchy comprising a plurality of types of topics, the topic type hierarchy having been computed from a corpus of text documents. One or more text documents are accessed and the method involves labelling a plurality of the nodes with one or more labels, each label denoting a topic type from the topic type hierarchy, by, using a deep language model; or for an individual one of the nodes representing a given topic, searching the accessed text documents for matches to at least one template, the template being a sequence of words and containing the given topic and a placeholder for a topic type; and storing the knowledge graph comprising the plurality of labelled nodes.
US12210830B2

In some aspects, a computing device may receive, at a data processing system, a set of utterances for training or inferencing with a named entity recognizer to assign a label to each token piece from the set of utterances. The computing device may determine a length of each utterance in the set and when the length of the utterance exceeds a pre-determined threshold of token pieces: dividing the utterance into a plurality of overlapping chunks of token pieces; assigning a label together with a confidence score for each token piece in a chunk; determining a final label and an associated confidence score for each chunk of token pieces by merging two confidence scores; determining a final annotated label for the utterance based at least on the merging the two confidence scores; and storing the final annotated label in a memory.
US12210827B2

Ranking a plurality of text elements, each comprising at least one word, by specificity. For each text element to be ranked, such a method includes computing an embedding vector that locates a text element in an embedding space, and selecting a set of text fragments from reference text. Each of these text fragments contains the text element to be ranked and further text elements. For each text fragment, the method calculates respective distances in the embedding space between the further text elements. The method further includes calculating a specificity score for the text element to be ranked and storing the specificity score. After ranking the plurality of text elements, a text data structure using the specificity scores for text elements to extract data having a desired specificity from the data structure may be processed.
US12210819B2

A document management system identifies policies specific to an entity's domain and applies relevant policies to documents managed by the entity. The document management system identifies a portion of the document with a triggering property associated with the entity's domain and tags that portion with an application programming interface (API) plug-in. After the document is transmitted to a recipient, the document management system activates the API plug-in. The API plug-in runs a function on the document, applying a subset of the entity's policies to the document.
US12210809B2

An aspect of the disclosed embodiments is a method for printed circuit board (PCB) component placement comprising: graphically displaying, on a display device, PCB design features of a PCB design; and providing a user interface control for designating one or more of the PCB design features as electrical contacts for a first selected electrical component. Other aspects are disclosed.
US12210808B2

A system includes a processor configured to build a model of human behavior that can be assigned to a simulated human, where the model is trained on a dataset of interactions between humans, and parameters of the model can be adjusted. The processor is further configured to build a model of a task to be engaged in by a plurality of simulated humans, simulate interactions between the plurality of simulated humans, and display behavior of the simulated humans and information about the interactions between the simulated humans during simulated interactions.
US12210804B2

Design process that performs geometry synthesis on a 3D model of a product based on a design problem statement and manufacturing constraints associated with a manufacturing machine intended to manufacture the product. The manufacturing constraints may include dimensions for a tool bit, dimensions for a tool head, a set of machining directions of the manufacturing machine, or any combination thereof. For a 5-axis manufacturing machine, the set of machining directions may be determined by a “NormalSearch” algorithm and/or a “HeatSearch” algorithm. The geometry synthesis produces a design solution comprising a final 3D model of the product, whereby each point on the boundary of the final 3D model is determined to be accessible by a tool bit and/or tool head in at least one machining direction of the manufacturing machine. Thus, the design solution for the product is more easily and directly manufacturable by the manufacturing machine.
US12210802B2

A computer-implemented method/system/instructions of automatic margin line proposal includes receiving a 3D digital model of at least a portion of a jaw, the 3D digital model including a digital preparation tooth; determining, using a first trained neural network, an inner representation of the 3D digital model; and determining, using a second trained neural network, a margin line proposal from a base margin line and the inner representation of the 3D digital model.
US12210801B2

Example techniques involve invoking voice assistance for a media playback system. In some embodiments, a NMD stores in memory a set of command information comprising a listing of playback commands and associated command criteria. The NMD captures a voice input and detects inclusion, within the voice input, of one or more particular playback commands from among the playback commands in the listing. In response, the NMD selects a local voice assistant that supports (a) one or more additional playback commands relative to a cloud-based VAS and (b) fewer non-playback commands relative to the cloud-based VAS, determines, via the local voice assistant, an intent in the captured voice input, and performs a response to the determined intent. The NMD foregoes selection of the cloud-based VAS when the local voice assistant is selected.
US12210795B2

Implementations of the subject technology provide a small, portable physical object for use in an extended reality system. The system may include a device that allows a user/wearer to interact with virtual representations of content such as stored data and/or applications overlaid on the user's physical environment. The object has a unique identifier that is obtainable by the device or another device. The object may be an inactive device without any internal circuitry, a passive device with circuitry that is activated by another device, or an active device having its own processing circuitry and/or a display housed in the body of the object. The object can be associated with content displayed by the device to provide a user with a physical object that can be moved or manipulated to move, modify, transport, or store the content generated, stored, and/or displayed in an extended reality environment.
US12210794B2

A system is described for redirecting multimedia in a collaborative session on a virtual desktop. The virtual desktop session can be established, and collaborator virtual desktop clients can be connected in a collaborative session where each collaborator can view the desktop GUI in their respective virtual desktop client. A request can be received to play media in a media player in the virtual desktop. The media stream can be intercepted in the virtual desktop before it is rendered in the media player and conveyed to each collaborator's client over a separate virtual channel established between the virtual desktop and each collaborator. The data stream can then be rendered in a client media player by each collaborator's client.
US12210790B2

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a signal transmission component, a first display portion and a second display portion. The signal transmission component extends along a first direction. The first display portion is electrically connected to the signal transmission component. The second display portion is electrically connected to the signal transmission component. The first display portion is separated from the signal transmission component by a first distance, the second display portion is separated from the signal transmission component by a second distance, and the first distance is less than the second distance.
US12210788B2

According to various embodiments, the an electronic device includes: a communication module comprising communication circuitry, a camera, a display, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control the electronic device to: make a video call connection with at least one counterpart device through the communication module, analyze user emotion\ based on a user face recognized in an image acquired from the camera in response to an utterance of a speaker of the at least one counterpart device, and display a reaction induction object inducing a suitable reaction according to user emotion varying in response to the utterance of the speaker on the display.
US12210786B2

An image forming apparatus usable from a cloud print service by registering the image forming apparatus to the cloud print service. The image forming apparatus performs a deletion operation of information about the cloud print service in which the image forming apparatus is registered, the information being stored in the image forming apparatus, and outputs a notification prompting deletion of registration of the image forming apparatus from the cloud print service when deletion of the registered information about the cloud print service is executed by the deletion operation.
US12210770B1

Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for automated data retrieval from an integrated circuit (IC). An example system receives an alert indicating a trigger event associated with the IC; extracts, using a scan island (e.g., a partition of the IC that is isolated for data retrieval), data from a plurality of scan chains and a plurality of random-access memories (RAMs) associated with the IC in response to receiving the alert; stores the data in an external non-volatile storage media; and reboots the IC upon storing the data in the external non-volatile storage media. In this way, embodiments of the present invention offer a scalable and secure method for real-time data extraction and processing in the event of an integrated circuit malfunction, improving diagnostics while ensuring cost-effectiveness and data security.
US12210765B2

An example method for optimizing data deletion in a storage system comprises: monitoring one or more attributes associated with a storage volume associated with a file system; and setting, based on the monitoring of the one or more attributes, a discard option to be either enabled or disabled for the storage volume, wherein when the discard option is enabled, the file system is configured to automatically issue a discard request in response to a request to delete data stored on one or more blocks within a storage device associated with the storage volume, the discard request configured to command the storage device to free the one or more blocks for use by the file system to store additional data; and when the discard option is disabled, the file system does not automatically issue the discard request in response to the request to delete the data.
US12210750B2

A method includes determining respective health characteristic values of blocks of non-volatile memory cells, determining, based on the respective health characteristic values and at least one effective health factor of the blocks of the non-volatile memory cells, effective respective health characteristic values of the blocks of non-volatile memory cells, and based on the effective respective health characteristic values, performing a media management operation involving a block of non-volatile memory cells of the blocks of non-volatile memory cells having an effective respective health characteristic value that is greater than a health criterion.
US12210739B2

A device and method for recommending a custom function to the user in an electronic device. The electronic device may obtain information of a user gesture that repeatedly occurs based on interaction of the user detected by at least one sensor and determine one or more customized functions to be suggested to the user, among functions of the electronic device including a plurality of accessibility functions, in consideration of the information of the user gesture. The electronic device may execute a target customized function selected by the user from among the one or more customized functions.
US12210733B2

The invention is related to security systems and methods for proactively informing a user about an artifact associated with a clickable object on a user interface with which the user is interacting, where such information is provided to the user prior to selection of the clickable object. The information includes a safety assessment of the clickable object, details about the underlying artifact, such as the contents of an archive file, and general information helpful in assisting the user with making a decision as to whether to select the clickable object.
US12210732B2

An information processing system distributes a video and includes processing circuitry configured to accept selection of a first object from a first information processing terminal; transmit, in accordance with the selection, a predetermined notification to a second information processing terminal associated with the first object; receive a response to the predetermined notification from the second information processing terminal; determine a state of a first screen displayed on the first information processing terminal; and decide, based on the determined state of the first screen, a second screen to be displayed on the second information processing terminal.
US12210730B2

The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for multi-user communication sessions. In some examples, a device initiates a live stream in a communication session. In some examples, a device transitions between streaming live audio and live video. In some examples, a device enables synchronizing media playback during a live stream. In some examples, a device displays synchronized media playback and plays a reaction from a first participant of the communication session.
US12210726B1

A framework and a method provided for monitoring and managing IoT devices. The method includes providing a cloud- and device-agnostic IoT cloud platform that interfaces with applications, IoT management platforms, and IoT device controllers. Each IoT management platform manages one or more IoT device controllers, and each IoT device controller controls a respective IoT device. The method includes receiving a request for performing a transaction corresponding to an IoT device from an application. In response to receiving the request, the method includes generating a set of operation commands for performing the transaction through an IoT management platform. The set of operation commands is generated based on a set of configurations associating the transaction to the IoT management platform. The method also includes triggering performance of the transaction by issuing the set of operation commands to the IoT management platform.
US12210721B2

Aspects concern a computer-implemented method for controlling access to a chat support system, the method comprising: determining whether a queue limit for a chat support queue of the chat support system will be exceeded by adding a further user to the chat support queue; and preventing that a user interface access to the chat support system is provided for the further user in case it is determined that the queue limit for the chat support queue will be exceeded by adding the further user to the chat support queue.
US12210712B1

In some examples, a touch screen can include touch sense electrodes coupled to touch sense circuitry and drive lines that couple display pixels to display circuitry. In some examples, the touch screen can include display lines oriented along a first axis (e.g., vertically) and display lines oriented along a second axis (e.g., horizontally) that is orthogonal to the first axis. In some examples, the touch screen can include touch sense electrodes oriented along the second axis at locations of display lines oriented along the first axis and touch sense electrodes oriented along the first axis at locations of display liens oriented along the second axis.
US12210711B2

Display panel and display device are provided. The display panel includes a base substrate; a display function layer, on a side of the base substrate, the display function layer including a plurality of subpixels arranged in an array along a first direction and a second direction, and the first direction intersects the second direction; and touch electrodes, on a side of the display function layer away from the base substrate, the touch electrodes including a plurality of touch wires intersecting to form a grid with a plurality of hollow parts, a vertical projection of a subpixel of the plurality of subpixels on a plane where the base substrate is located within a vertical projection of a hollow part of the plurality of hollow parts on the plane where the base substrate is located.
US12210709B2

A display substrate, including: a base substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels each including at least a pixel electrode and a common electrode; a first interlayer insulating layer between layers where the pixel electrode and the common electrode are respectively located; and a plurality of touch signal lines extending along a second direction and arranges side by side along a first direction, where a distance between orthographic projections of the touch signal line and the pixel electrode in the sub-pixel closest to the touch signal line in the first direction on the base substrate is a first distance; a distance between orthographic projections of the touch signal line and the common electrode in the sub-pixel closest to the touch signal line in the first direction on the base substrate is a second distance, and the first distance is less than the second distance.
US12210695B2

An operating system with an operating device and an interface device. The operating device has a receiving part and an operating element movably mounted on the receiving part relative to the receiving part for performing an input. A movement resistance for the movability of the operating element is set based on a relative position of the operating element by a controllable braking device and considers a stored assignment between relative positions and movement resistances. The assignment is adjustable via interface device. The interface device displays a coordinate system with default points for a setting range that can be positioned by an input means. The interface device creates a curve, which runs in accordance with the default points, and the interface device displays the curve on the user interface and determines the assignment based on the shape of the curve.
US12210694B1

A mouse having a mouse magnetic scroll wheel device operatively couplable to an information handling system comprising a mouse microcontroller, a mouse power management unit, and an encoder where the mouse magnetic scroll wheel device includes a scroll wheel with a scroll wheel outer surface, an axle, and a hollowed out core portion of a scroll wheel structure and the axle is operatively coupled to the encoder to record scrolling input from a user. A cradle to receive the scroll wheel such that the scroll wheel is rotatable in the cradle. The scroll wheel has a scroll wheel metal gear and a scroll wheel permanent magnet disposed in the hollowed out core portion where magnetic interaction of the teeth of the scroll wheel metal gear and the permanent magnet as the scroll wheel rotates generates a magnetic haptic feedback for the scroll wheel.
US12210690B1

A method of an optical navigation device, to be coupled to a computer device through a specific communication interface, includes: providing an optical sensor to sense and generate an optical navigation position related signal in response to a movement of the optical navigation device; detecting a moving speed of the movement of the optical navigation device; and, dynamically adjusting a transmission report rate of the optical navigation device, which is used to periodically transmit the optical navigation position related signal to the computer device, based on the detect moving speed.
US12210682B2

Systems, methods and wearable devices associated with mind/brain-computer interfaces are disclosed. Embodiments herein include features related to one or more of optical-based brain signal acquisition, decoding modalities, encoding modalities, brain-computer interfacing, AR/VR content interaction, signal to noise ration enhancement, and/or motion artefact reduction, among other features set forth herein. Certain implementations may include or involve processes of collecting and processing brain activity data, such as those associated with the use of a brain-computer interface that enables, for example, decoding and/or encoding a user's brain functioning, neural activities, and/or activity patterns associated with thoughts, including sensory-based thoughts. Further, the present systems and methods may be configured to leverage brain-computer interface and/or non-invasive wearable device aspects to provide enhanced user interactions for next-generation wearable devices, controllers, and/or other computing components based on the human thoughts, brain signals, and/or mind activity that are detected and processed.
US12210677B2

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to gaze-based active device identification and management. At a first time, at least one reference gaze image of a user while the user is gazing at a first user device of a plurality of user devices in an environment of the user can be collected. At a second time, a current gaze image of the user can be collected. The at least one reference gaze image can be compared with the current gaze image to determine that the user is gazing at the first user device of the plurality of user devices.
US12210673B2

Disclosed are a spatial positioning method of a separate virtual system, and a separate virtual system. The spatial positioning method of the separated virtual system provided by the present application, when the mobile terminal is attached to the virtual head-mounted display device and the mobile terminal performs the virtual mode, the 3DOF is determined from the first image captured by the camera, and the rotational freedom degree is obtained based on the first inertial sensor, so the spatial positioning of the virtual head-mounted display device is determined, and the spatial positioning accuracy of the mobile terminal. In addition, the man-machine interaction based on the spatial positioning enhances the game experience, thereby enhancing the performance of the head-mounted reality device separate from the mobile terminal.
US12210671B2

An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communication interface, a memory configured to store executable program and a processor coupled with the memory and configured to sense a predetermined event related to a first external device for controlling the electronic apparatus, based on the sensed predetermined event, identify at least one second external device for obtaining information related to the first external device, receive information related to the first external device from the at least one second external device, identify a user input of manipulating the first external device based on the information related to the first external device, and perform a function of the electronic apparatus based on the user input.
US12210667B2

A medical image overlay application for use with augmented reality (AR) eyewear devices. The image overlay application enables a user of an eyewear device to activate an image overlay on a display when the eyewear device detects that the camera field of view includes a medical image location. Medical image locations are defined relative to virtual markers. The image overlay includes one or more medical images, presented according to a configurable transparency value. An image registration tool transforms the location and scale of each medical image to the physical environment, such that the medical image as presented on the display closely matches the location and size of real objects.
US12210653B2

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, and computing entities for predictive data protection using a data protection policy determination machine learning model. In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising: processing a historical data corpus using the data protection policy determination machine learning model to generate a dynamic data protection policy update describing inferred data protection instructions; determining an attestation subset of the inferred data protection instructions by comparing the instructions and prior data protection instructions described by an existing data protection policy; for each inferred data protection instruction in the attestation subset, determining a per-instruction attestation determination based on end-user feedback; generating an updated data protection policy by updating the existing policy in accordance with each inferred instruction in the attestation subset whose per-instruction attestation determination describes an affirmative attestation determination; and performing the predictive data protection using the updated data protection policy.
US12210647B2

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for using additive and subtractive noise for preserving the privacy of users. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a first set of genuine user group identifiers that identify user groups that include a user as a member. A second set of user group identifiers is generated for the user by removing zero or more genuine user group identifiers from the first set to generate the second set and adding, to the second set, one or more fake user group identifiers for user groups that do not include the user as a member. A probabilistic data structure is generated based on the second set of user group identifiers. The probabilistic data structure is transmitted. Data indicating a set of digital components including at least one digital component selected based on the probabilistic data structure is received.
US12210645B1

A computer-implemented method for extracting data from separate databases and loading the data into a central data store without introducing additional security vulnerabilities is disclosed. The method begins by receiving a configuration comprising one or more transformation functions to be applied to one or more data fields. Values of the one or more data fields are extracted from the databases for a plurality of records, the values being previously tagged with metadata indicating at least a datatype for the values. Based at least in part on the configuration and the metadata tagging, a function from the one or more transformation functions is selected for each value. A second database with a central data store is populated with transformed data. Requestors are not permitted to access to pre-transformed data in the first one or more databases while being allowed access to at least some post-transformed data in the central data store.
US12210644B2

Embodiments herein describe a code obfuscation system. The code obfuscation system accesses computer code and identifies a subset of the code to obfuscate. The code obfuscation system analyzes the identified subset of code, the analysis comprising identifying code elements and identifying one or more files and directories. The code obfuscation system generates first obfuscation data for the identified code elements and generates second obfuscation data for the one or more files and directories. The code obfuscation system generates obfuscated computer code by applying the first obfuscation data and the second obfuscation data to the originally accessed computer code.
US12210638B2

There are provided systems and methods for an authorization and access control system for access rights using relationship graphs. A service provider may provide an authorization and access control system that allows users within the service provider and/or customer entities to assign and change access rights or permissions to computing resources. When providing control of these access rights, the service provider may utilize relationship graphs, queried and generated using a graph database, to visualize and determine access rights that are inherited through different relationships and policies defining these access rights. The relationship graph may show edges for nodes that correspond to related objects, such as actors, groups, and resources. Paths over the relationship graph may be used to determine access rights that may be inherited by users. Once determined, these access rights may be established and/or updated with computing systems.
US12210634B2

Method, computer program product, and computer system are provided. Program queries for an indicator of dependency between a usage domain and a control domain in a virtual machine (VM) configuration having a cryptographic AP adapter. The VM and the cryptographic AP adapter are both installed on a hardware server. Program sets an internal bitmap based on a result and generates one or more sets of AP commands, based on the setting of the internal bitmap. The sets of AP commands are directed to an adjunct processor (AP) message queue on a cryptographic AP in the VM configuration. Program enqueues the one or more sets of program instructions to the VM having an identifier corresponding to an offset in the program internal bitmap. Program receives status at completion of the one or more sets of AP commands from the VM having the cryptographic AP in the VM configuration.
US12210625B2

A method for allowing a firmware update when a digital certificate for a firmware update image is expired includes initiating a firmware update of a computing device and determining, using a secure boot process, that a firmware update image has an expired digital certificate. The firmware update image is stored in nonvolatile memory accessible to a service processor and to a host processor of the computing device. The method includes determining that the firmware update image and an image of firmware with code of the secure boot process were digitally signed by a same entity and overriding the secure boot process to allow execution of the firmware update image in response to determining that the firmware update image and the image of the firmware with code of the secure boot process were digitally signed by a same entity.
US12210623B2

The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and computer program products for generating an attack kill chain for threat analysis. The method comprises receiving a first security event captured by a first security operation associated with a computing device, and receiving a second security event captured by a second security operation associated with the computing device. The first security event and the second security event are associated with an attack campaign. The method further comprises mapping the first security event to first security data in an attack repository, and mapping the second security event to second security data in the attack repository. The method also comprises determining based on the mapping, one or more attack execution operations for executing the attack campaign associated with the first security event and the second security event. Additionally, the method sequences the one or more attack execution operations to form an attack kill chain.
US12210622B1

Systems and methods for performing anomalous activity monitoring for a service provider network are disclosed. In response to receiving an activity log, a machine learning-based activity monitor may parse the activity log into segments, generate event objects from a segment of the activity log, encode the event objects, and then reconstruct the event objects based on decoding the encoded event objects. The encoding and decoding may be performed based on a model that was trained using training data with no known malicious activity. The event objects may comprise at least two or more event defining characteristics and an event count. By comparing the reconstructed event objects to corresponding initial versions of the event objects, the machine learning-activity monitor may determine an anomaly score and may provide an indication of events determined to be anomalous based on the score.
US12210621B2

Methods, computer readable media, and devices to automatically construct kill-chain from security alerts are disclosed. One method may include collecting a plurality of security alerts, receiving a selection of a high severity security alert associated with a node and a user from among the plurality of security alerts, creating a security narrative for the high severity security alert by providing a set of historical security alerts to a deep learning architecture, the set including security alerts selected based on a relation to the node and the user, and identifying a subset of the set of historical security alerts, including security alerts relevant to the high severity security alert, in a reverse time order by the deep learning architecture, and providing the security narrative as part of a response to the high severity security alert.
US12210605B2

The technology described herein includes a method that includes obtaining a set of color-coded sequences, each of which includes a sequence of colors. Each color-coded sequence has auto-correlation properties characterized by a merit factor larger than a first predetermined threshold, and cross-correlation properties among the color-coded sequences characterized by a demerit factor lower than a second predetermined threshold. A color-coded sequence is randomly selected from the set of color-coded sequences. A subject is illuminated in accordance with the sequence of colors in the selected color-coded sequence. A sequence of images of the subject are captured and are temporally synchronized with illumination by the color-coded sequence. A filtered response image is generated from the sequence of images by a matched filtering process. Based on the filtered response image, it is determined that the subject is an alternative representation of a live person. In response, access to a secure system is prevented.
US12210600B1

A recipient communication device and method wherein a user authenticates a message that is being received. The method includes receiving, by a messaging utility of the recipient communication device, a message transmitted from a sender communication device. The messaging utility determines that one of (a) sender authentication of the message and (b) recipient authentication to open the message is required. In response to sender authentication being required, the recipient communication device transmits a request to the sender communication device for sender authentication of the message, and receives a certification of the message based on an authentication of a user input via the sender communication device. When recipient authentication is required, the recipient is prompted to enter biometric input at the recipient device. In one embodiment, a clearinghouse service authenticates a user of a communication device in order for the recipient communication device to receive certification of the user and/or the message.
US12210596B2

Methods and systems for installing and running an application for a terminal are described. The method may include uploading an application to an application store. The method may also include downloading, by a terminal, the application from the application store, wherein the terminal is connected to the application store by a network. Furthermore, the method may include authorizing, by a terminal management server (TMS) coupled to the terminal and the application store via the network, the terminal to install and run the downloaded application.
US12210595B2

Systems and methods for processing and using sensor data. The methods comprise: obtaining semantic labels assigned to data points; performing a supervised machine learning algorithm and an unsupervised machine learning algorithm to respectively generate a first confidence score and a second confidence score for each semantic label of said semantic labels, the first and second confidence scores each representing a degree of confidence that the semantic label is correctly assigned to a respective one of the data points; generating a final confidence score for each said semantic label based on the first and second confidence scores; selecting subsets of the data points based on the final confidence scores; and aggregating the data points of the subsets to produce an aggregate set of data points.
US12210594B2

Techniques for data classification using clustering. A method includes replacing a plurality of portions of metadata for a plurality of data objects with a plurality of replacement characters in order to generate a plurality of replaced strings; clustering the plurality of data objects into a plurality of clusters based on commonalities between the plurality of replaced strings of data objects of the plurality of data objects; classifying a subset of the data objects in each cluster into at least one class; and aggregating classes within at least one cluster of the plurality of clusters, wherein aggregating classes within each of the at least one cluster includes applying the at least one class for the subset of the data objects in each cluster to each other data object within the cluster.
US12210592B1

Artificial Intelligence systems, methods, and products identify significant patterns in data and persist those patterns and/or their constituents as data entries in databases or as transitory patterns of activation. The constituents associated with significant patterns include data constructs representing concepts or filter/exemplars. Those concepts or filters/exemplars themselves represent significant patterns. Recursive identification of significant patterns of significant patterns, and significant patterns of those patterns, and so on to any degree of recursiveness desired, facilitates the leveraging of combinatorial expansion to categorize, recognize, associate, and predict complex combinations of information while maintaining practical control over resources. In preferred implementations, the elements of the systems, methods, and products described herein are transparently encapsulated, and their behaviors are monitored and enforced, to provide alignment with human-determined objectives and rules.
US12210588B2

The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for machine learning. Machine learning is performed based on training data via a dual loop learning process that includes a first loop for data decoding learning and a second loop for label decoding learning. In the first loop, first parameters associated with decoding are updated to generate updated first parameters based on a first label, estimated via the decoding using the first parameters, and a second label, predicted via the label decoding using second parameters. In the second loop, the second parameters associated with the label decoding are updated to generate updated second parameters based on a third label, obtained via the decoding using the updated first parameters, and a ground truth label.
US12210578B2

A system for database access comprising a plurality of databases, each database having a plurality of defined data fields and a mapping system coupled to the plurality of databases, the mapping system configured to create an algorithmic relationship between a plurality of first fields of a plurality of first databases, and a corresponding field of a plurality of second fields of a plurality of second databases.
US12210577B2

A method and an apparatus for training a search recommendation model, and a method and an apparatus for sorting search results are provided. The training method includes: obtaining a training sample set including a sample user behavior group sequence and a masked sample user behavior group sequence; and using the training sample set as input data, and training a search recommendation model, to obtain a trained search recommendation model, where a target of the training is to obtain the object of the response operation of the sample user after the mask processing, the search recommendation model is used to predict a label of a candidate recommendation object in search results corresponding to a query field when a target user inputs the query field, and the label is used to indicate a probability that the target user performs a response operation on the candidate recommendation object.
US12210576B1

Techniques are generally described for modeling seasonal relevance for online search. A first query or item comprising text is received. A language model may be used to generate a plurality of token embeddings representing the text. In some cases, the first neural network may predict a seasonal relevance vector for the first query or item based on the plurality of token embeddings, the seasonal relevance vector being predicted based at least in part on a similarity between the text of the first query or item and at least one other query/item for which monthly concentration data is available. The seasonal relevance vector, including a respective seasonal relevance score for each month of a year, may be output.
US12210573B2

A system for chaining biographic inputs using artificial intelligence includes a computing device, a biographic parameter module operating on the computing device wherein the biographic parameter module is configured to receive a first biographic input wherein the first biographic input identifies a user; parse the first biographic input to retrieve a key element; and retrieve an element of stored data relating to the key element wherein the element of stored data further comprises a plurality of biographic inputs; and a chaining module, the transmission module configured to receive the first biographic input and the element of stored data from the biographic parameter module; evaluate the first biographic input and the element of stored data to determine a relation between the first biographic input and the element of stored data; and chain the first biographic input and the element of stored data.
US12210571B2

A graph data processing method includes: acquiring target graph data to be processed; compiling statistics on the target graph data according to a first preset rule, so as to divide the target graph data into a plurality of graph data blocks and determine a boundary value and weight of each of the plurality of graph data blocks; and storing the boundary value and weight of each of the plurality of graph data blocks in a corresponding memory according to a second preset rule, so as to schedule the target graph data during a graph calculation process by use of the boundary values and the weights.
US12210566B1

An apparatus for generation of an integrated data file, wherein the apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive content data from a user, receive preference data from the user as a function of receipt of the content data, create a plurality of templates as a function of the preference data and the content data, receive user feedback associated with the plurality of templates, generate one or more updated templates as function of the user feedback and the plurality of templates, generate an integrated data file as a function of one or more updated templates and transmit the integrated data file to one or more content producers.
US12210558B2

The present disclosure describes techniques of storing and accessing multimedia files. The techniques comprise obtaining at least two multimedia files; performing format parsing for each of the at least two multimedia files separately to obtain audio encoding data, video encoding data, and container format data of each of the at least two multimedia files; storing the container format data of each of the at least two multimedia files separately, and storing one copy of the audio encoding data and video encoding data; and generating and storing index data comprising information of identifying encoding offset of the container format data, the audio encoding data, and the video encoding data in each of the at least two multimedia files, and comprising information indicative of storage address of the container format data, the audio encoding data, and the video encoding data of each of the at least two multimedia files.
US12210557B2

An input of a data group is received in which tag ID-appended data and time information on time the tag ID-appended data was created are associated; the number of instances is counted of the tag ID-appended data, to which a tag identified by a tag ID has been appended, occurring in each time slice for each tag ID included in the tag ID-appended data and for each time slice obtained by dividing a timeline by a predetermined duration, and the tags are extracted as a few exuberant and useful minority tags in a case where the counted number of instances is greater than a predetermined instance number threshold value and where a ratio of the time slices in which the number of instances does not satisfy a predetermined criterion is greater than a predetermined ratio threshold value; and data in which a score satisfies a predetermined criterion is determined.
US12210553B2

Systems and methods for summarizing captions, configuring playback speed, and rewriting the caption file for a media asset are disclosed. The system determines whether to display the original captions or a summarized version of the captions, which are based on user's language proficiency level, reading pace, and historical data, and can be generated either on-demand or automatically when rewinds and pauses are detected. The caption file which includes the original captions can be rewritten. The system determines whether to stream a caption or a rewritten file to a media device based on user or system selections. In the absence of a caption file, or when the caption file cannot be summarized, the playback speed of the media asset is slowed down to provide additional reading time to the user.
US12210545B2

A portable, hand-held computer functions as an intermediary between a database server and individual aircraft when the aircraft cannot be connected to the database server. By virtue of being portable and being locally linked (over time) to different aircraft, the intermediary computing device can provide the data upload validation and auditing for accurate billing of database usage for a flight database provided from the server. This ensures that each aircraft which receives an uploaded database is entitled to receive the upload based on a paid license. As a result, billing by the database vendor is based on usage. Licensing and data authentication is mediated by the intermediary computing device.
US12210540B2

Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request at a database system that includes a primary node and one or more standby nodes. When the request is determined to be a read-only request and the previous transaction has been replicated to the standby node, the request may be transmitted to one of the one or more standby nodes to perform the read-only operation to retrieve data of the request and transmitting the retrieved data. When the request is determined to be a read-only request and the previous transaction has not been replicated to the standby node, the read-only operation is performed to retrieve data of the request from the primary node and transmitting the retrieved data.
US12210538B2

Techniques for enhanced table and text question answering based on multi-instance, multi-answer training are presented. An answer extractor component can determine answer scores associated with candidate answer data items based on analysis of a set of data, comprising row data items of a table and passage data items associated with the table, and a context of a query of the set of data. The answer extractor component can be trained based on application of denoised single-instance and multiple-instance answer matching data associated with contexts to an answer extractor model to generate a trained answer extractor model of the answer extractor component. A query response component can determine a correct answer data item responsive to the query from the candidate answer data items based on the answer scores associated with the candidate answer data items, wherein the candidate answer data items can be reranked based on reweighted answer scores.
US12210528B2

Disclosed herein is a method, system, or non-transitory computer readable medium for evaluating a query on a columnar dataset comprising one or more dictionaries associated with columns in the dataset. The method includes receiving a request to perform a query comprising at least an operator for a columnar dataset on cloud storage. At least one column in the dataset is based on a dictionary, and the dictionary maps one or more values for a column to one or more respective identifiers. The method evaluates the operator on one or more values of the dictionary to generate an updated dictionary comprising updated values. The method may decode the updated dictionary into an updated column comprising updated data values.
US12210526B1

The present disclosure provides techniques and solutions for improved query optimization. A query plan is received, and at least a portion of the query plan is identified to be analyzed for logically equivalent query plans. A signature is generated for the at least a portion of the query plan. One or more query plans are identified that have signature that matches the signature of the at least a portion of the query plan, but where such query plans are logically equivalent, but not identical, to the at least a portion of the query plan. A query plan of the one or more query plans is substituted in the query plan for the at least a portion of the query plan.
US12210522B2

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable media, for authentication enhanced data indexing and searching. In some implementations, a search service is configured to receive and process queries from a plurality of different application servers, where each application server has an associated data repository. The search service receives a query associated with a user of a client device. The search service provides the query to a search backend having a search index for the plurality of application servers, where the search index describes contents of each of the respective data repositories of the application servers. Search results are received from the search backend, including search results representing data elements from different data repositories of the different application servers. At least some of the search results are provided as an output of the search service as a response to the query.
US12210521B2

A cluster computing system maintains a first set of queues for short queries and a set second set for longer queries. The first set is allocated a majority of the cluster's processing resources and processes queries on a first in first out basis. The second set is allocated a minority of the cluster's processing resources which are shared among queries in the second set. Accordingly, the system assigns each query to the first set of queues for a fixed amount of resource time. While a query is processing, the system monitors the query's resource time and reassigns the query to the second set of queues if the query has not completed within the allotted amount of resource time. Thus, short queries receive the necessary resources to complete quickly without getting stuck behind longer queries while ensuring that longer queries continue to make progress.
US12210509B2

A computer-implemented method comprises receiving a front-end configuration including transition specifications and a back-end configuration including workflow transition rules; receiving a state transition initiated by an interaction via a workflow-based interface associated with the front-end configuration; mapping the state transition to a set of back-end commands; detecting a conflict between the transition specifications and the workflow transition rules; updating state transitions defined in the transition specifications or specified in the workflow transition rules according to conflict resolution rules; causing executing the set of back-end commands over a database of data objects.
US12210507B2

A method for monitoring a running state of a distributed system, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method comprises: acquiring a first calling key-value pair sent by a first component in a distributed system (101); and determining the current running state of the first component according to a first keyword value, and historical calling data corresponding to a first key code value in a preset database (102).
US12210504B2

A context that is a description for identifying one or more targets is added to a state update request. The status update request is issued by a first computer system and input to an ordering system. For each node system in a second computer system that communicates with one or a plurality of first computer systems and includes a plurality of node systems, each time a state update request is output from the ordering system, one or more targets are identified from the context of the state update request. When the identified one or more targets do not conflict with one or more targets specified in one or more status update requests being executed in the node system, the status update request is executed in the node system.
US12210503B2

Described are input output (IO) device configured to perform operations for performing a table lookup with a single wide key larger than a width of a system bus. These operations comprise: receiving the lookup key; performing a plurality of extraction cycles to determine a plurality of key fragments; calculating a final hash value for the lookup key by sequentially calculating, via a hash chain, an interim hash value for each of the key fragments; determine a read access address for a table entry of a logic table based on the final hash value for the lookup key; determine a plurality of read requests based on the read access address; determine a hit on the table entry with the lookup key by issuing each of the read requests to the memory subsystem; and provide the hit on the table entry to the requesting entity or a next processing entity.
US12210502B2

Methods, systems and apparatus for performing indexed operations using a unary iteration quantum circuit. In one aspect, a method includes encoding an index value in an index register comprising index qubits; encoding the index value in a control register comprising multiple control qubits; and repeatedly computing and uncomputing the control qubits to perform, conditioned on the state of the control qubits, the operation on one or more target qubits corresponding to the index value, wherein during the encoding, computing and uncomputing: the multiple control qubits are made available in sequence, and the multiple control qubits correspond to a one-hot encoding of the encoded index value.
US12210490B1

A system to facilitate quality checks on a plurality of attributes is disclosed. The system includes a processing subsystem including a screening module to filter at least one document from documents. The processing subsystem includes a data extraction module to extract attributes from the at least one document. The processing subsystem includes a quality checking module to highlight the attributes extracted in a user interface associated with quality checking levels. The quality checking module is to modify at least one of the attributes associated with a first level based on a first level user response. The quality checking module is to assign at least one tag and at least one colour to each of the attributes. The quality checking module is to display the attributes in the user interface associated with a second level to validate the plurality of attributes based on a second level user response.
US12210489B2

Embodiments of a distributed data management system include a platform comprising a processor coupled to databases. A grid including agents is coupled to the platform, and each agent is an agent of the platform independently running on a client device. The agents generate and provide to the platform metadata that corresponds to the content of memory accessible by the client devices corresponding to the agents. The agents generate the metadata by hashing fragments of the content. The platform uses the metadata instead of the content to generate and assign to the agents tasks including tasks controlling at least one of storing, transferring and processing of the content. A task is a processing operation performed on content accessible by the agent responsible for the task.
US12210488B2

Data management systems and methods include a cloud-based platform coupled to a system of agents or folders hosted on client devices. The platform does not store actual data but instead makes use of metadata provided by the agents to track a location of all data in the system and manage the distributed storage, movement and processing of the actual data among the agents. In so doing, the platform pools networked storage into “virtual clusters” using local storage at the agents. The agents collectively monitor, store, and transfer or move data, and perform data processing operations as directed by the platform, as described in detail herein. The agents include agents hosted on or coupled to processor-based devices, agents hosted on devices of a local area network, agents hosted on devices of a wide area network, agents hosted on mobile devices, and agents hosted on cloud-based devices.
US12210486B1

A method for assigning data to similarity groups (sim-groups). The method includes: partitioning a data stream, originating from a data source, into stream chunks; for at least a first stream chunk of the stream chunks: initializing a first chunk bin-map for the first stream chunk; partitioning the first stream chunk into first chunk segments; updating the first chunk bin-map based on a chunk segment processing of the first chunk segments; computing, to obtain a first similarity distance set, a similarity distance between the first chunk bin-map and each sim-group bin-map in a first set of sim-group bin-maps; identifying a first sim-group corresponding to a first similarity distance in the first similarity distance set; and assigning the first stream chunk to the first sim-group.
US12210484B2

This application provides a method and an apparatus for establishing a scene. The method for establishing the scene includes: receiving current state information of all devices in a target folder sent by a terminal, and the target folder is a set of devices that support scene establishment; establishing a target scene according to the current state information; and sending state information corresponding to the target scene to the terminal, and the state information corresponding to the target scene is locally pre-stored according to user demands.
US12210481B2

A method is implemented by a computing node, and includes: sending a mounting request triggered for a target logical volume to a target storage node of multiple storage nodes included in a file system; receiving storage location information of a log segment and a checkpoint corresponding to the target logical volume sent by the target storage node; reading log metadata of the log segment and the checkpoint according to the storage location information to restore a data state of the target logical volume; and performing data access processing based on the data state of the target logical volume. When multiple computing nodes access a target logical volume, read and write consistency of the multiple computing nodes can be maintained based on log information of the target logical volume maintained by various storage nodes. Furthermore, reading and writing can be performed synchronously, thus avoiding read and write conflicts.
US12210473B2

A computing device includes a host processor to execute a host driver to create a host-side interface, the host-side interface emulating a first Ethernet interface, assign the host-side interface a first medium access control (MAC) address and a first Internet Protocol (IP) address. Memory components are disposed on a substrate. A memory channel network (MCN) processor is disposed on the substrate and coupled between the memory components and the host processor. The MCN processor is to execute an MCN driver to create a MCN-side interface, the MCN-side interface emulating a second Ethernet interface. The MCN processor is to assign the MCN-side interface a second MAC address and a second IP address, which identify the MCN processor as a MCN network node to the host processor.
US12210464B2

A cache service provides applications in a containerized, multi-tenant cloud-computing system low-latency access to secrets. The cache service may operate as a cluster-level service or a sidecar service. The cache service may store copies of secrets (which are located in one or more absolute stores) in a cache storage. The cache service and the cache storage may be closer to the applications than the one or more absolute stores are to the applications. The cache service may aggregate secrets associated with multiple entities in a single cache storage. The cache service may support isolation between secrets such that secrets of a first entity are isolated from secrets of a second entity. The cache service may enforce granulated access controls such that it can apply different access controls to secrets of a first entity than to secrets of a second entity.
US12210459B2

A method includes receiving, by a MMU for a processor core, an address translation request from the processor core and providing the address translation request to a TLB of the MMU; generating, by matching logic of the TLB, an address transaction that indicates whether a virtual address specified by the address translation request hits the TLB; providing the address transaction to a general purpose transaction buffer; and receiving, by the MMU, an address invalidation request from the processor core and providing the address invalidation request to the TLB. The method also includes, responsive to a virtual address specified by the address invalidation request hitting the TLB, generating, by the matching logic, an invalidation match transaction and providing the invalidation match transaction to one of the general purpose transaction buffer or a dedicated invalidation buffer.
US12210454B1

A data storage interface layer provides access management and transformation of data stored in various backend storage clusters. The data storage interface can serve as a point of access for data accessors to access stored data via a consistent data access protocol, even when a data storage cluster on which requested data is stored may use a different protocol. The data storage interface can also provide in-line transformation of requested data and/or control of access to requested data.
US12210452B2

In some situations, the programming of one memory die can be suspended in favor of the programming of another memory die. This can lead to a delay in certain programming operations. To avoid this problem, a data storage device can perform dynamic logical page write ordering by determining an availability of each memory die of a plurality of memory dies and changing a programing order of the plurality of memory dies in response to the determined availability.
US12210449B2

An Adaptive Memory Mirroring Performance Accelerator (AMMPA) includes a transaction handling block that dynamically maps the most frequently accessed memory regions into faster access memory. The technique creates shadow copies of the most frequently accessed memory regions in the faster access memory, which is associated with lower latency. The regions for which shadow copies are provided are updated dynamically based on use. The technique is flexible for different memory hierarchies.
US12210447B2

Methods, systems, and devices for managing regions of a memory system are described. A memory system may include a non-volatile memory device and may receive a host performance booster (HPB) command (e.g., a read command) associated with one or more regions of the non-volatile memory device. The memory system may determine whether the region(s) associated with the HPB command are active. In instances where one or more of the associated regions are inactive, the memory system may activate the region(s) and deactivate one or more other regions based on a recency parameter (e.g., a timing parameter). The memory system may process the received HPB command based on the associated region(s) being active.
US12210437B2

An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing apparatus determines an external device with maximum capacity among a plurality of external devices with non-volatile storage media for storing log information, changes an amount of log information according to a capacity of the external device with the maximum capacity, and outputs the log information to the external device with the maximum capacity.
US12210434B2

An apparatus and method for closed loop dynamic resource allocation. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: collecting data related to usage of a plurality of resources by a plurality of workloads over one or more time periods, the workloads including priority workloads associated with one or more guaranteed performance levels and best effort workloads not associated with guaranteed performance levels; analyzing the data to identify resource reallocations from one or more of the priority workloads to one or more of the best effort workloads in one or more subsequent time periods while still maintaining the guaranteed performance levels; reallocating the resources from the priority workloads to the best effort workloads for the subsequent time periods; monitoring execution of the priority workloads with respect to the guaranteed performance level during the subsequent time periods; and preemptively reallocating resources from the best effort workloads to the priority workloads during the subsequent time periods to ensure compliance with the guaranteed performance level and responsive to detecting that the guaranteed performance level is in danger of being breached.
US12210427B1

A method for circuit modification for fault mitigation including: obtaining a netlist defining a circuit; inserting at least one saboteur circuit into a first net of the netlist; configuring an FPGA to implement the first net and the at least one saboteur circuit; activating a first of the at least one saboteur circuits; determining whether the first net experiences a fault; and upon determining that the first net experiences a fault, modifying the first net by inserting at least one redundant circuit into the first net.
US12210425B2

Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for page allocation in a many-to-one virtualization environment. The method may include determining whether a page fault interrupt is caused by page initialization for page allocation, sending an ownership change message to a node having ownership of the corresponding page when the page fault interrupt is determined to be caused by page initialization, and initializing the corresponding page upon receiving an ownership-change-processing-complete message.
US12210421B2

Techniques regarding adaptive data recovery schemes are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a data management component that can modify a data recovery scheme based on performance data exhibited by a network of data centers and a data recovery requirement. The data recovery scheme can direct a relocation of data within the network.
US12210415B2

A storage device, and a method for operating a storage device. In some embodiments, the storage device includes storage media, and the method includes: determining, by the storage device, that the storage device is in a first fault state from which recovery is possible by power cycling the storage device or by formatting the storage media; determining, by the storage device, that the storage device is in a second fault state from which partial recovery is possible by operating the storage device with reduced performance, with reduced capacity, or in a read-only mode; and operating the storage device with reduced performance, with reduced capacity, or in the read-only mode.
US12210413B2

Methods, systems, and devices for data correction schemes with reduced device overhead are described. A memory system may include a set of memory devices storing data and check codes associated with the data. The memory system may additionally include a single parity device storing parity information associated with the data. During a read operation of a set of data, a controller of the memory system may detect an error in data associated with a first check code, the data including two or more subsets of the set of data received from two or more corresponding memory devices. The controller may generate candidate data corresponding to one of the two or more subsets using the parity information and remaining subsets of the set of data. Then the controller may determine whether the candidate data is correct by comparing the first check code with a check value generated using the candidate data.
US12210408B2

An apparatus has tag checking circuitry responsive to a target address to: identify a guard tag stored in a memory system in association with a block of one or more memory locations, the block containing a target memory location identified by the target address, perform a tag check based on the guard tag and an address tag associated with the target address, and in response to detecting a mismatch in the tag check, perform an error response action. The apparatus also has tag mapping storage circuitry to store mapping information indicative of a mapping between guard tag values and corresponding address tag values. The tag checking circuitry remaps at least one of the guard tag and the address tag based on the mapping information stored by the tag mapping storage circuitry to generate a remapped tag for use in the tag check.
US12210388B2

A flexible display device includes a flexible display panel and a first outer member having a groove pattern. The groove pattern includes a flat surface and inclined portions connected to the flat surface and symmetrical with each other.
US12210384B2

A display device includes a display panel; a first digitizer layer disposed on the display panel; a second digitizer layer disposed on the display panel and separated from the first digitizer layer; a first plate member disposed on the first digitizer layer; and a second plate member disposed on the second digitizer layer, wherein each of the first plate member and the second plate member includes a plurality of plate portions and one or more hinge portions configured to rotatably connect the plurality of plate portions to each other.
US12210377B2

A case can include a base that includes at least one input device; a display device holder; a hinge that couples the base and the display device holder; and a flexible back end that automatically extends backwardly responsive to opening rotation of the display device holder with respect to the base via the hinge.
US12210376B2

This application discloses a display method for a foldable screen, applied to an electronic device including a foldable screen. The foldable screen can be folded to form at least two screens, and the at least two screens may include a first screen and a second screen. The method includes: When the foldable screen is in an expanded state, the electronic device displays a first interface of a first application in full screen on the foldable screen. The first interface includes an image captured by a camera. When detecting that the foldable screen changes from the expanded state to a half-folded state, the electronic device displays a second interface on the first screen. In this way, a user can conveniently perform photographing, video calling, live broadcasting, or the like without holding the electronic device steady with both hands.
US12210372B1

There are provided techniques including a system, method, and computer-readable medium for clock drift monitoring and correction for autonomous vehicles. The method may include the steps of: determining that a first clock or a second clock of a vehicle is unable to synchronize with a common master clock of the vehicle according to a clock synchronization protocol, wherein the first clock and the second clock are associated with a first device and a second device of the vehicle respectively; and in response: determining a first value indicating a relative clock drift between the first clock and the second clock; determining a first time associated with data provided by the second device to the first device, the first time being determined according to the second clock; and determining a corrected first time according to the first clock based at least in part on the first value and the first time.
US12210367B1

Systems and methods for managing power on an electric power grid including a server for communicating IP-based messages over a network with distributed power consuming devices and/or power supplying devices, the IP-based messages including information including a change in state of the power consuming device(s), a directive for a change in state of the power consuming device(s), a priority message, an alert, a status, an update, a location with respect to the electric power grid, a function, device attributes, and combinations thereof.
US12210361B1

The method of managing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) patrols is a method for organizing and managing a fleet of UAVs for patrolling a geographic region for the detection of threats. During patrols, the UAVs visit two types of waypoints: critical waypoints and strategic waypoints. To establish the strategic waypoints, a set of seed points are generated using a beta probability distribution. Voronoi tessellation is applied to produce the set of strategic waypoints within the region of interest by using the set of seed points as an input. Each of the strategic waypoints has a set of coordinates on the three-dimensional occupancy map associated therewith. The set of coordinates associated with each of the strategic waypoints is a centroid of a corresponding Voronoi cell produced by the Voronoi tessellation. A priority score is assigned to each of the critical waypoints and each of the strategic waypoints.
US12210359B2

A mobile charging apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a battery for charging a work machine; a movement unit that causes the mobile charging apparatus to autonomously move; and a controller that executes a program to perform control such that the movement unit moves the mobile charging apparatus to a predetermined position to wait for the work machine.
US12210358B2

Embodiments of the disclosure relate to the field of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies, and specifically disclose an autonomous orbiting method and device and a UAV. The UAV includes a binocular camera assembly. The method includes: obtaining, through the binocular camera assembly, a target footage and an orbited object selected by a user from the target footage; obtaining a flying height of the UAV when obtaining the target footage; determining a spatial distance between the binocular camera assembly and the orbited object based on the target footage; detecting an optical axis direction of the binocular camera assembly in real time; and performing autonomous orbiting according to the flying height, the spatial distance and the optical axis direction of the binocular camera assembly detected in real time.
US12210356B2

Disclosed is a method for determining an atmospheric radiative forcing difference by optimising or preventing contrail formation caused by an aircraft. The method comprises receiving one or more weather parameters to determine contrail forecast data; receiving one or more flight parameters associated with aircraft to determine flight data; determining tentative atmospheric radiative forcing quantity, along tentative flight trajectory, based on contrail forecast data and flight data; altering one or more flight parameters to determine optimised flight trajectory having optimum atmospheric radiative forcing quantity, wherein optimised flight trajectory is validated using imagery data; and determining an atmospheric radiative forcing difference to evaluate offset value for at least one forcing parameter associated with atmospheric radiative forcing difference. Disclosed also is an apparatus for determining atmospheric radiative forcing caused by aircraft by optimising or preventing contrail formation. Further, disclosed is computer program product to carry out aforementioned method.
US12210355B2

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprises a flight control system and an electromechanical system directed by the flight control system. The flight control system is configured to track a position of a beacon that is in motion and monitor a difference between an actual position of the unmanned aerial vehicle and a desired position of the unmanned aerial vehicle relative to the position of the beacon. The flight control system configures one or more flight objectives based on one or more factors comprising whether the difference between the actual position and the desired position exceeds a threshold, wherein the flight objectives comprise a velocity objective and a position objective. The flight control system also commands the electromechanical system based at least on the one or more flight objectives.
US12210349B2

Herein, a “perception statistical performance model” (PSPM) for modelling a perception slice of a runtime stack for an autonomous vehicle or other robotic system may be used e.g. for safety/performance testing. A first PSPM is configured to: receive a computed perception ground truth; determine from the perception ground truth, based on a set of learned parameters, a probabilistic perception uncertainty distribution, the parameters learned from a set of actual perception outputs generated using the perception slice to be modelled, in order to compute a first time series of perception outputs. A second time series of perception outputs is computed using a second PSPM for modelling a second perception slice of the runtime stack, the first PSPM learned from data of a first sensor modality of the perception slice and the time series, and the second PSPM learned independently thereof from data of a second sensor modality of the second perception slice and the second time series.
US12210343B2

An aerial vehicle includes a position sensor configured to obtain a present position of the aerial vehicle, a memory configured to store a preset position of the aerial vehicle, and a controller. The controller is configured to calculate, based on the present position and the preset position, safety energy information of the aerial vehicle; and control, based on the safety energy information and a present remaining energy amount of the aerial vehicle, the aerial vehicle to perform a safety protection command.
US12210339B2

An automated storage and retrieval system includes a track system including a first set of parallel tracks arranged in a horizontal plane and extending in a first direction, and a second set of parallel tracks arranged in the horizontal plane and extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, forming a grid pattern in the horizontal plane comprising a plurality of adjacent grid cells. Each grid cell includes a grid opening. A plurality of stacks of storage containers are arranged in storage columns located beneath the track system. Each storage column is located vertically below the grid opening. A plurality of container handling vehicles for lifting and moving storage containers stacked in the stacks are configured to move laterally on the track system above the storage columns to access the storage containers via the grid openings. Each container handling vehicle includes a protruding section which extends horizontally into a neighbouring grid cell, and a recessed section arranged to accommodate the protruding sections of another container handling vehicle.
US12210335B2

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for measuring and reporting calibration accuracy of robots and sensors assigned to perform a task in an operating environment. One of the methods includes obtaining sensor data of one or more physical robots performing a process in an operating environment; generating, from the sensor data for a first robot of the one or more physical robots, a motion profile representing how the first robot moves while performing the process; obtaining data representing a plurality of candidate virtual robot components, each having a respective virtual motion profile and is a candidate to be included in a virtual representation of the operating environment; performing a motion profile matching process to determine a first virtual robot component from the plurality of candidate virtual robot components that matches the first robot; and adding the first virtual robot component to the virtual representation.
US12210329B2

A software defined distributed control system (SDCS) in a process plant includes an application layer that includes a plurality of containers instantiated in a data cluster. Each of the containers is an isolated execution environment executing within the local operating system of a respective computing node. The containers cooperate to facilitate execution of a control strategy in the SDCS, and includes a hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) operating across the data cluster, which HCI is configured to communicate with the application layer via an adapter service. The HCI includes software-defined (SD) compute resources, SD storage resources, SD networking resources, and an orchestrator service. The orchestrator service is programmed to configure a first container to include a service executing within the first container. It also assigns the first container to execute on an available hardware resource to control a plurality of field devices operating in the process plant.
US12210327B2

A process and apparatus for free form fabrication of a three-dimensional work piece comprising (a) feeding raw material in a solid state to a first predetermined location: (b) depositing the raw material onto a substrate as a molten pool deposit under a first processing condition; (C) monitoring the molten pool deposit for a preselected condition; (d) comparing information about the preselected condition of the monitored molten pool deposit with a predetermined desired value for the preselected condition of the monitored molten pool deposit; (e) solidifying the molten pool deposit; (f) automatically altering the first processing condition to a different processing condition based upon information obtained from the comparing step (d); and repeating steps (a) through (f) at one or more second locations for building up layer by layer a three-dimensional work piece. The apparatus is characterized by a detector that monitors a preselected condition of the deposited material and a closed loop electronic control device for controlling operation of one or more components of the apparatus in response to a detected condition by the detector.
US12210322B2

A timepiece includes a pointer; an angular velocity sensor that is provided on the pointer and detects an angular velocity; and an azimuth detection processing unit that performs an azimuth detection process from a detection result of the angular velocity sensor.
US12210312B2

An image forming apparatus includes a developer container having an accommodating portion to accommodate developer, and a replenishment port for replenishing the accommodating portion with developer from an attachable replenishment container. A transfer portion transfers the developer image on an image bearing member onto a recording material, a supporting tray supports the recording material, and a discharge portion discharges the recording material on the supporting surface. The supporting tray has an opening portion opening with the replenishment port being exposed through the supporting surface, wherein an opening/closing member is movable between a closed position where it covers the replenishment port and serves as a part of the supporting surface and an open position where the replenishment port is exposed. Movement of the opening/closing member to the closed position is hindered by the replenishment container in a state it is attached to the developer container.
US12210308B2

An image forming apparatus receives light from an intermediate transfer member or a correction pattern. The pattern includes an overlapping pattern on which a first monochromatic toner image is formed as a lower layer and a second monochromatic toner image having a smaller area than the first monochromatic toner image is formed as an upper layer. The image forming apparatus controls a plurality of image forming units to form the overlapping pattern such that a dynamic range becomes less than 1.0 and greater than 0.5.
US12210306B2

Provided is an image forming system capable of accurately detecting the resistance of a recording material. The image forming system includes an application roller that applies a voltage to a recording material on a conveyance path, and a controller that calculates the electric resistance of the recording material from a relationship between the voltage applied to the application roller and a current. The controller calculates the resistance of the recording material based on first profile information that is acquired by changing the applied voltage and corresponds to a change in the resistance of the application roller, and second profile information that is acquired by changing the applied voltage in a state where the recording material is sandwiched and corresponds to the change in the resistance of the application roller.
US12210300B2

A developing cartridge includes a casing, a developing roller rotatable about an axis extending in a first direction, a developing memory having an electrical contact surface, an agitator, an agitator gear rotatable about an agitator axis together with the agitator, a holder holding the electrical contact surface, and a plate movable between a first position and a second position in a second direction crossing the first direction relative to the casing. The holder is movable relative to the casing in a third direction crossing the first and second directions between a retracted position and an advancing position. The holder is movable from the retracted position to the advancing position in response to a movement of the plate from the first position to the second position. The plate is positioned farther away from the developing roller than the agitator gear and the holder are in the second direction.
US12210288B2

This application relates to a photoresist removal method, including: acquiring a target wafer, a photoresist being provided on a surface of the target wafer, a surface of a photoresist layer of the photoresist being plated with a metal overhead layer; immersing the target wafer in a first organic solvent at a first temperature in a water bath for a first duration; rinsing the target wafer with a new first organic solvent in response to an end of the first duration; performing, in the first organic solvent, ultrasonic cleaning on the rinsed target wafer for a second duration based on a target ultrasonic power; removing the residual first organic solvent on the surface of the target wafer in response to an end of the second duration; and drying the target wafer with the solvent removed by simultaneous centrifugal drying and gas purging to obtain the target wafer with the photoresist removed.
US12210284B2

A photosensitive composition of a developable relief precursor includes at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer as component E, at least one photoinitiator or photoinitiator system as component P, at least one water soluble and/or water dispersible binder as component B, and optionally, one or more additives as component A. Component E includes at least one ionic group and component E is present in an amount of 0.1 to 30 wt %, based on the total weight of the photosensitive composition.
US12210275B2

A light assembly having a projector integrally connected to a light bar. The projector and the light bar share power and control wires from a wire harness. The projector includes a projector aperture whereby light (oftentimes in a pattern or logo formation) passes therethrough and directs onto a ground surface. The projector includes a light assembly configured to hold the components for projection.
US12210273B2

An apparatus for use with an electronic communication device having a camera to take a selfie picture or video. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a mirror comprising a mirror surface. The apparatus further comprises a fastener directly connected to the mirror surface. The fastener is adapted to receive the electronic communication device to position the camera in front of the mirror surface. The apparatus may further comprise a plurality of light sources and a control circuit adapted to activate the plurality of light sources.
US12210266B2

An optical source (100) comprising a supercontinuum generation apparatus comprising a pump light source (102), a twisted photonic crystal fibre, PCF, (104) and a wideband quarter-wave retarder (106). The pump light source is arranged to provide circularly polarised pump light. The twisted PCF is arranged to receive the pump light and to convert the pump light into circularly polarised supercontinuum light. The wideband quarter-wave retarder is arranged to convert the circularly polarised supercontinuum light into linearly polarised supercontinuum light. The optical source may additionally comprise a wavelength tunable bandpass optical filter arranged to transmit the linearly polarised supercontinuum light at wavelengths within a selected range.
US12210259B2

A multi-view (MV) display with reduced bezels is provided. An MV display device includes: i) a flat panel display (FPD) with a front emission surface and including: an interior image area comprising a plurality of FPD pixels, each comprising a plurality of sub-pixels; and a perimeter non-image area; ii) an image expansion layer comprising a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface is coupled to the front emission surface of the FPD; a profile of the second surface is equal to or extends beyond a profile of the perimeter non-image area of the FPD; and the plurality of FPD pixels of the front emission surface of the FPD are imaged from the first surface to the second surface of the image expansion layer; and iii) a front optic layer coupled to the second surface of the image expansion layer.
US12210255B2

Provided is an array substrate. The array substrate includes a base substrate, a gate line, a data line, a discharge line, a first pixel electrode, a first thin film transistor, a second thin film transistor and a first connection line. A control electrode of the first thin film transistor and a control electrode of the second thin film transistor are both connected to the gate line. The first electrode of the first thin film transistor is connected to the data line. Both the second electrode of the first thin film transistor and the first electrode of the second thin film transistor are connected to the first pixel electrode by the first connection line. The second electrode of the second thin film transistor is connected to the discharge line.
US12210254B2

The disclosure provides an electronic device including a substrate, two adjacent first lines, two adjacent second lines and an opening. Two adjacent first lines extending along a first direction, two adjacent first lines and two disposed adjacent second lines are disposed on the substrate. The pixel is defined by the two adjacent first lines and the two adjacent second lines. The opening is corresponding to the pixel, and an edge of the opening is adjacent to an edge of one of the two adjacent first lines. A distance between the edge of the opening and the edge of the one of the two adjacent first lines is from 1 micrometer to 2 micrometers. The opening comprises a first arc portion and a second arc portion, and the first arc portion and the second arc portion are disposed at diagonal corners of the opening.
US12210253B2

A display panel, wherein the display panel includes a displaying region; the displaying region includes a main displaying region, an auxiliary displaying region and an under-screen displaying region; first pixel driving circuits, first light emitting devices and second pixel driving circuits are provided under the auxiliary displaying region, and second light emitting devices are provided under the under-screen displaying region; the first pixel driving circuits are for driving the first light emitting devices, and the second pixel driving circuits are for driving the second light emitting devices; and the auxiliary displaying region is provided at an edge of the main displaying region.
US12210250B2

An electro-optical apparatus includes an electro-optical panel having a first end portion, a first connector that is flexible, and a reinforcement member on the first connector. The first connector has a second end portion and a third end portion opposite to the second end portion. The second end portion is connected to the first end portion. The first connector has a first surface connected to the electro-optical panel, and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The reinforcement member is located on the first surface, and extends from an end surface at the first end portion of the electro-optical panel to the third end portion. The first connector has first and second side edges, at least one of which has a first cutout depressed inward. The first and second side edges connect the second and third end portions to each other.
US12210241B2

An optical stack for reflecting and transmitting light in a predetermined wavelength range includes stacked first and second optical films, the predetermined wavelength range defining a first wavelength range and a remaining wavelength range. For normally incident light and for each wavelength in a first wavelength range, the first optical film substantially reflects light having a first polarization state, and substantially transmits light having a second polarization state. For each of the first and second polarization states, for wavelengths in the first wavelength range, the second optical film has a maximum optical transmittance Tmax for light incident at a first incident angle, and an optical transmittance Tmax/2 for light incident at a second incident angle, where the second incident angle is greater than the first incident angle by less than about 50 degrees. For wavelengths in the remaining wavelength range, the second optical film reflects at least 80% of light.
US12210231B2

According to one embodiment, an optical module includes: a lid having a first face and a second face, the lid including a bump, a wiring, and a through via; an optical circuit element; a first integrated circuit (IC); a first block bonded to the first IC by a first adhesive; a temperature control element bonded to the optical circuit element; and a housing having an opening and a third face provided inside the opening, the housing being configured to house the first IC, the optical circuit element, the first block, and the temperature control element, the third face being bonded to the first block and the temperature control element by a second adhesive, the housing being hermetically sealed with the lid.
US12210230B1

Eyewear dynamically adjusts viewing effects to match the wearer, the object or scene being viewed (luminance, color prominence, glare, visual blur/noise), other conditions: sensory parameters (gaze direction, focal length, eye gestures, other eye activity, other senses, wearer inputs), medical conditions, wearer location, environmental parameters, wearer activity, use by the wearer, the wearer's field of view. The eyewear can adjust visual features presented to the wearer, such as changes in refraction, polarization/shading, color, prismatic angles/functions, 3D displays. Eyewear can be tailored to form factor: glasses, contacts, RID, IOL, facemask/helmet, vehicles, windows, screens, scopes, AR/VR devices, nerve sensors, external devices. Eyewear can adjust refraction, polarization/shading, color filtering/injection, false coloring, color change; prismatic angles/functions. Eyewear can respond to wearer activity: police, military, firefighter, emergency responder, search and rescue, vehicle operation, sporting/theme-park events, viewing advertising/storefronts, conversation. Hybrid optimization of eyewear can be personalized to users.
US12210219B2

A method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for determining optical article feasibility are provided. The method includes acquiring a first input indicative of optical criteria associated with a lens via a user interface, acquiring a second input indicative of a lens selection via the user interface, identifying one or more frames, and determining whether each frame of the one or more frames and the lens selection are physically compatible by fit simulation performed based on three dimensional cutout data determined based on at least the optical criteria. A feasibility indication is provided to a user via the user interface for each of the one or more frames based on the determination.
US12210214B2

An optical imaging system includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth lenses each having a refractive power. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, and are the only lenses having a refractive power in the optical imaging system. A radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the fourth lens at the optical axis is greater than a radius of curvature of an object-side surface of the second lens at the optical axis and a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the second lens at the optical axis. A thickness of the third lens is greater than a distance from an image-side surface of the third lens to the object-side surface of the fourth lens.
US12210212B2

An optical imaging lens proofed against field curvatures, in an imaging module, and the module being used in an electronic device, is, from an object side to an image side, composed of a first lens with a positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens with a negative refractive power, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens with a negative refractive power. The optical imaging lens satisfies the formula −3 mm−1
US12210206B2

An optical element driving unit includes a stationary body, a carrier, a supporting mechanism and an electromagnetic driving assembly. The supporting mechanism is connected to the carrier and the stationary body and provides the carrier with a degree of freedom of movement relative to the stationary body. The carrier can be driven to move by the electromagnetic driving assembly. The electromagnetic driving assembly includes a driving coil, a driving magnet and a ferromagnetic element. The driving coil is disposed on the carrier. The driving magnet is disposed on the stationary body. The ferromagnetic element is one-piece formed and embedded in the carrier, and the ferromagnetic element includes a magnetic field guiding part and an electrical connection part. The magnetic field guiding part faces the driving coil and/or the driving magnet. The electrical connection part is exposed on a surface of the carrier and electrically connected to the driving coil.
US12210201B2

An optical communication cable includes a cable jacket formed from a first material, a plurality of core elements located within the cable jacket, and an armor layer surrounding the plurality of core elements within the cable jacket, wherein the armor layer is a multi-piece layer having a first armor segment extending a portion of the distance around the plurality of core elements and a second armor segment extending a portion of the distance around the plurality of core elements, wherein a first lateral edge of the first armor segment is adjacent a first lateral edge of the second armor segment and a second lateral edge of the first armor segment is adjacent a second lateral edge of the second armor segment such that the combination of the first armor segment and the second armor segment completely surround the plurality of core elements.
US12210196B2

A cover for a fiber optic ferrule and ferrule push includes a sleeve extending lengthwise between opposed front and rear ends and defines a lengthwise-extending opening that opens through the rear end for receiving at least a portion of the fiber optic fiber optic ferrule and the ferrule push. The sleeve also includes a top side and an opposing bottom side, and two side walls extending between the top side and the bottom side and along at least a portion of the sleeve. A receiver is disposed in the top side to receive a projection associated with the ferrule push.
US12210190B2

In some implementations, an optical fiber may include a core and a cladding surrounding the core. The core and the cladding may provide light guidance along the optical fiber in a light propagation direction. The core may have a taper in the light propagation direction in a section of the optical fiber. A diameter of the core may decrease independently of a diameter of the cladding in the section of the optical fiber.
US12210188B2

A semiconductor package includes a first die stack structure and a second die stack structure, an insulating encapsulation, a redistribution structure, at least one prism structure and at least one reflector. The first die stack structure and the second die stack structure are laterally spaced apart from each other along a first direction, and each of the first die stack structure and the second die stack structure comprises an electronic die; and a photonic die electronically communicating with the electronic die. The insulating encapsulation laterally encapsulates the first die stack structure and the second die stack structure. The redistribution structure is disposed on the first die stack structure, the second die stack structure and the insulating encapsulation, and electrically connected to the first die stack structure and the second die stack structure. The at least one prism structure is disposed within the redistribution structure and optically coupled to the photonic die. The at least one reflector is disposed on the at least one prism structure.
US12210181B2

A lightguide component for illumination devices having an exit surface includes: a lightguide layer having a light-receiving portion to receive light emitted from a light source, a first principal face at the exit surface side, and a second principal face at an opposite side from the first principal face; a light distribution controlling structure having a plurality of internal spaces, each of the plurality of internal spaces including a first slope to direct a portion of light propagating in the lightguide layer toward the exit surface via total internal reflection, and a second slope at an opposite side from the first slope, wherein, when viewed from a normal direction of the first principal face of the lightguide layer, the first slope presents a curved surface that is convex toward the light source; and an anti-reflection layer and/or anti-glare layer disposed at the first principal face side of the lightguide layer.
US12210168B2

A lens driving apparatus and a camera module including the same are provided. A lens driving apparatus includes a shake compensation unit configured to move in directions perpendicular to an optical axis, and ball members supporting the shake compensation unit, such that a degree of freedom for one of the ball members is different from a degree of freedom for another of the ball members.
US12210167B2

A method of in situ point spread function (PSF) retrieval is disclosed which includes encoding 3D location of molecules into PSFs, receiving molecule-generated images containing PSFs, segmenting the images into sub-PSF, initializing template PSFs from a pupil function, determining a statistical measure of a predetermined function between the sub- and template PSFs, associating each of the sub-PSFs with a template PSF, aligning and averaging the sub-PSF, applying a phase retrieval algorithm to the averaged sub-PSFs to update the pupil function, regenerating the template PSFs, repeating until a difference between a new and a prior generation pupil function is below a predetermined threshold, generating in situ PSFs from the last pupil function, and applying a maximum likelihood estimation algorithm based on the in situ PSFs and the sub-PSF to thereby generate lateral and axial locations of molecules.
US12210166B2

The invention provides a beam optical axis self-stabilizing device and method based on reflection mechanical modulation. The device includes a polarized beam splitter, a quarter-wave plate, a structural reflecting element, and a driving source. The quarter-wave plate is located at an output end of the polarized beam splitter. The reflecting element is located at a side of the quarter-wave plate away from the polarized beam splitter. The driving source drives the structural reflecting element to rotate at a uniform speed with an optical axis as an axis. Incident light passes through the polarized beam splitter to obtain split light. The split light passes through the quarter-wave plate to enter the structural reflecting element. The structural reflecting element rotates so that the phase of reflected light varies with time. The reflected light is modulated by the quarter-wave plate and emitted through the polarized beam splitter, and a target beam is obtained.
US12210164B2

Aspects of the present invention relate to speaker assemblies for head worn computers, including speaker assemblies in a temple portion of a head-worn computer.
US12210155B2

It is proposed an optical device for delivering a polychromatic image to an eye box being an area positioned in front of an eye of a user wearing said optical device. The optical device is remarkable in that it comprises: • a light-engine for delivering said polychromatic image, said light engine being able to generate n different monochromatic light image beams [C1, . . . , Ci, . . . , Cn], whom combination corresponds to said polychromatic image, each monochromatic light image Cj being associated with a wavelength Ay, and wherein Ai+1>A£ for all the i E [1, n], and wherein the monochromatic light image beams Cj is in a transverse electric mode if j is odd, and the monochromatic light image beams Cj is in a transverse magnetic mode if j is even; • n-waveguide elements (502, 503, 504) that are stack on each other, n being an integer greater or equal to three, each waveguide element, except the one closer to the eye of a user, comprising a diffraction grating that can deviate only one of said n monochromatic light image in the waveguide element by total internal reflection, a first output that delivers deviated light toward said eye box, and a second output that delivers non-deviated light by a waveguide element to a subsequent waveguide element, wherein said second output comprising an achromatic half-wave plate (506, 507), and wherein the waveguide element that is closer to the eye of the user comprises also a diffraction grating that can deviate only one of said n monochromatic light image in the waveguide element by total internal reflection, and an output that delivers deviated light toward said eye box, wherein each diffraction grating of said optical device is associated with a different wavelength, and, wherein the arrangement order of said n-waveguide is done according to the wavelength value, from the smallest to the highest, the smallest waveguide element being positioned closer to the light engine.
US12210151B2

A display device having a viewing window on a viewing plane is described. The display device comprises a picture generating unit, a first waveguide pupil expander and a second waveguide pupil expander. The picture generating unit is arranged to display a picture on a display plane. The picture is a holographic reconstruction formed from a hologram of the picture. The first waveguide pupil expander comprises an input port arranged to receive light of the picture and to expand a first exit pupil thereof in a first dimension. The second waveguide pupil expander comprises an input port arranged to receive light of the picture and to expand a second exit pupil thereof in the first dimension. The first dimension corresponds to a dimension of the viewing window. A method of expanding a viewing window of a display device is also described.
US12210150B2

A system includes one or more sensors to detect one or more properties for a current user wearing a head-mountable display (HMD), control circuitry to select a user profile from a plurality of stored user profiles in dependence upon one or more of the detected properties, where each stored user profile is associated with a respective user and includes data indicative of one or more reference properties for the respective user, where the selected user profile includes data indicative of at least one reference property that is substantially the same as at least one of the one or more of the detected properties, and processing circuitry to generate at least one of audio and video content for output by the HMD in dependence upon the selected user profile and in response to the selection of the user profile.
US12210144B2

A three-dimensional fluorescence imaging system, including an illumination objective, a scanning lens group, a galvanometer, an illumination module, and a detection module. The scanning lens group includes a first scanning lens and a second scanning lens; main optical axes of the first scanning lens and the second scanning lens are orthogonal and confocal; a common focus of the first scanning lens and the second scanning lens is disposed on a central part of the galvanometer. The illumination module is configured to generate an illumination laser beam; the illumination laser beam passes through the scanning lens group and enters a rear pupil plane of the illumination objective, forming a light sheet having an inclination angle α projected onto an excitation plane of a sample to excite fluorescence; the excitation plane is diagonally intersected with a main optical axis of the illumination objective. The detection module includes an area array detector.
US12210142B2

A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. Each second, third, fourth and fifth lens element has refractive power. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, and both of the surfaces of the sixth lens element are aspheric. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein the image-side surface has at least one convex shape in an off-axis region thereof.
US12210140B2

The present disclosure relates to a technical field of optical lenses, and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes six lenses. An order of the six lenses is sequentially from an object side to an image side, which is shown as follows: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens provided by the present disclosure has excellent optical characteristics, and further has characteristics of large aperture, wide-angle, and ultra-thin, especially suitable for mobile phone camera lens assemblies and WEB camera lenses, which are composed of camera components having high pixels, such as CCD and CMOS.
US12210135B2

Structures for an optical component, such as a polarization splitter rotator, and methods of forming such structures. The structure comprises a waveguide core positioned in a vertical direction over a substrate, and a metamaterial structure positioned in a lateral direction adjacent to the waveguide core. The metamaterial structure including a plurality of elements separated by a plurality of gaps and a dielectric material in the plurality of gaps.
US12210133B2

A determination of a continuous oil density log for a hydrocarbon reservoir accessible via a well drilling into the formation having the reservoir. The logging operations may be conducted in the well to generate a carbon-oxygen ratio (C/O) log, a water saturation log, and a porosity log. A continuous oil density log may be determined using the C/O log, the water saturation log, the porosity log, and carbon and oxygen density values. The continuous oil density log may be used in further characterization and development of the hydrocarbon reservoir.
US12210132B2

A method and system for exploring hidden karst pipelines, mainly comprising: determining an upstream and a downstream of an underground karst pipeline; laying a grounding electrode at the upstream and the downstream respectively; establishing an electromagnetic emission system through underground karst water channels in the underground karst pipeline in a survey area, a transmitter and a generator; arranging a receiving system through an air mobile equipment towing a receiver as a receiving end; turning on the electromagnetic emission system; a generator supplying power to emission circuit; controlling the air mobile equipment to move along routes to collect signal continuously above the survey area, to complete an area-based measurement, and obtain observed data in the whole survey area; processing the observed data; delineating a concrete distribution of the underground karst water channels from the to the, such as a net-shaped path diagram or a tree-shaped path diagram.
US12210127B2

The present disclosure provides a detection substrate, a method for manufacturing the same and a flat panel detector. The detection substrate includes a base substrate and at least one pixel unit, the pixel unit includes: a transistor, an oxide layer, a reading electrode, and a photoelectric conversion structure sequentially arranged in a direction away from the base substrate, the reading electrode is electrically connected with the photoelectric conversion structure, the oxide layer is positioned between the transistor and the reading electrode, the oxide layer has a first through hole therein, an orthographic projection of the oxide layer on the base substrate at least covers that of the transistor on the base substrate, the reading electrode is electrically connected with the transistor through the first through hole, orthographic projections of the first through hole and the transistor on the base substrate are not overlapped with each other.
US12210124B2

A management system includes a monitoring device and at least one detection device. The monitoring device projects detection light for detecting a monitoring target, and identifies the monitoring target based on a detection pattern of reflected light of the detection light. The detection device is installed on the monitoring target. The detection device receives the detection light projected by the monitoring device, and reflects the detection light at a timing set to the detection device in a predetermined period starting from a timing at which the detection light is received.
US12210117B2

Systems and methods for software defined radar are disclosed. Exemplary systems utilize a frequency stacking bandwidth reconstruction technique for a stepped frequency signal to create a synthetic wideband waveform. The methods enable low-cost, reconfigurable applications such as ground penetrating radar or small unmanned aerial vehicle synthetic aperture radar platforms.
US12210113B2

A method related to processing interference between cooperative radars, where a radar obtains configuration information used to indicate a ratio of a quantity of first data update periods to a quantity of second data update periods in a sending period. The first data update period is used to send a first radio signal, and the second data update period is used to send a second radio signal. Waveform configurations of the first radio signal and the second radio signal are different, to effectively reduce mutual interference between the first radio signal and the second radio signal.
US12210109B2

Provided herein is a method of performing, by a first apparatus, wireless communication. The method may include the steps of transmitting a first signal to a second apparatus through at least one antenna; receiving a second signal from the second apparatus through each of the at least one antenna; obtaining the sequence and a distance between the first apparatus and the second apparatus based on the second signal; obtaining information related to the second apparatus based on the sequence; and obtaining first location information related to the first apparatus, based on the distance and the information.
US12210107B2

A tracking module processes the determined correlations to track a carrier of the received composite signal for estimation of a change in phase over a time period between a receiver antenna and one or more satellite transmitters that transmit the received signal as the receiver changes position with respect to an initial position during the time period. A relative position estimator estimates the relative position of the navigation receiver with respect to an initial position over the time period time by time-differencing of the phase measurements of the one or more tracked carrier signals. Bias estimators can estimate or compensate for errors in initial position and temporal changes in receiver clock and tropospheric delay.
US12210103B2

A system and a method are disclosed for detecting a spurious signal in a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver. A detector of the GNSS receiver determines a first sequence of known bits or known-bit transitions of a space vehicle (SV) signal of a target SV. A second sequence is determined based on a coherent sum of the SV signal being tracked by the GNSS receiver. A first reliability sequence may be associated with the first sequence, and a second reliability sequence that may be associated with the second sequence. A correlation statistic of the first sequence is determined based on the second sequence. Whether the first SV signal is a spurious signal is determined based on a comparison of the correlation statistic to a threshold value.
US12210097B2

A light detection and ranging (LiDAR) apparatus with a wide viewing angle includes: a first rotatable mirror array including a first plurality of inclined mirrors arranged in a circumferential direction; a plurality of light sources configured to emit light toward the first rotatable mirror array; a second rotatable mirror array including a second plurality of inclined mirrors arranged in the circumferential direction, the second rotatable mirror array facing the first rotatable mirror array to reflect the light reflected by the first rotatable mirror array to an outside of the LiDAR apparatus; and a photodetector configured to detect the light reflected by the second rotatable mirror array, wherein the plurality of light sources may be provided in a plurality of sections into which an angle range of 180 degrees or more is divided in equal intervals in the circumferential direction.
US12210093B2

A system is provided for imaging an underwater environment. The system includes one or more arrays of transducer elements. Each array is operated at a fixed phase shift and varies in frequency so as to beamform multiple sonar return beams of a first range of angles and a second range of angles. The arrays can be oriented to cover the gap in sonar coverage for other arrays to create a continuous arc of sonar coverage. Accordingly, a 2D live sonar image can be formed. Three arrays are mounted in a housing in an X plus Line configuration with one of the arrays extending below the center of the X.
US12210082B2

There is provided a control system (126) for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100). The control system comprises a control module (250) configured to control the magnetic resonance imaging system to perform an examination comprising multiple scans. The control system further comprises a monitor module (252) configured to monitor a sleep state of a patient on the basis of sensor data received from a patient state sensing system (102) of the magnetic resonance imaging system. The control system further comprises a sequencing module (254) configured dynamically to determine at least part of a sequence in which the control module is to control the magnetic resonance imaging system to perform the scans, the determination being made according to the monitored sleep state of the patient and according to a sleep-appropriateness score associated with one or more of the scans. A corresponding method is also provided.
US12210079B2

Single-sided MRI apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed. A method can include transmitting a frequency sweep excitation pulse comprising a low-to-high frequency sweep; phase encoding during the frequency sweep excitation pulse; and tuning the amount of phase accumulated during the frequency sweep excitation pulse from adjacent slices in the slab. The frequency sweep excitation pulse can be a chirp pulse. Encoding in this way can prevent spin echoes from drifting and prevent k-space truncation in certain instances. Moreover, the resultant images can be combined more efficiently.
US12210076B2

The invention relates to a material for use as a pad in high field and/or very high field magnetic resonance imaging instrument, comprising at least one polar solvent having a melting point of 14° C. to 50° C., a dispersant and a dielectric charge. The invention relates also to a pad used in field of high field and/or very high field magnetic resonance imaging made of at least such a material.
US12210064B2

A safe state detection method for a lithium-ion secondary battery, includes: calculating an absolute value of a differential coefficient of a discharge curve from which a voltage equivalent to a voltage drop of the lithium-ion secondary battery is removed; determining a first battery voltage when the degree of increase in the absolute value of the differential coefficient is greater than a threshold value; determining a second battery voltage at a start of an increase in oxidation heat in response to the first battery voltage, the oxidation heat being heat generated inside the lithium-ion secondary battery when the lithium-ion secondary battery is overcharged; and detecting a safe state of the lithium-ion secondary battery, based on the determined second battery voltage.
US12210062B2

A monitored switch gear device that includes a switch gear, a plurality of magnets, a magnetic field sensor and a processing circuitry. The switch gear includes an opening/closing mechanism adapted to selectively open and close an electrical circuit. The opening/closing mechanism includes a pivotally mounted shaft configured to rotate about a pivot axis as the opening/closing mechanism moves between an open and a closed state. The magnets of the plurality of magnets are spaced from each other and fixedly attached to the shaft. The magnetic field sensor senses a magnetic field generated by each magnet of the plurality of magnets as the shaft pivots. Each magnet of the plurality of magnets defines a different angular position of the shaft detected by the magnetic field sensor in which the magnetic field sensor senses a respective magnet of the plurality of magnets. The processing circuitry computes a first angular speed of the shaft based on signals provided by the magnetic field sensor when it senses the magnetic field generated by at least two magnets of the plurality of magnets as the shaft pivots in one direction.
US12210056B2

Embodiments of the present invention provide testing systems with liquid cooled thermal arrays that can pivot freely in three dimensions allowing surfaces to be brought into even, level, and secure contact, thereby preventing air gaps between surfaces and improving thermal performance. In this way, more DUTs can be tested in parallel within a small test space, overall costs of the test system are reduced, and greater cooling capacity can be provided for testing high-powered devices. Gimbaled mounts can be disposed on a bottom surface of individual thermal interface boards (TIBs) of a test system, and/or on top of individual thermal heads of a thermal array (TA) having a common cold plate (or having multiple cold plates).
US12210053B2

A semiconductor device for testing a device under test includes a circuit board, a plurality of probes disposed below the circuit board and facing the device under test, an integrated substrate disposed between the circuit board and the plurality of probes, and signal-transmitting module disposed on the circuit board and next to the integrated substrate. The plurality of probes is electrically coupled to the circuit board through the integrated substrate, and the signal-transmitting module transmits a test signal to the plurality of probes through the integrated substrate and the circuit board to perform a test to the device under test. Another semiconductor device including the integrated substrate and a manufacturing method thereof are provided.
US12210045B2

An impedance measurement jig may include a first contact plate, a second contact plate, a cover plate, a plug, and an analyzer. The first contact plate may make electrical contact with an ESC in a substrate-processing apparatus. The second contact plate may make electrical contact with a focus ring configured to surround the ESC. The cover plate may be configured to cover an upper surface of the substrate-processing apparatus. The plug may be installed at the cover plate to selectively make contact with the first contact plate or the second contact plate. The analyzer may individually apply a power to the first contact plate and the second contact plate through the plug to measure an impedance of the ESC and an impedance of the focus ring. Thus, the impedances of the ESC and the focus ring may be individually measured to inspect the ESC and/or the focus ring.
US12210044B2

A method for determining an electrical resistance of an electrical supply lead of an electrical system. The system is connected to a first and a second electrically conductive supply lead, which are electrically conductively connected on the current-source side. The system is configured to electrically connect an electrical load of the system selectably to the first or to the second supply lead. The method includes: configuring an electrical connection between the first supply lead and the load; configuring an electrical interruption between the second supply lead and electrical loads of the system; impressing a current in the first supply lead; determining a first voltage at the input of the first supply lead; determining a second voltage at the input of the second supply lead; determining a first resistance value of the first supply lead using the first and the second voltage and the impressed current.
US12210042B2

A magneto-optic current transformer for measuring a current intensity of an electric current in an electrical conductor includes two light-guide units, each with an input polarizer, an output polarizer and a light guide arranged between the input and the output polarizer. A light-supply device is included which is configured to supply light to the light-guide units on the input side, and an analysis device which is configured to measure a luminous intensity of light output by the light-guide unit at the output side for each light-guide unit and to ascertain the current intensity of the electric current through the electrical conductor from the measured luminous intensities. A polarization axis of the output polarizer of each light-guide unit is rotated through a polarization angle in relation to a polarization axis of the input polarizer of the light-guide unit and the polarization angles of the two light-guide units differ from one another.
US12210039B2

A measurement probe for producing a test signal for a measurement instrument includes a probe head structured to be connected to at least a first testing point and a second testing point of a Device Under Test (DUT), a current detector in the measurement probe structured to determine a current flowing between the first testing point and the second testing point of the DUT, a first selectable signal path that causes a voltage signal from the first testing point or a voltage signal from the second testing point to be routed to the measurement instrument as a selected voltage test signal, and a second selectable signal path that causes a current signal from an output of the current detector to be routed to the measurement instrument as a selected current test signal. Methods of testing a DUT using the measurement probe are also described, as well as a system for measuring signals from a DUT using the measurement probe.
US12210023B2

The present invention discloses an α-synuclein sensing film, a manufacturing method and a use thereof. The α-synuclein sensing film comprises a base plate and plural α-synuclein sensing polymers polymerized on the base plate. Each of the plural α-synuclein sensing polymers has plural α-synuclein detection holes on a surface thereof. The plural α-synuclein sensing polymers are manufactured by electropolymerization, and the plural α-synuclein detection holes are imprinted by an α-synuclein peptide. A sample to be tested can be applied to the α-synuclein sensing film for detecting the α-synuclein therein.
US12210016B2

The present disclosure relates to diagnostic test devices that provide improved communication to a user of one or both of proper functioning of the test device and an analog test result that is provided by the test device. The diagnostic test devices particularly can include one or more sensors effective to indicate application of a sufficient volume of a test fluid and/or can include one or more light sources positioned to illuminate an analog test result for improved visibility and understanding of the analog test result.
US12210004B2

A data analysis system includes a gas measuring device (2), providing current data and/or historical data, which are stored in a memory (3), and a data processing unit (1). The data includes information on a gas measuring device time of data acquisition. The device transmits data to an interface configured to receive the data and to feed data to the data processing unit and/or to an additional memory (5). A data identification unit (6) is configured to add a specific identifier to the data and add a piece of information on a system time during the data transmission and/or the gas measuring device time during the data transmission. The data processing unit is configured to process the data provided by the gas measuring device and/or by the additional memory such that the system time and the gas measuring device time are taken into consideration.
US12210000B1

Disclosed are a dynamic disturbance-induced rock burst test device and a test method. The test device comprise a supporting platform, a plurality of loading plates, an electromagnetic pulse emitting system, an acoustic emission monitoring system, a high-speed camera, an electromagnetic radiation detecting system and a confining pressure servo control loading system. The plurality of loading plates are arranged on a side wall of a coal rock sample and are placed inside a square chest, the electromagnetic pulse emitting system and the confining pressure servo control loading system are arranged inside a bar system, and an acoustic emission probe is arranged inside the loading plate. A three-dimensional real stress environment of the coal rock is simulated by simulating a shear stress through friction between the loading plate and the sample, as well as dynamic and static combined loading of multi-axial and multi-directional static confining pressure and stress wave disturbance.
US12209998B2

A soil parameter required when civil engineering/mechanical simulations for various grounds are performed is appropriately determined. A parameter determination device determines a parameter of a particle model used in a ground analysis system. The parameter determination device includes a triaxial compression test numerical analysis unit configured to determine the parameter so that the adhesive force and the shear resistance angle of a virtual ground respectively match the adhesive force and the shear resistance angle of an actual ground with a predetermined accuracy, and a pull-out test numerical analysis unit configured to determine the parameter so that a ground reaction force coefficient of the virtual ground matches a ground reaction force coefficient of the actual ground with a predetermined accuracy.
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